#NEW ALBUM TEC

[getmybuzzup]

MULTI-PLATINUM RAP STAR LIL TECCA’S NEW ALBUM TEC BOWS AT #4 ON BILLBOARD TOP RAP ALBUMS CHART & #5 ON TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS CHART - Multi-platinum sensation Lil Tecca returns to the top of the charts with his highly acclaimed third studio album, TEC—out now via Galactic/Republic Records. It made a notable entrance, reaching the Top 5 of both the Billboard Top Rap Albums Chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. Additionally, it marked his fourth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200. It has also already amassed 56 million streams and counting. His singles “500lbs” and “HVN ON EARTH” feat. Kodak Black also entered the Billboard Hot 100, marking his 11th and 12th appearances on the chart. The album has garnered widespread acclaim. GQ raved, “At a tight 16 tracks, TEC is already armed with one of the best singles of the year—“Hvn on Earth” with Kodak Black—and the rest of the album is smooth and fast paced,” and HYPEBEAST praised how “the 21-year-old rapper does a majority of the rapping on the 16-track project, sticking to his signature sound but with more elevated production.” The FADER proclaimed, “TEC by Lil Tecca is an excellent album from start to finish, complete with deliciously hermetic song transitions,” and Complex noted, “Further distinguishing himself from the teen sensation he once was and formally introducing the young man he is in his early 20s, Lil Tecca is dropping his latest project, aptly titled TEC.” https://wp.me/p1PuJR-5Dvr Please Reblog!

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[universalanguage]

Past to Present: The Hybrid in Retrospect

In the world of Hip-Hop few and far apart are the seminal voices that shake up traditional styles to birth something new and dynamic. Detroit's Danny Brown is one of those voices, who's managed to win over a cult-like fanbase due to his unique stylings and often strange antics.

With the recent release of his joint album w/ JPEGMAFIA accurately titled "Scaring the Hoes" I couldn't help but harken back to the Danny Brown cuts that initially caught my ear.

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Sometime in late 2010 an acquaintance of mine was playing various new rap cuts in between bits of a writing process to generate our own rhymes. Early in the mix of songs that was something that I had never heard before and it stood out like a sore thumb. The track was "Shooting Moves" from Danny Brown's critically acclaimed debut album "The Hybrid". To clarify, while many see "XXX" as his initial album there is a large swath of folks who remember and revere the former record as their intro.

To be quite honest, at the time I would've considered myself a purist of sorts whose favorite hip-hop records came with a more backpack kind of sound so my initial reaction to Danny was something of disgust. It's truly bizarre that I had an outright distaste for what I was hearing but for some reason or another I couldn't help but revisit that song for about a month wondering why someone would voluntarily listen to it. His voice was shrill at times and often totally out of tune and the beat selection was something otherworldly altogether but I couldn't leave it alone..... and then it clicked.

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To those of you familiar with the Kingsway Sample Library the name Frank Dukes will ring plenty of bells. To those who aren't, just know that Frank is a sort of musical savant who plays and records original samples that have been used by producers such as Jake One, Hit-Boy, Kanye and even the elusive Madlib. Before the unfolding of what's become a brilliant career Frank Dukes was another producer on the rise and many early Danny Brown tunes including "Shooting Moves" featured Frank's inventive brand of sampling and arrangement.

"Shooting Moves" happened to be the tip of a rather bizarre iceberg. Once I managed to wrap my head around the wild sonics and strange flow patterns I was hooked. Soon after I discovered "The Hybrid" which was then and still is one of my personal favorite albums of all-time.

The opener "Greatest Rapper Ever" starts in with a spacey modulated sample and the perfect drum break crafted by none other than Quelle Chris. Danny's starts in immediately with the following lyrics:

My homie a magician with the Tec (Tec) Make your chain disappear and reappear on his neck (Neck) I ain't tricking with your hoes (Nah), but, shit, don't ask 'em (Nah) Only thing I give a bitch: A fucking orgasm (Chyeah) I'll throw you in the river (River), hands tied tight (Tight) Watch your ass drown, feel it in the air tonight (Tonight) I'm spitting that dope shit (Dope), smoking on regulars (Ugh) Writing sixteens like internet child predators (Chyeah)....

To say I was floored is an understatement. Never in my life had I heard something so awe inspiring, it's the kind of reaction that only happens on very rare occasions like when you first heard Kid A by radiohead or something but if I were to put it into a rap nerd perspective is comparable to the kind of feeling I get when I listen to "Ready to Die" by Biggie. Something so viseral yet indescribable that it makes you wanna punch something and cry heavy tears at the same time. I'd wager that I played that track at least ten times before starting in on the rest of the album which was immaculate from track to track.

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Most notable on this release in terms of cadence and approach to rapping is the intermingling of Danny's various vocal tones. Post "XXX" his signature high pitched register is a calling card of sorts but "The Hybrid" is an example of his early attempts at perfecting such a cadence. Albeit biased this is my favorite era of his work for just that reason. Danny was in the up and comer space and as a result was still trying various sounds and deliveries. As a result from track to track the album gives us a wise spectrum with which to engage and paints fine brush strokes with a myriad of colour palettes. Songs like "Greatest Rapper Ever" feature a more brash and confrontational tone that harkens to his background in the ghettos of Detroit while others like the closer "S.O.S." have a more soft and poetic undertone.

A great example of the projects versatility is a track titled "Juno" which I assume is titled after the Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page) and Michael Cera film. This cut has Brown giving an unadulterated observation of the struggles and disappointments that are birthed as the result of unplanned pregnancy in a poverty ridden landscape. The opening line references Tupac's "Brenda's got a baby" directly paying homage to what might've been the songs direct inspiration but rather than take the more soft and thoughtful tone Danny's delivery embodies the type of frustration and disgust that breeds itself among those in dire straights. It's quite literally the ugly truth in it's purest form and as ugly as it might be it draws you in and keeps you coming back.

Another stand out is "Drinks on Me" features an utterly intoxicating instrumental and has Danny reflecting on the ills of alcoholism through an introspective lens. This track observes the various angles and vantage points that "normalize" alcohol within society and touches the core of the subject matter succinctly. From drinking as a means of celebration to drowning one's sorrows in a bottle of their choosing it's one of those songs that's managed to get me into my feels even when I'm in the best of moods and although counter-intuitive pairs well with a drink.

For those familiar with Danny's work beyond this period, you'll feel right at home with joints like "White Stripes". It's one of the earliest examples of the pitch and delivery we've all come to know so well. The sample is a grungy mix of dirty guitar fuzz and big drums that function like an 80's power ballad. The rapping is something all it's own as the vocal inflections aren't quite as embellished as Brown's subsequent releases. The tone is a great range of vocals from low to medium and higher registers and is a lot more fluid than the years that followed in my own opinion. You can hear the energy of something new being brought forth. It's the kind of thing that happens when someone makes something they know is good but hasn't field tested it to see if the flame will catch. Nonetheless it makes for one of the most memorable and awe inspiring offerings.

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I could wax nostalgic about this album from front to back for ages. it holds a really special place in my heart and in my library and for those who haven't explored it I urge that you do so with urgency and the utmost intent. From Danny's off the wall fashion to his unique and eclectic style of rapping/songwriting much of what the so called modern era syphons from is owed to albums such as this that birthed and inspired so much of what proceeded them.... but don't just take my word for it.

-YOSHI

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[luuurien]

Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Elephant Man’s Bones

(Gangsta Rap, Jazz Rap, Ambient Rap)

Atop The Alchemist's minimal, sinister beats, Roc Marciano indulges in some of the most tense and humorous music he's put out to date. The Elephant Man's Bones' juxtaposition of calm production and ruthless, cold-hearted bars from Marciano make for one wonderfully dark and luxurious listen.

