Hello, a stressful week lies behind me, my links decapped, i really didnt want to waste the effort and have been busy re uploding, i found a handful of useful providers and you will notice i use them all. Let me know where there are problems, previously i used US based ones this time the focus lies on Germany, they get me 50 % faster uploads, considering the amount to do, very significant to me. I noticed another thing IE sucks a lot of bandwidth for itself (25-30%), Opera takes much less. So i re-upped the Sunshine and Inside Out series and have started on the Wavetrain series...going backwards towards nov 06, still in July mind you...
Rho Xs' new season, after a year doing Rho Xs, i thought it was time to change the format, it ain't easy to come up with what to post, i've used some themes now but filling out 5 till 8 albums twice a week maybe a bit much in one go, it certainly worked out that way for me. So i thought about a new format, a weekly programming with 1-2 posts per day. A format which could open to others contributing or even editing here it is..
Rho-Xs RhoTation
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Saturdays Into the BPM
Trance & Dance Electronics,
Techno, Industrial, Leftfield , Dub, Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, House
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Sundays Sundaze
Ambient, IDM
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Mondays Ebooks/radioplays
For starters, 6 months of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
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Tuesdays Around the world
Worldmusics
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Wednesdays EighTiX
Eighties music and old mixtapes
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Thursdays Anything Goes
Still open , anything goes for the moment ?
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Fridays Into the groove (70's-90's)
R & B, Disco and Funk
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As it happens both bands have a new album coming out soon. So why these albums to start RhoTation off with? Well i already had seen perform and bought MBM's earlier work, but then Satyricon literally brought it home to me (less intense) a great rollercoaster of an album. Underworld, well i can say i was one of the first buying this album (feb 93) it blew me away, trippy and driving, and when they came to town one month later to do a show, it really made it the musical high point for me that year, in fact MBM and Underworld set a musical trend i very much enjoyed following the rest of the ninenties.
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Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon ( 92 ^ 365mb)
After working together in Perennial Divide, Stephens and Jack Dangers (John Stephen Corrigan) left to form Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM), their first album got destroyed in a studiofire. They then recorded the LP Storm The Studio, which got them labeled as an industrial act. Not satisfied with that , in response, they released "99%", which was more techno-influenced, in May 1990, later that year in August, they released "Armed Audio Warfare", an effort to re-create the lost tracks of the would-be debut album.
MBM build a reputation with a live show that was conceived as an intense audio-visual experience, with dancers, led by choreographer Marcus Adams, in costumes designed by artist Craig Morrison and video clips accompanying live instruments, sequenced electronic instruments, and live DJing. (dazzling stuff)
On 1992's Satyricon Meat Beat adopted a more mainstream electronic sound, influenced by such newly popular dance bands as Orbital, The Shamen, and The Orb, all of whom had either remixed or been remixed by MBM. The album produced the hits "Mindstream" and "Circles". However, "Original Control (Version 2)", renamed "I Am Electro" in later compilations, remains the best-known track from the album, featuring samples of recordings from the 1939 World's Fair exhibit Elektro The Robot.
In 1994 Dangers relocated from England to San Francisco, resulting in Stephens' departure from the band. Dangers continued MBM from his new home, releasing the double album Subliminal Sandwich in 1996. While this album represented MBM's major-label debut on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, it failed to achieve the critical and commercial successes of previous releases. In 1997 Dangers released Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998, on which flirtations with jazz fusion featured prominently. The album yielded the single "Prime Audio Soup" which was featured in the film The Matrix. In 2002 Meat Beat released RUOK?, another big step in the evolution of their sound and prominently featuring Dangers' newly acquired toy, the EMS Synthi 100, as well as guest contributions from turntablist Z-Trip and The Orb's Alex Paterson. In 2003 they released a remix album for Storm The Studio, followed by ...In Dub, a remix album of RUOK.
