RhoDeo 1251 Goldy Rhox 87

Hello,  In the darklight today is a Latin music influenced Grammy Award winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, rock band. Founded in San Francisco in the late 1960s, it is based around the compositions and playing of lead guitarist and founder Carlos. The band first came to widespread public attention when their performance of their Latin rock song "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock in 1969 provided a contrast to other acts on the bill. This exposure helped propel their first album, followed in the next two years by the successful Abraxas and III.

In the years that followed lineup changes were common. Carlos's increasing involvement with guru Sri Chinmoy took the band into more esoteric music, though never quite losing its initial Latin influence. In 1998, the group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Carlos also won Grammy Awards as a solo artist in 1989 and 2003. The band has sold more than 90 million records worldwide

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Most of the albums i 'll post made many millions for the music industry and a lot of what i intend to post still gets repackaged and remastered decades later, squeezing the last drop of profit out of bands that for the most part have ceased to exist long ago, although sometimes they get lured out of the mothballs to do a big bucks gig or tour. Now i'm not as naive to post this kinda music for all to see and have deleted, these will be a black box posts, i'm sorry for those on limited bandwidth but for most of you a gamble will get you a quality rip don't like it, deleting is just 2 clicks...That said i will try to accommodate somewhat and produce some cryptic info on the artist and or album.

Today's mystery album is the seventeenth album by the band, released june 1999. It went 15 times platinum in the US and won nine Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year as well as three Latin Grammy Awards including Record of the Year. The album, conceived by Clive Davis and A&R'd by Pete Ganbarg, was a big global hit, eventually selling more than 30 million copies It is the most successful album by the band, charting in ten countries, including in the US chart, at number one.



Goldy Rhox 87   (flac 426mb)

Goldy Rhox 87  (ogg 169mb)

  previously

Goldy Rhox 17  184mb


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RhoDeo 1251 Aetix

Hello,  Aetix follows through last weeks episode by looking back , how did Julian Cope start out, in some interesting company as it turns out, what followed was a short sharp career with a band that carried the seed of destruction in it's name The Teardrop Explodes....  N'Joy

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The Teardrop Explodes was formed by Julian Cope who had previously been in the short-lived yet locally-renowned band Crucial Three along with Pete Wylie who went on to form Wah! and Ian McCulloch later of Echo and the Bunnymen. The band's initial line-up consisted of singer/bassist Julian Cope, Mick Finkler on guitar, Gary Dwyer on drums and Paul Simpson on keyboards. An early version of the band, called A Shallow Madness, included Ian McCulloch. They were managed by Bill Drummond and signed to his Zoo label, as were Echo and the Bunnymen.

The band issued their 1979 debut single "Sleeping Gas," a surreal electro-pop effort, in February 1979. Soon after, Simpson left the band and was replaced by Zoo label co-owner, David Balfe. As they toured Liverpool, the band steadily gained popularity. Finkler was fired by Cope during the recording of their debut album Kilimanjaro and replaced by Dalek I Love You guitarist Alan Gill. With Gill came an expansion of the group's sound. Armed with trumpeters Ray Martinez and Hurricane Smith who add soaring flourishes and energetic blasts throughout, on Kilimanjaro the Teardrops explode in a torrent of creative, kicky and often downright fun songs that hotwire garage/psych inspirations into something more.

Cope is already a commanding singer and frontman; his clever lyrics and strong projection result in a series of confident performances. In 1981, the group was at the height of its popularity. In January, they hit #6 on the British charts with the "Reward" single and in April they broke the top 20 with "Treason" . They received airplay on progressive radio in the U.S., introducing the band to many new fans. During this period, there were numerous line up changes: Alfie Agius was brought in on bass, Jeff Hammer replaced Balfe on keyboards and Troy Tate replaced Gill on guitar. Expectations were high for the band's second album, Wilder, recorded in late 1981 with a nucleus of Cope, Dwyer, Tate and the returning Balfe. Unlike the first album, which was more of a band effort, Wilder is much more the work of Cope, who took sole songwriting credit on every track on the album. The singles didnt do particularly well, signaling the end of the Teardrops as a popular singles band.

At the end of 1981 the band took up residence at the Pyramid Club in Liverpool, playing twice a day as a five piece, with the addition of Ronnie François on bass. The band then undertook an extensive tour of Europe, the USA and Australia,  with disastrous results; Tate quickly broke ranks to join Fashion, leaving the remaining trio to begin work on a planned third LP, to be dubbed Everybody Wants to Shag the Teardrop Explodes.Tensions were high – Cope wanted to write ballads and quirky pop songs, while Balfe was more interested in recording synth-based dance music. Cope eventually dissolved the band in the middle of the sessions. The material was later released in 1990 under the title Everybody Wants To Shag... the Teardrop Explodes. After the bands breakup, Balfe later re-emerged as the founder of the Food Records label, while Cope embarked on a successful and occasionally brilliant solo career.

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Despite the flux they were going through, the Teardrops somehow got it together to record the heavily-hyped Wilder, which unlike its predecessor did nothing in terms of sales or smash singles, outside of the semi-successful shimmering keyboard/crunch of "Passionate Friend." This isn't for lack of talent on the band's part, and the trademark kicky arrangements and horns appear throughout. However, unlike the joyous outpourings of Kilimanjaro, Wilder sounds distanced. Cope doesn't come across as the lead singer so much as he does someone singing with the music, ironic given that he wrote everything on this album. As a subtler pleasure, though, Wilder offers up some good stuff, with more cryptic compositions and performances throughout, while Clive Langer takes over full production after only doing a few on the first album.  The concluding track, "The Great Dominions," is one of Cope's all-time best, with a sweeping, epic sense of scope and sound. The angular funk of "The Culture Bunker" has both some fine guitar and a sharp lyric or two on Cope's part -- the Crucial Three he refers to was his bedroom-only act with Ian McCulloch and Pete Wylie.

The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (flac 455mb)

01 Bent Out Of Shape 3:27
02 Colours Fly Away 2:54
03 Seven Views Of Jerusalem 3:47
04 Pure Joy 1:42
05 Falling Down Around Me 3:08
06 The Culture Bunker 5:29
07 Passionate Friend 3:29
08 Tiny Children 3:50
09 Like Leila Khaled Said 3:48
10 ...And The Fighting Takes Over 3:53
11 The Great Dominions 4:26
 Expanded with US mini album Buff Manilla.
12 Window Shopping For A New Crown Of Thorns 3:48
13 East Of The Equator 6:16
14 Rachael Built A Steamboat 4:15
15 You Disappear From View 2:59
16 Suffocate 3:43
17 Ouch Monkeys 5:15
18 Soft Enough For You 3:55
19 The In-Psychlopedia 4:04

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The title was originally intended for the band's debut, but attaching it to the long-unreleased third and final Teardrops album, an expansion of the four-track You Disappear From View EP, is as good a use as any. Cope trashed these sessions shortly after they were completed, but admitted years later that it wasn't all that bad. While this is a Balfe album more than anything else (he's credited with all the arrangements) with Cope on vocals, the rapidly collapsing band, augmented by a variety of other players, still manages to get in some good work. Cope certainly sounds like he's not entirely there at points -- particularly on the lengthy opening number "Ouch Monkeys," where his voice is mixed in the background while Balfe's lounge-styled lead keyboards play against spectral choir sounds and echoed drums. Much of the percussion is a combination of Dwyer's suddenly arena-scaled pounding and rhythm box pulses, which, combined with the lack of guitars on all but two songs oftens transforms the Teardrops into something approaching New Romantic synth rock! "You Disappear From View" sounds like a reject from Spandau Ballet's early days. Often cuts sound like demos for fuller arrangements, which turned out to be the case for two of the songs, "Metranil Vavin" and "Sex (Pussyface)," which Cope recut on his solo debut World Shut Your Mouth. When Cope is fully engaged in the material, like on the charging "Count to Ten and Run For Cover," or the gently mysterious flow of "Soft Enough For You," it's a gentle revelation. A ringer concludes things -- "Strange House in the Snow," an off-kilter, wiggy 1980-era cut with Gill on guitar.

