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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Coil (band)
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Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his life partner and collaborator Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy. The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best-known industrial music groups. The groups first official release as Coil was a 198412 album titled How to Destroy Angels released on the Belgian Les Disques du Crépuscules sublabel LAYLAH Antirecords. In 1985, the group working on a series of soundtracks, among them music for the first Hellraiser movie based on the novel The Hellbound Heart by their acquaintance at that time. The groups first live performance in 16 years occurred in 1999, following the death of John Balance on 13 November 2004, Christopherson announced via their official record label website Threshold House that Coil as an entity had ceased to exist. Coil was formed in 1982 and became a concern in 1984. Balance and Christopherson began working with John Gosling on the project Zos Kia, which resulted in four live performances, following the underground hit How to Destroy Angels, Coil left L. A. Y. L. A. H. Antirecords for Some Bizzare Records and produced Scatology, released in 1984 as their first full-length studio album, the album was largely based on the sound of industrial music as well as the Post-punk movement. While songs such as Restless Day, Panic and Tainted Love are representative of a mainstream style, the single Panic/Tainted Love became the first AIDS benefit music release, as the profits from sales of the single were donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust. The Tainted Love music video, directed by Christopherson, is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Horse Rotorvator followed in 1986 as the next full-length release. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse killed their horses and use their jawbones to make this huge earth-moving machine, the artwork features a photograph of the location of a notorious IRA bombing, in which a bomb was detonated on a military orchestra pavilion. Horse Rotorvator was in part influenced by the AIDS related deaths of some of their friends. Furthermore, the song Ostia, is about the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as what Balance described as the number one suicide spot in the world. After the release of Horse Rotorvator, Coil left Some Bizzare Records, the 13-track Unnatural History compilation was then released on Threshold House in 1990. The first three songs on the album were first released as one half of the Nightmare Culture mini-album, loves Secret Domain followed in 1991 as the next proper Coil album, although a few minor releases had been produced since Horse Rotorvator. LSD represents a progression in Coils style and became a template for what would be representative of newer waves of post-industrial music, blended with their own style of acid house. Although the album was upbeat, it was not intended as a dance record, as Christopherson explained I wouldnt say its a party atmosphere. Windowpane and a Jack Dangers remix of The Snow were released as singles, the video for Windowpane was shot in the Golden Triangle, where, Balance claimed, the original Thai and Burmese drug barons used to exchange opium for gold bars with the CIA
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Experimental music
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The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental musics primary innovators, utilizing indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. Also, in America, a distinct sense of the term was used in the late 1950s to describe computer-controlled composition associated with composers such as Lejaren Hiller. Harry Partch as well as Ivor Darreg worked with other tuning scales based on the laws for harmonic music. For this music they developed a group of experimental musical instruments. Musique concrète, is a form of music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Elements of experimental music include indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète, under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer, publication of Schaeffers manifesto was delayed by four years, by which time Schaeffer was favoring the term recherche musicale, though he never wholly abandoned musique expérimentale. John Cage was also using the term as early as 1955, according to Cages definition, an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen, and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an unpredictable action. Rebners lecture extended the concept back in time to include Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, nyman opposes experimental music to the European avant-garde of the time, for whom The identity of a composition is of paramount importance. David Cope also distinguishes between experimental and avant garde, describing music as that which represents a refusal to accept the status quo. That is, for the most part, experimental music studies describes a category without really explaining it and this was an attempt to marginalize, and thereby dismiss various kinds of music that did not conform to established conventions. In 1955, Pierre Boulez identified it as a new definition makes it possible to restrict to a laboratory. He concludes, There is no such thing as experimental music … and it is therefore not a genre, but an open category, because any attempt to classify a phenomenon as unclassifiable and elusive as experimental music must be partial. Furthermore, the indeterminacy in performance guarantees that two versions of the same piece will have virtually no perceptible musical facts in common. The term experimental music was used contemporaneously for electronic music, particularly in the early musique concrète work of Schaeffer, a number of early 20th-century American composers, seen as precedents to and influences on John Cage, are sometimes referred to as the American Experimental School. These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, for this music they both developed custom-built musical instruments often characterized as experimental instruments. La Monte Young is known for using this technique when he began working on his minimal drone pieces which consisted of layers of sounds in different pitches
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Threshold House
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Threshold House is one of several record labels created by Coil to release their own work and that of affiliated projects. Associated labels include Eskaton and Chalice and it is also the name for the official Coil website. The label was initially a vanity label of sorts, as all releases were manufactured and distributed by other labels, following the bankruptcy of World Serpent, the label continued independently. The logo for Threshold House is a building, possibly what Coil have referred to as The East Tower in past interviews. It is also similar to artist recreations of the buildings at Catalhoyuk. After the death of John Balance and the disbanding of Coil, Peter Christopherson started an effort, The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. The series of LOCI were released when Coil resided in England, the THRESH and THBKK series began with Peter Christophersons relocation to Bangkok, Thailand. List of record labels List of electronic music record labels Threshold House
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Duplais Balance
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Duplais Balance is a box set by Coil, first available for preorder in November 2006 and offered for sale in mid December. The box set was produced in an edition of 250. According to the merchant, the box set contains the following,1 Absinthe Duplais Balance 0. 5l – 60%2 Absinthe glasses 2 Absinthe spoons 1 Coil CD Animal are you. We are pleased to announce a collaboration with Absinthe-Distribution Lion, manufacturers and distillers of fine Absinthes, the supply of these is highly limited so order now to avoid disappointment
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Trent Reznor
