Canadia 2056 (6)

Hello, still busy updating..next update post coming up later, but first.. the saga continues and i hope the number of fans will increase as the story unfolds more hilarious reasonings ..the coming 27 minutes

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there..

Episode 6:

Anderson pines for Connie, his first love. The crew loses the ability to navigate the ship when they are controlled by a cloud. The up side is that the cloud grants them wishes, the down side is that the cloud grants them wishes.


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Canadia 2056 - 06 (20mb)

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Sundaze (47)

Hello, Sundaze is up and today the tone is earthly ambient, besides that there's two limited editions...O Yuki Conjugate 's releases are all limited editions though these days they can be had at the limitless ITunes. Sunchemical was released as mini album with remixes of previous work, nevertheless the 50min disk has plenty of album qualities....Second Nature's disk is even more limited and the trio that made it never got together again , unfortunately as this should rank amongst the best ambient work they produced....Doug Wimbish has had a rollercoaster career, musically that is.When he finally got to releasing a soloalbum it reflected his more contemplative moods as the title says it all " Trippy Notes For Bass"

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O Yuki Conjugate - Sunchemical (95 ^ 99mb)

O Yuki Conjugate is an organic ambient musical group, instruments used include tongue drums, roto-toms, bongos, congas, "big bean," "found percussion," drum machine, wind chimes, loops, frying pan, bass guitar, samples, keyboards, fractal guitar, e-bow, flutes, chants, radio, wildlife, tablas, berimbau, nose-singing, and vocals. Their music, as apparent from this list, is percussive and inventive, but it is also atmospheric.

O Yuki Conjugate was formed in Nottingham in 1982 by multi-instrumentalists Andrew Hulme, Tim and Roger Horberry and Claire Elliot; inspired by the atmospheric guitar instrumentals of the Durutti Column, they began experimenting with keyboards and tape loops, adding percussion to the mix before debuting with the soundscapes of 1984's Scene in Mirage( lim. ed 500 copies). A three-year gap preceded the release of the follow-up, Into the Dark Water, good reviews limeted edition, 1000 copies the first of many extended absences from the contemporary music scene; only in 1991 did O Yuki Conjugate again resurface, issuing Peyote on the Projekt label. Undercurrents (re-issued In Dark Water), which assembled both older material and latter-day recordings, appeared a year later. The band split up with marriage and study taking presedence, Andrew and Roger continue.

When asked to do a show in the netherlands Tim returns Malcolm McGeorge, Dan Mudford and Peter Woodhead join and after some serious repetitionwork, the concert is a success and O Yuki is reborn a homestudio is build. Support slots for Biosphere and Higher Intelligence Agency bring them ahead and 1994's Equator is deemed superb. The group released Sunchemical, a collection of remixes,just 2000 copies nevertheless it got them a cease and desist notice from the american printing giant with te same name..duh. They release Primitive on Staalplaat. Roger Horberry moves the Amsterdam where he pursues solo projects Andrew Hulme meanwhile does his own á small good thing". Oh Yuki dissappears to the back ground.Hulme and Horberry additionally collaborated on dance music under the name Symetrics, with the former also heading the groups A Small Good Thing and Sons of Silence as well as recording Fell with Paul Schütze.

By 2004 Oh Yuki is revived as Hume and Jenkins finish recording a dirty ambient album and decide to use the Oh Yuki moniker, the album is finally released in 2006 as "The Euphoria Of Disobedience". The band described the new album as ''dirty ambient - multi layered, hyper textural and distinctly gritty''. Meanwhile the backcatallogue has been uploaded to Itunes aswell.



01 - Sulphur (S) (8:24)
02 - Niobium (NB) (6:59)
03 - Californium (CA) (10:27)
04 - Carbon (C) (7:00)
05 - Polonium (Po) (10:00)
06 - Bismuth (Bi) (7:04)

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Second Nature - Second Nature (95 ^ 152mb)

This is a rarety, just 1000 pressed, the names getting together here are well known enough, Bill Laswell, Atom Heart and Tetsu Inoue, latter two had released an album together shortly before, Flowerhead. Second Nature is... A series of sound environments that depict the world at micro level...", The trio have composed a work which is immediately original, invigorating, and captivating. This is true ambient music played by people who played long before you could buy a computer that would sequence everything for you. The album comprises of both electronic pulses and sampled sounds of nature. True to the title of the album, each of the tracks creates a "second nature". "Synthetic Forest", "Green Paste", and "Artificial Seaside" each reflect a mirrored world that Heart, Inoue, and Laswell have created. The worlds in Second Nature are vivid and lush. The colors of the foliage bleed in vibrant hues and the landscapes are massive and majestic...nevertheless the three never worked again as Atom Heart emigrated to Chili and went Coconuts , Bill has always something cooking and Tetsu



01 - Synthetic Forest (28:42)
02 - Green Paste (16:59)
03 - Artificial Seaside (16:29)
04 - Landing Cycle (6:25)

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Doug Wimbish - Trippy Notes For Bass (99 ^ 139mb)

Doug Wimbish was one of the 1980s' most versatile bassists, able to move from pop and mainstream rock session work to heavy metal, funk, and experimental music over the course of the decade; he continued in this vein through the 1990s before finally releasing his first solo album, Trippy Notes for Bass, in 1999.

