After a short vacation to the beaches of our neighbouring country, I came back with a lot of appetite for posting and music in general. Maybe it is because I missed my tracks collection back home, or because in the car we had almost no music because the guy had a cassette player, not a cd-player as I thought initially….

So, after looking through some music blogs as I arrived back online, I saw that a lot of people posted about the recent top that Paste Magazine is publishing – the top 100 songwriters still alive. Here is the direct link to the list.

Some of my comments on it:

- Pink Floyd is much to low, on #80 !!

- Outkast is too low, on #99

- Notable artists not on the list are: Deep Purple, Lauryn Hill / Wyclef Jean / Fugees, Peter Frampton, Alanis Morissette, Katie Melua (maybe), Bjork and many more.

Even though the initiative is to be praised, maybe they should have dedicated more time to this. Leaving such good artists out of the list can make it highly questionable.

Sounds evil, ain’t it? Well, it is not that hard. This song, from AFI’s latest album, is, despite it’s rock sound, quite a nicely put together sound which combines the band’s Alternative sound with some rock and pop influences.

Also, the entire album features a diverse style, fully elaborated, ranging from electronic beats to hard metal influences. In some points, the band might resemble the much more famous Green Day, but still they manage to keep an individuality throughout their works.

Definetely something that is worth listening, specially if you are into rock / alternative sounds. Download is now available, for listening purposes only - A.F.I. – Miss Murder - and then rush to the store and buy the album :)

After some 14 or so hours of work – under a whole lot of pressure, too – I dared to open the winamp and just play the first track which came in the list. After the first 20 seconds or so I openned a can of beer, put the charts apart and lighed up a cigarette…and just enjoyed the sound.

It is a great feeling to discover a new track with a beautiful sound that you can just sit back and enjoy, not thinking about it too much. And when that track just matches your spirit for that moment you just feel like…well…posting about it :) So here it is, Nip / Tuck – A perfect Lie. Enjoy !

Well, the debate begun. Aparantely, the mayor of Brasov would like to organize it without the support of the National Television. More details here.

Apparently Mihai is a really persuasive guy, so here i am finally writing my first post on this blog. If he got me started, i fear this might be the beginning of many posts from me from now on, so i can only hope you bear with me :).

I am absolutely sure that everybody who ends up on this blog one way or another knows things about David Bowie, and has listened to him at least once. Without being a fan, i’ve been listening to many of his songs, but yesterday i particularly fell for one of them. Since i enjoy watching movies just as much as i enjoy music in general, when i discover a movie whose soundtrack is really well chosen, and seems almost vital for the intensity of some scenes, i get really enthusiastic. That’s the case with David Lynch’s “Lost highway”. The movie begins and ends with David Bowie singing ”I’m deranged”, while the images suggest a moving car on a highway. ”I’m Deranged” is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1995 for the album Outside. And not only does the song suit the movie perfectly, but it’s also very appropriate as a car-track, as far as i am concerned. Which i’ve experienced last night, as hopefully suggested by this pic i took.

So, that’s about it for the first time. I’m curious about what you think about the track. And, Mihai, i promise next time it will be less about movies and more about the music ;).

Well, finally it has been launched ! Radio Lynx is now here to entertain you with some nice music carefully selected by some nice people :)

You can find them at www.radiolynx.ro, you can listen to them by adding the http://193.19.192.20:8400 link in your Winamp or other music-playing tool and you can also chat, forum or read their blogs – links are easy to find once you enter their site.

Plus, if you look at the Team behind the RadioLynx, you can find Tina, who is also a contributor of this blog. Hopefully, she will come up with more details, soon. Tina, the mic is yours !

It seems that lately a lot of nice girls are recommanding good music to me, which I am very happy about. I get to listen to tracks which, in some cases, make me fall for them immediatelly and I get to discover things I realize I should have known years ago about.

This time, the recommandation comes from a girl who is into design, geography, hand-making things and generally a lot of things which have to do with estethics. Always a nice “job” for a girl :)

She sent this track to me – Stonebridge – Put ‘Em High – and I started loving it right away. It’s an excelent combination of nice rhythm (even though quite dance-house), a great voice (I always love this kind of vocals, specially in house music) and a beautiful touch of Spanish-like guitar which gives a certain elegance to the sound.

Thanks, Rooz, really appreciate it !

Ask.com recently launched a new search option for finding information on blogs and feeds. Looks nice, is quite fast and offers some handy tools, like subscribing to the feed directly from the page, displaying the contents of the blog with just a mouse-over on an icon beneath the search result and more.

You can try it with, for example, searching for ”Hanava Lounge”. We are proudly displayed as first result :)

Maybe some of you bloggers might know Eugen, a graphic designer, 3D artist and fellow blogger. If not, you should at least check out his website.

Some time ago, he designed what I considered since then to be a very nice video featuring an inspiring animation which had as soundtrack one of the famous Tiamat songs. The video is both beautifully mastered and, even more, a great inspiration.

Well, now it seems the word has spread around and his video is going to be featured on the next Tiamat DVD. This is what I would call a nice accomplishment and he deserves all the congrats for it !

Check out the story here and download (a must) the Optical Illusions video here.

This news made went out these days and it seems that everybody is quite interested in it.

It seems that some people start using ultrasounds specially designed to be heard only by teenagers in order to keep them away from certain adult shops [link]

On the other hand, some teenagers designed special mobile phone ringtones which can be heard only by themselves and not by the elder people – like teachers – which enables them to leave their cellphones on during the classes :) [link]

You can find sort of a test sound here. If you are a teenager (up to 25 years old) you should be able to hear it, the elders should not. I tried and I can hear it, can you ?