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Michael Trent Reznor, known professionally as Trent Reznor, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Reznor is best known as the founder and his first release under this pseudonym, the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial and critical success. He has since released eight studio albums and he left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist until signing with Columbia Records in 2012. Reznor was associated with the bands Option 30, The Urge, The Innocent, outside of Nine Inch Nails, he has contributed to the albums of artists such as Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Times list of the years most influential people, while Spin magazine has described him as the most vital artist in music, Reznor was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, the son of Nancy Lou and Michael Reznor. He has English, German, and Irish ancestry and he is a descendant of George Reznor, who founded the Reznor Company, a heating and air conditioning manufacturer, in 1888. Reznor grew up in Mercer, Pennsylvania, after his parents had divorced, he lived with his maternal grandparents, while his sister Tera lived with their mother. Reznor began playing the piano at the age of twelve and showed an aptitude for music. In a 1995 interview, his grandfather, Bill Clark, remarked, Music was his life and his former piano teacher Rita Beglin said that he always reminded me of Harry Connick, Jr. when he played. Reznor has acknowledged that his life in Pennsylvania left him feeling isolated from the outside world. In a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, he referenced his choices in the industry, However. At Mercer Area Junior/Senior High School, he learned to play the tenor saxophone and he was a member of both the jazz and marching band. Former Mercer High School band director Dr. Hendley Hoge remembered Reznor as very upbeat, Reznor also became involved in theater while in high school. He was voted Best in Drama by classmates for his roles as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Reznor graduated in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College, where he studied computer engineering. While he was a student at Mercer Area Junior/Senior High School, Reznor joined local band Option 30, after a year of college, Reznor dropped out and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to pursue a career in music. His first band in Cleveland was the Urge, a cover band, in 1985, he joined The Innocent as a keyboardist, they released one album, Livin in the Street, but Reznor left the band after three months. In 1986, he joined local band Exotic Birds and appeared with them as a band called The Problems in the 1987 film Light of Day. Reznor also contributed on keyboards to the band Slam Bamboo during this time, Reznor got a job at Clevelands Right Track Studio as an assistant engineer and janitor
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New Orleans
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New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U. S. Census, the New Orleans metropolitan area had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States. The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502. The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and it is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music, and its celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is referred to as the most unique in the United States. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River, the city and Orleans Parish are coterminous. The city and parish are bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany to the north, St. Bernard to the east, Plaquemines to the south, and Jefferson to the south and west. Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, before Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish was the most populous parish in Louisiana. As of 2015, it ranks third in population, trailing neighboring Jefferson Parish, La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded May 7,1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time and his title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris, during the American Revolutionary War, New Orleans was an important port for smuggling aid to the rebels, transporting military equipment and supplies up the Mississippi River. Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez successfully launched a campaign against the British from the city in 1779. New Orleans remained under Spanish control until 1803, when it reverted briefly to French oversight, nearly all of the surviving 18th-century architecture of the Vieux Carré dates from the Spanish period, the most notable exception being the Old Ursuline Convent. Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, thereafter, the city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, Creoles, and Africans. Later immigrants were Irish, Germans, and Italians, Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city. The Haitian Revolution ended in 1804 and established the republic in the Western Hemisphere. It had occurred several years in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue
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Nothing Records
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Nothing Records was an American record label specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992. Nothing Records became largely defunct in 2004 due to a lawsuit by Reznor against John Malm, the label became inactive as a whole following several further releases—the Beside You in Time home video was the labels final release. Nothing Records is most famous for its two original signings, Trent Reznors own band Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. In September 2004, coinciding with Trent Reznor leaving New Orleans for the west coast and this later proved to be the end of the associated record label as well. Speculation among listeners that the label could continue ceased when Reznor successfully sued co-founder John Malm for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, in a May 5,2005 post to nin. com, Trent wrote, To be clear, my involvement with Nothing Records is over. Is Nothing Records alive or an entity, youd have to ask John Malm. Nothing studios is still in New Orleans and Im not sure what Ill do with it, Ill figure that out when I finish touring. While With Teeth and its following singles carry the Nothing Records logo, beside You In Time was the last release to carry the Nothing Records logo on its packaging. The logo also appears in the end credits, year Zero and its single Survivalism do not carry the Nothing logo. Since early 2004, the website, NothingRecords. com, has closed down. Additionally, Coil was under contract for a record but it was never delivered, Nothing also distributed music from Warp Records, Sheffield, Englands venerable electronic music label, under an exclusive license in the U. S. with albums by Autechre, Plaid, and Squarepusher. This distribution deal ended when Warp expanded operations into the U. S. market in 2001, Nothing also managed to secure the U. S. release of two albums from Englands Blue Planet Recordings. The two albums were slightly different than the UK releases, Plugs Drum and Bass for Papa included an extra disc of tracks from earlier EPs, and The Bowling Greens One Pound Note omitted one track from the UK release due to problems with sample clearance. Nothing Records was founded by Trent Reznor and his former manager John Malm Jr. in 1992, in response, Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference. TVT ultimately put together a deal with Interscope Records, in which they would retain some financial stake. However, Interscope President Jimmy Iovine looked to him more creative freedom. Reznor stated, We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT, but they made it pretty clear they werent ready to sell. So I felt like, well, Ive finally got this thing going, flood and I had to record Broken under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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Peter Christopherson
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Peter Martin Christopherson was a musician, video director, commercial artist, designer and photographer, and former member of British design agency Hipgnosis. He was one of the members of the Industrial Records band Throbbing Gristle. After the disbandment of Throbbing Gristle, he participated in the formation of Psychic TV along with Genesis P-Orridge, Christopherson participated in the reunification of Throbbing Gristle and, after his relocation to Thailand in 2005, composed an album for his solo endeavour The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. Christopherson died in his sleep on 25 November 2010, Christopherson was born on 27 February 1955 in Leeds, UK. His father, Derman Christopherson, was a professor of engineering who became master of Magdalene College, Cambridge prior to receiving a knighthood. Following school, Christopherson studied computer programming, theatre design and video at the State University of New York at Buffalo in New York, Christopherson was a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, who are credited with creating the industrial music genre before disbanding in 1981. Throbbing Gristle members Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti formed their own group, while Christopherson, Balance met Christopherson as a Throbbing Gristle fan and the two became intimate partners. Christopherson worked on the first two Psychic TV albums, Force the Hand of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet, joined by Balance on the latter, the two performed live several times with Psychic TV prior to forming