Myspace is not My Space - anymore

Guess what, Myspace and DANHUSER Org. are taking seperate paths from now on. Manifesto was right, Marc Almond was right and many others do agree. There is no use when there is no use....

That is why we say....

Here is something else to think and do about....

LOVE 2 ALL!

Eis & Licht gone

For those who haven't heard it yet Eis & Licht are closing their gates - an era ends...

Here is a quote from Stephan's last newsletter:

"Es ist ein eigenartiges Gefuehl, wenn man weiß, dass man den letzten Newsletter verfasst. Der Zuspruch der letzten Wochen war ueberwaeltigend und ich moechte mich an dieser Stelle noch einmal bedanken: Bei den Briefeschreibern, den E-Mail-Verfassern, den Anrufern und Bestellern. Die vielen persoenlichen Anmerkungen, Wuensche und Zeilen haben mich wirklich geruehrt. Und so lasse ich im Bewusstsein los, nicht vollkommen sinnfrei vor mich hingewirkt zu haben.

Ob die Fackel weitergetragen wird? Ich wage keine Prognose. Auf jeden Fall wird mich (und hoffentlich auch Sie) die Musik nicht loslassen.
Und daher teile ich Ihnen heute - ebenfalls zum letzten Mal - meine ganz persoenlichen Jahresfavoriten mit, vielleicht als Inspiration um zumindest einmal hinzuhoeren? Das ganze wie immer ohne Rangordnung und frei von der "Leber" weg:

Apoptose "Bannwald" CD
Es gibt kaum eine Band, von der ich behaupten kann, dass mich jedes Album "erreicht" hat. Von Apoptose kann ich es.

Argine "Umori D' Autunno" CD
Die grandiosen Neapolitaner haben es den Hoerern nie einfach gemacht, doch immer meinen Nerv getroffen. Das Album ist das beste Beispiel dafuer, was Neofolk bedeuten koennte, wenn er nur woellte.

Burzum "Belus" 2LP
Gehört, erstarrt ob der Intensität, der Kompromisslosigkeit und der Dunkelheit. Ich hoere es lieber als "Filosofem"...

Haus Arafna "You" LP
Label und Band sind ein Gesamtkunstwerk ohne Zugestaendnisse. Eine Verwaesserung hat nie stattgefunden, nur eine Vertiefung und -feinerung des Stils. Nur so kann Musik ueberleben.

I Like Trains "He who saw the deep" LP
Vielleicht haben sie die Elegien nicht ganz erreicht, aber ihre exzellente Qualitaet haben sie deutlich untermauert.

Motorama "Alps" free Download
Eine russische Band, die so englisch klingt, dass man sich fragt, warum man immer nur gen Westen schaut. Ich habe es rauf und runtergehoert.

O.Children "O.Children" LP
Sicher - zwei, drei seichte Lieder sind auf dem Album drauf, aber der Rest genuegte um meine Grundfesten zu erschuettern.

The Divine Comedy "Bang goes the knighthood" LP
Allein das Lied "At the indiedisco" beinhaltet soviel von meinem Leben und meinen Traeumen, das ich weinen muss.

Abschliessende Hinweise fuer www.neofolk.de / www.eislicht.de

Die angekuendige letzte Vinylveroeffentlichung ist eine exklusive Single von LEGER DES HEILS. Sie wird nur direkt bei der Band zu erhalten sein.

Unser Shop unter www.neofolk.de ist nahezu ausverkauft und wird in Kuerze offline gehen. Die letzten Reste wurden noch einmal ein wenig "gesenkt", aber ich sage es gleich: viel ist nicht mehr zu haben...

Leben Sie wohl!
Stephan Pockrandt"

We will also miss you!

Sleazy dead - Coil reunion!

We are in tears to find that Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (left, 1955 - 2010) finally joins his long term partner, lover Jhonn Balance (right, 1962 - 2004) in the either - the band has reunited and is hallucinating in space.

"Eat your greens, especially Broccoli..."

THANK YOU!

The Purification of the Temple continues!

We have not (yet) deleted danhuser@myspace but massively cleaned up. We - if that is what you are looking for - are.... deleted now!

