Into The Groove (40)

Hello, Into The Groove today centers around one man, a man with a vision, not about entering the Halls of Fame, but to use his leadership to turn those involved in the gang life, into something more positive to the community. Founding Zulu Nation, a group of socially & politically aware rappers..he made Peace, Unity, Love and having fun his motto. Along the way he's created some great music as well. He stood at the base of electro-funk, his name ...Afrika Bambaataa. Three great titles here, enjoy ! Btw at Rhotation (04) you can find Shango Funk Theology at (31) Unity with JB

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Kevin Donovan (born April 19, 1957) was a founding member of the Bronx River Projects-area street gang, The Savage Seven. Due to the explosive growth of the gang, it later became known as the Black Spades, and he rose to the position of Division Leader. After a life-changing visit to Africa, he changed his name to Afrika Bambaataa Aasim, adopting the name of the Zulu chief Bhambatha, who led an armed rebellion against unfair economic practices in early 20th century South Africa that can be seen as a precursor to the anti-Apartheid movement. 

After he returned from his life changing trip to Africa, Bambaataa decided to use his leadership to turn those involved in the gang life into something more positive to the community. This began the development of which later became known as the Universal Zulu Nation, a group of socially & politically aware rappers, B-boys, graffiti artists and other people involved in Hip Hop culture. By 1977, Bambaataa began organizing block parties all around the South Bronx. Bambaataa had deejayed with his own sound system at the Bronx River Community Center, with Mr. Biggs, Queen Kenya, and Cowboy, who accompanied him in performances in the community. Because of his prior status in the Black Spades, he already had an established Army party crowd drawn from former members of the gang. He became known as one of the best DJs in the Bronx.

About a year later he reformed the group, calling it the Zulu Nation. Five b-boys (break dancers) joined him, whom he called the ZULU Kings, and later formed the Zulu Queens, and the Shaka ZULU Kings and Queens. As he continued deejaying, more DJs, rappers, break dancers, graffiti writers, and artists followed him, and he took them under his wing and made them all members of his Zulu Nation. He was also the founder of the SoulSonic Force, which originally consisted of approximately twenty Zulu Nation members. The personnel for the Soul Sonic Force were groups within groups with whom Bambaataa would perform and make records.

In 1982, Hip-Hop artist Fab 5 Freddy was putting together music packages in the largely white downtown Manhattan New Wave clubs, and invited Bam to perform at one of them. Attendance for Bam's parties downtown became so large that he had to move to larger venues. Then the breakthrough came with Planet Rock, it became an immediate hit and stormed the music charts worldwide. The song melded the main melody from Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" with electronic beats based on their track "Numbers" as well as portions from records by Babe Ruth and Captain Sky - thus creating a new style of music altogether, electro funk. It influenced many styles of electronic and dance music, e.g. freestyle music, house music and techno music.

Afrika Bambaataa's second release around 1983 was "Looking for the Perfect Beat," then later, "Renegades of Funk," both with the same SoulSonic Force. He began working with producer Bill Laswell at Celluloid Records, where he developed and placed two groups on the label: "Time Zone" and "Shango". He recorded "Wildstyle" with Time Zone, and he recorded a collaboration with punk-rocker John Lydon and Time Zone in 1984, "World Destruction". Shango's album Shango Funk Theology was also released by Celluloid in 1984. That same year, Bam and other Hip-Hop celebrities appeared in the movie Beat Street.He also made a landmark recording with James Brown, titled "Unity." It was billed in music industry circles as "the Godfather of Soul meets the Godfather of Hip Hop."

Around October 1985, Bambaataa and other music stars worked on the anti-apartheid album Sun City with Little Steven Van Zandt, Run-D.M.C., Lou Reed, and numerous others. During 1988, he recorded another landmark piece as "Afrika Bambaataa and Family" on Capitol Records, titled The Light[6], featuring Nona Hendryx, UB40, Boy George, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Yellowman. In 1990, Bambaataa made Life magazine's "Most Important Americans of the 20th Century" issue. He was also involved in the anti-apartheid work "Hip Hop Artists Against Apartheid" for Warlock Records. He teamed with the Jungle Brothers to record the album Return to Planet Rock (The Second Coming).

Bambaataa recorded erratically during the '90s, reviving the Time Zone moniker with several singles and 2 album releases, Thy Will B Funk (92) and Warlocks And Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips And You (96). He returned to the mainstream in 1997 with Zulu Groove. In 2000, Afrika Bambaataa collaborated with Leftfield on the song "Afrika Shox", the first single from Leftfield's Rhythm and Stealth. "Afrika Shox" The new millennium brought the release of Hydraulic Funk on Strictly Hype, and Electro Funk Breakdown followed in early 2001. Bambaataa's last album, Dark Matter Moving At The Speed Of Light came in 2004 another electro/breakbeat classic. On September 27, 2007, Afrika Bambaataa was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


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Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (86 ^ 99mb)

Afrika Bambaataa, was known as a talented DJ before his single "Planet Rock" came out in 1982 on Tommy Boy. The song, which sampled (actually re-recorded in the studio) elements of Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" and was the first R&B track to use an 808, helped define a new movement in music, electro, which then inspired Miami bass and Detroit techno, and pushed the Bambaataa's status toward near iconic. Planet Rock,The Album, is a collection of singles that came out four years later, and captures Bambaataa's energy and innovation whilst working with Soulsonic Force . The original 12" version of the title track is enough to make Planet Rock, The Album worthwhile, the equally interesting "Renegades of Funk" (in remix form) and "Searching for the Perfect Beat" make it a superb compilation.



1- Planet Rock (7:31)
2- Looking For The Perfect Beat (7:02)
3 - Renegades of Funk (6:46)
4 - Frantic Situation (Frantic Mix) (3:49)
5 - Who You Funkin' With (Feat.Grandmaster Melle Mel) (6:23)
6 - Go Go Pop (Feat.Trouble Funk) (6:00)
7 - They Made A Mistake (5:31)

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Afrika Bambaataa & Family - The Light (88 ^ 159mb)

Diverse personalities and styles are the hook for this 1988 album, which isn't particularly an Afrika Bambaataa project, but a Family effort . The Family list ranges from Sly & Robbie, Laswell and Material , George Clinton and Bootsy, and further vocals by - Lizzie Tear - Tim Hutton - Jaki Graham - Boy George , Nona Hendryx - Double Cross , Kid Dust - Yellowman - Bernard Fowler , Gary Mudbone Cooper .." Very varied, it could have done with more focus to ensure cohesion . That said as a compilation album there's plenty to enjoy.



01 - The Light (3:13)
02 - Reckless (5:23)
03 - Radical Music: Revolutionary Dance (4:26)
04 - All I Want (4:55)
05 - Something He Can Feel (5:52)
06 - Shout It Out (6:22)
07 - Clean Up Your Act (6:15)
08 - Zouk Your Body (6:37)
09 - World Racial War (6:27) 
10 - Sho Nuff Funky (10:46)

diet version
Afrika Bambaataa & Family - The Light (* 99mb) 

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Time Zone - Warlocks And Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips And You (96, 78min ^ 159mb)

Time Zone is headed by Afrika Bambaataa., he worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. The first Time Zone single was the 1983 electro song "The Wildstyle" which featured music from a German project called Wunderwerke. The song became very popular among breakdancers at the time. In 1984, Time Zone released their most well-known single, "World Destruction". A collaboration between Bambaataa, ex-Sex Pistol/Public Image Ltd. leader John Lydon, and producer/bassist Bill Laswell, this single is the first real rapcore song, predating Run-DMC and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way". Although the song was critically acclaimed, Bambaataa put the Time Zone project on hold while he worked on other projects. In 1992, Bambaataa revived the project with the single "Zulu War Chant" which was well-received among fans of old school hip hop. Time Zone released a handful of singles in the early-1990s which were compiled in the 1992 album Thy Will B Funk. In 1995, the band released another album titled Warlocks and Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips and You. The album featured contributions from George Clinton and his P-Funk Horns. In 2005, Bambaataa again revived the Time Zone moniker for an album of breakbeats titled Everyday People: The Breakbeat Party Album.



01 - Zulu Interlude #1 (0:15)
02 - This Is Time Zone (1:33)
03 - Funky Beeper (2:26)
04 - Unity Part 7 (The Rapmania Live Mix) (5:00)
05 - Mazuma (2:04)
06 - Throw Ya Fuckin' Hands Up (4:35)
07 - One Time 4 Ya Mind (2:56)
08 - Godfather (Take You Higher) (4:42)
09 - Zulu Interlude #2 (0:12)
10 - Fugitive (4:53)
11 - Keepin' It Real (4:46)
12 - Funkadelic Shack (4:37)
13 - Turn This Mutha Out - Part 1 (4:25)
14 - Zulu Interlude #3 (0:10)
15 - (It's Alright Now) Think I'll Make It Anyhow (3:46)
16 - Ugly Gals (2:53)
17 - D.C. Nation (3:47)
18 - One Love (Work That Sucker) (9:38)
19 - Lyin' People (4:43)
20 - Zulu Interlude #4 (0:21)
21 - Warlocks And Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips And You (5:09)
22 - Zulu War Chant (5:07)

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Afrika Bambaataa & - Videos (AVI , 79mb)

A collection of videos you could find at youtube or pick up here. Have to say World Destruction is 24 years later still a remarkbly powerful statement, and should be rereleased, unfortunately i lost my 12" long ago or i would have added it here. 

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Renegade
Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For the Perfect Beat
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock Kraftwerk Original Video
Afrika Bambaataa Timezone - The Alien
James Brown & Afrika Bambaataa - Peace Unity Love
Leftfield & Afrika Bambaataa- Afrika Shox
Timezone & John Lydon - World Destruction

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Alphabet Soup II (N)

Hello, Alphabet Soup II has reached N again, as it happens it's all AmericaN today..Ted Nugent maybe a cavemen who tunes his guitar to blues/hardrock. .but he's also a redneck of sorts who's made life for his bandmembers far from easy as he dissapproves of drink and drugs, neither does Jesus come in to it, in short a rather unique artist. back in the days i was rather taken by his first official solo album, interestingly with hindsight he's proclaimed it to have been his best........Ben Neill comes from a completely different angle a trumpet player turned technician in order to develop the range of possibilities of his instrument. On his path that led by many a galery and other art establishments he came into contact with the electronic music scene, and considering they spoke much the same language he's recorded several albums with them. And so you find on 96's Tryptical drum n bass doing battle with his mutantrumpet the results you can find out here...finally Nada Surf a semi geekrocok indie band that got dumped by the majors and took 4 years to resurrect and raise the money to be able to record Let Go. So they did, gone were the pretennces and expectations the naive dreams of youths and out came a great album which recieved plenty of accolades..they'd grown up on their own terms.

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Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent (75 ^ 92mb)

Born on December 13, 1948, in Detroit, MI, Nugent became interested in rock & roll early in the game, picking up the guitar as a youngster, while his disciplinarian father passed his beliefs down to Nugent. In the '60s, Nugent formed his first bands (including Royal High Boys and Lourdes), drawing inspiration from such British blues-rockers as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. But it wasn't until the formation of the Amboy Dukes that the Nuge got his first taste of stardom. The band managed to issue several albums throughout the late '60s -- 1967's. With bandmembers coming and going at an alarming rate, Nugent remained the only constant member -- eventually officially changing the band's name to Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes by the '70s

By the mid-'70s, Nugent decided to finally ditch the Amboy Dukes name and set out on his own, assembling a first-rate backing band that included second guitarist/vocalist Derek St. Holmes, bassist Rob Grange, and drummer Cliff Davies. By 1975, the new band was signed to Aerosmith's management company (Leber & Krebs), as well as the same record company, Columbia, resulting in the release of Nugent's self-titled debut in November of the same year. The band immediately struck a chord with the heavy metal/hard rock crowd from coast to coast, due to the band's over-the-top stage show.