Doug Wimbish made his first splash as the bassist in the house band of the legendary rap label Sugar Hill, backing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on their epochal Message album, among many others. As the ' 80s wore on, Sugar Hill found itself overtaken by hip-hop innovations outside its stable of artists, and its house band had already formed a productive relationship with British dub reggae experimentalist Adrian Sherwood. Wimbish, guitarist Skip McDonald, and drummer Keith LeBlanc began working on a variety of projects with Sherwood, including backing ex-Pop Group member Mark Stewart on his solo recordings and issuing their own 12" singles under the name Fats Comet. Major Malfunction was released in 1986 under Keith LeBlanc's name, although it was essentially a group collaboration; that group dynamic became official when the trio christened themselves Tackhead and began recording full-length works with Sherwood. However, their two albums -- 1989's Friendly as a Hand Grenade and 1990's Strange Things -- didn't quite capture the avant-garde Funkadelic-meets-Lee Perry experiments of their earlier work.

When Living Colour bassist Muzz Skillings departed his band in 1992, Wimbish was tapped as his replacement. However, after 1993's Stain, the group disbanded, and Wimbish returned to session work.. Wimbish also reunited with Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun in the experimental funk/electronica trio Jungle Funk. In 1999, Sherwood's On-U Sound label issued Wimbish's first solo album, Trippy Notes for Bass. Where his playing in most previous contexts has been wild, funky, and sometimes anarchic, drawing freely on jazz, dub, and punk influences, here he's in an almost contemplative mood. It's not that there are no beats -- . But the prevailing mood here is gently atmospheric, almost spiritual. "Glory" sounds like a field recording from an electronic rain forest; "Glorification Chant" sounds like a sort of North African qawwali. Those hoping for bone-shaking grooves and crazier-than-thou Adrian Sherwood mixes may be disappointed, but they shouldn't be -- this is a very beautiful piece of work.



01 - Quasimodo (1:32)
02 - Perplex (5:11)
03 - Bedwood (5:19)
04 - Gangster (5:39)
05 - Just Another Minute (1:14)
06 - Arabic (Voc.Sussan Deyhim) Cat (4:38)
07 - Leave It Alone (4:56)
08 - Veneered (5:43)
09 - Glorification Chant (Voc.Sussan Deyhim) (5:54)
10 - Logdrum (4:11)
11 - Splash (3:38)
12 - Will & Skip (2:09)
13 - Glory (3:16)
14 - Daze (3:22)
15 - Pass It Around (1:20)

diet version
Doug Wimbish - Trippy Notes For Bass (* 99mb)

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Into The Groove (46)

Hello, Fridaynight disco coming up, after last weeks funk, time for someof the dance floor attacks of the seventies/early eighties...some say she invented disco, maybe not as such but her album Never Can Say Goodbye made a big statement in 1975 , side one mixed for the dancefloor and subsequently all three tracks became hits in their own right, amazing feat. Sadly 7 years later she fell victim to a religious fever, meanwhile she kept on singing i will survive and becoming a gay icon nonetheless...strange...Niteflyte was more of symbolic why by the end of the seventies there was this anti disco backlash..mainly in the states..producers, real musicians had taken over the format..not that it wasnt good music..as you can convince yourself here, but somehow too establishment ..and formulised....finally the last big discobang no one could resist, Lipsync better known as Lipps Inc., in fact they led in a new kind of disco..even though they never got over their megahit and thus became a one hit wonder..Funkytown...simple and catchy, in a way the answer to the big hit the year before, M's PopMuzik.

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Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye (75 ^ 80mb)

Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/pop band, in the 1960s. Her first solo single was "She'll Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby" (1965).Her first real success came in 1975 with the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye, which established her as a disco artist. The first side of this album consisted of three disco songs ("Honey Bee", "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Reach Out, I'll Be There"), with no breaks in between the songs. This 19-minute dance marathon proved to be enormously popular, especially at dance clubs. All three songs were released as singles via radio edits, and all of them became hits. This album was so instrumental in introducing disco music to the public, that many later believed that Gloria Gaynor had been the first artist to record disco music. "Never Can Say Goodbye" became the first song to top Billboard magazine's dance chart. So, in that sense, she was the first. Capitalizing on the success of her first album, Gloria Gaynor quickly released her second album Experience Gloria Gaynor later that same year. While this album was also successful, it was not quite as popular as her previous album in the mainstream.

For the next few years, Gloria Gaynor would only enjoy a few moderate hits. However, in late 1978, with the release of her album Love Tracks, she climbed the pop charts again because of her song "I Will Survive". Interestingly, it was originally the B-side when Polydor Records released it in late 1978. The A-side, a song called "Substitute", was considered to be more "radio friendly." Boston Radio DJ Jack King turned the record over and recalls being stunned by what he heard. "I couldn't believe they were burying this monster hit on the B-side", says King. "I played it and played it and my listeners went nuts." This audience response forced the record company to flip the songs, so that subsequent copies of the single listed the more popular song on the A-side. "I Will Survive". was awarded the first and only Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the US due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979. Surprisingly, neither albums' singles registered on Urban contemporary radio, where disco music remained popular. In 1982, she became a Christian and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sinful. She would not release an album in 1982. In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R&B and Pop style songs.

