The Sound - In The Hothouse (1985)(1997 Reissue)

The reissue of The Sound's live album, originally issued in 1985; digitally remastered by Wally Brill in 1996. The Sound were tragically overlooked in their time and have remained unjustly neglected since. We can but hope that the re-issuing of most of their albums, plus the posthumous release of late frontman Adrian Borland's last solo work, will bring them into the light. In The Hothouse is an amazing live recording from The Marquee in August 1985. 15 stonking tracks show how versatile, intense and committed this band were. How does a quartet make such complex and layered music onstage? Layered rhythms, effects and counter-melodies from the keyboards, guitar solos and duets, fine vocals. "Winning" is harsh and insistent, "Skeletons" dark and jobsonic, "Prove Me Wrong" exuberantly cheerful and snappy, "Heartland" ragged and stirring, "Hothouse" almost bluesy and "Judgement" sketchy and a little lost. The best part of the album, by far, is the quartet of songs it ends with, "Red Paint", "Silent Air", "Sense of Purpose" and "Missiles". The band seem to relax on these, perhaps finally having dispelled the paranoid expectation that the crowd would all leave if they let any song go past three minutes. Borland's tenuous vocal control is pushed to its tolerance when the arrangements expose his singing, but that's a detail that gives these live versions a much-needed identity of their own. "Red Paint" is excitingly Comsat-Angels-ish, "Silent Air" is majestic, the bass runs on "Sense of Purpose" are electrifying, and "Missiles" is unapologetically epic.  
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"In The Hothouse" is a double live thriller from London's Marquee, with all the claustrophobic ambience of the club's packed space coming through on the recording. Live records this immediate sounding are hard to find. With the bulk of the material chosen from "Heads & Hearts" and "From The Lions Mouth", this is a superb introduction for the curious. "Thunder Up" is a middle ground between "All Fall Down's" emotional warfare and the later, more sensuous pop. Punching right in with one of their most exciting tracks, "Acceleration Group", the album is a rollercoaster ride through desolation ("Shot Up and Shut Down"), titillation ("Kinetic"), cynicism ("Prove Me Wrong") and profound beauty ("You've Got a Way"). Though the contrast can be jarring, unpredictability is a strength, and this is a bold up/down, hot/cold, built-up/knocked-down record most bands would not attempt. It was to be their last such uncompromising work; the group finally called it quits in early '88.   
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1. Winning
2. Under You
3. Total Recall
4. Skeletons
5. Prove Me Wrong
6. Wildest Dreams
7. Burning Part Of Me
8. Heartland
9. Hothouse
10. Judgement
11. Counting The Days
12. Red Paint
13. Silent Air
14. Sense Of Purpose
15. Missiles
16. Monument (bonus track)
17. Fire (bonus track)

Personnel:
Adrian Borland: Guitar, Vocals
Colvin "Max" Mayers: Keyboards, Guitar
Graham Bailey: Bass Guitars
Michael Dudley: Drums, Percussion

VA - The Sunset Shadows Sessions (The Black Velvet Voices)

I jeszcze jeden składak tym razem z zakamarków tej mroczniejszej
części mojej szuflady - spokojne i nastrojowe kompozycje,
zapraszam na gothic session:

1 My Dying Bride - For my fallen angel
2 Deine Lakaien - A forest
3 Dreadful Shadows - Estrangement
4 Peter Murphy - A strange kind of love
5 Love Like Blood - Dear Catherine
6 Tiamat - A deeper kind of slumber
7 Sopor Aeternus - May i kiss your wound
8 Co2 - Black
9 Asylum - Desolation
10 Deine Lakaien - The game
11 Engelstaub - We die a martyr to god
12 Gossamer - Memoir
13 Him - Gone with the sin
14 Unheilig - Close your eyes
15 Moonspell - How we become fire
16 Mist of Avalon - A beatiful nightmare
17 Deine Lakaien - Return

Iam Siam - She Went Pop (1984)

Była prośba o tę płytę od Margitki z Last.fm, poszukałem i udało się, tak więc zapraszam do zapoznania się z albumem.

W przypadku IAM SIAM trudno mówić o zespole, gdyż był to bardziej projekt studyjny powołany do życia przez muzyka Briana Rothschilda. Oprócz niego Iam Siam tworzyli: Stefan Vienna (Steven Wiener), David Sonenberg, Larry Fast. Wydali jeden LP i kilka singli.

