Dream Weapons present: SOUNDSTORMS C90

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Although you can't tell by listening to my mixtapes shared here so far, I've always loved heavy, hypnotic riffs and pounding percussion - but it seems every kraut-or spacerock obscurity of the golden era is already dug up, ressurected and compiled to death. Which is why it was more inspirational to present some fuzzed & far out cosmic rock from the last couple of decades instead. A lot more fun for you and me both. Sixteen more or less contemporary bands mostly (but not all) sounding much like they're some long lost and overlooked 70's discovery - but why hold that against them as long as the ideas and tunes are groovy and fresh?

-Moahaha

1. Polska Radio One - Последняя Мантра

2. Squadra Omega - The Mystery of the Deep Blue Sea

3. Lay Llamas – Archaic Revival

4. Electric Orange – Perpetuum Mobiliar
5. Hills – Death 1

6. Sula Bassana – Lost in Space

7. Al Doum & the Faryds – Sinai

8. Unknown/Mike? - Paternoster Remix

9. Melting Euphoria – Harbour of Infinity

10. Electric Moon – Kleiner Knaller

11. Christine 23 Onna – Fantastico

12. Gr – Bradtenehend

13. Lumerians – Untitled 3

14. Arcana – The Earth Below

15. Golem – Stellar Launch
16. Pyramidal – Kosmik Blizzard

Dream Weapons present: DISTANT DRUMS C90

Distant Drums is my attempt at compiling an exotica or rather just an exotic-sounding mix - or maybe a few tunes here simply remind me of the sun and the ocean. Anyway I decided not to allow myself to include any of the usual suspects. I've loved the sound of this criminally underrated genre ever since I got Martin Denny's A Taste of Honey for free at a flea market a little over 20 years ago (hardly exotica and far from being among his best, but it did the trick). So here's a light, gentle and deliciously inauthentic 90-minute tour around everywhere in the world westerners consider east or south -Moahaha

 

1. Helen Merrill - Mountain High, Valley Low

2. The Surfmen - Tahiti Sunrise

3. Herbie Mann - Incense

4. Korla Pandit - Kumar (1958 vers.)

5. Dilip Roy - Camel Rider

6. Leo Addeo - Blue Hawaii

7. Dion Ralke – Black Panther

8. Sam Cooke - Bali H'ai

9. Ron Goodwin - Farewell to Lebanon

10. April Stevens - I'll Wait For Your Love

11. Lalo Schifrin - The Wave

12. Secret Chiefs 3 - Ship of Fools

13. Katsuhisa Hattori - Kaze (2024 reupload bonus/replacement)

14. Dinah Shore - My Isle of Golden Dreams

15. The Polynesians - Marcelle-A-Vahini

16. Yonca Stüdyo Orkestrası - Yunus

17. Annette Hanshaw - Pagan Love Song

18. Sun Ra - Tiny Pyramids

19. Cal Tjader - The Fakir

20. Alan Lorber - Hang on to a Dream

21. Hugo Montenegro - Mongolian Horsemen

22. Ida Brun - Tu Jouais La Comedie

23. John Zorn - Po'o'uli

24. The Melody Mates - Enchantement

25. Hugo Blanco - Orquidea Arabe

26. Walter Wanderlay - Canto de Ossanha

27. Kitty Daisey - Swingin Hawaii

28. Frank & Jo Byers - Polynesian Fantasy Theme Song Bubbles & Waterfall (2024 reupload-bonus)

 

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Dream Weapons present: DEAD BUT DREAMING C90

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Its only occasionally as gloomy as the title and cover suggests. I just like the sound and looks of it.

-Picture yourself floating in some sort of limbo whilst semi-consciously drifting in and out of dreams. Some of them pleasant and beautiful while others eerie and dark but every time you you're about to grasp what its all about, the scenery changes. Perhaps forces of good and evil are fighting for your soul to keep. I don't know I've never been dead – and I don't have a soul. Far out! - but almost gentle enough to qualify as a relaxation tape.

Do yourself a favour and listen all the way through or else you'll miss out on Mal Waldron's stunning farewell.

