RhoDeo 1327 Goldy Rhox 116

Hello, today the 115th post of GoldyRhox, classic rock pop.  Today's focus is on a an English rock band who achieved success with their progressive, art and symphonic style of music. They are distinguished by their use of mystical and cosmic lyrics, live stage sets and lengthy compositions, often with complex instrumental and vocal arrangements. The band's current line-up since February 2012 consists of singer Jon Davison, guitarist Steve Howe, bass guitarist Chris Squire, keyboardist Geoff Downes, and drummer Alan White.

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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 eighth studio album from the English progressive rock band, released in 1977 on Atlantic Records. Produced after each member of the group released a solo record, the album marks the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who departed in 1974 over musical differences in Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973). The band returned to producing shorter songs, unlike Tales and Relayer where the tracks range from nine to almost 22 minutes.

The album received a mostly-positive reception from music critics. It topped the UK Album Charts for one week. Its five tracks still retain mystical, abstract lyrical images, and the music is grand and melodic, the vocal harmonies perfectly balanced by the stinging guitar work of Steve Howe, Wakeman's keyboards, and the solid rhythms of Alan White and Chris Squire. The title track features Howe on steel guitar. "Turn of the Century" and the album's single, "Wonderous Stories," are lovely ballads the way only Yes can do them. "Parallels" is the album's big, pompous song, so well done that in later years the band opened concerts with it.

After many successive album covers with Roger Dean, the band (who also produced the album entirely by themselves) instead commissioned Hipgnosis (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and UFO) to create the artwork for the album. However, Dean's Yes logo was retained. The album cover features the Century Plaza Towers in Los Angeles, also known locally as the Twin Towers.


Goldy Rhox 116  (flac 388mb)


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RhoDeo 1327 Aetix

Hello, it looks as if mr Snowden will drop in on Venezuela, not a bad choice as the locals reckon they have the most beautiful women of the world on offer, not sure it's a safe place though, the CIA has plenty of connections to the local opposition and Caracas has the reputation of being the murder capitol of the world. If I were him i'd go for Iceland, obviously far from the lucious Hawaii he was used to, but it's rough emptiness will heal the soul and there are plenty of kindred spirits around.


Today's artist was requested a few weeks ago, she's had an unusual life, named Anne Taylor at birth, her entire life has perhaps been one of restless motion around the world -- before initially making a name for her music in early-'80s New York City, she had already lived in Tokyo (her birthplace), Ann Arbor, Ottawa, and Florence. Her first album didn't appear until 1986, a self-titled effort that captured her knack for sly, danceable music and often quietly unsettled lyrical visions in the 4 years that followed 2 more full albums would appear these are all here to ......N'Joy

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Domino was born an army brat in Tokyo, Japan to an artistically-inclined family who particularly enjoyed singing. Her father, James J. Taylor, was in the United States Army before he became a videographer in Washington, D.C.; her mother, Mimi Cazort, is curator emerita for National Gallery of Canada. Her brother, Alan Taylor, is a well-known film and television director.

Being part of a military family, Domino has lived in various places around the world — Ann Arbor, Michigan, Florence, Italy and Ottawa, Canada. She eventually settled in New York, where she became a fashion designer.

Early in her career, Domino sang with a number of New York City bands, but didn't catch the attention of American record labels until she had released several albums with the Belgian record label Les Disques du Crépuscule, releasing a single in 1983, Trust In Love. Two E.P. releases, East and West and Rythm, followed in short order. In 1986, her first complete album Anna Domino was released. Domino and Belgian musician Michel Delory began a personal and professional partnership in 1987 that resulted in her second album, This Time, a more varied collection that scored a notable profile in Japan though no American dates surfaced beyond a New York-based residency in 1988. The result of that series of dates was the Colouring in the Edge and the Outline EP, a return to a more electronic approach, which in turn was contrasted by the 1990 album Mysteries of America, a more acoustically inclined reflection on the cycle of life and death.

Following that release, Domino and Delory took an extended sabbatical, broken only by the release of a Canadian compilation, Favorite Songs From the Twilight Years, in 1996, accompanied by a smattering of shows. At the time, however, she and Delory had already begun work on a new project under the name Snakefarm, her revisioning of the alt-country/murder ballad aesthetic. The resultant album, Songs From My Funeral, was released in 1999, but nothing new followed for some years, while she and Delory eventually settled near Los Angeles.

In 1999 Domino and Delory formed the folk rock alternative outfit Snakefarm, and released the album Songs From My Funeral, a collection of murder ballads from the 1920s to the 1950s. Their second album My Halo At Half-Light was released on October 11, 2011.

Twenty years after her last solo release, on June 2010, Domino released a new single, Blood Makes Noise. The single (originally by American singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega) is a part of Allergy To Consciousness, a singles series released on alternative/minimalist independent music label EnT-T. On January 2012, she collaborated with producer/remixer Dub Mentor on the single Johnny - which is based on the traditional When Johnny Comes Marching Home and Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (also released on EnT-T). Domino also made the video clip for the song.

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After a series of enjoyable singles and EPs, Anna Domino's first proper album as such was a sharp, fun treat. Working Marc Moulin of Telex and Alan Rankine, formerly of the Associates, Domino kicked up her heels in a series of songs both of the '80s and beyond it. The arrangements place songs like "Drunk" and "Not Right Now" at a certain time -- then state-of-the-art drum machines and synth bass, for instance -- but Domino's ear for singing and pop fascinations of other times did the trick. Her voice is low and moody without being smoky as such -- it's not rough but neither does she coo -- and she keeps an easy feel going in her music, with plenty of finger-snapping, hip-swinging grooves. When she goes "modern," as on the sparkling "Caught," it's just as intriguing, an argument against seeing her simply as a revival act. If an inexact parallel could be drawn, Anna Domino almost suggests a companion album to early Sade -- there's the same calm coolness that's not dull, one where silence and space rather than a wall of sound is crucial. Everything but the Girl is another obvious reference point -- perhaps unsurprising considering Ben Watt was due to do some remix work for Domino a couple of years beforehand. "Rythm," the intentionally misspelled single that had surfaced a year before, kicked things off with a jazzy feel that found an unexpected midpoint between Tracey Thorn and Laurie Anderson, swinging pop with a sly, wry cast. The left-field inclusion is an inspired remake of Smokey Robinson's "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," given a slight lovers rock undertow to mix with Domino's general approach. The LTM reissue of the album in 2004, as always in keeping with the rest of the label's work, contains various B-sides and an Arthur Baker remix of the jaunty "Summer" as bonus cuts.

Anna Domino - Anna Domino  (flac 396mb)

01 Rythm 4:19
02 Drunk 3:54
03 Koo Koo 4:14
04 My Man 4:40
05 Caught 6:08
06 Summer 4:25
07 The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game 3:30
08 Chosen Ones 4:12
09 Not Right Now 4:38
10 Take That 4:15
11 Sixteen Tons 4:28
12 Half Of Myself 3:55
13 Target 4:13
14 Zanna (Luc Van Acker) 3:08
15 Summer (12" Mix) 6:06

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On her first American album, Anna Domino showed flashes of considerable promise, setting her delicate guitar and voice amidst keyboard-heavy backdrops created with co-writer Michel Delory. The pair did their best work on the first few cuts off This Time; "Own Kind" is a bouncy synth pop number that carries a stinging message about "a generation rotten to the core," while the full-bodied disco groove of "Time for Us" forces Domino to abandon her usual wispy singing, with fine results. Unfortunately, that's not enough to keep the rest of the album from evaporating into a cloud of new age mist, as Domino disappears behind the sterile production (by the soon-to-become-famous Flood). She resurfaces only once, on "Lake," the final track, where the annoyingly dramatic synth patches aren't half as evocative as the melody and poetic lyric. This Time ended up being a primer on how not to utilize Domino's skills, a lesson she obviously learned the next time out, on 1988's Colouring in the Edge and the Outline.

Anna Domino - This Time  (flac 432mb)

01 Own Kind 3:50
02 Just Once 3:41
03 Time For Us 4:35
04 Change To Come 5:01
05 This Time 5:43
06 Tempting 5:10
07 She Walked 3:59
08 Rain 4:17
09 Come To Harm 4:50
10 Lake 5:02
11 Hammer 4:20
12 Chaos 3:56
13 Please Don't 3:45
14 Tempting (Single Version) 6:58
15 Tempting (1996 Version) 5:53

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Still the most recent full-length album released solely under Anna Domino's name, compilations aside, Mysteries of America showed Domino entering the '90s on a quietly adventurous note with an album balanced somewhere between general concept and collection of songs. More so than her previous albums, and in keeping with the album title, Mysteries of America is indeed a very 'American'-sounding record in ways -- there are elements of what came to be called classic rock without necessarily replicating it. Consider the Hammond organ and acoustic guitar at the center of the opening "Home," suggesting wide-open spaces and a certain kind of tradition, perhaps. It's hardly Domino going unplugged, however -- much in the same way that, say, Kate Bush or Tim Buckley's compositional and sonic range seemed to keep growing with time, Domino here captures ever lusher, more involving atmospheres. It can be heard in the texture of keyboards and serene singing on "Pandora" or the contemplative closer "Dust;" even "Paris," a distinctly un-American song, perhaps, uses accordion to suggest an impression of the city rather than simply replicating a style. Ranging from youth to death with stops along the way, the subject matter of the album suggests 'mysteries' in an almost spiritual sense. Domino's ear for an inspired cover serves her well once more with the album's literal centerpiece, a serene remake of Jesse Winchester's "Isn't That So." The LTM issue, as with all the others, provided bonus tracks, in this case including the entirety of 1988's Colouring in the Edge and the Outline EP. Much more electronic than Mysteries, it's a contrasting but not violently different set of songs, including what's probably her best individual song all around, "88." One further bonus is "Stand Apart," a hitherto unreleased cover of a song by Crepescule labelmate Jonathan Prosser recorded in 1987.

Anna Domino - Mysteries Of America (flac 412mb)

01 Home 4:54
02 Pandora 4:24
03 Paris 4:14
04 Bonds Of Love 4:51
05 Isn't That So 3:45
06 Tamper With Time 3:19
07 Bead/9.15 3:31
08 "Oh Beautiful…" 3:48
09 Dust 3:26
Colouring In The Edge And The Outline
10 Luck 4:09
11 Clouds Of Joy 4:43
12 Tyranny (Of Your Company) 2:56
13 88 5:03
14 Perfect Day (No, He Says) 4:13
15 Always Always 4:36
16 Stand Apart 3:51

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RhoDeo 1327 Roots

Hello, after 2 years of reggae/dub it's time to return to where our human history started, Africa, thus it's safe to say our musical history started there as well.  Today and the coming weeks we'll find ourselves in an environment that gave rise to the worlds monotheistic religions be it on the Arabian peninsula, here we stay in the Saharan/Sahel band stretching from the west-atlantic coast to the highlands of Ethiopia in the east of the continent, a vast area where fresh water tends to come at a premium , where the sun is burning down during daytime and nighttime can be cold, where the moon is the sole light source apart from the warming campfires. Is it any surprise then that singing and making music together lifted the spirits of those gathering in these desolate landscapes.  For the coming weeks your place at the campfire is available   ...N'joy

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Ambiances du Sahara, released in '96, was a huge hit that lingered on Europe's world-music charts for months. Depending upon your musical tastes you may find this album either inaccessible or magical. It's incredible how you can fully appreciate the visceral power of the music from sub-Saharan Africa, it can be transcendental when it's good Assembled here are a brilliant cast of musicians to introduce non-African listeners to the power & diversity of sounds in the vast, northern zones of the continent. There is no ambient blur or incidental sounds one might anticipate from 'ethnic', unsophisticated field recordings. The 'blues' moniker is probably more a marketing decision, albeit the neatly slotted inclusions of Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder, household names to affiacandos. This double CD, well in excess of 2 hours, rings clear, and what voices are showcased !

Desert Blues 1 - Ambiances du Sahara (1) (flac  386mb)

01 Hamza El Din - Mwashah 3:42
02 Oumou Sangare - Saa Magni 7:34
03 Youssou N'Dour - Sama Guent Guii 5:18
04 Baly Othmani and Steve Shehan - Eilan Akabar Warigazaz 7:57
05 Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder - Diaraby 7:24
06 Aster Aweke - Y'Shebellu 7:25
07 Baaba Maal - Samba 5:42
08 Abdel Gadir Salim - Almaryood 4:46
09 Mahmoud Ahmed - Ere Mela Mela/Meche Neu 8:00
10 Tata Dindin - Duniya 5:22
11 Abou Djouba - Tono 4:21
12 Kante Manfila - Agne Anko 4:38

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Desert Blues 1 - Ambiances du Sahara (2)  (flac  363mb)

01 Hassan Hakmoun and Adam Rudolph - Ma'Bud Allah 5:59
02 Dimi Mint Abba - Ashabab Yidie Shabab Aldual 5:44
03 Baaba Maal - Yero Mama 4:38
04 Abdel Gadir Salim - Umri Ma Bansa 8:51
05 Ali Farka Toure and Taj Mahal - Roucky 8:12
06 Ensemble El Moukhadrami - Beyt Bieh 4:15
07 Tata Dindin - Sakhadougou 5:41
08 Baly Othmani and Steve Shehan - Kel Akalin 8:04
09 Sali Sidibe - Ntanan 7:05
10 Abou Djouba - Jaarou 5:39
11 Sona Diabaté - M'Boré 6:07

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RhoDeo 1327 Falcon 10

Hello, that will be a cold turkey tomorrow after all that sports excitement today, fantastic stage in the Tour, Vettel managing his first German grand prix win with no 4 Alonso just 7 secs behind and two Lotus cars inbetween, he really needed to do his utmost, it was an exciting race and i was glad i kept radiosilence till BBC broadcasted it 5 hours later. Then there was Wimbledon ah yes last time a Brit won Hitler was opening the Berlin olympics, it i said that Brits are reserved and collected but the hysteria surrounding Murray was almost boiling over in the 30C centrecourt, i wonder what happens if the Scots decide to split next year-still no british winner again. Anyway what i saw of the match was an extremely fit Murray and a Djokovic that made a lot of socalled unforced errors, stemming from internalized agitation. Murray, a deserved winner sure but without that extreme push by the homesupport- who knows.


Time for the last week of Falcon Banner excitement   ... NJoy

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The Falcon Banner
By the twenty-second century, mankind had stretched forth its hand to command the stars. Other races were discovered, and, as the human sphere of influence expanded, they were happy to live in peaceful coexistence, and humanity was on the verge of an evolutionary leap.

The Terran emperor was the first to ascend to the next step of human evolution. His advisors, who now styled themselves holy clerics, sought to force the other races to see the light of their religion. They began to subjugate the other races to the will of the empire. The Amsus, who saw the Empire as decadent, illogical and chaotic, waged war upon it. Admiral VonGrippen, the brightest military mind in centuries, betrayed the empire, and removed the entire home fleet, collapsing the jump gate after them, leaving Earth and the Empire to be squashed under the heel of Amsus oppression.

Now, three hundred years after the fall of the Terran Empire, humans find themselves the subject race, Stagnating on their own world unable to evolve either technologically or otherwise. It is into this oppressive world, that the most unlikely of men are thrust into the roles of heros.

Based on The Falcon Banner, a novel by Christopher Patrick Lydon
Original music composed and performed by Kai Hartwig, Kevin MacLeod and Phil Craigie

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The Falcon Banner 10 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 3 ( 63mb)

10 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 3 63:26 Featuring the voice talents of:

Seth Adam Sher as Darien Taine
Chris Snyder as Matt Elias
Brandon Cole as Commander Kit Durnham
Laura Post as Lauren
Eric Busby as Nazzien
MJ Cogburn as Flight Control
Jack Scrimshaw as Colonel Mayfair
John Lipsey as Dr. Kyr
Shire Smith as Masconi
Mark Kalita as Kendrick
Steve Anderson as Major Rousseau
Mike Dent as Lt. Katz
Linda Townsend as Captain Tyrana
Alasdair Stuart as The Pilot
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The Falcon Banner Thaxted (soundtrack) 2:32 (5mb)

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previously

The Falcon Banner 01 - Freedom's Spark
The Falcon Banner 02 - New Friends, Old Enemies ( 55mb)
The Falcon Banner 03 - For Duty and Crew ( 50mb)
The Falcon Banner 04 - The Future Remembered, Part 1 ( 51mb)
The Falcon Banner 05 - The Future Remembered, Part 2 ( 55mb)
The Falcon Banner 06 - Foundations ( 58mb)
The Falcon Banner 07 - Of Ships and Stars ( 50mb)
The Falcon Banner 08 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 1 ( 55mb)
The Falcon Banner 09 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 2 ( 46mb)
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Sundaze 1327

Hello, as i suspected yesterday the Lisicki girl had no chance against the Corsican tank, Bartoli, I think it's a female trait to submit to dominance, men have a much more fight to the death attitude something that will show tomorrow in the men's final. Meanwhile in the Tour the France the deck has been shuffled and it comes as no surprise that Froome is on top, he looks like the man to beat, another Brit winning the tour what is the world coming to. I say Brit but the man has never lived in the UK, another Brit on top today is Hamilton who starts on pole for the German F1 grand prix, could be an interesting race as the Ferraris choose a very different strategy and Vettel, well it seems he's never won a race in July despite being the champ these last 3 years. I will have to wait till 6 GMT when the beeb broadcasts it, until then i will have to evade the news, good thing there's a 5 mountains Tour stage to distract me.

We had Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn and I won't deny you the man in the foreground, the singer and poet noire for whom keeping his cool is a lifestyle. David Sylvian (David Batt, 23 February 1958) came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan. His subsequent solo work encompasses not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts in a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, avant-garde, ambient, electronic, and progressive rock. Here is my last contribution at Sundaze on their collective discography.

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Japan became an alternative glam rock outfit in the mould of David Bowie, T.Rex, and The New York Dolls. Over a period of a few years their music became more sophisticated, drawing initially on the art rock stylings of Roxy Music. Their visual image also evolved and the band was tagged with the New Romantic label. Indeed, it could be argued that Japan was at the forefront of the entire New Romantic movement, even though the band never associated itself with it.

Japan recorded five studio albums between March 1978 and November 1981. In 1980, the band signed with Virgin Records, where Sylvian remained as a recording artist for the next twenty years. The band suffered from personal and creative clashes, particularly between Sylvian and Karn, with tensions springing from Sylvian's relationship with Yuka Fujii, a photographer, artist and designer, and Karn's former girlfriend. Fujii quickly became an influential figure in Sylvian's life. She was the first person to introduce Sylvian seriously to jazz, which in turn inspired him to follow musical avenues not otherwise open to him. She also encouraged Sylvian to incorporate spiritual discipline into his daily routine. Throughout his solo career, Fujii maintained a large role in the design of artwork for his albums.

In 1982, Sylvian released his first collaborative effort with Ryuichi Sakamoto, entitled "Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music". Followed by the UK Top 20 song "Forbidden Colours" (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence). Sylvian's debut solo album, Brilliant Trees (1984), met with critical acclaim. The album included contributions from Ryuichi Sakamoto, trumpeter Jon Hassell, and former Can bassist Holger Czukay. In 1985, Sylvian released an instrumental mini-album Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities, in collaboration with Jansen, Hassell and Czukay. The next release was the ambitious two-record set Gone to Earth (1986),  featuring one record of atmospheric vocal tracks and a second record consisting of ambient instrumentals. The album contained significant contributions from noted guitarists Bill Nelson and Robert Fripp .

Secrets of the Beehive (1987) made greater use of acoustic instruments and was musically oriented towards sombre, emotive ballads laced with shimmering string arrangements. The album yielded one of Sylvian's most well-received songs, "Orpheus," and was later supported by his first solo tour, 1988's 'In Praise of Shamans.' Sylvian then collaborated with Holger Czukay. Plight and Premonition, issued in 1988, and Flux and Mutability, recorded and released the following year, also included contributions from Can members Jaki Liebezeit and Michael Karoli.

Sylvian reunited with the former members of Japan for a new project, Rain Tree Cow. Unlike their past work, Sylvian decided to use methods of improvisation like those he explored in his work with Czukay. Ingrid Chavez, an artist signed to Prince's Paisley Park Records, sent Sylvian a copy of her first album. He liked what he heard and thought her voice would fit well with some material that both Ryuichi Sakamoto and he were working on for a new Sakamoto release. Chavez and Sylvian quickly developed a bond and decided to travel together throughout the UK and the USA, where they eventually settled after marrying in 1992.

In the early 1990s, guitarist Robert Fripp invited Sylvian to join a new version of King Crimson. Sylvian declined the invitation, but he and Fripp recorded the album The First Day released in July 1993. To capitalize on the album's success, the musicians went back out on the road in the autumn of 1993. A live recording, called Damage and released in 1994.

A period of relative musical inactivity followed, during which Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez moved from Minnesota to the Napa Valley. Chavez had given birth to two daughters, Ameera-Daya (born 1993) and Isobel (born 1997), and pursued her interest in photography and music. In 1999, Sylvian released Dead Bees on a Cake, it gathered together the most eclectic influences of all his recordings, ranging from soul music to jazz fusion to blues to Eastern-inflected spiritual chants, and most of the songs' lyrics reflected the now 41-year-old Sylvian's inner peace resulting from his marriage, family, and beliefs.

Next Sylvian released a pair of compilation albums, a two-disc retrospective, Everything and Nothing, and an instrumental collection, Camphor. Both albums contained previously released material, some remixes, and several new or previously unreleased tracks which Sylvian finished especially for the projects. Sylvian parted ways with Virgin and launched his own independent label, Samadhi Sound. He released the album Blemish. A fusion of styles, including jazz and electronica, the tour enabled Sylvian to perform music from the Nine Horses project, as well as various selections from his back catalogue.

A new solo album entitled Manafon was released on September 14, 2009 the a;lbum features contributions from leading figures in electroacoustic improvisation such as saxophonist Evan Parker, multi-instrumentalist Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M and AMM alumnists guitarist Keith Rowe, percussionist Eddie Prévost and pianist John Tilbury.

