Repost, pero no importa. Es del nuevo dvd de Oceansize.

Oceansize a eu une bien belle idée pour fêter leur 10 ans d’existence de sortir un magnifique coffret. Ce coffret comprend 3 DVD et 4 CD !

Les 3 DVD reprennent l’intégralité des 3 concerts donnés par le groupe à Manchester les 16, 17 et 18 octobre 2008. Les CD sont la version audio des concerts. Le 4ème CD reprend les morceaux présents sur les DVD mais ne pouvant pas être sur les CD de chaque concert.

Les concerts sont très particuliers puisque le groupe avait décidé pendant ses 3 concerts de rependre l’intégralité de leur 3 albums à savoir : Effloresce, Everyone into position et Frames.

Après avoir découvert ce groupe plutôt récemment me voici enfin gâté pour découvrir les prestations live. La salle de Manchester n’est pas un Zénith et encore moins un Bercy. C’est le genre de salle qui permet de faire corps avec le public et le groupe avait besoin de se retrouver dans les ambiances de ses débuts pour permettre de savourer l’instant car 10 ans comme ils le disent eux même “personne n’y croyait qu’on tiendrait 10 ans”.

Je ne reviendrais pas sur le contenu de chaque album que vous pouvez lire dans les chroniques en suivant les liens ci-dessus (merci à Stupidocratie de m’avoir ouvert leur porte pour partager tout ça). Par contre je vais pouvoir partager mon plaisir d’avoir découvert la puissance de ce groupe en concert.

Les 3 concerts sont vraiment très bien réalisés et le groupe est filmé sous des angles bien particuliers et la difficulté des interprétations se ressent. On sent bien que le groupe est très appliqué malgré le public à porter de mains. La technique des musiciens est vraiment formidable, il ne laisse rien au hasard, le moindre riff, le moindre effet est reproduit en concert et vocalement Mike Vennart est tout simplement prodigieux ! On passera les quelques petits pains par-ci par-là c’est du live et ça reste du live !

Je savais à travers les albums que le groupe était un groupe puissant, un groupe rock mais là je sais maintenant que c’est un groupe à suivre encore plus tellement leur prestation est impeccable, d’une puissance rare, loin des monstres et des énormes productions, c’est ici l’osmose avec le public qui est tout simplement touchante.

En tout cas ce coffret, à l’approche des fêtes, serait le très bon cadeau pour les fans de musique, un coffret gavé de bonne chose. 9h de vidéo ça ne se refuse pas surtout si la qualité est là.

Oceansize – Home And Minor (EP) [2009]
стиль: progressive, post-grunge
страна: UK
http://www.myspace.com/oceansizeuk

трек-лист:
01. Legal Teens 4:28
02. Getting Where Water Cannot 5:24
03. Monodrones 2:34
04. Home & Minor 8:10
05. Didnaeland 3:22
06. The Strand 8:04

скачать:
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отличный EP ребят из Манчестера…
атмосферно так, парни как обычно не подкачали
советую скачать полюбому, разочарование врядли будет!

опубликовано на http://circle-music.livejournal.com

Заходите в журнал о английском футболе – premier league magazine. Анонсы матчей, статьи, ставки…

Non tiña nin idea de que Oceansize estaban preparando novo material pero ollando a web da revista Rockzone entereime de que o día 26 de outubro (ou sexa hoxe) editan un novo EP titulado Home And Minor, o cal presentan con este videoclip gravado no estudio correspondente o tema ‘Legal Teens’.

This band takes a blend of the sounds from 90’s bands like Jane’s Addiction and Soundgarden and combines them into a completely original sound full of low-end rumble. Every time I hear the album it sounds better, though it’s not my favorite by the band.

