new tradition on the blog will be publishing once a month, usually the most interesting in our view a list of songs last week. Most of them probably would have been played in the program "Blue Time ", if that still existed ..
When you create a list is to facilitate the selection of individual tracks to the summary of the year. The order is arranged in alphabetical order and most of them are Linked to the web sites where you can listen to them.
pleased to present, who knows - maybe even one of the candidates for album of the year. The work of the Australian quartet composed of Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Mitchell Scott Dean, Ben Browning. This is their third album, Zonoscope, which confirms the status of one of the most consistent contemporary groups.
Zonoscope has more than 60 minutes and 11 songs, but do not panic - this is not progressive, pulsing techno, only a very intelligent, sometimes abutteth elektrodance pop. In these 60 plus minutes is made up of more than 15 minutes suite Sun God, in which we find the essence of the entire album, that is: a lot of positive dance, a little punk alternative, a pinch of trance and all links to the best of synthpopie synths, beats, samples. A lot of these here almost metallic, about neworderowskich or depechemodowskich patches, which complement the live instruments in proportions roughly 50%, but sometimes we have to dealing with a "clean" playing - for example, Alisia, the number ocierającym about punkrock, with a predominance of rock. Dan and Tim, who plays the guitar using them - you have to admit - very cleverly, and how you can przybrudzić, clean instrumentation. Here, I think Yo La Tengo and guitar madness, Cut Copy, although far short of breaking the neck. Cut Copy can also be a "romantic and warm" in a plastic envelope sonically, as evidenced by Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat. The Take Me Over the close to its wording, Kylie Minogue and her flagship hits from the 80's. Anyway Zonoscope is another example of reaching for a wave of new-wave and synthpop, which date mostly from the 80th. Pharaos Pyramids and it is again an example excel in today's electronica artists, especially Hot Chip. Cut Copy is trying to actually look like in the song Blink, And You'll Miss A Revolution, the style of the vocals of Alexis Taylor, and the whole is a little pulled from Ready For The Floor, but the piece and so the weapons. At times the album is close to techno, but never comes close to a narcotic intoxication, allowing the listener to relax rather than to intoxicate.
I have major reservations about the whole, live instruments can be heard well, hinting that Cut Copy would cope without the synthesizers, even before a more demanding audience. Australians are easy to create good, maybe not groundbreaking - but definitely catchy melodies. You can listen to their songs, but you can also have fun with them. It is a compromise between the strict wording of the dance, synthpop and electronic alternative. Hot Chip have really worthy competitors. Off Festival? Fits like a find. Arthur ...
Off During last year's Festival performance impressed me four Icelanders with FM Belfast play dance electronics, of which one could say that would put his feet up dead. And no coincidence that I mention in the context of FM Belfast Bloodgroup since the two bands originate from the same music scene and, despite some differences, obviously they share a large amount of energy we can muster, and the people who came to the concert.
Bloodgroup performance in a small basement room at the club tightly Re loaded mainly as people remember the show with an unusual energy instruments (keytary, synths, pads, flute, keyboard, drum machine) and a large dose of music with the same rushed to his feet to dance. They began, however, very quietly from the delicate sounds of "Wars", because even though they play dance music, in their work but you can find a lot of nostalgia, which is characteristic of most artists from Iceland. It is not surprising that half hour show is set in Krakow was a series of rapid, energetic numbers, each followed by a moment reflection at the beautiful przytulańcach, such as rozpisanym for two voices "My Arms." Implementation of the first number was preceded by a longer statement Janus Rasmussen, who thanked for the warm welcome during his first visit in our country and expressed his delight at the beauty of Polish women, spirits and a delicious chocolate bars prince polo. Then one of the brothers Jonsson - instrumentalists, the band has performed his improvisations dedicated to our batonikom.
Porisdottir Sunna - singer Bloodgroup and admired the beauty of punk form of expression. Besides singing also seized after the second keytar, a slower moments, romantic sound of the band complement flute keyboard. However, the first violin on stage led Janus Rasmussen, who not only sang and konwersował with the audience, but also operate the various knobs and hit the blue glowing sticks in the drum machine, and during the encore kapitalnego also encouraged the audience to share their names in the common cry (" Bob is probably not the Polish name, "- said that I heard someone in the crowd dignity).
Bis as the beginning of the performance began very quietly from the Sunnah wyśpiewanego title track, "Dry Land" with their last album. He then seamlessly passed to their own interpretation of the hit '80s group Canadian Man Without Hats The Safety Dance. " In their version of the song has gained even more power (the text goes like this: "I say, we can dance, we can dance everything out of control") and was a beautiful culmination of an already tight energy concert. The audience reacted to the appropriate uproar and remained so until the very end of the encore. Then the four musicians went straight into the audience (due to lack of choice) while encouraging buying CDs and share their experiences with a specially prepared table next to the entrance hall. In the lobby you could hear that maybe during the holidays we'll see them again, because I got a call from one of the Polish festivals. It would be great if it was confirmed, because a larger group of people could find out how they can capture a crowd of friendly Icelanders.
