One of the best H.R. compilation!

this records has been released as a picture disc i've got it

Byron Berline & Sundance live at McCabe's guitarshop, Santa Monica, L.A., CA, 1977
the best bluegrass ever!

Goblin is best known for their movie scores, like Suspiria and Profondo Rosso (Deep Red), but with Roller, these guys can prove they can make great music without the help of a movie. The title track has a nice theme with some sinister pipe organ, which would work great in a horror film (which is what they specialized in to begin with). "Aquaman" starts off more relaxed with electric piano, and Moog from Claudio Simonetti, before it goes into a more rock-oriented passage. "Snip Snap" is a rather funky number, with lots of clavinet and Moog and some jazzy electric piano passages. "Goblin" proves they can do an extended piece, and it's just simply amazing! Even the drum solo doesn't weaken it. It's full of great themes, some fantastic, and at times funky jams. For some reason or another, the band never thought too fondly of this album, which I can't understand why, as I feel this is one of their best releases. This is a great place to start if you don't know Goblin. This was the first Goblin album I ever tried, and I don't regret it.

Bruno Sanfilippo "Urbs" CD

Field recordings are the key elements of "Urbs" and "BIOMA", the last two albums of Bruno Sanfilippo (on "BIOMA" he was joined by his fellow soundscaper, Max Corbacho). While on "BIOMA" documenting the life of a nature, on "Urbs" Bruno has decided to focus on everyday's life of a city, when collecting location recordings from various European metropoles plus New York by mapping surrounding environments like train or subway stations, streets, bars, churches... This brand new album, Bruno's 16th when counting also his collaborations with Mathias Grassow or above mentioned Max Corbacho, is not only his premiere work for renowned Hypnos label, but also a quite radical departure from all his previous works that are spanning from rather ambient/new age oriented, through deeper organic or cinematic ambience to modern classical influenced. Bruno Sanfilippo is now venturing with "Urbs" into more minimal soundscaping with gently portrayed pulsing life of the city. To be honest, without knowing the name of the artist who is behind "Urbs", I would never connect it to Bruno Sanfilippo. But don't be afraid, because this chameleonic change is not only totally adventurous, but also proving the unlimited creativity and considerable talent of this sound architect (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but residing in Barcelona, Spain). "Urban Flow" is perfectly chosen name for opening piece, with dominating colder on-site recordings of various rumblings, noises, buzzes, creaks or squeaks, all wrapped by hazed nocturnal atmosphere and masterfully merged with deeply evocative drones and assorted mesmerizingly or mysteriously emerging voice and choir samples. Wow, this is absolutely phenomenal, nearly 15-minute intro!!! Grandioso & mágico, Bruno!!! Voice transmissions unfold the next piece, "The City Reflected", clocking over 20 minutes. Deep, nearly ear-bending echoes, various rumblings, mysteriously odd voices enter the stage as well, everything harmoniously crafted and bridged, and superbly evoking a place similar to some underground lively corridor. Cascading sonic palette is minimal, but intense and maximally effective. "Chaotic Order", a 25 and half minutes long opus reveals with deeper drones, again enriched by distant conversations and various street rumblings, serenely drifting before entering during the second third into slightly more active areas with glitchy and hissy elements invading. The last third returns to more mysterious and droning course with assorted noises, breathings and voices on the back. Definitely another deeply absorbing masterpiece!!! The closing piece, 7-minute "The Gray Umbrella", is colored by various voice recordings, possibly the most textured sonic escapade slowly moving towards the end into minimal and quieter, nearly meditative outro. "Urbs" is stirringly challenging and refreshing, carefully sculpted and fused into amazingly homogeneous structure, with strong attention paid to every detail. This album delivers enormous amount of spectacular listening moments and transports each listener into magnificently immersing urban environments. Bravo to Bruno Sanfilippo, bravo to Hypnos!!!

Richard Gürtler (May 27, 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Weird and wacky cosmic music and collage from an unknown mystery man and his Mellotron. Celluloid did two albums that I know of, and this is by far the superior one.

I invite all collectors to pay attention in a detail about this record: its silence floor.
Every record has a "noise floor", a certain level of noise that keeps sounding while music is playing. That bad signal could be higher or lower, considering its lacquer, masterizing, material, styllus, turntable motor, kind of vinyl, etc..
This record is an exception, because we hear nothing! Then I should call this as a "Silence Floor"
I start my turntable, and suddenly, "pow", music begins!
Remember, I am nobody to write a review about this Pink Floyd masterpiece, I am writting about the record itself. This 2012 recording received a remastering, the best I ever heard. Only songs were included, very very clear songs. I remember when I listened the original recording, about 30 years ago, and I should say this new version is so much better!
Can you imagine how much progress 30 years of technology could be used now? For sure they used!
Luck us, that can hear it now! Another best buy! Please forget about that older version! I sugest you buy this one.

A delightful album, but never fully documented on CD! True, "Trio" at just 3:11 is not the most exciting track on the album, it's a well-place charming breather, in between the lengthy and dazzlingly complex "Quotes" and the aptly hectic "Bedlam".

Milla's comeback single "Electric Sky" isn't like anything she's made before.
It's refreshing! A little short, but it shouldn't have been much longer, I think. It proves that Jovovich isn't only a successful actress; she can sing too!
I don't think this will be a hit as it's a little alternative, though.

Looking forward to the EP!

