Faith and the Muse - Elyria (cd ripped, 320 mp3). 1994.

   Faith and the Muse formed in 1993 in LA by Monica Richards (ex member of the punk band Madhouse and gothic Strange Boutique) and William Faith (Christian Death, Mephisto Waltz, Shadow Project).

   Wiliam Faith was a long time member of LA's punk and gothic scene. He later played for the English punk band The Conflict and he is currently a member of the anarchopunk collective Anima Mundi.

   Faith and the Muse is one of the best gothic bands from LA. Richards and Faith met each other in 1993 when Strange Boutique played with Shadow Project and soon they formed the band.

   Inspired by gothic rock and pagan traditional music such as Celtic and Irish folk, they created a bittersweet sound making death rock songs and also beautifull ethereal ballads.
   This is their first LP and one of the best. 

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Inkubus Sukkubus - Heartbeat Of The Earth (cd ripped, 320 mp3). 1995.

   This is the third album by this excellent band. 
   Inkubus Sukkubus formed in the summer of 1989 when Tony McKormack, Candia Ridley and Adam Henderson met at college studying graphic design. They shared an interest in paganism, witchcraft and vampirism as well as making original music from an early age, and so the type of band that was to emerge from the joining of forces was, quite naturally, an expression of this.
    Initially the band was called Incubus Succubus. The original aim of the band was (as it still is today) to be the vehicle in which the celebration of the Pagan experience could be conveyed (from band's site).
   This album is equally mindblowing as their first two and it contains some of their best songs ever - Prince Of Shadows, Young Lovers, Witch Hunt, Love Spell, Heartbeat Of The Earth.
   Enjoy this passionate music with all your soul and your body.

Tracklist

1. Heartbeat of the Earth

2. Young Lovers

3. Underworld

4. Prince Of Shadows

5. Craft of the Wise

6. Corn King

7. Witch Hunt

8. Fire of Love

9. Love Spell

10. Song For Our Age

11. Intercourse With The Vampyre

12. Sabrina

13. Catherine

14. Take My Hunger

     Io Pan!

Inkubus Sukkubus - Beltaine - The early recordings 1990/91 (ripped from cd, 320 mp3).

   Inkubus Sukkubus is a pagan - gothic band created in England in 1989 by guitarist Tony Mc Cormack and singer Candia Ridley. The band is a devoted pagan community  focused in the worship of ancient gods and the defense of the greatest Goddess - Mother Earth.
   Mc Cormack was a member of the punk band The Screaming Dead. Inkubus Sukkubus have a lot of cd's and they still play but the beauty and the inspiration of their first songs are a unique moment for the gothic music of that era.
   This is a compilation of their early recordings during 1990 and 1991. Either you like what Candia is singing about - honour to the ancient gods and tribute to the pagan past - or not, you have to admit that these are songs full of pure energy, power and inspiration!

Tracklist

1. Beltaine

2. Wytches I

3. Pagan Born

4. Song To Pan

5. Goblin Jig

6. Midnight Queen

7. Trinity

8. I Am The One

9. Vampyre Kiss

10. Wytches II

11. In Defense

12. Burning Times

13. The Leveller

14. Church Of Madness

15. Wytches (chant)

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Fields Of The Nephilim - Revelations 2 (plus!) (cd, mp3 320). 1993.

   Of all the bands involved in Britain's goth rock movement of the 1980s, Fields Of The Nephilim were the most believable. The group's cryptic, occult-inspired songs were sung in a guttural roar by vocalist Carl mc Coy. 

   Live appearances were shrouded with dim light and smoke machines, while bandmembers stalked the stage in black desperado gear inspired by western dress. The group was also one of the longest lived of the original goth rock groups. (from allmusic)

   Revelations, band's official compilation, was released in 1993 by Beggar's Banquet Records and it contains 12 of their best songs so far. Some releases of this compilation included a bonus disc containing 7 songs - b sides and unreleased tracks and this is the content of this file. We also added two songs from the Psychonaut single (Psychonaut IIII and Psychonaut II. 
    Also you'll find Sumerland in an alternative version (Sumerland Dreamed) taken from the single with the same title and Sumerland (instrumental) taken from the unofficial vinyl album The Sacred And The Profane.

