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Age: I entered this world in 1970. A British Blogger.
2008 ALBUM RELEASES: 2008 FORTHCOMING ALBUMS
using rateyourmusic.com: 2008 Album Releases [Updated Regularly]
This information is updated on a continual basis.
[These dates apply to the UK and can change as record companies/distributors do have a habit of messing us around!]
I reckon Simon needs to contact his business agent/ publisher fast.
With Christmas coming up the book can now be marketed at NME's mostly teenage readership. The book sells more copies and the kids get a music history education [which they are not going to get from the NME].
Get an ad in the next available issue of the NME, with "NME book of the Year" slogan. Get the stickers on the books.
indicative blatant marketing blurb:
Discover the music era that inspired your NME faves Bloc Party & Franz Ferdinand
Also note:
The American edition will be published by Viking Penguin in February 2006. # posted by DJ Martian 9:52 PM
Definately a show not to be missed, format of the show - each critic selects 3 albums, they play tracks and have a discussion of what impressed them.
2 December 2005
Friday 2 December 2005 23:30-1:00 (Radio 3)
Jazz writer John Fordham and critic Steve Shepherd join Jez Nelson to discuss some of the best jazz releases of 2005. # posted by DJ Martian 8:39 PM
Uncut - The Smiths - The Queen is Dead era
New issue of Uncut magazine on sale tomorrow. On the front cover The Smiths - Simon Goddard tells the story of how The Queen is Dead album was made 20 years ago.
plus:
FREE CD John Peel's Festive 15 - tracks associated with the late, great DJ and his annual Festive 50 countdowns. Featuring The Fall, Billy Bragg, The House Of Love, The Sugarcubes, The Wedding Present, The Mighty Wah! and more
you can also LISTEN to the FREE CD online. # posted by DJ Martian 7:59 PM
This is one of the most anticipated rock albums of 2006.
Sweden's KATATONIA have set "The Great Cold Distance" as the title of their seventh full-length album, due on March 13, 2006 via Peaceville Records.
"The Great Cold Distance" track listing:
01. Leaders
02. Deliberation
03. Soil's Song
04. My Twin
05. Consternation
06. Follower
07. Rusted
08. Increase
09. July
10. In The White
11. The Itch
12. Journey Through Pressure
Single: My Twin can be sampled online in an edit format. To me this sounds at times like Bob Mould's Sugar era plus Porcupine Tree and The Cure inspirations. However the band come from an Atmospheric Metal background when willl they cross-over to core alternative audiences that their obvious talent merits
With out doubt the best ambient album that has floated past my ears in this or any other year. But really what can you expected when the album is created by on half of the sublime Stars of the Lid # posted by DJ Martian 9:37 PM
The jazz music off-shoot label of Smalltown Supersound # posted by DJ Martian 4:30 PM
This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 110 - 29 November - December 6, 2005]
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 3:44 PM
LEAF Label Special :: Heights of Abraham Show broadcast on Radio 1 Monday 28st November 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again] # posted by DJ Martian 9:46 PM
Deadline for lists: December 31
Deadline for blurbs: January 5 # posted by DJ Martian 4:25 PM
THE ELECTRONIC WINTER BALL - London
Via email from wheelsinsteadofhooves.co.uk
Mouse on Mars headline The Electronic Winter Ball in London on Saturday 10th December @ a venue under Regents Street.
THE ELECTRONIC WINTER BALL
MOUSE ON MARS (Sonig / Too Pure) - Live
FREEFORM (Skam/ Warp) ? Live
EXILE (Planet-Mu) ? Live
BUDDY PEACE (Warp / LEX DJ)
WARP RECORDS DJS
BLEEP DJS
WIOH DJS
+ More TBA
ROOM 2:
S�D ELECTRONICS' WINTER WARMER feat.
PORTABLE ( scape , sud , Spectral , context , karat , mutek , backround )
LIVE: LUMP ( Sud , substatic , Karloff , textone )
LIVE: MARK HENNING ( Freude Am Tanzen , Frankie , Milnormorden , Clever
music)
LAKUTI ( sud )
MARCO SHUTTLE ( Guerilla Lime & soda)
JONATHON BURNIP (soul jazz/ microsolutions to megaproblems) (*Special
chicago set!!)