At the Center, was released in 2005, the album is a collaboration between Jack Dangers and jazz musicians Peter Gordon, Dave King, and Craig Taborn. It has been well-received by many critics.Then MBM went on a year long worldwide tour again, the first in 7 years Being renowned for making a concert not only an aural but a visual spectacle aswell this time they made use of video sampling technology that allowed the band to trigger video clips in realtime, on two large screens positioned stage front, while the band performed either sidestage or behind the screens.
Presently, the veteran composer and sound sculptor , Jack Dangers continues to stretch sonic boundaries and influence new generations of sound activists. As a premiere remixer, producer and sound designer, he has played a seminal role in defining tomorrows' music today. Prior to Meat Beat Manifesto there was Perennial Divide. Archive Things/Purged was released earler this year and features unreleased tracks and instrumental versions from Perennial Divide, together with some of the original MBM demo tracks. Later this year a new album will be released titled "Autoimmune", a double CD featuring vocals from Jack, Oakland’s own Azeem, Mr. C and Daddy Sandy and a guest appearance from Z-Trip.
01 - Pot Sounds (2:06)
02 - Mindstream (4:52)
03 - Drop (4:07)
04 - Original Control (vs 1) (5:22)
05 - Your Mind Belongs To The State (5:02)
06 - Circles (4:15)
07 - The Sphere (0:39)
08 - Brainwashed This Way / Zombie / That Shirt (5:31)
09 - Original Control (vs 2, I Am Electro) (5:22)
10 - Euthanasia (4:33)
11 - Edge Of No Control Pt 1 (5:59)
12 - Edge Of No Control Pt 2 (3:15)
13 - Untold Stories (1:52)
14 - Son Of Sam (4:49)
15 - Track 15 (1:27)
16 - Placebo (5:04)
MBM @ Base
MBM Brainwashed
MBM @ MySpace
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Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman ( 93 ^ 585mb)
When at first you don't succeed...Hyde and Smith began their musical partnership with the Kraftwerk and reggae-inspired sounds of while studying together at Cardiff Art College. In 1983 they recorded two albums for CBS Records with a proto-electroclash new romantic band whose name was a graphic squiggle, which (this being a relatively unknown band and many years before Prince became "Love Symbol") was soon given a pronunciation, Freur...doot doot .Freur disbanded in 1986. In 1987 members of Freur created the band Underworld and tried a more guitar-orientated funky electropop sound "Underneath the Radar"and Change the Weather.After a break (to concentrate on, among other things, art/design project Tomato), Hyde and Smith recruited Essex DJ Darren Emerson, and after several minor releases and remixes as Lemon Interupt and Steppin' Razor readopted the Underworld moniker.
The trio's first full-length, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, was released in 1993 to rave reviews and is still considered a landmark piece of work today. It spawned several hit singles ("Dark & Long", "Cowgirl", "Dirty Epic") and was followed a couple years later by the "Born Slippy" single and their second album, Second Toughest In The Infants (1996). Underworld's well-praised remixography also continued to grow, including artists such as Björk, Saint Etienne, Simply Red, Massive Attack and Leftfield. After licensing a remix of "Born Slippy" for the 1996 cult classic film Trainspotting, Underworld gained instant worldwide fame and found themselves touring furiously, presenting their renowned, high-energy live act worldwide. Their fame continued to run high through the release of Beaucoup Fish (1999) and Everything, Everything (2000), after which time Emerson left the group to concentrate on his DJ career.
The duo continued on, releasing the album A Hundred Days Off in 2002 and an anthology release, 1992–2002 in 2003. From 2004–2006, they took a break from the traditional album/tour cycle, and focused on soundtrack work and online digital EP releases as part of The RiverRun Project. They added DJ Darren Price to their live lineup during this period. Underworld have completed their fifth studio album, Oblivion with Bells, which will be released on October 16th, 2007.The first single from the new album, "Crocodile", was released on September 5, 2007. A full world tour has been announced to support the new studio album. Currently, tour dates in the United States, Europe, and Japan are scheduled for this fall
In addition to their music, Hyde and Smith are also founding members of a graphic design company, Tomato, which has done high-profile work for clients around the world as well as providing art for all of Underworld's releases. Hyde, along with John Warwicker of Tomato, has published two typographic journals as Underworld Print: Mmm... Skyscraper, I Love You (1994) and In The Belly Of Saint Paul (2003). Underworld Print began publishing the monthly Book of Jam in October 2007, which focuses on a different theme in each issue.
