Halloween

Hello, as deletions continue (20 pages thusfar) i've been thinking what to do about it, as the persons responsible remain anonymous and refuse to simple ask to remove the offending item. You'll find more about all this at Transgloballs together with a tip how you can be independent of Google actions against (music)blogs Check it out !.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain.The festival is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.



Now then, i'm not really into halloween but i had this album on standby for sometime and thought by myself...Edgar Allen Poe the man who wrote gothic horror stories and ended miserably like a true great writer he was. Those were the days..anyway it inspired Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfsun to put his writing to music and even though concept albums had been declared out at the time, managed to convince enough people-like me to buy the album and make it a goldrecord...11 years later after the Alan Parsons prokject had been closed , he got to partially rerecord/remix the album, including a voluntairy contribution by Orson Welles, all for the CD release...both are here now, last year a remasterd double pack of both versions was released. I've added a reading of The Raven by actor Christopher Walken to both versions.


In October 1967, at age 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, and first garnered significant industry exposure via his work on the Beatles' 1969 masterpiece, Abbey Road. Parsons subsequently worked with Paul McCartney on several of Wings' earliest albums; he also oversaw recordings from Al Stewart, Cockney Rebel, and Pilot, but solidified his reputation by working on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. He was known for going beyond what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineer’s duties. He considered himself to be a recording director.

He founded The Alan Parsons Project with producer and songwriter (and occasional singer) Eric Woolfson in 1975. The Project consisted of a revolving group of studio musicians and vocalists, most notably the members of Pilot and (on the first album) the members of American rock band Ambrosia. Unlike most rock groups, the Project rarely performed live, although they did release a number of music videos. After releasing ten albums, the Project dissolved after 1987, and Parsons continues to release work in his own name and in collaboration with other musicians; Parsons and his band now regularly tour many parts of the world.

The Project debuted in 1975 with Tales of Mystery and Imagination, a collection inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe; similarly, the science fiction of Isaac Asimov served as the raw material for 1977's follow-up, I Robot. With 1980's The Turn of a Friendly Card, a meditation on gambling, the Alan Parsons Project scored a Top 20 hit, "Games People Play"; 1982's Eye in the Sky was the Project's most successful effort, and notched a Top Three hit with its title track. While 1984's Ammonia Avenue went gold, the Project's subsequent LPs earned little notice, although records like 1985's Vulture Culture, 1987's Gaudi, and 1996's On Air found favor with longtime fans. Time Machine followed in 1999. After taking a five-year hiatus, Parsons returned in 2004 with A Valid Path.

As well as receiving gold and platinum awards from nearly every country in the world, Parsons has received eleven Grammy Award nominations for engineering and production. In 2007 he received a nomination for Best Surround Sound Album for A Valid Path. As of 2007, he tours under a revised name, The Alan Parsons Live Project, presenting world-spanning concerts performing material from his most recent album as well as selections from the original Project.

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Parsons, Alan - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination V (76 ^ 98mb)

The album is an insight into the life of American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), as seen through the eyes of Parsons and Eric Woolfson, an admirer of Poe's work and at whose instigation the Project (as it was titled during its embryonic stages) was undertaken. The lyric content of the album incorporates many adaptations of Poe's work.

The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes — retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a small audience. Critical reaction was often mixed.
This album was released in U.K. originally with a different name. Simply called "The Alan Parsons Project" it was successful enough to achieve gold status but later that year the same album was released under the name of "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"



01 - A Dream Within A Dream (3:43)
02 - The Raven (Voc.Leonard Whiting) (3:58)
03 - The Tell-Tale Heart (Voc.Arthur Brown) (4:42)
04 - The Cask Of Amontillado (Voc.John Miles) (4:29)
05 - The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether (Voc.John Miles) (4:12)
 
The Fall Of The House Of Usher ( 06 -10) (15:13)
06 - Prelude (5:51)
07 - Arrival (2:36)
08 - Intermezzo(1:06)
09 - Pavane (4:44)
10 - Fall (1:07)
11 - The One In Paradise (Voc.Terry Sylvester)(4:21)
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Christopher Walken reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven (8:29)



Parsons, Alan - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (87 ^ 99mb)

In 1987, Parsons completely remixed the album, including additional guitar passages and narration (by Orson Welles) as well as updating the production style to include heavy reverb and the gated drum sound of the 80s. The CD notes that Welles never met Parsons or Collaborator Eric Woolfson, but sent a tape to them of the performance shortly after the orignal album was released in 1976. The original multitrack masters were transferred from a Soundcraft "Saturn" analog machine to a Sony 3324 DASH format 24 track recorder. May and June 1987



01 - A Dream Within A Dream (Instrumental) (4:13)  
02 - The Raven (Voc.Leonard Whiting) (3:57)
03 - The Tell-Tale Heart (Voc.Arthur Brown) (4:38)
04 - The Cask Of Amontillado (Voc.John Miles) (4:33) 
05 - The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether (Voc.John Miles)(4:20)
  The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Instrumental)
06 - I Prelude (Narrator - Orson Welles) (7:02)
07 - II - Arrival (2:39)
08 - III - Intermezzo (1:00)
09 - IV - Pavane (4:36)
10 - V - Fall (0:51) 
11 - The One In Paradise (Voc.Terry Sylvester) (4:46)
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Christopher Walken reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven (8:29)

A P (02) Around the World

Hello, some more around the world, this time around Brittany (France), singer Denez Prigent , well versed in the classic, often tragic, melancholic songs of his region choses for his second album, Me zalc'h ennon ur fulenn aour ( i keep a spark of gold within me) to crossover and incorperate some danceelements giving his bretonfolk a more contemporary feel .

one of the several youtube live vids available, i've chosen E Trouz Ar Gêr (track 6 on the album)



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Denez Prigent - Me' Zalc'h Ennon Ur Fulenn Aour ( 97 ^ 156mb))

Denez Prigent, born 17 Feb , 1966, is a French singer from Santec, in Finistère region of Brittany, he discovers traditional Breton music in the late 60's, and specially the gwerzioù which he learned from his grand-mother. He also learned the kan ha diskan from Alain Leclère and will make his first appearance as a singer in a fest-noz at 14 years old. In 1987, he wins the kan ar bobl award. After a few years work in a local radio, during which he collected a huge amount of gwerzioù and kan ha diskan songs, he finally steps into a professional singer status as he performs during the Transmusicales, a rock festival, in 1992 and prooves that the a-capella breton tradition singing can move all kind of audience. Dressed in black and a hand on the ear, his singing is deeply rooted by his accent. This same year, he records his first album, Ar gouriz koar (the wax belt) primarily made up of songs has cappella, featuring traditional songs and compositions by Bernez Tangi, Denez Abernot or Yvon Gouez.

Denez records his second album Me 'zalc' H ennon ur fulenn Aour (I keep in me a spark gold) in 1997. This album before gardist interfering compositions traditional inspiration and new electronic music (jungle, trip hop, house…) gains national and international success. Today, this album became a classic.Denez keeps on going this way by modernizing the living tradition (and does it very well) but also keeps with his famous a-capella songs or kan ha diskan songs together with Louise Ebrel.

In 2000, sees a new album Irvi (Ways of scum). Electronics is always quite present there, but above all it's an album of duets. Denez Prigent invites Bertrand Cantat the singer of Noir Desire, LISA Gerrard the singer of Dead Can Dance as well as the jazzman Louis Sclavis, the viellist Valentine Clastrier and the bell ringer of uilleann pipe Davy Spillane emblematic figure of the Irish music. The song “ Gortoz has ran ” which opens the album will be integrated in the original soundtrack of the film Black Hawk Down ( Ridley Scott). After a series in concerts, Denez Prigent records a Live with the Festival Interceltique of Lorient in August 2001

In 2003 he released , Sarac' H (into Breton, name given to the rustle which the wind in the foliage makes), his fifth and thusfar last album. One finds again there LISA Gerrard but also Yanka Rupkina the soloist of the Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices, Karen Matheson and sami Mari Boine. Denez Prigent also invites celebrates it player of Bouzouki Donal Lunny, Nabil Khalidi one of the uncontested Masters of the Arab lute and the violonists virtuosos Ronan Pinc and Farhad Bouallagi. This opus gained a strong recognition by the public aswell as the critics.



01 - An Droug-Red (6:29)
02 - An Hentoù Adkavet (5:43)
03 - Copsa Mica (Lodenn 1) (4:03)
04 - Copsa Mica (Lodenn 2) (4:27)
05 - Brall Ar Rodoù (4:35)
06 - E Trouz Ar Gêr (4:35)
07 - Ur Fulenn Aour (4:44)
08 - Kereñvor (5:52)
09 - An Iliz Ruz (4:54)
10 - Al Lagad Foll (4:42)
11 - Ar Wezenn-Dar (7:25)
12 - Ar Rannoù (17:04)

diet version
Denez Prigent - Me' Zalc'h Ennon Ur Fulenn Aour (* 99mb)

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Challenge

You may have noted that more (10)pages have been taken down by blogspot , unfortunately the anonymous persons that complained never took the trouble asking me to taken down the album they claim hurts their wallet...more then the current financial/housing malaise..it is clear to me that the source is the UK , the real pity is that the other unchallenged albums and all the write ups dissappear aswell. So hereby i challenge the deleter to just comment and request the deletion of the contested link..this btw has happened twice in the past two years and i obviously complied. Please, whoever you are stop this cause of action. Rho

Canadia (11)

Hello, after last weeks crash onto a lifeless earth season two sees the crew of canadia in a depressive state but.....

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there.


Season 2 Canadia: 2056 - Episode 11

Six months after their fateful return to Earth, the Canadian maintenance ship Canadia and her crew lay in ruins. The captain has deserted his post, Anderson and the Robot have gone off seeking answers, Faverau tries to hold on to the past and Lewis is left to try to put it all back together. They have all but given up hope that the human race can survive. Until a sign from above reaffirms their belief in the human spirit... kind of.

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Canadia 2056 11 (20mb)

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Afterposts (Sndz 2)

Hello Sundazers a really mixed bag today, a movie, Zeitgeist Addendum spilt in 4 parts for easy download in the AVI format,last time the aVI had some problems on some platforms but this time i recoded with another offer today Format Factory a very handy tool to convert many different, video and sound formats, together with the tool i used to get the movie, the youtube downloader , furthermore two very nifty converters lame and oggdrop...Finally some meditive music TUU and All Our Ancestors would be proud if we manage to free ourselves from the debt slavery...it wont be easy consideringmany still prostrate themselves for kings and queens and schizo religions..

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Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film relates the corruptive nature of the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA henchman for corporate America and others, concluding with the advocating of the Venus Project, created by social engineer Jacque Fresco. The movie premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008, and was released free online on October 4, 2008.According to director Peter Joseph, the film "attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution". In conclusion, Addendum stresses the need for belief systems to embrace the ideas of emergence and interdependence and outlines concrete steps that can be taken to weaken the monetary system.

In contrast with the first Zeitgeist, The Movie, Addendum caused some stir as the makers lay out a vision to strive for, which is as it should be, only the ideas portrayed didnt go down to well with some smallminded egomaniacs..unsurprisingly i might add. The FACT that there's plenty of renewable (almost free) energy around has been kept from the world for decades, and im not talking about zeropoint energy but solar, wind, geothermic there is plenty but it cant be controlled like energy has been and there lies the opposition..the controllers...Now machines have been getting a bad rap as these have been used in this world to keep the workforce down, but machines have no ego and these can do almost anything in providing humans with food, building shelter provinding healthcare.. The idea being if everyone is provided for the drive to commit crime and corrupt and wage war is taken away...and humans can concentrate on expressing themselves...obviously these ideas sound very dangerous to the ego driven competitors so you'll here them shout communism which it aint, its closer to libertarianism, its about all men have equal rights, it's about money don't matter.



Zeitgeist Addendum I (AVI 81mb)

Zeitgeist: Addendum is separated into four parts. The first part criticizes the practice of the Fractional Reserve Banking system. And in a very simplistic way the film tries to convey how the Federal Reserve creates money, and what each dollar bill represents --that is, debt. The film goes on to present a case for how the Fed loans this newly created "debt money" to the U.S.treasury in exchange for bonds. In sequence, the money received from the Fed ends up as deposits in commercial banks, which through the fractional reserve system is multiplied and turned into interest baring loans. The film comments how "absurd" such a system is, since the interest that must be paid for the bonds can only create a perpetual cycle of debt

Zeitgeist Addendum II (AVI 85mb)

The second part is a documentary style interview with John Perkins, in which he describes his role as a Economic Hitman (EHM). He helped CIA and the ruling political/corporate elites who have worked to undermine legitimate foreign regimes who put the interests of their populations before those of transnational corporations

Zeitgeist Addendum III (AVI 112mb)

The third part describes the Venus Project, a proposal created by Jacque Fresco. The film promotes the Venus Project as a sustainable solution for mankind on earth. Its main goal is to produce a "resource-based economy" using modern technology.


Zeitgeist Addendum IV (AVI 126mb)

Part IV states that everything wrong with the world is "fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality - the 'emergent' and 'symbiotic' aspects of natural law." The film then suggests actions for "social transformation", such as boycotts of large banks, the mainstream media, the military, and energy companies, rejecting the political structure and "creating critical mass".


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4 Easy and Free Quality Converters (24mb)

Here's some of the software i used to get Zeitgeist to you. First there's the youtube downloader a free and easy tool to get flv videos..not just from you tube..it has transcoding and splitting capabilities aswell..great find i would think

What is YouTube Downloader?

It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and many others and convert them to other video formats.
The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!
It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.
You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school.
YouTube Downloader it's easy to use, the interface is intuitive. Simply copy and paste the video URL and press Ok button. The window of download will appear.

-Download videos from YouTube, Google Video, MySpaceTV and many others
-Allows you to access YouTube videos for which you need to be 18+ years of age
-Converts video for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3
-Provides the ability to cut and select the output quality of converted videos
-Uses the FFmpeg engine to convert the videos
-Plays videos downloaded in Flash
-Extremely easy to use

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Second here is Format Factory, extremely useful transcoding video and audio files, allthough the high-quality sound settings are not (128)

Whether you haven’t heard of this particular file format that you have on your desktop or you haven’t got the appropriate tools on your system, Format Factory is what we recommend trying out, it’s a freeware and probably the last file conversion tool you will ever need to search for! Format Factory currently handles 12 types of video formats, six audio types, eight image formats and DVD/ISO conversions.

As you can see, it doesn’t look difficult to use, in fact quite simple, although spiked with format-icons and a big banner announcing the program’s name for no reason other than to put lipstick on the pig. The left navigation menu has collapsible links to the various formats you can convert to, based on type: video, audio, image, mobile device, and ROM device. Below the massive title banner, the central pane sports decorative icons until you start the conversion process.Once you’ve selected your files, you can change the output quality to presets or custom settings. Hit Start on the Toolbar of the main window to begin the process, which is surprisingly fast for smaller video files. FormatFactory excels at batch conversion without error. It does, however, eat up much of your processor while it’s running even one conversion, and for some reason considers 128k high quality..which makes it rather unsuitable for me, however my advice convert to wave and from there use the conversion tools and quality you want, my oggdroptool goes to 512k and plenty of lame/mp3 converters around like the lamedrop i include here.

This here is the latest version of Format Factory 1.55



Key features:
· All to MPG/AVI/3GP/FLV/MP4.
· All to MP3/OGG/WMA/M4A/WAV.
· All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO.
· Rip DVD to video file.
· MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP format.
· Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
· Repair damaged video and audio file.
· Reducing Multimedia file size.
· Support iphone, ipod multimedia file formats.
· Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
· DVD Ripper.
- It has multilangual (35) support


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Finally two extremely useful coding progs, and the lame/oggdrop neednt be installed at all these work right away, Lamedrop even recodes my oggfiles directly to MP3..That said you'd be surprised how many MP3 players play Ogg even if its rarely listed....you should try

oggdropXPd

oggdropXPd is a drag-and-drop Ogg Vorbis encoder/decoder/player for the eXPerienced user. Features include compression from lossless files (Monkeys Audio, LPAC, FLAC, WAVPACK and OptimFROG -(check rarewares.org for needed dll's), auto-tagging, renaming of encoded files, setting of advanced encoder parameters, use of VorbisGain tags on decode, playlist (.m3u) creation, and others.

Playback also supports multi-channel in the same way. A further option is added to downmix multi-channel to stereo for decoding to file, or playback. The multi-channel mapping conforms to the Vorbis I Specification.


LameDropXPd

LameDropXPd is a practical frontend for LAME that makes things easier to the user, as there is no need to know about command line usage: most LAME settings are reachable on a graphical interface. Besides encoding WAV files to MP3, it can transcode Ogg Vorbis files, decode MP3 files to WAV, and auto-tag the files it encodes.