The Teardrop Explodes - Everybody Wants to Shag (flac 265mb)

01 Ouch Monkeys 5:29
02 Serious Danger 3:30
03 Metranil Vavin 3:06
04 Count To Ten And Run For Cover 3:20
05 In-Psychlopaedia 4:00
06 Soft Enough For You 3:28
07 You Disappear From View 3:00
08 The Challenge 2:57
09 Not My Only Friend 2:54
10 Sex (Pussyface) 4:09
11 Terrorist 3:32
12 Strange House In The Snow 4:43

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Julian Cope isn't one to dwell on the past, but he isn't opposed to re-evaluating it, either. When going through some old tapes, he evidently found enough material to convince him to add one more compilation to the Teardrop Explodes post-breakup catalog. This set is evenly split between demos, early versions, and live tracks. As with any anthology of this kind, the sound quality tends to vary. The earliest songs, a few instrumentals from 1978, sound the roughest, but the majority of the tracks sound excellent. Audio clarity is hardly an issue, though, when legendary lost Teardrop gems like "Log Cabin" and the original "You Disappear From View" are finally unearthed. The latter's stripped-down sound is indescribably better than the cheesy, faux soul version that appeared on Everybody Wants to Shag the Teardrop Explodes. Just more evidence that their unfinished third album would have been another classic had Cope been able to keep David Balfe's synth at bay. While a few of the alternate takes aren't terribly different from the common ones, "Tiny Children" is utterly charming and upbeat, a far cry from the haunting take included on Wilder. Musically speaking, the best version of the group was the one that featured Jeff Hammer on keyboards and Alfie Agius on bass. The sometimes comedic differences these hired hands had with core members Cope and Gary Dwyer are highlighted in Cope's hilarious book, Head-On. But the diversity seems to have worked: this incarnation of the band is featured on exciting live renditions of "The Culture Bunker" and "Sleeping Gas," which both display the band's unique fusion of the sounds of 1967 and 1977. The disclaimer on the cover which states that Zoology is to rhyme with "eulogy," indicates this may be the final word on the group.

The untiteld final track  is an interview with several luminaries, including Cope, concerning the fabled Columbia Hotel in London, a favorite hideaway for new wave artists in the early '80s.

The Teardrop Explodes - Zoology (  flac 510mb)

01 From Five Miles Up 2:18
02 Camera Camera 2:57
03 Brave Boys Keep Their Promises 2:11
04 Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere 4:04
05 When I Dream 4:10
06 Screaming Secrets 4:06
07 Books 2:10
08 The Culture Bunker 7:52
09 I'm Not The Loving Kind 2:47
10 Log Cabin 3:07
11 Tiny Children 3:10
12 You Disappear From View 3:03
13 ...And The Fighting Takes Over 4:04
14 Sleeping Gas 4:25
15 The Tunnel 3:09
16 Ritchie Blofeld 3:50
17 Untitled 13:35

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RhoDeo 1251 Roots

Hello, as mentioned previously there's been a big influx of Jamaicans in the UK these last decades and they seeded a vibrant reggae/dub culture, reason enough to post some of the results of exploring '90s U.K. Anglo dub.  Having been so prolific these past decades another Alpha & Omega posting today.

Alpha & Omega emerged as part of the '90s U.K. dub school, but the approach favored by Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen is far more deeply grounded in dub's original Jamaican bass & drum roots foundation, than 'better modern living through sound science and mixing board effects.' It's dub as a rhythm of life to live by, minimal grooves with a sparing but savvy application of electronic touches, and melody instruments to avoid sameness.... N'joy

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As the duo, Alpha and Omega, Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen have created a style of dub, the remixing offshoot of reggae, that is uniquely British. While they were initially influenced by original dub recordings by Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby and Augustus Pablo, Woodbridge and Sprosen have continued to evolve their own sound. "Option" magazine explained, "through minimal manipulation, (Alpha and Omega) deliver the listener to a place of great sonic peace". According to "The Wire", "The compelling presences at the hear of these airy sonic worlds have a harder edge than some of their ancestors'. "Pulse!" dug even deeper into their explanation of Alpha and Omega's sound, which they described as, "massively thunderous bass lines, galloping drum tracks and a willingness to tastefully adorn dubs with digital flutes and various electronic sounding washes". Bassist Woodbridge, one of reggae's few woman instrumentalists, and keyboardist Sprosen began working together after meeting in the southwestern coastal city of Plymouth in Devon, England. Both musicians had previously played in various reggae bands and Sprosen had worked with the Roaring Lion Sound System. Pooling their resources, Woodbridge and Sprosen spent several years recording rhythm tracks prior to releasing their debut album, Daniel in the Lion's Den, as a cassette that they released on their own label, A & O, in 1990. Two years later, the duo signed with Greensleeves, keeping the imprint A &O as part of the agreement. Alpha and Omega have continued to collaborate with other British reggae bands. The duo supplied rhythm tracks for Jah Shaka and appeared on the indie-dance band Flowered Up's single, "The Reggae Song". The duo was accompanied by the Disciples on their 1997 album, Sacred Art of Dub; Mystical Things followed three years later and the brilliant Dub Philosophy appeared in summer 2001. They produced a steady output in the following decade: Serious Joke (02), Spirit Of The Ancients (03), Trample The Eagle And The Dragon And The Bear (05), City Of Dub (07), Songs From The Holy Mountain (09), culminating in Blessed Are The Poor (12) their most recent album.
 
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Dub Magic is Alpha & Omega's second U.S release and It features unreleased versions of classic Alpha & Omega tracks such as The Roots, Rastafari, Pure And Clean, David And Goliath and more. Selected and mastered exquisitely by Zions' Gate Records label from Seattle USA"
this album has an amazing sound too it which is both rythmic and somewhat melodic. This album breaks new ground and at the same time stays true to classic dub rhythms and beats.

