Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

18 December 2011

Akashic Records - "Christmas Party"

Not my piece of cake, but... (6/10)

Cheerful and energetic trance based on Jingle Bells.

Definitely not my piece of cake, but I have to acknowledge that the rendition is flawless. If you are into such simple dance music, you will love it.

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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.

[Artist's website]
Beware!



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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.

[Artist's website]
Beware!



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26 April 2011

NULLL Collective, the - "Silent Night" [SP]

Totally brilliant (10/10)

"The Nulll Collective" is a group of like-minded artists from around the world who are sick of commercialism and artistic conformity in both the world at large and in the microcosmic wasteland of underground extreme music.

Through NULLL Infra, the NULLL collective will periodically release their music as free downloads. These tracks are all previously unreleased and will also be made available on CD.

With this first release in the NULLL Infra series, we bring you a cover of a traditional Christmas song, to keep you from taking the typically hectic end-of-year mass hysteria too seriously.

This is a doom metal cover of a Christmas carol.
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Yes. Your eyes are not deceiving you. You read correctly: "doom metal", "cover", "Christmas carol". Highly distorted low-tuned guitars, extremely slow tempo, growling and dark atmosphere. And a sweet melody of the famous "Silent Night" carol. A blasphemy? For some right-wing morons probably it is. And that's what makes it so brilliant. I love intelligent provocations and who thought before of such mix of the genres?

And as if it wasn't enough, in the middle of the song there is a purely electronic part, equally crazy, out-of-place and brilliant.

I just can't wait to play this carol during the next Christmas Eve dinner. :->

And I want a full length Christmas album, guys!

You can also download this album for free in a lossless FLAC version from archive.org (OGG version is also available there).

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This piece is accompanied by a video, which can be downloaded at archive.org.





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