bombay calling....
it's a mix of blues, funk, rock, and weird experimenting, by a bunch of guys who met out in the woods treeplanting and started playing shows at local biker bars. hippies in small town bars in general, especially trying to be artful, is generally a bad thing but they won the crowd over.
golden years
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prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
...a weird amalgam of Atari Teenage Riot, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Arab on Radar and The Faint, pairing unpredictable (if not downright counterintuitive) rhythmic and melodic shifts with a disarmingly club-friendly vibe. And the truly mad thing is, it works.
ruy blas
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female fronted holocaust
Thorr's Hammer is raw nihilistic doom featuring the unbelievable vocals of Norwegian goddess Ozma. Presented in her native Norwegian tongue, Ozma' gutteral dark vocals are contrasted by beautiful singing creating a huanting atmosphere.
dommedgsnatt
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landscaping..
Dont you think its lovely to have waking dreams whilst listening to music that inspires colours and shapes? If your answer to this question is yes then perhaps you will find some space in your imagination for All India Radios Echo Other.
echo other
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Gong x 2
Gong Gong is in a class of its own. Far from presenting a simple electro-video act, the band transcends all physical and sound boundaries, drawing up a new map of today's music.
laughing
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Prepare To Meet Thy Doom
Dark postclassical compositions alternating between poignantly lyrcial and furiously dramatic, set amongst distribed supernatural soundscapes, and unsettling cinematic sound design.
witchhaven
DANCETERIA...
touches of rock, tenchno, latin and disco all wrapped together!this was the begining of REAL mixed dance music.
III
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surf's up
Dennis was the only Beach Boy who actually surfed, and his near-mythical 1977 album is all about a bumpy, haphazard beach life; he drowned in the Pacific six years after it was released.
p.o.b
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harumi
Recorded by Tom Wilson (who else?) for Verve in 1967 and 1968 in New York, this set originally appeared on a double LP (which has been reissued on both vinyl and CD by Fallout). This is one of the wildest and most unbelievably ambitious recordings to come from the psychedelic era. Harumi (a mystery man who recorded one more album before vanishing into the ether) could write pop songs and sing them. He also sounds like he did a lot of acid. Harumi (who sings and speaks in English), Wilson, arrangers Harvey Vinson and Larry Fallon, and engineer Gary Kellegren assembled a tripped-out collection of pop, Eastern folk, and experimental music and production techniques, with sounds, textures, and atmospheres that incorporated everything from strings and horns to Japanese folk instruments to vibraphones and (of course) plenty of guitars and drums and organ. Of the 13 cuts here, 11 are of conventional length and are utterly seductive in their hypnotic power and pop brilliance. The last two, "Twice Told Tales of the Pomegranate Forest" and "Samurai Memories," are 24 minutes and 18 minutes long, respectively. These two have plenty of cosmic spoken word by Wilson (Rosko) and Harumi, and on the past by his parents and his sister. The first of these, the longer one, is a bit difficult to take with its slow pace, minimal orchestration, and nearly nonsensical story (that's what the remote is for). The second one, with its discotheque go-go boots beat and orchestration, phased sounds, and Japanese language, is an exotic masterpiece. It grooves throughout, especially when the electric guitars and strings play counterpoint to one another. Simply put, there is nothing at all like this record in the known universe. It has been compared to the adventurousness of the Mothers of Invention, but only insofar as its wide range. The music here, while a huge compendium of sources, is unlike anything you have ever heard when it is put together. Harumi's self-titled album is simply a classic from the underground brought back into the light.
harumi
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a window in the horizon
Μου είναι πολύ δύσκολο να μιλήσω για την μουσική αυτή καθαυτή... Να τη μεταφράσω σε λέξεις! Άτιμη η δουλειά του "μεταφραστή"! Χαμένος στην μετάφραση λοιπόν... Που είστε προδότρες λέξεις όταν σας χρειάζομαι; Πως λοιπόν να μεταφέρω το αίσθημα της μελαγχολίας του χρόνου που βηματίζει πένθιμα το οποίο γεννά το 13 λεπτών έπος "Telviz"; Πόσες φορές πρέπει να ακούσω το "Renoir kertje" για να μπορέσω να βρω το κατάλληλο επίθετο; Αρκεί να παρομοιάσω το τρυφερό "Zuzmara" με ένα γλυκό βύθισμα σε αγαπημένο βλέμμα; Ή μήπως να αρκεστώ στην στεγνή αλλά περιεκτική δήλωση ότι το "Δωμάτιο της Έρικα" είναι ένας από τους πιο όμορφους δίσκους που άκουσα τα τελευταία χρόνια; Αν πάντως ομορφιά είναι το σχήμα που δίνει η αγάπη στα πράγματα, τότε αυτός ο δίσκος πραγματικά την αξίζει...
Αντώνης Ξαγάς
erika....
