Shackleton - Three EPs: the best disc of electronics of the year and a jewel of the Dubstep

The name of the Dubstep of 2009 does not belong to the parish of the stamp Hyperdub Records. From Germany, the stamp of cult Perlon, recommended for all those who should bet for other sounds in the electronics, he has published the last reference in length of Shackleton, alumnus Three EPs and with her this dark genre achieves another jewel of the crown.

I discovered it thanks to the boys of Series B, who were speaking about him like better disc of the year, something that I sign once listened up to falling down hypnotized by his beats, and even were daring to place it better than the big Untrue (2007, Hyperdub) of Burial, where I do not agree already so, although yes that look at the eyes straight, but two years later, three if we refer to his début, and with the whole explosion of the Dubstep, give to improve and to transform very much the sound.

Shackleton – It's Time For Love (YouTube)

As I spoke in due time owing to the compilation of Hyperdub Records, 5 Years of Hyperdub (2009), there are many ways of confronting the sound that more has revolutionized the electronics in the latter years. Shackleton, the person in charge of Skull Disco, prefers a miscellany between the sexual Burial side in his construction of the modern Funk, which turns out to be here reflected in ‘Trembling Leaf‘ or ‘It's Time For Love’, and the route of Kode9 for contributing a new review to the Jamaican Dub (‘Asha In The Tabernacle’).

Shackleton – Asha In The Tabernacle (YouTube)

But here there is more than new readings on the genre that in due time spread over the underground and went out to the surface without almost contamination (there the sad Dandruff exception is). If Perlon has concentrated on Shackleton it is because there is something more between averages. The school minimalista of Plastikman has his place in Three EPs although the point that distinguishes the work of Shackleton like jewel is his approach to the Abstract by means of the construction of almost naked melodies, with hard shallows but simultaneously soft, with the incorporation of surprising lines of percussion you clean and the voices to add the spatial brooch.

Shackleton – Mountains Of Ashes (YouTube)

Three EPs is an emotive, tribal work, which the Drum can remember very well to 'n' Bass of years ago, achieving very deep hypnotic, low rhythms and layers that go interlacing between themselves becoming oxygenated to the topics with sharper sounds. There is no individual cut, the trip takes place with all together, although ‘Mountains Of Ashes’ is the union of all of them.

For me it is a forced buy this year. Perlon has exhausted all the released units. There exists an edition composed by three vinyl of 12 " that is already overcoming 30 euros and everything aims at that will be a collector's piece for his musical quality, in addition to which Three EPs will be indexed like one of the best álbumes of electronics of the decade.

Official place | Skull Disco
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Alice Keys - The Element of Freedom: self-help manual with sound-track

Grasp I Am, the penultimate disc of Alice Keys, it left me without knowing very well by what abide. For what the singer was looking in this work was not stopping going out to the light, and it remained in a quite worthy attempt but that for my taste did not come off completely. In the declarations that it did a few months ago on the new material that it would throw at the end of this year I saw a hope beam. He did not hesitate to clarify that his idea was to be liberated of the ties and pressures of the success and of the expectations to create something that was depending neither on currents nor on interests, something that was simple and without pretensions. Regrettably, so good intentions have remained in borages water.

The Element Of Freedom leads to mistake with his baptism. The introduction of the disc, where Alice one explains his shoot and of step to herself, gives us idea of the type of letters to that we are going to listen, of the subject-matter that is going to talk each other in the album, and this first fear turns out to be perfectly confirmed with the rosy qualifications of his songs. It is not that it is against of the romanticism, anything further of the reality, but yes I am of that of manual of rummage sale with local answers for any cardiac evil.

We speak already here about ‘Doesn't Mean Anything‘, the single with the one that was moving forward to us the horizon to which it was going to appear with the disc. Like everything what this woman does, is a correct topic, but this correction, this abstinence, they end up by turning into a heavy, repetitive keynote, into a soniquete who makes you think whenever you confront a new cut: "this I have already listened to it”, when in fact it is the first time.

The second simple one has not liked more in my appreciations. ‘Try Sleeping In A Broken Heart‘ is so a resaying, so repee and very kindly that gives me the sensation of being digesting an auditory miscellany of condensed milk and honey. His letter is in the same line on that he was commenting in the title of this entry. Most of the songs are too a proper triteness of any book of third category where they give remedy to any loves evil. And the worst thing is that the musician and the set of instruments do not save the ballot paper.

There is, as in everything, some exceptions that they remember to happier days. ‘Love Is Blind‘, in spite of the well-worn of the name, raises a footpath parallel to the spongy style, many more soul, rested and that him goes to the perfection, much better if only this air pasteloso that unfortunately stains a vocal talent and for the composition truly remarkable and that it demonstrated fully in his début.

Video | Youtube

In this one direct it is impossible not to see the elegance and the class that this woman has singing, and it gives me real sorrow that has not thrown a disc that continues more this style so spoiled lately as for ideas and new contributions facing the big public.

