Playlist/ mp3 / Musichall 25 march

BEATOKKO - NEEDLEBREAKER
BUZZ - STRANGE DAYS
PROCESS - SPEAK
WREKKERZ FEAT. BËLGA - FINCSI MI?
TONI SONIC - TOKIO RETURN (RUBBER - PURIFICMIX)
DJ C - WHO WAH SEEK YO
ELLIPTIC - SUNSET
SOUL ON JOURNEY - APOLLO 11
PSYCHADELIK PEDESTRIAN - ACTION SEQUENCE (ORIGINAL MIX)
TUCAN - THE ENEMY WITHIN
THIEVERY CORPORATION - WARNING SHOTS
MOTIONFIELD - NORDIC LIGHTS


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BUZZ

ARTIST / BAND: BUZZ
SONG (MP3): STRANGE DAYS
ALBUM: Buzz
FILE UNDER: Drum & Bass
LABEL: exegene
INFO: Buzz's enthusiasm for Drum'n'Bass was instilled by his mid-90ies heroes Jonny L, Optical and Photek. Around that time, Buzz made his first productions with a great deal of enthusiasm and a desire to experiment. His tracks, which were spread via the infamous "Subway"-Site, drew a lot of attention in the early German Drum'n'Bass scene. A couple of years later, the now notorious perfectionist found an ideal platform to infuse his musical development with new energy: plain productions and Alphacut. With both labels operating in similar territory, Buzz finally found a musical home. His sound is marked by soulful vocal-fx, feedback-delays and subsonic basslines, which melt with hammering breakbeats in his constantly well-heated sound-reactor. Buzz' tracks - often abstract, frightening and gloomily sinister - show a great love of detail. Power, movement and complexity are the key criteria to constitute his style. The thickly layered and interwoven samples create a compact, yet stormy and intriguing sound. Buzz' music represents a class of its own. He constantly breaks the restrictions of formalised Drum'n'Bass and thus renews the musical genre itself.
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THE AMAZING PILOTS

ARTIST / BAND: THE AMAZING PILOTS
SONG (MP3): THE PRICE OF WINTER
ALBUM: hello my captor
FILE UNDER: Indei Pop
LABEL: undertow music
INFO: Do you remember that kid with the bowl cut … you know, the fishing trip from thatcine-film summer back when. Somehow, no fish were caught and his radio endedup in the canal … yeah, it’ll come back to you … !
When music is truly special, it shakes out old memories and make the worst daysfeel like stepping stones. You’ll wanna have a little bit of happiness with your sadnessand maybe even the other way ‘round.
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BEATOKKO

ARTIST / BAND: BEATOKKO
SONG (MP3): NEEDLEBREAKER
ALBUM: Process vs Beatokko
FILE UNDER: Drum & Bass
LABEL: exegene
INFO: We kick off the new year with two awesomely fresh tracks. The A side 'Speak' from Ohm Resistance's Process and Beatokko makes his return on Exegene with 'Needlebreaker' on the flip.Process makes his Exegene debut with 'Speak', an immensely funky number. Melodic bleeps and perfected fx ride along a flowing stream of funk made from deep 'talking' basses, crisp rolling breaks and smooth synth slices. Definitely one to rock out to, whether it be club or home.Beatokko then switches up the vibe, with a dark brooding synthfest. Dark but floaty atmospheres kick off this one, while the percussion filled drums build up and a mean gritty synth rears it ugly head.A pounding subbass flops its self into the track like a fat man jumping into an already packed paddling pool. The track then breaks out into a rolling frenzy with some deep arpeggiating synths.One for the darker sets! the source...

THE APRIL SKIES

ARTIST / BAND: THE APRIL SKIES
SONG (MP3): RISE & RISE AGAIN
FILE UNDER: indie pop

TUCAN

ARTIST / BAND: TUCAN
SONG (MP3): THE ENEMY WITHIN
ALBUM: The Enemy Within
FILE UNDER: Breakbeat
LABEL: toucan music
INFO: Producing upfront UK breakbeat, the first Toucan track was "Point Blank" from summer 2003 (a Dave Kent & PP collaboration). "Point Blank" was available on the www.frantikmusic.co.uk/2003 compilation in 2003 as a Dave Kent & PP track, but was not released online until January 2004. The online release coincided with the site name change to Toucanmusic.com - so a new name was launched!
"Freshen Up" was the follow up from early 2004, an irritatingly catchy, rolling mix of synth bass and breakbeat with a bizarre vocal sample spoken by John himself. The even more eccentric "bathroom" remix featured a sample of a flushing toilet at the end!
The third track was the first to feature a full vocal, completely synthesized using FruityLoops Speech utility. The vocal was mixed with heavily distorted bass and electronic beats. Following this, the fourth track "Enemy Within" was finished in the Autumn of 2004 and featured a stripped down, old skool breakbeat sound.
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Playlist& Free mp3 / muzorama 19 march

BE YOUR OWN PET - WE WILL VACATION, YOU CAN BE MY PARASOL
THE DUKE SPIRIT - CUTS ACROSS THE LAND
OPPENHEIMER - BREAKFAST IN NYC
BOY OMEGA - BY MIDNIGHT WE`LL GIVE IT
MERZ - DANGEROUS HEADY LOVE SCHEME
MUDHONEY - BLINDSPOTS
THE JEALOUS SOUND - FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE
GORAN GORA - SLOW DOWN
SEU JORGE - TIVE RAZÃO
THE ROSEMONT FAMILY REUNION - HO HO HO
THE CZARS - I AM THE MAN
PILLOW - SONG FOR BEGINNING
TRESPASSERS WILLIAM - SAFE SOUND
TAPE - SAND DUNES

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playlist& free mp3 / musichall 18 march

AMBITRONIC - ROTER PUNKT
MONOTON DEEJAYS - UEBERDRUCK
MUALLEM - MY LIFE FEAT. AMAZON
CACHEFLOWE - AHH... HUH?
COLD CHAINS & SUE CIE - CROWD CONTROL (PHON.O RMX)
TEAM SHADETEK FEAT. 77KLASH AND JAHDAN - BROOKLYN ANTHEM
VYBZ KARTEL - VYBSY VERSA LOVE
THE PRODIGY - VOODOO PEOPLE
BRASSWORK AGENCY - I MUST HAVE YOU
MILOSH - IT'S OVER
DOCMA - GESICHTSDISKO
STEWART WALKER - CHIMERA
TOUANE - THE CLAP SONG


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BE YOUR OWN PET

ARTIST / BAND: BE YOUR OWN PET
SONG (MP3): WE WILL VACATION, YOU CAN BE MY PARASOL
ALBUM: BE YOUR OWN PET
FILE UNDER: Punk / Rock
LABEL: xl recordings

THE DUKE SPIRIT

ARTIST / BAND: THE DUKE SPIRIT
SONG (MP3): CUTS ACROSS THE LAND
ALBUM: CUTS ACROSS THE LAND
FILE UNDER: Rock / Alternative / Punk
LABEL: startime records
INFO Many bands claim to practice the true elementary arts of rock'n'roll, but hardly any truly understand them. The Duke Spirit, though a five-piece from London — are one of the few that do. They have been using London and the areas surrounding as their history book perfecting their own unique and jagged take on the history of rock'n'roll music. The first public notice of their intentions appeared in 2003, when they released both a critically-acclaimed single ('Bottom Of The Sea') and mini-album ('Roll, Spirit, Roll') in the UK, which showcased a scuffed and soulful guitar aesthetic, redolent of everyone from the Velvets and Nico through to The Gun Club and Patti Smith.
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OPPENHEIMER

ARTIST / BAND: OPPENHEIMER
SONG (MP3): BREAKFAST IN NYC
ALBUM: OPPENHEIMER
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Electronica
LABEL: bar/none
INFO:. "It's no coincidence that the first 3 letters of Oppenheimer can be rearranged to spell 'Pop'. They claim to be influenced by movies, indie pop, eno, mbv, synthesizers, electronica, Kraftwerk, Stereolab and Moog. We however think they're made of E numbers, helium and syrup 'cause we always leave their company giggling excitedly..." read more from the source...

Boy Omega

ARTIST / BAND: Boy Omega
SONG (MP3): By midnight we`ll give it
ALBUM: The black tango
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: riptide recordings
INFO:. This album is basically about the ending of a three-year-old relationship. The ghosts, the nightmares, the neurosis, the pitch-black thoughts and the beautiful memories that comes back to haunt you every day. It is about moving on, growing up and trying to come to terms with who you really are. It is about moving to a new place on your own, a new street, with a new graveyard outside your window. It is about the silence when you go to sleep alone, with cold feet, pretending the pillow is her. It is about love and hate, hope, desperation and medication. It is about the fear of meeting someone new. It is about drinking yourself wasted. Closer, closer, closer… Awakening! Black. Ok! Let’s tango. It is about trying to reach out in one way or another. It is about close friendship. It is dedicated to my grandfather Bertil and my uncle Anders, who both passed away recently. I miss you very much. (Martin Gustafsson, 23.12.2005)Friends of Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, The Arcade Fire, New Order, Iron & Wine, Kristofer Åström, Xiu Xiu etc. should definitely check this out!Boy Omega is based around 27-year old singer/songwriter Martin Henrik Gustafsson. Boy Omega often turns into an orchestra. This is the current line-up: read more from the source...

AMBITRONIC

Artist / Band: AMBITRONIC
Song (MP3): ROTER PUNKT
Album: VA - Minimale Momente
File Under: Minimal Techno & Ambient
Label: ideal techno

