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Profile: Unfortunately, i also carry this mental disease or should i say endless moneyhole where i try to maintain my music addiction on certain level. Yep. It's a failure from the start...

And oh yeah, i may have some kind of sick obsession with video game soundtracks (as you can see from my submissions).

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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (32 ratings)

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Shizit, The - The Shizit - 18-Oct-09 02:45 AM
Whoah. I didnt see this coming. The Shizit made a deserved comeback from the graveyard and dragged along with a new record which you can download for free. Ive been a huge The Shizit fan since hearing Soundtrack For The Revolution album for the first time and i still think the album was a peak of what digital hardcore can offer. After that record the whole genre feels a bit of "meh" and out of fresh ideas. Anyway, JP Andersons Rabbit Junk had a whole different attitude and was more personal but it was a good substitute and in Rabbit Junks three records you could hear how he was getting better and better with his game. Sure, The Shizits SOFTER is still today a raw experience and not so polished but sometimes music needs to be rough on the edges and tooth breaking hard to digest it the correct way. That was eight years ago. In 2009, The Shizit is a different beast. Pulling all the necessary elements and angles from The Shizit and Rabbit Junk, JP Anderson has made the heaviest album of his career. How heavy? This sefltitled is a melting collasion which infuses metal, breakbeat, industrial, gabber and political thinking to 36 minute of hard banging awesomeness. It punches straight in your face and doesnt apologize. The way i like it.

Various - Chemical Reaction - 01-Aug-09 06:00 AM
If you want to hear my opinion, 1997 was last year when The Chemical Brothers were still at the top of their game. After that its been fast downhill ride from there and each new album becomes more boring and more pretentious shit than the previous one. I have to confess, I didnt even bother to purchase "We Are The Night" because nowadays my personal philosophy is that i rather spend my money on the release that i will listen more than twice. Anyway, for years i had these kind of feelings towards the once great band and because of the small rage that started grow inside of me, somewhow i almost managed to forgot how awesome their debut album "Exit Planet Dust" still is after all these years. Or how good they were as a remixer in the early days. By listening this "Chemical Reaction" compilation just proofs that. Although labeled as compilation which contains six rare The Chemical Brothers remixes, this CD also contains few nice non-Chemical tracks which surprisingly makes this compilation even better and worth of every cents. Lets see... Theres a rare non drum and bass work from Aphrodite which turns and slows the track "Aphromoods" towards slick moving downtempo mode and therefore making it as perhaps the best track Aphrodite has ever produced. Theres also Depth Charges "Shaolin Buddha Finger" which use goofy movie-samples about shaolin fighting style, Monkey Mafia builds St. Etiennes classic tracks "Filthy" towards more groovier vibe or one of my personal favorites and another lost gem in here, Freakniks "Uncivilized World" which samples Roy Batty from Blade Runner and the whole futuristic atmosphere of the track makes it so perfect and unbelievable good in todays standards. But we have to remember that The Chemical Brothers remixes are main attraction in here. All of the six remix tracks are great but in retrospect, Primal Screams "Jailbird" is the main event here because that was the track which started to make the noise in the press and pushing The Chemical Brothers as household name. It goes without saying, this compilation is a must for The Chemical Brothers fans, especially those who loves the early days stuff.

Frank Klepacki & Jarrid Mendelson - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Soundtrack - 22-Apr-09 08:46 AM
Funny thing is, this may not be the best Command & Conquer soundtrack what mr. Klepacki has done, but still this soundtrack have managed me to do something unordinary. I have listen this release more than any other Frank Klepackis work in Command & Conquer universe. Most of you surely will agree, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun doesnt contain Klepackis signature industrial touch or anyhow contain the usual smoky gunpowder type of atmosphere. It even lacks ballbusting monster tunes like "Act On Instinct" or "Hell March" what previous soundtracks contained. The game itself was slaughtered with badly written sci-fi plot, so of course this soundtrack has very futuristic, experimental electronic sound and feeling in it. This is probably the reason why the soundtrack gets my full attention and in the same time im still trying to understand what makes this click so well.

Doug Laurent - Half-Life - 28-Jun-08 01:53 AM
Warning! This release has nothing to do with Half-Life or original soundtrack of Half-Life (which btw. was composed by Valves Kelly Bailey). Doug Laurents version is just a cheap knockoff which tries to use the name of Half-Life and even logo to sell poorly produced trance. I even wonder and seriously question why synSONIQ bothered to release this garbage and trying to sell it like its a legit thing.

So yeah, you all have been warned. Dont even bother to track this down because quality of this release is just mindnumbing awful. Youll thank me later.

Lacunae - Collapse - 11-Apr-08 09:53 AM
If i remember correctly, one of my favourite trip-hop projects, Saltillo lead me to terrific Broken Nightlights compilation which also had Lacunaes "Stars Burn Out". This was one of the highlights on the compilation and of course after hearing "Stars Burn Out", i had to track down their album which contained this song. First thing you cant miss is how "Stars Burn Out" borrows familiar lullaby song that is made for babies (or similar kind of tune) which is spliced to small glassy fractured pieces and put back together with a twist, and then moving it towards tense and hard illbient/trip-hop background. With similar spliced procedure to the spoken word vocals, it adds the final and nice touch to this track. So its a bit unheard way to build a track but it shows ingenious way to bring fresh air to this modern day trip-hop genre by adding a glitchy feeling to it. When i was ordering this album, naturally i was also looking for some information about this project and noticed fairly quickly that this isnt typical three member unity. Namely because the three members of this project have never seen each other face to face, so this means all the work is done in three different location. Internet is the one common thing which unites them and via internet they process their tracks. While browsing the information, i saw the usual praises but i also noticed that many buyers who have bought this album, announced that this is the next Portishead or Massive Attack. Personally i wouldnt go that far but then i remembered Massive Attacks latest album (100th Window) which was quite different what they used to do. If the main song-writer 3D had tweaked the experimental knob all the way up and transferred their music to more glitchy-side, result may be this kind of stuff what Collapse represent. Eh, who the fuck knows.

Anyway... So is this worth of every praise what i encountered? I can say from my behalf, this album didnt bring me disappointment or any kind of regret. "Stars Burn Out" may be their best track which still have a very strong grip on me, but Collapse offer so much more. With similar formula and constant microscopically accurate movement, Collapse heavily manipulated sound and with deep in the core injected execution, this album brings emotion from side to side. "Rebuild In Black" represents discipline and very mechanically way to desire the darkness inside of us. "Eight Zero One" brings melancholly yet somewhat positive feeling with piano and cello, and in the other side of perspective, "The Loneliness Of Lovers" finally adds lively, smooth motion and powerful spirit from 80s synth backgrounds. Heres a project which name you should start remembering because playing their cards right on next album, they may become one the intresting acts in this genre or have they already passed that phase? Well see.

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