Around The World (35)

Hello, Around the Worldmusics goes back, way back into time..., not sure how to classify this..its been around for more than a 1000 years and supposedly not that much has changed after Charlemagne and the Pope, in a cynical division of absolute power, made it compulsary and punishable by death to sing any other way. These days one can do anything with it, and it worked wonders as background music to erotica...well there's no beats here and the experts argue about the rhythm-if any, make your own noise with it...

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Gregorian chant is a form of monophonic liturgical chant of Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. This vast repertory of chants is the oldest music known as it is the first repertory to have been adequately notated in the 10th century. In general, the chants were learnt by the viva voce method, that is by following the given example orally, which took many years of experience in the Schola Cantorum. Gregorian chant originated in Monastic life, in which singing the 'Divine Service' nine times a day at the proper hours was upheld according to the Rule of St. Benedict. Singing psalms made up a large part of the life in a monastic community, while a smaller group and soloists sang the chants. In its long history Gregorian Chant has been subjected to many gradual changes.

Gregorian chant was organized, codified, and notated mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries, with later additions and redactions, but the texts and many of the melodies have antecedents going back several centuries earlier. The chant bearing Gregory I 's name arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant and that at that time the attribution to the Pope was a 'marketing ruse' to invest it with a pedigree of Holy Inspiration in efforts to create one liturgic protocol that would be practised throughout the entire Empire. One Empire, one Church, one Chant - imposing Unity was a central issue in Carolingian days. It appeared in a remarkably uniform state across Europe within a short time. Charlemagne, once elevated to Holy Roman Emperor, aggressively spread Gregorian chant throughout his empire to consolidate religious and secular power, requiring the clergy to use the new repertory on pain of death. From English and German sources, Gregorian chant spread north to Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland. In 885, Pope Stephen V banned the Slavonic liturgy, leading to the ascendancy of Gregorian chant in Eastern Catholic lands including Poland, Moravia, Slovakia, and Austria.

Gregorian chants are organized into eight modes. Typical melodic features include characteristic incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants. Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by women and men of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Although Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Roman Catholic Church still officially considers it the music most suitable for worship

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Schola Cantotum - Gregorian Chant (94 ^ 141mb)



01 - Requiem Mass - Introitus (1:57)
02 - Requiem Mass - Kyrie (1:43)
03 - Requiem Mass - Graduale (3:04)
04 - Requiem Mass - Tractus (2:22)
05 - Requiem Mass - Sequentia (5:31)
06 - Requiem Mass - Offertorium (3:47)
07 - Requiem Mass - Sanctus (0:48)
08 - Requiem Mass - Agnus Dei (0:46)
09 - Requiem Mass - Communio (0:48)
10 - Hymns From Office Of The Dead - Invatorium (5:18)
11 - Hymns From Office Of The Dead - Responsorium (3:05)
12 - Hymns From Office Of The Dead - Canticum Zachariae (4:10)
13 - Hymns From Office Of The Dead - Responsorium (5:22)
14 - Hymns From Office Of The Dead - Antifoon (1:02)
15 - Passiontide - Hymne (1:03)
16 - Passiontide - Responsorium (2:30)
17 - Passiontide - Graduale (2:35)
18 - Passiontide - Communio (1:11 )
19 - Passiontide - Improperia (5:37)
20 - White Sunday Mass - Introitus (3:23)
21 - White Sunday Mass - Kyrie I (1:59)
22 - White Sunday Mass - Gloria I (3:10)
23 - White Sunday Mass - Alleluia (1:34)
24 - White Sunday Mass - Alleluia. (1:58)
25 - White Sunday Mass - Sequentia (2:28)
26 - White Sunday Mass - Offertorium (1:39)
27 - White Sunday Mass - Sanctus I (1:20)
28 - White Sunday Mass - Agnus Dei I (1:18)
29 - White Sunday Mass - Communio (1:04)

Schola Cantotum - Gegorian Chant (94 * 99mb)

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Foundation (7)

Hello, the penultimate episode of Foundation coming up, but first..

Still under the guise of a refugee clown, the Mule travels with the Darells, along with psychologist Ebling Mis, to the Great Library of Trantor. The Darells and Mis seek to contact the Second Foundation, which they believe will be able to defeat the Mule. The Mule, on the other hand, wishes to know the location of the Second Foundation so that he can use the First Foundation's technology to destroy it.

While at the Great Library, the Mule surreptitiously stimulates Ebling Mis's mind, allowing him to make powerful insights. Unfortunately for Mis, the Mule's actions cause his health to deteriorate very quickly. As Mis lies dying, he tells Toran, Bayta, and the Mule that he knows where the Second Foundation is. Just before he reveals the Second Foundation's location, however, Bayta kills him. (Bayta had shortly before realized that the renegade clown was actually the Mule, and killed Mis to prevent him from revealing the Second Foundation's whereabouts to the Mule.) Defeated, the Mule leaves the Darells on Trantor to reign over the Foundation and the rest of his new empire. Bayta tells the Mule that while the First Foundation was made to master physical sciences, the Second Foundation was centered on the science of psychology and mentalics; in a sense, Seldon did predict the Mule, or at least, anticipated that something unexpected like the Mule might happen, and set up the Second Foundation as a direct countermeasure to a hypothetical individual with mental or telepathic powers like the Mule. The Mule admits that had he found out where the Second Foundation was from Mis, he would have destroyed it before they could develop a counter-strategy, but now he doesn't know where it is, and the Second Foundation has been bought enough time to develop a counter-strategy to the Mule. Now that the Mule has conquered the Foundation (as well as the pathetic remnants of the Galactic Empire) he stands as the most powerful force in the galaxy, as he is the sole controller of nuclear technologies and weapons; the Second Foundation is the only real threat to his eventual rule over the entire galaxy. The Mule promises that he will find the Second Foundation, while Bayta asserts that he will not have enough time before the Second Foundation reacts.

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Foundation Trilogy 7 (The Mule Finds) (39mb)

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Sundaze (35)

Hello, another Sundaze coming up and today there's something special brewing, yes you're going on a trip...... a roadtrip, thru the Outback, the wide open skies, the scorching heat, unnumourable stars in the chilled night expanse. Mysterious movers thru the lands, singing of Dreamtime....Steve Roach returned to this world with this album....

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Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return ( 88, 130min ^ 299mb)

Roach a onetime professional motorbike racer born in California in 1955, -- inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis -- taught himself to play synthesizer at the age of 20 Seven years later he debuted with the album Now, his early work was quite reminiscent of his inspirations, but with 1984's Structures from Silence his music began taking enormous strides, the album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere inspired directly by the the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. Subsequent works including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series honed Roach's approach, his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures.

In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. Which is certainly one of the most important ambient releases of the last 30 years and most likely Roach's strongest and most representative work. Dreamtime Return's effortless fusion of tribal and electronic instrumentation is ageless and doesn't sound at all dated. Each track blends seamlessly into the next and though this album is epic to say the least, it never becomes boring, static, or saccharine. The Aboriginal elements are tasteful and never exploitative like so many faux ethnic ambient and psy-trance releases from the early to mid-nineties.

After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tuscon, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music. His album roster from that decade includes: Strata (1991), Artifacts (1994), Well of Souls (1995), Amplexus (1997), and Dust to Dust (1998). Early Man was released on Projekt in early 2001, followed by one of his many collaborations with Vidna Obmana. His ability to create organic time-altering soundscapes reached a high point on the 2003 four-CD opus Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, and has continued since 2006 in his prodigious Immersion series. Recent releases Possible Planet and New Life Dreaming show a return to a more open, breathing sound.




Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return I ( 88 ^ 313mb)

01 - Towards The Dream (7:09)
02 - The Continent (4:49)
03 - Songline (3:10)
04 - Airtribe Meets The Dream Ghost (7:00)
05 - A Circular Ceremony (11:20)
06 - The Other Side (13:16)
07 - Magnificent Gallery (6:11)
08 - Truth In Passing (8:44)
09 - Australian Dawn (The Quiet Earth Cries Inside) (6:17)


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Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return II ( 88 ^ 272mb)

10 - Looking For Safety (31:21)
11 - Through A Strong Eye (6:50)
12 - The Ancient Day (6:05)
13 - Red Twilight With The Old Ones (9:53)
14 - The Return (8:33)


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Into the Groove (34)

Hello, last week at Into The Groove , the focus was on the first contender for the title Queen Of Soul, Etta James. However, todays Queen gets at least as many if not more votes, Aretha Franklin. Daughter of a Baptist minister, singing gospels in church came naturally, giving birth to two sons before the age of sixteen must have raised some eyebrows. However it didnt derail her singing career, in fact she packed up and went to New York to persue a singing career away from the gospel..Not that the first women to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had success come easy, in fact it took another six years and a label change for her to land her first big hit, Respect...indeed. From then on things went crescendo...some meager years in the late seventies and early eighties before she scored some global hits in a row. She was the first black woman to appear on the cover of Time magazine...doesall that make her the Queen of Soul ? Hmmm, having at thing against flying doesn't help and dare i say she failed as godmother to Whitney Houston, and didnt experience the highs and lows that an drug addicted Etta James all conquered, so on the basis of all that my vote goes to Etta. Today however is about Aretha , 43 tracks .... a 2,5 hours compilation of her hits..."What you want, baby i got it...."