The band's first release, 1975's Ted Nugent, is a prime slice of testosterone-heavy, raging, unapologetic rock & roll, and along with the band's 1977 release Cat Scratch Fever, it is Nugent's best solo studio album. While the grinding opening track, "Stranglehold," stretches beyond eight minutes and contains several extended, fiery-hot guitar leads, it does not come off as your typical '70s overindulgent fare -- every single note counts, as Nugent wails away as if his life depended on it. Other Nuge classics include "Motor City Madhouse," plus the St. Holmes-sung "Hey Baby" and "Just What the Doctor Ordered," all eventually becoming arena staples and making the band one of the late-'70s top concert draws. Nugent himself hails Ted Nugent as his best work, and with good reason. It's an essential hard rock classic.

In addition to music, Nugent has gotten involved in politics, hosting a number one morning radio show in Detroit, has issued his own hunting camp and issues instructional videotapes (as well as the Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild PBS video series), owns his own hunting supply store, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association, writes columns regularly for a number of different magazines, and even sells his very own beef jerky (called Gonzo Meat Biltong)! In 2001, the Nuge penned his own autobiography, the perfectly titled God, Guns, & Rock n' Roll.



01 - Stranglehold (8:24)
02 - Stormtroopin' (3:05)
03 - Hey Baby (3:57)
04 - Just What The Doctor Ordered (3:40)

05 - Snakeskin Cowboy (4:30)
06 - Motor City Madhouse (4:27)
07 - Where Have You Been All My Life (4:04)
08 - You Make Me Feel Right At Home (2:53)
09 - Queen Of The Forest (3:33)

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Ben Neill - Tryptical (96 ^ 138mb)

A native of North Carolina and a product of classical training, Neill relocated to New York City during the mid-'80s, immersing himself in the downtown experimental music scene; increasingly fascinated with minimalism, he studied under the legendary La Monte Young, and with the aid of the synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog designed the first mutantrumpet, an instrument fit with three bells, six valves, a trombone slide and an analog processing system whch allowed him to create any number of open, muted and electronic sounds. With it he successfully bridged the gap between ambient music and the avant-garde, further blurring aesthetic boundaries .

In 1984, Neill completed Orbs, his first major composition for mutantrumpet, percussion and audio/visual projections; pieces including 1985's Mainspring, 1987's Money Talk and 1988's Abblasen House followed prior to his breakthrough work ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion), a 1989 collaboration with visual artist David Wojnarowicz. A year later Neill travelled to Amsterdam's Steim Studios to develop a new, MIDI-capable mutantrumpet; the upgrade resulted in the addition of a number of switches, knobs and pressure-sensitive pads allowing the player to trigger and modify a variety of sounds and sequences, as well as lights and projections, all in real time. After Haydn, a collaboration with electronic composer Nicolas Collins, followed in 1991.

Neill then began a six-year stint as curator of the downtown NYC performance space The Kitchen, a position which served as his gateway into the burgeoning electronic music scene. Presenting performances by everyone from John Cage to Jim O'Rourke to Future Sound of London, he began increasingly absorbing electronic influences into his work and was particularly fascinated by the local "illbient" movement; originally created as an installation/performance piece, Neill's 1995 album Green Machine instead evolved into a full-blown dance music project, complete with 12" remixes from the likes of Single Cell Orchestra and DJ Spooky.

The latter resurfaced on 1996's Triptycal, on which Ben Neill pushes closer to more straightforward ambient territory, largely favoring atmosphere over groove. As his mastery of the mutantrumpet grows, Neill's playing becomes more and more evocative -- the album's dreamscapes move easily from minimalist rhythms to dense drum'n'bass beats. Neill also spent the better part of 1997 appearing with Spooky and on the "Sci-Fi Lounge" tour of video-sampling innovator Gardner Post. In Neill’s live performances, laptop computers merge his three-belled, computer interfaced mutantrumpet with live digital audio and video. In addition to controlling the electronic sounds in real time, Neill literally plays the moving pictures, making the images an extension of his instrument. After the appearance of Goldbug in 1998, Neill was relatively silent until 2002, when he “made music industry history” by releasing Automotive, an album comprised of extended versions of music he originally wrote for Volkswagen TV and Internet commercials. He supported the release of the album by performing on an 18 city tour.

In 2005 Neill premiered a collaboration with visual artist Bill Jones titled Palladio, an interactive movie based on Jonathan Dee’s 1998 novel of the same name. Palladio was premiered at the New Territories Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, and at the Thalia Theater/Symphony Space in New York City. Neill is also active as a sound and installation artist. His collaborative works with Bill Jones have been exhibited in museums and galleries including Sandra Gering Gallery New York, Exit Art New York, Wellcome Gallery London and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He currently resides as professor of Music Technology at NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology).



1 - Propeller (7:04)
2 - Chemistry Of 7 (8:37)
3 - Flotation Device (7:56)
4 - Pentagram (La Mer Mix) (7:02)
5 - Dream Phase (6:13)
6 - Triptycal (4:46)
7 - Pentagram (Undertow Mix) (5:01)
8 - After The Gold Rush (7:42)
9 - Twelfth Flight (6:55)

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Nada Surf - Let Go (02 ^ 156mb)

Nada Surf was formed in the early nineties by Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca. They met in Le Lycée Français de New York (USA) and spent some of their childhood in France and Belgium. They played in many bands, including The Cost of Living and Because Because Because. Their first drummer was called Dan, he was replaced by Aaron Conte, when he inturn left the band in January 1995 Ira Elliot, former drummer of the Fuzztones joined.. His arrival infused a new energy into the band; Matthew and Daniel's ambitions greatly increased, partly to ensure Ira stayed with the band.

