Since the early 80's, FRONT 242's ever-growing fanbase has always proven to be the 5th member of the band. A unique communion between fan and artist that has grown and matured over the course of more than two decades. An interactive relationship that has displayed its intensity during every 'tour de force' live performance where the energy of the audience seamlessly unites with the energy of the band, together creating an incredible experience, an experience witnessed by thousands around the globe. Before the release of their next album, and after the astounding success of the re-release of their debut album "Geography" as a Limited Edition, and to thank the FRONT 242 community for 25 years of staunch support through their quite unusual path, Patrick Codenys, Daniel B., Jean-Luc De Meyer and Richard Jonkheere now deliver to their steadfast fans a true and rich treasure, the first official FRONT 242 live DVD showing the band at its best during the impressive August 2004 performance in Lokeren ( Belgium ) in front of more than 17,000 people. This is a unique opportunity for the fans of electronic music to forever own a true piece of music history on DVD, immortalizing the legend and genius of Front 242.

While Anton Corbijn is still preparing work for the upcoming Ian Curtis biopic, Deborah Curtis, the widow of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, has started a series of interviews. A recent interview with The Guardian is talking about the relationship the couple had: "During my marriage I completely allienated from my friends and family." The couple married in 1975, when Deborah was 18 and Ian 19. Four year later a baby girl Natalie was born, just when Joy Division broke through. The succes was welcome since the couple had money troubles. However, the combination of the life of a pop artist, Ian's epilepsy, his temper and depressions didn't exactly easen a stable marriage. The same year when his daughter was born Ian started an affair with Annik Honoré, a Belgian Embassy worker often described as 'the Belgian version of Siouxsie Sioux'. In the interview Deborah seems to insinuate that it was the affair with Honoré that made Ian commit suicide on May 18th 1980 since "he could probably not decide what to do". The affair ill be touched in the upcoming Ian Curtis biopic by Anton Corbijn for which Deborah and Natalie Curtis together with Annik Honoré provided input. Honoré has never stepped in the spotlights and still finds the whole Ian Curtis thing "very painful".

Next weekend, May 21-22, Warsaw (Poland) will host the Dark east Music Meeting at the club Centralny Dom Qultury. During the fest you will be able to see some very unique concerts of some of Eastern Europe most reknown acts. The stars of the festival will be Slovenia's Silence who returned recently with the album "Vain – A Tribute To A Ghost" and Believe, a new project supported by such famous polish musicians as Mirek Gil, Tomek Rozycki, Przemek Zawadzki i Wlodek Tafel (Collage, Mr.Gil). The festival line-up is as follows on Saturday May 21st: D'Archangel (Poland), Terra Cadaveris (Belarus), Dust Heaven (Ukraine), Common Dream (Poland), Mano Juodoji Sesuo (Lithuania) and Silence (Slovenia) who bring a special acoustic concert. Sunday May 22nd will have No Signal Detected (Poland), God’s Own Medicine (Poland), Grayscale (Ukraine), Forgotten Sunrise (Estonia), Daimonion (Poland) and Believe (Poland). Both nights are followed by a DJ afterparty featuring DJ H_12 (Poland), DJ 4-GOT-10 (Estonia), DJ Werewolf (Ukraine) and Sinusoida Squad (Poland). The fest has also issued a promo cd for the event. For more info on this fest, check www.demm.org .

Get excited! After the incredible success of Interlace's "Imago", the group will release a new single this year for one of their most powerful and enigmatic songs, "Crystalline Hush"...

They are currently in the studio working on the tracklist and a possible live video bonus to accompany the single tracks.

Out on Dark Wings on May 9th is the newest rendition from the Belgian wave act The Breath Of Life, "Everlasting Souls". It's the first new material from the band since they left Hall of Sermon. This 7th album also marks the 2Oth Anniversary of the Belgian wave band. After five years of touring in Europe and studio work, the four Belgians, bring out an album on which they take some distance from the trendy influences in the scene. The album offers 12 new songs, with as bonus tracks, 3 ‘classic’ live songs recorded in Prague in 2002.

