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In the last few years bands like Hedningarna, Hoven Droven, Garmarna and Gjallarhorn have been experimenting with contemporary pop, jazz and rock combined with traditional Scandinavian music.
How do you rate an album that sounds exactly the same as its predecessor? Or more important, how do you review an album that sounds exactly the same as its predecessor? Because that is the case with Moby's "18", or rather "Re-Play".
The vocal ‘Jack of all trades’ of hiphop drops his third solo-album just after I found out about his previous two albums. His low and incredibly cool voice appeared on many hiphop records by the likes of Warren G., Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris.
Lucine icl here presents its fourth album, Iron City, a fairly exceptional mishmash of ambient, pop, and fertile electronic danceable rhythms. Sounds like something perfectly fitting on the Hymen label, but this time it's co-released with Mad Monkey Records.
Bumblefoot's previous album, "Uncool", is still one of my favourite albums. The way Ron Thal and his band combined 70's lounge music with metal, hip-hop and thousands of other genres can only be matched by Mr. Bungle's similar themed album "California".
The Legacy of Black Metal has certainly engulfedvarious musical genres and ideas. One such psychedelic regenerator with one foot firmly in the Black Metal past and the other in god knows what is the Italian band Ephel Duath.
Once upon a time Dark Tranquillity had a gold membership in the “Big 4” of the Swedish Melodic Metal scene, also known as the Gothenburg Sound.
Aaron Boot, the man behind the electronic / post-rock project Sparrow Orange, believes in the emotional and spiritual side of music.
"Misfits" is Icarus' fourth release, and is, according to the press-release, "a minimally-arranged mini-LP made with two laptop computers in a vacuum. The artists were not present and neither was the DAT machine". Now what do you expect from that description?
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy were, and still are, big in Denmark and Japan, but almost unknown outside these two countries. The Danish rock band split up in '98 and all three members went their seperate ways.
Electronic jazz, future jazz, fusion jazz, nu-jazz, post-jazz, post-rock, pop, lounge, avant-garde, drum 'n' bass... Call it what you like. Norwegian 10 piece big band Jaga Jazzist uses all these styles without losing a grip on the music itself.
Slow? Morbid? Noisy? Abrasive? Desparate? Destructive? I suppose all these words aptly describe the musical sludgefest of Degree Zero Point of Implosion, to the extent that you may actually feel abused listening to it.
Welcome in Fly Pan AM territory. Fasten your seat belts please. Thanks you very much.
The Anti-Pop Consortium has been constantly innovative since the shaping in 1997 under the credo "disturb the equilibrium".
Soilwork's new album, "Natural Born Chaos", is the logical follow up to last year's "A Predator's Portrait", an album I enjoyed a lot because of its great songwriting and the catchiness of the melodies; elements that are lacking in a lot of metal bands in my opinion.
Some time ago, I was at a rock bar in Copenhagen where a band called Pinchbeck performed. I had never ever heard of the outfit before, but as I went to the stage to take a quick peek I discovered that I couldn't really get myself to return to my seat.
I just can't praise Norwegian black metallers Red Harvest enough for what they accomplish with their releases. There are only a few bands (Thorns) who actually are able to create a modern brand of black metal without losing the cold feeling.
Icon Of Coil is back with its second full-length EBM album "Soul Is In The Software".
After hearing Beady Belle's song "Moderation" on a Jazzland Records compilation I was very impressed by this duo. It's a very well written poppy and catchy song, a mix between jazz, pop and drum 'n bass.
I dare to say that the Japanese duo Yasumi Okano and Takayuki Souji, known as Xinlisupreme, have just released one of the most interesting and fascinating guitar based records of this year already.
The everflowing stream of Laswell releases brings us a collection of music used in and made for films. All the usual ingredients are present on 'Filmtracks 2000'.
The French Active Suspension label is quickly putting itself on the map for releasing quality electronic music. This time with O.Lamm, a seemingly very talented laptop artist.
I really want to know what they put in the Norwegian water. There is so much good music coming from this country that I'm thinking of buying a ticket and never come back. Take for instance Kåre João, with his new release "Sideman".
Noise! Masami Akita aka Merzbow is and has always been the leading figure in the Japanese noise scene. His enormous discography, including numerous collaborations with a wide range of artists, is still increasing and "Amlux" is the first release in 2002, on Important Records.