NUMB is the brainchild of Don Gordon after his previous musical adventures in Pin-ups, Images In Vogue (also starring drummer Kevin Crompton a.k.a. Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key) and Proof By Nine. Co-founded with Sean Stubbs and David Hall the band started in 1986 as an art project designed to address issues of social desensitization, releasing their first limited edition cassette Blue Light in 1987.
Their debut selftitled LP came out the same year , a terrifying assortment of emotional assaults: confusion, anger, and alienation taking musical forms and ravaging the senses.
Sean Stubbs/Sean St. Hubb was the first lead vocalist for NUMB, during the 90's he played drums on several subsequent tours in Europe and the U.S.
Christmeister, released in 1989, took a much more aggressive stance than their debut. With their electronic approach being augmented by aggressive guitars and lyrics spewed forth in a torrent of tuneful howls from madman Blair Dobson ripped apart the emotional stability of its listeners.
In 1993, NUMB's third CD, Death On The Installment Plan was released upon the unsuspecting public. This album was described as a "high-intensity blast of near madness" with guitars, synthetics and vocals by Conan Hunter working in a near-perfect collusion.
The following year, NUMB's mini-CD Fixate was released, including remixes from Death On The Installment Plan and several live tracks. 1994 also saw the release of Wasted Sky, a post-apocalyptic vision of technology as religion, of truth as virtual reality.
After Wasted Sky, Don Gordon added The Fourth Man David Collings to its ranks, and had the opportunity to hone their skills on the road. Koro is a documentation of the band's live power, recorded in Japan in 1995.
The band released Blood Meridian in late 1997: a collection of primal dance fury, pure electronics sans guitar, electronica with attitude; and followed it up the following year with Language Of Silence, a CD guaranteed to fill dance floors with new and old fans, all the while keeping the mediocrity of mainstream techno at bay with its uncompromising harshness and brilliant arrangements. A mini-CD with 5 remixes of the track Suspended followed.
NUMB has also appeared on several compilations like the Operation Beatbox CD with their cover of Salt 'n Pepa's Push It or on the Electronic Lust V.2 compilation with their rendition of Goblin's Suspiria theme from the Dario Argento movie.
In 1993 the first part of Gregg Araki's stylistic teen-angst triology, Totally F***ed Up was released, the film's soundtrack featured a.o. Coil, Ministry and NUMB with the tracks Headcrash and Shithammer
Don Gordon did some remixes for a.o. Dive, Esplendor Geométrico and The Klinik; took care of the production for some Lung releases (two 7" singles and the cassette/CD release Magnium Opiate) and composed scores for two short films: A Dream Of Naming (a German-Canadian co-production) and Six Hundred Million Breaths (a Canadian independent short). Soundtracks were completed for the play Photographic Memories which premiered at the Vancouver New Play Festival and for the performance piece, Blood Of The Lambs structured loosely upon the traditional requiem which was presented with Madeleine Morris at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.
