XII. PRAGUE INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL

Dive

Dive is Dirk Ivens, along with Front 242 is no doubt a pioneer of Electronic Body Music. He has performed since 1980 under the name Absolute Body Control appearing on several compilations. In 1985 he was a founding member of the Belgian cult formation THE KLINIK that won a worldwide reputation with their unique sound and visual gigs. In 1990, Dirk released a self-titled solo album under the name DIVE. The album was very primitive, harsh and experimental, with lyrics about hope, death, love and fear, but hits like 10000 volts. This was the start of many products with an evolving sound. With a minimum on equipment, Dirk creates a maximum of power. His sound is copied by a lot of newcomers in the last couple of years and he proved on many stages that less means more. In 1996, Dirk started Sonar with the aim to create rhythmical noise and dark soundscapes, both projects being released on his own label Daft Records. Dive's music is an explosive experimental mixture of abused EBM and noise; his concerts are avalanches of energy, blinding lights from stroboscopes and the all-absorbing Dirk's vocals. Gigs worldwide, touring in Japan, Canada, USA, Europe, combined with an impressive discography makes that Dirk is still one of the leaders of the world electronic scene of today.

» www.dirkivens.com

Murderous Vision

Murderous Vision was formed in 1994 by Stephen Petrus and John Dixon. The first two albums were marked by experimentation, then in 1996 Dixon left the project in 1996 and Petrus was for the next couple of years working with death-industrial project In Death's Throes. The return of Murderous Vision in 1999 was manifested in the album Suffocate... the Final Breath. The next full length offering was The Times Without Gods, using melody and classically based music refrains into the equation of dark ambient and industrial. Later on, Stephen embarked on a more visceral and violent approach, utilizing a grinding death industrial soundscape and manic vocals. The 10 years existence was marked by special double CD Ghosts of the Soul Long Lost. The year 2006 has brought the release of Life's Blood Death's Embrace, which is a return to the structures of The Times Without Gods with more detail on composition and recording techniques. Also a few short films have been created and the year will wrap up with the first ever live appearances by the band on European soil... with the premiere at our festival!

» www.murderousvision.com

Tábor Radosti

This mysterious duo from Jihlava has first appeared on the X. Prague Industrial Festival in 2004 and a year later on the IV. Wroclaw Industrial Festival. They dazzled the audience like a meteorite. Obscure sound, complex composition and impressive stage appearance with stunning visuals were clear marks of the huge potential of this project and of the long way it has gone. The official beginnings of Tábor Radosti date back to 1995. Two years later, Tabor Radosti makes their debut with "1984" at the industrial festival in Telč (cz). This was a show made of loops played back on several modified tape decks and vocals in industrial-orwellian fashion. Within the following two years, they have conceptually adopted new sound technologies, both analogue and digital. In the beginning of 2001, they start recording their debut CD Tábor Radosti with mesmerizingly austere composition, texts and vocals. After two more years, they release another album. Its title Hávamál - or, the Words of the High One - is an homage to the astonishing depth of original beliefs of our ancestors and the foreboding of the fall of the western occidental civilisation, caused by uprooting these beliefs and importing the new "God of Desert" into souls of humans. This record already has all typical signs of their current production - magic and ritual, distorted vocals abundant with ancient archetypal motifs, a vast variety of emotional surfaces and rhythmical sequences. Before long, the new phenomenon on the Czech scene started cooperating with the label Epidemie Records who released their third album, Lamat, a sequel to the manifested belief in the infallible cosmic cycles. Magic sound territories are even more complex and impenetrable compared to the previous albums, the inner architecture of the tracks now features orchestral themes and colourful sound ornaments. Tábor Radosti have reached the status of the Czech dark-electronic number one.

