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Gregor Samsa. Gregor Samsa started as a project eight years ago by Champ and Nikki. A year or so later we grew into a proper band — the first of many transformations (little did we know our namesake would take on such a literal meaning). In our infancy we took on many shapes and sizes, most of which were utterly awkward and embarrassing, yet one could say they were still admirable in some way. Our first proper show was at a festival in Harrisonburg, VA in 2000. There were a lot of people there and we recall being quite nervous.
In the next three years we played a lot of shows, released two EPs and one nearly full-length album called 27:36. Around this same time, our label ran out of money and we did, too. Things started to slow down, but we managed to find someone who agreed to book us a European tour. After Europe, we came home and recorded a new full length album called 55:12 and soon after put out a split 12″ with the band Red Sparowes.
Again, with no label and no money, 55:12 sat around for a year before we finally decided to put it out. Things started looking up again and we did another Europe tour which went off quite well. In between this time we also did a few short tours in the US.
Over the years, more than thirty people have come and gone from the line-up, including, but not limited to, members of Spokane, Labradford, Kayo Dot, Ghastly City Sleep and Engine Down. Today, Champ and Nikki remain the only original members. Incidentally, it was for this reason they decided to marry in September 2007.
Most of us now reside in Brooklyn, NY where we record and rehearse, while the others are spread out on the east coast and Chicago. The current line-up consists of Champ’s brother William and their cousin Jeremiah, along with Cory (Antlers), Mia (Kayo Dot) and Toby (Kayo Dot). We have just finished a new record called Rest. It was written through email and then recorded over a period of 8 months or so in NYC. The record will be released in May on Kora Records in North America and Own Records in Europe.
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Man Must Die. Metal / Death Metal / Grindcore
Состав
Joe McGlynn - Vocals
Alan McFarland - Guitar
Danny McNab - Bass
Matt Holland - Drums
Город: Glasgow
Страна: UK
Man Must Die formed in October 2002 in the underbelly of Glasgow, Scotland. It became evident that after the first rehearsal that something special was brewing, the songs practically wrote themselves and the intensity was devastating, four songs were quickly written and recorded in May of 2003. The band immediately set out to make a name for themselves by playing shows throughout the United Kingdom. One song was placed on the then MP3.com site and within two weeks, hit number one on the worldwide Death Metal chart. MMD also received an invitation to play Maryland Deathfest 2004 based solely on this first demo. The demo was sent out to a select number of labels and by August of 2003 the band had signed to Retribute Records.
Man Must Die recorded their first full length “…Start Killing” with producer JF Dagenais (Kataklysm/ Misery Index/ Despised Icon) in Glasgow during December of 2003. “…Start Killing” saw a May 2004 release and MMD worked steadily to promote the album in the UK and abroad. The band made their first US appearance at the Maryland Deathfest 2004 and spent months and months playing weekends and going on week-long runs.
MMD then took some time to consider their next move and returned to the studio with a new passion and aggression, seeing an almost new band begin to emerge. MMD began the writing process quickly and put down some new tracks to capture the new energy, this time attracting the attention of Relapse.
“To be a part of the Relapse family makes us proud. Relapse has always represented the best extreme in metal/grind and there isn’t a better suited label for MMD,” McFarland says, “and to be the first UK band to sign to Relapse is an honor in itself.”
In November 2006 Man Must Die traveled to Montreal, Canada and entered Studio Victor with producer JF Dagenais once again to begin work on their new full length and Relapse debut “The Human Condition”.
This new collection of tracks captures the ferocity and energy of MMD and mixes both their melodic and brutal sides with a more considered and mature approach to song writing. The level of aggression in “The Human Condition” is striking musically, but is driven home by a raging performance by vocalist Joe McGlynn. The band states; “It was important for us to capture what MMD is all about on this CD and we are happy with what has been created.”
The Human Condition saw a summer 2007 release and Man Must Die spent the following 18 months promoting the record in the UK and Europe, touring with bands such as Misery Index, Despised Icon, Beneath the Massacre, Kataklysm & Aborted.
In the late fall of 2008, Man Must Die welcomed new drummer Matt Holland into the fold, and immediately set about writing their 2nd Relapse album. In December of 2008 they entered Grindstone Studios, England, with producer Scott Atkins (Cinders Fall / Sylosis) to begin recording No Tolerance For Imperfection.
No Tolerance For Imperfection sees Man Must Die enter a new chapter in writing and musicianship, McNab says These songs are a new distilled version of Man Must Die, straight to the point lyrically and musically, super tight guitars, insane drumming, and vocals to tear your face off! This is the next step up for Man Must Die!
At last we feel Man Must Die have arrived - on all fronts, this is the album which we always knew we had in us, and we are super happy at the finished article. No Tolerance For Imperfection was recorded with painful precision and effort, we all sweated blood for this CD and cant wait to get this beast out. Every song has its own story and feel, lyrical concepts are as powerful as the music and this album is the first to feature new drummer Matt Holland.