Slideshow "....suddenly all innocence was lost!" / MYSPACE REPOST

As stated before, we're cleaning up. But since not all of the past was evil, we saved some of it. Like this old slideshow, posted on myspace many, many moons ago.

REVIEWED AGIAN Mort Douce 'Locust Dreams' @ compulsiononline.com / MYSPACE REPOST

Just like our last post, this again is actually and old review but since we are cleaning up and many of the sources stated in the HIBERNATION END post are no longer valid, in other words dead, we try to make as much information as possibly accessable via this very blog. So here we go.... we only added a few hyperlinks.



The kind people from COMPULSION ALTERNATIVE CULTURE wrote some very kind words but, read for yourselves...

"The fold-out sleeve of this professional CD-R with its series of graphic polaroid images depicts a girl, battered, bruised and wrapped in cellophane; a ruby-red ring steeped in blood. While another shows a torn page with the handwritten scrawl of a poem. You'd be forgiven for expecting something sinister with packaging more at home with brutal power electronics.

Instead on Locust Dreams Mort Douce, the project of the Polish musician Adam Stalker, create audible landscapes of alien terrain and industrial wastelands. Some of the tracks here appear like soundscapes for films. 'A Flash Flood in the Night' is like a setting for a horror film set in a disused industrial space as corrosive sounds ricochet around metallic corridors and vast empty chambers. Likewise, the niggling whispering tones of 'Sun in My Hand' evoke images of desert wind howling over space craft - it's like something that would accompany scenes from Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth of Lynch's Dune.

Locust Dreams isn't all soundtrack stylings, 'Coarse State of Saturn' features a wavering slight-piercing drone, where tiny variations in tone ring out like a faint melody. The incessant piercing all but overwhelms the refracting movements underneath and with its 8+ minute duration it's painfully distracting. Much better are the aching chasms, quaking textures and scraping, shifting timbres of 'Beneath the Flesh', 'All Stripped Down' and the opening track 'Dreams of Better Days' where mammoth slabs of rumbling sounds and cavernous electronics meet distant metallic clatter.

Locust Dreams, Stalker wrote on his blog, is the final Mort Douce release due to lack of exposure for the project. This is a pity as the cosmic dark ambient is every bit as good as Vestigial and compares favourably with similar type releases on the Cyclic Law label and suchlike. Locust Dreams relies heavily on personnel involved in the Coil mailing list: Stalker is an active poster, the graphic design is beautifully rendered by Gregory Rapp, the poet John Siddique contributed a specially written poem for the project - from which the track titles are derived - and the release was realised by a subsidiary of DANHUSER Org., a label operated by yet another Coil listee. I sincerely hope that Adam Stalker continues with Mort Douce as promoted elsewhere he could easily find an audience for his ambient atmospherics. As at the hands of Mort Douce even the slightest tonal change is like a mammoth tectonic shift."

View the original source @ compulsiononline.com

Yet another LCOUST DREAMS review can be found.... HERE!

REVIEWED Mort Douce 'Locust Dreams' @ brainwashed.com / REPOST FROM MYSPACE

This is actually and old review but since we are cleaning up and many of the sources stated in the HIBERNATION END post are no longer valid, in other words dead, we try to make as much information as possibly accessable via this very blog. So here we go.... we only added a few hyperlinks.



Brainwashed's very own Matthew Amundsen - known to some as Surface Hoar - wrote some very kind words regarding LOCUST DREAMS by Mort Douce but, read for yourselves....

"The latest from Poland's Mort Douce is named after a poem by John Siddique. Given the title, I expected to be besieged with insect chittering or else the maddening rush of descending swarms. Instead,the sounds are almost geological, like dropping a microphone into the center of the Earth and amplifying minute tectonic shifts, documenting the secret life of continents.

What first struck me when listening to this album was how it evokes an epic sense of space. "Dream of Better Days" begins with what could be the industrial clatter of a steel refinery reverberating in vast halls of feedback and suffering a slow death. "Beneath the Flesh" could be a geologic gasp, like a crumbling ice shelf, and "All Stripped Down" evokes large bodies of colliding minerals. Things get more cosmic with"A Flash Flood in the Night," which evokes the radar blips of a moonlanding while debris bounces off of a vessel in low gravity as faint bits of melody are drowned in gaseous swirls. The brief "Sun in My Hand" continues the outer space vibe, as if howling interstellar wind is stressing the metal of an orbiting satellite.

