Sunday, May 31, 2009

Sundaze (22)

Hello, some great Sundazing coming up, although a slight breeze is most welcome for the Aeolian harps, furthermore the original Sundaze 1 is here , retrieved from way back..that is about 10 years ago..

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A brief history of the Aeolian harp

Legend has it that Hermes, while strolling along a beach, heard the wind playing music on the dried sinews stretched in a tortoise shell and thus discovered the lyre. The instruments are named after Aeolus who is the Greek God of the wind. This tying up of the God and the instrument took place not in Greek but in more recent classical times.

It became rather popular in the 18 th and 19th century

Shelley, in "Fragments connected with Epipsychidon" remarks:

There is a power, a love, and joy, a God
Which makes in mortal hearts its brief abode,
A Pythian exhaltation, which inspires Love,
only love - a wind which o'er the wires
Of the soul's giant harp
There is a mood which language faints beneath

Keats writes:

Behold
The clear religion of heaven!
Fold
A rose leaf round thy finger's taperness
And soothe thy lips; hist, when the airy stress
Of music's kiss impreganates the free winds,
And with a sympathetic touch unbinds
Eolian magic from their lucid wombs.

An interesting observation from Jean George Kastner in his "La Harp d'Eole et la Musique Cosmique" published in 1856...."The Aeolian Harp has singular properties liked intimately and sensibly to the poetic charm of its music. It is recognized that it exerts a powerful effect upon the nervous system and can cause very diverse - even opposing impressions according to the temperament of the individual." Roger Winfield will certainly back this up. On his original privately produced cassette of "Windsongs" he even had printed "Do not use whilst driving" on the cover to ensure that the listener had a meaningful, rather than a terminal, experience.

By the turn of the twentieth century the Aeolian Harp was heard of no more, drowned out by the noisy grinding wheels of a society that demands instant gratification. To listen properly to the Aeolian Harp one needs to stop still and wait patiently for the exquisite moments the wind can create.

Aeolus has never stopped singing his songs.

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Roger Winfield - Windsongs The Sound of Aeolian Harps ( 91 ^ 97mb)

Whilst Winfield was living on the Preselli Hills in West Wales his fascination was sparked off by hearing the breeze playing across a guitar left outside. This led to the creation of weird and wonderful contraptions that made unique musical sounds but lacked volume. To overcome this problem, experimenting with mikes he eventually settled for magnetic pick-ups close to the strings. Several years later the idea of an Aeolian Harp orchestra began to develop and with the aid of experienced instrument makers Roger created the sculptural ensemble that are featured on this album. (made from wood, perspex, fiberglass and metal, the instruments were designed to be aesthetically pleasing as well as technically functional. Each instrument was designed to take a particular gauge of metal string; the largest instruments strung with bass strings, the smallest with thinner strings so creating a soprano effect).

Windsongs" was the product of a four-month sojourn in Spain during the winter and spring of 1989. He decided to go south because of the dryer weather. Recording Aeolian Harps involves a lot of outside work and the prospect of doing this during the course of a British winter seemed decidedly uninviting!

The first venue was a balcony twenty stories up on a deserted tower block in a similarly empty Mediterranean resort. Day one arrived with a full scale hurricane that set the harps shrieking like banshees. Roger eventually discovered that with a wind at this velocity the best sounds were to be found in the bass register. A consequence of this is the first track, the "North Wind". Imagine if you will a storm tossed sea, a shrieking wind and an individual frantically trying to batten down instruments that threaten to go flying off with every new blast of wind! Roger describes this experience as "traumatic, scary but fun!" It took fifteen hours to complete the basic recording.

Much of the "East Wind" track was recorded at the same venue. Additional material recorded from an earlier East wind in Bristol was added on during the editing process. The first three minutes of the "South Wind" features a solo harp being played by a gentle zephyr that wafted by from some nearby hills, and the sitar-like section from the "West Wind" were also recorded from this balcony. The next venue was set in the foothills of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains in Southern Andalucia. It turned out to be the perfect spot for recording the wind. During the morning the breezes drifted up from the coast and in mid-afternoon they swung back from the mountains - regular as clockwork. Here most of the work on the "South Wind" and "West Wind" tracks took place during warm sunny and gentle weather.

Back in the UK the material was edited in a recording studio. It must be emphasized that although not all the sounds on each track were recorded simultaneously, the tracks contain only recordings of the wind direction ascribed to it. The four tracks "Windsongs 1, 2, 3 and 4" are a combination of other recordings made in Spain and Bristol. Once the album was completed Roger Winfield began to work on the possibility of live performances. The first show took place in June 1990 and since then he has traveled all over the UK performing to fascinated and appreciative audiences. The charm of the live show is that one experiences the rising and falling of the wind's song in the presence of the wind that is creating it - an almost mystic experience for some.

As one music critic put it: "If you can have your brain massaged by music, the Aeolian Harps are the instruments to do it!"

Windfields second album Roger Winfield - Voices of the Wind ( see Rho-Xs's Inside Out Binaural (10/06/07) ) is both a sequal and a contrast to Windsongs, his first collection of Aeolian harp recordings. Since then he has toured throughout the UK setting up the harps at a variety of locations (rural and urban) the magical sounds never failing to amaze the audiences. During that time he has created a new esemble of instruments so a new layer of sound can be heard from the wind playing thru the strings.



