Twin Atlantic formed in February 2007, in Glasgow, Scotland, by Sam McTrusty (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Barry McKenna (lead guitar, cello, backing vocals), Ross McNae (bass guitar, piano, backing vocals) and Craig Kneale (drums, percussion, backing vocals). After recording their debut EP A Guidance From Colour at Long Wave Studio in Cardiff with producer Romesh Dodangoda (Funeral For A Friend, Kids In Glass Houses, The Blackout), and building upon the support from Kerrang!, the band’s profile was boosted enough for them to land support slots with Biffy Clyro and Smashing Pumpkins. They also supported American acts The Matches, Blink-182, Finch and Say Anything on their respective UK tours.
Singed to Red Bull Records, released their debut mini-album “Vivarium” in March 2009. The band toured extensively in 2009 and 2010, having played Download Festival, Guilfest, T in the Park, Sonisphere and Belladrum over the summer of 2009, including supporting Taking Back Sunday on a tour of UK and Ireland in July 2009. This continued into a full tour of the UK in September and then the United States with The Fall of Troy and Envy On The Coast in March and April 2010. In June 2010, Twin Atlantic supported The Gaslight Anthem on their British mini-tour and on 7 August 2010 they played at the Hevy Music Festival. They also supported My Chemical Romance on their tour.
“Free” was released on April 29, in Ireland and May 2, 2011 in the UK. In its first week of release, the album peaked at #37 in the UK Album Chart. This success led to them being part of the T In The Park 2011 lineup. In the summer of 2012, the band will be on the Vans Warped Tour. Part of their US promotion, Red Bull Records and Indaba challenged remixers with the contest of remixing their single “Free”. Read more Twin Atlantic – Free/False [RMX]
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Janis Joplin – Pearl Sessions and Move Forward RMX
Three months after she died on October 4, 1970, on January 11, 1971, Columbia Records released “Pearl”, the only album Joplin ever recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, the touring ensemble that had backed her on the Festival Express. Peaking at #1 on the Billboard 200, a position it held for nine weeks, Pearl included some of Janis’s most familiar and best-loved performances including her cover of Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” and her off-the-cuff a cappella “Mercedes Benz.”
The Janis Joplin’s 69th Birthday is honored by Legacy Recordings with the releasing of “The Pearl Sessions”, a two-CD set of Joplin’s final studio recordings.
The Pearl Sessions brings together, for the first time in one package, the original mono versions of the album’s 45s alongside the original LP tracks as well as the revelatory newly-discovered alternate versions, outtakes and vocal takes of Pearl’s classic tracks. The recording were discovered when researchers were putting together material for a 40th anniversary edition of “Pearl”, and find a previously uncatalogued audio tapes from the album’s sessions, produced by Paul Rothschild. Read more Janis Joplin – Pearl Sessions and Move Forward RMX
Front Line Assembly – Plasticity (2012)
After leaving Skinny Puppy, Bill Leeb in 1986 formed Front Line Assembly (FLA) and influenced by early electronic and (Post-)industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining elements of EBM and Industrial (Metal).
The band’s membership has rotated through several members over the years, including Rhys Fulber and Michael Balch, while the current official line-up of the band consists of: Bill Leeb, Chris Peterson, Jeremy Inkel and Jared Slingerland. Read more Front Line Assembly – Plasticity (2012)
Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio (2012) and remix contest!
“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of “Black Radio”, the newest album by the Robert Glasper Experiment that boldly stakes out new musical territory and transcends any notion of genre, drawing from jazz, hip-hop, R&B and rock, but refusing to be pinned down by any one tag. And pushing further the experiment, “Move Love” featuring the soul trio KING, drummer Chris Dave, bassist Derrick Hodge, multi-instrumentalist Casey Benjamin, was set for remix at Indaba Music.
I bring up my noisy, dubstep flavored synths, some tensioned jazz bass and severe cellos, asked a favor to a brilliant drummer, Thomas O’Brien, and delivered a quite different version of this song working exclusively with Robert Glasper piano track and the vocal track. I’m quite pleased by the result, this is definitively a genre-defying remix. Read more Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio (2012) and remix contest!
