Oktayne - Prime Potential review

Year : 2014
Genre : Hip Hop
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Oktayne did not sport idle hands nor muted microphones since his 2012 full length Feature Presentation - review here - and now the California native is about to invade your sonar receptors with his fresh attempt to declare himself as a voice you not only want-, but need to relate to if to regard yourself as a competent aficionado of the independent hip hop scene of 2014. Oktayne, fortunately enough, chose to keep the delightful, fun, entertaining direction he was treading on intact, resulting in an experience that once again exhibits excessive urges to throw your way as many sounds as possible per second, arranged on retroid - yet, paradoxically : fresh-sounding - backdrops of true, larger than life mid tempo subwooffer pummel power. Read on to know more.

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Figures of Light - Drop Dead review

Year : 1970 to present day
Genre : Proto-Punk / Psychedelic
Label : Norton Records
Origin : United States
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The Figures of Light formation - the now-duo had an initial onset with more members to its acumen before dissolving to "just" two elite level silence massacrers - have played their own variant of quasi-punk - proto-punk, as they call it - well before Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten had a chance to produce their first collective successful nervous breakdowns worth bursting out in nostalgia about a week later. (If you are under exploitation, the rules of time are rearranged.)

The FOL formation offers a considerable body of work, given that they are in the business since 1742 - no, not really, it is the year of 1970 that bears the burden of having to contain not less of an apocalyptic constellation than to give full value space-time to the ruthless planetary machinations of Figures of Light. To these men, music is "just" a tool, a metaphor to reveal a school of thought represented in consequent fashion since the beginning days of the project. It is not hard to rebel if the government won't fuck you up for it. But, if you read the Wikipedia page of Figures of Light, it turns out that they pulled off quite ballsy moves to express their radical discontent towards how television handled/portrayed the Vietnam war, for example, and ran amok while there were good chances to be put down like a rabid dog via the system. Antiestablishmentarianists for life AND beyond.

As I have researched for an image to include with this article, I have found a review of the overall FOL experience with the following quote included from a lady called Miriam : "you guys haven't improved in 35 years". Given that the quoted review offers a quite extensive and thorough look on the real life connotations and direct precursors of this full fledged studio effort, I will do the following : I will give you my personal percepts on the disc, on the music of FOL, while urging you to check out the review that I have been just telling you about. From that particular body of fine text, you will learn how the members delivered 20 songs in 27 takes in a studio session stretching over no more than 48 hours, while gaining insight of other related points of relevance, too. Read on to know more about the record, and definitely read this review, because it holds extensive information on the duo, information that is better linked than repeated.

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Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks review

Year : 2013
Genre : Synth Pop / Dark Synth Pop
Label : Columbia / The Null Corporation
Origin : United States
Rating : 8.5 / 10

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According to his own words, Nine Inch Nails fronter Trent Reznor has been less than honest about the actual state of affairs the NIN potentialities allegedly been subjected to since 2009, the very year marking the beginning of the hiatus the band embarked on until further notice. A wizard worth calling one does not show up again without a new trick or two up his sleeve, though - and a wizard WILL show up when the trick is ready to be showcased. At the first quarter of 2013, Trent Reznor stated that he was secretly working with his NIN collaborators on new material all the way back from the better part of 2012, - I'd imagine they wanted to make some music yet before the alleged Apocalypse had a chance to be postponed once again in a Universe that reigns in constant salvation and would have no trouble adapting to anything - and the time logically arrived to transmute this now-revealed and simultaneously massacred secret into a mental and emotional construct you, as a randomer fond of Nine Inch Nails can freely relate to : new album was on its way, and now it is here in its full splendor. This review primarily is positioned as a per track inspection, yet later I will share my personal sentiments on the overall experience. Read on to know more about the tracks.

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Pineal Gland Optics cover - Acoustic Meshuggah

An acoustic cover of the Meshuggah song "Pineal Gland Optics".

Merry Christmas, All!

Lyrics :

how come I shiver, hurt and bleed,
if in dreams I cannot truly feel
who would dare say, who would claim
this hallucination isn't real

synaptical glitch looking glass
so enticing, real and free of lies
prodigious, omnifarious
it nourishes, it feeds my starving eyes

artificial the catalyst, organic its progeny
voracious spectral offspring - so sweet in its hunger
unbound this new vision, optical regenesis
threatening, so complete in beautiful deformity

these authorative visions order my collective senses,
my questioning, doubtful, rigid self to kneel
a Judas syndrome in effect - former self the deceiver
its denial the wretched kiss that kept this in disguise

cast off - the conceiling veil, the rational cloak of doubt
torn off - the restraints, the blinded's shackles
burned away - the agony, the fear, the grief
a new set of eyes cleansed by a new belief

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Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Part 2 review

Year : 2013
Genre :Alternative Metal with Radio Rock leanings
Label : Roadrunner Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 6.0 / 10

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Stone Sour emerges to declare the culmination of their - logically - previous effort, completing this body of - hopefully - ruthlessly defined modal doom with the informatively titled House of Gold & Bones Part 2 full length. Frontman Corey Taylor horizonted a more darker tone this time around, and so we shall inspect the statement on a per track basis in an attempt to determine if this culmination indeed is composed of flammable angry-gargoyle melodic spirit-tar. Still here? You must be desperate! Let's be honest here folks, Stone Sour is best when it is angry and dark, and it sounds like Aerosmith radiometal - I got nothing against that genre, just please bitchslap yourself if you are into it - when it seeks to go radio friendly. I invite you to this per track-review into the current psyche variant of the Corey Taylor! 

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Doggystyle Restyled - a Tru-bite to Snoop Dogg review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Engireroom Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Doggystyle Restyled - a Tribute to Snoop Dogg marks the 20th anniversary of the release date of the debut of renowned hip hop icon Snoop Dogg. The project is an ambitious asset in the catalog of Engineroom Recordings, a label and enterprise that - among other things - specializes in the insatiable deliverance of well executed tribute spins, dedicated to - you guessed right! - various artists. The album faithfully reflects the perennial structure so powerfully assembled by the tributed party with Snoop himself signifying the tip of the metaphoric spear since 20 years and counting, and the artists expressing their unconditional admiration towards this rap star is rendered through competent, even inventive takes on the tracks Snoop Dogg first established himself as a rhymespiller the era has to reckoned with ... with.  Read on to know more about this.

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Ted Brown - An Unwide Road review

Year : 2013
Genre : Massively Acoustic Folk/Soft Rock
Official site : > - here - <
Origin : United States

Playfully morose and relentlessly self-reflective, LA based Ted Brown brings you the music that casts orthodoxly behaved-, yet inventively spirited lights on sonic domains showing equal amount of polite compatibility with traveling sessions, stove-based private socialization and public bonfire events. What's not to like out of the three? At surface level inspection, the disc dares to summon and present extremely wide volumetrics in its generic behavior, mapping out all key segments of intensity of the timeless acoustic guitar charms - although, as you will see and hear, decisive favor is observable in the context of ultra-mellow "me and my guitar will make you FEEL!"-statements, the bulk of things to come on this tastefully paced and soberly presented full length.

Brown, luckily enough, does not satisfy easily via simply throwing guitar lesson 101 chords around, and, oftentimes manages to surprise/entertain the ears with thoughtful and muscular harmonic structures that invite all the superb anatomies known to women and men to revisit their inner images of what is possible with the utilization of "mere" moods. These moments truly are magical, and are showcased primarily in the pre-climax segments of track number 4, "Blue and Grey" : a perfect example of Brown's adept inner image of chords and how to throw those around like they mean a thing OR two. Because they do, you know. Listen to this song from 1:15: it is like a badass Nirvana song, now arranged to an odd retirement home intensity, for which it submits for entertainment. Read on to know more about the disc.

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The Legend of Xero - Ascension extended preview

Year : coming in 2014
Genre : Dark Pop
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

On the Official site linked above and here, you could find all the relevant historic/narrative information you'll need to decipher the autonomous agenda-character of this rebellious commodity. The central figure of the flow demands a separate and uncompromisingly (self)honest methodology to approximate the most significant truths of consensual reality, and the music, not surprisingly, is willingly imbues itself with a contemplative and relatively restrained artistic disposition. So far so good, since, if you are angry while searching for a truth, you are quite suspicious.

A reliance on archaic elements - male chorus and other exotics, well made enigmatic ingredients - is observable, offered on ultra-orthodox, albeit timelessly efficient mid-tempo 4/4 pulsations. It remains to be seen whether the full face value spin will contain the Billy Idol-esque High Octane Heft Power Feral Animal, and me mentioning Billy is of no coincidence, as I'm picking up on intriguing/authentic mood similarities between the direction represented by this effort, and, between Billy's timelessly relevant 1993 outing, "Cyberpunk". The song "Heroin", from the Cyberpunk album, - as a more intense one - and "Adam in Chains" - as the mellow extreme - reveal(s) quite similar spiritual flavors to the obligatory ethos of being rebellious while you are young. If you are not young, you suck, anyway. But you only have 20 years to be a proper punk. Be a punk while you are 30, and I find you in the need of a wake up call. Be a punk while you are in your 40s, and I despise you wholeheartedly. Be a punk while in your 50s, and you are probably dead, OR better off. Read on to know more about this disc, which dares to be punk without claiming the right to cause harm in anything, let alone in anyone.

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Chopin Cthulhu - a Fantasie Impromptu Extravaganza!

GyZ covers : the first two movements of Frederic Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu - Cthulhu style.

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The Yellow Dress - Faint Music Ordinary Light review

Year : 2013
Genre : Soft Rock with a Psychedelic tint
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with a snippet section quoted from the original press release, revealed in Italic.

San Francisco's The Yellow Dress will release their third and heavily-anticipated album, "Faint Music // Ordinary Light," in less than a month. Recorded and mixed, entirely analog, at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone Studios, produced by Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, The Dodos) and mastered by Paul Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sonny and the Sunsets), the album features an 8-person line-up of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, plus guest vocals from several more, mostly from the underground DIY scene in San Francisco and Oakland. The Yellow Dress has been called a "supergroup" several times throughout its 6+ year lifespan, which is appropriate since every member has at least one other local project in which they perform. The band draws much inspiration from the local literary community and often finds themselves performing at events for folks such as McSweeney's and The Rumpus; the name of the album comes from the Robert Hass poem "Faint Music." Preorder digital and vinyl editions of the album from Bandcamp before the official release on January 4, 2014.

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Vonairs - Fucamo single review

Year : 2013
Genre : House with a Hardstyle taste
Origin : Sweden
Official site : > - here - <

Stockholm's Vonairs is imminent to release a full scale sonic declaration of subwooffer-doom through an illegal space-time rift opening near you on the probable reality surface, and the ensemble is about to stimulate interest in the upcoming attraction via releasing a single from the impending full length. Read on to know more about this track, or, even better, listen to it yourself while observing some related worded thoughts about it, right after the experience is freshly soaked in.

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KAVA - Shikaakwa review

Year : 2013
Genre : Doom Metal, Psychedelic Rock
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

KAVA brings you the music that fills responsible dads with the relentless urge to hide their daughters in the closet with earplugs attached to their appropriate orifices. This is a take on doom metal that definitely comes from the blackened heart, with an uncompromising determination to offer only such elements of doom eloquence that assume you to be a competent and exigent partner in the music deciphering process. The complexity and compositional/structural base is delightful per installments throughout, while the most prominent directive of what makes doom truly harvest your dopamine levels, is communicated with a pretty much masterful understanding of the involved productional rhetorics. The album is not particularly heavy sounding, - and thank God & Satan for that! - and this, in fact, is the reason why Black Sabbath is so timeless, too. It is not the sound that needs to be heavy, but the "mere" meaning of the sound. You can't substitute the meaning with weight, and, once your meaning is there, everyone will relate to it, you don't need to over-emphasize. OR not always. KAVA understands this connotation, and exhibits its craft accordingly. The music either dooms about with majestic promise of the imminent soulcrush, or, it gets deceitfully spaced out in an almost transcendental fashion, giving you apt opportunity to reflect on the sight the tinkering of decay so willingly offers. "So ecstatically pleasing decay", the Meshuggahs would say. Read on to know more about this spin.

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SleepingBabys - Idolize EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Tarantino Surf Rock, Spaghetti Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Australia
Official site : > - here - <

Armed with the seemingly perfect excuse to do so, today I was anti-inventive enough to deem a certain sub-set of '70s surf rock to be regarded as Tarantino Rock, or spaghetti rock, as renowned blood poet and rampant/evident foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino doubtless made an eloquent job letting you know the types of auditory stimuli he most enjoys sucking female toes on to. And what's not to like in the equation, correct? (Expect that it is not you doing the sucking, maybe? Corruption = something you left out of.)

SleepingBabys claim they have no idea what they sound like - no artist ever did, because every artist covertly hopes of being über-original - and it is my delightful obligation to inform relative consensus that they deliver the music the aforementioned film director would kill masses for, any minute of the day. This EP reflects solid command and ripe understanding of the pretty much timeless chemistry which necessarily and insatiably reveals itself once surf rock fascinations meet head on with spaghetti western sentiments, and, the lead singer lady of the duo really is doing a natural - which always is the hardest - job conveying the violent-love found in Tarantino's inner and outer vision. Rabid gunfire violence and black stockings are pairing up in the so smartly/timelessly noirish and comically sexist moments of the Pulp Fiction movie - and this set of emotional mood, as so willingly and unashamedly exhibited by this duo, continues to affect human psyches on the planet surface. Read on to know more about the "Quention Tarantion"!

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data

GyZ & Love gives you the song : data

a collaboration with the Pope of Pop, Matt Love

very cyberpunk

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This Is The End Again - Mad Dog Under

GyZ gives you the song : This Is The End Again - Mad Dog Under

Lyrics by James Humphrey & GyZ

Lyrics :

oh, the old one smells like a pee pee
so you hump the bastard's leg
then he leads you out
and shoots you, guts you, skins you
and chops you up for bait

if you're not the lead dog
the view never changes
the same ass is my compass
in the sun and when it rains

top dog our leader
we fear him too
he's taking it easy
if we see his point of view

I'm gonna blend right in at the back of the pack
behind a dog so big
I could get swallowed by his tracks
he's leaving more behind than footprints
so I'm careful where I tread
this is the end of the pack of the racks
oh lord, this is the end again

the lead dog has a point of view ya really catch his draft
it's the same in front as it was behind, the last dog on this shift
to the air goes number one dog's nose as the rest all gag and hack
this is the end of the pack of the racks, oh lord, this is the end again

now you're not the top dog anymore
now you've earned the right
to sleep beneath an indoor bed
you're brushed sometime
and you  never have to beg
but the old one smells like a pee pee
so you hump the bastard's leg
then he leads you out and
shoots you, guts you, skins you
and chops you up for bait

I'm gonna blend right in at the back of the pack
behind a dog so big
I could get swallowed by his tracks
he's leaving more behind than footprints
so I'm careful where I tread
this is the end of the pack of the racks
oh lord, this is the end again

within the pecking order, there's a problem in the pen,
every lead dog wants the front row, now the rest are charging in
they're all crawling up each other on a growling growing heap of crap
whoever thought they'd find me on the top of the pack?

this is the end of the pack of the racks oh lord, this is the end again
only in the opposite direction

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Teni - AfroDisiac review

Year : 2013
Genre : Reggae Funk with Jungle Jazz affections
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : > - here - <

London resident Teni is one contemporary representative of the timeless exotic/afro musical vibes skillfully established and expressed by such artists as Shade in the '80s. Remember the song "Smooth Operator?" Teni surely does, and I suspect it is one of her all time favorites - I might be wrong, of course. (I don't particularly think Shade had any other songs, anyway.)