01 - Northwind (8:59)
02 - Southwind (9:095
03 - Eastwind (8:13)
04 - Westwind (8:21)
05 - Windsong 1 (5:13)
06 - Windsong 2 (7:02)
07 - Windsong 3 (3:41)
08 - Windsong 4 (6:58)

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VA - Sundaze 1 (00 ^ 146mb)

Ten years ago i used to scour the internet for new music, obviously things were just getting rolling Napster getting all the headlines and it offered an insight what was out there, but to search for something, firstly you have to know of it..basicly exchanges like Napsters delivered nothing new, just more of what you knew.. There were other music sites, one of which still exists-Epitonic.com that offered some free MP3's from acts unknown..often with a short description of the music. Anyway i used to visit them quiet frequently and downloaded plenty. As at that time i had a 5 gig HD (currently 2000-ooops), i used to burn away a lot, now this isnt that satisfying so i tried to compile with a certain atmosphere/mood in mind.. One of the labels i used was Sundaze, as it happens i came across the first one i burnt and low and behold the disk read secure...so here it is a bit of nostalgia from me from the days download speeds were low and insecure...As for discovering new artists..i have 6 Molvaer albums now, 4 by Fila Brazilia 3 from Holmes and Isolee, one by Farina and Afterlife and Muslimgauze...yes downloading is killing music...duh..ps made the cover earlier today..like it ?



01 - Niels Petter Molvaer - Platonic (Herbaliser remix) (5:19)
02 - Fila Brazilia - Naughahide (5:04)
03 - Jhno - Pillage (4:23)
04 - Sounds From The Ground - Sweet Dust (5:32)
05 - Mark Farina - Midnight Calling (5:13)
06 - Spoon Wizzard - Shoe's Monkey (6:06)
07 - Sounds From The Ground - Drawn To A Woman (8:21)
08 - Afterlife - Dub In Ya Mind (Beachclub mix) (5:10)
09 - Isolee - Tout Se Complique (4:10)
10 - Muslimgauze - Abu Nidal (7:27)
11 - David Holmes - No Man's Land (6:20)
12 - Sounds From The Ground - Triangle (10:03)

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Bab (116)

Hello, how time flies, summer is upon us again, now where did i leave my sunglasses ? Barcelona won the cup, thanks to their brilliant strikers, or was it poor defending... don't think so...well i admit im more of a Barça fan then a Man U one so a great night...At Babylon 5 there'sa takeover attempt in making....

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.



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S01E16 Eyes

Two shady individuals arrive from Earth, and begin asking questions about Sinclair and the station's command staff. Garibaldi soon discovers they are an Earth Force Colonel and a Psi Corps telepath. Colonel Ari Ben Zayn wants all of them to submit to his companion's mind scan so he can find out what. Ivanova objects strongly to the participation of a telepath, even to the point of submitting her resignation to Sinclair, who has found a legal loophole that prevents Ben Zayn from forcing anyone to do anything without a formal inquiry tantamount to court-martial. But, when Sinclair calls this bluff, he discovers that Ben Zayn is willing to break all the rules when the colonel calls a formal inquiry on the entire command crew. His real mission - to put himself in command of B5, an assignment for which he was passed over, and he has the help of a high-ranking memer of Psi Corps whom Sinclair once defeated



Eyes (zip 342mb)

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Bab (115)

Hello, hmm last week it was my usb controller and just now after ripping just fine hundreds of time i got an Error ACM command, tss..Well As of now i will no longer use Rapidshare as there seems very little use for it, well i guess Megaupload works fine and fast for most..

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.


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S01E15 The Grail

Delenn and Lennier form a welcoming party for arriving human "true seeker" Aldous Gajic, whose announcement that he has come to inquire with the alien ambassadors the whereabouts of the Holy Grail draws incredulity from Sinclair; however, Gajic is allowed to make appointments with the alien representatives to aid in his search.

Along the way, he encounters a young thief named Jinxo, a former construction worker who participated in all five Babylon stations' construction. Jinxo is on the run from Deuce, who is running an extortion ring in Down Below, apparently with the help of Ambassador Kosh. Despite the fact that Jinxo tried to steal from him on their first meeting, Gajic takes him under his wing and tries to instill a sense of worth in him.



The Grail (zip 341mb)

Monday, May 25, 2009

Nebulous (15)

Hello there, there's an action packed episode of Nebulous awaiting you so, with out furter ado..

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15 - Girl With The Liquid Face

Following the murder of the delegates at an eco-troubleshooting conference on Pancake Day Island, Nebulous, Paula and Harry travel to Atlantis while Rory attempts to clean up for the new delegates, where the Professor battles the legendary Kraken, Paula is shocked to learn that she is actually the human/Atlantean daughter of Atlantis's queen and Doctor Klench tries to destroy an eco-summit using Altantis' defence system.


Nebulous 15, Girl With The Liquid Face (28min, 25mb)

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Sundaze (21)

Hello, today Sundaze is focussing on Múm, apparently it means nothing in icelandic, that said i guess most english speakers recognise mum as an endearing abbreviation of mother so they score points right from the start there....Somehow they slipped my attention and i thusfar hadn't posted anything by them, remarkbly considering i own their first three albums. Well i make good here with a double bill..

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Múm were formed in 1997 by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, and classically trained twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, they met while working on a children's play. Örvar began to do music when his parents bought their first computer. He needed a tune for a game he was programming on BASIC. Since then his love for bleeps as never diminished. Kristín and Gyða started to play piano and cello at a tender age, and when both were 9 years old. After Örvar found a tape of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works on the floor at school, he had to re-think the boundaries of composition. "It changed my life," he says with tongue firmly in cheek. Up until then, Örvar had been playing in a rock band with fellow electronica convert Gunnar Tynes. Changing tack they joined up with classically trained twin sisters Kristín Anna and Gyða , and all four of them gathered around a computer in a room full of strange old instruments to start experimenting. múm was born. They were given a chance by Reykjavik's Thule Records to go into the studio and put together their extraordinary album, "Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK". Sampling extensively from their environment - using clanking cutlery or closing doors as percussion.

"Finally We Are No One" took them about two years, on and off, to write, produce and record. Engineer Valgeir Sigurdsson who worked on Björk's "Vespertine" also worked on the LP. A large chunk of the record was made when the band spent a few months in a lighthouse on the North-West coast of Iceland - an apparently desolate but beautiful place. They liked it there. "I really connected with the place," says Gunni. "We didn't have television. We didn't have a phone. We didn't have any people. If we wanted to buy something we had to go get to a small town, we had to get there by boat. It felt great. I thought. This is how we are supposed to live."

Gyða left the band to focus on her studies at the Academy of Arts in Iceland before Múm's third album, Summer Make Good, arrived in spring 2004; the band rounded out the year with the Dusk Log EP. The next two years found Múm on the road. In 2005, the group collaborated with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra at Amsterdam's Holland Festival on a piece inspired by the works of composer Iannis Xenakis. Múm returned to the studio the following year, and in the interim released a live album, The Peel Session, which was originally recorded in 2002 by the BBC. Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir left múm in January of 2006 to pursue a solo career under the name Kria Brekkan. For 2007's Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, the band was down to founding members Tynes and Smárason, who enlisted the help of guitarist/vocalist/violinist Ólöf Arnalds, trumpet/keyboard player Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson, vocalist/cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mr. Silla.

Currently múm are founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason and for touring and recording, this line-up is expanded to include their friends Ólöf Arnalds (violin / viola / guitar / vocals), Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / pianette / moog / whistling), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello / vocals), Mr. Silla (Vocals / various) and Finlander, Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). On May 22, 2009 during a concert in Burgos (Spain) múm played songs from their upcoming album Sing Along to songs Don't Know. They announced that it will be published on August 2009.

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Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK ( 00 ^ 148mb)

Yesterday Was Dramatic -- Today Is OK blends equal parts early Aphex Twin atmosphere, glitchy clicks reminiscent of Autechre, and dramatic musical elements that evoke the sorrow and glory of compatriot's Sigur Rós. They allow their songs to stretch out into lush, lengthy arrangements as a synthetic accordion mingles with rolling beats, icy analog effects, and the occasional female voice humming or singing quietly. Melodicas, glockenspiels, and other exotic instruments spur recurring motifs of sadness and joy. The music is effortlessly timeless and thoroughly engrossing, in short this album is an unmitigated, accessible masterpiece.




01 - I'm 9 Today (4:42)
02 - Smell Memory (9:21)
03 - There Is A Number Of Small Things (6:31)
04 - Random Summer (3:17)
05 - Asleep On A Train (7:17)
06 - Awake On A Train (9:23)
07 - The Ballad Of The Broken Birdie Records (5:25)



08 - The Ballad Of The Broken String (4:45)
09 - Sunday Night Just Keeps On Rolling (8:11)
10 - Slow Bicycle (8:41)


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Mum - Finally We Are No One (02 ^ 117mb)

Múm is very interested in the music of sound, but Finally We Are No One never sounds like a difficult record; if it's not the instruments sounding naïve or folksy (in good ways), the lisping, childlike vocals are bound to prompt adjectives like adorable and precious. "Green Grass of Tunnel" has the sweet melancholia, coloring-book hip-hop, and slowly shifting chords of poptronica producers like isan or Boards of Canada, and also trades on the wide-eyed fairy-tale qualities of Björk. Several individual passages of songs strike an evocative chord, like the string quartet, piano, warm synthesizers, and percussion rumblings of "K/Half Noise" combining to recall the quieter portions of Tortoise'."



01 - Sleep/Swim (0:50)
02 - Green Grass Of Tunnel (4:51)



03 - We Have A Map Of The Piano (5:19)
04 - Don't Be Afraid,You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed (5:43)
05 - Behind Two Hills,,,,A Swimming Pool (1:08)
06 - K/Half Noise (8:41)
07 - Now There's That Fear Again (3:56)
08 - Faraway Swimmingpool (2:55)
09 - I Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Still (5:40)
10 - Finally We Are No One (5:07)
11 - The Land Between Solar Systems (11:58)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Bab (114)

Hello, well to come back to last week, meanwhile i've seen Startrek..probably should have been named Startrek AD-HD, all action, script almost non existant, the storyline cleverly sets up a new tv series...obviously there's no thinking involved when waiting 28 years for a witness to show up to exact revenge, one still wants to kill billions of innocents because one is hurt...how morally corrupted an example. No this is yet another immoral Hollywood production, grinding the goyim public a little more into dust, thou shalt not think... Oh well compared to all that Babylon 5 is almost Zen, but then that was one of the reasons the powers that be started their campaign to have the commercially successful show stopped. Even the actors got basically blacklisted after the show was over, some were just too disgusted by what had happened and left acting..

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.