10 pm - very late
Secret catacomb venue under Regents Street.
Nearest tube Oxford Street.
albumvote.co.uk report Pet Shop Boys Spring Return with an album produced by Trevor Horn. # posted by DJ Martian 3:40 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2005
2005 Music Lists
I have reorganized the information design of my 2005 Lists webpage: More Best of 2005 Music Links throughout December this will grow and grow.
New 2005 best of music links will be initially collected on my del.icio.us account: del.icio.us/djmartian/b2005
Last year it worked rather well, I then did selective recaps every couple of days on the blog.
[if you use a RSS reader such as Bloglines there is an RSS Feed available for these links]
I will particularly look for lists covering these music styles:
Avant/Art-Rock [Post Rock to Avant Prog to Psychedelic Rock] Experimental Electronic Music / Ambient / Space Music Minimal House/ Tech-House/ Techno/ Electro/ Electronic Pop Jazz Extreme/ Dark Metal
lists outside the dominant UK/ USA axis, e.g Scandinavian countries
I will NOT be listing & blogging every list.
In particular I can't see the point of blogging "Indie Rock Robots" lists [i.e readers of Magnet magazine/ Paste / Plan B / Pitchfork etc] i.e the same 10/20/30/40 albums from high profile American and Canadian songs based "Indie Rock" artists listed again and again. Why can't these people expand their limited music horizons and do some listening research of their own ?
I also will be avoiding awful mainstream rock sub-NME/Q type lists i.e anything that has White Stripes, Coldplay and Kaiser Chiefs etc. Although I want be able to resist laughing at the NME top 50 albums of 2005 that is due this coming week. # posted by DJ Martian 5:54 PM
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce a session by the Italian improvising trio Zu, in collaboration with electronic musician Nobukazu Takemura. # posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM
The mini-festival Norwegian Voices in London is the climax of a year that celebrates the Norwegian centenary of independence, exploring the rich vein of music that has emerged from this most surprising and individual of countries during the past 50 years
Norwegian Voices is the climax of a year that celebrates the Norwegian centenary of independence, exploring the rich vein of music that has emerged from this most surprising and individual of countries during the past 50 years. The event’s roster is impressive and diverse: Arild Andersen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Mari Boine, Brazz Brothers, Sidsel Endresen, Arve Henriksen, Terje Isungset, Berit Opheim, Terje Rypdal, Karl Seglem, Thomas Strønen and Supersilent are set to perform on the 8th of December.
Norwegian Voices is staged at London's Barbican Hall on Thursday 8 December from 7:30pm. # posted by DJ Martian 1:23 PM
the track comes off the Italian black metallers' fourth album, "Generator", due on February 20, 2006 via Season of Mist. # posted by DJ Martian 3:44 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 5:59 PM
AngryApe report Liars Drum's Not Dead is due March 21st on Mute # posted by DJ Martian 5:49 PM
Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 144 / 23.11.05]
KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering contemporary culture in and around London. Each week we track down some of the more unusual and interesting events taking place in the Capital and deliver them straight to your inbox. Featuring art, gigs, films, talks, clubs and more -- we are committed to bringing you an eclectic mix of the most stimulating events in London. # posted by DJ Martian 2:44 PM
Secret Machines Title New Album: Ten Silver Drops
albumvote.co.uk report Secret Machines Prep Comeback album: Ten Silver Drops that is scheduled for Mid March 2006. # posted by DJ Martian 12:37 PM
Tool circa Lateralus is indeed a good comparison in this manner, but Indukti's sound is a bit warmer ? always intense, but more mysterious than it is menacing. # posted by DJ Martian 12:27 PM
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 11:34 PM
...the home of underground house and eclectic broadcasting by DJ's from around the globe. With excellent daily shows featuring all things house in addition to regular eclectic shows, there's a show that'll suit your tastes. # posted by DJ Martian 10:13 PM
Article rant that correctly attacks the pre-selected nominations process for the online-based "PLUG Independent Music Awards" [see earlier blog post below] # posted by DJ Martian 9:35 PM
4-disc Set Part of Label's 25th Anniversary Celebration
For the first time all the non-album tracks from across the Cocteau Twins' entire career have been compiled together and offer a unique view of their musical journey from the perspective of all their single / EP releases which incorporate most of their best known tracks.
