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POESIE NOIRE-STARVATION OF A MIND (7'' SINGLE) (1986)


TEARS AND DREAMS 7'' & 12'' INCHES 21 May 2012, 8:35 pm CEST

Seguimos en pie ahora presentando de nuevo a: ''Poesie Noire'', banda belguiense como ''The cultural decay'', Siglo XX'' Y ''De Brassers'' asi como ''The neon judgement'' con este estilo de puro ''Cold wave''  perfectamente hecho a la medida siendo la 2nda cuna del movimiento: ''Cold wave'' en el mundo sin olvidar que la 1ra cuna es ''Francia''. Poesie Noire: Tuvo ese sonidoelectronico / acustico y mi persona los bautizo como el ''The Cure'' bizarro, o ustedes como identificaban a esta banda lidereada por ''Jo Casters'' asi como vocal en su banda y compositor a la vez. PN: tuvo su historia y a la fecha se les recuerda como iconos de la musica de vanguardia ya que se supo que le abrio a: ''The sisters of mercy'' y a ''Simple minds'' en ciertos conciertos que se prestaron para empezar adarse a conocer sin olovidar que en guitarras los apoyo: ''Ludo Camberlin'' (ex-productor de ''Siglo XX'') y recordemos su banda: ''Happy hunting ground'' donde toco guitarras y vocales. Happy hunting ground 12'' inch (1985): http://tearsanddreams712.blogspot.mx/2010/07/happy-hunting-ground-happier-hunting.html Tambien descarga su 7'' inch, llamado: ''De Javu'' del año (1989): http://tearsanddreams712.blogspot.mx/2010/07/poesie-noire-oblivioncd-maxi-1990.html Checa sus 2 albunes mas famosos posteados desde mi otro blog DARKRECORDS: Tetra (1988): http://darkrecords-fernando.blogspot.mx/2010/04/poesie-noire-tetracd-version-1988.html Love is colder than death (1989): http://darkrecords-fernando.blogspot.mx/2010/05/poesie-noire-love-is-colder-than-death.html The best of (1985-1988) (K7'' album) (1988): http://darkrecords-fernando.blogspot.mx/2010/06/poesie-noire-best-of-1985-1988cassette.html Asi que es una banda legendaria que no debes dejar pasar. Su pagina hecha por fans y oficial al mismo tiempo: http://www.poesienoire.com Nos estamos escribiendo, gracias!!! Compra sus ''K7'' solo desde esta pagina Alemana!!: http://amoebenklang.de/index2.html POESIE NOIRE-STARVATION OF A MIND (7'' SINGLE) (1986) A Side A1 Starvation of a mind (Original version) B Side B1 Starvation of a mind (Tsjernobil version)

THE FAN CLUB – 15:20 EP (1982)


VINYL ▌ΘBSCURITY 21 May 2012, 5:24 am CEST

This is the rare extended player by American power pop rockers – the Fan Club. I believe this was their only musical output…This band’s sound is influenced by a late 70’s/early 80’s punk aesthetic, but I would say their sound delivery is more power pop focused with a punk outer coating at times. Punchy and catchy songs are cranked out with zeal and it’s over before you know it….The set ends with the brash Ramones inspired “I Won’t Take It”….Out of print private pressing via Rude Records… SIDE ONE going mental heartache just another kiss SIDE TWO my baby loves it future problems i won’t take it DOWNLOAD ME

Viva! - Dreams Be Quiet! LP


Phoenix Hairpins 19 May 2012, 12:10 pm CEST

Posted on blogs before but bX-59cppw asked me for a high quality rip so here it is. 'Dreams Be Quiet' is Viva!'s third album; first on wellknown label Unition (Holy Toy, Fra Lippo Lippi, ...) and also the first where they switched from their native language to English. You can grab their two other albums on this blog. I agree with the writing there. Viva! took influences of Simple Minds and Ultravox and created moody wave. It sounds quite accessible but I like the atmosphere on the album. Viva! released a fourth album 'A Rainbow At The Edge Of The Shadow' in 1987 and then disappeared. Dreams Be Quiet! LP (Uniton-U 029-1985) 1. Dreams Be Quiet! 2. Colours & Symbols 3. Twilight Scenes 4. The Frozen Field 5. The Thousand Things 6. Through The Wall 7. Dark Shape 8. She Wears A Shadow Viva! - 320 Viva! - FLAC

