Linija Mass - Proletkult (1999)

GENRE..... Industrial
LABEL...... Ultra
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. Sept-08-2008

Lebedev-Frontov's solo project is called Linija mass. Linija mass has used Soviet
documentary material like newspaper clippings from the 1930's industrialization campaign on
their cover art and sound samples on the same theme, but Proletkult is the most accomplished
and disturbing of the results so far. Judging by track titles (Total Mobilization,
Mechanization, Gastev, Lenin on the Labour Discipline) the historical timeframe of this
"theme lp" seems clearly delineated: the 1920's. The sound is oppressive even on noise
standards: lengthy (7 to 11 minutes) tracks with monotonous clanging sounds of a primitive,
decisively ugly 20's factory; no aestheticizing or heroism, pure slave labour. On most of
the tracks there are also less regular sounds like the sound of shovels or some other
horrible non-automatized tools. In the distance collective masses scream bleak hoorays, but
not a single individual voice can be discerned. Except Lenin's speech on "labour discipline"
on track 1.

"I work only with analog tapes, without any samplers or computers. Some of the sounds on
Proletkult I recorded already in the 80's, when a friend of mine worked in a factory on the
outskirts of Leningrad, and I went there to record the sound of the machinery."
"I think the most productive way of working for us would be to stay away from computers, and
instead try to recreate the way in which Luigi Russolo worked. I have always loved machine
aesthetics and have always thought that Nick [Nick Sudnick, the leader of ZGA] and I are
direct descendants of the Russian aesthetics of the 1920's. There's a psychological
connection."

Tracklist:

01 Intro/Lenin o Trudovoy Discipline
02 Proletkult
03 Mehanizacija
04 Fabrika Groz
05 Gastev
06 Dinamika Grunta
07 Totalnaya Mobilizacija

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