Factrix

industrial

Factrix was a pioneering industrial music group from the U.S. city of San Francisco, formed in 1978 by members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs. As Factrix, the group released a number of subversive and 'dangerous' recordings in the early 1980s. 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 live LP California Babylon (1982) was a collaboration with Monte Cazazza that remains a rough and violent selection of guitar-noise deconstructions and primitive machine-noise rumblings. Conversely, the Empire Of Passion/Splice Of Life 7 single was a marvelously sinister bit of apocalyptic sound-poetry and industrial soundscaping... - Excerpt from Industrial Nation magazine FACTRIX was a pioneering experimental/Industrial music group from San Francisco circa 1978-'82 who formed from the ashes of another seminal post-punk act, MINIMAL MAN. Members: Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, Joseph T. Jacobs Frequent collaborators included Monte Cazazza, Ruby Ray (visuals/projectionist), Tana Emmolo-Smith, Survival Research Labs/SRL (Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert), and Minimal Man (Patrick Miller). Factrix the group released a number of experimental industrial and gothic rock recordings in the early 1980s. Their first 7 single, Empire Of Passion/Splice Of Life balanced sound-poetry with minimalist rock, using tape permutations and found percu...