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a nice pair....
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, a blind married couple whose life story is as remarkable as its music, have long been stars in West Africa. They draw the musical traditions of their native Mali and the neighboring Ivory Coast, while also embracing the Latin American salsa, Cuban song, reggae, American R&B, and English blues-rock that they discovered via long-distance broadcasts.
dimanche a bamako
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upper class...
“emotionally rich, sonically widescreen mini-symphonies produced in bedrooms for less than most semi-solvent artists spend consulting their stylists for an hour” (Michael White).
cansecos
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tum
Impossible Shapes have kept a profoundly articulate sense of classic song/dream structure whether they're billowing in drenched multi-tracked gauze like Indianapolis forefathers Zerfas, or snarled in amp-buzz annihilation of power-quartet stage performances.
TUM
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From Russia With Love...
"Exotic, playful and full of fantasy and imagination
electronica, lounge and easy listening from Russia. Nostalgic and
futuristic, surreal and ironic. Mysterious East and modern Europe meet. Psychedelic electronic sounds - dance, dream and enjoy.
cafe sputnik!
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proswell...
bruxist frog
One minute we might have a grinding slice of retro electroid-worshop, then a bubbling piece of synthetic ambience straight out of the Delia Derbyshire cookbook, and the next minute we might have a decaying slice of Castlevania worship.BOOMKAT
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more music for miro...
The 23 Constellations Of Joan Miro
“Evanescent.”
Steve Futterman—Washington Post
Evanescent.”
Steve Futterman—Washington Post
“Profoundly beautiful.”
Bill Milkowski—Downbeat
“Previte’s masterpiece.”
Stuart Nicholson—Wire Magazine UK
“A desert island disc of ineffable beauty.”
Martin Wisckol —Orange County Register
“Quite unlike anything else in contemporary music.”
Mark Stryker—Detroit Free Press
“In the bigger picture, it updates the very spirit of Western composition.”
Ken Smith—Gramophone
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The King
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T.I. should have no problem selling this excellent southern rap affair. The production is at its best here with dramatic synthesizers and bass heavy drum programming. From the first listen you can tell the album is a product of the south with it slinky sounding synths and use of soulful, samples.
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...PinPink Anvil s formula appears to be to take some already existing horror / B movie theme and run it through some effects processors and add delay and noise. On top of these parts, there are lots of audio snippets from 1950s-sounding random instructional movies that you d have to watch in junior high school. EXPOSE
HALLOWEEN PARTY
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sing me a song you're the singer....
....Everybody does it. In the shower, in the car, around the campfire. At one time or another you, me and everyone's cousin have sung a capella. It doesn't always sound good -- believe me, you don't want to be share a long trip with a Barry Manilow fan and no car stereo -- but even when it does, as an art, as an expression deemed worthy for mass consumption, a capella music is fading away.POPMATTERS
A CAPPELA
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wire
PINK FLAG...Perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk...
Pink Flag's enduring influence pops up in hardcore, post-punk, alternative rock, and even Britpop, and it still remains a fresh, invigorating listen today: a fascinating, highly inventive rethinking of punk rock and its freedom to make up your own rules...
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schema
''waves of muted guitar feedback, relentless rhythmic loops, and songs that don’t really progress so much as fill the room for ten minutes like a fog before slowly dissipating.''
schema
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bablicon
There are elements of prog, Archie Shepp, Frank Zappa's most "gremlin-jazz" moments, a little Moondog, a taste of Igor Stravinky, Soft Machine, Krautrock, Toru Takemitsu, Eric Dolphy, and the instrumentally Magic Banded side of Don Van Vleit all mixed in with found sounds, chaos and grace" [George Parson, Dream Magazine]
a flat inside a fog/the cat that was a dog
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.....turn my mind off
....και εκει που ολοι νομιζαν οτι οι Coil δεν ειχαν πια τιποτα καινουριο να προσφερουν
κυκλοφορουν τα 2 Musick και επαναπροσδιοριζουν τη θεση τους στο χαρτη της μοντερνας
μουσικης...προσωπικη μου γνωμη ειναι οτι ειναι οι δυο καλυτεροι τους δισκοι.
DARK 1
DARK 2
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EARWORM
disc 1
disc 2
''The Tell Tale Signs of Earworm represents the first 3 or 4 years of the most innovative label in the UK. Over the years Earworm has been at the forfront of the bedroom indie scene and this double CD contains previously released tracks from long deleted 7"s alongside tracks that would have been put onto wax if there was more money available.
Of the tracks on the first disk, Avrocar stand out with their beautiful, epic, electro pop. Elsewhere Maps Of Jupiter brew up a fuzzy storm with 'Wait' whilst France's Tank travel the 70's rawk route.
Disk two's highlights are tracks from The Minders, Southall Riot and Magnetic North Pole.
All in all an excellent record''STRGZR