Encore Records

Klaus Schulze

La Vie Electronique v.9

New 3 cd set of archival recordings !!!

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Uncut / Mojo / Classic Rock AOR / The Wire / Mixmag / DJ / Future Music and Classic Rock

July issues of the UK mags are now here !!

Legendary Pink Dots

Paris In The Fall

Coinciding with the Legendary Pink Dots’ 2011 European tour (which includes a night in Paris) comes this live DVD.

The performance took place on November 13, 2009, in an intimate Parisian nightclub, with a lineup featuring Edward Ka-Spel, Silverman, Martijn de Kleer and Niels van Hoon.

Gorillaz

The Fall

The hook to The Fall is that it s the first high-profile album to be recorded entirely on Apple s iPad, Damon Albarn assembling these 15 song sketches as the Gorillaz tour rolled across America in the fall of 2010.

Jesu

Ascension

First full studio album in four years from former Napalm Death/Godflesh member Justin Broadrick’s shoegaze-touched project.

Released on Mark Kozelek’s label.

Ohgr

Undeveloped

UNDEVELOPED, the fourth and fiercest descent into abstract nightmare pop from ohGr.

Conceived and personified by legendary dark experimental electronic music pioneer (and newly minted actor) Nivek Ogre and sonically grounded by mad machine music scientist Mark Walk, ohGr’s distinctive brand of psycho-sexual sound shock screams and slithers across the creepy canvas of UNDEVELOPED’s fourteen interconnected tracks, birthing a majestic, layered tapestry of icy, death’s-head metal-dance music that is as intense and emotionally provocative as it is playfully macabre.

KMFDM

WTF?!

New studio album !

Human League

Credo

New studio album !  UK import !! 

Credo is part of a particular pop lineage that goes from Bowie, Roxy and Kraftwerk to Donna Summer, Chic and Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga, Usher and Girls Aloud.

Supremely infectious chart pop music with a twist of subversion. Credo manages to make itself heard above the brashest state of the art pop productions and brings some of that primitive essence to the milieu, as well as The Human League s unique quality of apartness.

Praxis

Profanation: Preparation For A Coming Darkness

Bassist/producer Bill Laswell’s industrial-funk-metal supergroup Praxis, featuring guitarist Buckethead and drummer Brain, hasn’t actually done anything new in quite a while.

This album was originally scheduled for release in 2005 via Sanctuary Records, but languished after that label went bankrupt; it eventually appeared in 2008, but only in Japan.

Now, at last, Laswell is putting it out on his own M.O.D. Technologies imprint.

It’s the most guest-laden of all the Praxis albums.

While 1994’s Sacrifist featured many contributions from friends like Mick Harris (Scorn, Napalm Death) and Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms) (players Laswell knew through his friendship and collaboration with saxophonist John Zorn), plus former Parliament-Funkadelic members Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell. Worrell reappears here, as does rapper Rammellzee, a longtime Laswell friend and collaborator, but they’re surrounded by a dizzying array of vocalists: Iggy Pop, Mike Patton, Serj Tankian, Dr. Israel, and Killah Priest of the Wu-Tang Clan each take the lead on one track or another.

Musically, the album is closer to traditional metal than anything Praxis has done before. Buckethead’s solos aren’t that far afield from what he did with Guns N’ Roses, and the songs have conventional verse-chorus structures, rather than being the furious riff-versus-turntable noise-fests of the past. The production is extremely dense, with layers of distortion and squelching synths as well as impossibly deep bass; “Galaxies,” featuring Killah Priest, is a thumping hip-hop track with no metal guitar at all, while “Sulfur and Cheese,” Serj Tankian’s track, is a roaring bulldozer of high-tech thrash, and “Ruined,” as its title may suggest, is a ferocious, electronically manipulated duo piece for Laswell’s bass and drums by Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins.

This is an assaultive but extraordinarily carefully assembled record that should have been made available to U.S. audiences years earlier.

Earth

Angels of Darkness Demons Of Light 1

Demons Of Light 1 is a fine testament to the fact that Earth have come a long way since 1989.

Drawing on inspiration from both British Folk-Rock bands the Pentangle and Fairport Convention and the North African Tuuareg band Tinariwen, the new material, while still heavy is much more fluid and melodically oriented, less dense and more textured and nuanced.

It contains greater improvisatory interplay between the musicians.

On one hand, the new album acknowledges previous recordings on the other hand, there have been some significant changes which have give birth to yet another new sound, the main change being the line up and so joining Dylan and Adrianne on the album is cellist Lori Goldston and Karl Blan on electric bass.