If you thought you had this on the CD release "Sortie" - well you do and you don't - as the original LP mix is quite a bit different, notably the stereo image is much wider and the levels give range to wider dynamics. Subtle, true, but I immediately noticed the difference with the CD. You also don't get the tasty artwork with the CD.

A glorious record by almost any standard. Berberian is not just a virtuoso, he plays his oud with elegance and vigour. The accompaniment cooks and rocks, or is alternatively serene or even infectiously lazy. Especially the soaring clarinet of Barounian stands out. The tracks sounds both spontaneous and well-constructed, a rarely heard combination. The music radiates warmth and confidence, the compostions are far above par. The only flaw is the duration: there should have been more music like this on the album. Wholeheartedly recommended.

In early 2002 a friend and I we were in a music store buying records, this album sounded background, quickly asked that this was being played and quickly ordered a copy to buy, the store had one copy of the album that took my friend and that was faster than me. I asked the store manager a copy to me and said that maybe would not get more copies of this album because it was a very small independent label, I resisted, I wanted a copy of that album and within two weeks I get my copy. It sounded like "Labradford" and some as "Angelo Badalamenti" very cinematic, emotional and deep, with long, dark songs, soon became the album that I liked more marked and interested since buying music. a month later I heard that Balago came to play in a store Fnac of Barcelona, hours before the concert I thought the group of older people with long beards and long hair, to get to the store Fnac where I found myself playing a group of very young, fashionably dressed and with short hair, very pleased to have someone ask them for an autograph and friendly treatment. Had 10 minutes to start the concert and there we were just my ex-girlfriend, myself and Balago, when the concert started slowly began to fill the small room where they played for the people buying in that shop and a family member of the group. The display will project the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick (recorded from TV and ads) while the music sounded, that was the concert that I liked more and more I have never enjoyed. At the root of what I have followed this group until today.

Absolutely brilliant rave classic from Todd Terry here: proving his worth as a programmer once again. However, I am surprised that it hasn't been mentioned already that this is almost an, albeit stripped down, direct copy of the Jellybean classic from 1984 "The Mexican": who in turn grabbed most of it's inspiration from the 1972 classic by Babe Ruth. Which contains the original vocal and guitar solo of the theme from 'A Few Dollars More' by Ennio Morricone... and was given the 'disco remix' treatment in 1978 by The Bombers (though still credited to Shacklock from Babe Ruth). Oh what a tangled web ;) In all cases, each version is a brilliant reinterpretation of the former.

Most if not all of the tracks from this album are renamed or remastered tracks from his previous 3 albums. Still a solid album of IDM gems.

If i had to describe this compilation using only a few words, these would have been "Feel the vibe". The Hit Box legacy continues with the 6th installment delivering us tracks from the best era of techno music. Also according to F.M. Records usual policy in it's compilations, we have in the cd version some extra "rare tracks" in the Greek dance community, like Don't leave me this way, Where are you now and Alone.

We have music for all. From pure techno (the first 8 tracks), rave style, (Scooter, Ramirez), hard atmospheric trance in the path of Rave Mission compilations (Moka Dj).

Notice that some tracks are in their extended versions, which by the way are by far better than the equivalent radio edits. I'm talking about Baraonda and Move your ass!

All and all, an explosive mixture for your speakers.

‘Astounding Science Music’ pays tribute to Science Fiction and to its icons. Musumeci’s sound is mostly influenced by the atmosphere of early Chicago House and all the tracks are strongly characterized by the ideas of some Science Fiction’s prominent authors like J.G. Ballard, Sir Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Jack Williamson. www.battibatti.com

Didn't like this release much overall I would say it's one of the strangest releases on MFS. "Alright" is a trippy early trance piece with a bizarre intro that starts with a distorted echo intro and some nice melody but unlike many classic trance tracks from it's time that are still good despite being minimal in sound this one doesn't go anywhere and gets old fast. "Volumina" was the only track I enjoyed best in this ep. The intro is similar to "Alright" starts with twisted, looped echoes which for me is unique and I honestly haven't seen this done on any record. the sample may amuse you, but it's surprisingly fun to listen on my experience. "Afterlife" is similar to the other tracks and is the crappiest cut for me, the intro is a crappy loop with some opera voices and some beats. Very experimental, but boring as hell. I honestly want to shut this track off in about 1 minute. although the tracks gets a bit better later it's still a crappy track with some bad cheese. I really don't recommend this, it's bad overall and the worst I've heard in the entire label. No wonder it's one of the least mentioned releases. Although some trance fans might like this twisted, experiental release.

Awesome job on the physical presentation of this CD, but unfortunately what you hear is a remixed version of the album that heavily favors the bottom end - yet still manages to blur the impact of Eric Wood's brilliant and innovative bass work. This renders the overall sound muddy and unbalanced. My guess is that whoever gave the go-ahead to alter the sound wanted this to sound like it could have been recorded by Man Is The Bastard, since that aesthetic was employed on many of their recordings. Thing is, the majority of MITB's material favors that approach because that's the way it was conceived and created. The original PHC LP and cassette on New Beginning are the only ways to experience this pulverizing, groundbreaking release.

This is one of my favourite Roots/Reggae albums and certainly one of Toot's very best. In the 70's he could do wrong. More or less a must-have for any Reggae fan that doesn't already own it.

Culture made unbeatably catchy tunes. I expect most Roots fans already own all these tracks, but anyone into 70's Reggae, who's somehow unfamiliar with Culture, could do a lot worse than buy this release.