Gaynor would achieve her final success in the '80s with the release of her album I Am Gloria Gaynor in 1984. This was mainly due to the song "I Am What I Am", which became a hit at dance clubs, it made Gaynor a gay icon. However, her career went into sharp decline following this hit. She returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love. The two singles released from the album, "Just Keep Thinking About You" and "I Never Knew", both topped Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play. After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of "I Will Survive", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows.



01 - Honey Bee (6:01)
02 - Never Can Say Goodbye (6:20)
03 - Reach Out, I'll Be There (6:14)

04 - All I Need Is Your Sweet Lovin' (2:47)
05 - Searchin' (2:54)
06 - We Belong Together (2:51)
07 - False Alarm (3:41)
08 - Real Good People (3:03)

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Niteflyte - Niteflyte ( 80 ^ 98mb)

Sandy Torano spotted Howard Johnson singing in a local Miami Bar , they hit it off and together they formed Niteflyte in 1977. Niteflyte became an American disco group, but with the pretension of making real music with quality musicians and so on their debut album, co produced by 'Styx (!) producer Barry Mraz, you find among others David Sanborn and the Brecker Brothers doing their thing. They released an album on Ariola Records in 1979, which peaked at #59 on the Billboard Black Albums chart, and a single, "If You Want It", which hit #37 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Howard stayed with the group until the early '80's when he signed with A & M Records as a solo artist. His debut solo album, 'Keepin' Love New'



01 - All About Love (4:35)
02 - If You Want It (4:23)
03 - Sunshine (5:44)
04 - Make It Right (5:01)

05 - Get On The Fun (4:14)
06 - Tryin' To Find (5:13)
07 - I Wonder (3:12)
08 - Easy Come (6:06)
09 - No Two Alike (3:51)

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Lipps Inc..- Mouth To Mouth ( 80 ^ 82mb)

Lipps Inc (pronounced like "lip sync") was a studio band that achieved one significant hit, "Funkytown" in 1980. The song is considered, by some, the last disco song to hit #1 in the U.S.

The group was formed in Minneapolis by Steven Greenberg, who wrote and produced all of the group's music, and who also played several musical instruments. Multi instrumentalist Greeenberg had played in several bands and had been trying to secure a production deal. He finally caught the interest of casablanca Records with a disco track called "Rock It".Casablanca asked Greenberg for a full album and he gathered a cast of sessionplayers that initially included David Rifkin, guitarist Tom Riopelle and Terry Grant on bass. Most importantly, he recruited lead vocalist Cynthia Johnson, former miss Black Minnasota. Mouth to Mouth was released in 1980, when Funkytown was released as the second single it became an instant hit. It spent 4 weeks at no 1 in the US and a major hit around the world.

Their further singles failed to match their initial success (their only other Hot 100 entry was "Rock It", which peaked at #64), The six-song release Pucker Up followed, featuring a disco remake of the British pub rock group Ace's hit ballad "How Long." which reached #4 on the U.S. dance chart. The album however didn't attract too much attention, and neither did the next Lipps Inc. full-length, Designer Music. The group released their final full-length album, 4 in 1983 it didn't cause a stir and Cynthia Johnson left for good that year. subsequently Lipps Inc. threw in the towel. Greenberg eventually moved into web design, and owns a profitable company still based in Minneapolis.



01 - Funkytown (7:49)
02 - All Night Dancing (8:16)

03 - Rock It (5:38)
04 - Power (8:10)

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Alphabet Soup II ( U)

Hello, time for another Alphabet Soup II, we say hello to U ..from the mists of time we see rising Uriah Heep, still touring i might add. Over the years they have released 21 studio albums, 12 live albums, 13 compilation albums and 27 singles and still touring to this day, althought there's just one original member left, Mick Box, that said some of the current line up have been part almost 3 decades now. Way to go....With our next band, their first strike took them almost all the way, set up as an open project The Unknown Cases just released the one album, Cuba a decade after their megahit Masimbabele..it's German re;ease hasnt reached Discogs...whats in a name i'd say ? Do you really think Usain Bolt would be the worlds topsprinter, if his father's name had been Snail ? I dont think so.. but i drift off ..The guys behind The Unknown Cases got distracted and entered the dance scene as Trance Groove, as such they released a considerable body of work.....finally Unkle , i was unpleasently surprised when my disk of Psyence Fiction showed damage which rendered the last 3 tracks unusable. Now i do have their other work so i switched to Never, Neverland. It didnt get the DJ Shadow status obviously, but it did produce a face, one that got numerous surgeries in the years following...i almost forgot..being a good customer i got slipped a CDR copy from the Revisited album..really dislike that strategy, very disrespectful to fans and early adopters to release the same album with a bonus remix disk one year later ..Well its here now, btw many many remixes followed, it was as if Unkle intentionally tries to push fans away. If not, they should have set up a website where there body of work is available for download and at reasonable prices....