Alpha and Omega ‎- Dub Magic (flac  365mb)

01 The Roots
02 Pure And Clean
03 Night And Day
04 City Of Dub
05 Sacred Realm (Rmx Disciples)
06 Eternal Dub (Rmx Disciples)
07 Rasta Far I
08 Words Of Thy Mouth
09 Merciful Jah
10 Rightful Ruler
11 Tree Of Life
12 Who Dub Bless
13 David's Stone
14 Under Contention
15 Seven Seas
16 Africa Ethiopia

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The echoes you hear in Alpha & Omega's reverb-soaked mixes come straight from the Black Ark and King Tubbys. This program opens showcase style, with the dreamy sufferer's lament "It Hurts," followed by a fine dub version, then gets down to the business of serious and primarily instrumental dub, with steppers anthems like "Wounded" and dark one-drop excursions like "Poor Man's Dub." The mix is always dense and claustrophobic, but in a good way; the bass and drums cut through the smoke with melodic precision and the supporting parts waft through the mix like cumulus clouds and desert wind. Highly recommended.

Alpha and Omega - Mystical Things (flac  314mb)

01 It Hurts
02 There Must Be A Dub
03 Wounded
04 Is This A Dream?
05 Sea Of Dub
06 Cry From Shanty Town
07 Poor Man's Dub
08 King Lion
09 Elephant Dance
10 Back Against The Wall Of Babylon
11 Mystical Things
12 Grasshopper

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Leading UK Dub Duo Alpha and Omega coming with 2 vocals and 10 Dub Shots to enhance the musical atmosphere with their mystical vibes and to make you move and groove from the top to the very last drop. It's their 19th album and this one has the potential to appeal to a broader public the "just" the Dub lovers. Serious Joke stands out among other current Dub releases. On many tracks, Alpha and Omega created a middle-eastern atmosphere by using melody lines and structures from that region, and integrated it into the concept of DUB without any problem. The basses remain very heavy, the drums stay on top, effects are galore. The riddims are catchy and original. If there is one thing that would describe Alpha and Omega, it would be their intense dubs. Many Reggae and Dub albums are in fact a collection of singles, but this album is one complete thing. You can't really use their music as "sound-wallpaper", it has to be played loud..

Alpha and Omega - Serious Joke (flac 275mb)

01 The Dub Is Out There
02 Alchemy
03 Survivor
04 Serious Joke
05 Elementary My Selector
06 One Love
07 Only One Dub
08 In My Dreams
09 Who Jah Bless
10 Bless This Dub
11 Wolves In Sheeps Clothing
12 Dub Files

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RhoDeo 1251 Byron 11

Hello, I hope you yourself enjoyed a fine Sundaze and are ready for some light horror..

Now listen to the continuing saga of The Byron Chronicles season 3 ...NJoy

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From The Byron Chronicles Introduction

“Imagine if the world as you know it… was nothing more than an illusion. What if creatures like elves, dragons, vampires, zombies and werewolves walk amongst you every day… But you never see them.”

“This is the world I walk in.
 I am called Byron
 And these are my chronicles…“

The Byron Chronicles is a dark urban fantasy written and produced by Darker Projects, an audio drama company with an extensive website.  The site is well laid out and all of their shows can be heard free of charge direct from the website or  as podcasts, while your on  the go. The Darker Projects website hosts many shows, but I have chosen to focus on The Byron Chronicles for this review.

The Byron chronicles center around a being simply called Byron, who is something “other than human”. Byron lives in the shadows of our modern world, where vampires, werewolves and other creatures of fantasy are very real, but kept hidden from human eyes. The separation of  the supernatural world from the human world is an important element through out the entire series. We quickly find out that when the two worlds mix violence  seems to ensue, usually leading to bad things for humans and supernaturals alike. In fact, the only person who seems to think humans and supernatural beings can get along is Byron himself, who tends to act as a mediator between the two.

Joining Byron on these adventures is Miss Chris Sparrow, who once led a “normal life” as a Barrista at a local Portland Oregon coffee shop before being turned into a half vampire in a freak accident. Chris turned to Byron reluctantly at first, but the pair quickly became fast friends as Chris came to rely on Byron for guidance while supernatural world revealed itself to her. Byron in turn, seemed to rely on Chris in helping him better understand humans as a whole. There were several plot lines in the first season, including Byron saving the life of Lazarus the First Zombie, and preventing a worldwide zombie outbreak in the process. Then Byron had to hunt down a vampire lord named Branlaven, who was selling a super drug called “rush” on the streets of Portland. It was the drug Rush which caused Chris to become a half vampire, and it was here that Chris Sparrow made her first appearance in the series. Next, Byron was taken hostage by two different secret societies; each one trying to save the world from “monsters” like Byron.

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1-The Byron Chronicles 301 Reflections in Shadow
"Bit of an underestimate, my friend. I may have just caused the end of the world."

2-The Byron Chronicles 302 Sam
"I'm going to eat you... eat your pretty face!"


The Byron Chronicles 3 (1,2) ( 76mb)

01 The Byron Chronicles 301 Reflections in Shadow (32:31)
02 The Byron Chronicles 302 Sam (23:24)

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previously

Byron's Tale ( 63mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (2,3) ( 67mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (4,5) ( 45mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (6,7) ( 42mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (8,9) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (1,2) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (3,4a) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (3,4a) ( 66mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (5,6) ( 44mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (7,8) ( 49mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (9,10) ( 49mb)
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Sundaze 1251

Hello, as the world had a thoughtfull day considering the obscene happenings in a brave new world town we learn the mother, Nancy Lanza, was “a big, big gun fan” who went target shooting with her children, clearly her son picked up something else.  Well I suppose I've reacted by offering you a less relaxed Sundaze ...

Dvar keeps their identities secret and has released no details, including the city they came from, how old they are, or exactly how many of them are in the band. This has led to many impostors claiming that they are Dvar or know the identities of the band. The band itself claims that Dvar is something "supernatural" that is just delivered through them to others... N'Joy

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It's rather hard to get information about the band. Collecting the bits from the various sources, I managed to learn that probably the band has been existing since the beginning of 90's. "Dvar" is translated from Hebrew as "word", "message". Line-up seems to comprise of two men from Moscow. There's a photo but it's hard to discern their appearance. Occultism is felt in every of their feature: hair, faces and manner of presentation.

The members of Dvar have kept their identities secret, so little is known of their formation. In an interview they stated that "Dvar is something that came in a dream". Band members claim to have heard music in their dreams. The music was presented to them by a creature named Dvar, which took the shape of a giant bee. All of the band's music is devoted to Dvar and directly inspired by him. The members of the band do not claim to write the music themselves (which comes from Dvar), but to serve as messengers. Lyrics, according to them, are performed in the Enochian language.

Their first known released work was a 1998 self-released tape called Raii, though rumours have circulated of an earlier self-released tape from 1996, simply named DVAR. In the year 2000, the duo issued another self-released 4-track CD-R demo called Taai Liira. In 2002 the band released their first album on the Italian S.P.K.R/Radio Luxor record label. The album was called Piirrah. In 2003 Dvar moved to the Russian label Irond and released five albums: Roah (2003), Rakhilim (2004), re-release with bonus tracks of Taai Liira (2004), Hor Hor (2005) and Oramah Maalhur (2005). In 2007 the band moved to the label Gravitator and released Jraah Mraah. In 2008 the band released Zii under the label Art Music Group. In 2009, Fayah! was released, a dark counterpart to Zii, along with a release of Madegirah, entitled Madegirah - Bizarre Rares and Early Works. Now, in mid-2010, their Tenth Anniversary Album, El Mariil has been released, with an unusual medieval sound unlike - as is typical in all of DVAR's music - anything heard from them before. Dvar's latest album album "Deii" pre-released in Russian magazine "Mir Fantastiki, World of Sci-Fi in mp3 320 kb/s format. Meanwhile regular physical copies of the double album (2 CD 16 tracks on each) are now available on Shadowplay Records.