Nevertheless, Teni elegantly relies on efficient tonalities revolving around the exotic African - tautology? - scale. Africa is only exotic if you are not there. Your host, Teni takes you there, AND back. If you'd prefer to stick around, there is no power preventing you from submitting to the music on a rince and repeat basis, IF you are Tiga' on AfroDisiac enough for that. Luckily, the urge to conform to the suspected expectational tendencies of the Western listener, is almost non-existent on Teni's record, thereby claiming and radiating a legitimate identity. African Gods & Co. save us from Western pop music with exotic mannerisms - this release does not commit such sonic atrocities at all. The first thing you need to get rid of, is your ingrained beliefs about how the exotic music should sound like, and don't you worry (all that much) that the stimulus sounds quite similarly to the conventions you were willing to sacrifice into private oblivion - the data sticks to you with increased efficiency upon multiple listens, and there is just enough movement in the songs to keep you situated between Afro Nirvana and very much physical palm trees with rascal monkeys on it.

Teni does what she is capable of, - which always is the optimum - yet does this with zero doubt in her singing abilities. This is a good thing, that conveys a sense of self confidence to her overall performance, and even while she explores her current limitations, she remains enthusiastic. A pleasure to behold such precedent. The music has a relative willingness to revolve around its own axis as Teni showcases her favorite note selections of the African scale - and her taste/musical vision doubtless reflects the primordial wilderness with metaphysical efficiency - she, nevertheless, at this point in her career is suspect to overdo some particular tonalities, even though this effect is only observable when you give the album a full facetime. Only 100 times you can slide into an "F" from an "F sharp" without the audience finally noticing it. Read on to know more about this.

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Adam Astbury - From Here We Can See Forever review

Year : 2013
Genre : Radio Rock
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : > - here -<

Adam Astbury's first studio LP is a risk free, polite, soulfully created radio rock effort that is apt and ready to deliver on the field for which it willingly submits to as its premiere-, and exclusive sonic playground.

The harmonic structures, the melodic arcs, the songwriting strategy all reflect an urge to harvest traditional pop/soft rock ear-candies and luscious secondary nuisances with dormant covert op high octane efficiency, and Adam Astbury doubtless managed to create a debut that leaves nothing to be desired when considered solely as a family friendly radio rock spin. Read on to know more about this.

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Yuca - Rebuilding the Fallen Empire

Year : 2013
Genre : Alternative Rock with a tint of Shoegaze
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Yuca's music is a galaxy better than you would assume by the everyday average textual comparison charts randomer music journalists would put the band amidst a gauntlet with. (Every journalist - including the music critic - has the book of her/his life in her/his OH!, so fanciful soul - which most often is the best place to hold that book as hostage at.)

Yuca is the picture perfect (soft) rock variant of the music of superb Norvegian synth pop band A-ha - believe it or not, Morten & Co. wrote more songs than "Take on me", and their catalog is composed of exquisite sonic imagination and musical vision. Yuca takes this musical ethos all the way though to the more beefy registers of the narrative silence massacre spectrum, as the aforementioned A-ha hardly ever took hold a guitar so far, - or made sure to sedate the guitarist right after - and never even had to. Yuca, on the other hand, takes this trademark gloomy A-ha stance - there are gloomy A-ha songs, and there are even gloomier A-ha songs - and arms it with guitars. The effect sometimes indeed reveals a tint of Muse - minus the hypertranssexual "look I got no balls, mommy!" affectations, luckily -, or outright copies it without shame in an attempt to appeal to the Muse audience, more on that later.

But I have good news for you, too! Throughout the verse structures, I would go as far as to mention a Type O' Negative similarity, and that I intend as a compliment. Check out track 2 for this splendid effect - Peter Steele approves of this verse structure. It is his, essentially, and it still is Yuca's, and this is why it is so beautiful. Read on to know more about the disc. You know that story, when U2's Bono started clapping, and told : "Every time I clap, someone in Africa dies." Then someone from the audience : "Then why don't you stop clapping?" Timeless.

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DraMatiQue - The Burn Mixtape review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Newborn Records LLC
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <
This review starts off with the official press release.

West Coast rap artist DraMatiQue(drah*mad*dick )returns with the heavily anticipated follow up to last year's smash debut. " The Burn Mixtape " is hosted by Chi-town's finest...DJ Smoke and includes features from T-Waze The Kid, Ounce, F.A.M.E., Billion Dolla Bill & more along with top-notch production by Ages Beats, Kajmir Royale, Narco Productions, & Beats Planet. Follow on twitter @dramati2ue, @djsmokemixtapes 

Following the Kill the Game Mixtape reviewed earlier this year, your eloquent hip hop papi DraMatiQue teams up with local disc wizard extraordinare DJ SMoke in an attempt to deliver you an excruciatingly thorough silence massacre extravaganza on what the contemporary West Coast talent pool has to offer, and that, naturally/luckily, is a lot to soak your awareness into. Contrary to the trend established by the previous effort, this baby here is not at all reluctant to submit to the ethos of extreme compression, - ultra-max-volume-paua, lover! - so, upon popping this devil into the player, your girl(s) and you should be prepared to take a ride on your subwooffer the moment the first kick drum expresses its decibel volumetrics, regardless of what segment of the room you started making out on.

The new mixtape still packs the tremendous charm DraMatiQue is renowned for, and he did not lose anything from his natural flow, nor added anything to it that would harm it. Courtesy of his sensitivity to offer a series of glimpses on the powers and dynamics that are shaping the face of mid-tempo West Coast hip hop - the style the mixtape is abundant galore of - DraMatiQue is here to claim your fandom with extreme cunning, and I can see on your eyes that he is about to, too. Read on to know more about this.

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Scan Hopper - Mariana Bridges EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Psychedelic Soft Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : - here -

With its newest extended play to date, "Mariana Bridges", Austin, Texas based Scan Hopper offers fresh status reports from the same psychedelic fields the flamboyant group best enjoys hanging out at - OR, hanging down at, see cover art image for the ruthless justification of this even more terrible pun. These new status reports seem and sound to have a more strict polarity embedded into them in the sense that a song either is total relentless anti-brutal afterparty-chillout, - moments of infinity that openly enjoy how nothing is happening in them in a psychedelically nothing is happening, but nothing is happening psychedelically-way, counterpointed by a consequent track that exhibits as intense characteristics as you could anticipate amidst the tools the directional and stylistic principles do allow without breaking the rules of a rabid conceptual acid ride. Only - prepare for the kind of intensity on which even madness rents a place on. What other party is worth being at, correct? Read on to know more about the disc.

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Cole Hermer & The Ravens - EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Origin : Canada
Official site : > -here - <

Cole Hermer & The Ravens bring both high octane and mid-tempo radio friendly hard rock heft all in the spirit of genre specifically timeless Aerosmith and "Lies!"-era Guns 'N Roses.
 Radio friendly at heart, yet uncompromisingly experimentive, while at that - not a contradiction, and those contradictions collapse with Meshuggah on the planet surface, anyway.

I especially like the way this EP sounds : it has a garage-setting charm to it, which makes it especially organic and likable. The guys themselves entertaining this type of music might indeed be teenagers, but they make YOU one in the process, too. If you can not be a teenager any time of the day, then I don't know what to tell you, daddy! Daddy. Why are you wearing that - AGAIN?? Read on to know more about this.

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BluRum13 - Inverted review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop with an experimentive Space Opera fascination
Origin : Canada
Official site : > - here - <

Blurum13 might posture in upside down fashion on the cover image of his latest to date full length feature presentation, yet this Canadian rhymerider has considerable chance to perpetuate fresh and relevant patterns into the mere surface of hip hop, Martian face style. Finally! In other words, do not judge the product by the cheesefest cover art, because the music on the Inverted release is about to feed you to an infinite number of singularities just to warm your ears up.

Big words should be reckoned as such, and should not be offered around lightly, yet, in the exact same stone cold sober school of thought, - qwertzuiopőúóüöűáélkjhgfdsayxcvbn - they should be given when the demand for them is warranted and relentlessly claimed. Such is the case right now. The Inverted LP, simply put, is not a disc you can afford to miss out on and call yourself a contemporary rap enthusiast after. The main dynamics the spin takes you with itself by, are the intricately sculpted and super-lengthy - per track, obviously - coalitions between the narration and the sonic surroundings. BluRum13 is quick to zone in on the trademark flow of the effort after a declaration is about to reveal its structural/harmonic nature.

We are talking about a consequently mid-tempo demeanor that always maintains the right to cultivate a desire towards the more upbeat characteristics, and the evident/brilliant hip hop magic happens with top of the foodchain efficiency, courtesy of Blurum13's hilarious ability of simply NOT being able to interrupt-let alone to stop the top tier spoken textcarpet once he finds himself on a roll WITH it, and with YOU, on it. He just took you there, and you two - four, if you include the carpet and the maid - are still moving. This is not propaganda talk, nor propaganda review, ladies and gents, this is extra crispy ultrahip - tukk! - hip hop done in 2013, and you want to hear it. Read on to know more about it.

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Korean Voodoo - think what I would do

Lyrics :

I talk too much
and I do give up
because
you secretly don't give a fuck
bringing the passion
for your satisfaction

you don't seem to understand
he is irresistible

so masterfully disguised
for a moment I see you in your eyes
then you're over and out

well timed
so desperately disguised
for a moment I see you in your eyes
then you're over and out

I talk too much
and I do give up
because
you secretly don't give a fuck
bringing the passion
for your satisfaction

your satisfaction
is a sad infection
your satisfaction
is a sad defection

you don't seem to understand
he is irresistible

this disease you spoil
ain't worth crying over
a man chooses
a slave obeys

this here mask inside
ain't worth switching over
on your mask I rip open a face

you don't seem to understand
he is irresistible

so masterfully disguised
for a moment I see you in your eyes
then you're over and out

well timed
so sloppily overdisguised
for a moment I see you in your eyes
then you're over and out

think what I would do

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Blacky Kev & QweEzY & Mason Way - Invasion review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Invasion is fueled by a one time (?) supergroup collaboration between the three hip hop performers noted on the cover of the release. The disc sports a length most suitable to lay out a decent EP flow on, and such is the case, indeed : Invasion outlines heavily - and tastily - arpeggiated harmonic structures that reveal the musical moods of the coin op beat 'em up games of the '80s - a brilliant vibe, doubtless - delivering an almost polite-, friendly type of rapping by the contributors. The disc is pretty much free of subterfuge and intimidation, while the main base of operation the flow -ha, ha. - inspects, is sex, and the 'hoes to have it with. When sexism is portrayed through the lens of cartoon comic vibes, your only legitimate fear can not be anything else than that you might end up getting left out of it - from the cartoon sexism, not out of fear. Fear not, or do nothing else, then read on to know more about this disc.

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Keenan bros - Blood. Sweat. Tears. EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Lounge Hip Hop with Soul and Pop affections
Label : Independent
Official site : > - here - <
Rating : 9.2 / 10

The Keenan bros are into the niche of music that was ultra-prominent in the early and mid '90s, popularized mainly by such boygroups as Take That! or Boyz 2 Men. There IS an optimum extra-, a beneficial deviation added to the top, and quite literally so. The Keenan bros are full fledged lounge rappers - no swearing or subterfuge-tendencies - and they spice up these otherwise stone-traditional pop/soul tracks with fluent rapping that renders a continuous, exigently developed layer to catch your attention with. Read on to know more about this.

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Mason Way - The Full Thing mixtape review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop, mixtape
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

The Full Thing aims to be an immaculate compilation of the most ripe moments of none less than 7 mixtapes Mason Way came out with in this very year alone. The FUNNY thing about the Full Thing is that Mason Way has developed a full fledged hip hop identity without even realizing it : apart from certain sonic extremes revealed on the disc - some rare cases where a lower volume level of drums would definitely benefit the flow more - the mixtape delivers a ripe, and playful variant of hip hop on the surface level, while the majority of the narration revolves around the most cosmological, the most beneficial man can desire : lamentations about instant pussy vicinity! FINALLY! You will have quite a few declarations fixated on this key subject in an optimal manner - no tastelessness, just the truth. This truth is the following : women are the BEST, but it takes a man to recognize it. Read on to know more about The Full Thing mixtape.

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Natalie Jones - Now You Know review

Year : 2013
Genre : Soft Rock, Pop Crossover
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Natalie Jones' debut spin "Now You Know" is highlighted by a lush, adeptly channeled, emotional voice-presence skillfully orchestrated through 13 radio friendly pop/soft rock crossover declarations. The flow is melodically dynamic and pretty much masterfully - pun willfully absorbed - revealed when scrutinized from then angles of all the genre specific considerations of definition and obligatory instant pop power. The sound is punchy, yet never arrogant or intimidating, while the songcraft willfully submits to all the major - AND minor, too - culturally ingrained pop-affections without losing a face and the ethos of creative dignity in the process.

The disk weighs in at 59 minutes of melodic pop/soft rock stimuli, and never once falls into the false luxury of losing focus on the main actual attraction, which is to showcase Jones' considerable singing talent, exhibited on top of all the various sonic/harmonic domains of the most popular western scales and musical keys. Fear not! Or, fear only if you are a pop diva who frequents this site - this either is very bad or very good taste, madame - her natural timber elevates her above 99 of 100 recent pop divas, and the remaining one (logically) is her.

Granted, the chord progressions are polite and not at all experimentive in their intents and render no challenge to the boundaries of radio friendly music, nevertheless their inherent timeless charms are explored (AND exploited) thoroughly, toppled by the favorite vocal ornamentics of the profiling artist. The mere consideration of the unchained female singing voice is not the ONLY consideration though, not this time - Natalie Jones sounds to have a natural talent at spotting melodies that are truly worth giving attention to on top of the given bonfire tonalities. Read on to know more about this.

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Chris Leigh - Broken Hearted Friends review

Year : 2013
Genre : Country with a Honky Tonk leaning
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

At surface level inspection, Chris Leigh might seem to be a diligent practitioner of stone-traditional - not a negative attribute at all - honky tonk country, yet his eloquent/unrestrained affection towards spicy and hefty rhythm patterns imbues this soberly paced release with a sense of restless-, adeptly presented country exploitation. And, let's be honest, folks : country is best when it is under rabid exploitation.

Leigh offers and maintains steadily constructed harmonic/melodic focuspoints through which he inspects the timeless anatomies of traditional country with the eyes of a true scholar. Sure enough, there are some much welcomed counter-pointings to the more intense declarations, such as the third track, "If You Make It To Heaven" - whereas the very next track, "Ramblin' Man" deliberately takes the intensity of country to hell and back Johnny Cash-on-speed style - even though Johnny has his own history of excessive roadway-speeding, as far as I know.