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Uriah Heep - Live (73, 77min ^ 180mb)

Uriah Heep's by-the-books progressive heavy metal made the British band one of the most popular hard rock groups of the early '70s. Formed by vocalist David Byron and guitarist Mick Box in the late '60s, the group went through an astonishing number of members over the next two decades -- nearly 30 different musicians passed through the band over the years. When Ken Hensley (guitar, keyboards, vocals) , bassist Paul Newton joined the pair and drummer Nigel Olsson got together with the duo Uriah Heep had taken shape.

Uriah Heep released their debut album Very 'eavy...Very 'umble (called Uriah Heep in the U.S.) in 1970. It introduced a heavy organ and guitar-driven sound, with David Byron's theatrical, dynamic vocals soaring above thunderous sonic backgrounds, although acoustic and jazz elements also featured in the mix. The album's title references the signature phrase of the Dickens character Uriah Heep ("very 'umble") from the novel David Copperfield from which the band took its name. After its release, Keith Baker became the group's drummer; he recorded Salisbury, the group's second album, before deciding he couldn't keep up with the band's extensive touring and was replaced by Ian Clarke. Their second album, Salisbury, was more squarely in the progressive rock genre, with its 16-minute title track featuring a 24-piece orchestra; it also included Lady in Black. Later that year, Ian Clarke was replaced by Lee Kerslake and Gary Thain replaced Newton to became the group's bassist. This lineup of Uriah Heep was its most stable and popular; beginning with 1972's Demons and Wizards, they released five albums between 1972 and 1975. Including the live album at hand here.

Their third album, "Look at Yourself", released at the end of 1971, included the single "July Morning". Subsequent releases would find the group's ever-shifting lineup (between 1969 and 1980, the band changed drummers five times, bassists four times, and lead singers twice) frequently exploring fantasy-oriented lyrical themes, often in lengthy, multi-part compositions, largely penned by Hensley, who would eventually come to dominate the band during his tenure. On December 8th 1975, New Zealand-born former bassist, Gary Thain, was found dead in his Norwood Green home, aged 27, having overdosed on heroin.

After David Byron left (replaced by John Lawton), Uriah Heep turned away from fantasy-oriented lyrics and multi-part compositions back toward a more straightforward hard rock sound typical of the era. The replacement of Lawton with vocalist John Sloman for the 1980 album Conquest didnt go down well, Ken Hensley departured in fury and left the group in a state of collapse. That would have been it were it not for Mick Box he soldiered on took aboard new members and Uriah Heep continued to tour and release both (occasional) studio and (frequent) live albums. The lineup was unchanged from 1986 until early 2007, being veteran Mick Box at the helm, Trevor Bolder on bass, Lee Kerslake on drums, vocalist Bernie Shaw and Phil Lanzon on keyboards. In early 2007 drummer Lee Kerslake had to leave the group due to ill health. In March 2007, the band recruited Russell Gilbrook as their new drummer, and immediately started recording a new studio album entitled Wake the Sleeper. Universal Music finally released Wake the Sleeper on June 2, 2008.



01 - Introduction (1:02)
02 - Sunrise (4:13)
03 - Sweet Lorraine (4:39)
04 - Traveller In Time (3:27)
05 - Easy Livin' (2:55)

06 - July Morning (12:03)
07 - Tears In My Eyes (4:41)

08 - Gypsy (13:59)
09 - Circle Of Hands (8:55)

10 - Look At Yourself (7:53)
11 - Magician's Birthday (1:14)
12 - Love Machine (3:26)
13 - Rock n Roll Medley (8:29)
-------Roll Over Beethoven
-------Blue Suede Shoes
-------Mean Woman Blues
-------Hound Dog
-------At The Hop
-------Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
-------Blue Suede Shoes

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The Unknown Cases - Cuba ( 95 ^ 161mb)

The Unknown Cases developed out of DUNKELZIFFER back then. The band name is the translation of the German word "DUNKELZIFFER" into English: We simply wanted to make music that was fun, without having to discuss and agree with five other band-members first. We wanted to take things in our own hands. This means being in charge and not shifting the responsibility to another band-member or like a guest-performer, but being responsible, and producing Helmut Zerlett and Stefan Krachten initially planned The Unknown Cases as a loose project, where new people could join at any time. New musicians from song to song. One day, they had the idea to call Jaki Liebezeit of Can to ask him if he'd join us in the rehearsal-room. Thats how the Can-members became our teachers, and that's why groove's always a priority in our projects. Through Can we got to know Reebop Kwaku Baah, former percussionist of Ginger Baker as well as bassist Rosko Gee (Traffic). The first time they were mentined was with the release of "Masimbabele" in 1983, trendsetter for ethno-dancefloor.

One of the biggest fans of the record was the legendary radio DJ John Peel - over several weeks, he played Masimbabele almost daily in his radio show on BBC Radio1. "A record you wish would never end" he moderated the single. The 12" made history as no other remained available in their original version and original packaging for a full decade as did Masimbabele. Meanwhile it's an expensive collector traded on eBay It influenced clearly tracks of other artists, be it in MARRS ( "Pump Up The Volume"), Ofra Haza ( "In Nin Alu"), Art Of Noise or Massive Attack. Peter Gabriel to released Masimbabele introducing Africa, a very successful World Music compilation on his Real World label, contributing significantly to global dissemination of the track.

