SPECTRUM COMPENDIUM functions as a critical publication to shine a light on the often obscured post-industrial underground. Now 20 years on from the release of the first issue of Spectrum in 1998, Spectrum Compendium brings together reprints of all five issues, along with a wealth of interviews and reviews originally intended to be published in the planned but ultimately abandoned sixth issue of Spectrum. During its years of activity the five individual issues of Spectrum were distributed through an extensive underground network of artists, labels and mail-orders, but have long since been sold out, and unavailable other than as rare collectables. With the benefit of hindsight, it is now apparent that Spectrum covered a very active period internationally which can now be considered as one of the critical eras for the development and evolution of the post-industrial movement.
Although produced and published in Melbourne Australia, Spectrum focused on the global scene and network of artists and labels operating at the time, with a particular focus on the dark ambient, death industrial, heavy electronics, power electronics, neo-classical, martial industrial and neo-folk genres of music. Spectrum: Ambient/ Industrial/ Experimental Music Culture Magazine was one of the most well respected underground ‘zines dealing with post-industrial music in the late 1990s to early 2000s. General release softcover version available from: Special hardcover edition only available via: SPECTRUM COMPENDIUM – published February, 2019 by Headpress
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SPECTRUM COMPENDIUM archival documentation of the post-industrial underground Spectrum Magazine Archive 1998-2002 by Richard Stevenson