VIII. PRAGUE INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL

Inade

They recorded their first album in 1993 and are among the leading formations on the world ambient-industrial scene. On their albums Burning Flesh, Aldebaran or The Crackling of the Anonymous, Inade present a living concept of dark-ambient with dense athmospheric soundscapes and expressive sound. Inade music is psychoactive to a great extent, leading the listener into deep spiritual trance. Ritual elements constitute an inseparable part of their music along with consistently reconstructed orchestral motifs. The René Lehman and Knut Enderlein duo is one of the few dark-ambient projects who make their live performances a real experience, owing also to outstanding visuals. Their latest excellent album Samadhi State was released on their own Loki Foundation label.

Schloss Tegal

Schloss Tegal is Richard Schneider working with MWBurch, who were the first dark pioneers into intrinsic music for psychological purposes who have become a cult electronic music group over the last 2 decades. Their CDs are a mix of graphical information in the form of audio tapes and samples that resemble more of a anthropological film or study rather than music per se. The music is extreme and overpowering psychogenic (psychological/hallucination) noise barrage with subliminal cryptic audio not for the squeemish. Schloss Tegal use graphic content in their audio and visual performances. Their first CD "The Grand Guignol" was banned in Germany due to its shocking text and content resembling the forensic textbook of "Psychopathia Sexualis" Baron Von Kraft-Ebling with a strange twist. Their newest CD in 5 years, "The Myth of Meat" continues in this Grand Guignol realm of unpredictable shocking noise and cringing uneasiness on the body and psyche. This is only part of the many realms Schloss Tegal has explored not excluding UFOs, cattle mutilations, human resource exploitation by the global elite, the long war to come, torture and more in their previous work.

Rectal Surgery

Imagine the sound produced by chainsaws and power drills along withheavily distorted acoustic guitar, hammering bass drums, performed ona high speed train of harsh noise.... tapeloop effects... everythingfilled with a wealth of feedback making nuclear weapon testing soundcomparatively mainstream. Rectal Surgery Noise Terrorists aren't afraidto abuse cliches like "tekkno" style drum patterns and folkmusic in their very own noise compositions.

RS MANIFESTO

Today, the individual is relentless in its search for structure - anodyssey to fix ones own position in a world that seems more complexthan ever. Information overload: News, fads, facts. No single humanbeing is in the position to keep the pace. Structure is more than justorganisation: once you have it - you've got the universal truth. Everythingthat matches the structure of your own small world is acceptible, anythingelse is... unwell.

As one of the saddest characteristic traits of modern society, todaymost humans gain structure by ignorance. Everybody creates his own littleuniverse, being either low-brow boredom or absolute fetishism (whichin fact results in one same thing: repetitive patterns or in other words:routine). There again is only one purpose: struggling for structurein what else would be chaos. The tribal structures of mutual dependencyin one clique is history - everybody primarily cares for the wellnessof his very own person and -maybe- for the few closest relatives/wife/husband.So what has society in store for us instead ? The ever-lasting searchfor structure blinds us - especially where we are unable to find a patternon the first glance. Sometimes we are simply not able to interpret thestructure because the "data" is too complex, or there indeedis no structure at all. Unfortunately the average people are far tooquick telling which is which... leading to a whole universe full offast-food everything: music, literature, entertainment, sex,... Easyconsumeability is mandatory in a world where rest is an inaffordableluxury.

On the one hand the masses abandon anything which is OLD in ever shorterand shorter cycles. Novelty is the second most important paradigm ofour society. Easy consumeability always asks for simple, reknown structures.It happened to all so-called "underground" cultures and music,be it Rap, Punk, Tekkno. These primarily individual cultures have beenswallowed by the industry, equalised to match public taste (reads structure)therefore "consumealised".

Noise is the only phenomenon that will NEVER be commercialised !!

All this is RS's motivation about noise (in its broadest sense - notonly music): it is the ONLY phenomenon with NO proveable structure init. Only if there is no imposed structure from the medium, there'llbe ultimate freedom to both consumer and artist. Nobody is affectedin their own personal structure as there is none ! From it's definition,noise is purest anarchy. This is the prime reason why society hatesand prosecutes noise... Noise is terror. Destroy some structure in yourlife, produce & consume noise 24hrs daily. Anywhere you are. Becomea noise terrorist !

DON'T submit to structure ! -- Rectal Surgery

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Hybryds

Since the mid 80' working in the ritual - mythical - industrialand magical music scene. This band is known for its mind expanding sound.Primitive ethnical and contemporary industrial influences are blendedto create an unique style that has influenced many who were lookingfor spiritual dimensions. In the beginning of the 80 -ties, Magthea,the male side of the Hybryds was involved in THE KLINIK, in the mid 80' he worked on his own personnel music style. Based on ancientinfluences and modern technology, the first tape demo: "Mythicalmusic from the 21 St. century " (1986 - 3RIOART) did not get anyreaction in the music scene.

