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Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have been perfecting their Enigma ... Read more

Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have been perfecting their Enigma-esque form of pseudospirtual, vaguely gothic dance pop since they began collaborating in the mid-1980s. Whether working as Delerium, or under their better-known name Front Line Assembly (among others), their music, which is airy and laden with reverb, usually features guest contributions from a rolling ensemble of female vocalists. Occasionally, the formula yields a worthy hit, like "Silence," the twosome's transcendent collaboration with Sarah McLachlan on Karma (1997). On this effort, a guest turn from Matthew Sweet livens up "Daylight," and The Mediaeval Baebes (fronted by ex-Miranda Sex Garden vocalist Katharine Blake) lend their silky pipes to the lovely "Aria." Too often, however, the unvarying tempos, synthesizer washes, and predictable minor chord progressions become numbingly repetitive, only sporadically coming together to create something distinctive. Diehards of the genre will enjoy it, but others may be better advised to check out the band's earlier work or to explore the similar but often more inventive music of bands like Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, and Vas. This limited edition contains a second CD of remixes, including the track "Silence." --Matthew Cooke Minimize

Tracklist: CD1: 01. Dream Dance Alliance - Eiskalt (Edit) / ... Read more

Tracklist: CD1: 01. Dream Dance Alliance - Eiskalt (Edit) / 02. Scooter - The Sound Above My Hair (Radio Edit) / 03. Topmodelz - Two Princes (Single Mix) / 04. Fragma - Forever And A Day (Radio Mix) / 05. Novaspace - Love Changes Everything (Radio Edit) /06. Pulsedriver - Superstar (Single Mix) / 07. Lazard feat. Muzzy G. - I Wanna Grow Old With You (Driver & Face Radio Edit) /08. The Real Booty Babes - 3 (Kindervater Remix Edit) / 9. Rocco & Bass-T - Our Generation / 10. Belmond & Parker - Do Your Thing (Topmodelz Edit) / 11. Pandora BX - Bad Romance (Brisby & Jingles Edit) / 12. Jan Wayne - Hello (Handz Up Edit) / 13. DJ Yanny pres. Terraformer - Won't Forget These Days 2K10 (Keamon Remix Edit) / 14. Miss Destiny - Yesterday (DJ Fait Remix Edit) /15. DJ Lee - Fugly (Single Edit) /16. Disco Cell - Same Mind (Driver & Face Remix Edit) /17. Darius & Finlay feat. Nicco - Rock To The Beat /18. Michael Mind Project - How Does It Feel /19. Rockstroh - Tanzen /20. Laurent Wolf vs. Johnny Cash - Walk The Line /21. Bingo Players featuring Tony S - Devotion 22. Schiller mit September - Breathe (Dave Ramone Radio Edit) ///CD2: 01. Tiesto feat. Tegan & Sara - Feel It In My Bones /02. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelz - Broken Tonight /03. Cosmic Gate feat. Aruna - Under Your Spell /04. Chicane - Poppiholla 06. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt - Waiting /07. 4 Strings - Music Saved My Life /08. Giuseppe Ottaviani feat. Faith - Fallen 09. Dennis Sheperd & Cold Blue - Freefalling / 10. Nolita feat. Ross Copperman - Jump /11. Filo & Peri with Mike Saint-Ju - Far From Reach /12. Simmons & Blanc - Something About You /13. Mandala Bros feat. Tian Winter - Was It The Sunlight /14. Steve Brian - Yaya /15. Haris C feat. Anthya - Tonight 16. A.M.R. - Elevation /17. Akesson - Flavour Park /18. The Mystery - Forgiven /19. Will Atkinson - Coming Home /20. Dave202 - Expose /21. Matt Skyer pres. Skyover - Elixir /22. Ron Malakai - Emerald Valley Minimize

The tracks are: 1. Power Wave, 2. Thankful N' Thoughtful, 3 ... Read more

The tracks are: 1. Power Wave, 2. Thankful N' Thoughtful, 3. Theme Fron "St. Elsewhere", 4. Haunting Me, 5. Secret Place (from "Racing With The Moon"), 6. Night Lines, 7. Tick Tock, 8. Kitchen Dance, 9. Somewhere Between Old And New York, 10. Bossa Baroque. Minimize

