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Album: The Gothic Sounds of Nightbreed Volume 5

Released: Jan 12, 2010

Label: Nightbreed Recordings

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Genre: Electro / Gothic / Industrial
Location Nottingham, UK
Profile Views: 97041
Last Login: 6/22/2012
Member Since 7/27/2006
Website www.nightbreedradio.com
Record Label Nightbreed Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. THE PAST .. .. Trev formed Midnight Configuration originally as a solo project back in mid 1993 with the purchase of his first sequencer. Shortly afterwards he put out his first solo CD maxi called Gothtec, a four track affair where Trevor did absolutely everything! .. .. ...... .. .. Once the wheels were in motion Trevor started work on the second maxi Spectral Dance which was released on the 31st of October 1994 at the very first Carnival Of Souls, the famous Gothic/fetish festival then held at Rock City in Nottingham. This night also saw the debut performance of the band. .. .. ...... .. .. As time went on now famous then label mates Suspiria wanted to tour the UK and wanted a band to tour with them. So Trev formed a proper Midnight Configuration which consisted of Trevor Bamford, Lisa Ross (backing vocals) and Nick Hopkinson on guitar to tour with them! Shortly after this time the Kissing Skull, their highly acclaimed debut CD album, was released. It was a homage to Goth, horror films and fetishism which included a 28 page booklet of fetish/Gothic photographic artwork! .. .. ...... .. .. This CD cemented Midnight Configuration in the Gothic publics mind eye. Before that time Midnight was a solo project, now it was a band with a very strong identity. A lot of the imagery associated with the band revolved around the mesmeric and photogenic Lisa. The tainted sweetness vocaled ice queen of Goth. The famous Dark Desires t-shirt has gone down in modern gothic history for its shocking nature! .. .. In August 1997 Midnight Configuration released their long awaited second album Funeral Nation. This CD was more explosive and dynamic than even the Kissing Skull album! .. .. ...... .. .. As the dust settled after the hectic release and gig schedules, Midnight Configuration released in Early 1998 the groundbreaking remix album Digital Interference, which features a collection of remixes and outtake scratch-mixes recorded over the period from The Kissing Skull to Funeral Nation. This CD was received and raved about across the board! The Sanctuary organisation of Switzerland named it as their album of the month! .. .. ...... .. .. The fame and underground credibility of Midnight Configuration finally reached the ears of US label giant, Cleopatra, who promptly commissioned Nightbreed to compile a Midnight Configuration Best Of called Dark Desires. The CD was released in the US in early 1999, and has brought the band a new underground US following as a result! .. .. ...... .. .. THE TRAUMATIC PAST .. .. Early on in the year 2000, band figurehead Lisa left Midnight Configuration due to outside commitments. This change coincided with Richard C (MCs studio engineer and occasional live keyboard player) and Trevors growing technical prowess in the Nightbreed studio. With Lisa gone, and technical skills improved, MC began to take on board new influences and to try out new ideas in a way unthinkable less than a year previously. Traditionally the vocal side of the band was always a Heaven + Hell sort of thing with Lisa providing the angelic female vocals and Trevor the Pitchshifted deep vocals. After Lisas departure Trev began to experiment with different vocal styles and moods creating startling results! The studio proficiency gave way to techno and industrial influences coming into the band alongside the desire to crank up the guitar. The end result of all this work is the album Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross. For the first time in the bands history, MC were in total charge of every aspect of recording and production, making this album the most honest and true representation of Midnights music so far. The album was immensely well received throughout the Global underground, winning the band new fans alongside pleasing older fans of the MC sound. In many peoples eyes, this was the bands finest release to date! It was certainly a best-seller for MC as the album had to go into second pressing less than a week after its release and is currently into its third pressing! .. .. ...... .. .. As soon as Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross was finished, Trev ploughed on with writing and recording material for the follow-up album entitled Redemption Of The Physical World, which was released on the 22nd of October 2001. This CD continued where Dark Hours left off but is at once harder, stronger, faster and darker than ever before! Truly a milestone recording! .. .. ...... .. .. Then after another turbulent year of working and reworking material, Midnight Configuration released Sepulchre Rose. This album is/was totally cutting edge with its blend of black industrial and electro Goth. Essentially an album that is VERY focused and in a lot of ways back to the roots, as well as cutting edge. The album is divided into two parts: Disco At the End Of The Earth and Riders Of Darkness Upon The Sea. Part one is a satanic blend of post-Gothic commercialism, electro Goth and darkwave dance floor. The second part is a satanic tour de force of banging electronic beats, cruel guitars, black industrial sensibilities and wicked, yet poignant samples. A truly original and heady mixture of pure, raw genius! .. .. ...... .. .. THE RECENT PAST .. .. Entering The Distortion Field. Midnight Configuration in 2004-2005 then settled down to a three-piece and gone was the fetish stuff of past incarnations. The band were harder, nastier and more angry than ever. The guitars were louder in the mix and the programming