From the pastel wallpapered rooms of suburban office parks everywhere, a soft sound emerged to offset the hard edges of 1980s new corporate lifestyle. A mixture of lightweight R&B, computer jazz, Quiet Storm, and instrumental easy-listening, Smooth Jazz painted an airbrushed wave over the American economy in a pre-internet era.
Enjoy the timeless soundtrack of Tony Takitani with this Ryuichi Sakamoto LP. Immerse yourself in Ryuichi Sakamoto s mastery of music production and sound design, perfectly capturing the emotional journey of the film s protagonist. This imported LP is a must-have for any film score enthusiast.
Miles Davis: I could definitely hear right away that this was going to be one of the baddest motherfuckers who had ever played a set of drums.” The Tony Williams Lifetime’s Emergency! is a furious, stunning, seminal album. In 1969, it’s explosive sound divided critics in both jazz and rock but is now rightly regarded…
By the time Jive Records released Born to Mack, Too Short s major-label debut, the young rapper was already a music industry veteran, having released several albums on the independent 75 Girls label. With Born to Mack Too Short continued the formula that had already made him a regional star — sexually explicit lyrics over…
1 Life Is… Too Short2 Rhymes3 I Ain t Trippin 4 Nobody Does It Better5 Oakland6 Don t Fight the Feelin 7 Cusswords8 City of Dope9 Pimp the Ho10 Bonus Track 1
In 1996, after 14 years in the game that started with Too $hort and Freddy B selling tapes out of the trunk of their car in East Oakland, Too $hort announced he would be retiring. On May 21, 1996, Too $hort released his 10th studio album Gettin It with the lead single of the…
After five long years, the new studio album from Tool, 10,000 DAYS, is ready to take the world by storm. Sonically relentless and visually groundbreaking, Tool, has cemented themselves in today s hard music community with uncompromising attitude and vision. With just one EP and three album releases over a 15 year span, they have…
Tool first bashed the face of rock & roll complacency in 92 with the powerful Opiate EP; their full length, Undertow, followed in 1993, along with a slot on that summer s Lollapalooza tour. As word of their blistering live performance spread, MTV began airing the video for Sober, which garnered the band Billboard s…
As the title of Tool s 1992 debut implies, they re none too impressed by religion, though other targets-fear ( Cold and Ugly ), hypocritical moralizing ( Jerk-Off ), nonconformity ( Hush )-get their time in the spotlight as well. Opiate is a collection of heavy, aggressive, cynical music (though the tail end of the…
Arguably their finest album, this follow-up to Opiate showcases Tool at their best, assisted by clean, crisp production, without the muddiness of Aenima. Edgy guitar riffs are complemented by spitting, heavy bass, especially on Sober and Crawl Away . Lyrically, Tool are at their vitriolic best, targeting religious hypocrisy ( Intolerance, Sober ; always a…
Toots and the Maytals Funky Kingston is a brilliant reggae album and suitable for both beginners as experienced listeners. The albums was released twice and with so much success that it charted in the Billboard 200 and eventually made it to the Rolling Stone s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The…
Released in 2014 by Decca Records, Unrepentant Geraldines marked Tori Amos return to pop and rock music after several releases in the classical genre. The album features a stripped-back, acoustic sound with many of the songs arrangements consisting solely of Amos s vocals and piano. Deluxe Edition 2 LP set features 3 new tracks available…
Continuing where the predecessor left off, Torture Chain returns with an ambitious and effectively excited symphonic barbaric black death metal saga that could have easily lived on the nocturnal art productions label. Despite its mythological underpinnings, the immense violence of the hooks will not one rest and the various detours and illusions assuredly take one to task…
1 Rosanna2 Make Believe3 I Won t Hold You Back4 Good for You5 It s a Feeling6 Afraid of Love7 Lovers in the Night8 We Made It9 Waiting for Your Love10 Africa