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Happy Birthday: Part IV!


We now enter the fourth day of birthday celebrations, and we hope that you're all enjoying yourselves! The surprises continue today, so let's get right to them:


The Official 2011 What.CD Cake-Off Results!


Two weeks ago we tasked the community with an important duty: bake us a cake! As the results came in it became clear that we had done the right thing; who knew that music lovers had so much talent in the kitchen? Ten winners have been chosen, but everyone who participated will be receiving a prize. To discuss the results, please check out this thread. Once again: thanks to everyone who participated!




irredentia's Stats Project: Artists #80 to 61


We're nearing the most hotly contested ranks in irredentia's list of the top 250 artists as determined by the downloading habits of What.CD users. Go here to see how your favorite artists rank, and be sure to stay tuned as we approach the number one slot!


VIP and Torrent Master Picks


Today we honor some of the site's top contributors. VIPs and TMs help sustain the site in invaluable ways, and we're happy to give them the opportunity to share their favorite albums with the broader community. Note: because of the number of picks included in this update, all torrents will be neutral leech. As always, we hope to hear your comments, so please discuss the picks here. Enjoy!


Tropolist’s Pick

Yoko Ono - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Genre: Jazz, experimental, rock, blues

Torrents: torrents.php?id=623064

Review - From my questionnaire: Somehow, a while ago, I became pegged as The Yoko Ono Guy, so fuck you I'm running with it. I ask you to free yourself of preconceptions and give this album a chance, particularly if you are a fan of other experimental music. Ignoring Ono's vocals (which I would still defend), there's a killer improv band here (including Lennon, Starr and, on one track, the legendary Ornette Coleman) that adeptly span so many styles so quickly. This album is funk, it's jazz, it's rock, it's drone, it's prog, it's just visionary.


Seasnake4’s Pick

Miike Snow - Miike Snow

Genre: Indie, Alternative, Pop, Dance, Rock, Electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=485089

Review - New Yorker Andrew Wyatt fronts the brainy, unsung rock band Fires of Rome. Swedes Pontus Winnberg and Christian Karlsson, a.k.a. Bloodshy & Avant, mastermind transatlantic smashes like Britney Spears' "Toxic." But here, the trio's talents commingle easily in cotton-candy psychedelia that sticks plush electro effects where backward guitar solos and frilly paisley shirts would ordinarily hang. Both the production and Wyatt's shape-shifting croon are so butter-smooth that it takes repeated plays to sense the hurt that hides behind these dance-floor lullabies. Hooky on the outside, bruised within, it’s club-pop for introverts.


Elevators’s Pick

Various Artists - Dusty Fingers: The Complete Collection

Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Funk / Soul, Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Stage & Screen

Torrents: torrents.php?page=1&id=440844

Review - A legendary collection of amazing music. Dusty Fingers exposes you to an otherwise inaccessible catalog of jewels that you could spend a lifetime searching for and never find. This compilation is a living museum the envy of any DJ or record collector.


999999’s Pick

Miles Davis - The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Genre: Jazz

Torrents: torrents.php?id=636280

Review - Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion. Many well-known musicians rose to prominence as members of Davis' ensembles, including Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Red Garland, Branford Marsalis, John McLaughlin, Pete Cosey, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, and countless others. Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, noted as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz."
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a deluxe, limited edition retrospective of the iconic music Miles Davis created during his 30 years with Columbia Records.


amareus’s Pick

Grum - Heartbeats

Genre: Electronic, Synth Pop, Dance

Torrents: torrents.php?id=775015

Review - I heard this album a while ago and fell in love with it. It has modern beats but sounds like 80's pop. Catchy, sexy, cool.


Chocceh’s Pick

The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia

Genre: Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=12281

Review - Don't underestimate this album. Every song packs a good punch, and they tend to flow seamlessly into the next. It's a true concept album (see the title, of course) and the band clearly put a lot of thought into the structure.

