pandora.com

A while ago, a stranger friend I met online gave me an online radio site called Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/). It calls itself the Music Genome Project, whatever that means, and all you have to do is get an account, type in what music you like, and it will play a lot of similar style of music for you. It's a great place to find out all sorts of never-heard-of artists. You can skip the ones you don't like, and buy the ones you like. It's great that it gave me a wider perspective of music, and led me to many other artists that I came to like. And of course, this site was a great friend during those boring working hours.

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Recently I stumbled across a secret little place where I found the newest album of Apparat I can get my hands at. It has the melancholic beats Orchestra of Bubbles has, and some of the songs instantly hooked me onto the album.

Orchestra of Bubbles by Ellen Allien & Apparat

Way Out by Ellen Allien & Apparat

Along with Goldenboy's "Or" I also bought Orchestra of Bubbles by Ellen Allien & Apparat, two DJs from Berlin. This album is unique in it's mixture of electro beats, instrumentals, and Ellen's whispery voice. I actually liked this CD long before I actually bought it (listening from all the downloads, of course), and having always believed in supporting my truly favorite artists (and finding out the cheap deal on ebay), I decided to get it along with Goldenboy. However, I came to like this CD more than the Goldenboy. Just go listen and fall in love with it!

"Or" by Goldenboy

Ripping Kittin by Goldenbly featuring Miss Kittin

So just recently I've found a nice deal on the most popular search engine in the world (which is supposedly ebay, not too shockingly...) on a CD that I wanted but couldn't find in the stores around town. The CD is called Or by Goldenboy, a DJ from Hamburg, Germany. I started looking for his stuff after stumbling across a song of his with Miss Kittin which I loved. Ripping Kittin - the song that got me hooked on - is supposedly the best-received song on the whole album, which I later realized also and couldn't agree more with. After listening to the sample clips of all the songs on amazon, I've decide that it's worth the risk to purchase and add the album to my mini collection of CDs that is usually neglected and left out in the dark to collect dust.

After a week of impatient waiting, the CD finally came. And as usual with my luck with shipped CDs, the teeth of the hub that holds the CD in place are mostly broken, or maybe that's why the CD is that cheap, almost as cheap as the shipping fees actually.

Next comes the listening part. Miss Kittin, with her sexy voice, is present in many of the songs, and some reviews even claimed that the only success of the album is having Miss Kittin in the songs. After listening to the whole CD for a while, I can't help but start to agree a bit to that comment as well. But by far, the most successful is still Ripping Kittin. Some of the songs in the album can sometimes feel a bit repetitive, tiring and cheesy and are just asking to be skipped. But overall, the CD still gets your head shaking and heart beating.