Apr 28, 2020

RhoDeo 2017 Magicians 3

Hello, 20 years later Graham Hancock wrote Magicians of the Gods a sequal to Fingerprints with which i'll continue this week. But wait there's more Robert A. Monroe takes you on a guided trip the coming months to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. I'd  say a great way to spend the freetime corona delivers.




Hancock's thesis is based on the previously widely criticised Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large comets striking the Earth around 10,800 BC. Hancock argues that this caused widespread destruction, with a short-term return to Ice Age conditions followed by massive flooding that altered the continental landscape. Specifically, he claims that coastal civilisations in and around the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by rising sea levels. He argues that this was the origin of various flood myths around the world, and that "what we think of as human history is merely the record of human events that have transpired since the last, great planetary catastrophe.

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What is Gateway Experience®

Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.

The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.

Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe




Hemi-Sync - The Gateway Experience - Wave I - Discovery 3 ( 70min flac   344mb).:


CD3 - 5 - Exploration, Sleep 37:04

CD3 - 6 - Free Flow 10 33:38

HemiSync - Gateway Experience - Wave I Discovery (PDF)


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One of the enduring mysteries in solar physics is the unexpectedly hot temperature of the solar wind as it extends away from the Sun. Recently, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison performed a study to try to find an answer to the puzzle. And their search led them to the field of plasma physics.

The lead author of the study explains, "There is a fundamental dynamical phenomenon that says that particles whose velocity is not well aligned with the magnetic field lines are not able to move into a region of a strong magnetic field. Such returning electrons are reflected so that they stream away from the sun, but again they cannot escape because of the attractive electric force of the sun.”

At first glance, such language might seem resonant with the Electric Sun model, first proposed by engineer Ralph Juergens, and later developed and in some respects modified by Donald E. Scott, PhD, and physicist Wal Thornhill. However, the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists propose that a theoretical magnetic process is the mechanism behind the mysterious solar wind heating.

In this episode, we asked retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott for an Electric Sun explanation of the aforementioned phenomenon.




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Graham Hancock’s multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth’s lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to his seminal work. Published on 10 September 2015 in the UK and on 10 November 2015 in the US, Magicians of the Gods is not in any sense an ‘update’ of Fingerprints but is a completely new book filled from front to back with completely new evidence, completely new travels to the world’s most mysterious archaeological sites, and completely new insights, based on the latest scientific evidence, into the global cataclysm that wiped an advanced civilization from the earth and made us a species with amnesia, forced to begin again like children with no memory of what went before.

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.

The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth’s crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.

A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.

But there were survivors – known to later cultures by names such as ‘the Sages’, ‘the Magicians’, ‘the Shining Ones’, and ‘the Mystery Teachers of Heaven’. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations – Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these ‘Magicians of the Gods’ brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.

A memory and a warning to the future… For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide ‘dark’ fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the ‘Great Return’ will occur in our time…

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Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 7-9 ( 118min  54mb)

narrated by the man himself, Graham Hancock

07 Chapter 7 40:53
08 Chapter 8 34:13
09 Chapter 9 43:20

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previously

Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 1-3 ( 125min  57mb)
Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 4-6 ( 121min  51mb)

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Apr 27, 2020

RhoDeo 2017 Re Up 236

Hello,



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is deminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfil requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


13 correct requests for this week , 1 double and 1 too early,  whatever another batch of 44 re-ups (12.7gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to April 18th... N'Joy

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4x Aetix NOW in Flac ( Massive Attack - Daydreaming EP, Massive Attack - Hymn Of Big Wheel, Massive Attack - Sly EP,  Massive Attack - Teardrop EP)



3x Beats Back in Flac ( Rinôçérôse - Installation Sonore, Rinôçérôse - Music Kills Me, Rinôçérôse - Futurinô )



3x Grooves Back in Flac (Marva Whitney - It's My Thing, Lyn Collins - Think (about it) , Bobby Byrd - On The Move)



3x Roots Back in Flac ( Iration Steppas - Original Dub D.A.T., Kitachi - Stay of Execution, Iration Steppas - Dubz From The Higher)




3x Roots  Back in Flac (High Tone - Wave Digger , High Tone - Underground Wobble, High Tone - OutBack  )



4x Aetix Back in Flac 1312  (Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched, Plasmatics -  + Metal Priestess, Plasmatics - Beyond The Valley Of 1984, Plasmatics - Coup D' Etat)




4x Aetix  Back In Flac  (Big Country - The Crossing, Big Country - Steeltown, Big Country - The Seer, Big Country - Peace In Our Time, )




3x Grooves Now In Flac  (Apollonia 6 - Apollonia 6, Sheila E - Romance 1600, The Family - The Family )




3x Sundaze Back in Flac (  Budd, Garcia, Lentz - Music for Three Pianos ++,  Budd With Zeitgeist - She Is A Phantom, Harold Budd and Hector Zazou - Glyph )




5x Aetix Back in Flac (  Sandii - Eating Pleasure, Sandii & The Sunsetz - Heat Scale , Sandii & The Sunsetz - Immigrants, (Phew - Phew (with Holger Czukay, Jaki Libezeit & Conny Plank),- Phew - View))



3x Sundaze Back in Flac (Jon Hassell - 4th World - Possible Musics, Jon Hassell - 4th W - Dream Theory In Malaya, Robert Monroe Ultimate Journey(PDF))



3x Sundaze Back in Flac (Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis, The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Polar Sequences, VA - New Electronica (global tek innovations))



3x Aetix Back in Flac (Matia Bazar - Melancholia, Colourbox - Colourbox, still in ogg 1000 Mexicans - Dance Like Ammunition)



As announced please return if you have it

VA - Dubhead vol.1
VA - Dubhead vol.2
VA - Dubhead vol.3


you can do this by uploading at https://bayfiles.com/   no need to fill in anything there, just copy the result as a comment at Rho-Xs



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Apr 26, 2020

Sundaze 2017

Hello, as the world is still in the grip of a nasty virus that managed to put all religions in it's place, at a distance, whilst the true stars of the human race take their rightful place in the center of attention, those women and men that give their all to take care of the sick and vulnerable. But we are humans we are addicted to distractions and this has been a cold turkey with one certainty...future uncertain and thus a big chance to change track....


Today's Artist is Stefano Musso who began recording music under the pseudonym of Alio Die in 1989. "Alio Die" is Latin for "another day", used as a greeting in Roman times as a positive look towards a better tomorrow......N'Joy

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Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in his home town of Milan, Italy,  and began performing  ambient, electro-acoustic music under the name Alio Die in 1989. Characterized by evocative acoustic sounds manipulated and tendered electronically, Alio Die's work builds intimate soundscapes tied to the mystery and majesty of life and nature. His first CD "Under an Holy Ritual", released on his label Hic Sunt Leones in 1992 and re-released on Projekt in 1993, was received with international acclaim. Enthusiastically received in his home country, 'Holy Ritual' expanded Musso's international presence significantly in 1993 when it was licensed by the popular U.S. darkwave label Projekt. His music is a shadowy, cavernous, intensely detailed fusion of acoustical elements, step-and-repeat sample treatments, sparse, echoing percussion, and deep, atmospheric sound design, playing ambient's static tendencies off of shifting melodic and textural passages that suggest movement without sacrificing the music's vague, entropic formlessness.   He subsequently released more than 25 CDs, and collaborated  with many well-known artists such as Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Nick Parkin, Yannick Dauby,  Amelia Cuni, Raffaele Serra, Ora, Antonio Testa.

"Natural and acoustic sounds and selected noises, electronically treated and reworked, are integrated in a meditative and spiritual context that often, in the feeling, becomes close to a prayer. Visible static, this music is rich of hidden sounds, layers of elements to discover at each listening. Alio Die's music, in the consciousness space that creates, it's a melting of technology and mysticism, like a new ritual with echoes of a medioeval time, deep and grounded in introspection."

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Under an Holy Ritual is an electronic minimalism classic. It is a set of deep and dark atmospheres from Alio Die, aka Stefano Musso, one of Europe's leading minimalists. He achieves these strange experimental sounds with synths, samples, and processing techniques. Similar to the "Frippertronics" loops of Robert Fripp, Musso processes his processed sounds and samples. He starts with an incessant drone and builds vacuous atmospheres from them. He also uses silence as an element of the sound design. The atmospheres are gray and wispy, with hints of color. The deep drones connect the atmospheres to form the soundscape. This is a single soundscape with 11 movements. Each movement has at least one atmosphere. Musso's techniques allow for a cohesive and exhilarating listening adventure. This is one of the ultimate experiences to which electronic musicians aspire.



Alio Die - Under An Holy Ritual (flac 160mb)

01 Light By Initiation 3:43
02 Calls From A Lost Conscience 2:45
03 Global Construction 6:53
04 The Secret Of Shady Gorges 3:53
05 Axis Mundi 3:59
06 Reflections Of A Dawn 3:35
07 Invocation Of The Source Of Life 5:12
08 Under An Holy Ritual 5:34
09 Cryptic Spell 3:17
10 Back To Tikla 2:30
11 Waking Up From A Wistful Day 3:49

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Stefano Musso and Darren Tate both contributed several tracks to this 1995 album of ambient/industrial space rock. It's so much more than 'dark ambient', this is high level contemporary electroacoustic composition. these pieces are all very dense, rich in information… the collaboration between the two artists ('in shore/purl') takes the cake, an immense and incessant piece. the records similarities to dark ambient occur only in tone, as in aesthetic approach i guess; it is otherwise an obvious electroacoustic record.



 Alio Die • Ora - The Door Of Possibilities  (flac 325mb)

01 Alio Die - Looking Towards 7:34
02 Ora Approach To Zero 17:46
03 Alio Die - Bestiole Nascoste Tra Il Muschio E Le Alghe 4:52
04 Alio Die - The Door Of Possibilities 7:09
05 Ora And Alio Die - In Shore / Purl 22:05
06 Alio Die - Stonevoice 2:45
07 Ora - Autumn Cove 11:45

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This 1998 continuous longform piece is a standout solo work from Italy's sound artist Alio Die. His artistry and understanding of organinc inner-space music is alive on this understated and gently intense flowing soundscape. Created to support his own psychoactive journeys, it creates a warm and shadowy nest to curl up within. This is among Steve's favorite Alio Die solo releases.
One hour of finest ambient soundscapes. Supremely potent psychedelic assistant. Wonderful experience all the way through, but the shine is the brightest after 40 minute mark. Embark on a journey....



Alio Die - Password For Entheogenic Experience (flac  259mb)

01 Password For Entheogenic Experience 64:01

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The Hidden Spring is a collection of six previously released and four new compositions from Alio Die. He has taken the material from his contributions to various artist compilations and sequenced it with new material to generate an appealing thematic integrity. These minimalist soundscapes are thick with aqueous textures and demented timbres. Musso is one of the e-music community's premier practitioners of dark ambience. This disc supports that status. It will appeal to fans of Mathias Grassow, Dave Tollefson, Lustmord, Vidna Obmana, and Robert Rich.



Alio Die -  The Hidden Spring   (flac 286mb)

01 In Mean Time 2:38
02 Journey Around A Stone 10:19
03 Il Giorno Fu Prima Per Un Giorno 2:52
04 Amniotic Pot 6:21
05 An Instant In Transformation 2:56
06 The Threshold Of Beauty 13:09
07 Under A Cascade Of Light 3:45
08 The Flight Of Real Image 6:18
09 Internal Top 13:11
10 The Hidden Spring 4:17

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Apr 24, 2020

RhoDeo 2016 Grooves

Hello,  .


Today's Artists are notable for a pioneering and evolving synthesis of acoustic and electronic sounds that has drawn from avant-garde jazz, funk, dub, post-punk, and hip-hop. Guitarist David Ayers, double bassist Ali Friend, and drummer Richard Thair formed the London-based band in 1994, the year they released their first two EPs, both of which featured Beth Orton as the first of several vocal collaborators. After a third EP, it and the preceding releases were licensed to Warp, which compiled them as Reeled & Skinned (1995). Warp remained Red Snapper's home for the proper albums Prince Blimey (1996), Making Bones (1998), and Our Aim Is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000), a period during which the group also thrived as a live act and supported Björk and Massive Attack, among several other artists. After the trio devoted time to separate projects, they returned on Lo Recordings with Red Snapper (2003), a collection of previously unreleased and live material, and Redone (also 2003), a remix set. Performances and outside activities resumed during the ensuing years as Red Snapper recorded less frequently, documented on A Pale Blue Dot (Lo, 2008) and Key (V2, 2011). The group subsequently toured with a reissued print of the '70s Senegalese road movie Touki Bouki, a film that enabled a deeper exploration of Afrobeat -- one of their enduring inspirations -- and formed the basis of Hyena (Lo, 2014). ........N Joy

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The band released three EPs on Flaw Recordings before signing to Warp Records for their debut album, Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records' 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented IDM the record label primarily dealt in, the band had a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.In 1997, Red Snapper (along with the Foo Fighters) supported the Prodigy on their Fat of the Land tour in the UK. For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det, Byron Wallen the jazz trumpeter, and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim Is to Satisfy (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution. In interviews since the reunion the band said a reason for splitting was too much discussing what to play, rather than playing. Each member wanted to try a different musical direction. Also in 2002 the various artists compilation album It's All Good was released. It included a previously unreleased track, "Ultraviolet", which was also included on Red Snapper, a compilation of unreleased and rare Red Snapper tracks released by Lo Recordings in 2003.