CTBOX 2 This is an unusual de-luxe package containing all 4 CD's that will be available 21 November (Europe) and 22 November (USA) in a worldwide limited edition of 10,000. The discs are contained in a fold-out package made of a material that itself sounds like a Cocteau Twins title — 'Curious Soft Touch Milk.' It's all very tactile, minimal and v23.
also:
DAD 2513CD and DAD 2514CD These are the regular versions of the set which will be available early 2006. Each package is a digipak with 2 CD's. Volume One covers the 4AD era (1982 – 1990) and Volume Two the Mercury / Capitol years (1993 – 1996). # posted by DJ Martian 9:01 PM
Sigur Ros :: Heavy Deviance :: Jason Leech Show broadcast on Radio 1
Monday 21st November 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again] # posted by DJ Martian 7:29 PM
"We would hope to see the album get released sometime in March (on Psychonaut Records in Europe, The End Records in North America). We plan to start touring in March and come over to tour in South America and the U.S.A. once again." # posted by DJ Martian 3:57 PM
An uber-visceral, trance-centric celebration of Great Black Music ancient-to-modern—mixing up free improv, Afrobeat, the astral jazz of Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, North African Sufi music, early '70s electric Miles, chicken shack B3 grooves, Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets, and more, all of it laced with real time electronica—Spirit Walk is serious mindbending business, as in free your ass and your mind will follow. # posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM
Snow Borne Sorrow probably won't triumph commercially, but musically, it is a contender for album of the year. Great to have you back on form, David. # posted by DJ Martian 10:05 PM
Van der Graaf Generator - THE BOOK
(and POSTER)
Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart
Published by "Phil and Jim" - November 14th 2005
ISBN 0 9551337 0 X
"It's been fascinating to find out so much that I didn't know about the band I'm in." - Guy Evans
A history of the band Van der Graaf Generator 1967 to 1978 # posted by DJ Martian 8:55 PM
mistahfuji presents The Ten Best Albums of 2005 [A Livejournal user selects 10 albums from 2005 with reviews] # posted by DJ Martian 8:32 PM
Stratosphere_Fanzine - a shoegazer music ezine run via yahoo groups. # posted by DJ Martian 6:55 PM
Stuart Nicholson on New Jazz Talent for the 21st Century
OMM article by writer/jazz critic Stuart Nicholson who spotlights 6 new breed jazz artists: Welcome to our world
Jazz was the great American art form of the twentieth century. Now everyone else is muscling in. Stuart Nicholson picks six of the best of the new breed breaking free from the code.
Artists Featured:
Arve Henriksen: I have featured Arve many times on this blog, he is also a member of Supersilent - who are widely recognized as esteemed creative musicians.
Matthew Bourne: Another talented artist I have featured before. A british jazz artist from Leeds, who mixes piano with electronics on the album: The Electric Dr M(Sound)
Solveig Slettahjell: A new artist to me. This 34 year old Norwegian female jazz singer has three CDs out on the Oslo based Curling label. The album Pixiedust is slated for release in the UK next year on the ACT label.
Aron Ottignon: Another new artist for me. Apparently has a project called Culture Tunnels
Alexi Tuomarila A Finnish jazz artist has an album called 02 - released on Warner Brothers a couple of years ago.
The Bad Plus - Are a well known contemporary jazz group from the US.
Book:
Stuart Nicholson's new book, Is Jazz Dead (Or has it Moved to a new Address)? (Routledge, New York), is available NOW. [amazon.co.uk] # posted by DJ Martian 6:38 PM
Ladytron are presenting the 6 Mix on 6 Music at 8pm GMT today.
