Latest Additions:
| Various - MovimentoLento Volume 2 (Tratti Sonori) |
| Faf LarageShurik'N - La Garde Meurt Mais Ne Se Rend Pas / Faf Larage & Stormbringa (Kif Kif Productions) |
| Bindu Featuring Sheena (7) - We've Got Feelings Too / I Feel No Pain (Multitone Records (2)) |
| Topmodelz - Time 2 Rock EP (Aqualoop Records) |
| Leon Klein DJ* - Vamos A La Playa (Bang Record) |
| Dean DeCosta - Everything She Wants (Remixed Records) |
| Formaldehyde Junkies - EP (Fashionable Idiots) |
| Francis Lai - Cross Country / Main Title (MGM Records) |
| Various - MovimentoLento Volume 1 (Tratti Sonori) |
| Lifelike (2) - Like Life (The Diss-Cuss Remixes) (FFRR (US)) |
| X.L.NT. Marc - Fake (CNR Music (Sweden)) |
| Omar Salinas - 182 Brothers (Start Stop Records) |
| Lynda Law - I Don't Want Your Love (Remixes) (Perfecto) |
| Herbie Hancock - The Complete Blue Note 60's Sessions (Blue Note) |
| Loleco - Mix 1 (Not On Label) |
| Queers, The - Bubblegum Dreams (Lookout! Records) |
| Skitish - Backlash (Fairlads Digital) |
| Bale Mondonga - Freedom (Dance-World Attack) |
| Fishbone - Still Stuck In Your Throat (Ter A Terre) |
| Mike Francis - Bellissimi Occhi Chiusi (RCA) |
| Nachfleischer - Nachfleischer (Not On Label) |
| Phenomania - Strings Of Love (ETC) |
| Barany A & Antonyo - White Angel (Karmatronic Records) |
| Lillica Libertine - Limited Edition/Ultra 10 (Meal Deal Records) |
| Sicko - Three Tea (Killer Records) |
| K.C. Spirit - Are You Ready (Italian Style Production) |
| Atmosphere - Swede's Scandal (Key Records Int.) |
| Eat Me (2) - Eat Me EP (Karmatronic Records) |
| Ago - Put On Your Red Shoes (ZYX Music) |
| Embliss - Enchanted EP (Nemesis (3)) |
| Shelly Greaves - Suddenly (Out) |
| Miriam Makeba - Her Essential Recordings. The Empress Of African Song (Manteca) |
| Various - Deep-X Vol.4 (Deep-X Recordings) |
| Hampenberg - Ducktoy (Serious Records) |
| Aroe* & Soundmakers, The - The Wreckshop Philly Golden Era Vol. 1 (Sleeping Giants Recordings) |
| Peabodys, The - Awkward Age (Incessant Drip Records, Infringement Records) |
| Twilight 22 - In The Spirit (Vanguard) |
| Streetmark - Eileen (Sky Records) |
| Slusnik Luna / Comanova - Winter Sampler (Part 2 Of 2) (Incentive) |
| Bellamy Brothers - The Two And Only (Warner Bros. Records) |
| Various - "Check The Flava" Volume 1 (X-Clue-Ziv Records) |
| Disco Reggae Band - Take - Five (Music Master) |
| Deine Lakaien & Die Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt - 20 Years Of Electronic Avantgarde (Limited Edition) (CD Maximum, , , , ) |
| Markanera & DJ Varga - I Don't Mind (Karmatronic Records) |
| Majhas - Stepping Into Character (Hawthorne Street Records) |
| Pugna - ДРА (Kerpg) |
| Moments, The - Sharp (Philips) |
| Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto - Fugace (ECM Records) |
| Bellamy Brothers - Their Greatest Hits (Warner Bros. Records) |
| No Artist - Мерять Движения Мертвы (Kerpg) |
| Farr Yoris - Africa / El Reino Del Amor (Cascabel Records) |
| Proms, The - Bubble Bath (Mutant Pop) |
| Various - Disco Classics (In The Mix) (Rams Horn Records) |
| Sally Day - Still Your Lover (Discomagic Records) |
| Gabriel A Dawn - My Hits EP (Karmatronic Records) |
| Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note) |
| Prince Italjoe Feat. Marky Mark* - Life In The Streets (★★) |
| Chocolat's - Baby Let's Do It The French Way (Elver) |
| Bellamy Brothers - Restless (Curb Records) |
| Kenny Thomas - Outstanding (Cooltempo) |
| Andy Farley - Stop Rocking (Mohawk Records) |
| Groove Junkies - Music Is Life (House Works) |
| Various - Productos De La Tierra (Not On Label) |
| Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Mindset Remix) (Marvin Gaye (White)) |
| Plastic Anthyel - Startrack (Karmatronic Records) |
| Beau (5) - Beau (Air Mail Archive) |
| Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Universal Island Records) |
| Hed Boys - Mutual D.I.Y. EP (Seka Records) |
| Disco Division - Cogoletto/Wave (Scramble) |
| Björk - Vespertine (One Little Indian) |
| Unknown Artist - Worldwide (Not On Label) |
| Joy Zipper - Transformation Fantasy (Eye Q (UK)) |