After a show at the Knitting Factory, Nada Surf met Ric Ocasek. With little hope, they presented him with a copy of their first demo,Tafkans. Three weeks later, Ric called back with news of his intention to produce the band's album. The trio soon signed to Elektra in 1995 and cut their debut LP, High/Low, with Ocasek behind the boards. "Popular" became a surprise radio hit the following summer, and Nada Surf found themselves lumped into the "nerd rock revival" camp alongside Superdrag, Cake, and Weezer.. With no quality second hit in sight, neither 1996's moderately successful High/Low nor its forgettable 1998 follow-up, The Proximity Effect, gained much traction outside the indie rock underground. Subsequently dropped by Elektra, Nada Surf settled into a prolonged state of hibernation. That is, until 4 years later the belated and understated 2002 arrival of their revealing third opus, Let Go, on which Nada Surf showed that they refused to quietly fade away into gimmick-enforced exile by putting their faith into their own pop songwriting instincts. The resulting record takes its title quite literally, as layer after layer of preconceived notions and excess noise are stripped away to unveil both soft-spoken charm and intense newfound confidence.

Barsuk signed the group and released Let Go in 2002; three years later, The Weight Is a Gift (produced by fellow labelmate Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie) furthered the band's critical acclaim. Nada Surf then returned in 2008 with Lucky, which featured musical contributions from Ben Gibbard, Ed Harcourt, and members of both Calexico and Harvey Danger.



01 - Blizzard Of 77 (2:09)
02 - Happy Kid (4:10)
03 - Inside Of Love (4:58)
04 - Fruit Fly (4:34)
05 - Blonde On Blonde (4:34)
06 - Hi-Speed Soul (4:39)
07 - Killian's Red (6:13)
08 - The Way You Wear Your Head (3:18)
09 - Neither Heaven Nor Space (4:40)
10 - Là Pour Ça (3:18)
11 - Treading Water (4:23)
12 - Paper Boats (6:39)

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Nada Surf - Let Go ( * 99mb)

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Eight-X (40)

Hello, Eight-X lines up three new names today, two of them still performing regularly. One of these is the dutch band Gruppo Sportivo, a band led by the pleasantly deranged Hans Vandenburg that really rocked the dutch music scene in the late seventies. This live impact didnt make it to the studio but then it aint that hard to understand..as in sing along. A good thing too they preceded the B52's it would have muddled their path....What to say about UB 40, saw them live in the summer of 1980 they really moved the crowd their great debut album followed a couple of months later. The followup Present Arms was much in the same vain but afterwards i have to say i lost interest..too cosy.....My last entry today is a bit of a surprise in the sense that when i ripped it, the music stood out better then i remembered..some great tracks. A former satiric punkband put themselves out in a over the top superslick new romantic setting, ironically Modern Romance's music was ok, they were one of the first white bands that incorperated rap into their music, i really like the final funk track 'Stand Up'

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Gruppo Sportivo - 10 Mistakes ( 77 ^ 99mb )

Gruppo Sportivo are from The Hague (Netherlands), formed in 1976, who enjoyed some measure of international success in the late 1970s and 1980s. The frontman of the band, and writer of the material, is Hans Vandenburg. 10 Mistakes their debut album was released fall 77. This after a tight and demanding tourschedule the year before during which they build a great reputation, which ensured the demand for 10 mistakes was high enough to chart. The dutch media too were enthousiastic about the way Vandenberg quoted from the history of pop, with riffs , intro's solo's and textfragments from anyone from the beatles to Frank Zappa with an emphasis on surf, rock and roll and highschool hits from the fifties and sixties. A year later the album was awarded an Edison( biggest music prize in the Netherlands).

The following year's Back to 78 was released, and a non-LP single. The hysterically manic Buddy Odor Is A Gas! is a Hans Vandenburg solo LP which to all intents and purposes is Sportivo's third long player. 1980's Copy Copy finds Deaf School alumna Bette Bright putting in a guest vocal performance; an appealing move, as early Deaf School explored a somewhat related conceptual aesthetic. Unfortunately, Side One's second-rate material and the too-smooth production did little for either party's reputation. Throughout the early eighties, the band continued releasing top-notch mock-pop to an ever dwindling audience that was apparently far more concerned with style over substance, simplicity over wit. Pop! Goes the Brain, Design Moderne, and Sombrero Times are brilliantly executed pop albums overflowing with self-deprecating wit, biting cynicism, urban humanism, hopeless romance, and of course, killer hooks.

After a false start with the over-produced and under-written Sucker of the Century, a re-grouped Gruppo were still at it into the nineties, releasing a delightful double cd (Young and Out) in 1992, featuring one disc of sparkling new material ("Young"), and one disc of mostly vault songs ("Out," phonetically Dutch for "old"), as well as a superlative live record (Sing Sing) in 1995. July 1997 saw the American release of Sing Sing, retitled Second Life (including a bonus five-song CDEP). Vandenburg also continued his solo career in a somewhat more rock-oriented format (1994's Commercial Break, and 1996's Shake Hands with Vandenburg). Gruppo re-grouped once again for a single in 2000, the sensational Topless 16 record in 2004, and a few more new tracks in 2006. And still touring to this date..



01 - Beep Beep Love (2:54)
02 - Superman (6:24)
03 - Lasting Forever (4:11)
04 - Girls Never Know (3:18)
05 - I Shot My Manager (2:48)
06 - Mission A Paris (4:17)
07 - Rock and Roll (2:29)
08 - Dreamin' (4:19)
09 - Henri (4:22)
10 - Armee Monika (4:57)
11 - Rubber Gun (3:11)

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UB40 - Signing Off ( 80 ^ 99mb)

The band members began as friends who knew each other from various colleges and schools across Birmingham. The name "UB40" was selected in reference to a paper form it stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.Before any of them could play their instruments, Ali Campbell and Brian Travers travelled around Birmingham promoting the band, putting up UB40 posters. The band purchased its first instruments from Woodroffe's Musical Instruments with £4,000 in compensation money that Campbell, who would become the lead singer, received after a bar fight during his 17th birthday celebration.

