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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.
Terminal Earth
Scanner Lyrics
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And our time has come
All the stars are calling us back
But we can't leave
Ever again
Our starship won't start anymore
Will we see our home
Never again our system
Our bodies have changed
And if we approached
Disintegration would start
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Now we are caught
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Can we survive
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Now we are caught
Now we can save our minds and our hope
Can we survive on
Terminal Earth
We came to prove
And to research
To tell people all about Earth
We've been so sure
We'd leave again
Now we are filled with despair
Forced to deal
With your life and your fears
Of poisoned waters and air
Afraid of death
In a nuclear war
Our journey has come to an end
On Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Now we are caught
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Can we survive
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Now we are caught
Now we can save our minds and our hope
Can we survive on
Terminal Earth
The lyrics to Scanner's song Terminal Earth convey a sense of despair and hopelessness as a group of space explorers find themselves stranded on Earth with no immediate means of leaving. The opening lines, "Our mission is done, and our time has come, all the stars are calling us back," suggest that the group has completed their research on Earth and are ready to return home to their own star system. However, the lyrics quickly take a darker turn with the realization that "our starship won't start anymore" and the group is trapped on Earth indefinitely.
The lyrics emphasize the irreversible changes that have occurred to the explorers while on Earth that prevent them from returning home. "Our bodies have changed and if we approached, disintegration would start" suggests that they have been contaminated by Earth's toxic environment to a degree that makes them incompatible with their own star system. This realization is further underscored by the repeated refrain of "Never again will we see our home, never again our system." The chorus captures the bleakness of their situation: "Terminal Earth caught in a trap, now we are caught, can we survive?"
The song speaks to the fragility of Earth's ecosystem and the urgent need for humans to take action to prevent its destruction. The explorers' mission was to research Earth and educate others about it, but they are now forced to confront the harsh reality of environmental degradation and the very real possibility of nuclear war. The final lines suggest that there may still be hope for humanity if we can save our minds and our hope.
Line by Line Meaning
Our mission is done
We have completed our task
And our time has come
It is now our time to go
All the stars are calling us back
We are being beckoned by the stars
But we can't leave
We are unable to depart
Ever again
We will never be able to leave
Our starship won't start anymore
Our spaceship is now inoperable
Never again
We will never experience
Will we see our home
Our home planet will never be within sight again
Never again our system
We will never return to our home solar system
Our bodies have changed
We have undergone physical transformations
And if we approached
If we were to draw near
Disintegration would start
We would begin to disintegrate
Terminal Earth caught in a trap
Earth is now a trap for us
Now we are caught
We are now trapped
Can we survive
Is it possible for us to endure
Now we can save our minds and our hope
We now have the chance to rescue our mentality and optimism
We came to prove
Our intention was to demonstrate
And to research
And to investigate
To tell people all about Earth
To inform others about our planet
We've been so sure
We were very certain
We'd leave again
We would get to depart again
Now we are filled with despair
Currently, we are consumed by hopelessness
Forced to deal
Compelled to handle
With your life and your fears
With your existence and your anxieties
Of poisoned waters and air
Of contamination in the water and the air
Afraid of death
Frightened of dying
In a nuclear war
In a conflict that employs nuclear weapons
Our journey has come to an end
Our journey is now over
Can we survive on Terminal Earth
Is it possible for us to endure on Earth
Contributed by Ella H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
arakim72
SCANNER - Terminal Earth
1. The Law 0:00
2. Not Alone 4:21
3. Wonder 8:16
4. Buy or Die 12:26
5. Telemania 17:29
6. Touch the Light 21:50
7. Terminal Earth 26:52
8. From the Dust of Ages 30:47
9. The Challenge 40:11
10. L.A.D.Y. 44:50
Thomas DeMonte
man hyper Trace is great. But this is my all-time favorite scanner album. The guitar crunch on this and the vocals just kill. Both albums are a must have!
Thomas DeMonte
@gremlinjr2 hey gremlin, just checked out Talon's Vicious Game album-excellent Teutonic metal, well done quite impressive! I was hugely into Accept-first got into them with their Breaker album-then of course the classics that followed. And this album would have stood tall right next to stuff like Restless and Wild! I would have wore out the grooves to this... Thanks man 👍🤘😎
Metal Heart
Magnifiques souvenirs! Leur premier album "Hyper Trace" est aussi génial ;D
Benedetti Enzo
Hypertrace est très bon aussi je confirme !!
mistersans
j'avoue que cet album a su combler mon manque de d'helloween sans Kai Hansen
Руслан Попов
Вот отличная вещь , в этом стиле мне вообще мало что нравится , но Terminal Earth всегда любил . Отлично !
alberto rossi
Que recuerdos de la pubertad!!! El justo equilibrio entre melodía y agresividad
antonino frenda
Assoluto capolavoro oggi impensabile!!! Onore al grandissimo Coe una delle più belle voci tedesche di sempre🔥⚡⚡
GME adventure
Gran disco, uno de los mejores de power metal alemán
Sergio Jiménez
Si en verdad un discazo !!!!