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Subject: A Split Second and Boris Mikulic INFO
From: biosmd@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Sean Davidson)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:55:28 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
Originator: biosmd@luxor.latrobe.edu.au

Here's some info on two acts on Antler-Subway Records.
I would like to hear any comments/additions/corrections.s

A Split Second
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A SPLIT SECOND is the result of a collision of two completely different 
personalities. When they first met in 1980, Chrismar Chayell was active as a 
composer and performer of electronic music which incorporated influences like 
TANGERINE DREAM and THOMAS DOLBY, and Marc Ickx had graduated as a 
psychologist with an interest in music ranging from KLAUS SCHULTZE and 
BRIAN ENO, to JUDAS PRIEST and BLACK SABBATH.
It wasnt until 1985 that they actually began working together in Belgium, 
creating a unique sound, and supposedly beginning the New-Beat rage when a 
DJ started to play their track "Flesh" at 33 rpm instead of 45 rpm! Like many 
bands of their ilk, though, they deny they are exponents of (EBM) electronic 
body music. "Its the ultimate synthesis of music for body and mind," they 
claim. "A concept of a thematic society, further enhanced by Marcs 
fascination for old, ancient and new cultures, media art in general and sex 
without nuance."
With lyrics like "...Just let me put my underwear in your computer, and well 
have lots of software babies," they also have a (strange) sense of humour!
To find out what they really sound like, try picking up any of their full length 
releases:
   Ballistic Statues                                   ANT 054 (LP/CD)
   ...from the Inside                                 ANT 088 (LP/CD)
   Kiss of Fury                                         AS 5014 (LP/CD/MC)
   Lay back and join (compilation)           AS 5025 (LP/CD/MC)
   Flesh & Fire - 1991 Remixes               AS 5058 (CD)
(Some of these have also been released on the WaxTrax label.) The last of 
these contains some radically re-worked tracks ("Drinking Sand" and 
"Firewalker"), and some tracks made more dancey ("Flesh" and "Crash 
Course in Seduction") amongst others.


In Sotte Voce
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Boris Mikulic is probably the better-known half of IN SOTTE VOCE, having 
released two solo albums (on is called "Heresy", and those squiggly letters on 
the other actually say "Philia Phobia"! - or fear of love.) Boris was studying 
computer science at the University of Ljubljana, when he met Ilya 
Dimitrijevic, who was studying social sciences, and they began making music 
for theatre productions. After two years of this, they gave up studying and 
formed IN SOTTE VOCE, with Boris playing keyboards and electronics, and Ilya 
on voice and guitar. 
They are not influenced so much by fellow Yugoslavian bands LAIBACH or 
BORGHESIA, but rather by Belgian acts such as FRONT 242, MEN 2ND, THE 
NEON JUDGEMENT and POSIE NOIRE. Perhaps lyrically, though, they are more 
like their compatriots, in that they are interested in politics - They truly believe 
in a perfect marxist-influenced society, although they sing about repression, 
isolation, humiliation, and torture in communist prosons.
IN SOTTE VOCEs latest CD is called "Tracks", on Antler records (Ant 117 
LP/CD).

VIVISECT		November, 92

Sean Davidson
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