Oceansize “The Charm Offensive”

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Apologies for the late weekend mixtape but i’ve been a busy boy. As many of you will know, this Wednesday past happened to be the 9/9/09. I was going to make a special mixtape up on the Wednesday to commemorate this once in a lifetime date. Well, my lifetime anyway, unless i somehow live till September 2109. Anyways, i couldn’t get round to making the mix up on the Wednesday due to more important matters, ie. getting drunk and watching the Scotland vs Holland game round the local watering hole. So i thought to myself “i’ll make it on the Thursday”….but i was too hungover. Friday? Went and seen a friends band playing in Stereo (i’ll post some stuff soon). Saturday? Couldn’t. It’s a long story.
But!……… But! Today i finally got the time to make it. The theme of the mix takes on a 999/Accident & Emergency vibe, so bands and songs that were included had to have that kinda slant to their name. Things along the lines of Police, Ambulance, Criminals, Fire, Accidents etc. Hope you enjoy!

Axe A Dent and Emerge and See Mixtape Tracklisting
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1. Patrick Wolf – Accident and Emergency
2. Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
3. Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name Of
4. Blood Brothers – Ambulance vs Ambulance
5. Crystal Castles vs Health – Crimewave
6. Mew – Small Ambulance
7. Twilight Singers – There’s Been An Accident
8. Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
999. Thieves Like Us – Drugs In My Body
10. Queens Of The Stone Age – Thats A Killer Scene You’ve Got There, Man..
11. UNKLE – Doctor Who Theme Tune
12. Freezepop – Pop Music Is Not A Crime
13. The Police – so Lonely
14. Lobsterdust – Put On The Red Light (Police vs Coldplay)
15. The Killers – Mr Brightside
16. Maybeshewill – We Called For An Ambulance But A Fire Engine Came
17. Ambulance Ltd – Yoga Means Union
18. The Prodigy – Firestarter (Empirion Remix)
19. Goldfrapp – A & E (Gui Boratto Remix)

MP3: Someone’s In The Wolf – Axe A Dent and Emerge and See Mixtape

alternative download: http://www.mediafire.com/?nwnm2tmwdqx Axe A Dent and Emerge and See Mixtape

And as a little bit of bonus material here’s a few songs that are along the same theme but didn’t quite make the mix

Janes Addiction – Been Caught Stealing (live on the BBC)

Oceansize – Music For A Nurse

S.I.T Wolf X

Oceansize is a short 3D movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008, Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau.

You can check the official site for more stuffs and informations: oceansize-lefilm.com

Ist Musik lebenswichtig? Wenn es nach The Vital Might geht, in jedem Fall.

Vorschusslorbeeren sind schwierig, wenn man eine Band kennt. Wenn man sie nicht kennt, gibt es hier und da einen gewissen Bonus, weil es z.B. der Erstling oder die Combo in Europa nicht bekannt ist. Doch der Bonus war bei The Vital Might gar nicht notwendig. Mich hat das neue Album Red Planet bereits nach Empfehlung im Just for Kicks-Newsletter beim ersten (Rein)Hören überzeugt. Denn tatsächlich muss sich die Band nicht hinter Genregrößen wie dredg (zu einer Review des aktuellen Albums komme ich hoffentlich auch demnächst) oder Oceansize verstecken. Selbst wenn die Drums und der Bass zu Beginn des Albums entfernt an Marillion erinnern, so sind The Vital Might eher selten soft und deutlich kompakter als die Kollegen. The Vital Might schaffen einige Genresprünge, von Funk zu Prog zu Rock zu Punk zu Pop zu Alternative und munter wieder zurück. Es gibt Stellen, die so abgefahren klingen wie bei The Mars Volta, einen aber dennoch nicht überfordern. Dann denkt man, man wäre mitten in einem Red Hot Chili Peppers-Song, stellenweise kann ich auch Parallelen zu Audioslave, Billy Talent oder 3rdDegree feststellen (letztere ist eine Band ebenfalls aus den Staaten, hierzulande eher unbekannt, Review folgt).

