defending the indefensible: Projekt Records

omg I am a total goth geek

"When the otherwise demure Shikhee is asked about her music, you can see her tense before springing to life, as if prepared to pounce.
Question: Tell us something about the name Android Lust.
Shikhee: It's meant to show the dichotomy of one's nature. The contradiction that exists in us.
Q: Man, your album is intense. I'd hate to get on your bad side. Where does that intensity come from?
Shikhee: I don't know where it comes from. It's always there but repressed because I have to work, do chores, do menial crap just to live. So it's there... brewing. With music, I can be free and say anything openly. It is where I can be myself without having to put on an act just to be able to function in this fucking society."

Ther's loads of this stuff on there.

"Three Reptiles Wait At The Opening To The Underworld"
"Beast of Burden"
"Breathing Heart of the Dragon Mother"
"Born of Fire"
"The Spiral Of Time's Fire Burns On"
"How the Thieves Ride"

i'd like to hear electric wizard or earth interpret these titles.

rather excellent faux spinal tap division:

"Our Scent Rides The Breeze"

I actually like that album a lot! So does Chuck Eddy, actually, which surprised me but hey.

Has it changed much from the material on Tinman? 'Cause saying it was the best thing on that label wasn't even saying that much. I haven't heard the one on Projekt though.

i pick 4AD

really, they need no further defense. although they've certainly got some. some crap, too, of course, but who doesn't?

ordered a whole raft of ambient stuff from them today. have to say, not many other record labels have stuck with me for 18 years.

The new O Yuki Conjugate album Sleepwalker and Steve Roach's Trance Archaeology are both sublime. Sleepwalker isn't on Projekt but I bought it from them so it counts!

ooh cool I had no idea about O Yuki Conjugate!

Dumb question: Is this a stoner-metal d&d kitsch cover of the Stones choon of the same name or is it a completely different track?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron),Thursday, January 1, 2004

it's an Attrition track, completely different, and it rules, so tense and angsty

Sleepwalker may be my favorite OYC release since the Undercurrents: In Dark Water CD... I love it when they go sorta minimal and filmic.

For the past few weeks I've made a playlist of a bunch of Projekt albums (Love Spirals Downwards, Lycia, Forrest Fang), dark ambient, and otherwise arcane music (Lisa Gerrard, Jessica Pratt, Trisomie 21, Xymox) and let it play all day on random, it's really great. It's like a big pot of soup I just keep adding to.

Because of the 'robots + sex' topic, I went searching on Spotify (yeah, I know) for more songs involving robots, androids, sex, lust, etc. and ended up on Android Lust. Wow are they / she great! Industrial robot sex, fuck yeah!

But also not what I was expecting from Projekt at all

I have this very clear division in my head between Ethereal Goth (where all that Projekt stuff belongs, lace and bats and castles and crucifixes dripping blood and sex is vampirism) and Industrial Goth (post-apocalyptic ruins, Berlin, leather, steampunk manmachines, sex is degrading but also I want it, so I must enjoy degradation)

And the idea suddenly popped into my head, Industrial Goth is Protestant Goth while Ethereal Goth is Catholic Goth.

Has there been a thread on this? (If there hasn't, if I started one, would that be a really bad idea?)