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Last Active 08-15-22 6:36 pm
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 | kildare Let me know if you check out the new Project Pitchfork and like anything on it. I've given it a couple spins but so far haven't found a reason to spend more time with it. But that doesn't mean anything -- sometimes music has to stew for me
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| kildare Liked the N-fish track. I really only know the "The Bomb" from their earlier stuff, so this will inspire to go through their back catalogue when I get burned on the new one. And you might be right about the new song being a reworking of an older song. It would explain why I can't find it!
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| kildare That's so cool that you got back to me with Neurotic Fish! When it came out I gave only skim, but then went back to it in, like, January and love it now. Curiously, I tend to spend most of my time in the middle of the album, tracks 5 -10.
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 | Sunnyvale Hi there! Please post your question to the mods at the below link, they should be able to advise:https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=205084
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| kildare Or this one, apparently what the village music sounded like in Austria in Mozart's time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Nl7FATygsDoes this stuff sound mildly Middle-Eastern to you?
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| kildare A sample of really REALLY old folk, 700-year old "folk," Medieval European style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lw8nH6dQIo
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| kildare What music comes to mind when you hear the genre "folk," not the new "neo folk", but the original "folk"? Over hear "folk" usually means Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel, or someone who sounds like them.
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| kildare Finally, I should add that I don't think anything on this album sounds like 1960's Rock :-). Just that one song linked up in my brain to Vietnam Era stuff
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| kildare Totally digging this album. Getting the itch to review it
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| kildare I'm listening to his latest one now, and it sounds considerably more...industrial-ish. Would you compare this comfortably to Goth? Another question: Do you think Rome be able to open for a band like Diary of Dreams (or vice-versa), or would one of them get booed off the stage? I saw this happen once back in the 90's when Alice in Chains tried to open for Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. It wasn't a pretty site :-(
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| kildare Is the recent Rome album a decent place to start?
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| kildare The Rome song was really interesting. It reminded me strongly of a song from the 1960's which for the life of me I cannot track down, not being a huge fan of the era. But The Animals comes fairly close:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Kecv6eJNM. Does this one sound totally, COMPLETELY different from Rome's music to your ears? It seems to me that if Rome had opened for The Animals back in the day, he wouldn't have been booed off the stage. Whereas Megadeth definitely would have.
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| kildare Sorry it took so long. I meant to reply last week, but I've got a weird health issue going on and my motivation to do anything crashed
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| kildare "Take care, buddy" You too. It won't surprise you that I have a bunch of stuff to reply, but I'll save it for at least a week. I suspect you have more of a life than I do ;-)
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| kildare Thanks for introducing me to Neo-Folk. I'm checking out a playlist as I write. There's a lot of interesting hybridizing going on these days. I got into a discussion on Reddit with a user who is trying to create an Electro-industrial /Shoegaze/Power-Noise hybrid. Their attempt wasn't very successful, but it made for an interesting chat.
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| kildare The "Barbie Girl" cover struck me the same! I was supposed to chuckle, right? I mean, it's a well executed song, but while I'm listening to it, I'm also hearing in my head the poppy, bubble-gum, squeaky voiced Aqua original. It wasn't a mashup, but it definitely functioned like one. (It might sadden you to know that I went and listened to the original after it was over).
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| kildare I'm just glad you wrote back! I felt like I was taking a gamble sending another user "bind, torture and kill." I mean, the theme is super violent. I never would have sent that to a random user. I just assumed that they played BTK (along with Hellraiser) a lot in the discos? I also know the Doors song really well, so the mashup just struck me.
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| kildare You must hear this and tell me if it's just totally freak'n hilarious, or if it's just me: https://sowndhaus.audio/track/46109/roadhouse-torture-kill-the-doors-vs-suicide-commando-mashup
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| kildare I get the impression a lot of artists get tired of trying to figure out what to write about
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| kildare Your comment on the title has me thinking about the song, lyrically. I'm trying to figure out if he's singing about a Grimm Brother's fairy tale or something. He did that in "Wumpelstilz" from Schrekk and Grauss.
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| kildare So I'm listening to the song "Giftkeks," and he says "don't Giftkeks" in the chorus. (It's curious that he's gone to mixing English and Deutsch in recent years. Like I did just now). Would you accept "don't eat the poison cookies?" as a suitable translation? Or does the word "giftkeks" not have enough information to translate that way? Would it just say "no poison cookies"?
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| kildare Just FYI: Wumpscut just released an album with remixes by his fans. The first and fourth tracks reminded me a little of the IDM stuff you recommended a while ago. Might be worth checking out: https://wumpscut.bandcamp.com/album/dj-dwarf-23-remix-appendix
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 | How about Germany? Are the first-person shooters the type of games they target most? I've never played them myself. I grew up shooting, so they just don't look that interesting. When I game I just stick to the old platformer stuff. You?