[Also available on Listen Again after broadcast via BBC Radio Player] # posted by DJ Martian 4:57 PM
Mixing symphonic prog with metal, jazz, a slight hint of zeuhl and RIO, and an overall sound that is somehow very French is a formula for success for Nil. This style combined with an adept compositional touch, particularly when it comes to use of space and pace, guarantees a memorable album, which Nil Novo Sub Sole certainly is. # posted by DJ Martian 5:38 PM
TotalRock.com report Pelican Join Cave In Bill for February/ March 2006 UK Tour. # posted by DJ Martian 4:07 PM
Pig Radio an electronic music / alternative rock/pop web radio station from Milan in Italy. [Listen with Winamp]
recent indicative playlist:
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Lindstrom remix)
Royksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemoeller Remix)
Freeform Five - Electromagnetic
A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space
Happy Mondays - Playground Superstar
Daft Punk - Human After All (Sebastian Remix)
Metric - Dead Disco
Windsor For The Derby - Praise
Eliot Lipp - Rap Tight
Electrocute - I Need A Freak
PLAN B NEW ISSUE!
Issue 9 of Plan B is in shops the week beginning 5th December, and
features: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Daniel Johnston, Shooting At
Unarmed Man, Panico, Baby Blue, Spoon, The Research, Instal, Ladyfest, Test
Icicles, Rise Above Records, Miss The Occupier, Why I love...Robyn,
alternative fashion, Bongwater, Oxes, Angie Reed, Final Fantasy, Smoosh,
AFX, and all the best in underground and cult film, comics, DVD, books,
videogames and art.
[Source: Plan B email] # posted by DJ Martian 3:44 PM
It's in the air, I just feel it: Burst is gonna explode, I can tell you that! This band will be big, at least in extreme metal-context. Their new album 'Origo' is another step into exhilarating extreme metal perfection, whereby predecessor 'Prey On Life' was already a giant monster. Their mix from metalcore, death metal, hardcore and thrash metal gets more depth by inventive use of seventies prog and psychedelic music. # posted by DJ Martian 2:35 PM
A new label set up by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen through Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp to reissue in definitive form all of this heat's published CDs, unavailable since the death of Gareth Williams in 2001,and to prepare and release unheard material from their substantial archive.
The series will start with the first album 'this heat' from 1978 (known as "the blue and yellow"), due out in December, fully re-mastered.
The box
To mark the 30th anniversary of the group's first concert on Friday the thirteenth of February, 1976, This is! will be issuing a limited edition BOX SET comprising all the official releases, newly re-mastered: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, as well as a complete extra CD of previously unreleased material. This will come with a substantial and authoritative book of interviews, articles, rare photographs, memorabilia and documents tracing the history and the work of the group. All of these CDs will also be available singly, and further releases will follow later in the year. Everything will remain in print.
For more information on the label, the box and how to get the advance subscription edition please contact our distributor, ReR Megacorp at rermegacorp@dial.pipex.com
www.rermegacorp.com # posted by DJ Martian 2:22 PM
DJmag.com catches up with the young Swedish dance music producer # posted by DJ Martian 12:46 PM
New Trespassers William Album for February 2006
trespassers william announce: Our new record, entitled 'having', will be out worldwide in February of 2006 on Nettwerk Records. # posted by DJ Martian 12:44 PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 143 / 16.11.05]
KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering contemporary culture in and around London. Each week we track down some of the more unusual and interesting events taking place in the Capital and deliver them straight to your inbox. Featuring art, gigs, films, talks, clubs and more -- we are committed to bringing you an eclectic mix of the most stimulating events in London. # posted by DJ Martian 8:20 PM
Harmonium review Burst - Origo # posted by DJ Martian 4:18 PM
Google Base
This should be of interest to many readers, a new free web publishing solution from Google.
Some content is better managed outside a blog format and Google today has launched Google Base that looks rather interesting.
To create end of year music lists/ reviews A Profile / About Page for your blog [to promote and describe your blog] Promote events e.g Create an online flyer Looking to start a new band, create a wanted ad Create articles [good for long "Simon Reynolds" type analytical articles]
Ofcourse when you create content using Google Base you can easily link to it from your existing blog.
