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Here they are - my Top Ten Records of 2013 : 1. Mike Viola - Ghoul GHOUL is not a traditional record, GHOUL are trading cards. A set of 24 cards, each card contains autobiographical stories written by Mike Viola and a download code for an exclusive unreleased song.   GHOUL is a project by Mike Viola and Steve Loter (an American director and producer known for "The Ren and Stimpy Show" or "The Penguins of Madagascar"). If you have all the cards you'll get a 24 track record (!) , consisting of almost completely new songs. There is so much good stuff in there - just to name a few: Tonight, Rock'n'Roll Denny's, Moving Forward, Time For Everything To Change (with Kelly Jones), She Thinks She's In Love ... It could easily have been two completely new records - and it's my personal record of the year! http://mikeviola.com/store/ 2. Bleu - To Hell With You So, here it is: To Hell With You , the fifth record auf B...

It's a rare feeling to listen to a record for the first time and being sure that this piece of music is special. So very special it won't leave you alone for quite a while. Two days ago this happened to me with Daft Punk. Daft Punk ? Yes, Daft Punk .  Daft Punk is a duo of the musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter from France, which tend to refuse to fit in a single genre: house, synthpop, disco, funk, dance music - just to name a few. Their first hit was Around The World from their debut album Homework in 1997. I was never really interested in their music until Discovery in 1999, which really impressed me. Now, in 2013 Daft Punk is back with Random Access Memories .  So, you may ask "Why is this review here?". Because of a simple reason: it may be my personal album of the decade (at least til today). Random Access Memories is a kind of a hybrid: a reminiscence to history of music and futuristic sounds that could al...