-Moahaha

1. Tiny Tim – Welcome to My Dream

2. Egisto Macchi – Cancion Primera

3. Frankie Dymon Jr. - Sylvia

4. Phil Yost – Wave Your Moonlight Hat For the Snowfall Train

5. Jean-Claude Deblais - Miroir du Fantastique

6. Ben Wright & Jazz Canto – In My Craft of Sullen Art

7. Krzysztof Komeda - Sult II

8. Philippe Feret - Neige Sur la Vallee

9. Rita Moss – Daydream

10. Johnny Scott Quintet - Variation 4 – Harp

11. Fifths Of Seven - Rosa Centifolia

12. The Swingle Singers - Sonate en do mineur: II. Andante Moderato

13. Michel Gonet - Eve Psychedelique

14. Ivor Cutler - When I Entered

15. J.P. Decerf / G. Zajd - Sailor Stories

16. Hubert Laws – Syrinx

17. Kenneth Patchen - Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?

18. Elvin Jones - P. P. Phoenix

19. The Richard Davis Trio - ITT and Allende

20. Giacinto Scelsi - Hyxos (edit)

21. Hoang Oanh - Ưu Tư Lần Đầu

22. Georges Delerue - Retrouvailles a Lauberge De La Becasse

23. Nora Orlandi - Marcel / Deborah

24. Scoen & Cicci Santucci - Mota

25. Phyllis King – Time

26. Vidmantas Bartulis - Du Klausimai Laukinės Slyvos Medžiui (edit)

27. Mal Waldron - Sayonara

Dream Weapons shares: Dane Belany - Motivations

REUPLOADED! Ok. This is not what we do, but I feel a bit bad about beeing so slow with my mixes, so I'll share this absolute gem of an album with you all while im working on my next mix. Enjoy!

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Dream Weapons present: PÉROLAS BARROCAS C90

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And now for something completely different, its: The Best Baroque Mixtape In The World...Ever!*

Pérola Barrocas means irregular pearls – which is the original meaning behind the term Baroque. I skipped the obvious genius of the era Bach (+ Handel...and Purcell), focusing rather heavily on the «early music» sounds of the harpsichord, harp, strings, gloomy organ and quite a lot of viola da gamba-drones. Some songs and dances, a few furiously dynamic orchestral assaults but the allegros are largely outnumbered by the adagios.

-Moahaha

1. Claude Balbastre (1724 -1799, FR) La Lugeac

- Ewald Demeyere

2. Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745, FR) Le Carillon de Passy

- Vittorio Ghielmi & Luca Pianca

3. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643, IT) Interrotte Speranze

- Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata

4. Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 28 July 1741, IT) Violin Concerto in C major - Allegro Ma Poco

Il Pomo d'Oro, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin + conductor)

5. Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725, IT) De Tenebroso Tacu

- Gérard Lesne & Il Seminario Musicale

6. Francesco Petrini (1744-1819, DE/FR) Les Folies d'Espagne et Douze Variations

- Sandrine Chatron

7. Gaspard Le Roux (1660-1707, FR) Courante Luthee

- Les Clavecin Reunis: Jan Devlieger & Guy Penson

8. François Couperin (1668-1733, FR) Verse 13 - Adolescentulus Sum Ego

- Christophe Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques

9. Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640–1700, FR) Concert n° 9 Le Suppliant

- Les Voix Humaines, Stephen Stubbs

10. Henry Du Mont (1610-1684, BE) Allemande Grave

- Bernard Foccroulle

11 Giusippe Tartini (1692-1770, SI/IT) Solitario Bosco Ombroso

- Patrizia Bovi

1. Giusippe Tartini ('') Sonate Brainard A3, Giga

- Chiara Banchini

2. Antonio Bertali (1605-1669, IT) Chiacona

- Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti

3. Tobias Hume (1579-1645, UK) Harke, Harke en Sol Mineur

- Jordi Savall

4. Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764, IT) Il Pianto d'Arianna' - IV. Grave

- Concerto Koln

5. André Campra (1660-1744, FR) Florete Prata (edit)

- Les Arts Florissants

6. Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745, CZ) Sonata No. 6 In C minor - III Andante

- Dombrecht, Ponseele, Ebbinge

7. Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787, DE) Allegro WKO192

- Susanne Heinrich

8. Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677, IT) L'amante Modesto

- Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon

9. Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647, IT) Toccata Seconda & Ligature Per L'arpa

- Margret Köll

10. Johannes Schenck (1660-1712, NL) Sonata No. 8 in C-Moll I. Adagio

- Wieland Kuijken, François Joubert-Caillet

11 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764, FR) Les Boreades - Les Vents

- Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall 

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Dream Weapons present: PSYCHOMAGIK C60

Psychomagik is a compilation of songs from various walks of life. Intended as nothing more than auditory pleasure and a travelogue around the world taking in the sights and sounds of elusive caves and temples. It's not dark as much as an uplifting melancholy which fits nicely under the umbrella of the occult or the hidden. A paradise of hidden delights.

