''Whatever he calls himself now, this prodigiously gifted R&B aesthete can still craft a song as deftly as Stevie Wonder or Burt Bacharach and then sing it like an angel. On "Sweetness," the melody just melts like a kiss. Sure, D'Arby can appear pretentious and sulky, but his enigmatic music--so sunny but haunted, knowing but naive, self-assured but needy--makes him an enigma well worth our indulgence. ''
WILDCARD

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"Taste Green - Hear Purple - Color Your Frustration! Otis Optic are a new group with an own distinctive new sound, rooted deeply in the moods of mid-sixties Psychedelic and Garage Music. Otis Optic are young and fresh, fresh enough to present the swirling organ and fuzz guitars like they have invented them. The album features the smash single 'Micrograms' and 11 new tracks. This is Op Art for your turntable and your ears!"

OTIS
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This hour long concert features these five distinctive vocalists improvising together with no leader and, as expected, with no ordinary songs. More tongue-in-cheek and, literally, vocal pyrotechnics. Each of them is a master of strange, bizarre and wacky vocal tricks, from singing quietly, humming an almost religious drone overtone on the aptly named "No Drone Rising" to imitating doo-wop or opera singers and cartoon heroes, groaning, inventing alien languages and speaking in baby languages.
five men singing

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In 1984 Dakota released the album that many holds as their best one and I can only agree with them. "Runaway" is an AOR album that should have got more attention when it was released back in the 80s. It was released in the same time as their label mates in Night Ranger, The Fixx and Glen Frey and not to mention 2 other acts that released a single called "Runaway". I think this album deserves a better destiny.

So now 20 years later I have the digitally remastered version of the album in my hand with 2 bonus tracks and what more can I say than that you don?t get much better AOR albums than this that is filled with pure 80s AOR in such high quality. If you?re into acts like Survivor, Franke & The Knockouts, Le Roux, Preview, Aviator, Allies and Toto you just gotta have this in your collection.

This classic record is filled with pure winners from the start to the end and many of the songs are classic AOR tracks with a fantastic sound. It was mixed by Humberto Gatica and you will recognize some of the players that were involved in this album such as Paul Jackson JR, Steve Porcaro, Richie Zito, Neil Steubenhaus and Bill Champlin to name few.

RUNAWAY
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"Gorgeously ambient."
- New York Magazine

"A dreamy fruitcake of parts, tranquil even through its anarchy."
- Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times

"A marvelously fluid, traveling spatial sound sculpture that disintegrates and reforms at nearly every stop light. This is a holiday tradition that could give new music a good name."
- Kyle Gann, The Village Voice

"Here's a gorgeous holiday-season sleeper from Bang on a Can's label, a joyous, continuous electronic collage full of wildly pealing bells and chimes, voices, wall-of-sound textures and more, as heard from multiple boomboxes moving though the streets of Greenwich Village."
- Richard Ginell, Los Angeles Times

"If an avant-garde Christmas record exists, this is it."
- Dan Buckley, Stereophile

“This is the first necessary classical recording of the 21st century."
- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

"Phil Kline's postmodern boombox caroling walk is more than just performance art: It's a demonstration of community."
- Time Out New York

unsilentninght

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'Tranform I' is the debut album from rootsy reggae outfit Dubkasm. The Bristol based crew have a neat line in mixing Brazilian samba elements with their homegrown dub reggae sound, resulting in a rich fusion of militant steppas and skanking roots with Brazilian instrumentation like Berimbau, Zabumba, Cavquinho and Cuica. The project also involves nine volcalists from both sides of the Atlantic, connecting Brazilian singers like Ras Bernado and Jeru Banto with, errr, Levi Roots, Tena Stelin and Afrikan Simba. Fans of RSD's Bristol sound will love this.

trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrransffffffffoooooooooooormmmmmm

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Once Upon a Time is one of an amazing 20 albums tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore appeared on in 1969 and 1970 (including several veritable classics of British jazz, Mike Gibbs' Tanglewood 63, John Surman's How Many Clouds Can You See?, Stan Tracey's Seven Ages of Man, and Graham Collier's Songs for My Father). The lineup of this particular quintet, which represented Britain at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival, is truly stellar: in addition to Skidmore there's Canadian trumpeter/flügelhorn virtuoso Kenny Wheeler, pianist John Taylor, bassist Harry Miller, and percussionist Tony Oxley. Two of the six tracks are credited to John Surman, and one, the sultry "Old San Juan," is penned by John Warren, Surman's collaborator on Tales of the Algonquin, another classic release from the same year. If the Surman material reveals the discreet influence of the late-'60s Miles Davis quintet, Oxley's "Majaera" begins to explore the more dangerous territory of free playing he would return to the following year on his Four Compositions for Sextet. Elsewhere, John Taylor's "The Yolk" is a boisterous, brilliant piece of hard bop, and the last three tracks, segued together as a suite, explore a similarly wide range of styles. So much so that Skidmore aficionados tend to prefer the greater coherence of the following year's septet release on Philips, TCB, but Once Upon a Time remains one of the landmark albums of British jazz. ~ Dan Warburton, All Music Guide