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Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee to the Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, and Barbara Siggers Franklin. Aretha's parents had a troubled relationship and they separated when Aretha was six. Her mother died of a heart attack when she was ten. Adept at the piano as well as having a gifted voice, Franklin became a child prodigy. With her sisters Carolyn and Erma (both of whom would also have recording careers), she sang at the Detroit church of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, while growing up in the 1950s. By the age of fourteen, she signed a record deal with Checker Records, where her father recorded his sermons and gospel vocal recordings and issued The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin in 1956.

Teenage pregnancies derailed Franklin's gospel career but despite having two children by the time she was 17, Franklin left Detroit for New York aged 18 in search of fame and fortune, leaving her sons in the care of their grandmother. Instead of performing gospel and inspired by the successes of idols Dinah Washington and Sam Cooke, Aretha decided to secure herself a deal as a pop artist, she signed with Columbia Records in 1960. Her recordings during that time reflected a jazz influence inspired by Washington and moved away from her gospel roots. Franklin initially scored a few hits on Columbia , however, by the end of 1966, with little commercial success in six years with Columbia and desperate for a sound, she accepted an offer to sign with Atlantic Records. According to Franklin years later, "they made me sit down on the piano and the hits came."

In 1967 Franklin issued her first Atlantic single, "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)", a blues ballad that introduced listeners to her gospel style. Her next single, "Respect", firmly launched Franklin to superstardom. Written and originally recorded by Otis Redding, Franklin's feminist version of the song became her signature tune for life hitting #1 on both the R&B and the Pop charts and helping her Atlantic debut album, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, reach million-seller status. Much of that success is due to producer Jerry Wexler, who finally unleashed the soulful intensity so long kept under wraps during her Columbia tenure. In early 1968 Franklin won her first two Grammies (for "Respect"), including the first Grammy awarded in the "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" category, she went on to win it eight times in a row.

By the end of the 1960s, Franklin's position as The Queen of Soul was firmly established. Her albums were also hot sellers; one in particular, 1972's Amazing Grace, eventually sold over two million US copies. By 1975, however, with the expanding exposure of Disco and the popularity of fellow Atlantic artist Roberta Flack, relations between Franklin and Atlantic Records were starting to strain. As a result, Aretha was recording poor material such as 1975's listless You album, and her record sales declined dramatically. Her later period Atlantic albums including Sweet Passion, Almighty Fire and La Diva were critical as well as sales failures and to top it off Franklin owed major debts to the IRS for failure to pay back taxes. Her recording contract with Atlantic ran out at the end of 1979 and neither Aretha nor the company had any desire to renew it. On June 10, 1979, Franklin's minister father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, was seriously wounded during what was said to be an attempted robbery at his Linwood Avenue home in Detroit, leaving him in a comatose state in which he remained until he died in the summer of 1984.

In 1980, Franklin's career was given a much-needed boost thanks to a cameo appearance on The Blues Brothers, singing Think as Mrs. Matt Murphy. That same year, Clive Davis signed Aretha to his Arista Records. It was the spectacular 1982 album, Jump To It, produced by longtime admirer Luther Vandross, and the title-track 45 that gave Aretha renewed R&B chart-topping and pop success.The album enjoyed a long run at #1 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart, it won an American Music Award, was nominated for a Grammy and was certified Gold in early 1983 . The following year Franklin and Vandross collaborated again on the disappointing Get It Right. But in 1985, Franklin's sound was commercialized into a glossy pop sound on , Who's Zoomin' Who?. Yielding smash hits like the Motown-influenced "Freeway of Love" , the title track and her duet with rock duo Eurythmics, "Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves", the album became the first Platinum certification of Aretha's entire career, reintroducing her sound to a younger generation of fans.

In 1986, Franklin did nearly as well with an album simply titled Aretha which yielded her first number-one pop single in two decades with the George Michael duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". The album is noteworthy for the striking cover which was Andy Warhol's last work before his death. When Aretha was taken out of print, it had sold over nine million copies worldwide. Aretha returned to gospel in 1987 with her album One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism which was recorded live at her New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. However, the disc was a far cry from her 1972 effort Amazing Grace and had middling sales. Subsequent follow-ups such as 1989's Through The Storm and 1991's What You See Is What You Sweat sold poorly and failed to produce any major mainstream hits. Her career got a slight boost in 1993 when she scored a dance-club hit with "Deeper Love" off the Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit soundtrack. In 1994, she scored another hit with the Babyface-produced ballad, "Willing To Forgive" which hit the Top 5 of Billboard's R&B chart and #26 on the Hot 100.

Franklin returned to prominence with her 1998 album, A Rose Is Still A Rose. The album's mixture of urban contemporary, hip-hop soul and soul was a departure from Franklin's previous material. The title track, produced by Lauryn Hill, gave her a smash hit on the R&B and Pop charts and earned a gold single while the album was certified gold also, the first time since 1986's Aretha that any of the singer's albums went gold. Since, Franklin has continued recording if only sporadically. Her most recent release was 2003's So Damn Happy, which included the Grammy-winning track "Wonderful". Shortly after its release, Franklin left Arista Records after twenty-three years with the company. She has since started her own label, Aretha Records, and plans to issue her long-promised new album, A Woman Falling Out Of Love in 2008.


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Aretha Franklin - The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin - Respect ( 03, 155min. ^ 299mb)

An amazing number of Aretha compilations have been released , more then 60 this millenium (7,5 years), more then the 36 years before that put together....ah yes every music exec is trying to make some money of Aretha . I wonder if any of them ever donated some money to institutions that support teenage mothers, respect ? i doubt it...



Aretha Franklin - The Very Best Of 1 (^99mb)

01 - Respect (2:24)
02 - Think (2:16)
03 - Spanish Harlem (3:29)
04 - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (2:44)
05 - I Say A Little Prayer (3:32)
06 - Son Of A Preacher Man (3:16)
07 - I Never Loved A Man (2:49)
08 - Chain Of Fools (2:46)
09 - Don't Play That Song (2:58)
10 - Angel (4:27)
11 - Border Song (Holy Moses) (3:19)
12 - Rock Steady (3:11)
13 - See Saw (2:43)
14 - The House That Jack Built (2:18)
15 - Oh No Not My Baby (2:50)
16 - Until You Come Back To Me (3:24)
17 - Good Times (2:05)

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18 - Since You've Been Gone (2:22)
19 - You're All I Need To Get By (3:34)
20 - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (3:47)
21 - Do Right Woman - Do Right Man (3:12)
22 - Share Your Love With Me (3:18)
23 - Something He Can Feel (6:14)
24 - Ain't No Way (4:13)
25 - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (4:14)
26 - I Knew You Were Waiting (4:00)
27 - Through The Storm (4:20)
28 - Love All The Hurt Away (4:07)
29 - Willing To Forgive (4:08)
30 - Let It Be (3:28)*

Aretha Franklin - The Very Best Of 3 (^99mb)

31- Never Let Me Go (2:51)
32 - Night Time Is The Right Time (4:45)
33 - Call Me (3:52)
34 - Drown In My Tears (4:03)
35 - People Get Ready (3:41)
36 - My Song (3:29)
37 - Dark End Of The Street (4:39)
38 - Today I Sing The Blues (4:21)
39 - A Rose Is Still A Rose (3:58)
40 - Who's Zoomin' Who? (4:41)
41 - Freeway Of Love (4:10)
42 - Day Dreaming (3:56)
43 - Bridge Over Troubled Water (5:34)

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Alphabet Soup (H)

Hello, Alphabet Soup serves up H today. That means seventies icon Steve Harley, who sadly tended to overplay his hand when he let Cockney Rebel mk I go, even if he landed his biggest hit after that. Oh well such is life, overcompensating uncertainties can get in the way. ...next up a Dutch band from The Hague, Hallo Venray. Singer/guitarist Henk Koorn was told he sounded like Neil Young , it took him a decade to live record an album with Young covers and only because he was doing a side project with the partyband Supertroopers doing ABBA covers. To rap that all up his other sideproject Dakota Love Beach (great name) released a heavy psychedelic rock album, fin de siecle activities i would think. Anyway the one here is their breakthrough album in the Netherlands with the obstinate title, The More I Laugh, The Hornier Due Gets !.......Finally The Hidden Camera's from Canada displaying their assertive gayness with a great indie album..


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Steve Harley and The Cockney Rebel - Best of ( 72min.^ 462mb)

Steve Harley (born Steven Nice, 27 February 1951), grew up in London's New Cross area. He was stricken with polio at age two and spent the better part of his adolescence in and out of hospitals. After trying his hand at journalism, his musical career began in the late 1960s when he was busking (with John Crocker) and performing his own songs, some of which were later recorded by him and the band. The original Cockney Rebel was formed when Harley hooked up with his former folk music partner, John Crocker (fiddle / mandolin / guitar) in 1972. They auditioned drummer Stuart Elliott, bassist Paul Jeffreys, and keyboardist Milton Reame-James. They were signed to EMI after playing just five gigs. Their first single "Sebastian", a soaring rock epic ballad, was an immediate success in Europe, though failed to score in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album, The Human Menagerie, was released in 1973 to critical acclaim

Harley regarded the band as little more than accompaniment to his own agenda, and already there were signs that things would not last, despite having a big hit with their second single, "Judy Teen". What followed was the album The Psychomodo, an adventurous and ambitious production which showed that there was real talent in the group. A second single from the album, "Mr. Soft", was also a big hit. The band was voted the "Most Outstanding New Act" of 1974. By this time the problems within the band had already reached a head, and all the musicians, with the exception of Stuart Elliott, quit at the end of a highly successful UK tour.

