Cyanide

Cyanide, is Lorraine's steel industry on microgroove. It all started in 1990-93. The 1st techno parties, also named « rave parties », organised by collective Dementia, between Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg. At the turntables we find then DJ Joker.
Under this name he starts getting known alongside Manu Le Malin, Laurent Hô and Liza N'Eliaz. Hardcore. Rhythms swell, steel shrieks and dancefloors burn. Very early he stands out with his dark and tortured selections including Aphex Twin's sharp electro - who by then knows of Warp or Rephlex ? -, the decadent hymns of Italians Lory D, Anibaldi and Passarani, the German hammering of PCP and the speedcore space rockets of a radical and totally unbridled French scene. Some call it experimental hardcore. It is mostly the best way to encapsulate the fascinating radical electronic of the 90's. Recorded live at Pixel festival in Strasbourg at the end of 2001 for label Bruits de Fond, the « Full of breakz » mix is a rare testimony on CD of our guy and his famous wild epics.

From turntables to machines, one step is easily taken : from Joker to Cyanide. Between 1998 and 2002, several LPs and tracks are produced for Six Shooter, UW (Laurent Hô's laboratory before it became the big holdall label we know), Hangars Liquides or Strasbourg-based Index records. Such a modest and precious discography under the finest influences - among others : Richard Devine and own label Schematic, Somatic Responses, Funkstörung, Cylob – as well as a personal and inspired one, which can only seduce the most adventurous of dj's.
The following break could have lasted if it wasn't for label Bruits de Fond who asked Cyanide for a couple of good old synthed tracks. In split with Alsatian Iso Brown, He releases in 2007 a new surprising E.P. as pounded as electrified and recognized by the critics despite its confidential availability (300 copies !). Something to let us hope for more, so stay tuned for the next move!!

Discography Joker / Cyanide :
LPs :
Joker : « Poison » E.P. - Six Shooter 004 (1998)
Cyanide : « Confine » E.P. - UW 006 (1998) 
Joker : « Sweet violence » E.P. - Index 0.1 (2000)
Cyanide : « Swinging scissors » - Index 0.4 (2002)
Cyanide / Iso Brown : split E.P. - Bruits de Fond 10 (2007)
Tracks on compilations :
Joker : « Bubonik » on Hangars Liquide 009 (1999)
Joker : « Gla^ps » - compilation « Tunnel of Terror 2 », & 002 (1998) 
Cyanide « Boo » + « Glyse » - compilation « Elements 1 » - UW CD002 (2000)
Cyanide : « C33 » - compilation « Uncivilized » - Uwe 100 (2001)