Thursday 29 February 2024

Stigma – Structures Of Chaos (7'' EP 1995)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Untitled 07:32
2. Lethal Radiations 03:54
3. Structures Of Chaos 04:18

French short lived project featuring Licinio Da Costa (No Empty Room, Noït, Onukeio),
Antonio Da Costa and Laurent Kistler (Neon Cage Experiment).
They self released in 1994 on cassette their first album "Anastigmatic Aperture",
followed by "Putrefaction Taste" in 1995, on Daft Records, and "Inhumanity" in 1996, on Ant-Zen.
Their style was a mixture of industrial/dark ambient with chaotic rhythmic percussions.
"Structures Of Chaos" was co-issued by Ant-Zen and Ombre Sonore in 1995,
as a limited edition clear vinyl of 327 copies in a printed folder.

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Ashes To Ashes – Museum Of Dust (1994)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Imperturbable Stiches Of Time, The Diverted Device, The Great Theatre Of Decrepitude,
The Long Experience, Damage Melody/The Last Elegy 21:53

Ashes To Ashes was another project created by Cyril Herry (Exotoendo, Lecanora, Sechres Mound, Ninth Desert).
The band released two cassettes, "Museum Of Dust" in 1994 and "Figement Profile" in 1995,
on Herry's personal label Incense.
"Museum Of Dust" was recorded in Dark Sound Studios (Lausanne) in May 1994,
and is presented as five tracks in one continuous play, with a unique handmade cover and a separate info insert.

Sunday 25 February 2024

Le Syndicat – 1985 - 1995 - Ten Years Of Excess (1995)


Country: France

Tracklist
Disc 1
Delikatëssen
1. Masse Dépréciatrice 13:19
2. Farce De Morse 09:31
3. Machefer Recharge 10:06
4. Terrificante Matter 07:41
5. Chanson Bruitiste 02:13

Relapse
6. Quadripartite 21:53
7. Dentiste-Surprise 04:24
Disc 2
Vorgine
1. Exorde 06:44
2. L'Horloge De St-Luce 06:25
3. Jouvenceau 00:46
4. Maelström Fornicator 06:16
5. Le Corps De Jehan 05:53
6. Deux 02:55
7. Vorgine 08:36

Relapse (Continued)
8. Roméo Ou Juliette 19:20
9. Dissection-Fantaisie 05:33

Le Syndicat is a collective entity and a former cassette label that began activities in 1982.
It is one of the leading bands in the industrial movement in France
and was created by Jean-Marie Onni (aka Ruelgo) and Zyklon B.
The project later collaborated with visual artists Zorïn and Mïrka Lugosi,
produced a lot of audio concrete cassettes and participated to a lot of "mail art" international compilations.
As a label Le Syndicat released cassettes for artists such as Merzbow, Parazite, Pacific 231, Controlled Bleeding,
Blackhouse and Dog As Master while they also had contacts,
notably with exchange of sounds and compositions by correspondence, with Japanese noise bands like The Hanatarashi.
After the departure of Zorïn and the arrival of Veidt Mjolnir, their  music is experiencing a significant change,
leaving the fields of improvisation and moving from collages, tape loops,
film samples or sequences of classical music, to prominence electronic rhythmic noise beats.
During the second half of the 1990s , the group enters into sleep and reappeared in 2010 with a new album,
this time reconnecting  with bruitism, collage and extreme dynamic forms.
"1985 - 1995 - Ten Years Of Excess" is a double compilation CD released in 1995 by Staalplaat 
featuring the re-release of their cassette albums "Delikatëssen" (1985), "Relapse" (1987) and "Vorgine" (1986).