MERZ

ARTIST / BAND: MERZ
SONG (MP3): DANGEROUS HEADY LOVE SCHEME
ALBUM: Loveheart
FILE UNDER: singer / songwriter /
LABEL: groenland
INFO: Following the self-released 7 inch single championed by the likes of Jarvis Cocker and called “Many Weathers Apart”, a fierce battle for his signature by several major record labels, Conrad Lambert aka Merz signed to Sony/Epic and looked set to conquer the world. His debut album received widespread critical acclaim and led to appearances on Top Of The Pops, Jools Holland, and was subject to a Channel 4 music documentary. Huge support and Single of the Week also came from Radio 1’s Jo Whiley and an appearance at Glastonbury, featuring on the same bill as a group called Coldplay, who later became firm friends. His music was embraced by the then unreconstructed genre that was English folk, electronica and the fringes of dance (Pete Tong was a fan of some particularly tasty Francois K mixes) and would even be heard on soaps like Eastenders and Coronation Street. Loveheart was co-produced with Bruno Ellingham (respected engineer on recent albums by New Order, KT Tunstall and The Departure and emerging British producer of note). "He was like an Oxford professor," Conrad says, "I would come to him with my demos and recordings and he would give me detailed notes to go away and work on." Recorded in 12 different locations around Bath, Bristol and The Pennines, and finally finished on St Valentine’s Day 2005, West Country mates including Goldfrapp bass player Charlie Jones and Portishead / Beth Gibbons / Robert Plant accomplice John Baggot also lent a hand on harpsichord, while Norway’s Even Johansen (aka Magnet) contributed lap steel guitar.
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MUALLEM

Artist / Band: MUALLEM
Song (MP3): MY LIFE FEAT. AMAZON
Album: Frankie Splits
File Under: futuristic hip-hop
Label: Compost
Info: It’s the night after the night before and the fever’s not subsiding. But this time, it’s a different kind of rush, a new pace. Hitting you like a slow-motion exocet missile, then exploding on the surface of your soul. From the corner of your eye, you can just about make out the initials. It’s NYC, baby. read more from the source...

MUDHONEY

ARTIST / BAND: MUDHONEY
SONG (MP3): BLINDSPOTS
ALBUM: Under a Billion Suns
FILE UNDER: Grunge / Punk / Garage
LABEL: Sub Pop
INFO: It took a wall socket for Mudhoney to happen. They came from the old, weird Seattle looking damp and strange; beer-swilling jackals plugged into a long forgotten source of distortion. With their stringy hair and high-top sneakers, they looked a lot like those kids smoking pot behind the high school gymnasium, which they probably were. The lead singer, the blonde one with the visage of a hawk, was capable of unleashing a howl so wolfish it might have made Iggy flinch. This singer, Mark Arm, he grunted and screamed about sickness and hangovers, poising himself as a figure more lecherous than even the old bluesmen. His phrasing, no, strangling of the words “sweet young thing,” suggested he was even trying to out-sleaze the great Howling Wolf, something dainty Mick Jagger did not attempt. And then there was the guitar, aptly handled by a fuzzy-headed goofball named Steve Turner. He too, had a hard-on for noise, and it was often difficult to discern his soloing from Mark’s singing, they shared the same guttural drawl. This was Mudhoney. They plugged in, they were wild, heavy and loud. read more from the source...

CACHEFLOWE

Artist / Band: CACHEFLOWE
Song (MP3): AHH... HUH?
Album: Automate Everything
File Under: breakbeat techno
Label: Nobot Media
Info: After years of playing piano, guitar and bass, Justin G. (aka CacheFlowe) realized that making music was to be a solo venture. He discovered early 90's hardcore breakbeat techno and began producing electronic music at the age of 15. Quickly leaning towards drum and bass, most of his musical efforts were put into that aggressive sound while experimenting with many other genres.
Having strayed from traditional dance music, CacheFlowe has turned to freeform electronic music based around complex breakbeats, analog synthesis and various sampling techniques.
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COLD CHAINS & SUE CIE

Artist / Band: COLD CHAINS & SUE CIE
Song (MP3): CROWD CONTROL (PHON.O RMX)
Album: When The World Was Our Friend
File Under: Electro Rap
Label: kitty-yo
Info: Worlds merged when Topher Lafata and Sue Costabile (Ex-Orthlorng Musork) met. They mixed house, garage, punk, techno and produced the amazing 'When the world was our friend' album. So grab you stuff and watch these two maniacs break it down at your favorite club...
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THE JEALOUS SOUND

ARTIST / BAND: THE JEALOUS SOUND
SONG (MP3): FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE
ALBUM: Kill Them With Kindness
FILE UNDER: Indie Rock
LABEL: better looking records
INFO: A hard-working, hard-touring act with a loyal following, The Jealous Sound have been frustrated at waiting three years to follow-up to their impressive debut EP, released in the summer of 2000 on Better Looking Records. Unfortunately, bad luck is not uncommon in the music industry but rising above it is. The short story is that, in 2001, virtually upon signing with a major label, the label lost its distribution deal and the subsequent label that inherited the band didn't share their vision. The Jealous Sound found themselves shuffled onto a label that would neither let them go nor put out a record. This is just the sort of thing that would spell the end for most bands. However, perseverance pays if you can keep faith.
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TEAM SHADETEK FEAT. 77KLASH AND JAHDAN

