Zoviet France (also known as :$OVIET:FRANCE:, Soviet France, :zoviet-france: and latterly usually written as :zoviet*france:) is a prolific ambient industrial music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music is also of a distinctly ambient music bent. Formed in 1981, the group has had a variety of members, presently it consists of co-founder Ben Ponton and Mark Warren. Former members included Robin Storey, who now records as Rapoon, Mark Spybey, who now records as Dead Voices on Air, Peter Jensen, Andy Eardley, Paolo Di Paolo, Lisa Hale and Neil Ramshaw. In 2005 Storey, Spybey and Eardley formed a new group, Reformed Faction. Their music, often consisting of droning textures set against fractured tribal rhythms and fleeting dissonant melodies, is frequently made from neglected sound sources: obscure r