T-MAC. Клуб фанов лучшего баскетболиста мира - Tracy Lamare McGrady!!!
Tracy McGrady, known to the world as “T-Mac,” was born on May 24, 1979 in Bartow, FL., to Melanise Williford. He grew up in Auburndale, FL., and is the product of an area called “The Hill” in Auburndale. A quaint town of about 9,000, it is surrounded by lakes and rests between Orlando and Tampa. Tracy’s family has been a major influence in his life. Raised by his mother, Melanise and grandmother, Roberta, Tracy grew to know both women as “Mom.
High School
At Auburndale High, he quickly became a two-sport star. He loved baseball and had aspirations of playing in the Major Leagues. Some Auburndale coaches were certain that McGrady would be playing in a Major League ballpark instead of on an NBA court.
Tracy’s hoops tale began in his junior year at Auburndale High. He averaged 23.1 pts and 12.2 rebounds a game with the Bloodhounds during the season. But despite the great numbers, Tracy was not receiving the type of attention that someone with his talents normally got. The only schools that showed interest in him were Florida and Miami.
After his junior year at Auburndale High School in Florida, he was invited to play in the ABCD Camp. Tracy was still looking for a way to put himself on the map and let the basketball world know who he was. During the senior all-star game, he dribbled down the left wing on a fast break and found only James Felton, a 6’9” blue-chipper from NJ committed to St Johns, between him and the basket. Tracy went up, cupped the ball in his right hand, and threw down a windmill dunk over James. He sent the whole gym into frenzy. “After I made that dunk, I had chills run through my body. It’s like the moment I knew I had finally arrived,” Tracy said. The recruiting newsletter “Hoop Scoop” praised Tracy as “the sleeper of the decade.” While he was not included in the list of the top 500 prospects before the summer, Tracy was ranked #2 behind Lamar Odom, in the next edition of the list. He was even featured in a 3-page article in the February 10, 1997 issue of Sports Illustrated.
Joe Hopkins, the basketball coach at Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina, received a call about Tracy from Alvin Jones Jr., a basketball coach at Kathleen High, a neighboring High School to Auburndale High. While in the area, Hopkins stopped by to meet with Tracy and his “moms.” Hopkins offered Tracy a scholarship to Mount Zion, and the rest is history.
His senior season he transferred to play one year at Mount Zion Christian Academy in North Carolina, which turned out to be a very successful experience. Tracy has said that Joe Hopkins has been a big part of his life. Joe taught him to respect others, himself, and the game. “He’s my backbone,” Tracy says. “If it weren’t for Coach Hopkins, none of this would be possible.”
He led the Mighty Warriors of Mount Zion to a 20-1 record, earning the spot as the #2 team in the nation in USA TODAY’s Super 25. As a senior, he averaged 27.5 points, 8.7 rebounds, 7.7 assists and 2.8 steals per game while shooting .564 from the field, .389 from three-point range and .791 from the free throw line. He was named the USA Today “Player of the Year,” “Player of the Year” in the state of North Carolina by The Associated Press, and was named to the McDonald’s All-American Team. By this time, Tracy had begun receiving the attention from all the top schools that he never heard from early in his high school career. As Tracy was getting set to commit to Kentucky, he was also receiving an abundance of interest from NBA teams and agents. Tracy wrestled with the decision, but ultimately decided to take his talents to the NBA rather than attend college.
The NBA
The 6-foot-8, 200-pound prep-star, who played all five positions at Durham’s Mount Zion Christian Academy, announced his decision to make himself available for the June 25 1997 NBA draft. “I feel this is the best decision for me and my family,” said Tracy, “I considered college, but my dream is t

EZRA USA - World Youth Movement. EZRA USA - WORLD YOUTH MOVEMENT
FOR RUSSIAN-SPEAKING JEWISH YOUTH OF AMERICA
The Ezra USA youth movement is a part of the Ezra World jewish organization, focusing its work on the russian speaking communities in North America, the FSU and Germany.
Goals of Ezra USA:
Development of jewish education
Fighting assimilation
Strengthening jewish self-identification
Leadership development in the russian jewish community
Support for the State of Israel
Ezra USA is currently the most dynamic and progressive youth movement in the russian speaking jewish world.
It is important to note that the development of Ezra is a direct result of the continuing effort of russian speaking jewish leaders, who understand the specific needs of this community and realize the critical need for the development of leadership in the russian speaking Jewish communities of the diaspora - it is towards this goal that most of the efforts are directed.
The russian speaking community in the US must go through all the steps of getting on its feet and creating community institutions; finding its own methods for effective jewish education. However, it is critical to first raise a new generation of leaders in the community.
It will fall to those who are today 18 to 30 years old to create the jewish community. They will decide what kind of education their children will receive: whether their education will have a jewish component, if their children identify themselves as jews, whether they will support the State of Israel, whether they will make a contribution to the development of jewish culture and education and, finally, whether they will pass the baton to the next generation, meaning their children.