their own project Coil. Strictly a recording project, Coil consisted of Christopherson and Balance, while Steven E. Thrower occasionally played bass guitar, Balance was the lyricist and also played Chapman Stick and some keyboards. In 1987, Christopherson explained the sound of Coil, A ‘big movie theater’ ambience, we’ve always liked movies about Turkish prisons and Roman galleys. Most contemporary music draws its imagery from the past 30 years, but there’s a whole wealth of imagery from earlier times that’s fascinating to draw from. Over two decades, Coil released a myriad of recordings, in addition to contributing to the work of other artists and they recorded parts of the album The New Backwards at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, US, owned by musician Trent Reznor at the time. In the liner notes of the 2008 CD release, Christopherson wrote, Thanks to everyone there, despite Christophersons long and extensive history as a musical artist, he only released two tracks under the name Peter Christopherson. In 2005, following the death of Balance, Christopherson relocated from England to Bangkok, Thailand and he also released the final Coil CDs—The Remote Viewer, Black Antlers. And The Ambulance Died in His Arms and The New Backwards—on the bands own Threshold House label. Throbbing Gristle also reformed for a few concerts in 2005 and announced a new album called Part Two, the group announced several additional concerts in 2007 for the promotion of the album. In 2007 Christopherson released the album of The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. The album, Form Grows Rampant, consists of five parts or songs, One tour promoter who organized a Threshold HouseBoys Choir concert described it as easily the most shocking thing I have ever experienced. In 2008 Christopherson and Ivan Pavlov started a new project called Soisong, the band officially premiered in Tokyo on 9 March 2008 and later performed several shows in Europe, having self-released their debut EP
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Bangkok
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Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand, over 14 million people live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, significantly dwarfing Thailands other urban centres in terms of importance. Bangkok was at the heart of the modernization of Siam—later renamed Thailand—during the late 19th century, the city grew rapidly during the 1960s through the 1980s and now exerts a significant impact on Thailands politics, economy, education, media and modern society. The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their headquarters in Bangkok. The city is now a regional force in finance and business. It is a hub for transport and health care, and has emerged as a regional centre for the arts, fashion. The city is known for its vibrant street life and cultural landmarks. The historic Grand Palace and Buddhist temples including Wat Arun and Wat Pho stand in contrast with other tourist attractions such as the scenes of Khaosan Road. Bangkok is among the top tourist destinations. It is named the most visited city in MasterCards Global Destination Cities Index, Bangkoks rapid growth amidst little urban planning and regulation has resulted in a haphazard cityscape and inadequate infrastructure systems. The city has turned to public transport in an attempt to solve this major problem. Five rapid transit lines are now in operation, with more systems under construction or planned by the national government and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. The history of Bangkok dates at least back to the early 15th century, because of its strategic location near the mouth of the river, the town gradually increased in importance. Bangkok initially served as a customs outpost with forts on both sides of the river, and became the site of a siege in 1688 in which the French were expelled from Siam. After the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese Empire in 1767, the newly declared King Taksin established his capital at the town, in 1782, King Phutthayotfa Chulalok succeeded Taksin, moved the capital to the eastern banks Rattanakosin Island, thus founding the Rattanakosin Kingdom. The City Pillar was erected on 21 April, which is regarded as the date of foundation of the present city, Bangkoks economy gradually expanded through busy international trade, first with China, then with Western merchants returning in the early-to-mid 19th century. As the capital, Bangkok was the centre of Siams modernization as it faced pressure from Western powers in the late 19th century, Bangkok became the centre stage for power struggles between the military and political elite as the country abolished absolute monarchy in 1932
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The Ape of Naples
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The Ape of Naples is the final album from Coil. The album compiles material from 1993 to 2004 assembled and reworked in 2005 by Peter Christopherson and it was released after the death of lead vocalist John Balance, who died on 13 November 2004. The title of album was originally intended to be Fire of the Mind. Several tracks from the abortive Nothing Records album Backwards are included here, the last song on the album is a cover version of the theme song from the BBC show, Are You Being Served. Which utilises Balances last ever words spoken on stage live at the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival in 2004 and this album was originally pressed as a digipak in the UK, but due to the low quality of the printing, it was repressed in Thailand. A 4X12 edition was released by Important Records in late February 2008 and this has also been released on CD and as a digital download from Threshold House with three extra tracks. Copies of the 4x12 sold by Threshold House include a copy of The New Backwards CD. Its In My Blood is a reworking of A. Y. O. R. Which was originally distributed on the demo collection Backwards, later released on Пособие для кончающих, Волос Злата. Cold Cell was originally released in form as A Cold Cell on the Wire Magazine compilation release Wire Tapper 6. Teenage Lightning 2005 is a reworking of the songs Teenage Lightning 1 and Teenage Lightning 2 from one of their earlier albums, a version of Teenage Lightning very similar to the one on this album appeared on Black Antlers as Teenage Lightning. Going Up is a version of the Are You Being Served theme tune. François Testorys vocals are from a studio recording whereas Jhonns are from a bootleg of the last live Coil concert in 2004, limited edition copies came with a copy of The New Backwards as a fourth piece of vinyl
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FLAC
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FLAC is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, and is also the name of the reference codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLACs algorithm can typically be reduced to 50–60% of its original size, FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software. FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album art. Development was started in 2000 by Josh Coalson, the bit-stream format was frozen when FLAC entered beta stage with the release of version 0.5 of the reference implementation on 15 January 2001. Version 1.0 was released on 20 July 2001, on 29 January 2003, the Xiph. Org Foundation and the FLAC project announced the incorporation of FLAC under the Xiph. org banner. Xiph. org is behind other free compression formats such as Vorbis, Theora, Speex and Opus. Version 1.3.0 was released on 26 May 2013, at which point development was moved to the Xiph. org git repository. flac files, the reference implementation is free software. The source code for libFLAC and libFLAC++ is available under the BSD license, and the sources for flac, metaflac, in its stated goals, the FLAC project encourages its developers not to implement copy prevention features of any kind. FLAC supports only fixed-point samples, not floating-point and it can handle any PCM bit resolution from 4 to 32 bits per sample, any sampling rate from 1 Hz to 655,350 Hz in 1 Hz increments, and any number of channels from 1 to 8. Channels can be grouped in some cases, for stereo and 5.1 channel surround. FLAC uses CRC checksums for identifying corrupted frames when used in a streaming protocol, FLAC allows for a Rice parameter between 0 and 16. FLAC uses linear prediction to convert the audio samples, there are two steps, the predictor and the error coding. The predictor can be one of four types, the difference between the predictor and the actual sample data is calculated and is known as the residual. The residual is stored efficiently using Golomb-Rice coding and it also uses run-length encoding for blocks of identical samples, such as silent passages. For tagging, FLAC uses the system as Vorbis comments. The libFLAC API is organized into streams, seekable streams, most FLAC applications will generally restrict themselves to encoding/decoding using libFLAC at the file level interface. LibFLAC uses a compression level parameter that varies from 0 to 8, the compressed files are always perfect, lossless representations of the original data. Although the compression process involves a tradeoff between speed and size, the process is always quite fast and not very dependent on the level of compression
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MP3
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Compared to CD quality digital audio, MP3 compression commonly achieves 75 to 95% reduction in size. MP3 files are thus 1/4 to 1/20 the size of the digital audio stream. This is important for both transmission and storage concerns, the basis for such comparison is the CD digital audio format which requires 1411200 bit/s. A commonly used MP3 encoding setting is CBR128 kbit/s resulting in file size 1/11 of the original CD-quality file, the MP3 lossy compression works by reducing the accuracy of certain parts of a continuous sound that are considered to be beyond the auditory resolution ability of most people. This method is referred to as perceptual coding or psychoacoustics. It uses psychoacoustic models to discard or reduce the precision of less audible to human hearing. MP3 was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group as part of its MPEG-1 standard, the first subgroup for audio was formed by several teams of engineers at Fraunhofer IIS, University of Hanover, AT&T-Bell Labs, Thomson-Brandt, CCETT, and others. MPEG-1 Audio, which included MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II and III was approved as a draft of ISO/IEC standard in 1991, finalised in 1992. A backwards compatible MPEG-2 Audio extension with lower sample and bit rates was published in 1995, MP3 is a streaming or broadcast format meaning that individual frames can be lost without affecting the ability to decode successfully delivered frames. Storing an MP3 stream in a file enables time-shifted playback, the MP3 lossy audio data compression algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called auditory masking. In 1894, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer reported that a tone could be rendered inaudible by another tone of lower frequency, in 1959, Richard Ehmer described a complete set of auditory curves regarding this phenomenon. Ernst Terhardt et al. created an algorithm describing auditory masking with high accuracy and this work added to a variety of reports from authors dating back to Fletcher, and to the work that initially determined critical ratios and critical bandwidths. A wide variety of compression algorithms were reported in IEEEs refereed Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. The genesis of the MP3 technology is described in a paper from Professor Hans Musmann who chaired the ISO MPEG Audio group for several years. The immediate predecessors of MP3 were Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain, the first practical implementation of an audio perceptual coder in hardware, was an implementation of a psychoacoustic transform coder based on Motorola 56000 DSP chips. Another predecessor of the MP3 format and technology is to be found in the perceptual codec MUSICAM based on an integer arithmetics 32 sub-bands filterbank, driven by a psychoacoustic model. It was primarily designed for Digital Audio Broadcasting and digital TV and this codec incorporated into a broadcasting system using COFDM modulation was demonstrated on air and on the field together with Radio Canada and CRC Canada during the NAB show in 1991. F. As a doctoral student at Germanys University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Karlheinz Brandenburg began working on music compression in the early 1980s
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Bootleg recording
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A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging, bootlegs usually consist of either unreleased studio recordings, live performances or interviews with an unpredictable level of quality. The following year, the Rolling Stones Liver Than Youll Ever Be, subsequent bootlegs became more sophisticated in packaging, particularly the Trademark of Quality label with William Stouts cover artwork. Compact disc bootlegs first appeared in the 1980s, and internet distribution became popular in the 1990s. Changing technologies have affected the recording, distribution, and varying profitability of the underground industry, the copyrights for the song and the right to authorise recordings often reside with the artist, according to several international copyright treaties. The recording, trading and sale of bootlegs continues to thrive, however, even as artists, the word bootleg originates from the practice of smuggling illicit items in the legs of tall boots, particularly the smuggling of alcohol during the American Prohibition era. The word, over time, has come to refer to any illegal or illicit product and this term has become an umbrella term for illicit, unofficial, or unlicensed recordings, including vinyl LPs, silver CDs, or any other commercially sold media or material. The alternate term ROIO or VOI arose among Pink Floyd collectors, to clarify the recording source, although unofficial and unlicensed recordings had existed before the 1960s, the very first rock bootlegs came in plain sleeves with the title rubber stamped on it. However, they developed into more sophisticated packaging, in order to distinguish the manufacturer from inferior competitors. With todays packaging and desktop publishing technology, even the layman can create official looking CDs, with the advent of the cassette and CD-R, however, some bootlegs are traded privately with no attempt to be manufactured professionally. This is even more evident with the ability to share bootlegs via the Internet, some record companies have considered that any record issued outside of their control, and for which they do not receive payment, to be a counterfeit, which includes bootlegs. The most common type is the live bootleg, or audience recording, a number of bootlegs originated with FM radio broadcasts of live or previously recorded live performances. Other bootlegs may be soundboard recordings taken directly from a mixing console used to feed the public address system at a live performance. Artists may record their own shows for review, but engineers may surreptitiously take a copy of this. Some bootlegs consist of private or professional studio recordings distributed without the involvement, including demos. A theme of early rock bootlegs was to copy deleted records, such as old singles and B-sides, onto a single LP, some bootlegs, however, did lead to official releases. According to enthusiast and author Clinton Heylin, the concept of a record can be traced back to the days of Shakespeare. The US did not agree to the terms, resulting in many piratical reprints of sheet music being published there by the end of the century
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Dark ambient
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Dark ambient is a genre of post-industrial music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones, some of which were heavily inspired by elements of ambient music. The term was coined in the early 1990s by Roger Karmanik to describe the music of Raison dêtre and is associated with the Cold Meat Industry record label. Dark ambient has its roots in the 1970s, with the introduction of newer, smaller, early genre elements can be found on Throbbing Gristles 1978 album D. o. A, The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle. These artists make use of principles such as noise and shock tactics. Many of these artists are eclectic in their output, with much of it falling outside of ambient industrial, dark ambient has vibrated also into contemporary classical music. The example can be some solo works of composer Vladimír Hirsch, for example, entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings, the babbling of newborn babies, or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires. Generally the music tends to evoke a feeling of solitude, melancholy, confinement, however, while the theme in the music tends to be dark in nature, some artists create more organic soundscapes. Examples of such productions are those of Oöphoi, Alio Die, Mathias Grassow, Tau Ceti, List of dark ambient artists List of electronic music genres
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
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Born Again Pagans
