VA - 2004 - Flowers Made Of Snow

1-1 Coph Nia – The Oath
Performer – Aldenon Satorial 4:19
1-2 Protagonist, The – The Sick Rose
Vocals – Jonathan Grieve 4:54
1-3 In Slaughter Natives – The Vulture
Performer – J. Havukainen* 4:55
1-4 Olen'k – Season Of Tears 3:25
1-5 All My Faith Lost ... – Sleep Now
Performer – Frederico*, Viola* 4:03
1-6 Last Hour, The – Into Empty Depth
Performer – Roberto Del Vecchio 4:01
1-7 Apatheia – Safehouse
Performer – L. Andersson* 3:24
1-8 Ataraxia – Incabala 3:31
1-9 Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Yesterday Brings But A Serpent Of Ash 5:01
1-10 Hesperos* – The Warm Whisper Of The Wind
Performer – Alessandra Santovito 4:08
1-11 Sibelian – The Sin Eater
Performer – Stephen Svanholm
Lyrics By – Bob Reeves 8:51
1-12 Sanctum – Lie Low
Performer – Håkan Paulsson, Jan Carleklev, Ulrika Carlsson* 4:27
2-1 Desiderii Marginis – Where I End And You Begin 4:48
2-2 raison d'être – Mouldering The Forlorn II
Performer – Peter Andersson 6:44
2-3 Atrium Carceri – Impaled Butterfly
Performer – Simon Heath 5:00
2-4 Mz.412 – In Hoc Signe Vinces
Performer – Drakhon, Nordvargr*, Ulvtharm* 6:53
2-5 Brighter Death Now – While You Sleep
Performer – Roger Karmanik 4:42
2-6 IRM – My Mother
Photography [Booklet] – H. Sternudd 6:28
2-7 Deutsch Nepal – Of Parasites And Disguises
Performer – Lina Baby Doll 7:11
2-8 Nacht – Death Posture
Performer – Tania Stene 3:55
2-9 Beyond Sensory Experience – The Trade 4:11
2-10 Sephiroth – Therasia
Performer – Ulf Söderberg 7:21
2-11 Skin Area – Choose Art... Not Life 6:01

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Einstürzende Neubauten - 1981 - Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten's first album, as one might imagine, is their most primitive and radical effort, the purest expression of their original aesthetic. This makes the album both historically significant and conceptually intriguing, of course, but what's most interesting about this album is that it still sounds surprising decades after its release. Often, albums that are considered extreme art statements upon their debut sound almost quaint a few years later, but while Kollaps perhaps sounds less extreme to ears that heard industrial music turned into disco pabulum by the likes of Nine Inch Nails than it did before, songs like the eight-minute title track and the rumbling live closer, "Negativ Nein," are still a fascinating blend of rhythm and random bashing, tonality and atonality, with anguished vocals by Blixa Bargeld that often seem to have little connection with anything else in the piece. The brief tracks, like the 80-second "Sehnsucht," are even more extreme explorations of pure noise. Starting as early as the next album, Einstürzende Neubauten would begin slowly introducing more mainstream musical concepts into their aesthetic, making Kollaps as undiluted a listening experience as there is in the entire catalog.

		1		Tanz Debil	Einsturzende Neubauten	3:23
		2		Steh auf Berlin		3:46
		3		Negativ Nein	Einsturzende Neubauten	2:27
		4		U-Haft Muza		3:40
		5		Draussen Ist Feindlich		:48
		6		Hören Mit Schmerzen		2:32
		7		Jet 'M		1:24
		8		Kollaps		8:03
		9		Sehnsucht		1:21
		10		Vorm Krieg		:20
		11		Hirnsäge		1:55
		12		Abstieg and Zerfall		4:28
		13		Helga		:11
		14		Negativ Nein [live]	Einsturzende Neubauten	4:37

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Negru Voda & Third Eye - 1994 - An Impulse Of Fear-Raudive Experiments

		An Impulse Of Fear
A1	Negru Voda	Death In Your Eyes
A2	Negru Voda	Hide Your Face
A3	Negru Voda	Mental Feedback (The Attack)
A4	Negru Voda	Tribes Of Cannibals
A5	Negru Voda	Incinerate
A6	Negru Voda	Impulse Of Fear
		Raudive Experiments
B1	Third Eye (2)	Black Friday
B2	Third Eye (2)	The Enigma Of Death
B3	Third Eye (2)	Lucid Dreams
B4	Third Eye (2)	Precognition

