Rock, reggae, r'n'b si orice alt gen muzical despre care simtiti nevoia sa discutati ... pe masura ce discutiile se vor segrega probabil vor aparea noi subforumuri
Oh I feel so behind the times. I'm always a little. Sucks, I know. Definitely broadening more horizons, even as I type now, listening to this. Ha ha. No, really. I am utterly serious. You see, it's that big. It beats hard and rocks very verily. It totally messes with your head. A mutant, a monster. Nothing sweet. Something as ridiculous as this shouldn't be sweet at all - just clutter and murk, gimme gimme. It's got the wit, it's got an energy that's not gonna run out, only becoming more and more obvious. It made, I can assure you, my life complete (until the next day or something). So far for comments. Yeah.
Deaf in the Family For Those About to Rock Bootleg 2006
01. One of These Nights [ft. Scavone, Baron & Ill Tarzan]
02. Mr. Blue Sky [ft. Scavone]
03. Guns of Brixton [ft. Scavone]
04. Who Are You [ft. Scavone, Bad Seed & Pumpkinhead]
05. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft [ft. Oxygen, Doujah Raze & Scavone]
06. Andy Warhol [ft. Scavone]
07. Peaches [ft. Scavone, Doujah Raze, Potta & Substantial]
08. Littlewing [ft. Scavone & Big Brooklyn Red]
09. Southern Man [ft. Bavu Blakes]
10. The Wizard [ft. John Bonham vs. The Turntable Anihilists]
Another day, another skull. These guys thought they could make a whole album remixing rock classics by The Eagles, The Stranglers, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath etc., not unlike Joey Beats with his Indie Rock Blues. Apparently, Deaf in the Family are apparently a bunch of producers known as The Resource, calling for some underground MC's to add some grit on their beats here. And surprisingly, they quite actually go along well. Surely this won't fit everyone's taste (after all, the title is pretty specific), but as long as mash-ups go, it's a fun thing to listen to, whether at home or in your car, or even at a club: bass-heavy stuff to rock your socks coupled with decent mic skills. Although it's a free download on their site, I also put an alternate SendSpace link, just in case. And I wouldn't be too surprised if people started talking about 'em.
01. Midnight Black Earth
02. Crimson Ways
03. Maximum Black
04. Vigilante Crusade
05. Destroying Angels
06. Grave Wisdom
07. Constant Fear
08. Skeletal Remains
09. The Art of Coffins
"Horror jazz". "Piano doom". "Ghost ambient". Easy titles for a band that started as metal/hardcore-based, to later form "Bohren" driven by ideas of a more unique approach. That was 14 years ago, and while Bohren is the chosen German word for drilling (thought you'd like to know), "der Club of Gore" was obviously added to honour the Dutch instrumental masters GORE (not that I had any clue either). So to cut things short, we have some metal freaks in sort of an alien jazz disguise - wouldn't wanna call it "sheep", would I?... There is a sax, a deep double-bass, cymbals, and maybe more... oh yes, the Rhodes. There's not at all any guitars to disturb them, as they keep their sound not very charged, but heavy on melancholy (and doom). A band that takes its time, not only by recording Black Earth in more than a year, but by stretching time itself ("dead slow" should be the perfect fit here, sorry), yet keeping things highly ventilated, perfectly weightless, devoid of any acuteness, excluding aggresion completely. Music for the spirit, opposite of the discharge it actually aims for - nearly could be listened anywhere, since it isolates you from the world. Simply, a disc of space, and one for people who're no longer afraid of the dark.
By now you must've figured what the skulls were all about, so it's time I made it official. We don't really celebrate it here in Europe (do we?), but it's always nice to pull an evil grin and maybe, just maybe, make one's life miserable for the occasion. That's what head of Type records Xela must've thought when he released this baby, featuring a cover version of Carpenter's Halloween theme and then a special bonus cover of Goblin's Suspiria theme on the flip, taken from Dario Argento's film of the same name. It's also a chance to finally preview Xela's awesome black metal logo, which I definitely wanna see in all splendour on a Type t-shirt. And since I'm feeling generous today, scroll down for the long player - the actual "real deal" below.