Help the world find your content. Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online.
You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local.
You will see Google Base uses Labels [that are similar to the concept of tagging in social bookmark systems] and Attributes that further describe your content to improve web findability.
What are labels and attributes?
Google Base enables you to include detailed information about your Google Base items called labels and attributes, which will help users find your content more easily when they search on Google Base or other Google properties.
Labels are any keywords or phrases ? such as recipe, event, or product ? that can be used to classify or describe your item.
Attributes are words or phrases that help describe the characteristics and qualities of your items. You may enter multiple values for a particular attribute separated by commas.
This looks interesting:
Google Base will accept bulk uploads in TSV, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 formats. This means that content providers who already have RSS feeds can easily submit their content to Google Base without requiring much additional work. # posted by DJ Martian 3:01 PM
‘Pale Ravine’ is an album which again manages to blend elements of classical music with electronic music, yet there is something decidedly different which sets it apart from the competition. While there are elements that can be compared with contemporaries such as Max Richter, Marsen Jules or Ryan Teague – Deaf Center is altogether more other-worldly, darker and ultimately very rewarding. # posted by DJ Martian 9:59 PM
[By the way, roughly 40 % of visitors to my blog are from United States, double that of UK Visitors. I get between 30 to 40 different countries visiting this blog each day. A global readership from every continent.]
Stats via Measure Map # posted by DJ Martian 9:20 PM
Blabbermouth.Net report BATTERED Begin Mixing Debut Album that is scheduled for release in Europe in February 2006 via the Norwegian label Tabu Recordings
Battered feature former member of EINHERJER # posted by DJ Martian 9:01 PM
albumvote.co.uk report Editors UK Tour announced for February/ March 2006. # posted by DJ Martian 8:21 PM
Music webzine: Intuitive Music has relaunched with a new design.
About:
* Intuitive Music is an independent web publication dedicated to the different styles and manifestations in alternative, creative, and experimental music of the 21st Century.
* Intuitive Music is managed under the editors approval of quality in the choosing of the content. The focus of this web site is a bid for those artists and music labels which we think are bringing creativity, originality and quality to contemporary music, further than the labels put on music styles. # posted by DJ Martian 2:57 PM
28 November 2005 [available on eBay from this date; shipping from 13 December 2005]
The album features 12 brand new tracks, recorded and written by Vini Reilly and arranged by Ben Roberts.
Reilly famously, has criticised his previous recordings, claiming, "It's all rubbish". This album though has received his own critical acclaim. "It's a great album", he says "For the first time in 25 years, I'm pleased with my own album, I want it to succeed, and feel its good enough to do that". # posted by DJ Martian 2:08 PM
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 1:53 PM
rateyourmusic.com update Best Albums of 2005
On November 9th there was a complete data update of album ranking at rateyourmusic.com. I have accessed the expanded data to list the top 1000 rated albums of 2005.
Within 2 days [1 day for the US] Kate Bush - Aerial was ranked @ 158, expect this album to rocket up when the next update comes.
Having looked at the top 1000 list, there are many average albums and some fine albums not even making the list.
I would say albums fall into these 3 categories:
1. High Profile/ Established Artists
These artists that have a larger enough fan base to make it to this list. However the lower the album ranks this may give an indication of the [lack of] qualities of the album.
2. Niche Genre Appeal / Cult of Community:
The bulk of the albums fall into this category.
Artists that are well known in a particular niche genre are more likely to be rated favourably.
As you slide down the 1000 list, obscure artists that are virtually complete unknowns outside of their niche community are likely to be ranked.
However an album that is performing well on the list by an obscure artist could give an indication to the positive qualities of an album.
3. Word of Mouth/ Crossover Appeal
Albums that are performing well due to positive reviews, word-of-mouth, media exposure etc. They have outgrown mere genre niche appeal but are not [yet] part of the mainstream. These albums can easily be spotted in the top 100 and to a lesser extent outside the 100.
............
