z.a.r.p.e.k. (O-Z) XIV

Univers Zero, Thinking Plague and Violeta De Outono are my top three, i'll vote later.

hmm I actually have to consider voting for something other than Floyd this time! as much as I love Saucreful,  In Den Garten Pharaos is really f**king awesome and my favorite Popol Vuh record...

yeah i decided to just go with In Den Garten Pharaos.That album is just something else... takes me away to such fantastic lands and worlds.

That Thinking Plague is amazing, no brainer for me.

I have heard all the albums minus the Sensations Fix and the Violeta... ones.  Of the ones I have, In den Garten Pharaos is a no-brainer for me.  I think that it's a really terrific album.

Just goes to show where all the people with great taste go: John's polls

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Yep, John's is the first name in `Quality Polling' lol! - Hmmmm, that sounded dirty! Dave, your pro-interspecies love, anti-work agenda has been quite clear for some time! Thanks for the heads up, think I'll give that `Popul Vuh' a spin home here before attempting it at work! I did have a nightshift run at work lately where I played Klaus Schulze/Andreas Grosser `Babel' and TDream's `Tyranny of Beauty' (kind of meh), and I thought they were pretty easy listening to some choices I could have made! But they were not appreciated.... I was hearing a lot of requests for the `I'm Britney, b*tch' song, God help me.....whatever that is!

Dave, we've got a second hand record chain here called Dixons, and on December 27th and 28th they had a 20% off all stock sale, and even though I was meant to be sleeping in the morning from working the previous night at nightshift, I dragged my zombie corpse down there and spent two hours in a daze searching through everything!

Came across that `Babel' album on LP, got it for $16 (down from $20). The guy at the counter even said to me `Urh, I wouldn't...are you sure you want this? It's not very good', but I figured it was a little rarer, so I took the chance. I wonder if it was his copy that he'd traded in?

Anyway, it's very synth/classical based, occasionally dull and tedious, but very effective and striking when it works.One or two themes are very haunting and dark. No percussive elements at all, it's essentially one long floating classical work on keyboards/piano. I don't regret buying it for a second, even if it's no classic.

I wanted to ask you, they also had (for $45!) a Schulze/Rainer Bloss/Ernst Fuchs collaboration called `Aphrica' on LP, do you know if it's any good? I was a little reluctant at that price...then again, that would have been the best time to grab it, would have got it for $36...

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Dave, we've got a second hand record chain here called Dixons, and on December 27th and 28th they had a 20% off all stock sale, and even though I was meant to be sleeping in the morning from working the previous night at nightshift, I dragged my zombie corpse down there and spent two hours in a daze searching through everything! Came across that `Babel' album on LP, got it for $16 (down from $20). The guy at the counter even said to me `Urh, I wouldn't...are you sure you want this? It's not very good', but I figured it was a little rarer, so I took the chance. I wonder if it was his copy that he'd traded in? Anyway, it's very synth/classical based, occasionally dull and tedious, but very effective and striking when it works.One or two themes are very haunting and dark. No percussive elements at all, it's essentially one long floating classical work on keyboards/piano. I don't regret buying it for a second, even if it's no classic. I wanted to ask you, they also had (for $45!) a Schulze/Rainer Bloss/Ernst Fuchs collaboration called `Aphrica' on LP, do you know if it's any good? I was a little reluctant at that price...then again, that would have been the best time to grab it, would have got it for $36...