Following the sprawling, genre-kicking electronic tour de force that was 2004's sublime comeback "Well Come", electro originators and instigators Portion Control emerge once more with brand new Maxi / DVD package "Stansted". As a homage to the terminal buildings from which it drew its name its musical perfection - an architecturally dense construction of textured layers and gridded electronics. Maxi opener "Blood Rushed To Head" bursts into life with Teutonic machine rhythms, phased vocals and spectral synth work ( reminiscent of early(ish) Skinny Puppy and more commercial Cabaret Voltaire ) while the second chorus brings on board a killer sequencer line adding to the overall oppressive atmospherics. Machine cold and claustrophobic its a fine way to start. Track 2 "Gate 57" ( also included in visual form on the accompanying DVD ) is an excursion into the darker, sculpted electro-ambience and experimentation found on "Well Come" - synth drones, echoing rhythms and layered caustic effects / voice samples building the layers of tension and dread. Track 3 "Chew You To Bits ( Rebuild )" begins with an invocative chanting mantra that segues to an up tempo electro- almost-pop beat frame, with catchy EBM aggro-vocals enhanced by tight programming and a brilliantly simple ( aren't they the best ? ) sequencer line : Its infectious Portion Control at their best. "The Way Out" ( of Stansted ? ) returns to the slow brooding dense construct of edgy electronix, while EP closers "Blood Rushed To Dub" and "Chew You Dubbed" offer amped up instrumental versions of the two club tracks on here.

"Stansted" gets further upgraded with the inclusion of a two track 8cm DVD transmission - rounding out the package with something very special. Two digital videos ( recorded at Stansted it would seem ) for "Blood Rushed To Head" and "Gate 57" offer cut up images, digital interference and blurred visual accompaniments that fit the songs perfectly.

As neat, perfectly presented packages of distilled electro come "Stansted" is near perfect, as appealing to fans of hardcore EBM, to ambient aficionados, electronica experts ( fans of Hands will love this ) and most points in between. Never has the expression small but perfectly formed been more fitting for a release. Portion Control offer perfectly restrained electronic music and visuals with a unique and innovative sound design and presentation.

Broken Record

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Norway has always been a precious source for high quality electronic acts ( Icon Of Coil, Apoptygma Berzerk, Echo Image, Zeromancer and many others ) New discovery Conetik ( having recenly performed live as support act for Zeromancer ) unleash "Carbon Elektriq" their breathtaking debut for Germany's rising Infacted label ! An immense fusion of full on modern electropop with fresh and powerful melodic soundscapes positioned somewhere between New Order and Covenant, Conetik display all the necessary ingredients to play an important role in the high league of the innovative electro / synthpop scene. Newcomer of the month in Orkus June 2005 issue, the future promises much for this exciting new band !

The Brand new album from German Darkwave masters Project Pitchfork, "Kaskade" offers 15 individual songs offering a more organic electro sound than its conceptual predecessor "Inferno", but still full of contrasts where each of the 15 tracks is its own entity. "Kaskade" delivers simply mindblowing electronic alternative music of highest quality and sees Project Pitchfork fresher and more inspired than ever before !

The Limited Edition CD version comes presented in a special digibook format ( printed on special heavy paper ) complete with glossy 20 page booklet.

Not one to sit idle, Bill Leeb has been working on new Frontline Assembly and Delerium albums with band mate Rhys Fulber since December of 2004. Finding time in between working on those releases, he managed to get together with former band member Chris Peterson ( now of Decree ) to revive their Noise Unit side project. The new Noise Unit album will be the first since 1997's "Drill". The aptly titled "Voyeur", features spacious atmospheric melodies layered with flowing strings, whispered vocals, electronic noises and mutilations, along side bass-lines that range from a drum n'bass vibe to an aggressive Industrial assault. As the title suggests, the listener can feel themselves peering into the lives and minds of other people and worlds while listening to the sonic anomaly of "Voyeur" : Perhaps the best album from a Frontline Assembly side-project since Delerium's "Karma", "Voyeur" is sure to please fans of FLA and Delerium, as well as all of those in between.

Heimataerde

non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed nomine tuo da gloriam


Heimataerde und das verbotene Sein.

Der Wiedergänger, der im Dunkeln der Nacht aus dem Grab schleicht um unendliches Leben zu geben und eine neue Religion zu erschaffen.

Dieses musikalisches Projekt, welches im jahre des herrn 2004 von Ash heraufbeschworen wurde, erschafft cluborientierte tanzbare Musik, die dem Hörer eine Stimmung offenbart, die ihn auf Anhieb in den Bann zieht.


Im Schutz der Heimataerde.

Die Reinkarnation in der Heimaterde ist sein schwacher Punkt, einen Punkt den die Krieger des Ordens auszunutzen versuchen. Während sie am Tage auf der Suche nach dem Wiedergänger sind und die Heimataerde für sich beanspruchen ist er ihnen schutzlos ausgeliefert.


Der ewige Kampf um die Heimataerde..