In 1974, the third album, The Best Years of Our Lives was made, produced by Alan Parsons. This included the track "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" which would go on to be a UK Number one single and the band's biggest selling hit. Steve Harley followed up with an even more ambitious and artsy outing. Unfortunately, Timeless Flight neglects the strong pop hooks, much of Timeless Flight finds Harley getting bogged down in deliberately impenetrable wordplay and songs that, despite slick arrangements, are rather hookless. With the next album , Love's a Prima Donna, he regained some ground as it launched a Top Ten hit with the Beatles' cover "Here Comes the Sun." .But in the wake of 1977's Face to Face -- A Live Recording, Harley again disbanded Cockney Rebel and relocated to the U.S., recording the better part of Hobo With a Grin in Los Angeles before returning to Britain. 1979's The Candidate failed to restore his commercial lustre even when the Tamla Motown-inspired single "Freedom's Prisoner" was recieved well and bubbled just under the UK Top 40. Harley began touring again with his old Cockney Rebel songs in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Harley has released several solo albums since – Yes You Can in 1992, Poetic Justice in 1996.When his recording of "Mr. Soft" experienced a rebirth thanks to its use in a television commercial, Harley assembled a hits collection of the same name. Soon after he formed a new incarnation of Cockney Rebel and regularly toured into the following decade. 1999's Stripped to Bare Bones documents an acoustic set recorded the year previous. Yes You Can was re-issued in summer 2000.
Most recently, in 2005, The Quality of Mercy came out, the first since the 1970s to be released with the Cockney Rebel name.

Sad factoid, Cockney Rebel's original bass player, Paul Avron Jeffreys and his bride were among the victims on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, they were on their honeymoon.



01 - Make Me Smile - Come Up And See Me (4:01)
02 - Love - Compared With You (4:21)
03 - Judy Teen (3:41)
04 - Mr. Raffles - Man, It Was Mean (4:34)
05 - Mr. Soft (3:20)
06 - Sebastian (6:56)
07 - That's My Life In Your Hands (3:49)
08 - Here Comes The Sun (2:57)
09 - All Men Are Hungry (4:47)
10 - Roll The Dice (3:26)
11 - The Best Years Of Our Lives (5:45)
12 - Star For A Week - Dino (4:37)
13 - Rain In Venice (4:51)
14 - The Last Time I Saw You (5:38)
15 - Psychomodo (4:04)
16 - Irresistable - Remix (5:12)

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Hallo Venray - The More I Laugh, The Hornier Due Gets! (91 ^ 282mb)

Hallo Venray is founded in 1987 by Henk Koorn and Anno Houwing, soon after Dim Veldhuisen(drums) and Peter Konings (bass) joined, initially they sang in Dutch but that changed with the changing of the gitar guards, Toon Moerland stepped in, and in this line up they release the debut album You Don’t Hit a Guy With Glasses On in 1989. The following year the next album King is released. It is with the band’s third record The More I Laugh, The Hornier Due Gets that the band gets their due. Released in 1992 this album receives a lot of airplay on the Dutch national radio stations. The band tours extensively in their home country, with Pinkpop ( a 60,000 people festival) as crowning achievement.

A Million Planes to Fly (1993), the band’s fourth record builds on this success. The band plays a number of international shows. In 94 an acoustic radio session is released.In 1995 the band’s popularity has waned and the album Merry-Go-Round fails to live up to the success of the two previous albums. Two years later Hallo Venray releases a self-titled album. This album shows off a more modern sound with samples and electronic instruments. After this album the band becomes less active. In 1998 drummer Dim Veldhuizen leaves, he is replaced by Henk Jonkers.

1999 they release a livealbum with Neil Young covers, Roll Another Number'. The group’s members dedicate their time to side projects in the following years (Supertroopers and Dakota Love Beach each release an album and tour). But with 2001’s album I’m Not a Senseless Person, At Least I Don’t Want To Be Hallo Venray returns and sounds as vital as ever. Two years later they release a live album recorded in Rotterdam, Gallons & Gasoline. That year the band signs with Excelsior Recordings. Together with that label’s staff producer Frans Hagenaars, the band initiates recordings in November 2003. Two years later this results in the release of Vegetables and Fruit. The cd is presented in Paradiso, Amsterdam on January 23. This show lauds in an extensive club tour through the Netherlands. Currently they're recording a new album.



01 - The Summer Is Gone (2:36)
02 - Slow Change (4:03)
03 - Not So Long (4:41)
04 - Mr. Bigshot (2:42)
05 - Tuck, The Man (7:03)
06 - Eugene (4:21)
07 - Be Someone (4:52)
08 - The Heart And The Soul (5:08)
09 - The Road (4:37)
10 - Japanese Cars (1:36)
11 - Las Vegas (6:49)

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Hidden Cameras - The Smell Of Our Own ( 03 ^270mb)

Fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music". A mix of queer politics, explicit sexuality, symphonic indie pop, and theatrical spectacle that borders on the religious. The band's first album was released independently in 2001 on EvilEvil, Ecce Homo -- a collection of four-track demos introduced a stripped-down version of the Hidden Cameras' witty, acoustic-based songwriting, which drew comparisons to the Magnetic Fields and Belle & Sebastian.

Ecce Homo also caught the ear of Rough Trade, whose signing of Gibb made the Hidden Cameras the first Canadian artist on the label in its 25-year history. Meanwhile, the group's elaborate live performances, which include up to 30 go-go dancers, strippers, and musicians, as well as videos, projected lyrics, and heavy audience participation, won the group a widespread and devoted following in Canada.

2003's Rough Trade debut, The Smell of Our Own, reflected some of the group's more elaborate sound more so than Ecce Homo did and spread the Hidden Cameras' subversively catchy music further afield. Joel Gibb and company not only celebrate sex and its accompanying smells and stains, but inflate them to divine status on their second album. This album brings back indie music's libido, which is certainly worth something; it's also possible that if the Cameras' music sounded as radical as its lyrics are, it wouldn't be nearly as well-received.

In 2004, they released their third album, Mississauga Goddam (Toronto suburb of Gibb's youth), on Rough Trade and also on EvilEvil in Canada. Their EP, The arms of his 'ill' , was released by California label Absolutely Kosher Records in the same year, and features jacket art specially created by Paul P. and G.B. Jones. Awoo, their 2006 recording was released on Rough Trade in Europe, EvilEvil in Canada and, in the U.S., on the Arts & Crafts label. The Hidden Cameras are featured on the soundtrack of the John Cameron Mitchell film Shortbus, which premiered in 2006.



01 - Golden Streams (4:29)
02 - Ban Marriage (4:20)
03 - A Miracle (2:56)
04 - The Animals Of Prey (4:05)
05 - Smells Like Happiness (3:09)
06 - Day Is Dawning (5:08)
07 - Boys Of Melody (5:01)
08 - Shame (5:28)
09 - Breathe On It (2:53)
10 - The Man That I Am With My Man (4:38)

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Eight-X (34)

Hello, Eight-X time again and today we have 3 solo artists (in name). First off a lady that was noted by me because of her John Cougar cover , i need a lover and years later Love is a Battlefield before researching i had no idea she had been so successful in the States, which makes me an European as she hasn't been such an item over here. I bought the album recently as now and then i scour for eighties vinyl again these days ( how come i wonder). In The Heat Of The Night is a pretty potent rock album of its time...Captain Sensible Lifestyles brings back the fun and satire to the everincreasing weightyness of the surviving first generation punk/wave bands , his own The Damned being one of them. Serious but light hearted, btw in 2006 he's formed The Blah ! Party, aiming to "give all politicians a kick up the jacksie"... .. finally Billy Idol with a string of eighties hits, after his first band, Generation X, collapsed, he did very well until his relationship with Perry Lister ended shortly after the birth of their son....The eighties were over and when he released Cyberpunk, inspired by computers / networks when revalidating from a motorbicycle crash , he was dropped from the MTV rostrum that had championed him for a decade..a close call with death after an OD in 94 and Billy disappeared from the limelight In 2001 a greatest hits album was released that unexpectedly sold very well , it led to Idol's first new album in nearly twelve years, Devil's Playground.

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Pat Benatar - In The Heat Of The Night ( 79 ^ 249mb)

Born Patricia Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the singer was raised in the nearby town of Lindenhurst on Long Island, NY. After graduating in 1971 Pat Andrzejewski married her high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar that same year and took his name. Benatar began singing regularly in the New York City area by the '70s, where she was signed by Chrysalis Records. Backed by a stellar band led by guitarist Neil Geraldo that provided the perfect accompaniment that was able to effortlessly alternate between rockers and ballads. Benatar divorced in 1979 and married band leader/lead guitarist Neil Giraldo February 20, 1982.

