VOX POPULI! - Sucre De Pastèque (Reissue) - LP - Vinyl [FEB 13]

LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Includes an insert with photos and notes by the band (2026 Reissue). 

Legendary French industrial pioneers Vox Populi! arrive on Dark Entries with a reissue of Sucre De Pastèque. Vox Populi! was founded in Paris in 1981 by Axel Kyrou, a multi-instrumentalist of Greek, French, and Palestinian roots. He soon recruited his future partner, Mytra, and her brother Arash Khalatbari, who were second-generation immigrants from Tehran, as well as bassist Fr6 Man (Francis Manne). Their sound was motley, combining elements of musique concrete and early industrial with horns, flutes, and traditional Persian instrumentation. Improbably prolific and ceaselessly divergent, Vox Populi! found their way onto dozens of cassette compilations during the heyday of the 1980s DIY tape music scene, including releases on era-defining labels like Insane Music, Cthulhu Records, and their own Vox Man.

Sucre De Pastèque, the band’s sixth full-length release, came out in 1986 on Unlikely Records, the cult outlet of Rimarimba’s Robert Cox. Like most of Vox Populi’s output, Sucre is a scattershot endeavour, encompassing psychedelic dirges, cosmic drones, hypnotic chants, and fractured machine-funk. The mood is understatedly bleak, but Vox Populi’s genre agnosticism and curious sense of wonder prevent things from feeling oppressive or heavy-handed. The cover for Sucre DePastèque was designed by Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh, and features a collage by Vox Populi member Fr6 Man. Each copy includes an insert with photos and notes by the band. This is deeply fried material, perfectly capturing the obscurantism that characterized much of the 80s DIY cassette scene.

Tracklist: 

A1        Yarom Lalou
A2        Pellucidar
A3        Neoplastie
A4        Opium
A5        Echreman
A6        Ovan III
A7        Bio Berim
A8        Be Mafu
A9        Gutta Percha II
A10        Tibetan Cowboy

B1        Glassy Stare
B2        Atal Matal Toutoule
B3        Apnée
B4        Baby Sex
B5        Yek!
B6        Alternative Fresh
B7        Divane
B8        Djostodjou