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Tuu - All Our Ancesters (94 ^ 99mb)

Deep, ancient atmospheres. A rich combination of the exotic and the electronic. A mystical, magical travelogue exploring old, hidden dimensions. Tuu are Martin Franklin on water drums, clay pots, tibetan bells and gongs, Rebecca Lublinski on flutes, and Mykl O'Dempsey with synths and samples. The result is a music that is dark and strangely unsettling, generally rhythmic but never funky, slow but never heavy. This is a good disc to listen to focus your attention within and reach out to the world around you. It is extremely peaceful, relaxing and not in the least bit boring since the exotic nature of the instruments holds your attention quite well. This music shadows the distant past, the unknown future and the mystery of life. This here is one of the originally released  limited edition of 500 with a hand-made metal and paper slipcase



1 - Shiva Descending (8:56)
2 - All Our Ancestors (7:36)
3 - House Of The Waters (4:42)
4 - Stillpoint In Motion (5:24)
5 - Rainfall (7:56)
6 - Illumination (4:28)
7 - Triple Gem Of Wisdom (8:02)

Afterpost (02)

Hello, something to get you started this weekend . How many socalled micro samples can become more then the sum of it's parts... in fact, the result is rather asthonishing. French Canadian artist Akufen shows his way and his is a path well worth exploring....

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Akufen - My Way (02 ^ 194mb)

Akufen is the musical pseudonym of Montreal, Canada based artist, Marc Leclair. Leclair makes electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, click hop, or microhouse. Leclair's pseudonym comes from the French word for tinnitus (ringing of the ears), acouphène.

Since 1999, Akufen has been amassing a thick stockpile of 12" releases for labels like Perlon, Background, Traum, Oral, Trapez, and Force Inc. With influences ranging from Bootsy to Mancini to Moroder to Reich, Leclair's productions veer from challenging experimental techno to pop-oriented micro-house. For most of the tracks on 2002's My Way, his first full-length album for Force Inc., Leclair employed a technique he referred to as "microsampling." Leclair would spend hours of each morning recording material from AM/FM dials and a shortwave, and he would then use those recordings as fodder for his productions, splicing seconds into minute fragments (consisting of voices, song snips, acoustic guitar flicks, and all sorts of unidentifiable moments) and applying them to danceable, hook-heavy house tracks. 

In 2004 released Blu tribunL a glitch/minimal album together with Freeform and the Rip-Off Artist, each bringing in four tracks, later that year he delivered a well recieved mix album, Fabric 17. In 2005 Marc Leclair returns under its own name with the release of Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes (Mutek) and proves that he had more than one card up in his sleeve. With the skillful integration of instrumental tones and outer-space noises, he built extended and dreamlike pieces that defy time.
Akufen obviously has been on the road quite a lot djing and doing remixes which left working on the new album and developping his label, Musique Risquée (risky music), squeezed by his obligations as a familyman. 



01 - Even White Horizons (5:28)
02 - Installation (8:04)
03 - Skidoos (8:58)
04 - Deck The House (6:05)
05 - Wet Floors (6:18)
06 - Heaven Can Wait (5:05)
07 - In Dog We Trust (7:37)
08 - Jeep Sex (6:06)
09 - My Way (6:29)
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10 - Architxtures I (7:08)
11 - Whore House (6:52)
12 - Little Hop Of Horrors (5:35)

diet version.= without Xs
Akufen - My Way ( * 99mb)

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All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here !

Afterpost (grooves)

Hello, im back for another Afterpost, first i want to thank you all for the kind comments , furthermore i wish to tell you that in case this blog goes off line or goes private (havent decided yet) the place to go is transgloballs where all Rho-Xs data on how to join or get hold of all data i've posted on the blog in RTF format. Might be a good idea to bookmark transglobal, or rip the blog yourselves whatever. As i said posting will be irregular, and today i have a compilation album made by a man who's done some 60 albums since 85, he knows what he's doing and this one wasn't even listed, possibly as it came with Muzik Mag spring 03. Gilles Peterson's focus has always been Modern Jazz music, with a strong emphasis on its use in a club environment, mixed with associated music styles.(anything from dub and reggae through jazz, nu-jazz, funk, soul, neo soul, to drum and bass, house, broken beat, hip-hop, Jazz-funk, latin, bossa nova, samba and beyond.)

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Gilles Peterson'(born 64) attended The John Fisher School, in the mid- and late- 1980s, living among the South London suburban soul scene in the early eighties, Gilles would avidly listen to listening to Level 42, Earth Wind & Fire, Central Line and the heavier, deeper pirate stations such as Radio Invicta. This inspired him to set up his own station - literally an aerial suspended between a tree and a phone box - playing an eclectic mix of jazz, funk, reggae, soul and early electro. By a stroke of luck, Radio Invicta needed a new transmitter, so Gilles swapped his for a regular show on the station.

At the same time, Gilles was a regular shopper at DJ Paul Murphy's Palladin Records. Murphy also DJ'd at Camden's Electric Ballroom, and his knowledge of rare, killer power jazz tunes and rare Afro-Cuban fusion was further inspiration for Gilles, who took over the decks when Paul left. Once ensconced upstairs in the Electric Ballroom, Gilles' understanding and insight into jazz, funk and soul grew exponentially. Gilles soon began to play at Nicky Holloway's Special Branch night at The Royal Oak. 

1985 saw Gilles releasing the Jazz Juice (streetsounds) compilation series, collecting together many of the jazz tracks Gilles had been playing over the past few years. EMI Records soon called on Gilles to put together a series of inspired collections showcasing jazz label Blue Note's best artists resulting in 'Blue Bossa Vols. 1 & 2' and 'Baptist Beat' , which became the motivation for the hugely popular 'Blue' series of Jazz compilations.

During this period, Gilles had also been working on new pirate radio projects before 'going legit' with the BBC Radio London which was the first legal station he worked for, hosting a show called 'Mad On Jazz'. After leaving Radio London in 1986, Gilles started his Sunday sessions - 'Talkin' Loud' & 'Saying Something' - at Camden's Dingwalls. Co-hosted by Patrick Forge, these ran for five years. Coinciding with the emerging acid house scene, the sessions became a natural magnet for post clubbing come-down kids.

Shortly afterwards, Gilles started the Acid Jazz label, but after two years he felt the sound, the music and name was becoming a mod thing, a retro thing.' And so the approach from Phonogram was welcome , and he set up a new label Talkin' Loud records in 1989 . Gilles got the chance to echo his own diverse tastes and the label saw releases from the likes of Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai, the Galliano. 

Back on air, Gilles' show on London's Jazz FM was axed in 1990 after he played 'inappropriate' music and made statements supporting peace during the Gulf War. Soon after, he joined the newly-legalized Kiss FM. His Sunday evening WorldWide slot proved one of the most popular on the station and he stayed there for eight years until he joined Radio 1 in 1998. From 1998 to the present, through his BBC show Worldwide, Peterson has continued to stretch the musical boundaries. The show has always highlighted both new, but more importantly for the audience it is supposed to serve, older and often very rare records from the late-1950's to 1980's. In fact every three months or so, Gilles dedicates a whole show to older vinyl releases in a special version of his show he subtitles a Brownswood Basement. In August 2004 the show moved from Wednesday (midnight til 2am) to an earlier Sunday slot (11:00 to 01:00) In September 2006, Peterson's show on Radio 1 was moved from Sunday night to Wednesday night (more precisely the early hours of Thursday morning), 02:00 to 04:00 (GMT) where you can pick him up every week and not to worry.

Widely acclaimed as a musical tastemaker, Gilles spreads his influence on music listeners around the world mostly through the Worldwide radio show on BBC Radio 1 and besides he also does another version of the show which gets syndicated to radio stations all over the world. Parallel to this, his frequent DJing gigs around the world also have cemented a worldwide following. In 2006 Gilles and Freshly Cut, a French event production company from Montpellier, collaborated to create the unique Worldwide Festival. This started out as a small intimate festival during the summertime in the coastal town of Sète in France. Meanwhile it hasbeen expanded to three festivals, in London, Shanghai and Sète in 2007. In 2008 it will have expanded to take place in London, Beijing, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Singapore and Sète.


Gilles Peterson's channel @ youtube




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Gilles Peterson - Broken Folk Funk Latin Soul (03 ^ 151mb)





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02 - Cinematic Orchestra, The - All Things To All Men (feat.Roots Manuva) (10:42)
03 - Dani Siciliano - Come As You Are (5:13)
04 - Mr. Scruff - Come Alive (5:13)
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07 - Lone Catalysts - Destiny (feat. the 3rd) (4:05)
08 - Two Banks Of Four - Unclaimed (4:41)
09 - Micatone - Sweet Child (4:29)
10 - Underworld - Twist (5:27)
11 - Infekto - Left Hand Jazz (5:46)
12 - Osunlade - Touched My Soul (4:51)

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Looks like the end

Hello, well all my reupdating seems to have attracted the real leeches that live off artists, i suppose you have to expect that this blog will be closed any day now..well i enjoyed sharing and as i said before was winding down Rho-Xs.  Obviously the fact that i stay far away from new titles or the MP3 format technically doesnt matter. You can say goodbye at mail.nu /Rho-Xs if you feel like it...best of luck, Rho

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Canadia (10)

Hello, we continue with the first seasons finale of Canadian 2056, not to worry season two will follow next week.

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there.

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Episode 10 Season Finale:

An illegal upload adversely affects the computer. The Canadia finally reaches the planet Ipampilash, but Faverau and Pickens can't agree on what to do. Anderson and Lewis take matters into their own hands when the Captain is unable to answer the call of duty. Faverau comes across a Canadian on board the USS Pickens and brings them back to the Canadia.

Canadia 2056-10 (20mb)

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Afterpost (Sndz)

Hello Sundazers one to chill out, a great compilation from Toytronic, Neurokinetic. Rounded warm melodies and sharp cold electrostatic beats work the tension between electronic music and soul .



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VA - Neurokinetic ( Toytronic compilation) (00 ^ 99mb)

01 - Dude - Wave1 (6:40)
02 - CiM - Shift (4:26)
03 - Arovane - Actrel (5:43)
04 - Funckarma - Nushuz (2000 Mix) (5:12)
05 - Mr. Projectile - Impregnator (7:10)
06 - Gimmik - Wavefiles (5:43)
07 - Abfahrt Hinwil - Syntax Data (3:30)
08 - M - Francoise (1:07)

VA - Neurokinetic ( Toytronic compilation) 2 ( ^ 94mb)

09 - Multiplex - Compuphonic (Edit) (3:53)
10 - Num Num - Fictional Reality (5:06)
11 - Proem - Glass (4:21)
12 - Quench - Charge (5:31)
13 - Novel 23 - Blink Run Away To East (3:42)
14 - M-Tec - Nitch (5:33)
15 - Digitonal - Drencrom (4:24)
16 - Fizzarum - Microphorus (5:22)

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Afterposts (1)

Hello, as announced last week i'm going to take it a lot easier from now, that's not to say i'll stop posting..i still have months to go on the canadia 2056 series and besides that i've chosen a new format, Afterposts. This means i'll be extending previous posts with more titles, these will appear at the frontpage and later be integrated into the previous post... I noted that zShare has been off line these last days, i hope they can fix their problems soon, if not ..sigh

Today as it's a case of needing to kick the habit, i still have a trio for your pleasure...and looking at last tuesdays interest for Sherwood's On-U Sound Crash Mix, which i admit triggered some for me aswell and has me posting three titles from the ON-U crews, first up Gary Clail he was the warm up at On U gigs and as it turned out had plenty to say about the politics of scarcity and he back his mouth sang about where his heart is and its befitting that currently he's doing just that what he sings about in the opening track of the album here, providing food clothes and shelter..he made 4 albums backed by the On-U Sound System (=TackHead) Emotional Hooligan is an apt title and crocodile eyes my favourite track....Next up Andy farley , he came the same way as Gary Clail..on the trail from Mark Stewart all from Bristol, Andy's distictive voice became big in Japan as his introductions to On U work were welcomed warmly..He like Gary Clail cared about the world and all the injustices going on, in the end he made one solo album Vertigo and after that slowly retreated towards Bristol where he died late into the nineties. Poet sensetiveties probably had much to do with that untimely death, but he left us his voice and safe mentioned contributions one 12"and an album.....finally the guys who backed the artists mentioned above, TackHead (=slang for homeboy) under the direction and production of Adrian Sherwood, never more so then here on the Sound Crash slash and mix by Sherwood, who was very exited and satisfied about the result, let your speakers go all out too...

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Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - The Emotional Hooligan (91 ^ 140mb)

Gary's preceding On-U life, held career in roofing, used cars, hanging round with gypsies before Mark Stewart introduced him, (as he did Andy Farley) to the On U scene. During the mid to late eighties Gary Clail became a regular warm-up for all types of On-U gigs - with his crowd calls This came both as a welcome relief for devotees of On-U Sound and also as an unexpected bonus. The real impact of Gary was to introduce and roadtest new On-U rhythms and tunes, and also to reversion old favourites. He usually lived in the studio when he was not on the road.

Gary made his first vinyl appearance back in October 1985 on the thinly veiled speed track "Half Cut for Confidence" By the following year Gary appeared on the World Label, the imprint was a venture between the TackHead boys and John Loder of Southern Studios, the tune was "Hard Left" with Gary taking the main credit. 1988 saw the release of "Reality" with the credits reversed and Gary as featured vocalist. Gary then went on to negotiate future material through Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label. This union was to result in "a consummation devoutly to be wished", Gary's actual appearance on TOTP, together with the wonderfully over the top Alan Pillay, when "Human Nature" became a number 10 UK chart position (by far the highest placing for an On-U act in its own right).

The "End Of The Century Party" album was basically Tack>>head complemented by a few mates with Gary as lead vocalist. The name TackHead Sound System could no longer be used as the band were shaping up for their, eventually, abortive major label flirtation.. The On-U Sound System proved a good substitute as that was actually what Gary was doing in the first place! The album was a follow-up to "TackHead Tape Time" effectively a greatest hits compilation released the year earlier via Nettwerk. "Beef" opened up the set and was to be radically reworked for its appearance as Gary's first single on Perfecto.

Continuing Gary's long-running theme of delivering lyrics concerning socially concious current issues "Privatise Pts 1 & 2" was particularly hard-hitting. Indeed the issue of privatisation was at its height under the Thatcher administration with the question raised "where would it all end?". Gary Clail's presence on the On-U Sound scene from the late eighties certainly brought a new feeling of energy to the live gigs and although is vocal stylings can be objectively said to be limited, he certainly got the best out of his bag for these tunes and the earlier singles.

While Gary's time under the wing of BMG / Perfecto probably brought him his biggest commercial successes, helped in no small part by the remixing talents of Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne in giving some of his tunes more dancefloor friendly edges, the partnership was to be short lived. While BMG's first "Emotional Hooligan" album in 1991 sold well, a combination of Clail's unrealistic belief that he was now a fully-fledged pop star, coupled with a lack of new musicial direction and particularly his record companies increasing dis-interest in promoting him saw an acrimonious parting in 1993. In particular the almost complete lack of promotion of the following "Dreamstealers" album left a bitter taste of major label dealings in both Clail's and Sherwood's mouthes.

A new deal was struck with Yelen Musiques in France for 1995's album "Keep The Faith" which was generally well received and featured more of Clail's characteristic lambasts against injustices of the world before he slipped quietly out of the music scene in the late 1990s. He went on to buy a church in Penzance, England convert it into a guest house and then run it for several years. The most recent word is, however, is that he is living on a boat at Saltford, between Bristol and Bath, and is working at a hostel for homeless people in Bath.



01 - Food, Clothes And Shelter (4:18)
02 - Pt. 2 Monk Track (5:11)
03 - Escape (4:20)
04 - The Emotional Hooligan (3:43)
05 - Magic Penny (2:49)
06 - Human Nature (Oakenfold & Osborne On The Mix) (6:15)
07 - Crocodile Eyes (4:25)
08 - Rumours (4:40)
09 - Beef (The) (Oakenfold & Osborne's Future Mix) (5:30)
10 - Temptation (Parts 1 & 2) (9:58)
11 - False Leader (Parts 1 & 2) (8:42)

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Andy Fairley - System Vertigo ( 92 ^ 99mb)

A somewhat mysterious figure, Fairley came to the attention of Adrian Sherwood at On-U Sound via the Mark Stewart and Gary Clail Bristol connection. During the 1989-1993 period his voice was a familiar feature of Sherwood productions for particularly Gary Clail, Dub Syndicate and Keith LeBlanc and numerous other one-off guest appearances. When not reciting his own verse in full, he was often sampled for use in-the-mix, often regaling the sonic qualities of the recording or giving a MC-like shout to the artist, On-U Sound or Sherwood personally. Andy Fairley was not so much a musician or a singer as a modern-day poet. A shrewd observer of the injustices and insanities of the modern world, his prose often tackled head-on issues of the moment such as the state of politics, privatisation and the plight of the underclasses.

The Japanese radio station J-Wave 81.3 at one time broadcast an exclusively On-U Sound show, Tunes From The Missing Channel, once a month. Sherwood and the On-U crew of the time consequently became very involved with providing fresh content and guest presenters for it. Fairley provided a whole series of samples exclusively for use on the show, and some of these went on to appear as linking sequences on the eternally hard-to-find 1993 spin-off "Tunes From The Missing Channel" compilation released only in Japan .

Andy was introduced to On-U Sound by Gary Clail in the mideighties, this lead to him making contributions(voacal samples) to the Tackhead tape Time album in the mideighties. This lead to further contributions, even writing credits on Keith Leblancs/Tackhead album Stranger Then Fiction. In 89 he featured on gary Clail's End Of The Century album a year later his first 12 " was issued , backed by DubSyndicate, Lack Of Education/Precinct Of Sound.

