Essence of Mind releases debut album
This new and young Norwegian band sounds like the new Icon Of Coil. There’s a similar sound based on strong EBM bass lines merged with technoid arrangements and powerful male vocals. The songs on the album are well-crafted dancefloor pieces marked by a huge maturity in the song writing and sound production. The opening song “Piss artist” is pure sensation! Since Icon Of coil has been lost in numerous side-projects of their members, the fans will find a real relief by discovering EOM!
Demo: old school reunion
old school reunion
Web site/MySpace : oldschoolreunion.blogspot.com / myspace.com/oldschoolreunion Contact info: banthedrummer@hotmail.co.uk Music production tool/s:Logic pro, garage band
old school reunion is really what I would call old school electro hip hop and to my best judgment they are doing a good job doing so as well 
I think it is very refreshing to here how “osr” so successfully incorporate the traditional sounds of the 80’s and 90’s into their songs, which is not very common in today´s hip hop sounds. However, what disturbs me a little is that the drums does not really stand out in the mix – you do not get that really juicy damped sound of the bass drums, they feel a little to sterile
Conclusively, I like the vocals and the overall sound scape that “osr” has put into their mix, but I would give a little more love to the drum loops, both in terms of choice of sounds and its variation over the mix, some sounds does not feel as they belong their.
Worth listening to: Definitly, if you’re into hip hop
Going to Germany in April?? Well perhaps you should…
…in April Steve Naghavi and the rest of the And One crew will head for a short German tour visiting 6 cities.
The first big news from these guys since the so and so OK album release Bodypop.
Special guest during this tour will be Alexander Marcus, let’s see how the ebm grufties will receive him… Visit www.alexander-marcus.de to hear some tunes.
Here are the confirmed dates:
- 04.04.2008 Leipzig, Anker
- 05.04.2008 Dresden, Straße E
- 11.04.2008 Hannover, Capitol
- 12.04.2008 Duisburg, Pulp
- 18.04.2008 Berlin, Columbiahalle
- 26.04.2008 Hamburg, Docks
And One, the popular synth-pop band from Germany, formed in 1989 after Chris Ruiz and Steve Naghavi met in a Berlin disco. They were both fans of Belgian EBM music, so they decided to play together, using only a drum machine and two keyboards, like their musical idols Depeche Mode had. Working together they compiled a demo tape that producer Jor, who was planning on starting a sub-label off of Modern Music, happened to like. The duo met success rather quickly after that, as they were the first signed band to Machinery Records. In 1990 they released their first single, «Metalhammer».
Nice Atari demo on Milky Tracker – check it out here
If you haven’t come across Milky Tracker make sure to check it out
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ZPnWI3P0I]
Download Milky Tracker here >>
Features:
Milkytracker offers accurate module playability based on Fast Tracker 2 (XM) and Protracker (MOD) engines... . . . 
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XM, MOD and WAV
WAV, IFF / XI, PAT
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- # ProTracker 2/3 playback modes for playing and editing .MOD files
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New album from Colony 5
An album clearly worth checking out, especially since we have not been treated with much new stuff from these two guys in ages, apart from a hardly worth purchasing remix album – unless you are truly hooked
Free listening and download (pay) >>
The first single taken from the album – “Knives” – made it to #10 on the German Alternative Chart [DAC] in a very short time. On “Knives” Colony 5 presents a track that is much harder than we are used to from the band. Sure enough, “Buried Again” presents you with some harder tracks such as “Knives” and “Get Off My Back”.
But old fans should not despair! “Buried Again” is a varied album bringing you everything from EBM-inspired tracks to more danceable futurepop with dynamic and powerful refrains in tracks like “Pills” and “Ghost” and the beautiful downtempo track “Imaginary Girl”– the way we are used to from earlier Colony 5 releases.
One of my old favorite tracks:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Yijn12xKM]
Teaser from Steelberry Clones upcoming album
It’s the song Kickflip in a remix version, enjoy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKnFKmW0PA]
C=iao
New Seabound Video for Contact + mind.in.a.box
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcZpIkG4KI]
…and better yet do not miss out on mind.in.a.box’ new C64 remix – it is strkingly cool, God I wish I could getmake such a nice crispy bass line. The original song was called Lightforce and was made by Ron Hubbard.
C=iao
C64 VST
I have received quite a few questions on the recently posted C64 VST and if there is something similar that will run on a MAC, well there is (of course) I just think the other one had a somewhat more intuitive user interface and a little better sounding as well.
But for you all MAC and C64 lovers here is your alternative:
…and while you are at it why not download this little silly DJ MP3 app:
C=iao and have a great weekend
Happy 20 years birthday – S.P.O.C.K
Spent an evening with the old but very happy S.P.O.C.K crew. The event was held in conjunction with the monthly SpaceLab party held in Malmoe, Sweden. On the pic below you will see Mr. Android himself and the former band member Johan (can´t remember what he called himself …noid something I guess, hehe). Too bad Eddie B didn´t show up.
If you want to join future SpaceLab events – you will find them here >>
And of course an old SPOCK video, incl Eddie B:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzXZWJIsJc]
New album with Fixmer/McCarthy in May
The new Fixmer/McCarthy album will come out in may 2008 and called Into The Night. The Label will be Citizen Records, the french label of artist Vitalic! More info soon.
FM are confirmed for this year’s Einhoven based Extrema Outdoor Festival. That Festival will take place on July 19th, 2008.
And this is most likely one of the songs on the new album
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCe0xrF4cM]
Fixmer/McCarthy is an electronic music collaboration between the French techno producer Terence Fixmer, and British EBM vocalist Douglas McCarthy (of Nitzer Ebb).
The partnership released an album entitled Between the Devil… and toured during 2005, with a notable live performance at the Infest festival during August of that year.
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