They move from slow and moody to upbeat, from worldly to clever pop, from sarcastic to supportive, and from country to rock to gospel, all within one album. It can make for a fantastic listen as a whole, or to be honest, each track is worthy of being a single. Either way: you should have this.


devilcius’s Pick

Neo Nouveau - Courtyard

Genre: Indie Rock, Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72023159

Review - Power pop indie-rock, catchy and inventive with a variety of 90s and 00s influences.


daazninvazn’s Pick

BT - These Hopeful Machines

Genre: Electronic, Dance, Trance, House, Breaks, Pop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=688119

Review - I don't know where to start with this album. I was just a minor BT fan up to this album, but since the release of These Hopeful Machines I've really began to understand the musical genius that BT is. These Hopeful Machines is an artfully crafted masterpiece and each track is brilliant in it's own way. BT blends the lines between sub-genres in the electronic dance category by mixing elements of trance, house, pop and other EDM genres. A great album to just turn on and relax to and one of my favorite of 2010. If you enjoy this album I recommend the remix version as well, These Re-Imagined Machines.


RandomSeed’s Pick

The Reign of Kindo - This is What Happens

Genre: Jazz, Rock, Indie

Torrents: torrents.php?id=820042

Review - Combining avant-garde jazz elements with alternative rock is not something one often comes across, but The Reign of Kindo provides just that; a combination of lilting piano melodies and interesting jazz beats that gives it a very unique feel. This Is What Happens is the band's third release with Candyrat Records, and is the follow up to Rhythm, Chord & Melody. As far as songwriting, the album conveys emotions effortlessly. It is uncanny just how the music matches the story of the song. The introductory track "Thrill of the Fall" starts with an upbeat and exciting feel, while "Bullets in the Air" has a tone of unrest and chaos. "Flowers by the Moon", in contrast, has a slow and erotic jazzy melody, almost akin to something Nat King Cole would sing.


Six66Mike’s Pick

Steffen Schackinger - ElectriGuitartistry

Genre: Rock, Instrumental

Torrents: torrents.php?id=682937

Review - I first heard Steffen when I was explodying the CANdYRAT roster on YouTube after hearing Ewan Dobson's Time 2 clip. I went on a hunt to listen to as many of these artists as possible and Steffen stood out, every track rocked, the bass and drum beats were solid, these are quality musicians making cool music. Time and The Dixieland feature a fiddle as well, the intro to Time had me hooked as soon as I heard it. I streamed his playlist on YouTube repeatedly for months and now have this album on my iPod where I listen to it a few times a week to/from work. This is a must for any fan of rock music and guitar players like Satriani, Vai, and labelmate Sébastien Cloutier.


Biiaru’s Pick

Trentemřller - The Last Resort

Genre: Electronic, Minimal

Torrents: torrents.php?id=73186

Review - The Last Resort, a surprisingly accessible and wide-ranging work by minimal and tech-house phenom Anders Trentemřller, is a winter wonderland of quiet phosphorescence and pristine beats. Not that the Danish composer/producer/remixer is above contrasts, as in "Evil Dub," where he allows down-tuned and distorted guitars to run like the proverbial bull in a china shop of elegant, understated programming. But tracks like "While the Cold Winter Waiting" beg comparison to the frosty, glockenspiel-laced ambiance of Iceland's múm, and the closer, "Miss You," is a hypnotic lullaby sure to receive ample acclaim. After all, Trentemřller's music is distinctly his own, and his eerie command of dynamics allows him a broad palette, exemplified by a gripping bit of turntablism that pops up in one of the album's first singles, "Always Something Better." The second disc's bonus material reveals the man the DJ community has long known: the patient architect who unobtrusively builds beats, loops, and motifs into a critical mass of refined minimalism. All this leaves little doubt that The Last Resort will earn Trentemřller converts from downtempo and electronica circles well beyond his established fan base.


weisguy’s Pick

Spooky Ghost - The Light Machine

Genre: Rock, Ambient

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71982279

Review - Spooky Ghost is the name given to Gerry Leonard's solo recordings and compositions. The name derives from the nickname given by Donal Coghlan (the other half of the duo Hinterland) regarding the ambient nature of Leonard's guitar playing. Leonard uses texture in the same way one might paint, and so the space is the canvas; the textures become the colors; and the melodies and motifs become the images. This is often the starting point for the architecture of the spooky compositions. The recordings then come from improvisations captured and threaded together into longer form compositions.


dugas’s Pick

Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice

Genre: Jazz, world.music, Wolof, Senegal, pop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=39549