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Deine Lakaien

Alexander Veljanov and Ernst Horn formed the avant-garde electronic and atmospheric darkwave ensemble Deine Lakaien in 1985. Horn, an orchestra conductor, and Veljanov, a scholar of theater history, have released numerous collections of their signature experimental renderings of their myriad collective influences (opera, pop, punk, medieval, new wave, folk music) and achieved a well-earned spot in Europe's avant pop hierarchy. Their latest project finds the duo embarking on an orchestral tour with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt symphony orchestra.

1994 - Mindmachine EP

Deine Lakaien - 1994 - Mindmachine EP

		1		Mindmachine [Video Edit]		3:54
		2		Song for a Mad Choir Singer		5:35
		3		Madiel		4:03
		4		Mindmachine [Long Version]		7:15

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Rieflin, Bill

Seattle-born William Rieflin (b. September 30, 1960) is one of the most respected metal/industrial drummers of the last decade. Through his work with Ministry and that band's countless side projects, Rieflin has become known as a powerful and original force within the alternative scene. During the early '80s, Rieflin was a member of the Blackouts, a Seattle-based hard rock band. The lineup also included Paul Barker and Mike Scaccia, both future members of Ministry, as well as Rieflin's brother Raymond. The Blackouts folded in 1987, and Barker convinced Rieflin to join him and Al Jourgensen in the newly reinvented Ministry. Together they produced one of the seminal industrial albums, Land of Rape and Honey.

Rieflin continued to record and tour with Ministry into the mid-'90s, as well as the Revolting Cocks. He was also a regular guest with the industrial collectives Pigface and joined Chris Connelly's solo project. However, Rieflin and Jourgensen fell out during the sessions for Filth Pig, and the partnership with Ministry was ended. He continued to be a sought-after figure and recorded with KMFDM, the Swans, and Nine Inch Nails. In 1999, Rieflin released his first solo album, Birth of a Giant, featuring contributions for guitar-maestro Robert Fripp. The album was well-received, confirming Rieflin's reputation as one of the most talented drummers of recent years.

1999 - The Repercussions Of Angelic Behaviour

Rieflin, Fripp, Gunn - 1999 - The Repercussions Of Angelic Behaviours

The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior is a rock CD with atmospheric timbres. It is by Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, and Bill Rieflin. The liner notes are sparse. In fact, they're nonexistent, so listeners have to tackle this disc with no "graphic interference." Fans of Fripp looking for a sound similar to his work with King Crimson will not be disappointed. The disc is loaded with hot guitar riffs and freaky dissonance. It is not pleasant and it is not unpleasant -- it is Fripp and it meets expectations. It is a new kind of avant-garde.

		1				7:37
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		2				3:39
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		3				8:48
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		4				2:12
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		5				2:22
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		6				3:51
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		7				7:10
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		8				4:05
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		9				4:23
Composed by: Performed by: Rieflin, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn
		10				9:24

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Laswell, Bill

A longtime linchpin of the New York City underground music scene, Bill Laswell was among the most prolific artists in contemporary music; as a performer, producer, and label chief, his imprint is on literally hundreds of albums, the majority of them characterized by a signature sound fusing the energy of punk with the bone-rattling rhythms of funk. Born on February 12, 1955, in Salem, IL, he initially played guitar, but soon switched to bass; raised primarily in the Detroit area, he honed his skills in local funk outfits before relocating to New York in 1978. There Laswell formed Material, an outlet for his experimental approach toward sounds ranging from jazz to hip-hop to worldbeat; originally the backup unit for Daevid Allen, the group soon began working on its own, issuing its debut EP Temporary Music in 1979.

In addition to fronting Material, Laswell also mounted a solo career, issuing Baselines in 1982 on Celluloid, a label he partly owned and operated. Appearances on key recordings by the likes of David Byrne, John Zorn, Fred Frith, and the Golden Palominos established Laswell as a virtual nexus of the downtown N.Y.C. community, and in 1983 he broke into the mainstream with his production work on Herbie Hancock's smash "Rockit," which he also co-wrote; the follow-up LP, Sound-System, won him a Grammy. Throughout the mid-'80s Laswell was everywhere, playing bass on LPs from artists including Mick Jagger, Peter Gabriel, Yoko Ono, and Laurie Anderson; he also joined the avant group Curlew, and produced a number of African acts.