Tracklist

1. Sumbission Two (the dub posture)

2. Preacher Man (contaminated mix)

3. Celebrate (second seal)

4. Shiva

5. Psychonaut Lib I

6. In Every Dream Home A Heartache

7. Moonchild (unsealed)

8. Blue Water (electrostatic)

9. Psychonaut IIII

10. Psychonaut II

11. Sumerland Dreamed

12. Sumerland (instrumental demo)

The first 7 songs are the Revelations 2 cd and the rest are songs i collected.

 

 Dedicated to all you goths out there with love!

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"π" Original Soundtrack - various artists. (Ripped from cd, mp3 320). 1999.

  Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealistic psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his directional debut. The film earned Aronofsky the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, and the Gotham Open Palm Award. The title refers to the mathematical constant π.

The film tells the story of a paranoid mathematician who is searching for the key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. Of course the CIA is watching from a distance. Also a strange kabbalistic sect keeps an eye on him, waiting for the results of his work.

   The soundtrack is exactly like the movie. Obscure, dark electronics by some of the best. Clint Mansell, Autechre, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin are some of the artists that created this futuristic dystopian soundtrack. A true masterpiece.

Tracklist

1. Clint Mansell - πR2

2. Orbital - P.E.T.R.O.L.

3. Autechre - Kalpol Intro

4. Aphex Twin -  Buchefalus Bouncing Ball

5. Roni Size - Watching Windows

6. Massive Attack - Angel

7. Clint Mansell - We Got The Gun

8. David Holmes - No Man's Land

9. Gus Gus - Anthem

10. Banco De Gaia - Drippy

11. Psilonaut - Third From The Sun

12. Spacetime Continuum - A Low Frequency Inversion Field

13. Clint Mansell - πR2

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Front 242 - Re : Boot : Live (cd ripped, mp3 320). 1998.

   Draw any map of electronic music and you’ll definitely need Front 242 somewhere at its centre. Taking a lead from the UK industrial scene of the mid-‘70s, the Brussels band set out on a path of exploration and innovation that has continued pretty much to the present day.

   More of a forward-thinking community than a traditional group, Front 242 was at the forefront of electronic music’s move into the mainstream and continues to defy convention in its sonic communication.

   Following the extensive 1993 tour, Front 242 took a temporary break which many assumed to be permanent after nothing was heard from the band for four years, while the individual members pursued other recording projects and work. 

1997 brought a return to action in the live arena, and while no new songs were on offer, the bandmembers stated that they wanted to try new techno-inspired arrangements and presentations of many old songs. The results can be heard on Re:Boot, taken from two European dates in 1997 and 1998.

   Re:Boot really is a killer album. Kicking off with a rampaging version of Evil Off's "Happiness (Modern Angel)," Re:Boot serves up both the expected hits -- "Masterhit," "Headhunter," "Welcome to Paradise" -- and a slew of strong album cuts.

     Where Front 242 change things around with the songs, the results can be fascinating -- "Melt," for example, turns into a slow, moody crawl, mixed up with subtle breakbeats on the chorus. "In Rhythmus Bleiben" also gets an impressive energy charge, while "Religion" turns into an astonishing, Prodigy-tinged rave monster. (from Allmusic)

Tracklist

1. Happiness

2. Masterhit

3. Moldavia

4. Melt

5. Soul Manager

6. No Shuffle

7. Im Rythmus Bleiben

8. Crapage

9. Body To Body

10. Religion

11. Headhunter

12. Welcome To Paradise

13. First In First Out 

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Anne Clark - Wordprocessing. The remix project (cd ripped, mp3 320).1997. Re-upload

 

Anne Clark (born 14 May 1960 in London), is an excellent poet and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.

Her experimental music occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles.

Clark is mainly a spoken word artist. Many of her lyrics deal critically with the imperfections of humanity, everyday life, and politics. Especially in her early works she has created a gloomy, melancholy kind of atmosphere. 

This wonderfull album includes some of her best songs remixed by famous names of electronic music like Sven Vaeth, Juno Reactor, Total Eclipse etc. The most tender moments mix with hard electronic beats creating magical soundscapes.

This is a piece of pure art and one the most beautifull albums i've ever heard!