In the context of these upbeat tracks - which definitely reflect the overall character of this high octane chili barbecue package - Chris Leigh channels the same energies Marty Robbins offers in his classic "Big Iron on His Hips" - narrative musical storytelling, done in - no subtler or more precise words - "badassfull" fashion. If you are not "badassfull" when you are in the middle of narrative musical storytelling along country vibes about loaded guns, hot redneck women and dominant cowboys, then you are doing it WRONG. You have no other choice than to come across as badassfull and desirable to be around - if you can't accomplish this, someone will EAT you right off the stage, and this is how it is supposed to be in the world of country - yeehah, I might add.

Chris Leigh has a perfect understanding and a consorting dormant agreement with these dynamics, I feel, because every single track on this delivery would be a welcome addition to a Fallout New Vegas computer role playing game session, and this is the biggest and most honest compliment I could give to a release of this style. Grab a roll of beer, tiger, and read on to know more about the spin while I think nice things about you. (Honest.)

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Peter Calandra - Ashokan Memories review

Year : 2013
Genre : Piano, Instrumental
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with an informational block quoted from the official site linked above.

You may not know the name Peter Calandra, but chances are you’ve heard his music. The New York City-based composer and keyboard player has scored 40 films, written over 2000 compositions for television broadcast, including 37 theme packages, and performed as a musician in the Broadway productions of Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Lion King, and Little Shop Of Horrors. Parallel to this, Calandra has released three albums of imaginative and lyrical instrumental music encompassing jazz, contemporary jazz, classical, and refined pop.
“I’ve always heard music in my head—there is like a radio in there playing new music all the time,” says Calandra. Read on to know more. 

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Brian Larney - The Starting Line review

Year : 2013
Genre : Country, Soft Rock crossover
Origin : United States
Official site : - here -

With his debut LP, Brian Larney might indeed literally be at The Starting Line, yet this definitely is a start you want to render all your musical attention to. Larney has a ripe and competent command on the trademark melodic moods and harmonic structures you are most comfortable holding unto upon a country-centered listening session, combined though with a soulfully channeled steadiness exhibited in the most important aspect of it all : the plain good old songcrafting ability.

The album is extremely easy and pleasant to decode, as its sole purpose - obviously enough - is to entertain on a laid back, yet uncompromisingly exigent genre-specific comfort zone. Occupying this full-optimum position with a pretty much perfect understanding of the bread and butter mechanics of country music, Larney never ceases to imbue a tint of family friendly roadmusic-heft into the respective builds with the utilization of soberly tamed and eloquently presented soft rock affections. Rare is the time when the miserable music critic has no other action left to him than to nod a head in unconditional approval, yet such is the case right now, as the record contains crystal clear musical thought, realized through elements that I personally would not bother looking for flaws in with a poker face worth calling one attached. Read on to know more.

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Sienná - Japonesque review

Year : 2013
Genre : Classic House with a Chillout tendency
Label : Adón Records
Origin : Japan
Official site : > - here - <

Sienná's Japonesque LP is the ideal choice for a thorough oriental house/chillout session that makes efficient use both of Japonesque - pun not even intended, but willfully absorbed - audio flavors and the timeless pulsation of minimal Chicago house rooted in the early '80s. One thing that falls on your receptors as definite ear candy right away, is the LP's decision to claim and maintain the right to administer radical modal extremities between the confines of colorful entertainment. As result of this ripe tactic, the spin reigns ready to occupy the generic position/pacing of airy house music that is not in a hurry at all, yet no suitable instruments of oriental silence massacre will remain untouched and non-utilized in the fabric of this soulfully realized delivery - including traditional taiko drums that are suitable to bring down all walls around you. Read on to know more about this.

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Slade - This Time It's Personal review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop, Rap
Label : Slade Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Though Slade's unmistakable talent at sculpting out intriguing mid-tempo backdrops necessarily is evident and an immediate ear treat to behold, the primal name of the inherent hip hop game is the Washington DC based prospect's powerful lyrical content, courtesy of said element's unusual levels of readiness to thoroughly contain and reflect the everyday/myriad states of mind compatible with the almost obligatorily complicated mixture of hopefulness and hot zone-paranoia, both oftentimes associated with the hip hop centric urban lifestyle. A keen affection towards the straightforward, raw melodic hip hop hook and muscular harmonic environment is observable throughout this debut LP, one which exhibits both raw and well rounded production values that bestow a legitimate identity right from the beginning.

The agenda is characterized by elegant simplicity in the sense that Slade exhibits a ripe understanding of narrative focus, never going ashtray from the momentary pathway he is about to explore per track - commitment is showcased to deliver along the timeless (synonym : classic) extremes of the hip hop genre, be that a detailed sit rep of deeply personal emotional torments associated with parental rejection or the shocking portrayal of a man who is about to break ground with a breakdown, even though you can clearly hear that he would be ready to let all bitterness go in exchange for a honest hug the concrete monuments would warrant under any and all crimson sky. Read on to know more about this spin.

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Human Behavior - Golgotha review

Year : 2013
Genre : Folk with a tame psychedelic fascination
Label : Folktale Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Golgotha brings forth soulful folk music with a predominantly positivistic and contemplative attitude fueling the respective tracks. The release is a well focused and polite - in the most optimal sense of the word - effort that has a flawless understanding of its premiere charms and all the boundaries that this particular type of covert silence assassination - don't worry, silence always returns somehow, for some time, ultimately - should respect, courtesy of the prime emotions and moodsets that are about to be expressed. As noted, the music is positively and delightfully harmless and calming, and, despite that you'd be even free to challenge it for the rampant/beautiful simplicity it seeks to offer, the field of submission eventually will ensue and command you as its mere possession, and you will be - secretly, at least - grateful for it. Read on to know more about this.

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Thomas J - Money Sex Religion Mixtape review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

The talent pool of the upcoming hip hop artists seems and sounds to be especially deep, and Thomas J is one of the dudes whose feet touch the floor of said pool while his head popping out at sky levels, yo. (Makes you wonder how come I see it, yes?)

The Money Sex Religion Mixtape makes superb and efficient use of classic-, timeless grooves and harmonic passages you will greet as significant friends you once had AND still have. Many of these nicely realized synth pop backdrops have their origins deeply seated in famous and relevant musical patterns established by different sub-genres and their respective eras, yet Thomas J always delivers a full blown take on the given idea, not relenting until dressing a separate identity around it with the same experience in it, so to say. Sounds convoluted? Good, because that is the agenda.

Thomas J has a beneficial tendency to rap his stuff out as if there would be no tomorrow, - and who's to say there IS, all right?? - conveying a sense of intensity that remains intact even in the more placid sonic declarations of urban city - which I know is a tautology, feel free to soak tongue in rectum in rhythmic fashion until further notice - experience point harvesting. A combination of exceptionally colorful backdrops and abundant amount of lyrical content showcased in the respective songs, Thomas J's Money Sex Religion reveals to me everything I have ever thought about rap so far, and then something more - which is the hallmark of a top tier hip hop record, to be perfectly frank. Read on to know more about this effort and about my overall sentiments towards the upcoming hip hop artists, in the context of this very album right here.

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a Stiletto Ghetto Listening Session

Year : 2011 to present
Genre : Rock with an Experimental Pop curiosity
Label : Digital Nations
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with an informative data snippet originating from the band's official biography.

"Stiletto Ghetto founded in San Francisco by Louis Raphael (drums, producer and co-writer) in 2011 employs a rotating cast of backing musicians and vocalists to complete live and studio lineups. Influenced by everything from Aretha Franklin to Guns N’ Roses, the group painstakingly crafts songs with a refreshing vibe while combining their collective inspiration into a distilled, potent rock potion.

