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Genre: downtempo/ambient/idm
Track download link:
http://www.box.net/shared/ccdbu7pg9k
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We all wish you happy holidays and successful New corporate year!

IDM team

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Well, o fim do ano está próximo e como já repararam a atenção caíu sobre os nomes que ilustraram o que de melhor se fez este ano (e ainda se faz e se fará, claro).

A faixa Bits and Pieces foi presenteada com um videoclip, dia 9, com realização de Stephanie Comilang.

www.myspace.com/juniorboys

http://www.zshare.net/download/549679452d668afb/
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http://rapidshare.com/files/191927232/JB-BDC.zip

… I wanna do it one more time

The Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC November 28

Woodhands will break your heart

Plaid shirts. Bearded hipsters. Women dancing in their bras. These are the fundamental elements that Woodhands brings to the realm of indietronica rock. The Toronto-based duo Dan Werb and Paul Banwatt blasted the miniature-sized stage of the Biltmore, causing chaotic dancing and chanting of epic, rave proportions.

For those who don’t already know, frontman Werb is bringing back the keytar. He showed full mastery of synthesizers, drum loops and sound mixers and spat out fat, earth-shaking techno riffs with a machine-like exactness.”Chocolate” drummer Banwatt was tweaking just as hard, sweat drenching through his his retro Star Wars t-shirt, demonically pounding his white Pearl set until he actually destroyed his snare.

“Somebody needs to go home right now, and bring your snare drum back to the show,” Werb said, sweat dripping down his neck and face, fogging up his black-rimmed glasses. “I guess we’re still gonna keep on going though. Fuck yeah!” When the drum was restored, the group played a new song from their upcoming album Remorsecapade which is set to be released late January. The song was surprisingly mellow, almost contemplative and borderline ethereal, certainly foreshadowing a progression in their songwriting.

Leaning heavily on their last album Heart Attack, they also played some crowd favourites like “Under Attack” and “I Wasn’t Made for Fighting.”  Things got very intense during their five-minute electro jams, which were blisteringly loud and cathartic. Showing unparalleled energy, Woodhands delivered a furious show catering to an ADD-riddled generation — fast, sweaty and catchy as hell.

Watch “I Wasn’t Made for Fighting”

Netlabel: Beatismurder
Genre: lo-fi, under-pop, indietronica, downtempo

Tracklist:
1.) Circles 1.0
2.) Kyoto 0.9
3.) Reykjavik 1.0
4.) Circles 1.0 (Yeah Pretty Boy Remix)
5.) Reykjavik 1.0 (Liger Remix)
6.) Kyoto 0.9 (Duran Durandom is playing at my house Remix)

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Genre: deep-tech, electronica, deep, ambient, downtempo, indietronica
Tracklist:

1. Beyond Absence – Heavy Breath [Webbed Hand 117]
2. Vertical67 – Blue [Acroplane 027]
3. Grids/Units/Planes – Flickering Fluros (This Brittle Night) [IDM Forums 002]
4. Umbrellas in the Rain – Unbroken Surface [test tube 142]
5. Ingredient – Striations [Zenapolae 051]
6. Foam – Trouble [Archipel 056]
7. Fatiq – Race to Love [MonoKraK 24]
8. Pesina Siller – Miss Kittin [Konfort 023]
9. Yagya – Coconut Rice [Sutemos 023]
10. freund der familie – 000 [broque 046]
11. hoax – Regis [insectorama 031]
12. Matthias Springer – Realm of Minds [Rumpfunk 018]
13. Echonoise – Telonius Trak [This Side Music 007]
14. Phillip Wilkerson – Sun Up [Bypass 038]
15. Zzzzra – Mutation [bio-mechanics 004]
16. Dev – Mirror Error [parastate 001]
17. Mr. Zu – In the Distance [deepindub 030]
18. Optic – Untitled [schall 025]
19. deep source project – drifting under [white in music 08]
20. Ryko – Swimming Places [auflegware 028]
21. Marsmellows – oh my dear [insectorama 030]
22. glander – untiten [Yuki Yaki 010]
23. Waveform – Dub Inside Of Us (re-edit) [deeplimit 10]
24. Roman Slavka – Paste [Pincet 004]
25. EugeneKha – Moonshine [bypass 019]
26. Pirata – Fotones en la oscuridad [Pueblo Nuevo 043]
27. Braun – Finalizer [dreiton 016]
28. Dino Dumandan – Refraction Rarefaction [Deep Lever]
29. Winterstrand – Seawater Mountain [laridae 040]
30. Lokua – Water Rock [Soft Phase 03]
31. Audiodump – May [Electronica 03]
32. Background Noise – Neptune [Ruidemos 012]

