"Alternating between Sonic Youth/New Order inspired dance music and minimalist soundscapes, an imminent threat of violence simmers just below the surface with Micron Sixty Three."
With slow waves of hushed sounds and swirling psychedelia, Xu Xu Fang’s new CD, The Mourning Son, rolls in like a fog and wraps your head in clouds. “Things are just okay,” a disembodied, world-weary voice intones amid the squalling guitars, spectral synths and formally decisive piano chords of “These Days.” It’s grand and dreamy stuff, followed by the similarly otherworldly title track, which chimes with a Velvety gloom. Band leader and producer Bobby Tamkin used to drum in the Warlocks, but Xu Xu Fang is a much more intriguing project. Unlike the Bore-locks, Xu Xu Fang are able to transform their funereal tempos into something truly mysterious and uniquely memorable. The pace picks up just a little on “Good Times,” whose shadowy groove and breathy singing belie its sunny title. Seven Days Now EP opens with a cover of The Cure’s “Fascination Street.” Xu Xu Fang’s rendition contrasts the original by providing a grittier, more electronic take on the popular song, somehow managing to make an already spacious song more ambient.
"Группа "Барто", чей дебютный альбом был признан лучшим дебютом сайтом Zvuki.ru и журналом Rolling Stone, а также получил премию «Степной волк» за лучший дебют, представляет вашему вниманию новую пластинку. Все, за что полюбили группу "Барто" - сексапильный анархизм текстов в сопровождении не оставляющего времени на раздумья электроклэша, хлесткие точные тексты, томно-стервозный вокал, прыгучий танцевальный ритм и правильное настроение, - слушатели смогут получить в полном объеме."
„I put a record on“ takes its time. An atmosphere is delicately built up which despite the albums great diversity is never lost. Quite the contrary: the listener is unconsciously pulled along into the moods and associations evoked by Gudrun Gut and the way she plays with different sources. Gudrun's prefered style is a kind of minimal techno wih a warm sound and a dark tembre. Titles such as "Rock Bottom Riser" or "Last Night" are swinging mid-tempo numbers. "Move Me" is a club compatible cross between Polka and Tango, while "The Wheel" is some kind of hip-hop fairy tale. The whole thing has a hypnotic flexibility and nonchalance. 
“After a first appearance on the compilation ” BEE! “, COSMOS70 released their first maxi in 2005. Formed by Michel Robiche and Didier Blanché, the duo borders between pop and electronica. In 2006 the group took on a new approach with the arrival of the video director Aurélien Pescher and has been seen on stage beside top artists such as Matt Elliot, Plaid, Machine Drum or Lackluster. On december 15th 2007, COSMOS70 will release their debut album “Voices ” on BEE Records. Throughout the twelve titles synthetic voices, analog atmospheres and energetic rhythms meet in a resolutely melodic architecture.
Favorite Songs of the Soviet Cosmonauts features eight laid-back songs carried largely by ambient, synth-laden lounge music and a heavenly assortment of opiate vocals. The songs stretch themselves beyond the traditional four- to five-minute length, taking plenty of time to explore spacy instrumental vamps that wou
ldn't sound out of place on a Pink Floyd album. But it's when the gentle female vocals drift across the smokey music that the album peaks. Overall, an impressive release that belongs in the same late-'90s/early-2000s camp as ambient French bands such as Air, even if the group claims to be Russian. 
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Nid & sancy: no doubt one of the most exciting european acts at this moment, are gearing up to visit austria for the first time. since the release of their album: "talk to the machine" and the 12" vinyls "no fuck all" and "sleaze boogie", nid & sancy have become one of the hottest names in clubland, their music hovering on the edge between rock and dance, with a healthy dose of attitude. /campy and trashy gaylike electrofunk. but of the right kind. delightful romping and stomping beats, mixed with bleeps and beeps. add an explosive live show... and you have: NID AND SANCY /“We call it Electronic Punk or Electropunk, it´s still punk music in spirit, but done with synths
Pie mums brauc "gaisa pavēlnieki" Air! Pirmo reizi un uzreiz pēc pilnībā izpārdotās pasaules tūres. Muzikāls super notikums, viens no gada koncertiem - gaidīts no vismaz 97 gada. Līdzīga situācija kā ar Suede jūrmalas koncertu - neticami, bet fakts - viņi tiešām brauc pie mums un spēlēs Sapņu Fabrikā savā "limitētajā" Close Up tour ietvaros. Domaju, baudījums garantēts-cerams gan viņiem, gan mums un arī vienam no otra. Šī pasākuma gaidās piedāvāju jums no nesen iznakušā 10 gadu jubilejas pārizdevuma "Moon Safari" remixu disku. Iesaku arī DVD! Vous voir là AIR!
