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Mathias Grassow - On Silent Wings Of Healing - montrealpunk
A shockingly tawdry and whining piece from the ambient pioneer, I can't think why he released it. After a fairly mellow start, it begins to grate on the nerves and, by the time it reaches 'The Touch' one is severely tempted to curtail it's misery. I would say it is on the opposite end of the spectrum from 'healing', a work I really wouldn't want to hear on my hospital bed. A far cry from the excellent 'Awaken The Empire of Dark Wood' or the more recent first two volumes of 'Highlights'. |
Miles Davis - Doo-Bop - markjazz
The last studio album from Miles and I had mixed feelings about it, mostly good though. I'll start by saying that the cover artwork does confuse listeners as to what style of jazz is on the album. I thought it would sound like Bitches Brew, but it's not. It's jazz mixed with Hip Hop, and in much the same way Us3 would do it at about the same time. So what we have is producer/rapper Easy Mo Bee mixing hip hop drums and samples while Miles Davis played the horn, and yes, three tracks contain lyrics too. The problem with the lyrics I have is that they are pretty lame and mostly praise Miles, but I guess it's his album anyway.
There was 6 tracks recorded with Miles before he died and 2 done post-humous. The production is so well done that one can't tell which is which and I'll live it to the listener to find out. I like this kind of jazz and although critics hated this album I think, for the time, it was something new and fresh and even fans of St Germain may get a kick out of the instrumental ones. |
MyMy* - Songs For The Gentle - maroko
Just by looking at the cover art, you can easily deduce that "Songs For The Gentle" was not meant to set dance floors on fire. Which naturally doesn't make it a bad release. Once the CD is taken out of the CD tray, the sleeve under it is gorgeous as well: a picture of a beautiful sunset taken from under a green tree... Yummy! The artwork is pure eye candy, and all these photos of innocent nature really set the mood for some mesmerizing and soothing music. So, what does this trio have in store for us on their debut?
Basically, the whole album follows an already known formula, sticking to covered grounds rather than pushing forward the envelope and venturing into the unknown. Subtle undertones, kliks & bleeps & klaks accompanied by segments of touching melodies and velvet soundscapes descending upon your ears like the falling sun depicted on the cover art. Great stuff, very relaxing too. Not ambient, but the well known minimal anno 2006, just about two steps up the ladder. I just love it when an album comes along which just buries negative critics and skillfully manifests how minimal can be just so much, so much more of everything! There is a lot to enjoy here, the listener's enjoyment should be preovoked by moods and musical segments assimilated from the music, rather than the superficial plik-plok sounds which so often today plague empty minded minimal releases. This stuff is different though. How can I put it nicely? It's a nickel plated Rolex amongst plastic digital Casios... If you're a fan of downtempoish, seducive, minimal yet deep music, get this one. It has soul, it has lots groove and it is modern, thought provoking electronic music. I like it, and it gets my highest sign of approval. It's not the best the genre has to offer, but not giving it a chance it deserves would really be a shame. Enjoy! |
Taste (2) - Live At The Isle Of Wight - sample_city
Could this possibly be the finest live blues/rock album ever? in my opinion YES by an absolute mile.
From the first chords of 'What's Going On' to the frenetic guitar/drum/bass duel of 'Catfish', you sit back and wonder how 3 guy's can make so much noise! Even the occasional feedback from Rory's trusted strat sounds perfect, like it had been placed there on purpose.
Both John Wilson's drumming & Richard McCracken's bass add to the raw power of this so-talented trio, This really is British (Irish) live blues rock at its finest |
Mr. Revealomaniac - 7 Sessions Mixtape - mgrpower
Excellent mixtapes from upcoming Danish DJ Mr. Revealomaniac! He is nominated for Danish DeeJay Awards 2008 in the category: Danish Urban DJ of the Year. Right now he is engaging him self in a journey into Dubstep and Balkan. These mixtapes though are a fusion of hip hop, world, house and of course a little bit of dubstep! Is currently pod casting on various sites. Check out his Myspace profile for more info. For sure more to come from this guy! |
Paul van Dyk - In Between - ektorbarajas
A very disappointing work from Paul van Dyk, it seems that PVD has loose it's creativity in trance, and wanted to experiment with other subgenres like breakbeat and electro, but the results are very disappointing.
Also it's really a pity that Paul van Dyk, The Starkillers, Austin Leeds and Ashley Tomberlin all together ! has done nothing but a clone track to the almighty Amsterdam from the trance project Luminary; and also if you consider that Luminary are: Ashley Tomberlin & Laurence Rapaccioli.
What they were thinking? that the listeners will not realize that New york is a rip off, cheap copy from the Amsterdam track?
A very cheap copy indeed since almost all the sounds and way the vocals flow are almost the same !.