onceuponatime

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...το blog της elafini διεξαγει ψηφοφορια για τα 20 καλυτερα soundtracks της δεκαετιας (2000-2009)...παρακατω ειναι η δικη μου λιστα

1.Tomandandy-Mean Creek
2.Andrey Dergatchev-The Return
3.Gustavo Santaolalia-21 Grams
4.Decoder Ring-Somersault
5.Seu Jorge-The Life Aquatic
6.Gianfilippo Corticelli-La Finestra Di Fronte
7.David Byrne-Lead Us Not Into Temptation
8.Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet & Mogwai-The Fountain
9.Danny Elfman-Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
10.Yiann Tiersen -Amelie
11.Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet-Requiem For A Dream
12.Massive Attack & Neil Davidge-Danny The Dog
13. Bjork-Dancer In The Dark
14.Emilie Simon- La Marche De L'Empereur
15.Paul Westerberg-Open Season
16.Michaels Andrews-Donnie Darko
17.Hans Zimmer-Gladiator
18.Cliff Martinez-Solaris
19.Howard Shore-The Lord Of The Rings:The Fellowship Of The Ring
20.Cliff Martinez-Traffic

...προσπαθησα να κανω μια λιστα με βαση μονο τη μουσικη αξια των soundtracks ανεξαρτητα
με το αν μου αρεσε η οχι η ταινια στην οποια βρισκετε αλλα μαλλον δεν τα καταφερα ..
αγαπημενα τραγουδια και υποψηφια για τη συλλογη(sorry elafini επρεπε να τα βαλω και τα δυο) ειναι τα ''Mad World'' του Gary Jules απο το ''Donnie Darko'' και το ''Love You In The Fall''
του Paul Westerberg απο το ''Open Season''....

strgzr

''Southern Illinois native Zac Nelson is a drummer, and knowing that you should also know that he is a madman. One of the few known photos of him looks like a cult leader or someone who might know a thing or two about eating diamonds. While he is a current member of Who's Your Favorite Son God and Prints, Hexlove is Nelson all by himself going nuts. Nelson's enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, and post-Vision Creation Newsun Boredoms, and combine it all and play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. No one is ever going to think you should listen to Knew Abloom on nitrous because it already sounds like it's on nitrous. Simply put, Hexlove is unlike anything and sounds exactly like right now should. ''

Knew Abloom (Life's Hood)

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''...The Unkindess of Crows isn’t out of nowhere. Old gods just don’t show up one day. There are signs, cosmic warnings…a murdered albino, crop circles. You know, a reunion show here, a collaboration with Greg Anderson there. But what marks this album, performed by only himself and drummer Tyler Smith, from all the rest of Densley’s catalog isn’t just the approach – heavy and minimal — but the all-out theatricality of it. Eagle Twin certainly sounds like the sky opening up to vomit cosmic malevolence all over you....''

T.U.O.C

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"Dracula Lewis is one of the most well hidden deep dark secret from eastern-Europe, based in Romania he spent long time traveling all over the world. Vernasca, Valhalla is the first official release and Hundebiss Records is proud to present this four tracks done with a broken mixer and two open-mic. The result is a deep listening, lo-fi aggressive electronics with weird field recordings but also a spacey melodic sweet sound who came up from this maelström."

Vernasca, Valhalla

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''...Their stupid noise has the festivitie and the good vibe of the Reatards, with the fuckin' crazyness of GG Allin and the frenzy and simplicity of the eighties hardcore and the Killed By Death. You shall dance like a beheaded chicken while you drink and splash the pussy you like in this frensy of Tonayan and you'll wish to repeat this eight minutes of riot infinitely....''

LOS INSERVIBLES

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''..it was the Goodman Quartet tha t set the jazz world on fire.This was a group that swung
with such dazzling fire and authority,a group that caressed a ballad with such a compelling
flow of warmth and richness tha all of a sudden every big swing band had to have a subsidiary
small group....''

TOGETHER AGAIN!

