General Strike - Danger in Paradise [1984/2012]

Subversive band name: Check, Sun Ra covers: Check, David Toop: Check, Re-issue by a favourite label: Check, Hauntological before it even became a thing: Check, Has dub: Check.

Praise be to Staubgold for re-issuing this album.

1	My Other Body	3:49
2	The Fatal Glass	2:43
3	Next Day	1:24
4	Babycart To Hell	2:36
5	Snowdrops	3:40
6	The Barkless Dog	4:21
7	Interplanetary Music	3:40
8	Parts Of My Body	3:04
9	Bamboo House Of Dolls	3:25
10	Interplanetary Dub	3:00
11	We Travel The Spaceways	3:22
12	Friendless Animals	1:02
13	Sea Hunt	4:07
14	Guided Missiles	4:11
15	Danger In Paradise	3:10

ripped in vbr0 as usual, in the comments below.

Die Elektronische Wohlfahrt - Treffpunkt Freizeit [1997]

The Electronic Welfare's one and only album. Another great find via Intergalactic FM , sixteen years late..

1 Sommerbad Neukölln 5:23

2 Klein Im Erdbeerfeld 10:28

3 PC-Tanz 5:55

4 Dr. Drago Eröffnet Eine Tanzbar In Der Eiffel 5:09

5 TanzenHottenChanten 8:00

6 Stadtmitte 6:40

7 Jucken 7:01

8 Röhnkes Zwitscherstübchen 2:47

9 Fensterleder 4:59

10 Spätkauf 7:09

11 Untitled 1:33

Homespun vbr0 mp3, in the comments as usual.

Jürg Itten - Linda Mentioned [Tonus 2009]

Jürg taking a nap

In an overwhelming haze of hissing static, one would not expect to find that the backbone of it is built upon the sounds of a contra-bass. In Jurg Itten's album 'Linda Mentioned' we find just that and even more as well. Structure and form take a step to this side creating a path based on constant juxtaposition. The elements of this juxtaposition are simple; organic and inorganic.

However, the meandering and profoundly formless nature of the piece, only serve to create complexity. The contra-bass being the organic element played by Simone Schranz and remixer Benfay who brings dense static disintegration of the bass. Jurg Itten serves as a conductor and arranger, bringing a unique vision that serves to form the completeness of the record.

The songs, titled as 'particles' sporadically jump from one another. Sometimes with no lead in, creating a thick distinction of elements. Some are conjoined '1st particle & 2nd particle remix' fade into one another seamlessly as if it were natural for static to disappear. Whilst clarity arrives with the plucking of the bass. And within the bass arrangement slowly winding heavy notes are punctuated by glistening harmonics, creating another pleasurable contrast.

Though in writing it may seem strange. The diverse elements serve to reflect on their differences, creating a strange double sided ensemble that meets in harmony, only to break away once again. A perfect soundtrack for the imagination, close your eyes and dream away.

Download url in the comments (vbr0)

Namlook - Permutations [Fax +49-69/450464 - 2010]

Ambient produced by Prolific Pete. This is (obviously) the 2-Channel Stereo version. None of that DTS 5.1 multichannel crap. vbr0 in the comments as usual.

Gianni Safred - Futuribile: The Life To Come [Folkways 1980]

The Life To Come
Disco Satellite 
Autumn 2001
Disco Propulsion 
Robot Party 
Last Rain 
Supermind 
Unexplored World 
Electronic Brain 
Jazz Computer 
Future City Traffic 
Machines For Eve

File under italo/space disco. vbr0 in the comments.

Atom Heart - The Singles 1991-2000 [Rather Interesting 2007]

1991-1993
1-01 Whitehouse (Atomic Crack) (4:16)
1-02 Whitehouse (Caspar Pound Mix) (6:11)
1-03 I Feel It (5:31)
1-04 Larger Than Life (808 Mix) (6:03)
1-05 Grid Of Time (6:42)
1-06 Larger Than Life (707 Mix) (8:40)
1-07 Globescanner (7:41)
1-08 101 (6:30)
1-09 Baud (5:17)
1-10 Teleography (Previously Unreleased) (6:34)
1-11 Function (1:40)

1994-2000
2-01 Genelink (7:07)
2-02 Chipsync (6:09)
2-03 Apart 2 (6:40)
2-04 Apart (Herbert's Underwater Remix) (8:30)
2-05 Demasiado Functional (Version Diferente) (4:48)
2-06 Descarga Mecano (Version Muy Diferente) (4:47)
2-07 Fototienda (Remix By Plaid) (6:32)
2-08 Rhumba Roland (Rhumbolento Remix By Fibla) (5:18)
2-09 8-Bit Boogie (4:10)
2-10 HD Endless (11:57)

Uwe Schmidt retrospective in a 900 copy limited edition. From acid house to electro-latin in less than a decade. The first disc with his earlier stuff might strike someone as too crass & dated (and it probably is). CD 2 is where he shines. Enjoy both in vbr0.

