PLEASE NOTE: This is a fan page, monitored sporadically. However, messages to the band can be forwarded to them.
Hopefully soon this page will be monitored & updated by a member of Factrix.
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Video clip from "Live At Target" comp.: Factrix - Night To Forget
FACTRIX was a pioneering Industrial experimental psychedelic music group from San Francisco (members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs) who formed in 1978, after playing two shows (with Patrick Miller) using his moniker, MINIMAL MAN (another seminal post-punk act).
As FACTRIX, the group released a number of subversive and 'dangerous' recordings in the early '80s: 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 1982 LP, 'California Babylon' was a FACTRIX / CAZAZZA collaboration that was recorded live (with contributions from the notorious Monte Cazazza), and remains a rough and violent selection of guitar-noise deconstructions and primitive machine-noise rumblings.
Conversely, the 7" single 'Empire Of Passion/Splice Of Life' was a marvelously sinister bit of apocalyptic sound-poetry and industrial soundscaping...."
'Splice of life' sounds very organic, engines chugging into the mono vocal. Sounds excellent. 'Theme from now' is dark & mechanic... look forward to hearing more.
What an utter joy it was to be in Toronto and find used Factrix LP's in every single record store I went into. This was of course 8 years ago but still it was like having old friends around in a brand new place. "Death By Hanging" remains one of my all time favorite songs, and seeing Bond solo and then hanging out with him afterwards was life-changing. Thanks gents... Yrs- Nick
