Armin van Buuren

Armin van Buuren is one my favourite DJ of all time. I have been listening to this guy for quite some time now, and his tracks never fail to blow me away.

Okay, so most of us know him pretty well, but for those who have never heard of him, here is a bit of introduction about him. He is a Dutch trance producer and DJ. He is the number one ranked DJ having won DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs fan poll a record of 5 times, including winning 4 consecutive years between 2007–2010 and again in 2012.

His genre of music is Trance and Progressive Trance. There are many DJs out there who try to play more than a few genres of Electronic music, but this guy just focuses on those two genres. He has been producing mesmerizing tracks since 1995, that makes people from all around the world dance and giving them a euphoric experience. He produced 4 albums till now, the 5th one being release on May 5, 2013.

Discography - 
1) 76 (2003)
2) Shivers (2005)
3) Imagine (2008)
4) Mirage (2010)
5) Intense (2013) (To be released)

Armin also hosts a famous weekly radio show called the 'A State of Trance' which he first aired on 2001. The show takes the format of a two hour mix in which he plays new trance music, both promotional and commercially released. Selected tracks are announced during the show in order to help promote new artists and releases. Trance lovers from all over the world listens to this radio show. I believe this is a great thing he has started, as not only playing amazing new tracks weekly, but giving a great platform to the new DJs, as he plays their tracks in the show. I listen to this show every week, and it never fails to amaze me. Amazing tracks. 

I just hope, one day I get to see him live. That would be a dream come true! 

By Nadim Hassan.

Classical Music/Jazz

Jazz, Louis Armstrong
His hometown is New Orlando, USA. One of the most important commercial states in America in the 20th century due to its ideal location on the longest river in the united states which is the Mississippi river. By the 1900s Jazz was born. Louis Armstrong was born on 4th of august 1901, almost as jazz its self. He started singing in the streets to gain money. Once he was caught when he accidentally shoot a gun. Furthermore, during his stay in prison he played music and made something good out of bad situation. During that period of time Cruises employed jazz musicians to entertain clients and he had his shot at that too. His first band was Original Tuxedo Jazz band, Armstrong stayed with them until 1922 during ww1. His mentor was King Oliver, the man that Louis Armstrong had made his first recordings with.

Barak Alkhaldi

K-Pop Music

 

Since the mid-2000s, Korean pop music went through a huge development in the world and it is more recognized by people than before. Therefore they have their own genre and it is called K-pop music. Even the American musicians are collaborating with various K-Pop idols include many notable recording artists from the African American hip hop community, such as Akon, Kanye West, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and will.i.am.

There are plenty of subgenres in K-Pop music. Such like Bubblegum Pop, Dance-pop, Operatic pop, Power pop, Soundtrack, Synth pop, Space age pop, Sunshine pop, Traditional pop and Teen pop. This is one of the most important reasons made k-pop music successful worldwide. And some of the other reasons are Diversity of audiovisual content, Systematic training of singers, Bands with numerous members and sub-units, Rapid distribution via the Internet, Support of government agencies and dedicated fan base.

An example of the famous K-pop bands or musical groups is Big Bang which is a South Korean male Pop music group. that’s consisted from 5 young male artists who are under 25 years old.  The members' are involved t in composing and producing their own music, especially the notable leader G-Dragon, has earned the group respect and praise from music industry experts.  And in November 2011, representing the Asia-Pacific region, Big Bang emerged as the inaugural "Best Worldwide Act" winner at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards.

 

 

Japanese rock – Nano PT2

 

As an individual Nano was the first artist that I actually followed and was constantly updated on, that’s why when she released her first album ever I was filled with hype which was not put to waste.

