Snapper 3

At a time when Warp Records was known as "the premiere electronica label," along comes another album from this mostly acoustic quartet to drop some jaws with good old-fashioned musicianship. Richly accomplished for a sophomore full-length, Prince Blimey finds Red Snapper expanding rather than floundering for ideas. In a time where acid jazz was busy developing by artificial (sampled) means, Red Snapper's musical prowess became a force to be reckoned with, and many of the tracks here place heavy emphasis on the group's secret weapon: the rhythm section. On a drawing pad, many of these songs would look like pyramids, with the base (bass) end getting most of the emphasis and the top corner crammed with little harmonic afterthoughts. The double bass is essential to the success of these tracks, featuring Ali Friend growling, slinking, and sliding on the frets as confidently as Zeus with a thunderbolt in his hands. Similarly, Richard Thair keeps his drums in time with Friend – hopscotching, marching, and breakbeating from R&B club to jazz dub to acoustic jungle.

No-Man - Together We're Stranger (2003) {CD with DVD-A/V Snapper UK SMACD 948X rel 2007}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 261 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 112 Mb
DVD5 Audio/Video -> 3.80 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 / NTSC 4:3 | LPCM, 2 ch / DTS, 6 ch | ~ 63 min | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 11 Gb | 5% repair rar
© 2003, 2007 Snapper UK | SMACD 948X
Rock / Neo Prog / Alternative / Prog Rock / Art Rock / Experimental Rock

This special edition includes a bonus audio DVD featuring the complete album two disc CD/DVD edition comprising a remastered 5.1 DVD-A surround sound mix, high resolution 24 bit stereo of the album and additional bonus material. No-Man is a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle Of Man) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson (the latter also of Porcupine Tree). The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections (most notably, 2006's career retrospective, All The Blue Changes). The band was once lauded as "conceivably the most important English group since The Smiths" by Melody Maker music newspaper.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Show That Never Ends (2001) {2CD Set, Snapper Music SMDCD370}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 619 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 203 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 35 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2001 Snapper Music / Eagle Rock | SMD CD 370
Rock / Progressive Rock / Art Rock

Live tracks recorded on the "Then & Now" tour. For those who have ELP's "Then and now" album, "The show that never ends" will sound somewhat familiar. If you remove the "Then" tracks (recorded in 1974) from that album, what you are left with is this album. The fact that both are double CD packages gives an indication of the space which is therefore wasted here, indeed the omission of one short track would have allowed this to be a single disc.