Iron Halo Device – The Collapsing Void (1998)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

 Pulsating Flesh
1. Introduction - Eyespark, The Man 12:04
2. Penetration - Intruding The Skin 10:37
3. Reflection - The Collapsing Void 15:41
4. Completion - An Empty Anthem 09:14
Spliced & Segmented
5. Creation - The Abduction Of Winter 05:54
6. Evolution - The Expanding Void 04:19
7. Observation - Red Memory 03:32
8. Contemplation - A Passion Vessel 03:29

 

 Project of Philip T. Easter (aka eyespark), member of Stone Glass Steel and Death In Arcadia.
Additionally, Easter was the creative director at Malignant Records

 and he has done the mastering for a large number of releases in the industrial/noise genre.
"The Collapsing Void" was the debut album of the project offering a mix of heavy pounding drum patterns

with experimental noise and dark ambient atmospheres combined with many samples.
Tracks 1-4 were recorded live at the Hurricane in Kansas City on July 31, 1996

while tracks 5-8 were compiled from home demos recorded in August and September 1995.
Released through Malignant Records in 1998 in plain jewel case CD with transparent tray and 3-fold out booklet.

 
Memory

Nightmare Lodge – Negative Planet (1994)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. First Contrast 01:15
2. Baby / Death 06:34
3. Become Visible 03:59
4. The Bird Comes Back 03:44
5. Negative Planet 04:32
6. Mirage IV 05:56
7. Toxic Ways 02:54
8. Grey Wind 03:31
9. The Glorious Animal 03:20
10. Presence 04:54
11. Endless Pleasure (On) 03:49

Nightmare Lodge started in June 1987 as a musical project founded by Minus Habens Records / Disturbance founder

Ivan Iusco alongside vocalist B. Mazzilli and bass player Gianni Mantelli,

when the trio decided to embark on a path in search of their own dreamlike musical dimensions.
Soon they entered a small recording studio in Bari to record their first cassette "Big Mother In The Strain",

that was released on December 12, 1987 as the first publication of Minus Habens founded in the same year by Iusco.
After a few months, because of trivial disputes, the lineup was changed.
Ivan found himself completely alone deciding the Nightmare Lodge destiny.
In the meantime, he met female vocalist M. Cioce, that was selected

to be involved in two tracks on the split LP "The Oneiric Transgression / Noise And Dream",

with the Roman band Lyke Wake, the first vinyl release of Minus Habens Records in 1989.
When the album was out, M. Cioce left and B. Mazzilli returned.

Nightmare Lodge succeeded to assemble two new works across 1990 and 1991,

a split LP, " Ice Skin / The Gospel According To The Men In Black" with the band Blackhouse and a tape entitled "Asylum".
These two releases marked a long retirement period for the duo

caused by the compulsory military service that overwhelmed Ivan and B. Mazzilli.
In that time Nightmare Lodge produced only some tracks on various compilations around the world.
With the relocation of Mazzilli in Veneto in 1992 and the collaboration of Ivan Iusco with the Belgian Dirk Ivens for Dive,

the post-industrial period of Nightmare Lodge closed.
When Ivan came back from the military service he was busy in raising again his record label Minus Habens.
Due to this, the Nightmare Lodge inactivity existed until 1994.
In that year a new friendship born with the mysterious Russolo,

a very talented electronic composer passionate with horror and science fiction cinema.
A perfect union was made and since then Nightmare Lodge released a CD trilogy

("Negative Planet", "Luminescence", "The Enemy Within"),

that received considerable attention from critics and audiences in various countries.
In 1998 Nightmare Lodge composed the soundtrack (in collaboration with the Sicilian musician Paolo Bigazzi)

of the independent science fiction film "Syrena" by Mariano Equizzi

followed by two albums ("Blind Miniatures" and "Tentacled") for the U.S. label Red Stream.
In the summer of 2000, Nightmare Lodge, with guitarist Nicola Cipriani,

performed live for the first time in Calabria a soundtrack written specifically for the film "The War Of The Worlds".
Ivan Iusco has also involved with the project It and composed two songs for the sci-fi video game "Cyberpunk 2077".

 
Memory

Predominance – Hindenburg (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Ascending Colossus 05:31
2. Luftschiffe 05:05
3. In Through The Eyes Of Heaven 06:48
4. Encoded Pages (Inade Rmx) 06:13
5. Four Symbols 07:00
6. Under The Blackened Sun 04:51
7. Out From The Eyes Of Heaven 05:49
8. Lakehurst - A Tragic Moment Frozen In Time / Luftschiffe 2002 11:17
9. Epilog 00:37

Predominance was a German Dark Ambient/Industrial project of Gerd "G.Z." Zaunig.
Zaunig began his musical career as a drummer of the German Death Metal/Grindcore band Enslaved in 1989.
In early 1991 he decided to go on his own path creating a new project under the name Dogmatized Machinery.
Together with two other members they experimented with heavy guitars, drum-machines

and tape samples but split in 1993 because of personal differences.
Together with one remaining member of Dogmatized Machinery (M. Heiser)

he formed another project called Death Is the Mother Of Beauty.
A short time later, he also founded his solo project Wolverine, that experiment with Power/Death Industrial.

