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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The things you find on the Internet… Terry Riley has a Myspace site, well actually it’s the Italian Terry Riley Fan Club’s page but you what I mean, besides Terry is still busy writing music. So who is Terry Riley I hear you ask. Well for me he is one of the first experimental musicians [...]

My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, an American singer-songwriter. Her song Something Of An End is an absolute gem. It covers a ton of ground idea wise and the production is fabulous. This has been on my MP3 player (along with a few other of her tracks) and everytime they pop up it’s just a [...]