Year: 2013
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Project Phoenix Kickstarter – Time to Get JRPG’d!
Having admired Larry Oji, Nobuo Uematsu and Donna Burke I am delighted to say they are part of an almighty kickstarter project that I’m rooting…
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Introducing…. Andrew St James
This singer/songwriter has a voice that sounds like he’s been making music for decades and yet he is only 18! Andrew’s sublime folk roots make…
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Game Review: Cloudberry Kingdom (PS3)
2D Platforming just got evil... and HARD!
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“Genso Suikoden Vocal Collection ~La Passione Commuove La Storia~” Review
Genso Suikoden has a vast vault of arranged albums from what is a relatively small collection of games. “Genso Suikoden Vocal Arrange ~ La Passione…
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Introducing… Cantus Lunaris
Everyone knows I do like a bit of Celtic folklore in my musical repertoire and Cantus Lunaris fits the bill perfectly. Not only owners of…
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Game Review: Do Not Fall (PS3)
So as the PS3 enters it’s final life years it’s really lifting the lid on indie and smaller games being released and some of them…
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Video Vault – SPC ECO
SPC ECO return with a new single that was released today called Delusional Waste. It’s a dreamy synth pop splash into cookies and cream. By…
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Mortar and Pestle – “Mortar And Pestle” Review
Electric synth alt-pop trio Mortar and Pestle released their self entitled EP earlier this year and the six track record is an excellent showcase of…
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Ten Tips To Get Your Music Submissions on Music Blogs
Higher Plain Music is a small, niche blog ran by one man who loves his music. That’s me – Simon. I have a left of…
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Introducing… Dragonfly Lingo
Dragonfly Lingo has an amazing tonal quality to it where the sound feels like it’s been beamed down from an alien craft because everything sounds…
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Old VH1 Programme of Behind the Movie “Dancer In The Dark”
A fantastic movie and some good interview times with Bjork herself.
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Tori Amos Does Dubstep?!
Tori Amos has teamed up with The Bullitts to record a single track called “Wait Until Tomorrow” which appears on The Bullitts’ debut album. Lucy…
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Adam Fielding Featured By Propellerhead Reason
We do love a bit of Adam Fielding and as a musician whom uses Reason themselves, one of the things that inspired me to choose…
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Video Vault – Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp constantly sway back and forth over a certain palette of music and this falls firmly on Felt Mountain side. Welcome to their new single…
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Seabird – “Troubled Days” Review
The summer has definitely arrived here in the UK and there’s no better time to have some open air rock to celebrate the weather with.…
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Introducing… Alice Brightsky
Well firstly – awesome name! Secondly, Alice has a very self assured delicacy to her vocal that makes it flexible and fragile whilst the music…
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Datassette – “People Without Mouths” Review
Funnily enough when I bought this album from Bandcamp (thank you artist recommendations!) I hadn’t clicked that my first contact with Datassette could well have…
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Jordan Reyne – “The Annihilation Sequence” Review
Jordan Reyne came onto my radar several years ago with her industrial percussive doom folk that seemed so steeped in history. With her latest album…
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Module – “Imagineering” Review
Module until last year was best known to us for the mighty Shatter soundtrack full of pumping beats and synth guitar riffs. With his first…
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Video Vault – Maple Bee
Melanie Garside has many a guise and we love them all here at HPM. As a solo artist she returned earlier in 2013 with a…
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Video Vault – Winifred Phillips
We love LittleBigPlanet. We love Winifred Phillips. So now that Winifred is celebrating her music video for “Victoria’s Lab” hitting 200,000 views, I think it’s…
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Video Vault – Smooth McGroove
8 Hairy Faces unite! It’s so much more than that though – amazing vocal arrangement of game music – commence!
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99 Thousandth Scrobble Playlist
Oh I do like a scrobble and I’ve been an avid lover of Last.fm since I discovered it in August 2005. Especially now my smart…
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Video Vault – The Tomas Doncker Band
The Tomas Doncker Band has been making waves with their world soul sound and Tomas has a simply amazing voice. His guitar chops aren’t bad…
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Introducing… Sara Nelms
Sara Nelms has a real country vibe to her acoustic guitar based music and a perfectly distilled vocal delivery. She reminds me of Tanya Donnelly’s…
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Digital Noise Academy – “Synemy” Review
Six musical artists made a kickstarter pledge to form a band for making music in a different way to how they usually play. It was…
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Futurebrite – “Futurebrite EP” Review
Futurebrite is the name for dark electro pop duo Karen Kannen Correa and Josh Grant. In a very similar vein to Nikki and the Dove,…
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Game Review: Diggs Nightcrawler (PS3)
The Wonderbook came out at the end of 2012 to little fanfare and a less than impressive chart entry. The problem? I’ve no idea. The…
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Young Summer – “Fever Dream EP” Review
Young Summer is a new electronic synth based singer/songwriter whom crafts some more left of the middle dream pop tunes. Her début EP “Fever Dream”…
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Live Vault – Maria Dunn
Maria Dunn’s folk root music is as honest as the day itself. Maria has a classic tone to her voice and her master of various…
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Live Vault – Myloe
Sometimes I love hearing a song from a genre I generally don’t dive into, being covered in a genre I love. Welcome to Myloe, a…
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Introducing… Steve Schultz
Steve Schultz may be releasing his second album Over The Edge this week but he’s just getting us warmed up to his clean and honest…
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Son Lux – “Tear” Review
“Tear” is a two-track single that acts as the bridge between Son Lux’s most recent work “We Are Rising” and what the new album will…
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Live Vault – Robin Foster
Robin Foster usually does extremely beautiful instruments, full of brooding emotion. Occasionally a guest vocalist pops up and for this track its Dave Pen. This…
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Artemis – “Treasure” Review
Artemis launched her career from the original MP3.com and this was one of the first EP’s I was able to buy from the site when…
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Introducing – KonstantinAS
A bit of an experimental one for you all today. KonstantinAS takes guitars from around the globe and weaves them into avant garde instrumental pieces…
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Introducing… Amatorski
Amatorski are a Belgian band and they have elements of Sparklehorse, Portishead, Sig Ros and Fever Ray but with the voice of Emiliana Torrini on…
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Introducing… Zain Lodhia
Adult pop rock cross over artist Zain Lodhia makes sharp tracks that are instantly catchy and full of hooks but have more to them than…
