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  Twilight Ritual - The Factory Scream [OS 18 BEL 2012 24-Bit FLAC] The Factory Scream is a collection of unreleased works by Belgian synthwave duo, Twilight Ritual - if you haven't heard of them, have a flick through this blog's archives to find their two proper albums. These tracks were laid down between 1984 & 1986 and remained locked away until a CDR appeared in 2002 on the Micrart label. The original master recordings have now been carefully transferred to high quality vinyl by small Belgian label, Onderstroom ...who have now deleted this limited pressing of 500.  A1 Visions Of Steel A2 L'Uomo Moderno A3 Only You A4 Show Him Out A5 Suburban Wastelands A6 Breakthrough Boulevard A7 Nothing But Cool B1 Night Talk B2 The Glass Face B3 Wired To The Machines B4 Black Track B5 She Told Me Lies B6 Bring It Back To Me B7 Close To The End B8 Sorry To Hear B9 The Factory Scream I

Twilight Ritual - The Ritual [OS 27 BEL 2015 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released as a very rare cassette album on Micrart in 1982, The Ritual  represented the very first recordings by Belgian sythwave band, Twilight Ritual. If you enjoyed their first album proper, previewed here a few months back, then this will be just for you.  The label used the original masters rather than a copy of the cassette album for this vinyl edition ....and it sounds great! If you didn't hear that album and you enjoy quality synth-dark-wave then you need to hear this as well. The Ritual is much less pop than Rituals, and needs to be heard wider, if not for the thirteen minutes of Up To Now , which is much unlike anything of its era. A1 Splintered Images Of Oz A2 Surrounded A3 Webb-Men A4 They Are We A5 Ever Changes A6 Fading Me B1 A Chrome Entrance B2 Elegy B3 Up To Now B4 Filters Of Density

Twilight Ritual - Rituals [OS17 BEL 2012 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released on vinyl in 1986 on the Auxilio De Cientos label, Rituals was the only album proper by Belgian electronic coldwave duo Peter Bonne and Geert Coppens. Copies of the original fetch silly money on reseller marketplaces, so much so that it was bootlegged on vinyl and reissued CD in the early noughties. Like may Belgian bands from the analogue coldwave era, the band sung in English and took their lead from British post-punk wave bands such as New Order, The Cure, Depeche Mode etc.  I Never Called You A Dream borrows ideas from the Movement album,  Strength For Me has the makings of a single, and with a little more polish it could have been with it's uplifting message and melody. Rituals is by all accounts a gloomy synthwave album, but isn't that something we love around here? I have to applaud OnderStroom Records once more for this superbly mastered official repressing which was releas...