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DVAR "Taai Liira" looks like a ray of light in the darkness it's fifty-four minutes of the most sophisticated schizoid occult darkwave, which absorbed the best of everything that has been created in the history of the genre. Three superhit from this album needs no introduction - they all know by heart, and so on first single "Taai Liira". Composition "Schraii" with medievalno-folk intonations (by the way, my favorite) was taken from the previous eponymous kassetoalboma. The style of the songs is quite diverse, then you and the apocalyptic symphony "Al Hilaji"; and execution of a macabre ritual of a "Vo Rah Arrah Iill"; energy and sinister chaos "Abisser"; in "Itiir" ... Well, such a hellish laughter, like a singer in "Vaii Han", I have in my entire life had not heard that even makes me doubt his affiliation to the human race ... Pathology is presented everywhere, not only in music, but also in vocals, - it is not enough that the sexual origins of vocalist are not defined, these are performed so that one can't understand, how those sounds are derived from the human being. By the way about the lyrics, it seems to me that they are written in so called "Enochian", when lyrics are formed by harmonic passages of null, invented language.

DVAR - Taai Liira   (376mb)

01 Al Hilaji 3:08
02 Iina Tamiira 4:57
03 Taai Liira 2:59
04 Vo Rah Arrah Iill 3:22
05 Hissen Raii 3:31
06 Iih Rah 2:36
07 Abisser 2:12
08 Itiir 3:27
09 Vaii Han 3:26
10 Schraii 4:55
11 Ud Rah 1:13
12 Hissen Raii (V.2) 4:12
13 Vaii Han (Mix) 3:54
14 Taai Liira (Dark Mix) 2:48
15 Hissen Raii (V.211) 2:02
16 Taai Liira (Light Mix) 4:01
  Hidden Track
17 Untitled 2:09

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Dvar sounds here like as you've just dropped acid and tripped right into the munchkin village in the movie The Wizard of OZ. Dvar’s music is somewhere between psychosis and child’s play ( part evil, part whimsy). Song composition consists of numerous instruments both acoustic and synthesized. Instruments range from horns, strings, wood winds, percussion, bass guitar and acoustic guitar. Along with a strong injection of synthesizer generated sounds. The result is a bizarre orchestral/synthesized sound that at once seems familiar and alien.

Vocals chime in and out throughout the album. Infusing each song with an element of hysterical merriment or masochistic torment. The voice is highly manipulated and sounds like an album of the chipmunks Christmas songs spun too fast on a turn table. The voice remains high and wavering throughout the album as the singer sings in his alien language.

Dvar - Rakhilim (flac  252mb)

01 Rakhilim 2:41
02 Ieroh 4:14
03 Ieroh 2 0:52
04 Yar Yar 2:09
05 Ir Rakhilim 1:07
06 Leriil 2:38
07 Naakhiil 2:38
08 Ya Raii Ta Hirrih 3:54
09 Hanaar 1:37
10 Nadrah 1:58
11 Schekhirail 1:27
12 Yalaraa T'Kiin 2:10
13 Tavirim 2:35
14 Amaas Takhi 2:32
15 Kamharim 1:05
16 Schraii 0:35
17 Vo Rakhilim 1:05
18 Arraheem 2:25
19 Ieroh 3 1:47
20 Nehadaim 3:27

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The first thing that comes to mind is the phrase "abstract ambient with darkwave-effects." Here on this and stop. sonic palette is very rich and saturated, and the basis of a personal atmosphere, as you might have guessed, is a synthesizer,  here you find some kind of harp, and various tubes, pipes, tambourines, "low tone" saxophone, double bass, violin, accordion, bells, harpsichord, strings with the "Eastern" bias and even amazing to the ear drum-Rod jogging bottles, hanging in a row and filled with water to different levels. Drums, again, very varied according to the type of sound - the low frequency "boom" up high "Shelest."  DVAR singing in a strange language "Enochian", causing the feeling of being in a kind Sabbath. Overall music like "melt", "blur" the surrounding space, making abstract objects to float before the eyes of the listener. course, this creation DVAR has great degree of originality and professionalism, as an instrumental range is not just is there, it is very advantageous to put in intertwined series, all the songs are full integrated and one or other, but most importantly - on time - audio inserts. Out of the total mass is very clearly distinguished "Hora" and "Ihirrah" with its unique atmosphere. Unlike previous drives DVAR, no special "dark"-ovsti not feel, but oddly enough, the album is rather positive, one might even say - life-affirming, so no it is not darkwave, but a real lightwave!

Dvar- RoAh (flac 266mb)

01 Ha T'annah 3:50
02 Siferah 4:05
03 Ai-Lu 4:04
04 Iillah 1:02
05 Merra Tah 2:40
06 Kiam Kiam 2:22
07 Iina Tamiira (v. 2) 5:10
08 Raah Dhar 3:57
09 Hora 2:04
10 Keruah 3:18
11 Haya Haya 3:15
12 Ihirrah 4:05
13 Mathaar D'ham 3:16

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RhoDeo 1250 Beats

Hello,  the US today has seen one of the most abhorrent shootings ever, 20 young children and 6 of their teachers executed by a 20 year old who felt omnipotent with those beloved guns. He started off by killing his mother a beloved principal/teacher at that school before setting out on his disturbed rampage. My thoughts go out to the bereft families.

Well we're here for Beats that today come courtesy of a German duo. Alter Ego are, simply put, legends in the German electronic scene. Despite the fact that the English had been doing it for years, the duo, composed of Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke, produced what is arguably the first home listening electronic record in Germany. But that’s not to say that the two hasn’t always kept a firm eye on the dancefloor. N'Joy..

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It all started with one of these Chicago Trax compilations on DM/Streetsounds. As a reaction to his thirsting for more of these crazed beats from overseas and with a view to his tight budget, the greatest hits of these expensive imported 12” singles were soon released in the form of a compendium. This opened Pandora’s box, for very young Roman Flügel, too. The dazzle of the unrefined and feverish dance music, furnished with just a few drum machines and inexpensive synthesizers, turned the whole world upside down for the cultivated music pupil from Darmstadt.

It didn’t take long before the well-trained ear tried out more than just classical melodies. Little by little, he collected a vast array of equipment, bringing forth his first sound experiments and enough courage to give a demo tape to indie fan Jörn Elling Wuttke. The latter was a well-known face in Darmstadt’s music scene and often enthused about new electronic music. In him he had found the right partner and Wuttke could hardly believe his spellbound ears. DJs and Delirium record sellers Ata and Heiko MSO from Frankfurt felt the same. At first they thought someone was making fun of them. It sounded too authentic and unique. The music Flügel and Wuttke had presented to their label Ongaku and Klang Elektronik as Acid Jesus or, rather, Alter Ego, couldn’t possibly come from the little neighbouring town Darmstadt. In Frankfurt, that kind of sound made people think of Detroit. They released several maxi singles and an album under the pseudonym Acid Jesus, later that year they changed their name to Alter Ego. The following year they founded Sensorama, an outlet for their more ambient tracks.

Releasing arguably the first album of "listening techno" in Germany (their 1994 self-titled debut) and building on the style with subsequent releases, Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling-Wuttke are the exception that proves the rule in boom-boom dominated Deutschland. Better known and revered in England, where dance-based electronic music of a home-listening stripe has been the norm for nearly a decade, Alter Ego have also managed to influenced countrymen and labelmates such as Hardfloor and Yokota to move away from Germany's increasingly commercial trance/techno scene and into headier, more experimental climes.

The pair signed to Sven Väth's trance-dominated Harthouse label in 1993, after releasing a self-titled full-length on their own Klang Elektronik (under the name Acid Jesus) which caught Väth's attention. Flügel was a jazz drummer prior to his work with Wuttke, and the pair met in the late '80s as a result of the snowballing German trance scene. They began producing tracks in the studio Wuttke was piecing together, and had an immediate hit as Acid Jesus with their first single, "Move My Body."  By the time they'd signed with Harthouse, however, Flügel and Wuttke were no longer interested in pursuing the club side of dance-based electronic music. Turned off by the German trance and techno scenes' steady commercialization, Flügel and Wuttke sought to innovate German techno out of redundancy by diversifying.

Originally slated for release on Harthouse ambient sublabel Recycle or Die, Alter Ego got a main label release instead, and together with the subsequent Decoding the Hacker Myth, succeeded in slowing the pace of German techno and adding a cachet of new influences (U.K. ambient techno outfits such as B12 and the Black Dog, hip-hop and electro, jazz and soul). Decoding the Hacker Myth was reissued in 1996, coupled with a bonus disc of remixes by the likes of Luke Slater, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Matt "Dr. Rockit" Herbert's Wishmountain project. Flügel has also released an EP and full-length as Ro70 on David Moufang's Source label, and both Flügel and Wuttke continue to release tracks and albums under such side-project pseudonyms as Sensorama, Primitive Painter, and Eight Miles High for Ladomat, R&S, and Klang.

Worldwide performances followed at the most prominent festivals & clubs such as  Tribal Gathering Festival ( England), SONAR (Spain),  VISION Festival (Switzerland), Time Warp/Big Warp (Germany), I Love Techno (Belgium), WIRE Festival ( Japan).  In 1997 they released their last single for Harthouse »Absolute«. They then made the decision to concentrate on further productions for their own label Klang Elektronik. 1999 saw the release of Betty Ford, which became one of the most memorable and biggest club hits of that year. In the two following years they were busy doing a co-production with Sven Vaeth for his albums, »Contact« and »Fire«.

They achieved notability in 2004 with their track "Rocker", which became one of the year's defining dance anthems, especially in Europe, and getting played on rotation amongst the most popular electroclash DJs such as Felix Da Housecat and 2 Many DJs. The track peaked at #32 in the UK Singles Chart.In the 2004 Groove Magazine Readers Poll, Alter Ego won three categories, taking out the award for 'Best Single' for "Rocker", 'Best Album' for Transphormer, and also 'Best Live Act'. French group Black Strobe took out 'Best Remix' honours with their remix of "Rocker".

In 2005, Roman Flügel went onto produce the track "Gehts Noch", which was a worldwide hit, and was regularly played by many international DJs. In 2007 they released Why Not ?!, followed a year later by the remix version What's Next?!   acompanied by several 12 " releases. It's been rather quiey at the Alter Ego front since, however they did release a Lost Album in 320kbps in May this year. It looks as if Roman Flügel concentrated on a solo career of late he released his solo project as Soylent Green  “La Forca Del Destino” in 2007  and Fatty Folders in 2011 as well as many singles.

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Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling-Wuttke 's stunning breaktrough on the music scene

Acid Jesus - Acid Jesus (flac  445mb)

01 MF 1 9:07
02 Move My Body 5:35
03 Faith In Acid 4:50
04 Disappear 5:33
05 H. A. L. 5:57
06 MF 2 9:28
07 On The Couch 4:34
08 Mulunga 4:54
09 Odyssey 7:22
10 Fairchild 5:33
11 Razzblaster 5:54
12 Jesus 6:13

Acid Jesus - Acid Jesus (ogg 168mb)

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This German collective works with what could be best described as "listening techno" -- electronica designed not for dancing, but for laid-back home listening. This means that each track is organized more like a song, with enough movement to keep things from becoming repetitive; on songs like "Brom," they drop out most of the beats in favor of a sort of organized ambiance. The majority of the album is pleasant in a beepy and bubbly sort of way, and very organic-sounding, an immersive slice of pure IDM (intelligent dance music) bliss.

Alter Ego - Decoding The Hacker Myth (flac  357mb)

01 Cyax Pt. 1 7:50
02 Cryonics 6:54
03 Brom 4:58
04 Mescal 7:06
05 Slacker 6:37
06 Alterism 7:00
07 Microshopping 6:34
08 Lycra 6:29
09 Telekinetik 4:56
10 Cyax Pt. 2 6:00
11 Lavender 7:30
 
Alter Ego - Decoding The Hacker Myth (ogg 156mb )

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With superior ease, they couple the most exciting moments of traditional techno with mega hip, state-of-the-art silicon funk. Deeply rooted in tradition, but always with their data glove on the pulse of time, they concentrate on the essentials. Ten specially selected little pieces of art have managed to make it onto Transphormer, all of which mastered their way round the chic obstacle course brilliantly taking purism and hit alarm in their stride. Straightness and a crazed love for detail are what make the difference on this album. Artistic breaks that entice, not force, the listener into a euphoric state. Sophisticated techno 'Made in Frankfurt' which once goes to show how exciting functionality can be.

Alter Ego - Transphormer (flac 390mb)

01 Rocker 4:48
02 Tubeaction 5:40
03 Beat The Bush 5:47
04 Daktari 8:03
05 Vincent Van Dance 6:52
06 Gate 23 (Lost On Arrival) 2:31
07 Nasty Dollars 3:13
08 Satanic Circus 5:45
09 Raw (Sie Liebt Dich) 6:09
10 Transphormer 7:20

Alter Ego - Transphormer (ogg 155mb)

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RhoDeo 1250 Goldy Rhox 86

Hello, another great man and humanist died today at a grand old age, just before his 92 nd birthday, I'm talking about Ravi Shankar of cause, I'm beginning to wonder if Mandela will make it to the next year.  In The darklight today an American band, after appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the 1960s they acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite, vocals, Alan Wilson, guitar, harmonica and vocals, Henry Vestine (or Harvey Mandel) on lead guitar, Larry Taylor on bass, and Adolfo de la Parra on drums.

