These are all reviews and articles tagged with "music".
Category: Pop
German High Gloss Pop | One might argue how much sense it makes to talk about a record that features German vocals and explicitly relies on reviewing the entanglements of music and lyrics in a magazine that is written for a mainly English-speaking readership. I am aware of this problem. Still, Cologne Pop outfit Clipper [...]
Category: Compilation | Techno
Eclectic Techno Compilation | 200 Megabytes of brilliant music from various artists found its way to the 40th release of the German netlabel “Zimmer Records”. To get an idea of the decent quality, just imagine, that only the first two tracks almost fill up half an hour of distant electronic meditating sound. Other tracks are [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | Pop | Rock
All-round Indiepop | Monokle finally released their third album. While “Ideas Aloud” from 2007 vanished with ElektroSound, “Teasurus” found a safe home at well-established Ideology Netlabel. Moving from melodic Electronica to inspired electronic Pop- and Rock music, the Russian duo took a big step towards getting seriously awesome.
Monokle – “Friday” (MP3)
Monokle – “Magic Go!” (MP3)
Monokle [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | Hip Hop
Stonewashed Electronica | It’s time to write about Orange Crush. His debut album “The Field” back in 2006 got me already, but somehow I never managed to review it. Recently, Orange Crush published his second full-length and there is no excuse not to let you know about it eventually. Fancy lush Downbeat Electronica, ca. 1998? [...]
Melodic Techno | I discovered Cie the first time when I listened to his Shuffle-Beat-orientated techno track “frühlingsblume” on Broque. I loved the melodies he put into his track. It took Cie some time to make us listen to his melodic and solid four-to-the-floor again. On his new EP you get four bonbons, four melodic [...]
Category: Charts | Downbeat | Electronica-Indietronic | Pop
Slovenian Synthpop | To know how music was created brings forth a certain surplus- or disappointment, respectively. This is especially true for electronic music. Circuit bending punks, bearded men over analogue synthesizers and console-tuning kids always appeard more interesting to me than fancy Macbook nerds.
New Wave Syria – “In Motion” (MP3)
New Wave Syria – “Random [...]