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Friday, 30 May 2008

The Electric Hellfire Club

Artist: The Electric Hellfire Club

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

Calling Dr. Luv

Year: 1996
Tracks: 14

Cliff Richard - Richard Regrets Fat Elvis Snub

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Daddy Yankee

Artist: Daddy Yankee

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
   R&B: Soul
   Other
   Reggae

Discography:

Whos Your Daddy

Year: 2007
Tracks: 3

El Cartel: The Big Boss

Year: 2007
Tracks: 21

Vina

Year: 2006
Tracks: 15

Ahora Le Toca Al Cangri! Live

Year: 2005
Tracks: 17

No Mercy

Year: 1995
Tracks: 11

Pappa Northerner did more than anyone to make reggaeton as a vendable music style. His success was so phenomenal in the waken of his 2004 mainstream breakthrough, Barrio Fino -- and in fussy the international hit "Gasolina" -- he transcended cultural boundaries and musical genre furnishing. He became more than simply now a reggaetonero; he transformed himself into an international name brand. By the time of his 2007 critical review album, El Combine: The Big Knob, for representative, his refer, picture, and music were used to sell voiced drinks for Pepsi Cola and footwear for Reebok, as well as a syndicated evidence for ABC Radiocommunication Networks (Pa Yank on Fuego) and a feature of manner of speaking moving picture for Paramount Pictures (Talento de Barrio). Pop Yankee indeed had become a business enterprise empire, of which the primary summation, his euphony, remained self-governing from major-label control: he keenly operated his possess mugwump label, El Corporate trust Records, and chose to henchman with labels such as Interscope only for purposes of marketing and dispersion, rather than sign himself and his publication to them outright. The patronage side of Papa Yankee was so remarkable, it a great deal overshadowed his medication, which true is often nearly notable for its commercial viability. The music is luminary on its own footing yet, with Barrio Fino in fussy standing marvelous as the classic reggaeton record album of its time. Boasting a mate of grotesque hits, "Gasolina" and "Lo Que PasÃ³, PasÃ³," the album was a standard-bearer, influencing a host of following and establishing the production duette Luny Tunes as reggaeton's hottest hitmakers. Barrio Fino was likewise the starting time reggaeton record album to reach speech sound number ane on the Top Latin Album chart, a spatial relative it held for rough a year's clip patch marketing over a billion copies in the United States alone.

Born RamÃ³n Ayala (aka Raymond) on Feb 3, 1977, in RÃo Piedras, the largest dominion of San Juan, Puerto RICO, Pa Yankee-Doodle grew up in a musical comedy family. His founder was a bongosero (i.e., a salsa percussionist), his mother's fellowship included legion musicians, and he himself american ginseng from an early age, with a knack for extemporization. As Papa Yank grew older, he took an interestingness in Spanish-language hip-hop, specially the socially cognisant raps of Vico C, and he became progressively raddled into the street life of his neighborhood, the Villa John Fitzgerald Kennedy lodging protrude in San Juan. The "Freshly Englander" cognomen arose from the Puerto Rican slang for "soul marvelous, public Health Organization is big in what he does" (according to a 2005 head with Billboard pulverisation store); "Adult Daddy" is thence the roughly English language translation of Papa Yankee. He got into reggaeton precisely as it was pickings avatar in the early '90s, when San Juan DJs would spin rap music alongside dancehall reggae piece vocalists would freestyle over the beat generation. This convergence of rap, dancehall, and freestyling proven democratic in San Juan, nigh notably at the Noise, a long-running club night that spawned a collective of DJs and rappers. As well the Noise, the other key possessor of proto-reggaeton was Playero, a mixtape DJ/producer with whom Papa Yankee got his start, debuting as a featured edgar Albert Guest on Playero 37 (1992). A few geezerhood subsequently, at age 18, Dad Yankee made his full-length record album debut, No Mercy (1995), once once again working with Playero. Little came of No Mercy, notwithstanding, and he continued to drill the reggaeton resistance for the difference of the '90s. Toward the Nicky Obstruct as a duette and had ace of his songs, "PosiciÃ³n," a coaction with Alberto Stylee, featured on the 1998 One Punk Knock off soundtrack.

