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DMA2

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DMA2 = Défense des Musiques Actuelles 2.
Experimental label from the eighties based in Bordeaux, France.
DMA2 was also well known as the organisator of an annual industrial festival in their city, "Divergences/Divisions".
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Discography

Releases:
DMA 001 Various Dossier Bordeaux 84 (Cass, Comp, C40) 1984
DMA 003 DZ Lectric & Anthon Shield Confessions D'Un Masque (Cass, C60) 1985
DMA 004 Various Un Destin Si Funeste (Cass, Comp, C60)  
DMA 005 Jean-Louis Houchard & Masami Akita Collaboration Through The Mail 83/84 (Cass, C60) 1987
DMA 006 Étant Donnés Le Sens Positif (LP) 1987
DMA 007 Conditions Extr;M: Organisations Sonores (Cass, C60)  
DMA 2/79841 Anne Gillis Aha (LP) 1984
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Review by tristan.koreya Sep 01, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
DMA2 not only was a cassette and record label, but also organised many concerts in Bordeaux, France, during the eighties and early nineties. They were especially known for their annual « Divergences/Divisions » festival, that was one of the most important industrial music festival of the eighties in Europe (with « Berlin Atonal »). It has featured: 1984: Anne Gillis, DDAA, Die Form, Étant Donnés, Ptôse, Un Département, Yuca Ferdanzen (all from France); 1985: Bernard Nguyen (France), Legendary Pink Dots (UK), Le Syndicat / ORA / Pacific 231 (France), Nocturnal Emissions (UK), Non Toxique Lost (Germany), Pascal Comelade & Bel Canto Orchestra (France), Such Interesting People (Belgium); 1986: Anthon Shield & DZ Lectric (France), Das Synthetische Mischgewebe (Germany), DDAA (France), Esplendor Geometrico (Spain), Fâlx Çèrêbri (Germany), Laibach (Yougoslavia), Sol Dièse & Phil Gaz (France), Vivenza (France); 1987: Ghédalia Tazartès & Alain Rigout (France), Hervé Diasnas (France), Joan La Barbara (US), Natural Disasters (Hungary), Paul Panhuysen & Johan Goedhart (Netherlands), Test Dept (UK); 1988: Anne Gillis (France), Bourbonese Qualk (UK), Étant Donnés (France), Greater Than One (UK), The Hafler Trio (UK), In The Nursery (UK), Laibach (Yougoslavia), Von Magnet (France), Z’ev (US); 1989: Con-Dom (UK), G.X. Jupitter-Larsen & Masami Akita (Canada/Japan), The Haters (Canada), Merzbow (Japan), Natural Disasters (Hungary), Nox (France), THU20 (Netherlands), Vox Populi! (France). On other occasions, DMA2 also organised many concerts of artists such as Club Moral (Belgium), Die Tödliche Doris (Germany), The Grief (France) and others. DMA2 front man, André Lombardo, had a weekly radio show, « Inhibition 93 », on a Bordeaux-based local radio station, La Vie Au Grand Hertz (or La VAGH), 99.2 Mhz. Both DMA2’s « Inhibition 93 » radio show and « Divergences/Divisions » festival have been responsible for my progressive interest in industrial, post-industrial and experimental music.