Tracklist

1. Virtuality - Global Youth remix

2. The Healing (Aural Float treatment)

3. Sleeper in Metropolis (Hardfloor 97 version)

4. Letter of thanks to a friend (Radi Mate mix by Mouse on Mars)

5. Nida (Saafi Bros remix)

6. Our Darkness (Hardfloor 97 version)

7. Homecoming (Pascal F.E.O.S. remix)

8. Sleeper in Metropolis (Sleepers Revenge mix by Sven Vaeth and Ralf Hill)

9. Contact (Contact 2017 mix by The Mover)

10. Wallies (Night of the Hunter remix by Juno Reactor)

11. Our Darkness (Total Eclipse remix)

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The Mission U.K. - Aura (cd ripped, mp3 320). 2001.

   Aura is the ninth studio album by The Mission. After some goth pop albums that failed to earn the goth fans, the band returns with a pure gothic rock album.


With the spirit of "Serpent's Kiss" playing around its intro guitars, and an anthemic quality that cannot be ignored, the opening "Evangeline" insists from the outset that the reborn Mission are not here to simply make up the numbers.


Aura sounds like the greatest-hits album that never was, a succession of brilliantly conceived ghosts that reassemble all the Mission's proudest moments, then fashion something dynamically new and pure from them. True, "Cocoon" does glance in the direction of the Cure for its bassline, and "(Slave To) Love" wallows in that same discomfortingly sexually implicit trough as Masque's "Heaven Sends You". From start to finish, it's The Mission back at the starting post. (from Allmusic).

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Girls Rewrite Rock (various artists). A cd compilation of female greek groups.(cd ripped, mp3 320). 1997

This compilation came out along with Voice magazine at 1997 and it includes some of the best dark, post punk and independent music bands of Greece, all with female singers or members.

This cd is very hard to find and most of the tracks are previously unreleased.


What i like most in this compilation is the bands who have a dark sound like Ding An Sich, Forward Music Quintet, Blue Birds Refuse to Fly. But the real gem is Petunia Pig an almost all-girl band from Patra with a unique pop-punk sound. They never had a record but they still are one of the best greek bands ever (in my opinion)!

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Gong - Live. Floating Anarchy 1977 (cd ripped. format wma). 1977

        A psychedelic space trip!

Gong came together in the late '60's by the Australian guitarist David Allen. The band created a mythology of the peaceful Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors.

Rolling Stone magazine described Gong's music as combining "psychedelic English whimsy, German kosmische space jams and Gallic libertine fusion".

"A psychedelic album with a black and white cover. It is crudely hand drawn as well. It exhibits more punk flavour than flower power.

But then again, that is what Planet Gong was kind of about. They were not really the hip psychedelic flower-power band. They were very much free-form craziness.
The music here shows it.

It flows freely and weirdly. Crescendos of power chords and mysterious noodling all combine to make I a serious tour de force. The musical mayhem is accompanied by fairly strong, uncompromising anarchistic rhetoric, which at times sounds like a bit of a put on . . . but then you realise that they are quite genuine in their beliefs."

( from tonalsurge )

                          Inner Space

Some exciting photos from a friend' s site

"If your pit is too deep
it is your duty to use your hands
and dig your way up".

Greek poet Kostas Varnalis (1884 - 1974). My friend found this painting in a wall somewhere near the port of Kalamata. Some days later this beautiful artwork was covered up with a fresh coat of paint (possibly by the local authorities?)












Almost connected

Break free

It is always moony in...

The grey dimension

Sail, no matter what.

Ego trip.
(Thessaloniki, Ano Poli)

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Shadow Project - From The Heart (cd ripped). 1998.

Long time no see friends! I'm back again for some more of my favourite music!

This masterpiece comes from 1998. Rozz Williams and Eva O. create an acoustic deathrock album, full of strange melodies. 

Rozz and Eva created Shadow Project back in 1990. 

In 1997 they recorded this last cd. It was an acoustic album wich also featured guitarist / producer Michael Carivolo and keyboardist Nathan Van Hala.

Sadly, shortly after the test pressing was finished, Rozz Williams hanged himself on April 1, 1998, after which the album appeared under the title From the Heart.

Rozz will always be in our hearts....

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