Bush Tetras - Boom in the Night

Twenty years after they were recorded, this release compiles the Tetras studio recording from 1980 to 1983. Everything from previously posted Rituals & much more.

Year of Release: 2003
Label: ROIR (Reachout International Records) RUSLP 8218
Genre: No-Wave Dance

Tracklist:
Side 1 -
Cowboys in Africa
Things that Go Boom in the Night
You Can't Be Funky
Snakes Crawl
Rituals
Moonlite
Das ah Riot
Side 2 -
You Taste Like the Tropics
Too Many Creeps
Dum Dum
Stand Up & Fight
Who's Gonna Pay
It's so Weird
Funky (Instrumental)

Download: Bush Tetras - Boom in the Night
Download Size: 113MB (ripped at 320Kbps)

Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony LP

I couldn't help but to love this album the first time I listened to it. It happens to be a concept album about my favorite horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. In order to truly appreciate this album, it helps to know a little bit about the man himself. The majority of Lovecraft's short stories were published in Weird Tales, and other pulp magazines, during the early 1900's. He did not achieve the fame and recognition he truly deserved during his lifetime. After his death, a group of people that corresponded with Lovecraft through letters, started up a publishing company (Arkham House) in order to print volumes of his short stories. They were able to recognize the genius behind Lovecraft's work, and wanted to ensure that it did not fade away over time. I would consider his stories to be a mixture of horror, science fiction, and even a bit of philosophy, or as some people prefer to call it 'Cosmic Horror'. So if you're a fan of the weird, as I know you all must be since you visit this blog, be sure to pick up a volume of his stories one day, or check out this website which has collected the majority of his stories in one convenient place: Dagonbytes H.P. Lovecraft Library My personal favorites would have to be The The Shadow out of Time, The Colour Out of Space, and At the Mountains of Madness, and I think those stories would be a good starting point for anyone who is unfamiliar with his work. Since this is a music blog, and not a literature blog, I'll try to get back on track now. I just wanted to recommend a writer who I have a tremendous amount of appreciation for.

As for the music itself... All of the songs on this album pay homage to Lovecraft himself, or his literature. I think this album does a fantastic job of bringing the atmosphere of a Lovecraft tale to life in the form of music, and I can't help but wonder if this is similar to the type of music he had in mind when he wrote The Music of Erich Zann. Each song on this album is unique from the next. At times the music is slow and gloomy with cult-like chants, and at others it is hard and fast with borderline-psychotic lyrics and screams. With 30 tracks, it's a rather lengthy album, but the music is captivating from beginning to end. Although Rudimentary Peni were known as a punk rock band, this album completely transcends the punk genre, and should stand on it's own as an amazing concept album. (Year of Release: 1988)

If anyone can find an image (at least 300x300 in size) of the original cover (Outer Himalayan label) for this album, with the music of Erich Zann cover art, I would greatly appreciate it.

Edit: Thanks go out to NØ aka NathanNothin' for providing a good quality scan of the album cover art for this

Year of Release: 1987
Label: Outer Himilayan
Genres: Anarcho-Punk, Deathrock
Bitrate: 256 kbps


Track List:
1. Nightgaunts
2. The Horrors In The Museum
3. The Only Child
4. Architectonic And Dominant
5. The Evil Clergyman
6. Brown Jenkin
7. Crazed Couplet
8. Sarcophagus
9. Lovecraft Baby
10. Dream City
11. C12 H22 O11
12. Zenophobia
13. Sunset For The Lords Of Venus
14. Beyond The Tanarian Hills
15. Imps Of The Perverse
16. The Dead Loved
17. Periwig Power
18. Kappa Alpha Tau
19. American Anglophile In The World
20. Memento Mori
21. Better Not Born
22. Arkham Hearse
23. The Old Man Is Not So Terribly Misanthropic
24. Gentlemen Prefer Blood
25. Sonia
26. The Day The Universe Ceased
27. The Crime Of The Century
28. Musick In Diabola
29. Shard
30. Black On Gold

Download: Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony LP
Download Size:72.1MB

Chris & Cosey - Exotika

Since Sab started guesting here & Zer0 has interweb again, I have felt a great burden lifted from my shoulders (said with tongue firmly planted in cheek). Now the only pressure on me is my own self-imposed ‘A to Z’ shite. Well, I posted up a couple things that came to mind from one of Sab’s posts & before I get back on the letter trail, here are a couple for ALTCERF who was nice enough to comment on the last Chris & Cosey entry. Then I might post another Bush Tetras slab before going to ‘O’, because the last one has been getting hit hard & not one comment, so...

This one was recorded at Studio 47, Norfolk, England, U.K. It features Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti, of course. The album states, “SOME SOUNDS ON THIS ALBUM ARE AT A SUBCONSCIOUS LEVEL”.

Year of Release: 1987
Label: Play It Again Sam (Belgium) BIAS 69
Genre: EBM, Synth-pop,

Tracklist:
Side A -
Confession
Arcade
Exotika
Side B -
Vengeance
Dancing on Your Grave
BeatBeatBeat
Dr. John (Sleeping Stephen)

Download: Chris & Cosey - Exotika
Download Size: 94.5MB (ripped at 320Kbps)

Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat

Performing on Heartbeat: Chris Carter - vocals, guitar, synthesizers, keyboards & electronic drums; Cosey Fanni Tutti - synthesizers, keyboards, cornet & tape; Alex Ferguson - vocals & guitar (“Useless Information”); Mick Garoghan - vocals (“Useless Information”). Recorded July-August 1981. Over-dubbed & mixed at Meridian Studios, London.

Year of Release:1981
Label: Rough Trade (UK) ROUGH 34
Genre: Synth-pop

Tracklist:
Side A -
Put Yourself in Los Angeles
This is Me
Voodoo
Moorby
Radio Void
Just Like You
Side B -
Bust Stop
Useless Information
Moving Still
Manic Melody
Heartbeat

Download: Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat
Download Size: 92.5MB (ripped at 320Kbps)

Hedningarna - Fire (1996)

Hedningarna is a Swedish and, for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music. Their music features Yoik or juoiggus, a traditional Sami form of song.
Hållbus Totte Mattson, Anders Stake and Björn Tollin formed Hedningarna in 1987. Hedning is Swedish for heathen, while arna is the plural definite article. Their music studies the roots of the Old Norse culture, including the use of ancient instruments not much used in current Swedish folk music (fiddles, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, etc.). Stake, a trained luthier, also began to invent and build new instruments, to produce new sounds.


Tracklist:
01. Aivoton
02. Tina Vieri
03. Gorrlaus
04. Vargtimmen
05. Joupolle Joutunut
06. Min Skog
07. Kruspolska
08. Tuuli
09. Grodan - Widergrenen
10. Räven

Download: Hedningarna - Fire (1996)
Download Size: 41.11 MB (128Kbps)

Deutsch Nepal - Tolerance--How The Servant Utilized his Masters (1994)

Tolerance is the third full length album that Lina der Baby Doll General (co-founder with Roger Karmanik of the label Cold Meat Industry) issues under the name Deutsch Nepal. This solo project belongs to the generation of  sound constructivists of the early ´90, though faithfull to the ´80 industrial music. Under the name DN, he colaborated with In Slaughter Natives and the Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud (der Blutharsch). In addition to his work as DN, General continues to be involved with a separate solo project, Frozen Faces, under whose name he released the album Broken Sounds of a Dying Culture.

Tracklist:
1. Horse give birth to flies
2. Tolerance 1
3. Manual to utilization
4. Tolerance 2
5. The eagel gift
6. Tolerance 3
7. Nonexistance
8. Tolerance 4
9. Chip chop
10. End of tolerance

Download: Deutsch Nepal - Tolerance--How The Servant Utilized his Masters (1994)

Download Size: 56.1 MB

VA - Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 2

Following the success of the first Sitar Beat compilation CD, a collection of Indian and Indian-inspried European funky selections from the 60s and 70s, the crew knew they had to come deep for the sequel. So for Volume 2, they go straight to heart of India with some of the rarest, and best tracks recorded between the years of 1970 and 1984. Nearly all of these tracks are appearing on CD for the first time. Sixteen tracks of rare and funky Indian flavor, blending heavy beats with the sounds of the sitar and the inimitable vocal sounds of beloved Indian singers such as the ubiquitous Asha Bhosle and producers/songwriters like Kalyanji Ananji and R. D. Burman. Most of the tracks are culled from Bollywood sound tracks from the 70s and early 80s. Enormously popular, often wild and packed with action and romance, these films put the intense music of star composers like Burman and Kalyanji & Anandji at the forefront. The strange, psychedelic sounds possess their own cultural mish-mash of flavors combining traditional Indian instrumentation and melodies with film music s intensity, and incorporating styles from American/Western music from about 5 years or so behind the trend. Funk, psychedelic rock, disco and proto-electro jump out from the grooves of Sitar Beat Volume 2 and hit you harder than a mouth full of spicy masala. This is soul from the Sub-continent at it's best.

