DJ Deadbasil - Set 5: Third First Step

Deadbasil spins the recently deceased and the petrified hits of the collective genres which shall not be called Goth. Give it a listen!

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence - The Best of Siouxie and the Banshees
2. Astari Nite - Paint the Stars Tonight - Here Lies
3. The Black Capes - A Dream of a Tower - Lullabies For The Dead
4. Angels of Liberty - Josephine - Servant Of The Grail
5. Depeche Mode - Suffer Well - The Best Of, Vol. 1
6. Tearful Moon - Buried In My Left Breast - Under The Red Veil
7. Last Dusk - I Wonder - UnObscured Vol. 1 Comp 1 2019
8. Machinery of Desire - Forever Remain- Tiny Gods Who Walk Beside Us
9. Panic Priest - We've Got The Cause - Second Seduction
10. Pullo - Tenebrous – Tenebrous
11. Ritual Howls - Mother of The Dead - Rendered Armor
12. Joy Division -She's Lost Control - SG Black Heart Retrospective
13. The Stave Church - Under My Skin - This Dark Place
14. Stare - Bell, Book & Candle - The Unquiet Grave 2000
15. Sonsombre - In This Fog – Single
16. Lord Travvis - Disposable Lovers - EP 

Chamber Dissonance Episode #01: Music is What happens Between the Silence...

A radio style show about the collective musical genres which shall not be called Goth. This includes but is not limited to Goth, Post-Punk, Goth Rock, all types of wave, Industrial, Goth-adjacent, synthy things, Goth Metal, ebm, Death Rock, and things of interest to Goths and other fans of similar things. Music is What happens Between the Silence...

The very first episode of Chamber Dissonance is now out. The format is basically two sets of music with talkie bits and a reading of many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. In this episode I read selections from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire I am reading the version on Project Gutenberg translated by Cyril Scott (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36098/36098-h/36098-h.htm).

Errata: I missed up my announcing. I was reading from the wrong sheet. I did not play Audra's classic "What Your Eyes Have Seen" I played there new song "Dear Tired Friends." and I played after Astari Nite not whenever I said I did. Any way the list bellow is correct. New Show...New Learning, thanks for your patience.

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

1. Sonsombre - Darker Skies - One Thosand Graves
2. Bauhaus - Bite My Hip - The Bela Session
3. Rosegarden Funeral Party - Streetlights – MARTYR
4. The Kentucky Vampires - Saint Vincent - Crimson Curse
5. Creux Lies - Eulogy - The Hearth
6. ASTARI NITE- Divination - Midnight Conversations
7. Audra - Dear Tired Friends - Dear Tired Friends
8. First Talkie Bit
9. Amaranth – For Freyja – Tiny Gods Who Walk Beside Us
10. Current 93 – They Return to Their Earth – Judas as Black Moth
11. Golden Apes – Ferryman – The Geometry of Tempest
12. Atrrition – A Girl Called Harmony – Dreamtime Collectors
13. Kælan Mikla  – Næturblóm –  ‎Nótt eftir nótt
14. Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Bloodletting
15. Second Talkie Bit
16. Selections from The Flowers of Evil
17. The Awakening - Dark Romantics – Anthology XV

DJ Deadbasil - Set 4: A Not So Quiet Evening...

Deadbasil's forth installment of the recently deceased and the petrified hits of the collective genres which shall not be called Goth. Give it a listen!

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

1. Joy Division - Atmosphere – Substance
2. Hyoscyamus Niger - Dwunasty Dom - Dwunasty Dom
3. The Awakening - Nothing Like The Rain (XV) - Anthology XV
4. Dommin - My Heart, Your Hands - Love is Gone
5. The Kentucky Vampires - Our Love Has No Goodbyes - Crimson Curse
6. VNV Nation - Further - Burning Empires
7. Thyx - Snow in July - The Way Home
8. Eisbrecher - Wilkommen Im Nichts - DJ Ferret's Underground Club Mix #1 (Asleep By Dawn)
9. Echo and the Bunnymen - With a Hip - SG Black Heart Retrospective
10. Ego Likeness - Breedless (Sonsombre Remix) - Tiny God's Who Walk Beside Us
11. Love and Rockets - Shelf Life -Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets
12. The Flatfield - The Witch - This is Gothic Rock Vol. I-II
13. E Nomine - Mitternacht (Radio Edit)- Mitternacht
14. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor – Dawnrazor
15. The Mission (UK) - Garden Of Delight (Extended Version) - The First Chapter

DJ Deadbasil - Set 3: Some Shamble, Some Dance

Deadbasil releases a DJ set of the recently deceased and the petrified hits of the collective genres which shall not be called Goth. Give it a listen!