Later in 2003, an album of remixes was released, Redone, which included tracks remixed by the Snapper themselves. Ayers and Felix Tod were credited as The Creation, Thair remixed "Ultraviolet", and the "Odd Man Out" (Odd Man remix) was done by Friend, Gavin Clark and Ted Barnes. The last track included vocals. Later the Flameboy Records (owned by Jake Williams, former RS keyboard player) released a four-track vinyl called "RedOne", which included three tracks from Redone and a previously unreleased Red Snapper track entitled "Drill", featuring MC Det.
Reunion

Red Snapper reformed in 2007 – this was posted on their MySpace page:

    After 6 years apart concentrating on different projects, Red Snapper return. Ali has been working with Beth Orton and his new band Clayhill. David has been focusing on writing music for TV with his work featuring on the highly acclaimed BBC show 'The Tribe'. Rich has been working with Jakeone on their band Toob, with Rennie Pilgrem and the TCR Allstars and Bomb the Bass.

In late 2007, the band decided to rejoin after a jam session. They returned to the recording studio to work on new material for their sixth album. Saxophonist Tom Challenger played at the sessions and became a member of the band. Red Snapper appeared at the Bloc Weekend in March 2008. The band released Pale Blue Dot (Lo Recordings) on 2 October 2008.

In May 2011 the band released Key, their seventh album on V2 Benelux with original band members Rich Thair (drums), Ali Friend (double bass/vocals) and David Ayers (guitar). They are joined by jazz saxophonist Tom Challenger and guest vocalists Gavin Clarke (UNKLE, Clayhill) and Mercury Prize nominee Eliza Carthy. The band are followed up the album with an extensive tour of Europe throughout the summer of 2011.

On 1 September 2014, Red Snapper released the album Hyena on Lo Recordings. It features music that the group composed to accompany the film Touki Bouki.

In 2016, the band toured Belarus and played at the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival.



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In which Red Snapper get the remix treatment from a brilliant lineup of artsis that include : Susumu Yokota, Pedro, Radioactive Man, Depth Charge and lots more. Highlights include the unstoppable J Saul Kane (Depth Charge) on firing form in an old skool hip hop fashion. Likewise, Mr. Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man) doesn’t disappoint here with a slice of super accessible electrot-ech business. Snapper themselves, in various guises have added their own re-interpretations. The Creation is the name used by David Ayers of Red Snapper and partner Felix Tod at Creation studios where they both work as producers. Highlights of the album come with the eeriely blissful acousto-electronic remix from Pedro and the ethereal ambient remix from Susumu Yokota.

Even though most of the remixers were unknowns to me, I enjoy the tracks immensely. They bring heavier beats to RS' themes and add personal flavor to old favorites. I was kind of bothered by the fact that there were RS songs remixed twice by different artists. For example, you'll see 'The Quiet One', 'Ultraviolet', 'Regrettable', & 'Mountains and Valleys' remixed twice, which already accounts for 2/3 of the album (meaning there are 12 tracks total, Mr Math). Even though there are doubles, I must admit, you can hardly tell because they're remixed so differently, but I do wish more RS tracks participated. Also, I wish Sabres of Paradise had a helping hand with this album, cuz I love his RS redones the best. Even with all this wishing, this album is a keeper, I'm just being picky. I love track 7, The Creation's remix of Heavy Petting, and track 4, Rich Thair's remix of Ultraviolet. If you're a fan of Red Snapper or not, this CD won't dissappoint. This quickly got TarTar's seal of approval and it didn't even have to give me a back rub first.



Red Snapper - Redone (flac   305mb)

01 The Quiet One (Broadway Project Remix) 3:55
02 Regrettable (Depth Charge Remix) 4:32
03 Four Dead Monks (Radioactive Man Remix) 4:17
04 Ultraviolet (Rich Thair Remix) 5:35
05 Regrettable (Blue States Remix) 5:37
06 Mountains And Valleys (Susumu Yokota Remix) 5:25
07 Heavy Petting (The Creation Remix) 5:28
08 Dnipro (Europa 51 Remix) 3:45
09 Odd Man Out (Odd Man Remix) 4:42
10 The Quiet One (Knowledge Of Bugs Remix) 4:41
11 Mountains And Valleys (Pedro Remix) 4:17
12 Ultraviolet (Rothko Remix) 5:08

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After retiring way back in 2002, Red Snapper continued releasing product -- collections, remix albums, stray tracks here and there -- but only returned five years later with a six-track album that shows them quite invigorated. Sounding positively light and bouncy, the opener "Brickred" points beyond the Red Snapper of the past (i.e. innovative but a little self-serious). Moving from joyful to jazzy to heavy on the first three tracks, the group sound like they've been stockpiling ideas during their time away, although each member of the core trio had at least one project keeping him busy. That core lineup -- bassist Ali Friend, drummer Richard Thair, and guitarist David Ayers -- is rounded out by someone with the dubious moniker of Tom Challenger on reeds and melodica, and it's his saxophone that makes the most difference to Red Snapper here. Often sounding like the soundtrack to an urban detective story -- and yes, there is some BBC soundtrack work in Ayers' recent past -- Pale Blue Dot is a distinctive record, with six tracks to fit at least six different moods.



  Red Snapper - A Pale Blue Dot      (flac   470mb)

01 Brickred 4:51
02 Lagos Creepers 5:49
03 Wanga Doll 6:08
04 Moving Mountain 5:06
05 Clam 3:42
06 Deathroll 5:43
07 Clam (Kelpe Remix) 7:45
08 Bricked (Subway Remix) 6:57

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A band that breaks up and then continues, that can hardly go well. Red Snapper proves the opposite. The acid-jazz band from London proves to be completely back with Key. Dub jazz, blues, jazz. It's difficult to place Red Snapper in a genre. At least Rich Thair, David Ayers and Ali Friend make electro-sounding jazz with real instruments. And that is remarkable, because Key contains songs from which the electronic sounds drip. Chimee is a good example of this: metal-sounding tones introduce the song, and heavy bass sounds are added to it. It could be straight out of a computer, but that's not the case: a xylophone and a double bass do the job here. And that makes Red Snapper fascinating to listen to.
So now the total seventh album, called Key. Also here Challenger blows again, which is a nice addition. The deep bass characteristic for Red Snapper does its job well in the background and sometimes provides the mysterious extra in the songs. Loveboat is an odd man out. Where the drum part in other songs is subtle, it now cuts through the song. The use of the hard guitars makes Loveboat feel like a rock song from the 90s. Where Pale Blue Dot sounded more like a unit. Key takes it a step further. Red Snapper once again shows with this record that six years of radio silence has done well.



