Eight-X (29)

Hello, Eight-X calling a connected trio, first Martin Rev his debut solo album recorded between the Suicide albums I and II is followed by the first solo album of his Suicide partner Alan Vega, which was released in 81 after Suicide II which had a much more polished sound than their first effort, in a way his solo album a lot of original Suicide in it.... Alan Vega was available when Eldritch
asked him to do a quick studio project to record/release an album for a bandname Sisterhood , this to prevent third parties to take it. As these unpretencious and uncomplicated sessions can go...it worked out pretty well, the result was a true percurser of what would follow 2 years later as Sisters of Mercy's Floodland.

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Martin Rev - Martin Rev (80 flac 359mb)

Martin Rev might have seemed in the shade compared to the exubérance of Alan Vega (especially as he used to refuge behind unspeakable-ski-sunglasses). He even acknowledged that with Suicide, he was playing only with one hand, using the second to protect himself from the stuff launched against the band. But, obviously, you should not minimize his role in Suicide: it is him who was in charge of the wall of sound, and Alan Vega and him always remained very close; their own solo career having each one their own logic. Besides Alan Vega had always affirmed that Suicide had never splitted : no split = no reformation. Martin Rev, as solo performer, plays it cooler, a music kind of minimalistic, electronic but not techno, much more eccentric than noisy.

01 Mari 4:25
02 Baby Oh Baby 4:47
03 Nineteen 86 4:35
04 Temptation 7:18
05 Jomo 4:40
06 Asia 4:00
07 Coal Train 5:28
08 Marvel 12:50
09 5 To 5 2:00
10 Wes 4:16
11 Daydreams 5:22

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Alan Vega - Alan Vega (81, flac 179mb)

One half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide, Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He began his career as a visual artist, gaining notoriety for his "light sculptures; " eventually Vega opened his own lower Manhattan gallery space, which he dubbed the Project of Living Artists. The Project served as a stomping grounds for the likes of the New York Dolls, Television and Blondie as well as the 15-piece jazz group Reverend B., which featured a musician named Martin Rev on electric piano. Soon, Vega and Rev formed Suicide, whose minimalist, aggressive music — a fusion of Rev's ominous, repetitive keyboards and Vega's rockabilly snarl — helped paved the direction for the electronic artists of the future.
Suicide disbanded in 1980, and both Vega and Rev undertook solo careers. Vega's self-titled 1981 debut and his later that year second effort Collision Drive continued to explore the fractured rockabilly identity he had established in his earlier work. 1983's Saturn Strip, produced by longtime fan Ric Ocasek, marked Vega's debut for Elektra Records; corporate relations soured during production for 1985's Just a Million Dreams, however, and at one point the label even attempted to remove the singer from his own studio sessions.

Alan Vega used to say that as beeing basically a sculptor, music was secondary for him. Was that just another provocation? Alan Vega is anyway a true legend (a romantic hero or a deamer for some), joining for any kinds of obscure or more visible projects. He actually induces what Legs McNeil calls the astonishment, a mixture of fascination, made of repulsion and admiration: otherwise, how can one continue to adulate somebody who is ok with just a 30 minutes act (sometimes less, sometimes more) without any communication with the assitance? He's probably one of the original punks actors of the CBGB (New York Dolls, Ramones, Richard Hell, Wayne County, etc... see the compilation Songs of the Naked City) and someone which remains the most homogeneous and with the most credible attitude. His latest release is Station (2007)



1 - Jukebox Babe (4:45)
2 - Fireball (3:49)
3 - Kung Foo Cowboy (3:22)
4 - Love Cry (4:39)

5 - Speedway (2:30)
6 - Ice Drummer (4:23)
7 - Bye Bye Bayou (8:30)
8 - Lonely (2:39)


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Sisterhood, The - Gift (86 ^ 223mb)

Eldritch's parting words were "Thank You ... and Goodbye", heralding Eldritch's retirement from live performance, it was to be five years before the Sisters would perform again. Eldritch got fed up with his local starstatus and moved to Hamburg. Dis putes over a number of songs for the new album, lyrically caused Adams and Hussey to leave.The split soon turned nasty as Adams and Hussey joined forces to form a new band, which they called the Sisterhood. The obvious trading on the Sisters of Mercy's name, by two former members of the band who had left of their own volition, was not appreciated by Eldritch, particularly as Eldritch was by this time the only person carrying the Sisters' debt to WEA.

A second version of the Sisterhood was swiftly formed, comprising James Ray, former Motorhead drummer Lucas Fox, Suicide's Alan Vega and Gun Club's Patricia Morrison, with Eldritch overseeing the project as producer, but critically, not as a performing artist ( constrained by the WEA contract). This allowed the Eldritch Sisterhood to release records via Merciful Release, The Giving Ground single was quickly released; as the first version of the Sisterhood to release a record, this gave Eldritch the rights to the name. And the Hussey Sisterhood were forced to rename as the Mission. It's easy to dismiss Gift as a spoiler album, but this would ignore the musical innovation present on the album. Keyboards and industrial/dance rhythms were used to considerable effect, particularly on the opening Jihad.

Following Gift, Eldritch seems to have been unsure of where to take his career, but in Autumn 1987 Eldritch re-emerged leading a re-activated Sisters of Mercy, now stripped down to Eldritch and Patricia Morrison. This Corrosion was a huge hit, and Floodland was an undisputed success.




1 - Jihad (8:17)
2 - Colours (8:03)
3 - Giving Ground (7:31)
4 - Finland Red, Egypt White (8:17)
5 - Rain From Heaven (6:44)

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Around The World (MC 5)

Hello, Around the Worldmusics is still classical but getting more popular with Classical Treasures, romantic ones that is, with Mendelsohn, Chopin found a picture of him, made not long before his death. and Edvard Grieg, Smetana and Dvorak.

Romantic music as a movement refers to the expression and expansion of musical ideas established in earlier periods, such as the classical period. Romanticism does not necessarily apply to romantic love, but that theme was prevalent in many works composed during this time period. More appropriately, romanticism describes the expansion of formal structures within a composition, making the pieces more passionate and expressive. Overall, composers during this time (1820-1910) expanded on formal ideas in a new and exciting way.


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Far from the troubled, coarse libertine that has become an archetype of the Romantic composer, Felix Mendelssohn was something of an anomaly among his contemporaries. His own situation -- one largely of domestic tranquility and unhindered career fulfillment -- stands in stark contrast to the personal Sturm und Drang familiar to his peers. Mendelssohn was the only musical prodigy of the nineteenth century whose stature could rival that of Mozart.

Mendelssohn was a true Renaissance man. A talented visual artist, he was a refined connoisseur of literature and philosophy. While Mendelssohn's name rarely arises in discussions of the nineteenth century vanguard, the intrinsic importance of his music is undeniable. A distinct personality emerges at once in its exceptional formal sophistication, its singular melodic sense, and its colorful, masterful deployment of the instrumental forces at hand. A true apotheosis of life, Mendelssohn's music absolutely overflows with energy, ebullience, drama, and invention, as evidenced in his most enduring works: the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826-1842); the Hebrides Overture (1830); the Songs Without Words (1830-1845); the Symphonies No. 3 (1841-1842) and No. 4 (1833); and the Violin Concerto in E minor (1844). While the sunny disposition of so many of Mendelssohn's works has led some to view the composer as possessing great talent but little depth, his religious compositions -- particularly the great oratorios Paulus (1836) and Elijah (1846) -- reflect the complexity and deeply spiritual basis of his personality.

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Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father and came to be regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at the age of twenty, Chopin went abroad. After the suppression of the Polish 1830–31 Uprising, he became one of the many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In Paris he made a comfortable living as composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish ladies, from 1837 to 1847 he conducted a turbulent relationship with the French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). Chopin the Polishvirtuoso pianist and piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, always in frail health, at 39 in Paris he succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis.
 pic 1849

Chopin's music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense, frequent use of chromaticism, and counterpoint. This mixture produces a particularly fragile sound in the melody and the harmony, which are nonetheless underpinned by solid and interesting harmonic techniques. He took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. Chopin reinvented genres, namely the étude, by changing it by expanding on the idea and making them into gorgeous, eloquent and emotional showpieces.