Zerlett and Krachten didn't really plan to go onstage with The Unknown Cases at first it was a pure studio-project. Only later, in 1991, did we put together a band to tour with, which included Alex Heilhecker. In 1995 The Unknown Cases released their only album "Cuba". The title was inspired by the cover by Walter Dahn, which reminded us of pictures of Cuba. Besides others, Rosko Gee, former bassist of TRAFFIC and CAN (vocals in "She knows it"), as well as Dj Heli joined us and the rapper XL Singleton, whose single "Tequila" was a hit in France collaborated on it. The album includes tracks from over 10 years of work. Most of it hadn't been released until then. When will the next album be released - I don't know. By the way, The Unknown Cases also produced the music for the movie "5-Uhr-Schatten".

The cover of the Unknown Cases album "Cuba" was made by Walter Dahn (a student of Josef Beuys). Collaborations on several projects connected me to Walter Dahn, besides others the project #9 Dream. I've been a fan of his art for a long time, especially of his photography. The hyenas, by the way, are a picture of a piece in the Museum of Modern Art in New York." Another project of Zerlett / Krachten is Trance Groove one could say it's their main activity as they recenly released a sixth album, Orange.



01 - The Traveller (4:15)
02 - Stop the madness (4:27)
03 - Masinmabele (5:50)
04 - Mountains (6:04)
05 - (i'm an) Unknown case (5:27)
06 - Memowalk (3:54)
07 - If you want me to stay (5:50)
08 - Nenem auryn (7:01)
09 - T.M.Y.S (3:22)
10 - She knows it (4:00)
11 - Bogota boogie (dub) (7:01)
12 - Travel to the center of paradise (3:41)
13 - Monkey chant (3:22)
14 - Dal martino (2:54)


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UNKLE - Never, Never, Land (03 ^146 mb)

Unkle (also written as UNKLE and U.N.K.L.E.) were founded in 1994 by school friends James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy. They were joined by Masayuki Kudo and Toshio Nakanishi of the Japanese hip hop crew Major Force. They also brought on board a host of collaborating artists, including Money Mark ( Beastie Boys), and the Scratch Perverts. Their first release in 1994 was the EP The Time Has Come, on Lavelle's recording label Mo' Wax.In 1995, while working on their debut album, Lavelle and Goldsworthy disagreed over the direction the music was taking. Goldsworthy wanted to continue with the Mo' Wax house style of earlier tracks, while Lavelle wanted to bring in singers, hip hop and rock artists. Goldsworthy left the group and went on to work with Belfast DJ and producer David Holmes. From these early sessions, Berry Meditation and several tracks with Money Mark and Beastie Boys producer Mario Caldato Jr. were subsequently released as singles, and several without Lavelle surfaced on the album Major Force West in 1997.

Lavelle drafted in DJ Shadow to work on the debut album, and essentially discarded all previously recorded material. Lavelle and Shadow released Psyence Fiction in 1998 to critical acclaim. The album included collaborations with an all-star lineup including Thom Yorke, Mike D (Beastie Boys), Kool G. Rap, Jason Newsted (Metallica), Badly Drawn Boy and Richard Ashcroft (The Verve). Shadow left the group after touring Psyence Fiction and was replaced by turntablist group the Scratch Perverts, who deconstructed the album and performed it live on turntables in 1999.

In 2001, Lavelle, amid much work as a DJ, recruited singer/songwriter Richard File together they resurfaced as Unklesounds, with a DJ mix created for Japanese radio entitled Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats? This highlighted a new, more electronic direction the group had taken, and featured a number of tracks from Psyence Fiction, remixed in an ambient style. Richard File co-produced, played and sang on the second album, Never, Never, Land, released in 2003. The album again featured a number of high-profile contributors, including Ian Brown, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Robert Del Naja (Massive Attack) and Mani (The Stone Roses, Primal Scream) among others. Due in part to label changes (the album was variously released by Mo' Wax, Universal Island Records and Global Underground) and Lavelle's trademark insistence on multiple formats, it was not a major success.

Lavelle and File continued releasing mixes as Unklesounds. The mix album Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction, featuring movie samples and tracks from film soundtracks, was created for the After Dark 2004 event at the ICA London. A single CD version was handed out at the event, and it was released officially as an extended two disc set in 2005. In September 2006, Global Underground released Self Defence: Never, Never, Land Reconstructed and Bonus Beats, a CD box set of remixes and bonus tracks from the Never, Never, Land sessions, including tracks previously only available on the original DVD release of the album. It also contained remixes of a track mooted for their next album, featuring Ian Astbury of The Cult, titled "Burn My Shadow".

