Cyber's Music Reviews

2009-06-13T16:09:00.000-07:00

Label : Theomatic
Catalog Number : THEOM 010
Release Date : 6 june 2009
Genre : Nu-Disko, Slow Dance

Joining forces with the Minsk-based whiz kid Maxim Samos, who makes his second appearance on Theomatic, An-2 delivers two mid-paced numbers that naturally blend the elements of funk, rock and disco. Sometime you may find yourself in a mood when you are not worried about past troubles and there is a calm confidence that from now on everything in the future will be just fine. And this is what the new Theomatic release from An-2 is about.

2009-06-13T16:03:00.000-07:00

Label: DFA
Catalog Number : dfa2212 Release Date : May 2009 Genre: House, Nu-Disko

Walter Jones has been releasing music over the past ten years or so, and yet over this duration he's only released a handful of singles. This latest release is sure to be a high profile affair, finding a home on the persistently excellent DFA imprint, and 'I'll Keep On Loving You' lays down a commanding piece of old fashioned electro-disco, particularly notable for its blurry, washed out vocals and stately downtempo synth-funk. Next, 'Living Without Your Love' weighs in with a bassline that's halfway between 'Another One Bites The Dust' and Daft Punk's 'Around The World' before sublime synths, twangin' guitar and vocal edits pile into the mix to round off a delightful piece of grade-A rose-tinted disco.
SUPER TIP !!!!

2009-06-13T16:00:00.000-07:00

2009-01-21T15:44:00.000-08:00

Oblio - Principle Of Discovery
Date of release: 15 december 2008
Label: Codek Switzerland
Genre: Deephouse / Ambient-techno
Tracklist:
A1 Epicureanism
B1 Principle Of Discovery
B2 Faculty Of Reincarnation
This EP just blew me away the first time I heard it....
Oblio aka In Flagranti drops a serious good peace of music on us.
The track A "Epicureanism" is a slow house track filled with dreamy synth pads, just a perfect melancholic balearic soundscape, very nice!
The B1 track is more in the same mood but with a bass-line
Ending with the beautiful track "Faculty Of Reincarnation" filled with top notch arpegios and spacious synth lines. Ambient-techno/electro at it's very best.
You might also want to check out the first EP Oblio put out on Codek "The Crux Of The Matter". More of the same greatness.. Very well recommended!!

2009-01-21T08:20:00.000-08:00

Windsurf - Coastlines
Date of release: 27 october 2008
Label: Internasjonal
Genre: Nu-Disko / Deephouse / Downtempo
Tracklist:
01 - moonlight sun
02 - light as daylight
03 - pocket check
04 - windsurf
05 - cracking the cube
06 - white soweto
07 - future warriors
08 - bird of paradise
09 - the big island
10 - crystal neon
This album must be one of my favourites from 2008. Blending the new disco sounds and beautiful mellow soundscapes with a synth-pop feeling.
Windsurf consists of Dan Judd (Sorcerer, check releases on the Tirk label) and Sam Grawe (Hatchback, check releases on the THISISNOTANEXIT and Lo Recordings labels).
Internasjonal is a sublabel of the Full Pupp label run by Prins Thomas and Stevie Kotey and will concentrate on releasing strictly non Norwegian artists as opposed to the Full Pupp artists (Dan and Sam are from San Fransico USA).
Check out this album, you will love it!!

2009-01-21T02:09:00.000-08:00

Various - Le Disco - Tele Music Remixed

Date of release: november 2008

Label: DJhistory.com

Genre: Disco / Nu-Disko

Tracklist:

01. tele music - life & fun (mudd edit)

02. tele music - disco free (faze action edit)

03. tele music - phantom rock (toby tobias mix)

04. tele music - cold coke (al kent edit)

05. tele music - baby's band (leozero edit)

06. tele music - mystery rock (vlad naywad edit)

07. tele music - music robot (unabombombers mix)

08. tele music - let's go brasilia (ray mang edit)

09. tele music - red heart (vlad naywad edit)

10. tele music - cold coke (diesel edit)

Outstanding remix album brought to you by DJhistory.com.

If you like re-edits this is sertainly one for you.

Some info's taken from the DJhistory site:

A whole album of never-heard original disco, lovingly retouched by the world’s finest remixers. In 1979 the cream of French and British session musicians gathered to record some of the most scorching disco music ever committed to vinyl. As a series of ‘Disco & Co’ albums on the Tele Music library label, this ended up as radio talk-show sound-beds and backing music for car chases on French cop shows. Le Sweeney, anyone? The few copies that slipped out were highly prized: today an original copy of the Arpadys LP goes for £300, if you can find one. As a service to disco, DJhistory has unearthed the original tapes and recruited an all-star cast of splicing fingers – the Unabombers, Ray Mang, the Idjut Boys, Leo Zero, Mudd, Al Kent, Faze Action, Mudd and Toby Tobias – to polish them up for today’s dancefloors. The results speak for themselves.

Essential !!

2009-01-21T01:36:00.000-08:00

8000below - The Breathe EP

Date of release : 21 november 2008

label: Drizzly Germany

Genre: Lounge

Very nice EP indeed.

My favourite tracks are Samba Town and Natural Super Woman.

Samba town is a laidback bossa tune witht great vocals, guitar and mellow rhodes.

Natural Super Woman is a great jazzy tune.

Some info's taken from the 8000below myspace:

8000BELOW was the brain child of Leeds based producer Bob Brazill. Working with a variety of talented singers and other musicians ,the aim was to produce an eclectic album of mixed styles with the emphesis on the chilled out and easy listening side of sound. Since signing a publishing deal with Universal Music ,production of the album has stepped up a gear and should hopefully be finished in the near future.

We will be looking out for the album !