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Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.
Grieg is renowned as a nationalist composer, drawing inspiration from Norwegian folk music. Early works include a symphony (which he later suppressed) and a piano sonata. He also wrote three sonatas for violin and piano and a cello sonata. His many short pieces for piano — often built on Norwegian folk tunes and dances — led some to call him the Chopin of the north. Although Grieg's smaller scale pieces are the most successful musically, the Piano Concerto is his most popular and still frequently performed. The slow movement, with its folk-like melodies, is perhaps its most successful feature.

Other well-known works are the Lyric Pieces (for piano), and the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. Despite In the Hall of the Mountain King being one of Grieg's most popular and enduring compositions, he himself did not care much for it. In a letter to a friend he wrote about the "infernal thing reek[ing] of cow-pies and provincialism." Grieg's popular Holberg Suite was originally written for the piano but later arranged for string orchestra. Grieg wrote songs with lyrics from Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others Grieg's songs now feature frequently in recitals and it is perhaps in these and the Lyric Pieces that his originality shows itself most convincingly.

In the spring 1903, Grieg made nine 78-rpm gramophone recordings of his piano music in Paris; all of these historic discs have been reissued on both LPs and CDs and, despite limited fidelity, show his artistry as a pianist. Grieg also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Welte-Mignon reproducing system, all of which survive today and can be heard.
Edvard Grieg died in the autumn of 1907, aged 64, after a long period of illness. His final words were "Well, if it must be so"

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Millennium Classics - Classical Treasures ( 97min ^162mb)




01 - F.Mendelssohn - Symphone No.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian'-Allegro vivace (7:44)
02 - F.Chopin - Prelude, Op.28 No.15 'Raindrop' (7:26)
03 - E.Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46-Morning (4:14)
04 - E.Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46-Ase's Death (4:46)
05 - E.Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46--Anitra's Dance (3:59
06 - E.Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46--In the Hall of the Mountain King (2:42)
07 - F.Chopin - Nocturne No.16 in E flat major, Op.55 No.2 (4:46)
08 - B.Smetana-Ma Vlast - No.2- Vltava (Die Moldau) (12:06)
09 - E.Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16-I- Allegro molto moderato (12:45)
10 - F.Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21-Scherzo (4:55)
11 - A.Dvorak - Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 'From the New World'-II- Largo (13:29)

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Foundation (1)

Hello, been thinking about the followup Ebook, and decided on more sci-fi. Over the decades The Foundation Trilogy has expanded its place in sci-fi history as its creator Isaac Asimov grew in stature when 30 years later he started expanding the Trilogy to what has now become eight books (spin-offs excluding). The BBC broadcast this ' 73 series three times, last time was 6 years ago. The foundation series has drawn in many enthousiasts and captured their imagination, so plenty of word around (check the link at the bottom). Due to the big time leaps the stories havent been filmed yet..though id think it would lend itself very well for a good sci-fi tv series.

Refresh your memory- if you read the books- or get hooked, for the next 8 weeks there's one hourly episode coming up.

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Foundation (novel) was originally a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950. According to Asimov the premise was based on ideas set forth in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and was invented spontaneously on his way to meet with editor John W. Campbell, with whom he developed the concept.The first four stories were collected, along with a new story taking place before the others, in a single volume published by Gnome Press in 1951 as Foundation (novel). The remainder of the stories were published in pairs as Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953), resulting in the "Foundation Trilogy", as the series was known for decades.

In 1981, after the series had long been considered the most important work of modern science fiction, Asimov was convinced by his publishers to write a fourth book, which was Foundation's Edge (1982).[2] He followed this with a sequel, Foundation and Earth (1983) and five years later prequels Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation. During the lapse between sequels and prequels Asimov tied in his Foundation series with his various other series, creating a single unified universe of his most known works.

In many ways, the Foundation series is unique as a science fiction novel. The focus of the books is certainly the trends through which a civilization might progress, specifically seeking to analyze how they might progress over time using history as a precedent.The Foundation series, looks at the trends in a wider scope, not necessarily looking at what the societies change into, but how they change and adapt. Furthermore, the concept of psychohistory, which gives the events in the story a sense of rational fatalism, leaves little room for moralization, as events are often treated as inevitable and necessary rather than deviations from the greater good.



Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy was adapted in eight hour-long episodes by the BBC, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002. Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951. Together, they form a single plot. Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists who seek to preserve knowledge as the civilizations around them begin to regress.


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Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy (73, 60min, 38mb)

Episode One; Psychohistory and Encyclopedia

The opening episode begins on Trantor capital of the Empire, with the meeting of Seldon and Dornick, their trial and exile to Terminus. The action jumps forward fifty years, where the repercussions of recent independence of the Four Kingdoms are felt on Terminus, and are handled by the first Mayor, Salvor Hardin.

AsimovWiki
is the fan-based Foundation Universe reference. This is the fictional universe in which the Robot, Empire and Foundation series by Isaac Asimov are set.

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Sundaze, Inside Out (6)

Hello, today at Sundaze Rho-Xs is going Inside Out again, in this context i try lift some veils or enhance understanding of ourselves. Big media isn't interested in informing you, selling and controlling the uninformed is so much easier.
One of the shocking things i've found out these last years is how corrupted science has become, and not just those chemists and doctors singing the big pharma tune. Corruption is not just a matter of money but status and career are just as effective, certainly when combined when combined with the bigotry and ignorance of previous science masters,( i call them cardinals these days...theres no pope in science but a lot of cardinals and vicious bishops...) . You might think that hard math sciences are exempt from all that , but alas they've moved into the realm of fancy theorising..to keep old ideas afloat, this whilst the truth is staring them in the face, any one raising his/her voice gets shunned, denied access to funds to prove those fallacies they adhere to wrong, indeed they would burn them at the stake. Cosmology these days is a travesty, the only worthwhile thing the world gets from that 'science' are some nice pics which they manage to interpret completely wrong, bound as they are to the ideas of a century ago, and that sixties big bang bummer. Discard everything that doesnt fit, and come up with enormous unknowns to fill in the equasions...Try that at a math test and you get laughed out of the classroom, but these astronomer guys get away with it, they ride their high telescopes and refuse to come down.

Fortunately people have been working on the truth, be it with limited means and yes even under death treats..thats how desperate these goons are to keep their status and illusions. Nevertheless, they can't change reality, and that is that the universe is electric, and not just on the galactic or local solar level but on our human level aswell and beyond that on the DNA level. What you see below here is the work of researcher Jay Alfred, i think the imagery below speaks a thousand words. But wait there's more another program from the Hemi-Sync lab, who's afraid  of numbers ? Enhance your math skills...Constance Demby's Novus Magnificat masterpiece got this multimedia artist even a grammy nomination....Finally, David Wilcock, i came across his work years ago, he's done some excellent research, and  i think together with the human energy field article below will get you a good insight
 in the nature of reality. Lots to read...and learn.......your eyes are getting heavy.....

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There have been many depictions of the human energy field and subtle bodies in the metaphysical and religious literature. The interesting observation in these depictions is the many signature features that can be associated with plasma. This suggests that the human energy field and the subtle body can be modeled as a bioplasma body. A brief excursion of the images in the literature and their similarity with structures often seen in plasma will be carried out below.

1. Magnetosphere
It is well-known in general metaphysics that the (relatively) dense bioplasma body sits inside an ovoid which is enclosed by a sheath. This ovoid is similar to the magnetosphere around the Earth as it protects the dense bioplasma body (inside the ovoid) from unwanted radiation, just as the Earth's magnetosphere protects the physical-dense Earth from harmful solar radiation. The ovoid usually contains a dense body (relative to the rest of the ovoid) along the longer axis of the ovoid with low density (weakly ionized) magnetic plasma filling the rest of the ovoid. The field lines of the primary dipolar magnetic field generated by the central vertical currents (see #10 below) within the bioplasma body is largely embedded within the ovoid.




2. Concentric Shells
Plasma crystals, generated in the laboratory, are in the form of collections of particles which are held in a crystal-like array by a plasma of weakly ionized gas. When the assembly of microscopic particles was contained between two electrodes and illuminated by a laser beam, it could be seen, even with the naked eye, that the particles naturally arranged themselves regularly into as many as 18 planes parallel to the electrodes. In a subsequent experiment, the particles in the plasma crystal arranged themselves into neat concentric shells, to a total ball diameter of several millimeters. These orderly Coulomb balls, consisting of aligned, concentric shells of dust particles, survived for long periods. This onion-like layered structure, comprising of concentric shells, is also often seen in depictions of the human energy field or subtle bodies in the metaphysical literature.




