Bramajam - "Get on your feet"

Poor quality midi demo (1/10) It's just a poor quality midi demo. These are not even full tracks, just short excerpts. There is no mastering at all, there are different volume levels, analog noises. Samples sound terrible. Maybe melodies as such would deserve a better rating than 1/10, but in its current state this "album" is unlistenable. Stay away, people. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 format.

Sylmer - "Perdus dans le temps"

Bad bad bad (2/10) Ce troisième disque que je mets en partage est dédié à mon père disparu le 12 janvier dernier. N' hésitez pas à me critiquer où à me faire un don symbolique / Another miss. And no progress since "Ultime cri". Unfortunately... The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 encoding format.

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Sylmer - "Ultime cri"

Lousy vocals ruin everything (2/10) Ultime cri , ce sont 10 chansons plutôt tristes et qui sont malheureusement pour moi de circonstance....... Ce C.D n' est pas mixé plus que celà, mais ce que j' ai voulu exprimer est dedans : il parait que pour apprécier il faut le même symtôme m' a dit un psychanalyste...... La pochette c' est une sculpture sur pommier que j' ai réalisée dans mon jardin et qui s' appèlle "monsieur Bonhomme" Il me parait évident que les pros de l' enregistrement vont dire que mon son est merdique et ils auront raison.......Retenez uniquement la mélodie simple et les mots..... A bientôt pour le 3ème CD Sylvain

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What can I say... It's better than "Originaire", but still bad. The same weaknesses as before. Oh, I like the cover photo.

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

Sylmer - "Originaire"

Beware (1/10) album DEMO enregistré "à la maison " sur Magix studio 6ème génération avec de trés petits moyens. un clavier casio (enfant), un magnéto 4 pistes(table), un micro chant, et une guitare electro-acoustique LAG modèle spring. Les moyens de production sont faibles mais l' essentiel est posé.Je ne suis pas un "chanteur". Je suis trés heureux de partager avec les auditrices et les auditeurs de JAMENDO. INFO: un deuxième CD est en préparation ( il faut dire que je stocke depuis logtemps maintenant..)

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I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Lousy voice, terrible drums, uninteresting melodies. Guitar is quite good, but all is wasted because of badness of other elements. Poor production tops it off, but the biggest problem is lack of vocal and arranging talent. Maybe the lyrics are impressive? I don't know it, because I can't speak French.

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

Van Syla - "Fantasia" [SP]

What a surprise! (4/10) HAPPY HOLYDAYS TO YOU ALL ! I dedicate this album to all my friends, fans and generous donators and I thank them for their support and encouragements. FANTASIA was supposed to contain several tracks but unfortunately, Jamendo decided otherwise. For unknown reason Van Syla invited me to listen to her new album. I would not do that on my own, because I have a sick habit of reviewing all music I listen to on Jamendo and the last time I reviewed Van Syla I barely avoided being lynched by her outraged fans. But it would be unkind to reject an invitation, so here we are. The album I listened to previously was "The Death Of A Star", a very very inept take on pseudo-orchestral space music. That is why I feared the worst. And... What a surprise! This short tune is almost listenable. Let's start with the quality of samples. On "The Death Of A Star" they sounded like they had come from the cheapest toy keyboard. And here they sound natural (a harp being particularly impressive)! Even the worst of them are listenable, nowhere near the earlier bottom quality. A really significant progress has been made here - congratulations! Another field where a progress can be seen is orchestration. Nothing spectacular with it, but at least the instruments work together to form a melody, instead of fighting for their lives like they did on "The Death Of A Star". Unfortunately, Van Syla's composing skills are still lacking. The melody is rough and uncreative, making for a tiring listening experience. You can almost feel the pain with which these notes have been put together. Therefore, I still would not recommend this tune to anyone. The hard work the artist did on sample quality and orchestration deserves appreciation though, provided it is a real progress. And it is a little difficult to judge, as we have only one short track here. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 encoding format.

Celibatfighters - "Grande erreur, la"

Very amateurish rock (4/10) Premier opus: Nostalgique et mélancolique, il vous plongera dans les moments de réflexion et de rêverie d'un célibataire sans pour autant être pessimiste et depressif. majoritairement acoustique, entre piano et guitare, certains morceaux sortent du lot pour retrouver des coups de gueules et des pures moments de délire. Notre premier album. Une envie folle nous a pris d'écrire et de composer nos propres chansons. Alors nous l'avons fait, et puis nous avons voulu l'enregistrer et malgrès des moyens, euh, comment dire, plus que sommaire nous ne sommes pas trop mécontent du résultat. La grande erreur, ça nous tenait à coeur. Vous comprendrez quand vous écouterez la chanson du même titre. (On recherche des musiciens suceptible de jouer avec nous si le coeur leur en dit, batteur, bassiste, voire meme chanteur...) Very amateurish rock album. The best song is no. 4 Humanité, which has really nice melody and if it was not played and recorded so poorly, would be very successful. Nevertheless, it is still good, compared with the rest. Their album "Remise en ordre" is far better. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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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]

Chlopomania - "Lodowisko Remixes"

Be eco-friendly - remix your garbage (0/10) Florian filsinger, Television Tom, Hydrator, Aqpa, Puzia remixes well known chlopomania track called Lodowisko. It's a bland electroclash tune with extremely stupid lyrics that were meant to be funny, but failed miserably. The original mix is accompanied by several remixes of varying, but not so high, quality. It doesn't matter anyhow, because remixing such an atrocious piece of garbage like this one is pointless anyhow and does not qualify for listening. Even one star is too much for this - it deserves 0/5 rating. 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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Free music - "Rockstar Horror Show" [SP]

