This French solo-artist strikes back with a 2nd full length. The debut-cd "BioMeKaniKal" released on Urgence Disk Records (2007) showed some interesting cuts. This album brings a kind of extension to the electro-industrial style of the project. Hard bouncing industrial beats will lead the adept into a frenetic dance. Joined by different noise waves and other electronic effects this "Psykiatrik Area" moves on a quite violent and perturbing edge. French spoken samplings bring a quite clinical atmosphere to the composition. It totally stands for the title of the album and the universe the musician is here dealing with. I'm not affirming that Schultz has a kind of visual strength, but just that some of the samplings have been well chosen. In comparison with the debut-cd I can't really say that there's a noticeable evolution in sound. This album sounds quite brutal, but that's not really a point. The more you move through the sound universe of Schultz the more some of the songs are stagnating. The tracks start to be repetitive and a lack of variation would have been suitable. I guess it's not a coincidence if the last song "Déviances Sexuelles" remixed by HIV+ & Wump injected this diversity by a more technoid orientation. "Psykiatrik Area" sometimes sounds a bit too 'easy' and 'simplistic' in its genre, but will possibly please industrial lovers.
Rating: 6
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Translation by Bart:
Distortion units come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. The most
powerful I ever experienced was an obscure analog machine with lamps
which was called appropriately ‘Scrotum Smasher’. This thing did
exactly what it was made form, it made a hell of a noise and teared
every sound, even the most subtle and beautiful sound you could ever
imagine, inexorable into pieces. This seems all very nice, but what
can you do with it … well you should ask Philippe Bodino, he knows his
way with distortion units, an if you would ask me, I believe this man
has a shitload of these units stacked in his studio.
Phil’s industrial project Schultz made its debut in 2007 with
BioMekaniKal, an album that was praised for its raw aggresiveness and
no nonsense straightforward rhythmic industrial and powernoise.
Not much more than a year later, the bar has been raised, with
Psykiatrik Area Schultz is going a step further. It seems that with
some tricks and heavy pushing and pulling on the dry/wet knob a new
dimension is found, or to stay within ‘Scrotum Smasher’ terminology,
the ‘double scrotum’ knob was found. This result in an enormous wall
of sound.
Schultz grapples with the masters in the genre, like Sonar, with both
albums. And the fact that probably some inspiration is found by these
gentlemen doesn’t make a sole difference. Lovers of industrial
beatings, this is your cup of tea. And if this is not enough you can
look forward to Schultz’s new album that is coming in the beginning of
2010.
Rating: 8/10
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Electr-ohm  in Japan.
Amoeba music store in Hollywood, CA.
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Unlike most other labels, we actively seek out new talent rather than just sitting around waiting for bands to come to us, but sometimes we may have missed some bands. So if you want a limited CD released on our label feel free to send us a message with a link to some of your music.

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http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=4905
Rated: 4 out of 5.
"Even if the NY-based label Soviet Media Control is a rather small one, label-chief LoHr (a.k.a. SLAVY AXIS) proves his fine nose to pick up recommendable international rhythmic Noise acts. The German project [ORGANIC_CAGE] is just such an act, after some self-released albums and some promising compilation appearances like the German ”Extreme Sündenfall” or the Hypervoxx collection ”Weatherhead 3”. Time Kasten is the brainchild behind this North-German project and he offers musically a quit comparable sound outfit like you’ve would expect from acts signed to the ProNoize label. FABRIK C, XOTOX or some acts of the Vendetta-Music label like THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF EUROPE can be easily thrown in as possible references. Extremely limited to only 100 exemplars, this one promises to sell immediately. What you’ll therefore get is a straight-forward moving 4/4-on-the-floor Harsh-Tech assault driven by distorted and overdriven drum patterns, weird synth manipulations and some integrated voice samples. Tracks like ”Immunenutrition”, ”Noisebleed”, ”Program Interrupt” or ”Desert Of Bones” don’t take any prisoners by executing the dancefloors. Good and well produced rhythmically Powernoise for sure, but even not the reinvention of the bulb. Therefore I tend to rate the tracks focusing rather on ominous and menacing sounds, the ones which slow down the speed or which break with the linearity like the harsh and martial hammering ”Deadbodygrinder”. ”Malpractice Machine” offers at least 18 pounding and psychotic Noise tracks, which can easily rival with the abilities of the above mentioned acts. [ORGANIC_CAGE] – a name to keep in mind, if you look out for a quality addition, in case this genre has your preference. "