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Mira Calix's Prickle

Mon, 8 Mar 2004 00:48:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Mira calix is one of the few females working in the left field experimental electronic music. She has released two full albums and a couple of EP:s on Britains most well known electronic listening music label Warp Records. Prickle from 2001 is one...

Delta Audiophile

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:57:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This Soundcard has become one of the greatest successes for the German company Midiman. The card was created with people who want to make music with their computer in mind.

Being a card with music production as it's primary purpose it has up...

The great train robbery

Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:19:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This 12 minute long film was made in 1903 by Edison manufacturing company director Edwin Porter. Porter is seen as one of the key figures in creating the groundrules for modern cinema and The great train robbery is 0ne of the first narrative films...

The almost complete videos videos Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:03:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This tape is collection of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Videos up to and including the 1997 album The Boatman's call. This brings the total of videos up to 20 and the running time to 98 minutes.

The videos are of varying quality and...

do you wan't your classics yodeled? well do ya, PUNK!??!

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:18:18 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - I am a musical maschocist. It took me quite a while to realise this simple fact. But now I know the truth. I subject myself to a lot of angry, painful, hateful or downright nasty music. A lot of it I listen to because I think it is good in one way or...

Have a nice day?

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 17:53:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - I was planning to try to review something fairly well known to see if it could help me get more hits. Then my eyes fell on this CD lying by the side of my keyboard and I decided to postpone those plans in favor of reviewing some more time-honored...

Oedipus Scmoedipus

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:52:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Barry Adamson is an artist who became interested in creating a cinematic sound long before it became fashionable with the rise of trip-hop. He started his solo career in 1988 after stints as bassist and multi-instrumentalist in first the punk band...

Gun Club

Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:21:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - The Gun Club was an american band often asociated with psychobilly, a style of music that arose in the early eighties. Psychobilly was a cross-breed between punk music and rockabilly often coupled with cartoonish or overtly sexual lyrics.
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You will find me...

Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:07:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Ok I'll start with a little introduction for those of you who are unfamiliar with Einstürzende Neubauten. Neubauten is a german group famous as one of the inventors of the genre called Industrial music. They formed in the early eighties as...

In the belly of the beast

Mon, 28 May 2001 21:29:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - When Norman Mailer was working on his book The Executioner’s Song, a book about the murderer Gary Gilmore he suddenly recieved a letter from a man whose name was Jack Henry Abbott a man who had spent almost his entire adult life in...

permanent praise for temporary shelter

Sat, 19 May 2001 23:05:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This is the third album by "Country" singer Johnny Dowd. At least country is what he usually get's classified as, but his music has very few similarities with standard country.

Dowd's story is a curious one. He was born in texas but...

Logghi Barogghi

Tue, 15 May 2001 21:40:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Scorn is an alias used by one Mick Harris. Harris used to be a drummer in the english grindcore group Napalm Death, I have no idea why he left Napalm Death to record music under the name Scorn but I consider it a wise career choice...

two out of three...

Fri, 11 May 2001 15:32:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This is another of my Reviews of the american-greek avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás. In case you haven't heard of her she is an clasically trained vocalist and pianist with probably some of the most unique vocal chords on this planet, able to...

As I sit sadly by the side of my Stereo

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:32:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side is the first single From Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds long awaited new album No More Shall We Part.

The song is in the same vein as Cave's 1997 album The Boatmans Call. A slow love song with...

Ghost Sonata

Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:05:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Strindberg is perhaps after children's book writer Astrid Lindgren Sweden's most internationally famous writer. Internationally he perhaps best known for his plays that are still played around the world, but he was also an accomplished writer and...

Cave's blues record

Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:18:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This was Nick Cave's second solo album released as a follow up to his debut From Her To Eternity in 1985. It polished away most of the wild noise that spilled over from Cave's earlier band The Birthday Party that still remained on eternity...

A rainy night in SO-HO

Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:46:53 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This three song EP is a collaboration between two singers I really admire. Nick Cave is the leader of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds a band that has during it's over 15 years of existence played some truly great music. Starting in the mid...

like the feel, not the words...

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:26:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - Eye Of The Hunter is Brendan Perry's solo debut. Perry was one half of the Australian duo Dead Can Dance. On the album Perry moves away from Dead Can Dance's experiments with world music and medevial sounds and presents a more...

forgotten masterpiece

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:47:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This is Kate Bush's fourth record and it was the one where her artistic vision matured and she took full control of the recording process. Bush Abandoned her girlish falsetto-style of singing that she is still most famous and began singing in a more...

Vena Cava

Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:54:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - I fully intend to review all Diamanda's albums event though I don't get more than a few "just in" hits, so there! Now that issue has been settled and i will proceed to the rewiew...

If you're not aware Of Diamanda Galás she is an american born...

Ladies and gentlemen:Rock And Roll!

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:23:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - The Reverend Horton Heat is a band lead by the frantic showman Jim Heath. They play within the narrow genre of music that is known as psychobilly. Psychobilly is a form of rockabilly mixed with punk. The genre was invented in the late seventies by...

Wuthering Heights

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:26:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This was Kate Bush's first album recorded when she was only 17 years old! Some of the songs she had written as early as two years earlier. She recorded this album after having been discovered by Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour. The album contains her most...

great debut

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:02:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - On this their debut EP 16 Horsepower arrived with an already well defined and unique sound. If you're unfamiliar with 16 Horsepowers music it can best be described as christian backwoods gothic-country or something similar...

They use traditional...

the last dictator

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:29:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This oddly named band was sort of a super group of eighies goth rock with australian, german and english band members centered around band leader australian born singer and lyricist Simon Bonney. The band changed members often but made it into the early...

Dig It

Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:35:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author boffo - This is a single and contains only two tracks, the first loverman is a great dramatic Nick Cave song but this is also available on the Let Love In album wich is highly recommended. the second track is what makes this particular single...