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Wish Upon A Blackstar by Celldweller, released 12 June 2012 1. The Arrival 2. Unshakeable 3. Louder Than Words 6. Memories of a Girl I.
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1 V.32 (Choir Session) 2:2014.The Naked Robot (Early Instrumental Mixes) 10:20Download Links:or:or:or. AB Logic-AB Logic-CD-FLAC-1992-BUDDHADescription:Rel. Date: Artist: AB LogicAlbum: AB LogicLabel: Interscope RecordsCatalog Nr.: 92224-2Language: EnglishGenre: ElectronicSource: CDDASize: 407.97 MBURL:T R A C K L i S T01.
AB Logic 05:0602. The Hitman 04:0603. Get Up (Move Boy Move) 05:5504. Attitude 04:4005. It Takes Two 03:5606. Games 05:1407. You Promised Me The World 04:5508.
Sea Of Love 04:3809. What’s It To You 04:4710. Top Secret 04:2411. Turn Up The Music 04:5112. The Hitman (Piano Mix) 05:52———58:2458:24 min407.97 MBR E L E A S E i N F O R M A T i O NAB Logic was a Belgian Eurodance project arranged and produced byJacko Bultinck and Peter Gillis in 1991. Its members includedrapper K-Swing (Cedric Murril) and pop music vocalist MarianneFestraets.
In 1992, they released the song “The Hitman”. The sameyear, they released their self-titled debut album, which receiveda positive review from Alex Henderson of Allmusic. It fared muchbetter on various mainland European pop charts than on theBillboard 200 album chart. They scored two minor Billboard Hot 100hits in 1992 with “The Hitman” (#60) and “Get Up (Move Boy Move)”(#83). Another hit, “AB Logic” along with an accompanying musicvideo, appeared in the mid-1990s.Rap purists, much like jazz purists, can be extremely protectiveof their genre–they’re always fearful that people from the pop,rock or dance worlds will corrupt their music and water it down.But truth be told, not every commercial performer who incorporateship-hop elements has sinister motives; in many cases, they’resimply acknowledging an art form they admire and respect. This1992 debut by Belgium’s AB Logic shouldn’t be judged by hardcorerap standards because it never pretends to be hardcore rap.Comparable to the C&C Music Factory, Technotronic and Snap, ABLogic uses rapping for club-minded purposes–not to chronicle thechallenges of life in the ‘hood.
This CD must be judged by dance-pop standards instead of hardcore rap standards, and from adance-pop standpoint, AB Logic’s first album is highly engaging.Throughout the disc, AB Logic favors a rapping/singing contrast–K-Swing is the aggressive rapper who handles the verses, whileMarianne is the female vocalist who sings the choruses. Andtogether, the two of them provide a lot of infectious grooves(with the help of Belgian producer Peter Gillis). Anyone who spenta lot of time listening to C&C, Snap and Technotronic in the early’90s should have no problem getting into infectious, ultra-energetic tracks like “Turn Up the Music,” “Get Up (Move BoyMove)” and “The Hitman”. Most of the material is extremelydanceable, although AB Logic slows things down on “Sea of Love” (ahaunting gem that successfully combines pop-rap and Euro-pop).Again, AB Logic’s work shouldn’t be judged by the same standardsone would apply to Public Enemy or Big Daddy Kane because thatisn’t what they’re going for.
But from a club perspective, ABLogic’s debut is among the strongest dance/rap outings of theearly 90s.Links:or:or. Vangelis-Original Album Classics-3CD-FLAC-2011-WREDescription:Artist: VangelisAlbum: Original Album ClassicsLabel: Sony MusicGenre: ElectronicBitrate: 676 kbps avgSource: CDPlaytime: 02:04:49 (654.MB)Rls date: 2013-11-02Store date: 2011-00-00Encoder: FLAC1.2.1Cat.No: 82Track ListDisc 1/3——–1. Heaven And Hell (Part I) So Long Ago, So 22:05Clear2. Heaven And Hell (Part II) 21:20Disc 2/3——–1. Pulstar 5:442. Freefall 2:163. Mare Tranquillitatis 1:454.
Main Sequence 8:095. Sword Of Orion 1:556. Nucleogenesis (Part I) 5:558. Nucleogenesis (Part II) 6:109. Albedo 0.39 4:21Disc 3/3——–1. Spiral 6:582. Ballad 8:313.
