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Name: Check my pendings
Member Since: Nov 21, 2003
Rank: 990
Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 2 votes)
Rated 366 releases, average: 4.13
Location: Nurnberg, Germany
Profile:

I am into Minimal House, Techno, Dub, some Ambient and all the styles inbetween like Tech-House or Dub-Techno. Most of my collection is from German labels like Kompakt, scape, Force Inc., Perlon, Basic Channel.

My Top 10 of 2005:
01 Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground
02 Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember
03 Pier Bucci - Familia
04 Masha Qrella - Unsolved Remained
05 Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
06 Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah
07 Marc Leclair - Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes
08 Richard Davis - Details
09 Karaoke Kalk - Kalk Seeds
10 Benny Sings - I Love You

My Top 10 of 2004:
01 Lucien–N–Luciano - Blind Behaviour
02 Phoenix - Alphabetical
03 Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of What Is Effortless
04 Monne Automne - Introducing Light & Sound
05 Ada - Blondie
06 Feist - Let It Die
07 Kompakt 100
08 Paul Kalkbrenner - Self
09 John Tejada & Arian Leviste - The Dot And The Line
10 Rene Breitbarth - With A Little Luck...

My Top 10 of 2003:
01 Rhythm & Sound - w/ The Artists +The Versions
02 Fabric 13
03 Kompakt Speicher CD 1
04 Luomo - The Present Lover
05 Smallville
06 Johannes Heil - 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin
07 Villalobos - Alcachofa
08 Deyampert - Shapes & Colors
09 Larry Heard - Where Life Begins
10 Sustainer - Cuántico

If you want to trade, feel free to contact me. I am only interested in CDs.

Reviews:

Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground - 02-Feb-06 04:40 AM
The Ground is an incredibly good album. It is the second release by the Tord Gustavsen Trio whom some may know as backing trio for Norwegian singer Silje Nergaard. On their own they explore Keith Jarrett territory. Their music is calm and lyrical and perfectly balanced between composition and improvisation. There is no wrong note, no moment that doesnt fit. This is the kind of album that stuns a jazz friend like me as well as the casual listener. Ive played it to several not jazz-mined people always achieving a "wow-what-is-that"-effect. There cannot be enough praise. This is the album I always hoped Keith Jarrett would make and it is by a wide margin the best album of 2005.

Richard Davis - Details - 21-Sep-05 07:00 AM
Richard Davis is the king of what I call adult oriented deep house. His first album Safety was filled with incredibly good tracks/songs and has to be regarded as a classic in this genre by now. So expectations for his follow up were high and Davis though not delivering another classic doesnt let us down.

Details is a collection of fine midtempo house songs that are equally far away from any wave-your-hands-in-the-air club hedonism as from radio friendly pop stupidity. With an air of melancholy here and there they are best suited for home listening. Details works well as an album, but apart from the two year old Bring Me Closer no track immediately springs out and grabs your attention like at least half of the songs on Safety did. With one or two more killer tracks this would be a contender for album of the year, so it is a mature piece of work. Well done Mr. Davis.

Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember - 16-Sep-05 06:19 AM
What do you do if you have ten killer tracks in your repertoire with a combined duration of just above half an hour? Take five of them, add some mediocre stuff and release two albums.

Surprisingly this has not happened here. Producer Espen Horne and singer Caitlin Simpson (btw. who is Kinny?) released all of them on one album. This result is fabulous Nu-Jazz touching on pop, reggea und funk. I am not the most dedicated genre lover but I just cant escape the quality of this album. Listen to Dignity (or any other track for that matter) and see if you can.

Caitlin Simpson has a unique singing style and is the most talented new voice since Roisin Murphy or even Erykah Badu if you like. A great find. The best 35 minutes of music this year so far.

Massive Attack - Blue Lines - 04-Apr-05 07:23 AM
Just listened to that album again for the first time in about three years. It immediately got me again. A timeless masterpiece that deservedly entered several alltime-best-album-charts. The genre it defined (trip hop) is more or less dead by now, but Blue Lines survived. None of the protagonists (Massive Attack, Tricky, Shara Nelson) managed to reach this level of perfection ever again.

Someone wrote a whole book about John Coltranes "Love Surpreme". I wouldnt be surprised if on day there is a book about Blue Lines.

Love Joys - Lovers Rock Reggae Style - 11-Oct-04 06:01 AM
A stunning album. Very soulful dub-tracks with lovely female vocals, great songwriting and good production. What else do you want? Highly recommended.

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