AEROSMITH Shut Up & Dance (1994 UK 4-track CD single - take ... Read more

AEROSMITH Shut Up & Dance (1994 UK 4-track CD single - taken from the bands hugely successful Get A Grip album. Also includes Crazy - Acoustic Mix & Line Up - Butcher Brothers Mix picture sleeve GFSXD75) Minimize

Lines, Vines and Trying Times showcases an incredible music ... Read more

Lines, Vines and Trying Times showcases an incredible musical journey by the Jonas Brothers, as well as their growth as songwriters and musicians. They ve incorporated horns into several songs, as well as harmonicas and peddle steel guitars. The first single, Paranoid, is a guitar driven dance evoking song, and the entire CD is a veritable smorgasbord of pop and rock gems. World War III is a funk metaphor for a confrontational relationship. Written by Nick Jonas, he asserts, This is a personal experience for me. World War III deals with the challenge of a girl who keeps attacking you, provoking you, trying to fight you, but all the while she s the only one fighting. Fly with Me which is also the end title credit for the upcoming Night at the Museum 2 film, was written by Jonas Brothers and their bass player Greg Garbowsky, and is sure to become a love song for the ages. On Poison Ivy Jonas Brothers added a horn section. In their summer music preview issue, Rolling Stone described the ultracatchy Poison Ivy as a Weezer-ish tune about a toxic girl that you can t resist. Hey Baby is a classic she done him wrong song written entirely by Jonas Brothers. We wrote this song for the last record while on the road and felt the old school sound was more cohesive with our present style, explains Nick Jonas.With all these themes, it s easy to see how Jonas Brothers came up with the title Lines, Vines and Trying Times. Says Joe Jonas, Lines are the proverbial lines people will feed you, and vines are obstacles that get in your way. Adds Kevin Jonas, Trying times can be relationships, or anything personal to you. No one is alone in that; we all go through it. Minimize

Lisa Gerrard, the former voice of Dead Can Dance, returns w ... Read more

Lisa Gerrard, the former voice of Dead Can Dance, returns with a soundtrack following on her acclaimed scores to Gladiator (with Hans Zimmer) and The Insider (with Pieter Bourke). Those hoping for another glimpse into ecstasy through Gerrard's magnificent voice will be disappointed. This score to the New Zealand-set film relies more on texture and mood, with Gerrard's voice planted in a slowly undulating drift of synthesizers and sustained guitar lines. It's not until "Biking Home" that you might even recognize Gerrard's voice in this quietly joyful mood piece. She only gives herself full, if understated, voice on the symphonic closing track, "Go Forward" which echoes Gladiator's "Now We Are Free," but with Maori chanting. Though there is some compelling music on Whale Rider, much of it sounds bereft without the accompanying images. --John Diliberto Minimize

Includes: Boot Scootin Boogie, Cotton Eye Joe, Achy Breaky ... Read more

Includes: Boot Scootin Boogie, Cotton Eye Joe, Achy Breaky Heart, Don't Rock the Jukebox, Down At The Twist and Shout, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Wild Wild West, Chattahoochee, Walking to Jersualem, Little Miss Honky Tonk, All My Ex's Live in Texas, Little Bitty, My Maria Minimize

Delerium was the perfect diamond chipped out of the blasted ... Read more

Delerium was the perfect diamond chipped out of the blasted earth of Front Line Assembly. A collaboration between FLA's Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb, Delerium took them to the opposite pole of their prior industrial electronic sound. Where FLA was a group that would just as soon sledgehammer Pachebel's "Canon in C," Delerium turns it into a dance number of ethereal seduction called "Paris." Drawing from their recordings for Nettwerk Records, this collection focuses on the seductive side of Delerium with chilled electro-dance rhythms and the bevy of ethereal girls they've used to front their project. Of course, Sarah McLachlan's "Silence," a yearning hymn for heaven, is here in it's original and a remixed version. "Silence" remains Delerium's greatest hit, but there are many equally compelling tracks including songs with Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer and early works featuring a little-known singer, Kristy Thirsk. It was Thirsk who established Delerium's penchant for gothic lyricism on "Flowers Become Screens." While their recent CD, Chimera, shows a slick tendency toward the middle of the road, this retrospective highlights Delerium's crafty merger of techno-dance grooves and diva-driven lyricism. --John Diliberto Minimize

Includes: Boot Scootin Boogie, Cotton Eye Joe, Achy Breaky ... Read more

Includes: Boot Scootin Boogie, Cotton Eye Joe, Achy Breaky Heart, Don't Rock the Jukebox, Down At The Twist and Shout, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Wild Wild West, Chattahoochee, Walking to Jersualem, Little Miss Honky Tonk, All My Ex's Live in Texas, Little Bitty, My Maria Minimize

Music. New Hampshire is one of the American locales in whic ... Read more

Music. New Hampshire is one of the American locales in which square dancing is most popular, both in contra dances (in which two lines of partners face each other) and square dances (in which four couples arrange themselves in a square formation). This 67-minute Minimize

20 classic line dance tracks, which is as popular as ever u ... Read more

20 classic line dance tracks, which is as popular as ever up and down the country. Booklet includes recommended dances and beats per minute for all tracks. Minimize

With dark shades of dub and songs that stretch with patient ... Read more

With dark shades of dub and songs that stretch with patient grace, 100th Window finds trip-hop legends Massive Attack seeping through your speakers with the same eerie intensity they mined on 1998's revelatory Mezzanine. The burden of high expectations has been a constant for this band since they released the classic Blue Lines in 1991. Under pressure to produce yet another record that changes the playing field of dance music, the collective has turned in a brooding, orchestral work that profits greatly from collaboration. The breathy, distinctive voice of Sinead O'Connor elevates a song like "What Your Soul Sings" into a deeply affecting, candlelit nocturne, while Horace Andy's stylized vocal washes through the string-laden "Name Taken." O'Connor also shines on "A Prayer for England," a remake of "Safe from Harm" off Lines, as her barely contained emotions artfully collide with Window's stark, distorted production. It may not turn the world upside down again, but Massive Attack retains the power to keep you transfixed and blissfully off-balance. --Matthew Cooke Minimize

"Boot Scootin' Boogie" zoomed Brooks & Dunn to the top of t ... Read more

"Boot Scootin' Boogie" zoomed Brooks & Dunn to the top of the country line-dance craze in 1992, and one could hardly blame them for riding the crest, even if it left them in a rut of shallow, preening dance ditties. They began showing greater depth in the late '90s, with albums like If You See Her and Steers and Stripes. While Hillbilly Deluxe is musically consistent, Tony Brown's production sharp and focused throughout, the themes here revert to the same old same old: empty, shallow stompers with lyrics that occasionally sound dated. "Play Something Country," another Ronnie Dunn collaboration with Terry McBride, duly name-drops current Nashville stars as well as P. Diddy and Patsy Cline. Things don't improve with the blustery "She Likes to Get Out of Town"; "Just Another Neon Night," with its painfully clichéd line "turn off that rap, boys, play me some Haggard"; or "Building Bridges," a "vocal event" with superfluous input from Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow. Only the moving story-song "Believe," brimming with heart and honesty, reminds of their potential when they think beyond the boot. --Rich Kienzle Minimize

Chorégrapie was a book by Raoul-Auger Feuillet published in ... Read more

Chorégrapie was a book by Raoul-Auger Feuillet published in 1700 that depicted dance movements using symbols rather than mere words, and it changed the way choreographers approached their art. Motions could be recorded for all time showing the movement of feet within bar-lines indicating tempos, and symbols stood for leaping, turning, pointing the toe, arm positions, etc. More than 300 dances were notated, and this allowed courts all over Europe to emulate what was going on in the Royal Court of France, the dance center of the world. This information is fascinating but unnecessary for enjoying the music played here. Mostly by Lully and Campra, the music was chosen by Feuillet to show off the various styles in use at Court, and Andrew Lawrence-King on the Baroque triple harp plays it all with such skill and love that the mind reels. Graceful and dynamic by turns, virtuoso Lawrence-King gets the most astonishing collection of sounds out of one instrument: the CD is never boring or repetitive. There are knock-down percussive moments, graceful arpeggios, and everything in between. The dynamics can sound rich and dark or ethereal. A piece by Marin Marais will be familiar to fans of that composer even in this arrangement, and a Passacaille from Lully's Armide sounds, oddly, like a Boccherini fandango. This is a wonderful surprise. --Robert Levine Minimize

Lines, Vines and Trying Times showcases an incredible music ... Read more

Lines, Vines and Trying Times showcases an incredible musical journey by the Jonas Brothers, as well as their growth as songwriters and musicians. They've incorporated horns into several songs, as well as harmonicas and peddle steel guitars. The first single, "Paranoid," is a guitar driven dance evoking song, and the entire CD is a veritable smorgasbord of pop and rock gems. "World War III" is a funk metaphor for a confrontational relationship. Written by Nick Jonas, he asserts, "This is a personal experience for me. `World War III' deals with the challenge of a girl who keeps attacking you, provoking you, trying to fight you, but all the while she's the only one fighting." "Fly With Me" which is also the end title credit for the upcoming "Night At The Museum 2" film (due in theaters May 22), was written by Jonas Brothers and their bass player Greg Garbowsky, and is sure to become a love song for the ages. On "Poison Ivy" Jonas Brothers added a horn section. In their summer music preview issue, Rolling Stone described the ultracatchy "Poison Ivy" as a "Weezer-ish tune about a toxic girl that you can't resist." "Hey Baby" is a classic "she done him wrong" song written entirely by Jonas Brothers. "We wrote this song for the last record while on the road and felt the old school sound was more cohesive with our present style," explains Nick Jonas. With all these themes, it's easy to see how Jonas Brothers came up with the title Lines, Vines and Trying Times. Says Joe Jonas, "Lines are the "proverbial" lines people will feed you, and vines are obstacles that get in your way." Adds Kevin Jonas, "Trying Times can be relationships, or anything personal to you. No one is alone in that; we all go through it." Minimize

There's evil abroad in the world of dance music and the Wol ... Read more

There's evil abroad in the world of dance music and the Wolf + Lamb/Soul Clap Justice League are the last line of defence. This coalition of glitterball superheroes and 4AM villains has come together to fight the forces of too dark, too loud dance music. The League's mission statement: ''We want to bring the sexiness back to the dancefloor.'' OK, so it's a daft scenario, but Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap, two of the most exciting DJ duos of recent times, don't believe in taking themselves too seriously - at a recent press shoot they really did dress up as superheroes. Meanwhile, their DJ-Kicks mix is diametrically opposed to the banging soul-less beats that have dominated the club scene for, well, far too long. A 27-track journey full of emotion and changes of tempo and mood, it ebbs and flows like a moonlit summer tide, from gorgeous downtempo grooves such as Can't See What Is Burning There by Nicolas Jaar to the slinky disco-house of South Aphrika by Lee Curtiss. It has more in common with Metro Area or even a disco icon like David Mancuso than anything else. Eli Goldstein from Soul Clap sums it up perfectly when he describes it as ''gentle and deep''. Soul Clap (Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine) met Wolf + Lamb (Gadi Mizrahi and Zev Eisenberg) in September 2008 when they travelled from their native Boston to attend Wolf + Lamb's underground club, the Marcy Hotel in Brooklyn. The four of them hit it off pretty much instantly. ''At the time we had made a couple of edits and we gave them to Gadi and Zev,'' says Eli. ''We released stuff on their label [also called Wolf + Lamb].'' When !K7 approached the four of them to do a DJ Kicks mix, the initial idea was do it as Wolf + Lamb versus Soul Clap. It wasn't long before they realised something more collaborative was where their heads were at. Eli explains: ''So much of the power of the music we do comes from the idea that we're a collective, even expanding beyond the four of us to acts like No Regular Play and Nicholas Jaa Minimize

Release Date: 2007-08-21, Audio CD

Every now and again a band capable of not just capturing th ... Read more

Every now and again a band capable of not just capturing the spirit of a bygone era but portraying it with uncanny authenticity and accuracy arrives, and in an era where music lovers seem increasingly ravenous for psychedelic-inflected rock, Austin's the Black Angels are precisely that act. Following on the heels of their recent Turn On, Tune In, Drone Out EP, the quintet transports listeners to a land of napalm-bright LSD flashbacks with an elegantly unholy sound that proves both eerie and ethereal. "Young Men Dead" and "The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven" walk the line between celebratory dance and grief-filled dirge. These tracks unnerve the conscious mind with unsettling drones and vocals that seem to have emerged from some parallel universe where the struggle, strife, promise, and even the seedy underbelly of the Love Generation lives on in each primal drum beat and louder-than-loud bent note from a guitar that could not have been built anywhere on Earth, but has been drenched with the sweat and blood of a generation on the verge of either victory or collapse. If there is an act in American popular music with a future brighter and vaster than the cosmos, the Black Angels are it. --Jedd Beaudoin Minimize

