-----Original Message-----
From: anton [mailto:anton@nezzwerk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:39 PM
To: 'd_jak'
Subject: RE: [idm] l'usine & hymen generally
"seven" has reviewed "coalition 2000", "surface", "zealectronic blue",
and "a pseudo steady state" by l'usine - you can find them here:
http://www.nezzwerk.com/seven/reviews/list.php?searchby_band=1&search=us
ine
personally, "a pseudo steady state" on u-cover is *the* album to get,
since it has all the great tracks that made it into later releases. It
means that if you got that, you do not have to try *as hard* to get
"coalition 2000", "slipthrough" and "freak".
There is a release on delicatessen records (
www.delikatessen-records.com/ ) titled ("sustain") that I have not heard
yet.
If you look on l'usine's site, you will notice that there is an upcoming
split release on hymen ( www.klangstabil.de/hymen / ) and mad monkey (
www.madmonkey.org ), as well as a release on isophlux
(
http://isophlux.com/ ).
As far as similar bands go, it is a tough one, there is not really a
match, but I am sure you would enjoy savath & salas, delarosa & asora,
telefon tel aviv (and generally any hefty material -
www.heftyrecords.com ), sybarite (
http://www.nezzwerk.com/seven/reviews/list.php?searchby_band=1&search=sy
barite ), llips on u-cover.
Most of the stuff has been reviewed on "seven" over the years. I am sure
there is much more, someone else could fill the gaps.
As for hymen (
http://www.klangstabil.de/hymen/ ), the label has been
around since 1997 (at least this is the date of the first release) and
is best described by its motto - "technoid noises for collapsing
people". You will find everything from quirky idm of solar-x to broken
heaviness of somatic responses and venetian snares; from rhythmic noise
of converter to glitchy ambient of xingu hill and squaremeter. Anything
dark & technoid in nature fits the profile of the label - with rare
exceptions all of its 50+ releases are excellent material.
Most of hymen releases has been reviewed on "seven" throughout last
three years:
http://www.nezzwerk.com/seven/reviews/list.php?searchby_label=1&search=h
ymen
if you do some research, there is more than plenty info about l'usine
and hymen around the net.
Cheers!
---
anton
"seven" editor
http://www.nezzwerk.com/seven/
icq://2623520
-----Original Message-----
From: d_jak [mailto:d_jak@netzero.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:04 PM
To: idm
Subject: [idm] l'usine & hymen generally
i've really been getting into l'usine lately - especially Freak and
Coalition 2000 (i realize that one is pretty much a live version of the
other.)
slipthrough is also pretty damn good.
can anyone recommend other essential l'usine releases?
also, what's the hymen label like other than l'usine? if it's more
utterly mangled hip-hop-ish-ness like l'usine i need MORE.
thanks,
- d
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