Favourite Compilation Survey Results 2000
Mistress McCutchan
When strapped for cash or curiously seeking out new and maybe unknown music, compilation albums are the perfect solution to treating your palette to a range of music. Here are our top ten “musts” compiled from the answers of a survey conducted via e-mail (on our very own e-list, Twilight, Goth/Industrial NY-NJ, and Gothik, to name a few...)
10. Kindred Spirits
Label: Bedazzled
Track Listing
Strange Boutique – This Charm
Switchblade Symphony – Clown
The Curtain Society – Adrenaline
Siddal – Pontus
Ultracherry Violet – Falling In Love
Mistle Thrush – Whispers
Big Hat – Pocketful (remix)
Twelve Tone Failure – As I Hit The Floor
Viola Peacock – Shave Your Head
Opium Den – Blackwell Road
This Ascension – Admire
The Garden – Blithe Spirit
9. Edge of The Night
Label: Russian Gothic Project
Track Listing
Canonis – Snow River
Caprice – Princess Mee
Romowe Rikoito – Elegy
No Man’s Land – Falling Into The Night
Neutral – Playroom
Dvar – Taai Liira
Damsel’s Dream – Elegy For Rhythm-Box
Phantom Bertha – Igni Natura Renovator Integra
Dreams – Cloud of Dreams
Cyclotimia – Paradise X
Lunophobia – Under The Snow
Djembe – Tourdion
Kratong – Echoes of Sinking Ships
Moon Far Away – December of Times
TnT Art – Better Than You
Cisfinitum – De Profundis
8. Narcosis, A Dark Ambient Compilation
(2 cds) Label: Nova Tekk
Track Listing
Disc 1
Effective Force – Reality Labyrinth
Soma – Arcane
Download – Base Metal
Pwog – Sheap?
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson – Journey
Raison D’Être – Inner Depths Of Sadness
Legion – Leviathan
Shinjuku Thief – The Witch Hunter
Arcana – Dark Age Of Reason
Coil – Stoned Circular II
Final – untitled
Disc 2
The Corridor – Texture
In The Nursery – Holstenwall
Black Lung – Unconvincing Simulations of Happiness Part II
Goldwater – As Precious As Blood
Sielwolf – Kubick
Hoodlum Priest – Naked Time (Überchill Mix by Technietzsche)
Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen – Supermind’s Light Becomes Part of the Earth
Arecibo – Unified Field Modulation
Arkkon – Base Camp Desertion
Fetisch Park – Trost Part 7
A Small Good Thing – Jane Russell
7. The Absolut Supper
(2 cds) Label: Cold Meat Industry
Track Listing
Disc 1
In Slaughter Natives – INRI... raped by the Cross
The Protagonist – Imitation
The Protagonist – Zoroaster
Ordo Equilibrio – The perplexity of hybris. I glorify myself.
Sanctum – { - }
Puissance – Love incinerate
Arcana – Winds of the lost soul
Mortiis – Child of curiosity & the old man of knowledge.
Desiderii Marginis – Chaos undivided
Sephiroth – R’lych
Raison D’Être – The verge of somnolence.
Hazard – Who blew out the Northern lights?
Disc 2
Brighter Death Now – I wish I was a little girl
Frozen Faces – Zyklon B Doll
MZ.412 – N.B.S. act 1 - begraving
Megaptera – Don’t desecrate the dead
Deutsch Nepal – logo
Nacht – Svartsinn
Archon Satani – A time of ruin
Ildfrost – Hearts perturbe
Ildfrost – Slept Awake
Cintecele Diavolui – The Devil must kill.