However, as Wolverine became more intense, all of his other activated projects died.
In December 1994, from the ashes of all the experiences and influences of the past, Zaunig created Predominance.
In early 2000s he also created the project Virologic that focused on manipulating raw computer data into sound.
With the album "Hindenburg" Zaunig delivered a historical concept work on the legendary airship disaster

but also tried to draw parallels with the Led Zeppelin band (a decisive spark in his teenage years

that stimulated his interest in music) through various elements.

The cover motif is intentionally based on that of the first Led Zeppelin LP from 1969.

The track "Luftschiffe" begins like their last regular studio album "In Through The Out Door". 

"Encoded Pages", for example, is a multi-track collage that was created on the computer

and consists only of Led Zeppelin samples, which were of course also alienated (encrypted).

At the live presentation in Dresden in 1998, further key symbols were added.
"Hindenburg" was originally released in 1998 as a 6 track Mini-LP through Loki Foundation 

and later re-released on CD featuring three unreleased tracks and a exclusive remix by Inade.
Predominance officially disbanded on 20th November 2017.

 
Memory

Masaharu Iwata – Baroque Original Soundtrack (1998)

Composer: Masaharu Iwata

Tracklist

01. Great Heat 20320514 02:31
02. Into Our Trespasses 01:06
03. Sanctuary 03:04
04. Iraiza 02:47
05. Confusion 03:04
06. A Style Of Baroque 01:13
07. Namu Ami 03:08
08. Little 02:31
09. One Foot In The Grave 03:32
10. Alice in 03:29
11. One 02:40
12. Neverending Cycle 00:57
13. Multiplex 03:59
14. Hold Baroque Inside 04:10
15. Deep Interludium (John Pee) 01:47
16. Baroque 204 Forest (Toshiaki Dakoda) 01:02
17. Baroque 205 Blue (Toshiaki Dakoda) 01:21
18. Baroque 206 Black (Toshiaki Dakoda) 00:37
19. Proto One 03:01
20. Proto Two 02:09
21. Miraculous Loop (Haruko Aoki) 06:36
22. Timelessness 06:32

Baroque is a roguelike role-playing video game developed by Sting Entertainment.

It was originally released for the Sega Saturn in 1998 by Entertainment Software Publishing,

then ported to the PlayStation the following year.

A remake for PlayStation 2 and Wii was released in Japan by Sting Entertainment in 2007 and later overseas in 2008.
Baroque is set in a post-apocalyptic world,

where an experiment to understand the Absolute God caused devastating climate change,

with surviving humans becoming physically twisted by manifestations of guilt.

This experiment was led by a being called Archangel.

The protagonist is guided by Archangel through the Neuro Tower to find the Absolute God and fix the world.

All versions of the game feature dungeon-crawling through randomly-generated floors of the Neuro Tower,

with deaths in the dungeon advancing the narrative.

The original uses a first-person perspective,

while he remake includes a third-person camera and adjustable difficulty levels.
The game was conceived by Kazunari Yonemitsu,

who was involved in multiple aspects of its design and created the narrative.

Originally in production for the PC-9800 series, Yonemitsu's wish for 3D graphics resulted in it shifting to the Saturn.

Its dark tone, a reaction to Yonemitsu's previous work, was influenced by European cinema and film noir.

The gameplay drew inspiration from Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon.

The music was composed by Masaharu Iwata, who blended ambient noise and sound samples into the tracks.

Baroque was supported with several supplementary products, including a visual novel based on a promotional novella.

The remake featured new staff and several changes,including redone character designs from Kenjiro Suzuki and replacement music by in-house composer Shigeki Hayashi.
The music of Baroque was composed and arranged by Masaharu Iwata,

who had previously worked with Sting Entertainment on Treasure Hunter G.

When asking for music, Yonemitsu requested tracks that did not sound like music,

using the natural sound backgrounds of documentaries as reference

for creating natural emotion in an audience without using a separate musical track.

Sometimes as descriptions, Yonemitsu would send Iwata a short poem,

but even then it was difficult for Iwata to create satisfactory tracks.

When Iwata complained about a lack of reference material, Yonemitsu found some suitable musical tracks,

notably music from the anime Night Head and Adiemus albums by Karl Jenkins.

The tracks were designed to be listened to alongside the in-game sound effects.
The first song created for the soundtrack was "Sanctuary".

Originally planned as a story location theme, it was reused as a dungeon track.

While an opening theme was created by in-house composer Toshiaki Sakoda,

Iwata was asked to create a new opening theme.

Something he was able to do on the project that was new to him

was adding in sound effects to increase the ambience impact of his tracks.

The track was half a minute too long, so in-game it was cut short while the album release featured the full track.

The track "Confusion" was made entirely with sound effect samples.

He considered his strangest theme to be the track "Namu Ami", which he described as a meaningless Buddhist-like chant.

His last song was the staff roll "Hold Baroque Inside", which was a subdued piece based on the game's story themes.

