A Memorable Fancy

Phoenix Bodies / Raein - Split (2004)

2009-11-26T13:54:00.002+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore/Powerviolence

Tracklisting:
1. Phoenix Bodies - Sense is Out of Style
2. Phoenix Bodies - The Future of Eating
3. Raein - Endless Tourlife

This split opens up with mad grind-like part of Phoenix Bodies, fast and brutal. Then it calms down - Raein's track is rather atmospheric, a little bit post-rocky I might even say. The song is maybe too long a bit, it could end at 4:30 moment, but then the guitars play intro back again, some strange noises loom in the distance, then they show up and are explicit and poof, the end. The whole split is nice, though, no doubt.

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Raein - Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre [2003]

2009-11-24T16:41:00.003+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore

Tracklisting:
1. The Tree
2. The Kking Is Dead
3. Il Ny A Pass De Orchestre
4. From 3 To 1 In 2 And 4
5. Tetraedycal Fluctuating Faster Than The Speed Of Ligs
6. Miss Kelly Dathe
7. Artmachine Observation Tower
8. Tigersuit
9. She Wears My Blood
10. I Was Fine Before You Came

Raein's second LP, certainly their best one. The new Nati Da Altri Padri after reuniting haven't caught my ear. This album quite similar to their split with mighty Daïtro - very intense and violent. Tigersuit is the biggest killer here.

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Raein & Daïtro - Split 10'' [2004]

2009-11-23T16:30:00.003+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore

Tracklisting:
1. Raein - Faithless
2. Raein - Parte 1
3. Raein - New day scenario
4. Raein - Blue lines
5. Daïtro - Au about de mes lèvres
6. Daïtro - Un bateau ivre
7. Daïtro - À chaque fois

OK, it's actually my favourite screamo work ever, so not many words this time. Really, Raein's part on this split just kicks ass. It's heavy, it's violent, passionate, emotional, chaotic, atmospheric and fucking melodic and thrilling at the same time. Faithless is simply the best emo track of all time. OF ALL TIME. Just sayin'.

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Saetia - Demo Cassette [1997]

2009-11-22T13:43:00.007+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore

Tracklisting:
1. The Burden of Reflecting
2. Closed Hands
3. Venus and Bacchus
4. One Dying Wish

One of the first recordings by legendary band on American screamo scene Saetia, containing cult song Venus and Bacchus. Some say these are the best songs of their discography, but I haven't listened to them enough to claim so. It's not as melodic as European screamo representatives though, but just classic.

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Suis La Lune - Heir [2008]

2009-11-21T15:13:00.010+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore/Post-Rock

Tracklisting:
1. With Wings Of Feathers and Glue
2. September Gave Us Awkwardness, October Gave Me Nothing
3. The Greatest Actors Keep On Acting Offstage
4. Can't Believe I Spelled It Out To You

This EP is an awesome pack of stunningly emotional screamo with a post-rocky feel, one of my favourites in genre. Sounds like a mix of fast tempos and melody of La Quiete and aggressiveness and chaos known from Raein. The moment at the beginning of Can't Believe I Spelled It Out To You is just magical.

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Tristan Tzara - Da Ne Zaboravis [2002]

2009-11-20T15:39:00.013+01:00

Genre: Screamo

Tracklisting:
1. Ah Feel Like Ah Said
2. Schizophrenia
3. A Mad Gleam
4. Song 4
5. Untitled #3
6. Tarotplane
7. Come On Jane

Sorry for the last almost 10 days of idleness, I've just had a lot of workload and I've been trying to cope with that... And by the way, I've managed to finish my next mix (technically reaaally better than the previous one, grime-like) - if you want some chilly atmospheric dubstep, go for it!. I've heard that maybe the connections between tracks are not top-notch (come on, that's my third effort to make such thing), but the tracks-choice is certainly accurate and simply very good. Enjoy!

Anyway, I'm gonna come back to posting some pretty albums every day or two. This time I'll present a few great underground European screamo bands, especially from France and Italy (I guess not only today, I've been a big fan of this style of music recently - so expect some downright cool screamo albums next few days).

Who first? Tristan Tzara, Germany-based screamo collective consisting of members from bands like Kobra Khan or Louise Cyphre. This CD is an EP, lasting hardly ten minutes, but those are probably one of the most brutal and emotional ten minutes of whole hardcore and emo genre. Not-so-good production just gives it additional weight and feel of violence. If I was to compare Tristan Tzara to another band, I would say - Orchid! Any more conviction needed?

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The Streets - Original Pirate Material [2002]

2009-11-11T17:30:00.002+01:00

Genre: UK Hip Hop/UK Garage

Tracklisting:
01 Turn The Page (03:15)
02 Has It Come To This? (04:04)
03 Let's Push Things Forward (03:52)
04 Sharp Darts (01:33)
05 Same Old Thing (03:22)
06 Geezers Need Excitement (03:46)
07 It's Too Late (04:11)
08 Too Much Brandy (03:02)
09 Don't Mug Yourself (02:40)
10 Who Got The Funk? (01:51)
11 The Irony Of It All (03:30)
12 Weak Become Heroes (05:33)
13 Who Dares Wins (00:34)
14 Stay Positive (06:16)

Truly, this is one of the best hip hop albums I've ever listened, also one of the weirdest. The vocal actually isn't a rap, it's a kind of melorecitation. At first, I couldn't understand the music - for me it was a strange mix of cool backgrounds and rap that was totally out of the music. But after sometime I realised that Original Pirate Material makes me perfectly relaxed and the music itself is great, too. After In The Middle remix I started to admire Mike Skinner's voice and accent - very soft, truly English. Strongly recommended!

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Grime Dubstep Mix

2009-11-08T19:16:00.004+01:00

Genre: Dubstep/Grime

Tracklisting:
1. Buraka Som Sistema - IC19
2. Flow Dan - Still Deya ft. Riko & Killa P
3. Revolver - Controlling The War (Produced by Rusko)
4. Rusko - Cockney Thug (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)
5. The Bug - Jah War (Feat. Flowdan)
6. The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream Remix)
7. Flow Dan - Just Me ft. Riko
8. Smut - Badman Place
9. Rusko - Jahova

I made a short mixtape this morning. O, and this is one of my first mixtapes ever, so the connections between tracks are not as good as I would like them to be... But the I hope the choice of tracks will compensate it! :) While making it I focused mainly on grime, danceable rhythms and some slight reggae elements, of course everything kept in dubstep stylistics. Enjoy!

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Corea - Los Peores 7km De Mi Vida [2004]

2009-11-07T20:12:00.003+01:00

Genre: Screamo/Post-Hardcore/Post-Rock/Noise

Tracklisting:
01 Cuando El Mar Pierde Las Conchas
02 La Muerte Fosiliza El Recuerdo...
03 Ofelia
04 Eterno En La Garganta Del Tormento
05 Interrupeciones
06 Siete Kilometros
07 1000 Millones De Cuervos

Stunning screamo from Spain with many atmospheric post elements. This album is epic, truly. Plus one surprising noise track in Jason Crumer's style.

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The Streets - In The Middle [2009]

2009-11-05T19:26:00.003+01:00

Song of the year? So far - no doubt!

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions [2009]

2009-11-02T21:12:00.002+01:00

Genre: Drone Doom Metal/Drone/Dark Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. Aghartha
2. Big Church
3. Haunting And Gathering
4. Alice

DRRRRONEEEES. MONOLITHIC HEAVY DRONES. CHOIRS, TRUMPETS AND DRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOONES. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime [1994]

2009-10-31T19:05:00.009+01:00

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Math Rock/Noise Rock/Emo

Tracklisting:
1. Here Come the Rome Plows
2. Do You Compute
3. Golden Brown
4. Luau
5. Super Unison
6. New Intro
7. New Math
8. Human Interest
9. Sinews

Amazingly emotional post-hardcore and math rock fusion, with very noise rocky sound. The album got many atmospheric elements which are great indeed.

