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In 1987, a small record label was founded by Ed Piller and Radio London on air personality Gilles Peterson. The duo set out to combine the progressive elements of Jazz with the attitude of Hip Hop. Thus, the Acid Jazz label was born. Signing young, creative talents such as Chris Bangs (The Quiet Boys,) The Brand New Heavies, and A Man Called Adam, the label soon developed such a reputation, that most any music resembling the label's signature sound was referred to as Acid Jazz. The Acid Jazz artists combined Jazz with dance beats, vocals, poetry, Hip Hop, rock, electronics,...
The Emperor Machine (aka Emperor Machine), is an italo disco / downtempo pseudonym of Staffordshire, UK musician / producer / remixer Andy Meecham (aka Sir Drew). Under this name, his début release was 12" "Pro Mars / SH3A" (May 2003, DC Recordings) and the latest release, as remixer, is The Rapture's "How Deep is Your Love? (Emperor Machine Remix Edit)" (Aug 2011, DFA). Emperor Machine was born on last day of the last century spawned from a desirous and dirty relationship between an EMS VCS3 and a Roland System 100. The lust child that was not yet Emperor Machine was...
Emperor Charlemagne is a novice and amateur composer with a smattering of musical training and theory knowledge. He has played the piano for 10+ years and brings his knowledge of music theory and form to create a few tracks of his own. Though he considers himself primarily a 'classical' composer (in the loosest sense of the term), he has composed in electronic, pseudo-avant garde, video-game, and other genres. He draws major stylistic influence and inspiration the works of Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and a some other German Romanticists, to name a few. The works of Gyorgi Ligeti and...
emperor由samoth(drum/vocal),ihsahn(guitar)和motiis(bass)成立于1991年春天,很快乐队便录制了第一张demo《wrath of tyrant》,这使candlelight公司开始注意他们。他们也进行了人员变动,samoth成为吉它手,bard fraust加入乐队担任鼓手。91年末,乐队再次进入录音棚录制他们与enslaved乐队的split ablum。此张专集反映了emperor早期的风格。随后的一年里,mortiis离开乐队,tchort取代了他的位置。 1993年夏,乐队开始录制他们的第一张专辑《in the nightside eclipse》,专辑1994正式发行。这时他们已无可争辩的成为blackmetal乐迷心中最重要的乐队。但在此期间,乐队也遇到了不少麻烦,由于个人信仰的关系,emperor将意味着失去samoth和faust。最终,他们永远失去了faust,他因杀人被判8年徒刑。Samoth幸运的留下了,于是乐队开始重新编排,新的贝斯手alver和客串鼓手加入. 尽管乐队遇到了许多麻烦,但最终emperor还是变得更加强大,经过samoth的努力,enslaved的鼓手trym作为永久成员加入乐队。96年末,经过充分磨合,乐队又重新进入录音棚。Ep《reverence》的发表标志着他们又重新归来。97年,乐队发表了第二张专辑《anthems to the welkin at dusk》。一张具有史诗性的作品,不仅展示出邪恶的气氛,一种凄美的感觉也强烈的震撼着乐迷们。该专辑同时被英国的terrorizer杂志和美国的metal maniacs杂志评为当年的最佳重金属专辑。 乐队发表了第二张专辑后,emperor内部又一次发生人员变动,在参加完dynamo和millwaukee 重金属音乐节后,乐队宣布贝斯手alver离队。所以在他们其后的专辑《ix equilibrium》中所有的bass部分都由ihsahn担任完成。 《ix equilibrium》是乐队有史以来最令人感到窒息一张专辑,与气势磅礴的《anthems to the welkin at dusk》相比,emperor并没有继承上张专辑的风格,更确切的说,不可再单纯的认为emperor是一支blackmetal乐队。在新专辑中,你可以体会到传统重金属的元素——歌剧式的嗓音,模仿布鲁斯的节奏。当然专辑也少不了emperor的标志——交响乐式的吉它效果。此张专辑发表后各个媒介褒贬不一,也许一些emperor的老歌迷不太能接受他们的变化,在他们心中,《in the nightside eclipse》和《anthems to the welkin at dusk》是blackmetal的圣经。但对于emperor本身来说,这是一张充满实验性的尝试。可以说他们是成功的,乐队在重金属乐坛的地位也逐步提升。具最新消息,emperor的下一张专辑将会和大名鼎鼎的乐队korn的制作人ross robinson合作完成,当然这只不过是消息罢了,但很有可能乐队的下一张专辑会更令人吃惊。总的来说,emperor的三张专辑风格各不相同,第一张是一张非常经典的传统blackmetal风格。并配以宏大的背景音乐。突出表现了挪威blackmetal注重气氛的特点。而第二张则注入了emperor自己的特点,其强大的表现力可以让每一个听到他们音乐的人受到触动。加上乐队成员技术上的不断成熟,更能完美的体现黑暗的精神。而第三张专辑则是对blackmetal的一种探索,作品不再拘泥于blackmetal的传统,各类音乐元素的混合使专辑实际上变得更加深沉。 www.rockyear.com .
Recorded at Big Skin HQ, the base for the band’s label operations, Vitreous is the new album from O Emperor. The band’s own DIY studio was (literally) built from the ground up with everything from label administration to recording happening inside its grubby, fire-stained walls. The resulting recordings are a direct representation of this operation, being the band’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date; a stamp moulded from their many meandering sessions there. While debut Hither Thither could be described as a lush tapestry displaying a classical use of depth and shading, Vitreous is more like a stark, multi-coloured...