Fin des années soixante, le guitariste/frontman Franck Bornemann fonde le groupe de rock prog allemand Eloy , nom qui fait référence à la race humaine dans le roman " Time Machine " de H.G. Wells. A cette époque, la scène rock allemande est en ébullition, à Berlin on se réunit dans les caves pour célébrer le Krautrock , mouvement initié par l'oeuvre Hymnen de Karlheinz Stockhausen . En 1970, avec ses textes contestataires, le premier album éponyme d'Eloy s'inscrit pleinement dans la mouvance Krautrock, par la suite la [...]
"This is probably my favorite Eloy album, and ultimately one of the better albums released through the German symphonic progressive rock scene. Floating is a big improvement over Inside , in that it takes everything that was great about that album, the intense jamming, the Hammond pyrotechnics and Frank's soaring guitar solos and raises everything a notch. One of the main attributes of Floating is that it is not based around the rather mediocre vocals at all. Here the band is given free reign to stretch out and create some fantastic, powerful instrumental workouts. The [...]
Washington, DC blogger extraordinaire IntangibleArts DJ's this week's Tangible Ten: "And now, a taste of heavy space from the IntangibleArts archives. Most of these would be what Julian Cope would call 'head music' and encompasses bits of Krautrock, English space-rock, and American folk-psych. This material represents my birth as a record collector: When I was about 10 or 11 years old, a benevolent older relative took me by the ear and opened up his vast collection of dusty vinyl goodies. I was already buying my own records at that age, with [...]
Mixtape-Flashback-Friday today. Pretty self-explanatory. Here you go: Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count to 10 The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9 Smith - The W 8 [...]
Le Mellotron
Swan Fungus
The Vinyl District
Music Of The Moment
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
Get Cryphy: Soundset 2012 Mix
Garbage – “Not Your Kind of People” Concert @ Webster Hall, NYC (May 22, 2012)
Helmut: “Sepi”
