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Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour

Tracklist
 1 Baby Come Home
 2 Keep Your Shoes
 3 Inevitable
 4 Only The Horses
 5 Year Of Living Dangerously
 6 Let’s Have A Kiki
 7 Shady Love
 8 San Luis Obispo
 9 Self Control
 10 Best In Me
 11 The Secret Life Of Letters
 12 Somewhere
 13 Ms. Matronic’s Magic Message

Deluxe Edition – Bonus Tracks:
 14 F___ Yeah
 15 Let’s Have A Kiki (DJ Nita Remix)
 16 F___ Yeah (Seamus Haji Remix)

Saint Etienne - Words and Music by Saint Etienne

Tracklist
 1. Over The Border (5:05)
 2. I’ve Got Your Music (3:46)
 3. Heading For The Fair (3:45)
 4. Last Days of Disco (3:35)
 5. Tonight (4:38)
 6. Answer Song (3:25)
 7. Record Doctor (0:53)
 8. Popular (3:23)
 9. Twenty Five Years (3:40)
 10. DJ (4:39)
 11. When I Was Seventeen (3:37)
 12. I Threw It All Away (3:27)
 13. Haunted Jukebox (4:15)

Bonus Disc: Remixes

 1. Tonight (Two Bears Remix) (7:19)
 2. Last Days of Disco (Erol Alkan Remix) (6:16)
 3. DJ (Stay+ Remix) (3:45)
 4. I’ve Got Your Music (Golden Filter Remix) (7:08)
 5. Popular (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix) (8:17)
 6. Heading For The Fair (The Time And Space Machine Waltzer Remix) (7:57)
 7. Tonight (Club Clique Remix) (4:43)
 8. Answer Song (White Horses Remix) (3:37)
 9. Haunted Jukebox (Summer Camp Remix) (3:26)
 10. I’ve Got Your Music (Kisses Remix) (4:22)
 11. DJ (Muddyloop Remix) (4:16)
 12. Last Days of Disco (Beat Connection Remix) (4:41)

RIP: Robin Gibb (1949 - 2012)

Robin Gibb (centre) with Maurice (left) and Barry

A few days after the death of disco queen Donna Summer, we’ve just lost another of the genre’s most important and indelible voices. Singer/songwriter and Bee Gee Robin Gibb passed away after a long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery. He was 62. Robin Gibb was one of the three brothers behind the Bee Gees, the phenomenally successful pop group responsible for such high-pitched hits...

Spicks and specks - The Bee Gees' first Australian number one...it made number one just as they were sailing away from Australia, due to a lack of commercial success...

RIP: Donna Summer (1948 - 2012)

Parov Stelar – The Princess

Marcus Füreder a.k.a. Parov Stelar lives and works in Linz, Austria.

CD1 – The Princess:
 01. Parov Stelar – Milla’s Dream (3:44)
 02. Parov Stelar – All Night (2:47)
 03. Parov Stelar – Nobody’s Fool (3:08)
 04. Parov Stelar – The Princess (3:07)
 05. Parov Stelar feat. Jerry Di Monza – Silent Shuffle (3:34)
 06. Parov Stelar feat. Anduze – This Game (3:08)
 07. Parov Stelar – You Got Me There (4:11)
 08. Parov Stelar feat. Lilja Bloom – Dust In The Summer Rain (3:38)
 09. Parov Stelar – Requiem For Annie (1:11)
 10. Parov Stelar feat. Lilja Bloom – With You (3:20)
 11. Parov Stelar – The Beach (3:57)
 12. Parov Stelar – Song For The Crickets (5:32)
 13. Parov Stelar – Beautiful Morning (3:23)
 14. Parov Stelar feat. Jerry Di Monza – The Fog (2:57)
 15. Parov Stelar feat. Lilja Bloom – True Romance Part 2 (2:47)

