Dependence

2005-09-24 / Dobermann / Reads: 5439

Let's get back to the year 1999. Reality TV doesn't exist, the clear CD costs fortune, the recorder is a luxurious thing and World Trade Center stands still and looks nice ... In this year appears a label recording company which gathers five bands - Covenant, VNV Nation, Velvet Acid...

Depeche Mode - Violator

2005-12-30 / _lin / Reads: 15580

March nine nil. Day nineteenth. Mute Records Ltd. before releasing "Personal Jesus" had already stirred up the charts in the USA and elsewhere. Not to mention the legendary "Enjoy The Silence" with the memorable character of the Gahan-King created by Anton Corbijn. The third hit-single only proved the genius of...

Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

2005-10-17 / Attack / Reads: 15508

I have right at the front of me brand new hybrid in SACD and Audio CD (and extra DVD) containing latest "precious" from legendary Depeche Mode, LP called "Playing The Angel". It's a long awaited LP, that was very mysterious for a long time, very few knew what we can...

Delight - Breaking Ground

2007-02-19 / apeiron / Reads: 5190

It is true that taking part in competitions can be profitable. Especially if you participate in the Best Unsigned Gothic Act International competition at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, in May 2005.  Delight from Skawina, a town near Krakow, was the only Polish band taking part in the compo...

Delerium - Nuages du monde

2007-01-25 / apeiron / Reads: 5570

Almost a decade after the great "Karma" Rhys Fulber & Bill Leeb release another album similar to "Chimera" (2003). We're getting less and less of the old Delerium. "Nuages du monde" is a pleasant listening, being charmingly trance-ambient. But it does not carry you. It lacks the atmosphere...

Delerium - Karma

2007-01-20 / apeiron / Reads: 5981

MS Word automatically corrects the band's name to "Delirium". This procedure is a hint at the atmosphere of this album. A compository trance dosing the listener merges with delicate female singing or vocalization, entwined with Gregorian and Indian children (?) choirs. As usual, Delerium's music is enriched with sounds of...