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Monday, May 31, 2004

Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind

Far Out Recordiongs provide info on Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind

Mark Pritchard..
I’ve never spent so long on an album, and I think it shows as it’s my best album to date. This is not a club album, it’s all 4/5 minute songs with live musicians on all the tracks, it’s a journey.” The songs combine a myriad of influences - 60s bossa, 70s soul, exotic library soundtracks, and hippy jazz vibes.

Debut solo album from MARK PRITCHARD (Global Communication / Jedi knights / Harmonic 33)

This album will be released June 14th in the UK.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:51 PM

Musique Machine review Fennesz - Venice

# posted by DJ Martian 9:43 PM

The Brainwashed Brain

It's been a while since I mentioned, The Brainwashed Brain - so this is a recap/ summary of recent week's reviews:

V07I17 - 05022004: The Brainwashed Brain

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
4ad

Basil Kirchin - Charcoa; Sketches/ States of Mind
Trunk

Eluvium - An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death
Temporary Residence

Vinny Miller - On the Block
4AD

Rosy Parlane - Iris
Touch

V07I18 - 05092004: The Brainwashed Brain

Mission of Burma - ONoffON
Matador

thank you
Temporary Residence

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Stones Throw

27 - Let the Light In
Hydra Head

V07I19 - 05162004: The Brainwashed Brain

Pan Sonic - Kesto
Mute

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Antithesis
Kranky

Piano Magic - The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic
Green UFOs

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Fat Cat

Brent Gutzeit - Drug Money
Kranky

V07I20 - 05232004: The Brainwashed Brain

The Legendary Pink Dots - "The Whispering Wall
ROIR

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys
Rune Grammofon

Loscil - First Narrows
Kranky

Christian Kleine - Real Ghosts
City Centre Offices

Ehlers/Hautzinger/Suchy - Soundchambers
Staubgold

Kinski - Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water
Strange Attractors

Skalpel - Skalpel
Ninja Tune

Lasse Marhaug - The Shape of Rock to Come
Smalltown Supersound

Faust vs. Dalek - derber respect, alder
Klangbad

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Definitive Jux

THIS WEEK:
V07I21 - 05302004: The Brainwashed Brain

Adem -These are your Friends
Domino

To Rococo Rot - Hotel Morgen
Domino

Rob Mazurek - Sweet and Vicious Like Frankenstein
Mego

Margareth Kammerer - To Be an Animal of Real Flesh
Charhizma

# posted by DJ Martian 9:10 PM

Xploding Plastic on Late Junction

Xploding Plastic are in session tomorrow on Late Junction show on Radio 3

22:15 Late Junction

"Plus Norwegian electronic jazz duo Xploding Plastic perform tracks from their new album, Amateur Girlfriends in a specially recorded session."

# posted by DJ Martian 8:23 PM

Forthcoming Album Releases 2004

This has been updated » DJ Martian: Forthcoming Album Releases 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 AM

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Junior Boys - Last Exit

Now available to pre-order at Warp Mart: JUNIOR BOYS | LAST+EXIT | KIN03

# posted by DJ Martian 10:51 PM

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Kultureflash - Headlines from London

How come I have not seen this before: Kultureflash [sign up for their weekly newsletter]

ABOUT US
KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering happenings and openings in and around London. Each week we track down some of the most interesting and unusual events taking place in the capital and deliver them straight to your inbox. Featuring art, gigs, films, talks, clubs and more -- we are committed to bringing you an eclectic mix of the best of what's on in London.

[It's layout/ concept is similar to Flavourpill, see Flavourpill London]

It does seem strange that a lot of effort goes into compiling Kultureflash, yet their net presence is fairly low profile.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:24 PM

Envoy - Shoulder 2 Shoulder

Techno artist Envoy will release a new allbum: Shoulder 2 Shoulder on Soma on June 7th

Soma Records » Envoy - Shoulder 2 Shoulder

Update: ‘Envoy is back with another winner....Shoulder 2 Shoulder oozes Detroit funk, layering key pads and riffs, building to a sax soloThat will lift you out of your shoes, whilst the vocal comes over like early Underworld...its going to be in those end of year lists...’

'Shoulder 2 Shoulder' (released Monday, 31st May 2004), the title track
from his forthcoming album, is an agitated cross between the martian sounds
of Red Planet and the techno punk of Green Velvet, it's an outstanding
example of stirring vocals combined with hi-tech funk which also features a
delirious live sax solo. This technoid rocket has the potential to be a
future classic.
[Press release info]

Listen online » Soma Recordings are proud to present the new ENVOY single SHOULDER 2 SHOULDER

# posted by DJ Martian 3:53 PM

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ Boomkat - A Pelicanneck Online Music Store include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Faction - The End Of Tel Aviv
Neo Ouija

Tel Aviv is a strange place to be making music. Surrounded, on the one hand, by the rich traditions of the middle east and its African heritage and, on the other, absorbing the huge cultural significance of the Ashkenazi communities from the Diaspora all over Eastern europe, one faces a huge musical melting pot before even paying any attention to the other-wordly mayhem of political conflict, complex bloodlines and the unbearable heat that takes over for a good 9 months a year. Citing the work of Brian eno, biosphere , 4AD, boards of Canada , Autechre, ulirch schnuass, my bloody valentine, Anthony "shake" shakir, komet and Alva Noto as being of major influence, Faction somehow try to trace the musical path between the heavy digital sounds of labels like raster-noton and the warm blurry feel of 4AD. It's is a record that explores the unusual complexities of growing up and living in a city that is at one and the same time brilliantly modern and painfully attached to its past. A trip through a very personal image of Tel Aviv, from its neon offices, to the old disintegrating Bauhaus buildings and from there to the border of tel aviv and Jaffa. Faction have contributed work to a forthcoming release on the Mille Plateaux label, and are also working on a special DVD release for the John Xela's excellent Type imprint, an audiovisual journey through a day in tel aviv, through field recordings, photos and video clips. For the moment, "The End of Tel Aviv" is an engrossing, rich and beautifully textured electronic album, fans of any of the aforementioned artists, or of Xela's classic "For Frosty Mornings..." album will adore. Highly Recommended.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Kenny Larkin - The Narcissist
Peacefrog

To say that "The Narcissist" sees a return to form from one of Detroit's most important producers would be a vast understatement. Before you do anything else with this record, head straight for "Mono e Mono" and remind yourself just why the Motor City has left the most awe-inspiring, innovative, soulful mark on the Techno scene since its inception last century and every moment since. Its a filthy, stomach turning beast of a slow, dusty beat caressed by forgotten strings and effortless filters. A track worthy of comparison to Carl Craig's best as 69, a comparisson not made lightly. "In the Meantime" is also supremely inspired, oddly enough bringing to mind some down-paced moments from Luciano's excellent recent album for the same label. There are some airy, jazz-tinged moments scattered throught "The Narcissist", Moodymann-esque summery strolls imbuing the album with a lighter feel. It's not killer all the way, but there are enough sparks of inspiration scattered across these 11 tracks to demand your full attention without any further delay. Excellent.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco
City Centre Offices

There must be something in the water, or maybe something in the air, because the last few months have seen some incredible albums appear out of nowhere, construct precious little stories with trickles of piano, some guitar and some carefully caressed electronic flutters and unusual recording techniques. Albums by Max Richter, Deaf Center, Sylvain Chauveau, Many Fingers, and now this quite stunning debut album from Sweden's Porn Sword Tobacco. You just don't expect to get a demo in the post from a project with a name as unlikely as "porn sword tobacco". You certainly don't expect it to come attached with a beautiful hand-written note explaining how the enclosed tracks were conjured up in the middle of the swedish forrest, in the middle of the night, in a wooden-constructed recording studio known simply as "silence". PST blend the genius of ambient masterpieces from composers like Harold Budd with something reminiscent of Mike Ink's seminal work under the "Gas" moniker. Broken emissions, crackles and static, rustling noise, piano, guitar, organ, bass.... Porn Sword Tobacco is more like a broken radio, tuned into a station playing the most beautiful music you have ever heard in your life. Every Track tells a very specific story, told in a language centuries old and yet never before heard in quite this way. Beautiful music.

Kronos Device - Qube
Battle Trax

...aka the battle hard team of The Dexorcist and the Bass Junkie - Control Tower vs Breakin' - you know the steez. Thirteen brutal electro bass bombs to soundtrack a proper epic Roland Emmerich movie with giant robots creating havoc on planet earth. Ugly graphics hide a devastating blast of the hard stuff, dirty, squelchy, synth rocking madness with a retro mid eighties electro feel with sneaky samples included, 'Rogue Program' is the tip - just like you like it.

Boom Bip - Corymb
Lex

Compiling both Boom Bip remix EP's "From Left To Right" and "Morning & a day", Corymb features originals, remixes by Lali Puna, Mogwai, Four Tet, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares and Clouddead,, as well as bonus tracks and a couple of Peel Session recordings. From the newer tracks on offer the selection of remixes is convincing, if a little obvious, but the tracks deliver in spades. Mogwai's remix for "The Use Of Unacceptable Colors in Nature" is sublime, stripping the cinematic spaciousness of the original into a sudued sliver of dusted hi hats and elongated basslines, slinky, minimal, inspired post rock meets electronica. Four Tet gives "Third Stream" a complete overhaul, mauling the beats into the sound of a typewriter being bashed by an apes hand, a delicious double bassline arriving to deploy maximum smokey pressure, brilliant stuff. "Awaiting an accident" is reconstructed by Lali Puna, once more heading toward a melancholy bout of introspection in the beautiful surroundings of refined basslines and guitar driven structures, an instrumental, cinematic appendix to their recent album "Faking The Books". For the Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares and Clouddead remixes see the review for the "From Left To Right 12", which just leaves the 4 extra tracks which do their thing in fine style. Great value, recommended.

Fsk / Anthony Shake Shakir - First Take Then Shake
Disko B

Probably the most unlikely collaboration we'll see hitting these pages in a LONG time, John Peel's much loved FSK outfit get together with one of the true Detroit originals and commander of the tightest drumloops from the Motor city - Anthony "Shake" Shakir. Quite why or how these guys got it together is a complete mystery (if anyone out there knows - please please please write in and let us know!),but what we do know is that FSK recorded their new album, half of the tracks instrumentals and the other half songs with lyrics, at which point the rough mixes were sent to Shakir for re-assembly. The album is a complete mixed bag, with Shakir's editing genius only really evident on a couple of tracks, but head for his edit of "tiger Rag", for instance, or the latter half of "Incident with the Dogs" and you once again realise the man is blessed with visionary music making skills. Bizarre.

Headset - Spacesettings
Scape

The personnel involved in Headset is tantalising to say the least, Pole's Scape imprint bringing together Plug Research head honcho Allen Avanessian in collaboration with the fabulous Jimmy 'Dntel' Tamborello and Shadow Huntaz, Daedelus, Beans, John Tejada, Subtitle, Nobody and Thomas Fehlmann for a project that's as varied and free flowing as one would expect with such a pool of talent at its disposal. The primary form toyed with here is Hip Hop, as you might imagine, gliding through its various permutations and possibilities through the vision of each of the collaboratrs involved. "Outward Sound", featuring Daedelus, is the most free-flowing of the pieces on board, a plundered jazz flute slivering through skippy percussion and velvet basslines, topped off by just the right amount of Piano and Fender Rhodes to send you off someplace else, in the best possible way. "Black Before", the Shadow Huntaz vehicle, strips the body of the track down to awesome bassline and sparse percussion, oddly tribal in its purpose, resolutely tough (don't forget Shadow Huntaz debued on Plug Research back in 1998). Beans' track 'Jaw Modulation' is a serious return to form for this ex Anti Popper, a slow crawl into the belly of alien electro jazz. 'Breathe Contrails' feels closest to the wide open lush subtleties of Dntel's prior album but given a head wrecking poetic slant this time. A varied and not altogether obvious collection of skewed hip hop pieces, "Spacesettings" is an album that burrows deeper into your headspace with every listen. Highly recommended.

Max De Wardener - Where I Am Today
Accidental

The classically trained Max de Wardener releases his album after the simply amazing 'Stops' 12" from 2002 and his recent collaborative work on Dani Siciliano's album. A relatively short album (33 mins) carries an overwhelming amount of seriously beautiful music. One could compare it with the music soon to come out of the Type label (Ryan Teague, Goldmund & Julien Neto for instance) = classically influenced music with only the faintest electronic processing. Both the inspirational church organ pieces from the 12", 'Until My Blood Is Pure' and 'Hundreds and Thousands' feature plus a further seven gems. 'Automatic' cuts up tin toy noises, megasweet - 'Noises From A Small Planet' is stunning, a trio of musicians including Max playing cloud-chamber bowls - wonderfully evocative, the clickbeats, tricky harmonics and floating sonics take this track to a very special place. 'Minutia's use of recorders will banish however your associations with primary school education, adding a french horn and glistening harmonic noises. On 'Snowflakes' even transistor radios are played, against a pulsing acoustic bass line and more encapsulating cloud chamber bowl harmonics. Words barely do justice to how essential this album is just thank Max and Matthew for bringing this album to you.

Sylvain Chauveau - Des Plumes Dans La Tête
Dsa

Back in stock. Sylvain Chauveau is a self-thought musician from paris, france. `Des plumes dans la tête', his third album, is filled with pianos, cello, viola, silences and digital clicks and shows a real cinematographic approach to music, with erik satie, claude debussy, guy debord and jean-luc godard as his guides. Chauveau exposes the rough beauty of piano music, and creates some fragile and melancholy compositions. If comparison have been made to yann tiersen, chauveau's music is more abstract and intensely beautiful. His album for Fat Cat last year brought this young musician to the attention of the more discerning, giving him the chance to support sigur ros on their 2002 european tour, and was one of the top 10 records of the year according to ryuichi sakamoto. Sublime music.

Various / Projector - Know your monkey
Projector

Compiled by David Toop, the author of the landmark book of music Ocean Of Sound, and released parallel to his new book Haunted Weather, this excellent double cd compilation features 33 tracks, including pieces from Autechre, Oval, Matmos, Fennesz, Pan Sonic, Chris Watson, Terre Thaemlitz, Alvin Lucier, Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay, John Oswald, David Toop/Max Eastley and many more. David Toop's knowledge of and interest in music of all kinds is admirable, and this collection aims to shed light on the most interesting music now being made - on laptops, in downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. For an engrossing, challenging and surprisingly entertaining journey through some of the most groundbreaking new music out there at the moment, "Haunted Weather" is a brilliant compilation, a 2 hour introduction that both the initiated and uninitiated listener will gain much from. Recommended.

Goudron - Raw Voltage
Ersatz Audio

Starting with the confrontational `art school f*ckheads' and concluding with the sombre `tired', "Raw Voltage" includes 5 songs previously heard on goudron's 2 vinyl eps for ersatz audio, charcterised by a continual electropop glide and analogue synth buzz. the title is also intended as a nod to another legendary detroit record by the name of `raw power'. New on Ersatz.

Miss Kittin - I Com
Novamute

Cd now available. Caroline Herve, aka Miss Kittin, has over the past five years made a name for herself as a prime peddler of fashion-conscious, trashed-up electro influenced nonesense together with partner in crime The Hacker, the Mental Groove possee, even poor old Tricky and, most recently, on her own. "I Com" is her debut album and you'll pretty much know the score before you peel the shrink-wrap off : much rock-tinged dancefloor shenanigans, the odd "mature" moment, and enough fuel to keep the fashionistas smiling for at least the next couple of weeks. Is this trendy? er, is it ever. Is it absolute sh*te? No comment.

Tamion 12 Inch - Let's Suffer
Ersatz Audio

Full-length debut on Ersatz audio from Tamion 12 Inch, a militaristically-focussed electronic trio who deconstruct dance, pop and punk song forms, executed with dark, trashy humour. Vinyl edition comes as a limited LP in hand stamped jacket.

Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
very friendly

4th album from 1994. ...chocolate synthesiser was the boredoms second major-label album + while it bears little or no resemblance to their new stuff its absolutely essential listening & very much in the same ecstatic spirit. it's very raw but also sophisticated - blending elements of speed-core, punk (there seems to be a tribute of sorts to the electric eels at one point), dub, psychedelia, biker rock, the gross-out too-muchness of the butthole surfers at their lunatic best. Ace.

Boredoms - Onanie Bomb Meets The Sex Pistols
very friendly

1st in a series of excellent Boredoms reissues on the Very Friendly imprint. Based in Osaka, japan, the boredoms have borrowed liberally from the U.S. hardcore punk tradition to forge their own climatic rock music. the band was formed in the spring of 1986 by yamatsuka eye (vocals), tabata mara (guitar), hosoi (bass) and taketani (drums), although the rhythm section was rapidly changed to yoshikawa toyohito (drums) and hira (bass). Eye and Mara recorded the boredoms' debut set, anal by anal, which introduced their frenetic musical style, a hardcore assault combined with the experimental distorted song structures of the butthole surfers."Onanie bomb meets the sex pistols", compiling the first two japanese releases, introduced the world to the band's impenetrable noise and sequences of communal belching.

Boredoms - Pop Tatari
very friendly

2nd in the series of re-issues on very friendly...and the boredoms 3rd album from 1992. Pop tatari is a loopy mix of reggae / funk / hip hop / punk / metal / noise topped off with gratutiously puerile yodelling, burping and screaming. Beefheart or locust period butthole surfers seem to be obvious points of reference - but really there are no comparisons - it doesn't sound like anything you've ever heard before. Recommended.

Mission Of Burma - Onoffon
Matador

During their brief tenure, Mission Of Burma released one album, one EP and two singles for the Ace Of Hearts label, all of which have been reissued on CD by Rykodisc. Since the band's breakup in 1983, their musical influence has taken on mythic form. The number of bands who have mentioned Mission Of Burma's influence is in obverse proportion to the group's popularity in 1983. This is the band's first release in 20 years. augmented by Shellac's Bob Weston on tape loops and mixing. Check.

Rhythm King And Her Friends - I Am Disco
Kitty Yo

Queer electronica, marvelous pop melodies with corners and edges, combine sampled rhythms and a playful use of different instruments and singing (in several languages, English, French and Bulgarian). Rhythm King and her Friends have something else in their mind. Instruments such as samplers, drumcomputers, guitar, bass and xylophone are used, in order to make music, embodied in the field of queer and gender Politics. Check.

Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
Ubiquity

originally released on sound signature in a frustratingly limited cd-only edition of 1000. to coincide with his new `natural aspirations' set, this milestone in modern house is now reisssued on cd and appears on vinyl for the first time.Sounding like Sun Ra jamming with Fela from the depths of King Tubby's mixing desk, the music on `parallel dimensions' is haunted, mournful, elegant, and cavernous : distant horns and disembodied voices float across deep rhythms, hypnotic pulses and all-consuming bass lines. layered, looped, beautiful, abstract, clever, primal, hooky, tantalising, endearing, ghostly, epic essential music for any fan of beat oriented sounds. Includes Theo's finest moment - "Summertime is Here". Killer.

Various / Soul Jazz Chicago Soul - Electric Blues Funk & Soul
Soul Jazz

CHICAGO SOUL - ELECTRIC BLUES FUNK & SOUL
Soul Jazz once again back with the incredible, indelible sound of Chicago. Founded on an overview of the Chi-Town sound at the transitional pointwhere blues was becoming a white listeners musicas deeper soul folk were beginning experiments with darker funk sounds and tonal variety. Opening with the filthy breakbeat of Howlin' Wolf revisiting "Evil", Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters also get on the fatback drums patrol, proving that sparing doses of psychedelia can work for even the most dyed in the wool down-home musicians. Elsewhere there's formative work from arranger Charles Stepney - check the theremin-tastic Dorothy Ashby's Soul Vibrations, kinda Alice Coltrane withfunk thrown in - weighty stuff. From million sellers like Little Milton, Etta James, Buddy Guy through to Ramsey Lewis, and delicious obscurities from The Soulful Strings, Lorez Alexandria and Eve Barnum, as usual this is a mighty top job from the Soul Jazz good-taste mafia.

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Friday, May 28, 2004

Q magazine staff select 50 Best British Albums

Scotsman.com report on Q magazine's 50 Best British Albums: [The poll is featured in the July issue of Q which is out on June 1.]

Predictable choices by the conservative UK monthly rock mag Q! and some right trad-rock-pop turkeys, guaranteed will not be in such an obvious critics canon list in 10 years time: the coral, muse, robbie williams. Oh I despise the plebeian pub rock of Oasis too.

1. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
2. The Beatles – Revolver
3. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks – Here’s the Sex Pistols
4. Radiohead – OK Computer
5. The Clash – London Calling
6. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
7. The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
8. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
9. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
10. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
11. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
12. Blur – Parklife
13. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
14. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
15. The Specials – The Specials
16. Queen – A Night At The Opera
17. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
18. The Who – My Generation
19. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
20. The Jam – All Mod Cons
21. The Kinks – The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
22. Joy Division – Closer
23. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
24. Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
25. Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
26. The Coral – Magic and Medicine
27. John Lennon – John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
28. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
29. Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation
30. Pulp – Different Class
31. Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
32. The Verve – Urban Hymns
33. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
34. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
35. Gang Of Four – Entertainment!
36. The Human League – Dare
37. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
38. Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol 1
39. Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties!!
40. The Undertones – The Undertones
41. Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
42. Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
43. Robbie Williams – Life Thru A Lens
44. Muse – Origin of Symmetry
45. Iron Maiden – The Number of The Beast
46. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
47. Steel Pulse – Handsworth Revolution
48. The Cure – Disintegration
49. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
50. Pet Shop Boys – Very

I suppose the obvious ILM thread would be select the best 50 British albums not listed in this Q poll.

