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The Monkees: Season 2 On DVD (2003) [5DVD Box Set, Rhino R2 970128]

The Monkees: Season 2 On DVD (2003) [5DVD Box Set, Rhino R2 970128]
Rock | 5xDVD-9 | ISO | ~35.7 Gb
MPEG-2 Video, NTSC 4:3 (720x480), ~5655Kbps | AC-3, 2ch, 192Kbps/6ch, 448Kbps
Scans(jpg, 600dpi) -> 103 Mb

This 5-DVD Collector's set features all 26 uncut, original broacast episodes from the second season of the Monkees. DVD speial features incude 5.1 Audio, commentary tracks with all four Monkees, an exclusive interview and vintage TV commercials. Includes episodes 33-58 and the bonus "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee".

Orquesta Metafisica - Hipnotizados (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Nov. 18, 2019
Orquesta Metafisica - Hipnotizados (2018)

Orquesta Metafisica - Hipnotizados (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 277.77 Mb | 46:21 | Cover
Chamber Rock, Progressive Rock | Country: Argentina | Label: Faubourg du Monde

Argentinian Sebastian Volco is an avant-garde composer, pianist, guitarist, and electronics player with wildly eclectic tastes that course through the dance culture of his country to alternative rock, jazz, and beyond. He has recorded as a solo artist, in a duo formation and up through a variety of ensembles. He has led or co-led on more than a dozen releases and Hipnotizados is the second from his ensemble Orquesta Metafisicia. Like the small orchestra's previous release 7 Movimientos (Omrecords, 2011), this is a concept project, but dark in nature.

El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 14, 2023
El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game (2023)

El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 MB
31:11 | Funk, Soul | Label: Big Crown Records

Ever since his HOT 97 10-minute freestyle rework of Rising Down highlight "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" blew minds in December 2017, Roots’ MC Black Thought has spent a lot of time and energy reasserting his bona fides as a hyper-lyrical powerhouse. But while the skills-recognizing aspect to his revival provides more strong reminders than unexpected epiphanies, he's also been able to better embody the humanistic side of his art along the way. Glorious Game, his collaboration with veteran Brooklyn psychedelic-soul instrumentalists El Michels Affair, embodies this better than anything else to emerge in a strong run that also gave us his Streams of Thought series and his Danger Mouse collab Cheat Codes. You could throw a bit of credit for that to the atmosphere the Affair brings as a backing band: for a certain generation of hip-hop head, their collective ear for funk's stranger, blearier qualities that have been honed from years of RZA reconstructions and retro-cinematic takes on grainy soul-jazz can dredge up some remarkably powerful imagery just on its own.

Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man (2019)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 14, 2019
Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man (2019)

Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 248 MB | Cover | 42:05 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 97 MB
Folk, Country, Pop | Label: New West Records

A change of outfit can do wonders for one’s outlook on life. Just ask Robert Ellis. Never one to be bashful about the pleasures of a good suit — witness his specially made space cowboy threads from recent years — he wears that flair firmly on the sleeve of his new LP, Texas Piano Man. Donning a sharp white tuxedo that gleams like a blank slate against the blue skies and rolling hills of Marfa, Texas, it’s a turn that Ellis comes by honestly.