Zoviet France ‎– Mohnomishe

C1 seems to have invented dub techno

Nearly 30 years since I bought this! Original masonite covered version. I just converted the vinyl to MP3 and listened again with fresh ears. Still remains the mysterious entity it always was. One of ZF's most satisfying releases and I have quite a few (in original and wondrous) artwork sleeves. As I slowly convert each of their recordings for portable listening I realise what a unique force they really were. Even inspired me to try my own hand at 'sound sculpting', with a little less success than they. Mohnomishe is quintessential ZF, the primitive, other-wordly, electronic and subsonic pulses. Like no-one else before or since. A joy. My heart quickens.

The third set by this great electronic improv unit. They used extremely primitive equipment to create the sounds, and manage to create a thick ass ritual-webbing that covers everything.

Mohnomishe is likely the most wanted album of :zoviet*france: production, together with the sad fact that it was released in early '80 and also that it was a low-number-copies release. An absolute industrial-experimental-ambient-tribal shock and power which was not heard before and also a long time after Mohnomishe itself, not only in ambient-experimental genre. What the band made with available instrumentation in those times is fascinating for almost all subsequent musicians many of whom gathered their inspiration from this master piece. :zoviet*france: raised their bar in the sky and were sometimes unable to surpass it with some of their own later work. Gradation of Mohnomishe reaches its point with track 4 which is the most ambient from album and the furthest elaborated here. Simply written, fans should start with Mohnomishe to get a flavour of their fine stuff.

The sound was so far ahead of it's time. All these strange soundscapes had fascinated me after first listening. Easily to recognize the influences of ambient and industrial. 1983. A good year for electronic music. And sure the masterpiece of Zoviet France...