Year: 2009
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Lisa Gerrard & Klaus Schulze – “Farscape” Review
For once I’m at a loss for words and am completely torn. Lisa Gerrard’s latest collaboration partner is Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream fame and…
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Live Vault – Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf is this weeks Live vault hot of his latest album, the excellent The Bachelor. This is anthem “Battle”. Enjoy!
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Rock Band: Beatles – E3 Press Conference Video
Harmonix have long been doing great things with music games (Frequency & Amplitude) and now their Rock Band series is getting the Beatles look. Take…
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“Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections” Review
Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections continues the excellent series’ trend for producing albums that piano lovers can treasure. Taking 13 tracks from the soundtrack and…
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Poll: What’s Your Favourite Final Fantasy Piano Collection?
We’ve been going FFPC mad lately and have reviewed nearly all of them. While we wait for Piano Collections for XII and the I-III era…
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Live Vault – Touhomus
This week’s live vault is a superb rendition of the classic Tomb Raider theme, composed by Nathan McCree. YouTube’r Touhomus has pre-mapped every instrument on…
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Lisa Germano – New Album
Lisa Germano has a new album coming! “Magic Neighbour” is due out of the 18th of September. Nothing else is really known as of yet…
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Imogen Heap – Ellipse Tracklist
It’s finally coming, after many iBlogs, Imogen Heap’s 3rd solo (4th overall) album “Ellipse” is coming and here is the tracklist: 01. First Train Home…
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Game Review: Trash Panic (PS3)
It’s been a long time coming but here it is: HPM is doing game reviews too! Please bare with me while I find a format…
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Dead Can Dance – First Song Released
Brendan Perry has just released the first studio recording of Dead Can Dance from 1982. The songs “A Means of Escape” is available to download…
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Nobuo Uematsu – New Solo Album & OST Coming
Nobuo is celebrating his 50th birthday in style this year. His new solo album “10 Stories” will be 10 songs we assume and is slowly…
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Patrick Wolf – “The Bachelor” Review
I must admit I came to Patrick Wolf very late – last year in fact. It’s not very often someone strikes a chord on the…
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Most Viewed – May 2009
For the first time in HPM’s history there hasn’t been a clear-cut winner with two artists almost drawing for first place on the most viewed…
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Seiji Honda – “Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections” Review
After a long wait, too long for some, Final Fantasy VII finally gets its own Piano Collections set. Taking 13 tracks from the OST, they…
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“Flock! Official Soundtrack” Review
Flock! The cute game of sheep herding, taking the PS1 game entitled “Sheep” and running with the idea, making it much more friendly and yet…
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Live Vault – Miranda Sex Garden
Good old gothic choral bands – there just isn’t enough of them! Here’s a rare live video called “Fly”. Beautifully discordant!
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Michael Giacchino on Scoring Lost
Well the Lost Season 4 soundtrack was released last week (very good by the way – review coming eventually) but until then here’s an old…
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The Making of Echochrome’s Soundtrack Video
Hideki Sakimoto has surfaced on YouTube with a little video showing behind the scenes footage of making the music for Echochrome. Take a peek and…
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Final Fantasy VI Piano Collections Review
Final Fantasy VI Piano Collections is a masterpiece. Pure and simply, it has a standard that not one song even remotely drops under. Reiko Nomura…
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Final Fantasy V Piano Collections Review
The Piano Collections goes from strength to strength as its turn for Final Fantasy V to get the piano treatment. Gone is the “thin” feel…
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Final Fantasy IV Piano Collections Review
Final Fantasy IV Piano Collections was the beginning of a much-loved series. This shows the piano collection series at its most basic, uncluttered and purist.…
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Tori Amos – “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” Review
Now on studio album 10, Tori Amos never takes a break. Her fanbase may well be smaller than it was almost 20 years ago but…
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Utada Hikaru – A Family Song?
I wonder what Hikki is up to. Utada Hikaru is releasing a new Japanese single entitled Sai no Omoide () but its coming from U3…
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Video Vault – Huski
Only recently was I made aware that Maple Bee had been off doing more musical things! As one half of duo Huski, she has crafted…
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sosogood – Silent Hill & Tomb Raider Arrangements (with sheet music)
We recently came across a YouTuber who plays sublime piano arrangements of Silent Hill and Tomb Raider tracks. What’s more, he’s also uploaded sheet music…
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Lauren Hoffman – “The Chemist Said It’d Be Alright But It’s Never Been The Same” Review
Sometimes being able to buy old EP’s and demos of artists is a blissful thing and its such a case with Lauren Hoffman. She already…
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Many thanks…
Just a quick thanks to everyone who comes to see the blog. We’ve hit over 20,000 hits overall here and add on the 182,000 views…
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Vienna Teng – “Inland Territory” Review
Vienna Teng continues to know no bounds with her fourth album Inland Territory which manages to sound similar without retreading old ground or ever becoming…
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Most Viewed – April 2009
Slightly delayed it may be, but here are the top ten artists that have been viewed for April 2009 which saw a bit of a…
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Live Vault – Bat For Lashes
Bat For Lashes’ recently performed her latest single “Daniel” on Live with Jools Holland, a great show for true performers to play on and let…
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Video Vault – Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf is returning with his fourth album “The Bachelor (Battle One)” and this is the video to the first single Vulture. I see bum,…
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Tori Amos Full Songs & Free Track From AATS
Tori’s latest album is causing all kinds of crazy over at HPG and now she’s released a track for free! “Maybe California” is an acheingly…
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Chris Huelsbeck Gets ReRun
Chris Huelsbeck’s Symphonic Shades Orchestra album will be getting a reprint. After selling out the original edition, due to high demand a second permanent print…
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Tori Amos Pre-Order Info
Just a heads up that if you pre-order Abnormally Attracted To Sin from Itunes, you’ll gain a password to get first dibs on this years…
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Keiichi Shibata – “Brandish Piano Collections” Review
Welcome to Brandish Piano Collections, the piano collection that is not solely piano! Almost every song is based on the piano with various snyths and…
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Otograph – “Dive Into PixelJunk Monsters” Review
PixelJunk Monsters (and Encore) have been out for a long time and the soundtrack has also been available at a shockingly cheap price on the…
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Live Vault – PJ Harvey & John Parish
PJ Harvey and John Parish have performed the unique “Pig Will Not” on KcRw and here’s the video performance for everyone to enjoy. I know…
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Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection Trailer
Gametrailers have the official video trailer of Yoko Shimomura’s Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections. She and her performers played a special small concert to showcase the…
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Are Lamb Back Together?
Lamb appear to be touring again! Lou Rhodes had been doing solo work but a tour has been organised across Europe and their official website…