more caustic and edgy than ever. The band were, as always, striking out against the world via their own brand of honed satanic, Gothic evolved industrial, using guitars and sequencers like scythes and fists against the confusion of reality. This album was without doubt the heaviest they had produced so far, and its release challenged and confounded the public in a way as yet to be seen for a band who was used to shocking its audience. Fans of the traditional side of the band were not disappointed as the usual elements of the bands music was still in evidence, but so much more than ever before! This CD was the soundtrack of a nightmare, a realisation of truth for our times! .. .. ...... .. .. ...... .. .. THE NEW BREED .. .. Shortly before Xmas 2005 Midnight Configuration was augmented by Estelle van Goth on visual keys, thus returning the much missed feminine fetish element to the band. .. .. ...... .. .. PARALLEL WORLDS .. .. ...... .. .. ...... .. .. The band then released the most talked about and dynamic release the scene has seen in many years, namely "Parallel Worlds", enough to say that we have a dedicated mayspace page to the album which can be visited by clicking the link in our friends list (it's the red one!) Go and check it out, you won't be sorry! .. .. .. THE UNQUIET VOID .. .. ...... Uploaded with ..ImageShack.us.. .. .. .. Most recently Midnight Config, as they are known to their fans, have just released the long awaited and growingly highly regarded "The Unquiet Void", a CD which many are regarding as not only the bands best release yet, but also, one of the greatest releases of the year! .. .. .. .. Oh yes, you can now get: .. .. Resident Evil .. Lucifarian .. Devil Dance .. .. For your mobile phone. It's taken a little while but now things are up and running. Visit this site for the info on how to download your tone. .. .. http://www.zeebuzz.com .. .. "Get your mobile Satanized" .. .. .. ..
Members
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Influences
........ Play Dead, Killing Joke, Hawkwind, Chrome, yelworC, The Garden Of Delight, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Joy Division, The Sisters Of Mercy (well, whether they like it or not, they have influenced us all), loads of underground Goth, Electro, Industrial and Darkwave.
Sounds Like
I told you we didnt sound like any of the above bands! .... So what does our music sound like? .... Difficult to say because what I think it sounds like is not what it probably sounds like to you, blah, blah, etc, etc Anyway, I think our stuff is an amalgam of everything we have listened to and liked, mixed in with literary and cinematographic influences (thats films, TV, etc, all present in our music) as well as quips of philosophy and metaphysics (ooh!). Oh, and it is very dark as well! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. MIDNIGHT CONFIGURATION DISCOGRAPHY. .. .. MAXI CDS .. .. GOTHTEC 1993 (DELETED).. SPECTRAL DANCE 1994 (DELETED) .. .. ALBUM CDS .. .. THE KISSING SKULL 1996 .. FUNERAL NATION 1997 .. DARK HOURS OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS - 2000 .. REDEMPTION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD 2001 .. SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2003 .. THE DISTORTION FIELD - 2005 .. New album title and release date .. PARALLEL WOLRDS- Release date: 7.5.07 .. .. .. REMIX ALBUMS AND COLLECTIONS .. .. DIGITAL INTERFERENCE - 1998 (Remix album) .. DARK DESIRES 1999 (US market best of) .. SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2004 (Russian Version with bonus tracks) .. .. .. SIDE PROJECTS .. .. BROTHER ORCHID. WINTER SHADOW-1998 .. .. SEKHAM HORUS (Black Metal side project)-1998 .. Two songs, never released .. .. EDGEGOD (Electro Side project)-1998 .. One song, a cover of Black Sabbaths "Dirty Women", never released .. .. SINISTER WARRIOR(Electro Goth side project) 2002 .. One song, "The Burning Sky" available on "Gothic Fucking Sounds Of Nightbreed Volume 4" .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .................. .. .. .. Here is a rough cut of the promo video for "Lucifarian". Hope you like it! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Get this video and more at ..MySpace.com.. .. .. And here is a "home video" I did for "Voodoo For You". ..Voodoo For You...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......Add to My Profile.. | .. More Videos.. .. .. .. .. Us performing at the Nightbreed Alldayer. 6.12.09 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Here's a link to our Profile on Hollywood Music TV! .. .... .. .. Here is another link, this time to our profile on Pure Volume .. .. ...... .. .. Here is another profile to visit if you want to hear even more Midnight Configuration .. .. .... .. .. Finally, if you you are up for buying any of our releases, please visit the new Nightbreed Ebay shop via this link! .. .. ..................1.Welcome To Nightbreed Recordings1.......... .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .................. .. .. Please show your support of MC and visit our new Ilike page, get this link and put it on you site! Cool and down with the kids! .. .. ...... .. .. Join our fan email info service .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .................... .. .. .. Check out the Pray Silence Gothic community .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........Visit ..Pray Silence - Gothic / Gothic Industrial Subculture Community........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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The Unquiet Void
16 Songs | Sep 13, 2010
Funeral Nation
14 Songs | Aug 22, 2006
Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross
12 Songs | Aug 22, 2006
Sepulchre Rose
16 Songs | Aug 22, 2006
Redemption of the Physical World
12 Songs | Aug 22, 2006
The Kissing Skull
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Bio:

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THE PAST

Trev formed Midnight Configuration originally as a solo project back in mid 1993 with the purchase of his first sequencer. Shortly afterwards he put out his first solo CD maxi called Gothtec, a four track affair where Trevor did absolutely everything!

Once the wheels were in motion Trevor started work on the second maxi Spectral Dance which was released on the 31st of October 1994 at the very first Carnival Of Souls, the famous Gothic/fetish festival then held at Rock City in Nottingham. This night also saw the debut performance of the band.

As time went on now famous then label mates Suspiria wanted to tour the UK and wanted a band to tour with them. So Trev formed a proper Midnight Configuration which consisted of Trevor Bamford, Lisa Ross (backing vocals) and Nick Hopkinson on guitar to tour with them! Shortly after this time the Kissing Skull, their highly acclaimed debut CD album, was released. It was a homage to Goth, horror films and fetishism which included a 28 page booklet of fetish/Gothic photographic artwork!

This CD cemented Midnight Configuration in the Gothic publics mind eye. Before that time Midnight was a solo project, now it was a band with a very strong identity. A lot of the imagery associated with the band revolved around the mesmeric and photogenic Lisa. The tainted sweetness vocaled ice queen of Goth. The famous Dark Desires t-shirt has gone down in modern gothic history for its shocking nature!

In August 1997 Midnight Configuration released their long awaited second album Funeral Nation. This CD was more explosive and dynamic than even the Kissing Skull album!

As the dust settled after the hectic release and gig schedules, Midnight Configuration released in Early 1998 the groundbreaking remix album Digital Interference, which features a collection of remixes and outtake scratch-mixes recorded over the period from The Kissing Skull to Funeral Nation. This CD was received and raved about across the board! The Sanctuary organisation of Switzerland named it as their album of the month!

The fame and underground credibility of Midnight Configuration finally reached the ears of US label giant, Cleopatra, who promptly commissioned Nightbreed to compile a Midnight Configuration Best Of called Dark Desires. The CD was released in the US in early 1999, and has brought the band a new underground US following as a result!

THE TRAUMATIC PAST

Early on in the year 2000, band figurehead Lisa left Midnight Configuration due to outside commitments. This change coincided with Richard C (MCs studio engineer and occasional live keyboard player) and Trevors growing technical prowess in the Nightbreed studio. With Lisa gone, and technical skills improved, MC began to take on board new influences and to try out new ideas in a way unthinkable less than a year previously. Traditionally the vocal side of the band was always a Heaven + Hell sort of thing with Lisa providing the angelic female vocals and Trevor the Pitchshifted deep vocals. After Lisas departure Trev began to experiment with different vocal styles and moods creating startling results! The studio proficiency gave way to techno and industrial influences coming into the band alongside the desire to crank up the guitar. The end result of all this work is the album Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross. For the first time in the bands history, MC were in total charge of every aspect of recording and production, making this album the most honest and true representation of Midnights music so far. The album was immensely well received throughout the Global underground, winning the band new fans alongside pleasing older fans of the MC sound. In many peoples eyes, this was the bands finest release to date! It was certainly a best-seller for MC as the album had to go into second pressing less than a week after its release and is currently into its third pressing!

