Dark Bar 4/29/12
Danse Society – Come Inside
Pink Turns Blue – Touch The Skies
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Umbrella
Angels Of Light – New Mother
Tears For Fears – Watch Me Bleed
Wire – The Point Of Collapse
Veil Veil Vanish – Wilderness
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Lords Of The New Church – Dance With Me
Asylum Party – Madhouse Grass
The Sound – Skeletons
Comsat Angels – I Come From The Sun
Chameleons – Perfume Garden
Romance – Waiting By The Ocean
Pink Turns Blue – Ghosts
Opéra de Nuit – Sourire De L’Ombre
O. Children – Dead Disco Dancer
New Order – This Time Of Night
Cranes – Starblood
Entertainment – A Seduction Walks
For Against – December
Wierd Playlist 4/25/12
a short birthday set…
Near Paris – Believe Me
Aaah…! – Slip Away
Void Vision – Black and White
Liz & László – Rien à Paris
End Of Data – Dans Votre Monde
APB – Shoot You Down
Wire – Ambitious
The Hunt – Set The Rising Sun
Skinny Puppy – Assimilate
A Split Second – Mambo Witch
Fad Gadget – Coitus Interuptus
The Invincible Limit – Push
The Present Moment – The High Road
Contempt Playlist 3/17/12
Anne Clark – Sleeper in Metropolis
Oppenheimer Analysis – The Devil’s Dancer
Frank (Just Frank) – Do The Soviet
Aaah! – Slip Away
D.A.F. – Der Mussolini
Skinny Puppy – Testure
Cabaret Voltaire – Here To Go
Einstürzende Neubauten – Morning Dew
Peter Murphy – Seesaw Sway
De/Vision – Circulate
Depeche Mode – Lie To Me
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Martial Canterel – You Today
Ultravox – Sleepwalk
The Neon Judgement – The Fashion Party
Clan of Xymox – Obsession
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IAMX – The Alternative
Covenant – Brave New World
The Cure – The Upstairs Room
The Sisters Of Mercy – Flood II
Veil Veil Vanish – Modern Lust
Secession – Touch [R]
She Wants Revenge – Out Of Control
Miserylab – Making a Bomb
Escape With Romeo – It’s Loneliness
Disko Nouveaux Playlist 3/10/12
Laid Back – White Horse
M – Pop Muzik
David Bowie – Fashion
Eurythmics – Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)
Depeche Mode – People Are People [R]
Sinead O’Connor – I Want Your Hands On Me [R]
Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round [R]
Simple Minds – Sanctify Yourself
Ladytron – The Way That I Found You
OMD – Secret [R]
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle [R]
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S’Express – The Theme From S’Express
Erasure – Oh L’Amour
Information Society – Walking Away
Lipps, Inc. – Funkytown
Madness – Our House
Mick Ronson – Only After Dark
Queen – Another One Bites The Dust [R]
Duran Duran – New Religion
Bryan Ferry – Kiss And Tell
Culture Club – Church Of The Poison Mind
Marilyn – Baby U Left Me (In The Cold)
Howard Jones – New Song
Re-Flex – The Politics Of Dancing
Contempt Playlist 2/18/12
Air – Sexy Boy
Active Child – Call Me Tonight
Blood Orange – Sutphin Boulevard
Insides – Skin Divers
Lush – Nothing Natural
The Daysleepers – Tiger In The Sea
Cocteau Twins – Wax And Wane
Cranes – Starblood
Kindest Lines – Destructive Paths To Live Happily
Bell Hollow – Contact
Heavenly Bodies – Rains On Me
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Jeff Buckley – New Year’s Prayer
M83 – We Own The Sky
Comsat Angels – You Move Me
Human League – Seconds
Moev – Crucify Me
Severed Heads – Triangle Tangle Tango
The Invincible Limit – Push
IAMX – Nightlife
Halovox – Mask
Contempt Playlist 1/21/12
New Young Pony Club – Before The Light
Skinny Puppy – Candle
Death In June – The Calling (Mk II)
Anne Clark – Our Darkness
Mussolini Headkick – Your God Is Dead
Void Vision – In 20 Years
IAMX – Music People
Cabaret Voltaire – Talking Time
Detachments – You Never Knew Me
Plastic Flowers – Drive You Home
Fiction Factory – Feels Like Heaven
New Order – Dream Attack
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Underworld – JAL To Tokyo
Revel Hotel – Phantasm
The Sisters Of Mercy – Driven Like The Snow
She Past Away – Kasvetli Kutlama
Siekiera – Misiowie Puszyści
Killing Joke – Europe
Death Cult – God’s Zoo
Creatures – Pluto Drive [R]
Contempt Playlist 12/17/11
Frank (Just Frank) – Beneath
Twin Shadow – Castles In The Snow
Clan Of Xymox – Medusa
Little Nemo – Cadavres Exquis (Howard Song)
SS-Say – Care
Book Of Love – Modigliani
Mary Onettes – Puzzles
Love & Rockets – Lazy
Propaganda – The Chase
The Sisters Of Mercy – Ribbons
Demontré – The Vale Of Health Pt.2
House Of Love – I Don’t Know Why I Love You
Xmal Deutschland – Mondlicht
Cranes – Sixth Of May
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The Prids – Love Zero
The Church – Reptile
Veil Veil Vanish – Anthem
