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The London based Giddy Motors is set to change the punk music scene with their radical Make It Pop debut album. Combining the jazz influence of Miles Davis and Christian Vander with raw US punk makes this already pretty unique, a good reason to delve a bit deeper into the album.
For a country with such a small population, Iceland sure has a lot of talented acts. After Sigur Rós and Björk, Múm conquers mainland Europe and the USA.
Over the last few months, DefJux has been continually one of the best providers in quality hiphop, -just think Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif or El-P (label CEO).
DACM is a French dance / theatre collective consisting of many different people and already received critical acclaim from the audience in various dance theatres across France.
One time I came to Suede’s crib and I knocked on the door like: “what’s good, homey?” He says: “chillin”. But he’s chillin’ in the crib pitch black! He got no lights on. Then he says: “I’m takin’ it light”. He never explained why he did that. (from an interview in The Source: July 2002)
Downfall is the ideal album to frighten newer The Gathering fans. This compilation offers some of the earliest material the band ever recorded (pre Always...).
Jochem Paap or Speedy J has been in the scene for more than 10 years, and his experience in the techno scene has brought fourth interesting releases, part of an impressive discography that goes further than techno only.
The Gathering’s 5th album might be considered their ‘magnum opus’. They finally freed themselves from the shackles of metal and leap into territories hitherto unknown to them. It suits them fine, except for the first album (in that particular time) I think metal isn’t their forte.
Conceptalbums! I’m sure this term makes some people cringe! Beyond Twilight’s debut album is a tale about a man hacking his way through time and his own brain through a computer. This story is accompanied by a hybrid of melodic metal and progressive rock in a nearly ‘doom’ fashion.
LOVAGE (noun): Lovage is an herb that is said to be a benefit for relieving abdominal pains due to gastrointestinal gas. It's also been touted to reduce flatulence when consumed as a tea brewed from its roots or leaves.
It's cool... it's relaxing... it's different.This is already the second album from US based band Shivaree and I just happened to stumble upon them a few days ago and bought both albums at once.
Turkish popmusic has always been a big stew of western and eastern cultures, traditional oriental songs arranged with western chords and harmony structures, but still maintaining a strong Turkish identity by their melodic sense and typical inflections.
Well, it must be clear now. Nu-jazz is taking over. Jaga Jazzist, Cinematic Orchestra, Nils Petter Molvær and also not-Norwegian artists are pushing the boundaries of jazz further and further.
The Gathering are celebrating their 12,5 years of existence with this new EP. It has been some time since their last release, the Amity single. So I was full of joy when this disc finally got delivered.
For an experimental band as Fantômas, they sure are popular these days. After the cult soundtrack cover album "The Director's Cut" the band toured a lot and gained popularity.
After I discovered Kid606's album "Down With The Scene" I slowly collected more of his albums. He always seems to have an interesting way of combining noise with glitch and clicks & cuts.
The last couple of years more and more female solo musicians reached the international charts. Think Alicia Keys, Shakira... And Nelly Furtado. The similarities between these girls are, besides their young age, the ability that they can do a lot more than just singing and looking good.
Wolverine plays a brand of Prog-Metal that should feel like home to fans of Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning and Evergrey (maybe even Dream Theater).
After a few years waiting the masters of Funeral Doom, Skepticism, are finally back to serve us an appetiser to their upcoming new full length 'Farmakon'.
Venetian Snares aka Aaron Funk keeps on rocking the technoïd music scene. Besides various singles, remixes, and albums planned to be released on various labels, not less than 3 full albums will be released this year on Planet Mu.
The Fan Club Orchestra is perhaps the very first electronic live improvisation orchestra in the world; under supervision of the Baudoux brothers more or less 10 people improvise together playing percussion, guitar, harmonica, mouth organs, trombone, turntables and even gameboys...
Sometimes, good things happen. Sometimes, bad things happen too. But what is good and bad? What is right or wrong? V/Vm strikes again with a very odd and confusing release, described as being like Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms" without Mark Knopfler...
The German act Doc Wör Mirran has a seemingly endless discography, which I would not even start counting. "The Soundtrack Of Death" is their latest professional release (since they also release numerous CDRs), and is probably the noisiest and loudest Doc Wör Mirran release to date.
Oops (Oh My) is currently in the charts. This particular song was produced by Timbaland and Tweet is being marketed as a protegé of Missy Elliot. This seems a bit unfair reading the credits on Southern Hummingbird as Charlene Keys a.k.a. Tweet produced the bulk of the songs.