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Korn ft. Skrillex – Get up (2011)

Is tropical - The Greeks (2011)

Sweatshop union - Makeshift kingdom (2011) sweatshopunionpresents.bandcamp.com

Boy & bear - Feeding line (2011)

Tristan Murail – Serendib (1992)

Terror in judgment

Wu lyf – Dirt (2011) http://www.wulyf.org/#DIRT

Death grips - Guillotine (It goes Yah) (from: Exmilitary, Third worlds 27/04/2011) http://soundcloud.com/deathgrips/sets/death-grips-exmilitary

Furta sacra - I am the dustbowl (2011)

Lana del Rey – Video games (2011) http://www.myspace.com/lizzygrant

No one has yet to die of over-happiness

For three decades now, Alec Empire has been providing those who would listen with the perfect soundtrack for a revolution. Though it seems oxymoronic to promote a revolution for so long, the fact remains that the need for it is still there, and it is addressed negligibly (and sadly often in an infantile fashion) in popular music. This track, together with the opener Activate, is the best from the new album mostly because it shows the long way Empire has come from his early beginnings.

Atari teenage riot - Is this Hyperreal? (Dim mak, 07-06-2011) www.myspace.com/atr922000

Gusgus, the connoisseur purveyors of tech-house, a band that whose contribution to the intelligent side of house and techno is of gargantuan scale, return with a new album. In this live performance, they team up with Högni Elisson of another Icelandic great, Hjaltalin.

Gusgus – Within you + Over (from: Arabian horse, Kompakt 09/05/2011)

Pitto ft. Lilian Hak - Ceiling in Paris (2011)

Masquer - Happiness (2011)

Ghost eyes - Phantom mountain (2011)

Clout! - Clout! EP (Dirty bingo, 09-05-2011)

Never cared for Lightspeed champion (nor Test icicles), but the new moniker of Dev Hynes is so decidedly 80's that that trashiness turns gold already. Wait, it's just a Prince rip off... that's why I never liked him before…

Blood orange - Dinner (Terrible, 26/04/2011)

Mohini Geisweiller – Milk teeth (2011)

Generation no-shame

Blouse – Into black (Captured tracks, 29/03/2011)

Planningtorock – The breaks (from: W, DFA 13/05/2011)

Gaggle - The brilliant sand the dark (Transgressive, 16-04-2011) www.myspace.com/gagglespace

Niveau zero ft. Ben Sharpa & Ill Smith - Law of the universe (2010)

Niveau Zero feat. Ben Sharpa & Ill Smith-Law Of The Universe by Niveau zero

Minkus - Homemade bombs (from: The shape of things to come, Watermelon 01/03/2011) www.myspace.com/minkusmetal/music

Kiss me deadly (Aldrich, 1955)

Fail-safe (Lumet, 1964)

Childhood friends are a myth

Another curveball from way outfield comes from the Israeli metal scene, and again it's a band comprised of Russian immigrants (see Gevolt). Shitty CT hail from the northern city of Akko, a city ignored not only by narrow-minded Tel Avivian music scene but also (and more importantly) by the government. And there you have the perfect recipe for an explosive hardcore band: frustrated youth venting angst and rage. Four years ago, Shitty CT released their sophomore album which contained only one good track. This time around they've performed a quantum leap and dropkicked the main door of the major league: their texts are sharp, poignant and sincerely bleeding the dead-end feeling of their lives; the flow has improved markedly and the metal simply jumped a few notches. It is an ongoing mystery why the overwhelming majority of Israeli musicians, living in one of the most fertile grounds in the globe for political defiance and rebellion, are terrified of being political and usually resort to whining banal melodrama. For their music and for their political message, Shitty CT should become a leading force in the stifled (not to say decadent) Israeli alternative music scene. If that means shifting the fulcrum to Akko, so be it: Tel Aviv has failed miserably in generating a real alternative to anything so perhaps it is time for the suburbs to kick some ass.

Shitty CT – Ani hakol (from: Humus la'hamonim 2011) www.myspace.com/shittyct

Young legionnaire – Numbers (from: Crisis works, Wichita 10/05/2011) www.myspace.com/younglegionnaire/music

Triggerfinger - All this dancin' around (Excelsior, 31/03/2011) http://www.triggerfinger.net/media/audio

It is Soooo obvious that Uza would like a song about one of the most amazing species out there. Long live Nela!

Snowman – Hyena (2011) www.myspace.com/thesnowmanempire

Son lux - Leave the riches (from: We are rising, Anticon 26/04/2011)

Michael Kiwanuka – Tell me a tale (2011)