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Born Again Pagans was the only release attributed to Coil Vs. ELpH, though another album Worship The Glitch would be attributed to ELpH Vs. Coil. ELpH is a name that Coil used for a few releases, so this CD is ostensibly, though not officially, in the CD booklet track one is attributed to Coil and tracks two, three and four are attributed to ELpH. Protection is supposed to be the single for the forthcoming double CD compilation the Sound Of Music due Spring 1995, however the Sound Of Music, a proposed compilation of Coils soundtrack work, was never released. Recreated versions of the song Protection were released as Simenon and Bee Has The Photos on the Backwards demo, three official alternate versions of the song Protection have also surfaced as bootlegs. Their track timings are,13,26,4,36, Glimpse is a version of pHILM #1. PHILM #1 was later released with added vox vocals, on the ELpH single pHILM #1, a remix of pHILM #1 titled Philm appeared on the CoH album, Москве. The catalogue number is Eskaton 002, Protection –6,55 Glimpse –3,32 Crawling Spirit –1,54 pHILM #1 –9,13 Discogs entry
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Live Three
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Live Three was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 6 April 2002 at Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna, Italy. This CD was one of four releases in a series and its counterparts are Live Four, Live Two and Live One. This album was released as part of Coils box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience. Anarcadia, All Horned Animals is a song based on The Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence. Amethyst Deceivers was originally released on Autumn Equinox in its studio form and this live version, however, is more similar to The Last Amethyst Deceiver from The Ape Of Naples. Slur was originally released in form on Horse Rotorvator. A Cold Cell was released in form on Пособие для начинающих, Глас Сéребра. A new version, titled Cold Cell, was released on The Ape Of Naples. Broccoli was released in form on the album Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.1. Another live version of this appears on the compilation Not Alone. Paranoid Inlay was originally released in form on the album Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.2. Sick Mirrors, an improvised live song of that era, was never given a proper studio release. A. Y. O. R. was originally available on the bootleg Backwards but later became available on Пособие для кончающих. Backwards was also based primarily on Bee Has The Photos from the bootleg Backwards and it uses many of the same samples as Protection from Born Again Pagans. The song was given a studio release on the posthumous 2008 release The New Backwards. For this recording, Coil were, Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown, Cliff Stapleton, on the back on the CD there is notice of an upcoming DVD and vinyl release. The vinyl edition was never released, but video of the show is now included in the Colour Sound Oblivion 16DVD set and this album is currently available in CD format at Coils official website, Thresholdhouse. com. Anarcadia, All Horned Animals –6,52 Amethyst Deceivers –7,44 Slur –5,46 A Cold Cell –6,23 Broccoli –9,13 Paranoid Inlay –8,06 Sick Mirrors –8,47 A. Y. O. R
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John Balance
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He was responsible for vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices. Outside of Coil he collaborated with Nurse with Wound, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Thighpaulsandra and his early work and wide-ranging collaborations made him one of the most influential figures in the industrial, experimental minimalist and neofolk music scenes. Balance first recorded using the alias Merderwerkers, the Merderwerkers track, Blue Funk, was included on the Sterile Records cassette compilation Standard Response. Balance also published a zine, Stabmental, and released a track, A Thin Veil of Blood. A Thin Veil of Blood was included on the cassette compilation Deleted Funtime – Various Tunes for Various Loons, Balance then joined up with Peter Christopherson and Boyd Rice to record Nightmare Culture under the moniker The Sickness of Snakes. Balance subsequently joined Psychic TV and performed alongside Christopherson, however in 1984, Balance, a short collaboration with Zos Kia produced the split tape Transparent. Credit for the album was shared, and marked Coils first release, the original Coil / Zos Kia tape, Transparent, was released as a His-Storical CD reissue in 1997. Dreams Less Sweet Just Drifting Berlin Atonal Vol.2 N. Y, scum Thee City ov Tokyo/Thee City ov New York Mein-Goett-In-Gen Merderwerkers, Blue Funk on Sterile Records compilation Standard Response. Stabmental, A Thin Veil of Blood on compilation Deleted Funtime - Various Tunes for Various Loons, Sickness of Snakes, Nightmare Culture Rosa Mundi, The Snow Man on compilations The Final Solstice, The Final Solstice II and split album Grief. Balance died on 13 November 2004, after falling from a balcony at his home. Peter Christopherson announced Balances death on the Threshold House website, Balances memorial service was held near Bristol on 23 November, and was attended by approximately 100 people. November 2014 saw the publication of a volume of his art called Bright Lights and Cats with no Mouths by Edition Timeless
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Thighpaulsandra
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Thighpaulsandra is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. As Tim Lewis, he began his working with Julian Cope. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, as the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth and this project completed just the two albums, Queen Elizabeth and Elizabeth Vagina, each containing extremely long spacey tracks of between 20–47 minutes in duration. In 1997, former Cope guitarist Mike Mooney invited Lewis to fill for the departing Kate Radley on a Spiritualized tour, in 1999 he also became a member of the experimental band Coil. He has subsequently released solo albums. Beginning his career in the early 1980s with the metal band Temper Temper, Lewis next became the house engineer. Living in S. Wales, Lewis was at first unable to capitalise on his influences, such as krautrock. Eventually, his work with Julian Cope provided the right atmosphere, Thighpaulsandra can be heard on the records Live at the Albert Hall, Let It Come Down, Amazing Grace and Songs in A&E. He also joined Coil the next year and performed on albums as Astral Disaster, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1. During the same period, Thighpaulsandra also worked on The Waterboys album A Rock in the Weary Land, the artwork for his Double Vulgar album caused some controversy with several printers not willing to reproduce the controversial imagery. Double Vulgar II was delayed, possibly for the reason, along with the passing of friend. His first three solo releases came out via the Coil label, Eskaton, London based Austrian photographer Ruth Bayer took the front cover image for I, Thighpaulsandra. Bayer was the photographer for many of the first London Coil shows. In September 2013 he joined Wire on their UK and European tours playing keyboards, after a hiatus from solo work, Thighpaulsandra released The Golden Communion in 2015. Some Head EP – I, Thighpaulsandra – The Michel Publicity Window E. P, – Double Vulgar – Rape Scene – Double Vulgar II – Chamber Music – The Lepore Extrusion – The Clisto E. P. – The Golden Communion – Compilation appearances Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy on Brain in the Wire Christs Teeth on. 1 Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.2 Coil Presents Time Machines Queens of the Circulating Library Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil Live One Live Two Live Four Megalithomania
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Scatology (album)
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Scatology is the debut longplay by British experimental band Coil, first released in 1984. Scatology was released in three different formats with two different covers, for the original LP release, the black sun design that was first put on was pasted over by a postcard with a swirling and descending staircase known as the Anal Staircase. The second edition had the Sexual Architecture postcard pasted on random covers with uncovered ones revealing the black sun design. The CD edition featured a cover with the title of the album, -4,24 Godhead=Deathead -5,16 Cathedral in Flames -4,39 Tainted Love -5,53 The version of Spoiler is not the same as the 12 release. Ubu Noir Panic At the Heart of it All Tenderness of Wolves The Spoiler Clap Restless Day Aqua Regis Solar Lodge The S. W. B. P, track 2 is in a greatly extended early version, including a minute-long organ introduction and several verses. Track 9 is an instrumental demo, tracks 3 and 11 are early vocal demos, the former became Godhead<=> Deathead, while the latter was re-recorded, the original becoming, in instrumental form, The Wheal. Looking for Europe, Neofolk und Hintergründe, Scatology at Discogs Scatology at Brainwashed. com
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Horse Rotorvator
