post-punk/waves

ďie unbekannten

Rock/Punk

Sudeten Creche - Dance (UK - 1982)

Alias Alibi - With A Hotch Potch (Netherlands - 1983)

Novy Svet - Io E Te
Blak Saagan - Miliardi di Galassie
Franz Hospiz (Original soundtrack of MUTANT TAIMORI) - Sublimate - Mutilate
Wermut - Gracias Melchisedek
Daniel Kowalski (Bande originale du film CRACHE COEUR) - Fleur de pierre
Arctic Domain - The Thin Shouldered Man
European Stage - subterranean wait
Europ Europ - Mellowharsher
Last Man In Europe - a certain bridge
WWW - Stay Away
Philippe Laurent - Le carré blanc de Malevitch
Âme de boue & Andrea Lou Salomon - l'età dell'amore
Tral Neu - Ages And Eons
ALAN HARMAN - 748-87
Couteau Latex - decadanse
Allerseelen - nornar nagli
Aναστενάρια (music of the fire walkers) - 1
ARTIFECAL - I sell my blood
Archet Cassé - Ohrwurm
Xeno & Oaklander - Another
Human Puppets - She's Leaving
Martin Lloyd - half life
Negative Response - Citizen Europe
Aurat - Anderha
ANTHON SHIELD - girl
Alessandro Cortini - la via
TRUST- candy walls
Ame de boue - something human
John Maus - cop killer
ADN' Ckrystall - Not American
ANOTHER VIEW ''She Goes To Your Heart'' (1980)
ARTIFICIAL ORGANS - This & That
ABSCHAUM - Green Sand
Arvid Tuba -The Seasons Are Sitting On Chairs
AT LEAST IT HAS A STEADY RHYTHM #6
Beefcake ‎– Coincidentia Oppositorum
Antena - Achilles
Vlimmer - Rippenstiche
(AVENIR) - Blue Light
Armand Frigico - Ce Soir Dachau
Fatal Casualties - Punk Ghetto
Mala Herba - Wszystko Marność (Omnia Vanitas)
Doric - Never Ends
Human Puppets - Heartbeat
Akiraja - Wieder umsonst
Dramachine - Αστεροσκοπείο (Observatory)
Nova Guardia - Self
Al Ferox - DAF -Verschwende Deine Jugend- Al Ferox remix - Free DL

// THE FINAL SOUND ( AGES AND EONS - PART 1 AND 2 ) //

Band: Vital Vortex

http://spill-label.org/FastForward/ff02/ff02.shtml

Fast Forward 002

Vital Vortex - Mark On The Wall (Australia - 1980)

Die Unbekannten - Perfect Love

nightcore - vampires will never hurt you

Falling Down

I Wanna Be Your Dog Mephisto Walz

Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War

Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio War

Weapons of communication
Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean

Radio War

Die Unbekannten - Radio War (Germany - 1981)

My relationship with the church is a complicated one. It is a little unreal to me that an institution that saved my life when I was younger also worked very hard to end it. But that is the life of a Queer Christian. Or, at least, a Queer former Christian. 

The first place that I truly felt loved and valued was in my church growing up. We had a large Youth Group and they made me feel safe, secure, and loved in a way that I never felt outside of there. The adult leaders in that group supported me, they uplifted me, they gave me a sense of purpose and belonging that I just did not feel outside of those walls. 

But, while doing that, they also helped teach me to hate myself for who I am. And ultimately a large portion of that denomination hated people like me so much that it caused a schism. Fortunately I was long gone by that point. 

I started leading worship when I was in high school. I went on to spend 20 years leading music in the church, the last 15 of which I did vocationally. As far as music gigs go, while they don't pay particularly well, church gigs are great. If you’re on staff you’ve got really consistent hours and wages. You have a set schedule to work around, having regular availability for other gigs and regular jobs. Unfortunately you also get locked into a kind of life that involves regular surveillance of your personal life, especially if you’re Queer. In hindsight it is not a fair tradeoff. 

I wrote the music for this song on an acoustic guitar. It’s a simple progression. I did a few interesting things with it but there really isn’t much there. Interestingly after recording the song I ended up taking that original acoustic part out completely. It just didn’t end up working with the direction the song took. 

I wrote the lyrics in the shower. Sometimes your best thinking happens in the shower. I often get ideas while having borderline dangerously hot water wash over me. Usually that causes me to jump out of there quickly to start writing, but there are so few words that this one was completely finished before I even turned the water off. 

As for the guitar, this is pretty much the best I can do. I am not always pleased with my playing but I got this one exactly right. I was going for a combination of Jimmy Page on “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and Roy Buchanan. It was played on my heavily modified “Black Pearl” Telecaster, which is not an easy guitar to play but it may be the best sounding instrument I own. Every note is a struggle, but the effort is always worth it.

Chief Of Sinners

This is one from the archives, written and recorded in 2006, back in the Pepperhill Studio days with Chappy. Brian Wilson had a song by the same name, but while he wrote his 40 years before me, I released mine five years before him so I win, right?

I wrote this song after reading that, despite popular belief, Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was not responsible for the Great Chicago Fire. The story was completely fabricated by the media and was steeped in anti-Irish bigotry. 

There’s a saying, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” and that is something of a family motto for us. My father, in telling stories, will often say that he has an “enhanced memory.” He remembers things that never happened. It is more important for a story to be compelling than it is to be entirely factually accurate.

Of course it is one thing to embellish your own past to make things sound a little more interesting than they actually were, it is quite another to make something up out of whole cloth to smear a community and ruin a family. That got me thinking about how the media works, and I wrote this song from there. 

As for the music, this was an early attempt at me writing in multiple meters. The verses are mostly 4/4, with an eighth note dropped occasionally. The chorus is mostly in 11/8 with an eighth note added occasionally. Of course when I wrote it I didn’t know that. I was just messing around. I hadn’t really figured out how to intentionally think in odd meters. That’s what I had Chappy for. I would write a part and then have him tell me how to count it. I can’t stress enough the importance of working with a really good drummer. 

Nearly 20 years later I am much more intentional about the process. But then again I ought to be after all these years.

Die Unbekannten - Radio War (Germany - 1981)

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