Laatst gekochte CD/LP/MuziekDVD. Deel 24

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A good example of a tribute album that goes beyond the fringe for its inspiration is Symphonic Holocaust. This intriguing oddity finds an ad hoc tribute band made up of European heavy metal musicians from the groups Anekdoten and Landberk covering a series of instrumentals taken from the soundtracks of obscure, mostly European exploitation movies. Morte Macabre is also unusual in that its overall sound is focused around the mellotron, a kind of primitive synthesizer that was a favorite with progressive rock musicians during the 1960s and 1970s. The result is an unusual but highly listenable amalgam of heavy metal bombast, prog rock grandeur, and spooky soundtrack-derived atmospherics. As one might expect, a good part of Symphonic Holocaust has a heavy, ominous edge to it.

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Out Hud could be described a number of ways in indie-speak, such as "What Tortoise might sound like if their avant-garde jazz and minimalism fixations were replaced by oddball disco and post-punk." Or maybe "Chamber post-punk that shares nothing in common with the Meters-mimic of 5ive Style and the Beastie Boys." Crazier yet, people who caught all the references in LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" might use a phrase like "This Heat meets Arthur Russell." Despite these comparisons and anti-comparisons, Out Hud is unique, and not just in the indie sense. An instrumental unit who could get by on their nimble, intricate rhythms alone, they adorn their brisk machine-drum patterns and low-slung bass lines with a wide variety of instrumentation. Spirals of guitar; patters of bongos, drawn-out notes, and percussive jabs of cello; and waves of keyboards — both textural and confrontational — drift in and out of a jumble that often thrives on dub production techniques (reverb, echoing snares, unexpected surges of sound). This, the group's bizarrely titled full-length debut (stranger still are the song titles), is an incredibly creative fusion of several styles of music that winds up sounding like no one else in particular. The obvious references to inspirations are few and few between, and any comparisons have more merit in approach than sound. This 40-minute series of fluid, labyrinthine passages is equally cerebral and hip-shaking, with pulsating grooves and webs of intricate adornments tangling for an otherworldly type of psychedelic dance music. People who had been snapping up this group's vinyl releases prior to this long-awaited full-length can prove once and for all that the slobbering wasn't a put-on. — Andy Kellman

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Op vrijdag 19 maart 2004 14:05 schreef jonny het volgende:
Vanmiddag gekocht bij de Mediamarkt:

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david bowie - sound & vision

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Op vrijdag 19 maart 2004 14:06 schreef Seborik het volgende:

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Wat is dat voor een dvd?

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Op donderdag 18 maart 2004 15:46 schreef Grobbel het volgende:
Verder kreeg ik gisteren een bericht van nlstore dat Emperor Tomato Ketchup van Stereolab ook was verstuurd, maar die zat er vandaag gek genoeg nog niet bij. Ach, wellicht morgen dan.

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Op maandag 22 maart 2004 12:11 schreef Seborik het volgende:
The Nefilim - Penetration Digipack