Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw, and the Beasts (2009) ~ Mp3 320

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I have watched the changing entity of “Castanets music” happen for a while now. There were the noise-scorchin’ feedback sessions and there was corpse-y folk and sweaty blues rock. There were big bands and smaller bands and no band, but throughout it was always Castanets music, always ol’ Ray Raposa and the various tricks in his magic bag. So when I tell you Texas Rose, The Thaw, and The Beasts is the most important thing the dude’s recorded I want you to take that as a sworn affidavit from someone who’s done a lot of watching and a lot of listening and a lot of thinking about what makes this music tick. I also want to say that this is the most accessible Castanets has gone – but also the most “out.” In my fantasy mind’s eye inner-brain-sitcom-thing I see people discovering Texas Rose for the first time and saying, like, “Yeah, totally. This.” with a happy nod of their head and possibly a triumphant much-love double-fist thump to the chest. I say that as a proud cousin or a friendly, stoked neighbor and I say that with the utmost respect and assuredness. Yeah, totally. This.
1. Rose
2. On Beginning
3. My Heart
4. Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)
5. No Trouble
6. Thaw And The Beasts
7. We Kept Our Kitchen Clean And Our Dreaming Quiet
8. Down The Line, Love
9. Lucky Old Moon
10. Ignorance is Blues
11. Dance, Dance
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar (2009) ~ Mp3 160

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Just like 2 years ago “A sunny day in Glasgow” produces an experimental kind of pop music. As I said at that time they produce “Dreamed pop, enchanting ambient, experimental shoegaze, an alternative noise electronic music. Each one track is so much different from all the others”. I think they still confuse me, they mix pop, rock and techno, they produce something different, but something really atmospheric and groovy or pleasing. This album is the sun in a mood day, and it is a fully summer time disk! Ben Daniels and his twin sisters blend a melodic sound collage with ethereal vocals and experimental glances. The album is promotes happy feelings and the sound is truly dreamy. Fantastic waves and a little boat floating down the seaside… More than one hour of music that push you to close your eyes and dream… don’t miss this album, it is sweet and excellent.
Opening with a ten second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it s immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow s new album, Ashes Grammar, is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s acapella ( Secrets at the prom ) gives way to resonant drones, room noise, and sub bass ( Slaughter killing carnage ). It s here that Failure unexpectedly kicks in with a tribal stomp and a fluttering guitar acting as a pair of wings, lifting the circular chants of the song s melody off the ground. It s all at once joyous, insecure, and blissed-out and sounds nothing like we ve heard from A Sunny Day in Glasgow before. Ashes Grammar is far more nuanced than Scribble, but there s still a cellular logic at play throughout. The brief, shimmering loop that is Lights turns out to be the very pulse behind the sun-kissed, ambient pop of Passionate Introverts, a feel-good song perfectly suited to accompany daydreams or dancing by yourself in your bedroom. However, even at their most accessible there s always an indescribable otherworldliness flowing through the band s music, one that is fully revealed during Blood White. Like famed composer/sound experimentalist Alvin Lucier s groundbreaking piece, I Am Sitting in a Room, during this track you can practically hear the shape of the room resonating in the frequencies of voices and synths that had been amplified, recorded, replayed and recorded again and again, the undulating tones slowly drifting into a cosmic wash of bubbling electronics and guitar. Yes, in many ways this is a different group than the one we first heard back in 2007, but with Ben continuing his role as the principal songwriter, there s no doubt this Ashes Grammar could be from any other band than A Sunny Day in Glasgow. And once again, dream pop has been re-imagined.
1. Magna for Annie, Josh, & Robin
2. Secrets at the prom
3. Slaughter killing carnage (The meaning of words)
4. Failure
5. Curse words
6. Close chorus
7. Shy
8. Lights
9. Passionate introverts (Dinosaurs)
10. West Philly vocoder
11. Evil, with evil, against evil
12. The white witch
13. Nitetime rainbows
14. Canalfish
15. Loudly
16. Blood white
17. Ashes grammar
18. Ashes maths
19. Miss my friends
20. Starting at a disadvantage
21. Life’s great
22. Headphone space
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (2009) ~ Mp3 V2

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With years of working along side some of the most influential figures in the recording industry to date, Raekwon is ready to reemerge his urban flair with the sequel to Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II features cameos from many industry heavyweights such as the Wu-Tang Clan, Jadakiss Styles P, and many others. It also features blazing tracks from the who's who of extraordinary Hip-Hop producers such as the RZA, Eric Sermon, Dr Dre, Scram Jones, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Allah Mathematics and J-Dilla. Then, it's layered with Raekwon's melodic flows and street oriented delivery. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II will produce the dish that true Hip Hop Fans have been salivating for many years.
01. (02:39) Return Of The North Star (Ft Papu Wu)
02. (03:51) House Of Flying Daggers (Ft Inspectah Deck Ghostface Method Man)
03. (02:29) Sonnys Missing
04. (00:55) Pyrex Vision
05. (04:41) Cold Outside (Ft Ghostface)
06. (03:25) Black Mozart (Ft Rza Inspectah Deck)
07. (02:57) Gihad
08. (03:50) New Wu (Ft Ghostface Method Man)
09. (02:36) Penitentiary (Ft Ghostface)
10. (01:59) Baggin Crack
11. (03:24) Surgical Gloves
12. (02:45) Broken Safety (Ft Jadakiss Styles P)
13. (03:37) Canal Street
14. (03:06) Ason Jones
15. (03:51) Have Mercy (Ft Beanie Sigel Blue Raspberry)
16. (03:17) 10 Bricks (Ft Cappadonna Ghostface)
17. (02:17) Fat Lady Sings
18. (03:29) Catalina Ft Lyfe Jennings
19. (03:15) We Will Rob You (Ft Slick Rick Masta Killa GZA)
20. (03:59) About Me
21. (04:30) Mean Streets (Ft Inspectah Deck Ghostface)
22. (04:09) Kiss The Ring (Ft Inspectah Deck Masta Killa)