» taborradosti.com

Drahomira Song Orchestra

The Drahomira Song Orchestra was founded 10 years ago, by French former cinema students Julien Pacaud and Jean-Christophe Sanchez, back from a journey to Karlovy Vary, were they presented their first collaborative movie. Since then, several artistic fields have been explored by the DSO, such as graphic design, painting, literature, music and, of course, cinema. Their first appearance was an improvised one-hour sound performance in the streets of Paris in June 1997. After this experience that gave birth to the D.S.O., Pacaud & Sanchez began to work on several recordings. These can be divided into two main styles: cosmic ambient moods with minimalist melodies and industrial loops "a la Boyd Rice". Having produced several of such albums, this year CD The Return of the 250 Magicians was released by the Russian label Waystyx Records. This very strange French duo will jazz up the festival dramaturgy with intricate sound collages and impressive visualization. For the first time in Czechia!

» www.institutdrahomira.com

Einleitungszeit

Einleitungszeit is with no doubt one of the most extreme formations on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia. The 15 years of existence brought Einleitungszeit ultimate death-industrial sound and status one of genre top-classics. Its albums were released by reputable labels Art Konkret, Freak Animal or Recalcitrant Noise, whose edition was censored in Slovakia for "aesthetically unacceptable" cover. Some live performances are captured on Ars Morta Universum / Industrial Gallery videos also. Through sound, spirit and fire, the duo R-01 (Richard Norg, music) / M-01 (Martin Jarolim, voice, arrangement) create an ecstatic storm, with feelings of transformation of human being's consciousness into the intelligence of cybernetic creature. Just few seconds of ambient soundscapes release a flow of unbounded noise that can exceed even the uttermost Japanese recordings. Last year concerts in Japan with the performance dancer Tereza Georgieva aka Sangredans were passionately welcomed. Their common festival appearance will bring a typical stage storm of absorbing sound and howling expressive dance.

» einleitungszeit.industrialgallery.com

Opening Performance Orchestra

The brand-new face of Czech post-industrial scene has started performing live after taking some time to "mature", released their first album "Jack's Flat" full of abstract noise, fully subscribing to their philosophy of "no melody no rhythm no harmony". On of the breakthoughs in the development of this seven-man formation was a dynamic mix by one of foremost Japanese noise musicians titled Astro (ex-member of the legendary C.C.C.C.). The group has organized several happenings and concets, having introduced uncompromising "fragment music" - minutely selected combination of abstract soundscapes (such as e.g. computer, radio, guitar, triangle, noise), aiming at positioning the listener on the same level as the artist / noise producer, abolishing conventional approaches to and image of live performances and last but not least, enhancing the imagination of the listener. This is to a great extent aided by corresponding video show. The wall of noise by O-P-O will be the festival's feast for the genre's fans and freaks.

» www.o-p-o.cz

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.

» www.inade.de

Seismic Wave Factory

SWF is the one-man project of Robert Hnát former member of the Czech industrial music pioneers Střední Evropa (later known as M.A.C of MAD), one half of VO.I.D power hardcore noise duo and last but not least a productive composer who has released a dozen solo project albums that span from noise to industrial ambient and rhythmic techno into power electronics. Most of them were released on the artist's own label "All People to Recycle". Many also came out on the German label "Membrum Debile Propaganda".
The "Sundiver" DVD, produced in cooperation with Industrial Gallery, his last release this year is a psychoactive matter, attacking the senses with pulsating visual combustions and non-compromising power rhythms and noise. Immerse yourself into the seismic psychedelic doom moods overflowing from his dense black ambient soundscapes into interactive rhythm bit streams that will suck you into a deep profound vortex forever!

» swf.industrialgallery.com

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.