| Gero - Waiting For Y (Karmatronic Records) |
| Various - The New Popular Hits (RCA Victor) |
| Dezz Jones Feat. Sarah Blake - Take Me In (Remixes) (L2 Recordings) |
| Fishbone - Live At The Temple Bar And More (Ter A Terre) |
| Chequers, The - Undecided Love (Part 1 & 2) (Creole) |
| Sound Of R.E.L.S. - Feel The Groove (Notloveland Remixes) (Fazer Records) |
| Various - Scantraxx Unreleased (Cloud 9 Dance) |
| Various - Only Way (Clockwork Tapes) |
| Rydell & Quick - Everybody Wants To Be A Star (Remix) (Mariann Grammofon AB) |
| Frankie Valli - Our Day Will Come/You Can Bet (I Ain't Goin' Nowhere) (Private Stock) |
| Paradise Orchestra - Satisfy Your Dream (Airplay Records, Carrere) |
| Systems In Blue feat. Mark Ashley (2) - Jeannie Moviestar (Not On Label) |
| Foot Village - Friendship Nation (Gilgongo Records) |
| Miscere - Rythmik Trips (RHPNL Records) |
| Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The - Funeral For A Friend (Artemis Records) |
| Ellen Ten Damme - I Am Here (Mercury) |
| Revolving Paint Dream, The* - Flowers In The Sky (Creation Records) |
| Various - Allegory (Pulse Tapes) |
| Millie Jackson - My Man A Sweet Man (Polydor) |
| Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody (I Am:Wolfpack) |
| Bryan Adams - This Time (A&M) |
| Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain E.P. (Southern Records) |
| Fiel Garvie - I Didn't Say (Alison Records) |
| Man - Slow Motion (Esoteric) |
| Arthur Verocai - ´Encore´ (Far Out Recordings) |
| Shelly Tunder* / Junior Wilson - Shock Me A Shock / Love Pain (Witty) |
| Family, The - The Screams Of Passion (Warner Brothers Records) |
| Fiel Garvie - I Didn't Say (Alison Records) |
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Latest Reviews:
Crescendo - Crescendo - dylaf
Sheffield, the arches-around 1998/99, Im at a deep house night, tracks pitched down to -2, all is good, and then I hear a sound like nothing ever before, like a magic spell: 'Crescendo- crescendo' is a simple yet deadly effective use of an orgasmic disco sample, envoking the kind of spiritual/soulful euphoria rarely hit on in music of our era. This will hook you up, lock you in, and you wont want to let go. Thankfully, due to a 'clasic' sound, and simple, strong production, this will sneak into most sets these days of any one lucky enough to know about it. I cant reccomend this record highly enough, took me years to find a copy as I missed it first time around.
Hunt it down....Best in the crescendo serious, and maybe for me, my favourite house track of the time. |
Various - Best Of Acid - archeologist
This is one of the best compilations i have ever encountered. As a young teenager hungry for this type of music and unable to find any it was an absolute boon giving me a full education in the sounds that came to shape my life. For £9.99 I got 4 cds with 10 tracks on each disc - a real bargain.
I'm now 33 years old and have lost and misplaced many things moving between houses and towns, yet these are the only cds I regret losing. |
Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved - RodriguezAlhambra
Club mix is a true gem.
The vocals are amazing, probably one of the best in the entire progressive-trance genre. Delline Bass is simply divine.
All the track is built with a peaceful touch that always carry me in paradise.
The synth and the strings are very soft and refined, and match perfectly with the angelic voice.
The melody... Yeah, it's not original, but it works really good... Damn, it always blows my mind away... So far...
I feel lost during the breakdown, delighted.
A must-have for every house, trance or progressive lover. Magnificent. |
El Último De La Fila - La Rebelión De Los Hombres Rana - Risingson
It is so rare to review a famous 80's spanish group in a site that is dedicated, mainly, to electronic rhythms that I can't help doing so: El Último De La Fila was a group who blended arabic touches with pop and certain flamenco attitude (in the voice of Manolo García). They also had very funny and sometimes obscure metaphores in their lyrics.
