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Out this week: Soul Calibur 4 (360, PS3)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 || fewr

Games:

Soul Calibur 4 (360, PS3)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (800 MS Points)

World:

Tuesday 29: McCain on tour.
Thursday 31: Withdrawal from Iraq; Child labour deadline.
Sunday : Action on AIDS

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Sonny J ~ Disastro

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 || fewr

If you’ve talked to me lately, you probably know by now that my album of the month is Sonny J ~ Disastro since I’ve told EVERYONE I know about it. If I didn’t mention it last time we met then I must have been scared to come off as one track minded, thought I had already mentioned it and decided not to risk doing so again (cue FT jokes).

Anyway, in short, to me this is the result of mixing Lemon Jelly with a bunch or motown(ish?) albums and sprinkling a few funky effects here and there. If you’re not interested at all into this style of erm.. “baroque” music (I lack a better term for it) then you are allergic to fun.

I like this album a lot, and as I’ve said before this is a very strong candidate to be my album of the year. My only problem is that well… yes, it’s fun, but that’s it. I don’t know if I’m unfair when comparing albums by other people with (mostly) original stuff with this other in which at the end of the day all Sonny J did was add a few well timed special effects to old songs and create a couple of original tracks (no extra credits for No-Fi nor for Sorrow). Another problem that I have with it is that as his first attempt I thought that most of it would be his own work, but in the credits it is mentioned that he got help from replayheaven ( http://replayheaven.com/examples.htm ) which may or may not undermine the value of his work (a bit at least).

Don’t let my concerns bother you too much, this is a great party album and I won’t worry much about those two things, at least not for now because I’ve still got a few months to decide. (more…)

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