Bush Tetras - Boom in the Night (2003 - 320kbps)

Twenty years after they were recorded, this release compiles the Tetras studio recording from 1980 to 1983. Everything from the Bush Tetras' Rituals EP, & much more. You can download a vinyl rip of the Rituals 12" EP in 320kbps MP3 here: http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com/2009/10/bush-tetras-rituals-12-ep.html

Year of Release: 2003
Label: ROIR (Reachout International Records)
Catalog #:RUSLP 8218
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320kbps
Genre: No Wave, Post-Punk, Funk

Tracklist:

A Side:
A1. - Cowboys in Africa
A2. - Things that Go Boom in the Night
A3. - You Can't Be Funky
A4. - Snakes Crawl
A5. - Rituals
A6. - Moonlite
A7. - Das ah Riot

B Side:
B1. - You Taste Like the Tropics
B2. - Too Many Creeps
B3. - Dum Dum
B4. - Stand Up & Fight
B5. - Who's Gonna Pay
B6. - It's so Weird
B7. - Funky (Instrumental)

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

Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony LP

 

 

This was Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony.

 

We had it surgically removed.

 

If ya wanna know why, read the comments below.

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

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)

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