V/A - Big Band Remixed And Reinvented
Thievery Corporation - The Doors - Strange Days
1. Dirty Pretty Things - B.U.R.M.A (3:18)
2. In Strict Confidence - Promised Land (5:40)
3. King Biscuit Time - C I Am 15 (3:21)
4. Pascal Feos - Out Of My Head (4:11)
5. Patrick Lee - For My Piano Teacher (4:56)
6. Strange Attractor - Simulacra (5:27)
7. Sufjan Stevens - No Man's Land (4:45)
8. Raman Beats - Monsoon (Lazy Mix) (5:07)
9. Triangle Sun - Beautiful (3:55)
10. The Outfield - Long Walk Back (from Nowhere) (4:28)
11. Headphone - sublime parade reworked (3:16)
ANGEL THEORY
RE-POSSESSION
Dark synth pop. The guy's voice reminds me of... Cyberaktif. Or old Front Line Assembly. And Skinny Puppy.
APARTMENT 213
CLEVELAND POWER VIOLENCE
16 songs in 30 minutes. Ultra grind! And it reminds me of Spazz, which is a high compliment indeed. All hail the return of the four second song. "After School 38 Special". Ha.
DANIELSON
SHIPS
That name. I already hate this band. Flaming Lips, Built To Spill. Not as bad as it could've been.
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
WATERLOO TO ANYWHERE
Hello my new favorite new British band of the week. I love you more than anyone else this week. Sadly, the love affair will end before the CD. Although "You Fucking Love It" is a great song any day of the week.
EDENBRIDGE
THE GRAND DESIGN
Dream Theater crossed with Queen. No shit. Fucking hilarious.
FIRE IN THE ATTIC
I'LL BEAT YOU CITY
Big budget death metal emo. Just like I knew it would be. Look at the band name, look at the album title. Sucky fucking suck suck.
GLEDHILL
CONSTELLATIONS
Weird. Country guitar pop rock with all the comforts of home. No, um, I mean it sounds like Wilco crossed with Linkin Park. Epic synths & pianos at every turn. Hm. Not fun. Not cool. Close, but no.
HEADPHONE
TWO STORIES HIGH
Quietly jazzy layered clicktronica. & triphop, innit.
IN STRICT CONFIDENCE
EXILE PARADISE
Wow, kick-ass, dark synth pop. Depeche Mode meets Ace of Base, in a good way.
JEWEL
GOODBYE ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Y'know, I've never heard a Jewel album before. Owing largely to my own survival instincts. This just sounds like country to me. Now I know.
KILLING MACHINE
METALMORPHOSIS
Musically... Mercyful Fate. Vocally...Bruce Dickinson.
KING BISCUIT TIME
BLACK GOLD
I guess there's a reason it reminds me of Beta Band.
KMFDM
RUCK ZUCK EP
I forget the last time I heard these guys. This ain't bad, big buncha remixes. Whatever happened to good, angry electronica anyway? Oh yeah, Trent Reznor.
KUTLESS
HEARTS OF THE INNOCENT
Disturbed, or Godsmack. Or Mudvayne. Same thing.
PATRICK LEE
TWELVE TUSK PIANO
Holy shit, this rules. Funky, jazzy, sample-based, um, songs? The beats are large & AWESOME. And it's loungey like Thievery Corp. I like the fact that there are no vocals. NICE!
MAD MAX
NIGHT OF WHITE ROCK
Is that guy taking the piss with the singing? The music is detuned, in-your-face riff rock. Then the singer comes in. I can't even describe the guy's voice. It's really high & wimpy. Oh, I know - the guy from Prefab Sprout. Who I love. But he'd be useless fronting Iron Maiden.
MAINSTAY
WELL MEANING FICTION
Linkin Park crossed with Coldplay.
NORMA JEAN
O GOD THE AFTERMATH
Screamy, Pantera-style hardcore riff metal. Wow, they really sound like Pantera to me. Norma Jean is a dead ringer. And? There's no lame emo action anywhere.
OTHLIA
CONTINENTS
Yelling, movie soundtrack-type orchestral thingamajigs. Prettiness, quietness, loudness, sound effects.
THE OUTFIELD
ANY TIME NOW
Good god, is this The Outfield from the 80s? This sounds like new U2 or something. If it's them, then I give them credit for updating their sound. If it's not, then, maybe they should renew the copyright on their name. Whatever it is, it's very good 80s style guitar driven pop rock. "Long Walk Back (from Nowhere)" sounds like vintage The Outfield. I didn't realize I liked them the first time around. But, yeah. Surprisingly cool.
PAN AMERICAN
FOR WAITING, FOR CHASING
Clicky, fucked-up, antimusic. In a good way.
PASCAL FEOS
SYNAPTIC
Cool, fun, modern, instrumental, danceable electronica. Like who? Like no other. Melodic, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay minimalistic. "Ausklang" is the shit. But every track rules.
RAISON D'ETRE
METAMORPHYSES
An hour of gradually shifting live ambience. Metallic percussion, loud drones. Etc. Heavily reverbed. Occasionally building to a crescendo. Occasionally just laying there in a Steve Roach-like pile of hmsh.
SECTION A
PARALLEL LIVES
Melodic heavy metal. Iron Maiden meets Foreigner. Not bad at all.
SERAPIS
SERAPIS
Death metal, cool. Okay, now I'm just waiting for the emo part to kick in. "Shatner Mask" - there it is.
SOFIAN ROUGE
MEDITERRANEAN EXCURISION
Utter ripoff of the first Enigma album, right down to the sexy voiced female spoken word intro and the fucking beat on the first proper song. & instead of gregorian chant you get a sort of middle eastern inflected dude going at it. It's...... not bad, I guess. It's just derivative as fuck! So cheeky!
STARKWEATHER
CROATOAN
Oh my god, no. "Slither" started out so strong! Slow doom death metal dirge with black metal vocals. And then it turned a corner & a clean voiced guy starts singing about emotions. Fucking fuck. So close. I didn't see that one coming at all.
SUFJAN STEVENS
THE AVALANCHE
I keep seeing this guy's name everywhere. Heavily embellished singer songwriter deal. Is it good, is it bad. There's too much happening for a first listen. It doesn't suck outright, I'll say that.
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
TREEFUL OF STARLING
Unlike Hawksley Workman, whose sonic blueprint is strangely repellent.
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