This is their last album, misanderstood, not very praised, and, in my opinion, their most interesting, because they did blend well their pop music with current trends, and that is not very usual: other spanish (super)groups tried to follow them with production techniques that only consisted in boring atmospherics, but here this group adventure themselves into other foreign territories, very unknown in the popular music of this country. Though the first three songs sound like typical 90's productions (some echoes, synths, spanish guitars, overdubbed and subdued voices), the fourth one, "El bombero del atardecer" mixes trip-hop and shoegazing into their rhymes, "Sin llaves" sounds surprisingly country, "Pedir tu mano" sounds like a Michael Brook production, and "bailarás como un indio" thankfully introduces variation in rhythms. The rest of the songs flow in all those directions, and it's a pity if you can't understand the lyrics, full of mythology, funny images ("I will discover bronze and the rest of metals, I will gladly go to the hell itself to ask for your hand"), nature and impreditability.
Nothing out of the ordinary, just a well crafted album that is among their best ones (I only consider the magical "Como la cabeza al sombrero" as a better one), which sometimes reaches many musical points at the same time loading tons of emotion into the listener. |
Neuropolitique - Nomenclature - techsoul
Quite overrated in my opinion. Okay - so the dude worked with Derrick May... so what? In my opinion, this album (as most of Matt Coggers work) lacks a good balnce between the single sounds he uses. Don't get me wrong - there is a lot of potential here. But in the end, the results remain far too sketchy. The mixdown is often undecided and wishy-washy, the arrangement fails to get to the point and deliver the goods - and that's exactly what distinguishes this from the real oldskool Techno goodies. 'Nomenclature' lacks presence.
'Artemis' and 'Gene Pools' really aren't that bad, but the vast majority of fillers on these 2 CDs sure gives me a hard time to really like them. Strokes of luck? Or am I getting it all wrong? |
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Limited Edition Trance Remix - mi_jah
Oh my GOD!
This has to be one of the worst albums in musical history!
It made the hairs on my back stand right up!
First: this is NOT done by The Orb, which is clear from the start.
The Orb would not have been ABLE to make such an awful sounding record, not even on their worst days!
This album was done by some American without any imagination or musical taste whatsoever.
The cheesy sounds and childish arrangements make for an album that has neither the subtlety nor the psychdelic adventure of the original Floyd work. (or Orb, for that matter!)
Anything good you might find on this, are the actual Floyd samples.
The 'creator' of this abomination should be tracked down and locked up for life, if it was up to me!
In one sentence: this is an INSULT to both Pink Floyd and The Orb.
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Larry Paul Emmett - Evita - hysteric
One of the finest and most accessible examples of the Italo-disco genre; this great record can be enjoyed equally by the most cynical Italo nerd and the average listener alike.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the subject matter relates to a warning about advent of technology (maybe) and contains an unfortunate spelling mistake: “A-V-I-O-D the confusion” indeed.
Adding somewhat to the mystery of this song is that two very similar versions of the same track were released at around the same time, by the same producers and on the same label. It’s bizarre that such a tiny label would bother to release the same song twice, but of course these unusual elements all add to the appeal of Italo-disco as a genre.
The other version, by Coco Bill, is somewhat rarer and more desired by collectors, but for me this one, by Larry Paul Emmet is by far superior.
The main difference between the two is that the Coco Bill version is generally more subdued and the drums slightly too heavy and muffled, whereas the Larry Paul Emmet recording is held together by a cracking electro beat, clearer sound and an addictive synth line which should get all would-be Italo b-boys on the floor.
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Celestial Choir - Stand On The Word - DJ-RAUS
Excellent sounding pressing of an impossibly rare LP track, that has never sounded as clear or dynamic as this version. Originally recorded live in the First Baptist Church in Crown Heights, New York City, in 1982 and pressed only for the congregation, Walter Gibbons (owner of Jus Born studios and a new born Christian at the time of the recording) acquired a copy and played it out at the 7th Avenue. Rock & Soul shop were he worked. This was the place where most discerning DJs and soulful dance music aficionados picked up on this new sound, and it quickly became a Garage, Loft and Zanzibar club classic, championed by Larry Levan, David Mancuso and others. |
Alden Tyrell Featuring Fred Ventura - Memories - Betabox
What a fantastic track Alden Tyrell has brought us.
My favorite is the instrumental version on the B side (B1). It sounds very vintage Italo disco with the (Linn style) drum beating at a slow 105 bpm. The nice melancholic chords make me want to listen to this track again and again. B2 brings us a more funky/cosmic vocal version of this track. The A side is the more commercial version sung by 80’s Italo coryphée Fred Ventura. Wonderful stuff Maarten, instant classic!
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Zoviet France - Shteirlel - allan_zane
It's also shaped like a square (fore those who didn't know). In fact, it's made by the same man that made the triangle-shaped record I did with Mykel Boyd! I quite fancy it for :Zoviet-France: post Robin. 'What Is Not True' is by FAR the best post Robin ZF, but this one is fine too. It still retains some of the qualities that we have all grown to love and expect fron ZF, but it IS a bit minimal. Not that minimal is bad by ANY stretch, but this release really could have stood being "fleshed out" a bit more...
Allan Zane |
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