"vox Legends"

While we wait to see who the lucky winner will be and which artists will be present at the ceremony, the NRJ Music Awards have announced the names of the nominees for the 25th ceremony! From Olivia Rodrigo to Ed Sheeran, not forgetting Vianney, The Weeknd, Louane, Jain, Juliette Armanet, Slimane, Imagine Dragons, Måneskin and Dua Lipa… discover the full list of nominees for the NRJ Music Awards 2023.

Boom Bap Archives from Sonic Mechanics is proud to present this pack created in collaboration with producer Cousteau. This diverse collection of loops, hits and sampler patches are ready for you to throw straight into your next Boom Bap track.

Amongst a pantheon of great Czech composers it is Bedrich Smetana who is revered as the musical personification of his country’s national spirit and the founder of its modern musical character. Composed after the onset of Smetana’s incurable deafness, Má vlast (My Fatherland) is an unprecedented cycle of six related symphonic poems that evoke ancient Czech legends and celebrate the majestic beauty of the country’s landscapes. Acclaimed with ‘unending storms of applause’ at its 1882 premiere, Má vlast reflects the unique characteristics that form the living heart and soul of the Czech nation.

Mega-killer, brain-damaging, massive 70s heavy guitar tribute disc by this amazing, bad-ass, heavy guitar axeripper from California. Includes 15 tracks (77 min.) of awesome, powerful, mind-blowing, retro-fied, guitar rock power trio madness of epic proportions. The Warriors Before Me features phenomenal cover tracks/jams by the following guitar rock legends: Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Uli Roth (Scorpions), Ritchie Blackmore (Rainbow), Pat Travers, Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Eddie Van Halen (V.H.), Gary Moore, Michael Schenker (UFO), Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Lonesome Dave Peverett & Rod Price (Foghat), Angus Young (AC/DC) & Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin).

n composing El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) Manuel de Falla took his inspiration from the old gypsy legends and songs collected by the flamenco singer and dancer Pastora Imperio and her mother, creating a unique distillation of the essence of Andalusian music with its various palos or styles – seguiriyas, soleares, polos, martinetes and zambras, by incorporating their spirit into his own musical language.

Led by drummer and producer Nick Woodmansey, Emanative have created a cosmic strand of multi-cultural UK jazz with African, Indian and Middle Eastern influences unlike any other act on the UK scene. Following on from their previous record on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label back in 2015, Earth celebrates the diverse backgrounds of it’s galaxy of contributors, which includes Idris Ackamoor of US spiritual jazz legends The Pyramids, Afrobeat legend Dele Sosimi (previously of Fela Kuti’s Africa 80), key protagonist from Manchester's jazz scene Nat Birchall, India-raised Ninja Tune artist and Shabaka Hutchings-collaborator Sarathy Korwar, Ibibio Sound Machine player Ben Hadwen, Benjamin Page from RocketNumberNine, The Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto and Flying Lotus collaborator Ahu.

Playing psychotic Rock n’ Roll with elements of punk, metal and of course psychobilly, they create demonic sounds resonating from the belly of the beast himself.