In 2010, Sylvian's Samadhisound imprint released Sleepwalkers, a 16-track compilation of his collaborations from the 2000s, including his Nine Horses project and World Citizen with Sakamoto. It also included one new song, "Five Lines," a collaboration with Dai Fujikura. In 2011, Sylvian released Died in the Wool (Manafon Variations). It featured reworkings -- more than remixes -- of some tracks from Manafon, and included six new cuts. The double digipack also included the cd for Sylvian's audio installation, when we return you won’t recognise us.

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Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities is David Sylvian's second solo album, released in 1985 on cassette only and produced by Sylvian and Nigel Walker. It was reissued in its original form on CD in Japan in 1991.

The opening suite "Words with the Shaman" is a three-part EP recorded with John Hassell in 1985. The first section is rhythmic, mysterious, and features wailing female vocals in a foreign tongue. The shorter second section is much like the first, but when the rhythm shifts, horns and an electric guitar kick in. The third and final section starts as a gentle Gamelan piece but grows more intense, like the fall of spring rain on tin rooftops.

In 2003, the album was remastered and included two additional songs: "The Stigma of Childhood (Kin)", originally recorded for the theatre play Kin it's a ravishing fragment of a longer piece written for Gaby Agis' modern ballet of the same title back in 1987. It sounds like a long, ambient, arabesque outtake from the instrumental half of Gone To Earth. Sylvian refuses even now to release the entire score, saying only that this song represents the strongest material from the project.  and "A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce". Both songs were originally released on the EP Pop Song. A skeletal version of the final song on this compilation, Steel Cathedrals was written for the Japanese documentary mentioned earlier. Finishing touches were added in London with the help of Ryuichi Sakamoto (of YMO), King Crimsoner Robert Fripp, Masami Tsuchiya (Japan's tour guitarist), and Kenny Wheeler among others. This is a long, atmospheric, slightly unsettling composition.

David Sylvian - Alchemy (An Index Of Possibilities) (334mb)

Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Treetops)
01 Pt. 1 Ancient Evening 5:14
02 Pt. 2 Incantation 3:28
03 Pt. 3 Awakening 5:16

04 Preparations For A Journey 3:40
05 The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin) 8:28
06 A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce 3:28
07 Steel Cathedrals 18:52
Xtra (with Ryuichi Sakamoto)
08 Forbidden Colours 4:41
09 Bamboo Houses 5:26
10 Bamboo Music 5:39

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David Sylvian is a brilliant rock & roll guitarist and vocalist. He is also a great electronic minimalist. Sadly, he tries hard to do both together. Gone to Earth has moments of brilliant instrumental ambience with deep samples and misplaced vocals. The instrumental virtuosity grabs listeners immediately. Sylvian surrounds himself with some of the greats -- Bill Nelson, Robert Fripp, and Mel Collins among them. The sound is dynamic and gentle at the same time. There is an ambient version of Gone to Earth, which is a better disc and right here as well, remastered in 2003.

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (464mb)

01 Taking The Veil 4:40
02 Laughter And Forgetting 3:18
03 Before The Bullfight 9:20
04 Gone To Earth 3:06
05 Wave 9:11
06 River Man 4:54
07 Silver Moon 6:19
08 River Man (Remix) 4:24
09 Gone To Earth (Remix) 1:56
10 Camp Fire: Coyote Country (Remix) 3:46

11 The Healing Place 5:34
12 Answered Prayers 3:10
13 Where The Railroad Meets The Sea 2:52
14 The Wooden Cross 5:04
15 Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples 2:22
16 Camp Fire: Coyote Country 3:51
17 A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky 3:16
18 Home 4:33
19 Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees 3:02
20 Upon This Earth 6:30

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The fractured, stark yin to Dead Bees on a Cake's tranquil, sensuous yang, Blemish is an unforeseen detour taken by David Sylvian, who has made eight of his most bare, anguished, and intense songs, all of which are neither pleasant nor the least bit settling. For half of the album, Sylvian is completely alone, accompanied only by his own guitar and electronic treatments. On the others, he is joined by either Derek Bailey or Christian Fennesz, two guitarists with indispensable roles. The opening title track sets the tone, with heavily echoed noise fibers warping and reverberating for nearly 14 minutes. The effects swell and recede at a disquieting but sunken volume, while Sylvian's upfront voice -- more stripped and vulnerable than it was in Japan's "Ghosts" -- slips in lines like "I fall outside of her," "Give me one more chance to do things right," and "Life's for the taking, so they say -- take it away." Throughout the album, clues are dropped about the events that transpired and the circumstances surrounding them, but it's all left to be pieced together and interpreted by the listener, who will have to sift through the hedged lines, meticulously organized sounds -- from rattling shopping carts to handclaps to delicate fragments of guitar -- and numerous disfigurations of clear-cut linear thought. Blemish is the kind of record that provokes many longtime followers to throw up their arms in aggravation -- it's very much a "final straw" record. A work of beautiful, desolate fragility, Blemish is also the kind of record that will have the opposite effect on a select few.

David Sylvian - Blemish (345mb)

1 Blemish 13:42
2 The Good Son 5:25
3 The Only Daughter 5:28
4 The Heart Knows Better 7:51
5 She Is Not 0:45
6 Late Night Shopping 2:54
7 How Little We Need To Be Happy 3:22
8 A Fire In The Forest 4:14
Remixes
09 The Only Daughter (Remixed By Ryoji Ikeda) 5:49
10 Blemish (Remixed By Burnt Friedman) 4:50
11 The Heart Knows Better (Remixed By Sweet Billy Pilgrim) 5:29
12 A Fire In The Forest (Remixed By Readymade FC) 5:05
13 The Good Son (Remixed By Yoshihiro Hanno) 4:33
14 Late Night Shopping (Remixed By Burnt Friedman) 2:51


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RhoDeo 1326 Beats

Hello,  as the Roman Catholic blows its own trumpet once more, declaring former popes holy. Just eight years after his death and little more than two since his beatification, John Paul will be made a saint following the pope's approval of a second miracle attributed to his intercession. Well it should distract from the corrupt practices at the vatican bank the week before, plenty of demons left there.
Wimbledon got it's projected men's final the UK is so desperate to have a Scot Murray win thetitle that should Djokovic refuse to let him have it, the UK stock market will suffer come monday morning. No such drama for the ladies final, however the goodlooking public favorite, Lisicki will have a hard time against the aggressive Corsican Bartoli, it's not just about the 1 million pound prize money but the eternal status at the Wimbledon club as well.

Meanwhile we're here for some beats, we've been getting serious and clinical and it should hardly be a surprise we turned to Germans for that, the coming Beats we remain in Berlin as it is such a cosmopolitan city where creativity /art is highly regarded, it's evident that there's much more to be explored and we just follow the beats. .Native Berliner Sascha Funke's warm take on tech-house is rather clean and very melodic ....... N'joy

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Born in 1977 by 1989 Sascha listens to a lot of euro-dance-pop as a twelve year-old. His first purchased record after the fall of the wall was "Technotronic Mega Mix". His first contact with techno and house is thanks to Marusha's radio show 'Rave Satellite'. Sascha buys his first techno record 'The Seawolf' (Underground Resistance).