"Octahedron " (3RIOART) a limited 7 inch followed but againno one was interested. At the start of the 90-ties Yasnaia joined the Hybryds concept adding her clear vocals and acoustic instruments.Workingtogether with Djen Ajakan S and Vidna Obmana resulted in the first ofmany CD releases: "The ritual should be kept alive part 1" (3RIOART-1991). An ethnic styled trance piece.Suddenly the music scene discovered theoriginal, eclectic and powerful Hybryds sound. Many CD releases followed,each release covering an aspect of the path Magthea and Yasnaia werewalking."The ritual should be kept alive part 2", containedcollaborations with other musicians and remixes of the first demo tape.In "Music for rituals" (ARTWARE) the pure magical sound of Hybryds became reality, a struggle between female and male energiesgave birth to one of the most original releases in the magical musicscene. "Soundtrack for the Aquaria of the Antwerp Zoo" mysteriousdeep ambient music created with Ah Cama Sotz for the 150th anniversaryof the Zoo (1993).

"The ritual of the rave"(DAFT) was their answer on the commercialrave scene, the soundtrack of the rave of their tribe and "Theatavistic Fetisj " (3RIOART) an industrial mini CD were the nextsteps in their evolution. Each release different from style, yet it is Hybryds. "Dreamscapes from a dark side"(DAFT), their mostdark and deep ambient masterpiece,was the reflection of 5 years studiowork. A CD so strong and intense,covering the descending to the blackcaves of your mind, a trip in your personnel subconsciousness whereall your fears are born. Although many think " Cortex Stimulation"(DAFT) and Mistrust Authority (vinyl on SOMETHING WEIRD) is abreak with their musical past, Hybryds themselves label this projectas cyberpunk, all the elements which makes Hybryds so unique, are stillthere. Industrial rhythms and hypnotic electronic sound that crawlsinto the brain and brings the listener in alternated states, this timenot with ethnical techniques but with LO-TEK technology. " TectonicOverload "(ANTZEN) (1997) a limited art release goes on and overthe edge of industrial music, dead-techno influenced rhythmtracks andhypnotic industrial noise brings Hybryds closer to the dance floor ofthe madman.

Each release being accompanied by spare live performances, these cyberpunkreleases gave birth to their new live project: MISTRUST AUTHORITY- PROMOTEDECENTRALIZATION, dedicated to all LO-TEKS (and William Gibson), intheir fight against political and religious suppression. A project dealingwith the media, virtual reality and the future of the human race.Thistime they took the meaning of industrial a step forward. This projectbalances on the edge of tolerance. Extreme, structured sound,frequenciesthat goes straight to the brain. Back uped with a lo-tek cybervideoand blended with the mystical and emotional vocals from Yasnaia, thenoise evokes trance. Trance evokes spiritual dimensions.

"Virtual Impact" (DAFT 2000) the provisional latest Hybryds release contains an excellent selection of this powerful live soundand a live recorded videoclip (made by the Stubnitz crew).As contrastin the Hybryds apocalyptic live gigs, Yasnaia brought her solo projectlive as a dark, ethnical and more ambient show. A video based on herdreamscapes and slide projecting creates the athmosphere for floatingand soft danceable rhythms and her esoteric vocals brings you in a sensualdream state of mind.All these reflections you can find in the first CD ROM release of Hybryds; (Orders at vuz@conx.de) An immense collectionof artwork, video, digital poetry and information of 16 years of Hybryds existance, available for Macintosh and Windows.

Look out for new projects: NA-DHA ( Magthea & others), Haydhra (Magthea & Leigh Hunt) and MesmerEyes ( Yasnaia, Djen Ajakan & Deprofundis).

Zygote

The project has arose in 1998 as another model alternative of integrated musical form. Its foundation was the primarily instrumental version of the album called Sense Geometry. This album is inspired by structural principles, based on the musical application of fictive geometrical symbolism of certain physiological mechanisms of the psyche. It is an attempt to detect or demonstrate the existence of a certain order within the seeming chaos. The author titles this musical form of mathematical theory analogously as the so-called fractal musical geometry. For this purposes he makes use of intervals logic signals, rhythm, structure and instrumentation.

Sangredans

Extrémní-performační skupina, která spojuje pohybovou expresi s vlastní, experimentální, elektronicko-industriální hudbou. Extrémní fyzická performance s prvky moderního tance, butó, klasického baletu, akrobacie, capoeiry, zpěvy, fire a pyrotechnic show (plivání ohně, dým, červený oheň) reflektující lidskou bolest v rituálu posthumání kyberkatarze. Představení na pomezí pohybově-výtvarné extrémní performance a koncertu. Hudba je tvořena jak z vlastních hudebních nahrávek a upravená na počítači, tak živě při představení. Nástroji se stávají industriální materiály - z tyčí, železných součástek, plechů a pružin jsou vytvořeny hudební nástrojeve tvaru různých postav, robotů a věcí. Rozeznívají se v hudbu za pomoci neobvyklých nástrojů jako jsou např. rozbrus, svářečka, vrtačka, motor z auta... Velmi výrazné jsou kostýmy a scénografie, kdy aktéři jsou natřeni grafitovou barvou a evokují tak kovové-cyberpunkové pololidi a poloroboty. Fyzicky náročná, akrobaticko-taneční choreografie dokreslují výsledný dojem celé performance.

Theatre group formed in 2001 in Praha. In Sangredans performances,the protagonists use a wide variety of theatrical forms. The strongest emphasis is enjoyed by a motoric expression. In their images, we canfind elements of acrobacy, modern dance, classical ballet, butoh, capoeira, steppe, pantomime and fire show. Using different props, tools, lights and elements (water, fire, sand, smoke...) the actors create a mystical atmosphere streaming into a dramatical whole of the story.

Tereza Georgievová, Radka Hetmánková, Petra Bucková, Dan Pavel, FilipKačírek