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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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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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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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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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Wax Trax! Records
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Records is an American independent record label. It began as a shop in Denver, Colorado opened by Jim Nash. They sold the store in 1978 and, in November of that year, opened a new one under the name at 2449 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. This store would become the center of the new wave, punk rock, as important as Chess Records was to blues and soul music, Chicago’s Wax Trax imprint was just as significant to the punk rock, new wave and industrial genres. The original label was purchased in 1992 by TVT Records, in 2014, it was re-established by Julia Nash. The record store became a record label slowly at first, initially releasing limited edition records such as Brian Enos Wimoweh/Deadly Seven Finns seven inch, release was Strike Unders Immediate Action twelve inch EP in 1980, followed by Divines Born To Be Cheap seven inch. Among the most noteworthy artists released by Wax Trax, the label also released a bevy of side projects by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry, including Revolting Cocks, Acid Horse, Pailhead, PTP, Lead into Gold, and 1000 Homo DJs. Nash and Flesher licensed a number of recordings from Play It Again Sam of Belgium, Play It Again Sam, in turn, oversaw the operation of Wax Trax. Europe, although it closed abruptly when the relationship between the labels ended acrimoniously in the early 1990s, Play It Again Sam U. S. A. was subsequently absorbed by Caroline Records. Following a bankruptcy filing, Wax Trax. was bought by New York-based TVT Records in 1992, with Nash, TVT continued to use the Wax Trax. imprint for years, even after Nashs death from AIDS-related complications on October 10,1995. In 1994 TVT released Black Box - Wax Trax, Records, The First 13 Years under the Wax Trax. label. It was a 3-CD box set compilation of the labels biggest hits, mr. Nash is survived by his two children, Julia and Aaron Nash. Julia Nash owns and maintains the website titled WaxTraxChicago. com, The Official Family Site dedicated to the memory of Jim Nash / Dannie Flesher, on January 10,2011 WaxTraxChicago. com announced “Wax Trax. The Retrospectacle was the 33 & 1/3 year Wax Trax, however, while we are both in no way associated with this event, we want to make it clear that we do support the good works of the charity involved and honor the memory of Wax Trax. Founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, in mid-June 2014, Jim Nashs daughter Julia Nash reopened Wax Trax. Records with the release of a 12-inch single from Cocksure and this was followed shortly afterward with the release of a 7-inch single for Front 242. This was accompanied by a store in Chicagos Cabaret Metro music venue on June 15. Historical site by Julia Nash Wax Trax, Records, the original Denver record store Wax Trax
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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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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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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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Compact disc
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Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data. The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan, standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres and can hold up to about 80 minutes of uncompressed audio or about 700 MiB of data. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 millimetres, they are used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio. At the time of the introduction in 1982, a CD could store much more data than a personal computer hard drive. By 2010, hard drives commonly offered as much space as a thousand CDs. In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs, by 2007,200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. In 2014, revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time. American inventor James T. Russell has been credited with inventing the first system to record information on an optical transparent foil that is lit from behind by a high-power halogen lamp. Russells patent application was first filed in 1966, and he was granted a patent in 1970, following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russells patents in the 1980s. The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s, although originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980, after their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984, by 1988 CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and by 1992 CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music cassette tapes. The success of the disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, who came together to agree upon and develop compatible hardware. The unified design of the disc allowed consumers to purchase any disc or player from any company. In 1974, L. However, due to the performance of the analog format
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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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Trip hop
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Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Trip hop can be highly experimental and it was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has described as Europes alternative choice in the second half of the 90s. DJs, MCs, b-boys and graffiti artists grouped together into informal soundsystems, Bristols soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat. Bristols Wild Bunch crew became one of the soundsystems to put a spin on the international phenomenon, helping to birth Bristols signature sound of trip hop. As the hip hop scene matured in Bristol and musical trends evolved further toward acid jazz and house in the late 1980s, another influence came from Gary Clails Tackhead soundsystem. Clail often worked with former The Pop Group singer Mark Stewart, produced by Adrian Sherwood, the music combined hiphop with experimental rock and dub and sounded like a premature version of what later became trip hop. In 1993, Kirsty MacColl released Angel, one of the first examples of the crossing over to pop. In the 1990s, Janet Jackson brought trip hop into the American charts with the song If, several songs on her Janet. and The Velvet Rope used this genre of music, Songs like Got Til Its Gone and You. Massive Attacks first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK, Massive Attack released their second album entitled Protection in 1994. The term trip hop was coined that year, but not in reference to anything on the Massive Attack albums, in 1993, Icelandic musician Björk released Debut, produced by Wild Bunch member Nellee Hooper. The album, although rooted in four-on-the-floor house music, contained elements of trip hop and is credited as one of the first albums to introduce electronic music into mainstream pop. She had been in contact with Londons underground electronic music scene and was involved with trip hop musician Tricky. Björk embraced trip hop even more with her 1995 album Post by collaborating with Tricky, homogenic, her 1997 album, has been described as a pinnacle of trip hop music. 