Sunday, November 23, 2008

OVAL - 94 DISKONT + MICROSTORIA - INIT DING (1995)















2 STANDOUT GLITCH ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF 1995

ARTIST`````OVAL
ALBUM`````
94 DISKONT
GENRE`````GLITCH, ELECTRONIC, IDM, INDIE
YEAR````````1995


WHY:
2 outstading examples of advanced electronic albums from 1995 from the same artist.

ALLMUSIC ON 94 DISKONT:

94 Diskont is undoubtedly a standout in the field of electronically advanced, glitch-heavy music. In addition to having clear resonance with those primarily interested in process, this record resides in an autonomous and highly aesthetic sonic universe, where bits of production and granulated noise easily melt into warm, repetitive arrangements. 94 Diskont was made with a lot of productive mediation and gadgetry, but the seams don't show.

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ARTIST`````MICROSTORIA
ALBUM`````
INIT DING
GENRE`````LEFT-FIELD, ELECTRONIC, IDM, INDIE
YEAR````````1995

DIRECKSHUN ON INIT DING:
Microstoria is a fine experimental electronic outfit composed of Oval's Markus Popp and Mouse On Mars' Jan St. Werner -- but you wouldn't expect the collaboration to be as literal as Microstoria turned out to be. For all their combined creative juices, Microstoria is simply a meeting halfway between the mechanical atmosphere of Oval and the complex melodic quirks of Mouse On Mars. A simplistic formula to draw, perhaps, but it's surprising how very well the two styles of music mesh. Oval's random aloofness is retained, but its mechanical clicks and whirrs is replaced by warm synths and sporatic bits of electronic melody, a clear influence from Mouse On Mars. It's a compliment to both styles of each groups, and a pleasure in and of itself -- there's a reason they continue to release albums eleven years later. Init Ding is a great debut album from two artists who understand different aspects of complexity, and the resulting chemistry is palpable.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

CALEXICO - SONIC WINDS (2008)

SPAGHETTI TRAGEDY
ARTIST`````CALEXICO
ALBUM`````
SONIC WINDS
GENRE`````AMERICANA, INDIE, ALTERNATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL
YEAR````````2008
NOT AN OFFICIAL COMPILATION!

WHY:
Many people are annoyed by Calexico on different levels and I can understand why. The singer is acctualy whispering most of the times because he sucks when he tries to sing with a full voice. They mostly sound really, really bad on live performances.Their music is mostly pure atmo-emo esthetics and their lyrics can sometimes be quite crappy.
But somehow I stayed with them for 5 years, mingling inside their
spaghetti eclectic discography, always finding several gems on each album they published. I was always amazed by the fact that every time I listened to any of their albums I completely hated some songs while adoring 2, 3 tracks that blasted my mind.

If a band can play a spectacularly sad guitar solo like the one on "El Morro", create an apocalyptic song like "Humano" or make a good song like "Sonic Wind" - all of their other songs can be pure crap as far as I a concerned. I'll always listen to every new album they publish.

Here is my selection (my best of) of the often crappy often brilliant band Calexico.

TRACKLIST:
01 - Ritual Road Map
02 - Frontera
03 - The Ride (pt.II)
04 - All the Pretty Horses
05 - Two Silver Trees
06 - Sonic Wind
07 - Gipsy's Curse
08 - El Morro
09 - Dead Man's Will
10 - The Black Light
11 - Pepito
12 - Close Behind
13 - Clothes of Sand
14 - Humano (instrumental)
15 - Gift X-change
16 - Fade
17 - Woven Birds
18 - Over Your Shoulder
19 - Burn That Broken Bed
20 - Wash
21 - Glowing Heart Of The World


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Monday, November 17, 2008

PRINCE - BLEEDING JAZZ (2008)

UNDERNEATH THE MTV AWARDS
ARTIST`````PRINCE
ALBUM`````
BLEEDING JAZZ
GENRE`````JAZZ, FUNK, PSY
YEAR````````2008
NOT AN OFFICIAL COMPILATION!

WHY:
Common music listeners very often accuse Prince of being "dance commercial crap pop with a couple of super-cool funky songs guy in tight green pants and a girly voice". They are most likely to link Prince to his occasional MTv top 10 blockbuster hits and dismiss him out of pure ignorance. Even the fact that some respectable music institutions acknowledge him as being the greatest pop male artist since Elvis fucking Presley, doesnt even bother people who just cant get over his looks, his open obsession with sex and his green leather tight pants and his skinny little twirly ass.

There is an entire dimension of Prince's career mostly known to his music aficionados and generaly music-obsessed people like me. So I've decided to make a 10 track long compilation of some of his jazz and psych-funk oriented songs which are less known to the general public. My apologies to hardcore fans - I havent included many of his experiments in an effort to make this compilation sound as coherent as possible.
Enjoy yet another side of Prince's universe.


TRACKLIST:
01 Prince - North
02 Prince - Osaka
03 Prince - Xhalation
04 Prince - Rainbow Children
05 Prince - When the Lights Go Down
06 Prince - Hallucination Rain
07 Prince - Xogenous
08 Prince - Xcogitate
09 Prince - Tokyo
10 Prince - West

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