JOY DIVISION TRIBUTE-IT'S A STRANGE DAY (2012)


TEARS AND DREAMS 7'' & 12'' INCHES 19 May 2012, 7:24 am CEST

La banda mas famosa del mundo y la mejor de todas sin excepcion alguna y tener en cuenta que el estilo fue unico e inolvidable perfeccionando el New wave y cold wave a la maxima expresion musical europea.
Joy Division fue es y sera el concepto mas increible en la musica de vanguardia que la mente humana haya podido crear hermanos, asi sea.
Con esta copilacion tenemos el ''32 aniversario'' de la muerte de Ian, recordando ese 18 de mayo en la noche cuando escuchaba ''This is the end'' de ''The doors'' llevandolo al final de su existencia donde su esposa descubrio en el cuarto, el cuerpo sin vida con una soga en el cuello del lider y compositor de: JOY DIVISION, dejandola viuda con una hija ''(Debora Curtis)'' asi como un amor perdido en el tiempo... y su mejor cancion sin estrenarse hasta un mes despues (18 de junio) llamada: ''Love will tear us apart'' catalogada como el mejor sencillo de la historia en la musica en general y a mi punto de veer la mejor cancion del mundo hermanos asi como ''Ceremony'' que fue echa para su esposa cuando contraia nupcias, desde lo mas profundo de su ser.
Joy Division es y seran los padres del dark aqui y ahora y lo festejamos dejando esta copilacion con bandas similares al sonido que otorgaron para todo el mundo e influenciaron a la fecha ese sonido tan peculiar con esa voz cavernosa y unica que solo Ian pudo crear para la musica obscura y vanguardista hermanos.
Esta copilacion encierra bandas de la talla de: Siglo XX, New Order, Spiral of silence, The Wake, Men 2nd, Day after, B.F.G., IKON, entre otras asi como el mismisimo: Joy Division espero de verdad que la disfruten y sepan que la buena musica no muere y mientras tenga este blog, seguire recordandolo de momento en momento, gracias y saludos a todos ustedes, que descansen.
(El nombre de la copilacion haber si se dan cuenta de que cancion fue extraida)
JOY DIVISION TRIBUTE-IT'S A STRANGE DAY (2012)
01 Siglo XX-The art of war(E.P. version)
02 New Order-Truth
03 The Wake-The Drill (Peel session version)
04 Men 2nd-Low land
05 B.F.G.-Paris (Single version)
06 Dead Curtis-Dark night of June
07 The cultural decay-End of the corridor
08 Motorama-Lantern (E.P. version)
09 Dobri Isak-Plakati su Ikone
10 Last journey-The interruption
11 For against-Fate
12 Tunnelvision-100 Men (2nd cargo demo)
13 Gruppenbild-Tranquility (Single version)
14 Spiral of silence-How I miss you
15 Third circle-Freewill and farewell (Single version)
16 Ikon-Alone
17 Septima victima-Decision
18 Joy Division-Love will tear us apart (Single version)
19 Day after-Day after (MLP version)

Aurore - Rock' Mantique 12'' (198?, Self-Released)


Kentucky Fried Wave 19 May 2012, 3:47 am CEST

Cross Italo with some cold wave and you get this mysterious French (Trélazé) 12" by Aurore that I'm guessing came from the early 80's (no year listed). This is the only release I've ever seen by them, one archived ebay auction from popsike writes, "AURORE France only private locl pressing 12" angelina + instrumental version , check the great dark synth wave intro , the cold wave bass,  like if touching pop meets sad italo synth , great great tune, and the instrumental is fantastic !! don't need to look for it, you won't find any information on the web or anybody having it in stock , very rare !" Aurore - Rock' Mantique 12'' (198?, Self-Released) 01. Angelina (Chant) 02. Angelina (Musique)  link pass: kentuckyfriedwave

RED – In Motion LP (1983)


VINYL ▌ΘBSCURITY 19 May 2012, 2:13 am CEST

Here’s a full length album by RED, a sextet who were based out of the United Kingdom. I’m assuming the name came from the lead singer, as his last name was Red. With their nifty and very 80’s looking album sleeve design, The Red were able to gain some limited UK radio play exposure and ended up producicng this sole album. In Motion spawned the singles “Let Her Go” and “Naomi”…. The album is full of polished electronic synth pop numbers that are easy on the ears and have a melancholic way about them…This vinyl should be easily attained with some brief hunting around the web-o-sphere marketplace…Out of print pressing… SIDE A Let her go Uniform man Never releasing Naomi Portrait SIDE B Ants Get the motion Taking pictures Conscious mind DOWNLOAD ME

Commercial Music: Volume 3


A Viable Commercial 18 May 2012, 7:21 pm CEST

It’s been a few weeks since I last shared something on this blog (that Spiff record is one of my recent favorites though). So I think the third “Commercial Music” collection of odds and ends – obscure B sides, demos, or good songs on otherwise mediocre albums – is certainly called for.
This one is by far my favorite of these compilations. It’s the most diverse, and almost every song is solid, whether it’s an unheard demo song demo, a new band, or classic post punk. Here’s what’s in store for you:
     Atoms for Peace were a Gainsville, FL based new wave band who self-released one album in 1985 and then.. nothing. The record is pretty obscure, and for the most part it has not held up as well as other new wave records. But the second song on the album, Pictures, is a total classic that builds intensely from a few acoustic guitar strums to a crashing Bunnymen-esque post punk song with some pretty cool vocal delays during the refrain.
   Next is an extremely obscure Belgian band who self-released one LP in 1987 on the ominously-named “Mahomet’s Holy War” label.  Apparently only 50 copies of it were pressed, and it has been pretty unknown (obviously due to its scarcity) for many years. But their sole record is becoming more and more of a holy grail, and this song is a killer post punk song that sounds very similar to the great Dutch band Mecano – huge thanks to Lesypersound for this rip!
       Next up is a forgotten UK new wave band. This song is the B side of their sole 12 inch from 1985. While the A side is really nothing special, the B side is excellent and falls squarely in the Flock of Seagulls vein of synthpop (admit it, you like it).
     Work of Fiction released one song on one of those hundreds of local band compilations that were so prevalent in the 80s. They were from upstate New York. The vocals are quite cheesy (imagine Robert Smith crossed with Rick Astley), but the great synths on the song make it worthwhile.
     Next up is a Missouri-based band who released one 12” EP  that contained three pretty standard AOR pop songs and one quite good new wave song with a nice repetitive synth rhythm.
     That new wave song is followed up with a Florida-based goth band who had a few songs on various compilation records but have otherwises remained quite obscure. These guys were unapologetically, humorlessly goth. And while their earnestness may sound a bit cheesy now, this song inexplicably holds a place in my heart. My cold, black, unbeating heart.
     Many of you will be familiar with the next band, whose style of industrial is heavily influenced by early Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, et al, with all the leather fetishism that comes with the genre. This song is from one of their extremely limited (13 copies only!) demo CDs that were sold on a 2008 west coast tour, when the "band" was just one person singing and thrashing around to prerecorded music.
     We follow that song up with a Detroit band who, had one song on a completely unknown compilation the late 80s, and that’s pretty much it. It’s a shame, since this track “You Make It Hard” is a pretty great synthpop track somewhat in the vein of late-80s Depeche Mode.
