ADN' Ckrystall
De Unicornis Veritate
*In process of stocking. First ever release* ADN Ckrystall is the pseudonym of French synth experimentalist Érick Moncollin. Armed with a Crumar, Multiman 52 with brass pedal and sustain/volume pedal, two Kawai Synthi 100-F, Roland CR-65, Korg PS-3200, Roland Jupiter-4, a Boss flanger, MXR phasing and a TEAC 8-track recorder he produced his first LP, Jazz'Mad, with the help of synth expert sound engineer Benoit Hutin. The LP was self-released in 1982 to critic aclaim and generated a fan base tha…
Trilogie 1979-1988
The mythology around ADN' Ckrystall is inseparable from the man behind it. Érick Moncollin is the kind of figure that the French underground produced in exceptional concentration during the late 1970s: self-taught, obsessive, wired into the international fringe through tape trades and chance encounters — including a legendary impromptu session with Tim Blake and Vangelis on a prototype Korg MS-20 in a Paris synth shop. His influences range from Heldon and Gong to Gary Numan and Neu!, refracted t…