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Playboy Magazine's Iconic Alcohol Advertising in the 1980s

Playboy Magazine, a hallmark of 20th-century popular culture, was known for many things - its groundbreaking interviews, in-depth articles, and iconic centerfolds. But, often overlooked, was its strategic and stylish portrayal of alcohol advertising, particularly during the exuberant decade of the 1980s.

Playboy Magazine's Iconic
Alcohol Advertising in the 1980s

Ute Lemper & Vogler Quartett - Paris Days, Berlin Nights (2012)

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Ute Lemper & Vogler Quartett - Paris Days, Berlin Nights (2012)

Ute Lemper & Vogler Quartett - Paris Days, Berlin Nights (2012)
EAC FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:13:07 | 401 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Chanson, Cabaret | Label: Steinway & Sons | Catalog: 30009

The title Paris Days, Berlin Nights is a little misleading. One might expect French songs about morning-after regrets and German ones about living cynically hedonistically, but this collection goes way beyond that. It includes songs about war, abandonment, the indifference of time to human suffering, and gritty street life, with music by Piazzolla and Polish-Jewish composer Chava Alberstein in addition to the expected Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, and Jacques Brel.

Peter Gabriel - Live Blood (2012)

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Peter Gabriel - Live Blood (2012)

Peter Gabriel - Live Blood (2012)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 852 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 383 Mb
Full Scans | 01:02:29 + 01:18:52 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock / Progressive Rock / Symphonic Rock
Real World / Eagle Records #EDGCD474 / GAS 0000474 EDG

Live Blood is the third live album by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Recorded at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London on 23 and 24 March 2011, the concert featured Gabriel singing with the New Blood Orchestra and vocalists Ane Brun, Melanie Gabriel, Sevara Nazarkhan and Tom Cawley. The setlist included songs from his previous orchestral covers album Scratch My Back and new orchestral arrangements of his solo songs, most of which went on to appear on the studio album New Blood.

Mina - 12 (American Song Book) (2012)

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Mina - 12 (American Song Book) (2012)

Mina - 12 (American Song Book) (2012)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 49:11 | 396 MB
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz | Label: Sony Music | Catalog: 88765434512

12 (American Song Book) is an album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2012. In the album, Mina covers 12 standards of American music, originally published between 1930 ("Just a Gigolo") and 1970 ("Fire and Rain"). Among the others, she sings "Everything Happens to Me" for the third time (previously recorded in 1964 for the album Mina and in 1993 for Lochness) and "Love Me Tender" for the second time (previously covered for the 1991 album Caterpillar).

RPWL - 5 Albums (2002-2012)

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RPWL - 5 Albums (2002-2012)

RPWL - 5 Albums (2002-2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image/tracks+.cue+log) - 2,62 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 969 MB | Covers - 119 MB
Genre: Neo-Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: SPV/InsideOut Music, Tempus Fugit, Gentle Art of Music

RPWL (Risettion Postl Wallner Lung - the band members) is a German progressive rock band. The band was formed in 1997 as a Pink Floyd cover band. After three years they started to make their own music based on their influences from their cover band era. Their debut CD, "God Has Failed" (2000) was met with international enthusiasm, praise and excellent reviews in all the major progressive rock music magazines.
Without a question, the music of their second album "Trying to Kiss the Sun" (2002) is still typically RPWL but with a well-thought out collage of sound and tone, haunting melodies and poetic texts that get under the skin and are not easily forgotten, together with a Brit-pop rock mood, RPWL has made significant steps towards their own style of music with this second album…

Caroline Weichert - Erwin Schulhoff: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2012)

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Caroline Weichert - Erwin Schulhoff: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2012)

Caroline Weichert - Erwin Schulhoff: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:57 | 194 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: GrandPiano | Catalog: GP604

During his short life Erwin Schulhoff absorbed a wide range of musical styles. The jazz-inspired Partita includes witty takes on the tango, foxtrot and shimmy. Further synthesis comes in the Suite No 3, written for the left hand alone, which adapts folk and jazz influences in a bracingly novel way, while the Variations and Fugue reveals indebtedness to Debussy, with whom Schulhoff studied.

