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1. Scanner is a Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2. Scanner is multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London, United Kingdom.
3) A German EBM and Synthpop label founded in 1999 by Francesco D'Angelo Spine Of God.
1. Scanner
Was previously known as:
- Reinforce (1977 - 1982)
- then as Lions Breed, a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed vocalists and drummers and became Scanner in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.
SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "Hypertrace", was produced by Eloy vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (see Primal Fear[[/artist]). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.
In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-Angel Dust front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.
Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.
1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.
SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".
At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.
In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in January 2015 (Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015, MASSACRE RECORDS).
2. Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic[citation needed], multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.
Born in in Southfields, London, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music while growing up. When he was a teenager his family was bereaved when his father was killed in a motorcycle accident.[1] He attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). There, he formed a musical project The Rimbaud Brothers with fellow student Tony Rimbaud, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s, later becoming Dau Al Set with the addition of Chris Staley.
He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival.[2]
In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance.
His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scanner², Mass Observation, Blind, and Runaway Train, a real-time recording of the captivating radio contact between Alfie, controller of the line and Wesley, the driver of a runaway train. Location: New Brunswick, Canada, recorded 9 March 1948.
In 1994, he pioneered one of the first webzines, in the very early days of the internet, I/O/D, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood. In 1998, he presented Surface Noise on a London bus, commissioned by Artangel, and won the Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts, ICA London the following year. He re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence. For 2003, he installed a permanent installation in Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches, France as part of the bereavement suite Channel of Flight.[3] In 2004, Tate Modern commissioned Sound Surface in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello as their first sonic arts work. In the same year, he composed Europa 25, an alternative National Anthem for Europe that was freely distributed via 10,000 CDs and a website.
He has continued to collaborate with classical musicians – Michael Nyman for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Musique Nouvelles in Belgium for their 'Play Along' collaborative string quartet, and opera singer Patricia Rozario for a new untitled work in 2007.
From 1994–2000, he set up and "curated" The Electronic Lounge music club at London's ICA, where these monthly sessions presented nights of music in a social environment. Nights included presentations with the record companies Warp Records, Irdial, Ninja Tune, Touch, Mego, Leaf Records and many others.
Since 2000 he has featured on BBC Radio 4, as a commentator on issues relating to popular music on a number of occasions.
Working with choreographer Wayne McGregor, he created Nemesis for Random Dance in 2002, Detritus for Ballet Rambert in 2003, and Qualia for the Royal Ballet in 2004. He continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007. In 2006 he created the sound for Merce Cunningham's E:vent at London's Barbican theatre.
In 2006, he created Night Haunts, a monthly online artwork, working with writer Sukhdev Sandhu and designers Mind Unit. He sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb. In 2007 he soundtracked British filmmaker Steve McQueen's film installation Gravesend, at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
In 2008 he was President of Honour at the Qwartz Music Awards in Paris, and scored the musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, which was later released on DVD (EMI). He premiered his six-hour performance show, Of Air and Eye at the Royal Opera House London in late 2008, and sound-designed the new Philips Wake-Up Light with Philips Electronics in NL, a lamp to wake you up with natural light and sound.
In 2009 He showed Atlantida, an HD film installation at the Canary Islands Biennial, created in collaboration with filmmaker Olga Mink. In the summer of 2009 he composed the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, broadcast in 164 countries, and soundtracked the new Samburg Corby telephone campaign in Italy.
In 2005, he was a contributing curator 'J’en rêve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
His BBC radio production of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice won the Prix Marulic Award and recently, he won First Prize Neptun Water Prize for his installation Wishing Well in Austria, in collaboration with Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998, he became 'Professor Scanner' at John Moores University in Liverpool. In 2009 he became Visiting Professor at University College Falmouth UK, and Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing France.
He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. In 2010 Rimbaud working with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet on Blink of an Eye with a very subtle touch, embedding his sounds into those of the New York jazz ensemble seamlessly as critics observed.[5]
In 2013 Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.
From the Dust of Ages
Scanner Lyrics
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Landed on a world, attacked by gods who sent a storm
Now the waters rise so unbelievable
And vulcans spit a holy fire and destroy
Spit it and destroy
We traveled through the time
To spread the human seed
We disappeared in mystery
We came to see how people fight
The Gods who sent eternal night
We're the last
We came too late to stop the stream of time
Can it be a lack of pride, a lack of honor
Can it be a plan that is divine
Can ii be a lack of pride, a lack of honor
Can this be mistakes that are divine
(Welcome)
Reborn in another dimension
Where unknown colors and noises are bringin' you tension
(Welcome)
Step through the halls of disaster
Work 'till you bleed and obey your invisible master
Missin' the moon in the night
Finding yourself for a world of violet light
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time
This world will end with surrender
The civilization's destroyed
And all things we know will disappear in the end
We live in a mystery world
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time, dust of time, dust of time
Atlantis was an island, so the story's told
Where the Gods melted fire with a storm
Atlantis was a garden, so beautiful divine
Where mankind has been given its first home
So beautiful divine
Atlantis
(Welcome)
Reborn in another dimension
Where unknown colors and noises are bringin' you tension
You're missin' the violets, the lights
?? you're the last of the kinds
Welcome the gods of the fire
Welcome the ocean, the storm
With ??
