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Nasszelle - Das Hörspiel

by

Laurent Hoffmann
Michael Bowe
Malte Metzner
Markus Jantosch
Tilman Schenk
Ulrike Stemmer

Hörspiel (8mb, .mp3) - download here!

Making-Of (84mb, .wmv) - download here!

Artwork (by Tiana Sperber - 1mb, .zip) - download here!

Nasszelle - The Comic (Artworks by Tiana Sperber, Editing by Laurent Hoffmann - 13mb, .zip) - download here!

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The Seven Sisters of Sleep - Vampyr EP (8mb - .zip): download here!

01 - After this 101 Seconds I had to change my Pants

instrumental

02 - dxm.ylov

a random defintion of love

03 - Leave me lone, you breathin’ my okkzygene

Leave me alone you’re breathin’ my oxygen london bridge is falling down my fault my fault oxygene is out

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>play!sedate - Unfinished Business EP (46mb - .zip): download here!

01 - Nature Tale - download here!

A blazing sea of flames paves the way flows on the jowls i am into fire an arcane abyss hides much undiscovered lost in the darkness i am into night whereas a white pure glacier thrones linking majestic soft smooth and warm i am into ice on an endless epic voyage i stroke through the fire sank in the night floated on the ice just to feel nature trembling being so close skin on skin just to feel my nature trembling

02 - Erised - download here!

i take a picture from the wall it shows my darling’s face cheery her smile recreates me i mourn the forgotten days addicted to her strawberry lips delighted from her almond eyes sleek her silken hair’s mane her love is like and endless maze what would love be without sorrow lust without obscenity and whine a cascade of feelings floods my mind and lets all sanity drown in dessert wine the wounds of our bygone togetherness leave ugly scars behind at the thought of an intimate touch it chokes and makes my eyes go blind as blurred as the figure in the picture that worn away what kept me alive can’t understand your malpractice yet but don’t deny your driven by lies i wasn’t stumbling before i fell didn’t feel bad as well any tears left my eyes my conscience even began to rise took my path on the clouds scheming angels flew around reality was way too far affection closeness kept me warm what would love be without hate tease without harm and fate starfall tickled my skin and sparked my fire deep within scoring now leads my way blood is the way the way i pay lying at the tubestop bed and anyhow i think i’m the twat

03 - Interlude - Tropica - download here!

instrumental

04 - Slow-Motion Life Sequence - download here!

a series of mental images and emotions occuring during sleep a state of mind characterized by abstraction released from reality have a daydream indulge in a fantasy a visionary creation of imagination eye contact focus on two her eyes so green so innocent clean i lost myself in her gaze i lost myself in a dream strikes me deep sets emotions free passion & desire on a subcutane stream i hold my breath it’s getting physical neuronic transfer chemical reaction eye to eye communication protocol testing now remote control access denied connection failed focus change the sequence ends slow-motion life sequence

05 - Urban Tale - download here!

i love it out here i feel funny about being here why do all this people always call this place home they’re not gonna come back even if they do what time the car broke down or something and with you they will all believe it hey what do you say wait have some champagne baby sure after all i am a man and you’re a woman 15.53 embassy road there is no activity where you live stay inside and be calm

06 - Botox Smile RMX - download here!

this is how i live i serve myself on a cold plate my fragrance called desire/made me fly i am a date bate well paid you lose control forget about love ‘cos botox is soul my face is screened at magazines two ever smiling lips the never changing scenes my voice is using my hands bound this is me fading into background this is how i live

07 - Interlude - Closure - download here!

instrumental

08 - Crouching Tiger & hidden Dragon - download here!

instrumental

09 - 4lands (vs. Aliksandr Hasek Trió) - download here!

old friend what are you looking for after those many years abroad you come with images you tended under foreign skies far away from your own land forelands four lands for lands forelands for friends

10 - Miroir (dev vs. Drive until he sleeps) - download here!

see erised

Review by disagreement.net:

It seems to be a fashion to release for free on the Internet albums by bands that do not exist any longer. Ice In A Strainer initiated the movement in Luxembourg, and >play!sedate are next. Although I heard the name mentioned mostly on the Fanhead internet site to which the band had narrow ties I never heard their music before, which is why I felt compelled to download this posthumous EP.

What >play!sedate lack is homogeneity in their song writing. Although the production is professional enough, I get the impression as if this four-piece was forever looking for a direction which they probably never found before they broke up. This leaves us now with a peculiar situation: ten songs that somewhat could be from ten different bands, with moods ranging from dance to screamo.

It is nonetheless an interesting compilation, with most songs having an unfinished touch about them, hence the album title, but from time to time, >play!sedate show proof of visionary skills, espially on Erised (Desire, spelled backwards), where the melody is carried by backwards played instruments. That song alone is worth the download, really, as it combines intelligent moody electronic music with doped out psychedelic acid rock, not unlike the better moments from Norwegian psyche gods When.

Other highlights include Botox Smile RMX, not unlike the more experimental songs from moussevingt, oops, I mean Hal Flavin, of course. Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon is a mock Asian tribute to the popular Eastern movie. The two bonus tracks show >play!sedate duelling once with the Aliksandr Hasek Trió (whoever that may be) and the also defunct Drive Until He Sleeps, and it is ironic that exactly this last track confronting electronic music with post rock sounds yields the only screamo hardcore track.

Unfinished Business is what it claims to be, but its also a colourful panoply of songs and song fragments by a band that unfortunately disbanded before anyone ever heard of them.

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