Shinichi Osawa - TEPPAN-YAKI - A Collection of Remixes

Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Pogo (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
2. Thief (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
3. Feel Good (Tv=Off) (Shinichi Osawa Edit)
4. Blackout (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
5. Poor innocent boys (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
6. Washing up (Shinichi Osawa Reconstruct)
7. Stand in a line (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
8. Magic carper ride'07 (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
9. Radio (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
10. Kelly (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
11. Turbo Love (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
12. Popper (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
13. Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
14. Lost & Found (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
15. Eeaa(Teppan-Yaki)

CD2
1. WHAT A FEELING (Shinichi Osawa Remix) (TEPPAN-YAKI EDIT)
2. Ah Ah (Shinichi Osawa Remix) (TEPPAN-YAKI EDIT)
3. The Perfect Vision (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
4. Tripod Baby (Shinichi Osawa Remix) (TEPPAN-YAKI EDIT)
5. Startin’ (SHINICHI OSAWA Remix)
6. 情熱の代償 (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
7. Masurao (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
8. Clover (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
9. Euphoria (Shinichi Osawa Remix) (TEPPAN-YAKI EDIT)
10. light night dance (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
11. White’s Dream (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
12. Main Street Electrical Parade

Review: If you're a Shinichi fan...wait scratch that if you're a fan of electronic music and you don't own this album you are seriously MISSING OUT. This collection of (possibly) all of Shinichi's remixes is simply fucking amazing. Bag raiders track is freaking bumping, just when you thought Shinichi was great. He goes and puts this collection and BLOWS YOU'RE FAWREAKING MIND. Great album I recommend it.



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Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker (1963)

Tracklisting:
1. If Ever I Would Leave You
2. Mirrors
3. For Duke P.
4. The Kicker
5. Step Lightly
6. Bedouin

Review: "Bobby Hutcherson recorded frequently for Blue Note in the 1960s, though this session remained unissued until 1999. The first half features the vibraphonist in a cooking hard bop session with Joe Henderson and Duke Pearson, starting with an energetic take on the normally slow ballad "If Ever I Would Leave You" and a sizzling Hutcherson original, "For Duke P." Guitarist Grant Green is added for the second half, beginning with the first recording of Henderson's "The Kicker," which became well known from it's later rendition on Horace Silver's highly successful release Song for My Father. Because this is part of Blue Note's limited-edition Jazz Connoisseur series, don't delay in picking it up." (allmusic)


"The Kicker"

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Nomak - Muziq and Foto (2009)

Tracklisting:
1. Introduction
2. The mind
3. For the children
4. Ample energy
5. Heartistically
6. One soul
7. Pure reason
8. Moon flow
9. Gratitude
10. Emanation
11. Wind beat
12. Conclusion


Review: I personally prefer this album for the spiritual and serene touch. With spiritual melodies this album speaks with so much zen. Great for meditation or a practitioner of massage therapy. Great Sunday morning morning music, kicking back with a great book and camillomellow tea. Beats that remind you this coming Monday is not going to be so bad.



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Samiyam - Man Vs. Machine (2009)

Tracklisting:
1. July.
2. Catch Me Riding Dirty
3. Rounded.
4. Porno Slap.
5. Fireball.
6. 200$.
7. Bonus Mission

Review: Fuck these beats are huge and heavy! Samiyam returned this year with another batch of beats that'll rock your fucking bass. "Catch Me Riding Dirty" and "Rounded" are smooth thumpers while "Porno Slap" is raw. "Fireball" is an 8-bit wonder with an unbelievably bass note which not many speakers will be able to reproduce. Overall, Man Vs. Machine is as satisfying as velvet liquor with chocolate truffles. If you can imagine that, then you can definitely appreciate this.



Previously:
Samiyam - Return EP

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Firefox AK - Madame, Madame! (2006)

Tracklisting:
1. City To City
2. Habibi
3. Madame, Madame!
4. Love To Run
5. Cardiac Arrest
6. Who Can Act
7. Zodiac
8. What's That Sound
9. All Those People
10. The Draft

Review: "Like Toronto's Metric and Portland's the Blow, Sweden's Andrea Kellerman (aka Firefox AK) occupies a middle ground between D.I.Y. dance-pop and synth-driven, new wave-inspired indie rock. Her debut album, issued in Sweden in 2006 and picked up by Minty Fresh the following year, is flush with gleaming keyboard riffs and chunky programmed beats, but it also has a rocky grit that sets it apart from the pure pop likes of Robyn and Annie -- it's telling that Kellerman initially wrote these tunes on guitar before enlisting Viktor Ginner (of synth pop duo Rupesh Cartel) to help dress them up electro-style. It's a tremendously satisfying fusion, if not a terribly innovative one, and when combined with Kellerman's top-notch pop songwriting and her striking, girlish but powerful voice, makes for an impressive debut showing that's comparable to plenty of other artists but still retains its own distinctive flavor. Her nine solid originals (along with an edgy, driving cover of "Habibi" by the Swedish electro-house act Assid) are sweet and upbeat but not breathlessly sugary, and at their best -- as on "City to City" and "Who Can Act," with their harmonized chorus hooks, and the single "What's That Sound" -- they're instantly catchy without feeling forced or fussy." (allmusic)

Since 2006, "What's That Sound" still remains a guilty pleasure for me after all these years. The closer "The Draft" is a well-made and appropriate slow number to conclude this essentially dance pop rock album.



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