1994 and 1995 saw trip hop near the peak of its popularity, with such as Howie B, Naked Funk. The period also marked the debut of two acts who, along with Massive Attack, would define the Bristol scene for years to come, in 1994 Portishead, a trio comprising singer Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley, released their debut album Dummy. Their background differed from Massive Attack in many ways, one of Portisheads primary influences was 1960s and 1970s film soundtrack LPs, nevertheless, Portishead shared the scratchy, jazz-sample-based aesthetic of early Massive Attack, and the sullen, fragile vocals of Gibbons also brought them wide acclaim. In 1995, Dummy was awarded the Mercury Music Prize as the best British album of the year, Tricky also released his debut solo album Maxinquaye in 1995, to great critical acclaim
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LSD
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Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects. This may include altered awareness of the surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and it is used mainly as a recreational drug and for spiritual reasons. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue and it is often sold on blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. However, adverse reactions such as anxiety, paranoia. LSD is in the ergoline family, LSD is sensitive to oxygen, ultraviolet light, and chlorine, though it may last for years if it is stored away from light and moisture at low temperature. In pure form it is odorless and clear or white in color, as little as 20–30 micrograms can produce an effect. LSD was first made by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland in 1938 from ergotamine, the laboratory name for the compound was the acronym for the German Lyserg-säure-diäthylamid, followed by a sequential number, LSD-25. Hofmann discovered its properties in 1943. LSD was introduced as a medication under the trade-name Delysid for various psychiatric uses in 1947. In the 1950s, officials at the U. S, Central Intelligence Agency thought the drug might be useful for mind control and chemical warfare and tested the drug on young servicemen and students, and others without their knowledge. The subsequent recreational use by youth culture in the Western world as part of 1960s counterculture resulted in its prohibition, LSD currently has no approved uses in medicine. LSD is commonly used as a recreational drug, LSD is considered an entheogen because it can catalyze intense spiritual experiences, during which users may feel they have come into contact with a greater spiritual or cosmic order. Users sometimes report out of body experiences, in 1966, Timothy Leary established the League for Spiritual Discovery with LSD as its sacrament. LSD can cause pupil dilation, reduced appetite, and wakefulness, other physical reactions to LSD are highly variable and nonspecific, some of which may be secondary to the psychological effects of LSD. The most common immediate psychological effects of LSD are visual hallucinations and illusions, trips usually start within 20–30 minutes of taking LSD by mouth, peak three to four hours after ingestion, and last up to 12 hours. It is impossible to predict when a bad trip will occur, some users, including Albert Hofmann, report a strong metallic taste for the duration of the effects. LSD causes an animated experience of senses, emotions, memories, time. Generally beginning within 30 to 90 minutes after ingestion, the user may experience anything from subtle changes in perception to overwhelming cognitive shifts, changes in auditory and visual perception are typical
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All Media Network
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AllGame was a commercial database of information about arcade games, video games and console manufacturers. The AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com, All Media Network includes of the original founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. The AllGame section of the site was shut down on December 12,2014, AllMusic AllMovie SideReel All Media Network MobyGames, another online database of video games and developers
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Chicago Tribune
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The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by tronc, Inc. formerly Tribune Publishing. The Tribune was founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, forrest, publishing its first edition on June 10,1847. The paper saw numerous changes in ownership and editorship over the eight years. Initially, the Tribune was not politically affiliated but tended to either the Whig or Free Soil parties against the Democrats in elections. By late 1853, it was frequently running xenophobic editorials that criticized foreigners, about this time it also became a strong proponent of temperance. Ray became editor-in-chief, Medill became the editor, and Alfred Cowles, Sr. brother of Edwin Cowles. Each purchased one third of the Tribune, under their leadership the Tribune distanced itself from the Know Nothings and became the main Chicago organ of the Republican Party. However, the continued to print anti-Catholic and anti-Irish editorials. Between 1858 and 1860, the paper was known as the Chicago Press & Tribune, on October 25,1860, it became the Chicago Daily Tribune. Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, the paper remained a force in Republican politics for years afterwards. In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics for the song John Browns Body by William W. Patton, Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. Joseph McCarthy, when McCormick assumed the position of co-editor in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicagos eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188,000. At the same time, the Tribune competed with the Hearst paper, by 1914, the cousins succeeded in forcing out Managing Editor William Keeley. By 1918, the Examiner was forced to merge with the Chicago Herald, in 1919, Patterson left the Tribune and moved to New York to launch his own newspaper, the New York Daily News. In a renewed war with Hearsts Herald-Examiner, McCormick and Hearst ran rival lotteries in 1922. The Tribune won the battle, adding 250,000 readers to its ranks, also in 1922, the Chicago Tribune hosted an international design competition for its new headquarters, the Tribune Tower. The competition worked brilliantly as a publicity stunt, and more than 260 entries were received, the winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The newspaper sponsored an attempt at Arctic aviation in 1929