Her single "Heartbreaker" was released in late 1979 and was an immediate hit, climbing to #23 in the U.S. Her debut LP, In the Heat of the Night, was even more successful, reaching #12 and establishing Benatar as a new force in rock. It solidified her place in a class of women who were taking the rock world by storm in the late '70s. In the Heat of the Night was an album that obviously had its share of filler, but the one-two punch of "Heartbreaker" and the John Cougar Mellencamp classic "I Need a Lover" leading off the album made enough of a statement to put her on the pop charts. The remainder of the album packs enough grit and solid songwriting (especially the Blondie-esque "So Sincere") that it remains an impressive debut and foreshadows a glimpse of great things to come.

1980's Crimes of Passion, more than delivered on the debut's promise and it's often considered to be the finest recording of her career. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" was her first single to break the U.S. Top 10 and eventually sold more than four million copies in the United States . The album reached U.S. #2 in January 1981 and a month later, Benatar won her first Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1980. Benatar's first (and as yet only) U.S. chart-topper was the LP Precious Time, released in August 1981. It was also her first to chart in the UK. The album's lead single, "Fire and Ice", was another big hit and would win Benatar her second Grammy Award, this time for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1981.Get Nervous was released in late 1982. The album was another smash, reaching US #4, and the single, Shadows of the Night, would garner Benatar yet another Grammy, again for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1982. By 1983, Benatar had established a reputation for singing about "tough" subject matters, best exemplified by one of the biggest hits of her career, "Love Is a Battlefield" , released in December 1983. By then her sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric pop, obviously she picked up her fourth consecutive Grammy for it.

After all that exposure 1984's Tropico didnt reach platinum and neither did, 1985's Seven the Hard Way, and 1988's Wide Awake in Dreamland. By the end of the decade, it appeared as though Benatar had fallen of the face of the Earth as the hits seemed to dry up. During the 1990s Pat Benatar released 3 original albums. "True Love" was a jump blues record, released in 1991 and featured the blues band Roomful of Blues, backing up Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and Myron Grombacher. The album reached gold status without any radio airplay . "Gravity's Rainbow" was released in 1993 and was a return to the AOR genre. "Everybody Lay Down" was released as a single to rock radio and went all the way to #3. Chrysalis was sold to EMI records and Pat Benatar had become pregnant , it was the last album recorded for Chrysalis records.

"Innamorata" was released in 1997 on the CMC International record label. A single video was produced for "Strawberry Wine(Life is Sweet)". In August 2003, Benatar returned to recording with Go (Vanguard), it revisited the arena rock/MOR sound that had defined Benatar's career, and was accompanied by an extensive tour. Although billed as a solo artist, Benatar recorded and toured with a consistent set of band members over most of her career, who contributed greatly to the writing and producing of songs



01 - Heartbreaker (3:24)
02 - I Need A Lover (3:25)
03 - If You Think You Know How To Love Me (4:16)
04 - In The Heat Of The Night (5:15)
05 - My Clone Sleeps Alone (3:22)

06 - We Live For Love (3:52)
07 - Rated X (3:13)
08 - Don't Let It Show (3:57
09 - No You Don't (3:15)
10 - So Sincere (3:23)
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11 - Love is a Battlefield (5:23) ( ' 83)

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Captain Sensible - Sensible Lifestyles ( flac 432mb)

Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, 24 April 1954) grew up in Croydon, England, his signature headwear is a red beret. Originally a member of the Johnny Moped band, Sensible joined The Damned in 1976 on the suggestion of his work colleague Rat Scabies, the band's drummer, filling a number of positions during his tenure (including bassist, lead guitarist and keyboardist), and eventually becoming the band's main songwriter following the departure of Brian James. He left in the 1980s to concentrate on solo projects, but rejoined in 1996 after Scabies left, and co-wrote Grave Disorder, the band's first new studio album for 12 years, in 2001. He continues to tour with the band today.

In the early 1980s, Captain Sensible was signed to A&M as a solo artist, and he had a number one British hit with the old musical number "Happy Talk." He followed it up with an original, "Glad It's All Over," an anti-war song about the Falklands; for a time, he was also hooked up with Robyn Hitchcock. By this time, his status as a member of the Damned made him a regular topic of coverage in the British music press, and he became well-known for various beliefs, including devoted vegetarianism and an opposition to war, which he presented in bitingly satirical fashion. Captain Sensible proved more charming than any other veteran of the punk scene. His vegetarian-oriented single "Wot" was a success, and over the next few years, he recorded a series of albums, Power of Love, Revolution Now, and The Universe of Geoffrey Brown, that were good sellers and critical favorites, though only in England . He and his band -- Paul Gray on bass, Malcolm Dixon on organ and synthesizer, and Garrie Dreadful on drums -- became famous for their live shows, which were spiced by the Captain's savage wit. In 1994, he released Live at the Milky Way, the best album of his solo career and one of the finest live albums of the era. .

Previously a member of the Green Party, in 2006 Sensible formed the Blah! Party, for which he continues to serve as leader. An avowed "protest party" aiming to "give all politicians a kick up the jacksie", it entered into a sponsorship deal with Seabrook Crisps in September 2006.



01 - Rough Justice (5:29)
02 - Revolution Now (4:21)
03 - Jet Boy Jet Girl (3:24)
04 - A Riot on Eastbourne River (4:51)
05 - The Kamikaze Millionaire (5:27)
06 - Smash It Up (3:01)
07 - Happy Talk (3:27)
08 - Can You Hear Me (4:03)
09 - A Sporting Life (3:29)
10 - Wot (5:49)
11 - Smash It Up Pt. 4 (3:04)
12 - I Get So Excited (3:54)
13 - Street of Shame (3:58)
14 - So Far Out (6:28)
15 - Glad It's All Over (3:37)

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Billy Idol - Greatest Hits ( flac 488mb)

William ( 11/30 55) was the first child born to Bill and Joan Broad, shortly after the family moved to Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York. The Broads returned to England after four years of living in the United States. He enrolled at Sussex University and took classes in English and Philosophy in September 1975. He soon immersed in the upcoming punkscene and became part of a Sex Pistols fan club called the Bromley Contingent. A year later and he quit school for a career in music. When thinking about a stage name he remembered a teachers sneer.."Billy is idle" into Billy Idol. In 1976, Idol and Tony James formed a band with John Towe and started playing shows. The band was named after the 1965 book Generation X. The band became a big deal throughout London and eventually record companies started showing up at shows. Generation X was an image-conscious band. They were more about the image than they were about the music. They signed to Chrysalis Records in 1977, even though Generation X took a lot of punk elements and added them into their sound and image, they were often seen as being too "commercial." Meanwhile they were the first punk band to appear on the BBC's "Top of the Pops" program. The band was on the rise, touring in countries like Japan.

By 1981, the band shortened their name to simply "Gen X" and released the single "Dancing With Myself" in the UK. It failed to become the big hit the band was waiting for. The new album was called Kiss Me Deadly. In 1980, the band embarked on a short but successful UK tour to promote the album. Generation X couldn't hold itself together and the members soon parted ways. Producer Keith Forsey and Bill Aucoin took hold of Billy Idol's career and quickly moved him to New York in hopes of capturing an American audience.The punk era had come and gone, and "New Wave" was taking over. Idol issued the 1981 EP Don't Stop (a cover of Tommy James' '60s hit "Mony Mony" and a pair of remixed Generation X tracks), which helped the singer score another record deal with his former band's label, Chrysalis. Idol was introduced to Steve Stevens by manager Bill Aucoin they hit it off, and Idol issued a self-titled debut in July of 1982. A pair of eye-catching videos for the tracks "White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" (the latter a remake of a Generation X composition) scored major air time on MTV.

In 1983, "Dancing With Myself" was released in the U.S. in an effort to introduce Idol to American audiences not yet as familiar with him. It was played in heavy rotation on MTV for six months. The "Dancing With Myself" video sparked a whole new era of feature film directors that would try their hand at directing music videos. Idol's second LP, Rebel Yell (1983) was a blockbuster success, and established his superstar status in the United States and in Canada with hits like "Eyes Without a Face", "Flesh For Fantasy", and the title cut; Idol also became very popular in Europe thanks to this album and its singles, particularly in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and later in his native UK.

But with massive success came its many distractions, which prevented Idol from issuing a new studio album until three years after Rebel Yell. 1987's Whiplash Smile was another sizeable hit on the strength of such hits as "To Be a Lover" and "Sweet Sixteen," but failed to live up to the lofty expectations set by his previous releases. Steve Stevens parted ways with Idol after Whiplash Smile. He claims that Idol's music was getting too synthesised and sequenced. Idol ran into trouble when he was busted by undercover police in New York City for carrying crack cocaine. Lister and Idol wanted to get "clean" ( heroin and cocaine), and start a new life, the two decided it would be best to move from New York to LA. When longtime girlfriend Perry Lister gave birth to their son, "Willem Wolfe Broad" Idol was still seeing other women ( the Hollywood nightlife), and even obtained a second house for his affairs. Lister eventually left Idol in favor of a normal life.

In 1989, following his breakup with Lister, Idol found his way to Thailand and let it all hang out...a quarter of a million dollars later he was thru dancing with himself again and went back to work on Charmed Life, a title undoubtely inspired by him surviving a serious motorcycle crash without lasting troubles. Against his doctors' orders, Idol decided to tour behind the Charmed Life album. Billy could be seen walking with a cane onstage. He got his personal jewellery maker, "Robin the Hammer" to customise a silver gauntlet for him. The gauntlet has "La Vie Enchantee" etched in the wrist. Robin also designed a large cross/knife necklace that can be seen in the "Cradle of Love" video.

