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Terre Blanche - 10-May-06 04:25 PM
The AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging) was never a major player in South African politics and since the inauguration of the new government it has pretty much disappeared into obscurity.

Whether or not the music should be interpreted as serious or ironic is completely irrelevant. No matter what our beliefs are we cannot always hide from alternative opinions. Whether these opinions are brought to us through seriousness or irony hardly matters. How we choose to react to it, however, does.

5F_55 - I - 17-Mar-05 01:22 PM
ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as "5" or "F" (or an action of some sort). Even though ASCII codes were used to write the track titles, I believe the note is intended to state that the titles were written as *hex* codes.

Hex numbers use 16 digits:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

Each hex code pair in the track titles refers to a different number, ranging from 0 to 255, which refers to an ASCII character code that symbolizes a unique number, letter or punctuation mark. The translated titles are therefore case sensitive, since lowercased and uppercased letters have different ASCII values (and hex codes).

VNV Nation - Beloved (Hiver And Hammer Mixes) - 17-Mar-05 08:21 AM
This record is often referred to as Beloved.3, even also at the official VNV Nation website, yet there is nothing on the sleeve or on the record to indicate that this is supposed to be its title.

Combichrist - 08-Mar-05 11:41 AM
Andy LaPlegua has been quite busy since the release of his debut album as Combichrist, in September 2003. He has since released four more titles in just over a year and a half, and his compositions have identified him as one of the more versatile and creative musicians in the "main stream" of alternative electronic music, ranging from hard, pounding electro industrial (The Joy Of Gunz), to rhythmic noise (The Joy Of Gunz, Kiss The Blade), to EBM (Kiss The Blade, Everybody Hates You), to atmospheric soundscapes (Everybody Hates You limited edition CD2).

Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the lyrical content of his work, which is, at best, clichéd and predictable, but anyone familiar with Icon Of Coil, Andy LaPlegua's other project, would have anticipated that much. Combichrist is lyrically, in its simplicity, however, superior to Icon Of Coil, since the lyrics usually consist of one primary catch phrase with one or two support phrases. Often less *is* more. In all fairness it should be kept in mind that English is not this artist's first language, and it is easily acknowledged that his compositions more than make up musically for what they lack lyrically.