ReviewThis is not ground-breaking music; it is Cuban-influenced West African pop, as is the case with a lot of music coming from the region. However, Baobab show their mastery in interweaving the various elements which consist their music and execute with utter perfection. [/b] The guitar playing of Barthelemy Attisso (Baobab's all-time trademark) stands out throughout the album, while Rudy Gomis and Balla Sidibe on vocals and Issa Cissoko on sax are on a par with him. Whether they speak of war in the Casamance region (as in "Utru Horas"), of the Gabonese president's wife (in "Ledi D'jeme Bodj") or about a lost love (as in "Coumba", sung in adorably West African-accented French), Baobab generate extremely beautiful songs; so simple, so rare.


rusak’s Pick

Jono McCleery - Darkest Light

Genre: Folk

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71803307

review wrote:

Apparently, Jono McCleery lives in a barge on the Thames. It’s a very pastoral, romantic choice of accommodation, one which chimes nicely with the undertones of Nick Drake running through his self-recorded first album. Darkest Light is a darkly melancholic take on the classic singer-songwriter set: it’s all pretty serious, introspective stuff, with the whole record mainly acting as a showcase for his rich baritone and intricate guitar work. Now and again, as on Stream or the title track, some haunting Celtic strings add atmosphere to the sparse production. If you’ve heard his guest slots on the uber-cool nu-soul 45s of Part Time Heroes, you’ll know it works well with a bit of back-up. On tracks like You And Me though, the folkier elements are countered by his unexpectedly soulful delivery, which sounds like an acoustic Jamie Lidell at times - rendering his deserved and recent signing to Ninja Tune as no surprise. Overall, Darkest Light is an accomplished and promising introduction. [Euan Ferguson]




evensteven’s Pick

Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium

Genre: Alternative, Rock, Gothic, Psychedelic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=60977

Review - Ned Raggett of Allmusic wrote:

For the first time since Dawnrazor, the Nephilim worked with someone other than Bill Buchanan as producer; whatever Andy Jackson's particular qualifications, happily he knew not to ruin a good thing. The end result was the band's best all-around album, consisting of four lengthy pieces that showcase their now near-peerless abilities to create involved, textured, driving, and loud pieces of rock. It was still goth as all heck, but like the best bands in any genre, the Nephilim transcended such artificial limitations to create their own sound.




Velvelette’s Pick

Drop City - This Heavenly Machine

Genre: Alternative, Rock, Psychedelic, Indie

Torrents: torrents.php?id=241540

Review - This is perhaps my favourite Australian album. The third by Drop City, it still retains the strong pop melodicism of the second, yet expanded in scope and subtlety. The whole sound is very warm: fuzzy or chiming guitars, hanging bass, drums crashing like the surf, a hammond organ to wrap you up. The Korg synthesizer used throughout is a highlight, in particular its driving, melodic role on Fools Rush In. The album breathes naturally in a variety of styles. The guitar pop of Living In The Machine; the droned-out melody and trip-hop beat of To Wish (To Love Again); the piano and violin romance of The Last Kiss; Here With You, a blissed-out acoustic take on the quiet-loud-quiet ethos. Every song has its own place and locks as a puzzle-piece into a cohesive whole. A perfect album, and one to come back to again and again... Can you tell that I like it?


senatortom’s Pick

Panacea - A Mind On A Ship Through Time

Genre: Hip Hop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=294340

Review - Panacea is a hip hop duo from DC consisting of rapper Raw Poetic and producer K-Murdock. A Mind On A Ship Through Time is their fourth album. K-Murdock makes some really funky ass beats but they go perfectly with Raw Poetic's style. This album is really creative, but isn't so out there that it's hard to listen to. This is the kind of album that you have to listen to from start to finish (without skipping the intro). It's also the kind of album that you can listen to over and over again, because there will always be lyrics with meaning that you missed or some detail of a beat that you didn't hear before. Enjoy.


IBreatheSmoke’s Pick

Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure

Genre: Electronic, Trance, House, Ambient

Torrents: torrents.php?id=95416

Review - Sasha and John Digweed Present Northern Exposure was the first volume in the duo's highly successful and acclaimed DJ mix series, released in both single (in America) and double-disc (in Europe) versions. The American version is tight, impeccably paced between house-music peaks and ambient/downtempo valleys. The duo's mixing prowess is apparent throughout. Featured tracks include material from Keiichi Suzuki, Future Sound of London, Rabbit in the Moon, Morgan King, Fuzzy Logic, William Orbit, and Banco de Gaia. Some listeners may prefer to track down the double-disc European import in order to hear the work as it was originally intended, but others will find this version actually a better listen.


