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...In The Crystal Cage (8.6)
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Auteur: Bauke
People with an own record-label will know: It's not hard to make a sampler, but to make a GOOD sampler, that's a whole different story. As you'll find out during this review, :ikonen: media did a very good job.
'Crystal Cage' by Golgotha is a short but...Read more
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...Where Tattered Clouds are Stranding (7)
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Auteur: Remco
The Eastern Front, a label from
Israel, decided to dedicate a double CD to Icelandic sculptor and painter Einar Jónsson, who saw the lights of day in 1874 and died in 1954. His sculptures are inspired by Norse mythology and Icelandic folk ...Read more
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10 Years DJ -X-X-X- Sampler 2004 (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The sampler to celebrate the 10 year career of Kees de Brouwer, aka DJ –X-X-X- was presented during the second edition of the very nice Summer Darkness festival in Utrecht. It is a strong compilation with favorite bands of Kees himself assembled on ...Read more
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12. Elektrisch festival (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Elektrisch festival in
Zwickau
in
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is dedicated to EBM and more specifically the old school brand. Black Rain released a compilation cd with live recordings of performances during the twelfth edition of this festival which ...Read more
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13th Street - The Sound Of Mystery 3 (7)
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Auteur: sx-base
'13th Street - The Sound Of Mystery 3 is a compilation double-album, where everyone who likes dark music can find it's taste. Cd 1 is preserved for the 'best' and well-known (goth)-metalacts as there are : Dark Traquillity, After Forever, Therion, ...Read more
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13th Street: The Sound of Mystery (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The German label Zyx Music releases on a regular base samplers with recent tracks of the more well known dark melancholic metal- and gothicbands, well known are for instance the Gothic Spirits and Mystic Sounds series. Since the introduction of the ...Read more
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15 (8.5)
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Auteur: Nightporter
For those who want to get acquainted with Infrastition's back catalogue "15" is a good way to start. In nearly 60 minutes one gets a nice overview of what this label has to offer.
The vocalist of Asylum Party, Philippe Planchon, kicks off ...Read more
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4Y1ST (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Deze compilatie bevat alle bands van het 1st Decade Records label. Northern Lite is misschien wel de bekendste en deze is vertegenwoordigd met een mix van ‘Go With The Flow’. Echt bijzonder is de sfeervolle electroclash cover die Junghans ...Read more
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A Compilation 3 (7.1)
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Auteur: Nightporter
This double album, simply called A Compilation 3, gathers tracks recorded by bands and artists under contract with Black Rain, Noitekk, Ars Musica Diffundere, Funkwelten, and Firezone. The styles range from neo-classical to electro and from straight ...Read more
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A Dark Cabaret (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This compilation of Projekt records is completely devoted to a new sound which is based on the cabarets and revues of the 1930’s such as took place in cities like Berlin and Paris. Obscure nightclubs were the playground of hedonistic and rebellious ...Read more
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A Human Scan(ner) (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Het Duitse electro/synthpop blad Synthetics presenteert met ‘A Human Scanner’ een compilatie van het Scanner label. De CD bevat tracks van Absurd Minds, Inside, Spiritual Reality, Sara Noxx, Re-Work, Stromkern, Sleepwalk en andere bands die ...Read more
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A Mere Invention of the Idle Mind (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
An industrial-noise sampler from Mechanismz, in collaboration with Crunch Pod. After an intro track we are confronted with ‘Liturgy’ from C/A/T which isn’t one of his better tracks. Audiovoid is better in keeping the attention focussed with ...Read more
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A Tribute To The Wor(l)ds Of Jhonn Balance (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
Jhonn Balance is dead. The frontman of the innovative Coil deceased and marked a black day for the world of experimental ambient. And at the same time, his death is an inspiration for the same genre. Tributes to his thinking and work continue to be ...Read more
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A Tribute To Uglakh (Waerloga Compilation Vol 1) (8.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This has become a succeeded sampler. People who love dark, melancholic, atmospheric and medieval music have with “A Tribute To Uglakh” a fine album to listen to. The beginning is mostly atmospherically medieval oriented music with songs from Za ...Read more
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Accession Records Vol.3 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The third Accession Records compilation has quality songwriting of the bands represented from Accession Records. Accession Records has conquered a place of their own in the gothic music industry in their ten year exitence with bands such as Diary of ...Read more
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Accession Records Vol.3 (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Accesion Records is of course a label which has proven themselves for a long time. Not in the last place because founder Adrian Hate enjoys already a reputation with Diary Of Dreams. On this sampler we can mainly enjoy bands which we know all already....Read more
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Accession Records Volume Two (9)
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Auteur:
A sampler is a great way for a label to present itself. This goes for the second edition of the Accession Records sampler as well. Diary of Dreams front man Adrian Hates once started the label which by now Records is no stranger for anyone in the Goth...Read more
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Accession Records Volume Two (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
You can approach collection CDs on two different ways. You can create an album that is represent for the label (than this album has succeeded in it’s mission) or you want to give the fans some interesting music (that’s not really succeeded). It’s ...Read more
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Advanced Electronics Vol.6 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The sixth in the succesful series Advanced Electronics again presents a nice overview of what’s hot and new in the industrial dance and electro scene. Divided into two cd’s and this time even a dvd with videoclips, the listener is treated on a ...Read more
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Advanced Electronics Vol.7 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The well known electro sampler series Advanced Electronics is already at its seventh edition. On this series that again is comprised of two cd’s with exclusive tracks and remixes added with a DVD with videoclips from the electro scene, the stand out ...Read more
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alfa matrix re:covered - a tribute to DEPECHE MODE (7)
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Auteur: sx-base
Depeche Mode is a band that's been among us for about thirty years now and they still play a leading role in the rock and popcircuit. That is beyond dispute. Witness of this are the bands, skilled in different kinds of music that have covered songs of ...Read more
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All My Dead Friends (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the first label compilation of Cold meat Industry since Flowers Made of Snow and this time the focus is on the recent additions to the Swedish label specialized in dark atmospheric music. As can be expected this sampler has styles such as ...Read more
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An Industrial Tribute to Metallica: The Blackest Album 4 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Labels like the American Cleopatra Records and the British Anagram Records release the one after the other gothic and industrial tributes to well known bands. Now it’s time for the fourth part in the tribute series dedicated to Metallica and these ...Read more
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Angst - A Spectre Compilation (8)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This sampler is an atmospheric journey though dark ambient/ soundscape songs. Bands that are known for their heavier beats take a step back in pace to fit in the quiet sphere of this CD. Listen to the strange version of PAL (‘Distress-Insomnia’) or ...Read more
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Ant.Colony (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Ant-Zen delivers us a CD that’s filled with different variations from the world of electronic sounds. The choice of ‘In The Snow’ by P.A.L. is a little strange if you consider the fact that it’s more spoken word than a song. It is too much to ...Read more
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Auto-Reverse (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This label compilation of the French label Bordeom Product contains contributions in the synthpop and electro genres from a couple of usual suspects like Komputer, Psyche and The Rorschach Garden, well known new names like Celluloide, Dekad, Foretaste...Read more
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…With Eyes Wide Open For A Brighter Future… (6.5)
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Auteur: Ergo
A pink album cover from the label House of the Last Light: “… With Eyes Wide Open For A Brighter Future…” with the subtitle “9/11 In Memory And In Myth”. This is a compilation album with eleven tracks varying from extreme noise till ...Read more
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Beneath the Frozen Soil / Negative Reaction split release (8.3)
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Auteur: Pure_holocaust
Sludge, the genre, relates to doom metal as an addicted misanthrope to a self-obsessed romantic. Acts in both genres produce music that is slow and full of pain and various other negative emotions, but sludge is, by lack of better word, more raw. Black ...Read more
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Bewein Dein Mädel (7.9)
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Auteur: Fabian
After ‘Wieler Werkstaette’ I have again a compilation release from SkullLine. This time however it is comprised over 2 cd’s, and instead of staying within the boundaries of industrial and noise, now also the regions of neofolk and ambient are added....Read more
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Black Snow (The completely different Xmas Compilation) (8.5)
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Auteur: Septic Error
U did not give your boyfriend / girlfriend any Christmas gift yet because you could not make a choice out od the large catalogue of Black Rain Records? Well: they give you the perfect solution: Black Snow (the completely different Xmas Compilation)....Read more
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BlackChurch Vol.2 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
X5-452 is a German label that releases compilation cd’s, aimed at new and young bands. Black Church is a compilation series with mostly songs of darkwave and gothrock bands and a couple of EBM and medieval tracks. For reviewing purposes i have part 2 ...Read more
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Born/Evolve/Progress//2// (8)
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Auteur: Davitch
The dominance of somewhat 10 dark electro formations in most of the party-playlists should be broken, that is something I never contested. If the amount of current releases and their quality can do this job is a whole other story. The ...Read more
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Brewery in Piotrkow Trybunalski (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
''....Beer is a refreshing drink of low alcohol content. Because of pleasant hop bitter taste, frothiness and emission of carbon dioxide, it satisfies thirst, intensifies appetite, hastens processes of digestion and works stimulating...''
A release...Read more
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Broken Nightlights (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
There are 16 tracks on this Broken Nightlights sampler, among which well known names such as Detritus, Leaf, Sunday Munich of Saltillo, but it actually are the completely unknown names that surprise with very beautiful tracks. Detritus is represented ...Read more
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C21H23NO5: Diacetylmorphin (7)
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Auteur:
Diacetylmorphin or to put it in other words Heroin, a addictive substance that brings the user in sort of euphoric state of ecstasy. A state of mind which many people search for and never seem to find. Heroin isn’t something I would like to try and ...Read more
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Caution! Invasion & Friends 2K7 (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The DVD Caution! released in celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Invasion Wreck Chords label opens with video images of a trip with the subway, images from out of Minks in Belarus and various cities in Europe where Ambassador 21 and side-project ...Read more
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Charts Pur: Pop & Wave (7)
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Auteur: Nightporter
How many new wave/post-punk/80s/pop compilations have been issued over the years? At least a few hundred and one shouldn't be surprised if Charts Pur Pop & Wave is number thousand. Such overviews can be viewed from two perspectives: from the ...Read more
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Chipyard 2002 remixes (4)
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Auteur:
High Wycombe is a German EBM formation, which is managing its own label since several years: Wycombe Music. Chipyard 2002 is a release on this label and the men who run it can be heard on this compilation as well.The album is considerably divers; ...Read more
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Citizen Sampler 05 (8.2)
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Auteur: Davitch
Citizen Records is the label from Electro/Techno genius Vitalic. Culthits as La Rock01, Fanfares and a number of remixes for different artists highlight this status. This Citizen Sampler 05 offers you a nice overview on the seven Citizen releases that ...Read more
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Compil Darklife (8.5)
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Auteur: Ergo
A handwritten envelope… In it a disc with a big skull printed on it: how often do we get those kinds of things nowadays? Enthusiastically I started to listen to this “Compil Darklife” and happily, it came up to my expectations. Eighteen songs are ...Read more
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Correlation (7)
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Auteur: Nightporter
A near complete overview of what Echozone has on its roster nowadays, that's what this 2-CD compilation called Correlation has to offer you. It runs from darkwave to electro and from goth rock to industrial. The guitars are at the forefront on the first...Read more
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Cortex Compilation vol. 1 (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This compilation opens impressive with the exclusive unwieldy, threatening industrial song of YelworC (‘Without Remorse’). It’s good to know that there are more highlights to admire on this CD as well. Pzychobitch throws in a heavy beating bass to...Read more
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Cortex Compilation, vol.1 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This compilation of the Minuswelt label starts with the adventurous black ‘Without Remorse’ by Yelworc. This track has been released exclusively for this compilation. Pzychobitch and Hanin Elias melt their voice in onde powerful force together on ...Read more
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Coup De Grace (8.5)
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Auteur: Eelco
Great sampler! Invasion Wreck presents us a bunch of noise, drum'n'bass, industrial and it's own speciality on ths "Coup De Grace"-sampler. Its subtitle is 'Invasion & Friends' which tells us that this is a compilation of Invasion Wreck's ...Read more
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Crash Frequency (7)
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Auteur: Lykle
"Crash Frequency" is a sampler with only Australian bands on it. Most of the 10 featured bands aren't really famous yet, but Angel Theory and Ikon have gained some worldwide fame already.
