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Vive la revolution!

By turning up the volume dial, maverick French label Ed Banger is redefining the sound of UK dancefloors, says Tony Naylor

Saturday April 28, 2007
The Guardian

If you go out to a club tonight and hear the soundsystem melting, don't worry. If you hear records apparently being played through a thick build up of needle fluff, CDs sticking, bursts of ear-splitting treble, relax. It's probably just the Parisian label Ed Banger, whose mission it is to whip up the sort of cacophony that hasn't been heard in clubland since Public Enemy were bringing the noise.

You may well already know the scene's prime movers, Justice. They remixed Simian's Never Be Alone into a perfect, punchy anthem that became a modest crossover hit, last year. But that - now described as "too clean" by Justice's Xavier de Rosnay - was just the easy listening entree.

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Over the last 12 months, Ed Banger's Justice, Sebastian and Busy P, as well as fellow Parisian Para One and Hamburg's serrated electro duo Digitalism, have released a clutch of records whose apocalyptic electro sound has shifted British clubland into new territory, everywhere from Pete Tong to Kill 'Em All. Juggernauts like Sebastian's Walkman or Justice's Phantom are compellingly funky and laced with sweet, skewed melodies, but the hallmark is noise. Paris is seemingly in the grip of some exhilarating sonic arms race, each producer ratcheting up the distortion until clubbers run screaming from the dancefloor.

"I don't think there's a noise competition," laughs Busy P, aka Pedro Winter, who set up Ed Banger in 2003. "But, definitely, it's something we play with. We're making distortion musical. We're making noise funky."

It's hardly a surprise to discover that most of the Ed Banger crew grew up with thrash metal. None the less, the sound is unmistakably French, owing a huge debt to Daft Punk with its tight edits, vocoders, metallic 1980s sheen and fat beats.

Winter, who's managed Daft Punk since he dropped out of law school 11 years ago, at first disputes the link: "It's just our common musical culture. Daft Punk were into rock, rap and electro and Justice are the same." But, equally, he acknowledges: "There is no French artist who can say, 'I'm not influenced by Daft Punk'. They're part of the dynamic of the French electronic scene."

Bizarrely, given the vibrancy of this uniquely Gallic scene, the French are pretty blase about it. Ed Banger are collectively lukewarm about French clubbing, bemoan the lack of support from the French press and don't even hold regular parties in Paris. When they do, their beloved Le Paris Paris, a 300-capacity basement on Avenue De L'Opera, is sufficient to hold their crowd.

"France is always slow," says Winer. "It's like we're snobbish, but France always waits for French labels to get big outside France, then they realise, 'oh, that's us!'. French people email me in English on MySpace because they don't know we're from Paris. It's crazy."

Not that Winter has time to worry - 80 per cent of Ed Banger's business is done outside France, with the label filling 3,000 capacity clubs for chaotic parties (check out footage at www.edbangerrecords.com). It's an emotional experience: "We make the dancefloor sweat and at the end the girls cry."

The assault has barely begun. Sebastian, the sophisticated Mr Flash and potty-mouthed MC Uffie are all working on albums, DJ Mehdi's has just been rereleased, and Justice's debut arrives on June 4, glorying in the title, a Christian cross that reads simply †. That's the kind of thing you can do when you don't rely on major label funding. Says Winters: "We don't give a fuck. There's no name on the cover, no band logo, the album is just †."

These releases, Winter hopes, will prove the label's diversity and staying power. Whatever happens, though, Ed Banger has already made its mark. After the corporate strangulation of dance music in the 1990s, labels like Ed Banger have inspired a new cavalier underground club culture. "I was fed up with big name DJs spinning shit music," says Winter. "It was time to bring back the fun, happiness and colour." And the noise, Pedro. Don't forget the noise.

In Seine in the membrane
Paris's nouvelle vague noise makers ...

