JE T’AIME

Published by: Sub Rosa, Belgium, 1985
Series: Myths – INTERMYTH
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Test Pressing
Edition: Limited to 5,000 copies
Country: Belgium
Recorded at: F2 Studio, London, September 1985
Genre: Electronic / Experimental / Industrial

Je T’Aime occupies a singular position within Genesis P-Orridge’s post Throbbing Gristle trajectory, operating as both homage and détournement. Released in 1985 on Sub Rosa’s Myths series, the record reconfigures Serge Gainsbourg’s iconic theme into a cold, ceremonial structure less a cover than an act of conceptual possession. P-Orridge strips the erotic melancholy of the original and replaces it with ritualistic distance, transforming intimacy into invocation.

The B-side, Supermale, extends this conceptual tension even further. Built around sampled voices attributed to Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) and Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, the track stages a confrontation between institutional authority and radical counter-mythology. Rather than commentary, the piece functions as an acoustic collision belief systems flattened into raw sonic material.

This particular copy corresponds to the rare “reverse” sleeve variant, produced with chipboard facing outward. Printed in black and silver inks, the sleeve presents a rough, tan-brown exterior with a smooth white interior an inversion of conventional record packaging that mirrors the record’s thematic reversals. Only an unknown fraction of the total 5,000 copies were assembled in this configuration, making it significantly scarcer than the standard smooth white sleeve.

Positioned between industrial music, occult semiotics, and performance art documentation, Je T’Aime stands as a crucial artifact of mid-1980s experimental culture where sound, ideology, and physical object collapse into a single provocative gesture.