Oceansize - Effloresce (2003)

August 11, 2015, 12:21 am

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Oceansize's debut "Effloresce" is a monolith in modern music, blending Alternative, Post Rock and Prog to a refreshing style. There is everything you expect from a modern band. Great melodies, complex time signatures, heavy parts and three guitars. By the way, I think the genre "Space Rock" doesn't fit that good. They should be changed into "Crossover Prog". The album starts with "I am the morning". It is an instrumental song, not that exciting. It is a bit Post rockish, though. "Catalyst" starts with a heavy riff with a mechanical mood. After a while the singing begins, companied with a nice guitar melody. The melody part and the heavy part alternate to create contrast. All in all a very nice track. "One Day this could all be yours" is a bit more experimental with distored vocals and spacey guitar parts.

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Guru Guru - UFO (1970) [Remastered 2008]

August 11, 2015, 1:03 am

≫ Next: Dog Party - Vol. 4 (2015)

≪ Previous: Oceansize - Effloresce (2003)

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Guru Guru's debut album shows why the band, even if it never reached the levels of appreciation and influence the likes of Can or Neu! did, still maintained a healthy reputation over the moons for its early work. Opening number "Stone In" has a quite appropriate title for a starting track -- it is wonderfully tripped out, to be sure, and if Manuel Gottsching was more of a guitar god, Genrich kicks up a lot of frazzled noise. The principle of the Trepte/Neumeier rhythm section seems to have been "find loud weird grooves and then play them, sometimes chaotically." Again, they aren't Can's wickedly effective combination of Holger Czukay and Jaki Leibezeit, but they're not just falling over themselves either.

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Dog Party - Vol. 4 (2015)

August 11, 2015, 2:11 am

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Dog Party - Vol. 4 (2015)
FLAC+CUE+LOG or MP3 CBR 320 | Complete Scanwork | 267 or 101 MB

Sacramento's girl-duo, Dog Party, strike again with their fourth album, Vol. 4. The Giles sisters, Lucy and Gwendolyn, bring another record full of poppy tunes, with melodies that hearken back to The Ronettes, paired with the catchy punk energy of The Buzzcocks. Your second chance to check them out.

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Seventh Wave - Psi-Fi (1975) [Air Mail Archive AIRAC-1149, Japan]

August 11, 2015, 2:53 am

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≪ Previous: Dog Party - Vol. 4 (2015)

Seventh Wave - Psi-Fi (1975)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2005 | Air Mail Archive, AIRAC-1149 | ~ 288 or 121 Mb | Scans Included
Psychedelic / Progressive Rock

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A leap forward from their debut, this album shows the duo taking on extended song structures and a more varied and much improved vocal style. At times the material sounds like a precursor to the Buggles, as in the slick synths and harmonized vocals of the opening track, "Return to Foreverland." ...

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Shania Twain - Greatest Hits (2004) Repost/New rip

August 11, 2015, 3:03 am

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Shania Twain - Greatest Hits (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 611 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 204 Mb
Scans Included (JPG, 300 dpi) | RAR 5% Recovery
Country Rock, Pop, Pop Rock | Mercury #602498636046

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Just like the albums her husband/producer Mutt Lange produced for Def Leppard, Shania Twain's albums are designed to generate hit singles for two or three years, which means that each of her blockbuster records -- 1995's The Woman in Me, 1997's Come On Over, 2002's Up! -- already seem like greatest-hits records, since they're filled with huge hits. This makes assembling an actual greatest-hits album a little difficult, since not only is the material overly familiar, but there are so many hits that they're difficult to fit on a single-disc collection...

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Le Orme - 11 CD Limited Edition [2009, Universal Music, 0602527156545] Repost

August 11, 2015, 4:20 am

≫ Next: Geordie - Don't Be Fooled By The Name (1974) [1990, Reissue]

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Le Orme - 11 CD Limited Edition [2009, Universal Music, 0602527156545]
Progressive Rock/RPI | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log | MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Covers(png) -> 452 Mb | Universal Music, 0602527156545 | ~2704 + 1052 Mb
Remastered by Maurizio Biancani at Fonoprint

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Le Orme is probably the best expression of progressive rock in Italy, over PFM, Banco and others. This set have pro and cons. The quality of the remasters were made by the work of Maurizio Bancani and Federici Filippo very splendid in did...

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Geordie - Don't Be Fooled By The Name (1974) [1990, Reissue]

August 11, 2015, 4:27 am

≫ Next: Gäa - Alraunes Alptraum (1975) [Reissue 1998]

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Geordie - Don't Be Fooled By The Name (1974/1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 331 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 128 Mb
Scans Included (JPG, 300 dpi) | RAR 5% Recovery
Glam/Hard Rock | Repertoire Records #4124-WZ

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A hard rock band from Newcastle, England, Geordie is mostly known for their lead vocalist, Brian Johnson, who would later join AC/DC. In 1972 and 1973, they had a few hits in the U.K., including the number six single "All Because of You" and "Can You Do It," which reached number 13. Their sound was influenced by British rock bands of the day such as Led Zeppelin, as well as some glam stompers, with Johnson's distinctively abrasive singing strongly in evidence...

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Gäa - Alraunes Alptraum (1975) [Reissue 1998]

August 11, 2015, 10:31 am

≫ Next: Soft Machine - Third (1970) [Japan DSD Mastering, 2005]

≪ Previous: Geordie - Don't Be Fooled By The Name (1974) [1990, Reissue]

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Gäa from the German state of Saarland have become quite known in collectors’ circles thanks to their LP "Auf der Bahn zum Uranus" from 1974. In early 1975 they recorded three tracks for a, however, unfinished second album. They are simply brilliant and show how mature and inventive the band was at that time. The tracks have been rediscovered only recently and form the heart and major part of the CD, which also contains four minor bonus tracks from the 80s. Although these tracks are no longer progressive in the strict sense, they have been added for the sake of completeness and because there was time left...

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Soft Machine - Third (1970) [Japan DSD Mastering, 2005]

August 11, 2015, 11:45 am

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Third is a 1970 double LP by Soft Machine, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single, long composition. Its music explores the emerging jazz fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released just a few months earlier. Long considered one of the most innovative classics of jazz/rock of any era, Third was the first album to feature saxophonist Elton Dean, who passed away unexpectedly in 2006. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock (2005), the album came #20 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

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The Statesboro Revue - Jukehouse Revival (2015)

August 11, 2015, 12:34 pm

≫ Next: Cozy Powell - The Drums Are Back (1992)

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The Statesboro Revue is at again, and they are offering their finest collection of songs to date! Jukehouse Revival is smooth, poignant and has the coolness of 70’s rock, with the vibrancy of the current roots scene. The 11 track album showcases the group’s growth from Ramble on Privilege and is sure to accelerate the rocket ship they’ve been on the last year!

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Cozy Powell - The Drums Are Back (1992)

August 11, 2015, 12:44 pm

≫ Next: Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose 2004 (Limited Edition 2015)

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Cozy Powell - The Drums Are Back (1992)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Polydor POCP-1205 | rel: 1992 | 300Mb

Following the 1983 release of Powell's third solo album "Octopus", it took another 9 years for him to come up with his fourth and final release prior to his untimely death. This album was recorded between Powell's two stints with Black Sabbath, and following its release he took a band on the road under the name Cozy Powell's Hammer. Once again, he calls upon a who's who of musicians to support him, although the line ups here are somewhat different to those which appeared on his first two albums.

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Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose 2004 (Limited Edition 2015)

August 11, 2015, 2:35 pm

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On a sheer sonic level, the album is enthralling it's easy to get lost in the music, and Lynn sings with a vigor that's startling for a woman of 70 but it's an instant classic because of how that sound is married to set of songs that are among the strongest she's ever had. On her last studio album, she wrote only one song. Here, she's penned all 14 tracks, and there's a sense that these are songs that she needed to get out of her, particularly in a setting as intimate as this. While not all the songs are as explicitly personal as "Miss Being Mrs.," that's for the best, since the variety of styles and types of songs on Van Lear Rose -- everything from heartache ballads and country rave-ups to story-songs and gospel illustrate the depth and range of her writing. These are songs that hold their own with her greatest hits, and while it's unlike anything else she's cut, this is surely one of her great albums.

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John Waite - The Complete John Waite, Volume One: Falling Backwards (1996)

August 11, 2015, 5:38 pm

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John Waite - The Complete John Waite, Volume One: Falling Backwards (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 511 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 191 Mb
Scans Included (JPG, 600 dpi) | RAR 5% Recovery
Rock | EMI/Chrysalis #7243-8-54241-2-0/E2-54241

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A 17-track career retrospective that not only spans the mid-'70s to the mid-'90s, but encompasses solo cuts and songs that John Waite recorded with the Babys in the '70s and Bad English in the '80s. For all that, it's remarkably inconsequential right-of-center mainstream commercial rock, whether he's playing guitar-based pop/rock with the Babys or doing the power ballad thing with Bad English. Includes his 1984 number one solo single "Missing You," the Bad English smashes "When I See You Smile" and "Price of Love," and several smaller hits.

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Jesus Jones - The Devil You Know [CD-S] (1993, Food Rec. # CD PERV X 1) [RE-UP]

August 11, 2015, 11:51 pm

≫ Next: New Model Army - The Ghost Of Cain (1986)

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"...When Perverse clicks, Jesus Jones gives the listener an idea of how enjoyable a successful marriage of techno and rock could be. "The Devil You Know" reached number 1 on the Modern Rock chart in the U.S."

