ADA - BLONDIE
Eve
[6:56]9.9 Mb
Cool My Fire I'm Burning
[5:26]6.5 Mb
The Red Shoes
[5:27]7 Mb
Lifedriver
[6:26]9.4 Mb
Our Love Never Dies
[7:41]11.7 Mb
Who Pays the Bills
[5:35]7.7 Mb
Each and Everyone Blindhouse mix
[6:47]8.4 Mb
Les Danseuses
[7:47]11 Mb
Maps
[6:50]9.8 Mb
Cool My Fire
[6:32]9.5 Mb
Ada "Blondie" Album Review
Very Solid
In my first review, i mentioned how Ada - Blondie had potential, but was squandered by the terrible CD quality. Turns out, it was some strange occurance with my cd-rom-reader and headphone combination, as the problem has not been reproduced on any other system i've played the CD on. The actual sound quality is quite good.
Ada has a unique sound and a lovely voice, when she wants it to be. The only track i dont enjoy is track #6 i believe, where she repeats, "I like to drink, i like to smoke, etc." The beat and the lyrics just dont jive for me. Stand out tracks are #1 (after some getting used to), #4, and #9. Phenomenal.
Overall, if you're a fan of electronica and want to expand your horizon further, check this out and give it a few spins. You wont be dissapointed.
Video Music Video Tribute to Ada Wong: Unrequited Love
So here is the music video based on a theme of Unrequited Love. From the Resident Evil series, Ada Wong is a spy who betrays Leon Kennedy, one of the titles heroes- though he loves her. All pictures are property of Resident Evil/Biohazard, Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways, and Capcom. The songs i bought, so copyright can piss off on that one! In order of play: My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)- En Vogue. Maria- Blondie. Crazy In Love- Beyoncé. Uptown Girl- Billy Joel. Sometimes- Erasure. Genie in a Bottle- Christina Aguilera. Truly, Madly, Deeply- Savage Garden. Thanks for listening! Take care
JOEY BELTRAM - THE RISING SUN
Resurgence
[5:51]8.4 Mb
It Works
[5:24]7.7 Mb
Rising Sun
[5:42]8.2 Mb
Intermission
[1:31]2.1 Mb
Awaken
[4:55]7 Mb
Universal Mind
[4:51]6.9 Mb
Beyonder
[4:57]7.1 Mb
Solar Storm
[4:37]6.6 Mb
Breakz
[1:30]2.1 Mb
Tenth
[4:19]6.2 Mb
Joey Beltram "The Rising Sun" Album Review
Album Description
Joey Beltram is back with a new album. <P>To say "back" is not exactly correct because he is constantly working and recording, releasing tracks on Tresor, on other labels and of course on his own label STX since his last Tresor longplayer Places in 1996. <P>For Joey Beltram, making an album means taking the time he needs to create something he´s 100% happy with. "I´m not only pushing buttons. When I make music its an emotional thing", he says. And found in this work are his many emotions of 2004 transferred onto the CD and vinyl medium, to be carried straight to Techno and House home listeners and clubbers. All the tracks - whether they are more technoid or more housey - bring sexiness into electronic music that has definitely been missing for the last few years. This gave him the motivation to record a new album in the first place - and with success. The Rising Sun exudes incomparable freshness: hi-hats that take your body through techno storms and lash back with solid precision. <P>The New York legend has once again created a milestone in the electronic music spectrum, for the modern techno dancefloor. <P>Only one difference to the Places album: previously Beltram recorded tracks mainly with DJ tracks-for-vinyl in mind. New ideas, new emotions, and he has since then wrapped his experience into this artist album, structured for both vinyl and CD formats. The CD (that has 3 bonus tracks) is designed to get CD collectors tuning in at home, the rhythm loud between your ears so as to not miss any of the textured layers...
UNKLE - NEVER NEVER LAND
Back and Forth
[0:54]1.3 Mb
Eye for an Eye
[5:45]8.3 Mb
In A State
[6:58]9.9 Mb
Safe in Mind Please Take this Gun Form out My Face
[6:20]9.1 Mb
I Need Something Stronger
[4:15]6.1 Mb
What are You to Me
[6:45]9.6 Mb
Panic Attack
[5:12]7.4 Mb
Invasion
[5:15]7.5 Mb
Reign
[5:31]8 Mb
Glow
[4:19]6.2 Mb
Inside
[8:19]11.9 Mb
Eye for an Eye Backwards Joshua Homme and Alain Johannes remix
[6:23]9.1 Mb
Safe in Mind Chris Goss remix
[4:44]6.8 Mb
Blackout
[6:50]9.8 Mb
Tracier
[2:08]3 Mb
Panic Attack Ape Sounds remix
[6:07]8.8 Mb
Reign Anagram remix
[9:44]13.9 Mb
In A State DFA remix
[11:58]17.2 Mb
Invasion Medway vs Eva- Coast to Coast remix
[8:41]12.5 Mb
Have You Passed Through this Night
[9:34]13.7 Mb
Glow Hybrid remix
[7:58]11.4 Mb
In A State Sasha remix
[11:04]15.9 Mb
UNKLE "Never Never Land" Album Review
Too Many Cooks = One Great Broth
I don't know who U.N.K.L.E. is. The liner notes on this album are a dizzying mish-mosh of hundreds of names. Who, I wonder, is responsible for this harshly tender and touching album?
Ostensibly, the helmsmen are James Lavelle (who did much of the exquisite and expansive producing) and collaborator Richard File (whose voice shows up on over a third of the songs). But these two are guiding a ship that is staffed with a pretty talented crew, including Brian Eno, 3D (of Massive Attack), Jarvis Cocker, Josh Homme (from Queens of the Stone Age), and Ian Brown.
Some argued (when the album was released, and even now) that despite (or because of) the wide array of talent around the record, the end result is uneven and unfocused. Lavelle, in interviews, countered by saying that a unifying theme was one of childhoods lost, of personal growth in the face of unstoppable time. This makes some sense, given the title and the lead track ("Back and Forth," in which we are told that life is "changes ... what you gotta go through your whole lifetime"). In spite of Lavelle's claim, thought, there is some sonic discrepancy between a few tracks, but this seems like small potatoes when those tracks are already so well done to begin with.
Most of the record is buffeted up by powerful waves of sound (some of them more than reminiscent of the men behind their making; 3D's "Invasion" sounds like it was lifted straight out of a Massive Attack album), floating on lofty currents of bass, much of it sparkling with arteries of synth bright enough to bring some light to the dreary lyrics. This is, to be sure, electronica, but it is electronica at its genesis, before it had taken great pains to distance itself so exclusively from anything even remotely mainstream. As such, a few tracks have a commercial hue about them, but none of them are anything but themselves. This is not the electronica of today -- experimentation for the sake of experimentation. This is a humbler and more naive version -- experimentation for the sake of good music.
And good music it is. "Glow" is an evocative anthem that seems to be fighting valiantly (and soulfully) against the effects of a general anaesthetic. "I Need Something Stronger," with its tender purrs and passive industrial heartbeat, unfurls like the soundtrack to an android's daydream. "Eye For An Eye" sounds inspired by Zepplin's anthematic energy, weaving bright vocals with a cataclysmic mesh of distortion and bass. "Reign," with its stringed backbone and slightly-trite chorus, is kept from sounding Prepackaged-And-Radio-Ready by Ian Brown's distinctively clear voice and a bass line provided by his ex-band member, Mani (of The Stone Roses).
The overall product is one that is billowing and clean, oceans-full and flowing, produced with meticulous attention to every trill and tremble. And although the various contributors (and, to a greater extent, U.N.K.L.E.'s fuzzy facelessness) mean that the songs don't always complement each other so well, that doesn't also mean those songs aren't good enough as it is. Because, in fact, they're great.
Video UNKLE - Back and Forth Video
typographic video created for 'Back and Forth' by unkle, off the Never Never Land album. it was for a a university brief...
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