In 1986, Laswell joined guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and saxophonist Peter Brötzmann in the group Last Exit; a second solo LP, Hear No Evil, appeared two years later, and after a long hiatus he also resurrected Material in 1989 with Seven Souls. Another project, the hip-hop-flavored Praxis, was resumed after close to a decade of inactivity with 1992's Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis). In 1990, Laswell formed another label, Axiom, to explore his interest in the new sounds of ambient and techno; where in the past his work rarely appeared solely under his own name, by the middle of the decade he was issuing several solo records annually in a wide range of styles from dub to jazz. He also remained among the most prolific producers in the business, collaborating with the likes of Dub Syndicate, Pete Namlook, Buckethead, and DJ Spooky.

In 2004, Laswell signed a multi-album label deal with the Sanctuary Records group. The deal spawned his new label, Nagual. Through Sanctuary's earlier acquisition of the seminal reggae label Trojan, Laswell now had access to the Jamaican label's sizeable back catalog. Picking some of his favorite cuts and remixing them, Laswell issued the Trojan-sourced Dub Massive: Chapter One and Chapter Two in May 2005. The Only Way to Go Is Down followed on Sublight Records in 2006.

2000 - Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting/Reconstructions Of Irish Music

Laswell, Bill - 2000 - Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting/Reconstructions Of Irish Music

This project had such potential. Celtic music lends itself very nicely to being mixed with modern dance beats, and no one makes such cultural fusions work better than Bill Laswell -- witness in particular his very fine Imaginary Cuba album and countless other bubbly multicultural musical stews. On Emerald Aether, the idea was to take tracks from Shanachie's enviably deep Celtic catalog (including performances by singer Karan Casey, flutist Matt Molloy, piper Jerry O'Sullivan, and the band Solas) and place them like green jewels in Laswell's trademark space-funk settings. And in several cases, it works really well -- "The Stride Set," a set of reels by Solas, is nicely energized by Laswell's breakbeats, and the echoey ambience he applies to O'Sullivan's "Wind Chimes and Nursery Rhymes" works very well, too. But too many of these tracks are ruined by Laswell's ignorance (or, it seems more likely, simple disregard) of modal harmony in general and the key centers of the individual songs in particular. His settings of Karan Casey's performances add chord washes that bear no apparent harmonic relationship to the keys Casey is singing in, which means that her singing clashes unpleasantly with the music that is supposed to be supporting her. The same thing happens rhythmically with the dubwise drum'n'bass setting that Laswell builds for Matt Molloy's rendition of "The Hare in the Heather" -- there's no reason why the beats couldn't have meshed with Molloy's played rhythms, and the final product would have much more compelling if they had. Despite some inspired moments, this album is a real disappointment overall.

		1		The Wayfaring Stranger		2:49
Composed by: Performed by: Jerry OSullivan
		2		The Stride Set	Reels	6:45
Composed by: Reels Performed by: Solas
		3		The Lavouring Man's Daughter		5:07
Composed by: Performed by: Karan Casey
		4		We Dreamed Our Dreams	Farrelly	:48
Composed by: Farrelly Performed by: Cathie Ryan
		5		Wendel's Wedding	Cuffe	3:15
Composed by: Cuffe Performed by: Jerry OSullivan
		6		The Gray Selchie		2:12
Composed by: Performed by: Solas
		7		Dark Green		3:59
		8		Wind Chimes and Nursery Rhymes	Ellis	2:49
Composed by: Ellis Performed by: Jerry OSullivan
		9		One, I Love	Ritchie	4:44
Composed by: Ritchie Performed by: Karan Casey
		10		La Bruxa	Shivanez	4:34
Composed by: Shivanez Performed by: Solas
		11		The Hare in the Heather		2:32
Composed by: Performed by: Matt Molloy
		12		Coaineadh Na Dtri Muire (Lament of the Three Marys)	Traditional	3:37
Composed by: Traditional Performed by: Cathie Ryan
		13		Slieve Russell, Jimmy Wards J.G.		2:00
Composed by: Performed by: Matt Molloy
		14		The Beauty Spot	Reels	4:19

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