Para One

Who? Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, 28
What? Described by his own press biography as "merciless". When not making brutal, squelchy techno, Para One directs short films and produces heavyweight French hip-hop act TTC.
Track? Dudun-Dun (Institubes)

Justice

Who? Gaspard Auge , 27, Xavier de Rosnay, 24
What? The bastard offspring of Mantronix and Metallica, dressed in huge M&M costumes. In demand remixers of everyone from Britney Spears to Franz Ferdinand. Aggressive, yet full of emotion.
Track? Phantom (Ed Banger)

Kavinsky

Who? Kavinsky died in 1986 after crashing his Ferrari Testarossa and came back to life as a zombie. Luckily, he can still use email.
What? Loud, cinematic, synthetic disko with extra kick drum. "Electronic music with graphic flashes," reckons the living dead.
Track? Wayfarer (Record Makers)

Sebastian

Who? Sebastian Akchote, 25
What? The ferociously funky point where James Brown meets Aphex Twin. Daft Punk rate his remix of Human After All as the best they have ever commissioned, while Kavinsky rates him as "the best drinking buddy possible".
Track? Walkman (Ed Banger)

Busy P

Who? Pedro Winter, 31
What? The boss serves up grimy, catchy ghetto-techno alongside the label's trademark electro-funk. Winter: "If they were gay and had had a baby, I reckon I could be Rick Rubin and Timbaland's son."
Track? Chop Suey (Ed Banger)

Digitalism

Who? Ismail Tuefekci, 27, Jens Moelle, 24
What? From Hamburg, not Paris, although Digitalism are obvious sonic cousins of the Ed Banger set, producing a scabrous, jagged, "very melodic" electro. They're outlandishly noisy, reckons Jens, because they used to rehearse in a dank old second world war bunker, "with no windows, oxygen, heating, nothing." Lovely.
Track? Magnets (Virgin)

Busy P & Justice - Good For Nothing (right click -> save as)


tentative tracklist, put together by Diego (much awesome)
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere rmx)
Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi (datA Remix)
???
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Teenage Badgirl rmx)
Daft Punk - Crescendolls (Soulwax edit)
MBG&SDS - New Jack (Steve Angello rmx)
Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
Zongamin - Bongosong
Simian - Never Be Alone
Justice vs Simian - Never Be Alone
Para One - Dudun Dun (MSTRKRFT mix)
SebastiAn - Walkman (Re-edit) (by SebastiAn)
Spank Rock - Bump (Switch mix)
Chloe - Take Care
Digitalism - Jupiter Room (Martian Assault)
???
???
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn remix)
Jamelia - Something About You (Mr. Oizo remix)
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro
Justin Timberlake - My Love
Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (Gopher/De Crecy mix)
???
Boys Noize - Feel Good (TV Off)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Gossip - SITWOC (Soulwax Nite Version)
Justice - Let There Be Light
Modeselektor - Kill Bill
Human Resource - Dominator (Soulwax edit)
???
Outlander - The Vamp
Who Da Funk - Shiny Disco Balls
Klaxons - Atlantis 2 Interzone
Krazy Baldhead - Crazy M0th3f2ck8z (Midfield General rmx)
Daft Punk - Rock 'n' ROll
???
Benjamin Theves - Texas (SebastiAn remix)
Soulwax - NY Excuse (Justice remix)
I Robots - Frau (Boys Noize remix)
Kavinsky - Grand Canyon
The Chemical Brothers - Electronic Battle Weapon 7
Surkin - Ghetto Obsession 2006
L.F.O. - L.F.O.
Technotronics - Pump up the Jam
???
Buy Now - For Sale
Soulwax - Ravelight
???
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Teki Latex - Disco Dance with You (Para One dub mix)
2 Live Crew - If You Believe in Having Sex
2 Live Crew - Face Down Ass Up
Busta Rhymes - Touch It
Justice - Let There Be Light (DJ Funk remix)
Daft Punk - Da Funk
???
???
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
???
Les Rythmes Digitales - Disco 2 Disco
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Knight
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
Justice vs Simian - Never Be Alone

Harder Better Faster Stronger Alive 2007 Radio edit

El video de la version para radio de Harder Better Faster Stronger Alive 2007, muy bueno. Fue hecho con cachos de videos enviados por gente que fue al concierto. La version verdadera del set esta mejor en mi opinion, el recorte para radio le saco un poco de buildup ue la hace mucho mejor, y marea un cacho el video, pero igual esta alucinante.