Dervish D 5:144. To The Unknown Man 9:075. 3 + 3 9:35Download Links:or:or. Celldweller-Wish Upon A Blackstar-Deluxe Edition-2CD-FLAC-2012-FORSAKENDescription:Artist: CelldwellerAlbum: Wish Upon A Blackstar (Deluxe Edition)Label: FiXTGenre: ElectronicSource: CDStreet Date: 2012-06-12Quality: 989 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channelsEncoder: FLAC 1.2.1Size: 1136.26 MBTime: 149:11minUrl:Disc 1/21. The Arrival 0:352. It Makes No Difference Who We Are 3:023. Blackstar 4:074.
Louder Than Words 4:405. The Lucky One 6:466.
Unshakeable 5:097. I Can’t Wait 5:248.
So Long Sentiment 6:0310. Gift For You 5:4611. The Seven Sisters 3:3912.
The Best It’s Gonna Get 5:2013. Memories Of A Girl I Haven’t Met 1:0014. Birthright 5:2015. Tainted 4:3216. Against The Tide 5:5017. The Departure 0:59Disc 2/21.
Unshakable (Instrumental) 5:152. Blackstar (Instrumental) 4:123. Eon (Instrumental) 6:394. Louder Than Words (Instrumental) 4:385. Memories Of A Girl I Haven’t Met (Instrumental) 1:076. I Can’t Wait (Instrumental) 5:237.
Gift For You (Instrumental) 5:548. The Lucky One (Instrumental) 6:499. The Seven Sisters (Instrumental) 3:4510. Birthright (Instrumental) 5:1511. It Makes No Difference Who We Are (Instrumental) 3:3012.
The Best It’s Gonna Get (Instrumental) 5:2913. So Long Sentiment (Instrumental) 6:0814.
Tainted (Instrumental) 4:4015. Against The World (Instrumental) 5:53Wish Upon A Blackstar, Deluxe Edition.Enjoy, support.Download Links:or:or.
Teebs-E S T A R A-CD-FLAC-2014-OUTERSPACEDescription:Information:Source: CDArtist: TeebsAlbum: E S T A R AGenre: ElectronicYear: 2014Street date: 2014-04-08Rip Date: 2014-04-04Encoder: FLAC1.2.1Quality: 925 kbps avgSize: 278.31 megsTracklist:1. The Endless 1:492. View Point 2:403. Holiday (Feat. Jonti) 4:164.
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Depth Of My Soul (Featuring Shana Halligan) 3:23Seventh studio album from one of the most influential andrespected names on the electronic/dance music scene. First recordto be completely devoted to their Bossa Nova roots and featureall female vocals.Download Links:or:or. VA-Deutsche Elektronische Musik-2CD-FLAC-2010-NBFLACDescription:Artist: VA Title.: Deutsche Elektronische MusikStoredate: 0 Rlsdate.: Apr-14-2014Genre.: Electronic CD-Year: 2010Type.: Compilation Source.: 2CDEncoder.: FLAC 1.2.1 Label.: Soul Jazz RecordsQuality.: 842kbps – 44,1Hz – Stereo Language.: EnglishUrl:.CD101.Can – A Spectacle 05:4002.Between – Devotion 03:4703.Harmonia – Dino 03:2904.Gila – This Morning 05:4805.Kollectiv – Rambo Zambo 11:3906.Michael Bundt – La Chasse Aux Microbes 08:3207.E.M.A.K. – Filmmuzik 03:1708.Popol Vuh – Morgengruess 02:5809.Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Canal 03:1310.La Duesseldorf – Rheinita 07:3911.Harmonia – Veterano 03:5712.Faust – It’s A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl 07:2713.Neu! – Hallo Gallo 10:04CD201.Cluster – Heisse Lippen 02:2202.Ibliss – High Life 13:0203.Dieter Moebius – Hasenheide 02:3804.Amon Dueuel II – Fly United 03:2905.Popol Vuh – Aguirre I 06:1406.Ash Ra Tempel – Daydream 05:2207.Tangerine Dream – No Man’s Land 09:0708.Amon Dueuel II – Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse 05:4309.Roedelius – Geradewohl 03:3110.Can – I Want More 03:3111.Deuter – Soham 04:55———137:24 min838,04 MBDownload Links:or:or.
