Havoc was a short lived project featuring Portion Controls then stable boy Ian Hicks and Sean Bailey. Both had been in the also short lived Johnson Engineering Company project from the end of the previous decade. Havoc appeared in 1990 with a spate of 12” singles that got some European club play. 319 was the full album they released the following year. Information is sparse but the music is Portion Control-esque and I’m guessing the 319 of the title refers to PC’s headquarters at 319 Kennington Road, London.

The album, as previously mentioned is later 80s PC-esque Electronic dance music, with some EBM and synth-pop exploration going on. There are a few vocal tracks with new wave style crooning. Something to give early Information Society a run for their money…

Overall the album isn’t outstanding but pleasant enough in it’s style. It lies somewhere between the later Portion Control sound and the Solar Enemy releases. It just doesn’t offer anything other than some good heavy electro pop.

Ian Hicks went on to maker harder electronic dance music as Deadlock and joined the reformed Portion Control in 2001. He has also recently been associated with the intriguing Mordant Music.