Other one of those who are saved fully is, for my surprise, ‘a Putt It In A Love Song‘, the collaboration with Beyoncé, who once again has convinced me that is much better what it does with others that alone she throws it. With a rhythm arrasador and completely different from what has accustomed Alice to us on the whole disc, this song is an authentic revulsive for so many ballad and so much flea market love. And the fact is that Beyoncé fixes this type of topics, it is enough to listen to the “animated face” of his last disc and to compare it with other one to see thousand returns that give to him.

If these two songs had marked more the line for which it thinks up the disc, he would not have hesitated to give him a note of 7,5 or even 8, because really it is deserved, but unfortunately, the monotony and not complete expectations weigh more.

The rest of the songs is not that they are bad, the fact is that they are mediocre, and bearing in mind the talent of this woman, it seems inexcusable to me, almost more than if they were horrible. There is nothing worse than that a work I generated certain indifference to you, and that of Alice Keys generated a few expectations, partly for his declarations, which to today it does not fulfill. Is the love like the sea? This way of fortress is it my love? Waiting to see my smile? Please …

Alice Keys - The Element of Freedom: self-help manual with sound-track

Grasp I Am, the penultimate disc of Alice Keys, it left me without knowing very well by what abide. For what the singer was looking in this work was not stopping going out to the light, and it remained in a quite worthy attempt but that for my taste did not come off completely. In the declarations that it did a few months ago on the new material that it would throw at the end of this year I saw a hope beam. He did not hesitate to clarify that his idea was to be liberated of the ties and pressures of the success and of the expectations to create something that was depending neither on currents nor on interests, something that was simple and without pretensions. Regrettably, so good intentions have remained in borages water.

The Element Of Freedom leads to mistake with his baptism. The introduction of the disc, where Alice one explains his shoot and of step to herself, gives us idea of the type of letters to that we are going to listen, of the subject-matter that is going to talk each other in the album, and this first fear turns out to be perfectly confirmed with the rosy qualifications of his songs. It is not that it is against of the romanticism, anything further of the reality, but yes I am of that of manual of rummage sale with local answers for any cardiac evil.

We speak already here about ‘Doesn't Mean Anything‘, the single with the one that was moving forward to us the horizon to which it was going to appear with the disc. Like everything what this woman does, is a correct topic, but this correction, this abstinence, they end up by turning into a heavy, repetitive keynote, into a soniquete who makes you think whenever you confront a new cut: "this I have already listened to it”, when in fact it is the first time.

The second simple one has not liked more in my appreciations. ‘Try Sleeping In A Broken Heart‘ is so a resaying, so repee and very kindly that gives me the sensation of being digesting an auditory miscellany of condensed milk and honey. His letter is in the same line on that he was commenting in the title of this entry. Most of the songs are too a proper triteness of any book of third category where they give remedy to any loves evil. And the worst thing is that the musician and the set of instruments do not save the ballot paper.

There is, as in everything, some exceptions that they remember to happier days. ‘Love Is Blind‘, in spite of the well-worn of the name, raises a footpath parallel to the spongy style, many more soul, rested and that him goes to the perfection, much better if only this air pasteloso that unfortunately stains a vocal talent and for the composition truly remarkable and that it demonstrated fully in his début.

Video | Youtube

In this one direct it is impossible not to see the elegance and the class that this woman has singing, and it gives me real sorrow that has not thrown a disc that continues more this style so spoiled lately as for ideas and new contributions facing the big public.

Other one of those who are saved fully is, for my surprise, ‘a Putt It In A Love Song‘, the collaboration with Beyoncé, who once again has convinced me that is much better what it does with others that alone she throws it. With a rhythm arrasador and completely different from what has accustomed Alice to us on the whole disc, this song is an authentic revulsive for so many ballad and so much flea market love. And the fact is that Beyoncé fixes this type of topics, it is enough to listen to the “animated face” of his last disc and to compare it with other one to see thousand returns that give to him.

If these two songs had marked more the line for which it thinks up the disc, he would not have hesitated to give him a note of 7,5 or even 8, because really it is deserved, but unfortunately, the monotony and not complete expectations weigh more.

The rest of the songs is not that they are bad, the fact is that they are mediocre, and bearing in mind the talent of this woman, it seems inexcusable to me, almost more than if they were horrible. There is nothing worse than that a work I generated certain indifference to you, and that of Alice Keys generated a few expectations, partly for his declarations, which to today it does not fulfill. Is the love like the sea? This way of fortress is it my love? Waiting to see my smile? Please …

Trent Reznor announces new disc of Nine Inch Nails for 2010

Trent Reznor is like the Eyes of the Guadiana, although rather lately the bustle that is brought by the press announcing the retreat of Nine Inch Nails at least during a time is going to end up by turning out to be a soap opera. And the fact is that Reznor is a bottom of bad seat. Scarcely it has been late 10 months in getting bored of the life paragraph of his band and having got to the study with Jane's Addiction it has not stopped filling him.

