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The brand new parisian label Poutre Apparente is proud to announce the reissue of 90’s superb cybernetic electro renewal classic tape from South Corsica band, ICH BIN: Minimal wave beats, broken electronics, radical synthetizer and possessed vocals finely inspired by great philosophical ideas appeared in Europe since the industrial revolution. Colder than the coldest corsican winter, like Kraftwerk meeting Suicide in North Poland. Warehousemen in a secret petrochemical factory in the north of Corsica, the four members of ICH BIN began to play together in 1988 with materials recovered on a failed boat transporting electronic instruments manufactured in Korea. They developed year after year this so particular manner to play and sing probably coming from the physical and mental state of the musicians regularly exposed to a great dose of chemical emanations during their work in factory. “Actually, we almost never played in Corsica », remember the members of the band, « apart from our very first concert for this festival in 1988 called Calvi, c’est fini where we opened for La Ricotta, a polyphonic fusion band from Corte. The only response we had to our music was a dozen of Pietra (Corsica number one beer) bottles thrown at us in the first minutes of Danger”… “We recorded a tape at studio Leoneti shortly after this disastrous experience. It was basically a four-track session, with raw versions of Industrie Lourde and Body Building. We sent one copy to Radio Pays who returned it b