Artist / Band: TEAM SHADETEK FEAT. 77KLASH AND JAHDAN
Song (MP3): BROOKLYN ANTHEM
File Under: IDM
Label: Sound-Ink
Info: TEAM SHADETEk (SOZE.SHT and Zach Zizmore) grew up in the same neighborhood in downtown Manhattan and started producing tracks together in 1999. Their early releases on their own SHADETEk label along with recent releases on Kid606's Tigerbeat family of labels have been extremely well received around the world and have been featured on a wide range of discriminating DJs playlists including those of the Optimo crew, The Bug's Razor X Sound, 4Tet, Graham Massey, DJ Rupture, Kid606 and Maryanne Hobbs on the BBC's Breeze Block show. These combined with their high energy live appearances at venues including Berlin's Döner Lounge and Labland, WMF, Tonic, Joe's Pub and Pianos in NYC, London's Wheels Instead of Hooves parties, Glasgow's Optimo, and the Panoptica festival in Belgium, among many others, have contributed to their reputations as one of the most exciting up-and-coming crews in the current electronica landscape. Their mini-LP Burnerism was released on Warp Records in May of 2004.
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GORAN GORA

ARTIST / BAND: GORAN GORA
SONG (MP3): SLOW DOWN
ALBUM: 2 hands/ 4 songs EP
FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Acoustic
INFO: Imagine Chat Baker playing chess with Nick Drake somewhere down in Eastern Europe? Imagine someone with passion and great talent to come from country that perhaps you have never even heard about? In the past 4 months time 21 year old singer-songwriter Goran Gora made the most impressive debut in Eastern Europe’s history of popular music and gained great international reviews in few months time after his first single release. Goran Gora started to play music in the year 2000. On the bases of self initative at home he was composing and made inovative remixes of many popular songs. Goran Gora developed performances and played in cooperation with such bands as “Paravoice”, “Indigoflow”, “Feb30”, “Butterfly Street”, “Rydgal”. In 2000 Goran Gora started to perform in different clubs in Riga and other cities in Latvia as he played at least in three different bands at the same time. Until that day Goran Gora kept his dream to perform all alone, accompanied only by himself on a guitar or piano. After one year pause, in 2003 Goran Gora met his dream and became popular as a musician with a style and magnificant personality both for fans and the bands he was improvising with. Goran Gora's journey to the big stage started at “Pajaat Rekords” - a home made music and film company, where he made the record – “A Muadoil” - a mix of electronic, rock, choral and jazz music. The next big success came when “Pajaat Records” management sent Goran Gora's records to Radio SWH (the largest radio company in Latvia) program “Basement”. Songs from the album “A Muadoil” – “Slow Down”, “Our Season”, “Lights Out (pure love)” and “Floating” got in the playlists and found their audiences. In August 2005 Goran Gora played his first international show at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. Following the success of his first radio single “Slow Down”, in the beginning of October Goran Gora went on his first sold-out tour in Latvia with some really special guests (including Swedish singer-songwriter and last year’s SXSW participiant Thomas Denver Jonnson and french lounge stars “Nouvelle Vague”). Goran Gora’s second radio single “Fools In Love” was released in November and was acclaimed both by music critics and fans. On December 18 Goran Gora gave an one-off sold-out performance with a string quartet in front of 550 people at the oldest and most extravagant cinema house in Riga. In 2006 there is even more to come – Goran Gora is going to do his first European/USA tour including showcase set at SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas and rumours of big festival appearances is spreading all over this part of the world. And as someone would love to mention at the end - this should be only the beginning... read more from the source...

VYBZ KARTEL

Artist / Band: VYBZ KARTEL
Song (MP3): VYBSY VERSA LOVE
Album: J. M.T
File Under: Dancehall
Label: Greensleeves
Info: Vybz Kartel is the most talented DJ and currently the hottest commodity to step out of Jamaica this year. His amazing lyrical flow and prowess teamed with a unique sound as displayed on some of this year's hottest rhythms has set him shoulders above his contemporaries. Now he is about to blow up the spot with his much talked about debut album UP 2 DI TIME. Vybz (real name Adidja Palmer), one of six siblings, grew up in the Portmore district Waterford in the parish St Catherine. He attended Calabar High School in Kingston but was expelled. He was keen to finish his education and subsequently continued his education at a Technical College. Due to his Uncle being a DJ, Adidja was exposed to a wide range of music from a young age. He would listen to amongst others Country & Western, Sam Cooke and Ninjaman. His cites his own musical heroes as Bounty Killer, Charlie Chaplin, Papa San, Buju Banton, Will Smith and KRS-1. All, he says, have helped him to create his own brand of dancehall. read more from the source...

SEU JORGE

ARTIST / BAND: SEU JORGE
SONG (MP3): TIVE RAZÃO
ALBUM: CRU
FILE UNDER: Brazil Pop
LABEL: wrasse records
INFO: Seu Jorge comes from the outskirts and hits us directly in the soul. While many got a taste of his powerful presence and rough-but-sweet voice from his David Bowie renditions in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, his solo album Cru (a September 6, 2005 release on Wrasse Records) will satiate new fans yearning for his pared down, soulful approach. Jorge was once a homeless kid in a favela (Brazilian slum) outside of Rio de Janeiro. By age ten, Jorge was repairing tires to help support his family. "Getting out of a favela is a big deal. Gangsters are so powerful. Drug trafficking is rife, and no one has jobs," he recently told The Independent (UK). Having spent years turning his energies to music and theater, Jorge landed the part of Knockout Ned in City of God, the film that put an international spotlight on favela life, poverty, and violence.
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THE PRODIGY

