101 Copies. Recorded in July 1980 and issued shortly thereafter on Andrew Cox's YHR Tapes with the catalogue number YHR 005, Voyeur Tape was the first MB cassette to cross the Channel into the British industrial underground, preceding by a matter of months its companion Cold Tape, which would follow on the same imprint as YHR 006 before year's end. Together the pair formed Maurizio Bianchi's decisive entry into the small mail-order network through which European industrial music was circulating in the year of its formation.

Bianchi was twenty-four years old, working alone from his home in the Mantuan town of Pomponesco, and producing an extraordinary run of cassettes whose quantity and consistency, across roughly twelve months, remains almost unbelievable. Inspired by the early German electronic vanguard of Tangerine Dream and Conrad Schnitzler, and by the radical provocations of Throbbing Gristle, in those same months he was corresponding with Merzbow, SPK, Nigel Ayers, and William Bennett, the small network of letters and exchanged cassettes through which the sound now known as industrial first articulated itself. Voyeur Tape was, for many of its early UK listeners, the first encounter with the MB voice.

The title declares its own listening position. Across two long pieces, occupying a side each, Bianchi assembles a music that feels less performed than secretly observed, dirty oscillators, ring-modulated tones, scraping metallic objects, and tape loops slowed almost to stasis, all rendered through the ferric haze of domestic cassette recording. The textures are abrasive but rarely climactic; the listener is positioned as the unwilling witness to a process that does not acknowledge them, peering through a damaged keyhole into a room where something obscure is being slowly disassembled. Where Cold Tape would emphasise the loop and its decay, Voyeur Tape leans harder into a sense of intrusion - a more aggressive, more openly transgressive cousin to the colder, more diffuse companion piece. Heard now, alongside Atomique Tape, Industrial Tape, and the tapes that immediately followed, it is one of the foundational documents of European industrial cassette culture, recorded at the moment when an entire underground was inventing itself by mail.

Issued by StAnDa, side-imprint of Silentes dedicated to small-run reissues from MB's tape archive, on CD in a numbered edition of 101 copies, housed in an embossed cardboard sleeve.