Would you like a critique or an opinion of your recording? You can now send us your demos and a couple of great music experts will give it a review. This, together with a 55 second clip of one of your pieces, will be published on our website where everyone can listen to it. Every 15 days the legendary Captain Nemo and his “number 1”, The Wiz, will “surface” with a final judgement of the recordings that the bands have sent us. A 55 second passage from every CD we receive will be put on the MP3 section of the website. If someone really enjoys what they hear, they can then stop by your place to buy the demo. Can you “fathom” it? So don’t be shy, get yourselves out there as much as possible, and don’t be afraid of a little criticism! BEEP…BLEEP…your Captain Nemo, in exploration as always, has heard three new signals. Four creatures analysed with care and attention in the depths of his chambers (and you can only imagine what the pressure is like down here in the deep). I’m going to get started, if you can go ahead and download the music from the MP3 section, that way we can experience it together. Read on and tune in. Until next time. Over and out. HEAD Fuck in (Paris) Our hearts stand in salute! Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space. HEAD really know what they want and also how to get it! (I really need to buy myself some more exclamation marks). They are/will be the next Les Negresses Vertes – Mano Negra (I’m talking about in terms of success). Long live orchestral punk! I’ll just point out that in “Left for fun” and “Disordered and noxious”, “Barbara Stressante” and the “abats” could go hand-in-hand with “Van der kreft gemetor” and the “Magmatz”, if you get what I mean. HEAD are practically a single producing machine. It’s a real dilemma if not even impossible to have to choose one song over another. They are all “singles” in their diversity/originality. So, if I really must I would have to choose “Left for fun”, but it’s a lost cause to have to decide among the others. BRAVO and BRAVO!!!! That’s all there is to it. (And I was even impressed by the song titles, something that hasn’t happened to me for ages…!!!) REVIENS FERNANDE (Paris) An excellent rockabilly band, streetwise, yet at the same time playing with the spirit of a Latin ballad. Fast and really together, but also very lyrical, they have a straightforward approach towards the music and stories they are creating for us. The tracks go from urgency (1st piece) to bitter drama (2nd piece), up to irony (4th piece) and even provocative (8th piece). I am obviously referring to the vocal and musical sounds as, ahem, I don’t understand French. Reviens Fernande are certainly fond of the Ramones and the Pixies (even passable for Serge Gainsbourg) and this is nice to hear. The strongest pieces are at the beginning (“A bout de nerts”) and at the end (“Amen”), which have a little bit of Nirvana in them, but maybe that’s not on purpose. The perfect single is definitely the last one (“Reviens Fernande”). All with an offbeat rhythm, which becomes a little like their trademark. Great! I’m personally inclined to choose “A bout de nerts” (hey, what do you expect, I’m an old rocker…) But I left a flower at “Se casser”. Keep on rockin’! ZENTA “Why so much hate?” Edika asked himself, and I can really relate to him. Crossover solid, metal-rap a la Anthrax (but without their “class”) with the raucous screaming typical of Thrash – and we are immediately transported back to the social scene of the late ‘80s. The songs open with such an attack that we are caught a little of guard, but of course we have the “massive” riffs, with an embarrassing originality, arriving right on time. I wonder: “well, they are really pissed….”; then the vocals come in (but not always) heroic and out of tune and it all leaves me swooning. I wonder a little more: “wow, they are seriously demented, maybe this is it…” However. Yes, there i