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Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist... [2007]

2009-10-28T17:51:00.003+01:00

Genre: Minimal Techno

Tracklisting:
01. Mondfahrt
02. Planet Ypsilon
03. Liebe Ist
04. Fahrenheit
05. Turbine
06. Luka Leon
07. Kerosene
08. Sonnenwind
09. Meteor
10. Leuchtraft
11. Vendett

Liebe Ist... totally has gotten me, this morning. Stephan Bodzin has made a new standard in my minimal techno thinking. All those fantastic beats and great finesse absolutely blew me away. I love how the tension increases in Turbine and find static melody in tech-house-like Mondfahrt awesome.

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Today Is The Day - Axis of Eden [2007]

2009-10-23T17:02:00.002+02:00

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Noisecore/Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. I.E.D.
2. Free at Last
3. Broken Promises and Dead Dreams
4. If You Want Peace Prepare for War
5. No Lung Baby
6. Black Steyr Aug
7. My Wish is Your Command
8. Circus Maximus
9. Total Resistance
10.The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me
11.Axis of Eden
12.Desolation

Narcotic hardcore from one of the best bands in the genre - Today Is The Day. Similarly heavy to their Temple of the Morning Star and having somehow dubby sound just like on Sadness Will Prevail. Plus a few very fast grindcore elements. Fantastic!

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As Blood Runs Black - Allegiance [2006]

2009-10-20T22:14:00.002+02:00

Genre: Deathcore/Metalcore
Quality: VBR (Avg- 240 KBPS)

Tracklisting:
1. intro 00:57
2. In Dying Days 03:41
3. My Fears Have Become Phobias 03:59
4. Hester Prynne 03:38
5. Pouring Reign 03:13
6. The Brighter Side of Suffering 04:54
7. The Beautiful Mistake 04:34
8. Strife (Chug Chug) 03:46
9. Beneath The Surface 04:38
10. Legends Never Die 03:44

Very good heavily-death-influenced metalcore with lots of awesome breakdowns (yea, that's why I like deathcore). Plus it got a very recognizable (for metalcores ;d) song, In Dying Days (pretty nice, I have to admit):

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Clubroot - Clubroot [2009]

2009-10-17T16:47:00.004+02:00

Genre: Dubstep/Ambient/2-Step

Tracklisting:
1. Low Pressure Zone
2. Embryo
3. High Strung
4. Dulcet
5. Lucid Dream
6. Birth Interlude
7. Talisman
8. Nexus
9. Sempiternal
10. Serendipity Dub

Should you be looking for emo-dubstep, here you go then! Clubroot is an awesome set of downright emotional dubstep tracks. Starts with a slow, gloomy melody with an anxious beat looming in the distance... And the album keeps that bleak atmosphere till the end.

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Rusko - Essentials Mix Radio1 12/13/2008

2009-10-15T20:20:00.003+02:00

Recently, I'm totally keen on dubstep. Yeah. And, for God's sake, I've discovered the Rusko Essentials Mix (12/13/2008) just few days ago. And it's absolutely GENIOUS! Almost two hours of the craziest massive dubstep you've ever heard. Crashing basslines, big tunes, ow jeez, that drives me mad!

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Little Boots - Hands [2009]

2009-10-14T15:48:00.004+02:00

Genre: Electropop/Synthpop/Dance-pop

Tracklisting:
01 New In Town
02 Earthquake
03 Stuck On Repeat
04 Click
05 Remedy
06 Meddle
07 Ghosts
08 Mathematics
09 Symmetry
10 Tune Into My Heart
11 Hearts Collide
12 No Brakes

Hey, that's the new Little Boots album. Great electropop with some nice melodies (New In Town or Mathematics. A bit disappointing, though, but just a bit.

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Why disappointing? After her awesome track Stuck on Repeat released in the last year, I thought the whole album was going to be that great. Just listen to the song here (it's not the worse, cropped Radio Edit version, the full one). Recently I got it... um, stuck on repeat, actually.

Emalkay - When I Look At You [2009]

2009-10-12T21:42:00.002+02:00

Ow jeez, that's the BIIIIG tune. Awesome, dubstep song of the year? So far - yeah. I'd like to experience it live! (just like here :<)

Zomby - Where Were U In '92? [2008]

2009-10-11T19:54:00.005+02:00

Genre: Breakbeat/Dubstep/Jungle

Tracklisting:
1 Fuck Mixing, Let’s Dance
2 Euphoria
3 We Got the Sound
4 Daftpunk Rave
5 Tears in the Rain
6 Get Sorted
7 G.T.i.
8 Float
9 Need Ur Lovin’
10 Pillz
11 Hench
12 B With Me
13 Where Were U in ‘92
14 U Are My Fantasy (Street Fighter II Theme RMX)

Rave rave rave, 90's are back! Unfortunately, I've discovered this gem one year too late. Fantastic breaks with great dubsteppy basslines. Warning: highly addictive. PARTY HARD!!!!11

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Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard [2001]

2009-10-10T19:26:00.002+02:00

Genre: Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. Jennifer
2. Cheerleader Corpses
3. Scatology Homework
4. Trojan Whore
5. Ghost of a Bullet
6. Heart and Crossbones
7. Strangled With a Halo
8. Intimate Slavery
9. Mapplethorpe Grey
10. Evacuating Heaven
11. Tickets to the Car Crash
12. Naked Trees
13. Sheet Metal Girl
14. Preacher Crawling
15. Pornographic Memory
16. Murder Blossom
17. Body Scout
18. Snuff Film at Eleven
19. Hyperviolet
20. Starbelly
21. Junkyard God
22. Piss Angel

Full-Satan ultimately fast grind with crushing slowdowns. Mmmmm. Classic of the genre.

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Inhale Exhale - Bury Me Alive [2009]

2009-10-07T22:10:00.002+02:00

Genre: Metalcore

Tracklisting:
01. Rooms
02. Did You Ever Have a Touch to Lose?
03. Condemned
04. Over and Out
05. A Dark Place for Your Mind to Be
06. Intentions
07. Explosions
08. Fiction
09. Better Her Than Me
10. Thin Black Lines
11. An Era

This time - pure new-school metalcore. I find it pretty surprising, I didn't expect such a good thing. Bury Me Alive is a very solid record, a bit d-beat with lots of heavy breakdowns, actually quite similar to the Angelreich style. Got one of the best clean vocals I've ever heard in metalcore - not mawkish emo-like (Bullet for My Valentine? blaaaarh) - they sound like they should sound in this kind of heavy music. Recommended!

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Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest [2009]

2009-10-06T21:30:00.003+02:00

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Tracklisting:
1. Kafir!
2. Hittite Dung Incantation
3. Utterances of the Crawling Dead
4. Those Whom the Gods Detest
5. 4th Arra of Dagon
6. Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld
7. Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence
8. Kem Khefa Kheshef
9. The Eye of Ra
10. Iskander D'hul Karnon

Some ultra-brutal-tech-math-death-metal stuff from the legend NILE - known mainly for great album In Their Darkened Shrines. Those Whom The Gods Detest features some world music elements making the album not monotonous and quite interesting. I appreciate the sound the Nile musicians achieved, pretty clear so that it doesn't sound like for example some underground demo.

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Converge - Axe to Fall [2009]

2009-10-04T19:05:00.001+02:00

Genre: Mathcore/Metalcore/Post-Hardcore

Tracklisting:
1. Dark Horse
2. Reap What You Sow
3. Axe To Fall
4. Effigy
5. Worms Will Feed
6. Wishing Well
7. Damages
8. Losing Battle
9. Dead Beat
10. Cutter
11. Slave Driver
12. Cruel Bloom
13. Wretched World

FUCK ME FUCK ME IT'S NOT FAKE!!!!!!11
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Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport [2009]

2009-10-04T14:52:00.003+02:00

Genre: Neo-Psychedelia/Electronic/Drone/Noise/Minimal Techno

Tracklisting:
01. "Surf Solar"
02. "Rough Steez"
03. "The Lisbon Maru"
04. "Olympians"
05. "Phantom Limb"
06. "Space Mountain"
07. "Flight of the Feathered Serpent"

So far my favourite 2009 album. Listening to those joyful, carefree songs makes me feel like the happiest man on earth. Seems like the drone version of Merriweather Post Pavillion by Animal Collective - same psychedelic atmosphere, but all those noises and minimal techno beats make Tarot Sport totally different album. And, holy crap, song Surf Solar is one of the best things I've ever heard!

