Nostalghia - my new love "Post Apocalyptic Gypsy Punk."
May 18, 2012, 01:45:pm
One of the best things I've heard this past year - recommended for fans of cathartic emotional dark music (like (true) gothic, (true) industrial ;-) etc.)
They remind me of Kate Bush & Bjork mixed with Einsturzende Neubauten in their mid-late-80s peak; the raw beauty of it.
They call it Avant Garde Primal Pop or Post Apocalyptic Gypsy Punk...
Being a radio show I started long ago and co-host monthly - from Canberra, Australia When it's on you can listen online ... Hmmm, best way to know about when it's on is add friend me on VF &/or FB 'cos I post a journal entry an hour before it starts ... playlists are on that FB page and Stephen's past playlists are @ http://grapevine.com.au/~smetho/2xx/SINGED.htm
hosted by Anita Nervosa and Michelle (again), playing goth rock, darkwave, deathrock and coldwave. "As far as we know, we're the longest-running goth radio show in the world" ... From Adelaide, Australia
New "Video" for an old "Cybergoth" song of mine: 16,700 views! :)
April 21, 2012, 10:02:am
Lots of mandalas and pretty colours :-)
I recorded this track a million years ago... inspired by classic euro-darkwave-electro-industrial club style.
It was released on a few compilation CDs, played on radio and in a few nightclubs I know of in Australia and USA. I didn't really promote it much. I like creating not promoting! ;-)
If you like it - please post something nice on the Youtube page
It was possibly the last "electro industrial cyber goth darkwave" kind of track I made. My artistic and business interest had moved into other genres - through which I finally received tons of prime-time radio airplay. That was nice! ...
Anyway, some people still like this tune and so I made a video-thing for fun - just using pics and basic manipulations. I've made hundreds of tracks but none of them seem finalised to me. This was as close as any to feeling finished.
A gem of early E.B.M. Industrial - Nitzer Ebb "Crane"
March 31, 2012, 12:39:am
Going through my old vinyl today I rediscovered this little-known gem. So perfect - simple, raw, powerful: a huge influence still on the music of so many others.
Nitzer Ebb - "Crane" this version is from 1985 I think
This was their "masterpiece" released shortly afterwards ... perhaps the most influential song in Electronic Body Music (EBM); some would call it Industrial; some Cyberpunk etc. ...
SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away...
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.
THE ANDERSEN MODEL You have two cows. You shred them.
A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the shit out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows ... and sell them to China
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