01 - Dark and Long (7:35)
02 - Mmm Skyscraper I Love You (13:08)
03 - Surfboy (7:33)
04 - Spoonman (7:41)
05 - Tongue (4:49)
06 - Dirty Epic (9:55)
07 - Cowgirl (8:25)
08 - River Of Bass (6:26)
09 - M.E. (7:09)
Bonus
10 Rez (9:56)
11 Why Why Why (12:24)
Underworld @ Base
Underworld @ MySpace
Underworld @ Print
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here !
Rho Xs' new season, after a year doing Rho Xs, i thought it was time to change the format, it ain't easy to come up with what to post, i've used some themes now but filling out 5 till 8 albums twice a week maybe a bit much in one go, it certainly worked out that way for me. So i thought about a new format, a weekly programming with 1-2 posts per day. A format which could open to others contributing or even editing here it is..
Rho-Xs RhoTation
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Saturdays Into the BPM
Trance & Dance Electronics,
Techno, Industrial, Leftfield , Dub, Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, House
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Sundays Sundaze
Ambient, IDM
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Mondays Ebooks/radioplays
For starters, 6 months of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesdays Around the world
Worldmusics
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesdays EighTiX
Eighties music and old mixtapes
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Thursdays Anything Goes
Still open , anything goes for the moment ?
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Fridays Into the groove (70's-90's)
R & B, Disco and Funk
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Into the BPM 1
As it happens both bands have a new album coming out soon. So why these albums to start RhoTation off with? Well i already had seen perform and bought MBM's earlier work, but then Satyricon literally brought it home to me (less intense) a great rollercoaster of an album. Underworld, well i can say i was one of the first buying this album (feb 93) it blew me away, trippy and driving, and when they came to town one month later to do a show, it really made it the musical high point for me that year, in fact MBM and Underworld set a musical trend i very much enjoyed following the rest of the ninenties.
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon ( 92 ^ 365mb)
After working together in Perennial Divide, Stephens and Jack Dangers (John Stephen Corrigan) left to form Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM), their first album got destroyed in a studiofire. They then recorded the LP Storm The Studio, which got them labeled as an industrial act. Not satisfied with that , in response, they released "99%", which was more techno-influenced, in May 1990, later that year in August, they released "Armed Audio Warfare", an effort to re-create the lost tracks of the would-be debut album.
MBM build a reputation with a live show that was conceived as an intense audio-visual experience, with dancers, led by choreographer Marcus Adams, in costumes designed by artist Craig Morrison and video clips accompanying live instruments, sequenced electronic instruments, and live DJing. (dazzling stuff)
On 1992's Satyricon Meat Beat adopted a more mainstream electronic sound, influenced by such newly popular dance bands as Orbital, The Shamen, and The Orb, all of whom had either remixed or been remixed by MBM. The album produced the hits "Mindstream" and "Circles". However, "Original Control (Version 2)", renamed "I Am Electro" in later compilations, remains the best-known track from the album, featuring samples of recordings from the 1939 World's Fair exhibit Elektro The Robot.
In 1994 Dangers relocated from England to San Francisco, resulting in Stephens' departure from the band. Dangers continued MBM from his new home, releasing the double album Subliminal Sandwich in 1996. While this album represented MBM's major-label debut on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, it failed to achieve the critical and commercial successes of previous releases. In 1997 Dangers released Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998, on which flirtations with jazz fusion featured prominently. The album yielded the single "Prime Audio Soup" which was featured in the film The Matrix. In 2002 Meat Beat released RUOK?, another big step in the evolution of their sound and prominently featuring Dangers' newly acquired toy, the EMS Synthi 100, as well as guest contributions from turntablist Z-Trip and The Orb's Alex Paterson. In 2003 they released a remix album for Storm The Studio, followed by ...In Dub, a remix album of RUOK.
At the Center, was released in 2005, the album is a collaboration between Jack Dangers and jazz musicians Peter Gordon, Dave King, and Craig Taborn. It has been well-received by many critics.Then MBM went on a year long worldwide tour again, the first in 7 years Being renowned for making a concert not only an aural but a visual spectacle aswell this time they made use of video sampling technology that allowed the band to trigger video clips in realtime, on two large screens positioned stage front, while the band performed either sidestage or behind the screens.
Presently, the veteran composer and sound sculptor , Jack Dangers continues to stretch sonic boundaries and influence new generations of sound activists. As a premiere remixer, producer and sound designer, he has played a seminal role in defining tomorrows' music today. Prior to Meat Beat Manifesto there was Perennial Divide. Archive Things/Purged was released earler this year and features unreleased tracks and instrumental versions from Perennial Divide, together with some of the original MBM demo tracks. Later this year a new album will be released titled "Autoimmune", a double CD featuring vocals from Jack, Oakland’s own Azeem, Mr. C and Daddy Sandy and a guest appearance from Z-Trip.
01 - Pot Sounds (2:06)
02 - Mindstream (4:52)
03 - Drop (4:07)
04 - Original Control (vs 1) (5:22)
05 - Your Mind Belongs To The State (5:02)
06 - Circles (4:15)
07 - The Sphere (0:39)
08 - Brainwashed This Way / Zombie / That Shirt (5:31)
09 - Original Control (vs 2, I Am Electro) (5:22)
10 - Euthanasia (4:33)
11 - Edge Of No Control Pt 1 (5:59)
12 - Edge Of No Control Pt 2 (3:15)
13 - Untold Stories (1:52)
14 - Son Of Sam (4:49)
15 - Track 15 (1:27)
16 - Placebo (5:04)
MBM @ Base
MBM Brainwashed
MBM @ MySpace
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Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman ( 93 ^ 585mb)
When at first you don't succeed...Hyde and Smith began their musical partnership with the Kraftwerk and reggae-inspired sounds of while studying together at Cardiff Art College. In 1983 they recorded two albums for CBS Records with a proto-electroclash new romantic band whose name was a graphic squiggle, which (this being a relatively unknown band and many years before Prince became "Love Symbol") was soon given a pronunciation, Freur...doot doot .Freur disbanded in 1986. In 1987 members of Freur created the band Underworld and tried a more guitar-orientated funky electropop sound "Underneath the Radar"and Change the Weather.After a break (to concentrate on, among other things, art/design project Tomato), Hyde and Smith recruited Essex DJ Darren Emerson, and after several minor releases and remixes as Lemon Interupt and Steppin' Razor readopted the Underworld moniker.
The trio's first full-length, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, was released in 1993 to rave reviews and is still considered a landmark piece of work today. It spawned several hit singles ("Dark & Long", "Cowgirl", "Dirty Epic") and was followed a couple years later by the "Born Slippy" single and their second album, Second Toughest In The Infants (1996). Underworld's well-praised remixography also continued to grow, including artists such as Björk, Saint Etienne, Simply Red, Massive Attack and Leftfield. After licensing a remix of "Born Slippy" for the 1996 cult classic film Trainspotting, Underworld gained instant worldwide fame and found themselves touring furiously, presenting their renowned, high-energy live act worldwide. Their fame continued to run high through the release of Beaucoup Fish (1999) and Everything, Everything (2000), after which time Emerson left the group to concentrate on his DJ career.
