“2 FULL-LENGTH unreleased live recordings
on album featuring the founder of pioneering electronic behemoth, Brainticket, Joel Vandroogenbroeck!
Includes compositions not found on any other album!
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Dropshard – Paper Man
“Obviously dedicated to the band’s 10th anniversary,
that means DROPSHARD was founded in September 2007 exactly, they successfully live up to their previous highly acclaimed album ‘Silk’.
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Dave Kerzner – Static
“Static” is a “rock opera”
with dramatic twists and turns from dark moods to uplifting atmospheric pieces to rich nostalgic rock sounds to modern alt rock edge.
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Hällas – Excerpts From a Future Past
“A Swedish band called Hällas
presents their full-length debut and it’s really fantastic. Steeped in the hard rock, proto-heavy metal and progressive tendencies of the 1970s, Hällas so perfectly evokes this era without sounding remotely tired or trite. You may continue to read only after you’ve parted ways with your cash.
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Asaf Sirkis – Full Moon
“Absolutely phenomenal drumming,
I haven’t before heard a drummer so clearly as a soloist as in this big collection. Much of the time, the bassist maintains rhythm while Sirkis works his intricate riffs.
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Cold Reading – Fractures & Fragments
“Switzerland quartet Cold Reading
aren’t like other emo bands.
For starters, they smile in all their promo shots. Secondly, their brand of emo – while carrying many of the emotionally-wrought hallmarks laid down by their 90s predecessors – repositions the genre to carry a gentle optimism at its core.
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Deafening Opera – Blueprint
“This is enormously sophisticated,
excellently played music containing lots of different genres and breaking quite a few rules.
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The/Das – Exit Strategies
“As a complete musical structure
“Exit Strategies” is ready at any one point to unfold into a multitude of sonic, rhythmic, textural and contextual layers.
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Levitation Bros. – Live in Oberhausen 2014 (Free Download)
“This is what happens
when the Redundant Rocker, a high end jazz drummer and a space funkateer on bass meet for a jam.
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Our Ceasing Voice – Free Like Tonight
“Our Ceasing Voice
– Austrian ambient rockers – have always thrived on change.
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Cosmograf – The Hay-Man Dreams
” A retrospective album
in both theme and style, Robin Armstrong’s 6th album harks back to the sound and feel of the classic prog era fused with the raw energy and darkness of a rock behemoth. The 6 track album is measured at a single LP length and instrumentally delivers the vintage sound of guitar, bass and drums with a sprinkling of classic keyboards.
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The Afghan Whigs – In Spades
“Cleromancy”
isn’t a word one normally finds in rock lyrics.
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Erik Wollo – Cinematic
Preview!
“ Scoring for other media is a quite different experience from composing for album releases,”
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