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Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Jackson and his computer band "Do the J.A.H.C.B." remix)

Justice dropped this remix in their latest set, which you can get in great quality in Kidz by Colette(http://kidzbycolette.free.fr). I think it's awesome, very experimental and 10 minutes long. Missingtoof is so nice to bring us the Jackson remix while teeling us that Tshirts are the new naked:
http://www.missingtoof.com/v2/2007/08/27/t-shirts-are-the-new-naked/

And a direct hotlink to the song doesn't hurt either:
http://www.missingtoof.com/sndz/aug07/2/DANCE%20(JacksonRemix).mp3

If you're looking for justice remixes, look no further as I've found a place that has made a compilation of almost all their official (and unofficial) ones:
http://thelemurblog.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html

Boys Noize is about to release their "Oi Oi Oi" album, which sure looks promising. Here's a short video of one of my favourite songs from this album, "Lava Lava"

Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi Promo
Uploaded by TinY-Prod

Phantom - Boys Noize remix

By popular request:

Justice - Phantom (Boys Noize remix)

Patrick 122

Una excelente descripción de Patrick 122 de Mr Oizo por Greg aka gkla de http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/

I want to talk about "Patrick 122" by Mr. Oizo.

I don't want to talk about it because Mr. Oizo is new or obscure; he is one of Europe's electronic mainstays and has enjoyed hits dating back to 1999. I don't want to talk about it because the track is particularly new; it first surfaced on the French producer's MySpace at the end of last year, though it only recently saw an official release in June on his Transexual EP on Ed Banger.

Rather, I want to talk about it because I'm surprised it's been such a hit – it is, after all, a really unusual track . Leaning on a sample from 1979's salsa/disco rave-up "Do It at the Disco" by Gary's Gang, "Patrick 122" uses virtually none of the tropes popularized by 2007's other favorite electronic artists. There are no distorted bass synths here; the track is driven instead by a bass drum so noisy that it sounds less like a musical instrument and more like something squishy being stepped on. The vocal sample is no less strange; random words are replaced by bleeps and bloops.

Finally, and perhaps most strikingly, the first half of the track seems to unwind periodically, with the tempo dropping faster than a prom dress in a motel suite and suddenly snapping back to a relentless 120 bpm. Then, as a mischievous wink to any DJ who would dare play the track, there is a 15 second gulf of tuneless static in the middle of the song. Once you come out the other end of the silence, you get Gary's Gang's saxophone arpeggios, which drag behind the bass drum like tin cans behind a limo.

Am I getting a little heavy on the metaphors? Blame it on how excited this track makes me.

Mr. Oizo – "Patrick 122": mp3
Gary's Gang – "Do It at the Disco": mp3

(Buy the Transexual EP here.)

posted by Greg aka gkla @ 6:00 PM

Blue Sky in games campaign

Al parecer no soy el único que le parece que la ultima ola de juegos que han salido estan inexorablemente apuntando a lo mismo, y decidieron hacer una campaña en contra de eso. La campaña (campaign en inglés, ni idea como se traduce bien) se llama "Blue Sky in Games Campaign" y lo que busca es traer de vuelta ese mundo tan divertido de los juegos de antes en q el cielo era azul, un hongo te hacía grande, juntar aros estaba demás y si pisabas una cascara de banana, te CAIAS. Con algunas fotos lo hacen mas grafico:



Incluso dan algunos tips a desarrolladores de videojuegos de como pueden hacer este mundo un poco más soleado:
DEVELOPERS: HOW YOU CAN HELP TODAY!

