Delirium

I haven't managed yet to find the Ocean Club CD I was looking for ("...but I will, I tell you, I will..." he rambled on pitifully). So, instead of a double post you'll settle with this.

At about the time Malaria! decided to quit, a remix compilation appeared; oldschool Berlin techno and trance by the main players of that era (see the cover below), for Tresor fans and the Love Parade crowd alike. There was also a 12''. I don't claim to know shit about the girls except 'Kaltes Klares Wasser', their obscure poetry (in German, that is), that they had people like Blixa, Anita Lane and Foetus as guests in their albums and that Gudrun Gut later got together with Thomas Fehlmann and made Monika Enterprise what it is, anyway.

Few words and a mixed Ocean Club CD here.

And yes, that's Herr Moritz down there, proto-BC style.


Malaria! - 1993 Delirium (Remixed-Remade-Remodelled)
Info here.

More GAS

I managed to gather the old 12"s from Wolfgang Voigt as GAS, in MP3 form. I was checking Discogs' sales for them and got rather angry; I ended up thinking it'd be a good idea to get them together in a post for those of us who will never have the money to spare to get the vinyls. Also included is an earlier post (now deleted) of a WV contribution in a project soon to be posted in full.

If you already know GAS you know what to expect; if you don't, it's about time you learn. Out in Profan, Mille Plateaux and Raster-Noton respectively.

Similar posts here and here. Once more, a big thanx to the original uploaders.


GAS - 1995 Modern 12''
Info here.


GAS - 1999 Oktember 12"
Info here.


Wolfgang Voigt - 1999, 20 Minuten Gas Im November
(20' to 2000.November)
Info here.

Three Ages

A(nother) weird experiment by Jeff Mills, tampering with 'Three Ages', a 1923 silent comedy by Buster Keaton (his first production) and Eddie Cline. The movie follows a simple yet sufficient theme. Keaton tries to win his beloved one from co-star Wallace Beery in three different timelines: in the Stone Age, classical Rome and the Modern Age (the '20s that is). The film besides being funny also gets quirky (in a good way), with all that jumping through the different eras and developing the stories in parallel; you have to like silent films, though.
The release included a CD with the OST and a DVD with a restored version of the original, a Mills interview and some thematic video remixes he did himself on certain film scenes, using a CDJ1000 as controller (there's also a 'making of' on that).

The music is rather typical Mills; techno and atmos, yet obviously less fierce or dark than most of his similar works (say, 'Metropolis'). For fans of hardcore techno it could even get indifferent at times, yet I understand that he willingly understated the weird and groovy percussive elements that make his tracks what they are, focusing more instead on creating a score, a soundtrack for the film, with themes and motifs and all. And the film is more or less comical, so the music is more or less non-industrial, even bright at times. On the other hand it's still Mills we're talking about, so there are good club trax; the Roman theme is definitely wonderful.

I wish you'd watch the film first, then come back to the CD, but connection problems are frequent lately here and I cannot post something so big yet. Hopefully in the near future there will be a repost, I'll let you know.

Jeff Mills - 2004 Three Ages OST
Info here.

Clicks & Cuts 4

Well, here is Part 4, a single CD this time. Leeched from the share net; credits to the original uploader. I just replaced the Twerk track with the proper one (see the discogs info and you'll understand). For further info on the series, check parts 1, 2 and 3.

VA - Clicks & Cuts 4 (2004)
Info here.
P.S. Link erased after label's request.

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

How can you go wrong with unkle Tim?

Summaries of his life's story can be found in various sites (start here; then see Wiki); I won't try an account of his deeds. It's just that I've began reading 'Death Plan' and I wonder a lot about him. Though a lot of (very powerful) people discredited, slandered, humiliated, judged, even imprisoned him and forced him to exile, he stayed as optimistic and open minded as very few of the (seemingly luckier) rest of us have ever been. He lost everything, yet managed to find happiness in life, to stay true to his principles and, by the way, to help many many people around the world through his books, his lectures, his professional work; most of all his example.

This is a recording of him speaking over an early '70s psych background of weird echo effects, tablas and sitar and all. Some may find it anachronistic, others just plain hippy shit. In the right set of mind though it's beyond interesting. It's intense.

"Where are you? Did you get lost on the trip?
Did you get trapped in memory? Did you forget?"

Dr.Timothy Leary -
1967 Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out OST
Info here.

Picked it up somewhere around, I've included the accompanying text. Credits to the unknown original poster(s).

This is from where PWOG took the 'Return To The Source' sample for 'Exit 23'.

Clicks & Cuts 3

Not much more to say; this is the third part of the Clicks & Cuts series by Mille Plateaux.
Check the previous two parts here and here.

I remember at that time I was a bit bored of the click scene, so I passed by. But a few years later I started revisiting many ghost-towns from the past, to put it lightly; so I started hunting down certain labels and artists, mostly used records in Discogs and eBay. It's not really difficult to find this one, even you care only about mint CDs. Well, it's here now.
So.. no comments. Since I've just got it, I'll listen to it with the rest of you.

VA - Clicks & Cuts 3 (2002)
Info here.
P.S. Links erased after label's request.

Mutant TG

You and I
You and I
You and I
United

Love Is The Law
Love Is The Law
Love Is The Law
United

Time will see us
Time will free us
Time will be us
We are everywhere

There is no why
There is no sky anymore
There is just us
United

Throbbing Gristle - 2004 Mutant TG
Info here.

P.S. All TG lovers check this page. Now. Thank you Roddus.