CD2 – The Princess: The Vinyl Collection 2010-2012:
 01. Parov Stelar – Jimmy’s Gang (5:27)
 02. Parov Stelar feat. Cleo Panther – Sally’s Dance (3:46)
 03. Parov Stelar – Booty Swing (3:18)
 04. Parov Stelar – Baska Brother (5:29)
 05. Parov Stelar – The Phantom (1930 Version) (4:34)
 06. Parov Stelar – The Snake (5:32)
 07. Parov Stelar – Wanna Fete (5:30)
 08. Parov Stelar – Oh Yeah (3:47)
 09. Parov Stelar feat. Max The Sax – The Vamp (5:22)
 10. Parov Stelar – The Paris Swing Box (5:23)
 11. Parov Stelar – All Night (Extended Club Version) (4:23)
 12. Parov Stelar feat. Jerry Di Monza – A Song For You (5:47)
 13. Parov Stelar – Jimmy’s Gang (Enzo Siffredi Remix) (6:10)

ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ - ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ - ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ

RIP: Adam Yauch 1964 - 2012

Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales

 01. Logotone B
 02. Cantalus
 03. Green Grass Grows
 04. The Geography
 05. A Pilgrim’s Path
 06. Now Then
 07. Chapel Perilous
 08. Unheimlich
 09. My Hands
 10. Goat Foot
 11. Unforgotten Town
 12. Earth Lights
 13. Summer Round

catastroika

Arctic Monkeys - Early B-Sides

 01 – Curtains Close
 02 – Ravey Ravey Ravey Club
 03 – On the Run From the MI5
 04 – Knock A Door Run
 05 – Stickin’ to the Floor
 06 – Choo Choo
 07 – 7
 08 – Space Invader
 09 – Settle for a Draw
 10 – Wavin Bye To The Train Or The Bus
 11 – Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts

Beach House – Bloom

 01 – Myth
 02 – Wild
 03 – Lazuli
 04 – Other People
 05 – The Hours
 06 – Troublemaker
 07 – New Year
 08 – Wishes
 09 – On the Sea
 10 – Irene

VCMG - Ssss

 1. Lowly
 2. Zaat
 3. Spock
 4. Windup Robot
 5. Bendy Bass
 6. Single Blip
 7. Skip This Track
 8. Aftermaths
 9. Recycle
 10. Flux

Justice – Audio, Video, Disco

 1. Horsepower
 2. Civilization
 3. Ohio
 4. Canon (Primo)
 5. Canon
 6. On’n'on
 7. Brianvision
 8. Parade
 9. Newlands
 10. Helix
 11. Audio, Video, Disco

Polinski - Labyrinths

 01. 1985-Quest
 02. Stitches
 03. Tangents
 04. Still Looking
 05. Like Fireflies
 06. Kressyda
 07. Awaltzoflight

AIR- Le Voyage Dans La Lune

01. Astronomic Club
02. Seven Stars
03. Retour Sur Terre
04. Parade
05. Moon Fever
06. Sonic Armada
07. Who Am I Now
08. Décollage
09. Cosmic Trip
10. Homme Lune
11. Lava

John Talabot / ƒIN

GUARDIAN “ƒin is full of incredible tension-releasing moments… Talabot has arguably the greatest sense of build-and-release in dance music since prime Booka Shade.”
INDEPENDENT “The most inventive and resonant house album since John Roberts’ 2010 master class Glass Eights, ƒin is the work of a real sonic craftsmen.”
DAZED & CONFUSED “The 11 tracks on this outstanding debut showcase his innovative sampling chops, mixing up field recordings with northern should twangs and dark tropical pop beats.”
CLASH “A mind-opening record whose strength lies in its understated versatility.”
FADER “It’s beautiful, but not at all repetitive, and showcases Talabot’s considerable skill at constructing songs with strong forward movement and plenty of depth.”
PINBOARD “Talabot provides a textured, sophisticated bed of bass blips akin to the golden era of Chicago House.”
COLETTE STORE PARIS: “The young talent from Spain is releasing his first album on Permanent vacation label. A beautiful album of nu balearic euphoric music. To be played on the beach ! 100 % recommended !!”