Capable of playing everything from drums and percussion to horns and keys, they handle everything including writing and producing Stiletto Ghetto’s music, ensuring the final product is truly their own. By 2011, Stiletto Ghetto caught the ear of guitar legend Steve Vai and landed on his Digital Nations label, releasing Tendernob Hillbillies the same year. Featuring 6 prime cuts of Stiletto Ghetto’s unmistakable 80s-influenced funky rock, word quickly spread throughout Northern California, earning them a spot on the main stage alongside Linda Perry and Sandra Bernhard during the 2011 San Francisco Pride Parade in front of 100,000 attendees."

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Leadsucker - Burn review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hardcore Punk
Label : Toxic Highway Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

"... oh my fucking god, REALLY??!" - were the first words I have articulated upon direct eye contact with the cover art of Leadsucker's "Burn". Then in the very next second I have realized that the Ohio based hardcore/punk ensemble just did to me what a hardcore/punk release worth calling one is supposed to do, at the first place. It did the politically ultra-anti-correct, the ultra-anti-establishmentarian and bitchslapped me with it, "JUST" to inquire how my soul and my overall cultural indoctrination feels about that.

What do you feel when an American flag - or ANY flag, for that matter - is burned in front of your very eyes? Do you realize that a flag necessarily is a non-physical symbol which ultimately can not be touched-, let alone eradicated by physical forces? Probably not. You are too politically correct for that. You are way too busy being fucking enraged when you witness your flag being burned, am I correct to suppose that? Then you make the Leadsucker guys a happy and efficient punk bunch! The record wants you to be enraged, or, at least, to point out the direction you could "safely" do that on - and it really pulls this feat off with a radical stunt of which you probably will have a strong opinion. Amen to that. Your opinion is overrated. You know why? Because it is yours. Now fight apathy or don't, then read on to know more about the music on the disc.

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Femme Fatale Journey Accidental

GyZ gives you the song : Femme Fatale Journey Accidental. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

it would be better to do
something entirely to you
your heart is mine to pry

I know that you want me too
I'll make it all up to you
as I'll be dwelling in your sigh

come, come to me as vertigo
and please do unleash
your unrelenting force
that separation of our souls
never sets foot beyond these doors

don't be too scared
I think I love you
how you do that
fuck if I know I know

femme femme fatale
sitting sitting
sitting in the car

journey accidental
with uno femme fatale
with her everything's romantic
I don't care if she's from plastic

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Get Tribal - God of Drum review

Year : 2013
Genre : Ambient with a Tribal tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with a quotation snippet taken from the official YouTube channel of the project.

"Get Tribal is a transcendental music project from the US, created under the direction of Kari Hohne, author of mythological studies and books about dream interpretation. She combines ancient shamanistic drumming patterns and tonal vibrations with modern technology and ethnic instruments to create a world fusion sound with emotional and energetic impact. As the creator of many affirmation apps that have achieved New and Noteworthy status at Itunes, she continues to use sound, music, dreams and myth as a way of connecting with our energetic awareness. Kari is best known for her work in dream interpretation where her app Way of Dreams is in the top of the Lifestyle category at both Amazon and Itunes."
 
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evil woman

GyZ gives you the song : evil woman. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

oh woman
evil woman

you are wants, you are needs
parked on high heels
you are magic, in a way
a curse to give away

I feel as we were on a mission
to reinforce a true connection
you are the point of all creation
and it goes without saying that
you are the void in meditation

but what if there's no storm to the weather?
what if we do end up together?
how could we really see each other, using eyes?
how could I fix you proper without a knife?

remain instead my inspiration
evil woman
as your love is your own validation
evil woman
it doesn't even matter
that I have seen you
evil woman
and that what I have saw
makes me despise you

what if there's no storm to the weather?
evil woman
what if we do end up together?
evil woman
how could we really see each other, using eyes?
evil woman
how could I fix you proper without a knife?

you are wants, you are needs
parked on high heels
you are magic, in a way
a curse to give away

but the point is
that I love you
anyway

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TesseracT - Altered State review

Year : 2013
Genre : Teenager Folk Djent Pop
Label : Century Media
Origin : United Kingdom
Rating : 5.0 / 10

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The new TesseracT LP spells out the submissively stale stagnation of teenager folk pop djent, all written with pink and magenta on the withered/saggy tits of pseudo-intellectual folk allures and hyper-emotional shoegaze nonsense.

Picture the image of music put forward by Periphery, strip it off of the exceptionally strong melodies and substitute those with polite folk ravings, deprive it from most of its intent to experiment, and deny its manic intricacy - premiere traits not even a latex troll can take away from Periphery's credit in the context of their latest outing to date - and you find yourself in the painfully predictable company of this particular TesseracT record, delivered in the form of play-it-safe-product-art by the eminent UK based teen folk pop djent practitioners. Read on to know more about the disc.

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Fuse - Linzi Stoppard, Violin review

Year : 2010
Genre : Massively Instrumental Violin Rock
Label : Edel Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Fuse is a duo featuring two electric violinists in various beefy takes on well known - mostly - rock and pop rock classics. Beside the music itself, the human presence on stage which the sounds are channeled from is at least as important than what the notes convey per event, because the audio-, while decently realized, has no other true intent/meaning in it than to serve as the sonic catalizator, as the "mere" background for a live show.

In the context of the Fuse duo, the unique significance of the heat of the moment is even more primordial than that of the character and niftyness of the music, as no one will blame a furious index finger at Linzi Stoppard if she misses a note, not when you are occupied tracing the elegant silhouettes on the stage. Read on to know more about it.

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Meroe - Suite 524 review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hard Rock with a Power Metal overtone
Label : Independent
Origin : Germany
Official Facebook site : > - here - <

Though this Munich based ensemble strictly refers to itself as hard rock, the veteran formation clearly has a keen and eloquent affection towards Iron Maidenesque power metal, even the ever-present tendency of vibrant/colorful instrumental passages that characterize the prestigious Brits, are equally ubiquitous throughout this Steel Balls of Eloquent Heft Straight Out-delivery.

The name of the primordial game is melody driven iron-smithing orchestrated to pretty much perfectly realized-, massively guitar centered production values. The sound is simultaneously beefy, yet skillfully restrained in its naturally rampant and whimsical volumetrics. Track number 5, "I am", gives you great opportunity to immerse in the naked sound - yesyespleaseplease - which doubtless radiates that famous German precision. This type/variant of uncompromisingly high standard is maintained on the spin with an iron fist, and now it really is the matter of the quality of the content itself, which necessarily draws and delivers the true identity of this outing. Read on to know more about it.

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Ain't that a kick in the head - cover

GyZ covers the song : Ain't that a kick in the head by Dean Martin. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

how lucky can one guy be
I kissed her and she kissed me
like the fellow once said,
"ain't that a kick in the head?"
the room was completely black
I hugged her and she hugged back
like a sailor said, quote:
"ain't that a hole in the boat?"

my head keeps spinning
I go to sleep and keep grinning
if this is just the beginning
my life is gonna be beautiful

got sunshine enough to spread
it's just like the fellow said
tell me quick, ain't love a kick in the head?

like the fellow once said,
"ain't that a kick in the head?"
like the sailor said, quote:
"ain't that a hole in the boat?"

my head keeps spinning
I go to sleep and keep grinning
if this is just the beginning
my life is gonna be beautiful

she's telling me we'll be wed
she's picked out a king size bed
I couldn't feel any better
or I'd be sick
tell me quick, boy ain't that a kick?
tell me quick, ain't love a kick in the head?

