We included diverse artists such as: Robert Johnson, the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams, Black Sabbath, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Max Romeo, Screamin Jay Hawkins and many more.

After careful consideration, we decided to exclude the black metal genre due to the obviousness of its’ satanic nature. Furthermore, a black metal mix would be both unamusing and tiring to the wide public’s ear.

The tracklist will only be available by request, since the element of surprise is crucial while listening to this mix.

Happy easter everyone! Whoever will not listen until the end of the mix will be doomed to eternal damnation.

You can download the mix here, if you prefer.

First thing:

How can someone who can sing like this -

spend most of his time singing like this-

Underlying facts: this is Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer. The first video is from the musical based on a story from Malleus Maleficarum – “Which Witch”, where he plays the evil executioner. Obviously, he has a great powerful voice and is a good actor. When we see something like this, we don’t want to miss it and try to find out more. We did. And we found the second video and many more like the second one. My question is – why waste your talent on something that people that cannot sing well do? The singers that sing the type of songs from the second video, would not, at least most of them, would not be able to sing something like the executioner’s part in Which Witch. That is one of the reasons they sing cheesy romantic songs for mediocre ladies.

Second thing:

How can this:

be compared to this :

Underlying facts: First one – Jesus Christ Superstar 1973, the greatest musical, second one – Godspell 1973.

- Godspell the musical came out before Jesus Christ Superstar and was obviously influenced by the musical Hair and took the visual and musical ideas from it (hippie musical taking place in NYC) – therefore it’s not original.

- Godspell has no coherent storyline and no deepness to it – they just take pieces from the bible and act them out in a circus fashion. It doesn’t push any boundaries, it’s not challenging and thought-provoking, and it seems that it would go well with the age group 5-8, since there’s lots of clown-like goofy acting, which reminds one camp counselors at a summer camp. The “crucifixion” scene is completely ridiculous.

- It doesn’t take a master singer with a wide vocal range to sing in Godspell

- Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera, which has a 32-piece orchestra and a rock band playing, while Godspell has probably just 5 dudes playing.

Despite all of this, the critics of the time raved over this musical, it was successful and it was mentioned often that it was far superior musical to JCS. In my opinion, comparing these 2 musicals is just like comparing Tom and Jerry to Lord of the Rings. Godspell can not even be mentioned in the same sentence together with JCS. It does have same religious topic, but it’s way too inferior to JCS and comparing these two or putting them side by side as a recommended watch is insulting.

Photos

The DJ set:

[See post to listen to audio]

1.Rudi Schuricke – Frauen und Wein
2.Das Ich – Kannibale (Inline Sex Terror rmx)
3.Agonoize – A cut inside my soul
3. Hocico – The day the world stopped
4. Solar Fake – Lies
5. VNV nation – Chrome (SITD rmx)
6. Frozen Plazma – Tanz der Revolution
7. Kaiaphas – Kuenstliche welten
8. Mind in a Box – Amnesia
9. Encoder – When it rains ( Ethereal Sedition rmx)
10. Miss Construction – Kunstprodukt
11. Kaiaphas – Satan is Real
12. Psyclon Nine – Better than Suicide
13. Tactical Sekt – Xifixation Hellfire (SITD rmx)
14. Miss Construction – Schaufensterpuppenarsch
15. Hocico – Fed Up
17. Negative Format – Photon Ring
18. Peter Heppner – Alleine Sein
19. Kaiaphas – Vile Vermin
20. Miss Construction – Totes Fleisch
21. Agonoize – Staatsfiend
22. Kaiaphas – Diabolicon
23. Hocico – Poisoned and Silenced
24. Nachtmahr – Ein Spiel
25. Distatix – Regenerator
26. Kaiaphas feat. Kenji Siratori – Insane Asylum
27. Heino – Wir tanzen Polka, denn wir lieben Germany

Video

Here’s their flyer :

…and the Facebook event link

More parties will be coming up!!!

Moving

We’re in the process of moving to Europe, and for the past couple of months we’ve been working hard packing a 3000 lbs container to ship it over to our destination. I’ve never done so much packing in my life, and now i can say that i am a professional packer able to produce my own custom made boxes, and my hands are still recovering from the staples, tape and paper cuts. Here’s a photo of one of the last days of packing:

Taking pictures

In between the moving business, i managed to take some photos of the fall in Virginia. This was the first fall i saw since 1999, so it was really exciting for me to remember once again that the trees can be different colors. Here are some photos and you’re welcome to check out my Fall set on flickr.

…and then we escaped the winter and went to Israel, where it’s still pretty warm, and got to go to the Dead sea where i took a couple of photos as well.

Making music

The long-awaited Encoder album, “Slivers of Time” came out, with my guest vocals on the first track, “When it rains” and 2 more remixes of it by Ethereal Sedition and Liquid Newt. I like Ethereal Sedition remix really a lot and i think they did a great job. I’ve posted the original song here before, so here’s the Ethereal Sedition remix:

• [See post to listen to audio]

Lord Kaiaphas / Zhyin also made a guest appearance on the upcoming album of an American black metal band, Arcane Asylum. The song is called “Atrocity is Silent”:

• [See post to listen to audio]

He also has just played a Minimal Criminal live set at Moksha’s Hanuka party last weekend, and got a great reaction from the crowd:

Working

Yeah and on top of all that i’ve been doing lots of work, which you can check out in the updated portfolio of Elune Art.

So, i surely have lots of excuses of not writing much in my blog. I’ll be more organized in 2009

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Samael did a great job at the show, the sound was excellent, the setlist was well-balanced between the old and the new material + at the very end they played my favorite song – “My savior”. I’ve never seen Samael perform before, so i was full of joy and delight

As to Amorphis – unfortunately, i have not been following their music career so much, so i was surprised to see the new singer in the band. Apparently, that was the 3rd new guy on vocals, and he had the longest dreads ever. It was pretty dangerous to stand close to the stage, because you could easily get your eye taken out by these dreads when the dude was headbanging. The music was good and they were doing a good job, but it’s just not exactly my taste.

I leave my plethora of readers with another one of my favorite songs of Samael.

Smashing Magazine textures contest

I participated in Smashing Textures contest – i didn’t win, but i got featured in 2 galleries of the best textures the Smashing crew selected in the end of the contest, and i’m happy about that. Two of my textures got featured in Sand and Earth gallery and in Stone, Walls, Brick gallery. Here are some textures i submitted + the ones i was considering to submit, but since there was a limit of 5 only, i couldn’t include all of them:

You can download these textures here, if you like.

Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth show

We went to Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth black metal show at 9:30 club, Washington D.C.

It was a cool show, i enjoyed it – both bands played well and had a great image and stage show. The sound in the club was perfect. It was nice to hang out a bit with Nergal, since Zhyin has toured with him back in the Ancient days – so they had some fun stuff to remember.

Miami

We went to Miami for 1,5 days to check it out , since we’re going to be moving there soon, for a year. I liked it because i love hot weather and hate cold. Can’t say more than that, because it was only a 1-day visit, but it seemed nice. We even managed to find a very nice place to live already, which we didn’t expect. ( the following photo is not the place we found – it’s just a pretty view from the hotel we stayed at )

We also visited the World Erotic Art museum, which is a collection of approximately 4,000 objects and antiquities dating to as early as 200 B.C. and hailing from lands as distant as Asia, Africa and India. Among the sculptures, the museum has the original phallic prop from Stanley Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange. The collection belongs to Naomi Wilzig. Unfortunately, no photos allowed, only in the shop.

Sanatorium Altrosa

I bought the limited collectors edition of Sanatorium Altrosa – the new creation of Sopor Aeternus. Besides the cd itself, this edition comes with lots of fancy things – a bag, a shirt, a book with photos, etc. Well, i liked the fancy things the most. And sadly, this would be the first time i am saying something like that about Sopor Aeternus.

]]> http://www.ladyomega.com/pieces-of-the-present-and-the-recent-past/feed/ 7 http://www.ladyomega.com/my-return-and-the-promised-mp3s/ http://www.ladyomega.com/my-return-and-the-promised-mp3s/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 17:23:14 +0000 omega http://ladyomega.com/test Once again i have forsaken my blog for a long time. I was tired, sick, busy, lazy, working and what not, and couldn’t spare some time to write something meaningful or not.
I think i am back now. We’ve almost settled in our house in the usa, though there’s still work to be done. My company, Elune Art, is also renewing our old site, so there’s a lot to be done as well.
Anyway, as i have promised Julian and some other people that i will up put some mp3s of the projects i participate(d) in – finally it’s here. I hope you enjoy the tunes.

Kaiaphas – the ebm/electro/futurepop project, which consists of Zhyin (a.k.a. Lord Kaiaphas) (everything), me (female vocals, sometimes lyrix and some help with everything), and Lienhard (guitar). These tunes are pretty old, since we are in the process of writing our debut album, which will come out pretty soon, and the sound will be better and newer!