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| kildare How about Germany? Are the first-person shooters the type of games they target most? I've never played them myself. I grew up shooting, so they just don't look that interesting. When I game I just stick to the old platformer stuff. You?
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| kildare Yeah, Fox news are a bunch of Puritans (actually I think they?re Catholic, but you probably know what I mean). Its the Religious Right and their obsessions with the evils of reproduction. And film. And music. And social media. And pretty much everything except guns and church :-) . I've always thought it strange that they pick on games like the one you showed me, but don't consider first-person shooters a problem. I'm not giving away my politics here, just say'n that it's weird.
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| kildare I mean, there was a guy a few years ago that shot-up a concert in Las Vegas with a machine gun from a hotel window. He was in his sixties and a compulsive gambler. But the media certainly wasn't going to blame the casinos. Besides lawsuits, Vegas is reputed to be controlled by the Mafia, so blaming the casinos was probably not a very good idea.
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| kildare I haven't heard music getting blamed for violence for a long time, though. Maybe they've finally figured out that there's no common pattern in the background of these killers except sadism. I speculate the reason music got blamed so much in the early days was because they couldn't blame Hollywood or there would be big-time lawsuits. Groups like Wumpscut and disco owners were easy to pick on at the time because they didn't really have the clout to fight back.
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| kildare But it sounds like the Goth scene took a terrible hit during the Wumpscut controversy. "A camera zoom showing a dancing crowd of a club I attended as well back then with words like: Might the next killer be in this crowd? or sth. like that" Sheesh! It sounds like the authorities were trying to shut down discos?
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| kildare I never heard about the controversy from Wumpscut. I was listening to Slayer back when they were accused of contributing to murder, and then later KMFDM and Rammstein when it was broadcast that the Columbine school killers listened to them. (As I recall, Konzietko said that was one of the reasons KMFDM broke up).
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| kildare My sister says I roll out questions like a two-year old, so I worry that you are also tiring of me, but I can't help but ask: In the bigger discos, was Wumpscut's EARLY music played in the smaller, "truer" floor, and when he got more popular his stuff moved onto the larger "gas mask" floor? Then his music got slower and he lost the disco connection completely in his later albums?
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| kildare Oh, and Wumpscut is due out for a new one in a few weeks. I'm guessing you're not a huge fan, and I bet you're familiar with him :-)
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| kildare Were Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb widely known in Germany?
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| kildare So anyway, around the time of Lust's release (1991), most of us over here were drowning in Metallica's Black album, or bands like Motley Crue. The only commonly heard ELECTRONIC stuff was Madonna and Janet Jackson. I can?t speak for all American cities, but Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb were relatively underground compared to the more ?popular? (relatively speaking) Skinny Puppy and Front line Assembly, and those were definitely underground.
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| kildare And thanks for the Zwischenfall rec. It's invaluable!
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| kildare Thanks for all the answers. I'm find these US/Germany comparisons fascinating. I guess I see what you mean now by putting Lords of Acid in with Eurodance. By "Eurodance", you mean stuff like Ace of Base and (later) Cascada? By the "dark side", do you mean something like "dark side = sickening popular fluffy music"?
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| kildare Just in case you're interested: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/86544/Lords-of-Acid-Lust/
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| kildare Just commented on Reverse Perpendiculars' review of Lord of Acid's "Lust." She(?) wrote a great narrative about hearing the music at a disco. Do you know if that album was played a lot in Europe? I think Praga Khan is British, so I assume it was heavily played in Britain. But the 90's were the Zoth Ommog days in the Germanic countries so I assume it had a lot of competition :-)
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| kildare Sorry I don't have any recs in this genre. But I'll take any more from you if you like spreading the gospel :-) The song from the LUX record you said was in your head has some really cool rhythms. Now it's stuck in my head! That stuff makes me itch to drop a couple $1000 or so on a keyboard and software and start playing around. Maybe in another life :-(
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| kildare I checked out the song you rec'd have given the whole album a few spins. Great stuff. Is this IDM? in English media "IDM" tends to mean "intelligent dance music," which is also ambient but doesn't sound like this stuff. And if I Spotify "Industrial Dance Music" I get playlists with Eisenfunk, Noisuf-X, Phosgore and Nachmahr, and that's not really like the LUX album you rec'd.
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| kildare Watched the cybergoth vid. Yeah, the costumes are strange but if I was loaded enough I would totally give it a try. Haha. The thing I like about industrial-dancing is that there appears to be actual moves. I very occassionally go country-western line dancing with my wife and its fun, but the music SUCKS. And honestly I think country-western costumes are just as cool/silly as the gear in that video. I mean, the people she dances with aren't REAL cowgirls, so it's all just dressing up.
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| kildare Do you know if they'll make it to your side of the ocean?
