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Happy Birthday!
''Happy Birthday!'' is the second studio album by German electronic music duo Modeselektor. It was released on BPitch Control on 10 September 2007. Critical reception Mark Pytlik of ''Pitchfork A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. It has a long handle and usually two to five thin tines designed to efficiently move such materials. The term is also applie ...'' gave the album a 7.4 out of 10, saying, "what's interesting about ''Happy Birthday!'' isn't just that it fuses together the most unfashionable or discarded elements of electronic music's recent history, but that it manages to sound so fresh in doing so." Track listing Charts References External links * {{Authority control 2007 albums Modeselektor albums BPitch Control albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modeselektor
Modeselektor is a German electronic music duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. History The group members met in 1992 in Berlin with group member Szary performing live acid house music at illegal underground parties, under the moniker Fundamental Knowledge. The group says, "After Berlin Wall, the Wall came down, everywhere in Germany and especially East Germany there was a lot of chaos, anarchy." Both soon joined forces and began creating music as Modeselektor, a name taken from a function on the Roland Space Echo analog signal, analog delay (audio effect), delay effects unit. In 1999 Modeselektor signed its first remix contract and began working with Pfadfinderei, a Berlin-based VJ (video performance artist), VJ and design collective. In 2000 Modeselektor met Ellen Allien, making BPitch Control their home label. Modeselektor has also been involved in collaborative efforts; Moderat - a musical collaboration between Modeselektor and Apparat (musician), Apparat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TTC (band)
TTC is a French hip hop group from Paris. It consists of Tido Berman, Teki Latex, Cuizinier, Orgasmic, Para One, and Tacteel. In 2007, '' Les Inrockuptibles'' described it as "one of the most fascinating developments in French music of the past ten years." History In 2002, TTC released the first album, ''Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque'', on Big Dada. In 2004, the group released the second album, '' Batards Sensibles''. It featured vocal contributions from Busdriver and Radioinactive. The third album, ''3615 TTC'', was released in 2006. Members * Tido Berman - vocals * Teki Latex - vocals * Cuizinier - vocals * Orgasmic - DJ * Para One - production * Tacteel - production Discography Studio albums * ''Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque'' (2002) * '' Batards Sensibles'' (2004) * ''3615 TTC'' (2006) EPs * ''Elementaire'' (2001) * ''Danser'' (2002) * ''Trop Singe'' (2003) * ''Girlfriend'' (2006) Singles * "Game Over 99" b/w "Trop Frias" (1999) * "Leguman" b/w "Subway" (2000) * "De Pauvres Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtape In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists mo ...s released in 2007. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2007 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2007 albums Albums 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs as well as playing content from dynamic, smart playlists. It includes options for sound optimization and wirelessly sharing iTunes libraries. iTunes was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001. Its original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a Windows version of the program, it became an ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPhone and iPad upon their introduction. From 2005 on, Apple expanded its core music features with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxïmo Park
Maxïmo Park are an English alternative rock band formed in 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne. The band currently consists of Paul Smith (English singer), Paul Smith (lead vocals), Duncan Lloyd (guitar, bass, keyboards, backing vocals), and Tom English (drums). The band have released eight studio albums: ''A Certain Trigger'' (2005), ''Our Earthly Pleasures'' (2007), ''Quicken the Heart'' (2009), ''The National Health (album), The National Health'' (2012), ''Too Much Information (Maxïmo Park album), Too Much Information'' (2014), ''Risk to Exist'' (2017), ''Nature Always Wins'' (2021), and ''Stream of Life'' (2024). The first two albums went gold in the UK, and their debut was nominated for the Mercury Prize. History Formation and early releases (2000–2003) The band was created by guitarist Duncan Lloyd and is named after Máximo Gómez Park (also known as Domino Park), located in Little Havana, Miami. Initially, the four founding members played several small shows including Manche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the vocalist and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. ''Rolling Stone'' described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation. Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. They gained notice with their debut single, "Creep (Radiohead song), Creep", and went on to achieve acclaim and sales of more than 30 million albums. Yorke's early influences included alternative rock acts such as the Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. With Radiohead's fourth album, ''Kid A'' (2000), Yorke moved into electronic music, influenced by artists such as Aphex Twin. For most of his career, he has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood. Yorke's solo work comprises mainly electronic music. His debut solo album, ''The Eraser'', was released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puppetmastaz
Puppetmastaz is a German hip hop group founded in Berlin with members from Germany, United States and Canada, like Max Turner, Chilly Gonzales, Paul PM (aka Mister Maloke), Mocky and Alex Tiller, who left the band in 2003. Formed in 1996, the group perform their shows with hand puppets and meet music styles of rap, funk and electronica. The producers on at least 3 albums were ''N1tro'', Patric Catani (aka Candie Hank, Ec8or) and ''Bomb 20''. Bandleader Paul Affeld, along with Artist Max Turner, is the only member to have contributed to all 5 albums to date. Former members are also musician and songwriter Adam Traynor and Blake Worrell. Other recent Members: Pilo (Adrian Ilea), Zhi MC (Zhi Yang Trieu) and Luis Nassowitz. Development Their first transregional known songs were "Pet Sound" (2003, New Noise Label) and "The Bigger the Better" (2005, Louisville Records). The band members of the Puppetmastaz Crew are always seen as puppets on stage. Whilst music is played by their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Von Schirach
Otto von Schirach (born March 10, 1978, in Miami, Florida) is an American IDM and breakcore musician. Of Cuban and German heritage, he grew up in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami and heavily incorporates elements of Miami bass Miami bass (also known as booty music or booty bass) is a subgenre of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The use of drums from the Roland TR-808, sustained kick drum, heavy bass, raised dance tempos, and frequently sexual ... into his music. He started out DJing at house parties in the 1990s and began composing his own music. In 2001 he released his first album, ''8000 B.C.'', on his own Triangle Earth label. Von Schirach has a son who was born in 2016. Discography Albums * 2001: ''8000 B.C.'' (Triangle Earth/Schematic) * 2001: ''Escalo Frio'' (Schematic) * 2004: ''Global Speaker Fisting'' (Schematic) * 2006: ''Maxipad Detention'' (Ipecac Recordings) * 2006: ''Pimps of Gore'' (collaborative album with Gut) (Suprem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligent Dance Music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.''"…the label 'IDM' (for avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') seems to be based more on an association with individualistic experimentation than on a particular set of musical characteristics."'' Butler, M.J., ''Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music'', Indiana University Press, 2006, (p. 80). The music often described with the term originally emerged in the early 1990s from the culture and sound palette of styles of electronic dance music such as acid house, ambient techno, Detroit techno and breakbeat;''"The electronic listening music of the nineties is a prime example of an art form derived from and stimulated by countless influences. Partisan analyses of this music claim a baffling variety of prime sources (Detroit techno, New York electro + Chicago acid, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkeytown (album)
''Monkeytown'' is the third studio album by German electronic music duo Modeselektor. It was released on Monkeytown Records on 30 September 2011. It was produced "100% together in the studio and in one session over the course of ten weeks". In 2014, it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 67, based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Gernot Bronsert – production * Sebastian Szary – production * Busdriver – vocals (2) * Pillow Talk – emergency call (2) * Thom Yorke – vocals (3, 10) * Otto von Schirach – vocals (4) * Miss Platnum – vocals (6) * PVT – guest appearance (8) * Siriusmo – synthesizer (8) * Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
