(1) Get dreamy with this well-produced San Diego band, which alternates between lush, vocally driven songs and atmospheric electronica. While the writing may occasionally reference ’80s new wave, the end result is entirely modern, original, and essential listening. (2) With Female vocals that range from delicate to driving along with spiraling guitars, innovative beats and bass lines, the FLIR are carving a unique niche for themselves with their distinctive sound. Inspired by the varied backgrounds and wide range of influences of each of its members, the FLIR strives to create music that is not afraid to blend electronic, experimental, alternative, and rock elements into unique songs. The FLIR is currently writing and rehearsing original material, and hopes to release a full-length album soon.
Tracklisting:
1 Golden [EP version] (3:48)
2 Neelam [Bitstream Dream remixed by The FLIR] (5:39)
3 Marea (4:44)
4 Phere [EP version] (4:48)
Credits: Produced by – The FLIR // Mixed by – Mo Safder // Loops and Programming: Mo Safder, Sal Giuliano
Genres: dream pop / electronica
Links: Official Website || @MySpace || @Last.FM || @Discogs || @MusicDownload
Grade: 10/10
Bitrate: 192
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Summer Snow is a drama that aired July 7, 2000 to September 15, 2000 on TBS. It is a love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo (Domoto Tsuyoshi) has been looking after his younger brother and sister since the death of their parents. He has also been running the family bicycle shop. Yuki (Hirosue Ryoko) becomes the only person in the world in whom he can confide. For Yuki, Natsuo becomes the catalyst that has her trying to break out of her cocoon. The series runs for 11 episodes as with most Japanese dramas.Cast
Tsuyoshi Dômoto …. Natsuo Shinoda
Ryoko Hirosue …. Yuki Katase
Chizuru Ikewaki …. Chika Shinoda
Shun Oguri …. Shinoda Jun
Directed by: Tamaki Endou, Shunichi Hirano, Hiroshi Matsubara
Writing credits: Eriko Komatsu
Original run: 2000-Jul-07 to 2000-Sept-15
No. of episodes: 11
Country: Japan
Genres: romance / human drama
Links: Official Website || @JDorama || @DoramaInfo || @D-Addicts || cast and episode synopsis
Grade: 5/5 Такие фильмы вытягивают из меня жилы. Но это хорошо, я люблю такие встряски. А этот сериал ещё и содержит ощущение, которым я очень дорожу. И радуюсь, когда оно меня посещает. Не смотря на очевидную боль, которую оно приносит.
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(1) Yet nothing was to prepare his growing army of supporters for this next record Ulrich Schnauss – A Strangely Isolated Place which slowly came together during 2001 into a record that really showed some of Ulrich’s youthful indie influences. His debut album under his real name established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer, but somehow he managed to take it further by developing his interest in songwriting for electronic music, born of his love for such giants of the independent world as My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields and Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie. From this humble conception, comes forth a record of surprisingly rare emotional power. Ulrich Schnauss – A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences; a genuinely word-of-mouth record slowly growing in stature by virtue of its over-riding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer, or solipsistic bedsit meanderings. «When you’ve worked with computers and keyboards for a number of years, they become not so fascinating of themselves anymore. I gained in confidence after people began to discover Faraway Trains, and it hasn’t really stopped since then. This time I decided not to compromise on what I wanted to do, with what I thought people might want me to do.» The results are an oddly retro-futurist record, which owes more to MBV’s Loveless or Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack than Ulrich’s computer peers. It sounds all the better for it. (2) Ulrich Schnauss is a master of melody. While his work is a stellar celebration of atomospheric simplicity, his production skills are second to none. Indeed, one may hear faint whispers of «Four Calendar Cafe» era Cocteau Twins and «Holding Our Breath» era Slowdive in his gorgeous style. However, Ulrich’s own chord library is incredibly unique, well informed, and harmoniously balanced. His music survives obsessive, repeated listens with flying colors, and never becomes tired or bland. His ability to create real (human) songs with real (human) emotions is exciting and influential evidence that electronic musicians needn’t gush away their hearts to the purveyors of aesthetically vaccuous, robotic hum-drum. rather than create landscapes of paranoia, Schnauss uncompromisingly maintains his rock solid integrity by simply being «simple». yet there is still so much more to his music… «simplicity with blissful consequences» might be a more acurate description. (3) Ulrich Schnauss’s A Strangely Isolated Place was released in Europe during May of 2003, but fans had to wait over a year for it to arrive on these shores. The Berliner’s follow-up to Far Away Trains Passing By is another gentle and fascinating record, similarly drunk with melody. But Schnauss has augmented his electro-synth sound with tsunamis of huge, arching major chords that rival M83’s over-the-top lushness. Shoegazer influences show up in the Slowdive-esque «Gone Forever,» as well as the My Bloody Valentine buzz in «Clear Day». Despite Place’s ethereal sheen, the bones of solid dance-ability are also here, as several clever DJs have already noted (see Sasha’s use of «On My Own» for Involver). The record could use a few well-placed batches of noise to act as counterpoint, but long-suffering fans of early Cocteau Twins looking for a fix of dreamy songcraft should find much to love.
Tracklisting:
1 Gone Forever (8:12)
2 On My Own (6:41)
3 A Letter From Home (6:57)
4 Monday – Paracetamol (7:57)
5 Clear Day (7:42)
6 Blumenthal (6:38)
7 In All The Wrong Places (6:53)
8 A Strangely Isolated Place (10:49)
Label: City Centre Offices
Catalog#: TOWERBLOCK 013 CD
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Credits: Vocals – Judith Beck
Notes: Written & produced by Ulrich Schnauss
Genres: downtempo / indietronica / dream pop / ethereal
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Grade: 10/10
Bitrate: VBR
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