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Alright, one more new awesome music update. This one’s by the French electronic duo, Justice with their album †. Similar to how Daft Punk is an amazing genre-defining French electronic duo, these guys do it their own way and to absolutely phenomenal results. Very unique, very listenable, very composed unlike a lot of boring repetitive dance music. I don’t really know how to describe it but I recommend you head over to Amazon and listen to the sound samples. My highlights thus far are “Genesis” and “Phantom Pt. II”.The big hit is “D A N C E” but that doesn’t do as much for me. The rest of the album is much more interesting in my eyes.

I have been blessed with great music lately and I am thankful for it. I blame GTA IV for turning me on to Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights”, which immediately made me remember how awesome music is in general and made me go seek out that feeling of discovering great stuff that’s out there underneath my small personal radar. Speaking of that, GTA IV is fucking phenomenal. Best of the series by far - one of the few games I’ve played with a truly engrossing storyline, and I hope I’m not spoiling anything by saying it doesn’t end in the typical GTA way of the street scum guy who you’ve been playing for 30 hours ends up happy and rich and without a care in the world. It’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s great.

Another new minor release on the radar…

BRAND NEW NINE INCH NAILS ALBUM, THE SLIP.
COMPLETELY FOR FREE.

HOLY SHIT.

Here comes Trent again to fuck your mind up. At this rate, the man will release more new music in 2008 than he has in the twenty years previous. Think about that. Sure, maybe the quality’s not as absolute-god-perfect as The Downward Spiral or The Fragile was, but taken as a formula where you divide quality by time-per-release (Q over TPR of course), this definitely wins out. I’ll take ten really good albums every five years than one awesome one. Plus it fits more in with the modern disposability of music where albums seem to dominate for a week then disappear… I don’t know. Maybe I’m reading more into it than I should be.

Also, it’s got vocals and is much heavier than Ghosts I-IV was. Much more of a NIN album for sure. Feels more in the vein of With Teeth, and I mean that as a good thing.

Either way, DOWNLOAD THIS GODDAMN ALBUM! You don’t have a reason not to! Seriously, there’s not even a “donate here” box. It’s free, no strings attached.

Enjoy.

Just wanted to quickly pimp out their fourth and latest album, Late Night Cinema. It’s instrumental hip-hop from a producer duo, Kingston and Young God, that has a very distant and unique feel to it - doesn’t really sound like hip-hop at all. The production on this album is fantastic and I highly recommend it as background music for everyday life.

As a side note: I should have given Kanye West more of a listen years ago. His stuff is great and groundbreaking for the genre.