Nanoir her first major album filled with 12 songs, with 3 instrumentals 6 original songs and remaining to be her most popular YouTube cover songs, most of the songs in this album are English with only a few exception of Japanese songs, even then listen to the Japanese songs with little understanding of Japanese I was able to grasp the atmosphere of the song and the feeling it put across to people who listen to them. Out of all the songs within her album my most favourite was Magenta, with a strong tomboyish voice mixed with strong lyrics I felt this song put across. At the end of this post I will put up the lyrics courtesy of http://aisatsunin.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/lyrics-nano-devilish-p-magenta/



remember again

inside a world of broken words
you cannot hide
you try to find the reasons why,
as days collide

the seconds keep on passing,
without a sound, you turn around
and as you walk away I call to you

don’t you let go
take a look around, you are not alone
if you’d only stop and close your eyes
find the answers,
you’d find the answers

when you feel like the world is falling in
and you can’t seem to find the way back in
don’t cry
just hear these words and remember again

outside, you’re trembling as you stand,
in the falling rain
you try to find where you belong,
as you drown the pain

you hear the voices crying
inside a world monochrome
but their eyes are bleeding tears of
magenta

don’t you let go
take another breath when you’re lost again
if you’d only break the walls within
find the courage, you’d find the courage

when you feel like the world is falling in
and you can’t seem to find the way back in
don’t cry
just hear these words and remember again

another silent prayer fades as the night slips past
I try to reach out to the light through the glass
as it shatters

don’t you let go
take a look around, you are not alone

if you’d only stop and close your eyes
find the answers,
you’d find the answers

when you feel like the world is falling in
and you can’t seem to find the way back in
don’t cry
just hear these words and remember

don’t you let go
take another breath when you’re lost again
if you’d only break the walls within
find the courage, you’d find the courage

when you feel like the world is falling in
and you can’t seem to find the way back in
don’t cry
just hear these words and remember again

you’d find the answers
you’d find the answers

Wolf

Tyler the creators wolf album is the third of the cockroach eating, odd future leaders albums and it certainly is a change to his previous two!
Famously known for his satanic thoughts and homophobic slurs in his previous albums Goblin and Bastard, Tyler the creator has changed his path and has surprisingly...matured up!
Wolf starts off with a wonderful harmony for about 30 seconds and then the odd future leader makes his mark with his typical foul language.

The album has 18 songs and has a wonderful story line behind it. My honest opinion - Tyler is a genius - he has found a way to link all three of his albums together and has created a wonderful story. Wolf should be the first album - its primarily about falling in love with a girl and he is battling his different personas to win over the girl. Wolf features a variety of artists such as Pharell, Erykah Badu and many of his odd future candidates such as Earl Sweatshirt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yS1ay045B4

By George THDED1201

Japanese rock – Nano PT1

Nano is a Japanese rock musician who was born in New York, Nano is able to sing in both English and Japanese. Her songs are usually a mix of both, however picks one main language at times, over my next couple blog post I’ll elaborate on the songs in the albums she has currently released to date.

Til date Nano has never really shown “her” face to the public, and still leaves some users guessing for her gender. However it’s depicted and usually assumed that she’s female



Nano started her music career online via the social network of YOUTUBE! Due to copyright reasons I’m unable to link the first song she covered but it was named “Ikebukuro”. During most of her free time she covers various songs and uploads it to her youtube channel NANOIS2525, the most recent song she’s uploaded onto youtube ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vqdp_HKVN0, it’s an English cover of Hysteri.

She’s recently been noticed by many companies that produce animation and are approached by them to create a theme song for them, to date she’s made at least 4 songs for animation companies.

"God of song" (second) in Hong Kong ------- Eason Chan

 

 

Eason Chan, Hong Kong famous male singer and actor, is considered by many people 

as one indicator of Hong Kong pop music in the new era. He also is considered by 

most people that he is Jacky Cheung’s successor, the new "god of song" in Hong 

Kong music circles. At the same time he is another singer who was success in Taiwan 

after Jacky Cheung. In 2003, he got the "best mandarin male singer" in Taiwan golden 

melody award. Eason Chan was described by Time Magazine as a man who was 

affecting Hong Kong music style. His album "the U87" was considered one of the 

five most worth buying albums in Asian by Time Magazine. And the albums "Special 

Thanks To" and "Don't Want to Let Go" won the"Chines Album of the Year awards". 

Eason Chan was also success in film. He won the best actor once by the movie I 

Corrupt All Cops.

By Teddy