Factrix were an overlooked industrial group from San Francisco who deserve to be viewed in the same light as Coil, SPK, and the early works of J.G. Thirlwell. In fact, Factrix predates many of these groups, so it would suffice to place them among the ranks of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as innovators of the genre. "Scheintot" was released in 1981 by Adolescent Records, following the formation of Factrix upon the breakup of SF post-punk group Minimal Man. Stylistically, this album is a haunting landscape of spectral sounds and cold, mechanical percussion, occasionally giving way to more structured moments that border on post-punk. The album art is top-notch here; the imagery brings to mind Mario Bava or Kenneth Anger in its saturated macabre eroticism.
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