DJ Rashad delivers an uncompromising debut album from the centre of Chicago's Footwork circles. 'Just A Taste' already ranked in Fact magazine's top 40 albums of 2010 and features a roll call of underground guest appearances from the likes of King AG and DJs Lucky and Spinn. The balance of sweet funk and soul samples with hyperspeed bass and rugged drum machines is just deadly on point, from the slowfast tension of 'Ghetto Tekz Runnin It' and the dynamic design of 'Love U Found' to the nu-skool Dance Mania updates of 'Go Crazy' and 'You Azz'. Sounds like nobody else out there!

Very hip piano trio work – the first Columbia album by Denny Zeitlin, a young fresh talent in the 60s, with an approach that was lyrical, slightly modern, and a bit soulful. The album features a great rhythm section of Cecil McBee on bass and Freddy Waits on drums. Most tunes are originals by Zeitlin – and titles include "Stonehenge", "Cathexis", "I Thou", "Blue Phoenix", and "Nica's Tempo". (Source: Dusty Groove America, Inc.)

Upon his first move away from A&M, Sergio Mendes signed with Bell, known mostly for pop fluff on the level of the Partridge Family, and practically jettisoned Brazil in search of a return ticket to the pop charts. Bones Howe is totally in charge of the production, Mendes has little to do with the arrangements (Bob Alcivar and Tom Scott handle them), and half of the material is Top 40 pop. It's surprisingly pleasant at times, too, with some traces of the Mendes '66-'77 sound still audible. But Mendes is a much more interesting musician than you'd suspect from hearing this – and no, it didn't exactly send Top 40 radio into ecstasy.

Karajan - Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - DVD 2/24 - His Legacy For Home Video
Classical | DVD | with scans | 4,20 Gb (DVD5) | DVD´s FULL No compression
All Videos of this collection (except one) are DVD5, yet complete, without taking anything from the original.
Release: October 1999 | Publisher: Sony Classical

The sound and picture on these DVDs are excellent; the sound is truly comparable to a well-recorded CD. The soundtrack is available both in stereo and also an excellent 5.1 Dolby mix. The disks have a set of program notes and a biography of von Karajan.

Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH will release their eighth studio album, "Surtur Rising", in North America on March 29 via Metal Blade Records. Named in tribute to Surtur, leader of the fire giants of Muspelheim ("flame land") and the oldest being in the nine worlds of Norse mythology, the record, which was listed among Decibel magazine's most anticipated albums of 2011, features 10 tracks of sword-wielding, fist-pumping, hyper climactic battle anthems.

Renowned Finnish grind cyclone ROTTEN SOUND extends its legacy of extremity with their brand-new album Cursed. Thoroughly punishing from start to finish, Cursed blazes a swath of destruction through sixteen tracks as relentless as they are oppressive. With ROTTEN SOUND there is no mercy, and Cursed gives no quarter.