Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Clara Mondshine - Luna Africana (1981) + Memorymetropolis (1982)



"Clara Mondshine" is the artistic name of a man,Walter Bachauer. Legendary German project signed on Klaus Schulze's Innovative communication. A great mixture between spaced out synthesized atmospheres, dark exoticism and avant garde. In the realm of the "Berlin school" and kraut-electro based artists(Conrad Schnitzler, Moebius, Michael Hoenig...)
He released these two wonderful albums!
Luna Africana
Memorymetropolis

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!


Cluster - Grosses Wasser (1979)


 Grosses Wasser is the seventh album by the electronic music outfit Cluster. It was co-produced by former Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann. Grosses Wasser marked the return to Cluster working as a duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius after two albums collaborating with Brian Eno.

Grosses Wasser was recorded and released in 1979 on the Hamburg, Germany based Sky label. It featured a wide variety of styles, including some of the most avant-garde material created by Moebius and Roedelius since the demise of Kluster with Conrad Schnitzler's departure in 1971, particularly during the middle section of the title track, which occupied all of side 2. Other tracks, including "Manchmal" and both the opening and closing sections of "Grosses Wasser" continued the gentle, melodic style of the previous three albums, while others echoed the rhythmic style of Zuckerzeit, albeit with more of an edge. Steven and Alan Freeman, writing in their book The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, describe the title track, in part, as "...a lengthy suite growing out of silence with atmospheric Florian Fricke-like sustained piano tones, via bizarre crackling electronics onto almost tribal-industrial rock percussives."

Here in WAV format for 100% quality!

Thursday, December 19, 2013

John Carpenter - The Fog (Silva screen-extended edition, flac format) - 1980



The Fog is a 1980 horror film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, and Janet Leigh. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps in over a small coastal town in California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there exactly 100 years earlier.
The Fog was Carpenter's first theatrical film after the success of his 1978 horror Halloween, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis. Though not as big a success as Halloween, the film received some good reviews and was also a commercial success. A remake of the film was made in 2005.
The soundtrack was written with a Moog modular IIIP comprising of 5-9 box units incl. double sequencer complement, an acoustic piano, and a prophet 5 rev.2 (for some of the fx).
Enjoy in flac format and in two parts: 
part 1 , part 2
 

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (Extended score, flac format) - 1976


Assault On Precinct 13 is a 1976 American action thriller film written, directed, scored and edited by John Carpenter. It stars Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against an attack by a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who helps him. Laurie Zimmer and Tony Burton co-star as other defenders of the precinct.

Writer/director Carpenter was approached by J. Stein Kaplan to make a low-budget exploitation film for under $100,000 but with total creative control. Carpenter wrote The Anderson Alamo, inspired by the Howard Hawks Western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead. Shot in winter of 1975, production went smoothly and finished on time and on budget. Despite controversy with the MPAA over the explicitly violent and infamous "ice cream" scene, the film received an R rating and opened in the United States on November 10, 1976.
The soundtrack was written by John Carpenter assisted by Dan Wyman, at Sound Arts studio in L.A. It was done with very old technology and completed in about three days. Most of the sounds came from a large Moog Modular synthesizer called "Series III Moog" or "Moog 55". There is also a track with an electric piano (maybe a fender rhodes).
Despite the huge influence it had on many electronic musicians around the world, the film's score remained available only in bootleg form until 2003 when it was given an official release through the French label, Record Makers.
Enjoy the extended version in flac format here!!




Tuesday, December 17, 2013

John Carpenter - Big Trouble In Little China (2cds limited edition) - 1986

   
Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American martial arts comedy film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancee (Suzee Pai) from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (James Hong).
This is the limited edition of 3000 copies of this amazing soundtrack by John Carpenter. There is heavy use of the prophet vs, prophet 5, Oberheim, Emu Emulator and Arp synthesizers. John Carpenter's music has influenced many electronic composers around the world including myself. Enjoy it!
Cd1 , Cd2

Monday, December 16, 2013

Harald Nies - Earthcreator (2010)

 
 

Harald Nies is an electronic composer from Germany. "Earth Creator" is one of his best albums. Catchy synthesizer-melodies gently accompanied by electric guitar solos with elements of 80s and 90s berlin school electronica. A very relaxing and enjoyable album!
Here

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Wolfgang Bock - Cycles (1980)


Wolfgang Bock comes from the environment of Klaus Schulze, and his 1980 debut ,"Cycles ", is heavily influenced by him. He is a German wizard of cosmic electronics in the direction of early experiments of the Berlin school. This album is full of beautiful sequencer-driven melodies made with the roland system 100 instrument and the mellotron and supported by real drums.
Get it. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Peru - Moon (1999)



Peru is an electronic music band from Netherlands consisting of  Jos Van Dungen, Peter Kommers, Rob Papen and Ruud van Es. They begun playing in 1978 and have 6 album releases.
The album "moon" is dedicated to man's questing spirit to explore the vast reaches of space. Among the most interesting things of this album are the sampled voice-overs from Mission Control, astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Pres. John F. Kennedy, which bridge the various pieces with dramatic, time-line credibility. "Moon" is a space-age musical narrative of the historic early days of Cape Kennedy.
Enjoy it in flac format (lossless in 3 parts)
part1 , part2, part3