Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Superhuman Soap Dispenser Instructions

Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior

has a configuration software installed in two brain grafts. He has human feelings. Bionic limbs. He has a hairstyle (hyper) dark. Muta personality and physical appearance to better cope with situations. Moves only at night. Bluetooth headset has two ears. Rhythmic spit split, expansion dub, house sounds of hyperspace, chips and unexpected melodic jazz.

The future is now but runs off as fast as this one was any.
Once called dubstep. Now I do not know.

Diary of an African warrior.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Boobs Shows In Never Said Never Again

Afterhours - The Milanese killed on Saturday


The Afterhours know them well, very well.

Since '97 I follow them constantly live, I know every nuance, the side projects (I was also fan of Six Minute War Madness and A Short Apnea), are also aware of many behind the scenes for the past five days with the producer of their first three albums in Italian ("Germ", "Are you afraid .." and "Forever And For Always"). I mean, musically over the past decade I grew up with them.


The new album starts with their best cover ever (in the past has not really saved to a separate "What does not exist") to summarize the effort to introduce the conceptual 'listener immediately in the center of the album.

There is indeed needed, because the disc is complex: there speak after a dozen plays integral and only now the true values \u200b\u200bseem to surface.


The album, as said in the explanatory note to the press, is really schizophrenic pass with ease (maybe a bit 'too much) the dramatic irony, from fear to peace, hope the nightmare.


What is clear is that the authorship of Manuel has affected a lot of music and especially the texts (which are said to be a total of a couple of steps below the excellence that has characterized the production of lambs), from which emerges a trend hallucinatory pseudo-fairy tale ("Shipwrecked on Treasure Island," "All Tomorrow", "Orcs and witches are only") which is opposed in some way a concrete image ("A few moments in washing machine "" Theme: My Location ") that make sense the dual side of Manuel, split in two in having to mediate between the reality and its image on the separate world of the imagination.

a sort of stasis theory "Musician accounting."


bomb pieces are coming soon, ("A few moments into the washing machine", "It 's just a fever" "Not even cannon fodder for God") but those who are long-distance surprise those where the melody strip under the distorted guitars (unbelievable "All tomorrow's" not so much for its emotional impact as for its normal and emotion) and really out target Afterhours are songs like "It 's hard to be Silvan' and "All the President's Men" (both really rise to the occasion)

The only trick in my opinion is to resume at times the pop formula of "not forever" (this is the case, unfortunately, " Resume Berlin) speeding up the formula of "Chorus no later than ten seconds into the piece)

One misstep in 14 songs you can easily digest.
For the rest, very good album.

Rating: 8

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Brown And Slimey Period Blood

Justice - Stress


Justice - stress (official video)

We are in Paris and the camera follows a group of guys in their raids from the suburbs to downtown. The scenes are hard, and v
iolente whether chilling. Violence is in the actions of young players in their faces and music, describing the scene. In reality are the images that should have been created for the music but here it seems really the opposite. More than a mini video documentary from A Clockwork Orange, Hatred and The Warriors without romance nor heroes. Brutal and sad.
was directed by Romain-Gravas

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Blank Transfer Paper For Embroidery

Isis, The Austerity Program, Jacob - Live Latte + (BS)


Evening important to tell you, especially for Brescia city but not all: in fact it is precisely in the small town club Milk + ", that is the only Italian date European tour of Isis, accompanied by Bostonians The Austerity Program (my album of the year 2007, see review on this very blog) and the less known Jacob.


course is expected to sell out, not long in coming: one hour before the opening there is already a hint of a queue outside the club, where you meet fans, including ones from southern Italy: "Hello I'm Mark ... Destroyed better known on the site as "very pleased ... ahhhh Criminal are mad, really short, Mario !"... that sort of thing. There are people with a sleeping bag, to witness that we are sons of bitches who are willing to do anything to hear your favorite band live. ..


attack the Jacob (line-up rock-a-typically three) that offer variations on the theme of "Isis": long instrumental branded by low-battery crossing swords with a guitar many effects and diluted share, in short, a sort of modern post-rock to Mogwai (though with less personality) espolosioni devoid of typical Scottish group. Ultimately interesting witty and original with that feeling of melancholy that pervades especially the electric guitar, even though the long run may have problems with range of emotions.


The Austerity Program: to feel that you are out of place, they have punk roots, while Jacob and Isis have their ancestors in the diverse world of metal.

are only two: distorted bass and stinging guitar, then a drum machine that can not be more bizarre. Sometimes I think I hear (and see) Shellac: guitarist (forty?) Is a madman from inside, away from the microphone are mitered (which rarely uses) urging the his partner and himself to go further, further and further. The guitar is inhuman, circular, distorted and full of highs and middle until Exalted.

split, and the public are hardly aware of them and applaud ... truly devastating ... at the end of the amp low Calabresi (yes, Italian-American ...) is cooked.

In response, his companion of neuropsychiatry off the jack of his guitar and puts it in the bottom of the handle, probably disgraced his amplifier and finishing the last piece alone. Undisputed idol.


Isis is phenomenal: just as on disc. Perfectionists sound great manipulators of energy and imaginary space and land to take possession of the stage with their footswitches several square meters. The subtleties of sound are great, the two guitars are cleanly separated, the piano parts accompanying the gloomy melodies, explosions and ancestral rhythms tooliane that made them famous. Perfect mix of heavy matter in hand with psychedelia, grunge and indie. To enjoy them best I close my eyes and listen to them for tens of minutes in this situation ...

Perfect, I'm really enjoying ... guys that night ...