3. Double Helix (Birkeland) Currents
The helical shape of the magnetic field around the gas cloud in the constellation Orion is believed to be caused by matter in the interstellar cloud moving in a straight line along the length of the filament. When this happens, it causes the magnetic field around the cloud to spiral around in a corkscrew pattern. Researchers were able to detect this spiral shape using the Green Bank Telescope, a radio observatory in Virginia. When helical magnetic fields form in plasma, charged particles move along the field lines generating helical currents.

Kundalini is a Sanskrit term is derived from the term kundala, which means a "ring" or "coil". Kundalini currents have often been depicted in the metaphysical literature as a serpent coiled around the back part of the root chakra in three and a half turns (comparable to a solenoid or a compressed helical current) around the sacrum. The energy is supposed to originate from an apparent reservoir of subtle bio-energy at the base of the spine. The central vertical currents in the subtle body (described as Ida, Pingala and Sushumna in the yoga literature) are often depicted in the metaphysical (particularly the yoga) literature as a pair of mutually entangled helical currents with straight currents passing through them.

Mutually entangled (double spirals) currents are frequently seen in space and laboratory plasmas. Helical structures can also be found in dusty (or complex) plasma. This shows that there is a strong connection between plasma dynamics and the formation of the central kundalini and pranic currents in the (supersymmetric) bioplasma body as described by plasma metaphysics.




4. Hot Spots or Plasmoids
Plasmas can take up a variety of shapes and have "hot spots" which are visible. It has been observed that these hot spots in plasma emanate along axes. Secondly, these hotspots have different colors and temperatures than the rest of the mass. These observations agree with the bright blobs of light of different colors often found depicted in subtle body and human energy field literature along the spinal axis of the human body.

The hot spots are believed to be sources of intense X-ray emission as well as pulsed electron and ion beams. Hot spots require intense heating rates more commonly associated with focused laser beams. Pulsed beams have also been depicted in the metaphysical literature (see #6 below). Presumably these are generated by the hot spots, exit out of the vortexes (see #9 below), and undergo "lensing effects" while being ejected from the ovoid and being refracted by the clear material in the ovoid which could produce convergent and collimated beams.




5. Coronas, Spicules and Granulations
Coronal auras and discharges, granulation and spicules are all features associated with the Sun and our subtle energy bodies - the latter, as seen by clairvoyants. Coronal discharges and flares can occur suddenly on the Sun. The various particles that are discharged, together with these flares, are carried by the Sun's plasma wind to cause magnetic storms on Earth. Spicules are short-lived phenomena, corresponding to rising jets of gas that move upward and last only a few minutes on the Sun. Spicules can also be seen in the coronas of bioplasma bodies. In addition, striations (which can also be associated with plasma and are seen on gas giants like Jupiter) are also seen. Coronas and spicules can also be seen in Kirlian representations of the aura. (In laboratory tests, it has been found that Kirlian representations of the aura correlate with the colors and shapes that human "seers" see.)




6. Beams and Jets
Using sophisticated scientific equipment, scientists at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai have shown that "subtle energy" has the properties of an electromagnetic current when flowing through acupuncture meridians but takes on the properties of coherent particle streams, similar to laser light, when projected out from the body through the hands of master Qigong healers who cure diseases by beaming their energy into the patient's body.

There are important vortexes on the palms of the hands (of the subtle body within the ovoid). Jets or directed beams of light have been seen in photographs taken during events where subtle energetic practices take place (for example: Reiki, Qigong and Christian "Praise and Worship"). There are also Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist and Christian images showing jets of light issuing-out from the palms of saints or deities. One of the seers of the Fatima apparitions of "Mary" in 1919, "Lucia", revealed that during one of the apparitions, "Mary" opened her hands and "rays of light" issued from them.




7. Filamentary Currents
Plasma naturally forms filaments in response to electric fields within the subtle body (which according to plasma metaphysics is composed of a complex plasma of negatively-charged, positively-charged and neutral particles). Charged particles are guided within these filaments by magnetic fields and accelerated by electric fields - generating currents. It is a well accepted fact in metaphysics that there are filaments within our subtle body, which have been referred to as "meridians", "nadis" and "channels" - in the Chinese, Indian and Tibetan literature, respectively. In Taoist and Qigong literature, they are also referred to as "circuits" and "orbits". For example, Qigong practitioners may speak of microcosmic and macrocosmic orbits. The microcosmic orbit is really the main meridian through which particles are accelerated in the relevant practices to bring energy to the rest of the subtle body. According to plasma metaphysics, these meridians are "Birkeland currents", i.e. currents in which charged particles flow through and are guided by magnetic field lines.




8. Plasma Focus Device
The plasma focus device produces, by electromagnetic acceleration and compression, a short-lived magnetically-confined, hot spot or plasmoid that is so hot and dense that it becomes a multi-radiation source. These plasmoids emit intense beams of accelerated ions and electrons (see #4 above). The plasma focus device is similar to the plasma gun which is a magnetically driven shock tube that ejects plasma in the form of a plasmoid, without pinching it.
The similarities in the image when we look down at the barrel of a dense plasma focus device and the image of the throat chakra as depicted by Leadbeater are obvious. Plasma focus devices are therefore already embedded in bioplasma bodies, with the vortexes in the bioplasma body acting as delivery systems of intense collimated beams of energetic particles that are seen in many religious depictions of deities (see 6 above).




9. Plasma Vortex
Charged particles in an ionized environment have a tendency to follow magnetic field lines. If the path of the particle is at an angle, i.e. neither parallel nor perpendicular to the magnetic field lines, the particle will spiral around the magnetic field lines using a helical path. When the particles plunge they collide with other particles in the ovoid, generating a light phenomenon similar to the auroras in the atmosphere at Earth's magnetic poles. This process will generate a helical path that will have a cone shape when viewed from the side, with the apex of the cone meeting the surface of the bioplasma body. Dynamically, this can be described as a vortex. Since there are many particles streaming down into the bioplasma body, taking slightly different trajectories, smaller vortexes can also appear within a larger vortex.

Experimental metaphysicist Barbara Brennan has observed, as many other metaphysicists, vortexes within the human energy field or bioplasma body. Within each vortex, residing on the surface of the relatively dense body within the ovoid, there are also small rotating vortexes spinning at very high rates.




10. Super Fields
It has been observed and recorded in the metaphysical and religious literature that within the bioplasma body are both helical and straight currents (see #3 above) aligned with the longer axis of the bioplasma body. These are the "central currents". In addition, there also numerous filamentary currents interpenetrating the bioplasma body (see #7 above).

A complex network of currents enveloping the bioplasma body has been observed by Barbara Brennan who notes, "The main vertical power current induces other currents at right angles to it to form golden streamers that extend directly from the body. These in turn induce other currents that circle around the field, so that the entire auric field and all the levels below it are surrounded and held within a basket-like network." Moving charges generate magnetic fields which have been depicted often in the metaphysical literature. There are localized fields embedded within global fields.



© Copyright Jay Alfred 2007 Plasma Life

Jay Alfred has been researching on plasma life forms since 2001. He is the author of three books on a new field called "plasma metaphysics". The books include Our Invisible Bodies, Brains and Realities and Between the Moon and Earth which are available on Amazon online bookstores. Plasma metaphysics is the application of plasma and dark matter physics to the study of plasma life forms and their corresponding habitats. This includes the study of bioplasma bodies which co-evolved with carbon-based bodies on this planet.

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Hemi Sync - Buy The Numbers ( ^ 99mb )

H-PLUS uses Hemi-Sync® to establish an Access Channel into which encoded Functions are inserted into such total-awareness, in the knowledge that the methodology to perform said Functions is already inherent and existent within the system. Thereafter, the ability to activate Functions so inserted and encoded lies within the conscious option of the individual. The H-PLUS Access Channel is open only during the insertion of a new H-PLUS Function. At all other times, it remains closed and unavailable.

H-PLUS Functions are derived from a wide variety of sources both present-day and historical, from individuals and organizations who have demonstrated success in a specialized area and which can be learned by the H-PLUS process.

