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Thursday, November 28, 2013

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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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

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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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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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