About Von Magnet - Topic
Von Magnet is a theatre music band that originated in the post-industrial musical current of the 1980s. Founded in 1985 in London, the group gathered around Flore Magnet and Phil Von initiating a style of their own which they named "Electroflamenco". Becoming rapidly well known in the underground because of their new approach to electronic music, firstly by incorporating the bases of flamenco then later adding influences of Middle Eastern music.
This electronic ethnic mix, often referred to as "expressionist" or even tribal music, features also references to contemporary and cinematographic soundscapes.
Their compositions, either instrumental or vocal melodramas, poetic, lyrical, cabaret crooning are sung or spoken in different languages; English, Spanish, French, and also in Arabic, German, Turkish or Russian.
Since 1985, even before the "Computer music" era, they experimented within the likes of the post-industrial musical movement using intensive sound collage and sampling techniques. This work will give birth to their motto: "Sample us as we have already sampled you".
