DEPECHE MODE - I FEEL LOVED











































Depeche Mode "I Feel Loved" Album Review
Good stuff, as usual
I Feel Loved is obviously wonderful on here, especially the extended Instrumental, but Dirt is probably the best thing about this nice little CD - Single, Any true fan would have this single in a second. True, only three tracks, but Dirt and the I Feel Loved instrumental make up for that.
Video Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved
I Feel Loved
EDWARD KA - SPEL



















Edward Ka "Spel" Album Review
wow
I've been a Pink Dots fan since I can't even remember when. Probably 10 years or so. And I never knew this album existed until now, and lemmie tell you...this album is just unbelieveable. It has more of the older sounding instruments that you would expect to hear on the album, "Curse". Except this album is far more atmospheric and abstract. A perfect mixture of both. Songs that are happy and sad simultaneously. I LOVE it! Edward Ka-Spel is, and always will be, a musical genius. Not one bad song on here. Of course you'd never really expect to hear a boring pink dots song anyways. I know everyone that are fans of whatever band always say, "This is a MUST HAVE for fans". But when I say it, I'm damn serious. This really IS a MUST HAVE if your a fan of Ka-Spel/Pink Dots/Tear Garden/MIMIR etc etc...
Video Dresden Dolls feat Edward Ka-Spel
..from the Legendary Pink Dots playing "Missed Me" in Hamburg Sept 2 2006
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS - COLLATERAL SALVAGE













































Nocturnal Emissions "Collateral Salvage" Album Review
Review
For his 25th CD as Nocturnal Emissions, Nigel Ayers has created a work that balances noise and vocal samples against a wild array of loops and rhythm tracks. It's a tantalizingly spicy cocktail that sounds nothing like an out-of-control hip-hop dump truck being driven backwards through an octogenarian's barn dance. "Collateral Salvage" is beat-oriented toe-tappin' music constructed from hundreds of different samples of indie guitar-pop, interspersed with fragments of song and surreal speech. Strong bass lines run throughout, and the rhythms are a blend of funk and exotic eastern promise. Subtle tonalities, acoustic guitar flavors, swingin' saxophones, flutes and horns are piled high over tabla and soaring vintage analogue synthesizers. Mbiras mix with driftwood marimbas, wicky-wicky guitars and pitch-shifted sitars in a swirling belly-dance dub sock-hop. "Collateral Salvage" was inspired by the sounds of modern Morocco. Late at night, lying in a bath, listening to the output of three different nightclubs, each with their own blend of local music mixed with international pop hits, all in a constant struggle for dominance, with water running in and out of the ears. The resourcefulness of human endeavor in the Third World and its contrast with the luxuries and carefree wastefulness of the developed world provided the foundation for the album. This is the music of resistance against the constant war being waged by the powerful elite in rich nations against the poor. When Bush says "you're either with us or you're against us" Ayers replies "There is no separation. Social divides are socially constructed. A forgotten branch of the avant-garde once suggested that art can direct thought along new lines and enable us to generate more positive patterns of social behavior."
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