Zoviet France - Misfits, Loony Tunes And Squalid Criminals [Vinyl]

Zoviet France was for years one of the most radical groups of the 1980s, an ideal bridge between the industrial music of the early days and the free noise of the 1990s. Unlike almost all the “industrial“ bands of their generation, Zoviet France were also a model of consistency, continuing to offer terrible and austere music instead of falling back on the banalities of dance music or “apocalyptic folk.“ Ben Ponten and Robin Storey formed Zoviet France when the “fashion“ of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire was already dying out. Their collective embraced the “do it yourself“ aesthetic of punk in the context of electronic music influenced by Terry Riley’s minimalism, Lee Perry’s dub productions, and ethnic musics. Their compositions are largely based on cyclic drone emanating from loops and ethnic instruments, a simple technique that produces a hypnotic and evocative flow of sound. Each album contains a defining element (typically a sampling) that recu