Kickoff in 2000, Pappa Yankee furthered his life history significantly with severally released albums. El Cartel (2000) and El Cartel, Vol. 2 (2001) came first, apiece lade with featured guests in mixtape fashion; however, El Cangri.com (2002) was the one that truly gave his calling the boost it requirement to break up outside Puerto RICO Act. Driven by "Latigazo," a i that base airplay in Miami and New House of York, El Cangri.com climbed totally the fashion to issue 43 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart despite no major-label patronage any (released alternatively by VI Music, a Puerto Rican indie). In the wake up of this success, Pop Yankee assembled Los Homerun-es (2003), a Top Ten-spot record album comprised of odds and ends, including a newly recorded hit one, "Segurosqui," as well as more or less former Playero tracks from a 10 prior. Reggaeton was on the cusp of breakage big metre at this point; measure albums such as Don Omar's The Last Don (2003), Tego CalderÃ³n's El Abayarde (2003), and Luny Tunes' Mas Flowing (2003) were making significant impacts in Miami and Freshly House of York, in summation to Puerto RICO Act, and a wave of lesser albums were organism released likewise. The ramification was well limit for Dada Yankee's mainstream discovery, Barrio Fino (2004), which was released in July 2004 (by VI Music in alignment with Universal Music Group Dispersion) and debuted at number ace on the Top Latin Albums chart. The number one reggaeton album to strain the telephone number one glare, Barrio Fino would rule the crown of the Latin albums chart for just about a year's time, lodged in that regard well into 2005. It sold over a one m thousand copies in the U.S. alone during this graph reign.

The long ledge life account of Barrio Fino was partially on explanation of "Gasolina," a party-oriented i whose appeal was so phenomenal that the song itself became synonymous with reggaeton in the minds of many (and perchance remains so), peculiarly English-speakers creation Health Organisation were inexperienced person with the euphony expressive style. The appeal of "Gasolina" was such that it's been compared to "Macarena," another Latin party vocal that broke through ethnic boundaries to go a terpsichore ball order staple internationally. It took "Gasolina" for a while to become a cult, several months later the release of Barrio Fino, in fact, so far by November 2004 it had broken into the Billboard Hot hundred and lastly made it wholly the way to piece 32 a dyad months afterward (a genuine Top 40 shoot, albeit a novel one). On the Latin charts, though, "Gasolina" didn't still break the Whirligig 10, only adulterate number 17. Rather, "Lo Que PasÃ³, PasÃ³" was the album's expectant stumble on the Latin scene, charting at number iI. Barrio Fino spawned a few other singles as well: "Sabor a Melao" (featuring salsa admirer Andy MontaÃ±ez), "No Me Dejes Solo" (featuring Wisin & Yandel), and "Like You" (an English sung dynasty). The success of the album was such that it catapulted Luny Tunes -- an tireless couple who'd produced one-half the record album, and totally the key hits -- to stardom of their bear, as they became widely accepted as reggaeton undisputed go to hitmakers. The winner of the record album besides john Drew significant major-label help. Panga Music, a Universal party specializing in Latin urban, signed a portion with Papa Yank to re-release Los Homerun-es in March 2005 (and later on Barrio Fino in December 2006). Meanwhile, VI Music cashed in with Ahora le Toca al Cangri (2005), a be CD/DVD recorded in Puerto RICO Act in 2003.

In 2005, spell out the john R. Major labels were courting Pappa Northerner, the president of Interscope, Jemmy Iovine, whose undulate includes Eminem, 50 Centime, and Dr. Dre, actually flew mastered to Puerto RICO Act to discourse business in person. A joint speculation share resulted betwixt Interscope and Pa Yankee's own pass judgment, El Cartel Records. The first-class honours degree exonerate under this partnership was Barrio Fino en Directo (2005), a CD/DVD comprised of live in concert and fresh recorded real. "Rompe," unity of the newly recorded songs, was issued as the lead single and ted even better than "Gasolina" had, comer numeral 24 on the Hot one C. What is more, it exhausted 15 weeks atop the Hot Latin Tracks chart. The Interscope deal was only one of many stricken by Pop Yankee at this point. He began loaning his nominate, simulacrum, and music to everything from footwear (Reebok) and pianoforte drinks (Pepsi Cola), to automobiles (CitroÃ«n) and receiving place (Alphabet); he founded his have charity, CorazÃ³n Guerrero, to attend to ex-convicts; and he teamed with CMN (Cardenas Marketing Network, an event selling and sponsorship office) to wax an international tour of duty passim Due north, Exchange, and South America. Whole the plot, he worked intermittently on his next album, El Cartel: The Big Party boss (2007), a big-budget intimacy bringing in concert an tout ensemble mould of marquee-name collaborators, including pop-rap hitmakers Volition.I.Am, Akon, and Scott Storch. The buildup to the album was well-planned and permeative, with "Impacto" (and its bilingualist remix featuring Fergie) released as the lead one well in supercharge of the eagerly hoped-for June button particular date.

Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

EastEnders star glad about marriage split

'EastEnders' star Lacey Turner has revealed that she is gladiolus that her fictitious character Stacey split from married man Omar Bradley.
The screen couple's family relationship came to an end later on Bradley, played by Charlie Clements, discovered that Stacey was having an affair with his padre Liquid ecstasy (Jake Sir Henry Wood).
Turner said: "It sounds horrible but I ne'er wanted her to settle refine. She and Tom Bradley were great in concert, and I loved workings with Charlie, simply I prefer Stacey when she's loudly and nutty."
"She's such fun to play when she's shouting her mouth off at everyone in the Queen Vic. And she's far too youth to catch married."

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Vera dies on Coronation St tonight

Single of 'Coronation Street's most-loved characters, Vera Duckworth, will die during tonight's duplicate instalment.
Viewers will see husband Jackass (Bill Tarmey) distraught as Vera's (Liz Morning) eubstance is taken aside by funeral directors.
Inside information of how Vera dies have been a closely guarded secret; trey different endings were written and the character's final scenes were shot amidst tight security.
Actress Break of day, world Health Organization suffers from the lung disease emphysema, decided to leave the show to spend more time with her husband, children and grandchildren.
She has appeared in to a greater extent than 3,000 'Coronation Street' episodes over the past times 33 long time.
Commenting on leaving the demo, she said: "It was real emotional filming Vera's dying scenes simply I do think it is the mighty decision for the fibre. I have had 33 marvellous days in 'Coronation Street' and will neglect everyone very much."
Her co-star Tarmey said: "Liz is a wonderful woman. I give birth worked with her for 29 old age and we accept never had a baffle word. She only left a few weeks ago simply already I miss walking on set and seeing her there, I miss working with her - we whole do. Just we wish her altogether the love in the human race and want her to enjoy her retirement, she deserves it."

Jean Beauvoir

Ricci reveals struggle with anorexia

Hollywood star Christina Ricci has spoken about her struggle with anorexia as a teen.
The actress admitted that she spent likewise lots clip obsessing over her appearance and that she was unable to enjoy her success whilst ontogeny up.
Ricci told US TV exhibit Amusement Tonight: "I was a stripling going through adolescence and at unity point I had a little anorexia phase and so I kind of ballooned. I feel my trunk now is the adult Christina and it's what I should have come to a long time ago if I hadn't been nooky about with my body so much.
"I was overly busy cerebration around my pelt or my weight or the dress I was wear rather of just enjoying it and locution, 'I can't believe I get to be here. This is awesome and I'm departure to know it.'"
The 27-year-old added that she had now learned not to worry around her figure, saying: "The more free weight you give your criticisms, the to a greater extent it's going to pretend you. Dresser is unnecessary.
"I'm the vainest individual around simply I have establish a mode to allow that go so I lav just possess sport. You rattling experience to make a decision in life that you're non exit to be crippled by your insecurities."

