"Hypnotic and Electrifying"
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"If you still don't understand...Read my Lips."
One too many good songs contained in this pro-
duction from 1985.

The intro of "Love of a Lifetime" is electeri- fying and very slow techno. As well as the single and extended versions of "Can't believe is Over."

Melba Moore put her heart and soul on each song.
Her version of "Dreams" from Fleetwood Mac is very refreshing. "Winner" and "King of my Heart" are two very danceable tunes included.

In a few words "Read my Lips" is to be enjoyed from begining to end. This expanded and remastered edition surpass the quality of the other double album.

Previously released by the same label. Where songs were chopped perhaps to have enough playing time for two albums. Although the sound quality is outstanding!

So if you "Can't believe is over" play this CD
again and again.
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A magnificent album in which the art of turtablelism and the powerfull sound of the double bass intertwine beautifully to produce some of the best tracks I have heard in a while. The skills are incredible and the result hypnotic. Some tracks will be a bit surprising and you may dislike them at first but with a few listenings one learns to appreciate the music for the talent and genious involved and then the music sounds completly different. Start with track 2,3,7,11 and 22 and then work your way to the others. It is an album you never get tired of listening to for its is filled with things that you discover each time over and over again, detecting sounds and skills. I never fail to be amaised at some of the scratching or sampling and most of all by the incredible sneaky.
Buy it!!! its incredible
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Hypnotic, minimal, and more than a little menacing.  Four tracks, in the vein of Rich, Roach, Lustmord, Aerial Service Area, and Nurse With Wound's "Soliliquy For Lillith".  Endlessly fascinating and engaging.  Forget the drug references, and the references to the occult...as you'd expect with Coil, the music stands on its own, and even by their lofty standards, this is an absolute classic.

If you're a fan of Coil, or any of the previously mentioned artists, you simply have to own this.
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One only has to listen to this new PvD album to fully understand the magic and energy of uplifting vocal trance!

The CD starts very subtly and beautifully with "Haunted", building with "White Lies", each track from there getting more and more energetic. As each new track starts to play, it is mind blowing how it manages to take one higher to each new level of tranceful bliss.

This is a highly recommended album for all trance / dance fans, and a worthy successor to "Reflections".

Merci a vous, PvD.
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Yeah, so I've been doing somewhat of a historical journey into trance lately. I started listening to electronic music in 2000, so I missed out on a lot of the stuff from the mid-1990s. After listening to parts of the tracks on this album, I decided to purchase tracks 1, 3, and 5. Excellent and mesmerizing.
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This is a special record.
Taken at face value, I don't think that everyone will say that this stuff on first listen is "great" or "incredible" music or anything like that.  It is basically the  same scale over and over again, unfolding in a seemingly random, very slow  way.  However, this is really one of the most successful and truly ambient  things I have ever heard.  In a way, I imagine that this lives up to Brian  Eno's entire concept of what ambient music is about. Two examples of how  this record is should be listened to (one involves a short story):
1.  Put it on and turn the volume down as low as possible (just barely  audible), put the cd player on repeat and lay down (try to sleep, read,  etc.).  This is most effective if you let it run for several hours (or  days).  I really think that this is what Eno intended.
2.  A couple of  years ago I went on a camping trip in a part of extremely rural  Southeastern Ohio (Vinton County).  On that occasion, I brought a  radio  (which I don't often do) and at around 3:00 (I imagine, since I don't  usually bring a watch with me), I tuned in the only station I could get:  some public  or college radio station from West Virginia.  For an hour I  heard the same simple tones over and over, broadcast in a seemingly random,  but wholly intentional way.  I cannot express the literally overwhelming  impact of what I heard as it mixed with the frogs, insects, and whatever  else made that night so loud.  Pure beauty.  As much as any great band on  stage, that music on that night drove me to feel something utterly and  completely beyond me.  I, of course, had to wait for about an hour to hear  what it was - Brian Eno's "Neroli". It was awesome (in the real  sense of the word) and creepy and comforting and organic and so  unbelievably right under that sky that this simple music is still one of  the most important musical documents I own.
Most of Eno's work is  visionary and important, but for me (a huge Eno and ambient fan), this  record really codifies what all of the talk is about (the best part of the  experience was that I had no idea that what I was hearing was Brian Eno or  even a real radio station).
That's why this is a special record.  It  needs to be incorporated into your life to be effective and meaningful.  Without meeting it halfway, it is necessarily meaningless, like everything  else.
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Not sure just how to describe Terence McKenna's (1946-2000) profession. Maybe a spiritual guru, possibly [?] LSD enthusiast. Either way, this one-track CD release of his serves as a psychedelic innovation for those who enjoy such. Title cut's "Dream Matrix Telemetry' running time of 53:51 is sort of like tripping without the use of narcotics. Zuvuya aides McKenna in the making of this memorable piece of music. They have a song "Goat Faced Girl" on the Delerium sampler 'Pick And Mix' 2-CD. Fans of the late Timothy Leary should get a lot out of this import CD. A must-have.
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Truly an incredible departure form the popular music world.  This cd grows on you in an almost mysterious fashion.  It is one the the best cd's I have ever expeienced...  it has an almost trance-like and surreal angelic quality that oozes from the tracks within......
Highly reccomened !
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I've not heard anything quite like this.  Electronics are heavily mixed in with the varied instrumentation.  Some sort of psychedelic electronic aural orgasm.  The whole thing is overall wonderfully bizarre and unique.  It's a shame nobody knows about Whales & Cops, this is way too unique--and good--to fall by the musical wayside.  I'm desperately hoping we see more of their output.
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Pantha du Prince aka Hendrik Weber is a red hot German producer who has specialized in ambient house music over a number of albums including his previous work 2007s "This Bliss" which accurately described itself. His moniker is drawn from a mix of Detroit techno and the black panthers and the music is crystalline electronic music for the new century full of shimmering, bell-like tones strung out and stretched against a backdrop of gentle micro-beats.