Iwata described both the game's content and the music he had to create for it as entirely new to him at the time,

and was impressed by Yonemitsu's vision despite not understanding it at times.

Yonemitsu named all the tracks.

Memory

Fabio Fabor – Pape Satan (1980)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. Ad Inferos 02:52
2. Acheron 03:06
3. Infernal Galop 03:14
4. La Forgia 03:26
5. Segno Di Fuoco 02:13
6. Caronte 02:58
7. Dies Irae 03:34
8. Stige 03:20
9. Trillo Del Diavolo 02:39
10. Dalle Sirene 03:49
11. V Bolgia 02:33
12. Diabolic Love 02:40

Fabio Borgazzi (24 April 1920 - 3 August 2011), also known as Fabio Fabor,

was one of the most prolific library music composers in Italy between the 1960s and 1980s.
A versatile and multi-talented musician, he explored almost all existing genres, from classical to jazz, 

from pop to electronic music, and released hundreds of records through his own publishing company, Minstrel,

and its numerous sub-labels, such as World, Hard, Flam, Fonovideo and Ring.
"Pape Satan" was originally released on the Hard label in 1980 and has become a cult record,

one often regarded as a groundbreaking exploration of electronic music.
In this work Borgazzi makes extensive use of synthesizers (ARP 2600, ARP 3620, ARP Omni and Roland System 700),

percussion, keyboard instruments (piano, harpsichord, Fender Rhodes) and voices,

developing an abstract and experimental electro-acoustic soundtrack to a dark and infernal environment,

or, as Borgazzi himself explained in the liner notes, an "eschatological-Dantesque environment

caught in its side of transcendent imagination metaphysics and, sometimes, even ironic interpretation.".

Memory

Maggi Payne – Crystal (1986)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Ahh-Ahh (Ver 2.1) 09:10
2. Subterranean Network    11:24
3. Phase Transitions 10:32
4. White Night 10:04
5. Solar Wind 09:52
6. Scirocco 10:25
7. Crystal 09:57

Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist video artist and co-director (since 1992) of the Center For Contemporary Music,

in Mills College, where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music.

She also freelances as a recording engineer and editor and a historical remastering engineer.
Her work involves electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works along with works involving visuals, 

including dancers outfitted with electroluminescent wire and videos using images ranging from nature to the abstract.
She has performed throughout the world, and her work has been published on various labels.
She received two Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment For The Arts

and video grants from the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program and the Mellon Foundation.
Also four honorary mentions from Bourges, and one from Prix Ars Electronica,

and was an Artist In Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
She began recording professionally in 1968 in Chicago.
Her first electronic compositions were made using the Moog Synthesizer.
While at the University, Gordon Mumma showed her how to built her first ring modulator from one of his circuit designs.
There she also formed an improvisation group that was dedicated primarily to the exploration of timbre.

After composing electronically generated music for several years,

she turned to the acoustic world for an even richer, more constantly variable sound palette.
Sound sources were varied from tiny stepper motors, to signals traveling through space and faulty faucets.

Her process involved layering sounds, convolution, granular synthesis,

time stretching, digital signal processing, and extreme equalization.
"Crystal" was originally released in 1986 on vinyl by the Lovely Music label

and in 1991 was reissued on CD format featuring three bonus tracks.

Memory

Alex Kot – Chasm: The Rift (1997)

Composer: Alex Kot

Tracklist

1. The Shadow Zone 04:57
2. Timestrikers 03:58
3. The Rift 04:13
4. Egypt 04:00
5. Military Base 04:09
6. Tomb 03:54
7. Dark 04:01
8. England 04:06
9. The Ship 05:54

Chasm: The Rift (also known as Chasm: The Shadow Zone) is a first-person shooter video game

created by Ukrainian video game developer Action Forms

 and published in 1997 by Megamedia as the first Eastern European shooter ever made.
The game was meant to compete with Quake a year earlier,

since GT Interactive lost publishing rights to Activision when id Software signed with the latter.
The player takes on the role of an unnamed commando whose mission is to stop the so-called "Timestrikers",

mutant beings invading different time epochs, from taking over Earth.

On this mission, he visits various locations ranging from military bases in the present to tombs in ancient Egypt.
All of the levels involve dark corridors, often like those of catacombs and crypts.

One of the most notable features of the game was the ability to remove limbs from enemies.

Chasm received mixed reviews from critics.

While they noted that Chasm had better animation and greater amounts of enemy detail when compared to Quake,

the lack of a true 3D environment left much to be desired.
The sound effects and the soundtrack of the game were composed by Alex Kot.