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Horse Rotorvator is the second full-length studio album released by the British industrial group Coil. It was ranked 73 by Pitchfork Media in its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, although Coil did officially release this album on cassette, it was once again pirated in cassette form by both Stable Records and ArsNova Records, which hail from Russia. The song Who by Fire was written by Leonard Cohen, originally appearing on his album New Skin for the Old Ceremony, all songs written by John Balance and Peter Christopherson, except where noted. S. Silk and Acapulco March are the titles for Slur and Herald. Ravenous and are from The Anal Staircase 12 single, and are not listed on the tape card, sometimes the listing on the cover and the actual running order differ as a result
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Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
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Gold Is the Metal was the third album released by Coil in the year 1987. It is not a proper follow-up to 1986s Horse Rotorvator, but more a collection of outtakes and demos from the Scatology, Horse Rotorvator, some obviously correspond to earlier and later released material, while others do not appear anywhere else. The Last Rites Of Spring includes a sample by Stravinsky, also used extensively in The Anal Staircase, the musicians involved in this album were, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Stephen Thrower, Alex Fergusson, Jim Thirlwell, Billy McGee, and Andrew Poppy. The standard 12 was released by the label Threshold House with the catalogue number LOCI1, the first edition was pressed on red vinyl. The second edition was black and the third was transparent, in addition,25 copies on red vinyl were released with an unfinished sleeve. The first initial copies of this album were shipped with the free 7 singles The Wheel/The Wheal, the Wheel/The Wheal was believed to be shipped with the first 500 copies, then The Wheal/Keelhauler with an unknown additional copies. A special art edition of the 12 was released in an edition of 55 under the Threshold House label with the catalogue number LOCI3, in 1988, the album was also released on CD by the labels Normal and Threshold House. The Normal release had a number of NORMAL77 and was released in the Netherlands. The Threshold House release had a number of LOCI1 and was released in the United Kingdom. A Total of 1,000 numbered copies were produced during this pressing, the last three tracks have indexing problems. In 1996 the album was repressed under the label Threshold House with catalogue number LOCI CD11, the artwork for this release is entirely different for this album. The album is subtitled Returning to the Purity of the Current and this version still suffers from indexing problems. In 2006, the 1996 version of the album was available for download at Coils official site, thresholdhouse. com, in aac, mp3. This album is available for download. The CD pressings included the extra tracks Hellraiser and The Wheal, Side A, Last Rites of Spring Paradisiac Thump For Us They Will The Broken Wheel Boy in a Suitcase Golden Hole Cardinal Points Side B, Red Slur
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Love's Secret Domain
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Loves Secret Domain is the third album by Coil and was released in 1991. The album marked a departure from the brooding synthesizers and melodies of their first two albums, focusing more on acid house sampling, the singles released from the album were Windowpane and The Snow. Guest vocalists include Marc Almond on Titan Arch and Annie Anxiety on Things Happen, a working title for the album was The Side Effects of Life. Loves Secret Domain was later remastered by Thighpaulsandra with slightly different track lengths, the album is currently available for purchasing in AAC, MP3, and FLAC formats at Coils official website. The song Disco Hospital was covered by Matmos on their EP California Rhinoplasty, lyrics of the song Loves Secret Domain borrow from the song In Dreams, In dreams I walk with you / In dreams I talk to you / In dreams youre mine / All the time. Lyrics are also culled from The Sick Rose by William Blake, specifically, O rose, the cover features a painting by Steven Stapleton originally created on an outhouse door
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Stolen & Contaminated Songs
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Stolen & Contaminated Songs was the first of two albums recorded and produced by the band Coil in 1992. This CD includes outtakes and unreleased songs from Loves Secret Domain album, the first edition had a different cover and came without info of any kind, except for a small numbered flyer stating This is stolen and contaminated songs. Some copies have a sticker on the back of the CD jewel box with the band name, album title, track list, an address for World Serpent Distribution. The later release changed the titles of all of the songs from this edition, although track one is listed as Futher its actual title is supposed to be Further, as the track is a variation on Further Back and Faster from the Loves Secret Domain sister album. After the final track there is a period of silence before a hidden piece. An alternate version of Wholl Fall. was released as Is Suicide a Solution, on the single Airborne Bells/Is Suicide A Solution. The song Omlagus Garfungiloops features excerpts of dialogue from the 1990 cult film The Reflecting Skin and this album is currently available in AAC, MP3 and FLAC formats from Coils official website, Thresholdhouse. com. Original titles are in after the relevant songs, Futher –4,21 Original Chaostrophy –1,52 Wholl Tell. –3,13 Omlagus Garfungiloops –4,24 Inkling –3,03 Loves Secret Domain –3,57 Nasa-Arab –10,59 Wholl Fall. –5,31 The Original Wild Garlic Memory –7,00 Wrim Wram Wrom –3,13 Corybantic Ennui –0,42 Her Friends the Wolves, –10,58 Light Shining Darkly –2,45
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Astral Disaster
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Astral Disaster is an album by Coil, which has been released in two distinct versions. The original pressing of the album was released in an edition of 99 copies on 12 vinyl via the record label Acme/Prescription with catalogue number Drug 8. It was available only to those who had subscribed to the entire Drug series and it included an insert with the track listing and release notes, and a piece of handmade artwork in a plastic zip-lock bag. The later pressing of album, released on CD and 12 via the Threshold House label, is completely rebuilt. This version also includes a remake of The Mothership & The Fatherland titled MÜ-ÜR, the 12 inch release was limited to 1,000 copies on gray vinyl and a special edition of 100 copies on red vinyl. The special edition includes a sheet of lyrics that is signed by Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson and it also includes an original numbered drawing, which is signed by Jhon Balance and Peter Christopherson. The album is themed on mankinds pollution of the seas for commerce. The majority of the album was recorded in an area below the level of the Thames River, the Avatars was made with a Syrinx synthesiser, and was John Balances attempt to recreate memories of sneaking through his house at night to watch Bernard Quatermass series on television. The title of the song comes from a book by George Russell, second Son Syndrome was purposely renamed 2nd Sun Syndrome on reissue. Most of the lyrics to The Sea Priestess were based on Aleister Crowleys descriptions of the murals on the walls of the Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu in Sicily
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Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
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Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1 is a CD in its third pressing, as well as a 12 vinyl, by Coil. Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1 was one of two albums attributed purely to a style called moon music, which signified their change from a solar to a moon group, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.2 is the sequel album. The initial CD pressing was limited to 2,000 copies, approximately 1,000 of those copies that were ordered directly from Coil include a certificate of provenance, numbered and signed by Peter and John. The 12 version of this record features edited versions of the songs as they appear on the CD and it was released on translucent white vinyl in an edition of 500. FOR YVES TANGUY is etched in side A of the vinyl, ITS JUST A PHASE WERE GOING THROUGH is etched on side B. This album is available in CD format at Coils official website. Are You Shivering. is about the drug MDMA, colloquially known as Ecstasy, the song Red Birds. is based on the album Rubycon by Tangerine Dream. The name for song was taken from Nostradamus book The Prophecies. Piano on Red Queen is performed by Thighpaulsandra and is about the media spreading lies, the spoken line on Strange Birds is taken from Aleister Crowley. The Dreamer Is Still Asleep is about William Blake. –9,40 Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night –12,40 Red Queen –11,02 Broccoli –9,21 Strange Birds –7,37 The Dreamer Is Still Asleep –9,56 Side A, Are You Shivering. Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night –8,41 Red Queen -, the Dreamer Is Still Asleep -. John Balance Peter Christopherson Thighpaulsandra Drew McDowall Moon Musick website
