Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Veteran post metal band Neurosis's masterpiece, A Sun That Never Sets, is one of the darkest work of art one will ever hear. Each song has almost the same pace, but this does not take away from the experience, it makes the tracks flow into each other, creating an apocalypse in 60 minutes. Yet, some may not be able to discern one piece from the other, and if not listened to in the proper way, may take away from the experience, presenting the only flaw of this otherwise amazing album. The tracks may also sound similar, but each one has its own unique nightmare encompassed in the doom/sludge metal music and beautiful, yet filthy vocals.

Artist: Neurosis
Album: A Sun That Never Sets
Label: Relapse
Format: CD
Country: USA
Genre: Metal
Style: Post Metal, Sludge, Doom Metal, Fucking Awesome

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Henry Cow - Legend

Legend is the Astonishing debut from the English Progressive Avant Garde musicians, Henry Cow. This is Henry Cow's most accessible effort, and is probably the best place for newcomers to start.They drew on a whole range of influences, from rock to contemporary classical to free jazz and beyond. This is their jazziest album, a feeling reinforced by the twin saxes of Geoff Leigh. The album is surrounded by a sheer beauty, a very calm atmosphere with some little surprises that will keep you in the edge of your chair/bed. Every bar of music is crammed with ideas, nobody coasts and there is little superfluous material.This album is essential for any Avant Garde lover, or if you like Krautrock bands like Amon Duul, Can etc. this is definitely your cup of tea.

Artist: Henry Cow
Album: Legend
Label: East Side Digital
Format: CD
Country: UK
Genre: RIO/Avant-Garde Prog
Style: Free Jazz, Art Rock, Prog Rock

Henry Cow - Legend (Mediafire Link)

We're very sorry

We are sorry because we know that we've been absent for a while now, but we're back.
We've been very busy lately, Txusmx is studying a lot, and I've been working and developing ideas for my projects, I'm a photographer, so I guess that's our way to justify ourselves.

We are terribly sorry for those rapidshare links as well, our account was cancelled due to an acknowledgement of fraud, too many IP's downloading from the same account and we still don't know what really happened but we lost all the info: albums, books, videos, etc, all gone.
The mediafire account is still active, so by now we are going to work only with this service, we apologize to all the rapidshare users that visit us, truly.

Visual Break No.1

We have been uploading music for a while now, so I guess we need a more visual estimulation from that. This might be the first video uploaded from many to come.
We already uploaded a Nadja album, Desire in uneasiness, great great canadian band, originally formed in 2002 in Toronto as a solo project from Aidan Baker. Now a duo, this drone-doom-ambient band needs to be seen performing live... at the brainwaves festival.

Enjoy.

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Nadja at the brainwaves festival Part 2
Nadja at the brainwaves festival Part 3

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Nadja at the brainwaves festival Part 2
Nadja at the brainwaves festival Part 3

Maldoror - She

Maldoror is Merzbow and Mike Patton. As very well known experimental artists, both made a big effort for mixing their styles in this unique album, a very good album that somehow sounds like a more perturbed Akira Yamahoka and Kenji Siratori experience, sometimes very noisy, sometimes funny (Cartoon like), sometimes just like a horror movie with a lot of static.
For everyone who likes to go to bed listening to disturbing music with the lights off...

Artist: Maldoror
Album: She
Label: Ipecac
Format: CD
Country: US
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Noise
Notes: Recorded at Yellowknife Studios, Tokyo, 1997

Tracklisting:

1 Butterfly Kiss (0:30)
2 Twitch Of The Death Nerve (2:17)
3 Homunculus (3:52)
4 Boutique Of 7 Taboos (1:04)
5 Snuff (3:28)
6 Baby Powder On Peach Fuzz (3:37)
7 She (3:50)
8 Cherry Blossom Inferno (1:30)
9 The Conqueror Worm (2:03)
10 Bubble Bath And A Valium (0:44)
11 The White Tears Of The Maggot (2:36)
12 Chiffon Lingerie (2:18)
13 Lullaby (She Who Must Be Obeyed) (8:17)

Enjoy.

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira

This a unique and special album. The soundtrack for the Japanamation film Akira was commissioned to Geinoh Yamashirogumi, a vocal ensemble first organized in Japan in 1953. With this album, their classical/traditional/ experimental stylings were fused with modern electronics... and the results are quite impressive. Moreover, the album also incorporates quite a bit of a Balinese gamelan influence, thereby causing the merger of styles to become even more pronounced. For those interested in mergers of style, this album is essential.

The songs on the album cover the development of the Akira narrative, wherein the tragic hero, Tetsuo, is transformed into a diabolical monster by the use of mind-altering drugs and various previously latent powers, eventually to to destroyed out of necessity by his former allies. One need not be familiar with this narrative, however, to appreciate the music on the work.

Note: Please listen it, even when you don't like japanese animation.

Artist: Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Album: Akira Original Soundtrack
Label: Nektar
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Ambient
Notes: Composed and Conducted by Yamashiro Shoji

Sound Architect: Urata Keishi (EMU), Yamashiro Shoji

All Songs performed by Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Tracklisting:
1 Kaneda (3:10)
2 Battle Against Clown (3:36)
3 Winds Over The Neo-Tokyo (2:45)
4 Tetsuo (10:15)
5 Dolls Polyphony (2:53)
6 Shohmyoh (10:10)
7 Mutation (4:49)
8 Exodus From The Underground Fortress (3:17)
9 Illusion (13:56)
10 Requiem (14:27)

Enjoy

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira Part 2

NON - Children of the Black Sun

On the eighth full-length album under the guise NON, Boyd Rice has created something that falls on the border of beautiful and just plain scary. Children Of The Black Sun is as bleak as the title suggests. As frightening as most classic horror film soundtracks, NON produces a perfect audio underworld for horrific creatures like vampires, demons and ghouls. A more perfect soundtrack for Nosferatu could not be imagined.

Falling somewhere between David Lynch and Anne Rice, Children Of The Black Sun is a continuous mix of black noise. The failure to break between the seven tracks makes it even more unsettling because the listener never gains a moment of silence. It doesn't help as well, when he mixes in the sound of fires burning (envision hell) and angels singing on "The Fountain Of Fortune", as well as the voice of the creepiest man on earth on "Son Of The Sun".

Children Of The Black Sun is extremely unnerving to listen to in one sitting, but saying that just proves how effective the atmosphere Rice has created is.

Artist: NON
Album: Children of the Black Sun
Label: Mute U.S.
Format: LP
Country: USA
Released: August 20, 2002
Genre: Industrial
Style: Industrial, Noise, Dark Ambient, Neo Folk

Tracklist

1. Arka

2. Black Sun

3. Serpent Of The Heavens

4. Serpent Of The Abyss

5. The Underground Stream

6. The Fountain Of Fortune

7. Son Of The Sun

NON - Children of the Black Sun