VA-Global Underground 021 Moscow Mixed By Deep Dish-2CD-FLAC-2001-DeVOiDDescription:Artist: VAAlbum.: Global Underground 021 Moscow: Mixed By Deep DishType.: NormalGenre.: ElectronicLabel.: Global Underground Ltd.Language.: EnglishYear.: 2001 Source: CDDAR.Date: Grabber.: EAC SecureS.Date: Encoder.: FLAC 1.2.1 LosslessQuality.: 892 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channelsTrack List.+———–TRACK LiST: CD 1/2——————01 16B Featuring Morel – Escape (Driving To 7:19Heaven) (Omid’s Full Vocal Mix)02 Soul Providers Featuring Michelle Shellers – 5:24Rise (M.A.S. Collective Mix)03 G-Pal Presents GHOS – I Can See The Lights 5:0104 El Greco – Night Watch (Tribal Mix) 5:0105 Mechas – Hot (Original Mix) 4:4306 Nat Monday – Waiting (John Creamer And 6:11Stephane K Remix)07 Sshh – Hold That Body (Wally Lopez And Dr.
Zardonic’s album ‘Antihero’ feels like both a politicalmanifesto, as well as the soundtrack to a running street battle. Even thoughthe album’s subject matter amounts to nothing more than an emphatictwenty-first century fight for your rightto party, the politics comes from the knowledge that the DJ left aprecarious existence in Venezuela to bring his singularly unique Dance Metalhybrid to the rest of the world. Put it this way – attitudinally, this album iscloser in spirit to Sepultura’s ‘Refuse/Resist’ than Limp Bizkit’s ‘Rollin’.
Openingwith the sound-montage ‘World at War’, we are ushered into a futuristicsoundscape of crunching metal riffs, loops, FX and crisp beats. In fact, theproduction as a whole stands out, having a clean modern metal vibe backed bypunchy drums that are upfront and clear - as you would expect from what isessentially a dance album. On the two-disk version you have the choice oftracks both with and without lead vocals. Personally I prefer the ones withvocals, simply because they give the song context, although after a few plays, you may feel like hearing the music unadorned with vox. A tortuous electronic loop intro opens the next track, into a Laibach-style industrial stomp-fest, before ushering inthe kind of Dubstep that sounds like a 300-foot tall robot kicking over theEmpire State Building. The titles give an indication of the general thrust ofthis album: ‘Vigilante’, Override’, ‘For Justice’ and ‘The Time Is Now’ - onegets the feeling that Zardonic knows he is in a unique place and time where popculture taste is finally catching up with him, and he’s the one that seized themoment. Bret Autry, AKA ‘Blue Stahli’ is definitely a musician fromthe ‘more is more’ school of sonic bombardment.
After an atmospheric intro,opening track ‘It’s Not Over til We Say So’ assaults the listener with a Cradleof Filth-style barrage of riffs and artillery drumming, before segueing intothe typical pop rock mode he’s known for. With a guest bass and backing vocal turnfrom four-string virtuoso Emma Anzai ( of Sick Puppies fame ), ‘It’s Not Over’sets out the battle-plan from the get-go: Wall-of-noise rock, busy electronica,leavened brilliantly by the most insanely catchy pop-hooks you’ll hear allyear. ( Although, this listener would love to hear a remix with Anzai’s bass skillsbrought to the fore ). Stylistically, during the more mid-tempo parts, thisreviewer is reminded of 90s industrial rock duo Filter, while in the heavierparts, the manic intensity of Devin Townsend is recalled. Throw in a nod toMuse on ‘The Fall’ ( with its layered vocal harmonies ), and a wink at DreamTheater for the wah-wah riff on ‘Shoot Em Up’, and you pretty much have BlueStahli down. On the final stretch we get a superbly malevolent lead vocal fromMark Salomon on ‘You’ll Get What’s Coming’ which allows the album a neat gear-shiftaway from Bret’s customary yelp.
Subject matter on the album generally covers the gamut offighting, shooting, and blowing sh.t up, with some spiky religious allusions thrown in for good measure. As a genre you could perhaps label itFirst-Person Metal - indeed it’s notable that Autry’s main job is providingsoundtracks to video games and trailers for films like Iron Man. Because of this, there’s a refreshing economy in hiscompositions, and, like his day-job suggests, there is no room for filler – only killer. The Devil is anideal album for people whose idea of relaxation is to watch a Jerry Bruckheimerfilm while bingeing on a family pack of Skittles and Red Bull. In other words,it’s loud, attention grabbing, occasionally disorientating. But also a hellof a lot of fun.
