CD-Charts Position 111

3:19 Bande Originale du Film

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by: Robin Guthrie

Release Date October 07, 2008

CD-Charts Position 112
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Broken Social Scene

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Broken Social Scene

Release Date October 04, 2005
You should pursue Broken Social Scene's entire catalog, especially YFIP, but this is an incredible follow-up. The reviews here sum it up pretty well, but for anyone on the fence, just spend 89 cents on 7/4 Shoreline (or find the video). As another reviewer said, it's essentially a perfect pop song.

CD-Charts Position 113
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Stereolab

Release Date April 09, 1996
First, this is a fantastic album. I always find something new every time I listen to it...and I've listened to it a lot.

But what's interesting about this album is that it's really a demarcation from one phase of Stereolab to another and there is a specific song where that it seems like they threw the switch and never looked back. It's breathtaking, in fact.

Previous to ETK, Stereolab was a fine band, however, it seemed like they would forever be stuck repeating itself. The albums before ETK seemed to be a collection of simple droning tunes which seemed a little overly retro. That's not to say that those albums are bad, but that trick was starting to play itself by the end of the fantastic Mars Audiac Quintet. Then came ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 114
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The Last Resort

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Trentemøller

Release Date October 17, 2006
I was turned onto Trentemøller through my interest in house music, having it described to me as a cutting edge electro-house cd. Really, "The Last Resort" is a far more minimal, downtempo electronic affair, with greater emphasis on ambience and atmospherics rather than thumping house beats. Most of the songs showcase a sophisticated writing approach that goes beyond basic build-up play. Instead, the songs have an overt progressive structuring to them, shown especially with the sublime opener "Take Me Into Your Skin". The song starts with lifting ambient sounds, with textures gradually building to what I imagined to be a huge beat drop, but instead the ground gives way to a surprising anti-drop, a minimal beat driven by a heavy base, sounding as if you've ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 115
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Distance

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Marconi Union

Release Date March 14, 2006
According to the dotca.co.uk Web site, "Distance" was conceived as a sort of soundtrack to a nighttime journey through an urban environment in the safe isolation of an automobile. The music is soft and the arrangements are sparse. The instrumentation is mostly guitar and electronic keyboards, other than the saxophone on the final track "A Temporary Life." The music is built on the typical ambient foundations - repeated loops, washes of sound, and so forth.

The appropriately named opening track "Sleepless" is deceptively gentle, but as you listen more closely you realize that beneath the calm surface there is also a restless, anxious edge to the track. "Distance" strikes a balance between sustaining a mood and employing melodies. A good example ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 116
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Drukqs

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by: Aphex Twin

Release Date October 23, 2001
I've never understood this saying: "I don't like classical music it always puts me to sleep." For me, listening to horrible music has always given me insomnia, and amazingly great music puts me to sleep. Let's just say that by the end of the first cd I was already dozing off in mid-afternoon. It's been a long time since an electronica album has really impressed me, rarely do I find something which can hold it's own next to Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch, Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada, Dead Cities by Future Sound of London, or Simple Things by Zero 7. But I'm tempted to say I prefer this album over any of those. As a classical composer this album has blown my mind, I get lost in these rhythms. 5 stars way up.

CD-Charts Position 117
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The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

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by: Earth

Release Date February 26, 2008
Usually music like this is found in movie soundtracks and the like. I could see this working for a Clint Eastwood western, or perhaps for No Country for Old Men. It's doomy and hypnotic at once. Very psychedelic, too.

But, above all, it's great music. Top notch work by fantastic musician visionaries. I've heard some of Earth's early work and I can say that they've come a long way from their origins.

Originally these fellas were making heavy, droning stuff, very much like the sound you'd get with Nirvana, only played through a terribly oppressive constant drone of sound, instead of a song with a chorus and melody. No, their early work was simply a guitar and bass guitar playing a wall of distorted, doomed, nerve scratching sound.
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CD-Charts Position 118
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Best Of Art Of Noise

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Art Of Noise

Release Date January 14, 1997
This CD contains some of the best of The Art of Noise but the mastering is awful. On Paranomia which fetures Max Headroom the mastering is so bad that his voice is barely audible. Why no Beatbox on this CD? All in all 5 stars for the great songs but 1 star for the mastering. Don't buy this CD, get the songs on their other CD's.

CD-Charts Position 119
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I'm Your Fan

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 26, 1991
"Chelsea hotel" by Lloyd Cole may very well be the worst cover in history. What madness would provoke someone to turn this great song into an upbeat softrock abortion? I love the drumming especially, wow, it makes me want to drive screwdrivers into my ears. And how it falls off after the chorus, So dramatic! -- like the buildup of a cheap soap opera before a commercial for douches. Total garbage. There are few greater crimes than taking something great and pointlessly remaking it into something awful. Stop me before I listen to that awesome harmonic solo again!

CD-Charts Position 120
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Friend

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Music
by: Grizzly Bear

Release Date November 06, 2007
Let me state upfront that I wasn't aware much of Grizzly Bear until I saw them in concert here in Cincinnati at the MusicNow festival several months ago, and I loved their set. I bought this right then and there.

"Friend" (11 tracks; 43 min.) brings a lot of dreamy tracks, many of which are reworked songs from their previous "Yellow House" and "Horns of Plenty" albums, with several other covers thrown into the mix. Let me admit upfront that I heard this album before I heard the previous albums, and that I have to come and love this collection for what it is. In fact, when I got "Yellow House" after having listened to this so much, I was a bit let down by the "original" album that served as the main underpinning of this collection. Highlights are plenty on here, the best being ... Read More: