giovedì 29 dicembre 2011

This week in my music player #6

This post should have been ready time ago, but I was busy. Or maybe I was just bored of this blog. I am listening to many scattered things right now, but I am not focusing on something particular. It is likely for the more urgent things to do, or for the bad mood. However, there's something curious I want to write about. I listen very few electronic, and what I define electronic is perhaps not even called like this, but recently I am stuck with two songs I casually heard. This is not-rock-at-all, but I can't help replaying and replaying these two things. The first is Right in, from Skrillex, the new promise of techno (I don't know if it's techno, but let's call it like this since I am ignorant). The second is a piece of dubstep (I just discovered a new category of music) called Skyward II di Xilent. There is something strange in these two songs attracting my attention, but I can't figure out what it is.

giovedì 8 dicembre 2011

This week in music player #05

Uff! More than one month without the weekly post. I have been quite busy with this, this and this, but now I am back with a bag full of interesting things. When I travel I usually change temporally the music in the player, especially because I am interested in local sounds. I do not have an album, but a collection of interesting samples from the post-rock world.
The first is an EP called 'The Disclosure' released in 2010 from the German Colaris, which you can listen here. Genuine and very well done post-rock with a touch of cool visual art. I couldn't resist and I already ordered CD+T-shirt+sticker because it's awesome, has a very good price and I want to support the good music.
The Austrian Our Ceasing Voice play a very intense and introspective music, and they have already some releases. I am currently listening the 2011 album 'When the Headline Hit Home', which also has interesting cover art.
I also noticed numerous bands from the interesting Russian post-rock community. I recommen Cosmonaut Day, but if you want to know more about this check this website.
Since I was in London (for the first time ever!), I found this guy called Matt Stevens (supposedly from London) which plays the guitar and all the rest in a one-man-band. I really enjoyed relaxing in the tube with this music. 'Relic' is the name of his recent release.

There is much more, and I am in exploration mode. More will come.


[Natural History Museum - London]