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No Consequence - In the Shadow of Gods [2009]

2009-10-03T20:04:00.002+02:00

Genre: Metalcore/Technical Thrash Metal/Deathcore

Tracklisting:
1. Ocular Gyro Crisis
2. The arrival of Predators
3. Forged
4. The Fallen
5. Age of Fear
6. Synaesthesia
7. Ashes
8. Longitudes
9. Latitudes
10. Shallow Be Thy Name
11. Inevitable Silence

Really good technical metalcore with some thrash metal riffs. Features many great mosh-slowdowns and breakdowns, and piggy growls as well, making the album pretty deathcore. Many tempo changes and chaotic stylistics proves that No Consequence are somehow progressive.

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Monte Cazazza - The Worst of Monte Cazazza [1996]

2009-09-06T21:16:00.003+02:00

Genre: Old School Industrial/Experimental

Tracklisting:
01. psychiatric review
02. to mom on mother's day
03. candy man
04. rabid rats (vietnam)
05. distress
06. mary bell
07. kick the habit man
08. first / last
09. tiny tears
10. stairway to hell
11. sex is no emergency
12. a snitch is a snitch
13. six eyes from hell
14. liars (feed those christians to the lions)
15. a is for atom
16. if thoughts could kill
17. mark of the devil
18. climax

Seems like Monte Cazazza - guitarist of Psychic TV - has a lot of distance to himself - starting from the title of the compilation, ending on performances of the songs. Psychedelic industrial improvisation starts with "Just tell me when to start... anytime? ok. [and with a sweet, 10-years-old-boy-like voice] To mom on mother's day...>". Awesome.

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SPK - Information Overload Unit [1981]

2009-09-05T15:40:00.002+02:00

Genre: Old School Industrial/Noise/Power Electronics

Tracklisting:
1. Emanation Machine R. Gie
2. Suture Obsession
3. Macht Schrecken
4. Beruftverbot
5. Ground Zero: Infinity Dos
6. Stammheim Torturkammer
7. Retard
8. Epilept: Convulse
9. Kaltbruchig Acideath

First studio LP by industrial classic SPK (after the live album At the Crypt) is somehow an introduction to their famous Leichenschrei [as Socialistiches Patienten Kollektiv] - the 'weakest' noise-explorers are easily discouraged by this album. Disturbing noisy power electronics improvisations with a well-hidden germ of melody are the clue of Information Overload Unit [as System Planning Korporation]. Though, some of the songs show the post-punk inspiration of SPK - like the second track Suture Obsession with a bass guitar on the first plan.

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Angerlreich - The Face Of Your Fear [2009]

2009-09-04T21:53:00.006+02:00

Angelreich is a Polish metalcore band, this track is from their debut album The Plague. It's got few very good songs, this one is on the highest metalcore standard. I've experienced them live and I know they're doing their job pretty well. Unfortunately, on their debut CD with 8 tracks, 2 of them are intro and outro, and 1 is an electronic interlude...

Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave [2009]

2009-09-04T16:21:00.005+02:00

Genre: Deathgrind/Death Metal/Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. Strongarm 03:04
2. Diktat 03:41
3. Work to Rule 03:16
4. On the Brink of Extinction 03:29
5. Time Waits for No Slave 04:26
6. Life and Limb 04:00
7. Downbeat Clique 04:26
8. Fallacy Dominion 04:07
9. Passive Tense 03:48
10. Laurency of the Heart 03:36
11. Procrastination of the Empty Vessel 02:56
12. Feeling Redundant 03:23
13. A No-sided Argument 02:13
14. De-evolution Ad Nauseum 03:48

We are being used to fact, that Napalm Death, 80's grindcore precursor, every 1-2 years releases a good, solid piece of grindcore with death metal influences. Same with Time Waits for No Slave - it's nothing special, just a solid, enjoyable album. It's got some very-very-downbeat tracks, like On the Brink of Extinction or Life and Limb, and these moments are actually the best on the whole CD.

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MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday [1999]

2009-09-02T18:39:00.002+02:00

Genre: East Coast Hip Hop/Abstract Hip Hop

Tracklisting:
1. The Time We Faced DOOM (Skit)
2. Doomsday
3. Rhymes Like Dimes feat. DJ CUCUMBER SLICE
4. The Finest feat. TOMMY GUNN
5. Back In The Days (Skit)
6. Go With The Flow
7. Tick, Tick... feat. MF GRIMM
8. Red And Gold feat. KING GEEDORAH
9. The Hands Of Doom (Skit)
10. Who You Think I Am? feat. KD, KING GEEDORAH, KONG, MEGALON, RODAN, X-RAY
11. Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
12. Hey!
13. Operation: Greenbacks feat. MEGALON
14. The Mic
15. The Mystery Of DOOM (Skit)
16. Dead Bent
17. Gas Drawls
18. I Hear Voices (Part One) feat. KURIOUS
19. Hero vs villain (Epilogue) feat. E.MASON

MF DOOM's first studio release, not as good as the new Born Like This, but very good for sure. Not simple, like other East Coast albums - the 'Supervillain' had already created his abstract style of setting up the beats. Also, on Operation: Doomsday, we can easily hear Doom's characteristic style of rapping: "When in Rome/go back home/and get real dome/from a well known crack gnome". Yo!

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Dawn of Ashes - The Crypt Injection [2007]

2009-09-01T17:52:00.003+02:00

Genre: Harsh EBM

Tracklisting:
1. A Blade In the Dark
2. Torture Device
3. Portrait of Homicide
4. Inhuman Salvation
5. Psycho Therapy
6. Still Born Defect
7. The Crypt Injection
8. Slasher
9. Where Angels Die
10. Blood Shattered Cross
11. Vengeance
12. Portrait of Homicide (Grendel Mix)
13. Portrait of Homicide (Aesthetic Perfection Mix)
14. Portrait of Homicide (Nurzery Ryhmes Mix)

Awesome piece of Harsh EBM in Combichrist aggro-tech style. Their heavy beats, distorted vocal typical for this kind of music and lots of loops makes The Crypt Injection very psychedelic, leading to some kind of trance. This album gots also some electro-industrial interludes, sounding like dark and gothic musical landscapes. Best EBM record I ever listened to so far. Strongly recommended!

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xLooking Forwardx - What This Means To Me [2004]

2009-08-31T14:29:00.005+02:00

Genre: Hardcore Punk/Straight Edge

Tracklisting:
01 XLFX
02 Cop Out
03 Talk is Cheap
04 Molding Myself
05 Drama Queen
06 Shameless
07 Best Days
08 Sundown
09 What This Means to Me
10 Life Preserver
11 The Death of Me
12 Tuning You Out
13 1117
14 Roll The Dice

Very good straight edge hardcore. Fast tempos, characteristic vocal, a few breakdowns... Very enjoyable. Songs Cop Out and Tuning You Out are the best, actually.

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Seabound - Beyond Flatline [2004]

2009-08-29T22:23:00.007+02:00

Genre: Futurepop

Tracklisting:
1. Transformer 5:09
2. Contact 5:45
3. Soul Diver 4:45
4. Digital 3:48
5. Poisonous Friend 5:03
6. Separation 2:32
7. Torch 6:23
8. Go International 3:51
9. Watching Over You 6:09
10. Icarus 4:09

I got a problem with this release. At first glance - it's uncommon, ambitious futurepop with great depth, not typical like other EBM records - just hard beat, few melodies and harsh vocal. Beyond Flatline sometimes gets more instrumental, sometimes has spoken or just softly sung vocals. I'd like to give it something like 4.0, but unfortunately the songs are not as enjoyable as they could be, like in The Soul Is In The Software for example. This album is like IDM in all those electronic genres - deep and inspiring, but sometimes just not pleasant enough.

