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This is the second album of the Dargaard side-project Dominion III and of course it features Dargaard's Tharen and Elisabeth again.
Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s latest or with intimate affairs such as Frankie Sparo’s live EP, a certain intangible quality has always been present.
One of Japan best kept secret, it’s high time that everyone stop and take notice of Tha Blue Herb. Hailing from Sapporo, far from trendy Tokyo, those blokes have developed a very original and extremely enjoyable vision of what hiphop should be.
A lot of Japanese bands have acquired mythical status in Europe and in the US. Boris are one of those. Flood is their third studio full length, and a very different proposal to their usual doomy music.
This disc has been out for a while now, and the reactions are much divided. Some are disappointed not being as groundbreaking as Endtroducing (1996), others give much praise for the instrumental hip-hop presented on The Private Press.
Following the successful Tomorrow Never Comes album (reviewed here), Japanese Xinlisupreme has put together another stunning release, this time in shape of a seven-track EP named Murder License.
Vardøgr is an old Norse word, meaning a forewarning, almost an omen. When you hear the door opening some time before it does, when you know someone is going to call you before they do.
I want to meet that girl. Anybody who can coax an album like that out of the silent air of a studio must be interesting enough to hook up with (the fact that I think she’s cute looking and has a sexy voice really has nothing to do with it).
With the surfacing of Asian underground and Bill Laswell’s long-time interest in Indian music, he first made an ambient CD called City Of Light and shortly after that the drum ‘n’ bass album Lo. Def Pressure. On that last one he used tabla rhythms (‘tala’) as a matrix for drum ‘n’ bass patterns.
A new chapter in the Buckethead saga. He got stranded in the Bermuda Triangle with his buddie Extrakd (El Stew, Gonervill, Bulletproof Scratch Hamsters and others). As one might expect the music has an eerie atmosphere that has been present on many of the more recent releases.
Another release from Bip-Hop, but don't run away right away. We all get tired of a certain music style after an overdose, but Andrew Duke's Sprung is actually quite refreshing and not sleep-inducing.
Today I officially come out of my reviewing vacation and present you with Brave’s latest piece (“opus” is such an overused word in the reviewing world), Searching for the Sun.
Born in Teheran, pre-revolutionary Iran, Sussan Deyhim still got the chance to become an open-minded artist that looks to innovate the music from her homecountry.
Asa-Chang (Asakura Koichi), self-taught Tabla and Bongo artist, ex-leader of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra has spent the last few years doing studio work for some of the cheesiest bands on earth: the J-pop artists. However, don’t expect anything corny on this album.
After I was blown away by the 7" single Une Vie on FatCat Records I decided to check out the full length album L'Enfer Tiède, released earlier this year on Lithium Records, too.
Spaceheads are apparently real musical veterans, the Low Pressure album being their 7th already. Yet this is my first encounter with the English duo, and that's regrettable, because their music is good. Very good.
These days it seems quite common for a metal band to change their musical direction. Anathema for instance started as a doom-metal band, but over the years they slightly progressed outside the metal borders.
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.