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Interpol - A Fine Mess (EP) (2019) Music

Posted by Domestos at May 20, 2019

Recorded during time spent in upstate New York with Dave Fridmann, the five songs that make up A Fine Mess gradually emerged as a body of work with a narrative and flow unto itself. The title track, and BBC 6 Music-playlisted single ‘Fine Mess’, then received further production from Kaines & Tom A.D. and mixing from Claudius Mittendorfer, who had first worked with Interpol as engineer on Our Love To Admire. The resulting set is a living, breathing postcard from the band to their fans as they tour the world throughout 2019, and a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy set loose with Marauder.

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The Rolling Stones - Sweet Black Angel: The Lost Sessions Vol.1 (2005) Music

Posted by v3122 at June 18, 2021

The Rolling Stones - Sweet Black Angel: The Lost Sessions Vol.1 (2005)
Flac(Image) + Cue & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Empress Valley, EVSD 332 | ~ 391 or 152 Mb | Artwork -> 2.25 Mb
Blues Rock / Rock & Roll / Classic Rock

The late '60s and early '70s didn't yield many (as far as we know) unreleased studio recordings of completed, otherwise unavailable Rolling Stones songs. But it did produce a wealth of fairly interesting alternate/working versions and song embryos that never got polished off, sixteen of which are presented on this compilation. As the title Sweet Black Angel implies, many are from that murky early-'70s period when the Stones were working, in fits and starts, on Exile on Main St., and several of these tracks are different versions of songs that ended up on that album…

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Accept - Hungry Years (1987) [Metronome P35X-20004, Japan] Music

Posted by v3122 at June 24, 2019

Accept - Hungry Years (1987)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Metronome P35X-20004 | ~ 260 or 91 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 1.92 Mb
Heavy Metal

Originally released in the mid-'80s, Hungry Years has been reissued, re-released, and remastered many times in many countries…

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Chaka Khan - Destiny (1986) {West Germany for USA} Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Jan. 1, 2021

Chaka Khan - Destiny (1986) {West Germany for USA}
R&B, Soul, Pop/Rock, Electronic | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 47:13 | 527,93 Mb
Label: Warner Bros. Records Inc./PolyGram (W.-Germany) | Cat.# WEA 9 25425-2 | Released: 1986-06-14

"Destiny" is the 6th studio album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1986. "Destiny" was Khan's follow-up to the platinum-selling "I Feel for You" and was as high tech as its predecessor - symptomatically and characteristically for its period with more producers and sound engineers credited in the liner notes than musicians - but was musically more geared towards rock and pop than soul and R&B, most prominently on tracks such as "So Close", the self-penned title track "My Destiny", "Who's It Gonna Be" and "Watching the World" featuring Phil Collins on drums and backing vocals.

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Jason Marsalis - The Year of the Drummer (1998) Music

Posted by Domestos at Dec. 27, 2019

Jason Marsalis - The Year of the Drummer (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 323.37 Mb + 23.88 Mb (Scans) | 58:10
Hard Bop, Post-Bop | Country: USA | Label: Basin Street Records - BSR 0301-2

You would think that the first album by the youngest member of the Marsalis family would garner quite a range of media coverage, but drummer Jason Marsalis' debut album as a leader didn't seem to inspire the sort of instant recognition that his brothers had earned. Even odder regarding the silence surrounding its release is that it is such an exceptionally fine recording by an inventive percussionist and gifted composer who draws from a vast array of influences (many of them listed in the liner notes), drummers and otherwise.

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Thomas Quasthoff, Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, James Levine - Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier (Vol. II / Live) (2023 Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 1, 2023

Thomas Quasthoff, Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, James Levine - Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier (Vol. II / Live) (2023
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:26:40 | 649 / 337 Mb
Genre: Classical

Thomas Quasthoff was a thalidomide baby, growing to only about four feet tall and, in common with many of his fellow victims of the drug, has severely undeveloped arms. However, his voice and breathing apparatus are normal – if a bass-baritone voice that is uncommonly magnificent can be considered normal. When Quasthoff reached school age, he was assigned, according to government policy, to school programs designed for children with cerebral palsy. A lively, intelligent, and artistic child, Quasthoff clearly needed the stimulation of normal schooling, which a change in policy soon permitted.

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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (1996) Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 27, 2023

Marilyn Manson started out as a depraved, marginally talented group of freaks that played a caustic but undeveloped brand of metallic industrial noise. Then Trent Reznor stepped into the studio for seven months with the band, and Manson emerged with the most intense, visceral, mechanical metal album since The Downward Spiral. Antichrist Superstar is a horror-house of grisly atrocities that stains as indelibly as a bathful of warm blood. Brooding rhythms collide with corrosive samples and buzzsaw guitar riffs, while vocalist Marilyn croons irresistible melodies in the voice of a vagrant regurgitating broken light-bulb shards. Essential listening, regardless of how much input Reznor had.

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Accept - Hungry Years (1992) Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 9, 2022

Originally released in the mid-'80s, Hungry Years has been reissued, re-released, and remastered many times in many countries. The most common American version perhaps being the 1995 Castle issue. Short and to the point, Hungry Years includes some of the best selections from Accept's early catalog, including I'm a Rebel, Breaker, and the metal classic Restless and Wild. Rightfully, nothing is selected from the group's woeful eponymous 1979 debut. All three songs culled from Restless and Wild – including the title track, "Princess of the Dawn," and "Fast as a Shark" – are career highlights for Accept, not just the early era covered on Hungry Years.

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Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) 2CDs Expanded Deluxe Edition 2003 Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 5, 2024

Deluxe Edition 2 CD set features 35 tracks including b-sides and previously unreleased versions. Sonic Youth's second major-label album, produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace (a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum) was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines. While Vig and Wallace give guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, bassist Kim Gordon, and phenomenal drummer Steve Shelley a wide-screen panorama for their bizarrely-tuned assaults, DIRTY is probably Sonic Youth's most uncompromising album since 1985's BAD MOON RISING–particularly in the lyrical department. Dropping the deliberate obscurantism, Philip K. Dick references, and smart-alecky snottiness, Sonic Youth brackets a slew of pointed political attacks ("Youth Against Fascism," "Swimsuit Issue," and the Jesse Helms-bashing "Chapel Hill") with two passionate tributes to the band members' murdered friend, Joe Cole ("100%" and "JC"). That DIRTY is Sonic Youth's most commercial-sounding album makes it that much more subversive.

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Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (2000) Japanese Press Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 17, 2024

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. The album is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. The album is an effective modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, mellotron, synthesizers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as "Go Let It Out", the Indian-influenced "Who Feels Love?", and the progressive "Gas Panic!" were a departure from the band's earlier style.

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