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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Mirror Image (1974) + New City (1975) 2 CD set, Remastered 2010

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Mirror Image (1974) + New City (1975) 2 CD set, Remastered 2010

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Mirror Image (1974) + New City (1975) 2 CD set, Remastered 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 517 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 186 Mb | Scans ~ 43 Mb
Jazz Rock, Pop Rock, R&B | Label: BGO | # BGOCD1074 | Time: 01:20:55

Digitally remastered two CD set containing a pair of albums from the Jazz/Rock outfit: Mirror Image (1974) and New City (1975). Mirror Image was released in the wake of vocalist David Clayton-Thomas' departure and features three different vocalists. New City saw Clayton-Thomas return full-time for a critically-acclaimed album. Both releases made the U.S. Top 200 Albums chart.

Andrew Rangell - Fun with Intervals (2024)

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Andrew Rangell - Fun with Intervals (2024)

Andrew Rangell - Fun with Intervals (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 201 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 154 MB
58:47 | Classical | Label: Steinway and Sons

Despite the playful title, the music on Andrew Rangell’s new STEINWAY album is actually quite serious, even austere and cerebral. While Atkinson's canons and Bach's duets will surprise with their immediate elegance and eloquence, Dallapiccola and Wolpe supply the kind of meaning and beauty requiring more sustained attention. With that, these pieces will yield much in the way of color, wit, sensuality, and poignancy.

Loris Tjeknavorian, National Philharmonic Orchestra - Alexander Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (2004)

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Loris Tjeknavorian, National Philharmonic Orchestra - Alexander Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (2004)

Alexander Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (2004)
National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Loris Tjeknavorian

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 391 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 82876-62321-2 | Time: 01:18:58

Borodin’s First Symphony isn’t especially interesting, but his Second is a masterpiece, tightly constructed, brilliantly orchestrated, and tunefully delightful. It’s really the only work of its period to rank with the symphonies of Tchaikovsky (along with, possibly, Balakirev’s First), and Tjeknavorian’s performance of it, indeed of all three works, is outstanding. He doesn’t fuss with or manipulate tempos or textures, preferring instead to keep the music moving energetically and allowing the musicians of the National Philharmonic to inject as much color and vitality as possible. The scherzo flashes by like lightning, the slow movement is aptly seductive, and the finale dazzles. As I suggested, the other two works are less obviously successful, but the performances are no less adept. Produced by Charles Gerhardt, we can expect fine sonics, and that’s just what RCA delivers. In this music, you won’t find better.

Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years (1989)

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Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years (1989)

Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Scans ~ 65 Mb
Alternative Pop/Rock, Dance-Rock | Label: A&M/Virgin | # cd 3927 | 01:01:52

Street Fighting Years is the eighth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in May 1989 by record label A&M. Produced by Trevor Horn, the album reached the top of the UK album chart. Produced by Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson, it was a major stylistic departure from the previous album, 1985's Once Upon a Time. While still maintaining the epic arena rock sense of scale and drama which the band had developed since the mid-1980s, Street Fighting Years also moved away from the American soul and gospel influences of its predecessor in favour of soundtrack atmospherics and a new incorporation of acoustic and Celtic/folk music-related ingredients including fretless bass, slide guitar and accordion. The lyrics built on the more political themes which the band had introduced with "Ghost Dancing", moving away from the impressionistic or spiritual concerns of earlier 1980s Simple Minds songs and covering topics including the Poll Tax, the Soweto townships, the Berlin Wall and the stationing of nuclear submarines on the Scottish coast.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (1985) Japanese Reissue 1996

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (1985) Japanese Reissue 1996

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (1985) Japanese Reissue 1996
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans ~ 79 Mb
Alternative Rock, Post-Punk | Label: Mute, Pony Canyon | # PCCY-00916 | Time: 00:50:31

The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. What was startling was how well Cave and his bandmates – Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld – were able to absorb and honor the influences of artists like Skip James and Charley Patton while creating a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues – trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death – seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force; on "Tupelo," he makes a sweeping and disturbing epic of the rain-swept night when Elvis Presley was born, and "Knocking on Joe" is a tale of life on the work gang that communicates the pain of the spirit as clearly as the ache of the body.

UB40 - Who You Fighting For? (2005)

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UB40 - Who You Fighting For? (2005)

UB40 - Who You Fighting For? (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 337 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 108 Mb | Scans included
Reggae-Pop, Pop/Rock | Label: DEP International | # DEP CD 23 | Time: 00:47:15

Who You Fighting For? is the fifteenth album by UB40 released on 18 July 2005. The album was nominated for the reggae album Grammy in 2006. It marks the return of the rootsier, political sound that the group cultivated during the early 1980s.

Juliette Gréco - Essential Classics, Vol. 254: Juliette Gréco (Remastered) (2024)

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Juliette Gréco - Essential Classics, Vol. 254: Juliette Gréco (Remastered) (2024)

Juliette Gréco - Essential Classics, Vol. 254: Juliette Gréco (Remastered) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 292 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 MB
1:02:10 | Pop, Chanson | Label: Essential Classics Ltd

Muse to the Parisian literary scene of the '50s, godmother of songwriter-led '60s French pop, and a self-reinventing torch singer from the '70s into the 2010s, Juliette Gréco was one of the great French recording artists of the 20th century. Born in Montpellier in 1929, Gréco was classically trained at the Paris Opera as a youngster. Forced to flee Paris at the outbreak of the Second World War, and practically orphaned when her mother was jailed for her resistance to the Nazis in 1943, Gréco sought refuge with her former French teacher in the St. Germain des Prés quarter of Paris. In the later years of the war, the literary and artistic world of the Left Bank was flourishing, and Gréco became a fixture in this world, befriending Sartre and other writers of renown, and appearing in the theater and on a literary radio show. Her experiences of hardship in the war had influenced her politics and sowed the seeds for the great liberation she flaunted after the war, becoming the pinup for the so-called bohemian scene.

Lescop - Rêve parti (2024)

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Lescop - Rêve parti (2024)

Lescop - Rêve parti (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 347 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 MB
50:01 | Pop, Chanson | Label: Labréa - Turenne Music

Le retour de Lescop avec ce troisième album ressemble à la réinvention imparable d’une new wave à la française. Cet enfant naturel du rock et du punk a retrouvé le sens d’une rébellion intime après avoir traversé quelques orages intérieurs d’une rare intensité. Comme si de fait il reconnectait aujourd’hui avec l’essence même de la candeur (sombre et joyeuse à la fois) de son premier tube « La forêt » (+15M de streams) …Où il autorisait ainsi toute une génération avide de sens et de sons nouveaux à danser sur les charbons ardents d’une hybridation qui fait l’identité de la pop française d’aujourd’hui.

Stuck in the Sound - 16 Dreams a Minute (2024)

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Stuck in the Sound - 16 Dreams a Minute (2024)

Stuck in the Sound - 16 Dreams a Minute (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 362 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 MB
49:50 | Indie Pop, Indie Rock | Label: Upton Park

Si l’histoire du rock est jalonnée de succès, souvent similaires dans leur narration, celui de Stuck in the Sound est tout particulier. - - Ayant acquis dès ses débuts un nom sur la scène indie parisienne, le groupe de Montreuil gagne rapidement en renommée à travers les tournées qui accompagnent ses premiers albums (Nevermind the Living Dead en 2006,Shoegazing Kids en 2009 et Pursuiten 2012). Mais c’est lorsque le titre ‘Let’s Go’ explose en France et à l’étranger, révélant un intérêt formidable des publics nord et sud-américains, que l’histoire se fait mémorable. Et quelques 280 millions de streams plus tard, Stuck in the Sound revient pour nous livrer un sixième album, très attendu des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. - - Pour ce nouveau chapitre, le groupe a souhaité conserver son indépendance et s’affranchir de tous les impératifs artistiques, se refusant même à la facilité des formules qui ont fait sa réussite.

Boney M. - The Collection (2008) {3CD Box Set}

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Boney M. - The Collection (2008) {3CD Box Set}

Boney M. - The Collection (2008) {3CD Box Set}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,49 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 515 Mb
Full Scans | 03:13:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Disco, Funk, Soul, Pop | Sony BMG Music #88697 27212 2

3 CD set that encapsulates the European chart toppers hits thru the decades. Like Milli Vannilli after them, producer Frank Farian supplied the male voice while DJ/ dancer Bobby Farrell provided the face. CD1 features their 70's hits including 'Ma Baker', 'Rivers of Babylon' and more. CD2 has their 80s hits like 'Boonoonoonoos', 'We Kill the World' and others. CD3 features a selection of great 12 remixes.

Elvis Presley - The Pot Luck Sessions (2021)

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Elvis Presley - The Pot Luck Sessions (2021)

Elvis Presley - The Pot Luck Sessions (2021)
FLAC (tracks) - 2.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.5 GB
6:23:37 | Full Scans Included | Rock, Pop | Label: Follow That Dream Records / Sony Music

FTD’s acclaimed series continues with one of the most commercially successful recording sessions of Elvis’ career THE POT LUCK SESSIONS. It is without doubt the ultimate triumph for Hill & Range’s song plugger Freddy Bienstock. Superbly crafted hits like “Little Sister”, (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame”, “Good Luck Charm” and She’s Not You” dominated pop charts throughout the world in the early ‘60s and Elvis’ flawless performances accompanied by Nashville’s finest musicians still resonate today some 60 years later.

Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985)

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Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985)

Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985)
feat. Bill Frisell, John Scofield and Peter Erskine

EAC | APE | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 263 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans included | 00:53:54
Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Guitar Jazz | Label: ECM | # ECM 1299, 827 743-2

The pairing of electric guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield had to be one of the most auspicious since John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana. Acoustic bassist Marc Johnson's stroke of genius in bringing the two together on Bass Desires resulted in a sound that demonstrated both compatibility between the guitarists and the distinctiveness of the two when heard in combination. Add drummer Peter Erskine and you had a bona fide supergroup, albeit in retrospect a short-lived one, before Frisell and Scofield would establish their own substantial careers as leaders. The guitarists revealed symmetry, spaciousness, and a soaring stance, buoyed by the simplicity of their rhythm mates. This is immediately achieved on the introductory track, "Samurai Hee-Haw," as hummable, head-swimming, and memorable a melody as there ever has been, and a definite signature sound.

Blue System - Greatest Hits (2009) {Steal Box Collection}

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Blue System - Greatest Hits (2009) {Steal Box Collection}

Blue System - Greatest Hits (2009) {Steal Box Collection}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 517 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 171 Mb
Full Scans | 00:58:34 | RAR 5% Recovery
Euro-Disco, Eurodance, Pop | Sony Music #88697528172

Following the dissolution of his successful dance-pop duo Modern Talking, composer and producer Dieter Bohlen turned his attention to a new solo project which he dubbed Blue System; also assuming vocal chores, he debuted in 1987 with the single "Sorry Little Sarah," soon followed by the full-length Walking on a Rainbow. While early Blue System efforts like 1989's Body Heat, 1990's Obsession, 1991's Seeds of Heaven and 1992's Deja Vu were all produced with the aid of longtime collaborator Luis Rodriguez, beginning with 1994's X-Ten Bohlen took total creative control, heralding a shift away from the Eurodisco of past records to move into techno and house. Forever Blue followed a year later, but after 1996's Body to Body Bohlen officially reunited with former partner Thomas Anders to reform Modern Talking, with the duo issuing Back for Good two years later.

Chris De Burgh - The Getaway (1982)

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Chris De Burgh - The Getaway (1982)

Chris De Burgh - The Getaway (1982)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 348 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 173 Mb
Full Scans | 00:44:50 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soft Rock, Pop Rock | A&M Records #394 929-2

The Getaway gave Chris de Burgh his first charted single with "Don't Pay the Ferryman," which peaked at number 34 in 1983. A feverishly fast-paced tune, it contained vibrant keyboards and had de Burgh powerfully barking out the chorus in one of his most intense offerings. As his most spirited single up to that point, it proved that he could easily dish out a charging rock song that still harbored his enchanting brand of lyrics and mystery. Other songs carry this surging flow as well, like the flighty tempo of "The Getaway," kept together by its pop/rock stride, or the determination aching from de Burgh's voice throughout "Ship to Shore," which proves he can muster up some energy with barely any effort.

Georgius - String Theory (2016)

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Georgius - String Theory (2016)

Georgius - String Theory (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 442 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 174 Mb
Full Scans | 00:54:55 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock, Progressive Rock | Lynx Music #LM 120 CD-DG

Jerzy Antczak (as Georgius) made his career with Polish prog group Albion and kicked it up a notch with his first solo album "Ego, Georgius" released in 2014. This stellar opus was unanimously well received by the prog community, earning very high marks indeed and should have been album of the year in 2014. The critical praise was well deserved as the album was a total gem of atmospheric and modern prog, expertly created and performed by a tight crew of friends and colleagues. Jerzy's guitar mastery is never in doubt, a fluid and inspired conveyance of axe magic, but his use of synthesizers for maximum effect needs also to be admired.