Die Vorliebe, harte Elektronik auf weiche Melodieläufe stoßen zu lassen, wurde zum Leitfaden dieses Projektes.

Wenn ich die Sprache der Menschen rede und der Engel,
Und hab die Liebe nicht,
So bin ich wie tönendes Erz oder die hallende Zymbel.
Und wenn ich prophetische Kraft der Verkündigung habe
Und weiß die Geheimnisse alle und alle Erkenntnis,
Und wenn ich allen Glauben habe, daß ich die Berge versetze,
Und habe die Liebe nicht,
So bin ich nichts.


Ein Symbol des immerwährenden Kampfes zwischen Gut und Böse, bei dem jeder irgendwann die Entscheidung treffen muss, zu welcher Seite er sich schlagen wird...




... nur welche ist die Richtige?

baddessi: It doesnt say "On line only" at Walmart's site so im rather sure they have it in the store

*added "rather"

ANTICHRIST: "Fate" was deleted and never released. Apeeared only in the compilation "Colonization"...

This is one of the most dancefloor-friendly bands I’ve heard in a while.

It is classic futurepop with an 80’s inspired vocal style and hard edged synth driven music.
Every song is great and ranges from melancholy ballads about love and loss to equally lamentative songs about the sorry state of man and his/her world today.
Beautifully layered synth patterns with emotive vocals bring a rich sound that begs for the dancers to begin. It all started in 1999 with P-O Svensson and Magnus Lofdahl and has morphed and grown up till now with founding member P-O and Kalnins rounding out the roster currently. The band has produced a single (“Fate” 2004) and several other singles on compilations with “Plastic World” (MCD) being their latest offering.
“Fixed” is available early May and I solemnly promise you, this is an album to reckon with. If you like Iris, De/Vision, Mesh and Covenant, you will be enthralled with this awesome band. Happy listening and keep dancing as well!


Tracklist
Fix
20th Century Plague
Big Brothel
Fusion
A New World Arise
Plastic World
I Know
Like Leaves
Misery
Fallen Star
Symphony of Hope
Psycho Blonde
Phosphor

CULTURE KULTÜR
Reborn
Salva Maine (main vocals), Wolfran (backing vocals, sampling) and Josua (key+button pressing) aka Spanish future pop creators Culture Kultür return with a new full-length CD beginning of June...

Four years after the album "Revenge" the three piece will be back with the new record, "Reborn".
Expect some future pop pieces that are destined for the dancefloors. On Out Of Line, June 6th.

Due to be released mid-May 2005, GLIS’ 4th album entitled "Nemesis" has now been sent to everyone who placed a PRE-order. Dark and heavy, this album incorporates harsher distorted vocals and much darker EBM-industrial compositions, while keeping GLIS’ modern and club-oriented dimension. "Nemesis" also benefits from a blockbuster featured appearance by FRONT 242's frontman Jean-Luc De Meyer who contributes guest vocals on 2 tracks with adapted lyrics from Charles Baudelaire's "Flowers Of Evil". Additional guest vocals on the album are performed by IMPLANT, SEIZE/VISAGE, MANUFACTURA and TAU FACTOR all of which add a multi-dimensional diversity to this intense and hi-energy release reaping an advantageous appeal to both dark elektro/EBM fans and power noise addicts. "Nemesis" also features a bonus video of the "No Pulse" by Shameh. The limited edition of the album is available in a deluxe DVD-box with a 13-track bonus disc including 2 exclusive unreleased tracks ("abgrund (feat. André Hartung of SERO.OVERDOSE)" and "spooky 115") plus remixes by UNTER NULL, NOISE PROCESS, SUPREME COURT, CESIUM_137, LEXINCRYPT, DJ HELDER, C/A/T, DAVANTAGE, TAU FACTOR, MANUFACTURA and HIV+.

After a dozen of successful contributions on high-profile compilations, UNTER NULL’s forthcoming album “The Failure Epiphany” might be the most in demand release on the label since its creation! To give her summoning fans a first taste of what is to come, American artist Erica Dunham serves them the “Sick F***” EP. More and more often described as the female replica to the SUICIDE COMMANDO league, she brings extremely distorted and manipulated vocals mixed with uncompromised harsh elektro assaults with a touch of power noise and ambient industrial. Her assault is reinforced with remixes by C-DRONE-DEFECT, GRENDEL, IMPLANT, MANUFACTURA, TAMTRUM and EVERYTHING GOES COLD (aka PSYCLON NINE). UNTER NULL will make a few special live appearances in Europe in August together with fellow Seattle Industro co-conspirator GLIS...

