Wednesday 30 December 2020

Nosferatu - Lord of the Flies (Special Edition) (2020)


Nosferatu
Lord of the Flies (Special Edition) expanded reissue
(2020)


01. Torturous [4:35]
02. Ascension [5:18]
03. The Tempest [2:56]
04. Witching Hour [6:25]
05. The Gauntlet [4:28]
06. Six Feet Below [4:09]
07. Darkness Brings [7:12]
08. Lord Of The Flies [5:38]
09. The Night Is Young (manic mix) [5:09]
10. Lucifer Rising (part 2) [6:23]
11. The Gauntlet (Demon Seed) [4:28]
12. Darkness Brings (Visionary Vampyres mix) [6:18]
13. The Night Is Young [5:21]


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Sunday 27 December 2020

Vice Squad - Vice-O-Lation Vol. 3 EP (2020)


Vice Squad
Vice-O-Lation Vol. 3 EP
(2020)


1. If I Knew What I Know Now (lockdown version) [3:11]
2. Ignored To Death (lockdown version) [2:36]
3. When You Were Seventeen (lockdown version) [3:48]
4. Defiant (lockdown version) [2:40]


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Bulimia Banquet - Complete Bulimia Banquet (2020)


Bulimia Banquet
Complete Bulimia Banquet:
- Curse Me 7'' (1991)
(2020)


01. Naked Movie Star [2:20]
02. Satan's Doorstep [2:14]
03. Scientology Sucks [1:46]
04. Rise Up My Love [3:43]
05. Dine Or Die [1:14]
06. Tragedy Of Absolutism [2:00]
07. God Zen War [2:04]
08. Shake Your Willie [1:56]
09. Yuppies From Hell [1:35]
10. Chuck [2:02]
11. 7x The World [2:49]
12. Calloused [1:49]
13. Survival [1:30]
14. Digger The Dog [2:28]
15. Loadhead Destructor [1:42]
16. Bobo [2:12]
17. Chew A Cyst/To Exist [1:56]
18. I Make You [1:50]
19. Seek Al [2:10]
20. Plan Of Deception [1:28]
21. No More [3:48]
22. Spanky [0:49]
23. Hippyfoot [2:13]
24. Allansan [1:44]
25. Survival [1:22]
26. Lemon Lime Hermaphrodite [2:52]
27. Rectum Hunt [1:27]
28. Scatcore [2:48]
29. Curse Me [3:25]
30. Replete [3:48]


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Monday 21 December 2020

Tuesday 15 December 2020

Front Line Assembly - Unknown (2020)


Front Line Assembly
Unknown CD single
(2020)

New track from the upcoming Front Line Assembly album "Mechanical Soul", slated for release on JAN 15, 2021.


1. Unknown (5:06)



Monday 14 December 2020

Ah Cama-Sotz - New Skin for Old Tribals (2020)


Ah Cama-Sotz
New Skin for Old Tribals
(2020)

This is the right time for a new Ah Cama-Sotz release called "New Skin For Old Tribals". The typical Ah Cama-Sotz tribal-ritual, ethnic and dark techno-industrial distorted elements are never far away. These rhythmical tracks are without any doubt ready for the dark dance underground club culture. Four-to-the-floor complex bat beats as we know from Ah Cama-Sotz, mixed with lots of heavy technoid-industrial moods and sounds. The following keywords apply: Vibrant. Energetic. Bouncy. Intense. Brutal. Passionate.


01. Inner Circle (Tears of Blood) [7:40]
02. PainKiller (Judgement 'n' Destroy) [5:51]
03. SlowBurn (New Skin for Old Tribals) [8:19]
04. Mass Mayhem [5:50]
05. Inner Circle (Final Sunset version) [8:00]
06. Breathe (2020-Didge remix) [4:57]
07. NoSelfControl [5:53]
08. SlowBurn (Sacrifice 'n' Tribal mix) [8:15]
09. Wonderland (a Dangerous Enemy) [6:11]
10. Mass Mayhem (The End of the Human Race mix) [5:49]
11. Fear of Failure (Confinement Period) [6:11]
12. On the Brink of Collapse [5:08]
13. In a Cold Room, Where Time Stands Still [5:47]


