Artist
La Nomenklatur
French experimental and industrial project from the 1980s releasing avant-garde works on cassette and video through Les Nouvelles Propagandes.
About
La Nomenklatur was a French experimental and industrial music project active during the 1980s, operating primarily through the independent cassette and video label Les Nouvelles Propagandes. The project emerged during a fertile period of European underground and post-industrial creativity, releasing a series of avant-garde works between 1986 and 1988. Their catalog includes La Légende Des Voix (1986), Etre et durer (1987), Interdépendance Interpénétration (1988), and Asile De Nuit (1988), alongside video documentation. La Nomenklatur's work exemplified the experimental ethos of the mid-1980s French underground, working within aesthetic frameworks that blended industrial, noise, and dark ambient sensibilities. Their commitment to cassette and VHS formats reflected the DIY distribution philosophy prevalent in European avant-garde circles of the period. Though little-documented in mainstream music histories, La Nomenklatur represents an important node within the broader network of independent experimental labels and artists who sustained underground music production outside commercial channels during the 1980s.