VIKTER DUPLAIX - INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS V2.0
Departure
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What We Want
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Lust for Life
[4:33]6.5 Mb
I Got You
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Looking for Love (Critical Point mix)
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Morena
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Yesterdays Pain
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Fahmina Speaks
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Wherever You are
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Come See Me
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Tropical Girl
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Deperately
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Late Night Rendezvous
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Looking for Love (Original)
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Vikter Duplaix "International Affairs V2.0" Album Review
great album
This is one of my favorite albums and deserves more credit than it got. Great from beginning to end.
KIKO - MIDNIGHT MAGIC
Sequential
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Monique
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Italomatic
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Flash
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Electricity
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Girly
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Running in the City
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Magnetized
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Burn out
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Just Blue
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The Challenge
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Last Emotion
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Camouflage
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End
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Kiko "Midnight Magic" Album Review
Author of Midnight Magic Belly Dance Music
I just wonder, How could you use a title that have been published by another co like "Sphinx Records" which has the same album Midnight Magic Music for Belly Dancing By author Dr. Samy Farag.<br>This is not anegative review; it is simply a question to the author of the music and the publishing co. Is there away to clear the name of your album before you release it.Thanks
FUNK D'VOID - DOS
Odessa
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Barnabeats
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To Ya Waistline
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Obrigado
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Nineteen Ninety-Two
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The Loquita
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Diabla
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My Adidas
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Magnolia
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Desperado
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Sketch of Spain
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Funk D'Void "Dos" Album Review
Amazon.com
After opening with the fine and mellow Abacus remix of Chaser's "Blue Planet" and the slinky groove of E.B.E.'s "Serenity," this CD launches into an hour of amazing and relentlessly pumping tracks. Loads of dance discs claim to keep the energy level at 10, but after its relatively easygoing opening, <I>Soma 7</I> actually delivers. Once the Latin percussion on the Sidewinder remix of Universal Principles' "Flyin' High" kicks in, forget about it. All manner of rhythmic components carry the listener along in an elevated state of mind-body grace for the rest of the CD. A number of tracks manage to creatively tweak sonic effects for minutes on end; whooshes and synth licks get taken to the outer limits. The great beats and delicious array of unidentified sounds on this disc make for a special sort of ecstasy. <I>--Fred Cisterna</I>
DIEGO - INSTANT REALITY
Heavenly Blue
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Mind Detergent
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Me Fragments
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Sacrament
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Thought Pattern part 2
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Launcher
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The Rising Rrror
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Innerfunk
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Widewalker
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High in Spaces
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Lander
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Diego "Instant Reality" Album Review
Instant Reality
As sleek, lean and classy as a Calvin Klein runway model, Diego's Instant Reality is a sublime throwback to the halcyon days of Detroit techno. Though it didn't cause more than a ripple in electronica circles outside of the Motor City (and most of Diego's publicity was centered on his young age rather than the actual music he produced), it came as a breath of fresh, danceable air amid the claustrophobia of IDM and the anything-goes-ness of electronic post-rock. The world wasn't looking for another Derrick May or Richie Hawtin, per se, but Instant Reality was so good at what it did that it served as reminder of how vital and important Detroit electro had been in its prime.
There's nothing exactly new on Instant Reality, but so what? Diego invokes the music of his idols with a combination of focus, skill and palpable reverence in such a way that the album becomes a mini-course on the best the genre had to offer. There are notes of Drexciya and Paperclip People in "Mind Detergent" and "Thought Pattern Pt.2"--both confident, driving tracks with a menacing edge. "Lander" would be right at home on Carl Craig's Landcruising (perhaps not coincidentally, the former's name may be a tribute to the latter), just as "Widewalker" brings back teary-eyed memories of Kirk DeGiorgio's more listener-oriented work before he began dabbling in soul. And "Sacrament" is pure "Strings"-era Derrick May, wearing its flat, 80's-style keyboards and Detroit-cribbed chord progressions with pride.
Aside from "Sacrament," which may raise the eyebrows of those who aren't ardent fans of the genre, Instant Reality does an excellent job of staying away from bloated electro cheese, and that's a big key to its success. It's clear that Diego takes his role as enfant producer du jour incredibly seriously, heard not only in the album's range from ambient to beat-driven, but also in the meticulous placement of musical elements that almost borders on perfectionism. On "Me Fragments"--an undoubted standout in an album full of them--snares, kick drums and hi-hats come out of unexpected places as Diego throws them in and pulls them out almost before we can register their presence; it could have been so easy to pound out a beat and loop it on the old Cubase until the fadeout, but Diego must know as we do that it's no fun when the beats just sit there and do nothing. It's this artist's "Shades of Jae" without all of the black pride pretension and vocal whinnying.
It may be an overstatement to say that Instant Reality revived Detroit techno single-handedly. But if it didn't bring the entire genre back to life, it at least brought it back to relevance, which is to say that it affirmed it. Electronica is relatively "modernist" music (its seeds may have been sown by Steve Reich's tape music in the 1960's, but electronica as we know it didn't appear until the Paradise Garage days 10 years later), and too many producers fall into the trap of pushing themselves further and further into unknown territory. Diego, by contrast, isn't afraid to admit that Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Kenny Dixon Jr. and the whole lot of Detroit producers were geniuses and that inspiration comes as much from our forebears as it does from ourselves. With that reasoning and his prodigious skills in tow, Diego created a masterwork, one that measures up to and (in some cases) quietly eclipses the best work by Detroit's dancefloor royalty.
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