The Album Leaf. Alternative/Indie/Electronica.

On MySpace, listen: Stand Still (from A Chorus of Storytellers, 2010).

On PureVolume, listen: The Outer Banks (from In a Safe Place, 2004).

“The number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it’s-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please Soviet audiences, who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.”. (Justin E.H. Smith)

Trololololololololololo. This should be the new Rick Roll.

Above: Eduard Khil* singing I’m so glad because I’m finally back home (1976).

*Referred as: Edward, Eduard, Hill, Hil, Khil, Gil

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“Imaginary fictional filmscores”.

Bersarin Quartett: the solo project of Thomas Bücker. Electronic/Experimental.
Debut album re-release on 29th of March 2010.

Listen: Oktober and St. Petersburg.

Above: album cover, detail.

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August is the coldest month of the year winter moves six months forward and this is not the South Pole here is not the South Pole August The alarm clock breaks the silence Someone is on vacation and she sounds for hours How cold it is August you look out on a sick heart five o’clock in the evening and it’s already pitch dark winter in August The ice settles and covers things the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead How cold it is If it is not true that you’re afraid it’s not true that you feel alone it’s not true that it’s cold then why are you trembling in this August? August is written on your calendar maybe you slept six months but you’re so tired so tired August is the coldest month of the year in the other hemisphere they call it winter August

Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.

*Text in Italian    **Text in French

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“…You listen to these modern records,
they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them.
There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static.”.
(Bob Dylan, interviewed by Rolling Stone, 1996)

The Loudness War, or “the practice of digitally mastering albums with progressively increasing levels of loudness and reduced dynamic range.”.

Hiromi Uehara: Jazz, experimental, progressive.
Listen : The Tom and Jerry Show and Time Difference.

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Efdemin. Techno/House/Experimental. From Berlin.

Listen: Bergwein.

Above: Phillip Sollmann (photo by Yasmina Haddad).

And now, a cup of Diet Coke + Mentos: AudioBody.
Listen : You Gotta Tap, Not Easy, Going to Michigan, Bass Aquatic, Fireflys.

Techno / Rock / Electronica.

And now a cup of Alphabeat. Listen and see: Fascination.
Pop, from Denmark.
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“Sounds like: bumping into a chair while humming.
Influences: musique concrete, film, everyday life, randomness, the artists on Anticipate and Microcosm.”.
Ezekiel Honig. Listen: Concrete and Plastic.