Andy's only credited 'solo' album was the underrated 1992 "System Vertigo" set (ON-U LP61) - essentially a collection of his writings set to solid rhythms built by Sherwood et al. at On-U Sound. Like so many On-U contributors before him, Fairley left the fold in the mid 1990s and vanished back into the Bristolian ether from which he had emerged. Sadly little else was heard from or about him until news of his death seeped out in 1999. An unmistakable, irreplaceable and much missed wordsmith had taken his last breath of the as yet unprivatised air.



01 - I Stopped The Clock (4:34)
02 - System Vertigo (4:23)
03 - Ghost (4:10)
04 - The Election (Part 1) (6:02)
05 - You Look At Life (4:56)
06 - Precinct Of System (2:17)
07 - Audio Visual Attack (3:58)
08 - The Election (Part 2) (2:15)
09 - A Nation Responds (0:30)
10 - Fun + Games (1:22)
11 - The Song Of The Phoenix (2:17)
12 - False Starts (4:28)

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Tackhead - Sound Crash (Sherwood's Slash & Mix) ( 06 ^ 99mb)

In the late 1970s, Wimbish, Leblanc and McDonald were members of the house band for the Sugarhill Records record label and the trio of hip-hop artists known as Sugarhill Gang. They were also the musicians playing behind DJ Grandmaster Flash's 1982 hit "The Message" (the vocal was by Melle Mel) and another hit "White Lines".

During a visit to New York City, to help with a remix, London-based producer Sherwood (already noted in the dub music scene) met Leblanc, and they began to collaborate. Soon the trio of Wimbish, Leblanc and McDonald were producing tracks on Sherwood's On-U Sound record label. One of their earlier collaborations was as "Mark Stewart and the Maffia", which featured Stewart, former member of The Pop Group on vocals and their first LP produced under that name As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade was amongst the most industrial, noise-oriented and uncompromising of the group's output.

Later to join forces with Tackhead, was Gary Clail, who as MC for the touring version of the On-U sound system would shout and rant over Tackhead's live playing, and both were then mixed live by Sherwood to produce a wall of sound effect that was highly novel for the mid-1980s. They released one LP Tackhead Tape Time in 1987 as "Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System" and some of the most distinctive and well-known Tackhead tracks (some were released as 12-inch singles) date from this period particularly: "What's My Mission Now?", "Mind at the End of the Tether" and "Hard Left". These tracks combined funk basslines, hammerblow percussion and Sherwood's trademark sample-laden dub production and represent the defining Tackhead sound.

During this period Leblanc also produced two solo LPs: Major Malfunction (1986) (inspired by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) and Stranger than Fiction (1989), which although credited to Leblanc, featured all the rest of members of Tackhead. Around this time the group began to gell as a band, and started adding vocalists to what had been up until then a largely instrumental affair. On the first Tackhead LP, proper, Friendly as a Hand Grenade, vocalist Bernard Fowler joined the line-up and many older instrumental tracks re-appeared with lyrics. In 1990 Tackhead mounted a world tour which probably marked the zenith of the band's commercial success. The follow up album, 1991's Strange Things (the first on a major label, EMI), despite some praise for harder-edge singles such as "Dangerous Sex" and "Class Rock" was not as well received by critics. Many followers of the group were disappointed by the more restrained production, less industrial and more mellow R&B elements. Yet the album was still experimental enough that it did not gain as wide an audience as had been hoped and the band was dropped from their record label shortly after.

Despite not recording any new material as Tackhead since, group members continued to record as the backing band or along with various Sherwood-led On-U Sound productions artists such as Gary Clail's solo efforts, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate, New Age Steppers and others. Subsets of the group have also appeared in various guises such as the Strange Parcels, Barmy Army and the blues-oriented Little Axe. In addition to continuing to collaborate with Sherwood and the On-U Sound record label, each of the other members continues to lead active solo careers. Wimbish has recorded solo material as well as forming the short-lived Jungle Funk, a live drum and bass outfit, and is in demand as a session bass player. McDonald leads the Little Axe project, and Leblanc runs a record label and plays with a jazz outfit, Noah Ground.

"It's so good, you're gonna cry." That's what Adrian Sherwood said when he finished mixing 'Tackhead Sound Crash', a compilation mix like the 'On-U Sound Crash' Adrian did for Beat Records in Japan. Adrian Sherwood considers 'Tackhead Sound Crash' to be a totally new record. "It's the best Tackhead thing ever", says Adrian. "It's wicked." He totally reworked



01 - Intro "Free" (0:48)
02 - Mind At The End Of Its Tether (1:30)
03 - What's My Mission Now? (2:06)
04 - Ghost (1:47)
05 -Mind At The End Of Its Tether Pt. 2 (1:07)
06 - 1/2 Cut For Confidence (0:55)
07 - Ticking Time Bomb (2:02)
08 - Heaven On Earth (0:44)
09 - Ticking Time Bomb Pt. 2 (0:12)
10 - Heaven On Earth Pt. 2 (0:47)
11 - Mechanical Movements Pt. 2 (2:21)
12 - I Stopped The Clock (0:53)
13 - Bop Bop (0:52)
14 - King Of The Beat (3:01)
15 - Move It (0:09)
16 - Body To Burn (0:16)
17 - D.J. Programme (3:42)
18 - Disconnection (2:51)
19 - Rochester (1:55)
20 - Audio Visual Attack (1:07)
21 - Man In A Suitcase (2:22)
22 - Dreamworld (0:57)
23 - Get This Beloved (0:36)
24 - Gamesmanship (1:52)
25 - Get Move Of This (1:38)
26 - Einstein Pt. 2 (2:18)
27 - Hard Left (1:59)
28 - No Hands On The Wheel (0:47)
29 - Listen Good Drummers (0:57)
30 - Free Again (0:46)
31 - This Is The Night (1:38)
32 - Bastard Son Of Fats (1:19)

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Into The Groove (50)

Hello, the last Rhotation post is coming up ..I couldn't leave out Prince from the Into the Groove theme, he's totally dominated the eighties and still sells millions of tickets and albums, a creative genius, sadly captured by a religious sekt at a time of personal trauma..the loss of his thusfar only child..Any way these days his goons police the internet as reproduction of images is against the will of his god Jehovah..sadly that creature is a deranged alien general who's beset this world with endless ruins..with the help of his luitenants, Gabriel being the best known, he btw dictated the Koran to Mohammed. The reason is simple, had those initial servants made images of their 'lord' we would have known what he really is, to mask all that an across the board ban was issued....but i digress here. Prince's heyday for me were his days with the Revolution, i bought a lot of his work then, so a compilation of some of his 12 "singles looked a good idea, i managed to obtain an original Black Album back then aswell, had good connections those days, so i post it here aswell....Prince apparently shocked himself somewhat with that album and so his next official releases were much more soft and erotically tinged , specially the Scandalous Suite EP and the dreamy I Wish You Heaven..

The thirty year career of a very productive artist like Prince is hardly easy to summise, books have been written about his career, so this tale here, though long for Rhotation norms, remains an overview..

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Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 7 June 1958, to John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw. John was a pianist and songwriter, and Mattie was a singer. He is named after the Prince Rogers Trio, his father's jazz band, and as a boy he was called Skipper. After the birth of his sister Tyka in 1960, Prince's parents gradually drifted apart. After they formally separated, he had a troubled relationship with his stepfather that resulted in his running away from home. Prince lived briefly with his father, who bought him his first guitar, and later he moved in with a neighborhood family, the Andersons, befriending their son, Andre Anderson ( André Cymone).

Prince and Anderson joined Prince's cousin Charles Smith in a band called Grand Central that they formed in junior high school. His initial contributions were as an instrumentalist in what was a mainly instrumental band that played clubs and parties in the Minneapolis area. As time went by and Prince's musical interests broadened, he found himself producing the arrangements for the band. Before long he became the band's front man. By the time Prince entered high school, Grand Central evolved into Champagne and started playing original music already drawing on a range of influences including Sly & The Family Stone, James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Parliament-Funkadelic and Jimi Hendrix. At one point Prince was a student at the Minnesota Dance Theatre.

In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer Chris Moon in a Minneapolis studio, with the patronage of Owen Husney, who ran a campaign promoting Prince as a star of the future, the resulting bidding war was eventually won by Warner Bros. Records, that offered him a contract and were the only label to give Prince creative control of his songs. Prince released his first album, For You, on 7 April 1978. For You was the first major-label album released by Prince, his first of many for Warner Bros. Tommy Vicari was the executive producer. This album, like most of his career, was not recorded with a band; Prince purportedly played all 27 instruments on the album though they were different types of string, percussion, and keyboard instruments.The majority of For You was written and performed by Prince. This was the first of Prince's albums containing the now ubiquitous legend: "Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince." Prince spent twice his initial advance recording the album, which sold modestly and made the bottom reaches of the Billboard 200. He used Prince's Music Co. for publishing the songs from this album.

By 1979, Prince had recruited his first backing band featuring Andre Cymone (Anderson) on bass, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, Bobby Z on drums, and Dez Dickerson on guitar. Prince intentionally enlisted a multi-racial, mixed-gender group, much like the backing band of one of his greatest influences, Sly Stone. In October 1979, Prince released his self-titled second album Prince, which reached #4 on the Billboard R&B charts, and contained two R&B hits. In 1980, Prince released Dirty Mind, again entirely self-recorded and released using the demos of the songs. On tour, Lisa Coleman replaced Chapman in the band, who felt the sexually explicit lyrics and stage antics of Prince's concerts conflicted with her religious beliefs. He released the album Controversy in 1981, with the single of the same name charting internationally for the first time. In February of 1981, Prince performed "Partyup" on the now-infamous season six episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Charlene Tilton . Starting with the album Controversy, Prince used Controversy Music for publishing his songs, which he would use for his following sixteen records until Emancipation in 1996.

In 1981, Prince formed a "side project" band called The Time, that released four albums between 1981 and 1990, with Prince writing and performing all instruments and backing vocals throughout. The band's vocals were led by Morris Day. In the eighties Prince would also collaborate with Vanity, Apollonia and Sheila E. He also wrote hits for artists such as Sheena Easton, Celine Dion and The Bangles. Prince's own recordings would be covered in hit versions by diverse artists. In 1982, Prince released the 1999 double-album which "broke" Prince into the mainstream in the US and internationally, selling over three million copies. The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation and became his first top ten hit internationally. Around this time Prince began crediting his band as The Revolution, which consisted of Dez Dickerson on guitar, Lisa Coleman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, Bobby Z. on drums, and Brown Mark on bass. Dickerson left the band and was replaced by Wendy Melvoin, a childhood friend of Lisa. The band members were known for being solid musicians and a strong live act, nevertheless their talents would be used sparsely in the studio.

Prince's 1984 album, Purple Rain (concurrent with the film of the same name) sold more than thirteen million copies in the US and spent twenty-four consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200, and the Academy Award-winning film grossed more than $80 million in the US alone. Two songs from Purple Rain, "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy," topped the US pop singles charts and were hits around the world, while the title track reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Prince simultaneously held the spots #1 film, #1 single, and #1 album in the US. It was the album's song "Darling Nikki" which inspired Tipper (unconvenient truth) Gore to found the Parents Music Resource Center. The center has enacted the mandatory use of a warning label ("Parental Advisor, Explicit Lyrics") on the covers of records that have been judged to contain language or lyrical content unsuitable for minors.(obviously she'd never listened to Frank Zappa before..wink).

In 1985, after the U.S. Purple Rain Tour, which was a smash hit in the US and Canada, Prince released Around the World in a Day, which held the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart for three weeks. In 1986, Prince released the album Parade. The first single, "Kiss," would top the Billboard Hot 100. At the same time, "Manic Monday" by The Bangles, which Prince had written under the pseudonym "Christopher Tracey," reached #2. Christopher Tracy was the name of Prince's character in the movie "Under The Cherry Moon," for which Parade served as a soundtrack. Prince both directed and starred in the movie, which largely flopped. Following the film and album, Prince returned to touring with a stripped-down show, he embarked on his first full scale European Tour in the summer of 1986. He closed the tour in September in Japan, his first appearances in the country. At the end of the tour, Prince disbanded The Revolution, although retaining band member Matt Fink on keyboard. Added to the backing band was Boni Boyer on keyboards, Sheila E on drums, Levi Seacer, Jr. on bass, and Miko Weaver on guitar.

Sign o' the Times, released in 1987 as a double album, reached the Top Ten of the Billboard 200 and achieved the greatest critical acclaim of his career, The double album was a synthesis of three projects from 1986, including some work with The Revolution. The bulk of the tracks originate from the final Revolution project known as Dream Factory and a later solo project called Camille. These projects, along with some other songs merged into a 22-track, 3-LP opus called Crystal Ball. Prince's record company, Warner Bros. Records, balked at the idea of a 3-LP album, and forced Prince to trim the album down. The result was Sign O' The Times, which quickly became widely regarded as Prince's magnum opus amongst fans and critics alike.was the best album of the 1980s. Following the albums' release, Prince launched the Sign o' the Times Tour in Europe

In 1987, Prince planned to release The Black Album, a funk-oriented album whose erotically-charged lyrics and club-focused beats were perceived by many as his attempt to woo back the black audience he was supposed to have lost as a result of his mid-80s forays into pop, hard rock, and psychedelic rock. The album remains legendary in Prince's career after its release was canceled at the artist's behest mere days before its release date. Though many already manufactured copies were supposed to be destroyed, several escaped and became the source for numerous bootleg editions. The album circulated through the bootleg underground music world and was not given an official release until 1994.

The 1988 album Lovesexy is considered Prince's "spiritual" answer to the "dark" The Black Album. Lovesexy performed disappointingly on the US charts, reaching only #11 on the Billboard 200, but it reached #1 in the UK. In 1989, Prince provided and released the soundtrack for Batman, which returned him to #1 on the US album charts. The worldwide hit-single "Batdance" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while another track, "Partyman," became a popular song with the film's audiences. In 1990, Prince released the film Graffiti Bridge, a sequel to Purple Rain that performed poorly at the box office. The release of Diamonds and Pearls 1991 gave Prince his fifth US number one single with the song "Cream." Diamonds and Pearls debuted Prince's new band, the New Power Generation, that featured rapper Tony M., Rosie Gaines on vocals, Michael Bland on drums, Levi Seacer on guitar, Sonny T on bass, and Tommy Barbarella on keyboards.

Prince's twelfth album was titled with an unpronounceable symbol (later copyrighted as Love Symbol #2).[15] It reached the top ten of the U.S. album charts. In 1993, he also changed his stage name to the Love Symbol, which is a combination of the symbols for male (♂) and female (♀). Because the symbol was/is unpronounceable, he was often referred to as "Symbol," "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," or simply "The Artist." In 1993, at the request of Warner Brothers, Prince released a 3-CD greatest hits compilation entitled The Hits/The B-Sides. Two new songs, first "Pink Cashmere" and then "Peach," were chosen as promotional singles to accompany the compilation album. Unfortunately, neither the album nor singles performed as well in sales as Warner Bros. had hoped

n 1993, during negotiations regarding the release of Prince's album The Gold Experience, a legal battle ensued between Warner Bros. and Prince over the artistic and financial control of Prince's output. During the lawsuit, Prince appeared in public with the word "slave" written on his cheek.In 1994, Prince's attitude towards his artistic output underwent a notable shift. He began to view releasing albums in quick succession as a means of ejecting himself from his contractual obligations to Warner Bros. The label, he believed, was intent on limiting his artistic freedom by insisting that he release albums more sporadically.

Chaos and Disorder, released in 1996, was Prince's final album of new material for Warner Bros., as well as one of his least commercially successful releases. Prince attempted a major comeback later that year when, free of any further contractual obligations to Warner Bros., he released Emancipation. The album was released via his own NPG Records with distribution through EMI. While certified platinum by the RIAA, some critics felt that the sprawling 36-song, 3-CD set (each disk was exactly 60 minutes long) lacked focus, and might have worked better as a single or double disc. Prince released Crystal Ball, a 4-CD collection of unreleased material, in 1998. The distribution of this album was disorderly, with some fans pre-ordering the album on his website up to a year before it was eventually shipped to them, and months after the record had gone on sale in retail stores. The Newpower Soul album released three months later failed to make much of an impression on the charts.

In 1999, Prince once again signed with a major label Arista Records to release a new record, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince gave more interviews than at any other point in his career. Nevertheless Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic failed to perform commercially. A few months earlier, Warner Bros. had also released The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, a collection of unreleased material recorded by Prince throughout his career, and his final recording commitment on his contract with Warner Bros.

On 16 May 2000, Prince ceased using the Love Symbol moniker and returned to using "Prince" again, after his publishing contract with Warner-Chappell expired. For several years Prince primarily released new music through his Internet subscription service, NPGOnlineLtd.com (later NPGMusicClub.com). Two albums that show substantive jazz influence were available commercially at record stores: 2001's The Rainbow Children and, later, the 2003 instrumental record N.E.W.S. In 2002, Prince released his first live album, One Nite Alone... Live!, which features performances from the One Nite Alone tour. The 3-CD box set, which also includes a disc of "aftershow" music entitled It Ain't Over!, failed to chart. During this time, Prince sought to engage more effectively with his fan base via the NPG Music Club, pre-concert sound checks, and at yearly "celebrations" at Paisley Park, his music studios.

