from the EP The Visit, New Hormones Records, 1980You’d be hard pressed to find a musical movement in the past century or so that encompassed as many differing sounds & influences as did the post-punk scene, where having no boundaries or limits on one’s creativity and experimentation was the norm; in so doing, that scene fashioned some of the most memorable (and least classifiable) groups in rock history, including the exceedingly bizarre and enigmatic Ludus. Formed in Manchester by the radical feminist artist named Linder (she’s the proudly responsible party behind that incredible collage which adorned the cover of the Buzzcocks’ 45 for “Orgasm Addict”), their music was expansive, aggressive, assertive, but always funky & jazzy as well; it’s hard to front on lyrics like these, “…abuse my sexuality, I’ll use my sexuality…you take it and make it, you take it and make it…commodity, I am your property, commodity, I am your property…”
