Category Archives: pop

December 28, 2008 · 5:17 am

El Zoológico – The Jungle & The Aquarium

El Zoológico – The Jungle & The Aquarium (by-nc-sa)

El Zoológico - The Jungle & The Aquarium

I first heard about this album through hiddenplacemusic, via twitter. It is a nifty little double album of poptronica. Since I’ve been listening it for a bunch of months, I can enumerate my favorite songs by now. Monkey is an uptempo glitch dancing tune, quick, but intense. The Brother Bear tells up another story, leading your mind elsewhere with warm textures and whispering vocals. And finally, the Jellyfish, another uptempo beat with a cool chorus.

El Zoológico – The Jungle [pj002a]

Camina (2:21)
Hippo (2:36)
Mr. Frog (2:24)
Snake(3:07)
Monkey (1:47)
Brother Bear (4:05)

El Zoológico – The Aquarium [pj002b]

Nada (1:40)
Octopus (2:19)
Penguin and Sealion (2:00)
Seahorse and Starfish (3:48)
Jellyfish (3:09)
Whale (2:33)

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Tagged as by-nc-sa, petite&jolie, Puerto Rico

August 25, 2008 · 4:01 am

Billie the vision and the dancers

Billie the vision & the dancers

mp3 download page

Billie the vision and the dancers is band about Pablo, Lilly and Jessica. About the Billies and on-going stories. They sing with ghosts, witches, nightmares and friends. Dancing under Scandinavian melodies.

I must confess, their songs have been the soundtrack of my last weeks. Delicious compositions. If you over-listen they could just sound as another cute-pop band, but there is so much more to enjoy there.

Many artists chop their stories to fit the songs. Not them. Their music flows within the story, giving it the color and the mood. It looks like that for the Billies these are more than songs, they are stories, after all. For being stories, the songs have some unusual metrics and rhymes which I liked very much.

Impeccable instrumental inserts, backing vocals and extremely beautiful passages complement the atmosphere. It is also an enjoyable experience to discover citations within the songs and interpret lyrics’ strong ideas.

So, we meet at the Nobel Square?

There are many songs, so I just selected a few I like to put here:

I’m on the Road (Where the Ocean Meets My Hand)
My Love (Where the Ocean Meets My Hand)
A Man From Argentina (The World According To Pablo)
Ask For More (I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They’re Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle)
I Belong To You (I Used to Wander These Streets)
Want to cannot Help but Dance (I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They’re Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle)
Jackass (I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They’re Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle)

Links

Official Website – www.billiethevision.com
MySpace – www.myspace.com/billiethevisionandthedancers
Last.fm – here and here
YouTube – www.youtube.com/user/btvatd

ps: I’m not sure, it just came into my mind, I think there is something on them that reminds me of the Crash Test Dummies.

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Filed under alternative, easy, pop

Tagged as self hosted, Sweden

November 27, 2007 · 8:51 pm

STEEP – Your Reality

STEEP – Your Reality
(by-sa)

bit torrent and eMule | ogg | mp3

Recently I organized my music collection and created some playlists to help me out. The consequence was the resurrection of many albums that got lost with time. An example was LEGO, from last post. Your reality is another one. A very sharp rock album, nice energy and textures! STEEP‘s track Let me go was featured in netBloc 5, probably where I first heard of them!

ps: Some biology slowed me down here, but everything should be back to normal in a few days.

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October 7, 2007 · 10:00 am

pornophonique – 8-bit lagerfeuer

pornophonique – 8-bit lagerfeuer
(by-nc-nd)

bit torrent | ed2k | ogg | mp3

Very creative lo-fi rock band! Nice melodies and video game tunes, for those into it. There is a summary here:

eine gitarre.
ein gameboy.
ein c64.
zwei typen. | two guys
space invaders samples.
lagerfeuergeschrabbel. | something like relaxing in a campfire
gameboygedudel. | spending time with gameboy
auch gesang mit dabei. | sing-along
lowtech.
lo-fi.
micro.
porn.

They have a nice website with videos, music and a lot of stuff to buy (including the sad robot gear). Of course you can’t miss the opportunity to see them live!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiM4SX9guk]

(German tips by Fran)

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Tagged as by-nc-nd, Germany, Jamendo

June 12, 2007 · 3:25 am