Stakhanov by Stakhanov

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, we're back with the fourth imprint of our catalog, due for June 2021.

Following our goal to explore a widened techno spectrum we're about to provide another beautiful piece of music from unsung talented friends, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout.

Releasing Stakhanov was also for us a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces.
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma...) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, our label being one of them.

Association de malfaiteur, label indépendant, organisateur d'évènement & plus si affinités...