It's an ok listen, I just couldn't connect with what it was offering.
For my first proper dive into the IDM legends Boards of Canada, this wasn't too bad. Liked a couple tracks of this EP with plenty of room for further explorations down the line.
Recs:
- Turquoise Hexagon Sun
- Everything You Do is a Balloon
An Interesting sonic pallet though I found little worth returning to.
Recs:
-Quilombo Groove
- O Encontro De Issac Asimov Com Santos Dumont No Céu
- Manguetown
- Uk Satélite na Cabeça
- Amor De Muito
- Samidarish
Some decent Emo. Nothing great, but wouldn't turn you off from it.
Recs:
- Friday the Thirteenth
- Sleepwalker
A solid Trip hop release with a nice amount of variety and fitting vocals.
Recs:
- Low Place Like Home
- 6 Underground
- Becoming X
- Post Modern Sleaze
- Walking Zero
Toni Offers a really solid RnB release.
Recs:
- You're Making Me High
- There's No Me Without You
- Talking in His Sleep
- Let It Flow
- I Don't Want To
- In the Late of Night
I liked a few tracks but again, overall this doesn't do much for me personally.
Recs:
- Intro: Here We Come
- Therapy
- Leflaur Laflah Eshkoshka
I liked a few tracks but overall this didn't do much for me.
Recs:
- Scientifical Madness
- Me or the Pages
- Too Perverted
A solid Industrial release from the Germans.
Recs:
- Stella Morris
- Die Explosion im Festspielhaus
- The Garden
- Bili Rubin
I had a sense of Deja Vu listening to that opener. I swear I heard this song before somewhere. That melody was just very familiar to me. Might be from some wack dream I had cause sometimes when my dreams has fits of music it features something like this song.
Also hell yeah, we got some Glam rock in 1996 it's not completely dead yet! We got early Bowie esque vocals and the jangly fun instrumental. It's always funny how I warm up to a genre after I move past it's prime days. I ... read more
A quality art rock release from dEUS that features some truly fascinating things happening as well as some stuff that doesn't quite hit the mark. A mixed yet good overall package with plenty of potential and reason to keep an eye out for.
Recs:
- Fell off the Floor, Man
- Theme from Turnpike
- Gimme the Heat
- Supermarketsong
- Memory of a Festival
- Guilty Pleasures
- Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
A decent to solid Alternative jazz Rock with some unique happenings that keeps things engaging.
Recs:
- Super Bon Bon
- Soundtrack to Mary
- 4 out of 5
- Disseminated
- Sleepless
I just hope with the recent trend of Dark Fantasy being cool for edits, the amazing genre of Dungeon Synth gets a significant revival, cause to this day it's some of the coolest music I have discovered. It's impossible for me to hate on this shit, it's just so effective on transporting me into a fantasy world.
I loved all the tracks offered in this classic example of the goated genre though it didn't do anything to blow me out of the water. Just good vibes all around and ... read more
An enjoyable Industrial metal release by Godflesh. It does get a bit long winded, but overall it's not bad.
Recs:
- Circle of Shit
- Gift From Heaven
- Amoral
- Frail
I don't know why I didn't connect with the original American recordings, but in this second installment of the series I found it to be a rich listen full of classy charm. The country legend still got it even in this stage of his career.
Recs:
- Rowboat
- Rusty Cage
- Country Boy
- Spiritual
- Southern Accents
- Meet Me in Heaven
- I Never Picked Cotton
- I've Been Everywhere
While this isn't the ambient techno perfection that Lifeforms was, FSOL proves plenty here in Dead Cities that they can provide a formidible, awesome inspiring experience that you won't ever forget. Well worth a listen of you are into the genre.
Recs:
- Her Face Forms in the Summertime
- Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me
- My Kingdom
- Max
- Quagmire/ In a State of Permanent Abyss
- Glass
- Yage
- Vit Drowning/ Through Your Gills I Breathe
- First Death in the ... read more
A fun joyful euro trance release from the young upstart Jasmin Wagner also known locally as Blümchen. It does get a bit irritating as it goes along, it's just a bit too eager like a dog that won't stop barking in after not seeing you for literally two minutes. Still there's good stuff in here that's worth a listen.
Recs:
- Intro (Heart to Heart)
- Heart to Heart
- Where Hearts have Wings
- Outro (Heart to Heart)
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