- Change everything that's grey into blue.
- From now on, everyone wears red shoes.
- Make everything happen at midday or sunset.
- Replace gun textures with banana textures.
- Turn all cars into pink convertibles that wobble and only do 15mph.
- If you get 100 of anything, a little tune plays.
- Instead of saying "crew" say "your buddies".
- Instead of saying "hood" say "zone".
- Make the female characters something other than prostitutes.
- Make the black characters something other than drug dealers.

dirán que es una chotada, pero es impresionante como influencia no solo los juegos sino las peliculas (más que nada las películas) en lo que ve la gente y sus intereses, una pelicula ya no es divertida a no ser que o aparezca steven seagal, o haya al menos una explosion, choque de autos, tiroteo, etc. Y si, seré una vieja al decir todo esto, pero me pareció buena la iniciativa y me hizo darme cuenta de cuanto extraño esa inocencia de recorrer un nivel juntando aros y saltando en malos bajo un cielo azul y un sol sonriente.


Link: http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2005/11/blue-sky-in-games-campaign-launched.html

Justice

Electronica That Rocks, à la Française


By WILL HERMES, New York Times
Published: July 1, 2007

ONE of the most blogged-about sets at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California took place on a stage dominated by towering Marshall amplifier stacks and a huge illuminated cross. When the dark-clad musicians let loose with a familiar hammering riff, the fans erupted in roars, punching their fists in the air and barking out lyrics.

Young audiences "just want more fun in electronic music," says Gaspard Augé, right, of the duo Justice, with Xavier de Rosnay. No, the group wasn't a heavy-metal revival act — not exactly. Justice is a French D.J. duo at the forefront of a new school of electronic music far removed from the genteel soundtracks one commonly hears in W Hotel lobbies and design-conscious restaurants. The music is harder and hookier, as apt to inspire slam-dancing as hip shaking. It's more like rock, which effectively dislodged dance music early this decade as the hipster soundtrack of choice.

"Our crowd is more a rock crowd," said Gaspard Augé of Justice, who is still surprised that fans sometimes stage-dive at its gigs. Young audiences, he suggested, "just want more fun in electronic music, more hedonism."

So in a year that has seen indie rockers like Bright Eyes and the Shins releasing conservatively tuneful CDs that parents might borrow from their kids, rowdy electronic music seems to be seeding a new underground. "People are dancing again," said Tom Dunkley of GBH, the New York company behind Cheeky Bastards, a weekly club event that has embraced the new sound. When Justice and several like-minded D.J.'s performed at a Cheeky Bastards event in Manhattan in March, Mr. Dunkley said, the demand for tickets was "crazy, completely unusual."

Justice's debut full-length CD, whose provocative "title" is a simple cross icon, arrives July 10 via the Vice Records label. The duo had a video added on MTV (extremely rare these days for an electronic act) and has just finished a remix of "LoveStoned" for Justin Timberlake. And it has emerged amid the ever-growing influence of Daft Punk, the Parisian D.J. duo that pioneered the harder, faster approach that characterizes Justice's music with its thrillingly crude electro-house debut, "Homework," in 1996. The rapper Kanye West sampled a track from that album for his hit "Stronger"; this summer Daft Punk will embark on its first major tour in a decade, a multimedia extravaganza that will come to Keyspan Park at Coney Island on Aug. 9.

Some American acts, like LCD Soundsystem and Ghostland Observatory, have been channeling this new sound, as have cutting-edge artists elsewhere. (In recent recordings and live shows, Bjork has been adding noise to her usual dance beats.) But for the past couple of years France has served as its most exciting incubator, on indie labels like Kitsuné, Institubes and especially Ed Banger, which signed Justice and whose name suggests its M.O. (Try pronouncing "headbanger" with a Parisian accent.) And despite some tut-tutting by fans of minimalist techno and other esoteric electronic styles, the new headbanging aesthetic has found an audience.