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| kildare Oh yeah, almost forgot. Skinny Puppy's last tour. Tragic :-(
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| kildare Currently jamming to BlakLight's single "Wicked Face." A little generic but I'm loving it. No worries on time issues! I'm away from this site a lot more lately also. Cheers!
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| kildare "But yeah, you really have to dig." If that wasn't the case I guess we'd be listening to someone really commercial, and in that case they wouldn't sound like Puppy, they'd sound like Rhianna. It's a weird paradox. We WANT them to sound underground, but still make enough $$$ to keep producing music.
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| kildare VAC came back to our home city and brought Das Ich with them -- and I missed it! Damn! Probably the only time I'll ever be able to see them. But I was tied up that night.
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| kildare Ha! I was wondering about your opinion on the gas mask stuff! But I?m glad you?re not getting burned out on -- Gothic? I don?t know what to call it -- music. It was kind of a weird question, but I read an interview with Bryan Erickson (Velvet Acid Christ) and he said he was nervous that the scene was slowing down because he couldn't book shows in Scandinavia. Covenant and Pride and Fall (NOR and SWE) haven't realeased new stuff in years, so now I'M nervous.
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| kildare I went through a period in the 90?s when a bunch of my favorite genres just, like, died. Thrash and Hardcore gave way to Korn and Nirvana and Green Day, and I just didn?t get into them as much. Skinny Puppy and KMFDM split up, and Industrial headed away from Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 towards Stabbing Westward and Marilyn Manson, and I don?t care for their flavors. Front Line Assembly and Ministry stayed in the game, but I think it was a hard period for them.
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| kildare Until Du Hast popped up on a radio station, and a co-worker lent me her Leather Strip discs, I wasn?t even aware that Europe was continuing to make great music. Anyway, I get nervous that the scene in Northern Europe is fading away. Hip-hop is growing, and I have nothing against it, but it?s not really my thing. But hearing from you it sounds like the various Elektro/Gothic/Industrial scenes are still healthy over there. Even if some of them dress up in goofy costumes :-)
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| kildare Checking out the new Diary of Dreams (again) as I write. I didn?t know about him until you rec-d it, so its all pretty new to me. But it sounds a little stronger than the previous two? You wrote before that music like Suicide Commando ?bores me these days.? Are bands like Diary of Dreams and In Strict Confidence also failing to generate interest for you these days? I hate it when that happens, but that?s the way our minds seem to work :-(
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| kildare "won't be a smart ass this time" nah, that?s no fun. Fire away! I could use the toughening up
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| kildare Numb and A split Second: Haven't hear them before but like what I hear so far. The latter has their full discography on Bandcamp for cheap, so I'll probably pick that up. Rotersand: I like them a lot. But I've listened to "Waiting to be Born" so many times that I'm forcing myself NOT to listen to it for at least another 6 months to a year before I listen to it to death
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| kildare Acylum and Heilung: It's not really that I feel bad, exactly, I just don't like surprises. Since I'm so far out of the scene, I don't really know what's going on with these people. I'm not too worried about the type of controversy around Nachtmahr, but the Funker Vogt- Sacha Korn "Sick Man" video took me by surprise. Most importantly I'm going to write a review on Acylum, and I didn't want to look naive because I'm so deep in the dark
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| kildare I'll watch for the new Diary of Dreams. Thanks!
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| kildare Hey, I curious about your opinions on 1. Acylum, 2. Oberer Totpunkt, 3. Heilung. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Don't know/neutral/don't caree. I suspect that Acylum and Heilung attract unsavory people like Sacha Korn, which makes me sad. But I'm really interested in their music, so I'm torn. Oberer Totpunkt: I love her music, but I was wish she would sing instead of rap; I'm getting into her but SLOWLY
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| kildare Got the rec, thanks! Froz Plasma must be gearing up for a new album. I noticed too that In Strict C. and Proj Pitch are both four years out from their last ones. Maybe we'll start hearing something new from them come the new year. It'll be worth hearing even if it's mediocre.
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 | Willie I'll have to check the review... I must have missed it. I only made it through a few songs for the Die Robo Sapiens albums so far, but I love Die Krupps so I'm looking forward to hearing it. It doesn't sound like it was entirely your thing, though. As for Noise Unit, I haven't really been a fan since their debut. I wish they had stuck with that sound. I love Delerium, Conjure One, and Front Line Assembly though.
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| Willie There's an album coming out tomorrow by a band called Die Robo Sapiens (it's on the new releases post). It's a side project from the guys in industrial metal band Die Krupps.
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 | ReiniEden If you really like Jeff Buckley I really recommend you listen to that Martin Grech album I had in the favorite albums list.
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 | Lord(e)Po)))ts I glanced at your ratings and thought that might be the case lol. But yeah her vids are cool regardless
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