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Topic Started: Jan 18 2006, 06:59:23 AM (1,297 Views)
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Jan 30 2006, 08:15 PM
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Jan 30 2006, 12:20 PM
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Jan 18 2006, 06:59 AM

Qntal

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Which is your favorite album? :)

Ozymandias by default. It is the only Qntal album that I have.

I only came across them recently while listening to the shoutcast stream from tormentedradio.com

Are you familiar with Hocico?
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Jan 30 2006, 02:03 PM


Are you familiar with Hocico?

Naturally. I've seen them in concert in San Francisco years ago, and though I missed them while in Germany, the next day they were at the same concert as me and just standing around talking to all the music lovers in the crowd. Erik and R. are probably two of the nicer people around! :) They support other musicians and actually love to hang out with people. They are so *not* rock stars, but just ordinary guys.
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Erik and R. are probably two of the nicer people around! :) They support other musicians and actually love to hang out with people. They are so *not* rock stars, but just ordinary guys.

It's nice to hear. I read an interview with them a few months ago and they seemed very accessible, not at all full of themselves.

I got totally hooked on them with the Wrack and Ruin album, especially the tracks "Bizarre Words" and "Ecos".

Thanks to the internet, so much more music is available now. . . especially from non-RIAA labels.
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Erik and R. are probably two of the nicer people around!  :)  They support other musicians and actually love to hang out with people.  They are so *not* rock stars, but just ordinary guys.

It's nice to hear. I read an interview with them a few months ago and they seemed very accessible, not at all full of themselves.

I got totally hooked on them with the Wrack and Ruin album, especially the tracks "Bizarre Words" and "Ecos".

Thanks to the internet, so much more music is available now. . . especially from non-RIAA labels.

The internet is great for small artists. Not only can they give away samples of music, but as a fan your ability to *write* to them and talk to them increases as well.

I don't know if they have the time to write back, but it is obvious that if you lived in the same town as these two guys (cousins), that they are exactly the type of people you'd want to hang out with. Friendly, easy going, etc.

I got into Hocico back in 1999 or 2000 with ... dang the name is escaping me, but it is their album with the black cat on the cover. While at a club in SF, there was a woman who would sell CDs. A friend (he is part of Psyclon Nine) came up and yelled, "MICHAEL! Listen to them. You'll like them. They are angry like Wumpscut, but with a Spanish twist. You'll like them."

Yeah, this guy Eric always yells real loud like, but he actually is a really great guy too. :) Anyways, I bought the album after listening to it at the club (the woman would bring a CD player we could use to listen to stuff first).

Eventually I would work her booth at clubs for her, spending hours just sitting there talking to other people about music. And there was a time that *DJs* and musicians were coming to me asking for advice (afterall, I had access to Georgia's collection, and as a distributor she had tons of great stuff).
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....The internet is great for small artists. Not only can they give away samples of music, but as a fan your ability to *write* to them and talk to them increases as well.....

....(afterall, I had access to Georgia's collection, and as a distributor she had tons of great stuff)....

The only band I ever e-mailed was Hungry Lucy. I just popped one off to let them know how much I enjoyed their "Apparitions" album. I especially love Christa Belle's voice. They never wrote back, but I was okay with that.



It's good to knwo somebody who is REALLY into new and strange music and can point out good stuff that you might have otherwise missed.

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Jan 30 2006, 11:21 PM

The only band I ever e-mailed was Hungry Lucy. I just popped one off to let them know how much I enjoyed their "Apparitions" album. I especially love Christa Belle's voice. They never wrote back, but I was okay with that.



It's good to knwo somebody who is REALLY into new and strange music and can point out good stuff that you might have otherwise missed.

There is an Italian band, The Frozen Autumn, where one of the two band members was googling their band and she found my online reference catalog, where I had a question mark for the release date of one of their albums. She emailed me the date and just started chatting a bit. :) I didn't have much to say, but I thought that was cool.

Last summer I meet Mika G. from This Morn' Omina and we talked for a bit while in Germany. He asked me to email him, and I did, but I never heard back from him. :(


If you like Hungry Lucy, then I *highly* recommend the Sacramento, California based band Claire Voyant. Victoria Lloyd's vocals are similar in style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voyant

Victoria has collaborated with Daniel Myer (Haujobb) ... and I personally think Daniel (like Mika) is one of the more brilliant musicians around. I'm not sure how he hooked up with Victoria, but their project HMB seemed to work out great for their solo album.

Hungry Lucy's "Apparitions" is Christa's only album I own.

I love some of the tracks, but others are just too soft for me. For example, I don't like her cover of Blue Dress. Technically it is fine, but it just doesn't do much for me. While I like the opening track Alfred and the fourth track Grave.

Recently I sold off something like 40 CDs, and actually "Appartitions" was on the cutting block. I had to listen to it several weeks in a row to decide I wanted to keep it (Grave was a strong reason the album is still in my collection).

On music, I'm something of a fan of getting the most bang for my buck, who isn't ... so for a long time I loved artists putting remixes and covers as the last tracks on their albums in order to break the old 45 minute length of older albums and stretch our purchase into something like 60 minutes. However, sometimes I've found that the remixes break the concept behind the album -- it is like telling a story, finishing the story, and then going back and reading the middle chapter again knowing how it finishes.

What I think happened with Appartitions is that the two remixes near the end weren't as good as the earlier original tracks, so the reason I was wishy-washy about the album is I listen to albums at home from start to finish (often while NationStating), and I forgot how much I liked the first half of this album. :)


I'm not a DJ, but sometimes I toy with the idea of trying to talk my radio DJ friends into showing me the ropes so that I could sub for them if necessary ... Grave is certainly a track I'd *love* to play on air. It is hands down my favorite.
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Jan 30 2006, 02:03 PM

Ozymandias by default. It is the only Qntal album that I have.

Oh yes, I forgot to add ... make a point to put Qntal III on your shopping list. :) The last two tracks of Qntal IV are remixes from III, and the two albums are very similar. I'm sure you'll love the album.
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np: frontline assembly :: the initial command {CA}
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np: frontline assembly :: the initial command {CA}

Frontline Assembly is my fave. I LOVE "Epitaph"
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np: frontline assembly :: the initial command  {CA}

Frontline Assembly is my fave. I LOVE "Epitaph"

I want to buy a Noise Unit album. Noise Unit is a Frontline Assembly sideproject.

Today I dug out my copy of Sophya's Dream. Sophya was an Israeli band that moved to the Netherlands ... meaning Groot Gouda might have the chance to go and see them! :)
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FLA has a ton of side projects with Nosie Unit being only one. I have the "Drill" album. It's good.
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FLA has a ton of side projects with Nosie Unit being only one. I have the "Drill" album. It's good.

Drill by Noise Unit ... I'll have to see if I can pick it up from either Crunchpod Media (a distro / music sales company a friend of mine runs) or Metropolis.

Today I'm still listening to: Sophya Dream

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Everyone Wins - SMS(I Can't Believe Somebody "Stole My Shoes")

That is an interesting name for a song. :)

Especially since today a co-worker has a bunch of flowers stuffed in a shoe on her desk!
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