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Keep the spirits high and the good vibes going over the festive season in giving gifts that your friendsand family will value.RhythmMusicStore.com offers gift vouchers and the amount that you would like to spend is entirely up to you, even just a single song for R7.00.
The most thoughtful, perfect musical gift – allowing the receiver to make their own unique selection of music on Rhythm Music Store to the value of the gift voucher you send them. Rhythm Music Store Gift Vouchers are the perfect Christmas, Birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Valentine’s Day gifts.
How do Gift Vouchers work?
You can purchase gift vouchers for your friends and family to give them prepaid credit on Rhythm Music Store.
To share the Rhythm Music Store catalogue of 70,000+ tracks with your loved ones, simply select a gift voucher of the appropriate size and send them the unique voucher code (by emailing it to them or writing it in a card) available in your Download Area after completing the checkout process as long as the voucher remains unclaimed.
A unique voucher code is generated for each purchased voucher, to be claimed within one year of purchase, which will show up as prepaid credit in the claimant’s account.
Best Music of 2006?
This has been a cracker year for me, and part of that is because a whole bunch of new music came out that I thoroughly enjoyed. I think one reason I don't need religion because I have music.
The best album I've heard with an '06 release date was also the first I heard: The Greatest by Cat Power. Strong songwriting, top-notch band, her best album yet. Essential.
The biggest disappointment was Feedback by Jurassic 5, who did not survive the loss of Cut Chemist to a solo career (his The Audience Was Listening was good, but not great). Runner up with In My Mind by Pharrell, who after a brilliant producing career seems to have saved his worst beats for himself.
Michael Franti & Spearhead released a surprisingly mainstream-sounding rock album called Yell Fire!, which was quite listenable (that's a slam) but kept afloat by his earnest charisma. It also served as the soundtrack for his documentary on the Middle East.
Nelly Furtado did an album with Timbaland called Loose, which I enjoyed. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland did a similar one called FutureSex/LoveSounds, which I enjoyed less (as the title suggests, it tries too hard).
J. Dilla died. A moment's silence please.
J. Dilla also released two albums, the superior Donuts and the great-but-too-much-guest-rapping The Shining. He also contributed to the second best album of the year - more below.
RZA still did not release The Cure. I don't think I heard a single new RZA beat this year.
Ghostface Killah released the second best album of the year, hands down. Some of the beats were taken from previously-released instrumental albums (eg "Whip Me With A Strap" was originally "One For Ghost" on the aforementioned Donuts; "9 Milli Bros." was originally "Fenugreek" on MF Doom's Special Herbs & Spices Vol. 1") but that mattered not a jot. Endlessly long and unfunny skits were fortunately skippable. Fave song: either "Underwater" or "Kilo".
Prince's 3121 was disappontingly third-hand: Mr. Nelson imitating The Neptunes imitating Prince. It spent the shortest time in my CD player of probably any Prince album ever.
Isobel Campbell released the brilliant country album Ballad of the Broken Seas with Mark Lanegan and the excellent folk album Milkwhite Sheets on her own.
Neko Case released possibly her strongest album yet in Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and still seems to stand poised on the verge of the massive success that will probably continue to elude her for as long as she refuses to have publicity photos taken. (She's not even on the album cover this time!) I cannot recommend this album highly enough to anyone wanting acoustic music marked by an edge of darkness, great unconventional songwriting, and one of the best voices in the world today. She's not even really country anymore. This is great stuff.
Jarvis Cocker released an interesting solo album that I have not properly digested yet. Flaming Lips came out with the disappointing At War With the Mystics.
Slayer released Christ Illusion, possibly their best album since Reign In Blood 20 years ago. Is Dave Lombardo the best drummer in the world?
Jolie Holland was one of at least three artists releasing career-best albums this year. (She also put on a topo show at Indigo.) Springtime Can Kill You built on 2004's Escondia beautifully, and emerged as a wonderfully coherent album. In an ideal world she would be topping the charts, but unfortunately most people's taste in music fucking sucks.
The best release of the year, hands-down, was Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Boozers by Tom Waits. Three CDs, 26 previously-released soundtrack & compilation appearances, and 30 brand new songs. If you ain't down with Tom Waits yet there's something wrong with you.
Fave songs:
"Still Dirrty" by Christina Aguilera (great DJ Premier beat)
"Underwater" by Ghostface
"We're Not Alone" by Peeping Tom
"Shade And Honey" by Sparklehorse
"Living Proof" by Cat Power
Tune in next time, when I'll probably talk about being interviewed for a documentary on New Zealand cultural identity.