The Bolshoi – Away
Chameleons UK – Shades
New Order – Love Less
Depeche Mode – Master And Servant
De/Vision – Over The Wall
Wolfsheim – Künstliche Welten
Covenant – Brave New World (Radio Version)
Void Vision – Sour
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Click Click – Yakutska
Nitzer Ebb – Ride The Mindway
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Ride The Mindway
Meat Beat Manifesto – Psyche Out
Renegade Soundwave – Biting My Nails
Killing Joke – Eighties
Pankow – Cross In My Heart
Pop Will Eat Itself – There Is No Love Between Us
Ministry – Over The Shoulder
Wumpscut – We Believe
Assemblage 23 – Drive
Apoptygma Berzerk – Shine On
The Cult – Rain
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Danse Society – Danse/Move [R]
The Cure – The Baby Screams
Camouflage – Love Is A Shield
The Dossier – Another Night/Another Day
Peter Godwin – Images Of Heaven
Yaz – Bring Your Love Down (Didn’t I)
Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin
Giorgio Moroder/Phil Oakey – Together In Electric Dreams
Cramps – Human Fly [R]
Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
Hysteria Passio – Grey Over Life
Miserylab – Making A Bomb
Zola Jesus – End Of The Night
Contempt Playlist 11/19/11
Coil – Free Base Chakra
Neon Judgement – Chinese Black
Vigil – Until The Seasons
The Spitters – Feasty
Bauhaus – Third Uncle
The Soft Moon – Breathe The Fire
Portishead – Mysterions
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Bootblacks Set
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Frank Alpine – Dark Places
Monomen – Drum Of Glass
Veil Veil Vanish – Anthem For A Doomed Youth
U2 – Red Light
The Cure – Upstairs Room
Depeche Mode – It’s No Good [R]
The Creatures – Pluto Drive
Opéra De Nuit – Ami Amant
Duran Duran – Friends Of Mine
She Past Away – Ruh
Nine Inch Nails – Warm Leatherette
Adam And The Ants – Press Darlings
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The Sisters Of Mercy
Joy Division – Shadowplay
Clan Of Xymox – Louise
Ministry – I Wanted To Tell Her
Meat Beat Manifesto – Psyche Out
Skinny Puppy – Assimilate
Nitzer Ebb – Captivate
Spirit And The Bride – The Fall Of Man
A colleague sent me a link to some of his latest works today – a beautifully thought-out spatial expanse that is The Fall Of Man by Spirit And The Bride. 
I was on a serious Duran Duran listening kick but after previewing a few tracks, I instantly switched head spaces and found myself needing to review this record. This is my first official record review!
The influences of the individual band members read as modern yet sophisticated and that sums up the production and songwriting on tracks such as “Will Death Alone”, “Golden Calf”, and “Childish Mind”, each of which have their own gentle yet dark feel. At times, the record reaches into the jazz & psychedelic realms too much for my taste but the sonic landscape keeps my interest without a doubt. Additionally, fans of those genres will enjoy how Spirit And The Bride approach them.
I feel the need to know big words when I listen to these songs, and to wax poetic, and to isolate myself in a dark room – but it’s not because I wear black and like goth music, it’s because The Fall Of Man hits you in a primitive place and it picks up where some other dreamy music leaves off.
I will say that the band labels themselves as darkwave/dreampop which I think may be a bit of a disservice. I hear the genre “darkwave” and I think of Clan Of Xymox or Danse Society but I get what they’re going for.
Recommended if you like Japan, Dead Can Dance, Austra, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, World Of Skin - as well as jazz & psychedelia that I know nothing about so I can’t drop any of those artist names.
www.spiritandthebride.com
and listen on The Facelift here
Wierd Playlist 10/19/11
Sleep Museum – Napal
Zero Zero – The Dream
Ziyo – Michelle
SPK – Walking On Dead Stars
White Car – The Bridge
Chris & Cosey – Deep Blue Velvet
Severed Heads – Bad Times Too
John Foxx/Louis Gordon – A Million Cars
Claps – Red Dress (Gay Beast Mix)
Silent Diane – Riverside
Void Vision – Black And White
Clan Of Xymox – Moscoviet Musquito
Opéra De Nuit – Invitation
Siekiera – Czerwony Pejzaż
Lost Tribe – Unsound
Tanit – Can An Actor Bleed?
Ultravox – The Voice
The Lucy Show – Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)
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My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Do You Fear For Your Child?
Detachments – H.A.L.
The Human League – Blind Youth
New Order – Shellshock
SS-Say – Care
Near Paris – Believe Me
The Twins – Face To Face, Heart To Heart
Flesh For Lulu – I Go Crazy