  Red Snapper - Key  (flac   395mb)

01 In Your Backs 5:15
02 Chimee 5:44
03 Biffa Bacon 4:47
04 Jack 3:29
05 Spiky 4:33
06 Architectronic 4:34
07 Take Your Medicine 4:56
08 Loveboat 4:50
09 Eye Liner Stab 3:30
10 Great First Touch 4:13
11 Racing Snake 4:19
12 Off Balance 5:21
13 Fat Roller 5:02
14 You Read My Cards Wrong 3:27


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Having cut a "post-soundtrack" for the '70s Senegalese film Touki Bouki, the U.K. trio known as Red Snapper lifted some of those elements for their 2014 album Hyena. The results are an ethno-muso mash of African thumb pianos, acid jazz beats, and spaghetti western guitars, and while the first two-thirds flow well enough, these disparate genres seem at odds toward the end of the album, which sounds like a Red Snapper audition tape, displaying all the varied things this talented crew can do. Fans hung up on their skill and dexterity get a new framework around the usual grooves, but newcomers are best checking one of their regular albums where the overall flow is as crafted and as cared for as the music.



  Red Snapper - Hyena  (flac   383mb)

01 Card Trick 4:38
02 Walking Man 3:34
03 Village Tap 5:29
04 Herder Can Ride 3:30
05 Wonky Bikes 2:39
06 Dock Running 4:15
07 Blue Chest 3:30
08 Lassoo 3:44
09 Traffic 2:41
10 Mambety 2:42
11 Archout 3:37
12 No Exit 5:29


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Apr 21, 2020

RhoDeo 2016 Magicians 2

Hello,


Hancock's thesis is based on the previously widely criticized Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large comets striking the Earth around 10,800 BC. Hancock argues that this caused widespread destruction, with a short-term return to Ice Age conditions followed by massive flooding that altered the continental landscape. Specifically, he claims that coastal civilisations in and around the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by rising sea levels. He argues that this was the origin of various flood myths around the world, and that "what we think of as human history is merely the record of human events that have transpired since the last, great planetary catastrophe.

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What is Gateway Experience®

Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.

The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.

Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe




Hemi-Sync - The Gateway Experience - Wave I - Discovery 2 ( 72min flac   345mb).:


CD2 - 3 - Advanced Focus 10 36:10

CD2 - 4 - Release and Recharge 36:01

HemiSync - Gateway Experience - Wave I Discovery (PDF)


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Scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have published a paper which reported the successful formation of galaxies without the hypothetical influence of dark matter. As reported by phys.org, “For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, they have instead modified Newton's laws of gravity. The galaxies that were created in the computer calculations are similar to those we actually see today. According to the scientists, their assumptions could solve many mysteries of modern cosmology.”

However, the claim that this is “the first time” that scientists have successfully simulated galaxy formation and motions without dark matter is not correct. As we’ve documented countless times, dating back many decades plasma scientists have reproduced the unique forms and motions of spiral galaxies in the laboratory.



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All popular theories about the origins of objects in our solar system are based on the solar nebula hypothesis. First proposed in the mid-18th century by the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg, the hypothesis proposes that four and a half billion years ago, a primordial cloud called a nebula collapsed gravitationally, forming the Sun and a flat disk, and it was from that disk that our Earth and all of the planets formed. The “competing” theoretical processes that created these bodies are purely gravitational, meaning collisions and accretion over eons of time.

As we’ve documented exhaustively on this series, no number of failed scientific predictions based on this story have yet forced any real reassessment of its tenability. In this episode, we explore the sound theoretical alternatives that the Electric Universe and Plasma Cosmology offer.





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Graham Hancock’s multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth’s lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to his seminal work. Published on 10 September 2015 in the UK and on 10 November 2015 in the US, Magicians of the Gods is not in any sense an ‘update’ of Fingerprints but is a completely new book filled from front to back with completely new evidence, completely new travels to the world’s most mysterious archaeological sites, and completely new insights, based on the latest scientific evidence, into the global cataclysm that wiped an advanced civilization from the earth and made us a species with amnesia, forced to begin again like children with no memory of what went before.

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.

The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth’s crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.

A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.

But there were survivors – known to later cultures by names such as ‘the Sages’, ‘the Magicians’, ‘the Shining Ones’, and ‘the Mystery Teachers of Heaven’. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations – Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these ‘Magicians of the Gods’ brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.

A memory and a warning to the future… For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide ‘dark’ fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the ‘Great Return’ will occur in our time…

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Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 4-6 ( 121min  51mb)

narrated by the man himself, Graham Hancock

04 Chapter 4 28:01
05 Chapter 5 54:32
06 Chapter 6 38:26

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previously

Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 1-3 ( 125min  57mb)

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Apr 20, 2020

RhoDeo 2016 Re Up 235

Hello,



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is deminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfil requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


10 correct requests for this week , 1 double and 1 too early,  whatever another batch of 39 re-ups (12.4 gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to April 18th... N'Joy

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4x Aetix NOW in Flac ( The Compact 2 Tone Story 1, The Compact 2 Tone Story 2, The Compact Tone Story 3,  The Compact 2 Tone Story 4)



3x Grooves Back in Flac ( Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1962-1966 , Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1966-1969  , Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1969-1974  )



5x Aetix Back in Flac (The Railway Children - Reunion Wilderness, The Railway Children - Recurrence,  The Railway Children - 3 EPs 88, The Railway Children - Native Place, The Railway Children - 3 EPs 90 )



4x Aetix Back in Flac ( James Chance & The Contortions - Buy, James White & the Blacks - Off White, James White & The Blacks - Sax Maniac,James Chance - Soul Exorcism Redux)




3x Sundaze  Back in Flac (Harold Budd - Luxa, Harold Budd - The Room, Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra )



7x Paris Back in Flac  (Vitalic - OK Cowboy, VA - Rue Martel - Y Basta, Ethnician - Ethnician, Motorbass - Pansoul, MotorBass - Early Works, Avril - That Horse Must Be, still in ogg  Carte de Sejour - Rhorhomanie)




3x Beats  Back In Flac  (Nova Nova - La Chanson De Roland, Nova Nova - Memories, Principles of Geometry - Principles)




4x Aetix Now In Flac 1538 (Timbuk 3 - Greetings From Timbuk 3, Timbuk 3 - Eden Alley, Timbuk 3 - Edge of Allegiance,Timbuk 3 - Big Shot In The Dark )



4x Aetix Back in Flac (  Plasticland - Plasticland,  Plasticland - Wonder Wonderful Wonderland, Plasticland - Salon, Plasticland - Mink Dress and Other Cats )



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As announced please return if you have it

Iration Steppas - Original Dub D.A.T.