This is pure shit (0/10) hi this is skull crusher and i make sick ass rap and do a lil free style but i like to make horror music for my sick and crazy fan lovers out ther hope you have fun geting my free music and injoy and be my fan Paraphrasing the "artist" himself, this is motherfucking shit. Definitely not worth any further reasoning. Just go somewhere else, people. If you don't believe me and are going to listen to this turd, remember you have been warned. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format. EDIT: The album is no longer available on Jamendo. Thank you, Zeus! If you still want to feel the pain, you can visit archive.org, where a copy has been saved to the artist's eternal shame.

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. [Artist's website]

Sullivan, Mark David - "Moje ogrody"

Not very good electronica (4/10) The most of the tracks contain very cheap "plastic" ugly samples. Further, the melodies tend to be rather primitive, sometimes even balancing on the verge of disco polo (the most primitive type of the Polish disco music), like in "01 - Tanczac z gwiazdami". Plastic guitar samples present in most of the tracks do not help much and the result is light years from true rock music, despite of use of "guitar" riffs. The genres that fit best here are synthpop and space music, but this is a weak effort, not worth any attention - there's too much really good electronica around, even here on Jamendo. If you really must, check out "05 - Lustra" - this track is a little better than others. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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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]

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]

Axis Mundi - "demo(n)SEX"

Not bad but requires more work (and re-recording) (3/10) This is a regular rock album. The band knows what their instruments are for. The melodies could be more interesting, but this is a personal thing. The best track is no. 5, "Psyhe", an instrumental tune with great twisted bass-driven rhythms. All the lyrics are in Polish, and they are not bad, at least these fragments that I managed to hear and understand. And this is the main problem with this album - it sounds like it was recorded on a cassette recorder from the 80s and then ripped and encoded to 32 kbit mp3 files. The quality of the sound is far below the border of listenability (as long as we are talking about listening for fun). If it was decently recorded, I'd probably give it 5 or 6, but in it's current state it's not worth a (repeated) listen. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

ajk - "Uratowac resztke mnie cz. 2 (akt 2: Czlowiek w swej wielkosci, Dezintegracja)"

Decent lyrics wrapped in bad music and delivered with weak voice (4/10) ajk is a singer from Poland. Wszystkie utwory i teksty: ajk Projekt okładki i produkcja: tasaLin Like I already wrote in the other review, this artist is not a bad lyricist. So it's a pity his lyrics are illustrated with such uninteresting or even ugly (a terrible track no. 1) music. He is also a rather lousy vocalist, singing - or in fact reciting - without passion and sometimes almost out-of-tune. To sum it up: waste of time. Maybe he should think about publishing poems instead? The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

Tuta, Jakub - "Jakub Tuta"

Nice melodies - terrible mix (3/10) Album nagrany w pewną cichą noc. Zapraszam do słuchania. Jakub is a talented musician, his tunes are very atmospheric and this album would be great if not for the mix. Or the lack of. Both channels contain completely different tracks - you have a melody in one ear and an accompaniment in the other. Maybe it can be listened on speakers but on headphones it's a real pain. It's frustrating and disturbing. It's definitely not something one could call "stereo" - "double mono" would better describe the experience. So the only way to listen to it without grinding one's teeth, would be to downmix it to mono. I think Jakub should consider mixing this album properly and updating the tunes on Jamendo. These are good songs and it's a pity one cannot listen to them with pleasure. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

ajk - "Uratowac resztke mnie cz. 2 (akt 3: Bog, ...)"

Decent lyrics + primitive music (4/10) ajk is a singer from Poland. Wszystkie utwory i teksty: ajk Projekt okładki i produkcja: tasaLin The artist is quite a talented lyricist. So it's a pity he wraps his poetry in such ugly music. Maybe some musical ideas are interesting, but execution is very weak. The tracks nos. 2 & 3 are listenable electropop tunes, but no. 1 is just a terrible production failure, to the point of the singer being out-of-tune at places. On the track no. 4 the "happy" arrangement is equally clumsy. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

DJ Hydrator - "Atomic Structure" [SP]

Distracting annoying speeches (4/10) Brilliant dubstep release recorded by one person Russian-American project. This piece could be quite good if not for the annoying speeches, which distract you from listening to the music. I know it is popular in techno/electronica music but I hate it. A terrible fad. 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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The Motyw (Wojciech Wszelaki) - "Like Angel" [SP]

This artist can do better (3/10) Singiel - prawdopodobnie znajdzie na nowym albumie. Utwór opisuje relacje i więzi dwojga ludzi! This is a less successful song of the artist. The melody is unattractive, synths are of usual 80s quality. But the worst element is singing - very forced, lacking power. This artist definitely can do better. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.

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ajk - "Uratowac resztke mnie cz. 2 (akt 4: A zostanie tylko milosc, Eksplozja)"

Unattractive electronic pop (3/10) ajk is a singer from Poland. Wszystkie utwory i teksty: ajk Projekt okładki i produkcja: tasaLin Unattractive electronic pop. The Polish lyrics are not bad, but melodies are boring, and what worse - do not fit the vocal lines. It sounds like two different tracks combined into one song. The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 or ogg format.