Κυριακή 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Killing Joke - Revelations (LP, vinyl rip). 1982.

   Killing Joke’s gothic rock grew exponentially more sludgy and brutal with each passing album; by the mid 80s they were basically a metal band. Still, their early records were terrific: particularly their third, Revelations, which they recorded with krautrock overlord Conny Plank
   During the making of the album the band immersed themselves in the occult, succumbing to the paranoia that such an obsession inevitably yields, especially when paired with heavy drug use.
    In 1982, right after the release of this record, singer Jaz Coleman moved to Iceland, in order to survive the imminent apocalypse, with his bandmates following soon after. The apocalypse never came, and Killing Joke duly lost their mojo (from Fact magazine).
   This third album is characterized by "the wall of sound" production with Kraut rock elements. Two of their best tracks are here: "The Hum" (a gothic/metal/kraut masterpiece) and the speedy metal-punk "Land of milk and honey".


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Σάββατο 26 Ιανουαρίου 2013

"In Goth Daze" - VA Compilation (LP, vinyl rip). 1989

   This strange and rare compilation (the full title is "In goth daze - Now that's what we call real music") was released in England by Flicknife records back in 1989 and it includes some amazing music of horror and decay by some great bands.
  Mystery, horror, craziness, fun, decay, hallucinations, humor, dance beats, they are all here!
 If you love darkwave, gothic and deathrock you'll enjoy this compilation. I think this has never been released in cd and the vinyl record is really rare. My favorite track is "Vegas" - a monolithic gothic masterpiece!


Tracklist
01. Specimen - Hex
02. Nico - Vegas
03. Alien Sex Fiend - I walk the line
04. 39 Clocks - Psychotic Louie Louie
05. Bone Orchard - Kicking up the sawdust
06. Alien Sex Fiend - Can't stop smoking
07. Specimen - Sharp teeth, pretty teeth
08. Zero Le Creche - Last year's wife
09. In Excelsis - Carnival of the Gullible
10. Play Dead - The Tenant


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Παρασκευή 4 Ιανουαρίου 2013

Venus In Furs - New Horizon (LP, vinyl rip). 2010.

   Venus In Furs is another excellent dark wave/gothic band from the Greek '80's. Their sound was early gothic rock with a strange and deep melancholy running through all the songs.
   Despite however, their exceptional live appearances and their 3 demos, recorded from summer 1985 until their final split in 1993, their only musical inheritance was the extremely rare album “New Horizon”, in 13 copies!! The limited number of copies resulted due to numerous technical sound problems that lead to the discontinuance of the album’s production.
   20 years later, the founding members of the band met again to play and record these legendary songs. The result was this beautiful album, released in 2010 by B-other Side records in limited number of copies (250), in vinyl only.


This is authentic '80's dark wave/gothic by a highly inspired band. Venus In Furs still play and they have a new album called "Dead Europe" which you can order here
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Τετάρτη 2 Ιανουαρίου 2013

Not 2 Without 3 - End of the day / Under the flag (7" single, 1985 recordings, vinyl rip). 2012.

   Not 2 Without 3 was one of the most active and inspired bands among the greek new wave scene in the beggining of the '80's.
    Nevertheless their only vinyl appearance was two songs in the legendary compilation "Outsiders" in 1985. 
   Almost 30 years later two more songs are coming from the dark past to the darker present!
   Not 2 Without 3's anxious gloomy sound, inspired from the dark english scene of that time, seems to fit perfectly in today's social atmosphere.
   So if you have a record player you may still have the time to order this excellent packaged vinyl single from the site of Eirkti. The record was released in limited number of copies (400) in vinyl only in 2012.
   Another diamond from the greek darkwave scene of the '80's!




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Παρασκευή 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Κάτω τα χέρια από τη Villa Amalias! - Villa Amalias statement.





    Σήμερα 20-12-2012 η αστυνομία εισέβαλε στη Βίλλα Αμαλίας . Με πρόσχημα μια καταγγελία για διακίνηση ναρκωτικών, παρουσία εισαγγελέα, έγινε έρευνα .Τα ευρήματα ήταν αστεία. Παρ΄όλα  αυτά ο Δένδιας δηλώνει πως από αυτά αποδεικνύεται ότι η Βίλλα υπήρξε κέντρο ανομίας για 22 χρόνια και επιτέλους ο νόμος,  με τη «γενναία πολιτική βούληση» του Σαμαρά, αποκαθίσταται.