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Cristo Redentor - Donald Byrd
Accadde A Bali - Arawak
Tiger's Skip - Tony Allen
My Underwater Boy -Virna Lindt
L' Intrigue - Deux Filles
Alejandro - Tsembla

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Gole Yakh - Kourosh Yaghmaei
Ad Gloriam - Le Orme
温泉芸者 Onsen Geisha - Unknown
Carousel - Harry Hosono
Empire III - Jon Hassell
A Dream - The Mystic Moods Orchestra

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Dream Weapons present: CULT WORSHIP SONGS C60

"The latest mix from Prabha Devi is a slower, more introverted mix. A collection of songs you can enjoy in private meditation but not really suited for being the soundtrack of a party unless its a valium or LSD affair. It's listening music for the loner, tonic for the vagabond, or companion songs for those on long train rides. Imagine sitting in a field with Ye-Ho-Wah disciples running around in white garments in the sunlight. This would be the soundtrack"

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The inner sea (silver sea) - Alio Die & Sylvi Alli
Alleluliah - Constance Demby
Ave Maria - Aeoliah
Siren Shallows - Iasos
Mille Voix - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma
Moonpool - Panabrite

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Awakening (excerpt) - Don Slepian
Dark Slumber - Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Te Deum - Martin Rev
Rowboat - Fourcolor
Games Again - Peter Broderick
Laraaji - Laraaji
Sour Cloud - Tetsu Inoue

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Dream Weapons present: ORIENT-TNEIRO c90

West mirroring east - east mirroring west - with musical influences going back and fourth featuring artist from both «worlds». There's an oriental jazz-vibe throughout but I've included everything from psychedelic ragarock-fusion or whatever-to slow 'n sensuous bellydance grooves. Unlike an Exotica-album your inner imagined landscapes won't be of the sea or the jungle, but the desert and the savannah.

-Moahaha

1 George Abdo – Raks El Malek

2 Okay Temiz & Johnny Dyani – Gece (The Night)

3 Rabih Abou-Khalil – An Evening With Jerry

4 Bengt Berger – Like Wind I Go

5 Eddie the Sheik Kochak – Asallia

6 Gus Vali & George Mgrdichian – Tsiiftetelli

7 Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Shoof Habebe

8 Abdo – Hela Hop (edit)

9 Andrea Centazzo – Ode to Nazim Hikmet

1 Renaud Garcia-Fons - Ghazali

2 Ömer Faruk Dertsiz - Hak Şerleri Hayreyler

3 Hijaz – Desert Dancer

4 The Dave Pike Set – Greater Kalesh No. 48

5 Yan Tregger – Calling Bombay

6 Van Shipley – Matwale Pal Yeh

7 Irene Schweizer Trio - Yaad

8 Francesco De Masi – In Nome di Maometto

9 Lard Free – In a Desert Alambic

10 Jacky Giordano – Tabla Minor

11 Big Jim Sullivan - LTTS

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Dream Weapons present: KASBAH GHOSTS c60

"Kasbah Ghosts is a slow-moving meditation that rises and falls like an inland lake, at times one for pondering, at times one for slipping into a cheery flashback of opiates or laudanum. From the slivers of electronica to the ranting of a madman it evokes a sense of yesteryear and hopefully will sooth the nausea of life. A dialect of grim worship!" -Prabha Devi

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Three Cheers for Existence - Deru
Zannat - Hector Zazou & Swara
Narration two - Stephan Micus
Te - Ghédalia Tazartès
La Mer - Ejwuusl Wessahqqan
Dead Slow - Tonio Rubio
Sky-skating - Annette Peacock
I Lost My Way - Robert John Gallo

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Sunday Morning [Reverb Mix] - Amanaz
Childhood - Hamza el Din
Thumabinamore - Baby Gayathri
Old Melodie - Sainkho Namtchylak
Karakoum - Anouar Brahem Trio
A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs
All The Stars In The Sky - Chang Loo
Moon, Don't Come Up Tonight - Patty Waters

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Dream Weapons recommends: Kyle Forester

My main man Kyle (Crystal Stilts/Woods/Get The People/Meatus Murder/The Ladybug Transistor/The Soft City/I Was A King/ etc etc etc) all around sweet guy whom I've have had the pleasure to share stage with a couple of times and sorted me out when I was a lost soul running around the streets of NY not knowing where I was, is finally releasing his debut solo album the 20th of this month and it makes me excited. Check it out!

