# Threshold Archives ![[Threshold Archives - Logo.jpeg|200]] *__Threshold Archives__* is a project started by [[Peter Christopherson]] in 2006 to ensure the preservation of Coil releases which had gone out of print since their release. After Christopherson’s death in 2010, Coil associate Jon Whitney took over the project, announcing it in 2013.[^1] Upon its initial announcement a number of releases were said to already be in progress: - [[Scatology]] 4-CD box-set with demos and the albums [[Transparent]] and [[The Angelic Conversation]] - [[Horse Rotorvator]] 4-CD box-set with [[Gold is the Metal (with the Broadest Shoulders)]] and unused songs from both albums - [[Love’s Secret Domain]] 4-CD box-set with [[Stolen and Contaminated Songs]] and unused songs from both albums - A compilation of [[Worship The Glitch]], [[A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room]] and [[Time Machines]] with a collection of ‘oddities’ from 1995–1998 - *The New Orleans Backwards* 4-CD box-set with demos from the #Backwards session, [[The Ape of Naples]] and [[The New Backwards]] - *Astral Disaster* 3-CD box-set, including the [[Astral Disaster|LP version]], [[Astral Disaster (CD Version)|CD version]] and unused songs - *Musick to Play in the Dark* collection, with [[Musick To Play In The Dark|MTPID 1]], [[Musick To Play In The Dark, Vol. 2|MTPID 2]], [[Songs/Queens of the Circulating Library|Queens of the Circulating Library]] and [[Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil]] - A re-release of [[ANS]] - A collection of [[Black Antlers]] and [[The Remote Viewer]] alongside unused songs Alongside this, there was a preliminary list of the releases that were intended to be produced, but had not had any work done at the time of the announcement: - *BATHS01* - [[Releases/How To Destroy Angels|How To Destroy Angels]] - *BATHS02* - [[Panic ∕ Tainted Love]] - *BATHS03* - [[Releases/The Anal Staircase|The Anal Staircase]] - *BATHS04* - [[The Wheel ∕ The Wheal ∕ Keelhauler]] - *BATHS05* - [[The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser]] - *BATHS06* - [[Wrong Eye |Scope]] - *BATHS07* - [[Windowpane]] - *BATHS08* - [[Releases/The Snow|The Snow]] - *BATHS09* - [[How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings)]] - *BATHS10* - [[Airborne Bells ∕ Is Suicide A Solution]] - *BATHS11* - [[The Sound Of Musick|Blue/The Sound of Musick]] - *BATHS12* - [[Nasa-Arab ∕ First Dark Ride]] - *BATHS13* - [[Releases/Protection|Protection]] - *BATHS14* - [[pHILM ＃1]] - *BATHS15* - [[Heartworms]] - *BATHS16* - [[Labels/Spring Equinox — Moon’s Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull]] - *BATHS17* - [[Summer Solstice — Bee Stings]] - *BATHS18* - [[Autumn Equinox — Amethyst Deceivers]] - *BATHS19* - [[Winter Solstice]] - *BATHS20* - [[Releases/Zwölf|Zwolf]] - *BATHS21* - [[Releases/I Don’t Want To Be The One|I Don’t Want To Be The One]] - *BATHS22* - [[Moon’s Milk in Four Phases (Bonus Disk)]] - *BATHS23* - [[The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence]] When the first releases from Threshold Archives were published on October 9th, 2015, none of the releases that were said to have been worked on were included, while those that were included came entirely from the releases that were not previously known to have been worked on. A second series of releases was published on May 15th, 2019.[^2] ## Published Releases ### Series 1 - *T-ARCH 004CD* - [[The Angelic Conversation (Instrumental)]] - *T-ARCH 005CD* -[[Panic (T-ARCH)|Panic]] - *T-ARCH 006CD* -[[The Wheel (T-ARCH)|The Wheel]] - *T-ARCH 007CD* -[[The Anal Staircase (T-ARCH)|The Anal Staircase]] - *T-ARCH 008CD* -[[The Consequences of Raising Hell (T-ARCH)|The Consequences of Raising Hell]] - *T-ARCH 009CD* -[[Wrong Eye (T-ARCH)|Wrong Eye]] - *T-ARCH 010CD* -[[Windowpane (T-ARCH)|Windowpane]] - *T-ARCH 011CD* -[[The Snow (T-ARCH)|The Snow]] ### Series 2 - *T-ARCH 012CD* -[[Airborne Bells (T-ARCH)]] - *T-ARCH 013CD* -[[The Sound Of Musick]] - *T-ARCH 0014CD* -[[First Dark Ride (T-ARCH)]] - *T-ARCH 015CD* -[[Releases/Protection|Protection]] - *T-ARCH 016CD* -[[Heartworms]] - *T-ARCH 019CD* -[[Releases/I Don’t Want To Be The One|I Don’t Want To Be The One]] - *T-ARCH 020CD* -[[Copal]] - *T-ARCH 023CD* -[[The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (T-ARCH)]] ## References [*Threshold Archives* on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/thresholdarchives) [Article on the project at Fact Magazine](https://www.factmag.com/2015/10/14/coils-reissues-through-threshold-archives/) [^1]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20130131140621/http://brainwashed.com/bark/projects-coil.html> [^2]: <https://www.discogs.com/label/910477-Threshold-Archives>