Hi everyone!

We’ve finally finished the uploading.

Here is the new stuff:the renovate photogallery,the new space “All these things that I like” where you can also find “Tracklists”:every month tracks that I suggest you to listen.

The Tracklist of March 2007

The new of the news,actually not yet ready,is the possibility to listen to the music inside the website:I hope to grant and to fulfil my and your wish as soon as possible.

Next week we’ll open the year 2007 with the “Artist of the Week”. 

Meanwhile I announce you that I’m almost completing the electronic compilation “Simon the electro-Zealot”.

Have a good web-journey!

In collaboration with Raffaele Flore

There are so many Hollywood actresses who tried,with or without success,to raise the music charts and the hit parades:Cher,Jennifer Lopez,Lindsay Lohan,Brittany Murphy,Paris Hilton (that’s right…she’s also an actress:we envy who had never watched “House of wax”!) etc.None of these decided to start a carreer as a rock-star:the only actress who is also a front-woman of a rock band is the singer of Juliette & The Licks:Juliette Lewis (leading roles in Natural Born Killers,From dusk till dawn,Strange Days).

Juliette starts to take confidence with the microphone reinterpreting famous songs included in the soundtracks of her movies:in Strange Days she sings “Rid of me” and in Natural Born Killers “Hardly wait” both originally singed by PJ Harvey.

Miss Lewis was looking for professional musicians to found a band:in 2003,came out the first work of Juliette & The Licks:it was an EP titled Like a bolt of lighting.In this album is possible to find their first hit “Got love to kill” and the cover of “Hardly wait”.

In 2004,Juliette and her rock-mates published their first full album:You’re speaking my language;it was a great success by its agressive but glamour punk rhythm:the two hits of the previous EP and the album-title song (You’re speaking my language) are absolutely brilliant.

Before the coming out of the second album Juliette took part in the Prodigy’s Always outnumbered,never outgunned singing in “Hot ride”.

The second work came out in the summer of 2006:Four on the floor.The drummer had left the band some months before so Dave Grohl,ex Nirvana and todays frontman of Foo Fighters,helped The Licks playing his old instrument like he did with Queen of The Stone Age:the album is definitely more elaborated made by smoother and more intense tracks:we underline the two singles (till today) “Hot kiss” and “Sticky Honey”.

Juliette & The Licks is an 80’s name for a band;they have skills:they play very gently,get the people involved;music-people and magazines talk and write about them eventhough they’re not innovative playing not an original kind of rock:a band that plays very good and an histrionic leader like Juliette Lewis are the secret ingredients of their success.

OUR Juliette & The Licks’ Playlist:Got love to kill;You’re speaking my language (from You’re speaking my language). Hot kiss;Sticky Honey;Purgatory Blues (from Four on the floor).

 Juliette Lewis

 Juliette & The Licks

Twenty years ago Patrick Bodmer met Phillip Jung playing tennis in Saarbrucken (Germany,near the French border) and a close friendship was born also in their artistic way.At the age of 25,Patrick and Phillip started to play house music in Frankfurt at the Monza:they also started publishing their first works with an indipendent label (Lust).Meanwhile Phillip was travelling across the country for his own work and Patrick was leading an artistic life also studing.

In 2001,they became dj-residents at the Monza;in the same year,their old friends Arno and Walter a.k.a. Booka Shade (we’ll write about them soon) moved to Frankfurt:the four friends will constantly collaborate.

The first work of M.A.N.D.Y. is a remix of the French Galleon;M.A.N.D.Y. and Booka Shade founded anew label:Get Physical.In 2002,they all moved to Berlin looking for a greater house-landscape.

Working together in the same label they shows their best:in 2004 M.A.N.D.Y. self-produced their first mixed compilation with many indo-electro young artists like The Knife,Fischerspooner,Hans Peter Lindstrom etc.

The M.A.N.D.Y.’s experience is a wonderful example of passion and devotion for house music and also an international success based on a close and deep friendship.

Halfway between the Club-House and the electronica full of rhythm (like Death in Vegas).

My M.A.N.D.Y.’s Tracklist: Aachat;Put Put Put;No Stoppin;Body Language - M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade.   Remixes:Sparks (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) - Royksopp;Prototype (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) - Rex the Dog;Damage (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) - Tiefschwarz

Source: physical-music.com

  Patrick Bodmer e Phillip Jung

We are still updating the website:new stuff is coming out!

Next week everything will be in the right place.

We still apologize.

I’m not wrong:the artist of the week is Headcleanr (without “e”)

Actually is really difficult to find some news about Headcleanr:he can be a she or they;but I will consider him male and singular (like in dictionaries).

Headcleanr’s remixes are free from the original riffs and melodies:he always creates new rock songs (often he also reinterpretes them):to be clear,his remixes sound like covers;even if the vocals remain the original singer’s ones.

In Madonna’s EP “Remixed & Reinterpreted” we find two Headcleanr’s works: the remixes of “Love Profusion”and “American Life”.

“Love Profusion” becomes a soft-rock song with a little dose of electronic sound:it sounds like a song of the 90s Blondie;”American Life” is a hard-rock one and the rapped part has Nu-Metal elements.

Another important work is the remix of Depeche Mode’s “Nothing”:this song (included in their electro-pop album Music for the masses) originally slow and melodic,becomes a punk-rock song.

You must listen to Headcleanr’s music to understand his originality:nothing compares to his original style in remixing.

My Headcleanr’s Playlist:Remixes:American Life (Headcleanr Rock Mix);Love Profusion (Headcleanr Rock Mix) - Madonna;Nothing (Headcleanr Rock Mix) - Depeche Mode

Japanese surname and looking,absolutely eclectic,leader of Fort Minor and Linkin Park:the artist of the week is the Californian Mike Shinoda.

I would like to talk about Mike as himself;he discovers the world of music in 1988,singing as a rapper inspired by Antrax and Public Enemy mixing his income talent playing piano and guitar.

At the High School Mike founds with Brad Nelson (his mate in Linkin Park) and other friends (nowdays Hoobastank’s members)a band.After that,Mike studies graphics and design (he will design the artwork of the first Linkin Park’s album: “Styles of beyond”).Meanwhile,he “studies” also as DJ.

Since 2000,Mike gives himself just for Linkin Park:he’s absolutely their leader (he’s writer,composer,designer,arranger etc.).

In 2004 Mike stops his nu-metal experience (not forever) to begin a new hip-pop adventure with Fort Minor: in 2005 they publish “The rising tied”,which is full of collaborations:Lupe Fiasco,The Roots,John Legend and many others.Behind this project there is also Shawn Carter,better known as Jay-Z,or as the Beyoncè’s man.

In 2004,Mike Shinoda also re-edits Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the silence”:it sounds like a Linkin Park’s song…

At the moment,Mike is preparing the last Linkin Park’s album,which will be probably publish in 2007:his nu-metal fans can’t stand waiting.

It’s really hard to find,in our musical landscape,a so eclectic and complete artist as Mike Shinoda.

My Mike Shinoda’s Playlist:Linkin Park: Faint,Numb/Encore (vs Jay-Z); Fort Minor: Remember the name,Petrified Mike Shinoda:Enjoy the silence 04 - Depeche Mode

 Mike Shinoda