CD Tracklisting:

01 Depak Ine
02 Destiny feat Pional
03 El Oeste
04 Oro Y Sangre
05 Journeys feat Ekhi
06 Missing You
07 Last Land
08 Estiu
09 When The Past Was Present
10 H.O.R.S.E.
11 So Will Be Now

Imperial Teen – Feel The Sound

 01. Runaway
 02. No Matter What You Say
 03. Last To Know
 04. Over His Head
 05. Hanging About
 06. All The Same
 07. Don’t Know How You Do It
 08. Out From Inside
 09. The Hibernates
 10. It’s You
 11. Overtaken

Tell Me Something

Tell Me Something
Σκηνοθεσία: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Σενάριο: Yoon-Hyun Chang, Eun-Ah In
Ηθοποιοί: Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim and Hang-Seon Jang

El método

Director:Marcelo Piñeyro
Writers:Jordi Galceran (play), Mateo Gil (screenplay)
Stars:Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri and Eduard Fernández
Country:Argentina | Spain | Italy
Language:Spanish

Arne Dahl: Misterioso

Lisabo – Animalia Lotsatuen Putzua

Tracklist:
 01. Oroimenik Gabeko Filma
 02. Ez Zaitut Somatu Iristen
 03. Oinazearen Intimitatea
 04. Gordintasunaren Otordu Luzea
 05. Laztan Isilen Deiadarra
 06. Ezereza Mugak

THE PERFECT HOST

Trust / TRST

Tracklist:
 01 – Shoom
 02 – Dressed For Space
 03 – Bulbform
 04 – The Last Dregs
 05 – Candy Walls
 06 – Gloryhole
 07 – This Ready Flesh
 08 – F.T.F
 09 – Heaven
 10 – Chrissy E
 11 – Sulk
 

The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)

James Leyland Kirby's soundtrack to Grant Gee's film about the German writer W.G. Sebald


Tracklist:
01 Everything Is on the Point of Decline
02 As If One Was Sinking Into Sand
03 Approaching the Outer Limits of Our Solar System
04 When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End
05 A Last Glimpse of the Land Being Lost Forever
06 The Homesickness That Was Corroding Her Soul
07 I Have Become Almost Invisible, to Some Extent Like a Dead Man
08 In the Deep and Dark Hours of the Night
09 No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them to This Day
10 Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World
11 Isolated Lights in the Abyss of Ignorance
12 Now the Night Is Over and the Dawn Is About to Break

Various Artists - Power Corruption & Lies Covered

 1 Age Of Consent The Golden Filter 6:24
 2 We All Stand Tarwater 4:51
 3 Errors The Village 4:41
 4 586 S.C.U.M 5:56
 5 Your Silent Face Fujiya & Miyagi 6:32
 6 Ultraviolence Seekae 3:41
 7 Ecstasy Walls 4:33
 8 Leave Me Alone Destroyer 4:30
 9 Blue Monday Biosphère 5:27
 10 The Beach Zombie Zombie 4:25
 11 Cries & Whispers LoneLady 3:50
 12 Lonesome Tonight Anothers Blood 4:32
 13 Murder K-X-P 4:10

THE BUTCHER ,THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN

Κωμωδία δράσης με ένα μπαλτά κουζίνας που είναι φτιαγμένος από τα καλύτερα πέντε σπαθιά των πολεμικών τεχνών.

ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ: Wuershan
ΠΑΙΖΟΥΝ: Masanobu Ando, You Benchang και Liu Xiaoye

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome

Tracklist

 1. Theme Of ‘Rome’
 2. The Rose With A Broken Neck (feat. Jack White)
 3. Morning Fog (Interlude)
 4. Season’s Trees (feat. Norah Jones)
 5. Her Hollow Ways (Interlude)
 6. Roman Blue
 7. Two Against One (feat. Jack White)
 8. The Gambling Priest
 9. The World (Interlude)
 10. Black (feat. Norah Jones)
 11. The Matador Has Fallen
 12. Morning Fog
 13. Problem Queen (feat. Norah Jones)
 14. Her Hollow Ways
 15. The World (feat. Jack White)

και του χρόνου στα συντρίμια του καπιταλισμού!

blogovision 2011 - ...and the winner is : Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer

Brian Eno says that they're "the best of English pop music"







01 – White Elephant
02 – Mirage
03 – White Gold
04 – Ace Of Hz
05 – Ritual
06 – Moon Palace
07 – Altitude Blues
08 – Ambulances
09 – Melting Ice
10 – Transparent Days
11 – Ninety Degrees
12 – Aces High

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 05 : Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 04 : The Horrors - Skying
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 03 : Messer Chups - Bermuda 66
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 02 : Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 02 : Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’

He doesn't just rediscover the past, he remakes it.





01. Heart Attack 3:03
02. Go To Hell 4:20
03. Radio 3:22
04. Over You 2:31
05. Stone Rollin' 3:37
06. Day Dreams 3:20
07. Movin' Down The Line 4:25
08. Just Don't 5:17
09. Good Man 3:46
10. The Answer 9:30

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 05 : Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 04 : The Horrors - Skying
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 03 : Messer Chups - Bermuda 66

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 03 : Messer Chups - Bermuda 66

01. Daphne Blue Lagoon
02. Lipstick Twang
03. Swamp Farming
04. Back To The Bermuda Triangle
05. Dead Down Comedy
06. Chupacabra Twist
07. Man In A Caiman Boots
08. Jason Bond 0013
09. El Zombierello Vs. Octopus Man Attack
10. Authentic Bllodsucking Melody
11. Voodoo Man
12. Aquanatic Business
13. Hollywood Devils
14. Caligari Shadow
15. Aniamal Woman

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 05 : Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 04 : The Horrors - Skying

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 04 : The Horrors - Skying

Skying's starry-eyed, cosmic leanings are complicated by Badwan's slippery, sepulchral presence. He's the skull at the happening. When he's not singing about skies and oceans, or delivering ecstatic commands to "open your eyes" (Changing the Rain) or declaring "the moment that you want is coming if you give it time" (Still Life), he can sound paranoid and vengeful. I Can See Through You routes the emotional cruelty of the Cat's Eyes album via a bad acid trip, taunting: "No one remembers your name, no one tries." He sounds almost deranged on Monica Gems, an itchy, urgent racket that suggests glam-rock produced by Kevin Shields. Such shorthand descriptions are hard to avoid entirely, and music buffs might still want to play spot the influence with Skying – one reviewer detected seven in the opening song alone – but that would undersell this marvellous record, which should be every bit as exciting to a listener who knows none of those reference points. So never mind the past: the records the Horrors love aren't destinations, but signposts to an exhilarating future.
Dorian Lynskey

01 – Changing The Rain
02 – You Said
03 – I Can See Through You
04 – Endless Blue
05 – Dive In
06 – Still Life
07 – Wild Eyed
08 – Moving Further Away
09 – Monica Gems
10 – Oceans Burning

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 05 : Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 05 : Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See

The album brings back the endearing immaturity preceding the notion that despite everything, Arctic Monkeys are still a gang of close friends still very much in touch with their roots. “Give me an eeny, meeny, miny, mo/Or an ip dip dog*** rock and roll” is Turner’s utterance during the blisteringly paced racket on the album’s standout track “Library Pictures”. The humourous observations are back too. On the LP’s eponymous track, we are introduced to somebody “rarer than a can of Dandelion & Burdock”, which is almost laugh out loud funny for people of a certain disposition. Life’s more simple pleasures are almost a common theme throughout the LP. “Brick By Brick” features the thrice hollered refrain “I wanna rock and roll”; the most simple of statements and one the Arctic Monkeys have used as the foundation for a good deal of their career thus far.
Joseph Viney

1. She's Thunderstorms
2. Black Treacle
3. Brick by Brick
4. The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
5. Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
6. Library Pictures
7. All My Own Stunts
8. Reckless Serenade
9. Piledriver Waltz
10. Love Is a Laserquest
11. Suck It and See
12. That's Where You're Wrong

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 06 : Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne

That said, it’s hard to deny the quality here. This is “luxury rap” defined, not to mention the best form we’ve seen from Jay since the American Gangster soundtrack. We hold these truths to be, essentially, self-evident: that Kanye West is making some exceptionally ambitious beats these days; that Sean Carter is hip-hop royalty; that both have more money than they could spend in three lifetimes. Evaluating their artistic output is almost definitional; Watch the Throne is good because Jay-Z and Kanye West do not — could not — make bad rap music. If you swapped out “Welcome to the Jungle” and the half-hearted bombast of “Lift Off” for stellar bonus tracks “The Joy” and “Illest Motherfucker Alive,” and eliminated the second half of “Who Gon’ Stop Me,” you would have ostensibly constructed a better album. But you wouldn’t feel any differently about the final product; it’s still our foremost hip-hop artist alongside his spotty but reinvigorated mentor, a known quantity that wouldn’t improve its reputation with a more concise tracklist. You still “Gotta Have It,” and it’s still gon’ annihilate the festivals.
Ross Green
01. No Church in the Wild (featuring Frank Ocean)
02. Lift Off (featuring Beyoncé)
03. Niggas in Paris
04. Otis (featuring Otis Redding)
05. Gotta Have It
06. New Day
07. Prime Time
08. Who Gon Stop Me
09. Murder to Excellence
10. Welcome to The Jungle
11. Sweet Baby Jesus (featuring Frank Ocean)
12. Love You So
13. Illest Motherfucker Alive
14. H.A.M.
15. That’s My Bitch
16. The Joy

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 07 : 65daysofstatic - Silent Running

Cutting straight to the chase: Silent Running by 65daysofstatic is a fantastic record, and simply essential listening for anybody with an interest in soundtracks and ambient music. Not to mention 65 fans of course.

Where 65′s last studio album We Were Exploding Anyway can be seen (and has been) as something of a departure for the band, Silent Running generally shares more common ground with earlier releases. This being said, it’s still a bold foray into new territory; it’s unmistakably 65, but built upon new foundations. The quiet moments are more subtle, the distorted guitars typically more crisp, more controlled than on previous works (barring the need for sheer chaos when the track demands it, of course), and is generally an exercise in new sounds and textures.

As “Overture” fades into being, the magnificent work by ex-Pop Will Eat Itself frontman-turned-composer Clint Mansell for the film Moon instantly springs to mind. Further in, the piano-led “Burial Scene” recalls the sheer beauty of earlier 65 tracks such as “Don’t Go Down To Sorrow”, assuring longtime fans how right they were to recognise the band’s potential in the soundtrack field. This is immediately followed by the fractured electronic barrage of “Broken Ship Ruse” in a tonal shift as jarring as it is satisfying. And the functionally entitled “Finale” incorporates layered guitars that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Devin Townsend record.
Daniel T. Nicolas

1. Overture
2. Space Theme
3. The Announcement
4. Safe Distancing
5. The Scattered Disk
6. Burial Scene
7. Broken Ship Ruse
8. Surgery
9. Space Montage
10. Rantaloupe
11. Finale

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 08 : Chase and Status - No More Idols

Saul ‘Chase’ Milton and Will ‘Status’ Kennard are about to become household names with this, their second album. After moderate commercial success with their debut, More Than Alot, the pair of production wizards decided to shift their sights upwards. Having conquered the underground dance scene, they were now looking to the mainstream.
No More Idols is a whirlwind of an album, one that smashes together a hundred genres, from trance to grime, hip hop to indie rock, always keeping the listener on their toes. Songs shift between moods in a heartbeat, pulling the carpet out from under you. And the list of collaborations is both smart and prescient: they’ve teamed up with old pal Plan B, Tinie Tempah, Dizzee Rascal, White Lies, Clare Maguire and Cee-Lo Green – artists that can pull in a vast audience in their own right.
But the real key to No More Idols is its sustained quality. The production, as you would expect, is massive, and the album is packed with memorable melodies, beats and raps. Even the big radio hits (Let You Go, Blind Faith, Hypest Hype, End Credits) don’t stand out, because for each of them there’s a new track waiting to spring its trap. Opener No Problem combines African tribal rhythms with rampant trance beats, and gets the blood pumping straight away; Hitz has a brooding atmosphere that recalls DJ Shadow, and Tinie Tempah’s cocky rap ("I’m the definition of definitive and catchy") complements it perfectly; rising star Maguire’s gothic vocal on Midnight Caller turns it into an epic power ballad.
This is an album infused with the spirit of 1990s raves – see the video of Blind Faith for more the proof – but updated for a modern audience, tracing a line through all the dance music since and picking up tidbits. It emerges in the here and now triumphant and relevant, and it may usher in a new era of dance domination as the cycle spins once again. At 15 tracks, No More Idols does feel a touch bloated: the White Lies collaboration, Embrace, drones on too long and should probably have been left on the cutting room floor, along with Hocus Pocus. But overall this is an impressive album that could prove a game-changer.
Mike Haydock