New issue of Q

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Jazz on 3: Bath International Jazz Festival

This week's Jazz on 3 show, features live music from Bath International Jazz Festival, including:

E.S.T.
First we've got one of the biggest bands on the jazz circuit at the moment - the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (winner of Best International Act at last year's BBC Jazz Awards as well as the Swedish government's Music Export Prize). If we can persuade them, they'll be opening the show with their own version of our theme tune - one for the EST obsessives to check out if they do.

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Attrition - Dante's Kitchen

One of Britain's leading darkwave bands Attrition have announced details of a new album:

We are pleased to announce that our long awaited new album...
"Dante's kitchen"... will be released on Invisible records in the USA on July 20th!....
to be swiftly followed by a European release through Big Blue...Poland's largest independent label....

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Almost Cool highly rate Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy [this album recently got a US release]

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Almost Cool review Charalambides - Joy Shapes

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TrusttheDJ interview breaks music don Guy ‘Hyper’ Hatfield aka DJ Hyper

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TrusttheDJ interview Compost records boss Michael Reinboth

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Later... With Jools Holland

This week's Later..with Jools Holland doesn't have much to get excited about, there is: PJ Harvey making the same music for over a decade, and Amp Fiddler doing his aimless funky waltz and an aging cult artist John Martyn

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Next week's new releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE GETS NEW SPONSOR: Nationwide

Further to my news scoop yesterday, Cmu daily have some more info on the Mercury Music Prize - Nationwide [Nationwide Building Society] have signed a 4 year deal to sponsor the award

Labels are currently putting together their submissions for this year's awards - albums released up until 19 Jul are eligible for entry in this Autumn's award. The deadline for nominating key releases is a week today.

There was some media confusion last year were July 28th 2003 releases valid, at least this year the cut off point 19th July 2004 has been made explicit.

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The Guardian spotlight Andy Weatherall

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Client new single: In It For The Money

Client release the first single from the second album:

In It For The Money, is the first single to be taken from Client’s forthcoming second album and is released June 14th on Toast Hawaii/Mute.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004

music blog to check: Cakes and Money 2.0

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music blog to check: one faint deluded smile

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Capitol K - Happy Happy

Capitol K will finally release his album: Happy Happy on June 21st

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Musique Machine review aMute - A hundred dry trees

A couple of months after Joshua Treble’s Five points Fincastle, here comes another cool album on Intr_version, Mitchell Akiyama’s label. A hundred dry trees is a fine work mixing guitar and electronics.

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Absorb provide a Sonar guide: absorb : sonar 2004 incorporating Algorhythm spin-off festival.

Welcome to our mini/micro e-guide to the Sonar 2004 Festival.
We'll let you know we think is worth catching at the Sonar festival itself and what to avoid. We also take this opportunity to hype up our own little mini-festival, entitled 'Algorhythm' (yes, yes. we know how unoriginal and geeky that sounds). As well as listing all the parties and events that'll occur in the numerous bars and clubs in Barcelona.

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Radio 1: Breezeblock

Forthcoming Breezeblock shows on Radio 1 feature:

31st May
DJ Fresh
Tim Wright live

7th June
RJD2 mix
Cursor Miner live set

14th June
Japanese Special
Orbital retrospective

21st June
SONAR
live sets and reports from Barcelona

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Mixing It

Forthcoming Mixing It shows on Radio 3 include:

28th May 2004
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a
specially recorded session by the Icelandic
one man band Mugison.

4th June 2004
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique
mix of musical styles and influences.

11th June 2004
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell are joined by author,
musician and theorist David Toop, whose new book
'Haunted Weather - Music and Silence' examines the
way in which music has been affected by the digital
revolution.

» Mixing It

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METALREVIEW.COM review Borknagar - Epic due for release on Century Media on June 21st in the UK, and June 29th in the US.

The official Borknagar website, provides a free MP3 track: Future Reminisence to download.

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BBC Music review Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel

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One World: Alan McGee: Death Disco 4

This week's One World show on Radio 1 features Alan McGee :: Death Disco 4

Main webpage » One World

Forthcoming Shows:

3 June
Earlies / Tracer AM

10th June
Greek Label Special

17th June
Sonar 2004 Part 1

# posted by DJ Martian 10:10 PM

Issue 23 of Earplug

MAY 27 - JUNE 9
Earplug is a biweekly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features for the international electronic music community.

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BBC Manchester review Grand National - Kicking The National Habit

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filter magazine report Ladytron Re-Releasing First Two Albums - with bonus tracks.

Also Ladytron are working on a third album, with a working title: Antimusic that is scheduled for an early 2005 release.

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Krautrock music resource

New url for Krautrock @ pHinnWeb

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PostEverything provide info on a new Murcof compilation: Murcof - Utopia

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The Independent profile The ten best music festivals [of 2004]

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2004 Nationwide Mercury Prize

The annual fiasco/ event, the Mercury Music Prize has announced a new sponsor and schedule for 2004: 2004 Nationwide Mercury Prize

The annual Nationwide Mercury Prize exists solely to champion and celebrate UK music. Each year the Prize selects the 12 'Albums of the Year' - it covers all types of music including pop, rock, dance, urban, folk, jazz and contemporary classical.

2004 Key Dates

20 July
Albums of the Year Announcement

7 September
Nationwide Mercury Prize Awards Show Winner Announcement

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Playlouder review Avril - Members Only on Laurent Garnier's F-communications label.

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Cursor Miner - Cursor Miner Plays God: June 14th

It's been delayed for a few weeks but an official release date has been confirmed for the new Cursor Miner album.

The second longplayer from Cursor Miner is at last upon us. Entitled
“Cursor Miner Plays God”, it will finally be released on June 14th, and
is a mind-boggling stunner. Reviews have been relentless in their
praise – below is a small sample of what has been said…

Weird, wonderful laptop electro
trash from Peel favourite…verging on proudly plastic genius.
* * * *Gary Mullholland. Q Magazine.

“nothing short of mind-blowing... guaranteed to enrich your existence"
NME

“I’m really digging it”
Vice

“unhinged …will raise both a smile and your heart-rate ****” Logo

“a particularly twisted electronica…utterly unaffected by fashion.” Time Out

“you need Cursor Miner in your life immediately.This album will blow
you away from the second you press play”
ProperTop.com

Source: email newsletter from Lo Recordings

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Xpander interview techno legend Jeff Mills

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Jockey Slut Magazine

More details of the new JOCKEY SLUT magazine, including pre-order info and front cover.

The summer issue of jockeyslut .com's big brother, Jockey Slut magazine, is out on June 3. The mag will be packed to the gills with: The Streets, Phoenix, Felix Da Housecat, Rjd2, Madvillain, !!!, Mylo, Miss Kittin, The Mighty Boosh and a very animated Mr Weatherall, amongst many other things. What's more, you will be able to sample all their albums. The magazine will have an exclusive password for each reader. Put the password into jockeyslut.com and you will be able to hear three tracks from each of the new albums from the aforementioned artists. Get in

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Terrorizer - June 2004 / 120

The new issue of Terrorizer Magazine has Neurosis on the front cover.

Details of the current issue of Terrorizer.

FEATURES
DANZIG: STUDIO REPORT
NEUROSIS
ELECTRIC WIZARD
DISCORDANCE AXIS
GIVE UP THE GHOST
1349
REIGN OF EREBUS
FINNTROLL
LUNARIS
THE GREAT DECEIVER
AMON AMARTH | ICELAND SCENE REPORT
SLIPKNOT
MORGION
GENE SIMMONS: HARD OF HEARING
TRUSTKILL RECORDS
WHILE HEAVEN BURNS
WATTS

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The latest releases are reviewed by NYC's Other Music: The Other Music Update

NEW RELEASES
Animal Collective
Alter Ego
Midwest Funk (Various)
Thomas Brinkmann
Grime (Various)
They Keep Me Smiling (Various)
The Eternals
Kingston Allstars Meet King Tubby

Richard Bartz
Nguni Sound (Various)
George Sibanda (Compilation)
Felix Da Housecat (Mix)
Ivan Smagghe (Mix)
Die Haut & Nick Cave (Reissue)
Canada's Message to the Meters (Canadian Funk Compilation)

ALSO AVAILABLE
Slapp Happy & Henry Cow (Reissue)
Athlete
Black Devil (Reissue)
Secret Chiefs 3

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Dom & Roland - Chronology

One of the leading techstep drum n bass artists, Dom & Roland will release a new album: Chronology on Moving Shadow on June 21st.

Godbrain provide a profile:

DOM & ROLAND
'CHRONOLOGY'
MOVING SHADOW
3LP/CD
(JUNE 2004)

One of drum'n'bass most advanced producers, Dom & Roland (Dominic Angus and his drum machine) proves his consistency and longevity with his third album 'Chronology'.

Chronology is a stunning, panoramic trip into cinemascopic, twisted, tough, digitally wound, organically textured drum'n'bass of the highest calibre.

Dom & Roland has pushed the sound in both terms of production and ideas throughout his career and this album is no exception!

Rough, dancefloor destroying basslines, filmic texturing and atmospherics keep the album far from one dimensional as we travel across a landscape of both beauty and intricate dystopia, along the way pulling in collaborations from the likes of Kemal and remixes from Dieselboy, Kaos & Karl K, and a splice of two former tracks (Parasite and Adrenalin) by Hive to form Paradrenasite

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

All About Jazz have a useful Upcoming Jazz Release Center

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Dusted review Lali Puna - Faking the Books

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Dusted review Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

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Splendid overview the latest ECM rarum releases

This month, we continue our look at ECM's :rarum series, retrospective albums for which the artists select the music that they feel best represents their work on the label. With a dozen releases in 2004 alone (another eight were released in '03), the series is an excellent introduction to ECM's vast jazz catalogue.

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Avant Music News provide info on the 5 albums due to be released by Cuneiform records in September.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Feedback: Order from Noise

Details of a CMN sponsored UK tour: promo microsite CMN Tours - Feedback - Order From Noise

Feedback: Order from Noise
UK tour, 24th June - 2nd July
Featured artists are
Alvin Lucier, Toshimaru Nakamura, Nicolas Collins, Billy Roisz, Otomo Yoshihide, Sarah Washington, Xentos 'Fray' Bentos and Knut Aufermann.

CMN Feedback Tour: Feedback: Programme

Feedback
Programme

Feedback: order from noise gathers together ground-breaking performers from around the world to explore this exhilarating area of quintessentially contemporary music, at the point where total chaos gives way to pure art.

Feedback music explores both the internal architecture of (often bizarre) instruments and the acoustic space in which they are played. Making the environment audible and aesthetic, it feeds off phantom sounds, bringing forth unpredictable, organic - almost living - musical forms.

Feedback: order from noise ranges from delicate, fragile and numinous solo performances to specially commissioned ensemble works of towering intensity and visceral physical power. Curated by Knut Aufermann, this visually stunning and scientifically revealing show places feedback at the shapeshifting centre of today's music making.

The performers include the elder statesman of American experimentalism, Alvin Lucier, wild Japanese turntablist Otomo Yoshihide and instrument builders Nicolas Collins, Sarah Washington and Xentos 'Fray' Bentos.

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music blog: the mainline [listed playlists for radio show]

indie rock, indie pop, brit pop, dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, neo-psych, electronic, rock n roll, etc:::wednesdays 2:30-5:30pm EST. WUSB Stony Brook 90.1FM. listen online: www.wusb.fm

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The Cure

Front cover of the new Cure album, looks like a painting competition from a Nursery school

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flavourpill LONDON a weekly email magazine covering music, art, and cultural events

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Akufen has compiled a mix compilation for Fabric that will be released on July 19th.

Vlokfeest.net has the tracklist info: Akufen Fabric 17

Hackneyed Central has an interview profile of Akufen

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Stylus review Traject - Strengir Hrynja

Strengir Hrynja represents a peak for Traject but also for the relatively new Zurich label Spezial Material. Certainly it’s indebted to Autechre and Gescom for its general style but Gudmundsson boldly pushes the album into an even more challenging realm of cold, abstract IDM. Listening to it, one marvels at its construction, while being simultaneously awed by its alien sonic universe.

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Lambgoat have completely redesigned thier website.

Lambgoat provide the latest news/ reviews for metal/ hardcore music, including an extensive upcoming releases calendar.

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Pitchfork review Loscil - First Narrows

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Laurent Garnier: New Album !

According to a statement made by Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1's Breezeblock show, Laurent Garnier will release a new album this year on F-Communications.

This will be the long awaited follow up to the critically acclaimed 2000 release: Unreasonable Behaviour.

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New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

Some new releases listed in the weekly guide [via e-mail] from Manchester's music emporium: Piccadilly Records

Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
Moshi Moshi

This London five-piece arrived fully formed on the electroclash / indie scene in 2003 and immediately caused a stir. With their unique brand of infectious, lo-fi, bontempi-cassio-acoustic guitar white-boy soul and R'n'B you can see why - they just write great pop songs! If you enjoy the pure-pop genius of Phoenix, then you're gonna love this!!

Age Of Jets - Go Go Gadget Pop
Damaged Goods

Damaged Goods brings you the debut release from a mysterious group of people from Hull. There's five of them and they make a sound far removed from anything you'll currently hear, a mix of pop, electro beeps and samples, and has seen them compared favourably to Clinic, the Human League (circa 1979) and Blur.

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
XL

The beautiful, delicate and damaged vocals of Devendra soar over intricate and mellow guitar work making this his best album to date. One to an eye on in 2004, just watch him go!!!!!

Cougars - Manhandler
Thick

A hugely energetic eight piece punk / hardcore band complete with brass section. One for fans of Shellac, Unsane, Jesus Lizaed and Scratch Acid.

Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation
Elephant Stone

Daydream Nation may be from Ottawa, Canada, but their spellbinding fuzz-laden sound is highly reminiscent of seminal UK artists like My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, and the Jesus And Mary Chain.

Anna Domino - This Time
LTM

CD reissue of the second album from North American singer-songwriter Anna Domino, originally released by Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1987. "This Time" was the follow up to Anna's acclaimed self-titled debut. The album marked the debut of her enduring songwriting partnership with Michel Delory, and was produced by Flood (Depeche Mode, U2). The album was less groove-orientated than its predecessor and instead offered stronger, more direct songs delivered in a variety of styles, be they uptempo dance tracks ("Time For Us", "She Walked"), ballads (the singles "Lake" and "Tempting") or country-folk ("Own Kind"). "This Time" saw Anna truly at the top of her game, and it's a measure of the calibre of the writing that a song as strong as "Hammer" could be relegated to B-side status. The five bonus cuts include non-album tracks from singles include the lost classic "Hammer" and a alternative version of "Tempting" produced by former Associate Alan Rankine. The CD has been remastered from the original tapes and runs for 70 minutes. The revised artwork features an evocative portrait by Madoka. The booklet includes detailed sleevenotes.

Nick Drake - Made To Love Magic
Island

This album is a new, updated version of the 'extras' CD which was previously available only as part of the "Fruit Tree" box-set. Long since deleted, a new generation of fans can finally get their hands on these different versions and out-takes from his three proper LPs, and more importantly: the last four songs Nick cut before he died. Except, hooray, they've discovered one brand new song! "Tow the Line" isn't up there with his best, but it does provide some much needed yin to "Black Dog"'s yang. It suggests Nick wasn't going to succumb to depression, as the desperate "Black Dog" would have you believe; he was going to play the game...get on with things. In short: not top himself! There's a bit of a Beatles' Anthology going on with two other tracks, as Nick's college buddy and original arranger - Robert Kirby - scores new strings for old songs. Both "Magic" and "Time of No Reply" now sound as intended. They're beautiful. And Kirby weighs in again, with two previously unreleased recordings of "River Man" and "Mayfair", from his room at Cambridge and before Nick even had a record deal. There's also a new, longer version of "Three Hours" that's not been out before. This release is evocatively packaged and a must for completists. For all music lovers, infact.

Durutti Column - Tempus Fugit
Kooky

Manchester legend Vini Reilly is fifty years young. "Tempus Fugit" is a regressive step for Vini and in many ways time flies backwards. Fewer cogs in the wheel now; away from labels, all the artwork, recording, ownership and music all under his control. Most of the music feels more personal. The arrangements are simpler, sparse but involving and unlike a lot of the recent work which tended to involve more sequenced keys, rhythms and beats all composed on a mac away from the instruments.

Grand National - Kicking The National Habit
Sunday Best

Grand National's Lawrence La' Rudd and Rupert Lyddon have, in "Kicking The National Habit", created a divine melding of aural technology and classic songwriting that has already marked them out as a band in rapid ascension. Grand National have the experimental pop magic to restore your faith in British music. With comparisons already drawn to the basslines of Happy Mondays, the deep synths and harmonies of New Order and witty introspection of Blur, one could be excused the creeping goosebumps even before bittersweet melodies of opener "Drink To Moving On" turn your heart upside down.

Loose Lips Sink Ships : #02

Issue two of the first magazine to rise from the ashes of Careless Talk. The cover is split as before, but all ours feature folk troubador du jour and rising star Devendra Banhart. Inside this issue are the Hunches, Comets On Fire, the Icarus Line, Devendra Banhart, Josh Pierson, 50 Ft Wave, Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, a brilliant and about time it covered all bases Kevin Shields interview, Mr Airplane Man, reviews and much much more besides.
Magazine - £4.00

M83 - America
Labels

Thirty minute EP. The title track, taken from last years "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" album, is a frantic hustle that binds electronic wizardry to headfuck guitars and disembodied but strangely familiar voices, offering one of the most unexpected and unusual breakdowns you'll ever hear.

The Others - This Is For The Poor
Poptones

This London / Brighton quartet are set to inspire the same sort of devotion as The Smiths and Suede and already have a rabid following of fans that correspond fervently on the net. Although totally individual you may note touches of Joy Division, PIL, Only Ones, Jesus And Mary Chain and Smiths, all topped off by the full-on confrontational presence of one-man whirlwind and frontman Dominic Masters.
CDS - MC5090SCD
The CD also features the tracks "How I Nearly Lost You" and "Almanac".

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
Web Of Mimicry

"Book Of Horizons" is the first release in an elaborate trilogy and meta-composition by Secret Chiefs 3. It's huger than anything the band has ever done: beyond psychedelia, beyond experimentalism, and beyond classification. The Secret Chiefs 3 enhance their usual multiple personalities and divide into seven individual and distinct bands, enabling the overall musical content to be distilled into pure vessels. One band incorporates multi-ethnic instrumentation and seasoned, soulful playing (by Eyvind Kang and Shahzad Ismaily), while the rocking, suprasensory surf band (with full orchestra) bloodies up the waters. John Merriman (cephalic carnage) and unhuman keep the ultra-death metal grind band well within the pummel zone of utter mayhem.

Senser - Schematic
One Little Indian

Long awaited new album from Senser, combining perceptive lyrics, hip hop beats and heavy guitars.

Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Robotics With Strings
Junior Aspirin

This is the debut album from underground post-punk group Skill 7 Stamina 12. It fuses punk, disco, krautrock and jazz influences and will appeal to fans of A Certain Ratio, Can, Gang Of Four, Massacre, Stereolab and Arthur Russell. Skill 7 Stamina 12 have strong ties with the London art scene and feature a Dutch chanteuse who sings in a range of languages, underpinned by fearsomely tight rhythmic arrangements.

[I normally detest Supergrass but this track is a complete change in direction ala early Roxy Music/ Simple Minds]
Supergrass - Kiss Of Life
Parlophone

First brand new track in yonks. Well, in as long as it's been since I heard that _expression, at least! And guess what? It's weird! It reminds me of late-70s Bowie in it's quirky mix of electronics and skewered white funkiness. Weird yet catchy, this is a bizarre and excellent surprise from a band celebrating its tenth year. They've come a long way.

CDS - CDR6638 - £1.99
CD1 includes "We Dream Of This".

CDS2 - CDRS6638 - £2.99
CD2 is enhanced, and includes "We Dream Of This", Kiss Of Life (Tom Tom Club Full Mix)" and the videos "Kiss Of Life" and "Rob's Guide To Responsible Flying".

Telecast - The Documenter
Falsetto

Sonic, chic, youthful and stylish, Telecast are currently the toast of the town over in Los Angeles, where over the past year they have been creating pocket-sized, art-pop masterpieces. Imagine if Interpol were actually from sunny southern California rather than the dark urban streets of New York, or if the Smiths were handed a synth and a copy of "Pet Sounds".

27 - Let The Light In
Hydra Head Industries

On their first six-track mini-album EP for Hydrahead, 27, formerly a trio now a freshly minted quartet, fashion a dazzling departure from their previous recordings, including a sweeping array of instrumentation, led by vocals of Maria Christopher, with guest performances from Aaron Turner and Jeff Caxide of Isis (reciprocating their appearances on Isis' last album). "Let The Light In" represents 27 at their most dramatic. For fans of: PJ Harvey, Denali, Low etc.

Nautical Almanac - Rooting For Microbes
Load

As the band clearly states no electricity or computers were used in the music making process. The sounds generated are from machines specifically built for the recording process or from real lab experience, custom equipment made of weird alloys of plastic, leather, wire and rubber. Longtime collaborators Carly Ptak and Twig Harper worked on this record along with 10 other guests. Nautical Almanac have other records out on the esteemed Hanson label and on their own Heresee label, they are an integral forefather of much of the midwest noise scene.

Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
Ninja Tune

Following up releases on Vertical Form, Canadian producer Vaughn Squire (half of The Sebutones with Buck 65, beat builder and remixer for Anticon etc) collaborates with the likes of Can's Damo Suzuki, Godspeed You Black Emperor and Hanged Up on his debut Ninja Tune LP. As with other hiptronic productions, these compositions often have more in common with avant rock, psyche, electronica and jazz experiments than they do with mainstream hip hop, taking things on a seriously underground trip.

Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong Of The Right
Spv

New album from the industrial survivors.