H-PLUS recognizes the existence of an inertial mass within the structure of each human consciousness as generated by the long-encrusted belief system therein. The Program also acknowledges the incipient anxiety and fear related to the prospect of change within said structure. Therefore, H-PLUS encourages and abets change in small increments rather than the quantum leap. The result is evolution as against revolution, with the whole far greater than the sum of the parts, without resistance or fear.

The primary goal of H-PLUS is total, conscious control as may be desired by the individual over the entire self - mental, emotional and physical. Because all are inseparable, each learned and applied H-PLUS Function contains elements of all three. Thus the effect of any single Function is not limited solely to the area of focus or application. It adds to and shapes the formation of the new whole - the KNOW SYSTEM.

In that H-PLUS employs chiefly methods and techniques in sound, all Function Exercises are provided initially on audio cassette tape, one to each cassette. Each cassette consists of Access Channel Preparatory training on one side, with actual Function Encoding on the second. Use of the preparation exercise until proficiency is achieved is essential prior to working with the encoding on the second side. However, casual listening to the encoding portion first may be desirable so that the participant is well acquainted at a conscious level with the Function to be inserted and absorbed.

The Function Encoding exercise on the second side is used and repeated until conscious testing demonstrates such Function is securely in place and operational. From that point forward, the exercise tape is no longer needed and can be given to a new H-PLUS Apprentice of choice.

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Sharpen your skills for working with numbers in everyday applications and improve your aptitude for defining and understanding numerical concepts. Use anytime to enhance your speed, accuracy, and ability to remember numbers and gain confidence in your mathematical abilities.



01 - Buy The Numbers 1 (30:21)
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Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat ( 86 ^ 276mb)

Born in Oakland CA, Constance Demby gave her first recital for classical pianoforte at the age of twelve. She studied sculpture and painting at the University of Michigan. After her marriage, she lived in New York for seven years. It was mainly as a sculptor that she built her sonic steel instruments, the space bass and later the whale sail. As a co-founder of The Central Maine Power, Sound and Light Company, an experimental visual and sound group, she created multimedia shows with sculptures and lights, and her sonic steel instruments.

As a pioneer in her field, she creates sounds you'd swear you never heard before; yet, somewhere in some dim memory, there is a faint memory echo - rich and compelling - calling up archetypal experiences which access the deeper, more profound levels of the mind-body-spirit, allowing listeners to travel into states of expanded consciousness.

Recommendation from Constance:

For NOVUS MAGNIFICAT, AETERNA, SANCTUM SANCTUORUM, SPIRIT TRANCE, SACRED SPACE MUSIC, SONIC IMMERSION, ATTUNEMENT I recommend that you listen “frontally” - at least for the first time. That is, prepare for the experience so that you will be able to give the music your full attention with no interruptions as you receive the tones. Without your full absorption, you could miss the potent emotional impact the music can deliver, for the music has frequencies and tones encoded within it that can potentially impact one down to the cellular level.

To prepare for a full immersion, turn off phone and phone machines, seclude yourself, close the door, turn down the lights, turn UP the volume, boost the bass frequencies, (good earphones are OK too), and relax deeply as the music takes you on a journey. If you wish, you may ask to be taken to “the same realms from which the music came.” Since sound is a carrier wave for intention, you can also experiment with the tones by sending them to specific parts of your embodiement that may need healing. By listening in this way, many listeners have experienced life changing events, powerful healings, altered consciousness, gotten in touch with guidance, viewed past lives, had spontaneous healings, with some even being rescued from suicide attempts.Blessings and have a good journey!



1 - Part One - 26:15
-----Ascent
-----Choral Climax
-----My Heart Doth Soar

2 - Part Two - 27:14
-----The Flying Bach
-----Certainty
-----Stargate

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David Wilcock - Divine Cosmos PDF (196 pages, 3mb)

THE ENERGETIC TRANSFORMATION OF OUR ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM is now underway, and we are already feeling the effects – which the US government now admits, but is attempting to blame on global warming. This is by far the most facile and under-informed opinion about what is going on. In this book, we go miles beyond either of our previous two books in the Convergence series ... The Shift of the Ages and Convergence III. If you liked these books ... just wait. The problem was that we didn’t even know about the entirely new world of Russian physics when we wrote those books ... and once we found it, ALL the pieces fit together.

We now present a completely Unified model, showing how the same energetic fields are at work on all levels of size, from the quantum to intergalactic. This proves that the Universe is holographic and/or fractal in its very nature. This model has never existed in such a complete form in any of our recent history, at least overtly. Many annoying paradoxes of science have now been resolved into one single, stable multi-dimensional cosmology – which has dazzling implications for our immediate future.

The information contained within this book has waited long enough. It keeps banging on the door, because it wants a hot meal and a warm place to sleep in your mind. Start learning what a part of you already knows… come and discover The Divine Cosmos.



~ Table of Contents ~Prologue: The Mystery is Revealed
Chapter One: The Breakthroughs of Dr. N.A. Kozyrev
Chapter Two: Light on Quantum Physics
Chapter Three: Sacred Geometry in the Quantum Realm
Chapter Four: The Sequential Perspective
Chapter Five: Large-Scale Geometric Energy Forms
Chapter Six: The Universal Heartbeat
Chapter Seven: Spherical Energy Structures in the Cosmos
Chapter Eight: The Energetic Transformation of the Solar System
Supplemental: The Ultimate Secret of the Mayan Calendar

~ Peace be With You ~

~ On Behalf of the One Infinite, David and all Collaborators Thank You ~

A great lecture by the man
Wilcock Talk @ Videogoogle , 90min


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Rhotation (29) Into BPM

Hello, Rhotation 29 this week and today Into BPM goes Drum and Bass again, 3 releases from the last decade and a bonus mix, in all 4hours of great and danceable D&B , i'd say enough to break the beat with the neighbour...maybe a good carstereo then, but likely this would result in speeding tickets...

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Breakbeat Era - Ultra-Obscene (99 ^492mb)

Breakbeat Era was a short-lived British project that combined the breakbeat talents of drum and bass producers Roni Size and DJ Die with the vocals of singer Leonie Laws. Combining the hyperkinetic breakbeats and chilly electronic textures of drum'n'bass with actual song structures . Breakbeat Era differs from all of these in that this group comes to rock from drum'n'bass, not the other way around. Leonie Laws is not a tuneless singer, by any means, but her approach is more punk than pop, and the instrumental accompaniment is straight out of the "darkcore" subgenre of drum'n'bass, a style typified by minor chords and creepy, robotic basslines. Song titles like "Rancid," "Our Disease" and "Anti-Everything" -- all of which sound like they were nicked from first-wave punk albums -- give you an idea of what to expect.

In conjunction with the album's release, the group was also seen as a live act in the U.S. and UK in a similar vein as Reprazent, with focus on Leonie Laws. Since the album seems to be a one-off project, other releases seem unlikely. As of 2006, Leonie Laws was working with a new drum and bass live band called "Blackout".



01 - Past Life (5:23)
02 - Rancid (5:07)
03 - Ultra-Obscene (5:03)
04 - Bullitproof (4:32)
05 - Breakbeat Era (5:22)
06 - Time 4 Breaks (4:20)
07 - Late Morning (6:11)
08 - Anti-Everything (5:26)
09 - Animal Machine (3:03)
10 - Our Disease (5:51)
11 - Max (0:48)
12 - Control Freak (5:44)
13 - Terrible Funk (5:38)
14 - Sex Change (3:42)
15 - Life Is My Friend (7:59)

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Peshay - Fuzion ( 02 ^ 496mb)

Peshay's style of jungle/drum'n'bass, influenced both by house and the more polished forms of jazz fusion, allies itself both with Goldie and 4 Hero. A breakbeat DJ from early in his career, Peshay debuted on wax with Reinforced in 1993, recording the Protegé EP before joining Goldie's Metalheadz stable and releasing its second single, "Psychosis." He also recorded several twelves with LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records, including "The Piano Tune" and "19.5." Though hampered by a serious illness which sidelined him during jungle's breakout year of 1995, Peshay returned in 1996, remixing singles from Goldie's Timeless ("Inner City Life" and "Angel") and contributing tracks to the Mo'Wax compilation Headz II. Signed up to Mo'Wax, Peshay released the "Miles from Home" single in mid-1998 and worked on material with Photek's Rupert Parkes. The label's practical dissolution by the following year led to delays for the expected full-length, though by July 1999 Peshay's debut album -- also called Miles from Home -- appeared on the Island Blue label. Following de rigeur for top-flight jungle producers, he also formed his own label, Elementz Records, which released twelves from Decoder and Technical Itch.