• KAIAPHAS – Your Bloody Requiem (music and lyrics by Zhyin)
  [See post to listen to audio]
• KAIAPHAS – Kuenstliche Welten (music and lyrics by Wolfsheim)
  This is our cover of the song of Wolfsheim, a famous synthpop band from Germany.
  [See post to listen to audio]
• KAIAPHAS – Always Invisible (music by Zhyin , lyrics by Lady Omega and Zhyin)
  This one came out on Orkus compilation cd last year.
  [See post to listen to audio]

Minimal Criminal – a dark minimal progressive psytrance project by Zhyin and Echoes. I contribute some vocals and some effects here and there, + the web design . Minimal Criminal have been released on various compilations since 2005, and keep being progressively successful in the minimal trance scene.

• Minimal Criminal – Unnatural life (music and lyrics by Zhyin)
  [See post to listen to audio]
• Minimal Criminal – Graverobbers from outer space (music by Zhyin)
  [See post to listen to audio]

Thokkian Vortex – I don’t do anything in this project, my part here is just the design . This is the recent black metal solo project of the Lord Kaiaphas (Zhyin), which had its’ first release this year on a split cd with Aetherius Obscuritas via Sleaszy Rider rec., which cd cover i designed . So i am posting these 2 tracks just to show off how talented Lord Kaiaphas is and how awesome his vocals are

• Aetherius Obscuritas feat. Lord Kaiaphas – Freedom of Hatred (music and lyrics by Aetherius Obscuritas, all vocals by Lord Kaiaphas)
  [See post to listen to audio]
• Thokkian Vortex – Huginn and Muninn in the realms of mist (music and lyrics by Lord Kaiaphas)
  [See post to listen to audio]

Encoder – an american futurepop project, which features me on one of their tracks of the upcoming album, Slivers of Time.

• Encoder feat. Lady Omega- When it Rains (music and lyrics by Encoder)
  [See post to listen to audio]

That will be all for now

Klaus Nomi died in 1983, he was one of the first artists who died of AIDS. Sadly, when he was dying in the hospital, no one came to say good bye to him, because they were afraid of this disease.
Had he be around today, he would probably be performing gothic music with an operetic flavour.

Here are 2 videos of Klaus Nomi:

The Nomi Song

The Cold Song – from Purcell’s “King Arthur”

In 2004, a documentary “The Nomi Song” came out, produced by Andrew Horn, about the life of Klaus Nomi. (I own this documentary of course).

I hope that this art will not be forgotten.

Zhyin playing

People dancing

Zhyin and I

on the set:

TRANCEFELD – LIVE (avalanche rec’) GERMANY

MINIMAL CRIMINAL – LIVE (cosmic conspiracy rec’) BRAZIL

KALEIDOSCOPE (echoes rec)

URI.YA

K-PAX vs OPUS

Check out the banner here

Whoever is here should come and have a happy New year’s celebration

- Zhyin got interviewed and played a dj set at Kol Ha Kampus 106FM Hafirot radio, Tel Aviv :

- We saw Mayhem play in Yaffo. It was pretty cool, they had Attila on the vocals this time, which is better, imho. Also, i liked that they came up with an interesting look for Attila – first part of the show he was wearing kind of a nazi outfit (which, of course, caused some “wtf” reactions from a number of israelis), the second part of the show he was wearing some kind of a pope/darth maul cloak. They had a globe on the table, surrounded by candles, and Attila was unleashing the evil energy upon the planet earth, until the energy ran out and he just burned it.

The only thing is that the show was way too short…

- We chilled at the beach, where i did some amazing pidgeon shooting ( I like pigeons because they have fluffy butts ) and walked around in the city. There are more pix of the beach and the rest at my Flickr.

- We went to the old part of Tel Aviv – Yaffo, walked around and had some trout at the restaurant

Yaffo is one of the most ancient port cities in the world – around 4000 years old. It’s very beautiful and its’ streets are named according to the zodiac signs.

- We also checked out the Global View Exhibition at the Rotshild street, where they had all kinds of globe designs, that was really cool, and i took pictures of almost all of them ( took more than an hour i think ). Check out the pix of all the globes i took here.

- And we went to the Dark Revolution party, where Dennis Osterman from In Strict Confidence played a dj set. It was a nice party. We also saw Peter Digital play in Sakaya bar, where Zhyin played previously.

Now we’re back in Arad, where camels are walking everywhere and you get thorns in your body.

AND I DYED MY HAIR again.

I am very happy about the track, i think it came out great, and i am proud of our collaboration!

Can’t wait till the album comes out

(I did the cover art for the cd )

The tracklisting is as follows:
Thokkian Vortex
1. The Funereal Winds Beckon My Return
2. Huginn And Muninn In The Realms Of Mist

Aetherius Obscuritas
3. Sneering Hunter
4. Idegen Tollak
5. The Chivalry Of Temple (feat.Lord Kaiaphas)

Roger Tullgren, 42, from Hässleholm in southern Sweden has just started working part time as a dishwasher at a local restaurant.

