prozac diet, for a dark point of view,
Suicide attraction saved by a sense of sick humour
[ma tasse de thé]
MR BUNGLE- KIRLIAN CAMERA-
SKINNY PUPPY- OHGR-
KMFDM-NIN- AGONOIZE-
SNAKE SKIN-COMBICHRIST-
WUMPSCUT-DIE FORM-
SUICIDE COMMANDO-
DIARY OF DREAMS-
DEATHSTARS- SAMAEL-
LAIBACH-
COBALT 60-
DAS ICH-
FUNKER VOGT-
FLESH FIELD-
VELVET ACID CHRIST
Bëat in Zën is the unlikely meeting of dark and light.
Born in 1998 of 2 musicians lost in a world where nothing is dark enough to support the brightness of the diamond .
Released from its complexes, Beat in Zen music is like a trip, such as Dante’s to Hell.. Amazing encounters that leave a bitter taste. Primal and sensitive, the saving suffering expresses, helping us no to go beyond the limit of no return. Refusing the familiar structures for an experience of total freedom.
The other Side of Biz’art is visual art. It’s the immediate link with the listeners. The numerical creations dispersed on the home page illustrate the thought process of the duet, quietly, without comment. They prolong the music far beyond the senses.
Here, 2 heads, totally separated at birth but now combined by chirurgical connection in this music experiment. They are one and indivisible, for the best in the worst.
From :Lucy FAIR Bagdad, friday 13th
hôtel California
666 Highway to hell
IRAQ
To : George W. Bush
The White House
Washington USA
Hi Darling,
I am writing to you from my new place of holiday where I am having a ball. The sponsors are extra cool, they organise damn good games !
The other night, one of them crashed his bus onto a jeep. It all burst. So many were killed and among them even kids. That was great !
The traditions are well settled over here. I took a few nice negatives of lined up coffins. For my next expo, that will do it. In the same way, I even took a few negatives of traditionnal feasts where they cut heads off from still living guys, screaming with pain.
We were thrilled, what a blast !
Right, some people always break the atmosphere such as those pacifists -a pain in the neck- who won’t even go to the parties. But we ignore them, that’s the best to do.
I think I will come back for the next elections.
I am missing you a bit nonetheless, my worshipful Bubu...
When I am back, I promise, I’ll be all yours. Get ready !
If you could send a few weapons to the boys so they don’t run out...
Don’t you forget the Iraqi by sending them some massive destruction old ones as they still don’t have any. That will be good for the atmosphere.
I kiss you everywhere. Your Trollop
Lucy N
P.S. It’s almost as good as Vietnam, only napalm is missing ;0))
BEAT IN ZEN Fifth Victory? Coffret CD 12.00 EUR
lividlookingglass.com _ USA
----Myspace is simply a brilliant idea when it comes to discovering new talented and lesser-known acts. This is where to start when looking to find interesting bands such as Beat in Zen.
Hailing from France, this modern act uses technology in a crafty way to create its surrealist décor. Keyboards, electronics, samplings and vocal effects are used from beginning to end, top to bottom as well as some heavy guitar works and drum programming all along the way.
Those compositions are unusual, fun to listen to, humoristic (or sarcastic maybe), while staying melodic but keep in mind its schizophrenic personality.If looking for a good long lasting (60 mins +) opus of weirdness, 5th Victory is what you need and I think that all the people who like dark and alternative music, will enjoy this CD.
---- gothtronic.com _ Germany----It’s not an ostrich that falls out of the acer. Also it’s no Eastern meditation music hiding in the cardboard of this digipack, despite the use of the word "Zen" in the band name. No, this band hailing from La Douce France is firmly into industrial. Tramb and Xtof, that’s how the two strange blokes responsible for this pulsating sonic porridge wish to be called. What is being achieved here by this quizzical duo on their third album is not unlike a dish prepared with Skinny Puppy, Sonic Violence and a dash of Throbbing Gristle as ingredients. Mind you, you could also put a sticker saying "A Vague Crossover Between Revolting Cocks And Dissident Synthpop" on the sleeve for promotional purposes. And it doesn’t stop there, since this also reminds me of the soundtracks of the classic FPS games Doom and Doom II, albeit more baroque. Metallic guitars, driving rhythms and a whole load of repetitive samples are used as the foundation here, the rushing riffs, which at moments are reminiscent of speed metal, sometimes have an almost hallucinatory quality over them. The vocals are distorted in various ways and are in many instances used more like an additional instrument, as if they’re a segment of the machine. Just like advertising, this music’s strenght lies in the power of repetition, the repetition of sonic structures to be exact. The disciplined cacophony gains effectivity and impact because of this.