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

1. Anders Manga - Rosaries and Requiems – Andromeda
2. The 69 Eyes - Lady Darkness - Universal Monsters
3. The Wake - Silent Siren – Masked
4. Creux Lies - Aine's Song - The Hearth
5. The Cure - Lullaby – Disintegration
6. Current 93 - Crowleymass – Crowleymass
7. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Apollo 69 - The Best of THK
8. Amaranth - God Was An Orphan - Spreading the Charred Remains of Hope
9. Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric? (Leatherstrip Mix)- Graver's Paradise
10. Antipol - Deco Blue - Dark Nouveau
11. The Cruxshadows - Orphean Wing – Wishfire
12. Panic Priest - Blue Sky Grey - Painic Priest
13. Sorry, Heels - Ligh's End - Italian Gothic
14. Grey Gallows - Enemy - UnObscured Vol. 1 2019

DJ Deadbasil - Set 2: Rough Work from the Cave

In continuing preparation for Episode One of Chamber Dissonance, Deadbasil releases a DJ set of the recently deceased and the petrified hits of the collective genres which shall not be called Goth. Give it a listen! All questions, comments, and snide remarks are appreciated!

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo – Peepshow
2. Concrete Blonde - The Sky is a Poisonous Garden – Bloodletting
3. Rosegarden Funeral Party - Tortured Decline – Single
4. Rasputina - Possum of the Grotto - Frustration Plantation
5. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Inch Worm - Projekt Afar
6. Pass/Ages - Starving Beasts & Fate - Taken Underneath
7. The Spirtual Bat - Sento - Italian Gothic
8. Kælan Mikla - Ástarljóð - Mánadans
9. The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack - The Dresden Dolls
10. Secret Shame - Haunter - Dark Synthetics
11. Hante. - Silence the Voices - Dark Nouveau 
12. The Dreamside - Divinia - Pale Blue Lights
13. Superheroines - Remembering Love - Gothik: Special Anniversary Edition
14. Switchblade Symphony - Witches (Live) - Psycho Tina's House of Horrors
15. Mors Syphilitica - Ungrateful Girl - The Unquiet Grave 2000
16. Faith and Disease - Bury Me Deep - A Tribute to the Sisters of Mercy: The First and Last and Forever
17. Unto Ashes - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Projekt: Gothic

DJ Deadbasil - Set 1: Practice Makes Perfect

In Preparation for Episode One of Chamber Dissonance, Deadbasil releases a DJ set of the recently deceased and the petrified hits of the collective genres which shall not be called Goth. Give it a listen! All questions, comments, and snide remarks are appreciated!

Playlist (Artist - Song- Album)

Audra - What Your Eyes Had Seen – Audra
She Past Away - Disko Anksiyete - Disko Anksiyete
Angels Of Liberty - Haunted - UnObscured Vol. 1
Golden Apes - Oblivion – Kasbek
Diary Of Dreams - Nevermore - Hell in Eden
Bauhaus - Bite My Hip - The Bela Session
Twin Tribes - Shadows - Dark Nouveau
Astari Nite - Non-Disclosure Agreement - Until the End of the Moon
Lord Travvis - Torture DuJour – EP
Rozz Williams - Flowers - Projekt Presents: A Dark Cabaret
Visage - The Damned Don't Cry - Fade To Grey: The Best of Visage
ACTORS - We Don't Have to Dance - It Will Come to You
The Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet - The First and Last and Always
Sonsombre - Fear - The Veils of Ending

Instrument of the Week! Conga!

What we usually refer to as Conga or conga drums have narrow heads and the appearance of staved barrels. It is said that the more appropriate name for these instruments is the tumbadora. The drums themselves originated in Cuba, though their origin has Afro-Cuban roots. The drums are commonly used in the styles Conga, Rumba Salsa, Jazz, Songo, Latin Rock and the like. The conga are most often associated with the Cuban tumbao rhythm and open tone singing. Conga is also the name of a dance and rhythm with African roots sung in many Latin countries. We call the drums associated with conga, conga drums. The dance is usually associated with the carnival season before the Christian Lent. There are four sizes of conga drums (here from biggest to smallest): tumba (or salidor), conga (tres golpes, the middle drum), quinto (the lead drum), and requinto (or Ricardo, this is the rare one not always used), now it is not uncommon to see people playing all four. People originally played one drum People who play the Congas are called congueros, while people who dance to the music of the conga’s are called rumberos.  Famous congueros players include: Daniel de los Reyes, Miguel "Angá" Díaz, Marc Quiñones, Fermin Goytisolo, Chano Pozo and Jimmy Morales. Photos and Videos Below!

Resources:

• Conga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conga) The Wikipedia page! Yeah yeah, I know…but hay its distilled knowledge. If it still bothers you just look at the resources they site.
• Introduction to the Conga Drum (http://www.drumdojo.com/j15/learning/congaintro1.htm) A good introduction to the instrument.