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School of Seven Bells é uma banda de trabalho formado por Benjamin Curtis do Secret Machines, junto com as gêmeas idênticas  Claudia  e  Alejandra Deheza.   Curtis e as irmãs Deheza conheceram-se quando ambos fizeram abertura em uma turnê do Interpol.  Os três decidiram terminar seus compromissos e criar um estúdio de gravação em casa juntos.

No entanto, a cantora Alejandra Deheza insiste em que as letras não são abstratas ou obscuro.  Além disso, o fato de que ela é uma sonhadora lúcida é apenas dos sons altos que criam.  No concerto, Curtis, que fica na maior parte na guitarra pode ser visto manipular vários dispositivos electrónicos, entre os segmentos da guitarra.

Segue o link para download do álbum “Alpinisms” (2008) e o link para download o EP “My Cabal” (2007)

Foals é uma banda de Indie Rock e Dance-Punk nascida em Oxford, Inglaterra. A banda assina com a Trangressive Records na Europa e com a Sub Pop nos EUA. Lançaram um Live EP dia 26 de Fevereiro de 2007. Seu primeiro álbum chamado Antidotes foi lançado dia 24 de Março de 2008 no Reino Unido e 8 de Abril nos EUA, produzido por Dave Sitek.

Segue o link para download do álbum”antidotes”.

So, we’ve been sure for the past week and a half that we’ve been wanting to do ‘Friendly Fires’, so it’s given us both ample time to sit back and absorb all its musical wonders. It’s probably only happened a few times where we’ve had two albums competing for a Sunday Joint Review time slot, either because we’ve totally disagreed on an album – which is yet to come, I’m fully open to anything these days – or they’ve both been so good, we just couldn’t resist. So, if you were wondering, last week’s ‘Dappled Cities’ – “Zounds” review won out over “Friendly Fires”, which we then decided still deserved a mention today, instead. Where “Zounds” had a more laid-back, somewhat intimate and depressing attitude, “Friendly Fires” is anything but. It’s cheeky, cleverly-composed, and totally in-your-face.

With ‘Edd Gibson’ on the guitar, ‘Jack Savidge’ on drums, and the masterfully-talented ‘Ed MacFarlane’ on vocals, this dancepunk album is sure to have you grooving in the streets left, right, centre and above:

"Friendly Fires" - 'Friendly Fires'

I might receive some backlash for this comment, but ‘Friendly Fires’ are like the anti, the optimistic, the funk-infused brother of our faithful friends, ‘The Presets’. They sound nothing alike, but it’s a good opposite-comparison [wow, an oxymoron or what?] A healthy mix of synth and dumbed-down acoustic make for full-bodied tracks, and if you must have a positive-comparison, ‘Friendly Fires’ are not too dissimilar from our friend ‘Dappled Cities’ – hence my confusion for a while when I listened to their albums together. With an in-depth study, they start to lose this commonality, however. My head was spinning for a while, but I muddled my way through and picked up the pieces.

Genre, to begin with, and when I say funk-infused, I’m emphasising it – it’s not the funk we might have seen a few years ago, it’s new-age, it’s re-invigorated, and makes for upbeat listening packed full of vitamins and anti-depressants. I don’t know how else to put it, tags suggest indietronica, which is a combination of indie and electronica, which isn’t too far off the mark because it takes elements from both – but when I think of bands like that, ‘Midnight Juggernaughts” springs to mind. Dance? I guess you could dance to it, I’m not much of a dancer myself, but dance nowadays is somewhat limited to the rave-ambient-scene, this is concert-material. Overall, “Friendly Fires” is playing with three basic elements – electronica, indie and funk.

Yes, funk-infused. Mixed with – did I say healthy, if yes, I’ll say it again – a “healthy” dose of synthesised beats and samples, together with some deliciously-strung bass and tantalising vocals. When we concern the lyrics, I don’t personally find too much to rave about, they work harmoniously with track-titles, so everything’s appropriately named, unlike some albums: you know who you are, peoples. Some might find these funk-infused lyrics a little tiresome at some stages, and mildly-repetitive; example = “Lovesick”. In other places, it’s just what a song needs. If you’re the kind of person that likes an album the nudges in all emotional-directions, i.e. happiness, sadness, cheeky, soul-filled, epic+ and legend-status, then you might be a little bit weird…

… Like myself. “Friendly Fires” is like looking through a time hole, back into the past. It’s constant upbeat-nature mightn’t please some listeners/readers, but it’s just how ‘Friendly Fires’ have decided to do things this time round.

Now to individual tracks, I’ll skip track-contextualisation, because I don’t think there’s much to explain – songs just usually follow the same routine. “Jump In The Pool” opens with some synthesised vocals, an explosion of percussion: cowbells, drums, etc, and the lyrics:

“In a city sky rise hotel…” [my bad, sorry]

Phrases aren’t particularly memorable, unlike ‘Ramona Falls’, it’s the music that really makes it for ‘Friendly Fires’. When we get to the 00:35 second mark, there’s just this mass of instrument and voice, pushing the word crescendo to its limitations. It’s just building on those classic layers that make up a good song, instrumental-backing, leading-lyrics, airy-vocals. It’s probably what drew the comparison to indietronica, because it’s lacking that funk that so prominently appears throughout the rest of the album. It’s a fantastic opener for a song, it’s nudging on the epic mark, with some wonderful solos, some great riffs, and it’s just generally well-rounded.

“In The Hospital” is where we first start to see that funk creep through, and it’s here that we get this cheeky-riff. It’s the only way to describe the way the bass/guitar tickles in the background. The way “Uhh…” is eccentuated on part of ‘Ed MacFarlane’, the twisted sound of the guitar itself. Yup, very reminiscent music happening here. Again, the lyrics “in the hospital” feature appropriately, so that’s another tick in my book. When the song builds to its crescendo, we’ve got everything just powering through to the end. It’s a simple, effective musical equation, it’s successful and memorable, and in this case, ‘Friendly Fires’ pull it off for me.

“Paris” sees a return of the indietronica that we saw in “Jump In The Pool”, and so ‘Friendly Fires’ are continuously shakin’-it-up for us-guys by switching between the funk and the ‘tronica. It has the wavy-synth, the juxtaposing vocals and instrumentation, simplistic-lyrics. I won’t go into any more detail, because I’d just be repeating myself even more.

I will say that the switch between styles is probably the sole driving force behind this album, and it’s why I like it. It doesn’t give you enough time to get stuck into a specific disposition on the album for too long. I mean, if you just look at one song, you can’t justify your opinion on the rest of the album – they’re all unique, and the only thing they have in common are composition; even then, it’s limited to funk and ‘tronica. It’s something I tend to do with a few albums, pick a song, it’s the worst one they have to offer, and my opinion is made up then and there. It’s a bad habit I’ve tried to break, but you know: what’s the point of putting it on the album if it’s not up to standard. I’d rather be left wanting more from an epic+ five-piece album than a sub-standard 12-piece that’s just cobbled together with the good and the bad. I suppose the record-companies are to blame from one perspective, and the artists for obeying their almighty whim on the other.

Another argument for another day, onto the rating and I’m going to give it a funky-four, I don’t mind a bit of change every now and again, and it’s warmly welcomed in my opinion. Artists don’t have to keep looking forward for musical-change, sometimes you can take an old brass penny and make it shine again, and here we have it: “Friendly Fires”. An album well worth the review, the wait, hope you guys like it, I know I did.

Until when,

The Enantiomorphic God

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• August Burns Red – Constellations – Solid State
• Broadway Calls – Good Views, Bad News – SideOneDummy
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• Delorean – Ayrton Senna – Full House
• Eels – Hombre Lobo – Vagrant
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Tanta curiosità attorno al nuovo Eels e per le anticipazioni di No Age e Amiina. Tornano i Gomez, i Delorean celebrano l’estate, e la nuova scena punk rock sembra sempre più in crisi… Tutto su www.dedication.it, buona lettura!