This is Weber's first release on Rough Trade and I first heard him on the extraordinary 12 inch single "Splendour". Think David Bowie's stunningly fragile "Moss Garden" off "Heroes" and set it in the Swiss Alps in Winter and that is the effect. It bubbles with chimes and beats and reminds you of falling snow. This album has you grasping for superlatives. The nearly seven minute long "Es schneit" is a particular highlight building on a slow wall of synths and a spare drum like motif it is an intensely powerful track and strangely beautiful. "Turn off you mind relax and float down stream" as someone once advised.

And yes of course you knew somewhere in this mix you would find the Animal Collective. "Stick by my Side" features a guest spot from Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) whose vocal accompanies a stunning song set to beats that have a Fever Ray style pulsing crispness in the instrumentation and clearly it is the most commercial song on the album. If this is the new direction for Animal Collective then its intriguing.

This is a very long album but all it requires is your rapt attention. The slow drift of those beautiful chimes in the opener "Lay in a shimmer" make you understand the powerful effect that Weber's relocation to the Swiss Alps to record this ambient monster must have had (he was taking "field recordings" - as you do!). It becomes such a dizzying but controlled noise (in the best sense) that at one point it is almost overwhelming. Alternatively in the "Nomads Retreat" we have a hard house number which will be mixed into oblivion on the web, it will soundtrack the sun going down in Ibiza this year and is another massive highlight. "Beneath the stars" with its dark vocal is even more trippy and at times sounds like Massive Attack. Finally "Satellite Snyper" is as funky and club bound as ambient music can get and is fully danceable.

Like Four Tet's excellent recent album "There is love in you" this album by Pantha du Prince proves that the simple power of sound is truly a force of nature. Black Noise could suggest something ugly and hard. In fact it is a recording of clarity and brightness. It is as beautiful and glacial as the lake on the album cover
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"Treasure" was the first CT album I ever owned, and it was so incredible that I leapt for joy upon hearing that they had released a new one; "Victorialand". It did not disappoint! Minus the sometimes  overwhelming drum machines of "Treasure", this recording is a  flowing, ethereal voyage into a peaceful cloudland of fantasy, albeit with  some disturbing moments ("Throughout the Dark Months...") and  mournful ones ("The Thinner the Air"). My favorites are  "Lazy Calm" (a slow, pastel dreamscape), "Fluffy Tufts"  (a hypnotic,luscious groove), "Whales Tales" (approprately,  sounds like an underwater fantasia), and "Oomingmak" (a playful  trance dance). I especially love the "oooh haah" parts of  "Tufts" and "Tales"; better than a Jacuzzi! Elizabeth  Fraser's vocals are so astonishingly pure and lush, I could not care less  about understanding the lyrics; my total enchantment takes over. Indeed, CT  taught me how to listen to vocals instead of words, which helped me later  to appreciate foreign language angels like Maire Brennan, Azzam Ali and  Dadawa. For an escape to Utopia better than an aromatherapy bubble bath,  GET THIS CD!
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How to describe this album? First, I think i should describe the term freak folk. Freak folk is a genre that is recently gaining more notice and acceptance. Freak folk takes the found sounds and experimentalism of noise rock, the delicious, quirky weirdness of psychadellia, and the hypnotic, soothing strumming of folk/folk-rock.

Hypnotic and soothing is also a great way to describe this album. the band uses a great variety of odd sounds here, in much the same way Pink Floyd did throughout their illustrious career. This band should call to mind some of the psychadellic pioneers of the 60s,and also some of the folkier things that came out of the late 60s. And mixed in with the Floydian psychadellia, the 60s folk flourishes, we have unabashed experimentalist side of it all.

When one takes all these things into account, one thinks, "Jesus that has to be a mess!" And in some cases it is decidedly so. But it's a glorious, carefully constructed, ingeniously put together mess; brilliance in short. And out of all the above tangents and sides to this music, none of them ever go over the top. They keep it all contained.

If you are a fan of noise, folk, psychadellia, or anything of the like, this will most definitely keep you entertained for a while. Just keep in mind the term freak does apply here. So be ready for more than a little weirdness, but enjoy all the same.
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To my pleasant shock, this album completely floored me. It was a similar feeling to that of my first Kyuss listen, the experience that got me obsessed and addicted to the stoner/psychedelic genre. Those pounding riffs, fuzzy and deep tones, laced in swirling and hypnotic guitar licks - it was a real listening experience, and one that really spoilt me for a long time, as hardly any other bands can re-create such genius. Well, Colour Haze's self-titled album has taken me back to that experience, and I can honestly say that this is the best stoner/psychedelic album I have listened to for a long, long time.