In 1993, Idol released Cyberpunk, which fell on deaf ears. Music had changed in 1993, and a lot of the bands that were popular in the eighties were now being pushed to the wayside in favour of the new "Seattle" movement. Cyberpunk is considered to be ahead of its time by many people, and very experimental ( technobeats) for the US market. The inclusion of multimedia software as a special feature was unheard of when Idol first included the Billy Idol's Cyberpunk diskette.Nevertheless, the album tanked. Meanwhile, Idol was knee deep in drug addiction, resulting in another close brush with death when he overdosed and had to be treated in a Los Angeles hospital in 1994. After the incident, Idol realised that his children would never forgive him for dying of a drug overdose, and he began to focus more on fatherhood. Idol has never admitted that he is totally off drugs, just that he has his habit under control.

Idol returned to the popular eye in 1998, when he played himself in The Wedding Singer, an Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore 80s romantic comedy, where "White Wedding" was used as the title track. In 2001, Idol reunited with guitarist Steve Stevens to write and record a new album. Idol and Stevens started touring, which generated a lot of attention. A Greatest Hits CD was issued in 2001. The album also includes a live acoustic version of "Rebel Yell" which is taken from a performance at L.A. station KROQ's 1993 Acoustic Christmas concert. EMI expected the Greatest Hits album to sell around 100,000 copies. The album eventually sold over 1,000,000 copies and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 18, 2005.



01 - Dancing With Myself (4:50)
02 - Mony Mony (5:01)
03 - Hot In The City (3:33)
04 - White Wedding (Part 1) (4:12)
05 - Rebel Yell (4:46)
06 - Eyes Without A Face (4:57)
07 - Flesh For Fantasy (4:37)
08 - Catch My Fall (3:41)
09 - To Be A Lover (3:52)
10 - Don't Need A Gun (Single Edit) (5:23)
11 - Sweet Sixteen (4:14)
12 - Cradle Of Love (4:38)
13 - L.A. Woman (Single Edit) (4:03)
14 - Shock To The System (3:36)
15 - Rebel Yell (Live And Acoustic) (5:35)

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Around The World (34)

Hello, today at Around the World the last in the Millenium Classics series, Opera Treasures, in a way filmmusic avant la lettre. Specially Verdi worked from a story line..called libretto in operalingo. Certainly with known stories this extended the reach as not everyone was able to see the imagery at an opera performance , the music was much more accessable. Mostly italian opera here, obviously they couldnt leave Mozart out, but Wagner was apperently a bit too much for the EMI compilers of this series, maybe i get back to him later....I havent seen much comments on the classics, though DL numbers have been satisfying, so if you'd like more, post a message.... i spilt this DL as Massmirror still seems sketchy..

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10-10 1813 ) was born in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies and he took private lessons in counterpoint while attending operatic performances , as well as concerts of, specifically, German music. Returning to Busseto, he became town music master and, with the support of Antonio Barezzi, a local merchant and music lover who had long supported Verdi's musical ambitions in Milan, Verdi gave his first public performance at Barezzi’s home in 1830. Because he loved Verdi’s music, Barezzi invited Verdi to be his daughter Margherita's music teacher and the two soon fell deeply in love. They were married in 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, both of whom died in infancy, followed by Margherita herself in 1840.

The production of his first opera, Oberto, by Milan's La Scala, achieved a degree of success, after which Bartolomeo Merelli, an impresario with La Scala, offered Verdi a contract for two more works.It was while he worked on his second opera, Un giorno di regno, that Verdi's wife and children died. The opera was a flop and Verdi was close to throw in the towel. However, Merelli persuaded him to write Nabucco in 1842 and its opening performance made Verdi famous. A large number of operas followed in the decade after 1843, a period which Verdi was to describe as his "galley years". These included his I Lombardi in 1843 and Ernani in 1844.For some, the most original and important opera that Verdi wrote is Macbeth in 1847. For the first time, Verdi attempted an opera without a love story, breaking a basic convention in 19th Century Italian opera. In 1847, I Lombardi, revised and renamed Jerusalem, was produced by the Paris Opera. As the "galley years" were drawing to a close, Verdi created one of his greatest masterpieces, Rigoletto which premiered in Venice in 1851. Based on a play by Victor Hugo (Le roi s'amuse), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times. The opera quickly became a great success.

There followed the second and third of the three major operas of Verdi's "middle period": in 1853 Il Trovatore was produced in Rome and La traviata in Venice. The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils' play The Lady of the Camellias.Between 1855 and 1867 an outpouring of great Verdi operas were to follow, among them such repertory staples as Un ballo in maschera (1859), La forza del destino (commissioned by the Imperial Theatre of Saint Petersburg for 1861 . Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, Verdi initially turned the commission down until he heard it would be offered to Richard Wagner. As there was little love between them Verdi accepted the commission, it inspired Verdi to write his grand opera, Aida.

During the following years Verdi worked on revising some of his earlier scores. Otello, based on William Shakespeare's play, with a libretto written by the younger composer of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito, premiered in Milan in 1887. Its music is "continuous" and cannot easily be divided into separate "numbers" to be performed in concert. Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, whose libretto was also by Boito, was based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Victor Hugo's subsequent translation. It was an international success and is one of the supreme comic operas which shows Verdi's genius as a contrapuntist. While staying at a hotel in Milan, Verdi had a stroke, he died on January 27, 1901. Arturo Toscanini conducted the vast forces of combined orchestras and choirs comprised of musicians from throughout Italy, at the State Funeral for Verdi in Milan, following the composer's death in 1901. To date, it remains the largest public assembly of any event, in the history of Italy.

Verdi was one of the first composers who insisted on patiently seeking out plots to suit his particular talents. Working closely with his librettists and well aware that dramatic expression was his forte, he made certain that the initial work upon which the libretto was based was stripped of all "unnecessary" detail and "superfluous" participants, and only characters brimming with passion and scenes rich in drama remained. Many of his operas, especially the later ones from 1851 onwards are a staple of the standard repertoire. No composer of Italian opera has managed to match Verdi's popularity, perhaps with the exception of Giacomo Puccini.

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Puccini was born December 22, 1858 in Lucca,Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them. His father died when he was five years old, and he was sent to study with his uncle Fortunato Magi, who considered him to be a poor and undisciplined student. Later, Puccini took the position of church organist and choir master in Lucca, but it was not until he saw a performance of Verdi's Aida that he became inspired to be an opera composer.

In 1880, with the help of a relative and a grant, Puccini enrolled in the Milan Conservatory to study composition with Amilcare Ponchielli and Antonio Bazzini. In the same year, at the age of 21, he composed the Messa, which marks the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca. While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882. Although he did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 and it caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar, in 1889.

From 1891 onwards, Puccini spent most of his time at Torre del Lago, 15 miles from Lucca situated between the Tyrrhenian Sea and Lake Massaciuccoli. By 1900 he had acquired land and built a villa on the lake, now known as the "Villa Museo Puccini". He lived there until 1921.

Manon Lescaut (1893), his third opera, was his first great success. It launched his remarkable relationship with the librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, who collaborated with him on his next three operas, which became his three most famous and most performed operas. La Bohème (1896) is considered one of his best works as well as one of the most romantic operas ever composed. It is arguably today's most popular opera. Tosca (1900) was arguably Puccini's first foray into verismo, the realistic depiction of many facets of real life including violence. Madama Butterfly (1904) was initially greeted with great hostility (mostly organised by his rivals) but, after some reworking, became another of his most successful operas.

After 1904, compositions were less frequent. Following his passion for driving fast cars, Puccini was nearly killed in a major accident in 1903. However, Puccini completed La Fanciulla del West in 1910 and finished the score of La Rondine in 1917.In 1918, Il Trittico premiered in New York. This work is composed of three one-act operas, of the three, Gianni Schicchi has remained the most popular, containing the popular O Mio Babbino Caro.

Puccini began to complain of chronic sore throats towards the end of 1923. A diagnosis of throat cancer led his doctors to recommend a new and experimental radiation therapy treatment, which was being offered in Brussels. Puccini died there on November 29, 1924, from complications from the treatment. Turandot, his final opera, was left unfinished; and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

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Millenium Classics - Opera Treasures (99, 76min ^ 174mb)



Millenium Classics - Opera Treasures (^ 88mb)

01 - G.Verdi - Nabucco-Va pensiero (Act III)-Chrus of the Hebrew Slaves) (5:28)
02 - G.Bizet - Les pecheurs de perles-Au fond du temple saint (Act I) (5:25)
03 - Lakme - Viens, Mallika (Fllower duet) (Act I) (5:56)
04 - G.Bizet - Carmen-Vortre toast (Air du Toreador) (5:25)
05 - W.A.Mozart - Die Zauberflot-Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja (Akt I) (2:53)
06 - W.A.Mozart - Die Zauberflot-Der holle Rache (Akt I) (2:59)
07 - W.A.Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492-Voi che sapete (Atto II) (2:58)
08 - P.Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana-Regina coeli (7:07)

Millenium Classics - Opera Treasures 2 ( ^ 86mb)

09 - G.A.Rossini - II Barbiere di Siviglia-Largo al factotum (Atto I) (4:50)
10 - G.Puccini - Tosca - Vissi d'arte (Atoo II) (3:06)
11 - G.Puccini - Tosca-E lucevan le stelle (Atto III) (3:23)
12 - G.Verdi - Rigoletto-La donna e mobile (Atto III) (2:23)
13 - G.Verdi - La Traviata-Brindisi-Libiamo ne'liete calici (Atto I) (3:08)
14 - V.Bellini - Norma-Sediziose voci..Casta Diva (Atto I) (9:56)
15 - G.Puccini - Turandot-Nessun dorma (Atto III) (3:22)
16 - G.Verdi - Aida-Gloria all'Egittto (Atto II) (7:34)

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Foundation (VI)

Hello, it seems Massmirror redistribution has gone wrong lately, im working on it (re-upping) ..sigh. Well, at The Foundation they have bigger problems with "The Mule' ....

