The group began playing house parties in Newcastle and creating music on Amiga personal computers[3] using tracker software in the MOD format.
They self-released a number of cassettes on the Dead Girl label starting with their debut album, Transient Ischemic Attack appeared in 15 March 1993.
[4] United Kingdom DJ, Loftgroover declared "there's too much niceness in the rave scene ... Gabba is how I really feel – hard, angry".
Due to their influence and the relatively small numbers of records that were pressed for earlier releases (including limited self-distributed cassettes), they have become popular with collectors.
Specialising in breakcore, gabba and referential sample alchemy/exploitation", comments Shaun Prescott of Mess+Noise, going on to describe the band's 1995 double LP 100% No Soul Guaranteed as a "nasty marriage of power electronics shock tactics with vaguely danceable and purely psychotic electronic beats" making "one of the few genuinely sickening music experiences you're likely to have in your life".
[5][6] In October of the previous year Sydney schoolgirl Anna Wood died after using ecstasy at a dance club; she was given copious amounts of water upon her collapse and later lapsed into a coma.
[7][8][9] Jack Marx of The Age described how Wood's friends may have been influenced by the prevailing zero tolerance attitude and hence they were too afraid to take her directly to hospital.
[6] Cat Hope described "Fuck Anna Wood" as featuring "controversial, sampled snippets from current affairs programs composed to form conversations, laid over with a gabba-style hard beat".
[6] "Show Us Yor Tits" appeared on Nasenbluten's next album for Bloody Fist, N of Terror, a double cassette which had been recorded in April 1996.