He organizes parties in youth clubs in the East Berlin section Lichtenberg and thus encounters his first DJ experiences with trance, his mentors were even then Paul Kalkbrenner and Ellen Allien , which still connects him an intense friendship.  1997 Sascha Funke begins his DJ career in berlin clubs like Discount or So36. Sascha attempts first steps as a producer with borrowed equipment and the help of his soon to-be label partner Paul Kalkbrenner in their collective studio, he moved with his first studio in the side rooms of the Casino Club, and began producing his tracks. While in the early days as an organizer of more trance sound was fixed, he later moved to other electronic music genres such as Techno , House and Minimal .

2000 Sascha's musical home becomes Bpitch Control. He DJs at the Ostgut, WMF, Maria and Tresor and releases on Kompakt. Throughout 2000 and early 2001, Funke issued a trio of 12" singles on the label -- Campus, Safety First, and Drei Auf Drei. During the same period, Funke also released a pair of singles for Berlin's BPitch Control imprint -- Luftschloß and 2:1 Fur Die Liebe. Some of his productions for Kompakt have appeared on the Schaffelfieber, Total 2, and Total 3 compilations, but he wound up sticking with BPitch Control for several years, goes on their 'gemeinsam-tour 2002' and works on his first album. Releases his debut-album 'Bravo' in September 2003. Goes on Bravo tour around the world.

In 2006 he moves his studio back into the Bpitch house. Compiles the second “Boogy Bytes” mix CD. In 2008 he releases Mango which got extra exposure because of his appearance in the successful movie Berlin Calling (Kalkenbrenner) That same year he records a live mix at Berlin’s famed Watergate Club (where Funke is a resident DJ). In 2011 he releases Brave

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Funke's trio of 12s for the then young Kompakt helped define the sect of that label that thrived on warm, clean, uncluttered productions. When he switched over to BPitch -- where he made his biggest splash of all, with a magnificent 2001 cover of Bros.' "When Will I Be Famous?" -- he fell into that label's reputation for more aggressive sounds and began to leave a significant impact on a second label. Bravo, Funke's overdue full-length debut, is a hodgepodge of old and new material that plays to the producer's two primary strengths -- full-bodied arrangements that balance abrasion and comfort, and his love of dance-pop, regardless of whatever scene it can be shoehorned into. The two tracks with vocalist Fritz Kalkbrenner are unsurprisingly two of the most emotional; while not quite as lyrically focused as Pet Shop Boys (one of Funke's favorites), "Now You Know" and "Forms and Shapes" are as suited for the bedroom as they are tailored for the club. One of the most compelling features of the album is the tension between minimal-minded techno and progressive house. Funke never seems to commit one way or another, but it's no matter -- it helps create a sound of his own that can appeal to followers of both stripes. Those who prefer the Kompakt-era material (none of which is reprised here) will be made most happy with "Quiet Please," a track where the open spaces between the notes are as important as the shimmers of keyboard. It's an excellent album from one of Germany's most consistent producers.

Sascha Funke - Bravo ( flac 330mb)

01 Now You Know (Voc.Fritz Kalkbrenner) 5:02
02 I Just Can't Wait To See You 4:58
03 Forms & Shapes (Voc.Fritz Kalkbrenner) 4:58
04 Strassentanz 4:47
05 Bravo 5:37
06 Twingo 5:09
07 Soso 4:42
08 3:1 Für Die Liebe 4:46
09 Quiet Please 4:58
10 Semi 4:51
11 Hallo & Hurra 12:30

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Sascha Funke released a series of generally well-received (if uneven) 12" singles between 2003's Bravo and this, his second production album. Tracks like "To Be," "In Between Days," and "Auf Aix," all released on Bpitch Control, his home base since departing from Kompakt in 2001, enhanced several mix albums. Made of all-new material -- "Double-Checked," while issued as a stand-alone single, was released almost synchronously with the CD and double vinyl -- Mango is much more about moods and textures than Bravo, the majority of it coming across as a subtle way of mining for film score work. The entirety of the sequence plays out without a second of controlled chaos or anything resembling unbridled restlessness, with only "Double Checked" (one of the album's highlights, a bell-and-handclap-enhanced charger with a vampirish spoken bit) and "Lôtre (Mehr Fleisch)" as possible sops to those who are expecting a set suited for dancing or exceeding the speed limit. It all seems unassuming by design, but the danger in that approach is crossing the wrong side of the fine line that separates cunning subtlety from unaffecting tepidity. No track is outright poor, though "Chemin des Figons" comes dangerously close; its overly simplistic, staid foundation and downcast guitar thrums could almost pass as a missing instrumental by post-punk poseurs She Wants Revenge. At the other extreme is the album's opener, a darkly glowing, gorgeously melancholy track in which you can really lose yourself. The remainder of the material, while not incredibly remarkable, is easily enjoyable for background listening or deep thought. One of Bpitch Control's more durable and well-made full-lengths, if not a crowning achievement.

Sascha Funke - Mango ( flac 302mb)

01 Mango 7:01
02 We Are Facing The Sun 7:10
03 Feather 5:33
04 Take A Chance With Me 6:13
05 Smmer Rain 3:17
06 Double-Checked (Voc. Zander)7:16
07 Lôtre (Mehr Fleisch) 7:08
08 Chemin Des Figons 8:17
09 The Fortune Cookie Symphony (Voc.Fritz Kalkbrenner) :06

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Watergate 02 finds German techno don Sasha Funke at the top of his game. Recorded live at Berlin’s famed Watergate Club (where Funke is a resident DJ), he effortlessly weaves his way through electro fuzz, propulsive tech-house, and punchy techno. Often referred to as Ellen Allien’s right-hand man, Funke clearly shares her diverse tastes and playful spirit, as Watergate 02 features leftfield cuts like Miss Kittin’s remix of Allien’s “Alles Sehen” giving way to classics like Closer Musik’s “Giganten” and newer anthems like DJ Koze’s “I Want to Sleep.” Pleasantly free of minimal techno’s tedious devotion to process, the mix proves that Funke hasn’t forgotten that dance music is supposed to be fun.

Though it closes with loose pocket house—Patrice Scott's "Visions of Mantada" and the '94 Acid Jesus remix of Milch's "Housefrau"—for the most part Watergate 02 is child happy, melding emotive techno with some of the year's steamier cardiac fare. Of course, it ain't really comin' from the bedroom: it was recorded live at the club in August heat. But there are as many headplay moments as those that make your legs twitch, and Funke's to be commended for a mix that, for all of its core biggies, is still markedly distinct from the year's other big mixes.

Sascha Funke - Watergate 02 ( flac 475mb)

01 Nathan Fake - Y Are Here (Four Tet Remix) 5:23
02 Ellen Allien - Alles Sehen (Miss Kittin Remix) 3:05
03 Maus & Stolle - Taxi 5:23
04 Zander VT - Get Down 4:44
05 Minilogue &KAB - That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback (Wighnomy Brothers Quintenzirkel Remikks) 3:35
06 Dave Aju - Crazy Place 4:36
07 Sten - More Stash 5:18
08 Modal - Boy - Girl - Boy Girl 4:03
09 The Mole - Smiling And Running 5:11
10 Sascha Funke - Mango (Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher's Como Mango Version) 6:55
11 Dj Koze - I Want To Sleep 7:28
12 Closer Musik - Giganten 4:53
13 Patrice Scott - Visions Of Mantada 6:08
14 Milch - Housefrau (Acid Jesus' Purer Sex Remix) 5:28

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RhoDeo 1326 Goldy Rhox 115

Hello, today the 115th post of GoldyRhox, classic rock pop.  Today's focus is on a rockstar who died  yesterday 42 years ago, best remembered as the lead singer of rock band The Doors. From a young age, he developed an alcohol dependency which led to his death at the age of 27 in Paris. He was well known for often improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Due to his wild personality and performances, he is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic, charismatic, and pioneering frontmen in rock music history. He was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and was known as the self-proclaimed "King of Orgasmic Rock".

