Ear Flux

Spiritualized - Songs in A&E (torrent)

Sipiritualized official website

soul on fire

Musicalmente esse novo álbum do Spiritualized pode ser considerado o mais harmonico de todos, instrumentação suave na maioria das faixas e longe da sinfonia noise de “Ladies and Gentlemen…”de 1997. São 18 faixas divididas por 6 interludios chamados de “Harmony”.
Como falei no inicio Jason Pierce fez esse novo disco durante o tempo que ficou hospitalizado e disse que até as máquinas do hospital emitiam música. Isso fica bem claro na terceira música do disco “Death Take Your Fiddle”, que começa com um respirador artifical e ruidos hospitalares.Mas essa morbidez é quebrada em seguida por “I Gotta Fire” uma experiencia mais country folk/psicodélica meio Dylan meio Van Morrison.
“Soul On Fire” resgata o velho estilo de canções como “Come Together” e “Electricity”.
Vale muito a pena ter esse disco novo do Spiritualized, um disco que pra mim cresce a cada audição. + Kid Vinil

So Young But So Cold

This well-constructed compilation, is significant not only for opening up these sounds to a larger audience but also for putting a definite perspective on a music scene that was all too short.

It is the late Seventies in Europe. The political tensions of the Sixties are now manifest in the extremes of hedonism and direct action. Youth feels alienated once again, this time its worse with constant violence on the television and industrial upheavals at home.

Urban decimation and Postmodernism at its height, further isolating people from their surroundings. European identity has been eradicated in shame and frustration. But something is happening. Punk Rock in the United Kingdom has shown kids all over the world that its easy for them to release music on independent labels. Current technological trends make access to new electronic instruments (ARP and MS10 among others) easy. In France a new youth culture is born. So Young But So Cold illustrates that trend brilliantly.

It begins with the most poppy tunes and gradually goes back in time, as more instruments are added to each song and the experts (mostly influenced by and creating progressive rock) take over. The first half of the disc the instrumentation is sparse, consisting of drum machine or keyboard and vocals primarily. By the end of the disc the tracks get more (analog) synthesizer oriented and denser in construction.

1. Suis-Je Normale - Nini Raviolette 00:04:03
2. Euroman - J.J. Burnel 00:03:29
3. Roman Photo - Ruth 00:05:02
4. Disco Rough (Ivan Smagghe Edit) - Mathematiques Modernes 00:04:00
5. Carnival - Metal Boys 00:01:45
6. Person To Person - The (Hypothetical) Prophets 00:06:09
7. Wallenberg - The (Hypothetical) Prophets 00:06:18
8. So Young But So Cold - Kas Product 00:03:00
9. Synchro - Charles De Goal 00:04:00
10. MAE - Artefact 00:03:18
11. Switch On Bach - Moderne 00:03:08
12. Triangle - Jacno 00:03:29
13. Lighthouse - Tim Blake 00:06:47
14. The Force (Part I) - Droids 00:03:26
15. Welcome (To Death Row) - Bernard Szajner 00:06:14
16. Iceland - Richard Pinhas 00:09:38

Muito Bom!

The Hypothetical Prophets

I like Lead

Person to Person

Fast food

The fisherman’s friend

Around the world with

The White Zone

On the edge

Wallenberg

Back to the Burner

The (Hypothetical) Prophets were an ephemeral French coldwave band consisting of duo Bernard Szajner and Karel Beer. The band formed in 1980 and released a series of 12” singles and one full length record before their quick demise.

Despite a short discography, the band’s craft was unique. Singing in both their native tongue as well as English and alternating between male and female vocals, the the dozen or so songs recorded under this name are haunting minimal wave at its finest, a mixture of harsh electronic experimentation and catchy pulses of synth. more: Systems of Romance.blogspot

Belas belas escolhas, varias das quais ja passaram por aqui mais de uma vez

Por MARCELO NEGROMONTE
Editor de Entretenimento do UOL
Clássico contemporâneo, “Moon Safari”, o primeiro álbum da dupla francesa Air, completou dez anos há poucos dias e ganhou edição especial e tripla, com DVD, remixes etc. Aqui você ouve dois ótimos remixes de músicas desse disco. Primeiro a banda Moog Cookbook injeta soul anos 70 na etérea “Kelly Watch the Stars”, que fica pulsantemente negra. Depois Beck remistura “Sexy Boy”, como um animal glutão. E pronto.

Músicas que fazem parte dessa edição
1. “Kelly Watch the Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)” - Air
2. “Sexy Boy (Sex Kino Mix - de Beck)” - Air
3. “Fever” - Bow Wow Wow
4. “Marble House (Planning to Rock Remix)” - The Knife com Jay-Jay Johanson
5. “We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentemøller Remix)” - The Knife
6. “What Else Is There?” (Trentemøller Remix)” - Röyksopp
7. “Human” - Calexico (Goldfrapp)
8. “Rastback (Drumcomputer Nerd Remix - de Atom TM)”- Plaid
9. “Beautiful Burnout (Tiefschwarz Remix)” - Underworld

Depois tem uma suruba nórdica. Os irmãos suecos de The Knife estão aqui acompanhados do também sueco Jay-Jay Johanson numa versão linda de “Marble House”. Ainda de The Knife, “We Share Our Mother’s Health” é remixada pelo produtor dinamarquês Trentemøller, que remixa também “What Else Is There?”, dos noruegueses do Röyksopp. Só faltou a Finlândia aqui.
Antes do final, remix da dupla Tiefschwarz para “Beatiful Burnout”, música recente do Underworld, você ouve versão em espanhol do Calexico para “Human”, do Goldfrapp. Muy lindo.

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Atendendo a pedidos………o terceiro disco do Jamiroquai………

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