V/A - German Mystic Sound Sampler V 1995

All right Friends, almost forgotten Volume five of the German Mystic Sounds series finally follows and that bloody hand is equipped with twelve dark forces. The music is dark and shaky to the point, as with the previous volumes, but a different genre called EBM/Industrial runs vehemently on this compilation and does it all really well. I have a very good friend who likes black music and she used to take me to alternative disco nights in the Nineties and it is really interesting and if you're in Tanzwut you're definitely at the right place. I felt very comfortable in this scene at times, although I would never betray my Punker heart. The nearly sixty-five minutes start spirited and wild, but already after half my interest goes slack and at the latest when Haujobb starts it's going to be terrible, their song is absolutely superfluous. Thereafter follows shallow, self-pitying tones which doesn't turn me on either. But since the series lives here, this post is dedicated to all those who need exactly this sound to be able to keep breathing and don't want to stay at home.

1.The Providence - AGE OF HEAVEN

2.Turn Around - HEAD ON FIRE

3.Woodland - STILL PATIENT

4.Wake Again In Heaven (Sometimes) - ENDLESS

5.Comfortably Numb / Some Kind Of Stranger - SYRIA

6.Torn Skin - WUMPSCUT

7.World Window - HAUJOBB

8.Pornocrates - PHALLUS DEI

9.Stadt Der Träume - ARTWORK

10.Second Life - LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH

11.1000 Beats - 1 AM

12.Schein Der Hoffnung - TATMOTIV ANGST

- Special Thx to STARGAZER -

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V/A - German Mystic Sound Sampler IV 1993

Last Mystic stuff for now, because I'm getting slowly sluggish when I listen too much of the black sounds. Volume IV speaks and is a little more interesting than its predecessor and with more steam in the ass. Let's forget about the lame opener (gähn) and go straight to the Hamburg combo Girls Under Glass who were already guest on the second wave, who exude a hard industrial beat with loud metallic clinking guitars, pleases. The Caves is nothing special, except the singer, is this Roland Orzabal? Aurora is squeaky music and to be honest, my farts sound similar, hahaha... next track is a solid one: impulsive, spherical & beautifully monotonous and really true to the compi title. Torts Of Dartmoor starts acoustic and turns into a solid mid-tempo number but limited to the chorus from around the middle of the song and gets boring with every minute, fall leaves is more exciting. Escape With Romeo from Cologne does it better with their PostPunkMeetsModernElectronica style, a sound that flows straight into my blood, certainly not their best piece but okay. Yelworc were a duo from Munich and this is a typical dark electro beat goodie and I like this gloomy synthesizer mixed with abrasive dance-beats and definitive a highlight. Trial, please forward. Candle #10 is a musical hybrid, nothing special but not bad either. Would I create a rarity collection, I wouldn't take it. 'I Don't Love You Anymore' is a tearful, sad sad love song, and that's always part of it, no matter what genre. Not bad, the man can sing and musically very gently. Last but not least: Qntal, an electro-medieval band, active since 1991 and I remember my girlfriend in beautiful Hamburg at the time had a CD, the second album I think, and their music is relaxed and soft but I prefer DCD - quick & easy, ferddisch!

1.Profecia - CALVA Y NADA

2.Deep Inside You - GIRLS UNDER GLASS

3.Darkness - THE CAVES

4.Hereafter - AURORA

5.White Horses - CHILDREN OF NO RETURN

6.Welcome To The House - THE TORS OF DARTMOOR

7.Music Is Dead - ESCAPE WITH ROMEO

8.Sacred City - YELWORC

9.Blut Und Eisen - TRIAL

10.Celebrate Our Death - SECOND VOICE

11.I Don't Love You Anymore - SILKE BISCHOFF

12.Por Mau Tens - QNTAL

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V/A - German Mystic Sound Sampler III 1992

And we stay black and it goes wave after wave, I could say. Volume three has arrived, and all of the fourteen bands are unknown to me and right in advance, not every song pops with me, yes even some of them bored me quite a bit, but as already mentioned, I'm punk rock but only delve into one genre is not my style and therefore for all darkwave/goth nerds it's another listening pleasure of the 'softer' tones, and that even before breakfast .... An interesting song is #2, it was written by a well-known gentleman named Deutscher W and insiders know he is Singer and head of OHL, a punk band of the first wave from Leverkusen, who've been active since 1980. Wolfsheim is also a pleasure, Lacrimosa I have a record somewhere and otherwise a rather restrained mixture that can't really top the first two parts. Let's see how the next Volume is. By the way, the subtitle Indie-Classics is a bit confusing and out of place in my opinion, for whatever reason...