Clearly something was amiss with him, his interest in obscure 17th century books on demonic possession in his late teens, his dramatic recalling seeing dead indians on the side of the road (age 4), the shamanic act he performed on stage, his extraordinary diction.  His interest in 19th century poetry and film after all he graduated from UCLA film school. All the dope around him, LSD, Cocaine, Heroin however his preferred drug was ' firewater' i'm deliberatedly using it's indian description here as I think he really thought he was possessed by an indian shaman. Not something one can really talk about then and even now, yet, believe me, this is a part of our reality. Weather we like it or not, God-if you will- keeps its eternal stance of non-intervention. Anyway our man couldn't really deal with it and drank himself to death, even if that came about accidentally snorting heroine instead of cocaine whilst drunk.

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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 artist's only studio album of sorts, here in it's extended remastered guise.  In 1978, seven years after he died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore reunited and recorded backing tracks over his poetry (originally recorded in 1969 and 1970). Other pieces of music and recorded spoken word were also used in the audio collage, such as dialogue from his film HWY and snippets from jam sessions. The album received mixed reviews and still divides critics, yet it has managed a platinum certification in the US.

Moody and mesmerizing,  some may be put off because our man is unafraid to use crude imagery and talk unabashedly about taboo topics such as sex and religion. Although many dismiss his poetry as simplistic random musings, he was a gifted lyricist with a vivid imagination. The album also demonstrates how the other musicians in the band create a mood that breathes life into his dark, twisted visions. The album should be listened to in one sitting to be fully appreciated, preferably at nighttime when one is alone and can devote full attention to the listening experience.


Goldy Rhox 115  (flac 256mb)

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Goldy Rhox 115   (ogg 117mb)

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RhoDeo 1326 Aetix

Hello, as mr Snowden is still hold up in a Moscow transit hotel, which is defacto accessable to anyone in transit I'm beginning to wonder , clearly the US is putting enormous pressure to any country considering giving him asylum. The madness showed last night when the Bolivian president was refused airspace on the rumor Snowden was aboard, hs airplane was forced to land in Vienna and searched-no Snowden. Once more president Hollande (France) looks an ass selling out to Washington. Expect daily strong rumours on flights leaving Moscow ....

Today's artists are the last from the European Aetix female singers it makes sense then that they led out the eighties. One of the singers, who's christian name translates as birch yet her Icelandic name has become a global brand. She took the band with whom she started out from the unknown icelandic shores into the light, the results are here to try. Also in the spotlight a band who's philosophical insight name said it all. Explore the world beyond Goth ...N'Joy

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The Sugarcubes were the biggest group ever to emerge from Iceland at that time (currently Sigur Ros), which helps explain their off-kilter sense of melody. Their 1988 debut, Life's Too Good, attracted terrific reviews and became a college radio hit.
According to group legend, The Sugarcubes formed on June 8, 1986, the day that vocalist Björk (born Björk Gundmundsdottir) gave birth to her son. Prior to that day, the members of the group had been a variety of Icelandic bands. Björk had the longest career out of any of the members. When she was 11 years old, the vocalist had recorded a children's album. In her late teens, she joined the Icelandic post-punk band Tappi Tikarrass, who released two albums before splitting in 1983.

By 1984, Björk, Benediktsson, and Baldursson had joined forces, forming K.U.K.L. with keyboardist Einar Mellax. K.U.K.L. -- which means witch in Icelandic -- was an noisy, artsy post-punk band that released several singles on the independent British record label Crass. In 1986, K.U.K.L. evolved into The Sugarcubes, adding Björk's then-husband Thor Eldon on guitar and Bragi Olafesson on bass. The Sugarcubes formed on June 8, 1986, with vocalist Björk, Björk's then-husband Thor Eldon on guitar, and Bragi Olafsson on bass. (That same day Björk gave birth to her and Thor Eldon's son, Sindri Eldon. The band's music was characterized by a psychedelic post-punk sound sometimes reminiscent of The B-52's and Talking Heads, whimsical yet heartfelt lyrics, and the imploring, girlish voice of Björk, accompanied by Einar Orn's erratic vocal performances.

In late 1987, the band signed to One Little Indian in the UK, Elektra Records in the US. The Sugarcubes released their debut album, Life's Too Good, in 1988, to critical acclaim in both the UK and the US. They first came to notice in the UK when radio DJ John Peel played "Birthday".[2] It became an indie hit in Britain, later voted single of the year, and a college radio hit in America. "Cold Sweat" and "Deus" were also released as singles and made the lower reaches of the UK charts, while the US single "Motorcrash" went top ten in the Modern Rock charts.

In late 1987, the band signed to One Little Indian in the U.K., Elektra Records in the U.S. The Sugarcubes released their debut album, Life's Too Good, in 1988 to critical acclaim in both the U.K. and the U.S. "Birthday," the first single from the album, became an indie hit in Britain and a college radio hit in America. In particular, Björk received a heap of praise, which began tensions between her and Benediktsson. By the time the group recorded its second album, Thor had divorced Björk and married Magga Ornolfsdottir, who became the group's keyboardist after Einar Mellax left. Furthermore, Olafesson divorced his wife -- who happened to be the twin sister of Baldursson's wife -- and married Benediktsson, making their union the first openly gay marriage in pop music.

Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!, The Sugarcubes' second album, was released in 1989. The album featured a greater vocal contribution by Einar, which was criticized in many of the record's reviews, which were noticeably weaker than those for Life's Too Good. After the release of Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!, the band embarked on a lengthy international tour. At the conclusion of the tour in late 1990, the bandmembers pursued their own individual interests. Stick Around for Joy, the band's third album, was released in 1992; before the record appeared, a collection of remixes called It's-It was released in Europe. Stick Around for Joy received better reviews than Life's Too Good, but the album failed to yield a hit single. Following its release, The Sugarcubes disbanded. For Björk a critically acclaimed and commercially successful solo career awaited

Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good !  (flac 350mb)

01 Traitor 3:10
02 Motorcrash 2:23
03 Birthday 3:59
04 Delicious Demon 2:42
05 Mama 2:56
06 Coldsweat 3:17
07 Blue Eyed Pop 2:37
08 Deus 4:08
09 Sick For Toys 3:14
10 F***ing In Rhythm & Sorrow 3:22
11 Take Some Petrol Darling (Hidden track) 1:27
US Bonus
12 Cowboy 3:26
13 I Want... 2:14
14 Dragon (Icelandic) 3:07
15 Cat (Icelandic) 2:56
16 Coldsweat (Remix) 3:16
17 Deus (Remix) 5:12

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Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! was the second album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, released in October 1989. The name of the album was inspired by Mr. Toad from the famous children's book by Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows. A version of the album sung in Icelandic was also released, titled Illur Arfur ("bad legacy").
Contrary to their debut album Life's Too Good, Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! was less well received by critics.