    Με ποια λογική ακροβασία μπορούν άδεια μπουκάλια μπύρας να χαρακτηριστούν «υλικά κατασκευής μολότοφ» ;  Σ’ ένα χώρο που  λειτουργεί συναυλιάδικο και καφενείο είναι παράλογο να υπάρχει μεγάλος αριθμός άδειων μπουκαλιών μπύρας ; Τι θα πει «εύφλεκτο υλικό»;  Μήπως μιλάνε για τα υγρά καθαρισμού της τυπογραφικής μηχανής  που λειτουργεί στη κατάληψη;  Να μιλήσουμε για τις αντιασφυξιογόνες μάσκες, που κάθε διαδηλωτής που σέβεται την υγεία του, οφείλει να διαθέτει.  Να πούμε για τα στοιχειώδη μέσα αυτοπροστασίας (δυναμιτάκια , σφεντόνες  κτλ) σ’ ένα χώρο που έχει επανειλημμένα δεχθεί επιθέσεις παρακρατικών συμμοριών (εμπρησμοί, μαχαιρώματα, ξυλοδαρμοί), με αποκορύφωμα το 2008 που ο τότε υπουργός δημοσίας τάξης Μαρκογιαννάκης επισκέφτηκε τους "κατοίκους" του Άγιου Παντελεήμονα και λίγα λεπτά μετά την αποχώρηση του δεχτήκαμε επίθεση...

    Με πρόσχημα λοιπόν την έρευνα, επιχειρούν μια παγία ονείρωξη τους:  Την εισβολή σ’ ένα χώρο  που για αυτούς είναι ένα από τα χωροταξικά σύμβολα όλων όσων στέκονται εχθρικά, απέναντι σε ότι αντιπροσωπεύει την κυριαρχία, την επιβολή, την αποστείρωση, την αδιαφορία, την παραίτηση, την υποταγή. Σε αυτό έχουν δίκιο. Αυτοί είμαστε. Εμείς και οι χιλιάδες διαδηλωτές , αγωνιστές ,καταληψίες ,απεργοί, μαχητές των δρόμων. Είμαστε οι άστεγοι και οι ανέστιοι, οι πανκς και οι αλήτες, οι χορτοφάγοι και οι φεμινίστριες , οι ξενύχτηδες και οι εργάτες, οι πένητες και οι αδικημένοι, τα θύματα του ρατσισμού και οι εκδικητές του άδικου. Ο υπουργός μας χαρακτήρισε εστία ανομίας .…
   Και τώρα ας μιλήσουμε σοβαρά. Η Βίλλα Αμαλίας είναι μια πρόταση οργάνωσης,  που στον καιρό του μνημονιακού κανιβαλισμού έπρεπε να αντιμετωπιστεί . Η επίθεση του κεφαλαίου στον κόσμο της εργασίας,  προϋποθέτει την καταστροφή των όποιων δομών του. Η απαξίωση των εργατικών  κεκτημένων και των συνδικάτων , οι όποιες δομές αλληλεγγύης και ανυπακοής  , τα αυτοοργανωμένα εγχειρήματα είναι στο στόχαστρο. Η ακροδεξιά ατζέντα που έχει επικρατήσει από την αρχή της κρίσης,  ξεκίνησε με τις δηλώσεις περί υγειονομικής βόμβας του Λοβέρδου, ενάντια στους απεργούς πείνας της Υπατίας . Συνεχίστηκε με την στοχοποίηση των μεταναστών (τείχος Έβρου, στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης, Ξένιος Ζευς), τη διαπόμπευση των εξαρτημένων οροθετικών, συνεπικουρούμενη από την ακροδεξιά βία ενάντια σε μετανάστες, ομοφυλόφιλους, μικροπωλητές. Ο βασανισμός των αντιφασιστών της μοτοπορείας στη ΓΑΔΑ και οι επιθέσεις στις καταλήψεις και η άγρια καταστολή οποιασδήποτε εργατικής η κοινωνικής διεκδίκησης, δεν αφήνουν αμφιβολία ότι ο αντίπαλος έχει συγκροτήσει ένα συμπαγές μπλοκ, απέναντι στο οποίο οφείλουμε να αντισταθούμε.
   Είμαστε εδώ και 22 χρόνια σε ένα κτήριο που είχαν εγκαταλείψει για δεκαετίες. Το συντηρούμε και του δίνουμε ζωή.  Είμαστε μια κατάληψη που έχει πάντα τις πόρτες ανοιχτές σε ομάδες, άτομα και εγχειρήματα που προάγουν τον αντιεμπορευματικό πολιτισμό, την ανθρώπινη αξιοπρέπεια, τους κοινωνικούς, αντιφασιστικούς  και ταξικούς αγώνες. Η  Βίλλα Αμαλίας δίνει μια σοβαρή μάχη για να προστατέψει όχι δέκα ντουβάρια, αλλά τις επιθυμίες τα όνειρα και τις ελπίδες για μια ζωή πιο ελεύθερη για όλους.
   Καλούμε όλους όσους βρίσκουν κομμάτι του εαυτού τους στην πολύχρονη λειτουργία της κατάληψης να δώσουν μαζί μας αυτή την κρίσιμη μάχη.
Σε αυτό το μύλο οι δήμιοι-δον κιχώτες επιτίθενται ενώ στην πραγματικότητα κυνηγάνε ιδέες. Αυτές είναι οι ανομίες για αυτούς. Κυνηγάνε χίμαιρες  θα εισπράξουν εφιάλτες.
ΑΜΕΣΗ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΒΙΛΛΑ ΑΜΑΛΙΑΣ


Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall remain here.