Memory

Dive – First Album (1990)

Country: Belgium

Tracklist

1. Infected 03:52
2. There's No Hope 02:53
3. Dead Or Alive 02:46

4. Right 03:38
5. So Hard 03:33
6. Attack 01:43
7. Turn Me On 02:00
8. Run 02:28
9. Ghostcity 05:09
10. 31 01:27
11. Menticide 08:07
12. Nightshift 03:23
13. Burning Skin 01:55
14. Eye Of The Past 02:25
15. Back To Back 03:33
16. Timezone 02:42
17. Shadows Of You 04:27
18. Sparks 05:28

Dive is a Belgian industrial/ebm music project

that was formed in 1990 by Dirk Ivens (Absolute Body Control, Motor!k, Sonar, S/HE).
Dive's sound is characterized by the minimal and experimental use

of rhythmic and distorted drum machines that overlain with Dirk's vocals.
Dirk Ivens started in 1978 as a singer and guitar player in the punk band Slaughterhouse 

but left the group after one year to form the new band The Few.

In 1980 he formed the electronic band Absolute Body Control,

influenced by Suicide, DAF, and British artists like Fad Gadget.

After going through various members, Absolute Body Control soon settled as a duo with Dirk and Eric Van Wonterghem.
In 1985, Absolute Body Control joined forces with Marc Verhaeghen's band The Klinik 

and Sandy Nys' The Maniacs to form the "supergroup" Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs.

The name was soon shortened to The Klinik.

Nys left in 1986 and Van Wonterghem in 1987 to work on their own bands,

while Dirk remained a member until 1991, when he left to concentrate on his solo project Dive.
With Dive, Dirk sought to have complete control over his creative process

as a change from his many previous years working with bands.
In 1996, Dirk started Sonar together with Patrick Stevens, who left in 1998

and was replaced by long-time collaborator (and brother-in-law) Eric Van Wonterghem.
In 2003-2005 Dirk rejoined Marc Verhaeghen in The Klinik for a few festival concerts, without releasing any new material.

"First Album" was originally released in 1990 on vinyl format under the title "Dive"

and later in 1992 was reissued on CD featuring seven bonus tracks.

Memory

Charles Bernstein – The Entity (1981)

Composer: Charles Bernstein

Tracklist

1. Intro And Main Title 01:49
2. Bath/Attack 01:31
3. Beach Scene 01:05
4. Iceberg 01:29
5. Carla & Jerry 01:30
6. Carla's Room Wrecked 01:55
7. It Appears/The Entity 02:45
8. Carla 02:40
9. The Power 02:34
10. Relentless Attack 01:27
11. The Entity Lurks 01:29
12. Helium Attack 01:25
13. Mozart Source 02:23
14. Glimmer Of Hope 02:36
15. Finale: Carla Leaves House 01:25
16. End Credits 02:28
17. Attack Music Deconstructed 01:09
18. Attack Music Reject 00:56
19. Main Title Synth Version 01:39

The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie,

and written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted his 1978 novel of the same name.
The film stars Barbara Hershey as a single mother in Los Angeles who is tormented by an invisible assailant.
Like the novel, the film is based on the 1974 real paranormal phenomena case of Doris Bither,

a woman who claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted by an invisible entity,

and who was observed by doctoral students at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Despite being filmed and planned for a release in 1981,

the movie was not released in worldwide theaters until September 1982 and February 1983 in the United States.
The film is interpreted as a parable for female sexual victimhood

and the lead character as a woman who "goes head-to-head with a gaggle of men (including the "entity" itself).
American composer of film and television scores Charles Harold Bernstein (born February 28, 1943)

composed the soundtrack of the movie.
Bernstein is a Daytime Emmy Award winner, and a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee.

During the 1980s, Bernstein scored the music for the horror films Cujo (1983),

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), April Fool's Day (1986) and Deadly Friend (1986).
Quentin Tarantino has included Bernstein's music from White Lightning and The Entity

in the soundtracks of his films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
The complete collected orchestral/synth soundtrack of the movie was released for the first time in 2009 by Intrada

as a limited Edition CD of 1200 copies while in 2019 Wyrd War released on 666 copies the limited edition vinyl.
Recorded at Village Recorders studios in West Los Angeles and Bernstein’s Santa Monica studio in 1981,

sourced from Bernstein’s archives and featuring three bonus outtakes that provide a glimpse into his compositional process.

Memory

CTI – Core (A Conspiracy International Project) (1988)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Feeder (With Coil) 08:41
2. Trapezoid (With John Duncan, Joe Potts) 05:14
3. Future Shock (With Monte Cazazza) 07:23
4. Unmasked (With Robert Wyatt) 04:15
5. Over Abyss (With Lustmord) 06:40
6. Guest + Host = Ghost (With Boyd Rice) 04:38
7. Core 07:33

CTI (Creative Technology Institute) was an alias used by the duo Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, 

more commonly known as Chris & Cosey and later as Carter Tutti.
"Core (A Conspiracy International Project)" was released in 1998 and each track on the album

was a joint project between Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and the persons/groups credited.
Featuring participation from Coil, John Duncan, Joe Potts, Monte Cazazza, Robert Wyatt, Lustmord and Boyd Rice.
Sounds were mailed or brought to Studio 47 where they were manipulated, processed,

composed and mixed with the full collaboration of those involved.
Includes an insert with artwork, notes and photos on contributing artists

while some copies include a second, illustrated, insert with information on Play It Again Sam releases.

