How do you judge a compilation disc? I mean really, you can't judge it on past work because well, it's a compilation. You could judge it on the individual artists work, but often a compilation disc isn't about the individual artists. It's about how the tracks work perfectly together to form this cohesive work.
In this humble writer's opinion, compilation discs are best looked at for vibe. Not necessarily if the songs are all the same genre, not necessarily if they're saying the same thing, but if the feel you get when you're listening to the record, track to track, you keep that initial feeling of joy or whatever you feel when you listen to a great song. Does The Pier deliver on their first official disc? Absolutely.
For a two year old site The Pier makes some heavy strides on its 1st official compilation disc. On Volume 1, The Pier delivers some of the biggest names in the scene today and these names brought with them 19 unreleased tracks (Pier Exclusives). 19 tracks that mind you, will blow your mind.
This is, essentially, a who's who in the scene today. The Dirty Heads mixing it up with Rome, The Movement, John Brown's Body, Ballyhoo!, & The b Foundation among 14 other immensely talented artists who knew what they were doing when selecting these tracks for this comp. Everything just flows together, whether it be some tunes about love, about the genre itself, living, or just the every day things in our lives (just in real cool song form).
Songs like the first track, Lay Me Down (The Dirty Heads w/ Rome) and Tell Me Baby (Another Day), evoke those feelings of summer love that we all have, and to me that's what this compilation represents, love. Not love necessarily love for a guy/girl, but love for music, love for the genre, love for that feeling you get when you listen to a great song. While Ballyhoo's When Worlds Collide and B Foundation's Time really make you want to full on groove. Don't sweat it you straight up reggae lovers The Movement's Care (You Don't Even) and Pato Banton's Reggae Party" deliver in spades, so go on and form some sort of dance circle and dance the night away.
The smoothness/flow of this record is outstanding. Good job to everyone at The Pier.
By Iain Axness
Genre: Reggae Rock
Year: 2009
Type: Compilation
Audio Format: MP3
Bitrate: 252 kbps
Size: 133 MB
Track List
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01. Dirty Heads w/Rome - Lay Me Down
02. The Movement - Care (You Dont Even)
03. John Brown's Body - Make Your Move (Dubmatix Remix)
04. Ballyhoo! - When Worlds Collide
05. OPM - Holiday Under The Sun
06. The Black Seeds - Strugglers
07. The B Foundation - Time
08. The Supervillians - Slosh
09. Pato Banton - Reggae Party
10. Mike Pinto - Never Say Never
11. Can't Hang - Wait A Minute
12. Rome - Only
13. 3rd Alley - Antidote
14. Another Day - Tell Me Baby
15. Stick Figure - Livin It
16. SUNSET BUS - Take It easy
17. RAC - Flourish
18. Flip & Rollie - Reggae Show
19. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad - International Mother Dub
VA - The Pier Compilation Volume 1
Pepper - Kona Gold
Recorded live at the sold out Fox Theater in Boulder CO in August 2008. KONA GOLD is a live CD featuring performances of Pepper's career pioneering 2002 full length debut album, Kona Town.
Also includes all the hits from Pepper's entire catalog!
Official Site
MySpace
Genre: Reggae Rock
Year: 2009
Type: Live Album
Audio Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Size: 169 MB
Track List
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01. Bring Me Along
02. Sitting On The Curb
03. Office
04. Davey Jones Locker
05. Dry Spell
06. Use Me
07. Give It Up
08. Too Much
09. Freeze
10. Face Plant
11. No Control
12. Stromtrooper
13. Stone Love
14. B.O.O.T.
15. Unreliable
16. Ho's
17. Tradewinds
18. Tongues
19. Ashes
The Surfer's Journal Biographies: Tom Curren & Kelly Slater
Tom Curren, Kelly Slater: Good surfers come and go, but great ones tend to leave a lasting mark on the way waves are ridden, long after they have experienced their fleeting moment of fame. In our Biography Series, TSJ looks deep into the lives of an eclectic selection of such greats from different eras, telling each surfers story with intimate interviews and action highlights, gleaned from the best film and video footage taken over their careers.
Release: 2008
Language: English
Subtitles: Portuguese
Audio Codec: MP3
Audio Bitrate: 106 kbps
Video Codec: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1343 kbps
Resolution: 464x352
Size: 699 MB
Length: 66 min
Surf Stronger: The Surfer's Workout
The original, best-selling video as seen in TransWorld Surf, Surfer and Surfing. This video provides you with the ultimate surfer's workout. The video features a Dynamic warm-up (6 mins), the workout (22 minutes), the cool-down stretch (10 minutes) and is 45 minutes in total. The workout is easy to follow, motivational and features an outstanding soundtrack. Best of all, this is a surf specific workout that will help take your surfing to the next level.
