Friday, December 16, 2005

The main This Plague of Dreaming website is back up, and the links are fixed.

I also added a new artist page for The Threshold People, and links to cover art for all releases.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Instabilities in the Fabric

The netlabels at archive.org are changing servers, and all is in disruption. Our address, for instance, is changing (adjust your bookmarks as appropriate). The changes will, for the most part, be good - it will be easier for artists to update or fix broken collections, and the URL's of the download pages will be considerably shorter - but it also means going back in and changing all the links at thisplagueofdreaming.net and our other promotional venues.

We do apologize for any difficulty you may have accessing the music in the meantime, and we'll let you know when it's straightened out.

[Update: it looks like the collection itself is back up and available for download. There are still some problems (e.g. download statistics not updated), and I still have some links to change tonight, but the music is there if you want it, and that's the important part.)

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

myspace.com

The plaguedream has a new vector: Myspace.com.

If you're a card-carrying plaguedreamer, and you have a Myspace account, hie thee hence and Friend us, posthaste! Let's build that network!

Sunday, December 11, 2005

website update

My candle's burning low, but at last the website update is complete.

(Check out our new artist pages at www.thisplagueofdreaming.net.)

It's late, and the tech staff have long since retired to their dormitories, leaving me to finish the update alone, after hours. From my window in the PlagueDream Media Center I can see across the moonlit compound to the bunkhouse, where blue TV flickers light up The Threshold People's window. I Bury the Living? The Killer Shrews? They're probably asleep in front of it by now, the movie rewinding and repeating endlessly on their hulking old VCR and influencing their dreams.

The shades are down on the secretive To Repel Ghosts, but every now and again they light up with a bright spray of sparks, and I can hear the ancient oscillators warble and howl. (TRG find the privacy of their room more conducive to their arcane pursuits than the main laboratory, and they keep ungodly hours.)

Somewhere out there, perhaps, Sypha Nadon gazes with intricate apprehension at this same gibbous moon. His relentless and harrowing explorations, though of vital importance to us all, offer him little comfort in the small hours of the night. For some, sleep is not a refuge.

My work for the night is done, and my candle gutters in its own wax. I am about ready to expire, myself, so I'm off to my bunk.

Dream well, plaguedreamers, and don't get caught.

=PD

Monday, December 5, 2005

NEW RELEASE from Sypha Nadon!

Sypha Nadon, the unstoppable force behind the successful Enter Horus E.P., is back with a full-length album:

Sypha Nadon - 11 Chants for Russolo [plague005]

"The search for extremes is nothing more then the search for Self. God can be found in feedback: Divinity can be extracted from oceans of chaos. The scryer of this album put himself at great mental and physical risk in his quest to earth these 11 transmissions and place them into a context relatable to mammalian senses.

"This album is dedicated to Luigi Russolo and all those who carry his flame. To read Russolo’s classic manifesto “The Art of Noises” (and to get a glimpse of his beloved Intonarumori devices), consult this link: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html."

Album details:

01. Hyla (2:53)
02. Gnostic Circus (4:19)
03. Intonarumori (6:51)
04. Scapegoat (2:45)
05. Scab Eden (3:15)
06. Piranha Teeth (4:59)
07. Club Scarab (3:33)
08. The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless (8:09)
09. Decreator (5:21)
10. Yuggoth (6:07)
11. DNA Blood Madonna (17:27)
........i-The Tesseract (4:25)
.......ii-Insect Trust (2:40)
......iii-Choronzon Unit (5:33)
......iv-Gristle Pulsate (4:49)

Friday, December 2, 2005

NEW RELEASE from To Repel Ghosts!

To Repel Ghosts - All Is Calm [plague004]

Four old Christmas chestnuts thawed out and slowly refrozen in new and interesting shapes. Featuring special guest appearances by Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby!