Music Reviews

Fans of the classic synth music of Jean Michel Jarre may want to get familiar with Norway’s Glenn Henriksen, aka Glenn.
He sent us a copy of his 2008 album Electronic Secret, a 10-part suite of electronic instrumentals that he describes as “Nice chill Electronic music with a touch of Jean Michel Jarre, Kitaro, Vangelis ….”
In [...]

Rave is a movie, from 2001, that tells the story of 6 LA kids that end up at a rave.
Here’s how the producers describe it:
A Rave is a Rhythmic Assault mixed with Visual Ecstasy and if you haven’t experienced one, you’re about to… It’s Saturday night in Los Angeles and 6 teenagers throughout the city [...]

I had the chance to see Nine Inch Nails show last night in Minneapolis.
Here’s the mini-review:

This may bring out the haters – but for most of the show, NIN had a surprisingly straight-ahead arena rock sound;
The show had four main sections; rock, electronic rock, Ghosts instrumentals and more rock;
The visuals were stunning, the most artistic [...]

Synth music label AD Music has several new releases that may interest fans of ambient, new age and space music:

Bekki Williams will be releasing a trilogy of instrumental music albums based on Dante’s Inferno starting in 2009. Apparently there will be three albums released over a 12 month period, so one every 4 months, starting late [...]

Atmosphere is a great new album of synth music album from Dutch synthesist Michel van Osenbruggen, aka Synth.nl. 
Atmosphere is a concept album, based on the layers of atmosphere that surround the Earth, the various types of clouds that are encountered within each layer and the sounds of weather that might occur at each layer.
The tracks are arranged to follow [...]

Sometimes it’s a good thing to run an electronic music website. When I opened the mail to find a review copy of the Chemical Brother’s latest, Brotherhood, it was one of those times.
Brotherhood is an unusual release. The box set comes with two CDs. The first CD is a greatest hits collection, spanning the CB’s [...]

Involver 2 is, as you might guess, a sequel to Sasha’s mega hit Involver album.
The last Sasha album we reviewed, Airdrawndagger, was an artist album, rather than a DJ mix. It got a lukewarm reception with some, despite being an interesting artist album. Involver 2, though, is a return trip to a world of carefully [...]

Multiverse is a collection of psytrance tracks from Israel’s Atomic Pulse, aka Tamir Ozana. 
It’s a dual CD collection that’s made to order for fans of psychedelic trance. The first CD is Atomic Pulse’s take on tracks by Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Astrix, Protoculture, Fatali, Shanti, G.B.U and Pop Stream. Atomic Pulse’s production is first rate, and the [...]

Rifflet is a new site you can have some fun with those songs that you’ve never gotten around to finishing.
The concept involves the uploading of something called a “rifflet,” which is a piece of a song – like a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat, or something else altogether. Each rifflet must also [...]

Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and [...]

 

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