Title: Surf Stronger Vol. 1: The Surfers' Workout
Release: 2007
Language: English
Subtitles: No
Audio Codec: MP3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps
Video Codec: XviD
Video Bitrate: 3144 kbps
Resolution: 640x480
Size: 1054 MB
Length: 44 min
Pepper - To Da Max 1997-2004
An all new collection of 20 unreleased b-sides, demos and live performances. From Kona to Cali bus trani, passed out!
Official Site
MySpace
Password: www.surfmovies.com.br
Genre: Reggae Rock
Year: 2007
Type: Studio Album
Audio Format: MP3
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Size: 156 MB
Track List
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01. The Arena
02. New Beef
03. Green Hell
04. Armegideon Time
05. Good Enough
06. Too Much
07. Blunt
08. Stormtrooper
09. Wasting Time
10. Dust On My Shoes
11. Peanuts
12. Danger, Danger!
13. New Sunday
14. Lie Rumor Lie
15. Lost
16. 2B
17. Point And Shoot
18. Lucy
19. Medley
20. Give It Up
Jack Maness - Simple Man
Jack Maness is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist. Maness began his career singing and playing guitar on Sublime's "Rivers of Babylon", and later joining the Long Beach Dub Allstars as a keyboardist. He is currently in the band Dubcat and has recently released his debut solo album Simple Man featuring members of Dubcat, Slightly Stoopid, and motown bass legend Carol Kaye.
MySpace
Password: www.surfmovies.com.br
Genre: Reggae/Rock/Pop
Year: 2006
Type: Studio Album
Audio Format: MP3
Bitrate: 168 kbps
Size: 35 MB
Track List
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01. Frontline
02. Rock And Stone
03. New Day
04. Simple Man
05. Music's Gone Save Me
06. Big Mouth
07. The Storm
08. Viper Dove
09. Smile And Cry
Bag Of Toys - Afternooner
Nano's Contribution
Another band that’s been making plenty of noise on MySpace.
With this cutely-named follow-up album (their first was called Nooner), San Francisco’s Bag Of Toys continue with their idea of kick-back music that’s best captured in their album artwork, a palm tree in the centre of a beer bottle cap. They define their stuff as acoustic surf music, which is as good a way as any to describe their laidback, good-time, easy-on-the-ear simplicity. Typical of what this four-piece does is the sunny, smiley pop-reggae of Everybody Says and How You Gonna. Even a track that seems to have the potential for disturbance – Burn It Down – comes with that same soothing semi-reggae sway, while Rollin’ has them detouring into a little country, equally friendly but with twangier, surprisingly electric guitar. Apart from straightforward but measured drums and bass providing a necessary anchor, they also flesh out the songs on occasion with trumpet and Hammond organ. Throw in some balmy beach feels evoked by a relaxed strum ‘n’ stroll on a couple of guitars and breezy singalong vocals, and it’s a wonder Jack Johnson hasn’t signed them to his label – or would that be typecasting? - Rave Magazine.
Official Site
MySpace
Password: www.surfmovies.com.br
Genre: Acoustic/Surf/Reggae
Year: 2008
Type: Studio Album
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Size: 41 MB
Track List
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01. Ohh La La
02. Something
03. Smile So Wide
04. Everybody Says
05. Feel It
06. How You Gonnna
07. Here She Goes Again
08. Burn It Down
09. Rollin'
10. Good Time
11. She Said
12. Beautiful
13. Free
Surf No Hawaii (North Shore)
Rick é um surfista do interior dos EUA que vai ao Havaí para realizar seu grande sonho: encarar na prancha as ondas mais perigosas do mundo. Mas ele não conhece praticamente nada sobre os costumes locais, o que lhe traz alguns problemas. Até que ele conhece o guru Chandler, que vai ensinar a Rick a diferença entre os "soul surfers" (surfistas de alma) e aqueles que surfam simplesmente pelo dinheiro. Ao mesmo tempo, o jovem ficará interessado por uma bela garota nativa. O filme conta com participações de surfistas profissionais e campeões - como Shaun Tompson e Derek Ho, entre outros.
Password: www.surfmovies.com.br
Lançamento: 1987
Áudio: Português (Brasil)
Legendas: Não
Áudio Codec: MP3
Áudio Bitrate: 48 kbps
Vídeo Codec: XviD
Vídeo Bitrate: 949
Vídeo Info: 480x360 # 23.976 fps
Tamanho: 688 MB
Duração: 95 min
