Artist: Melanie De Biasio Album: Il Viaggio Label: [PIAS] Le Label - PIASLL202LP Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Europe Year: 2023 Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening, Ambient The Journey Il Viaggio means "The Journey" in Italian. As we enter into the closing part of 2023, it’s a time for contemplation and allowing the “dust to settle”. A fellow music traveller and mate GJ from...
Artist: Public Service Broadcasting Album: The Race For Space Year: 2015 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Ambient Trans Europe Expressions Having just come back from the Munich High-End Audio Show and some rapid continental rail journeys from Germany to the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK during which I spent some time using earpods to create an alternate soundtrack to the trip. Music...
Artist: Nils Frahm Title: Music For Animals VINYL 4LP Format: VINYL 4LP Barcode: 4050538819397 Year: 2022 Genre: Classical, Electronica, Ambient Style: Neo-Classical, Post-Modern SENSORY OVERLOAD Sydney Vivid Festival June 2022 highlighted Nils Frahm performing works from his then upcoming (now released) new album Music For Animals. A die-hard tight knit group of Nirvana Sound “music heads” all came together from Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong...
Label: Because Music – BEC5650737, Kitsuné Musique – KMA073 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Europe Released: 19 Jun 2020 Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul Style: Nu-Disco, Funk Everyone has a friend who’s really into music but is also pretty fussy & careful with their recommendations. You know what I’m talking about… loves music but has high standards and rarely gets...
Label: Goliath Enterprises Limited – CAVETHINGS008D Format: (10", EP, Limited Edition), 8 x File, MP3, 320 kbps Released: Jul 1, 2022 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Art Rock, Experimental, Spoken Word Ingenious…………………… It’s no secret I like the works of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. I even play Blixa Bargeld and Einsturzende Neubaten for those who can handle the divergence from “normal”...
Label: XO – 00602445021154, Republic Records – 00602445021154 Format: CD, Album, Stereo Country: Europe Released: 28 Jan 2022 Genre: Pop, Electronic, Funk / Soul Style: Contemporary R&B, Spoken Word, Synthwave, New Wave, Disco Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known professionally as ‘the Weeknd’, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer who is among the world's best-selling music artists. With over 75 million records sold,...
Label: Warp Records - WARPLP260 Format: Vinyl (2xLP, Album) Country: Europe Released: 2015 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Indie Rock, Tech House Freedom – How’s that working for ya! ‘!!!’, also known as ‘Chk Chk Chk’, is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah...
Label: Erased Tapes Records – ERATP106LP Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Europe Released: 2018 Genre: Electronic Style: Modern Classical, Abstract Berlin Calling As a Krautrock fan and of German heritage I can make fun of ze Germans a little. Yes, I am for a good time having, no? Whilst my English sense of humour has been heavily influenced by the Goon...
Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Progressive House, House, Downtempo, Tech House Year: 2011 Where did those old Krautrockers end up? There you are at a Neil Young or a David Bowie Concert and the old original fans rock up. The Bowie fans are some of the best as they bring out the 1972 full Ziggy with platform soles....
Genre: Electronic, Reggae, Pop Style: Dance-pop, House, Dancehall, Dub Released: 2020 Shove it brother, just keep walking! Some of you might recall that to become an overnight success it took 20 plus years of sweat and toil to reach your goal. A close friend of mine lives in a part of the world where the roads are...
Label: Ghosteen Ltd – BS016LP, Ghosteen Ltd – 5056167114796 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Released: 08 Nov 2019 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient Heartbreak Hotel Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released on 4 October 2019 and is a double album— the final part of a trilogy of albums...
Label: Capitol Records – 00602508363429, Polydor – 00602508363429 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Orange Country: Europe Released: 2020 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Indie Rock, Folk, House Ed O’Brien has often been called the ‘bedrock’ of Radiohead’s stage presence. While Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood attract more attention, Ed’s rhythm guitar artistry, atmospheric synth and soulful vocals give the band its grounding,...
Label: Narada World – 72438-49188-2-8 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2000 Genre: Electronic, Folk, World Style: Tribal, Persian Classical, Folk Azam Ali was born in Iran, but when she was four her family moved to India, where she grew up and seemingly absorbed the rich culture that surrounded her. She sings in many languages but also quite often sings in...