Iration Steppas - Dubz From The Higher

High Tone - Outback

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Apr 19, 2020

Sundaze 2016

Hello,


Today's Artist is a longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist,a onetime professional motorbike racer born 1955 in La Mesa, California,  drew on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. Drawing from a vast, unique, deeply personal authenticity, his releases cover a wide range of dynamic styles all of which bear his signature voice. For 35 years the boundaries are constantly challenged in his work, ranging in style from pure floating spaces, analog sequencer music, primordial tribal, rhythmic ambient, dark ambient, long-form 'drift ambient,' and avant garde atonal ambient.....N'Joy

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A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach drew on the beauty and power of the Earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. Born in California in 1955, Roach -- inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis -- taught himself to play synthesizer at the age of 20. Debuting in 1982 with the album Now, his early work was quite reminiscent of his inspirations, but with 1984's Structures from Silence, his music began taking enormous strides. The album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere was partly inspired by the natural beauty of the southwestern U.S. Subsequent works, including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series honed Roach's approach, his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures.

In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. A year later, he teamed with percussionist Michael Shrieve and guitarist David Torn for The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz. After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom. In the years to follow, he grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes, and Kevin Braheny -- in all, he recorded close to two-dozen major works in the '90s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music.

His album roster from that decade includes Strata (1991), Artifacts (1994), Well of Souls (1995), Amplexus (1997), and Dust to Dust (1998). Early Man was released on Projekt in early 2001, followed by one of his many collaborations with Vidna Obmana, Innerzone. Throughout the remainder of the 2000s, Roach remained extremely prolific. His release schedule included the Projekt titles Trance Spirits (with Jeffrey Fayman) and the quadruple-disc Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Spirit Dome and Somewhere Else (with Obmana), Fever Dreams, Mantram, and Nada Terma (with Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig), and the ongoing Immersion series, Arc of Passion, and Stream of Thought (with Erik Wøllo). He also self-released several titles on his own through Timeroom Editions.

Over the next decade, Roach would show no signs of slowing as he continued with a non-stop slew of new material under his own name, as well as collaborations and soundtrack work. Though new volumes of work appeared at a clip of more than three albums per year, standouts included more collaborations with Byron Metcalf, 2013's Future Flows, 2014's disparate releases of arid road trip music on The Desert Collection and ambient explorations of mortality and humanity on The Delicate Forever. Roach began constructing an extensive analog modular synthesizer system in 2014, and in 2015, the album Skeleton Keys was composed entirely using this setup. In 2016, Roach released two full-lengths with Robert Logan (the more rhythmic Biosonic and the serene drone album Second Nature), as well as solo efforts This Place to Be and Shadow of Time.

In concert, Steve creates transcendent electronic music emerging from an elemental instinctual mode. These events bring together an audience from around the country and as far away as Europe, all looking to experience the on-the-edge experience that erupts in the live setting. This makes Steve's concerts an entirely different experience from the recorded medium. With months of preparation absorbed into his system, evocative soundscapes blend with ecstatic rhythmic sections born from hands-on analog sound creation and sonic shapeshifting. The result is a direct transference of creative energy from the artist through his instruments out to the listener. Live performances are the place where Steve's music thrives, created at the leading edge of now.

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"Shimmering", "life-affirming" and "moving only forward" best describes this new release drawn from the pulsing side of the lifeblood found in Steve's work. Proof Positive was created over the past year, from '05 to '06. These all-new pieces, sequential with textural undercurrents, have a kind floating sensation; the sum total is purely hypnotic with a contained and sustained energy that is consistent through the entire CD. This one lights up the brain and excites the ears in a way that only a hands-on spontaneous approach to carving pure analog sound can offer. A touchstone release for Steve, this is a perfect set for long drives on the open road or for traveling the inner landscapes while cruising in your favorite listening chair. Proof Positive indeed!



Steve Roach - Proof Positive (flac 410mb)

01 Westwind 21:46
02 Living The Pulse 4:13
03 Essential Occurrence 3:32
04 Adreno Stream 11:25
05 Proof Positive 32:56

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Steve Roach's Immersion: One is the first of a series of albums that are specially designed for the living space. On his website, Roach calls them "steady state zones created specifically as tone meditations." While he avoids the use of the term "ambient," in one sense, this is as pure as ambient music -- as theorized by Brian Eno in the 1970s -- can be. Designed to be played at low volume, the 74-minute duration of this piece contains literally no dynamics; it is strategized to participate in a steady state -- reading, sleeping, moving about doing chores -- where music is background atmosphere. Beginning on a single amorphous drone, the piece gently draws the listener down into its sound world, where what isn't here is pointed out by what is. And what is missing is the space for the listener to inhabit during these steady states. Slowly evolving electronic keyboard sounds, repetitive in nature, hover just above the drone. They invite you but without insisting. They provide a kind of cover for the listener as the drone itself, so unidentifiable in nature, would be -- perhaps too much without them. Listened to on headphones, "Immersion : One" is an entire universe of purposeful texture that feels like the electronic equivalent of a work by Morton Feldman: there is motion, there is duration, there is presence, and in-between spaces there is silence asserting itself, though it never quite comes to the fore. Also like Feldman's music, there is no tension. This music begins in the space where tension has already been resolved, has dissipated and disappeared, making gentle, non-invasive quiet possible. And in quiet is mystery, and this work is nothing if not mysterious. It has no origin but somewhere in the heart of silence and it really has no end until it finds silence once more. Roach has always been an investigator, a traveler of sonic worlds instead of physically present ones. Here he reveals a new one, unnamed except for its ability to make us one with it.



Steve Roach - Immersion: One  (flac 281mb)

01 Immersion: One 73:00

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The second in an ongoing series of atmospheric zones by master sound painter Steve Roach, Immersion: Two presents a subtle shift from the luminous steady state harmonic current of Immersion: One. On this 73 minute, long-form soundscape, a sinuous weblike mist seems to emanate from the speakers. Mysterious yet calm and introspective, this is the perfect sound environment for the deeper hours after midnight, or anytime a quiet, engulfing audio landscape is desired. If Nag Champa or Sandalwood incense had a sound, this might be it.

