Ricky Mancini & Melinda Mohn
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Dont Fight....
Pleased you directed me here Ricky this is good stuff and loaded with imaginative melodies and interesting sounds. Vocally Melinda has plenty going on also to complement a pleasing composition. Ant
Amazing how you mesh two completely different styles and they mesh so perfectly, beautifully sang and performed, with all sorts of strange dark barely heard underpinnings beneath, I loved the almost tuned snare as well, totally unexpected :)
Hi, Love the vocals as usual! Lovely flow to this one. Love the beat and instrumentation too. Simply a great creation. Rated. Cheers, Smudge from Smudgie
Hey, great sound! I love hearing a vocalist unafraid to embrace a song, and you really do this one justice. Great accompaniment, quite diverse, a very interesting performance. Easy to see why this topped the chart. Rated.
WOW.... really great voice here! big applause from me! I would say more, but I'm going to listen to another! :)
That was a class listen. Very good. Mel - that is a great,great vocal - as I have said before :) I do hope one day my vocal matures into your full and controlled sound. Just Lovely!! xxx
As usual Ricky and Mel, haunting vocals, I like the hi-hat sound. Ricky always gets the production second to none. Dan P.S. Ricky thanks Bro
easy listening, smooth as a cold drink on a hot day with plenty of ice. LIke it very much and great voice.
see....npw this IS music....well written, thoughtful, and very provoking. So well done to u. Id rate this, but seems i cant due to the freedom of speech act!...or lack of it. WHy ricky lad cant do more of this is beyond me. Instead....he turns out all the ....e that he does. But...thats what he chooses......i just choose to think its a pile of crap tho. But, he and u have done pretty well given the background. So congrats on the No 1. Now, gotta go....giggin tonight in the local arms...:)
What a wonderful song! Reminds me a little of Tangerine Dream. Soothing to the core...so lush and full of interesting textures throughout. Well done! -Phenom-
Heard this a few times now, and boy it's awesome, loving it more everytime I hear, hit this with everything.
Well done on the No.1, deserved, i like the melody a lot, like the build up, vocals are great, a different style that works well, where did the band name come from anyway? Nice work guys.
Very good piece - well done on #1 in the charts. Love the rhythm and vocals on this - great collab guys.
This has a rather dreamy feeling to it. Excellent vocal performance delivered with plenty of feeling. The flowing vocal melody compliments the rigid trance-like backing track rather well.
For "Two Filthy Minds" you make real nice music. Congrats on the #1 this week!! :D The vocals are great. I really like your tone Melinda. You have a beautiful voice. And oh that piano is awesome. Very laid back and beautiful as well. The beat is nice and laid back as well. This is a very fitting track Ricky and Melinda. I'm really glad you two are in this project, because it's working out great! I'm looking forward to your album. Rated!! :D
Congrats to the new team of Rick & Mel on your first #1 together! (I'm sure there will be more!) Wonderful song/collab! Way to go! :)
tremendous vocals. I agree a strange ( in the unusual) combination. Vocals to die for and overall a truly wonderful production. Take Care Andy :)
A really interesting mixture going on - like the music, like the vocals, like the music with the vocals!!
This is Class. Pure quality. I agree with Valerie the kick really ties it all together. The vocals...waht can I say...wow.Rated
braptastic been here many times this week at work :)
very impressed
I was very moved by this song, really enjoyed it efrona
Stunning is the word, this is top notch production and beautiful vocals. The drums/bongos (?) are very nice.
No doubting the fact that this is a really class piece of work. And that is such a superb voice. Graham
Wow, this is stunning!....A very un-expected team, but it works so well!...credit to both of u!....Quality all over. Musically great, and top notch vocals! Very impressed! Great listen! Mark
Congrats Ricky & Mel on the #3 chart spot! Way to go you two! :)
Wow, brilliant stuff. The music and Meilndas awesome voice fit so well together. The build up of the track is great and the tribal drumming works so well. I love the way the music sort of takes a back seat to the vocals so they are more effective. Really great work you two. ONAGER
Great stuff, Mel's voice really compliments the music brillantly. I love this side to your music, nice and mellow but interesting at the same time. Look forward to hearing more stuff from you guys:)
Brilliant work, Ive been lucky enough to hear this in its various stages of development, and every time I think this is the best track, you go and make it better.Two very talented writers combine and make an absolutly stupendous track. If this is the shape of things to come then you have a huge fan here. Steve
Ahhhh! remember it now! Well sweet intro its very romintic and what a voice Mel!!! Really well played guitar and piano, just wonderinig who is playing them? lol The Mancini trademark drums and perc is in here but i like the sublety of them in this one! Really tame compared to your normal beats and its a nice change but also really enjoy your usual stylings! Jeez cant get over you vocals Mel! lol Ok we have a whole spectrum of styles in this and as usual Ricky you have managed to merge all them and tame them very well! Well have to say its one of the most beautiful songs on the site and the elctronical elements really add to fabulously! 10/10 from me! Keep it going guys and best of luck! Marty
oooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! First he makes me addicted to that guigno thingy, now he teams up with HER and what's this I'm listening to electronica all the time now......HELLLPPP! Hey, can you guys do country? :))))))))
Nice atmos to it........pads and keys sound the biz and I got to enjoy the percs! Fantastic vocal performance by Melinda makes it my third listen. Love the faded perc. Kevin
Wow, something different, really moody for the fireplace on a cold wintersnight. Great vocals and piano in the intro. Great atmosphere with some spicey rhythmwork. Only the bass gives a bit of distortion now and then. Great laidback work almost an ambient dreamer. Rated 4 sure!
