On The Wires Of Our Nerves

Bottom/Avant Hard (Mute, 1999) is the third album by Add N To (X). Add N to (X) were a three-piece British band specializing in electronic music performed on analogue synthesizers, formed in London in 1994. After several releases on small labels, they turned down offers from major labels and signed to large independent label Mute Records in 1998, and achieved a modest commercial success before splitting in 2003. Second album On the Wires of Our Nerves was described as "like Stereolab/Suicide with a rocket shoved up their rectum". The album was played heavily by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Ann Hobbs on her show, The Breezeblock. The group performed live regularly, often augmenting their core three-piece line up with either one or two acoustic drummers, and sometimes additional musicians playing extra synths and/or electric guitar. Other albums by the band include Add Insult to Injury and Loud Like Nature. Top/ Cover pic for "Plug Me In" (Mute, 2000) was borrowed from Curious Magazine circa 1972. Add N to (X) often utilized distinctive artwork for the videos and record sleeves, a fetishistic collage of sexual imagery with analogue electronic equipment, based in part on the movie and book Demon Seed. Most of the group's songs and video clips have been adult/sex-related; the video for "Metal Fingers in My Body" is an animated short where a female is having sex with a robot, and their video for "Plug Me In" is famous for featuring porn actresses playing with sex toys.