Radiohead – TKOL RMX 1234567 (2011)
Radiohead gone to Ibizia? Surprisingly obsessive, minimal and gloomy, “The King of Limbs”, the eighth studio album by Radiohead now got a remix “brother”, the two-CD of “TKOL RMX 1234567″ which compiles a series of seven 12” vinyl singles/EPs, also released as digital downloads from the band’s website in both MP3 and WAV file types.
Dense and tense, “TKOL RMX 1234567” is not a friendlier version of some of the gloomy songs of “The King of Limbs” as some might expected, there are no dubstep, techno, house or euro-trance remixes, but quite gentle and full of consideration reassembles of the original tracks. I actually expected something more creative and less ambiental. Most of these 19 bands involved in this project seems to be quite intimidated by Radiohead and the appetite for experimentation with these songs seems to be reduced to simply apply their usual sonic tricks to the songs, eventually changing some rhythmic schemes and adding some additional sonic layers, but staying in the same weird and minimalist approach as the originals.
While I’m still not quite comfortable with “The King of Limbs”, this remix album only raise few more questions. Read more Radiohead – TKOL RMX 1234567 (2011)
DJ Mitsu the Beats – Midnight Roses (2011)
Sleazy, easy and smooth, this might be the perfect background music / soundtrack for some nighttime action, or as the Juno Records PRs put it in different words “the best pulling pants and head off” (music).
DJ Mitsu The Beats is widely regarded as one of Japan’s finest mixing wizards, he’s still largely unheralded in Europe outside the nu-jazz and downtempo hip-hop scenes. Mainly instrumental, but also incorporated pieces cuts from Ceefax, Tony Hart’s Gallery and Barry White, this is a nice, soft and quite refreshing melt-down into the smooth universe of slow-dance, soft-focus jazz-funk, nu-jazz and downtempo, still very classy and subtle, “Midnight Roses” is a joyful trip – preferable for two. 😀 Read more DJ Mitsu the Beats – Midnight Roses (2011)
Asking Alexandria – Stepped Up And Scratched – Remix Album (2011)
After the April’s release of their second full-length album “Reckless And Relentless” , “Stepped Up And Scratched” is the remix version of their debut album from 2009, “Stand Up and Scream”. It’s pretty strange, or at least unexpected, while on their second album they turned to a much heavier side of their music, this remix album step back to the much electronic, “dubstep feel” content. So, they still trying to “Ride Two Horses at Once”, and definitively they will piss off one or other of their fans because metal fans will not digest this dance-club oriented mixes easily as the club music consumers are not huge fans of noisy guitars and deadly growls. If sexually it may be acceptable or at least tolerated to be bisexual, in the music business it’s pretty hard to take it both way simultaneously and keep on smiling just like nothing happened. The facts are facts: metal-heads always been extremely conservatives. Read more Asking Alexandria – Stepped Up And Scratched – Remix Album (2011)
Oblivion Machine – Viewpoint Collector (2010)
Din Saratov, Rusia aceşti Oblivion Machine surprind cu un material foarte profesionist, propun publicului un Death Metal condimentat cu infuzii Electro şi Industrial ce amintesc într-o oarecare măsură de Fear Factory din era 1991-1994, perioada marcată de albumul „Soul of a New Machine”, lipsesc doar escapadele melodice furnizate de Burton C. Bell, Alex rămâne exclusiv la tradiţionala abordare brutală a la Max Cavalera.
Trupa a fost înfiinţată de cei doi fraţi Alex şi Konstantin, ambii chitarişti în primăvara lui 2003 şi lor li s-a alăturat basistul E_X_I_L_E.
Trupa şi-a păstrat componenţa şi formula de trio ţi în 2008 debutează cu albumul „Unnatural & Wrong” sub egida Irond Records. Cele 10 piese sunt un Metal brutal cu rădăcini Death şi beneficiază de suportul samplerelor şi coloraturilor Electro. Un mix incisiv şi interesant, elementele brutale şi tehnice sunt îmbinate organic şi inventiv cu sonorităţile Industrial.