In April 2004, Prince released Musicology through a one-album agreement with Columbia Records. This deal gave Prince most of the royalties, the album did well in the charts. The supporting Musicology tour was 2004's most profitable grossing $ 88 million. Further highlighting the success of the album, Prince's Musicology went on to receive two Grammy wins. In late 2005 Prince signed with Universal Records to release his album, 3121, on 21 March 2006, it became an immediate success and gave Prince his first #1 debut on the Billboard 200 . In November 2006, Prince opened a nightclub named 3121 in Las Vegas at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. He performed weekly on Friday and Saturday nights until April 2007 when his contract with the Rio ended. August 2006, Prince released Ultimate a double disc set containing one CD of previous hits, the other of extended versions and rareties.

On 8 May 2007, Prince announced that he would play 21 concerts in London over the summer. The "Earth Tour" included 21 nights at the 20,000 capacity O2 Arena. Tickets for the O2 Arena were priced at £31.21 (including a free copy of Prince's latest album), in order to make the concerts "affordable for everybody." It sold out very quickly..28 June 2007, the UK national newspaper The Mail on Sunday revealed that it had made a deal to give Prince's new album, Planet Earth, away for free with an "imminent" edition of the paper, making it the first place in the world to get the album. The date chosen was 15 July 2007. This move sparked controversy among music distributors and has also led the UK arm of Prince's distributor, Sony BMG, to withdraw from distributing the album in UK stores, clever recordshops on the other hand stocked thousands of Mail on sundays..btw for those in the UK, this weekend there's a Tina Turner's classic, Private Dancer as a bonus..

On 14 September 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue YouTube and eBay because they "appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success. On 5 November 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed Prince Fans United to fight back against legal requests made by Prince to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince's likeness. While Prince's lawyers claimed that the use of such representations constituted copyright infringement, the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions were "attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against Prince's music company because he demanded that YouTube remove a video of a 13-month-old boy dancing as 29-seconds of "Let's Go Crazy" plays on a CD player in the background. The video is a home movie shot by the child's mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen. Ah well Jehovah in action, very sad a great star loaded with money and affinity of millions of fans.

His personal life hasnt been that glamourous, plenty of liasons obviously. He married his backup singer and dancer, Mayte Garcia, on Valentine's Day, 1996. They had one son, possibly named Gregory, who was born with Pfeiffer syndrome and died shortly after birth. Shortly after Prince approached funk bassist Larry Graham, one of his childhood idols, with questions about his Jehovah's Witness faith. In a later interview, Graham stated that Prince was in need of Biblical answers and advice and that Graham was glad to answer. Prince apparently became very interested in the religion. He was baptized by Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001, marking his formal conversion to the faith.By that time he had been divorced from Mayte for 2 years. He married Manuela Testolini in 2001 in private ceremony but she filed for divorce in May 2006. Maybe Prince should reread the new testatement and asap leave those servants of a servant of the devil, Jehova Witnesses.

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Prince And The Revolution - Twelves (84-86 ^ 151mb)

A compilation of 12'"'s Prince released with The Revolution, i note that this version of America was initially intended for Around The World but was edited down to 4 min to accomedate the record company.



01 - Lets Go Crazy (special dance mix) (7:33)
02 - Raspberry Beret (extended) (6:34)
03 - Erotic City (dance mix) (7:22)
04 - America (original) (21:43)
05 - Pop Life (fresh dance mix) (6:13)
06 - Kiss (extended) (7:16)
07 - Mountains (extended) (10:02)

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Prince - Black Album ( 87 ^ 99mb)

The Black Album is a Prince record that was originally planned for release in December 1987, as the follow-up to Sign o' the Times. Referred to as The Funk Bible by preceding press releases, and in a hidden message within the album itself, the work seemed to be a reaction to criticism that Prince had become too pop-oriented.

The album had no printed title, artist name, production credits or photography; a black sleeve was all that came with it. On promotional copies, only a song listing and catalog number—25677—were printed on the disc itself Here are the known pressings that where supposed to be released. Just before the Black Album was released to the market, Prince recalled all copies and abandoned the entire project, leaving roughly 100 European promotional copies in circulation, and several US copies that would be widely bootlegged in the coming years. The German pressing is well known among collectors but hard and expensive to get. After cancellation rumours surfaced that a box of fifties copies made his way out of the Alsdorf record plant. German version (Cat: 925 677-1) Well i got one those ripped here.

Despite the mystique surrounding it, the Black Album has typically been viewed by fans and critics as a somewhat pro forma, rushed effort by Prince, although it is treasured by aficionados of the artist's funkier side, being as close to a straight funk album as anything he had recorded. The opening track also mentioned the title of the album as being The Funk Bible, which was a consideration during work on this project. The title refers both to the album's all-black cover design and to Prince's attempt to earn back his credibility among the Black pop audience with a release that was heavier on rhythm than its last few predecessor. The album features one of the most shockingly unusual Prince songs, "Bob George," in which he assumes the identity of a cursing, gun-wielding alter ego who murders a woman and dismisses the figure of Prince as "that skinny motherfucker with the high voice. Rumors and hearsay abound as to why the release was derailed; Prince became convinced that the album was evil or represented an ominous portent, or according to Per Nilsen, respected author of several books on Prince, Prince decided to scrap the album after an experiment with the drug MDMA (Ecstasy) that resulted in a bad trip. (must have been bad contaminated Ecstasy) Whatever..



01 - Le Grind (6:48)
02 - Cindy C (6:16)
03 - Dead On It (4:33)
04 - When 2 R In Love (3:55)

05 - Bob George (5:37)
06 - Superfunkycalifragisexy (5:57)
07 - 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton (7:01)
08 - Rock Hard In A Funky Place (4:17)

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Prince - I Wish U, The Scandalous Sex Suite ( 88/89 ^ 99mb)



01 - Scarlet Pussy (6:09)
02 - I Wish U Heaven (Part 1, 2 & 3) (10:13)

The Scandalous! Sex Suite

03 - The Crime (6:24)
04 - The Passion (6:17)
05 - The Rapture (6:39)
06 - Sex (7:02)
07 - When 2 R In Love (4:02)

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Around The World (50)

Hello, Around the Worldmusics returns to the source with a twist because whats on today is two very different approaches/reflections of the dubreggae input of the sixties and seventies. Adrian Sherwood build a well acclaimed label on his productionwork, though it took the internet to really bring it home as before, in the eighties, the On U sound was considered marginal..alas..Still they kept going and their independance..What we have here is a mix album of sorts the grand old masterproducer did giving an overview of 25 years of ON U.....Technokillers Basic Channel never were that far away from dub when slowing down their strict 4-to-the-floor beat into a hypnotising slowmotion their Rhythm and Sound 12"s and cd compilations attracted ever more attention from the reggae dubscene and meanwhile they've gained much respect therein. Listening to their beats almost has you high without the weed. On See Mi Jah they bring on some oldskool Studio One singers together with some Berlin based singers to vocalise the album....another superb result and give that bassknob a swing...

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Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah ( 05 ^ 99mb)

The awesome production talents of Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald have already set the world ablaze once, twice, three, four times with the seminal work as Basic Channel and the splintering into microscopic, heavyweight offshoots by way of the M series (Maurizio on proud display), Main Street (Chicago rhythms floating into dub), Chain Reaction (reduced, spacious techno blueprints), Rhythm and Sound (largely instrumental dub coloured mountains of space) and, of course, Burial Mix (vocalists brought forth, reggae re-invented). It's hard to over-emphasise just how important this music has been on everything that has taken place in electronic music since. 

Rhythm & Sound released a series of 10" records on Burial Mix and 12" records on Rhythm & Sound, both labels distributed by Hardwax. Von Oswald and Ernestus' Rhythm & Sound recordings are much more dub-influenced and less techno-orientated. The late-'90s Rhythm & Sound productions emphasized the dub-reggae aesthetic Thus, the Rhythm & Sound records, which often featured reggae vocalist Paul St. Hilaire(Tikiman), weren't quite as popular or well-known as the duo's Basic Channel recordings, which instead retained their popularity over the years, becoming quite legendary and oft-cited within the techno scene. Nonetheless, Von Oswald and Ernestus' Rhythm & Sound work prevailed into the early 2000s, being compiled onto listener-friendly CDs, Showcase (1998) and Rhythm & Sound (2001). The Versions (2003) See my Jah (2005) Powerful revisions of the dub sound, stripped down, full of space, dynamic range, and shimmering with analog wash and broken textures. The hallucinating, strict 4-to-the-floor beat of techno was sacrificed for a unique sound, hallucinations in slowmotion. It's the improbable connecting factor between the stern German electronic heritage of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Kraftwerk and the loose Caribbean culture . Dirty, deep and powerful , in short essential roots dub. 

"See Mi Yah" is a classic one riddim album, using a riddim that is as much rooted in their technodub works as it is in their more dub-reggae oriented work. Opening this album is Studio One veteran Willie Williams who contributes the title track "See Mi Yah" what follows is an aural trip and a must have for any serious reggae, roots and dub listener.



01 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Willi Williams - See Mi Yah (3:56)
02 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Jah Cotton - Dem Never Know (3:56)
03 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Koki - Rise And Praise (3:48)
04 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Freddy Mellow - Truly (4:11)
05 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Rod Of Iron - Lightning Storm (5:50)
06 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Sugar Minott - Let Jah Love Come (5:12)
07 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Walda Gabriel - Boss Man (3:33)
08 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work (3:29)
09 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Ras Donovan & Ras Perez - Let We Go (4:26)
10 - Rhythm & Sound feat.Paul St. Hilaire - Free For All (4:26)
11 - Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Version (4:00)

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VA - On-U Sound Crash, (Adrian Sherwood's Slash & Mix) (06 ^ 139mb)

On-U Sound Crash' is a mix compilation Adrian Sherwood iniytially did for Beat Records(Japan) .It featues re-sequenced back-catalogue tracks, overlaid with additional samples and other snippets from his On-U Sound and Hitrun archive. The tracks featured are often segued or parts of different original versions spliced together. To long term ONU Sound followers, it is doubtful this album will be indispensible or an essential purchase since it compiles old catalogue material -- and though it is presented as a remix album, a few "woooshes" swirling sounds and "pings" overdubbed here and there on original tracks does not really meet the definition of a remix release. 

This album compiles old On-U Sound catalogue material presented as a megamix with minimal overdubs and shows what kind of an evolution a label can go through in 25 years. The mix takes you from ONU's post punk Slits period , with the PIL influenced Vivienne Goldmann/Viv Albertine "Private Armies" composition. Members of John Lydon's PIL and The Slits hammer out this track, which sounds like an outtake from the groundbreaking "Metal Box." Onto the highlights from Adrian Sherwood's influential On-U-Sound label feature loads of dub workouts from Gary Clail, Tackhead, New Age Steppers, Bim Sherman, Mark Stewart & The Mafia, Dub Syndicate, Dr. Pablo, African Headcharge and many others. Keeping in mind that this release holds a selection taken from the label's complete back catalogue, there is of course some clutter inserted but on the whole the material holds well the road. For diehard ONU Sound completists and relative newcomers who want a reliable overview and introduction to the strange pleasures and distortions of AMS's label.



01 - Dub Syndicate (Feat. Lee Perry) - Jungle Pt. 4 (2:21)
02 - New Age Steppers - Private Armies (Dub) (1:45)
03 - Gary Clail - 2 Thieves And A Liar (3:08)
04 - Mark Stewart & Maffia - Liberty City (1:29)
05 - Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Man Of Mystery (1:16)
06 - Dub Syndicate - Hey Ho (1:38)
07 - Dub Syndicate (Feat. Lee Perry)- Dubbing Psycho Thriller (2:05)
08 - African Head Charge - Hole In The Roof (2:09)
09 - Noah House Of Dread - Stand Firm (0:25)
10 - Dub Syndicate - Chemical Head (0:17)
11 - Tackhead - Mind At The End Of The Tether (1:29)
12 - Prince Far I, Creation Rebel & Bim Sherman - Frontline Version (Tribulation Dub) (2:13)
13 - Congo Ashanti Roy & Singers & Players - African Blood (2:37)
14 - Prince Far I / Singers & Players - Virgin (0:52)
15 - Creation Rebel - Beware (1:56)
16 - Creation Rebel - Creation In A Iration (0:17)
17 - Noah House Of Dread - Sellasie I (1:29)
18 - African Head Charge - Conspiring (1:59)
19 - Mark Stewart & Maffia - Jerusalem (1:34)
20 - Bim Sherman & Singers & Players - Revolution (1:42)
21 - New Age Steppers My Whole World (2:04)
22 - Mark Stewart & Maffia - Beneath The City Streets (0:52)
23 - Gary Clail & Barmy Army - Privatise The Air, Stadium Rock (2:10)
24 - Gary Clail & Andy Fairley - Half Cut For Confidence, Jack The Biscuit (2:11)
25 - Mark Stewart - These Things Happen (1:56)
26 - Congo Ashanti Roy & Singers & Players - Breaking Down The Pressure (2:37)
27 - Creation Rebel - African Space (1:51)
28 - Bim Sherman - Slummy Ghetto (2:12)
29 - Creation Rebel - The Dope (1:31)
30 - African Head Charge - In The Air (2:02)
31 - African Head Charge - Dinosaur's Lament (3:47)

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Canadia (09)

Hello, the new captain on the Canadia talks about the prospects for earth
 



and now.. the saga continues and i hope the number of fans will increase as the story unfolds more hilarious reasonings ..the coming 27 minutes

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there..

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The Captain takes drastic action when his relationship with the computer goes too far. Faverau gets a promotion.
Anderson and Lewis try to modify the robot. The captain uncovers the real reason the Americans declared war on the Ipampilashians. As they approach the end of the mission, the relationships between the crewmembers intensify.


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Canadia 2056 - 09 (20mb)

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Sundaze (50)

Hello Sundazers, as the final Rhotation unwinds some of the best parts, that had been kept, show. This Autechre special had been waiting in the wings for some time. There's 260 min for those that never got around to something they should have..listen to Autechre, choice in versions, in short no reason to forgo here. Admittedly it''s not regular Sundaze..some intense music there...

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Brown and Booth formed the group in 1987 when they both lived in Rochdale. They began their career making and trading mixtapes between each other, and gradually moved on to their own compositions while collecting a handful of cheap equipment, most notably a Casio SK-1 sampler and a Roland TR-606 drum machine. Since then they have employed a wide variety of electronic instruments to create an evolving style.

Booth and Brown pronounce the name Autechre with a Rochdale accent ( "awe-teh-ker"). However, they have explained that the name can be pronounced in any way one sees fit. Booth explains: "The first two letters were intentional, because there was an 'au' sound in the track, and the rest of the letters were bashed randomly on the keyboard. We had this track title for ages, and we had written it on a cassette, with some graphics. It looked good, and we began using it as our name." They are also commonly referred to by the abbreviation "Ae".

Autechre have also recorded under various pseudonyms. One of the duo's earliest recordings was a 12" under the alias "Lego Feet", released in 1991 on Skam Records. The majority of Gescom releases, most of them on Skam, have been attributed to Booth and Brown, among other artists. Autechre helped initiate the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in 2000, and were responsible for curating the 2003 festival.

Many describe Autechre's music as cold and austere, whereas others perceive a warmth and sentimentality that touches even the most cerebral pieces. Much of Autechre's music has a strong focus on complex rhythm, driving percussion, and meticulous sequencing. Often unusual rhythmic loops repeat and change incrementally, with the music constantly in transition. Sometimes patterns are set against one another, implying several time signatures at once. .Autechre's music creates a sonic environment that massages and stimulates our cortex directly In that sense, Autechrian communication takes place on two levels: sounds collide in a non- linear and anticyclical way within the piece (the first level), always maintaining a high amount of activity. This in part is transferred simultaneously to the listeners

Reactions to their music have varied. Many of their tracks contain complex or chaotic rhythms and close harmonies which some hear as random and noisy. Fans of their recent work tend to find the value of their music to lie in its unique fusion of rhythmic and melodic elements, percussive noises being tweaked to sound like they have pitches, and clustered, often enharmonic synthesizer patches implying numerous melodic lines and chord structures simultaneously. A recurring element in Autechre's work is the use of extremely short snippets of sound to create a fragmented, grainy effect.

Earlier this year they've released their ninth album Quaristice where Sean Booth and Rob Brown have definitely managed to harness the power of the neuron.

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Autechre - Incunabula (93, 78min ^ 178mb)

Incunabula, released by Warp Records in 1993, is the debut album by the electronic music group Autechre, and the seventh album in the Artificial Intelligence series. The album's title isformed of two Latin words meaning literally "in the cradle" or "in swaddling clothes". , the plural of incunabulum, the term used for printed books published prior to 1501, or more generally for something in its infancy or early stages or development.

Although Autechre's debut release doesn't totally display the full experimentation which would dominate their future albums and singles, it is still striking nonetheless. Lumped in with the "intelligent dance music" semi-genre popular at the time, Autechre doesn't hit the same levels as Orbital or labelmate Aphex Twin, but Incunabula still stands out as being both good dancefloor material and equally pleasant listening, and not simply new-age hash with a backbeat. "Kalpol Introl" sets the overall mood for the rest of the record, with a sharp blend of minimal but effective beats and bass combined with a variety of keyboard textures and understated melodies. From there Incunabula follows the same general tone; tracks often experiment with ghostly keyboard backing and mostly clinical beats combined with odd, individual touches.



