DVDLAND Magazine – Vinyl, CDs & 4K Blu-ray: Guides & News

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  Record Store Day 2025: celebration, digital paradox, and why fairer rules are overdue

  Posted in: Vinyl records, General considerations on music and cinema

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  Record Store Day began as a cultural movement to support independent shops: bring people back in, turn buying into a shared moment, and celebrate physical formats with exclusive releases, limited runs, and in-store events. The first official edition launched in 2008, with RSD Black Friday added in 2010. The core is the ritual—queuing at dawn, meeting fellow collectors, unsealing a fresh record.

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  “En e Xanax”: Samuele Bersani’s quiet masterpiece

  Posted in: Reviews

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  When a song doesn’t ask to be understood but sits beside you: restraint, clarity, a quiet truth. There are songs that drag you onto the dance floor and songs that find you already seated, with scattered thoughts, and gather them one by one. En e Xanax belongs to this second family: it doesn’t flaunt power, it doesn’t chase emotional shortcuts, it doesn’t use glitter to distract you. It chooses the rarer gesture: closeness. It’s a song that doesn’t push — it accompanies.

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  Benson Boone: when a talent show truly discovers a talent

  Posted in: Artists and Bands

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  Every now and then, it happens: a TV talent show stumbles upon a real artist. Benson Boone is that rare case. He entered the spotlight through American Idol, then stepped away to shape a career on his own terms—turning early visibility into a body of work built on vulnerability, melody and intent.

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  Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” vs. Today’s Overproduced Noise

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  “Skinny Love” is almost nothing — and that’s exactly why it becomes everything. A fragile voice, a bare acoustic guitar, and tiny breathing details. The arrangement leaves room for silence; dynamics aren’t afraid of imperfection, and that trembling voice feels like a whisper in your ear. It’s minimalism, yes, but full of meaning: every element has a purpose, and nothing screams for attention.

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  Playing Without Playing: DJs, Language and the Overrated Music Era

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  Calling what DJs do “playing” inflates their perceived artistry just as streams and likes inflate musical value. Two parallel distortions—linguistic and cultural—that feed the same illusion.

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  The Same 20 Hands Behind 200 Voices: Who Really Writes Italian Pop (2010–Today)

  Posted in: Artists and Bands

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  Over the last 10–15 years, Italian pop has been shaped by a small cluster of songwriting/production teams. Voices change, but—almost always—the same surnames keep appearing in the credits. Once you peek behind the curtain, “very different” hits suddenly look like close relatives.

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  A Life on Lease: toward a subscription-shaped order?

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  From housing to cars, from software to books, from music to films: the center of gravity is moving from owning things to accessing them, mediated by platforms and recurring fees. This is not just a business-model tweak: it’s an anthropological shift that touches rights, memory, social identity and even the way we pay.

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  Why We Won’t Give Up Physical Media: Science, Psychology & Material Culture

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  This isn’t nostalgia—it’s biology, psychology, and material culture. We are bodies that think with the body; that’s why vinyl, books, DVDs and other “weighty” objects enable cognitive, emotional, and social functions that streaming and e-books cannot fully replace. Here’s the scientific case.

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  Why Physical Media Endures (and When It Beats Streaming): Quality, Ownership, Longevity

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  Streaming is convenient, but not always the best choice. For technical fidelity, true ownership, collectible value and real availability, physical formats still win in many real-world cases.

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  Why Today’s Music Will Never Create Another “Canzone dell’amor perduto” – De André and the Lost Art of Musical Poetry

  Posted in: General considerations on music and cinema

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  This isn’t mere nostalgia—it’s an ecosystem shift. Poetry, silence, naked authorship, and slow listening have been replaced by speed, formats, and algorithms. In such a climate, masterpieces like Fabrizio De André’s have little space to grow.

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  Gladiator II: no-mercy review, acting & comparison

  Posted in: Reviews

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  Ridley Scott returns to the arena with Gladiator II: star power, oversized sets, water and blood everywhere. But does the bigger scale bring bigger meaning? Here’s a sharp review with a clear-eyed look at the acting and a frank comparison to the 2000 landmark Gladiator.

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  DVD, 1080p, 4K & 4K UHD: differences made easy (incl. Dolby/DTS)

  Posted in: Listening and Viewing Guides

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  Craving sharper images, richer colours and room-filling sound? This guide truly separates DVD, 1080p, 4K and 4K UHD (with HDR), explains Dolby/DTS and “4K restorations”, and tells you when the upgrade is worth it. No fluff—just what you need to get that “WOW” at home.

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