UB40 caught their first break when Chrissie Hynde noticed them at a pub and gave them an opportunity as a support act to her band, The Pretenders. UB40's first single, "King"/"Food for Thought" was released on Graduate Records, a local independent label run by David Virr. It reached No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Their first album was titled Signing Off, as the band were signing off from or closing their claim on the unemployment benefit. It was recorded in a bedsit in Birmingham and was produced by Bob Lamb. Norman Hassan said of the recording: "if you stripped my track down, you could hear the birds in the background." This is because his tracks were recorded outside in the garden. Signing Off was released on September 6, 1980, and entered the UK Albums Chart on October 2, 1980. It reached as high as No. 2 in the UK and spent 72 weeks in total on the chart.

Signing Off features a mix of reggae and dub material which was lyrically politically charged and socially conscious, while musically was reverb-heavy, doom-laden yet mellifluous, best exemplified in the hits "King" and "Food For Thought" as well as the searing "Burden of Shame". "King" was a song written about the late Martin Luther King, questioning the lost direction of the deceased leader's followers and the state of mourning of a nation after his death. Signing Off is considered by many to be by far UB40's best album, as well as one of the finest reggae albums by a British group. In 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

UB40 went on to become one of the most successful reggae acts of all time in terms of record sales (over 70 million), chart positions and touring schedule. During their three-decade long career, they have been performing sell-out shows worldwide and headlining the Reggae Sunsplash music festival in Jamaica, as well as spreading reggae to Russia and South America, among others. Much of UB40's commercial appeal came from their releases of classic cover songs. In fact, all three of their UK number one hits and four of their five U.S. top ten hits were cover versions. This year saw the departure of singer Ali Campbell , he's been replaced by Maxi Priest and Duncan Campbell.



01 - Tyler (5:50)
02 - King (4:31)
03 - 12 Bar (4:30)
04 - Burden Of Shame (6:25)

05 - Adella (3:24)
06 - I Think Its Going To Rain Today (3:38)
07 - 25% (3:30)
08 - Food For Thought (4:04)
09 - Little By Little (3:36)
10 - Signing Off (4:23)

UB40 - Signing Off 12 inch (52mb)

11 - Madam Medusa (12:50)
12 - Strange Fruit (4:04)
13 - Reefer Madness (5:02)

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Modern Romance - Adventures In Clubland (81 ^ 99mb)

Modern Romance was a pop music band, with a distinctive trumpet driven sound, formed in 1980 by previous members of an earlier punk band, The Leyton Buzzards,.a vehicle for satiric songwriters Geoff Deane (vocals) and David Jaymes (bass).Underscoring the band's undiscovered assets, Deane and Jaymes went on to major commercial stardom playing dance music as Modern Romance, and became a UK chart sensation. Adventures in Clubland is fake disco-salsa, with enough beat to satisfy the most demanding feet and enough smirking to prove they don't believe a second of it. For proof, sample "Bring on the Funkateers" or "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey." Regardless — or perhaps because — of the insincerity, this is good fun. Some good album tracks "Nothing evergoes the way you planned" or the Parliament funk inspired "Stand Up" make it an enjoyable album..the kitschy new romantic cover not withstanding.

A subsequent split left bassist Jaymes in sole command but hardly shorthanded, and he took the quintet for another joyride on Trick of the Light, hitting an infectious happy-feet high on "Best Years of Our Lives," rhumba-ing through "High Life," swinging in big-band land on "Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm" and so on well into the night. (Well, for 40 minutes at least.) Again, a good time is assured for all. Geoff Deane, later become a writer and producer, scripting for successful television programs such as Birds of a Feather, Babes in the Wood,"Tonight With Jonathan Ross" "Chef" and Last Man Standing .



01 - Bring On The Funkateers (4:10)
02 - Nothing Ever Goes The Way You Plan / Queen Of The Rapping Scene (5:43)
03 - Clubland Mix (11:26)
----- 1 * Everybody Salsa
----- 2 * Moose On The Loose
----- 3 * Salsa Rappsody
----- 4 * Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey

04 - We've Got Them Running (The Counting Song) (3:40)
05 - I Stand Alone (4:47)
06 - I Can't Get Enough (4:19)
07 - Stand Up (5:50)

Around The World (40)

Hello, Around the Worldmusic has some ultra heavy dub music lined up today . The dubforce is strong in this one,so grease those speakers, unplug your ears, extend your consciousness and warn the neighbours.

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Scientist - Dub From The Ghetto ( 78 min ^ 172mb)

Born in Kingston in 1960, Hopeton Overton Brown learned basic electronics from his TV repairman father, skills that made him very popular with the mobile DJs and their not-always-functioning sound systems. One day he landed at the legendary dub producer/mixer King Tubby studio, to get some transformers by which Scientist could build his own amplifiers. Soon the Scientist was an employee of Tubby's, fixing electronics, when one day, after an animated conversation about mixing records, Tubby challenged the Scientist to take a shot at remixing a record. Brimming with adolescent bravado, Scientist took Tubby's challenge, and that led to an extended apprenticeship in dub experimentation under Tubby's guidance. It was at Tubby's that the Scientist developed his style, playful and very psychedelic, loaded with echo explosions and blasts of feedback.

With Don Mais supervising the production, Scientist, now all of 18, cut some wicked dub sides for Mais' Roots Tradition label. At the end of the '70s, Scientist (aka "The Dub Chemist") left Tubby's and became the principal engineer for Channel One Studio when hired by the Hoo Kim brothers, giving him the chance to work on a 16-track mixing desk rather than the four tracks at Tubby's. He came to prominence in the early 1980s and produced many albums, his mixes featuring on many releases in the first part of the decade. In particular, he was the favourite engineer of Henry "Junjo" Lawes, for whom he mixed several albums featuring the Roots Radics, many based on tracks by Barrington Levy.He also did a lot of work for Linval Thompson and Jah Thomas. In 1982 he left Channel One to work at Tuff Gong studio as second engineer to Errol Brown. In 1985, Scientist moved to Silver Springs, Maryland, where he lives and works as a recording engineer.

