tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12740262142209554612024-02-19T03:38:58.753-08:00Music ReviewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-84687912988908824742011-06-22T08:22:00.001-07:002011-06-22T08:22:45.522-07:00Focus On Music: Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutUSLWft-4nD0H7FIBmCO2IRwSRkT7Ytrh1cLz4I7CR9Nob0qmI4OcVep1Kp-3feY1Dpz643fZIr_8uUlhzTRASv47Ei5GkyYqIFHFt3s__aaRy2x2e2Akkm__1SJbV17PNeZHDeFiDE/s1600/OMD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutUSLWft-4nD0H7FIBmCO2IRwSRkT7Ytrh1cLz4I7CR9Nob0qmI4OcVep1Kp-3feY1Dpz643fZIr_8uUlhzTRASv47Ei5GkyYqIFHFt3s__aaRy2x2e2Akkm__1SJbV17PNeZHDeFiDE/s1600/OMD.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Featuring the core members Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey, the Liverpudlian synth pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark formed in the late '70s. Humphreys and McCluskey began performing together in school, playing in the bands VCL XI, Hitlerz Underpantz, and the Id. After the Id split in 1978, McCluskey was with Dalek I Love You for a brief time. Once he left Dalek, he joined with Humphreys and Paul Collister to form Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The group released its first single, "Electricity," on Factory Records; the record led to a contract with the Virgin subsidiary DinDisc. Using their record advance, McCluskey and Humphreys built a studio, which allowed them to replace their four-track, and recorded with drummer Malcolm Holmes (formerly of the Id) and Dave Hughes (formerly of Dalek I Love You).<br />
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In 1980, the group released its self-titled debut album. Organisation appeared the same year, which featured the U.K. Top Ten single "Enola Gay"; Hughes was replaced by Martin Cooper after its release. The band's next few albums -- Architecture & Morality (1981), Dazzle Ships (1983), and Junk Culture (1984) -- found the band experimenting with its sound, resulting in several U.K. hit singles. Recorded with two new members, Graham and Neil Weir, Crush, their most pop-oriented album, found more success in America than in Britain as the single "So in Love" hit number 26 on the charts. "If You Leave," taken from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, was their biggest American hit, climbing to number four in 1986. The Pacific Age was released the same year, yet America was the only country where it was popular. Shortly after its release, the Weir brothers left the band, followed by Holmes, Cooper, and Humphreys. McCluskey continued with the band, releasing Sugar Tax in 1991; in the meantime, Humphreys formed the Listening Pool. <br />
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark returned with Liberator in 1993. It was followed three years later with Universal, which saw Humphreys return for some co-writing credits. By the late '90s, McCluskey had moved into artist management, while Humphreys revived the OMD name for occasional shows.<br />
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A full-blown reunion came in 2006, including both McCluskey and Humphreys plus Holmes and Cooper. Initially, the band toured around a full-album performance of Architecture & Morality, and released one of their performances as Live: Architecture & Morality and More. Finally, in 2010, the new album History of Modern appeared on the 100% label.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-10502452938693861322011-04-12T20:42:00.000-07:002011-04-12T21:11:05.042-07:00Moby: Destroyed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Dv4Ou7A8tH3YKWMrmTOtKsPOKOpNMcL3MSer_Rjpa_8sgUwxybcLA4CSVRJxgaLOwC21vT9PwSkqKvPxSU2YgA04EcGi8lDDKqZjX5hUWL_QgtE8NB3ueSGb67QknAuR_fbFNh48lUQ/s1600/Moby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Dv4Ou7A8tH3YKWMrmTOtKsPOKOpNMcL3MSer_Rjpa_8sgUwxybcLA4CSVRJxgaLOwC21vT9PwSkqKvPxSU2YgA04EcGi8lDDKqZjX5hUWL_QgtE8NB3ueSGb67QknAuR_fbFNh48lUQ/s400/Moby.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Moby plays keyboards, guitar and bass guitar, and expresses mild irritation at the assumption that everything on his newer albums are samples. He took his performing name from the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, who is his great-great-granduncle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Moby is an American electronic musician and is also the name of his live band. Born Richard Melville Hall on September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York. Moved to Darien, Connecticut at the age of two.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He has also released music under the names Voodoo Child, Barracuda, U.H.F., The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez, On the Rim of the Wheel a Nail, and Brainstorm/Mindstorm.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">On his upcoming effort Destroyed, Moby constructs synthetic symphonies out of sounds coaxed from broken-down gear during dead-of-night sessions in hotel rooms.It’s an insomniac artist’s way of making sense of the world during a time when the music industry, and everything else, seems to be falling into chaos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Destroyed, arriving May 16 in an arty deluxe package complete with a book of Moby’s photography, capably chronicles that dissonance in disembodied electronic music filled with human concerns like love and hope.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Named after the musical term for the measurement of time by an instrument, Metronomy are the dance-meets-rock project of London-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Joseph Mount. The live version of Metronomy also include keyboardist/saxophonist Oscar Cash and keyboardist/bassist Gabriel Stebbing. Prior to Metronomy, Mount and Stebbing played together in bands such as the Upsides, a pop group the pair described as "The Original Busted," and "The Customers", with whom they played in university. Using an old computer that his father gave him, Mount started Metronomy in 2002 as a side project to the other bands he played with. When his cousin Cash joined Metronomy, it became the trio's main project. With a sound inspired by everyone from Devo and David Bowie to N.E.R.D. and Pavement, Metronomy earned buzz for their engaging live show as well as official and unoffical remixes of tracks by Gorillaz, Architecture in Helsinki, Sebastien Tellier, Kate Nash, U2, and Britney Spears. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Metronomy's latest <em>The English Riviera</em> is due out <em>April 11, 2011</em> and features the songs <em>The Look</em> and <em>The Bay</em>.</span></div><p><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>click any track below to listen</strong></span></center></div><p><div style="text-align: center;"><embed flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F3m6326eag9k89h298c3d16827dcdejg7%2Fmp3player.xml" height="320" menu="false" name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/3m6326eag9k89h298c3d16827dcdejg7/mp3player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="280" wmode="transparent"></div></embed><center><a href="http://www.myspace-player.com/"></a></center></div><p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-16256709154759349722011-03-23T07:51:00.003-07:002011-03-23T08:13:35.206-07:00Post Punk and the sound of ESG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicj2piK82TZoDL1jR87sCnfZhbW2GMdn2YpJcYBZU_M1VXrNSdMYEwyH7AqJM9u1fbqkt2dWj0MOSnSwgvsTCzsSoowa2h51AnMq7_8naAqyE-W6gBXpFWy0P-Quas5Dr3ASbpu1MNoK2B/s1600/Psychadelic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicj2piK82TZoDL1jR87sCnfZhbW2GMdn2YpJcYBZU_M1VXrNSdMYEwyH7AqJM9u1fbqkt2dWj0MOSnSwgvsTCzsSoowa2h51AnMq7_8naAqyE-W6gBXpFWy0P-Quas5Dr3ASbpu1MNoK2B/s1600/Psychadelic.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">,<p>ESG (Emerald, Sapphire and Gold) are a band from the South Bronx, New York, U.S.. The band originally consisted of the Scroggins sisters Maria (congas, vocals), Renee (vocals), and Valerie (drums), and friends David Miles (guitar) and Leroy Glover (bass). A later incarnation of the band consisted of Deborah, Maria (congas, vocals), Renee (guitar, vocals), and Valerie Scroggins (drums). ESG have been influential across a wide range of musical genres, including hip hop, post punk, disco, and dance-punk.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ESG's music is centered around complex polyrhythms, a funky bass and pop-flavored guitar. During their first incarnation, the group signed with 99 Records and issued a debut self-titled EP in 1981 that featured three live (recorded at Hurrah) and three studio songs, the latter produced by English post-punk producer Martin Hannett (Joy Division, etc.). 1982's ESG Says Dance to the Beat of the Moody EP continued in a similar vein, as did their first full-length album, 1983's Come Away with ESG. ESG disbanded shortly thereafter, but re-formed in the early '90s, heralding their comeback with a self-titled 1991 compilation of previously released material. The group's work had become popular among hip-hop artists searching for samples, with such acts as TLC, the Wu-Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys, Big Daddy Kane, Gang Starr, Tricky, Jay-Dee (J-Dilla) on his Donuts album, and indie rockers like Unrest and Liars. The group addressed this issue on the 1992 12" EP Sample Credits Don't Pay Our Bills. The album, ESG Live!, was released in 1995 and featured both old and new material.<p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The band played their final show on Friday, September 21, 2007 at Chicago's Abbey Pub, during the Estrojam festival.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The band announced that they reformed and will be playing their first returning show at NYC's Santos House Party on September 13. They also claim that both more shows and new music will emerge in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Instead of focusing on the music of ESL, we decided to focus on their influence of bands like</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti, Millionyoung and Toro Y Moi.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
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<div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">This new york, usa-based chamber cabaret outfit is led by the striking, androgynous figure of singularly named performance artist Antony (b. Antony Hegarty, Chichester, West Sussex, England). His unusual background saw him relocating from his native england at the age of 10 to be raised in California, USA. He moved to New Yorkin 1990 to attend the experimental theatre wing at NYU, and before long had become heavily involved in the city's punk drag scene. paying homage to fabled performance artists Leigh Bowery and Klaus Nomi, Antony began performing late night cabaret sets with the blacklips collective at the city's Pyramid Club. In 1995 he assembled a backing group, the self-styled Antony And The Johnsons, and began to focus on the musical side of his performances. the group built up a cult following at hip new york clubs such as The Kitchen and Knitting Factory, but their debut blue angel remained unreleased until current 93 leader David Tibet signed Antony And The Johnsons to his Durtro label. The cast list of musicians on the album, released under the title Antony And The Johnsons in 1998, included transsexual artist Baby Dee (harp), Francois Gehin (bass), Todd Cohen (drums), Charles Neilson (guitar), and a number of string and woodwind players.<br />
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This collection of modern torch songs highlighted Antony's soulful, multi-octave vocals and the johnsons' graceful chamber pop arrangements.<br />
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She also recorded A Distant Shore, a relatively moody, if similarly skeletal solo album, for Cherry Red in 1983. Around that time she met Ben Watt -- who was also signed to Cherry Red -- and formed a partnership as Everything But the Girl. From 1984 through 1999, Thorn and Watt released ten albums that shifted from indie pop to slick sophisti-pop to downtempo club music. </span></p><a><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Shortly after having twin daughters together, they put EBTG on ice. After several years of inactivity, Thorn began writing again and recorded her second solo album, Out of the Woods, which was released in early 2007. Throughout the years, she has guested on songs by a number of groups, including the Style Council, the Go-Betweens, Massive Attack, and Tiefschwarz. </span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><p align="justify"></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Tracey Thorn's third solo album, Love & Its Opposite, is out May 17, and capitalises on the critical acclaim of her 2007 release, Out Of The Woods, a mixture of hard-edged dance music and folk fare which bridged the gap between the acoustic and the electric. <p align="justify">Love & Its Opposite finds Tracey and producer Ewan Pearson stripping things back to more organic essentials, embracing a retro sound that references the type of music she would have grown up listening to. Thorn is in pensive mood for much of the album, which is as much about her own experiences as a forty-something trying to make sense of her life as it is about the relationships of others, resulting in a mature and often cynically humorous set of songs that’s sure to be embraced by her stalwart fans. </span></p><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Click on any track to start listening.</span></strong></p><p><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/ffjb9id86aa694eeca9d3age3h966di7/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fffjb9id86aa694eeca9d3age3h966di7%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><small></small></center><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-80331351939238908872010-10-25T23:21:00.000-07:002010-10-25T23:22:53.610-07:00Bernard Sumner: Didn't Know What Love Was<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigdORNwmI2-RhXdlJZqIBzK4A6QcnRtvcrsyrXCov22NtnZczCWdY7RPRCzvTXsylN213Ez-YVAWX-bZMl9gEaETWopgLGUgWyRTmPfq2ak6vH1R4shmtZmUkSjN8RL2f8_NQrBgUzt6Q/s1600/New+Order.