1.    No Problem
2.    Fire In Your Eyes (Ft Maverick Sabre)
3.    Let You Go (ft Mali)
4.    Blind Faith (ft Liam Bailey)
5.    Fool Yourself (ft Plan B & Rage)
6.    Hypest Hype (ft Tempa T)
7.    Hitz (ft Tinie Tempah)
8.    Heavy (vs Dizzee Rascal)
9.    Brixton Briefcase (ft CeeLo Green)
10.    Hocus Pocus
11.    Flashing Lights (ft Sub Focus & Takura)
12.    Embrace (ft White Lies)
13.    Time (ft Delilah)
14.    Midnight Caller (ft Clare Maguire)
15.    End Credits (ft Plan B)

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 09 : Black Devil Disco Club (aka Bernard Fevre) - Circus‎

Usually an exclusive club of one Bernard Fevre aka Black Devil Disco Club has now opened the doors and invited others to join, surrounding himself with an array of talented and eclectic singers to create a dazzling disco pop opus including contributions from Nancy Sinatra, Jon Spencer, Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwan (The Horrors) and Yatch.

Full of deep, dark delicious thrills, his unique electronic sound once described as being ' like Joy Division produced by Giorgio Moroder' pulses through 10 tales from the underworld, 10 performances in a Circus like no other with Black Devil as ringmaster. Originally released in 1978 the 'Black Devil Disco Club' album has been a huge influence on today's artists like Aphex Twin, Metro Area, The Chemical Brothers, Andrew Weatherall and countless others.

Tracks:
1. Fuzzy Dream feat. John Spencer
2. Pavement Opposite feat. Nancy Fortune
3. X Paradise feat. Aja Emma of Cosmetics
4. Distrust feat. Faris Badwan of The Horrors
5. Stay Insane feat. Yatch
6. To Ardent feat. Nancy Sinatra
7. In Doubt feat. Cock'n'Bull Kid
8. My Screen feat. Nicolas Ker of Poni Hoax
9. She Flees The Silence feat. Nazca Lines
10. Magnetic Devil feat. Afrika Bambaataa

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands

blogovision 2011 - TOP TEN - No 10 : Dirty Beaches - Badlands

Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai, a Taiwan-born Canadian immigrant

Dirty Beaches at Urban Outfitters from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.

In total, the most compelling thing about Badlands is the unusual role Huntai plays as a songwriter: he seems not as interested in doing something new, per se, as he is in meticulously forging antique pop and rock artifacts. These tape-worn tunes are like alternate takes from an alternate universe or covers of plausible what-if daydreams: Spector producing with Brian Wilson rather than telling him to sod off, Hardy linking up with Gainsbourg a year earlier than she did in reality, etc. It’s an enjoyable record (if somewhat slight, for a full-length), but its best moments are a lot like those faded mom-and-dad photos Huntai likes to use: iconic, intriguing, but not quite his own.
Jakob Dorof

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact 

blogovision 2011 - No 11 : Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults

blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes

blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind

blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop

blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends

blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together
blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years

blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together

blogovision 2011 - No 20 : The Whip - Wired Together

65daysofstatic - Silent Running

1. Overture
2. Space Theme
3. The Announcement
4. Safe Distancing
5. The Scattered Disk
6. Burial Scene
7. Broken Ship Ruse
8. Surgery
9. Space Montage
10. Rantaloupe
11. Finale

Bonus E.P:

1. Save the Forest
2. Cosmic Wind
3. Valley Forge Theme
4. Shovel Fight