Mstation Pop etc Commentary, Reviews
pre Dec 04 reviews are here
- 33Hz
- A new format: June 06
- AFX
- AMPOP
- Acoustic Set
- Afrobeat
- Agoria, Spinach Girl
- Arctic Monkeys
- Art of performance
- Art of the DJ
- At the Lake
- At the Lake
- Autechre, Untilted
- Autumn/Fall pop etc
- Babyshambles
- Baxter Drury
- Ben Harper
- Black Eyed Peas
- Blues Explosion, Crunchy
- Bovaflux
- Broadcast
- Cadillac, Magnetic City
- Can Labels not Suck?
- Can, Unlimited Edition
- Carpathian ....
- Catskills Sampler
- Ch3vy
- Chk Chk Chk
- Chok Rock, Big City Loser
- Clearlake, Amber
- Client, city
- Coldplay, X and Y
- Collabs 301
- Commercial Women
- Cornershop
- Crazy Girl
- Creative Shambles
- DJ Corner
- DJ Corner and House Mix download
- DJ Tom Baker -- DJ Corner
- DJ corner June
- Decemberists
- Diefenbach, Glorious
- Disco Heaven
- Domino Sampler
- Dr. Who: Volume 1 and 2
- Electric Six, Vibrator
- Embrace, A Glorious Day
- Emetrex, Wish Me Dead
- Erasure, Here I go ...
- Exploring Europe
- FBC Fabric and Reindeer, It's not ...
- Fall Pop, dance etc
- Fire Engines
- Fisk Industries
- Four Tet
- Four Tet, Smile Around the Face
- From Russia with love and beats
- Fujiya & Miyagi
- Futureheads, Decent Days and Nights
- Goldfrapp
- Goldfrapp, Number 1, Beautiful
- Gravenhurst
- Gravenhurst, The Velvet Cell
- Guns and Lollipops
- Hed Kandi
- Hed Kandi 50th
- Hedkandi
- Holding hands out the back: The Autons
- Hood, Outside Closer
- Hush the Many
- Husky Rescue, Country Falls
- Husky Rescue, New Light of Tomorrow
- I suppose that somewhere here there are
- Ian Gillan
- Icky thumps and Bad Bananas
- Indochine
- Infadels, Can't Get Enough
- Infadels, Jagger '67
- Jackson and His Computer Band
- James Holden
- Jamie Liddell, Multiply
- Jamie Lidell, Multiply
- Jane Birkin
- Jeans Team
- Jimmy Edgar, Bounce Make Model
- July 06 Pop World
- KT Tunstall
- Lawrence, The Night Will Last Forever
- Layo & Bushwacka!
- Liars, Drum's Not Dead
- Little Man Tate
- Lou Barlow
- Louise Attaque
- Low
- Melnyk
- Metal existance
- Miles Davis ... sorta
- Moby Live DVD
- Moby, Hotel
- Moby, Lift Me Up
- Moby, Slipping Away
- Moby, Spiders
- Mutts, Life in Dirt
- Myspace World
- NYC Rock
- Natalie C June 2005
- Nate James, Set the Tone
- New Order DVDs
- New Order, Krafty
- New Order, Waiting for the Sirens' Call
- New RSS system and Feeds
- Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
- Nightwish, Once
- Nizlopi
- Noise Hurts
- Noise music and other stuff
- Octavarium, Dream Theatre
- Paper Cut Moon
- Peyton
- Placebo
- Plantlife, The Last Song
- Popkomm Berlin 08
- Prefuse 73
- Prefuse73, Surrounded by Silence
- Prince
- Puppetmastaz
- Queurelle
- Raumschmiere
- Residents, Animal Lover
- Revolve promo CD
- Richard Hawley
- Richard Hawley
- Richie Hawtin
- Rimbaud and Rockers
- RollDeep
- Rolling Stones
- Rough Trade Shops Counterculture 2004
- Royale Deluxe
- Royksopp
- Royksopp, 49%
- Rythmes Digitales
- Secret Machines
- Shortwave Set
- Simon Fisher Turner
- Smog, A River Ain't Too Much in Love
- Sonic Art
- Spektrum
- Stereo Sushi
- Steve Angello
- Stonebridge
- Stonebridge, Freak On
- Subways, Oh Yeah
- Subways, Rock 'n Roll Queen
- Summer Pop
- Tears
- Templin, 5
- Test Icicles
- The Mutts
- The Residents, Commercial Album
- The Streets, Could Well Be In, Radio edit
- Trabant
- Trans Slovenia Express
- Tricky things
- Twisted Disco
- Ukrainian Music
- Village Orchestra
- Warp artists DVD
- Wilco
- Woody McBride
- beautiful new born children
- various, Back to Love, Hed Kandi
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Fri, 28 Jan 2005
Rough Trade Shops Counterculture 2004
various, Rough Trade Shops best of 2004
2 CD's, www.mute.com
Good Ole Rough Trade Shops. They keep us informed that not
everyone playing an instrument is obsessed with charts and
celebrity. Don't confuse this with the Rough Trade label.
They also mostly plough their own furrow but are more commercial
and are weirdly reluctant to promote their own artists.
The CD we have is a sampler and includes the likes of Mara Carlyle,
Jem Finer, Cobra Killer, Whitey, and Death From Above 1979.
The counterculture part is not necessarily singing about anti-
corporatism or GWB, but is more a statement of determinedly
non-commercial musical style. The first tracks have un-FXed
voice and simple instrumentation without any adornment at all.
Cobra Killer and Whitey move it along a bit but the pace is
generally suitable for tokers.
My favorite tracks were from Cobra Killer and Whitey just
because I think that when tracks are really pared down there
has to be some extra magic somewhere else even if it's a
virtuoso use of silence. It's all good fun though and
encouraging all of these artists is a good thing to do.
(thunderfinger)
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