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Dj Me Dj You is a busy duo of producers that have worked with a number of people both in the music and the movie business writing soundtracks, music for commercial, doing remixes, producing artists etc. This DVD of them contains the video clip of the song "People Together", a dancey and funny outlook on pop-culture and flower-power attitude.
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Los Angeles based Japanese-Korean-American duo Seksu Roba radiate their solar "Pleasure Vibrations" on us using rays of fun-lovin' electro-pop, cheesy sounding synth-exotica, relaxing lounge music and groovy dance. Their favourite instruments are the theremin, the mini-moog and other digital toys. In the middle of all this lush and glimmering vintage-disco the duo manages to keep the beat up thus making it a danceable record. This is their second album and the two have had interesting background (Sukho Lee is a renowed Theremin player who also played with Can singer Damo Suzuki while Lun*na Menoh is an artist/designer/singer with an erotic voice that will convince you of whatever she wants to convince you). If you like nostalgic and glamorous pop-tronica check this out.
Artist: Moe! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (@)
Title: Two Forms of Multitudes: Conducted Improvisations
Format: CD
Label: Pax recordings / Dephine Knormal Musik / Edgetone records (@)
Title: Two Forms of Multitudes: Conducted Improvisations
Format: CD
Label: Pax recordings / Dephine Knormal Musik / Edgetone records (@)
Moe! Staiano is a conductor and percussion player who enjoys working with large ensembles of improvising musicians using multitudes of the same instrument. Walking the thin line between total improvisation and some degree of planning (sheet music), Moe has developed his own style of conducting an orchestra which consists of hand gestures, some prepared notations or on the spot written notations. This CD is a testimony of two of his live shows that were recorded using the same notations. As you might or might not expect they sound totally different, in spite of the fact the different musicians had been provided with the same notation, which is what really is the interesting part of this CD, besides the outcome of the improvisation itself... The perception of different people (both listeners and musicians) in relation to the orchestrations achieved by large number of musicians working on cue, together, independently, in harmonious anarchy. «It's about breaking down your expectation sand being open to what is in the moment».
Nov 27 2003
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UV is a trio dedicated to electro-industrial music in its truest form. The band draws inspiration from the gods of the genre, such as FLA, F242, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle, Klinik and mixes them with newer influences such as Suicide Commando, Sonar, Inertia, Velvet Acid Christ. The aggressive approach and the heavy and pounding rhythmical walls are great and give this CD a very primordial and violent impact. Although some of the guitars or the distorted vocals do sound a little bit cliche, they do achieve to bring back to the table some of that older experimental attitude that has been forgotten or replaced by fast ebm sequencing and mono-tonal distorted vocals. It's impossible, and probably un-necessary, to bring back the masters of the genre, but UV definitely do a good job at carrying along the tradition and blending it with modern sounds and approach to avoid sounding out-dated or like a copy. This CD contains remixes by Dj Cable, Tinman artist Terrorfakt, Text Beak, Y-Luk-O (remember them?), Messab, Nixt, PTI, Coexime's hEADaCHE and Cleopatra artist Razed in Black. Try to catch 'em live if you can.
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Muslimgauze, or more likely who for him, keeps releasing an impressive amount of records for somebody that isn't among us anymore... He truly is one of the most prolific artists I have seen... This one is his 156th release (according to his official site maintained by The Edge at Pretentious.net) and contains five versions of "Rhodesia" and three versions of "Rya Ba Mutant". They are re-mixes dated 1993 and have a lot more electronic sounds in it than we are usually accustomed. Obviously the percussive element remains dominant, but lots of background noises, processing, synth sounds, atmospheres and intellegible vocals surface in these mixes.