A selective look at some of the albums outside the top 100:
106. High on Fire: Blessed Black Wings [Intense psychedelic heavy rock delivered with style]
125: Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks [An album that is likely to do rather well on end of year polls.]
129 Sunn O))): Black One [Terrorizer front cover stars of art-metal]
134 Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain [I am surprised this isn't doing better]
135 New Order: Waiting for the Sirens' Call [a rather New Order by numbers album that hasn't delivered musically or on this poll]
148 Van Der Graaf Generator: Present [Progressive rock Veterans come back with a passionate & emotional album]
149 Elbow: Leaders of the Free World [Elbow remain cult faves on the fringes of the mainstream in terms of popularity]
152 Shining: In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster [A great challenging rock album on Rune Grammofon]
159 Editors: The Back Room [The Best pensive Joy Division clone ever to come out of the West Midlands]
164 Vitalic: Ok Cowboy [Dance fans probably find rateyourmusic too rockist to rate albums ;-) ]
165 Serena Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh [See what a positive review in Pitchfork can do for - Shoegazer types from Norway]
171 Wilderness: Wilderness [Another Pitchfork approved album, the best example of a band doing John Lydon karaoke heard all year]
188 Ladytron: Witching Hour [A shift in music direction but Ladytron remain niche faves]
193 Arcturus: Sideshow Symphonies [A change in direction to a more symphonic progressive metal direction has resulted in Arcturus not performing as well as expected]
213 Alog: Miniatures [Doing well for a obscure artist on Rune Grammofon]
215 Out Hud: Let Us Never Speak of It Again [This style of music has past it's critical zenith of a few years ago.]
232 The Fall: Fall Heads Roll [Always will remain cult faves]
252 Isolée: Wearemonster [You do realize that this is number 1 album on Metacritic best albums of 2005 at the mo, ahead of competition from Sufjan Stevens and Kate Bush. Obviously not enough dance / electronic music fans use rateyourmusic.com]
256 Primordial: The Gathering Wilderness [A superb atmospheric metal album, a good example of a band performing very well on this poll comparative to their overall profile]
276 HRSTA: Stem Stem In Electro [One of the better avant-rock albums of 2005]
280 Moonsorrow: Verisäkeet [Viking Metal from Finland]
346 Guapo: Black Oni [Avant-Prog from Britain very psychedelic]
353 The Juan Maclean: Less Than Human [Big faves on Dirtyradio.net]
355 Akercocke: Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone [Post Progressive Black Metal from England]
357 Taake:...Doedskvad [From Norway, this is the highest rated pure black metal album on the 1000 list. ]
376 Wobbler: Hinterland [Great bombastic progressive rock from Norway. Mellotrons played like it's the early 70s again]
383 Simple Minds: Black & White 050505 [Lack of airplay, hardly any media coverage sees Simple Minds cast into obscurity outside of the mainstream]