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Fade to Black - G Street Panorama review

Genre : Classic Rock with a Psychedelic, Doom and Grunge tint
Label : Silver Maple Kill Records
Origin : United State
Release Date : 2013
Official site : > - here - <

You can't simultaneously gain knowledge of a track called "Aliens and Beer" and remain disinterested of it, and US based Fade to Black is doing all and THEN some in their considerable classic/doom/grunge rock charisma power to emphasize this point. The song is a clear initiatory representation of what this veteran formation is all about at first face value - massively guitar centered mid-range axe warfare that borders - JUST borders - on punk in its sonic volumetrics, backed up by a mean, and clearly audible bass presence and adept drum molestation skills that give any decent dope fiend drumma' a run for the next fix.

Luckily enough, the band delivers flamboyant variation in the context of intensity and general musical behavior. The ensemble has a legitimate punch and heft to it whenever they feel like showing off the obligatory granite balls, and they emerge competent/clear/thoughtful throughout the tamer compositions - "The Note", for example -, as well. Unhidden intentions are on persistent display that seek to compliment a psychedelic overtone, armed with an apt understanding of the related criteria systems. This fascination comes to you via a diverse set of various beneficiary and easily accessible iterations, too. The one you hear in "Aliens and Beer" is the Timothy Learian psyhedelia with a tint of doom, while the one you will find in "The Note" is more playful-, fanciful, showing reminiscences with Pink Floyd and a restless variant of Beatles, even. Nah, I'm only kidding with one of the references. Or am I? Read on to know more about the record.

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Meshuggah - Do Not Look Down acoustic cover

This is an acoustic cover of the Meshuggah song "Do Not Look Down".

Lyrics :

Strive, strive, surmount the obstacles
Become the essence of your goals
Hereditary dream
Pray that you may attain that destiny
Fall into the coveted line
Where life is but a theme
Of pretense in lustrous guise

Claims and values
Charts of means and status
Plaques to show your strife
Do your neighbour clones approve

Picture perfect illustration
Imitation of life
Where the path is evened out
All obstructions removed

Great viable citizen
Are you happy now?
Then praise your God and bow

Shimmering surface
The gleam of blinding lies
Become the product
The thing you so desire

To what length would you go to reach your goals?
What mantra will you use to justify your means?
Who will you betray to secure your dream?
What sins will you commit to avoid your sins be seen?

Do not look down
Do not look down
Or the abysmal beast of non-conformity
Might stare some unpleasant truth
Into your desensitized mind

Shimmering surface
The gleam of blinding lies
Become the product
The thing you so desire

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slice of life

GyZ gives you the song : slice of life. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

inside you will learn
how to reach out with your mind

she's a miracle worker
first she was nowhere
then I saw her standing there
and now she's everywhere
look alive

anabolical instinct
choking on a fear
I've never seen someone
completely disappear

the lady doesn't touch her drink
the lady doesn't even blink
she parks her shadow on my face
then she gives me yet another
slice of life

she gives me
a little slice of life
another slice of life
a little slice
just another slice of life
she gives me
a little slice of love
another slice of life
a little slice
just a little slice of life

in parallel worlds
I hold her eternally
but tonight, my best line
is not even with me

I ain't no fugitive
of the Copacabana
I'm running with the Devil
from Tony Montana

serenity of comfort
choosing pleasant lies
little blotches of desire
armed with alibis
look alive

anabolical instinct
choking on a fear
I've never seen someone
completely disappear

the lady doesn't touch her drink
the lady doesn't even blink
she parks her shadow on my face
then she gives me yet another
slice of life

she gives me
a little slice of life
another slice of life
a little slice
just another slice of life
she gives me
a little slice of love
another slice of life
a little slice
just a little slice of life

I got no other look to give to her
I think I'll pass
and I'll walk by instead

I ain't no fugitive
of the Copacabana
I'm running with the Devil
from Tony Montana

and I want more
something to die for

inside you will learn
how to reach out with your mind
do not let fear block your path

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Junior Turner - Better Day feat. Jess Wood track review

Year : 2013
Genre : Pop
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : - > here - <

This track review starts out with the artist's official biography information.

In 2010 Junior Turner entered a competition to release a national single for BBC Children in Need. He went on to win the competition out of 110,000 applicants to release a single for "BBC Children in Need". In Oct 2010 he shot to national fame when he recorded and released a cover version of the world famous "The Impossible Dream"


Whilst promoting his BBC single he had handed out demo recordings including a self penned track called "Say Goodbye". In due course he received a phone call from war veteran's charity "Help for Heroes" co founder Bryn Parry asking if they could use this song for their charity. In April 2011 Junior Turner released Say Goodbye in support of Help for Heroes. This went on to sell over 300,000 copies worldwide. 


In 2012 he recorded his first ever official 1radio UK newcomers chart number 1 single with 'Loveblind featuring Jess Wood'. He then went on to follow that up with a further 2 1radio number 1 singles with 'Sweet Love' & a christmas 2012 number 1 with 'Hurt featuring Robbie Williams guitarist Neil Taylor'.  In November 2012 he released his eagerly anticipated 'critically acclaimed' debut album 'Under Scrutiny' He has worked with some of the UK and worlds finest musicians and producers for who he is held in high regard with. His future certainly looks prosperous to say the least. 
He also has nearly 500,000 views on his youtube channel www.youtube.com/junior271102

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technology

GyZ gives you the song : technology. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

this is how you must be
partake reality
you are technology

this is how you will feel
this is what you will see
you are technology

walls of perception culminate
in free will operator interface

data masquerades
taking shapes
the mind will confiscate
compile
integrate
disassemble
reassimilate

this awareness unfolds
fills out infinite forms
you're its technology

this is how you must be
partake reality
you are technology

this is how you will feel
this is what you will see
you are technology

this awareness unfolds
fills out infinite forms
you're its technology

inherent quality at hand
gives you all you comprehend

data masquerades
taking shapes
the mind will confiscate
compile
integrate
disassemble
reassimilate

you are technology

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Velvet Symphony - Counterclockwise review

Year : 2012
Genre : Instrumental Progressive Space Rock, Easily Listening
Label : Glittertown Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Though genres tend to be arrogant by nature, it seems and sounds safe to say that Velvet Symphony is Ed Melendez's instrumental progressive space rock project which not only is easy to listen to, but vastly entertaining to do so with, as well.

Ed Melendez's music embodies the sheer vibes the inquisitive ears would keenly jump unto during a high profile '80s YET timeless space journey, and, if you (falsely) consider that you do not currently feel suited for such a reality fabric experience, then please get your head out of all butts and just pop this spin in, and you will be taken on such a sonic trip nevertheless.

The "I" is the least important part in a review, competing with the urgency to remind ourselves from time to time that it is fun to solidify a rule by failing to submit to it. As such, I'm listening to this music right now and feel an almost irresistible physical urge to play the role playing game Mass Effect 2 with this album playing as sonic backdrop as soon as possible. Ed Melendez is old school and All Sonic Balls, as his debut, Counterclockwise - a probable reference to the exquisite retroid space rock nature of this fine audio stimuli - showcases more than 30 years of the artist's personal musical evolution, that which primarily gravitates around the crystal clear musical thought, executed and complimented by an exemplary musical awareness and a perfect understanding of retro sci-fi glitter. First Blade Runner this, then read on to know more about this.

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Noah Pine - Songs for Julie Love review

Year : 2013
Genre : Lounge Jazz, Broadway Ballroom
Label : CBM Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Noah Pine sounds to embody a perplexing-, yet quite authentic intersection between early days Dean Martin, Elton John, the timeless delirium of Tom Waits, and family friendly lounge jazz. While the musical production values reek top of the heat studio quality with competent emphasis exhibited towards the cultivation of many timeless harmonic passages orchestrated via a lush, traditional sound, Pine's unique vocal delivery doubtless equates with the cherry on top, while simultaneously reigning as the sole component to determine your feelings towards the content via a blink of an eye.

Noah Pine sings as he would have spent the last week in the company of a truck filled with bourbon and chose not to not remain thirsty in the process at all, but the inquisitive ears will have no trouble picking up on the fact that his singing talent is present throughout, yet he chooses not to refrain from embracing the "lonely bitter pianist in the bar" ethos in a pretty much cartoonish manner, and the passion filling this commitment is unquestionable. Read on to know more about this.

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We Steal Flyers - Sidecars & Sideshows review

Year : 2013
Genre : Acoustic Singer/Songwriter
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : > - here - <

We Steal Flyers is a massively acoustic country duo with thorough touring experience under their belt, as the cohesive unit plays 250 shows a year, and is after an extensive US based sonic campaign as you read this review.

The music is gentle, well suited to ease your craving for orthodox country patterns and fascinations, and is resonated with true love towards the style with not many - if any - unwanted surprises to litter the crystal clear agenda. Boundaries are respected throughout, and the reoccurring relative lack of percussive instruments - there are tasteful exceptions - certainly gives an especially intimate tint to the overall listening experience. Read on to know more about this.

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Little Dove - debut EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Rock with a dark, morose tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

The Little Dove duo is yet to produce a recording coming from a professional production environment, which fortunately did not prevent this unit of two from releasing live (!) recordings of their trade. When you go for the music "itself", the ensuing shape reminds me of the most wildest-, the wildestest - sorry about that - top form of Kidneythieves, - a fellow industrial cyberneticorganism act from Lost Angeles - consorted with an image of delirium-grade Nirvana. You can hear verbatim harmonic structures from certain Nirvana songs, but they are complimented by freshly fabricated and relevant ideas. The lead singer chick can sing like there is no tomorrow, while sticking to a guitar with both hands in the process. Her rhythm guitar playing is surprisingly ballsy and relevant, as is the rhythm section, that fuels and guarantees crude yet efficient beat-backrop environments for the crystal clear respective anatomies the songs convey. Read on to know more about this.

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fractals

GyZ gives you the song : fractals. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics : instrumental

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Gotham Heights - Wake Up, Now Go To Sleep single review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : SpaceLAB Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Gotham Heights is coming through a space-time rift near you with a full fledged long play from which the group releases the first single in an attempt to stimulate interest. Notice this : since you are reading this, they are succeeding masterfully. Following traditional standards of attentiveness, Gotham Heights delivers the single not through one, but in three distinctive formats, even including an acapella version with "just" the rapped lyrical content in it. If this is not an invitation for a Waltz towards the upcoming producer, then I do not know what is.

I have decided to include the official press release that have came with this bundle, after which I will share my brief personal sentiments with you regarding the track. Stay tuned, and read on to know more about this introductory single.

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Jason Daryush - Three Cities review

Year : 2013
Genre : Alternative Rock, Radio Rock with a Post Grunge tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Jason Daryush sounds to be a quite competent representative both of massively guitar centered quasi-morose highway rock and of exquisite bonfire-elegia with a post grunge overtone to it, and THIS highway does not even lead to Hell, nor encourages one to hit up the offices to obtain a pair of tickets for the permanent vacation. (One for you, one for your insecurities.)

Technically speaking, the Three Cities audio package comes to you as a declaration satisfying all the prime format criteria of a solid extended play, yet, since there is no official indication on the site that the album is of such targeted stature, the review concentrates on the audio content, as opposed of its structural attributes. Read on to know more about this.

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a Project S.N.A.R.E. listening session

Year : 2009 to present day
Genre : Experimental with Psychedelic overtones
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Project S.N.A.R.E. is a collaborative effort between various artists, centered primarily around  the sonic gravitational pulls established by the overall musical direction of Scan Hopper - review here and here - yet more emphasis is devoted towards experimental tendencies.

Flamboyancy and a keen readiness to offer clear thoughts through well varied saturations are key ingredients on these unusually eloquent deliveries. The music still is psychedelic quasi-soft rock at heart - heft-rode insanity and gritty distortion power are not on the current invitee list - but the structural elements of the music are simultaneously less/more constrained, courtesy of the smart limitations regarding the mere sonic real estate they are occupying - seldom are the times that a given segment would entertain the fabric for more than a couple of minutes, and the listener's musical awareness is courted skillfully along gentle registers of constant variation.

A given musical space is traded for yet another on a relentless-, yet tame "basis-tunnel", while the element of interconnection between these environments equates with the overall tone of these collective contributions that never lose sight of a massively psychedelic, yet gently experimental agenda. They can live on their own, and they can be assembled to a monolith-experience for the enjoyment of the devoted soulseeka'. Read on to know more about the project.

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Scan Hopper - Scan Hopper review

Year : 2009
Genre : Psychedelic Soft Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

With its 2009 debut release, Scan Hopper showcases its profound fascination with the White Rabbit in the respective contexts of even milder-, yet not less interesting psy-rock rhetorics the second disc is testament of. This initial tendency is once again - such is the nature of retrospect - traded in for a more reckless narrative from time to time, yet, oddly enough, there are occasions by which the band wraps a seemingly perfectly good idea up in 2 minutes or less - as is the case, I feel, with track number 4, called "Notes for the Face (Plumage Rock)", for example. There are numerous other instances on the debut that seems to solidify this impression, and I will elaborate on it.

Despite the two years that separate the two contributions in the timeline of the reality fabric - (DON'T even) imagine the chaos that would ensue were you'd have to listen to ALL songs of the cosmos at once - the narrative similarities in the components of this double barreled psychedelic delicacy are notable and even welcomed. Read on to know more about this.

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Scan Hopper - Scan Hopper 2 review

Year : 2011
Genre : Soft Rock with a Chillout and Psychedelic tendency
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

There is something wildly authentic, impertinently original and nihilistically rebellious about if and when you name your second self titled album with a numeric indication of its sequential nature, and this exactly is what Austin based ensemble Scan Hopper did with their 2011 second full length Scan Hopper 2. The music, as noted on the group's BandCamp site, is optimized rather for optimum enjoyment, as opposed of being optimized for maximum loudness paua'. The claim is well supported by the perpetuated rendition of the soulfully realized space/psychedelic/soft/chillout rock you will find on this declaration. The content occupies a narrative musical space between Pink Floyd and the rock traditions of late '60s and early '70s, though veterans claim that if you remember the '60s, you weren't even there. Read on to know more about the disc.

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an Idrise listening session

Year : 2012
Genre : Pop with a Club Lounge and Soft Techno affection
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Washington DC based Idrise is a young man armed with a voice timber reminiscent  to that which you have heard in melodic boy groups reigning prominent at the end of the past century, yet a style, once established, tends to stick around and Idrise is doing a devoted and sterile sounding  job amidst the boundaries he feels comfortable to deliver between. Beside the noted narrative similarities with all the renowned boy groups of the post modern r&b era, the most eminent attribute of the music that sets it apart from the peers is a more hefty and dynamic demeanor that finds quick and trusty pleasure in a submissive tendency expressed towards the timeless charms of 4/4 pummel, now cultivated on a tamer quasi-lounge register. Do you remember the band Snap? Believe it or not, they had other songs than "I've Got the Power", - though I'm not sure - and Idrise's music manages to summon the same authenticity, albeit the reliance on pitch correction is a tad more than one would keenly tolerate without bitchwhining a line about it. Read on to know more about this Idrise listening session.

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