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Artist:	LA STPO
Title:	Le Combat Occulté
Label:	BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	MT 047CD

"It's strange to think that a score of years ago the world was just emerging from the last of its new wave haze, only to enter a brave new era of over produced, digitally recorded schlock. La STPO was borne into this miasma of mediocrity with knives out. They have remained bastions of outré ever since their bloodied birth. Vive La STPO! To celebrate two decades of one of the finest, most fractured and indefatigable European avant post punk bands, BlRR has nailed together this 11 track retrospective of 7300 days in the life of La STPO. And rather than trying to shape this into some sort of 'best of' or 'greatest hits,' BlRR and La STPO have done the reverse by leaning more heavily in on the group's more exploratory moments. This also makes for a better album that, in its own skewed way, fits together as if all recorded in the same session. As presented here, La STPO are truly Rock In Opposition. Unlike their Zeuhl spewing forbears, however, STPO are not trying to fuse jazz and rock. Their rock is in opposition of all things safely established, including Rock In Opposition. Jagged and bleated arrangements with familiar rock instrumentation clash to form screaming, Dada-pregnant, contorted punk concertos. Oddly timed and full of changes, this is music to fall down escalators to."

Artist:	LA STPO
Title:	Le Combat Occulte
Label:	BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MT 047LP

"To celebrate two decades of one of the finest, most fractured and indefatigable European avant post punk bands, BlRR has nailed together this 11 track retrospective of 7300 days in the life of La STPO. As presented here, La STPO are truly Rock In Opposition. Unlike their Zeuhl spewing forbears, however, STPO are not trying to fuse jazz and rock. Their rock is in opposition of all things safely established, including Rock In Opposition. Jagged and bleated arrangements with familiar rock instrumentation clash to form screaming, Dada-pregnant, contorted punk concertos. Oddly timed and full of changes, this is music to fall down escalators to. Sometimes this is music to lay at the bottom of escalators to."

Artist:	LA STPO
Title:	Slices of Thrown Time
Label:	BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MT 074CD

"In the midst of the world's fascination with so-called Electroclash, leave it to the old school to really show what post-punk is really about, while simultaneously turning the concept on its fractured head. La Stpo has the finesse and invention and the je ne c'est quoi to massage its victims into a quiet trance, only to pummel them seconds later. Slices Of Throw Time is like a Van Der Graaf arc between the bombast of Blurt/Ex/Dog Faced Hermans/Contortions/Birthday Party and the subtle, avant-composerly moments of Henry Cow/This Heat/Univers Zero/Faust. The punchy rhythm section, abetted by the squawky horns, makes for a music to which one can truly contort. La Stpo's musical muscle, however, is always backed up by solid jazz/classical informed chops that can and will chop any lesser outfit into nothing more than a pile of over-loud rock and roll dust. La Stpo infuses their punk with dynamics of both volume and texture, producing a slightly zeuhl flavoured post rock."

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