For those unaware of the band, they hail from Germany, led by Stefan Koglek who handles vocals/lyrics, and most importantly the lead guitar. The band forms a power trio, with Manni Merwald handling drums and Phillip Rasthofer commanding the bass. Their style is a heavenly mixture of 70s rock and jazz fusion, especially recalling the hypnotic exuberance of the best Hendrix and fluid Floyd, combined with the fuzzy low-end riff rampaging of Kyuss, and the trippy, relaxing vibes of early Monster Magnet and Sleep. Balancing all of these influences would seem a tricky task, yet Colour Haze's execution is bordering on the perfect. This may be due to the fact that these guys can play, and I don't mean in the technical ecstasy/1,000 notes per second perfection of some self-indulgent prog acts - these guys have a terrific sense of chemistry and understanding of each other. The unison between the intricate guitar lines, the jazzy, splashy drumming and the deft subtlety of the bass lines is astounding. Even when the band reaches song climaxes they do not loose the sense of unison, they stick to the groove while simultaneously experimenting a little, changing riffs and fills a little. It is a joy to experience.

The balance of the album is another point of excellence, combining their trademark epic pieces that start slowly and patiently build to ethereal climaxes, the best example being the 22-minute opus "Peace, Brothers & Sisters!" which contains some sumptuous riffs and grooves, and also some of the most beautiful, calming psychedelic sections you could wish to hear. Other pieces in this style include the lovely opener, "Mountain", which combines some lavish vocal melodies with some real rocking fuzzy grooves, and "Love" which broods and builds its way into a thunderous climax, full of uplifting lyrics about searching for spiritual enlightenment, and closing with the album's heaviest riff. These songs are combined with more stripped-down, somewhat melancholy pieces, such as the all-acoustic "Solitude" and closer "Flowers". Both of these tracks act as breaks from the longer, drawn-out pieces, while retaining the band's signature fluid styling, and bent for melody.

If you like stoner/psychedelic rock and have not already listened to this band, I strongly recommend you to. It's a great shame they do not get the recognition as other acts such as Monster Magnet, Sleep, Orange Goblin etc, as their music is stunning, and an experience that should be pursued by more.
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A must-have, must-hear, must-own 2-CD, thirteen track title of top rate pure trance / ambient mesmerizing brilliance to take in and shatter (as well as perhaps) blow all five of your senses to the brink. With disc one, could not get enough of "Moumoune And Mietz In The Sky With Diamonds", the truly astounding "Shaddar Blues" and the epic soundscape of the sixteen-minute "Metatron / Shaddai / Chabbatai". Then on disc two, I found the eleven-minute "The Fabulous Story Of Tigroo And Leloo" and the stunning fourteen-minute "The Ari: Issac Louria Song" to be the most compelling. So, you get over two solid hours of fantastic work from the former CEO of Heldon - I just love the way that the Cuneiform label doesn't skimp on the music at all. Simply look at the unbeatable asking price. Line-up: Pinhas - guitar, electronics & composer, Alain Renaud - guitar, Didier Batard - bass, Chuck Oken, Jr. - synthesizer, Patrick Gauthier - mini-moog, Philippe Simon - violin, Maurice Dantec - vocals and Laurent Peyron - drum engineer. So highly recommended, that it hurts.
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When I listen to this band I envision the combination of Alice Cooper meets Queen with haunting melodies blending with hypnotic guitars on such a high level to the point of an eargasmic pleasure ! a very different musical experience indeed I highly recommend anything by Ghost B.C.
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I took a risk and purchased a Surreal CD...and it truly is sublime. Surreal's magic is that their writing sounds at once familiar and at the same time, unlike anything you've ever  heard. Lyrics and melodies spring  forth from singer Alan Semerdjian like a sparkling primal  spring. (I  should know, I walk around singing them for days!) The drummer and bassist  provide a bubbling, massaging undercurrent to this and the lead guitarist  sprinkles abundant firefly melodies throughout. On their website I learned  that they have been playing together since high school and it shows. They  have really forged something exciting and special.
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This is the fourth book of Norbert Guthier's erotic photography to be published. And like his previous books, In Flagranti surpasses all expectations and is even more electrifying than its predecessors. Guthier seems incapable of taking a mundane photograph. Every image is a brilliant, artistic statement, expressed through the visionary language of this era's most inventive erotic artist. Human sexuality is the core feature of this work, and is represented in various forms. But it's never showcased so much to titillate as it is to broaden the boundaries of how wonderful and beautiful the sexual act can be. Much of the imagery possesses a surrealistic quality that links the more standard studio work together into an altogether fantastic, motley dreamworld.

Very few artists deserve the mantle of genius, but referring to Norbert Guthier as one is something of an understatement. Fine art erotica has him as its wunderchild. This book is 128 page of pure erotic bliss.