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Life

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by: The Cardigans

Release Date May 03, 1999
In my opinion this is their best album! Better than their, later, more rock-orientated material. Superbly crafted jazzy pop!

CD-Charts Position 162
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The Twilight Singers Play Blackberry Belle

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by: Twilight Singers

Release Date July 04, 2004
Since Greg Dulli started sniffing sausages instead of coke and cut out the drink only to find his next vice - Chocolate gateau sandwiches! (Or so it would seem) Mr dulli, as i should call him, has gone from being the white Marvin Gaye to the white-Barry-White in appearance. He looks like the heavyweight boxer who retired just in time. He also resembles a more Belushi-esque member of the Baldwin family, but i tell you what... It just adds to it all. He swaggers out on stage, (myself and a friend saw the twilights last year in an undercrowded bristol academy) beer belly wobbling under a black shirt, p*ssy-eating grin slapped onto a freshly shaven face (bar a soul patch reminicent of Tom Waits) and you know you're in the presence of unsung greatness. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 163
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Pomme Fritz

CD-Charts > Music > Ambient
by: The Orb

Release Date June 23, 2008
Since Greg Dulli started sniffing sausages instead of coke and cut out the drink only to find his next vice - Chocolate gateau sandwiches! (Or so it would seem) Mr dulli, as i should call him, has gone from being the white Marvin Gaye to the white-Barry-White in appearance. He looks like the heavyweight boxer who retired just in time. He also resembles a more Belushi-esque member of the Baldwin family, but i tell you what... It just adds to it all. He swaggers out on stage, (myself and a friend saw the twilights last year in an undercrowded bristol academy) beer belly wobbling under a black shirt, p*ssy-eating grin slapped onto a freshly shaven face (bar a soul patch reminicent of Tom Waits) and you know you're in the presence of unsung greatness. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 164
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White Eagle

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date August 07, 1995
By 1982, Tangerine Dream had restored their reputation somewhat with this line up of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling. They had recorded two successful albums with 'Tangram' and 'Exit'. They had also enjoyed another well received soundtrack album, this time for the Michael Mann directed, James Caan starring heist movie, 'Thief'. Tangerine Dream were back in big demand.
'White Eagle' showed the band returning to their old experimental ways.
The album opens with a twenty minute epic, 'Mojave Plan'. It's a fantastic piece, split into three or four different sections with a driving rhythm throughout the track, giving it an almost industrial, machine like feel. It also conjures up mental images of travelling through otherworldly, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 165
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Alice in Ultraland

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by: Future Sound Of London

Release Date September 26, 2005
Personally prefered there previous techno/ambient instrumental albums: Accelerator, Lifeforms, Tales Of Ephidrina, Isdn, Dead Cities; before going all prog-rock experimental from The Isness album onwards...It now seems Fsol have decided to stay with this 'prog-rock/experimental' again! Pity!

CD-Charts Position 166
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Songs from the Beehive

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by: Move D

Release Date July 14, 2008
Personally prefered there previous techno/ambient instrumental albums: Accelerator, Lifeforms, Tales Of Ephidrina, Isdn, Dead Cities; before going all prog-rock experimental from The Isness album onwards...It now seems Fsol have decided to stay with this 'prog-rock/experimental' again! Pity!

CD-Charts Position 167
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Distance

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by: Marconi Union

Release Date October 24, 2005
I suppose Marconi Union are probably best placed in the ambient / electronica category (immediate and obvious comparisons would be with artists such as Global Communication, Boards of Canada, Biosphere, etc), though that's slightly misleading as they also make very effective use of 'real' instruments. What makes them interesting for me is the wide range of influences they manage to incorporate, including minimalism, prog-rock and post-rock -- they weld their influences together intelligently and coherently, managing to make everything serve the general underlying theme of emotional disquiet that runs through the album.

The music has some of the atmospheric evocativeness of Biosphere, but with -- for my money -- more melodic interest. It seems more introverted ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 168
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Unitxt

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by: Alva Noto

Release Date July 07, 2008
I suppose Marconi Union are probably best placed in the ambient / electronica category (immediate and obvious comparisons would be with artists such as Global Communication, Boards of Canada, Biosphere, etc), though that's slightly misleading as they also make very effective use of 'real' instruments. What makes them interesting for me is the wide range of influences they manage to incorporate, including minimalism, prog-rock and post-rock -- they weld their influences together intelligently and coherently, managing to make everything serve the general underlying theme of emotional disquiet that runs through the album.

The music has some of the atmospheric evocativeness of Biosphere, but with -- for my money -- more melodic interest. It seems more introverted ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 169
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Sound Advice

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by: Shapeshifters

Release Date March 20, 2006
I brought this album purely of curiosity: I'd stopped buying single-artist albums by dance acts some time ago; generally because 90% of them were 'one hit wonders' ie the single was good but the rest of the album stank and you never heard from them again.

With the massive success of "Lola's Theme" and "Back to Basics" my curiosity was piqued but with both tracks being such massive tracks, they were played to death over the summers that each was released and so I was put off the album.

But it would appear that a late release of the album (is Lola's Theme really nearly 2 years old!!?) was an excellent strategy. Not only do both singles sound fresh again, but the rest of this album is pretty hot too.

We played it for the second time last night ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 170
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I Care Because You Do

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by: Aphex Twin

Release Date November 01, 1999
what an album. Having only really just got into Richard D James' stuff a month or so back I'm quickly building up a collection of his albums and this is so far the most well-rounded album I've bought by him.

It is much easier on the ears than some of his other releases, and I like it like that. It kicks off with 'Acrid Avid Jam Shred' a 7 minute 40 second masterpiece which is absolutely gorgeous, which goes into 'The Waxen Pith' another beautiful track, acid-type bass makes way for stringy synths. Next up is 'Wax The Nip', a faster, more aggressive track

'Icct Hedral' follows, a swooping, foreboding, slightly menacing track. 'Ventolin' is the only track I really dislike, the horrible high-pitched noise which stays with it all the way through is too much for ... Read More: