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FLUX INFORMATION SCIENCES | INTERVIEW
croutonmusic.comHow did Flux Information Sciences form and what was the general idea behind getting started?Crouton Music: How did Flux Information Sciences form and what was the general idea behind getting started? Tristan Bechet: Seb and I were attending art school in Marseilles, France. We had been playing in a noisy, decadent, drunken lounge band called TWA for a couple years. On our own, we started to experiment, looking for something else. We wanted to achieve something radically new. One day, we found the annual report of Volt Information Sciences, a... Read more...
Ulan Bator | Ego:Echo | Review
UNDER THE VOLCANO | Paul Lemosbrings together a wide spectrum of musical ideas and influences with its nine extended pieces.Former Swans founder, Michael Gira's Young God Label is quickly establishing itself as one of Manhattan's most vital outlets for consistently challenging new music. With the release of France's Ulan Bator's second album, the group has progressed tremendously. Cleanly produced by Gira himself, Ego:Echo brings together a wide spectrum of musical ideas and influences with its nine extended pieces. Many of the tracks meld elements of Jazz, Noise, and electronic music... Read more...
Ulan Bator - EGO:ECHO | Review
ROLLING STONE | David Fricke...a unique and addictive sadness…The coronary pulse of Can, the spatial trickery of dub reggae, the throbbing gravity of Joy Division: The French trio Ulan Bator build the stark architecture of EGO:ECHO (Young God CD), their US debut, from familiar materials. But the result, produced by grim-rock priest Michael Gira, once of Swans, is a unique and addictive sadness, a profound synthesis of gonglike guitar, medieval despair and the consumptive drama of singer-guitarist Amaury Cambuzant’s rich, low singing. At sixteen minutes, the album’s centerpiece “Let Go... Read more...
Calla & Flux Information Sciences
THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY "Area 13" review | Mark SteinerLive Performance & Young God Records CD Release Party at The Mercury Lounge, NYC - Friday, January 19, 2001Young God Records, the brainchild label of Michael Gira (Swans, Angels of Light) recently ushered in the new year with both an intriguing sampler CD simply entitled "Compilation 2000 A.D.," as well as "Ego: Echo," the label's first impressive release from revisionist French avant-rock artists Ulan Bator. Friday night at Mercury Lounge marked yet another double release in the expanding repertoire of this delving... Read more...
Interview | Scavenger hunt
TimeOut New York | Issue No. 278 | Mike WolfCalla settles into its very own gray areaAt it's best, music reveals things that can't be expressed in everyday life. Which may be why the transplanted Texans who make up the Brooklyn-based trio Calla find it a chore to express anything about themselves in verbal terms. "We're a pretty vague band," drummer and sample programmer Wayne B. Magruder admits with a smile. "Really, it just comes out this way and it sounds good." That's about as concrete a description as you'll... Read more...
Ego:Echo | Review
TimeOut New York | Issue No. 276 | Jordan N. MamoneSimply put, Ego:Echo is an out-of-nowhere, art-rock masterpiece.Simply put, Ego:Echo is an out-of-nowhere, art-rock masterpiece. The French trio Ulan Bator has expertly assembled tempestuous guitar clang, mood-enhancing loop/keyboard exploration and oddly played yet sensual pop flourishes into a magnificent, natural whole that dramatically pulses with vivid ideas and gnashing severity. Undulating drones give way to soothing, breathy vocals, which dissolve in acidic tone clusters and hard, sternly stated rhythms—often within a single, shockingly cohesive track. This immaculately performed album jars... Read more...
ULAN BATOR EGO:ECHO (YOUNG GOD RECORDS) REVIEW
MEAN MAGAZINE | Dave Cliffordwhere pop music lilts, Ulan Bator soars; where it finds respite, Ulan Bator scratches, carves and gnaws.French culture has a way of imposing a certain sado-masochistic, reverent disdain for upon its art – particularly music. For the French, it’s not enough to love pop music: One must love it with a co-dependent disgust of a couple on the verge of murder-suicide. French avant-rock abusers, Ulan Bator, clearly love the pop-music tradition in the same way – because its first release on an American label is like... Read more...
Windsor for the Derby | Difference and Repetition - Review
MOJO MAGAZINE | Andrew CardeenThere's no reason to overlook the third lp from texas post-rockers windsor for the derby. "difference and repetition" is their first for ex-swans leader michael gira's young god label and continues on the gentle trajectory of their earlier work with a soothing mix of repeated phrases, hushed whispers, and organic ambience. think eno, tortoise, and late '60's pink floyd." Read more...
Flux Information Sciences | Private/Public | Review
The Chicago Reader | Monica Kendrick...like a letter from the golden age of industrial music...I always open packages from Young God Records with great enthusiasm, because I really do beleive that founder Michael Gira knows some things that must people don't. His latest release, Flux Information Sciences' Private/Public, is like a letter from the golden age of industrial music, which, in my opinion, was before Al Jourgensen stopped singing with a fake british accent -back when ugly frequencies really were dangerous and hearing everything that's fatal and destructive about modern... Read more...
Ulan Bator | Ego:Echo | Review
San Francisco Weekly | Dave CliffordListening to the trio's first American release (and fourth overall) is like tracing its finger-shaped bruises across the throat of pop history.For the French, it's not enough to love music; one must embrace it with the codependent disgust of a couple verging on a murder/suicide. The French avant-rock group Ulan Bator clearly loves the pop tradition in this way. Listening to the trio's first American release (and fourth overall) is like tracing its finger-shaped bruises across the throat of pop history. Produced by Michael Gira,... Read more...

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