Magnatune: harpsichord, percussive guitar, electrodance, punk

This week's 4 new albums:

  • JungHae Kim: JS Bach Suites and Fantasias, vol 1 - Classical
    deeply elegant harpsichord

  • Justin St-Pierre: Rafiot - Alt Rock
    Acoustic percusive guitar

  • Louis Lingg and the Bombs: Songs for a Teargas Sunset - Hard Rock
    punk rock to blow your head off

  • Neurobic: Disco Drama - Electro Rock
    Urban pop music for those about to dance

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Description:Urban pop music for those about to dance
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:Neurobic
Album:Disco Drama

Neurobic is the culmination of the varied talents of two experienced and diverse music producers along with the vocal talents of Sara J.

Neurobic is mainly oriented to vocal-led urban pop dance music. Blending the sounds and feelings of the 80's with contemporary electronic music, Neurobic guarantees a stunningly memorable dance sound experience.

Every song on Discodrama brings its own story, but most of them are talking about the common feelings that we have all felt at least once in a lifetime, if not most of the time. How it is when you feel trapped in your body, in your mind, relationship, environment, or in any situation uncommon to our perceptions of how our life should be. Discodrama brings sweet danceable melodies spiced up with a bit of life-story drama.

Sometimes you can't change the universe, sometimes you can't even change yourself, but you can still dance. So, do it.



Description:punk rock to blow your head off
Genre:Hard Rock
Artist:Louis Lingg and the Bombs
Album:Songs for a Teargas Sunset

Acid rain is stinging your eyes as you marvel at the crumbling city walls around you.

It's the end of the world and the last cop wants to beat you to death for planting the last flower in a dirty pothole in the street. Tear gas makes you claw at your face as you gasp at the beauty of the sunset. Red upon red upon red. "Must be all the pollution", you laugh, before you lose consciousness for the last time...

We're a DIY punk band that normally record and do everything ourselves. Records can take a long time to make using this method. A few years ago, we decided to experiment with a different way of doing things. Record a record in two days on pro-equipment to see what happened. Tracks 2-5 are different to our earlier records in that they have an almost professional history.

It was recorded by Hadrien Grange (The Shades and Shit Browne) and Manu Guiot (Mick Jagger, Eurythmics, Sid Vicious, Celine Dion, Patrick Bruel etc.) on a Neve desk that was used to mix the 2nd Oasis album. It was mixed by Steve Kravac in Hollywood. Steve Kravac is one of the mixers that has defined the American punk sound. He has mixed Blink 182, MXPX, Less than Jake, 7 Seconds, Total Chaos, Tsunami Bomb, Youth Brigade and much more. All these cool people for a budget of almost zero. We had a lot of lucky breaks making this record! Turns out Steve is a great guy who is very kind! Tracks 2-5 were mastered by Michael Hateley who has mastered Green Day, R.E.M., Flaming Lips, Deftones, Lou Reed, Madonna you get the idea! It's crazy!

Track 1 was recorded and mixed in our rehearsal room by us before band practice! It won second best song of 2015 by Just Some Punk Songs blog. We're very proud of that as it was up against songs from big bands from the US!

Track 6 was recorded and mixed by Olivier Famin

Tracks 7-11 were recorded and mixed and mastered by me in a basement. They are instrumental versions of songs we've already released and are here by popular demand by independent filmmakers. The vocal versions of these songs have been used over a hundred times for videos and theme songs! It's weird but I think they just resonated with people.



Description:Acoustic percusive guitar
Genre:Alt Rock
Artist:Justin St-Pierre
Album:Rafiot

Justin St-Pierre started fingerstyle techniques in 2003 and explored this way of playing guitar while owning a cultural bar in North Quebec called "Rafiot". The guitarist built his album thanks to the many artists that played there and inspired him. Rafiot is the story of all the people that sat at his bar, all the legends and the discoveries.



Description:deeply elegant harpsichord
Genre:Classical
Artist:JungHae Kim
Album:JS Bach Suites and Fantasias, vol 1

Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites and Fantasias is Ms Kim's virtuosic presentation of some of Bach's most challenging, rare and beautiful works for keyboard. The collection begins with the thrilling Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat and then presents the beautiful unfinished Suite in F minor BWV 823, which exists only as a fragment. Throughout the remainder of the recording Ms Kim presents a feast for early keyboard enthusiasts, performed on a superb German instrument by John Philips after an instrument built in Dresden in 1739 by Johann Heinrich Gräbner; an instrument with which Bach is likely to have been familiar.

The recording was completed at Skywalker Sound, insuring the highest sound quality possible. This collection therefore brings together rare and beautiful compositions by Bach, superior sound quality, a gorgeous and authentic period instrument, and the skills and talents of a remarkable artist.