1.House Of Hate - CATASTROPHE BALLET

2.Feuer - FORTHCOMING FIRE

3.Paradise Eyes - BLESSING IN DISGUISE

4.Second Generation - THE MERRY THOUGHTS

5.San Diego (The Tragical) - THE ETERNAL AFFLICT

6.Alles Lüge - LACRIMOSA

7.Last Dream - UMBRA ET IMAGO

8.Meet Moshe Dayan In A Russian Bunker - PRINTED AT BISMARCK'S DEATH

9.Come To Me - THIS DARK NOISE

10.Simple Blue - DERRIERE LE MIRROIR

11.The Sparrows And The Nightingales - WOLFSHEIM

12.Another Life - SECRET DISCOVERY

13.Paradise - FORTIFICATION 55

14.Time Has Come Today - BLUEFIELD

- Special Thx to STARGAZER -

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V/A - German Mystic Sound Sampler I 1990

I wouldn't thought that I would trigger a wave with the post of the German Mystic Sound Sampler II but apparently there are some lovers of this style, and the network of friends works flawlessly, which the next Volume proves. On part one are few songs I know, because a former friend recorded a tape for me back then during my civil service, over thirty years ago in Lüneburg, and so I came into contact with this type of music for the first time. As a hardcore punk I was amazed at myself that I could like such sounds. Well, I have a sensitive and romantic streak as well and therefore, I'm easy to convince and interested in new things as well, but primarily I pay little attention to the scene because the attitude doesn't beguile me. In the end, only one CD in this series found the way into my house, but a few bands are slumbering somewhere in my treasure box. The song selection is quite decent, some bands have a relevant following nowadays and are still active. Okay, enough talk. More issues will follow and maybe a little more at some point.

1.Doomsday - LOVE LIKE BLOOD

2.No Excuse - THE FAIR SEX

3.Your Turn To Run - MALARIA

4.Lucky - GIRLS UNDER GLASS

5.2nd Step - PROJECT PITCHFORK

6.Pale Your Mind - LA MORTE DE LA MAISON

7.Incident - THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

8.Michelle - PINK TURNS BLUE

9.Massaker - TOMMI STUMPFF

10.Gottes Tod - DAS ICH

11.Colour-ize - DEINE LAKAIEN

12.Kein Abschied - GLATZE DES WILLENS

- Special Thx to STARGAZER - 

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V/A - German Mystic Sound-Sampler II 1991

Now a request post from my WDM Crew and I start with the prologue: In the 80s, the darkwave and gothic scene was significantly influenced from outside, but at the end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s many bands and projects from Germany came to light and woke up the local fanbase with their new powerful and independent sound. Artistically and musically they approached the level of foreign bands as well and created amazingly good songs and the whole thing was fueled at the time by committed fanzines such as the Zillo from 1989. They started this compilation series called German Mystic Sound-Sampler, and in twelve years thirteen volumes have been released, one of them strayed to me. Enjoy!

1.Metropolis - SCHWEFEL

2.Somebody - ESCAPE WITH ROMEO

3.Amore, Fede, Speranza - MADRE DEL VIZIO

4.Blue Eyed Nation - THE ECHO

5.The Tempest Romanesque - FAHRENHEIT 451

6.Nightmare Home - LE COUP SAUVAGE

7.Dance Or Die - DANCE OR DIE

8.Suicide Commando - NO MORE

9.Mescal - ARTS & DECAY

10.Disconsolate - ANGINA PECTORIS

11.Themes Of Muldoror - CANCER BARRACK

12.Push Me Away - THE COLOUR OF SPRING

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