01. The Gate
02. Linseed
03. Drunk on Salt Water
04. Wet Bones
05. Creeping Flesh
06. Savage Ritual
07. A Floating Procession
08. Sinking Cadavers
09. Humid at Dusk
10. Watching a Light in the Distance
11. Briefly Seen
12. Never Going Home
For the full album, Xela has again drawn inspiration from horror masters Dario Argento, Mario Bava, George A. Romero, Lucio Fulci, plus Goblin and Carpenter of course, whose creepy soundtracks were own detailed compositions. Not only does The Dead Sea seem lot gory than Xela's previous efforts, centering around the story of a "doomed ocean voyage that meets an abrupt end amongst a swarm of malignant zombies", but also tends to shape this guy's most perfected vision, that grabs the essence of the Type Rec. "contemporary classical" aesthetic. Seamlessly meshing all different kinds of sounds (synthetic/processed/organic/natural) together, it kind of re-invents "cinematic" music in general, bringing it closer to what it should mean: sounds that tell a story. Aside from all the gore, the titles and horror references, there's a real sense of playfulness that draws from each piece, making for a fun, if not uplifting listen. This comes accompanied by Matthew Woodson's artwork (www.ghostco.org), like we'd need extra reasons to buy it.
Sebutones 50/50 Where It Counts Metaforensics 2000
01. Intro
02. We Three Kings
03. Trust No One
04. Interlude
05. The Masked Man
06. 05 Professionals
07. Dead Men Don't Walk
08. Newport
09. Apocalypse Party
10. 01/29/2020
11. Intelligent Freaks
12. Dazed & Confused
13. Whiteys on the Moon
14. Go Back
15. Nibiru
16. Ballistics Testing
17. Outlawed Truths
18. Tranquilized Tones
19. Viral Pneumonia
20. Simba Ain't Shit
21. Chalk
22. Punk Song
If you like your hip-hop dirty, gritty, lo-fi and cynical, then look no further than Halifax, where the Sebutones dwell. 50/50 first came out on wax some 10 years ago and was later re-issued, so you have little excuses for missing it; still, looking back from today's perspective, it's kind of funnily nostalgic to find on a small DIY label Metaforensics, with Sixtoo now signed to Ninja Tune/Bully and Buck 65 to Warner Bros. This was their only work together (aside from the ultra-obscure Psoriasis tape), each later taking different paths with different outcomes, yet for those of us who first witnessed them in the 90s, I'm sure they were the fucking perfect team of geeks. Not gonna pull the "revolutionary" tag, but as with other acts like Co Flow and cLOUDDEAD, they set some milestones and put pride in what they did, not trying to sound this or that way, but only like themselves. Therefore, something to be respected, noted down and cherished, excepting perhaps in the hands of the hater. This goes out to my puberty.
01. Blue & White
02. Seven Quarters
03. Teste
04. A Few Empty Chairs
05. Conjoint With Clarity
06. Klangwolke #1
07. Ice Tango
08. Detajam
09. Kranky
10. Frentic
11. Loopholes in My Lawn
12. Ruit Silvermoon
13. Reversed-Reserved [Bonus]
New CCO satellite B??ro (founded for the German label's more acoustic-based projects) has got out some nice first couple albums by likes of One Second Bridge and The Gentleman Losers, so this is where they decide to draw their big guns - pay some attention please. Some of you should be salivating already: looks like Conjoint can't help but do great jazz, with Empty Chairs their 3rd and also first live record. Get rid of the crowd noise, find some simple but good ideas, treat them with instrumentation layed out so smoothly that it's hard not to get caught up in daydreams as it circles around, slowly pushing you into its world rather than vice-versa. I started off with a somewhat lukewarm opinion, but really began to appreciate and was won over by the band's great sense of melody, plus always perfect electronic punches. Just mix a drink, make yourself comfy and enjoy all that it is.
Luciano Cilio Dell' Universo Assente Die Schachtel 2004
01. Primo Quadro "Della Conoscenza"
02. Secondo Quadro
03. Terzo Quadro
04. Quarto Quadro "Dell'universo Assente"
05. Interludio
06. Della Conoscenza [Originale Versione Inedita]
07. Studio per Fiati [Originale Inedito]
08. Suiff [Frammento]
09. Liebesleid [Frammento Inedito]
10. Terzo Quadro
11. 4Â? Sonata
These recordings sound as they feel self-contained, introspective, and determined; you can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can be rarely found, as in Bill Fay's "Time of the Last Persecution" or in Nick Drake's "Pink Moon": this enormous weight that is bearing on its creators, the absolute need to exorcize it from their lives; a moment in time when you are invited to hear artists truly in contact with their existence. Luciano Cilio holds that moment in time, an authentic emotional testament, something to be cherished (...)
-- Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth.
Born in Naples in 1950, Cilio has joined the universitarian studies in architecture and scenography to music, collaborating in the '60s and '70s with several non-conventional musicians (as Alan Sorrenti and Shawn Phillips), developing surprising intuitions about the relationship between gesture, words and music. Sitar and guitar virtuoso, excellent pianist, Luciano Cilio "essentially self-taught concerning the music composition" focused his research on long sustained sounds, on the sound in its primary and 'internal' meaning, at the outset on the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic entities, to "re-enter in the sound, to hold it, to hold it... then to leave it to go". His career officially begins in '77 with the publication of a full-length album titled Dialoghi dal Presente (entirely included in this release along with several extra tracks) composed between the end of the '60s and early '70s. Luciano plays as a multi-instrumentalist, performing on piano, guitar, flute, bass and mandola, also joined by musicians coming from different experiences and areas. Unexpected, in 1983, the dead in suicide, at crest of his career, but also at crest of a production shuddering into silence.
01. Counterattack Intro
02. Slide Around [ft. Awol One]
03. New Tone [ft. Emirp]
04. Evil Clap
05. Hear No Speak No [ft. Awol One]
06. Components & Variables
07. City of Amnesia
08. 5th Dimension (Anti-Imperialism Disco)
09. Them in Us [Interlude]
10. Akarui-Mirai [ft. Emirp]
11. Harder to Unravel
12. Tokatonton [ft. Emirp]
13. Suikinkutsu 09.12.2003
Let's face it: we don't know shit about Japan - Japan knows shitloads about the rest of us. I don't mean to be smartass around here or too overbearing, but when they're good, they're shockingly so with what they do, and hip-hop-wise they even got some tradition. If Flying Lotus wasn't proof enough, leave it to iLLEVEN & Hashim B., 'cause they know it so well and don't need all that "zen" weirdo Japanese slang/symbolism to win you either. I mean, they grew up with Mobb Deep but end up sounding a zillion things more, and they quite simply explain it with notions like "fa?§ades" and "skeletons" as if they'd hold some super-secret unknown to man:
The album title reflects the complex mosaic-like recording process of Cappablack, which is akin to intricate architectural structures. They build skeletons of tracks and develop them into songs that often end up being completely different from what the duo themselves expected, in the same way that the "fa?§ade" of a building looks completely different from the internal structure.
Okaay, that being the 'coolest' aspect to their music, who do we have to hang for not thinking of it before? More so, if making new hip-hop music can sound this fun, why the hell doesn't everyone do it? Fa?§ades & Skeletons was released today and I have to say it's very much my favourite hip-hop album in a while.
01. Elephant Gun
02. My Family's Role in the World Revolution
03. Scenic World
04. The Long Island Sound
05. Carousels
This isn't so much gypsy music as music to make us sedentary indie kids feel like tumbleweeds; to make us feel like we're shaking dust off our jackets, and into our shoes; to make us feel like yeah we're on our way somewhere, you and I - just take my hand.
Hell yes. Beirut couldn't have gone unnoticed with the buzz started in spring, so as new 4AD recruits, they're having their debut album re-issued together with a bonus EP, alternately released on Chouette. Good way to remind us why we liked 'em, and to re-justify that buzz, mmkay? There's not a lot to criticise, dissect, or make references to, that having been done on dozens and dozens blogs. It's just another fine piece of music, kind of a trademark sound already, which those in love with Gulag Orkestar will pick up in a flash, unsure of what the vocals mean to say or where those sounds came from but loving it anyway, while others will keep ranting on Zack Condon's voice and the same choice of instrumentation, and the same 'overhype'. He heh. Is Beirut our new Radiohead? Hell yes.
Huntsville For the Middle Class Rune Grammofon 2006
01. The Appearance of a Wise Child
02. Serious Like a Pope
03. Add a Key to Humanity
04. Melon
First you notice is some really boring artwork, but I own lots of great records that have one, so don't be fooled by the looks. Huntsville sounds like - well, like nothing you've heard all year, and that's quite something to get excited about, knowing Rune Gramm's standards. In case you're wondering, it's a Norwegian label, and these are Norwegian artists, for all their Texan (am I missing something?) references. And let me tell you that they've made a tempered melting pot of deep-drony-improv-jazz-tronics, and if that didn't spark your interest, get the album anyway - it actually works really well. Albeit in a pretty weird, contrasting, and unusual manner. My tip: turn the volume up a notch, 'cause it ain't no background shit; especially on 3rd track, where they make their "tour de force". A thing of beauty, but be warned: edges can be quite sharp.
se gaseste pe net No Spaghetti Edition - Pasta Variations.
insa nu l'am luat.
cica No Spaghetti ar fi proiectul lor ptr pura improvizatie,
pe cand Huntsville e ceva mai temperat, cu elemente de compozitie clasica.
si nu, pana acum avem doar un album.
01. Smash & Grab
02. Love Power
03. Triumph Stag
04. Man of Constant Sorrow
05. Giggity (Allright)
06. Little Spot of Soul
07. Lost Due to Incompetence
08. Light the Fuse
09. Wet Your Beak
10. Ruby's Revenge
11. Matador
12. Husky
13. Soul Bossanova
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