If you have not heard Amsterdam from Luminary you should and believe me that you wont' be disappointed. |
Valentino Kanzyani - Palazzo - Volume Six - maroko
From the pathetic cover art, from the kick off milisecond down to the closing beat, everything about Valentino Kanzyani's "Palazzo volume 6" made me throw my chicken wings six feet high up in the air! I mean, what gives? Is there a man belonging to the realm of techno who fell harder than this once great DJ/producer? Don't get me wrong here, as I'm all against purism and constantly cashing in on one same formula, but my God, this IS awful, no matter how you look at it. Sure a great producer and DJ should be acquainted and at ease with more than just one style of music, but Valentino is absolutely out of ideas here. Lazy fading in and out of tracks instead of state of the art mixing and turntable tricks and treats is what the man has to offer here. If only the track selection was something to look up to here, but far from it. These are crumbs from the big table. Leftovers even my grandmother would not want to bust a move to. It's painful how dull, souless and shallow these tunes are. Yuck!
I could not use this alleged minimal DJ mix as a sleeping tool. I was trying to get in touch with my inner self by the third track. Didn't really work. My cerebrum refused to fall asleep with whilst being subdued to this torture.
Speaking of torture, somewhere around track 6-7 I was suddenly chained to a wall in some random medival dungeon. Remember how they use to drive people insane by letting drops of cold water drip on their head in equal intervals? That sums it up.
I awake. Track #13. It wasn't a nightmare after all. But this could possible be one. My skin is beginning to develop an acute rash. Can it be the music? Nooooooo... The lowest common denominator minimal nonsense is the name of the game here. I am generally able to enjoy and appreciate any style of electronic music but this is showing disrispect, and nothing but, to the patient listener!
What went wrong between the sensational first two installations of the "Rock The Discotheque" series and this? Valentino, stop ego tripping, get your head out of your own ass, and bless us with some decent mixing like you used to, and like we ALL KNOW you can. Alright? 'Cause this sounds like getting smacked with plastic bags full of hot urine across the cheeks. Next please. An all around disgrace to the otherwise fairly decent Palazzo DJ mix series. |
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HÖH* - Island - thezovietdada
This is Current 93's "electronic" album, but a perhaps more apt description is that it's their 4ad album. It's what you'd expect from that description, lots of absolutely spine-chillingly beautiful moments ("Falling," "Anyway, People Die") and a fair share of cheesy synth pop ("Crowleymass"). Also, the instrumentation is reminiscent of 4ad greats like This Mortal Coil or especially that 1987 Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook album, "Sleeps With the Fishes." Lots of digital synth pads, bells, and strings, with an austere neo-classical or Arvo Pärt-esque composerly approach. Really any instruments that amp the emotionality up as much as possible. While I know Crowleymass is supposed to be a comedy song, against the other intense, somber works of the album, it's a sour note. Nevertheless the first four songs of the album still nearly bring me to tears, it is definitely reminiscent of Iceland to me (Ísland is Icelandic for Iceland), a special place of crisis, pilgrimage and transition. Things I'm sure it meant for David Tibet as well. |
Kevin Saunderson - Ekspozicija 07. The Detroit Connection - maroko
While I don't want to sound like a genre dividing nerd, I can't see how the term "minimal" got in the way of describing this superb mix...
Anyways, despite the lack of any refernce, be it on the 6 page gatefold digipak or the CD itself, as to where and when was this mix recorded, the important thing to bare in mind is that it rocks - big time too!
Kevin Saunderson is really not trying to rediscover hot water on this one, meaning you won't hear any breath taking DJ acrobatics, while abbundant effects sprees are pretty much minimized here, but what compensates for this, let's call it that, lack of cockyness, is an absolutely raw and unadulterated approach to the music! The mixing is not surgically precise here, but who could possible mind with a roster of top notch producers contributing to the mix: DJ Ogi, DJ Preach & Oliver Giacomotto, John Dahlback, Marco Remus, and especially the two monster tracks, Joris Voorn's remix of Kevin Saunderson's timeless "Bassline" and Saunderson's take on Claude Von Stroke's "Who's Afraid Of Detroit?".
The music is most definitely aiming for the hungry dancefloors, even though there is enough soul and harmony here to justify a solid home listening session. Basically, you get a divine DJ mix of one of the fathers of techno music, and just everything falls in place here. All you'd come to expect from this veteran anno 2007. What more could you ask for? The man is still on the top of the loop, showing the kiddies how it is properly done.
Get it now! |
Dazzle - Dazzle - apamphlett
Possibly the best disco LP of all time. A magical 6-track composition from the collective minds of Stan Lucas and Leroy Burgess. Each of them is responsible for 3 tracks each. Arguably, Stan Lucas delivers the killers with You Dazzle Me!, Walk Before You Run and It's Not The Same, which are all brilliant. But Burgess delivers 3 underrated disco-boogie stormers with All, Reaching and Slipped Disco with that unmistakable Burgess magic. There is not a duff track on this LP - every track is great, it's just down to the listener to define them between "amazing" and "brilliant". The polished production makes it up there with some of the great disco LPs - Chic's Risque, Phreek's self-titled LP and Change's The Glow Of Love. |
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