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The Aphex Twin - Digeridoo

(1992) (12" vinyl rip)

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Speakers everywhere this fall will rejoice with the arrival of Eyes at Half Mast, the third record from Talkdemonic. The Portland, Oregon duo of Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro have been playing together since 2003; she plays the viola and cello, while he plays everything else, including, but not limited to: drums, synths, and acoustic instruments. The result is an intoxicating blend of symphonic strings and explosive percussion; achingly beautiful music.

Eyes at Half Mast is the band's high water mark. The album teems with moments of spirited beauty, (especially on "Duality of Deathening" and "March Movement") and of haunting elegies (as exemplified by "Tides in Their Grave" and "Dust and Heat"). There are passages filled with raw dissonance on the record, such as the release and tension offered by "Civilian", There is a sense of loss and memory running through many of these songs, but the tone of the record is ultimately one of hope, a satisfyingly dark vitality that embraces melodic confidence.

Talkdemonic continue to expand the range of emotion that they are able to evoke without words. The band is emerging in terms of composition, song structure and recording, and the sound crystallizes here. Talkdemonic hit a stride in songwriting with tunes like "Ending the Orange Glow" and "Black Wood Crimson", which feature complex arrangements, layers and harmonies. It's worth noting that O'Connor mixed thirteen of the fourteen songs from this set.

Audiences admire Talkdemonic for their uncompromisingly cathartic and bewitching live sets, as they witness the co-mingling of O'Connor's rhythmic prowess and Molinaro's tempestuous craft. It becomes a welcome contagion, to know Talkdemonic, as they remind us continue to treat music as something of crucial importance and endless amazement.

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Pitchfork (8.5/10)
Despite the enormous fluffy clouds of grain and reverb, the album never stops moving-- even the loosest of their bass lines work like billows to keep blowing things forward. (Occasionally, the funk is more obvious: "Floating Points" borrows its boompty from !!!'s "Me and Guiliani...", surprising as it may sound.) But they leaven their momentum with tentativeness, never simply pushing the beat toward climax but stopping to explore the little loopholes in time and psychoacoustic space. "Jet", the album's highlight, wants to have it all ways at once: a compact funk bass line below, misty pads on top, and then a nimbly twisting arpeggio that goes shooting through it all like a giant's vine. A high-pitched, trombone-like sound melts like hot plastic from unseen heights, and everything feels at once within reach and incredibly far away. Readers of Alice in Wonderland will recognize this symptom as micropsia, which might make sense: Allien and Apparat have burrowed one of the most magical rabbit-holes you'll explore this year.

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Amazon.co.uk Review
You could never accuse Damon Albarn of resting on his laurels. Whether it's forming supergroups (The Good, The Bad & The Queen), working with cult animators (The Gorillaz) or making music with musicians from Mali, the former Blur frontman has nurtured a restless, questing spirit not normally encountered in Britop stars. As if to underline his diverse interests, he now turns his attention to Chinese theatre. Monkey: Journey to the West is a theatrical collaboration between Albarn (music), Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz fame (designs, costumes) and Chinese opera specialist Chen Shi-Zheng. The show itself is an explosive 90-minute circus featuring Chinese acrobats, martial arts experts and contortionists, though the album condenses the experience into 22 songs lasting an hour or so.

Recorded in London and Beijing with a mix of European and Chinese musicians, Monkey ... is a genuine attempt at East-West fusion. Featuring a dizzying array of instrumentation--rock guitars, electronics, harps, mandolins, drum machines, strings, plinky-plonk keyboards, giggling girls, chants, even pigs--it's the sort of project that could so easily have gone awry. Yet Albarn, who allegedly mastered the Chinese pentatonic scale, seems to have made it work. Songs like the fluttery "Heavenly Peach Banquet" and the wistful "The Living Sea" are utterly beguiling, and stand in stark contrast to guitar-heavy behemoths like "Battle in Heaven" and the climactic "Monkey Bee." These longer songs are punctuated with incidental pieces such as "Iron Rod", "Into the Eastern Sea" and "Out of the Eastern Sea". While such interludes may distract from a 'normal' album experience, there's enough melodious charm and imaginative whimsy scattered throughout to satisfy even ardent skeptics.

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VA - Strictly Underground,
The Compilation 3

(1994) (vinyl rip)

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In a phone interview with Pete Tong, on June 20, 2008, Tom from The Chemical Brothers confirmed that a compilation album of all of the singles and Electronic Battle Weapons will be released later this year. In a fan email on 24 June 2008, it was announced that the double album collection would be called Brotherhood and would be released on 1 September 2008. Disc one would include 14 singles, including new track 'Keep My Composure'. Disc two will include all ten Electronic Battle Weapons. A tenth "Electronic Battle Weapon" has surfaced and is titled "Midnight Madness". The track will be available as a downloadable single from 18 August 2008. To date, this has been a very anticipated single from the group.

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Saturdays=Youth is an album by French electronic group M83 released on April 14, 2008.

The album was recorded with Ken Thomas (known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Cocteau Twins and Suede) and Ewan Pearson (who has also produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron). The album is said to deliver the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known, but with a more focused approach to song structure and form.

"Couleurs" is the first single, released to digital retailers on February 25, 2008. The album's second single, "Graveyard Girl," was released on April 8, 2008 with the original album version as well as a remix by Yuksek. "Kim and Jessie" will be the third single in July.

The album hit number 107 on the billboard 200.

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The Times (3/5 stars)
While their most recent release of new work (the Clocks EP) hinted at a more ambient direction, this remix album is a reminder of Simian Mobile Disco's inventiveness. The fingerprints of SMD's James Ford are all over the music of the Klaxons and Arctic Monkeys and it's fascinating to hear Scott mixed by Silver Apples, who gave SMD their name and the backbone of Ford's sound. Other highlights include Cosmo Vitelli's dreamy Italo-Disco reimagining of Hotdog.

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45:33 is a composition by LCD Soundsystem. Commissioned by Nike, 45:33: Nike Original Run is an original work initially available exclusively at Nike Music Store on iTunes. A re-release on CD and vinyl was issued by DFA Records on November 12, 2007.

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