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COLORSTRIP is the debut by electronic wunderkind Jimmy Edgar. Connecting points across genres as diverse as early-1980s disco and freestyle, as well as the angular experimentation of Detroit techno and contemporary R&B, Edgar's broken funk deploys re-jiggered hip-hop, along with the baroque programming finesse of IDM. The producer's own vocals humanize the otherwise machine-music formula, coming off less like some techno-boffin wallflower and more like an electro-funk Lothario.
Live RecordingMojo (Publisher) (p.105) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's low-lit, febrile music, and sometimes almost unbearably intimate." Jimmy Edgar Colorstrip Songs Colorstrip Review
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Purchase Colorstrip CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | American Music Club Everclear CD (1991)
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EVERCLEAR, AMC's finest hour and one the '90s' most powerful albums, is simultaneously lush and searing, heartache and despair borne out in elegant arrangements that combine fragile prettiness and soul-baring howls of pain. Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Kaphan rose to the occasion of his production debut. The canyons of reverb on the instruments are strangely appropriate, highlighting the almost decadent, tragically beautiful feel of the songs. Keyboards, pedal steel, and acoustic guitars drift like abandoned ships swirling around in a colorfully tempestuous sea full of unknown nautical demons. Guitarist Vudi contributes some of the most artful, non-traditional sounds ever concocted by a "rock" axeman.
The album begins with a slow, soulful lament to a love who's either sleeping or dead, before taking up the subject of mortality more fully in the anthemic "Rise," written by Eitzel for an AIDS-stricken friend. Eitzel observes the trials of those around him on "Ex-Girlfriend," but "Sick of Food" turns his gaze inward, breathlessly describing his alienation from virtually everything and his simultaneous longing for connection. His ...
| | Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding CD (2004)
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The flowering of digitally processed origami ...
| | Roots Of Dubstep CD (2006)
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| | Various Artists Bargrooves - Black CD (2006) (Import)
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Black, the deeper, harder, faster shade of Bargrooves, encompasses 28 tracks of driving ...
| | Cannabis Corpse Blunted At Birth CD (2007)
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| | Trembling Blue Stars Last Holy Writer CD (2007) (Import) United Kingdom
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Truth be told, the Trembling Blue Stars routine was getting kind of stale by the release of Seven Autumn Flowers in 2004. With that album they crossed the line that divides reliable and predictable; no longer did the morose lyrics, melancholy vocals, minor chords and cheesy synths make a positive impression. Luckily for fans of the band, The Last Holy Writer is a comeback of sorts, certainly an improvement, and maybe even one of their finest records. How did they do it? It's hard to say because on the surface it seems like not much has changed sound or mood-wise. There's still a preponderance of downbeat lyrics and Bob Wratten hasn't suddenly traded in his mope for a smile, no fear of that anytime soon. The building blocks of their sound are mostly the same too. What makes a difference here is a boost in the overall energy level from unrelenting gloom to mostly sad, a slightly expanded sonic palette that makes room for field recordings and a wider range of drum sounds, and most importantly, some really good songs. Chief among them are the Beth Arzy-sung "Idyllwild" which, much like Helen Reddy on the last album, fairly bursts out of the speakers like sun through the clouds, "Darker, Colder, Slower," which has the kind dramatic shifts in dynamics and ...
| | Omar Shariff Raven CD (1972)
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| | Eric's Trip Forever Again CD (1995)
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At 17 tracks, the group's expansive ...
| | Velvet Crush Rock Concert CD (2000)
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In the mid-'90s, Providence, RI's ace power pop hopefuls were riding high after a few tough indie years, constantly on the road promoting their major-label debut, 550/Sony's Teenage Symphonies to God. They'd added respected pro Tommy Keene to augment a sharp power trio. And a hot club act reputation was successfully being put to test on bigger-barn touring, first with the Jesus & Mary Chain and Mazzy Star, and then with the just-breaking Oasis. (This March 1995 Chicago cabaret Metro gig was likely on that Oasis tour, since the Metro holds 1500-2000, and the set is only 27 minutes!) Such lofty days proved to be ephemeral, however. 550/Sony abused and abandoned them like tacky trinkets, an embattled third LP was poorly distributed and disappointed, and a session work-related relocation to L.A. meant the loss of guitarist Jeffrey Underhill, leaving old mates Paul Chastain and Ric Menck to limp on alone. All the better reason, then, to appreciate this document of the group at their apex. As tough and heavy as Teenage Symphonies but more breathless, like its terrific predecessor In the Presence of Greatness (the opening of "This Life is Killing Me" here is so much harder and faster, it sounds like the start of the Clash's "Complete Control"!), Rock Concert exudes their Byrds/Raspberries/Big Star mix of weighty backbeat, fervid vocals, and mellifluous melodies. Longer sets then accommodated more of their emerging, pre-alt-country pop, found here on "Time Wraps Around You," ...
| | Ultravox Vienna CD (1980) (Import) Bonus Tracks; United Kingdom
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VIENNA is one of those rare albums that defines an era. In their first
incarnation, with singer John Foxx, Ultravox merged post-punk and
art-rock in a prescient, highly influential manner. After Foxx's
departure, the band's future seemed in question. Against all odds, they
gained a new lease on life with former Rich Kids singer/guitarist/songwriter Midge Ure, who led them towards a more
stylized, elegant sound full of both accessible melodicism and grand,
sophisticated electronic textures. Consequently, VIENNA did much to
jumpstart both the synth-pop scene and the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s.Even the band's Bowie-influenced, modernist image on the front cover spawned a thousand imitators. Image aside, though, such durable ...
| | John Hammond, Jr Sooner Or Later CD (1968)
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Like several of Hammond's early albums, this 1968 effort would ultimately sound less impressive than it did at the time, simply because the original versions of the ten songs Hammond covered would become much more accessible. The material selected did testify to his good taste, but also stuck to the tried-and-true, including classics like "Dust My Broom," "Crosscut ...
| | Radio 69 Reality Punk CD (2003) (Import) Import; Germany
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Contains 14 tracks.
| | Wiggles Wake Up Jeff CD (2001)
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| | Human Value CD (2005)
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| | Michael Hedstrom Demagogue CD (2007)
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When I was a child we held Spook Houses in our basement, using Stravinskys' "The Rite of Spring" and later the soundtrack to "The Omen" as backround music. I still consider "The Rite of Spring" my favorite piece. Although I couldn't hope to approach the intracacies of Stravinsky I did try to capture some of the feeling and emotion in his work. Since the cd ended up taking a religious flavor there's a great deal of pipe organ and fake latin singing male choirs as well. And just to spice things up there's a ...
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