Midnight Oil’s second last album, (excluding the live album The Real Thing) is perhaps one of my favourites. Throughout their career, Midnight Oil developed and changed their style, seemingly with great ease. In the early days, there was surf rock, then some more pop-oriented tunes, pub rock, folk rock, Redneck Wonderland saw a brief flirtation with industrial rock, and their final album, Capricornia finished their career with a sort of country rock sound. This development is part of what I love so much about the band- they’re multifaceted and dynamic. Their lyrics cover political, social and environmental issues as well as relationships, but they have always remained true to their Sydney origins. I think a part of Midnight Oil will always be about the surf. In a similar way to The Whitlams, Midnight Oil have a fundamental element that can only come from Sydney. In my eyes, the music of these bands is the spirit of Australia. They’re conscious and cynical, but at the same time, they’re not bitter and don’t let those things interrupt daily life. In this record, be prepared for harsh, synthesised sounds and heavily distorted vocals and guitars.
Outstanding Tracks:
- Redneck Wonderland
- Cemetery in My Mind
- White Skin Black Heart
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Label: Divine Comedy Records
Catalog#: DC 042
Format: CD
Country: France
Released: 16 Jan 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient
Notes: - Digipack
- Limited edition of 500 copies
Foundation Hope was formed in 2003 by Joep Smaling. The main idea was to make dark cinematical soundscapes with a strong focus on the harshness and cruelty of everyday life. This instead of the more common ambient focus on a fantastical or subterranean world. Foundation Hope tries to reflect the sharp contrast between religious/illusory thought and the crudeness of everyday reality and mankind musically. Ironically presenting itself as a foundation, an institute that comforts seeking souls in times of distress, it is instead an attempt to confront the listener with moods of isolation, despair and sorrow. At the same time it is a question on what the fundaments of our hope are, in times when not only parts of the world are at war or otherwise suffering, but also wealthy individuals in western secularised civilisation seek relief in anti-depressants and are aware of the hollowness of consumerism and hedonism, living in a world gone mad without the belief in a purpose to it all. Foundation Hope is an aural arrow pointing to the spiritual sores of this modern civilisation. ‘To perceive evil in where it exists is in fact a form of optimism,’ to quote Rossellini.
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Label: Interscope Records
Catalog#: 173 613-9
Format: Vinyl, 9″, Single, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 2007
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Electro, Industrial
Credits: Lyrics By - Trent Reznor
Mixed By - Alan Moulder
Producer - Atticus Ross , Trent Reznor
Notes: Only released on 9″ vinyl to eliminate the record industries marketing of a European Maxi-single and without a Halo number, to stop collector’s feeling the need of having to purchase it.
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Label: Cold Meat Industry
Catalog#: CMI158
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Sweden
Released: Apr 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Ambient
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Label: Twilight Records
Catalog#: TW1 17
Format: CD
Country: Argentina, France
Released: 24 Oct 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Neofolk
Notes: Digipack CD limited to 500 copies. Tracks 1 and 9 are old songs from World War I era.
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Label: Alien8 Recordings
Catalog#: ALIENCD 069
Format: 1 x CD
Country: Canada
Release date: April 10, 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Breakbeat, Industrial, Progressive House, Electro, Synth-pop
This second album by Montreal’s Lesbians On Ecstasy is as much a party record as it is the ‘womyn’s music’ thinkpiece it bills itself as. ‘Sisters on The Struggle’ is an absolute blast, a seriously arresting opening track with a big hippyish chorus hinging around the line “We’ve been waiting all our lives for our sisters to be our loversâ€. … It should come as no surprise then that the album is meticulously put together, far more sonically interesting than your average electro-rock album, softening up the polemics with a healthy dose of party fun. (boomkat)
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Label: Mushroom Records
Catalog#: D 31475
Format: CD
Country: Australia
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Industrial
Credits: Engineer - Michael Guerra , Mike Fisher
Engineer, Programmed By [Additional] - Statik
Mastered By - Howie Weinberg
Mixed By [Assisted] - John Ewing , Rob Agnello
Producer - Machines Of Loving Grace
Producer, Mixed By, Engineer - Sylvia Massy
Programmed By [Additional] - Scott Benzel
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (Psalm 69): The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
Artist: Ministry
Label: Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Catalog#: 7599-26727-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 14 Jul 1992
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Industrial, Hard Rock
Credits: Bass, Programmed By, Vocals - P. Barker
Drums - W. Rieflin
Engineer - J.C. Newell , P. Manno
Guitar - L. Svitek , M. Scaccia
Keyboards, Programmed By - M. Balch
Mastered By - Tom Baker (3)
Producer - H. Luxa / H. Pan
Programmed By - H. Beno
Songwriter - Connelly (tracks: 3) , Haynes (tracks: 5) , Ministry
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards - A. Jourgensen
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Die Puppe II
Artist: Die Form
Label: Matrix Cube
Catalog#: TRI 086 CD
Format: CD, Album, Remastered, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Industrial
Credits: Artwork By, Photography - Ph. F.
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By - Philippe Fichot
Producer - Bain Total
Notes: Remastered version of Die Puppe recorded 1980-1982, limited edition 1500 copies.
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