Archive for October, 2007

Tyler Bates - 300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] [2007]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Amazon.com
Listening to this soundtrack at full blast one often feels as if the Spartan and Persian forces are coming right at you, then ferociously pummeling your eardrums–and this is meant as a compliment. Tyler Bates’s score is basically a modern update of the battle classic to end all battle classics: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. On […]

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed [2005]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Product Description
This is a track-by-track remix of the band’s debut. Highlights include remixes by Ladytron, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mogwai, M83, and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The first 15,000 of the US edition will contain a bonus CD with three b-sides of non-album tracks, acoustic versions of the album track “Plans”, and the b-side […]

Hans Zimmer - King Arthur [SOUNDTRACK] [2004]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Review @ www.cdtimes.co.uk
I’ll be honest and say that I’m not one for humour in music. Occasional moments are fine but when I think of funny albums, I think of live recordings of Bill Hicks not The Macc Ladds or George Jones’ Clubsound, both of whom are inexplicably still together, which only suggests that neither believe […]

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile [1999]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Amazon.com’s Best of 1999
Trent Reznor took five years to record this monstrous double-CD set, wielding a perfectionist’s touch in the production and the subtlety of a chainsaw in the musicianship. The result is uncompromising, full of hysterical noise and yet utterly accessible. Somehow, someway, this is one of the best pop records of the […]

Efterklang - Tripper [2004]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Review @ www.stylusmagazine.com
While the literal translation of ‘Efterklang’ is ‘after noise’ (and thus ‘reverberation’), the term more loosely translates as ‘remembrance,’ a more fitting meaning given the yearning character of the Copenhagen group’s sound. Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg formed Efterklang in 2001 and, augmented by Rune Mølgaard Fonseca’s piano and Thomas Kirirath […]