The CD opens with the heavy beats and guitars of ...Read more
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Crash Frequency 02 – Australian Independent Darkwave (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
"Crash Frequency 02" gives a nice picture of what there is to get Down Under in dark music. Unfortunately the quality is not always good. It would have been better if they would have been more critically during the selection of bands and ...Read more
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Crash Frequency Volume 2 (7)
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Auteur: Joost
Starting with a industrial song without strong vocals containing strange pauses, but good guitars. Not very danceable resulting in a slow start of the album. After this a completely different track than the first. IKON makes a nice slow moving song ...Read more
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Crash Frequency, Australian Independent Darkwave Vol 2 (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Crash Frequency Collective from Australia again has compiled various artists from down under. This time they named the compilation Australian Independent Darkwave, so more styles could be covered than only electro. The compilation is divided on two ...Read more
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Crash Frequency, Australian Independent Electro vol. 1 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
On this compilation of the Australian Crash Frequency Collective we find 10 tracks, performed by 10 Australian bands and artists from the gothic and electro underground. A sympathetic idea since it is not easy to sell your music when you reside in ...Read more
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Crawling Tunes Volume 3 (7.8)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Crawling Tunes Volume 3 is a DVD issued by Crawling Tunes, a relatively new goth/darkwave/deathrock/neo-folk/dark ambient magazine. It features 21 videos and 45 audio tracks from a broad range of bands and artists. The emphasis is on current (trad-)goth, ...Read more
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Credo in Unum Deum (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Whoever thought that the martial industrial and neo-classical neofolk movement is solely inspired by either political nihilism or pre-christian pagan ideologies is wrong as a small part of this underground movement with it’s Europe centric vision gets...Read more
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Cryonica Tanz 4 (6)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This Cryonica Tanz compilation again perfectly matches the current state of affairs and trends in the electro and EBM corner. Compared to Advanced Electronics 4 and Cyberlab 5 it however contains less big names and strong tracks. Just like with previous...Read more
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Cryonica Tanz v.3 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
De eerste track is van Agonoize, die met ‘Paranoid Destruction’ een variant op Suicide Commando brengen.
De tweede is het reeds bekende ‘Watching over You’ van de laatste release van Solitary Experiments, een langzaam dark electro nummer met ...Read more
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Cryonica Tanz V.3 (6.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Two CDs filled with different electro bands. It’s a noble cause, but it’s not always ‘hallelujah’ what is offered. Some bands are not really special to give them any attention, but others are interesting enough to justify this release. It’s ...Read more
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Cryonica Tanz v.4 (6)
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Auteur: Beautevil
With two CDs filled with electro material you hear literally that there’s not much to enjoy in the current EBM scene. A time ago the dark electro bands seemed to stir things up a little, but since their standard-bearers failed to came up with good ...Read more
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Auteur: Septic Error
Finally!
After a long time of waiting the new Cryonica Tanz-sampler has arrived! And it was surely wearth the waiting, ‘cause this one is a real pearl! Or at least: for those who like pumping beats: these 2 shining discs are just waiting to make you...Read more
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Cryosphere (8.7)
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Auteur: Bauke
'CRYOSPHERE is a musical journey that transports the listener into glacial and unexplored lands where icebergs collide and where everything is frozen'Closing the Eternity just released a 7" on Drone records and now they're back on this sampler. The...Read more
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Cryotank - Volume 1 (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This compilation of Cryonica bands can convince. The songs of Mono-Chrome (with Victoria Lloyd of Claire Voyant) sounds pleasantly warm. The mix of synth pop with a bit triphop/ trance sounds good. ‘This Life’ reminds a bit of Claire Voyant, but ...Read more
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Cryotank Vol.2 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This second labelsampler of Cryonica Music shows what their acts are and what new they have to offer.
First Swarf with a synthpop-trance hybrid in the tracks ‘Don’t Silence’ and ‘Parlour Tricks’. A nice opener.
Next Blue October with ...Read more
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Cyberl@b 5 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This fifth Cyberlab installment is the best compilation of electronic club music of the past year. The tracklisting is better and has more variation than for example the Advanced Electronics or Interbreeding editions. Big names have been bought in with...Read more
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Danse Macabre vol 3 (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
With Elfengrab we get acquainted with a nice, but not so diverse, sampler. Elfengrab got with ‘Es Fällt Die Nacht’ a nice darkwave song with female voices and the following Das Ich (with ‘Die Totgeweinten’) is of course well-known and sounds ...Read more
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Danse Macabre Vol.3 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The German label Danse Macabre which was known for releasing albums in the styles ‘todeskunst’ and ‘dark electro’, which gained more and more popularity in the early ‘90s and got famous by bands like Das Ich, Goethes Erben and Sopor Aternus, ...Read more
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Dark Ambient Radio volume 2 (7.4)
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Auteur: Bauke
A lot of what we nowadays call dark ambient is based on the filmic approach towards soundscapes. And in that style one of the absolute masters was / is Brian Williams aka Lustmord. So when an album is being released with the title "Dark Ambient ...Read more
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Dark Awakening Vol.4 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
De Dark Awakening samplers, samengesteld door Dirk Neveling, staan erom bekend op twee cd’s, die helemaal volgepropt zijn met tracks, een hele goede doorsnee te geven van wat er op het moment ‘’interessant’’ is vor clubs en publiek en daarbij ...Read more
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Dark Awakening Vol.5 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The electro-industrial-gothic compilation by Cop International, that comes with the Dark Awakening + Dark Dimension parties of the German DJ Dirk Neveling, is again divided into 2 cd’s. One for the electronic side of the gothic spectrum and the other ...Read more
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Dark Waters - Musical Undercurrents From Japan (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Japan has a growing gothic-industrial scene and the Death Watch Asia organisation tries to promote it world-wide. On this compilation from them we find some names that recently have become a bit more familiar in Europe such as Baal, Agent Murder, Aural ...Read more
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Dark-Ambient-Radio, Vol. 1 (7.8)
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Auteur: Bauke
At eleven the track-count stops and another marvelous sampler will have played on your stereo. With the title Dark-Ambient-Radio, Vol. 1, there is not much to guess about the content of this album.The collected artists on this sampler are in between ...Read more
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Deep Sea Shipping (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In the morning, mist comes up from the sea by the cliffs beyond Kingsport. White and feathery it comes from the deep to its brothers the clouds, full of dreams of dank pastures and caves of leviathan. And later, in still summer rains on the steep roofs ...Read more
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Dependence (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Dependent is not to be missed anymore in electroland. The label once founded by the bands Covenant, VNV Nation, Velvet Acid Christ, Suicide Commando en Seabound together with manager Stefan Herwig delivered albums like ‘Empires’, ‘United States of...Read more
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Dependence (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
A collection of new and older songs of Dependent. The result is a reasonable complete image of where this label stands for. It’s a pity that there are not too many really new and unknown songs on this record (only two: Dismantled with ‘War ...Read more
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Dependence 2010 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Dependent is after their return to the frontlines of industrial music also back with the label compilation Dependence – Next Level Electronics. Here Dependent presents of the artists on its label. So far the generalities, now over to the actual ...Read more
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Dependence Vol.2 (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The statement in the booklet of this Dependence compilation that the Dependent label is calling it quits because they refuse to keep releasing music in a world where artist’s rights are not respected and huge losses are generated due to the massive ...Read more
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Dependent Club Invasion (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Deze nieuwe formule van het Dependent label om een aantal relatief nieuwe acts te presenteren, bestaat uit een 3 tal single cd releases: ‘Exit’ van Dismantled, ‘Contact’ van Seabound en ‘Paragon’ van Pride & Fall. Allereerst is daar het ...Read more
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Deutschland Brennt! Die Essenz Deutschsprachigen Metals (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
That German language Metal has a big market in
Germany
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Different, Music is our Passion, a Video Compilation (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Black Rain Media Group have released their first DVD. On this DVD the bands of the Black Rain, Noitekk, Funkwelten and Ars Musics Diffundere labels present themselves with material of performances, with videoclips added to that and other special ...Read more
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Dinner Music for Clubbers (7.5)
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Auteur: Remco
When planning to go out for the weekend to a nice club to dance you invite some friends and have a light digestive dinner before going. You create a nice atmosphere to begin the evening mellow before the party goes on. Little snacks with a diverse ...Read more
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DTRASH presents Rising Tide (8)
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Auteur: Pure_holocaust
This is a very symphathic label from Canada, which besides having a distinct DIY-attitude also releases records by a lot of good acts. These acts specialize in original, recognizable, loud as fuck music. And this varies from the noise of Nocore to the ...Read more
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DTrash Records Music Videos (8.5)
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Auteur: exzero
It was in 1995 when the young Berlin digital punks of Atari Teenage Riot hit the world with their debut album entitled '1995' (later re-released as 'Delete Yourself'); since those days the world had a new musicstyle, digital hardcore. A combination of ...Read more
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Dynamo Vol.2 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Memento Materia is mostly known as home to bands such as Covenant, Mesh, Colony 5, Michigan, Code 64 and Z Prochek, but they also do more harsh music. This singles compilation of Memento Materia and sublabel Prototyp shows where the label’s at with ...Read more
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Eclectica, vol.2 (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Middle Pillar Presents stands for electronic worldmusic, ethereal music and neo-classical music. Aenima is represented with the beautifully sung ethereal track ‘Pale’. A song that strikes a chord for sure. Zoar is present with a dancable remix by ...Read more
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Effleurement (9)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Although the promo talk may concentrate around the contribution of Loreena McKennit with her version of the Christmas song ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’, the real beauty comes from their own label bands. Next to the better known names such as ...Read more
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Eisiges Licht II (8.1)
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Auteur: Rule-Ant
3 years after the last Eisiges Licht compilation we are finally treated with new material by Eis & Licht artists. This cd is a perfect showcase for people who are not really familiar with this darkpop and –folk label.
