Khalplay

Hey guys :) Quelqu'un sait s'ils font d'autres TV shows en Europe histoire de voir ce qu'ils font la veille et le lendemain de Taratata? Peu de chance qu'ils restent à Paris, non? Ils pourraient faire le Grand Journal... :(

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Best Of) The Cranberries - Wanted (Everybody Else Is Doing It) Jane Birkin - La Gadoue (Versions Jane) Vamps - Revolution (Beast) Gossip - Keeping You Alive (Standing In The Way Of Control) Guns N' Roses - 14 Years (Use Your Illusion II) The Kills - DNA (Blood Pressures) Pravda - A L'Ouest (A L'Ouest) Catherine Ringer - Punk 103 (Ring N' Roll) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Wish You Were Here) Orange Blossom - Souffrance (Everything Must Change) Guns N' Roses - Estranged (Use Your Illusion II) Annie Lennox/Howard Shore - Into The West (Lord Of The Rings Soundtrack) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E20PKPEC

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Here's my review :D I'm sorry I had to rush it but I'm working at the moment and it's taking me way more time than what I had planned. Listened to it twice though. 1 – Very quiet piano track. The sadness it conveys would lead me to use it as a final track so the fact you’re starting with this is quite surprising but pleasant nonetheless. 2 – Starts with what sounds like a dialogue from an old movie, keyboard background which flows well with the first track, all this followed by a more dynamic mix. Cool atmosphere, I like it. 3 – Acoustic guitar, very ‘‘airy’’ atmosphere. Reminds me of some young Northern European bands whom I appreciate but wouldn’t listen too much (I find this kind of songs pretty much always the same, and thus start getting bored) 4? – I’m puzzled there’s no track 4… 5 – Would associate this one as well to young bands from Norway/Sweden/Denmark, though this one is more electronic and catchy :) 6 – I feel like entering a very vast and wide space in a video game like Final Fantasy, my character’s lost and saddened and I have to find a way to get him out of this. It’s like a tunnel with an attracting bright light on the other side. The feeling of emptiness created by the song is quite fascinating. Where does it come from? I’m very curious about it, it’s a very interesting track! 7 – Getting slightly rock with electric guitar, but the keyboard make it in keeping with the previous track. Sounds quite 70s, enjoyable! 8 – 30 seconds of bird songs, exotic ones, we’re in the middle of the Amazon forest. This is quite a mysterious tape… 9 – Once again, sounds like a young band trying be retro. I love it, the piano part reminds me of the soundtrack of a movie I love (The Brave One). Wouldn’t be surprised if the title was ‘‘Animals’’ as all songs containing this word (Coldplay, R.E.M, Cranberries) are awesome. 10 – Wuhu finally a female voice, and a good one! Totally loved the 2 first minutes of the song but then the pitch goes higher (not sure I’m using the appropriate English word) and I find it less attractive. Plus the crescendo results on something slightly disharmonic to my ears. 11 – Great contrast with the loud end of Track 10, calm, peaceful electronic track I would easily associate to a Michel Gondry movie (piano, electro plus craziness). I like it. 12 – Quite poppy/indie song, kinda repetitive (‘‘I was poor in love’’) but catchy. There’s something a bit retro at one point too, one of my fav of the mixtape. 13 – Very short track, 30 second, it’s all about atmosphere. Funnily I feel I already entered a similar ‘‘dreamy’’ world during a previous mixtape exchange, have you already been my mixtape maker? 14 – Waking up with another retro beat and a female voice. I would describe them as a soft, quiet and serious version of ‘‘The Ting Tings’’ ahah. 15 – Extremely long instrumental song that goes crescendo. There’s something PinkFloyd-ian in the length of the track and its experimental aspect. 16 – Belle and Sebastian? Definitely reminds me of an old mixtape I was sent… 17 – Soundtrack? I’m curious; where else can you find this kind of instrumental song taking into consideration I don’t think it’s a famous piece of classical music? 18 – Electro. The background noise (synth) makes it weird and kinda hard to listen to, I would have appreciated it much more if they had gotten ridden of this weird sound. 19 – The beginning totally reminds me of a song I was gonna put in my mixtape (Catherine Ringer – Pardon, if you wanna check it on youtube), and then it gets catchy. Good one. 20 – Ending on a quite country soft song. Funnily I would have started the tape with this one. I love this “and I see” repetition. All in all, a very well made mixtape. You can feel you worked on the atmosphere and I like that. Fav tracks are definitely 9, 10, 12 and 20 :) Thanks a lot, mixtape maker!