If you are in the NY area you can catch the release the 18th here
And if you can't make it to the show, you could always pre-order the album here and get your hands on the limited vinyl edition. (250 copies)

Dream Weapons present: THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE c90

 
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Solar Plexus - Moebius & Plank
Le Sang du Poete - The Beatniks
In My Lifetime - The Flying Lizards
I Have A Little Brain - Gershon Kingsley
Computer Graphic - Joel Vandroogenbroeck
The Delicate Code - Torn Levin Bruford Isham
Grey Lagoons - Doctor Mix And The Remix
Destination Moon - Solid Space
Prelude VI For Magnetic Tape - Ilhan Mimaroglu
Good Old Germany - Einzelgänger
Strip-Tease - Cosmic Overdose
Super Lady - Jeff Phelps
Tam Tam Samba  - ADN' Ckrystall
Mystery Trip - Stratis

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Alleewalzer - Thomas Dinger
Грусть И Надежда - Анатолий Фомин
Dream Maker - Doris Hays/John Matthews
Village Voice - Michal Turtle
Destroyer Eye - Video Liszt
He's Like You - Patrick Cowley
Processional - S. Araw "Trio" XI
Kopf Und Bauch - Gorilla Aktiv
H.S.T.A. - Das Ding
Macumba - La Fondation
Kaleidoscope - BBC Workshop
Under Observation - Francis Monkman & Adrian Wagner
Mist of Time - Paul Williams
Tranquillium - Tonto's Expanding Head Band

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Dream Weapons present: THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG c90

...and the road leads to nowhere – is the first line sung in «Blow Your Brains Out», the opening song. But after a handful of seductive folk/pop-tunes followed closely by various southeast-asian grooves and the likes, overlapped by some avant-weirdness & doom-laden baroque - this road has actually lead you to the guillotine (dripping with the memories of the people it had seen) of The Excecutioner's Song. 

I think of this mix like a road movie in music – a road-horror movie perhaps. Open, adventurous, dreamlike and surreal for the first parts of the trip but true to the genre it takes a darker turn and ends in (bloody) tragedy.

-Moahaha

1 David Alexander Hess - «Blow Your Brains Out»

2 Zerfas - The Piper

3 Ptarmigan - Go Dancing: Go Dancing

4 The Shangri-Las - Past, Present and Future

5 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Bring Us Good Ale

6 Jose Afonso - Era Um Redondo Vocabulo

7 Vasant Rai & Oregon - Autumn Song

8 Jeti & Dengan The Alfan - Mesra Di-Kenangan

9 Shusha - I Have Come To Ravish My Betrothed

10 Freddy Lindquist - Sharako

11 Walter Franco - Muito Todo

12 Chico Hamilton – El Moors

1 Jan Huydts Trio - 3x4

2 Sadja - Improvisation IV

3 Persona - Introducao / Monte

4 Darso - Teu Paraughuh

5 Stomu Yamash'ta - What A Way To Live in Modern Times (edit)

6 Vittorio Gelmetti - Collage

7 Magdalith - Jubilate Du Deuxierne Dimanche Apres Epiphanie

8 Romanesca - Musketeer's March (Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber)

9 Dingle Yandell & Les Inventions - What Power Art Thou (Henry Purcell)

10 National Philharmonic Orchestra – Sarabande-Duel (George Friedrich Handel)

11 Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain - Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris S'eveille

12 Giacinto Scelsi - Ave Maria

13 Gary Scott - The Executioner's Song

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Dream Weapons Present: FUTURA PRIMITIVA c90

I thought this would end up as the less pretentious pulp-version of Antropocen (a former mix of mine). But aside from the coverart and my approach to writing this text, the actual music itself is most definitely in the same ballpark. These ninety minutes are equally packed with analogue electronics served on a bed of drum machines occasionally spiced up with a few minimalist tunes and soundscapes - among other things.

-Moahaha

1 Lesiman – Preludio Ossessvio

2 Robert Görl – Mit Dir (extended)

3 Berlin Express – The 4-08 To Paris

4 Axxess – Owls

5 Joachim Sherylee – Start On

6 Ose – Orgasmachine

7 Zanov – Brain Activity

8 C. Boinot – Kenera

9 KHA-YM – San Fedo

10 Guy Boyer & Jean-Yves Guihal – Silent Flying

11 Space Craft's Men – Future City

12 Padded Call – Are You Anywhere?

1 Hypothese – Electrochoc

2 Art Fleury – Black Out (edit)

3 Vogue – Shattered Peace

4 Gary Numan – Asylum

5 Moebius – Etwas

6 Carlos Peron – Nothing is True

7 Yello – Thrill Wave

8 Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sonanze: 3rd Movement

9 Electrelane - The Invisible Dog

10 Eternite – Megnetique

11 Vasilisk – Heavens Above

12 Arnold Dreyblatt - Organ Music for 16 Hands

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Dream Weapons Present: MURDEROUS GROOVES c120