The duo continued on, releasing the album A Hundred Days Off in 2002 and an anthology release, 1992–2002 in 2003. From 2004–2006, they took a break from the traditional album/tour cycle, and focused on soundtrack work and online digital EP releases as part of The RiverRun Project. They added DJ Darren Price to their live lineup during this period. Underworld have completed their fifth studio album, Oblivion with Bells, which will be released on October 16th, 2007.The first single from the new album, "Crocodile", was released on September 5, 2007. A full world tour has been announced to support the new studio album. Currently, tour dates in the United States, Europe, and Japan are scheduled for this fall
In addition to their music, Hyde and Smith are also founding members of a graphic design company, Tomato, which has done high-profile work for clients around the world as well as providing art for all of Underworld's releases. Hyde, along with John Warwicker of Tomato, has published two typographic journals as Underworld Print: Mmm... Skyscraper, I Love You (1994) and In The Belly Of Saint Paul (2003). Underworld Print began publishing the monthly Book of Jam in October 2007, which focuses on a different theme in each issue.
01 - Dark and Long (7:35)
02 - Mmm Skyscraper I Love You (13:08)
03 - Surfboy (7:33)
04 - Spoonman (7:41)
05 - Tongue (4:49)
06 - Dirty Epic (9:55)
07 - Cowgirl (8:25)
08 - River Of Bass (6:26)
09 - M.E. (7:09)
Bonus
10 Rez (9:56)
11 Why Why Why (12:24)
Underworld @ Base
Underworld @ MySpace
Underworld @ Print
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here !
8 comments:
Bonjour Rho
I love most posts of this blogspot. Merci besaucoup for this excellent work of yours which allows me to discover bands I did not suspected made such good music.
For Thurdays RhoTation I suggest that you post albums of a single band (of your favorites), 3 LPs at a time. Or perhaps only singles (EPs) with alternative remixes of dance(?) tunes...
I like MBM and Undeworld, but I have problems downloading with this new german machinery: it might be good for you to upload but I can only download at 2 or 3kb/s for MBM and when I get the "Uw - D n B w m" file download box appearing on my screen, and click on start it leads me to an upload page..! Both failed.
No downloads today.
Perhaps you should revert to rapidshare via Sharebee, MassMirror, lix.in or tinyurl.
A request for the, hopefully, near future: all production of French Stephane Holweck as Electrotete, Juno Reactor and Total Eclipse (Goa trance and film sountracks) : Excellent!
Thanks again.
Keep up the good work
Francois in Thailand
Hello Francois,
Good to hear you like my blog, as for your problems, i tested the uploaded.to site with a friend in the UK she got god speeds 300k, admittedly this was in the middle of the night here, something you should take in account...best time to access euro servers from Thailand is likely in your morning between 8 and 14.00. You fail to mention what speeds you used to get from the names you mention.
Another thing, as i mentioned on my blog IE consumes valuable bandwidth, get yourself Opera, specially if you have a thin connection, you'd be amazed how much faster your pages load. Try it !
Sharebee disconnects me lately, i dont like rapid share's wait wait wait format, but i will look into massmirror.
Best of Luck,
Rho
Re: MBM - thanks a lot. Orangespace is new to me, and it looks really good.
Thanks very much for your hard work. I've discovered so much great music here that I otherwise would never have found.
Do you have any Akiko Yano albums from the late 70's/early 80's you could post?
Cheers
just love the anecdotes - lying on a beach with ouzo, indeed - brings back memories of my own fervid youth.. strolling through athens with plonk in hand, repeated overruns to amsterdam.. must admit, music i was listening to was a tad more pedestrian, roxy, manzanera, pistols, eno, well, in its own way, i guess.. music certainly is the drug, as i've since discovered, a trite observation, i know, but true nonetheless, still fond memories of swinging down banff avenue in alberta with iggy's soldier blaring on the boombox, anyway, getting carried away, love the bio stuff, i.e., that about haza, and generally everything about this blog is interesting, well-presented and educational.. for picks, any sabres of paradise? definitely a top tier blog, thanks and praise so much for your efforts rho-x.. like reliving chapters in a book from your youth.. all hail the blog.. zenclip
Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for your good post. Your post helped me in my college assignment, If you can provide me more details please email me.
Hi Rho. You do say the older the better, so here's one from 2007. Would you happen to have the flac for the Meat Beat Manifesto album? Either way. many thanks for all you do.
Many thanks for Meat Beat Manifesto's Satyricon, I haven't heard it in years.
-Brian
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