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Artist:	KRIKOR & THE DEAD HILLBILLIES
Title:	Land Of Truth
Label:	TIGERSUSHI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TSR 018CD

Finally, after 10 years of music-making, this is the debut full-length album by France's Krikor, featuring vocal contributions by The Dead Hillbillies aka Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax), Chloé Raunet (Battant), and Chloé (Plein Soliel). Krikor's musical style has become more hybrid than ever -- a personal synthesis of his musical obsessions: the fat groove and old drum machines of Chicago house, the abstract sounds of minimal techno, the urge and energy of rockabilly, the harshness of industrial music, the dark romanticism of folk anti-heroes from the '60s, and the forward thinking of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète lab rats (Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry). An ambitious album of 11 cinematic songs and electronic smacks that will drown you in a 40 years' flood of sound waves. Like a hired killer on mescaline sent after pop music heritage, he rushes from guitars to drum machines, leaving marks as deep as machete scars, crushing all labels and developing his own interpretation of shoegaze, old-school electro, blue-eyed funk, electronic, pop, house and ambient, with stand-out track "God Will Break It All" sounding like some sort of hydra-headed beast of clashing '80s dance-beats, post-punk caterwaul, and groove-bass. Land Of Truth is a subtle combination of slaughtered beats and milky keyboards, indecipherable layers, guitar laments, gritty bass lines, space echoes, menacing synths and crystalline pianos, revealing Krikor as a musical dandy, with his fingers in all pies.

Artist:	KRIKOR & THE DEAD HILLBILLIES
Title:	God Will Break It All
Label:	TIGERSUSHI (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TSR 032EP

The urgency and darkness of alternative underground culture, from psychobilly to industrial is brought back into dance music by France's best-kept secret, Krikor. Standout track "Break It All" sounds like Prince and Throbbing Gristle on a boat, with stompin' beats and overdriven synths, old school drum machines and outerspace sound sculptures. Krikor reduced the original himself to a heavy bass disco monster full of percussion and tape delay. Joined by the Dead Hillbillies and vocalist Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax).

Artist:	KRIKOR & THE DEAD HILLBILLIES
Title:	Crackboy
Label:	TIGERSUSHI (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TSR 034EP

Krikor goes back to his techno roots with 3 different takes on the genre. First comes a remix of "Crackboy" by Plein Soleil aka Krikor & DJ Chloé. Dark rooms. Liquid percussion and death trumpets. Krikor presents one auto-remix and an exclusive track. His "Cruising" edit of "Dogs On Trial" sounds like Throbbing Gristle doing techno-disco. Amazing beats, ghostly pianos, and vocals by Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax). "La Chasse" is another banger, perfect as a warm-up tool or an end-of-night acid trip.

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