Nogbold's Palace – Dark Agony (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Enter The Palace 02:32
2. Sorrow 07:40
3. The End Of Life 08:43
4. Aufmarsch 01:05
5. Thou Art Lord 05:06
6. See Ravens Fly 08:09
7. Dark Agony 02:32

Obscure German hypnotic black/dark metal/ambient project created around 1998.
They self released their first album in 1998 on cassette format under the title "Dark Agony".
Later Irrlichter Records re-released the album on CD featuring bonus tracks from their second album.
In 2003 they published their second album entitled "Nogbold's Palace".
One of their members was also involved with the experimental black metal project Ardulph Ardebahr Wald.

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Stillpoint – Maps Without Edges (1996)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Blade Water Stone 09:13
2. Tract 18:03
3. Blade Water Stone 2 13:44
4. Prophecy Mesa 09:15
5. Blade Water Stone 3 06:13

Hallucinogenic collaboration project featuring Eddy Sayer (Lights In A Fat City),

Nick Parkin (Tuu, Red Shift, TouchSound) and Martin Franklin (Codetrippa, Tuu).
Stillpoint develops arcane themes of deeply ambient dense using ancient percussions,

electronics, gongs, bells and woodwinds.
Recorded live in an underground studio opposite the British Museum in London.

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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.

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M87 – Noctilucent Threnody (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Mu Cephei I 06:50
2. M8 (Lagoon Nebula) 16:16
3. NGC 7538 09:05
4. Arcturus 09:15
5. OQ172 05:45
6. P Cygni 12:27
7. NGC 6726/27 19:41

M87 was created in 1995 by Huw O. Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes

and aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects.
Davies aided by his technical level as a guitar player

but also limited by his inexistent technical knowledge on any other instrument,

spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him

to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and a bit of recording equipment.
As the musical concept expanded, he recorded several hours of material (including a titanic 78-minute piece),

samples of which were sent to a wide variety of record labels.

Reactions were quite uniform in their incomprehension and disbelief,

which resulted in a mixture of triumph and frustration, since no one seemed to know quite what to make of the music

and therefore no one seemed to know quite whether to offer him a deal.

In the summer of 1997, however, Davies contacted Supernal Music following an advertisement in a mail order catalogue,

where the label expressed interest in bands inspired by Astronomical, Astrophysical, and Cosmological subjects.
Recorded at Singularity Studios, in winter of 1997 "Noctilucent Threnody" was released in 1999 as a limited edition CD

and was the first of a planned ten albums, most of the material for which had already been recorded.
Davies is currently working on a remastered and remixed version of the "Noctilucent Threnody",
complete with several bonus tracks, that were originally recorded at the time, for a possible inclusion on the album.
In addition the second M87 album is in the making under the title "Abyssal Symphonies".
Davies is also involved in his two other projects, Devoid and Cziltang Brone.

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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.

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The Last Battle – Ouglouk Rougai (Demo 1999)

Country: France

Tracklist

1. Raliement 02:14
2. Battlefield 03:56
3. Les Feux De La Victoire 03:31
4. La Danse Des Gobelins 05:30
5. Pensée D'un Troll 03:44
6. Trève 02:26
7. Division Chaos 05:34
8. Beuverie 01:27

French black metal project with goblin inspired thematology featuring members from Arkham.
The band consisted of Grusrr (lead vocals, guitars, horn),

Ourg (drums, additional vocals) and Urgagh' (guitars, backing vocals).
They released only one demo in 1999 through Onirik Circle Production 

under the title "Ouglouk Rougai" in a limited edition of 300 copies.

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Bohack – It Took Several Wives (1982)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Rock Of Joe The Dog Crowd Noticed 02:24
2. Slow Clock 02:24
3. A Waiter Dies A Large Family For A Tip Leaves 01:10
4. Shot Himself After Falling Three Days 01:19
5. Fat Jaw 01:31
6. If You Feel Frogie Jump 01:05
7. Jesus In Mono 02:51
8. Old Hog Pissing In Sepia 01:32
9. Jerky In Color 03:22
10. To Save A Safe Artist's Ass 02:15
11. Good Brown 03:21
12. It Took Several Wives 05:34
13. The Man With The Flower In His Mouth 02:38
14. They Came As One Person 00:43
15. The White Hand Burned While The Red Hand Held On 01:22
16. Potatoe Skin Hair 01:39
17. 50 Perfumes (Part 1) 03:53
18. 50 Perfumes (Part 2) 02:53

Vincent Gallo (born April 11, 1961) is an American actor, director, writer, producer, musician, and model.

He has won several accolades, including a Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and has been nominated for numerous more,

including the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, and the Bronze Horse.
Following a childhood working for the local mafia, Gallo started his professional career as a Formula II motorcycle racer.

In the early '70s he began playing electric bass and sang in garage bands,

during which time he developed an appreciation of both prog rock and proto-punk bands.
He participated in Buffalo-based bands like Blue Mood, a progressive rock cover band named Zephyr 

which did one performance at Lincoln Park Tonawanda New York in 1978,

The Good (with Bernie Kugel and Larry Galanowitz), The Detours, and the Plastics.
At the age of 16 Gallo relocated to New York City and in winter of 1979 he met Wayne Richard Clifford.

That same evening they rented a rehearsal space to improvise music together.
Wayne already a member of a industrial/noise group called Gray

asked Vincent to join the band that also featured renowned artist Jean Michel Basquiat.
Although they played regularly at such N.Y.C. hot spots as Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club,

the group split up before any recordings could be made.
A short period afterwards Vincent Gallo and Wayne Richard Clifford along with Claudia Porcelli formed Bohack.
Immediately after forming Bohack the trio played one live improvised show.
After this single performance Bohack began recording

in Vincent Gallo's American Indian Studios in 1980 and continued to do so until the spring of 1981.
Gallo produced Bohack on a single track monophonic Ampex 350 recorder and a single RCA KU-3 microphone.
The album was mixed by Gallo on an ALTEC 250 SU mixer he also formed the label Family Friend Records to release it.
About 1000 copies were printed and the band sold 60 of them through Bleecker Bob's record store

and another 150 through a distributer while 500 were destroyed in a New York City fire.
In 1984 Gallo threw about 100 of them in a trash container and passed out the rest one night on St. Mark's Place, NYC.
When Bohack disbanded, Gallo turned his back on a musical career, and focused primarily on acting in movies,

landing steady work as either an actor, director, or composer.
As a filmmaker, he directed, wrote, and starred in three independent films:

"Buffalo '66" (1998), "The Brown Bunny" (2003), and "Promises Written In Water" (2010)

while also directed and starred in numerous short films and several music videos.
After including several of his own original compositions on 1998's "Buffalo '66" soundtrack,

Gallo decided to give a musical career another shot, forming the group Bunny with actor/musician Lukas Haas.

Despite a successful Japanese tour and a debut album completed for Sony

(with renowned Yes producer Eddie Offord overseeing the recording),

the group split up, resulting in the shelving of the debut's release.

After relocating to Los Angeles, Gallo began laying down solo demos at his home recording studio, 

which attracted the attention of Warp Records.
The early 21st century saw the release of such critically acclaimed solo Gallo full-lengths

as 2001's "When" and 2002's "Recordings Of Music For Film".
Gallo's films possess a cult following, especially in Japan and his work has proven largely polarizing among film critics,

but has been highly praised by many filmmakers and actors.

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