Welcome the mysteries of time
You're a god at end of the time keeping your kind
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time
In the dust of time
Dust of time
(Welcome)
The Scanner’s song From the Dust of Ages is a complex and multi-layered piece that contemplates the apocalyptic end of the world and the fall of human civilization. The opening verses describe the situation of the singer, exploring themes of isolation and hopelessness. The world has been destroyed by the gods, leaving no escape for those who survived, and nature itself has become unrecognizable. The lyrics recount a journey through time, seeking to propagate humankind and explore the nature of the universe. Yet despite their efforts, the group fails to stop the destructive stream, and ultimately, everything that was known disappears into the dust of time.
The second stanza considers the question of whether this destruction is deliberate, or simply the result of a lack of pride and honor. The chorus welcomes the singer to a new dimension where the rules of the previous one do not apply, a world of unknown colors and noises that bring tension. Looking back on the civilization they left behind, however, is bittersweet, as there is no way to know whether they will have left any lasting traces.
The final lines of From the Dust of Ages shift focus once more, revealing the identity of the singer to be one of the last gods of time. They welcome home humanity, yet the world they left behind disappears to make way for the next, in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. The song is a haunting reflection on the fragility of existence and the human search for meaning.
Line by Line Meaning
We're surrounded, there's no escape
Trapped and without hope of leaving
Landed on a world, attacked by gods who sent a storm
Arrived on a planet that was struck by a meteorological disaster caused by deities
Now the waters rise so unbelievable
The flood is rising at an incomprehensible rate
And vulcans spit a holy fire and destroy
Volcanoes erupted explosively, spewing out lava and destroying everything in their path
We traveled through the time
Moved through time and space
To spread the human seed
To reproduce and populate different worlds
Wherever we've been seen
Wherever we've gone or been noticed
We disappeared in mystery
Our disappearance was unexplained and puzzling
We came to see how people fight
We arrived to observe how residents combat their oppressors
The Gods who sent eternal night
Deities who created a never-ending darkness
We're the last
As the final beings, we'll witness the demise of our world
We came too late to stop the stream of time
We were unsuccessful in reversing the flow of time's events
Can it be a lack of pride, a lack of honor
Could it be due to a deficient sense of dignity and virtue?
Can it be a plan that is divine
Or is it part of an ethereal, divine scheme?
Can this be mistakes that are divine
Is it possible for divine beings to make divine mistakes?
(Welcome) Reborn in another dimension
Greetings, we have been reborn in an alternate realm
Where unknown colors and noises are bringin' you tension
Anxiety-producing sounds and colors are present in this foreign environment
(Welcome) Step through the halls of disaster
Welcome, proceed down the path of calamity
Work 'till you bleed and obey your invisible master
Exert yourself to the point of bleeding and obey an unseen authority
Missin' the moon in the night
Yearning for the moon during evening hours
Finding yourself for a world of violet light
Discovering oneself in a place with purple hued illumination
This world will end with surrender
This universe's demise will coincide with submission
The civilization's destroyed
The society has been ruined
And all things we know will disappear in the end
Ultimately, everything that we are familiar with will perish
We live in a mystery world
We inhabit a planet full of unexplained phenomena
Atlantis was an island, so the story's told
According to legend, Atlantis was an island
Where the Gods melted fire with a storm
Deities fused lightning and lava there
Atlantis was a garden, so beautiful divine
Supposedly, Atlantis was a gorgeous, divine-like paradise
Where mankind has been given its first home
The first home granted to humanity
(Welcome) You're missin' the violets, the lights
Greetings, you are longing for the violet colors and illumination
You're the last of the kinds
As the final of our people, you stand alone
Welcome the gods of the fire
We give salutations to the deities of flames
Welcome the ocean, the storm
Greetings to the sea and tempestuous weather
With ??
Unsure of what to expect
Welcome the mysteries of time
Welcome the enigmatic aspects of time
You're a god at end of the time keeping your kind
At the conclusion of duration, you're the deity who endures, preserving your species
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome back from your extensive travels
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
We're unaware if we'll have any remnants behind
The world that we've known disappears
The world that we knew will vanish
In the dust of time
Lost to the passage of time
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: SHELKO COE
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EmbraceEmptiness
such a great tune from a great band
Edgar Rodrigues
We're surrounded, there's no escape
Landed on a world, attacked by gods who sent a storm
Now the waters rise so unbelievably
And vulcans spit a holy fire and destroy
Spit it and destroy
We traveled through the time
To spread the human seed
Wherever we've been seen
We disappeared in mystery
We came to see how people fight
The Gods who sent eternal night
We're the last
We came to late to stop the stream of time
Can it be a lack of pride, a lack of honor
Can it be a plan that is divine
Can in be a lack of pride, a lack of honor
Can this be mistakes that are divine
Welcome
Reborn in another dimension
Where unknown colors and noises are bringin' you tension
Welcome
Step through the halls of disaster
Work till you bleed and obey your invisible master
Missin' the moon in the night
Finding yourself for a world of violet light
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time
The world will end with surrender
The civilization's destroyed
And all things we know will disappear in the end
We live in a mystery world
Welcome home from the dust of ages
Welcome home from the dust of time
We don't know if we'll leave some traces
The world that we've known disappears
In the dust of time
Atlantis was an island, so the story's told
Where the Gods melted fire with a storm
Atlantis was a garden, so beautiful divine
Where mankind has been given its first home
So beautiful divine
Lefteris Sakellaris
Heavy metal for ever.
ABIZON
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