Artist / Band: THE PRODIGY
Song (MP3): VOODOO PEOPLE
Album: Their Law: Singles 1990-2005
File Under: hard dance/rave
Label: XL Recordings
Info: The Prodigy are a British hard dance/rave act, consisting of Liam Howlett (keyboards), Keith Flint (vocalist) and Maxim (vocalist). Leeroy Thornhill (dancer) was also a member of the band from 1990 to 2000. A female dancer/vocalist called Sharky was also briefly associated with the band during their early period. The Prodigy first emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990s, and since then have achieved immense popularity and worldwide renown. Some of their most popular songs include "Charly," "Out of Space," "Smack My Bitch Up," "No Good (Start the Dance)," "Breathe" and "Firestarter." The Prodigy have developed various styles over time, initially pioneering the underground rave scene, and now creating bigbeat tracks with punk vocal elements.
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THE ROSEMONT FAMILY REUNION

ARTIST / BAND: THE ROSEMONT FAMILY REUNION
SONG (MP3): HO HO HO
ALBUM: Forever Ruth
FILE UNDER: New Folk

BRASSWORK AGENCY

Artist / Band: BRASSWORK AGENCY
Song (MP3): I MUST HAVE YOU
Album: Plastic Smile
File Under: dark and psychedelic electronic music
Label: plex records
Info: Brasswork Agency is known for dark and psychedelic electronic music. The trademark Brasswork sounds consisting of the funky basslines, tight drums with intuitively layered percussion, and brain-massaging synthesizer textures have undergone constant adaptation since debuting with genre-mashed release on jRdC "For All the Wrong Reasons," in April 05. Now Brasswork is in demand from festivals to lounges, and for companies from Leo Burnett to Native Instruments. Brasswork founded the netlabel Auxprocess in November 2005. He is also co-founder of Locale Events and resident DJ of Locale Sundays @ Rodan in Chicago, a free Audio/Video weekly running since April 2004. He moved to Hollywood in early 2006. read more from the source...

THE CZARS

ARTIST / BAND: THE CZARS
SONG (MP3): I AM THE MAN
ALBUM: Goodbye
FILE UNDER: Rock / Electronica / Country
LABEL: Bella Union
INFO: From shuffling west coast pop and crashing electronica to velvelty blues and delicate ballads, Denver's The Czars sound like no other band. They are a unique group who seem to defy categorization taking in everything from eighties guitar drone, shoe-gazing to alt-country. Built around John Grant's vocals and song writing, The Czars reflect his eclectic tastes as diverse as Kraftwerk, Patsy Cline, Tom Waits and Nina Simone. Their haunting yet rousing live performances are more than a match for their acclaimed albums like The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People, and Goodbye, the latter of which was in Uncut's Top 50 albums of 2004. The Czars have headlined several tours throughout Europe, the UK, and the United States. They have also toured with or opened for The Flaming Lips, Low, The Dirty Three, Calexico, David Gray, The Album Leaf, The Dears, 16 Horsepower, Ween, Viva Voce, Hem, Imperial Teen, and Elf Power. After 10 years, 3 full-length releases on Bella Union, 4 EPs, countless tours, and a few member changes, the strength and vitality of the music continues to grow. read more from the source...

MILOSH

Artist / Band: MILOSH
Song (MP3): IT'S OVER
Album: Meme
File Under: Down-tempo / Electronica
Label: Plug Research
Info: Mike Milosh (Toronto, Canada) makes optimistic music for pessimistic times on his debut album. Defeated hearts can lean steadily on his soulful futurism on his debut album You Make Me Feel. When Mike sings, "something good is going happen" you can´t help but feel he´s right. His melodic, electronic masterpieces are like blossoms unfolding in darkness. Even those songs seeded in sadness are lined with bright hope. read more from the source...

PILLOW

ARTIST / BAND: PILLOW
SONG (MP3): SONG FOR BEGINNING
ALBUM: Flowing Seasons
FILE UNDER: Post Melancholic
LABEL: 2ndrec
INFO: Best known as the keyboarder of Italy’s premier post rock combo Giardini di Mirò, wowing fans and sceptics alike with their formidable long players and impressively intense live performances, Luca Di Mira has now come up with his first ever solo outing, “Flowing Seasons”.
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DOCMA

Artist / Band: DOCMA
Song (MP3): GESICHTSDISKO
Album: VA - Minimale Momente
File Under: Minimal Techno
Label: ideal techno

TRESPASSERS WILLIAM

ARTIST / BAND: TRESPASSERS WILLIAM
SONG (MP3): SAFE SOUND
ALBUM: Having
FILE UNDER: Post Rock
LABEL: nettwerk
INFO: Their story begins 10 years ago, when matt brown and anna-lynne williams were teenagers growing up in Southern California, met through mutual friends and began working together to create what would eventually become, with the help of ross simonini and drummer jamie williams, the distinct sound of trespassers william.trespassers william became a presence in the North American music scene when their second studio album, different stars, was re-released by Nettwerk Music Group worldwide in 2004. Called "Gently mesmerizing...haunting" by NME, different stars hinted at influences of ambient, folk and shoegaze, and established the band as subtle nuanced songwriters. read more from the source...