01 - Kalpol Introl (3:18)
02 - Bike (7:57)
03 - Autriche (6:56)
04 - Bronchus 2 (3:33)
05 - Basscadet (5:23)
06 - Eggshell (9:01)
07 - Doctrine (7:48)
08 - Maetl (6:32)
09 - Windwind (11:15)
10 - Lowride (7:15)
11 - 444 (8:55)

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Autechre - Incunabula (* 99mb)

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Autechre - Amber (94, 74min ^ 169mb)

Amber is fossil tree resin, which is appreciated for its slightly orangish yellow color and beauty. In small but noticeable ways on this, their sophomore release, Autechre begin to break from the clean, if at times obvious, artistic techno from their debut record, and reach instead toward something far more distinct. Sean Booth and Rob Brown weren't quite there yet, but their self-production is even more accomplished than before, and their instincts to steer away from overly polite electronic dance music come ever more to the fore at various points throughout Amber. Things are clearly starting to gel a little more here than on previous releases; the great leap forward becomes all the more logical in retrospect.
The sleeve is designed by Sheffield based design agency The Designers Republic. The cover photograph depicts mountain formations from Cappadocia in Turkey.



01 - Foil (6:04)
02 - Montreal (7:15)
03 - Silverside (5:31)
04 - Slip (6:21)
05 - Glitch (6:15)
06 - Piezo (8:00)
07 - Nine (3:40)
08 - Further (10:07)
09 - Yulquen (6:37)
10 - Nil (7:48)
11 - Teartear (6:45)

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Autechre - Tri Repetae (95, 72 min ^ 171mb)

Starting with the snarling, slow machine-funk of "Dael," Tri Repetae fully confirms Autechre's evolution into electronic noise kings. If not as immediately experimental as the fractured work by the likes of Merzbow, Tri Repetae expertly harnesses the need for a beat to perfectly balance out the resolutely fierce, crunching samples and busy arrangements, turning from being inspired by Aphex Twin to being equally inspiring in itself. "Rotar" does a particularly fine job on this front, with high-pitched sounds against low, distorted bass blasts -- and this only forms part of the percussion arrangement. The basic combination of soft melody and harsh beats are here as well, coming fully to the fore and resulting in such fine songs as the synth-string/organ wheeze laden "Leterel" and the quirky, sweet "Gnit." Nearly every track has a particular edge or element to it, making it eminently listenable and distinct. Tri Repetae stands as a varied, accomplished album, clear evidence of Autechre's unique genius around sound.



Autechre - Tri Repetae ( ^ 97mb)

01 - Dael (6:39)
02 - Clipper (8:34)
03 - Leterel (7:08)
04 - Rotar (8:04)
05 - Stud (9:40)

Autechre - Tri Repetae ( ^ 74mb)

06 - Eutow (4:15)
07 - C/Pach (4:39)
08 - Gnit (5:49)
09 - Overand (7:33)
10 - Rsdio (10:08)

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Autechre - Tri Repetae (* 99mb)


With Tri Repetae in the US edition came as a bonus cd containing their previous 2 EP's, Garbage and Anvil Vapre, the latter I do have Autreche - Anvil Vapre EP ( ^ 86mb)

The Anvil Vapre EP starts out with the absolute classic song of "Second Bad Viibel." Not only did the track feature a video by Chris Cunningham but it's nearly impossible to listen to the clunking, fuzzed-out epic without images of demented robots coming to mind. The EP also contains the amazing "Second Peng," which might be one of the creepier ambient/IDM tracks you'lll ever hear.

11 - Second Bad Vilbel (9:45)
12 - Second Scepe (7:44)
13 - Second Scout (7:21)
14 - Second Peng (10:53)

Can't get enough of Autreche ? Why not check for download formats and links of
Autreche's 12 hour webcast 23 feb 2008

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Rhotation (50) Into BPM

Hello, some mixed feelings as the 50th Rhotation is coming up, it will be the last aswell. The format has run it's cause for a year and it's time for a rethink. Personally i need to scale back aswell, as it has become too timeconsuming.. the audiobookseries will keep running ( still another 15 episodes of Canadia 2056) and more in the pipeline. As to how and what i will do, time will tell, but certainly not the 16-20 titles that came by everyweek over the last year.

I've been working towards this final and 50th Rhotation and today it's Into (the ultimate) BPM or Detroit Techno and how this uncompromising minimalist music inspired todays acts to different outcomes, whilst mainitaining the minimalist discipline....First up the godfathers as it where, Underground Resistance, their Revolution For Change compiles their pre 93 work after which the group split...Second up an artists that lived closeby but had a different background, i've posted several of his titles under divers monikers before (see Rhotation 34 and 46) but had kept his first and most minimalist Plastikman work, Sheet One, for last..at the last instant, as a festive bonus, i've added the Recycled Plastik EP aswell. Which btw compiles his earliest work under that moniker....I started with a compilation album and my final is one aswell. Basic Channel are Techno purists that took the deconstruction to the limit and with German precsion and discpline constructed a whole new world, one that came to the fore on vinyls they themselves pressed, the vinyl groove was sculpted as it where. After nine long 12" releases, the demand to create a cd to accomodate dj's and a wider audience had them compile this 80 min cd, BCD , of edited versions of their extended vinyl tracks. Btw earlier this year a BCD II saw the light, again compiled from their previous 12"


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Underground Resistance - Revolution For Change (92 ^ 164mb)

Begun in the late 1980s by Jeff Mills and "Mad" Mike Banks, UR related the aesthetics of early Detroit Techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances which followed on from Reagan-era inner-city economic recession, producing uncompromising music geared toward promoting awareness and facilitating political change. Later Robert "Noise" Hood joined the collective.The early UR catalog is defined by a typically Detroit combination of Motown and Chicago soul, and ruthless, at times caustic lo-fi techno, acid, and electro (Mills' background is in, among other things, Chicago industrial and EBM-style electro-techno, with Banks and Hood both coming from a solid house and techno base). Much of the label's early output was the product of various permutations of Banks, Mills, and Hood, both solo and in combination, before Mills and Hood left UR in 1992 to pursue (and achieve) international success. The Revolution For Change album compiled these early days of the trio.

Mike Banks continued to lead UR in the wake of the split, releasing EPs during the mid-1990s such as "Return of Acid Rain," "Message to the Majors," and "Galaxy to Galaxy" under the UR name, as well as 12-inches by increasingly renowned artists such as Drexciya.
UR tracks have occasionally been released on other labels (usually in what UR metaphorically describe as "reconnaissance" or "infiltration"). 1998's "Interstellar Fugitives", was the first full album credited to Underground Resistance, it saw Mike Banks redefining the collective's sound as "High-Tech Funk", reflecting a shift in emphasis from hard, minimal club Techno to breakbeats, Electro and even occasionally Drum and Bass and down-tempo Hip-Hop. In 1999, newcomer DJ Rolando released UR's most commercially successful EP, "The Knights of The Jaguar". In 2000, Kraftwerk released a remix single of their theme composed for the Expo 2000 in Hanover, featuring contributions from Rolando and Banks, making them two of only a handful of producers ever to be given the privilege of remixing Kraftwerk. From 2002 onwards, Kraftwerk's live shows featured the group performing UR's remixes compiled in the song now called "Planet of Visions".



01 - Riot (4:56)
02 - Punisher (5:37)
03 - Elimination (4:44)
04 - Adrenalin (4:59)
05 - Predator (6:18)
06 - Quadrasonic (6:57)
07 - Sonic Destroyer (5:00)
08 - Eye Of The Storm (6:43)
09 - Sometimes I Feel Like (6:25)
10 - The Theory (6:08)
11 - Beauty Of Decay (3:14)
12 - Killer Whale (5:16)
13 - Code Of Honor (4:02)

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Underground Resistance - Revolution For Change (99* mb)

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Plastikman - Sheet One (93 ^ 145mb)

While original Detroit technocrats like Juan Atkins and Derrick May were changing the face of electronic music in the mid-'80s, Richie Hawtin was growing up across the river in Windsor, Ontario. A British native born in 1970, he moved to Canada with his family at the age of nine. Introduced to '70s electronic/minimalist pioneers Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream by his father (who was a robotics engineer for General Motors), Hawtin began DJing at the age of 17 -- as DJ Richie Rich -- and soon landed gigs at Detroit hot-spots like the Shelter and the famed Music Institute, home to all-night club sessions by May and Kevin Saunderson.

Hawtin and +8's co-founder, John Acquaviva, began working together in 1989, originally to make a Derrick May megamix for use on the radio; they later emerged from Acquaviva's studio with several original recordings. The duo issued one single, "Elements of Tone" as the first release on +8 Records (credited to States of Mind), and sat back while many in the techno world puzzled over who was responsible. The label's later releases in addition to various Hawtin/Acquaviva projects -- made the label famous for laboratory-precise techno based on slowly evolving and shifting acid lines. The aggressive sound matched the work of the label/artist collective Underground Resistance as the best techno to come out of Detroit in the early '90s. Hawtin's style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno, and he became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s, even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. Hawtin combined lean percussion and equally spare acid lines into haunting techno anthems that kicked with more than enough power for the dancefloor while diverting headphone listeners as well.

The Plastikman project debuted in 1993 with two releases for +8: the seminal "Spastik" single and an album, Sheet One, which was one of the first records to turn the 303 acid box upside down from glorious high to isolationist low, dis[laying laser-precise minimalist rhythms to drive a series of echo-box acid lines that gradually acquire power over the course of lengthy album tracks . Hawtin's first wide release Dimension Intrusion, however, came with the alter-ego F.U.S.E. (short for Further Underground Subsonic Experiments). A more varied and melodic project than Plastikman. the album was released by Warp Records in late 1993, as part of the label's Artificial Intelligence series, Dimension Intrusion was also licensed to Wax Trax!/TVT for release in America. (Hawtin joined such ambient-techno heroes as the Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre and B12, all receiving their wide-issue debuts.) Later, NovaMute signed an agreement with +8 and another Hawtin-founded label, Probe; Sheet One was reissued in 1994, followed by the second Plastikman LP, Musik. Much more restrained than Sheet One, the album fit in well with the growing ambient-techno movement. All told, Hawtin was responsible for the release of three albums and a good-sized EP in the span of just one year.

In early 1998, he released his third Plastikman LP, Consumed, which proved to be just as brutally shadowed as the Concept 1 material. The continued experimentalist direction showed Hawtin coming full circle, back to his position on the leading edge of intelligent techno. In May 2000, Hawtin performed at the first Detroit Electronic Festival alongside Derrick May, Juan Atkins and other techno masterminds. More than 200,000 people attended from all over the world.



01 - Drp (1:45)
02 - Plasticity (11:00)
03 - Gak (5:38)
04 - Okx (0:34)
05 - Helikopter (6:30)
06 - Glob (8:20)
07 - Plasticine (11:19)
08 - Koma (4:10)
09 - Vokx (2:07)
10 - Smak (6:42)
11 - Ovokx (2:14)

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Plastikman - Sheet One (* 99mb)

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Plastikman - Recycled Plastik (93/94 ^ 99)

This maxi EP compiling (recycling) previous singles turned out to become the seminal minimal acid album which introduced a huge amount of people to the underground techno phenomenon.



1 - Krakpot (11:13)
2 - Elektrostatik (9:59)
3 - Spaz (7:41)
4 - Gak (Remix) (6:52)
5 - Naturalistik (4:39)
6 - Spastik (9:19)

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Basic Channel - BCD I (95 ^ 153mb)

Basic Channel is a minimal techno production team and record label, composed of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin, Germany in 1993. They've become synonymous with a brand of stripped-down, ultra-minimal techno almost devoid of musical substance or intent. The duo set up a studio in Berlin on Paul-Lincke-Ufer, in a building which was eventually to house Mark Ernestus’ distributing company and shop Hard Wax, and the label's mastering studio Dubplates & Mastering, set up to ensure a desired dynamic quality for the vinyl.

The duo released a number of vinyl-only tracks under various aliases, each of which employed their signature brand of dissonant dub techno. The nine original releases were each primarily identified as Basic Channel productions by their catalogue numbers, as the Basic Channel logo on the label became more distorted and unreadable with each subsequent release. Basic Channel’s first nine releases total about 4,5 hours of music BC-01 Cyrus “Enforcement” , BC-02 Phylyps “Trak” , BC-03 Vainqueur, “Lyot (Reshape)” , BC-04 Quadrant “Q 1.1” , BC-05 Cyrus “Inversion” , BC-06 Quadrant “Dub” , BC-07 Basic Channel “Octagon / Octaedre” , BC-08 Radiance “I / II / III” , BC-09 Phylyps “Trak II” . The Basic Channel record label released only a single CD, BCD, a self-titled compilation of edited versions of their extended vinyl tracks. After which the Basic Channel imprint ceased business in 1995

However, Basic Channel is just one in a network of artists and labels also including Thomas Koner/Porter Ricks. Among the most important were Chain Reaction, which released non-Von Oswald/Ernestus productions and helped launch the careers of dub-influenced minimal techno producers such as Monolake and Porter Ricks; Basic Replay, which specialises in reggae and dancehall re-issues; Main Street, for house-related releases; and Burial Mix and Rhythm & Sound, which saw the duo's sound move away from the Detroit blueprint and closer to vocal-lead dub and reggae.



01 - Q Loop (5:28)
02 - e2e4 Basic Reshape (6:08)
03 - Mutism (5:57)
04 - Quadrant Dub I (Edit) (6:57)
05 - Radiance II (Edit) (9:21)
06 - Lyot Remix (Edit) (6:28)
07 - Presence (Edit) (8:17)
08 - Q1.1 (Edit) (1:03)
09 - Q1.2 (4:58)
10 - Radiance I (7:57)
11 - Radiance III (Edit) (3:48)

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Basic Channel - BCD I (* 99mb)

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Into The Groove (49)

Hello, Into The Groove presents a bit of a mixed bag her today, be it that all albums are largely electronic, voice based and contain big dancefloor hits....Starting with recent inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Grandmasters Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five , that i would think need little introduction after The Hweels of Steel let loose The Message Of With Lines in New York, New York, obviously they had more goodies..your chance to check some out....There's over 2 hours in dietversion available aswell as are the other picks...Lime, those covers really stood out and their music catered to the hedonistic dancefloor scene..so much so that the band, Denis and Denyse LePage, felt they'd better pick some goodlooking blondes to sing their music and stay happy together at home themselves...for 5 years they dominated the dancefloors with their hits and remixes...here's what got them started their first two albums, which completely got released on 12" aswell...get higher baby...Lill Louis isn't small, but he kept his nick from the days he started out in the dj scene and he was Lill...his French Kiss was only his second official single and became a stunning success, it gave him the opportunity to release From The Mind Of Lill Louis, with some great support (his father on drums) the album came out tops aswell Chicago House and then some...

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Flash was born Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958, his family immigrated to the United States from the West Indies, and he grew up in the Bronx. He became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries, he began spinning records, performing live at area dances and block parties. By age 19, while attending technical school courses in electronics during the day, he was also spinning on the local disco circuit; over time, he developed a series of groundbreaking techniques including "cutting" (moving between tracks exactly on the beat), "back-spinning" (manually turning records to repeat brief snippets of sound), and "phasing" (manipulating turntable speeds) -- in short, creating the basic vocabulary which DJs continue to follow even today.

Flash did not begin collaborating with rappers until around 1977, first teaming with the legendary Kurtis Blow. He then began working with the Furious Five -- rappers Melle Mel (Melvin Glover), Cowboy (Keith Wiggins), Kid Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Mr. Ness aka Scorpio (Eddie Morris), and Rahiem (Guy Williams); the group quickly became legendary throughout New York City, attracting notice not only for Flash's unrivalled skills as a DJ but also for the Five's masterful rapping, most notable for their signature trading and blending of lyrics. 

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five were signed to Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records and in 1979 released the classic "Superrappin'". They later signed to Sugar Hill Records and released numerous singles, gaining a gold disc for "Freedom," and also toured. The classic "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel," released in 1981 was the best display of Flash's skills (combining elements of Blondie's "Rapture," Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache," Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times." It also marked the first time that record scratching had been actually recorded on a record. 

Flash and the Five's next effort, 1982's "The Message," was even more revelatory -- for the first time, hip-hop became a vehicle not merely for bragging and boasting but for trenchant social commentary, with Melle Mel delivering a blistering rap detailing the grim realities of life in the ghetto. The record was a major critical hit, and it was an enormous step in solidifying rap as an important and enduring form of musical expression. Other than Melle Mel, no members of the group actually appear on the record. "The Message" went platinum in less than a month. In 1982, Flash appeared in the movie "Wild Style" and sued Sugar Hill over the non-payment of royalties. 

The group split between Flash and Mel before disintegrating entirely. Flash, Kid Creole and Rahiem signed to Elektra Records and continued on as simply "Grandmaster Flash" while Mel and the others continued on as "Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five. In 1984, Mel released a 12" single, "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" which went on to become one of his signature songs. Although frequently credited on the records, Flash doesn't actually appear on "The Message", "White Lines (Don't Do It)", or many of the other Furious Five songs (if you don't hear scratching on a track, then Flash isn't on it). Mel notably appeared on Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You" becoming the first rapper ever to win a Grammy award for "Record of the Year". He also appeared in the film "Beat Street" performing "Beat Street Breakdown" in the grand finale. 