Long delayed because of release problems with Mo' Wax, Peshay's debut funnels his jazz influences -- not just the slick end of '70s fusion and disco, but the hard boppin' '60s as well -- into a solid album of breakbeat dance. The jazz'n'breaks angle is done better than most, thanks to input from two of the jungle scene's prime engineer/producers, Decoder and (on two tracks) Photek. The title track is an obvious highlight (it actually appeared on Mo' Wax as a single more than a year earlier), and the live bass and piano on "Live at 2:37" are a welcome attempt to continue integrating jazz improv with drum'n'bass

On Fuzion , apart from featuring collaborations with Co-Ordinate, Flytronix, and Neil Mac, Peshay has, naturally, caught the pick 'n' mix drum 'n' bass re-birth vibe and refined its application with spotless production. Where others have taken their cue from Samba, house and soul, Peshay has for the most part delved into house's early roots in disco, borrowing strings and funky guitar links to embellish the beats with a soft, soulful underbelly.The result is an album that pumps with energy while simultaneously invoking the warm vibes more often associated with deep house. Some of this cross-pollination is sublime.



01 - You Got Me Burning (Ft. Co-Ordinate) (8:25)
02 - Satisfy My Love (8:38)
03 - Fuzion (7:49)
04 - Bring It (7:29)
05 - No More Tears (Ft. I-Eka) (6:24)
06 - Take Me Higher (8:10)
07 - What I Need (7:45)
08 - Downtown Sound (6:57)
09 - Rotation (Ft. Co-Ordinate) (8:45)
10 - It's A House Thing (6:04)

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E-Z Rollers - Titles Of The Unexpected (03  387mb)

The E-Z Rollers is a British drum and bass group made up of Jay Hurren (also known as JMJ), Alex Banks (also known from the band Hyper-On Experience) and Kelly Richards. The group was formed in 1995 in Norfolk, England. They defined the easy-rolling two-step of Moving Shadow Records during the late '90s with their recordings as E-Z Rollers, after developing hardcore breakbeats earlier in the decade . They were originally involved in the mid-'80s rare-groove and hip-hop scene around their native East Anglia, pr- omoting shows and DJing as well. They moved into house as well after the rave explosion, and while Banks increasinly concentrated on production work in his home studio during the early '90s, Hurren continued to mix at events, usually billed as JMJ. The duo began recording after meeting emerging jungle don L.T.J Bukem -- releasing various singles for Rob Playford's Moving Shadow and Bukem's Good Looking -- "Montana" and "Universal Horn" as JMJ & Richie, "Thunder Grip" and "Lords of the Null Lines" as Hyper-On Experience -- and helped write the template for smooth drum'n'bass with plenty of jazz texture but swift rhythms to keep the vibes moving in clubs.

After meeting up with vocalist Kelly Richards at one of their gigs, Hurren and Banks decided to form E-Z Rollers around the threesome. Their first long-player together, Dimensions Of Sound, arrived in 1996 and its gentle, jazz influenced hooks, solid beats and melodic keys were wonderfully enhanced by Kelly's exquisite vocals. The crew kept their hand in over the next few months with various 12s before unleashing their second album, Weekend World, in 1998. This saw a brief excursion into the UK charts with "Walk This Land" which reached an astonishing No.18 in the UK charts after being used for the British flick, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

With their third album, Titles Of The Unexpected, they have produced their most accomplished disk to date. Packed with anthemic tunes and the hip-hop grooves, this album stretches right across musical genres, from the breaks inspired "Take It EZ" to the dancehall-style flavas of "Lady Jam". Always open minded and well known for serving a huge assortment of different sonic delicacies from a number of different platters, Titles of the Unexpected sees them search deeper within their inner self. With the enrolment of hip-hop beatbox legend Doug E Fresh and soul diva Sharon Brown, the sonic adventure is complete. EZs roll with high tempo d & b and mid-tempo breaks with a collection of tracks full of fervour and flair.



01 - E-Z Intro (0:50)
02 - Back To Love (Radio Edit) (3:26)
03 - Music Keeps Me (6:13)
04 - One Crazy Diva (5:37)
05 - Half A Chance (5:23)
06 - You'll Never Know (Voc. S. Brown) (3:25)
07 - Lady Jam (Voc.Mango Seed) (3:04)
08 - Sunshine People (6:14)
09 - Tu-Ruf (Voc. R. Birch) (3:39)
10 - Rhyme And Punishment (4:07)
11 - Dust (4:33)
12 - Submission (3:23)
13 - Take It Easy (Rap MC Jakes) (3:26)
14 - E-Z Outro (4:20)


Live Mix Session (99, 63:22  441mb)

Recorded at Manic One Studios, London, England.

01 - Intro (0:16)
02 - Music Keeps Me (5:02)
03 - Sunshine People (5:50)
04 - Submission (4:18)
05 - Back To Love (4:40)
06 - Walk This Land (Live Mix) (4:13)
07 - RS2000 (Filibuster Remix) (6:04)
08 - One Crazy Diva (5:23)
09 - Dust (5:02)
10 - Superheros (Voc. K. Wilkinson) (3:28)
11 - RS2000 (Vocal Mix) (2:37)
12 - Tough At The Top (Remix) (5:28)
13 - Dollar Man (5:12)
14 - Half A Chance (5:42)

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Into The Groove (28)

Hello, Into The Groove asks what is soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." The performance is very emotional, and the melody is decorated with improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and plastic body moves, are an important feature. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. So much for the theory and i gather decades ago the record companies assumed many people wondered about what soul was, because both sets of vinyl state, better said testify that what's on it is soul...it does make it a bit confusing .. well here's 54 tracks , many of them real classics those that aren't add to the depth and quality this Soul Music and their performers had . The sixties may have brought the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors and The Beach Boys and the rebellion that came with it, it was the black people that really came out and touched the hearts and minds, not forgetting those hips too, of many black and white....that is soul....

In the comments section there's a listing of the re-uploads of these past weeks.

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Various - That's Soul I ( 55min ^ 99mb)




01 - Ray Charles - What I'd Say (4:27)
02 - Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (2:30)
03 - Drifters, The - On Broadway (2:57)
04 - Jackie Wilson - To Be Loved (2:27)
05 - Mary Wells - My Guy (2:48)
06 - Sam Cooke - Twistin' The Night Away (2:37)
07 - James Brown - Please Please Please (2:44)
08 - Marvelettes, The - Please Mr. Postman (2:43)
09 - Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions (2:49)
10 - Brook Benton - Call Me (2:33)

11 - Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (2:55)
12 - Temptations - My Girl (2:43)
13 - James Brown - Try Me (2:29)
14 - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Streets (2:36)
15 - Supremes - Baby Love (2:34)
16 - Drifters - Up On The Roof (2:34)
17 - Jackie Wilson - Baby Workout (2:57)
18 - Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya (2:20)
19 - Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (2:32)
20 - Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Made (2:27)

Various - That's Soul II ( 58min,* 99mb)

21 - Lou Rawls - Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (2:12)
22 - Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia (3:48)
23 - Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (4:06)
24 - Roberta Flack - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (4:14)
25 - Drifters, The - Save The Last Dance For Me (2:25)

26 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (2:40)
27 - Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem (3:26)
28 - Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question (2:31)
29 - Platters, The - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2:36)
30 - Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (2:47)

31 - LaVerne Baker - I Cried A Tear (2:34)
32 - Drifters, The - There Goes My Baby (2:08)
33 - R.B. Greaves - Take A Letter Maria (2:40)
34 - Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger (2:36)
35 - Spinners - I'll Be Around (3:04)

36 - Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (2:41)
37 - Ben E. King - Stand By Me (2:56)
38 - Blue Magic - Sideshow (3:22)
39 - Barbara Lewis - Make Me Your Baby (2:26)
40 - Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band - Love Land (3:00)

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Various - That's Atlantic Soul ( 67, 38 min ^ 90mb)




01 - Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally (3:03)
02 - Carla Thomas - Baby (2:50)
03 - Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music (2:18)
04 - Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (2:53)
05 - Sam & Dave - I Got Everything I Need (2:43)
06 - Ben E.King - What Is Soul (2:16)
07 - Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (2:45)