Scientist made a series of albums in the early 1980s, released on Greensleeves records with titles themed around fictional achievements in fighting Space Invaders, Pac-Men, and Vampires, and winning the World Cup.Half of his album 'Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires' is used on the soundtrack for the popular videogame Grand Theft Auto III. The tracks on the fictitious radio station 'K-Jah' are composed entirely of songs from this album.

Dub From The Ghetto is an excellent twenty track collection representing some of the definitive dubs from the Scientist. Dubs to Linval Thompson's Pop no style, Johnny Clarke's blood dunza, Barry Brown's separation, Horace Andy's something on my mind and Tristan Palmer's awesome Enteertainment are all represented - Elsewhere "Young Lover" touches the majestic shank I sheck ridim, Dub of the Traveller versions armagideon time, and Scientist's own version of Nina Simone's Baltimore via the Tamlins literally defy belief... Ultra heavy.


01 - Nuh Brother Fight (Heavenless) (3:37)
02 - Tribute To The Reggae King Dub (4:04)
03 - Dub Of The Traveller (3:24)
04 - Gunshot (3:24)
05 - Caring For My Sister (5:35)
06 - Something On My Mind Dub (2:25)
07 - Dub Of Gladness (3:07)
08 - Movie Star Dub (3:13)
09 - Blood Dunza Dub (3:08)
10 - Separation (12" Version) (5:31)
11 - Time Is Cold Dub (3:10)
12 - Miss Know It (3:21)
13 - One Way (3:08)
14 - Problem Dub (3:11)
15 - Young Lover (3:25)
16 - Jah Wrote Me (A Letter From Zion) (5:51)
17 - Baltimore Dub (4:44)
18 - Scientist Explosion Dub (3:43)
19 - Pop No Style (7:01)
20 - Dub From The Ghetto (2:49)

diet version
Scientist - Dub From The Ghetto (99mb)

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Starship Titanic (1)

Hello, many moons ago when i was posting the Hitchhikers Guide , i got the request for Starship Titanic. So coming up is the BBC radio play in 8 parts. Starship Titanic is in Douglas Adams' style and set more or less in the universe of his Hitchhikers' books (but not with the characters from that series). As a companion to a game project piloted by Douglas Adams, Terry Jones wrote "Starship Titanic". With parallels to the actual Titanic and the movie "2001", the book sees a luxury space ship run by an advanced intelligence system fall victim to SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. When the ship disappears from one planet, it crashes on to Earth. While leaving Earth, it takes several Earthlings on-board for a voyage only to leave behind a key member of the crew with a key part of the intelligence system. Without a functioning intelligence system, the ship's bomb can not be deactivated. Fortunately, the bomb has a short attention span.

The starship Titanic was designed by one of the galaxy's greatest minds, intended to be a marvel of technology, design and luxury. It's due to be unveiled and launched as the story begins. However, they're waiting for the guest of honor - the ship's designer - to arrive.We then flashback to the previous night. The designer has decided to pay a final visit to see the completed ship in all of its glory. Unfortunately, it isn't finished. It seems the designer hasn't paid attention to details such as finances. His manager and accountant have failed to keep him informed of all the short-cuts and scrimping they've been doing. Not to mention delays that have left gaping holes in some of the ship's decks. And now somebody's trying to destroy the ship - using a bomb that talks - but has too little of a mind to keep the countdown straight and have a conversation at the same time... There are several people on the ship trying to deal with the problems. Or at least avoid being blown up themselves. Oddly enough, three of them come from a planet the builders have never heard of, called Earth. Unfortunately, they don't have First Class tickets and, therefore, are not allowed in those parts of the ship they need to get to...


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Adams Starship Titanic 1 (28min,19mb)

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Sundaze, Inside Out (7)

Hello, Sundaze's up and i gathered it's been 3 months, time for another Inside Out. There's plenty to enjoy and ponder upon this Sundaze. Now, i got a very nifty tool tool lately that enables me to download and recode videos that are out there. Not that special, but some of the video's are, and today i have a stunning compilation made from Hubble images. Awesome ! The Universe on a scale where the screen crosses many lightyears, at the same time looks much much smaller, almost touchable, as if you were standing in it. You can feel that it's alife, it's magical . We are told we're just a tiny tiny part of it, but are we ? Aren't we as observers bring it to the for, granted a philosphical question, but its been proven that our perception creates light (Heisenberg principle) So is this video reflecting the Universe's collective consciousness ? Whatever you think, this 55 min vid is wonderful, and should you not like the music turn it off, and just let your eyes wander and wonder.



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Hubble, View Of The Universe ( 81mb, avi 55min)

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Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and the novelty theory. At age 16, McKenna moved to, Los Altos, California. He was introduced to psychedelics through reading The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and Village Voice. One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing.". He spent the years after his graduation (degree in Ecology and Conservation) teaching English in Japan, traveling through India and South Asia collecting butterflies for biological supply companies, and smuggling hashish into the United States. Together with his brother he travelled to Columbia checking out the psychedelic snuff called yopo, the mind normally remains clear and focused during the entire experience . As a consequence Terance claimed it put him in contact with Logos: an informative, hallucinatory voice he believed was universal to visionary religious experience. The revelations of this voice, and his brother's peculiar experience during the experiment, prompted him to explore the structure of an early form of the I Ching, which led to his "Novelty Theory".

In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, lecturing extensively and conducting weekend workshops, repeatedly stressing the importance of the primacy of felt experience as opposed to dogmatic ideologies. In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on the subjects of virtual reality (which he saw as a way to artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics), techno-paganism, artificial intelligence, evolution, extraterrestrials, and aesthetic theory (art/visual experience as information-- representing the significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics). He advised the taking of psychedelic mushrooms, in both low and high doses, alone and with others.He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening. He believed DMT was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience and spoke of the "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" that one encounters in that state.

McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions with Kathleen Harrison (his colleague and wife of 17 years), a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the island of Hawaii, where he lived for many years before he died. A longtime sufferer of migraines, in mid-1999 McKenna returned to his home in Hawaii after a long and tiring lecturing tour. He began to suffer from increasingly painful headaches. This culminated in a brain seizure, which led to McKenna being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.He died 53 years old on April 3, 2000, alongside his loved ones. 

Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open — following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way. Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. McKenna, claimed enhancement of visual acuity as an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including a physical sexual arousal (obviously, not reported as a typical effect in scientific studies) — and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave evolutionary advantages to those tribes who partook of it.

Watch his lecture about it Seeking The Stone, Mind & Time, Spirit & Matter (avi 2 parts, 103min, 126mb)

One of McKenna's most widely-promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time.The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness. According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases. 

This universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" ) could occur. The graph had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012, in other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. Basically it's impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness.

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Another great talk and some amazing concepts are explored here

Terance McKenna - 'UFOs' and The Mushroom ( 83 min, 47mb)

some quotes from this talk 

"I think reason can take us only a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination."

"And this is something I’m going to try and convince the UFO community of, what we drug people have that you don’t is repeatability."

"The Stropharia cubensis mushroom is a memory bank of galactic history. Alien, but full of promise, it throws open a potential for understanding that will sweep away the petty concerns of earth and history-bound humanity."

"Not all psychedelics are alike. And this very small family of compounds, called the tryptomine hallucinogens, bear careful examination if we’re seriously interested in this question of exterrestial penetration of the human world."

"I think that the alien will be so alien that your jaw will hang in the air. And expecting to meet an anthropoid-like alien with an interest in your reproductive machinery and gross industrial capacity is as culture-bound a concept as searching NGC-321 for a good Italian restaurant. It’s absurd on the face of it."

"Now you may have thought telepathy was you hearing somebody else think. Apparently, that’s not what telepathy is. Telepathy is you seeing what somebody else means. It’s the visual acquisition of meaning rather than the audio acquisition of meaning."

"I think that we are on a collision course with a planet-transforming event, and that we have been for a very, very long time. I also believe that it lies below the horizon of rational apprehension at this point in time."

"The world is not what it appears to be."

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Dr Jeffrey Thompson - Creative Mind System ( * 99mb)

Dr. Thompson has been experimenting with sound scientifically since 1980. He first started in his Holistic Health Center in Virginia . His experiments were in using exact sound frequencies to make Chiropractic spinal and cranial adjustments, to stimulate and normalize organ function and to balance Acupuncture Meridians. He developed a very gentle and effective method of making adjustments and continues to use this approach today. In addition to his chiropractic expertise, Dr. Thompson is recognized as a worldwide expert in the field of acoustic pacing frequencies incorporated into musical sound tracks. A consummate musician and composer in his own rite, he has established a method for using modulated sound-pulses for changing states of consciousness for optimal "Mind-Body" healing.

Dr. Thompson's first recording, Isle of Skye, was carried by major music distributors in the US within its first month of release. Within the first six months, it was adopted by the American Hypnotherapy Association for its use in hypnosis. In the years since, Dr Thompson has generated more than ninety acoustic pacing compact disks and audiotapes sold globally and used by Holistic physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, chiropractors, massage therapists and other bodywork professionals as well as the general public.

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson created a Creative Mind Pattern as an Audio Program of captivating and beautiful music. With his powerful recording techniques and application of his on-going research, work, and awareness, coupled with his powerful recording techniques, he now offers to all the enhanced potential of developing one's own Creative Mind Pattern. The composition brings you to a natural state of heightened creativity and expression, more easily attained with repeated use, shall we say "training," with Dr. Thompson's beautiful rendition of what makes a mind a creative mind.



01 - Inspiration (33:41)
02 - Vision (28:53)

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Lyall Watson - Supernature ( 73, PDF, 660k) 



Supernature deals with mysterious and inexplicable natural phenomena. It became a 1970s student essential, and was acclaimed for its stimulating treatment of exotic and unexpected scientific facts and discoveries. As a populariser of science snapping up unconsidered nerdy trifles, Watson ranged over astrology, paranormal phenomena, alchemy, circadian rhythms, palmistry, dreams and much else.The book went into 10 reprints in as many weeks, topped the bestseller list for 50 weeks, sold 750,000 copies in paperback and was translated into eight languages.

Lyall Watson (April 12, 1939 - 25 June 2008) was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with the first published use of the term Hundredth Monkey in his 1979 book, Lifetide.(This phenomenon referred to a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when an allegedly "critical mass" point is reached.) It is a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later.

He was born in Johannesburg as Malcolm Lyall-Watson. He had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush, learning from Zulu and !Kung bushmen. He earned degrees in geology, chemistry, marine biology, ecology and anthropology. He completed a doctorate of ethology at London University, under Desmond Morris. He also worked at the BBC writing and producing nature documentaries. He ran a safari company in Kenya and founded a marine national park in the Seychelles. 

Watson had an endlessly enquiring mind and never lost the habit of questioning received wisdom. Restless and nomadic, he travelled widely throughout his life, visiting Antarctica numerous times as an expedition leader and researcher. He introduced into his own body a tapeworm called Fred which, he claimed, unfailingly protected him from stomach disorders abroad. At various times he lived in America, South Africa, England and latterly Ireland, rising at six every morning to write for three hours before starting his day.

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Rhotation (40) Into BPM

Hello, Rho-Xs is back and so Rhotation continues, what better way to pick up the rhythm again with Into The BPM and three technotrance albums. Ben Watkins has build a good name over the 25 years he's been in music, these days the Japanese seem to have taken a shining. His main alter ego has been Juno Reactor you get his first album under that name here, btw i re-upped his 84 Empty Quarter albums aswell..The Drum Club were the talk of the town for a couple of years after which they split and dried.. R-Escape-R turned out not a name that stuck and so this Frenchman never got a real chance, French hadn't any rights to exposure on the rave scene, consider Daft Punk hadnt entered the arena at that time, easy enough then to discard, d'hommage.. give it a try

On a sad note it seems massmirror has lost most of my uploads, possibly everyone's, could be my file coding (unhelpful for their search engine) , or my ogg format, in any case, these file hosters all have a very hypocritical businessmodel. Well im not planning to re up these directly (way too many alas) i will however do so on request.