Memory

Krozier & The Generator – Tranceformer (1982)

Country: Australia

Tracklist

1. House Of The Sun 02:40
2. Khan-Khallili Razaar 03:27
3. The Devil May Care 08:23
4. Slave Traders 02:38
5. Land Of Unclean Spirits 04:03
6. Perhaps Reincarnation 02:02
7. House Of The Joker 08:27
8. Take A Look 04:56
9. Temple Of Exotic Delights 15:37
10. Feed You To The Sharks 01:47
11. Lapis-Lazuli 06:45
12. I´ll Be A Sphinx For You 01:37
13. Doubting Thomas 01:34
14. Paid Your Money 07:37

Geoff Krozier (Born Geofrey Thomas Crozier) was a music performance artist and avante garde magician.
His first connection with magik came when he amazed one of his teachers

by accurately predicting the placegetters in a school cross-country run.
A number of amateur appearances as an illusionist provided a slight insight into where he was going.
His first real break came whilst working as a set designer and props man for a Melbourne television station.

The booked act failed to turn up for a talent program, so he stood in and won.
Television appearances mushroomed nation wide, and by the late 1960’s the tendrils of rock and roll 

reached out and grabbed him and he often filled spots between main acts.
Geoff’s first real complete stage show came with the formation of Crozier’s Indian Medicine Show,

a wondrous show of pyrotechnics, smoke and lighting effects with multi-decibel rock and roll.
It would be a mistake however to assume that the shows were well planned or well rehearsed,

it was more like ‘hold on’ for the audience, and, ‘hang on tight’ for his band.

As Duncan Fry, one of Geoff’s earliest guitarists wrote:

“What he wanted was free-form continuous music for the 30 minutes or so that he performed,

while clouds of oily smoke, flashpots, and strobe lights alternately choked and dazzled the audience.

Most of the musicians who turned up for the audition couldn't handle such a laissez-faire attitude to the music side of things.

"But what songs are we going to play?" they would whine.

"No songs, just play, play" Geoff would reply, setting off another flashpot.”
Throughout the 1970’s Geoff and various incarnations of the Indian Medicine band toured Australia widely,

putting on performances, which ranged between brilliant and totally chaotic.

He was variously faced with stunned silence or rapturous scenes of mayhem as the audience went wild.
Despite the showings of appreciation, his act languished for the want of wider acceptance.

He lapsed into a deep depression and eventually left for America.

He worked with a variety of musicians and then disappeared again, this time to appear in Paris,

where he was the highlight act at the Olympia.
Another stint back in the USA followed, he formed Kongress, with noted keyboardist Otto Von Ruggins,

but he was tiring of the rock & roll element of his shows, and indeed felt a need to return to his native Australia,

and so it was he reappeared in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1970's.
It was then that he connected with the experimental group The Generator (aka Rainbow Generator),

a two-man outfit consisting of Rob Greaves on all manner of synths and rhythm machines

and David Labuschagne on guitar and synths.
Rainbow Generator had tried to produce something new and unheard in their studios.

Releasing dozens of tapes which were thrashed and no one ever seen them.

They come up with a full length in 1978 entitled "Dance Of The Spheres" 

that was released in 399 copies from which only 200 survived the floods.
Blending experimental electronics with tribal elements and using instruments like Didgeridoo

with some drony psychedelic rock fusions.
As Krozier & The Generator they played an intense series of shows in and around Melbourne in the later part of 1980.

In January 1981 he and the entire show, menagerie and all, relocated to the Fission Chips Studio

(a three story building in the squats of Woolloomooloo NSW), operated by Generator guitarist, David Labuschagne.
There was to be a lay-off while David shaped hours of recorded material together,

and Geoff devised a new set of illusions, all in preparation for a national tour.
Unfortunately Geoff Krozier died on May 17th 1981 at the age of 33,

from an accident at his home, before that tour manifested.
The double vinyl album "Trancerformer" was released in mid 1981 as a tribute to him

featuring tracks that were selected from recordings of the last live shows by the group,

between January 7th and 26th 1981, prior to Geoffrey´s death.
That album was subsequently re-released in in 2015 on the Finders Keepers label.

Memory

Primordia – The Gleaming Eye (1993)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Meléni 05:28
2. Surface Tension 03:48
3. The Gleaming Eye (Vers.) 04:24
4. Laughing Torso 05:17
5. Mother Love II 05:12
6. Kaosphere 04:44
7. Samhain 05:53
8. What The Breather Brings 04:19
9. Coming Down Fast / The Gleaming Eye 08:24
10. Forever Years 05:10
11. Ikon 13:22

Primordia was a short lived synth-goth project of the late 80s/early 90s.
The band featured Lucy Furlong and W.M. Owens,

that he is also known for his participation on the early albums of Fire + Ice.

Their sound is balancing gracefully between embedded orchestral darkwave elements

and electro/industrial pulsating rhythms.
"The Gleaming Eye" is a collection of recordings from 1988 to 1992 and was released by World Serpent Distribution.