08 - Otis readding - Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (2:40)
09 - Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood (3:01)
10 - Solomon Burke - Keep Looking (2:37)
11 - Wilson Picket - Land Of The Thousand Dances (2:22)
12 - Joe Tex - Papa Was Too (2:39)
13 - Percy Sledge - Warm And Tender Love (3:16)
14 - The Drifters - Baby What I Mean (2:25)

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Alphabet Soup II (B)

Hello, Alphabet Soup back to B and I continue with the format of picking one from the 7, 9 and 0 ties...as the 8 ties has its own dedicated day...First up the seventies contribution from Bachman-Turner Overdrive, when ripping that vinyl i thought how good some of the tracks are..a track like Hey You showed the US wave pop, which came a few years later, the way. The 76 album here Best Of B.T.O. (So Far) never got extended much hits wise but a great number of variations have seen the market...but this is the original one...its even been rereleased remastered now, not many original compilations ever get to that stage.. Secondly..Brad, the band that aquinted me with the voice of Shawn Smith, it was an agreeable one as i bought into his other projects Satchel and his work with Steve Fisk in Pigeonhed aswell. Well thats the thing with vocals they can grab you or push / make you cringe. Obviously most of the time vocals stay in the bland range..adapting to the lyrics....Finally Broadcast, i happen to have chatted with them after a show the guys had a very intellektual approach to their music, Trish the singer was as sweet as she looks and sings..ah well it was a few years ago. Broadcast's retro-futuristic sci-fi music sounding like they could've been written in the sixties and yet they don't sound dated, far from it...judge yourself..

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O. (So Far) (76 ^ 90mb)

Following his 1970 departure from the Guess Who, guitarist Randy Bachman recorded a solo album (Axe) and planned a project with ex-Nice keyboardist Keith Emerson (later canceled due to illness) before forming Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1972. Originally called "Brave Belt," the metal group was comprised of singer/guitarist Bachman, fellow Guess Who alum Chad Allan, bassist C.F. "Fred" Turner, and Randy's brother, drummer Robbie; after a pair of LPs (Brave Belt I and Brave Belt II), Allan was replaced by another Bachman brother, guitarist Tim, and in homage to the trucker's magazine Overdrive, the unit became BTO. While their self-titled 1973 debut caused little impact in the U.S. or the band's native Canada, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II was a smash, netting a hit single with the anthemic "Takin' Care of Business." Prior to the release of 1974's Not Fragile, Tim Bachman exited the group to begin a career in production, and was replaced by Blair Thornton; the album was a chart-topping success, and notched a number one single with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

After 1977's Freeways, Randy Bachman left the group for a solo career and formed another group, Ironhorse. Bachman-Turner Overdrive continued on in his absence with replacement Jim Clench for two more albums, Street Action and Rock n' Roll Nights (both 1978), eventually changing their name to simply BTO. At the tail-end of the decade, the band dissolved, but in the 1980s they re-grouped to tour as both Bachman-Turner Overdrive (led by Randy) and BTO (led by Robbie); the ensuing confusion the name game triggered ultimately resulted in Randy Bachman filing suit against his one-time bandmates for rights to the group's logo.

This nine-song collection released in 1976 was the first of close to two dozen "Best Of," "Greatest Hits," and "Greatest Hits Live" collections .. ". These songs are culled from the group's first five albums, 1973's Bachman Turner Overdrive debut up to 1975's Head On. They ruled the charts as a North American counterpart to the British Bad Company, whose first version charted during the same time period with almost the same amount of hits. Five of the nine songs were composed all or in part by Randy Bachman, including the song that didn't break the Top 40 but should have, "Looking Out for #1." Its "Girl From Ipanema" riff and majestic performance was touted by Mercury in the trades as their next number one, but for some inexplicable reason, it fizzled. This album has been re-mastered and refined over the years, but it is what it is, a compact collection of their hits released over a two-year period.



01 - Roll On Down The Highway (3:53)
02 - Hey You (3:27)
03 - Lookin' Out For #1 (5:12)
04 - Gimme Your Money Please (4:13)
05 - Let It Ride (3:26)

06 - Take It Like A Man (3:36)
07 - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (3:34)
08 - Blue Collar (6:02)
09 - Takin' Care Of Business (4:41)

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Brad - Shame ( 93 ^ 99mb)

Regan Hagar was in a band called Malfunkshun with Andrew Wood, and Malfunkshun shared a rehearsal space with Green River which Stone Gossard was a member of. Andrew Wood and Stone Gossard played together in Mother Love Bone after that and Regan, Shawn and Mike formed the band Satchel. They all remained friends during this time as Regan, Stone, and Jeff Ament would often have jam sessions and eventually Regan, Shawn, Mike, and Stone decided to form another band which they wanted to call `Shame` but that name was already taken by a man named Brad Wilson... so they decided on the next best thing, they called this band Brad. That is the story on how this band was formed.

With drummer Regan Hagar, guitarist Stone Gossard formed Brad as a side project after his main band, Pearl Jam, became superstars in 1992. Also featuring vocalist Shawn Smith and bassist Jeremy Toback, the group spent the spring of 1993 putting together material. Recorded in roughly 20 days, with many tracks taken from in-studio jam sessions, Shame is an eclectic mix of styles and a raw, vital recording. The track "20th Century" was a minor hit in the UK. In the US it got mixed reviews and lukewarm sales. Shame is one of the sharper side-project efforts out there, largely because it doesn't seek to clone the parent group. Instead of Gossard, the focus falls on vocalist Shawn Smith, the sweetly voiced, soul-inspired frontman who also achieved notice later for his own group, Satchel, as well as his project with production legend Steve Fisk, Pigeonhed. On his first major effort, Smith shows excellent control, his astonishing falsettos have won him Prince comparisons, but he's no slavish imitator, with a rich tone and sense of hurt. He handles keyboards for the group as well, and his piano and organ parts quite fine and his performance sense generally spot on.

Their follow-up album, Interiors, in 1997 was much more polished, again to poor sales but a more enthusiastic cult audience started developing. It was accompanied by a tour of the United States in that year, as well as a small tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1998. Fans of the group championed the disc, but they would have to wait until 2002 before the group came together for another album. With Mike Berg taking Jeremy Toback's spot for most of the disc, Welcome to Discovery Park was released that summer. It mixes the rawness of Shame and the polished, produced sound of Interiors. In July 2005 they released an album of unreleased and incomplete Brad and Satchel tracks called Brad vs. Satchel. Currently the band is working on a fourth album.



01 - Buttercup (4:14)
02 - My Fingers (3:19)
03 - Nadine (3:31)
04 - Screen (5:11)
05 - 20th Century (4:02)
06 - Good News (4:23)
07 - Raise Love (4:14)
08 - Bad For The Soul (1:11)
09 - Down (4:17)
10 - Rockstar (2:47)
11 - We (5:26)

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Broadcast - Haha Sound ( 03 ^ 99mb)

Space-age pop collagists Broadcast formed in Birmingham, England, in 1995; comprised of vocalist Trish Keenan, guitarist Tim Felton, bassist James Cargill, keyboardist Roj Stevens, and drummer Steve Perkins The band's style is a mixture of electronic sounds and Keenan's 1960s-influenced vocals. It is heavily influenced by the 1960's American psychedelic group The United States of America, using many of the same electronic effects. It is also reminiscent of Stereolab. However, despite the similar musical pedigree, Broadcast's music often has a darker, edgier sound - with amorphous samples and analogue dissonance giving it a retro-futuristic sci-fi edge.

The band's first releases were singles released on Wurlitzer Jukebox Records ( "Accidentals" ) and Duophonic Records ("The Book Lovers") in the mid-1990s. "The Book Lovers" was also featured on the soundtrack of the film "Austin Powers." They attracted the attention of Warp Records, who compiled the singles in 1997 on Work and Non Work. All subsequent releases have been on Warp Records, or in the USA on Tommy Boy Records. Their song "Before We Begin" was used in the Season Four finale of the L Word. On their early singles and brilliant debut album, The Noise Made by People, Broadcast's commitment to crafting meticulously, ethereally beautiful atmospheres gave their music a detached quality that made them somewhat difficult to embrace fully.