1996 Dive - Final Report (Numb Remix)
Dive - Reported
CD5"" Daft Records
1996 Dive - Final Report (Numb Remix)
Dive - Reported
CD Fifth Column
1996 Deathline International - Open Your Eyes (Numb Remix by Don Gordon)
V.A. - Vertigo Compilation 01/1996
CD Celtic Circle Productions
1997 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker (Carnal Gnarlege Mix)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker
Promo CDS Red Ant Entertainment
1997 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker (Carnal Gnarlege Mix)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker
Promo 12" Red Ant Entertainment
1997 Dive - Final Report (Numb-Remix)
Dive - No Pain No Game / Reported
2xCD Triton
1998 Thinking Man - Screaming Saints (Numb Remix)
V.A. - Electropolis: Volume 1
CD Metropolis
1998 Esplendor Geométrico - América (Numb - Manifest Destiny Mix) Esplendor Geométrico - En-Co-D-Esplendor
CD Gift
1999 Element 115 - Spaceman (Numb Remix)
V.A. - Attack [Patterns]
CD Apocalypse Magazine
1999 Deathline International - Open Your Eyes (Numb Remix by Don Gordon)
V.A - The Electronic Challenge Vol. 3
CD COP International
2001 Christian Death - Panic In Detroit (Numb Remix)
Christian Death - Death In Detroit
CD Locomotive Music
2001 The Klinik - Ring Of Fire (Remix by Don Gordon of Numb)
The Klinik - End Of The Line
4xCD Dependent Records
2006 Dive vs. Diskonnekted - Frozen (Metamatic Mix)
Dive vs. Diskonnekted - Frozen
CD5" Alfa Matrix
COMPILATIONS
1989 Ruby Tuesday
Out Of Nowhere
7" V.i.S.A./Lively Art
1990 Stiff
13
LP Lively Art
1990 Stiff
13
CD Lively Art
1991 Eugene (Pickaxe Mix)
Funky Alternatives 6
CD Concrete Productions
1991 Cash
Lovely Heart
VHS Lively Art
1992 Curse
Cybernetic Biodread Transmission
CD Simbiose Records
1992 Curse
Cybernetic Biodread Transmission
LP Simbiose Records
1992 Curse
Electro-Genetic
CD KK Records
1993 God Is Dead
KK Electrip Compilation
CD Restless Records
1994 Hole
Art & Dance 5
CD Gothic Arts Records / Lost Paradise
1994 Decay Of The Angel
Body Rapture Vol. 4
CD Zoth Ommog
1994 Blue Light, Black Candle
Celtic Circle Sampler Part Two
2xCD Celtic Circle Productions
1994 Shithammer (Dread And Bled Mix)
Moonraker Vol. I
2xCD Sub Terranean
1994 Ratblast
The Digital Space Between
CD Hard Records
1994 Shithammer
We Came To Dance - Indie Dancefloor Vol. IV
CD Sub Terranean
1995 Fugue
Sheen: KK Records Compilation
2xCD KK Records
1995 Blood
There Is No Time
4xCD Ras Dva Records
1996 Hanging Key
13 Years Of Electronic Lust
CD COP International
1996 Push It
Operation Beatbox
CD Re-constriction Records
1997 Dead Inside
Industrial War: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Industrial Music
CD Shanachie
1997 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
TV Terror: Felching A Dead Horse
2xCD Re-constriction Records
1997 Eugene (Pickaxe Mix)
More exclusive Alternatives
CD Cleopatra
Hi NUMB (MySpace FAN Page), we just finished SPELLFURY Episode 6, any chance you'd tell us what you think of this one? Comments from our friends keep us going!
P.S Thanks so much for your support, please tell your friends if you like it!
also check out this behind the scenes making of the ChainSaw Sally Show (14 weeks of bloody v-blogz & boobs) features on location shinanigans, actors interviews, a look at the special gore fx crews D-day, Nurse Hatchet, Rio & Joey, plus music from some of the ChainSaw Sally Soundtrax bandz ;-)
Hey!! This is Bellisima. I run this fansite to help support DJ Solano!! THANKS FOR THE FRIENDSHIP!! How are you? HOPE YOU'RE HAVE A FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =) Keep In Touch!!!Listen other tracks in my player from DJ Solano on my profile!! I want to let you know there is a new release "DJ Solano-Just believe [Radio edit]". On Songrila you can click on the Flyer there you can preview or buy the new track from DJ Solano!!
I hope you come back often, because there is more to come...and don't forget spread the word! LOVE-BELLISIMA
Hey Numb, your friendship glorify me !
I share my songs with every open mind and i hope you will like them.
Plant a splinter of your precious time in my profile and make a comment grow.
Greetings,
SF
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The track "State" on our page is a cover of an old Fourth Man song. It was mixed by Collings, and he and I share vocal duties on it. Just a small curiosity for those fans of the work Collings did with NUMB.
