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Name: Jade Hamblyn
Home Page: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Member Since: Aug 25, 2003
Rank: 7477
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.98, 309 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.67, 15 votes)
Rated 1925 releases, average: 4.20
Location: New Zealand
Profile:
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I am a transmitter/receiver of mainly electronic and instrumental music, and particularly interested in:
*Drum & bass
*Jungle
*Techno
*Jazz
*Jazz Rock / Fusion
*Psychedelic Trance
*Psychedelic Rock
*Goa Trance
*Medieval / Baroque / Classical / Romantic / Modern continuum
*Ambient continuum
*Tech-House / Tech-Trance
*Progressive Trance
*Progressive Rock / Metal
*Progressive House
*Pre '97 Trance
*Breakbeat Hardcore
*Breakcore
*Hardcore Techno / Gabber
*Speed Metal
*Any other kind of freaked out instrumental music you care to imagine.
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My buddy DJ Wyrmood & I host a weekly online radio/netcast show called Aftermath, airing every Saturday at 1:00am to 4:00am New Zealand time (+12:00 hours for GMT, +11:00 during northern hemispheric winter) on RadioActive.(89fm in Wellington, New Zealand)
We also host the Electric Caboose show tri-weekly, Friday 11pm - Saturday 1am, and I host the Jazz show 11am to 2pm every 3rd Sunday (NZ times).
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"Everything your extraordinary mind has conceived, all these years... it's been inside you."
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In protest to the recent changes made to Discogs operations I will not be using the marketplace, and my collection has now been made private. Sorry.
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Reviews:
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - 25-Aug-08 12:52 AM
This was one of my first introductions to pieces of music that last for more than twenty minutes without big overblown solos everywhere. Side one is just pure atmospheres, developing in beautiful spaces, it's almost ambient but there's always something simmering under the placid surface. Pat and Lyle do dark ambience so well when they put their hand to it. Love "September Fifteenth (Dedicated To Bill Evans)" - tried to learn how to play it but I couldn't do it justice... (75 words blah)
DLT - Liquid Skies - 05-Aug-08 01:02 AM
I'm so glad that I was lucky enough to hear the original version of this song. I don't care for any of the remixes, but given the calibre of the original I think that's fair enough. I hadn't had much exposure to DLTs music, and the genre he's most familiar to, so I might not have heard Liquid Skies in a slightly different dimension. But I was lucky! There's a kind of dreamlike quality to the music that takes me to places no other track does, somewhere out west, Parakai maybe... deep herb buzz... a little bit dangerous in the vocals...
it's f*ckn TRUESCHOOL for real :)
Bob Dylan - Love And Theft - 21-Jul-08 01:34 AM
This is by far my favourite Bob Dylan album. It comes down to a combination of factors; the rich authentic instrumental tones, Bob in a wistful, playful, elegiac frame, the old timey settings. I never used to be a fan of Bob Dylan until I heard this album. Now I look forward to his releases. Still not a big fan of his seventies work though, there's something alienating about his aggressive ranting style in that period that turns me off. My loss I guess.
Various - Asylum Of Darkness - 12-Apr-08 05:30 AM
I listened to this once then deleted it from my hard drive. My lasting impressions of this album are of women's screams, blood curdling and digitally manipulated, over 150bpm+ beats. When I had a close look at the cover art whilst listening to a particularly gruesome track i thought "what am i listening to this for?" and just deleted the whole album. I think that it's sad that musicians feel like they have to resort to grotesque and horrific sounds and imagery to make the music "hard". What's psychedelic about this?
Battles - Tonto+ - 19-Nov-07 03:48 PM
I was feeling rather jaded about music made by "bands" for a long time before... well this year basically, when a slew of really interesting acts caressed and assaulted my ears in ways which were pretty unexpected. Battles is foremost of those bands (at the moment) and this release was my introduction to them. Well, in actual fact the video to Tonto was my introduction, and after seeing that a couple of times on the TV I was convinced I needed this release, and boy was I not disappointed! I really like the remixes, but for me the original is supreme on this release. The mutating metre and development of Tonto is engaging throughout the whole of the piece. I remember at first listen I thought at the intro "oh more wanky Indie guitars", but this sentiment was very short lived as the whole of the track revealed itself to me like a musical strip-tease. Fantastic. I was especially interested to see what was behind the video for Tonto, which really appeals to me with its stark presentation and setting. Grab this!
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