Janus - Anima Mundi

Cassette, C60

Label : Self-released, Germany, 1986

Ripped by Shane English (Youtube channel : heliae)

Almost a decade earlier, thanks to a rip from Carlo (one of the contributors to this blog), I posted an excellent cassette by Janus, a German duo formed by the brothers Ulrich and Andreas Demgen. Since then, I wanted to discover their first tape which was not available anywhere. Thanks to Shane, here it is now, and it was worth the wait. On this tape, the Demgen brothers are accompanied by Rose Kasseckert and Will-I Stasch of Cthulhu Records fame.

Tracklist :

A1. Santiago (5:45)

A2. Karma (5:25)

A3. Homo-Morbid (6:12)

A4. Gulltoss (9:26)

A5. Abdrushin (3:51)

B1. Pizarro (6:31)

B2. Demimonde (6:37)

B3. Johann S. (3:35)

B4. Via Mala (4:40)

B5. Anima-Mundi (7:26)

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Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music

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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#92], Ivory Coast, 2017


Official net-re-release celebrating the 30th anniversary of the cassette album. Remastered by Axel Kyrou for the 2013 vinyl re-release that is now deleted. Here are a few excerpts of the LP's reviews :

"Like a misty dream upon timeless beaches where female phantoms dance about bringing comforting company which touches beyond flesh."

"This Half Dead cassette turned LP from 1987 sounds like a band improvising an exotic musique concrete Voodoo Ritual in the Catacombs below, and above, EARTH. Half Dead Ganja Music exists as a rare artifact of a timeless endeavor to create a feeling, through self-less creativity, of a limbo realm between physical earth realities and the mystical realm that is paralleled in our emerging beings. This is Occult music without pretension, but with effortless release to the juxtaposition of human and non-human senses."

"The latter's favorite. Half dead ganja music? No doubt. Mellowtonic bearddrone bongscrape made right via heady ritual aromas obscuring distant fumble-clunk and dazed mumble-grunt... just crank that bass and revel in Throb Almighty."

"Layers and layers of processed tape and hazy, wordless female vocals like a baklava, sweetened with drone instead of honey. However there’s something oddly uplifting about this music and very, very beautiful."

"It’s a trip in any sense of the term, transporting us via twelve succinct studio and live recordings across fields of Persian-influenced vocal glossolalia, airborne drones and sparse drum machine pulses to mind-swallowing vortices of synth swirl, but never letting anything settle for too long, always discreetly segueing to another part of the same hallucination before spreading out some more with an expansive live finale. Highly recommended!"


Tracklist :

Studio Side
1. Schmacht (2:46)
2. Gole Mariam (3:26)
3. Da Ma (3:26)
4. Golnessar (3:01)
5. De La Cohorte Mystique (4:28)

Live Side
6. Freaking At Ffm (2:18)
7. Perse Voir La Lumière (2:40)
8. Fassle (3:03)
9. Taghmanantes / Gin Gina / Un Jour (10:07)

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Here is the list of Vox Populi! releases available for free download or in physical format :

Physical releases available on blogs for free download :
Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative [Cassette, 1982]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette, 1985]
Sucre De Pastèque [Cassette, 1986]

Available on the Internet only :
The Teen Recordings [1979-1981]
Live, Excalibur, Paris [29th March 1988]
Neynarea [1988-1996]
Best Of Vox Populi! + Ethnyc [1985-1993]
Valley Of Capsules Plays Vox Populi! [2012]
La Cathédrale Morte [Remastered, 2012]
Ébats Spirituels [Remastered and Augmented, 2013]
Aither+ [Remastered and Augmented, 2013]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Remastered, 2017]

Physical releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD, 2007]
1987-1990 [CD, 2008]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC, 2008]
Mystic Entertainment [CD, 2009]
Aramesh [CD, 2009]
Funk Off [CD, 2013]

Zone Void - Wu-Nien Voidmusic

Cassette, C60
Label : Cthulhu Records, Germany, 1991
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies


Last cassette released by legendary German label Cthulhu Records.

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Entre Vifs - Heavy Duty

Cassette, C60
Label : Cthulhu Records, Germany, 1989
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies


From Le Syndicat website :
"Due to a painful experience of censorship at the festival of new music DMA2 in Bordeaux (France), Le Syndicat decided to build his personal sound system.
Zorïn immerses himself in electronics and starts constructing "The MATRIX" : the electro metallic material intended to be used at the live appearances of Le Syndicat.
It is about an armada of objects over amplified by contact microphones, often discovered in the belly of a trashcan and designed to the manner of dangerous weapons : Low Tech electronic instruments, walkmans, multitrack tape recorders to cassettes used at the same time as samplers and mixing tables, racks of preamplifiers, distorters, ring modulators, delays. 800 meters of cables concentrated on 5 square meters.
The goal of the system was to be able to react as quickly as possible to everything that all other operator porduces. What they named "The reflex piloting", something that holds as much the fight sports or the instinctive monitoring of the other. This live version of Le Syndicat conceived by Zorïn became naturally his thing in 1986 : The bruitiste ensemble (Noisecraft band) ENTRE VIFS".

From inner sleeve :
"We began to build our Noise Complex (generators, switches, intermodulations, mixing) in 1985.
Our Sessions or Training meetings started in early 1986. Some were performed in front of a few selected listeners.
These live excerpts were recorded at our Noisecraft Workshop, Enghien (France).
The instruments used on these tracks are : the Rumbler, the Shriller, the Harrow, the Smashers, the Cracklers, the Screecher, the Rails.
Our voices are picked up by Laryngophones and processed by various distortion units".

Entre Vifs debut CD, "L'Ordre Par Le Bruit" (Artware, 1991), can be downloaded here.

A recent french radio show with an interview of Ruelgo (founding member of Le Syndicat) can be downloaded here.

And of course you can buy :
- Le Syndicat / Entre Vifs / Icon Zero / Ruelgo high quality CDrs on Le Syndicat website ;
- Le Syndicat "Timespace Losses 1982 / 1987" recent CD of early rarities here.

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