Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (2014)

Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (2014)

Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (2014) Four years ago Trophy Scars and their fabulous “Darkness, Oh Hell” rocked my world. Literally. That hypnotic mixture of punk fueled post-hardcore, indie-psychedelic rock, jazz, blues and funk was fresh and powerful, totally addictive.
Meanwhile they lost a little bit their punk edge, but not their intensity and “Holy Vacants” it’s an excicting and charming, throughout enjoyable album. Actually they know how to get slowly under your skin and once you get “infected”, you can’t get rid of them anymore. Must mention this, they released an album entitled “Never Born, Never Dead” in 2011, but somehow I missed that.
“Holy Vacants” is Trophy Scars’ fourth album and was two years in the making. It was also intended as their last, not because of any cataclysmic upset in the band, but because the four – Jerry Jones (vocals), John Ferrara (guitarist), Andy Farrel (bass player), Brian Ferrara (drummer) and Gray Reinhard (keys, vocals) – felt that after eight years, it had run its course. Read more Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (2014)

Therese – Remedy (DANK Remix)

Therese - Remedy (DANK Remix)

Therese - Remedy (DANK Remix) Therese is considered some kind of Swedish wonder-woman and the “queen of 21st century house music”. In only a few short years, she has crafted an international reputation for herself on the music scene – her signature tune ‘Put ‘em High’ is universally regarded as a 21st century dance classic, and continues to generate massive airplay to this day. ‘Put ‘em High’ reached No. 6 on the UK Top 40, and was followed by ‘Take Me Away’, another top ten dance/pop hit. In the USA, ‘Time’ scored an impressive No.21 placing on the Billboard Dance chart. Other records like ‘Neon Lights’ have become instant club classics, while ‘Feelin’ Me’ saw UK urban station Kiss FM proclaim her the ‘The Queen of Electro’.
Since then, she has toured extensively, performing at Read more Therese – Remedy (DANK Remix)

Zardonic 10 Year Anniversary Mix – free download!!

Zardonic-10th-Anniversary-mix

Zardonic-10th-Anniversary-mix The bad-ass of bad-bass celebrate 10 years of intense grinding with a fabulous 44 track, 99 minute mix which include his own tracks, but also remixes of some other leading artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Black Label Society, Semargl, and Black Sun Empire. Top of the best, this is a free download and you can grab it from his Soundcloud page. This is brutal!!!!!
Federico Agreda aka Zardonic, worked his way up to a top position with unstoppable force since his beginnings in 2004: awarded Best Keyboardist and Best Metal Artist in his native Venezuela; voted the #1 DJ in Venezuela according to The DJ List; reached #1 in Beatport’s Drum & Bass Release charts with his milestone album “Vulgar Display Of Bass” (including the million time played single “Bring Back The Glory”); -#1 in Beatport’s Hardcore / Hard Techno Release charts with the “Far Beyond Bass” remix album; and #1 in Amazon’s Bestsellers in Hard Rock & Metal charts with his remix of The Unguided’s “Phoenix Down” single. Read more Zardonic 10 Year Anniversary Mix – free download!!

Musician Portraits Made Of CDs

Musician Portraits Made Of CDs

Musician Portraits Made Of CDs

For the inauguration of First Floor Under, a pop-vanguard culture magazine, TBWA Italy used 6500 CDs to recreate the portraits of seven world-famous musicians including Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, James Brown, Freddie Mercury and Elvis.
Artists Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco spent more than 200 hours Read more Musician Portraits Made Of CDs

Planet Berlin – 360° with a crocodile

Planet Berlin - 360° with a crocodile

Planet Berlin - 360° with a crocodile A crocodile driving, skating and biking through Berlin. Shot with a 360° rig using 6 GoPro Cameras and a 3D printed mount.
Jonas Ginter explain: “In order to breathe life into this little planet and to implement them as a moving picture, I’ve tried a lot of funny things in the last few years: I’ve screwed my cameras on the turntable and nights trying to put thousands of pictures. Has not worked. I have strange designs with mirrors looked at and frustrated found that the absolute nonsense. Piece by piece, came the realization that I can realize 360 degree videos only when I capture the image in one take. So the logical conclusion was: Many cameras. Luckily there GoPro cameras that cover with her ​​fisheye lens a decent viewing angle. So you only need six cameras to record horizontally 360 ° and vertically 180 ° can. Provided you point the camera from exactly. The closer the lenses are to each other and the more overlap produce each camera the better the result. I have unsuccessfully experimented with rubber bands, cable ties, wood and polystyrene. Only with the construction of a support which has been printed in the 3D printer, everything worked satisfactorily. I have this template as a base and used a bit off without the help of any crack of the Hacker Space Bremen and especially without Andree’s and Michael’s involvement, would have been all that nothing.” Read more Planet Berlin – 360° with a crocodile