Memory

Arud – 2001... The Saturnus Mission (Demo 1998)

Country: Hungary

Tracklist

1. 2001... The Saturnus Mission 10:50

2. Coldwave 09:46

Hungarian short lived project of Roland Horvath (aka Winter),

known for his involvement with bands such as Forest Silence, Nefarious, Satanik Art and Sear Bliss.
The project released only one tape in 1998 on Horvath's personal label Winter Productions
featuring two tracks of electronic/cosmic dark ambient.

Memory

Vangelis – Invisible Connections (1985)

Country: Greece

Tracklist

1. Invisible Connections 18:37
2. Atom Blaster 07:49
3. Thermo Vision 13:19

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known as Vangelis, was a Greek musician,

composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.

He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to "Chariots Of Fire" (1981),

as well as for composing scores to the films "Blade Runner" (1982), "Missing" (1982), "Antarctica" (1983),

"The Bounty" (1984), "1492: Conquest Of Paradise" (1992), "Alexander" (2004)

and for the use of his music in the 1980 documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" by Carl Sagan.
Born in Agria, he began his career working with several bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite's Child,

with the latter's album "666" (1972) going on to be recognized as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic.

Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed scores for several animal documentaries, including "L'Apocalypse Des Animaux",

"La Fête Sauvage" and "Opéra Sauvage", the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream.

In 1975, he set up his new 16-track studio, Nemo Studios in London, which he named his "laboratory", 

releasing many solo studio albums on which experimented with music and concepts,

including "Heaven And Hell" and "China" among others.

In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes,

and the duo released several albums together as "Jon and Vangelis".

He also collaborated with Irene Papas on two albums of Greek traditional and religious songs.

In 1980, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film "Chariots Of Fire",

for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

The soundtrack's single, the film's theme, also reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart

and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners' medal presentation ceremonies.

He also composed the official anthem of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Korea and Japan.
In his last twenty years, Vangelis collaborated with NASA and ESA on music projects

"Mythodea", "Rosetta" and "Juno To Jupiter", which was his 23rd and last solo studio album in 2021.
Having had a career in music spanning over 50 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums,

Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music and modern film music.

Memory

Alto Stratus – The Ritual (1989)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. The Golden Dawn 08:34
2. Scrying 11:01
3. The Astral Dark 04:30
4. Bardo Thodol 06:46
5. Ceremony 18:14
6. Trancemission II 04:44
7. Mandrake (The Man Root) 05:07
8. The Captive 15:21

The duo of brothers Alan and Steve Freeman (owners of Ultima Thule label),

spent much of their spare time during the 1980's experimenting with electronics, synthesizers and sound collage,

recording more than thirty releases as Alto Stratus and other projects

like Vrije, Q.S.O., Electric Junk, The Newt Hounds, Biomechanoid etc.
Descriptive of man's rituals and ceremonies, the music on this album attempts sonically to reflect

the calm serenity of meditation, the tense air of the ritual dance and the weird realms of occultist magic 

with synthesizers and sound sampling, to create surreal sound paintings, taking the listener way beyond physical realms.
"The Ritual" was the culmination of ten years of sonic exploration and self-training,

developing their own language as non-musicians.
Recorded over a period of four days, it was one of the few recordings that they took advantage

of the multi-tracking possibilities of a 4 track Teac reel to reel,

so for the first time they could play back and dub live without loss of quality.

During recording the band members immersed their selves in the concept of magic and mysticism, 

engaging in hypnotic and entangled patterns of sound, using synthesizers,

keyboards and sequencers, plus loops and sampling.
Some well-known voices can be heard imparting their wisdom in a repeated looping fashion,

all adding to the ritualistic feel.
The bonus track "The Captive" was taken from the 1985 cassette compilation "A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird".

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Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Composer: Gil Mellé

Tracklist

1. Wildfire 02:46
2. Hex 04:00
3. Andromeda 02:24
4. Desert Trip 04:14
5. The Piedmont Elegy 02:23
6. OP 02:45
7. Xenogenesis 02:40
8. Strobe Crystal Green 04:55

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise.
It is based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding.
The film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne

as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.
With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely and it is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.
The Andromeda Strain was one of the first films to use advanced computerized photographic visual effects,

with work by Douglas Trumbull, who had pioneered effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey,

along with James Shourt and Albert Whitlock who worked on The Birds.
Reportedly $250,000 of the film's budget of $6.5 million was used to create the special effects, 

including Trumbull's simulation of an electron microscope.
The film contained a faux computer rendering, created with conventional film-making processes,
of a mapped 3-D view of the rotating structure of the five-story cylindrical underground laboratory

in the Nevada desert named Project Wildfire.
A 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is:

"the most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this (killer virus) genre,

as it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it,
and, finally, the work-up on its identification and clarification on why certain persons are immune to it."
The soundtrack of the fim was composed by Gilbert John Mellé (31 December 1931 – 28 October 2004),

an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.
Melle was born in New York City, where he was raised by a family friend after his parents abandoned him at the age of two.
As a child, he began painting and playing saxophone as a teen.
Before he was 16 years old, he was playing several jazz clubs in Greenwich Village.
At the age of 19, he signed to Blue Note, becoming the first white musician on the label’s roster.
At Blue Note, he released five 10'' EP records before recording his first full-length "Patterns In Jazz", in 1956.
In addition to recording and performing jazz, Melle continued with his artwork

and his paintings and sculptures were displayed at several New York galleries,
while his art was featured on his own albums, as well as records by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonius Monk.
He left Blue Note shortly after the "Patterns In Jazz" sessions, signing with Prestige.
Between 1956 and 1957, he recorded three albums for Prestige ("Primitive Modern", "Gil’s Guests", and "Quadrama"),
before deciding to halt his career as a traditional jazz bandleader.
Melle moved to Los Angeles in the ’60s, where he began to compose scores for film and television.
Over the next 30 years, he wrote scores for over 125 films.
He also began working with electronic music, building his own synthesizers, including (arguably) the first drum machine

and performing with the first all-electronic jazz band, the Electronauts, at the tenth Monterey Jazz Festival.
In 1967, he returned to recording with "Tome VI", an all-electronic jazz album released on Verve.
He continued to pioneer electronic music, writing scores for the tv series Night Gallery

and The Andromeda Strain entirely with synthesizers, which was unheard of at the time.
In addition to writing music for films, he composed several symphonies,

which he performed with symphony orchestras in Toronto, London, and New Zealand.
During the mid-’90s, Melle decided to concentrate on the visual arts,

in particular his computer-based digital painting, which drew great acclaim from art critics across America.
The Andromeda Strain was originally released by Kapp Records as a hexagon-shaped vinyl,

housed in an elaborate folded pod-shaped sleeve featuring an insert with folding instructions.

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B.E.T.H. – Blighty/Back To Blighty/The Incredible News To Access (12'' EP 1997)

Country: England / Germany

Tracklist

1. Blighty 7:11
2. Back To Blighty 10:00
3. The Incredible News To Access 09:42

B.E.T.H. (Brain Energy To Human) was a very short-lived project featuring

Dino Psaras (Cydonia etc.), Tim Schuldt and Steve Ronan.

They released only this 12'' EP on the German label Aurinko Records.

The Memory link features as a bonus a fourth track entitled "Harsh"

that it was taken from the 1998 Aurinko Records compilation "Score".

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Henry - Portrait Of A Serial Killer – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)

Composers:  Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale, Steven A. Jones

Tracklist

1. Henry Theme 02:14
2. Dead Body Drone #1-#4 04:11
3. Too Young For These Blues 04:22
4. The Stalk 01:31
5. La Lania 02:52
6. Football Boys / Housewife Body Drone #5 01:57
7. Fingers On It 04:12
8. Becky Downtown 01:04
9. Yeah, I Killed Mama 01:04
10. Callin' Colleen 03:17
11. She's Your Sister 00:20
12. Jukin 02:38
13. Kill Hookers 00:48
14. It's Always The Same - And It's Always Different 01:07
15. Let's Go Shopping 03:48
16. Drive Up / Home Invasion 01:30
17. Stop Frame #1 - Stop Frame #2 01:26
18. Beauty & The Beast 00:35
19. Adios, Motherfucker 01:04
20. My Mistake 02:38
21. Henry End Of Theme 01:35
22. Drone 01:08

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film

directed and co-written by John McNaughton and Richard Fire,

about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.

It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis,

a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister.

The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on convicted real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.

However, as the opening statement makes clear, the film is based more on

Lucas' violent fantasies and confessions rather than the crimes for which he was convicted.

The original poster artwork was a painting by Joe Coleman,

that was considered too extreme and was replaced by the current official poster.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale and Steven A. Jones

with the help of Paul Petraitis on guitar, and was originally released in 1991  by Q.D.K. Media.
The music is mostly ambient / electronic mixed with samples from the movie and also features songs 

from rock & roll / hard rock bands like Kid Tater And The Cheaters, Enuff Z'nuff and Lynne And The Lizards.

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Jesper Kyd – The Adventures Of Batman And Robin (1995)

Composer: Jesper Kyd

Tracklist

1. Introduction - Arkham Asylum Breakout 09:14
2. Level 1 - Happy Birthday To Me 07:02
3. Boss Theme 1 - Harley Quinn 04:09
4. On The Road 02:58
5. Boss Theme 2 - Joker 02:35
6. Level 2 - A Two Sided Story 03:53
7. Boss Theme 3 - Two Face's Airship 03:43
8. Flying Over Gotham City 03:59
9. Into The Clouds 03:05
10. Boss Theme 4 - Searchlight Airship 04:02
11. Level 3 - Tea Time 07:00
12. Boss Theme 5 - Cheshire Cat 03:35
13. Jetpack Ride - Chess Board 05:28
14. Boss Theme 6 - The Mad Hatter 04:25
15. Level 4 - Snow In July 06:08
16. Jetpack Ride 2 02:37
17. Boss Theme 7 - Mr. Freeze 02:21
18. Ending 01:59
19. Game Over 00:03