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In response to the internal corruption on the Foundation, roughly 30 outer planets belonging to the Foundation who have become wealthy on their own through extensive trade begin to plan a civil war. The Independent Traders are gearing up for a war to secede from the Foundation. In addition to this internal corruption, an external threat arises in the form of a mysterious man who is known only as the Mule. The Mule (whose real name is never revealed) is a mental freak, and possesses the ability to sense and manipulate the emotions of others. He uses this ability to take over the independent systems bordering the Foundation, and has them wage a war against it.

While his vassals prosecute the war, the Mule travels under the guise of a refugee clown named "Magnifico Giganticus," with Foundation citizens Toran and Bayta Darell to different worlds of the Foundation. He uses his abilities to undermine the Foundation's war effort by spreading despair and destroying morale. In the end, the Foundation falls without much of a fight at all. As the Mule was advancing, the Foundation leadership complacently assumed that Seldon predicted his attack, and that even though the Mule was inexorably winning, the scheduled hologram crisis message appearance of Hari Seldon would tell them how to win (just as Bel Riose had seemed impossible to defeat, yet was "defeated" by Seldon's predictions). However, when Seldon's crisis tape plays they are shocked to discover that the crisis Seldon predicted was a civil war between the Foundation and the Independent Traders, and makes no mention of the Mule whatsoever. Several representatives of the Independent Traders in attendance explain that they were going to start a civil war of secession, but stopped when the Mule started his invasion: Seldon didn't predict the Mule. When the Mule's ships soon afterwards appear over Terminus, the Foundation surrenders with little fight. The Trader worlds, however, fight a losing war of attrition.

Still under the guise of a refugee clown, the Mule travels with the Darells, along with psychologist Ebling Mis, to the Great Library of Trantor. The Darells and Mis seek to contact the Second Foundation, which they believe will be able to defeat the Mule. The Mule, on the other hand, wishes to know the location of the Second Foundation so that he can use the First Foundation's technology to destroy it....

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Foundation VI - Flight From The Mule (37mb)

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Sundaze (34)

Hello, up for some more Sundaze ? Just the two today but to pick a winner here would be hard, both excellent albums, electronics with emotion and contemplation. DNTEL was an unexpected stunner when it came out 6 years ago...secondly
Kettel 's open, involving, beautiful electronic music. As i said both great Sundaze albums.

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Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities (01 ^131mb)

Housed behind an entirely appropriate title, Life Is Full Of Possibilities is a gorgeous, mostly ambient journey into moody, poetic electronic sounds. Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello) produces music that merges the worlds of indie rock and electronica. Tamborello was formerly a guitarist in the emocore group Strictly Ballroom and also a member of techno-poppers Figurine. In addition, he has done time in the SoCal groups Further and the Tyde. Tamborello originally started working as Dntel in 1994. Tracks he produced between 1995-1997 were released on the Phthalo label in 1999 as Early Works for Me If It Works for You. This was followed by the 2000 release of an EP that had been recorded back in 1994 called Something Always Goes Wrong. The melancholy, often haunting, and electronica-heavy effort Life Is Full of Possibilities arrived in 2002 on Plug Research Records. It featured contributions from Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks, ex-Strictly Ballroom), Rachel Haden (that dog.), and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), among others.

The debut album of Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello) is a gorgeous, mostly ambient journey into moody, poetic electronic sounds. Though Life Is Full of Possibilities is centered on clicks & cuts, textured sound washes, and cut-and-paste electronic dynamics, Dntel's music contains such pristine melodies and is so effective in its stimulation of one's emotions that it makes for a refreshing, fascinating hour of music. Brittle, subtle, full of surprises, and disarming in its ability to set moods.

Jimmy Tamborello has been releasing under different monikers with others, he moved to Sub Pop -- also home of his other very successful project, the Postal Service -- for Dntel's 2007 album Dumb Luck, which featured Gibbard, Jenny Lewis, Conor Oberst, and many other indie stars.



01 - Umbrella (4:43)
02 - Anywhere Anyone (4:37)
03 - Pillowcase (3:30)
04 - Fear Of Corners (5:26)
05 - Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think (5:43)
06 - Life Is Full Of Possibilities (6:30)
07 - Why I'm So Unhappy (7:00)
08 - Fireworks (6:48)
09 - (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan (5:44)
10 - Last Songs (4:42)

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Kettel - Volleyed Iron (04 ^99mb)

Kettel is Reimer Eising (born 1982), a self-described "elixir-brewing, camping-loving and musicmaking sorcerer-to-be." He is well-known for his playful, spontaneous melodies and organic folk sounds similar to Aphex Twin and Plaid. His tools just a pc with soundcard, keyboard, MIDI-keyboard and controller, a turntable and a mic. What comes out is a combination of downtempo beats , hovering synthesizers and acoustic instruments turned into little melodies. Kettel's releases on the Planet Mu-label ( Mike Paradinas µ-Ziq, Kid Spatula , Aphex Twin) and the Kracfive label(US) has build him some international fame. He has also collaborated on several projects of various remixes and compilations. Kettel frequently performs in the Netherlands and abroad, the Japananese seem to have taken a particular liking to his work.

"Volleyed Iron" finds Reimer piecing together easily his finest release to date, a glowing warm ambient album .Piecing together shards of found sounds and field recordings, the organic textures that underlay these pieces, display incredible warmth and sheer beauty Open, involving, beautiful electronic music with slivers of violin, piano and broken and dusty old samples. He's released several albums Dreim, Cenny Crush, Smiling Little Cow (2002), Look at this (2003), Volleyed Iron (2004), Through Friendly Waters (2005) My Dogon (2006) , Whisper Me Wishes (2007) and Myam James Part 1(2008) in short, plenty to follow up on if you like his music.



01 - A French Composer (4:37)
02 - America Video (5:54)
03 - Did We Orient? (2:50)
04 - Electrician And Adventurer (1:34)
05 - Four Eyes At A Gate (2:33)
06 - Sorry, But We Don't Hear You (3:59)
07 - Teeth, Wait (3:57)
08 - Clock.exe (2:37)
09 - Ureterp, July (2:12)
10 - Hondsvot (1:40)
11 - Machine Planet (8:00)
12 - Wim Hoffman (8:44)
13 - Little Duck, When Is Our Day? (4:11)
14 - Tomorrow? (4:32)

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Rhotation (34) Into BPM

Hello, it's the 34th Rhotation this week Into BPM starts off the week with Richie Hawtin at the helm . His third soloalbum under the moniker Plastikman ; Consumed was an exploration of the idea of sonic space....Next a classic mixalbum, Decks, EFX & 909 and last Ibiza finshing the season with Sven Väth with The Sound Of The Third Season in the Cocoon that is..

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

His style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno, Richie Hawtin became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s, even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. Hawtin combined lean percussion and equally spare acid lines into haunting techno anthems that kicked with more than enough power for the dancefloor while diverting headphone listeners as well. While even his early recordings were quite minimalistic, he streamlined the sound increasingly over the course of his recording career; from the early '90s to the end of the decade, Hawtin's material moved from the verge of the techno mainstream into a yawning abyss of dubbed-out echo-chamber isolationism, often jettisoning any semblance of a bass line or steady beat. Hawtin released material on his own +8 Records under several aliases -- some in tandem with co-founder John Acquaviva -- and made the label one of the best styled in Detroit techno of the 1990s. He earned his pedigrees from worldwide fans of techno for his best-known releases, as Plastikman (for NovaMute) and F.U.S.E. (for Warp/TVT).




The Plastikman project debuted in 1993 with two releases for +8: the seminal "Spastik" single and an album, Sheet One. Hawtin's first wide release, however, came with the alter-ego F.U.S.E. (short for Further Underground Subsonic Experiments). A more varied and melodic project than Plastikman (but not by much), F.U.S.E. released the album Dimension Intrusion for the British Warp Records in late 1993. As part of the label's Artificial Intelligence series, Dimension Intrusion was also licensed to Wax Trax!/TVT for release in America. (Hawtin joined such ambient-techno heroes as the Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre and B12, all receiving their wide-issue debuts.) Later, NovaMute signed an agreement with +8 and another Hawtin-founded label, Probe; Sheet One was reissued in 1994, followed by the second Plastikman LP, Musik. Much more restrained than Sheet One, the album fit in well with the growing ambient-techno movement. All told, Hawtin was responsible for the release of three albums and a good-sized EP in the span of just one year.

