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Tuesday, April 30, 2002

 

Suede - A New Morning

More info on the forthcoming Suede album, A New Morning @ NME.com

Does anyone believe the reported 1 Million recording costs?

# posted by DJ Martian 5:38 PM

 

Jane's Addiction - Hypersonic

MTV report on the recording progress of the forthcoming Jane's Addiction album that has been named Hypersonic.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:32 PM

Monday, April 29, 2002

 

The Brainwashed Brain - V05I16 - 04282002

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Manual - Ascend

Kilowatthours - The Bright Side

Cerberus Shoal - Mr. Boy Dog

# posted by DJ Martian 11:31 PM

 

Tyrant 2

Spaced report the tracklisting of Tyrant 2 the follow up to the much loved Tyrant compilation by Craig Richards and Lee Burridge, a stunning tech-house/ prog percussive/breakbeat house mix that was released in 2000. [Spaced have got the year wrong]

Tyrant 2 is now due out May 27 and not this week.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:06 PM

 

Sugarbabes - Too Young to Remember Numan

Playlouder mention the media reports that Sugarbabes, the female babe teenage trio at number one in the Uk Charts are Too Young to Remember Numan

I didn't have a clue who Gary Numan was, I wasn't born until 1984. But my parents told me about him.

Aiight. : Gary, on the blower from Mexico, said, "The Sugababes are very young. It's odd to think that when 'Are Friends Electric' was a hit the girls weren't even a twinkle in their fathers' eyes.

I am getting older or are the yoof of the day getting younger? Both !

Good tune though especially for a Number One, the Numan sample and flow of the vocals work well.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:18 PM

 

Future Sound Of London Aka Amorphous Androgenous - Album June 3rd

A pop up box @ the Official Future Sound of London website states a Amorphous Androgenous album will be released June 3rd.

[The working title for the album has previously been stated as Galaxial Pharmaceutical - but this has not be confirmed as the official title yet.]

More uptodate info on FSOL @ this fansite on Future Sound Of London

# posted by DJ Martian 12:46 AM

 

First 1/ 3 of the Year Progress Report: Best Albums of 2002

Tracking the Best Albums of 2002

1. A Small Good Thing - Slim Westerns Vol II (Leaf)
2. Aardvarck - Find the Cow (Delsin)
3. Aarktica - Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life And Be Happy Anyway..(Bliss Out)
4. Abfahrt Hinwil - Links Berge Rechts Seen (Toytronic)
5. AC Acoustics - O (Cooking Vinyl)
6. The Accidental Heroes - The Stars Of Destination (Infrared)
7. Acid Mothers Temple - Absolutely Freak Out (Static Resonance) UK Release 2002
8. Aesop Rock - Daylight (Def Jux)
9. AGF - Head Slash Bauch (Orthlorng Musork)
10. Sven Andersson - Hem Ljuva Hem (Longhaul)
11. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes (Interscope)
12. Antibalas - Talkatif (Ninja Tune)
13. Anti Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
14. Apex Theory - Topsy Turvy (Dreamworks)
15. Apoptygma Berzerk - Harmonizer (Hard:drive)
16. Arpanet - Wireless Internet (Source)
17. Aqua Bassino - Beats n Bobs (F Communications)
18. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (VME, formerly Voices Of Wonder/ also End Records) US Import
19. Craig Armstrong - As If to Nothing (Melankolic)
20. Ashbury - A Dream Indoors (Landscape)
21. Attention Industies Meets Patricia Oakley - Pattern Of L (Heimelektro Ulm)
22. Ativin - Interiors (Secretly Canadian)
23. Audra - Going to the Theatre (Projekt)
24. Bed - The Netwon Plum (Ici D'Ailleurs) UK Release 2002
25. Beige (AKA Oliver Braun) - En Konigreich Fur Eine Handgranate (Nonplace)
26. The Black Dog - Unsavoury Products (Hydrogen Dukebox)
27. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride (Projekt)
28. Black Sun Ensemble - Hymn of the Master (Camera Obscura)
29. Blowpipe - Sphere (Robot Recordings)
30. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp)
31. Bola - Fyuti (Skam)
32. Bourbonese Qualk - On Uncertainty (Korm Plastics)
33. Tim Bowness & Phil Chilvers - California Norfolk (Burning Shed)
34. Frank Bretschneider / Taylor Deupree - Balance (Mille Plateaux)
35. Brick Layer Cake - Whatchamacallit (Touch & Go)
36. Burnt by the Sun - Soundtracks to the Personal Revolution (Relapse)
37. The Cancer Conspiracy - The Audio Medium (Big Wheel Recreation)
38. Capitol K - Island Row (XL) New Version
39. Cerberus Shoal - Mister Boy Dog (Temporary Residence)
40. The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Virgin)
41. Chicago Underground Duo - Axis and Alignment (Thrill Jockey)
42. Clinic - Walking With Thee (Domino)
43. Closer Musik - After Love (Kompakt)
44. Coldharbourstores - More Than the Other (Rocket Girl)
45. Edwyn Collins - Doctor Syntax (Setanta)
46. Cornelius - Point (Matador)
47. Crispy Ambulance - Scissorgun (Darla)
48. Crossover - Fantasmo (International Deejay Gigolos)
49. Cujo - Adventures in Foam (Ninja Tune)
50. Custom Blue - All Follow Everyone (Island)
51. Cut Rate Box - Dataseed (Accession) UK Release 2002
52. Cybernet Systems - Robot Movement (Battle Trax)
53. Dabrye - One Three (Ghostly International)
54. Jack Dangers - Variaciones Espectrales (Bella Union)
55. Greg Davis - Arbor (Carpark)
56. December Wolves - Blasterpiece Theatre (Wicked World)
57. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (Fierce Panda) UK Release 2002
58. Decal - 404 Not Found (Planet mu)
59. December - The Lament Configuration (Earache)
60. Dianogah - Millions of Brazilians (Southern)
61. Dimension 5 - Alien Artform (Delsin)
62. Disco Operating - You Don't Have To Be Mad To Love (RSI)
63. Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation)
64. Tanya Donelly - Beauty Sleep (4ad)
65. Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly)
66. Drexciya - Harnessed The Storm (Tresor)
67. Dynamo - Aussen Vor (Din)
68. Ectogram - Tall Things Falling (Ankstmusik)
69. Electric Wizard - Let Us Pray (Rise Above)
70. Alec Empire - Intelligence and Sacrifice (Digital Hardcore)
71. Ephel Duath - Rephormula (Earache Records)
72. EU - Tuner (Pause 2)
73. FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (City Rockers)
74. Fila Brazillia - Jump Leads (23 Records)
75. The Fire Show - Above The Volcano Of Flowers (Perishable) UK Release 2002
76. Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (Constellation)
77. John Foxx & Louis Gordon - The Pleasure of Electricity (Metamatic)
78. Freescha - Slower Than Church Music (Shingle Street)
79. Fred Frith - Accidental(Music For Dance) (ReR)
80. From Autumn To Ashes - Too Bad You're Beautiful (Ferret) UK Release 2002
81. Fuxa - Supercharged (Rocket Girl)
82. Geez n Gosh - Nobody Knows... (Mille Plateaux)
83. Global Goon - Vatican Nitez (Rephlex)
84. Headman - In Rough (Gomma)
85. The Heads - Trollo Ampio (Sweet Nothing)
86. Maximilian Hecker - Infinite Love Songs (Kitty Yo)
87. Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again (Alien 8) UK Release 2002
88. Johannes Heil - Heilstyle (Kanzleramt)
89. Herrmann & Kleine - Our Noise (Morr Music)
90. Oliver Ho - Universal (Meta)
91. Hocico - Signos de Aberracion (Out of Line)
92. Icon of Coil - The Soul Is In The Software (Tatra)
93. Inertia - Advanced Revelation (Cryonica)
94. Infant - Growing up (Neo Ouija)
95. Isobella - A 24 Syllable Haiku (Clairecords) UK Release 2002
96. Ivory Frequency - Plug-In (Dependent)
97. Milton Jackson - The Bionic Boy (Glasgow Underground)
98. Philip Jeck - Stoke (Touch)
99. July Skies - Dreaming Of Spires (Rocket Girl)
100. Kepler - Missionless Days (Resonant)
101. Christian Kleine - Valis (Morr Music)
102. Knut - Challenger (Hydra Head)
103. Thomas Koner - Daikan (Mille Plateaux)
104. L.Stinkbug - The Allure Of Roadside Curios (Starlight Furniture)
105. Laub - Filesharing (Kitty Yo)
106. Larsen - Rever (Young God)
107. Limp - Orion (Morr Music)
108. Llips - Dos Partes (U-Cover) UK Release 2002
109. Los Planetos Del Agua - Too Many Bricks And Not Enough Sea (Antenna)
110. Lowtec - Secret Corner (Source)
111. Loveliescrushing - Glissceule (Sonic Syrup) US Release - Import only
112. Main - Tau (Kraak)
113. Timo Maas - Loud (Perfecto)
114. Markant - Vice Versa (Markant)
115. Mesh - Who Watches Over Me? (Home Records)
116. Metamatics - From Death to Passwords Where You're A Paper Aeroplane (Hydrogen Dukebox)
117. Microphones - Glow Part 2 (K) UK Release 2002
118. Mono - Under The Pipal Tree (Tzadik)
119. Monolight - Free Music (Rune Grammofon)
120. Morika - Plee (Mille Plateaux)
121. Mum & Dad - Mum & Dad (Twisted Nerve)
122. The Necks - Hanging Gardens (Recommended)
123. Neutral - Motion of (Hymen) Import
124. New Flesh - Understanding (Big Dada)
125. 90 Day Men - To Everybody (Southern Records)
126. The Notwist - Neon Golden (City Slang)
127. Nurse with Wound - Man with the Woman Face (United Dairies)
128. Oxbow - Evil Heat (Neurot)
129. Pan American - The River Made No Sound (Kranky)
130. Phantom Ghost - Phantom Ghost (Ladomat)
131. Phonem - Ilisu (Morr Music)
132. Poison the Well - Tear From The Red (Trustkill)
133. Prophets of Sound - Circus (Ink)
134. Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Nocturnal Art Productions)
135. Donna Regina - Northern Classic (Karaoke Kalk)
136. Req - Sketchbook (Warp)
137. Rinocerose - Music Kills Me (V2)
138. Steve Roach - Streams & Currents (Projekt)
139. Salvatore - Fresh (Racing Junior)
140. Sand - Still Born Alive (Satellite)
141. Sandoz - Afrocentris (Intone)
142. Sandoz - Sandoz In Dub: Chant To Jah (Soul Jazz)
143. Savoy Grand - Burn the Furniture (Glitterhouse)
144. Sensual Physics - Offene Schleifen (Source)
145. Shalabi Effect - The Trial of St-Orange (Alien8)
146. ShelleyDevoto - Buzzkunst (Cooking Vinyl)
147. The Shroud - In the Garden (Neue Aesthetik)
148. Simple Minds - Cry (Eagle)
149. Six by Seven - The Way I Feel Today (Mantra)
150. Skanfrom - Hand-Picked Fragments (Suction)
151. Luke Slater - Alright on Top (Mute)
152. Small Rocks - Carbondating (Hot Air)
153. Smash TV - Electrified (Bpitch)
154. Smith & Mighty - Life Is (Studio K7)
155. Snd - Tender Love (Mille Plateaux)
156. Somatic Responses - Augmented Lines (Hymen)
157. Soul Center - Soul Center 3 (Novamute)
158. Soul Designer - Walking On A Little Cloud (F Communications)
159. Source of Tide - Blueprints (Candlelight)
160. Spunk - Filtered Through Friends (Rune Grammofon)
161. Stakka & Skynet - Clockwork (Under Fire Records) / CD Released at last!,
162. Static - Eject Your Mind (City Centre Offices)
163. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Locked On/679)
164. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (Napalm) UK Release 2002
165. Sunno))) - Flight of the Behemoth (Southern Lord)
166. Surface Of Eceon - King Beneath The Mountain (Strange Attractors Audio House)
167. Swirl People - Hi Mom, Lets Dance (Solemusic)
168. Nobukazu Takemura - Sign (Thrill Jockey)
169. Telepopmusik - Genetic World (Chrysalis)
170. Thuja - Ghost Plants (Emperor Jones)
171. Tiamat - Judas Christ (Century Media)
172. Ron Trent - Musical Reflections (R2 Records)
173. 2 By Bukowski - Tech Thrash (Poeta Negra)
174. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Dabbling with Gravity and Who you Are (VHF)
175. VNV Nation - Futureperfect (Dependent records)
176. Weatherman - Curious Liquid (Just Music)
177. Charles Webster - Born on the 4th July (Peacefrog)
178. When - The Lobster Boys (Jester Records) UK Release 2002
179. Benjamin Wild - With Compliments (Forced Tracks)
180. Jah Wobble & Temple of Sound - Shout at the Devil (30 Hertz)
181. Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)
182. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (Rue Christine)
183. X-Press2 - Muzikizum (Skint)
184. Yagya - Rhythm Of Snow (Force Inc)
185. Richard Youngs - May (Jagjaguwar)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:14 AM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK:

Key new album releases for April 29th, [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

This Week: April 29th

A Small Good Thing - Slim Westerns Vol II (Leaf)
The Accidental Heroes - The Stars Of Destination (Infrared)
Arpanet - Wireless Internet (Source)
The Black Dog - Unsavoury Products (Hydrogen Dukebox)
Blowpipe - Sphere (Robot Recordings)
Edwyn Collins - Doctor Syntax (Setanta)
Cujo - Adventures in Foam (Ninja Tune)
Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly)
Fred Frith - Accidental (Music For Dance) (ReR)
Geez n Gosh - Nobody Knows... (Mille Plateaux)
Johannes Heil - Heilstyle (Kanzleramt)
Philip Jeck - Stoke (Touch)
Lowtec - Secret Corner (Source)
Pan American - The River Made No Sound (Kranky)
Sensual Physics - Offene Schleifen (Source)
Smith & Mighty - Life Is (Studio K7)
Surface Of Eceon - King Beneath The Mountain (Strange Attractors Audio House)

For Reference

Last Week: April 22nd

Audra - Going to the Theatre (Projekt) Import
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride (Projekt) Import
Brick Layer Cake - Whatchamacallit (Touch & Go)
Crispy Ambulance - Scissorgun (Darla)
Alec Empire - Intelligence and Sacrifice (Digital Hardcore)
Maximilian Hecker - Infinite Love Songs (Kitty Yo)
Knut - Challenger (Hydra Head)
Mum & Dad - Mum & Dad (Twisted Nerve)
Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Nocturnal Art Productions)
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (Rue Christine)
X-Press2 -Muzikizum (Skint)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:07 AM

Sunday, April 28, 2002

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ BOOMKAT A PELICANNECK ELECTRONIC MUSIC STORE

String Theory - Anhedonia - Consumers Research And Development Label

Having made their debut appearance on one of Skam�s infamous �Smak� 12�s, String Theory arrive with their brilliant debut album. The Consumers label, based jointly in the Californian and Ilinois musical hotbeds, have really gone and done it with this one. Amongst all the amazing music issuing forth, torrent like from the States at the moment - Dabrye, Hefty, Geoff White, Joseph Cotton, Sutekh...we'd have this sitting on top in the big canoe labelled ABSLOUTE CLASS, effortlessly rafting the white water. Josh Davison and Nathan Tucker with the opening, emotion laden chords of �Multi� just take away the breath. The sounds are laden with immense feeling, imagine Casino versus Japan jamming with Boards, the Bola man at the console, and perhaps we're still nowhere near describing how crucially brilliant this is. The scuttling beats of �The Peel� eschews the glitch and instead we have a big sky of sound, opening above our heads, and of course the strings, oh yes the strings. �We Are Blowing Up� should prove a highly apt track title, its slightly detuned keys again carrying that supremely warm childsplay melody, the beats are exubarent fresh, rolling with the assurance of the gifted. Onto Side Two, �That Girl Is Blue Shifting� just charms relentlessly, a chirpy rhythm which is the kind of house but not house tempo Safety Scissors might conjure, but without the cut up, again the melody line is king here. Hum it on the bus, sing it to the streets, just great popular music, without the parp. �Dregs� closes a truly wicked album, seams of purest sound and compassionate warmth, and the anticipation...then the change up, a rhythm of which Akufen would be proud, yet more electronic, more generous with the bass than Marc Leclair and still those heavenly synths. We suggest you support the Consumers in all their future Research and Development projects, for this is an unmissable record from a hugely exciting new perspective. Faultless.


A Small Good Thing - Slim Westerns Volumes 1 + 2 - Leaf

Slim Westerns Vol II is the follow up to an album originally released in 1994 on the US Soleilmoon label. Like the first album, Vol II is the highly evocative soundtrack to a Western that will never be made: think Morricone, Badalamenti, Adamson, Cooder, Calexico and The KLF�s Chill Out and you�ll be heading in the right direction. Housed in the high-quality packaging that The Leaf Label is renowned for (designed buy Non-Format), the Slim Westerns Vol II CD package includes a full colour 12-page booklet featuring a fake pulp Western novel that reflects the music within. This limited edition of 2000 copies includes the first volume of Slim Westerns, never before released outside of the US. Check.


Aoki Takamasa - Silicom Two - Progressive Form

Japan�s Progressive Form label has set the scene with it�s releases from Monolake�s Robert Henke and Joshua Kit Clayton. Now that it has your attention, it�s time to unleash the true ace in the pack � Aoki Takamasa. This seriously astonishing album comes from an artist whose previous work and form is unknown, but who has managed to guarantee that we�ve listened to little else this week. Simply put, �Silicom Two� sounds like the kind of record you�d expect to hear from Autechre after taking another new and entirely unexpected turn. In other words, it represents a new twist in the evolution of electronic language � one that has no preface and little precedent. Spanning across 11 tracks of pure innovation, there is a mangle of ideas and twists here that doesn�t surface very often in this world of increasingly predictable and uniform ideas. The opening �Ope� lays the table with a robotic beat twist that remains organised while indulging in an array of static and heavy digital intervention � EP7 is a lazy reference but one that will have to suffice due to a severe lack of invented vocabulary for this sort of thing. �Monc�, similarly, deploys the kind of deep low-end rhythm structuring and tweeks that are often attempted but rarely accomplished with any level of success. So much DSP manipulated music these days seems to emanate from a wanton desire to reflect rebellion and vaccuous experimentalism � Aoki Takamasa, meanwhile, evokes the idea that every twist and turn has been carefully selected, executed and assembled. The result being a deeply original piece of work that devestates when played loud. Essential.


Black Dog and Black Sifichi - Unsavoury Products - Hydrogen Dukebox

With a dubious selection of projects undertaken since his split from brothers in Tweak � Plaid, the Black Dog has failed to retain the same kind of fervent following that his early works seemed to produce so effortlessly. This collaboration with spoken word artiste Black Sifichi makes for an unusual listen, the music sees some return to form � an almost �Spanners� era playfulness that�s adapted here specifically for narrative accompaniment, and even a scattering of some classic Black Dog moments mixed in and out of proceedings. The spoken vocal, however, gives this a slightly disturbed feel that doesn�t bring out the subtleties of the instrumental pieces very gracefully. Those with an aversion to spoken word would do well to steer clear, while fans of the Dog might want to listen before purchase.


Freescha - Slower Than Church Music - Shingle Street

Back from the west coast come the Freescha boys, and its a pleasure to welcome them once more - ever since the Kids Fill The Floor double album charmed our pants off, over a year ago now. Their blend of stargazing californian electronics, seasoned with liberal dashes of analogue warmth, has always carried the same kind of heavily emotive, considered charge you might find in the best work of The Boards Of Canada, or the more contemplative moments of Air. Mollusk gives us a short introduction to a crispy, dsp'd kind of sound designed perhaps to distract. The its on with the slow, the title proving unerringly accurate for the tempo and also the devotional feel of much of Freescha's output. The loom would fit perfectly with sunset, and there is a kind of natural awareness in this music - electronics tempered with a piano here, some real drums on Boogy Foot and the hint of the human voice behind all of this. Slower Than Church Music should please all existing fans and entice fugitives from the latest Boards' offering. Sanctified tunes.


Lowtec - Secret Corner - Source (Germany)

Jens Kuhn has distinguished himself of late with a series of critical, glorious twelves for Playhouse, and a track on the fine double Out To Lunch compilation. So it is for one of his fellow contributors to that compilation, Dave Moufang, that Lowtec turn to deliver this double album. For an idea of Jens special ability head straight to Lower Hutt, savour the keys and just wait for the dusty break to drop. There's deep understanding of what will work on the more soulful electronic dancefloors of today, and clear affinties with the work of Moufang himself, as well as other favourites of ours, such as Perlon on City Limit and American house dons on Stamping Ground. Strings to die for, heartmelting analogue keys, and on 1973 just sheer rude head nodding midtempo fatness. Extremely accomplished set from a guy who's clearly going places fast.


Naono - Slope Drifting - Vibrant Music

Latest full-length offering on Fluxion�s excellent Vibrant Music label, this time coming from newcomer Naono. A subsidary of Chain Reaction / Basic Channel, Vibrant music has excelled in applying the deep and reverb-ridden sound of those labels onto a sound that�s less rigidly 4/4 driven. Naono fits into this aesthetic perfectly � a melange of sound and instrumentation permeates each of the 14 tracks here, moments like �Amer� shining with an infusion of Fender Rhodes keys and some sparse but intricately assembled percussion, shards of sound keeping to a deeply accessable and moving tone. Elswehwere, as on the magnificent �Refill�, slight dub standard infiltrates a horizon of delicate beauty and multi-instrumentation : the result being a deeply moving and highly original piece of work. Recommended.


Plaid - P Brane - Warp

Back again, Plaid are on a roll and keep the flow of work coming at a good rate, 4 new tracks to keep you busy with until the next album lands sometime.... P-Brane finds Plaid on somewhat new terrain, marginally less playful and spacious, the opening �Coat� keeping the synths to a restrained whisper while the seriously squashed percussion gives a hip-hop paced schematic-esque layering of DSP�s and intricacies that have undoubtedly been inspired by that Miami sound but given here a distinctly Plaid-ian twist. The end segement surrenders and gives way to a wash of melody and synth � reasserting that unique sound the boys have perfected over the years. �Stills� on the flip opens at similar pace but makes an about turn halfway through, the beats accelerate and the melodies unfold to reveal classic Plaid romanticism and anticipation � lovely stuff. Last track �Mfaus� is the most relentless on offer � fast and heavily processed, academic and technologically minded production that takes a couple of listens to sink into. In all, seriously strong material throughout.


VARIOUS - Disco Nouveau Volume 2 - Ghostly International

Straight onto part 2, and if you ran out of breath flexing yr dancing shoes for Part 1, you�re going to be ruined by the end of this! The players : Legowelt, Solvent, Charles Manier and Perspects, the sound : Disco Nouveau! Legowelt is first up, the king of the Hague has fast established himself as the resident in chief of all things Italo Disco and discoid frenzy, so it�s no surprise that his �Disco Rout� here is as devestating as it is � twisted limbs glitter accros bouncing basslines and a glitz-attack that demands smiling. Suction�s Solvent is up next, classic Solvent robot friendliness and vocoded delights eventually give way to a creeping disco bassline that nods towards his fellow contributants here, one for the kids! Newcommer (to us at least!) Charles Manier opens the flip with a Conga roll that gives way to a devestating acid line that really is nothing short of HUGE. Whoever this guy is, he�s got our attention! Ersatz luminaries Perspects are up next with �They Keep Dancing�, wherby the �Nuvo Mix� unleashes a pure synthcore pastiche that really must chart, Oakey�s vocal comes to mind once again, before the instrumental version illuminates everything that�s so enjoyable about this massively popular 80�s revival sound. Immense.


VARIOUS - Electro Commando Vol.1 - Welcome To Psi City - Psi49net

Absolutely huge electroid compilation on Anthony Rother�s Psi49Net label, bringing together a staggering 25 tracks across double CD and tripple Vinyl from the likes of Froyd, Novo, Boris Divider and shedloads of tracks from Rother himself under his own name and a host of aliases. Flawless tough electro teritory throughout, wickedness guaranteed. Recommended.


Smith and Mighty - Life Is.... K7

The usual S+M mix of reggae, dub, hip hop, breakbeats, drum n�bass and soul make an appearance on on �Life is...� . Smith & Mighty worked with old mates such as Rudy Lee, Nijii Forty, L.D. and MC Chaos, that were already heard on �Big World Small World�. Additionally, a handful of new vocalists have joined. The MCs and singers all come from Bristol, are friends or friends from friends or were heard performing live and invited to a session into the studio. Shantal, Hazel Jane, MC Bunx and Caroline are the names of the new voices and they contributed significantly to the new orientation of Smith & Mighty towards song and more melodic tunes.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:04 PM

Saturday, April 27, 2002

 

Resonance 104.4 FM - Schedule Listings - Leftfield Radio for Central London

Following on from the earlier blog entry on Resonance 104.4 FM, this is the Schedule for Resonance 104.4 FM some interesting shows ahead.

Resonance 104.4 FM is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. It starts broadcasting from May 1st 2002 at 5 pm Resonance 104.4 FM

[With Resonance 104.4 FM, I am absolutely certain that there will be No:.. Puddle of Mudd, Stereophonics, Drowningpool, Oasis, Nickelback, Travis, Alien Ant Farm, Haven, Badly Drawn Boy, Cooper Temple Clause and lots of other crap that Xfm continue to chuck on the playlist...that should not be there if they were to actually deliver an alternative/ leftfield radio music station]

# posted by DJ Martian 6:56 PM

 

Music Non Stop - Forthcoming Releases

Music Non Stop have updated their forthcoming releases:

Audra - Going To The Theatre

AUDRA were praised as the next big thing from the US Goth scene after London After Midnight. This is a remarkable album evoking such influences as David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Roxy Music and the Velvet Underground. Going to the Theatre (the second full-length release from Arizona-based brothers Bret and Bart Helm) presents ten snapshots of characters confronting the images and experiences that fuel their passage from child to adult, from innocent to debased. Between the sultry cabaret grind of ''Midnight Moon Swing'' and the sullen, lonely guitar of ''Don't End This Time,'' Audra leads their audience on a stirring and shimmering journey through a landscape of innocence and its loss. Excitement clashes with sorrow, joy with fear, creating a dark, seductive and mesmerizing experience. Between Bret's deep, sexy, hypnotizing vocals and Bart's melodic and groove bending guitars, this album takes you through a musical spiral of mood altering gothic architecture. ''Going To The Theatre'' contains a perfect mixture of rough rocking tracks and emotional ballads. Favourites include the wonderful ''All Ghosts Spend Their Time Alone,'' which has lovely lyrics. ''Midnight Moon Swing'' or ''A Walk in the woods'' are purest Gothic Rock songs. ''Don�t End This Time'' seems to bet the perfect mixture of Peter Murphy-like vocals and late 80's 4AD Guitar sound, ''Cabaret Fortune Teller'' is a driving , powerful track with slanting Synthie effects. Every single song makes this a very many faceted album. Furthermore, the artwork of ''Going To The Theatre'' is simply wonderful. Heartfelt music is a rarity...

Released 29th April 2002. Projekt.


Diary Of Dreams - Freak Perfume (limited first-run)

DIARY OF DREAMS surely belong to the small group of truly exceptional bands who take their inspiration from all different sorts of styles - and whose fanbase, accordingly, is just as diverse. Because they do not shy away from using this enormous variety of styles and elements, their sound is always authentic, never clich� - a rich source of emotion their listeners can directly identify with. Intense vocals are combined with lush instrumentation and often reach a soundtrack like quality, leaving each listener to dream up his own visuals to go with the music. For 12 years, DIARY OF DREAMS have proven their seminal status as a cult band with every record they released. Their popularity has constantly grown without ever diluting their creativity, their innovative spirit or their unmistakable personality. ''Freak Perfume'' is an intense testimony of where the band now stands, the statement of a figurehead in the eye of the storm while his life swirls around him like a carrousel. Three years have passed since the last album, ''One Of 18 Angels'' was released to worldwide acclaim. Late 2001, DIARY OF DREAMS surprised us all with their first MCD ever: ''O'Brother Of Sleep'' didn't just please their old fans, it also went straight to Number 1 in the German Alternative Chart. March 2002 saw the release of their second and last precursor to the new album. ''AmoK'' was again well received by fans and critics alike. Since the release of the last album, DIARY OF DREAMS have been on tour twice and played a great number of festivals, proving once again their brilliance and power as a live band. They appeared on dozens of compilations, spreading their fame even further and reaching more and more curious ears. But now it's time to celebrate the record we have been waiting for, and that much is certain: With ''Freak Perfume'', DIARY OF DREAMS have created another seminal album. Here, the energy and power of their first recordings blend brilliantly with the maturity and understanding they've now gained. The effortless and elegant production transports the strikingly melancholic and poetic atmosphere. On ''Freak Perfume'', you will find potential club stormers and ballads alike, all embedded in the typically powerful, almost classical DIARY OF DREAMS sound. ''Freak Perfume'' is probably the most extensive and diverse album Adrian Hates ever created, his writing reaching new depths and new insights. There's no room for superficiality - emotion is what counts. For every fan a long awaited must, for all others an ideal opportunity to have a closer look at this band. First run Limited Edition of the Brand new album comes in a digipack with bonus tracks !! Please PRE-ORDER QUICKLY !!

Released 3rd June 2002. Accession.


Dryft - Cell

CD. Dryft...is the side project by Cadoo of GRIDLOCK! During the recording of Gridlock's ''Further'' both Cadoo and Mike Wells were listening to and interjecting drum and bass into their music. At that time Cadoo was almost fanatical about the harder, moodier tech-step that was being created by producers like Panacea, Digital, and Dom and Roland. Out of this love for drum and bass came the ''Enzyme'' remix on Further. After completing the remix he decided to try some tracks of his own in this new style. The track ''Avatar'' was the first of those tracks, a combination of sub-bass and atmospheric synths. It's from a section of that track, that has a floating feeling, came the name Dryft. Now Dryft finds it's home [] and is set to inject the electronic music world with this unique blend of D & B. Please beware.

Released 29th April 2002 Unit Records


Lusine ICL - Iron City

Lusine Icl on his fourth album, ''Iron City'', explores a unique blend of lush electronics, dance floor rhythms and ambient interludes that are sure to please both the discriminating music collector and DJs looking for the next big thing. ''Iron City'' commutes the listener through a wide range of terrain. Detroit techno, Jazz, laid back Groove, experimental electronics and ambient landscapes are all part of the landscape. It is as varied as any large city, and as enjoyable as any fantastic voyage.

Released 20th May 2002 Hymen

# posted by DJ Martian 5:17 PM

 

Freaky Trigger - 102 Beats

Feaky Trigger - 102 Beats Part 1 is now complete, Part 2 will in be in June.

What do you get if you ask Freaky Trigger readers to write 102 words about "a record people should hear"? You get this: 72 records ranging from Billboard to Bollywood, from triple CD sets to ringtones, from the forties to the noughties, all summed up bitesize by an equally varied bunch of pop enthusiasts. Some of these people, some of these records, you might already know - others will be new. If one of the records talked about here intrigues you, why not check it out and come back here in June for Part II of this feature - where each of the writers here listens to someone else's choice, and squeezes their opinion on it into - yes - 102 words.


Unfortunately I never got round to doing an entry and also knowing my luck I thought I would probably end up be with something to review that I would not have liked such as twee indie pop pap or alt.country authentic snoresville.

However this set of features is well worth exploring, here is ten for starters:

The Aloof - Sinking - Contributor: Billy Dods

Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop - Contributor: Richard Tunnicliffe

Hardfloor - "Acperience" - Contributor: Jim Eaton-Terry

Lift To Experience - "These Are The Days" - Contributor: David Howie

Luomo - "Tessio" - Contributor: Nick K

Public Image Limited - "Poptones" - Contributor: Mark S

The Slits - Cut - Contributor - Dave Raposa

The Stranglers - "The Raven" - Contributor: Simon Larsen

Tool - "Reflection" - Contributor: Ned Raggett

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Contributor: Rener

[Maybe I will do my own 102 entry on my blog - sometime next week.]

# posted by DJ Martian 4:39 PM

 

Alternative Eighties - Compilation

I noticed a compilation in the stores this week, Alternative Eighties: here is the tracklisting:

Alternative Eighties - (Sony Music TV)

Disc One
1. The Clash - Rock The Casbah
2. Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You
3. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
4. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
5. The Icicle Works - Love Is A Wonderful Colour
6. Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
7. New Order - Blue Monday
8. Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock'N'Roll
9. The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star
10. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene
11. Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
12. The Sugarcubes - Birthday
13. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
14. Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC�
15. The Assembly - Never Never
16. The Primitives - Crash
17. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
18. The Fall - There's A Ghost In My House
19. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?

Disc Two

1. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
2. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
3. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
4. The Associates - Party Fears Two
5. Spear Of Destiny - Liberator
6. The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
7. Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven
8. The Bluebells - Young At Heart
9. Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
10. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops
11. Erasure - Sometimes
12. The The - This Is The Day
13. Westworld - Sonic Boom Boy
14. Blancmanche - Living On The Ceiling
15. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Lost Weekend
16. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book
17. The Style Council - Shout To The Top
18. The Stranglers - Always The Sun
19. The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
20. Kirty MacColl - A New England

# posted by DJ Martian 4:04 PM

 

The Brainwashed Brain - V05I15 - 04212002

The Brainwashed Brain includes a review of

WIRE - READ & BURN 01

# posted by DJ Martian 2:29 PM

 

Darla - Coming Soon

Darla - Coming Soon has been updated, including:

YUME BITSU - The Golden Vessyl of Sound...

K
CD Version due June 4th

Sonically, Yume Bitsu has always been a hard band to pin down. Traversing across celestial landscapes imbued with drifting, lilting sheets of ambient guitars, keyboard driven astral landscapes, in-your-face wall of fuzz and occasional harmonious soaring voice, Yume Bitsu effortlessly shift from one end of the psychedelic musical spectrum to the other, with surprisingly successful effect. Yume Bitsu�s process of creation, as it has developed over the last 7 years, is as intriguing as the music it creates. They claim that they play from �the vessyl,� a channel of energy whose output is greater than that of the individual members combined. Accordingly, their approach to creating sound has been more uniform than their output ever has. Nowhere in their ever-growing catalog is that more apparent than on their remarkable fourth full-length, The Golden Vessyl of Sound.Familiar and signature drone-and-drift textures are present, but The Golden Vessyl of Sound finds Yume Bitsu expanding their compositional palette to experiment along a broader array of textures, with decidedly ample sonic rewards. A random spore sample reveals a variety of audio astral planes, reminiscent of such divergent artists as Cluster, Can, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, In a Silent Way-era Miles Davis, Slowdive, Windy and Carl, and Landing. Decorate it all with an elaborately lyrical allegory-as-soundtrack to a fantastical story the band wrote about Dryystn, a mythical city and its inhabitants, and you have yourself one truly epic album set to re-map the human cerebellum unto a higher plane of consciousness. If that isn�t enough, Yume Bitsu officially announce the creation of THE VESSYL COLLECTIVE, a loose-knit group of like-minded, psychedelically tinged bands that span the continental United States. The collective includes such rising ambient-rock groups as the quiet-storm drift and drone quartet Landing, the fuzz-smear improv powerhouse Surface of Eceon, and neo-Electronic �Head� Music pioneer Alex Bundy (a.k.a. Planetarium Music). As stewards of this shimmering inner-spaceship, founding members Yume Bitsu find themselves equipped to lead American space-rock into the 21st century. The 2xLP format contains a bonus, side-long live set not featured on the forthcoming CD (out June 4).

Tuxedomoon Related Reissues:

BLAINE REININGER - Instrumentals

LTM (UK)
COMING 6/24/02

15 tracks. Blaine Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult left-field band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some eight solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Instrumentals (1989) and Radio Moscow (1995). Most have appeared on the Crepuscule label. Blaine was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece. Instrumentals is a charming collection of tracks recorded between 1982 and 1991, some in collaboration with artists such as Steven Brown, Vini Reilly/Durutti Column, Wim Mertens and Luc Van Acker, but almost always with Blaine�s trademark violin to the fore. The set also includes three full orchestrations of Ghost Sonata material performed by the Flemish Chamber Orchestra of Brussels in 1983. Stand-out tracks include La Douleur, The Sea Wall, Contempt, Side Wind and Music #2. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents� Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. In 2000 the group toured Half Mute in Europe to mark its re-release on the Gigolo International label. Current projects include European dates in summer 2002, and a new studio album later in the year. Instrumentals is digitally remastered with extensive sleevenotes. Night Air (LTMCD 2339) is also now available on CD. Reviews: �Instrumentals is a miscellany of short pieces that reflect the spirit of his musical ideas through the years. It�s a feast of appetizers, but that doesn�t make them any less beautiful or haunting in their variety� (Option, 1991); �Runs smoothly from the sentimental to the experimental - a polished and intriguing exploration of one man�s many-faceted work� (USA Press, 1991).


BLAINE REININGER - Night Air

LTM (UK)
COMING 6/24/02

16 tracks. Blaine Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult left-field band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some eight solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Byzantium (1987), Instrumentals (1989) and Radio Moscow (1995). Most appeared on the Crepuscule label. Blaine was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece. Night Air is his superlative 1984 album written and recorded with former Sleepers and Tuxedomoon guitar wizard Michael Belfer and mixed by Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode/Nick Cave). Stand-out tracks include Mystery & Confusion, Birthday Song, L�entr�e de l�hierophante and the evocative title track, as well as the six bonus cuts which include Windy Outside and the magnificent Crash by Tuxedomoon, the latter in two versions, one remixed by The Residents. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents� Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. In 2000 the group toured Half Mute in Europe to mark its re-release on the Gigolo International label. Current projects include European dates in summer 2002, and a new studio album later in the year. Night Air is digitally remastered and has extensive sleevenotes. Reviews: �A major album � highly atmospheric, steeped in mist and melancholy, and redolent of Dashiel Hammett and Tom Waits, or even Brian Eno with a latino croon� (Libre Belgique, 9/84); �Night Air seeks to combine modern classicism with a new approach to atmospheric chanson. Reininger is way ahead of his time� (Rock This Town, 6/84); �Crash is a rare and marvellous

STEVEN BROWN - Decade (Best Of)

LTM (UK)
COMING 6/24/02

21 tracks. Steven Brown is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult left-field band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music For Solo Piano (1983), Zoo Story (1984), Searching For Contact (1987), Music for Film and Theatre (1988), Half Out (1991), and Nine Rain (1996). In 1996 composer Harold Budd recorded a homage to Steven on his album Luxa. Steven was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Decade (Best Of) offers a definitive overview of his solo work between 1982 and 1991, including vocal and instrumental tracks, some released under the Tuxedomoon banner. Stand-out tracks include Music #2, Decade, You, Tori and Lorelei/Overture. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents� Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd group albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Suite En Sous-Sol, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. In 2000 the group toured the seminal Half Mute album in Europe to mark its re-release on the DJ Gigolo International label. Current projects include a Russian-only live album, European dates in summer 2002, and a new studio album for release later in the year. Decade (Best Of) has been digitally remastered and features extensive sleevenotes. Reviews: �Brown has emerged as a leading force of the new music, which rejects the conventional separation of pop, classical and avant garde music � forceful and subversive� (Vox, 9/91); �There are sublime moments on Music for Solo Piano, which never panders to easy-listening� (Melody Maker, 7/88).

# posted by DJ Martian 2:21 PM

 

OUTBURN #18 / May 2002

Outburn:
Outburn Magazine is the leader of the subversive and post-alternative music revolution that covers many diverse genres, including rock, electronic, metal, industrial, techno, IDM, house, gothic, atmospheric, experimental, and more.

Details of the new edition of Outburn: OUTBURN #18 / May 2002

I would say Outburn is closest in spirit/ coverage/ content to the type of ideal music magazine that I would like to see in Britain on a fortnightly basis - to take on the NME. However Outburn is a US magazine that has 3 editions per Year: one in January, then May, then September.

COVER STORY

LUKE SLATER: If you had spent nearly a decade establishing yourself as one of the preeminent creators of cutting edge techno and electronic music, the last thing you would want to do is pick up a vocalist and start writing love songs, right? Not if you're Luke Slater. Outburn sits down with Luke Slater in the Manhattan offices of Mute for an in-depth discussion of Slater's latest release Alright on Top, his roller skating adventures, and his latest finds on eBay. Photographs by Paule Saviano.

FEATURED INTERVIEWS WITH

COAL CHAMBER: As the leaders of the modern metal scene, Coal Chamber's vocalist Dez Fafara phones in from the road to shine some light on the hard hitting and head banging Dark Days,

RASPUTINA: Founding member, lead vocalist, and musical directress, Melora Creager, shares some insights into the "little upside down twilight cello fantasy world" of the trio's Cabin Fever!.

DOWN: Rex Brown and Kirk Windstein show some Southern hospitality and answer some prying questions about the 28 days, 15 songs, and $6000 worth of booze it took to record the sludge rock of Down II.

CARL COX: Legendary house and techno DJ, Carl Cox, goes Global and gives a revealing preview to his upcoming and much anticipated artist album in a candid interview.

QUARASHI: The techno, rock, and rap of Iceland's Quarashi is now invading American soil, as Solvi Blondal foots the international call and explains how Quarashi got to be where they are today.

LUNATIC CALM: Fusing hard techno with rock 'n' roll, Howie Saunders reveals the inner workings, inspirations, and aggravations of Lunatic Calm's latest release, Breaking Point, while on a recent trip to the US.

CRANES: Gracefully gliding into an otherworldly splendor on their latest release, Future Songs, vocalist Alison Shaw helps fill in the blanks of the Cranes' last five years and explains why their future's so bright.

VNV NATION: Sounding the battle cry to reject nihilism with an addictive brand of synthpop tinged EBM, frontman Ronan Harris looks into VNV Nation's past and examines our future.

KMFDM: Eighteen years and eleven albums later, Sascha Konietzko and crew are back on the Attack with "the most vital, valid, and leading into the future KMFDM album to date."

BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL: Sam Rosenthal delves into the neoclassical and ethereal essence of The Scavenger Bride, the latest at Projekt, and some of his recent personal life changes.

BUFFALO DAUGHTER: It's 7:00 AM in Los Angeles and midnight in Tokyo when Sugar Yoshinaga answers the phone to tell the tale of Buffalo Daughter's eclectic mix of rock, hip-hop, and dance pop.

PLUS INTERVIEWS WITH
Hate Dept.
Arch Enemy
Pain Station
Gavin Hardkiss
Sumerland
Immortal
The Herbaliser


NEW MUSIC COLUMNS

AFTERMATH: Aggro, Industrial, & Cybercore
STRUCTURE: Techno, Trance, & Progressive House
DARKLANDS: Gothic, Ethereal, & Darkwave
PURGATORY: Black, Death, & Doom
ARMCHAIR: IDM, Braindance, & Leftfield
ALCOVE: Self-releases, CDRs, & Newcomers

SECTIONS

BACKFEED: Readers write!
SHOTFIRE: Pitchshifter, Ministry, Superjoint Ritual, HBO's Six Feet Under, The Scorpion King, Neutral, Lydia Lunch, Ad Noiseam, Bozo Porno Circus
EYESORE: Drakan, Jet Set Radio Future, Rallisport Challenge, Rez
LAST SHOT: True/False Questions for Andrew W.K.

AND OVER 150 ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC REVIEWS:
Apoptygma Berzerk, Balligomingo, Boards of Canada, Borknagar, Callenish Circle, Capitol K, The Catheters, The Church, Concrete Blond, Controlled Bleeding, Conjure One, D-Fuse, Deepsky, Eels, Entombed, Fad Gadget, Felix Da Housecat, Fischerspooner, Fine China, Global Goon, Golden Boy with Miss Kitten, Hypocrisy, In Slaughter Natives, Joy Electric, Jucifer, Kosheen, Laub, Leech Woman, Locust, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Massivivid, Medi�val B�bes, Milemarker, Mirah, Nine Inch Nails, Neutronic, Oneiroid Psychosis, Oxbow, Phaser, Q-Burns, Taylor Savvy, Si-cut.db, Son-Dha, Sub.Bionic, Sneaker Pimps, St. Germain, Super Furry Animals, Tapping the Vein, Theatre of Tragedy, Tiamat, Tosca, Tribes of Neurot ...and more!

# posted by DJ Martian 1:38 PM

 

Terrorizer - May - Issue 99

Details of the new edition of Terrorizer with Danzig on the front cover. Strange choice if you ask me, as I always found Danzig to much of clown RAWKist - remember his big rock single in 1988 - Mother .

Surely a better front choice would have been Red Harvest

RED HARVEST The Power And The Glory

A decade on from their debut album 'Nomindsland', Norway's Red Harvest are still raging against the dying of the light. With the release of the follow-up to 2000's landmark 'Cold Dark Matter', the imperiously-titled , 'Sick Transit Gloria Mundi', that light has become eerier, more penetrating and more petrifying than ever, rendering tags such as 'industrial' and 'black metal' redundant in the process. Nathan T Birk tracked down guitarist/songwriter Kjetil Eggum to discuss men vs machines, the apocalypse, and why Red Harvest refuse to wear Emperor's new clothes...

"The goal of Red Harvest has always been to move on and be innovative and creative and to never stand still. If you were supposed to play black metal or rock'n'roll or whatever, you have to stick to those terms. I can do whatever I want with Red Harvest." - Kjetil Eggum makes a bid for freedom

Terrorizer - May - Contents

FREE! 17 TRACK COVERMOUNT CD!

THE RETURN OF DANZIG
Glenn Danzig turns up the heat

DOWN
RED HARVEST
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
MANOWAR
ARCH ENEMY
TIAMAT
ZAKK WYLDE
ZIMMERS HOLE
MISTRESS
THE CROWN
SADISTIK EXEKUTION
DAG NASTY
SOILWORK
DECEMBER
IMMEMORIAL
SCARVE
OXBOW
KMFDM

# posted by DJ Martian 1:15 PM

Friday, April 26, 2002

 

Sensual Physics - Offene Schleifen

Another Source Records [from Germany] release on April 29th in The UK Sensual Physics - Offene Schleifen - Germanic deep techno sounds.

J�rg Schuster aka Sensual Physics' debut from Dortmund, Germany.
Alright! Admittedly, what you might not call a big name?! But in the ten years of releasing Source Records,
we have never lost sight of our initial motivation - to put out the music we love and keep our minds open for new input.
We decided it would be most appropriate if we didn't release another "the best of ten years of..."
and instead stick to our philosophy by presenting a new relative of the Source Records family.

Sensual Physics' "Offene Schleifen" is moody and deep techno music.
Fashionable sub genre names do not apply in his case. Just Techno. Very positive.
Suitable for the club, "four to the floor" backed tracks - grooving and fluid, bright and warm.
Crackles, chords, dubs and solid grooves.
In Sensual Physics' world, the dance floor and the living room are door to door,
Detroit is just around the corner and the essence of techno shines throughout.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:42 AM

 

Lowtec - Secret Corner

Source Records next release Lowtec - Secret Corner - microhouse sounds from Germany. [UK release April 29th]

Jens Kuhn aka Lowtec hardly needs introduction.
Releases for Playhouse, USM, Science City and his own label Out to lunch
have made him a notable fixture in the techno and house scene.

As a member of the "System 360" collective he released the "Adaptive Pattern Recognizer EP"
("vital release", Muzik, UK 1995) and the album "Active Technologies" (1998) on Source Records.

On Secret Corner we present 10 unreleased tracks plus (cd only) "Mitre Peak" previously released
on the like named 12'' on Out to lunch.
Producing the stomping minimal house track "City Limits" Jens Kuhn was joined
by David Rollmann aka even tuell.

"Secret Corner" reflects the roots of house and techno
but also makes its very own statement.

Deep, funky and moody minimal house and techno tracks... flowing grooves... smooth stings...

Evolving, mutating slowly but carefully, constantly in motion,
the tracks minimal arrangements leave wide spaces for subtle shifts and alterations.
Like molecules in constant motion unite to build substance,
Lowtecs sound unite to form tracks that despite their repetive character,
draw their tension from permanent mutation.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:30 AM

 

John Kennedy on Xfm - More Pre Release Playbacks

After the excellent Playback of Doves - Last Broadcast album, John Kennedy on Xfm just mentioned the next two playbacks - Moby (who does not interest me) ..but also DJ Shadow - The Private Press (probably the Thursday before release?).

# posted by DJ Martian 1:15 AM

 

Malory - Outerbeats

SSMT review Malory - Outerbeats Germany's answer to Slowdive.

See Malory website for MP3 samples.

Malory - Outerbeats is now scheduled for a May 13th release in the UK.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:01 AM

 

The Black Dog - Unsavoury Products

Playlouder review The Black Dog - Unsavoury Products

# posted by DJ Martian 12:10 AM

 

Themilkfactory - May Reviews

Once again the excellent Themilkfactory delivers a fine selection of album reviews: The summaries presented below are from a Milkfactory e-mail, to see the full reviews please visit their website.

[Good to see Murcof - Martes get a top 5 Star review - as they are one of my tips for 2002 - a unique contemporary classical hybrid electronic sound - this is going to be one of the big cult underground electronic albums of the year]


Murcof - Martes

After a beautiful first EP released earlier this year, Mexican
musician Fernando Corona, aka Murcof, offers with Martes a brilliant
cinematic take on electronic music. Essential.


Broadway Project - Compassion

Compassion was originally released early last year on the excellent
Memphis Industries label, and after having been unavailable for a
while, the label is now re-releasing the album with an additional CD
featuring rare and unreleased tracks. Described by Jockey Slut
as 'Tom Waits duetting with Portishead and produced by Boards Of
Canada', Compassion is already an absolute classic.


Decal - 404 Not Found

With their third album, Irish duo Decal move away from their classic
Detroit techno sound to concentrate on more intimate structures,
built around a mix of acoustic and electronic sounds.


Etienne De Crecy - Tempovision Remixes

Without Etienne De Crecy, the French electronic scene would without
any doubt be radically different. Pioneering the French Touch sound
with Motorbass or by producing Air's first single, Etienne De Crecy
finally brought his first album a couple of years ago. This remix
project is as excellent as the original.


Monolight - Free Music

Since his days as a member of pop combo Fra Lippo Lippi, Rune
Grammofon's label boss Rune Kristoffersen has moved to more
experimental territories. With this new album, he explores the
possibilities of improvisation with electronic music and produces a
piece of work where fragility is a centrepiece.


Mum - Finally We Are No One

With this follow up to the excellent Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today
Is OK, released a couple of years ago, Icelandic quartet M�m
continue their exploration of rich soundscapes and impressive
atmospheres.


Nautilis- Are You An Axolotl?

Are You An Axolotl? is the first album by Texan musician Skyler
McGlothlin. On this record, he goes from heavy abstract hip-hop,
dirty electro funk and Boards Of Canada-like dreamy electronica.
Despite its diversity, it is a very consistent record, and an
extremely interesting debut.


Sonogram - Arrival Lounge

Second album for Simulacra's boss Todd Gautreau's Sonogram project.
With Arrival Lounge, he moves away from the contemplative ambient
sound of his Tear Ceremony project to explore more openly atmospheric
territories.


Spunk - Filtered Through Friends

Following the release of their first album a couple of years ago on
Norwegian label Rune Grammofon comes this remix album featuring some
of the most important names of the Scandinavian electronic scene. The
quartet presented on The Only Thing I Know Is That It Isn't A
Vacuum Cleaner a very uncompromising sound, and these thirteen
reworkings provide very different angles on the five originals.


Rubin Steiner - Wunderbar Drei

Third album by France's latest darling. Rubin Steiner is Frederick
Landier, and, after releasing a series of ultra rare 12", a first
album, now out of print, and a second, which has just been made
available again, he now offers his third and most exiting record.


The Streets - Original Pirate Material

Cutting lyrics and and street attitude, The Streets take UK Garage to
new heights, bringing at long last some wit and subtility to the
genre. Day in the life of a geezer, Original Pirate Material is
simply brilliant.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 AM

Thursday, April 25, 2002

 

Pennyblackmusic.com - More Forthcoming Releases

More Forthcoming Releases @ Pennyblackmusic.com: including these:

Pennyblackmusic.com - Next Week

Autumnblaze - Mute Boy Sad Girl

Prophecy

Whereas the Autumnblaze debut, D�mmerElbenTrag�die, is characterised by its mystical, metallic eruptions, this album contains many diverse expressions that mark a new passionate artwork of sound. This is not astonishing at all, for those who know Markus� love for music (perceptible in The nature of music), and of course Bleak, a preceding album, full of emotions... Trip hop beats, rock outbursts, melancholic pop-melodies; comforting warmth, bleak hopelessness and dream-like, sumptuous clouds of atmosphere all these are criteria that label Mute boy Sad girl, an album, which needs to be experienced. An album which wants to touch deeply and is able to do so. Just like the direct, honest and personal lyrics imply, Mute boy Sad girl seems to be tempting, candid and catchy at first, but unveils, under its most beautiful layers of sounds, barbs formed by pure passion. A passion, which clearly reveals the emotions, thoughts and souls of the two artists hiding behind Autumnblaze.


Nebelnest - Nova Express

Cunieform

NeBelNeST are one of the most adventurous and energetic young bands to emerge on the international post-rock / avant-progressive scene in recent years. The young French band is noted for its dark symphonic rock music influenced by King Crimson, Shylock and Univers Zero/Present, laced with psychedelia and improvisation, and played with a riveting level of energy and intensity derived from the hardcore and noise scenes. In the words of the Chicago Tribune: "these French sound sculptors chisel out large-scale instrumentals that pair up the weird sonics and improvisational bent of mid-period King Crimson with a Gong-like space fusion ambience[They] borrow bits and pieces of old school art rock and arrange them into a singular sound awash in dissonance and strangely mutated guitar/keyboard tones." NeBeLNeST�s second CD, is their first release on Cuneiform. It is also their first produced by Bob Drake, a musician and producer who has produced CDs by the 5uu�s and Thinking Plague, and has recorded solo and other CDs for the ReR label. Drake�s distinctive production techniques are a perfect match for NeBeLNeST, emphasizing and augmenting the wide dynamic range of the band�s dark, mesmerizing sound.


Rovo - Tonic 2001

Tzadik

Some of the very best musicians in japan, veterans of bands such as the boredoms, bondage fruits, bazooka joe, dub sub, demi semi quaver and omoide hatoba come together in rovo, a virtuosic trance-rock group based in tokyo. This dynamic two cd set collects the best of their legendary two night run at new york city's premiere new music club tonic. Beautifully recorded and impeccably mixed by rovo mastermind katsui yuji in japan, tonic 2001 captures the firey brilliance of this dazzling band like no studio recording ever could. Two special mix translations by bill laswell are included as bonus tracks. Ecstatic music for listeners and dancers alike.file under: rock/avant garde, definately for fans of the acid mothers temple genre, and also for fans of early tortoise. .


Pennyblackmusic.com - Week After Next

3rd And The Mortal - Memoirs

Voices Of Wonder

Formed in 1992, Norway's The 3rd And The Mortal's destiny lay not in the burgeoning early Black Metal scene of the time, but in a more experimental etheral direction. Having recorded several albums (all for Voices Of Wonder) this is their long awaited follow-up to 1997 opus 'In The Room'. Musically the band play dark, atmospheric songs that mix both analogue and digitally programmed sounds, innovative percussion, epic guitars, mellow strings and even elements of dub bass. Already garning excellent press across Europe 'Memoirs' has become a masterpiece of atmospheric, melancholic musique noir. For fans of Ulver.


Aelters - Volube It

Tigerbeat

*the long-awaited follow-up to aelters� sold out solo debut on ski-pp �el frustrator,� sure to be a top seller with the kids as aelters works on new material for mouse on mars�s label soniq french countryman lost in a northern city called lille, aelters steps out of legendary lo-fi laptop quartet dat politics (a-muzik ,fatcat, skipp, digital narcis , chicks on speed rec) to release this solid solo ep of charming melodic laptop antics, instead of hanging the usual mobile of warm, pulsing tones above our heads, aelters cuts in the cries of colicky babies and overwrought divas, the roar of runaway motorbikes and uncontrollable applause, for songs that strike the harpsichord of memories in our minds as the sounds of the adult world intrude upon the garden of electronic delights. Much a part of the worldwide anti-scene of artists like mouse on mars, fx randomiz, felix kubin, chicks on speed, goodiepal, scratch pet land,blectum from blechdom,mego, wobbly, kid606, fennesz and aphex twin yet still completely off in his own cheerily twisted sound world.