STEWART WALKER

Artist / Band: STEWART WALKER
Song (MP3): CHIMERA
Album: Grounded In Existence
File Under: deep groovy forward techno
Label: persona records
Info: Born in 1974, Stewart Walker began toying with music at an early age, writing songs at the age of 5 about his ambitions to become a rock star. Years of structured guitar and piano lessons afforded Stewart a strong musical background and the ability to gain aptitude from later experimentation.
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TAPE

ARTIST / BAND: TAPE
SONG (MP3): SAND DUNES
ALBUM: Rideau
FILE UNDER: experimental pop
LABEL: Häpna
INFO: Tape´s music moves between experimental music and pop without effort.and has been recognized internationally for it´s particular sound where electronics blend with all sorts of acoustic and electric instruments.Tape was formed in 2000 by brothers Andreas and Johan Berthling together with Tomas Hallonsten. Their first recording Opera came out in 2002, the second - Milieu in 2003, both released on Häpna. Tape have done shorter tours in Europe, the US and Japan. In august 2005 Staalplaat released a live cd of Tape in their "Mort Aux Vaches" series.Marcus Schmickler is a musician, producer and composer with a broad range.Solo - he makes noisemusic , pop with Pluramon with Julee Cruise and composes comtemporary music for choir.Andreas Berthling has made records with electronic muisc under his own name on labels such as Staalplaat, Fällt, Anechoic and Mitek. Plays with the groups Frontroom Ensemble and Feed and is also active as sound engineer.Tomas Hallonsten´s sheer musicality and ability to play several instruments has led him to perform and record with a lot of different swedish artists.Outside of Tape, Johan Berthling works mostly as a double bassplayer withmusicians like Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid and Mats Gustafsson. He has worked with swedish artists Nicolai Dunger, Stina Nordenstam, Goran Kajfes among others...read more from the source...

TOUANE

Artist / Band: TOUANE
Song (MP3): THE CLAP SONG
Album: Awake
File Under: minimal techno, electronica
Label: persona records
Info: Touane (pronounced too-ane or too-on-ae) is Marco Tonni, born in Rimini, a seaside tourist destination in the central north of Italy. After playing bass and guitar in rock bands during his youth, he began to experiment with electronic music production when he was 17, creating music which hoped to reconfigure the blurred memories of his favorite songs into a new and signature sound.He spent his university years away from home, in the much more stimulating town of Bologna. Marco started collaborating with other musicians who formed a real community for him. With them, he achieved small but important successes in the city. Focusing on DJing and performing electronic music at the famous Link club as well as exchanging ideas and opinions about software, production techniques and more widely, their love for music.During his final two years in Bologna, he worked to spread a fresh kind of do-it-yourself musical aesthetic for non-musicians. Marco and his colleagues organized a series of events and parties which culminated at the end of April 2004, in the Homework Festival, which showcased the panorama of the young and emerging computer artists and musicians in that isolated but openminded college town.Then, as he continued building relationships and friendships with artists of the northern European minimal music scene, he finally decided to move to Germany. Since May of 2004, Marco has lived in Berlin, working on his solo material in both the dance and listening genres. He also collaborates with Stewart Walker at Persona Records in both the office and the studio and with Stewart's help and guidance, he's working to develop and distinguish his own sound.Marco has also released with the Paris/Berlin-based imprint Trenton records, spends hours perfecting his cappuccino technique and produces in a small bedroom studio in Kreuzberg.
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 12 MARCH

FIGURINES - THE WONDER
DESTROYER - AN ACTOR'S REVENGE
THE BROKEDOWN - SPARKS
CENTRO-MATIC - TRIGGERS AND TRASH HEAPS
THE PRESETS - ARE YOU THE ONE?
CAPTAIN - FRONTLINE
EPO-555 - HYPERSCHLIEB
SERENA MANEESH - UN-DEUX
I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS - ACCORDING TO PLAN
GUS BLACK - CERTAIN KIND OF LIGHT
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE - COLD WHITE CHRISTMAS
13GHOSTS - THE STORM
BAND OF HORSES - THE FUNERAL
CAROLINE – SUNRISE
THE NEW AMSTERDAMS - TURN OUT THE LIGHTS

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FIGURINES

Artist / Band: FIGURINES
Song (MP3): THE WONDER
Album: Skeleton
File Under: Alternative / Rock / Pop Punk
Label: Morningside Records
Info: Mid 90's. Three childhood friends. Christian Hjelm, Andreas Toft, and Claus S. Johansen. In 2001 they record the EP “The Detour” and shortly after sign with Morningside Records. Later that year Kristian Volden (a.k.a. Volle) joins the band, completing the ensemble that we see today. read more from the source...

DESTROYER

Artist / Band: DESTROYER
Song (MP3): AN ACTOR'S REVENGE
Album: Destroyer's Rubies
File Under: Indie
Label: Merge Records
Info: A new year, 2006, marks the return of Vancouver’s Dan Bejar with his seventh full-length release under the moniker Destroyer. If there has been any precedent set or pattern developed over the previous six recordings in the Destroyer canon, it’s that Bejar holds little regard for convention or expectations. Never one to rest on laurels, each successive Destroyer release always explores new sonic territories and ideas. We love Dan for that. read more from the source...