Arturia MiniBrute – o bruta analogica la un pret digital

Arturia MiniBrute o bruta analogica la un pret digital

Arturia MiniBrute o bruta analogica la un pret digital Primele sintetizatoare analogice au fost construite între anii 1920 și 1930, printre ele fiind și Trautonium, un instrument muzical electronic și monofonic dezvoltat în 1929 de către Friedrich Trautwein în Berlin în laboratorul Rundfunkversuchstelle al institutului de muzică și radio Musikhochschule. Lui i s-a alăturat Oskar Sala și au continuat să dezvolte sintetizatoare până în anul 2002. Cei doi au prezentat public Trautonium-ul în data de 20 Iunie 1930 la Musikhochschule Hall din Berlin în cadrul unui spectacol intitulat “Neue Musik Berlin 1930″.
Adevărata revoluție a sintetizatoarelor analogice însă a venit la începutul anilor 60 după inventarea tranzistorilor. Un aport semnificativ l-a avut Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog prin creearea legendarelor sale sintetizatoare Moog. Succesul comercial al acestor “ciudate” noi instrumente s-a produs în 1968 cu lansarea albumului “Switched-On Bach” de către casa de discuri Columbia al artistului Wendy Carlos (responsabil și de coloana sonoră al faimosului film al lui Stanley Kubrick “Clockwork Orange” în 1972, lansat sub numele de Walter Carlos).
Cele mai faimoase sintetizatoare analogice au fost produse de Moog, ARP, Roland, Korg și Yamaha.
Pe lângă sunetul specific oferit de tranzistori, una din caracteristicile importante ale sintetizatoarelor analogice este și incorporarea în instrument a diferitelor efecte, filtre și oscilatoare, printre care și a filtrelor low-pass (joase) și high-pass (înalte) prin care se obțin modificări substanțiale ale sunetului. Read more Arturia MiniBrute – o bruta analogica la un pret digital

Michael Jackson – Leave Me Alone (Sporty-O & Kisskaya Trapped Out Bootleg)

Michael Jackson Leave Me Alone - Sporty-O & Kisskaya Trapped Out Bootleg

Michael Jackson Leave Me Alone - Sporty-O & Kisskaya Trapped Out Bootleg How many skins they will keep ripping off of MJ? Pretty sordid and kind of necrophiliac. Epic Records on 9th May will release the second posthumous compilation album of previously unreleased tracks entitled “Xscape” and MJ now it’s kind of back in the spotlight. So, Sporty-O & Kisskaya considered it’s a brilliant idea to desecrate a classic MJ track, the 1987’s single “Leave Me Alone”. It would be much better and decent to leave the dead king of the pop alone and do not dishonor his memory. And don’t get me wrong, I do not like MJ, I never did and except a very few songs, I didn’t enjoy his music, although I admit he was a great entertainer and showman.
Sporty-O it’s the perfect case of someone with absolute no talent, but good connections and influence. Read more Michael Jackson – Leave Me Alone (Sporty-O & Kisskaya Trapped Out Bootleg)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Spooky Tricks (2014)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Spooky Tricks (2014)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Spooky Tricks (2014) My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult rose to fame at the end of the 80’s by their hard beats, distorted vocals, dense and contorted instruments and bizarre film samples. It was something burlesque and something wicked about their music, something genuine. It was the troubled age of post-new wave and the dawn of the hard-industrial revolution and Franke Nardiello (aka Groovie Mann) with Marston Daley (aka Buzz McCoy) managed to merge efficiently the disco bass with the rocking wah-wah guitars and dabbling in some big bad burlesque brass. Some say that they are met over a few drinks in a bar in Chicago and soon find themselves touring with the band Ministry.
They crafted a shocking and lurid film concept, “My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult”. Inspired by a shared love of tabloid tales of sex and Satan, kitschy horror and exploitation films in the style of Russ Myers, the concept came naturally. The name was ripped straight from a British headline Nardiello had noted while living in London. With limited experience and resources the film was scrapped, but work on its accompanying soundtrack continued. Legendary Chicago record label Wax Trax! Records was impressed by their sound and signed them without hesitation. They released a three song EP in 1988 and the full–length album entitled “I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits”, followed quickly in the same year. Read more My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Spooky Tricks (2014)

Nanowar of Steel – A Knight at the Opera (2014)

Nanowar of Steel - A Knight at the Opera (2014)

Nanowar of Steel -  A Knight at the Opera (2014) I have written about this Italian band long-long time ago, true in a different language, can find that article here. Their brand new – and third – album it’s the same brilliant and hilarious. Putting metal and gay in the same sentence would be blasphemy and an unforgettable sin some years ago, but since Rob Halford publicly came out as gay in 1998, things are changed… We’ve got gay metal ever since! 😆
How much true gay flavor or how much deep irony it is in Nanowar, it’s impossible to see clearly from this distance, but actually it doesn’t really matter while the outcome it’s so brilliant.
Formed in 2003, called simply Nanowar at first, the band added “of Steel” to their name to parody fellow Italian band Rhapsody’s name change to Rhapsody of Fire. So, here we go, their third album recall the classic 1975’s Queen album title, “A Night at the Opera” and it’s called in the Manowar’s heroic-epic manner “A Knight at the Opera”. Released on 23 February 2014 , and the album features some old tracks re-recorded and some new ones. It is sold as a CD + DVD, including Nanowar’s live performance at the True As Steel festival in Buelach, Switzerland, October 2007. Read more Nanowar of Steel – A Knight at the Opera (2014)