dewey’s Pick

Alice In Videoland - A Million Thoughts and They're All About You

Genre: electronic, electroclash

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71842628

Review - Swedish 4-piece ALICE IN VIDEOLAND (from the Malmö region) apparently play electro punk or "electroclash", and the latter is - I have to admit - a music style I have never heard about earlier. I'll try to describe it to those of you who are just like me; old chums of the 80's pop/rock tradition. The style of female fronted ALICE IN VIDEOLAND sounds like prime time LAMBRETTA, although much more synthesizer driven and less guitar oriented. They have the same energy and deliver a wall of sound that is rather impressive. To sum it up, this is a really classy band, I'd say. The overall feeling is that it's based around a lot of pre-recorded sounds and backups, though, which can be a negative thing if they'd ever try to PLAY all of it live. But I may be wrong, and once again too old-fashioned. It's a great sounding CD that will raise the mood at every dance party. (melodic.net)


tds418’s Pick

Murmuüre - Murmuüre

Genre: Black Metal, Electronic, Ambient, Psychedelic Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71864162

Review by Trial by Ordeal -

This isn't black metal. Murmuure is ritual industrial, no bones about it. It's clear that One really likes black metal and has made an effort to incorporate black metal sounds in the guitars and vocals, but the pervasive influence here is Coil. Indeed, One hasn't made any effort to hide this. The ominous synth lines and crushing bass synth? The keening Japanese flute, the swelling strings, the primal horns? The heavy use of cymbals and other percussion to create textures? This is all very much in line with the sounds Coil explored on How To Destroy Angels and Scatology, and especially on the second half of Horse Rotorvator. Even more important, Murmuure evokes that feel of esoteric paganism. Once you realize that Murmuure is an industrial band, all the seemingly disparate "things that are not black metal" come together. On an industrial album, it's not weird to obscure everything behind waves of warm distortion. It's not weird to cut up guitar parts. It's not weird to use dozens of tracks to sculpt dense, overpowering layers of sound.




Nanook’s Pick


3 Mustaphas 3 - Heart of Uncle

Genre: World, Klezmer, Balkan, Macedonian, Greek, Indian

Torrent: torrents.php?id=103546

Review - If there were one band I would wish to be more broadly heard, it would be these guys. Not everyone is going to like them, but those with a taste for the adventurous and curious about world music might just love them as much as me. I hope you enjoy. Favorite tracks: "Mama O," "Vi Bist Du Geveyzn far Prohibish'n?" and "Anapse To Tsigaro."

AMG wrote:

Conventional" is the last word one will use to describe the music of 3 Mustaphas 3, whose Heart of Uncle looks to locations ranging from Istanbul to Dublin for inspiration. Though a variety of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean styles make up its foundation (including Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Indian, and Jewish music), the quirky, wildly experimental British group doesn't hesitate to surprise listeners by throwing in influences from Ireland ("Sitna Lisa") and Latin America. "Trois Fois Trois (City Version)" is a merengue song that is sung in French as well as Spanish, while "Trois Fois Trois (Country Version)" has more of a quasi-ambiance but is sung only in French. Meanwhile, "Kem Kem" and "Yeni Yol" show that Scottish/Celtic and Mid-Eastern elements can, in fact, be quite compatible. A musical roller coaster from start to finish, the album is one only the most adventurous listeners should acquire.




Jonoshop’s Pick

Kimbra - Vows

Genre: Electronic, Pop, Indie, Soul, Jazz

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72035890

Review - Kimbra's got a pretty unique style going on right about now. The cut-and-paste vocals of Settle Down and the retro energy of Cameo Lover already belie something bigger than your average pop fare, complemented by a voice that swoops as low as it peaks. This is classic jazz intonation updated for the tech-age, made in New Zealand.


