Eerily moving electronic soundscapes made of fractal noises and sustained by an ambiguous flowing tempo and spoken words.
OPN Records is an independent label based in France and entirely devoted to adventurous sound explorations in the field of dark electronic music, from (post) industrial, to noise ambient, post metal dronology and cinematic soundscapes. This label stands as a true reference for those respective musical sub-genres especially in France where the electronic underground community is very confidential and the CD industry not so well attached to ambient works. OPN Records also made a name and reputation thanks to its incredible longevity and thanks to the promotion of various French localized artists. Their work admits comparisons with the excellent work done by the now dissolved Divine Comedy Records, also from France. Each edition is carefully prepared, beautifully conceived for a standard digipack distribution. Among the most notorious projects signed on the label we can mention the French dark waving electronic Fin de siècle, Fragment and Lambwool (I’d recommend the timeless A sky through the wall) for passionate dark ambient-subterranean drone lovers). Let’s stop on one of their last editions with this new project entitled Fluxus and which gathers a bunch of skilled and renowned musicians from the industrial-experimental “bruitist” electronic scene.
Credits describe that this album is a collaborative effort between Pedro Penas Robles aka HIV+and MAURI featuring Arturo Lanz from legendary industrial pioneers Esplendor Geometrico and guest vocals by Vera from Black Egg. From the compositional angle, this project explores the psych-acoustic / emotionally shocking tactical qualities of industrial music with a vast array of intense sounds, electronic percolation’s, wildly propulsive psych-moves, the whole thing inside a dense sonic atmosphere.
Fluxus starts with eerily moving electronic soundscapes made of fractal noises and sustained by an ambiguous flowing tempo and spoken words. The other tracks follow the same composition schema, bringing to the fore very noxious-claustrophobic sound waving patterns, as in “Esquizofrenia Paranoide” and “Insomnia” or in the nightmarish soundtracky “Neurosis.” This album is definitely recommended for fans of shadowy power electronics from Maurizio Bianchi, Whitehouse, punchy dark electro of Suicide Commando and death industrialism of Atrax Morgue or Mauthausen Orchestra.
Mental Illness is available on OPN.
