Meta Meat – Infra Supra (Album – Ant-Zen / Le Label Beige)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Trance, Industrial.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: This is the second album by the french duo Hugues Villette (2Kilos & More) and Phil Von (Von Magnet). The album has been released by Ant-Zen together with Le Label Beige. “Infra Supra” comes five years after the self-titled opus.
Content: Both musicians are used to mixing electronic gear and real percussion. It creates this heavy and explicit Tribal sound, which sounds as the guiding line through the work. The percussion is progressively built up in a way it now and then creates a transcendental feeling. Some songs have been accomplished with a kind of Neo-Classic touch adding a Cinematographic feeling to the work.
+ + + : Meta Meat is a fusion between 2 French artists I like for the global approach in sound and making music; a different and original approach, which comes through I this new collaborative opus. The songs are elaborated and especially the dynamic, Tribal rhythms are simply great. The opening song is a kind of intro, which clearly reveals the direction of the album, which on “Resurgent” is directly reaching a first climax. “Dichotomy” and “Trampled” both are other attention grabbers. The songs are meticulously built up with powerful and frenetic rhythms. But the album is more than simply great percussion and also features alluring Electronic atmospheres covering the songs with darkness and mystery.
– – – : I don’t have real minus points, but I think this duo even has the potential to do better.
Conclusion: “Infra Supra” is a noticeable album in a genre wherein less bands are active so I can only encourage Meta Meat to pursue their collaboration. We need more music like this.
Best songs: “Resurgent”, “Dichotomy”, “Trampled”, “Animal”.
Rate: 8.
Artists: www.facebook.com/phil.von.3 / www.facebook.com/2kilosMore
Labels: www.ant-zen.com / www.facebook.com/antzen.official / www.facebook.com/lelabel.beige
About Meta Meat
Meta Meat is the collaborative project of the French electronic musicians Hugues Villette, who records as Somekilos and 2Kilos & More, and Phil Von of Von Magnet. Discogs describes the project as a live act built on percussion and trance, and states that the name links “the source of flesh (meat) with its passage beyond (meta)”.
The self-titled debut “Metameat” appeared in 2016, and a Meta Meat track was included on the “Maschinenfest 2017” compilation. “Infrasupra” was released on 15 September 2021 by Ant-Zen in collaboration with Le Label Beige as catalogue act421. The record holds ten tracks, opening with “animal” and closing with “antilogue”. Both members are credited with electronics, hand-drum, toms, cymbals, daf, bendir, cajacuerda, wooden rattles and voices. Norscq mastered the album and Stefan Alt handled the layout. An official video was made for “trampled”.
The duo continued on Ant-Zen with the EP Meta Meat – Voices (EP – Ant-Zen) in 2024 and the album “Paths” in 2025, followed by the live album “Alive” in 2026, which they discussed in the Meta Meat interview: ‘We do not try to pretend, we embrace the moment fully’. Phil Von also released the album “Von Magnet” on Unknown Pleasures Records in 2022.
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