Greek original at the Villa Amalias site
Today, on December 20th, 2012, the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous. Nevertheless, according to Dendias [translators' note: the minister of public order] these prove that Villa was an “epicentre for lawlessness” for 22 years and that the law, thanks to the “brave political will of [PM] Samaras” was finally restored.
What logical leap may brand empty beer bottles as “materials for the construction of molotovs?” Is it strange to have a large number of empty beer bottles in a place that hosts a concert [gig] space and a café? What comprises a “flammable material”? May they be referring to the cleaning liquids for the printing press that operates in the squat? Should we talk about the gas masks that should be carried by every demonstrator that respects their health? Should we talk about the elementary means of self-defense (the mock flash bangs, slingshots etc) in a space that has repeatedly been attacked by para-statist gangs (arsons, stabbings, beatings) with the apogee reached in 2008, when the then minister of public order Markogiannakis visited the “residents” of Agios Panteleimonas and a few minutes after he left, we were attacked…
Under the pretext of the search, then, they materialise a long-standing wet dream of theirs: their raid into a space that is one of the spatial symbols of all those who stand in hostility against anything that represents sovereignty, imposition, sterilization, indifference, surrender, subjection. In this they are right. That’s who we are. Us and the thousands of demonstrators, the people in struggle, squatters, strikers, people fighting in the streets. We are the homeless, the punks and the rebels, the vegetarians and the feminists, the nocturnal ones and the workers, poor and the aggrieved, the victims of racism and the avengers of injustice. The minister called us an epicentre of lawlessness…
And now we should talk seriously. Villa Amalias is an organising proposition which had to be dealt with at the time of the cannibalism of the memoranda. The onslaught of capital against the world of labour presupposes the destruction of all of its structures: the depreciation of everything that trade unions had gained, whatever structures of solidarity and dissent, the self-organised incentives: everything is targeted. The far-right agenda that has prevailed since the outbreak of the crisis commenced with the statement concerning a [supposed] hygiene bomb by Loverdos [trans. note - Loverdos was minister of health at the time and claimed that the 300 migrant hunger strikers comprised a “hygiene bomb” in the centre of Athens] against the hunger strikers of Ypatia. It continued with the targeting of migrants (at the Evros border wall, concentration camps and the Xenios Zeus [anti-migrant] operation), the pillorying of addicted seropositive women, aided by the far-right violence against migrants, homosexuals and street traders. The torturing of anti-fascists at the police HQ after the anti-fascist motorcycle demo, the attacks against squats and the harsh repression against any labour or social demand, leave little doubt for the fact that the enemy has put together a solid block; a block against which we must now resist.
For the past 22 years we have been in a building that was abandoned for decades. We maintain it and breathe life into it. We are a squat that always has its doors open to groups, individuals and incentives that promote the anti-commercial culture, human dignity, social, anti-fascist and class struggles. Villa Amalias is giving a fierce fight –– not in order to protect a dozen pillars, but in order to protect our desires, our dreams and our hopes for a more free life for everyone.
We call everyone who identifies part of themselves in the years-long operation of the squat to partake in this crucial struggle with us.
This is the windmill that the executors-don quixote’s have attacked, even though it is ideas that they are after. These are what are lawless and illegal for them. Their witch-hunt will bring them nightmares in response. 
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE VILLA AMALIAS SQUATTERS

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Occupied London - From the greek streets

Πέμπτη 20 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Deus Ex Machina - 38 hiliosta/Bastardokratia (7" single)

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The legendary single by Deus Ex Machina. The two most legendary songs of the greek punk scene covered by Deus!





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More Re-uploads!!!

 Some new re-uploads!

The Passion of covers - A tribute to Bauhaus. 

The Dark Ages - A Cyberdelia compilation.  Some of the best moments of the greek gothic rock of the '00's!

The futility of a well ordered life - An Alternative Tentacles compilation from 1996
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu. The original soundtrack of the famous movie by Verner Herzog. 1978.




Κυριακή 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Re-uploads

 Re-uploads

The Birthday Party - Mutiny EP, 1983
 
Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon in red

Human Puppets - TV Eye/ Human Puppet

Xmal Deutschland - The Peel Sessions

International Comedy, excellent darkwave of the '80's from Thessaloniki

The Hands of Cain - the legendary greek darkwave masterpiece. 1985.

Silent Moves, excellent dark synth pop from Thessaloniki, 1984.