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Jogger - This Great Pressure
JGGR231TGP.zip




YouTube - NEPHICIDE by JOGGER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24MRTxgvRE

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (2011)
(indie, electronic)






Lykke Li was dressing like a witch before it was cool, which might certify her as the ultimate tastemaker in today's post-Salem world. Wounded Rhymes follows her 2008 debut, Youth Novels, and offers more of the somber, plaintive emotions that characterized Li as the heart-on-sleeve pop darling of the indie scene. Li has called the album a partial statement about female empowerment -- a more direct, darker sound compared to the light-as-a-feather sound of Youth Novels' best cuts. The black-and-white video for "Get Some," which features kaleidoscope images of Li folding into herself and grainy film footage of gender wars and the jungle, certainly plays into that intention. Too bad everyone's just going to say she copied Lady Gaga.

beautiful guy, beautiful voice, beautiful music

JAMES BLAKE

Runner-up in the BBC’s ‘Sound Of 2011′ poll, London-based dubstep artist James Blake’s debut album reflects his famously eclectic style. Featuring a blend of electronic productionand more traditional recording techniques, this fusion is most obvious on Feist cover, ‘Limit To Your Love’, which is also the album’s first single. Blake is heavily influenced byartists such as The XX, and claims their success has made it easier for others to understand his music.

Track List:

1. Unluck
2. The Wilhelm Scream
3. I Never Learnt To Share
4. Lindisfarne I
5. Lindisfarne II
6. Limit To Your Love
7. Give Me My Month
8. To Care (Like You)
9. Why Don’t You Call Me
10. I Mind
11. Measurements

Release Name: James_Blake-James_Blake-CD-2011-hM
Genre: Electronic
Label: Polydor Ltd

Nosaj Thing & Rainbow Arabia / The LA Collection: Number Two [2010]

 
320 kbps



via Puregroove.co.uk

IAMSOUND amalgamates two of the most extremely amazing artists in LA, sticking them back-to-back with wax like some kind of mad scientist, injecting their exquisite corpse with lighting and shouting LIVE! LIVE! Or rather LIVE! LOVE! DANCE! 

Rainbow Arabia do their brilliant thing-that-only-they-do-and-only-they-do-best, giving total power to the cowbell and percussing like some kind of a toerag school-kid rapping nursery rhymes, high on Kiora, banging on downtown trash cans… but alot less annoying than that sounds on paper.

Nosaj Thing however provide the musical equivalent of opening a birthday present only to find the surprise inside is a sonic-magpie which gently and slowly pecks at your brain in the most wonderful fashion, flapping you into submission over four minutes of dark feathery magic. Unexpected and amazing. 

Basically the best legal high since we got stuck in that marker pen factory....

"POP" GIRLS: Adele (22) , Ellie Goulding (24), Jessie J (22)

Adele
http://www.adele.tv/home
http://www.myspace.com/adelelondon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_(singer)

last.fm:

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, (born 5 May 1988), is a Grammy Award-Winning English soul, jazz, singer-songwriter from Enfield, North London. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 and entered the UK album chart at #1 where it was certified Platinum. The album included the hugely popular song, Chasing Pavements. 

Adele won two Grammy Awards in February 2009 for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her second album, 21, was released on January 24th 2011 in the UK where it has since been certified two-times Platinum for shipments in excess of 600,000 copies. The album is due for release in the US and Canada on Tuesday February 22nd 2011. The album has spawned two singles thus far including lead single Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You.

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Ellie Goulding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Goulding
http://elliegoulding.com/







last.fm:Ellie Goulding (born Elena Jane Goulding on 30 December 1986) is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Hereford, she grew up in Kington, Herefordshire and currently lives in London, United Kingdom .

Touring since 2008 she released her debut single “Under The Sheets” on 15 November 2009. The track was produced by Starsmith, with whom she has been working since the beginning of her career. Her debut album, titledLights, was released on 1 March 2010 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

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Jessie J

http://www.myspace.com/jessiejofficial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_J

last.fm: Jessica Cornish (b, 27 Mar ‘88, in Essex, UK), a singer-songwriter, first known as a writer / backing-vocalist for others (e.g. Christina Aguilera & Miley Cyrus), she began recording solo in 2010. Her début album, “Who You Are” (expected UK: 28 Feb ‘11 & USA: 12 Apr ‘11), has spawned two charting singles: Do It Like a Dude (UK lead) & “Price Tag” (USA lead).

In December 2010, Jessie won the Brit Awards’ Critics Choice prize as the artist most likely to break into mainstream music within the next year. In January 2011, she was named BBC Sound Of 2011, beating fourteen other upcoming acts to win the coveted title previously won by the likes of Ellie Goulding and 50 Cent.

Do you wanna PLEJ?

Last.fm: Plej are brothers Arvid & Erik Niklasson from the burgeoning music scene in Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden. The Plej sound is characterised by a playful, soft, melodic and experimental approach to house music. Soft club orientated house opens up to experimental deep house that incorporates melodies.

The duo emerged in 2003 on Exceptional Records with their seminal debut, ‘Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast’. The album achieved cult status via word of mouth and over the years has proved to be a timeless classic. Aside from working on a follow up, Arvid and Erik have been busy with numerous other projects for the past couple of years. Unbeknownst to most, Erik is also the lead singer inThe Similou who had a Top Ten hit last summer with the perfect shiny pop of ‘All This Love’, whilst Arvid wrote and directed The Similou’s two first videos.
Nothing new since 2008? :-(


More here: http://www.plej.se/
http://www.myspace.com/weareplej

Plej - Electronic Music From The Swedish Left Coast

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

House, Downtempo, Deep House

Year:

2003

Plej - Home Is Where Your Heart Was

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Downtempo, Deep House, House

Year:

2008

My new discovery from the north: Wildbirds & Peacedrums

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Fight For Me


27. 4. Palác Akropolis


http://www.myspace.com/wildbirdsandpeacedrums
http://www.wildbirdsandpeacedrums.com/


Freemusic.cz
"Wildbirds & Peacedrums rovná se spojení talentované zpěvačky Mariam Wallentin a excelentního bubeníka Andrease Werliina. Jistou střídmost v aranžmá vyvažuje švédské duo na albu Heartcore muzikantskou vyzrálostí, originalitou a neortodoxními postupy."


Aleš Stuchlý recenze: 
http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiowave/musiccheck/_zprava/784301

Another New challenge- managing Dead´s Pope Company

FB Page

Bandzone page

xproduction.cz :

Dead Pope's Company, punkoví srdcerváči, kteří slovu rock´n´roll dávají jeho původní význam. Punk jako zábava, podvazková lasa a pod podiem tlačenice k nezastavení. Solí vyhraný a propracovaný garážový punk říznutý speedovaným rokenrolem, rychlost, vtip, drajv a výborné melodie na debutovém albu Dead Pope´s Company s lehce zapamatovatelným názvem Alcoholiars, Christians and Weasels (It Took Much More Time Than We Thought) u nás prostě nemá srovnání. Máte rádi The Hives? Hledáte průsečík mezi The Pink Spiders a Tokyo Sex Destruction? Pak jste na správné adrese!
    Jistě, byli tu Scissorhands a máme The Pooh. Nikdo ale zatím neměl odvahu udělat tour do Rumunska nebo chvíli na to letět do Tokia na hraní s tamními Anisakis a ještě tam natočit klip. Co jsou pro jiné celoživotní trampoty, pro Dead Pope´s Company je denním chlebem. „Elvis je mrtvej, ale Papež žije,“ říká frontman kapely Samuel Mondial.
    Moderní manažerské brožurky sice říkají, že hlavní je týmová spolupráce a ono to tak vskutku je, ale pokud nemáte frontmana, nebude to fungovat, prostě každé rande potřebuje svoje vygradování. Samuel je světový a tak Mondial je správně, navíc na nahrávce ještě přibrousil výraz, který je nakřáplý jako starý mixér, ale zároveň zní lépe než japonské hi-fi. Znáte tu pohádku o vlkovi, který si nechával přibrousit jazyk, aby mohl skočit na sedm kůzlátek? Jistě si v tom případě doplníte, kdo je tady vlk a kdo kůzlátka. Samuel k tomu lakonicky dodává: „DPC jsou jako ten nejlepší sex, co jste kdy zažili!“
   Nechtění potomci Debbie Harry a Joe Strummera si zakládají na adekvátním negližé, lehce lavírují na provaze dobových očekávání, krize-nekrize: „Základ je společensky se obléct, chovat se slušně a zdvořile a pak už jen vylízt na pódium a zbourat klub!“ Je to dostatečně retro.

Hybrid 2. 2. 2011 Lucerna Music Bar

Break My Soul - Video

"Dokonalí architekti breakbeatu, trance či house music, kteří se odvážili jít za hranice taneční hudby a díky spojení strhujících beatů, emocí a vokálů se silou symfonického orchestru, si vytvořili osobitý zvuk uchvacující posluchače napříč hudebními žánry"

No zážitek to určitě byl, nebýt příšerného zvuku v Lucerna Music Baru a pocitu, že tahle hudba se netvoří na pódiu, nýbrž ve studiu. Problém je v nedostatku improvize a síle okamžiku, která je jen v tom, že jste na jednom místě, s různými lidmi na stejné hudbě.

Je škoda nemoci si vychutnat proces tvorby kapely, která se podílela na famózních projektech, které zdobí nejednu reklamu, film nebo promo video.