{"product_id":"vox-populi-half-dead-ganja-music-1987-new-lp-record-2024-platform-23-uk-vinyl-ambient-industrial-dub","title":"Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music (1987) - New LP Record 2024 Platform 23 UK Vinyl - Ambient \/ Industrial \/ Dub","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"main_2FbVC\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body_32Bo9\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"link_15cpV\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlatform 23 Records’ meandering, and sporadic journey continues, digging up archival treasures of known and unknown music sonics. The label’s close association with Paris’ based ‘ethno-industrialists’ Vox Populi! continues, here returning to their most heralded and possibly cohesive album, in Half Dead Ganga Music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe beautifully apt title precedes their most intense trip, pushing the boundaries away from the percussive psychedelic of albums ‘Mystcitismes’ (1985) and Aither’ (1989) to create a dark ambient masterpiece that flows as one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe musique concrete background of founder, Axel Kyrou is most apparent here, partner Mythra’s vocals adding a voodoo ritualism and creativity, together physical and mystical extolling a parallel realm. Occult music of no pretense, mellow-drone aromas, dark ambience, obscure bass mumbles, as layer-upon-layer of tape processing and hazy vocal glossolias are oddly uplifting, a beauty distilled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe trip transports, via twelve succinct pieces across a ‘Studio Side’ and ‘Live Side’ each, drone and sparse drum machine pulses, vortices, and swirl, but never settling, instead segueing to further hallucinations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe groups mercurial, spiritual, surrealism, sets them\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eapart for the inclusion of folk instrumentation embedded in the industrial heart, the sprawling 3-piece live finale mix bubbling electronics of partially formed art song crescendo drenched improvisation that makes them so special\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 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