It's been a long time coming but we're finally ready to give you the next installment of KOTJ Radio, this time with Siberian youngster Aleph taking on the hosting duties with a playful romp through the best of future Garage, Disco, Techno, Dubstep and Chillwave. Having already been featured on Tom Ravenscroft's show last week , Aleph is already well on his way to success. His unique take on the chillwave epidemic draws influences as disparate as House, R&B, Techno, Crunk, Disco, Grime and Dubstep. While that may sound bewildering, or [...]
Siberian 19 year-old Ivan Koreev, also known as Aleph , has been busy working on his new single for King Deluxe records. The new EP, 'From Chaos To Cosmos', blends ambient jungle, broken beat Hip-Hop and Chillwave melancholia for a sombre jaunt through the annals of contemporary electronica. The video for 'Omerta' has already been featured on XLR8R and the single itself has received extensive coverage on Boomkat. The new EP also features an outstanding couple of remixes, the first a Distal reworking of 'Under A Layer Of Ice' [...]
npr : Interactive: A View From Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad Nearly 6,000 miles of railroad separate Russia's capital city of Moscow from Vladivostok, on the Pacific Ocean. While crossing the world's largest country and bridging two continents, NPR's David Greene reports on how Russia's history has shaped its people and, where, 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians want their country to go. Credits: Kainaz Amaria, Chuck Holmes, Nelson Hsu, Laura Krantz, Greg Myre, Maureen Pao / NPR [...]
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli… Hey everyone. Hope you had a stellar break sharing Trans Siberian Orchestra dubstep mixes/thoughtless $25 Amazon gift cards with your loved ones. If the cover of the [...]
How was 2011 for you? Really good, lots of gigs and bigger, better quality gigs too - definitely getting the impression the fans are "getting" me more and more these days. I guess it's easier now that everyone is more into Twitter/Facebook and can listen to my podcast regularly and keep in touch with what's going on more quickly and closely. I have enjoyed getting back to single life again too, getting more work done, getting back into fitness and running - ran two half marathons this year, and do about 15 miles a week now. [...]
And so this is Christmas. And for those of you experiencing a lull in your daily festivities or for those of you who have nothing better to do, I figured I throw together a collection of a few Christmas themed oddities (rather than any Bings, Bowies , or Biebers ) to kill a few minutes and help to celebrate the season. Merry Christmas , Everybody ! Twisted Sister - O Come All Ye Faithful It's basically just the old carol reimagined as [...]
I'm going to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra this afternoon, so here is a little preview of "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/243 as "air-violined and guitared" by the incomparable Dwight Schrute of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. This is funny every time you watch it.
Did you know that Mannheim Steamroller has three of the biggest selling holiday records of all time? (Gag.) What about the fact that the all time best selling holiday album is by Kenny G? (Double gag.) Holiday music has indeed taken a turn for the worst over the years. The last thing I want to hear as I celebrate this most festive time of year is Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber butchering holiday classics, or even worse, attempting to write their own. As you take time to celebrate the holidays with your friends and [...]
So I haven't been able to share a lot of Christmas music on here this season. There are a pretty decent amount of holly jolly tracks in the site's archives, however. See, I figure you can fit more presents underneath an upside down Christmas tree. This is me thinking logically (greedily?) here. The pimp hat tree topper is just for fun however. December is always the busiest month for You Sound Like A Robot as far as traffic. Apparently you people [...]
I bought tickets in September for my family's annual trek to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra here in Houston. Although the band has changed slightly from year to year, there are a few mainstays that we expect to see. The guy who tops the list is vocalist Tommy Farese, who sings "Ornament" and "This Christmas Day" from the multi-platinum Christmas Eve and Other Stories collection, and acts as the MC. Come to find out, Farese (as well as many other "mainstays") is not with the band anymore. He was let go in June. So we decided to give him [...]
Non sono mai stato bravo a scegliere dieci dischi, la top ten è sempre stata una cosa distante dalle mie capacità, per cui anche quest'anno mi affido ad un numero puramente casuale (non ho nemmeno il coraggio di contare) di album che mi hanno fatto compagnia nel 2011 e l'hanno segnato in maniera sicuramente positiva. Dopo aver ascoltato negli ultimi due mesi l'ultimo dei Coldplay e la collaborazione(?) Lou Reed - Metallica tutto quello che ho ascoltato precedentemente mi è sembrato anche più luminoso e godibile. Non ho dubbi che riuscirò [...]
This time of year is a great time to catch up on those artists that we've never quite found the time to cover. We can make some headway into the thousands of unread emails and it's a good time to return to The Recommender's (in-)famous 'queue'. It's a lengthy list that never fully empties, currently now standing at over 30 artists. This uncertain limbo is a kind of demilitarized zone that we've created so we can store and log all those artists the second we uncover them, so they're never forgotten, whilst maintaining the full intention of returning to them [...]
Investigate in any length the history of electronic music in Europe and sooner or later you'll run into the name Mark Reeder . A legend amongst those of us raised on the musical experimentalism of early synth pioneers, and later the birth of dance music, Reeder began his journey on the Manchester post-punk scene (in The Frantic Elevators with Mick Hucknall) before setting sail, in 1978, for the avant-garde music/art underground of Berlin where he became a producer, engineer and Factory Records German representative. It was in Berlin that Reeder became embroiled in the new electronic music [...]
It was 1996, New York City, in what was a converted church. That was the first and last time I saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I was 25 years old. A band, comprised mostly of my heroes since I was a child, took the stage, fittingly on the church's former altar. You see, this new incarnation of Savatage had erupted on the scene quicker than those same... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Hear The Track HereA new name to me, finally, from Soundclick, Sukuta on paper looks like a sure fire winner - at least for me. Anyone who can drag 'sounds from the Yorkshire moors, the Australian Aboriginals and a street in Thailand' into a musical conversation is OK in my books. Then to go on and mention 'Arab and classical influences, European soprano, New Zealand Haka and Siberian Shaman
Nothing says the holidays like a live show of loud music and pyrotechnics. The ever-popular holiday-meets-metal band Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be performing classic holiday songs mixed in with some heavy metal goodness (and plenty of fire!) at the Richmond Coliseum on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Nothing says the holidays like a live show of loud music and pyrotechnics. The ever-popular holiday-meets-metal band Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be performing classic holiday songs mixed in with some heavy metal goodness (and plenty of fire!) at the Richmond Coliseum on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Изначально разрабатывающие ся как обезболивающие препараты общего применения, диссоциативные анестетики искажают характер восприятия звуковых и зрительных образов, вызывая ощущение отчуждённости от всего окружающего и от самих себя. Сложно переоценить вклад этих веществ в развитие клубной культуры – пожалуй, каждый подросток, хоть раз сталкивавшийся с этим миром, имеет представления о дестрометорфане (DXM), кетамине и отваре из красных мухоморов. Третий релиз новосибирской группировки Jeto , вышедший совсем недавно, напоминает страшную сказку о том, что однажды придя в клуб, можно проснуться в лесу и под грибами. В официальном тексте проводится граница между реальностью и подсознанием, [...]
When we reach that time of year with the festive holidays, we have one group's music on ALL THE TIME. No, we're not talking about Mannheim Steamroller, no no. We're talking about TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA! (WE LOVE THIS SONG !) The band kicked off their winter tour a few weeks ago and actually have no official New York City tour dates. Yup, you'll have to go to Uniondale, NY or Newark, NJ to catch them in December OR you can...
Zorch // "E.M.F." I'm not gonna lie. When I am introduced to acts from Austin, Texas I typically picture clouds of smoke that dull the senses enough to allow the laid-back vibes to slide right into my psyche. This is not the case with the duo Zorch however. If you didn't pick up hints that these guys were different just from the band name and album cover then the music might be a bit of a surprise. If there was a way to melt Skittles down, convert that into noise mush, and then pour [...]
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