In 2022 I reworked both of my early C120's, and removed thirty minutes of music from each. Making them an easier digestable - and just a better listening experience. Better sounding, better flow, better cover art and not too overlong... So I suggest you click on the link/cover underneath and check out that one instead:

-but you may disagree and the original is actually one of our most popular mixes ever, so the original is still available:

 

 

Jazz can be and mean a great many different things - spiritual, intellectual, political, relaxing, painful... you name it. Its also potentially full of suspense, tension, action and horror which is why jazz has been used to a great extent in film noir, thrillers, crime, giallo, cop-movies to name a few genres. I don't know why film-makers abandoned the perfect soundpalette to go along with moving images in favour of pompous orchestral scores and seemingly random pop-songs, but I know that they shouldn't have.

There's much greatness hidden in mostly obscure soundtracks and even more obscure production/library records - and from countless hours of excellence I've compiled 2x60 minutes of tunes in all kinds of moods, approaches and genres really, but still pretty much jazz in one way or another.

-Moahaha

At the Cinema

1 Giovanni Tommaso - Underground Number Seven  (Vivere a Tokio: Citta Del Paradiso)

2 Guy Pedersen - Chasse À L'homme  (Céleste)

3 The Chico Hamilton Quintet – Sidney's Theme  (The Sweet Smell of Success)

4 Orkest Ruud Bos - Dat Verhaal Van Jou  (Dat Verhaal Van Jou)

5 Stelvio Cipriani - Spiata  (La Morte Cammina Con i Tacchi Alti)

6 Pippo Caruso – Discosession  (L'occhio Dietro La Parete)

7 Fiorenzo Carpi - Pelle Di Luna  (Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale')

8 Ennio Morricone - Gatto a Nove Code  (Gatto a Nove Code)

9 Ziad Rahbani - Variation 2  (Bennesbeh Labokra...Chou?)

10 Stefano Liberati - Shark Jazz Band  (Pericolo Negli Abissi)

11 Aldo Buonocore - La Fine di Fanny  (Ciak Si Muore)

12 Barney Wilen - Poursuite et Metro  (Un Témoin Dans la Ville)

13 Raymond Le Sénéchal – Generique  (Chateau En Suede)

14 Art Blakey - No Hay Problema Pt. 2  (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

In the Library

1 The Swingers – Stadio  (Jazz Video 4)

2 Michel Bernholc – Articulation  (Patchwork Orchestra 3)

3 Raymond Guiot – Primitive Spirit  (Musique En Vrac)

4 Keith Papworth – Wheel Man  (Metropolis)

5 Bruno Nicolai – Immaginativa  (Espressioni)

6 Ennio Morricone – Proposizioni  (April Orchestra Vol. 3)

7 Janko Nilovic – Flemish Suite  (Funky Tramway)

8 A.R Luciani – Epicratica  (Situazioni)

9 Camille Sauvage – Requiem Pour Satan  (Fantasmagories)

10 Luigi Zito – Movimento  (Miscellenea)

11 Pierre Arvay – Footing  (Cross Through Yesterday And Present Day)

12 Egisto Macchi – Stressing  (Neuro Tensivo)

13 Guy Pedersen – Bass-Tille  (Bass + Bass + Bass)

14 Alessandro Alessandroni – Introverso  (E Il Suo Complesso)

15 Luciano Simoncini – Interventisi  (Storia & Politica)

16 Fabio Fabor – Foule  (Infini)

17 Daniela Casa – Dittatura  (Societa' Malata)

18 Elvio Monti & Pelleus – Piscopatia  (Apprensioni)

19 Basil Kirchin & John Coleman – Paranoia  (Mind on the Run)

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Reups

Mediafire has started to act up, so some of our mixes haven't been available for download lately. I've reuploaded the ones currently having issues and fixed the links in the original posts and the archive. We'll probably have to move everything from mediafire to something else at one point, but I still haven't found a good substitute. (zippyshare doesn't support https and mega has no stats etc etc, so suggestions for good hosts are welcome!)

New links:
MORNING DEW C90
EASTERN EMBROIDERIES C120 
MARTIAN SURGERY DERVISHES C90
ANTROPOCEN C90 
ANTISEPTICALLY CLEAN C90 
ELEPHANT HOTEL C60

Let us know if you have problems with other links, and we'll get on it asap.

All the best,
Sadhu Sadhu