The Vital Might (nach Vertragsunterzeichnung?) ©10trecords

The Vital Might ist wieder mal eine kleine Band mit drei Leuten, die grooven wie Drecksau, was sich gut auf alle Akteure verteilt. Drummer Evan Kraker haut ab und an ordentlich drauf, beherrscht die leisen Töne aber ebenso, Basser Rick Gauthier spielt einen hier und da schonmal schwindelig mit seinen klasse Läufen. Kopf der Band Andy Milk (voc, git) ist Ideengeber mit gutem Stimmumfang, allerdings kann man ob der hohen Passagen geteilter Meinung sein. In den Mitten und Tiefen überzeugt er mit einer soliden rockigen Stimme, die etwas kräftiger daherkommt, als z.B. bei dredg. Abgesehen davon spielt der Mann eine SG samt Orange-Verstärker, was in per se zu einer coolen Sau macht (irgendwie verleiht mir diese lebenswichtige Macht – genaue Deutungsvorschläge zum Bandnamen werden als Kommentar gerne entgegengenommen – immer wieder den unbändigen Wunsch nach Kraftausdrücken, ich bitte um Nachsicht…).

Der Sound des Albums klingt für mich schön nah, authentisch, nach schwitzenden Männern auf kleinen Bühnen, so wie man sich amerikanischen Alternative Rock vorstellt (Glückwunsch an Produzent & Mastering). Verstärkend dazu sollte man sich auch mal die Photoalben zu Gemüte führen. Dort zu sehen bekommt man Livebilder von Band und Publikum sowie teils recht persönliche Ein- und Augenblicke. Man hört auch ganz leise in den Bildern »Hoppla, wir haben gar nicht mit Erfolg gerechnet…« Wenn die Jungs so weitermachen, werden sie sich aber über kurz oder lang darauf einstellen müssen. Vor kurzem hat man einen Vertrag bei 10trecords unterschrieben (denen wir diese neu gemasterte Version von Red Planet und den Vertrieb nach Europa verdanken können ). Neben The Vital Might gibt es dort noch einige andere experimentelle Bands, die mir allerdings gänzlich unbekannt sind.

The Vital Might ©10trecords

Kurz gefasst könnte man die Musik vielleicht als progkompakt beschreiben, denn die Songs bewegen sich fast alle um die 4 Minuten. Aber eindeutig in die Prog-Ecke packe ich diese genreübergeifende Scheibe nicht. Neben oben stehenden Vergleichen würde ich mal behaupten, dass auch Fans von Pearl Jam oder Stone Temple Pilots oder anderen Größen des Grunge-Zeitalters an der Scheibe ihren Spaß haben werden.

Das textliche Konzept hat sich mir jetzt nicht sofort erschlossen, dass das alles mit einer mafiösen SF-Geschichte zu tun hat wäre mir ohne den Beitrag auf der Website als Information verwehrt geblieben. Lediglich die Textzeile »The Don pays his respects« im ›Scheiße, ich sollte hier verschwinden‹-Song »Trouble« konnte mir davon etwas verraten. Immerhin löblich, dass Andy Milk »Take me, don’t take her« singt. Hauptsächlich geht es bei Red Planet um die Rettung einer (asiatischen?) Dame, die es offensichtlich wert ist, dass man (also Andy Milk) sich ziemlich für sie ins Zeug legt. Und dabei auch mal eine psychedelische Pause einlegen kann (»Chime«).

Anspieltipps sind der Opener »Phantom Spaceman« der mit seiner Rhythmik eher brachial daherkommt und »Saturday«, der vielleicht erst mal an Creed erinnert, und sicherlich der radiokompatibelste Song von allen ist (beide auf MySpace zu hören). Wer gerne vorab eine ausreichende Hörprobe nehmen will, wird hier fündig.

Links farbig: Red Planet :: Rechts invertiert: diagramma

Und da ja immer irgendwas ist… Ein Wermutstropfen bleibt: ein 4seitiges Booklet ist bei diesem hübsch gestalteten Cover (oben links) eine derbe Enttäuschung. Seltsam finde ich im Übrigen, dass der Rote Planet fast so ausschaut wie das Cover von diagramma (oben rechts) der ebenfalls bei 10trecords unter Vertrag stehenden Band The Rebel Wheel. Rationalisierung oder Einfallslosigkeit bzw. Alt + Strg + i?