Label: Infectious Music – INFECT488LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g Country: Europe Released: 15 Feb 2019 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country Style: Beatdown, Indie Pop, Indie Rock “After the flood” In ancient lore the flood came and swept away the inhabitants of the known earth and forced a prescient individual to go into self-imposed lockdown for 40 days and 40...
Label: Republic Records – B001813501 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 12 Mar 2013 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Downtempo "Who is Rhye. Edward Bernays." Copy the characters between the parentheses into your word processor and convert it to Webdings typeface. Now you have the question that was printed on Twenty-four limited edition posters especially for a Boston show and engraved with a...
Label: Island 842 794 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: USA Released: 1990 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop Style: Synth-pop, Ballad, Classic Rock “Don’t judge a book by the cover – even it’s in Broken English” “Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women - They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane”. So sang the Wilburn Brothers on The Grand Ole Opry in 1940’s. They might have had...
Label: Mercury – 6437 139 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Australasia Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: New Wave, Synth-pop “The Wiggles meets Devo” Lads from Dubbo NSW the Reels were undeniably one Australia’s great live acts. One wag likened them to the Wiggles meets Devo but they had a similar double edge to lyrics with great pop melodies. The genesis of The...
Label: Bedroom Suck Records – BSR - 082 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Australia Released: 2018 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Experimental Midday Moon is a gorgeous compilation of Ambient and Experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. Most tracks are taken from micro-labels, private pressings and personal archives, and would be next to impossible...
Label: Thrill Jockey – THRILL 050 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1998 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Post Rock Tortoise’s mostly instrumental music defies categorisation. The band incorporates styles of Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica, and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk. This sets them apart from most indie rock bands today. TNT, the band’s...
Label: Harvest – MLP-15007, Venice In Peril Records – MLP-15007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mini-Album, Jacksonville Press Country: US Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Synth-pop, New Wave “An original thinker” Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, entrepreneur and teacher. He came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including...
Label: Innovative Communication – KS 80.021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Germany Released: 1982 Genre: Electronic Style: Berlin-School “Ich bin ein Berliner” und “Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen” So said John F. Kennedy on June 26, 1963 at the critical time in West Berlin during the Cold War. Kids born in this era in Berlin must have felt pressures of rebuilding a...
Label: Beggars Banquet - BEGA 10 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1979 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: New Wave, Synth-pop “Numanoids never die they just get patched up with new firmware” Anyone who has ever wondered where the junction of the old paper-based world and the new paradigm of computer controlled life occurred it was most likely 1979. An Englishman from Essex...
Label: Virgin, V2180 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop Style: New Wave, Synth-pop “Amazing how they named a whole country after this band” Well that’s a bit tongue-in-cheek and no offense meant to our friends in Japan. But this band certainly had some interesting moments in the early new romantic scene in 80’s UK. Certainly polarising and caused...
Label: Virgin - 2194 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: New Wave, Synth-pop What is post punk? Is it a system? Is it romance? John Foxx created a sonic signature which drove a whole bunch of musicians to create new works of art in the 1980’s. You may recall the 80’s band Ultravox with their big hit...
Label: Hyperdub – HDBLP036 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: UK Released: 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: UK Garage, Future Jazz, Ambient, Experimental Berlin based Laurel Halo is a name I’d been familiar with but had always considered her work too left-field or impenetrable for me. I found her earlier work to be lacking focus, electronic bleeps and bloops for the sake of...
Label: Creation Records – crelp 168, Creation Records – CRELP 168 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1995 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Dream Pop, Shoegaze, Ambient, Post Rock Dreaming of Anti-Showmanship The 1960’s and 1970’s rock era was full of “rock gods”. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin would perhaps be familiar to a lot of us. The Cult’s Ian...
Label: Kling Klang – 1C 064-46 311, EMI Electrola – 1C 064-46 311 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Germany Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Electro, Synth Pop Press the special key and it plays a little melody 1981 Swanston Street down a dingy arcade near Missing Link Records on Little Flinders St was Pipe Records and the enigmatic Danny “You Like...
Label: XL Recordings – XLLP 324 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, 180g Country: Europe Released: Original 2007, Reissue 2016 Genre: Rock, Electronic Style: Alternative Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental OK, let me just be up front with you. I am a Radiohead fan and my friends stopped mentioning them in conversation many years ago because apparently I gave them...