     Next is another Michigan band, Clambake, who recorded a couple extremely limited cassettes (including a Christmas album!) and faded into obscurity. Their music was synth-heavy and somewhat industrial, sounding very similar to bands like Gelatinous Citizen. This song became better known after it was re-recorded by the industrial band Shock Therapy, with whom they collaborated.
     Jezebel and the Nudes were your average female-fronted new wave/disco crossover band. They had one 12” EP in 1983 that has three somewhat forgettable songs, and then ends with this great dramatic disco-wave song chock full of synths and electronics.
     The next band was a trio active in the early 80s who released two very limited albums (only 500 copies were pressed of their debut, from which this song Chasing Moroder was taken). For the most part, they played a mix of new age and improvisational jazz, but analog synth nuts will absolutely freak over this song, which features a steady kr-55 rhythm and pulsating, gurgling and crashing electronics and stabs of effected guitar noise. It truly sounds like its namesake – if Moroder was being chased in his nightmares.
     After a deranged electro song, what's more polar opposite than an extremely underrated Manchester indie band active in the early 90s. Their music was a mix of Britpop, shoegaze, and bits and pieces of the Madchester sound.  Virtually everything in their small catalog is excellent, and this is one of my favorites.
     Next is a Texas band who released a very obscure 7” that contained one somewhat bland bar-rock song, and this song, a blistering and absolutely killer blast of post punk fury that sounds like an aggressive version of For Against or Lung Overcoat. VERRRRRRRY great
     Next up is another new-ish band with many hats. Some songs are industrial dance, some are more electro, but this song (my personal favorite), taken from their demo CD, is a post punk tour de force with a wonderfully thick bassline.
     The next band released a demo tape in the mid-80s, with songs that paid a generous homage to The Cure. It’s not too surprising, as the band would soon change their name and release an entire album of Cure-esque goodness. This song was exclusive to the demo tape.
     Day & Age were a San Francisco area band from the mid to late 80s who self released one LP full of midtempo jazz-pop songs and one great (but definitely cheesy) synthpop song. Their bio states that they were proud to announce that it was played on Live 105 during a midday program, so perhaps SOMEONE else out there heard it.
     After that is a UK new wave band who released a couple extremely obscure and  LPs. Their first one was a dark, if amateur, Joy Division-inspired album; their second LP (from which this song was taken) found them a lot more matured but still with a dark edge. I’m only sharing one song of theirs because you can buy their entire recorded output at CD Baby  –it is highly recommended!
     Unless you collect Christian ska compilations , you’re quite likely to have missed the next band's only recorded output. Contrary to the rest of that compilations, this band played a dramatic and quite dark synth-heavy post punk full of reverb.
     The last band is filed under “freestyle” pretty much 100% of the time they are mentioned on the net. Freestyle fans apparently know a good thing when they hear it, but I have to say that this is “freestyle” the same way that 90s synthpop bands like Cause and Effect or Red Flag were “freestyle”. Which is to say… not really that much. But no matter how you want to label this song, it is pretty much the best synthpop song of the early 90s – an absolutely beautiful, epic, melodic and perfect synthpop masterpiece. HUGE thanks to Lesypersound for this one!
Where can you hear this treasure trove? Right here!