Babis Papadopoulos - From Draco's Cave [Puzzlemusik 2010]

Απ' τη σπηλιά του δράκου
-------------------------------
1.  Ένα τραγούδι απ' τ' Αλγέρι
2.  Η Γυφτοπούλα
3.  Ίντρο I
4.  Καλόγρια
5.  Ίντρο ΙΙ
6.  Μινόρε του τεκέ
7.  Ίντρο ΙΙΙ
8.  Ο Σινάχης
9.  Τουμπελέκι-τουμπελέκι
10. Ζεϊμπέκικο Σπανιόλο
11. Φινάλε

romanised filenames, utf8 tags. vbr0

Hassle Hound - B.I.A.N [Staubgold 2010]

supersecretalbumtitle.staubgoldisgold.

Oropendula 
Metropolitan Tower  
Hit It And Trip It And Cherub And Sing
A Song Seldom Sung 
Moon Phlox  
Everything Turns  
April Dancer  
Still Like A Hummingbird 
Nevertheless 
A Gathering Candle 
Cicada Circle

One of the few 2010 releases you will ever see here. 

Support poor Scottish groups! Buy the album. Lovely falsettos @ 320kbps.

Mice Parade - Collaborations [After Hours/ Bubble Core 2000]

Tracklisting:

1		The Fall From Andalucia	10:47
		Featuring - HiM
2		Rela Circle	5:57
		Featuring - Curtis Harvey
3		Mystery Brethren Vironment	7:41
		Featuring - Aki Tsuyuko , Nobukazu Takemura
4		Mystery Brethren Vironment (Jim O'Rourke Remix)	10:40
		Remix - Jim O'Rourke
5		Mystery Brethren Vironment (Child's View Remix)	6:11
		Remix - Nobukazu Takemura

vbr1 / check comments
C.Harvey & Takemura mixes stand out.

In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky [Musica Excentrica 2008] - re-up

Musica Excentrica proud to present our new compiliation [2008 new - ed.] dedicated to most impressive film-directors of XX century - Andrey Tarkovsky.
In the entire history of cinema there has never been a director, who has made such a dramatic stand for the human spirit as he did. Today, when cinema seems to have drowned in a sea of glamorized triviality, when human relationships on screen have been reduced to sexual intrigue or sloppy sentimentality, and baseness rules the day - this man appears as a lone warrior standing in the midst of this cinematic catastrophe, holding up the banner for human spirituality.
The Genius of modern Russian cinema - hailed by Ingmar Bergman as “the most important director of our time” - died an exile in Paris in December 1986.
After 22 [24 - ed.] years, passed from that year we decided to ask Kim Cascone, Astro, Violet, 833-45, Kenneth Kirschner, Astrowind, Pink Twins, Alva Noto, Nobukazu Takemura [yeah! - ed.] and Nikita Golyshev what do they think about Tarkovsky’s phenomenon. This “musical answers” [sic] are now gathered in a big compiliation, and we invite everyone to explore it

TrackList:
01. Kim Cascone - The Little Apocrypha
02. Astro - The Dark Side of The Mirror
03. Violet - Xata
04. 833-45 - Marshlands
05. Kenneth Kirschner - October 30, 1993
06. Astrowind - Autumn Drifting
07. Pink Twins - Water
08. Alva Noto - Stalker
09. Nobukazu Takemura - In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky
10. Nikita Golyshev - Sphere

320kbps , download at comments. Uploaded cause it's  missing from the blogospear. Found in soulseek out of all places :) ! . Info on the now defunt Musica Excentrica netlabel on Nikita Golyshev's vanity site: http://nikita-golyshev.com/musica-excentrica/

Bjorn Torske - Trobbel [Tellé 2001]

Bjørn Torske - Trøbbel [Tellé 2001]

I’ve never met Bjørn Torske (BT hereafter)… but if I ever bump heads with him, I’ll offer a firm butt-squeeze and the warmest embrace. For  a minimum of 5 minutes. Versatile does not even begin to describe the awesomeness that is BT; equally good on the chill-out room (those still exist?) and the dance-floor, he never fails to deliver his own brand of dubeardo-disco. He’s got a penchant for reverberated trills and the panoramic delay, unorthodox sound effects and samples (notice the guitar riff that smacks of Sonic Youth in Hard Trafikk among other things) but he knows just when to stop. My first encounter with his sound was through late 90s SVEK , on an evidently more housey tip. Trøbbel was the album that made me a believer, a proper showcase of BT’s spectrum. Without further ado, it’s back in the blogosphere after a long hiatus, in vbr0 (d/l link at comments).

