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Editor's rating:
4.3
Sunday, 20 November 2005 |
Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
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Just when we are about to lose faith in the music industry’s ability to
understand that we the consumers are asking for more audio performance
from the $16 disc we buy, we find an AIX Records. One could call them
an “audiophile” record label, but that wouldn’t be completely fair,
considering the spirit of the recordings. They are much more. AIX
Records, the brainchild of producer and engineer Mark Waldrep, is a
label designed to highlight what is possible in high-resolution
surround sound music. They almost exclusively create their own music,
unlike other fine record labels such as DTS and Silverline, which focus
more on remixing and remastering existing and classic material. Ask
anyone with a 5.1 home theater who loves surround sound for music and
they will tell you they need all of these labels (and many more – yes,
we are talking about you major labels who don’t put out ...
Editor's rating:
3.5
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 |
Written by
John Sutton-Smith
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“In sixty-nine I was twenty-one
And I called the road my own
I don't even know when that road
Turned onto the road I'm on....
You know I don't even know
What I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun
But I'm running behind.”
Jackson Browne was very much an unsung poet laureate of the heart and
soul of young America in the ‘70s, as exemplified by songs like “A
Child in These Hills’ and the elegant ecology anthem “Before the
Deluge.” Running On Empty, Browne’s fifth album, was in a sense the
culmination of his early songwriting burst of brilliance that had
started with “These Days” and evolved into remarkable albums like For
Everyman, Late for the Sky, and the commercial break-out The Pretender.
Here, however, though at the peak of his popularity, he was starting to
run a little thin on ideas.
Since his classic paean “Take It Easy,” cowritten with ...
Editor's rating:
3.8
Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
Written by
Paul Lingas
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Simple Minds holds a clear place in history, but it seems to be less a
place in musical history than it is a place in the history of popular
culture. Once Upon a Time and New Gold Dream are separate Simple Minds
albums that have each been re-released in a DTS DVD-Audio format. The
sound is very good, needless to say (more on that later), but I’ll
point out here that Once Upon a Time is the most famous Simple Minds
album, though it does not contain the most famous song by the group.
That song, and the place in popular history it holds, is titled “Don’t
You (Forget About Me),” the distinctively Simple Minds-sounding track
that the movie “The Breakfast Club” made famous. That song does not
appear on either of these albums, though, and I fear that these
remarkable recordings of what was once a very promising though
under-realized group ...
Editor's rating:
3.5
Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
Written by
Paul Lingas
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Simple Minds holds a clear place in history, but it seems to be less a
place in musical history than it is a place in the history of popular
culture. Once Upon a Time and New Gold Dream are separate Simple Minds
albums that have each been re-released in a DTS DVD-Audio format. The
sound is very good, needless to say (more on that later), but I’ll
point out here that Once Upon a Time is the most famous Simple Minds
album, though it does not contain the most famous song by the group.
That song, and the place in popular history it holds, is titled “Don’t
You (Forget About Me),” the distinctively Simple Minds-sounding track
that the movie “The Breakfast Club” made famous. That song does not
appear on either of these albums, though, and I fear that these
remarkable recordings of what was once a very promising though
under-realized group ...
Editor's rating:
5.0
Monday, 16 May 2005 |
Written by
Charles Andrews
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Thank God for computers and the Internet -- you know, those things we
slaves to Bill Gates curse all the time? Without all that comprehensive
information that I remembered to turn to only at the last minute, you,
the knowledgeable reader, would have most likely been distracted from
the immense praise I'm going to pile on this brilliant band Porcupine
Tree and their honkin' new album, Deadwing, by the silly little detail
that they are not, as I've been telling everyone, this great new
British group with an ass-kickin' debut. Maybe I carried that thought
because I had never heard or read word one about them. Nor had any of
my tuned-in music buddies. How could anyone this good be completely
unknown unless they're new?
Turns out Porcupine Tree has been releasing albums since 1989 …
NINETEEN-EIGHTY-NINE!! 13 albums, 10 EPs, 13 limited editions, 13
promotionals and they’re included on 11 compilations.
Busy ...
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