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Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen, better known as Finnish electronic duo Pan Sonic, are not ones to compromise. Since they began making music (or sounds, as the case may be) in 1993, they've continued turning out unconventional recordings that ... Full Descriptionchallenge accepted modes of thought about electronic musical idioms. As ideologically and sonically unrelenting as ever, Pan Sonic presents KESTO, four full discs of new material that retreats not a step from the pair's previous advances.
The first disc is the harshest and most literally industrial-sounding, as white-noise frequencies, modified to varying degrees, crackle and clatter through the listener's eardrums, with only brief moments of respite. Disc Two is less overtly assaultive, more beat-oriented, making use of the kind of dub-inflected glitch beats they (along with the likes of Pole) helped invent. The third disc could almost be called ambient, were it not for the inescapable sense of dread that underlies the somehow sinister minimalism. Most impressive is the final disc, a single, hour-long piece that's closer to early-'70s Tangerine Dream than anything else. Pan Sonic thanks artists as diverse as electro-post-punks Throbbing Gristle and New Music composer Alvin Lucier in the notes, and influences from both sides of the fence are discernible.Q (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Once you've bequeathed them your synapses, the rewards are great - analog tone generators and digital samplers creating a thrillingly visceral hiss and thud that quickly fills all available space."
CMJ (p.10) - "KESTO is a searing collection of glitchy industrial sounds smoothed out and refried over skeletal beats. It's noisy, ambient and danceable all at the same time..." Hide Description Kesto Review
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Purchase Kesto CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings CDs (2009) Special Edition
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Special Edition CD includes the full album, a CD of instrumental mixes of the album and a CD of six cover songs.
Dream Theater's tenth long-player is about as dense and challenging as any album in the band's discography and emphasizes not only the virtuoso members' stupefying musicianship, but also their most aggressive and thoroughly metallic songwriting tendencies. The sixteen-minute opener "A Nightmare to Remember" quickly establishes this agenda via frequently thrash-paced staccato riffing, some of John Petrucci's most blistering guitar solos ever, and the return of drummer Mike Portnoy's syncopated growls, which provide contrast for singer James LaBrie's soaring melodic elegance. "The Count of Tuscany" is a heady prog-metal magnum opus brimming with more ideas, notes, and time changes over 19 minutes than most bands bother with over a ten album career. In fact, "Whither," a tender ballad and mere babe at five minutes in length, is the album's only concession to commerce. Black Clouds & Silver Linings, ...
| | Let It Roll - Songs Of George Harrison CD (2009) Remastered; Digipak
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George Harrison had two periods of great commercial success, separated by 15 years and two record labels. This extended gap is the chief reason there hasn't been a career-spanning Harrison collection until 2009's LET IT ROLL: SONGS BY GEORGE HARRISON, the first-ever disc to gather songs from George's stints at both Apple and Dark Horse, and only his third-ever hits collection (following 1976's Beatles-heavy THE BEST OF GEORGE HARRISON and THE BEST OF DARK HORSE, released in 1989 in the afterglow of CLOUD NINE's comeback success). LET IT ROLL balances these two periods, swapping any Beatles-era song ("Something," "Here Comes the Sun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") for a live version from THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, then mixing it all up chronologically, so the set starts with the pristine bounce of "Got My Mind Set on You" before giving way ...
| | Kings Of Leon Only By The Night CD (2008)
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With their raw, organic sound, Tennessee's Kings of Leon emerged in 2003 as Southern rock for the indie-garage set, sort of a Strokes for the South. While there were hints of a new direction on their third album, BECAUSE OF THE TIMES, its follow-up, ONLY BY THE NIGHT, follows through with a near-reinvention of the Kings' sound. ONLY BY THE NIGHT could be mistaken for avant-indie cult heroes the Liars on a Southern vacation, as post-punk angularity, distorto-funk bass lines, and clattering percussion are processed through what sounds like the world's biggest fuzzbox. While there are old-glory moments of garagey ...
| | Neil Young - Archives: Vol. 1 - 1963-1972 DVDs (2009) Box Set; 1963-1972
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| | Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca CD (2009)
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The ambitious often conceptually audacious music of the Dirty Projectors can best be described as art rock writ large. But where the distancing effects deployed by similar acts lacked in the emotive qualities necessary to create truly transcendent art, the Brooklyn-based six-piece backs up dazzling technique with rare artistry and something far less tangible, even mystical, in its power to capture the imagination. BITTE ORCA, DP's fifth full-length and best album by a country mile, will likely be remembered as the group's indie breakthrough. While the album's clash of herky-jerky rhythms, chiming Afro pop-style guitars, and serpentine chamber orchestrations rest defiantly outside the indie canon, front ...
| | Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps DVD (1978)
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The Godfather of Grunge is in essential (read: grungy) form on this acclaimed live video, widely considered to be the best record of Neil Young's spectacular concert presence. Filmed in 1978, Young and his backing band, Crazy Horse, rip through sixteen of his best songs, ...
| | Emerson, Lake, And Palmer Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults, Vol. 3 CD (2002) (Import) Box Set; United Kingdom
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| | Seymour Glass Note To Self CD (2004)
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| | Loin Groin Lion Grion Zion CD (2005) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | 16 Great Contemporary Christian Classics Vol. 4 CD (2005)
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| | Zazen CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Hard Workin' Man: The Jack Nitzsche Story (Volume Two) CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
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The second volume of collected interviews and recordings by and with the arranger and producer Jack Nitzsche is an invaluable trawl through his considerable three-decade back catalog of projects. It unearths gems like Merry Clayton's (the female voice on the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter") version of "It's in His Kiss," and Nitzsche's own previously unreleased spy-movie type instrumental, "Surf Finger," as well as the Everly Brothers performing Neil Young's "Mr. Soul." Other rarities include the Monkees' recording ...
| | Notenbude Vol. 2-Notenbude CD (2005) (Import)
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| | Playlist: The Very Best Of Miles Davis CD (2008)
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