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Cele 7 piese colectate pe „Viewpoint Collector” Read more Oblivion Machine – Viewpoint Collector (2010)
Commix – ReCall To Mind (2010)
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E ceva chill. Poţi privii norii pe geam, poţi să-ţi aprinzi o ţigară, poţi să-ţi pui căştile şi să zaci întins pe canapea. Nici după atâţia ani nu reuşesc să fac diferenţa între sub categoriile muzicii electronice şi de dans, Commix peste tot sunt etichetaţi Drum’N’Bass, dar muzica lor este mai mult relaxantă decât pulsantă, nu bubuie obsesiv-obositor, acest „ReCall To Mind” este un amestec de faze Trance, Rave, Trip Hop şi – fie! – Drum’N’Bass, sună proaspăt, colorat, viu. Decât să lipim cu scuipinol etichete tembele, vorba lu’ fi-meu: „mai bine un cântăcel” şi – zic eu – merită dată lehamitea la o parte şi dat un click pentru a vizita pagina Soundcloud a trupei unde pot fi ascultate mai multe piese.
La origine un trio – George Levings, Guy Brewer şi Conrad Whittle -, Commix s-a redus la duo-ul format din Levings şi Brewer, băieţii din Cambridge au semnat cu label-ul Metalheadz al lui Goldie şi au debutat cu albumul „Call To Mind” în 2007 urmat de Read more Commix – ReCall To Mind (2010)
Nine Inch Nails Remixes – Free Download
Nu e nici un secret, sunt un mare fan Nine Inch Nails. Am scris despre NIN şi Trent Reznor un articol amplu la finalul lunii aprilie când s-a confirmat că trupa americană ne onorează în turneul lor final la Peninsulă.
Din nefericire din terţe motive conjuncturale n-am ajuns la festivalul de lângă Târgu Mureş şi am ratat posibila ultimă şansă să-i văd live. Shit happens…
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Din ianuarie 2008 mi-am făcut cont pe site-ul remix NIN unde Reznor a pus la dispoziţie mai multe track-uri de studio pentru a fi descărcate şi remixate de cei interesaţi şi a promis că la un moment dat va fi lansat şi un album cu cele mai reuşite mixaje.
Am făcut atunci o încercare cu „Capital G”, dar nu am fost extrem de mulţumit cu rezultatul final. Acum mi-am suflecat cutele de pe creier, mi-am lipit urechea de boxe din nou şi m-am pus pe desfăcut şi reasamblat piesele lui Reznor. Intenţionez să fac un album complet. 🙂
Am început cu o variantă în forţă la „Only”, un mix de aproape 8 minute cu accentul pe unul din riff-uri şi cu câteva pasaje noi inserate.
Apoi am trecut la „Begining of the End”, am modificat un riff, am păstrat, dar am accentuat uşor groove-ul Rock, incisiv al piesei, m-am „jucat” puţin cu aranjamentul şi orchestraţia.
Fiindcă varianta iniţială la „Only” a ieşit cam lungă, am revenit la ea, am re-mestecat tot, am rescris tobele, am modificat câteva riff-uri şi bas-ul, am împins piesa în zona Dub şi a ieşit asta.
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N-am să mă opresc aici, pe site sunt peste 20 de piese Nine Inch Nails, 2 piese Jane’s Addiction, 2 piese Saul Williams şi o piesă Street Sweeper Social Club, unele aşezate în Ableton Live, altele în formă brută (track-uri RAW).
Piesele pot fi ascultate şi fără să vă înregistraţi pe site, dar dacă doriţi să remixaţi piesele şi/sau să descărcaţi gratuit (şi legal) mixurile existente, merită să traversaţi formalităţile de înregistrare. Sunt multe mixuri interesante, unele făcute chiar de maestrul Reznor.
