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Madness - Keep Moving

0 comments Posted by Henry Lutfidwianto Susilotomo at 6:59 PM

What do you do if you're a group for whom the dance-rock imperative has started to feel like a cliché? If you're bright and British, it's likely you'll either break up the band or take up some new and drastic tangent, just to keep things interesting. Two groups who've chosen the latter course are Thompson Twins and Madness. The three Twins made their name with tunes like "Lies" and "In the Name of Love" – bright, splashy synth sprints designed to pack dance floors. Madness germinated during the Two Tone craze of 1980, suffusing ska music with a dose of zany, vaudevillian humor. Both groups subscribe to the never-repeat-yourself credo of the new-age U.K., which may explain why they're sounding quite different these days.

In the Thompson Twins' case, there are fewer beats per minute on Into the Gap, their third U.S. album. Indeed, leader Tom Bailey and company have slowed it all down to bring the human factor into clearer focus. And while they pay frequent lip service to the word dance, they intend it more in the sense of T.S. Eliot than of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. The sunshine, in fact, is all but obscured by the drizzly day the band evokes. Into the Gap abounds with water imagery – the rain and the sea – both in Alannah Currie's lyrics and Tom Bailey and Joe Leeway's liquid keyboards. It runs from "Doctor! Doctor!" (which begs, "Dance with me/Across the sea") to "Who Can Stop the Rain." In the Twins' view, the "rain" that haunts our lives encompasses personal tribulations ("Storm on the Sea") and world problems ("Into the Gap," which addresses the gulf between East and West). Throughout, the band maintains a hypnotic, swaying groove that suggests reserves of pastoral contentment even in the wake of the storm. As they themselves urge on "Hold Me Now," "Let loving start."

While the Thompson Twins are looking for a spiritual high, Madness settle for high spirits on Keep Moving. In a sense, Madness have gone back to their roots – the British art-pop song, as epitomized by the midperiod Kinks. They have crafted an eccentric, eclectic collection that comprises frilly, flower-power-pop truffles, rock-operatic miniatures about lost faces in the crowd and quaint slices of British life. Snatches of Sixties songs and styles waft through these thoroughly modern tunes like so many friendly ghosts – for instance, the Steve Cropper-type guitar fills that toughen up "Keep Moving," and the Peter and Gordon harmonies of "The Sun and the Rain." Not to mention the organ on "Prospects," which puts a giddy Caribbean spin on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." And who else but the Kinks could have inspired a title like "Victoria Gardens"? Keep Moving is such a delightful musical potpourri that Kinks cultists and British Invasion curators may soon be wearing god save madness buttons.

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Track list :

Keep Moving
Michael Caine
Turning Blue
One Better Day
March Of The Gherkins
Waltz Into Mischief
Brand New Beat
Victoria Gardens
Samantha
Time For Tea
Prospects
Give Me A Reason

Go Jimmy Go

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1996-2008: Celebrating 11 Years Of An Original Island Sound...Go Jimmy Go has been the front-runner in Hawai’i’s music industry, creating original rhythms since the mid ‘90s. With a wholly unique sound, the key to their success has been the band’s feverish chemistry of musicians. With a foundation of driving beats, drummer/vocalist Shon Gregory and bass man Jayder set the pace for Ian Ashley’s melodic guitar/vocals. Ryan Kunimura on trombone and tenor saxophonist Eric White add the sweet memorable flavor of “old Jamaica” while the frenetic moves and soulful vocals of lead singer Jason “Bison” Friedmann never cease to amaze audiences the world around. In 2008, look forward to the Hawaiian Punch Europe Tour, a Japan Tour and a 5th album around the end of summer.

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Jemima
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Miss Argentina
Mountainview
Na-Na
Pressure House
Set Me Free
Sunday Morning
Supersonic
Tin Penny

SLACKERS

0 comments Posted by Henry Lutfidwianto Susilotomo at 6:53 PM

Look at this bullshit.... who do these pricks thik they are... i see one thing down here man,, and thats mid life crisis... get it together .... what the helll is with the red and the yello wand the blue and the sweaters and the neru ....what is this the bill cosby show? get a life loser and quit tryin to live yer high school fantasy of not gettin towel whipped by the jocks inb the locker room...One elderly gent says,"Why it sounds like a lot of music I used to like, but I don't think any of you boys look addicted to HEROIN!" Doomed to try and explain themselves to a world full of hungry club-promoters, style-police, genre-slaves and the generally confused, they wrote bio upon bio, hoping to snag someone...ANYONE!...who might understand...here is attempt 6,364…” - Vic Ruggiero, The Slackers The Slackers sound is Jamaican rock n roll. While they have been influenced, and even personally taught by Jamaican ska/reggae originators, like the Skatalites and the Upsetters (Original backing band for the Wailers), the band sees its music through an American lens. This band is equally appreciative of old blues, 60s soul, rock, and Rnb as it is of reggae, rocksteady, dub, and Ska. It is as if the Rolling Stones or the Yardbirds had grown up on Bob Marley as well as Muddy Waters. From their 1996 release, Better Late Than Never through to last year's, Peculiar, the NYC-based band, the Slackers have established themselves as America's premiere interpreters and innovators of Jamaican music. In their new release, The Boss Harmony Sessions,

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Skamasutra

0 comments Posted by Henry Lutfidwianto Susilotomo at 6:46 PM

Skamasutra is a seven-piece Ska/Rock band based out of Exeter, New Hampshire. For over five years Skamasutra has given the Northeast nothing but the best the Ska genre has to offer. Performing for audiences from Maine to Connecticut Skamasutra has spread its unique blend of Ska, Rock, and Jazz like dandelion seeds in the wind. Appealing to audiences as diverse as their influences Skamasutra has had the honor and privilege of sharing the stage with: Go Jimmy Go, Gym Class Heroes, The Pietasters, The Planet Smashers, The Slackers, Streetlight Manifesto, The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Westbound Train.

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emo patrol
democracy in name only
rake side up
skaoi!
burnout
rude rude rudy
strawberry jam
you don' cheated
reason to quit
a night in la paz
the ballad of rosco gordon
desperado

SKA - P

0 comments Posted by Henry Lutfidwianto Susilotomo at 6:46 PM

Ska-P (pronounced [esˈkape]) is a ska punk band formed in Madrid^[1] (Vallecas), Spain, in 1994, that could be categorized, politically, as an anti-establishment musical

group. It is one of the most popular ska bands in Spain and Europe.

Musically, despite their fun image, Ska-P has well-rehearsed and tight arrangements, and as of 2002, includes among its members a small but striking brass section which gives the band a powerful sound.

Their nonconformist attitude is also evident in their eccentric haircuts. Some band members have mohawks while others are almost bald-shaven (with a ponytail at the back).

At the end of 2004, they announced work on a new album. After voting 4 against 2, in February 2005, the sudden and unexpected announcement was made that the band would take a break to allow the members to work on side projects, though some considered the band to have dissolved. The band's worldwide farewell tour of 2005 ended in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October of that year. Their farewell concert in Leganés (near Madrid), on September 24 2005, filled the 10,000-seat La Cubierta Stadium.

In April 2008 the band confirmed they were getting back together and on September 5th, 2008 released the single "Crimen sollicitationis". This was followed in October 2008 by a new album, Lágrimas y Gozos (Tears and Joys), which was released on October 7, 2008. The release of the album would be followed by a brief tour.^[2]

Ska-P returned to La Cubierta Stadium on December 27, 2008 to perform their only concert in Spain of that tour.^[3]

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A la mierda
Blablabla
Cannabis
Como me pongo
El gato Lopez
El nino soldado
El olvidado
el vals del obrero
Eres un@ más
Esquirol
Juan sin tierra
La Estampida
legalization
McDolar
Mestizaje
Mis colegas
Planeta eskoria
Resistencia
Sexo y Religión
Solamente por pensar
Tío Sam
Verguenza
Villancico
Welcome To Hell
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Two Tone Club - 2005 - Turn Off

0 comments Posted by Henry Lutfidwianto Susilotomo at 6:41 PM

Yes, you are right. It is a typical trait of human mankind to start off clubs to socialize and join in on doing such useful things as smoking cigars, read the newspaper or mow the lawn together. You never know...

But a great club for sure is Fran
Yes, you are right. It is a typical trait of human mankind to start off clubs to socialize and join in on doing such useful things as smoking cigars, read the newspaper or mow the lawn together. You never know...

But a great club for sure is France's finest TWO TONE CLUB. Founded in 1999 by former members of the GANGSTERS ALL STARS, the club is rooted in Ska and Reggae with a driving beat and since then unstoppable in their mission for Jamaican music. Numerous shows by these nine sympathetic guys followed, all over France and in the neighbouring European countries.

The Two Tone Club knows how to capture their audience with a melange of traditional Ska, e.g. like being played by The SKATALITES or LAUREL AITKEN and later influences as THE SPECIALS, THE SELECTER or THE BEAT. No wonder, that they've shared the stage with some of these legendary bands since then.

Right now, the band has finished their latest full-length album, which will be released through GROVER RECORDS in March 2005. Following this will be a massive heap of shows around Europe! This is not a restricted club for members only, but music is the card for entrance and once you get a ticket by the TWO TONE CLUB, you'll be glad to join the club! ce's finest TWO TONE CLUB. Founded in 1999 by former members of the GANGSTERS ALL STARS, the club is rooted in Ska and Reggae with a driving beat and since then unstoppable in their mission for Jamaican music. Numerous shows by these nine sympathetic guys followed, all over France and in the neighbouring European countries.