In its day one of the leading Belgium's cassette labels was Insane Music. They released a whole bunch of compilations, 'Insane Music For Insane People', but also thematic compilations, such 'Noisy But Chic' or 'Sexy But Chic', the latter dedicated to Samantha Fox (everybody ideal beautiful woman, then?). If that wasn't enough label owner Alain Neffe played in a bunch of bands, starting with the 70s cosmic music of I Scream, to the 80s incarnations of Pseudo Code, Human Flesh, Cortex, Bene Gesserit, Subject and later of Chopstick Sisters. Each of these bands had a specific concept. Cortex was all about atmospheric electronic music with French poetry (recently re-issued on a 2CD set by Plinkity Plonk), Pseudo Code's own unique take on industrial music (with Sub Rosa founder Guy Marc Hinant), Human Flesh being an open ended music-by-mail collaboration or the pure pop of Subject. Bene Gesserit is Ghola B (= Alain Neffe) and Benedict G (= Nadine Bal, his wife) and perhaps the most difficult to place Insane Music band, but along Human Flesh and Pseudo Code the best known one. In the last three years many of the older music has been re-issued, mainly by EE Tapes, Onderstroom Records and Plinkity Plonk. Bene Gesserit now joins with a reissue of their 1985 LP on Insane Music, with as a bonus their 1982 7" and their side of a split 7" with Lelu/lu's from 1986. Like said, I always found Bene Gesserit the most difficult to place. Was it pop music? Not really. Electronic for sure, but then all Insane bands were electronic. Neffe's playing in Bene Gesserit is surely pop like, but always has that added twist of weirdness, almost in a dada-like manner. Bal's vocals add to the dada-like aspect of the music, or perhaps vaudeville, surreal... maybe like an Ensor painting? I didn't hear this LP in many years, and I am quite surprised it sounds more fragmented than I remberered. Maybe I am more open to this kind of music now? Very nice stuff indeed. (https://www.discogs.com).