Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe

Depeche Mode are an English alternative band, founded in 1980, originally from the town of Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom. They are one of the most enduring and successful bands to have emerged during the 80s, and particularly from the new wave/new romantic era.


On 15 January 2009, the official Depeche Mode website announced that the band's 12th studio album would be called Sounds of the Universe. The album was released in April 2009,  The album went to number one in 21 countries. Critical response was generally positive and it was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Alternative Album" category. 

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Depeche Mode - Fragile Tension

Massive Attack - Heligoland

The pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop, Massive Attack were among the most innovative and influential groups of their generation; their hypnotic sound — a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples — set the pace for much of the dance music to emerge throughout the 1990s, paving the way for such acclaimed artists as Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, UNKLE and Tricky, himself a Massive Attack alumnus.

Heligoland is the fifth regular studio album, entitled after the German archipelago of the same name. It had been officially released in February 2010 – seven years after the release of their previous non-soundtrack, standalone studio album, 100th Window.

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Massive Attack - Psyche

Placebo - The Acoustic Set

Placebo are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1994, currently consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released six studio albums, six EPs  and twenty-nine singles. The band have gained a considerable amount of international recognition, selling over one million albums in the UK  and over ten million worldwide.

The acoustic set is a unofficial album released in 2001, which has the acoustic versions of songs from their first three albums.

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Placebo - Every You, every Me

Radiohead - Paragons of Virtue

Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway.

Paragons of virtue is an official compilation album of rarities, b-sides and live shows of the band.

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Radiohead - Bananna Co

Muse - Do We Need This

Do We Need This: B-Sides & Rarities is an unofficial bootleg of the British rock band Muse from 2008. The twenty-five songs on this album are recorded in 1998, when their first EP (called Muse) were released until 2007 . Do We Need This? is a collection of B-sides, covers and other obscure recordings. So are the album covers of the traditional American "The House of the Rising Sun" and written by The Smiths song "Please, Please, Please". 

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Discography 

Muse - The House of the Rising Sun

Placebo - Battle for the Sun

Battle for the Sun is the sixth studio album by the alternative rock band Placebo.

the band utilize new instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones. Molko even experimented with the Springtime and It is also the first album with the new drummer, Steve Forrest.

Frontman Brian Molko said on the concept of the album: We've made a record about choosing life, about choosing to live, about stepping out of the darkness and into the light. Not necessarily turning your back on the darkness because it's there, it's essential; it's a part of who you are, but more about the choice of standing in the sunlight instead

 

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Placebo - Battle for the Sun

The Chemical Brothers - Further

Further is the seventh studio album by The Chemical Brothers, released on 14 June 2010. The album title and release date were announced on band's official website on 30 March 2010. All 8 tracks from the album are accompanied by corresponding films, made specifically to match them, by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyal.

"Further" is the first Chemical Brothers album to not feature any vocal collaborations. Tom Rowlands sings on the tracks that do feature vocals. Stephanie Dosen also provided vocals for certain tracks

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The chemical Brothers - K+D+B 

Damon Albarn - Mali Music

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his career. Perhaps best known internationally as the frontman and songwriter of Gorillaz, Albarn came to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur, and has been involved with such projects as The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Monkey: Journey to the West and Mali Music.

Albarn released Mali Music in 2002, recorded in Mali, during a trip he made to support Oxfam in 2000. He has also visited Nigeria to record music with African drummer Tony Allen and had the participation of Malian musicians like Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabaté, and also featuring a cameo from Ko Kan Ko Sata.

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Mali Music - Niger

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Deluxe Edition

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by English virtual band Gorillaz, released 3 March 2010 on Parlophone and Virgin Records. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded during June 2008 to November 2009 and produced primarily by group co-creator Damon Albarn. It features guest appearances by several artists. Primarily a pop album, Plastic Beach contains lyrics concerning consumerism and ecology-related themes.

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Gorillaz - Empire Ants

Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions

BBC Sessions is a compilation album featuring studio sessions and a live concert recorded by English rock group Led Zeppelin for the BBC. It was released on 11 November 1997, by Atlantic Records. This was the first release of new Led Zeppelin material in 15 years. Disc 1 consists of material from four different 1969 BBC sessions. Disc 2 contains most of the 1 April 1971 concert from the Paris Theatre in London.

Countless bootlegs of these recordings circulated for years before the official release. This release was widely welcomed by Led Zeppelin fans as the first live release since The Song Remains the Same in 1976. Others have criticized the decision to edit some of the songs and drop others that were recorded for the BBC. Most notable are one session from 1969 which included the unreleased song “Sunshine Woman,” and about 22 seconds of the “Whole Lotta Love” medley from 1971. 

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Led Zeppelin - Thank You

Beth Gibbons - Out of Season

Out of Season is a studio album by Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons and former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb (under the pseudonym Rustin Man). It was released on 28 October 2002 in the United Kingdom and on 7 October 2003 in the United States. Out of Season is largely a folk album with jazz leanings, with Gibbons and Webb drawing more directly on the influences of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Nick Drake, at which Portishead's work in trip-hop only hinted. Out of Season also features contributions from Gibbon's fellow Portishead bandmate Adrian Utley. The first track of the album, "Mysteries", appears on the original soundtrack of the French movie Les Poupées Russe.

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Archive - Discography

Archive is a musical group based in London. Whose music spans trip hop, trip rock, post, avant-garde and progressive. Over their fifteen year history, the band have released eight studio albums and enjoyed established success throughout Europe, while remaining little-known in their native Britain.

 
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Sneaker Pimps - Splinter

Splinter is the second full studio album from Sneaker Pimps. Released in 1999, Splinter is the first release from the band without Kelli Dayton singing lead vocals; she was replaced by founding band member Chris Corner.

The sound of the album was a great change from their first album. Most notably it was a darker sound which favored acoustic guitars and dark lyrics.

Many fans consider the album to widely underrated with poor sales and very little media or critical attention.

The cover of the album features the back of Chris' head. He had previously not felt up to the responsibility of being a 'front man' but has since gone on to embrace this through IAMX.

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Thom York - Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses

"Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" and "The Hollow Earth" are songs by Thom Yorke, released as a double A-side 12-inche single on 21 September 2009, and scheduled for a download release on 6 October 2009. The vinyl was limited to 8000 copies worldwide.

Yorke revealed the release through Radiohead's online blog, "Dead Air Space", and commented that the songs are released "loosely" under his name. The first song, "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses", was written and performed by Yorke with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood out of a song Yorke reported to have started working on at his home in 2001, and which has been played live twice—once in 2001, as a full-band "snarling metal" song and once acoustically in 2005. "The Hollow Earth" is newer by comparison, described as a "bass menace" coming out of the sessions for The Eraser.

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The Dreamers

The Dreamers are an Anglo/Swedish duo featuring Sarah Nyberg Pergament and Kevin Wright. Sarah has previously recorded as Action Biker and Kevin as Always and Mr. Wright.  Meeting at a Swedish music festival in 2004 the pair began by writing a song “Petit Nuage” in late 2005. Encouraged by this an album began taking shape being recorded mostly in London with Sarah’s vocals being sent from Stockholm and Helsinki. The record is now finished and titled “Day for Night”. Top Swedish label Friendly Noise released it on October 2007. The band made their live debut at the Luminaire in London and more shows followed in Scandanavia. 

The Dreamers influences combine many disparate elements including jazz pop and soundtrack music. Although the music is often melancholic the Dreamers hope to make (to paraphrase Michel Legrand speaking of Tom Jobim) “the sad music that makes the world a better place.”

(My song recommended for this album is Petit Nuage and So Near So Far)

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Brett Anderson

Brett Lewis Anderson is an English singer - songwriter, best-known as the former lead vocalist of Britpop band Suede. After Suede disbanded, he fronted The Tears, who are currently on indefinite hiatus. Anderson has also released three solo albums.

Brett's third album, Slow Attack, was co-written with Leo Abrahams. On his website, Brett Anderson writes that he tried to use words in a different way, as fragments, and hint of meanings and emotions. The music is more orchestral than Wilderness with more instrumentation throughout the album.

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Muse - Discography

Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon. Since their inception in 1994, the band has been composed of Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion, synthesisers). After the release of Black Holes and Revelations, Morgan Nicholls (Keyboards, Percussion, Bass guitar) has performed live full time with the band. Muse are known for their energetic and extravagant live performances and their fusion of many music genres, including progressive rock, classical music, heavy metal and electronica with recurring themes of revolution

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Portishead - Discography

La banda fue formada en 1991 por el teclista Geoff Barrow y la cantante Beth Gibbons que tomaron el nombre de la localidad natal de Barrow, situada a 15 km al oeste de Bristol.

la discográfica Go! Beat que editó su primer álbum Dummy en 1994, con la colaboración del guitarrista Adrian Utley. A pesar de la nula campaña de publicidad de la banda, el álbum fue un éxito en Estados Unidos y Europa, los sencillos "Glory Box" y "Sour Times" alcanzaron la cabeza de las listas de éxitos.

Su segundo álbum Portishead, salió a la venta en 1997 e incluyó el sencillo "All Mine". Además, grabaron un concierto con acompañamiento de orquesta en Roseland, Nueva York, donde fueron interpretadas sus canciones más famosas. Éste, salió a la venta en 1998 con un DVD del concierto.

El 24 de enero de 2008 Portishead anunció la salida de un nuevo disco, titulado Third, programado para el 14 de abril del mismo año.

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Propellerheads - Decks and Drums and Rock and Roll

Alex Gifford y Will White forman "Propellerheads", nombre que significa en la jerga californiana, "nerds informáticos". El grupo de Bath (Inglaterra) se dio a conocer en 1997 gracias a la utilización de su canción "Dive!" en un anuncio por parte de Adidas. Posteriormente, lanzaron al mercado en 1998 su disco Decksandrumsandrockandroll, con canciones tan conocidas como "History Repeating", "Take California", "On her Majesty´s Secret Service" o "Spybreak" (canción que aparece en la película Matrix) .

Su música electrónica entra en el ámbito del "Big Beat", estilo que iniciaron grupos como The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim...

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Archive - Controlling Crowds

Released: 27 Mar 2009 

13 tracks (65:56)

Controlling Crowds is the 8th studio album released by Archive, being released in Europe on March 29th 2009. The album was played in its entirety through Myspace. Rosko John, who did the rap vocals on the first album Londinuim, appears on tracks Quiet Time, Bastardised Ink and Razed To The Ground, and Graham Preskett, who already worked with Archive on the Michel vaillant soundtrack, collaborates once again with Archive in Controlling Crowds. 

The main theme of the album is the human obsession of domination, and control, hence the name “Controlling Crowds”. 

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