Faith Planet OF Zeus

2011 release from modern New Age artist Sam Grawe AKA Hatchback. Like its predecessor, Colors Of The Sun (2008), it is full of California sunshine and open space, but this time Hatchback ventures further afield, crafting a widescreen epic that travels deep into a territory once considered off limits to new age. Could it really be that a new age of new age is here? Although resuscitating out-of-bounds areas of the record shop has become something of a hipster calling card (witness the revivals of folk and disco), Grawe has had a lifelong appreciation for the genre, stemming from summer nights listening to public radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and years scouring without irony the $1 new age bins for synthesizer-based artists such as Vangelis, Cluster, Michael Rother, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Iasos, Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Zeus and Apollo pays tribute to those gods of new age, while stepping boldly into the 21st century.

If he is known at all, the Harlem-based '60s soul singer Curtis Knight is remembered for his connection to a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix. Knight met a down-on-his-luck Hendrix living in a New York City hotel. The singer gave the guitarist a spare axe and hired him to play with the Squires, Knight's band. A native of Kansas, Knight had previously spent time in California he appears in the film Pop Girl before relocating to New York, where he worked the circuit with the Squires, a workaday party R&B band.

Superb debut from these rising stars of Swedish metal. Take the brutality of Meshuggah and blend it with the progressive style of Queensrÿche and you have Lack Of Faith. There is certainly no lack of the Heavy Metal faith in LACK OF FAITH's monstrously riff heavy Metallic attack. Huge swathes of SABBATH-esque Doom pulsate from each track especially on offerings like "Nothing" whereas new influences from bands such as KILLSWITCH ENGAGE appear on "Suffocate" and "I". Vocally Ronny Hemlin trades between Dickinson, Halford and Dio, just check out his powerhouse wail on the brutally excellent "Suffocate" for early Dickinson.

God Of War - Soundtrack
MP3 220 Kbps | 03/01/2005 | Label: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. | 59:11 min | 139 Mb
Genre: Soundtrack

Sweeping virtual orchestrations and symphonic atmospheria.

- As befitting an action/adventure game steeped in the fantastical realms of Greek mythology, the soundtrack to God Of War is teeming with sweeping epic orchestral compositions that swirl, stomp, and storm throughout the hour of total running time. Granted much of the music was created virtually (sans real orchestra and choir in favor of electronic manipulation), but all but the most trained of ears would be hard-pressed to distinguish between what is real and what is virtual. by Spence D.

The Immigrants - One Planet Under One Groove
FLAC, EAC, LOG & CUE | Lossless Artwork | Size: 545 MB
Label/Cat#: USG 40001-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1995
Genre: AOR | Hoster: Filesonic/Uploaded/Filepost

Raunchy blues-based project featuring guitarist Jennifer Batten and Janis Joplin soundalike, Kali. What makes it really interesting from a commercial viewpoint is the presence of Michael Sembello and half a dozen songs by AOR legend Jeff Paris.