As soon as Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross was finished, Trev ploughed on with writing and recording material for the follow-up album entitled Redemption Of The Physical World, which was released on the 22nd of October 2001. This CD continued where Dark Hours left off but is at once harder, stronger, faster and darker than ever before! Truly a milestone recording!

Then after another turbulent year of working and reworking material, Midnight Configuration released Sepulchre Rose. This album is/was totally cutting edge with its blend of black industrial and electro Goth. Essentially an album that is VERY focused and in a lot of ways back to the roots, as well as cutting edge. The album is divided into two parts: Disco At the End Of The Earth and Riders Of Darkness Upon The Sea. Part one is a satanic blend of post-Gothic commercialism, electro Goth and darkwave dance floor. The second part is a satanic tour de force of banging electronic beats, cruel guitars, black industrial sensibilities and wicked, yet poignant samples. A truly original and heady mixture of pure, raw genius!

THE RECENT PAST

Entering The Distortion Field. Midnight Configuration in 2004-2005 then settled down to a three-piece and gone was the fetish stuff of past incarnations. The band were harder, nastier and more angry than ever. The guitars were louder in the mix and the programming more caustic and edgy than ever. The band were, as always, striking out against the world via their own brand of honed satanic, Gothic evolved industrial, using guitars and sequencers like scythes and fists against the confusion of reality. This album was without doubt the heaviest they had produced so far, and its release challenged and confounded the public in a way as yet to be seen for a band who was used to shocking its audience. Fans of the traditional side of the band were not disappointed as the usual elements of the bands music was still in evidence, but so much more than ever before! This CD was the soundtrack of a nightmare, a realisation of truth for our times!

THE NEW BREED

Shortly before Xmas 2005 Midnight Configuration was augmented by Estelle van Goth on visual keys, thus returning the much missed feminine fetish element to the band.

PARALLEL WORLDS

The band then released the most talked about and dynamic release the scene has seen in many years, namely "Parallel Worlds", enough to say that we have a dedicated mayspace page to the album which can be visited by clicking the link in our friends list (it's the red one!) Go and check it out, you won't be sorry!

THE UNQUIET VOID

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Most recently Midnight Config, as they are known to their fans, have just released the long awaited and growingly highly regarded "The Unquiet Void", a CD which many are regarding as not only the bands best release yet, but also, one of the greatest releases of the year!

Oh yes, you can now get:

Resident Evil
Lucifarian
Devil Dance

For your mobile phone. It's taken a little while but now things are up and running. Visit this site for the info on how to download your tone.

http://www.zeebuzz.com

"Get your mobile Satanized"

..

Member Since:

July 27, 2006

Members:

Influences:

Play Dead, Killing Joke, Hawkwind, Chrome, yelworC, The Garden Of Delight, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Joy Division, The Sisters Of Mercy (well, whether they like it or not, they have influenced us all), loads of underground Goth, Electro, Industrial and Darkwave.

Sounds Like:

I told you we didnt sound like any of the above bands!

So what does our music sound like?

Difficult to say because what I think it sounds like is not what it probably sounds like to you, blah, blah, etc, etc Anyway, I think our stuff is an amalgam of everything we have listened to and liked, mixed in with literary and cinematographic influences (thats films, TV, etc, all present in our music) as well as quips of philosophy and metaphysics (ooh!). Oh, and it is very dark as well!

MIDNIGHT CONFIGURATION DISCOGRAPHY.

MAXI CDS

GOTHTEC 1993 (DELETED)
SPECTRAL DANCE 1994 (DELETED)

ALBUM CDS

THE KISSING SKULL 1996
FUNERAL NATION 1997
DARK HOURS OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS - 2000
REDEMPTION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD 2001
SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2003
THE DISTORTION FIELD - 2005
New album title and release date
PARALLEL WOLRDS- Release date: 7.5.07

REMIX ALBUMS AND COLLECTIONS

DIGITAL INTERFERENCE - 1998 (Remix album)
DARK DESIRES 1999 (US market best of)
SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2004 (Russian Version with bonus tracks)

SIDE PROJECTS

BROTHER ORCHID. WINTER SHADOW-1998

SEKHAM HORUS (Black Metal side project)-1998
Two songs, never released

EDGEGOD (Electro Side project)-1998
One song, a cover of Black Sabbaths "Dirty Women", never released

SINISTER WARRIOR(Electro Goth side project) 2002
One song, "The Burning Sky" available on "Gothic Fucking Sounds Of Nightbreed Volume 4"