Alex Fergusson - of ...Read more
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Electr-Ohm Compilation 1 (8.9)
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Auteur: Bauke
Coming from the small country Holland, Japan and other countries in the far east were always covered within mysterious clouds. Way (way!) back in the 80's when I still listened to metal there was the band Loudness who were for me one of the first ...Read more
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Electro Cured, An Electro Tribute to The Cure (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
At about the same moment Equinoxe Records releases a The Cure tribute cd, Cleoptra Records does the same, in cooperation with Anagram Records, division of Cherry Red Records which concentrates on releasing tribute cd’s solely. The interpretation of ...Read more
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Electro Lounge Vol.1 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In the ‘90s triphop surfaced as a new genre of music. Originating in dance, and more specifically ambient and dub styles. This was followed up by the term lounge starting in 2001, to which you can add influences from acid jazz and world music as well....Read more
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Electro-Mode, An Electro Tribute to Depeche Mode (4)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Felix Experiment covers ‘Dirty Sticky Floors’ and this would be hearable at least if there would not be such a gay scream in this song. ‘Oeh-oeh Yeah!’. Sirens of Sound lets us hear a synth-house interpretation of ‘Everything Counts’. ...Read more
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Electronic Manifesto - Dark Electronics Alternative (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Electronic manifesto is a double cd stuffed full with all sorts of electronic projects from the rich electro, industrial, ebm and techno scene that developed over the last years in France. The first recordings is compiled by the industrial artists Pedro...Read more
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Electronic Manifesto – French Tribute to Mute Records (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In 1978 Daniel Miller released his first single as The Normal. No one could have expected that a small independent label like Mute would become so important and would attain such a cult status. Mute ensured renewing artists got access to a larger ...Read more
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Electronic Saviors (8.7)
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Auteur: sx-base
For quite some time now we are submerged by the media with images from natural disasters all over the world and the human suffering related to this. Fortunately, a spontaneous flow of solidarity and help is caused by these images to relieve the first ...Read more
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Electronic Thisturbance (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Mimetic opens this varied compilation of the Thisco label with electronic compositions from the world of the more progressive ambient sounds with a especially tasteful track entitled ‘Hambar Prayer number 1’. Then an experimental piece of avantgarde...Read more
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Electropop Heroes Volume Two (8.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This is an absolute brilliant record for every electro pop fan. ‘Electropop Heroes’ proves once again that there’s more to get in electro-land than only dazed songs. It kicks off with the infectious ‘Beauty In Me (Barfly edit)’ from Stisch ...Read more
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Electropop Vol.2 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The second installment in the electropop series again offers the posibility to get acquainted with a range of young upcoming electropop bands. Like often on compilations not every track is equally good yet also on this second part again some very nice...Read more
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Electropop, Vol.1 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The creators of the succesful Elektrisch! compilation series have started a new compilation series under the moniker Electropop. Actually we’re dealing with 80’s inspired synthpop in the vein of big names such as Depeche Mode and Camouflage and ...Read more
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Electrostorm (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The German electro label Out of Line releases with Electrostorm a low-budget label sampler that features artists that sell well and are represented on this label. You will understand that this means a continuous stream of hit sensitive tracks from the...Read more
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Electrowave vol.1 (from New wave to New Beat) (8)
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Auteur: Davitch
Electrohouse, New Wave house, electropop, electroclash were allready born, but the French label Discordian Records also wanted a piece from the 80s revival-cake, so they conceived elektrowave. 14 merely exclusive and unreleased tracks that make you go ...Read more
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Elektrisch! (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Hamburg based label Major Records is going strong. This label which also hosts Boytronic recently already signed the side project I Am X of Sneaker Pimps frontman Chris Corner. Now they introduce the first compilation edition in a new series named ...Read more
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Elektrisch! (6.8)
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Auteur:
CD 1:
01. alphaville - to
germany
with love (sebastian r. komor extended remix) 8.8
02. camouflage - we are lovers (!distain remix) 6.0
03. client - zerox machine (mechanical cabaret extended remix) 6.8
04. deine lakaien - where you ...Read more
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Elektrisch! Vol.2 (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the second istallment of the very succesful Elektrisch compilation series of Major Records in collaboration with the German ezine Re-Flexion. The first release of Elektrisch! was very good. Here we again find synthpop of big names from back ...Read more
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Elektrisch! Vol.3 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Elektrisch series of the German Major Records in cooperation with the Re-flexion ezine has in a relatively short time span grown into an influential compilation series in the realms of electro music. Now the third instalment is out and this again ...Read more
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Elektroanschlag (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
CD 1
01 MORGENSTERN - lost childhood (edit)
02* MIMETIC DESIRE - perversion (anschlag mix)
03** DIGITAL FACTOR - deine welt (r-reger remix)
04* POLARLICHT 4.1 - sonarwirkung (live@ea5)
05 TERRORFAKT - a.l.f. (muted logic remix)
06* GREYHOUND -...Read more
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Elektromium (8.5)
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Auteur: Ergo
- part of the weekend never dies -
“Elektromium” is a very delightful compilation album on which the hot and now popular electro acts from
Flanders,
Belgium are presented. This Flanders Music Centre album is very nicely arranged, which ...Read more
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Em4. Epitaph. The End Chapter (8.2)
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Auteur: Fabian
M-Tronic is a French post-industrial label, specialzing also in the more IDM and electro realms. Em4 is an acronym of Electronic Manifesto 4, which is a rather good title for this compilation, given the kinds of music on it. It also seems to present the ...Read more
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Emerging Organisms vol.3 (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The First disc of the Tympanik Audio label compilation Emerging Organisms vol.3 starts with an impressive ambient track with idm influences from SE. Access to Arasaka seeks it in rhythmic more complex works featuring spatial synthesizer sounds in ...Read more
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Emerging Organisms: Hidden Forms, Volume One (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
On this double cd compilation with a total length of more than 143 minutes, the listener is being treated on a wide array of electronic styles in the realms of IDM. Divided over two cd’s on Emerging Organisms 29 projects devoted to producing the ...Read more
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EO2: Emerging Organisms vol.2 (8.9)
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Auteur: Fabian
Throughout the last couple of months I reviewed a fair share of albums from the Tympanik Audio label and I really liked them all. A lot of the music they release is often IDM related, but there is a lot more to be discovered there. They are also great at ...Read more
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Erinys (Signum Mortis) (6.5)
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Auteur: Eelco
A lot of big names are gathered
to perform the soundtrack for the comic book Erinys. Which leads us to exclusive contracts with bands
like Gothminister, Pzychobitch and Rotersand. More exclusive arrangement are made in the shapes of
remixes, ...Read more
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Estigmas - the Soundtrack (6.5)
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In 1999, the Spanish filmwriters José Moral Bravo and J. Luís Martinez brought their sci-fi/horror film Estigmas into the world. The film takes place in WOII Berlin where a group occult nazi-scientists developed a substance to create Übermenschen. ...Read more
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Europa Aeterna (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The French-Swiss webzine Heimdallr has been a decent source of information for the European centered neofolk scene for a long time. Now they release a compilation on vinyl to celebrate the six years they exist on which each of the artists interprets the...Read more
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Expositions (a tribute to Charles de Goal) (7.8)
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Auteur: Nightporter
The need for tribute albums is always somewhat debatable. They occassionally tend to violate the original versions and don't necessarily add something new. Covering songs that are already perfect in nature is tricky and demands careful attention. ...Read more
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Extended Electronics (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Zoomica/SPV and Hardbeat have released the fifth installment of the succesful electro compilationseries Advanced Electronics, this time named Extended Electronics. Extended stands for the length of the tracks on this edition, as the range of styles in ...Read more
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Extended Electronics, Vol.2 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The German promotion agency Hardbeat Propaganda recently released the second installment in the Extended Electronics series. A compilation format with two cd’s stuffed full with extra lengthy special mixes and club mixes of tracks from the rich and ...Read more
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Fabriksampler V2 (8.6)
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Auteur: Fabian
Compilation albums can always be tricky thing. A lot of compilations are label samplers, which mostly contain tracks already on cd or in the near future available. Some compilations are more concept albums, which includes mostly exclusive tracks which the...Read more
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Fairy World (9)
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Auteur: Beautevil
The title of this record says enough. The different artists on this French label Prikosnovénie create beautiful music that’s dominated through traditional music instruments (with sometimes a little electronic support). The CD is released in a booklet...Read more
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Fairy World II (8.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
“Fairy World” is the name for all compilation records of the French label Prikosnovénie. The subtitle is the understatement of what you can find on this, ‘a collection of delicate & spiritual music’. With bands as Pinknruby (with an ...Read more
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Fairy World IV (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Under the Fairy World moniker the French label Prikosnovenie releases label compilations and this title perfects covers the content of the music. Elf music, world music, ethereal heavenly voices, and neo-classical sounds that tickle the listener’s ...Read more
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Flowers Made Of Snow (9.3)
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Auteur: Rule-Ant
Seven years after “The Absolute Supper” Cold Meat Industry releases a new sampler with the most recent cold meat. The material is spread out over two cds and the artwork is plain beautiful. R. Karmanik has made splendid blue tinted black and white ...Read more
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Flowers made of Snow (9)
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Auteur: Ergo
Like a child on Christmas morning, happy expectation overwhelmed me when I received the sampler “Flowers made of Snow”. And this new double album of the Cold Meat Industry label has entirely proven to live up to these expectations.
Seven years ago...Read more
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Forms of Hands 04 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is a sampler that comes with the Forms of Hands festival which recently took place in the Maschinenhalle Zweckerl, in Gladbeck Germany. On this disc the best noise, drum 'n bass and industrial has been compiled. From MS Gentur unleashes a massive ...Read more
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Forms Of Hands 04 (8)
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Auteur: Beautevil
It’s funny that the first three songs nicely go over into each other. That’s literally so, because it goes ‘From MS Gentur’, ‘Over MS Mono’, ‘To Mono Aware’. Three songs outbalanced noise with the last song as most danceable with its ...Read more
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Forms of Hands 07 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Every year the Hands label, specialized in industrial noise, dark ambient and rhythm ‘n noise organises a festival with a musically quite superb line-up. Each time a compilation cd is released as well with tracks from the bands that can be seen on ...Read more
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Forms of Hands 08 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
You can count on it that every year a new label compilation of Hands productions gets released in relation to their annual festival. On this compilation you can find a good impression of what this industrial-noise label has to offer. You will find ...Read more
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Forms of Hands 09 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The annual label compilation from Hands again presents a high quality and varied stalemate of the label roster. This compilation features this year a wide range of rhythm industrial, drum ‘n noise, dark ambient industrial and idm music. First up is ...Read more
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Forseti Lebt (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The singer and composer Andreas Ritter of the neofolk band Forseti hasbeen struck by a heart seizure last year. To give him some support with recovering and deal with the consequences of this unfortunate event a tribute cd has been made by friends and ...Read more
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Fourplay (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Nilaihah records starts with a cd single compilation with a format of 4 singles from 4 bands on one cd as well. This first Fourplay series has singles from XP8, Ghost & Writer, Gasr and Interface.
First we listen to the single ‘Frames’ from ...Read more
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Free Compilation CD Volume 1 (4.5)
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Auteur: Erik
The Music In A Net is a free compilation on which all sorts of sponsors (websites, radios, magazines etc.) have contributed songs into one diverse sampler. The goal of this compilation is the free promotion of unknown bands. A good idea but despite ...Read more
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Free Your Mind Compilation 1 (7.5)
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Auteur: sx-base
The, for the present, rather unknown and little German 'Skullline'-label is aiming at musical adventurers and 'gravediggers' for its releases. As a start to get acquainted with this label the compilation 'Free Your Mind' might be the right choice. You ...Read more
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Fuck (8.5)
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Auteur: Eelco
“Hive Records wants you to fuck. Fuck mediocre electronica. Fuck immature scenesters. Fuck censorship. Fuck sitting still, get up and break something.”
I doubt whether Hive Records will make a lot of friends, using quotes like that, but fans ...Read more
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Funkwelten – the label compilation 01 (8)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Funkwelten impressed earlier with releases from Flint Glass, Polyspace, Echorausch and For A Space. These bands are of course present on the first compilation of this label. First song is however from Displacer that has the same typical elements as the ...Read more
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Funkwelten: The Label Compilation 01 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The label Funkwelten offers a wide array of experimental eletronics and ambient. This is the first label compilation cd of this young label. On this you will find new and rare songs of artists like Displacer, Flint Glass, Enfusion, Klangfarbe, Satsuma, ...Read more
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Futuristic Trips (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Een piano in combinatie met acid bubbels en duivels gesis? Het valt allemaal te horen op deze compilatie van het Metawave Future label, namelijk in het nummer ‘Laick Arctica’ van Seij Minus aC. Op deze verzamelaar is avontuurlijk electronisch ...Read more
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Gesamthartes vom Para-Noir (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Het jonge in 2003 opgerichte label Para Noir brengt ter kennismaking een dubbel cd in een luxe dvd box uit met daarop een overzicht van de op dat label aanwezige acts. Een aan een harmonika doen denkend dreigend geluid zwelt aan en het eerste nummer zet...Read more
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Gigantour 2005 (8)
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Auteur: eworm
Gigantour is the brainchild of Dave Mustaine, it's a metal festival which (in 2005) toured Northern-America for six weeks. The tour is seen as an alternative to Ozzfest, and if you look at the line-up it gets clear how. The tour largely consists of the ...Read more
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Gloria Victis Vae Victis (8)
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This is a recent compilation of most of the War Office Propaganda bands and from several bands which are not aligned with this label. The sounds vary from neofolk, to electronically-oriented tunes and to the heavier martial music. The compilation ...Read more
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Gotham vol.1 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Whoever is in search of a good sampler with traditional gothicrock and darkwave can be delighted with the
Gotham
, vol.1 compilation of the German label Syborgmusic. Different nuances in gothicrock are represented here with a wide selection of ...Read more
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Gothic Divas presents... (7.9)
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Auteur: Magdusia
There are twelve songs on this
Gothic Divas cd, all with female vocals, as the title refers to. The duo
New Skin opens with four songs. The song
'New Skin' reminds me of
Emilie Autumn, because of both the raspy vocals and the violin samples....Read more
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Gothic Spirits (7.6)
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Auteur: Magdusia
MTV is – at least in the
Netherlands
– not very prone to showing metal videos. Most of what we get is female fronted metal by Within Temptation, a little bit of Nightwish and basically that’s that.
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Auteur: Gaby
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Gothic Spirits 6 (7.6)
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Auteur: Magdusia
Type-O-Negative? Lucuna Coil? Oops. Shame on Zyx music and/or Golden Core or whoever typed up the list of tracks for Gothic Spirits 6.
Gothic Spirits 6 offers two cd's, both with 18 Goth metal-oriented songs on them. The
Netherlands are well...Read more
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Gothic Spirits 7 (6.5)
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Auteur: Seraphictine
An inattentive goth who buys the ‘Gothic Spirits 7’ compilation might feel a bit betrayed when inserting the first disk in the cd player at home and gets to hear ‘Bye Bye Beautiful’ by Nightwish blasting out of the speakers. Yet the fact that the ...Read more
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Gothic Spirits 9 (8)
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Auteur: Joost
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Gothic Spirits Live (4)
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Auteur: Seraphictine
Every now and then you get your hands on a release that you just don’t get. Like this one, ‘Gothic Spirits Live’, a DVD with a selection of live tracks by Lacrimas Profundure, Corvus Corax, Schandmaul, Midnattsol and Tanzwut. The name ‘Gothic ...Read more
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Gothic Visions (7.9)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Gothic Visions is a CD/DVD edition filled to the brim with 231 minutes of video and 80 (on CD) and 215 (as MP3-files on the DVD) minutes of audio. Styles range from dark ambient to goth rock, darkwave, neo-classical, electro and industrial. A fair share...Read more
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Hands 2003 (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This double CD is probably the best opportunity to find out what soundscapes mean. ORPHX starts with music that reminds of barren landscapes and high-tech cities without emotion. KLINIK kicks off with a quiet start, but the driven song ‘Modular ...Read more
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Holy Mother Russia (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Martial industrial, ritual electronics and noise from Russia finds its way to Steinklang Industries division Steinklang International. Holy Mother Russia is a 12 inch LP on which a selection special Russian artists are represented. The LP is released in...Read more
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Hyperreality (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Packaged into a small round metal box we find the Aliens compilation cd Hyperreality, with on it quality EBM, industrial, ambient and IDM of artists connected to that label or with a link between them which is based on a musical vision: explorative ...Read more
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I, Mute Hummings (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
a collection of drone music and dulcet atmospheres – such is the subtitle of this compilation cd of the young Ex Ovo Records. This is the sisterlabel to Einzeleinheit of Tobias Fischer and is led by him and Mirko Uhlig, the man behind Aalfang Mit ...Read more
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Ian Curtis Transmission 80-10 (7.7)
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Auteur: Erik
Normally I’m not such a fan of tribute albums, I prefer the originals. With this tribute album I am willing to make an exception. And this exception is worthwhile. Ian Curtis Transmission 80-10 contain a collection of French artist remembering the ...Read more
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In Goth Daze (7.5)
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Auteur: sx-base
In Goth Daze is one of the many compilationalbums which try to give an overview of who or what is or was 'goth'. Discussions thereabout are still being pursued, but we're not going into that. It's the music what it's all about here on this cd. CherryRed...Read more
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In Goth Daze 2 (8.5)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Goth compilations with just audio are available in a considerable number of variants, footage is a more rare thing. In Goth Daze volume 2 offers 26 videos that give a cross-section of the goth scene, from the 1980s to the present. It's not just a 'best ...Read more
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Auteur: Erik
In The Sign Of The Runes is an album containing various acts which explore the musical boundaries of Neofolk, Modern Classical, Martial, Bombastic and other genres. Contributions are mostly done by relatively unknown acts giving them the chance to display...Read more
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Industrial For The Masses 2 (7)
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Auteur: Eelco
The border between industrial, electro and trance is sometimes somewhat difficult to recognize. Certainly when taking a look on the compilation this guy MIR did for Out Of Line Records. The border is somewhat crossed, when signing acts like Chris ...Read more
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IndustrialNation CD sound sampler vol 02 (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
The IndustrialNation magazine proves that there’s a lot of good bands out there in the (US) industrial scene (although this record is released originally in 2003). The bands influences remind sometimes to the well-known names in the scene, but musically...Read more
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Infact10n two (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The second single compilation of the German Infacted label again features 4 singles. This time it’s up to Reaper, Retractor, Liquid Divine and XP8 so we can expect a bit of a heavier story than before.
Reaper is represented with ‘Das Grauen’ ...Read more
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Infact1on (7)
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Auteur: Eelco
The concept is known: take a couple of bands and press their new singles on one CD. It's good for several parties; the buyer can check out multiple artists, without hearing only one song as on regular compilations, and the record label can spread the ...Read more
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Infact1on One (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In times in which it is quite difficult and expensive for a small label to do much marketing, the concept of 4 singles on a single disc for a cool price seems to be a clever promotional tool. Off Beat used to do this, and also Alfa-Matrix. Now Infacted ...Read more
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Infacted (7)
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Auteur: Eelco
In the same envelope which held the new Syrian release, is the first compilation by Infacted Recordings. Obviously entitled "Infacted", it's a promotional release for this German label and spawns 16 songs, mostly presented in rare versions or ...Read more
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Infacted 1 (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This release is interesting for everyone who likes synthpop. For everyone else the chances are that it becomes boring, although there are some good songs on this CD. Thankfully enough there are enough unreleased tracks and remixes on this album to be ...Read more
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Infacted 2 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the second Infacted compilation and by now the label has grown quite a bit in the styles they cover with their roster of bands. You will see this reflected on a label compilation of course and this second one is therefore much stronger than the ...Read more
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Infacted 2 (7.5)
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Auteur: Eelco
The second part of the "Infacted"-series goes on with the first part, but has some new acts to introduce. It's clear that Infacted Recordings is doing a good job, as bigger artists like In Strict Confidence, [:SITD:] and Run Level Zero are ...Read more
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Infacted Recordings volume 3 (7.5)
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Auteur: Nosferius
01. VNV Nation - Chrome (27.2 Mhz Mix by Modcom)
This remix from the new Ronan Harris side project has already had a lot of airplay and is praised for its original mix making this almost a completely new song to the ear. The use of the vocals and the ...Read more
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Infacted vol.3 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The infacted compilation series gets better which each edition. This third in the series offers a wide array of previously unreleased, exclusive or rare tracks and mixes in styles such as ebm, electropop and industrial-techno. The compilation starts off...Read more
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Infacted volume 2 (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Infacted is a growing label and “Infacted volume 2” proves that. The biggest critic is that this compilation filled with remixes and unreleased material starts to sound the same after a while. Especially the pumped up sound create an overkill. Fine ...Read more
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Infactious (7)
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Auteur: Davitch
A new compilation on Infacted Recordings. This must be one of the first labels that takes a leap into non stop compilations where all tracks flow into one another. Emphasizing on the danceable character of dark electro and electro pop. Dance music that ...Read more
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Infactious 3 (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
“See This Gun?”
“Infactious 3” introduces us once again to the nowadays up and coming acts of the Infacted Recordings label. Next to this “Infactious”-series, the label also has the “Infacted”-series, the “Infaction”-series and a lot ...Read more
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Infactious Vol.2 (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the second compilation of the Infacted Recordings label which is mixed by the American DJ Coppertop. Just like with the first one you are introduced to a selection of artists from the stable of this young yet fast growing German label. The DJ...Read more
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Intelligent Electropop (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
‘An electronic compilation’, that says it all. This compilation succeeds in bringing a wide range of electro pop/ synthpop. It’s typical that Depeche Mode is one of the leading influences on this record, but this compilation offers more. There’s...Read more
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Interbreeding III (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Interbreeding is een sterke compilatie serie van het Amerikaanse BLC Productions. Op deze cd staan zoals gebruikelijk is nummers van bands die op dat label zitten, aangevuld met een aantal knallers van nummers van andere, met name Europese labels en ...Read more
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Interbreeding IX (7.5)
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Auteur: Nick
Who's familiar with the Inter breeding cd series won't be dissapointed by listening to part 9, 'Interbreeding IX – Kuru'. Again two discs with electro, rough ebm/industrial and experimental/noisy tracks.
Again it's a fine combination of all kinds of ...Read more
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Interbreeding V: Terrorland (7.5)
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With this 5th compilation album in the Interbreeding-collection, BLC-Records (hometown of Alien Produkt, Beta and others) goes further on her way with strong electro and industrial songs from famous and less famous bands. Bands of the own label are off ...Read more
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Interbreeding VI: The alien agenda (7)
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This disc is already the 6th Interbreeding-compilation from the BLC-Label. The music on this disc is as the previous editions: dark, danceable and noisy. EBM meets industrial. There are a few noise-songs on this disc. The more famous names in this genre...Read more
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Interbreeding VII (7.1)
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Auteur: Eelco
The seventh part of the Interbreeding-series. BLC has done a good job in collections bands from all over the world on no less than two CD's. Remarkable appearances by acts like Das Ich (I can't imagine a German band being very popular in the USA, or?), ...Read more
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Interbreeding VIII: (7.5)
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Auteur: Nick
For those who like the hard side of electro/industrial, this CD is an absolute must-have. This double-CD is an all-out tour de force with tracks by among others Schattenschlag, Necrotek, Implant, Y-Luk-O, Anders Manga, Tamtrum, Stigmata and Neon Cage ...Read more
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Japanoise of Death II (8)
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Auteur: Remco
Just when pushing the play button you will know there is no way back. Japanoise of Death II starts quite subtle with The Guilty Connector with a sound of danger in a subway station, a terrorist act or just some terrible accident. This track starts ...Read more
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Je M'en Fish (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
- Electronic Music Collective -
Je m’en fish is a collective of talented Belgian musicians, visual artists, graphical designers, and event organizers. Its main objective is to get the ‘art’ of it’s members to as broad an audience as ...Read more
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John Barleycorn Reborn - Dark Britannica (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The folk platform Woven Wheat Whispers and the British label Cold Spring records have released a speciak project with the John Barleycorn Reborn album, since it is a double cd stuffed full with songs devoted to the dark side of
Britain
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Kaliffornian Deathrock (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
We write 1986, westcoast USA California. Here a scene came to live in the late 70’s out of the punkrock movement, of bands who flirted with horror theme’s. Simple chords, echoeing guitars and a prominent place for the bass characterized this style. ...Read more
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Karmanik Collection (10)
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Auteur: Bauke
2007 is the year Cold Meat Industry reaches the age of 20 and there probably isn't a better time to dive into the CD collection and find a classic from this label. And it is with great honour that I present to you CMI catalog number 20 (how apropriate) ...Read more
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Klangdynamische Bewegung Vol. 1 (8.1)
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Auteur: sx-base
Klangdynamik Records is a new label from Augsburg which wants to be an outlet for an amount of new and upcoming synth- and electroacts. This cd was released in a limited edition of 444 copies of which 222 have a bonus 3inch cd with five extra songs. ...Read more
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Klangfusion Vol.1 (7.3)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The new MCD Kreuz:gang is the prequel to the new and third [:SITD:] album Bestie:Mensch, which is planned for the upcoming fall. Kreuz:gang is released in a double digipack together with the MCD Nytcophobia from Painbastard labelled as Klangfusion ...Read more
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KOBE Underground Festival (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Japan has a culture of extremities. This also goes for the music. Japanese musicians often try to add as many stilistic changes and apparently contradictive musical ingredients in one song. So this ultimately goes for styles like metal industrial and ...Read more
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Konkrete (9)
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Auteur: exzero
Spectraliquid is a new label which gives us a superb proct with their debut release. Eleven known and unknown artist from the idm, d'n'b, technoid and breakcore scene on one sampler. Artists as Detritus and Ah Cama-Sotz are also directly the slight ...Read more
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Kulturruine: Die ersten 10 jahre (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Like it happens more often in Germany, the anniversary of a party is celebrated with the release of a compilation, on which music is released that is representative for what is spinned at that party. In this case with the Kultur Ruine it is about a ...Read more
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Live at Wacken 2007 (7.9)
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Auteur: Gaby
For many metalheads the yearly releases of the Live at Wacken DVDs are a real must-have. It shows the viewer some exclusive behind the scene shots of how they turn a very small town called Wacken (with only 1800 inhabitants!) into a true metal ...Read more
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Local Anesthetic (8.2)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Over the course of nearly three decades numerous new wave/punk/goth compilations have seen the light of day. Most of them concentrate on the biggest hits in those genres, making them unattractive for diehard fans. Once in a while a collection of more ...Read more
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Look Directly Into the Sun (8.5)
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Auteur: Cindy E
The cd Look Directly into the Sun – China Pop 2007 released by invisible china contains not less than 18 tracks with from different alternative styles. Bands likes Café in and Hang on the Box contributed a girl punk track with a catchy sound. The band ...Read more
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Lost signals from unknown horizons (7.5)
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Lost signals from unknown horizons
Split CDr limited to 222 copies on Silver Charisma 2004 with:
Desiderii marginis (Sverige)
Moan (Polska)
Artefactum (Polska)
The 3 pieces from Desiderii Marginis sound dark and dirty. The first piece...Read more
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Love Sessions 2 (8.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
“Love Session 2” is formed by three of the best bands on this French label. Francesco Banchini made name with his project GOR (although it seems that his contract with this label is over now), Louisa released some pearls under her own name but ...Read more
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Lowlands Industrialism (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Aan deze LP release met een keur aan Nederlandse projecten en 1 Belgische bijdrage gaat een verhaaltje vooraf. Zelf deed ik de suggestie aan twee Industriele projecten uit Noord Nederland, Spermblaster en HERAS om een soort verzamelaar te gaan maken, ...Read more
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Lowlands Industrialism 2 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The second edition of the compilation series with electronic industrial mayhem from the Low Countries, The Netherlands and Belgium. This compilation opens strongly with ‘Disintegrated Subconsciousness’ of the noise project Distsync. An exercition in...Read more
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Lowlands Industrialism 2 (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
The Dutch industrial scene is alive and kicking and “Lowlands Industrialism” proves this once again. Sometimes you will hear quiet, atmospheric, but also threatening sounds like from Distsync (‘Desintegrated Subconsiousness’), S.A.R.S. ...Read more
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Auteur: Eelco
The third chapter in the “Machineries Of Joy” series. As with the previous two parts, the pricing of these two CD’s has been kept to a minimum, which means that both CD’s are perfectly priced for almost two-and-a-half hours of the newest ...Read more
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Machines Against Hunger (8.5)
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Auteur: sx-base
Whoever thought that musicians who are engaged in electrobeats, industrial, or IDM are hard and merciless individuals, will probably have to improve his attitude after reading this review.
The American record label, Sigsaly Transmissions Media, and ...Read more
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Mandala Volume 1 (9)
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Auteur: Bauke
Three inch CD's. You either love them, or you hate them with every fiber in your body. Personally I think they're ingenious because they're so incredibly perfect. Maximum 20 minutes of music and that's just enough to get you in the mood. If the content ...Read more
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Mental Mood Music (7.5)
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Auteur: Ergo
An overly happy smiling little girl on the sleeve and a skull with mushrooms on the disc; indeed, expect a confusing, experimental, and LSD-like compilation album. It's mainly folk and ambient that we get to listen to on Mental Mood Music. For me, there ...Read more
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Minimal Baby (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
Skulline brings us a very very nice compilation of minimal electro. 19 tracks filled with computer bleeps, simple – but nevertheless very catchy – beats, dry-as-hell keyboard tunes, vocoders and minimalistic aftermixing techniques: the way minimal...Read more
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Minimal Baby II (8.7)
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Auteur: Fabian
A while ago my fellow Gothtronic colleague reviewed the first ‘Minimal Baby’ compilation from SkullLine and was very excited about it. Now I have the pleasure to listen to the follow-up ‘Minimal Baby II’. I’m very curious what all the is ...Read more
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Mittelalter: Medieval Spirits (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Zyx music releases various succesful thematic compilation series, with a.o. Gregorian, Celtic, gothic samplers. Mittelalter: Medieval Spirits is the medieval version. Nothing new when you realize the Miroque medieval sampler has been around for quite ...Read more
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Miwak Twelve (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Hymen Records celebrates its twelve year existence with the double compilation cd Miwak Twelve which features 33 tracks of well known and lesser known artists from the idm and industrial crossover genre. The two cd’s also feature acts who make ...Read more
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Monopol Records - Compilation (7)
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Auteur: Nosferius
This compilation CD features six artists, the one to open this CD is H.E.E.L., their first song “Virus” seems to be Ambient/
Sound scape. This music is perfectly suited to to listen to late at night and holds many sound effects to guide you into ...Read more
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Monopol Records - The 5th Anniversary Compilation (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Czech label Monopol Records like the befriended label Aliens Production has been releasing quality industrial electro music for quite some years whilst they still do not get the attention in Western Europa which it deserves. Completely unjustified...Read more
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Moral Hazard (7.5)
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Auteur: Bauke
Some musical styles can not be kept within boundaries. Rhythmic industrial for example has a definite American style and a European style. And way back you could always hear when a band was Japanese or European or American when it came to harsh noise. ...Read more
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Music for Modern People (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Holophon is een snel en goed aan de weg timmerend Duits label dat zich net als bijvoorbeeld 1stDecade Records toegelegd heeft op moderne electronische pop met een melancholische, soms aan de 80’s refererende retro-feel. De stijlen die aanwezig zijn op...Read more
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Muzyka Voln (8)
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Auteur: Bauke
Our friends from the Russian Zhelezobeton decided it was time to create a new sub-label. It is unknown what the speciality for this label will be, but its first release is an ambient/drone sampler presenting 12 Russian composers doing their thing. And ...Read more
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My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver (7.5)
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Auteur: Wicket
My Own Wolf has some excellent songs. This compilation is achieved by an armada of young and ambitious artist that are inspired by the band’s great spirit and artistic vision. The result is a double CD almost containing Ulver’s entire opus until the ...Read more
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Nacht der Maschinen (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
With the first track on this compilation cd, ‘BoomBoomBoom’ from Nachtmahr it is immediately obvious what’s important here: electro for club nights. Nacht der Maschinen is such a club night in
Germany
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Natures Mortes - Still Lives (8.5)
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Auteur: Nightporter
An album that files under Various Artists as a classic, thats's not very common. But Natures Mortes - Still Lives isn't your average compilation. This collection shines a light on the early beginnings of the famous 4AD label and features a number of ...Read more
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Neo.Pop 05 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
One of the nicest compilations with indie electroclash and popmusic is the Neopop compilation series of the German 1stDecade Records. Big names like Ladytron, The Hacker, Felix Tha Housecat and Fischerspooner have passed by on this series, and younger ...Read more
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Neo.Pop, vol.4 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
De vierde alweer in een reeks waar al illustere namen als Ladytron, The Hacker, Felix Tha Housecat en Fischerspooner op verschenen. Het eerste nummer van deze vierde Neo-Pop verzamelaar is ‘Gone (Boon remix)’ van Northern Lite, een aanstekelijk ...Read more
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Neoform Compilation 1 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The first track is ‘White’ of Cawatana and this is a heavenly voices neofolk track with male vocals that sound like a karaoke version of Douglas Pearce. It is a pleasurable song but not original at all. ’t Abstrakte Klare’ of the Dutch ...Read more
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New Dark Age vol.2 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the second part in the succesfull New Dark Age compilation series of the German label Strobelight Records, and this double cd has been put full with gothrock, deathrock, batcave and postpunk. The tracklist is as follows:
CAUDA PAVONIS - ...Read more
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New Dark Age vol.3 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
New Dark Age vol3 -Various
This is the third installment in the succesful New Dark Age compilation series of the German label Strobelight Records, and this double cd has been put full with gothrock, deathrock, batcave and postpunk again.