☆☆☆☆

Named after the Englishman Joseph Merrick, the man who inspired the title of Roc Marciano and The Alchemist's latest album perfectly embodies the duo's artsy, nefarious songcraft. Known as the Elephant Man as a result of some painful, severe physical deformities, he spent his 27 years being both mocked and revered by the public as a biological anomaly, his life explored in a myriad number of books, films, and stage plays - at one point, it was reported that Michael Jackson was so moved by Merrick's life story that he allegedly offered $500,000, later a full million, to purchase his skeleton from the Royal London Hospital. Marciano and The Alchemist share a similar fascination in the lines between disturbing and elegant, The Elephant Man's Bones mixing Marciano's tales of street violence, drug-running and expensive couture with beats that are restrained, colorful, and organic. Far away from Marciano's traditionally cold, heavy sound, The Alchemist's smooth and slightly off-kilter production pushing Marciano into new territory that shapes his rapping and presence to be stronger than it's been in years, The Elephant Man's Bones breathing new life into his skillful, deadpan bars. The Alchemist is an unexpectedly great fit for Marciano, his recent production for albums like Armand Hammer's Haram or Conway the Machine's God Don't Make Mistakes translating perfectly to Marciano's cold-blooded presence as he turns his production inside-out, emphasizing clean samples and rich keyboards that are as elegant as they are menacing. I honestly haven't enjoyed The Alchemist's production as much as I do here in a long while - I never was the biggest fan of how his beats landed with Freddie Gibbs on 2020's Alfredo, and his one-off beats on albums this year like SICK! and Crocodrillo Turbo were some of my least favorite of those projects - but there's a comfort and effortlessness to his work with Marciano that takes things to a level of luxury and richness he hasn't approached until now: the way opening track Rubber Hand Grip blends smoky keyboards with sharp, anxious string drones that immediately set the albums tone; the heavenly sample on the title track or the dusty loop driving JJ Flash forward. Not one of The Elephant Man's Bones' beats disappoints, all contributing to the album's mix of left-field lounge jazz warmth and cold-hearted lyrics that make it such an ominous, satisfying listen. And Marciano's bars are stronger than they've ever been, a clarity and cleverness to his writing that seamlessly integrates into some of his most villainous and menacing stories to date. Daddy Kane references everything from Breaking Bad to Olympic gymnast Suni Lee and Jimi Hendrix, and somehow ties it all together as Marciano contemplates his success over a fuzzy electronic drum loop and vintage synths, and the narcotized beat Alchemist throws onto Liquid Coke is fit just right for him to both throw out some of his signature blunt threats ("Don't make me dig in my bag, the magnum ain't gift-wrapped / ...It's not a catch twenty-two, this a TEC-22") and reflect on the ways he's been affected by that same criminal violence a few lines later ("Expensive clothes won't soothe / All this ice won't remove my bruise"). It seems linking with The Alchemist for a longer project has got Marciano less bottled up than usual, the rowdy sound of their one-off's together traded in for a methodical and detailed approach to their songcraft, quotables scattered all about the album's fourteen tracks - some of my favorites being "For me to line you, don't need a barber's license" from Deja Vu and his clever wordplay in the second verse of Trillion Cut ("These ain't no regular old bars, this a five star restaurant") - without Marciano ever being in your face about it, his assuredness in his rapping abilities and lyrical wit paying off immensely as him and The Alchemist sustain the album's sensitive mood across the entire 38 minutes. Keeping an album with as minimalist and left-of-center a sound for artsy East Coast rap as The Elephant Man's Bones' this enjoyable all the way through is quite the challenge, and they do it with endless charisma and personality. Two of rap's veteran players, Marciano and The Alchemist have been at it long enough to know the best parts of their music and how to tap into them time and time again. Working with one another, they exercise those strongest muscles with support from one another that champions their ability to pull you into their world and have you hang onto every word, Marciano's voice and The Alchemist's moody beats the only two things needed for The Elephant Man's Bones to keep its winning streak alive the whole way through - even the few bumps in the road aren't all that bad in the slightest. Marciano is a specialty performer, with a single voice and refined style he bends around any beat The Alchemist throws at him, and The Elephant Man's Bones' reliance on the fact that the two of them work so good together doesn't ever cause the album to stagnate as they consistently find new angles for Marciano's voice to wrap around The Alchemist's fuzzy, whiskey-scented beats. This is genuinely some of the smoothest, loveliest hip-hop I've heard in a good while, the duo rarely missing any of their shots and delivering a killer collection of colorful, delightfully subtle rap songs that never take more than they need and still land deadly blows with just a few bullets in the chamber. The Elephant Man's Bones is unlike anything either of them have done up until now, but it sounds as if they've been honing their craft together for a lifetime - how special is that?

#roc marciano #the alchemist #the elephant man's bones #empire #ambient rap #art rap #boom bap #drumless #east coast hip hop #experimental hip hop #gangsta rap #hip hop #jazz rap #2022 #8/10 #album review #2022 albums

[hiphopnewsoftheday]

MULTI-PLATINUM RAP STAR LIL TECCA’S NEW ALBUM TEC BOWS AT #4 ON BILLBOARD TOP RAP ALBUMS CHART & #5 ON TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS CHART

MULTI-PLATINUM RAP STAR LIL TECCA’S NEW ALBUM TEC BOWS AT #4 ON BILLBOARD TOP RAP ALBUMS CHART & #5 ON TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS CHART

[streetwisehiphop]

Lil Tecca’s New Album ‘Tec’: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Tracklist & More

Lil Tecca’s New Album ‘Tec’: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Tracklist & More

[crimechannels]

By • Olalekan Fagbade Rema, Asake, others win big at 2023 Headies Awards [Full List] The 16th Headies Awards was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, USA, on Sunday amid pomp and pageantry. The event, tagged “Celebrating African Renaissance,” was hosted by Nollywood actress, Osas Ighodaro and American media personality, Terrence J. Odumodublvck, Young Jonn, Wande Coal, Kcee, Black Sherif, Asake and others thrilled the audience with electrifying performances. Rema won the Best Male Artiste of the Year award, while Asake walked home with a brand new car after winning the highly coveted Next Rated category. Similarly, Odumodublvck won a house in Lagos after he was named the Rookie of the Year. After all the back and forth on social media, neither Blaqbonez nor TG Omori got the award for Best Music Video of the Year; Director K won the category. However, while receiving his award for the Best Rap Album of the Year which he won for ‘The Young Preacher’, Blaqbonez insisted that “TG Omori and I are still the best directors.” Overall, Rema led with three awards, including Best Male Artiste of the Year, Digital Artiste of the Year and African Artiste Of The Year. Meanwhile, the organisers didn’t present some of the categories, including Best Recording of The Year, Songwriter of The Year, Best RnB Single, Best Vocal Performance (Female), Headies Viewers’ Choice, Best East African artiste of the year, and Best North African Artiste of The Year. Others are Best Southern African Artiste of The Year, Best Central African Artiste of The Year, International Artiste Of The Year, Best Alternative Album, and Best RnB Album. Full List of Winners And Nominees: Best Rap Single Reminisce – Hustle Ladipoe – Big Energy Blaqbonez – Back in Uni Psycho YP – Bando Diaries OdumoduBlvck – Declan Rice (Winner) Jeriq, Phyno – My Bro Best Alternative Song Wizard Chan – Earth song Cruel Santino – Final champion Basketmouth, The Cavemen – The Traveller Boj, Moliy, Mellissa – In a loop Flavour – Game Changer Obongjayar – Tinko Tinko (Winner) Best Vocal Performance (Male) Oxlade – Ku Lo Sa Ric Hassani – My only baby Magixx – Love Don’t Cost A Dime Chike – Spell Remix Praiz – Reckless Wande Coal – Kpe Paso (Winner) Best Music Video Blaqbonez, Perliks – Back in Uni TG Omori – PBUY Director Pink – Spell Remix Director K – Common Person TG Omori – Bandana Director K – Calm Down (Winner) Best Rap Album Payper Corleone – Fly Talk Only Show Dem Camp – Palmwine Music Vol. 3 Blaqbonez – Young Preacher (Winner) Psycho YP – YPSZN3 Vector – TESLIM Jeriq – Billion Dollar Dream Lyricist On The Roll Ladipoe – Clowns Vector – Clowns Payper Corleone – Fly Talk Only (Winner) Alpha Ojini – Vigilante Bop A-Q – Family First Tec (SDC) – Live Life Producer of The Year Magicsticks – Sungba Remix Pheelz – Electricity Andre Vibez, London – Calm Down Tempoe – Soweto Kel P – Kpe Paso Rexxie – Abracadabra Remix (Winner) Best Male Artiste Asake Rema (Winner) Burna Boy Ruger Kizz Daniel Omah Lay Rookie of the Year Odumodu Blvck (Winner) Bloody Civilian Bayyani Guchi Eltee Skillz Khaid Best Inspirational Single Stand Strong – Davido Ft Sunday Service Choir Jireh (My Provider) – Limoblaze, Lecrae & Happi Music This Year – Victor Thompson & Ehis ‘d’ Greatest Eze Ebube – Neon Adejo (Winner) Tobechukwu – Nathaniel Bassey And Mercy Chinwo I Get Backing – Victoria Orenze Special Recognition Award Sound Sultan (posthumous) Afrobeats Single of The Year Burna Boy – Last Last (Winner) Ayra Starr – Rush Kizz Daniel, Tekno – Buga Pheelz, BNXN – Finesse Spyro – Who’s Your Guy Ruger – Asiwaju Digital Artiste Of The Year Burna Boy Ayra Starr Rema (Winner) Omah Lay Kizz Daniel Asake Best Street-Hop Artiste Rexxie, Naira Marley, Skiibii – Abracadabra Seyi Vibez – Chance (Winner) Asake – Joha

Poco Lee, HotKid – Otilo Zlatan, Young Jonn – Astalavista Mohbad – Peace Next Rated Spyro Seyi Vibez Young Jonn Asake (Winner) Victony Album Of The Year Burna Boy – Love, Damini Asake – Mr. Money With The Vibe (Winner) Rema – Rave & Roses Omah Lay – Boy Alone Victony – Outlaw Davido – Timeless Song of The Year Rema – Calm Down Burna Boy – Last Last (Winner) Oxlade – Ku Lo Sa Kizz Daniel, Tekno – Buga Pheelz, BNXN – Finesse Asake, Burna Boy – Sungba Remix Best Collaboration Asake, Burna Boy – Sungba Remix BNXN, Kizz Daniel, Seyi Vibez – Gwagwalada Pheelz, BNXN – Finesse Spyro, Tiwa Savage – Who’s Your Guy Remix (Winner) Pheelz, Davido – Electricity Wande Coal, Olamide – Kpe Paso African Artiste Of The Year Burna Boy (Nigeria) Marwa Loud (Morocco) Black Sherif (Ghana) Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania) Rema (Nigeria) – Winner Best West African Artiste of The Year Gyakie (Ghana) Black Sherif (Ghana) – Winner The Therapist (Liberia) Camidoh (Ghana) #16thHeadies #Asake #awardnight #Burnaboy #Headies #music #rema

[justicegeisler]

A Hundred Days In Lockdown, One Hundred Pics From Around South Africa

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Show Dem Camp Announces Release Date For ’Palmwine Music Vol. 3’ | SEE

Show Dem Camp Announces Release Date For ’Palmwine Music Vol. 3’ | SEE

The rap duo are set to thrill their fans with new music. Show Dem Camp Iconic Nigerian rap duo, Show Dem Camp, have announced the official release date for their upcoming album titled “Palmwine Music Vol. 3”. The Show Dem Camp duo of Tec and Ghost are one of the pioneers of Nigeria’s famous alte movement and are also contributing to the “Afrobeats to the World” movement. Having dropped the first…

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[dronmusic]

New release on Ping Discs' spectacular "Musical Mastication Volume 5" double CD compilation! Our track "Au Revoir" can be found on disc 1.

To discover, go to https://pingdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/musical-mastication-volume-5

Here is the original release text: The highly satisfying Musical Mastication series is back, with another jam-packed double grab-bag of hot sweaty nosh to make you phat for the dancefloor and ready for the plunge. This time we’ve gone double whoop, with a pair of wide-arse CDs that are bound to leave you running for the rowing machine at dawn. We heard your calls of ‘why can’t I go on holiday’, so we decided to bring the hotel resort to your living room, complete with fresh air removal to make you feel like you are really abroad, and not just broad from all the home-living. The first CD ‘Nosh On The Spinning Platter’ gives you those daytime vibes of wafting waiters, broken snooker cues and half-filled bingo cards, with several greasy courses of gooey grub that will make your jaw ache from the heavy mastication. The second CD ‘Night-time By The Pool’ allows you to cover your eyes with your damp trunks, lie back under the stars and feel those mozzies suck you dry as you sup your 2 litre cocktail of rum with rum and extra rum in the dark on the concrete slabs next to the hose. This really is an electronic spa banquet with teeth, and it’s guaranteed to have you coming back for more, not least because the lift is broken, there’s gangsters hangin’ out in the stair well, reception is closed, and all of the bedrooms have PVC mattresses. So come on, grab yer flip-flops and let it all hangout over the edge of everything with this truly indulgent holiday fiasco from mars… credits Vivid Flamingo double-CD in jewel case with amazing internal artwork. The pictures on the CDs themselves will literally leave you salivating… This is a Ping-discs release, curated and compiled by Myoptik. All proceeds from Musical Mastication Volume 5 go to MacMillan Cancer Support via Touched Music.

Full tracklist:

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Hotel Flamingo 01:34

Misterben - I'm A Bike 03:41

Incoma - FeelIt 04:07

Roy Of The Ravers and Myoptik - Last Of The Summer Acid (lockdown is over mix, featr winston acid) v2 03:50

BPMF - AIJACKBOTZ 05:45

Oxynucid - Elements 1 06:06

Drøn - Au Revoir 06:20

3Bot - Waterbreath 05:44

Tec-Ho - ldgbdp-Bythesea 03:08

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Have A Soovie Yeah 00:10

DJ Toren - Quazar Star 06:12

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Time For Hatz 00:34

The Horn - Cymbalinguist 05:55

Chris Cousins - Enabled 05:39

SLAKER - Electric Dream (analog mix) 04:47

Kim Cosmik - The Drive 06:15

Ian Lee - Machine Vacation 07:56

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Time For Spex 00:35

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Flamingo Pool 00:50

Myoptik - Nightrailz Two (Angelic Acid Scenes) 06:29

Phool -1 - Strewth 06:37

Min-Y-Llan - Hide And Seek 02:43

Rayspark Industries - Electrical Associations Pt 1 05:26

Ursa - 21st August 04:11

Southfacing - Pitted Olives 04:55

Dartmoor Slayer - Farmlands 04:17

Data Out - quint 03:09

Florian Forster - 20200505005 05:12

Francis Binns - Pebble In My Hand 06:13

Jim Tetlow - Cube Part XI 06:00

Gagarin - One Island Pond 03:42

Winkles - %uFFFD Who Cuts The Cheese (Docket Re-Edit) 07:56

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Happie Twentie 00:25

Goliath - Abnormal 04:08

Heinz and Francis - Zig It Up 00:19

Thomas Dean - Earth Call 02:58

Heinz Jaki-Volvo - Goodbye Flamingo 00:34

Roy Of The Ravers and Myoptik - Lockdown Homecoming 02:42

Reflexicon - Tearing Down The Dividing Walls 06:46

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[paulhaig]

Album reviews

Paul Haig is an independent songwriter, music producer and vocalist. He was originally the lead singer/songwriter in post-punk band 'Josef K' ('one of the most influential bands in Britain' - The Guardian). Paul has just finished working on his thirteenth solo album and it is the most involved and time consuming to date, incorporating a wide and diverse range of styles and production.

Album Reviews:

The former Josef K mainman's 13th solo album further ploughs his recent furrow by uniting found sounds, speech, glitchy programmed rhythms, samples of instruments and passages of electric guitar to create a form of environmental music nodding to Jon Hassell's Fourth World music as much as it does to similarly minded collagists such as Four Tet. (Mojo, 12/2018)

"Whether you want to hear a contemporary synth dance vibe or some guitar redolent of his 1980s band Josef K, The Wood will fulfil those needs. It won't be long before clever DJs from Ibiza to Miami are dropping portions of Sun Flicker, Acoustic Mangles or Floaty Appy into their sets, I'll wager. Younger generations please report back" (The Herald, 11/2018)

The Wood finds Haig exploring samples, beats, electronics and 'found sound' to sculpt something that's split into eight parts, but very much fit together as a whole. A soundscape of the strange and strangely danceable among the tranquillity in the forest, or of the mixed up feelings of the soul, or both, well that's what I think may be intended anyway." But everything here fits and you have to admire Haig's craftsmanship in the way it has been put together - producing a musical storybook without words in effect. Forty years into his recording career he's still breaking new ground. Long may he strive for the outer reaches, because those who want to be challenged a little in their listening will lap this up." (Louder Than War, 09/2018)

"We like records that push boundaries, and this certainly does that. Sure, Haig has pop hits at his finger tips, but with the eight tracks on The Wood he twists the formula. Opening with the kitchen-sinker Chasing the Tail, its soulful/folky vocal presses hard up against a plinky piano and swooping strings before a delicious locked-down groove takes hold; it's like three songs at once. The Wood is a collection of like-minded tunes rather than a journey from start to finish, but it is yet another bold record in a long line of bold recordings from Haig, a man who deserves your attention". (Electronic Sound, 09/2018)

"This Autumn sees Haig return to Les Disques du Crepuscule to present ‘The Wood’, his most ambitious studio album yet. An experimental exploration in glitch, house, jazz and more, ‘The Wood’ was written and recorded over a three year period with the spectre of twisted sonic technicians such as FOUR TET, FLOATING POINTS and LOVE OVER ENTROPY looming". Paul Haig spoke to The Electricity Club about his musical adventure in ‘The Wood’..(TEC, 09/2018)

"An atmospheric and experimental collection of eight tracks recorded over a three year period. Hooks and melodies are strong on an album that has more in common with contemporary electronic music than the existential post-punk of his original band Josef K. Haig is to be applauded for not taking the easy route, but the robust song composition throughout The Wood should win over fans who take time to listen.. 8/10" (Vive le Rock, 12/2018)

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AUTHOR REC: mediawhore / @mediawhorefics 

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The Murmur of Yearning (93k)

Four years ago, Harry Styles was forced into a marriage of convenience to enrich and ally both his and his promised's families. The sudden, and slightly suspicious, death of the Marquess of Haxshire, however, brings great disturbance to Crescentfield Hall and, as his late's husband's closest male relative, Harry unexpectedly finds himself the head of a family he never felt he belonged to. Between a meddling distant cousin hellbent on inserting himself in Harry’s life, his wicked and mistrustful mother-in-law and his late husband’s advisors refusing to help or take him seriously, Harry struggles in the fight to keep what he’s earned and make the Estate finally feel like home.

Luckily, he doesn’t stand completely alone and finds himself an unlikely ally in Mr Tomlinson, the elusive Land Stewart who has been taking care of the property in the shadows for years. Louis Tomlinson is caring, patient, and unlike everyone else, he doesn’t seem to think Harry committed a murder.

‘Sup (6.7k)

Gemma really wants her little brother to sign up for a dating app and get back in the game after a messy divorce. Harry thinks he’s way too old to swipe. They compromise to devastatingly embarrassing results.

Meanwhile, all Louis wants is to finish the play he’s been commissioned to write, but one of the regulars at his local coffee shop keeps distracting him.

ft. older larry, pushy gemma, harry being a disaster gay and silver fox louis.

Tired Tired Sea (113k)

As a B&B owner on the most remote of all the British Isles, Louis Tomlinson is used to spending the coldest half of the year in complete isolation, with his dog and the sea as sole companions. Until, one day, a mysterious stranger on a quest to rebuild himself rents a room for the winter.

The Blood of Words (33.7k)

Louis Tomlinson hasn’t sworn off relationships per se. He just doesn’t think he’s quite ready for one yet, despite his therapist’s encouragements. He’s comfortable in his position as editor for Styles Publishing and he’s happy to focus on his career while he gives himself more time to heal.

Enter his CEO’s brother, a boxer with a heart of gold who is determined to carve himself a space in Louis’ life and, more importantly, his heart.

Peace In Your Arms (1.5k)

The happily ever after ... Or a series of TEC codas 

the dead things we carry (25k)

September ‘49 He hasn’t seen him since that day in France, that horrible muddy day where for one terrifyingly long second, Louis really thought he was going to die. He winces with the phantom pain, the hand not holding his cane going to his stomach automatically, remembering the franticness, the tenderness, of Harry’s hands while Louis was bleeding out.

This is the man who saved Louis’ life.

For one second, Louis fears Harry won’t recognise him, but his eyes widen when he turns to his left and they meet Louis’. He takes a step forward, reaching for him with a shaky hand before stopping himself.

“Louis,’ Harry says with a shudder and Louis doesn’t think his name has ever carried more weight.

This is the only man Louis ever thought about kissing for real.

“Oh,” Mrs. Padley says, clearly taken aback. “You two know each other?”

There are some things people never fully come home from. Until, one day, if they’re lucky, home comes to them.

Things Gone Cold (24k)

"your heart is warm for things gone cold.”— Sophocles, Antigone

With his soulmate’s thoughts about him written on his skin and the world’s eyes trailing his every movement, Harry Styles is having a bit of a rough time releasing his second album in peace. And that’s not even counting the breakup. Or the car crash.

Through Eerie Chaos (102k)

For as long as anyone can remember, Old Hillsbridge Manor has always been believed to be haunted. Everyone in the village agrees and keeps a respectful, fearful, distance. New in town after a bad breakup and an internship that led to disappointment rather than a permanent job, Harry Styles figures taking pictures of the decrepit building could be a great new creative project. Or at least a much-needed distraction while he searches for a job and crashes at his parents’ new house. No one warned him about the apparitions though; about the music, the laughter, the people who flicker and vanish when you call after them, the echoes of a past that should be long gone… Harry has never believed in spirits but even he can admit that there’s something weird going on. What starts as mere curiosity evolves into a full-blown investigation and soon enough, Harry finds himself making friends with an aristocrat from the 1920s and struggling with finding the best way to tell him that he’s dead.

The Ghost Hunter AU where Niall lives to prove ghosts are real, Zayn is a skeptical librarian and Harry gets caught up in a century-old mystery and catches feeling in the process.

Sleep It Off (844)

I've felt better ! Hello 2017 !!

What do you mean he’s coming? (15k)

When Harry accepted to be his sister’s Maid of Honour, despite how non-traditional of a choice he was, he didn’t think writing a speech for the wedding reception would be this hard. Now, not only does he have less than two weeks left to find something moving and inspirational to say, but Gemma just confided in him that her old childhood best friend is going to be in attendance. The one who moved to LA and they haven’t seen in fifteen years because he was too busy becoming an Academy Awards winner. But hey, no pressure. It’s just Louis Fucking Tomlinson.

Harry is screwed.

a fully armed battalion (to remind you of my love) (5.6k)

“He was flirting with you by the way,” Niall says casually once he’s finished saying goodbye to Louis and he’s joined Harry outside.

“No he wasn’t,” Harry replies automatically, feeling his heart clench at the thought. Was he?

Niall simply raises a mocking eyebrow in response before wrapping his scarf twice around his neck.

“Not that it matters!” Harry says quickly, eyes widening. “I wouldn’t care even if he did because he’s awful and the worst.”

Everyone at Hogwarts knows that Professor Styles and Professor Tomlinson absolutely despise each other. It's too bad that they're in love.

Coax the Cold (86k)

England, 1897.

English Professor Louis Tomlinson’s passion for the occult has been a source of mockery and derision for most of his life. When he hears whispers of a travelling freak show newly established in London claiming the existence of a monstrous sea hybrid, half-man, half-fish, Louis sees it as his ticket to credibility amongst his peers. The summer he spends undercover working on the show, however, gives him much more than that.

All These Lights (34.8k)

“People vote for alphas because they’re strong and they’re not only beautiful but also mesmerizing. They make you want to give them all of your attention, make you want to beg for some of theirs back. They’re shiny, oozing sex appeal and a commanding presence, and people always want more and more. Omegas are enticing too for sure, but it’s not the same. It makes people uncomfortable. It doesn’t make them want to root for you.”

the canon fic where Harry is an omega and dreams come with a price.

wash him deep where the tides are turning (3.7k)

"When Harry finally tells Louis about his family’s curse and the true love spell that broke it, they’ve been dating for seven months, nineteen days and about twelve hours and Louis’ cock is buried deep inside his arse."

Part two of a practical magic au.

a long way down (to the bottom of the river) (24k)

“ Most people would call Harry silly for believing in curses. Childish would also be a probable insult thrown his way. In their little town full of little people, Harry’s whimsical nature and beliefs mean that he’s subjected to frequent judgemental looks and whispers. It doesn’t usually bother him. Most people don’t know about the magic thrumming through his veins or about how powerful words can truly be. Most people don’t carry around their ancestors grief like a burden. They don’t have to pay for deeds hundreds of years old like Harry and his family have. They get to love freely without fear.

Harry and his kin aren’t so lucky.”

a practical magic au in which Harry and his sister accidentally kill her abusive boyfriend with magic and Louis is the D.I working the case.

loose lips sink ship all the damn time (not this time) (39k)

“Louis Tomlinson is gay,” Fiona announces and she sounds calm at least. “That’s not a scandal,” Nick replies automatically even though he feels slightly sick. He needs to call Louis back. Now. “No,” Fiona agrees quickly. “But his underage gay sex tape is.” The one where Louis is outed via a sex tape he made before the X-Factor and Nick can't resist flying to America to give him a shoulder to cry on. Told through flashbacks, this is a story of getting together and getting back together.

all that i’ll ever need is in your eyes (4.2k)

Louis has known he's going to marry Harry Styles since he was eighteen years old. Five years later, he has the perfect proposal planned. Too bad he can't help blurting it out while they're detained at the mall.

hi hater, kiss kiss (3.8k)

Nick has had a crush on Louis Tomlinson ever since he first saw him perform on the x-factor. Almost four years later, he's finally accepted that their ongoing, unstoppable feud is the only thing the two of them will ever share. One game of Call or Delete with Niall Horan, however, starts to shake this belief.

your bones illuminate (5.4k)

High School AU Snapshots of Harry and Louis' relationship through their last year of sixth form. Warning: There is no plot. Only fluff.

the last people standing (at the end of the night) (7.4k)

Sequel to the greatest pretenders (in the cold morning light)

A year after his undercover assignment ended, Louis should finally feel at peace. With Cowell & Co finally dead or behind bars, his life is more simple than ever. It's too bad his feelings can't be buried as deep as the people he's lost.

An undercover cops AU

you think fashion is your friend, my friend (fashion is danger) (27k)

"Louis has one rule, and one rule only, that he simply refuses to break. He forbids himself to be attracted to anyone he might work with. No wanking to models who might wear his clothes! It’s hardly fair, considering he spends 95% of his time working with the most attractive men on the planet, but his career is more important. Besides, in Louis’ experience, it always leads to disaster. Harry Styles makes respecting the rule really damn hard though and Louis is not quite sure why."

the one where Louis is a famous British designer and Harry is the clumsy, most likely straight model that makes his heart race.

the greatest pretenders (in the cold morning light) (41.5k)

undercover cops/the departed au

Louis and Nick are on two different sides of the law and mobster Simon Cowell is not the only person they have in common. The one where Louis is an undercover cop and Harry is the court-ordered shrink who refuses to prescribe him Valium.

#writer appreciation week #1dsource #hljournal #fics #author rec

[kkv-main]

news - 2021.05.26

本日NEHANN 1stアルバム『New Metropolis』をリリース！

https://big-up.style/6fQEwW2IOp

ダークな色気を纏い、漆黒のサウンドを鳴らし、唯一無二の存在感を放つ5人組バンドNEHANN。現在コロナウイルスの影響により、世界中に暗雲が立ち込め様々な思いが交錯する中で制作された、全10曲入りのファーストアルバムがついにリリース。

ニューウェーブやポストパンクの美学を正しく受け継ぎ、グランジ〜オルタナティヴ以降のセンスを散りばめ、現行インディーやダークウェイブとも共鳴する現在進行形のアンサンブルを鳴らしているネハン。キリキリヴィラから発売された7インチStarやNylonに加え、BLACK HOLEレーベルからリリースされたTECとEnding Song、自主リリースのUnder the Sun、Labyrinth、HAZARDなど、新アレンジで収録。時代を超える名曲Ending Songの新録音の美しさはすべての音楽ファンを虜にするだろう。

世界の情勢を体現したようなディストピア的なサウンドで共感を呼ぶだけでなく、そのネガティヴを打ち砕くような力強い楽曲とパフォーマンスで、聴く人々にエネルギーを与える。リアルなディストピア感に覆われた東京で、個人が分断されてしまった世界で生きる20代の思いを代弁するメッセージアルバムでもある。

現代の東京やサイバーパンクの要素を反映したヴィジュアルやアートワークも含め、NEHANNにしかない世界観を作り上げている。今後彼らの存在はTOKYO発の新しい感性として世界に届くのではないだろうか。

7/15(木)渋谷WWWにてリリースイベントも決定。共演者は後日発表。 バンドのSNSにて親交を持つ10人から��コメントも公表されている。

NEHANN / New Metropolis CD発売中 KKV-115 2,500円税込 収録曲 1. Nylon 2. Hollowed Hearts 3. Concealment 4. Under the Sun 5. Labyrinth 6. TEC 7. Curse 8. HAZARD 9. Ending Song 10. Star

NEHANN 1st Full Album Release Show『New Metropolis』 7月15日 渋谷WWW open 18:30 start 19:00 出演：NEHANN ゲスト：To Be Announced Ticket : 3,500円＋Drink

NEHANN（ネハン） NEHANN 2019年2月結成、東京を中心に活動する5人組ポストパンクバンド。ニューウェーブやポストパンクの美学を正しく受け継ぎ、グランジ～オルタナティヴ以降のセンスを散りばめ、現行インディーやダークウェイブとも共鳴し漆黒のサウンドを鳴らす。現代の東京やサイバーパンクの要素を反映したヴィジュアルやアートワークも含め、NEHANNにしかない独自の世界観を作り上げている。コロナウイルスの影響を受けながらも精力的にライブ活動と制作を行い、2021年5月ファーストフルアルバムNew Metroplisをリリース。コロナウイルスの影響により延期となってしまったが、Sheer MagやCrack Cloudの来日公演にも出演決定。自主企画ではブッキングからフライヤーまで全て自分たちで作り上げソールドアウトも記録。 https://twitter.com/nehannband

[dreamings-free]

How Harry Styles Became A Modern Style Icon

by Phoe­be Luck­hurst - Evening Standard 15/11/19

A man wrought in the fires of teenage boy­band hy­per-stardom is not afraid of a lit­tle commotion. Still when Harry Styles — the One Di­rec­tion mat­inée idol turned lan­guid Gen Z icon — tweeted, at 1.01 pm GMT on Wed­nes­day af­ter­noon, that he would be tak­ing his up­com­ing album Fine Line on tour, you could, if at­tuned to the cor­rect de­mo­graphic fre­quency, hear the howl echo around the in­ter­net: gut­tural, hun­gry, ul­u­lat­ing. This was a pseudo-re­li­gious experience: one vi­ral meme de­picted the Pope hold­ing a copy of his al­bum aloft. The announce­ment has been retweeted al­most 70,000 times.

The 25-year old is a tour vet­eran — he spent five years and five al­bums strapped to the thunder­ing 1D jug­ger­naut — but this new tour is his first as a bona fide solo brand. The al­bum, his first in two years, is synth-soaked and soul­ful, the al­bum’s aes­thetic fever­-dreamy. Granted, he’s not the first per­son to go to So­Cal, try a few magic mush­rooms and de­clare him­self radically trans­formed, but the re­sults are be­guil­ing — and cer­tainly a world away from his years as a Simon Cow­ell Ken doll. Since his last record, he has co- hosted t he Met Gala and been reborn as an Alessan­dro Michele muse. This is your Styles crib sheet.

Melody maker

Styles’s new al­bum — writ­ten un­der a tie-dye mist af­ter tak­ing the afore­men­tioned psychedelics, which also re­sulted in a mishap in which he bit off the tip of his tongue — is “all about hav­ing sex and feel­ing sad”, which, granted, as a topline, does not wildly dif­fer­en­ti­ate the record from the genre of “al l other mu­sic ever”. Still, the early signs for Fine Line are encouraging. Its first sin­gle, Lights Up—which has been streamed al­most 100 mil­lion times on Spo­tify —is­ synth-y, soul­ful, un­der­stat­edly an­themic, very dif­fer­ent to, and bet­ter than, the lead sin­gle on his last solo record, the Seven­ties, soft-rock Sign of the Times( it still, of course, hit No 1), and very, very dif­fer­ent from any­thing he did with 1D. Many thou­sands of words have been writ­ten about whether there is a bi­sex­ual sub­text to Lights Up. It has been noted that the song was re­leased on Na­tional Com­ing Out Day, that Styles’s sex­u­al­ity has been sub­ject to fren­zied specu­la­tion be­fore, the video fea­tures an oiled-up, top­less Styles gy­rat­ing around men and women, and that the lyrics (“Shine, I’m not ever go­ing back/ Shine, step into the light”) could be in­ter­preted as a mean­ing­ful rev­e­la­tion of sorts. Cer­tainly, he has be­come a queer icon — especially with Gen Z — who are thrilled by his se­lec­tion of gen­derqueer singer-song­writer King Princess as his sup­port act for the Euro­pean part of his tour. Speak­ing of col­lab­o­ra­tors, Styles worked on the al­bum with pro­duc­ers Tyler John­son, who has worked with Tay­lor Swift, Mi­ley Cyrus and Ed Sheeran, and Jeff Bhasker, who has collabo­rated wit h Mark Ron­son and Kanye West, and his friend, Tom Hull, aka Kid Har­poon, who co-wrote Shake It Out for Florence + The Ma­chine. He has also been granted a fairy god­mother: Ste­vie Nicks, who called him her “lit­tle muse” at Fleetwood Mac’s hyped Wembley head­line gig i n J une. “S he’s a l ways there for you,” Styles has said in the past. “She knows what you need: ad­vice, a lit­tle wis­dom, a blouse, a shawl.” Sure.

Got Styles

Any young man raised in the white heat of a boy­band spot­light must be granted the space to find his fash­ion path; Styles has done so with no mis­steps and ex­u­ber­ant plea­sure. Once upon a time, he would sem­a­phore his in­di­vid­u­al­ity with a ban­dana; now, he turns up to a cover interview with Rolling Stone in a white floppy hat, blue denim bell-bot­toms and Gucci shades, his nails coloured pink and green. His favourite trousers, un­til he lost them on the beach, were a pair of mus­tard cor­duroy flares; this week, he wore a Lan­vin sweater vest with a sheep de­sign that sent a co­terie of Lon­don menswear stylists into throes of ec­stasy. He wears flo­ral suits and Cuban heels, ruf­fled, New Ro­man­tic shirts, Charles Jef­frey jump­suits and pussy- bow blouses. It is flam­boy­ant, self-con­sciously Bowie/Jag­ger, and in Gen Z par­lance, “very ex­tra”. His stylist Harry Lam­bert is par­tial to an ex­trav­a­gant col­lar, dra­matic neck­line and a vo­lu­mi­nous trouser.

Be­sides Lam­bert, an­other part of this evo­lu­tion has been his re­la­tion­ship with Gucci’s cre­ative di­rec­tor Michele, who has turned the Ital­ian her­itage brand into the ul­ti­mate post-gen­der lux­ury fash­ion la­bel, the first to merge their menswear and wom­enswear, and dis­patch male mod­els down the cat­walk in dresses and women in suits. A good look for a Gen Z idol.

With the brand

Notably, the brand­ing on this al­bum and its tour art­work is con­sis­tent with this new look Styles. The al­bum cover fea­tures Styles i n white cus­tom- made Gucci bell bot­toms and a Pep­to Bismol-pink shirt, open al­most to the waist, shot by mod-goth Tim Walker with a fish­eye lens (it is Walker’s hand in that S&M glove you can see in the left-hand cor­ner). In the dreamy video for Lights Up he wears a glit­tery suit and sus­penders, in a sort of hal­lu­ci­na­tory ver­sion of Satur­day Night Fever. Into it.

Stand up

Then there’s his voice — not the mu­sic, but the ac­tivism. Even as one-fifth of a boy­band manufac­tured by Cow­ell’s al­go­rithm, he was quick, quippy and itch­ing to go off-mes­sage; but now that he con­trols his own, he is am­pli­fy­ing causes such as Black Lives Mat­ter and End Gun Violence. He wore stick­ers for both on his gui­tar on his last tour, which might sound small, except that photographs of Styles gal­lop around the dig­i­tal world at hy­per­speed. At con­certs, he has waved pride, bi and trans flags, and a Black Lives Mat­ter flag. He once bor­rowed a flag from an au­di­ence mem­ber at a show in Philadel­phia that read, “Make Amer­ica Gay Again”. At a show on his last tour, he de­clared: “If you are black, if you are white, if you are gay, if you are straight, if you are trans­gen­der — who­ever you are, who­ever you want to be, I sup­port you.”

A vo­cal, en­gaged fan­dom of teenage girls minted his mul­ti­mil­lion-pound for­tune; he is loyal and ad­mir­ing of their zeal. “They’re the most hon­est — es­pe­cially if you’re talk­ing about teenage girls, but older as well,” he told Rolling Stone this sum­mer. “They have that bull­shit de­tec­tor. We’re so past that dumb out­dated nar­ra­tive of ‘Oh, these peo­ple are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talk­ing about.’ They’re the ones who know what they’re talk­ing about. They’re the peo­ple who lis­ten ob­ses­sively. They f***ing own this shit. They’re run­ning it.” Ob­vi­ously, he’s a fem­i­nist. “Of course men and women should be equal. I don’t want credit for be­ing a fem­i­nist. I think the ideals of fem­i­nism are pretty straight­for­ward.” An icon is born.

#harry styles #evening standard #15.11.19 #article #stylesupdated #hlsource #hs2 promo #harry #mine

[moonlightreal]

Winx Club Season 8/12

In which Valtor finally gets his villain on! (eventually)

12 Surprise Party on Earth

We open with some more nice wide shots of Valtor’s asteroid.  Our villain is in a thoughtful mood, which I’d screencap for you if my program did caps.  He also seems to be wearing purple eyeshadow, which continues to prove my point that eye makeup = evil in the Winx ‘verse.

He’s watching a big all-round hologram of space, and suddenly a comet streaks across the view.  Valtor is delight!  This is “the wishing star.  It hasn’t been seen in the magic universe for almost a thousand years! I must have it!  It’s the only way to make my ultimate wish come true!”

Sounds interesting!

But here comes Obscurum to interrupt Valtor’s rant.  “Ahem.  Sorry to interrupt such a glorious dream, your Foolishness, but you do know your dark powers will prevent you from getting anywhere near the wishing star.”

Valtor already knows, but he says he can power up be getting himself some Cosmix! And he does a really lecherous grin and we cut to…

Orion’s ship! Orion does the most adorable, “What did you bring me from Syderia?” and is delight when Bloom presents him with the crystal of “condensed star energy.”  

Twinkle suggests using it for a paperweight or bookends but Orion says he can make a prototype mini star core.  If it works he can make new cores for all the stars Valtor destroyed.

Bloom’s phone buzzes.  Shy is suggesting a romantic dinner.  The Winx are immediately all opver the romance, except for Tecna, who is...having that geekfest with Orion that I wanted her to have a few episodes ago!  They’re talking about how to boost the power of the new star cores.

Stella: “Who needs romance when there’s some new hypertechnothingamajig about to be built?” ^^

Bloom says Tecna and Orion are right, the mission needs to come first.  “I’m just sorry Sky and I have so little time to see each other.”  Bloom sounds quite chipper, but her face is sad.  I think the actress didn’t do the emotion right for that line.

Flora suggests the Winx can handle things so Bloom can see Sky, but Bloom has to go to Earth for her mom’s birthday.  So she has to turn Sky down.

Tec and Orion are still talking star cores.  Adorable.

So the rest of the Winx will continue to do outer space stuff while Bloom heads to earth.

Cut to Gardenia! Mike is waiting on the beach, holding a cute picture of young Bloom. She turns up, and they hug.  They’re going to throw a surprise party for Vanessa.  Mike says it should be easy since Bloom can just snap her fingers and do it with magic, which brings up a whole bunch of thoughts about what it would really be like if some people could use magic like that.  Well maybe magic is like money, one-percenters can snap their fingers and make stuff happen too.

But Bloom wants to set up the party without using any magic!

Mike is going to take Vanessa out to lunch so she doesn’t suspect.  He asks Bloom if she’s sure she doesn’t need help.

“Dad I’m a fairy, I bring light back to drained stars.  I think I can handle a party.”

Cue predictable comedic failure montage!  Bloom attempts to set up a beach party without magic and stuff goes wrong.

On his Asteroid Valtor is talking to himself again.  he’s looking at a projection of the universe that’s going from blue to purple which I think means the spread of drained stars.  He’s gotten a lot, apparently.

“I’ve drained the light of one star after another to increase my powers, but the Winx always manage to save the day!  No more!  they’ll never stand in my way again, once the Cosmix power is mine...”  Counting your chickens before they hatch, huh Valtor?  He rants a bit more.  His plan is to get at Bloom through her family.

Obscurum turns up in a hologram; he’s on Lumenia.  His favorite spot.  He rambles a bit about becoming king.

Valtor dumps Obscurum through a portal into a river.

Beach!  Vanessa arrives for her surprise party!  With a bunch of people we’ve never seen before.  Bloom did get it set up without magic.

Sweet moments with Bloom and her family.  Bloom’s given her mom a photo album with pictures of her childhood.  They talk about Bloom’s adventures in space, but she says her home will always be with them.  She also says that all the places she goes are places I trouble, and she looks quite pensive, and Mike reminds her that here in Gardenia she’s safe.

No mention of Bloom’s other family—which is fine, I love her earth family, but it does make me wonder if the Season 8 Timeslide has erased Bloom’s Domino family from the timeline.  That would be a pretty big change.

As they go to cut the cake, Valtor decides it’s time to blow the earth’s candle out!  He opens a portal near the sun… but not the mass of incandescent gas that we know it as, this sun is a honeycomb ball of glowing yellow stone.  Staryums pour into the caves.

But the sun’s lumens are badass!  They’re Roman lumens with lil helmets and armored skirts and some of them are carrying blowguns  they’re prepared to defend their light!

So the staryums get together and turn into starchomps.

Roman lumen attack! Darts away!  I think they’re shooting starlight from their blowguns.

The starchomps get together and grow into an even bigger stompy monster!  It scares the lumens away and starts punching the sun’s star core!

The rest of the Winx meanwhile are on Lumenia.  Tecna shows off the prototype star core to Queen Dorana.  Dorana worries, quite reasonably, that once the stars are repowered the staryums will just come back and drain them again.  She wishes her brother Argen were here; “he’d certainly know how to stop them for good.”  flora reassures the queen that her brother will come home soon.  And until then, the Winx will fight them1

Twinkle reminds everyone that we don’t want to hurt the staryums.  Then she flies and hugs Queen Dorana’s foot, which is very cute but Dorana looks kinda uncomfortable.  She reminds the girkls that she turned Lumilla back to herself by hugging them.  So more hugs should turn the rest of the staryums back!

Dorana is skeptical.

Musa and Aisha do not like the idea of hugging staryums!  Anyway, there aren’t enough of us to hug them all!

Flora says that hugging is the only way.  ‘Only when they feel loved and accepted will they turn back into lumens.

Well I guess it’s a version of the Kiss of True Love, the Hug of True Acceptance?  I once read a book where they were trying to disenchant some people and there was a line about “it has to be true love, not brotherly love” which made me wonder if there are other spells that would only be lifted by Brotherly Love.

Anyway, Queen Dorana feels unwell suddenly and sinks to the ground.  Something bad is happening!  Twinkle’s projector-thingy shows the sun is under attack!  Everyone’s worried!  They leap into action!

Party is party. Then it goes dark!  The sun is flickering!

Valtor summons dark giants from under the sea!  I presume he left them there earlier. They’re the same color as staryums but not furry, they’re more towards “made of living shadow” type of look, with a eye-ish circle on the head, lines of mystic runes, and Valtor’s mark.  Very cool.  Two of them come tromping towards the beach.  People panic and run.

Bloom: Oh, well, now I’ve got two problems to solve.  Save the sun and save Gardenia from those whatever-they-are!”  She sounds wonderfully exasperated.

Mike says there’s only one Bloom, but she says she’s never alone.  And calls Sky. This isn’t the date they wanted, but giants are attacking.  

Sky: “Let me guess, Valtor?”

The Specialists will fight the giants while Bloom hugs her folks and heads for the sun.  Sky did want to go with Bloom, but she basically ordered him to do giant duty.  I wonder if this will come up in their inevitable couple-drama.  Bloom flew off in Cosmix, but it doesn’t show her transforming in front of her parents.

Inside the sun the rest of the Winx face off the punchy monster that Aisha calls a megachomp when Bloom arrives.  Megachomp punches things, then it noms the core in one bite.  Heh.  He just swallowed it.

Flora: “Maybe if we hug him he’ll turn into… well, a lot of lumens.”

Stella: “Sure Flora.  You go first.”

They decide on some magic zapping instead.

Then there’s Valtor!  In the flesh!  The first time he’s left his lair all season!  He’s floating just outside the cave.  Stella even comments on this, saying he’s never crawled out from under his rock before.

Valtor: “Are you kidding, Stella?  This is a special occasion!  The sun’s gone dark, the earth is about to be destroyed, and Bloom will be forced to make the hardest decision of her life.’

Valtor summons a portal and blasts Bloom through it.  Then he ducks back through his own portal, escaping.

In magic-space, or outer space, our hero and villain face off.

Bloom: “We beat you before, Valtor!  And for sure we’ll do it again!”

Valtor: “I only lost because I let you do my bidding.  But you won’t get away with it so easily this time.”

...what?  No really, what did that sentence even say?  ‘Let you do my bidding’..?  What?

Bloom summons magic.  Valtor summons an image of cars on the highway and people flee from Gardenia, while the giants tromp towards shore.  On the beach Vanessa refuses to leave until she knows Bloom is safe.  Well that’s dumb.

Bloom: “They’d better not be in any danger!”

Valtor: ‘Oh, sorry, it’s too late.  They already are.”

Who WROTE these lines? -_-

Dark giant summons flying staryum-monkeys that attack the people on the beach!

Bloom is ready to fight, but Valtor is the only one who can stop the ‘stargoyles’ and the dark giants.  So Bloom can’t take him out or the monsters would be freed from his control and run amok, he’s saying.  Bloom says the specialists are on the way, but Valtor points out that his monsters are already THERE, innocent people are about to be toast, right now.

Bloom: Then I’ll fight them myself!  I’m not scared of your dark magic!”

Valtor laughs.  “Ah but if you save your parents, who’s going to save your friends?”

And we see the Winx having no luck against the megachomp, which looks a lot bigger than in the last scene.

Valtor: ‘And you know, without the sun your parents won’t survive anyway.  They trust you.  Will you betray them?”

Yes!  THIS is an appropriately evil Valtor, at last!  Once his lines started making sense.

Bloom looks back and forth between the two images, unable to decide.

Valtor presents his third option: give him the Cosmix power.

Bloom: “Never! You’d become even stronger!”

Valtor: “Right. But it’s still the best choice.”  he promises to let everybody live if he gets the power.

Bloom wavers.

#winx club season 8 #winx club

[dickvanas]

Zanger ‘A writer shade of pale’ overleden

Zanger Gary Brooker, bekend als frontman van Procol Harum, is op 76-jarige leeftijd overleden. De frontman stierf op zaterdag 19 februari aan de gevolgen van kanker. Het overlijden van Brooker werd vorige week dinsdagmiddag bekendgemaakt. De Britse muzikant streed al een tijd lang tegen kanker. Hij zou in alle vrede in zijn huis zijn overleden.

Samen met Keith Reid richtte Brooker in 1966 de band Procol Harum op. In de legendarische groep neemt hij de leadzang en de toetsen voor zijn rekening. Procol Harum bestaat in eerste instantie tot 1977, maar de band komt in 1991 weer bij elkaar. Na die reünie brengt de groep nog drie albums uit, waarvan Novum uit 2017 (het twaalfde album van de groep) het laatste werk is.

Naast zijn werk met Procol Harum brengt Brooker ook solomuziek uit en werkt hij samen met artiesten als Eric Clapton en George Harrison. Zo werkt hij mee aan All Things Must Pass, de soloplaat van de voormalige Beatle.

In 2003 werd Brooker geridderd door Prince Charles voor zijn hulp aan goede doelen. "Ik ben erg verrast en trots om deze erkenning te kunnen ontvangen", liet de zanger destijds weten.

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Met Brooker als frontman leverde Procol Harum met A Whiter Shade of Pale een van dé kenmerkende tracks uit de sixties af. Voor de song uit 1967 liet de Britse groep zich inspireren door een passage uit Suite No. 3 in D-majeur, ook wel bekend als Air, van Johann Sebastian Bach. Het nummer is sinds vorig jaar onlosmakelijk verbonden met de moord op Peter R. de Vries. Na het overlijden van de misdaadjournalist ontving A Whiter Shade of Pale, De Vries' favoriete nummer, een enorme hoeveelheid stemmen. Als gevolg daarvan stond het nummer op de derde plek in de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000.

Brooker haalt zijn muzikale inspiratie voor het nummer uit Bach: "Ik weet nog dat ik een muzikaal idee had dat ik op de piano uitwerkte. 'Air On The G String', een compositie van Bach. Ik denk dat ik na de eerste twee maten een fout maakte, maar ik ging door op mijn eigen manier. Toen schreef ik de sequens, die een Bach-achtige melodie had." Volgens de frontman vallen alle stukjes die ochtend op de juiste plaats: "Ik ontving een envelop met nieuwe teksten van Keith erin. 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' was de eerste die ik opende." Tekstschrijver Keith Reid komt op een feestje op het idee voor 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale': "Er zaten wat mensen gezellig bij elkaar. Ze hadden het over een vriend van hen en zeiden: 'Je ziet er wat vreemd uit. Een beetje bleek.' Zo kom ik aan de titel van het nummer." Reid heeft veel bewondering voor de schilder Salvador Dalí: "Soms denk je: Ik wil dat het nummer voelt zoals een Dalí-schilderij eruitziet. De kleuren van een schilderij probeer je om te zetten in woorden." Het nummer zorgt voor veel opschudding. Volgens Brooker is de reden simpel: "Er bestond nog geen muziek in deze stijl. Het was iets compleet nieuws."

Geschiedenis

Gary Brooker had zijn eerste echte muzikale succes met The Paramounts. Hij formeerde de band in 1962 met vriend en gitarist Robin Trower. In 1966 richtte Brooker samen met Keith Reid Procol Harum op. Met debuutsingle A Whiter Shade Of Pale scoort de Britse band in 1967 wekenlang een nummer 1-hit in de Top 40. De track belandt in 1972 opnieuw op de eerste plek in de hitlijst. Dit jaar stond het nummer op de derde plaats van de Top 2000, mede omdat het het lievelingsnummer was van de overleden misdaadjournalist Peter R. de Vries. 

Gary Brooker was naast zijn werk voor de band onder meer betrokken bij soloprojecten van George Harrison, Eric Clapton en Paul McCartney. 

 Hij werd geboren in Londen, 29 mei 1945 - 19 februari 2022 was een  Engels  zanger,  componist,  pianist en oprichter van de rockband Procol Harum. Brooker componeerde onder meer de tophits A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967) en Homburg  (1967). Samen met Ad Visser maakte hij in februari 1987 de vijf en een halve minuut durende single No News From The Western Frontier, afkomstig van het album Hi-tec Heroes, die echter bleef steken in de tipparade.

Brooker werd op 14 juni 2003 benoemd tot Lid in de Orde van het Britse Rijk ter waardering voor zijn inspanningen voor liefdadigheidsorganisaties.

Donderdag zetten onder meer NPO Radio 1, NPO Radio 2, NPO 3FM, 100% NL, Sky Radio, Radio 538, Radio Veronica en Radio 10 de lievelingsplaat van de overleden misdaadverslaggever Peter R. de Vries aan, melden de zenders woensdagochtend.

(Door Dick van As)

[thebandcampdiaries]

Export Hi Tec - FUBUHITEC

Great hip-hop with an open mind and an eclectic feel.

Summary:

Hailing from Baltimore, Export Hi Tec is a rapper, producer and mixing engineer who really sets the bar higher in terms of creativity and vision.

Review:

Export Hi Tec is a talented rap artist with a really unique vision. Inspired by seminal performers such as Wiz Khalifa, Soulja Boy or 50Cent, he is all about delivering that punchy, clever and witty lyrical flow to the audience. His unique blend of rap music combines elements of alternative and underground, but it is also very catchy and unique, making for a really powerful and direct feel.

Recently, Export Hi Tec set out to release a fantastic brand new project titled “FUBUHITEC.”

This release is currently available throughout all major music retail platforms, and it is constantly gaining momentum due to its exciting production value and masterful execution. Export Hi Tec has a really unique voice, and his lyrical content is also very engaging. His music truly has a very different style, and it is a great example of what is happening in the Baltimore music scene, where this artist is from. 

For him, music is first and foremost a way to express himself, and great hip-hop is all about honest storytelling. What better way to share, tell stories and connect with the audience? This EP has songs that blur the lines between different styles and ideas, and each song has a slightly different feel. In addition to performing all of the material, Export Hi Tec actually mixed and mastered everything on his own, meaning that his creative control also extends to the way he creates the music and soundscapes, and not just songwriting!

As a result of such a personal artistic involvement, Export Hi Tec really managed to make this release sound very personal, yet punchy and competitive with all the other rap that’s out there. The low end is always punchy and fat, while the songs have a lot of presence, without ever being harsh. The best thing about this artist is definitely the way he utilizes his talent to really set the bar higher and try new ideas. Some rappers are stuck in the same old patterns and cliches, but maybe the fact that Export Hi Tec is also able to produce himself, mix and master his own tracks, can also be seen as a way to push creativity and try new things, without feeling stuck in the same patterns!

Find out more about Export Hi Tec, and do not miss out on “FUBUHITEC” and other exciting releases from this talented artist.

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