“A sensual and exhilarating album from a unique treasure.” Sarah Bee 2010-05-14 As Kevin Rowland knows, pulling off a whiplash change of musical direction can backfire on you. It can make you look like a sales-chasing dilettante, or worse. But Kelis, an RnB artist for more than 10 years, has made a dance album with such […]
The brothers’ remix work remains the real Tiefschwarz legacy. Chris Power 2010-06-01 Having already made a certain impression as deep house producers at the turn of the millennium, Tiefschwarz reinvented themselves as leading lights of the electro-house scene that peaked around 2004. It was a canny move by the brothers from Stuttgart, but since releasing […]
Katie Melua-The House CD Dramatico DramCD0061 Well the question I had in my mind, when I heard that William Orbit was involved in the new album from Katie Melua was “could he do for her, what he did for Madonna ?” We shall see………. The album William both produced, helped compose and played on for […]
The Duckworth Lewis Method -The Duckworth Lewis Method 2009 DCR Dlm002. The Duckworth Lewis Method is apparently a fairly important element to the sport of Cricket and I quote from Wikipedia….” In the sport of cricket, the Duckworth–Lewis method (D/L method) is a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 […]
Snakefarm ‘Songs From My Funeral’ How does one describe Snakefarm’s ‘Songs From My Funeral’? Is it Portishead meets Nick Cave and together they sing American folk classics? Perhaps. Is it slinky ‘80s ‘middle of the road’ meets drum ‘n’ bass? Maybe. Is it jazz funk meets trip-hop? Not quite. It would seem therefore to best […]
Hybrid-Disappear Here (Distinctive Records Disk192 2010) I don’t know about you but it is getting harder to find knowledgeable music enthusiasts to talk to, in what passes these days for a record shop. Once upon a time before music became a commodity, it was possible, even in major record shop chains to find experts to […]
Robert Downey Jr is well known as a talented actor, and in more recent years as someone with a troubled life, this manifested in his well publicized problems with the American legal authorities and its judicial system. Throughout the 1990’s he was arrested numerous times for drugs and alcohol related offenses, these ending in jail […]
March, 22, 2010 (today), sees Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory back together as Goldfrapp, with a new album, and what a return to form it is; albeit for some its going to be a bit of an adventure into the uncharted territory of late 70’s early 80’s American light Pomp/AOR. As with Supernature, which nodded […]