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I have to say Andy Moor is nothing less than eclectic. His tastes roam further out than mine. Yep you guessed it, it’s Hard Listening” time.
How hard I hear you ask? Well over at “Unsound Records” (great name by the by) there is a piece called “Ugandan Fly“. It’s basically a relentless guitar riff […]

With a name like “Highland” I think I could be forgiven for not expecting a German electronica hip hop band.
Add to the country of origin, they rap in english and sing in english, italian and latin. No lack of confusion there - hip hop meets Europop. What is clear though is that they are […]

Time for a little electonica I think, and I have a Norwegian band called 120 Days who will fit the bill quite nicely. Now don’t panic, these guys just can’t but help exude rock hookiness and finish it off with layers of melody. Yeah there are the fashionable electronics and samples but it is such […]

OK, this is another of the “how did I miss this one” pieces.
Here’s the deal, an anonymous musician takes on a  persona, a cartoon bear and then commits to release a brand new new electronic song via podcast three times a week for an entire calendar year.
Cool huh?  I mean this so works for me, […]

Once Upon A Time … well back in the Eighties actually, a band called Dream Academy released an amazing piece of pop called “Life In A Northern Town”. It was a wonderful wistful thing, full of strings, woodwinds, percussion (tympani), and synthesisers. But we aren’t here to talk about Dream Academy today, we are here […]

I spotted the The Pinker Tones last year when they released “More Colours” and kept shaking my head wondering

A: How do they get that much energy into a track and
B: Why aren’t they better known?

Musically they are incredibly clever, nearly all their songs have a happy knack of rewiring your brain and taking up permanent […]

Nah, not a new brand of beer, this is a Danish progressive rock/folk studio band. My thanks to Finn from Denmark for pointing me in their direction. The name Sorten Muld translates as Black Soil.

First I’m going to give a big thumbs down to the Sorten Muld website . The flash website (yes once again […]