condition (record/cover): EX / VG+ (light wear) With original innersleeve. San Francisco industrial outfit Factrix created oppressive soundscapes using primitive electronics, tape manipulation, and feedback. The 1982 album Scheintot (German for "apparent death") lives up to its title - these are claustrophobic, disturbing pieces that feel more like psychological experiments than songs. Cole Palme and Joseph Jacobs constructed dense layers of noise punctuated by mechanical rhythms and heavily processed vocals. Influences range from Throbbing Gristle's industrial provocations to academic musique concrète, but Factrix developed their own particularly bleak American aesthetic. The sound is physical and oppressive - music designed to create discomfort. This Adolescent Records pressing documents West Coast industrial at its most uncompromising, before the genre became codified.