KaS Product

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Kas Product made some of the most rigid and needling electronic music of the post-punk era. Based out of Nancy, France, the U.S.-born Mona Soyoc (vocals, guitar, and piano) and Frenchman Daniel "Spatsz" Favre (synthesizer, drum programming) debuted in 1980 with a pair of 7" releases for the independent <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Punk%22">Punk</a> label. Later signed to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a> France, they recorded the LPs Try Out (1982) and By Pass (1983) for the major label. Soyoc and Favre reappeared on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Disc%27Az%22">Disc'Az</a> a few years later with the less abrasive Ego Eye (1986). By the time <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22New+Rose%22">New Rose</a> subsidiary <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fan+Club%22">Fan Club</a> compiled early material for Black & Noir (1990), Kas Product were inactive, but they resumed during the 2000s as a performing act. Meanwhile, highlights from the duo's catalog appeared on compilations such as So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983 (titled after their contribution) and the all-French seventh volume of the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Soul+Jazz%22">Soul Jazz</a> label's Punk 45 series. Various 2010s reissues carried out by Move Over and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Soul+Jazz%22">Soul Jazz</a> recirculated the studio recordings. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi