Portion Control interview: ‘It’s closer to handling someone else’s archive that happens to have your name on it’

Portion Control, the London-based industrial pioneers formed in 1979, discuss their archival four-CD collection “1983-86 – Hit The Pulse to Purge…” released by Artoffact Records in August 2026. The set compiles material from a pivotal 1983-1986 period, featuring albums “Hit The Pulse” and “Psycho Bod Saves The World,” alongside singles, demos, rarities, and unreleased tracks remastered by Paul Lavigne. Notably, Rhys Fulber provides a contemporary reconstruction of “Refugee,” creating dialogue between past and present. The band addresses the apparent contradiction between their historical forward-focus and current archival work, explaining that sufficient temporal distance transformed the material from repetition into legitimate documentation. Despite decades of independence, Portion Control signed with Artoffact to formally curate their own history while maintaining their characteristic resistance to sentiment and heritage framing.

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