David Morales - Rise Album Sampler - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. House music veterans don't come more seasoned than David Morales, and he's still pressing on with an urgency that puts artists half his age to shame. He's back on his Didrim tag with this varied pack of collaborations with vocalists, leading in with the show-stopping, simmering power of 'Everyday Of My Life' featuring Mr V. By way of contrast, there's a sentimental pop tint to 'Come The Moment' with Blakkat and Babygirl, while 'No Boundaries' finds Tilly piling on the contemporary diva stylings. 'Never Give Up' has a classic 90s big room flavour, with a soulful turn from Michelle Perera inciting boundless positivity, and isn't that what house music's meant to be about?

From the same misty mountaintop tape spool as August's A Weird Exits, Thee Oh Sees bring the companion album An Odd Entrances. Delving more towards the contemplative than the face-skinning aspects of it's predecessor, this sister album is a cosmic exercise en plein aire with John Dwyer and company double-drum shuffling, lounging with cellos, following a flute around the groove, and spooling a few Grimm-dark lullabies along the way. Lurking in the grass are a snake or two, like the celestial facing instrumental buzz of InchUnwrap The Fiend Pt. 1.Inch... But for the most part this is a relatively hushed affair, a morning rather than evening listen. The band plans on donating half their profits from the first pressing to Elizabeth House, a local charity in Pasadena that specifically helps homeless women with children get back on their feet.

Reissue 2024, bonus track, When RAM formed in the city of Gothenburg in 1999, they soon led the new Scandinavian metal attack (along with bands like Portrait and In Solitude). Often compared to a younger, more forceful version of Judas Priest, Oscar Carlquist (lead vocals), Daniel Johannson (guitars), Harry Granroth (guitars), Leif Larsson (bass) and Morgan Petterson (drums) debuted in 2003 with their six-track mini-album »Sudden Impact«, originally released on CD via Black Path Metal. High Roller Records is proud to announce a vinyl re-issue of »Sudden Impact« consisting of the title track, InchJudgement And PunishmentInch, InchMachine InvadersInch, InchBlessed To Be CursedInch, InchInfuriatorInch and InchBlack PathInch. Although not as refined as later albums such as »Forced Entry« (2005), »Lightbringer« (2008), »Death« (2012) or their latest offering »The Throne Within« issued via Metal Blade Records in 2019, »Sudden Impact« definitely turned a few heads when it came out in 2003, at a time when traditional heavy metal was still dominated by the old guard of the genre. The unbridled energy and youthful exuberance of the presentation turned RAM into a force to be reckoned with almost immediately and showed what heavy metal has always been about pride, passion and power. RAM have in the past often been described as Inchprototypical Swedish metalInch, and singer Oscar Carlquist does not beg to differ InchI would say that there is a unique Scandinavian Metal style to a certain extent, and Swedish musicians are often very talented. They also, at least in the eighties, had some neoclassical influences (probably from Yngwie Malmsteen). Swedish vocalists also often have very clean voices. I can spot the Swedish sound when I hear the vocals.Inch»Sudden Impact« has not been available for some time (there was a limited tenth anniversary vinyl re-issue in 2013), so the curren