I wonder if this was the first noise double-album. I have no stats on that, but being released in 1985 such a thing would surely have been fresh on the noise radar – Controlled Bleeding (legendary) emerged during the heyday of Industrial Records with an emphasis on being loud, brutal, and pastiche.
To further their mystique, their recordings often ventured into cut-pasted stark field-recordings from strange parts of the globe. Body Samples is an immense effort, paralleling Whitehouse on the American front with crashing, crushing, grinding, scraping, vocal-chord-ripping vicissitudes of sonic accidents lashing out with intense purpose. The album pair veers through a broad sonic palette, centered around harsh noise but veering like a lost camper-van through passages of wild jazz-rock, desert-dry ambient layered with tape-recorded folk from afar, and interludes that range from a wild dinner-party of laughing voices to guttural throat-singing. There’s even short moments that resemble gentle, if somber, instrumental neofolk. Then, wham, back to the sheet-metal grind. CB went on to dip into almost literally every genre you can imagine in one way or another before evaporating this year, 2020, leaving a vast decade-spanning compendium of strangeness to explore.