The members of Justice — Mr. Augé, 27, and Xavier de Rosnay, 24 — met in Paris. Mr. Augé was a Metallica fan who once played in an experimental post-rock group. Mr. de Rosnay was a fan of hip-hop and pop. Justice was effectively born in 2003 when the pair, on a lark, refashioned a song for a remix contest promoted by a college radio station in Paris.

"You could download the separate tracks: guitar, drums and other things," Mr. de Rosnay said via phone from Paris, explaining their remix process. "But we were working without music software: just a sampler, a sequencer and a synthesizer. So we downloaded just the voice on the chorus, because there was not space enough for more than eight seconds of sound on our sampler."


The remix, a radical reshaping of "Never Be Alone" by the British rock group Simian, lost the contest (no one seems to recall who won) but netted the duo a deal with the nascent Ed Banger label in 2003. Eventually retitled "We Are Your Friends" to echo its shouted refrain, the track became a club and Internet phenomenon. To top it off a striking video clip for the song, which looked like the aftermath of a college keg party as dreamed by Michel Gondry, won the award for best video at last year's MTV Europe Music Awards, trumping even the Evel Knievel-themed flamboyance of "Touch the Sky" by Kanye West (who, characteristically, threw a tantrum over the outcome).

"We Are Your Friends" isn't on Justice's new album, but there are plenty of other signs of the members' fusion-minded taste, from a pixilated take on Parliament-Funkadelic ("New Jack") to the kiddie-disco singalong single "D.A.N.C.E.," which seems to have struck a chord: A leaked version was so widely remixed by Internet sample-jackers that Vice posted alternate versions on its blog.

The album also includes the vocal-less single "Waters of Nazareth" from the group's self-titled EP, which made numerous best-of lists last year. The new version begins with a serrated sputtering of electronic noise; when a 4/4 kick-drum beat comes in, the noise becomes a simple, brutish melody. It mutates as the beats fragment, like chips of wood from the blade of a buzz saw, and is replaced by a churchy organ riff on the bridge; then the two melody lines combine, skidding back into pure modulating noise again at the end.

As with the best garage rock or heavy metal — as well as '80s electro, the synthesizer-heavy urban dance style Justice frequently echoes — there is beauty in the relentless primitivism.

As for the cross-icon title, Mr. Augé said it was inspired, in part, because "it was a potent pop symbol in the '90s, with people like Madonna and George Michael using it." Of course it's also a common heavy-metal motif, a connection also suggested by Justice's crudely gothic black-and-silver cover art (not to mention those awe-inspiring Marshall stacks, which, it should be noted, are merely stage props).

Both members of Justice have worked as graphic designers, and visual presentation is an important part of Ed Banger's aesthetic. So is a sense of playfulness, whether it's the shameless potty mouth of Uffie, a female American rapper of sorts best known for the campy gangsta track "Pop the Glock," or the way DJ Mehdi mixes old-school hip-hop and electro with bits of hair-metal guitar. (Both acts appear on the recent compilation "Ed Rec Vol. 2," released in America via Vice.)

"I've never worked with a group that's so fully formed," said Adam Shore, the general manager of Vice Records, referring to the Ed Banger crew. "They've got the music, the art, the aesthetic, the amazing videos, and they're kind of a traveling party."

Ed Banger's multimedia sensibility, not to mention its sound, has a clear antecedent. The label is run by Pedro Winter, who, in addition to making music as Busy P, has for many years managed Daft Punk, the duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Like Justice, Daft Punk played Coachella, in 2006; its set was a spectacle of lights and video with the duo, in the guise of robots, triggering electronics atop a sort of neon pyramid.

Daft Punk is not directly involved in Ed Banger, but you can hear its influence on the label. And Mr. Bangalter's superlative remix of DJ Mehdi's "Signature" turns a teasing snippet into what might be the most ecstatic dance track you'll hear this year. The duo's influence persists elsewhere too.

"Daft Punk were my heroes when they released the `Homework' album," said Thomas Turner of the young Austin synth-rock band Ghostland Observatory. "That really influenced my view on music."