399 Mu [GBR]: Out Of Breach (Manchester's Revenge) [Not everyone listens to the Breezeblock show ?]
439 Asva: Futurists Against the Ocean [A great heavy psychedelic art-metal album, superb atmospherics]
446 Nine Horses: Snow Borne Sorrow [I am surprised this is not performing better, poor overseas distribution ? Definately a top tier album of 2005. Emotional and Evocative]
458 Riverside: Second Life Syndrome [Superb atmospheric rock from Poland, destined for cult appeal only. With more media coverage this album would easily be a lot higher]
480 Ion Dissonance: Solace [Touted as Canada's big hope for extreme tech-metal]
503 Novembers Doom: The Pale Haunt Departure [One of the better metal albums of 2005, very atmospheric]
522 Cage [rap]: Hell's Winter [Underground hip-hop on Def Jux]
540 Tunng: Mother's Daughter And Other Songs [Folktronica remains a restricted niche genre in terms of popularity]
588 Larsen: Play [esteemed Italian avant rock]
590 Ellen Allien: Thrills [Obviously all the dance fans are using discogs not rateyourmusic.com ]
633 Swarm of the Lotus: The Sirens of Silence [Likely to appeal to Neurosis fans]
637 Drudkh: The Swan Road [Arty Black Metal with a strong cult following in the underground]
646 World's End Girlfriend: The Lie Lay Land [Impressive collage of styles]
667 Keith Fullerton Whitman: Multiples [not everyone reads Brainwashed.com]
698 Axis of Perdition: Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital [Industrial Black Metal is most likely to remain in relative obscurity]
699 Marsen Jules: Herbstlaub [Likely to place high in many electronic music end of year pols at Boomkat]
727 Murcof: Remembranza [Experimental electronic music from Mexico, likely to perform well in Boomkat end of year charts]
756 Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch [A change of musical style, I guess this album is likely to climb in the future once word-of-mouth spreads]
774 Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Geisterfaust [A challenging heavy rhythmic album]
778 Buried Inside: Chronoclast [This album picked up some considerably good reviews earlier in the year. One of many bands following in the post Neurosis sound]
781 Monolake: Polygon_Cities [Another album likely to do well in Boomkat end of year charts]
797 Miriodor: Parade [Avant Prog from Canada. Not as good as their classic Mekano album released earlier in the decade!]
815 Gojira: From Mars to Sirius [French Metal band picking up positive reviews]
833 Malory: The Third Face [Superb Shoegazer soundsmiths from Germany]
839 Frantic Bleep: The Sense Apparatus [One of the finest rock albums of the year, superb production, unfortunately destined for obscurity]
844 Hate Eternal: I, Monarch [Considered one of the best death metal albums of 2005]
856 Octavia Sperati: Winter Enclosure [Atmospheric metal from Norway]
882 Julien Neto: Le Fumeur de Ciel [an album likely to perform well on Boomkat end year of charts from the esteemed British based Type label]
959 Scar Symmetry: Symmetric In Design [Melodo death metal done rather well]
999 Urdog: Eyelid of Moon [Psychedelic spacey rock from the US] # posted by DJ Martian 12:25 AM
Each day Gidoen will be welcoming guests from the 4AD roster to play live in the studio. They will include:
21 Nov - TV On The Radio
22 Nov - Kristin Hersh
23 Nov - The Mountain Goats
24 Nov - Mojave 3
25 Nov - Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters) # posted by DJ Martian 3:22 PM
This week's One World features: Ed Rush & Optical :: Daby Balde :: Joakim
Show broadcast on Radio 1 Monday 14th November 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]
On One World this week we have three different guests. # posted by DJ Martian 2:45 PM
[Now on Listen Again] # posted by DJ Martian 6:07 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Looks useful: Bandnews.org- Live from the Web | Search & Read official Music News - Band Directory - Archive
"Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page." # posted by DJ Martian 6:31 PM
Norwegians Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, who marry synth-rich pulsing space disco and bass-propelled post-punk with the introspection of psychedelia. # posted by DJ Martian 1:48 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 12:21 AM
Spoilt Victorian Child
Music Spectrum
Zentronix...
Said the Gramophone
New Additions:
Athwart 666 Metal News
Perfect Sounds
doctorvee
The Hype Machine
Chemistry Class
Inuit Bikini Scarlet Carwash
Rottenmeats
Comfort Music
Revolution in the Head
Ear Fuzz # posted by DJ Martian 11:53 PM
BBC collective have a leaf label profile also listen to Leaf Is Ten mix. # posted by DJ Martian 11:19 PM
yahoo blo.gs have automatically reinstated my post june 2005 blog additions back into the system, therefore music blogs/websites such as One Louder and It's A Trap are back !
However the blo.gs search function is still not working, so I am unable to add new blogs. Hopefully this will be sorted soon.
Also it looks that any blog that hasn't been updated since yesterday evening circa 8pm [GMT] has been temporarily reset back to it's time stamp circa October 5th or earlier. # posted by DJ Martian 6:18 PM
Later...Show 4: 11.35pm, BBC2, Friday 11th November 2005
I haven't bothered linking the 2 last shows as the line ups were so rubbish - nothing of interest whatsoever. However this week's show has Sigur Ros and John Cale.