That impressive schedule was shattered in 1995, when Hawtin was entangled in a silly U.S.labor law that denied him access with his tools.Refused entrance for more than a year, he lost his inspirational grounding with the Detroit scene and found it difficult to continue recording for his third Plastikman album, Klinik. While he waited for re-entry, Hawtin spent time setting up the sub-label Definitive, and continued to DJ around the world. Though he recorded scattered singles for +8 and related imprints, his only full-length release that year was a killer entry in the Mixmag Live! series, taken from a DJ set recorded at the Building in Windsor. By the time he was able to return to America, he had changed his musical direction and eventually abandoned the Klinik album.

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

He spent part of 2002 and 2003 living in New York City, and has since moved to Berlin, Germany.. Hawtin collaborated with choreographer Enzo Cosimi to create a composition called "9.20" for the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. In 2007, Slices DVD magazine launched a series of biographies called "Pioneers of Electronic Music", with the first issue being a roughly 60 minute documentary dedicated to the life of Richie Hawtin. The film follows his career from his early days crossing the border to Detroit to his current life in Berlin, interviewing many colleagues and family members.

Hawtin has recorded music under the aliases Plastikman, F.U.S.E, Concept 1, Circuit Breaker, The Hard Brothers, Hard Trax, Jack Master, and UP!. He also recorded and performed, in combination with other artists, under group names such as 0733, Cybersonik, Final Exposure, Spawn and States Of Mind.


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Plastikman - Consumed ( 98 flac 357mb)

The third in the series of Plastikman albums produced by Richie Hawtin, Consumed is a turn away from the high-bpm, drum-machine mania that characterized much of his its two predecessors, Sheet One (1993) and Musik (1994). The album is an exploration of Plastikman's ambient side and features none of the frantic Detroit techno experiments he was chiefly renowned for at the time. According to Hawtin, 'Consumed' was designed as an exploration of the idea of sonic space, inspired by the vast expanses of Michigan's and Ontario's plains. The album is dominated by extremely sparse basslines and percussion, combined with 'spatial' sound effects, such as reverb, stereo, and delay effects. Ambient techno driven largely by deep, rumbling basslines accentuated with shimmering synth washes and almost subliminal microsound ticks --ambient dark and mysterious in tone.



01 - Contain (8:29)
02 - Consume (11:18)
03 - Passage (In) (0:54)
04 - Cor Ten (6:50)
05 - Convulse (Sic) (1:22)
06 - Ekko (3:55)
07 - Converge (4:24)
08 - Locomotion (8:49)
09 - In Side (12:37)
10 - Consumed (11:43)
11 - Passage (Out) (3:10)

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Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX and 909 ( 99 flac  378mb)

Decks, EFX and 909 was the next step for Richie Hawtin after his Mixmag live album from 1995 and the increasing minimalism of his subsequent Plastikman material (Consumed ). Hawtin displays not only his talents as a mixer but also as a producer, using turntables, an effects processor, and a Roland pedal, plus a TR-909 drum machine for added beats. An extension of his live sets (though not entirely recorded live), the album employs a degree of improvisation rarely heard on mix albums. The result of Hawtin's obvious labor of love is a mix album that manages to be simultaneously intense and moody, pummeling yet restrained. The beats are clipped and precise,at times, Hawtin has four records spinning at once, and the layers of sound he adds to the show make this album a highly effective techno statement.



01 - Ratio - Early Blow (2:02)
02 - G Flame & Mr. G - Dumped (1:03)
03 - Richard Harvey - User (02) - B2 (1:11)
04 - Richard Harvey - User (04) - A2 (1:04)
05 - Richard Harvey - User (02) - A2 (1:24)
06 - Richard Harvey - User (01) - B2 (1:16)
07 - Richard Harvey - 001A - A2 (1:23)
08 - Grain - B2 (1:09)
09 - Santos Rodriguez - Road To Rio EP - B2 (0:36)
10 - Grain - B1 (1:37)
11 - Santos Rodriguez - Road To Rio EP - A2 (1:28)
12 - Grain - A1 (0:47)
13 - Richard Harvey - 002A - B1 (4:20)
14 - Jeff Mills - Call Of The Wild (1:49)
15 - Jeff Mills - L8 (0:39)
16 - Jeff Mills - Scout (0:27)
17 - Jeff Mills - L8 (0:13)
18 - Richie Hawtin - Orange/Minus 1 (2:11)
19 - Richie Hawtin - Orange/Minus 2 (1:16)
20 - Richie Hawtin - Minus/Orange 2 (0:55)
21 - Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn (2:11)
22 - Richie Hawtin - Minus/Orange 1 (0:59)
23 - Intermission - What The Hell Was That? (0:09)
24 - Rob Jarvis - Killabite (002) - A1 (2:11)
25 - Ben Sims - The Loops - A1 (2:56)
26 - Jeff Mills - Alarms (1:16)
27 - Surgeon - Force & Form (Surgeon Remake 2) (1:58)
28 - Pacou - Zen (2:07)
29 - Heiko Laux - Five (1:37)
30 - Baby Ford & Eon - Dead Eye (2:23)
31 - Savvas Ysatis - Club Soda (1:20)
32 - Stewart Walker - It's Process Not Substance (0:31)
33 - M - 5 (1:20)
34 - Vladislav Delay - Neo (2:37)
35 - Thor - Aliens Don't Boogie (2:51)
36 - Marco Carola - Question (003) - B2 (2:59)
37 - Quadrant - Kykeon (2:14)
38 - Rhythm & Sound - Never Tell You (Version) (2:41)


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Sven Väth and Richie Hawtin - The Sound Of The Third Season (02 flac 450mb)

Veteran DJs Sven Väth and Richie Hawtin commemorate their summer-long residency at Cocoon in Ibiza with The Sound of the Third Season, a relatively straightforward mix of techno with a creative twist. Since the mix is intended as a commemoration of the many Monday nights Väth and Hawtin spent together in Ibiza at Cocoon, as discussed and pictured in the liner notes, the two intersperse sampled dialogue throughout the mix as a means of better capturing the essence of the summer. Their mix is amazing, they throw down numerous great tracks and don't do anything too fancy -- just mix one kick-ass track unmercifully into the next. The heart-racing intensity doesn't subside until the last quarter of the mix, when you're at the after-party on the beach, where Väth and Hawtin open with Swayzak's soothing "Make up Your Mind (Slight Return)" and bring the mix to a lulling close.



01 - T-Bone Steak... (2:40)
02 - Reinhard Voigt - Supertiel (6:41)
03 - Tony Rohr - Baile Commigo (3:19)
04 - Dirty - Dirty (E-Dancer Remix, Re-Edit By Matthew Roberts) (6:10)
05 - Renato Cohen - Pontapé (4:16)
06 - DJ Shufflemaster - Play Back Pt.3 - Session 1 (5:09)
07 - Slam - Step Back (Smith & Selway Rmx) (1:40)
08 - No Artist - I'm Ready... (3:16)
09 - Technasia - Acid Storm (4:33)
10 - Sven Väth - Steel (Marco Carola Rmx) (4:44)
11 - Koenig Cylinders - 99.9 (John Selway Rmx) (2:26)
12 - No Artist - Amnesia Surprise... (1:36)
13 - A Number Of Names - Shari Vari (The Hacker & Vitalic Remix) (3:55)
14 - John Starlight - Blood Angels (5:47)
15 - Legowelt - Disco Rout (5:39)
16 - No Artist - Let's Continue Our Mission... (1:43)
17- Swayzak - Make Up Your Mind (Slight Return) (4:00)
18 - Wessling & Schrom - Donauwellen (3:25)
19 - Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say (0:16)
20 - Reinhard Voigt - Recht Erst Jetzt (3:24)
21 - No Artist - Closing Thoughts... - Sven & Rich's Post After-Hours Thoughts (0:18)

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Alphabet Soup II ( G)

Hello, Alphabet Soup II has reached Gee, and this time i won't pass on an album which has been dear to me for many decades. Playing it again was a mixed thrill, as im made aware that 33 years have passed since i heard it first. This is a cd rip as my vinyl needed replacing back then (20 years ago). ....secondly Martin Gore, Depeche Mode 's main songwriter and occasinal singer, he recorded 2 soloalbums with covers of music that was dear and inspirational to him, i've joined them here..lastly a band of Canadian anarchists into postrock, Godspeed You Black Emperor ! a rather expedient post as today a treaty was made to do away with what the band described as U.X.O. unexploded ordnance(cluster bombs), as for the treaty China, Russia, USA and Israel gave it the middlefinger, they like the idea of children picking up explosives the next day.

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Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ( 74, 94min. ^ 592mb)

The New Anon got picked up by Jonathan King who helped the band secure its first record deal and baptised them Genesis, the first album flopped and the band split to attend school/university but when Charisma a new label shoed interest they got together again, Trespass, the second album didnt do much better but it opened the door for Gabriels theatricals,again the band almost dissolved but this time they got some important replacements aboard, Phil Collins and Steve Hackett. Their next album, Nursery Cryme, the music was far more exciting than most of the progressive rock of the period, the heart of the record was "The Musical Box," a song telling a Victorian-era story of children, murder, and ghostly apparitions. Their live shows started to gain recognition, as Gabriel began to make ever more extensive use of masks, makeup, and props in concert, telling the framing stories in order to set up their increasingly complicated songs. Foxtrot, released in the fall of 1972, was a turning point in Genesis' history, and not just on commercial terms. The writing, especially on "Supper's Ready" was as sophisticated as anything in progressive rock, and the lyrics were complex, serious, and clever. The group's next release, Selling England by the Pound (1973), retained the pastoral yearning for ancient or medieval England as its primary thematic material, the album focuses on traces of this past in the present.It was also their biggest seller to date.