War Stories, the third album from Unkle, was released in summer 2007. The album again featured a number of guests including Josh Homme, Gavin Clarke, Robert Del Naja, Ian Astbury, The Duke Spirit, Autolux and Neil Davidge. Following the release of the single "Hold My Hand", Pablo Clements (of The Psychonauts) became an Unkle member. In January 2008 Unkle released More Stories, containing a mix of B-sides, remixes, unreleased War Stories session tracks, and music composed for the film Odyssey In Rome. The same month, Richard File announced he was leaving Unkle after 10 years' collaboration to pursue work with his new band, We Fell to Earth. Unkle's fourth full album titled End Titles... Stories for Film was released in July 2008. It includes collaborations from Chris Goss, Black Mountain, Philip Sheppard, Dave Bateman, Joel Cadbury, and James Petralli (White Denim). The album is described in the sleeve notes by Lavelle as "not a new album in the usual sense, but new music that has been inspired by the moving image."



01 - Back And Forth (0:54)
02 - Eye For An Eye (5:45)
03 - In A State ( Feat Jarvis Cocker ) (6:59)
04 - Safe In Mind (Please Get This Gun From Out My Face) (Voc.Josh Homme ) (6:21)
05 - I Need Something Stronger (4:08)
06 - What Are You To Me? (6:52)
07 - Panic Attack (5:13)
08 - Invasion (Voc.Robert Del Naja) (5:15)
09 - Reign (Voc.Ian Brown) (5:32)
10 - Glow (4:18)
11 - Inside (7:21)
12 - Awake The Unkind (Bonus Track) (4:34)

UNKLE - Never, Never, Land (* 97mb)

On October 24, 2004 an expanded edition entitled Never, Never, Land Revisited was released.

UNKLE - Never, Never, Land Revisited (04 ^ 156mb)

01 - Blackout (6:51)
02 - Tracier (2:09)
03 - Panic Attack (Ape Sounds remix) (6:08)
04 - Reign (Psychonauts remix) (9:44)
05 - In A State (DFA remix) (11:59)
06 - Invasion (Medway Vs Eva Coast To Coast remix) (8:41)
07 - Have You Passed Through This Night (9:35)
08 - Glow (Hybrid remix) (7:58)
09 - In A State (Sasha remix) (11:04)

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Eight-X (46)

Hello, Eight-X again somehow i always note yet another week here. Ok vinyl rules today and for starters Killing Joke, their debut album made a big impact..though sales at the time were moderate, a real rollercoaster career was to follow, one that tonight has them on stage in a worldtour...Allez Allez on the other hand didnt last too long on account of their producers Heaven 17 's collegue marrying their singer and that was basicly that for them. Still specially the preceding minialbum here was Belgiums answer to Pig Bag....C Cat Trance come forth from Medium Medium and turned out to become another trendsetting and intense band that never really got past the incrowds eye..they should have.

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Killing Joke - Killing Joke (80 ^ 88mb)

Paul Ferguson was drumming for the Matt Stagger Band when he met Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards) in the late '70s. Coleman joined the band briefly, but soon he and Ferguson split to form Killing Joke in late 1978. The duo recruited bassist Youth (born Martin Glover Youth), who had previously played with the punk group the Rage, and guitarist Geordie (born Kevin Walker) to complete the Killing Joke's lineup.

They recorded their debut EP, Almost Red, with money borrowed from Coleman's girlfriend of the time. John Peel was impressed by the EP and offered the group a session on his show. In late 1979, they began the Malicious Damage record label with graphic artist Mike Coles as a way to press and sell their music, Island Records distributed the records, until Malicious Damage switched to E.G. Records in 1980. The songs on Killing Joke's early singles were primitive punk rock sometimes mixed with electronic ("Nervous System") and ("Turn to Red"). They quickly progressed this sound into something denser, more aggressive, and more akin to heavy metal, as heard on their first two albums, Killing Joke (1980) and the more abrasive What's THIS For...! (1981) The group began playing shows regularly throughout England and gained a reputation for being controversial. Their artwork often featured repulsive or inflammatory images, and after one of their concert posters pictured the Pope blessing legions of Nazis, the group was banned from performing a concert in Glasgow. Despite the controversy, the group began amassing a following of both punk and disco fans with hard-edged but danceable singles like "Psyche" and "Follow the Leader." The band released its second album, What's THIS For...!, in 1981.

After recording and releasing the group's third album, 1982's Revelations, Jaz Coleman -- who had developed an obsession with the occult -- decided that the apocalypse was near, so he left the group and ran away to Iceland with Geordie. Youth followed Coleman to Iceland shortly after his departure. After a few months with no sign of the end of the world, Youth returned to England and formed Brilliant with Ferguson. However, Ferguson left shortly after the group's formation and moved to Iceland with Killing Joke's new bassist, Paul Raven. Killing Joke's new lineup -- featuring Coleman, Geordie, Ferguson, and Raven -- worked in Iceland for a brief period. Soon, the group returned to England and recorded Fire Dances, which was released in 1983. It demonstrated a calmer, more straightforward band than the one showcased on the group's earlier records.

