Macroform - "Letting Your Self Go"

Brilliant orthodox ambient (8/10) These songs are inspired from my recently expanded training in the Alexander Technique. These ambient atmospheres and guitar textures are meant to accompany and encourage the experience of letting your muscles stop working and while laying on your back, allowing gravity to restore your natural skeletal structure. Hopefully this may be of some benefit to others who hope to restore there natural bodily form. Enjoy! Feedback appreciated at paulshuler at gmail dot com Brilliant orthodox ambient. What I mean by "orthodox"? I mean it strictly follows the rules - it's completely devoid of rhythm, very relaxing, silent, dreamy, atmospheric, the sounds just flow by peacefully. Truly meditative tunes. Usually I don't like such played-by-rules ambient, because very often it is boring and uncreative. Ambient artists tend to think that it suffices to extend the chords, put in some silent passages and the masterpiece is ready. Not so fast. One more element is required. And this element is called the "talent". Macroform has plenty of it. Come and taste it.

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Yello - "Touch" (2009)

Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music. [Read more --->] On what is only Yello's second album of the last ten years, the duo of Meier and synth wizard Boris Blank has taken a somewhat schizophrenic route; roughly half of Touch Yello is based around the kind of pulsating, electronic dance-pop grooves that have been the group's strength for three decades. On the other half, they venture too far into moody, downtempo pieces full of chillout atmospheres and bathtub jazz. By the end, one wishes the contributions of German trumpeter Till Bronner would have been left in trash can of Blank's laptop, as his parts take things entirely too close to smooth jazz territory. Thankfully, the funkier, more dance-oriented cuts where Meier's deep, dusky voice is right up front pretty much save the day. [Read more --->]

Warning! The artist probably* does not sell this record outside of the official distribution, so if you buy this album, almost all the money will go to the recording industry mafia and will be used later for committing crimes such as unlawful harassment of fans and bribing authorities to implement changes in law, which would infringe basic human rights.

*) If you know the way of paying the artist directly for this work, please let me know and I will gladly update this page.

Tracklist:

01. The Expert 02. You Better Hide (feat. Heidi Happy) 03. Out of Dawn 04. Bostich (Reflected) 05. Till Tomorrow (feat. Till Brönner) 06. Tangier Blue 07. Part Love 08. Friday Smile 09. Kiss in Blue (feat. Heidi Happy) 10. Vertical Vision (feat. Till Brönner) 11. Trackless Deep 12. Stay (feat. Heidi Happy) 13. Electric Frame (feat. Till Brönner) 14. Takla Makan (feat. Dorothee Oberlinger)

2:55 4:15 3:13 3:57 4:17 2:42 3:42 3:36 3:34 4:18 3:20 3:02 3:36 8:33

[Wikipedia] / [Official website]

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

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Yello / Touch Yello

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AUDIOCHECKER v1.2 - by Dester - opdester@freemail.hu
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01 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 01 - The Expert (Yello).flac
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  Conclusion: This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

02 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 02 - You Better Hide (Yello).flac
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03 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 03 - Out Of Dawn (Yello).flac
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04 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 04 - Bostich (Reflected) (Yello).flac
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05 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 05 - Till Tomorrow (Yello).flac
  Extracted successfully
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06 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 06 - Tangier Blue (Yello).flac
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07 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 07 - Part Love (Yello).flac
  Extracted successfully
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08 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 08 - Friday Smile (Yello).flac
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09 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 09 - Kiss In Blue (Yello).flac
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10 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 10 - Vertical Vision (Yello).flac
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11 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 11 - Trackless Deep (Yello).flac
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12 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 12 - Stay (Yello).flac
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13 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 13 - Electric Frame (Yello).flac
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14 -===- E:\Download\Yello - 2009 - Touch Yello [FLAC]\Touch Yello - 14 - Takla Makan (Yello).flac
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Phon - "Peaceful Sinerave"

Nice simple electronica (7/10) a recent ambient attempt - not up to standard with the old work The tracks are short and simple. The album is short and simple. The review will be short and simple. The tracks are too short and simple. The album is too short and simple. Still - nice effort. If you haven't listened to Phon yet, you should start with these albums: "Clatterbang", "B sides" or "Beatles are dead". They are much better. [Artist's Blog]

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k.ROCKSHIRE - "Foamy Leather [doggyBag music for hardcore fans]"

For hardcore fans indeed (4/10) Album of middle-aged, closing The Doggystyle and announcing the Dark Side of the Bone at a time, Foamy Leather is an album of b-sides, remixes and live performances to fans addressing the most hardened and incorrigible of k. Rockshire. If you are not willing to sell your mother to break your arm or the tecktonik for k. Rockshire, go your way. Others may enjoy 38 minutes of happiness. K.Rockshire fans may be surprised by the decidedly ponk and experimental album. Ingredients: acoustic and electric ukulele, harmonica, double griddle music (regular pocket maniaxRule & LM), organ of potatoes, broken vinyl, synthesizers & sequencers virtual samples, electric bass, trumpet hunting casio toy synth, electro-magnetic sensor , vocoder, kazoo, barking, Jew electric accordion, guitar and electric PopSet ™: Banana music, guitar and microphones popMusic Smurf Music. This is truly a material for hardcore fans only. Apart from tracks 01 & 03, this album contains poorly recorded fragments of jam sessions. You can listen to this out of curiousity, but that's all. Tracks 01 & 03 are better recorded and they are variations on themes that can be heard on "the doggystyle EP". Only for hardcore fans as well.

Phon - "Contains Traces Of Nuts"

Too raw electronica (6/10) my current favourite work - though rough around the edges Too raw electronica - I'd prefer these tunes "well done". That's odd, but odd tracks are quite good actually, despite being bloody simple. And even even tracks are not totally bad, but this chef can cook much better. 2 i fart in your general direction mix - too chaotic for my taste 4 type like mudit - fast, noisy, clueless 6 rewind to bed - simply boring These three are hard to swallow, so better taste Phon's "Clatterbang", "B sides" or "Beatles are dead". Enjoy your meal! [Artist's Blog]

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Missing Host Band - "Dusk Gazing"

Very rough instrumental rock (6/10) Very, very old tracks made of sounds of guitars directly connect in computer, synthetiser played on my computer keyboard, and various drums samples . If you like this, i will upload others. It's very rough instrumental rock with traces of electronica. The songs are very demo-like from the technical and production side, but the melodies are really nice, although extremely simple. I didn't like only two tracks: "4 toufic" and "8 easy to popular". The first contains awful too loud high-frequency noises that are almost unbearable. And the second is too sweet and primitive - almost like it had barrel organ origins. The rest of the tunes deserves strong 7/10, so the answer to the artist's question, whether he should upload more, is: "Please, do!" [Artist's Myspace]

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Nationale2 - "Meka Musik"

Minimalistic techno (7/10) 100% Lofi, sample and mastering 8-bit mono, this is the program you reserve this album resolutely Hard House. N2 has showed its good old AMIGA 500 to compose 12 tracks explosives. A beautiful demonstration as a minimum, it is possible to make it the most. Very minimalistic techno. Simple means - a powerful effect. However, it is slightly too hardcore for me. The most of the tunes are too monotonous, especially tracks no. 5 & 7 - I didn't like them. Nevertheless, if you like oldschool techno with strong beats - check it out. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation.

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