The Vital Might – Red Planet
Re-Release bei 10trecords: August 18, 2009
Release bei Magma Music (Andy Milk himself): 2008

Label: 10trecords

The Vital Might im Web

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YouTube-Channel

Grupo: Oceansize

Album: Effloresce

Año de salida: 2003

País: Inglaterra

Género: Progressive Rock

Hoy empiezo el día con un quinteto de Inglaterra y su primer album debut, Effloresce. El trabajo está compuesto por 12 temas muy bien montados, donde podreis escuchar canciones muy variadas, pero dentro de un contexto musical bastante elaborado y curioso.

En la fecha, el grupo estaba formado por Mike Vennart, que junto con Steve Durose realizaban las voces y parte de las guitarras. La otra parte de las guitarras era trabajo de Gambler, junto con el teclado, que también lo compartía con Jon Ellis, que a su vez tocaba el bajo, también. Finalmente, el batería, uno de los músicos que mas sorprenden del grupo, es Mark Heron.

El LP abre con una instrumental, I am the Morning, que empieza con una guitarra muy suave, a la que poco a poco se le van añadiendo todos los instrumentos, haciendo honor a su título y describiendo la tranquilidad de una mañana que con el tiempo se va ajetreando. Otra cancionón bastante interesante es Catalyst, que en momentos llega a recordar a Porcupine, e incluso a la voz de Steven Wilson, contrasta partes muy animadas con riffs muy pegadizos con partes de guitarra muy, muy progresivas, y un papel fundamental de la batería.

Otras canciones del album, bastante diferentes entre ellas son: You Wish, Woman Who Love Men Who Love Drugs y Long Forgotten.

Tracklist

1. I Am The Morning (4:18)
2. Catalyst (6:40)
3. One Day All This Could Be Yours (4:19)
4. Massive Bereavement (9:59)
5. Rinsed (3:58)
6. You Wish (6:00)
7. Remember Where You Are (5:22)
8. Amputee (5:32)
9. Unravel (2:50)
10. Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs (8:30)
11. Saturday Morning Breakfast Show (9:04)
12. Long Forgotten (8:57)

Pagina oficial de la banda:

http://www.oceansize.co.uk/

Link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P7FA4U8N

Si te gusta, ¡compra!

http://www.amazon.com/Effloresce-Oceansize/dp/B0000ALSG2

Is there a single band that defines the term ‘fucking terrifying’ better than Kong? No. Visit their myspace, look at their videos (particularly the live ones) and slowly you will be sucked into their warped, angry world. Donned in red shellsuits and semi-transparent masks (with make-up), their ‘making-of’ videos mostly consist of the singer wandering round the house making the kind of noises you hear on buses post-sunset. They’re intimidating, wholly unnatural, and we haven’t even got to the music yet.

Snake Magnet, essentially, is a fifty-minute horror show. There’s no other way to put it; it really is fucking terrifying. The album should come with one of those health warnings you get on rollercoasters – “Not for pregnant women or people with heart conditions”. Opener Leather Penny pulls no punches from the off, erupting in grumbling bass and dirty, grimy garage-rock guitar noise that’d make Jack White all kinds of green with envy. Following on is the bafflingly insane Whet Your Knives, diving frantically between Sabbathian riffing and indistinguishable screaming. This assault just doesn’t let up, only dropping the riffs to replace them with droning synths on Good Graphics – a result that is probably what you’d hear if you played your Super Nintendo on dodgy ’shrooms.

The madness has long buried it’s way into your skull by the time we reach album closer K(l)ong (for me, it was at the Dalek-style screams at the end of Nih that really sealed it). Suddently, it all goes very quiet, shuffling drums over barely-audible bass. It’s almost like the end of a horror chase; seeing the way out of the madness that’s preceded. Right before the end though, they have one last surprise; a truly sudden jolt of the beefiest, noisiest riffing on the whole album, to truly finish you off once and for all.

So it can probably break you mentally, and could probably cause an impacted (or at least heavily loosened) bowel.
Of course, none of these health issues will detract from the fact that Snake Magnet is AMAZING.  The neighbours will think you’ve lost it, your family will probably try and get you sectioned, and you sure as hell won’t get anyone sitting next to you on buses. But then, who cares when insanity sounds so good?  Turn it up and let the madness in.