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532226497253749250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigdORNwmI2-RhXdlJZqIBzK4A6QcnRtvcrsyrXCov22NtnZczCWdY7RPRCzvTXsylN213Ez-YVAWX-bZMl9gEaETWopgLGUgWyRTmPfq2ak6vH1R4shmtZmUkSjN8RL2f8_NQrBgUzt6Q/s400/New+Order.jpg" /></a><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xIZHod0RnPo/S9pA8tMTH3I/AAAAAAAABDM/gb189JefWo0/s1600/New+Order.jpg"></a><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">New Order arose from the ashes of Joy Division, one of the most influencial bands in the alternative music scene in the late 70's and early 80's. Joy Division were Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris, four young men from Manchester, England. Joy Division drew attention to themselves with the release of their first full-length album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979. The music they played was a sign of the times: angst-ridden, moody, enchanting, haunting. </span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">New Order was known as the quitessential singles band of the 80's, releasing songs that weren't on any albums, or at least remixing them from the albums. In 1987, these singles (many of them long out of print and difficult to find) were collected on the double-album "Substance". Many of these songs topped the 5 and 6 minute mark, with a few going beyond that. It was with the release of "Substance" that New Order gained even greater worldwide recognition. Many argue that New Order could have been bigger if only they did things differently. They didn't splash their faces all over their album covers, they rarely even put their own names on their record sleeves. In fact, all of the designing of their record sleeves, from their days as Joy Division up to the present, has been left up to Peter Saville, a graphic designer who has sometimes been referred to as the fifth band member. </span><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">New Order identified themselves as New Order, not as Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook and Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. No one personality stood out from the others. They were the type of people who could walk out onto the floor after playing a concert and would barely be recognized. Also, remaining on an independent record label, Factory Communications, Ltd., probably didn't help either.</span> </span><br /><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><center><span style="font-size:78%;"><b><span style="font-family:arial;">click any track below to listen</span></b> </span></center><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/689n6nbhgdfhb140469974acb376faj7/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F689n6nbhgdfhb140469974acb376faj7%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-24944088026596906042010-10-25T22:28:00.000-07:002010-11-12T10:24:33.854-08:00Pet Shop Boys: Together<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6o9A7jht8jc1w6S3rxWcL_gQ_GLQJv5wUGn6S0O16ys0sE1txhRLGy9ilYpceQ5MP6uUfsgyM_rXiRZ2Hf5p_V82oauj1oeRItvRcuyJjLy1CJ9ndDnAWwVmmNixwxjlgZSJGH2cQ1S5r/s1600/Pet+Shop+Boys.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465981699027357650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6o9A7jht8jc1w6S3rxWcL_gQ_GLQJv5wUGn6S0O16ys0sE1txhRLGy9ilYpceQ5MP6uUfsgyM_rXiRZ2Hf5p_V82oauj1oeRItvRcuyJjLy1CJ9ndDnAWwVmmNixwxjlgZSJGH2cQ1S5r/s400/Pet+Shop+Boys.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />
<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals. </span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London in August 1981. Recognising a mutual interest in dance music, they began to work on material together, first in Tennant's flat in Chelsea and from 1982, in a small studio, in Camden Town. It was during these early years that several songs that would later appear on future albums were created, including "It's a Sin," "West End Girls," "Rent," and "Jealousy." </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Starting out, the two called themselves West End, because of their love of London's West End, but later they came up with the name Pet Shop Boys, which derived from some friends who worked in a pet shop, in Ealing. They said that the new name "sounded like an English rap group." </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Their big break came in August 1983, when Tennant was assigned by Smash Hits to interview The Police in New York. The duo were obsessed with a stream of Hi-NRG records, made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, simply known as Bobby 'O'. According to Tennant: "I thought: well, if I've got to go and see The Police play, then I'm also going to have lunch with Bobby 'O'." They shared a cheeseburger and carrot cake, at a restaurant called the Apple Jack, on 19 August (two years to the day since Tennant and Lowe had met) and Orlando suggested making a record with Pet Shop Boys, after hearing a demo tape that Tennant had taken with him. In April 1984, the Orlando-produced "West End Girls" was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 2 November it was voted "Screamer of the Week" by listeners of Long Island, New York radio station WLIR. Though the track did not do well in the UK, it was a minor hit in France and Belgium. </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The Pet Shop Boys have sold about 100 million records worldwide.. Since 1986, they have had 42 Top 30 singles and 22 Top 10 hits in the UK, including four Number Ones: "West End Girls," "It's a Sin," "Always on My Mind," and "Heart." </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">At the 2009 BRIT Awards, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The duo's latest album, entitled Yes, was released on 23 March 2009. </p></span><p align="center"><b><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">click any track below to listen</span></b><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">.</span> </div><p align="center"><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/8e99bbd6ab0e18dbbcef267mf9bd38ja/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F8e99bbd6ab0e18dbbcef267mf9bd38ja%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-17260139425906828442010-10-18T10:39:00.000-07:002010-10-20T20:44:23.408-07:00Hot Chip: We Have Love Exclusive Remix<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1bfWXT5LcnE5gnijPWZG9hEmifbI4lcKG2ntVDGvFc2ENq0lVjNY2cOAG-YljnZge6zhud1n0dcMvScPsbQPG4IHlM0WcvtX3V4rRV7w6S-QOO5llmOHxq78tLUeya8L_G5yCIxKeI23/s1600/Hot+Chip.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466699654872994018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1bfWXT5LcnE5gnijPWZG9hEmifbI4lcKG2ntVDGvFc2ENq0lVjNY2cOAG-YljnZge6zhud1n0dcMvScPsbQPG4IHlM0WcvtX3V4rRV7w6S-QOO5llmOHxq78tLUeya8L_G5yCIxKeI23/s400/Hot+Chip.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">We have just finished our remix of the latest track to be released<br>off of "One Life Stand" by Hot Chip.</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Listen to our creation in the jukebox below<br>and vote for the remix "We Have Love (Give It Up) <strong><a href="http://remixwizard.mixmatchmusic.com/wizardgallery/wizard/436">HERE</a></strong>.