Received Zegota's CDs on Saturday, listened to "Into the cold black winter" today. Excellent stuff - I've been meaning to get a comilation of goth and black metal off my brother but this has saved me the trouble...

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Dcomposed's review (at last)

Wangs.

1. Like the Intro.
2. alright
3. liked this
4. liked
5. alright
6. ok
7. liked this.
8. heh
9. alright
10. ok
11. Alright
12. Liked this.
13. Liked
14. liked
15. Loved this.
16. Short but sweet.
17. Liked this.
18. alright
19. another shorty but goody. And worked well as intro to 20
20. alright

Dongs.

1. Nice Intro
2. Liked this
3. Enjoyable, funky.
4. Alright
5. Reminded me of early 90s, or at least the tune did.
6. I liked
7. Cool
8. Liked this a lot.
9. meh.
10. Alright
11. Wasnt that keen
12. Liked this, lyrics were great.
13. meh
14. Alright.
15. alright
16. ok
17. alreet
18. enjoyable
19. like this
20. Ok

First Id like to explain that this isnt my usual brand of coffee, Im not really big into rap, or hip-hop, but on the whole I liked what I heard, and one of the reasons I enter the swaps is to get tunes I wouldnt ordinarily listen to. So from that perspective I think both cds were a success. I particularly liked Dongs, it was a unique mix and something I enjoyed listening to. Wangs was great too, but perhaps its because Im not used to hearing australian hip-hop I prefered Dongs as its got a uniqueness to it, and as Jes put both cds are fantastic to chill out to, so I was very impressed.

Awarded Rating (based this time on food in my cupboard):

Wangs - Tin of Baked Beans.
Everyone should have at least one tin in their cupboard, and while they may not be your first choice snack, they're always there when you want them, and when you do, they're delicious.

Dongs - Pineapple Chunks.
Delicious, exotic and good for any occasion, and after youve finished them you'll want more. The man from Delmonte, he say "yes"

My CD was dispatched today. For reasons too grandiose and terrifying to enter into, I will be making the tracks that make up the notional disc 2 available online for download some time in the future.

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Recieved Jes's Cd today, giving it a listen.
Zegotas review coming soon

My Cd Disk 1 is ready and disk 2 is coming along nicely. Give or take a week and it should be dispatched.

Received Jes's yesterday.

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I got Zegota's a few days ago. Both are cool and I will say more later probably.
Disc from Jes arived today in the usual broken jes case. Do you punch these into the mailbox?

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I got Zegota's a few days ago. Both are cool and I will say more later probably.
Disc from Jes arived today in the usual broken jes case. Do you punch these into the mailbox?

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Looks like you three got 'em so I'll post the tracklist.

CD: Belgian Bands from Belgium

Bandname / Songname

1) Channel Zero / Love-Hate Sattelite
2) Lunascape / Sequoia
3) dEUS / Suds & Soda
4) Hooverphonic / Vinegar and Salt
5) Vaya Con Dios / Don't cry for Louie
6) Deviate / Thorn of the living
7) Laïs / 7 steken
8) K's Choice / Everything for free
9) The Confetti's / The Sound of C
10) Ozark Henry / Rescue Me
11) Channel Zero / Black Fuel
12) Millionaire / Come With You
13) 't hof van commerce / Zonder totetrekkerie
14) Arid / Soiree
15) Scala / Daddy I'm Fine
16) Mintzkov Luna / Mimosa
17) Laïs / 't Smidje
18) Ozark Henry / Sweet Instigator
19) K's Choice / Now Is Mine
20) Lunascape / Lane Navachi
21) Arid / Wintertime

CD: Into the cold black winter

Bandname / Songname

1) Nargaroth / Introduction - Herbstleyd
2) Tristania / December Elegy
3) Burzum / Erblicket die Töchter des Firmaments
4) Amortis / Summoned by Astral Fires
5) Darkthrone / A blaze in the northern sky
6) Haggard / Eppur Si Muove
7) Nargaroth / Nargaroth
8) After Forever / Follow in the cry
9) Judas Iscariot / Benevolent whore dethroned for eternity
10) Graveland / White Beasts of Wuotan
11) Marduk / Fistfucking God's planet

I will post reviews for the cd's I received later

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Got Jes' CD. Giving it a listen right now, review to follow.

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

posting tommorow.

Zegota, I received your discs last week. Sorry for the late post, but I've had a lot going on. I'll give my thoughts on them within a couple of weeks. Thanks again.

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Still no CD from TheGovernor

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I too have no cd from TheGov.

ps there is a character on Home & Away called The Gov. I think she's Dani's girlfriend or something.

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Some brief track notes for "Compilation of Extraordinary Magnitude"

***OOPS*** *Magnitude!*
1. The software I used can burn MP3's at quadruple speed but seemingly not .WAVs. Arse. sorry.

Snow Patrol Ask Me How I Am
2. You need to buy Snow Patrol's "Final Straw" LP if you're into bands like Belle and Sebastian and that whole Scottish scene, even though these guys are originally from Northern Ireland.

Screamager Therapy?
3. My brother went out with the lead singer's cousin once. These guys rocked, another Norn' Irish band.

KoRn Did My Time
4. There's a theme developing, my brother sent me this track. Rock. Only good track on the new album though.

Deceiver Napalm Death
5. Funnily enough, I bought this CD in Belgium in 1994 for 640 francs. Hopefully Zegota will like this. All Napalm Death's songs are like this, fucking intense! ROORGH! BAH BAH BAH-BAH BAH BAAAH!