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Queens of the Circulating Library
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Queens of the Circulating Library is a 2000 album by the experimental British group Coil. It is unusual in the sense that it is perhaps the only release without participation from Peter Christopherson, on this album, Coil were, Thighpaulsandra & John Balance with Dorothy Lewis as the queen of the circulating library. The lyrics were written by John Balance and spoken by Dorothy Lewis, the album was initially released on the date of the Coil Presents Time Machines concert. The original packaging was clear, however an issue of the album used pink. No album art was included for this release, the catalogue number for this release is ESKATON20. You may as well listen to the entry at Discogs
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Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
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Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.2 is an album by Coil currently in its third pressing in CD format, it was also released in double 12 vinyl format. Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.2 was the second of two albums attributed purely to a style called moon musick, which signify their change from a group to a moon group. Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1 was the first installment, an Emergency is sung by Rose McDowall. The lyrics of Batwings have many references to Musaeum Clausum written by Sir Thomas Browne and this song was also played at John Balances funeral service and Peter Christopherson described it as a language that only he knows. The first 1,000 mail-order copies of the CD came with Coil Presents Time Machines as a bonus, four different versions of this album were pressed onto two 12 vinyl records, A standard edition limited to 1300 numbered copies. A special edition limited to 50 copies with one light blue record, the records themselves have plain white labels, with gold leaf attached to the label on side four. A special Trauma edition is said to be limited to 26 copies and it was pressed white vinyl with plain white covers smeared with John Balances own blood during a psychotic/demonic episode. These also contain the cover picture and prints from the amethyst edition listed above, initially, only 11 copies were to be sold with the remainder being held by Coil in their personal archive, but the edition was expanded due to high demand. This album was recorded by Peter Christopherson, Jhonn Balance, Thighpaulsandra, the phrase The key to joy is disobedience, there is no guilt, there is no shame is whispered at the beginning of Batwings. A shorter version of Batwings appeared on the Russian compilation Пособие для начинающих and this album is currently unavailable in CD format. Something –5,02 Tiny Golden Books –12,19 Ether –11,32 Paranoid Inlay –7,17 An Emergency –1,18 Where Are You, –7,53 Batwings –11,32 Side A, Something -. John Balance Peter Christopherson Thighpaulsandra Rose McDowall, vocals on An Emergency Moon Musick website
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Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil
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Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil is a CD by Coil, released the same year as Queens of the Circulating Library. Like Queens, this album comes packaged in a pink c-shell case, according to the credits, Coil were Thighpaulsandra, John Balance, & Peter Christopherson. The track names provided are Higher Beings Command, I Am the Green Child, Beige, Lowest Common Abominator, Free Base Chakra, the track listing is rather mysterious as it only lists six tracks while 23 tracks are actually pressed on the CD. The release is unique in Coils catalog for several things not unusual to the band separately, It is very noisy and nearly devoid of conventional instruments and vocals. John Balances singing appears only on I Am the Green Child and minimally on Tunnel of Goats, however, their live act prominently featured Edwardss playing and, unlike the original, the live version of Higher Beings Command does include vocals. The following warning appears after the listing, May Cause Drowsiness - Do Not Play While Driving Or Operating Machinery. The catalogue number is ESKATON24, Coil Presents Time Machines has the similar catalog number of ESKATON CD24. Tracks 6 through 21 are continuations as well, track 22 is silent, except for the beginning which is an extension from track 21. Track 23 features John Balance laughing with echo effects applied to his voice, starting at 1,57 of track 10, through track 12, Balance can be heard singing in the right channel. The lyrics to Tunnel of Goats resurface on Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil on Live Two and the conclusion of Backwards on Live Three
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Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc
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Moons Milk Bonus Disc is a semi-official name for an edition of Coil CD-Rs released in conjunction with Moons Milk. Each CD sleeve was hand painted and given its own unique title, most of the sleeves were numbered, followed by the title, then 2001 ev. Winter Solstice - December 21,2001 ev. or something similar, most of the titles have quotations around them. This official CD-R was originally available with a special order of Moons Milk which cost $85 more than the two cd set. Additional copies were available later separately. The later ones were said to be the ones that Jhonn Balance kept because he favored them. However, most of the later ones did not include a signed polaroid as the set did. The numbered edition is believed to be between 1 and three hundred, with repeating numbers, an approximate 33 of the Bonus Discs comprise the unnumbered edition. The song The Coppice Meat later appeared on a CD compilation titled X-Rated and this CD was going to be re-released on Moons Milk In Six Phases. 70 The Ghost Of A Carrier Pigeon 72 Astrid Bauer Rides Out 75 The King Is Dead 80 It Just Is
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The Remote Viewer
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The Remote Viewer was originally released in CD-R format by Coil. The three-track album was released in 2002 May in an edition of 500 copies, the album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second CD of two new tracks. The second edition was released in August 2006 on the day as the expanded version of Black Antlers. Both reissues were mastered by Mark Godwin, printed in Thailand and feature high quality images, although the original edition did not include a catalog number, the reissue was given a catalog number of THBKK1. Both reissues are currently available at the official Coil website, thresholdhouse. com and it is noted that the second disc of the Threshold House edition was created in 2006 using original materials. Jhonn BalancePeter ChristophersonOssian BrownCliff StapletonMike York Written & produced by Coil & Danny Hyde
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The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
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The Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence is a 12 vinyl by Coil which heavily references samples from The Remote Viewer. The vinyl was released in four versions as limited editions,450 numbered copies were pressed on black vinyl,50 numbered copies were pressed on black/white marbled vinyl for series subscribers. 100 artist copies were pressed on black/white marbled vinyl,6 copies were released in a wooden box with a test pressing along with both black and marbled vinyl. In addition to Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra is credited in this recording, the Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence II appears on the compilation CD The Lactamase 10 Sampler with a track length of 5,01. An mp3 bearing the name was available for download on Beta-lactam Ring Records website for a limited time. The song Bad Message from the session can be found on the compilation Lactamase Bonus Compilation. Side A, The Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence I –16,06 Side B, The Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence II –12,01 Discogs entry Discogs entry for acetate pressing
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Black Antlers
