Today on hidden gems I'm going to talk about a youtube channel that has been promoting electronic music and that channel is Electronic Gems. This channel has been around since March of 2008 and the channel mission statement is something we here always agreed on with...

Yo ho! Nightrider here! As of this posting, you may have heard on Twitter about the passing of Spanish singer Camilo Sesto on 8 September at the age of 72, 8 days shy of what would have been his 73rd birthday. Beginning his career in 1964 with the band Los Dayson and...

Today on hidden gems we are going to talk about an album that came out of nowhere from a group who just came back and drop one of the best hip hop albums of 2019 and that is Little Brother with their outstanding comeback album May the Lord Watch. The last time this...

Yo Ho! Nightrider here! In this installment of Hidden Gems, we'll take a look at a landmark album from 1969 that cemented the music genre of Balada Rockmántica: Los Ángeles Negros (The Black Angels). Los Ángeles Negros is a Chilean band that formed in 1968 when...

Today on Hidden Gems I'm going to talk about a song that any fan of Prince will know once it starts playing but did you know there was an extended version of said song and that song is Raspberry Beret. Raspberry Beret was the fourth track from the 1985 album Around...

Yo Ho! Nightrider here! Last year, I posted a report about a summer concert in Japan that caught my attention: Fuji Rock Festival 2018. Apart from watching Johnny Marr performing, I discovered different alternative bands like Mitsume. While recharging from the monster...

Yo ho! Nightrider here! After listening to the Roberto Carlos song "Não Vou Ficar," I noticed that Tim Maia wrote the song. Out of curiosity, I checked out who he was, and it turns out that Tim Maia is also a beloved Brazilian musician that brought Funk and soul to...

Today on Hidden Gems we are going to look into one of the most influential and essential anime soundtrack of all time, and that is for the anime film AKIRA. The Soundtrack was titled AKIRA: Original Soundtrack (Symphonic Suite AKIRA). The soundtrack was performed by...

Today on hidden gems I'm going to talk an album that is only five years old but sounds fresh as if it was released this year and it's Home full album Odyssey. The album was released back in 2014; this album had a bit of everything from the electronic scene and its...

Today on Hidden Gems we are going to talk about a beloved Jamaican harmony group that came out during the mid-'60s, and they are The Ethiopians. The Ethiopians were founded in 1966 with the trio of Leonard Dillon, Stephen Taylor, and Aston Morris. Dillon, who at the...