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Lassigue Bendthaus is the electro-industrial project of Atom Heart,
a highly prolific electronic artist who has released a large number
of recordings in the trance, ambient, and mainstream techno genres.
He has worked with such artists as Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue,
with whom he has collaborated as Datacide.
Lassigue Bendthaus first appeared in 1990, with his debut LP,
Matter, appearing initially on the Parade Amoureuse label
before Lassigue made his way over to the late great Contempo label,
and ultimately to Kk. This CD paid strong homage to Kraftwerk,
approaching the early industrial dance scene with a softer sequential
approach than most of his contemporaries.
Cloned, Lassigue's second CD, emerged in 1992 with a sound
that not only utilized samples, but promoted the use of his own
music by others. A CD of isolated samples, Cloned:Binary, was
released so that other musicians could readily "steal" from his own
music without having to isolate them from the songs they were used
in. No other artist has so brazenly supported the concept of
"sound theft" before or since.
The last Lassigue projects were released in 1994: Render and
Render Audible, the latter being a full length set of remixes
from the former. Since that time, Lassigue has been otherwise occupied
with his various projects as Atom Heart, both as a composer/musician
and as a producer for his own label.
Since these initial releases, Matter and Cloned have
been released in North America on the Metropolis label.