After a series of Grandmaster Flash solo albums including 1985's They Said It Couldn't Be Done, 1986's The Source, and 1987's Da Bop Boom Bang, he reformed the original Furious Five lineup for a charity concert at Madison Square Garden; soon after, the reconstituted group recorded a new LP, 1988's On the Strength, which earned a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike. Melle Mel closed out the decade by winning two more Grammy awards for his work with Quincy Jones. There was another reunion, of a kind, in 1994, although Cowboy died in 1989. A year later, Flash and Melle Mel also appeared on Duran Duran's cover of "White Lines." Except for a few compilations during the late '90s, Flash was relatively quiet until 2002, when a pair of mix albums appeared: The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on Strut and Essential Mix: Classic Edition on ffrr. Melle Mel released his first ever solo album "Muscles" on January 30, 2007. The first single and music video is "M3 (The New Message)", released on the 25th anniversary of "The Message". March 2007 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first hip-hop/rap group ever inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Grandmasters Flash , Melle Mel & The Furious Five - The Twelves (Greatests) ( ^ 140mb)

Seeing as the other grandmaster album here lacks some of the famous twelves, i compiled what i had chronologically and taken together you can start your own blockparty.



01 - Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - It's Nasty (Genius of Love)
02 - Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message
03 - Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
04 - Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - Jesse
05 - Grandmaster Melle Mel And The Furious Five - Message II (Survival)
06 - Grandmaster Melle Mel And The Furious Five - Pump Me Up (4:51)
07 - Grandmaster Melle Mel And The Furious Five - Beat Street (6:54) 
08 - Grandmaster Melle Mel And The Furious Five - Internationally Known 1 & 2 (10:13)
09 - Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - You Know What Time It Is (3:48) 
10 - Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Bust This (Wooo) (3:04)

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Grandmasters Flash , Melle Mel & The Furious Five - The Twelves (Greatests) (* 99mb)

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Greatest Mixes (97 ^ 167mb)

 Greatest Mixes adds a new wrinkle in the tried-and-true greatest-hits sets by including some new mixes of Grandmaster Flash favorites, rare original extended mixes, and some unreleased tracks. Despite all of the offerings, not surprisingly the best songs here are the original extended mixes released in the early to mid-'80s. The brilliant "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" more than sustains its lasting properties and introduces the first instances of sampling and scratching. The overdone "New York New York" from 1983 seems to gain strength from the better stuff before and after it.. Remaining true to its title, Greatest Mixes has new mixes from DJs and in doing so makes this careen toward sacrilege. While Grandmaster Flash certainly has enough tracks to "tamper" with, the album also has 3 unreleased tracks, most notably 1989's great, testy, and spare "Freestyle." 



01 - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (Cutrmaster Swift & Pogo Mix) (4:11) 
02 - Stepp Off (Original 12 inch) (7:36)
03 - Drug Wars (Previously Unreleased) (4:46)
04 - Pump Me Up (Original 12 inch) (4:42)
05 - Message II (Survival) (Richie Rich Mix) (6:18)
06 - Freestyle (Previously Unreleased) (4:46)
07 - New York New York (Original 12 inch) (7:20)
08 - Beat Street Breakown (Original 12 inch) (5:10)
09 - The Message (Cutting Edge's Old School Mix) (9:02)
10 - The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel (Original 12 inch) (7:06)
11 - Black Man (Previously Unreleased) (3:59)
12 - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (Davidson Ospina Club Mix) (7:08)

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Greatest Mixes (* 99mb)

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Lime - Your love, II (81/82 ^ 153mb)

Contrary to much information out and about...Lime was Denis and Denyse LePage...not the cutesy Joy Dorris and Chris March. Yes Chris and Joy toured the world as Lime, but the real voices and talent behind Lime were the Canadian husband and wife team of Denis, a longtime arranger and producer, and his songwriting wife Denyse. Their unlikely career began in 1980. Denis, already known in the Canadian music circles for his incredible horn and string arrangements on hits by Kat Mandu and France Joli, to name a few, decided it was time to branch out into a full fledged production. 

By the summerl of 1980 Denis had compiled, with Denyse's help, a list of songs for them to record. With fellow studio wizards Joe La Greca (Carol Jiani's mentor and producer) and George Cucuzzella they entered Montreal Sound Studios for work on what would be the first of many albums. The first 12" single released was the now classic "Your Love." A snappy uptempo number that immediately started charting on it's original Matra Records pressing. After a strong showing it was remixed and re-released furthering it's chart life. The album, "Your Love," followed and eventually between Matra and Prism all the tracks were released on 12" singles. Garnering them hits with "You're My Magician," "(Baby) I'll Be Yours," "It's You" and "Agent 406." This album was also unique in that it was the only album to feature Denyse on the cover. All subsequent albums contained paintings or drawings. 

After riding the crest of their first album to it's maximum, their second album "Lime 2" debuted in July of 1982. Once again on Matra Records, the formula was the same for writing, producing and mixing duties. And once again all the tracks appeared on 12" singles as either A or B sides. The 12" singles of "Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight," "Wake Dream" and "Come And Get Your Love" were all consumed by a ravenous high energy dance audience and immediately went top ten. This album also was the first to feature the artwork (cover) of Studio Graffiti, whom would do all of their remaining covers. The unusal paintings became one of the groups trademarks. 

By 1983 Lime was at the pinnacle of their worldwide success. "Lime 3" released that spring would prove to be their most universal album. The success began with the first 12" single. "Guilty" with its somber and dark overtones, was a different release from their previous bubbly bouncy numbers. The album was their first to be completely recorded with Roland, Juno and Jupiter synthesizers, all programmed and played by Denis, he also assumed full producer status .

Sometime around 1982 or 1983 Lime had become so successful that demands for personal appearances was enormous. Denis and Denyse chose not to tour for several reasons. Their age was one factor, neither cared to schlep around the globe doing one-night stands. Another was that though both are attractive for their age group, their looks weren't exactly in-sync with their audiences. After lengthy auditions two attractive blondes with similar vocal ranges were recruited to tour as Lime. Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh fit the bill. The group toured the world during 1983 and 1984, receiving numerous awards. American fans were delighted by their personal club appearances. While appearing live the duo did sing live to prerecorded tracks and so many believed that they were in fact the original singers. Despite worldwide touring the groups 1984 album "Sensual Sensation" produced no blockbuster hits. 

1985 was a year for the husband and wife team to reflect and and while putting new material together Matra hired New York whiz kids Morales and Munzibai (M & M) to remix the back catalogue of material for an album release, "Lime-The Greatest Hits." 
The "Greatest Hits" album shot to the top of the charts and renewed interest in the group. 1985 brought a new album with a slightly new sound and a very different feel. "Unexpected Lovers" was the albums title and also it's first 12" single. The music did well on the club scene and helped the album go Gold. By 1986 the group was ready for their seventh release, "Take The Love" , it received mixed reaction 

By 1989's release "Brand New Day" the husband and wife team had created an empire that had a life of it's own. Denis and Denyse did contribute to the album but had already distanced themselves from the whole scene and turned the production over to Richard Buck. Vocals were also split with Joy and Chris for the actual recordings. This was about to be the end of the road for Joy and Chris as well as Lime as hitmakers. Perhaps it was the lack of total commitment from LePage or the uneveness of the material and singers but in any event it slid into the cut-out bins quickly. 

Denis and Denyse returned wholeheartedly in 1991 to write, perform and produce the groups nineth album "Caroline." This would be their last hit of any note. The oddley sounding "Caroline" was done in the current New-Jack sound and despite several versions it failed to capture the glory of their heyday. The album had other strong material as well, however tastes and styles had changed and Lime was no longer the group de jour. As of 2002 they have released a new album "Love Fury." Meanwhile Unidisc, has re-released their entire catalogue on compact disc. Denis still continues to arrange and work with other artists most notably Los Del Mar and Ouba.



01 - You're My Magician (7:32)
02 - Agent 406 (7:00)
03 - It's You (7:49)
04 - I'll Be Yours (7:19)
05 - Your Love (Remix) (7:14)
06 - Come And Get Your Love (8:07)
07 - Help Yourself (6:07)
08 - A Man And A Woman (6:45)
09 - Wake Dream (7:05)
10 - No Reply (5:20)
11 - Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonite (6:51)

diet verson
Lime - Your love, II (* 99mb)

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Lil Louis & The World - From The Mind Of Lil Louis ( 89 ^ 171mb)

Lil Louis is the stage name used by Chicago-born house music producer and DJ Louis Burns. He was the son of guitarist Bobby Sims, who recorded for Chess and appeared with the psychedelic-soul unit Rotary Connection. Louis grew up with nine siblings and played both drums and bass as a child, then began DJing in the mid-'70s (he earned his nickname after appearances at the club River's Edge while still in middle school). By the end of the decade he had his own club, the Future, where he began working on his editing techniques, thanks to a cassette deck and later a reel-to-reel recorder.

By the mideeifhties, Lil' Louis was hosting the biggest house parties in Chicago, and he began recording his productions around that time as well. His first single "How I Feel" appeared on his own label, and he began collaborating with Marshall Jefferson on several tracks. In 1987, his new single "French Kiss" became a local hit, then a platinum-selling international classic after being licensed to CBS and FFRR. The success triggered a major-label contract through Epic, and the release of his debut album From the Mind of Lil' Louis in 1989. Charting a course across jazz-fusion and R&B as well as house, the LP was one of the best produced by any of the Chicago figures. Pushing the album into another sphere however, are the great collaborations which occur. Larry Heard's input on tracks like "Blackout," "Tuch Me" and "6 A.M." is stellar, and uptown Wax Trax! industrialists Die Warzau even appear on production and mixing. From the album, the moody single "I Called U" became another club hit.

His follow-up LP, the more stylistically unified Journey with the Lonely, didn't fare as well and Lil' Louis retired from recording for over four years, preferring instead to set up his own studio in New York and work on production with Babyface and Me'Shell NdegeOcello. He returned by collaborating with "Little" Louie Vega of Masters at Work and also worked on production for Black Magic.



01 - I Called U (Original Mix) (6:24)
02 - Blackout - Original Mix (6:06)
03 - Tuch Me (5:09)
04 - French Kiss (6:03)
05 - Wargames (3:05)
06 - It's The Only Thing (5:18)
07 - 6 A.M. (3:48)
08 - Nyce & Slow (5:33)
09 - Insecure (6:24)
10 - The Luv U Wanted (4:38)
11 - Brittany (2:33)
12 - Lil Tanya (2:36)
13 - 6 A.M. (Reprise) (3:39)
14 - I Called U (Reprise) (2:59)
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15 - French Kiss (12 " mix) (9:55)

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Lil Louis & The World - From The Mind Of Lil Louis ( * 99 mb)

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Around The World (49)

Hello it's Around the Worldmusics, as the days grow shorter and colder and the festive season throws its first long shadows, staying amother week up north seemed a good idea. Santa has a hard time these days, with the melting polar icecap and now his investments have gone sour aswell, oh how he regrets trusting those brokers, if only he could take them and put them to work in his icepalace..still plenty of snow to shuffle...Ok what's on offer today.. a double bill, some cool Nordic Ethno Grooves compiling some of the most important new folk-rock-bands and -artists from Scandinavia...From the rural isolated Jämtland area come Triakel and they offer some insight into their winterseason music....

A few days ago i said all links were live...i was wrong..i missed the very first i had posted, not that this band didnt get any attention in the years that followed but here it is again Material - Seven Souls ^

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VA - Nordic Ethno Grooves 3 (02 ^ 133mb)

Nordic Ethno Grooves is a compilation of the most important new folk-rock-bands and -artists from Scandinavia. From the Land of the Midnight Sun comes a wave of new music rooted in traditional culture but infused with contemporary perspective. Across Scandinavia a new generation of musicians is discovering their own folk traditions and breathing new life and energy into tunes, dances and instruments handed down for centuries by their forefathers and foremothers. From Swedish fiddle tunes to Sami yoik, Finnish kantele to the Norwegian Hardanger tradition, young musicians throughout Scandinavia are taking musical traditions which can be traced back to medieval times and are playing and singing them in contemporary folk, rock, jazz and world music contexts. The results are spellbinding and tremendously diverse, making Scandinavia the single hottest region for interesting and exciting world music development.

This album samples the modern variety of Scandinavian roots music and includes mostly artists who have already made a name for themselves at least in other European countries if not further afield: Värttinä, Kimmo Pohjonen, Hulu Project, Wimme, Triakel and Hoven Droven are all represented. The list of names may give you an idea of the broad range of approaches to Scandinavian traditional music featured here, this sampler is a good first introduction to contemporary Scandinavian music... .



01 - Värttinä - Äijö (4:22)
02 - Kerstin Blodig / Valivann - Vallevan (4:13)
03 - Kimmo Pohjonen - Ohimo (4:22)
04 - Wimme - Texas (3:48)
05 - Hoven Droven - Malört (3:34)
06 - Plommon - Emma (5:49)
07 - Kalabra - Ymnig Mossa (3:41)
08 - Hulu Project - Osuokhai (Yakutian Dance) (4:31)
09 - Väsen - Ploska (5:01)
10 - Amanda - Mercy Street (Någonting Värmer) (4:42)
11 - Två Fisk Och En Fläsk - Jungfrun I Buren (3:42)
12 - Anders Hagberg - The Herd (4:36)
13 - Triakel - Innan Gryningen (3:29)

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Triakel - Vintervisor (01 ^ 99mb)

Triakel is a Swedish folk band. They mostly perform old Swedish folk songs, particularly those from the Jämtland area , a very thinly populated area the (3 people per square km !) , but also include songs by contemporary folk artists. Triakel was founded in 1995 by Emma Härdelin (Garmarna), Kjell-Erik Eriksson (Hoven Droven) and Janne Strömstedt (former Hoven Droven member); Eriksson and Strömstedt had to perform together using only the fiddle and harmonium at New Year's Eve 1994 following a lost bet, and the performance was so successful that they decided to continue with the project. Härdelin later on joined the newly-formed band as the singer, and the name "Triakel" (a kind of sweet, black liquorice in the Swedish dialect of Jämtland) was chosen after a long discussion

Triakel play songs. The group's repertoire covers everything from old music.hall numbers to hymns. Often the songs are rooted in the provinces of Jämtland and Hälsingland where the group's members grew up. The music is quiet but emotionally charged, and arrangements are built up around Emma's singing, which is the heart of the group's sound. It is an expression of its members' yearning to make simple, acoustic music, in contrast to the louder, amplified sounds they otherwise work with.

Shortly after the release of Triakel's epynomous debut in May 1998 it was decided that the follow-up should be a Christmas record - not of the usual Jingle Bells kind, but an alternative, nonetheless rich with the unmistakable flavour of a Swedish Christmas. The result was not just a Christmas record but a record of winter songs. .From traditional songs to Evert Taube, Dan Andersson and former ABBA member Benny Andersson. The line-up of vocals, harmonium and fiddle is ideal for this material, and those who have already heard and appreciated the group's simple, low-key music will not be disappointed. Whether serious or cheerful, these are stories delivered with straightforward clarity.

In 2004 they released Sånger från 63° N (Songs from the 63rd Latitude) and a year later Ten Years of Triakel. During the past few years the group has toured throughout Sweden and also played in about fifteen different European countries. They have also appeared in Japan and several times in the Unites States and Canada.



01 - Julvisa från Älvdalen (Christmas Carol from Älvdalen) (3:01)
02 - Bergslagsjul (Christmas In The Mining District) (2:13)
03 - Er framtid blive lyckelig (Good Fortune And Joy) (3:18)
04 - Staffansvisa från Orust (St Stephen’s Day Carol from Orust)" – 1:47
05 - Innan gryningen (Before Dawn) ( 3:28)
06 - Torspar-julaftas-våggvisa (The Crofter’s Christmas Eve Lullaby) (4:12)
07 - God morgon här kär fader vår (Good Morning To You, Master Dear) (2:19)
08 - Det blir en julhelg glad (A Joyful Christmas It Will Be) (3:52)
09 - Julvisa i Finnmarken/Isfärden (3:39)
10 - Staffansvisa från Jämtland (St Stephen’s Day Carol from Jämtland) (2:36)
11 - Adventspsalm (Advent Hymn) (3:17)
12 - Mormors julstjärna (Grandma’s Christmas Star) (2:35)
13 - Knalle Juls vals (The Christmas Tree Waltz) (2:32)
14 - Julgranspolska (The Christmas Tree Polska) (2:15)
15 - Tackvisan (4:16)

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Canadia 2056 (8)

Hello, well the last re-updates are done ...sigh..as mentioned last week there now two pages with over 600 direct links HERE at my mirror blog..but then i would think just surfing this blog gives you much more to Njoy and discover...

but first.. the saga continues and i hope the number of fans will increase as the story unfolds more hilarious reasonings ..the coming 27 minutes

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there..

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Episode 8:

Romance is in the air on the Canadia. Lewis finds something big in a pile of trash. The Captain invites the Captain of the USS Pickens over to the Canadia in order to present him with a gift. Anderson discovers a hidden talent and the computer explores her jealous side.

Canadia 2056 - 08 (020mb)

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Re Updates

Hello, as announced, re-ups formerly distributed by Uploaded 2 and 2 Shared as these seem less available globally..so for those that couldnt connect here are 48 new chances . The * suggests a diet version and the number infront points to the Rhotation number.


