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Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun (2016) [Japanese Edition]

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Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun (2016) [Japanese Edition]

Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun (2016) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 321 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 172 MB | Covers - 144 MB
Genre: Ambient, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-511)

Discerning an aesthetic thread through the Mark Pritchard discography was tough in 1996. Twenty years later, forget it. Around 2013, he evidently tired of thinking up a new alias with each expectation-confounding release and, under his birth name, initiated a trio of brief releases for the Warp label. Featuring drop-ins from Ragga Twins and Spikey Tee, the fully energized EPs moved through jungle, bass, juke, ragga, and grime. They provided no indication for the approach taken on Under the Sun, itself a stylistic manifold. The album begins with "?," a sorrowful and moving ambient piece. Given a low-key release in 2009, the track has been used by Mala to open DJ sets, and it serves a similarly cleansing purpose for its new home here, leading to a rolling Krautrock chorale that features the baleful, multi-tracked voice of Bibio…

Chilly Gonzales - Chambers (2015) [Japanese Edition]

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Chilly Gonzales - Chambers (2015) [Japanese Edition]

Chilly Gonzales - Chambers (2015) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 185 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 162 MB
Genre: Modern Classical | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-455)

Some artists like to signal their pretension in a subtle way - James Murphy with his “Hello Steve Reich” remix of David Bowie’s “Love Is Lost”, for example. Others, however, just can’t help themselves. Chilly Gonzales (A.K.A Jason Beck) might be fall into the latter camp. His 2015 album, Chambers, has been in gestation since Solo Piano II, the sequel to the acclaimed - and innovatively named - Solo Piano I. This LP is similarly literally titled, as it is, in essence, a 12-track suite for a chamber ensemble - string quartet and piano, to be precise.
If you know anything about our man Gonzales, though, you'll know that things are never quite what they appear when he's around. All genres are permeable for this man: from the '90s indie-rock stylings of his first project Son to the Manic, and surreal rap of The Entertainist, he's pretty much tried it all…

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Myth Takes (2007) [Japanese Edition]

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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Myth Takes (2007) [Japanese Edition]

!!! - Myth Takes (2007) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 353 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 119 MB | Covers - 545 MB
Genre: Indie Electronic, Dance-Punk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-378)

Of all the dance-punk revivalists, !!! has been the most consistently interesting and challenging, not to mention the group most likely to fill the dancefloor on indie rock night. While their previous album, the political and righteous Louden Up Now, was good enough to vault them to the level of the bands that inspired them (Gang of Four, the Pop Group, Liquid Liquid), Myth Takes firmly establishes them there. It's a different fire that burns here for !!!, mostly setting aside political concerns for fiery dancefloor rave-ups. The band sounds inspired, like they are plugged directly into a wall socket. The first three tracks are like opening a door and being blasted backward by a wall of flame and heat. Nic Offer's vocal chants, asides, and strung-together proclamations are more frantic than ever, and when he turns it down a notch, he sounds nearly sexy (as on "Must Be the Moon," a desperate story of sex and lust in the city)…

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Louden Up Now (2004) [2CD Japanese Edition]

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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Louden Up Now (2004) [2CD Japanese Edition]

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Louden Up Now (2004) [2CD Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 591 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 201 MB | Covers - 239 MB
Genre: Indie Electronic, Dance-Punk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-95LTD)

!!! could be lumped in with the other new wave dance-punk revivalists like the Rapture or Radio 4. That would be easy enough, as they all share an allegiance to the punky funk sounds of the '80s as pioneered by groups like Gang of Four, the Pop Group, Talking Heads, and others. Rather than merely lumping them in, maybe one could say they are leading the pack. Louden Up Now is easily the best record to come out of the movement; its ten tracks are filled with fervor, hooks, passion, and power. And unlike many of their peers, !!! have politics. Angry, righteous politics. Antiwar, anti-Giuliani, anti-Bush and Blair, and proud of it. It is like a blast of fresh retro air to have a band not just updating the sound but carrying over similar ideals as well…

Jaga Jazzist - What We Must (2005) [Japanese Edition]

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Jaga Jazzist - What We Must (2005) [Japanese Edition]

Jaga Jazzist - What We Must (2005) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 420 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 162 MB | Covers - 93 MB
Genre: Jazz Rock, Nu Jazz, Post-Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-117)

Ever since their beginnings Jaga have been a band who have searched for something different - without any interest in the latest trends, with no concern for who is on the cover of which magazine, this ten piece collective from Norway have focused their efforts on evolving a unique sound which can collectively express their musical ideas.
After months spent on writing new material, the band ripped it all up, went into an isolated studio out in the Norwegian woods and recorded the demo now known as the Spydeberg Session. Put down in one take in one day, it was a breakthrough moment for the group. A sound that was closer to their live sound than ever before. The band began to whisper about their rock album…

Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) [Japanese Edition]

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Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) [Japanese Edition]

Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 386 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 140 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Jazz Rock, Nu Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-248)

Jaga Jazzist’s least jazz-rooted, most prog album to date, One-Armed Bandit is not associable with Tortoise and 2000s-era Stereolab merely for the assistance of John McEntire, who mixed it and is credited with analog synth processing. Echoing, at various points, both bands at their most rocking, Baroque, and searching, One-Armed Bandit dazzles early on. Throughout the 13 minutes that make up the title track and the following “Bananfleur Overalt,” the listener is pulled through a suspenseful succession of passages, like a score to a Mediterranean tropical cyclone, that work in tight-riffing bass clarinet, zipping vibraphone, buzzing guitar, sighing pedal steel, dancing harpsichord, and even some distant skronk-sax over galloping and tapping rhythms that switch time signatures with an oddly elegant twitchiness…

Leila - Blood Looms And Blooms (2008) [Japanese Edition]

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Leila - Blood Looms And Blooms (2008) [Japanese Edition]

Leila - Blood Looms And Blooms (2008) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 332 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 141 MB | Covers - 226 MB
Genre: Indie Electronic, IDM | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-203)

Her first album in eight years and her Warp debut, Leila's Blood, Looms and Blooms almost didn't happen: after the release of 2000's moody, murky The Courtesy of Choice, she lost both of her parents and, for a long time, her interest in making music. With the encouragement of her friends and family, Leila returned to the studio and recorded these songs, often with her family and friends - who include Terry Hall and Martina Topley-Bird - in there with her. While Blood, Looms and Blooms' very existence is somewhat surprising, it's even more remarkable that this is Leila's most uplifting work, given the loss that preceded it. Far from wallowing in grief (though that would certainly be understandable), Leila crafts vivid tracks that cast as much light as they do shadow…

Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]

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Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]

Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 285 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 119 MB | Covers - 136 MB
Genre: Indie Pop, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-507)

Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson is no stranger to revisiting and updating the past on his albums, whether it's the history of music in general or just his own. On Silver Wilkinson, he returned to the folktronic idylls of the Vignetting the Compost era with a newfound purpose; on A Mineral Love, he dissects the fusion of 21st century electronic music and '70s and '80s R&B, funk, and pop that made Ambivalence Avenue so compelling. The warmth of the bubbling keyboards and easy grooves on songs like the summery "Town & Country" suggest that Wilkinson spent hours crate-digging for the perfect samples. However, he actually created each and every sound in the studio, a traditional approach that reflects - and enhances - that this is one of Bibio's most song-oriented albums…

The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (2002) [Japanese Edition 2006]

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The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (2002) [Japanese Edition 2006]

The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (2002) [Japanese Edition 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 383 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 157 MB | Covers - 128 MB
Genre: Nu Jazz, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-149)

With Every Day, Cinematic Orchestra move beyond the electro-jazz fusion of their debut to make a record more natural, more paced, and, surprisingly, better than the justly hyped Motion. J Swinscoe is more the arranger/conductor here than the producer, but of course, there's little need for samples or effects with such an accomplished band sharing the burden. For the opener "All That You Give," Swinscoe and Co., plus harp player Rhodri Davies, spend a few minutes delicately paving the way for a deeply felt vocal by soul hero Fontella Bass. "Burn Out" is a lush, meditative track with a pleasantly ambling solo from Phil France on electric piano, a few appropriately cinematic-sounding horns, an age-old vocal sample, and occasional creaking static phasing through…

The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999) [Japanese Edition 2010]

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The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999) [Japanese Edition 2010]

The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999) [Japanese Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 348 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 147 MB | Covers - 218 MB
Genre: Nu Jazz, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-273)

Whether to categorize Motion as a jazz or electronica album is an intriguing conundrum, because it truly turns out to be a combination of both musical forms, and it is an unequivocally brilliant combination, at that. British arranger/programmer J. Swinscoe - who virtually is the Cinematic Orchestra - gathered samples of drum grooves, basslines, and melodies from various recordings and artists that have inspired and influenced him (spaghetti-western composer Ennio Morricone and Roy Budd's spy film scores, '60s and '70s jazz and soundtrack scores from musicians such as Elvin Jones, Eric Dolphy, Andre Previn, David Rose, and John Morris). He then presented the samples that he had collected to a group of musicians, the core of which consisted of Tom Chant (soprano sax, electric and acoustic piano), Jamie Coleman (trumpet, flugelhorn), Phil France (bass), and T. Daniel Howard (drums), to learn and then improvise…

Plaid - The Digging Remedy (2016) [2CD Japanese Edition]

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Plaid - The Digging Remedy (2016) [2CD Japanese Edition]

Plaid - The Digging Remedy (2016) [2CD Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 463 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 194 MB | Covers - 60 MB
Genre: Electronic, IDM, Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-517)

On their 2016 full-length, The Digging Remedy, Plaid claim to have revisited their Detroit techno roots. While this might cause longtime fans to expect something similar to the duo's pre-Warp recordings, particularly the solo tracks recorded under pseudonyms including Atypic and Balil, the album isn't quite as danceable as the work they produced during the early '90s. In some ways, it's slightly darker and less playful than many Plaid albums, continuing with the cinematic flair of their previous decade's output. (The duo recorded a few soundtracks during that time, most of which were only available in Japan or digitally.) Opening track "Do Matter" trickles in with John Carpenter-esque synth melodies and creeping, suspenseful rhythms that skip a beat rather than sticking to a 4/4 pattern…

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo (2007) [2CD Japanese Edition]

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Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo (2007) [2CD Japanese Edition]

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo (2007) [2CD Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 456 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 164 MB | Covers - 159 MB
Genre: Progressive/Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-175)

Se Dice Bisonte, No Bгfalo is Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's (The Mars Volta) third full-length recording. The players on this set include Mars Volta members Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, Juan Alderete de la Peña, and Adrián Terrazas-González, with guest appearances by "Money Mark" Ramos-Nishita and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. It was recorded mostly in Amsterdam with supplemental recording and mixing done in Los Angeles. The set opens with two brief sketches, the 26-second improvisation "The Lukewarm" and "Luxury of Infancy," a Spanish blues melody played over skeletal interlaced guitars. It may only be a minute and 15 seconds long, but it carries within it all the heart one needs to know that something special is in store…

Odesza - A Moment Apart (2017) [Japanese Edition]

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Odesza - A Moment Apart (2017) [Japanese Edition]

Odesza - A Moment Apart (2017) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 447 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 150 MB | Covers - 156 MB
Genre: Chillout, Downtempo, Indie Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-559)

Since forming in 2012, Seattle-based duo Odesza quickly became one of the most popular, influential indie electronic acts in America. By the time they made their Counter Records debut in 2014, with their second album In Return, they had already become a staple at music festivals, and their headlining gigs were selling out left and right. Their music typically consists of warm, glitchy chillwave beats and choppy, pitch-shifted vocals, as well as an intriguing usage of exotic-sounding acoustic instruments, all fine-tuned for maximum emotional impact. Odesza may not have invented any of the ingredients of their sound, but their glossy, dreamy brand has become one of the most distinctive of its kind, and their presence on the scene looms large - it's hard to browse SoundCloud without hitting a bedroom producer imitating them, or remixing one of their tunes…

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing (2016) [Japanese Edition] (Re-up)

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Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing (2016) [Japanese Edition] (Re-up)

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing (2016) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 380 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 115 MB | Covers - 87 MB
Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-533)

Co-credited to the Void Pacific Choir - a name derived from a D.H. Lawrence quote - These Systems Are Failing is only slightly more collaborative than Moby's solitary ambient work, and its effect is the opposite of that. Fully energized and tightly concentrated, the producer's first studio album in three years is a concise and infrequently relenting set of songs that rail against those who have caused emotional and planetary harm. Moby revisits his punk and post-punk roots with a needling attack. Battering programmed drums, searing synthesizers, and torrents of rhythm guitar serve as prodding backdrops for his belting, often multi-tracked vocals. (The actual choir, a seven-member group including Moby, appears on two songs)…

Moby - Innocents (2013) [2CD Japanese Edition] (Re-up)

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Moby - Innocents (2013) [2CD Japanese Edition] (Re-up)

Moby - Innocents (2013) [2CD Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 567 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 227 MB | Covers - 116 MB
Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, House, Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-397DLX)

Innocents is in line with Wait for Me (2009) and Destroyed (2011), Moby's most intimate and isolated albums. Following a move from New York to Los Angeles, he recorded almost all the instrumentation by himself. He made a considerable change by seeking vocals from an extended cast of relatively known singers - including Mark Lanegan, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Cold Specks, Skylar Grey, and Damien Jurado - rather than a handful of locals, and he had Mark "Spike" Stent mix it all. It's another downcast, occasionally grand-sounding set suited for solitary home listening. Not much moves the feet. "A Long Time" has an insistent, kind of dejected chug, while "Saints" sounds like Moby trying to recall how Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" goes…