Felix Da Housecat - Revin Dazzle & The Neon Fever
Emperor Norton

The long overdue follow up to his "Kittenz And Thee Glitz" LP follows a similar path of 80s influenced electro-pop, conemporary electro-punk and electronic dance music as its predecessor. Starring Devin Dazzle (is this Felix in disguise?) and a collective of vocalists called The Neon Fever, the LP also includes a guest appearence by LCD Soundsystem man James Murphy on "What She Wants". Set against many style-over-content releases in the electrclash genre, "Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever" stands head and shoulders above the rest with its proper songs and pop attitude.

Miss Kittin - I Com
Novamute

Alongside long-time production partner The Hacker, tracks such as "Frank Sinatra" and "1982" on Gigolo propelled the duo into the spotlight, whilst further collaborations with Felix Da Housecat (the massive "Silver Screen, Shower Scene"), Golden Boy, Sven Vath and more recently T. Raumschmiere and Tricky have confirmed Miss Kittin's star billing status. On her highly anticipated debut LP she teams up with Tobi Neumann and Thies Mynther AKA GLOVE, who had previously also worked with fellow electro-pop upstarts Chicks On Speed. The album opens with the single "Professional Distortion", a rock meets blip-hop opus and from there careers through the giddy electro-punk of "Meet Sue Be She", the shimmering Euro-pop of "Kiss Factory" and the icy skank of "Dub About Me".

LP - limited cheap price
CD out next week!

Rhythm King And Her Friends - I Am Disco
Kitty Yo

Formed in 2000 by Linda Wolfel, Pauline Boudry and Sara John, Rhythm King And Her Friends mix up live instrumentation (guitars, bass and keyboards) with electronics, drum machines samplers to make lo-fi alt-dance music focussed (lyrically) on queer / gender politics, sounding like an updated, Euro-cool version of Luscious Jackson or Le Tigre. Ace ace ace ace!

Park - It Won't Snow Where You're Going
Lobster

Shimmering, intricate guitar leads married to off kilter, aggressive rhythms and anguished, soulful vocals make for a beautifully unsettling brew. Love it. Jawbox played by At The Drive In?

Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Peacefrog

It's what we've all been waiting for. Moodymann's fourth album on Peacefrog collects some of his best and most sought after productions. The more soulful Detroit garage emphasis of his Mahogani label exerts its influence through its finest songs on the Amp Fiddler / Amp Dog Knight classic "I'm Doing Fine" and Pitch Black City's "Runaway". Two of the rarest original KDJ tracks, "Shades Of Jae" and "Black Mahogany" (here retitled and reworked as "Black Mahogani") appear at last. The former being one of the preeminent dancefloor killers of the last five years, the latter an epic patchwork of blaxploitation dialogue, rough techno breaks and soul-jazz loops. These essentials are joined by a salvo of brand new productions that flit from loungey jazz ("I Need You So Much"), to dense afro-futurism ("Holiday") to quirky electronic experimentation ("Riley's Song"). Be nice to your ears, play them this.

Trevor Loveys - Intastella
Freerange

As House Of 909 he created fine UK deep house, with Dave 'Solid Groove' Taylor they make edgy Switch music and now Trevor Loveys goes solo with this album for Freerange. Recorded with the help of Jamie Odell, and including the singles "The Bounce" and "Feel The Horns", it takes in house and nu jazz, flipping from broken beats to 4/4 disco with ease. Gathering vocal tunes, soulful instrumentals and banging club tracks, it sounds like a Black Science Orchestra for 2004.

The Rotating Assembly - Natural Aspirations
Sound Signature

It's here, Theo Parrish's awe-inspiring full length album, featuring seven all exclusive tracks. From the opening dischordant sounds of "Melt", you'd think you were on familiar smacked-out house territory, but Theo's got some surprises up his sleeve! Various vocals infiltrate around half the tracks, such as on the aforementioned opener and the nu jazzy "Split Me Open". The Rotating Assembly is made a much more diverse operation by the many Detroit draftees, such as Rick Wilhite, Marcellus Pittman and Marvin Belton, adding rich new textures to the signature sound. Witness the bass guitar lead on "Mess I Made", afrobeat infested slur of "The Stomp" and the incredible string sections of "Orchestra Hall" (the track everyone's been raving about). It all works together as a cohesive project and believe me, it gets even better with every listen.

Various Artists / Business As Usual - Mixed By Brett Johnson
Classic

Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon's Classic Recordings label returns with another must have compilation, this time mixed by Brett Johnson. The ultra prolific DJ has had releases out on Seasons, Hi-Phen, Magnetic, Icon, his own Aeroteric and off course Classic over the past few years, as well as playing in clubs worldwide. Here he mixes up the boompty beats for a seamless funky house feel. The CD includes tracks by Carter, Johnson, Roy Davis Jr, Mike Dixon, Induceve, Rob Mello, Losoul, Tiefscwarz, Awoke, Ix & Diz etc.

Climber - Downtown Loop
Botanica Del Jibaro

Miami's Botanica Del Jibaro unleash this evocative album of beat and break patchworks not a thousand miles away from DJ Shadow or RJD2. They, like many, may like to cling to the instrumental hip hop music tag, but Climber deserve similar recognition to AmmonContact for the way their musical infoms their own productions. By way of their Japanese, Chilean and American heritage, many influences exert themselves, with latin music being the most dominant theme.

Infinite Livez - Bush Meat
Big Dada

Please welcome mild-mannered Steven Henry, former art student, sometime comic book writer and video game designer, who was accidentally bathed in the milk of a glamour model and transformed into Infinite Livez, superhero!, who, along with a one-eyed teddy bear called Barry Convex, has come to save the planet. It's a reality where a guy's bit-on-the-side can be a monkey ("Drilla Ape"), where video games come to life ("Spade Invaders"), where a black Bomber Command attack Parliament ("Coco Pilots") and where a man can produce enough breast milk to flood the British Isles ("The Adventures of The Lactating Man"). Warped!

Various Artists / Grime
Rephlex

As UK garage went seriously mainstream with the likes of So Solid Crew and Craig David hitting the pop charts, a hardcore section of producers took it back to the realms of the underground, mutating the sound into dubstep, sublow or what Rephlex are deciding to call grime. On this triple LP they focus on the dark and minimal output of Soulja and Forward, giving two sides each to MarkOne, Plasticman and Slaughter Mob.

Straight No Chaser : Spring / Summer 2004

The new Chaser arrives for Spring and Summer, and the sun comes out just in time! This issue includes features on Carnival Bahia 2004 and Donna Aurora's Street Angels Project, interviews with Beanfield, Intuit, Bruno E, Otto, Erro, Wajeed, Soluprising, DJ Delores (or is it Dolores?) and Tortoise, as well as all those reviews of things we've already had and charts of things that we haven't. You also get an inside cover-mounted CD sampler from Oi Va Voi.

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Monday, May 24, 2004

Junkmedia have an interview with Funkstorung

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Splendid interview Mission of Burma

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Barcode report Covenant & VNV Nation joint album

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Barcode report Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd collaborate

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6 Music report on the latest New Order news

'Technique-y' return from New Order
New Order have revealed more details of their forthcoming album to 6 Music

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Tiny Mix Tapes report that Bjork will record two albums in a row.

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Pitchfork review Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and The Neon Fever

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The Second Summer of Love: Dance Music in 1988

Advance notification: A 2 part documentary coming up on Radio 2: The Second Summer of Love

THE SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE
Show airs on Saturday 29th May & 5th June 2100-2200

Dance music is a now multi-million pound industry, which began in the smoky dives of Chicago and Berlin. The dawn of acid house in 1988 was dubbed “the second summer of love” but its roots lay in the techno and house clubs of Chicago and Berlin. The people credited with forming this acid house soundtrack are now revered as legends.

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Sunday, May 23, 2004

Aural Pressure

UK industrial music resource: aural pressure

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The Guardian review the avant jazz sounds of Polar Bear - Dim Lit

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Paatos - Kallocain

Sweden's Paatos release a new album: Kallocain on InsideOut records [in the US on June 8th] and in the UK [SPV] on June 7th. The album is excellently produced by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree

"Kallocain" is the second album from Paatos and their first for Inside Out Music America. This Sweden based band refers to their music as "melancholy post-rock" and lists their influences as Bjork, King Crimson and Portishead. Their songs create a dark and dreamlike musical landscape that serve as the perfect vehicle for the etherial vocal styling of singer Petronella Nettermalm. Paatos will appeal directly to fans of such established post-rock acts as Universal Records' Sigur Ros. Mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, the release of Kallocain marks a new and innovative direction for Inside Out Music and for the progressive music genre. Look for tour dates in the fall! Special Edition Digipack will feature bonus DVD with four tracks from famed German television show Rockpalast.
Source: info from Artist Shop

Full info on Paatos - Kallocain available at Inside Out.de

Paatos will appeal to fans of ethereal glacial guitar rock ala The Cocteau Twins, Cranes, Sigur Ros, The Gathering, Mira, Stina Nordenstam, As Divine Grace - etc.

Official website for Paatos

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Mark Radcliffe - Radio 2

Confirmation that Mark Radcliffe starts on Radio 2 on 7th June

Mark Radcliffe joins Radio 2 to present a new evening show starting on 7th June, Monday to Thursday, 2230 - midnight.

Mark Radcliffe makes his full-time debut on Radio2 with a brand-new show live from Manchester featuring his very own mix of live sessions, celebrity guests, listener interaction and regular contributors from the worlds of poetry, fashion, journalism and rock'n roll.

[This sounds similar to his old nightime slot on Radio 1 - all those years ago!]

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [May 17th]

Key new album releases for May 17th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

A Silver Mt. Zion - The Pretty Little Lightening Paw (Constellation) EP
Alter Ego - Transphormer (Klang Elektronik)
Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare (Enja)
Blood & Time - At The Foot Of The Garden (Neurot)
Broken Spindles - Fulfilled / Complete (Saddle Creek)
Chromatics - Plaster Hounds (Gsl) [Now available at Rough Trade, previously a US Release earlier in 2004]
Collide - Vortex (Noiseplus Music/Alfamatrix) [Available @ Music Non Stop]
Loren Connors - The Departing Of A Dream Vol. III - Juliet (Family Vineyard)
The Durutti Column - Tempus Fugit (Kooky)
FZV - Precedent (Ai)
Jerry Hunt - Phalba (Tzadik)
Illogic - Celestial Clockwork (Weightless)
Monofader - Frost (Metropolis)
Morrissey - You are the Quarry (Sanctuary)
Normal Position - Rave Killed The Romance (Deep Water Recordings)
Pan Sonic - Kesto (Mute) [4xCD box set]
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
Second Thought - Purlieu (Second Thought)
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere (Sire/ Reprise)
Yamamoto Seiichi - Baptism (Tzadik)
Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures (Ninja Tune)
Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear)
Slicker - We All Have A Plan (Hefty)
Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel (Warp)
Violet Indiana - Beyond The Furr (Bella Union) EP
Bill Wells - Pick Up Sticks (Leaf)[with Stefan Schneider, Annie Whitehead & Barbara Morgenstern]
Yesterdays New Quintet (Madlib) - Stevie (Stones Throw)

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [May 10th]

Key new album releases for May 10th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Amplifier - Amplifier (Music For Nations)
Rene Breitbarth - With A Little Luck (Treibstoff)
Casino Versus Japan Vs Freescha / s/t (Wobblyhead) EP
The Devastations - The Devastations (Munster) [UK Release 2004]
Dave Ellesmere - Rites Of Spring (Kanzleramt)
Fe-Mail - Syklubb Fra Haelvete (Improtant)
Fingathing - And the Big Red Nebula Band (Grand Central)
Hollydrift - Waiting For The Tiller (Parasomnic Records)
Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache (Roadrunner)
Christian Kleine - Real Ghosts (City Centres Offices)
Komeda - Kokomemedada (Minty Fresh) [UK Release 2004]
Retisonic - Return To Me (Silverthree Sound Recordings)
Sceptic - Unbelievers Script (Candlelight) [UK Release 2004 released in Poland 2003]
Nick Sentience - Universal Language (Amato)
Silent Drive - Love Is Worth It (Equal Vision)
Vetiver - Vetiver (Di Christina)

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This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ Boomkat - A Pelicanneck Online Music Store include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Climber - Downtown Loop
Botanica del Jibaro

The newest and most interesting project yet to emerge from the Botanica Del Jibaro Camp, Beta Bodega's hip hop offshoot label. Climber comprises 2 producers, Shift and DJ Tosh. Shift (Mind Shift) was a key member in the now disbanded Deaf to the General Public group from Miami. DJ Tosh is Japanese yet grew up in Santiago, Chile and then made his way to the U.S. Besides producing, he is a DJ and an avid vinyl collector and vendor (you might have bought that rare Bossa Nova record from him on E-bay!) Shift returning to Chile met Tosh in school, where their mutual love for records and music, especially hip hop, grew into the foundation of the group today. "Downtown Loop" makes references to the many different downtowns which these 2 have inhabited (Miami, Santiago, Seattle, Yokohama/Tokyo), going back and forth with uptempo and downtempo instrumental pieces. Samples are taken from anything from local Miami musicians to old South American vinyl and molded into lush and soulful compositions. From beginning to end, a gorgeous release for those that truly love instrumental hip hop and just music in general. We even dare say a classic, one of those records that get put on repeat to loop over and over again. Highly recommended, perfect summer music.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Various / Rephlex - Grime
Rephlex

Call it Grime, Sublow, Dubstep, Dirty Garage, call it whatever you want, this is the sound of a new school of Urban producers grabbing the electronic music scene by the balls and generously launching it into the filthiest environment "dance music" has ever witnessed. This hugely hyped and anticipated new compilation from Rephlex centres on the work of three of the UK's most on-it grimey producers : Mark One (sometimes operating under the Darqwan moniker), Plasticman, and the Slaughter Mob. You can also find them wrecking some mess on a number of twelves for the Soulja and Texture labels, listed here once again for your pleasure this week. So, those Grime virgins out there can expect some twisted, bass-heavy two-step concoctions seeped deep in a whole universe of filthy twists, rudebwoy noises and decimated junglist blueprints. One step away from Hardcore, lifting off the most destroyed garage aesthetics, twisting the essence of jungle before it morphed into the jazzed-up vibe of Drum n Bass, something for those of you who don't like to compromise. Anyway, check the samples, jack the ropes, get busy to the sound of tomorrow. Killersan.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Cyne - Growing EP
City Centre Offices

Cyne are part of a new breed of artists keeping focus with the beats and rhymes of traditional hip hop while utilising a love and knowledge of a myriad musical styles ranging from post rock, folktronica, exotica and lounge music, through to the most experimental and freeform variations of electronica. Having made their remarkable debut for Miami's botanica del jibaro imprint and garnering the attention of a host of admirers (most recently kieran hebden, aka four tet, whom cyne supported on tour in miami this april) - the band are in the unique position of commanding admiration from both hip hop, indie and electronica heads. "Growing" is the group's first release for city centre offices, a taster for their forthcoming album due towards the end of 2004. The title track is a joyous trip through reflection and cascading vibes, a bittersweet tribute to the spirit of gangstarr and the bouncy jig of their native miami. "stomping ground" rips the soul fusion into a looped trawl through the history of black music with a social conscience. "the river" slips into a twilight world of acoustic guitars and gentle basslines daydreaming of sunshine spreads and a better place. "rousseau" is the perfect soul ending, consciousness streaming into a different era with all these new musical forms and influences there for good company. 4 Vocal tracks plus 4 instrumentals, 8 tracks of seriously deep hip hop vibes.

Knifehandchop Vs Dj Aneurysm - Shotgun Wedding Volume Two : Evil Doppelganger
Violent Turd

Toronto's Knifehandchop pitted against Oakland's DJ Aneurysm in a essential fever-pitched hardcore massacre. Knifehandchop comes correct with a 40-minute mashup that mixes the sleazy pop of Khia with Daft Punk's 'Da Funk' (speeded up of course), Rza and Kool Moe Dee with the best hardcore hits from his own back catalogue. The Venetian Snares into System Of The Down is the most effective. It doesn't get any more twisted than this. DJ Aneurysm, musical mastermind of Switchcraft Records and winner of many underground hardcore / noise / gabber turntablist contests, takes things to a more multidimensional level of perversion, constantly mixing between turntables and laptops, combining dsp and scratching, and mixing in lots of his own new tracks over the best hard techno and grimy hiphop, jungle and gabber. Ace.

Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Peacefrog

KDJ's long awaited Black Mahogani triple-pack is finally with us. Some of you will know the inspired slinky jazz House of the mighty "I'm Doing Fine" and "Runaway" 12"s, add the fabulous title track plus Holiday, Roberta Jean Machine, I Need You So Much, Shades Of Jae, Riley's Song, Back At Bakers (on Livernois) and Mahogani 9000 and you have yourself one of the slinkiest late-night vibed albums you'll hear all year. Moodymann killer business - mighty fine - get busy!

Si-Cut.Db - Find Some Shade
Highpoint Lowlife.

Processed and static-infused dub basslines combine with german minimalist microhouse for this, the latest full length release from the prolific si-cut.db. Douglas benford, the man behind the si-cut.db persona has over the past ten or so years released a vast catalog of solo work and collaborations on labels like spa.rk, bip_hop, background, and expanding, working with benge, scanner, and stephan mathieu, all while also co-running the london based monthly sprawl club and label, alongside partner in crime, bittonic. Check.

Various / Planet Mu Children Of Mu
Planet Mu

Gargantuan second compilation on the excellent Planet Mu imprint, this time scattering highlights from the label's hugely impressive back-catalogue across two packed-out cd's. Check this for a lineup of artists : Luke Vibert, Jega, Venetian Snares, Hrvatski, Sh*tmat, Subjex, Lexaunculpt, Leafcutter John, Frog Pocket, The Gasman, Chevron, Joseph Nothing, Local, Nautilis, Ambulance, Phthalocyanine, Dykehouse vs Frost Jockey, Guilty Connector and loads more. That's 26 tracks (Jega's track is his first new offering in 4 years!), many of which are available for the very first time on cd. Dip into this for the finest in relentless electronic innovation, crunched up tronica, supreme composition (Oh that Hrvatski track still sounds SO SO GOOD), mentallst raggacore, absolute dancefloor killer funk (yes, that's you Mr Vibert) and a good old knee's up from one of the UK's most tirelessly resolute labels. Wicked and wild.

Infinite Livez - Bush Meat
Big Dada

Last seen bustin' crazy sick moves with Kid Acne the madder than jack mc'madd Infinite Livez finally gets enough time out of the insane asylum to bring us this very worrying but highly entertaining album. To be honest if you liked the 'Pononee Girl' (track included here) 7" and dug the concept or bought the 12" 'Sumfink 4 Nafink' (tracks strangely absent here) then you'll like this. It definitely belongs the bouncement school or soft knocks, like the mixture of Roots Manuva and Pitman though a lot funnier than the latter. Subject matter is very close to the knuckle but all tongue in cheek (I hope). Throughout the production is ace though personally for this kind of stuff I much prefer the Welsh warriors Lews Tunes and Nobbsta Nuts. Utterly insane, nineteen tracks for UK rap nutters.

Mestizo - Lifelikemovie
Galapagos 4

Second new artist on the trot from Chicago's (now Oakland based) Galapagos 4 label who are rapidly climbing the list of the u.s.'s most essential hip hop purveyors. By the way if you slept on the Robust, sort it out. Mestizo's rhymes come from the school of reality a deeply routed poetical approach that's current incarnation can be traced back to the early recordings of Sixtoo and the backcatalogue of the Peanuts and Corn label. Everyday topics are dropped in a frighteningly realistic manner, from the dread of serving up gluttonous popcorn to zombified teenagers to... well other soul destroying duties required to put food on your plate. On top of this seriously addictive and hard hitting flow is the finest variety of fine organic based funky hip hop music from producers such as Dreas, Meaty Ogre, White Lightning, Maker and Jackson Jones. Vocals guests include, Denizon Kane, Offwhyte, Qwel and Rift. For me the highlight is the heavenly 'Glass Box', lazy blues slide guitar and dusted beats - mighty fine. Highly recommended.

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
XL

Official UK release for this fabulous, deeply eccentric singer-songwriter treasure, originally brought to you as an import item on Young God a couple of weeks back. This limited version comes with a booklet and extra, lush packaging. Call it adventurous lo-fi country with a theatrical slant that's akin to early Will Oldham and his Bonnie Prince guise... retro tinged psych soul or something. Check the samples and catch the drift. Extra brownie points for getting Vashti Bunyan back into the recording studio for the duo lead title track. A mic for his voice, a few on his guitar, and one or two in the room (an old, Georgia-style southern house with tall ceilings, wood floors etc.), and that's what you hear, for the most part, on these recordings (along with the occasional chorus of cicadas, when he happened to be recording at night, with the windows open). A few overdubs were added in New York, played by a host of musicians. Lovely.

Loose Lips Sink Ships
Volume 2
Loose Lips
Mag // £ 4.49

Second issue from the magazine that rose from the ashes of "Careless Talk Costs Lives". Featuring a beautiful glossy sleeve, cover man being Devendra Banhart, plus features on Cocorosie, Two Lone Swordsmen, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Joanna Newsom, Blonde Redhead and more, all in all an excellent read.

M83 - America
Labels

Featuring an edited version of a track from last year's "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" album, a frantic hustle that binds electronic wizardry to headf*ck guitars and disembodied but strangely familiar voices, a kind of My Bloody Valentine given an electric reworking. "Dead Cities, Red Seas..." meanwhile, is an epic, ethereal 17-minute dream sequence floating through textured ambience and refined drones. Despite sharing the title with the album of the same name, "Dead Cities.." is actually a new and exclusive track, previously unavailable.