Arcturus - Sham Mirrors

Ad Astra

Norwegian legends Arcturus are back with the long overdue & highly anticipated follow-up to 'La Masquerade Infernale', their genre-pushing debut opus on Music For Nations released way back in 1997. In the five years that have passed since that release the two core members of Arcturus have been busy working on several projects of their own. Trickster G has pushed his band ULVER from Black Metal overlords toward an almost complete dark ambient/electronica transformation, as well as founding his own label Jester Records. Hellhammer on the other hand has played drums for none other than MAYHEM, THE KOVENANT and other major metal acts. Even the mighty Ihsahn of EMPEROR appears as guest vocalist on several tracks. The end result?, well lets just say that 'The Sham Mirrors' is a darkly tinged marriage of classic symphonic Black Metal and Progressive Rock.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:01 PM

 

Pennyblackmusic.com - Forthcoming Releases

Pennyblackmusic.com - Forthcoming Releases has been updated, including these releases:


Beat Happening - Crashing Through

K Records
Released on 13/05/02

Since their inception in 1983, the legendary pop rocking combo from olympia, called beat happenning have been the inhabitants of an imperfect world, one that is stripped down and codified with personal politics and emotional trauma. One of the truly seminal bands of the post punk era, beat happening�s influence on the world of minimal music, punk and pop has been massive, virtually establishing the international pop underground as its pioneering passport holders. K announces the retrospective compendium of their entire oeuvre; a seven cd box set, which includes all five of the beat happening albums (beat happening, jamboree, black candy, dreamy, you turn me on) and a sixth album (music to climb apple the apple tree by) of songs fro msingles and compilations, including the long out of print beat happening/screaming trees collaborative 12�. All of the packaging for the cds has been redesigned as beautiful six panel digipak foldouts to include additional photos, of the band. An exclusive seventh cd/rom features live and video material, live in london, live in records shops, live in olympia, and more. The seven cds are accompanied by a deluxe 96 page book written by lois maffeo that tells thee story of beat happenning through the words of the band members and their contemporaries. Limited to 5000 worldwide.
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Blaubac - Perdurance

Moth Records
Released on 04/06/02

Whereas �wind chill� displayed a delicious heart of darkness, �perdurance� radiates a beautiful, energetic warmth. Still characteristically and unmistakably blaubac: dynamic and unique, detailed and beat-driven electronica. Guest vocalists and instrumentalists further broaden the sound, their contributions precisely woven into each infectious composition. The result is awesome. A grand claim perhaps, but this is progtronica at its best. Previous work has proven to have a longevity and appeal, as fans of boards of canada, squarepusher, autechre, aphex twin and radiohead even, find their way to blaubac. But is it possible to be more unique? �perdurance� says, �yes � indefinitely.�


Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday

Ninja Tune
Released on 13/05/02

Already tipped as an album of the year by many journalists, this album is very special -"Lush, panoramic, emotionally searing yet utterly becalming" Jockey Slut. At a time when the chill out thing substitutes blandness for maturity and mainstream dance music seems to be searching for its dummy again, J. Swinscoe�s Cinematic Orchestra return to blow all your expectations with a follow-up to �Motion�, which is deeper than the ocean, packing a tremendous emotional punch, by turns mournful and celebratory and with a rigour that is so often lacking in contemporary cut and paste . Across seven sweeping, dramatic tracks, the group take you on a journey through classic soul, jazz, choral pieces, sinking horn riffs, throbbing harp b-lines, minimalism and more. With guests of the calibre of Fontella Bass and Roots Manuva, you know that you�re in for something special .Playing Essential, Homelands, Big Chill etc along with club tour. Excellent guaranteed.


Early Day Miners - Let Us Garlands Bring

Secretly Canadian
Released on 13/05/02

From the softest, most gentle campfire songs t othe stringed wall of sound rock ensemble, let us garlands bring glides easily. Fans of seminal slo-core bands like codeine, low, etc will like edm for their tempered beauty and composure, while lovers of my bloody valentine, mid period giant sand and neil young will love the gorgeous distorted soundscapes/ landscapes the album contains. The 2lp version contains a bonus track.


Fucking Champs - V

Drag City
Released on 20/05/02

V offers more silver shards of the fucking champs�s future pop-instrumental mesh! Following a massive european and uk tour last year, the champs went back to the states and recorded this, an epic and monumentous slab of demented riffing guitar, pounding rhythms and incessant time changes, this is gore (the band) goes jazz, highly technical, highly infectious. Metallic in structure, brutallic in execution, this is the new vehicle for nation of ulysses� tim green (a pretty in-demand producer too!)


Oxes - Oxxxes

Monitor
Released on 21/05/02

Confrontational call it what you want,nobody cares.what matters is that this band is making some of the best,most influential,groundbreaking music available today ,"oxxxes" proves that.this joyous piece of ear candy takes you from "wanting to punch your best friend" anger, to "shaking your bottom, baltimore dance club style"!!! Done completely with only two guitars and one drum set.recorded by bob weston (shellac).finally a band to bring back the early days of bastro, don caballero, rapeman and bitch magnet,throw in some trans am quirkiness some champs riffing


Rise, The - Signal To Noise

Ferret Music
Released on 13/05/02

From the state of Texas comes a new noise. Rules and limitations are ignored and genres well and truly trampled in the quest for the New. Hardcore, after all, should be the sound of Revolution, and revolution takes many shapes and forms. Their sound is rooted in Punk, Metal, Indie Rock, Emo, Electronica etc., and despite their tender age and experience they have cut and cleared their own path, with the eye firmly planted on the future. If you want a precedent: put them in the lineage of AT THE DRIVE IN, REFUSED, MINUS & ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, because they are moving things forward. Believe.


Seven Sages Of Mesopotamia - Tales From The Black Magheddo

Htz Records
Released on 13/05/02

The Seven Sages Of Mesopotamia is Andy Dien from Manchester. His alter ego BLACK FACTION focuses on breakbeat & bass (released records on SoleilMoon). Close to Muslimgauze Dieg incorporates a strong Middle Eastern vibe on the start of this album (he's presently preparing a tribute album with Rapoon to Bryn Jones). "Tales From The Black Magheddo�" is an album of ambient - electronica followed by long minimal -techno variations, similar in style to Mille Plateaux productions but will also appeal to fans of Skam & Plug Research labels


Ten Benson - Satan Kidney Pie

Artrocker
Released on 20/05/02

Ten Benson are a thundering, sprawling, joyous, genius, near mess of heavy rock, country, swamp blues and punk, a loose amalgamation of AC/DC, Thin Lizzy & Johnny Cash bound together with the gaffa of wry humour and the determination to have a bloody great time." Time Out "Ten Benson are Britains best-kept secret. Time to let their seedy skeletons dance out of the closet" NME They're back. And not a moment too soon. The godfathers of the "21 Century riff", Ten Benson released on Artrocker Records a limited 7", double A-sided single, 'One Way Ticket/The Loozin Line' which oozed with the now familiar Benson melange of stomping 'axe-work', dead �pan/serious vocals and, as always an insidious, BASTARD of a tune. This time Ten Benson's insouciant disregard for convention has actually found them come full circle as the unheralded evil uncles of the 'new rock and roll'. Released in 2000, Ten Benson�s debut 'hiss' set the critics reeling with Mojo declaring 'Hiss is an obscene feast of dirty, bastard riffage whose manifesto is basically filth, squalor and bad, bad men. A pretty much irresistible package'. However, perhaps it was the NME who understood best� 'Hiss' is a full stop in history; an unrepeatable assault on the evil empire of pop. In it's singular universe it is something nearing perfection.'

# posted by DJ Martian 8:22 PM

 

The Latest on The Wire Sound System

Also contained in The Wire e-mail: the latest CDs played on The Wire Sound System:

Sonic Youth - Murray Street (Geffen)
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (Universal)
Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe)
Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover (Ipecac)
Weird War - Weird War (Domino)
Philip Jeck - Spoke (Touch)
Scott Smallwood - Desert Winds (Deep Listening)
Information - Biomekano (Rune Grammofon)
Buffalo Daughter - I (Emperor Norton)
Cul De Sac - Immortality Lessons (Strange Attractors)
Pere Ubu - St Arkansas (Glitterhouse)
Henri Pousseur - Paraboliques (Sub Rosa)
Michael Prime - Requiem (Die Stadt)
Christine Kubisch/Fabrizio Plessi - Tempo Liquido (Ampersand)
Rovo - Tonic 2001 (Tzadik)
Chicks On Speed - Fashion Rules (CoS)

# posted by DJ Martian 5:37 PM

 

THE WIRE 219 (May 2002)

An obscure front cover for The Wire this month - John Oswald, an electro-acoustic sound composer.

On the cover:
John Oswald: The prince of plunderphonia recalls his battles with the majors for his artistic right to reclaim his sound environment from the noise pollution of pop by recycling it through his plunderphonics system
Also featured: The Fall, Shirley Collins Jewelled Antler Collective, El-P's Invisible Jukebox, The Primer: The Old, Weird America, Mission Of Burma, Mick Beck, Vinko Globokar

REVIEWS

Albums:
Antibalas, Derek Bailey, Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band, Harrison Birtwistle, Iva Bittov� & Cikori, Guillermo E Brown, Budapestis, John Cage/Ulrich Krieger, Cinematic Orchestra, DACM, El-P, Morton Feldman, Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg, Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit, Kenneth Gaburo, Annie Gosfield, Susie Ibarra Trio, Jeck/Yoshihide/T�treault, Kaffe Matthews, Kaffe Matthews & Andy Moor, Mimeo & John Tilbury, Mission Of Burma, Nurse With Wound, Pita, Savage Republic, Taylor Savvy, A Small Good Thing, Small Rocks, Patti Smith, John Stevens, Super_Collider, Tarwater, Vainio Fennesz Vainio, Tom Waits and many more

Books:
Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac (by David Amram;
Dance Of Days: Two Decades Of Punk In The Nation's Capital (by Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins); Leonardo Music Journal Vol 11: Not Necessarily "English Music" (Ed Nicolas Collins); The New York Schools Of Music And Visual Arts; (Ed Steven Johnson)

Live:
All Tomorrow's Parties in Los Angeles;
Simultaneous Silence in Berlin; Oblique Lu Nights in Nantes; Taku Sugimoto/Mark Wastell/Rhodri Davies in London; Keith Tippett/Peter Fairclough in Gateshead; Lovebytes Festival in Sheffield; Pinski Zoo/Blurt in London; New York: New Sounds, New Spaces in Lyon

Source: The Wire - e-mail The Conduit 05.02

# posted by DJ Martian 5:01 PM

 

Curve - 'The New Adventures of Curve'

Curve report details of a new album:

The new record has been recorded and mixed, Alan is busy mastering editing and compiling and should have finished masters by the end of this week. The Album is called 'The New Adventures of Curve' and features 7 new songs along with two new re recordings of Superblaster and Recovery both of which are very different from the originals, and a very cool remix from Deepsky.

Tracklist is...
Answers
Till the Cows Come Home
Every Good Girl
Recovery (new version)
Star
Superblaster (new version)
Cold Comfort (Deepsky Remix)
Sinner
Signals and Alibis
Joy

The New Adventures will be available as a limited edition web release exclusively from MNS. there will only be a small number pressed so be sure to get your order in. We will be setting up a retail release in the coming months so if you miss the web release you will be able to get a copy in the shops both in the UK and US hopefully later this year. The web release should be available in 6 weeks time possibly sooner depending on turnaround times at the pressing plant. onward we go !

We will be releasing 'Gift' in the UK in the coming months, The album will be available in shops between May and June on Artfull. Released in the original format with the same tracklisting as the USA version. The album will go to selected UK radio so maybe Perish or Want More will spin out across the airwaves soon....more details as we get it.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:44 PM

 

Ministry - Animositisomina

MTV report on the forthcoming Ministry album called Animositisomina.

Their next album, Animositisomina, which is scheduled for a fall release, will be their fastest and heaviest offering since 1992's Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs.

"This new record is harder than getting hit over the head with a shovel full of cement." - Ministry's Al Jourgensen

# posted by DJ Martian 2:34 PM

 

Neil Barnes Ex of Leftfield teams up with Lydon again: God Save the Queen remixed

Radio 1 report that Neil Barnes is working with John Lydon on a remix of the Sex Pistols' 'God Save the Queen'. This wil be released as one off single remix in time for the Jubilee celebrations.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:30 PM

 

Primal Scream - Gillespie Speaks

NME gather secondary research via Jack magazine on the forthcoming Primal Scream Album.

"NEU meets the BEACH BOYS", according to singer BOBBY GILLESPIE.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:19 PM

 

Resonance 104.4 FM

Resonance 104.4 FM is a project organized and resourced by the London Musicians' Collective

Resonance104.4 FM has a legal restricted area radio license for Central London in the month of May to play leftfield/electronic/experimental/ avant garde/ free jazz & Improv music. But will the frequency extend to my area of North London? - I doubt it - however it will be webstreamed.

This site, like the station itself, is under construction: full listings of our May broadcast schedule will be posted here on Saturday 27th April 2002.

Resonance 104.4 FM is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. It starts broadcasting from May 1st 2002 at 5 pm Expect the unexpected from what New York's Village Voice calls the "Best Radio station in the world". Resonance 104.4 FM is a radio station with no play lists, no smarmy DJs or pompous pundits; a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. Programmes made by artists who represent the diversity of London's arts scene, including Savage Pencil, Gavin Turk, Matthew Glammore, Caroline Kraabel and countless others.

Resonance 104.4 FM promises to bring a multitude of experimental sound, new music, radio art and interaction to the capital's airwaves. Resonance 104.4 FM will broadcast from the heart of London and on the web at www.resonancefm.com, where you can check out full programme listings.

On air between 5 pm and 1 am daily, and noon till 1 am at weekends, Resonance104.4 FM is the only station of its kind in the UK providing access radio for the London arts community.

"Imagine a radio station like no other. A radio station that makes public those artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting. A radio station that is an archive of the new, the undiscovered, the forgotten, the impossible. That is an invisible gallery, a virtual arts centre whose location is at once local, global and timeless. And that is itself a work of art. Imagine a radio station that responds rapidly to new initiatives, has time to draw breath and reflect. A laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance 104.4 FM aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art."

Ed Baxter, project co-ordinator

# posted by DJ Martian 2:03 PM

 

Sweep The Leg Johnny - Going Down Swingin

Sweep the Leg Johnny will release a new album: Going Down Swingin on June 24th.

DigitalMetal.com review Sweep The Leg Johnny - Going Down Swingin

Candiria on crack (if that be believed), Mogwai meets Sepultura, Sigh fighting it out with Karma To Burn......Let's just put it this way: you could put Going Down Swingin' on at a party and Rush, Slayer, Billy Mahonie and Louis Armstrong could all co-exist, throwin' back the suds in harmony.

More Info @ the Official Sweep The Leg Johnny website.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:57 AM

 

Faultline - 'Your Love Means Everything' - UK Release on May 27th

The Faultline website has been updated:

News Update April 25th 2002

Faultline release their second album, 'Your Love Means Everything', in the UK on May 27th 2002 via Blanco y Negro/Warners.

In the UK the first 3000 cds will be a special numbered limited edition of a digipack/booklet/wraparound sleeve designed by Blue Source. Release dates internationally are as follows, with more countries still to be confirmed:

Australia: May 31st
Belgium: May 27th
Canada: July 2nd
France: May 28th
Germany: July 15th
Ireland: May 24th
Italy: 24th May
Japan: 12th June
South Africa: May 27th
Spain: May 27th
Sweden: June 17th

In the USA Faultline are now with Elektra Records, and the album should be available by the summer.


'Your Love Means Everything' is a combination of instrumental and song-based tracks featuring collaborations with guest vocalists. The final line-up of singers and musicians includes:

Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips (also joined by Stephen Drozd from the band on harmony vocals) on the track 'The Colossal Gray Sunshine'.

Jacob Golden, a solo artist from Sacramento USA newly signed to Rough Trade, on the track 'Bitter Kiss'.

Chris Martin from Coldplay on two tracks, 'Where is My Boy?' and 'Your Love Means Everything Part 2'.

Nick McCabe playing guitar on Lost Broadcast.

Michael Stipe from REM on 'Greenfields', a cover version of the Brothers Four classic from 1960.

The final tracklisting:

1.Your Love Means Everything
2.Where Is My Boy?
3.Sweet Iris
4.Bitter Kiss
5.Missing
6.The Colossal Gray Sunshine
7.Clocks
8.Theme For Half Speed
9.Greenfields
10.Lost Broadcast
11.I Only Know Myself
12.Your Love Means Everything Part 2


There is a two page interview with David Kosten in this month's issue of Esquire Magazine. Further features/interviews will follow soon.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:39 AM

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

 

Coalesce Interview

Lambgoat have an interview with the legendary extreme metalcore band Coalesce

# posted by DJ Martian 7:52 PM

 

X-Press 2 - Muzikizum

Playlouder review X-Press 2 - Muzikizum

# posted by DJ Martian 7:35 PM

 

Hundred Reasons - No thanks to the Bog Standard Brit Rock aimed at the Yoof of today !

Oh dear look who is on the front of the NME this week - it's Hundred Reasons the lead singer that looks like a Kitchen Mop - all sweaty jumping around like a performing music clown - going through the rock cliches, displaying emotion that would score A+ on drama but the music comes in at D.

The more I hear this band on the radio - the more gormless they get, as one DR C on ILM discussion board mentioned - they sound like a youth club band playing at grunge badly. 18 Months ago these clowns were namedropped by certain journalists/ magazines as the future of British rock music - I made a mental note of the name. When I actually got to hear them on the radio last year - they were awful - all lumpen singalong post grunge crap. One could say that Hundred Reasons are the British equivalent of the orrible Jimmy Eat World, maybe Hundred Reasons are the successors to the Bush throne - all singalong splutter trad modern rock wrapped up in safe cliched emotion with a thick lumpen lame rock production. There signed to a major record label Columbia - so they have all the marketing/press/promotion/plugger budget push to succeed commercially.

Poor NME does seem to have no quality control when hyping new British rock bands this year - first Lostprophets lite fake American rock sound, then The Cooper Temple Clause (imagine the worst of Oasis with Amps and guitars turned up to max - again gormless singalong loud rock with big choruses belted out with gusto - but the overall effect is this band are overblown, hollow and have no substance) - if you want to read a cringe embarrassing article on this band - pick up the NME this week - to see what the British Yoof think ..personally I blame all these naff Brit-Rock bands on Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq. Then there was Vex Red - that flopped after their much pre hyped album - it was rather average plain modern rock - from the tracks I heard.

It seems all these bands are aimed at a core 15 - 20 demographic - maybe because much of this age group - have a limited frame of reference - that they are easily pleased by lowest common denominator yet high marketed bog standard contemporary Brit-rock - "it's got guitars it is not like the chart pop rubbish - it's proper music made with guitars".. that sells - all these bands have crossover top 40 singles.

If you compare these risible bands to the benchmark standard of Joy Division/ Bark Psychosis/ Killing Joke / Arkane/ The Chameleons/Earthtone 9 - these Brit rock bands of 2002 don't even register 1 out of 10 on the creativity richter scale.

What is needed is a real British revolution - something that will match ..Joy Division, Bark Psychosis on Scum, Killing Joke on Extremities.., The Cure on Pornography, The Jesus and Mary Chain on Psychocandy.

The only new intense British rock band I can think of that has the potential to deliver something exceptional with a debut album is SikTh - hopefully they will release it before 2002 is out. Unlike their contemporaries - Sikth aspire they have sonic ambition.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 AM

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

 

Mum & Dad

Playlouder review another Manchester band, the self titled debut from Mum & Dad

I have only listened to a few tracks from this band - imagine a cross between Add N to X, Sigur Ros, Bjork and The Beta Band - i.e weird twisted melodic psychedelic electro-acoustics.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:07 PM

 

If I were an editor of a weekly music magazine this week's front cover would feature: Doves

This week's choice is Mancunian band Doves who are set to release their second album, The Last Broadcast on April 29th. The official site linked above already has a few tracks that can be streamed if you want an advance listen. Also NME.com for 24 hours on Wednesday 24th April have the full album streamed.

Doves - Interview - on Radio 1

Doves - The Last Broadcast streamed all day on NME.com - 24th April

NME 9/10 review of Doves - The Last Broadcast

Don't forget that John Kennedy on Xfm has the album playback on his Thursday show as well.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:51 PM

 

150 Most Anticipated Artists to deliver Forthcoming Albums in 2002

With nearly 8 months of the year ahead, these are the artists that I am most anticipating to deliver new albums in 2002:

1. A Perfect Circle
2. A Small Good Thing
3. Dot Allison
4. Apotheosis
5. Arcturus (Already released in the US)
6. Arovane
7. Asa Chang & Junray
8. Ashfelt
9. Avrocar
10. Bandulu
11. Bark Psychosis
12. John Beltran
13. Beyond Dawn
14. The Blue Nile
15. Broadway Project
16. Kate Bush
17. Mr C
18. Cave In
19. Cinematic Orchestra
20. Circulation
21. Dave Clarke
22. Cleer
23. Coalesce
24. Codeseven
25. Coil
26. Controlled Bleeding
27. Covenant
28. Carl Craig
29. Cul De Sac
30. Danny Breaks
31. Death in Vegas
32. Deftones
33. DHG/ Dodheimsgard
34. Digital
35. Dillinger Escape Plan
36. Dirty Vegas
37. DJ Shadow
38. DJ SS
39. Dom & Roland
40. Doves
41. DowntheSun
42. Drowningman
43. Echoboy
44. ESG
45. Faultline
46. The Fire Theft
47. Simon Fisher Turner
48. Elizabeth Fraser
49. Adam Freeland
50. Future Sound of London
51. Futureshock
52. The Gathering
53. Girls Against Boys
54. GlassJaw
55. Godspeed You Black Emperor
56. David Grubbs
57. High Contrast
58. Hrvatski
59. Ils
60. I Monster
61. Interpol
62. Isis
63. Jarboe
64. Jega
65. Jonny L
66. Katatonia
67. Killing Joke (if they ever get around to record it !)
68. King of Woolworths
69. Kraftwerk
70. Lackluster
71. Ladytron
72. Laika
73. Larmousse
74. Layo & Bushwacka
75. Robert Leiner
76. Lemon D
77. Lengsel
78. Luomo
79. Zan Lyons
80. Malory
81. Manitoba
82. Manual
83. The Mars Volta
84. Massive Attack
85. Meat Katie
86. Medicine (Regal Records)
87. Mum
88. Murcof
89. Peter Murphy
90. Nile
91. No-Man
92. Obeah
93. The Opposition
94. Piano Magic
95. Peshay
96. Photek
97. Plump DJs
98. Portishead
99. Potentiam
100. Prefuse 73
101. Primal Scream
102. Primordial
103. Prodigy
104. Radio 9
105. Recloose
106. Rico
107. Romanthony
108. Ruisort
109. Rush
110. Sasha
111. Satyricon
112. Scorn
113. Sender Berlin
114. 7 Hurtz
115. Adrian Sherwood
116. Sigur Ros
117. Sikth
118. Sirconical
119. 16B
120. Snapcase
121. Soft Cell
122. Solefald
123. Sonic Youth
124. Sparta
125. Speedy J
126. Stanton Warriors
127. Starecase
128. Strapping Young Lad
129. Suicide
130. Surgeon
131. Swayzak
132. Sykes
133. Technical Itch
134. The The
135. The 3rd and the Mortal
136. Tiga & Zyntherius
137. Trans Am
138. Transparent Sound
139. Max Tundra
140. Tuxedomoon
141. Type O Negative
142. Ulan Bator
143. Underworld
144. Susumu Yokota (Leaf album)
145. Virus
146. Voivod
147. Wire
148. Witchman
149. Zinc
150. Zyklon

# posted by DJ Martian 10:19 PM

Monday, April 22, 2002

 

Tim Bowness / Peter Chilvers - California, Norfolk

Tim Bowness / Peter Chilvers - California, Norfolk - album has now been released exclusively via BurningShed:

Something of an extension of the duo's work as part of Samuel Smiles and a
continuation of the ideas explored on 'Flame' (the Barbieri/Bowness album
from 1994), 'California, Norfolk' is the debut release from Tim Bowness
(No-Man) and Peter Chilvers (Alias Grace).

Combining dark, electronic textures and found sounds with lean, intense
compositions and poignant lyrics, the album's highly original synthesis of
singer-songwriter intimacy and imaginative production values echoes aspects
of the pioneering work of Blue Nile, Randy Newman, Steve Reich, Mark Eitzel
and late 70's Berlin-era Bowie/Eno.

>From the brooding, cinematic and orchestral sweep of 'Hostage' to the epic
ambition of 'Winter With You' through the bleak, icy overtones of 'Days Turn
Into Years', the album forms a suite of musical short stories awash with
domestic drudgery and fleeting hopes, misguided trust and thwarted dreams.

Ballad Electronica, Ambient Folk, or perhaps the soundtrack to the best film
you've never seen, 'California, Norfolk' is one of the most heartfelt and
haunting debuts of recent years.

This attractively presented CD release (NB not the typical Burning Shed CDR
format) will be available exclusively from www.burningshed.com until further
notice. Information and news is available from:

BurningShed - Bowness/ Chilvers

# posted by DJ Martian 8:38 PM

 

Jungle/ D & B Music: Forthcoming Albums

It is been a slow start to 2002 for Jungle/D&B music artist albums, as most of the drumnbass/jungle music scene revolves around 12" vinyl spun by DJs - but having said that there are a number of significant albums coming soon:

The Accidental Heroes - The Stars Of Destination (Infrared) April 29th

Danny Breaks - Vibrations (Droppin Science) May 13th

Digital - Dubzilla (Function Records) May 20th

Dom & Roland - Back For The Future (Moving Shadow) May 27th

D Product - Process Of One (Full Cycle ) May 27th

High Contrast - True Colours (Hospital Records) June 10th

Dillinja & Lemon D - Big Bad Bass (Valve) June

Peshay - Fuzion (Cubik) July 1st

# posted by DJ Martian 1:33 AM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK:

Key new album releases for April 22nd, [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

This Week: April 22nd

Audra - Going to the Theatre (Projekt) Import
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride (Projekt) Import
Brick Layer Cake - Whatchamacallit (Touch & Go)
Crispy Ambulance - Scissorgun (Darla)
Alec Empire - Intelligence and Sacrifice (Digital Hardcore)
Maximilian Hecker - Infinite Love Songs (Kitty Yo)
Knut - Challenger (Hydra Head)
Mum & Dad - Mum & Dad (Twisted Nerve)
Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Nocturnal Art Productions)
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (Rue Christine)
X-Press2 - Muzikizum (Skint)

For Reference

Last Week: April 15th

Craig Armstrong - As If to Nothing (Melankolic)
Closer Musik - After Love (Kompakt)
Custom Blue - All Follow Everyone (Island)
December Wolves - Blasterpiece Theatre (Wicked World)
Dimension 5 - Alien Artform (Delsin)
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (City Rockers)
Icon Of Coil - The Soul Is In The Software (Tatra)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:18 AM

Sunday, April 21, 2002

 

Aquarius Records - New Arrivals 135

America's finest West Coast music store have yet more reviews in Aquarius Records - New Arrivals 135 including these:

JECK, PHILIP - Stoke (Touch)

Compared to the recent release of the collaboration between avantgarde turntablists Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, and Martin Tetreault, Jeck's solo production receives the superior packaging job -- not only with the normal sized digipack (and not that stupid 'super jewel case') but also with the beautiful design from Touch's Jon Wozencroft. Furthermore, Jeck's album clocks in nearly 20 minutes longer and is two bucks cheaper.
OK, so it looks good, but what does it sound like?, you ask. The AQ verdict is -- it sounds wonderful! Philip Jeck's take on turntable experimentation involves using multiple turntables and scratchy old records to create blissfully beautiful surface-noise looping. His largely improvised compositions make the most gorgeous, repetitive, droning use of good old-fashioned record crackle and hiss. Jeck takes great care to allow for scraps of melody to emerge from the original music on the records with snippets of piano, sitar, and slow-motion vocals, popping out of crackled loops and often recalling the height of the Robin Storey era Zoviet France in the late '80s.
What differentiates this new album from the previous excellent ones in his ouevre is its dynamics (perhaps due to the fact that these were all live performances?) -- the music is more active in terms of the elements used and their resulting emotional power. In fact, the first track "Above" is the creepiest composition I've ever heard from Jeck. The dynamism is also evident in that he uses more individual sounds that unfold over time but *not* necessarily being looped. It's nice to hear him trusting the sounds to stand on their own rather than needing the looping effect to make them beautiful. Highly recommended!!


CASKET LOTTERY - Survival Is For Cowards (Second Nature)

The Casket Lottery was borne of the mighty Coalesce, but their sound is far removed from Coalesce's pummelling metalcore. More a bizarre hybrid of emo, power pop, weird almost-prog, new wave and just balls-out rock. Huge emotive swells of thick rich chords, gorgeous harmonies (thanks to the two vocalists with similarly keening, whiny sad boy vocals, but whose voices are different enough to give the music some extra breadth), and an amazingly inventive rhythm section. Imagine a mix of Death Cab For Cutie, Appleseed Cast, Heavy Vegetable, Built To Spill, and Joy Division. Or something like that. Heartbreakingly catchy songs with heavily chorused wandering bass lines, huge, booming drum lines (with occasional dubbed out snares and clattery percussion), and guitars that wander freely between metallic crunch and wispy post rock strum, offering up delicate, chiming harmonics and driving riffage in between. This is sooooo good. Everyone who flipped for those Appleseed Cast records should definitely check this out. The Casket Lottery are like Appleseed Cast's older brother, still innocent and optimistic, but a little more well travelled and with a few more broken hearts under his belt. This record is driving in your shitty old van across country, mix tape for that girl you like, laying in the tall grass thinking about the future, getting lost in your feelings, bobbing your head and air guitaring without meaning to, finding solace for that hole in your heart, perfect pop/rock/punk/emo/whatever-you-want-to-call-it record.


MARKANT - Vice Versa (Markant)

The once hyper-prolific Markant entered the IDM / electronica community with a flurry of releases, which seemed to appear with almost monthly regularity. These vinyl only releases (now all out of print) were short albums or long singles each clocking in around 35 minutes, and were often situated near the melancholic, lullaby electronica of Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada. After a brief, ill advised detour into questionable sort-of jazz-fusion (ala Squarepusher) at the end of his series of vinyl only releases, Markant has shifted his attention to more fully developed albums on cd. "Vice Versa" is his second cd release after "Ifram," firmly planted back in the aesthetics of his earliest singles with lilting electronics and whirring, cybernetic breakbeats. Markant hasn't the knack for melody and rhythm that any of the aforementioned artists have; yet he is certainly aware of his own limitations. Markant succeeds through his insistence upon the theme of repetition and difference, as he sequences tightly structured palpitations of simple melodies, ambient washes, and mechanized rhythms that by themselves would be quite uninteresting. Yet, after layering his tracks for 8 - 12 minutes and gradually shifting the parameters of those sounds, Markant crafts a sublime electronica which really does get under your skin. If you're one of the many who claim allegiance to Boards of Canada, you should certainly check this album out and allow it some time to grow on you.


A CERTAIN RATIO - Early (Soul Jazz)

A Certain Ratio, who took their name from a lyric off Brian Eno's flawless pop album Taking Tiger Mountain, began their career alongside fellow Mancunians Joy Division back in the late '70s, crafting a sound that evolved through the bleak references of punk into a groove-oriented, party-funk band by the mid-'80s. Strangely enough, the band's first ventures (including their first single "All Night Party" which is featured on this Soul Jazz compilation) were drumless, until the self-professed Funkadelic fan Donald Johnson filled in A Certain Ratio's rhythmic lack with an explosive prowess that matched the band's original proclivity for militant death disco grooves that were as good as anything on the first two Public Image Limited albums. A Certain Ratio rounded out their earliest incarnation with the eerie baritone vocals of Simon Topping, who shared more than a few of the theatrical affectations of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Throughout the early '80s albums on Factory, Topping's vocals took a less central role, as A Certain Ratio began focusing upon the rhythmic dynamic of Jeremy Kerr's increasingly overactive use of slap bass and Johnson's explorations into jazz and Brazillian rhythms. Like Joy Division's transformation into New Order, A Certain Ratio re-created themselves within the context of the mid-'80s UK club culture.
In addition to the first disc which collects many of their best songs (although hardcore ACR fans might take issue with some of the selections), what's extra nice about this reissue are the b-sides and rarities that comprise the second disc. Those of us who missed out the first time around and are perhaps only familiar with the ACR tracks on the wonderful In the Beginning There Was Rhythm compilation will be surprised to hear that the driving dance-iness of those tracks were balanced out by the decidedly more gloomy sound typical of Joy Division's dark and angular choppiness. Far more punk than dance. Another fine case of a band's demos and rarities being a valuable good listen, instead of being collected for collectors' sake. Highly recommended!


ELECTRONICAT - Birds Want To Have Fun (angelika koehlermann)

On his fourth long player, Frenchman Fred Bigot has refined his unique style of psychedelic electropunk to excess. Gnarly analog synths rigged with loads of distortion are coupled with hard-as-fuck 808 shuffle rhythms and ripples of wah wah guitar. Imagine the songs of T-Rex as performed by Wolfgang Voigt or Marco Haas with traces of The Normal and Suicide, and sonic sensibilities akin to Panasonic and COH. So raw and simple, yet engaging and incredibly infectious. Also features guest vocals by G.D. Luxxe (aka Gerhard Potuznik, of Cheap/Mego fame, producer for many Chicks On Speed tracks). This shit is so glitter, Rodney's English Disco just might have to open up again.


FLY PAN AM, LE - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu(?) (Constellation)

Beginning in a more than minimal, airy fashion, Le Fly Pan Am's new album swiftly breaks into a clamorous funky groove. Their cyclical bass and guitar lines gradually give way to hypnotic woodblocky tic-toc rhythms and circuit crunching fuckery which then boils up into a frantic snowballing together. And that's just the second track. From there, these Quebecois lads take us through a brief claustrophobic drone into more rounds of driving krautrock repetition and considerably more gentle and loping post-post-rock jams. Sounding much more wanky and clanky in their sonic explorations of repetition than we remember from their self-titled debut and Sedatif En Frequences Et Sillons follow-up. It has been quite a while since those releases and it sounds as though they've taken their fair share of odd twists and turns in that time. Building up and tearing down their sounds, experimenting more with digital and music concrete elements, but still distinctly of that Constellation Records / Montreal, Quebec collective sound. I'm just not quite sure if it all works this time around.


INSTITUT FUER FEINMOTORIK - Penetrans (Staubgold)

Institut Fuer Feinmotorik are a German collective of techno / turntable engineers with the misleading motto: "to produce from almost nothing almost nothing." It is true that their turntablist source material may qualify as 'almost nothing' culled from run-out groove clicks, repetitive pops from razor bladed vinyl, and Rube Goldberg inventions to create repetitive sounds with various household items striking the turntable's tone arm. Yet the end results are far from 'almost nothing,' standing as an exceptionally good version of Thomas Brinkmann, where a structurally rigid techno follows the linear progressions of surgically concise clicks, pops, whirs, and hisses locked tightly in complex layers of overlapping rhythms.


JOAO, KARE - Sideman (Jester)

Jester (the unclassifiable Norwegian record label run by frontman Garm of the formerly but no longer black metal band Ulver) has rapidly become one of our favorite labels, what with releases by When, Ulver, Arcturus, Rotoscope, Esperanza, Bogus Blimp, Single Unit, and Origami Galaktika -- we've liked 'em all, actually! So whenever Jester puts out something new, even if we've never heard of the artist before (which is often the case) we make sure to check it out. Thus we ordered a few of this album by Norwegian musician Kare Joao without knowing at all what to expect. Turns out it's a psychedelic rock record along the lines of Pink Floyd (or even the Beta Band), Spacemen Three, Pharoah Overlord, and My Bloody Valentine. We've since learned that Kare was a roadie and sometime singer for AQ dirty rock faves Turbonegro! Some guys from that band, along with Garm himself, play on this. As for the sound, we were immediately enthralled by the "Tomorrow Never Knows" vibe of the seven-minute-plus lead-off track "Captain Trips", full of heavy psych guitar wash, echoey seagull synth sounds, tripped out guitar effects, and, last but not least, repetitive, catchy hooks. The rest of the album continues in this vein, pretty much. There's one track that's a little heavy on the vocals with backing Beach Boys style "oooh ooohs", maybe it's their stab at a Stranglers (or Strokes!) kinda song but it doesn't work that well for us in comparison to the rest of the disc, which definitely gets a big thumbs up. Hmm, high time we made a Jester section in our bins!


KNUT - Challenger (Hydrahead)

Switzerland hasn't exactly been known for their metallic output. You could probably count all the great Swiss metal bands on one hand (Celtic Frost, Coroner, uhhhh...Krokus....uh) but when they do metal, man do they do it right. This is album number two from Swiss metallers Knut (pronounced 'newt' not 'nut') and it's easily their best record yet. A crushing blend of super heavy post rock, screaming metalcore, crusty downtuned Neurosis-ish sludge and droning riffs that stretch into hypnotic loops while huge, pounding drums and agonised vocals are splattered throughout. Lots of stop/start song structures, extreme dynamics and intense aggression. Fans of Neurosis, Sepultura, and metalcore in general will be blown away. One of Andee's new favorites!


PAN AMERICAN - The River Made No Sound (Kranky)

More soothing, minimal atmospheric washes with deeeep bass thuds from Mark Nelson (also of Labradford). We've had a number of people come in lately asking for "relaxing music", and well, if any of those folks are listening now, they can be assured that Pan American's follow-up to their lovely 360 Business/360 Bypass is the perfect sonic relief they've been seeking. Spacious and airily ambient. No guarantees, but these 55 minutes of calm might be just what you need if your day takes a stressful turn.


PIIRI - GPU (Revised) (Vertical Form)

Outside of the impressive techno-minimalism of their group Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen have been developing very distinctive styles that veer considerably from their partnered work. Where Vainio has taken to the laptop generation of fractured ambience, Vaisanen has been experimenting with an interesting recombination of electronic dub built around variations of rigid rhythms which sound very much like looped samples from a '60s jazz drummer shuffling a brush suggestively across a snare head. As Piiri, Vaisanen has released a couple of brilliant 10"s on Raster Noton, but not enough material to warrant a full-length. Thus, Vertical Form has flushed out this Piiri album with a bunch of remixes by Farben, Pan American, Smyglyssna, Dual Excitor, and Phonem. As with the majority of remix albums, "GPU (Revised)" is a mixed (ha) affair, with the original Piiri track standing out easily as the best work. Pan American is probably the only remix artist who doesn't retard Ilpo's shuffling rhythms by turning them into microhouse grooves (Farben) or stupid post-irony clunkiness (Smyglyssna). Rather Pan American offers an effervescent dub with all of those rhythms processed into a glassine wash akin to Vladislav Delay.
If you're really interested in the Piiri sound, you might be better served by those hard to find Raster Noton 10"s...but they *are* hard to find.


XINLISUPREME - Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)

Japanese duo Xinlisupreme have been touted by their label Fat Cat as a mix of My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain, and Merzbow! Fat Cat has done well to preload our expectations with three advanced references to avant-rock history, but it has to be said that Xinlisupreme can't so easily be triangulated. True, their debut album "Tomorrow Never Comes" does live up to such claims with their topical application of chainsaw fury feedback worthy of any number of Merzbotic apocalyptic noise metaphors; yet, Xinlisupreme simultaneously demonstrates how such guitar squall can be applied with grace, tenderness, and fragility. As a result, this combination has much more in common with the psychedelic use of noise by fellow Japanese bands like Shizuka or Nagisa Ni Te. Of course, both My Bloody Valentine and Jesus & Mary Chain have their own breathtakingly sublime moments, yet the analogy between the My Bloody Valentine / Jesus & Mary Chain camp and Xinlisupreme dissolves in how each define noise-pop, with the former adding the explosive noise flourishes to well-developed pop songs, and the latter offering pop structures as ghostly, vacuous signposts within emotionally charged noise washes. Or perhaps, it could be stated MBV / JAMC are pop with noise and Xinlisupreme are noise with pop. Regardless of the pithy semantic argument, Xinlisupreme has made a pretty amazing shoegazing record, that has reaminated the genre with a vigor not heard in a very long time.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:10 PM

 

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors: Once again it is Norway that leads the way: Art-rock album of the year?

A candidate for one of the most adventurous art rock albums of the year has arrived - and no surprise it is from Norway. Arcturus include Garm from Ulver, and from the initial Mp3 samples - it is a continuation of the ideas developed on Ulver's well received 1999 album Themes from William Blake..and the 1997 Arcturus album La Masquerade Infernale

a 2002 space odyssey full of more of their unclassifable art-rock meets black metal meets electronica hybrid! Basically, imagine Emperor trying their hand at "OK Computer", or late-period Faith No More pretending to make a Dimmu Borgir album...Together these guys meld majestic keys, blasting drums, soaring vocals, melodic piano runs, rasping screams, and electronic atmospheres into what can only be described as Arcturus music. It's similar to "La Masquerade", but what seems new is how catchy and poppy some of this is. Aquarius Records review of Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors.


Arcturus have done it again, La Masquerade Infernale album in 1997 was an acknowledged masterpiece in avant post black metal that combined trip hop and jungle sounds - but now in 2002 comes the new opus: The Sham Mirrors, released in the US already on End Records - a UK release on VME has been set for May 6th. Already this sublime music is being rewarded with A+ grade top class reviews.

The End Records Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors includes a full Mp3 sample. Download it today !

The veil of secrecy is now lifted: The Sham Mirrors arrives at a time when metal needs it most. Where their last studio album was largely over-the-top melodrama, The Sham Mirrors is a more linear, coherent work. Fans needn't worry that the band have pulled off the extreme deep-end that Disguised Masters explored. The new album remains metal at its core while dragging the genre through endless tunnels of light, color and sound that it has never before seen. The Trickster Garm showcases his previously-unexplored falsetto range; Hellhammer offers a percussive display that teeters between the organic and the inhuman; Sverd's keys pepper the spaces with masterful confidence. In a perfect world (far from the one we inhabit), lead-off track "Kinetic" would be a global hit single. Six songs later, the album closes with the cosmic 10-and-a-half minute opus, "For To End Yet Again," itself alone worthy of a lifetime of inspection. Note for note, song for song, The Sham Mirrors is likely Arcturus' grand achievement, pulling together various facets of their previous releases and molding it into a bold new shape. As described by their charismatic frontman, Trickster G.: "This is classically-engendered synthesized metal/rock to vaudeville/cabaret-tinged progressive rock conceptuals on to a myriad of deformations into jazz, experimental/Alt. electronics, beats, etc. Arcturus run the gamut as gracefully as acclaimed purists in the respective fields."

Omega Records review:

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

Honored sonic surrealists Arcturus lay before you their latest work, The Sham Mirrors. In a time when the terms "avant-garde" and "progressive" are thrown around too loosely in the metal lexicon, The Sham Mirrors arrives to defy such easy tags. It explodes like a supernova throughout its 43-minute duration; it lays another mighty brick in the tower these explorers have been building since 1991 ... The new album remains metal at its core while dragging the genre through endless tunnels of light, color and sound that it has never before seen. The Trickster Garm showcases his previously-unexplored falsetto range; Hellhammer offers a percussive display that teeters between the organic and the inhuman; Sverd's keys pepper the spaces with masterful confidence. In a perfect world (far from the one we inhabit), lead-off track "Kinetic" would be a global hit single. Six songs later, the album closes with the cosmic 10-and-a-half minute opus, "For To End Yet Again," itself alone worthy of a lift


DigitalMetal.com review Arcturus - Sham Mirrors

What we have here is an intense, beautiful, coherent, grandiose, symphonic crash scene, filled with a plentiful palette of punishing metal! Opener "Kinetic" combines dazzling cosmic musicianship and full experimentation of trip-hop beats with a penetrating flirtation of melody and lyricism. Garm�s powerful and surprisingly well-developed vocals wallop the listener and guide the song to new fantastically catchy realms. Garm is amazing throughout, carrying the weight of each song confidently upon his shoulders, as his falsetto exploration reaches searing new heights. Two words sum up this album, if you must: smoothness and balance. Nothing ever feels forced or slight, instead the album flows in a linear fashion like an abstruse river of metallic soundscapes. At the same time, a careful balance is achieved between La Masquerade Infernale's experimentation and Aspera Hiems Symfonia�s soothing, celestial guitar flurries and wistful percussive attack (which set the benchmark of classiness for all black metal).

Aquarius Records - New Arrivals 135

ARCTURUS - The Sham Mirrors (Ad Astra Enterprises)

They'rrrrre back! Norway's archetypal artsy "post-black metal" supergroup, featuring members of Ulver, Mayhem, and more. We thought they'd broken up after 1998's peak of bizarreness, "La Masquerade Infernale", as all we'd heard from them since then was a (supposedly) posthumous remix disc, the weird and wonderful "Disguised Masters". But no, apparently the 21st century got them going again, and here's a new album, a 2002 space odyssey full of more of their unclassifable art-rock meets black metal meets electronica hybrid! Basically, imagine Emperor trying their hand at "OK Computer", or late-period Faith No More pretending to make a Dimmu Borgir album.
One of the main figures in Arcturus (you may know) is Garm from Ulver (he's also boss of the amazing Jester label, current home to Ulver, When, Rotoscope, Bogus Blimp, Single Unit, Origami Galaktika, etc.) who is responsible for "voices of ghosts and monkeys and general manipulation" and lyrics. His songwriting partner Steinar Sverd Johnsen handles keyboards and composes the music. Out of the rest of the Arcturus lineup, "Lords of Chaos" readers will also recognize Hellhammer (of Mayhem and about a million other Nordic metal outfits) on "drums and flames". The band is rounded out by "high guitar rider" Knut M. Valle and "low guitar driver" Dag F. Gravem. Emperor's Ihsahn contributes "spitting voice" on one track as well.
Together these guys meld majestic keys, blasting drums, soaring vocals, melodic piano runs, rasping screams, and electronic atmospheres into what can only be described as Arcturus music. It's similar to "La Masquerade", but what seems new is how catchy and poppy some of this is. But, at the same time it's also quite metal indeed. Dark and heavy, not allowing the keyboards to overpower the guitars. And, after the gangsta rap and drum and bass remixes found on "Disguised Masters", this record seems almost normal! That is, if you can consider bombastic sci-fi metallic prog pop 'normal'. I guess it is, in the more advanced universe Garm and company inhabit. Brilliant!

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This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ BOOMKAT - A PELICANNECK ONLINE MUSIC STORE include:

Alec Empire - Intelligence And Sacrifice - Digital Hardcore

The return of Mr Empire, DHR head honcho, Atari Teenage Riot ringleader, remixer to the stars and all round mentalist afficianado. His first solo effort in quite some time, �Intelligence and Sacrifice� sheds away much of the pretension and academic aspirations of his work for the Geist and Mille Plateaux labels, unleahing instead an unashamed devestating ear piercing hardcorrrrrrrrrrre (!!!) sound. A kind of slashrock/gabbacore hybrid takes effect throughout the mammoth 22 tracks on board, giving the slipknot brigade much to think about. Shame, then, that those same kids in black will most likely make up the vast portion of the audience for this album, a piece of work that at the very least should be taken with a considerable pinch of salt, wherein much enjoyment is to be had (mood dependant, offcourse!). Good fun.

Arpanet - Wireless Internet - Source

Following the genius 12" 'Are You Wireless' - Arpanet aka Dopplereffekt fact fans, drop the bomb!! Nine new tracks and seeing as it's been it's been four or five whole years since the first release of 'Klangfarbenmelodie' we need wait no longer. A co-release in conjunction with Air's Record Makers label (nice one guys). The usual killer strings, electro suss, heavy drop blitzkreig blasts and underwater weirdness, hey you people know the score. With it being Detroit based it's also a concept album, joy!!! - to hold up... it's devoted to the revolutionary technologies of Japan�s leading telecommunication company NTT DoCoMo, which will soon change our day-to-day lives so that's alright then. Detroitastic.

Felix Da Housecat - Excursions - Obsessive

Felix�s �Kittenz and Thee Glitz� album went big in certain houses of houseyness. �Excursions� is Felix�s first mix album since his double header with Justin Robertson for Bugged Out!, and is a proper charge of Felix�s dancefloor dynamite. Eighteen tracks are thrown in the mix. From the electro pop leanings of Ladytron to the relentless pummel of Jeff Mills and Bolz Bolz, via the unreleased forthcoming delights of Daniel Diamond�s �Champu� and a bevvy of slamming remixes from Felix himself, it�s a 74 minute joyride to every corner of the dancefloor.

Remoteworker - Protect Me From What I Want - CBB

New Berlin business from Kharis S. O'Connell. Interestingly, previous work from Kharis has appeared on the Reinforced label, as Eniac. This movement, from the drum and bass end of things, into sound processing and crunched up digital electronica is proving a popular one. Fans of Markant should sit up, momentary flashes of Amber period Autechre suck you in, and this is an engaging addition to any electronica selection. One to watch.

Syntetika - 100% Syntetika - Shaped Harmonics

After their excellent Ambidextrous release last year �Errorism�, Shaped Harmonics are back with a new and mellifluous slant on ambient. Elena and Vladislav formed Syntetika after working with the first line-up of Fizzarum and as a house DJ in Saint Petersburg clubs respectively. Musically quite diverse: ranging from atmospherics in �Above The Clouds� and melodic IDM in Levitation to ambient soundscapes in �Dreamota�. �100% Syntetika� brings you the mood of harmony and tranquility, they prescribe this cd for friendly occasions and armchair listening. Melody and harmony in close alliance, this is a great cd to accompany a good game of cards

Philip Jeck - Stoke - Touch

Brand new album on Touch. Famed as much for his outstanding Vinyl Coda excursions on Intermedium as for his previous Touch CD's (Surf / Loopholes) this album returns to the shorter time frame but fully develops the Vinyl Coda flow. To remind... Philip makes each of his tracks from discarded vinyl picked up at flea markets and radically modifies them to play over loops of varying lengths. These are played on multiple Bush, Philips and Fidelity record players and Alba portable CD player making him the most cost conscious artist working today which only adds to his charm. Seven tracks make up 'Stoke' from the initial edgy and sinister 'Above' to the dark spirituality of 'Lambing'. The CD continues developing photographs in the mind. 'Vienna Faults' crackles and shifts in a relaxed dub manner and highlight amongst many is the killer uplifting 'Pax', atmospherics, simple and beautiful refrains and backwards slow blues vocals from beyond that make you smile and warm inside - one of the best tracks of the year so far for me. More tracks follow with emotions to the fore then the last track 'Close', fifteen minutes of indian vibrations, that seem to course the country�s history dragged from the depths of the dusty microgrooves and brought to life right here right now. Possibly Mr Jecks finest release to date - highly recommended.

Tony Conrad - Early Minimalism - Table Of The Elements

Out of print for two years....now repressed!! Four CD box set with 96-page book and enhanced CD-ROM featuring interviews, performance footage and video scores. Includes the massive "Four Violins" (1964) -- one of the world's most important and space -inhaling pieces of music ever, which was only briefly available on LP. Mainline it as loud as you possibly can. Plus: "Early Minimalism: April, 1965" (for solo violin and string quartet) ; "Early Minimalism: May 1965" [performed here by Conrad, Alexandria Gelencser (cello) and Jim O'Rourke (violin)]; "Early Minimalism: June 1965" (studio work for four multitracked violins with cello). "The story becomes familiar: In 1962 Tony Conrad's amplified strings introduced the sustained drone of just-intonation into 'minimal' music. Conrad, together with John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela formed a performance collaboration from 1962-65 sometimes known as the Dream Syndicate. Utilizing long durations and precise pitch, their aggressively mesmerizing 'Dream Music' denied the activity of composition, articulated their shared ideas of performance, and established the Big Bang of 'minimalism'. When this remarkable group dissolved in 1966, their many rehearsal and performance recordings were repressed by Young and Zazeela, and remain unheard to this day. Conrad himself stepped outside of the Dream Syndicate once: on December 19, 1964 he recorded 'Four Violins', his only 1960s solo tape of violin playing. In 1987 Conrad set out on a return expedition to the site of these fragments to unearth the losses; the result is the epic 'Early Minimalism'. The finds of 'Early Minimalism' are richest at the place where 'Four Violins' was pointing, where the lost Dream Music would have fully realized its harmonic and expressive potential. Reaching back through time, Early Minimalism weaves a mobile narrative of minimalism: making music out of history, and history out of music.

Deckwrecka - A Better Tomorrow - Ronin

This time Zilla ups the ante with a deep & complex musical journey, taking a tour through Planet Hip Hops inner workings and out into orbit Heavy beats; earthquake bass; sharp cuts and some incredible special guests, drive this album into the space beyond yesterday�s limitations. Veteran UK producer Agzilla Deckwrecka tells it like it is with the help of a whole array of London talent including Jimmy Lyons, Rodney P, MCD Silent-Eclipse, Rosita Lynch, Intenz, Bury Crew, Titan Sounds, Scare Electric, 2Ice & Aishe.B.

TTC - Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque - Big Dada

'This Is Not A Record' is the title. OK so we've been heated for this for the last year over three classic 12"s which were/are the best thing to happen to french hip-hop since ever!!!! Twelve tracks make up the full length experience spilt evenly between new cuts and best from the 12"s. Some highlights, Abba on the Paris Underground anthem �Pollutions�, Company Flow�s off centre b-boy abstraction on �Subway�, the noise of footsteps in the snow sampled on �Danser�, Autechre�s electronic-rigour on �En Soulevent Le Couvercle�, the twisted logic of David Lynch on �Reconstitution�� and straight-up anti-cool-rich-kids satire on �Pauvres Riches�. Bonus treat for completists is Dose one's guest flash and production from DJ Vadim, �Ceci N�est Pas Un Disque�� is funny, sick, serious, heartfelt, kitsch, abstract, bumping, internationalist and very, very French all at the same time, with enough ideas to shame those who think hip hop has said all it can say. Burning hot.

Hood - You Show No Emotion At All - Domino ep

�You Show No Emotion At All�� features three brand new killer and exclusive cuts, plus an enhanced video of a beautiful short film of the title track which equals defo buy. Currently vanning round the USA with Dose One driving the van. Ha ha!!! Hood does you more good....we love them, you should too


Idiot Savants - Arts Of Darkness - Ockhams Razor

..out there? Definitely. not quite too far, but perilously close to the edge. Bitter, not twisted, but certainly bent into some new and disturbing head shapes, this Edinburgh trio have delivered a 9 track message from the lip of beyond that runs a wild and vivid spectrum of influences through a cracked and frosted filter, resulting in a unique and immediately ear-grabbing emergency broadcast. Neurotic Boy Outsider (production), Max Volume and Red Mercury (both vocals) use sounds drawn from avant garde hip hop to punk to beat poetry to disco funk to bhangra to shocker soundtracks, for a dark series of lectures, lessons, rants and readings on subjects like the use of amphetamines to get through the 9-to-5, drinking past excess, old men talking to animals, and other oppressive horrors at the heart of modern life. part cLOUDEAD, part pre-mumu Bill Drummond (circa 'the man'), part 'trainspotting', part MC 900 Ft Jesus, part broken body parts and burning buildings, this is one of the most alarming records you're going to hear in a long time. get ready for idiot savants. 'cos they're more than ready for you'.

Maximilian Hecker - Infinite Love Songs - Kitty Yo

New on the increasingly hyped-up Kitty Yo Imprint. Described as an audio hybrid between the timeless folk sensibilities of Nick Drake, the ethereal washes of Sigur Ros and the headnod beats of Massive Attack, Mr Hecker is a long time associate of Chilly Gonzales and the entire Kitty Yo family. Famous amongst hipsters for standing on the corners of Berlin's most trendiest places some years ago, covering Oasis songs. First laughed about, then loved, finally deeply admired. A good pop record.

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Earthtone 9 - Omega ep

PRP review Earthtone 9 - Omega - this ep is the last ever release from this sublime Nottingham based band.

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MusicOMH.com review new albums from: Doves, Bryan Ferry and Edwyn Collins

MusicOMH.com review 3 albums due for release on April 29th:

Doves - 'The Last Broadcast' (Heavenly)

Bryan Ferry - 'Frantic' (Virgin)

Edwyn Collins - 'Doctor Syntax' (Setanta)

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Jockey Slut Magazine - Album of the Month - DJ Shadow - The Private Press

Jockey Slut's album of the month is DJ Shadow - The Private Press

DJ SHADOW
THE PRIVATE PRESS
(Mo� Wax/Island)

No parent likes to see their offspring led astray, but for a control freak like Josh Davis it must be doubly painful. He spent years fanatically grooming his unique vision of hip hop, yet when it finally stepped into the world, it wasn�t long before his beautiful child was molested. �Endtroducing� completely redefined what music built from samples could be, but the afterbirth was a messy flood of ersatz imitations christened �trip hop�.
Then he got caught up in the wreckage of the Unkle project, the record that effectively aborted the genre he was accused of conceiving. So, you disown it and wait until it�s safe to look over the parapet once more.
Not that Davis has ever made it easy on himself. "I find it very hard to fit the music to the mood," runs the sampled voice in �Right Thing�. Like a true obsessive, he�s searching for the mythological perfect beat amongst all those stacks of vinyl, and that relentlessly questing spirit spurs the music onwards. �Mongrel�� begins with a serpentine guitar line that, by the time it changes into �...Meets His Maker�, is writhing amidst sumptuous strings and eerie piano. The crystalline cadences of �Blood On The Motorway� are almost Orbitalesque, whilst �6 Day War� is a shimmering piece of psychedelic soul wherein the blood and sweat Shadow invests in his craft practically drip from the grooves.
And while the introspective music Davis is most famed for accounts for the album�s most memorable moments, it�s not the whole story. The aforementioned �Right Thing� is a pure beat junky rush, cutting from electro rhythms to Squarepusher-style syncopated salvoes and though his head may be lost in the clouds, the scratch-happy �Walkie Talkie� shows his feet are still firmly on the dancefloor.
DJ Shadow has brought another beauty into the world, and �The Private Press� should make him a proud parent once again.

