New order-this time of night...1985

another oldie

Skinny Puppy -1987. addiction

William orbit-Adagio for Strings

techno music. brilliant piece of music

Siouxsie and the Banshees-Sea breezes(Roxy Music)

Love this, i actually prefer it to the roxy version

Electribe 101-talking with myself

Unusual and strange but I created a group for cabaret voltaire and Billy Ray Martin hijacked my facebook group. I remember Billy ray martin she was releasing songs that were like a more better version of what Lisa Stansfield was doing.then a couple of years later she did a cover version of a Throbbing Gristle track called 'Discipline'.I thought that was quite a brave thing to do....this was electribe 101 hit from 1990/91

Sparks -this Town aint big enough

Im used to the Banshees version,I bet in the 70s they wernt like anything else

Big Black-Stinking drunk

1986....for marcus

Dead Can Dance- Enigma of the absolute

Brian eno-An ending ascent....1983

From Apollo soundtracks

Slash-hey joe

orbital -lush 1994

from a peel session 1994

kraftwerk-MinimumMaximum part 2

the second and most powerful part of their 2004 concert

Tori Amos-1992

never seen a songwriter hold a crowd like she did

Dead Can Dance - Xavier + Anywhere out of this world

Not sure I will be able to provide a link to this music, I was listening to a compilation today on my mp3 and some of the music made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. When I was much much younger most of us knew about a band called Dead Can Dance, I liked the occasional track but the discovered their albums in about 1989, then I sort of worked my way back from there. Dead Can Dance were active from 1981-1998 and briefly reformed in 2005 for a one off tour.

Dead Can Dance's music I would describe as truly gothic, not in image and packaging but in sound and mood. I notice on Wikipedia their sound is described as new wave dark wave(whatever that is). I think the nearest comparison I could make is like scott walker brothers singing over classical/gothic rock.

Their first album was very underproduced but they hit their collective stride when they became a duo, they released a succession of albums like 'Within the realm of the dying sun', 'Serpents Egg'.


Their recorded output was timeless and is truly world music

Incoming election -beware

People have short memories, in the late 90s labour used the power of advertising and started a campaign against the tories. I remember seeing Adverts with John Major on, now when the torres do it to Gordon Brown its like how dare they? Whatever your political standpoint I bet everyone is going to be fed up with all the backstabbing soon.

The Who-Acid Queen-Isle of wight 1970

John Martyn-1973

John Martyn's folk music was truly groundbreaking at the time. I love the use of delay and effects on this track. He does sounds like he's pissed. Sadly John Martyn died a few years ago, but his music lives on.

Rui Di silva -Touch me (1998)

Club classic, old school from 1998

Dead Can Dance-The Ubiquitous mr lovegrove-1991

A live version, not sure what the sound quality is...

King Crimson-Matte kudasai

What a track, Adrian Belew makes the guitar sound like seagulls. From the 1981 album discipline, although this version is from 1995

Rush-Tom Sawyer -live in rio(2004)

The track that starts off the Rush in rio dvd, sounds so much better than the studio version.

Ebay ...No way....

Like all computer web sites some undergo more popularity than others, take social networking a few years ago it was all about personal pages now its all status's. With Auction sites there has been very little competition until now. Ebay was the first and has been the biggest success story in online auction sites. But now there are alternatives namely Ebid and other sites Like Amazon.

For me I have found that the Ebay of now is not like the Ebay of old , of say a couple of years ago. I initially started it as a means of just putting my surplus cds on it, a few years ago it was quite easy to pay by other methods. But of late the lines between Paypal and ebay have become quite blurred, ebay is the site which features all the auctions, paypal is the account you need to run ebay properly. That is my first critism. Ebay makes it hard for people without good credit ratings or bank accounts to sell or buy. If you purchase a item and pay by postal order you cannot locate the address anywhere and normally have to ask the person in general messages.

My second critism of it is that If you buy a few items over a period of time before long Ebay and Paypal both ask for further verification. This is a bit daft really as you should only need to link an account once as when you apply for a bank account and credit card, they are not normally issued unless an account is verified anyway. There seems to be the demand for excessive bank details and credit card details. In one instance in a old account in the period of use I had to link 3 diffrent bank accounts and 2 credit cards. Which is unworkable and very risky to a invidudual

3rd - Business Sellers have great priority and more information at their disposal, also they work in conjunction with ebay so business sellers get higher priority in listings process. So where as you list an item as a personal seller and think that you stand a chance of getting a good price when you search for your ad , it gets lesser priority. Also if you ask in help sections the business sellers , put you in your place, or at least try to. So that would be another critism that you ask other sellers and ebay and still dont really get anywhere.

4th- Case resolution - Someone in one of the Ebay offices , must have thought "I know lets create cases- works for the crown prosection, lets apply to online selling and buying'. Well I have read articles about this and from first hand experience, that you list a item to sell and send the goods out, in instances I started to notice that I was getting cases raised even though the item was in the system. This started to happen as a weekly occurance, so I started to track items. I know with this part I may be classing all buyers as Dishonest, they are not but there is always an element that reads .pdf files about how to make money on online sites. With The case resolution it gives the buyer unprecedented powers. So they order an item, wait 3 days raise a case then apply for a refund and in most cases ebay grants them a full refund, I sent a couple of items tracked and watched them arrive at their destination. If they dont remove the Case resolution I cant see problems ahead for ebay.

5- Let me get this straight Ebay is good as its popular which means that you can normally find what you want. If you are a buyer and link a credit card and pay that way its fine, but as a seller account forget it. As a seller you get hit for costs right across the board. First take you sell an item ' 50 dvds' as an example. You place the advert but you first have to open a paypal account to list and then pay the insertion fee to list the item(the item might not sell, but you still pay for the privilage). Then the item sells. The customer pays at the price he won it at, you are then deducted money from what the item sold at. So for instance you sold it for 55, you would only get 49. This gets added to the fees. So there is the listing fee and the sale fee, paypal then also deducts money when its credited. Lastly you want to transfer the money over , you get charged for that also.

For me I like the power of online auctions as it can bring music and dvds to fans at a cheap price, however at the moment I find it is sending higher costs onto the sellet, which means its becoming more a business sector thing rather than for the individual.

Goldfrapp-Koko

SIMPLE MINDS-DEMO?

What the track sounded like before Steve Lillywhite got hold of it.

Depeche Mode- B sides themselves

Sort of rediscovering Depeche Mode tracks. Always been there in the CD collection, in the 80s they released a series of truly groundbreaking singles, where as most contempory artists didnt give much thought to b sides , Depeche Mode used them as a means to try out new things. This Post is just a collection tracks that still seound good now.


This If I recall was the B side to New life from 1981


The B side to the import track Little 15, beautiful track



This was the b side to the Master and Servant single from 1984.

VNV Nation -Prelude

A introduction of sorts

Welcome to Musique and Grand Design 2

Welcome to the second part of a ongoing blog, I started this thing in 2006 after findin g many music video clips and rare music and sort of creating a useful link to it which I posted on my various sites.

Musique and Grand Design doesnt have any special signifcance, its named after my 2 Fave songs Musique Non Stop By Kraftwerk and Grand Design by Rush, not to be confused with the architecture program on channel 4. In 2006 it started as a page and has morphed into other things like Facebook Groups , Auction Listing , even online shop.

With IT and Music I like to push the boundries and I am always looking for programs that help me and I will provide links to many programs, most of the programs I finds are in beta stage.