FYM - Say No To Primate Research Labs
Telegraph

A killer album from Telegraph, who have been responsible for the ace Post Office compilations plus the ace Monobox LP from Rob Hood and the recent DBX collection. Here they go for the crazy funkmeister Fym from Fym & S-Max fame, who have released numerous 12"s on their awesome Boogizm imprint amongst others. Fym makes a political point with the title, and gets straight to the musical point on the opening track 'Comparatively Solid Grid' which is a killer slice of futuristic house with its squeals and glitches that flip around the beat while a killer sub bass line and groove get your head going - a perfect attention grabbing opener. Later on you'll find 'Lollipop Paws Swimming In Space', a killer 4/4 jazzyesque tech house number with oodles of bass and breaks with the added noises popping up everywhere. As tyou'll know by now Fym has an unusual but very unique take on house, and there are a lot of tracks on here that can put a lot of producers to shame as the quality is sky high. For a final test of this try 'Neon Hum' with its ultra deep vibe and fresh electronic glitches giving a superb mix of the old and the new. Futuristic music from Fym, killer.

Various / Telegraph - Post Office 2
Telegraph.

The long awaited follow up to one of the best ever micro techno/house compilations is here. You'll recall that volume one had a whole host of killers from Dan Bell, Ark, Villalobos et al. easily on a par with Perlon's mighty 'Superlongevity' series. It could be argued that the influence of Herbert looms large over Telegraph - this is especially prevalent on Run Stop Restore's 'Suck My Christmas' which seems to have been lifted straight from Herbert's original house EP series on Phono plus Spasm's 'cyraM' which feeds on some ill Radioboy funk. For me though the two outstanding winners are Fym Et Diane's 'Dew Mops', quite simply the finest courtship of rocksteady 4/4 drops, tweaked frequencies and low riding funk that this bloke has heard in a long time. The other track is by that man Ricardo Villalobos who's techfunk masterclass 'Resumier' is akin to classic Autechre in structure and feel but given the Villalobos rinse, devastating. Other tracks are by Ben Neville (wicked tune with a hint of dark humour), Bidul (tha' boom, clack, thwack), Ark & Sety (moody techbreakbizniz), Cabanne (Wishmountain gone haunted dubdisco), Luciano & Serafin (continue to amaze), Ultrakurt (grindin' sextech) & Dandy Jack (15 minutes of playful but deadly funky techtronics). Mastered to perfection by Frederic @ Dubplates & Mastering (the choice of the professional :). Perlon, watch your back this is some essential business.

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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Peter Gabriel wins Music Industry Trust (MIT) Award

Yahoo relay the news that Peter Gabriel wins music industry award

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Playlouder review RJD2 - Since Last We Spoke

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Mixing It

This week's Mixing It playlist on Radio 3 includes tracks from:

Ahvak - Israeli avant progressive rock
Sixtoo - electronic hip hop
Wagon Christ - electronic soundscapes
Mono - Japanese post rock band that out do Mogwai and Godspeed in the epic post rock stakes, the track played weighs in at 10 minutes - it will blow your head off.

» Listen to show @ Mixing It

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BBC Jazz Awards 2004 - The Nominees

Full list of nominees for BBC Jazz Awards

The BBC Jazz Awards celebrates the music in all its diversity, from trad to the avant garde and all points inbetween. Below are this year's nominees; there'll be further additions over the coming weeks. Unfortunately you'll have to wait until July 29th to find out who the winners are, and you'll be able to hear the whole thing on Radios 2 and 3.

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The Observer Music Monthly

Take the pop music quiz @ The Observer Music Monthly: Abba To Zappa microsite and have a chance of winning an Ipod.

Simply complete the quiz to enter the prize draw - and follows the rules re: time.

The May issue of The Obsever Music Monthly will be available with The Observer newspaper this Sunday [tomorrow] in the UK.

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Stuart Maconie's Critical List

This week's featured album of the week on the Critical List show on Radio 2 is

JOHN MARTYN - 'Solid Air'
Produced by John Wood
Island, 1973

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BBC Music review Audun Kleive & Generator X - Ohmagoddabl on Jazzland records

"Ohmagoddabl is Generator X's third outing. Audun Kleive's occasional group is made up of some of the cream of Norway's electric jazz players, namely Jan Bang (samples), Christian Wallumrod and Stale Storlokken (keys), and Arve Henriksen (trumpet)."

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Friday, May 21, 2004

JOCKEYSLUT.com interview Tiga

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Dusted spotlight the listening interests of Stefan Schneider from To Rococo Rot

To Rococo Rot

When To Rococo Rot started making music in 1996, the intermingling of organic samples and electronic tones was far from ubiquitous. In that sense, Stefan Schneider, Robert Lippok and Ronald Lippok are prescient bunch. Eight years hence, replicas of their cyborgenic lockgrooves scatter the underground landscape, but the trio deserves credit for being one of the first to update Neu’s sensibilities for the CD generation. The band’s latest recording, the excellent Hotel Morgen, was released on Domino Records on May 18. It merits mention that To Rococo Rot is bursting at the seams with esteemed side projects – Schneider also records as part of Kreidler, and Ronald Lippok is one-half of Tarwater. Schneider took part in this week’s Listed.

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Pitchfork review Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

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The Guardian review Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands

This album is also reviewed @ The Independent

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The Guardian review Grand National - Kicking the National Habit

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The Guardian review Junior Boys - Last Exit

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The Guardian review Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever

This album is also reviewed @ The Independent

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Radio 1: New Schedule to Start in July

MediaGuardian.co.uk report the changes @ Radio 1: Pearce loses out in Radio 1 evening shake-up

Radio 1 outlines New Specialist Line Up

Radio 1 is changing it's evening and night time schedule

» Radio 1's New Schedule from July.

Summary of some of the changes:

» BIG AXE
Dave "Mr Drivetime Dance Anthems" Pearce looses his weekday drivetime slots

» MOVES
Zane Lowe gains an extra show on Monday and will broadcast from Monday to Thursday, starting at 7pm to 9pm
John Peel shows move 1 hour later to 11pm - 1am

Bobby Friction & Nihal move to Wednesday evening at 9pm
Mary Ann Hobbs has her shows moved an hour later i.e Breezeblock and Rock Show [this does seem the strangest of moves, particularly as the Rock show has a strong teenager following]
Lammo starts his Monday slot at 9pm - 1am
Annie Nightingale moves to 1am - 3am on early Friday morning
Mike Davies Tuesday punk metal show The Lock Up will be brought forward from 2am to 9pm

note: One World show - moves to Monday mornings at 1am, strange slot !

» NEW & EXTRA SHOWS
Experimental
Every week day there will be a one hour show dedicated to showcasing the new and unusual from the worlds of music, comedy and art in a late night 0300hrs slot
Annie Mac gets a diverse/ upfront dance music slot on Thursday's at 9pm
The Blue Room gains another early slot at the weekend, on Sunday mornings

» GONE
Seb Fontaine leaves the station
Vicky Marsden looses her overnight time slots, and leaves the station?

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Next week's new releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Radio 3: Norwegian Music Special

This Saturday [tomorrow] on Radio 3: BBC - Radio 3 - What's On Listings:

23:00 Hear and Now

Norwegian Word

Alwynne Pritchard presents a two-part overview of the new music scene in Norway, beginning with a special report on Oslo's 2003 Ultima Festival entitled 'echoes from an era', including interviews and music by featured local composers Rolf Wallin and Maja Ratkje.

There's also a Modernist classic, Stockhausen's Mixtur for orchestra and ring-modulators, played by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

And from the burgeoning young electronic music scene in Bergen, Alwynne finds out what 20-somethings like Bad Bikini and Sir Dupermann are getting up to with their laptops.

[Reminder, this show has a listen again feature for upto 7 days after broadcast]

» Hear and Now

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Thursday, May 20, 2004

CMU Music Network

Essential UK music news: CMU Music Network have once again revamped their website, now incorporating cmu daily.

Welcome to the CMU Music Network, the creative network for everyone who works in the music media, music industry and college music scene

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eJazzNews.com review LASSE MARHAUG - The Shape OF Rock To Come (Smalltown Supersound)

What it amounts to then is an intense sonic experience in the way that late Coltrane could be, Cecil Taylor still is, or a band operating just outside the genre, like Faust, can be. That, of course, is the appeal. It’s often savage, sometimes unpredictable but equally compelling.

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One World: Ghostly International

This week's One World show on Radio 1: is a Ghostly International Label Showcase

Show broadcast on Radio 1 on Friday 21st May 2004 [midnight - 2am, UK BST Time]

Artists featured:

» Dabrye
» Matthew Dear
» Midwest Product

Main webpage » One World

[Reminder, this show is available to listen on demand for upto 7 days after broadcast]

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New Oren Ambarchi and Biosphere albums

Two new albums have just been released by Touch

available to order now at TouchShop:

» Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate

» Biosphere - Autour de la Lune

As per usual with Touch, direct orders are available long before general retail release.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:53 PM

Red Harvest name album

Norwegian industrial metal band: Red Harvest have announced the title of the forthcoming album as: Internal Punishment Programs [due September on Nocturnal Art Productions]

[as reported @ Blabbermouth]

# posted by DJ Martian 3:49 PM

Doves 3rd album: 2005 release

Speaking exclusively to BBC's digital radio station 6 Music, Mancunian epic rockers Doves have announced that there next album will be released in February 2005.

Doves will be playing some new tracks this Sunday at a special event in Manchester dedicated to the memory of Rob Gretton: FAC 511

Sunday May 23rd is the date for a night of live music and performance dedicated to the memory of a man pivotal to the Mancunian music scene - Rob Gretton.

Going under the name ‘and you, forgotten?’ and given the Factory catalogue number FAC 511 this event is a celebration of the life of the man who changed and shaped the Manchester music scene to such an extent that the past is now legend and the present still an ongoing part of the legacy.

Rob Gretton is best remembered in a professional capacity as the manager of Joy Division/ New Order, a directing force behind Factory Records and later Rob’s Records. A shy character that wouldn’t back down, he represents a side of the Mancunian spirit that will always be with us in the city.

Taking place at The Ritz on Whitworth Street West this evening pulls together many of the talents who were nurtured and developed by Gretton until his untimely death five years ago.

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The latest releases are reviewed by NYC's Other Music: The Other Music Update including:

NEW RELEASES
White Magic
RJD2
The New Year
To Rococo Rot
Third Unheard (Hip Hop compilation)
!!! (12" Single)
Tracy + the Plastics
Pan Sonic
The Streets
Vetiver
Pedro the Lion
Sixtoo
Terry Reid (Reissue)

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Insomnia 04 Festival August 26- 28, Tromsø

The program for Insomnia 04 Festival in Tromsø, Northern Norway has been announced, headlining Biosphere and DJ Teebee.

Line Up: Insomnia 04

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2nd Flunk Album

Beatservice provide info on Flunk - Morning Star

Flunk:
Morning Star

Format: CD
Catalogue number: BS074CD
Barcode: 7035538884658
Release date: 10. may 2004
Export date: 21. jun 2004

Flunk's debut album “For Sleepyheads Only” is one of the greatest successes so far on Beatservice Records. Spearheaded by a critically acclaimed downbeat version of New Order's “Blue Monday”, the album has received well deserved recognition around the world. Both “Blue Monday” and other tracks have been featured on a more than 20 compilations around the globe, and the full album has been licensed to the US, Greece and Russia.

Last autumn Flunk - producer/vocalist Ulf Nygaard, singer Anja Øyen Vister, guitarist Jo Bakke and associated member, drummer Erik Ruud - booked in at the Hotel de Roubaix in Paris. The framework for the album was recorded during a busy week in the Paris hotel room (!), before being worked out and finished in their Oslo studio early this spring.

”Folk electronica” has been used by a.o. American press to describe Flunk, and on “Morning Star” they have evolved this further. The new album is pure indie pop, less electronica - all tracks built around Jo's trademark guitar sound and the voice of Anja Øyen Vister. They even deliver a country song!

A cover song is included also this time: The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night”, performed as a duet by Anja and Ulf. The cover is the most up-tempo track on the album, capturing the energy of the original Kinks' classic in Flunk's slightly odd way. But most of all “Morning Star” includes very strong original material. Both the title track “Morning Star”, the first single “On My Balcony” and “Blind My Mind” showcases the songwriting talents of Flunk. The album “Morning Star” is an instantly tuneful pop injection.

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The Wire - June 2004

New June issue of The Wire is in the shops today, Fennesz is on the front cover.

Details of the Current Issue

Free CD available with the issue:

THE WIRE TAPPER 11
Free with The Wire June 2004 issue 244

Featuring: To Rococo Rot, Icarus, Juana Molina, Wibutee, Philip Clemo, Albert Ayler, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Matthew Dear, Jah Wobble, Arthur Russell, Henrik Rylander, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Mountains, Slowblow, Un Caddie Renversé Dans L'Herbe, and Poire_Z + Phil Minton

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Norway's summer jazz festivals: Kongsberg, Molde and Oslo

MIC Norway overview the main jazz festivals happening in Norway this summer. Norway is one of the leading jazz making counties in Europe and these festivals attract artists/ audiences from USA, UK and across Europe.

Artists are represented across the contemporary avant jazz spectrum: Jazz-fusion, Jazztronica/ electro-jazz, Free Jazz and post-bop.

Norway's summer jazz
19.05.2004

Every year, Norway is the site of some of the most prestigious and well visited jazz festivals in Europe. Especially during summer, there are many possibilities of hearing top notch jazz musicians from all over the world.

Kongsberg Jazz Festival
» KONGSBERG JAZZFESTIVAL 30 JUNI – 03 JULI

Another very important Norwegian jazz festival takes place every year in the old mining of Kongsberg, approximately one hour drive from Oslo. This festival attracts an audience of over 15.000 each year, and has been known for their brisk program policy, fusing traditional jazz artists with the crème-de-la-crème of the avant-garde. This year is no exception, as the festival -which is the 40.th of its kind - features Ornette Coleman, one of the most innovative saxophonists in modern improvisational jazz.

Other headliners include Polish trumpet player Tomasz Stanko, Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento (for the first time in Norway!), star guitarist John Scofield and legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee. This years Kongsberg festival also features great Norwegian jazz artists, among them acclaimed vocalist Live Maria Roggen, award winning pop-jazz artist Silje Nergaard, up-and-coming jazz band "The Core", vocalist Solveig Slettahjel and many more.

A very special concert will be the meeting between three star saxophone players from three different generations, namely Knut Risnæs, Petter Wettre and Frode Nymo, who all have made important contributions to Norwegian and international jazz history. [MIC Norway]

Molde Jazz Fesival
» Molde Jazz Fesival 12.-17. JULI 2004

Flere programnyheter fra Moldejazz
Stevie Wonder,Nils Petter Molvær, Sidebrok, Magnet, Håvard Wiik, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Atomic, Kurt Rosenwinkel Group m/ Joshua Redman og Brad Mehldau, Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motian Quintet, Merriwinkle, Terje Rypdal og TrondheimJazzorkester, Sex Mob, Palle Mikkelborg/Helen Davis/Terje Rypdal/BrazzBrothers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Richard Galliano Piazolla Forever, AtomicSchoolDays, Free Fall, Juhani Altonen Trio, Caroline Henderson Quartet, Jean Michel Pilc, Eldbjørg Raknes/Anders Jormin, Håkon Kornstad, Nilssen Love/ Asheim, Amund Maarud,GoodTimeCharlie,Dixi&Kermit Ruffins, Exploding Plastix, Stian Karstensen “Backwards into the Backwoods”,Mambo Companeros Petter Wettre Quintet , The Core, Louie Vega and his Elements of Life, , Fenomenon/Elektrofant, ElektroOmpaniet/Optical Substance, Ytre Suløens Jass-Ensemble, Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen og Blue Horn Jazzband, Ola Kvernberg Trio,

Along with international headliners Branford Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, the Norwegian jazz society is strongly represented with internationally acclaimed guitarist Terje Rypdal, singer Sidsel Endresen, the avant-garde jazzers of the bands "Atomic" & "School Days", the brass-heavy "Brazz Brothers" and the lush Tord Gustavsen Trio. [Mic Norway]

Oslo Jazz Festival
» Oslo Jazz Festival August 9-15th

Last, but not least, the jazz festival in Norways's capital has to bee mentioned. Oslo Jazz Festival takes place between the 9. and 15. of august and is a
Oslo Jazz Festival features among others the world famous trumpet player Clark Terry, Randy Brecker/Bill Evans Quartet, American vocal group Take 6 and vocal virtuoso Bobby McFerrin.
Also here, there is a strong Norwegian presence. Among the artists we find Nils Petter Molvær, "Come Shine", Kjetil Bjørnstad with former Bel Canto-vocalist Anneli Drecker, Eivind Opsvik, "The Swing Pack", "The Thing", along with many others.

Oslo Jazz Festival has a slightly shorter history than its two counterparts in Molde and Kongsberg, but has in its 20 years of existence managed to become a broad festival attracting a diverse audience.
Last year, the festival sold over 17.000 tickets, but it is estimated that it reaches an audience of over 50.000, since many of the arrangements are free of charge and take place at central locations in the city. [MIC Norway]

ALSO: May 19th - 29th, NattJazz 2004 Festival in Bergen

Just started yesterday NattJazz 2004 in Bergen.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Way Out West - Don't Look Now

Bristolian based dance group Way Out West will release a new album: Don't Look Now on July 12th.

Official website: Way Out West informs they will also be appearing at Glastonbury.

Many developments have transpired since the last update three months ago. Not only has a preliminary release date (UK - 12 July, 2004; US - TBA) and title for album #3 ('Don't Look Now') been announced, but so have some of the details of the release, including the fact that it will be a 3-disc affair, including the album itself, a DVD featuring live PA footage with additional easter eggs, and a mixed CD!

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The Wanderer

music webzine: the_wanderer covering a diverse range of avant/ experimental music - including electronic, improv, jazz and rock.

The Wanderer is a forum for reasoned critiques, visceral rants and blog oddities, attacking entrenched cultural thought from all angles. Like The Wire, but with a slapstick approach

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musicOMH.com review Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong Of The Right

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Blogging Culture: Information Management & Knowledge Sharing

A fascinating academic [yet practical] article about blogging @ Journal of Digital Information: A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator: Edmonds et al.: JoDI as the conclusion outlines:

We have a vision of a universal information management system built on a hypertext framework. In our utopian future, everyone will use tools descended from today's blogs to structure, search and share personal information as well as to participate in shared discussion. Just as Nelson (1990) envisioned a network where everything is deeply intertwingled, we propose that not only everything, but everyone can belong to several, possibly overlapping and discordant, intertwingled communities of interest. These communities will form dense networks of information linkage, allowing many types of structured and unstructured content to continually expand and weave even more interconnected webs of relationships.

People are motivated to communicate many aspects of their lives to many different audiences. The rapid growth of Weblogging has affirmed the appeal of hypertext and validated the notion of individuals as content producers. The availability of personal hypertext systems, with support for granular control over sharing nodes, will increase this adoption for both Weblog authors and readers.

The growth in the amount of digitally captured and hypertextualized information in the coming years will be even more astounding than the growth of the Web over the past ten years. There are significant technical challenges to overcome, but the standards-based organic growth of Weblogs and the Internet shows methods by which these challenges might be overcome. Rejecting the Web as not-hypertext is missing the point. The Web is an incubator for a continuously evolving system of content, user interests and supporting technologies.

These themes can be related to any topic of interest, but the implications for blogging about contemporary music: from news gathering to critical discourse - will continue to grow in importance.

The established [print] publishers will decline as their controlled publishing mechanisms are inflexible, conformist, conservative, deny the free flow of information and don't allow differing/ contrasting individual opinions due to a collective unified brand, e.g as in the case of the awful NME.

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Knom Music Promotions

KNOM is an independent music promoter based in London England

» sign up for their mailing list.

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SoundCircus, Leicester 11th -14th June 2004

Sonic Arts Network present their annual conference of experimental sonic/ sound art: SoundCircus In conjunction with De Montfort University and Phoenix Arts Leicester

Each year the SAN Conference showcases the best work from artists in the UK using experimental approaches to sound and technology. It also provides a platform for artists to meet, listen and respond.

SoundCircus will focus on new cultural trends and aims to highlight the broad range of approaches and thinking that surrounds the sonic arts through a variety of performances, installations and research presentations.

What is Sonic Arts Network

Sonic Arts Network is a national organisation working exclusively with sound and technology in creative, innovative and experimental ways. Every year we support UK based artists by providing platforms for their work through performance and exhibition. Our membership programme publishes specialist materials for practitioners and institutions across the UK.

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Pitchfork review Pan Sonic - Kesto (234:48:4)

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Pitchfork review Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America?

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music blog to check: nevercamehome

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Mansun - Kleptomania - 3 CD package

From MANSUN.NET an Announcement from Paul Draper

"Over the past few months I've been working with Parlophone on pulling together the loose ends since the split of the band. What we have decided is that Mansun's fourth album sessions will be released later this year. These recordings will appear in a three CD package, entitled 'Kleptomania'. CD1 will be the fourth album sessions, CD2 will have the best stuff from the EPs (the tracks that weren't ever available on the albums), and CD3 will be rare and unreleased material that we have dug up from the vaults at Abbey Road. I will also be writing detailed sleeve notes for the release which should be out in the autumn of this year."

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Sasha - Involver

Xpander report Sasha will release an album: Involver as part of the Global Underground compilation series.

This is an album of exclusively recorded remixes/ recreations by Sasha from other artists [Felix Da Housecat, Ulrich Schnauss, Grand National etc] tracks.

Xpander also have a new interview with Sasha

Billboard report this album will be released on June 22nd [in the US] by Global Underground.

In the UK, Sasha - Involver has a release date of June 14th.

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New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

Some new releases listed in the weekly guide [via e-mail] from Manchester's music emporium: Piccadilly Records

Adem - These Are Your Friends
Domino

"These Are Your Friends" is the pivotal track from Adem's "Homesongs", an album which marries the timeless quality of classic, great songwriters (Tim Hardin, John Martyn etc) with all the freedom provided by the cutting edge of modern domestic recording. Mixed by fellow Fridge member Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), "These Are Your Friends" starts in achingly downbeat beauty and is then taken up towards a chorus that feels like dark clouds parting. Elsewhere on this release you can find two new Adem compositions not featured on "Homesongs" – the delicate sometimes banjo picked "After The Storm" and the deathly, spooky presence of "Let It Burn".

Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
Parlophone

The two singles preceding this (Graham's back playing ball, back on a major) hinted at a return to the poppier, more direct music of Blur's heyday, and sure enough, that's what you get here. There's even chugging new-wave barre-chords where once there was atonal tinkering. It's all very welcome. Produced by Stephen Street (this isn't art, it's pop) he's having fun again: there's no time for chin-stroking. It's a catchy, punky, poppy sixties / noughties record for the summer. Welcome back on board, Graham Coxon!

Curve - Way Of Curve
Bmg

The first ever definitive 2 CD collection. CD1 of this features the top 40 singles including "Fait Accompli", "Coast Is Clear", "Clipped", "Horror Head" plus fan favourites and classic album tracks. CD2 features rare and unreleased tracks including mixes from Aphex Twin and Kevin Shields plus cover versions of "I Feel Love" and "What A Waste" featuring Ian Dury

Faultline - Your Love Means Everything
EMI

A collection of instrumental and song-based tracks featuring collaborations with guest vocalists. The line-up of singers and musicians includes Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips (also joined by Stephen Drozd from the band on harmony vocals), Jacob Golden, a solo artist from Sacramento USA newly signed to Rough Trade, Chris Martin from Coldplay on two tracks, Michael Stipe from REM on "Greenfields", a cover version of the Brothers Four classic from 1960 and Nick McCabe playing guitar on "Lost Broadcast".

Future Ex Wife - While Your Husbands Away
Captains Of Industry

Five songs carved from granite, dusted in glitter and doused in petrol. Think Sabbath / Soundgarden / Shellac.

Rachel Goswell - The Sleep Shelter EP
4ad

Having first made her name back in the early nineties when lead singer of Slowdive - a band at the credible end of the short-lived but much-remembered 'shoegazing' scene – and, more recently, as one-fifth of Mojave 3, Rachel's mesmerising voice has always had the uncanny ability to tug at heartstrings and stir emotions at will. As the title of the lead track ("Plucked") suggests, it's a more stripped down sound than most ears will be expecting. There are no vocal effects, swathing walls of reverb or atmospheric slide guitar for her to hide behind. Instead, you are treated to a far more holistic affair - wave after glorious wave, the warmth outside is brought inside – showing off a real sense of maturity to her work and, unlike many of her peers, she's only just getting started.

Havergal - Elettricita
Secretly Canadian

Havergal has grown enormously as a vocalist, composer and songwriter. While more melancholy tonally, on "Elettricita" there is clearly a newfound sense of maturity. His vocals are still talky at points, but he always finds the melody. The mark of minimalist composers Erik Satie, Steve Reich and Terry Riley have all been left on Havergal and can be traced throughout the new album.

Les Savy Fav - Inches
French Kiss

Eighteen song album, compiling the band's series of impossibly rare 7" singles. Their music has been likened to Brainiac, The Talking Heads, The Pixies and Sonic Youth amongst others.

Lilys - Precollection
Rainbow Quartz

Kurt Heasley and his Lilys might come off sounding British at times, but this American band take their influences seriously and attempt to create the missing link between the Kinks, Teardrop Explodes, My Bloody Valentine and the Smiths. "Precollection", is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album. It shimmers with guitar jangle and blends vintage Psychedelic Furs and Smiths, with a nod to 80s American college indie-rock.

Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Too Pure

New drummer, new album, new single, new tour, Mclusky are back and primed to release the follow-up album to 2002's excellent "Mclusky Do Dallas". Life between these two records has seen a world outside of Cardiff fully embrace them. Amongst other things, they've toured virtually everywhere, broken many a guitar, survived a near fatal tour bus smash and seen their original drummer depart the band on their way. Not known for being slouches, they also released two interim EP's last year, from which, only the track "1956 And All That" has made it on to this album. Like its predecessor, this was recorded by Steve Albini in his studio outside Chicago but this time Bob Weston of Shellac fame has got in on the action (playing trumpet on "Forget About Him I'm Mint").

Mirah - C'mon Miracle
K

Something gentle this way comes in the form of Mirah and her third full-length album, "C'mon Miracle". Many of her friends lend a helping hand, strumming the autoharp and bowing stringed instruments, accompanying the lilting, soaring voice that can not be mistaken.

Modey Lemon - Thunder & Lightning
Mute

"Thunder & Lightning" is a collection of songs drawing on a timeless tradition of eerie American gothic, steeped in mythology their lyrics are literary explorations of sex and death. Packed full of rock nuggets with dirty boogie tempos, challenging the listener with non-traditional idea's, everything from The Cramps to Iron Maiden to Suicide goes into the blender, gets distilled and comes out as one very lethal brew.

Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Sanctuary / Attack

He's back, and once again a force to be reckoned with. The single "Irish Blood..." was misleading (upbeat as it was, statement of intent and all that) because there's about ten better songs on this record. And it's songs we're dealing with here: rich, sweetly sung ballads mostly; epic, sweeping and dramatic. There's some really heart-tugging melodies, right up there with his very best. Musically, it's also his best sounding solo record: opulent, crisp and clear. It's the Modern Moz, with the occasional shuffling (ahem) dance-beat bringing him into the 90s at the very least! There's little of the grounded, scratchy rockabilly he's often favoured. Forever dysfunctional, but once more fully functioning, this record should appeal to more general-music-lovers than just Moz's barmy fan base. It's great.

Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
Track & Field

The band's new album was recorded in Athens, Georgia in Kevin's (the mainstay of the band) bedrooom studio. This record is more of a solo album as Kevin played almost all of the instruments. The sound of the record is a little bit of a departure from past releases. The influence of 1970s Afrobeat and 1980s electro clash can be heard mingling with the Ray Davies and OS Mutantes-isms.

Piano Magic - Saint Marie
Green Ufos

The "Saint Marie" mini album follows hot on the heels of December's (2003) widely-acclaimed "The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic" album and proves Piano Magic to be one of the UK's most prolific bands. "Saint Marie" was recorded over 3 days during Autumn 2003 in London by band members Glen Johnson, Jerome Tcherneyan, Franck Alba, Alasdair Steer and James Topham and also features contributions from Alan Sparhawk of Low, Ben Ayers of Cornershop and the legendary folk heroine Vashti Bunyan.

Violet Indiana - Beyond The Furr
Bella Union

This is the first single to be taken from the new Violet Indiana album. Violet Indiana are the musical union of the guitar and production individuality of former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie and the versatile vocals of Siobhan de Mare.

Bill Wells Trio - Pick Up The Sticks
Leaf

Such is the inability to properly define the work of Bill Wells that he's connected to everyone from Sun Ra to Ennio Morricone. And yes, both references, and all between, hold fast!!! He's joined here by Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot), Annie Whitehead and Barbara Morgenstern.

Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - Pretty Little Lightning Paw
Constellation

Four new sprawling epic post-rock pieces from A Silver Mount Zion, who have renamed themselves for this mini-album.

Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel
Warp

Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood take a radical departure from TLS's usual electronic soundscapes, picking up guitars and drums to bring us this mix of moody punk-funk-electro-dub'n'roll, harking back to the live days of Sabres Of Paradise. You need to check this out!

King Midas - Romeo Turn
Ellet

This Norwegian quintet tread a similar path to Scissor Sisters, mixing up a blend of 70s and 80s rock and pop, with additional sleazy blues.

Miss Kittin - Miss Kittin's Professional Distortion
Novamute

This crunching electrock'n'roll track is the first sample of what's instore on her upcoming "I Com" LP (due end of May 2004). Remixes come from Otto Von Schirach (glitchoclash), Modeselektor (super-chunky grungy electroclash) and Zdar (electropella).

Various Artists - Disco Rotic
Unknown

Five track mini LP compilation of rare electronically altered disco rarites from Bobby O, Giorgio Moroder, Rinder & Lewis, The Key and KID. Check that much sampled melody on "Don't Stop"!

book:

Tim Lawrence - Love Saves The Day - A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
Duke University Press

Only printed in the US at the moment, this exhaustive history of 1970s disco by Tim Lawrence is a MUST READ for anyone with an interest in the music and the foundations of todays dance music industry. If you loved Bill Brewster and Frank Tope's "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" (don't tell me you haven't read it yet!), then prepare to be thrilled with more stories, anecdotes, interviews and insight into the sound that started everything we hold true today (hip hop, house, techno, electroclash, it all started here!). From the beginnings Francis Grasso, Fire Island, the foundation of David Mancuso's Loft, Nicky Siano's Gallery, record labels as we know them today, the beginning of the promo, the birth of the 12" single, Salsoul, Donna Summer, Frankie Knuckles, Studio 54, right up to Larry Levan's Paradise Garage, it's all described and examined in minute and loving detail.

Book - ISBN 0822331985 - £20.99

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Definitive Jux

Mixing up a whole truck load of inspirations and samples from the worlds of prog / psyche rock, funk, soul, hip hop, electronica, cinematica and easy listening, RJD2's sophomore LP is an absolute epic. Whereas "Deadringer" was directly descended from the DJ Shadow school of sample heavy DJ producers, "Since We Last Spoke" speaks with its own voice. Witness the firing electric funk of the title track, the heavy rock of "Exotic Talk" and the wispy soul of "Clean Living". Indeed the inherent hip hop beats are submerged under a flood of 1970s funk, soul and rock influences, but played live rather than sampled. You'll be glad to know that the doubters have been proved 100% wrong...

Yesterdays New Quintet - Stevie
Stones Throw

Originally only available as a limited promo-only CD direct from Stones Throw, then bootlegged on vinyl in miniscule quantities a couple of years ago, Madlib's Stevie Wonder covers album has remained an urban myth, whispered about by even the most his most fervent enthusiasts, until now. Since that 2002 promo rights have been secured, music remastered and new material recorded. The YNQ 'collective' turn the classic Motown funk and soul of "Superstition", "Too High", "Golden Lady" and more into mini-epic jazz suites, exploring the unique appeal of Stevie Wonder even further than DJ Spinna and Bobbito's "Wonder Wrote It" tributes.

Various Artists - The Third Unheard - Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983
Stones Throw

Everyone knows how hip hop started in the Bronx, with budding DJs cutting disco records for B-Boys to break to. But what about outside of New York and the major metropolises? Well Stones Throw, in their crate digging wisdom, come to the rescue and tell the story of hip hop's forgotten past. Inspired by Dooley O and Cut Chemist, Egon and co have dug up a host of old school diamonds from north of New York State. Mr Magic, the Outlaw Four, Willie Brown et al use familiar touchstones to the Sugarhill gang; Chic and Chaka Khan breaks, loopy rhymes and catchphrases for an alternaitve old school.

Slicker - We All Have A Plan
Hefty

John Huges follows his exquisite "Knock Me Down Girl" single with an album of knockout Slicker creations. Rich instrument-layered tracks are constructed by calling in favours from his wide group of associate musicans, singers and producers (Dan Boadi, Telefon Tel Aviv, Khadijah Anwar, Slum Village, Phil Ranelin etc), Hughes pieces together a record that manages to encompass elements of the hip hop, electronica, jazz, techno and broken beat genres without belonging to any single one of them.

Various Artists / Jazzanova ...Mixing
Sonar Kollektiv

Jazzanova present a fantastic mix featuring past Sonar Kollektiv tracks ("Let Your Heart Be Free", Sirius Mo, Georg Levin, Slope, Extended Spirit, Deyampert "Held Him First" etc.) and a clutch of their favourite bombs. Flipping from disco (Carol Williams), hip hip soul (Jill Scott, Bahamadia), broken beat (Bakura etc.), techno (Titonton Duvante) to housier joints, it's a rollercoaster ride! With acapellas, beat edits and samples flying around, it's truly eclectic mix in every sense..

Adventure Time - Dreams Of Water Themes
Plug Research

Daedelus and Frosty produced LP from 2003, featuring hiptronic genius and H2O related tunes with input from Saul Williams, Nobody, Pigeon John and Sacajawea. Daedelus' abstract break fixing continue to impress, with this LP being a big fave of Mr Scruff also, for obvious reasons (the sea-shanty fixarion, the cute hand-drwan sleeve, the out-there beats, etc!).

Various Artists / Louie Vega Choice - A Collection Of Classics
Azuli

Azuli's Choice series of compilations from top DJ / producers is an absolute bounty and in the absense of Strut, their importance is multiplied many times. Masters At Work's Louie Vega selects a tonne of classic disco joints, NYC oddities, 1980s faves and a handful of house and hip hop gems. So prepare yourself for The Clash, Melba Moore, Yello, Giorgio Moroder, Idris Muhammad, NuYorican Soul, Joubert Singers, Mos Def, Affinity and Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, hell he's even put the Hollies on there!

Milford Graves / John Zorn :/ 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Two
Tzadik

Another one of the most talked about sets of the 'birthday' month (September 2003) was this historic meeting between two of music's most powerful and controversial iconoclasts. Playing together yearly since 1999 for very special occasions, their musical connection and spiritual bond has gotten stronger and stronger. This set, played before a packed house of screaming enthusiasts, was without doubt their best and most outrageous performance to date. Intensity, fireworks and incredible mutual respect made this one of the highlights of the month.

Richard H Kirk - Earlier / Later
Mute

Selected from over seven hours of archive recordings, the majority of which has never before been available, "Earlier / Later" documents a fifteen-year period of private research and personal development by Richard H. Kirk. Committed to cassette and then forgotten, they have been transferred onto CD with a minimum of post production.

Locus Solus - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Three
Tzadik

Continuing Tzadik's series of live recordings from Zorn's 50th birthday month is this classic reunion of three downtown legends, Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos) and John Zorn (Naked City). There has never been a band quite like Locus Solus. Dating back to 1982, the music of these improvised rock units is still as fresh as the day they first hit, and seems to get better with age. This high intensity set features all three players at their very best. Strangled vocals, loping grooves and structural complexity make these improvised rock songs a continual delight. A fascinating and charming set of tension, love, ideas, communication and miscommunication.

Pan Sonic : Kesto (234.48:4)
Blast First

"Kesto (234.48:4)" is a brand new quartet of compact discs from Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) available only as one complete set. The original discussions of ideas for the new recordings were based around Mika's favourite painter Francis Bacon and his use of the triptych (a format Bacon used a number of times in his lifetime). Those familiar with Pan Sonic's work may detect a correlation between their use of sound and Bacon's use of paint; the "Kesto" recordings represent a substantial new depth and vitality in the quality of their sound palette that brings a newfound life force and delicate violence into their music.

Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms
Mute

Two CD package from Cabaret Voltaire founder member Richard H Kirk. Under his Sandoz guise the tracks that made up the original 1993 CD issue of "Digital Lifeforms" were collected from three Eps released at a time when the post-acid house electronic scene was developing with new confidence and curiosity, widescreening its imagination and aiming more at the head than the feet. Disc one of this set comprises the tracks that made up the original "Digital Lifeforms" CD release while the material on the second disc was recorded during the same period and with the exception of two tracks has remained unreleased until present.

Yamamoto Seiichi - Baptism
Tzadik

From organizing concerts at his club Bears to performing in the cult bands Omoide Hatoba, Rovo and Boredoms, Yamamoto has been a central figure of the internationally acclaimed Osaka rock / noise scene since the late 80's. For his second Tzadik CD, one of Japan's most original and creative guitarists presents his first solo recording, an exciting and wide ranging program jumping from prepared electric to lyrical acoustic. Fred Frith, Joseph Spence and Derek Bailey are just a few of the influences Yamamoto touches upon in this intimate and surprising classic of new guitar.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

music blog to check: Classical Gasp!

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dense Promotion, Berlin

Forthcoming releases promoted by dense Promotion

@C - V3 [CD+Video Cronica]
BLACK DICE - Creature Comforts [CD/LP FatCat]
BURCH RENDERS & REDUCERS MAMA - Theatermusik [CD domizil]
CATARINA PRATTER - Maybe you don't exist [12"/CD SueMi]
DAVID GRUBBS - A Guess At The Riddle [CD/LP FatCat]
DIN-ST - yamu d'din [CD/LP Schematic/Asphodel]
FIRES WERE SHOT - Solace [CD Asphodel]
HYPO - Random Veneziano [CD Active Suspension]
KEITH ROWE / OREN AMBARCHI / ROBBIE AVENAIM – Honey Pie [CD GROB]
LUC FERRARI - Les Anecdotiques [CD Sub Rosa]
LULLATONE - Little Songs About Raindrops [CD Plop]
MARTIN SIEWERT - No Need To Be Lonesome [CD Mosz]
O9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C. [CD/LP Schematic/Asphodel]
PATERAS / BAXTER / BROWN - Ataxia [CD Synaesthesia]
RAN SLAVIN - Product 02 [CD Cronica]
SCHURER - vexations [CD domizil]
SLOWBLOW - s/t [CD/LP Mobilé]
SPECTRE - RetroSpectre [CD Quatermass]
STENDEC - A study of 'and' [CD/LP Expanding Records]
STEPHAN WITTWER - sicht 04 etc. [2CD domizil]
V.A. - DOMIZIL vs. ANTIFROST live [2CD domizil]

# posted by DJ Martian 10:49 PM

music blog: Vlokfeest.net has moved to this new web location.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:44 PM

BBC Album of the Week is Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

# posted by DJ Martian 10:41 PM

Manchester Online report Moby to produce Curtis biopic [Note, It was 24 years ago today that Ian Curtis took his life.]

DANCE star Moby is to oversee a new film charting the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:06 PM

dotmusic/LAUNCH review Grand National - Kicking The National Habit

# posted by DJ Martian 6:44 PM

Junkmedia have an interview with Mission of Burma

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This week's flavorpill LONDON a weekly email magazine covering music, art, and cultural events

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Loose Lips Sink Ships

Issue 2 of music magazine: Loose Lips Sink Ships is now published.

Featuring:
The Icarus Line. Devendra Banhart. Sonic Youth . CocoRosie. The Hunches. Kevin Shields. Comets On Fire. Weird War. Lightning Bolt. Fifty Foot Wave. Joanna Newsom .
Two Lone Swordsmen. Blonde Redhead. Johnny Dowd.
Mr. Airplane Man. Future eX Wife. Plus much more.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:59 PM

Radio 1 Station Controller Andy Parfitt plans changes

The Independent report changes are coming to Radio 1 soon: Radio 1 plans sweeping changes to night DJ line-up and Changing the face of radio

According to Brand Republic: BBC Radio 1 plans radical changes to evening line-up - John Peel is thought to be safe from the chop.

An official announcement is apparently forthcoming later this week, explaining all.

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BW & BK report that Lamb of God have the named their forthcoming as: Ashes of the Wake » LAMB OF GOD Confirm New Album Title

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BW & BK report the latest Mastodon news: MASTODON Complete Work On Leviathan

Leviathan is slated for an August 31st US release and a September 13th European release date via Relapse.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:54 PM

Advance notification: The Beta Band and Morrissey are featured on this week's Later show 11.35pm, BBC 2, Fri 21st May 2004.

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Monday, May 17, 2004

New Comets on Fire Album

Julian Cope's: Head Heritage | Album of the Month | Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral

This Comets On Fire album: "Blue Cathedral" will be released on Sub Pop on July 27th.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:24 PM

another music blog: basic_sounds - focusing on electronic/ downtempo music.

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electronicablog.com

music blog to check: electronicablog.com

beats without borders | electronica blog for the dance music community

# posted by DJ Martian 10:42 PM

Fertilizer Festival, London 20-23 May 2004

Official website for a music festival happening in London this week: Fertilizer Festival

London's 93 ft east / herbal / The Spitz

Fertilizer... good shit from... announces its return in 2004 with a programme of British musicians, bands and DJs whose creativity is feeding the mainstream.

Good shit from Britain follows the inaugural festival, Fertilizer… good shit from Norway, which profiled the Norwegian underground and gave UK debuts to bands who have since gone on to become key names on the UK music scene such as Jaga Jazzist.

Over four days, Fertilizer aims to profile the best music, from hip hop to folk, electronic to jazz and all sounds in-between. Performances take place in 93 feet east, herbal, The Vibe Bar and The Spitz, venues with established reputations for promoting new music in the melting pot of Shoreditch, London.

"So we’ve brought together an eclectic bunch of musicians who we think capture some of that special ‘Britishness’. You might agree, we are sure that you will have plenty of ideas of your own. That’s what it’s about, debate, celebration, cultural pride and above all great music. Whatever it calls itself."

Line up:
Soweto Kinch, Blak Twang, Pest, Sonik Gurus, Debasser & Cutlass Supreme, The Electric Dr. M, Spring Heel Jack, Co-op DJs, DKD, Charlie Dark, Border Crossing, Nasha Live, Susheela Raman, Keziah Jones, Phil Asher, Iain Ballamy, Norma Winstone & John Parricelli, Alasdair Roberts, DJ Asif,

Source: Fertilzer Festival Press Release

Full program schedule including artist profiles @ Fertilizer Festival

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Lasse Marhaug

Norwegian experimental music artist: Lasse Marhaug has launched a new website.

From Smalltown Supersound

Lasse Marhaug`s new album, "The Shape of Rock To Come", will be released in the end of May [in the UK: May 31st]

# posted by DJ Martian 9:57 PM

Indigo Flow

Launch of a brand new music webzine @ Indigo Flow

Welcome to Indigo Flow

We're got it all in here: news, reviews, interviews, articles and all that interactive stuff the kids like these days. This is the music site you always dreamed of but never thought you'd see. Oh yes.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:51 PM

Absorb review the debut album from FZV on the esteemed Ai label - this is set to be one of the landmark electronic albums of 2004: fzv - precedent (ai)

these are, then, halcyon days for fans of autechre-influenced idm, given the coincidental release of precedent and traject's equally fine strengir hrynja on spezial material. they're comparable releases, although traject's shorter running time renders it more powerful as, unlike precedent, it allows no chance for tension to dissipate. like another equally fine ai records release, claro intelecto's neurofibro, precedent would sound more cohesive had herbert edited it down to, say, fifty minutes and eleven tracks rather than the sixty-five and fourteen that it presently is. but such a caveat amounts to a minor quibble as it does little to argue against the generally high quality of the recording and the strong impact it makes.