Steve writes...

"This continuous zone, titled 'Artifact Ghost', has to be one of my favorites for late-night activity and sleeping. For years I kept coming back to it, as it always feels alive and never-ending, never beginning. This piece was a big part of the inspiration to start the Immersion series. An 8-minute excerpt from the 90-minute original was heard on Texture Maps, and after this glimpse of the ghost I was struck by how many requests there were for a long-form version.

"Perceptive ears will hear shades of this ephemeral zone as far back as ARTIFACTS, where I wove it into the fabric under the tribal-based grooves. Its smoky presence paid a visit on Cavern Of Sirens as well. If you were at any of my concerts in the mid to late 90's, there's a good chance you heard this piece setting the space before my performance. On Immersion: Two I took the opportunity to live with this zone again, to fine-tune and melt the 'Artifact Ghost' even more, creating subtle movements and adding nearly subliminal openings along the way. I was shaping this Immersion: Twoversion right up 'til the last moment. It's playing in loop mode right now."



Steve Roach - Immersion: Two (flac  277mb)

01 Artifact Ghost 73:00

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Three striking new pieces born from the moment. Steve Roach's new 2-CD set seamlessly fuses three long unfolding soundworlds into a vibrant sonic odyssey. The result can only be described as a living, breathing Arc Of Passion . As one of the pioneers of electronic music, Steve's career has many musical highpoints; Arc Of Passion  proves to be another definitive statement along the path. Advanced response from listeners places this album at the top of the list of must-have releases from Steve's body of work. Steve reaches into his sonic palette to weave elements drawn from his three definitive styles into a continuous, evolving flow. Rich harmonic chords, spiraling sequences and deep sky soundworlds move fluidly within this 2-hour set.

A vibrant immediacy is alive on Arc Of Passion ; recorded in a studio-like environment at Analogue Haven with an audience of 80 people, the sonic textures and evolving nature of the pieces reach into the core of the present moment bringing it into form with elegance and energy.

The opening 19-minute track billows outwards with rich and shadowed harmonic movement; deep chords ebb and flow like the thunder clouds of a summer storm, entering the realm of the hauntingly serene Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces or The Magnificent Void albums. The set flows into the 60-minute title track built from layers of percussive and melodic patterns interwoven and evolving while holding a steady pulse and direction. Waves of emotion from intertwining sequencers provide the foundation for the evolving trance patterns that develop into full mesmerizing, passionate form. The closing 20-minute piece is deep primal ambience mixed with processed didgeridoo hovering within an expansive soundscape. Long, arching tendril-like forms breathe within this infinite soundfield.

Steve comments: "This arc represents a trajectory of emotion infused with energy from a radiant, serene core that comes from within the creative moment." Arc Of Passion is a deep and vibrant expression of life lived passionately.



Steve Roach -  Arc Of Passion (flac 547mb)

01 Moment Of Grace 19:05
02 Arc Of Passion 31:36
03 Arc Of Passion (Continued) 28:44
04 Views Beyond 21:29

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Apr 17, 2020

RhoDeo 2015 Grooves

Hello,  so i slept through the day, as a result my brain took some time to function again, yes worriesome something i did without much thought delivered questions all of a sudden hmm, well i got through.


Today's Artists are notable for a pioneering and evolving synthesis of acoustic and electronic sounds that has drawn from avant-garde jazz, funk, dub, post-punk, and hip-hop. Guitarist David Ayers, double bassist Ali Friend, and drummer Richard Thair formed the London-based band in 1994, the year they released their first two EPs, both of which featured Beth Orton as the first of several vocal collaborators. After a third EP, it and the preceding releases were licensed to Warp, which compiled them as Reeled & Skinned (1995). Warp remained Red Snapper's home for the proper albums Prince Blimey (1996), Making Bones (1998), and Our Aim Is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000), a period during which the group also thrived as a live act and supported Björk and Massive Attack, among several other artists. After the trio devoted time to separate projects, they returned on Lo Recordings with Red Snapper (2003), a collection of previously unreleased and live material, and Redone (also 2003), a remix set. Performances and outside activities resumed during the ensuing years as Red Snapper recorded less frequently, documented on A Pale Blue Dot (Lo, 2008) and Key (V2, 2011). The group subsequently toured with a reissued print of the '70s Senegalese road movie Touki Bouki, a film that enabled a deeper exploration of Afrobeat -- one of their enduring inspirations -- and formed the basis of Hyena (Lo, 2014). ........N Joy

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The band released three EPs on Flaw Recordings before signing to Warp Records for their debut album, Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records' 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented IDM the record label primarily dealt in, the band had a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.In 1997, Red Snapper (along with the Foo Fighters) supported the Prodigy on their Fat of the Land tour in the UK. For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det, Byron Wallen the jazz trumpeter, and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim Is to Satisfy (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution. In interviews since the reunion the band said a reason for splitting was too much discussing what to play, rather than playing. Each member wanted to try a different musical direction. Also in 2002 the various artists compilation album It's All Good was released. It included a previously unreleased track, "Ultraviolet", which was also included on Red Snapper, a compilation of unreleased and rare Red Snapper tracks released by Lo Recordings in 2003.

Later in 2003, an album of remixes was released, Redone, which included tracks remixed by the Snapper themselves. Ayers and Felix Tod were credited as The Creation, Thair remixed "Ultraviolet", and the "Odd Man Out" (Odd Man remix) was done by Friend, Gavin Clark and Ted Barnes. The last track included vocals. Later the Flameboy Records (owned by Jake Williams, former RS keyboard player) released a four-track vinyl called "RedOne", which included three tracks from Redone and a previously unreleased Red Snapper track entitled "Drill", featuring MC Det.
Reunion

Red Snapper reformed in 2007 – this was posted on their MySpace page:

    After 6 years apart concentrating on different projects, Red Snapper return. Ali has been working with Beth Orton and his new band Clayhill. David has been focusing on writing music for TV with his work featuring on the highly acclaimed BBC show 'The Tribe'. Rich has been working with Jakeone on their band Toob, with Rennie Pilgrem and the TCR Allstars and Bomb the Bass.

In late 2007, the band decided to rejoin after a jam session. They returned to the recording studio to work on new material for their sixth album. Saxophonist Tom Challenger played at the sessions and became a member of the band. Red Snapper appeared at the Bloc Weekend in March 2008. The band released Pale Blue Dot (Lo Recordings) on 2 October 2008.