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Black Antlers is a studio album by the experimental band Coil. It was originally released in CD-R format in 2004 in an edition and was sold during their Even an Evil Fatigue mini-tour. The album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second CD of two new tracks, as well as a new track on the first disc, the second edition was released in August 2006 on the same day as the expanded version of The Remote Viewer. Both reissues were mastered by Mark Godwin, printed in Thailand and feature high quality images, although the original edition did not include a catalogue number, the reissue was given a catalogue number of THBKK2. Both reissues are currently available at the official Coil website, thresholdhouse. com, All songs from the original pressing of the album were played live around the time of this release. The Gimp was originally released as a recording by Coil on the compilation Hate People Like Us featuring remixes, the original version was titled The Gimp/Sometimes and sounds much less developed than the version on Black Antlers. The lyrics to this also appeared in an untitled live piece performed at New Forms III in 2002. Sex with Sun Ra had been mentioned by Coil for many years before appearing on Black Antlers. A version of Sex with Sun Ra, titled simply Sex with Sun Ra, later appeared on the compilation Rough Trade Shops, the version on the compilation is 6,00 in length. The track was written about eccentric jazz musician Sun Ra, Wraiths and Strays is from a live performance on 29 May 2003, in Montreal, Canada at Mutek 2003. The Wraiths and Strays of Paris is a version of a live performance in Paris. The key difference between the two versions is that the Mutek performance features only Christopherson and Thighpaulsandra while the Paris recording features the full touring line-up, the song is built around a sample of the track Montparnesse by King of Woolworths which was initially used without permission. All The Pretty Little Horses is a lullaby that was brought to light on the Current 93 album All The Pretty Little Horses. Balance provided vocals for three tracks on album and often introduced the song live as being from my friends album. Teenage Lightning is a version of the songs Teenage Lightning 1, the version of the song as it appears on Black Antlers is similar to the version on The Ape of Naples titled Teenage Lightning 2005. Black Antlers is a cover of the 1988 acid house track Wheres Your Child. by Bam Bam, coils studio recording is instrumental but when performing the song live, Balance sang the vocal parts from the Bam Bam version
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Coil Presents Time Machines
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Coil Presents Time Machines was a live CD by Coil. This CD was produced in an amount of 1,000 copies and was given away with the initial mail orders of Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.2. The CD is a performance which took place on April 2,2000 at the Cornucopia festival in the Royal Festival Hall in London. The name of the performance was Time Machines from the Heart of Darkness, the album was later reissued as CD A on Live One in an unaltered form. Everything Keeps Dissolving and Chasms appear on CD B of Live One as well, however Chasms is titled Blue Chasms. Neither of these songs have had a studio release. The lyrics for Chasms are every man and woman is a star, Circulating is a shortened live version of Queens Of The Circulating Library. John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Simon Norris, and Thighpaulsandra are credited as performance members, dorothy Lewis, Thighpaulsandras mothers vocals can be heard on the song Queens Of The Circulating Library. The catalogue number is ESKATON CD24, constant Shallowness Leads To Evil has the similar catalogue number of ESKATON24. Coil Presents Time Machines is a separate and different album from Time Machines, everything Keeps Dissolving –15,14 Circulating –13,50 Chasms –21,39 Discogs entry
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Live in Moscow (Coil video)
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Live In Moscow is a VHS of a video recording of Coil. The live performance took place on 15 September 2001 at DK Gorbunova in Moscow and this video is exactly the same performance as Live Two. This release was given to attendees at Coils return to Moscow on September 26,2002, a box-set edition limited to 35 copies was available. It contained a copy of the video, a T-shirt, a poster, many unofficial bootlegs have surfaced on ebay. This represents Coils only official video release other than the ANS DVD, unlike the Live In NYC August 18,2001 VHS, this video does not include any bonus material. However, unlike the Live In NYC August 18,2001 VHS, at the end a track list and a list of information in English and Russian scroll signifying the end of the video. The entire video is included on the Colour Sound Oblivion 16DVD set, john Balance, vocals Peter Christopherson, Macintosh laptop, synths Thighpaulsandra, synths, theremin Something Higher Beings Command Amethyst Deceivers What Kind Of Animal Are You. Blood From The Air The Green Child Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil
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Live Four
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Live Four was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series and its counterparts are Live Three, Live Two and Live One. This album was released as part of Coils box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience. The performance dates for Bang Bang and An Unearthly Red were performed in Prague on 27 October 2002, I Am Angie Bowie, The Universe Is A Haunted House, Bang Bang and An Unearthly Red are songs that have never had a proper studio release. Last Rites Of Spring was originally released in form as The Last Rites Of Spring on the album Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders. Are You Shivering. was originally released in form on the album Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.1. Amethyst Deceivers was originally released on the CD/7 single Autumn Equinox, the version of the song on this album is a slower and much more like The Last Amethyst Deceiver on The Ape Of Naples than the original version. A Warning From The Sun was originally released in form as A Warning From The Sun on the CD single Summer Solstice. Ostia was originally released in form on Ostia on the album Horse Rotorvator. The version of the song on album is much slower than the original. I Dont Want To Be The One was originally released in form as Astral Disaster. Bang Bang is a cover of an old song by Sonny Bono, the lyrics to An Unearthly Red allude to a statement made by George W. Bush saying, God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq. The song was released on a CD by Danny Hyde as An Unhealthy Red, on the back on the CD there is notice of an upcoming DVD and vinyl release of the compilation. The vinyl edition was never released, but videos of both shows are included in the Colour Sound Oblivion 16DVD set, according to the liner notes, Coil were, Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown & Thighpaulsandra. I Am Angie Bowie –6,10 Last Rites Of Spring –10,42 Are You Shivering
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Live Two
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Live Two was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 15 September 2001 at DK Gorbunova in Moscow, Russia. This CD was one of four releases in a series and its counterparts are Live Four, Live Three and Live One. This album was released as part of Coils box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience. Something was originally released in studio format on the album Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.2, higher Beings Command was originally released in studio form on Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil. Amethyst Deceivers was originally released on the single Autumn Equinox, what Kind Of Animal Are You. has never been given a proper studio release, but was likely inspired by a track For Us They Will from Gold is the Metal. Blood From The Air was originally released in form on the album Horse Rotorvator. The Green Child originally appeared on the album Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil, the finale, Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil, is musically based on the latter half of the album of the same name, with its lyrics derived from a portion of Tunnel of Goats. An official VHS of this concert was released as Live In Moscow and this is also included on the Colour Sound Oblivion 16DVD box set. For this recording, Coil were, Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra and this album is currently available in CD format at Coils official website, Thresholdhouse. com. Something/Higher Beings Command –8,45 Amethyst Deceivers –6,32 What Kind Of Animal Are You. –8,53 Blood From The Air –5,35 The Green Child –7,56 Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil –17,11 Live Two at Discogs