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Stylus review Pan Sonic - Kesto

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Pitchfork review Rjd2 - Since We Last Spoke

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Mute provide a press release for Pan Sonic - Kesto [released May 17th]

KESTO (234:48:4) is a brand new quartet of compact discs from PAN SONIC (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) available only as one complete set.

This is an epic work in the true sense of the word. The title means “strength” or “duration”, entirely appropriate in both the size of this work (over four hours of new music) and the scale of the band’s adventures since the release of their last album Aaltopiiri in 2001....

Reviewed @ Absorb

# posted by DJ Martian 12:06 PM

Le Weekend Festival, 27th - 30th May Sterling, Scotland

Avant/ Experimental music festival happening in Sterling, Scotland at the end of May: Le Weekend [Check the website for artist profiles]

Unbelievably it's our 7th trip into the outer margins of improvised and experimental music. As is now custom, we have familiar names alongside new ones creating an international line up from seven different countries, many making their UK debut.

LE WEEKEND
UK
Annual Scottish weekender sponsored by The Wire, co-programmed by contributor David Keenan and with a line-up covering the far reaches of free jazz, noise and improvised music.

Four evening concerts feature Borbetomagus, Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Hamid Drake (27), Heather Leigh Murray, The MV&EE Medicine Show, Pelt (28), Music For Buildings by Peter Dowling, Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi and System D with Ernst Reijseger, Mola Sylla & Serigne Gueye (29) and The Dead C, Loren MazzaCane Connors & Suzanne Langille (30). The daytime programme features talks and further performances. Stirling Tolbooth, 27-30 May, £12/£8 per day, £22/£14 two days, £40/£26 festival pass, 01786 274000,

[Source: info from The Wire]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:19 AM

FeedSweep

Further to my earlier post on Feedroll there is a similar and more advanced service @ FeedSweep that supports both RSS and Atom Xml based systems.

Including up-to-date information from other web sites and news services bolsters your site's content and lets your visitors know they can come back to get updates on topics that are related to their interests. FeedSweep is a new, free service that allows anyone to include news feeds on his or her web site.

Using FeedSweep you can also combine multiple feeds into one metafeed.

Lockergnome report FeedSweep: Bring RSS and Atom Content to Any Site

[If you are interested in utilizing FeedSweep and would like to syndicate content of this blog on your website - this is the Atom Feed for DJ Martian's Page]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:32 AM

Xfm report on The Killers X-clusive: Killers Add Extra Date

The Killers have already had some success in the UK - [a top 30 single] they are yet another US group that plunder 80s epic rock [ala fellow contemporaries: Interpol, Longwave and Stellastarr *]

The Killers have an uber-epic big guitar production sound that is comparable to 80s bands such as U2, The Immaculate Fools, The Psychedelic Furs.

The Killers debut album: Hot Fuss is released in the UK on June 7th.

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Sunday, May 16, 2004

Ninjatune release Wagon Christ - Sorry I make You Lush on June 1st. [Press Release/ Cover Art/ Tracklisting info]

Wagon Christ is a Luke Vibert music production alias.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:45 PM

Musique Machine review Glenn Branca - Lesson No 1

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Richard H Kirk - Earlier/Later - retrospective compilation

Mute have the full press release for Richard H Kirk - Earlier/Later

The Grey Area of Mute are set to release a two CD package of Richard H. Kirk's unreleased projects from 1974-1989. "Earlier/Later - Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89" is due for release on 17th May 2004. ...

Blogger Gutterbreakz a Cabaret Voltaire fanatic has an extensive account of this compilation album.

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Backspin Promotions

Music blog for a US PR company specializing in dance/electronic music: Backspin Promotions

# posted by DJ Martian 9:58 PM

MUTEK 5th Edition, 2004, June 2-6 - Montreal, Canada

Mutek has built up a reputation as one of the leading international electronic music festivals - it is North America's answer to Europe's Barcelona based Sonar Festival.

Mutek 2004 will be the 5th Anniversary for the Montreal based festival.

From June 2nd to the 6th Montreal will transform into the quintessential electronic music immersive experience. With over 60 artists from close to a dozen countries, MUTEK returns for its 5th anniversary bearing something for everyone. Given the eleven different showcases, panel discussions, workshops, and a bagful of surprises, audiences will be able to enjoy all permutations of contemporary electronic music from morning to night. And this year being a landmark birthday for the festival, a handful of our past discoveries have returned to mark the occasion with some rare performances.

This year's highlights include:

* Plastikman's first live performance in over nine years
* Raster-Noton program
* Ricardo Villalobos rare North American appearance
* Schneider TM
* Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, featuring Joseph Suchy
* Jamie Lidell
* Ilpo Väisänen of Pan Sonic
* Smith n Hack
* Junior Boys
* Richard Chartier & COH performing the world premiere of CHESSMACHINE
* Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer
* Isolée
* Krikor
* Portable
* Crackhaus
* Herbert DJ set
* and many more

Events will take place at Ex-Centris , the festival's home for the last five years, as well as SAT and Metropolis.

As a means of refurbishing the community, this year's festival will put more emphasis on the technological side of music with a new series of workshops showcasing the latest developments in software design available to electronic artists.

MUTEK_INTERSECTION, the panel discussion series, also returns as a forum to articulate MUTEK's core argument and questions through the lens of debate - offered in collaboration with The Association for Electronic Music .

Source: Mutek press release

Official website for Mutek

TechnoTourist have the full Mutek program/ schedule for 2004.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:21 PM

Swayzak New Album

According to Deconstructed news Swayzak have a new album on the way - they will be appearing at London's Fabric on May 29th exclusively previewing new tracks.

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Using Feedroll RSS Viewer

Feedroll is a RSS headlines web based reader that allows syndication of any RSS feed to be placed on your weblog/ website.

Select a news feed (or provide your own), customize it to suit your site...then copy and paste the code

A step-by-step approach how to use Feedroll to place RSS headlines feed for DJ Martian's Page on your blog/ website:

Because Blogger uses an Atom formatted XML system - I have converted this into an RSS feed:

using: Atom-to-RSS convertor at Atom2RSS (Atom-to-RSS): 2RSS.com

This is the RSS Feed for DJ Martian's Page

Note there is a 2 hour delay for this free RSS service:
A small change for Atom2RSS free service: pages are cached for 2 hours to reduce traffic.
Source: 2RSS.com Blog

>> use this RSS feed:

@ Feedroll

1. select option..enter your own RSS URL

2. click update [you can also customize any features such as ticking the XML button box or the number of items i.e headlines to display - if you do - click update at bottom of page]

3. notice the javascript code at bottom of page >> "Copy and paste this code into your site"

Next put this javascript code on your website/ weblog and you can have a syndicated web headlines reader for DJ Martian's Page on your website/ weblog.

>> An example of using this RSS feed @ DJ Martian: Forthcoming Album Releases 2004

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Phil Freeman is back blogging: Running The Voodoo Down

Like it says above, this blog is all about my book Running The Voodoo Down: The Electric Music Of Miles Davis, which is currently scheduled to be published by Backbeat Books in Spring 2005. (I expect to complete the manuscript, and turn it in, in mid-summer.)

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The new Annie Nightingale show on Radio 1 includes a dj mix set from Two Lone Swordsmen

» Profile: Two Lone Swordsmen

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Electroclash revisted by ILM 2 years on from it's big year of 2002: Electroclash - Efficacious or just plain Egotistical?

...the classics tracks are emerging, recent sound history is being documented.

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Trans Europe Express

» 2 day electronic music event happening in London next week: TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS-MAY 21 & 22 2004--CARGO---LONDON

Trans Europe Express was founded by deepbluemusic’s Zak Frost and Perverted Science’s Circus Love to promote and showcase the finest talent from all over Europe unquestionably the world’s most exciting place to be for music right now.

Joining us for the trip in 2004 will be leading German producer Patrick Pulsinger’s live ensemble Church Of Carbon, Norwegian expera-mentalists Xploding Plastix, Scando-house collective S.U.M.O, Italo-disco don DJ TLR, Finnish electro wonderkid Bangkok Impact and, from the UK, synth-soul outfit BoxSaga and electro-funk pioneers Transparent Sound.

The Trans Europe Festival will see a line-up crossing all musical borders from nu-jazz and afro house to minimal tech-funk, new beat and Italo-disco.

>>> Friday May 21st >>>
LIVE ACTS:
Xploding Plastix (Palm Beats, Norway)
S.U.M.O (Africanism, Sweden)
BoxSaga featuring Edwin Laliq and Lola from Spektrum (Nonstop, UK)

DJS:
Nick Luscombe (XFM, UK)
G-HA & Olanski (Skansen, Norway)
Zak Frost (Nodisko / Afro Art, UK)

>>> Saturday May 22nd >>>
LIVE ACTS:
Bangkok Impact (Crème Organisation, Finland)
Church Of Carbon (Cheap Records, Austria)
Transparent Sound (Electrix / Orson Records, UK)

DJS:
DJ TLR (Crème Organisation, Netherlands)
Guglielmo Mascio (Nu Funk Klan, Italy)
Circus Love (Perverted Science, UK)

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This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ Boomkat - A Pelicanneck Online Music Store include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
FZV - Precedent
Ai

Following on from their triumphant appearance at this year's Deadbeat festival and the release of Claro Intelecto's massive "Neurofibro" album, ai return with the debut full-lengther from Richard Herbert, otherwise known as Fzv. "precedent" is an electronic album rooted firmly within the traditions of the `artificial intelligence' school as perfected by warp's earliest and best-loved recruits, and in particular Autechre and Richard D James. The album, in fact, is a collection of tracks Fzv has been working on for some time, predating newer material that falls into a much tougher, industrial frame. The 14 tracks on board, though, still look at the movement from a futuristic, dark vantage point, something that's realised to most punishing effect with the classic aphex constructions of "Amlgm2", the metallic percussive clank of "Clatr2", the bubbling futuristic soundscaping of "Iso_R2" and the familiar tones of label classic "Metaphrastic", acting here as the album opener. "Precedent" manages to re-visit a time of electronic music construction that did not rely on laptop manipulations or digital presets - largely revolving around analog synths, effects and drum machines for the development of involving sci-fi textures built-up without pretension or conceit. Ai have built an impeccable reputation for visual panache and product design, something that's unleashed to full effect once more here. Ace

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Modeselektor /Boomkat Selected Mixtapes Volume 4
Boomkat Selected Mixtapes
CD // £ 5.99

Ouch, 4th in the series and it's on a super mashedupbastardkilla tip! Berlin's finest mash-up operators have taken 6 months to construct this rediculously good mix, the most ecclectic in the series so far with its hammering re-assembly of pretty much every kind of music you can imagine into one crushing hour-long party you won't recover from for some time. Suffice to say that you'll be hearing some truly classic tunes given the modeselektor treatment, playing it off with gabba, dancehall, twisted electronix, electro, r+b, soul, punk, indie, rock, hip hop, electro, a sprinkling of pop and, who knows, maybe some unreleased Modeselektor business to keep you jacking until they come up with some more new sh*t to keep it rockin'. Seriously good fun, play this anywhere anytime and become the envy of your mates, the life of the party, the one with all those mental tunes you sorta figure you know somehow but have never heard in quite that way. Truly awesome, Tip!!!!!!!!

Various / Jamaican Recordings Dub Sampler Volume 2
Jamaican Recordings

Awesome value second budget compilation on Jamaican Recordings, these cats have access to the don source for mastertapes and no doubt, there's a bottomless supply. Stupid then to refuse a deal like this - especially given amongst the fourteen tracks five completely unreleased dubs exclusive to this bargain sampler. Of paramount importance is an extra dub to the Locksley castell cut "Some good" which itself does over the awesome Pablo production of Paul Blackman's epic 'Earth wind and fire'. We banged on about this at length a couple weeks ago, suffice to say, with Leroy Smart, Don Carlos, Tubby, Horace Andy, Tappa Zukie, Cornell Campbell and all on board there's no better value around. Great introduction to a seriously prolific and upwardly mobile imprint. Ace.

Bill Wells Trio (With Stefan Schneider / Annie Whitehead / Barbara Morgenstern) - Pick Up Sticks
Leaf

In the esteemed company of To Rococo Rot / Mapstation's Stefan Schneider, Robert Wyatt's sometime musical director Annie Whitehead and Berlin singer/songwriter Barbara Morgenstern, Scotland's leading avant-garde outsider Bill Wells joins The Leaf Label for Pick Up Sticks, a lovely four way collaboration. Bill Wells has previously released a series of Trio & Octet albums on the Domino and Geographic labels. Wells is the go-to man in the Glasgow scene for superior arrangements, having worked with Belle & Sebastian, The Pastels, Arab Strap, Future Pilot AKA, Telstar Ponies, the list goes on. His Bill Wells Octet has been operational for fifteen years, mixing the cadences of floral soundtracks and epic rock within a loose jazz context. "Pick Up Sticks" is beautifully understated, a hushed microscopic recording of clicky percussion and gentle basslines, sometimes breaking into the wider tones of jazz horns and the haunting vermona arrangements of Ms Morgenstern. Lovely.

Eluvium - An Accidental Memory In The Case of Death
Temporary Residence

In the dictionary, the literal definition for eluvium reads: "the debris from the disintegration of rock". "..Accidental Memory......" is actually quite beautifully constructed around endlessly rich and sparse piano pieces, mimicking the cinematic qualities of Michael Nyman or Zbigniew Preisner and doing so with an accomplished feel that's hard to ignore. Cooper's longtime influences of baroque classical and modern minimalist composers shines bright over the brief-but-sweeping half hour length of this record, the entire recording took place in less than two hours using only one microphone and no overdubs. it's completely live, with no editing, mixing, mastering or post-production of any kind on the recording. It is this sparse, naked beauty that makes this record so breathtaking and so addictive. Another piano masterpiece in a year that seems to be full of many such pleasant surprises. Lovely and highly recommended.

Loren Connors - The Departing Of A Dream Vol. III - Juliet
Family Vineyard

"You can't hold on to things,' Loren Connors says. 'With great happiness comes great sorrow.' So brings us to the spectrum that is Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet. Like the previous volumes, Juliet is a tribute of sorts; and here the focus is clearly love, the kind of love willing to face desolation and ultimately death. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment, his electric guitar emits a pulsing web of blues notes that settle against the utterly intimate human ambience of a creaking chair, tumbling objects, smoke curled absence and his signature canvas of tape hiss. The story of Juliet and her Romeo is told in a lyrical outpouring that Connors has rarely shown in recent years, a style associated which his Rooms (1990) and Evangeline (1999) albums. Though the 20-minute album opener contains a devastating core of mire and foreboding that only Connors can create."

Miss Kittin - Proffesional Distortion - Modeselektor / Otto Von Schirach Remixes
Novamute

Miss Kittin's first solo single features her trademark wry vocals over a guitar-heavy track giving it the rock vibes. Unfortunately, the distributor's presale notes for this twelve neglected to mention that it comes with remixes from both Modeselektor and Otto Von Schirach, so here we are with our measly handful of copies. Oh well, more on the way so check it out, wicked squashed beats and distortion from our heroes Modeselekor, while Otto cuts it up in suitably mercenary style. Ace.

Pan Sonic - Kesto
Mute

`Kesto (234:48:4)' is a brand new quartet of compact discs from Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) available only as one complete set and highly limited. The original discussions of ideas for the new recordings were based around Mika's favourite painter Francis Bacon and his use of the triptych (a format Bacon used a number of times in his lifetime). Always pushing the boundaries, Pan Sonic were inspired to go on to record a fourth part. Those familiar with Pan Sonic's work may detect a correlation between their use of sound and Bacon's use of paint; the Kesto recordings represent a substantial new depth and vitality in the quality of their sound palette that brings a newfound lifeforce and delicate violence into their music. Pan Sonic have remained true to their original and pioneering use of their special handmade analog tone generators, more old radio set than synthesisers, with the occasional use of digital samplers for the more rhythmic sounds. They still record live to DAT tape in real time with no overdubbing. This year Vanio and Vaisanen have already provided a sound installation for the Berlin Biennale and performed at the Phillip Glass `Alter Ego' festival in Milan. Amazing package.

Piano Magic - Saint Marie
Green UFO's.

6 tracks gorgeous and varied tracks from Piano magic, Alan of low makes a guest vocal appearance on the title track and another track, which also features ben ayres of cornershop on the tamboura. Late 60's/early 70's folk heroine, Vashti Bunyan, also returns to the band - she famously sang on the band's previous "writers without homes" album - her first recording in 30 years. Vashti sings on "dark ages" and joins alan on "wrong turn." The "Saint Marie EP" was recorded over 3 days during autumn 2003 in london by band members Glen Johnson, jerome Tcherneyan, Franck Alba, Alasdair Steer and James Topham. Recommended.

Richard H. Kirk - Earlier / Later Unreleased '74- `89
Mute

Selected from over seven hours of archive recordings, the majority of which has never before been available, `Earlier/Later...' documents a fifteen-year period of private research and personal development by Richard H. Kirk. Committed to cassette and then forgotten, they have been transferred onto CD with a minimum postproduction. "You can probably hear the hiss from some of the cassettes,' Kirk observes. `I've never played them to anyone before. I'm particularly pleased with the material contained on `Earlier'. I almost think that's the album I should be making now." · Containing tracks such as the 12" mix of `Martyrs of Palestine' (the only track on this collection to have been previously available), the track sounds as direct and vital as today's headlines. Together with its companion piece, an unreleased remix of `Streetgang', also taken from Kirk's 1986 Black Jesus Voice album, it portrays a world in which the politics of compassion got itself ganked in some housing project or refugee camp years ago. Taken in this context, Kirk's cover version of Can's `I Want More', a cheerfully acknowledged experiment in the pop discipline lasting exactly three minutes and three seconds, takes on fresh significance. · Throughout the two CD release is evidence of Kirk reinventing himself through the sparse dynamics of dance music and laying down the groundwork for his later Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist projects. The earliest material, recorded onto open-reel tape machines using the most basic equipment, is raw and inventive.

Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms
Mute

Two CD package from Cabaret Voltaire founder member Richard H Kirk. Under his Sandoz guise the tracks that made up the original 1993 CD issue of `Digital Lifeforms' were collected from three Eps released at a time when the post-Acid House electronic scene was developing with new confidence and curiosity, widescreening its imagination and aiming more at the head than the feet. Disc one of this set comprises the tracks that made up the original `Digital Lifeforms' CD release while the material on the second disc was recorded during the same period and with the exception of two tracks has remained unreleased until present. It's an account of how the Sandoz project developed and includes the first recorded Sandoz track, `Medium Cool'.

Slicker - We All Have A Plan
Hefty

With guest appearances from Telefon Tel Aviv, Dan Boadi, Lo Louis, Phat Kat, Elzhi (from Slum Village), Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison and Lindsay Anderson (Telefon Tel Aviv), this latest album from John Hughes' highly regarded Slicker project for the Hefty label finally sees its release this week. Having grown up on hip-hop's collages, indie-punk's bedroom DIY-isms and the beat fantasias of electronic composers, John Hughes (a.k.a. Slicker and the artist behind Chicago's Hefty Records) has grasped something most others haven't in his knitting together of something old and something new. For Hughes, the common chord on We All Have A Plan, Slicker's fourth album and a pan-global, soul-jazz masterpiece made out of bits and pieces, is elemental and spiritual. "Honest" and "organic" are words Hughes uses repeatedly to describe his blueprint. And in the wake of similar cut-and-paste excursions by kindred spirit colleagues, Plan smuggles modern electronics away from indie-techno dilettantes back to the timeless land of song. The collaborative voices and jazz tones you hear throughout the record belong to soul, jazz, funk and world music's forgotten heroes. Legendary Motor City funk-jazz cats Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison illuminate the laid-back funk collage of "God Bless This Mess, This Test We Pass". Vocalist Khadijah Anwar, once a 14 year-old soul wunderkind for mid-'70s funkateers Sugar Hill, shines on the Zapp-like electro-funk of "Knock Me Down Girl", while Detroit MC's Phat Kat and Elzhi (of Slum Village fame) add a future urban element to the proceedings. Singer Lindsay Anderson (L'Altra, Telefon Tel Aviv) gives "A Strong Donkey" a sultry jazzed-out bliss, while guest vocalist/trumpeter James Cromwell grumbles alongside her. Also appearing on the title song, and throughout Plan, is Dan Boadi, a Ghanaian vocalist residing in Chicago, who Hughes estimates affected the album as much as anyone. Spiritual X-factors all-too rarely affect the soul and creation of computer music. Yet these are undeniably the guiding forces behind Slicker's We All Have a Plan. So natural and soul-kissed, you'd think they were part of Hughes's plan all along.

T Raumschmiere Feat Mc Soom T - A Million Brothers (Blahblahblah)
Novamute

`A Million Brothers (Blahblahblah)' features Bis collaborator MC Soom T and features remixes from LFO and Stefan Betke's Pole project. The Bug supplied remix duties on the last T.Raumschmiere single (`Rabaukendisko') and has been drafted in once more, this time alongside Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) in their joint Sub Species guise. Check.

Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel
Warp

Here they go again, Weatherall and Tenniswood, one of the most famous pairings in UK electronic music deliver their latest long player for Warp. Much has been said of the guitar-heavy feel to this album and of their brave engagement with the microphone for their first vocal duties in full effect. So does it work? Erm, not really. There are some good ideas thrown into the loop here, but the overall gritty infusion of grinding guitars and stripped analogue beats veers a little too close to electroclash territory for this particular set of ears to enjoy. There are some strong moments on offer, and this is very much more than just your run of the mill copyist nonesense, but this particular route the lone swordsmen have embarked on just doesn't do it for us. Give it a listen though, it's very much a love it or hate it sort of thing.

