Year: 2008
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Live Vault – Aoi Teshima
Aoi Teshima is this weeks Live Vault artist with a beautiful rendition of “Rainbow” which is the ending theme for “The Witch of the West…
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Video Vault – Wendy Rule
Wendy Rule should change her stage name to Wendy Rune! Her knowledgeable songs that fit right into the Pagan-Folk-with-a-kick genre really hit home. This is…
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Utada confirmed for new album in New Year
Utada has made the press as part of the upcoming 6 months of new releases from her record label UMG. This means its highly likely…
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Video Vault – Ladytron
Week two of video vault and really about the second month I’ve learnt of Ladytron. A prelude to a review of their new album next…
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Live Vault – Charlotte Martin
Charlotte Martin is back on the live vault this week with an unreleased song called “Tough”. It’s great when artists pull various bits of their…
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Naoshi Mizuta – “Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections” Review
For a while I’ve waited for a Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections and finally I have it in my hands. I was not prepared to…
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Emiliana Torrini – 3 New Songs on Myspace + mini reviews
Emiliana is finally back. Three songs from “Me and Armini” are on her myspace page entitled “Gun”, “Big Jumps” and “Me and Armini”. “Gun” reminds…
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Gary Lucas – “Half My Life In Headphones” Review
Uk Based Gary Lucas, knows about putting things together on a string budget but he’s finally out with his first release. “Half My Life In…
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Video Vault – Y Kant Tori Read
The first in a new series each week to join live vault is to show a music video of our favourite artists. This week is…
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Live Vault – Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru gets a lot of stick for singing live everywhere and maybe not being note perfect but I’d rather take an emotive live performance…
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Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill 3 OST Review
Silent Hill’s soundtracks have with each turn become more and more involving. Silent Hill 3’s OST continued the trend with the franchise becoming more melodic…
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Imogen Heap – “Shine” EP Review
Well with all the anticipation of Imogen’s 3rd solo album starting to snowball up we take time to review one of Immi’s first singles “Shine”…
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Norihiko Hibino Gets Piano Collection
Norihiko Hibino will have a piano collections arrange album released from his “Sekaiju no Meikyu” albums. Songs will be taken from both volumes. As a…
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Final Fantasy Remix Trailer
Final Fantasy Remix nears the horizon and here’s a video trailer for it here It has to be said that I’m not too optimistic for…
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Hannah Fury – “Through the Gash” Review
Hannah Fury returns with her second full length album (after several EPs) with her trademark vocal layering and haunting presence very much intact, adding synths…
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Motoi Sakuraba Heads “Tales of…” Piano Collection
Motoi Sakuraba will be performing many of his own songs from the “Tales Of..” series in a piano collection. Whether other instruments will be included…
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Happy 50th Birthday Kate Bush!!!
Who’d have thought Kate is now 50! Her music is still gold and shiny and here’s to a new year with perhaps a little bit…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – CD Japan Present Campaign
CD Japan is a great site to order VGM and Japanese artist’s music and with Ayu’s 10th Anniversary release they’ve got a new present giveaway.…
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Deborah Henson-Conant – New Musical
She’s at it again! Deborah is back with a new show that’ll be lasting for two weeks at Central Square Theatre, MA starting on the…
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Live Vault – Yasmin Levy
This weeks Live vault comes from Spanish/Latin/Arabic crossover artist Yasmin Levy. Spanish guitars and ethnic percussion combined with Yasmin’s rich, deep and flowing voice make…
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Gackt – Returns With “Nine”
Gackt returns to the musical plains with an excellent sounding live boxset called “Nine”. I’m new to Gackt to be honest, although I’ve got a…
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Live Vault – Lamb
This weeks Live Vault comes from English duo Lamb. Criminally underrated and responsible for making some of most emotive club orientated music ever made. Here…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Mass Singles Collection Release!
Ayu is never off the release calender and this time she hits back with “A Complete ~All Singles~” which is to include all 43 singles…
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Beth Orton Reissues “Trailer Park”
Beth Orton bounces back after a quiet spell with the announcement of a reissue of Trailer Park, her début album. What’s best is that it…
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Tori Amos Bootlegs To Get International Release
If you’ve not been living in America (like me), you must be feeling the pain I have being unable to get Tori’s Bootlegs from the…
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Doug Laurent – “Half-Life” Remix Album Review
Half-Life had music? That was the response I got when I told a friend of mine I’d bought the Half-Life Soundtrack! I must admit after…
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Taro Hakase – “Final Fantasy XII Symphonic Suite” Review
The first real release of Final Fantasy XII music comes courtesy of Taro Hakase whom has apparently not been releasing music for many years and…
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Sigur Ros – “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust” Review
Sigur Ros has really seemed to garner a lot of publicity and break into a more mainstream music world with their latest album which translates…
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Jesper Kyd – “Hitman Contracts Soundtrack” Review
Jesper Kyd has performed some excellence in his game soundtracks with some very stirring performances and renditions. “Hitman: Contracts” see’s him return to a series…
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Live Vault – Tsukiko Amano
This weeks live vault performance comes from J-Rocker Tsukiko Amano. Due a new album maybe in 2009, she first came to be noticed outside Japan…
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Motoi Sakuraba – Releases First “Tales Of…” Arranged CD
Looooong overdue is the release of the first “Tales of…” arrangement CD. Taking only one song from each game, Motoi Sakuraba will be at the…
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Patrick Wolf – “Careless Talk” New Song
Patrick Wolf has uploaded a new song onto his myspace page. Entitled “Careless Talk” this is done in a 1950’s style light jazz and kind…
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New Features: A Poll For What You’d Like!
Just a quickie basically. This site is taking off and getting a lot of hits a day. This is really spurring me to make the…
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Live Vault – Mediaeval Baebes
I’m relatively new the this magical group. Mediaeval Baebes have been around for a while with an ever changing line up but the core of…
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Tori Amos – “Me and You” Unreleased Gem
Artists sometimes have some of their best work hidden in b-sides and Tori Amos is one of those artists that seem to have songs almost…
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Hiroki Kikuta – Secret of Mana + Review
Sometimes people break the mould, do something different, something original, something inspired. Medley’s of songs have always been a staple of video game arrangements, maybe…
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Shiina Ringo – New DVD
Good old Shiina is enjoying her 10 year anniversary a lot! Her latest release this year will be “Zazen Extasy”, a live dvd to Shiina’s…
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Live Vault – Amiina
This weeks late Live Vault comes from Icelanic group Amiina who released their debut album “Kurr” last year to much acclaim. This is “Glamur” taken…
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Imogen Heap – Album Update
Imogen discusses more of her album and lets us listen to samples of upcoming songs including songs called Little Bird and Swoon. Imogen’s iBlogs are…