Strange, but nice, kind of mysterious is this brand new album by Prefuse 73. Trip Hop textures, distant and soft noises, kind of familiar obscurity floating around through this 18 tracks that been tied together by the words “The Only…” which at the beginning of every title from the songs. Sometimes it reminds me of Dead Can Dance, but Prefuse 73 strip down everything to the bone, they are much more electronic and minimalist. Their spacy and atmospheric music have something warm, friendly, intimate, peaceful. And it’s quit charming. It’s kind of release or even caress. On the other hand there’s always some hidden tension in the background which keep our attention focused. It may be a tricky game, but Prefuse 73 play it well. You can leave this one on repeat and it will flows and floats around like the smoke. And once again, this is nice. Read more Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters (2011)
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The Dark Sides of the Moon
“The Dark Side of the Moon” was a milestone, not only in the career of Pink Floyd, but in the history of the music and not at least, source for inspiration for many musicians since its release. There’s many tribute, cover and reinterpretations of “The Dark Side of the Moon” and I gathered here a few of the most intriguing and interesting of these releases.
Released on 10 March 1973, “The Dark Side of the Moon” is the eighth studio album by Pink Floyd and it was the record that moved, back or forward – it’s a matter of point of view – the English band from the closed circle of fans to the mainstream. “The Dark Side of the Moon” is a concept album that explore the themes of conflict, greed, the passage of time and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Syd Barrett’s deteriorating mental state, but it lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterized their work following the departure in 1968 of founding member, principal composer and lyricist Barrett. The album was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with staff and band personnel provided the source material for a range of philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was directly responsible for some of the most notable sonic aspects of the album, including the non-lexical performance of Clare Torry. Read more The Dark Sides of the Moon
Thomas Giles – Pulse (2011)
“Pulse” is one of the most wonderful and exciting records I had the pleasure to listen this year and I admit it, it was a huge surprise. Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. is the lead singer and founder of the band Between the Buried and Me, one of the leaders of the new – twisted – metal wave, a powerful and extremely creative band wich show a new direction and proved once again: metal is not dead.
“Pulse” is actually the second solo album by Tommy, the first was released back in 2004 under the name Giles. The new material is extremely colorful, impossible to label, crammed in some particular box. And about the influences and different musical roots of Tommy we can get an idea by listening the cover collection released in 2006 under the title “The Anatomy of” by Between the Buried and Me where we have songs by Metallica, Sepultura, Depeche Mode , Queen, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Earth Crises, Blind Melon, Counting Crows, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Motley Crue, Pantera, and Smashing Pumpkins. Read more Thomas Giles – Pulse (2011)
TV On The Radio – Nine Types Of Light (2011)
Scheduled for release on April 12, “Nine Types of Light”, the upcoming fourth studio album by TV on the Radio consist of 10 brand new songs and the same kind of smooth, soft, tasty, very discrete, but still touching type of minimalist electronic indie construction with a charming romantic accent, but also including funk and rock, post-rock elements in a very colorful blending. If you knew and love them, you know what I’m talking about. The second track, “Keep Your Heart” instantly reminds me of “China Girl”, the song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop’s album “The Idiot” (1977) and rerecorded and released by Bowie on his album “Let’s Dance” (1983). But Bowie is not a news in TV On The Radio’s world. Their second studio album, “Return to Cookie Mountain”, received critical acclaim, and on the album features guest appearances from David Bowie, Celebration, Dragons of Zynth, Martin Perna and Stuart D. Bogie of Antibalas, Blonde Redhead and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner. Also, during their US tour, the band performed a few covers with Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. Read more TV On The Radio – Nine Types Of Light (2011)
New track – I Hate the Blues, London’s Calling Version
I was busy with lot of other things – mainly with putting this site on wheels and make it running – so, I had to delay the release of the album “The Ghost of the Absent Father”. But I worked on some new songs and I send this one – recorded originally with the boys from Oedip Piaf on 24 February 2011 – to Mr. Winteller to London and once again he came up with some interesting adds on, write and perform some guitar, bass and additional sampler and effect tracks for my tunes. Nice job, thanks a lot!
I still have some technical difficulties with the platform of my site, so, you can listen the new track HERE. I hope you will enjoy it much as I do!
