Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs – When The Saints Go Marching In (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 25:49 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy
Probably the most famous bluegrass band of all time was Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. They made the genre famous in ways that not even Bill Monroe, who pretty much invented the sound, ever could. Because of a guitar player and vocalist from Tennessee named Lester Flatt and an extraordinary banjo player from North Carolina named Earl Scruggs, bluegrass music has become popular the world over and has entered the mainstream in the world of music.
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Flatt & Scruggs – The Versatile Flatt & Scruggs: Pickin’, Strummin’ and Singin’ (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:43 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Probably the most famous bluegrass band of all time was Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. They made the genre famous in ways that not even Bill Monroe, who pretty much invented the sound, ever could. Because of a guitar player and vocalist from Tennessee named Lester Flatt and an extraordinary banjo player from North Carolina named Earl Scruggs, bluegrass music has become popular the world over and has entered the mainstream in the world of music.
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs with Doc Watson – Strictly Instrumental (1967/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:18 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy
Strictly Instrumental is the 1967 masterpiece by Flatt & Scruggs. The GRAMMY® Award-winning pair is one of the most influential bluegrass ensembles of all time. This unforgettable classic finds Flatt & Scruggs joined by the legendary Doc Watson. Each musician displays their renowned virtuosity producing one of the finest bluegrass instrumental albums ever. It features the standouts “Pick Along,” “John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man” and “Spanish Two-Step.”
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Flat Five – This is not the blues (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:16 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crossroad Ent.
A woman who loved the poet donated a thousand billion won for her entire life.
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Flash Pig – Year of the Pig (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:41 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nome
For the four members of the Flash Pig Quartet, 2019 will have a special meaning. It is during this year that they will blow the candles of the tenth anniversary of the creation of the band, with as a gift their third album, “Year of the Pig”. More intimate, freer than their previous two opuses, the disc opens on a long sequence where taking the time seems to be the watchword. As a symbol, each part of this suite takes its name from an unknown and rare animal, one of whose main characteristics is slowness. So goes Flash Pig: get off the beaten track, explore other territories but always taking the time to discover, build, and take the listener with them … If slowness dominates this sequel, the last three pieces of the disc For their part, they can see other characteristics of the quartet: the thirst for freedom on the one hand, and above all the concern for the melody.
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Flanders Symphony Orchestra & Kristiina Poska – Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 7 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:57 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuga Libera
Beethoven’s nine symphonies are not only the most famous in the whole of music history, they are the pillars of our canon of western symphonic music. Although Beethoven was born 250 years ago, his symphonies have not lost any of their relevance, and even contemporary composers still measure themselves against this musical giant.
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Flamin’ Groovies – Fantastic Plastic (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:43 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Severn Records
On paper, the revenge of the return of the Groovies might look frightening. Or, at least, it might inspire some doubts. Unless you’re a gerontophile… But nevertheless, this grandiose group, which has been immensely underestimated, born in California in the mid-Sixties, and which would bring together the DNA of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, still has something to say. Take it from us! Especially since Fantastic Plastic, which came out in the middle of Summer 2017 marks the reunion of Cyril Jordan, the founding guitarist, and Chris Wilson, the singer from 1971 to 1981, who had fallen out for thirty years… This reconciliation began in 2013, when the two sexagenarians patched things up on stage. Even better, they decided to put their heads together for a new record! And you have got to admit that what they came up with is hot stuff. Even if nothing here rivals the best of their great records of yore like Flamingo (1970),Teenage Head (1971) or Shake Some Action (1976), Jordan and Wilson have revived the yin and the yang of their music, both its pop and rock/rhythm’n’blues faces, with plenty, plenty of guitars à la Byrds, choruses with a vintage flavour and even two well-chosen covers, I Want You Bad by NRBQ and Don’t Talk To Strangers by the Beau Brummels. In short, this is five-star rock’n’roll for oldies, anything but embarrassing – and actually pretty charming.
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Flagship – The Electric Man (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:49 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Antenna
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bands, second full-length album, The Electric Man, on Bright Antenna Records, produced by Joey Waronker (Beck, Brandon Flowers, Yeasayer, Atoms for Peace, Air), finds singer/guitarist Drake Margolnick and drummer Michael Finster taking listeners on a journey from light into darkness and back again. Reaching new emotional depths through a few life-changing events over the past year, the 12-track album delivers atmospheric rock with passionate vocals, pop-minded melodies, rapturous orchestral soundscapes, and themes that run the gamut from love and loss to fear and despair to hope and happiness. Several songs, including the album’s title track, were inspired by the death of their close friend and former band member, Grant Harding, in 2015.
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Five Finger Death Punch – F8 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:30 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Groove Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Better Noise Music
Five Finger Death Punch are back! And they are taking fate into their own hands! The highly anticipated eighth album, ‘F8’, by the Las Vegas based hard rock powerhouse will be released on February 28th. Five Finger Death Punch have sold more than 10 million albums, collected multiple gold and platinum awards and sold out arenas around the globe. The band’s previous album, 2018’s ‘And Justice For None’, charted at no. 7 in the UK and Top 10 in several other European territories.
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Fitzwilliam String Quartet – Schubert: Late String Quartets. G Major & C Minor ‘Quartettsatz’ (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:16 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Having celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2019, it is perhaps remarkable that the Fitzwilliam String Quartet has not already recorded this towering pinnacle of Western music repertoire: Schubert’s String Quartet in G major, D. 887. This revelatory recording on period instruments proves it was well worth the wait! The work’s idiomatic grandeur and overall complexity coupled with its ever-changing tonalities and otherworldly atmosphere call for the sort of stamina that is the privilege of a limited few.
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Alban Gerhardt, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Blunier – Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:59 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
The music of Wilhelm Fitzenhagen bursts into the Hyperion catalogue with two triumphant cello concertos, a couple of other original works, and his (in)famous version of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations. Ace cellist Alban Gerhardt presides.
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Fitz Gore & The Talismen – Fitz Gore & The Talismen (2009/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:13 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Perfect Toy
Perfect Toy Records presents the rare recordings of Jamaican born saxophone player Fitz Gore and his group The Talismen recorded between the years 1975-1979. The selection is carefully picked by Gore’s wife Gisela, and the material is sourced from three extremely rare private pressed LP’s: Soundmagnificat (1975), Soundnitia (1975), Soundmusication (1976), and the EP Soundnova (1979), all originally released by Gisela’s and Fitz’s private label GORBRA RECORDS, based in Bonn, Germany.
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Fitz & The Tantrums – More Than Just A Dream (Deluxe) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:11 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Elektra (NEK)
Fitz and The Tantrums is an American indie pop and neo soul band from Los Angeles that formed in 2008. “More Than Just A Dream” is their second album, debut for Elektra Records. The Los Angeles-based sextet have ramped up the timeless songcraft and soul sonic force that made them a worldwide sensation to fashion a kaleidoscopic milestone that delivers on the promise of their 2010 breakthrough, “Pickin’ Up The Pieces”.
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Fitz & The Tantrums – Fitz & The Tantrums (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:54 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Elektra (NEK)
Fitz & the Tantrums’ third full-length record is a fun, exuberant album that finds the Los Angeles outfit moving completely away from their old-school R&B roots and embracing a slick, contemporary dance-pop style. Even on their second album, 2013’s More Than Just a Dream, Fitz & the Tantrums were already experimenting with shaking up the ’60s Motown influence of their debut with an ’80s-style new wave sound built around producer Tony Hoffer’s vibrant synths, punchy electric guitars, and even electronic flourishes. It was a savvy move and resulted in a robust production rife with catchy hooks that still maximized the dual lead vocals of Michael Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs. For this album, Fitzpatrick collaborated with songwriter Sam Hollander (Neon Trees, Panic! At the Disco, Katy Perry), whose voguish sensibilities and skill with clubby programmed beats helped shape the album’s state-of-the-art vibe. Also helping to sculpt the cutting-edge sound in Fitzpatrick’s head is producer Jesse Shatkin (Sia, Tegan & Sara), who helmed eight of the album’s cuts with Joel Little (Ellie Goulding, Lorde) and Ricky Reed (Jessie J, Jason Derulo) handling the rest. The result is an unabashed creative transformation that takes the same approach as its predecessor with an even heavier reliance on electronics and EDM-influenced studio aesthetics. Thankfully, Fitz & the Tantrums have lost none of the funky, sweaty, high-energy soul that made their previous work so indelible. If anything, cuts like the lead-off “HandClap” and the cheekily sexy “Complicated,” with their crisp beats and laser-horn synths, are a perfect showcase for Fitzpatrick and Scaggs’ highly resonant, melodic vocals. And it’s not just the booty-shaking numbers that grab you. Cuts like the yearning “Burn It Down” and the lovelorn “Run It” stick in your head and bring to mind the poignant singer/songwriter electronica of artists like Imogen Heap and Frankmusik. Ultimately, while Fitz & the Tantrums’ contemporary dance-pop sound is decades away from the aesthetic of their debut, it works, and it’s hard to imagine fans not wanting to take make the leap with them.
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Fitness – Full Well (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:26 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sad Cactus Records
Placing cerebral and impassioned lyrics over a dynamic and discordant instrumental bedrock, Edmonton, Alberta’s Fitness emerged with their debut album -ing in February of 2018. Gaining attention for their unique sound, which incorporated wiry guitar progressions, melodic bass work, off kilter drum lines, and surreal takes on masculinity, self-image, and belonging, the band developed a small following in Canada. Charting on college radio from coast to coast, the album ended the year as the third most played record on Edmonton’s CJSR.
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