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....the infamous Residents go safari and soundtrack a hard night's day in the jungle when George is away on vacation..

T.W.O.P.A.P
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Honey Cone, the girl group with the sweet name and the bumblebee persona, didn't masquerade as biker babe wannabes like the Angels, come off as fly foxes like the Ikettes, or fight their battles with tears either. They tell it like it is on "While You're out Looking for Sugar (Somebody's Gonna Take Your Honey and Be Gone)," "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show," "Stick Up," "Want Ads," and others written by a consortium of General Johnson, Angelo Bond, and Gregg Perry, with some Edith Wayne/Ronald Dunbar and HDH tracks in the mix. This complete account of Honey Cone's Hotwax recordings features the excellent "Ace in the Hole" twice -- the long album version with the funky, bubbling break and the single edit. Instead of wailing at an imminent breakup, Honey Cone gets philosophical (i.e., "Sitting on a Time Bomb (Waiting on the Hurt to Come)," "The Day I Found Myself," "It's Better to Have Love and Lost," and "Girls It Ain't Easy"). They show vulnerability behind a strong façade on "Take Me With You" and cloying versions of "Ooo Baby Baby" and "Stay in My Corner." With 45 tracks, this gargantuan collection has enough soulful honey to fill a bee hive.

DISC 1
DISC 2

(manand)

"Transforming bicycle sounds into experimental music by two groups from the US and UK. PBE plays free improvised music on amplified bicycles, also LBO uses a specially adapted bicycle instrument, and plays mesmerising noise cycles from bicycles."



The Portland Bike EnsembleThe Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra - Live At Il Corral/Spinning Priest

or download this and other sonic beauties from this awesome label:http://www.lostfrog.net/index.html

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onmybirthdayicaughtatrainforthessaloniki

Μεγάλωσε στο Βόλο και ζει στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Σπούδασε μουσική στο Εθνικό Ωδείο και ιατρική στο ΑΠΘ.

Εχει γράψει μουσική για περισσότερες από 90 θεατρικές παραστάσεις, 3 ταινίες και τηλεοπτικά ντοκυμανταίρ.

Συνεργάστηκε κυρίως με το ΚΘΒΕ,την Πειραματική σκηνή της «Τέχνης», το Εθνικό θέατρο, διάφορα ΔΗΠΕΘΕ, τη «Νέα σκηνή Τέχνης», την «Actors touring company» του Λονδίνου κ.α.

Εχει εκδόσει 5 cd με τις θεατρικές του μουσικές. Είναι μέλος του συγκροτήματος «Χειμερινοί κολυμβητές» και του trio «Tabako».

Το 1994 ίδρυσε το σύνολο «Primavera en Salonico»,το οποίο σε συνεργασία με τη ΣαβίναΓιαννάτου έχει εμφανιστεί σε όλες τις μεγάλες Ευρωπαικές πόλεις,

τις ΗΠΑ,την Αυστραλία, την Αργεντινή,την Ταιβαν,το Ισραήλ κ.α συμμετέχοντας στα σημαντικότερα διεθνή φεστιβάλ.

Διδάσκει στο Τμήμα Θεάτρου της Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών του ΑΠΘ.

Στη συλλογη συμμετεχουν τα μουσικα σχηματα που εμφανιστηκαν στις συναυλιες στον ''1ο Οροφο'' απο το Νοεμβριο του 2007 εως τον Απριλιο του 2009



MUSIC FROM THE FIRST FLOOR

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Frederick Knight's catchy "I've Been Lonely for So Long" was a sizable R&B hit on Stax in 1972, and he wrote and produced Anita Ward's across-the-board smash "Ring My Bell" in 1979. Knight cut his own "I've Been Lonely for So Long" in Birmingham, Alabama with a seasoned southern soul crew behind him, and hit again in 1975 with "I Betcha Didn't Know That."
I've Been Lonely for So Long