Various / Temporary Residence - Thank You (Anniversary Compilation)
Temporary Residence

Really rather lovely compilation on the Temporary Residence label, compiled to mark their 50th release. Tracks on board come from label luminaries as impressive as Fridge, Sybarite, Sonna, Kammerflimmer Kollective, Tarentel, Howard Hello and more. Go with Kieran Hebden and co with Fridge's exquisite "Five Combs" for the opening, a sort of electrically re-modified Americana number complete with mid-west strums and rolling piano, or Tarentel's quietly epic post rock masterpiece "Bell Jar", or maybe even Sybarite's stuttering electroglitch heart-warmer "Killing The Moonshine". We've always had a bit of a soft spot for this label, fitting that this excellent compilation doesn't include a single duff track. Recommended.

Jerry Hunt - Phalba
Tzadik

Composer and modern day shaman Jerry Hunt combined live electronics with esoteric spirituality in creating his own very unique ritualistic performances. This cd presents four rare compositions written expressly for James Fulkerson and the Barton workshop, who had a long and intimate relationship with this elusive composer until his untimely death in 1993. Includes an extended piece for trombone and electronics, two colorful compositions for ensemble and a charming minimalist piece for violin and piano. Hunt's hypnotic sound world transfers brilliantly to this virtuosic ensemble, and they perform his challenging scores with passion and intensity. A wild new view from one of new music's legendary mavericks.

Locus Solus (John Zorn / Arto Lindsay / Anton Fier) - 50th Birthday Celebration : Volume Three
Tzadik

Continuing Tzadik's series of live recordings from Zorn's 50th birthday month is this classic reunion of three downtown legends, Arto Lindsay (ambitious lovers), Anton Fier (golden palominos) and John Zorn (naked city). There has never been a band quite like locus solus. Dating back to 1982, the music of these improvised rock units is still as fresh as the day they first hit, and seems to get better with age. this high intensity set features all three players at their very best. strangled vocals, loping grooves and structural complexity make these improvised rock songs a continual delight. a fascinating and charming set of tension, love, ideas, communication and miscommunication.

Milford Graves / John Zorn - 50th Birthday Celebration - Volume Two
Tzadik

Another one of the most talked about sets of the "birthday" month (september 2003) was this historic meeting between two of music's most powerful and controversial iconoclasts. playing together yearly since 1999 for very special occasions, their musical connection and spiritual bond has gotten stronger and stronger. This set, played before a packed house of screaming enthusiasts, was without doubt their best and most outrageous performance to date. Intensity, fireworks and incredible mutual respect made this one of the highlights of the month.

Yamamoto Seiichi - Baptism
Tzadik

From organizing concerts at his club `bears' to performing in the cult bands omoide hatoba, rovo and, most famously, The Boredoms, Yamamoto has been a central figure of the internationally acclaimed osaka rock/noise scene since the late 80's. For his second Tzadik cd, one of japan's most original and creative guitarists presents his first ever solo recording, an exciting and wide ranging program jumping from prepared electric to lyrical acoustic. Fred Frith, Joseph Spence and Derek Bailey are just a few of the influences yamamoto touches upon in this intimate and surprising classic of new guitar. Recommended.

Illogic - Celestial Clockwork
Weightless

Amazing third album from Ohio emcee Illogic after the near classic 'Got Lyrics' and his mighty debut 'Unforeseen Shadows'. Again produced by the man Blueprint, veering towards lyrical aspects touched upon by men such as Eyedea, Sage Francis and even Eminem (only when he's on top form). The production is next level, multi dimensional, different, funky and abstract without feeling forced. Guests include Aesop Rock, Vast Aire and Slug. Check the sick offbeat gem 'Hollow Shell (Cash Clutch)' with the hype rhymes, slippery beats and dope bass samples - then check the sax solo - strictly off the heezy. Always personal, always deep, this is one of 2004's finest hip hop albums so far. Highly recommended.

Live Human - Breakseven
Cosmic

19 fresh leftfield loops from DJ Quests's decks / drums / bass trio, many played out live. Supertight beats with each side closing on a locked groove. ideal for juggling.

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Def Jux

RJD2 returns with this bewildering and damned right crazy album. Diving head first into seventies glam rock and the such - samples just beyond recognition only the style and chopped up buzz make us recognise the producer. You really can't call this hip hop and we are not even going there, you need to separate the man behind this album from the man behind the production for Soul Position. I suggest you check the sound samples and make your own mind up, for me it's like reviewing tougher edged big beat with a penchant for guitars. Check.

Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
Ninja Tune

Sixtoo's Ninja debut plays like a more aggressive version of his classic 'Duration' album. Shorn of his downer rap presence that was the cherry on the top of the pie of 2003's essential Vertical Form album 'Antagonist Survival Kit' this album doesn't quite have the punch that his work has brought us over the last five years. Even so for what he does this music is still world class, a unique amalgam of instrumental hip hop with the focus on live instrumentation ground into the dirt. The stripped rust of 'Funny Sticks Reprise' is the only true vocal cut and it's killer. Processed live drums really lift this album. The other vocal killer is 'Horse Drawn Carriage', the vocals almost lost in the mixdown, the sonic's in the red before the acoustic guitar takes over. For this sort of ultra-introspective, at times instrumental, deep, soul-searching hip hop, sixtoo truly is out there on his own. Brilliant.

Various / Stones Throw The Third Unheard - Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983
Stones Throw

At last it's here. Stones Throw deliver what is to old school (aka pre 1984) hip hop treasure finding what the 'Funky 16 Corners' was to world of the funk hounds. If you are not familiar with the sound of old then you'll be in for a big surprise (especially compared to todays sound) - check the killer old school disco funk tracks, breaks and tonnes of attitude. Freestyle rapping all the way, think the classic Grandmaster Flash, Treachrous Three and Funky 4+1 style. Except none of this stuff had had anything like as much exposure as the classics emitted from Enjoy, Delmar, Profile, Express, Tayster or the don' Sugarhill. Mr. Magic is the boss (not that Mr. Magic) and his gifted crew Pookey Blow, Forum Band, Cuzz Band, Starchild and Outlaw Four lay the foundation. Heavy, heavy, heavy - twenty page booklet, much respect to Egon, Dooley O and Jeff Jank for gifting the world this album. Essential early rap business, buy!!

Yesterdays New Quintet (Madlib) - Stevie
Stones Throw

After toasting through Blue Note's archives, delivering 2 amazing collaborative albums with Jay Dilla and MF Doom, and being bootlegged onto white label and the internet, Madlib finally gets his Stevie Wonder project released officially. An immaculate design compliments the cd, with a nice re-edit of the Innervision's sleeve on the inside cover, and some dope interpretations of the man like Stevie on the disc. Hitting off with the biggest dance number `Superstition' and Madlib rips the bassline like DJ Premiere cutting it up, the beats are jiggy, the rhodes are omnipresent and downright funky and it's pretty much a jammed out, blunted out tribute, Madlib style. One of my favourite cuts is the `Golden Lady' edit, a fat rolling beat sticks to the rhodes like glue and Otis plays out the classic and catchy melody like a doped up cabaret act, ace mood and groove. And of course no Stevie tribute would be complete without a killer vibes remix of `Too High', spacy rhodes and serious fingerwork on the keys makes light work of Stevie's vintage number, a head nodding killer, no mistake. Other cuts include `Rocket Love pt 1', the summer jazz groove of `Superwoman/Where were you last winter', `I Am Singing' and `Send One Your Love' all of which Otis Jackson Jr drops heavy beats and some killer freestyle playing for a well rounded and up to date re-edit of one of the genius' of our time. Essential.

A Silver Mt Zion - The "Pretty Little Lightening Paw" EP
Constellation

Four new sprawling emotional post-rock pieces from Efrim's (godspeed you!black emperor) other major project : A Silver Mt. Zion. The band have transformed from a three piece ensemble playing dark frail pieces of an almost chamber-like quality to a full live band comprised of eight members and a choir, over the course of their three previous albums. This EP sees the band rename themselves "Thee Silver Moutain Reveries" and showcases their rockier side, Efrim's vocals and lyrics reaching a new level of maturity and assuredness. Absolutely gorgeous packaging and limited quantities, as is always the case with this fabulous label. Recommended.

Adem - These Are Your Friends
Domino

`These Are Your Friends' is the pivotal track from Adem's `Homesongs', an album which marries the timeless quality of classic singer-songwriters (Tim Hardin, John Martyn etc.) with all the freedom provided by modern domestic recording. Mixed by fellow Fridge member Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), `These Are Your Friends' starts in a downbeat haze and is then taken up towards a chorus that feels like dark clouds parting. Elsewhere on this release you can find two new Adem compositions not featured on `Homesongs' - the delicate sometimes banjo picked `After The Storm' and the deathly, spooky presence of `Let It Burn'. Nice.

Rachel Goswell - The Sleep Shelter EP
4AD

Having first made her name back in the early nineties when lead singer of Slowdive - a band at the credible end of shoegazing scene, responsible in influence for so many groups operating in both the electronic and indiepop spheres (Ulrich Schnauss and the Morr Music stable to name but two) - and, more recently, as one-fifth of Mojave 3, Rachel's mesmerising voice has always had the uncanny ability to tug at heartstrings and stir emotions at will. Her debut solo album, `Waves Are Universal', you'll be glad to hear still does exactly that. This EP, `Sleep Shelter', precedes the album by a month and is a more stripped down sound than what you might expect, abandoning both the drift qualities of Slowdive and the overt country influences of Mojave 3 in favour of something altogether more singer-songwriterish. There are no vocal effects, swathing walls of reverb or atmospheric slide guitar for her to hide behind. Instead, you are treated to a far more holistic affair - something you might like to describe as "mature". Check.

Jonny Trunk - The Inside Outside
Trunk

Now available on cd. At long last we get to hear what was once the personal musical musings from the legend that is Jonny Trunk. If you don't know the label yet then where have you been - this man is a musical missionary re-issuing 'The Wicker Man' soundtrack on vinyl, single handedly bringing the amazing soundwork of Basil Kirchen back into our consciousness and so much more. This album feels special in a untrendy way, it's simply one man larking about with his insane collection of vinyl and his budget basement equipment. Imagine the still ace early recordings of Lemon Jelly but with a slightly more dangerous edge. This music feels like it could have been made anytime in the last 15 or so years. My tip tops are 'Asylum', 'Nine Bob Note', and 'Mr Hand'. Limited as per usual with Trunk, treat yerself.

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New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

Some new releases listed in the weekly guide [via e-mail] from Manchester's music emporium: Piccadilly Records

Amplifier - Amplifier
Music For Nations

Armed with choruses more akin to detonations and an album joyous in its darkness Amplifier are British rock reborn. Formed towards the end of the last century in Manchester, evolving from an arsenal of treasured teenage records. Amplifier take Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Police, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Bowie and Brad – in fact just about anything of any quality, and exhale it through a cloudburst of guitar pickups and distortion pedals.

The Devastations - The Devastations
Munster

Australia's best kept secret!! The Devastations' debut album was released in Australia in 2003 to huge critical acclaim, last year they toured Europe with The Tindersticks, and recorded a film soundtrack with Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten. This is an exceptional record; recalling the darkness of The Dirty Three and middle period Nick Cave crossed with various European folk music and with elements of Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra.

The Dream Syndicate - Ghost Stories
Restless

The final album from The Dream Syndicate, remastered and with eight extra tracks recorded in two KCRW sessions in 1987 and 1988.

The Dream Syndicate - The Complete Live At Raji's
Restless

Remastered and expanded to a 2CD set, this CD now includes the complete show - with the 4 missing songs back in order, and in-between song talking / banter included as well.

Radiohead - Com Lag (Two Plus Two Is Five)
Parlophone

This is a beautifully packaged, Japanese import of "Hail to the Thief" B-sides. If you've got them already then you'll be aware of their bizarre, half-there, challenging splendour. But you won't have the new live version of "2+2=5" from London's Earls Court last year. Sorry, but it's spellbinding. Elsewhere there's remixes by Four Tet and Christian Vogel, and a live version of "Fog (Again)" with just Thom and his piano. Stange, wonderful and eccentric. But beware, if you find their later stuff 'difficult', then remember these are the B-sides. One for the fans, really.

Vetiver - Vetiver
DiCristina

Inspired by traditional acoustic music and performed with guitar, cello and violin, Vetiver gracefully navigates the choppy waters of folk and pop. Features fellow traveller Devendra Banhart, Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, and My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Ciosoig. Recrded by Thom Monihan (Pernice Brothers, Lilys).

Fe-Mail - Syklubb Fra Haelvete
Improtant

These two improvising musicians approach the incredible range of sound sources at their disposal – electronic, acoustic, physic – with equal musicality, creating a rare conflagration of sensitivity, speed, and sonic pleasure. Equally intimidating and inviting. Best described by Thurston Moore as such, "Out of Norway comes the most exciting noise LP i've heard to date. These two women romp thru stimulating noise compositions fresh and clean with a distinct Scandinavian frost. But there's always an undercurrent of warm embrace, sweet and masterful."

Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
Acute

After playing in the seminal and influential New York City no-wave rock outfits The Theoretical Girls and The Static, Glenn Branca made his first strides towards the more ambitious guitar symphonies he's become famous for. "Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar" is perhaps his most accessible piece of the period. It is a concise yet extended statement of forward motion, guitar motives repeating in a manner recalling the minimalist of Philip Glass, but unlike Glass, with a maximilist approach to sonic density and bombast. Upon its initial release as the first record on the influential 99 Records (Liquid Liquid, ESG, et al.), "Lesson No. 1" was paired with "Dissonance", a more daring experiment that explodes sonic dissonance with rock and roll energy. For this reissue, Acute records has added "Bad Smells" (featuring Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore), composed as a dance piece for choreographer Twyla Tharp in 1982. And if that wasn't enough, Acute has also included an 18 minute video of "Symphony #5", recorded in 1984 at what was to become the legendary New York City venue The Kitchen.

Faultline - Wild Horses / Biting Tongues
EMI

Two tracks from the "Your Love Means Everything" album, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses".

CDS
CD single featuring guest vocals from Joseph Arthur ("Wild Horses"), and Ras B ("Biting Tongues"). Also includes the Riton mix of "Biting Tongues" along with the videos for both tracks.

James White & The Blacks - Sax Maniac
Munster

Originally released in 1982, and re-released here with three bonus tracks recorded in 1988, "Sax Maniac" sees James White providing angular squarking sax and jolting vocals over The Blacks tight punk-funk rhythms.

Japan - Assemblage
BMG

Originally released in 1981, this repackaged edition includes four bonus tracks, two videos, extensive sleevenotes and rare artwork and photos.

Japan - Obscure Alternatives
BMG

Originally released in 1978, this repackaged edition includes four bonus tracks, bonus video, extensive sleevenotes and rare artwork and photos.

Retisonic - Return To Me
Silverthree Sound Recordings

NYC's Retisonic explode onto the scene with an inspired, burning post-punk debut and a line-up which features Jason Farrell (Bluetip and Swiz), Joe Gorelick (Garden Variety) and Jim Kimball (J.Majesty) - all beautifully recorded by Ian love (Rival schools)...

Silent Drive - Love Is Worth It
Equal Vision

Members of Bane, Dasai and Drowning Man get together to craft a surprisingly subtle, intricate and beautiful album, that still manages to retain the explosive drive of punk. If the brooding, delicate opening bars and soulful, haunting vocals lull you into a false sense of security, it's very quickly, but very delightfully, blown away by a blazing, anguished aural assault...

Fingathing - Fingathing And The Big Red Nebula Band
Grand Central

Using pioneering technological software and new production techniques, the duo's third LP is as much influenced by Kraut rock and electro as it is by hip hop and dark jazz breaks.

Various Artists / Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Harmless

The third instalment of the "Life:Styles" series sees MAW's Kenny Dope dust down his loft collection of rarities and drop a selection with a span as wide as his stomach, with influences covering jazz-funk, disco, latin, folk-soul, soul-jazz, prog-rock and disco from the likes of Jackson 5, Gentle Giant, Phil Upchurch, Ellen McIlwaine, Jayme Marques, BT Express, Penny Goodwin, Sharon Jones, Sathima Bea Benjamin etc

Various Artists / Delivery Room
Leaf

Special low price sampler featuring new and exclusive tracks from the Leaf label's current roster. Includes tracks from Manitoba, Asa-Chang & Junray, Murcof, Colleen, Icarus, Bill Wells and more.

Icarus - I Tweet The Birdy Electric
Leaf

After previous releases on Temporary Residence, Hydrogen Dukebox and Output, Icarus now join the roster at Leaf, delivering an LP of 21st Century improv on an electro-acoustic glitch tip.

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Saturday, May 15, 2004

must check the new issue 46 of fakejazz.com

# posted by DJ Martian 7:54 PM

Starvox
StarVox is a monthly online zine dedicated to promoting music in the genres of post-punk, goth, deathrock, psychobilly, gothabilly, dark alternative country, ethereal, industrial, dark ambient, and doom/black metal.

» New reviews

# posted by DJ Martian 7:53 PM

May issue of Absorb there are many new reviews

# posted by DJ Martian 7:49 PM

new blog to check on the retro tip: Lost Bands Of The New Wave Era

# posted by DJ Martian 7:39 PM

Mixing It

The latest Mixing It Featuring People Like Us and Wobbly and Ergo Phizmiz in concert

Recorded 8 May 2004 at the Spitz, London

» Mixing It

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce performances
from surrealist composer and sound artist Ergo Phizmiz,
and the collaboration of London samplist Vicki Bennett aka
People Like Us and San Francisco's Jon Leidecker aka
Wobbly, "an idiotic sample collage, hellbent on self-harm".

# posted by DJ Martian 7:26 PM

Radio 1's Blue Room

The latest Blue Room show features a Tyrant mix.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:23 PM

eye interview Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys

# posted by DJ Martian 7:18 PM

Cybersalon report London's Cybersonica festival has switched to November

Plans for Cybersonica 2004 are underway. The festival is shifting from it’s usual June to a November 2004 timeslot

Cybersonica International Festival of Music & Sound.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:05 PM

Jazz on 3

The latest Jazz on 3 show features John Taylor Big Band

Coming Up:

Bath Festival

In two weeks time (Friday the 28th of May) this programme will be live from the Bath Festival. We've a fab lineup as ever with Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svennson, the Swiss Stimmhorn duo, plus the legendary French reedsman Louis Sclavis and more.The show is live from 11.30 on Radio 3 but if you're in the area you can join us in the flesh, for free. You can guarantee your free tickets by contacting the Bath box office on 01225 463362, You can get more details about the festival from the website.

Official website: 2004 Bath International Music Festival

# posted by DJ Martian 7:02 PM

BBC Music review Icarus - I Tweet The Body Electric

# posted by DJ Martian 6:39 PM

Solex to release a new album:

The new Solex record, titled 'The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock' will be out in september

# posted by DJ Martian 12:41 PM

New music blog: :: BPM Media Electronic Music Weblog

# posted by DJ Martian 12:25 PM

Playlouder review Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel

# posted by DJ Martian 12:01 PM

Billboard report that Rush will release a covers album: Feedback in late June: Rush Returns To Roots On 'Feedback'

# posted by DJ Martian 11:51 AM

An article on ECM records: ECM Records at 35 - The Marriage of Sound and Silence

# posted by DJ Martian 11:47 AM

BBC Collective review Grand National - Kicking the National Habit

# posted by DJ Martian 11:45 AM

Friday, May 14, 2004

Next week's releases are reviewed by Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 2:43 PM

cmu daily have an ALBUM REVIEW for TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Beggars/4AD) - a UK release date of June 7th has been set.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:02 PM

Jockey Slut

Expect the re launch of Jockey Slut magazine as a Quarterly publication to happen in early June.

jockeyslut .com's big brother, Jockey Slut magazine, is out in its first quarterly incarnation at the beginning of June. The mag will be packed to the gills with: The Streets, Phoenix, Felix Da Housecat, Rjd2, Madvillain, !!!, Mylo, Miss Kittin, The Mighty Boosh and a very animated Mr Weatherall, amongst many other things.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:56 PM

The Guardian review Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel

# posted by DJ Martian 11:53 AM

BlogRunner

Add your blog to BlogRunner

Registration will add your weblog to the sites already indexed by blogrunner. You will also be able to edit your profile and have greater control over the way information about your weblog and posts are displayed.

» BlogRunner

# posted by DJ Martian 12:52 AM

BW & BK report PINK FLOYD - DVD/Book Set Due In June

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 AM

Thursday, May 13, 2004

music blog to check: The Fold Drop

# posted by DJ Martian 11:43 PM

Issue 22 of Earplug:

MAY 13 - MAY 26

Earplug is a biweekly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features for the international electronic music community.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:28 PM

This week's One World show features: One World: 4 Hero/ Wagon Christ/ Ratatat

One World » Forthcoming Shows

20th May
Ghostly International Label Showcase

27th May
Alan McGee Presents Death Disco 4

3 June
Earlies / Tracer AM

10th June
Greek Label Special

# posted by DJ Martian 10:53 PM

MOJO Magazine: "IN THE JUNE 2004 ISSUE OF MOJO..." Morrissey is on the front cover.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:39 PM

BBC Music review New Order - The Radio One Sessions

# posted by DJ Martian 10:36 PM

Sonar launch in London !