In May 2011 the band released Key, their seventh album on V2 Benelux with original band members Rich Thair (drums), Ali Friend (double bass/vocals) and David Ayers (guitar). They are joined by jazz saxophonist Tom Challenger and guest vocalists Gavin Clarke (UNKLE, Clayhill) and Mercury Prize nominee Eliza Carthy. The band are followed up the album with an extensive tour of Europe throughout the summer of 2011.

On 1 September 2014, Red Snapper released the album Hyena on Lo Recordings. It features music that the group composed to accompany the film Touki Bouki.

In 2016, the band toured Belarus and played at the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival.



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The first Red Snapper full-length is an EP collection including three tracks each from Snapper, Swank and Hot Flush originally released on the Flaw Recordings label. Though the tracks are a bit skeletal, collaborations with Sabres of Paradise ("Hot Flush") and Beth Orton ("Snapper," "In Deep") come off quite well.



 Red Snapper - Reeled And Skinned.  (flac   452mb)

01 Snapper (Voc Beth Orton) 4:47
02 One Legged Low Frequency Guy 5:31
03 Swank 6:15
04 Hot Flush 4:10
05 Cortina 5:07
06 Hot Flush (Sabres Of Paradise Remix) 8:05
07 In Deep (Voc Beth Orton) 9:28
08 Wesley Don't Surf 4:59
09 Lobster 10:35
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10 Son Of Mook 5:58
11 Son Of Mook (Depth Charge Remix 6:12
12 Get Some Sleep Tiger (Plaid Remix) 6:48


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At a time when Warp Records was known as "the premiere electronica label," along comes another album from this mostly acoustic quartet to drop some jaws with good old-fashioned musicianship. Richly accomplished for a sophomore full-length, Prince Blimey finds Red Snapper expanding rather than floundering for ideas. In a time where acid jazz was busy developing by artificial (sampled) means, Red Snapper's musical prowess became a force to be reckoned with, and many of the tracks here place heavy emphasis on the group's secret weapon: the rhythm section. On a drawing pad, many of these songs would look like pyramids, with the base (bass) end getting most of the emphasis and the top corner crammed with little harmonic afterthoughts. The double bass is essential to the success of these tracks, featuring Ali Friend growling, slinking, and sliding on the frets as confidently as Zeus with a thunderbolt in his hands. Similarly, Richard Thair keeps his drums in time with Friend -- hopscotching, marching, and breakbeating from R&B club to jazz dub to acoustic jungle. The flip side to all this is that other elements seem downright compromised. Although there are tight guitar hooks and some very impressive saxophone work (courtesy of Ollie Moore), both frequently get downplayed in the mix. Even guest vocals by Anna Haigh on "The Paranoid" have trouble redirecting the focus. However, with grooves this infectious there's still a lot to appreciate. "3 Strikes and You're Out" gives guitarist David Ayers a little gutbucket blues drawl riff and backmasking acrobatics, and "Thomas the Fib" is the very cigarette dangling from a con artist's lips, replete with catwalking basslines and some haunted vocal cackling. "The Last One" (also released as a single) seems to have the most studio enhancement, laying down rusted bass slides and cavernous drum cans underscoring an increasingly amusing soundbite. The jazzy "Get Some Sleep Tiger" and the fire-alarm funky "Digging Doctor What What" are both relentless, go-for-broke police chases through the dark streets of London, rich with imagery and tension. The last two tracks are looser, where the scaffolding overhead reveals some expanded atmosphere. "Gridlock" is a spaced-out theme, strummed through a black hole like chill-out acid jazz (if there is such a thing), and "Lo-Beam" staggers about for the finale, a late night rock noir in the same vein as David Holmes' grunge epic, Bow Down to the Exit Sign. Only a handful of bands can successfully reside in the category of "electronica" when so little of their material stems from it, so Warp gets points for pushing the envelope just enough. In terms of songwriting, Red Snapper might not live in a completely furnished house, but the foundation is rock solid.



  Red Snapper - Prince Blimey      (flac   470mb)

01 Crusoe Takes A Trip 6:39
02 3 Strikes And You're Out 5:50
03 Thomas The Fib 5:41
04 Get Some Sleep Tiger 4:08
05 Fatboy's Dust 5:15
06 Moonbuggy 1:49
07 The Paranoid (Voc Anna Haigh) 5:38
08 Space Sickness 4:09
09 The Last One 4:17
10 Digging Doctor What What 7:03
11 Gridlock 5:10
12 Lo-Beam 5:38
Loopascoopa EP
13 Last One (Red Snapper Coldcutted And Gutted By DJ Food) 7:23
14 Strike One 3:22
15 Thomas The Fib (Mr. Scruff Mix) 5:12
16 Crusoe Takes A Trip (John McEntire - Tortoise Mix) 6:45

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When a band decides to transfer the backbeats and looped riffs of drum 'n' bass or hip-hop to live instrumentation, it faces a crucial problem. No matter how precisely the live drummer lays down the backbeat, regardless of the bassist's tone, the band will be judged in relation to other live bands; the group will not be able to rely solely on the novelty of realtime performance if it wants to survive criticism. The compositions should reflect the advantages of human interaction.
With Making Bones, Red Snapper present a brilliant downtempo / drum 'n' bass album. The core trio of Richard Thair (drums), Ali Friend (bass), and David Ayers on guitar specialize in a form of layering based on tiers of riffs. On a track such as "Bogeyman", a backbeat and a handful of bass notes establish mood, tempo, and texture; a guitar riff (think the looping Eb lines on Miles Davis' On the Corner ) adds some sharpness or liquidity; and the layering proceeds from there, adding any variation of vocalist, trumpet, trombone, and cello/violin/viola. Several tracks reach a dynamic intensity through juxtaposing these layers of instrumental parts. The only problem with this approach is its mundanity. Similar results could be, and are, achieved in-studio, using samples and synthesizers. I wonder if the "fuck-off jazz" moniker the band has adopted refers to a dismissal of flexible improvisation. Since Charles Lloyd, Cannonball, and Miles Davis began seriously combining funk and rock rhythms with advanced jazz, the best fusion has pushed the groove outward with bold arrangements and improvisations, allowing individual players to transcend the basic beats. Red Snapper rarely does this, and even the trumpeter changes his tone only slightly to give some tracks more dynamism. Before their next album, Red Snapper should consider ways to make great fusion, not just great electronica played on live instruments. It's obvious the Snapper have mastered all aspects of '90s electronic dance, and Making Bones is proof positive.



  Red Snapper - Making Bones  (flac   451mb)

01 The Sleepless (Voc MC Det) 4:44
02 Crease 6:19
03 Image Of You (Voc Alison David) 6:11
04 Bogeyman 4:58
05 The Tunnel 5:23
06 Like A Moving Truck (Voc MC Det) 5:17
07 Spitalfields 6:59
08 Seeing Red (Voc Alison David) 4:48
09 Suckerpunch (Voc MC Det) 5:10
10 4 Dead Monks 5:16
Bns
11 The Sleepless (Shut Up and Dance remix) 3:51
12 Bogeyman (David Holmes mix) 7:42
13 Image of You (Rae and Christian remix) (vocal) 6:51

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Nearly as astonishing as 1998's excellent Making Bones, Red Snapper's third full album again finds the instrumental trio comping over a wealth of great musical ideas wedded to dub, soul-jazz, big-beat, disco, even hard rock. "Shellback" features a pounding Zeppelin breakbeat from drummer Richard Thair and a processional bassline of Ali Friend setting up vocalist Karime Kendra, who floats serenely over the entire production. Kendra resurfaces elsewhere, showing an enviable range by transforming herself into an extroverted diva for the breakbeat disco track "The Rough and the Quick." "The Rake" is a torrid beatbox-funk number with a nasally vocal effect straight out of P-Funk, while "Bussing," "Belladonna," and "They're Hanging Me Tonight" are atmospheric groove cuts with more allegiance to a classic jazz unit like Weather Report than any trip-hop act out there. Red Snapper never appear to run out of ideas or energy, and excellent production and recording unite the disparate styles into a jewel of an album.



  Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper  (flac   383mb)

01 Keeping Pigs Together 5:22
02 Some Kind Of Kink 5:26
03 Shellback 5:43
04 Don't Go Nowhere 4:50
05 The Rake 5:14
06 The Rough And The Quick 5:05
07 Bussing 5:24
08 I Stole Your Car 4:14
09 Alaska Street 5:00
10 Belladonna 4:26
11 They're Hanging Me Tonight 6:08


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This 2003 release denotes something of a return to action for this rather talented, acoustic-electric trio. In addition, this outing features seven new pieces amid some older works, and two live tracks. The band really shines through in its multi-layered blend of EFX-driven dance beats and jazzy grooves to complement an abundance of melodically tinged hooks. Effectively, taste is the measuring stick here, as the musicians' shrewd arrangements feature synth horns, quaintly organized treatments, and contrasting themes. No filler material here, thank you! It's an intelligently produced effort, consisting of polytonal works framed upon ostinato motifs, reverberating keyboard-based choruses, breezy guitar licks, and more. They even manage to align various genres such as American folk, worldbeat rhythms, and techno stylizations into various sequences and ethereal soundscapes. Essentially, few working units of this ilk successfully merge disparate elements into something so cohesive and idiosyncratic. A finely crafted program for sure!



Red Snapper - Red Snapper (flac   324mb)

01 Regrettable 5:38
02 Mountains And Valleys 3:28
03 Ultraviolet 6:01
04 Heavy Petting 6:15
05 Dnipro 5:15
06 Hot Flush (Sabres Of Paradise Mix) 8:05
07 Odd Man Out 4:26
08 The Quiet One 3:31
09 The Tunnel (Live) 5:53
10 4 Dead Monks (Live) 5:31

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Apr 14, 2020

RhoDeo 2015 Magicians

Hello, 20 years later Graham Hancock wrote Magicians of the Gods a sequal to Fingerprints with which i'll continue this week. But wait there's more Robert A. Monroe takes you on a guided trip the coming months to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. I'd  say a great way to spend the freetime corona delivers.




Hancock's thesis is based on the previously widely criticised Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large comets striking the Earth around 10,800 BC. Hancock argues that this caused widespread destruction, with a short-term return to Ice Age conditions followed by massive flooding that altered the continental landscape. Specifically, he claims that coastal civilisations in and around the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by rising sea levels. He argues that this was the origin of various flood myths around the world, and that "what we think of as human history is merely the record of human events that have transpired since the last, great planetary catastrophe.

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What is Gateway Experience®

Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.

The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.

Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe




Hemi-Sync - The Gateway Experience - Wave I - Discovery 1 ( 70min flac   329mb).:


CD1 - 1 - Orientation 33:09

CD1 - 2 - Introduction to Focus 10 37:10

HemiSync - Gateway Experience - Wave I Discovery (PDF)


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In Part Two of our interview with Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project,  we explore a number of intriguing space science discoveries, including supernovae, "neutron stars," "black holes" and "white dwarf" stars which appear to break the expected rules of standard cosmology.

Are these "weird" objects really rule breakers, or can we find better explanations from plasma cosmology and the Electric Universe?



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On the Sun, conventional science says that magnetic field lines move or merge, and frequently break and reconnect. This is called magnetic reconnection, a mechanism that many solar physicists claim to be responsible for enormous, energetic solar outbursts. Recently, scientists using data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft have published a paper describing the physics inside a so-called magnetic reconnection event. In this Space News, Professor Donald Scott examines these claims, and outlines the fundamental problems with magnetic reconnection from an electrical engineer’s perspective. Basicly more complete nonsense from NASA





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Graham Hancock’s multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth’s lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to his seminal work. Published on 10 September 2015 in the UK and on 10 November 2015 in the US, Magicians of the Gods is not in any sense an ‘update’ of Fingerprints but is a completely new book filled from front to back with completely new evidence, completely new travels to the world’s most mysterious archaeological sites, and completely new insights, based on the latest scientific evidence, into the global cataclysm that wiped an advanced civilization from the earth and made us a species with amnesia, forced to begin again like children with no memory of what went before.

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.

The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth’s crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.

A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.

But there were survivors – known to later cultures by names such as ‘the Sages’, ‘the Magicians’, ‘the Shining Ones’, and ‘the Mystery Teachers of Heaven’. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations – Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these ‘Magicians of the Gods’ brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.

A memory and a warning to the future… For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide ‘dark’ fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the ‘Great Return’ will occur in our time…

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Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods 1-3 ( 125min  57mb)

narrated by the man himself, Graham Hancock

01 Chapter 1 56:00
02 Chapter 2 21:57
03 Chapter 3 47:39

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previously

Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 0-6 ( 102min  48mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 7-13 ( 98min  37mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 14-20 ( 116min  44mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 21-25 ( 115min  53mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 26-31 ( 139min  53mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 32-37 ( 128min  59mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 38-42 ( 122min  46mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 43-48 ( 139min  54mb)
Graham Hancock - 'Fingerprints of the Gods The Quest Continues 49-52 ( 147min  55mb)

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