Sugarcubes - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week !  (flac 261mb)

01 Tidal Wave 2:56
02 Regina 4:05
03 Speed Is The Key 3:18
04 Dream TV 3:12
05 Nail 3:18
06 Pump 4:25
07 Eat The Menu 3:44
08 Bee 2:26
09 Dear Plastic 3:23
10 Shoot Him 2:10
11 Water 3:01
12 A Day Called Zero 2:38
13 Planet 3:23
14 Hey 3:22
15 Dark Disco 1 3:01
16 Hot Meat 3:16

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All About Eve arose out of Britain's '80s goth rock scene with a unique, folk-rock-influenced take on the style. Former journalist and Gene Loves Jezebel bassist Julianne Regan was encouraged by members of the Mission U.K. to form her own band after singing background vocals on some of their material. She assembled former Aemotti Crii members Tim Bricheno (guitar) and Andy Cousin (bass), plus drummer Mark Price, and sprinkled her songs with references to hippiedom and white-magic mysticism. Their self-titled debut sold well in the U.K. in 1988 and produced the hit "Martha's Harbour." Following the release and tour of their difficult second record Scarlet and Other Stories, Bricheno left the group and subsequently joined Sisters of Mercy.

The band regrouped, with the Church mainstay Marty Willson-Piper taking over on guitar. The resulting record, Touched By Jesus, was met with a lukewarm reception, and the band decided on a stylistic change for their next LP. 1994's Ultraviolet got lost in the shuffle, and problems with how the record company percieved the band added to an already stressful situation. A short time later, All About Eve called it a day, with Julianne Regan going on to form Mice, work with Bernard Butler, start the atmospheric Jules et Jim project, and a regular day job.

When it seemed that the band would never be heard from again, old friends the Mission decided to start touring again, and asked Regan if she was interested in opening. This was enough to not only get the band back together but to start touring on their own. After the tour with the Mission, All About Eve embarked on what turned out to be two years worth of acoustic gigs, and in 2000 released the first collection of unplugged highlights, entitled Fairy Light Nights. Fairy Light Nights, Vol. 2 and more acoustic shows appeared in 2001.

In 2002, Willson-Piper left the band to pursue other projects, to be replaced by new guitarist Toni Haimi, previously of the band Malluka and currently a member of the Sohodolls. Later that year, All About Eve released the live album and DVD Cinemasonic with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Haimi, Carter and Hood. A collection of early recordings was also released, entitled Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings.

In mid 2004, shortly after the release of their first single in a decade, "Let Me Go Home", the band split once again. Their last gig, with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Haimi and Savigear, was at the Mean Fiddler in London on 30 April 2004, at the end of a British tour; this was filmed and copies of the performance were made available through a fan website. In April 2009, Regan stated on her Facebook page: "All About Eve are dormant and may never happen again. I don't ever like to say never though, but it seems we've all moved on and are exploring other avenues.

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To label (in any way) the self-titled debut from All About Eve "goth" is a perfect example of how loosely the term was being thrown around in the mid- to late '80s in England. Sure, the Eves had a bit of goth cred (touring with the Mission, early singles that sounded a lot like Siouxsie), but All About Eve is more folksy than menacing, the band had already developed its more folksy sound on its independently released singles, but with Paul Samwell-Smith producing, All About Eve graduated from quasi-Siouxsie clones into a full-blown example of late-'80s "goth pop." Steeped in folksy melodies and hippie-esque lyrics, All About Eve can seem a bit dramatic and drippy, but it makes up for its faults with solid song arrangements and a glossy production that fits the band's melodic sensibilities and polished guitar work. While it may not be part of the pantheon of rock as a whole, All About Eve stands out as a prime example of a time in English pop music when things weren't quite certain.

All About Eve - All About Eve (flac 372mb)

01 Flowers In Our Hair 4:25
02 Gypsy Dance 4:04
03 In The Clouds 3:33
04 Martha's Harbour 3:12
05 Every Angel 3:57
06 Like Emily 5:16
07 Shelter From The Rain 5:24
08 She Moves Through The Fair 5:06
09 Wild Hearted Woman 3:25
10 Never Promise (Anyone Forever) 3:53
11 Apple Tree Man 3:59
12 What Kind Of Fool 4:02
13 In The Meadow 5:35
14 Lady Moonlight 4:12

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earlier, Ice land of fire (03/24/07) re-up

Sugarcubes - It's It (ogg 170mb)

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RhoDeo 1326 Roots

Hello, these past 2 years there has been a weekly dose of reggae here, I estimate about 250 reggae/dub albums have been highlighted, for me the choices have eroded, admittedly there is still a lively reggae scene on Jamaica and beyond but it's output is more drowned out by todays cacophony and it has become a niche once again. Besides, I don't post new work. I'm sure that there will be more from the reggae/dub scene here but on a more occasional basis. For now i will end the series with a number of sampler albums

For the last foreseeable time we return to the place where it all started, Jamaica, over the years there have been countless sampler albums, it was the quickest and cheapest way for an artist to reach a bigger public and to create a name not just among peers. Funk and reggae are a grand jive to begin with, just on paper; the even swing of reggae and the complicated, thick bass grooves and expressive vocals of funk and R&B are a rhythm all-star team.   .....N'joy

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Here are some fun, funky reggae grooves for ya. This compilation is comprised of remastered originals and covers from the vaults of Island Records' sister label, Trojan Records. It's a nice snapshot of the funk that was always present in reggae and its ska and rocksteady predecessors, and how hard hitting American R&B from the era was eventually infused. Tough, vital music that contains some of the most powerful, hypnotic grooves ever committed to tape; if you think reggae is all aimless ganja-fueled noodling, you really need to hear this.

Funky Kingston - Reggae Dance Floor Grooves 1968-74 (flac 403mb)

01 Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston 4:55
02 Zap Pow - Soul Revival 4:00
03 Tomorrow's Children - Sister Big Stuff 2:53
04 The Chosen Few - Reggae Stuff (Funky Stuff) 3:28
05 Lloyd Charmers and Hippy Days - Look-Ka-Py-Py 2:44
06 The Jay Boys - Splendour Splash 3:03
07 The Pioneers - Na Na, Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) 3:08
08 Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black? 3:52
09 Phyllis Dillon - Woman Of The Ghetto 3:23
10 Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Jungle Lion 3:25
11 A Darker Shade Of Black - Ball Of Confusion 3:10
12 The Carl Dawkins and Wailers - Cloud Nine 3:09
13 The Pioneers - Papa Was A Rolling Stone 4:50
14 Tomorrow's Children - War 2:37
15 Lloyd Parks - Stop The War Now 2:34
16 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Almighty 2:41
17 Lloyd Charmers - Shaft 4:36
18 Lloyd Williams - Funky Beat 2:42
19 The Chosen Few - Do Your Thing 3:17
20 Toots & The Maytals - Funky Funky 2:35

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"Soul Power", the sequel to the beautiful Funky Reggae Sampler "Funky Kingston" is packed with 20 pieces on each whistle purity and fill every floor.  Whether in dance or in the Soul Party.  Known names are next to total nobodys, no one of them knows something.  But that's irrelevant whether a three years or three minutes was famous.  Soul Power is exactly what the name means power, soul power, sweat and sex.  Go to the funky trip with an absolute high light: Shark Wilson & The Basement Heaters (what a name!) Call "Make It Reggae".  Here, the cut as a brilliant sounding perverted bastard of the Godfathers Please "Make It Funky" and a GM is nothing more reggae, riddim, would for the rare groove DJ your trust ever shell out a monthly wage.  And it goes on, whether is fused by the Chequers "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" with "Get Up Stand Up", which once again boil Chosen Few Father "Shaft" or Lee Perry, Bunny Scott along with the "Kinky Fly" dances.  This is highly explosive material.  Disreputable.  Greasy.  Moist.  Dangerous.   To sum up, those who seek the mindless fun place with "Soul Power" is the best drug for a weekend.