George Petrou, Armonia Atenea - George Frideric Handel: Alessandro (2012)

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George Petrou, Armonia Atenea - George Frideric Handel: Alessandro (2012)

George Petrou, Armonia Atenea, Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva - George Frideric Handel: Alessandro (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 968 Mb | Total time: 78:07+66:04+45:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 4699 | Recorded: 2011

Handels ninth major opera for London, Alessandro was written as a showcase for the Rival Queens, the two famous Italian sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni whose supposed enmity, both personal and professional, not only generated good publicity for Handels latest opera but also added extra dramatic frisson to the two divas jealous clashes on stage.

The Flight Of Sleipnir - Ascension (2012) (New Rip)

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The Flight Of Sleipnir - Ascension (2012) (New Rip)

The Flight Of Sleipnir - Ascension (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 409 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 43 MB
Genre: Stoner/Doom/Psychedelic Metal | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Eyes Like Snow (EYE 027)

"Ascension" is a compilation of the band's extremely limited and impossible to get self-released EPs "Wisdom Calls For Sacrifice" & "Winter Solstice II" along with two exclusive bonus tracks (Pentagram's "Be Forewarned" and a rare live version of "Algiz").
The Flight of Sleipnir was formed in the winter of 2007 by David Csicsely and Clayton Cushman. The project stemmed from a desire to explore ethereal and progressive sounds with lyrics that explore the rich literature of ancient Scandinavia. Keeping elements of their other projects and building a foundation upon doom and vintage metal, they released the demo "Wisdom Calls For Sacrifice" in 2008…

The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden (2012) [2CD Special Edition]

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The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden (2012) [2CD Special Edition]

The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden (2012) [2CD Special Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 505 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 177 MB | Covers - 80 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: InsideOut Music (IOMSECD 358)

The Flower Kings enjoyed a rather long break following 2007's The Sum of No Evil album and the tour that ensued, with individual members undertaking solo projects or simply laying low, recharging their creative batteries after years of grueling, non-stop work. Naturally, however, this hiatus only heightened fan expectations leading into the band's next progressive rock challenge, 2012's Banks of Eden, which inevitably found the lovable Swedish egg-heads both reveling in and wrestling the characteristic excess, majesty, and hubris of their chosen art form, as expected. Indeed, cynics could easily allege that the album's opening, 25-minute-long "Numbers" is pretty much what happens when a prog rock band starts jamming and simply doesn't bother stopping (nerds armed with instruments gone wild!?)…

Snowy Red - The Ultimate Edition 1980-1984 (Remastered) (2012)

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Snowy Red - The Ultimate Edition 1980-1984 (Remastered) (2012)

Snowy Red - The Ultimate Edition 1980-1984 (Remastered) (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 482 MB
3:30:41 | New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal | Label: OnderStroom Records

Tremendous 5CD box by one of the most highly-acclaimed minimal synth bands active during the 1980s. The Snowy Red project started as a one-man band by Micky Mike. With a few synthesizers, a 12/2 mixing desk and a two-track reel-to-reel recorder he created repetitive synth masterpieces in the vein of Suicide and Polyphonic Size. These black synthetic pearls were spread over two albums: the self-titled Snowy Red (1981) and The Right to Die (1982) – both are included in this box, officially remastered, and with original artwork. When the project was nearing completion, Michael Thiel (the son of Micky) made the discovery we were all waiting for, demo tracks of the first album.

Emilio Percan - Affettuoso: Piani, Geminiani, Handel - Violin Sonatas (2012)

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Emilio Percan - Affettuoso: Piani, Geminiani, Handel - Violin Sonatas (2012)

Emilio Percan - Affettuoso: Piani, Geminiani, Handel - Violin Sonatas (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:52 | 452 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | Catalog: ONYX 4099

Piani was well enough regarded in his own time to get hired in Paris and then across the continent in Vienna, where he spent the last four decades of his life. He has been forgotten probably because the group of Sonatas, Op. 1, that are excerpted here are his sole surviving works. With the rise in popularity of Francesco Maria Veracini and the other Italians who took their music to France and England in the early 18th century, Piani is worth getting to know.