Track List:
1. Babla And His Orchestra - The Witness
2. Kalyanji Anandji Ft. Asha Bhosle - Awara Sadiyon Se
3. S.D. Narang - Everybody Dance With Me
4. Kalyanji Anandji Ft. Lata Mangeshkar And Mohd Rafi -
Wada Karle Sajna
5. Kalyanji Anandji Ft. Asha Bhosle - Nigahon Ka Adaon
Ka
6. R.D. Burman - Freak Out Music
7. Laxmikant Pyarelal - Dushmun Title Music
8. Kalyanji Anandji Ft. Lata Mangeshkar - Pyar Zindagi
Hai
9. Usha Khanna - Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahin
10. Hemant Bhosle Ft. Asha Bhosle - Phir Teri Yaad
11. Ajit Singh Ft. Asha Bhosle - Main Akeli Raat Jawan
12. Laxmikant Pyarelal Ft. Amit Kumar And Shailendra
Singh - Bekaraar Bekaraar Bekaraar Kiya
13. R.D. Burman Ft. Asha Bhosle - Aaj Mera Dil
14. Laxmikant Pyarelal Ft. Mohd Rafi And Chorus - Dard E
Dil
15. Keith Kanga - Butterfly (Version Two)
16. Kalyanji Anandji ft. Amit Kumar, Kanchan and Chorus -
Laila O Laila

Download: Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 2
Download Size: 93MB

La Monte Young - The 'Black Record'

Here is a great companion piece to the recent Outside or Inside (the Dream Syndicate) posts.

The Black Record is actually entitled 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM Munich from Map of 49's Dream: The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery; 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM the Volga Delta from Studies in The Bowed Disc. It is called more simply the Black Record after the album artwork done by La Monte’s wife Marian Zazeela.

La Monte Young is one of the founding members of the genre of musick called Minimalism (a term which he despises). He is one of the greatest innovators of 20th century composition. His influence is everywhere in the world of modern musick. Unfortunately he is for the most part unheard & unknown outside a small circle of musickians & musick lovers.

Young & Zazeela recorded their first full length album in Munich for Heiner Friedrich's Edition X label. Released as a limited edition of 2000, the first 98 were signed & dated by the artists. Side one is a section of “Map of 49's Dream”, performed by Young with sinewave drone & voice, with vocal accompaniment by Zazeela. Side two is an extract from “Study for the Bowed Disc” featuring the duo bowing a gong given to them by sculptor Robert Morris. Morris had made it for his dance piece “War” & asked Young to play it for the performance. Afterwards Morris presented the gong to Young, who began experimenting on it with double bass bows. Young recommended the listener turn the musick up (PLAY FUCKING LOUD), the resulting low drone being a spiritual tool. For the album artwork, Marian Zazeela embedded her calligraphic lettering & designs in black. The point is to focus on her artwork while concentrating on the vocal/sinewave drones of Young's dream music.

Year of Release: 1969
Label: Edition X
Genre: Avant-garde Minimalist

Tracklist:
Side 1 -
31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM Munich from Map of 49‘s Dream: The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery
Side 2 -
23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM the Volga Delta from Studies in the Bowed Disc

Download: La Monte Young - Black Record
Download Size: 99MB at 320Kbps

VA - Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 1

The Sitar Beat series was built with the DJ in mind - collecting some of the wildest, heaviest and most psychedelic Indian Funk recorded and presenting it loud on wax, ready for the turntable. Now, due to popular demand, we’re collecting the heaviest cuts from this vinyl series and presenting them on a limited edition CD. The first four volumes were lessons in just how ahead of their time India’s Bollywood composers were in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. They dug into Indian deep funk and psycho-psychedelic masterpieces recorded for the Bollywood film industry. Alongside full length killers like the funkiest track from the rare “Qurbani” soundtrack, there were Bollywood funk fiestas by acclaimed composers such as Kalanji Ananji and R.D. Burman, with extended breakbeats and re-edits that upped the funk to the boiling point. Together with Ravi’s nephew Ananda Shankhar’s instrumental Sitar freak outs were diva Asha Boshle’s soulful wailings. Culling its music from rare vinyl and utilizing tasteful restoration and remastering, Sitar Beat was the first time that many of these songs are heard by the record-buying public - at least in this form. Edits remove any bobbing and weaving, leaving funk that only flies straight ahead!

