Hermitude - HyperParadise

http://www.myspace.com/hermitude





Origine du Groupe : Australia

Style : Abstract Hip Hop

Sortie : 2012





By Piri  from http://theorangepress.net

Ahead of their hotly anticipated LP HyperParadise, Hermitude have dropped the title track as their lead-in single. It’s quite mad. Sounding not too dissimilar to Rustie‘s recent material only a
bit more bonkers, it’s a veritable melange of synth textures, with multiple layers of keyboard (keytar?) shredding and triggered vox, before closing out with some pretty piano. I can’t wait to
hear the rest, all the lead in tunes have been significant departures from their typical head-nod downtempo work, there’s bound to be a few of those on the album, but they’ve obviously spent a
bunch of time experimenting with new formulas, a risky move, but being the accomplished sonic alchemists that they are, I betting on a winning album.





Tracklist :

01. Engage

02. Get In My Life

03. All Of You

04. Speak Of The Devil

05. The Hunt

06. Let You Go

07. Hermilude

08. HyperParadise

09. the Villain

10. Sloucho Darx

11. Golden

12. Cloud City

13. Flood

Hermitude - HyperParadise

http://www.myspace.com/hermitude





Origine du Groupe : Australia

Style : Abstract Hip Hop

Sortie : 2012





By Piri  from http://theorangepress.net

Ahead of their hotly anticipated LP HyperParadise, Hermitude have dropped the title track as their lead-in single. It’s quite mad. Sounding not too dissimilar to Rustie‘s recent material only a
bit more bonkers, it’s a veritable melange of synth textures, with multiple layers of keyboard (keytar?) shredding and triggered vox, before closing out with some pretty piano. I can’t wait to
hear the rest, all the lead in tunes have been significant departures from their typical head-nod downtempo work, there’s bound to be a few of those on the album, but they’ve obviously spent a
bunch of time experimenting with new formulas, a risky move, but being the accomplished sonic alchemists that they are, I betting on a winning album.





Tracklist :

01. Engage

02. Get In My Life

03. All Of You

04. Speak Of The Devil

05. The Hunt

06. Let You Go

07. Hermilude

08. HyperParadise

09. the Villain

10. Sloucho Darx

11. Golden

12. Cloud City

13. Flood

Silverman - Speed of Life Part 2

http://www.silvermania.co.uk





Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Trip Hop , Alternative

Sortie : 2002



From http://www.cdbaby.com



Location: "We exist in Cheltenham, England; though we live our lives in our warped imaginations."



Many bands - desperate to give the impression that someone somewhere gives a shit about them - claim to be a hit on the Internet. Silverman have been there and done that. Having charted high and
consistently at MP3.com, ClickMusic and Besonic, they also won an audience poll by US portal Streamsearch, being flown to Los Angeles for the award ceremony, then appearing as guests-of-honour at
the after-show party at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion. With the party sponsored by Viagra, says Silverman's co-founder Martin Williams, "we weren't short of somewhere to hang our coats."



Silverman are two - Martin and singer Anna Dennis - with a touring complement of a further three. Anna has no history in bands. She has, though, spent lonely years writing and trashing songs,
finding her own voice. Martin's story is different. As drummer, co-songwriter and acting manager of Nilon Bombers, he has suffered the toilet-tours, and was once named Pick Of The Week in Melody
Maker.



When the Bombers split, "savaged by time, stress and fatigue," Martin went looking for a singer and, pointed in her direction by "a completely inappropriate rock guy," discovered Anna in an
acoustic club. Initial demos were a joy. Previously compromised by the band situation and stifled as a songwriter, Martin was drunk on liberty. Absolutely inexperienced, Anna had no idea what a
boundary was. She introduced him to Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco and Heather Nova, he drew her into Mogwai, Sparklehorse and Arab Strap, "stuff that gives you somewhere to explore, where not
everything is at the surface."



As the short-sighted industry infatuation with manufactured pop drove listeners into the arms of David Gray, Coldplay, Turin Brakes and Starsailor, so Silverman benefited too. Their wares sold
well in cyberspace, so well that time constraints eventually forced them down the more traditional route. Their new album, Speed Of Life Part 2, will - shock, horror - be available in shops.
Speed Of Life Part 1, a compilation of all their Internet hits, may have already passed you by.



So, SOL Part 2 is not strictly speaking a debut and - complex, refined and mature - it doesn't sound like one. Caustic, cruel duet Ctrl Alt Del will remind you of Gainsbourg and Birkin, or Cave
and Kylie, with music courtesy of, perhaps, Massive Attack. "Can I have my heart back, please?" has you thinking of a tormented Cocteau Twins, with a broken Anna's sad request buried beneath a
wave of brutal electro-noise.Themes include sex, death and lingering pain, though the sex is (tellingly?) not gender-specific.



These are "proper" songs, superbly written, beautifully performed and backed with cultured and soulful soundscapes that place Silverman alongside such contemporary greats as Low, Portishead and
Sneaker Pimps. Listen and understand.





Anna Dennis: vocals, acoustic guitar

Martin Williams: sampler, drums, guitar, vocals

Steve Moody: bass

Alan Deacon: keyboards

Paul Treby: guitar





Tracklist :

1. CTRL Alt Del

2. Secret Baby

3. Don't Leave This World Without Me

4. 11:11

5. Can I Have My Heart Back Please?

6. Be Beautiful

7. Nothing I Do, Nothing I Say

8. Love Me Too (Bonus Track)

Silverman - Speed of Life Part 2

http://www.silvermania.co.uk





Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Trip Hop , Alternative

Sortie : 2002



From http://www.cdbaby.com



Location: "We exist in Cheltenham, England; though we live our lives in our warped imaginations."



Many bands - desperate to give the impression that someone somewhere gives a shit about them - claim to be a hit on the Internet. Silverman have been there and done that. Having charted high and
consistently at MP3.com, ClickMusic and Besonic, they also won an audience poll by US portal Streamsearch, being flown to Los Angeles for the award ceremony, then appearing as guests-of-honour at
the after-show party at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion. With the party sponsored by Viagra, says Silverman's co-founder Martin Williams, "we weren't short of somewhere to hang our coats."



Silverman are two - Martin and singer Anna Dennis - with a touring complement of a further three. Anna has no history in bands. She has, though, spent lonely years writing and trashing songs,
finding her own voice. Martin's story is different. As drummer, co-songwriter and acting manager of Nilon Bombers, he has suffered the toilet-tours, and was once named Pick Of The Week in Melody
Maker.



When the Bombers split, "savaged by time, stress and fatigue," Martin went looking for a singer and, pointed in her direction by "a completely inappropriate rock guy," discovered Anna in an
acoustic club. Initial demos were a joy. Previously compromised by the band situation and stifled as a songwriter, Martin was drunk on liberty. Absolutely inexperienced, Anna had no idea what a
boundary was. She introduced him to Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco and Heather Nova, he drew her into Mogwai, Sparklehorse and Arab Strap, "stuff that gives you somewhere to explore, where not
everything is at the surface."



As the short-sighted industry infatuation with manufactured pop drove listeners into the arms of David Gray, Coldplay, Turin Brakes and Starsailor, so Silverman benefited too. Their wares sold
well in cyberspace, so well that time constraints eventually forced them down the more traditional route. Their new album, Speed Of Life Part 2, will - shock, horror - be available in shops.
Speed Of Life Part 1, a compilation of all their Internet hits, may have already passed you by.



So, SOL Part 2 is not strictly speaking a debut and - complex, refined and mature - it doesn't sound like one. Caustic, cruel duet Ctrl Alt Del will remind you of Gainsbourg and Birkin, or Cave
and Kylie, with music courtesy of, perhaps, Massive Attack. "Can I have my heart back, please?" has you thinking of a tormented Cocteau Twins, with a broken Anna's sad request buried beneath a
wave of brutal electro-noise.Themes include sex, death and lingering pain, though the sex is (tellingly?) not gender-specific.



These are "proper" songs, superbly written, beautifully performed and backed with cultured and soulful soundscapes that place Silverman alongside such contemporary greats as Low, Portishead and
Sneaker Pimps. Listen and understand.





Anna Dennis: vocals, acoustic guitar

Martin Williams: sampler, drums, guitar, vocals

Steve Moody: bass

Alan Deacon: keyboards

Paul Treby: guitar





Tracklist :

1. CTRL Alt Del

2. Secret Baby

3. Don't Leave This World Without Me

4. 11:11

5. Can I Have My Heart Back Please?

6. Be Beautiful

7. Nothing I Do, Nothing I Say

8. Love Me Too (Bonus Track)

The Reflections - Love On Delivery

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Soul , Funk

Sortie : 1975



From http://www.funkmysoul.gr



I always was looking for this vinyl and finally I got my hands on it.



A modern soul classic — and a darn hard record to find! The Reflections were an obscure male quartet with a sound that mixed deep soul vocals and smooth modern production, and as far as we know,
they only ever cut this one LP for Capitol. Melba Moore gave the group their start, and the album features arrangements by the likes of Paul Griffin, Bert DeCoteaux, and JJ Jackson. Includes the
wonderful spacey soul cut "She's My Summer Breeze", plus "Are You Ready", "One Into One", "Now That You've Taken Your Love", and "Love On Delivery". Great stuff — and one of those gems that keeps
us diggin through rare vinyl!





Tracklist :

A1 Day After Day (Night After Night) 4.35

A2 Love On Delivery (L.O.V.) 5.30

A3 Now You've Taken Your Love 5.40

A4 Are You Ready (Here I Am) 3.49

A5 She's My Summer Breeze 4.23

B1 All Day, All Night (Runnin' Around) 3.31

B2 One Into One 4.15

B3 Telephone Lover 4.03

B4 How Could We Let The Love Get Away 4.12

B5 Three Steps From True Love 3.43

The Reflections - Love On Delivery

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Soul , Funk

Sortie : 1975



From http://www.funkmysoul.gr



I always was looking for this vinyl and finally I got my hands on it.



A modern soul classic — and a darn hard record to find! The Reflections were an obscure male quartet with a sound that mixed deep soul vocals and smooth modern production, and as far as we know,
they only ever cut this one LP for Capitol. Melba Moore gave the group their start, and the album features arrangements by the likes of Paul Griffin, Bert DeCoteaux, and JJ Jackson. Includes the
wonderful spacey soul cut "She's My Summer Breeze", plus "Are You Ready", "One Into One", "Now That You've Taken Your Love", and "Love On Delivery". Great stuff — and one of those gems that keeps
us diggin through rare vinyl!





Tracklist :

A1 Day After Day (Night After Night) 4.35

A2 Love On Delivery (L.O.V.) 5.30

A3 Now You've Taken Your Love 5.40

A4 Are You Ready (Here I Am) 3.49

A5 She's My Summer Breeze 4.23

B1 All Day, All Night (Runnin' Around) 3.31

B2 One Into One 4.15

B3 Telephone Lover 4.03

B4 How Could We Let The Love Get Away 4.12

B5 Three Steps From True Love 3.43

Afro Celt Sound System - Anatomic

http://afroceltsoundsystem.net

http://www.myspace.com/afrocelts





Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Alternative Fusion World Music , Electro

Sortie : 2005



By Chris Moss  from http://www.bbc.co.uk



The many avid fans of Afro Celt Sound System will no doubt applaud this, the band's fifth album, as another daring sonic landscape and a new phase of their ground-breaking ten-year cycle.



But the synth-driven incantatory sound goes back decades and this is essentially Deep Forest, Enya and Jean Michel Jarre mixed with some astute picking of guitars and pounding of exotic drums to
produce a self-consciously globalised ethnic slush. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and with the volume cranked up, this is a powerful, brain-cleansing music for unfocused meditation, or
ironing perhaps.



But Afro Celt Sound System are not strict ambientalists and employ many of the musical tricks advanced by pop-synth whizzos like Moby and the Chemical Brothers (and all those long-lost rave DJs).
Track 3, "Mojave", is typical: we get a slow-building crescendo, dreamy swirling pipes, stadium-rock guitar, and a melting pot of music with Native American and Celtic elements in abundance. The
title track takes you elsewhere, a great beat and pan pipes suggesting the band have one foot on Ben Nevis and the other on Aconcagua. It's a bit fly-by-night, but all good fun.



At other times, as on "Dhol Dogs", they seem to lean closer towards Glass-style minimalism, and it would be interesting to see them pushing further into atonality and abstract compositions.



The band contributed to the soundtrack of Hotel Rwanda and are joined again by singer Dorothee Munyaneza as well as Uzbeki star Sevara Nazarkhan. The range of elements across these nine tracks is
considerable, and there's really not a bland moment. The clear, sometimes strident acoustic trills and samples in fact allow the synths to do what they do best: blast out massive chords and reach
for zeniths of modulation.



Polished, formulaic, politically correct, this is easy listening for those with ethereal inclinations but its full of great tunes, impassioned vocals and little surprises along the way.





Tracklist :

1 When I Still Needed You

2 My Secret Bliss

3 Mojave

4 Sené (Working the Land)

5 Beautiful Rain

6 Anatomic

7 Mother

8 Dhol Dogs

9 Drake

Afro Celt Sound System - Anatomic

http://afroceltsoundsystem.net

http://www.myspace.com/afrocelts





Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Alternative Fusion World Music , Electro

Sortie : 2005



By Chris Moss  from http://www.bbc.co.uk



The many avid fans of Afro Celt Sound System will no doubt applaud this, the band's fifth album, as another daring sonic landscape and a new phase of their ground-breaking ten-year cycle.



But the synth-driven incantatory sound goes back decades and this is essentially Deep Forest, Enya and Jean Michel Jarre mixed with some astute picking of guitars and pounding of exotic drums to
produce a self-consciously globalised ethnic slush. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and with the volume cranked up, this is a powerful, brain-cleansing music for unfocused meditation, or
ironing perhaps.



But Afro Celt Sound System are not strict ambientalists and employ many of the musical tricks advanced by pop-synth whizzos like Moby and the Chemical Brothers (and all those long-lost rave DJs).
Track 3, "Mojave", is typical: we get a slow-building crescendo, dreamy swirling pipes, stadium-rock guitar, and a melting pot of music with Native American and Celtic elements in abundance. The
title track takes you elsewhere, a great beat and pan pipes suggesting the band have one foot on Ben Nevis and the other on Aconcagua. It's a bit fly-by-night, but all good fun.



At other times, as on "Dhol Dogs", they seem to lean closer towards Glass-style minimalism, and it would be interesting to see them pushing further into atonality and abstract compositions.



The band contributed to the soundtrack of Hotel Rwanda and are joined again by singer Dorothee Munyaneza as well as Uzbeki star Sevara Nazarkhan. The range of elements across these nine tracks is
considerable, and there's really not a bland moment. The clear, sometimes strident acoustic trills and samples in fact allow the synths to do what they do best: blast out massive chords and reach
for zeniths of modulation.



Polished, formulaic, politically correct, this is easy listening for those with ethereal inclinations but its full of great tunes, impassioned vocals and little surprises along the way.





Tracklist :

1 When I Still Needed You

2 My Secret Bliss

3 Mojave

4 Sené (Working the Land)

5 Beautiful Rain

6 Anatomic

7 Mother

8 Dhol Dogs

9 Drake

Sissy - March Of The Humans

http://www.sissytheband.com

http://www.myspace.com/sissytheband





Origine du Groupe : Canada

Style : Trip Hop , Electronic

Sortie : 2012



By Ben Rayner from http://www.toronto.com



Sissy hails from Toronto and already has one superb album under its belt that received international release on a high-profile U.K. electronic label, yet the mysterious downtempo duo is virtually
unknown in its hometown.



To be fair, of course, Sissy is hardly a household name anywhere — which seems a touch unfair, since All Under, its 2006 debut for Global Underground Recordings, was an out-of-the-blue stunner
that not nearly enough people got to hear. The stars might be finally be poised to align in David Trusz and Johanne Williams's favour, however, since their excruciatingly long-in-the-making
second LP is even stronger. If this one gets out to the right audiencesAll Under, it's going to be very tough to ignore.



Fair warning, though: March of the Humans is even grimmer than its predecessor. Coal-black. Mirthless. All Under wallowed elegantly in loneliness and disenchantment while copping a few choice
moves from '90s “trip-hop” but M.O.T.H. is colder, more industrial and far more pessimistic. “It's all a waste/ It's always a waste/ It's all gonna be a waste,” Williams intones in a clenched
monotone on “All a Waste.” “Show me something that you've done right now that's worth believing in,” goes the bridge to “Long Distance,” one of two tracks that perversely enlist a children's
choir for a breathtakingly bleak chorus. Sissy makes it quite clear where it thinks this march is going.



Between Williams's forlornly beautiful voice and Trusz's arresting production, mind you, a spiral into oblivion has rarely sounded this spectacular. Sissy demonstrated on All Under that it could
do dubbed-out wee-hours crooning as well as any of the crews from Bristol whose influences it proudly wore. M.O.T.H., however, brings a harder electro edge and more rousing tempos to the table —
“Imminent Rampage” even proffers a mid-album eruption of driving tech-step drum-‘n'-bass — and is a less draining listen because of it. It appears that dancing at the end of the world comes as
naturally to Sissy as long, dark nights of the soul. Here, Toronto, is your first great album of 2012.





Tracklist :

1 Home

2 Long Distance

3 Acid Cake

4 Fool Around

5 On My Own

6 All a Waste

7 Imminent Rampage

8 Other Ways

9 All of Me

10 Expiry Date

11 Stay

Sissy - March Of The Humans

http://www.sissytheband.com

http://www.myspace.com/sissytheband





Origine du Groupe : Canada

Style : Trip Hop , Electronic

Sortie : 2012



By Ben Rayner from http://www.toronto.com



Sissy hails from Toronto and already has one superb album under its belt that received international release on a high-profile U.K. electronic label, yet the mysterious downtempo duo is virtually
unknown in its hometown.



To be fair, of course, Sissy is hardly a household name anywhere — which seems a touch unfair, since All Under, its 2006 debut for Global Underground Recordings, was an out-of-the-blue stunner
that not nearly enough people got to hear. The stars might be finally be poised to align in David Trusz and Johanne Williams's favour, however, since their excruciatingly long-in-the-making
second LP is even stronger. If this one gets out to the right audiencesAll Under, it's going to be very tough to ignore.



Fair warning, though: March of the Humans is even grimmer than its predecessor. Coal-black. Mirthless. All Under wallowed elegantly in loneliness and disenchantment while copping a few choice
moves from '90s “trip-hop” but M.O.T.H. is colder, more industrial and far more pessimistic. “It's all a waste/ It's always a waste/ It's all gonna be a waste,” Williams intones in a clenched
monotone on “All a Waste.” “Show me something that you've done right now that's worth believing in,” goes the bridge to “Long Distance,” one of two tracks that perversely enlist a children's
choir for a breathtakingly bleak chorus. Sissy makes it quite clear where it thinks this march is going.



Between Williams's forlornly beautiful voice and Trusz's arresting production, mind you, a spiral into oblivion has rarely sounded this spectacular. Sissy demonstrated on All Under that it could
do dubbed-out wee-hours crooning as well as any of the crews from Bristol whose influences it proudly wore. M.O.T.H., however, brings a harder electro edge and more rousing tempos to the table —
“Imminent Rampage” even proffers a mid-album eruption of driving tech-step drum-‘n'-bass — and is a less draining listen because of it. It appears that dancing at the end of the world comes as
naturally to Sissy as long, dark nights of the soul. Here, Toronto, is your first great album of 2012.





Tracklist :

1 Home

2 Long Distance

3 Acid Cake

4 Fool Around

5 On My Own

6 All a Waste

7 Imminent Rampage

8 Other Ways

9 All of Me

10 Expiry Date

11 Stay