Wokalnie udzielali się głównie zaproszeni goście, np. Rena Devere, którą możemy zobaczyć w video do singla 'She Went Pop', ciekawie wyreżyserowanym przez Zbigniewa Rybczyńskiego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJouJJLbY3Q
- ironiczne spojrzenie na karierę artystów oraz kulturę pop lat 80tych, oglądamy gwiazdę, która jest prześladowana przez paparazzi czy też agentów w czarnych garniturach, nie kończy się to dobrze dla niej;
a tutaj drugi teledysk do singla 'Talk To Me':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17sHHKQ7mCE
- piosenka, która muzycznie kojarzy się z Blancmange.

Iam Siam was not so much a band as a studio project. Mainly the brainchild of Stefan Vienna (Steven Weiner) who wrote most of the lyrics, Iam Siam also included songwriter Brian Rothschild, producer David Sonenberg and Larry Fast (of Synergy fame). Most of the songs on this overlooked 1985 album, She Went Pop, featured various female vocalists. Iam Siam was best known for their minor hits "Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now)" and "She Went Pop" both which featured cutting edge videos shown on MTV back in the day.

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1 Prologue
2 In the Common Tongue
3 She Went Pop
4 Te Amore
5 I Am Siam
6 Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now)
7 Stimulation
8 Running in Place
9 Step Into the Light
10 Reprise
11 Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now) (single version)
12 Escape to Lamoria
13 She Went Pop (single version)
14 Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now) (LP Version remix)
15 Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now) (Ext. Dance mix)
16 Talk to Me (I Can Hear You Now) (Dub)

Moskwa TV - Dynamics+Discipline (1985)(CD1992) & Generator 7/8 (12'' 1985)

The group comprised of Alexander Henninger, Andreas Tomalla, Ion Javelin.

Andreas Tomalla (Aliases: T2, T2F, Talla 2XLC) With roots covering most electronic genres from Industrial Rock to to electronic pop to trance, Tomalla has been there and done it all over the past 20 years. He has been at the forefront of the Germany Technoclub revolution, from being the founding father of the now legendary Dorian Gray with the likes of Sven Vath and Paul van Dyk blessing the dancefloors to superstar Trance remixer.

Starting off from his first project "Moskwa TV" aka "Moscow TV", many have said that this was where the likes of Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode first got their influences from, from this side of the Atlantic to the other.

In Groups: 20, 2XLC, Aegan, Axodry, Bigod 20, Digital Tension, Exchange, Hoshis, The, J.D.T., Jalla CX.L2, MCL (Micro Chip League), Moskwa TV, Pluuto, Richard Cube, Robotiko Rejekto, TGAF, Trance Allstars, Two Of China, Umo Detic

http://www.talla.de
http://www.myspace.com/talla2xlc
http://www.ionjavelin.de/

Album originally released in 1985
Re-released on CD with a new mix of Generator 7/8 in 1992


Dynamics + Discipline (1985)(CD1992)
1 Generator 7/8
2 Absolute Fashion
3 My Second Voice
4 Futuristic Dance
5 Tekno Talk
6 Radio And TV
7 Operator Z
8 Tokio Jam
9 Generator 7/8 (Remix 92)


Generator 7/8 (12'' 1985)
A Generator 7/8 (Energetic Mix)
B Generator 7/8 (Godzilla Mix)

Cetu Javu - The Singles Collection 2CD (2001)

Była prośba o ten bootleg z remixami Cetu Javu zebranymi z różnych singli, wydanie dwupłytowe, niestety nie posiadam dokładniejszych informacji na temat tej składanki.

Nowe linki do plików, poprzedni upload został skasowany na RS, więc tym razem wrzucam na kilka wieszaków.

