The history of the project in its global nature takes shape at the end of 93, when Nico R and Bruno L decide to give substance to their musical desires: Axonal Warfare was born. At the same time, another group has already acquired its musical maturity on Strasbourg (France): Stigma. Very fast both groups, friendly in the life, are going to share the same scenes and to turn together, in spite of two registers of opposing electronic musics. In the song, Laurent K. Quite three are of different cultures, and their inspirations are rather multiple: the electro-Indus for Laurent, cold-wave for Bruno L, electro-pop for Nico R. Them respective projects are going to continue until 1997, a date of the respective Split of both line-up. 2003: Yoann B., during different parties met Nico R. and they began to share their knowledges and musical aspiration. Laurent, sought by the duet, agrees to put his voice on some tunes .This exchange takes shape and will be called the time of a concert in Colmar, AW4. Bruno, in the concert hall, discovered this new electronic potential, integrated the trio. Neon Cage Experiment was born. An intense work of fusion of the knowledge, the know-how follows and the group works on an album, "Specific Gravity". The electronic quartet occurred the first time on 10/01/2004 in Ordalies Festival (Hall Molodoï Strasbourg). Climates spread by compositions are very variable, disturbing, operatic, dance, rough, brilliant or dark. The kinematic atmospheres supported by samples and textures allow to retranscribe better the universe such as it is perceived by the members of the group. Their objective is to manage to suggest strong, contrasted feelings, by means of a sharp and precise sound work, while neglecting not the dynamic aspect and punchy rhythms. Laurent.K singer and inspirator of numerous musical projects: Stigma, Nuclear Terror, KL … From the debuts of the industrial group Stigma, Laurent knew how to impose his charisma, his heavy and quiet voice, put with force on the compositions. Under the project Stigma, signed at Ant-Zen, he had the privilege to play in front of the biggest names of the current electro-Indus scene (Dive, Esplendor Geometrico) and within the framework of European festivals. His intervention within NCE confers on the band, a human and fragile presence in this technological universe of machines. Nicolas R.: musician for several years, (piano, drum kit), he demonstrated his know-how with his binomial of time, Bruno L. within a group :Axonal Warfare, signed for the time at Celtic Circle. This band distinguished itself during important festivals, playing in first partof groups such as: FLA, Project Pitchfork, Dive, … In 2003, he forms AW4 with Yoann, then NCE with the other members Bruno L.: alter-ego of Nicolas R., Bruno began the music in 1993 within Axonal Warfare, as composer and singer. Since 1997, after the disappearance of A.W, Bruno L. worked only and in 2003 joined the band led by Nicolas and Yoann, bringing a supplementary musical dimension to the group. Yoann B.: Yoann is multi-field: music, graphics, sound-design. He is a part in its entirety of lively forces of NCE, by bringing his musical compositions and by creating the visual universe of NCE. He is the co-founder with Nicolas R of this new project.

A lot of people reading this won't know anything about your band? Could you explain how you got together?
First of all, the original line-up (called AW4) included Nico, ex-Axonal Warfare member, Yoann, a newcomber but very experimented through several industrial projects, and Laurent, ex-Stigma singer. AW and Stigma were 2 bands in Strasbourg during the years 94-98. AW was signed on Celtic Circle prod. and Stigma on Daft and Ant-Zen. After a first promising gig, Bruno, the other member of AW joined the band and we decided to change the name for this new line-up. With this, Neon Cage Experiment was born!

Neon Cage Experiment... can you explain the band's name?
Actually, nothing concrete, but once gathered, these 3 words mean “artificial substitution, isolation, confinment, life tryouts".

You name Skinny Puppy, FLA and Haujobb as musical influences (which is also very hearable). Could you name me some more bands?
We have plenty of influences! The aforementioned bands illustrate our style of music best. But we're all music lovers, and we've listened to a lot of styles as cold-wave, post-punk, electro-pop, EBM, industrial, dark-folk, batcave, etc…
For example, Klinik, NIN, Joy Division, or Autechre and Arvo Pärt are also in our fields of musical feelings…In that way we always try to integrate some different musical currents or items in our compositions, such as lush guitars, classical violins, etc…

How about other influences?
Hubert Selby Jr. , Lovecraft, Baudelaire, Boris Vian as writers, Klimt , Munsch, Dali as painters and plenty of contemporary artists in graphical arts (MC Kean, HR Gigger), some directors too (Scorcese, Kubrick, Aronfosky, P.T Anderson, Gillian,…). But we can easily say that we’re not so influenced by authors and painters or whatever to write songs: life is a major inspiration.

What is an "oscillation" exactly, and why did you choose that name for the album?
We’ve looking for something sounding like physically and simple expression of something unstable, but regular. In one word, “Oscillations” can express whatever you want to figure out in it about life, sounds, human behaviours…

You're a French band; how much of a scene is there in France, actually?
After a long absence, the French electro-industrial scene is back on track. Some bands (Lith, Dither, Flint Glass, Punish>Yourself, Ex/tension ...) are very active and I can only hope the scene will grow with time.

How was "Oscillations" welcomed in France?
Things are just about to start now…So it’s difficult at the moment to figure out how it seems to work, but seemly, we had very good feedback from D-Side and Elegy which are the 2 most important French fanzines and we're in the French Alternative Charts @ headlinermusic, since the album came out.

I want to express my gratitude to those people who support us: thank you !

In the thank you-notes, you thank some web communities. Do you think the internet is an important tool to spread music nowadays?
Possibly the most important, but not the only one! We would not have a real existence if we would just put our music online, so the cds,concerts and people are the most important media to propagate our sound.

How do you use the internet for your own band?
And we use personal tools to communicate in private, in that way we can share our projects or files, ideas or point of view. We’re all workers, far away from each other, so it’s very useful. We have a website - http://neon.cage.experiment.online.fr - and we put the most important data about us on it : biography, the cutting edge news and we're developing a forum for the people who want to post message for us or whatever.

Is there any chance of seeing you guys play live in the upcoming months?
The nearest ones: In Karlsruhe on Germany's french border side the 29th of April and in Stockholm the 21st of May where we're very proud to play! But we’ll play more often in our near future, because it’s still the best way to share our music with people.

Anything you want to say or make clear about your band?
Just one point…some people wrote about us that we appears to be the renewal of a forgotten style of electronic music. We’re very pleased to read that, but, this is absolutely not our main goal. It’s certainly due to our ages and personal backgrounds. We’re sure that there’s some place for every style in alternative electro and we support all cool bands, our scene is so fragile and weak that we have to keep the good way all together!

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