Sound & Vision
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Classic song featuring PJ Harvey on backing vocals.
Artist: The Family Cat
Title: Colour Me Grey
Format: CD single
Label: Bad Girl
Cat. Num.: BGRL 009 SCD
Year: 1991
Tracklist:
1. Colour Me Grey
2. I Must Have Been Blind
3. Great Ugly Place
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Various Artists
Title: Easter Egg-Splosion
Format: 7” single
Label: Basketcase Records
Cat. Num.: FLOP 02
Year: 1995
Tracklist:
A1: Elevate - Soldier Field
A2: Bob Tilton - Butterfly (4 track version)
A3: Snuff - Sweet Dreams
B1: Lung Leg - Kung Fu On The Internet
B2: Quickspace Supersport - Extra Plus (33.3% Extra Free)
B3: Prolapse - Headless In A Beat Motel (Live)
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Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English | Format: AVI
1.27 GB | Duration: 2:26:13 | 688 x 384 | 23.976 fps
Audio: MP3 128 Kbs | Genre: Fiction/Drama
Japan is a culture traditionally built on respect, concern for the other person, courtesy, honesty, and discipline. Recently, however, Japanese schools have become increasingly dangerous places with an increase in violent crimes, breakdown of order in classrooms (gakkyuu houkai), bullying and intimidation of weak or delicate students (ijime), and a high suicide rate. The dark side of Japanese culture is brought to life in Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou Chou, a disturbing look at the life of a junior high school student who seeks sanctuary from the bullying of his classmates through the music of a pop-icon, singer Lily Chou Chou. Shot on high-definition video, the film opens in a rice field where a sad-eyed young boy stands in the middle of a wide expanse of green. With his headphones on, he clings to his Discman while we hear a soft sensuous voice singing in the background and read the text of Internet messages clicking on the bottom of the screen.
The posters are brought together by their love of Lily who, to her fans, is a voice that comes from “the Ether”, carrying the status of an otherworldly goddess. The boy’s screen name is Philia but his real name is Yuichi Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara). He is a slender boy of fourteen whose devotion to Lily is an article of faith in his world of loneliness and nihilism. The communications, based on actual web messages, are revealing of the poster’s frame of mind. “Imagine being dead”, someone writes, “won’t that be great?” Someone else writes that once he got to Junior High School his world went gray. Another comments, “For me, only the Ether is proof I’m alive. But lately my Ether is running out.” Yuichi lives with his mother, a hairdresser, her boyfriend and his son. Left on his own most of the time to deal with his peers, his life is a struggle for survival. He is robbed, forced to perform a sexual act in front of local toughs and humiliated by his teacher and mother when he is caught stealing a Lily CD.
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All About Lily Chou Chou is disjointed and overlong and suffers from some stylistic excesses but it is a courageous film and a deeply moving one, a work that has the courage to confront some aspects of modern-day Japan that you will not read about in the tourist guides. Iwai’s breathtaking images together with the poetic music of Debussy capture the adolescent experience in a way that is heartbreakingly real and, although the film’s shifting time line may makes the story hard to follow for some, the message comes through with unmistakable clarity. Lily is a film of mood where black is the color and none is the number, but the darkness is redeemed by its appreciation that the solace of art is available to all, even those suffering the most desperate pain. (by Howard Schumann on IMDB)
MEGAUPLOAD
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7
MEDIAFIRE
All 7 parts in my movie folder
All links are interchangeable.
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No vinyl rip tonight, just a compilation of some of my favourite songs. Encoded at 256 kbs this time.