Their music and attitude afforded them a large following and established the band as one of the popular acts of the hippie era. They appeared at most major musical events at the end of the 1960s and they were able to deliver on stage electrifying performances of blues standards and their own material and occasionally to indulge into lengthier 'psychedelic' solos. Two of their songs – "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again" – became international hits. Since the early 1970s, numerous personnel changes have occurred and today, in the fifth decade of the band's existence the band includes de la Parra and Larry Taylor from the "classic" 1960s lineup as well as Mandel.

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Most of the albums i 'll post made many millions for the music industry and a lot of what i intend to post still gets repackaged and remastered decades later, squeezing the last drop of profit out of bands that for the most part have ceased to exist long ago, although sometimes they get lured out of the mothballs to do a big bucks gig or tour. Now i'm not as naive to post this kinda music for all to see and have deleted, these will be a black box posts, i'm sorry for those on limited bandwidth but for most of you a gamble will get you a quality rip don't like it, deleting is just 2 clicks...That said i will try to accommodate somewhat and produce some cryptic info on the artist and or album.

Todays mystery album was released jan 68 as the second album by today's mystery band, released in 1968. Unlike their debut, it features mostly original material. It included the top 10 hit "On the Road Again," one of their best known songs. "Amphetamine Annie," a warning about the dangers of amphetamine abuse, also received considerable airplay. "Fried Hockey Boogie" was the first example of one of their boogies, or loose jams. When released on CD in 2005, six tracks originally released on singles were included as bonus tracks.



Goldy Rhox 86   (flac 247mb)

Goldy Rhox 86   (ogg 103mb)

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Perhaps no greater tribute can be paid to this genius than the words of his colleagues:

"Ravi Shankar has brought me a precious gift and through him I have added a new dimension to my experience of music. To me, his genius and his humanity can only be compared to that of MOZART'S."  - Yehudi Menuhin


Ravi Shankar - Unique (129mb)



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RhoDeo 1250 Aetix

Hello,  Aetix delivers another rough diamond from the eighties who's been following his own brilliant path..

Following the dissolution of The Teardrop Explodes, Julian spent a period in seclusion recovering from the strain of the group’s final year and amassing a collection of vintage toys. Cope’s well-documented Teardrops-era LSD excesses, eccentric behaviour and subsequent retreat had led to him being labelled an "acid casualty" in the vein of Syd Barrett and Roky Erikson, an image which would take him several years to shake off. During this period, Cope befriended a teenage Drayton Bassett musician called Donald Ross Skinner, who would become his main musical foil for the next twelve years. Examples of which are here to ..  N'Joy

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In 1983, after numerous lineup changes and legendary feuds between Cope and Zoo Records figurehead Bill Drummond, the Teardrop finally Exploded.  By 1984, Cope's love of hallucinogenics -- as well as a toy car collection that occupied nearly an entire year of his life -- was at an all-time high. Despite his altered state, he released World Shut You Mouth, his solo debut on Mercury Records. An elegant collection of chamber pop and Teardrop-fueled electricity, the album divided critics and fans alike, especially upon the release of director David Bailey's macabre video for the first single, "Sunshine Playroom." Not to be deterred, Cope retreated to Cambridge and recorded the follow-up, Fried, a chilling chronicle of self-oblivion that included cover art of the artist in a sandbox wearing nothing but a gigantic turtle shell. It was a fitting image, as Cope -- despite getting married -- spent the following year in utter seclusion, half-heartedly laying down tracks of Syd Barrett-inspired acoustic lunacy for what would eventually become 1989's Skellington LP.

In 1986 Cope signed with Island Records and released his most successful record to date, Saint Julian. The album's crisp production and modern rock sensibilities brought the artist out of his shell -- so to speak -- resulting in an exhaustive tour and numerous television appearances, including a memorable gig on The Tonight Show that found the singer becoming quite intimate with his patented jungle-gym mike stand. My Nation Underground followed in 1988, resulting in three years of supplemental releases that included a collection of Teardrop Explodes B-sides, the aforementioned Skellington, and the highly collectible Droolian -- the latter was released in Austin, TX, as part of a campaign to release Thirteenth Floor Elevator Roky Erickson from jail.

In 1991 Cope released the ambitious double-LP Peggy Suicide. Inspired by a vision the artist had of Mother Earth throwing herself off a cliff to her death, the record came as a revelation to many. Gone were the slick arrangements of his previous Island releases, replaced here by the brooding funk, soul, folk, and cosmic garage rock that would follow him into the new millennium. His refusal to submit to more than one vocal take, the inclusion of Michael "Moon-Eye" Watts on guitar, and the raw production/organ/bass provided by longtime collaborator Donald Ross Skinner became the bedrock on which his subsequent work depended. Cope's obsessions with Krautrock and pagan history -- only briefly hinted at on Peggy Suicide -- were brought to the forefront on 1992's Jehovahkill, another creative triumph that unfortunately failed to connect with the public at large, resulting in his forced "departure" from the label.

He released his next two recordings, the angular and cautionary ecological rave-up Autogeddon (1994) and the fatherhood-inspired 20 Mothers (1995) on the Echo label in the U.K. and on American in the States. Cope spent a great deal of this period purging himself of his seemingly endless creative energy through side projects on his mail-order-only label Ma-Gog, a creative outlet that eventually morphed into the website/community/record label Head Heritage. He released Interpreter in 1996, a return to pop form that saw the self-described "Arch Drude" tackling both environmental and social issues with renewed vigor. His most recent project is Brain Donor, a four-piece, face-painted, triple double-neck guitar-playing garage rock-punk outfit that released its debut, Love, Peace & Fuck on Head Heritage in 2001, followed by Too Freud to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Jung to Die in 2003. Citizen Cain'd and Dark Orgasm, both of which relied on two discs of sonic fury and pop mayhem, were released in 2005, followed by You Gotta Problem with Me (no question mark) in 2007.

Cope had been compiling his memoirs into book form throughout the '90s; Head On, a chronicle of his life up to the demise of the Teardrop Explodes, was published in 1993, followed by its sequel, Repossessed, in 2000. He also trudged all over the country in search of stone circles while researching his exhaustive coffee table book, The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, and wrote Krautrock Sampler, a critically acclaimed guide to German space rock. He has spoken at numerous festivals, museums, and universities on both topics.

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Retreating to his hometown of Tamworth, Cope produced his first solo effort with help from producer Steve Lovell on guitar and fellow Teardrop Gary Dwyer on drums. The result is a surprisingly vibrant, rich album that shows Cope easily moving on from his group days while retaining his unique powerful and natural gifts for singing and songwriting. If there's something about the sound of World that suggests its early-'80s recording dates -- Dwyer's drums sound like Steve Lillywhite's been after them at points! -- Cope's own particular, heavily psych-into-pop-inspired goals aren't lost in it. Some of his songs are so inspired that one just has to wonder how in the world they didn't end up as hits somewhere. "An Elegant Chaos" is a great example, an at-once cryptic and fascinating lyric peppered with just enough knowing irony ("Here comes the part where I break down and cry") and a synth-string-touched crunch given a breezy pace. Top it off with Cope's singing and the result is simply genius. Throughout World, Cope demonstrates why he's one of the best, most unaffected singers in rock around, his vocals carrying sweep and passion without sounding like he's trying to impress himself or others.

Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (flac 346mb)

01 Bandy's First Jump 2:50
02 Metranil Vanin 3:00
03 Strasbourg 2:25
04 An Elegant Chaos 4:03
05 Quizmaster 2:56
06 Kolly Kibber's Birthday 5:14
07 Sunshine Playroom 2:55
08 Head Hang Low 5:04
09 Pussyface 4:11
10 Greatness And Perfection 3:16
11 Lunatic And Fire-Pistol 4:30
12 Wreck My Car 2:31
13 High Class Butcher 3:56
14 Eat The Poor 4:25
 
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In contrast to the crisp, clean sound of World, Fried often sounds rougher, a bit more shut in. Combine that with Cope's generally successful attempts to project an image of barely stable sanity, helped in large part by the notorious wearing-nothing-but-a-turtle-shell cover photos, and the idea of Fried as his album of crazed musical collapse understandably is a strong one. However, World producer Steve Lovell once again handles things here, along with playing guitar, while even more importantly, key Cope collaborator Donald Ross Skinner, a young musician from Cope's hometown, makes his debut. Kate St. John again contributes cor anglais throughout, adding a haunting atmosphere on many cuts. If anything, the album shows that Cope may be completely musical tripping out as he chooses but he knows exactly what he's doing throughout.  In all, Fried shows Cope at his dramatic best -- he's not disintegrating by inches, but he knows how to project that impression with vigor and skill, all while sounding like himself most of all. .

Julian Cope - Fried + Bonus (flac 469mb)

01 Reynard The Fox 6:14
02 Bill Drummond Said 2:28
03 Laughing Boy 5:47
04 Me Singing 3:33
05 Sunspots 5:14
06 The Bloody Assizes 3:17
07 Search Party 3:56
08 O King Of Chaos 2:36
09 Holy Love 3:21
10 Torpedo 4:01
Bonus
01 Land Of Fear 5:06
02 Christmas Morning (Janice Long Session 12/12/1984) 2:55
03 Disaster (Janice Long Session 12/12/1984) 2:12
04 Mic Mak Mok 4:46
05 Pulsar (Janice Long Session 12/12/1984) 3:33
06 Sunspots (John Peel Session 29/05/1984) 2:56
07 Me Singing (John Peel Session 29/05/1984) 3:32
08 Search Party (John Peel Session 29/05/1984) 3:32
09 Crazy Farm Animal (Janice Long Session 12/12/1984) 3:05
10 I Went On A Chourney 2:22
11 Hobby (John Peel Session 29/05/1984) 1:12

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Recruiting another key sideman, percussionist Rooster Cosby, Cope approached an album that, by the end of recording, he was on the verge of disowning. Inspired moments aside, one can understand why: My Nation Underground has just about everything going for it (good sound, neat cover, some sharp songs) except for Cope's own vision. That he rebounded from this with three far more individual efforts -- the semi-official Skellington and Droolian, and the masterful Peggy Suicide -- makes all that much more sense when giving My Nation Underground an ear. Most of the time, Cope, Skinner, DeHarrison, and company sound like they're fulfilling a record company brief to make a saleable commercial alternative album, late-'80s style.

Julian Cope - My Nation Underground (  flac 260mb)

01 5 O'Clock World 3:45
02 Vegetation 3:55
03 Charlotte Anne 4:55
04 My Nation Underground 7:13
05 China Doll 4:12
06 Someone Like Me 2:12
07 Easter Everywhere 2:39
08 I'm Not Losing Sleep 4:35
09 The Great White Hoax 6:10

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RhoDeo 1250 Roots

Hello, as mentioned previously there's been a big influx of Jamaicans in the UK these last decades and they seeded a vibrant reggae/dub culture, reason enough to post some of the results of exploring '90s U.K. Anglo dub.

Alpha & Omega emerged as part of the '90s U.K. dub school, but the approach favored by Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen is far more deeply grounded in dub's original Jamaican bass & drum roots foundation, than 'better modern living through sound science and mixing board effects.' It's dub as a rhythm of life to live by, minimal grooves with a sparing but savvy application of electronic touches, and melody instruments to avoid sameness.... N'joy

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As the duo, Alpha and Omega, Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen have created a style of dub, the remixing offshoot of reggae, that is uniquely British. While they were initially influenced by original dub recordings by Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby and Augustus Pablo, Woodbridge and Sprosen have continued to evolve their own sound. "Option" magazine explained, "through minimal manipulation, (Alpha and Omega) deliver the listener to a place of great sonic peace". According to "The Wire", "The compelling presences at the hear of these airy sonic worlds have a harder edge than some of their ancestors'. "Pulse!" dug even deeper into their explanation of Alpha and Omega's sound, which they described as, "massively thunderous bass lines, galloping drum tracks and a willingness to tastefully adorn dubs with digital flutes and various electronic sounding washes". Bassist Woodbridge, one of reggae's few woman instrumentalists, and keyboardist Sprosen began working together after meeting in the southwestern coastal city of Plymouth in Devon, England. Both musicians had previously played in various reggae bands and Sprosen had worked with the Roaring Lion Sound System. Pooling their resources, Woodbridge and Sprosen spent several years recording rhythm tracks prior to releasing their debut album, Daniel in the Lion's Den, as a cassette that they released on their own label, A & O, in 1990. Two years later, the duo signed with Greensleeves, keeping the imprint A &O as part of the agreement. Alpha and Omega have continued to collaborate with other British reggae bands. The duo supplied rhythm tracks for Jah Shaka and appeared on the indie-dance band Flowered Up's single, "The Reggae Song". The duo was accompanied by the Disciples on their 1997 album, Sacred Art of Dub; Mystical Things followed three years later and the brilliant Dub Philosophy appeared in summer 2001. They produced a steady output in the following decade: Serious Joke (02), Spirit Of The Ancients (03), Trample The Eagle And The Dragon And The Bear (05), City Of Dub (07), Songs From The Holy Mountain (09), culminating in Blessed Are The Poor (12) their most recent album.
 
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The A&O duo work with vocalists Tanernishka and the Exile on Overstanding. and the understated female vocal and chorus hook makes "Jah Jah Protector" an excellent opener. "Protect I Dub" dubs out the same song with bass throb and minimal keyboard. before switching to keyboard-bass for "A Homeless People," with Tanernishka's light-touch vocals adding a melancholy wistfulness reflecting the repatriation theme. "No Man's Land" is a more active dub that gives good atmosphere creation behind the bassline spine, deep moody keyboard burbles, and forceful drums.The songs seem to be paired up, but the dub versions here are different takes on the rhythm, not just a "Part Two" extension of the same groove. The female voice intoning human rights' heroes on "Freedom Fighters" gives way to the Mutabaruka-like interjections (Exile?) of "Dub Is Mightier Than The Sword," though you wonder how he feels about the Robert Mugabe reference now.