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S01E14 TKO

A spaceliner just arriving from Earth carries blasts from two of the crew's respective pasts - Rabbi Yossel Koslov has come to Babylon 5 bearing a legacy from Ivanova's late father, for whom she has yet to sit Shiva; and discredited boxing champ Walker Smith, an old friend of Garibaldi's, who has come on board to enter the Mutai, a deadly one-on-one freestyle martial arts competition open only to selected alien races.



TKO 1 (rar 180mb)

TKO 2 (rar 162mb)

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TKO (zip 342mb)

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Bab (113)

Hello, a bit later today..still busy digitizing my collection..now my USB failed, after some time I traced the trouble to my SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller...sigh working with 1.1 is tedious, later i will try the possible solution..just unplug everything-including pc wall socketconnection..electrostatic build up..tsss. Well at Babylon 5 the Shadows are making their presence felt for the first time....


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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.


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S01E13 Signs and Portents

All seems quiet on Babylon 5 until a nearby transport is attacked by raiders, whose attacks have been getting bolder every time. Sinclair orders the station to be placed on alert in the event of any closer raider activity. In the meantime, a powerful Centauri, Lord Kiro arrives to take possession of The Eye, a legendary Centauri artifact which has been lost for a long time.
Kiro's aunt, the mystic Lady Ladira, predicts the destruction of Babylon 5 and the death of Kiro himself. When the raiders turn out to be operating inside the station and take Kiro and the Eye, Sinclair orders the station's fighter squadrons to prevent their escape. A huge Raider mothership appears with its contingent of fighters, and Ladira's predictions seem like a grimly imminent certainty..the Shadows are moving...



Signs and Portents 1 (rar 180mb)

Signs and Portents 2 (rar 162mb)

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Signs and Portents (zip 341mb)

Monday, May 18, 2009

Nebulous (14)

Hello there, our Professor Nebulous is again troubled by time, someone is doing away with history, what history is there a past at all..do we need a past ? confused ? you will be after this episode of Nebulous

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14 - The Past Must Be Destroyed !

Nebulous returns to his old university, Bridgeoxton, in order to solve the mystery of the disappearance of several lecturers. K.E.N.T. goes undercover, with Nebulous being a history lecturer. Rory, doing a course in Media Studies, discovers that the disappearances have been caused by the Infernons, working alongside a history lecturer who is trying to destroy the past, so there is less of it to teach. Guest stars Julia Davis.


Nebulous 14, The Past Must Be Destroyed (28min, 20mb)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Sundaze (20)

Hello, Sundaze is rather short today, as i mentioned earlier i'm rather busy digitizing. Didn't see one iota of the Eurovision song contest, but i gather there wasn't much tension as there was a runaway winner, congratulations Norway. Anyway this years contest was held in Moscow, where during the day a gay demonstrade was quickly broken up..oh well The Ruskis are still catching up..those monotheistic fundamentalists still scream the loudest, makes one wonder what monster they are worshipping. The link here today is Russia then...Neutral a dark folk duo that really grabs ya...so it is unlikely you will find it in any record shop..you'd have to check the German label Eis Und Licht for a hardcopy..in the meantime ..

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Neutral - Serpents In The Dawn ( 07 ^ 113mb)

"Serpents in the Dawn", the 2nd album by the Russian band Neutral (Ash - Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Samples and E. Voronovsky - Violins, Piano, Consider this album to be the Russian soul expressing with apocalyptic folk music. Deep warm sounds and melancholic world-weariness go hand in hand with the perfect production of the music. Every instrument has its own important part, all the songs are on the same high level. The delicacy in each song shimmers through the contrast of the warm voice of Ash, the mastermind of NEUTRAL. The only track sung in Russian, is a perfect closing for a coherent, sensitive, circular record. Violin and guitar again take all the instrumental weight while the voice winds around their sound, creating a delicious neofolk finishing touch.



1 - Tales Of Men And Trees (4:15)
2 - The Starfall Of The Nevermore (Voc. Ice Queen) (5:29)
3 - Serpents In The Dawn (5:31)
4 - The Gift Of The Sea (5:15)
5 - Next To The Stars (4:56)
6 - The Woods Of Autumn Blaze (6:09)
7 - Noone To Follow (5:40)
8 - Luna (5:31)

Neutral , Serpents In The Dawn live 2006

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Bab (112)

Hello there, is there anyone out there i wonder...hmmm drop us a line..meanwhile Babylon 5 acknowledges that in the future there are still a lot of people getting underpaid for their labour and they are willing to strike, something one rarely hears of these days..except in France (naturallement)...ah that fluoridated water does it's business..

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.


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S01E12 By Any Means Necessarry

A family of a devout people known as the Children of Time arrive on the station seeking medical treatment for their son, whose respiratory blockage will prove to be fatal if not treated soon. When Dr. Franklin proposes surgery, however, he stumbles across their belief that puncturing the body allows the spirit to escape, and they refuse his help.

When an impatient Narn ship captain panics, he causes a catastrophic collision in the station's spacedock, severely damaging his ship, destroying precious cargo bound for Ambassador G'Kar, and killing a dockworker. As a result of this and other incidents, the Dockers' Guild is bordering on an illegal strike. The spokesperson for the laborers refuses any of Sinclair's proposed solutions to their protests, and the word comes through from Earth - since the workers are under a government contract, any strike they declare is illegal and can be remedied under the Rush Act, which empowers the government to force laborers to continue their work or face arrest and replacement. A labor negotiator is sent in from Earth in hopes that the situation can be brought to a satisfactory resolution, but he seems all too ready to have Garibaldi's security forces carry out the Rush Act. Sinclair decides to take matters into his own hands with his own unique and risky interpretation of the Rush Act.



By Any Means Necessarry 1 (rar 180mb)

By Any Means Necessarry 2 (rar 162mb)

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By Any Means Necessarry (zip 342mb)

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Bab (111)

Hello, a bit later today..forgot all about it..i'm busy digitizing my collection..plenty of work ahead there. At Babylon 5 Garibaldi's past fuels suspicions..

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.



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S01E11 Survivors,

With a visit from the recently re-elected President of the Earth Alliance looming in the immediate future, preparations are in full swing, including maintenance on a docking area which will be the home of a new fighter squadron being brought to Babylon 5 by the President. An explosion in this area brings the President's chief of security (a woman whose father was killed in an incident 17 years ago engineered by criminals to frame Garibaldi) aboard the station to investigate. A dying worker points the finger at Garibaldi for planting the bomb that damaged the fighter bay, and the President's security chief pronounces Garibaldi a fugitive from justice. Though he is on the run, Garibaldi puts his life on the line by continuing to investigate the real cause of the explosion as the President's visit draws near



Survivors 1 (rar 180mb)

Survivors 2 (rar 162mb)

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Survivors (zip 341mb)

Monday, May 11, 2009

Nebulous (13)

Hello there, our Professor Nebulous goes back in time, he's offered the chance to rectify a big mistake..wouldnt we all want to have that opportunity ? Good thing we can't because that can and likely will cause more problems...It's simply beyond our capabilities to grasp the consequences of our actions in the long term. Poor Professor He's got to clear some dense fog in his head, hopefully his eco-troubleshooting team of K.E.N.T. (the Key Environmental Non-Judgmental Taskforce) will pull him thru....
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Genesis of the Aftermath

Nebulous meets up with Doctor Klench, who claims to have met the Byborg who have persuaded him to no longer being evil. The Byborg allow people to go back in time and correct their greatest mistake. In Nebulous's case, this was the destruction of the Isle of Wight. He travels back to Janril 57, 2069, in order to correct his error, but it turns out to be another of Klench's traps. Meanwhile, there is something unusual about Sir Ronald's share deals.


Nebulous 13, Genesis Of The Aftermath (28min, 20mb)

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Sundaze (19)

Hello, Sundaze without Terence McKenna, i admit it's a hole and i haven't really decided where to go from here. That said, there's always music around, so today we have two albums. First up the Aphex Twin, (find other work from him at Rhotation 22 and 23 over at Rho-Xs), here today his first album, a collection of works that got great reviews, Second up ..Ulver, deep thoughts and emotions find expression in The Shadows Of The Sun...gets that sundaze going for sure

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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 ( 92 ^ 145mb)

Richard David James ( August 18, 1971) grew up in Lanner, Cornwall, England, enjoying, along with two older sisters a "very happy" childhood during which they, according to James, "were pretty much left to do what they wanted. He liked growing up there (near Lands end), being cut off from the city and the rest of the world.

As a child he experimented on the strings and hammers of the family piano. According to Benjamin Middleton, James started producing music at the age of 12. As a teenager he DJ ed at the Shire Horse in St Ives, with Tom Middleton at the Bowgie Inn in Crantock, and also along the numerous beaches around Cornwall. From age 16 to 18 James studied for a National Diploma in Engineering from 1988 to 1990 in Cornwall College. James describing his course said "music and electronics went hand in hand".

Richard James's first record was the 12-inch EP Analogue Bubblebath released as AFX, the track "En Trance to Exit" was made with Tom Middleton aka Schizophrenia. In 1991 James formed Rephlex Records with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge to promote: "Innovation in the dynamics of Acid - Between 1991 and 1993, James released two Analogue Bubblebath EPs under the name of AFX and a Bradley Strider EP under "Bradley Strider". He would also record tracks during this time that appeared on his later releases. James moved to London to take an electronics course at Kingston Polytechnic, but his electronics studies slipped away as a career in the techno business took precedence. After quitting his course, James remained in London and released a number of albums and EPs on Warp Records and other labels under many aliases, including AFX, Polygon Window, and Power-Pill.

The first full-length Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, was released in 1992 on R&S Records. It got good reviews not withstanding the fact that the recordings were at times of cassette quality, but thats hardly surprising as he was 14 years old in 85. Anyway, he put to music the world around him, lush landscapes with oceanic beats and added bass lines.
In 1992, he also released the Xylem Tube EP and Digeridoo as Aphex Twin, as Power-Pill the Pac-Man EP based on the arcade game Pac-Man, and two of his four Caustic Window EPs.

