Year: 2008
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 10 Music Releases of 2008
Well in the previous post we told you what we’d bought, now its time for our top 10 countdown. There were some excellent releases this…
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Higher Plain Music’s Bought Albums That Were Released in 2008
I thought it’d be of interest to list all the albums released this year that this website has bought… and so here it is: Afrika…
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Takayuki Nakamura – “Lumines II Remixes” Review
Lumines, the excellent and addictive puzzler for PSP and PS2 has had some excellent music as a core part of its game play. Series sound…
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Video Vault – Sarah Slean
This weeks video vault comes from Sarah Slean and the song Day One which I didn’t even know there was a video for until about…
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Live Vault – Julia Marcell
Continuing Julia Marcell’s intro this week is an original band performance of the excellent “Outer Space”. The sound qualities not great but its a fab…
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Julia Marcell – It Might Like You Review
I was fortunate to recieve Julia Marcell’s debut album “It Might Like You” from my sources since I’d never heard of the singer/songwriter from Poland…
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Vienna Teng – Inland Territory – New Album
Vienna Teng’s 4th album is entitled “Inland Territory” and will be released on the 7th of April 2009. Let the excitement begin! This looks set…
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Wataru Hokoyama – Afrika OST Review
Afrika, the Safari game for PlayStation 3 (which desperately needs releasing over in the Western World please), finally has its soundtrack released on a two…
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10,000 Reads – Thank You
A big thank you to everyone whom has read the website. Tuesday we hit the 10,000 views mark and HPM as the site continues to…
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Live Vault – Sitorimon
Sitorimon is this weeks Live Vault with a chilling performance of “Ice Maiden” that appears to have been done at home. You can hear the…
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – New Album!
The boys are back with a new album. No one knows what its called yet but it has appeared on the release list for 4th…
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Gackt – New Single
Gackt is back with new single entitled “Ghost” which you can preorder here. Although nothing is available about the song yet sadly, we shall be…
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Chris Hulsbeck Symphonic Shades Samples Online
Clips from the Symphonic Shades CD are online for those us thinking that £18.51 is a lot of money to part for one CD! You…
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Tanya Donelly – Making of Bright Light Video
In something you don’t normally get in the English speaking world, director Phil Harder walks back through the set they used for Tanya Donelly’s music…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Asia Tour DVD Release Date
Not like Ayu to take five minutes rest, now that her second tour of Asia is over, we have a gleeful DVD to commemorate it!…
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Lisa Miskovsky – Still Alive Music Video (Mirrors Edge Theme)
One of the first things I noticed about Mirrors Edge and the trailers of it was that the theme song was mind blowing! Its hook…
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Aoi Teshima – The Rose ~I Love Cinemas~ Review
Aoi Teshima has had a busy 2008 releasing two albums. The first is this one, entitled “The Rose ~I Love Cinemas~” which takes eight well…
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Live Vault – Utada Hikaru
We here at HPM can’t hide our love for Utada Hikaru and here’s a one off live gem of hers – an orchestral performance of…
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Video Vault – Shiina Ringo
Shiina Ringo. We loved her rocking out before she went off jazzing around. Here’s one of my favourite videos of all time. The song is…
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Most Viewed Artists For November
Although it was a relatively quiet month for releases, it was the third biggest month in page views for HPM and with a review blow…
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Chris Hulsbeck – Symphonic Shades Concert Gets Release
Chris Hulsbeck finally has a release date for his Symphonic Shades concert. With a 70 minute running time, it will be released on the 11th…
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Video Vault – Tanya Donelly
We’ve been giving ourselves extra helpings of Tanya Donelly lately and that’s just fine with us. We love the b-movie styled video for “The Bright…
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Live Vault – Sarah McLachlan & Pink
Fresh from this years AMA awards, here’s an unlikely duet that I think is quite ingenious! Sarah Mclachlan’s best known song Angels gets a revamp…
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Acclaim’s Ravin’ X-Mas Review
For a festive release, Acclaim take some of their better known games and remix various tracks from them to give a Christmas vibe. The clue…
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Video Vault – Lamb
This weeks Video Vault is from Lamb with their excellent video for single B-Line. Not only is the song absolutely fantastic but never before have…
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Live Vault – Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is our artist in the Live Vault position this week with an energetic performance of “Not About Love”. We love the growls! Enjoy…
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Sarah Slean – The Baroness Redecorates out 9th December
Sarah Slean had said she cut many songs off The Baroness when she released it, now they appear to gave resurfaced with “The Baroness Redecorates”.…
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Live Vault – Tanya Donelly
This weeks Live Vault comes from talented Tanya Donelly and a performance of a song from her first solo album. The song is Latern. It’s…
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Video Vault – Billie Myers
This weeks video vault comes from Billie Myers. Tell Me was her second single from her début album Growing, Pains and in our view was…
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Whispers of the Plains #2 – Lou Cowell
#2 in our interview section comes from rising star Lou Cowell. Just one read of this interview and I’m reaching for my baked beans and…
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Charlotte Martin – Orphans Review
Charlotte Martin rounds off 2008 with a release of old offcuts from the cutting floor. Songs that didn’t make her previous records have clubbed together…
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Ladytron – Velocifero Review
And so Ladytron stomped their way back onto the scene in 2008 with their latest album “Velocifero”, their most cohesive and compelling album to date.…
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Unto Ashes – New Album Soon
Unto Ashes have their latest album in the mastering stage. Album number six entitled “The Blood of My Lady” went into mastering in August this…
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Lou Cowell – “I…Um…” Review
Lou Cowell shares a certain pop masters surname but that’s about all they do share in common. There’s no cheese, no pop – just a…
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – Tondemo Crisis (Incredible Crisis) OST Review
“Tondemo Crisis!” was known in the western world as “Incredible Crisis!” and the game featured a well known band in Japan called the Tokyo Ska…
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Masaya Matsuura – PJ & Parappa I Scream Review
Parappa The Rapper is already established as an icon for the rhythm action genre of the gaming industry. It was this game that really woke…
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Live Vault – Youmi Kimura
Youmi Kimura is the beautiful singer/songwriter, best known for “Always With Me”, the closing credits song for Anime “Spirited Away”. Here is a beautiful live…
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Video Vault – Garbage
This week’s music video comes from Garbage and back in 1999 with their single “Special”. Looks like she’s been playing Ace Combat a bit and…
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Top 10 Most Viewed Artists For October
A new stats fest at the start of each month begins as we give you the top 10 artists viewed at HPM. Of course it…