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FC Kahuna - Machine Say Yes

Playlouder review FC Kahuna - Machine Say Yes

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Saturday, April 20, 2002

 

Echoboy

Echoboy have completed the recording of their new album, expect a release on Mute later this year.

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Friday, April 19, 2002

 

Absorb Reviews

Some new reviews @ Absorb including:

Nautilis - Are You An Axolotl (Planet Mu)
[Released April 29th]

continuing to ever confound us with their manifesto, mike paradinas' planet mu imprint bring us yet another electronic oddball. it's got it all; electro-fried ambience, cut up glitch-hop, frazzled raps and even a couple of lounge and jazz numbers. so the question one must ask is how does all this diversity hold together....


Codec Scovill - Clinical Imperfections (Nonresponse)

reminiscent at times of aphex's selected ambient works 2, codec scovill takes a similar paradigmatic approach to their minimalist textured pieces, favouring simple plangent melodies over complex technical manipulation. as such, their 'less is more' approach, utilising signal routing techniques over sequencing or major editing techniques to manipulate sound, produces a refreshing antidote for anyone glutted by a surfeit of sample and effects-led electronica..


Square City - Sketches of the City (Pagoda)
[Released May 13th]

pieces. overall, this album develops some nice ideas with polished execution, particularly when it ventures into a more hybridized form of traditional electro territory.

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Pennyblackmusic.com - Forthcoming Releases

Pennyblackmusic.com - Forthcoming Releases including:

Girls Against Boys - You Can't Fight What You Can't See

CD on Jade Tree
Released on 20/05/02

�You Can't Fight What You Can't See� is the seventh album for GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, their first full-length release for Jade Tree and their latest since 1998's lauded Freak*on*ica (Geffen). The album's stripped-down, bare-assed rock is as dark, abrasive, and strangely compelling as the band has ever been. Formed in 1990 from the ashes of legendary DC hardcore bands (most notably SOULSIDE), GIRLS AGAINST BOYS have released six albums on such varied labels as Adult Swim, Touch & Go and Geffen, in addition to numerous singles & EPs.

Stylus - Pedwar

CD on Fourth Dimension
Released on 13/05/02

Latest album by welsh soundsmith, dafydd morgan, whose work continues to push carefully 'scaped envelopes into areas that are as mysterious as they are enticing. Metamorphic sound constructs, the ebbing & flowing of organic shimmer, transdimensional space-gush, buried throbs and perfectly dovetailed occasional guitar strums from an artist constantly garnering much peel attention

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Cul de Sac

Cul de Sac and their headybricolage of 60's psychedelia, Krautrock grooves,surf guitar trajectories, electronic washes, Americanfolk influences and Middle Eastern trance

Cul de Sac have three albums lined up for 2002.

Avant post rockers Cul de Sac will release an album on Strange Attractions Audio House called Immortality Lessons, on May 7th - alive studio recording dating from 1999, and captured on WBRS radio. See website for Mp3 download.

Also Cul de Sac Film Soundtrack: The Strangler's Wife coming late 2002

Next up is an ambitious project marking the newest incarnation of Cul de Sac, a soundtrack to the film The Strangler's Wife, produced by Roger Corman and created in CdS' hometown. During the late summer of 2001, the band created this original score, and it marks new terrain in Cul de Sac's elaborate and seemingly ever-expanding palette of sound. The Strangler's Wife finds Cul de Sac spikingtheir patented electronic laden psyche grooves with drum 'n' bass and acoustic folk composition, and moves along in classic cinematic fashion. Absolutely astounding stuff.

Cul de Sac - Death to the Sun

Cul de Sac have a studio album in the can called Death of the Sun, which should surface on a to-be-determined premium independent label in 2002, if there is any justice in the world!

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FC Kahuna - Machine Say Yes

The Independent review FC Kahuna - Machine Say Yes

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Suede - A New Morning

Suede name their forthcoming album: A New Morning that is expected to be released in September, see NME.com for info.

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Darla - Coming Soon

More forthcoming album previews @ Darla - Coming Soon including:

L'ALTRA - In The Afternoon - Aesthetics

Following in the footsteps of Hood's outstanding release "Cold House", Aesthetics has offered us another stellar long player by Chicago's l'altra. "In The Afternoon" is an elegant venture through a pastoral blossoming with sonic textures, melodic tenderness and emotional depth. Subsequent to the success of their first full-length, "Music of a Sinking Occasion", l'altra are furthering their sonic experimentation with confidence, being expansive in both their song-writing and arrangements, as well as how they play their instruments; implementing modern technologies and electronic song-writing as well as upright bass. l'altra have done their homework, passed the first spate of exams, allowing "In The Afternoon" to feel like an artistic exhale, where it's finally time to reap the rewards of the effort, while breathing some changing energy into the world of indie rock. The exhalation is also personal, as this will be the final record with Ken Dyber (Aesthetics owner) as a member, who will be moving this autumn. "In the afternoon" personifies what the best guitar bands (the Mogwai's, Radiohead's, Sea & Cake..) hope to accomplish; a synergy of new ideas with musical craft and above all, emotion.


REMOTE VIEWER, THE - Here I Go Again On My Own - City Centre Offices (Germany)

June 3rd

craig tattersall and andrew johnson aka the remote viewer have been active in the uk- indie-scene for a good number of years now. both started as members of hood (craig played drums, andrew guitar) and recorded four albums with the band. both craig and andrew realised, however, that it was quite difficult for them to keep up with the needs for rehearsing etc., simply because they lived too far away from the band�s headquarter in leeds and decided to leave hood and concentrate on new projects. while being in hood, craig and andrew released two albums and a couple of singles of their second project, the famous boyfriend, focusing, as they put it, on �electronic pop sort of thing�. over the years, their interest in electronic music became stronger and stronger, with the remote viewer, their current project, being the direct result of that interest. it took them a while to adjust to the new environment. they played their first ever gig in paris and, coming from an indie background, they did not really know how to perform their electronic songs and just played the music off minidisc while having crisps and beer. in the meantime, however, this changed completely, although �we have a reputation as being a drunken and abusive live act�, says craig. �at a recent gig in nottingham andrew fell asleep in the gents toilets and my girlfriend had to finish the gig for him." in reality, craig is concentrating on the gear while andrew plays drums or drops samples behind the turntables or scratches like a proper champion. indie just works different these days. they released highly acclaimed records on labels like 555, domino and city centre offices, recorded a session for john peel together with kid606 and helped co-producing the latest mogwai album. "here i go again on my own" is the second remote viewer album to date. the ten tracks are all very personal, intimate moments full of fragile warmth and quiet melancholy taking you by the hand as soon as the guitar comes in and plays along to colorful melodies and small clicky beats. this is an album sounding like a dreamy day spent alone in the countryside, when you look down a hill and whisper songs from another world.


I.S.A.N - Clockwork Menagerie - Morr Music (Germany)

June 10th

when everything falls into place, something great can come to happen. robin saville and antony ryan from leicester did a lot more than was actually planned when they were founding their Integrated Services Analogue Network. they not only found themselves a very nice little corner in the world of electronic pop music but also unconsciously helped to launch the label they now preferably release their records on. like this one. this compilation of early material coming from long-out-of-print singles and compilations was a long time coming. mostly because there should be many more people out there who should be able to listen to these tracks than those lucky few who were able to get the original copies in the short while they were available. for instance there's "eusa's head", isan's first ever recording which surely had to be rescued from collector�s vaults. it's nice to hear the first steps of a group that nowadays tends to remix people like depeche mode. but this is no highly official or definitive collection but more a collection of favourite tracks you should be able to listen to at all times. these tunes seem to come from a different era when small labels like earworm, liquefaction empire, bad jazz or wurlitzer jukebox were continually presenting interesting and exciting new bands, mostly on neatly packaged limited edition 7"s. one of these was the melodious masterpiece "damil 85", isan's debut 7" for wurlitzer jukebox, which at the time seemed as mysterious as it was great. nobody knew where this was coming from or who this dubious dr. ivanovich was who did things that may not have been necessary. for a fact, isan do exist but they're not so much a working unit as may have been supposed by many. robin saville and antony ryan actually live and work separately from each other and just found a liking for releasing their music under the same banner. this principle works astonishingly well. as different as their respective styles may be � it's up to the listener to guess who did which track the tracks seems to be secretly interlinked in a way that goes beyond profane explanations. the music ranges, depending on from out of whose vintage analogue equipment it comes, between simple melodies on swinging, feather-weight beats and rhythmically complex and transparent sound installations. may this be the right balance between pop and art. maybe like an unlikely mixture of plone and seefeel. for morr music this compilation the realization of a very old idea. the tracks gathered here have given essential impulses in the development of the label's style and ideology. in a way the group and their label follow the same path and that is to go into the future with the past in mind.

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Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu?

Almost Cool review Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu?

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One World

Forthcoming One World shows on Radio 1:

26.04.02: ? Source Records Germany
Mix by David Moufaung of the German branch of the innovative Source label. Featuring Akufen, Burnt Friedman, Lowtec and many more electronic favourites.

03.05.02: Irma
2 Hour mix from Irma records - the first independent dance label in Italy, based in Bologna.

10.05.02: ? Pause_2 and Electrolane
Profile of Bristol based fledgling label Pause_2 including a session from acclaimed Russian Electronica outfit EU (of Christmas Baubles fame) and a session from Electrolane

17.05.02 Yellow Records
Mix from paris based label whose releases have included those from Beth Hirsch, Jazzanova, Bob Sinclair, and Ernest St Laurent among many may others

24.05.02 Catskills Records
Brighton based label Catskills will be taking over the airwaves to bring you a 2 hour radio show showcasing sessions and tracks from current and classic artists on their books.

31.05.02 Best 7
Berlin Based DJ's Daniel Best (formerly of Sonarkollective) and Daniel Haussman will be delivering an hour's mix each playing everything from dub to breaks and telling us about the brand new label they're setting up - Best 7.

07.06.02 West London Special
Phil Asher and friends bring their special brand of West London House to One World

14.06.02 Sonar
One World live from the Sonar Electronic Music Festival in Barcelona

22.06.02 Sonar
As above

28.06.02 X-Press 2
X-Press 2 Join us Live from Glastonbury

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The The

Matt Johnson of The The has a busy schedule of activity:

The The Retrospective Compilation: 45 RPM

May 20th sees the release of a 15 track collection of TheThe's finest singles entitled "45 RPM". This is the first time that Matt Johnson's rich musical legacy, stretching back to 1979, has been brought together in a compilation of any sort. This collection was sonically restored at New York's Masterdisk studios by the legendary Howie Weinberg. It includes three brand new recordings and the first time release on CD of several rare and early recordings. A limited-edition CD, featuring 12 inch mixes of 8 The The singles, will also be available with initial copies of the "45 RPM" set.
Featuring an ornate, jewel-encrusted TheThe logo on the packaging, "45 RPM" is set to be one of the key releases for 2002

Tracklisting: via Lexicon

45 RPM - - The Singles Of The The (Limited Edition Double)
1. Uncertain Smile
2. Perfect
3. Sweet Bird Of Truth
4. Infected
5. Heartland
6. Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)
7. The Beat (en) Generation
8. Dogs Of Lust
9. Slow Emotion Replay
10. Love Is Stronger Than Death
11. This Is The Day
12. I Saw The Light
13. December Sunlight
14. Pillar Box Red
15. The Deep Down Truth

CD 2
1. Uncertain Smile- 12"
2. Perfect- 12"
3. Sweet Bird O'Truth- 12"
4. Infected- 12"
5. Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)- 12"
6. Violence 'O' Truth
7. Gravitate To Me- 12"
8. Dogs Of Lust 'Spermicide'- 12"


- Also a series of EPs see website for details.

- A limited edition box set - Scheduled for release in late July.

- On July 2nd, Epic/Legacy will release deluxe editions of four classic The The albums: "Soul Mining," "Infected," "Mind Bomb" and "Dusk".

Also:

SILENT TONGUE

An album of TheThe's film music, plus many previously unreleased instrumental pieces from the past 20 years. To be released in the late Autumn.

Plus a major world tour.

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Xfm Playback: Doves - The Last Broadcast

Next Thursday - John Kennedy's Xposure show on Xfm - will have an entire album playback of Doves - The Last Broadcast album - prior to the release. That new single by Doves does not hit any buttons for me - i find it too mid paced and it lacks variety - but the reviews of the new album have been promising.

Xfm can be listened to via the web if you can't pick up Xfm via Radio in London, DAB in selected urban areas in the UK or on Sky Digital 864

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Broadway Project

Something I enjoyed listening tonight on John Kennedy's Xposure show on Xfm was Broadway Project in the mix. Broadway Project's last album Compassion is getting a reissue in May with 8 bonus tracks and improved distribution via SRD on the Memphis Industries label.

Broadway Project also inform that a new album is on the way in 2002:

And then there's his next album, due for September. Its getting deeper and harder and tougher. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

What the Press have said about Broadway Project:

In case you've accidentally forgotten the magnificent dark night of the soul splendour of Broadway Project's debut album, Compassion...

"Imagine Tom Waits duetting with Portishead and being produced by Boards of Canada and you get the plaintive piano and soaring orchestra of 'For the One'... Drenched in scabrous guitars, exquisite electronica and soul-sodden dubby extracts, this is a fascinating and utterly compelling insight into one man's private hell. Desolation, anger and redemption hasn't sounded this alluring in a long time" 5/5 Jockey Slut

"At its turbulent best, Compassion approaches the symphonic. Imagine Orb-like sonic layers, Erik Satie impressionism, Floydian guitar loops and Air-style melodies...." 4/5 The Times

"an album suffused with feverish creativity... a hallucinogenic jazz dub ache for the state of the world in which we are all utterly, utterly alone" 8/10 NME

"A strictly widescreen production, listening to Compassion is a cathartic experience, like emerging from a black hole into blazing sunshine. Simply stunning" 5/5 Muzik

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Thursday, April 18, 2002

 

Liars

New NYC based art punk dance band Liars are a new signing to the respected Mute offshoot label Blast First !

Blast First newest signing, New York's LIARS, "the hardest rockin' punk dance band EVER" (Time Out New York) are returning to the UK in April for live dates and the recording of their first John Peel session.

EXPECTED: Album release on Blast First in the summer.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2002

 

If I were an editor of a weekly music magazine this week's front cover would feature: Peter Murphy

This week's front cover choice is ex Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy who releases a new album Dust on Metropolis Records, in the US on 23rd April and UK on 29th April.

Therefore prior to this release If I were an editor of a music weekly I would have arranged an upfront interview with Peter Murphy and an album review, however back to reality: this is the official press release for Dust:

Forget everything you think you know about Peter Murphy. Tear it up and then tape it all back together with your eyes closed.

From Dust comes re-invention. With his newest recorded offering titled Dust, Peter Murphy has re-written his musical narrative. Dust is how you will know him for the only thing that matters; and the only thing that matters is now.

The respective co-producers, Peter Murphy and Mercan Dede, bridge the gap between east and west on Dust. Dust, Peter's eighth studio recording, is the combined effort of a man born in England and raised on Western traditions who a decade ago transferred his roots to that of Middle Eastern influenced Turkey. It is also of a man born in Turkey and raised on eastern traditions who transferred his roots to the Western influenced Canada.

This album was forged between Montreal and Istanbul, from July to September 2001. Aesthetically breaking boundaries between cultural and musical stereotypes, Dust reaches beyond mere musical performance. Part trance, part alternative prog-rock, part classical, part pop and so much more. Dust refuses to remain sequestered in a safe categorized box; for this is truly an unsurpassed and groundbreaking album if ever there was one. This is also an album created from what some may call chance or even destiny.

Peter discovered Mercan Dede�s work via a CD his wife had been reviewing for one of her acclaimed Modern Dance Turkey company pieces, and just as Peter had been wondering who and where this man was, the phone rang and it was Mercan himself. It was a figurative and literal instant connection. "My wife left the CD laying around, I pick it up, put it on and at last I hear a musician who transposes a genuine Turkish element with total western cool. As the album is playing and I'm thinking the above...ring ring.... I pick up the phone �Hello�, �Hello this is Mercan Dede � ...Eureka! �Where are you Mercan? ...�I'm in Istanbul.�... �Right, I'm coming there right NOW, we've got some work to do.�..."

Locating this fellow visionary to work with was a demanding task. Instinctually however Peter clearly perceived Mercan�s role in the journey to realize Dust. "Mercan was obviously very smart in recognizing the coolness of Western aesthetic, in terms of alternative, progressive elements of music and integrating the Turkish element into that in the West. I thought Mercan would be the perfect person to understand what I was talking about in the sense of wanting those elements in my music."

At once deeply spiritual yet crackling with relevance Dust is neither an album glaringly Western with pasted on bits of �authentic world music�, just as much as it is not a traditional or classical world music album, nor is it straightforward rock or pop. It is however, a pure, authentic and heartfelt album that combines the influences of Peter�s creative outpouring that serve to compliment his lyrical themes. In its entirety, it is the culmination of Peter�s life and experiences straddling two cultures of both east and West.

In 1992 the now legendary NME music journalist Paul Morley wrote: "I know that he�s two or three albums away from making one that�s as perfectly shaped and as mysterious as the shape of his head, and therefore he�s as close as he�s ever going to be to being the kind of pop star that pop music was invented for, a dangerous impulsive arrogant magician who only truly comes alive when thousands and thousands of people are paying attention all at the same time. I mean, fuck these agents of ( rock - pop ) mediocrity, middle of the road journeymen, if there�s real life left in pop as a worldwide spectacle, then the Peter Murphy, who I know speaks softly and deliberately about the simple, complex act of writing songs and then performing them, is as good a hope as any. I know that I never thought I�d know that, but now I know." ...This is that album.

Setting the tone for Dust, �Things to Remember� begins by asking the listener to pay attention. Incorporating an ominous yet fragile introduction, interwoven with spoken-word and a driving beat it offers a complimentary mix of instruments and styles that highlights both performer and piece. The album continues to bring together new aspects to his work, as on �Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust� that includes a cinematic composition that could have easily captured a scene in the Last Temptation of Christ. And much like on �No Home Without It�s Sire� it provides a unique melange of techniques that deftly exhibits an ability to use what is considered a traditional eastern structure coupled with purely western methods of production. Both mesmerize while daring the listener to go further, to hear more, to get beyond what they think they understand.

Within Dust there is a deeper exploration into lyrical deftness coupled with THAT VOICE which brings the listener to a near mystical state. As on �Your Face�, a love song that is not a love song, Peter is at his most captivating. Sensitive and drawing, there is a yearning, a transformation, and an honest respect in this musical journey. A journey that is enhanced by an organic and fluent language textured with intuitive yet surprising elements of sound including the infinite guitar contribution of Michael Brook (who also appeared on Cascade).

Just For Love came about by mis-hearing the right thing at the right time, and triggered an entire tour. In conversation with Mercan Dede and mistaking his description of the �Just For Laugh�s � Montreal comedy festival, hearing it as Just For Love, "I was thinking what a brilliant notion it was to create an event just for the love of it. What that evoked in me was the idea of a pure performance, stripped of spectacle not unplugged but rather totally plugged in." (This culminated at the end of 2001 with a tour and double live album, released in September of 2001 on Metropolis Records.) The song in its new studio version, a dizzying maelstrom of feeling and rhythm, reflects the joy of the spirit and the original inspiration of the message behind it highlighted by the unequivocal playing of tabla master Shankar. It is powerful trance in its purest form.

Another new manner in singing for Peter is presented in �Girl Child Aglow�; a lighter, airier phrasing that is complimented with a brilliant distorted electric violin by the extraordinary violinist Hugh Marsh. Lyrically, as it often happens for Peter, the song was written on the spot during the album session in Montreal. "I had just started approaching the songs and decided to write spontaneously at random occasions. On a quiet sun filled morning I was reminded of my relationship with my daughter when she was younger, and reminiscing, I described these impressions and went in and sang the song."

Two unique and vibrant revisions are included on this album, �My Last Two Weeks� and �Subway� (with it�s newly added �epilogue� final verse). These songs are re-defined, and reinterpreted in a way that display the depth and richness of their compositions to provide a backdrop with which to reflect, as history and present tense are cradled side by side. They both reveal what much of the album expresses, a sense of renewal, of regeneration and of spontaneity.

It is nearly impossible to describe quite what Dust evokes, reflects and expresses, for mere words are inadequate. It is easier to discover and explore it on your own.

Other Info: from Distributors Press Release

Peter Murphy - Dust

CD on Metropolis
Released on 22/04/02

As a member of the early art rock pioneers BAUHAUS, PETER MURPHY has impacted the world with his deep sensual singing and heart-felt lyrics. Following the break-up of BAUHAUS, PETER MURPHY began a solo career selling out shows and wooing crowds all over the globe. Last year Metropolis released a taste of his live shows with "A Live Just For Love". This year Metropolis is proud to present PETER MURPHY's newest album "Dust". Expectations are high, this is Peter's tenth solo release, and fans won't be disappointed.This time around Peter has put his songwriting to the test by adding new elements to the mix. Not only are there beautiful string treatments, exquisite piano lines, and Peter's thick, rich vocal sound, several tracks take on a darker feel with ethnic, tribal, and atmospheric overtones. Tracklisting: Things to Remember, Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust, No Home Without Sire, Just For Love, Girlchild Aglow, Your Face, Jungle Haze, My Last Two Weeks, Subway (Epilogue).

Other Info

Personnel includes: Peter Murphy (vocals, keyboards); Michael Brook (infinite guitar); Hugh Marsh (electric violin); Scott Russel (keyboards, drums); Matthew Burton (bass, programming); Mercan Dede (percussion).
Recorded at The Planet, Montreal, Canada.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:35 PM

 

Dot Allison

More details of Dot Allison's forthcoming single and album @ Spaced

Substance is out on 22 April through Mantra. The album We Are Science will follow on 20 May.

It is titled Substance and presents a refreshing slab of electro, complimented with Dot�s trademark vocals, a pulsing synthline and a ton of techno tweakery.

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Seven/ Seven Update - Further details of changes at dance music magazine Seven/ 7

BurnitBlue.com provide more details of changes to 7 magazine that will relaunched as Seven a story-driven monthly magazine closer in spirit to the likes of Dazed & Confused - [so not directly going for the Jockey Slut/ Muzik market as I speculated yesterday]

It�s a music mag with a new approach, because there�s a new audience of 20-35 year olds who are not really served by the magazines at the moment.

�We hope to be imaginative and lead with story-based features, music will be the central thread but it will veer off into other cultural places. It will be presented like a style mag, but the story will always come first.�

So this will be a music style magazine - sounds like they could be going for the Sleazenation market.

Seven Update

The weekly music 7 magazine will be rebranded to Seven Update

The A5-sized Seven Update, which will only be available in record shops and by subscription, will feature news, reviews and radio listings. It will also include a cover feature, while all club and going out listings will be available through the Seven website.

It looks like a return to the old basic Mixmag Update/ Update format before the change to the glossy 7 Magazine format of the past 3 years. Maybe not enough people were buying the weekly magazine, and seven are looking for a new monthly format - as they reckon there is a massive gap for new style driven monthly music mag - and the seven update fills the gap for more quick reviews and upfront news, radio music show listings etc .

[A bit of history publishers of 7 Magazine, DMC sold Mixmag to EMAP in the mid 90s, but retained the weekly Mixmag Update that changed to Update - that relaunched as 7.]

# posted by DJ Martian 5:00 PM

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

 

The NME's 50th Anniversary Icons List

Pete Clark in the London Evening Standard article draws some themes on the NME 50 Icons list in this article: NME Smiths pip Beatles in icons poll

So the NME's 50 Icons list has been revealed: This list is influential on the NME: the daft Criteria indicated in this NME.com article

1 The Smiths
2 The Beatles
3 Stone Roses
4 David Bowie
5 Sex Pistols
6 Oasis
7 Radiohead
8 The Jam
9 U2
10 Public Enemy
11 Happy Mondays
12 The Clash
13 Nirvana
14 Elvis Presley
15 Joy Division
16 Blur
17 The Strokes
18 The Rolling Stones
19 The Verve
20 Bob Marley
21 The Fall
22 Prodigy
23 Velvet Underground
24 REM
25 Frankie Goes To Hollywood
26 Dexy's Midnight Runners
27 Beastie Boys
28 T. Rex
28= Jesus and Mary Chain
30 The Specials
31 Manic Street Preachers
32 Roxy Music
33 Pixies
34 Iggy Pop
35 The Pogues
36 Primal Scream
36= Frank Sinatra
38 Bob Dylan
39 Blondie
40 Eminem
41 Culture Club
42 Madonna
43 Marvin Gaye
44 Pulp
45 Michael Jackson
46 The Charlatans
47 Echo and the Bunnymen
48 The KLF
49 Neil Young
50 PJ Harvey


This reflects what Simon Reynolds had to say in an article in 1996 that sums up the limitations of the NME - [and can be related today to some of the choices of the NME list:]

But the Britpress readership is deeply conservative, and its idea of what's relevant is decidedly narrow. Look at the NME and MM annual readers polls in the last 15 years and you'll invariably find the Best Band position occupied by a white, all-male, British guitar band: the Jam, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Smiths, the Stone Roses, Suede, Blur, Oasis. The Top 10 Band, Album and Single categories usually feature no women, no blacks, no dance music, and rarely any Yanks (although REM and Nirvana did briefly challenge the Anglocentric bias). The Britpress has to give its readers what they want, i.e as many pieces as possible on the 10 or so Big Brits (pegged around the single, the album, the tour, any excuse whatsoever basically), plus features on Brit-pop 'contenders'--younger bands waiting in the wings for fame and fortune to take its toll on the established Brit biggies. That still leaves a fair number of pages which have to be be filled by token coverage of 'minority' interests like techno, hip hop, weird guitar experimentalism, American rock, and other stuff which market research shows the readers are simply not interested in.

A Few Other Points

Did Steve Sutherland (NME Strategy Director) project manage the counting of this poll? If he did he should be SACKED ! as the counting slips for NEW ORDER must have gone missing ! not even in the top 50 !

I woz surprised New Order did not make the top 10 earlier in the day, but no top 50 slot is a complete mess up.

This clearly is mistake - I mean those runts The Strokes (at 17 on the NME influence list ) only started in 2001 in the NME. New Order have been going since 1980, and featured on many NME covers - after a difficult first album - they then achieved international success/ and cool cult credibility with 3 key albums - I think they were even on the front NME cover of the crimbo special in 1987 - the year of substance. Then came technique influenced by dance music in 1989, then Republic in 1993, returning last year with Get Ready. Plus Blue Monday is one of the biggest Choons of the eighties and still one of the biggest selling 12" singles of all time - It sold over a million copies in the UK and over 10 million worldwide..

Also Happy Mondays at 11, I mean come on the New Order are way more influential (even under the NME's criteria) than the Mondays - that just had a couple of good dancefloor choons to shuffle your feet too, - no it is a massive mistake - the counting slips for New Order must have been mislaid /lost ! Happy Mondays peaked just for over one year in 1989-1990 - New Order have a much wider time frame of influence.

More Bizarre Entries:

What are those knobheads The Charlatans doing at 46: a second division baggy band in 1990 and a naff Rolling Stones tribute band from the mid 90s onwards. Influence - zero - more NME joke band ! no one takes them seriously outside of the NME.

Weller in the top 10 what a guitar mod proper songs knobhead what has he influenced in the past decade - the insipid orrible Ocean Colour (Crapping) Scene and fawning praise from ginger cringer tosser Chris Evans.

19 The Verve what are they doing here? it's contemporary weighted recent bias that polls always come up with odd average anomalies that don't deserve it - come back in a decade the Verve want be anywhere near a list like this.

35 The Pogues one big drunken waltz with Rum Sodomy and the Lash album in 1985 and a big Crimbo single with Kirsty Mac - does not mean influence.

40 Eminem big mouth yank rapstar bore - a catchy chart single with Dido and one hyped megaselling album - influence - rubbish !

41 Culture Club what is boy george doing here? I think the compilers of the list messed up their maths.

Having said all that I still reckon that this week's edition is a recommended read - even for some people who have not bought a copy of NME for 5, 10, 15 or even over 20 years. There is a lot of historical content placed into retrospective context - including snippets of past covers - even if you disagree with some of the choices - this is worth the 2 quid price tag.


PS The NME's new look format is a blatant copy of Ireland's Hot Press magazine . Same width, same glossy cover type design, but the NME is a couple of centimetres taller. It is an awkward size not a magazine just a shrunken version of the old newspaper - I noticed a few Newsagents still put it in the same place: on the lower displays and not up with other music magazines in the display racks - So it looks like the executives at IPC Ignite have failed in their point of sales promotion strategy !

