2010

The post-engineering crew wishes to everyone and their families Happy New year and 2010 to be far better from 2009. Go eat and drink now!

Album: Triple Smash - When The Light Goes Off (EP)

Band: Triple Smash

Album: When The Light Goes Off

Label: Self-released

Year: 2009

Tracklist

01.Untitled 2

02.Intro

03.Three Bands

04.Untitled 1

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Triple Smash are an instrumental rock band, formed about a year ago after Li Xin (Guitar), who had just left the Mushrooms, met up with Jiang Ruo-ho (Bass) and decided to work together, very soon joined by Dan Cao (Drums). Their common interests and musical tastes, led to the formation of the band and they have started to generate a strong following, with an EP released on October 2009.

Having played extensively as a backing band to Chung Chi, Triple Smash are striking out on their own. They manage to avoid the pitfall many instrumental bands find themselves falling in to, of creating instrumentation which end up leading nowhere, they keep a tight reign on their material. Their influences of bands are not reflected heavily in their music, which has strong melody, creatively balancing the three musicians skills.

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Album: I Hear Sirens - Beyond The Sea, Beneath The Sky

Band: I Hear Sirens

Album: Beyond The Sea, Beneath The Sky

Label: Self Released

Year: 2009

Tracklist
01. O Failing Vessel, Brave The Violent Sea
02. Pale Moon, Guide Us Ashore
03. Drowning City Skyline
04. From The Clocktower
05. The March
06. Deception Has A Way With Words
07. The Faint Reflection Of Stars
08. Breath On Glass

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I Hear Sirens is an instrumental post-rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah. The band was formed in the Fall of 2005 by Daved Harris (guitar) and David Qualls (drums). I Hear Sirens were in the studio in September 2009 to record the new album. The album was released in December 15th 2009!

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Album: Eno - Must Correspond In Pattern (EP)

Band: Eno

Album: Must Correspond In Pattern (EP)

Label: Synalgie Records

Year: 2009

Tracklist

01. Intro

02. Archaic Pattern

03. Evolve, Unfold

04. Outro

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Eno is a swiss two-man-band with some loop stations, an intuitive sense for melancholic melodies and an meticulous timing. They create landscapes of sounds that have depth and beauty and which are dificult to escape.

Their music can be namend in the same sentence with the big ones of the genre like Mono, Gregor Samsa, Mogwai. The songs are based on live loopings, all overdubs are recorded live andput on the record. eno have played more than 50 concerts in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France in the last three years.

Must Correspond In Pattern is the band's second album, after last year's Stea/Alto.

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Album: Nice Wings, Icarus! - S/t

Band: Nice Wings, Icarus!

Album: S/t

Label: Self-released

Year: 2009

Tracklist
01. Morning Glory
02. Those, Who Built The Pyramids
03. I’ve Not Seen Any Angels, Just Emptiness
04. Birth
05. Across The Seas
06. Journey Back Home
07. Eagle
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Nice Wings Icarus! is a five-piece Ukranian band formed in February 2008 in Kiev. They combine heavy guitar riffs with melodic violin play. After some changes in the band line-up Nice Wings Icarus! recorded their first two-track demo in December 2008. One year later, they released their first, full length self-titled album.

Official Site (in Ukranian)
MySpace
For buy infos please contact the band.

Album: Locomotora - Locomotora

Band: Locomotora
Album: Locomotora
Label: Sordo Recordings
Year: 2009







Tracklist
01. Shopping Music For Bloody Wallets
02. Anarchophobia
03. Teignmouth Electron
04. Minipax
05. Older Than Dreams
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Locomotora’s self titled debut album contains one hour of instrumental music filled with multi-layered melodies. The five-track album is engrossing, dark, at times minimal, occasionally noisy, building up delicately from vast silence to a stormy wall of sound.

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Album: Year Of No LIght & Machu Picchu Mother Future - Split

Band: Year Of No Light
Machu Picchu Mother Future
Album: Split
Label: Music Fear Satan
Year: 2009






Tracklist

01. Year Of No Light With Fear Falls Burning - The Golden Horn Of The Moon (Studio Version)
02. Year Of No Light With Nadja - Les Mains De Nadja
03. Machu Picchu Mother Future - Space Mountain Forever

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Year Of No Light

Yet one more band started after too many Belgian beers under the sun of the ending summer of 2001, Year of No Light slightly but undoubtly started to slide down to gloomier atmospheres as the inherent chaos of Bordeaux’s caves and harshness of winter made their common work.

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Fear Falls Burning

With all the power, noise, aggression and subtlety that comes from a single man performing real-time on the electric guitar through a maze of pedal effects, notes and chords shifting and multiplying over time into dense and trance-inducing walls of sound. Fear Falls Burning (also known as Vidna Obmana) succeeds in uncovering a new language that stretches time and brings the listener to the edge multiple times, entrancing with the repetitive yet pure sonic presence of the electric guitar.

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Nadja

Nadja is a Canadian duo featuring multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker and bassist/vocalist Leah Buckareff. Originally formed in 2003 in Toronto, Canada as a Baker solo project, Buckareff joined in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio and into live settings. The now-duo creates music that has been variously called ambient doom, drone metal.

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Machu Picchu Mother Future

While on an east coast tour in November of 2007, Conifer and Lesbian drove to Richmond, Virginia arriving at 5a.m. and ended up crashing at the Sound Of Music recording studio for two nights. There to play a show with Souvenir’s Young America at the Nara Sushi, all three bands (11 members total in one live room) entered the studio on very little sleep and recorded roughly two hours of improvised music… very loosely structured and minds somewhat altered… These sessions birthed what will be known as “Space Mountain Forever.”

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Album: The American Dollar / Arms And Sleepers - From The Inland Sea EP

Band: The American Dollar
Arms And Sleepers
Album: From The Inland Sea EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2009




Tracklist
The American Dollar
01. Landing
02. Schipol
03. Where We Are

Arms & Sleepers
04. The Catcher Elsewhere
05. Van Buren
06. The Inland Sea
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The American Dollar

Using drums, keyboards, guitars, and various other percussion instruments, John Emanuele and Rich Cupolo weave richly textured melodies in between cascades of drums, synths, and sparse organ notes, creating a sound that puts them on par with bands like The Album Leaf or Explosions in the Sky. Whether a track contains a lush, ambient-interlude feel or a sweeping explosion of chords, emotion runs high on this disc.

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Arms And Sleepers

Arms and Sleepers are a duo of comprised of Max Lewis (Boston, MA) and Mirza Ramic (Portland, ME). Formed in 2006, they have produced multiple albums, EPs and hand-made releases, most notably the Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive EP (Fake Chapter, 2006) and the well-received Black Paris 86 (Expect Candy, 2008). Following an intense touring schedule in 2008 and 2009 that included appearances in the UK, Europe, and North America and saw the band opening for the likes of Asobi Seksu, The Books, Her Space Holiday, Cass McCombs, Lymbyc Systym, This Will Destroy You and Caspian, Max and Mirza took a break to focus on a new proper full-length in the summer of 2009

Myspace

You can buy this split here or here.

Album: Loss Of A Child - Carry Me Home

Band: Loss Of A Child
Album: Carry Me Home
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2009






Tracklist
01. Dream
02. Black Snow
03. Saturday Night Star
04. Float Down Amongst Us
05. Trains
06. Beauty Is Truth, Youth Beauty
07. Destiny
08. Are You Watching Closely?
09. All The While
10. Mike Waters
11. Death
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"Carry Me Home" is the 5th Loss of a Child release and is their most expansive yet, a deeply layered album with flowing and interwoven melodies; contrasting instruments supporting, offsetting, and harmonizing with each other and mixed for each to be heard though not necessarily under every listening environment, and certainly not on first listen; experimental through its strict structure and detailed song writing as opposed to the freedom and improvisation of many instrumental acts.

Complex instrumentation hidden beneath simple ideas, dynamism created within the melodies in addition to volume, and the standard multi-instrumental Loss of a Child approach providing many hidden melodic passages requiring repeat listening to find and understand, but each proving that the obvious is not necessarily the best when it comes to musical depth.

Official Site
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Tracks: Rosetta, Moving Mountains & There Will Be Fireworks

There are three tracks stuck in my head the last few weeks and I can't stop listen to them. These tracks are not in any release yet, so I will post them separately.

Rosetta - Untitled (Demo)
This is a new track recorded by Rosetta, hopefully for some of their new releases.
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Moving Mountains - Lights And Shapes (RAC Maury Mix)
This is a remix of the track "Light And Shapes" for the LP release of the "Foreword" EP
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There Will Be Fireworks - In Excelsis Deo
A Christmas song recorded by There Will Be Fireworks
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I hope you're going to like these songs as much as I did. Enjoy!

Album: East Of The Wall, Year Of No Light & Rosetta - Split

Band: East Of The Wall
Year Of No Light
Rosetta
Album: Split
Label: Translation Loss Records
Year: 2009




Tracklist
East Of The Wall
01. Scumbrella (Mud Button)
02. Scumbrella (Silt)
03. Scumbrella (DirtMerchant)

Year Of No Light
04. Cimmeria
05. Metanoia

Rosetta
06. Homesick (Cure Cover)
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East Of The Wall

Born from the dissolution of the Postman Syndrome, East of the Wall formed as Brett Bamberger (bass, Biclops/ex-Day without Dawn/ex-Postman Syndrome) and Mike Somers (drums, ex-Postman Syndrome) joining forces with guitarist Jeff Speidell (Delft). The self-titled EP that followed was noteworthy for its duplicitous nature, straddling the line between an engulfing ambience and crushing force. Shortly after the release of the EP, the band added guitarist Matt Lupo (ex-Postman Syndrome) to its ranks and began working on the material that would eventually become its latest release, Farmer’s Almanac. In the spring of 2007, Speidell left the band to pursue other musical interests and was replaced by Kevin Conway (Biclops).

Official Site
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Year Of No Light

Yet one more band started after too many Belgian beers under the sun of the ending summer of 2001, Year of No Light slightly but undoubtedly started to slide down to gloomier atmospheres as the inherent chaos of Bordeaux’s caves and harshness of winter made their common work.

As the line-up solidified around the 5 actual members escaped from acts such as Metronome Charisma, Deja Mort and Nexus Sun, the band clarified their intentions and started to build the basis of what would be their first demo recorded in 2004. More and more shows were played with bands such as Isis, Cult of Luna, High on Fire or Unsane.

The rather general critical acclaim of the demo quoting them as being “The Cure playing sludge” combined with live reviews becoming more and more encouraging compelled the band into the writing of new tracks that finally ended up being recorded at Playrec studio under the direction of Serge Morratel in the fall of 2005. The debut “Nord” has been released in 2006.

Official Site
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Rosetta

Philadelphia quartet Rosetta push the boundaries between metal, progressive, post-rock, space rock, and hardcore, providing an experimental songwriting technique filled with chaos and atmospherics. A band whose sounds range from Pink Floydian / progressive rock sonic layering to walls of pure static ambience to crushing, sweeping sludgey riffage. Their first album (The Galilean Satellites) was an especially ambitious project: the goal was to record two albums of equal length (one a metal album, the other a noise/ambient/drone album), each of which could stand on its own two feet, but together would create a richer, more rewarding experience. The band recorded the album in quadrophonic sound which lends itself well to the bands unique experiments in noise, sampling, feedback and power. The sheer amount of aural input means every listen becomes a new experience, allowing you to pick up on more and more layers within the sounds.

Their next album (Wake/Lift) was a bit more restrained but for this reason, really allows the band’s cohesion to solidify and prove themselves worthy of the (mainstream of the) artsier metal world.

Official Site
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You can buy the three-way split here.

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Album: Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - Firewolf

Band: Upcdownc leftcrightcabc+start
Album: Firewolf
Label: Self-released
Year: 2009





Tracklist
01. The Tavern
02. Black Lodge
03. Smiling Bag
04. Agent Cooper
05. Def Zeppelin
06. Dad Rock
07. Firewolf
08. Grandead
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Upcdownc ... are an instrumental Rock, Delay, Riff, Kick and Moog 4-piece from Medway, Kent who also indulge in a bit of singing and screeeeaaaming.

Upcdownc have progressed.They have taken their ideas from the previous album and given them an injection of steroids, highlighting the influence of rock music and making it hard to ignore the heavier sound they are creating... An outstanding creation and prove that plenty of emotion can be released in a short span of time. Firewolf is an album that offers something different. - the Sillent Ballet


Dad Rock


Black Lodge


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