Various Artists - Vox Populi! Present Ethniques Psychedeliques, Vinyl LP

2023, Platform 23 PLA032

Platform 23 returns to where it began, working the Vox Man Records to bring their compelling and unique archive to light, going beyond the hugely successful Alternative Funk compilations that launched the label, to again create a compilation from their cult cassette releases, in this instance Audiologie N°4 - The Independant Psychedelic Trip and Audiologie 5 et 6 - Ethniques Urbaines.

Run by Axel Kyrou (Vox Populi!) and Francis Man (FR6 Man / Kosa), their label, releasing cassettes, 7” and LPs between 1982 – 88, was an outlet of and beyond their music as Vox Populi!, highlighting contributions from contemporary and new artists from the avant-garde and post punk scenes, mixing cold wave, industrial, proto-dub and spoken word.

Offering more than the sum of their parts, the best of the two cassettes is compiled here in “Ethniques Psychedeliques”, a snapshot of contributions from far and wide, based on the warm expanse of ethnic world music with an idiosyncratic psychedelic nature throughout the selections.