Shrinking Violets: Mask mini-LP & Everything 7'', 1988 Phantom Records


Ten Thousand Eyes 18 May 2012, 12:32 am CEST

Φαίνεται πως έχουμε μια μικρή αδυναμία στην ανεξάρτητη σκηνή της Αυστραλίας κι έτσι αποφασίσαμε να ποστάρουμε τις δύο μοναδικές κυκλοφορίες των Shrinking Violets, ενός τετραμελούς συγκροτήματος από το Sydney. Πρόκειται για ένα mini-LP με τίτλο "Mask" και για ένα 7-ιντσο με τίτλο "Everything", τα οποία κυκλοφόρησαν το 1988 στο ανεξάρτητο label Phantom Records. Επίσης συμμετείχαν και στην συλλογή "Assorted Desecrations and Magnificent Mutations" της ίδιας εταιρείας-θα την βρείτε εδώ. Όπως πάντα, οι πληροφορίες για πολλά από τα σχήματα που φιλοξενούμε εδώ -και οι S.V.δεν αποτελούν εξαίρεση- είναι από ανεπαρκείς έως ανύπαρκτες, οπότε βασιζόμαστε στην ίδια τη μουσική. Παρ' όλα αυτά βρήκαμε πως μερικά από τα μέλη της μπάντας είχαν ασχοληθεί και με άλλα σχήματα-projects. Ο Andrew Clement με τους αξιόλογους Other Voices και ο Julian Knowles με τους Even as we Speak και τους Social Interiors. Η μουσική των S.V. είναι ένα μείγμα new wave και νεο-ψυχεδέλειας με μια μοντέρνα "indie" κατεύθυνση. Στο mini-LP "Mask" τα πιο δυνατά κομμάτια είναι τα "Never Too Late" (υπάρχει στη συλλογή που αναφέραμε παραπάνω), "Small Talk" και "Colours of Ecstasy", τα οποία κάπως 'προδίδουν' τις post punk ρίζες των S.V. Στα δε "Roman Hammer" και "Mask" υπάρχει μια υποψία ψυχεδελικών επιρροών. Το ομώνυμο "Everything" από το 7-ιντσο είναι επίσης ένα απο τα καλύτερα τραγούδια τους σε new wave στυλ. Μπορεί κάποιος να δει τους Shrinking Violets συμπληρωματικά με  τα συγκροτήματα στα οποία είχαμε κάνει το αφιέρωμα με γενικό τίτλο: "The Greek Part of the Australian Underground". Ελπίζουμε πως θα σας αρέσουν.
Shrinking Violets: Mask mini-LP (Phantom Records, 1988) 01. Never Too Late 02. Small Talk 03. Colours Of Ecstasy 04. Roman Hammer 05. Happy 06. Mask
 
It seems that we have a soft spot for the Australian Independent music scene, so we decided to post the two record rips from the Shrinking Violets which were a four-member band from Sydney. They released a mini-LP entitled "Mask" and a 7-inch single entitled "Everything", both in 1988 on the Independent label Phantom Records. Also, the Shrinking Violets took part in the "Assorted Desecrations and Magnificent Mutations" compilation (also on Phantom Records)-you will find it here. As it is always the case, there aren't enough information around the Web and the Shrinking Violets aren't an exception to that. However, we found that a couple band members have worked with other groups/projects in the past. For your information, Andrew Clement has worked with a band called Other Voices and Julian Knowles with Even As We Speak and Social Interiors. The music of the Shrinking Violets is a nice blend of new wave and neo-psychedelia, given a modern "indie" touch. In the "Mask" mini-LP the most prominent songs are "Never Too Late" (which you will also find in the compilation we mentioned above), "Small Talk" and "Colours Of Ecstasy" as they reveal the post punk roots of the Violets, whereas in "Roman Hammer" and "Mask" there's a light overtone of psychedelia added as well. The song "Everything" from the 7-inch is an equally strong piece of work. You might consider the Shrinking Violets post as an appendix of a previous tribute to the Australian Independent music scene entitled "The Greek Part of the Australian Underground". Anyway, we hope you like them!

ALSO-1990 - 1995 A COMPILATION (CD-R) (2012)


TEARS AND DREAMS 7'' & 12'' INCHES 17 May 2012, 10:18 am CEST

Basta copilacion de esta banda ''Alemana'' que influyo bastante a muchas bandas y que a la fecha no se sabe nada de ellos. Recordemos que ya no sonaron desde 2001 teniendo de base que nunca sacaron albumen formato ''CD-R'' mas que el año en que comentamos dicha disolucion de esta magnificiente agrupacion. Su obra maestra llamada: ''Cold Rooms (1994)'' fue destacada por ese sonido entre: ''Joy Division'', ''Bauhaus'' y Peter Murphy'' incluyendo el estilo propio de la banda. Descarga 2 albunes clasicos de  ''ALSO'' en exclusiva de este blog: Cold Rooms (1994): http://tearsanddreams712.blogspot.com/2010/06/also-cold-roomscassette-album-1994.html Wonderful day (1992): http://tearsanddreams712.blogspot.mx/2011/07/also-wonderful-dayk7-album1992.html Recordemos que es una banda exquisita en toda la palabra y muy parecida a B.F.G. (Inglaterra) Y Phobia (Alemania). Sise tiene mas iinformacion de esta banda seria muy bien recivida, gracias y saludos a todos!!!. ALSO-1990 - 1995 A COMPILATION (CD-R) (2012) 01 Cold Room 02 Andalusian death 03 Eternity's abore 04 Still-Born 05 Vovitur in Rotavie 06 The Dip 07 Time 08 Elegy 09 Dead end Bonus track: 10 In the ghetto

Fools, never learn...


banned from the empire 15 May 2012, 4:29 pm CEST

After Penetration split up in 1979, our beloved Pauline Murray was very active in the new born post punk scene. She played a lot with our hero Peter Perret and finally got together with the John Cooper Clarke band, The Invisible Girls. They were great musicians and a solid backing band for Pauline: Dave Rowbotham (guitar), Vinney Reilly (guitar), Robert Blamire (bass), Steve Hopkins (keyboards), John Maher (drums). Their sound was fantastic, an evolution of the best Penetration tunes to a new sort of pop punk. Sadly this co-operation didn't last long - little more than an year - but it was a great year! Their music was (is) a brilliant and disconcerting journey through a murky post-punk world. Listen to their eponympous album, one of best of those years, produced by Martin Hannett... someone said it was the greatest record Factory never released. Its format is standard - two sides of 3-minute pop songs – but that's about as close to convention as it dares to drift. Murray shows a surprising willingness (given her back catalogue to that point) to engage with melodic vocals – breathy and urgent on Time Slipping, wide-eyed and credulous on the first tremendous single Dream Sequence 1– but, while there are any number of odd-pop gems, they’re shrouded in post-industrial, nigh-on-apocalyptic arrangements. Pauline played also live with The invisible girls and they toured together germany & somewhere else in Europe. It was 1981... don't know how extensively they gigged but, in my opinion, this was the best of Pauline Murray and an unforgettable document of the emerging sound that would come to dominate the post punk era.

performance - untitled


frozen movement 15 May 2012, 1:41 pm CEST

Title: Untitled  Released: 198? download A1 Pilotes       2:30 A2 Ideal Prison       2:00 A3 Tapage Nocturne       1:00 B1 Sécurité       1:30 B2 Idéal Présent       3:45

ROSEGARDEN FUNERAL-(EARLY DEMOS) (1986)


TEARS AND DREAMS 7'' & 12'' INCHES 15 May 2012, 4:18 am CEST

Presento esta joya musical del año (1986) que esta perdido en el estilo musical ''Gotico'' de calidad y hermosura llamada: ''Rosegarden funeral'' casi contemporanea de los Sisters of Mercy de echo mucho mas parecido que Rosetta stone...para mi gusto.  Rosegarden funeral es el clon de los sisters en definitiva hermanos. asi que adelante y no desaprovechen esta oportunidad!!!. Esta banda arranco carrera en (1986) de echo se les veia futuro pero todo quedo en una banda de culto, no se sabe si por falta economica en producir mas albums o solo fue un proyecto musical de Rosegarden funeral, es un misterio hermanos. Rosegarden funeral nos recuerdan tambien a ''The house of Usher'' muy parecidos tambien asi como a los propios ''Sisters of Mercy'' como lo comentaba hace un momento. Checa tambien a una banda tambien muy parecida a: Rosegarden funeral'' llamada: ''The Wake'', checa este tape que esta de este estilo de ''Goth-rock'': http://darkrecords-fernando.blogspot.mx/2011/12/wake-wakek71990.html Si existe mas informacion de esta maravillosa banda no duden en dejarla en este posteo porfavor, gracias y nos estamos escribiendo. (Existe un ''CD-R'' del año de: (1988) y este K7'' es toda su coleccion). ROSEGARDEN FUNERAL-(EARLY DEMOS) (1986) A Side A1 Vendetta A2 Acid Valentine B Side B1 Angel B2 Hollow heart (Este tape solo se dara dejando un comentario hacerca de la banda en este posteo y mandandome un E-mail a: coldwave2010@hotmail.com, gracias)!!
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