In 1991, they perform their first concert in a neodadaist festival, and are forced to leave the stage by the organisers of the event. Rarely performing in public, during the next five years they will perform only about ten more concerts.
In the first half of the nineties, the Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra concerts will be characterised by the use of microphone feedback, shouts, noise, industrial sounds, a variety of material from record albums, and by their loopism (notably, they are considered the inventors of the clot system, which consists of applying an adhesive tape ball onto the vinyl surface of a record in order to stop the advance of the turntables needle at a random point). At the same time, they will do their own radio programme for six years, also called Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra, in the independent radio station Radio Pica of Barcelona, where they will broadcast their studio productions.
In 1996, Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra split up, and three years later start working together again. During 1999, they prepare their new sound formulations, and in 2000 they return to the stage with a concert at the Experimentaclub'00 music festival, organised in Madrid by the record label Por Caridad Producciones.
At this new point in time, Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra will start working with the possibilities offered by computer audio software, continuing a personal sound experience begun ten years before.
At present, their work is focused on establishing an on-line programme through their own website. (Since then it's been obviously removed!)
SEDCONTRA. ¿Por qué hablar sobre la primera etapa de Oscar Abril Ascaso + Sedcontra ahora? En primer lugar, porque sí. En segundo lugar, porque su irreverente paso por la escena musical más experimental de Barcelona en los primeros noventa corre el riesgo de ser definitivamente borrado. Puesto que nadie se acuerda de su primera trayectoria sino ellos mismos, este ejercicio de memoria histórica musical no podía ser llevado a cabo más que por ellos mismos. ¿Ejercicio tendencioso y egotista? Por supuesto, fieles a aquella línea de autorreferencialidad absurda que siempre les caracterizó. En tercer lugar, porque, rompiendo por fin ese tupido velo que se corrió sobre ellos, el sello Anòmia tiene previsto editar una doble casete con material de la banda, la mayor parte inédito.
Una cinta de casete.