The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

(2006) 320
pass: instantpassion

MF

Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God

(2000) 320
pass: instantpassion
MF

Diamanda Galás - The Divine Punishment

Diamanda Galás - The Divine Punishment

(1986) 320
pass: instantpassion
MF

Material - Seven Souls

Material - Seven Souls

(1989) 320


MF

Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept

Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept

(1984) 320
pass: instantpassion
MF

Mark Stewart - Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart

(Maffia=Keith Leblanc, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald) 
Mark Stewart's pop album. Sort of.

    Survivalist        
    Anger Is Holy        
    Hell Is Empty        
    Stranger        
    Forbidden Colour
    Forbidden Dub        
    Fatal Attraction
 
(1987) 320
pass: instantpassion
MF

Keith Leblanc - Major Malfunction

Keith Leblanc - Major Malfunction

Harsh drum and bass pattern. Few vocals. A collectable.

(1986) 320
pass: instantpassion

MF

Tuesday

Tuesday 

Badawi - The Heretic of Ether

Badawi - The Heretic of Ether

(1999) 320

link

Feels good until today

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Actually state of my mind these days.
So what. I have no burden to please any audience anyway.


(1980) 320
link

Tuesday

Tuesday

Flanger - Spirituals

Flanger - Spirituals

Kinda sortof. Jazz actually. Sounds vintage. Sounds like prohibition might have smelled. Coming from nonplace, so it can't be too serious.
Noticed it loops already all day in the background here, just post the link now in order to get rid of.


(2005) 320

link

Gary Clail - End Of The Century Party

Gary Clail - End Of The Century Party

On-U Sound

(1989) 320
link

Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late - 7''

Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late - 7''

(1981) 320

link

The The - Soul Mining

The The - Soul Mining

 A classic.


(1983) 320


[MF]

The Normal

The Normal

Mute 001

1.    T.V.O.D.        
2.    Warm Leatherette

The only single by Miller's musical project The Normal. It was the very first release on his Mute Records label, and an early example of the then-burgeoning industrial music genre.
The lyrics of the song reference J.G. Ballard's controversial 1973 novel Crash.


It was recorded using 2 ReVox B-77 tape machines in Miller's apartment. With 'Mute 1' written on it, it sold 30 000 copies.
(wikipedia)


(1979) 320
[MF]

Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not A Love Song (1983)

Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not A Love Song

1. This Is Not A Love Song
2. Blue Water
3. This Is Not A Love Song (Re-Remixed Version)
4. Public Image

(1983) 320


[MF]


discogs

Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

Can't remember why I didn't like when it came out. Perhaps because the songs fade out after story been told. Yep, bad attitude. Actually all the well crafted and appealing music is just here to make her little poetry more shine. The cover says it all.



(1994) 320


[MF]

Blixa Bargeld - Commissioned Music

Blixa Bargeld - Commissioned Music

(1995) 320


[MU]

Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story

Soundtracks to imaginary films.

 
(1989) 320

link

Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough

Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough

(2001) 320


link

Télépopmusik - Genetic World

Télépopmusik - Genetic World

(2001) 320
link

Spyweirdos - Wetsound Orchestra

Spyweirdos - Wetsound Orchestra

(2006) 320
link

Bel Canto - White-Out Conditions

Bel Canto - White-Out Conditions

The debut album by Norwegian band Bel Canto, with Geir Jenssen (who left the band later to release music as Biosphere), White-Out Conditions is utterly beautiful and harks back at early Cocteau Twins stuff, albeit with an obvious electronic touch.

discogs


(1987) 320
link

Steven Mallinder - Temperature Drop EP

Steven Mallinder - Temperature Drop EP

 Steven Mallinder is a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire.


(1981)320
link

(2001) Einstürzende Neubauten - Berlin Babylon

Einstürzende Neubauten - Berlin Babylon

Soundtrack


(2001)320
link

Dub Syndicate - The Pounding System

Dub Syndicate - The Pounding System

On-U Sound

(1982) 320
link

African Head Charge - My Life In A Hole In The Ground

African Head Charge - My Life In A Hole In The Ground

On-U Sound

1981 (320)
link

Brian Eno - Long Now

Brian Eno - Long Now

Aa rare promotional CD once offered to wine sellers (!). It features five unreleased tracks, in the same mood as his 2003 album, "Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now": compositions that experiment possible melodies and atmospheres for bell towers. Relying on  digital bell sounds, processed through various reverbs and delays, these compositions create strange and hypnotic soundscapes with cycles of repetition ruled by mathematical laws.

Brian Eno says, "The experiments sometimes try to simulate existing bells, and imagine different sorts of bells, bells which may indeed be physically unmakeable."






(2003) 320
link

Cluster - Grosses Wasser

Cluster - Grosses Wasser

The diversity of styles on the various Cluster albums, with significant changes in musical direction from one release to the next, makes it difficult to categorize Cluster's music. The factors which are present on all 13 albums include the use of electronic instrumentation, loops, and the use of unexpected sounds to create a sense of experimentation.

Grosses Wasser is the seventh album by the electronic music outfit Cluster. It was co-produced by former Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann. Grosses Wasser marked the return to Cluster working as a duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius after two albums collaborating with Brian Eno.