» www.schlosstegal.com

C.H. District

Miroslaw Matyasik started his artistic activity in 1996 and became part of the silesian ambient/noise/experimental scene. The basis of his activity as a musician is the oneman project C.H. DISTRICT, connecting the tradition of industrial music with contemporary "intelligent electronic" productions. He is cooperating with the performance/videoart group SUKA OFF, supporting them as an actor as well as with original music productions. In the years 1998-2001 he published at his own expense two CDs "Pneuma-ti-coi" and "Continuance". In 2002 C.H. DISTRICT signed a contract with the french label M-TRONIC. The first official record, split with the Dutch artist DUUSTER, was well received in Poland, but mainly in France and the UnitedStates. At the beginning of 2005 came out the second C.H.DISTRICT LP recorded for the Parisian label Slides.

» www.chdistrict.com

Do Shaska!

Czech dervish men is one of labels of the Czech formation Do Shaska!. They came into existence in 1989 as a "reactionary heretical offshoot" to the North-Bohemian punk scene. In more than 15 years the formation has passed through many personas from dreamy ambient via ethno-industrial styles to dark-trance-dub music. Do Shaska! uses up-to-date technologies and is leaning nowadays towards rhythmic, hallucinatory compositions with a essential use of live instruments (bassoon, base guitar, didgeridoo, percussions, vocal, metals etc.) and live manipulated video projection. Do Shaska! will present their newest sound from their latest album "Alchymische Alraune" at the festival this year. We can expect an impressive spectacle of tribal hypnotizing trance-like rhythms in the guise of industrial electro-punk´n´roll!

» www.doshaska.net

Psychedelic Halucinogen

Michal Kořán (Kora et le Mechanix) introduces his ambient-idustrial tendencies in the Psychedelic Halucinogen project. In a live set, he will introduce a sound collage which was originally intended for the L.S.D.A. - Č.S.S.R. exhibition, installed in the Center for Contemporary Arts / Klub Jelení. This was an exhibition of pictures made in therapeutic sessions under the infulence of psychedelic drugs as a part of official research in ČSSR between 1954-1974.

» www.michalkoran.cz

Birds Build Nests Underground

Prague-based duo exploring the world of turntable and record manipulation. Since 2003 they have been composing "songs" based on the sound of vinyl records prepared by stickers, speed manipulation and scratching (by knife!). The band's sound is a thick tapestry of sound ON and IN the records - the role of clicks & hits is as important as the role of sound fragments recorded on the albums. With the roots in post-industrial music, Birds Build Nests Underground have developed into a band linking psychedelic music and minimalism.

The loop and recycling in BBNU's music plays a role of a microscope or zoom that enables the exploration of "music under music", dicovering new details in notorious sounds that are fragmented and put into new contextual environment.

Birds Build Nests Underground are Michal Brunclík and Petr Ferenc.

» www.bbnu.eu

Dj Maldoror

Bret Vanderberg grew up in the San Francisco bay area in the late 70's /early 80's, and gained much of his taste for music in the burgeoning local industrial scene there.Finally made a start at KWVA 88.1 FM in Eugene, Oregon in the first half of the 90's. His radio show "Psychic Surgery" was described in a magazine
review as "... music to make your ears bleed".Soon after, joined the SIN (Sound Integrated Nation) sound system, taking part in events throughout the northwest USA, including numerous underground fetish evenings. SIN became, for many, a means by which to challenge listeners to not only enjoy the music, but to simultaneously shake them out
of every day complacency in life. He continued to gain yet more experience as a resident dj at clubs such as
the now defunct "Nexus". He has gone on to entertain audiences of discerning listeners in countries on both sides of the Atlantic; known for sets mixing a punishing, unique blend of ebm, industrial and power electronics, dj Maldoror continues to inspire both saints and sinners alike, in numerous dark places round the globe.

Dj Nika77

With experimental electronic-ambient set, this Prague-based female DJ will take care for the festival closing part. Since Nika77´s debut public appearance in 1997, she has performed in many renowned clubs around Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as England, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Slovenia, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. In 2006, Nika77 released album Eduo on German label TekkEx. This premium Czech female DJ´s set will be accomplised with an original videoprojection, made by the artist herself this year.

» www.nika77.com