Mr. Bangalter, who spoke from Los Angeles last month during a break from tour rehearsals, is amused that, at 32, he is considered an elder statesman to a new generation of electronic musicians. And unlike the scene veterans who reject the rockist attitude of Justice and its peers, Mr. Bangalter appreciates the music on its own terms.

"Most of these people were like 6 or 7 years old" during electronica's first wave, he said. "It's not really their history. So they are starting from scratch maybe. From more of a blank slate."

Or as Justice's Mr. Augé put it, "We just don't care about respecting the rules."



Escuchá canciones de justice en : http://hypem.com/search/justice/1/
Su pagina de myspace: http://www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous

Daft Punk mix

Uploadeé un mix que había hecho hace como 1 año después de que fui a ver a Daft Punk. Es un set que consiste enteramente de ellos, y que toma ideas de su show, tratando de copiar algunas de las combinaciones que usaron. Lo hice en Mixmeister, lo cual es como hacer trampa :P.

Tracklist:
Total: 45:49
1) Alive
2) Burning
3) Around the World
4) Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
5) Technologic
6) Oh Yeah
7) Human After All + Superheroes
8) One more time + Aerodynamic
9) Television Rules the Nation + Crescendolls
10) Robot Rock + Teachers
11) Steam Machine + Revolution 909
12) Da Funk (Reverse it edit) + Revolution 909
13) The Brainwasher

Download link: http://diegov.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-06-26T10_03_42-07_00.mp3
O usando la cajita de la izquierda

La puntualidad del Sr Yertas

Fantástico! - replicó el Sr. Yertas, y salió despedido por la puerta giratoria del banco. A medida que tomaba velocidad, el viento le azotaba la frente revelando un ceño arrugado por los años y una vida bastante jodida, pero bien aprovechada. Dobló en la esquina y se dirigió sin más preambulos a un prostíbulo, en el cual pasó una hora reloj recibiendo un servicio de dudosa legalidad. Al salir, apuró el paso aun más y se paró en la esquina del susodicho local de lujuria, llamando un taxi.
Estiró su brazo y miró su reloj de pulsera último modelo para ubicarse en el espacio-tiempo y calcular sus horas por venir. Su superyo se tranquilizó al notar que le quedaban una media hora, y estaba con tiempo.

Al subirse al taxi, le gritó una dirección al taxista y se recostó a mirar el paisaje pintoresco del centro, con sus enarbolados grafitis y brillantes grises de la mañana. Mientras su mente volaba por sus quehaceres le sonó el celular, y al notar que eran del Ministerio de Defunciones, atendió sin dudar un segundo.
-Diga? - dijo en un tono forzadamente indiferente.
-Señor Yertas? Buenos días, somos del Ministerio. Queríamos asegurarnos de que no se haya olvidado de su cita hoy a las 12. Despacharemos un móvil apenas recibamos confirmación de que ha acudido. Tiene algún problema para llegar en hora?
El telefonista del ministerio hablaba con una voz monótona y rasposa, moldeada después de años de decir lo mismo día a día. Yertas miró su reloj y se sobresaltó al notar que eran las 12 menos 10 minutos.
-No hay ningún problema, estoy por llegar en cualquier momento.
-Muy bien, muchas gracias señor Yertas.

Apenas colgar, el taxi aminoró la marcha y se detuvo al borde de la calzada, a 10 metros de un puente en un estado bastante pobre, clara señal de la decadencia de los últimos años. Pagó su segundo servicio de la mañana y se apeó, recibiendo el sol de frente. El taxi no se había ido aun y el Sr. Yertas ya se encontraba trotando hacia el centro del puente. Apenas llegar, miró su muñeca y al corroborar su puntualidad irremediable, sacó su celular y mandó el siguiente mensaje:

Estoy en posición. Ya pueden ir mandando el móvil.

