Dark Entries Announces Die Form Re-Issue

Dark Entries Announces Die Form Re-Issue, Releasing 'Die Puppe' LP on 1/13,

On January 13th, for its second release of 2015 (PTV is out the same day), Dark Entires will be reissuing Die Puppe, the first vinyl release from French post-industrial producer Phillppe Fichot. Though Fichot began making music as early as 1977, this debut album was not released until 1982 in a limited run of 1,000 copies.

Sonically ranging from hypnotic and minimalist experimental sound manipulation, with themes of eroticism,  death and other “taboo” subjects,  Die Puppe firmly planted Die Form in a class of is own.

Automatic Death
Invalid
Eastern Ghost
Darkness
Prefazione Di Pompei
After The Crime
Love With Animal
Lectura
Night Over My Life
Re-Search
In A Tea-Room

Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977. The name ‘Die Form’ means ‘(the) form/shape’ in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym ‘deformed’ and on the French homonym ‘difforme’ (deformed). Die Form is the primary project of electronic musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot. He began by recording a number of experimental cassette releases in the late 1970s and formed the Bain Total label to release these early cassettes and various side projects including Krylon Hertz, Mental Code, Camera Obscura, Eva-Johanna Reichstag, Hurt and Fine Automatic.

In 1982 Die Form released their debut vinyl album, “Die Puppe” in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. These are the first esoteric electronic experiments, often improvised, from what would become the sound of the project. Underlying themes of eroticism, death and other ‘taboo’ subjects are apparent in both the music and the album artwork, which Philippe also produces. The album was recorded with entirely analog equipment (Roland MC4 Micro-Composer, TR-808 Rhythm Composer, ARP 2600, Kawai 60F, Revox B77). Songs range from hypnotic, minimalistic proto-IDM to  pure, daring experimental sound manipulation. Unable to fit into any genre, “Die Puppe” is in a class of music all its own.

All songs have been remastered from the original master tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is an exact replica of the original 1982 edition designed by Philippe Fichot, with a photograph of a porcelain doll holding a syringe. Each album includes two post cards with never before seen photos of Philippe with lyrics and liner notes by the band.

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