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"Extended Organ is a 'supergroup' of experimental sound artists whose members are culled from the ranks of that seminal West Coast 'slacker' noise cult the Los Angeles Free Music Society. The four members of Extended Organ have been improvising with sound for over two decades and although they have played together in various configurations in the past, this is the first time the quartet has ever played together as a total entity. The foursome each have active and well established careers on their own. Paul McCarthy is a world renowned art superstar. His work in Extended Organ consists of free form vocal/lyrical improvisations which play off the instrumental improvisations of the other three members while at the simultaneously setting a mood, telling a story and responding to the general ambience of the performance situation. Fredrik Nilsen is a founder of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and a noted photographer. Nilsen conceptually founded Extended Organ in which he plays prepared acoustic guitar and both an antique analog organ and a modern digital keyboard, all in an especially unorthodox style. Fredrik's approach, which acknowledging minimalist composers, spins equally from gothic horror movie soundtracks. Joe Potts is a founder of the LAFMS and mastermind of Airway, which has been called 'the gnarliest noise band of all time'. Potts is omnipresent on his chopped optigans -- instruments he crafts from dismantled 70s optical samplers. With up to 64 simultaneous samples per instrument, the chopped optigan is the ultimate drone machine. Tom Recchion is a founder of the LAFMS and member of the Doo-Dooettes and B People. Recchion uses Kurzweil, guitar, radio, CDs, etc. to accent the other instruments as well as the occasional lush crescendos. Tom also acted as producer on the record as well as mixing and processing the sound of the entire ensemble live during the recording. Three years in the making, XOXO is creepy and wonderful. It may sound like a gross exaggeration, but we are wondering if this CD might not just be the Sgt. Pepper's of noise records."

xoxo

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Nightmare in Crook County Vol. 1

S.

''...Sakata, Corsano, and Gray have mastered well through numerous collaborations and releases, but it all comes to glorious fruition within Friendly Pants. The idea that is has taken 20 years for Sakata's music to reach American shores once more is a sad thought but we can be glad that Friendly Pants will serve as a constant reminder that the best the jazz world has to offer will always find its way back home. ''

FRIENDLY PANTS

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"Purveyor of expertly controlled chaotic saxophone experimentation John Butcher (UK) is joined by German contrabassist Torsten Muller and Vancouver drummer Dylan van der Schyff for this recording from the Vancouver Jazz Festival. The former British theoretical physicist leads the trio through their first performance together with almost inhuman attention to musical detail."

Way Out Northwest
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''Trios for Deep Voices, a five-movement work scored for the unusual ensemble of three double basses, is a sort of musical evocation—sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly—of the sounds and life that composer Roberts experienced in the jungles of the Star Mountains region of Papua New Guinea, where he lived in the early 1980s.''

trios

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..με αφορμη το σινε ποστ του manand (με τον οποιο συμφωνω σε γενικες γραμμες με τη λιστα του) βαζω και το δισκακιον τουτο, σαουντρακ μεταμεσονυχτιας ενοχης απολαυσης...

7th

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20. the others
19. garden state
18. requiem for a dream
17. le fabuleux destin d'amelie poulain
16. big fish
15. oldboy
14. memento
13. little miss sunshine
12. donnie darko
11. kill bill 1
10. crouching tiger, hidden dragon
9. the lives of others
8. mystic river
7. pan's labyrinth
6. 13 tzameti
5. spring, summer,fall, winter...and spring
4. let the right one in
3. les invasions barbares
2. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
1. in the mood for love

με μεγαλη μου λυπη μεινανε εκτος για λιγο τα παρακατω:

the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
hidden
the royal tenenbaums
spirited away
25th hour
y tu mama tambien
high fidelity
ghost world
the man without a past
the bourne supremacy
gran torino
yi yi

update 16/11/09
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θελω απλα και μονο να αναφερω μια ταινια την οποια μολις θυμηθηκα και αν αυτο ειχε γινει
νωριτερα μαλλον θα ητανε μεσα στην 20-αδα...
την εχω δει πανω απο 5 φορες και καθε φορα τρομαζω ολο και περισσοτερο...απιστευτος συνδυασμος τρομου, εντασης, κλειστοφοβικα συναισθηματα και πολλα αλλα...ΤΑΙΝΙΑΡΑ!!!

The Descent (2005)

(manand)

...In 1968, the Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made. This is one hip album, full of catchy melodies and hippie harmonies, as well as some of the most superb (and trippiest) fuzz guitar ever recorded. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are all excellent?one is equally as good as the next...

PLASTIC CLOUD

(manand)

from the nile

''..The Mike Sammes Singers were one of the leading backing vocal outfits in the UK during the 60s, and can be heard on everything from Disneyland Records’ Wizard of Oz albums to “I Am the Walrus.”..''

music for biscuits

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blessed are the STRONG

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various recordings of S.H

various recordings from 78's of the obscure post-war Rebetika singer Stella HashKill..

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''Circles Around The World is a various artists compilation that can be seen as a celebration of the 25th release in Audiotalaia Netlabel. Over this two years of work we have been releasing works from artist all around the world. For this special occasion we want to deliver a gathering of works under a common concept....''