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Gomeisa - Birth-Giver [2009]

2009-08-29T13:29:00.003+02:00

Genre: Ambient/Drone/Post-Rock

Tracklisting:
1. Birth-Giver
2. Imitation of Perseus
3. Harbinger (live)

I found it coincidentally on some site with thousands of links. Fortunately, it turned out to be a great piece of ambient drones. Reminds me June Nadja's gig with thisquietarmy as support - the third track sounds exactly like some of the live drony improvisations of young Eric Quach [thisquietarmy only member]. The whole CD sounds like Nadja playing post-rock. Memorable.

As we read on Gomeisa blogspot, we see, that Birth-Giver is "a collection of re-worked/re-recorded scraps from the 'The Ecstatic Half-Life' sessions. A much more subdued affair, and a breather before the noise that's coming yr way in the following months." It's a free download. The next album is now avaible, though: here. The next-next one is almost ready - waiting for it!

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Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind [2009]

2009-08-28T18:28:00.002+02:00

Genre: Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. The Protocols Of Anti-Sound
2. Pulverizing Hate Mongers
3. Rejecting The Militant Promise
4. Assimilated Pollutants
5. Abuse of Philanthropic Self Gain
6. Fools Of Contradiction
7. Heretics
8. Bridge Burner
9. Cranial Media Parasite
10. Excommunicated
11. The Price Of Living By Delinquent Ideals
12. Built To Blast
13. Lyrical Ammunition For Scene Warfare
14. Rise And Fall Of Empires Past
15. Heavier Bombing
16. Martyrs Of The Shoah
17. Bonus Track

Solid piece of this year grindcore. Ultra fast tempos, heavy guitar riffs just like in Nasum, muted screamy vocals like in Discordance Axis... What more recommendation do you need?

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D.O.A. - Hardcore '81 [1981]

2009-08-28T14:07:00.001+02:00

Genre: Old School Hardcore Punk

Tracklisting:
A1. D.O.A.
A2. Unknown
A3. Slumlord
A4. Musical Interlude
A5. I Don't Give A Shit
A6. M.C.T.F.D
A7. Communication Breakdown
B1. 001 Loser's Club
B2. Fucked Up Baby
B3. The Kenny Blister Song
B4. Smash The State
B5. My Old Man's A Bum
B6. Bloodsucker Baby
B7. Waiting For You

Genious old school hardcore album, even better than previously posted Minor Threat's discography. Fast tempos, raw vocals, catchy melodies - recommended.

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Unsane - Visqueen [2007]

2009-08-27T14:16:00.002+02:00

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Noise Rock

Tracklisting:
01 Against the Grain
02 Last Man Standing
03 This Stops at the River
04 Only Pain
05 No One
06 Windshield
07 Shooting Clay
08 Line on the Wall
09 Disdain
10 Eat Crow
11 East Broadway

Awesome post-hardcore with slight sludge metal influence (slow tempos, etc) and noise rocky arrangements and sound. Mind-blowing.

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Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art [1997]

2009-08-23T13:05:00.003+02:00

Genre: Detroit Techno

Tracklisting:
1. Es.30
2. Televised Green Smoke
3. Goodbye World
4. Alien Talk
5. Red Lights
6. Dreamland
7. Butterfly
8. Act 2
9. Dominas
10. At Les
11. Suspiria
12. As Time Goes By (Sitting Under A Tree)
13. Attitude
14. Frustration
15. Food And Art (In The Spirit Of Revolution)

Some piece of detroit techno classic Carl Craig. Genre originated from house, it's groovy, funky, mild and chillout - and so is the album. Solid work, got great songs like Televised Green Smoke, Butterfly or As Time Goes By (Sitting Under A Tree).

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Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2 [2003]

2009-08-22T13:31:00.002+02:00

Genre: Political Hip Hop/East Coast Hip Hop

Tracklisting:

01. Intro
02. The Point Of No Return
03. Peruvian Cocaine (Feat. C-Rayz Walz, Pumpkinhead, Loucipher, Tonedeff, Diabolic & Poison Pen)
04. Harlem Streets
05. Obnoxious
06. The Message And The Money
07. Industrial Revolution (Feat. Roc Raida)
08. Crossing The Boundary
09. Sierra Maestra
10. The 4th Branch
11. Internally Bleeding
12. Homeland And Hiphop (Feat. Mumia Abu Jamal)
13. The Cause Of Death
14. Freedom Of Speech
15. Leaving The Past
16. Truth's Razors
17. You Never Know (Feat. Jean Grae)
18. One (Remix) (Feat. Akir)

Awesome piece of controversial political hip hop from Peruvian rapper and political activist Felipe Coronel. He represents left wing view on today's political and social events. Besides, he got fantastic beats, supported sometimes with acoustic guitar playing some latin flamenco stuff.

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MF DOOM - Born Like This [2009]

2009-08-21T12:05:00.003+02:00

Genre: East Coast Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop/Abstract Hip Hop

Tracklisting:
1 Supervillain Intro
2 Gazzillion Ear
3 Ballskin
4 Yessir (feat. Raekwon)
5 Absolutely
6 Rap Ambush
7 Lightworks
8 Batty Boyz
9 Costume Foolery
10 Angelz (feat. Tony Starks)
11 Cellz
12 Stil Dope
13 Better Than Beer (feat. Kurious)
14 Microwave Mayo
15 More Rhymin'
16 That's That
17 In Ya Dreams
18 Thank Ya

MF DOOM (known as Victor Vaughn, King Geedorah, Madvillain) is certainly one of the most recognizable people of the underground hip hop scene. His, hm, let's say, intelligent (I mean not trivial) beats could be instrumental as well, and the album would still be very good. For example, Lightworks is actually J Dilla's beat from album Donuts. Happily, Born Like This doesn't have many instrumental, boring interludes, so that it's a really nice listen.

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Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure [2009]

2009-08-20T08:17:00.001+02:00

Genre: Synthpop/Italo-Disco

Tracklisting:
01. Swimming Through the Blue Lagoon 2:29
02. Looking at the Stars 5:28
03. Love in July 3:48
04. My Fantasy 3:44
05. Let it Show 5:43
06. Moonlight Dance 4:05
07. Save Your Love 3:16
08. Dying in Africa 4:55
09. Miracle 4:58

The new Sally Shapiro album. Less retro than Disco Romance, more... mature. Anyway, still got the awesome synthpop songs with slight 80s italo-disco influence. Really nice, get it.

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Minor Threat - Complete Discography [1989]

2009-08-19T17:11:00.003+02:00

Genre: Old School Hardcore Punk/Straight Edge

Tracklisting:
1. Filler 1:32
2. I Don't Wanna Hear It 1:15
3. Seeing Red 1:03
4. Straight Edge 0:46
5. Small Man, Big Mouth 0:55
6. Screaming at a Wall 1:31
7. Bottled Violence 0:53
8. Minor Threat 1:29
9. Stand Up 0:54
10. 12xU 1:04
11. In My Eyes 2:45
12. Out of Step (With the World) 1:20
13. Guilty of Being White 1:14
14. Steppin' Stone 2:12
15. Betray 3:02
16. It Follows 1:50
17. Think Again 2:18
18. Look Back and Laugh 3:16
19. Sob Story 1:51
20. No Reason 1:58
21. Little Friend 2:18
22. Out of Step 1:16
23. Cashing In 3:44
24. Stumped 1:55
25. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) 2:14
26. Salad Days 2:44

Compilation of all Minor Threat songs - 1 album and 2 EPs. Because their songs are like 1-2 minutes long, there's no problem in getting the 'Complete Discography'. The songs are actually as good as short :) Old school, raw hardcore punk with bad production (that isn't disadvantage, though). By song 'Straight Edge' they defined the... yeah, straight edge movement, what a surprise.

