VOLT by Flux Information Sciences

Originally released in 1997 as a full length LP, "the Volt album" is the first release by Flux Information Sciences. Side A was recorded in Marseille and is dedicated to the company Volt Information Sciences*.
Side B was recorded in Brooklyn, New York.

This first album is a primordial futuristic manifesto, using the industrial rudiments of cutting, stomping, bending and blending sounds, to create an eerily abstract yet narrative music. Recorded at home on a four-track cassette-tape player, it had to be mixed in real time before being transferred to Vinyl. Time then added a 5th track in the form of the vinyl blips and scratches.

*In 1997, Tristan Bechet and Sébastien Brault met with Volt Information Sciences, an Information Technology company dealing with big businesses around the world. At the top of a hi-rise building overlooking Manhattan, the two presented their project to the company's representatives: "We are Volt Information Sciences - the band - and we want to work for Volt Information Sciences - the company. We want to tour the world with a cross-genre, trans-disciplinary musical performance promoting the company's power and innovative spirit."
They had brought a cassette-tape player, and offered the representatives a listen - to what would become Side A of the Album.
The company did not want any of it and sent them away, after having them sign to never use the name Volt Information Sciences again.
And thus was born Flux Information Sciences.

Flux Information Sciences were a noise rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, formed in 1996 by Tristan Bechet and Sébastian Brault. A revolving drummer policy saw Phil Hernandez, Derek Ethridge, then Siobhan Duffy on drums. Christopher Pravdica joined on bass and electronics.
Young God label boss and Swans vocalist Michael Gira described the band as "life-threatening".