All About Anna 2005

DJ Ravin takes the wheel behind Buddha Bar III, the namesake compilation from Paris's answer to Studio 54. Ravin forgoes the Dinner/Party division that Claude Challe opted for on previous installments of the series, and instead casts Dream versus Joy on this two-disc set. Dream, leaning on the traditional (syrupy Greek strings, Japanese bamboo flutes, Persian harmonists) and New Age Enigma/Deep Forest side of things (Oliver Shanti & Friends, Vangelis engineer Frederick Rousseau) is frankly too restless to be truly dreamy. The frenzied run through so many styles, seemingly solely for the sake of diversity alone, ultimately feels about as sincerely global as a mad dash through Disney's Epcot Center. The second CD in the set, Joy, pays a tad more attention to a general vibe, resulting in a much better overall effect…

VA - Kuschel Rock vol.29 (3CD) 2015
MP3 320 CBR kbps | Tracks: 58 | 03:51:01 | 535 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock | Label: Sony Music

Selten haben zwei Dinge so gut zueinander gepasst wie Liebe und Musik. Beide sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden. Ein Leben ohne Liebe ist nicht vorstellbar; ein Leben ohne Musik kann nur ein Irrtum sein. Beide lassen uns fühlen, leiden, reißen uns mit und manchmal auch runter, lassen uns schier explodieren vor lauter Begeisterung, enttäuschen uns, euphorisieren uns. Sie bringen uns zum Lachen und zum Weinen. Und bei beiden steht eines im Mittelpunkt: das Gefühl.

Rarely have two things so well fitted together like love and music. Both are inseparable. A life without love is inconceivable; a life without music can only be a mistake. Both make us feel, suffer, tear us with and sometimes down, let's seemingly explode out of sheer enthusiasm, disappoint us, euphoric us. They make us laugh and cry. And in both of takes center stage: the feeling.

The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers united such varying influences as Public Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire, and My Bloody Valentine to create a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivaled the best old-school DJs on their own terms – keeping a crowd of people on the floor by working through any number of groove-oriented styles featuring unmissable samples, from familiar guitar riffs to vocal tags to various sound effects. And when the duo (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) decided to supplement their DJ careers by turning their bedrooms into recording studios, they pioneered a style of music (later termed big beat) remarkable for its lack of energy loss from the dancefloor to the radio. Chemical Brothers albums were less collections of songs and more hour-long journeys, chock-full of deep bomb-studded beats, percussive breakdowns, and effects borrowed from a host of sources. All in all, the duo proved one of the few exceptions to the rule that intelligent dance music could never be bombastic or truly satisfying to the seasoned rock fan; it's hardly surprising that they were one of the few dance acts to enjoy simultaneous success in the British/American mainstream and in critical quarters.

What if food was an easy, delicious, and a healing part of your life? Alex Jamieson, co-star of the documentary Super Size Me, is on a mission to #FixFood. Join Alex and 35 plus of today's most important leaders in health and nutrition for this online event to fix your relationship with food, address emotional eating, fix your own simple meals and fix the food culture we all live in.

Although she had made a name for herself as a solo artist in Sweden, Agnetha Fältskog will always be best known as one-fourth of ABBA, one of the most commercially successful and internationally beloved pop acts of all time. Born on April 5, 1950, Fältskog was encouraged to pursue her love of music from an early age and was already performing with two school friends as the Cambers by the time she was a teen…