Former member of the punk-rock band Bérurier Noir, Jean-Claude Prieur worked with another reggae band called Mega Reefer Scratch. His tastes for the trip-hop sound appeared in the excellent « A little bit of soul ». His first production « Blues project » was released in 1996 on the label Yellow. Albums: « A Grand Love Story (1998), « Kill your Darlings » (2001), « Another Late Night » (2004), « Party Animal and Disco Biscuit » (2008).
Former Suede singer Brett Anderson has announced that he will release a new solo album, ‘Wilderness’, later this year. However, fans who buy a ticket for Anderson’s forthcoming gig at London’s Mermaid Theatre on July 7 will receive a copy of the album on USB stick format. The album will be released on conventional formats some time after this date. The LP features a minimal set-up, with Anderson playing piano and guitar joined by cellist Amy Langley, it also features guest vocals from Emmanuelle Seigner on the song ‘A Different Place’. 
Velocifero definitely sounds like Ladytron. Danceable, sad and glittering. Velocifero has some electronic elements in the sound spinning around some Gary Numan, Human League and Kraftwerk. First six tracks are nearly the most sharp Ladytron works. After, it becomes darker, and it sounds quite good. If you look other indie pop, electronic combo from the year, Ladytron may be the only recognizable name. A standout piece of electronic pop song, Season Of Illusions summers that, this band won't stop releasing albums like 604, Light & Magic and Witching Hour. They're all great, and have enough power to break into mainstream music. Fantastic! Ladytron reveal the track list of their new album Velocifero and tour dates. Their 4th album involves collaboration and co-production with Vicarious Bliss, signed to Ed Banger Records and Alessandro Cortini of Modwheelmood and of course part of the old “rock band configuration” of Nine Inch Nails. This was before Trent Reznor disbanded it to explore alternative methods of performance. The album, according to the news section of their website and other sources:
On first listen, zZz sounds like Jim Morrison reincarnated as a Dutch club rat who took too much E and spent time recuperating in church. There’s a lot of grunting and Morrison-styled sensuous vocals, and then there’s that omnipresent organ. zZz is certainly heavily influenced by the Doors: lead singer Bjorn Ottenheim sounds so much like Jim Morrison it’s possible that the notoriously free-loving icon spread his seed all the way to Amsterdam. But the electronic basis of most of the songs off zZz’s debut album, Sound of zZz is impossible to deny.
Olga was born in November 1979 in Athens (Greece) . She starts playing the piano at the age of 8 and never quits music since: While doing her classical music studies, curiosity brings her into the electronic scene .She starts djing to greek bars and clubs and learns music production. Sept 2001 she moves to Paris djing, taking courses in interior design and contemporary music . In January 2003 she releases her first track in the UK (sumsonic.rec.uk) called `Don`t look at me` by the name of ODD and starts cooperating with the french label Fcommunication. She participates at the live project of Jay Alanki (aka Reminiscent Drive) and starts giving concerts as a programmer-keybord player. In Dec 2003 she records vocals for Fred`s Avril track `tv dinner` (album `Members Only`- Label Fcom) and in April 2004 she records vocals for Poni Hoax`s track `Budapest`(label Tigersushi). Budapest is released in December 2005, enters compilations as Fabric in the UK, 'Les Inrocks' mag 's monthly compilation in France and receives great reviews all over Europe. She also participates at the live project of Bang Bang (Yellow prod.) and Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog) as a programmer-keybord player. Then, she works on her own project produced by Marc Collin (The Perfect Kiss / PIAS). 
After a few years of side projects, film scoring and traveling it is time for the third Ugress album. "Unicorn" is released January 28th, on own label Uncanny Planet. The album is a veritable firework of electronic pop, dance-punk, groovy dub and cinematic dream-scores.
More Stories' continues under the creative core of JAMES LAVELLE & RICHARD FILE, alongside the production of CHRIS GOSS (QOTSA) + PABLO CLEMENTS & T BONE BURNETT. The tracks 'Kaned & Able', 'Heaven', 'Blade In The Back' and 'Synthetic Water' are songs from the soundtrack UNKLE did for the film 'Odyssey In Rome' (ABEL FERRARA, JULIETTE BINOCHE, MATTHEW MODINE & FORREST WHITAKER). 'Blade In The Back' was played live at their first London gig under a different name called 'Swampy'.
Žagar (or Zagar) is a headliner group of the 
"Haunting harmonies layering melody on top of the heavy drums and electro beats…when you're a band with a gift for making building dancefloor tracks within 2 or 3 minutes you know you're on to a winner" – Clash
The duo Lemon Jelly's chilled out grooves and breaks are produced by Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin. Deakin is a DJ and designer whose illustration work has been highlighted in the culture magazine the Face. Franglen has produced with the talents of Primal Scream, Björk, and even the Spice Girls. Their first full-length, LemonJelly.KY, was a collection of three limited-edition U.K. EPs that the duo released over two years. Their official full length debut, Lost Horizons, arrived in the fall of 2002 and delivered a turbo-paced mixture of styles. The title for the band's third full-length, 2005's '64-'95, came from the years from which the album's samples were generated. 