Andersp: I know, but I still like to have the CDs in my hand to have and hold..I do have a Best Buy gift certificate..I'll give that a look...and the Wal Mart near me surprisingly has one of the best collections of different kinds of music of any place in town! I was really surprised!

baddessi: Im sure there is a Walmart store close to you..so go there and look..or Best Buy? No need to pay s/h :)

WinMx is even cheaper

Andersp: wow- thanks Anders! The $33 on that site is much better than the $100+ dollars I saw on Amazon for the import!

baddessi: looks to me as its this album:

Link To Album

Edited to make link shorter

rhiannon: ah well, I'll just have to listen and hear for myself

baddessi: Nope. Sorry.

rhiannon: cool- I'd like to hear that Staying Alive one as well....I don't suppose there is a list of all the awesome guitarists featured on the album?

baddessi:

CD 3 - Oddities and Duets
1. Iron Man (Ozzy Osbourne With Therapy)
2. N.I.B. (Ozzy Osbourne with Primus)
3. Purple Haze (Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo & Geezer Butler)
4. Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Ozzy Osbourne with Type O Negative)
5. Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed) (Ozzy Osbourne with Was Not Was)
6. Born To Be Wild (Ozzy Osbourne with Miss Piggy)
7. Nowhere To Run (Vapor Trail) (Ozzy Osbourne with Crystal Method, DMX, 'Ol Dirty Bastard & Fuzzbuble) 8. Led Clones (Ozzy with Gary Moore)
9. For Heavens Sake (Ozzy Osbourne with Tony Iommi & Wu-Tang Clan)
10. I Ain't No Nice Guy (Ozzy Osbourne With Motorhead)
11. Therapy (Ozzy Osbourne With Infectious Grooves)
12. Stayin' Alive (Ozzy Osbourne With Dweezil Zappa)

rhiannon: I saw the song list- but it doesn't show details of who is on the album, and believe me, I looked for that!!!
I didn't know that was with Miss Piggy!!!

baddessi: It's worth it just for Born To Be Wild with Miss Piggy.

rhiannon: yep
went googling and found the set- what an awesome collection of songs! I think it's only available here as an import...more than I can afford!

Universal Eyes: Gotta agree with you. So has baddessi.

Universal Eyes: no arguement from me on that Randy Rhoads(sp?) is one of my favorites...some of his classical compositions are amazing

Just have to say it,he's had just phenominal Guitar players all through his career not to take anything away from him,he just knows how to pick them.

rhiannon: oh thanks Rhiannon...I figured it had to be new- I would have taken notice of it before. Is it just the 4th set that is covers or the whole 4 CD set?
I'll have to check this out- thanks

I like cover albums...one of my favorites is one David Bowie did in the 70's of his favortie 60's songs..caleed 'Pin Ups', I think- some very original renditions of some good songs : )

baddessi: It's included in a new 4CD set, The Bible of Ozz.

The fourth CD track listing is:

1. Good Times (Originally recorded by Eric Burdon)
2. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Originally recorded by King Crimson)
3. In My Life (Originally recorded by the Beatles)
4. Mississippi Queen (Originally recorded by Mountain)
5. For What It's Worth (Originally recorded by the Buffalo Springfield)
6. Fire (Originally recorded by Arthur Brown)
7. Hi Ho Silver Lining (Originally recorded by the Jeff Beck Group)
8. All The Young Dudes (Originally recorded by Mott the Hoople)
9. Sympathy For The Devil (Originally recorded by the Rolling Stones)
10. Changes - Duet with Kelly Osbourne (Originally recorded by Black Sabbath)

hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I think it was mountain...I have to lookit up now, I'm not sure...one of those southern rock bands...
it was a trip hearing Ozzy do it..at least I think it was Ozzy !!!

Tuesday: that's the beauty of it...you don't have to choose- each is incredible in its own right : )

I swear I heard Ozzy singing Mississippi Queen on my radio the other day...but how could that be?? I loved it- had never heard THAT before!

whats your fave band(s?

Nirvana: Yes i remember that he's gone..but his music is still alive :)

ANTICHRIST: you're entitled to your opinion. But you're missing out on some great stuff!

Andersp: sadly that is not the case, sorry.

