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VanderGraafKommandöh 
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 Posted: March 06 2007 at 00:07 |
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There was a later album about on Blogspot somewhere, so I'm sure someone has it around here. I don't. I have the cassette and Les Morts Vont Vites.
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mina
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 00:03 |
i heard les mortes vont vite first, do they have any other albums? creamy pants are worth mentioning, always!  sweden sweden sweden
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 23:58 |
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I really enjoyed it, Adam. I'll need further listens, of course, but it was very good indeed, especially due to the track lengths. I presume studio Magma is much like this live stuff, except shorter?
That Charles Hayward album isn't too bad either. I'm not sure if it'll be your thing though.
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Apsalar
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 23:53 |
 mina wrote:
so that shub niggurath cassette was pretty awesome. i only came in my pants a little bit. more stuff like that, please. D:
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Do you have any of their other albums? Their first is a classic and just as dark, a must for any Zeuhl-lover.
James, I see you listened to the Magam album. Any thoughts?
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 23:20 |
Thanks for mentioning creaming your pants, Mina!  How was Sweden?
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mina
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 23:12 |
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so that shub niggurath cassette was pretty awesome. i only came in my pants a little bit.
more stuff like that, please. D:
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 19:16 |
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The only Magma I have (and I've yet to hear it) is Restrospektiw I-II. I may put that on after I've finished listening to Gilgamesh.
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Apsalar
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 19:13 |
chamberry wrote:
Guys. I only have their second. Which one should I get first? First or Third?
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Definitely go for the first next. Third is a little step away from the sound they have in Second.
James, have you heard much Magma?
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:55 |
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Eskaton (I've only head 4 Visions) have a much more eclectic and diverse sound than Eider Stellaire. I like Eider Stellaire of course, but I cannot listen to too much of it at once. Weidorje too have that similar sound (but I think I prefer it again to Eider Stellaire).
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chamberry
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:53 |
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Guys. I only have their second. Which one should I get first? First or Third?
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Apsalar
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:46 |
I guess I am the other way around. They don't quite have that same raw power as either Eskaton or much of Magma's work, but still seem to make extremely emotive music. Might put there second on one this popol vuh album has finished.
Yu, Lounge Zeuhl sounds perfect 
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:31 |
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I still prefer Eskaton's - 4 Visions to Eider Stellaire though.
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Yukorin
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:25 |
Yeah I love their 3rd. Lounge-Zeuhl perhaps..? !
Thanks Blackie, if it is the same then yes it is excellent despite the sound quality. Still, no complaints here. Paid about 150 dollars for it (I think. Ten years back so memory is fuzzy)
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:20 |
Yes, they got back to their zeuhl roots on those two tracks, wonderful stuff indeed. You hear a return of throbbing bass lines and some ladies singing in the zeuhl style. I actually like their 3rd album.
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Apsalar
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:16 |
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^^^ Yu ,I think you might have heard it before. It consist of those two stunning tracks Claire sent around on the unrelease Zeuhl compilation. Everything Eider Stellaire has done has amazed me, no complaints from anything they have done. I just wish I could get my hands on some hard copies. It is a crime they have not been re-released. How much did you pay for their first?
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Yukorin
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 18:07 |
Haven't had a chance to listen to her yet but if it's a fraction of their stunning debut I'll be happy. Here is the mighty Eric Lumbleau's musings:
"Considered by many "in the life" to be one of the cornerstone zeuhl bands, Eider Stellaire's reputation for the most part rests largely on the back of their more readily available 2nd and 3rd albums. Their second album (self titled, as was the first) as you'll see is quite a brilliant record (in it's own way as incredible as their debut), but it's zeuhl connection is a bit less specific, with a sound that often seems more akin to Art Zoyd or AZ leader Thierry Zaboitzeff's solo album "Promethee", with it's unsettling electronic climates and odd angularity (the less said about their third album, the better). It's on their ridiculously rare debut album however that all the hallmark zeuhl signifiers are most in play. Devastatingly heavy on so many levels, Eider Stellaire's sound here has as much akin to the Eskaton of "Ardeur" and "Fiction" as it does to the Magma mothership. Powered by a bassist who brings a distinctly Paganotti-like edge to the proceedings, what really tends to distinguish their work a bit from their peers is the degree of guitar firepower that Jean-Claude Delachat brings to the recording. A real blissed peak of the zeuhl cannon, I believe only a few hundred of these were made. Of those, only 50 came with this original cover, the rest finally being issued after the release of their second album using a press over-run of additional sleeves from the second LP to house their first album. Distressingly, Le Bars apparently refuses to ever see Eider Stellaire's music reissued. As I've heard it, Le Bars was a zeuhl diehard to end all zeuhl diehards. When Magma disbanded in the early 80's, I've heard he attempted suicide. Following that, he renounced all music and apparently still does to this day."
I never realised there were only 50 copies of the 'star' cover. I shall stop using it as a beer-mat forthwith
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 02:07 |
Indeed. Why is this apparently unreleased Eider Stellaire album much better than the others?
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Yukorin
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 02:06 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 02:04 |
Ah yes, just as I described it.
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Yukorin
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 02:03 |
Found it!
Ladies and Gentlemen......Swindon!
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