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1 Knekkebrød 
2 Bobla  
3 Hard Trafikk
4 Knas
5 Trøbbel På Taket  
6 Møhlenpris
7 Maurenes Marsj 
8 Oppi Ura
9 Vind & Regn
10 Don't Push Me 
11 Brus   
12 Westside Hotel (Featuring - Torbjørn Brundtland)

(brundtland went on to join Royksopp, poor sod)

UA - Senkou [2002]

Another Harakami post for your eyes only. To my knowledge, a proper first in the blogosphere™. Harakami  Rei produces this gem of a single  for UA who's a jpop singer with a characteristic 'haunting' vocal timbre. She's also pretty hot. 

Tracklisting:

1. Senkou - 6:09

2. Senkou (Rei Harakami Original Mix) - 6:07

discogs

UA - Senkou cover

vbr0 , d/l at comments

a hundred things on the re-up

Re-uploaded Los Sampler's, in vbr0 this time ^_^. Check comments for latest link.

Rei Harakami - Colors of the Dark [2006]

1		Intro	1:58
2		Sequence_01	8:43
3		Sequence_02	7:36
4		Sequence_03	4:02
5		Sequence_04	3:17
6		"Yami Ha Hikari No Haha"	2:21
		Voice - Ikuko Harada Written By [Lyrics] - Shuntaro Tanikawa
7		Outro

Rei released this album for a Planetarium. He's that cool.

mp3 vbr2 Check comments for d/l as usual.

Bobby Cole - A Point of View

I won't lie; I first heard of Bobby Cole in "Gilles Peterson Digs America: Brownswood USA" and instantly got hooked to his piano-bar crooner voice. Enjoy.

1. Status Quo
2. The Name Of The Game Is Trouble
3. Lover Boy
4. You Can't Build A Life On A Look
5. But It's Spring
6. Heat
7. You Could Hear A Pin Drop
8. A Change Of Scene
10. A Perfect Day
11. Elegy For Eve
12. No Difference At All
13. I'm Growing Old
14. So Sleeps The Pride
15. Tango
16. Paper Wedding
17. Hole In The Corner Man
18. The Sailor

mp3 cbr 320kbps | dl url at comments as usual

Nobukazu Takemura - Kobito No Kuni (unreleased tracks ~1999)

1 Les Immemoriaux
2 die Arglosigkeit
3 Autrement qu'etre ou au-dela`de l'essence
4 die Warmflasche
5 ein Spazierganger
6 Reaktionsbilldung
7 un corpuscule
8 ein Grillenfanger
9 das Karussel
10 L`Entretien infini

mp3 vbr 1 | dl at comments as usual

happy new year
(still missing a scanner, sorry.)

Child's View - Funfair (1999)

No introductions necessary, one of Takemura's finest albums, including a cover of Sabure by The Dylan Group.

mp3 vbr0 | download url at comments :)

Los Sampler's - Descargas

Descargas is a collection of warped latin rhythms (artificial renderings of traditional rhythm structures like the mambo, son, and cha cha cha), performed by a fictional sampling ensemble. Lively and hilarious, multi-faceted, multi-layered, muy brillante! Using an immense host of samples (culled from atom’s vast collection of latin music) this music is thematically centred on the Cuban term “descarga” which has the double meaning of “jam session” and “discharge”. Favourites here are “La vida es llena de cables” (which takes on a traditional “son” rhythm and vocal style, concluding in a rapid explosion of sampled fretwork), the complex “Estudio en ritmo” (where a traditional vocal track rides unevenly on waves through the 7/4-5/4 times rhythm), and “Vamos con San Pedro” (another “son” reconstruction, which turns unexpectedly into an urban beatbox rhythm reminiscent of the excellent Mono Trademark, released in 1996). Filtered vocals, latin percussions, acoustic guitars, edits, cut-ups, and a cacophony of atomisms and “galletas” (short digital clicks, or, more literally, “cookies”) contribute to the very complex and careful structures on this album, the kind of digital baroque atom™ has been developing with extraordinary success in recent years. And this cover art is not to be missed. Highly recommended. [Richard di Santo]

Couldn't have said it better myself, Los Sampler's one and only LP, way ahead of its time. Produced by atom™ , aka Señor Coconut (both aliases of Uwe Schmidt - who lately decided to cash-in on his particular electro-latin sound by releasing covers of a variety of popular tunes...)

mp3 vbr1 vbr0 for your listening pleasure :) | dl at comments