VARIOUS ARTISTS
Extravaganza!
Monopoly

I thought you’d like this as there’s a free download of the whole compilation available, from the top link at the bottom, and I’ve been banging on about Russian music long enough for some of you to want to take them up on the offer.

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http://www.monopolyrecords.com/extravaganza/downloads.html - get the album here.
http://www.caprice-music.com
http://www.myspace.com/laoris - Caprice
http://www.myspace.com/jaynelakissova
http://www.myspace.com/dvarofficial
http://www.necrostellar.com
http://www.cyclotimia.com
http://www.lakissova.com
http://www.ottodix.ru

Happy New Year!

Zeitgeist Zero will be kicking off the new decade by playing a special show with their very good friends Pro-Jekt and Screaming Banshee Aircrew at Rio's Leeds on Saturday 30th of January. Doors are at 7pm and admission is £5.00adv.

We hope to see you there.

http://www.zeitgeistzero.com
http://www.myspace.com/zeitgeistzero
http://www.pro-jekt.org/
http://www.myspace.com/bansheeaircrew
http://www.rioslive.com/




All the best

Miss Dead

Current Location: By the fireside
Current Music: Cat snorring

BOLLOCKS!

2a.m. and all’s Hell.

7.a.m. And now it’s snowing hard again

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SPHERE REX
FOR ELECTRONICS AND PIANO
Shadowplay/Monopoly

It’s a member of Cyclotimia doing a limited edition EP (500 copies) of fragrant ambient pieces, and apparently the piano compositions are based on an approach taken by Erik Satie. “This is nice,” observed Lynda, asking who it was and then correcting my pronunciation of Satie. (Don’t you hate it when ambient accidents like that happen?) I should have made her consult the website: “This music is able to calm down and lull to sleep like alpha-wave rhythms or paint weird images guided by the surreal titles of compositions in one's imagination. For the goals of complete authenticity only analogue devices were used in recordings, as well as tube preamps and compressors from 60s-70s.” Alright, let’s rock!

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http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/mv-iii.html
http://cyclotimia.com

I can be easily conned. Saw the return of Hustle last night, which was awful when they moved for a series to America without Mickey in it, but now he’s back it was great. It started with them fooling some Saudi prince he’d be booking a special performance by Kylie Minogue. I actually thought the girl was Kylie! That’s not the point though. The funny bit came when the prince laid down one rule of his own about the show, as he stipulated, “but not ‘The Locomotion’, that was shit.”

DVAR
FAYAH!
Art Music

So what are the latest DVAR rumours in Russia then? Somebody must know if they’re genuinely a demented secretive act or whether it’s someone from a well known band, studio or label operating under a pseudonym? It doesn’t bother me either way, as the records are so good, but I do wonder how long such a secret can stay in place? All I can state confidently is that since the entirely bright and cheery ‘Zii’ album General Bee has added 8-bit sampling to his cv, horns have replaced the vibraphone in Bee Warrior’s affections, and Bee Girl has put away childish keyboards and guitar and got herself hooked on theremin.

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http://www.myspace.com/dvarofficial

My site - Repost of my Xmas story 'And All Was Quiet'

Starstoreblog.com - My review of Doctor Who - The End of Time Part 2

My Site- On my new year's resolutions

Making it Up As I Go Along - Clearing out the idea stash

My site- More on 7th Son: Descent by JC Hutchins

The Genre Addict - Voltron Collection 1 review

More soon.

Current Mood: busy

THE DAMNED
The Stiff Years 3CD/book
Castle

Punk may have been over before some of you were born but it can still inspire, and opinions about it annoy, and as I sometimes enjoying doing that please read avidly and let me really piss some of you off.

My favourite Punk bands were The Adverts and The Damned (The Ants not really producing quality until 1978). Obviously The Sex Pistols and The Clash have greater status than both, but that doesn’t impress me. I saw The Clash loads, eventually, and turned down a couple of chances to see The Pistols. As with anything I want to know something isn’t tainted. Even early on people spoke of The Pistols and Clash as though they were special, which struck me as pretty much missing the entire point. Unless you were spectacularly stupid it wasn’t like Punk bands were singing about things you didn’t already understand or agree with. You shared the same attitude already, otherwise you simply wouldn’t be interested. As far as I was concerned they had to excite, they had to have something inside their songs. I required that bands be uncorrupted, genuine rather than some effective construct.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
PAGAN LOVE SONGS: ANTITAINMENT 2
(Alice In.../Broken Silence)

I feel it’s important to start the new year off with some real quality and as you’re not going to find a more dedicated, open-minded and knowledgeable couple than Thyssen brothers Thomas and Ralf, the men behind PLS who bring this to you for your own benefit, a 2CD goldmine for the price of one (CD that is, not goldmine) I’d say the quality was pretty obvious.

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http://www.nightmarezone.de
http://www.myspace.com/pagan_love_songs

THE TUNNEL
CARVER BROTHERS LULLABY
Glorious Alchemical Co.

This is a different beats to The Tunnel Of Love, in that naughty Jeff Wagner, the subterranean King of carnivalitis, is joined by mad drumming cohort Patrick Crawford, and I actually received it much earlier this year but lost it. That might appear implies some blame on me, which is utterly ridiculous, so when I explain that it comes in one of those brown card digipack slipcases, which are impossibly thin, like a modern antique, and that I recently found it (for the second time, I might add) inside a book, there is but one possibility. The case itself is attracted to books. If you get a copy have a hermetically sealed container ready, or build an annex with shelves galore, to confuse it, because it records become our master there is no hope left.

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http://www.insidethetunnel.com/GLOinside.html