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Sunday 13 December 2020

Damned On 45


Captain Sensible
Glad It's All Over promo 7''/12'' version
(1984)


A1 Glad It's All Over [4:06]
A2 Happy Talk (12'' version only) [3:24]
B1 Damned on 45 (medley): Love Song / Dozen Girls / The Dog / New Rose / Can't Be Happy / Burglar / Plan 9 Channel 7 / Lively Arts / Disco Man / Smash It Up / Brenda / Stranger On The Town / Happy Talk / Blackout / Lovely Money [7:09]


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Saturday 12 December 2020

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Children Of The Damned (2008)


VARIOUS ARTISTS
Children Of The Damned
(2008)

This compilation originates from (first) split of The Damned in March 1978, after the release of their second album "Music For Pleasure" (November 77). Tired of total chaos, ego war, failure of "Music for Pleasure" wrongly descended from critics, Brian James founds Tanz Der Youth with ex-Warsaw Pakt Andy Colquhoun; Rat Scabies holds the drumsticks in White Cats; Captain Sensible formed the super group King with Dave Berk (Johnny Moped), Kym Bradshaw (Saints) & Henry Badowski (Chelsea), Dave Vanian joined Doctors Of Madness.
The Damned were reformed in September 78 without Brian James, who was replaced by Algy Ward . "Children Of The Damned" illustrates the wandering of 1978 through the Peel Sessions, good times like the very psyche punk "Antipope" included on "Machine Gun Etiquette" in 1979. "Detectives" was reworked into an instrumental called "Wiped Out" and released on Rat Scabies solo single "Let There Be Rats" (1984). "Junkyard Angel" was reworked into the Damned track "Sick Of This And That" on The Damned "The Black Album" (1980).


01. White Cats - Detectives [1:53]
02. White Cats - Shotgun Lovers [4:07]
03. White Cats - Here I Go Again [3:00]
04. White Cats - Junkyard Angel [1:57]
05. Tanz Der Youth - Delay [3:27]
06. Tanz Der Youth - Mistaken [3:45]
07. Tanz Der Youth - Why I Die [3:32]
08. Tanz Der Youth - I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry [2:46]
09. King - My Baby Don't Care [3:24]
10. King - Baby Sign Here With Me [4:10]
11. King - Jet Boy Jet Girl [3:56]
12. King - Antipope [4:47]
13. Doctors Of Madness - Don't Panic England [5:09]


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The Clash & 40 Sandinistas


The Clash "Sandinista!" album goes 40 today.


I always saw it as a record for people on oil rigs or Arctic stations.
- Joe Strummer on "Sandinista!"

By 1980, The Clash had fallen in love with New York, where they were recording "Sandinista!" following up "London Calling", released in the states the previous December. NYC, 1980: Punk was unleashing torrents of fury down in the basement dives, while disco was turning the beat around upstairs in the studios. Hip-hop and rap were spreading through those mean streets faster than cheap cocaine. Downtown, the jazz scene was tearing tradition a new blowhole. Funk and R&B, foundational components of disco, hip-hop, and jazz, raged as they had since rent parties were invented. A musical melting pot to go with the city's socio-cultural cauldron. Whether they were conscious of it or not, The Clash had reached the peak of their creative arc - "London Calling" split open The Clash's creative nut and out spilled unfettered brilliance: the sprawling, squalling 3LP "Sandinista!", more than twice as long as its predecessor. Source of the album's title and a matching postcard were set in the loping 'Washington Bullets', a scorecard of U.S. foreign policy in Central America.
- Raoul Hernandez: The Magnificent Seven (The Austin Chronicle, 2000)


It might be grammatically incorrect in literal terms to call a triple album a thing of two halves, but that's what The Clash produced in 1980. Essentially, "Sandinista!" is divided between The Clash made of win and The Clash made of lose - and the latter, unfortunately, easily wins out.
In rock music terms, things had moved on from the birth of punk in 1976. Highly politicised second-wave UK punks such as Crass and Discharge were lurking, ready to make bands such as The Clash look like bloated, cash-corrupted anachronisms in a much more effective way than Strummer and Co. had done for prog four years earlier. But the proof on "Sandinista!" suggests the opposite.
When people say that "Sandinista!" would have been killer as a single album, what they never go on to say (but should) is that it would have been a killer single reggae album. With the help of advisors Mikey Dread and Don Letts, they had nailed down tight what they'd failed to capture on previous attempts such as 'Bankrobber' and Junior Murvin's 'Police and Thieves'. The rest of this two-and-a-half-hour slog represents The Clash at their saloon bar romantic, ramshackle rock‘n’roll, lame pastiche and skiffle-punk worst. It is this unadventurous side.


