The Antlers - Burst Away

Genre: Indie Rock

Released: May 2011

Label: Frenchkiss Records

01. I Don't Want Love - 3:19

02. French Exit - 4:03

03. Parentheses - 3:26

04. No Widows - 5:17

05. Rolled Together - 4:37

06. Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out - 3:23

07. Tiptoe - 2:21

08. Hounds - 5:17

09. Corsicana - 3:39

10. Putting the Dog to Sleep - 5:47

The fourth and much anticipated album from the brooklyn-based indie band.

With their last album talking about the realationship of an employee in a hospice to a terminally ill patient,

we can safely argue that this album is much more brighter...

Like every good album it takes more than one or two listens to really appreciate it,

but eventully you fall in love !!

Great music, groovy at times, specialy on the first tracks with the amazing vocals from Peter Silberman...

The opener, "I Don't Want Love" is probably the best one for me in this album.

It talks about being in a sex-based realationship and leaving the love out.

Along with the mellow piece No Widows, the first single from the album Every Night My Teath Are Falling Out

and the closing ballad Putting The Dog To Sleep, This album is one of the best i've heard this year !!

Overall a wonderful album! no main concept but it does the job for me... Enjoy!

Classic Goa Tunes For A Rainy Day

Running in the rain while listening to Goa classics... Somehow, rare are the natural things that make me feel the same rush i felt today...

This music is way beyond my understanding. Today i felt like it is strumming the strings of my soul. It is hard to sit down and write how i felt so i'm not gonna try too hard.

Here are 3 tracks that made my running session today unforgettable:

VA - Fashion

Genre: Progressive Trance

Released: September 2010

Label: Blue Tunes Records

1. Haldolium - Salt (Remake 2010) (8:03)

2. Ski Fi - Evolution (6:41)

3. Symphonix - Everything You Want (7:22)

4. Midimal - Age Of History (Phaxe Remix) (7:22)

5. Suntree - Carrying The World (10:50)

6. Galactika - Human Beings (Ritmo Remix) (9:16)

7. Tom Hill, Jochem Peterson - Wild Silence (Neelix Remix) (7:27)

8. Xibalba - The Path (6:45)

9. Osher Feat Venes - Tell Me (8:35)

10. Lish - Running Away (8:49)

Fashion is the newest compilation from Blue tunes records. One of the leading labels in the progressive sound scene.

The truth should be told, a lot of progressive tunes come out lately, and everything sounds the same. Repetitive and not innovating. Fashion is special in my opinion because it leaves a good taste. It has a great mix of artists and different styles, and is very unique. Definitely a compilation worth having!

The album starts off with a remake of an old Haldolium track from 2004. A great opener, solid but yet gentle!

Next is a track by Ski-Fi, I love the baseline in here. We are getting higher.. A great construction to this track, massive!

3rd track of this album is by the great duo Symphonix. I always love to hear new music from these guys and i never get disappointed. Great progressive track with a spacey touch. Not to miss...

We are getting closer to the middle of the compilation and it is time for the first bomb. The edit for Age of History by Phase is an example of how a remix should be done. The result here is a great progressive track with techno influences and a pinch of psychedelic. One of the highlights of this album.

Next we have a track by Suntree, a talented artist from Israel, known for his massive baselines. No surprises here, fat bass, dreamy pads and a nice vocal on top of it all.

Already half pass the album and here comes another awesome track. Ritmo is similar in style to Suntree, and so it is a perfect spot on the album for this track. This remix for Human Beings is a top-notch production and is a dance-floor killer!! Watch out from this one...

The 7th track in this album is where the BPM drops down, and we are introduced to more technoish sound. Neelix remix to Tom Hill & Jochem Peterson gives us a very funky and disco oriented track. Happy happy joy joy.

Next we have this BOMB from Xibalba called The Path. Motherfucking Big Fat Bass... it's all i have to say about this one... :)

Moving on and one track before the closer we encounter the track Try Me. The most beautiful piece in this album. The development in this track is perfect. Slowly but surly... and when you reach the 6st minute of this track it all make sense... just beautiful..