Well it wouldn’t be a new UK festival unless one of the main bands pulls out would it?

In a somewhat ironic turn of events, it would appear as though Limp Bizkit’s addition to the Sonisphere bill has caused Machine Head to drop out of the festival altogether.

In a statement on their website, Machine Head have announced that due to Limp Bizkit being given “their” third slot on the bill, they will no longer be playing the festival at all. They claim that they turned down Download 2009, where they would have been higher up the bill than the Bizkit, to commit to Sonisphere but now they can’t play third they are quitting.

Oh come on guys, you were already playing a festival headlined by Linkin Park, what’s the big difference? Their statement says that they “we felt a closer kinship to the bands performing this year.” I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are only talking about the bands on their day, because as they have left it they are suggesting that they feel a closer kinship to Linkin Park than Slipknot… (Maybe it’s the dodgy rapping?)

Sonisphere responded by stating that they had offered Machine Head more money and a higher slot on the second stage but that they were turned down. Oh, and that Machine Head are still happy enough to play at three other Sonisphere festivals in other countries.

So only the UK fans who already bought their tickets to see Machine Head will be let down. Brilliant.

The irony of it being blamed on Limp Bizkit’s appearance is of course because the last time Limp Bizkit were around the UK festival scene prior to 2009, they cancelled their headline appearance at the first ever Download back in 2003. It didn’t exactly damage Download’s reputation, time will tell about Sonisphere’s.

In other news, Thunder and Oceansize have been added to the bill. It will be Thunder’s last ever gig.

Album Review: Kong
Album: Snake Magnet
Label: Brew Records

The masked troubadours of Kong, who may or may not be connected in some way to Oceansize, have finally released their debut album. Let’s get one thing clear before we delve into Snake Magnet. Kong are demented. Not bad demented, the kind where you go on a murder spree to prove to that one special person how much you love them, but the good kind. Think of them as the musical equivalent of The League Of Gentlemen, just with less cross-dressing, a sizeable chunk of vociferous vocals and a diabolical amount of tortured guitars.

Information on the band is notoriously sketchy, with most of it that is out there revealed with tongue firmly in cheek. But despite their mysterious roots and frankly terrifying masks, the band has put together an album that immediately sums them up. ‘Snake Magnet’ is full of oddball moments that cause you to question the sanity of everyone involved, including yourself, and yet somehow it still does a grand job of remaining damn likeable.

With a singer who, at points, jabbers away like Father Jack Hackett (‘Wet Your Knives’) and a rhythm section that is so in tune with each other it could possibly be the work of the holy one himself, there’s almost nowhere to go to in order to find a slight bit of sanity. Even the lyrics defy explanation; that is when they’re coherent enough to be understood.

It’s like listening to your brain slowly unravel itself in front of you. ‘Leather Penny’ stretches the rough and ready sound production to its limit, sounding as if the whole track is being recorded on a five pound microphone from Argus by its conclusion, but instead of detracting from matters it just seems to make sense. The intro to ‘Wet Your Knives’ meanders and sounds generally lost until it’s stabbed all over the place with the precise jabs of snares and cymbals.

It’s the way the band manage to consistently keep you on your toes for the duration of the album that leaves the biggest mark. Even repeated listens don’t help too much, as songs go from one tangent to another without any thought for the poor listener being tossed every which way. Case in point: ‘Good Graphics’, an instrumental ode to what I can only assume is the blissful tunings of 8-bit gaming, which seems at odds thrown in the middle of the rest of this album.

For some ‘Snake Magnet’ is just going to be too much. It dances around that fine line between insanity and genius, as if the Joker formed the band for his own entertainment. But, despite being near fully-blown insane, at its heart it has nothing but a genuinely true rock and roll spirit. But for an album that sounds as if it’s been made to torture the average rock music fan, everything comes out rather peachy. The riffs are there, catchy and dominating, and the vocal turns are actually interesting to listen to, rather than suffer. Take the stunning conclusion to ‘Sport’, one of the best vocal endings to a song I’ve heard since Truckers Of Husk and their track ‘Panther Party’ (a must hear).