Tracklist:
01: Tim Buckley – Song to the Siren (1970)
02: The Feelies – Two Rooms (1986)
03: Cul De Sac – The Invisible Worm (1992)
04: Mecca Normal – Nobody’s Asking (1993)
05: The Softies – The Best Days (1996)
06: Mark Kozelek – Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer (2000)
07: Aberdeen – Clouds Like These (2002)
08: Okkervil River – Omie Wise (2003)
09: Arco – Perfect World (2004)
10: The Album Leaf – Over The Pond (2004)
11: Nonstop – Le fils du soldat inconnu (2005)
12: Tender Forever – The Magic of Crashing Stars (2005)
13: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Love Connection (2006)
14: A Sunny Day In Glasgow – A Mundane Phonecall (2007)
15: Damon & Naomi – The Turnaround (2007)
16: Patrick Wolf – Magpie (2007)
17: Young Galaxy – No Matter How Hard You Try (2007)
18: David Grubbs – Storm Sequence (2008)
19: The Battle of Land and Sea – The Beautiful Ones (2008)
20: Tegan & Sara – Back in Your Head (demo) (2008)
13 written by the Parenthetical Girls (2004)
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Tuneful and mellow on one side of the platter, experimental on the other, Nicola Hodgkinson (Boyracer, Empress) and Justine Wolfenden dish up some minimal pop gems. Limited to 1000 and available on red or black vinyl. – Fantastic Records
Artist: Hem
Title: Be Completely Full Of……
Format: 7” single
Label: Fantastic Records
Cat. Num.: FAN 002
Year: 1995
Tracklist:
Side a1: Be Completely Full Of……
Side a2: Serge
Side b: Dissevelt
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Artist: Betty Please
Title: Airport Love
Format: 7″ single
Label: Sticky Records
Cat. Num.: Sticky 10
Year: 1994
Tracklist:
Side a: Airport Love
Side b: Constant Wynde
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Artists: Alison Statton & Spike
Title: Maple Snow
Format: CD
Label: Vinyl Japan
Cat. Num.: ASK CD 59
Year: 1995
Tracklist:
01: In Time
02: Missing You
03: Web Of Decline
04: Salad Days
05: Romance At Sea
06: Mr. Morgan
07: Midnight Slows
08: Weekend Off
09: Seaport Town
10: Open Eyes
11: Alternation
12: A Greater Notion
13: Empty Hearth
14: Find And Seek
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I know I said I wouldn’t post anything until April but it turns out that I have some free time right now, so I’ll be posting some music and film this week.
A couple of words (literaly) to introduce this band will suffice: Ian Masters. To be fair I should add that Spoonfed Hybrid also features Chris Trout. And that the b-side to this single is really ace.
Artist: Spoonfed Hybrid
Title: Scary Verlaine
Format: 7” single
Label: Le Tatou Colérique
Cat. Num.: DC 001
Year: 1995
Tracklist:
Side a: Scary Verlaine
Side b: The Sun Always Changes My Mind
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Final post … until Easter. For personal reasons I won’t be posting anymore music until April, sorry about that. So, to keep you company during this long break, here’s a live recording of Weekend’s smooth pop-jazz music, featuring the beautiful voice of Alison Statton. Hopefully it will keep you warm during this winter. See you in April.
Artist: Weekend
Title: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Format: 12”
Label: Rough Trade
Cat. Num.: RTM 139 LP
Year: 1983
Tracklist:
A1: Where Flamingos Fly
A2: Winter Moon
A3: Nostalgia
B1: Weekend Off
B2: A Day In The Life Of…
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Artist: Velocity Girl
Title: I Don’t Care If You Go
Format: 7” single
Label: Slumberland
Cat. Num.: DRYL 004
Year: 1990
Tracklist:
Side a: I Don’t Care If You Go
Side b: Always
Artist: Velocity Girl
Title: Crazy Town
Format: 7” single
Label: Sub Pop
Cat. Num.: SP 179
Year: 1992
Tracklist:
Side a: Crazy Town
Side b: Creepy
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Artist: Mazzy Star
City: Bruxelles (Belgium)
Venue: De Vaartkapoen (VK)
Date: December 28, 1993
Source: Original recording done with a Sony NT-2 Digital Micro Recorder. Then transfered directly to PC as .wav files.
How is this for an end of the year special gift? Mazzy Star’s first concert in Belgium, following the release of their second album, ‘So Tonight That I Might See’. A very low attendance though, which you can guess by the echoes of people’s hands clapping, and, more annoying, the sound of plastic glasses being dropped and crushed on the floor. Still, it was a very enjoyable gig, and a fond memory as you can imagine. Also thanks to Mike for lending me his (then) brand new digital recorder, I think it was put to good use.
