Sounds For Consciousness Rape.
French label active in the late 80's till mid 90's.
I think that most perhaps remember it for special packaging most of all. And also handful of releases such as CON-DOM "Prince of Our Disorder" 3"CD+tape, "Eight Pillar" LP, TAINT "The Untimely Silence" tape.
But SFCR was far more than "power electronics label". Vast majority of its output was just experimental in general. Dark Alceste De Socaï Vômie is something I always liked due name of project alone. Don't know what exactly is it that appeals me. It mixes together modern and vintage electronics. In some ways sounds remind more of early experimental, sounds used by electronic works of Ligeti ("Artikulation" piece for example) or such, but massively reverbed waves of sound afterall has a lot in common with 90's dark ambient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-2zrT9ofg
To have label who puts out straight forward vile PE stuff and harsh noise a'la Incapacitants, but then also
Alain Basso / Hajsch "Territorialites Light / Malkah" tape. Had no idea what to expect from this 1993 tape, but it turns out to be guys more involved in electro-acoustic and experimental styles, yet this particular tape has surprisingly industrial tone to it. Especially opening piece of Alain Basso has almost like early Pacific 231 etc. with odd echoing metal percussion loops. It seems he actually does also work under name Phaeton Dernière Danse who has done release for Broken Flag and also collaborated with Le Syndicat.
It's quite hard to tell what is the overall label policy or red line of SFCR. It seems to be more label what presents late 80's compilation tape atmosphere. Moment when genres where still side-by-side, and vile power electronics, harsh noise, electro-acoustic, all sorts of electronic experimental sound would co-exist very closely.
SFCR favorites? Surprises? Records/tapes/cd's that somehow stands out?
This label was certainly known for some of his incredible packages, like the compilation Noise War in 1994 which was sealed in a block of concrete.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Noise-War-I-II/release/655333
It must be agreed that SFCR is also the label that has brought some lights on the work of Con-Dom plus the fact that, as you said, it ranged the noise spectrum from PE to more electro-acoustic material.
I'm far from being a noise specialist but for the sake of history I have put online two archives of the label's boss Stéphane Santini - yet they are in French:
. an interview from the fanzine Symposium (1995)
http://saleindus.blogspot.com/2016/06/sfcr-interview-1995.html
. an article written by Stéphane in a more academic book (1993)
http://saleindus.blogspot.com/2016/03/sfcr-1993.html
MSBR's "Fracture of Silence" cassette is essential listening and conveniently comes wedged in a football-sized burnt foam loaf. Sadly, my loaf has left me.
i was in touch with stephane last about 8 years ago. he apparently discovered some boxes with various Anee Gillis LP's he distributed back in the day. i paid him about 600 euro in advance for all of them. never heard from him again.
Quote from: WCrap on June 08, 2019, 10:00:54 AM
i was in touch with stephane last about 8 years ago. he apparently discovered some boxes with various Anee Gillis LP's he distributed back in the day. i paid him about 600 euro in advance for all of them. never heard from him again.
It was through Discogs I guess? You could be one of the last who had news from him because he has kind of completely disappeared from the scene at the end of the nineties.
Just heard he has moved to the US at that time.