In 1993, Aphex released his third installment in the Analogue Bubblebath series, an ambient single On, his second Bradley Strider EP, two more Caustic Window EPs, and his first releases on Warp Records, Surfing on Sine Waves and Quoth under the alias Polygon Window. Warp Records pressed and released a follow-up to SAW85-92, Selected Ambient Works Volume II in 1994. It differs significantly from the first volume in the series, in that the first volume is mostly beat-oriented, with complex instrumental rhythmic patterns and heavy bass frequencies. In contrast to the fast, club-inspired ambient music of its predecessor, Volume II consists of slow, moody pieces James stated that these songs were inspired by lucid dreams and synesthesia. 1994 would also include a string of other releases including his fourth Analogue Bubblebath, GAK, derived from early demos sent to Warp Records and Classics, a compilation album that includes the Digeridoo single

Two months later, James released the single "Ventolin," a harsh, appropriately wheezing ode to the asthma drug on which he relied. I Care Because You Do followed in April, pairing his hardcore experimentalism with more symphonic ambient material, aligned with the work of many post-classical composers -- including Philip Glass, who arranged an orchestral version of the album's "Icct Hedral" on the August 1995 single Donkey Rhubarb. Later that year, the Hangable Auto Bulb EP replaced Analogue Bubblebath 3 as Aphex Twin's most brutal, uncompromising release -- a fusion of experimental music and jungle being explored at the same time on releases by Plug and Squarepusher. In July 1996, Rephlex released the long-awaited collaboration between Richard James and Michael Paradinas (µ-Ziq). " Expert Knob Twiddlers".

The fourth proper Aphex Twin album, November 1996's Richard D. James Album, continued his forays into acid-jungle and experimental music. James' next two releases, 1997's Come to Daddy EP and 1999's Windowlicker EP, were acid storms of industrial drum'n'bass. The accompanying videos, both directed by Chris Cunningham, featured the bodies of small children and female models (respectively) dancing around, all with special-effects-created Aphex Twin faces grinning maniacally

With very little advance warning, another LP, Drukqs, finally arrived in late 2001, his most personal album yet, a 2-CD album which featured prepared piano songs influenced by Erik Satie and John Cage. It is notable that many of the tracks names are written in the Cornish language (e.g. 'jynweythek' translatable as 'machinemusic'). Also included were abrasive, fast and meticulously programmed computer-made songs. Although James continued making frequent DJ appearances, he released no more material until 2005, when Rephlex issued the first installment in a lengthy, 11-part series of 12" singles titled Analord. For the series James used his extensive collection of Roland drum machines which he bought when they were still at bargain prices.The singles' minimalist acid techno harked back to his Caustic Window/Analogue Bubblebath material of the early '90s. Chosen Lords, a CD compilation of some of the Analord material, appeared in April 2006.




1 Xtal (4:51)
2 Tha (9:01)
3 Pulsewidth (3:47)
4 Ageispolis (5:21)
5 i (1:13)
6 Green Calx (6:02)
7 Heliosphan (4:51)
8 We Are The Music Makers (7:42)
9 Schottkey 7th Path (5:07)
10 Ptolemy (7:12)
11 Hedphelym (6:02)
12 Delphium (5:36)
13 Actium (7:35)


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Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun (05 ^ 88mb)

Ulver took their name from the Norwegian word for wolf, snce their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1993), Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as avant-garde rock, trip hop, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and experimental music, with heavy reliance on electronic recording techniques.

Led by vocalist Garm, Ulver recorded two concept albums, Bergtatt detailed a Norse legend in which maidens are abducted by denizens of the underworld to live in their mountain halls, and the following year's Kveldssanger ("Twilight Songs") was an all-acoustic collection of melancholy dirges. Ulver made their international debut in 1997 with Nattens Madrigal (Madrigal of the Night), a concept album about wolves performed in the traditional Norwegian black metal style; it was recorded for Century Black with a lineup of Garm, lead/acoustic guitarist Haavard, rhythm guitarist Aismal, bassist Skoll, and drummer AiwarikiaR.

Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, released in 1998, was different from what Ulver had made before. Tore Ylwizaker, a new composer and sound architect, added to Garm’s expanding artistic visions, and together they stepped over the boundaries of black metal aesthetics, creating a genre-defying work. In this album, the musicians blended electronics, industrial music elements, progressive metal and avant-garde rock, adding ambient passages. Lyrically, the album incorporates the entire text of William Blake’s poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and relies on guest vocals

The band followed up these two releases with two minimalist/ambient/glitch works Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing. These works featured minimal melodies and often had subtle, weird and unnatural noises within the song structures. Due to their individual rarity, they were later amalgamated as Teachings in Silence. Having proved their proficiency at making atmospheric music, Ulver were hired to make music for cinema films like Lyckantropen (see Lyckantropen Themes), Svidd neger (see Svidd neger (soundtrack)), and Uno.

In July 2004, the band had recorded their sixth album, Blood Inside, which was released on June 6, 2005. Bringing back more traditional rock instruments like guitar and acoustic drums, combining them with classical instruments, brass horns, and their rich electronic inventory. Shadows of the Sun is the seventh studio album by Ulver. . In an interview with Music Information Centre Norway, Ulver member Tore Ylwizaker commented on the album. He said it would be downplayed and inspired by chamber music in both style and crew. Ylwizaker also took a year off to study classical composers and composition techniques. All in all, this is an enjoyable, at times hypnotic album that consolidates a lot of the different strands of Ulver's music over the previous decade. In February 2008 Shadows Of the Sun won the Oslo Awards for album of the year 2007.



1 Eos (5:05)
2 All The Love (3:42)
3 Like Music (3:30)
4 Vigil (4:27)
5 Shadows Of The Sun (4:36)
6 Let The Children Go (3:50)
7 Solitude (3:53)
8 Funebre (4:26)
9 What Happened? (6:25)

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Bab (110)

Hello, As Startrek is bringing you their young generation this week, turns out you don't need all that experience crapn you can beat satan (the adversary) just by being who you are..now isnt that philosopical..i'm sure they didnt mean it, they just wanted to make some dosh and safe a lot money on marketing..just give what they 'know' and throw in some good bangs..that dont occur in space... but hey thats a minor detail..Enough, i havent seen the movie yet... Over at Babylon 5 today we're in soap territory, parents refusing a cure on the basis of religious beliefs...duh. It's always the children that pay the price. And to this date the prevailing idea is upheld that parents can let die (kill) their offspring if their god demands it. Obviously these parents are insane but then i would say that of all monotheistic believers their god = satan in disguise, just look at the past 3 millenia.

