La Planete sauvage (Fantastic Planet)

"La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or "Oms"have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them...But will the deomizing destroy them?"

Groundbreaking animated movie that is easily one of the best in the medium.

Format: x264 / Matroska / Standard Def / DVD / Masters of Cinema - 2006

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Walking Dead

"The Walking Dead is centered on Rick Grimes, a small-town police officer from Cynthiana, Kentucky, his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. As the series progresses, the characters become more developed, and their personalities shift under the stress of a zombie apocalypse. Fighting growing despair — and sometimes each other — the group searches for a secure location which they can finally call home."

A good comic for those new to the comic world. Others will follow suit.

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Charles-Valentin Alkan - Piano Music Volume I - 12 Etudes, Op. 35

"Charles-Valentin Alkan is one of the 19th century's greatest composers for piano. Busoni placed him next to Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. Sorabji described Alkan's music as having Beethovenian quality with Berliozian aesthetics. On his deathbed, Chopin requested his unfinished and unpublished drafts to be given to Alkan. This is a composer who has been respected by the giants of pianism and yet completely relegated to obscurity by the music cognoscenti and the public."

"Whether you're completely new to Alkan (as I was when I first bought this CD) or absolutely familiar with these Etudes, this Naxos release is a treasure trove of 19th century piano music."

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Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Le Mystere des voix Bulgares

"Here is music that focuses on the strangely beautiful timbres of the Bulgarian female voice, a mysteriously compelling instrument. Thanks to recordings, Bulgarian folk music has gained wide appeal. Its lively dances in asymmetric meters constitute the core of many ethnic folk dance groups.

The father of the Bulgarian concert folk music tradition was Philip Koutev, who died in 1982 at the age of 79. He founded the State Ensemble for Folk Music and Dance and composed hundreds of works for it based on song and dance traditions from all regions of his country. He is the arranger-composer of the justifiably famous Polegnala e Todora, Polegnala e Pschenitza, and Messetschinko lio Greïlivko. Of several other composers represented on this recording, the most noteworthy is Krasimir Kyurkchiyski (b. 1936), who has conducted the Television Folk Ensemble as well as writing operas, symphonies, and chamber music. His arrangements are clearly the most adventurous, often leaving us breathless with clever modal shifts or harmonic changes. He has managed to inject magic where magic already dwells."

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Les Joyaux De La Princesse - Aux Petits Enfants De France

"Les Joyaux De La Princesse is the working moniker of one Erik Konofal, who has recorded across several different genres over time, though generally circling around the industrial/noise/dark ambient realm. Les Joyaux De La Princesse has also collaborated with several key players in the scene, including the likes of Death in June, Muslimgauze, and Blood Axis."

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Sly Mongoose - Tip of The Tongue State

"First, there was a rhythm. Beyond the delay rise ska / reggae / heavy bass line and a foundation backed by the dub, rock and roll like a feast for the eyes of eight New Orleans second line beat and full of festivals, disco and house / techno pierce kick. Even until the morning, Afro Beat forge ahead through the jungle. Strip the context of the music take them all groove, mix it thoroughly." You have Sly Mongoose.

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Bo Ningen - Koroshitai Kimochi

"The debut, four-track, 10in vinyl release from the Japanese quartet Bo Ningen sprays action-painted psychedelic guitar splatter over choppy post-punk riffs, with nods to the improvisatory ethos that always nibbles at the fringes of all the best Japa-noise music. Impossible speed meets unbelievable precision. Vast slabs of sound thread delicate pathways. The third track, Atami, a seven-minute progressive-rock-flavoured ballad with shades of the Mars Volta and Smashing Pumpkins, laments the titular seaside resort, once popular, but now largely deserted, and pitches towards a more melodic, contemplative middle ground without sacrificing Bo Ningen’s dignity."

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Stephen O'Malley - Salt

Not a big fan of this release since it's pretty much just one tone of "drone". I'm sure someone gets a kick out of this though. Length is about an hour.

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The Servant-How To Destroy A Relationship

Alternative band from England. Really good.

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Breathe Owl Breathe - Canadian Shield

Awesome folk band. The strings are just amazing in very song. I love Landmark.

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Муха - Альбом для рисования

Alternative rock, mostly in russian.

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Asobi Seksu-Citrus

http://www.mediafire.com/?rgkyykdmyzf

Awesome album by an awesome shoegaze band!

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

Awesome indie pop.

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Pussygutt - She Hid Behind Her Veil

46 minute track of drone metal.

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Serena Maneesh - No. 2: Abyss in B Minor

Fucking shit, I Just Want To See Your Face track is awesome. This is some absolute-holy-shit-great shoegaze with some fuzz and dual ethereal, reverb vocals thrown in for good measure. And if I read correctly from some source, this was recorded in a cave. So, yeah, get this.

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Eyehategod

Eyehategod  is an American sludge band from New Orleans, Louisiana who are known for their dark, sludgy riffs combined with equally dark lyrics. Like many sludge metal bands, Eyehategod draw on both stoner rock / doom metal influences as well as hardcore punk.

Must have for avid fans of the genre

Take As Needed For Pain

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Ajilvsga - Medicine Bull

Some great fuzzy, somewhat heavy-ish drone done by Brad Rose and Nathan Young.

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Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier - Fabrication

One of the most minimalist piece of music you will ever hear. First track is 51 minutes and all(11) the other tracks add up to 47 minutes. Be prepared.

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The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society - The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society in Hell

Formed by studnets at Cambridge University, Cambridge Free Improvisation Society plays some pretty 'dark' improv music where there's nearly no silence, the occasional shriek or two, multiple instruments blaring out all at once, and screeches of said instruments. Some nicely played improv music.

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Avram Fefer - Ritual

"Melodic, energetic, soulful, spiritual. Hesitating between bop and free jazz, this is a nice album, consisting of lengthy and focused improvisations by this great trio led by saxophonist Avram Fefer. The bass is in the masterful hands of Eric Revis, known from the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Chad Taylor plays the drums, known from the Chicago Underground Trio to give for both just one reference. Despite the limitations of the trio, all three manage to make this a captivating performance. "Shepp In Wolves' Clothing" is a tribute to Archie Shepp with whom Fefer performed, but starts of like a Vandermark composition, uptempo and highly rhythmic, and Fefer even blows the theme on two horns simultaneously after a while. With a few exceptions, Fefer's sax is almost permanently on the foreground, much like David S. Ware, filling all possible space with notes, and only pausing to let his band-mates take a solo. This absence of silence to a large extent determines the dynamics of the music, even in slower pieces such as "Feb. 13th", and Fefer's rhythmic lyricism is a pleasure to hear. The band does not take too many musical risks, but listen carefully how all three manage to maintain a strong focus on each piece, despite the apparent freedom. The quality of the music and of the performance is sufficiently high to make this a very enjoyable album." - Freejazz

Good jazz is good. Do not expect anything 'smooth' or laid back. This is loud, energetic, and engaging.

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I.U.D. - The Proper Sex

Composed of Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance and Sadie Laska from Growing and which this project sounds very little of either bands aforementioned. Pitchfork says it sucks, I say fuck them. No tags since I can't really categorize them, so I won't. Mini-review taken from cduniverse for a description of it.

"Composed of Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Boutgatsos and Growing's Sadie Laska, I.U.D. produces a large, almost cataclysmic sound despite having just two members. Their debut LP, THE PROPER SEX, deviates from traditional song structures, creating instead a series of jarring, abrasive, vaguely industrial soundscapes punctuated by piercing female vocals and relentless drum loops. The explicit subject matter is also augmented by porn samples buried deep within the artfully arranged sonic mess."

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ATelecine - aVigillant Carpark

Did you know that Sasha Grey(yeah, the porn star) has a Industrial project? It's short and typical, nothing note-taking, but worth a least one listen just for the novelty of it. I mean, why not? it is Sasha Grey.


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The Goslings - Occasion

The greatest drone/noise/whacawhacawhaca female fronted band you'll have the pleasure of hearing. Think of Menace Ruine's The Die is Cast, but with more fuzz and the female vocals being drowned out.

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Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair

Pitchfork says it's good and it is.

V2 included with two bonus tracks.

Rinoa - An Age Among Them

V2> V0 and Flac. Shit takes too long to upload.



I don't care if Post-metal is not a real genre, Imma use it. :p

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Grim and Frosty

Well, I got fucking lazy and I'm just gonna post up the source in which I got most of these krieg albums.

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But below are the albums I think that stood out quite a bit:

Cult of Daath - Good ol' headbanging.
Wraiths - Crashing wall of Noise/BM.
Thee Kvlt Ov (((Øurøbørøs - More great headbanging shit.
Munn - Crazy, demented BM.
Witch Metal - Even more headbanging.

Some not on those blogs:

Elu of the Nine - Really soul crushing doom.
Fell Voices - BM with some long lengths of instrumental playing for the most part and sparse vocals.
Sadness Saturn - Depressive BM with some ambiance thrown in.

Check out the blogs and that is all.

Wire - Pink Flag (1977)

Genre: punk rock, post-punk, experimental rock
Year: 1977
Bitrate: 256 kbps (mp3)

21 short post-punk songs; essential listening for this kind of music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qozzm20dw2z

Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories (Aki Takahashi)

Sorry, I haven't been able to upload those super duper duper kvlt underground(?) records yet. It takes a god damn while to upload this stuff. Yeah...and they're not crazy underground at all really. : D

Now this is quite minimalistic. There are times when you can barely hear the piano being played and it continues to be played as such for a good amount of the time. Not only that, but this is one long track. 60 minutes and 17 seconds to be exact.

Quiet playing of the piano that is amazingly soothing, but intriguing. This is not recommended to those who are new to Feldman though.

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Morton Feldman - For John Cage (Yasushi Toyoshima & Aki Takahashi)

Definitely some of his more accessible works though I'm not sure if that's saying much. The minimalism of this work isn't as prominent of his work so there isn't long periods of incredibly quiet strumming of instruments. Yasushi Toyoshima & Aki Takahashi play their parts, violin and piano, respectively, wonderfully to give off this rather foreboding atmosphere that's just delicious to take in.

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Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat of the Woods

One long 40 minute track full of dark ambiance. I kinda want to say that the atmosphere of BMT is similar to that of Arktau Eos, but doing so would both bands injustice. Solid ambiance, nothing too spectacular.


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L'acephale - Malefeasance

Clocking in just a little below the 80 minute mark, this is an album on how to do Black Metal right. In a genre where many Darkthrone/Burzum clones still continue to stagnate the genre--L'acephale is a breath of fresh air. This is how you experiment with Black Metal; none of the half-assed "post-" shit going on here. Granted, there actually isn't much traditional Black Metal playing going on here, and in fact it probably really isn't a Black Metal album, but it has the atmosphere that absolutely drips Black Metal albeit different from your standard one.

So, what does it sound like? Besides the usage of wonderfully used orchestral samples, there are textures of noise stacked upon the dark ambiance beneath it, and on other tracks more samples of worldly instruments. Simply put, its aura engulfs you in its shroud of utter dark brilliance.

Get this. Sorry, 320

Also, expect some more kvlt, grimmy, frosty, and trvth bands coming up soon. (Also, expect the quality to be in crappy bitrates. Maybe. Shit's still good though.)

Minuala

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http://www.mediafire.com/?3zkjddmwi2o

Nechochwen- Azimuths to the Otherworld

Really great folk metal where the folk is actually good and so is the metal. No cheese in this either.

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Have A Nice Life - Time of Land

new HANL

http://www.mediafire.com/?mdco2w2zhod

Insect Warfare - World Extermination

Relentless, chaotic grindcore

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Iskra

Crusty black metal from Canada

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Cold Cave - Love Comes Close

Have some sheeny coldwave tunes

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New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (2008 remaster)

Genre: synthpop, post-punk, new wave
Year: 1983

An essential synthpop album for anyone wanting to get into the genre. This is New Order's second album after the demise of Joy Division in 1980, marking the beginning of their transformation from gloomy post-punk to danceable electronic music that would define the 1980s.

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Jonsi - Go

"Jónsi has spent more than a decade writing epic compositions with Sigur Rós, creating some of the finest, most acclaimed album of the last ten years. The choice to make an album of solo recordings came together as a solution to a backlog of songs Jónsi had written that didn't seem to fit within the Sigur Rós context. Go is a different beast entirely. Ecstatic, dramatic and alive, it features Jónsi's signature vocals throughout, with the majority of the songs sung in English.

Go is also one of the most joyous collections of songs you're ever likely to hear. It's an album that sounds like an artist entirely out on his own, doing exactly as he pleases, and from the creator of some of the last decade's most inventive, evocative music, we would expect nothing less."

Flac, bitches.

Way of the Cross - Mind of the Dolphin

"Ghostly tribal spookiness & subtle psychedelia. Dave Nuss of No Neck Blues Band hooks up with some Skaters and Kuupuu crew plus some Embryo and Uton/Keijo folks. SIDE A: Has that international vibe, shaman wailings and ritual percussion & chimes with some psychedelic guitar noodlings. It moves into a Master Musicians of Bukkake and Sun City Girl territory with vocals that are sometimes reminiscent of Evan Johns or Wolfman Jack and occasionally Huun Huur Tu. SIDE B: Is really odd. It starts creepy enough but when that guttural raspy voice starts sounding like some impish critter as the wraith howling, female moans, mouth noises, loony lip fingering and nonsensical tongues weave in & out, things turn uber bizarro. It seems sorta like improvised spiritual minimal rock. This is pretty drugged out fancy."

How can you say no to a cover like this?

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Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym (Remaster)

Excellent display of modern Zeuhl. Shrilling soprano vocals, pronounced thumping bass, jangley synth and Tatsuya Yoshida's monstrous polyrhythms make for a rollar coaster avant-prog adventure

This is the 2009 remastered/remixed/re-recorded/re-re-re edition. Sounds infinitely better than the original.

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The Church of Flying Dreams

Acoustic Math Rock/Post-Rock

Picked it up on what.cd awhile back, not much info on this otherwise. Very soothing yet stimulating.

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Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No.9 "From The New World" / Cello Concerto (Fournier)

Never heard of Dvorak or wanted to get into his work, but could never find the time? Well. today is your lucky day.

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Philip Glass - Solo Piano

It's Glass Doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well.

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The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

Drone/Doom Metal with less of the 'BWOOM' sound and more of a shoegaze sound. Even if you don't like drone/doom, you should still listen to it since you'll see it more as shoegaze with drone/doom influences. Either way, its so good, man. :V

http://www.mediafire.com/?zgwznnykq2g

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EarthBound

Probably one of the best OSTs I have ever heard. Get this shit now, fggts.

Oh, if you like RPGS with nice wacky humor (You fight a fucking hippie) and a charming story, you should probably play it. :V

Link courtesy of these guys: http://anothermusicblogthatwontcurecancer.blogspot.com/

You should probably go there. Teenagers that post awesome neat shit. :D

http://www.mediafire.com/?umm41xmo2fy

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Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession

Here is some drone-infused noise rock from the avant-garde Yellow Swans. Psychic Secession is probably their best work.

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UA - Sun

UA is a Japanese artist going back to the 90's who has been producing some rather catchy jazz tunes that deviates enough from the norm that it should probably appeal to those who have "underground" tastes. Check it out.


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