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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.
L.A.D.Y
Scanner Lyrics
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Sent by a friend of mine
He knew a little lady
Waitin' for me inside
I said, "don't be kiddin'!"
I don't want to change my style
Could not believe my eyes when
(Lady) tell me what to do
What can I do
(Lady) I need a doctor
(Lady) I need a doctor
To help me to cure
My longin' for you
(See you later )
That's what she said to me
I could not believe that she gave me her key
(See you later)
The only fact I know
I can't let her, can't let you go
(See you later)
Like a cat in a lonesome alley
Like a wolf in a midnight town
I've been struck down by confusion
Straight into my heart
(Lady) tell me what to do
What can I do
(Lady) I need a doctor
(Lady) I need a doctor
To help me to cure
My longin' for you
(See you later)
That's what she said to me
I could not believe that she gave me her key
(See you later)
The only fact I know
I can't let her, can't let you go
(See you later)
I can't let you go
Oh oh (lady) tell me what to do
What can I do
(Lady) I need a doctor
(Lady) I need a doctor
To help me to cure
My longin' for you
(See you later )
That's what she said to me
I could not believe that she gave me her key
(See you later)
The only fact I know
I can't let her, can't let you go
(See you later)
That's what she said to me
I can't believe
(See you later)
I need a doctor
(See you later)
I can't, I can't, I can't believe you
Ooh baby (see you later)
I can't let you go
The lyrics to Scanner's song L.A.D.Y. describe the experience of a man who is sent, by a friend, to a gay club where he meets a woman. He is initially hesitant to change his style and go to a gay club, but when he meets the lady, he is struck by her beauty and cannot believe his luck. The lady seems to have power over him as he asks her what to do and how to cure his longing for her.
The man describes feeling like a cat in a lonesome alley or a wolf in a midnight town, meaning he is lonely and confused. The lady repeatedly tells him she will see him later, but he cannot let her go. The lyrics are full of passion and a sense of desperation, as the man seems to be powerless to the lady's hold over him.
Line by Line Meaning
Went to a gay club
I went to a bar that caters to the LGBTQ+ community
Sent by a friend of mine
A friend of mine asked me to go there
He knew a little lady
My friend knew a woman who was interested in me
Waitin' for me inside
She was already there, waiting for me
I said, 'don't be kiddin'!'
I expressed disbelief or surprise
I don't want to change my style
I am not interested in changing who I am
Could not believe my eyes when
I was shocked to see
I saw who I have found
It was the woman my friend told me about
(Lady) tell me what to do
I need your guidance or advice
What can I do
Please give me information or direction
(Lady) I need a doctor
My attraction to you is intense and feels like a sickness
To help me to cure
I need assistance in getting over my longing for you
My longin' for you
My strong desire or yearning for you
(See you later)
I will see you again soon
That's what she said to me
She told me she would see me again soon
I could not believe that she gave me her key
She gave me access to her personal space, which surprised me
The only fact I know
What I am certain of is
I can't let her, can't let you go
I am unable to move on from my feelings for you
Like a cat in a lonesome alley
I feel lost and alone
Like a wolf in a midnight town
I am prowling or searching for something in the darkness
I've been struck down by confusion
I am feeling bewildered or unsure
Straight into my heart
My emotions were deeply affected
I can't let you go
I am unable to move on from my feelings for you
Oh oh (lady) tell me what to do
I am seeking your help again
That's what she said to me
She repeated her intention to see me again soon
I can't believe
I am in disbelief or shocked
I need a doctor
My feelings for you are overwhelming and difficult to handle
I can't, I can't, I can't believe you
I am unable to process my feelings for you
Ooh baby (see you later)
I am expressing my attraction to you
I can't let you go
I am still unable to move on from my feelings for you
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: SHELKO COE, AXEL JULIUS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@MrNasty96
When I first bought the cd, I listened to that song at least 15 times in a row...the perfection itself...and of course, SEE YOU LATER!!!
@eve4305
EXTREMELY UNDERRATED MASTERPIECE!!! ...SEE U LATER