Tracklist:
1. Mary Of Silence
2. Ghost Highway
3. Rock Section
4. Blue Flower
5. Halah
6. Give You My Loving
7. Ride It On
8. Into Dust
9. Flowers In December
10. Blue Light
11. She Hangs Brightly
12. Hair & Skin
13. So Tonight That I Might See
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For fans of Hood …
Artist: Avrocar
Title: Cinematography
Format: CD
Label: Earworm
Cat. Num.: WORM 48
Year: 1999
Tracklist:
1. Fega
2. Real Time
3. Dark Eye Collector
4. Ueno
5. Display
6. Recoil
7. Surface
8. Amplify
9. Cathode & Cello’d
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Artist: St. Christopher
Title: Young Nun
Format: 7” single
Label: Elefant
Cat. Num.: ER 122
Year: 1995
Tracklist:
Side a: Young Nun
Side b: With Her In Mind
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Language: French| Subtitles: English (srt) | Format: AVI
Duration: 1:30:34 | 624 x 384| 25 fps | Audio: MP3 160 Kbps
1.36 GB | Genre: Drama
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L’eau froide was Olivier Assayas’ response to a request from producer Chantal Poupaud, who was preparing a series of ten films by ten directors called Tous les Garçons et Filles de Leur Age. A number of important directors were assigned to make a film about their youth at the age of 16 – consequently Jean-Claude Brisseau was lined up to cover the late 50�s, André Téchiné to do the early 60′s, Claire Denis the mid 60′s etc. Assayas’s film is set in the early 70′s, a crucial time for a youth growing up in the immediate years following the Paris student rebellion of May 1968. The film certainly succeeded in ruffling a few feathers, earning an unwarranted ‘not for under 16s’ certificate (equivalent to a UK ’18′ or US ‘R’) for its depiction of children with behavioural problems (read the rest at DVD Times).
CAST
Virginie Ledoyen
Cyprien Fouquet
L�szl� Szab�
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Dominique Faysse
Sma�l Mekki
Jackie Berroyer
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Ilona Gy�ri
MEGAUPLOAD
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
PART 6
PART 7
PART 8
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SOUNDTRACK
FLAC | 9 tracks | 190 MB
1. Alice Cooper – School’s Out
2. Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around The Bend
4. Donovan – Cosmic Wheels
5. Janis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGee
6. Leonard Cohen – Avalanche
7. Nico – Janitor Of Lunacy
8. Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
9. Uria Heep – Easy Livin’
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This is the bonus live LP that came together with a special edition of the Throwing Muses’ album Red Heaven.
Artist: Kristin Hersh
Title: Live at Maxwell’s, Hoboken
Format: 12” LP
Label: 4AD
Cat. Num.: CAD D 2013 / KH 1
Year: 1992
Tracklist:
A1: Juno
A2: Marriage Tree
A3: Pearl
A4: Stand Up | Dovey | Mexican Women
A5: Run Letter
A6: Soap & Water
A7: Rabbits Dying
A8: Cry Baby Cry
B1: Counting Backwards Handsome Woman
B2: Take
B3: Soul Soldier
B4: Bea
B5: Delicate Cutters
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Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English (srt) | Format: AVI | Duration: 1:55:34 | 576 x 320 | 23.976 fps | Audio: MP3 128 Kbps | 697 MB | Genre: Art / Drama
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Born in 1960, Hidenori Sugimori started shooting films while studying at Waseda University. His first film Grey (8mm,1981) was selected for the PIA Film Festival. After graduation, he worked for NHK broadcasting center as a director. Leaving NHK on his 30th birthday, he started his career as a freelance director and has directed over a hundred TV commercial films. Woman of Water is his first feature film.
Woman of Water was inspired by the true story of UA who plays Ryo in the film. UA is a famous singer in Japan, who seems to call upon rain every time she performs at an important concert. Based on this fact, the film revolves around the ‘woman of water’, Ryo, and Yusaku, who finds comfort in fire. The director creates a modern myth about love and the meaning of living along with others through the two characters who are set against each other in nature through water, fire, wind (the bath house steam) and land (the Mt. Fuji painting in the bath house). The various sights that exist within the confines of the bathhouse represent equality and a new beginning. The slow pacing of the film and its dream-like symbolic atmosphere adds to its mythical quality. (DiVX Planet)
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A travers le thème de l’eau, Hidenori Sugimori offre un hymne à une Nature belle et généreuse au temps où certains chamanes étaient en communion étroite avec elle. Les images sont claires, léchées ; il transpire à travers elles la révérence du réalisateur envers les éléments naturels.
L’histoire se déroule principalement dans les bains publics que tient la jeune femme Ryo. Le générique présente des estampes japonaises d’hommes et de femmes dans les scènes de vie quotidienne sur un fond sonore de clapotis d’eau et de brouhaha humain. Les bains sont pour les japonais une éthique de vie. Selon eux, c’est le lieu par excellence où l’on apprend la vie en société, le corps humain et ses différences. L’eau est bien sûr le symbole de la vie et l’allégorie du temps qui passe … (Sophie Labeille sur Critikat.com)
CAST
Ua (Kaori Shima)
Tadanobu Asano
Hikaru
Yutaka Enatsu
Ryuichi �ura
Mayumi Ogawa
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SOUNDTRACK
FLAC | 19 tracks | 245 MB
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