Dive

condition (cassette/cover): NM / EX

A video object at the intersection of two of the key industrial scenes of the early Nineties. Dirk Ivens, founder of the Belgian EBM project Dive in 1990 (and before that a principal voice of The Klinik and Absolute Body Control), contributed the soundtrack; the visuals were made by the Italian industrial collective Sigillum S in collaboration with the visual artist KOMA. Discordia's VHS release delivers the package as originally conceived, audio and video together.

The soundtrack later appeared as a standalone 1995 Daft Records CD that has since been reissued in various expanded formats, but the VHS is the home release of the complete multimedia piece and the one intended to be experienced as intended. Ivens's contribution takes the sound-painterly direction of early Dive, abused drum machines pulsing through crackling distortion beneath his characteristically processed voice, skewed further into cinematic territory by the demands of the visual.

The Dive / Sigillum S connection runs deeper than a single project: Ivens and Ivan Iusco (Minus Habens founder, producer on multiple later Dive albums) had been corresponding across the late Eighties, and Sigillum S's Paolo Bandera was part of the same Bari-Brussels-Genova network that produced Virtual Reality Handbook (Minus Habens, 1992). A VHS object that captures the moment when the Belgian EBM lineage and the Italian ritual-industrial lineage were closest to each other.