# posted by DJ Martian 11:46 PM

 

ElasticHeart.com/blog

Another music weblog to add to your daily read web tour: ElasticHeart.com/blog

# posted by DJ Martian 10:22 PM

 

PUNK's Not Dead - Anarchy Archived - 25 Years Later - Punk Specials Published by NME & Q Spin offs

Both the publishers of Q (EMAP Performance) and NME (IPC Ignite) have decided to celebrate the punk era 25 years on from it's big blow up in 1977 with special spin off Punk era editions.

Q Special Edition Never Mind the Jubilee Here's The True Story of Punk ! All the Bands, All the Bollocks and The 100 Best Punk Albums of all time. On Sale April 19th. Price � 4.99. 148 Pages the bands, graphic artists and clothes designers who made it happen, and the journalists and photographers who documented this extraordinary two year period.

NME Originals Punk 1975 - 1979 - Complete Anarchy - Vintage reports from the Punk rock frontline. Featured bands Jam, Stranglers, Damned, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Undertones, Ian Dury, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Clash, Television, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sham 69. On Sale April 24th. Price � 4.99. The NME Originals are compiled from first time genuine articles, interviews, reviews and rare photos.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:08 PM

 

7 Magazine

Something special for DJ Shadow fans this week's edition of 7 Magazine has an exclusive interview with Josh Davis. Pick your copy at a newsagents/newsstand tomorrow or see the website for subs..

[Also from May 7th Seven will launch as a monthly music magazine - to challenge Jockey Slut and IPC Ignite's Muzik at the quality music focused end of the dance music monthlies - this is separate from the more plebian fad led consumerist clubbers guide/ club listings/ club adverts sector that is dominated by Mixmag and Ministry.]

[The weekly 7 magazine, will be rebranded 7 Update - and will still be available each Wednesday]

# posted by DJ Martian 8:29 PM

 

Soundproof

Soundproof has reviews of:

Dabrye - one/three - Ghostly Int'l.
Herbert - Secondhand Sounds - Peacefrog.
Plaid - P-Brane - Warp Records.
Playgroup - S/T - Astralwerks/Source.
Nautilus - Are You an Axolotl - Planet Mu.
Abfahrt Hinwil - Links Berge Rechts Seen - Toytronic.

12"
Capitol K - Pillow - XL Recordings.

7"
Hood - Photographers - 2002 tour.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:38 PM

 

The Smiths the most influential NME band of all time

The Top 10 NME icons of all time have been revealed, The Smiths get the top slot. Surprise no top 10 slot for Joy Division ! or New Order !

# posted by DJ Martian 2:35 PM

 

Chunky Records - Coming Soon

A massive update of forthcoming releases @ Chunky Records - Coming Soon including these:

Institut Fuer Feinmotorik - Penetrans (Staubgold)

Long awaited new album by these Southern German turntable rockers and clicks'n'cuts veterans. 8 killer tracks created on up to 8 "empty" record players prepared with household materials. Concentrating on the reduction of instruments, amongst other things, the members of the group are primarily interested in acoustic phenomena around the record player. In fact, along with their policy of abandoning records, their [admirable] accompanying motto: "To produce from almost nothing almost nothing". These pieces have received numerous versions since 1997, all manner of different presentations with the concept of "empty" record players. Between 2 and 4 people play approximately 8 record players, applying different handicraft-materials in a music performance. Some urgent and heavy riddims make this like nothing other than your own ready made Radioboy Battle Tool!

RELEASED 22nd APRIL

Moonsanto - Fraud - Hell - Dope (Hush Hush)

Moonsanto is made up of members of SILK SAW and XINGU HILL. 'Fraud\Hell\Dope' presents the band's interpretation of the current uses of biotechnologies by global companies. Inspired by surrealist poets and painters as well as early experimental noisemakers, Moonsanto is actually a very solid yet diverse project. Ranging from very melodic moments to more experimental cut-ups, this disc has everything to please to the most difficult ear as well as the most adventurous listeners


The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers (Output) Ltd 12"

'House of Jealous Lovers' is the first UK offering from genre bending U.S. punkers The Rapture. It's a pure slab of classic screaming angst, punk chic and savvy, mixed over an infectious death disco beat. Imagine the GANG OF FOUR and LIQUID LIQUID making out at the PARADISE GARAGE with P.I.L.

RELEASED 29th APRIL

Arpanet - Wireless Internet (Source)

An electronic outfit from Detroit, home to a vibrant techno/electronic scene that seems to be on everyone's lips since the hype surrounding the likes of Fischerspooner, International Deejay Gigalo Records and so on. Arpanet was produced at the DATAPHYSIX headquarters, where the acclaimed and cult combo DOPPLEREFFEKT project had been recorded. It is a poetic and prophetic Kraftwerk type concept-album devoted to the revolutionary technologies of Japan's leading telecommunication company NTT DoCoMo, which will soon change our day-to-day lives. After a great success in Japan (30 million users), NTT DoCoMo are about to release their new I-mode cellular phones worldwide. These are permanently connected to the internet

Drekka - Take Care To Fall (Bluesanct)

Along With A Rotating Ensemble Of Players, Drekka Make Swhat Has Been Coined "Experimental Folk", An Attempt To Record What Goes On In One's Mind. The Result Sounds As If Nurse With Wound Were To Produce Leonard Cohen, Almost. Comparisons Have Been Made To Flying Saucer Attack, Coil, Donovan, The Hafler Trio And Bright Eyes
Edison Woods - Edison Woods (Endearing)

Described by critics as "warm blanketing lullaby sounds for starry winter evenings", edison woods is marked by slow and drifting melodies, subtle musical textures and quiet contemplations. For fans of low / julie doiron / labradford / ida / cat power etc

Hot Little Rocket - Danish Documentary (Endearing)

Hot Little Rocket are from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Too fast to stare at their feet, and too catchy for rock and roll fashion, these songs are to shout down buses by, songs to rail against your day job to, or songs for simply strapping on the headphones and embracing the dynamics... Hot Little Rocket embrace both melody and abrasion, taking in English guitar noise and American post-punk. My Bloody Valentine / Sunny Day Real Estate / Modest Mouse

The Iditarod - The Ghost, The Elf, The Cat & The Angel (Bluesanct)

The Second Full Length From This Rhode Island Duo, Having Also Appeared On The Tom Rapp Tribute, Their Special Brand Of Darkly Beautiful Home-Fi Fairytales Being Strongly Entrancing. Recommended To Fans Of Cat Power, Movietone, King Crimson Etc

LOWTEC - Secret Corner (Source)

10 unreleased tracks plus (cd only) Mitre Peak previously released on the OUT TO LUNCH ep. Secret Corner reflects the roots of house and techno but also makes its very own statement. Deep, funky and moody minimal house and techno tracks... flowing grooves....smooth strings.... Evolving, mutating slowly but carefully, constantly in motion, the tracks minimal arrangments leave wide spaces for subtle shifts and alterations

ROVO - Tonic 2001 (Tzadik)

Veterans Of Bands Such As The Boredoms, Bondage Fruits, Bazooka Joe, Dub Sub, Demi Semi Quaver And Omoide Hatoba Come Together In Rovo, A Virtuosic Trance-Rock Group Based In Tokyo. This Dynamic Two Cd Set Collects The Best Of Their Legendary Two Night Run At New York City's Premiere New Music Club Tonic. Beautifully Recorded And Impeccably Mixed By Rovo Mastermind Katsui Yuji In Japan, Tonic 2001 Captures The Firey Brilliance Of This Dazzling Band Like No Studio Recording Ever Could. Two Special Mix Translations By Bill Laswell Are Included As Bonus Tracks. Ecstatic Music For Listeners And Dancers Alike. Definately For Fans Of The Acid Mothers Temple Genre, And Also For Fans Of Early Tortoise

Ruisort - Acapulco Now (Certificate 18)

This album is a splendid post lounge electronica collection, full of electro / chillout moods through to breakbeat mirages, and would sit happily in any collection of downtempo grooves. Featuring Fussibles' (part of the Nortec collective) uptempo rework of Ruisorts 'Suite Caleta' in breaks fashion, the diversity of this whole project cannot be questioned (the artists influences ranging from Uwe Schmidt, Kraftwerk, The Orb, Howie B and Kruder & Dorfmeister - all of who are felt within these grooves)

Janek Schaefer - Pulled Under (Audioh!)

'Pulled Under' Forms An Enveloping And Dense Stream Of Macrosonic Soundscapes. Navigating Fluidly Through A Series Of Absorbing And Granular Abstract Enviroments. Initial Pressing In Deluxe Digipack

RELEASED 6th MAY

Farben - Textstar 12" Collection Star Box (Klang)

It's hard to pinpoint exactly, makes JAN JELINEK'S recordings as FARBEN stand out the way they do. After all, minimal, dubby techno is nearly 10 years old, and while FARBEN's music is far from a textbook example of the genre, it's undeniably linked to the blissed out, horizontal house of BASIC CHANNEL and CHAIN REACTION. There's a smoothness, a softness, a billowing-out of sound that stands apart from the angular, pixel-prone minimalism of its contemporaries. You can hear it in "Love to Love You Baby," in the way the horn sample darts out from behind parted curtains of crackling static, a come-hither whisper caught on the dividing line between concealing and revealing. It's a hell of a lot sexier than give-up-the-goods-vocal house. JELINEK first combined his interest in jazz samples and moire patterns on Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records. In FARBEN's tracks, though, especially the four new tracks released on the 12" FARBEN Says: Don't Fight Phrases, the jazz samples are allowed to root and to bloom. VERY LIMITED BOX SET , THE 'STARBOX" WITH THE LONG SOLD OUT 12"s PLUS THE NEW ONE. Textstar collects tracks from four of FARBEN's six EPs: Live at the Sahara Tahoe (1999), Raw Macro (2000), Beautone (2000)

Hellfish And Producer - Bastard Son Of Rave (Planet Mu)

After last year's solo hardcore techno tour-de-force "Meat Machine Broadcast System", Hellfish is joined again by the south-west's DJ Producer forming the winning team capable of smashing all-comers as they did with 2000's "Constant Mutation" on Planet Mu and "No Mistakes Allowed" on Deathchant/Highborn. 66 minutes and 6 seconds of pure dancefloor energy and rush. The Hellfish and Producer sound encompasses techno, hardcore, breaks, hip-hop, electro, idm, jungle and gabber into a cohesive whole

I.F - Fucking Consumer (DiskoB)

REPRESS ALERT !! One of the most sought after electro albums ever is finally rereleased!. It features the massive "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" track plus a myriad of electro gems. Available as 13 track cd or 8 track double vinyl

Jaki Liebezeit / Burnt Friedman - Secret Rhythms (Non Place)

Burnt Friedman's unmistakable micro-dub sound and pioneering programming style is instantly recognisable from his work with Atom Heart as Flanger (on Ninja Tune), the much loved Nu Dub Players and his releases on his own Nonplace label. Now Friedman has joined his considerable forces with the inimitable Jaki Liebezeit, famous for the cyclical motorik beat he produced as the drummer in the massively influential CAN from 1969 to 1978. The powerfully dynamic sound invites both jazz aficionado and clubber to bask luxuriantly in the seductive live ambiance. The recordings vibrate with an edgy frisson of spontaneity combined with sensitively post-edited components

M.R.I - All That Glitters (Forced Tracks)

MRI return after last year's stunning debut album 'Rhythmogenesis' with an eclectic house album destined for the dance floor and living rooms. Next to LUOMO, MRI are the leading artists on FORCE INC's sister label FORCE TRACKS

RELEASED 13th MAY

Calla - Custom (Quatermass)

'Custom' is a remix project featuring TARWATER, PAN AMERICAN, I SOUND, COUCH, METROTECH and DATACH'I

Clubsessel - Clubsessel (K2O)

New project recently started by CHRISTOPHER BLECKMANN and HANNES WENNER, whose minimal recordings for M-nus / Detroit added some new flavours to the minimal techno-world. Sticking with minimal sound-structures, CLUBSESSEL combines rhythm-patterns which may apear simple with deep pad-sounds and noisy ambient soundscapes

Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover (Ipecac Records)

The Melvins are back with their eighteenth album and this is the royal best yet. 'Hostile Ambient Takeover' finds them at their most melodic, a flavourful mix of quiet intensity and noisy calm

Murcof - Martes (The Leaf Label)

Murcof's debut album, Martes, is a masterpiece of contemporary electronic music, where, for once, soul isn't sacrificed for technique. Rife with a gooseflesh-inducing aura of mystery and suspense, it draws together the apparently divergent disciplines of classical orchestration and electronic minimalism. The album is as likely to appeal to fans of Portishead as it is to fans of Warp or Mille Plateaux releases. RECOMENDED!

Shakeyface - Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon (Quatermass)

Living in Brooklyn by way of the northeast United States, Doug, aka Shakeyface, was born at the tail end of the 70's and grew up playing Curtis Blow records on his Fisher Price record player, listening to his mom's old Neil Diamond 8-tracks in the yellow Chevy Chevette. Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon is a sonic mish mash in the most wonderful sense of the word. Dub, jazz, soul, found sounds, 60�s pop, odd bits and pieces here and there, all of these things were put in a hip-hop blender and set to puree. Raw soul floats over electro bleeps while chunky hip-hop beats dance with reggae riddims

Tenecke - Block Terrain (K2O)

TENECKE is a project created by WAYNE B. MAGRUDER (Bowery Electric/Windsor For The Derby/Calla) which also features CALLA's Sean Donovan. Combining found sound, live recordings, sequenced beats and sampling, TENECKE surveys aural terrain, cementing opposing styles forming beat-heavy, textural, Brooklyn-inspired music

Simon Fisher Turner - Riviera Faithful (Lowlands)

New album from highly regarded composer who has composed soundtracks for Derek Jarman and worked/collaborated/produced with David Lynch/Brian Eno/ Barry Adamson. 'Riviera Faithfull' features many unreleased soundtrack pieces. 5 of the tracks are recorded and co - written by longtime collaborator Richard Preston. Holger Czukay appears on track 8 and SFT is also joined by Marcus Dravs on a track meant for a project set to appear on William Orbit's label. File next to : Eno, Terry Riley, David Lynch

RELEASED 20th MAY

Fiver - Here It Comes (Devil In The Woods)

'Here It Comes' is Fiver's third full-length on Devil in the Woods and is full of their slow-burning guitar pop which balances gracefully between The Flaming Lips and Built to Spill, albeit in weighty shoes. All the while, David Woody's voice skates high above, smoothly stroking the wandering twists adding shape to their swirling music

# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 AM

Monday, April 15, 2002

 

The Brainwashed Brain V05I14 - 04142002

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of these albums:

Pan American - The River Made No Sound

Global Goon - Vatican Nitez

Playgroup

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Danny Breaks and Dom & Roland Albums

Vinyl Network have some details of forthcoming albums by two key artists in Jungle/ Drum N Bass music: Danny Breaks and Dom & Roland

Danny Breaks - Virbrations - album expected May 11th

Dom & Roland - Back For The Future album has been completed, expect a release on Moving Shadow later this year.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:20 PM

 

No-Man

British Art rock band No-Man plan to release a new album in the Autumn. The album as yet untitled will consist of just 5 tracks coming in at around 40 minutes.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:59 PM

 

David Grubbs - Rickets & Scurvy

David Grubbs releases an album, Rickets & Scurvy on Fat Cat Records on June 3rd.

Also European Press Release for Rickets & Scurvy: (Received in an e-mail from dense promotions)

> dense promotion territories: europe excluding uk

June 3rd sees the release of David Grubbs third full length collection of
songs, "Rickets & Scurvy". His debut for FatCat, it's the first song-based
album since the critically acclaimed "The Spectrum Between" LP (Sunday Times
Record of the Year 2000), and the
first of his solo records to be built around an electric group, the
assembled cast featuring Dan Brown, N�el Akchot� and Tortoise's John
McEntire, with Matmos providing additional electronics.
Quite possibly his most accessible (and complete) record to date, "Rickets &
Scurvy" stays true to Grubbs' idiosyncratic vision of pop music, but
reflects the scope of his collaborations with others. It's a warm, inviting
record, drawing from a broad palette of textures and sounds. Grubbs'
trademark guitar stylings take their place alongside emotive piano motifs,
subtle, intricate rhythms, and his most confident use of electronics to
date. Lyrically, it's as incisive and thought provoking as we�ve come to
expect. The ten songs here highlight an incredible grasp of restraint,
release and subtlety, but "Rickets" is much more than just a sum of it's
parts - it's an immaculately planned LP, engaging from start to finish.
No stranger to collaboration, two songs ("Transom" & "A Dream To Help Me
Sleep") were co-written with the acclaimed novelist and writer Rick Moody,
best known for The Ice Storm (later made into a film by Ang Lee, Director of
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). David Grubbs is also known of course for his
work with Gastr Del Sol (alongside Jim O'Rourke), Bastro (with Tortoise's
Bundy K Brown and John McEntire), The Red Krayola, Squirrelbait (with Britt
Walford & Brian McMahon of Slint), and the likes of Tony Conrad, Will
Oldham, and Pauline Oliveros. With all this to his credit, it's good to know
that David Grubbs is still very much where he started and perpetually
creating, challenging, moving forward, finding new ways to express new
ideas.
A brief European tour is scheduled for June, with a more comprehensive
European tour tentatively scheduled for Autumn, where he will be accompanied
by a full band.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:48 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK:

Key new album releases for April 15th, [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

This Week: April 15th

Craig Armstrong - As If to Nothing (Melankolic)
Closer Musik - After Love (Kompakt)
Custom Blue - All Follow Everyone (Island)
December Wolves - Blasterpiece Theatre (Wicked World)
Dimension 5 - Alien Artform (Delsin)
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (City Rockers)
Icon of Coil - The Soul Is In The Software (Tatra)

For Reference

Last Week: April 8th

Anti Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (VME, formerly Voices Of Wonder/ also End Records)
Herrmann & Kleine - Our Noise (Morr Music)
Oliver Ho - Universal (Meta),
Inertia - Advanced Revelation (Cryonica)
Jack Dangers - Variaciones Espectrales (Bella Union)
Mesh - Who Watches Over Me? (Home Records)
Luke Slater - Alright on Top (Mute)
Soul Center - Soul Center 3 (Novamute)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 AM

Sunday, April 14, 2002

 

Sender Berlin - Gestern Heute Morgen

Yet more superb electronic music from Germany just listened to a brill track from Sender Berlin from a forthcoming album called Gestern Heute Morgen on Nick Luscombe's Flo-Motion show on Xfm:

Details from Tresor Website as follows:

Sender Berlin
Gestern Heute Morgen
12-track CD,
9-track double vinyl EP
CD, DO-EP l Cat.: 56189
Release: late April


In 1998, Sender Berlin brought together Hendrik Vaak (HendriX), Torsten Litschko (Stassy) and Alexander Lukat (Luke). They started out as organizers, producers and DJs at the weekly Headquarters Nights happening in Berlin�s Tresor Club.

A short time later Sender Berlin produced their first track, appearing on the Tresor label�s 1998 "Headquarters: The Album" compilation (Tresor 096). Following this release�s unexpected massive success the three became confident in further work together with more young Berlin producers.

Their own album debut "SPEKTRUM WELTWEIT" (Tresor 111), was presented a year later. The basis for this first LP sampled their various impressions collected during their sets performed around the world. "Spektrum Weltweit" was released in March of 1999 and was the most successful newcomer-release on Tresor.


In 2000 John Peel visited Sender Berlin�s home studio while they were recording their new album for Tresor, interviewing the band and broadcasting their liveset on BBC worldwide. "GESTERN HEUTE MORGEN" is an electronic journey: atmospheric and dubby sounds combined with laid-back grooves.

Sender Berlin is an outstanding project in the Berlin scene, aware of the (musical) surrounding while maintaining a very unique style - courageous and hard-to-find nowadays...

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

 

Popeye: X-Press 2 Lazy Single Enters @ 2

If It was not for a stoopid Pop Idol Loser (Gareth Gates), X-Press 2 would have been the Number 1 single with Lazy: See Radio 1 - Official UK Top 40 Singles Chart

2 NEW X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne - 'Lazy' (Skint)

[I told you this single would do well at the start of the year]

# posted by DJ Martian 7:42 PM

Saturday, April 13, 2002

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ BOOMKAT - A PELICANNECK ONLINE MUSIC STORE include:


Farben - Starbox - Klang Elektronik

Bringing together the four-part 12� series for Klang in one awesome package, Starbox is Jan Jelinek�s astonishing full-length debut for the Klang Elektronik label. Appearing on CD for the first time, and packaged in an unbeleivably luxurious (and expensive!) boxed set on vinyl which includes all 4 12� EP�s, this really does make for the most advanced form of micro listening produced by anyone anywhere. Kicking off with the ludicrously good �Live at the Sahara Tahoe, 1973� - we�re dragged into a dripping world of intricately processed 4/4 grooves, disco whoops and loop based loveliness. As previously mentioned � the sound has been immitated countless times but never bettered! �Beautone� really needs to be heard to believed :a microfunk grind of luscious bass drops and organ grinds..if only this unique sound had been christened we could give it a name and attempt to do it justice through words alone. The vinyl edition is strictly limited to 1000 copies for the world, both formats come complete with the kinda music that�ll ignite yr headz. Unmissable.


FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes - City Rockers

Band of the moment meets label of the moment and the frenzy begins. City Rockers importing the synth/electroid adoration that�s given the likes of the Gigolo label so much cred over the last 18 months, and unleash their very own ace in the pack : FC Kahuna�s take on all things dancefloor, retro, synth and multicoloured. The hype always grates, but there really are some wicked moments here, an electroclash of dancefllor devestation, moments of experimentation, and, off course, moments of pure cheese. Conclusion? Undeniable good fun. Enter the Zeitgeist.


Freeform - Audio Tourism Reinterpretations - Quatermass

We�ve been waiting for this to land for ages, the much talked about remix package for Freeform�s audio journey through Vietnam and China that came out in its original form late last year. A tantalising lineup of remixes here, gems on board from Autechre, Jan Jelinek, Atom Heart, Bill Laswell, Tal and more. Mr Jelinek abandons his Fraben guise momentarily and delivers a track seeped in the same oscillating electronic / vibraphone jazz bliss that has seen us addicted to Move D�s Conjoint project for a good few years now. Pure bliss. Autechre rarely dissappoint in the remix stakes, and this is definitely no exception. Their remix for �A.T� emanating from a stripped percussive oscilation, a carefully selected melange of the original found sounds drawn to a subtle magnetic point that builds and builds, despite sticking to a stripped down aesthetic that gives the track a hypnotic quality. The beginings of a bassline and warmth creep in towards the end : masters at work here kids, building a soundtrack for an indigenous lost robotic civilisation -Immense. Atom TM, meanwhile, builds on layers of similar source material and imbues shards of ethnicity with the funk for which he is now so well known. The man truly is out there with his ability to turn the function of DSP application into such a warm, organic beast. More than just your usual run of the mill remix package, this is an incredibly well thought-out record, some inspiring innovative and moving material on board. CD comes with data features : the original audio source material, pictures of relevant locations and informative maps. Highly Recommended.


Geez N Gosh - Nobody Knows - Mille Plateaux

Sonic magician extrodinaire mr Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, returns with the second installment of his jesus-inspired side project, Geez �n� Gosh. Having redefined the meaning of machine funk, Mr Schmidt has evidently spent even more of his precious time studying the possibilities of DSP manipulation and his high-end Kyma set up. The result is a seriously spannered and delicious blend of micro-house, metallic funk, gospel cut-ups, and soul. Transcending the so called �Clicks and Cuts� movement with a beautifully deviant refocusing of attention, this music manages to achieve that most difficult of things : experimentation and accessability. Listening to this I�d just love to take a trip down to Harlem with a tape deck and get this going in one of their established houses of worship, praise the lord! Simply put, try and keep up with the man, he�ll take you places you ain�t even dreamed of. Ace.


Marc Ushmi Meets Reverend Galloway On Ernst Busch - Mein kopf verlor ein dach - Whatness?

Whatness? I hear you cry. Isn�t that Ekkehard Ehlers fledgling label? Well yes it is, and this enigmatic, joyfully beautiful, compact disc from Marcus Schmickler has some of the most life affirming, warped house music this side of Marcus Nicolai. Perhaps surprising, given the high art digipack and obscurist title. But, the Good Reverend Stephen Galloway on vocals, in full Ron Hardy mode really soars over some of the beefiest, bugging house dubs you could wish for. Top arrangements, flecks of squalling horns add to the overall impression of drama, but the tracks here deliver totally for the dancefloor on their own merits. Sure there is an atmosphere of experimentalism, a downtempo track and some sundry moments to scare children, but this one of the freshest things we�ve heard in ages. One not to miss.


Various - Don't Fuck With Us - Digital Hardcore

Gargantuan compilation from those cuddly folk at DHR bringing together more than 60 tracks and over 25 artists from all over the world, it's a feast of hard, innovative music that chronicles the amazing growth of the Digital Hardcore scene over the past few years. Compiled, mastered, and sequenced by Alec Empire himself, RAGE ON!!


Bass Communion - Bass Communion - Hidden Art

An album of music without rhythm, written and recorded by Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree/No-Man). The album features Robert Fripp samples from a tape of soundscapes recorded during previous recording sessions. Released in a limited edition format with five separate interchangeable sleeves packaged with each album. Steve wilson has created an understated masterpiece of surreal instrumental beauty.


Dianogah - Millions Of Brazilians - Southern

Jason, Kip and Jay have played together as Dianogah (pronounced Dye-ah-NO-gah) since January 1995. Previous music experience found Jay in the Chicago skronk-pop band Hubcap; Jason, in the long-lived Grover from Champaign, IL and Kip performed in various groups, most notably as the touring drummer for The For Carnation. Dianogah�s core instrumentation is as a trio of two bass guitarists and one drummer. "Millions of Brazilians", Dianogah�s third full-length album, sees the band at their finest, with a cohesive set of songs which were written over ten months...a relatively short period of time for the band. Taking an aesthetic leap, the band enlisted Tortoise headman John McEntire to record the new material. McEntire�s input fills out the arrangements in a lush way, which contrasts with Dianogah�s previous albums, complete with their sharp, straight-ahead and honest documentations of the band (as recorded by Steve Albini). The results are richer, fuller and larger than the relatively stripped-down sound of the previous two albums. Check.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:12 PM

Friday, April 12, 2002

 

NME

More details of NME's 50th year anniversary celebrations and an idea who are some of their 50 Icons (to be fully unveiled in next week's edition), the following week (on sale April 24) sees a free NME Exposed Photo Book - of these icons.

This IPC Press Release all includes further details of special weekly theme editions that celebrate NME's 50th Anniversary year:

Others will include the top 50 NME covers and the 50 greatest albums of the last five decades.

It seems that the executives at IPC Ignite are going to string this 50th year theme throughout the coming year !

# posted by DJ Martian 9:13 PM

 

Blur - Apparently going for a Radical Music direction: Can meets Led Zep

I am not a fan of Blur but Damon Albarn reckons that the forthcoming album sounds a bit like Can meets Led Zeppelin, see: dotmusic and NME.com for further details.

I am trying to think of an existing/previous band that sound a cross between Can and Led Zeppelin? ..I don't know !

# posted by DJ Martian 8:59 PM

 

Sigur Ros

Canadian music website Jam Music have a feature that discusses Sigur Ros's current activities: Exclusive: Sigur Ros discuss new album

Freelance writer Mark Pytlik recently had the rare opportunity to visit critical darlings Sigur Ros on location in their new studio in Iceland. In addition to being treated to an exclusive preview of their as-yet-untitled new album..

# posted by DJ Martian 8:46 PM

 

Wauvenfold

Dotmusic review the debut album from the Nottingham based electronic band Wauvenfold: WAUVENFOLD - 3FOLD (WICHITA)

# posted by DJ Martian 8:30 PM

 

Selected Album Reviews by Andy Kellman

Andy Kellman @ Permafrost has linked his latest AMG album reviews, as usual they are well informed and worth a read through.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

 

Uncut - May 2002

A week after it has been in the shops: Uncut have finally update their website, with details of the current edition - it's Hendix on the front cover this month.

Nice featured retro album: Simple Minds� New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) remembered by David Stubbs.

"They were on the point of a unique synthesis of pop, prog, punk, funk and avant garde"...buy the magazine for more..

[I don't believe it ! Bob Dylan on the front cover again - next month - exactly 12 months since his last Uncut front cover - it also Uncut's 5th Anniversary special - on Sale Thursday May 2nd]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:26 AM

 

David Sylvian - Camphor

Trophies a David Sylvian news website have details, [including a tracklisting] of the forthcoming David Sylvian instrumental compilation called Camphor due for release on May 27th in the UK on Virgin.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:12 AM

Thursday, April 11, 2002

 

Satyricon - Vulcano

DigitalMetal.com report that Norwegian black metal band Satyricon have named their forthcoming album: Vulcano.