</p></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"><strong><p align="center">click any track below to listen</strong></span></p><br /><center><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/b94ed5d9bkdodcqad5gifl469e65ec4b/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fb94ed5d9bkdodcqad5gifl469e65ec4b%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-90838581864017588952010-10-12T20:54:00.000-07:002010-10-12T20:55:26.311-07:00Focus On Music: French Synth Wave<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-HWktbJ5uxFs3kH0ueKMvP7OP4NyJif7rsU0dYa8y_k3xDd0-6ic2f7CLyQQXwDSlR_0faQ6eF4FUI2VyEuHFvt95JgrCjDdhI1Z3ptfPmyWz-ImPxrJwxlxl3PkCWFDiCkr985V8N27/s1600/French+Wave.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527370860464770530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-HWktbJ5uxFs3kH0ueKMvP7OP4NyJif7rsU0dYa8y_k3xDd0-6ic2f7CLyQQXwDSlR_0faQ6eF4FUI2VyEuHFvt95JgrCjDdhI1Z3ptfPmyWz-ImPxrJwxlxl3PkCWFDiCkr985V8N27/s400/French+Wave.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Synth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. While it might be argued that most current popular and commercial music in the industrialized world is realized via electronic instruments, synth pop has its own stylistic tendencies which differentiate it from other music produced by the same means. These include: the exploitation of artificiality (the synthesizers are not used to imitate acoustic instruments), the use of mechanical rhythms and "feel", the use of vocal arrangements as a counterpoint to the artificiality of the instruments, and the use of ostinato patterns as an effect. Synth pop song forms are generally the same as in "regular" pop music. Lyrically, synth pop has an affection for science-fiction themes. </span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Synth pop is sometimes referred to as electropop although electropop is generally regarded to be a particular style of synth pop that flourished during the early 1980s most closely associated with the post-punk New Wave music scene. </span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Several of these bands in the 1980s were quite successful. None of the newer acts have had more than a modicum of commercial success in the United States, although some have done very well in Europe, South America, and/or Asia. </span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Synth pop is increasingly used in gothic and industrial circles to describe various dark electronic artists, particularly those in the electronic body music and futurepop genres. It is otherwise generally used in its more classic sense, referring to early 1980s synthesizer driven pop acts (e.g., Depeche Mode, Erasure) as well as a variety of New Romantic pop acts from the same era (e.g., Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet). </span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Below we focus on the French New Wave Movement<br>click any track to listen</span></strong> </span></p><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/3ea9k75fccldhaualcfbi67ebae53ea4/mp3player.swf" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F3ea9k75fccldhaualcfbi67ebae53ea4%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-56338182366155021772010-10-05T21:23:00.000-07:002010-10-05T21:27:33.477-07:00Listen: Swanlights by Antony and the Johnsons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjkr8eXmVnzUMCCaduKvjUclM_UN1sdOIVOgzHV2ft-ta8H7NSRuQezENrvx4g0hIfFGdADkxRbmebqhA5hesieGYyx0LUZ6vIIZpDJLFzZ_1wdvQYjpPxWTn7DIhI14barmP_LLX2kPJ/s1600/Antony+and+the+Johnsons.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466699219351057058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjkr8eXmVnzUMCCaduKvjUclM_UN1sdOIVOgzHV2ft-ta8H7NSRuQezENrvx4g0hIfFGdADkxRbmebqhA5hesieGYyx0LUZ6vIIZpDJLFzZ_1wdvQYjpPxWTn7DIhI14barmP_LLX2kPJ/s400/Antony+and+the+Johnsons.jpg" border="0" /> <p></a></p><br /><div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">This new york, usa-based chamber cabaret outfit is led by the striking, androgynous figure of singularly named performance artist Antony (b. Antony Hegarty, Chichester, West Sussex, England). His unusual background saw him relocating from his native england at the age of 10 to be raised in California, USA. He moved to New Yorkin 1990 to attend the experimental theatre wing at NYU, and before long had become heavily involved in the city's punk drag scene. paying homage to fabled performance artists Leigh Bowery and Klaus Nomi, Antony began performing late night cabaret sets with the blacklips collective at the city's Pyramid Club. In 1995 he assembled a backing group, the self-styled Antony And The Johnsons, and began to focus on the musical side of his performances. the group built up a cult following at hip new york clubs such as The Kitchen and Knitting Factory, but their debut blue angel remained unreleased until current 93 leader David Tibet signed Antony And The Johnsons to his Durtro label. The cast list of musicians on the album, released under the title Antony And The Johnsons in 1998, included transsexual artist Baby Dee (harp), Francois Gehin (bass), Todd Cohen (drums), Charles Neilson (guitar), and a number of string and woodwind players.<br /><br />This collection of modern torch songs highlighted Antony's soulful, multi-octave vocals and the johnsons' graceful chamber pop arrangements.<br /><p><b><br /><center>click any track to begin listening</center></b></span></div><br /><br /><center><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/2h5349cde2h45e298c3d16827dcdcni9/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F2h5349cde2h45e298c3d16827dcdcni9%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><br /><center></center></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-36067041025977434342010-10-05T11:50:00.000-07:002010-10-05T11:52:14.148-07:00Top 25 For Fall<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0TS8IZL2uqa0BazNTqOq2xf1DUPSnk4dDMnJleU0TGhW2MpSL2QngZkpWWkz3yO_f7r0M7Cgpw34TPl1LaSTUpOeYKWfb3dot1AmDBWi12e0pANiJ2__l-8j_xe-3rj_bNPdMc_t-uO_/s1600/Top+25+for+Fall+2010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0TS8IZL2uqa0BazNTqOq2xf1DUPSnk4dDMnJleU0TGhW2MpSL2QngZkpWWkz3yO_f7r0M7Cgpw34TPl1LaSTUpOeYKWfb3dot1AmDBWi12e0pANiJ2__l-8j_xe-3rj_bNPdMc_t-uO_/s400/Top+25+for+Fall+2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524636567920547954" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-12652274601628127752010-09-12T21:50:00.000-07:002010-09-12T22:18:10.348-07:00Michael Jackson: Dancing Machine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHMPdYmIHV2TgUVmiuOLFdR1Ola2S-FRU552yPxUHuaYM4ubuqsrHrztgcaMVa_b6FI8G5D2-qjWnyhU8C1rgukerr9WVlfGRLH9mQPpDFkaPLbWIqaNexpjEraovtSYvEH3ALecN5ktq/s1600/Michael+Jackson.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516261603622788338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHMPdYmIHV2TgUVmiuOLFdR1Ola2S-FRU552yPxUHuaYM4ubuqsrHrztgcaMVa_b6FI8G5D2-qjWnyhU8C1rgukerr9WVlfGRLH9mQPpDFkaPLbWIqaNexpjEraovtSYvEH3ALecN5ktq/s400/Michael+Jackson.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://beattrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/michael_jackson.jpg"></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>Michael Jackson<br>August 29, 1958 - July 25, 2009</strong></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;">No matter what your opinion of Michael Jackson, no one can deny the talent he exuded while performing on stage. Michael not only shaped generations but was highly influential to the creation and success of MTV. <p></span></p></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>In honor of this talent, I have put together a jukebox<br>spanning the career of Michael Jackson for you to enjoy.</span></strong></div><br /><br /><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/9d9e4700ee6flcm5dh569g4kef8km2ic/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F9d9e4700ee6flcm5dh569g4kef8km2ic%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><br /><p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-3972691588621133342010-09-04T22:57:00.000-07:002010-10-05T21:30:08.547-07:00Chromeo: Fancy Footwork<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfM7DaMkoLRk9FWjlNC5e8sk_XX-ehlZPXA8iEQJ_phItCjlIqjVB36IJoycUMKG27AR2AU-Hyajkg6GUoA5R2GzeM3h1X9iEIfXk4G4eCjL1c0VhSRSX307SwydttOx7OGDVlf7XdpZT0/s1600/Chromeo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488585338002828130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfM7DaMkoLRk9FWjlNC5e8sk_XX-ehlZPXA8iEQJ_phItCjlIqjVB36IJoycUMKG27AR2AU-Hyajkg6GUoA5R2GzeM3h1X9iEIfXk4G4eCjL1c0VhSRSX307SwydttOx7OGDVlf7XdpZT0/s400/Chromeo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Synth pop revisionist duo Chromeo formed in Montreal in the early 21st century, a project of Audio Research honchos Dave One and Pee Thug (news flash: not their given names). Dave handled the electronics; Pee was the frequently processed vocalist. From the beginning, Chromeo made it clear that artful detachment, cheesy electro-funk breakdowns, and gleaming plastic beats -- not serious intent or aggressive musical regime change -- were the name of their well-dressed game. </span></div></span><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:78%;">This summer, the party-starting, festival-happy Montreal plastic-funk duo Chromeo returns. On August 17, they'll release Business Casual, their third album and the follow-up to the 2007 breakthrough Fancy Footwork, via Atlantic.<br /></span><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;">click any track to listen</span></p></strong><center><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/587h6kjdlfegb140469974acb37accj4/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F587h6kjdlfegb140469974acb37accj4%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><br /><center></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-11411075494233086622010-08-31T21:54:00.000-07:002010-08-31T22:13:26.917-07:00We Speak No Americano<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchPV2TSRaaLNT2NsMPfw7sP_JTR9_6RQBbw5FVgkNBOe_gjhc5ZtXJArUvou0omxdhPY3ill4qHhuhW3c-PnpLAR89prlRFenS22BC_enlh_MD9rgG-JLBGrkyD7gzsls6oI92qH4T5Z5/s1600/we+speak+no+americano.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511807404033379714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchPV2TSRaaLNT2NsMPfw7sP_JTR9_6RQBbw5FVgkNBOe_gjhc5ZtXJArUvou0omxdhPY3ill4qHhuhW3c-PnpLAR89prlRFenS22BC_enlh_MD9rgG-JLBGrkyD7gzsls6oI92qH4T5Z5/s400/we+speak+no+americano.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><p>Before Pitbull came along and stole it for a mainstream audience, Dcup & Yolanda Be Cool first had a hit with "We Speak No Americano". The original was sung by Renato Carosone under "Tu Vuò Fa' L'Americano".</span> <p><center><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/kDyPvrHd1lM/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kDyPvrHd1lM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kDyPvrHd1lM?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="400" height="315" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"></p></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"></span><br /></center><center></center></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-53180008360068867242010-07-08T19:42:00.000-07:002010-07-08T20:03:14.243-07:00Lennon and McCartney: Let It Be<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNpR21u2hzBfWQs6OQpEjhsM4ylArltBKhakRW4RAxN6XultLg9wsEIfKEQm1gwDWOyX0w7R_XnNCoRy1terlnvDR3b7peThyphenhyphenkZQgXB8V5UWChS1osB5TtCSJh9-octzBk0yjceRhPBTzt/s1600/The+Beatles.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491736344979766754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNpR21u2hzBfWQs6OQpEjhsM4ylArltBKhakRW4RAxN6XultLg9wsEIfKEQm1gwDWOyX0w7R_XnNCoRy1terlnvDR3b7peThyphenhyphenkZQgXB8V5UWChS1osB5TtCSJh9-octzBk0yjceRhPBTzt/s400/The+Beatles.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is one of the best-known and most successful musical and cultural collaborations in history. Between 1962 and 1969, they wrote and published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by The Beatles and form the bulk of their catalogue. Unlike many songwriting partnerships which comprise separate lyricist and composer, both Lennon and McCartney wrote words and music; often however, their songs were principally the work of one of the two credited authors.<br /><br />Lennon–McCartney compositions have been the subject of numerous cover versions. According to Guinness World Records, "Yesterday" has been recorded by more artists than any other song.</span> </div><br /><p><b></p></b><b><center><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">click any track to listen</span></b></center><br /><center><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/cdjb7mh86aa694eeca9d3akh3h966dd4/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fcdjb7mh86aa694eeca9d3akh3h966dd4%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><br /><center></center><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-82508560353504703982010-07-04T23:20:00.000-07:002010-07-04T23:37:01.764-07:00The Eighties: Pop Muzik<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0nV6AX9yDK5sryLUbRE-kuD4U2G4Z6SH-La6m0oIGgSYN0-VreaKPde_hKRqzEMpbbv1LyGfxXLDqeI48jj1sdVAsMkSrmRBRAKuCCPqZk-lZtO5GK5GQZyNNyGwsHVZVhbyUzwtkXQf/s1600/rubix+cube.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490305183216752898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0nV6AX9yDK5sryLUbRE-kuD4U2G4Z6SH-La6m0oIGgSYN0-VreaKPde_hKRqzEMpbbv1LyGfxXLDqeI48jj1sdVAsMkSrmRBRAKuCCPqZk-lZtO5GK5GQZyNNyGwsHVZVhbyUzwtkXQf/s400/rubix+cube.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">It wasn't just the decade of Members Only jackets and jelly shoes, it was also the decade of the best music ever. The decade when greed was good, hair was high and everyone learned what a music video was. Prince, Wham!, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper and Culture Club! </span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Arcade games and video games had been growing in popularity since the 1970s, and by 1982 were a major industry. But a variety of factors, including a glut of low-quality games and the rise of home computers caused a tremendous crash in late 1983. For the next three years, the video game market practically ceased to exist in the US. But in the second half of the decade, it would be revived by Nintendo, whose Famicom console had been enjoying considerable success in Japan since 1983. Renamed the Nintendo Entertainment System, it would claim 90% of the American video game market by 1989. </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Computers experienced explosive growth in the '80s, going from being a toy for electronics hobbyists to a full-fledged industry. The IBM PC, launched in 1981, become the dominant computer for professional users. Commodore created the most popular home computers of both 8-bit and 16-bit generations. MSX standard was the dominant computer platform in Japan. Apple was committed to resisting the tide of IBM PC clones. Graphical user interface and mouse started to become general features in computers after the middle of the decade </p></span></span><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>click any track to listen</strong></span><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/b242940b69dd87n89h361c28fndc4708/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fb242940b69dd87n89h361c28fndc4708%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><center></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-59092976311238671202010-07-02T20:41:00.000-07:002010-07-02T21:17:05.315-07:00The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfnfcUqQI0bbQmQhIWNYC0ZmlsPDMN2p1O0Zj5b8zYAPiMTnebyfjOj7B4NbgH3h65FCXadJPjhvMzGqlyeHSPcuoXOOFRD7s81ttXYVLrdjjwAWSmTlZPbv9_-5wgcxHw9PpAEINH9exp/s1600/The+Smiths.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489522525492999410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfnfcUqQI0bbQmQhIWNYC0ZmlsPDMN2p1O0Zj5b8zYAPiMTnebyfjOj7B4NbgH3h65FCXadJPjhvMzGqlyeHSPcuoXOOFRD7s81ttXYVLrdjjwAWSmTlZPbv9_-5wgcxHw9PpAEINH9exp/s400/The+Smiths.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. The group was based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr, and were signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records. </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Considered by some critics to be the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British indie scene of the 1980s. The Smiths have had a major influence on subsequent alternative music, including the Britpop movement and bands such as The Stone Roses, Gene, Radiohead, Blur, Suede, Oasis, The Libertines, and Doves. </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">At the time, the group was notable in particular for two things: Morrissey's unusual, witty, and controversial lyrics, and Marr's music, which helped return guitar-based music to popularity after it had fallen out of favour in the UK charts. </span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The group released a total of four studio albums and several compilations in fewer than five years, as well as numerous singles. </span><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>click any track to listen</strong></span> <br><center><embed src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/f5ae57lifm92b0b9a0b5efc31fdhfl84/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" width="280" height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Ff5ae57lifm92b0b9a0b5efc31fdhfl84%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><center></center><br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-12170351054558504272010-07-02T15:50:00.000-07:002010-09-28T09:39:54.889-07:00Serge Gainsbourg: Requiem Pour Un Con<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdKCfAa1ZG1y6Ju4crEQ1biFosVmh749YaUK8yC-dnINWe-H0aO8VkbrzyEDyG56MsMjeDW0m4NbYGk4gn1Q63hWg0GFMyfQHfqjN0aWBJ9OI0WZpEWXOJUzNTa2D07PQ8q86ENLo-sEv/s1600/Serge+Gainsbourg.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489448051925695666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdKCfAa1ZG1y6Ju4crEQ1biFosVmh749YaUK8yC-dnINWe-H0aO8VkbrzyEDyG56MsMjeDW0m4NbYGk4gn1Q63hWg0GFMyfQHfqjN0aWBJ9OI0WZpEWXOJUzNTa2D07PQ8q86ENLo-sEv/s400/Serge+Gainsbourg.jpg" /></a> <div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><p>Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a french poet-songwriter, singer, actor, novelist, painter and director. Gainsbourg’s varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released Aux Armes et caetera more than twenty years after his music career had begun. But since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. </span></p></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><p>He was born in Paris, France the son of Jewish Russian parents. He had one daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, from his marriage to Jane Birkin. </span><br /><br /></span><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">His early songs were influenced by Boris Vian. However, Gainsbourg wanted to break free from old-fashioned chanson and explore new musical grounds, influenced by British and American pop. During his career, he wrote the soundtracks for more than 40 movies. </span> <center></center></div><p><center><div><embed src="http://widget-b4.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&il=1&channel=72057594050524852&site=widget-b4.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:275px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"> </div></div></center><p></span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">His most famous song, Je t'aime ... moi non plus, was vocally very erotic. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with a different female singer, future wife Jane Birkin, when Bardot backed out. Considered too "hot", the song was censored in various countries and in France even the toned-down version was suppressed.</span></p></span><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">In 1978 he recorded a reggae version of "La Marseillaise", "Aux Armes et cetera", with Bob Marley's band in Jamaica, which resulted in him getting death threats from right wing veterans of the Algerian War of Independence.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><p><span style="font-size:78%;">Serge Gainsbourg died on March 2, 1991 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, in Paris.</span></span></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;">click any track to listen</span></strong> <p></p><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/1ia340gaf3ncbi298c3d16827dcddhga/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F1ia340gaf3ncbi298c3d16827dcddhga%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-46978450868687232742010-06-30T08:34:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:37:09.601-07:00Bruce McCollough: Snowbird<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pdPAFLDJKfc2eq-0rA1NXnB-GZUS3O3FWSwRv_lKis4sl3xxBqSeVaeeF9j9-0i4TFOFz7vZKh8pODYSsz2AbK4NO2ryEChwQbIFX5Lbvqk1PKAahfy9DFMEDoafyOv1o4t2coQif1KA/s1600/Snowbird.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488590806548266322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pdPAFLDJKfc2eq-0rA1NXnB-GZUS3O3FWSwRv_lKis4sl3xxBqSeVaeeF9j9-0i4TFOFz7vZKh8pODYSsz2AbK4NO2ryEChwQbIFX5Lbvqk1PKAahfy9DFMEDoafyOv1o4t2coQif1KA/s400/Snowbird.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>Does anyone have video of a skit called "Snowbird" from Saturday Nightlive Season 20 Episode 14 in which George Clooney / Cranberries hosted. If you do, please send me the link or post it. I would be forever grateful.</strong></span> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-58638082118290014082010-06-30T08:26:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:27:17.558-07:00Erlend Oye: The Black Keys Work<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIPAUA5IfWSv1M2B6p_Am3odV8cz4nIUlVj7d9YFS1-ICFmzHsaJ-R1gLsnn-hRG-c8lgAaNqc1XgsvfaDFODtFnWWcpUEqLDKzKy3rbQKfvzEIwDC_12xAWmI4DsQqHANwg3Ctm6FLh8/s1600/Erland+Oye.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470239655783634466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIPAUA5IfWSv1M2B6p_Am3odV8cz4nIUlVj7d9YFS1-ICFmzHsaJ-R1gLsnn-hRG-c8lgAaNqc1XgsvfaDFODtFnWWcpUEqLDKzKy3rbQKfvzEIwDC_12xAWmI4DsQqHANwg3Ctm6FLh8/s400/Erland+Oye.jpg" /></a> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Erlend Øye is a Norwegian musician from Bergen, Norway best known for being part of the pop duo Kings of Convenience together with Eirik Glambek Bøe. He has released one solo album, Unrest in 2003 and a mix CD in the DJ-Kicks series in 2004. Furthermore he has released his second album of the band The Whitest Boy Alive. <p align="justify">He was born November 21st 1975 in Bergen and formed the band Skog together with some friends in the mid 1990s. He moved to London and played in the band Peachfuzz in 1997. When he was back home in Bergen for vacations he jammed with Bøe. They formed Kings of Convenience in 1998 and released their first album, Quiet Is The New Loud in 2001. Øye had become interested in electronic music and spent the next years in Berlin or travelling around the world, recording his solo album Unrest together with ten different electronica artists such as Metro Area, Prefuse 73 and Schneider TM, in ten different cities. This year also saw the next release by Kings of Convenience. <p align="justify">Erlend Øye’s most recent project is the band ‘The Whitest Boy Alive’. The band originally started off as an electronic band, but slowly developed into a band with no programmed elements. Erlend sings and plays guitar. The Whitest Boy Alive released a single (“Burning”) on 24 May 2006. Their debut album, Dreams has come out on 21 June 2006, via their record label bubbles. Their second album, Rules came out March 30, 2009. <p align="justify">Erlend currently lives in Bergen when not touring with The Whitest Boy Alive or Kings Of Convenience. He is involved in the Bergen music scene and spends time promoting local bands, and assists with booking at the annual Træna Festival in northern Norway. <p align="center"><strong>click any track below to listen</strong> <p></p></div></span><br><center><embed src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/849jhcd7c9427fg624b75fmg8c6348mc/mp3player.swf" menu="false" quality="high" width="280" height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2F849jhcd7c9427fg624b75fmg8c6348mc%2Fmp3player.xml" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-84770371682548294792010-06-30T08:24:00.001-07:002010-10-20T20:45:27.922-07:00Hot Chip: Hand Me Down Your Love<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1bfWXT5LcnE5gnijPWZG9hEmifbI4lcKG2ntVDGvFc2ENq0lVjNY2cOAG-YljnZge6zhud1n0dcMvScPsbQPG4IHlM0WcvtX3V4rRV7w6S-QOO5llmOHxq78tLUeya8L_G5yCIxKeI23/s1600/Hot+Chip.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466699654872994018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1bfWXT5LcnE5gnijPWZG9hEmifbI4lcKG2ntVDGvFc2ENq0lVjNY2cOAG-YljnZge6zhud1n0dcMvScPsbQPG4IHlM0WcvtX3V4rRV7w6S-QOO5llmOHxq78tLUeya8L_G5yCIxKeI23/s400/Hot+Chip.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Hailing from London, Hot Chip entered the picture with the release of their 2000 debut, Mexico. The EP was issued by Victory Garden Records, a label owned and operated by members of London's resident lo-fi psychedelic rock institution Southall Riot. The Mexico EP was a hypnotic wash of subtle -- nearly subliminal -- pulse-like techno beats, acoustic guitars, and plinky pianos, but the vocals were the true star of the show (no small feat in a musical climate overrun with disaffected Lou Reed-esque mumblers and bland Eddie Vedder impersonators). The voices of Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard are a fine study in contrast. Taylor offers dreamy, effortless falsettos that cut to the heart of the beauty of performers like Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake (minus any of the pretentiousness of Radiohead or even Coldplay or the bland vocal acrobatics of Remy Zero). Meanwhile, scattered throughout the record (and in the occasional duet), Goddard offers a tone that sounds a bit more world-weary and at times almost gruff in comparison to Taylor, calling to mind Damon Albarn's cool monotone tendencies. Self-released by Hot Chip in 2002, Sanfrandisco E-Pee showed the band dabbling in more playful sounds, from the beatbox dubbing of the title track to the closing notes of "Fanta," in which Taylor pleads with the listener to "make sounds of the summer." There are moments of gorgeous melancholy as well, but on the whole the album feels a bit more hopeful than Mexico had. </p></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><p align="justify"></span></p><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The group signed to revered N.Y.C. record label DFA in 2005 and released the Over and Over EP, as well as the excellent 2006 full-length The Warning. Hot Chip kept busy in 2007 by supporting The Warning with singles and consistent touring, and released a DJ-Kicks mix album. Late that year, the single "Ready for the Floor" heralded the arrival of Made in the Dark, which featured some of the band's most focused grooves and poppiest melodies to date. The mellower One Life Stand followed in 2010.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"><strong><p>click any track below to listen</strong></span></p></div><br /><center><embed name="poqbum-dot-com" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/b94ed5d9bkdodcqad5gifl469e65ec4b/mp3player.swf" width="280" height="320" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fb94ed5d9bkdodcqad5gifl469e65ec4b%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-24728840493198635852010-06-04T18:09:00.000-07:002010-06-04T18:11:51.001-07:00Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Home<p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rjFaenf1T-Y&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rjFaenf1T-Y&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five, young Edward Sharpe had to wait nearly two years before he was to grow his arms and legs and fingers and toes.<br /><br />Immaculately conceived, his father (a Robot who had magically become a real boy...but that’s another story) declared his undying devotion to the creature. He perched the fleshy bust upon a teetering pedestal fashioned from stacked cereal boxes and positioned the display at his window for all the town to see. Young Edward soon proved no ordinary boy.<br /><br />Though his father had figured him deaf for his unresponsiveness to sounds, he in fact had the universally unique condition of being deaf from hearing too much or, more correctly put, too well. In plain words, he heard EVERYTHING AT ONCE.<br /><br />At first it proved rather painful like a wretched whining winding all hours, but very soon those who whisper visited young Edward and revealed to him the Tricks and Truths, the Ways and Plays, the Chords and Dischords of the Universe.<br /><br />He did not need to eat but the color of the sun, which was F#, and moved his bones to grow.<br /><br />His arms and legs and fingers and toes grew ‘til the tower of boxes collapsed and he laughed. He moved thru the door which was C over B# and ran thru the village hearing ALL of its music!<br /><br />The workers and children and painters of buildings and dogs barking madly and trees bristling softly and OH!!<br /><br />Young Edward could not resist! He began playing the tree which are the chords E and D ‘gainst the mice in the grass which are A played with brass and the wooden fence F and then C and repeat with a drone of B Minor to bring in the street and the Birds B to B Sharp with fluttering strings and the sky mostly C unless he wants to bring in the rain and for rain bring the F Chord bombastic with organ’s distortion and symbols a’crashing.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-81422757389788858502010-06-02T22:46:00.000-07:002010-06-02T23:11:56.214-07:00Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today<p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiLqAu4s-_s&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiLqAu4s-_s&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">The alternative pop/rock and lo-fi recordings of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are full of intrigue -- and full of contradictions. Pink, a male singer, composer, musician, and producer who is based in Los Angeles, provides songs that are melodic, catchy, and familiar -- songs that, in their own unorthodox way, recall the most immediate, accessible, straightforward FM pop/rock of the '70s and '80s. But Pink's work also comes across as bizarre, trippy, skewed, and twisted -- and a lot of that strangeness comes from his production style. As a songwriter, Pink has a real sense of pop/rock craftsmanship, but his very muddy way of producing and his oddball, kooky sound effects make the late-'90s and early-2000s recordings of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (which is really the name of a project, not an actual group) sound highly eccentric. </span><p align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">At times, Pink (who plays guitar, bass, and keyboards) sounds like he is singing into a mono cassette recorder in a basement or a garage back in 1977 -- he really goes out of his way to sound as under-produced and demo-like as possible. But once you get past his production style, it becomes apparent that Pink has strong pop/rock instincts (sometimes adding a touch of blue-eyed soul). The southern Californian brings a long list of influences to the table -- influences ranging from David Bowie, John Lennon, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, and the Raspberries to Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, and late-'70s/early-'80s new wave. Some of Pink's melodies wouldn't have been out of place on Bowie's Station to Station album in 1976; some of them would have worked well for A Flock of Seagulls, Men at Work, or Talking Heads in the early '80s. But because Pink's production style is so quirky and off-center, those comparisons may not come as easily to listeners who don't have a taste for the bizarre -- and depending on who you talk to, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is either mindlessly self-indulgent studio masturbation or the work of an insane musical genius. There are some listeners who just plain don't comprehend what he is doing, but the small cult following that Pink acquired in the late '90s and early 2000s tends to be highly enthusiastic -- Pink's admirers really swear by him and insist that there is a method to his madness.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti release "Before Today" on June 8, 2010, in which we presemt "Round and Round" from that release.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274026214220955461.post-31230886585971410272010-06-01T21:55:00.000-07:002010-06-01T21:56:28.058-07:00Tracey Thorn: Why Does The Wind?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg211RPeOdAPCdyGkN_gRVfMCs6ekyojGgu7TgOTwKAp8HHElWW83yLxyfjp0DhHsd4faCozOOjQ0DCmfzwmI9UtNiwYKCWMwHJAS8HY1685U0LGtTYzBt-V0N_SsZnM58MNFXGtXAZYyfz/s1600/Tracey+Thorn.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466700285346105698" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg211RPeOdAPCdyGkN_gRVfMCs6ekyojGgu7TgOTwKAp8HHElWW83yLxyfjp0DhHsd4faCozOOjQ0DCmfzwmI9UtNiwYKCWMwHJAS8HY1685U0LGtTYzBt-V0N_SsZnM58MNFXGtXAZYyfz/s400/Tracey+Thorn.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/traceythorn.jpg"></a><p><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKzGpv6rs6tZUj8gknEX-SbdGB_W54DVTT01quT0-uyukFndvccAuLuwsBLo-Y9D7O7YRHGnfKrgGgHFHDABH1h0FrlTYjd-Y7NyH4QxhOezdYz52WrN61vuFC-ldNFtoRUeeJHK7ugo/s400/tthorn.jpeg"></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">One of the most enduring English singer/songwriters since the early '80s, Tracey Thorn began making music with the all-female quartet Marine Girls, a minimalist pop group that released a pair of albums. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">She also recorded A Distant Shore, a relatively moody, if similarly skeletal solo album, for Cherry Red in 1983. Around that time she met Ben Watt -- who was also signed to Cherry Red -- and formed a partnership as Everything But the Girl. From 1984 through 1999, Thorn and Watt released ten albums that shifted from indie pop to slick sophisti-pop to downtempo club music. <p>Shortly after having twin daughters together, they put EBTG on ice. After several years of inactivity, Thorn began writing again and recorded her second solo album, Out of the Woods, which was released in early 2007. Throughout the years, she has guested on songs by a number of groups, including the Style Council, the Go-Betweens, Massive Attack, and Tiefschwarz. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide. </span></span><br /></p></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></div></span></span><div align="justify"><p></p></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Tracey Thorn's third solo album, Love & Its Opposite, is out May 17, and capitalises on the critical acclaim of her 2007 release, Out Of The Woods, a mixture of hard-edged dance music and folk fare which bridged the gap between the acoustic and the electric. <p>Love & Its Opposite finds Tracey and producer Ewan Pearson stripping things back to more organic essentials, embracing a retro sound that references the type of music she would have grown up listening to. Thorn is in pensive mood for much of the album, which is as much about her own experiences as a forty-something trying to make sense of her life as it is about the relationships of others, resulting in a mature and often cynically humorous set of songs that’s sure to be embraced by her stalwart fans. </span></p><div><br /></div><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Click on any track to start listening.</span></strong></p><div><br /></div><center><embed height="320" name="poqbum-dot-com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="280" src="http://player.poqbum.com/swf/ffjb9id86aa694eeca9d3age3h966di7/mp3player.swf" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.poqbum.com%2Fswf%2Fffjb9id86aa694eeca9d3age3h966di7%2Fmp3player.xml" quality="high" menu="false"></embed></center><div><br /><br /><br /></div><center><small></small></center></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.bandra-mumbai.com/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0