Because heavy metal dominates so many aspects of his life, the Employment Service has agreed to pay part of Tullgren’s salary. His new boss meanwhile has given him a special dispensation to play loud music at work.

“I have been trying for ten years to get this classified as a handicap,” Tullgren told The Local.

“I spoke to three psychologists and they finally agreed that I needed this to avoid being discriminated against.”

Roger Tullgren first developed an interest in heavy metal when his older brother came home with a Black Sabbath album in 1971.
Since then little else has mattered for the 42-year-old, who has long black hair, a collection of tattoos and wears skull and crossbones jewelry.

The ageing rocker claims to have attended almost three hundred shows last year, often skipping work in the process.

Eventually his last employer tired of his absences and Tullgren was left jobless and reliant on welfare handouts.

But his sessions with the occupational psychologists led to a solution of sorts: Tullgren signed a piece of paper on which his heavy metal lifestyle was classified as a disability, an assessment that entitles him to a wage supplement from the job centre.

“I signed a form saying: ‘Roger feels compelled to show his heavy metal style. This puts him in a difficult situation on the labour market. Therefore he needs extra financial help’. So now I can turn up at a job interview dressed in my normal clothes and just hand the interviewers this piece of paper,” he said.

The manager at his new workplace allows him to go to concerts as long as he makes up for lost time at a later point. He is also allowed to dress as he likes and listen to heavy metal while washing up.

“But not too loud when there are guests,” he said.

The Local spoke to an occupational psychologist in Stockolm, who admitted to being baffled by the decision.

“I think it’s extremely strange. Unless there is an underlying diagnosis it is absolutely unbelievable that the job centre would pay pay out.

“If somebody has a gambling addiction, we don’t send them down to the racetrack. We try to cure the addiction, not encourage it,” he said.

Henrietta Stein, deputy employment director for the SkÃ¥ne region, is also puzzled by the move; “an interest in music” is not usually sufficient to qualify for wage benefits.

“Certain cases are confidential but in general there is always a medical reason that is well-documented,” she said.

Tullgren currently plays bass and guitar in two rock bands and says that he tends to get a lot of positive reactions for daring to be himself.

“Some might say that I should grow up and learn to listen to other types of music but I can’t. Heavy metal is my lifestyle,” he said.

Source

All i can say – it could only happen in Sweden and thumbs up for the guy lol

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9. Alvin & The Chipmunks

8. Hedwig And The Angry Inch

7. The American Medical Association

6. Billy & The Boingers

5. The Commitments

4. The Blues Brothers

3. The Rutles

2. Spinal Tap

1. Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem

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Today , the issue 76 of Synthetics Magazine (Germany) came out, with our interview and the track, “Vile Vermin“.

This track is dedicated to the memory of Mauricio Mangia (r.i.p.), the founder of the annual Thorns Gothic Rave parties. He was a central figure in the Brazillian gothic scene.
Sadly, Mauricio was brutally killed in an attempted robbery in 2006. “Vile Vermin” is an angry song that talks about what happened to our friend and displays a strong disgust towards the lowlifes of the guettos who rob and kill innocent people.

The magazine will be on sale August 02. There should be a trailer with the compilation previews at their myspace page. I hope it won’t take a long time for the magazine to get from Germany to here.

Here is the tracklist of the compilation cd “GET THE BOMBS OF MUSIC # 2“, which comes with the magazine:

01. Pure Ape – Tonight Is Another Party
02. Illusion Of Light – I Never See You *.**
03. Divamee – Endzeit (Für Tiere) **
04. Microscape – Elysienne *.**
05. Dedication – Try To Love You *
06. Surviving The Odyssey – Monoloque *.**
07. Anti Trust – Fiebermann / Last Words
08. Kaiaphas – Vile Vermin *.**
09. Second Version – Rückschritt *. **
10. The Prayer – Rape *.**
11. Axiomatique – Having Fun *. **
12. Echo Us – State Of Expectation **
13. Zeitgeist – Cam Girls *. **
14. Mystyk – Before I Say It **
15. Harald Bosh – Doppelte Rechnung **
* Exklusiver Track ** Newcomer Support

Now go and buy the cd and help support “psygressive” trance!

Buy at Saikosounds

Buy at Psyshop

- We are working on a new track with Kenji Siratori, who liked our music and wanted to collaborate.

Kenji Siratori is a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie.

- Besides that, i updated the pix and layout at our myspace, so whoever is interested, can check it out