6. Lonely Is An Eyesore
Label: 4AD
Track Listing
Colourbox – Hot Doggie
This Mortal Coil – Acid, Bitter and Sad
The Wolfgang Press – Cut The Tree
Throwing Muses – Fish
Dead Can Dance – Frontier
Cocteau Twins – Crushed
Dif Juz – No Motion
Clan Of Xymox – Muscoviet Musquito
Dead Can Dance – The Protagonist
5. Palace Of Worms
Label: Palace Of Worms
Track Listing
Monumentum – Fade To Grey (In Worms)
Ikon – Somewhere Else
Endraum – Mother Earth
Bleeding Like Mine – And The Ashes Settle
Runes Order – Christine’s Eyes
Engelsstaub – Fallen Angel (Unholy)
Raison D’Être – In Emptiness
Lucie Cries – Shoah
The Protagonist – Imitation
T.A.C. – The Rising Of The Current II
Eld – Century Astray
Dust – Dementia
Kirlian Camera – Easter 1980
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud
Ataraxia – Hommage Funebre (A Hommage To Lino)
Stay Frightened – Touched In The Place Where Trust Simply Aches
4. What Is Eternal
Label: Middle Pillar Presents
Track Listing
The Machine In The Garden – Falling Softly
4th Sign Of The Apocalypse – Lady Doe
Unto Ashes – Conjuration To Lilith
Mors Syphilitica – Petals In Sequence
Quartet Noir – Petals From A Rose
Loretta’s Doll – Lost By Severity
Dream Into Dust – Totestadt
The Changelings – Malcolm’s Righteous Dub (spacious mix)
The Mirror Reveals – Let All The Poets Sing
Backworld – Leaving The Isles Of The Blest (remix)
Tor Lundvall & Tony Wakeford – The Big Nowhere
Jarboe – Breathe
Athanor – For Whom The Bell Tolls
3. Heavenly Voices
Label: Hyperium
The first, third and fourth were mentioned quite a bit in our survey, but this series is an excellent choice, period!
Track Listing
(from the first of the series):
Rise And Fall Of A Decade – Pure Hands
The Moon Seven Times – Giannis
Stoa – Infant Joy
Love Spirals Downwards – Love’s Labour Lost
Chandeen – Journey To The Land Of Wisdom
Eventide – Aye Gloriosa Mater
Gitane Demone – Gloomy Sunday
Speaking Silence – Immunity
Ordo Equitum Solis – Playing With The Fire
Black Rose – Liebe
It’s A Secret – Gabriella
Die Form – Cantique
Manic P. – Lost In Silence
Jack Or Jive – Behind The Line
Sabotage – Qu ’Est - Que C’est? Fait De L’er
Mellonta Tauta – Pull the Carriot
Attrition – I Am
Malka Spigel – Yestiney
Annabell’s Garden – Winter Moon Descents
2. Beneath The Icy Floe
Label: Projekt
A very popular series!
Track Listing
(from the pictured album in the series)
Love Spirals Downwards – Avineenna
Lycia – The Return Of Nothing
Lovesliescrushing – Babysbreath
Eden – The Darkness In Me
Human Drama – Sad I Cry
Bleak – Cold, Black Room
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – The Flow Of Our Spirit
Soul Whirling Somewhere – Unhittable
Ordo Equitum Solis – Message To Pan
Sam Rosenthal/Vidna Obmana – Terrace Of Memories
Love Spirals Downwards – This Endris Night
Thanatos – Moon Of Dying Grass
Lycia – The Facade Fades
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – Scream, My Shallow
Alio Die – Global Construction
1. Resistor
Label: Nilahah Records
“Dark and dancy” as Dru of This Ascension puts it! According to our survey results, this was the most popular comp of our audience.
Track Listing
Fiction 8 – Let Go
God Module – Resurrection
The Azoic – Progression
TNV – Televisual
Distorted Reality – In My Dream
Inertia – Regime
Bio-Tek – Shield
This Ascension – I Wish
Magenta – Eccentricity
Heavy Water Factory – Translucent Amber
The Strand – Cleanse
Manhole Vortex – Loss
Autumn – Still Breathing
Advent Sleep/Anita Haxsaw – Guardian Angel
The Machine in the Garden – Control
Attrition – The Mercy Machine
Oneiroid Psychosis – Non Omnis Moriar
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