18 VA - Mutant Disco vol 1
19 New Musik - Anywhere
22 Goldie - Timeless *
25 Daft Punk - Homework
25 Marvin Gaye - I Want You
26 Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex *
26 O.S.T. - Shaft ( Isaac Hayes) *
28 Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Original Score
31 Orb - Orbus Terrarum
33 VA - Ambient House
33 Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui
34 Väth & Hawtin - Sound Of 3rd Season
34 Billy Idol - Greatest Hits *
34 Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel - Best of *
35 LCD Sound Systems - LCD Sound System
36 Dave Angel - Classics
37 Darren Emerson mix Psychotrance 2
37 Level 42 - Level Best
38 Felix da Housecat - Kittenz & Thee Glitz
38 Laibach - Anthems
38 Lamb - Lamb
38 Laswell & Namlook - Psychonavigation
38 Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow
39 Blondie - Beautiful - The Remix Album
39 Sarah McLachlan - Remixed
39 Mecano - Snake Tales For Dragon
39 Material - Temporary Music (1979-1981)
40 Juno Reactor - Transmissions
40 Terence McKenna - Seeking The Stone
40 Scientist - Dub From The Ghetto
40 Ben Neill - Tryptical
40 Nada Surf - Let Go
40 Afrika Bambaataa & Family - The Light
40 Time Zone - Warlocks And Witches
41 Chemical Brothers, The - Surrender
41 Rhythm & Sound & Tikiman - Showcase
41 Altered Images - Happy Birthday..plus
41 Whodini - Whodini
42 VA - MSX00.1 10th Anniversary S E
42 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
43 Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm The Studio
43 Meat Beat Manifesto - RUOK
43 Twine - Recorder
43 Jello - Voile
44 Dopplereffekt - Linear accelerator
44 Blondie - Greatest Hits, Sound
44 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Sundaze (49)

Hello, today Sundaze focusses on Mick Karn who by the age of 24 had become a household name in the world of music, he released his first soloalbum that year..and had his first sculptures show..so much acclaim what would he do next, meanwhile he's seen his 50th birthday a few months ago and is still very much doing his thing..without the glaring spotlights.you can buy his work at his website http://www.mickkarn.net reasonably priced at 10 pounds each...here are.2 vinyls and one cd are up for grabs...Njoy

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Born July 24, 1958, Mick Karn emigrated to London as a Greek Cypriot when he was 3 years old and from an early age was looking for ways to express himself. He began with the chromatic mouth organ at the age of 7 and then the violin when 11, both lasted just 3 years before he was offered the chance to take up the bassoon with the school orchestra and later chosen as a member of the London School Symphony Orchestra. After a big concert, which was broadcast on Radio 4, the bassoon was stolen from him on the way home. His school refused to buy him another, and in anger at their decision, he bought a bass guitar for £5 from a school friend.. And so ended Mick's career in classical music.

By this time, he had already made friends with like-minded teenagers David Sylvian and younger brother, Steve Jansen who were coincidentally both learning their own instruments, David an acoustic guitar and Steve, bongos. It seemed a natural progression that David move on to an electric guitar, and if Steve were then to progress to drums, they could form a band together and escape the confines of south London. That was the plan and a month later they performed for the first time as Japan on June 1st 1974 when Mick was 15. Over the next two years, they each concentrated on developing their own styles, rehearsing their own music together every day.

MK: "I wanted to be able to slide and bend notes as I'd learnt to do with the violin and so decided to take all the frets off the bass guitar. I also began playing bass directly after the bassoon which, although a bass instrument, often plays lead melodies, both of these factors were major influences in shaping the way I play.

Mick bumped into Richard Barbieri one morning (another school friend) who he invited to one of their daily rehearsals. Richard instantly wanted to join the band. They needed a keyboard player and weren't too worried that Richard had no experience with music because more importantly, he had a steady job working at a bank, and so became our main source of income for the band's equipment. Japan were now a four piece and ready to advertise for another guitarist (Rob Dean) and management, which led on to their first record contract with Ariola/Hansa in 1977 and subsequently, their first album release.

Punk rock was at it's peak and as a reaction to it, Japan decided to not be seen as part of the fashion and so went in the opposite direction, creating their own look with long dyed hair and make up. Tours in Europe and the U.S. saw them playing to hostile audience, they were not well received, with the exception of one territory, Japan, where they instantly became the number one foreign act and remain to this day a lasting influence, both musically and visually. By the time of their third album release Quiet Life in 1979, punk was no longer dominant and Japan's sound had altered drastically. Mick brought saxophones and clarinets into the arrangements, and there seemed to be a string of lookalike/soundalike bands emerging in the U.K. Japan were heralded as innovators of a new sound and era in music, the New Romantics. For Japan, this simply meant it was time to, once again, move on leaving the others behind. No-one could have foreseen the direction they would take with their fifth album Tin Drum in 1981, a blend of Chinese pop music with their own distinctive mood making it a truly outstanding and original work. Nor could anyone have predicted it would be Japan's last studio album.

By now, Mick Karn had most certainly been heard and released his first solo album Titles on Virgin in 1982. His unique style had musicians from all types of genres wanting his contribution to their own work, from Jeff Beck to Gary Numan. That same year, he was chosen by Pete Townshend to be part of a supergroup to perform for Prince Charles and Lady Diana in celebration of their engagement. Mick left a marked impression at the event, which later led onto collaborative work with Midge Ure and recordings with Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading.

Karn had also surprised the art world by holding his first sculpture exhibition in 1981 to outstanding critical acclaim, with many reviews and features in columns and magazines not usually frequented by musicians. Proving himself as an accomplished artist with his often disturbing works of art, he has held 5 exhibitions in London, Japan and Italy. The next project was to be a trio with vocalist Pete Murphy (Bauhaus) and drummer Paul Lawford. Dali's Car released The Waking Hour in 1984, with all instrumentation written and played by Mick, an experiment in stripping music down to it's bare minimum, whilst retaining a strong mood and Middle Eastern flavour. A taste from which he'd picked up from his mother who used to listen to it.

1987 saw Karn's 2nd solo release Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters. Relying heavily on his classical beginnings, using woodwind and brass more extensively as well as harmonica, accordion and even choirs to complete it's haunting themes, as well as Steve Jansen on drums and in the producer's chair. Truly a step away from the expected rock genre and into a field of it's own. By now, Mick's bass guitar had reached the world of Jazz and the next few years saw him working with some remarkable players. An experimental project, Polytown, saw Karn work with David Torn and drummer Terry Bozzio. There then came another surprise decision and a sojourn from solo work as Japan reformed for a one off album under the new name of Rain Tree Crow in 1991. The recording held no reference at all to where Japan had left off, but rather showed a distinct maturity amongst the members. Mick decided to play an unfamiliar five string bass to differentiate his playing from the style listeners had become accustomed to, and in some cases left the bass out altogether, concentrating on bass clarinet as the lead instrument.

Through the associations he'd made within the Jazz world, Karn recorded his next album Bestial Cluster in 1993 for German Jazz label CMP . Co-produced with David Torn, who also played the guitars, Steve Jansen on drums and Richard Barbieri on Keyboards, a Bestial Cluster tour with the same line-up of Europe and dates in Japan followed. CMP also signed Polytown to their label. The album Polytown was written recorded and mixed in three weeks and released in 1994. A staggering feat for any group of musicians, improvised, heavy and far from Jazz. Karn recorded another album for CMP in 1995 - The Tooth Mother, with Natasha Atlas on Middle Eastern vocals. This was to be Karn's most ethnic CD to date and, curiously, also his most funky, drawing on both of those early influences to enhance the ever present dark moods.

Mick's work with Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri decided to form their own record label Medium Productions as an outlet for collaborative work independent of limitations set by major labels. Forming their own unit JBK, they recorded several CDs together (Beginning To Melt, Seed, _ism ) including a live recording "Playing in a Room With People" taken from some rare shows in Tokyo and London . Included on Mick"s discography for Medium is a collaboration with Japanese Drum and Bass artist Yoshihiro Hanno, Liquid Glass released in 1998. Mick's next solo recording was to be for the Medium Productions label in 2000 and took a distinct step away from the last two CMP albums. Eye a Path was to be Karn's most introspective and personal of albums, drawing on troubled past experiences as it's source of inspiration. However, he was delighted to see the response from fellow musicians lead to an eventual remix album in 2002 entitled: Each Path a Remix, the contributors being Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn, Richard Barbieri, Paul Wong and Claudio Chianuro.

Mick then shifted gear again, this time towards what can only be described as instrumental pop. More Better Different was released in 2004 by Invisible Hands Music and reviews certainly agree with the sentiments in the title. 2005 Karn released a EP called Love's Glove and released his 7th solo studio recording, Three Part Species as well as going on an own extensive tour later that year. In 2007 he released Selected a compilation from his own hand.

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Mick Karn - Titles (82 ^ 79mb)

Multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn's first album as a solo artist reveals the significant degree to which Japan's sound was shaped by his bass playing. The presence of Japan drummer Steve Jansen and keyboardist Richard Barbieri, combined with Karn's own singing style (which owes a heavy debt to former bandmate David Sylvian), only strengthens the impression that this is a Japan album in all but name. While Karn plays various woodwinds and keyboards as well as bass on Titles, it is his amazingly agile and creative fretless bass playing that holds center stage, even when he is singing.. Some tracks offer hints of reggae, North African modalism, and ambient experimentalism.



1 - Tribal Dawn (4:13)
2 - Lost Affections In A Room (4:18)
3 - Passion In Moisture (4:13)
4 - Weather The Windmill (3:53)

5 - Savior, Are You With Me? (4:06)
6 - Trust Me (4:58)
7 - Sensitive (4:34)
8 - Piper Blue (4:18)

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Dalis Car - The Waking Hour (84 ^ 85mb)

Dali's Car was doomed almost from the start. A seemingly good idea when it was first suggested to former Bauhaus vocalist/lyricist Pete Murphy that he collaborate with ex-Japan bassist/composer Mick Karn, the group nearly self-destructed before it was disbanded. Their sole album, The Waking Hour, released in 1984, came in more than 50% over the sixty thousand dollar (40,000 pounds) budget given them by Virgin and Beggars Banquet. While on the one hand Waking Hour is pretty much the sum of its parts -- Murphy's dramatic, edgy singing style and Karn's fluid, immediately recognizable fretless bass and other instruments, plus percussion from Paul Lawford -- there was enough variety going on to set it apart enough from the legacies of both Bauhaus and Japan. Murphy avoids the more torturous roars and screams of his most extreme work in Bauhaus, everything feels a touch gentler and more meditative. If nothing else, points for credit for the cover art: a lovely reproduction of the famed Maxfield Parrish painting that provided the title for the album.



1 - Dalis Car (5:15)
2 - His Box (4:44)
3 - Cornwall Stone (5:19)
4 - Artemis (4:37)

5 - Create And Melt (5:34)
6 - Moonlife (4:48)
7 - The Judgement Is The Mirror (4:35)

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Jansen/Barbieri/Karn - Beginning To Melt (93 ^ 99mb)

Having performed with the band No-Man, and in Barbieri's case nouveau prog rockers Porcupine Tree, JBK began exploring longer possibilities in their music, as demonstrated on their label debut, Beginning to Melt, a compilation of tracks by or featuring JBK that had no home elsewhere. Worth the price alone for the Karn/Torn composition "Shipwrecks," a perfect summation of how a piece called "Shipwrecks" should sound, other notable tracks include "The Wilderness" (Mr. & Mrs. B) and Robby Acceto's "Human Age."



1 - Beginning To Melt (11:50)
2 - The Wilderness (4:45)
3 - March Of The Innocents (4:09)
4 - Human Age (5:41)
5 - Shipwrecks (6:21)
6 - Ego Dance (7:39)
7 - The Orange Asylum (6:11)

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Rhotation (49) Into BPM

Hello, as noted in my previous post, all links are up again...had i know how many i had to revive i might not have started, but a half dead blog is no fun, i hope my main providers, Sharebee, Megaupload and zShare stay in business...That said, i was pointed to the fact that another provider ive used..Uploaded To isnt that available across the world, as a consequence i've decided to re-up those links, though still live, the coming days..as im still in the mood..

To the music for today plenty of rhytmic breakbeat electronic beats to go around...Kevin Yost was into the beats from a young age and with parents into Jazz he sort of naturally came to fuse the best of two worlds....Adam Freeland 's name has become synonymous breakbeat based electronic...Troubleman is a moniker that comes around, the man behind it has many moniker..not sure why he chose this one for this projekt..it's anything but trouble but fot the people that like to pigeonhole and label him, animpossible task as Mark Pritchard has released a great and diverse body of work the past 15 years, some of which have been posted in past Rhotations...The First Phase finds it's inspiration in remixing the latin grooves of Azymuth and subsequently his wish to record with real musicians..the result..outstanding

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Kevin Yost - Hypnotic Progressions (02 ^ 150mb)

Kevin Yost was a musical child, who at a very early age demonstrated a keen sense of rhythm. This quickly grew into a love of playing drums and soon after keys. Listening to his father's Chuck Mangione records, his love of music continued to grow throughout his youth. Yet his small rural farm town in Waynesboro, PA USA had no outlets to develop a child?s skill thus he turned to self-instruction over formal education. The spark of jazz music was lit inside Kevin at this young age; however growing up in the early 80's, he soon gathered an affinity for the burgeoning electronic music scene. At age eleven Kevin started DJing with a cheap set of turntables and a mixer he got for Christmas. His skills quickly refined as he met an older friend who introduced him to beat mixing. He began to play school dances and other partie. He saved money from his gigs and slowly put together a home studio. By the time he was fourteen years old he purchased a drum machine, a keyboard, and sequencer.

Propelled by this new ability to create, at the age of seventeen Kevin decided to attend Berkley College of Music. He later went on to Shenandoah Conservatory. His main areas of study were music composition and percussion. As a result of this formal training, his early childhood bonds with jazz were reaffirmed, but his love of DJing and electronic music still remained. By the time he left school he had all the tools needed to work in many different genres. His first concept was to combine all of his interests and create a jazz/electronic fusion that could be played by a DJ. At age 23 he took this on as his initial solo project and in 1995 eager to let others hear his first creations he sent out demo tapes to various independent labels. A contract with Chicago's Guidance label brought his first release, a 1996 EP titled Unprotected Sax. One year later, Yost signed a contract to begin working with the New Jersey acid-jazz-house label i! Records, and in 1998, the single "One Starry Night" became a big mover in progressive house circles. Yost released the mix album Small Town Underground through Twisted/MCA in 1999, with contributions from like-minds Euphonic and Fredrik Stark among others. Later that year, the album One Starry Night collected a few classic productions with newer material. Unlike anything ever done before it's percussive jazz electronic fusion was met with open arms as it went on to sell over 50,000 units worldwide. Road Less Traveled followed in 2001 2002 he released Hypnotic Progressions where contrasting deep bass notes and intricate percussion with an excellent sense for atmospheric melodies.

This caught the ear of many major labels, which enlisted Kevin to work with artists such as Eric Clapton, Everything but the Girl, the Kodo Drummers, and Cirque de Soleil. Over the past years Kevin has released over 70 vinyl records and a mixture of CDs. His success has flourished both as a producer and a DJ, traveling to many different countries and playing some of the world's most respected venues and festivals.



01 - Methods Of Melody ( 5 :10)) - Pt 7
02 - Sticky Situation (4:59) - Pt 8
03 - Touch (5:34) - Pt 9
04 - Reinvention (6:07) - Pt 4
05 - Illuminations (5:28) - Pt 6
06 - Motion (5:29) - Pt 5
07 - The Follow Up (4:34) - Prt 3
08 - The Birth (5:53) - Pt 1
09 - Transmission (6:25) - Pt 2
10 - Insight (5:11) - Pt 11
11 - Simple Ways (6:17) - Pt 10

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Freeland - Now & Them (03 ^ 115mb)

Adam Freeland, born "Hertfordshire, 1973 is a DJ and producer that's becomes synonymous with breakbeat based electronic music. Like his record label, Marine Parade, he is a resident of Brighton. As a producer, he formed half of Tsunami One with Kevin Beber, and released a solo album as Freeland; as a DJ he operates solo under his own full name.

"When I was a kid, I was a hi-fi geek. I was really into hi-fi and sound quality. From the age of 12 I had a paper round and worked for £7.50 a week so every 6 months I could go down Tottenham Court Road and buy a nice bit of separate hi-fi equipment. I played the guitar, like wanna-be-Hendrix-stylee Fender Strat, just in my bedroom. I didn't have lessons or play in a band. Music was always a passion for me, but I never considered it as a career path... When I went to college in London I became a mad clubber, go every night, went to the early Universe and Tribal Gathering raves, listening to Sasha and Grooverider, who was then playing house music."

Freeland got into DJing when he moved to London at 18, to study design . His flatmate had decks, which was in '92, and they'd play jungle - it was slower then though. He started collecting records around the same time, always mixing electro and hip house into his sets, and then he started getting into american stuff like Bassbin Twins and Uberzone ... Breakbeat took off and so did the avid traveller Freeland, meanwhile he's toured the US 45 times now.