Review coming soon. I'm almost done with it but I want to listen to it one more time :)

Bad luck, I'll wait patiently... :cry:

Dear secret partner, I usually enjoy listening to mixtapes that fit my partner's tastes rather than mines, as it's more interesting for me. So feel free to put whatever you want as far as the tracks flow well together :)

In :D

First, like a few of us, I'd like to apologize for taking such a long time to review my tape. I'm usually quicker but I've been quite busy lately plus I started reviewing it and then accidentally closed my browser half way through it so I was too lazy to restart everything right away hehe… 1- Funny introduction. Sounds highly like the soundtrack of a movie. A good way to wake me up and announce ''now get ready for a crazy mixtape'' ahah 2- A very Empire of the Sun-ish track though it's a little more retro and the voice is that of a woman (which makes me like it more than Empire of the Sun). I like it, plus it's ultra catchy. I love the quiet ''drum'' part a 1:15, I'll definitely keep this song in my head for a while. ''ee-yeah ee-yeah ee-yeah ee-yeah'' :D 3- Simple beat, goes lighter as the track begins with the keyboard. Female voice again. I like the lyrics also I'm very sorry to confess the music reminds me of the opening of the French cartoon of ''Sonic the Edgehog''. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but I can prove it, and it prevents me from enjoying this track ahah. However, there's something a bit Florence & The Machine-ish in her ''ooh-OOh-ooh-ooh'' at the end, which is quite pleasant. 4- Gorillaz - Dare. One of my friend here being a huge Damon Albarn fan I thought I knew who you were when I first listened to the tape, though the other songs do not fit this person's taste ahah :D Anyway I actually like this track even if I'm not too much into Mr Albarn's work so... nice to here it again. Fits well with the mixtape (and this spring weather hehe), getting electronic & lighter... This track sums up quite well the spirit of the tape imo: you just DARE hehe. Also, is that a remix? Cause my player keeps on cutting the song, I don't know if it's normal or not... 5- Still this electronic beat, your mixtape is very coherent. I'm not fond of this track as it gets a slightly bit too ''nightclub'' at one point (too many repetitions). 6- Still electronic track starting with catchy beats. I prefer this one, plus there's guitar. It's more Gorillaz-ish, very pleasant, instrumental. I loved the crescendo-like end of the track. 7- Powerful beat. Very entertaining instrumental & electronic track (again). I got scared it’d became boring when I realised it’d be mainly electronic tracks but I was very stupid to think so, at least it keeps you awake and it’s sometimes quite cool, like this track. 8- Again, same kind of track, I even found myself taping the beat. 9- Voices are back, distorted. I don’t like this one too much, a bit Linkin Park-ish. It’s more rock though, and I like that. The title’s probably ‘‘change has come’’ ahah. Totally reminds me of the only Prodigy track I know actually. 10- Guitar!!! It’s rock & electro, instrumental, again I think that could be Prodigy-ishas well. I enjoyed this one, the ‘‘clapping part’’ is very catchy. 11- Enjoyed the beginning again, it gets more and more rock towards the end of your tape. That’s the kind of rock from the USA I usually dislike and don’t listen to, but I must confess I don’t know it that much so I’m discovering... I guess it’s bands like Slipknot / Nine Inch Nails, they’re all a bit too hard or punk for me. Anyway that’s not a bad track. 12- The voice surprised me in a mixtape centred on electric which evolves towards rock. It’s softer, there’s something ‘poppy’ in it which appears for the first time in the tape. I’m not too into this voice… 13- Trumpets (?) at the beginning, turns a bit ‘jazzy’ & still electronic, softer end of the mixtape. It’s totally ‘‘ambient track’’, lyrics are pretty simple and the first line sums up the spirit of the track: ‘’we found the paradise in the flower’s bloom’’. 14- The beginning of the track brings me back to nightclubs (ok I never go to nightclub but that’s the music I imagine being played over there). I’m not into it and the catchy ‘‘chorus’’ (can we call that a chorus? ‘‘ooh, ah, ooh-ah’’) confirms it’s not the kind of song I can enjoy. 15- I thought it’d be a remix of Chasing Cars at first, but it’s not. Keyboard, sounds quite old fashioned in a way so it must be from an old band trying to reproduce it’s original sound or something like that. Anyway, to sum up the song: synthesizer ahah. 16- Last track appears very solemn, great way to close a mixtape, even moving at one point. Must come from a soundtrack? I like it a lot! Starting a mixtape with instrumental tracks is something I like doing a lot as well, so I think that’s a pretty good choice. Overall I think that mixtape was very well done. There’s a logical evolution throughout the tape, everything flows quite well (except maybe from 2 surprising tracks towards the end which were softer than the rest of the songs). I like discovering new style of music I usually do not listen to – and that’s why I do not give the link to my lastfm account – so this mixtape is quite satisfying in this way. Even if I disliked some songs, I think it was a pretty good work and really enjoyed broadening my knowledge of music styles. Thank you!