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Opener ‘Retros’ underlines an interest he has in science fiction and synthscores: It is sweeping, cinematic, and greatly reminiscent of Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack. A veryimpressive opener, which is then slightly curveballed by the following track,‘Purified’, which starts appropriately enough like a Tron remix, but very quickly lurches sideways into an innard-shaking MetalStepworkout that is typical later-period Celldweller. Compositionally though, it ismore like a sound-collage and not a conventionally constructed or resolvedsong, and that perhaps explains why it doesn’t warrant inclusion on the actual ‘The End of an Empire’ album ( review below ).
Evenso, one suspects it is placed to attract the Celldweller headbanging die-hardswho may have wavered over buying this purely instrumental album. Following on, ‘ThePossibilities of Purpose’ has a celestial choir backed a synth riff thatwouldn’t sound out of place on a Jean Michel Jarre album, while ‘A DystopianUtopia’ features an eerie choral effect similar to Ligeti’s on Kubrick’s ‘2001’soundtrack. It is meant to convey a vast and cosmic presence, and does sosuperbly.
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‘The Undercity’ uses a pulsing didgeridoo-stab chased by some glitcheffects while ‘Lost Treasures’ brings to mind another French electronic maestro,Vitalic, from his album OK Cowboy. Revisitingfavourite movies, ‘6:17’ sounds likea love theme from the aforementioned BladeRunnersoundtrack, and heading towards the album’s conclusion, ‘On the Surface ofScardonia’ is particularly effective: A composition anchored by ominous electronicreverberations, with eerie eastern cadences flitting back and forth across thesoundscape. Akin to waking up on the surface of a planet-sized supercomputerand feeling it think. Those of you who may have already absorbed the ‘Empire’material online may still find something of interest in the ‘instrumentalversion’ of the album ( Disk 3 ). With the realisation that this disk doesn’t feel like a cheap add-on, it is instead a great wayto properly absorb the intricately layered sonics, and furthermore, surprisesthe listener by how just how completeit feels, even without vocals. In fact, it is so fully-resolved that you findyourself going back to the ‘proper’ album just to remind yourself how thevocals fitted-in the first place.
Roughly at the halfway point, ‘Just Like You’ provides a neededrespite, as it is the nearest the album gets to a conventional ballad. This isfollowed by ‘Good Luck ( You’re F.ked )’ crashing the listener back to earthwith its jerky electropunk-metal. A couple of tracks later, and never one tomiss a marketing opportunity, with ‘Breakout’ Klayton teases the listener witha nod to his other persona SCANDROID, a deliberately trad electronic act heformed with Nick Kaelar, AKA Varien. Namechecking the Scandroid side-project mustmean that there is an imminent album in 2016, and that this incrediblyproductive phase of Klayton’s has yet to lose any traction. The final track,‘Precious One’ sounds like a Queen vocal harmony mash-up with ‘For Those Aboutto Rock’ grandiosity, and thus closes the album on the appropriate note oftriumphalism.
'Factions' is a rather intriguingdeconstruction of the ‘Empire’ album with added voice-over parts. Re-assembledinto a soundtrack album, one can assume it’s a premonition of a future conceptalbum, perhaps in the vein of Queensryche’s ‘Operation: Mindcrime’. Although it’s probably more likely thatHollywood will hand Klayton a real soundtrack project before that. There's some interesting moments on it, and while not as solidly resolved as 'Blackstar Score', for those wishing for more Klayton soundtrack music, it's a nice diversion until he releases another proper album. The final two disks comprise re-worked 'Empire' tracks from notablessuch as Zardonic, Rhys Fulber, Combichrist and many others.
Taken as a whole, the sheer amount ofmaterial in the collectors' box means that the now-customary remixes are maybe best left for arainy day when compiling a new mixtape or playlist, or when you've played the rest of the album into the ground. Nevertheless, there are some great examples that will suit every taste, such as the aggressive version of 'New Elysium' by Zardonic ( below ). Song-wise, EMPIRE is a huge improvement on its predecessorWISH UPON A BLACKSTAR. That second album, despite being years in gestation,felt anticlimactic and rather half-baked in comparison to the genre-busting -and much-loved - debut album.
Despite the sophomore hiccup, Klayton’s skilfulmanagement of his online persona, constant drip-feed of new - and better -material, meant that now this completed album has finally dropped, there is ahuge and receptive audience ready and waiting for it. It certainly does notdisappoint.