Skandināvu elektro/indie romantiķi izlaiduši jau trešo ierakstu ar remixiem savām labākajiām kompozīcijām no iepriekšējiem diviem albūmiem (Country Falls, Ghost Is Not Real) kā arī b-saidus. Ļoti interesanti dziesmu pārveidojumi no Serge Santiago, Bonobo, Fink, Emperor Machine, Tunng, Evil 9 un Vector Lovers. Vienmēr esmu uzskatījis, ka remixi parāda dziesmu pilnīgi citā gaismā un ja pie to veidošanas piedalījies patiesi talantīgs mūziķis, dziesma viņa rokās iegūst pilnīgi citu skanējumu un pat jaunu mūžu. Interesanti dziesmu variācijas nezaudējot sākotnējo dziesmu burvību! Šis cd ietver sevī arī b-saidus un akustiskās versijas jau zināmām kompozīcijām. Ļaujiet lai šis "glābējsuns" izkrien caur pēdējām rudens lapām...
Pavisam nesen uzzināju, ka šai Londonas Acid Jazz, Elektro, Rock grupai gaidāms jauns ieraksts. Teikšu godīgi, domāju jau sen viņi ir izjukuši un kaut ko jaunu gaidīt ir pavisam nereāli, bet...kļūdījos! Gaidīsim!
Jau tik labi iepazītā un lieliskā Yonderboi mentālie radinieki, draugi, tautieši un visbeidzot palīgi - Zagar! Šī viena no vadošajām Ungārijas elektro/rock/acid jazz vienībam kura radusies 2001 gadā. Un tā iepazīsimies tuvāk: Balazs Zsager aka Zagar - (piano, synths, rhodes, programming), Andor Kovacs (guitar, bass), DJ Bootsie (scratches), Tibor Lazar (drums). Teikšu godīgi šis ieraksts man vienmēr ir licies kā dvīņu brālis (labā nozīmē) jau zemāk aprakstītajam skandināvu projekta Ugress "Resound" - ar savu enerģiju, interesantām apdarēm un līdzīgo stilu.
Control is a biopic film about the late Ian Curtis (1956-1980), lead singer of the post-punk rock band Joy Division. The screenplay is based on the book Touching From a Distance, by Curtis' wife, Deborah, who is also a co-producer of the film.
The film details the life of the troubled young musician, who forged a new kind of music out of the punk rock scene of 1970s Britain, and the band Joy Division, which he headed from 1977 to 1980. It also deals with his rocky marriage and extramarital affair, as well as his increasingly frequent seizures, which were thought to contribute to the circumstances that led to his suicide on the eve of Joy Division's first U.S. tour. Anton Corbijn, the film's director, had been a devout Joy Division fan since the band's early days in the late 1970s. He directed the music video for the 1988 rerelease of "Atmosphere" long after the band's demise, and has since gone on to direct music videos for such bands as Depeche Mode, Nirvana and U2. Control marks Corbijn's debut as a movie director, and he paid half of the €4.5million budget out of his own pocket. The film was shot in black and white to "reflect the atmosphere of Joy Division and the mood of the era.
After the script for the film was finished in May of 2005, the movie was filmed on location in Nottingham, Manchester and Macclesfield, England, as well as other European venues. Filming began on July 3, 2006 and lasted for seven weeks.Filming in and around Barton Street (where Curtis lived and died).
Pirmā Anton Corbijn pilnmetrāžas mākslas filma par leģendāro Joy Division solistu Ian Curtis. Filmu sāk demostrēt kinoteātros no šodienas - 5oktobra. Tikai interesanti vai Latvija ir attiecināma uz pārējo pasauli... Komentāri lieki.
http://momentum.control.substance001.com/ http://nodatta.blogspot.com/ - soundtrack
Kopš viņa 2003 gada pirmā solo diska "Paper Monsters" ir pagājis pietiekami ilgs laiks, uzkrātas dzīves emocijas un izdots Depeche Mode disks "Playing the Angel" kā arī notikusi vispasaules tūre. Apstāklis, ka tieši pirmo reizi Depeche Mode vokālistam ir ļauts būt ne tikai vokālistam ar dieva dotu skatuvisko šarmu, bet nu jau arī kā pilnvērtīgam dziesmu autoram ir devis pārliecību saviem spēkiem un nu jau arī tīcību sev arī kā solo māksliniekam.