Cetu Javu was a new wave band from Germany that sang in Spanish. As far as Depeche Mode clones go, that was a fairly original twist on the synth pop formula. Cetu Javu formed in Hanover, Germany, in 1984. The group consisted of Javier Revilla (vocals), Torsten Engelke (keyboards, programming), Stefen Engelke (bass), and Chris Demere (synthesizers, guitar, programming). In 1985, Cetu Javu won third place at a band contest in Germany. The group opened for Erasure a year later and released their first single, "Help Me Now!," in 1987. Like their compatriots Camouflage, Cetu Javu were unapologetically Depeche Mode-like in their sound; their extremely catchy 1988 singles "Situations" and "Have in Mind" flashed back to Vince Clarke's Depeche Mode days in the early '80s with their bouncy keyboards. Both tracks were instant hits in dance clubs and even received airplay on U.S. alternative rock stations waiting for the next Depeche Mode record. Stefan Engelke departed the band in 1988, and he was replaced by Todde Kraass. The group signed a contract with ZYX Records, and their debut LP, Southern Lands, appeared in 1990. After "A Donde," a B-side sung in Spanish, hit number two in Spain (ironically, it competed with Depeche Mode's "Policy of Truth"), the band toured the country. Cetu Javu's second full-length, Where Is Where, was released in 1992. In 1994, the group withdrew from the music scene so the members could have time to raise their children.
~ Michael Sutton, All Music Guide




CD1:
01 - Help Me Now (Radio Edit)
02 - Por Favor (Edit)
03 - Help Me Now (Extended)
04 - Por Favor (Extended)
05 - Help Me Now (Minimal)
06 - Situations (Extended)
07 - Quien Lo Sabi
08 - Situations (Radio Edit)
09 - Have In Mind (Kalimba Mix)
10 - China Girl (GTO-Mix)
11 - Quiero Vertel
12 - Have In Mind (Radio Edit)
13 - China Girl (Dino Mix)
14 - So Strange (Extended Version)

CD2:
01 - Por Que (Radio Version)
02 - Don't Leave Me (Short Version)
03 - Por Que (Exrended)
04 - Heads Or Tails
05 - Don't Leave Me (Long Version)
06 - Dame Tu Mano (Long Version)
07 - Dame Tu Mano (Instrumental)
08 - Time
09 - Una Mujer (Radio Version)
10 - Una Mujer (Vocal Remix)
11 - Una Mujer (Soft Vocal)
12 - Una Mujer (Hard Vocal)
13 - Situations (Razormaid Mix)

Moskwa TV - Blue Planet (1987)

Andreas Tomalla, znany jako Talla 2XLC, przez wielu ludzi uważany jest za jednego z pionierów sceny techno na świecie. Swoją karierę zaczął w latach osiemdziesiątych. Jego pierwszym zespołem był projekt pod nazwą Moskwa TV, w którym można było usłyszeć bardzo charakterystyczne dźwięki lat osiemdziesiątych inspirowane twórczością Kraftwerk czy też Depeche Mode.
Utwory “Techno Talk”, “Generator 7/8” zyskały bardzo dużą popularność nie tylko w Europie. Szturmem podbiły czołowe miejsca w renomowanej amerykańskiej liście przebojów: American Billboard Charts. Nawet w Chicago – kolebce technohouse’u, utwory formacji Moskwa TV grane były w największych klubach. To był niewątpliwy sukces Andreasa i początek jego prawdziwej muzycznej kariery.
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1 Moskwa Electronic
2 Remember Russia
3 Interface E
4 Submarine
5 The Art Of Fashion
6 Interface F
7 Lenin
8 Tokyo Jam
9 The Shelter Of Love
10 Interface G
11 Utopia
12 Brave New World

VA - Dark Dance Sessions vol.5

Ostatnia część Dark Dance Sessions, ale tym razem nie byłem w stanie skojarzyć wszystkich utworów, więc mam zagadkę dla odwiedzających bloga:
proszę o uzupełnienie tracklisty dzisiejszej składanki, może dla kogoś nie będzie to problemem

powodzenia ;)



Here is the last part in a series Dark Dance Sessions but unfortunately I was not able to decipher all the songs so I have to ask for your help: to whoever visits my blog, please feel free to complete the missing bands and songs in today's compilation

good luck ;)


1. Yazoo - Don't Go
2. Diorama - Her Liquid Arms 
3. Apoptygma Berzerk - Mourn
4. Junior Jack feat. Robert Smith - Da Hype
5. ???
6. XPQ 21 - White And Alive
7. Evil's Toy - Angels Only
9. Deine Lakaien - Where You Are
10. Covenant - Dead Stars
11. Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis
12. ???
13. Diorama - Advance
14. Lene Lovich - It's Only You
15. OMD - Enola Gay
16. ???
17. Death Cult - God's ZOO
18. Sally Timms & Marc Almond - This House Is A House Of Trouble
19. Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
20. ???
21. New Model Army - Poison Street
22. ???