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| Just go for it! |
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| April Fool's? What's that? |
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 Nothing for you here. We'll be back shortly. No, really!
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| Spring is back, and so is trance. |
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It wasn't intentional on our part, honest. Yet we only recently realized that, aside from the odd psy album, our front page has been decidedly lacking in trance reviews for a while now. For a website called TranceCritic, that's quite shocking. Sure, we cover all aspects of electronic music, but when you are the #1 returned search result for 'trance music reviews' in Google, you probably should throw a bone to the genre more often.
So now we end the drought this month, with a whole bunch of trance reviewed. Some is from familiar names like Markus Schulz (in his latest DJ mix Amsterdam 08) and Leon Bolier with Mike Shiver (in a double-disc titled Trance Mission). Others may not be quite so readily apparent, as they aren't from producers you'd associate with trance. Alexander has amusingly referred to the singles from Riley Reinhold and Pig & Dan as 'closet trance.' Although I wouldn't deem that a genre-proper, you'll have to click the reviews for them to find out what he's talking about.
Oh, and we also have a house single from Moodymann reviewed for you too. Enjoy!
Moodymann - Technologystolemyvinyle
Pig & Dan - Deliverance
Riley Reinhold - Lights In My Eyes Remixe
Markus Schulz - Amsterdam 08
Trance Mission - Mixed By Leon Bolier & Mike Shiver
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| Spring hath arrived early-ith. |
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It's pretty clear, isn't it. Oh, not the weather, although it is. I mean commenting on the weather itself. It's the simplest of ice-breakers, and usually only utilized when there ain't nothing else much to comment on. Well, I s'pose I could talk sports, but how many of our fellow readers care about hockey and basketball? Not many, I'd wager (maybe J' should write one of these up, eh?). Politics then? Ooh, touchy subject, even if you don't care about the American primaries (down with Carol James!). And music itself is forthcoming anyway, so let's end this preamble and get to it.
Two singles here. Eric Prydz offers up his latest Pryda release in the form of Europa, while Martin Wheeler offers up his latest Vector Lovers release. On the album front, we dip our toes into something the indie kids are all ah-gah-gah over with Hot Chip's recent album Made In The Dark, and J' scoped out Joey Negro's contribution to new the Lust: Art & Soul series. Links below.
Hot Chip - Made In the Dark
Joey Negro - Lust: Art & Soul
Pryda - Europa / Odyssey
Vector Lovers - Lateshift / Babette
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| The Winter Slog Continues |
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You can never count on this time of the year for big releases. Oh, for sure sometimes a big single is released around now, though hardly a predicted one; rather, one of those super-underground hits that suddenly makes its presence felt at Winter Music Conference, and is jumped upon by every band-wagon DJ within earshot. Do we have such a release reviewed here? Perhaps...
Still, in honor of the American political primaries, we've decided to pull our own version of flip-flop for the opening half of February, and take a gander at a bunch of singles, leaving the compilations to the side for the time being. Alexander gets one from Donnacha Costello, thyself has a look at a collaboration between The Hacker and Eric Borgo, and J' scopes out a debut from RJ Productions.
Donnacha Costello - Black Bag Job
The Hacker & Eric Borgo - Zone
RJ Productions - 526
As ever dutiful though, we still have a pair of albums, albeit somewhat older. Fluke's spiritual second-act -2 Bit Pie- fell into the hands of J' recently, while I dipped back into the prog psy waters with Ace Ventura's debut. Clicky for the reads below.
2 Bit Pie - 2 Pie Island
Ace Ventura - Rebirth
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| One month down. |
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| The Worst Of TC: 2007 |
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 And it’s back! Would there be any doubt? Foolish ye’ be if you did, my fickle friends. Bad music is always in abundance every year, and us poor reviewers have to drudge through it so our fine readers don’t have to. However, there are always the morbidly curious out there who wonder what was the absolute worst of the worst, so here we’ve rounded up the cream of the crap from the year 2007 for you to check out.
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Posted by sykonee on Wednesday, January 23 @ 01:58:20 UTC (399 reads)
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| Half month already??? |
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Hell, where'd the time go? How'd January slip by so fast?? Where are all those new reviews I promised??? And will I ever stop writing just questions?
Ah, hmm... It does appear the first month of this year is quickly flying by, and even though things have been sluggish lately, it should pick up soon again. No, really! I mean it this time. Anyhow, here's a review of Daft Punk's Alive 2007, in case you've missed it.
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
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| Happy Old Year! |
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See, why celebrate what's yet to come when you can just as easily celebrate what was good about the previous 365?
Er... still on winter hibernation mode here at TC, although one review did manage to make it into the archives before we went on our usual holiday break -Swayzak's Some Other Country. Check it out below. We should have new material in the coming weeks.
Swayzak - Some Other Country
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