MEPHISTO ...Read more
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Auteur: Erik
Sometimes a title of a cd can be misleading. New Wave Hits Reloaded
is such a cd. I suspected that this album was a New Wave sampler containing various classic songs
. And boy was I wrong! It actually contains electro-, house and cyber-style ...Read more
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New World Order (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The young German Thonar records is busy finding a place for itself in the industrial underground and they have recently signed the band Tonal Y Nagual. A while ago they released a friendly priced compilation cd titled New World Order which consist of ...Read more
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Nikolaevka (7.3)
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Auteur: Wicket
Nikolaevka is an Italian Neofolk compilation. The whole album is spherical and peaceful combined with drama and melancholic musical pieces. The album consists of classical, (military) drums but also folkloristic elements. Musically Nikolaevka is a mixture...Read more
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Noise Terror Volume 2 (8)
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Auteur: sx-base
In 2005 "Suicide Commando"-executive Johan Van Roy and Dependent-labelowner Stefan Herwig announced that they started a strategic cooperative which lead to the start of a new sublabel called NTP or Noise Terror Productions. NTP would be a ...Read more
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Noise Terror Volume One (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The first compilation of the newly Noise Terror Productions label, led by Johan van Roy of Suicide Commando in collaboration with Dependent, is a fact. This compilation is a delight for the lover of dark electro and harsh EBM and not only offers well ...Read more
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noise.il (7.7)
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Auteur: Bauke
Israel is not the first country we think of when we talk about noise and dark ambient music. So this album has eight new names for me, all projects from Israel and Chaos as Shelter isn't even amongst them!The tracks range from minimal electronics over ...Read more
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Notochord (8.4)
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Auteur: Bauke
A sampler made in Holland, released by a new Dutch label with a variety of international artists. And if your eyes open a bit more when hearing like downtempo industrial and innovative IDM, please continue reading this review.
The fifteen tracks on ...Read more
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Noxious Art Will Never Die!!! (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In Germany we have Maschinenfest, in Spain Decibelio and in France there is Noxious Art. A festival dedicated to all sorts of industrial music. From old school to technoid, from ambient to noise and from idm to breakcore. Sonic Area and the Audiotrauma ...Read more
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Ny Regrette du Passe, Ny Peur de l'Avenir (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Omnicore, Atomtrakt, Die Macht, Cold Fusion, Ghosts of Breslau, Storm of Capricorn, Sonne Hagal, The Green Man, Belborn, The Well Of Sadness, Apatheia, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Calle della Morte, Nemodog, Division S, Novo Homo & Der Feuerkreiner are ...Read more
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Opera Metal (6)
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Auteur: Seraphictine
Gothic metal, fantasy metal, female fronted metal, symphonic metal… There’s one sub genre in metal which is having a hard time finding the right name. Yet another new name is ‘Opera Metal’, which is also the title of a sampler German label ...Read more
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Auteur: Gaby
I think the title says it all. ‘Opera Metal vol. 2’ is a nice cd with many famous Opera/Gothic Metal bands. Not only contains this cd songs released in 2008, it also helds some massive hits of this genre. Take ‘Tanz Der Schatten’ of Theatre of ...Read more
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Opera Metal Vol.4 (7)
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Auteur: Gaby
The German label ZYX Music has released his 4th CD collection entitled Opera Metal Vol.4. But I still believe, the title is somewhat misleading. Because if you buy this cd only based on the name of the CD, you will get a little disappointed. ...Read more
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Orbit Electro (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Major records is a label that each time shows they have a fine sense of what’s good in synthpop and electropop music. This label has released albums from a.o. Mesh, Obscenity Trial, IAMX and Ladytron. With Orbit Electro this label from
Hamburg...Read more
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Our Voices: A Tribute to The Cure (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
CD 1:
01. Lizard Smile - Burn
02. ShamRain - Charlotte Sometimes
03. Silvery - Other Voices
04. Sanguis et Cinis - Friday I'm In Love
05. Floodland - A Forest
06. [f.e.v.e.r.] - Disintegration
07. Bloodflowerz - Inbetween Days
08. EverEve ...Read more
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Pagan Folk and Apocalyptic Psychedelia (7.5)
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Auteur: Erik
With Pagan Folk and Apocalyptic Psychedelia the record companies Ahnstern, Steinklang, Percht and Heimatfolk manages to deliver a diverse and interesting sampler. And the title already spoils it; on this album we are being treated upon a well chosen ...Read more
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Peacemakers Inc II (Triple Split Collaboration) (8.1)
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Auteur: Fabian
This is the second part of the new triple split series releases by Ambassador21’s own label Invasion Wreck Chords. Were the first one was a split between Config.Sys, Contagious Orgasm and Boot Sector-Viruz, this time it’s war between Chrysalide, ...Read more
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Peacemakers Inc. (Triple Split Collaboration) (7.6)
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Auteur: Hazzard
A distribution by Ant-Zen and Invasion Wreck Chords, final edited by Ambassador 21, titled Peacemakers Inc… What might one expect? – The kind of peace made by dropping warheads in apocalyptic scenery. – That is what this collaboration of ...Read more
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Pere-Lachaise (8)
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Auteur: Remco
The French cemetery Pere-Lachaise in Paris is one of those mystical places that will speak to many man’s imagination. It’s the place for those gloomy romantics who can roam between monumental tombs from various illustrious people. Recently Karel Appel...Read more
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Poivre Noir (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
De Poivre Noir compilatie start met een minimaal experimenteel electro nummer van Lucidique. ‘Pre-Tracker (Electronique sessions) is vergelijkbaar met het werk op de debuut cd ‘Electrique Konkret’. Puls achtige geluiden en schuivende patronen, met...Read more
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Poivre Noir (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
This perfectly mixed compilation of the Dutch label Para Noir shows there’s enough good stuff produced in the area of soundscapes and noise. Most striking are the heavier noise of Lucidique and Inver-Tec. Especially the second song of Toteskunst ...Read more
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Post Alcoholic Body Syndrome Vol.3 (7.3)
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Auteur: sx-base
It looks like Advoxya Records from Hungary is ready for demanding a nice spot within the list of the established record-labels of the electro-scene. A new overview-compilation should emphasize this.
Actually, 'Post Alcoholic Body Syndrome Vol 3' is ...Read more
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R.A.I.D. Compilation 01 (7.5)
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Auteur: Niels
Fairly young and independent record label Nein Records, based in San Diego released this compilation in the musical style of what they apparantly call: “ R.A.I.D.”. R.A.I.D. stands for: “Rhythm Analog Intelligent Distorted”. Although I’m not ...Read more
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R.A.I.D. Compilation 01 (6.9)
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Auteur: Eelco
Nein Records releases this rather diverse compilation, but shouldn't aim for a high position in the hit charts. "R.A.I.D." is nice, but the quality of the tracks just isn't high enough. The disc kicks off nicely with the noisy "Fiebre en la...Read more
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Radio Rivendell Compilation (7)
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Auteur: Chantal Lodewikus
‘Radio Rivendell’ is the only internet radio station that is dedicated to fantasy related music from games, movies and a growing base of unsigned composers. To make these composers more known to the people a CD has been released. This album ...Read more
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Radio Rivendell Compilation: The Book of War Volume II (7.4)
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Auteur: Erik
After a successful first release, Fantasy internet radio Radio Rive
ndell releases the second volume of The Book of War. With this nice initiative Radio Rivendell gives unknown artist related with fantasy games and movies the chance to show ...Read more
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Résumé, Selected and Mixed by Citizen Crew (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Citizen Records, the label which brought us a.o. Vitalic and The Penelopes has released a compilation mix cd on which the Citizen team chose tracks according to their won taste from the electro and minimal techno tracks of last year added with more ...Read more
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Re:Connected 2.0 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This compilation is a label compilation of Alfa-Matrix dedicated to the 5 year existence of this label. On it you find exclusive and previously unreleased material of all artists connected to the label. Alfa-Matrix has managed in the recent years to ...Read more
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Recreation - X Display Disobey V2 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Anglo-Dutch Urbcom label is specialised in genre crossing undeground dance music varying from harsh electro to idm, power-industrial and breakcore. With a little drum ’n bass and goa added here and there. The crossover element as instrument to ...Read more
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Reload. Invasion n Friends 2K9 (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The label sampler of Invasion Wreck Chords features every year a series of prominent industrial noise artists while the line-up of these samplers also get better each time. The nice add is that of these artists also rare and exclusive tracks have been...Read more
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Replicate 01: A Tribute to Front Line Assembly (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Extrordinary bands and bands with a long history of records can very well expect a tribute cd to be released at some point. Sometimes they are bad and sometimes they are very good. This one is very good as the unknown bands and projects deliver good and...Read more
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Revelation (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Revelation is a industrial compilation clocking in at 75 minutes and based on a short story by Bugs Crawling out of people founder Squid which you cand also find in the booklet with this compilation. This is also the first release of this young Canadian...Read more
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Revelation (7)
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Auteur: Niels
The Toronto based label “Bugs crawling out of people” brings us there very first release. A compilation filled with noise, lots of noise! The backbone for this release is a short surrealistic story, written by the founder of the label, Squid. He ...Read more
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Rhythms For Decay (8)
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Auteur: Eelco
"Rhythms For Decay" is the first release for the British label Infekted Sound. Primaire goal of this label is to spread the British powernoise/industrial/IDM scene, and does that by combining some of their own artists with known projects from ...Read more
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Riyaz Master - Future Comparative Ethnic Research (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Machine readable data : made in India – part 001 –
This is a very special musical project. The Riyaz is a tabla drumcomputer from India (probably known from Madonna's Ray of Light album where she used it in the song ''Shanti/Ashtangi'') and on ...Read more
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Roadrage 2007 (8.2)
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Auteur: Grauenhaft
Since 2002 Roadrunner Records have had the great habit of releasing an annual DVD loaded with video clips from their own bands. I’m not a big fan of most the music most bands produce but still I wholeheartedly support this release from Roadrunner. I ...Read more
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Roadrunner Roadrage 2006 (8.5)
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Auteur: Sin
The leaves are falling from the trees; the days are getting darker and colder each day. Are you already becoming slightly depressed? To celebrate this best season of the year Roadrunner has a real treat for you! The brand new Roadrunner Roadrage DVD ...Read more
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Ruckwarts im Uhrzeigersinn (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Berlin underground electro label Das Drehmoment has a new compilation out on which the label divided into two 12 inch records (titled Materie and Anti-Materi) presents a selection of their roster of artists in the electro-techno genre. On ...Read more
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Ruines & Vanités (8.5)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Because of the 10th anniversary of the French Trinity webzine a special compilation has been issued. It's not just a 'greatest hits', but a carefully selected 15-track disc that contains a considerable number of previously unreleased recordings. The ...Read more
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Rush For Black Celebration - Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute (7.9)
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Auteur: Fabian
Before me I have a tribute album to Depeche Mode. Like there already weren’t enough of them. I actually think that there are more tribute albums dedicated to DM then the band actually have in their own discography. Though with closer reading there seems...Read more
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Saw II - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
Saw II: the movie that – just as the first part – looks like a combination of Se7en, Silence Of The Lambs and Cube, comes with a soundtrack that sounds just like those belonging to Queen Of The Damned, Lost Highway and Underworld. The second part ...Read more
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SAW IV (6.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
…i would like to play a game….the well known SAW shock-horror film series has next to the soundtracks of Charlie Clouser also each time a compilation with tracks from the industrial and rock realms. The 4 th in the series is again released by Trisol ...Read more
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SAW V (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The movie hasn’t been out yet in The Netherlands but the soundtrack for it already makes its turns in my cd player since the US version got released the week before Halloween. On this new compilation with the successful shock-horror series Saw which...Read more
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SC100 (8)
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Auteur: Nightporter
The Secretly Canadian label celebrates its 100th release with a special compilation CD. It's not just a 'best of' like one would expect, Secretly Canadian has chosen to go a more interesting path. All artists who issued recordings from SC01 (June Panic,...Read more
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Schattenreich Vol.3 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This third Schattenreich series exactly offers what we could have expected, a decent overview of the music from the Schwarze Szene, which has been broadened quite a bit for the occassion as bands such as Paul van Dijk, New Order, HIM, The Chemical ...Read more
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Schattenreich Vol.4 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
If one has to chose a dark music scene sampler that is most able to get new audience acquainted with the dark side of the alternative music scene, it surely is the Schattenreich sampler. At the end of may the fourth part of this succesful series will ...Read more
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Schattenreich vol.5 (8)
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Auteur: Nick
Schattenreich compilations are perfect for those who are into gothic, rock,and metal as well. On the fifth edition of the series, which is affilated with the German music magazine Sonic Seducer, all these genres are represented again.
Leandra is the ...Read more
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Scontrum act VI (8)
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Auteur: Erik
Three acts giving a reflection upon men’s conflicts. A theme which is continuously used in the Scontrum series. This time three polish acts namely Bisclaveret, Sect and Ab Intra makes its entrance on the Scontrum series. Three songs each of the ...Read more
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Seek and Thistroy (6.4)
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Auteur: Bauke
This split-CD on Thisco features three bands: Devhour, TatsuMaki & City Of Industry. All three of them provide 5 dancey techdustrial tracks with an EBM feel every now and then.In 'Dementodic' Devhour adds a sort of metal feel to the techno-dustrial ...Read more
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Seelenthron - Traum`er Leben - Trinithos III (6.4)
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Auteur: Erik
In
Germany
neo-folk is very much alive. Releases of Steinklang and of course Heimatfolk, among others, definitively prove that there is still animo for this sub-culture.
In order to firmly state this fact again Heimatfolk releases ...Read more
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Septic IV (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
‘Space Hulk Evolution’ opent de cd avontuurlijk met een stevig technoide electro nummer. Blame is de band die dit nummer heeftaangedragen en zij zijn een nog onbekend gezelschap uit Servie. Dit is veelbelovend wat zij laten zien. Mindless Faith is ...Read more
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Septic V (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This already is the fifth edition in the well known compilation series of Dependent. The first track is of a young band, recently signed to Dependent, named Stromkern. The track with which they are represented is ‘Sentinel’, on which Frank M. ...Read more
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Septic VI (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This sixth edition of the distinguished Septic electro series again brings us a wide array of exclusive club centered tracks of various bands that operate in the electro, ebm and industrial scene. Septic over the years has become one of the best ...Read more
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Septic VII (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The knowledge that this is the last Septic cd that Dependent will release is something still to get used to since the Septic compilation series has always been a progressive and important series in the electro and industrial scene. The Septic series ...Read more
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Septic VIII (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Dependent records is back in business so it’s time for a new part in the succesfil Septic compilation series. Also this time Stefan Herwig has selected a nice range of industrial and electro tracks. We will make a short survey of what’s on offer ...Read more
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Signs (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Slovakian label Aliens Production has a open minded view when it comes to electronic music. This is apparent when you look at the variety of artists on this sampler. This compilation offers a array of Slovakian electronic artists with some more well...Read more
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Sin-Tech (6)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Sin-Tech is the name of a 16 track compilation cd of Shinto records which compiles a diversity of well known and lesser known electro bands. Well known names are Kirlian Camera and Attrition. The other names are all rising electro bands in various ...Read more
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Sky So Grey, a Boston dark music compilation (7)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Sky So Grey contains a diverse range of bands and solo artists from Boston, from synthpop to full acoustic compositions. Considering the period this CD covers (1999-2008) it might have been intented as a 'best of'. If so, it falls somewhat short of the ...Read more
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Slaghuis presents The Best of Radio Free Abattoir 2004 (6)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This compilation cd of the American Slaghuis label connected to the long existing and popular internet radio show Radio Free Abbatoir counts some interesting songs and offers a nice overview of unknown music in the dark alternative scene. There are some...Read more
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Somehow They Knew... (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is a compilation of artists affiliated with the Vrihaspati Recordings label of A Challenge of Honour frontman Peter Savelkoul. The compilation is packaged in a beautiful crafted DVD box with tasteful artwork. All Contributions are meant exclusively...Read more
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Somehow they knew... (7.5)
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Auteur: Remco
Somehow they knew was first released as CDR on Peter’s new founded label Vrihaspati records a few years ago, but is now available again as full length CD and have completely been re-mastered. This CD is a compilation of all projects Peter is ...Read more
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Songs for a Child - A Tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, novelist and poet. He is most famous for his movies based on literary works, like the Gospel according to Matthew, The Decamerone, Canterbury Tales and Salo, or the 120 days of
Sodom
. Pasolini ...Read more
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Songs From The Hydrogen Bar; a tribute to Chemlab (7.4)
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Auteur: Erik
There is no doubt about it; Chemlab was one of the greatest Industrial rock acts hailing from the
USA
. With a combination of alluring beats and samples, guitar and distorted vocals they managed to be quite popular. Although they weren’t ...Read more
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Sound On Probation 2010 (8.3)
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Auteur: Bauke
Sound on Probation is a label by, with, from and featuring Laurent Perrier and his many monikers. After three releases around the millennium it became more and more active and since 2006 there is a continuous stream of gorgeous music and sounds coming our...Read more
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Soundwave Assassins (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This compilation of the American Dungeon recordings has tracks from projects that are either on hiatus, or have delivered tracks that will never appear on other compilations in the future. We’re dealing with American dark electro industrial bands ...Read more
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Spectre Decade Anniversary Compilation 1996-2006 (8)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Delicious sampler with acts who passed the last ten years on Spectre. Highlights are the slowly built ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ influenced with tribal percussion from Iszoloscope, ‘Opus Dei’ from Ah Cama-Sotz, the impressively battering ...Read more
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Square Matrix (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Four singles on one CD, that’s the story behind the Square Matrix series. This time there are songs from Plastic Noise Experience, Glis, Neikka RPM and Regenerator. The electro from Plastic Noise Experience sounds at its best during ...Read more
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Square Matrix 4 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Glis is represented with No Pulse and Release the Pain. Glis has moved towards dark electro waters in the vein of Suicide Commando. After earlier futurepop clubhits with ‘Sunrise’ and ‘Resolution’ Shaun Frandsen has gone harsh. ‘No Pulse’ ...Read more
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Square Matrix 4 (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Glis opens this fourth edition of Square Matrix with reasonable dark electro. ‘No Pulse’ is a nice song to listen to once, but three times in a different version is a little too much for this average song. ‘Release The Pain’ starts hopeful, but ...Read more
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Stählerne Lichter (8.5)
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Auteur: Fabian
Licht Und Stahl is a fairly new label that releases post-industrial music, run by M.W. Löhr from N.Strahl.N. While the label releases mostly CDr’s and tapes, this compilation is pressed on a real cd. The compilation presents well-known acts among ...Read more
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Steinklang Industries Disco 1994-2004 (6.8)
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Auteur: Pure_holocaust
A sampler of the Austrian noise-label Steinklang and several of its subsidiaries like AgitProp, Ahnstern and Percht, which gives an overview of the music the label has been releasing since 1994. This means a lot of powernoise/ death industrial, but also...Read more
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Steinklang Industries II (8.2)
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Auteur: Erik
Many music listeners must have noticed, Steinklang Industries is no longer only a vinyl (collectors) label. In 2005 the label decided to do a lot of cd releases, besides vinyl.
In order to represent an overview of what Steinklang has released a ...Read more
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Steinklang Industries III (2006-2007) (8)
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Auteur: Erik
As we are used to Steinklang releases every year a sampler. This is no negative news because in the vein of the Steinklang tradition we are being treated upon a delightful mix of industrial, noise, dark ambient, folk and related genres.
The ...Read more
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Steinklang Industries IV (7.5)
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Auteur: Erik
Steinklang already returns with its fourth Steinklang sampler. And what can you say about it?
Not much than the fact that all the Steinklang samplers stand for some good quality songs. On the fourth Steinklang sampler this is also the case. ...Read more
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Storsequenz (7.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
Hell(o), this compilation is filled by some devastating dark electro/soundscape acts we know so well from the labels Black Rain and Noitekk, featuring exclusive, previously unreleased, rare tracks and remixes. It starts directly with a blast! The Lie...Read more
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Strobelights Vol.1 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Strobelight Records seem determined to bring musical styles like postpunk, deathrock, gothrock and batcave back on the map. This is the first sampler of that label, and they do not directly come up with their own bands, and release a so-called label ...Read more
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Subconscious Primitv Musick (9)
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Auteur: Remco
I was pleasantly surprised when got the opportunity to review a package with the first three Neue Kultur releases inside. A brand new label formed by Gabriel, Also mastermind behind Luna Dopa. A label with a philosophy. Neue Kultur tries to bring the ...Read more
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Summoning of the Muse, A Tribute to Dead Can Dance (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Dead Can Dance is a band that influenced generations of musicians and vocalists. I would even dare to state that without Dead Can Dance there would not have been a neo-classical scene such as we have today. Regularly a tribute album to this band is ...Read more
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Swarm (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Cold Spring Records offers a nice, varied and complete overview with Swarm of what is to be expected on this label and what has been released recently. The compilation consists of 2 cd’s on which a smart selection is made of tracks that are quite ...Read more
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Sweetness Will Overcome (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is a compilation cd of the Swedish label Segerhuva. Segerhuva releases cd’s in about the same styles and genres as Cold Meat Industry does. Noise, post industrial music, avantgarde and dark cocktail lounge music is what Sweetness Will Overcome ...Read more
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syndrom - sin #6 (6.9)
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Auteur: Eelco
"Sin #6" is the sixth release on the Swedish label Syndrom Produktion and contains collected works of four bands. Some Asian Female Bodybuilders from Spain participate with 5 nameless songs, Toni Kandelin (Finland) provides us with four songs, whilst both...Read more
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Synthetic Pleasure (7)
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Auteur: Beautevil
We don’t need to discuss about the quality on this compilation of Infacted records. You can ask yourself why the label is producing so much compilations, but that’s an other discussion. Thankfully enough Synthetic Pleasure got enough unknown bands and...Read more
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Synthetic Pleasures (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Infacted Recordings brengt na een eerdere succesvolle compilatie nu wederom een compilatie uit. Dit keer vooral gericht op synthpop, futurepop, electropop met soms trance invloeden. Het is een samenwerking met het Amerikaanse label A Different Drum en ...Read more
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Synthetic Pleasures (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
This is a very tasteful album. With this compilation the three resident dj’s of ‘Synthetic Pleasure’ give us a good overview of the present-day electro-, synth- and futurepop. The parties which they organize in the famous “Factory” Club in...Read more
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Tal Mont De Lune (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
In Italy with Final Muzik a new label is founded that focusses on the better avantgarde, from ambient, (post)industrial and folk realms. The nice thing about this compilation cd is that the compilers have taken songs from all sorts of directions, with ...Read more
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Tanz der Nacht - Uliketodance_01 (5.5)
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Auteur: Seraphictine
German organisation ‘Tanz der Nacht’ released its first compilation album, filled with artists which the organisation worked with. The albums subtitle is ‘Uliketodance_01’, which gives a good indication of what to expect: nice songs for the ...Read more
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Thalamus III (8.7)
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Auteur: Fabian
This release from the KultFront label is a compilation of live performances from captured from the Red Club event held in St. Petersburg in December 2005. It obviously took a long time before a cd of this event was released. Because of all this waiting, ...Read more
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The Appeal Of Discarded Orthodoxy: A Tribute To David E. Williams (8)
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Auteur: Fabian
David E. Williams has become a kind of cult figure in the underground industrial scene. He is recognized for his rather bleak take on humanity. Since 2002 he also joined The Urge Within, a side-project of Jonathan Canady (Deathpile, Angel of Decay, ...Read more
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The EGG: Take One (4.8)
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Auteur: Erik
Although the sampler The EGG: Take One contains a few nice songs I doubt if it would be appealing to the average Gothtronic visitor. The reason; it contains almost no Gothic related songs! Ok, Snowy Red makes an appearance with the song called ...Read more
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The four horsemen of the apocalypse (4.5)
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Auteur: Niels
The album opens with “Pestillence” by Melek-Tha. It starts out with a sample of someone telling me that he has seen the future of horror. Gloomy sounds start in the background and some drones form a heavy mechanical rhythm. Pinhead also comes along,...Read more
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the Goth Anthology (7.4)
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Auteur: Erik
Union Square Music offers you a three cd sampler called the Goth-Anthology en you might have guessed it already; this collection consists of high-acclaimed bands which have made gothic-rock and related genres as it is today.
