TRUC, curious and thematic compilations

TRUC is a series of 9 thematic, curious, frenzied, improbable, crazy, unique and quirky compilations.
TRUC will take the form of tape boxsets (+ digital download).
TRUC was born of MonsterK7 and InPolySons’ shared interest in strange music.
TRUC brings together musicians that don’t care about naming genres.
TRUC follows its own rhythm: the volumes composing the series will be enumerated according to the Syracuse mathematics sequence.
TRUC wants to bring about the unexpected.

The volume numbering of the TRUC collection, based on the Collatz conjecture, is as follows: 6, 3, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.

“Oeuvres sans Artistes” (“Works without Artists”), a subscribers only exclusive off-series compilation. We offer you to subscribe to the series to receive an exclusive off-series TRUC tape compilation called “Oeuvres sans Artistes” (“Works without Artists”)! It gathers covers from international folklore performed by anonymous artists.

> FIRST VOLUME (N°6) : CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS

Already available since october 2018 ! Sold out but available in digital.

For this first volume in the series, called “Cabinet de Curiosités” (“cabinet of curiosities” - to be released in September), we asked 22 musicians to rummage through their archives for obscure-music gold: their most startling unreleased tracks. With: A&E, Alain De Filippis, Art & Technique, Carton Sonore, Chow Mwng, Daniel Padden, David Fenech, Domotic, Ergo Phizmiz, GNG, Guido Möbius, Les Tailleurs de Notes, Lionel Fondeville, Look de Bouk, Mami Chan, Micusnule, NIT, Quenotte (aka Madame Patate), Sacha Gattino, Tom Wilson, Toupidek Limonade and Wevie Stonder.

> SECOND VOLUME (N°3) : ALBUM PHOTO

For this second volume in the series, called “Album Photo”, photos of anonymous and forgotten people unearthed in flea market of Paris, gain new life thanks to musicians found by TRUC ! Musical snapchots that are not clichés. With Andrianette, Bert Begar, Dominique Grimaud & Véronique Vilhet, F.S. Blumm with Ella Blixt, Harry Merry, Héron Cendré, Honoka Sakai, Ilitch, Jon Sheffield & friends, Klimperei, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nom d'un Truc !, Red, Sonotanotanpez, Uske orchestra, Witold Bolik.

> THIRD (N°10) : INSTRUMENTS IMAGINAIRES

For this third volume in the series, Pierre Bastien presents “Instruments Imaginaires”. With Tomaga, Nguyen + Transitory, ZICLA, Alain Wergifosse, X-NAVI:ET, Emmanuelle Parrenin & Colin Johnco, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Anki Toner, Nuno Rebelo, Gonçalo Almeida, Dr.Truna (Andrés Blasco), Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker, Les Harry’s, Victor Nubla, Eddie Ladoire and Pascal Comelade.

> FOURTH VOLUME (N°5): LE DÉBUT DE LA FIN

This fourth volume is titled Le début de la fin ("The Beginning Of The End").
At the beginning, we asked a first musician to compose an ending.
At the end, we asked a second musician to compose its beginning.

With Kawaii & The Boulaouane Brothers, Mocke, Johann Mazé, Eli Gras, NSDX, Sourdure, Miss Ming, Gangpol & Mi, Thiaz Itch, Morusque, Delphine Dora, Léonore Boulanger & Jean-Daniel Botta, Frank Pahl, Olivier Brisson, Èlg, Mika Pusse, Gaël Segalen, Denis Frajerman, Eli Gras, Johann Mazé, Mika Pusse, Èlg, Olivier Brisson, Frank Pahl, Sourdure, NSDX, Denis Frajerman, Gaël Segalen, Léonore Boulanger & Jean-Daniel Botta, Delphine Dora, Morusque, Thiaz Itch, Gangpol & Mit, Miss Ming..

> FIFTH VOLUME (N°16): GOLDEN CASSETTE

In 1977, the Voyager probes went into space with the Golden Record to inform extraterrestrials about life on Earth in the 20th century.
In 2023, TRUC sent the Golden Cassette into space to inform new generations of extraterrestrials about life on Earth in the 21st century.

With Mark Vernon, Jay Mitta, Felix Kubin, Prins Zonder Carnaval, Insólito UniVerso, Boubacar Cissokho, Alastair Galbraith, Los Siquicos Litoraleños,Paq & Md After Hussain, Charbel Haber, Tarawangsawelas, Shuta Hasunuma, Cara Stacey, Li Daiguo, Pierre Bastien, Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder, JTM.