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Familuar Strange - Maths and the Moon- Album Review

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One of those moments in music where a new album takes you back to gothic darkwave indie bands of the late 80s. 90s of a high standard with catchy songs, which is a rare feet and nice skill set for a musician to have.   When i first heard futurist, from  Andy Fielder Luke Taplin,  Matt Hirst,  within the first 30 seconds my ears picked up like spock from Star Trek You have, Boomerang, moody guitars, haunting vocals, grinding bass lines. It's all there, like Psych-Seeing, which gets deep down and dirty.  You get nice Acoustics like, The Collector and on the other side of the spectrum,  an epic ten minute vocal /instrumental  in the form of, The Eclipse,  This album reminded me of one band in particular,  Jesus in Mary Chain. I had not listened to them in some time. As soon as i heard the songs  they reflect them very well. Probably was not the intention, lucky accident perhaps.  I honestly was not expecting to that. Independent band going through promotion company

What can i do??? My work history essentially

I was thinking of my skills recently. You never know how things are going to turn out work wise. They have built up through my own experiences and gained some by discovering them over time. This is general overview of what I can do and what I have done work wise. Demand Records. People still remember me from this. I still get recognised.  I opened In 1994 and closed in 2005 as I ran into a financial brick wall. I sold mainly pre owned vinyl, CDs and cassettes. keeping my ear to the ground I introduced console games which, If I recall, not many shops were selling at the time in town?. The biggest edition was new drum and bass vinyl. This was at the time when a lot of big festivals and clubs were around and I managed to claw the fans in  through the door.  The shop also started the creative juices flowing with promoting local musicians.  I started, a short lived printed magazine with a small team of four, which after the printed one stopped I took that and turned that into a live audio r

All About Vinyl, my Turntable Series

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I retuned to my vinyl vlog series. I love vinyl. The wife bought me a new turntable as I was literally gasping for one.  I decided I want to utilise my turntable although vinyl is first not ever new release is on vinyl at the moment.                                This is 56 episode series. I had to stop for a while due to moving                                                                This is the playlist .                                                   Below are vinyl, CD and Digital releases                        This is a new song by band Speed of Sound. Links are in the video description This is the first new vinyl release I put on the turntable. Double vinyl by Spy Genius                                                I love creative openings to songs or albums.                                    This is one of my favourites and just happens to be legendary  I then turned my attention to CD releases. This is Oceans, from the album Cold Tales by  Little Brother Eli Then