Coma Vi®us – Hidden (1996)

Country: Austria

Tracklist

1. Lower Than Epsilon 10:56
2. Arcana Mundi 16:45
3. Causality 07:45
4. The Thirty Seals 15:33

Paul Haslinger is an Austrian musician and composer that lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
After graduating, he decided to pursue music professionally

and studied at both the Vienna’s Academy of Music and the University of Vienna.
In 1985, Haslinger joined the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
During his 5 years with the group, he recorded a total of 15 albums,

participated in 4 international tours, and collaborated on a number of soundtracks.
In 1991, he left Tangerine Dream and relocated to Los Angeles.

At the time he started working on a joint progressive rock project with Peter Baumann, called Blue Room.
In 1994 Haslinger released his first solo record, Future Primitive (Wildcat!),

followed by World Without Rules (1996, RGB Records) and Score (1999, RGB Records).
Through the 1990s, he collaborated on a number of projects with a variety of artists,

among them dark-ambient icon Brian Williams, aka Lustmord.
In 1995, he began work on Coma Vi®us, a project born out of research and development at the Assembly Room Studio.

Realized without compromise, Coma Vi®us is a complex sonic tapestry of ambivalence,

further expanding musical frontiers previously only glimpsed at, where pure sound meets musical esthetics.
The first commercially available recording of the project was released on the Side Effects, Deep Net compilation

on July 22, 1996, followed on September 23 by the album Hidden, also on Side Effects.
In 1998, Haslinger was asked to join the team around film composer Graeme Revell.
He worked as a music programmer and arranger on films such as Chinese Box (1999), The Negotiator (1998),

The Siege (1998), Pitch Black (2000), Blow (2001), and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
In 2003, he scored his first film to open at number 1 at the U.S. box office, Underworld, directed by Len Wiseman.

He returned to the popular franchise, scoring both Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans and Underworld: Awakening.
Haslinger also composed the music for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017), directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
In 2019 he scored the American psychological horror thriller film The Perfection.

 Haslinger's involvement with video games music started in 2005, when he was approached by Ubisoft

to score the video game Far Cry Instincts. Since then, he has scored a string of game releases, 

including Rainbow Six: Vegas, Wolverine, Need For Speed.

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Kyprian's Circle – Noitatulen Vartija (MCD 1999)

Country: Finland

Tracklist

Ikiyön Liekit 01:06
Kun Puhui Myrskyn Henki 06:27
Noitatulen Vartija 04:51
Helvetin Pajassa On Miekkamme Taottu 03:15
Kuolemasi Minä Olen 03:05

Kyprian Nurmi formed Kyprian's Circle around 1994.
Until 1993 he was playing for another band but he always wanted to make his own music.
During the period 1995-1996 he created 5 tracks in which some riffs of his past years were used.
Around the same time he recorded a demo of two songs for his other project Strigoi Mort that was released in winter 1996.
The aforementioned 5 tracks were recorded in 1996 and mixed at Sound Ateljee studios
for the first Kyprian's Circle demo entitled "In The Mystique Of The Moonbeams" using a drum machine.
Soon after the release Kyprian began gathering material for the next demo.
Four songs were completed with the style of music being now more mature and the tempo having slowed down a bit.
This time he wanted to use a real drummer, so Abyssin joined in as well a bass player,
whereas Shatraug (Horna) and Nazgul (Horna, Pest) took over the vocal duties.
With this line up in the beginning of 1997 the second demo entitled "The Nightwind Tunes"
was recorded again in Sound Ateljee studios.
A year later the third demo "Käärmeenkantaja" was released
with Vsondar handling this time the vocals and Unknown taking over the drums.
For the next release Kyprian used once again Abyssin for the drums and Nazgul of Horna as a vocalist
while the synths were handled by Toni Raehalme and the bass by Sammy Roiha.
Five tracks were recorded in early 1999 for the MCD "Noitatulen Vartija"
that was released in spring of 1999 by the Finnish label Silverhorn Production.
The two first tracks on this release were re-aranged versions of older tracks taken from the demos.
A full-length album was in the future plans to be released on Woodcut Records but this unfortunately was never happened.
 "Noitatulen Vartija" was re-released in 2018 on CD format and, for the first time ever, on 12" vinyl by Werewolf Records.

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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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Lech Jankowski – Institute Benjamenta (1998)

Composer: Lech Jankowski

Tracklist

1. Canone Non Infinitone 05:26
2. A Very Old Mexican Dance 01:07
3. Finale 05:59
4. Con-Trapuncto 01:00
5. Lullaby/Waltz 09:25
6. Introdukja Liliowa 01:11
7. Mazurek 06:48
8. Kolysanka Wg. Erika S. 01:17
9. Marsz 02:48
10. Menuet I 03:01
11. Maly Cmentarz Harf 01:55
12. Waltz Z.K. Minor 03:06
13. Zym-Zym 02:42
14. Melodia Na Piec: (Part I,II,III) 03:20
15. Minuet With Hydrocephalus 01:01
16. Pavana Zza Parawana No. 5 01:16
17. (Repeat) Kolysanka Wg. Erika S. 01:17
18. Aria. Contrapuncto 02:14
19. Hymn. Coda. Choral 04:18
20. Melodia Na Piec: (Part III) 01:03

