{"id":682,"date":"2007-08-24T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2007-08-24T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T09:10:09","slug":"the-human-value-hold-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"the human value &#8211; hold of me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">way back in 2006 i wrote about a 4 track ep that i  received out of the blue&nbsp;by <STRONG>the human value, &nbsp;<\/STRONG>a band  who at the time were based over in the united states of america.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;the 4 track ep, <EM>give me, <\/EM>was a  cracking blend of gothic pop and electro dirt and just hit the spot.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, of course i wrote some nice words : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/singles\/april_may06.htm\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">now i receive a 2 tracker of new stuff by the band,  with the following information hidden away in the press release :<EM>  <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>when the internet buzz on the other side of the  pond spiked their ever present wanderlust the pair decided to pack their bags  and hit england.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">damn. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i hope they  don&#8217;t expect me to foot cost of the bloody air tickets !<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">thankfully, the band have managed to continue along  their path with an updated&nbsp;take&nbsp;on goth pop with a nice  underlying&nbsp;fuzzed up&nbsp;bass line,&nbsp;phased guitars,&nbsp;and bad  tempered sultry female vocals&nbsp;which given the right chances,&nbsp;could  gather quite a solid following amongst the tatoo&#8217;d&nbsp;up crowds.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">as well as the regular radio friendly normal  version, there is&nbsp;another aimed at the glitter ball crowd, but for once,  the band have resisted the shine of dirty electro thats currently swamping the  remix rotas, and actually crafted a remix that harks back to the world of pure  techno, with straight up pounding 4\/4 machine music, synthetic strings and  delightful acid overtones, yet&nbsp;maintaining the song structure tight. for  added bonus, there&#8217;s&nbsp;even a section where the beats are screwed down to a  slow motion speed,&nbsp;just like&nbsp;<STRONG>li&#8217;l loius<\/STRONG> did all those  years ago with his world storming <EM>french kiss.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">hopefully the band find their destiny, and the  adventure pays off, which if they continue to make music as enjoyable as this,  should definitely be possible.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumanvalue.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>way back in 2006 i wrote about a 4 track ep that i received out of the blue&nbsp;by the human value, &nbsp;a band who at the time were based over in the united states of america. &nbsp;the 4 track ep, give me, was a cracking blend of gothic pop and electro dirt and just hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}