Midnight Masses


Mass - Labour Of Love
Ripped from a vinyl album released on 4AD Records (CAD 107) in 1981 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Very probably the darkest album before goth, let's call it pre-goth. In reality this is the very darkest of post-punk. Darker than anything else you would imagine from anywhere in Benelux or Italy and Europe's coldest dark waves. Blame Joy Division, they started it ...nobody even came close to the darkest most mysterious corners of post-punk where Mass hung-out. The majority of the four members of Mass came from Rema-Rema and were eventually to become The Wolfgang Press and ....errrrr Renegade Soundwave.
A1 Mass
A2 Why
A3 Ill
A4 Why
A5 Isn't Life Nice
B1 Elephant Talk
B2 F.A.H.T.C.F.
B3 Cross Purposes
B4 Innocence

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12 comments:

  1. Blogmeister21 February 2016 at 17:55

    https://mega.nz/#!fRQlmJ4L!K3_Qo8QSv3aS1WuO5kgOyB_uvio_rz-YsC5RCHTX4Z8

    Gone in a few weeks

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  2. Anonymous22 February 2016 at 14:30

    24Bit Mass....Thanks....Still singin' The Feedback Song...

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  3. thehappyone23 February 2016 at 13:56

    Mama told me... biting my nails...

    This lot need a Rock Family Trees.

    Danny Briottet: Mass (80-81) > Renegade Soundwave (86-95)
    Gary Asquith: Rema-Rema (79-80) > Mass (80-81) > Renegade Soundwave (86-95)
    Mick Allen: Rema-Rema (79-80) > Mass (80-81) > Wolfgang Press (83-95)
    Mark Cox: Rema-Rema (79-80) > Mass (80-81) > Wolfgang Press (83-95)
    Andrew Gray: In Camera (78-81) > Wolfgang Press (83-95)

    And add Marco Pirroni of Adam and the Ants fame and (Dorothy) Max Prior of Psychic TV fame,
    who were both into Rema-Rema...and Briottet also appeared on Die Unbekannten's
    "Dangerous Moonlight" EP "Don't Tell Me Stories" (w/Mark Reeder). and members of Dif Juz
    and In Camera guested on early Wolfgang Press stuff....

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  4. William23 February 2016 at 16:05

    Thanks for the Mass upload. Excellent stuff... so I grabbed it, even though I have a copy of the 2011-reissue. Thanks also for the happy one's family tree. I like Renegade Soundwave, PTV and even Adam + The Ants as well.

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  5. DJ Stix23 February 2016 at 20:33

    Top stuff.Thank you. what software would you recommend for converting flack files to mp3s btw?

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  6. Blogmeister24 February 2016 at 06:19

    I wouldn't recommend anything for converting them.

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  7. Imágenes ocultas26 February 2016 at 08:42

    Awesome stuff!

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  8. Rommel26 February 2016 at 19:18

    XLD performs quite well into converting from FLAC to MP3 320.
    http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

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  9. DJ Stix27 February 2016 at 14:55

    Thanks for the recommendation :)

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  10. Anonymous12 March 2016 at 05:21

    Has this now expired? I've tried to download all week and it goes through the proces but will not complete? Thanks. : )

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    1. Blogmeister12 March 2016 at 09:05

      Works fine. Try with a different browser or clear your cache.

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  11. Anonymous12 March 2016 at 20:09

    Ok, thank you that seemed to do it! Keep up the good work. : )

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