The Watch And Pray LP half introduces variety in its own way, with a thinner, less-present sound, more reliance on sonic effects, and far fewer vocals. "Respect To The Warrior" goes heavy with effects (as in background synth washes, not echo and reverb on the instruments), while the dreamy "Who Is The Ruler?" is more fragmentary, with bird chirp synthesizers as the background sound.

But the relative quality drop is nowhere near far enough to keep from recommending this disc. Alpha & Omega don't use a lot of different elements, but they know how to get the maximum out of the musical arsenal they employ, and have good instincts on how long to stretch out little changes. And the duo are always convincing at laying down the dub as rhythm-of-life-to-live-by foundation; foundation stone number one for any musician or fan of dub, modern or roots variety.

Alpha and Omega - Watch And Pray / Overstanding (flac  419mb)

Overstanding
01 Jah Protection 3:14
02 Protect I Dub 3:17
03 A Homeless People 3:29
04 No Mans Land 3:26
05 Solomon And Sheba 3:56
06 Freedom Fighters 4:16
07 Dub Mightier Than The Sword 4:15
08 Conscious Black 3:29
09 Woman / Version 3:31
10 In The Beginning 4:17
Watch And Pray
11 Respect To The Warrior 3:38
12 Who Is The Ruler? 3:46
13 Africa 3:17
14 Wicked Man Drop 4:08
15 Prophecy Fulfilled 3:55
16 Rastafari 3:43
17 Dub Flute 3:37
18 Fire! 3:42
19 Merciful Jah 3:57
20 The Roots 3:39

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Dub Judah is a very well respected vocalist, musician, live performer and producer who has released his own top roots music on his Dub Jockey label. He also works producing singing and playing with other established artists such as Norman Grant of the Twinkle Brothers with whom he sometimes tours worldwide. He does occasional live shows with his own band and is continually working in his own and different studios where he is in great demand as a producer.  Almighty Jah, Alpha and Omega's fifth album, features Dub Judah's distinctive vocals on rhythms from A&O's previous LP Watch And Pray. This unique combination produces great tracks such as Rasta is Merciful, Almighty Jah and Honest Opinion

Alpha and Omega Meets Dub Judah ‎– Almighty Jah (flac  327mb)

01 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Almighty Jah 3:44
02 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Hand To The Wheel 3:41
03 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Dub Can Reveal 3:41
04 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Honest Opinion 3:42
05 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - David And Goliath 3:29
06 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Rasta Is Merciful 3:57
07 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Merciful Vision 4:01
08 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Africa Is Calling 3:27
09 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Banks Of The Nile 3:29
10 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Sheba's Journey 4:42
11 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Pure And Clean (Re-mix) 3:42
12 The Exile - California V. Powell (Re-mix) 3:44
13 Tanernishka - Justice Has To Be Seen (Re-mix) 3:42
14 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Yemenite Chant (Re-mix) 3:29
15 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Alpha & Omega 3:35
16 Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah - Liberate The Nation 3:17
17 Tanernishka - Only In Yourself (Re-mix) 3:32

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"Alpha and Omegas 7th album, Safe In The Ark features vocal tracks such as Show Me A Purpose with Nishka and Bind Us Together with Dayjah. Bind Us Together is a vocal version of the track Everyday Life. Also Safe In The Ark features the first collaboration with the Disciples, on Jah Is Calling which was recorded and mixed at the Disciples studio by Russ Disciple, this was the start of a series of collaborations between Alpha and Omega and the Disciples"

Alpha and Omega - Safe In The Ark (flac 355mb)

01 Show Me A Purpose 4:08
02 Purposeful Dub 4:08
03 Ancient Wisdom 3:42
04 Love Is A Principal Thing 4:05
05 Principal Dub 4:07
06 It's Alright 4:13
07 Easy Dub 4:12
08 Over Hills And Mountains 3:30
09 Jah Is Calling 4:03
10 Bind Us Together 4:31
11 Bind Us Together Dub 4:33
12 Ancient Dub 3:43
13 Jah Hear Me 4:15

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RhoDeo 1250 Byron 11

Hello, another remarkable old man died today, Sir Patrick Moore The BBC TV astronomer of the last 55 years, and he played a mean xylophone aswell, 89 years old. Only last week he was commenting on the water on Mercury discovery, he's taken his place between the stars now. Im beginning to wonder if Mandela will make it out of the hospital.

I hope you yourself enjoyed a fine Sundaze and are ready for some light horror..

Now listen to the continuing saga of The Byron Chronicles ...NJoy

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From The Byron Chronicles Introduction

“Imagine if the world as you know it… was nothing more than an illusion. What if creatures like elves, dragons, vampires, zombies and werewolves walk amongst you every day… But you never see them.”

“This is the world I walk in.
 I am called Byron
 And these are my chronicles…“

The Byron Chronicles is a dark urban fantasy written and produced by Darker Projects, an audio drama company with an extensive website.  The site is well laid out and all of their shows can be heard free of charge direct from the website or  as podcasts, while your on  the go. The Darker Projects website hosts many shows, but I have chosen to focus on The Byron Chronicles for this review.

The Byron chronicles center around a being simply called Byron, who is something “other than human”. Byron lives in the shadows of our modern world, where vampires, werewolves and other creatures of fantasy are very real, but kept hidden from human eyes. The separation of  the supernatural world from the human world is an important element through out the entire series. We quickly find out that when the two worlds mix violence  seems to ensue, usually leading to bad things for humans and supernaturals alike. In fact, the only person who seems to think humans and supernatural beings can get along is Byron himself, who tends to act as a mediator between the two.

Joining Byron on these adventures is Miss Chris Sparrow, who once led a “normal life” as a Barrista at a local Portland Oregon coffee shop before being turned into a half vampire in a freak accident. Chris turned to Byron reluctantly at first, but the pair quickly became fast friends as Chris came to rely on Byron for guidance while supernatural world revealed itself to her. Byron in turn, seemed to rely on Chris in helping him better understand humans as a whole. There were several plot lines in the first season, including Byron saving the life of Lazarus the First Zombie, and preventing a worldwide zombie outbreak in the process. Then Byron had to hunt down a vampire lord named Branlaven, who was selling a super drug called “rush” on the streets of Portland. It was the drug Rush which caused Chris to become a half vampire, and it was here that Chris Sparrow made her first appearance in the series. Next, Byron was taken hostage by two different secret societies; each one trying to save the world from “monsters” like Byron.

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1-The-Hour-Of-Portland
Because I fear your story is ending soon...

2-Alistair
Prepare to be amazed! Prepare to be shocked! Prepare to be scared as you travel into the dark heart of God's creations!


The Byron Chronicles 2 (9,10) ( 49mb)

01 The Byron Chronicles 209 The-Hour-Of-Portland (33:24)
02 The Byron Chronicles 210 Alistair (17:58)

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previously

Byron's Tale ( 63mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (2,3) ( 67mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (4,5) ( 45mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (6,7) ( 42mb)
The Byron Chronicles 1 (8,9) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (1,2) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (3,4a) ( 90mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (3,4a) ( 66mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (5,6) ( 44mb)
The Byron Chronicles 2 (7,8) ( 49mb)

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