There's been so much activity on the "Zeuhl" front since the final issue of Ork Alarm! (# 25) that it's hard to know where to begin!
I've decided to try and produce a Monthly, may end up Bi-Monthly (perhaps "irregular", see title for opt out clause) online issue of Ork Alarm! Hopefully Paul Mummery will be looking down and smiling.
I had started to put together an "Ork Alarm Continued" section with the intention of splitting it into a number of subsections and then adding articles to each page as and when I stumbled upon them. However after a day of correlation the list of articles was off the page, especially the ones relating to Magma and "Zeuhl" style artists. So perhaps another approach ....
I've been checking out the Canterbury Music website Musart, Blimey! Talk about comprehensive, everything you ever needed to know about the scene. The what's rattlin' newsletter seems to do the trick nicely, so, with due deference to that page here we are! Ork Alarm! # 26 - An Irregular Bulletin for Zeuhl Fanatics. A "Zeuhl" diary. A retrospective look back over the last few years but also keeping the Zeuhl fan updated on current news. Any suggestions, additions, information, urges to write articles etc. drop me a line. Ork Alarm! Feel free to send me your own ramblings and I'll add them to the page.
On second thoughts It looks like being quite a long page! Perhaps a little segmentation might not go amiss.
BLAST .... no not the group, the exclamation. What a time to buy a new computer! Apparently Linux is the number one operating system on Kobaïa. Blast the Blaster Worm! If you haven't been infected by this latest virus then ... you probably have! I get my brand spanking new bells and whistles XP 750i (with overhead conshafts and fool injection) and "BOSCH!" .... the blaster worm virus. Just by connecting to the internet? I told the guy at the helpdesk he was pulling my plonker! Obviously he had no understanding of how viruses are only spread by opening attachments. he'd had a hard day as he just kept repeating the same words over and over again. "Contact your Computer supplier" and "Anti Virus software". I told him, I'd only just got the bloody thing out of the packet! Moi? A virus? Don't make me laugh .... Turns out he was right.
Which brings me to my point. Ork Alarm! is currently being written on a Celeron 400 laptop (Windows Me, thankfully) that has somehow defaulted to a screen resolution of 800 by 600. Try as hard as I can, I can't return it to it's original state. So, the visual layout of Ork Alarm! is fine at this resolution but who knows what it looks like at a higher one. My 750i keeps rebooting. Why can't these people find a sensible hobby? Start with Euthanasia perhaps, and work up. If I had that much skill I'd build a spaceship, tell Bill Gates where he was going wrong, then bugger off to another Planet. Or something.
"Superglued" into my CD at the moment:
Patricia Dallio - Procession
Potemkine - Triton
Francois Thollot - Ceux d'en Face
Art Zoyd - Ubique
Simon Steensland - Zombie Hunter
Christian Vander - Les Cygnes et Corbeaux
Albert Marcoeur - Ma Vie avec Elles
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller (Nubian Dancer)
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Obviously goes without saying, all Seventh Products are "Soldered" on!