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New Model Army - The Ghost Of Cain (1986)

August 12, 2015, 2:10 am

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New Model Army - The Ghost Of Cain (1986)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
EMI 0946 353509 2 0 | rem: 2006 | 305Mb

Changing bassists (adding Jason "Moose" Harris), but not the bass sound, NMA's next release, The Ghost of Cain, trades a little of its reverb for a MOR album which sold poorly in America. In Great Britan and Germany, however, the band realized a cult following. The sound was further expanded with the addition of Mark Feltham's harmonica on "Poison Street" and "Ballad." "Poison Steet" was released as a 12-inch dance remix and made a dent into that market. "Heroes," another song about the differences between generations is the highlight of the album.

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Rowland S. Howard - Six Strings That Drew Blood (2014) [2CD] {Liberation Music}

August 12, 2015, 2:34 am

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Rowland S. Howard - Six Strings That Drew Blood (2014) [2CD] {Liberation Music}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.07 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 364 Mb
Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 22 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2014 Liberation Music | LMCD0255
Rock / Alternative / Post Punk / Punk Blues / Indie

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Compiled in conjunction with and with the full support of Genevieve McGuckin. Harry Howard and Mick Harvey among others. Rowland S. Howard's 'Six Strings That Drew Blood' finally accords this remarkable individual the respect he deserves. The 32 tracks cover Rowland's career: beginning with a blistering version of "Shivers" from 1999. The anthology progresses chronologically with tracks from The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution, These Immortal Souls and a selection of tracks from both Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes. There are also a number of collaborations featuring Nikki Sudden, Lydia Lunch and Magic Dirt. Audio for the entire collection has been overseen by long-time producer Lindsay Gravina. Revered and iconic Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter Rowland S. Howard is best known for his work with the post-punk group The Birthday Party, as well as The Young Charlatans, The Boys Next Door, Crime & the City Solution, These Immortal Souls and finally his subsequent solo career (which spawned two studio albums).

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Foreigner - Baloise Session 2014 [HDTV, 720p]

August 12, 2015, 2:37 am

≫ Next: If - Not Just Another Bunch Of Pretty Faces / Tea Break Is Over-Back On Your 'Eads (1974 & 75) [Re-Up]

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Foreigner - Baloise Session 2014
TS, Mpeg4 AVC,1280x720, 10300 kbps, 50 fps | Dolby AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps
Hard Rock / AOR | 01:15:20 | ~ 6.53 Gb

~ Foreigner performing on November 6, 2014 at Baloise Session, Basel, Switzerland ~

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If - Not Just Another Bunch Of Pretty Faces / Tea Break Is Over-Back On Your 'Eads (1974 & 75) [Re-Up]

August 12, 2015, 2:41 am

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"Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces" is the seventh studio album by British jazz-rock band If, released in 1974.
"Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads", released in 1975, was the eighth and final studio album by British jazz-rock band If. It was followed by compilation CDs covering tracks from the first four LPs featuring the band's previous line-up.

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Guru Guru - Hinten (1971) [Remastered 2008]

August 12, 2015, 12:31 am

≫ Next: Dixie Dregs - King Biscuit Flower Hour (1979)

≪ Previous: If - Not Just Another Bunch Of Pretty Faces / Tea Break Is Over-Back On Your 'Eads (1974 & 75) [Re-Up]

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"Hinten" is the sophomore album by Guru Guru which effectively confirms this power trio as a crucial item for the development of the krautrock movement that by 1971 had already become a melting pot of various sonic offerings converging on a common purpose of augmenting the language of rock and creating a peculiar edge to the avant-garde ideals that were being instilled in popular culture. This album is also famous (and infamous) for the cover photograph: a not too athletic male behind bearing a coarse tattoo that spreads on both buttocks. Well, the idea is clear in its intention to go against the two most recurrent trends in rock album sleeves: either a display of psychedelic figures based on a Modernistic approach or a manifestation of fantastic landscapes and characters where Surrealism and Romanticism unite. Not on this album sleeve, just that "lovingly" ugly image that I've already described and never will describe again.

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Dixie Dregs - King Biscuit Flower Hour (1979)

August 12, 2015, 1:09 am

≫ Next: Elonkorjuu - Seasons (1972-2010) [4CD Box Set 2012]

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Recorded on June 17, 1979, in Philadelphia, King Biscuit Flower Hour catches the Dixie Dregs at the peak of their career, having released their best studio album What If the previous year. King Biscuit Flower Hour Present The Dixie Dregs In Concert songs The band serves up a top-notch performance preserved in good fidelity, making it an interesting listen for devoted Dregs fans. King Biscuit Flower Hour Present The Dixie Dregs In Concert album for sale

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