Guest Blog - It's the Jat-Man!

This is the first in a series of guest blog entries that I am asking my friends to do - I wanted to get other people's views and opinions on music, and find out what other people are listening to, so that you get influences and recommendations from people other than myself. I will be posting one of these a week from someone different each time. This first one is an entry from a friend of mine called Jat, who has been thoroughly embracing all kinds of different stuff over the past year.

Guest Blog - It's the Jat-Man!

In the BEGINNING, I really wasn't into music until I hit my late teens. I really didn’t get it until a friend lent me two albums by Incubus. They pretty much defined my perspective on a lot of things that we alll go through during that period.. The albums were of course S.C.I.E.N.C.E and Make yourself (oh the irony) still the best BAND in the world! If you disagree you can go sit in a corner while I bang my head along with some of the great tracks on both albums :) As everyone at the time was into terrible MTV pop at the time, RnB which clearly wasn’t for me, the rawness of Privilege  and the poetic lyrics of drive could not be matched. 

 

Thus my music journey began with a bang, I stuck with the more hard hitting artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Lacuna Coil, A Perfect Circle, Celldweller, etc.  They were similar to Incubus in so many ways. Then Lastfm really opened the doors for me as well as my friends, I didn't forget ya peeps! :)

Right first track doesn’t really fit into the music down below (to be fair this was before Zsa Zsa conversion) so lets start off with a dirty bang. 

This band is a personal favourite of mine, I always wonder how I looked when I first listened to this track. This is Jackalope, with Feel It.

Then the conversion by ZsaZsa happened - it must have been a long arduous process for her but it finally paid off as I look back and for the last year I have been listening to is mind blowing stuff whilst spreading the love. * looks slightly upwards in a smug fashion* One could say I am a changed man.  

 

To prove it here is Maduk with Avalon, nothing is better than this mellowy track,  the brilliant vocals say so much with so little. I feel as if I can see great times ahead coming my way when I put this on. Simple but yet oh so sweet.

After being chilled to stillness this next track should hit you much harder with its EPIC-NESS! It comes in knocking you down and leaves nothing. As one user on soundcloud has put it “on the edge of the universe, yea”. This is the Photek remix of Lie Down in Darkness - click here to listen.

May I present to you “The Glitch Mob”. This track opens with what I can only describe as a slap to the face. I knew I deserved it and I am sorry Glitch Mob! By the time this tune ends I am screaming No don’t leave me, I can change! This is edIT - Pound 4 Pound by the Glitch Mob. Click here to listen, and they have even given a free download of this track.

Here comes Pronobozo! These guys take Parkour/Stuntwork seriously and their music is inspired by their hobbies. The pay off is a style that gives you one hell of a rush. Heres a 100ft high remix by András Horváth - click here to listen.

Ok enough waffling and more music! This next one is so deep and atmospheric I can just trance out listening to this no matter where I am. This is J Majik & Wickaman - Ritual.

Finally, Claudine vocals makes everything feel so fragile and the rest makes me feel a stranger. What an experience. This is another one to lose yourself in - this is Chook - You Are All You Have (feat. Claudine Muno)

There you have it, remember keep the music FLOWING!