(1979)320
link

Mercan Dede

Mercan Dede - 800

Arkin Allen, a Turkish-born musician based in Montreal started out as a dj in 1993.
Later he founded the Mercan Dede Ensemble, the culmination of his musical experience in both Turkey and Canada.
The album is dedicated to Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, the great Persian Sufi saint who lived some 800 years ago.

Read more

(2007)320
Sufi 800

more:
Arkin Allen - Fusion Monster (2004) vbr

This Kind of Punishment

Interesting 80's New Zealand band. Sound, voice and atmosphere sometimes reminds on Camberwell Now, except here aren't any drums really. Mostly keyboards, piano, and guitar recorded on a borrowed 4-track recorder, first released in an edition of 1000 in 1983. A much sought after collector's item until its CD re-release.
Read more here..


(1983) 320
punishment

The Nits - Omsk

The Nits - Omsk

Founded in 1974, Dutch band the Nits released 24 Albums to date. Their musical style varied considerably over the years. Omsk is strangely regarded as their 'New Wave' album which is, with the exception of 'Unpleasant Surprise', the wrong tag. It's simply a pop album.
This re-release contains 3 additional tracks.

Read more

(1983)320

[MF]

Tim Story & HJ Roedelius - Lunz

Hans Joachim Roedelius was a founding member of the German electronic band Cluster in the early 1970s. He's also produced some (70+) solo albums ranging from refined chamber music to unmitigated experiments. Tim Story is a disciple of Roedelius who has forged his own ambient chamber sound for two decades.
It's a sensual, liquid sound that merges classical influences along with electronic ambiences and a gift for melody that would leave Erik Satie crying. The mix of acoustic piano, cello, and an original electronic palette adds both atmosphere and edge, giving Lunz an emotional resonance that runs deep.

(2002) 320
lunz

Yugoslavian monuments

Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)

Released in the same year as Eno's more rock-based solo album Here Come the Warm Jets it received negative reaction from their record label, Island Records, who were actively opposed to it.
Eno was attempting to launch a solo career, having just left Roxy Music, and his management bemoaned the confusion caused by the release of two albums with such different styles.
Fripp's bandmates in King Crimson also disliked the album. Mainstream rock press also didn't pay much attention to the album compared to Fripp's work with King Crimson, or Eno's solo albums.
In the UK, the album was released at a large discount compared to normal album prices and was regarded as something of a musical aside.


(1973) 320
discount

Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

Hints of jazz, electronica, trip-hop and down-tempo, various samples and the occasional female voice.
Emancipator himself states, “ …instrumentation on the album was either played and recorded by myself, or was programmed from scratch using individual ‘oneshots,’ which are basically just recordings of single notes being played. Many of the melodies or bass lines were constructed in this way – by pitch shifting and moving around individual sounds like sound legos.”



(2006)320

[MU]

Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside

Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside the Gentleman

(2006) 320
inside

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

(2005)320
link

discogs

Tackhead Tape Time

Tackhead Tape Time

Gary Clail & On-U Sound System


(1987) 320
tack

discogs

Swans - Cop

Swans - Cop

It somehow seems fitting that everyone in the current line-up looks like
a) a minor character in an original Cohen brothers movie or;
b) a minor character in a Cohen brothers adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.

(1984) 320

link

Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox

Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox

"Recorded in 1976 at the York University Electronic Media Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Vernal Equinox is Jon Hassell's first recording as a solo artist and sets the stage for his then-emerging career as a trumpeter, composer and musical visionary."


(1977) 320
link

Bajka - Escape From Wonderland

Bajka - Escape From Wonderland

Sweet. See also Bonobo – Days To Come.

(2010)320
discogs

link

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

The piece is based around a cycle of eleven chords. A small piece of music is based around each chord, and the piece returns to the original cycle at the end. The sections are aptly named "Pulses", and Section I-XI. This was Reich's first attempt at writing for larger ensembles, and the extension of performers resulted in a deeply mesmerizing soundscape. Another important factor in the piece is the use of human breath, used in the clarinets and voices, which help structure and bring a pulse to the piece. The player plays the pulsing note for as long as he can hold it, while each chord is melodically deconstructed by the ensemble, along with augmentation of the notes held.
The World Premiere was presented April 1976 at Town Hall, NYC, the European Premiere, October 1976 at the Metamusik Festival, Berlin.

(ECM 1129,1978) 320

[MF]

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (2004)

A meld of electronic and classical music, complemented through a heavy use of “found sounds”, Richter refers to his style as “post-Classical”.

Throughout the album, a woman (Tilda Swinton) reads various passages from Kafka's "The Blue Octavo Notebooks."

(2004) 320
note

Michael Brook - Hybrid

Michael Brook - Hybrid

Michael Brook with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.


(1985) 320
link

Big Black - Atomizer

Big Black - Atomizer

Bloody hell...this is THE brutal, butt-kicking record of 1986
Loud, offensive plus assaultive Roland beats.

(1986) 320
Link

Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones - Paolo Navarra

Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones - Parole De Navarre

Slow cinematic dark-jazz (Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Bohren) merged with subsonic tense moments.


(2006) 320
link

Julee Cruise - Into The Night

Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night

When Twin Peaks took off, the album became more or less its unofficial soundtrack thanks to the instrumental adaptation of "Falling" that served as the theme song.


(1989) 320
cruise