Loud, bold and a bit weird, but that just makes it more scrumptious. Song titles such as "DNA And The Ants", "Spleen Spiders And Spine", "Massoud Not X", "Molly Coddle Dandy", "Resist[ants]", "Big Bang Messiah" and "Grand Fun Armada" certainly contribute to the idea that Beat In Zen might not consist of the most ordinary persons. But it’s not like there still exists an unambigious definition of normalcy in these interesting times, now is there? So never mind that. The penultimate track "Smoke It Now!" drew my attention because of the use of classical samples, whereupon the title track appears in the form of a closing outro. Using the famous theme of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as its basis, "Fifth Victory?" doesn’t need a lot of time to end this cd with a feeling of dread.
----www.music.discovery.de_Germany-- -Aus Frankreich stammt diese Industrial Band auf die ich über mySpace aufmerksam geworen bin. Beat in Zen frönen einer Mischung aus EBM und Industrial der hin und wieder mit dezenten Gitarrensounds unterlegt wurde. Und was mir hier extrem positiv aufgefallen ist, ist der Abwechslungsreichtum, den diese CD zu bieten hat.
Mal geht es etwas ruhiger und mystischer zu Sache, dann gibt man aber mal wieder etwas mehr Gas und was vorher fast nach avantgardistischen Industrial klang wechselt auf einmal zu harten, rhythmischen EBM der ordentlich Power hat. Man hinterlegt aber nicht nur einfach irgendwelche Klangfolgen und Samples mit einfachen Beats, sondern legt sehr viel Wert auf Details und Effekte, die man in dieser Form eigentlich nicht erwarten würde.
Die Grundstimmung dieser CD ist etwas bedrückend und somit fängt man die Atmosphäre des Covers eigentlich sehr gut ein. Mich erinnert diese Band teilweise etwas an GGFH nur wesentlich moderner, an einigen Stellen klingen in Ansätzen die Einstürzenden Neubauten durch und dann hat man, speziell wenn die Gitarre erklingt, leichte Ähnlichkeiten zu KMFDM und bei den harten EBM Rhythmen fallen mir XQ ein.
Wobei Beat in Zen ihren absolut eigenen Sound geschaffen haben und in keinster Weise wie eine Kopie der eben genannten Bands klingen. Wobei mein persönlicher Highlight der Song „smoke it now!“ ist, denn auch vor klassischen Elementen schreckt Beat in Zen nicht zurück.
Ein sehr gelungener Release, den ich ruhigen Gewissens weiterempfehlen kann.
----UNDERGROUNDPRESS.co.za [01/2005]----An obscure experimental electronic album incorporating metal, acid and industrial influences with sound samples.The guitars are aggressive, the beat is raw and the atmosphere
is cold and hard, while the vocals are inhumanly insane.
"Ocean Captive" is a progressive revolution in electronic music-
----TRANSITMAG.ch----Hors du commun : tel est le terme à employer pour définir ce ‘Ocean Captive’. Et en matière de musique, cette labellisation se fait rare.
Le duo français, Tramb et Xtof, nous offre là des sonorités, des mélodies et des arrangements hallucinants.
L’electro metal de la paire n’a pas d’autre frontière que celle de l’hybridation. Émergence entre une guitare ‘griffante’, des samples pointus et une voix clivée, Bëat In Zën sort de la norme.
Parfois indus, electro ou gothiques, les morceaux n’en restent pas moins des sons et des voix trafiqués, des inventions et des mix de toutes les sortes. Soigné mais dérangé, cet album éclectique interroge.
N’attendez pas l’apocalypse, allez la chercher!!!-
----METAL.CHAOS.free.fr-------Je dois dire que c’est l’une des chroniques qui m’a demandé le plus d’attention car leur musique est vraiment difficile à cerner... Pas au sens négatif du terme bien au contraire, je suis totalement conquis par leur travail... Et quel travail!!!
Il va s’en dire que l’accès à ce chef d’oeuvre n’est pas donné à tout le monde, car il faut imaginer le monde que Tramb et Xtof ont su se créer. Beaucoup de Sample, des paroles sortant d’une boite vocale de robot, un monde à la science fiction, un monde Psychédélique, un monde de déjanté, bref leur monde...
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