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Discogs
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Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs. com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and are located in Portland, Oregon, US. While the site lists releases in all genres and on all formats, it is known as the largest online database of electronic music releases. Discogs currently contains over 8 million releases, by nearly 4 and he was inspired by the success of community-built sites such as Slashdot, eBay, and Open Directory Project, and decided to use this model for a music discography database. The sites original goal was to build the most comprehensive database of music, organized around the artists, labels. In 2003 the Discogs system was rewritten, and in January 2004 it began to support other genres. Since then, it has expanded to include rock and jazz in January 2005 and funk/soul, Latin, in January 2006 blues and non-music were added. On 30 June 2004, Discogs published a report, which included information about the number of its contributors and this report claimed that Discogs had 15,788 contributors and 260,789 releases. On 20 July 2007 a new system for sellers was introduced on the site called Market Price History. However, at the beginning of 2008, the Market Price History was also free of charge for all users. In late 2014, the company released two new beta websites, gearogs lets users add and track music equipment like synths, drum machines, and other electronic music making equipment. At the start of 2015, the company began another beta project — Bibliogs, users can submit information about their books, physical or electronic, different versions and editions, and also connect different credits to these books. 21,000 books were submitted by the end of 2016, the project remains in its beta phase. The license has since changed to a public domain one. Prior to the advent of this license and API, Discogs data was only accessible via the Discogs web sites HTML interface and was intended to be viewed only using web browsers, the HTML interface remains the only authorized way to modify Discogs data. On 7 June 2011 version 2 of the API was released, notable in this release was that a license key was no longer required, the default response was changed from XML to JSON, and the 5000 queries per day limit was removed. On 1 November 2011 a major update to version 2 of the API was released and this new release dropped support for XML, data is always returned in JSON format, however the monthly data dumps of new data are only provided in XML format. Additionally the Premium API service was dropped, on 24 June 2014 Discogs deprecated their XML API in lieu of a JSON-formatted API
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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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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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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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The New Backwards
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The New Backwards is an album by Coil released in 2008. These remixes were made by Peter Christopherson and Danny Hyde in Bangkok in 2007, the album was originally released on 12 vinyl as part of a box set reissue of the album The Ape of Naples. It is currently available on 12 vinyl, compact disc, and downloads in FLAC, aac, the origin of the source of Backwards is believed to have been a leak of the studio demo, in the form of a cassette. However, the demo was broadcast when Dutch Radio4, a radio station in Amsterdam, had Coil as in studio guests to coincide with a live performance on the date of 2001 June 1. The program was broadcast on 2001 June 18 and a four disc CD-R set of the entire broadcast, although part of the proposed album was eventually released as The Ape Of Naples, the material is so augmented that there are very few recognizable samples. The proposed release on Nothing Records was continuously put off, Simenon and Bee Has Photos are built largely on the foundation of the song Protection, which was released on the single Born Again Pagans. However the version from Songs of the Week is an alternate version, on the live Coil album, Live Three, a song called Backwards is performed. This song is an incarnation of the songs Simenon and Bee Has Photos, other proposed titles are also possibly referenced by this material
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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 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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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
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Live One (Coil album)
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Live One was a double live album released by Coil. This CD was the fourth of four releases in a series and its counterparts are Live Four, Live Three and Live Two. This album was released as part of Coils box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience. CD A was originally released as Coil Presents Time Machines and it is a recording of a performance which took place on April 2,2000 at the Cornucopea festival in the Royal Festival Hall in London, England. CD B is a recording of a concert that took place at Sonar in Barcelona. The studio instrumental used during this performance has surfaced on the internet, the video for this show is also available on the Colour Sound Oblivion 16DVD set. Everything Keeps Dissolving, Blue Chasms and Elves are otherwise unreleased, however, Elves was widely circulated on the bootleg Backwards, in its original studio form, That version, however, is notably absent of Balances vocals. Circulating is a version of the song Queens Of The Circulating Library. Coil were, Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson, Simon Norris, CD B features all of the same artists as CD A with the addition of William Breeze. This album is available in CD format at Coils official website. A track indexing error cuts The Universe Is a Haunted House off prematurely, there are sampled vocals elsewhere, however, as on both versions of Queens. and Chasms