Track List:
1. Klaus Doldinger - Sitar Beat
2. Klaus Doldinger - Sitar (Bonus) Beats
3. Kalyanji Anandji - Dharmatma Theme Music (Tommys Edit)
4. Sapan Jagmohan - Meri Aakhon Mein (Edit)
5. Asha Boshle w/ R.D. Burman - Dum Maro Dum Live (Edit)
6. Serge Gainsbourg - New Delire
7. Serge Gainsbourg w/ Michel Colombier - Pyschastenie (Miles Drum Edit)
8. Ananda Shankar - Dancing Drums
9. R.D. Burman - Rocky Bonus Beats
10. R.D. Burman w/ Asha Boshle & Kishore Kumore - Aa Dekhen Jara (Edit)
11. Raghunath Seth - Orchestral Music (Edit)
12. Kalyanji Anandji - Somebody To Love (Edit)
13. Kalyanji Anandji - Bairaag Dance Music (Edit)
14. Kalyanji Anandji - Banarasi Babu Beats
15. Usha Khanna - Hotel Incidental Music (Edit)
16. Kalyanji Anandji - Theme From Don
17. Annu Malik w/ Asha Bhosle & Chorus - Sun O Dilruba Dil Ki Yeh Sada (Edit)
18. R.D Burman - The Burning Train (Kous Edit)
19. Biddu - Qurbani Bonus Beats
20. Biddu w/ Manhar & Anand - Hum Tumhe Chate Hain (Edit)
21. Ananda Shankar - Sa Re Ga (Edit)

Download: Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 1
Download Size: 100MB

I'm Back

I am happy to be able to report to you all that I finally have internet access at my home, and I will begin posting again shortly. I would like to thank the rest of the Digital Meltd0wn crew for keeping the blog up and running during my absence, especially Nathan Nothin' who shouldered the majority of the load by providing you all with regular updates. I probably would have decided to retire DM had it not been for his help.It seems like I have been gone for such a long time. I won't have much free time on my hands for a long time to come, but I will try to at least post a couple of times a week if not more. Hopefully Nathan Nothin' and Sabina will continue to stick around and help out on a regular basis, which would ensure that Digital Meltd0wn ccan stay regularly updated. I plan to reupload several albums that have dead download links before I post any new content, but you can enjoy fresh content from the rest of the crew in the meantime. It's great to be back, and I hope you all enjoy what I have in store for the future.

- Zer0_II

Der Blutharsch - Der Sieg des Lichtes ist der Lebens Heil! (1998)

Albin Julius's Der Blutharsch started as a side project to The Moon lay beneath a Cloud, around '96. The soundscape evolves from industrial to a drone dark ambient, with strong historical references via sound decollage and the use of military-related themes and aesthetics. Despite all appearances, this music has nothing in common with fascism (but the sound imagery of the era in discussion, as a reminder of the absurdity of the "human").

Year of release: 1998

Label: WKN

Genre: martial industrial / dark ambient

Tracklist:

I - XVI

Download: Der Blutharsch - Der Sieg des Lichtes ist der Lebens Heil!
Download Size: 90.5 MB (ripped 192kbps)

The Dream Syndicate - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara

Thought this might be a nice companion piece to Sab’s first post. "Day of Niagara" was recorded in New York City on April 25,1965. It features: La Monte Young - vocals; Marian Zazeela - vocals; John Cale - viola; Tony Conrad - violin; & Angus MacLise - percussion.

Year of Release: 2000
Label: Table Of The Elements W 74
Genre: Experimental, Minimal

Tracklist:
Day Of Niagara

Download: The Dream Syndicate - Inside the Dream Syndicate Vol. 1: Day of Niagara
Download Size: 70.8MB

Faust and Tony Conrad - Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973)

Outside the Dream Syndicate is the only collaboration of Faust and Tony Conrad. It is considered to be Conrad's first proper recording, a three-day session recorded in 1973 at the Faust's farm in the northern German community of Wuemme.

The Dream Syndicate (also known as The Theater of Eternal Music) was an improvisational group active in the 60s, featuring avant-garde artists La Monte Young, his wife Marian Zazeela (on vocals), Billy Name (on guitar, better known from Warhol's Factory), Angus MacLise (on percussion), and later on, John Cale and Tony Conrad. In parallel with John Cage's performances and Fluxus sound experiments and 'events', the group was known for elaborate performances. They would sustain notes for hours at a time, introducing a lack of compositional theme (known as Eternal Music). The group disbanded in 1965.

