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FACTRIX

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a fan page, monitored sporadically. However, messages to the band can be forwarded to them. Hopefully soon this page will be monitored & updated by a member of Factrix.
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(from "Industrial Nation" Magazine):
FACTRIX was a pioneering Industrial experimental psychedelic music group from San Francisco (members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs) who formed in 1978, after playing two shows (with Patrick Miller) using his moniker, MINIMAL MAN (another seminal post-punk act).
As FACTRIX, the group released a number of subversive and 'dangerous' recordings in the early '80s: Their first LP, Scheintot, was a document of morbid, moody, and subtle experimental rock that is as eerily unsettling today as it must have been way back in 1981 when it was initially released. The 1982 LP, 'California Babylon' was a FACTRIX / CAZAZZA collaboration that was recorded live (with contributions from the notorious Monte Cazazza), and remains a rough and violent selection of guitar-noise deconstructions and primitive machine-noise rumblings. Conversely, the 7" single 'Empire Of Passion/Splice Of Life' was a marvelously sinister bit of apocalyptic sound-poetry and industrial soundscaping...."

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Music:

Member Since: 6/12/2004
Band Website: myspace.com/factrix
Band Members: Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, Joseph T. Jacobs, and sometimes Monte Cazazza.
Influences: Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Velvet Underground
Sounds Like: Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes, Cabaret Voltaire, Nervous Gender, Monte Cazazza, NON (Boyd Rice), SPK, Suicide, DNA, Bachelors Even (Christian Marclay)
Record Label: Tesco/Storm, Adolescent, Subterranean
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Scheintot LP Reviewed by Julian Cope

FACTRIX, "Scheintot": Album of the Month, March 2005Review by Julian Cope -- (http://headheritage.com/unsung/albumofthemonth/1307)...
Posted by Factrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

[Recent ] Reviews::

Review of 'Artifact' | Compulsion Online, June 2003: In many ways, FACTRIX belong to the original Industrial culture vanguard headed by Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire in the UK, and represente...
Posted by Factrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Some Old Reviews....

Review in "Freedom from Reviews": Factrix / Cazazza - 'California Babylon'  LP (1981) This record is the document of the ecstatic performative collision of the entities Monte Cazazza ...
Posted by Factrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST