At this point I'm pretty familiar with Swedish musician Dan Wande , having written about him and his music several times on this blog, but it's always interesting to see how an artist progresses with each release. On his new two track record, Kissed By An Angel & Endless Void , Dan Wande gives us his most well crafted tracks yet that show a subtle development in song writing, an increasingly polished production, and a solidified sound that establishes well and truly what Dan Wande is all about. Combining the hard hitting and progressive sounds of 80s metal, with the melodic and atmospheric sounds of 70s occult rock and an increased use of darker modern metal grooves, these tracks take you to a place where heavy metal remains sitting atop it's glorious and timeless throne. One of the most definitive changes has been a new band line-up. Whilst Dan Wande has always been the sole song-writer of his music, different performers will always bring something new to a compos
Monsieur Job are a Columbian collective lead by Cali based producer and songwriter Toby Holguin . Their eclectic mix of chill-out, breakbeat, hip-hop, dub, reggaetón and latin jazz was displayed to a great extent on debut album Bass Pa$$i , as well as it's subsequent follow up releases. Now with more collaborators on board, Monsieur Job have constructed their next album, the sprawling opus that is W.T.F! . Stylistically it follows in a similar vein to Bass Pa$$i , so it would be easy to look at the seven and half hour runtime of W.T.F! and think that this is some kind of self indulgent project that's inevitably bloated with throwaways and filler. That really isn't the case however, primarily because, at 120 tracks long, W.T.F! isn't supposed to be listened to in the same way most commercial albums are. In 1970 J.G. Ballard published his surrealist dystopian masterpiece The Atrocity Exhibition, a book broken up into loosely connected short chapters, or "condens