LONNIE DONEGAN 1931-2002
Death of Lonnie Donegan in the early hours of Sunday November 3rd 2002.
The Glasgow-born singer was midway through his UK tour after recovering from a heart operation earlier this year and was due to play a concert in Stoke, Staffordshire, on Monday.
The star was with his wife Sharon and son Peter when he died in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday at about 0230 GMT. He had been complaining of back trouble shortly before he fell ill. Lonnie was staying with friends during his tour. His last performance was in Nottingham last Wednesday.

Best known for novelty songs like My Old Man's a Dustman, Lonnie Donegan enjoyed a worldwide reputation among musicians as exalted as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.
Donegan's enthusiastic espousal of skiffle, blues, gospel and American folk music was instrumental in igniting the 1960s British blues revival.
He was born in Glasgow in 1931, the son of a classical violinist. Although he moved to London's East End aged just two, and always considered himself a Glaswegian.
Christened Anthony James Donegan, he became known as Lonnie in the early 1950s when an over-excited master of ceremonies confused him with the American guitarist Lonnie Johnson.

"When I was nine, I told my parents I wanted a guitar," he said. Five years later, Lonnie Donegan got his hands on his dream instrument, a battered 30-shilling version.
Through a jazz club, Donegan met Chris Barber, the singer, trombonist and doyen of British trad jazz. To fill a much-needed role in the band, Barber taught him the banjo.
After two years of National Service, Donegan and a group of other musicians, including Chris Barber, set out to improve their playing, eventually re-forming as the Barber Sunshine Hot Six.

Personnel changes marked the band's evolution into the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group. A new, transatlantic, musical form had been born.
During the early 1950s skiffle, with its guitar-driven rhythm, tea-chest basses and washboard percussion, was hugely popular and Lonnie Donegan was its biggest star, notching-up 28 top-30 hits.

The accessible nature of skiffle led to an explosion in guitar sales, from a mere 5000 in 1950 to 250,000 in 1957.
Among those who formed their own groups were Liverpudian schoolboys, the Quarrymen, who would be reincarnated as the Beatles. Other young fans included the Kinks and the Who.
But Donegan himself denied that skiffle ever existed as a musical genre. "Skiffle is a mixture of music, it's a mongrel music," he once claimed.

"It came via me singing American folk and blues songs with jazz improvisation and overtones. You can call it anything you like. It's neither fish nor fowl."

But the hits kept coming, among them Cumberland Gap, Puttin' on the Style and Battle of New Orleans.


And his success was transatlantic, though he was initially banned from playing guitar in the United States when the American Federation of Musicians classified him as a variety act.Even so, he became the first British male artist to have two American Top 10 hits.
Lonnie Donegan appeared on the Perry Como Show on American television, in an intriguing comedy double act with Ronald Reagan, and sharing the bill with a debuting comedian, Woody Allen.
As the skiffle craze waned at the end of the 1950s, Lonnie Donegan recorded new material, fun songs like Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour? and My Old Man's a Dustman.
The Beatles began their transformation of popular music in the early 1960s but, as some of his fans became stars in their own right, Lonnie Donegan's reputation as a musical innovator soared.

Elvis recorded one of his songs, I'm Never Gonna Fall in Love Again and Paul McCartney was the moving force behind Putting on The Style, a 1978 tribute album featuring cameos by, among others, Elton John, Rory Gallagher and Brian May.

Lonnie Donegan also developed a close musical friendship with Belfast's finest, Van Morrison. The two collaborated on Donegan's well-received comeback album, 1998's Muleskinner Blues.

Morrison later recorded another homage to Donegan, The Skiffle Sessions, featuring another fan, the legendary New Orleans blues pianist Dr John.

Though Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister when Lonnie Donegan's last hit single graced the charts, the slightly-built performer with the strange Cockney-American singing voice enjoyed a musical reputation which will live on through thousands of skiffle fans around the world.







(from someone in the BBC)

Nirvana: 74 and still kicking/playing!!
fantastic guy!!

baddessi:I don't listen to that kind of music...it's too popular and commercial...it's sell-out music

Lonnie Donnegan

Tuesday: yep- Tuesday - it's on the album "Who's Next"
one of my all time favorites!
Roger Daltry IS the man Behind Blue Eyes...at least that's what I've always thought

Antichrist- I think you're wrong...I think they do a cover and make it their own...alot of times I like the cover as well/or just as much as the original
Have you ever heard Stevie Ray Vaughn's or Eric Clapton's version of Hendrix's 'Little Wing'?
They took a great song and made it even better...and no one can accuse either of them for lacking in creativity!!!

I think it's common having bad bands making covers of good songs...lack of creativity!

Limp Bizkit is very bad. Their attitude, their lyrics, their music, evertything is bad in this band...