Hello :) Tracklisting: 1. Entrée - Les Rita Mitsouko (La Femme Trombone) 2. Workin' Together - Ike & Tina Turner (Best Of) 3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power (I'm Not There OST) 4. Anchorage - Michelle Shocked (Short Sharp Shocked) 5. Sweet Child O' Mine - Sheryl Crow (The Globe Sessions) 6. Madagascar - Guns N' Roses (Chinese Democracy) 7. La Sorcière Et L'inquisiteur - Les Rita Mitsouko (Cool Frénésie) 8. J't'emmene Au Vent - Louise Attaque (Louise Attaque) 9. Two By Two - Animal Kingdom (Signs And Wonders) 10. Inner Streets - AaRON (Birds In The Storm) 11. Go Your Own Way - The Cranberries (To The Faithful Departed - The Complete Sessions) 12. Shangri La - Martina Topley-Bird (The Blue God) 13. About Her - Malcolm McLaren (Kill Bill Vol.2 OST) http://www.mediafire.com/?kokxkz6n91zun2n __________ Also a message to my mixtape maker: I downloaded it, gave it a quick listen and will probably listen to it again tomorrow and write my review.

^ We can still go to the Main Square, it's not too late to book tix :P

Why do I always get partners who seem so impressive :cry: :D ? Anyway, to whoever got me, this sums up perfectly my point of view on the mixtape game: So feel free to put whatever you want in the mixtape as far as it flow well :)

In in in :D Love this game hehe

Thank you for the explanation Since the mixtape had a specific title, I thought there surely is a specific meaning behind it and the songs it contains! And sorry to read you're strongly disappointed by an artist you love I hope it will get better with the time! I'm sure it will, thanks :) Maybe it's also because I use a PC and Windows Media Player to listen to the tracks!?! That might have been the reason indeed as I believe the WMP often uses the internet to retag mp3s. Hey: My fav album (pop rock) is ''[sic!]'' (title of the track & the album) - 2001. They started with a now ultra famous one called ''Fire'' where you can find their most appreciated songs (Zazdrość, Teksański, Moja i Twoja Nadzieja) but you have to know they used to be kind of Hard Rock at this time. Nowadays they turned to something quite electro/pop/rock and soft. They're a 20 yr-old bands so this explains why hehe. Since you mentioned Tété , I discovered Asa thanks to him! I haven’t listen to her new record yet! I actually don't know Tété this much just the ''posté devant la fenetre...'' song ahah Waouh, I wouldn’t have thought of this band! The English of Catherine is excellent and indeed the mood is not so Rita Mitsouko! I will check out this album, it’s quite intriguing me now! Plus working with a member of SOAD, maybe Serj Tankian (I should check it out), makes it even more interesting! That's Tankian indeed! He's singing on the track called Terminal Beauty I believe. Why? Do The Cranberries not exist anymore? I thought there were on tour not so long ago? They do, they do. They split in 2003 but decided to come back last year so they all had time to develop solo projects in between. That’s what I thought too but I didn’t mentioned it in first place in order not to hurt the mixtape maker’s feelings in case he/she liked the Italian guy! Ahah not all, and feel free to hurt my feelings :D Finally I’m not so good at recognizing voices! I think it’s because my memory only memorized the high voice and not the low voice of Axl Rose! I only know a couple of Guns N'Roses songs! But I’m glad it made you laugh and I’m sorry you had a bad dream because of that! I will not do this again, promise Oh I actually heard a wonderful duet version of the song in my dreams so it was not that bad, quite pleasant as a matter of fact:D

Too easy! Yes indeed, it's actually L'Arc~en~Ciel or Laruku but I was too lazy to find the ~ on my mac keyboard (and I saw Hyde live in october in Paris!) :D