12. Twitch

Twitch moved Ministry further from the electronic pop of With Sympathy, giving Jourgensen creative control that he would never again relinquish.


We recorded Twitch when I was living in London, and I recorded it with the last producer I ever worked with, which was Adrian Sherwood. He did the label On-U Sound and all the early dub stuff. He was the dub engineer for Lee "Scratch" Perry, who I also engineered for on some sessions.

 It was recorded when I was living in Wood Green up in North London, where dazed acid casualties from the ’60s all talk about seeing Pink Floyd play a free concert in 1968. That’s how they begin every sentence. But at any rate, Twitch was recorded in London and mixed in Berlin at Hansa Tonstudio. I was all new to this. I was just a mere tot at the time, taking it all in, and everything I know I owe to Adrian Sherwood for his direction on Twitch. However, as with the covers records, I don’t feel like this one’s really mine because it’s so Adrian Sherwood-influenced. It’s grown in cult status to certain people as the ‘precursor to industrial’ or whatever the fuck they want to call it. To me it was a learning experience, but it wasn’t in the fun category or the category for ‘this stuff rules’.