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.



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S01E10 Believers

A family of a devout people known as the Children of Time arrive on the station seeking medical treatment for their son, whose respiratory blockage will prove to be fatal if not treated soon. When Dr. Franklin proposes surgery, however, he stumbles across their belief that puncturing the body allows the spirit to escape, and they refuse his help.

As he manages to stall them by asking them to consider a more risky alternative treatment, Franklin petitions Sinclair for permission to overrule the parents' authority so he can save the child's life. Sinclair has to walk on eggshells around both parties, but cannot avoid making a ruling on the matter that could undermine Babylon 5's neutral status. And all this time, a child's life is slipping away...and Dr. Franklin decides to take control of the situation himsel



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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Bab 5 (110)

Hello, Babylon 5 commander Sinclair is confronted with a massmurderer who's skillset is such that his command back home tell him to forget the demands of the victims and send the killer to earth...now that sounds just like the politics of this world, ironically this episode was broadcast during the balkan wars, some of the murderers from that conflict still roam free..Nato had other priorities

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.



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S01E09 Deathwalker

When Na'Toth attacks a new arrival from the Minbari Federation, claiming that this alien is the legendary Dilgar scientist and Warmaster known as "Deathwalker," it sets into motion a chain of events that could destroy the station.

Sinclair discovers that the victim of the assault would indeed appear to be Jha'dur, a Dilgar warmaster whose hideous biological experiments took the lives of millions.
However, she now claims to have created a drug which bestows immortality, and Earth immediately calls the station with orders for Sinclair to ship Jha'dur home so planetside scientists can develop her discovery.

Most of the smaller members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, however, still harbor a deep hatred of the Dilgar and Jha'dur in particular...will expediency win the day over justice ?



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Monday, May 4, 2009

Nebulous (12)

Hello there, almost forgot top post well todays episode concluded the second season, not to worry there's a third season starting next week. Professor Nebulous is losing his focus when he is exposed to repetion repeat after me repeat after me repeat after me repeat for me repeat for me repeat, confused well thats the big idea behind television..loose focus. Now will the K.E.N.T. crew bring their Professor Nebulous back to his senses..should they..hmmm

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The Last Of The Present Sirius

Professor Nebulous is finds himself trapped in a time loop, on the weekend omnibus of a reality television endlessly repeating like "an insane merry-go-round, each elliptical revolution taking it further from reality, the children on the merry-go-round clinging to the brightly painted wooden horses for security, but the horses are starting to mutate, turning into Shetland Ponies". Escaping from the show, the Professor finds himself on Sirius, the Dog Star (a.k.a. Poodle Sphere Six) coming to the end of his tenth season.


Nebulous 12, Last In The Present Sirius (28min, 20mb)

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

McKenna (13)

Hello, Sundaze is coming to the end of a three months focus on Terence McKenna, i hope you found it inspiring. Today there's the last episode of the True Hallucinations audiobook which really brought home the experiences Terence and his party had a decade earlier, ive added a PDF version to do some backtracking.. Then there's a short video for download on his Time Wave Zero theory and two You Tubes with him talking on the same subject and 2012, remember this was in the early nineties...Finally something that got skipped at Rho-Xs's celebration week, but still makes a good sundaze shower..a vinyl rip of It 'll All End In Tears ... Let's not..

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Terence McKenna

Hallucinations 21 - Open Ending (25 min, 19mb)


Terence McKenna - True Hallucinations (PDF) (170 pages 1mb)

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Terence McKenna - Time wave Zero ( 24min, 145mb)

Timewave zero is a theory that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation. 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 times, but never at what locations, novelty is supposedly increasing or decreasing. According to the timewave graph, great periods of novelty occurred about 4 billion years ago when Earth was formed, 65 million years ago when dinosaurs were extinct and mammals expanded, about 10,000 years ago after the end of the ice age, around late 18th century when social and scientific revolutions progressed, during the sixties, around the time of 9/11, in November 2008, and with coming novelty periods in October 2010, with the novelty progressing towards the infinity on 21 December 2012. Important graphic points in 2009, appear around 19 April, 29 August and 23 October 2009, indicating the possibility of significant events around these dates.

The timewave itself is a complex mathematical formula formed out of McKenna's interpretation and analysis of numerical patterns in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching (the ancient Chinese Book of Changes). This concept first took root in his entheogenic experiences shared by him and his brother Dennis McKenna.

Novelty theory has a few basic tenets:

-That the universe is a living system with a teleological attractor at the end of time that drives the increase and conservation of complexity in material forms.
-That novelty and complexity increase over time, despite repeated set-backs.
-That the human brain represents the pinnacle of complex organization in the known universe to date.
-That fluctuations in novelty over time are self-similar at different scales.
-That as the complexity and sophistication of human thought and culture increase, universal novelty approaches a Koch curve of infinite exponential growth(singularity).
-That in the time immediately prior to, and during this omega point of infinite novelty, anything and everything conceivable to the human imagination will occur simultaneously, presentation as an implication.
-That the date of this singularity is December 21, 2012, the end of the long count of the Mayan calendar. Originally nov 2012 but when he became aware of the Mayan calender he adjusted it to coincide.