In 1980, The Clash released "Sandinista!", six sides of vinyl that's considered one of the worst albums of all time. But is there a classic album lurking inside its 36 tracks?
To a young punk, coming across "Sandinista!" for the first time is a bit like a 7 year-old facing down a heaped plate of strange food in a restaurant. The sheer volume defeats them before they even start picking their way through it. And then the questions start: "What’re these?" "Chick peas." "What’s this?" "Okra." "This?" "Coriander..." "Sandinista!" is the same: there’s too much of it, the flavours are weird and sometimes it’s hard to know what anything is.
A triple album for the price of a single, The Clash's fourth album is a sprawling, genre-defying, self-indulgent snapshot of a band run wild. Emboldened by the success of "London Calling", free of manager Bernie Rhodes, and stoned out of their fucking minds, The Clash delivered an album seemingly tailor-made to piss off CBS and confuse the more conservative elements of their fanbase ("You want punk rock? Try this, sunshine!"). And that was a major problem in 1980 - when these islands echoed with the sound of fans lifting and dropping the needle across all six sides looking for a 'Safe European Home', 'Janie Jones' or even a 'Rudie Can't Fail' and asking themselves one single question: "Seriously: what the fuck are The Clash anymore?"
Even today it's understandable. The cliche/true-ism about any double album is that it'd make a great single album - "Sandinista!" surely stands alone as a triple album you could also edit into a really shit double. But as two sides of vinyl it would've done alright: 'The Magnificent Seven', 'Police On My Back', 'Washington Bullets', 'The Street Parade', 'If Music Could Talk', 'Something About England' and 'One More Time' alone could have provided the spine of an album that touched on funk, punk, calypso, rock, reggae and rap and would be talked about in hushed tones today.
Back in 1980 (pre-CD programming or the ability to make your own playlist) "Sandinista!" was a headache - and a head album, music for stoners - an indulgence to rank alongside the worst excesses of prog rock. Today it’d probably win the Mercury Prize. And that’s the thing. Time has changed "Sandinista!". The context and expectations have changed. If you don't come to it hoping for punk rock, you're less likely to be disappointed. If you do come to it knowing that it's a patience-testing mess that nevertheless contains some gems, then things get interesting.
- Scott Rowley: The 48 minute long classic album hidden inside The Clash's Sandinista! (Louder Sound, 2016)


The way we consume "Sandinista!" has changed too.

Friday 11 December 2020

Suicide Commando - Mindstrip Redux (2020)


Suicide Commando
Mindstrip Redux 2CD
(2020)

An album - a milestone - a legend! Like no other album, "Mindstrip" embodies the term Hellelektro and shows the dark, club sounds which have made Suicide Commando world famous. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of this masterpiece, Johan van Roy recalls his bloody roots without losing sight of the dark future. "Mindstrip Redux" will be released as a 2CD version with the new version of the album just like the groundbreaking original. Also, fans of vinyl will surely be thrilled. Yes, you read it correctly, this is the first time since the album was released that "Mindstrip" will be available on vinyl. The entire "Redux" album is available as a limited double vinyl in blue and bloody red and also with completely re-arranged versions of the two club hits "Cry for mother" and "Dein Herz, meine Gier".


cd1
01. Jesus Wept (Resurrect V.2020) [5:09]
02. Hellraiser (Post Mortem - 2019) [6:22]
03. Body Count Proceed (Final Count) [5:58]
05. Mindstripper (Re-Stripped) [4:51]
06. Run (Sabotaged) [3:12]
07. Comatose Delusion (Overdose V3.0) [5:20]
08. Blood in Face (First Aid Mix) [4:00]
09. Love Breeds Suicide (Endzeit 2020) [5:02]
10. Slaves (Obey the System) [5:18]

cd2
01. Jesus Wept [6:00]
02. Hellraiser (Psychopath 01 Version - 2000) [5:01]
03. Body Count Proceed [5:39]
04. Raise Your God [4:06]
05. Mindstripper [4:32]
06. Run [3:42]
07. Comatose Delusion (Overdose Shot Two Version) [5:13]
08. Blood in Face [4:50]
09. Love Breeds Suicide [5:17]
10. Slaves [5:42]


