Black Sabbath - 5 albums

The mighty Black Sabbath! No explanation needed for this one, just realized I didn't have these albums and grabbed them off waffles. Seriously, if you don't know who Black Sabbath is, where have you been for the past 30+ years?
In no order:

Volume 4
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Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
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Heaven and Hell
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Master of Reality
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Sabotage
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Mordicus - Dances From Left

The name of this album would imply that you would actually be able to dance to it. Really, the only thing this album is good for is to headbang until you get whiplash so bad you can't move your neck for a week. I suppose that track titles like "Unholy Wrath" and "A Thorn In Holy Flesh" and the band being called "Mordicus" might tell you that. I really enjoy this album, it's as if Metallica had brutal growl vocals, and played more thrash with their "Black Album"-type arrangements.
Check out two other reviews here:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=28734

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Darc Mind - Symptomatic of a Greater Ill

One of waffles' hidden gems.
Review (stolen from waffles S9S):

Let's say you're looking for some serious expansion of your hip-hop collection. You've covered all the classics; heard all the J5, Public Enemy, and such, but need a rest from Kanye West. You need to get yourself some Anticon - an unconventional record label that works more as a "collective" of artists who work very close together on all sorts of musical and non-musical projects. If you want to look for another sound in hip-hop, then give this a spin.

Anticon is set up with the distinctive purpose of counteracting the more mainstream variant of hip-hop. Think of it as a sort of Ninja Tune, only the artists are a more tight-knit lot. The label nurtures the works of artists like Odd Nosdam, Alias and Why?. If you shop around a bit for Anticon artists, you'll find that it isn't easy to brute force them into the hip-hop category - and that's a good thing if you ask me. One album that falls well into the hip-hop genre is Symptomatic of a Greater Ill by Darc Mind.

The people at Anticon decided to finally release this gem in 2006 - I say finally because Darc Mind made the album back in the mid 90's. However, their current label folded and the release was canceled. Unfortunately, Darc Mind weren't able to find a label to release the album in subsequent years. There seemed to be no room or interest for an innovative album of the same caliber as something like Jeru the Damaja's 1994 release The Sun Rises in the East. But now, after almost a decade, the album of Darc Mind was released in 2006 for the enjoyment of all. In my opinion, just to get you started, the first song on the album you should listen to is "Visions of a Blur". After that, it becomes much easier to get as hooked on the album as I have become!

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New feature!!! Browse by quality.

So you can now browse the files by quality! They are marked with an underscore (_) before the quality (ie. V0, 128, 192, etc). They are all mp3, if I ever upload something in FLAC (unlikely) then it would be marked as _flac. If I couldn't remember what the quality was then I did not mark it.
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Various - The Big Gundown: Reggae Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns

Review (stolen from KG user kuruyacya):
The Big Gundown is a wicked compilation of late 60s and early 70s reggae songs that have been inspired by classic spaghetti western movies! This is fantastic stuff that's had us wearing our stetsons and skanking 'round the office all day!

Of all the cinematic genres, it was the Hollywood Westerns that captured the imaginations of the young Jamaicans the most, and the island's record producers were quick to cash in with ska classic s such as "Gun Fever", "Tall in the Saddle", "Vera Cruz", and "Lawless Street". However, in the mid-sixties, Italian movie directors such a Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima deconstructed their favourite movie genre and invested it with a new realism, and so the Italian Westerns took on their own identity. The grit, the dirt, the sweat, the scenery and above all the relentless, merciless violence made a huge impression on cinema audiences and especially in Jamacia, where, as legend has it they were eventually banned as a response to local rude boys joining the gunplay and shooting a the screens!

Funnily enough, none of these reggae tributes to spaghetti westerns actually cover the music from the movies they took their titles from, rather the producers and musicians attempted to recreate the brooding, violent atmosphere of the movies and add a new dimension to what may have turned out to be a commercially average track.

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Various - Experimental Music of Japan (1957-67)

Experimental music is hard to describe. For one thing, it's very subjective. Just because two people think that experimental music is cool doesn't mean that they'll enjoy the same pieces. I say this because that is the case with this album. You're either going to love it or hate it.
Listening to this album makes you think you should be surrounded by aliens who are about to probe your insides, because that seems like the only thing that could make the sounds you're hearing.


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Gimp - Smile for Macavity

This is similar to Impact Unit and SOA. Not in the sense of musical style, but in the fact that the singer of this small band would go on and do great things. Tomas Kalnoky (age 15) wrote and sang for the East Brunswick, New Jersey based punk band. His excellence and fame in the ska scene is foreshadowed on this rare punk tape that includes the track "Supernothing" which Kalnoky would later re-record with both Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. Definitely cool to hear Tomas at such a young age with this band. This is the only album they ever released.
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