CIRCLES AROUND THE WORLD

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In the early 70s, British DJ John Peel was a great supporter of what later became known as Krautrock and Can recorded four sessions for his show (15 - 20 minutes recorded live at BBC studios) from 1973 - 5. Can's albums were all recorded at their own studio with Holger Czukay producing, so this really captures them in an unfamiliar setting. Can always incorporated a lot of improvisation in their shows, and most of the music on this CD is what Holger Czukay called 'spontaneous compositions.'

The CD starts with a lengthy piece from what is generally regarded as the classic Can line up with Damo Suzuki on vocals. Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne (possibly named for DJ Anne Nightingale) starts rather tentatively with some of Karoli's trademark blues raga guitar, before quickly hitting a Future Days style groove. Czukay and Liebezeit hold down the rhythm, while Karoli and Suzuki free form all over the place and Schmidt adds odd washes of colour from his keyboards. This is Can at the top of their game, demonstrating an almost telepathic interplay and conjuring up mind spinning sounds apparently out of thin air, although the fact that they had been playing together 10 hours a day for several years probably helped. When the piece fades out at 18.46 you're left with the feeling that they'd just got started and there was much more to come. The next two tracks were recorded 18 months later, and bear a strong resemblance to side 2 of Soon Over Babaluma. Return to BB City is a low key piece which recalls Quantum Physics, dominated by Schmidt's ghostly keyboards and Liebezeit's understated percussion. Tape Kebab is a fuzz guitar led freak out in the mould of Chain Reaction, but even more intense - this is one of Karoli's finest moments as a guitarist. Tony Wanna Go was recorded 9 months earlier, and is another long improvisation with some jaw dropping moments. Suzuki may have left, but in 1974 Can had lost none of their drive and fire. The last two tracks were recorded in 1975 at around the time of Landed, and show the band just past their peak. Geheim (Half Past One), as the title implies, is a reworking of Half Past One from Landed and features Michael Karoli on vocals - it's atmospheric stuff, but lacks the intensity of what went before. The last track is based around Irmin Schmidt's piano playing, and there is a splendid interplay with Karoli's guitar. It's highly structured and probably the closest thing to mainstream prog on the album, but as with Geheim there's a feeling that the band have lost some of their other worldliness and that they have started playing safe.

This is an excellent collection of largely original material from one of the seminal Krautrock bands, and shows their development over 2 years and 3 studio albums. Few of their contemporaries had such a talent for improvisation - King Crimson were probably the only other band at the time who had the same kind of interplay - but very little of their spontaneous music has been officially released. This album shows just how good they could be. Strongly recommended.

THE PEEL SESSIONS

(manand)

Virtually ignored upon its initial release, Laughing Stock continues to grow in stature and influence by leaps and bounds. Picking up where Spirit of Eden left off, the album operates outside of the accepted sphere of rock to create music which is both delicate and intense; recorded with a large classical ensemble, it defies easy categorization, conforming to very few structural precedents -- while the gently hypnotic "Myrrhman" flirts with ambient textures, the percussive "Ascension Day" drifts toward jazz before the two sensibilities converge to create something entirely new and different on "New Grass." The epic "After the Flood," on the other hand, is an atmospheric whirlpool laced with jackhammer guitar feedback and Mark Hollis' remarkably plaintive vocals; it flows into "Taphead," perhaps the most evocative, spacious, and understated piece on the record. A work of staggering complexity and immense beauty, Laughing Stock remains an under-recognized masterpiece, and its echoes can be heard throughout much of the finest experimental music issued in its wake.

LAUGHING STOCK

(manand)

New music by Gu Zheng performer Bei Bei and Ubiquity producer Shawn Lee marries a unique blend of ancient tradition with studio trickery and spiritual jazz. This uplifting, genre-bending, soundclash recalls the afrocentric harping of Dorothy Ashby, the hypnotic style of Alice Coltrane, and the organic electronics of Fourtet and Quantic.

For this introductory, limited edition 10” EP, we include the original and instrumental versions of “Make Me Stronger,” with a vocal by Georgia Anne Muldrow who has recently produced and sang on records by Mos Def and Erykah Badu (she is also working on a solo record for Ubiquity.) Alongside these, is a storming version of the Billy Paul psychedelic soul opus “East.” And a remix by UK producer Floating Points (whose “Love Me Like This”, “Vacuum Boogie”, and “Radiality” releases have been turning heads all year long) takes the track deep into FP vs. Wu-Tang territory

απλα εκπληκτικο!!!

μπιουτι & δε μπιτς

(manand)