2010 album from the Italian maestro of Latin-Afro Cuban-Jaz ... Read more

2010 album from the Italian maestro of Latin-Afro Cuban-Jazz joints, his first album in three years. Join The Dance features 12 brand new tracks with a very talented and exceptional line-up including Norma Winston, the iconic British Jazz vocalist, on a version of 'Will You Walk A Little Faster?'. Minimize

Bonkers won Best Compilation Album at the 2006 Hardcore Awa ... Read more

Bonkers won Best Compilation Album at the 2006 Hardcore Awards, it was a poignant result for the best-loved hardcore series as Bonkers which is now 10 years old and to celebrate this musical milestone Resist are releasing the long-awaited and much anticipated Best of Bonkers. Best of Bonkers is the 17th volume of this unstoppably successful dance music series that has generated nearly a million sales. The Best of... continues Bonkers commitment to offering a diverse line-up of DJ's including Hixxy & Re-Con, Druid & Sharkey and Scott Brown, across a 3xCD package. Joining the Bonkers boys Hixxy, Sharkey & Scott Brown are Raver Baby / Hardcore Till I Die favourite Re-Con (aka Mike Di Scala, Ultrabeat, Rezonance Q), voted best Newcomer at the Hardcore Dance Awards 2005. The album contains classic tracks from Hixxy & Sharkey, Force & Styles, Dougal, Styles & Breeze, Brisk & Ham, Scott Brown, Sy & Unknown and European hardcore tracks from Paul Elstak, Critical Mass, Tommy Knocker, Diss Reaction and The Viper. Minimize

Everyone knows the name of the colossal single from Billy R ... Read more

Everyone knows the name of the colossal single from Billy Ray Cyrus record-breaking 1992 album Some Gave All the infamous Achy Breaky Heart (which also inspired a line dance craze). And since then, Billy Ray has enjoyed great success as not only as a country music star but as a successful songwriter and actor. In Billy s two decades long career he has achieved: 3 #1 singles and 6 Top 10 singles in addition to the platinum and gold albums 2 AMA awards, 1 CMA award 6 TNN/Music City News awards 2 MovieGuide Awards (for Doc ) He STILL holds the record for 17 weeks at #1 on Billboard s Hot 100 Chart for Some Gave All (the longest time this was held by a debut artist). Has been recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors Received the Bob Hope Congressional Medal of Honor Society Entertainer s Award Country Radio Broadcaster s Artist Humanitarian Award Been inducted into the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall of Fame As an artist, Billy Ray Cyrus continues to create music that is close to his heart music that rocks, can touch one s emotions, songs that are reverent and some even satirical, and all styles are evident on his CD debut release on New Door Records, Wanna Be Your Joe. Minimize

B IEW: Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have been perfecting their ... Read more

B IEW: Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have been perfecting their Enigma-esque form of pseudospirtual, vaguely gothic dance pop since they began collaborating in the mid-1980s. Whether working as Delerium, or under their better-known name Front Line Assembly (among others), their music, which is airy and laden with reverb, usually features guest contributions from a rolling ensemble of female vocalists. Occasionally, the formula yields a worthy hit, like "Silence," the twosome's transcendent collaboration with Sarah McLachlan on Karma (1997). On this effort, a guest turn from Matthew Sweet livens up "Daylight," and The Mediaeval Baebes (fronted by ex-Miranda Sex Garden vocalist Katharine Blake) lend their silky pipes to the lovely "Aria." Too often, however, the unvarying tempos, synthesizer washes, and predictable minor chord progressions become numbingly repetitive, only sporadically coming together to create something distinctive. Diehards of the genre will enjoy it, but others may be better advised to check out the band's earlier work or to explore the similar but often more inventive music of bands like Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, and Vas. --Matthew Cooke Minimize