Neurotic and frosty minimal electronics give the impression to be used as metaphors to describe the new technological order, its subliminal messages and its repressive imperatives on the existential level and on practical human activities dominated by the mega machine.
After one EP published in 2009, the industrial “synthetic” electronic project NihilTronix formed by Arnaud B (alias I-C-K) is back with a new effort. With a handful of relevant releases published on the renown Hau Ruck! and La Nouvelle Alliance, the classic project I-C-K prefigures the typical noisy-musical infection of NihilTronix. Curiosités encompasses the most brutal-mysteriously hallucinogenic electro facet of the French label OPN Records devoted to a wide range of uncompromising underground musical genres: power electronic, white noise, to dark ambient and industrial minimalism mainly from France and also from various countries.
This first full length delivers a visceral and tripped out apocalyptic soundtrack where death industrial patterns meet minimal synth pop and typical schemes of industrial music culture. This work is reminiscence of early SPK or whitehouse, Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi, Missing Foundation’s electronic assaults and fuzzed out vibes with an inclination for trance-infusing machine drums which emphasize the blackened-cerebral of the ensemble. Cinematic touches also come in the mix with the addition of found sounds, voices and samples. Neurotic and frosty minimal electronics give the impression to be used as metaphors to describe the new technological order, its subliminal messages and its repressive imperatives on the existential level and on practical human activities dominated by the mega machine.
Definitely the weirdest crushing experimental soundtrack for the post-modern Prometheus. To sum up things this first full length offers an intense noisy-kinetic electronic scenery recommended for fans of early 80s industrial brutalism and chilling minimal synthscapes.
Curiosités is available on OPN.
