Pressure of Speech was a British electronic group founded in 1993 by Mickey Mann along with partners DJ Stika (a DJ with London's Spiral Tribe) and Luke Losey (a lighting engineer for the KLF, the Orb, and Curve, among others). The name derives from a psychological affliction characterized by manic and extreme ranting, an apt if hyperbolic description of PoS' penchant for musical information overload.
The group were signed by another of Mann's long-standing affiliations, Orbital's Internal label (Mann is Orbital's live sound engineer and co-produced their Brown Album), after being featured on Planet Dog's notable Feed Your Head compilation. PoS combined the rhythmic elements of Detroit and U.K. techno with evocative, sometimes gloomy atmospherics, and, like Orbital, had been known to pepper their otherwise dancefloor/chill room-straddling tracks with overt political and social commentary (as evidenced by album and track titles such as Art of the State and "Assume Nothing").
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Links to Peel[]
Peel first played tracks from Pressure Of Speech in May 1994. He would later mention the group as a special mention when asked what was his 1994 LPs Of The Year in the Billboard magazine. Further material from the group were played on his radio programmes until February 1996. After 1996, Peel seemed to have lost interest in the group's music.
Shows Played[]
- 21 May 1994: ‘Aphelion [Orbital Remix] (Various Artists 4xLP - Trance Europe Express - Volume 2 ) Volume
- 17 June 1994: ‘Aphelion (Orbital Remix) (Various Artists 4xLP - Trance Europe Express - Volume 2 )’ Volume
- 24 June 1994: Stand (LP - Art Of The State) North South
- 25 June 1994 (BFBS): Aphelion (v/a album - Trance Europe Express - Volume 2) Volume
- 01 July 1994: 'A-Morphic (LP - Art Of The State )’ North South
- 02 July 1994 (BBC World Service): Aphelion (Orbital Remix) (2xCD Box Set - Trance Europe Express 2) Volume
- 09 July 1994 (BFBS): A-Morphic (album - Art Of The State) North South
- 09 July 1994 (BFBS): Elone (album - Art Of The State) North South (snippet)
- 05 August 1994: Elone (CD - Art Of The State ) North South
- 30 September 1994: Elone (Remix By Vapor Space) (12" - Swarm / Elone) North South
- 15 October 1994: Elone (LP - Art Of The State) North South
- 1995
- 15 July 1995: 'Mothmath (12")' (North South)
- 1996
- 23 February 1996: ‘Uluru (CD – Our Common Past, Our Common Future)’ North South
- 02 March 1996 (BFBS): 'Uluru (LP-Our Common Past, Our Common Future)' (North South)
- 29 March 1996: 'Tippex Reality (LP-Our Common Past, Our Common Future)' (North South)