a year and a half

Lycia is a band from Arizona that's been around since the 80's, but never gotten any real attention outside of what amount to fairly gothic circles. And as much as their appeal within that scene makes perfect sense, it is completely confusing that fans of early 4AD releases and bands like Slowdive would pass this over.

As a side note, they toured opening for Type O Negative somewhere around 1995 - 96. Take that forwhat it's worth.

Here are two different tracks.

Lycia - "Fate" -- from Ionia (1991)
Lycia - "Bare" -- from Cold (1996)

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In celebration of the recent surge in interest surrounding cold wave, minimal wave, etc, I've decided to post two fairly good tracks in that vein. It's hard to call anything in such a micro-genre classic, but if you could then these tracks would qualify.



Deux - "Ministry of Love" -- from a recent compilation entitled Agglomerat (2006)
Martin Dupont - "Bent at the Window" -- from Inedits 81 - 83 (1985)

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Hours of Worship just finished both a remix of Wildildlife's "Nervous Buzzing" -- featured on XLR8R's website -- and a dj mix as a precursor to an upcoming release on Ekleroshock this Spring. Image used for the mix was provided by none other than Dwid Hellion from hardcore legends Integrity. Playlist is as follows:

Nature & Organization - Obsession Flowers as Torture
James T Cotton - Possessed Amplifier
Daily Fauli - Zoo 2 (edit)
Cold Cave - Always Someone
Martin Dupont - Bent at the Window
Der Blutharsch - Time is Thee Enemy XII
Wildildlife - Nervous Buzzing (Hours of Worship remix)
Dominik Eulberg - Haifischfl, gel
Alter Ego - Fuckingham Palace (Nerk and Derk Leyers remix)
Simon Baker - U
Basic Channel - Inversion
Burger / Voigt - Wand Aus Klang
Have a Nice Life - Telephony
Ova Looven - Power Windows
Necrofrost - Supreme Harvester of Eternal Void

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(also here is a re-posting of my year end list for 2008, which will eventually also be posted on the Aquarius Records website.)

--Albums (full lengths and cassettes)--
AFCGT - s/t (A-Frames and Climax Golden Twins collab)
Asbestoscape - s/t
Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
Blank Dogs - The Fields
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
Deathrow/Moloch - Echoes of Eternity
Friccara Pacchu - Midnight Pyre
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Menace Ruine - The Die is Cast
Moss - Sub Templum
Monument of Urns - Absence
Smorzando - Smrad
Thou/Leech - We Pass Like Night, From Land to Land

--Comps (the first three are re-issues)
B9 Bis: Belgian Cold Wave 1979 - 1983
Bippp: French Synth Wave 1979 - 1985
Des Jeunes Gens Modernes (early 80's French Synth)
Juche (power electronics/industrial/noise)

--Reissues (albums, not comps)--
Cindytalk - Camoflage Heart
Cindytalk - In This World
Droids - Star Peace
La Dusseldorf - s/t
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Faust - IV
The Future - The Golden Hour of ... (pre-Human League synthpop-disco)
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno - No Pussyfooting
Guru Guru - UFO
Guru Guru - Hinten
Thomas Leer - Contradictions
Loop - Fade Out
Loop - Heaven's End
Paysage D'Hiver - Kristall & Isa
Vérmyapre Kommando - s/t (demo)
Watain - Casus Luciferi

--12"--
Belong - Colorloss
Cold Cave - Painted Nails
Lumerians - s/t

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(Given that I completely slacked off here in 2008, here is my 2007 list from the Aquarius Records website.)

Top 25 (I'm sure some things are being left out, oh, and this is alphabetical, obviously)
Boris wth Michio Kurihara ­ Rainbow (Drag City/Inoxia)
Circle of Ouroborus ­ Streams (True Face of Evil)
Cluster ­ Zuckerzeit (Lilith)
Efdemin ­ s/t (Dial)
Fennesz ­ Endless Summer (Editions Mego)
Fire Engines ­ Hungry Beat (Acute)
Harmonia ­ Live 1974 (Water)
Jeremy Jay ­ Airwalker EP (K Records)
Kluster ­ Zwei/Osterei
Eric Malmberg - Verklighet & Beat (Hapna)
John Maus ­ Love is Real (Upset! The Rhythm)
Monarch ­ Die Tonight (Throne)
No Age ­ Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
Pantha Du Prince ­ This Bliss (Dial)
Pylon ­ Gyrate (DFA)
Sleeparchive ­ Papercup (Sleeparchive)
The Soft Machine ­ Volume Two (Water)
Sunn O))) ­ Oracle (Southern Lord)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow ­ Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
Throbbing Gristle ­ Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute)
Tunnels - Cluster of Rainbows for the Angel Who Announces the End of Time (JK)
v/a ­ Lipa Kodi Ya City Council
v/a ­ Expansion | Contraction (M_nus)
Valet ­ Naked Acid (Kranky)
White Rainbow ­ Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky/Marriage)