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Nas - Illmatic [1994]

2009-08-18T19:17:00.004+02:00

Genre: East Coast Hip Hop/Hardcore Hip Hop

Tracklisting:
1. The Genesis
2. N.Y. State Of Mind
3. Life's A Bitch
4. The World Is Yours
5. Halftime
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7. One Love
8. One Time 4 Your Mind
9. Represent
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell

This time something completely different. Awesome hardcore hip hop from the east coast rapper Nas. Great beats, lyrics, has something special. Similar style to that of his peers from Wu-Tang Clan, but milder and more easy-listening.

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Thee Maldoror Kollective - Need the Needle [2009]

2009-08-18T11:48:00.003+02:00

Genre: Avant-Garde Metal/Avant-Garde Jazz/Industrial Metal/Dark Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. The Burglar, the Herdsman & the Jew
2. Major Problem in Washington DC
3. A Gibbet Rootwork
4. The Saigon Reduxes
5. Clearwater Mumbo Jumbo
6. 3 Pennies National Messiah
7. Pushers from Shangri La
8. Comin' to a Town Near You
9. From Railroad to Skyline (Tokyo 1975)
10. The Siamese Eraser
11. Vita Cruda
12. Sicilian Lunch
13. Pink Boogeyman at the Speed of Light
14. Burn Lucy, Burn
15. Sorcellerie Bruitiste

New Thee Maldoror Kollective album. Certainly more crazy than the previous, varying from jazz and blues to some extreme industrial metal and dark ambient themes. Great experience, but something missing, though I don't know exactly what.

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Sigillum S - Studs and Divinity [1989]

2009-08-17T22:38:00.004+02:00

Genre: Old School Industrial/Noise/Death Industrial/Experimental

Tracklisting:
1. Priesthood Of Whore Kaosdom
2. Two Miniskirted Scorpions Digitally Mating On A Platform
3. Chewing A Just Used Condom In Her After Coming Bliss ... Ageing And Death Of Masses
4. Draw The Spleen Of Divinity
5. Five Or Six Corpses
6. DNA Spilling In A Swine Car
7. Night
8. A Violin Is Kissing A Decomposing Liszt
9. Plague Privilege Plug

Total madness. Power-electronics-like death industrial with lots of and experimentalism. Got orchestral samples with huge noise improvisation, also some minimalistic parts, as well as old school industrial, more friendly tracks. Madness.

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Icon of Coil - Icon of Coil The Soul Is in the Software [2002]

2009-08-15T11:20:00.002+02:00

Genre: Futurepop/EBM

Tracklisting:
1. Comment
2. Thrillcapsule
3. Violations
4. In Absence
5. Access and Amplify
6. Everything Is Real?
7. Faith: Not Important
8. Other Half Of Me
9. Love As Blood
10. Disconnect

That's the funny thing. Andy from Combichrist used to play in this project. It for sure isn't anyhow dark or something. It's just kitschy futurepop, extremely danceable. But is it a barrier to make awesome songs...? Holy shit, I really like it.

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Iron Halo Device - The Collapsing Void [1996]

2009-08-07T22:26:00.002+02:00

Genre: Electro-Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Tracklisting:
01. Eyespark, The Man [Introduction] (12:04)
02. Intruding The Skin [Penetration] (10:37)
03. The Collapsing Void [Reflection] (15:41)
04. An Empty Anthem [Completion] (9:15)
05. The Abduction Of Winter [Creation] (5:55)
06. The Expanding Void [Evolution] (4:19)
07. Red Memory [Observation] (3:32)
08. A Passion Vessel [Contemplation] (3:30)

"Tracks 1-4, titled "Pulsating Flesh," were recorded live at the Hurricane in Kansas City on July 31, 1996. Tracks 5-8, titled "Spliced & Segmented," were compiled from home demos recorded in August and September 1995."

The first 4 tracks were composed entirely of samples taken from other bands. You can easily identify the obvious cuts borrowed from Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, Coil, Curve, Lords Of Acid, SPK, etc. Tracks 05-08 were recorded in the same technique. Generally, The Collapsing Void is based on a slow percussion, heavy drones and dense electro-industrial backgrounds. To encourage - you can hear for example Lustmord in The Abduction of Winter.

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Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care [2009]

2009-08-07T12:23:00.002+02:00

Genre: Synthpop

Tracklisting:
1. Parallel Lines
2. Work
3. Bits And Pieces
4. Dull To Pause
5. Hazel
6. Sneak A Picture
7. The Animator
8. What It’s For

Now something extremely different. New Junior Boys album. Certainly a bit worse than previous So This Is Goodbye, but nice and enjoyable. Still mawkish and catchy at the same time, with minimal electropop-backgrounds.

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Swans - Cop [1984]

2009-08-06T12:59:00.002+02:00

Genre: Noise Rock/No Wave/Industrial/Sludge Metal

Tracklisting:
A1 Half Life 4:18
A2 Job 4:46
A3 Why Hide 5:50
A4 Clay Man 5:05
B1 Your Property 4:48
B2 Cop 6:47
B3 Butcher 4:02
B4 Thug 5:12

Sounds like some beginnings of sludge. Slow, noise rocky riffs, heavy percussion, dirty, hateful vocals. Somehow monotonous, but in a positive way, makes the impression of total hatred.

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The Retrosic - Nightcrawler [2006]

2009-08-05T15:16:00.003+02:00

Genre: EBM/Electro-Industrial

Tracklisting:
01. Unleash Hell
02. Revolution
03. Desperate Youth
04. Bloodsport
05. Deathdealer
06. The Lucky Ones
07. Quid Pro Quo
08. Silence
09. Bomb
10. Exit
11. Hidden Track

Dark and gothic. Great EBM kept in Combichrist's Everybody Hates You style. Abrassive, heavy beats, electro-industrial backgrounds plus some catchy tunes. Truly recommended. First two songs rock.

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Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons [2009]

2009-08-04T12:07:00.002+02:00

Genre: Harsh EBM/Electro-Industrial

Tracklisting:
01. No Afterparty
02. All Pain Is Gone
03. Kickstart The Fight
04. I Want Your Blood
05. Can't Change The Beat
06. Sent To Destroy
07. Spit
08. New Form Of Silence
09. Scarred
10. The Kill V2
11. Get Out Of My Head
12. Today We Are All Demons
13. At The End Of It All

New Combichrist album gets extreme different opinions - some say it's their best album so far, some that it's epic collapse of Combichrist, some say yet another things... My opinion slightly connects all the ideas altogether - yea, it actually is a bit worse than for example Everybody Hates You, but it's definitely not bad - some songs are one of the best in the genre - All Pain Is Gone, Sent to Destroy. Today We Are All Demons links harsh beats and lack of melodies with melodic, electro-industrial refrains. This kind of contrasts greatly fits the music on this album.

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Swayzak - Snowboarding in Argentina [1998]

2009-08-02T22:08:00.003+02:00

Genre: Tech-House/Deep House

Tracklisting:
01 Speedboat (Original Mix) [08:49]
02 Burma Heights (Original Mix) [06:52]
03 Blocks (Original Mix) [06:52]
04 Low Rez Skyline (Original Mix) [06:48]
05 Fukamachi (Original Mix) [09:25]
06 French Dub (Original Mix) [03:40]
07 Skin Diving (Original Mix) [07:37]
08 Cone (Original Mix) [08:02]
09 Bueno (Original Mix) [14:23]

My favourite Swayzak record so far, though I haven't heard all his works yet. Seemingly static tech-house compositions are being more lively by the small, comfortable depth. Haven't heard good house recently? Here you go!

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Njiqahdda - Taegnuub - Ishnji Angma [2009]

2009-08-02T13:24:00.004+02:00

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. Purnakalamanna (04:46)
2. Silvaan Mortaa Esk Aal (03:50)
3. Njiuni Elova (05:20)
4. 'U Finuug Vraam (04:12)
5. Ishnji Angma (03:53)
6. Taegnuub (10:18)
7. Aski (07:04)
8. Nil Fyan Utopiia (14:24)

Generally black metal discourages me to itself, because all the 'different' projects actually sound like everything else. It's really hard to find something great in this genre. And this is that kind of 'gem' - great atmosphere, many layers of heavily distorted guitars making it little shoegazer, sounding somehow similar to Nadja. Ambient parts make the album more atmospheric, giving some progressive elements to the music, but actually they could be a bit shorter.

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Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind [1996]

2009-08-01T14:30:00.000+02:00

Genre: Experimental Rock/Drone/Post-Rock/Experimental/Spoken Word

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1 Red Velvet Corridor 3:04
2 I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull 6:39
3 Helpless Child 15:47
4 Live Through Me 2:31
5 Yum-Yab Killers 5:07
6 The Beautiful Days 7:49
7 Volcano 5:19
8 Mellothumb 2:45
9 All Lined Up 4:48
10 Surrogate 2 1:51
11 How They Suffer 5:52
12 Animus 10:42
Disc 2
1 Red Velvet Wound 2:02
2 The Sound 13:11
3 Her Mouth is Filled With Honey 3:18
4 Blood Section 2:39
5 Hypogirl 2:44
6 Minus Something 4:14
7 Empathy 6:45
8 I Love You This Much 7:23
9 Yrp 7:46
10 Fan's Lament 1:28
11 Secret Friends 3:08
12 The Final Sacrifice 10:27
13 Yrp 2 2:09
14 Surrogate Drone 2:09

Drones. Many drones filled with rock instrumentarium. Guitars, uneventful atmosphere, post-rocky tracks, narration. Apocalypse?

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Lawrence - The Absence of Blight [2003]

2009-08-01T14:20:00.000+02:00

Genre: Microhouse/Minimal Techno/Deep House

Tracklisting:
01 Fifteen Minutes With You
02 Shelter
03 If You Can't Understand
04 -
05 Last Friday
06 Colts Foot
07 Neighbourhood
08 Thieltes
09 Winter Green
10 Somebody Told Me

Clear, atmospheric minimal techno with microhouse modesty and pleasant depth. Lawrence, privately, is a gardener. It somehow influenced the music. The Absence of Blight features many enjoyable, nice melodies, just as if you were on a meadow, staring at the grass, plants, trees...

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Today Is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail [2002]

2009-07-28T18:58:00.006+02:00

Genre: Noisecore/Experimental

Tracklisting:
1-01 Maggots And Riots (2:58)
1-02 Criminal (4:40)
1-03 Distortion Of Nature (2:45)
1-04 Crooked (2:59)
1-05 Butterflies (3:07)
1-06 Unearthed (3:16)
1-07 The Descent (4:59)
1-08 Death Requiem (4:17)
1-09 Christianized Magick (5:24)
1-10 Voice Of Reason: Vicious Barker (2:20)
1-11 Face After The Shot (4:09)
1-12 The Ivory Of Self-Hate (3:40)
1-13 The Nailing (5:35)
1-14 Mistake (3:35)
1-15 Invincible (7:30)
1-16 Aurora (3:02)
1-17 Sadness Will Prevail (8:04)
2-01 Myriad (6:09)
2-02 Spaceship (1:54)
2-03 Flowers Made Of Flesh (3:21)
2-04 Your Life Is Over (4:31)
2-05 Control The Media (6:39)
2-06 Vivicide (2:33)
2-07 Miasma (1:01)
2-08 Times Of Pain (4:02)
2-09 Breadwinner (1:20)
2-10 Friend (2:08)
2-11 Never Answer The Phone (23:15)
2-12 I Live To See You Smile (4:28)
2-13 Sadness Will Prevail Theme (11:25)

And that's one of the most crazy, mad, driven away and so metal albums ever created. What an awesome cover! About the album itself - post-hardcore riffs with a strong noise rocky influence - out of tune, heavily distorted guitars. Features occasional masses of noise, extremely depressive, forlorn ballads (!!!Death Reqiuem!!!), complex 20-minutes long compositions and makes you die for it while listening.

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DakhaBrakha - Na Mezhi [2009]

2009-07-27T20:20:00.003+02:00

Genre: Traditional Ukrainian Folk/Neofolk/Freak Folk

Tracklisting:
1. Ой, за лісочком
2. Над Дунаєм
3. Весна
4. Вальс
5. Ванюша
6. Заїнька
7. Дівка-Марусечка

DakhaBrakha is an Ukrainian collective playing some traditional neofolk, with a big dose of experimental chaos. Sounds kinda weird? So it is. Tribal drums, many types of string instruments playing in the background (some of the songs have their structure similar to post-rock - building the atmosphere and so on), that characteristic style of singing... To be honest, I'm pretty keen on this kind of ethno folk music and I was very impressed while listening to this album for first time, probably after getting bored with some averages like Hagalaz' Runedance, The Moon and the Nightspirit or other neofolk bands. At first I thought it's only a first impression but soon I realized that Na Mezhi is actually a grower and now I like it even more. If I was made to judge - one of the best CDs released this year so far.

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Hetane - Machines [2009]

2009-07-24T22:57:00.003+02:00

Genre: Industrial Rock/Trip-Hop

Tracklisting:
1. Hard
2. Machines
3. Brabrasen
4. Wild Woman
5. Monopoly
6. Nienawidzimy
7. White-legz
8. God-foresaken
9. Find the Lost Ghosts
10. Instinct
11. Sirenmoon
12. Wild Woman (bathroom version)

New Hetane's album is one of my favourites released this year so far. Energetic trip-hop with many industrial metal elements fits me great. Powerful vocal of the lead singer plus strong industrial atmosphere makes this album pretty memorable.

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Various - Depth Perceptions Vol. 1 [2008]

2009-07-24T19:00:00.005+02:00

Genre: Ambient Dub/Dub Techno

Tracklisting:
01. Decoside - Storm Slowly
02. Biodub - Polar Ice
03. Havantepe - Grey Days
04. Dubatech - All Those Yesterdays
05. Quantec - Particular Reversion
06. Lossless - Surface Exposure
07. Dominique Jacquinet - Absolute Expectation
08. Aku Aku - 7H AM People
09. Atheus - Basic Reaction
10. Grit - Homage

Depth Perceptions Vol. 1 is a pretty nice ambient dub CD, compiling awesome gems of dub techno underground. Some of the artists even don't have their Last.fm profiles. Though, the selection of the songs is easily great, making Depth Perceptions a nice, chill-out release.

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Paavoharju - Yhä hämärää [2005]

2009-07-21T22:09:00.003+02:00

Genre: Avant Folk/Dream Pop/Electronic/Freak Folk/Lo-Fi/Psychedelic Folk

Tracklisting:
1 Ikuisuuden Maailma (5:02)
2 Valo Tihkuu Kaiken Läpi (4:01)
3 Kuu Lohduttaa Huolestuneita (3:49)
4 Syvyys (2:51)
5 Puhuri (3:13)
6 Ilmaa Virtaa (2:48)
7 Aamuauringon Tuntuinen (3:57)
8 Vitivalkoinen (1:39)
9 Kuljin Kauas (4:02)
10 On Yhä Hämärää (3:18)
11 Musta Katu (3:55)

Paavoharju is actually main representative of all those Finnish forest folk bands. And it's totally fair - I've heard quite lots of other bands and I have to say that none of them is able to catch up with this CD. Whole that dreamy, psychedelic atmosphere, lovely tunes, wonderful vocals makes this album one of the best in its genre.

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Nasum - Helvete [2003]

2009-07-21T12:50:00.003+02:00

Genre: Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. Violation 00:38
2. Scoop 02:21
3. Living Next Door to Malice 01:45
4. Stormshield 02:23
5. Time to Discharge 01:20
6. Bullshit 00:46
7. Relics 02:34
8. We Curse You All 01:03
9. Doombringer 02:00
10. Just Another Hog 02:17
11. Drop Dead 00:45
12. I Hate People 01:36
13. Go! 01:26
14. The Final Sleep 01:41
15. Slaves to the Grind 01:11
16. Breach of Integrity 02:13
17. The Everlasting Shame 01:25
18. Your Words Alone 00:51
19. Preview of Hell 01:49
20. Illogic 01:27
21. Whip 01:34
22. Worst Case Scenario 01:58

No doubt Nasum is one of the contemporary grindcore legends. Has everything that good grind has - ultra-fast heavy riffs, extreme tempos, also we can see some influence of hardcore punk... One of my favourites in this genre.

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Sascha Funke - Mango [2008]

2009-07-20T19:44:00.004+02:00

Genre: Minimal Techno

Tracklisting:
01. Mango
02. We Are Facing The Sun
03. Feather
04. Take A Chance With Me
05. Summer Rain
06. Double Checked
07. Lotre (Mehr Fleisch)
08. Chemin Des Figons
09. The Fortune Cookie Symphony

Actually, this album is one of the better things from the last year. It's really nice melodic minimal techno stuff. To show some proof - have you seen the film 'Berlin Calling'? Yeah, this one about Berlin club music, where Paul Kalkbrenner was starring. He also made the whole soundtrack for this - except for the one song - it was Sascha Funke's Mango. No doubt the best track on his album, by its great chord progression obviously has something common with Paul's music.

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Catz 'N Dogz - Stars of Zoo [2008]

2009-07-19T21:49:00.003+02:00

Genre: Minimal Techno/Tech-House/Tribal House

Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Sunset In The East (featuring dOP [The Nature Boys’ Edit])
3. Omanko
4. 2
5. SF
6. Kill The Frog
7. Confused (featuring Monty Luke)
8. My Zoo Is Your Zoo
9. Skit nr2
10. Yes They Still Play Casio (featuring Mathias Kaden)
11. Kaniani
12. Sunset In The East (featuring dOP [Vinyl Version]

Catz 'N Dogz is a Polish minimal techno duo, earlier known as 3 Channels. Under the new name they've decided to release a long play last year. Stars of Zoo consists of rather static fusion of original techno and house (tech-house) played on a high level. Their music has something common with the genre that has origin in Africa and South America called tribal house - it's a form of house music focused rather on a rhythm than on the melody, using beats sounding like some African drums. Though, Stars of Zoo features many melodic aspects and elements, such as some short string parts or choruses.

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La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Let's Get Ravey Mix) [2009]

2009-07-19T13:18:00.006+02:00

Okay, I know - La Roux's new CD sucks totally, but this remix has almost nothing common with the original. Original is more poppy and dynamic and the vocal line doesn't fit the background. The remix is... well-thought-out. Deep baselines on the first plan and nice dubstep beats makes this song one of my favourites of 2009.

I'm kinda wound up with dubstep recently, mainly because I've just returned from Coki's gig in my city - the genre at its best. Expect some more albums kept in these stylistics soon.

Boxcutter - Arecibo Message [2009]

2009-07-17T15:24:00.004+02:00

Genre: IDM/Dubstep/Acid Techno

Tracklisting:
1. Sidetrak (4:03)
2. Mya Rave v2 (4:10)
3. Arecibo Message (4:25)
4. BSpacebass (3:53)
5. Arcadia 202 (3:13)
6. Old School Astonomy (4:32)
7. A Familiar Sound (4:34)
8. Free House Acid (4:14)
9. Sidereal Day (3:29)
10. Otherside Remix (Earth Is My Spaceship) (4:10)
11. Lamp Post Funk (2:47)
12. Kab 28 (2:50)
13. A Cosmic Parent (2:47)

Okay, this time something more positive and not so dark. Third album by Irish dubstep producer Boxcutter for me is fairly more enjoyable than the previous one Glyphic, which was more experimental and less melodic. Arecibo Message has strong acid techno influence and lots of good bass (Spacebass!) which makes the album more 'fluent'

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Karjalan Sissit - Fucking Whore Society [2009]

2009-07-17T13:42:00.005+02:00

Genre: Martial Industrial/Dark Ambient/Industrial/Noise

Tracklisting:
A1 Jävla Psykopat Kärring (Värre Än En Horunge)
A2 Asuntovaunussa Huoraamassa
A3 Slödderet Maste Bort
A4 Loppuun Nussittu Avioliitto
A5 Har Du Horat Runt Pa Campingen?
B1 Nyt Tulee Kirvestä; Perkele
B2 Rautakeppi
B3 Hyi Helevetti (You Are A Whore And Will Always Be)
B4 Skitfolk
B5 Knulldate
B6 Solmu On Solmittu

Industrial serie's next position. All this overcrowding of industrial music on this blog is mainly caused by that I'm preparing a short.. let's name it 'tutorial' about it. Just don't having anything else on my mp3 player than industrial. ;d But it doesn't mean I post some average albums. The new Karjalan Sissit's Fucking Whore Society really scared me while listening to it last night. It is less neoclassical than for example their self-titled debut. It's began to be more dark ambient with many industrial noises in the background. When you listen to the opening track all that kettle-banging makes you genuinely feel as if you were in old factory.

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Xotox - Silberfieber [2002]

2009-07-16T13:39:00.001+02:00

Genre: Power Noise

Tracklisting:
01. Intro
02. Eisenkiller
03. The Dark
04. White Widdow
05. Punish
06. Null
07. So You've Ruined Your Life
08. End Of All Fear
09. Zweischicht
10. Obsession (Dark Desires)
11. Feed Your Enemies

I'm rather not into power noise, but this album is quite close to the idea of harsh EBM, that's why I like it. Big intensity of heavy and abbrassive beats (Null!) makes this music extremely hiperactive.

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Coil - Scatology [1984]

2009-07-15T19:28:00.003+02:00

Genre: Old School Industrial/Experimental

Tracklisting:
01. Ubu Noir
02. Panic
03. At The Heart Of It All
04. Tenderness Of Wolves
05. The Spoiler
06. Clap
07. Restless Day
08. Aqua Regis
09. Solar Lodge
10. The Sewage Workers Birthday Party

By some strange coincidence I appear to know a lot of great albums from the year 1984. For example, Cocteau Twins' Treasure and EP The Spangle Maker, Current 93's Dogs Blood Rising, self-titled by Run-D.M.C., Swans' Cop, Talk Talk's It's My Life and many others. One of them is debut album by well-known industrial band Coil - Scatology. Actually, it sounds like the beginnings of the style they've developed on their popular, industrial classic CD Horse Rotorvator. We see many similarities with the following album - there are more ambient tracks like At the Heart of It All, and at the same time things more catchy like Panic (equivalent of The Anal Staircase from Horse Rotorvator). Though the songs seem quite unfinished, I really appreciate the sound they've obtained on this album.

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Dissecting Table - Life [1998]

2009-07-14T13:18:00.003+02:00

Genre: Industrial/Noise/Industrial Metal

1 The Needs Of The Body (12:11)
2 I Would Like To Be ... (10:23)
3 Past (11:58)
4 No Future (13:29)

The best words to describe this CD is Industrial Noise Metal. Life consists of massive walls of noise powered by electronic percussion mixed so that it sounds like some death-black-lo-fi-industrial-fucking-metal stuff. THIS is the power!

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Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge [2009]

2009-07-12T20:57:00.006+02:00

Genre: Experimental/Noise/Industrial/Dark Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. Close To You (15:08)
2. The Golden Age Of Telekinesis (17:32)
3. The Part Of Me Which Is That Part In You Is Now Dead (16:35)
4. Yon Assassin Is My Equal (17:06)

Squad of industrial legend Nurse With Wound on this CD is Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles and David Tibet - then it has to be at least good. And that's how it really is - even better. The Surveillance Lounge is some experimental stuff with a lot of noises recorded in a convention of dark ambient. Many elements of power electronics and such makes this album some kind of industrial.

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Dälek - Gutter Tactics [2009]

2009-07-12T13:10:00.003+02:00

Genre: Abstract Hip Hop/Experimental Hip Hop/Noise/Drone

Tracklisting:
01. Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against A Rock [01:25]
02. No Question [04:40]
03. Armed With Krylon [05:11]
04. Who Medgar Evers Was... [08:04]
05. Street Diction [05:29]
06. A Collection Of Miserable Thoughts Laced With With [03:22]
07. Los Macheteros / Spear Of A Nation [03:16]
08. We Lost Sight [04:32]
09. Gutter Tactics [04:39]
10. 2012 (The Pillage) [03:30]
11. Atypical Stereotype [06:23]

Experimental Hip Hop stuff released by the Mike Patton's label Ipecac. Hip Hop beats, political lyrics plus heavy atmosphere created by various noise-landscapes and drones. The best hip hop release of this year so far.

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Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away [2009]

2009-07-11T18:51:00.002+02:00

Genre: Microhouse/Minimal Techno

Tracklisting:
1. Take My Breath Away 6:45
2. Atomic Soda 8:48
3. Colors 4:00
4. Opus 17 6:59
5. No Turning Back 7:45
6. Azurra 4:59
7. Les Enfants 4:05
8. Besides 4:18
9. Ballroom 9:07
10. Eggplant 6:50
11. Godet 4:13

Brazillian microhouse producer strikes back just two years after his great CD Chromophobia. Take My Breath Away for sure isn't any worse than the previous album, at some points even better, like the opener song Take My Breath Away which is just awesome.

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Cult of Luna - Bodies / Recluse [2006]

2009-07-10T18:46:00.002+02:00

Genre: Sludge Metal

Tracklisting:
1. Bodies
2. Recluse

Bodies - The Smashing Pumpkins energetic cover. One of the best sludge songs ever recorded - four minutes of total grinding up massacre. Recluse is great as well, but not THAT good.

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Isolée - We Are Monster [2005]

2009-07-10T14:41:00.002+02:00

Genre: Minimal Techno/Microhouse

Tracklisting:
01. Pictureloved
02. Schrapnell
03. Enrico
04. Mädchen Mit Hase
05. My Hi-Matik
06. Do Re Mi
07. Face B
08. Jelly Baby/Fish
09. Today
10. Pillowtalk

Another cool minimal techno, this time from German producer Rajko Müller, aka Isolée. Album We Are Monster is kept in microhouse stylistics, with gentle, not aggresive beats, many loops, great depth and nice harmonies. What else to say? Check the track called My Hi-Matik, for me the best on this CD.

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IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - It's All Happening [2009]

2009-07-10T14:36:00.003+02:00

Genre: Deathcore/Grindcore/Experimental/Electronic

Tracklisting:
1. You Ain't No Family
2. White Water In The Morning
3. Danger In The Manger
4. I'm Cold And There Are Wolves After Me
5. Tastes Like Kevin Bacon
6. The Cat's Pajamas
7. Pazuzu For The Win
8. Black-Eyed Bush
9. Eli Cash vs. The Godless Savages
10. See You In Shell

Pretty strange album... Kind of chaotic deathcore with grindcore parts and loooots of great breakdowns - and at the same time it's pretty easy-listening. Plus woman with balls on vocals - she makes all the screams and growls and in addition she has powerful clean voice able to move mountains.

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Antigama - Discomfort [2004]

2009-07-09T20:46:00.005+02:00

Genre: Grindcore/Noisecore

Tracklisting:
1. Flies
2. Bloodmaker
3. Stupid Fuck
4. Who Is My Enemy?
5. Try
6. This structure is tight
7. President Says Yes
8. Sick I Am
9. Shit From Arse
10. Bolo
11. Save Copy As...
12. Discomfort
13. Fala (THE SEED remix)

Antigama - Polish grindcore at it's best. Crushing riffs, harsh screamy and growly vocals, nice sound, extremely fast tempos. Comparable to Nasum. Screw me if it's not fucking awesome.

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Bagheera - Hollow Home EP [2009]

2009-07-09T20:08:00.006+02:00

Genre: Psychedelic Folk
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Tracklisting:
1. Circadian Clock
2. Skeleton Leaf
3. Old Machine
4. Horizons Lined With Scars

Bagheera are completely unknown British psychedelic folk band. They've released only one EP so far - I couldn't even found cover of it, so you've got their picture instead. Their music really stands out from all those myspace amateur bands, the folky compositions are well played and don't fall behind e.g. Fleet Foxes latest album. Hollow Home features nice, folky vocals and a bit of gentle psychedelia.

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Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem [2009]

2009-07-09T19:19:00.008+02:00

Genre: Lo-Fi/Drone

Tracklisting:
1. Wind’s Dark Poem
2. Through the Trees
3. My Heart Is Not at Peace
4. The Hidden Stone
5. Wind Speaks
6. Summons
7. The Mouth of Sky
8. Between Two Mysteries
9. Ancient Questions
10. (something)
11. Lost Wisdom Pt. 2
12. Stone’s Ode

Woo, finally we've got the new Phil Elverum's album, released under the name of Mount Eerie. It's no longer folky doleful-boredom like the last CD Lost Wisdom but some drony and noisy experimental stuff, something like expansion of the idea from the No Flashlight album. The first track, Wind’s Dark Poem somehow reminds the last year's EP Black Wooden Ceiling Opening with similar noise rocky atmosphere.

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Paul Kalkbrenner - Zeit [2001]

2009-07-09T19:09:00.003+02:00

Genre: Techno/Minimal Techno

Tracklisting:
1 Sie Liebt Mich (3:21)
2 Frühling (5:14)
3 Kleine Speise (0:33)
4 Zeit (5:21)
5 Kranich (4:33)
6 Mein Zipperlein (1:01)
7 Selber (4:06)
8 Unterton (3:26)
9 Tief (5:31)
10 D-Zug (4:55)
11 Smaragd (3:00)

Paul Kalkbrenner is a legend on Berlin's techno scene. He became more popular after a film about Berlin club music 'Berlin Calling' with him starring (plus he made great soundtrack). He's early works (album Superimpose - maybe somewhen later I'll post it) are mainly some typical techno. From this album on (Zeit) he's creating his own style, making his music more minimal.

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Fantômas - Suspended Animation [2005]

2009-07-09T18:58:00.005+02:00

Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde Metal

Tracklisting:
01. 04/01/05 friday
02. 04/02/05 saturday
03. 04/03/05 sunday
04. 04/04/05 monday
05. 04/05/05 tuesday
06. 04/06/05 wednesday
07. 04/07/05 thursday
08. 04/08/05 friday
09. 04/09/05 saturday
10. 04/10/05 sunday
11. 04/11/05 monday
12. 04/12/05 tuesday
13. 04/13/05 wednesday
14. 04/14/05 thursday
15. 04/15/05 friday
16. 04/16/05 saturday
17. 04/17/05 sunday
18. 04/18/05 monday
19. 04/19/05 tuesday
20. 04/20/05 wednesday
21. 04/21/05 thursday
22. 04/22/05 friday
23. 04/23/05 saturday
24. 04/24/05 sunday
25. 04/25/05 monday
26. 04/26/05 tuesday
27. 04/27/05 wednesday
28. 04/28/05 thursday
29. 04/29/05 friday
30. 04/30/05 saturday

Fantômas is an experimental metal project of Mike Patton's. Features ultra-fast tempos disrupted by some extracts from various animations. Elements of hardcore punk, great drummer's work plus weird Patton's vocals.

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The new start

2009-07-09T17:32:00.005+02:00

As the blog title suggest, it's going to be all about my new favourites and albums I find somehow cool, great and such. From minimal techno and sludge, through industrial, post-hardcore and drone, ending on some electro stuff. Paraphrasing the famous Boards of Canada album's title - children have the right to music!