The More You Live, The More You Love

I was there last year on the tenth of September at the Abschiedskonzert (Farewell Concert) of Unheilig at the RheinEnergieStadion in Coulogne. To be honest, for sure, this was not the best concert of Der Graf I witnessed in the past years since our discovery of the band in March 2012, but it was very emotional. With the release of Von Mensch zu Mensch some highlights appeared on the accompanied bonus dvd of the limited Fanedition. Since then fans kept asking the band to release the concert as a proper dvd/blu-ray. At the end for the Unheilig team this turned out to be a starting point for a new release of the band. And so on the 6th of October a new compilation album will see the light of day. The album The Best Of Vol. 2:  Pures Gold will be released in three different formats as one cd, double cd and a Limited Fanedition, containing the double cd plus a double dvd and a blu-ray of the Abschiedskonzert. The first cd, Pures Gold, contains mainly the well known tracks, sing...

Just annouced on the 4th of July, comes the compilation album Pures Gold  / Rares Gold of Unheilig in three formats. The album will be released on the 6th of October, so not on the 29th of September, asthe Unheilig team mentioned at first. There are two audio cd versions. One with a single cd, called Pures Gold. and one with a double cd, called Rares Gold. The Limited Deluxe Fanedition, called Rares Gold as well, is the most interesting one and contains five discs with the following tracklists: CD 1 – PURES GOLD 01. Zeit zu gehen 02. Große Freiheit 03. Lichter der Stadt 04. Geboren um zu leben 05. Mein Leben ist die Freiheit 06. Zeitreise ft. The Dark Tenor 07. Mein Stern (MTV Unplugged) 08. Lass uns tanzen (new) 09. Einer von Millionen 10. Von Mensch zu Mensch 11. Für immer 12. Wie in guten alten Zeiten 13. Unter deiner Flagge 14. Glück auf das Leben 15. Eisenmann 16. Mein Berg 17. Für mich solls rote Rosen regnen (MTV Unplugged) 18. Der Himmel über ...

On the fourth of July, the Unheilig team came with the following news: When Christmas and Easter fall on the same day... like today! But read yourself: Dear Unheilig fans, In the last few weeks, things have turned upon us. Your feedback about a release of the farewell concert in Cologne, has overwhelmed us so much that we have once again put our heads together to make something special for you. After the count had announced his departure in 2014, he became aware that he wanted to leave a musical legacy. He also produced new songs as well as on the previo us tours during the "Zeit zu gehen" tour. These tracks with the Unheilig manuscript are so far unpublished and determined for their fans and for another artist. But this is not settled yet... We would like to fulfill the wish of the count to publish a selection of these particular songs under Unheilig. What is closer to that than a Best Of Vol. 2 CD? We picked up the most popular Unheilig tracks, unreleased an...

For the time being this will be the last Volume in this series. I have some other things coming up that need my attention. This includes some Office 365 exams. The songs: 01. Nexda - Fivesixtyeight (3:36) 02. à Suivre - Mindless Orator (2:40) 03. Ronald Heiloo - In Times Of Panic (2:55) 04. O.R.D.U.C. - Chrome Wave (6:25) 05. Die Krü Blød - Untitled 5 (5:20) 06. Plastic Cocon - Where Did The Story Come From (4:10) 07. Y Create - Blue 7 (3:12) 08. Herzog - IKNK (3:06) 09. Aldomar Zimmerman - The City (3:33) 10. Corneil Nies - Bosonen (4:39) 11. Nozmas - Nozmas (3:50) 12. Hessel Veldman & Nick Nicole - 12 (4:23) 13. Baader Pop Gruppe - V2 (3:23) 14. Bart & Jan - Messerschmidt Parade (5:43) 15. Das Wesen - Nocturne (7:00) 16. Jacinthebox - Follow Rules (2:28) 17. Harold Schellinx - Ranks (1:50) 18. King Ende Shneafliet - Mimosa à la Méditerranée (3:03) 19. Lab 80 - Kill Me (5:24) 20. Einstein - St. Bernard (3:12) The link The picture: This is windm...

And so we come to Volume 14. Never thought, when I started this journey that I would get that far and still be able to offer new names with each new Volume that I presented over the months. Again I draw from the marvelous archives of Diggin' Demos and add some new discoveries to the tracklist. Besides that some nice sites have been a great inspiration as well.  So just before the holidays, to Switzerland and Italy, I present you this volume in the ongoing series. I assumed 15 volumes would be enough, since I thought this would tell the story. However, I still discover new names every day with new music, which would be a shame if they were not mentioned in the introduction. I have ten days to think about this. In principle, number 15 is as good as finished and this Volume musically will return to the Volume 10 experience. But there is a need to tell more. Bands who sang in my mother tongue hardly have been discussed, but I've found enough examples of them. So I am in ...

After a busy week at the office, we moved on the first of June to a new building, finally the vacation ogles. So the best way to start this vacation is presenting a new Volume. This weeks Volume is based around, again, some vynil rips from resent obtained albums and from a fine source discovered on Facebook and YouTube. Diggin' Demos tries to find the stories behind (mainly) Dutch demo tapes. He uploads a demo on YouTube, complete with tracklist and all available information from the tape, and, when present, a link to discogs.com. On his Facebook site he then tries to come up with the story behind the tape, the band and the songs. Not directly from the band, but from people who bought the demo, saw the band or in some way were in contact with the band. The front picture of this Volume is the mill The Mastiff (De Dog) in the village Uitgeest. The tracks: 01. Triple X - Fighting (3:57) 02. André de Saint-Obin - The Human Machine (live) (4:14) 03. Brezneff - No Nukes (4:0...

Just a quick follow up to Volume 11 of Monday. The picture of this Volume is of Enkhuizen, which shows the Drommedaris. It was the south gate to the city, formerly known as Zuiderpoort (south gate) or Ketenpoort (chain gate). The backbone of this Volume are the vynil rips of albums I bought recently. I already knew that ripping hard to get vynil is fun. But with my new audio corner I created some weeks ago and the software of Audacity this is more fun than ever. For now I make one to one rips, which I don't edit. Let me say I still like the vynil sound of the songs, so a little crack here or there I admire. The Tracks: 01. Duplex Johnson - Cosmetics (4:28) 02. R.T.C. - Oh Little Boy (4:30) 03. Judy Nylon - Old Man (2:20) 04. Bert Barten - Tried To Speak (5:28) 05. Claw Boys Claw - Not Coming Home (4:13) 06. Pee Dee - Drive My Car (4:06) 07. Ego Produkties - Samba (2:26) 08. Bleistift - Eyes Of Children (3:56) 09. The Berlin Wall - Bami (2:33) 10. Dier - Fenz (2:23...