The last but not least is a track by the great Israeli duo Lish. This track takes us down down to the minimal sound. Good atmosphere and like the name of this track (Running Away) it is perfect for running. Try it !

Fashion is by far one of the better compilations that came out this year. It is colorful, rich and most important, psychedelic.. Highly recommended!!

The Black Keys - Tighten Up (Video)

Tighten Up is the first single to come out from The Black Keys sixth album, Brothers.

Produced by Danger Mouse, this is a great Garage-Rock piece with a touch of Blues.

The song talks about love, (how surprising..) but it is groovy and the lyrics are not cheesy, so it's a winner !

The video clip made for this clip can be described with a simple expression. Like Father, Like Son.

The video can also imply how the passion for love is within us from the very beginning and it doesn't really change that much...

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Revenge (Lyrics)

Pain

I guess it's a matter of sensation

But somehow you have a way of avoiding it all

In my mind

I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart

I just didn't understand

The ricochet is the second part

'Cause you can't hide what you intend

It glows in the dark

Once you've sought

The path of revenge

There's no way to stop

And the more I try to hurt you

The more it hurts me

Strange

It seems like a character mutation

Though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down

I can't make myself

To destroy upon command

Somehow forgiveness lets the evil make the laws

No you can't hide what you intend

It glows in the dark

Once we've become the thing we dread

There's no way to stop

And the more I try to hurt you

The more it backfires

The more that it backfires

The more that it backfires

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Revenge is the first song in the project called Dark Night Of The Soul, by Danger Mouse , Sparklehorse and David Lynch.

The melancholy vocals in the song belongs to Wayne Coyne, The Flaming Lips' lead vocalist.

The sad side of the story is the recent suicide of Mark Linkous, known as Sparklehorse.

Linkous who has suffered from depression wrote this album together with Danger Mouse in 2009. The same year the album was supposed to release but due to legal dispute with EMI, the album only came out this summer. 4 month after Linkous killed himself.

Having that in mind, the meaning of the lyrics here gets a whole new dimension to me.

The straightforward approach will lead us to think that the song is about a guy that losses his girlfriend to someone else, and he wants to hurt her in revenge. But the more he tries, he understand that it's hard to hurt someone you still care for, and he himself gets hurt.

The second way for me to look at this is from Mark Linkous' eyes. The story here is actually about the battle he had against the world, or the people in the world. He felt pain and he wanted to strike back, but he couldn't. He let the evil win and hurt himself instead.

I can't get this song out of my head lately, it makes me shiver. The best lines in this song for me are: "No you can't hide what you intend// It glows in the dark" I think this is so true. Not just relating to the song but in general. In the night time the realness comes out, the masks are off. Our intentions are clear, for good and for bad.

Here is the song for you to listen and judge:

Hebrew Translation of the lyrics:

כאב

אני מניח שזה עניין של הרגשה

אבל איכשהוא יש לך דרך להתחמק ממנו לחלוטין

בדמיוני

יריתי ודקרתי אותך דרך ליבך

פשוט לא הבנתי

שהריקושט מגיע אחר כך

כי אי אפשר להסתיר את הכוונות שלך

הן זוהרות בחושך

ברגע שחיפשת את הדרך לנקמה

אין דרך להפסיק

וככל שאני מנסה להכאיב לך

יותר כואב לי

מוזר

נדמה שזו אישיות מוטציונית

למרות שיש לי את כל הכלים למוטט אתכם מזדיינים

אני לא מצליח להביא את עצמי למצב

שאני יכול להשמיד לפי פקודה

איכשהוא סלחנות נותנת לרשע לקבוע את החוקים

לא אתה לא יכול להסתיר את הכוונות שלך

הן זוהרות בחושך

ברגע שאתה נהיה הדבר שממנו אנחנו מפחדים

אין דרך להפסיק

וככל שאני מנסה להכאיב לך

זה יותר חוזר אליי

זה יותר חוזר אליי

זה יותר חוזר אליי

R.I.P

Mark Linkous

Loud - You Are Everything

Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher known for being one of the greatest spiritual leaders of our times. Jiddu believed in the need for what he called a "transformation of the mind". He argued that in order to make our world a better place to be, the change must occur in us as individuals. By changing the way we think, our perception. The following speech can help you understand his ideas.

You can listen to it here:

"What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. *Not accept things as they are* - but to understand it, to go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out. A way of living differently. But that depends on you and not somebody else. Because in this there is no teacher, no pupil. There's no leader, there is no guru, there's no master, no savior. You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is."

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Loud, an Israeli electronic duo, used this speech in one of their tracks in an excellent way.

The resulting track is one of the most powerful tracks i know. Massive bass, psychedelic atmosphere and full of emotion.

Here it is, You Are Everything, from Loud's 3rd album. Free From Conceptual Thoughts:

!The change begins in you and me!

Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

Genre: Gypsy Punk

Released: July 2007

Label: Side One Dummy

1. Gogol Bordello - Ultimate (3:29)
2. Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King (3:58)
3. Gogol Bordello - Zina-Marina (4:19)
4. Gogol Bordello - Supertheory Of Supereverything (2:55)
5. Gogol Bordello - Harem In Tuscany (Taranta) (3:33)
6. Gogol Bordello - Dub The Frequencies Of Love (6:15)
7. Gogol Bordello - My Strange Uncles From Abroad (5:19)
8. Gogol Bordello - Tribal Connection (5:05)
9. Gogol Bordello - Forces Of Victory (5:23)
10. Gogol Bordello - Alcohol (4:54)
11. Gogol Bordello - Suddenly...(I Miss Carpaty) (5:36)
12. Gogol Bordello - Your Country (4:15)
13. Gogol Bordello - American Wedding (3:37)
14. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (6:44)

Super Taranta! is Gogogl Bordello's fourth album who came out 3 years ago.

I wouldn't say that this is their best album but if you are new to the band then it's the best to start with. The album highlights everything that is so fucking good about GB. Don't be turned-off by the heavy Russian accent. It is all part of the show.

Gogol Bordello was Formed in the Lower East Side in NYC in 1999. Members of the band are coming from more than 10 different countries! including Ukraine, Israel, Ecuador, Romania and Ethiopia. The band is also known for using interesting live instruments such as violin, accordion, saxophone, cymbals and other percussions. Those are some of the reasons for the unique sound of this band. GB is something else in the market. At start you may think it's too crazy. But if you will give it a chance, you will fall in love with the rich sound and the witty lyrics.

And once you'll see the band preform a live show, there is no way back! The most energetic show you'll ever go to. Guaranteed!

Back to the album. Super Taranta! features 14 songs including some of the best ever came out from this band. The very first lines in this album summarize it all... "If we are here not to do, what you and i want to do, and go forever crazy with it, why the hell we are even here?!"

Second song in the album is one of the greatest songs of all times, Wonderlust king. The seek for knowledge and inspiration all over the world. The great video is here for you to enjoy:

Later in the album we can listen to the supertheory of supereverything and understand why there is a rumor that the lord has no sense of humor. Find out why American weddings sucks and hear a rare ballad for out beloved friend, Alcohol.

In the 7th track of this album, Eugene Hütz, the band's front man, sings about his strange uncles from abroad. In an interview he once said that when he was younger in Ukraine, he was exposed to art from the west and he always felt that all of these artist are like his uncles that he just never met before.

As mentioned above, GB's live shows are amazing, the vibes in the air are hard to explain in words. To give you a taste of it here is a video of the band performs the first song from this album, Ultimate:

Super Taranta! is a work of art and is extra recommended for anyone who loves good music and has an open mind. Give it a try!

brothers of the tribal connection, let's turn frustration into inspiration!!!