The Goth Anthology ...Read more
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The Judas Kiss Presents Past, Present and Forever (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The British magazine The Judas Kiss has been a platform for the post industrial genre and more notably the rather obscure martial industrial, neo-classical and neofolk styles for a long period of time. Kaosthetik now introduces a compilation that offers...Read more
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The Lotus Eaters, A Tribute to Dead Can Dance (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Het Griekse metal label Black Lotus Records is erin geslaagd een keur aan kwaliteits labels en gerennomeerde artiesten bijeen te brengen om een eerbetoon te brengen aan de meest invloedrijke pionier van de neo-klassieke muziek: Dead Can Dance. Hiervoor ...Read more
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The scariest weapon II (7.8)
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Auteur: Pure_holocaust
My first reaction after listening to this sampler was: Good thing it is not just a breakcore sampler. Despite the fact that the breakcore-movement has delivered a couple of excellent artists (e.g. Doormouse or Venetian Snares), most acts in this genre ...Read more
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The Scariest Weapon III (7.2)
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Auteur: Eelco
Invasion Wreck Chords uses a capital to write down the word 'breakcore'. They did that since the first part of this series, and the path is followed on this third chapter. "Breakcore is dead - viva la Breakcore!" is the subtitle of this disc and...Read more
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The Steinklang picture years 1995-1996 (7.8)
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Auteur: Bauke
"The song remains the same" but a lot has changed over the last 10 years. And at the same moment, what about all the things that indeed remained the same ... Like ... MUSIC !!!It was indeed 10 years ago - and before that time offcourse - that ...Read more
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The Ultimate Depeche Mode Tribute (2)
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Auteur: Nightporter
The British synth-pop masters Depeche Mode are among the bands that have been paid tribute to the most. This is yet another tribute album, among dozens of others. A first glance on the track list reveals some typing errors. This would be forgivable if it ...Read more
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The Virus Has Been Spread / A D-Trash Records Tribute To Atari Teenage Riot (8)
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Auteur: Ergo
At the beginning of the 1990's, Carl Crack, Hanin Elias and Alec Empire started the noise collective Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) in Berlin. The music they make they themselves describe as Digital Hardcore and can best be explained as a combination of noise, ...Read more
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The World of Gothic, Vol. 2 (6.5)
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Auteur: Joost
Although the title of this series is quite misleading since both albums contain mostly metal tracks the quality of the albums are good. The first CD contains tracks of well known bands like Crematory, Therion, Lacuna Coil, Umbra et Imago and ...Read more
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Thesis, Vol.1 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Thesis is the title of a compilation album from the Greek Impulsive Art label for electronic Music. Thesis is the second release for this label following the album of the Russian IP Neva. On this compilation you’ll find tracks from artists out of ...Read more
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This is industrial punk (8.3)
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Auteur: Pure_holocaust
Funny that this sampler ends up being reviewed at Gothtronic; the website is one tirade against goths and the DJ associated with Integration (the club behind this sampler) will guarantee that they will not play 80s goth or EBM. This CD is a manifesto ...Read more
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Till dawn do us part / 09 (7.8)
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Auteur: Septic Error
Dead By Dawn is a Belgian project, blowing a new wind through the dark scene of our small country. Not only do they organise parties and concerts: the collective is also publisher / compiler of a yearly sampler with the best of the Belgian scene. ...Read more
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Transmission Continued (8.5)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Transmission Continued is the follow up to the first Transmission CD that covered the 1981-1989 period. The goal of this series is to bring back the glory days of French new wave. This compilation has more emphasis on the late '80s and early '90s. ...Read more
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Transmission Nederlands (8)
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Auteur: Erik
Back in the good old 80’ies there sure was some good music in The Netherlands. Transmission Nederlands; 80-86 The Dutch Cold Wave is the proof. Economic recession, just like we have now, proved to be a fertile ground for indie musical activities. From...Read more
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Travel Sickness (10)
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Auteur: Niels
For those of you who don’t know Hymen records and what they’ve been up to, a very small introduction. What started out as a sub division of the highly respectable label Ant-zen quickly (willing or unwillingly) detached itself and began living its ...Read more
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Trisol Club Tracks 2004 (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Punto Omega is een nieuwe sensatie uit Latijns-Amerika op dark electro gebied in de stijl zoals we die kennen van met name Hocico. Welnu, dit genre heeft de laatste twee jaar een explosieve stijging van het aantal bandjes doorgemaakt, maar daarvan zijn ...Read more
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UMB - 10 Years Of Transmission (8)
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Auteur: Fabian
This 10 year label sampler of UMB (United Manipulation Broadcasting) you get for free with an order from the label. On this sampler you’ll find a 10 year overview of what this label has offered. Except for Kommando every act presents two tracks, so they...Read more
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Underground: Invasion & Friends 2K8 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Invasion Wreck Chords, the label run by the people of the industrial projects Ambassador 21 and Suicide Inside each year releases an Invasion & Friends compilation featuring a selection of tracks of artists from the rhythmic industrial, breakcore,...Read more
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United Vol 1 (6.5)
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Auteur: Beautevil
For people who are into the dark electro sound of NoiTekk this release is interesting enough to give it a chance. It’s good to hear that this label got a prominent role in the distribution of dark electro with act like Grendel (with the brilliant ...Read more
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United, vol.1 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This is the second Noitekk compilation. What can we expect on this sampler? No, just kidding. Of course it is stuffed full with dark electro tracks. The best tracks on this compilation are ‘Soilbleed’ by Grendel, ‘Stale’ by the yet unknown to ...Read more
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United, Vol.2 (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The second installment of the Noitek sampler United again presents a range of dark electro EBM artists from this label. The big disadvantage of these sort of specialised compilations is that because the featured bands all more or less move in the same...Read more
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Van Duytschen Bloet (7)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Eind 2003 verschijnt, na meer dan een jaar vertraging, dan toch eindelijk de DutchGothic compilatie ‘’Van Duytschen Bloet’’ met daarop een dwarsdoorsnede van nieuw en aanstormend talent uit de Nederlandse gothic, industrial en neofolk ...Read more
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We Are Gigolo - 12" Showcase No.7 (7.8)
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Auteur: Davitch
Terence Fixmer - Silence Control A EP [gigolo189 - r/date 13th March 2006]
In times were it's all minimal that makes the world go round and where the least powerfull tweak makes the crowd go wild, "Silence Control A" is a relief.
Powerfull...Read more
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We Are Gigolo [12 (8.5)
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Auteur: Davitch
International Deejay Gigolos is the Munich based record label ran by techno legend DJ Hell. Over the years it established the 'Gigolo' sound, an open and adventurous musical style that laughs in the face of convention, fusing raw acid-house with ...Read more
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Weatherhead 3 (6.5)
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Auteur: Joost
The military beat in the openings song of this third Weatherhead compilation are made by Akron.
The well performed dual rhythms of drum and melody make it an energetic start.
Straight on into the harder industrial beats with Stahlschlag, this band is
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Western Stars - The Bands That Built Bristol Vol. 1 (8.2)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Although released three decades after the climax of do-it-yourself creativity this compilation serves a clear purpose: bringing the post-punk era of Bristol back to life. Manchester has had enough attention over the last years, there is more to ...Read more
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We`re Punch Addicted (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The Punch Records label from
Italy
has managed to obtain a good standing in the world of post-industrial, vintage avantgarde and neofolk sounds in a relatively short time-span with releases of Novy Svet, O Paradis, Mushroom’s Patience, ...Read more
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Where is Neil when you need him? (7.5)
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Auteur: Eva
A world full of fantasy and symbolism mixed with reality; this is what Neil Gaiman stands for. Neil Gaiman translates his visions and inspiration to books and comics for adults as well as for the little kids among us. Who didn’t hear of the Sandman ...Read more
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Wieler Werkstaette (7.8)
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Auteur: Fabian
SkullLine is making a nice name for themselves with a big stream of releases venturing into the realms of industrial, noise, ambient and neofolk. They also have a knack for bizarre collectors editions, like the compilation ‘Minimal Baby’ which ...Read more
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Wilde Jaeger (8.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The dark ritual sounds of the folk music on the Wilde Jaeger compilation takes the listener on a trip to the mountain regions of area’s with a strong tradition and ancient folklore, such as Hungary, the Balkans, Southern Germany and Austria, Galicia...Read more
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WOA Full metal juke box vol 4. – preview 2008 (8.3)
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Auteur: Magdusia
The Wacken Open Air festival is popular beyond belief. In 2008 the festival was sold out twice in one year, for both the festival in that same year as for 2009. Just like last year, the bill for the new Wacken-edition features bands from the entire ...Read more
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Wrapped In The Guise Of My Friend (8)
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Auteur: Nightporter
Named after a line from the song "A girl called Harmony", Wrapped In The Guise Of My Friend is a tribute to the work of the British industrial/darkwave/electro/minimal goth/experimental band Attrition. With a discography that contains of more ...Read more
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X Rated - The Dark Files (9)
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Auteur: TekNoir
The X-Rated show on the alternative music station Kink FM has been a beaken for many years in the wild musical sea for those out there searching for deviant sounds, avantgarde, darkambient and industrial. On The Dark Files dedicated to the late Jhonn ...Read more
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XtraX clubtrax vol. 1 (6)
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Auteur: Eva
This is a compilation CD with several club tracks,
chosen by XtraX, the German underground fashion. There is something for everyone to enjoy as there are many different styles of songs to be found on this compilation.
Clubtrax vol. 1 is a ...Read more
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XtraX clubtrax vol.2 (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
X-tra-X has the second part in their compilation series of clubtracks out. This edition again is divided into two cd’s of which the first one offers mostly electronic music and the second one guitar centered music. The first cd only has clubtracks, ...Read more
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XtraX Clubtrax Vol.2 (8)
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Auteur: sx-base
In 2005 the first 'XtraX Clubtrax-compilation' occured. A mishmash of old and new songs from well-known gothic and electrobands, accompanied with an extra-cd full of interviews with some of these bands. Recently 'XtraX Clubtrax vol.2' was released, ...Read more
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Zyklus 2 (7.5)
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Auteur: Ergo
Steinklang Industries brings us another compilation album; this time entitled “Zyklus 2”. This is in fact a box with nine singles: this compilation album is the tenth release, with the best songs of the separate singles on one album.
The music ...Read more
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[F.E.V.E.R.] Electronics (6.5)
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Auteur: Davitch
[f.e.v.e.r.] electronics, a new release on the Portugese label, Thisco. [f.e.v.e.r.] has nothing to do with the warmth or the fever that goes out from this release, it is just the man who took care off the mastering. This compilation is a bit skimpy, ...Read more
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