More than 5,000 russian speaking participants have visited Israel as part of Ezra USA's educational trips.
Thousands of young russian speaking jews participate in the projects and programs of the Ezra movement, and the number of programs, like the number of participants, continues to grow.
The 21st century has dimmed or erased many ideals. New ideals have augmented and, more often, supplanted old principles, traditions and ideas.
The creation of the jewish state and the resurgence of jewish self-identification in the 20th century occurred in large part due to the birth of an idea and jewish leaders who were willing to fight for that idea, doing everything to turn it into reality.
Today, the russian speaking jewish community in the US, numerically, is the largest in the world.
After retaining their Judaism through WWII and communism, russian speaking jews in America are now on the brink of extinction, not physically, but spiritually.
Unfortunately, our people have been almost entirely unable to preserve their jewish traditions, culture and national values.
At the current time, it is critical to put every possible effort towards keeping the next generation an integral part of the jewish nation.
It is this goal, which is the driving force of the leaders of Ezra USA - leaders who believe in this idea and are ready to fight to achieve it. This is what makes the Ezra youth movement so unique.
Today Ezra USA, as a result of its successful work, has achieved recognition and support from many of the largest jewish funds and organizations. We have already accomplished much, however we are certain that much more work remains ahead!
EZRA Russia
http://www.ezraru.org/
EZRA Ukraine
http://www.ezraua.org/
EZRA Germany
http://www.ezrade.org/
EZRA Belarus
http://www.ezraby.org/

EZRA USA - World Youth Movement

Liquid Ace ©. Nicola Capobianco, based in switzerland, became already at an early age addicted to the magic of electronic music. He started playing progressive trance in the end of 1993. After many years of djing and producing, he has played and performed on big raves next to people like Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Armin van Buuren etc. etc. In 2001, he decided to start a new project and Liquid Soul was born. After many releases on top labels and playing in brasil, japan, mexico, uk, germany, greece, israel, portugal, belgium, austria, hungary, italy...., the long awaited debut album of Liquid Soul, released on Iboga Records, hits the street in 2006 and was the best selling album in the progressive scene in this year. With perfectly produced pumping tunes he rocked the progressive dance floors all over the globe. It's a milestone in the Iboga records catalogue. Beside of his solo projects Liquid Soul and Sleek, he is also a part of the project earsugar (Liquid Soul & dj martin).
Behind the Ace Ventura project is Yoni Oshrat - one ofIsraels biggest talents in electronic music, with a career ontop of the scene, stretching for over a decade. Already froman early age Yoni was heavily influenced with music. He was born in a musical family with his father being a famousIsraeli composer and song writer (for instance behind the Eurovision song Halelujah), and it was therefore no surprise that he went for a career in the sound-business; at first inthe TV and movie-industry as a sound producer.After discovering the blooming trance-scene in the beginning ofthe nineties, he started DJ'ing and teamed up with his friend DJ Goblin to form the psychedelic trance project Children OfT he Doc, which later changed name to PSYSEX. Togetherthey released 3 critically-acclaimed full length albums on HOMmega Productons, and played a big part in establishing Israel as one of the most important trance-countries on the globe.After several years of intense touring, playing at some of the biggest parties and festivals worldwide, Yoni's taste moved more and more towards the slower, groovier side of music though, and from 2006 he took the decision to leavethe Psysex project and form the two soloprojects SCHATSI and ACE VENTURA. With Schatsi he was quickly featuredon labels like Hadshot and Mylo's Breastfed Recordings,and top DJ's like John Digweed played some of his materialon numerous occasions. More attention was put into the Ace Ventura project though, and using a fusion of the hard, pumping dancefloor-oriented style from Psysex and the deeper, groovier influences of progressive trance, the Ace Ventura project became a big success, and in a matter ofjust a few releases, such as the now classic debut Cardiac Arrest, he was already considered among the topproducers on the progressive trance scene.After appearing on releases on labels like Flow, Echoes, Blue Tunes, Spintwist, HOMmega and Iboga Records he finally released his debut solo album Rebirth in 2007, which was without a doubtone of the biggest releases of the year. It resulted in Ace Ventura winning the Psytrance category at the BeatportMusic Awards in 2008.About one year later the album was followed by a remix album Re:Boot, which contained two CD's with remixes by various progressive trance, house, electro house and techno artists. This release, together with the release of The Spark, the summer anthem remix of FREq's Short Life Again as well as a collaborations with various artists - also resulted in Ace Ventura winning the Psytrance category at the Beatport Music Awards in 2009,For the second year in a row. Recently releases such as 'Inside us' (together with Timelock) and the Interactive noise remix for the classic tune 'Presence' have reached the first place in the Beatport psytrance charts.Despite playing all around the globe, at major events from Boom in Portugal,XXXPerience, Tribe and U