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X-Marks The Pedwalk - Transformation (2020)


X-Marks The Pedwalk
Transformation
(2020)

After their highly acclaimed "Secrets", German electro underground pioneers X-Marks The Pedwalk took three years to release their 10th studio album entitled "Transformation". The album deals with inner barriers, people and behavior that emotionally restrict us and from which we want to free ourselves. It's about recognizing one's own weaknesses to convert them into new energy. "Transformation" is just as powerful and thrilling as it is touching, melancholic and emotional. X-Marks The Pedwalk draw from thirty years of experience and present 10 tracks of modern, varied electro-pop with retro charm.


01. If I Stay [3:49]
02. Walk Away [4:27]
03. Transformind [3:33]
04. Talking [4:20]
05. Voodoo Love [4:25]
06. Waiting [3:47]
07. Sunrise [3:35]
08. Let Me Go [4:12]
09. Together Alone [4:00]
10. Shadows [4:51]


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Unheilig - Schattenland (Ltd. Deluxe Box) (2020)


Unheilig
Schattenland - Limited Deluxe 5EP Box
(2020)

Universal released a new box set with CD-EPs, DVD and fan merchandise in a strictly limited edition of 4000 copies under the title "Schattenland". Pure audio material includes five rare EPs from the early years (2003-2008), when Unheilig was still rooted in electronic pop and the Graf even sang in English for a while. It contains the EP title songs from "Maschine" and "Schutzengel" (2003), "Freiheit" (2004), "Astronaut" (2006) and "Spiegelbild" (2008) as well as another 30 tracks including B-sides, remixes and rarities.
The DVD also contains early material, in addition to the 40-minute documentary "Unheilig - A Life for Music" (2008) also two live performances, from the "Feuertanz" festival in June 2009 and from the Amphi Festival (2009). Both the EPs and the DVD are physically released only within this box set, which was specially designed for this release. Special fan merchandising consists of a poster, five postcards with photo motifs from the time and an Unheilig fan scarf (also available exclusively in this set).


EP1 - Maschine (2003)
1. Maschine (club edit) [4:12]
2. Maschine [4:04]
3. This Corrosion [8:37]
4. Maschine (Der Graf remix) [5:14]
5. Schleichfahrt [4:07]

EP2 - Schutzengel (2003)
1. Schutzengel [4:23]
2. Schutzengel (orchester version) [5:11]
3. Zinnsoldat [4:38]
4. Damien [6:18]
5. Vollmond (radio edit) [3:53]
6. Bruder [3:35]
7. One On The Dead [3:51]

EP3 - Freiheit (2004)
1. Freiheit (radio edit) [3:53]
2. Sieh in mein Gesicht (extended version) [5:17]
3. Morgengrauen [4:48]
4. Die Muse [4:16]
5. Freiheit (Terminal Choice remix) [4:22]
6. Schmetterling [5:31]
7. Sieh in mein Gesicht (Staubkind remix) [4:10]
8. Freiheit (Neuroticfish remix) [5:59]

EP4 - Astronaut (2006)
1. Astronaut (radio version) [3:39]
2. Mein Stern (piano version) [5:58]
3. Ich will alles (club version) [5:21]
4. Der Himmel über mir [5:26]
5. Schneller, höher, weiter [3:35]
6. Astronaut (orchester version) [5:08]
7. Lebe Wohl [4:34]
8. Mein Stern (radio version) [4:31]

EP5 - Spiegelbild (2008)
1. Spiegelbild (extended version) [7:01]
2. Spiegelbild (Krupps Remix) [5:08]
3. Schlaflos [4:17]
4. Die alte Leier [4:17]
5. Hexenjagd [4:20]
6. An deiner Seite (orchester version) [6:11]
7. Spiegelbild [5:36]


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