IAMX – Volatile Times (2011)
Back in 2004 Chris Corner left behind Sneaker Pimps and started this new project: IAMX. The musical direction is not quit out of Sneaker Pimps line, it’s still a gloomy, dark electronic blending with indie infusions and the lyrics are dealing with subjects such as sex, death, emotions, narcotic intoxication, decadence, religion, alienation and allusions to politics. Since the debut album “Kiss + Swallow” released in 2008, Chris didn’t waste any time and 2008 bring another two releases, “The Alternative” and “IAMIXED”. In 2009 was released “Kingdom of Welcome Addiction”, and in 2010 “DOGMATIC INFIDEL COMEDOWN OK”. So, Chris kept his self – and our – quit busy.
The new album was preceded by single “Ghosts of Utopia”, which received its first radio play on Prague’s Radio 1 on January 23 and was released on February 25 and a free download of “Fire and Whispers” was made available on March 4, as part of the count down of the album released on 18 March 2011, but the full album was leaked online on March 12. Read more IAMX – Volatile Times (2011)
Mr. Pan[k]sament – Faking the Tree (2010)
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Nu-s nemulţumit de ce am făcut, ci de ce nu am făcut. Şi sunt multe lucruri pe care n-am apucat, n-am putut să le fac – şi… fuck! „Faking the Tree” este al treilea album pe anul acesta – şi promit ultimul. Probabil pe anul acesta. 12 piese, 69 de minute. 😀
21 decembrie. Dacă în ’89 am avut ceva-ceva revoluţie pe bune, a fost la Timişoara şi s-a terminat pe 21 decembrie. Ce a urmat cam ştim sau bănuim, lucrurile sunt mult mai clare azi când vedem exact cine şi cum stăpâneşte ţara. Dar lumea nu se rezumă strict la politică sau economie.
„Fake” înseamnă mimat. Şi aici Read more Mr. Pan[k]sament – Faking the Tree (2010)
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1. ANDO – Rhythm Machine
2. MALAKWA – Monster 5.23 1054 plays
3. ARMAGEDDON DILDOS – Untergrund
4. PSY’AVIAH – Into the game (feat. AYRIA) [Signal Aout 42 remix]
5. STUDIO-X – You’ll Never Get This
Jesus On Extasy – No Gods (2010)
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Inspiraţi de versurile lui Trent Reznor din piesa „Suck” (Pigface/Nine Inch Nails): „I’m Jesus Christ on Ecstacy”, trupa din Essen înfiinţată în 2005 de verii Dorian Deveraux – voce, samplere, sintetizatoare şi Chai Deveraux – chitară, sintetizatoare, programare, abordează un Rock (Metal) Alternativ ambalat într-o manta Industrial şi proaspătul „No Gods” este cel de-al treilea lor album după „Holy Beauty” (2007) şi „Beloved Enemy” (2008).
Numiţi-o prejudecată, o fi experienţa… anterioară (ca vânzările anterioare 😀 ), în general am rezerve vis a vis de trupele nemţeşti, multe din ele – acum nu vorbesc de Einsturzende Neubauten! – au o abordare linear-mecanică de cele mai multe ori agasantă, obositoare şi mai ales cele de pe segmentul Industrial merg pe direcţia EBM care – cu mici excepţii (Leaether Strip) – în sine este o linie (moartă şi) monotonă.
Din fericire verii Deveraux fac o muzică destul de colorată, au inflexiuni Gotice, nuanţe New Wave/Post Punk din zona Joy Division, seamănă mai mult cu Oomph!, au ceva reverberaţii Reznor, dar via Filter, nu sunt experimentali ca pomeniţii Einsturzende Neubauten, mai de grabă au preluat ceva-ceva din spiritul Rammstein şi modelul Eisbrecher, se înrudesc mai mult cu Umbra Et Imago şi infuziile Industrial, clapele şi samplerele se suprapun unui filon Rock/Metal ce aminteşte pe alocuri de H.I.M. din vremurile când gaşca lui Ville Valo se mândrea cu rădăcinile Heavy Metal şi nu încerca cu disperare să devină un Def Leppard de Finlanda croit pe gustul pieţei Americane. Read more Jesus On Extasy – No Gods (2010)
Radio Friendly FM and…MF
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Asta este rezultatul primei confruntări dintre trupa Oedip Piaf şi mine, eveniment desfăşurat sâmbăta trecută. Doar ca o consemnare pentru istorie, n-am băut decât cafea şi ceai, n-am fumat decât tutun. “Piesa” originală are peste 17 minute – să fie realmente… Mother Friendly 😀 -, am tăiat-o la 4.30. 😀 Ce-i mai rău abia urmează, promitem. 😀