teetee’s Pick

Deniece Williams - This Is Niecy

Genre: R&B, Soul, Quite Storm

Torrents: torrents.php?id=174122

Review - Deniece Williams spent the first half of the '70s establishing herself as a background vocalist for an impressive line of artists, including Stevie Wonder, Minnie Riperton, Roberta Flack, and Esther Phillips. Though she'd continue to do session work throughout her career, she also became accomplished as a solo artist. Unfortunately, a lot of people think she came out of nowhere for 1984's "Let's Hear It for the Boy," a number one pop hit, but she was making excellent albums as early as 1976. The songs that would eventually make up her debut, This Is Niecy, were sent to Earth, Wind & Fire. Williams didn't intend to make her own album and thought these songs would be a good fit for Philip Bailey. Instead, she got to record them with most of EW&F, including Maurice White and Charles Stepney as producers, Verdine White on bass, Freddie White on drums, those glorious horns, and several other associates of the group. Three of the album's seven songs were released as singles, and they're all stunners, each with its own mood and style (fittingly, one peaked on the disco chart, one hit the Top 30 of the pop chart, and one scraped the black singles chart). The best of the lot is "Free," a subtle but powerful sparkler that expressed Williams' desire to break from the more traditional lifestyle that had been mapped out for her. Out of everything she recorded, this low-key song demonstrates most how her time with Riperton and Syreeta rubbed off on her, showing how a bedroom whisper can be just as affecting as an in-the-red wail. Also containing strong album cuts, This Is Niecy is a great complement to Earth, Wind & Fire's Spirit, released the same year -- not only for its overlapping personnel, but also for its greatness.


detemps’s Pick

Anton Rubinstein & Xavier Scharwenka - The Romantic Piano Concerto, vol. 38 - Rubinstein and Scharwenka [Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Michael Stern]

Genre: Classical

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71869547

Review -

Had Rachmaninov not come along and written his Second and Third Concertos, there's a good chance that the Scharwenka First and Rubinstein Fourth would have remained in the Romantic concerto showpiece canon. Both have great tunes, varied orchestration, plus, of course, plenty of opportunities for dazzling keyboard display. For speed, accuracy, and sheer poise, Marc-André Hamelin's staggering piano mastery transcends all studio-recorded competition in these works. Granted, Hamelin won't shock you out of your seat in the Rubinstein with explosive accents and fanciful filigree ŕ la Josef Hofmann's live 1937 version, nor titillate you with Shura Cherkassky's liquid inner voices. But if there were ever a pianist who could storm Rubinstein's difficult cadenzas or toss off Scharwenka's demanding figurations with that rare combination of power and equanimity, it's Hamelin. Although these are concertos that you listen to for the piano playing rather than the conducting, Michael Stern must receive credit for providing a bracing, sonorous, and rhythmically alive orchestral framework that supports and prods his soloist at every juncture. This splendidly engineered disc is a crown jewel both in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series and in Hamelin's standard-setting discography. Bravo!

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com



Pandemonium273’s Pick

Vlatko Stefanovski + Miroslav Tadic - Krushevo

Genre: Ethnic Jazz, Acoustic, Folk

Torrents: torrents.php?id=299229

Pandemonium273 wrote:


Two great guitar gurus play old Macedonian traditional songs in instrumental arrangements.
This is THE best acoustic guitars album from the Balkans.



Sozay’s Pick

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Genre: funk, psychedelic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=26280

Review - Review by Ned Raggett (Allmusic)
It starts with a crackle of feedback shooting from speaker to speaker and a voice intoning, "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up" and talking about rising "above it all or drown in my own sh*t." This could only have been utterly bizarre back in 1971 and it's no less so decades later; though the Mothership was well on its way already, Maggot Brain really helped it take off. The instrumental title track is the key reason to listen, specifically for Eddie Hazel's lengthy, mind-melting solo. George Clinton famously told Hazel to play "like your momma had just died," and the resulting evocation of melancholy and sorrow doesn't merely rival Jimi Hendrix's work, but arguably bests a lot of it. Accompanied by another softer guitar figure providing gentle rhythm for the piece, the end result is simply fantastic, an emotional apocalypse of sound. Maggot Brain is bookended by another long number, "Wars of Armageddon," a full-on jam from the band looping in freedom chants and airport-departure announcements to the freak-out. In between are a number of short pieces, finding the collective merrily cooking up some funky stew of the slow and smoky variety. There are folky blues and gospel testifying on "Can You Get to That" (one listen and a lot of Primal Scream's mid-'90s career is instantly explained) and wry but warm reflections on interracial love on "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks," its drum hits distorted to give a weird electronic edge to the results. "Super Stupid" is a particular killer, pounding drums and snarling guitar laying down the boogie hard and hot, while "Hit It and Quit It" has a great chorus and Bernie Worrell getting in a fun keyboard solo to boot.


infinitycircuit’s Pick

Sviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958

Genre: classical

Torrents: torrents.php?id=466222

Review:

"a staggeringly intense 1958 Sofia recital that amply validates why many consider Richter to have been the pianist of the century." (Peter Gutmann, classicalnotes.net)