Ever the studio perfectionists, fans had to wait until 2003 to hear any new material from the band, when the Pendulum EP arrived that spring and Haha Sound appeared that summer. While their music still sounds like it could've been crafted by ghosts in the machine, now Broadcast give it flesh and blood through more warmth and texture. Haha Sound's more human touch comes through in its looser, more intimate, and rougher sound. A big part of Haha Sound's expansive feel is Trish Keenan's increasingly expressive vocals; while she can still occasionally seem to be hovering slightly outside the songs, her delivery is much more vulnerable and emotive. The delicately spooky nursery rhyme "Colour Me In" begins the album with the wistful, childlike viewpoint that creeps into Haha Sound from time to time. "Pendulum" finds the band digging deeper into their psychedelic influences, with acid rock drumming and flashback-like washes of sound making it one of the most tense, driving tracks they've recorded. "Ominous Cloud," and "Winter Now" suggest that Broadcast could probably make dozens of immaculate pop songs like these if they wanted to.

In fall 2005, Broadcast -- pared down to the duo of Keenan and Cargill -- issued the America's Boy single and Tender Buttons full-length. 2006's Future Crayon collected the group's numerous rare tracks and B-sides. They are currently working on their fourth studio album.



01 - Colour Me In (2:51)
02 - Pendulum (4:21)
03 - Before We Begin (3:22)
04 - Valerie (4:04)
05 - Man Is Not A Bird (4:52)
06 - Minim (3:00)
07 - Lunch Hour Pops (3:36)
08 - Black Umbrellas (1:08)
09 - Ominous Cloud (3:46)
10 - Distorsion (2:02)
11 - Oh How I Miss You (1:17)
12 - The Little Bell (2:48)
13 - Winter Now (3:48)
14 - Hawk (3:42)

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Eight-X (28)

Hello, so what does Eight-X come up with this week ? How about a rare album by Robin Scott, better known under the moniker ' M' that provided him with the megahit Pop Muzik and i suspect still a steady trickle of pecunia from the rights.. Now he was a bit too experienced and pig headed to let that success guide him and 2 years later his record company refused to release this album in the UK, however it did get a release on the continent. Anyway those that DL this album should check the backside photo because i think its Robin again..feminised.. Well the album title turned out to be prophetic as he didnt release another album again.....How different my next guests..Bad Manners, they scored a string of hits in the early eighties, mainly by having the singer, Buster Bloodvessel, living up to their name. Then the hit connection dried up midway thru the eighties but they' ve kept on releasing albums and performing....My last stop today are Crass the godfathers of anarcho punk,
Best Before...1984 was named in reference to the notion that 1984 was the band's 'sell by date', the year that they had often publicly stated that they would split up, they kept their word and ceased gigging and recording in that year.After their final gig the band retired to Dial House, their Essex commune home, to get on with writing, painting and tending the organic vegetable garden. There were splits within the house which led to some members leaving. The remainder then found themselves in a legal battle with British Telecom to save their home and the surrounding countryside from being swallowed by a housing development. They defeated BT in the courts with the help of local villagers, but were immediately thrust up against new owners, property developers Peer Group. Who put the place up for sale, thanks to donations Crass was able to buy Dial House and continue living there.

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Robin ' M ' Scott - Famous Last Words (82 ^ 99mb)

Robin Esmond Scott (born 1 April 1947) grew up in the South London suburb of Croydon, and after leaving school enrolled at Croydon Art college, where he met Malcolm McLaren in the late 1960s. Scott befriended him and fashion guru Vivienne Westwood. He declined their offer to be involved in SEX, the Chelsea clothes shop which MacLaren and Westwood launched, preferring to make his career in music. While at college he had displayed a talent for writing topical songs which he performed on radio and TV, and this led to his debut album, entitled Woman From the Warm Grass. Scott began working as a troubadour, singing his own songs and accompanying himself on guitar and spent a period playing folk music clubs as a solo artist. In 1972 he entered the 'Search For A Star' national talent contest, which he won, and was offered a recording contract by EMI, but because they would not support his backing band, he turned down the deal.

Scott then started working with the band Roogalator, a well regarded and original R&B band producing their debut single, "Cincinnati Fatback" (one of the first releases on the Stiff label) followed by another single "Love & The Single Girl" on Virgin. As Virgin failed to pick up the album option, he independently produced Roogalator's debut LP Play It By Ear to be released on his own Do It Records. In 1978 Scott worked as producer for Barclay Records in Paris. While still in Paris he recorded early versions of "Moderne Man" / "Satisfy Your Lust", tracks which would ultimately appear on the first album. With a group of session musicians he called 'M', he also produced and recorded "Pop Muzik", which was written as his resume of years of pop music and of being in the music industry. Released in the UK at the end of 1979 on the back of the no 1 hit, New York • London • Paris • Munich was also a sizeable hit in the U.S. In contrast to "Pop Muzik", another track titled "Moonlight and Muzak" was the follow-up single. MCA executives were unhappy with this change of direction, but with a hit behind him, Scott felt it was relevant to be heard at this point. The track was written as a result of his experiences in the U.S. where he came into contact with the music company called the Muzak Organisation.

In late 1980, the follow-up album called The Official Secrets Act was released, containing the songs "Keep It to Yourself" and the title track, and was inspired, albeit tongue-in-cheek, by the overwhelming worldwide paranoia of the time. In 1981 Scott co-produced rising star Ryuichi Sakamoto, along with fellow members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra (who also participated on resultant albumsLeft Handed Dream and The Arrangement ) The next year brought a third 'M' album Famous Last Words, which featured many of the musicians from the previous albums, including the early incarnation of Level 42 (who by this time were having their own regular hits), producer Wally Badarou also playing keyboards, Julian Scott on bass, Brigit Novik on backing vocals, a young Thomas Dolby on programming, Yellow Magic drummer Yukihiro Takahashi, guitarist from Gang of Four Andy Gill and Tony Levin on bass.

MCA declined release of the album in the UK, and it only saw the light of day in France, Italy and the U.S. (where 'M' was not even signed up). Subsequently the label and M parted company. Scott found a new musical direction, producing an EP of African acts in Kenya. This led to the yet unreleased album, 'Robin Scott & Shikisha' in 1983/4, recorded in Kenya and the UK, with musicians from several different African states. Most of this pioneering World Music was originally suppressed, but was remastered and released in 2003.

These days Scott is working as a digital artist, you can visit his website here ! and have a (flash) look around and possibly buy some..



01 - Double Talk (3:22)
02 - The Bridge (4:40)
03 - Honelulu Joe (3:54)
04 - Love Life (4:17)
05 - Yellow Magic (4:58)

06 - Smash The Mirror (3:55)
07 - Nutron (5:13)
08 - Dance On The Ruins (4:03)
09 - Here Today Gone Today (4:37)
10 - To Be Is To Buy (3:11)

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Bad Manners - The Height Off.. (83 ^ 98mb)

Bad Manners, fronted by Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle), was formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School near Manor House, North London. They were were at their most popular during the late 1970s and early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands, such as Madness and The Specials, filled the charts. Bad Manners spent 111 weeks in the British singles charts between 1980 and 1983. One of the main reasons for their notoriety was their outlandish huge-tongued and shaven-headed frontman, Buster Bloodvessel. His manic exploits got them banned from the British BBC TV chart show Top of the Pops.The band was also banned from Italian TV after Bloodvessel mooned a concert audience, after being told that the Pope was watching on TV.

In 1986 Bad Manners went their separate ways, but Buster Bloodvessel reformed the band with original members Louis Alphonso, Martin Stewart, Chris Kane and Winston Bazoomies in 1987. They released Return of the Ugly in 89, Fat Sound (93), Heavy Petting (97) and Stupidity (03) but scored no more hits. In 1995, Buster Bloodvessel moved to Margate opening a hotel on the seafront called "Fatty Towers", which catered for people with huge appetites. While living in Margate, Buster was a regular spectator and sponsor of Margate F.C. "Fatty Towers" closed in 1998, and Buster moved back to his native London. As of 2007, Buster Bloodvessel still performs with Bad Manners in venues all over the UK and Europe.



01 - Special Brew (3:19)
02 - Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu (2:35)
03 - Lip Up Fatty (2:46)
04 - Woolly Bully (3:06)
05 - Lorraine (3:08)
06 - Just A Feeling (3:02)
07 - Inner London Violence (3:49)
08 - Buena Sera (2:48)

09 - Walking In The Sunshine (3:28)
10 - Can Can (2:52)
11 - Samson And Delilah (2:53)
12 - My Girl Lollipop (2:44)
13 - Got No Brains (3:49)
14 - Here Comes The Major (2:51)
15 - Falling Out Of Love (3:21)
16 - That'll Do Nicely (2:49)

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Crass - Best Before...1984 (86, 79min * 123mb)

Crass influenced the anarchist movement in the UK, US, and around the world. With the growth of anarcho-punk came new generations of people who became interested in anarchist ideas. The philosophical and aesthetic influence of Crass on numerous punk bands from the 1980s were far reaching, even if few bands mimicked their later more free-form musical style.


In keeping with early punk ethos, Crass assumed obviously fake stage names. The membership changed a bit over the years, but the group's mainstays were vocalists Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine, and Joy de Vivre. Drummer Penny Rimbaud and G. Sus, who did tape collages and provided the distinctively bleak black and white artwork on the fold-out posters that usually enclosed their LPs, were also important contributors. Their late-'70s recordings may sound like just so much hardcore punk decades later. But at the time they were indeed shocking assaults of noisy guitars and relentless drumming, backed by throaty, angry rants that were made incomprehensible to many ears by the heavy British accents and the sheer speed of delivery. They were the definitive uncompromising punk band, which guaranteed them a cult following of very disaffected youth, and also ensured that they would never come remotely close to mainstream exposure, or even to many new wave playlists. An undiluted lyrical message was far more important to Crass than commercial considerations. The horrors of war, the arbitrary nature of legal justice, sexism, media imagery, organized religion, the flaws of the punk movement itself -- all were subjected to harsh critique. Like few other rock bands before or since, Crass took rock-as-agent-of-social-and-political-change seriously, and not just in their music.



Taken from their entire period 1977-84.Crass manage to make a representative selection throughout their work, covering both their raw power and their more sophisticated songwriting, while they proove their uniqueness from the very beginning to the last gig. This compilation presents the whole of Crass and is to be enjoyed by beginners as well as by those who know all their albums. The album was named in reference to the notion that 1984 was the band's 'sell by date', the year that they had often publicly stated that they would split up. Indeed the band ceased gigging and recording in this year.



01 - Do They Owe Us A Living? (1:51)
02 - Major General Despair (1:16)
03 - Angela Rippon (1:01)
04 - Reality Asylum (6:37)
05 - Shaved Women (4:41)
06 - Bloody Revolutions (6:18)
07 - Nagasaki Nightmare (8:23)
08 - Big A, Little A (6:13)
09 - Rival Tribal Rebel Revel (3:09)
10 - Sheep Farming In The Falklands (Flexi) (5:22)
11 - How Does It Feel? (4:24)
12 - The Immortal Death (3:58)
13 - Don't Tell Me You Care (3:34)
14 - Sheep Farming In The Falklands (3:53)
15 - Gotcha (3:03)
16 - You're Already Dead (4:27)
17 - Nagasaki Is Yesterday's Dogend (2:00)
18 - Don't Get Caught (3:10)
19 - Smash The Mac (4:00)
20 - Do They Owe Us A Living? (Live July 1984) (1:29)

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Around The World (28)

Hello, Around the Worldmusics still in classical mode, today another giant of the past, Beethoven..Like last week's Mozart who died prematurely off ill health , Beethoven suffered serious illness and was deaf at 30, serious stumach achs from his early twenties onwards. Considering both were upper middle class at the time, it shows how poor and ignorant medical services were at the time (200 years ago). Death was part of life, one in 3 babies lived to grow to adulthood, life was precious and inspirational to these musical giants.. Btw i learned something new about Beethoven today, its not von but Ludwig van Beethoven a name which shows his namesakes (grandfather) flemish ancestry, Flemish or not he was born in Bonn, Germany ( which btw didnt exist until 100 years later).

Beethoven is acknowledged as one of the giants of Western classical music. He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or "germ-motives," to achieve inter-movement unity in long compositions. Equally remarkable was his use of "source-motives," which recurred in many different compositions. He made innovations in almost every form of music he touched. Beethoven composed in various genres, including symphonies, concerti, piano sonatas, other sonatas (including for violin), string quartets and other chamber music, masses, an opera, and Lieder.

Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 16 dec 1770, he was named after his grandfather Ludwig (1712–1773), a musician of Roman Catholic Flemish ancestry, who was at one time Kapellmeister at the court of Clemens of Bavaria. Beethoven's first music teacher was his father, who was a tenor in the service of the Electoral court at Bonn. He was reportedly a harsh instructor. Johann later engaged a friend, Tobias Pfeiffer, to preside over his son's musical training. Beethoven's talent was recognized at a very early age, and by 1778 he was studying the organ and viola in addition to the piano. His most important teacher in Bonn was Christian Gottlob Neefe, who helped Beethoven publish his first composition: a set of keyboard variations.
In 1787, the young Beethoven traveled to Vienna for the first time, in hopes of studying with Mozart. It is not clear whether he succeeded in meeting Mozart, or if he did whether Mozart was willing to accept him as a pupil. In any event, the declining health of his mother, dying of tuberculosis, forced him to return home after only about two weeks in Vienna. His mother died , when Beethoven was 16. Due to his father's worsening alcohol addiction, Beethoven became responsible for raising his two younger brothers.

In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied for a time with Joseph Haydn: his hopes of studying with Mozart had been shattered by Mozart's death the previous year. By 1793, Beethoven established a reputation in Vienna as a piano virtuoso. His first works with opus numbers, a set of three piano trios, appeared in 1795. He settled into the career pattern he would follow for the remainder of his life: rather than working for the church or a noble court (as most composers before him had done), he supported himself through a combination of annual stipends or single gifts from members of the aristocracy; income from subscription concerts, concerts, and lessons; and proceeds from sales of his works.

Around 1796, Beethoven began to lose his hearing.He suffered a severe form of tinnitus, a "ringing" in his ears that made it hard for him to perceive and appreciate music; he also avoided conversation.
Beethoven @ 33

Over time, his hearing loss became profound: there is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience; hearing nothing, he began to weep.Beethoven's hearing loss did not prevent his composing music, but it made concerts—lucrative sources of income—increasingly difficult. Beethoven used a special rod attached to the soundboard on a piano that he could bite—the vibrations would then transfer from the piano to his jaw to increase his perception of the sound.

Beethoven's personal life was troubled. His encroaching deafness led him to contemplate suicide he was often irascible, and may have suffered from bipolar disorder, and irritability brought on by chronic abdominal pain beginning in his 20s which has been attributed to his lead poisoning. He nevertheless had a close and devoted circle of friends all his life, thought to have been attracted by his reputed strength of personality. Sources show Beethoven's disdain for authority, and for social rank. He stopped performing at the piano if the audience chatted among themselves, or afforded him less than their full attention.

The women who attracted Beethoven were unattainable because they were either married or aristocratic. Beethoven never married, although he was engaged to Giulietta Guiccardi. Her father was the main obstacle to their marriage.
Beethoven @ 50

Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment and by the growing Romanticism in Europe. He initially dedicated his third symphony, the Eroica (Italian for "heroic"), to Napoleon, believing that the general intended to sustain the democratic and republican ideals of the French Revolution. But in 1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title-page and scratched the name Bonaparte out. The fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony features an elaborate choral setting of Schiller's Ode An die Freude ("Ode to Joy"), an optimistic hymn championing the brotherhood of humanity. Since 1972, an orchestral version of this part of the fourth movement, arranged by the conductor Herbert von Karajan, has been the European anthem as announced by the Council of Europe. In 1985 it was adopted as the anthem of the European Community / European Union.


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Millenium Classics - Mighty Beethoven ( 99, 77min ^ 162mb)



01 - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 - Allegro con brio (7:19)
02 - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 - Bagatelle No. 25, G.173 'Fur Elise' (3:21)
03 - Symphony No.6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' - I- Allegro ma non troppo (11:00)
04 - Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major Op.73 'Emperor' - II-Adagio un poco mosso (7:28)
05 - Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92 - III- Presto (8:24)
06 - Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93 - III- Tempo di menuetto (5:31)
07 - Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 - II- Larghetto, attacco (9:50)
08 - Piano sonota No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight' - I-Adagio sostenuto (5:57)
09 - Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - Hymn to joy (18:49)

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