[CP 314 CD] Collectif Et Cie (C.01) [C60], Collectif Et Cie (C.02) [C80]

August 2025; colorful (the design on this one really snaps; doing the saturated, ultra-zoomed in dot gains of the original editions justice!) double-disc compendium of the first two tapes released in 1986 & 1988 by the Annecy-based "Collectif Et Cie" (Collective & Company) featuring work by composers & architects, Philippe Blanchard, Bernard Donzel-Gargand, Christophe Lyard, Philippe Moënne-Loccoz, Frédéric Obringer, Joseph Raguin, & Patrick Rutgé across damn-near 2.5 hours of impeccable mid-late-80s underground Musique Concrète! This particular intersection of the "Institutional" Electronic Music aesthetic w/ what was undoubtedly by this stage more of an underground, tape-trader, post-Industrial milieu is endlessly fascinating; these extended pieces range from expert-level Modular Synthesis grappling, to early experiments w/ Generative & Algorithmic forms, to the kind(s) of gained tape-mulch more commonly associated with such intrepid travelers as Maurizio "M.B." Bianchi, Jean-Baptiste Barrière (see: [CP 145 CD]), and the later work of brothers Giancarlo & Massimo Toniutti. Through issuing these two extended "Private" cassette-only editions, the "Collectif" broadened their inroads & their greater aesthetic of noisier, gained-up Tape Music rife with errant analogia, jarring audio-verité explosions, & Bergman-esque thunderclaps lands here in the present at an incredibly welcome moment. Nigh-on 40 years later this all sounds like liquid gold; a drastically under-appreciated scene documented in exhaustive detail, with all original aesthetics left intact. One of my personal favorite titles in this 20th Anniversary wave! Tracklisting: "Collectif & Cie" (Collectif & Cie #C.01, 1986) 1-01. Joseph Raguin; Mavériana (8:59) 1-02. Christophe Lyard; Verrappel (4:24) 1-03. Bernard Donzel-Gargand; Dialogue (12:33) 1-04. Patrick Rutgé; De Nature Rigolis (1:03) 1-05. Philippe Blanchard; La Boite De Pandore (7:44) 1-06. Philippe Moënne-Loccoz; Rêves Opaques (13:54) 1-07. Alain Basso; Le Contrat (5:50) "Collectif Et Cie" (Collectif & Cie #C.02, 1988) 1-08. Ph. Moënne-Loccoz; Stokhastes (17:42) 2-01. Lieutenant Caramel; Escalier De Service (15:00) 2-02. P. Rutgé; 2 Fuite 1, Nuit Des Temps (9:41) 2-03. J. Raguin; Aria Condizionata (13:51) 2-04. F. Obringer; Ailleurs Et Après (2:42) 2-05. B. Donzel-Gargand; Transparence (18:37) 2-06. A. Basso; Exocet (8:01)