This End of Novelty was to be the final manifestation of The Eschaton, which McKenna characterized as a sort of strange attractor towards which the evolution of the universe developed. McKenna did not purport to know what exactly would happen with the demise of novelty when the Timewave became zero.


In the 92 video there's a dramatic novelty event announced early 96, i checked Wiki and came up with these 3

January 23 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.

The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

There were five primary goals in the creation of the Java language:[11]
It should be "simple, object oriented, and familiar".
It should be "robust and secure".
It should be "architecture neutral and portable".
It should execute with "high performance".
It should be "interpreted, threaded, and dynamic".

February 10 – Chess computer "Deep Blue" defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.

On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls. Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game. However, Kasparov won three games and drew two of the following games, beating Deep Blue by a score of 4–2. The match concluded on February 17, 1996. Deep Blue was then heavily upgraded (unofficially nicknamed "Deeper Blue") and played Kasparov again in May 1997, winning the six-game rematch 3½–2½, ending on May 11, finally ending in game six, and becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion.

May 18 – The X Prize Foundation launches the $10 million Ansari X Prize,

The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation fosters innovative, high-profile competitions that motivate individuals across all boundaries to solve grand challenges. The prizes are worth millions of dollars and capture the imagination of the public to draw attention to the goal.

the Ansari X PRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight, successfully challenged teams to build private spaceships to open the space frontier. The first part of the Ansari X PRIZE requirements was fulfilled by Mike Melvill on September 9, 2004 in the Burt Rutan designed, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen financed spacecraft SpaceShipOne when Melvill broke the 100-km (62.5 mi) mark, internationally recognized as the boundary of outer space.

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Terence McKenna - Conciousness & The End Of Time 2012 - We Are Experiencing Resonance From History (Time Waves)



Mckenna on 2012(10:21)



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This Mortal Coil - It'ill All End In Tears (84 ^119mb)

Watts-Russell had founded 4AD in 1980, and the label quickly established itself as one of the key labels in the British post-punk movement. One of the label's earliest signings was Modern English. In 1983, Watts-Russell suggested that the band re-record two of their earliest songs, "Sixteen Days" and "Gathering Dust," as a medley. At the time, the band was closing their sets with this medley, and Watts-Russell felt it was strong enough to warrant a re-recording. When the band rebuffed the idea, Watts-Russell decided to assemble a group of musicians to record the medley: Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins; Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk; and a few members of Modern English. An EP, Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust, resulted from these sessions.

Recorded as a b-side for the EP was a cover of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren," performed by Fraser and Guthrie alone. Pleased with results, Watts-Russell decided to make this the a-side of the 7" single version of the EP, and the song quickly became an underground hit, leading Watts-Russel to pursue recording a full album under the This Mortal Coil moniker

Released in 1984, It'll End in Tears featured musical efforts from 4AD staples like Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins), Steven Young and Martyn Young (Colourbox), Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance), and Mark Cox (The Wolfgang Press), among others, with vocals from Fraser, Sharp, Modern English's Robbie Grey, and Howard Devoto (Buzzcocks/Magazine). Watts-Russell and Fryer handled any additional instruments or programmed loops as needed. It'll End in Tears helped crystallize 4AD's emerging signature sound, and helped win a wider audience for their stable of artists.

In the years that followed two more albums were produced Filigree & Shadow (86) and Blood (91) after which Ivo Watts retired This Mortal Coil.



01 - Kangaroo (3:31)
02 - Song To The Siren (3:30)
03 - Holocaust (3:38)
04 - Fyt (4:24)
05 - Fond Affections (3:51)
06 - The Last Ray (4:08)
07 - Another Day (2:54)
08 - Waves Become Wings (4:26)
09 - Barramundi (3:56)
10 - Dreams Made Flesh (3:48)
11 - Not Me (3:44)
12 - A Single Wish (2:27)
Xs (first EP '83)
13 - Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust (
14 - Song To The Siren (3:27)
15 - Sixteen Days (reprise) (4:12)

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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Bab 5 (108)

Hello, well celebration week at Rho-Xs is over and already the first victim fell with a Genesis post being taken down within 48 hours, im sure this will stimulate the sales of their exorbitantly priced remaster box..duh. Here we continue with another episode of Babylon 5, one that inspired the writers of the Eureka season 2 episode Games People Play. Only here our commander is questioned in virtual reality, or should i say his mind..anyway im sure it beats waterboarding anyday, and followers of the series Lie To Me will know aswell that for those interested in truthfull answers there's much better alternatives..but then the bullies don't get to play...

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.



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S01E08 And The Sky Full Of Stars

Commander Sinclair is kidnapped and wired into a virutal-reality cybernet, through which he is interrogated by an unknown but determined adversary whose purpose is to uncover memories of what happened when Sinclair's ship went missing for the 24 hours prior to the Minbari Surrender in the final battle (Battle of the Line) of the Earth-Minbari War. Sinclair resists his opponent's attempts to get into his mind, but finally remembers events that have been blocked from his memory for nearly a decade: the destruction of his entire squadron, his capture by a Minbari battle cruiser, torture, and a mysterious encounter with nine figures cloaked in grey, one of whom he suddenly remembers, Delenn. The memory could cost Sinclair his life.



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