The two set out upon their new career together at the high point of new wave. Chris Carter had free rein to expand upon his machine rhythm technique and his use of lush, synaethesic keyboards provided a backdrop to Cosey Fanni Tutti's vocals, which were often composed of no more than two or three words. Much of Chris & Cosey's mid-1980's work could be foreseen in both members solo albums - Carter's "The Space Between" (originally an Industrial Records cassette, re-issued for CD by Mute Records in 1990) and Tutti's Time to Tell both retained the most compelling elements of the group sound.
The debut LP "Heartbeat" saw the chaotic style of Throbbing Gristle abandoned in favour of crisp, cascading electronics and subtle use of tape, cornet and Cosey's resonant guitar striations.
The follow-up, 1982's "Trance", took on a whole new sound: the crisp, stuttering beats disintegrate into ocean-deep bass and swirling cornets, with just "Re-education through labour" and it's jagged, thumping beats and clamouring samples peeking through the maze of the psychedelic dub surface.
As a testament to their influence on European electronic music, Scottish label T&B Vinyl issued a double album of remixes (or, as the LP says tributes) featuring Mike Paradinas, Carl Craig and former creative partners, Coil. As CTI (Conspiracy International, their collective vehicle), they issued the LP and video Elemental 7 (featuring a stunning and stylistically prophetic film for the track "Dancing ghosts" besides others.) through Cabaret Voltaire's "DoubleVision" imprint, followed in 1989 by the stunning collaborative collection, Core, once again featuring pals Coil, plus an astonishing Cosey "duet" with Robert Wyatt.
Another unique CTI project, the Library of Sound series, features the mirage-like "Metaphysical" and the powerful shamanistic electronica of "Chronomanic".
To greet the 21st century, Chris & Cosey became CarterTutti, celebrating the rebirth with a series of concerts which were documented on the live album LEM Festival October 2003.
The rebirth was completed by the release of Cabal, which took the original Chris & Cosey sound as the heart and replacing the structure with a maze of filters, drones, collapsed beats and Cosey's most confident vocals since 1990's "Pagan Tango".
Concurrent to recent activities, Carter and Tutti have become involved again with Throbbing Gristle, which reformed with all four original members for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival appearance and recorded a new album, entitled Part Two.
In this stream there are several highlights, like the complete album "Trance" or jewels like "Haunted Heroes".
Also you can listen to selected tracks from the Cosey-Solo-Album "Time To Tell", Chris Carter's soloworks and tracks from the CTI masterpieces "Elemental", "In Continuum", "Allotropy" and "Point 7 - Library Of Sound 4"
Stream Status
Stream is on air / Stream ist auf Sendung.
Hörer momentan: 21 von maximal 60
Bitrate: 192 kbits/s
Zuhören / Listen by downloading a .pls file to open in your media player or copy the raw http link via clipboard to open the stream:
Recently Played Tracks
Chris and Cosey - The Giants Feet Seetyca & Etheocles Stevens - Self Ignition fatagaga - Camouflage Sjellos - Empty Cities (Demo Version) Dahlia's Tear - Crystalline Ogni Videniy - Skvoz Temnotu Track 03 Necrophorus - Femmes Aux Tetes Des Fleurs Retrouvant Sur La Plage Phelios - before the creation Abandoned Asylum - Pathway Through Nothingness Inade - Reiteration of void
RefreshDark Ambient Radio recommends the VLC Media Player -- it's available for Linux, Windows & Mac
For half a year I was working on a new radio setup that no longer requires me to maintain a Windows 10 virtual machine on my poor Mac Mini. Now ezstream is up and running on a Linux Debian VM without the former waste of resources (the Mac's power consumtion has halved since). This is not completely due to the inefficiency of Windows as a VM but also due to ezstream not recoding the mp3s on the fly to 192 kbit/s. I had to recode each and every track manually beforehand for this to work, sometimes ripping the tracks from CD again to maintain high quality. I think, it was worth the effort.
You, as a listener, shouldn't notice any difference, except that hopefully there shouldn't be so much downtimes any more and that crossfading won't take place any longer. If you experience too much silence before or after a track -- or a too abrubt transition between tracks -- leave me a note and I will edit the track(s) manually using mp3DirectCut.
I just wanted to repair the Recently Played Tracks list that was displayed wrong on the site but got in the flow... The site should now be much more readable on mobile phones. And if you ever wanted to post DAR's URL on a social network: The site now has got an open graph image that is being added automatically to the post:
Problems with the Shoutcast Service / The DAR Review Workflow
Sorry for the program interruption you are currently experiencing. I try to solve it but Viastreaming support currently isn't responding.
In the meantime, I'm still further preparing the change of the radio software. Maybe this has some effect on the problem.
While in need of some more fruitful task, I vibecoded my proven review workflow into a little app that should speed up the process of adding new music to the stream. This is how it looks:
redeem review code with Bandcamp (optionally drop zip or folder to the album list on the left)
unzip album to a folder
archive it in original kbit/s
recode to 192 kbit/s (using ffmpg)
normalize to 86 dB (using mp3gain)
normalize artist or album title (there are really many keyboards with stuck caps lock key around)
put it in my review folder
decide which tracks to accept and which to reject
finally move the reviewed album folder with the accepted tracks to the airplay folder
I currently don't provide binaries: This is quite a special drill and people most likely want to adapt their own steps. If you need help or encounter some problem, open an issue on Github.
The New York City based coop Subvert aims at being an artist-owned replacement for Bandcamp. Bandcamps recent ownership changes has raised doubts that the platform still can be trusted. Maybe subvert.fm is worth giving it a try...
From Saturday on, it will be available for 6? on Bandcamp. All money goes to the contributing artists (after taxes, of course).
We worked on the release the bigger part of the year 2022. Everything is mixed & mastered with love. We hope to give you a piece of solace in this dark time of the year. Enjoy!
It seems many people still use Winamp to listen to the stream.
Two weeks ago, my radio software SAM Broadcaster began to create unaccaptable bad sound and I wasn't able to solve it. So I looked for an alternative and found a nice freeware: RadioDJ. Because the AltaCast plugin didn't work with the AAC+ encoder, I needed to connect RadioDJ to the stand-alone version of AltaCast via a virtual audio cable (VB-Audio). Getting it running was a rather painful experience.
But I got complaints from Winamp users being not able to listen to the stream anymore. So I requested some technical support to get SAM Broadcaster running again. This is how it looks, btw., a user interface style from 20 years ago:
I think, I will switch to a Linux server somewhere in the far future and use Opus instead of AAC+. Hopefully more people have abandoned Winamp by then. But maybe bandwidth will be cheap enough to provide a mp3 stream for nostalgic reasons. :-p
It's the 1st of December and many organizations put their hat on the data highway and beat the drums to collect donatins.
A special case this year is the San Francisco based Internet Archive that wants to make a backup of its collection in Canada -- maybe to escape the reach of a Trumpian administration.
Since many years now, before soundcloud or even MySpace existed, I always found some pearls when I delved into the audio library. It seems to be the best place to carve something in stone on the internet. So if you have some bugs left in your pocket and you are thinking about donating it for some good cause, consider good old archive.org.
Cover art in ID3 tags seemed to interfere with ezstream, leading to invalid frames sent to the Shoutcast server. We will see how long Shoutcast will make it this time...
It's done! First track playing with ezstream: solsidia Terasol - Viisiteur Du Fond.
Bye bye SAM Broadcaster! Still Have to fix the Recently Played Tracks list though...
