Demos/Rough mixes of material that was later released as the Love's Secret Domain LP and part of the Wrong Eye/Scope 7"
Fidgit is a demo of Further Back And Faster
Carvers and Gilders is an early mix of Chaostrophy
Tracklisting is slightly different than listed. "Window Pain" comes before "Teenage Lightening" and there is a second, truncated version of "Fidgit" after "Love's Secret Domain."
"The Side Effects Of Life" was a working title for Love's Secret Domain at one point.
This cassette was sent to WaxTrax! records 1989/1990, presumably to get approval for the planned future release of Love's Secret Domain on the label. Also possibly the source of the circulated bootleg entitled Love's Secret Demise, aka the LSD demos.
An unknown number of copies exist, however there are four confirmed:
* One in the possession of this entry's original author that was sent to Wax Trax! in 1989/1990,
* Another from the Coil archive auctioned on eBay by a former member of Coil in April of 2014
* Another sent to Torso records with a handwritten label by John Balance that is accompanied by a letter with the ins and outs of John working on the album
* A fourth in the Wax Trax! archives
At least one of these copies is one sided and has slowed down music by Greater Than One on side B.
A proper studio transfer of the audio can be found here: https://archive.org/details/CoilTheSideEffectsOfLife