Killing Joke had developed a variation of new wave on their fifth album, Night Time (1985). They achieved mainstream success with the single "Love Like Blood", which peaked at #16 in the UK. The album itself reached #11 in the UK The music on Killing Joke's sixth album, Brighter than a Thousand Suns (1986), was mostly similar in sound and mood to "Love like Blood". While no less aggressive and heavy than their older work, Brighter than a Thousand Suns diverged musically in ways that lead to controversy among the public. In 1987, Coleman began plans for a solo record of unusual music, and he made demos of his songs, on which he performed with Geordie's assistance. The project ran way over budget and so, despite Coleman's objections, the record company decided that the music would be released under the name "Killing Joke" in order to best recoup the costs. The resulting album, Outside the Gate (1988), is Killing Joke's most controversial album, with opinion ranging from admiration to total disgust, owing to its synth-led sonics (experimentally, and disagreement over the quality of the material. It is not signature-sound Killing Joke, being built around Coleman's orchestral keyboards instead of Geordie's distinctive guitar riffs.

With Martin Atkins (drums ex PIL) and Paul Raven aboard Coleman/Geordie recorded Killing Joke's eighth album, the ferocious Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions, released on the German Noise International label in 1990. It included some of the heaviest, noisiest and harshest music ever to appear on a Killing Joke record, although the progressive musical spirit of the previous two albums remained as well. Once again, the band toured Europe and North America, but by the middle of 1991 this promising new line up had imploded. Coleman emigrated to New Zealand to live on a remote Pacific island, and it looked as though Killing Joke was over for good.

3 years later...The reactivated Killing Joke released two strong and well-received albums on Youth's Butterfly Recordings label, Pandemonium and Democracy, which saw the band shift back to the simpler arrangements of their early albums. Pandemonium (1994) wove a metallesque ritualistic sound with mosh beats and loops After the Democracy tour, the band went on an extended hiatus. Coleman became Composer-in-Residence for New Zealand and Czech symphony orchestras. He starred in a czechfilm Rok ďábla (Year of the Devil). Coleman, Geordie and Youth reformed Killing Joke in 2002, and recorded their second self-titled album with producer Andy Gill, released to much acclaim in 2003 . Opting for simplicity and raw energy, the band recorded the new album in its basement rehearsal studio, going for live takes with the minimum of overdubs. The result was Hosannas from the Basements of Hell, released in April 2006 on Cooking Vinyl.

In October 2006, it was announced that Coleman had been chosen as Composer in Residence for the European Union. As Composer in Residence he will be commissioned to write music for special occasions. On October 20th 2007, Paul Raven died of heart failure prior to a recording session in Geneva, Switzerland. Killing Joke have announced a world tour commencing in September 2008. The band will be reuniting with their original lineup and they will be playing two nights per venue. The first night they will play their first two albums 'Killing Joke' and 'What's THIS For...!' in their entirety. The second night will feature the whole of 'Pandemonium' plus their early singles released on Island records. The tour will begin on September 11 in Tokyo and conclude in Chicago on October 14

At the time the cold metallic throb of Killing Joke was exciting and fresh. The harshly sung vocals riding over the pulsating synth lines of the opener "Requiem" have a vigor and passion that few imitators have managed to match. The precise riffs and tight rhythms found in songs like "Wardance" would influence a generation of hardcore musicians That such a bleak and furious album could have such a widespread influence is a testament to its importance, and becoming an underground classic



01 - Requiem (3:46)
02 - Wardance (3:48)
03 - Tomorrow's World (5:30)
04 - Bloodsport (4:46)

05 - The Wait (3:42)
06 - Complications (3:07)
07 - S.O.36 (6:51)
08 - Primitive (3:32)


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Allez Allez - African Queen (81 ^ 58mb)

Allez Allez is the funky follow-up of the Brussels-based collective Marine. The more experimental part of Marine also continued to make music, under the flag of the wild and wonderful La Muerte (see La Muerte). Although Allez Allez (which means "well, well" or, with a different intonation "Go! Go!") was very successful, it - unfortunately - lasted only a few years. Only from 1982 to 1983 in fact. The trademark of Allez Allez were highly danceable and catchy rhythms, African influences and high quality singing. Together, this formed a powerful and funky mixture. Their motto was "wrap your legs around your head".

The group was headed by the American singer Sarah Osbourne, who came to Belgium with her group Repetition that was signed by the Belgian record label "Les Disques du Crépuscule", where Marine also had their contract. In the slipstream of the successful debut-single "She's stirring up", the mini-album "African Queen" arouses a lot of interest and becomes a gold record. It even earns them a place at the famous Torhout-Werchter festival that year. The song "African Queen (pour la grâce)" is a tribute to Grace Jones.


