I will not bother you with an annoying detailed review of each track but I will nevertheless mention the contributions that really draw my attention. First of all and without any chauvinism, the two French industrial projects, Propergol and Maison Close, really deliver excellent tracks. Propergol opens the first record with a rather experimental track 'Alpha 60' built around samples taken from the 'Alphaville' movie, followed by a brilliant 'Fahrenheit', full of noises, rage, violence... one of those classical Propergol tracks that makes this band one of the most interesting in the power-electronics scene these days. As for Maison Close, the 'mysterious' French industrial project, the title 'Escape from freedom' that features on the second disc is a powerful power-electronics piece.
The second disc also reveals some very interesting works... The Predominance track 'To tame a land' features amongst the best contributions of this second part: hypnotic, ritual... closer to 'Hindenburg' and early Predominance works...
The two CDs come in a double transparent DVD box with a futuristic artwork cover completed by a 20 page-DVD size booklet featuring the basic 'Postresistance - Here and now' English text (the French, German and Italian version of these notes are also accessible via the Stateart website).
1000 copies of this compilation were released and there will not be another reissue which is underlined by the 'Sazero' catalogue number.
An incontournable document about Stateart's rich past.
Nathalie F.
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I will not forget to mention the surprising weird, industrial ambient contribution by 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse with 'Black sheep'. This excellent track created by Bryin Dall and mixed by Derek Rush (Dream Into Dust) is really worth discovering.
Nevertheless, the true surprise, on a personal point of view, comes from the Dream Into Dust track 'At the heart of the white rose'. The main reason certainly comes from the musical contrast this contribution brings to the rest of the compilation. Here, folk sonorities (acoustic guitar, cello...) are present, mixed with sampled male voice, percussions, drones... The text (present on the booklet) is based on a poem by Berthold Brecht, with vocal support by Bruce LaFountain of The Sword And Volcano Complex and Michael Moynihan. A great contribution, not to say the best!
Autumn 2003
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