In 1996, Adam Freeland's Coastal Breaks album heralded the beginning of something new - nu skool breaks. By 1997 Adam had earned the respect of fellow DJs Sasha, Carl Cox and the Chemical Brothers. In '98 he moved to Brighton and started Marine Parade from his flat without much planning, just putting out tunes... His DJing has always paid to put out music on the label. Never been much good at balancing the books, he spend loads of money on artwork and give the artists very generous deals. Hardly surprising then he's made hardly any money from Marine Parade, but sunk lots into it.

Since then Adam has released the Tectonics and On Tour mix albums, as well as a FabricLive mix, and groundbreaking Back To Mine. Freeland's debut artist album Now and Them, released in 2003, relied on influences from punk, hip hop, electro, dub, reggae and rock. It featured the hit record 'We Want Your Soul', with his remix of Sarah Vaughan's 'Fever' nominated for a Grammy and his personally requested mix of The Doors 'Hello, I Love You' receiving critical acclaim. He has just completed the latest in the Global Underground Series, which sees his style broaden further to span Drone rock, minimal, Electro punk , but all with a break beat backbone. Freeland describes the album's sound as 'E-drone'. Freeland's track Big Wednesday was used in the sound track of The Animatrix.



01 - We Want Your Soul (Voc.Damian Taylor , Georgia G , Victoria Titanium) (5:07)
02 - Mind Killer (Voc.Cage, Justin Griffiths) (3:28)
03 - Burn The Clock (5:52)
04 - Big Wednesday (5:33)
05 - Heel 'n' Toe (Voc.Juice Aleem, Toastie Edwards) (4:33)
06 - Physical World (1:17)
07 - Supernatural Thing (5:11)
08 - Reality 3D (4:59)
09 - L.I.F.E. ((Voc.Martin Fishley) 6:19)
10 - Nowism (Voc.Martin Fishley) (4:56)

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Troubleman - The First Phase (04 ^ 163mb)

Marks recorded under so many monikers that keeping a track on his productions is difficult unless youre a die-hard Pritchard fan. In 1991 Mark formed seminal techno label Evolution, on which he released a series of sought-after Detroit-influenced techno singles, reflecting his early love of the Motor City sound. The album 'A Collection of Short Storiesis released on the Creation label in 1993, after several releases on Evolution under the Reload alias. Warp released a compilation of the tracks Mark did for Evolution entitled 'The Theory of Evolution'. In the company of Tom Middleton, Mark forms the now-legendary ambient-house outfit Global Communication and releases two albums in 1994 - ‘Pentamorous Metamorphosis' (a remix album of UK indie band Chapterhouses album), followed by76:14 , Globals debut album.

In 1996 Mark and Tom take a new direction and a new name, and release the 'New School Science' album as the Jedi Knights: we decided to bring back the funk into dance music" says Mark. Welding electro into 4/4 house and breaks it was loved by DJs across both genres and initiated an electro breaks revival that continues today. In 1998 he produced the debut album from Kirsty Hawkshaw (formerly of rave act Opus 3), for East West records. Between 1999-2000 Mark collaborated on a project with ex-Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills.

Mark began the Troubleman project for Far Out in 2000 following some successful remixes he did of Azymuths tracks - as Global Communication with Tom Middleton for the track ‘Jazz Carnival (1995), and then later solo remixes of ‘Carambola (1999), and ‘Pieces Of Ipanema (2000). All three are among Far Outs biggest-selling 12"s. His first 12" as Troubleman (‘Messenger/The Essence) was released in 2000, followed in 2001 with ‘Where We Stand/Lullaby, and then the massive underground hit, ‘Strike Hard that firmly established the Troubleman name. 2003 saw the release of the even bigger follow-up ‘Change Is What We Need. One year later the Troubleman debut album The First Phase hits the shelves. This is not a club album, its all 4/5 minute songs with live musicians on all the tracks, its a journey. Its Marks ability to weld his unique music tastes together that makes him one of the most interesting and innovative producers of the moment.



01 - The First Phase (4:13)
02 - The Switch (7:32)
03 - The Messenger (Edit) (6:01)
04 - Lullaby (9:35)
05 - Intergalactic You, Intergalactic Me (4:14)
06 - Stereo (Mark Pritchard Remix) - Stereo People (8:01)
07 - Pieces Of Ipanema (Mark Pritchard Remix) - Azymuth (8:19)
08 - Where We Stand (7:48)
09 - The Otherness (7:33)
10 - Carambola (Mark Pritchard Remix) - Azymuth (9:52)

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Troubleman - The First Phase (05 * 99mb)

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Eight-X (48)

Hello, midweek and that means more eighties music coming up, first up Tom Tom Club..i have to admit back then i was rather taken aback by these Talking Heads members coming up with such lighthearted commercial sounding music..even harder to swallow was that they had this tongue in cheek megahit Wordy Rappinghood, therefore (being a big TH fan) i never bought the album at the time..i picked it up sec hand some years ago..oh well it isnt that bad after all...partly because of the presence on it of Adrian Belew, who almost directly went on to join King Crimson and revived the Crimson glory in what was to be a trio of high quality albums on which he sang, wrote lyrics and guitar duelled with maestro Fripp..3 years ago i made an eighty minute show of these three albums, each had a unicolor cover, Red, Blue and Yellow....btw I mixed up those covers aswell....the result should be released on CD ( i wink)...finally another band from Rotterdam , after Kiem three weeks ago, Spasmodique are somewhere between postpunk and goth and were rather popular at the time...


If you hop over to my defunct mirror blog you will find a page with all 324 Rhotations (1--36) update links in one scroll...this weekend i will post the rest of the updates there aswell ...

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Tom Tom Club - I (81 ^ 87mb)

Originally established as a side project, the Tom Tom Club comprise a loose aggregate of musicians and artists that got together to record an album. This resulted in, a collection of funky, sprightly little tunes recorded in Barbados with Weymouth's sisters, hubbie and drummer Chris Frantz, and several of the members of the Remain in Light tour group: Adrian Belew, guitar, and Steven Stanley, percussion. Ironically, hoping to toss off a fun album under the radar, the group came out with an album, the best tracks of which, "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood," became enormously influential throughout the '80s and '90s, eventually getting ripped off wholeheartedly by many artists.

The following year, the group released a follow-up, Close to the Bone, which was similar in style to its first album but didn't fare as well despite songs such as "Pleasure of Love" and "The Man With The Four Way Hips," but the former song was a minor hit on urban radio in the US. The album was released on vinyl but never reissued on CD. The original British vinyl was put out in six different colors.There was then a 4-year gap until the band's next album, the first version of Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom. On the album, the group adapted a more conventional rock style with a harder edged sound and a hint of menace in the lyrics of some songs. Whereas the previous two albums had been recorded by a loose collective of a dozen musicians, the Tom Tom Club was now reduced to the trio of Weymouth, Frantz and Weymouth's sister Laura Weymouth. There were, however, a number of prominent guest musicians on the record, including Lou Reed and Talking Heads' front man David Byrne on a cover of Reed's "Femme Fatale". The fourth member of Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison, also featured on some tracks. As with Close to the Bone, the album was not a commercial success. The following year, the group and Sire decided to issue a radically altered version of the album in the US, replacing four songs with four others, one of which, "I Confess," was a total overhaul of the original album's "Mighty Teardrop." The running order of the rest of the album was shuffled while the artwork was revamped. However, the changes had little effect on the album's US commercial success.

The group's next album, The Good the Bad and the Funky, was released in 2000 and featured cover versions of Donna Summer's "Love to Love You, Baby" and Lee Perry's "Soul Fire." Among the musicians on The Good the Bad and the Funky are Jamaican singer Mystic Bowie, Pettigrew and Toots of Toots & the Maytals. The album's release was followed by one European, and several American, tours.
In 2002, Frantz and Tina Weymouth, along with their former Talking Heads bandmates, were inducted at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2007, the band released a special Christmas single called "Mistletunes," containing two specially recorded Christmas songs: "Il est Ne" and "Christmas in the Club," which features Mystic Bowie and scratcher/turntableist Kid Ginseng (Weymouth and Franz's son).



01 - Wordy Rappinghood (6:27)
02 - Genius Of Love (5:34)
03 - Tom Tom Theme (1:25)
04 - L'Elephant (4:50)

05 - As Above, So Below (5:23)
06 - Lorelei (Remix Version) (6:20)
07 - On, On, On, On... (Remix Version) (3:44)
08 - Under The Boardwalk (5:44)

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King Crimson - Red, Blue & Yellow ( 81- 84 ^ 184mb)

King Crimson have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, classical and experimental music to psychedelic, New Wave, hard rock, gamelan and folk music. King Crimson have garnered little radio or music video airplay, but gained a large cult following. Their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is widely regarded as a landmark in progressive rock. Their later excursions into even more unconventional territory have been influential on many contemporary musical artists. Bands such as Genesis and Yes were influenced by the band's initial style of symphonic mellotron rock.Tool are widely held to have been heavily influenced by King Crimson. Nirvana are known to have been influenced by King Crimson as a result of Kurt Cobain having mentioned the importance of the Red album to him. The band Porcupine Tree is influenced by King Crimson, and as with Tool, King Crimson (in the form of ProjeKct Six) has been the support band at their shows. The angular, dissonant guitar patterns associated with Fripp’s distinctive approach are also evident in the music of Alt-Metal pioneers, Voivod, Primus is heavily influenced by the King Crimson sound, and Iron Maiden members credit the band as a reference for them....

King Crimson's membership has fluctuated considerably throughout their existence, with eighteen musicians and two lyricists passing through the ranks as full band members. Fripp, the only constant member of King Crimson, has arranged several distinct lineups, but has stated that he does not necessarily consider himself the band's leader. The new King Crimson that evolved in July 1972 (again with some personnel changes) marks a turn toward a heavier progressive sound, with experimental and fusion overtones, that climaxes mostly on their unique semi-improvisatory live performances throughout the whole 1973 with the release of Starless and Bible Black, January 1974. Most of that album was recorded from live performances with the live factor dismissed.

David Cross left and so John Wetton, Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp were left to record the new album, Red, be it with the help of musicians from previous KC albums.(David Cross - violin, Mel Collins - soprano saxophone, Ian McDonald - alto saxophone, Robin Miller - oboe, Marc Charig - cornet). Red has been described as "an impressive achievement" for a group about to disband, with "intensely dynamic" musical chemistry between the band members that resulted in a record "aggressive and loud enough to strip the wallpaper off your living room wall". Fripp, increasingly disillusioned with the music business, was turning his attention to the writings of the mystic George Gurdjieff, and did not want to tour as he felt that the "world was coming to an end". The Red line-up never toured, and two months before the album's release Fripp announced that King Crimson had "ceased to exist" and the group disbanded on September 25, 1974

Early in 1981, Fripp considered forming a new group, with no intention of reforming King Crimson. However, a step that led to this was contacting Bill Bruford to ask if he wanted to join the new band.Bruford agreed and the pair recruited Tony Levin, he brought a new sound with the use of the Chapman Stick, described as an "utterly original style" created by "one of New York City's most sought-after studio musicians". Fripp also contacted guitarist Adrian Belew, who was on tour with Talking Heads Fripp had never been in a band with another guitarist before so the decision to seek a second guitarist was indicative of Fripp's desire to create a sound unlike previous incarnations of King Crimson. Belew, who also became the band's singer and lyricist, joined following his tour with Talking Heads. The four played live in the first half of 1981 using the name Discipline.

By October 1981, the band had begun using the name King Crimson. The group released a trilogy of albums: Discipline in 1981, Beat in 1982, and Three of a Perfect Pair in 1984. Beat marked the first King Crimson album to have been recorded with the exact same band members as the album preceding it. After Three of a Perfect Pair, King Crimson disbanded for around a decade, during which time Fripp formed the record label Discipline Global Mobile for King Crimson and related projects, besides starting the Guitar Craft music school in 1985.

Ten years after (May 1994), King Crimson start rehearsing again, this time as a double trio (added to the four above, are Pat Mastelotto on percussion, and Trey Gunn on stick). It is in this time that the Discipline Global Mobile label is started, enabling for the first time Mr. Fripp and associates to release their own music by their own (high) standards. This "double trio" formation released the EP VROOOM in 1994, followed by the studio album THRAK in 1995, and the challenging avantgarde live album THRaKaTTaK in 1996. The new King Crimson sound featured elements of the interlocking guitars on Discipline and the heavy rock feel of Red

The double trio scheme will only release two full albums and various ep’s, yet it will lead to its “fractalization” to groups of three (or four), thus forming the ProjeKcts. Five such ProjeKcts will live and flourish (One, Two, Three, Four, and X), and their live and studio sessions will be released by DGM, along with numerous other recordings from all periods of King Crimson (some under the King Crimson Collector’s Club; bi-monthly releases for members only). In the hands of DGM, the King Crimson back catalogue (most late additions only on FLAC/MP3 format) grows enormously, making it one of the biggest for any rock group ever. By the time the ProjeKcts were complete, Bruford and Levin had ceased to be involved with King Crimson, Belew, Fripp, Gunn, and Mastelotto remained, releasing the studio album The ConstruKction of Light (2000), accompanied by the album Heaven and Earth released under the name ProjeKct X in the same year.

The band continued their activity throughout the decade. In 2002 the EP Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With was released,[51] and in 2003 the studio album The Power to Believe came out with the band touring in support of it. November 2003, Trey Gunn announced his departure from the band. Levin would become the active bassist of King Crimson again, with the subsequent line-up scheduled for rehearsals in 2008 and consisting of Fripp, Belew, Mastelotto, Levin plus a second drummer, Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree, who joined King Crimson in November 2007. They began rehearsals in March 2008.

Sourced from my vinyls Red = Discipline, Blue = Beat, Y = Three of a perfect pair, compiled with continuity and respect for maximum enjoyment of 80 minutes of King Crimson in topform. Fripp and Bruford really get fired up by new entries Adrian Belew and Tony Levin and together they delivered a stunning run of three albums winning over many new fans in the early eighties. Njoy...



01 - Elephant Talk (Red) (4:45)
02 - Frame By Frame (Red) (5:08)
03 - Lark Tongues In Aspic (Yellow) (5:21)
04 - Heartbeat (Blue) (3:54)
05 - Matte Kudasai (Red) (3:49)
06 - Man With An Open Heart (Yellow) (3:05)
07 - Neal And Jack And Me (Blue) (4:24)
08 - Thela Hun Ginjeet (Red) (6:28)
09 - Nuages (Yellow) (4:51)
10 - Model Man (Yellow) (3:45)
11 - Neurotica (Blue) (4:32)
12 - Sartori In danger (Blue) (3:35)
13 - Sheltering Sky (Red) (8:26)
14 - Three Of A Perfect Pair (Yellow) (4:15)
15 - Sleepless (Yellow) (5:18)
16 - Two Hands (Blue) (3:23)
17 - Waiting Man (Blue) (4:23)

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Spasmodique - North ( 89 * 99 mb)

Spasmodique was formed in 1982 by singer/guitarist Mark Ritsema, guitarist Arjo Hijmans, bassist Martin Doctors van Leeuwen and drummer Reinier Rietveld (formerly of Quando Quango). They released a self-titled five-song ep in 1986. The same year, they recorded songs for an opera that were later released on their album North. In 1987 Spasmodique released their full-length debut From the Cellar of Roses and toured with Umberto di Bosso e Compadres. The next year they released another album with three new studio tracks and five live tracks, Start to Believe/Someone's Out There to Get You. In 1989 they finally debuted a single, "The Square", and released another full-length album, North. By the end of the decade, the band had grown more popular internationally, with growing audiences in Germany and Austria.

1990 would see the birth of Spasmodique's master work, the album Haven. Upon completion of the recording sessions, Hijmans left the band. The band prompltly replaced him with Niek den Brave and Hans Brusse and released the non-album single "Spilling". The next year saw more personnel changes when the two new members were replaced by guitarist Raymond Gerrits. Spasmodique almost came to an end then, and embarked on a farewell tour, but the public's enthusiastic response convinced them to stay together. They released Who's Afraid, a compilation of demos and outtakes. In 1992 the band took a break from live performances that would stretch over a decade.
Singer /guitarist Mark Ritsema got together with multi-instrumentalist Willem Cramer of East Meets West and eventually founded Cobraz to which former Spasmodique members, Willem Cramer (gitar) and Martin Docters van Leeuwen (bass) joined and released Sato Bar where they amalgamated the western music with African/Latin music. The well recieved album produced by Jean Marie Aerts(TC Matic) launched a series of great live shows in 93/94 but somewhere the energy disappated and by 96 Cobraz was no more.

The Spasmodique members decide to get bback together in 98 and by 2000 they began work on what would become a new album Villa Delirium. It was released in 2002. That same year the book 20 Jaar Spasmodique, From the Cellar of Roses was published, detailing the band's history and discography. In 2005 singer Ritsema left the band, effectively ending Spasmodique. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Ritsema has continued to record and perform with his new band Raskolnikov.



01 - North (Intro) (2:16)
02 - You'll Be Mine (4:45)
03 - Marcus Was (5:23)
04 - Beating Up The Child (3:40)
05 - As You Wake Up (4:37)
06 - Retreat (In Anger) (4:22)
07 - Bloodbrothers (5:33)
08 - The Split Up (A Farce) (3:53)
09 - The Longest Day (7:17)
10 - Letter From An Asylum (4:10)
11 - Morning Dew (3:21)
12 - Town Of Failing Parties (3:20)
13 - Start To Believe (3:40)
14 - The Square (4:12)

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