In November they record a full album in the Garden-studio of John Foxx in a production of Heaven17-mastermind Martin Ware. This time it's a more refined funk-album with some soul-influences. The road for an international breakthrough seemed open, but then singer Sarah Osbourne left the groups and married the singer of Heaven 17, Glenn Gregory (they divorced three years later). A replacement was found in the Afro-American Jackie Irwin of New York. She never managed to truly replace the sensual and flexible Sarah. The 12 '' "Boom boom" flopped, although it was produced by the discoverer of Madonna, Mark Kamins. That sealed the fate, no more Allez Allez



01 - Turn Up The Meter (4:45)
02 - Marathon Dance (3:09)
03 - She's Stirring Up (3:35)

04 - Allez Allez (5:32)
05 - African Queen (Pour La Grace) (7:16)

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C Cat Trance - Zouave (86 ^ 86mb)

In the mid eighties, after the release of anthem 'Hungry, So Angry' and album 'The Glitterhouse', Rees Lewis, the distinctive element (voice and sax) of currently obscure but hip funksters Medium Medium, left and with drummer Nigel Stone started C-Cat Trance to extend the avant dance forms of Medium Medium in a more art-pop-world direction, diminishing guitar noise, using anxious synth layers, dark pop atmospheres, traditional instruments, middle eastern influences. They were ahead of their time & albums like Khamu(1985) & Zouve(1986) presage the ethno/dance/electronic styles that was to dominate the music planet late 80`s & beyond. C Cat Trance songs express a nocturnal evocation, an anxiety proceeding from the different, the unexplored.

C-Cat Trance produced world and dance sounds ahead of their time and, with a floating membership varying between two and eight, they played infrequent gigs, beginning at Pandora's Musicbox in Rotterdam in September 1984, and more often in Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Holland) than the UK. They released a series of records through the late eighties, and received consistent acclaim. Lewis' sax playing was described in the press as "lung emptying sax", "striking sax", "sax breaks that wail like a maitresse in nipple clamps", "and many more creative descrptions. In 2005 Cherry red released a compilation on CD, Karadara.



01 - Wind Howl (3:39)
02 - Betty (2:59)
03 - He's Crazy (4:25)
04 - Taksim (4:53)
05 - Ishta Bil Habul (4:04)

06 - If You Steal (3:43)
07 - Take Me To The Beach (3:48)
08 - You've Lost That Loving Feeling (4:07)
09 - Shake The Mind (5:26)

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Around the World (46)

Hello, Around the Worldmusics climbed 5000 ft but stays on the desert bandwidth, and that means we're in Ethiopia, a country steeped in religion, the ten commandments (supposedly) are guarded there. Well since the militairy dictatorship that has run the country have faded, musicians are once again alowed to do their thing and inspired by this Abyssinia Infinite bridges the 20 year gap by bringing the old Ethiopian musicculture into the 21st century with this album..

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Abyssinia Infinite - Zion Roots (03 ^ 99mb)

The overthrow of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in a “creeping coup” organized by his own military began two decades of chaotic rule. Under the Derg regime, a curfew was imposed which drove live musicians to prison and unemployment. This album brings back live instrumentation and experimentation to Ethiopian music. This album with acoustic instruments and traditional songs is a return to a classic sound—it picks up right where music left off in the mid-’60s through mid-’70s.

“Ethiopians believe that when Zion is mentioned in the bible they are speaking about Ethiopia,” Gigi explains. With that in mind, the album, Zion Roots, is exactly what the name implies: music rooted deep in Ethiopian culture. On this latest concept project, Gigi was able to realize her longstanding dream of melding elements of East and West African elements into the music of her home country. "This traditional project is something that I wanted to do to keep in touch with the music of Ehtiopia. This does not represent me as a solo artist but more me introducing Ethiopian traditional music in different settings, as a concept project.

Abyssinia Infinite chose the songs for this album to convey a traditional spirit. Though quite sparsely furnished, this music is deep and powerful - a state-of-the-art marriage of ancient (handclaps, flute, harp) and modern technology that aims to transcend both. They use traditional instruments such as the kirar—which is referred to as King David’s harp in the Bible and is perhaps one of the oldest surviving East African instruments—and the washint—a simple bamboo flute. The band is composed of prominent players in the world music community including the magical Senegalese percussionist Aiyb Dieng, the virtuoso tabla-player Karsh Kale, the guitarist/accordionist Tony Cedras (known for his work on Paul Simon's Graceland project), the Ethiopian saxophonist Moges Habte, and world music producer/musician Bill Laswell, with a rare performance on acoustic guitar.



01 - Bati Bati (3:45)
02 - Gela (6:08)
03 - Alesema (7:26)
04 - Monew Natana (5:12)
05 - Embe Ashafergne (4:27)
06 - Gole (6:03)
07 - Aba Alem Lemenea (4:15)
08 - Gedawo (4:42)
09 - Lebaye (4:47)
10 - Ethiopia (6:15)

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Canadia 2056 (05)

Hello, still busy updating..next post coming up later but first.. the saga continues and i hope the number of fans will increase as the story unfolds more hilarious reasonings ..the coming 27 minutes

In the year 2056 the US has declared war on the Ipampilashians and has sent the American armada to destroy their planet. Canada has sent its only ship, The Canadia, in support of the American mission but the Canadia is not a warship. It's a maintenance ship (they change light bulbs and plunge toilets). Max Anderson is the first American ever to be stationed on the Canadia. He was put there by the American admiral (his mother) to toughen him up but keep him out of any real danger. The only thing that Max and the crew of the Canadia agree on is that no one wants him there

Episode 5:

The Captain and Anderson are away from the ship when disaster strikes. There is a fluctuation in the engine core that threatens to destroy the ship. The crew has to resort to alternative methods of travel aboard the ship.

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Canadia 2056 - 05( 21mb)

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