"The Twenty Committee* was my project with Chris Scarpino, it ran from 1981-1985. 'Network' was our first LP release. It was the second XX Committee release following a cassette, 'Steel Negro Music'. Our idea was a simple one, we wanted to strip industrial music of all of its 'rock' moves and create a music that sounded like idealized heavy industrial machinery. We thought the repetition of our music, as well as the sound, was a radical critique of the exploitive nature of work under consumer-capitalism. We wanted to make machine-like anthems of negativity, but like the sound of heavy machinery, with a stark and powerful beauty." --Scott Foust
*The Double-Cross System, or XX System, was a British World War II counter-espionage operation.