The Adventures Of Batman & Robin is a series of video game adaptations released between 1994 and 1995
featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Robin based on Batman: The Animated Series.
The games were released for numerous platforms, with the Genesis, Game Gear and Sega CD versions published by Sega while the Super NES version was published by Konami.
The Genesis version (released on August 2, 1995), developed by Clockwork Tortoise,
is a run 'n' gun game where Batman and Robin must stop Mr. Freeze and features a soundtrack composed by Jesper Kyd.
Jesper Kyd Jakobson (born 3 February 1972) is a Danish composer and sound designer,
who has worked on various video game, television, and film projects.
His scores use orchestra, choir, acoustic manipulations and electronic soundscapes.
Kyd started playing the piano at an early age and later, he took several years of training in classical guitar,
note reading, choir singing and classical composition for piano but he is mostly self-taught.
He started using computers for composing on a Commodore 64 at age 14 and later an Amiga.
Kyd and Mikael Balle became members of the demogroup Silents DK and collaborated with the coders group Crionics.
They eventually made the Amiga demoscene production Hardwired.
He also created and scored the first demo, Global Trash 2, together with Mikael Balle.
Kyd then left the demoscene and started to work as a game musician.
He and others created the computer game developer Zyrinx and a game called Sub-Terrania for the Sega Genesis.
Kyd composed music for two additional Zyrinx titles, Red Zone and Scorcher 
and the music for two externally developed games, Amok and The Adventures Of Batman And Robin for the Sega Genesis.
Zyrinx dissolved when their game publisher Scavenger went bankrupt.
Many former Zyrinx members returned to Denmark to start IO Interactive,
but Kyd moved to New York City and set up his own sound studio in Manhattan called "Nano Studios".
He then worked as a freelance video game musician.
He worked on BioWare's MDK2, Shiny's Messiah and IO's Hitman: Codename 47.
The soundtrack to Codename 47 was based on urban soundscapes and ethnic instrumentation.
He then recorded the soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
 with 110 musicians of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir.
He recorded the score for the action/adventure Freedom Fighters with the Hungarian Radio Choir 
that was described by Film Score Monthly Magazine as "Vangelis on steroids"
He used modern electronica and symphonic and choral music in Hitman: Contracts
while the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir were used once more in Hitman: Blood Money.
Jesper then provided scores for the games like Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood,
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (co-composed with Lorne Balfe), Borderlands, Borderlands 2, State Of Decay, Darksiders II, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, State Of Decay 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2
and Borderlands 3 (with Michael McCann, Finishing Move Inc. and Raison Varner).
In 2015, he scored the Chinese fantasy film Chronicles Of The Ghostly Tribe followed by the Indian fantasy film Tumbbad.
The music for the upcoming game Assassin's Creed Valhalla was also composed by Jesper Kyd and Sarah Schachner,
both whom have worked on past Assassin's Creed games.
Einar Selvik (aka Kvitrafn), who had written original songs for the History Channel show Vikings, 
will also work with Kyd and Schachner for new songs for Valhalla.
Jesper Kyd's influences include composers such as Ottorino Respighi, Igor Stravinsky, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis,
Mike Oldfield, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and bands such as Röyksopp, The Knife, Pink Floyd, and Underworld.

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Tempest 2000 – The Soundtrack (1994)

Composers: Alastair Lindsay, Ian Howe, Julian Hodgson, Kevin Saville

Tracklist

1. Thermal Resolution 03:59
2. Mind's Eye 04:52
3. T2K 05:23
4. Ease Yourself 07:52
5. Tracking Depth 05:04
6. Constructive Demolition 04:05
7. Future Tense 05:54
8. Digital Terror 05:07
9. Hyper Prism 04:26
10. Glide Control 05:12
11. Ultra Yak 04:00
12. 2000 Dub 07:31

"Tempest 2000" is a tube shooter video game originally developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation 

for the Atari Jaguar in North America on 13 April, 1994, later released in Europe on 27 June of the same year

and finally in Japan on 15 December of the same year as well.
"Tempest 2000" was critically acclaimed with critics praising the graphics, gameplay and soundtrack. 

It is often considered as one of the best games released for the Jaguar and as of 1 April 1995, the Jaguar version

has sold more than 30,000 copies during its lifetime, making it one of the best selling games for the system.
The original Atari Jaguar version's music was created by Ian Howe, Alastair Lindsay, Kevin Saville and Julian Hodgson 

of Imagitec Design (a.k.a. Dream Weavers), who also created the music for "Defender 2000" on the Jaguar as well.
The music was composed in the Commodore Amiga MOD file format,

although non-Jaguar releases of the game played music from a CD.

At the time of its release, the music soundtrack could also be purchased on CD directly from Atari. 

The CD was also bundled with the Atari Jaguar CD to demonstrate the system's Virtual Light Machine music visualizer.
It became the basis for the audio for all conversions of the game to come including the PC, PlayStation and Saturn versions.
Several tracks, however, were not used in the Jaguar version due to cartridge space constraints.
The video game picked up an award for the "Best In-game Music" at the 1994 CES show.

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