This disk awoke me to the virtues of both romantic music and live recording. These pieces are schlocky in the hands of the wrong interpreter, but Richter brings out the very best in them. No other performance of Pictures at an Exhibition is as riveting.


hulkkar’s Pick

Orbit Experience - Orbit Experience

Genre: future.jazz, drum.n.bass, acid.jazz, downtempo
Torrents:torrents.php?id=851008

Review
The first time I listened to Orbit Experience was at the Live of Viva Zwei 2Step and I immediately felt in love with this music, it sounds like experimental Miles Davis and the video was so nostalgic. Unfortunately, there's no other album of this band available.

Pseudonymous’s Pick

Amesoeurs - s/t

Genre: Black Metal, Shoegaze, Post-Rock, Post-Punk

Torrents: torrents.php?id=420151

Review: I don't much like reviews so imagine something along the lines of if Joy Division was a black metal band with a French guy under the name of Neige (who also loves The Cure) who stumbled upon a shoegaze style independently. It sounds like a crazy mix but it works and there are now very many bands emulating this style first seen on Alcest's Le Secret from 2005.


cromags' Pick

Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

Genre: Death Metal

Torrents: torrents.php?id=16720

Review - Decibel Magazine wrote:

The sweltering heat and merciless humidity of mid- to late-‘80s Florida proved a fertile breeding ground for a burgeoning genre that would announce itself to the world as death metal. Led by Chuck Schuldiner and Death, the DM Army proliferated quickly, as bands like Obituary, Deicide and Morbid Angel emerged full-grown from the Floridian swamplands to compete for the title of Fastest, Heaviest, or Most Technical Band on Earth. Morbid Angel guitarist and mastermind Trey Azagthoth would settle for no less than all three on his band’s 1989 debut, Altars of Madness. After recording—and shelving—the Abominations of Desolation LP in 1986 with Altars guitarist Richard Brunelle and an assortment of other musicians who were summarily fired, Azagthoth and Brunelle hooked up with bassist/vocalist David Vincent and Terrorizer drummer Pete Sandoval and prepared to tear death metal a steaming new asshole with unorthodox time signatures, dizzying arrangements and hallucinogenic shredding. Forgoing the gore-bore lyrical style favored by many of their peers, Vincent and Azagthoth pored over the Necronomicon (“The Book of Dead Names”)—an allegedly ancient occult text that H.P. Lovecraft (who probably authored the book himself in the late 1920s) claimed was written in 730 AD by “the Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred—while Sandoval honed his double-bass chops. In early 1989, Morbid Angel entered Morrisound Studios in Tampa to record Altars of Madness, an album that would turn death metal both upside down and inside out. —J. Bennett



equal’s Pick

Chumbawamba - Showbusiness!

Genre: pop, punk, anarcho, rock.

Torrents:torrents.php?id=28681

Review - Ignore all that Tubthumping bollocks and Chumbawamba were a really good band, this was released in 1995 around the live shows promoting one of their best albums: "Anarchy". The band is in top form, performing a wide selection of their already extensive discography up to that point.


toadkc’s Pick

The Urge - Receiving the Gift of Flavor

Genre: ska, 90s, rock, fusion, metal

Torrents: torrents.php?id=34406

Review - Enjoy 90's ska-funk-rap-metal? The Urge's Receiving the Gift of Flavor is a by-the-books set of funk-metal, drawing equally from the forced rap/metal fusions of Rage Against the Machine and the party-hearty funk-metal of Red Hot Chili Peppers, throwing in the metal-ska of Fishbone for good measure. I first saw these guys in concert at a music fest in 1996 and they had energy on stage that I've never seen anyone come close to since. The horn section blowing it up and the lead singer, Steve Ewing, putting on a show that I can't forget.


merrick’s Pick

The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Psychedelic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=37591

Review - You may listen to Orbus Terrarum 15 times and not get it. Nice background music, funny samples, a jolly good time. Then one time you will hear music on in the background and not know what it is. It will sound amazing... unlike anything you have ever heard. Is it music...is it a space...a place...a mood? You will stop what you are doing and frantically try to find out what these sounds are. How have you never heard them before? When you pull up the artist and album you will double-take and say "wait a second, I have listened to this album before, how have I never heard this track." That is when the obsession starts...you listen and listen and never hear the same things twice.

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