The album's only misstep is "Coarse State of Saturn." It starts with rasping,swirling sounds and deep tones that are soon overwhelmed, if nothing jacked outright, by a wearisome high pitch that induces headaches and makes dogs howl. Unfortunately, this annoying high pitch overpowers and obscures most of everything else occurring on the track, which is otherwise dense with activity. Still, it's only one track of six and doesn't spoil the album's stronger material.

Succinct and deliberate, Locust Dreams makes its point without any unnecessary fluff or padding. A definite step forward, it's easily the best thing I've heard yet from Mort Douce."

View original source @ Brainwashed.com

Shopping inquiry? This is how we do it!

If you have a couple of bucks spare....



....and don't know what to do with it why not purchasing something from one of our shops?

SHOP1 @ discogs.com
SHOP2 @ ebay.de

Maybe if you neither run an account on one nor the other platform you best drop us a line via this address....

INFO (€) DANHUSER (€) ORG

....and we'll get back to you ASAP with a total and a wisely calculated postage rate.

The King is dead - long live the King!

Mort Douce ist no more, Mort Douce is defunct, it is late, gone, it has deceased.... 'Locust Dreams' - released via our subsidiary (((unsterne))) - was their final release, an end to an era.

So Mort Douce is dead? More or less! Gladly enough the man behind it all Adam Stalker is not. But he could not remain silent after all, he released a brand new and fresh - internet only - E.P. called 'Pastoral Landscapes', which we heavily recommend.

All the info is HERE, and the 2-track-piece is available for free FLAC download right HERE!

MANIFESTO - site finally up/Insomnia (FREE DOWNLOAD)

After 11 years only and our friends MANIFESTO finally have a proper site up which may be accessed right.... HERE!

To celebrate the event there will be - for a limited period of time only - a free download of their great 'Insomnia' album, formerly released via Bone Structure.

Check out their media secetion!

May the Plague be with you all the way: 'Sombrero Fallout' finally in this world & 'Officium Nocturnum'

Our dear friends of Plague Recordings have great new stuff out, most remarkable are these ones....

a) PUMP 'Sombrero Fallout' CD

Sounds familiar (in other words tags)? Yes please!
YHR, Tape-Culture, Elephant Table Album, Andrew Cox (RIP), David
Elliott, Colin Potter and so on endlessly... Only 17 years after its recording the album is out - thank you Plague!

Track 8: 'Falling From Grace' may be previewed here.

b) WICKED MESSENGER 'Officium Nocturnum' 2xCD

What may I say except that it is great, outstanding even. The folks at MUDBIRDSHIVERS found far more elaborate words.

c) plaguerecordings.blogspot.com

And they also run a great blog that can be found here.

d) Ye Olde Plague Shoppe can be found here.

Needless to mention we stock both albums (and all the other new stuff as well). Just get in touch via approved channels.

That's all for now, so long and happy happy everyone!

'Tag drei' free download (was) for a limited period of time!

'Tag drei' now was a work in progress track freely downloadable until June 1st, 2010 e.v. 'Tag drei' will be no more.... at least not in the form, shape or tone it has made its appearance here. 'Tag drei' might very well transfer into something else, be renamed and reappear in this world. No matter what, we hope you grabbed it while you could!

The Soundcloud is here - new tracks added!

Yes, we started soundclouding, we are here....
soundcloud.com/danhuser

Hibernation end

We are still here....

DWELLING http://danhuser.org
SURROGATE http://danhuser.blogspot.com/
CANOROUSNESS http://soundcloud.com/danhuser
SHOP1 http://www.discogs.com/seller/clorax.hurd
SHOP2 http://myworld.ebay.de/clorax.hurd

DETOX http://danhusersing.blogspot.com/ SLEEPING/ON A CURE

PLAYSCHOOL http://www.myspace.com/danhusermusic DEAD
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