Perhaps you're familiar with Teddybears and their Soft Machine album from its multiple offerings to the Least Favorite and Most Overplayed Commercials of 2006 soundtrack. See, here's the problem with ad guys: they have access to the same music as the rest of us. A lot of them have fine taste and are fine people and probably can give enthusiastic answers to questions like "Why do you think 
Northern Lite, an electrorock group, carved out a respectable niche for themselves on the German music scene, not only via their record releases and remixes, but also via their own label, 1st Decade Records. Andreas Kubat and Sebastian Bohn a vocalist and DJ, respectively formed Northern Lite in 1997 in Erfurt, Thuringia, while guitarist Larry Lowe later joined in 2001, bringing an element of rock music to the group's style of electronica. Lowe eventually left the group in 2004, going on to form the solo act Fujimo, and was replaced by guitarist Sascha Littek. Northern Lite made their recording debut in 2001 on 1st Decade Records, their own Erfurtbased label; that year they issued several releases: Trusting Blind, Ways Ain't Working, Treat Me Better, and Trusting Blind Remixes in that order, each on 12" vinyl in addition to a fulllength album, Small Chamber Works. Subsequent years brought many more releases on 1st Decade, including the fulllength albums Reach the Sun (2003), Temper (2005), and Unisex (2006). In 2006 Northern Lite saw the first of their releases register on the German charts, when "What You Want" climbed to number 61 on the singles chart as Unisex climbed even higher, to number 29, on the album chart. The group returned to the German charts in 2007 with "Enemy," a collaboration with Chapeau Claque that peaked at number 51. Northern Lite also has a long list of remix credits dating back to 2001; among the more notable are Peaches' "Set It Off" (2002), Rammstein's "Rosenrot" (2005), Schiller's "Die Nacht... Du Bist Nicht Allein" (2005), and Yello's "Planet Dada" (2005). 
Following two sensational studio albums, the Vienna-based electronica chill-meisters are live and organic here. Dzihan's keyboards and Kamien's guitars and samples are heard at the crest of a hip one-world sonic universe, supported by a hand-picked battalion of top-notch international talent. Vocalists Ma. Dita (performing in English) and Özden Öksüz, DJ "Mangito" Mango, and super-percussionist Sammy Figueroa (who has played with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Scofield, Stevie Wonder, and David Bowie---you can't get much cooler than that) are flanked by smoldering Turkish drummers, strings, reeds, and brass. The result resembles a late-night love-in between Isaac Hayes (wah-wah firmly in place), Barry White, retro Latin jazz, classic Middle-Eastern massed-violin vamps, and Pink Floyd, augmented by white-hot trumpet solos and filigreed Islamic calls to prayer. The album includes a bonus disc of remix tracks, wherein "Drophere" undergoes three treatments while "Slibdub," "Stiff Jazz," and "Ford Transit" reveal glimmering new facets. This stunning live album is one of those rare moments when a producer duo, well known from the electronic club genre prove that it is possible to cross the border into the world of performing live with real instruments. Live in Vienna grew out of dZihan & Kamien’s desire to do something special for the release party for their last studio CD, Gran Riserva. With the help of the Austrian government, 22 people were gathered on stage at Porgy and Bess, one of the most famous jazz clubs in Vienna. Master musicians from Turkey to Miami formed a "dreamteam" to translate the dZihan & Kamien sound into an orchestral performance featuring the downtempo duo's signature blend of cool jazz, dancefloor beats and Eastern strings. 
Группа Punk TV проповедует музыкальный синтез гармоничной электроники и живых, настойчиво звучащих ударных и бас-гитары. Они играют очень профессиональную и абсолютно интернациональную музыку. Их треки звучат на европейских и американских радиостанциях, диски продаются по всему миру, а поклонников в Германии даже больше, чем в родном Новосибирске. Летом 2007 года музыканты планируют большой тур по Европе и Северной Америке.
Ultra Payloaded is the debut album of Perry Farrell's latest group Satellite Party released via Columbia Records. The album was released on May 29, 2007 and was preceded by a single "Wish Upon a Dog Star".
Jau noklausoties albūma priekšvēstnesi Night’s Temper(A Prelude to War Stories) EP, bija gaidāms kaut kas interesents un spēcīgs. Ja uzmetam aci šī cd dziesmu sarakstam mēs redzam vairākus tā teikt maz ar elektroniku saistītus "personāžus", bet nu kas par kolorītām personībām. Labi, 3D no Massive Attack nav nekas pārsteidzoš (amata stilistikas brāļi un vēl piedevām War Stories un visu singlu un arī EP coveru autors - trip hop tēvs), bet Ian Astbury un Josh Homme tiešām ir drusku ne savā zupas šķīvi, bet nu labi lai kā tur arī būtu visu pēc kārtas.