Tony Conrad: I basically said, "Keep an even beat going throughout the whole thing", which is almost impossible. When I worked with Faust, I told the bass player this, but they didn't believe me.

Collaborating with Faust core members (Jean Herve Peron's rippingly metallic bass and Zappi Diermaier's stoically thunderous drums), Conrad added his shrill and ever-changing 'eternal music' violin ruminations. The result, an exact middle point between krautrock and early drone, could only be mind blowing.

Year of Release: 1973 / 2002 (remastered 30th Anniversary Edition)
Label: Table of the Contents (US)
Genre: krautrock / drone / experimental

Tracklist:
Cd 1:

From the Side of Man and Womankind (27:16)

From the Side of the Machine (26:20)

Cd 2 (30th Annivaersary Edition):
The Pyre of Angus Lies in Kathmandu (3:38)
The Death of the Composer Was in 1962 (3:16)
From the Side of Man and Womankind (Complete, 31:10)

Download: part 1, part 2, part 3

Download Size: 209 MB (ripped at 320kbps)

Guest Blogger: Sab

Hello hello! So i guess i am a little new in this here landscape... Zer0 asked to walk around a little bit, so here i am! I don't really know how to make a proper introduction... I invited myself here, so that means I will be  sharing with you guys most of the things I love to tickle my ears and eyes with. Hope you'll enjoy at least some of them and, of course, any suggestion is most welcome!
Sab

Wiseblood-Dirtdish

Under the alias Clint Ruin, J. G. Thirlwell, the man behind such projects as Foetus, Manorexia, and Steroid Maximus collaborated the Swans' Roli Mosimann to form Wiseblood. Released in 1987, Dirtdish combines the demented big band sound familiar to fans of Foetus with grinding, heavy percussion.

Track List

1. Prime Gonzola
2. 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells)
3. Stumbo
4. Someone Drowned In My Pool
5. Godbrain
6. The Fudge Punch
7. Motorslug
8. Stumbo (12" Version)
9. Death Rape 2000
10. Someone Drowned In My Pool (12" Version)

Download: Wiseblood-Dirtdish
Download Size: 64.31 MB

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis 12" ep

What do I need to say about this. You know the band...you know the songs. This is an import four-song 12“ ep on the Kamera label out of France. These versions (different from the New York Dolls self-titled first album recorded at Record Plant, NYC) were recorded October 1972 at Escape Studious, Smarden, Kent, U.K.

Year of Release: 1982
Label: Kamera Records ERA 013-12
Genre: Glam

Tracklist:
Side One -
Personality Crisis
Looking For A Kiss
Side Two -
Subway Train
Bad Girl

Download: New York Dolls - Personality Crisis 12“ ep
Download Size: 35.8MB (ripped from vinyl at 320Kbps)

Les Maitres - self-titled cassette

Les Maitres is a French post-punk coldwave band that was active in the early 80s. They have only one release, their self-titled cassette from 1983. A handful of their songs also appeared on numerous compilations as recently as 2006.

Coldwave is a French & Belgian post-punk musick. Early French punk groups like Stinky Toys & Métal Urbain were forerunners to the scene. As the scene grew, it took increasing influence from post-punk, disco, & industrial music. I believe coldwave to contain elements of the icy, luminous, electro art rock of artists like Ultravox, Gary Numan, Bill Nelson, Dalek I, Tuxedomoon, Nash the Slash, & others from the late 70s/early 80s.

Comes with insert with the text of “Justine Ou Les Malheurs De La Vertu” by De Sade. Songs “Théatre”, “I Don't Care”, & “Descente Aux Enfers” are demo tracks. “Le Curé", “Souvenir", “L’Entendez-Vous? (2)", & “Le Diable" were recorded live at Art Beton 12 Feb. 83. “L’Entendez-Vous" (a different version than [2]) was recorded live at Pali Kao 21May 83.

Year of Release: 1983
Label: V.I.S.A. Androidia Flux #002
Genre: Coldwave, post-punk

Tracklist:
Side A -
Intro
Le Curé
Théatre
I Don't Care
L'Entendez-Vous?
Side B -
Souvenir
Descente Aux Enfers
L'Entendez-Vous? (2)
Le Diable

Download: Les Maitres - Les Maitres cassette
Download Size: 93.5MB (ripped at 320Kbps from audio cassette)