CASUAL SILENCE started at Netherlands in 1993 with 3 lead singers from different bands. Rob seemed to be the right lead vocalist, while Ernst and Eric both sing backing vocals and play guitar and bass guitar. Together with Mark and Igor, they started off as a rock cover band which grew into a Progressive Rock band that now plays their own music. With Henry Meeuws behind the keyboards, the band was completed.
Casual Silence is back, and what an album they release this year, excellent.

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Last year Porcupine Tree released their latest album The Incident. The album marked another step forward in the incredible journey of the band from a solo studio project created by Steven Wilson in the late eighties to a grammy nominated act and one of the world’s most revered live bands, currently selling out arenas across the globe and wowing fans with their incredible performances. Anesthetize is a DVD video which captures the power of band’s live show. Recorded in high definition on multi-cameras over two nights at 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands on 15th and 16th October 2008, directed by Lasse Hoile. The concerts featured tracks from throughout the band’s career until that point.

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This special eight-track EP is only available in VERY limited quantities. Seven of the eight tracks are exclusive to this release (one of the remixes is also included in the limited boxset edition of the new album "La Parade Monstrueuse").

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IN STRICT CONFIDENCE are back again. Rough, edgy and more elaborate than on their previous album. It took three years to finish the work, and they have clearly used that time to good effect. What has been hinted at by the EP "My Despair" has been honed to perfection on the album "La Parade Monstrueuse". Welcome to a world beyond the mirrors.

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Buddha-Bar is a posh and world famous club/watering hole founded by Raymond Visan in the financial district of Paris. Rumour has it that it is owned by none other than Johnny Depp, and the music is provided by DJ's such as Ravin, the Jr David Visan and of course, Claude Challe. It was however when Claude Challe lent his incredible mixing talents to Buddha bar that everything took of in the global fame arena. Think ambient/ chill out music with ethnic influences.

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Last week our friend pgasa007 gave us a gift with the dvdrip of "The Last Supper" from Black Sabbath. Today I bring to all, lovers of BS or not, the full DVD of this amazing show. Have fun!

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Due to demand here is a downloadable version of the soundtrack of Porcupine Tree's "Arriving Somewhere..." DVD, which was recorded live in Chicago in October 2005. This includes the entire soundtrack of the main disc, spread across 2 discs, running over 100 minutes. The exceptional quality of the audio mix has been particularly acclaimed, so this is a chance to get the soundtrack as mixed by Steven Wilson and mastered by Darcy Proper.

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Filmed during the Deadwing Tour at Park West, Chicago, October 2005, ARRIVING SOMEWHERE explores how Porcupine Tree have grown from an experimental studio project into a worldwide success. Tracklist includes 'Introduction/Revenant', 'Open Car', 'Don't Hate Me', 'Mother And Child Divided', 'So Called Friend', 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here', 'The Start of Something Beautiful', 'Halo' and 'Trains'

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From their stronghold in Icepeak, the evil Queen Juliana and her son Nekron send forth a wave of glaciers, forcing humanity to retreat south towards the equator. Nekron sends a delegation to King Jarol in Firekeep to request his surrender, but this is a ruse orchestrated by Queen Juliana for Nekron’s sub-humans to kidnap Jarol’s daughter, the barefoot, microkini-wearing Princess Teegra (Queen Juliana feels that Nekron should take a bride to produce an heir). But Teegra makes an escape and comes upon Larn, the only survivor of a village razed by glaciers, who offers to escort her back to Firekeep. As Teegra is recaptured, Larn teams with the mysterious Darkwolf to save Teegra and then travel to Icepeak to stop Juliana. Darkwolf faces Nekron and kills him as Icepeak succumbs to lava released by King Jarol and is destroyed. The film finishes with Larn about to kill a sub-human until Teegra stops him saying that "it's over"; Darkwolf is seen atop a cliff and then disappears. Fire and Ice, released in 1983, was a collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, distributed by 20th Century Fox, which also distributed 1977's Wizards. The animated feature, based on characters Bakshi and Frazetta co-created, was made using the process of rotoscoping, in which scenes were shot in live action and then traced onto animation cels. The screenplay was written by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, both of whom had written Conan stories for Marvel Comics. Background painter was James Gurney, the author and artist of the famous Dinotopia illustrated novels. Thomas Kinkade also worked on the backgrounds to various scenes.

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It’s already been 12 years since the simply famous Buddha-Bar compilations adventure started: 12 years of our DJs pushing their limits to make you dream and travel; 12 years of travelling the world searching for the next hit, the next artist that deserves to be called one. After Dubaï, Sao Paulo, Cairo, Beirut, the Buddha Bar development reaches Kiev, Ukraine.

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He is one of the most important figures in international modern architecture (and in 2007, he turned 100). In this program, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Oscar Niemeyer reflects on his long life and remarkably prolific output, with a focus on his buildings in Brazil’s capital city, Brasília. The definitive portrait of a man both hailed and criticized as a “sculptor of monuments.” Many images of signature structures—designs that infuse his favored material, reinforced concrete, with exuberant liquidity—are included.

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Mythematica is an alter ego of an original artist and a talented music producer Daniel Špaček (31). During three incredibly short years he managed to find a key to transform his fanciful, surrealistic video projections and visual compositions, well-known among the Czech psytrance community, into a musical language as well. “No matter what I'm doing, one or the other, the latter component is always there. When I'm drawing images I always listen to music, ideally music that matches what I want or need to draw. On the other hand, when composing music I always see the visual representation of what I'm doing,” Dan explains his bipolar creative process. The fruit of his exploration is a surprisingly mature, mostly ambient eponymous debut album. Not surprisingly, in this context, the album's content is absolutely in line with its perfect cover.

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Camila JAM tells the story of a young woman struggling to become a writer. Her life is her narrative. Camila is intense and brave. She wants her literature to be an act of revelation.

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