Sol Gabetta, Olga Kern, Lorin Maazel - Schostakowitsch & Rachmaninov (2012)

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Sol Gabetta, Olga Kern, Lorin Maazel - Schostakowitsch & Rachmaninov (2012)

Sol Gabetta, Olga Kern, Lorin Maazel - Schostakowitsch & Rachmaninov (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:08:46 | 287 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical ‎| Catalog: 88725435752

With this recording Argentine-Swiss cellist Sol Gabetta completes her pair of Shostakovich's cello concertos, recorded in reverse order. Perhaps she has simply been aware of Shostakovich's still growing popularity, or perhaps she felt it was a unique challenge to apply her somewhat impetuous style to Shostakovich, who could certainly be called sober and perhaps even dour.

Leila Schayegh, Vaclav Luks, Felix Knec - Franz Benda: Violin Sonatas (2012)

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Leila Schayegh, Vaclav Luks, Felix Knec - Franz Benda: Violin Sonatas (2012)

Leila Schayegh, Vaclav Luks, Felix Knec - Franz Benda: Violin Sonatas (2012)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:15 | 414 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GCD 922507

Leila Schayegh, Václav Luks, and Felix Knecht present four of Franz Benda’s violin sonatas (and a movement extracted from another sonata) from a collection of 34 ornamented examples of the genre included in manuscript form among the holdings of the Berlin State Library. The ornamentation, provided for both the slow movements, for which Benda earned a reputation, as well as for faster ones, could serve as a sort of compendium of German period practice (Schayegh’s own notes suggest that the works hail from about 1760).

Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez - Joseph Achron: Complete Suites for Violin & Piano (2012) 2CDs

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Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez - Joseph Achron: Complete Suites for Violin & Piano (2012) 2CDs

Joseph Achron: Complete Suites for Violin & Piano (2012) 2CDs
Hagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 690 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 365 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67841 | Time: 02:38:33

Admired by Schoenberg (who described him as ‘one of the most underestimated of modern composers’), Joseph Achron was a boundary defying violinist-composer of extraordinary gifts. He drew on his Jewish faith to profound effect, from the early influence of his cantor father to his enthusiastic championing of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (which did for Jewish music what Bartók did for Eastern European folk culture). It’s hardly surprising that much of Achron’s music is for violin—he was a consummate player himself and a prolific recitalist. But what’s striking is how varied and exploratory his output is, delighting in experimentation, as the wonderfully named Suite bizarre demonstrates, just as much as the direct emotionalism of his transcriptions of Hebraic melodies. Who better to present this music than two artists steeped in similar traditions to Achron: Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez.

Änglagård - Discography [3 Studio Albums] (1992-2012)

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Änglagård - Discography [3 Studio Albums] (1992-2012)

Änglagård - 3 Studio Albums (1992-2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks/image+.cue+log) - 876 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 367 MB | Covers - 154 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Änglagård Records

Swedish band Änglagård is part of a whole breed of young progressive rockers who have cut their teeth on King Crimson's Red. Like the other Crimson Swedes, Anekdoten, Änglagård crams angular hooks and start/stop tempos into every moment they can spare. Writing lengthy symphonic pieces, the band sound like many big '70s acts but always play with a very tough sound. Meaty bass and scorched guitar tones duel it out with organ, mellotron, and hyperactive drumming, while folky Swedish singing and flute occasionally break the tension.

Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (1998) {2012, Reissue}

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Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (1998) {2012, Reissue}

Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (1998) {2012, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 601 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 244 Mb
Full Scans | 01:09:39 | RAR 5% Recovery
Stoner Rock / Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Stoner Metal / Psychedelic Rock
The End Records #‎TE241-2

For the uninitiated, the Spiritual Beggars are a three-piece psychedelic groove metal trio from Sweden. Their guitarist, Michael Amott, is best known for his role in doom metal units Carcass and Candlemass. With deep riffing and more precision than speed, he is as heavy as any two speed-demon metal guitarists put together. The Spiritual Beggars' primary influence is mid-period Black Sabbath (say, Vol. IV and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath), but they expand their horizons with each record. The band's sound on this third recording differs from its previous efforts in two ways.