THE BROKEDOWN

Artist / Band: THE BROKEDOWN
Song (MP3): SPARKS
Album:The Dutchman's Gold
File Under: Powerpop / Indie / Rock
Info: The Brokedown formed during the hot and dusty Los Angeles summer of 2004. After Ross Flournoy headed west from Austin, TX, where he’d spent two years writing three minute bursts of longing, regret and good, old-fashioned lechery. Once there, he reunited with Floridian Rob McCorkindale (drums) and united with his Connecticut Yankee of a kindred spirit, Dan Iead (lead guitar/pedal steel). Thus The Brokedown was born; soon after the band added Brian Whelan (keys/bass) to form its current core. read more from the source...

CENTRO-MATIC

Artist / Band: CENTRO-MATIC
Song (MP3): TRIGGERS AND TRASH HEAPS
Album: Fort Recovery
File Under: Indie
Label: Misra Records
Info: Centro-matic's music comes on like a sound from a distant dream, somethingnew, yet unmistakably familiar. Clear images adding up to something a littlevague, but in such a comforting way. Once as a child, I watched part one ofsome two-part children's adventure (NBC's Wonderful World of Disney circa1972, no doubt) and that night dreamt the next week's conclusion verbatim.No one ever believed me and I still don't blame them, not sure I believe itmyself, but I know it happened. That's what Centro-matic is like to me.Their music is somehow like something I heard in my head as a child, yet Iknow I didn't. I find myself singing along with their songs the first time Ihear them. They're the best live band in America and know how to make greatrecords. Bunches of them (they're prolific as hell) yet some how they keepgetting better. All of this while playing an exhausting 150 shows a year.
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The Presets

Artist / Band: The Presets
Song (MP3): Are You The One?
Album: Beams
File Under: Electro / Indie / Pop
Label: modular people
Info:
If you could imagine a yearbook for 2005’s School of Rock, The Presets would stand out like a jet black ink blot on the page: defying categorization in their recorded work, exceeding expectations above and beyond in sweat-drenched live shows that leave the competition for dead, releasing videos and artwork as beautiful as they are twisted. They would be crowned the official class odd bods. And they like it that way.
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CAPTAIN

Artist / Band: CAPTAIN
Song (MP3): FRONTLINE
Album: I Want You
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: EMI
Info: Five square pegs in one round hole Five opposites; no common dress code, no two-tone hair, no skinny T-shirts, wildly different pasts, no mention of Joy Division, The Stones, The Clash or Blondie. No apparent reason, in fact, why Captain should exist. But they’re here and they’ll soon be bewitching the world with their wistful, emotive songs. Conceived to sidestep the fashionistas and stand egoless next to their heroes. Meet Captain. After a month saying ‘Yes’ to every question that would usually be a ‘No’, Rik Flynn was sat in a rehearsal room in Cricklewood introducing his band to each other. Mario (guitar). An olive skinned, Athenean experimentalist who’d just finished national service in the Greek army. Clare (Vocals, Piano, Percussion). An elfin, straight-laced health freak that’s addicted to running. Reu (Drums, Piano). A very intense, but very funny son of a preacher man. Alex (Bass). A buff, blonde-haired beachcomber who used to play Polka in a circus. Not you’re usual suspects then. If Brian Wilson, Karen Carpenter, Burt Bacharach, Billy Corgan and Kevin Shields all merged into one you’d still only be halfway to the Captain sound. As comfortable with pop as they are with vast soundscapes, this band aren’t interested in any scenes. They’re busy forging their own.
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EPO-555

Artist / Band: EPO-555
Song (MP3): HYPERSCHLIEB
Album: Mafia
File Under: Indie
Label: Crunchy Frog Records
Info: Armed with flaming beats and bee swarms, giraffes and lethal lyrics the Desert Fox epo-555 sets the scene for the trench war between good and evil. In this dry and dusty univers the only real outlaw is the ruthless epo-555 electronica-based noise rock in which polemic poetry is mixed with poetic politics, popular music programming, and spiced up with careless curiosity, good faces and foul play until the souls are on fire and the Fox is howling at the moon. read more from the source...

SERENA MANEESH

Artist / Band: SERENA MANEESH
Song (MP3): UN-DEUX
Album: SERENA MANEESH
File Under: Rock / Psychedelic / Gothic
Label: honey milk
Info: Norwegian Serena Maneesh present their self-titled, full-length debut “Serena Maneesh” with eleven songs that slide down a razor’s edge of distortion and pop whimsy, raucous guitar work and underwater static, angelic voices and primal screams.The strange melodies are strikingly original, yet they strike to the heart of something familiar: a classic rock guitar lick, a wound, a kiss. Inspired by everything from Southern blues via Neu! to Gershwin, “Serena Maneesh” is as much about exploring sound as crafting song. Working in both horizontal and vertical layers, head musician Emil Nikolaisen creates tuneful paradoxes, infinite yet time-bound. His meticulous compositions balance whispery female vocals and underlying violin with driving guitar rock, distorted samples, and chant-like repetition. Tracks such as “Sapphire Eyes” begin and end in liquid noise; in between guitars shriek and shatter, angels sing, and a snare beats along in cinque-pace time.read more from the source...

