Zaftig Research
It's now official. The last Zaftig Research Christmas compilation if finally available. For only $6.00, this historic monument to holiday music can be yours! For more information on ordering this fine disc of holiday cheer, venture on over to the catalog page or drop an email to
eskaton@inhell.com.
After ten years, we've decided that the Christmas compilation has run its course and this is certainly a great way to end the series. If you don't believe me, take a look at the tracklisting:
- Thee Virginal Brides - I Have Been Slowly Singing of Salvation for 2000 Years
- Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain – Silent
- Tzesne - Aislante Blanco
- V.I.K.I. - Carbo ex Nivis
- Astrogenic Hallucinauting - Component
- Atas-400 - New Year
- ctephin - The Cherubim Dance
- Der Tribologe - Glacier
- Fail - Bells Jingled.... Check!
- Gorgonized Dorks - Something's Wrong With My Eggnog
- humanextermination project - Dept. of Homeland Security Killed Santa Claus
- Goose – Prophecy
- Stolen Light – Jerusalem
- Black Saturn - Cosmic Snow
- Karl Bösmann - The Dwarf's Winter Fear
- rs-232 - Winter in Perpetuity
- mystified - Polar Event
- Thunderwheel - Night (Bethlehem Mix)
The Zaftig Research Christmas Compilation pretty much started out as a joke but became an integral part of Zaftig Research in ways that I could not have imagined back in 1998. Who would would have thought that Zaftig Research would still be going after all these years? I think that this is the longest I have ever done anything consistently. I now have enough Christmas music to get me though the entire day without ever repeating a track.
I have been lucky enough to work with some wonderful people throughout the years and this year is no exception. I think that if I had to end the series, this is an excellent note to end on. The disc is crammed full of music and it is a wonderful mix of noise, dark ambient, experimental, and just general weirdness. The tracks that blew me away this year are those from Thee Virginal Brides and Thunderwheel. You may not have heard of Thunderwheel, but you probably know him as Chaos as Shelter. At first I wasn't too into the Gorgonized Dorks track, but it has definitely grown on me and it makes me smile every time. All in all, this is a great ending to a great series. I don't think there ever has been or ever will be a better series of holiday music than this one.