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Juno Reactor - Transmissions (93^150mb)

Ben Watkins is a British electronic music artist and producer, best known as being the principal member of the band Juno Reactor. He started making music in 1982. In the early 1980s, Watkins started out as part of the London based New Wave band The Hitmen, featuring Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode and Recoil). After that he and Martin "Youth" Glover from Killing Joke recorded two albums as Empty Quarter .

Originally Juno Reactor was formed as an art project in 1990; Ben Watkins wanted to collaborate with other artists to produce and be involved in exciting projects that were not commercially driven. He wanted to create experimental music/non musical soundtracks that would work with installations, art pieces and film projects. In 1993, Juno Reactor released their first single, Laughing Gas, on the NovaMute label. This was soon followed by their debut album, Transmissions, considered to be one of the first albums in the goa trance genre. Later, the band released Luciana on Alex Paterson's (The Orb) Inter-Modo label. Watkins switched labels again and in 1995 he signed to Blue Room the album Beyond the Infinite was released in 1996.

By 97 he released Bible of Dreams this time on Wax Trax! Records/TVT Records. It wasJuno Reactor's fourth album and it sounded much different from the previous work by implementing tribal percussion influences. Courtesy of Amampondo, a traditional South African percussion act. In 1998 at Glastonbury Festival. Juno Reactor with Amampondo stunned the crowd with a superb live set . Another mileneium another label and so Watkins released the fifth Juno Reactor album, Shango on Metropolis Records. The first track from the album, Pistolero, with guitarist Steve Stevens featured during the trailer for the movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico, as well as the film itself.

The sixth Juno Reactor album, Labyrinth, was released in October 2004, and featured Watkins' work from the Matrix films. The new album once again cemented the tribal influences present in their music through tracks like Conquistador II. In 2006 Ben Watkins was hired to compose an orchestral score for Brave Story (A Japanese Feature anime). Sony Japan released the Soundtrack in July. Recorded in Slovakia with the Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra and choir, it shows a new versatile and unexpected side of Ben Watkins and Juno Reactor. 2008 will see the collaboration of Koji Morimoto and Ben Watkins, on an experimental anime project called Genius Party.

Juno Reactor's latest album 'Gods and Monsters' was released in March 2008, and features the introduction of Ghetto Priest and Sugizo into the Juno Reactor fold along with Eduardo Niebla, Xavier Morel, and Yasmin Levy. They will be touring in USA and Mexico this september.



01 - High Energy Protons (6:32)
02 - The Heavens (Voc.Maria Naylor) (6:27)
03 - Luna-Tic (9:01)
04 - Contact (5:53)
05 - Acid Moon (8:38)
06 - 10,000 Miles (Voc.Annie Fontaine) (5:55)
07 - Laughing Gas (8:04)
08 - Man To Ray (6:42)
09 - Landing (8:42)

Juno Reactor - Transmissions ( * 99mb)

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Drum Club - Live In Iceland ( 95 * 99mb)

Lol Hammond met Charlie Hall in 1990 when Charlie was Dj-ing at a party called TransAtlantic in Kings Cross, London. The initial idea was to remix a track that Lol had worked on; 'Made in 2 minutes' by Bug Khan and The Plastic Jam. The remix morphed into a new track that eventually became the seminal 'U Make me Feel so good'. It was initially released on the first Spiral Tribe EP and picked up by legendary DJ Andy Weatherall and then released by Guerilla Records and remixed by React 2 Rhythm. Another single, 'Alchemy', remixed by Orbital was released by Geurilla and then Drum Club moved to Youth's label, Butterfly. Two albums; 'Everything is Now' and 'Drums are Dangerous' came out and remix friends Underworld, Claudio Coccoluto, Hardkiss and Tony Thorpe contributed to single releases. Drum Club also ran the groundbreaking 'Midi Circus' tour that brought together Orbital, Aphex Twin, System 7, Spooky and The Drum Club in a live show with DJs, inspired by DJ Stika's great Fun-da-Mental underground nights. Simultaneously the massively influential Drum Club night ran from 1991 until 1994 in The Sounshaft Progressive House was conceived, born and weaned in this club that saw live performances from Orbital, Underworld, the debut of the Chemical Brothers and naturally The Drum Club.

Drums Are Dangerous was a breakthrough of sorts, earning an American release through Instinct in 1994. Instinct also documented Hall and Hammond's crucial concert appearances on 1995's Live in Iceland. Later that year, however, Hammond formed the breakbeat act Slab! with Nina Walsh, Contraband, Girls, Ego and time took their toll and Drum Club broke up. Lol Hammond went on to forge an immensely successful DJ and writing career and is now the proud father of two and Charlie Hall turned to teaching and now spends a third of the year in Italy teaching Art History to English and American students.



01 - Oscillate And Infiltrate (9:51)
02 - Bug (5:58)
03 - Follow The Sun (7:46)
04 - Reefer (6:32)
05 - Crystal Express (7:57)
06 - De-Lushed (5:21)
07 - Plateau Of Wolves (7:04)
08 - U Make Me Feel So Good (9:26)

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R-Escape-R - Chapter One (96 * 99mb)

R-Escape-R is the alter ego of frenchman Alain Valsecchi, he released just one album, the excellent techno/hypno trance Chapter One, why it never came to more i can't say as the search engines remain silent when it comes to R-Escape-R or Alain Valsecchi i gathered he did some art projects but obviously forgot to pick up dj-ing as this is the promotion tool for dance musicians..Oh well the French will have it their way. Into the Abyss appeared on a number of compilation albums, give it a try i would say..



01 - Into The Abyss (7:07)
02 - Aquatic Dream (6:20)
03 - Human Dea (9:32)
04 - Escape (6:59)
05 - Surviving Spirit (5:41)
06 - Call From The Voodooland To Venus (6:57)
07 - Cosmocrator (5:00)
08 - Med=Kansla 4 U (6:16)
09 - Space Waltz Navigator (5:10)
10 - See U Soon (5:55)

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