The release in late 1974 of the ambitious double LP The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway also marked the culmination of the group's early history. A concept album with a very involved story and a cast of characters, its composition had been difficult, involving a story outlined and written (along with most of the lyrics) exclusively by Gabriel. The singer had worked separately from the rest of the group for most of the composition, and a creative split developed between him and the others, which was exacerbated by personal problems that Gabriel was going through at the time, involving his marriage. The division grew worse during the tour that followed, when the other members began to feel that his performance -- and the costumes and costume changes that he required -- began to seriously detract from the music, and worse gave the public the idea that they were Peter Gabriels backing band.

Gabriel has always been unwilling to give a precise explanation of the lyrics. And though i held this album in high regard for many decades, it's superficial explanation of the story has always bothered me, simply not good enough to have captured mine and others interest for so long. So here goes

We can assume Rael (messenger of the Elohim) is a Christ (The Lamb) figure. "The lamb lies down on Broadway" would then mean "Jesus Christ dies in New York." At the end of the story, Rael sacrifices his life for his brother John, in spite of the numerous times John had forsaken him, and he loves him anyway, a very Christian attitude. By making this final correct spiritual decision to save his brother, he allows himself to leave this purgatory into the true afterlife.

Gabriels silence and his known references about dreams has convinced me that he-Peter was a lucid dreamer and possibly an astral traveller, his descriptions of the wall that engolves him, the lifeless(dummy's) in all shapes and sizes he encouters, aswell as the crawlers looking for a way out. The 32 doors is an almost classic dream image, not being able to find his way like the others he trusts a blind woman Lilith ( a demon, after being cursed by Jahweh for not obeying that tiran) leads him thru a tunnel of light to more mystic imagery with the Lamia (half snake/half women)(defacto alien/human halfbreeds) after a pleasant sexual encounter he finds his way to the place where he meets his 'brother John', and where sexual lust is deemed a curse and so they get convinced to do away with it and be castrated. Then a raven appears and flies off with his tubed (sperm), chasing it he leaves his brother behind, when the raven drops it in the river, and he tracks it, he finds himself back on broadway again. As he wonders if this is another dream he hears the cries for help from his 'brother John' who like his tube floats down the river..he slides of the rocky embankment to rescue, when he gets hold of him, he finds that John is him(the tube) and he saves himself from going under. Understanding that it was him letting himself down all along.

In every way, it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave the band after this record: they had gone as far as they could go together, and could never top this extraordinary album. It's supposed to be rereleased as a SACD / DVD double-disc set (with new 5.1 and stereo mixes) in September 2008, dont hold your breath its been announced several times before.



Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ( 74 ^ 288mb)

01 - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (4:55)
02 - Fly On A Windshield (2:47)
03 - Broadway Melody Of 1974 (1:58)
04 - Cuckoo Cocoon (2:14)
05 - In The Cage (8:15)
06 - The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging (2:45)
07 - Back In N.Y.C. (5:49)
08 - Hairless Heart (2:25)
09 - Counting Out Time (3:45)
10 - The Carpet Crawlers (5:16)
11 - The Chamber Of 32 Doors (5:40)

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ( 74 ^ 304mb)

12 - Lilywhite Lilith (2:40)
13 - The Waiting Room (5:28)
14 - Anyway (3:18)
15 - -Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist (2:50)
16 - The Lamia (6:57)
17 - Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats (3:06)
18 - The Colony Of Slippermen (8:14)
------ The Arrival
------ A Visit To The Doctor
------ The Raven
19 - Ravine (2:04)
20 - The Light Dies Down On Broadway (3:32)
21 - Riding The Scree (3:55)
22 - In The Rapids (2:28)
23 - It (4:15)

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Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit 1 and 2 (89/03, 71min.^ 386mb)

Martin Gore was born in Basildon, England, on July 23, 1961. Gore left St. Nicholas's Comprehensive School in 1977 and took a job as a .bank teller. As a teen he joined French Look, a duo featuring schoolmate Vince Clarke; with the subsequent additions of keyboardist Andrew Fletcher and singer David Gahan, the group re-christened itself Depeche Mode. They were producing a slick, techno-based sound to showcase Clarke's catchy melodies. Depeche Mode's 1981 debut LP Speak and Spell was a major British hit, but following the album's release , principal songwriter Clarke abruptly exited to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet, leaving the group's future in grave doubt. In Clarke's absence, Gore grabbed the songwriting reins. Gore sings lead vocals on several of the band's songs, notably ballads, his tenor voice providing a contrast to David Gahan's dramatic baritone.

The songs Gore wrote for Depeche Mode's second album, A Broken Frame (1982) were different in sound and lyrical content from Clarke's offerings on Speak & Spell. Gore's writing became gradually darker and more political , his ominous songs grew more assured and sophisticated by the time of 1983's Construction Time Again. Some Great Reward, issued the following year, was Depeche Mode's artistic and commercial breakthrough. The egalitarian single "People Are People" was a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and typified the music's turn toward more industrial textures. 1986's atmospheric Black Celebration continued the trend towards grim melancholy, and further established the group as a major commercial force.

Counterfeit 1 was recorded during a band hiatus after recording and touring for the album Music for the Masses;Counterfeit² was released April 2003 , the album features 11 covers of songs that Martin considered influential to his own compositions for Depeche Mode. He recorded this album around the same time as David Gahan recorded his first solo album Paper Monsters, after the Exciter tour was finished

On 27 August 1994, Gore married lingerie designer Suzanne Boisvert, and has two daughters and a son with her: Viva Lee Gore (born 6 June 1991) and Ava Lee Gore (born 21 August 1995) and Calo Leon Gore (born 27 July 2002). As of January 2006, Gore has divorced from Boisvert. The song "Precious" from 2005's Playing the Angel was a product of the divorce, written as a response to the trauma it caused his children.



01 - Compulsion (5:29)
02 - In A Manner Of Speaking (4:18)
03 - Smile In The Crowd (5:01)
04 - Gone (3:29)
05 - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (2:57)
06 - Motherless Child (2:46)



-------Counterfeit 2
07 - In My Time Of Dying (4:24)
08 - Stardust (3:03)
09 - I Cast A Lonesome Shadow (4:49)
10 - In My Other World (3:51)
11 - Loverman (7:01)
12 - By This River (3:58)
13 - Lost In The Stars (2:54)
14 - Oh My Love (3:35)
15 - Das Lied Vom Einsamen Mädchen (5:23)
16 - Tiny Girls (3:20)
17 - Candy Says (4:41)


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Godspeed You Black Emperor ! - Yanqui U.X.O ( 02 * 409mb)

The band took its name from God Speed You! Black Emperor, a little known 1976 Japanese black-and-white documentary by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, which follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors. The band is most commonly classified as post-rock, but they exhibit influences from a range of styles including progressive rock, punk, classical music and avant-garde.

GYBE! formed in 1994, the band's first album, F#A#(Infinity), was initially a limited-run release of 550 LPs on the Canadian label Constellation, but was picked up by Kranky and released onto CD as well. Early 1999 brought the EP Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (released by both labels) and increased recognition for a band intent on retaining anonymity. Nevertheless, interest in GYBE! only continued to grow among new music fans, the band's participation in the Peel Session, and the group's consistently impressive live shows.. These performances generally include at least nine or more musicians and a projectionist. The instrumentation consists of three guitars, two basses, French horn, violin, viola, cello, and percussion. 2000 brought about the release of Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, pushing their diverse orchestral rock sound even further into the universe. The group is known for their film loops, which they project behind them during performances. Efrim Menuck has explained that these loops, which are commonly produced by violinist Sophie Trudeau, are an important aspect of their concerts, because they put the whole into context.

The band members have in the past been reluctant to give interviews, and have expressed their distaste for the mainstream, corporation-owned music industry. This has given them a reputation as shadowy, even unfriendly figures, and not a great deal is known about them personally. They even got arrested as suspected terrorists, when a dimwitted gas station attendent gave in to the forcefed paranoia and called the cops when a bunch of Canadian anarchists (GYBE! ) stopped for some gas. In the end it took the FBI to clear them...

Yanqui U.X.O. ( The liner notes also refer to "Yanqui" as a "multinational corporate oligarchy", while "U.X.O." stands for unexploded ordnance.) was released in 2002. The sound over these three long cuts, like all of the band's recordings, develops slowly over time and creates layers of dynamic tension that expresses itself in waves and off-kilter, shimmering flows. Surprisingly here, a more minimal and 'quiet' approach is used. There is more melody, above all, there's aching, anguished beauty created by dissonance between the instruments. The first song is named after the date on which the current Palestinian intifada began: 09-15-00, apparently Ariel Sharon incited the al-Aqsa Intifada by visiting Jerusalem's Temple Mount. This is music for a different kind of engagement that of becoming aware of tyranny and disappearance. In a way that is what they did as from 2003 onwards the band has been on hold.



01 - 09-15-00 (Part One) (16:27)
02 - 09-15-00 (Part Two) (6:16)
03 - Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls (20:42)
04 - Motherfucker = Redeemer (Part One) (21:22)
05 - Motherfucker = Redeemer (Part Two) (10:10)

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