Lech Jankowski (born April 1, 1956 in Leszno ) is a Polish composer for theater and film music, painter and ethnologist.
His performances combine instruments and music theater as well as elements of visual art.
As a composer he has worked with various theater directors, mainly in Poland.
His paintings, which features elements of magical realism, have been presented in several exhibitions 

and are parts of private collections in Poland and abroad.
Jankowski has composed music for several short films by influential stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay,

aka the Brothers Quay, and also for their first live-action feature-length film

"Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life", released in 1996.
The film is based on the novel "Jakob Von Gunten" (1909), written by Swiss writer Robert Walser.
The plot follows Jakob (Mark Rylance), a young man who enters a training school for servants,

run by brother and sister Johannes (Gottfried John) and Lisa Benjamenta (Alice Krige).
Though the film follows the same basic structure as the novel, its plot is more limited.
The Quays have characterized the film as a parallel universe of the novel.
The film has been described as thematically similar to a fairy tale, a fantasy or a dream world

and has been compared to Eraserhead due to its unconventional narrative and black-and-white filming style.
Parallels have also been drawn between the film and Expressionist films of the 1920s.

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Drawn – A New World? (1999)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. Rivawella Form 09:53
2. Yours And Mine 07:38   
3. So I Can't Dance, OK! 07:12   
4. Would Have Had 06:52
5. Marygold 08:07
6. A-Scape 08:53
7. Momento In Slomo 06:04
8. Improzigw 10:01

Drawn was formed around 1997 and consisted of Per K (Bass), Thomaz (Drums), Atle Dørum (Guitars, Vocals,)

and ex-In The Woods... member Christer-André Cederberg (Lead Vocals, Guitars).
The band self-released their promo/MCD "Drawn" in 1997 featuring four tracks and recorded at the Jailhouse Studio.
Their style was a blend of Psychedelic/Progressive/Metal with dark and eerie overtones.
After signing a deal with Prophecy Productions in 1998 their self-titled MCD was re-released under the title "Plan Be".
In 1999 their first, and last, full length album entitled "A New World?" was released in a digipak format.

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Enid – Nachtgedanken (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Silentium Obscuritate 01:08
2. Institutio Immortales 08:26
3. Of Wisdom's Shadows 06:13
4. Aurora 06:27
5. Nachtgedanken 09:22
6. Art Of The Blacksmith 04:23
7. Nebelthron 01:58
8. Intransitority 07:28

Martin Wiese and Florian Dammasch found the project Enid in 1997 inspired by Summoning’s "Minas Morgul" album.
The same year they released their self titled demo with music solely composed by Martin.
200 copies were sold to several distribution services and the tape was enthusiastically reviewed by some fanzines.
After the release of the demo the recordings of two songs for a 7“ EP entitled "Der Tag Zur Nacht Sich Senkt...“ began.
This release finally saw the light of day in 2001 as a 10“ MLP limited to 500 copies,
including two bonus tracks and released by the German label Ketzer.
In August 1998 eight new songs were recorded for their debut album named "Nachtgedanken" ("Night Thoughts")
that was released on tape format by Elven Witchcraft.
After signing to Austrian label CCP Records the CD version of "Nachtgedanken" was available in 1999.
In August 1999 the large part of the material for their second album was already completed.
After Florian got in contact with drummer Moritz Neuner (Abigor, DornenReich, Darkwell, Graveworm, Korova, Angizia etc.) and vocalist Maria Dorn (Stardust, Agony, Vanitas) and asked them to join Enid,
the band entered the CCP Studio in April 2000 to record their second album entitled "Abschiedsreigen".
After some line up changes in 2001 Enid signed a deal for 4 albums with the  Italian label Code666 
and in 2002 the album "Seelenspiegel" was completed.
Enid’s first gig took place in Porta Westfalica during the release party of "Seelenspiegel".
Several other live performances followed with bands like Menhir, Odroerir and Anubiz.
In September 2003 their fourth album "Gradwanderer" saw the light of day followed by "Munsalvaesche" in 2011.

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Rapoon – The Fires Of The Borderlands (1998)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Hollow Flight 06:18
2. Groundswell 03:37
3. Cires Divam 05:05
4. Snake Of Earth 04:53
5. Omaneska 13:51
6. Deserted Shadows 07:03
7. Looking... Not Finding 08:02
8. Circling Globes 04:40
9. Talking To A Stick 03:32
10. Still, So Still 05:40
11. A Softer Light 04:44

Rapoon is the solo project of Robin Storey (born in 1955 in Cumbria, England), operating since 1992.
While studying fine arts at Sunderland University, he began pursuing a long-held interest in sound manipulation 
by taking classes in electronic and experimental composition,
additionally joining with friends to perform the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 
(a key influence, as were the Krautrock bands of the early 1970s).
In 1979 Storey was one of the founding members of the pioneering group Zoviet France 
and remained as a member until 1993.
The year previous, he issued the first Rapoon album, "Dream Circle",
with entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures,
anticipating the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow.
To date he has released numerous solo albums which are widely and internationally regarded
as both innovative and influential and has participated in numerous other collaborations and side projects
including Reformed Faction with Mark Spybey and Hank & Slim with Nigel Ayers.
Also a noted visual artist, painter and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world,
with two of his pieces on display at the Berlin Museum of Modern Art.
"The Fires Of The Borderlands" was re-issued in 2014 as a 6-panel 2CD digipak with a bonus disc and limited to 500 copies.
The bonus disc features a live Rapoon performance at KFJC 89.7 FM, San Francisco on July 1996.

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