Funky Kingston 2 - Soul Power- Reggae Dancefloor Grooves 1968-74  (flac  363mb)

01 Shark Wilson & The Basement Heaters - Make It Reggae 3:13
02 The Chosen Few - Funky Buttercup 2:49
03 Nicky Thomas - Soul Power 3:03
04 Horace Faith - Spinning Wheel 2:13
05 James Brown - Do It 2:00
06 Jamaica Jam - Sticky Fingers 2:53
07 Annetta Jackson - Meditation 3:30
08 The Chequers - Get Up, Stand Up 6:55
09 Mike Dorane & Cimarons - Penguin Funk 2:57
10 Zap Pow - Funking Skank 3:02
11 Tinga Stewart - The Message 2:55
12 Bunny Scott & Lee Perry - Kinky Fly 2:43
13 The Studio Sound - Give Me Some More 4:14
14 The Aquarians - Medusa Parts 1 & 2 4:44
15 Hopeton Lewis - Express Yourself 2:33
16 Alton Ellis - It's Your Thing 2:58
17 Matumbi - (I Can't Get Enough Of That) Reggae Stuff 3:00
18 The Cimarons - Keep Steppin' 2:40
19 Greyhound - The Change 6:02
20 The Chosen Few - Shaft 3:38

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Jamaica Funk gives us a series of some of the finest examples that mainlanders gave something in return. R&B, soul, and funk were all flowing back to the island in relative trickles, flavoring 1970s reggae and combusting into a one-of-a-kind brand of funk--devastating sexy and as politically charged as its reggae cousin--that nonetheless didn't make it back around into the export river. And it may have well perished in molten clumps of vinyl--weathered vinyl whose mortality is brought to life in the disc's liner-note photography--if it hadn't been for this loving, infectious digitization of rare 45s.

There's nothing like a dud here. Lee Perry gets his moment with a Jah Lloyd megafunk--yet with dubby, almost rapped staccato vocals--cover of "Lama." Other joys include the instrumental (sub organ for vocals) kick-drum bump "Jam #1" from Winston Wright and the Upsetters. Sidney, George, and Jackie's wah-ed to heck, clarinet-lit version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is a tiny revelation, and the Now Generation's gentle take on "People Make the World Go Round" is arguably better than the original. Herman and the Aquarians' goofy bounce, "Dunce Cap" (starting "when boy and girl gets together lot of things can happen"), could melt the snow off the poles.

Jamaica Funk (Original Jamaican Funk And Soul 45's) (flac  324mb)

01 Earl Brown - Get Together 2:49
02 Derrick Harriott - Brown Baby 4:05
03 Jah Lloyd - Lama 3:36
04 The Chosen Few - I Love The Way You Love 3:49
05 Cedric 'Im' Brooks - Silent Force 6:20
06 Glen Adams - You Can't Hide Love 3:05
07 The Herman And Aquarians - Dunce Cap 2:02
08 The Heptones - Do Good To Each Other And Everyone 2:51
09 The Studio Sound - Give Me Some More 5:10
10 The Winston Wright And Upsetters - Jam#1 3:19
11 The Now Generation - People Make The World Go Round 3:17
12 Jackie Paris - Make Me Smile 2:53
13 Sidney, George And Jackie - Papa Was A Rolling Stone 4:18
14 The Rebels - Rhodesia 2:57
15 Big Youth - Ride On 2:51
16 Augustus Pablo - Lightning Chap 2:20
17 Augustus Pablo - Lightning Chap Version 2:16
18 The Ansel And Meditations - Tricked 3:14

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RhoDeo 1326 The Falcon 09

Hello, just watched Spain go down 3-0 to Brazil, rarely did anyone see such an incoherent Worldchampion, they clearly were on their last legs against Italy and that 2 hour in a humid 30c + match clearly took their last reserves, it simply was no contest tonight. Nevertheless the Brazilians will party all night.. Meanwhile at F1, the race was won by Rosberg who kept out of trouble after he took over the lead from Vettel after transmission left him running on empty 11 laps before the finish, previously we so plenty of explosive flat tyres and 2 safety cars. Looser of the day was Mark Webber who for the umpteenth time botched his start (how professional) got his nose damaged and lost at least 30 seconds before his race started..in the end he was just 0,7 seconds down on winner Rosberg. So Glastonbury hype is history once more lot's of tired old stars and middle of the road stuff with the BBC presenters to boot, cringingly unfunny 40 somethings and field reporters probably used to having their tongue up their bosses ass, in short a major embarressment for any Brit music lover, please Beeb ask the Top Gear Team to present Glastonbury 2014, then at least it will be funny some of the time.


Sci-fi fans can prepare themselves for the penultimate week of Falcon Banner excitement   ... NJoy

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The Falcon Banner
By the twenty-second century, mankind had stretched forth its hand to command the stars. Other races were discovered, and, as the human sphere of influence expanded, they were happy to live in peaceful coexistence, and humanity was on the verge of an evolutionary leap.

The Terran emperor was the first to ascend to the next step of human evolution. His advisors, who now styled themselves holy clerics, sought to force the other races to see the light of their religion. They began to subjugate the other races to the will of the empire. The Amsus, who saw the Empire as decadent, illogical and chaotic, waged war upon it. Admiral VonGrippen, the brightest military mind in centuries, betrayed the empire, and removed the entire home fleet, collapsing the jump gate after them, leaving Earth and the Empire to be squashed under the heel of Amsus oppression.

Now, three hundred years after the fall of the Terran Empire, humans find themselves the subject race, Stagnating on their own world unable to evolve either technologically or otherwise. It is into this oppressive world, that the most unlikely of men are thrust into the roles of heros.

Based on The Falcon Banner, a novel by Christopher Patrick Lydon
Original music composed and performed by Kai Hartwig, Kevin MacLeod and Phil Craigie

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The Falcon Banner 09 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 2 ( 46mb)

08 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 2 47:28 Featuring the voice talents of:

Seth Adam Sher as Darien Taine
Brandon Cole as Commander Kit Durnham
Mark Bruzee as Shale
Laura Post as Lauren
Mark Kalita as Kendrick
Shire Smith as Masconi
Bruce Toews as Paladin 4
Jack Scrimshaw as Major Mayfair
Duane Whittingham as The Midshipman
Shane Harris as Colonel Ramsey
Mike Dent as Lt. Katz
Eric Busby as Lt. Nazzien
Chris Snyder as Paladin 5 and The Crewman
Jared Gonyea as The Lt.
Matthew McLaren as The Marine
Steve Anderson as Major Rousseau
James Leeper as The Sargeant and the Guard
Miles Reid as the Tech

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previously

The Falcon Banner 01 - Freedom's Spark
The Falcon Banner 02 - New Friends, Old Enemies ( 55mb)
The Falcon Banner 03 - For Duty and Crew ( 50mb)
The Falcon Banner 04 - The Future Remembered, Part 1 ( 51mb)
The Falcon Banner 05 - The Future Remembered, Part 2 ( 55mb)
The Falcon Banner 06 - Foundations ( 58mb)
The Falcon Banner 07 - Of Ships and Stars ( 50mb)
The Falcon Banner 08 - The Stuff of Legends and Other Histories, Part 1 ( 55mb)

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