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16 June 2017

And now for some boobs: The Brighton Port Authority - “Toe Jam” (feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal)

OK, so the time has come. Nobody follows my blog, so I have to fire the big guns (or rather big boobs) in a last-ditch resort for saving my blogger career. So here we go. Let me present you a video with naked chicks.

And seriously... This is a brilliant song by Fatboy Slim's The Brighton Port Authority, featuring the one and only David Byrne, whose distinct vocals and nonchalant delivery fit perfectly with the lighthearted melody and the funny video.

And speaking of the video - yes, there are naked chicks in it. But all the fun parts are covered with censor boxes. I am sure it required a huge amount of editing, as it has been done in a very funny and creative way. It is not very often, when you can see censorship actually adding some value to the censored material. Absolutely brilliant. Just watch it for yourself. Oh, and the guy behind the video is the acclaimed music video director Keith Schofield.



The Brighton Port Authority - “Toe Jam” (feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal)

10 March 2013

Peszek, Maria - "Maria Awaria" (2008)

Maria Peszek is a highly acclaimed Polish singer/songwriter. She is considered to be controversial, especially by right-wing retards and tabloids, because she is not afraid to openly discuss - both in lyrics to her songs and in interviews - themes such as sex, faith, patriotism and mental diseases. Each of her three albums was a commercial success, at the same time being praised by the critics and receiving many awards in her native Poland. She sings exclusively in Polish.

Maria Awaria (Maria the Failure) is a loose concept album about sex, love and femininity. All lyrics are in Polish and they are really good, witty and powerful, being an important factor in making these songs as awesome as they are. Therefore, this album may not appeal to non-Polish speaking public, as some tracks are built around lyrics with musical background playing only a small part ("Milosc w systemie Dolby Surround", "Reks", "Ladne slowa to").

Nevertheless, I still encourage you to check this album out, because many other tracks are brilliant from the musical side too (e.g. "Rosol", "Hujawiak", "Maria Awaria", "Muchomory"). From the musical perspective this is a pop (or pop rock) record, with some jazz and modern electronica influences. The album is masterfully produced by one of the best Polish producers and electronica composers, Andrzej Smolik, so the said musical background is full of pleasant surprises on many occasions. Many of Peszek's vocal lines are catchy as hell too and should be enjoyable even without understanding of her lyrics.
Maria Awaria To zdecydowanie najbardziej kobieca i erotyczna płyta na polskim rynku od czasów... Hmmm... No właśnie, takiego albumu jeszcze w kraju nad Wisłą nie było.

Maria Peszek na swoim drugim krążku odkrywa przed słuchaczami swoją kobiecą naturę. Bez zażenowania śpiewa o tym, że "dla własnej wygody zapuszcza swe ogrody i kolekcjonuje wzwody". Zdradza też swoje swoje erotyczne fantazje. Zachęca kochanka do lizania, solenia i miętolenia swego drobnego ciała.

Z niemal fotograficzną dokładnością opisuje również style współczesnych kobiet, które z jednej strony "chude, wysokie z wydepilowanym krokiem", a z drugiej mogą być kurami domowymi. Odkrywa też swoją romantyczną duszę i w piękny, metaforyczny sposób (swoim delikatnym aksamitnym głosem) śpiewa o tęsknocie.

I od razu zapewniam: mimo różnych – może kontrowersyjnych – stwierdzeń teksty nie są wulgarne, nie przekraczają cienkiej granicy dobrego smaku (choć się do niej niebezpiecznie zbliżają).

Jeszcze słowo o samej muzyce, za którą odpowiedzialny był Andrzej Smolik. To miks przeróżnych styli muzycznych: od delikatnego, transowego, nastrojowego trip-hopu i chilloutu pełnego "powietrza" i ciepłych muzycznych plam, przez nieco jazzujące swingi, altarnatywnego retropopu, po elementy starego rocka z lat 60-tych. I mimo takiego przemieszania gatunków płyta jest zaskakująco spójna. Szczerze polecam!
[Mariusz Rodziewicz]

Tracklist:

01. Mis                                                 [03:33]
02. Kobiety pistolety                                   [04:52]
03. Marzne bez Ciebie                                   [03:28]
04. Rosol                                               [02:38]
05. Milosc w systemie Dolby Surround (feat. Edek)       [03:48]
06. Reks                                                [00:26]
07. Hujawiak                                            [03:29]
08. Maria Awaria                                        [03:40]
09. Superglue                                           [02:26]
10. Cialo                                               [04:00]
11. Rozpuda                                             [03:27]
12. Hedonia                                             [03:57]
13. Ladne slowa to                                      [03:03]
14. Muchomory                                           [03:47]

Playing Time.........: 46:40






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15 January 2013

k.ROCKSHIRE - "Doggystyle, the" [EP]

Surreal sandwich (9/10)
the doggyStyle EP est le premier album de k. ROCKSHIRE.

Cet album s'adresse aux gens qui souffrent du mauvais temps, de la mondialisation, ou encore des petites déceptions qu'offre chaque jour la vie pour ses vertus médicinales et revigorantes ; mais aussi aux insatiables épicuriens qui cherchent à préserver leur bonheur dans un monde frétillant de délicatesse et de fleurs hawaïennes.

Déjà culte depuis de nombreuses heures,
the doggyStyle EP est un condensé de fraîcheur et d'amour. En bref, le sage dit : "k.ROCKSHIRE est à la vie ce que le citron est au Mojito." et ce n'est pas faux.

k.ROCKSHIRE a grand soin de regrouper un maximum d'instruments différents, sans compter ceux qu'ils développent eux-mêmes, concrets ou vrituels. La
double plaques chauffantes musicales et la banane musicale sont des exclusivités k. Rockshire.

This bizarre piece of liquid heaven is filled with yummy landscapes with cream on top. Not to forgot bananas roasted on musical double hotplate. Waiter! I want a second helping!



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03 September 2012

Akusto, Ben - "TeddyBear Trilogee"

Very good album (8/10)

This single was originally published somewhere between 1996 ans 1997. Can't remember exactly when. Some of these songs were also made together with Al Cabaro alias Parametric. Thanks to AC and thanks to all my friends.

Republished May 2007. Have fun!

Very good album. Interesting electronic tunes plus one of the funniest parodies I've ever heard (07 - Sick Ted). It's completely crazy and I love it.

[mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website] | [Myspace]



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01 February 2012

Lobotomia - "Kazik to ..."

Maybe next time (5/10)


Very short two-track minialbum from the Polish rock band Lobotomia. The first song is a pitiful attack on one of the greatest Polish rock singer-songwriters, Kazik Staszewski. Some of Kazik's recent actions are truly controversial, but this song is clearly reckoned on causing a scandal and gaining notoriety this way. Their whole idea of making fun of Kazik is based on calling him a prick. Wow... how creative. Bad production completes the picture.

The second track is far more interesting. Forgettable lyrics do not get in the way this time and the music is quite catchy and better produced. But the funny thing is that so hated Kazik is their direct influence to the point of slavish copying of the style of his band Kult.

They should really rethink their promotion strategy, because they obviously can do better than that.

The album has been self-released by the band and is available for downloading at mediafire.com file-sharing website in mp3 format.

[Artist's website]

14 December 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Vie sexuelle des bonbons meles, la"

Boring rock (4/10)
Genre d'album : autour du rock alternatif, mais aussi plusieurs genre selon le morceau

I don't know French - maybe lyrics on this album would save the day. But as far as the music is concerned, this recording is simple boring rock without any interesting features that could catch the listerener's attention. The band knows how to play, but nothing more.

The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

[Artist's website]
Beware!



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12 December 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Chants religieux pour nouvelles religions"

Standard rock album - nothing interesting (5/10)
On raconte dans les chaumières que Dieu aurait décidé de prendre sa retraite .... Déjà les postulants de toutes sortes sur ce poste se bousculent : Fakirs, Gourous, Oursons en peluche et même la Télévivion elle-même veulent être Dieu à la place de Dieu. Et les fidèles ont remplacé les rites de jadis comme la messe par des rituels modernes tout aussi contraignants : la promenade du chien par exemple.

Standard rock album - nothing particularly interesting. The band knows how to play, but not many traces of creativity here.

[Artist's website]

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05 December 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Album Medical, l'"

Nothing interesting (5/10)
Le thème central est le monde médical et le ton est toujours sarcastique et ironique.

Nothing special - lack of catchy melodies, lack of interesting sounds. Boredom. Disclaimer: I write only about music, because I can't speak French.

[Artist's website]

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28 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Politiquement acoustiques"

Nothing special (5/10)
Amis auditeurs, ne vous surprenez pas d'entendre des instruments électroniques et électriques sur un album annoncé comme étant acoustique! N'oubliez pas l'adjectif ''Politiquement'' acoustique, et qui dit politique dit au moins en partie mensonge!

Musically - nothing special. Plain uninteresting rock.

[Artist's website]

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23 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Testament des banlieues, le"

Plain simple rock (5/10)
Groupe de musique alternative sarcastique
Plain simple rock - without any interesting features. Maybe lyrics are interesting (I don't speak French), but musically - an amateurish effort.

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22 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Une journee de trop a l'ecole"

Not attractive (5/10)
Voici un petit album ''scolaire'' pour aider le jeune à passer à travers le monde de l'école. Chaque morceau correspond à une activité scolaire ou parascolaire. Ainsi :
1-(Le cours de nutrition): Le guide alimentaire canadien (4:32)
2-(Le cours de musique): Initiation à la musique de drogués 101 (2:58)
3-(Le cours d'écologie): Souvenirs des algues bleues (4:34)
4-(Le cours d'expression corporelle): La danse du Ritalin (2:50)
5-(La récréation): Mets tes bottes ! (2:34)
6-(La période-récompense): La belle histoire de Charles-Antoire Rabot-Côté‚-Châteauvert (5:40)
7-(Le cours de biologie): J'ai une plante qui est morte de la grippe du poulet (2:38)
8-(Le cours d'histoire): Quand ton grand-père faisait fumer des crapauds (2:18)
9-(Le cours de langues): La lecon de Russe (2:58)
10-(L'éducation physique ): Reste assis (2:46)
11-(Initiation au Droit): Le testament d'un cheval (2:15)
12-(Le cours de philosophie): Le monde selon Pikachu (2:27)
13-(La garderie en milieu scolaire): La garderie c'est plate en brocoli (1:11)
14-(Le parascolaire): Le taxage c?est mauvais pour les narines (1:35)
(c)2007 Claude Giroux: Paroles, musiques, direction musicale avec l'aide des Sous-Traitans. MP3 (et enseignements!) gratuits sur www.famillecg.com

I don't know how funny lyrics are, but music is definitely not appealing. They should work hard on attractiveness of their music. But if the albums are placed chronologically, a small progress can be seen. Still, it's a long way to the top if they wanna rock'n'roll... ;-)

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21 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Residus Plasmiques massacrent l'Halloween, les"

Music is not attractive (5/10)
Groupe de musique alternative sarcastique

A good satirical song should be also attractive as a musical piece. These tunes lack any attractiveness.

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15 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "On fait peur aux sapins!"

Music is not attractive (4/10)

A good satirical song should be also attractive as a musical piece. These tunes lack any attractiveness.

The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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09 November 2011

07 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Desole, mais c'est encore Noel"

Boring and ugly rock (3/10)

As far as music is concerned, it's ordinary rock, not very creative. Nothing special to catch your interest. The songs are boring and rather ugly... Definitely below average... even for this band.

The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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24 August 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "C'est Noel tant pis pour toi"

Ordinary rock - nothing special (4/10)

As far as music is concerned, it's ordinary rock, not very creative. Nothing special to catch your interest.

The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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01 April 2011

Ralp - "Vruoxoil"

8-bit - only partially successful (6/10)

Crazy and mad music which will make you feel giddy and totally wired. Sounds emanating from everywhere take you unawares and stick you a new dose of absolutely positive energy.

Raül Peix (Ralp). Multifaceted artist member of Device, Lowtoy, Distortled Box, Tricoma, NFFCTS, MicroBCN and NGFX, independent collectives dedicated to audiovisual creations. Under the same name, Ralp takes different paths in music, 3D, motion, graphic and installation. He creates 100% electronic music with an IDMcore aesthetic made with computer, some hardware, circuit bending toys, machines built from zero and 8 Bit productions with Nintendo Game Boy and Commodore 64. During his trajectory he has played in some events and festivals around Europe and in a lots of improvised "mini raves" in the streets. So far he has published sonorous material in some netlabels like Brainstormlab (London), Crazy-Language (Berlin), DexandtheCity (Letonia), 49 Manekinow (Polonia), Noise-Joy (USA), Spoomusic (USA) and Chippanze (Brasil).

This is typical 8-bit techno. Unfortunately only partially successful. Some tracks are interesting, well crafted, but others are dull and chaotic, sounding like if samples were placed in purely accidental order. Good ones: 01, 03, 04, 06, 09.

The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.
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21 March 2011

Doc - "Piece of Music" [SP]

Funny comment on copyright war (7/10)

This is a copyfight themed electro-pop track building on Swedish Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge's speech on copyrights vs. civil rights with additional samples from "Steal This Film 2" movie, including Pirate Bay's Brokep's classic line "Intellectual property is - what the fuck is that?".

Funny musical comment on ongoing copyright war. Not a track for repeated listening, though. Unless your neighbour is the president of RIAA. In such case put your speakers to the wall, turn the volume up and go walking the dog... ;->

I guess it's a good moment to remind you that everybody who loves music should boycott RIAA.

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17 February 2011

Rastadeush - "Dirty Girl Dance" [SP]

Good and bad - where's the ugly? (6/10)


The aim of this EP is to prepare you for my new album Hard Beat Dilla. It consists of 2 tracks. The first was composed with my mate mr.H (a representant of the same streets as me)and the second one- with my old friend (not only mine) to listen is enough.

The title track is terrible. Simple monotonous beat broken from time to time by ugly disco vocals repeating one phrase over and over again. It just drives you mad.

However, no. 2 "No one knows" is great. It is powerful techno track with funny samples from the Polish children cartoon "Reksio". It is energetic, cleverly mixed, catchy, with crazy feeling. Download it ASAP.

The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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11 February 2011

paniq - "Neurons: Fire At Will"

Well crafted techno... but someone should ban vocoder (8/10)

"Neurons: Fire At Will" is an instrumental electronica album, containing songs written between 2004-2005. It consists of four sections, separated by style: a.) uplifting/quirky, b.) straight four to the floor, c.) funny tracks, d.) ambient and downtempo.

Enjoy.

It's a very good techno album. As the artist says in the description, this recording contains a mix of tunes in different styles. But that's not a problem. All tracks are creative, production is flawless - just read the other reviews. So why such a low rating? The answer is: a vocoder. Someone should ban this.

I really hoped that the most pitiful invention in the history of music, which is able to kill even the most interesting tune, passed away in disgrace along with the 80s. I was wrong. Lately it crawled out of its grave and started to haunt different musical genres, scaring people with its decaying flesh and rotting bowels. I know some people like it, but for me it is pitiful. It has its place in Kraftwerk's tunes, but that's it. Really. We have 21st century, for Zeus' sake. Your song won't turn into another "Das Model" just because you use a vocoder. So don't. Save the mankind.

Fortunately, only a few tracks on this album are vocoder-"enhanced", so I encourage you to check it out, cause except from this issue it is really good.

Update: After re-listening to this album I came to the conclusion that the above review is too harsh. I still hate vocoder, but firstly - it is used only in two tracks and secondly - its use on these tracks is justified, because the artist tries to imitate the sound of 80s. Therefore, I raised my rating from 6 to 8.

And once again I highly recommend this album - mixing so many genres shows how talented paniq is. From breakbeat, through 8-bit, plain techno, crazy and funny experiments in the middle up to the ending downtempo tunes - all is great. Every genre that he touches turns into gold. I dare him to try some Village People kitsch.

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