Y acto seguido se tiró del puente






Por qué maté al Sr. Yertas? No se, tenía ganas de matar a algún personaje. Es divertido :P

3 new Nightwish samples

Se publicaron hace unos dias 3 samples del nuevo CD de Nightwish que va a estar saliendo en Setiembre. Todavia no hay nombre confirmado para el disco, pero si salieron a luz samples de los siguientes temas:
7 days to the wolves
Master Passion Greed
Amaranth

Aparece Marco cantando en las 2 primeras y suena excelente, y podemos apreciar a Anette cantando en canciones bastante más pesadas, en las que pone una voz un tanto más agresiva. Igual no tiene mucha fuerza, la voz de Marco la re opaca.

Link a los samples: http://www.nightwish.com/en/files/audio


Diego

The NEW Nightwish

Al fin después de tanta espera se hizo pública la identidad de la nueva vocalista de la banda finlandesa de metal gótico Nightwish. Su nombre es Anette Oizon y es Sueca, al parecer no tiene experiencia en el metal pero si sabe bastante de música y según ella ha participado de "todos los géneros de música". No lo creo.

Es bastante parecida a Tarja, pero tiene menos aire de gorda Finlandesa diva de la opera gótica y más como reina del Pop de los muertos. Y el gran tema, y el que más ha causado controversia, es que no canta lírico (o sea no canta como opera). No tiene una mala voz, pero no se si pega con el estilo del Nightwish antiguo. Muchos se quejan de que Nightwish se está acercando cada vez más al Pop, y no los culpo, porque Anette ciertamente no le pone ese tono épico y eterno que la voz de Tarja inflijia sobre los temas, sino que suena como una vocalista más (a mi parecer).

La verdad que no se bien que pensar al respecto ,tendría que ver como canta las canciones viejas, pero bue.
Para los que aun no escucharon Eva, el nuevo single, les dejo un link a youtube que la tiene (aunque no en muy buena calidad. Sino se la bajan de Ares o emule. Es una balada que tiene un solo no muy wow de guitarra bien nightwish al final, pero la verdad no me movió el piso la canción. Lo que se puede decir es que el arreglo orquestral es excelente, como todo lo que toca Tuomas.



Algunas fotos:
Acá está linda:

y acá está fea:


Bueno, me despido

Diego

Short electro clash mix

Es mi primer podcast y la primera vez que publico un mix en internet, a ver qué les parece. Es cortito (27:17) porque quiero probar a qué velocidad se sube.

Los temas son:
1) The young punx - Rockall (Phonat mix)
2)The gossip - Standing in the way of control (Soulwax Nite version)
3)The Rapture - Whoo! Alright. Yeah...Uh Huh (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
4)Surkin - Radio Fireworks (institubes president)
5)Spank Rock - Bump (Switch Remix)
6)Justice - Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan remix)
7)Mr. Oizo - Nazis (Justice remix)

Los temas son bastante funky y electrosos, con bajos bien distorsionados y mucho contrapunto para darle un groove similiar a todo el mix. Las más pesadas son sin dudas Waters of Nazareth y Nazis, las ultimas dos. Es una onda medio no tan comercial.

Para descargar:

short electro clash mix

Si no quieren descargarlo pueden escuchar online con el widget que puse en la barra de la izquierda: simplemente apretan play y listo :P

Comenten!

Diego

Kiwi!

A veces no puedo más que envidiar a este kiwi por su convicción. Es tierno, pero a la vez triste.

club algorithm

club algorithm

Bueno, inauguramos esto a ver que tal. La idea sería poner cosas interesantes que encuentre x ahi y que me gustaría compartir con uds bloggers q andan x ahi. Las cosas que escuche y me gusten mucho las pondré por acá, además de videos de youtube que me copen y porquerías que encuentre stumbleando a las 2 de la mattina.

También si alguna vez escribo algo que valga la pena ser leido lo voy a poner acá, a ver cuanto duro mientras me apedrean x no saber escribir jeje. También tengo ganas de iniciar un webcomic con chistes chotos q se me ocurran o cosas interesantes que se presten a sarcasmo/ironía, probablemente extremadamente geeky y nerdy, pero es lo q hay :P

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Diego