The Cure and Herman Dune reviews

A few year’s ago in Berlin we came across the excellent Exberliner mag with crystalline music reviews. This month D. Strauss points his ascerbic wit in the direction of The Cure and Herman Dune, among others:
http://www.exberliner.net/records.php?action=inthisissue

Posted by harry covert on September 30, 2008
Bankrupt

Chris T-T wrote this song, which appears on his mini-album 9 Red Songs.
It’s particularly apt in the current financial climate, and this is my version of it – a kind of blues take on the tune.
http://www.popround.com/upload/files/mr_tim/bankrupt.mp3

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Posted by mr tim on September 19, 2008
Northern Lights and beyond

Here’s a random collection of stuff, including some interesting Icelandic tunes by FM Belfast, Seabear and a brand new single from Emiliana Torrini. Plus that irresistible Mummers-track March of the dawn – not that they are from anywhere near Iceland, but the song most definitely has a strong affinity with Bjork so I [...]

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Posted by yari on September 17, 2008
Luscious dancehall courtesy of The Heatwave

As always happens, one search on the web dragged me further than I initially anticipated. In this case, it all turned out OK in the end: I wondered across some wonderful tracks that the UK’s Heatwave posse have shrewdly made available.
A veritable cornucopia of official remixes and “cheeky party-starting bashment/hip hop refixes or mashups”. Pulling [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 13, 2008