The case is that I do not even cut not lazily, Trent has announced to his fans that next year 2010 they will see a new disc of Nine Inch Nails, in addition to some topic that the singer is going to realize to the margin of the group. According to your own words:

During 2010 there is a series of planned things, including new material of Nine Inch Nails and something more that it is not Nine Inch Nails. I am in the state of rediscovery and reinvention that turns out to be slightly familiar, insecure to me and that is just what I need.

It seems that the extracurricular project to which it refers might be related to some type of collaboration with his friend Gary Numan, who announced already does a time that of course would join with Reznor in the study to record material together. Numan, as you will know already, he is one of the pioneers of the synthpop, so it will be necessary to see how they fit the styles of both and what can go out hence. Now then: anybody was one hoping that really Trent should settle formally to take care of his marriage and should move away indefinitely from the rock?

Route | Spin

Trent Reznor announces new disc of Nine Inch Nails for 2010

Trent Reznor is like the Eyes of the Guadiana, although rather lately the bustle that is brought by the press announcing the retreat of Nine Inch Nails at least during a time is going to end up by turning out to be a soap opera. And the fact is that Reznor is a bottom of bad seat. Scarcely it has been late 10 months in getting bored of the life paragraph of his band and having got to the study with Jane's Addiction it has not stopped filling him.

The case is that I do not even cut not lazily, Trent has announced to his fans that next year 2010 they will see a new disc of Nine Inch Nails, in addition to some topic that the singer is going to realize to the margin of the group. According to your own words:

During 2010 there is a series of planned things, including new material of Nine Inch Nails and something more that it is not Nine Inch Nails. I am in the state of rediscovery and reinvention that turns out to be slightly familiar, insecure to me and that is just what I need.

It seems that the extracurricular project to which it refers might be related to some type of collaboration with his friend Gary Numan, who announced already does a time that of course would join with Reznor in the study to record material together. Numan, as you will know already, he is one of the pioneers of the synthpop, so it will be necessary to see how they fit the styles of both and what can go out hence. Now then: anybody was one hoping that really Trent should settle formally to take care of his marriage and should move away indefinitely from the rock?

Route | Spin

Corinne Bailey Rae, video of 'I'd Do It All Again': elegant and simple

What pleasant surprise have I taken when I have listened to ‘I'd Do It All Again‘, the single presentation of The Sea, the one that will be the second disc of study of Corinne Bailey Rae. After a début that saw the light in 2006, the singer has taken four years before deciding to publish new material, which date to see the light will be next February 1.

lately, listening to a few supposed big ones of R&B and of the soul, everything results sooner or later in certain grade of device and superficiality, of monotony without any originality that they try maquilar behind big names to the production. Nevertheless, this song has left the best mouth flavor to me. Much closer of ‘Like to Star‘, the topic that threw it to the first line of the lists of sales, that to ‘Putt Your Records On’, which did that I was ending boring, this simple is what its own name indicates: simple, but not for boring, and elegant, very elegant it.

I do not know if it will be because the acoustic sound is always more grateful than the instruments excess and more if they are electronic, but the true thing is that to Corinne it goes like ring to the finger and this topic is a good test of it. I have to confess that I was not attracted very much by the idea of listening to it again, after it saturated that I finished ‘Putt Your Records On’, but now I wait with enough desire for the throwing of the disc.

You can throw a glance to the live performance accompanied simply by the guitar and the piano where it dazzles really with his simplicity.

Route | RnB Music Blog
Video | MySpace, Youtube

He votes for the best of 2009 in Hypersonic: candidates Rock Progresivo / Experimental

We keep on voting the latter days of the year so that you say to us which have looked like to you the best discs of 2009 and to be able to know this way your predilections and there comes the paragraph that we have called a Progressive / experimental Rock.

Although in the beginning I thought that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, only well or accompanied, was going to monopolize all the nominations, between the Hipérsónica publishers we have made a list of 17 candidates in which the Puerto Rican one finally appears three times and is that the uncle in addition to experimental, has gone out for us of the most prolific thing.

We have included in the same list very different discs, some nearby to the rock or the metal and others of pure electronics or other sounds but in that there is always trying to play with the experimentation. Sure that you recommend to us someone that we have left to ourselves in the inkwell, for that you have the comments, but at the moment you can give your punctuations to these:

• Porcupine Tree – The Incident Haz here to vote
• The Mars Volta – Octahedron Haz click here to vote
• John Frusciante – The Empyrean Haz here to vote
• The new group of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Cryptomnesia Haz click here to vote
• OSI – Blood Haz click here to vote
• Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition Haz here to vote
• Devin Townsend Project – Ki Haz click here to vote
• HORSE The Band – Desperate Living Haz here to vote
• Pelican – What We All Come to Need Haz click here to vote
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Lot Gambling Haz click here to vote
• HEALTH – Get Color Haz here to vote
• Black Dice – Repo Haz click here to vote
• Land of Kush – Against the Day Haz click here to vote
• Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport Haz click here to vote
• Monkey – Hymn to the Immortal Wind Haz here to vote
• Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights Haz here to vote

• Bread • American – White Bird Release Haz click here to vote

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