simply class! love this track! great vox and feel - will return later
Really gorgeous track - atmospheric and haunting vocals, although I agree with Dawn that they are a bit low in the mix at the start. Great stuff.
Quality track! Romping groove. Vocals are stunning although the reverb for my liking was a tiny bit too in the distance. Well done you two. Rated, Johnny
Great music and production! (listened a couple times) Mel's vocals--"The Wow Factor!" Sexy with a comforting feel! What a great way to start the year-so congratulations to the both of you! And Ricky - congratulations on all your awards too! :) :)
fekkkkkin eh! pretty damn cool guys! really intersting groove that never gets old and just workds really well.... defo an instant hit
This my fave of the four so far. It just edges it for me over Drum & Jazz Bass which is bloody good. I especially like the piano in this and, of course, Melinda's vocals.
Lovely vocals, interesting combination .. pretty spare backing, and for me... now you know what I'm gonna say don't you??? I'd personally like to hear a bit more bass in there, but apart from that I enjoyed it. Quality porduction as always.
Absolute quality track...I have said before, Mels voice is tremendous and blends perfectly with Ricky's music and production, I could listen to this all day, rated... and the rest! simply loved it.
I gotta say that I love the Leftfield feel on this. Gorgeous stuff so far. Got my vote.
Now here's an interesting paring! Which works very well.... I will be looking to hear how this develops. At the moment it's full of exciting promise. Great stuff
I agree ...vocals are to die for. The steel percussion got on my nerves eventually but overall the music is well done, although tends to drown Mel out at the start. That voice is up there with the best Mel.
Super track you two!Vocals are to die for,no kidd'in.Music and prooduction is awsome as usuall.Great team,this is!
i agree exactly, tiny tweeking on the mastering and this track would be awesome, who's singing Melinda? wow i never heard her voice on her trax, really good. That light jungle/trible beat is great against the voc's beause it merges two generes fully. 2:40 (with the piano) really got me and that phaze effect on the beat was perfect. Will def keep an ear out for you guys (stella Polaris)! gonna check out the other trx.
Two Filthy Minds.Twenty Dirty Fingers.One With Wings.
Whenever Ricky Mancini slams a track into my review list, am torn in two different directons; flight or fight. In his MD-1 Project personna, his music is often abrasive, disconcerting and hard to get close to. There again in his collaborative effort with Melinda Mohn - the aforementioned Stella Polaris Project - his testosterone levels are somwhat calmed by, presumably, her calming prescence. T
Fourth time up for current MP3 Unsigned darlings Ricky Mancini (aka MD1-Project on the same site) and dulcet toned Melinda Mohn who collectively make up Stella Polaris Project. As it happens, I have been snowed under over the past month with CD's of all shapes and sizes, including Orphans, the latest from this duo. Regular readers will remember the impact this duo have made on me, gett
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Regular readers may have noticed that this month, for the first time in a long while, I have managed to snag some tracks from MP3 Unsigned. Digital Juggernaut was the first of these, Stelar Polaris the second. Stelar Polaris are an electronica due featuring Ricky Mancini (which should be a familiar name to long term readers) and Melinda Mohn. Not sure who does what but I gu
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The first thing that your reviewer encounters when embarking upon a review is, of course, the title. And today, dear reader I am faced with a track called “Orphans” and what strikes me immediately is how evocative that title is. So allow me please, a brief digression while I muse on this word. First off, it comes down to us from Greek (orphanos), via Latin (orphanus) and Middle English a