I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS

Artist / Band: I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS
Song (MP3): ACCORDING TO PLAN
Album: Fear Is On Our Side
File Under: Indie
Label: secretly canadian
Info: I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness is a new group playing new music. They were formed in 2002 by friends and bandmates Christian Goyer and Jason McNeely, who previously worked together on several Windsor for the Derby albums for labels like Trance Syndicate and Young God. Rounding out the group is Edward Robert of Paul Newman and Cyrus Rego, Austin musician Ernest Salaz of Glorium, and Tim White of Salute the Curse.
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GUS BLACK

Artist / Band: GUS BLACK
Song (MP3): CERTAIN KIND OF LIGHT
Album: Autumn Days
File Under: Indie / Folk Rock / Other
Label: Cheap Lullaby Records
Info: Gus Black is a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles California.
He released his fourth record Autumn Days August 29th in Europe. Last century he released two records for Almo Sounds under the name "Gus".
His cover of "Don't Fear the Reaper" was on the soundtrack for the original Scream movie. His songs have been featured in television shows, including Alias, Smallville, and One Tree Hill.
He likes animals, food, water, and most of all good music.

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CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE

Artist / Band: CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
Song (MP3): COLD WHITE CHRISTMAS
Album: Etiquette
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Tomlab
Info: This is the fourth album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (originating from Oakland, CA). Owen Ashworth, still one of the most talentedsongwriters working in independent music today, and his intimate character studies are finally getting the production they deserve.
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13 GHOSTS

Artist / Band: 13GHOSTS
Song (MP3): THE STORM
Album: Cicada
File Under: Indie
Label: Skybucket Records
Info: 13ghosts formed in 1990 under a different name and lasted a few years before succumbing to the excesses of being 21. Though the members remained friends, they were spread across the country and didn’t make music together again until the death of the original bass player in 1998. The inception of 13ghosts was Brad Armstrong and Buzz Russell sitting in the basement with guitars and loose ties after the funeral, trying to write a record about their friend. Though this record was never released, it inspired them to put together a lasting project; a lyrical death fixation was borne of this traumatic period as well.
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BAND OF HORSES

Artist / Band: BAND OF HORSES
Song (MP3): THE FUNERAL
Album: Everything All the Time
File Under: Alternative
Label: Sub Pop
Info: Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat, almost definitively. If it happens at all, it happens naturally — and perhaps nobody knows that better than Seattle, Washington’s Band of Horses. Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and guitarist Mat Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004, after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa’s Wierd. Carissa’s Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. And, Band of Horses rises from the ashes of that well-loved band. After playing music with each other for over a decade, Bridwell and Brooke picked up together again when Bridwell began fleshing out his compositions post-Carissa’s. “It was really just a natural thing we started doing,” explains Bridwell. Buoyed by Bridwell’s warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which strangely channel a dichotomous blend of Wayne Coyne, Brian Wilson and Doug Martsch,) Band of Horses’ woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing and hope. At times raggedly epic (“The Great Salt Lake”) and delicately pensive (“St. Augustine,” “Monsters”), Everything All the Time is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.
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CAROLINE

Artist / Band: CAROLINE
Song (MP3): SUNRISE
Album: Murmurs
File Under: Electronica / Pop / Ambient
Label: temporary residence
Info: Originally from Okinawa, Japan, Caroline Lufkin moved around a lot by the time she had graduated from Berklee School of Music in Boston in 2003, ultimately settling nowhere (though currently calling Los Angeles her home). With an incredible gift for writing gripping songs from the most minimal elements - not to mention a voice that could make angels weep - Caroline's music seizes the rare opportunity to hypnotize everything and everyone around it. And really, who in this world doesn't want to succumb to a music-induced read more from the source...

The New Amsterdams

Artist / Band: The New Amsterdams
Song (MP3): Turn Out The Lights
Album: Story Like A Scar
File Under: Indie / Acoustic
Label: vagrant
Info: "[The music of The New Amsterdams' Matt Pryor] bears the distinct sound of an indie vet in reflection. With a heavy heart, he sprinkles in couplets for past lovers and corner bars over cotton-soft rock tracks that breathe and shimmer." — Rolling Stone The New Amsterdams' new album, Story Like a Scar, breathes like a breeze across the prairie and shimmers like the sun on the Kansas River. Not that the band’s lyricist, Matt Pryor, was consciously evoking the Kansas locale he calls home. Still, lines like, "It echoes in the hills," "midnight on a dirt road" and “a secret concealed in the wheat fields" conjure an unmistakable sense of place.
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 5 MARCH

EDITORS- MUNICH
IRVING- JEN NOTHING MATTERS TO ME
GIL MANTERAS PARTY DREAM - ELMO'S WISH
THE HIGH VIOLETS - SUNBABY
TRACK A TIGER - GLAD TO BE SCATTERED
THE WITNESSES - WE'RE TAKING OVER
CINEMECHANICA - BRAIN TARP
THE EAMES ERA - YEAR OF THE WAITRESS
QUASI - THE RHINO
MOGWAI - FOLK DEATH 95
STONE JACK JONES - BREAD
WITCH'S HAT- GLODYANY, 1972
THE SUBMARINES - CLOUDS
LOW SKIES - LEVELLING
BURIED BEDS - CAMELLIA

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