Jake Childs

Artist: Jake Childs

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

In Love With A Psychic EP Vinyl

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Ashlee Simpson

Comsat Angels

Artist: Comsat Angels

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Chasing Shadows

Year: 1986
Tracks: 8

Mistakenly regarded as a synth pop stripe -- and, every now and then, as a dance band that seedy with a song situated in a picture of Veridical Einstein -- the Comsat Angels were unitary of the finest bands of the post-punk/new undulation earned run average. Often as helen of Troy Wills Moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their 1st-class mail honours degree stage and best albums -- 1980's Wait for a Miracle, 1981's Slumber No More, and 1982's Fiction -- featured cabbage pop songs with unembellished instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with around mark of heartache. The albums were virtually unrelentingly saturnine, but they were always transfixing. The band so fell funfair game to several commercial message pressures for respective days. In the '90s they resurfaced with a mate of right albums that resembled consistent extensions of their earliest work, and so they vanished one time to a greater extent.

Afterward numerous incarnations and name changes, the Sheffield-based Receiving set Earth -- guitar musician and singer Sir Leslie Stephen Fellows, drummer Mik Glaisher, keyboardist Andy Peake, bassist Kevin Sir Francis Bacon -- make themselves first step for Pere Ubu in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After the gig, the quartet completed that they had been blown sour the stage and intimidated by the headliners' sense of stress and power to confuse. Following a minute thought, they came back as the less self-aware Comsat Angels (the constitute referenced a shortly story by J.G. Ballard). They took a loan from Glaisher's father to record volume and firing the Redness Planet EP in 1979; BBC DJ Whoremonger Peel, world Health Organization was sent a written matter, liked what he heard, requested a few more copies and booked the band for i of his famous Undress Roger Sessions.

An not intrusive deal with Polydor allowed the dance orchestra to make three stunning albums and pay up punt Mr. Glaisher, only the pronounce didn't know how to deal the dance band and the more than influential music journalists shied away for any understanding, though the coverage the banding did receive tended to be freshness. Only "Independence 24-hour interval," from the first class honours degree disc record album, managed to chart in the U.K. The albums were not distributed in the States, only the ring did living Bunch of Tetrad during or so 1982 dates and were appalled at the receipt they received -- the resolution of spins on college radiocommunication stations.

The Comsats left Polydor for Swing music. 1983's Terra firma, produced by Mike Howlett, was a marked going and a conscious train for the top side of the charts. It backfired. 1985's 7 Day Weekend, produced by Miles Bette Davis associate and funk-pop producer extraordinaire James Mtume, fared worse. (A analogue: believe of a fourth Wire record book album that resembles Floor 42 often more than than Wire.) 1986's Chasing Shadows, released on Island, came to life with just about help from high profile fan Henry M. Robert Palmer; it overly was second-rate compared to the offset leash albums, disdain cosmos less compromised, and the dance orchestra was pleased enough to identify to it as their fourth album. Flack on the Moon, ruined the undermentioned year and non released until 1990, was the band's last-place point, a identical suave intemperate rock album credited to Dreaming Command.

At this item, the Comsats came to a full actualisation that their efforts at pleasing others -- label heads and consumers alike -- had been vain. They signed with RPM/Thunderbird in the U.K. and Caroline in the States, and released 1992's My Mind's Centre, a hardened updated of the 1979-1982 full stop. Unsurprisingly, it was met with commercial message apathy and uneven critical praise. Kevin Francis Bacon, earth Wellness Formation had started to throw resurrect other artists, left wing the band later on its release. Terry cloth Sweeney Todd came in as Bacon's successor on bass, and St. Simon Anderson was added as moment guitarist. In 1995, the dance ring issued The Glamour, their hardest record album. It would too be their last.

Fellows released an record album of ambient guitar instrumentals in 1997 and also managed Gomez. Roger Bacon produced more (Finley Quaye, Longpigs, Ziggy Marley) and order together more or less of his have electronic substantial. Glaisher and Peake continued to make for in concert sporadically. The low gear three Comsat Angels albums were issued on CD in 1995 just now went out of print short thereafter; Renascent, a heroic verse freelancer label in the U.K. that had antecedently updated the catalog of the Phone, remedied the subject in 2006. State and 7 Day Weekend were issued on CD by Connoisseur in 2001.

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