STARS OF THE LID - AVEC LAUDENUM
The Atomium part One
[5:31]8 Mb
Part Two
[10:42]15.4 Mb
Part Three
[6:16]9 Mb
Dust Breeding
[9:07]13.1 Mb
I Will Surround You
[10:27]15 Mb
Stars of the Lid "Avec Laudenum" Album Review
Blankets of Stars...
One of the best ambient CD's I've heard in the past 10 years. Only Tim Hecker's Harmony In Ultraviolet is in the same league. Some pieces are similar to Hecker, but this work is much more minimalist than his.
The best of this type of music usually create a sense of "floating bliss." This is no exception. This is a surreal, gorgeous journey that you simply MUST take. If you come anywhere near liking this genre, you gotta get this. Worth it at any price.
DATACIDE - FLOWERHEAD
Flashback Signal
[15:54]22.8 Mb
Flowerhead
[12:01]17.3 Mb
Deep Chair
[14:08]20.3 Mb
So Much Light
[12:01]17.3 Mb
Sixties out of Tune
[13:07]18.9 Mb
Datacide "Flowerhead" Album Review
Deep Rich Ambience
Atom heart and Tetsu Inoue meet as Datacide. This chapter in their collaboration produces a low frequency/low bass trip. It invites the user to a long and astoundingly complete display of low reverberated terrestrial channels while also providing spectral electronic synth. Great rewards are aquired while absorbing detail in this music but it also serves as adequate filler for late night reading, writing, etc.
Another fabulous entry into the ambient genre, so very worthy of the 5 stars it's awarded.
DE-PHAZZ - PLASTIC LOVE MEMORY
Love set You Going (De-Phazz vs. Lahr mix)
[5:08]7.3 Mb
Nameless Life (Rapoetry)
[5:12]7.4 Mb
The Mambo Craze (Swing mix)
[3:13]4.6 Mb
Riddim Wize
[4:52]7 Mb
Hero Dead and Gone (Reversed mix)
[4:35]6.6 Mb
Downtown Tazacorte
[2:25]3.5 Mb
Jazz Music (Strings)
[3:32]5 Mb
Radio Sol
[1:42]2.4 Mb
Plastic Love Memory (No. Nine)
[4:35]6.6 Mb
Good Boy (Stepin Nerve mix)
[5:53]8.4 Mb
Drop Down Low
[3:45]5.3 Mb
No Jive (Ripped version)
[4:29]6.4 Mb
Good Boy (Manmachineman remix)
[7:23]10.6 Mb
Hero Dead and Gone (Discotheque mix)
[4:53]7 Mb
The Mambo Craze (Ur Craze remix radio)
[3:33]5 Mb
De-Phazz "Plastic Love Memory" Album Review
If God is playing music in heaven, THIS IS IT !!!
The MONUMENTAL task of describing a De-Phazz album makes your head really spin out of control, just as it does when you listen to it. Any of their albums, but this in particular, is as close to musical genius as it's going to get. An almost infinite number of sounds come from every possible direction and at different speeds but in the end they all end up dancing in PERFECT harmony. It REALLY is nothing short of SPECTACULAR. They push the musical envelope in ways that no other band has ever done before, with the exception of maybe Radiohead, in its own genre of course, and I really mean that ! I am telling you, the background music in heaven is DE-PHAZZ (perfect melody in perfect harmony).
Now, after all that, you still want me to review this album? Well, let me give it a try. This is bizarrely beautiful NU-JAZZ. I mean, the sound is definitely jazz, but it flirts with hip-hop, soul, sometimes reggae, mambo and latin jazz, bossa nova, drum n' bass, house, trip-hop, etc. The feel of it all is sexy, VERY SEXY, trippy, atmospheric, RETRO COOL music that immediately sends you to a 60's smoky martini bar. The tuxedo-wearing waiter is coming straight at you with another glass (and you can happily see the two olives in it).
The majestic use of trumpets and sax, the talented drummer (and drum programming), the dreamy electronic sounds coming from the multiple keybords, the perfectly-timed scratchings, the sexy, hip vocals, and the impressive production of this album makes this, and any other De-Phazz album for that matter, a one-in-a-million gem.
You want hip, sexy, retro cool downtempo nu-jazz? Look no further, you will love this one.
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