Christy Moore Carrickfergus
6. "By Total Contrast"...I went to schooool....in Carrickfergus....only there were no annoying nasal vocalists singing a crap version of a folk song we still sing on nights out back there. Especially the verse about being drunk all the time.

Autechre Eutow
7. Autechre make the music your washing machine and microwave listen to when you're out of the house. One of their shorter, easier pieces. Warp Records, baby.

Tortoise TNT
8. Tortoise played at the festival I went to in March, when we set fire to our mate Graham's bollocks. They're definitley a studio band.

Bomb The Bass Megablast
9. This track was the dog's nuts to me in 1988 when I was 10. The grand-daddy of rap metal.

Corneilius Seashore and Horizon
10. Number one, Cornelius are great producers of music, number two: featured vocals by Brad band favourite, Apples In Stereo.

Prefuse 73 Blacklist
11. Most of their stuff doesn't have as much rap, but the One Word Extinguisher album is a benchmark in creative hip-hop/electronica crossover, and you need it.

Brothomstates Qtio
12. Warp Records strikes again. The Governor might remember the Sprite advert with the gremlin in it. Qtio did the music for that as well as this mental piece of music. No apologies if you find this "challenging".

Elgar Nimrod
13. Cue English guy making powerful dramatic speech over the top of this. Classical class.

Global Communication 14:31
14. One of the greatest pieces of ambient music from one of the greatest ambient albums ever, '76:13'

Optical To Shape The Future
15. No apologies for putting this on, it still kicks heavy degrees of arse after 5 years, it's like the solution to some amazing mathematical equation, except with beats.

Roy Budd Casette Jazz
16. L33t Piano skillz from one of the great jazz musicians of the last 30 years.
The Clash The Guns OF Brixton 17. I went to Brixton (in inner-city London, by the way) once, and was nearly mugged twice - once by a guy trying to sell me drugs, once by one of those guys who wears a bib and works for a charity. Also this track was sampled by Beats International.

The Who Behind Blue Eyes
18. Did some crap nu-metal band cover this? If so they want shooting. I identify with the lyrics a lot. 100% true.

Orbital Impact (USA mix)
19. There's no way this does justice to the genuine article live, now they've split up but I reckon this is their Magnus Opus; this is the version they play(ed) live.

IRFU Ireland's Call
20. This was gonna be the first track - this is the song they wrote so people from Ulster could join in singing when the anthems were played at the rugby matches.

Why does this guy know so much about Jes's cd?

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Ninja magic.

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ok "Posting tommorow" was a bit of a lie since my CD writer packed up on Disk 2 causing me weeks of stress, its working again now, although it chewed up about 15 disks in the process. Which means Im not prepared to pre-empt myself or tempt fate once more by proclaiming they are getting posted till I actually mail the suckers.

Although having said that, this weekend will probably be when said event may occur.

I didnt realise aussies actually watched Home & Away, I thought it was just some sick revenge to thank us brits for exporting Corrie and Eastenders.

As it turns out, I'm side-swapping with this entire group. Since I didn't plan ahead, I have to burn one more copy of each disc. I'll mail packages out before the end of the month.

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We might as well just not have groups next time.

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I can officially say that at 12.31pm today, disks were entrusted into the hands of Her Majesties Royal Mail service, and appropriate fees paid to ensure they reach their specific destinations in a prompt and orderly fashion.

Received El Governore his cd's.
Looks interesting

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Received Gov's discs yesterday - day off work today so listened to "Self Titled" in between running a temperature, coughing throwing up. Comments to follow soon.

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Reviews of Zegotas and Jes's will come soon. Had to MP3 yours Jes as my CD player doesnt like the 90 minute CDs (first time Ive actually seen one, really quite groovy)

Self Titled is essentially the main one, as Something for Everyone I restricted myself to bands (and acts) I saw at Glasto (and cheated a little bit) which I thought were good (apart from McCartney who gets on by default, although I only caught the first part of his set, which was a disappointment at the time as he started pretty crappily, although I caught highlights of the set on TV afterwards and it looks like he got better later on), consequentally I had quite a limited shortlist for that cd.

I'm a music whore. Maybe I'll just put myself in all the groups next time. :p

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Speaking of whores, I'm a lying one as well. My discs for you guys went out today instead of "by the end of October." The reason being that I found a few small errors in one disc during a quality control check. Fearing that I no longer had the master disc, I was trying to decide if I should reassemble all the pieces and reburn said disc. Luckily, I found the master and made new copies. The banjaxed disc was "Commercial Music." You'll see why it would have been a bitch to recompile.

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Also, I think everyone except Zegota received at least one regular jewel case as opposed to all slimlines. I included the extra label in case you want/need it for another disc. The track listings for "TennesSongs" and "Commercial Music" are on the back of my homemade cover. Just remove the original insert to see them.

Next, the "Disc O' Mystery" has no track list for obvious reasons. And I changed the mix for this group, so reading choad's review of the mystery disc will only help identify the first four tracks. I'll email my full notes for all three discs in a couple of weeks.

Finally, you should receive your packages in 5-7 postal days. If you want to post reviews of my discs, just do so in this thread; I'll find them. Thanks for letting me lurk in your group.

Oh, and I received Gov's discs a couple of days ago. They look snazzy.

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