Since I haven’t posted anything substantial here for a long while, I make up for it by repeating cute little memes. This one from Michael Hanscom, who surely got infected by it somewhere else. The rules are simple: 10 random songs from your music library, and some commentary to go.

• Haujobb, Penetration — I am a big fan of Daniel Myer and all of his musical projects. Haujobb was his first project. First together with Dejan Samardzic, but later on his own after Dejan left Haujobb Apparently, he never left. Where did I get that from? A few of his other projects, all with their distinct styles, are Clear Vision, Cleen (first known as Cleaner), Architect, Hexer, and S’Apex. Just to name a few from the top of my head. While I prefer Haujobb’s earlier style from the first album (while Dejan was still a member), pretty much anything done under the Haujobb name is good stuff. Daniel Myer also has his fingers everywhere in the industrial/electronic scene.
• The Sepia, Ascension — I don’t really know much about The Sepia, but they do have a bunch of good tracks on their first album, Splintered, from which this song comes. I have no idea what genre to put this in, so I’m simply calling it “electronic.” That’s my backup genre when I don’t know how to classify something.
• Aslan Faction, Complication — I saw Aslan Faction live in April 2004, and they really got the floor moving. Lee, the drummer, was so enthusiastic that he almost flipped his drumset over. They call themselves industrial, I call them EBM.
• This Morn’ Omina, Toltec — from the album Le Serpent Blanc/Le Serpent Rouge, which I bought completely on an impulse. Most of the songs are ambient with some occasional noise. This song would be great background music for some science fiction movie with horror elements, such as Event Horizon.
• Eisbrecher, Mein Blut (Album-Schnitt) — yay, German growling! This song begins like something by Enya or Era. After that, they do their best to sound like Rammstein.
• Noise Process, Dying World (Sr-Mx) — A slower mix of Dying World from the album Neural Code. I prefer the original. EBM with the standard hissing vocals.
• The Parallel Project, Deleted Scenes — The Parallel Project is interesting. The first album, Fusion, has vocals from different artists on each track, except for track 6, which instead contains samples from Daniel Myer (I told you he was everywhere…). Deleted Scenes has vocals by Mark Jackson, also known as “that other guy in VNV Nation.” He really doesn’t get much attention standing behind Ronan Harris, but here he proves that he can sing as well as pound the drums when in VNV Nation. The Parallel Project has trance-like sound, but with pleasant vocals from both male and female singers from various other well-known bands.
• Android Lust, Panic Wrought — Android Lust was a song of the week here once. Shikhee is something as rare as a woman in a genre usually dominated by men. She can sing with the best of them, though.
• Cleen, This Autumn — if it isn’t Daniel Myer popping up again. I told you I liked him… This song sounds like something from the Matrix album by Haujobb. Same strange soundscape, beginning with some ambient noises before the bass and piano appears, together with Myer murmuring strange sentenses.
• Forma Tadre, Looking Glass Men — Forma Tadre is another favorite of mine. Too bad that Andreas Meyer (no relations to Daniel Myer, though they have a project together under the name Newt) only released two albums as Forma Tadre. This album, Navigator, is inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos and contains lots of samples from the movie Stargate. The lyrics have many references to old ancient entities if you know where to listen.