Cut-throat Records
Cut-throat is also the name of Nash's recording studio, originally located above the Roxy Theatre on Danforth Avenue in Toronto.
The company logo is a human skull, often positioned on the label with an eye socket over the centre hole.
Another logo of a stylized gas mask with headphones, is used on some CD releases, usually positioned with the mouth over the centre hole.
[3] Nash the Slash had intended to release a full album in 1978, but when he received a test pressing copy (manufactured by a company catering to independent labels), he found the sound quality to be unacceptable.
As a temporary solution, he selected four songs for a 12-inch EP, in the hope that a wider groove pitch would produce better sound.
A full album was issued the following year, and exists in two pressings, the latter from a remixed master made in 1981 for improved sound.
Nash also released a live 12-inch EP titled Hammersmith Holocaust recorded in London, England in 1980, limited to 300 numbered copies.
2" was a reference to the failed nuclear reactor which caused the Three Mile Island accident, and inspired Nash to appear with his face covered in bandages from 1979 to the present.
Decomposing has four songs, and claims to be "playable at any speed"; the label shows timings for play at 33, 45, and even 78 rpm.
However, this is likely a gimmick inspired by the fact that Nash's instrumental music, being almost entirely electric, generally sounds no less correct when played at incorrect speeds.
There is also a promo EP titled Radio Sampler: 4 External Cuts Only which actually contains six alternate tracks: "Who Do You Dub?
(Extended Club Dub Mix)" (covering Bo Diddley from 1956), "Psychotic Reaction (Good-bye Jody, Good-bye John)" (covering Count Five from 1966, though the subtitle seems to reference Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" from 1979; the album version of this track includes dialogue recreating John Hinckley, Jr.'s communications to Jodie Foster leading up to his historic assassination attempt, but does not musically reference the Supertramp song; it's not certain if the promo version does or not), "Psychotic Reaction (Slight Return)" (the subtitle referencing "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix from 1968), "American Bandstand Boogie", "American Band (Party Animal Remaster)", and "Who Do You Dub?
Though it was not explicitly identified as a division of Cut-throat, Nash the Slash created a DVD label called Two Artists for his collaborations with surrealist painter Robert Vanderhorst.
