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Recently I heard about coil, with my main attention being brought to them through uzims post in the "spastic lirik" post,. I got my first two coil albums today in mp3, ( music to play in the dark and loves secret domain ) , I was sceptical at first, worried that the age of the band would ensure a pathetic product ( ALA jean michael jarre, etc. ) but I was wrong,.. so here I am in my room, cleaning up / reorganising furniture, with coil sequenced shortly after a Tool Live set I also hadn't heard, I was halfway through organising my music collection when "music to play in the dark" cut in, the very first null in "are you shivering" was enough to demand my attention and make me stop what I was doing and listen, for the first time in a decade I had been dumbfounded by the noise coming out of my stereo, ( the sort of thing you remember from when you first heard the album/song that turned you from a casual listener into a musical fanatic ) I was hearing electronic without any popular influences,. a raw product that didn't follow the trends that make even the most influential and innovative artist sound familiar and predictable, this was different, this was somehow foreign, an alien, It felt like I was listening to music for the first time, my virgin ears drowning in the ecstacy pouring out to me whether I liked it or not. For the next hour and a half I just sit there, salivating between every breath as I am raped by the epic textures and chords contained within these recordings, as if the music had pushed through into places I wasn't sure I wanted it to go, I wasn't sure exactly how I felt at the end of it all, but it certainly wasn't bad or in other words,.. "coil'r good!!" |
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cool, that's about how i first felt (and still often feel) listening to coil. don't forget to, like, actually purchase their albums. has bargain deals on coil albums for us americans, perhaps others on this board have other links they use in ordering coil cd's. check out music to play.. vol2, moon's milk (in four phases), and time machines next :) |
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great thanks to you,.. |
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I second everything Tits just said. The four mentioned are my favorite.. You'll probably also like their 'Stolen and Contaminated Songs' record which consists of various out-takes and alternate versions of work from Love's Secret Domain.. Most of them are very good, in particular 'Inkling' and 'Original Wild Garlic Memory'. 'Remote Viewer' also -- though it probably isn't available anymore; it shouldn't be too difficult to find in mp3. 'Astral Disaster' is another of my favorites. Most people either absolutely love it or think it's some of their worst work. Try downloading the song 'the sea priestess' to taste it yourself. Threshold House just announced 4 new Coil cds documenting the 4 phases of their live show over the past 3 years.. I'm ordering the set for 93 pounds along with all the artifacts, baubles, and other exclusives that come along. I also urge you to investigate Cyclobe; a tentacled offshoot of Coil : two boys from London - Simon Norris\Ossian Brown(rotating Coil member) and Stephen Thrower who was with Coil from the beginning until the Love's Secret Domain era. Look for the songs 'Your Not Alone, You're Dreaming'(off of Luminous Darkness) and 'Replaced by His Constellation'(off of The Visitors). Those ought to give you a good impression of the celestial oscillations in store for you. http://www.brainwashed.com/cyclobe http://www.brainwashed.com/coil http://www.thresholdhouse.com |
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Synopsis: The result of instrumental work, sampling and grotesque combinations of the two,Luminous Darkness by Cyclobe represents the first fruit of two years work and constant mutation. You may hear... sounds threaded through squid's guts and neural shredding machinery, keyboards with a nasty rash, voices that don't let on, poison juice mulched out of pop music left-overs, beats where the sun don't shine, outdoor sounds field-recorded by agoraphobes, inner ear oceanics, silent hovering visitors and moments of loathsome beauty. Obsessions include: Transcendental pornography, phallic navigation, four or many-legged things, violent death majesty, telepathic bedroom exercises, brute reality juggling, dreaming being awake, sick jokes in other dimensions, persistent swelling and always colour; ESPecially the tuning of it. Comments: "The music is to do with the condition of awareness at the time of listening, or maybe trying to achieve higher awareness... with sounds as pathfinders. Using intuition, emotion and the power of the senses - the wish to explore...We're working very close to the abstract but each piece is structured dramatically. Drama requires that something be at stake; not a feeling you often get from abstract music. Emotion entails danger and emotion is the factor we use to devise structures. We want to make music that plays with a sense of jeopardy and surprise, whilst remaining slippery and daemonic in the details. Hovering threats and imminent ecstasies... The songs work like invocations, summoning both alien and intimate energies. Each title is a key, with special access to the resonance of each piece - they get you into (or out) of the situations aroused. A title like Inevitable Black Horn or YouÃœre Not Alone You're Dreaming is a catalyst for the attention; after which the music outlives the words, seeping spectral vibrations into the spongier parts of things." |
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