Satyricon's Vulcano is due out this summer on Capitol Records in Scandinavia and Nuclear Blast elsewhere. This looks set to be a key release in extreme/ dark metal in 2002 - particularly when the last album, Rebel Extravaganza set new standards with a stunning sharp epic production that incorporated industrial/electronic/sampled sound elements.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:56 PM

 

Layo & Bushwacka - After The Storm

In the new edition of Sleazenation magazine, there is an interview with Layo & Bushwacka at the end of the article it is stated the album is called After the Storm and will be out in June on XL. It this is so - then you have just read a web exclusive ! As there is no confirmation anywhere else on the web at the mo !

# posted by DJ Martian 10:31 PM

 

Prodigy - New Single coming July

Dotmusic report a new Prodigy single for July 'Baby's Got A Temper'.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:20 PM

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

 

If I were an editor of a weekly music magazine this week's front cover would feature: Red Harvest

This week's front cover choice is Red Harvest from Norway who are one of the most experimental/ cutting edge avant garde dark metal bands operating in music today. Back in the my youth in the late 80s Sounds magazine would cover a diversity of music including extreme metal (Metallica, Sepultura, Voivod - all had front covers), so it is in the spirit of Sounds - this principle is carried over to 2002. Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi is released April 22nd in the UK on Nocturnal Art Productions.

In extreme metal this year few bands will match the creativity of Red Harvest. From the outstanding reviews coming in this is set to be an exceptional album. Red Harvest are no fly by cash in merchants, this is their 9th album - they have been making music since the early 90s - this band deserves respect and esteem for their no compromise and experimental values of mixing rock and electronic sounds together to create startling music.

Red Harvest

Once again I refer to that fact that Red Harvest last album the supreme Cold Dark Matter ended up my favourite album of 2000 - a supreme album that connected with me because its fusion actually created something new that went deeper, further and more intoxicating than any other artist that year - it mixed diverse sounds: jungle, ambient, techno, industrial into a molten dark metal guitar grid - the results were explosive and unique - a new sonic DNA for the 21st century emerged.

Last week Catherine Yates (ex Terrorizer writer) in Kerrang gave Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi the full 5K. Slowly the reviews are coming in that agree that this an exceptional album:

Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

The Norwegian combo strikes back and present their 9th album, a step further for these heavy rockers who play & tour since 89. Red Harvest supported Mayhem, Cadaver, Zyklon and numerous other acts with their cybernoize metal, and already delivered solid albums as "Hybreed", "Cold Dark Matter", or their implacable "New World Rage Music".

This album is not easily classifiable, as their dense & apocalyptic style stands on its own; Melting Metal, industrial, with splitting visions, even choirs & symphonic passages, Red Harvest expose their vision of a post modern Ragnarok in a rather controlled release. An unflagging intensity hold you back the 11 tracks of "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi", forcing new paths & taking unseen musical approaches with a neat class.

The album starts with AEP (advanced Evolutionary Progression), a fast and furiously energetic track, where aggressive vocals, hypnotic drumbeats and lacerating riffs, hang on to an audible bass & deep keyboards layers. Their faster tracks, as "Humanioa", "Dead Men don't Rape", or "WeltSchmertz" really blow your head up by the variety of layers of sounds and the wildness of the riffs. Their slower tracks are amazingly elaborated, as "Godtech", "Dead", using backing, softened vocals and multiple sonic effects to create their cyber universe, surrounded by a pulsating, almost malefic & magnetic aura. The heavy riffs & growing bass work add to the weight of these painful & threatening parts. "Cybernaut" is almost suffocating, as "Desolation", dominated by battles rhythms and insisting beats. As "Godtech", these tracks have this strange extemporal aspect, a fragmented music forming a deep and united noize. "Beyond the End" a pure nightmare of a computerized world, an ode to the mechanical supremacy, where human life's replaced by a swarming void. "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" & "Weltsmertz" sound really different, an hybrid of heavy/hardcore Metal and aggressive industrial/noize, pounding attacks of over ever controlled assaults, a hybrid of heavy/hardcore Metal and and aggressive industrial/noize, really refreshing.

Their title "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" means "Thus Passes The Glory Of The World" (slik forg�r verdens �rlighet), the end of the world's theme already mentioned by Lord Belial in "Kiss the Goat" (95).

I definitively recommend you this coherent & apocalyptic album, that can easily be listened many times to fully release the incredible variety of the sound and an evolution of Red Harvest's style toward more balanced, even mature compositions.

Review Source: Demonic Horde

Also see Red Harvest fan website, including review Sick Transit Gloria Mundi


Fucking hell, what an album. An incredible 50 minute jaunt through the dark, aggressive, violent, world that Red Harvest dominate. Along with producer Neil Kernon the guys have created a stunning piece of work that for me has more than their previous releases. The only way I can think to describe the difference is that the tracks have more depth to them. The quality of the recording and mixing of the multitude of layers of sound is simple breathtaking. Jimmy�s vocals have never sounded better, the guitar sound is powerful and more noticeable than on previous releases. The rhythm section is flawless, the bass sound too is more noticeable. The samples and the use of them is better than on anything you have ever heard and they help add the depth already mentioned....

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

 

Sonic Youth - Murray Street

Alt rock legends Sonic Youth have named their new album: Murray Street, that according to the NME is tentatively set for a June 11th release in the UK.

Billboard.com have further details and for US based Sonic Youth addicts the album is due for release June 4th.

[Murray Street seems a strange name for an album it sounds like a street name in a typical Scottish City !]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:40 PM

 

Mr C - Change - Official Press Release for debut album - set for release May 20th on End Recordings

This sweeping collection of shifting moods, colours and textures is too wide in scope to be dismissed as tech-house, though it borrows that genre�s insistence on not settling for the obvious. It�s a mood-enhancing record that reaches for the sky, while never letting go of the groove.

The official press release for the debut album by legendary Mr C, Britain's leading pioneer/promoter/DJ of the underground tech-house movement, has arrived: [ IMHO this is set to be one of the key electronic/dance albums of the year: ]

The End Recordings announce:

Mr C releases his long awaited debut solo album on End Recordings on the 20th May 2002. We have all new section devoted to the album from special live audio previews, photos, new biog and press releases.

Press Release for Mr C - Change album

Mr C presents his debut album. The legend returns... It should come as no surprise that a producer, DJ, popstar and agent provocateur as prolific as Mr C should release his solo album. Nor that the album, �Change�, should be the accomplished sweep of melodic, electronic dance music that it is. The surprise is that it's taken so long. "After 15 years of recording," Mr C says, "it�s not a moment too soon." For 15 years Mr C has played a pivotal role in dance music. As a popstar with international pop-techno pranksters The Shamen, Mr C headlined Glastonbury, won an Ivan Novello (the only DJ in the world to do so!) and reached Number One - all with a knowing nod and a wink. As an underground DJ, producer and protagonist, Mr C has been there from acid house�s early days, through the creation of �tech house�, to helping redraw dance music�s future with his shiny, metallic West End club The End.
With The End established, and its definitive tech-house sound breaking into the mainstream, it�s time for Mr C to make his own, highly personal statement - with an debut album that while made rich with experience, typically has its eyes on the future. �Change� is the album Mr C�s international brigade of admirers have long anticipated � and it�s been worth the wait. This sweeping collection of shifting moods, colours and textures is too wide in scope to be dismissed as tech-house, though it borrows that genre�s insistence on not settling for the obvious. It�s a mood-enhancing record that reaches for the sky, while never letting go of the groove. And it comes after a period during which Mr C�s life changed beyond recognition, hence the title.

First, a 12 year relationship ended, leaving Mr C a single man. Then his father died. "That makes you think about things in a different way. It makes you stronger," he notes. Then he met the LA-based Mexican actress and model Xochitl in Miami - and she�s now his wife. "As an artist, you put your experiences into your art," says Mr C. "And that�s what I�ve done. It�s a very personal album."

The tumult is captured in the nervy, pulsating blues-house of �Hectic Times�, with its wailing harmonica. His hypnotic, whispered raps turn up on numbers like the sexually-charged �Give It All� and the sci-fi disco of �Ascention�. The pumping, yet poignant grooves of �The Club� feature gloriously ghostly vocals from soulful house legend Robert Owens. Former Shamen vocalist Victoria Wilson-James - now a West End diva - turns the pulsating deep house of �Circles Of Love� into a sinister, breathy torch song. And the icy �Terricola� - with its robo-electro beats and machine voices - captures the romance in his new life. "�Terricola� is Spanish for the way an alien would address a human. The wife thinks I�m a bit of a Martian," says Mr C, "so in return I call her Terricola. It�s about an alien falling in love with a human and it�s a love song to my wife."

# posted by DJ Martian 2:25 AM

 

Speedy J - Loudboxer

Everyones favourite Dutch electronic artist, (Jochem Paap) Speedy J releases a new album, Loudboxer, on June 3rd on Novamute, details @ Spaced

# posted by DJ Martian 1:25 AM

 

Electric Dreams

Yet another 80s compilation is released !: Electric Dreams: 80s Synth pop classics (available 22nd April) Tracklisting:

Disc One

1. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
2. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
3. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
4. Kraftwerk - The Model
5. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
6. Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric
7. David Bowie - Fashion
8. Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive!
9. Belouis Some - Imagination
10. Talk Talk - Talk Talk
11. Landscape - Einstein A Go-Go
12. Visage - Fade To Grey
13. A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
14. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
15. John Foxx - Underpass
16. The Human League - Being Boiled
17. Tears For Fears - Mad World
18. Ultravox - Vienna
19. Japan - Ghosts

Disc Two

1. New Order - Blue Monday (Original 12" Version)
2. The Cure - The Walk
3. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
4. Yazoo - Don't Go
5. Freeez - I.O.U
6. Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay
8. Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl
9. Simple Minds - I Travel
10. Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling
11. Duran Duran - Planet Earth
12. Classix Nouveaux - Is It A Dream
13. Gary Numan - We Are Glass
14. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity
15. The Associates - Party Fears Two
16. Scritti Politti - Absolute
17. Paul Hardcastle - 19
18. Erasure - Sometimes
19. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

# posted by DJ Martian 1:06 AM

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

 

Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu certainly have a unique style - weird orchestral twisted dark pop - with a vocalist that has a very distinctive tonal quality - the closest I can come up with is two Irish singers: Gavin Friday from Virgin Prunes fame and the vocalist from the 80s/ early 90s Irish band A House. There is also something about the style that reminds me of Morrisey and mid 80s English band Furniture. Other critics have cited various bands such as Galaxie 500, Joy Division, Pop Group, The Cure and Talk Talk.

A new talent has arrived in 2002: Xiu Xiu - they have carved a unique arty style sound that sets them apart from any other contemporary band. Download the track and experience the Xiu Xiu sound experience yourself: Xiu Xiu see mp3 track: I broke up by. The most addictive under 2 and half minute track I have experienced for some time.

Xiu Xiu's debut album Knife Play is already released in the US, but a UK release is due on April 22nd .

Metroactive article on Xiu Xiu

Official Xiu Xiu website, the band are currently on an extensive US tour.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:39 PM

 

Doves - The Last Broadcast

So the final edition of the old format NME hits the streets with the Doves on the front cover. I enjoyed their debut album Lost Souls, but according to writer James Oldham the new one is even better
: The Last Broadcast is an immense achievement/monumental record, apparently with echoes of The Smiths, Joy Division, Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and the Hacienda club.

Playlouder also rate the album as awesome

The Doves debut released two years ago was return to the epic alt-rock 80s sound that i first enjoyed in my teenage years ala Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain, The Chameleons: Strange Times and Peter Murphy's: Should The World Fail To Fall Apart.

So far all the feedback on the new album has been positive although I have yet to hear any tracks in radio land apart from the single.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:20 PM

 

Jazzanova

Some folks at KindaMuzik have dubbed Jazzanova - In Between as the first nominee for album of the year. [It is released on Compost Records on April 29th in the UK]

I am aware that John Kennedy and Nick Luscombe on Xfm have played Jazzanova music recently - but I can't say the tracks have registered with me so far, but I will keep an open mind when they are played next.

Also in the latest edition of Alternative Press they state that Jazzanova - In Between album is a stellar journey through hip hop, afro funk, disco and more.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:26 PM

 

The Brainwashed Brain - V05I13 - 04072002

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Jack Dangers - Variationes Espectrales

S.I. Futures - The Mission Statement

Si-cut.db - Enthusiast

# posted by DJ Martian 8:14 PM

 

Luke Slater - Alright on Top

Playlouder review Luke Slater - Alright on Top with a 5/5 rating.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:39 PM

Monday, April 08, 2002

 

Careless Talk Costs Lives

A new edition of Careless Talk Costs Lives is now available:

NEW!! ISSUE 10 OUT NOW:
BRIGHT EYES, GIANT SAND, JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, OXBOW, MERCURY REV, MEN OF PORN, MCLUSKY, SMOG, ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, TRANSISTOR 6, PEACHES, HEFNER, HUNDREDS OF ALBUM REVIEWS, STUNNING VISUALS, AND ALL THE USUAL STUFF...

Sorry to report but with the above line up Careless Talk Costs Lives - is turning out to be too narrowcast focusing on a certain type of (American) Independent Rock - with a number of above artists that hold no interest for me.

[The need for a new diverse radical zeitgeist music magazine that comes out on a fortnightly basis (bridging the gap between the production cycle of the weeklies: 7/NME/ Kerrang) and the slower moving monthlies - still needs to be filled in the UK - ala rebirth of the values of a radical Melody Maker 87/88 and Sounds: i.e a music paper that is in opposition to the NME. ]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:41 PM

 

John Peel Returns

After his extended holiday break in New Zealand, John Peel returns to his Radio 1 show tomorrow:

With Soul Center AKA Thomas Brinkman recorded live at Fabric

The temporary replacement shows did not work - this time slot 10 - 12 needs variety, diversity, unpredictability and a mix of music styles - even if I don't agree with a percentage of the music that Peel plays there will be something in the show that interests me.

There should be more mavericks on the radio that program their own shows playing a diverse selection of music, sadly 6 Music has a dull conservative playlist and the retro choices don't dig deep enough. Whilst Xfm still feels the need to have playlisted shows throughout the daytime and reverts to this after 1.00am too - the weekend is also clogged up with wasted hours playing crap music on rotation. So welcome back Peel the music maverick.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:50 PM

 

NME changes

MediaGuardian.co.uk report that NME goes glossy

It will maintain the newsprint on the inside but is to relaunch in a smaller format as it struggles to boost falling sales and compete with its younger rivals.

So the next edition of the NME (on sale tomorrow in London) will be the last in it's existing format, as the following week it is all change:

The relaunch, which coincides with NME's 50th anniversary, will take place on April 17 and will feature an increase in pagination, the glossy cover and a redesigned logo.

How long did the Melody Maker last after it's change in format? - just over a year ! What will happen to the NME only time will tell ! It is not so much the format that is wrong with the NME but the content, but I have done that essay lecture previously !

I will judge the changes in a few weeks time.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:29 PM

 

13 Shortcuts - Sounds listened to on the Radio that Turn Me On.

From various specialist radio shows these are some of the artists/tracks that have caught my interest recently:

Dot Allison - reinvents herself as Britain's answer to Miss Kitten, on the electro-pop tip new album coming in May - We're Only Science (Mantra)

A Small Good Thing - atmospheric twang guitar and electronics: album coming soon on Leaf. Sounds fresh, different and distinctive for 2002.

Asa Chang and Junray - superb new Jap electronic music, lead track Hanna - very deep, epic and arty - this could be one of the cult IDM/ electronic albums of the year, due early June on Leaf.

Carl Craig - new 10 minute plus track coming on Studio K7 - spacey, deep and futuristic instant tech-house classic - and I have taped it ! Yes. Lets hope Mr Craig releases an album - soon.

Mr C - new tracks off the superb Change album. tech house par excellence, album due May 13th - this will be one of the dance albums of the year - top draw material ala Slam/ Funk D'Void.

Cinematic Orchestra - All That You Give, with legendary jazz singer Fontella Bass ... deep, sensual track that could do rather well with more airplay. The vocals fit very well with the sounds and the flow of the track is sublime.

December Wolves - total off the wall, very epic experimental avant garde metal - ala Arcturus/ Red Harvest/ Dodheimsgard/Satyricon - listened to a rock show the other week this was the only track that stood out - the rest of the show was utter formula crap.

High Contrast - much talked about young (Welsh) jungle artist, superb new tracks off the forthcoming album, True Colours due end of May on Hospital Records - future funk jungle that pulsates with energy.

Layo & Bushwacka - new material a new fuller cinematic sound more tech house sounds, the album is coming sometime in the Summertime. There is an album sampler floating around, I wish I could get my hands on it.

Metamatics - new tracks on the new album ..superb electro-techno-ambience - full on cinematic sound - I must check the album.

New Order - new single Here to Stay with the Chemical Brother sounds excellent, a great flowing track. Due for release April 15th.

The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers - ace new punk funk track signed to Output - in the UK - single released April 22nd. ACR/Gang of Four the sound updated for 2002 - has that choppy / edgey postpunk guitar sound that I Luv. Again with airtime - this track could crossover. I can imagine this would sound excellent on the dancefloor. Think Les Savy Fav with more grooves.

Sugarbabes - Freak like me - the one with the Gary Numan sample sounds that combine well with the vocals - due for proper release on Universal label. This track could go all the way with the right airplay.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:02 AM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK:

Key new album releases for April 8th, [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

This Week - April 8th

Anti Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (VME, formerly Voices Of Wonder/ also End Records) Import Only
Herrmann & Kleine - Our Noise (Morr Music)
Oliver Ho - Universal (Meta)
Inertia - Advanced Revelation (Cryonica)
Jack Dangers - Variaciones Espectrales (Bella Union)
Mesh - Who Watches Over Me? (Home Records)
Luke Slater - Alright on Top (Mute)
Soul Center - Soul Center 3 (Novamute)

For Reference:

Last Week - April 1st

Apex Theory - Topsy Turvy (Dreamworks)
Cybernet Systems - Robot Movement (Battle Trax)
Ectogram - Tall Things Falling (Ankstmusik)
Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (Constellation)
Ivory Frequency - Plug-In (Dependent)
Oxbow - Evil Heat (Neurot)
Simple Minds - Cry (Eagle)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:12 AM

 

Fake Jazz Reviews - Number 26

A new edition (26) of Fake Jazz including these reviews:

Two views on the finest new American art-rock band Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (5 Rue Christine) and Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (5 Rue Christine)

Two views on Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation) and Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet(Constellation)

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Code (Interscope)

Greg Davis - Arbor (Carpark)

Yellow6 - Lake:Desert (Ochre)

AGF - Head Slash Bauch (Orthlong Musork)

Chicago Underground Duo - Axis and Alignment (Thrill Jockey)

Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (Constellation)

Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:02 AM

Sunday, April 07, 2002

 

Forthcoming Releases @ Pennyblackmusic

More Forthcoming Releases @ Pennyblackmusic including these:

And None Of Them Knew They Were Robots - And None Of Them Knew They Were Robots

CD on Pigdog
Released on 06/05/02

Debut seven track mini-album from Leeds four piece And None Of Them Knew They Were Robots. Formed form the debris of several local Hardcore acts, ANOTKTWR have already gained serious major label attention with their dark yet intense brand of melodic post-Hardcore. Already in their short time together the band have cemented a solid live reputation with blistering performances supporting the likes of Dismemberment Plan, One Line Drawing, Les Savy Fav, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Burning Airlines & The Owls among others. One of the finest examples of UK emotional Hardcore as your ever likely to find!. And just to prove it this CD has already received an over the top 4KKKK review in KERRANG!.


Dead and Gone - The Beautician

Gold Standard Laboratories
Released on 29/04/02

California's Bay area indie-hardcore-goth veterans Dead And Gone return with their third album (their first for GSL), The Beautician. After a premature breakup in mid-1997, the band reunited and subsequently recorded a double 7 inch for GSL in 2000. During Dead And Gone's three year recording hiatus, bassist Brian Stern, drummer Joey Perales, and guitarist/keyboardist Rockey Crane continued on together in the brief, but well-received ensemble Creeps On Candy. *In this newest release, The Beautician, Dead And Gone is reunited with singer Shane Baker for the band's first full-length release in four years, the culmination of a musical maturity and evolution developed by their near ten year history together. *As much a departure from their previous works as a naturally occurring next step, The Beautician meshes the rhythm-driven intricacies , otherworldly Roland Howard-esque guitar hauntings, and insightful, sardonic wit to which the band's previous releases only alluded. Often compared to The Jesus Lizard, Birthday Party, and Laughing Hyenas, Dead And Gone have a presence that is undeniably their own. The band will be touring Europe to coincide with the release. *Hardcore For Fans Of: Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, The Locust, Cave In


Fred Frith - Accidental (Music For Dance)

CD on Rer Megacorp
Released on 29/04/02

Any new record from Fred Frith, one of the world�s leading avant rock guitarists and composers, is a major event. Accidental was commissioned by a British choreographer who lives in Amsterdam, Paul Selwyn Norton, for a dance piece made with the Batsheva Company in Tel Aviv. For Fred it�s a return to basics, a series of deeply contrasting moods achieved with the simplest of means. Throughout the CD noises of rusty metal, electronic detritus, bits of random radio, improvised cut-up vocals and messed up percussion, suggest an unpredictable and hostile landscape. Fred Frith is the thinking person�s guitar hero. Starting out with Henry Cow, in the early 70�s, he later became a key component of the New York scene, playing with John Zorn�s Naked City, Skeleton Crew, and Massacre (with Bill Laswell). Along the way he contributed to albums by Robert Wyatt and Brian Eno. He regularly tours the world as a solo guitar improviser, and in duos with the likes of ex Pere Ubu and Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler.


Ground Zero - Plays Standards

CD on Rer Megacorp
Released on 29/04/02

Throughout the 90�s Otomo Yoshihide�s Ground Zero were one of the key acts on the Japanese underground, releasing a number of seminal albums and touring the world with a mind crushing live show. �Plays Standards� is perhaps their most traumatically joyous recording. It�s a manic roller coaster ride through Western favourites like �Those Were the Days� and �Say a Little Prayer�, kitsch Japanese TV themes like �Ultra Q�, contemporary alternative classics from Fred Frith and Steve Beresford, and even some Brecht and Eisler. Sometimes the conflicting genres - Kung Fu movie sound effects, raucous jazz, free improvisation, noise, heavy rock, MOR come in shockingly contrasted segments. At other times they all seem to be going on simultaneously. Otomo, who plays sampler, turntables and guitar, founded Ground Zero in 1990. As a player he deploys outrageous samples of doorbells, sirens, splashes, scrapes, creaks and groans, while throwing in some randomly tuned thrash guitar. He sees composing as rather like editing, and he seemed to view his band almost as human samplers. The two drummers, bass, sampler, sax and electric guitars can veer off into any new style with almost incredible fanaticism, either whipping up a storm, or switching to an almost inaudible delicacy. Unlike the frozen fate of samples used in dance music, here there is a spontaneous unbuttoned hysteria that would be impossible to program or computerise; its dependent on the energy and interaction of the live players. Comparisons could be made with Zappa�s Mothers, where pop, jazz and classical genres could be switched on an off with ease; or perhaps some of Miles Davis units, where the leader could change the tempo and feel of the music with a small gesture. In recent times Ottomo has moved away from the Ground Zero style of overload and overkill; and he disbanded the group at the end of the decade. His new aesthetic is more minimal, often using turntables with no vinyl, or sampler with no samples. These new ideas can be seen in his solo work, in various duos, and with the trio Filament. �Plays Standards� is a chance to re-experience the pre-minimal phase, and catch the extraordinary Ground Zero in full flight.


Makato Kawabata - Infinite Love

CD on Ochre
Released on 29/04/02

Makato kawabata is head guru of the japanese 'out-there' outfit the acid mothers temple & melting paradiso ufo. 'Infinite love' is made up of three beautifully recorded tracks lasting 74 minutes. The tracks were all recorded in makato's studio in january 2002. Blissed out, etheral and surreal. Kawabata says about his music, "when i'm putting a track together, all i think about is picking parts that have the elements that come closest to the sounds in my head. Sudden inspiration becomes the most important part of my work. I believe that the resulting ensemble has already left my hands. It is assembled by the cosmos (or god). All you need to know is god. So i don't search for good arrangements - all i do is give thanks for the presents that god sends to me."


Octopus Project - Indentification Parade

CD on Peek A Boo
Released on 22/04/02


The octopus project is the latest development between longtime collaborators josh lambert, yvonne lambert and tot miranda, filling the gap between electronic and rock musics. Best described as "ambidextrous equipment failure junk tronica", perhaps something like the rock-plus-electronic sounds of iqu, the flying lizards, stereolab or cornelius, but way more rock!


Opera IX - Maleventum

CD on Avant Garde
Released on 29/04/02

After the success of previous album 'The Black Opera' Opera IX return with their fourth full-length album touted by many to be their break through album. Recorded at the near legendary Damage Inc. studios (Anathema & Lacuna Coil) the results proved awesome with the band laying down their finest recordings to date. Also, having replaced their original vocalist, Opera IX now boast the services of new screamer Madras, whom the band in agree lays waist to the efforts of his predecessor. Yet still the Opera IX sound remains as constant and vital as before with the band treading the occult roads of the old Pagan knowledge, myth and traditions. Adverts to follow in Terrorizer


Patrick Porter - Reverb Saved My Life

CD on Camera Obscura
Released on 29/04/02

We are chuffed to bring you the extraordinary recordings made by Patrick Porter (one half of the spacepop duo Raining on Vivian St previously known as PHINEAS GAGE) in 1997-98. Committed by the then teenager to a friend�s basement 16-track ADAT in the early hours of the morning, the songs have a Nick Drake-like internalization & soul. These recordings, originally self-released on cassette have now been re engineered & expanded instrumentally to present them sonically as their scope & sweep deserves. Lyrical, lilting & rhythmic, the songs share some similarity to work by the likes of Spiritualised, Low, & Piano Magic, but seem more like floating in a zone of sleep-deprived questioning & seeking rather than in space. Ambient & glorious, Porter�s vocal & guitar work shine throughout, but never more so than on the newly recorded �St Louis�, on which the swaying melody & skipping guitar lines are tracked by a night chorus of crickets inside a vast cathedral of sound.


Peter Murphy - Dust

CD on Metropolis
Released on 22/04/02

As a member of the early art rock pioneers BAUHAUS, PETER MURPHY has impacted the world with his deep sensual singing and heart-felt lyrics. Following the break-up of BAUHAUS, PETER MURPHY began a solo career selling out shows and wooing crowds all over the globe. Last year Metropolis released a taste of his live shows with "A Live Just For Love". This year Metropolis is proud to present PETER MURPHY's newest album "Dust". Expectations are high, this is Peter's tenth solo release, and fans won't be disappointed.This time around Peter has put his songwriting to the test by adding new elements to the mix. Not only are there beautiful string treatments, exquisite piano lines, and Peter's thick, rich vocal sound, several tracks take on a darker feel with ethnic, tribal, and atmospheric overtones. Tracklisting: Things to Remember, Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust, No Home Without Sire, Just For Love, Girlchild Aglow, Your Face, Jungle Haze, My Last Two Weeks, Subway (Epilogue).


Rye Coalition - On Top

Tiger Style
Released on 22/04/02

Rye Coalition busted onto the scene back in 1994 and has been rocking the masses ever since. Their songs are tight, clean and confrontational. Tweaked out and brutally sparse, RC are all muscle, no fat, covered only by a thin layer of scarred, shivering skin. On their 3rd album (first for Tiger Style) "On Top" takes their trademark heavy drums, deep bass, minimal guitars and yelps into the stadium rock arena allowing their AC/DC influences to break through the JESUS LIZARD stylings. They formed from the ashes of angular noise rockers MEREL, and have released 2 albums, a handful of 7"s, and (most famously) a split mini album with the legendary KARP, before expanding to a 5 piece and moving over to Tiger Style in 2001. Recorded that year with Steve Albini, you will get a chance to hear the live-damage version of their sound later this year as they tour Europe in support of the album� Stadium No-Wave for fans of: AC/DC, JESUS LIZARD, SHELLAC, TOMAHAWK, US MAPLE etc. .


Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

CD on Avant Garde
Released on 29/04/02

One of the brightest hopes for the future of Norwegian Black Metal is back. Though formed in 1993 Taake's highly acclaimed debut album 'Nattestid' didn't appear until late 1997. And it's long awaited follow up 'Over Bergen Graater Himmerik' still maintains the essence of the original Black Metal style while incorporating a more conceptual/progressive feel steeped in Norwegian folklore. A recent sold out German tour as main support to Black Metal legends IMMORTAL has won the band a whole new set of fans.


Thaw - Holy Cat

CD on Elsewhen
Released on 29/04/02

Thaw is the new project from the 'godfathers of global fusion' Loop Guru (Sam Dodson and Jym Daly). 'Holy Cat' is an alluring cohabitation of heavy beats and shamanisc chants. The result is nine tracks and over 60 minutes of some of the headiest samples to be heard in a good while. Best known for their prolific recorded output, LOOP GURU have an extensive musical catalog. Having garnered great success from the get-go (both 'Mrabet' and 'Paradigm Shift,' were named 'single of the week' from NME and Melody Maker) Loop Guru have a varied recorded output. With full-length releases including 'Amrita,' 'Duniya,' and 'Loop Bites Dog,' LOOP GURU have recorded no less than five Peel Sessions in the UK and released an almost endless number of singles, EPs and Internet only albums. Most recently, the Loops appeared along with another of Sam's side projects, SLIPPER, on Capitol's 'Electro Lounge Vol. 2'. Loop Guru is known as a dynamic live band and have toured extensively in both Europe and the US. Aside from stints playing everything from clubs to festivals in the Czech Republic, Greece, Germany, Holland, Portugal to name a few, Loop Guru has toured nationally with both Meat Beat Manifesto and as part of 1997's "Big Top" tour across America with Moby, Banco De Gaia, LTJ Bukem, Eat Static and more. Their first West Coast appearance was at the Organic '96 festival alongside the Chemical Brothers, the Orb, Underworld and others. THAW's 'Holy Cat' is very much an extension of the music of LOOP GURU. Still melding heady spoken word samples (from Avatar Adi Da Samra, Trivedi Tamarind Free Jones and Trivedi Naamleela Free Jones) with heavy beats and a swash of ambient backing tracks, THAW is something truly unique.


Wire - Read And Burn 01

CD on Pink Flag
Released on 06/05/02

Regrouping for live performance in 1999, the hugely influential wire have ably demonstrated, via sell-out shows everywhere from the royal festival hall to the garage, that their fire still burns some 20 years on from their first angular broadcasts, wowing audiences made up equally of devoted disciples and curious youth, winning resounding critical approval of the �elder statesmen still rock like angry young men� variety. �read & burn 01� is the first phase of a series of new works and stage appearances planned for this year and on into 2003, marking a fierce return to recording for the band, setting a standard that many of today�s new chasers of art-rock�s golden fleece will be hard pressed to emulate, and serving emphatic notice that the gauntlet is down. Committed followers will nod in approval at the sly referencing of elements of earlier material. The kids will be too busy responding to the demands of their adrenal glands as they bounce their heads off walls in unison with the carcrashing dynamism and dogged, unyielding tempos. The six tracks of �read & burn 01�, each hitting the 3 minute mark with deadeye accuracy, ride the line from punk to rock and back again with nerve-jarring immediacy, dressed and stylishly accessorised with state of the art production values. Which means, in short, loud and clear like the sound of shouting inside your own skull. Wire will play headlining shows at all tomorrow�s parties in april, barcelona�s sonar 2002 electronic festival in june, an american tour in september, a special event at the barbican in october, and other as-yet-unannounced high-concept shows at the end of the year. A session for radio 6 will be recorded in april.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:16 PM

 

Manual - new album: Ascend

Darla Coming Soon list a forthcoming album from Manual:

MANUAL - Ascend - Morr Music

May 6th

the world is a small place. thankfully there are people out there who are capable of making it look and sound a little bigger than it is. one of these people is jonas munk jensen from odense, a small town in denmark, who calls himself manual to work on a kind of music that, like most great works of art, transcends reality to become something that could only exist in the mind. these sounds seem to come from out of a better world where beauty matters above everything else. in morr music manual found a platform on which he finds for himself what his music essentially needs and that is time and space. after having released his debut ep on the danish hobby industries label, the network of sympathy and fine musical tastes soon found a way to connect loose ends between odense and berlin, resulting in until tomorrow, manuals first full length, a moody masterpiece between great gestures and finely tuned understatement. ascend, the title of manual's second album shows the way this music is going. at any time it is uplifting in a melancholic way, it directs into the inner self or into some far distant nowhere. all these emotional paradoxes stand in a tradition of many a great sound-sculptor starting with 4AD-acts such as cocteau twins, the swathing surrealism of my bloody valentine, the intense lethargy of talk talk up to the sheer beauty of slowdive. with these traditions in mind the music is carefully transferred into here and now while never losing a certain sunken quality. what more could titles like as the moon spins around or the distance give away? it's all there. although jensen is still only 20, he has some years of experience in making music. while in a way still juvenile enough to be real mood music, the tracks are mature in their reduction on essential components which give them a lot of depth and spaciality. all those soothing, opalescent sounds may come from out of old analogue synthesizers but jonas' indie-heart is still beating on the right side. one or the other subtle guitar part bears witness to that. same goes for limp, jensen�s other project in which he shares his vision with three friends to follow a similar path with different measures. their debut album orion was also just recently released as morr music 025 and is the perfect companion to manual's body of work.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:33 PM

Saturday, April 06, 2002

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ BOOMKAT A PELICANNECK ONLINE MUSIC STORE include:

Anti Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia - Warp

Long, long awaited third album from NYC's heroes of leftfield hip hop wickedness. Beans, Mr. Earl Blaize, The High Priest and M.Sayyid lay down flaming entrails which burn up all those wannabe avant/leftfield emcee's lurking round the corner. The album starts in a highly bizarre fashion with cross channel abrasive distortion and electronic interference. Then, bammm/boom/crash!! 'Bubblz' the Anti having fun with old school styles quoting "got a problem that I can't fix, then just deal with it" then it breaks into heavy live timbales from Blaize and conga's, plus moog bass rumblings. Pure science. The ping of the ping starts 'Ping Pong' (funnily enough) with "two shakes of a scary spice" they rap you inside out with the best table tennis sample since the Beastie's '3 Minute Rule'. 'Dead In Motion' drops firefly percussion evoking Kraftwerk's 'Numbers' before the heaviness increases, "more fire, more fire" lyrics lyrics lyrics!! Truly every track deserves your fullest attention, this will be my favourite album of 2002, no doubt, so indulge me. 'Mega' flows like a drunken cripple, freestyle keyboard runs like an old man with arthritis, check the mad vocal section with guest vocal star Nedelka Prescod going lo-class opera then Earl rap's onward over fake applause, animal noises and cars crashing. Earl Blaize shines on the solo joint 'Silver Heat' sounding like Antipop timewarped into De La's 3 Feet High and Rising, joyous fun and check the jazz-scat.. 'EKG' threatens a dancefloor invasion before it crumbles away at 00:29. 2 up's the bpm's with broken up beats, a female chanting "tonight, allright" the guy's excelling on the fast lick tip surely the ultimate contradiction for four guys who call themselves Antipop. 'We Kill Soap Scum' drops lyrics like "I sway to rhythm like a one legged tap dancer in a drunken ballet", nuff said classic APC brainabstract. 'Z ST' drop's the nightmare copdrugbustlovetwist rhyme, "schemes are not always what the seem" they lament on the outro. 'Traum' gets the classic Antipop verbalistic twists in full effect, pure genius hip hop that no one can resisssttt even when the beat seems to want to implode over trapped angels stuck in the sampler. High Priest pushing the levels in subtle distortion, his debut LP will be something to behold. 'Tron Man Speaks' is one of the best and strangest skits ever. 'Focused' is full crew effect mode, rapping like they are all tired and sleepy conveying a perfect hip hop dreamlike state, the lyrics are killer and very very funny. Ending the album - 'Human Shield' finds APC in full headbop explosion mode, heavy rockin' style. So as Earl Blaize says "obviously you're not stingy with stupidity" so buy this. This album's so fly that by the time you reach the end it's time to press start again. Uterleyy essential music. Big yourself up Mr A&R @ Warp.

Wechsel Garland - Liberation Von History - Karaoke Kalk

And as if by magic the sun�s come out, if only to accompany this blissful, sublime beach-drenched record from a true original. The work of Cologne�s Jorg Follert, Wechsel Garland has already made an appearance on last year�s excellent self-titled release for the Morr Music label, a record that acted as a follow up to the highly-acclaimed benchmark record �Wunder� - released on Karaoke Kalk in 1998. �liberation Von History� finds Wechsel in the warmest of climes : a melange of tinkling accoustic overdubs, accordions, found sounds and even a scattering of smile inducing dubisms that hollistically make for an album of pure joy. The opening �Gift� summons this mood perfectly, sounding like a dazed take on To Rococo Rot�s trademarked looped electroaccoustic fantasies, all moody cinematic strings and flutes, an elastic double bassline and shimmering organ keys...all blended in a haze of mood and beauty. Or try �Das Love Klischee� - all vibrant piano keys and precise accoustic guitars...romantic in gloriously self-conscious tones of blushed red. �Eins Aus Tausend� takes us to the bohemian quarters of a distinctly Parisian landscape, all charmed melodica�s and spine-tingling Fender Rhodes � uplifting and innocent in equal measure. In all, �Liberation...� spreads itself across 9 short and perfectly formed tracks of the most desperately joyful plinkplonk music you�re likely to hear this year..a blaze of happiness that will leave it�s strawberry-like aftertaste with you for a good while. Sublime.


Closer Musik - After Love - Kompakt

Closer Musik's two singles have both been big events for us, so the sensation of having a whole album is almost too much. This really is genre stretching stuff, great rhythms, occasional vocals most like the superb Safety Scissors' ironic offerings on �Parts Water�, yet like Matt managing some kind of alchemy in changing the sparest details into pure gold. Just one listen and you can tell this is a record to return to time and again for fresh inspiration and insights. �Closer Dancer� sets us off, low slung rhythm, like puttering, slightly slow acid, but burning with an oh so nonchalant vocal deployed casually on top. �Departures� has a wondrous analogue warmth to it, and when the strings and hihats kick in, the shift is like Carl Craig at his most almighty. A truly magical moment. �Last� toughens up the beat, scattering rimshots and deep toms, again the comparison could be classic Detroit, but this is altogether more developed and unique than mere imitation. By way of contrast, �Ride� drops us into zero gravity - a mesmerising journey of a tune, and when the refrain vocal comes in, there is something so human and affecting that words are not enough. �Giganten� fits with the pared down nature of some of the tracks, but the groove is just so natural, so addictive that one note is proved conclusively as being more than enough. �Mir� shares parallels with the dirty grooves of early Chicago acid, but finds a new way - rejecting formula and instead using simple elements brilliantly, as if for the first time. There's just a real sense of something truly fresh here, if you caught the �You don't know me� twelve from a couple of weeks back, then you may be partly prepared for the span and vision of this record. But believe it or not, this set far exceeds any expectations you may have, like that most unusual of feelings - after love.


Dimension 5 - Alien Artform - Delsin

What more can be said for Delsin, championed in just about every magazine from the Wire to Mixmag, the label goes from strength to strength and the reviews just get better. Dimension 5 are not going to change anything, reviewed already in Muzik and DJ, and about to be championed by me. �909 Thing� the opening track is a blueprint to Dimension 5 and Delsin, soulful, melodic, warm and superb. Using the 909 drum machine as the rhythm, Dimension 5 adds washy synths that seem to play off each other, the arrangment is superb and brings to mind the work of another Machine Soul, Kirk de Georgio. �Analogue Assault� is also superbly orchestrated, kicking off with a breakbeat and an acid line it builds with ace little Pizzicato strings that are almost Harp-like, stabs of melody underlay the beat and wobbles of analogue noises bubble away underneath, if Drexciya is the deep sea, Dimension 5 is the coral garden. �Think Tank� has one of the subtlest basslines I have heard, fitting in perfectly to the arrangement and reminding me of John Beltran�s work in melody, added in are real sounding drums, which give a live feel, and strings that bring out the melody beautifully. The whole album has many points of reference, and I would still be writing about it at the end of the 64 minutes but the few gems I have mentioned are not all that is to be discovered, so jump in the analogue sea of Dimension 5 and get washed away with the tide. Recommended.


Jack Dangers - Variaciones Espectrales - Bella Union

Jack Dangers is the veteran composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto. This fifth instalment of the Series 7, �Variaciones Espectrales� sees Dangers return to the fray with one of his most intriguing sets to date. Hip-hop, breakbeats and cutups through 7 developed tracks of advanced percussive construction work. Check.


Luke Slater - Alright On Top - Mute

Following the 12� from a couple of weeks ago, Mr Slater returns with this long awaited release of his full-length electropop project for those nice people at Mute. The crossover potential here is huge, perhaps accounting for the less-than satisfying sound that�s represented here. The subtleties and extravagance of electropop are fed through that filter labelled �bombastic� and are spat out with chart entryist tactics in mind. Good fun, but ultimately slightly cringe worthy.


Nautilis - Are You An Axolotl - Planet Mu

Following last week�s tasty 12�, Texas resident Skyler McGlothlin delivers his debut full-length for the Planet Mu Label. �Are you an Axolotl� is a varied affair, streaming through strands of electronica, hiphopisms and sample cut-ups. The opening pincer assault of �Mofpex� and �Oh How Schmee Loves DSP� excercises a carefuly crafted blend of treated vocal harmonies, phrase cutups and squashed beats (the former), before diving headfirst into digitally decimated vocal hip hop in finest filtered stylee (the latter). A b-boy stance dominates proceedings here, occasionally flowing into more effervescent territory, as in the truly inspired airy flow of �Blix2� - whereby clearwater beats mingle with haunted layers of blue voices that evoke the same kind of joyously emotional response that Aphex Twin manages when at his most reflective. �It�s lonely in the streets� finds our man Skyler in Balladeering mood, stripped keys and fender twinkles accompany the vocal in all its Van the Man splendour. Nice. Head towards �Drumpedal Remix� for a last dose of the blue stuff, highest quality electronica in all it�s multi-faceted, cross polinated beauty. Fans of Prefuse 73, Ae, Aphex and Machine Drum should check this out with utmost urgency. Excellent.


Soul Center - III - Novamute

Thomas Brinkmann�s Soul Centre project is brought to a wider audience on this third installment with a move away from his own label and onto Novamute. Displaying a far less rigid approach to dance music than Brinkmann�s self-titled work, Soul-Centre bases itself on the extraction of funk loops and uptempo tech/house beats with a freeflowing aesthetic. The micro-obsessions of Brinkmann�s work have long been noted and brought to huge acclaim, but it is undoubtedly his work as Soul Centre that will bring him the dancefloor adulation that he may well shy away from. In a similar move to Vladislav Delay�s eye-opening transformation into Luomo, Soul Centre is deeply accessible and light, but with production standars that are second to none within the field. Flawlessly executed and reassuringly �Up�, this really is a testament to the influence that 60�s/70�s funk music has had and will continue to have on dance music throughout the clubs of Cologne, Europe and the world. Ace.


Swayzak - Groove Technology V1.3 - Groovetech

To make a long list short: What Swayzak celebrated on two LPs so far (�Snowboarding In Argentina� 1998, �Himawari� 2000), is the art of uniting alleged contradictions in an endless and deep cosmos of sound. Minimal effects generate hypnotic miracles in a music whose 4/4-bassdrum has just checked into a warm and cosy hotel, leaving the sparse dwellings of Techno to the cold. This album is the third in the highly acclaimed �Groovetechnology� series and is a direct reflection of the radio show broadcast by Swayzak on Groovetech.com internet radio station. The Tracklisting : Phillipe Cam �Western (Salz Remix)�, Pile �World Record Holder�, Akufen �Architexture�, Styro 2000 �Pelati�, Headgear �Believers Goodbye�, Ellen Alien �Funkenflug Der Traume�, Basic Channel �Q1.1 (1A)� Delay 05, �Untitled�, Closer Muzik �Closer Dancer�, Ricardo Villalobos �808 The Bass Queen (Queen Of Bass Mix)�, Luomo �Synkro�, Cim �RNA�, Herbert �Back To The Start�, Colin Newman & Corrado Izzo �The Narrativ�, Stephan Laubner �Portside Waves�, Convextion �Crawling & Hungry�, Monolake �Fragile�, Studio 1 �Lila�, Bergheim 34 �Take My Soul�, Michael Mayer �17 & 4�, Bitstream �Monolith�, Kotai/Bader �Welltick� ,Son.sine �Upekah�, Round Four �Found A Way�. Many a pneck favourite on board here people, seriously on the money track selection throughout. Check!


Andrew Liles - An Un World - Infraction

Follow up to the fantastic Zammuto CD from a few months back. Liles has taken many small portraits of the soundtrack for the underside of the world and has carefully meshed them with samples that are as theoretically unsettling as any of the authentic EVP recordings conducted by Friedrich Jurgensson. A deceptive lullaby of electronic tones, stereophonic acrobatics and drowned words; the samples continue, that of wind-blown rain against the window, voices down the hall, piano interludes, indiscernible conversations in muffled tones on the other end of the line and sine waves expanding in rooms otherwise acoustically dead. Liles carves his own distinct sound, but a natural comparison may hint towards the instrumental works of Coil, the Hafler Trio (particularly �How to Reform Mankind�), Eliane Radigue (Trilogie de la Mort) as well as the subtle influence of Bernard Parmegiani. A moribund and profoundly disquieting recording of sadness and beauty. Highly recommended.


Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays Hubert Fichte - Staubgold

Third and final part in Ekkehard's well recieved and highly acclaimed series of mini albums. Following works devoted to Albert Ayler and John Cassavetes, this time the subject is German beat poet Hubert Fichte. Substantial bass drones are offset against oblique harmonies, created by deep gong-like tones and scurries across strings. Not quite as immediately feelgood as the �John Cassavetes� LP, but second listens reveal the original way in which Ekkehard puts together rhythm and the tiniest slivers of melody, then teases out harmony from the most disparate elements. On paper not much, but in the real audio world, highly individual and singular sound pictures, coaxed out of the shadows, emerge blinking into the daylight.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:40 PM

Friday, April 05, 2002

 

Cave In - Update

Lambgoat.com inform us that Cave In's RCA album has been delayed to late 2002/ early 2003, however the good news that an interim EP will be released by Hydrahead !

# posted by DJ Martian 8:05 PM

 

Trans Am

Sound samples from the forthcoming Trans Am - T.A album, available to download.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:02 PM

 

New Order - The Future !

According to Peter Hook New Order will commence recording the follow up to Get Ready in September !

# posted by DJ Martian 6:58 PM

 

Controlled Bleeding - New album - May

Music Non Stop list a forthcoming album from Controlled Bleeding:

Controlled Bleeding - Can You Smell The Rain Between

Ever the unpredictable purveyors of screaming noise, sacred songs,
vietnamese dub and almost everything in between, Controlled Bleeding
continue to defy expectation with one of their most ambitious works
to date, "Can You Smell The Rain Between", their first new album in 4
years. With this new record the group marry power electronics,
hellish atmospheres and bone chilling dark ambience with elements of
free jazz, modern classical, musique concrete and total freakout.,
creating a schizophrenic musical feast for the ears. Commencing with
the slithering paranoia of "Red Hands Waiting", with its throbbing
bassline, grinding low-end electronics and fragmented, hushed vocals
that recall minimalistic European post-punk electronica. It soon
becomes evident that this new album heralds a new chapter in The
Controlled Bleeding's developement. Moving into the free-
improvisation of "Birdcan" and fractured free-jazz swing of "Schist",
before exploding into the Beefheart inspired, technically daunting
madness of "Felch Space Scan". The album doesnt quite sever all ties
to the past but it certainly presents a powerfull argument for their
continued relevance. Shifting from deep, extra-terrestial dub to
droning disonance and modern classical before ending with a hyper-
rhythmic yet deeply surreal version of Eno's classic "Here Come The
Warm Jets". Released 27th May 2002. Tone Casualties.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:51 PM

 

Interpol

NYC answer to Joy Division, Interpol have developed a website: with the news of an album in the Autumn:

In November of 2001, the band tucked themselves away in Connecticut at Tarquin Studios to record their debut full-length. The record was recorded and mixed by Peter Katis (Mercury Rev, Clem Snide) and Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Clinic.)

A limited deluxe EP is due out on June 4 and Interpol's debut full-length will follow in Fall 2002. An Interpol tour is in the making and will hit your town by the end of the year. Watch out . . . .

# posted by DJ Martian 1:03 PM

Thursday, April 04, 2002

 

Working for the Yankee Dollar - Why are Alternative Press front covers so utterly crap !

American monthly music magazine Alternative Press puts the gormless bland corporate grunge metal muppets PUDDLE OF MUDD on the front cover of the May edition.

Why are Alternative Press front covers so utterly crap in the past few years? (with the odd exception) When the reviews section, upcoming artist profiles and some of the features amongst the best of any monthly music magazine.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:02 PM

 

Wire - Returning 2002

Post Punk revival continues apace, further details of a new 6 track mini album from Wire - READ & BURN - 01

READ & BURN 01 EACH HITTING THE 3 MINUTE MARK WITH DEADEYE ACCURACY, RIDE THE LINE FROM PUNK TO ROCK AND BACK AGAIN WITH NERVE-JARRING IMMEDIACY, DRESSED AND STYLISHLY ACCESSORISED WITH STATE OF THE ART PRODUCTION VALUES. WHICH MEANS, IN SHORT, LOUD AND CLEAR LIKE THE SOUND OF SHOUTING INSIDE YOUR OWN SKULL.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:22 PM

 

NME - Can it get any worse ?!

Another example of the lack of standards @ NME - seeking a freelancer for an assignment related to Cooper Temple Clause - what the heck is this for? the Cooper Temple Clause are just bunch of basic bog standard one dimensional rock out chancers. Who needs a feature on this pointless one dimensional thrash rock band?

Last week it was another bunch of brit-rock chancers The Lostprophets who should rename their track to fake sounding American rock accent - with a cookie cutter modern commercial melodic hard rock sound. Also NME.com news section continues to get even more mainstream and irrelevant.

In two weeks time it's the NME 50 anniversary special "The ultimate word on the greatest five decades in music history" - I dread to think how they are going to re-write music history - and more importantly what they will leave out.

NME - a tragic lamentable on going serial in music media comedy. I have never liked the NME's tone/style/taste - but in 2002 I think it is in the worst state music presentation wise, since I have been aware of it from 1985 onwards - and that includes the dreadful mid 90s britpop era. NME in 2002 seems to be written for dim witted undiscerning 16 year olds (mostly boys) that do their homework whilst listening to the predictable Evening Session with Lamacq

This week it's the 90s plod retro stadium rock dork: Liam Gallagher in interview, next week a free Oasis poster.

Can the NME get any worse ? probably most likely YES.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:11 PM

 

Fischerspooner

Does anyone believe that Fischerspooner have signed a 2 Million deal? It reminds me of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and their 3 Million deal in 1985 that turned out to be more like �30, 000. Fischerpooner's album will be reissued in a new remixed format on April 29th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

 

Terrorizer - April edition

The April edition of Terrorizer is out, details of the edition

Unfortunately it is a Gore Metal special edition. Gore Metal is a sub genre of Metal that does not interest me one jot.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:56 PM

Wednesday, April 03, 2002

 

Angry Robot

New music weblog/music review website Angry Robot - check this robot it has a high IQ !

# posted by DJ Martian 10:20 PM

 

If I were an editor of a weekly music magazine this week's front cover would feature: X-Press 2

This week's front cover choice is X-press 2, by now you should have listened to X-Press 2's single lazy featuring David Byrne that is released April 8th - as it has been getting airplay on various radio stations since the start of the year. Therefore you know the score David Byrne's quirky flowing vocal style over a deep lush house track.

I have mentioned it way back in January - and I believe that this single has an excellent chance of becoming a big top 5 single, even possible number one when it crosses over to TOTP terriority.

The much anticipated album Muzikizum follows April 22nd. Therefore if I woz running a weekly music magazine, an upfront album preview and interview would be the order of the day.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:08 PM

 

Mum

More Information on the forthcoming single and album by the Icelandic: Mum

April sees our first release by recent signings from Iceland, M�m. The band's stunning new single 'Green Grass Of Tunnel' (released on the 29th April) sets out their stall in fine style. A track that soothes and delights and is joined by the exclusive 'in through the lamp' on the flip. Now based between Reykjavik and Berlin, m�m are two guys (Gunnar �rn Tynes and �rvar P�reyjarson Sm�rason), and two classically trained twin sisters (Krist�n Anna and Gyda Valtysd�ttir - who both appeared on the cover of Belle and Sebastian's 'Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant' last year), who have forged a gorgeously warm, rich and melodic take on electronica, imprinting it with their own unique sound and character. Perhaps what most sets the band apart from so many of their peers is both the strong, melodic vocals, and their warm, bold integration of both analogue and digital technologies. Playing an assortment of instruments - including accordion, melodica, glockenspiel, synthesizers, guitars, bass, and cello - alongside some crisply programmed electronic washes, beats and bleeps, the bands musical talent is immediately audible.

Following this single, M�m's new LP, 'Finally We Are No One', will be released on the 20th May. Written at a secluded lighthouse in the north west corner of Iceland, the album was then recorded at Sigur R�s' Alafloss studio in Reykjavik. Beautifully meshing some dense but intricate programming with gorgeous vocal and instrumental melodies, this is a stunning, emotive album whose pop surface belies a deep sense of exploration - richly textured, hypnotic and unashamedly sumptuous at every turn. Iceland's top programmer / engineer, Valgeir Sigurdsson, who also worked with Bjork on the 'Vespertine' album also particiaptes on 'Finally We Are No One', and they can already count Bjork, Mogwai, Kings Of Convenience, Belle and Sebastian, and Sigur R�s amongst their growing army of fans.

Source: Fat Cat Promotional e-mail

# posted by DJ Martian 1:17 PM

 

Primal Scream

Expect the new Primal Scream album on June 17th.

Having listened a remixed version of the forthcoming single, Miss Lucifier, released June 6th - it's Primal Scream gone electro-industrial think DAF, Front 242 and Cabaret Voltaire. Very fast and hard electronic industrial.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

 

Red Harvest - 'Sick Transit Gloria Mundi' - 15th April

Nocturnal Art Productions announce the European release date for Red Harvest's forthcoming album:

Red Harvest
The new album "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" will be released on the 15th of April.
The album will be released on license in North America by Relapse Records. No releasedate confirmed.

More Info on Red Harvest one of the leading avant garde dark metal bands operating in Europe.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:26 AM

Tuesday, April 02, 2002

 

Fly Pan Am

Fly Pan Am release an album: Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (?) - this week.

Eight tracks, forty-five minutes. Second album. Stuttering
messed-up funk, recorded by thierry amar (godspeed you black
emperor!).

# posted by DJ Martian 8:09 PM

 

Absorb Reviews

Absorb review these albums:

Icarus - Misifts

Luke Slater - Alright on Top

luke has quietly crept up and knocked out the best electro pop album you're likely to hear this year.

Sutekh - Fell

a beautifully understated piece of work, the beauty of it is what it doesn't say, rather then what it does. the dynamics and production are well executed. and despite the (valid) criticsm that it can feel slightly pretentious at times, the sheer range of ideas within are enough to impress.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:46 PM

 

The Brainwashed Brain - V05I12 - 03312002

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia

Vainio Fennesz Vainio - Invisible Architecture #2

# posted by DJ Martian 7:31 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK:

Key new album releases for April 1st, [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

This Week April 1st

Apex Theory - Topsy Turvy (Dreamworks)
Cybernet Systems - Robot Movement (Battle Trax)
Ectogram - Tall Things Falling (Ankstmusik)
Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (Constellation)
Ivory Frequency - Plug-In (Dependent)
Oxbow - Evil Heat (Neurot)
Simple Minds - Cry (Eagle)

[Due to changes in release schedules I may add in or make changes to this feature during the week as some releases get delayed]

For Reference:

Last Week: March 25th

Sven Andersson - Hem Ljuva Hem (Longhaul)
Antibalas - Talkatif (Ninja Tune)
Frank Bretschneider / Taylor Deupree - Balance (Mille Plateaux)
Cerberus Shoal - Mister Boy Dog (Temporary Residence)
The Heads - Trollo Ampio (Sweet Nothing)
Kepler - Missionless Days (Resonant)
Los Planetos Del Agua - Too Many Bricks And Not Enough Sea (Antenna)
Metamatics - From Death to Passwords Where You're A Paper Aeroplane (Hydrogen Dukebox)
Morika - Plee (Mille Plateaux)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Locked On/679)

# posted by DJ Martian 7:20 PM

Monday, April 01, 2002

 

Octipas.com

Another large scale e-commerce music store: Octipas.com claims to have over 800, 000 items. No postage charges within the UK, prices look competitive.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:44 PM

 

Planetdnb

Planetdnb is back online with a new look.

Planetdnb is one of the Internets fastest growing Drum and Bass dedicated websites - accept no imitations! We pride ourselves on providing you with all the latest Jungle, Drum and Bass information Worldwide!

# posted by DJ Martian 5:37 PM

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