With their debut Kong have revealed themselves to be ringleaders of a rather bizarre circus. As challenging as it is to listen to at times (this certainly isn’t hangover music) ‘Snake Magnet’ is one of the most interesting and unique things to come out of British music for a long time. And after all, isn’t innovation what us Brits tend to do best?

Originally published at Sonic Dice.

A spectacular sci-fi animation film by Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres and Fabien Thareau. The official website can be found here.

Me encanta el proyecto realizado por cuatro de los estudiantes de la escuela de animación francesa SUPINFOCOM. Realizado por Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres y Fabien Thareau, el corto goza de una genial ambientación futurista en una plataforma petrolífera en mitad del océano, la sucesión de planos está hecha con gran habilidad técnica. Me gustaría que en el sitio oficial del proyecto se pudieran ver alguno de los bocetos previos del trabajo, tienen que ser fantásticos.

You know when a song just fits a day? This one does just that for me:

“Music For A Nurse,” Oceansize

-LisaM.

I haven’t made many mixes for friends as of late. Actually, it’s been seemingly quite a while actually since I did, so I figured recently now was as good a time as any to roll one together. It is always a challenge making them for other people because you have to compensate for their taste in music while trying to express your own and carry whatever them you are trying to convey through building exciting highs and breathable moments of reflection in it. I always tried to work in a little extra of a (hidden) theme to them as well, though, I’m not sure how this one actually came out, but it was really fun to try and make one of these yet again … and, for anyone else who happens to check it out, enjoy!

Sleep Station “My Last Desire” from Von Cosel
the Gathering “Eleanor” from Sleepy Buildings
Porcupine Tree “Lazarus” from Deadwing
Muse “Invincible” from Black Holes and Revelations
Cave-in “Strained Silver” from Antenna
Amorphis “Shining Turns to Grey” from Dreams of the Damned
Oceansize “Amputee” from Effloresce
U2 “Where the Streets Have No Name” from the Joshua Tree
Opeth “Harvest” from Blackwater Park
Time in Malta “Azure” from a Second Engine
the Modern Day Saint “Learning Process” from …and Tomorrow We Will Have Nothing
Boysetsfire “Empire” from the Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years
the Bouncing Souls from “New Thing” from the Gold Record

Do more listening: Zune 120 GB Video MP3 Player

So I haven’t written in awhile, just catching up I guess. I’m on the quest for new music and I discovered a couple new bands today that I feel the need to share.

The first is “Reel Big Fish”, omg it’s so fun and up beat i just feel like dancing everytime i hear it! acctually my favorite thing to do in the morning at school is sit outside the band room and listen to them play. And the music from Reel Big Fish is very similar to my school band, so there you  go…

The second band is the “Russian Futurists”, I love the music video for Paul Simon. So many people just dancing in the streets. Woot for random dancing. i also like how the vocals aren’t on top of the instuments, it’s lon the same level. It almost becomes another instrument, it’s really cool.

One that i downloaded today but haven’t listened to really indepth yet is “Minus the Bear”. The music here seems to be really mellow, but at the same time not mellow at all. I know that makes NO sence, but like i said no in depth listening!!!! more on them later.

One more that I have only listened to one song as of yet is Oceansize. i’ll talk more on them later. But let me know if you have any suggestons on related bands or songs!!!

so new developments as far as personal apperance are concerned.
1) i’m working towards a new “do” if you will this one here i’m thinking –> Pic 1 Pic 2 Whada ya guys think? let me know.
2)I’m SOOO not happy with my physical appearance, so, I’m going to spend from now until September getting svelte, sexy and hot! 1 thing that i hear is great for core muscle strength is yoga… so I’m gonna give that a try. I’m aiming for some non-conventional “get-fit” options and stradegies. so also if you got anything LET ME KNOW!!!

that’s all i have to say today… hopefully i will blog again tommorow… yeah

Peaced As Bru!!!!