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A great track, by an amazing artist; Today - ANTIq

Taken from the Conumdrum EP, available for FREE Download here:

http://soundcloud.com/antigenesis/sets/conundrum-ep/

We’ve been pretty quiet lately trying to sort out a lot of stuff but please accept this short A-5tar Exclusive track by Two Years Before as an apology!

Two Years Before - are this bit ment to be glitches?? :s

(Yes, that is the song name)

This is a video for Look See Land’s “Stumble”. Kindly uploaded and given a video by Archetype Music, a fantastic Youtube Channel from Switzerland, you can check them out here: http://www.youtube.com/user/YourArchetypeMusic

Hot Jam! Sulk by .Ono focused on lovely electric piano with a fantastic pounding beat.  Great Production and a great song.

A dark dub song from Moonholders. Nice and mellow for the most part and very well produced. Check it out!

First edition of A5tar News with Gimby Gombells featuring an interview with Two Years Before

New song from My Daughter, My Nemesis called Trinity. Once again hitting the seven minute mark and once again awesome. Check it out!

The A-5tar News team have a fresh scoop with this story; Moonholders now has green in his hair. Many are wondering if the chemicals in the hair dye will have any effect on his brain and music, although we very highly doubt it because that never happens.

You can check out his awesome music here and keep posted to see if there’s any change; https://soundcloud.com/#ryder-moore

A5tar resident Look See Land has created his own tumblr to showcase off some of his artworks and some of his music. If you are a budding young musician and want artwork done for completely free then message us here at www.a-5tar.tumblr.com/ask
Find his art here: www.lookseeland.tumblr.com

Find his music here: www.soundcloud.com/lookseeland

For those that don’t know, Antiq produces Instrumental Hip-Hip and it’s pretty good. We here at A-5tar recently reviewed the EP and gave it an A grade.  http://soundcloud.com/antigenesis/sets/conundrum-ep/

It has every album or EP that we could find online for any a5tar artists with links to any that were online. GIGS of free music. Cop dat son.

http://a-5tar.tumblr.com/Releases

Hey everyone! Put down the cheesecake. This is Night by Fluent. The brand new 4 track EP that came out of nowhere and hit me on the face. Enjoy.

10. By Look See Land for The Days by Fluent

We kick off with art by the artist who completely dominates this list: Look See Land. This art is a surprisingly dark and horror movie-esque piece for Look See Land, but still among his most creative.

9. By Look See Land for Earthshine/Allscience by Fluent

This piece features two of Look See Land’s most prominent themes; water and space. The blending of these two elements and text placement makes for some unique and intriguing album art.

8. By Unknown for Svara by The 6th Degree

One of only two non-LSL entrants, this album art is as pretty as it is intriguing. The face in the centre is similar to the drawings used be primitive tribes and contrasts well with the spacey backdrop.

7. By Look See Land for Contiguous Ambiguous by Two Years Before

This art gives seemingly just as much away about the album’s content as its name does, which is exactly why it’s such a perfect fit.

6. By Flynnja for The journey of Kermode the Ferocious by Flynnja

This album art may be a little sore on the eyes after a while, but at least it’s not as sore as being attacked by a bear. Oh yeah, there’s a big ass bear on it. Enough said.

5. By Look See Land for Fck Strtgy by Prjkt Mngr

This album art mixes a plain minimalist layout with overlapped and brightly coloured imagery in the middle to great effect. Containing the colour within such a small part of the cover makes it that much more impactful.

4. By Look See Land for The Cassette EP by Cassette

Another example of how a complex centrepiece should be presented without being over edited or having too much in the background to take away from it. The logo in the middle was drawn by Cassette’s guitarist Stephen, but was brought to life in this EP cover by Look See Land and his seemingly endless talent for creating great art to accompany music.

3. By Look See Land for Echoes by Look See Land

One of Look See Land’s earliest Album arts, but still one of his best. The cover features one of LSL’s old favourite topics for art; trees.

2. By Look See Land for Mixtape 2 by A-5tar

The appropriately placed Mixtape 2 cover is essentially a mixtape for the eyes, mashing up art used by the musicians on the release while still creating something fresh, new and interesting.

1. By Look See Land for One by Look See Land

Another coincidental yet fitting placement of a piece. As with most of LSL’s album art, most people would happily have it hung up on their wall somewhere regardless of their musical tastes. This is the type of cover that even in an endless sea of CDs upon CDs, it would still draw you over in a music shop to check it out. Exactly the purpose of a good album cover.

Spades by A5tar newcomer Ono. Glitch-hop for ya luvin times. Get on it Ah huh huh hwey.

moonholdersradio:

Boats (With Look See Land) - From “Fluent”, released 30th July 2012.
Download the album here: http://fluentuk.bandcamp.com/album/fluent
or download the track:
http://fluentuk.bandcamp.com/track/boats-with-look-see-land

A5tar’s number one track of 2012 here! 

We are very late with this one! But better late than never, here is Distant Lights with I’m The Same Guy I Was Yesterday (And I Fucking Hate It). The song would fit wonderfully on the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City due to it’s awesome 80s vibes. Check it out guys, you’ll not regret it, you really won’t, regret it, won’t.

And all of his songs are up for free download!

http://soundcloud.com/distant-lights-1

A5tar Staff’s top ten tracks of 2012.

1. Boats - Fluent & Look See Land

2. Sasquatch - Antiq 

3. Starring Role (Axiom Remix) - Marina And The Diamonds

4. Majesty - Milla

5. Black Cross - Two Years Before

6. The Voyager II - My Daughter, My Nemesis

7. The Prince and the Libertine - Tyler Michael

8. Stumble - Look See Land

9. Viridian - Cerebral Viridian

10. Hi-Shin - Moonholders

Antiq - Conundrum EP Review

Antiq is an instrumental hip-hop artist at times bordering on experimental without straying too far from his roots.

“The Condundrum” EP opens with “Out of Infinity” a chilled out track with some relaxing guitar, and a beat to match serving as a perfect opening track whilst setting the tone for what’s to come.

Next up is “Timelapse”, an equally chilled out track that features a great guitar solo from Antiq’s friend Lunar Ghost. The energetic guitar solo should sound out of place with the back drop of chilled guitar and beats but somehow works perfectly.

“The Bang Bang Bang Interlude ft A Problem Like Maria” features Antiq adding his own spin to a classic song yet managing to stay faithful to the original while simultaneously giving it a new lease of life.

“Today” is one of the best songs on Conundrum which features a similar structure and style to the rest of the EP without sounding repetitive or samey. The song includes more well mixed and composed guitars with some great sample work to give the song another dimension.

“Mars Defends” is the most energetic song on the EP and is the closest song to a “normal” hip-hop song in Antiq’s catalogue, yet still has his own unique style all over it and show another level to Antiq’s composition skills.

“Hopeless” is the universal favourite here at A-5tar. It’s the first song we heard before Conundrum was released and we think it’s still as good a song as any hip-hop we’ve heard in recent years. The song is the most stylistically unique track on Conundrum yet still fits in well and ends the EP on a high note.

The EP closes with “Personal Request”, an excerpt from The Lord Of The Rings featuring character Gollum. This closes the EP with the same mood and style as displayed throughout.

Overall Antiq’s Conundrum EP would be one of A5tar’s favourite releases of recent months. With a unique approach to producing Instrumental Hip-Hop, Antiq creates something fresh and repeatably enjoyable in a genre filled with cliches and conformities.

We give the Conundrum EP an A grade.

From Moonholders upcoming Eyes Like Love. Lo-fi-esque-Trip-Hop-Electronic for ya.