Radio 1 news on Sonar: Sonar ready for launch at Ocean

Some of dance music's hottest acts will be gathering in London next month to launch this summer's Sonar Festival in Barcelona

The SonarClub London launch will be at Ocean in Hackney on Friday 4 June - tickets cost £13.50.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:32 PM

Goldfrapp join us live in the studio on this coming Sunday's: BBC - 6 Music - Freak Zone show.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:07 PM

Detroit Movement 04

For my US and in particular Detroit readers:

Alright…The long-awaited moment is here. Movement 04
is proud to announce to the world a partial list of
confirmed artists. As you can tell from the names on
this roster, this year will not disappoint! Once
again, Movement 04 will amaze the world with three
days of the best techno talent the world and Detroit
has to offer. As in years past, this amazing
confluence of musicians and DJ's will come together
under the open skies of Hart Plaza to salute the music
in its very birthplace and deliver a truly
one-of-a-kind musical/life experience to over a
million fans.

Aardvark
Alden Tyrell live
Amp Fiddler live
Barbara Preisinger
Biological Live
Camp Amp DJs
Claude Young
Cloud 9
Danny Krivit
Derek Plaslaiko
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Saunderson
Language
Legowelt
Louis Haiman
Madlib and PBW ft Jay Dee
Malik Alston Painted Pictures
Marques Wyatt
McKay
Mike Geiger
DJ Cosmo
DJ Genesis live
DJ Nova
Duplex Live
Ellen Allien
Fat Freddy's Drop
Francois K
Garth Trinidad
Goldfinger (AML)
Greg Mudge
Groove Junkies
Heiroglyphic being
Highfish
Jeannie Hopper
Joris Voorn live
Kai Alce
Kelvin Larkin
Kenny Larkin
Mike Grant
Mike Huckaby
Novamen Live dutch
Osunlade Live
Dame
Recloose
Red Nose Distrikt
Reel People
Remy
Rockid (DMC Champion)
Rolando
Ron Trent
sean deason
Shortround
Stacey Pullen
Tortured Soul Live
Wajeed

Source: via Yahoo Group ElectroDiscoPunks

Official website for: Movement 04

# posted by DJ Martian 5:54 PM

Brooks - Red Tape

Derby's electronic/ house artist Brooks will release a second album: Red Tape this Summer.

Now he’s back with an insanely good new single, ‘Do The Math’, taken from his hot-to-trot second album ‘Red Tape’, a marvellous glitch-soul funk odyssey due this summer on Soundslike Music.

Source: email from The Social

Context, AMG review by Andy Kellman of Brooks first album: Brooks - You, Me and Us

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Sonomu review Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands

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The latest releases are reviewed @ NYC's Other Music: The Other Music Update

NEW RELEASES
Spektrum
DNA (Retrospective)
Arto Lindsay
Milton Nascimento (Reissue)
Klimek
Claro Intelecto.
Jimmy Martin (Reissue)
The Photo Sticker Machine
AboutPop2

Acid Mothers Temple
Terry Allen (Reissue)
The Skygreen Leopards
Pete Rock
Peloquin Sauvageau (Reissue)
hollAnd
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries
Les Georges Leningrad (Reissue)

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An update from: Eternal Fusion

LATEST
Eternal Fusion will resume again via SpydaRadio soon, the break has been necessary as SpydaRadio are in the process of changing audio servers.
Shows will now be more accessible using the standard mp3 format, whereas previously shows were only available to listeners with 'Real Player'.
Dialogue continues with two other possible outlets for the show and syndication could well be a possibility for the future!

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Pitchfork review Curve - The Way of Curve

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Pitchfork review Claro Intelecto - Neurofibrio

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music blog: jukeboxgraduate.com

not rock crit: writing about listening to music

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Music blog to check: Random Music Thought

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

BlogPulse: New Advanced Blog Search Engine: Claiming a 1 Million Blog Index

An innovative Business Intelligence solutions company: Intelliseek have launched a blog search engine at BlogPulse.com.

BlogPulse now offer an advanced blog search engine, to complement their existing offering of top links/ top people/ top search phrases.

WebProNews report Intelliseek Launches BlogPulse.com

Joining Technorati and Daypop, Intelliseek has launched BlogPulse.com, a search engine designed to seek out blogs. Intelliseek's offering is designed to help users search the heavily populated blog world.

Official press release from Intelliseek: Intelliseek Launches BlogPulse.com to Track Trends, Issues, Personalities in Blogosphere

BlogPulse is a ..online search and tracking tool that measures and ranks "buzz" about key issues, people, phrases and links that occur daily in more than million Internet blogs

Check the BlogPulse search engine and If your blog is NOT in their database, you can >> Submit a Blog for free indexing.

The search engine technology at BlogPulse is advanced and hi-tech, but a blog search engine is only worthwhile if it's index is comprehensive and representative in both quality and quantity.

Spread the news, let's get the "Music Blogosphere" indexed - mention BlogPulse to your friends, link to BlogPulse on your blog.

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BW & BK report the latest Disiplin news: DISIPLIN Name New Album, Plan To Enter Studio

Second album from Norwegian black metal band Disiplin due early 2005 on Moonfog has been titled: Quimbanda

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JockeySlut.com interview Superpitcher

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Hocico New Single & Album

One of the finest contemporary electro-industrial bands, Mexico's Hocico have announced a new single/ep and album: Hocico

Born to be (hated), single that is going to be part of the upcoming Hocico album (August 2004), will be released in late may 04

Available to pre-order @ Music Non Stop

Hocico - Born To Be ( Hated )

CDS. As a taster to Hocico's eagerly awaited fourth new studio album ( due in August / September ) THE Mexican electro-cult return with ''Born To Be ( Hated )'' uniting the strong ingredients that turned Hocico into the undisputed No.1 of all Dark Electro acts worldwide : hammering beats, uncompromising harshness and ( at the same time ) an enormous feeling for great melodies. ''Born To Be ( Hated )'' delivers the dancefloor-hit goods in the same tradition and quality as previous singles ''Untold Blasphemies'' and ''Poltergeist''. Also includes ''Winds Of Reason'', another club-hit exclusive to this single only, plus a remix of ''Born To Be ( Hated )'' with another remix of the Hocico classic ''Ruptura'' by non other than APOPTYGMA BERZERK rounding up this incredibly promising taster for Hocico's eagerly awaited new album !
Full Tracklisting :
01. Born To Be ( Hated ) - Original Odium
02. Winds Of Treason
03. Born To Be ( Hated ) - Metetelo Por El Culo Version
04. Ruptura ( Apoptygma vs Drugwar Remix )

RELEASED 01st June 2004. Out Of Line

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Google Blog Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.

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Relapse report US Noisecore band Today is the Day will release an album: Kiss the Pig on June 29th.

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Epitonic have a Dykehouse mp3 download from the new album: Midrange

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Trademark - Trademark Want More

English Synth-Pop/ Electro-Pop band Trademark will release their full debut album: "Trademark Want More" on June 14th.

Trademark have previously supported The Human League, and will appeal to fans of Depeche Mode circa Violator.

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BW & BK provide a Neurosis news alert: NEUROSIS - ‘Burn’ Track Available Online

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Splendid review Icarus - I Tweet the Birdy Electric

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BW & BK report SHADOWS FALL - Confirm Album Title

Shadows Fall aim to release their new album: The War Within in early September on Century Media.

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MusicOMH.com review Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

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This week's flavorpill LONDON a weekly email magazine covering music, art, and cultural events

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Dusted review The Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere

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BW & BK report the latest Enslaved news: ENSLAVED Inks Deal With Tabu Recordings

They intend to get fellow Norwegian Sir Duperman to mix their next album.

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Hollydrift - "Waiting For The Tiller"

Details of a new album from Hollydrift

Here is a brief overview of the "Waiting For The Tiller":

Hollydrift's 3rd full-length CD, "Waiting for the Tiller", continues to
build on the solid foundation laid by previous releases "In These Days of
Merriment" and "This Way to Escape." The new release features over 70
minutes of sound that streams in from the outer edges of our galaxy and
bubbles up from deep within the earth. The recipe often calls for taking
antiquated communication devices, marrying them to their modern electronic
counterparts, and tossing them all into a musical melange that becomes
greater than the sum of its parts.

Hollydrift's sound art appeals to fans of dark ambient, space music, noise,
musique concrete, field recording and even more traditional styles of
electronic music. Anderson manages to do this without the predictable
pounding, screaming or screeching that has become much too common within the
currently expanding ocean of "experimental" and "noise" artists. The result
is a Janusian portrait: a fleeting glance at days gone by alongside a
glimpse into an uncertain future. It is the soundtrack to a journey both
beautiful and terrifying, and one that we cannot escape.

(For fans of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Lustmord, Merzbow, Rapoon, Scanner,
Wilt, Raison D'etre, etc.)

From Parasomnic Records

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MTV provide a Nine Inch Nails news update.

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American dance/ electronic music mag: XLR8R announces it's new look, with a new issue featuring RJD2 on the front cover.

Issue 77: 11 Years and A Whole New Look
April 29, 2004

XLR8R celebrates 11 years with a fresh redesign, a whole new look for the magazine. Illustrator Doug Lee's take on instrumental hip-hop magician RJD2 adorns the cover, while the inside bursts with features on the UK's electro warriors Two Lone Swordsmen, Cannibal Ox's solo star Vast Aire, house legend Frankie Knuckles, dancehall quartet TOK and the Netherlands's Twilight Circus. In honor of XLR8R's 11 years, seven visual artists have captured their meaning of "11" in print. Also featured: Colleen, Telefon Tel Aviv, Love Unlimited, Blockhead, Wordsworth and Shy FX.

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BBC Jazz Awards 2004 - Vote for the Album of the Year - what a useless voting system, why only 3 choices for the shortlist for best British album.

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Tiny Mix Tapes review Charalambides - Joy Shapes

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Monday, May 10, 2004

BW & BK report the latest Converge news: CONVERGE To Release New Album This Fall

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Billboard provide a System of A Down news update.

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Uncut magazine have finally updated their website, to reflect this month's issue: that has Pink Floyd Circa the Final Cut on the front cover.

Details: This Month's Issue of Uncut.

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Junkmedia interview Animal Collective

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Music writer, Sasha Frere-Jones ranks his favourite albums/ singles of 2004 so far: S/FJ: BEST OF 2004

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Just announced by Blogger: The Greater Blogger Relaunch

No sign of a Blogger Blog Search Engine - but there are many new customized features, and a completely redesigned back-end blog publishing tool.

Chris Sherman, @ SearchEngineWatch.com reports: Google Overhauls Blogger

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Sunday, May 09, 2004

Google / Blogger - What is going on? - Further Investigation

Yet more evidence that Google is up to something, re a possible blog search engine, for the first time ever Google has public cached the whole of my main blog page - normally the page cache cuts out at 101K. [Although strangely, the current cache indexes my blog entries upto May 2nd, not the past couple of days]

This further validates the speculation that googlebot is indexing blogs that have atom feeds.

a further message on the main log-in page on Blogger: states

Please bear with us this Sunday at 3PM PST for a couple hours of scheduled downtime while we work on launching all the additional features and a whole new look for Blogger

keywords: "additional features" "whole new look"

Could this be a 2 step approach, a beta search engine for "Blogger" owned blogs, as a testing zone then completely rolled out to Google for a full launch.

Something is cooking ! but what?

Back on April 22nd: Evhead [Evan Williams] chief Blogger developer at Google, on his blog plays very coy on the speculation:

And, plus, secrets and all that. Worth thinking about, though.

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [May 3rd]

Key new album releases for May 3rd [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (FatCat)
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands (Young God) [US Import]
Richard Bartz - Midnight Man (International Dj Gigilo)
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo (Robotic Empire) [Shellshock]
Daedelus - Meanwhile (Laboratory Instinct) EP
Death Angel - The Art of Dying (Nuclear Blast)
Eluvium - Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (Temporary Residence)
Enablers - End Note (Neurot) [Import Available to order at Amazon.co.uk]
Fifty Foot Wave - Bug (4AD)
Fila Brazillia - The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal (23)
Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth (Domino) EP
Freeform - Wildcat (Skam) EP
Havergal - Elettricita (Western Vinyl)
Icy Demons - Fight Back (Cloud Recordings)
Henry Kaiser And Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! - Sky Garden (Cuneiform)
Languis - The Four Walls (Plug Research)
Marillion - Marbles (In Tact)
Mission of Burma - ONoffON (Matador) [US Release Date]
Rosy Parlane - Iris (Touch)
Portion Control - Wellcome (Self Released)
Pip Pyle's Bash - Belle Illusion (Cuneiform)
Reign Of Erebus - Inversion Principle (Blackend)
The Rip Off Artist - New Clear Days (Inflatabl Recs)
Shitmat - Killa Babylon Kutz (Planet µ)
Strategy - Drumsolo’s Delight (Kranky)
Subjekt - Direction Correction (Freerange)
Subsoniq - Not Responding Isreali (Audio Collage)
Tiles - Window Dressing (SPV)
Univers Zero - Implosion (Cuneiform)
University Of Errors - Jet Propelled Photographs (Cuneiform)
Vast Aire - Look Mom...No Hands (Chocolate Industries)
Vauxhall 44 - Sub-I (Inflatabl Recs)
Violet Indiana - Russian Doll (Bella Union)

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Alex @ close your eyes has compiled a collated music blogs newsfeed @ Kinja

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This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ Boomkat - A Pelicanneck Online Music Store include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Christian Kleine - Real Ghosts
City Centre Offices

Be it on his own, as a collaborator with Uwe Zahn's Arovane project, or as a member of Herrmann & Kleine, Christian Kleine and his guitars, drumkit and PowerBook have appealed to those ever growing number of people involving themselves with electronic music at its most heartwarming, organic, life-affirming. His love of Hip Hop, indie-pop and experimental music has always contributed to an other-worldly mix of hypnotic beats and blissed-out acoustica, a sound that later on would become so crucial to the enigmatic pop soundscapes of labelmate Ulrich Schnauss. "Real Ghosts", his third and most complete album, sees a re-allignment of ideas and musical principles. It's a record that's both wonderfully esoteric and heartwarmingly familiar, opening up with the gloriously rich hip hop bombast of "Home" and delving into midnight breeze beats ("Like the clouds, Like the Sky"), gliding acoustic ambience ("Disappearing Objects"), classic bassline driven computer pop a la Joy Division ("Stations") and even a total guitar freakout ("Ghostwriting"). Exploring the principle that a thing and its opposite make for a more complete experience, "Real Ghosts" is full of wonderful musical contradictions and anomalies - a classic electronic album that doesn't stick to known formats or preconceptions, the finest album yet from one of this label's most important family members. Awesome.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Casino Versus Japan Vs Freescha
EP
Wobblyhead

Without going on at length once again about just how much we adore Erik Kowalski's Casino Vs Japan project, or boring you once more with the details of just how and why his "Go Hawaii" album made life so much nicer for us here over the last few years, here is the long awaited release of this gorgeous head to head between CVSJ and Attack 9's ethereal electronic auters "Freescha". Neatly split between tracks (4 from Casino Vs Japan and 3 from Freescha), the opening "Come Along, Do" finds Mr Kowalski employing a killer velvet bassline that folds his multi-layered instrumentation and soundscaping within a deep electronic pop structure that will stop your breath for a moment or two. Standout track "Durusey" is vintage Casino - all lilting melodies and slowed down pacing, this is absolutely perfect daydream music - something Casino Versus Japan have become seemingly effortlessly good at making with only the most basic ingredients at their disposal. Freescha's strongest showing comes with the stammering hip hop psychedelica of "Sheena" - all aged and dusty electronic music from someplace else. Lovely music.

Richard H Kirk (Intone) - Unreleased Projects vol 2
Intone

Richard H Kirk has been an ultra prolific artist in the last 20 years, releasing countless albums and singles under a plethora of psuedonyms, here he drops 10 tracks of archived grooves from 95-97. Each track is under a different name, some of his more well known aliases are on here, The Revolutionary Army (Of The Infant Jesus), Dark Magus and Outland Assasin to name a few. I think there must be a hardcore of Richard H Kirk collectors out there, as there is not much that makes me want to listen to any more of whats on offer, most of the cuts are rather dated, very straightly produced, and generally quite flat interpretations of `breaks' or electro grooves with the odd dub influence thrown in for good measure. Mr Kirk, prolific does not always mean good.

Various / Leaf - Delivery Room
Leaf

Hmmmmmm, another blinding budget sampler selection - this time coming to us from the always interesting Leaf Label. For your £2.99 you get some unreleased gems from the likes of Murcof (yes! first airing of a track from his massively anticipated forthcoming album "Utopia"!!), Bill Wells, Stefan Schneider & Annie Whitehead, Asa Chang & Junray, Riow Arai, Gorodisch, Clue to Calo and A Small Good Thing, plus classics from Manitoba, Colleen, Icarus, Murcof vs Sutekh, 310 and more. And who can argue with that??

Glenn Branca - Glenn Branca
Acute

After playing in the seminal and influential new york city no wave rock outfits The Theoretical Girls and The Static, Glenn Branca made his first strides towards the more ambitious guitar symphonies he'd become famous for with his first solo release "Lesson No. 1" in 1980. "Lesson no. 1 for electric guitar" is perhaps his most accessible piece of the period. it is a concise yet extended statement of forward motion, guitar motives repeating in a manner recalling the minimalism of philip glass, but unlike glass, with a maximilist approach to sonic density and bombast. Upon its initial release as the first record on the influential 99 records (liquid liquid, esg, et.al.), lesson no. 1 was paired with "Dissonance", a more daring experiment that explodes sonic dissonance with rock sonic energy. For this reissue, Acute records has added "bad smells" (featuring sonic youth's lee ranaldo and thurston moore), composed as a dance piece for choreographer twyla tharp in 1982. And if that wasn't enough, acute has also included an 18 minute quicktime video of "symphony #5", recorded in 1984 at what was to become the legendary new york city venue the Kitchen.

Radiohead - Com Lag : 2+2 = 5
Parlophone

Long awaited import copies of this "Japanese Only" compilation of B-sides and live tracks lifted off Radiohead's last album "Hail To The Thief". What you get inside the typically lush packaging are some gloriously esoteric post-rock tronica hybrids and twisted folkisms in the shape of remixes by Four Tet and Cristian Vogel, plus B Side tracks "Paperbag Writer", "I Am A Wicked Child", "I Am Citizen Insane", "Gaggin Order", "Where Bluebirds Fly" plus live versions of 2+2=5, "Fog (Again): and "I Will". Hurry up with the new album guys. Lovely.

Vetiver - Vetiver
Di Christina

Strongly fertilized by traditional acoustic music, and more subtly cross-pollinated by the jumpiness of old cajun music and the sparseness of minimalism, with its bare suggestions of melodies that the listener fills in for himself, Vetiver gracefully navigates folk and pop savannas with ease. Chief songwriter Andy Cabic is a member of the Raymond Brake, whose 1995 full-length, piles of dirty winters (simple machines), melded the experimental rock sensibilities of polvo and sonic youth with bright melodic touches of classic pop. After moving to san francisco cabic enlisted violinist Jim Gaylord and Cellist Alissa Anderson, along with Young God recording artist Devendra Banhart, who shares co-writing credits on "Los pajaros del rio" and "Amour fou" and contributes guitar and vocals to the album. My Bloody Valentine's colm o'ciosoig played on "luna sea" and "on a nerve," vocals on "angels' share" are courtesy of Mazzy star's hope sandoval. "Amerilie" features the harp-playing of joanna newsom, craig koozer plays bass on "amour fou," and nick holdzkom piano on "luna sea." So, as you can see, its a veritable who's who of an album - one that comes highly recommended at that.

Violet Indiana - Russian Doll
Bella Union

"Russian Doll" sees the long awaited return of Cocteau Twins' Robin Gutherie's latest project with Siobhan de Mare, re-directing the ethereal spirit of the cocteau's into a more modern setting. Some of the backing tracks and production aesthetics are vintage Gutherie - especially on the mesmerising final track "Close The World", but the overall impact of the haunting instrumentation is softened by the over-produced vocal, at times bringing to mind the cleaner aspects of trip-hop we'd all sooner forget. Worth it for Gutherie's always captivating music making though.

Rene Breitbarth - With A Little Luck
Treibstoff

Rene Breitbarth co-founded the Treibstoff label with Marcel Janovsky nearly 7 years ago, and has been the central production force driving this increasingly sought after deephouse label. After eight eps and last year's debut album 'Solar', Breitbarth tunes have been cropping up in playlists, on the floor and in people's boxes more regularly than ever. This new full length looks more than capable of following its forebears, `With A Little Luck...', features 12 tracks of solid and deep tech house. Ultra clean production and a penchant for deep grooves is the evidence for Rene on this release, from the bright and uplifting `Silly Love Songs' with its washy synths and house beat, to the stripped and minimal opener `Cooling The Plasma' with its almost haunting strings and delayed tones that mix with the beat for an ace hypnotic effect. Also check the ace deepness of `C-Moon' which has watery strings and a deep reverbed vibe across the synths and delivers a proper classic deep house groove, ace. Last up the ace electronic boogie of `What's That Your Doing' is a brilliant example of where his skills lie, quirky and funky synths, solid chunky 4/4 drums and deep synths that all go together for an ace techy groove. Another fine installment from Mr Breitbarth with some fine cuts, check

Various / Jeremy Caulfield - Public Works
Dumb Unit

Greetings to the first cd from Jeremy Caulfield's resourceful Dumb unit imprint. Four years of underground twelves, spanning the scenes of his adoptive second home, Berlin and the burgeoning canadian minimal sound, proves to have irrevocably influenced the shape and flow of his releases. The two mixes here provide an image of this cultural blend - rocking tunes rub up against more minimal bleeep and downlow funk from label striker Jake Fairley, MIA and Falko Brocksieper known to Sub static and Trapez fans, Repair and Adam Marshall from the canadian tec-house schools, and more. Tec-house just as we like it.

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Radio 4 : New Album

RADIO 4 have finally completed Stealing of a Nation with producer Max Heyes for a Sept 7th release on Astralwerks.
Source: Flowerbooking

In the UK, Radio 4 have a separate record label, so the album may be released later.

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Southern Records profile the albums they will be distributing/releasing in the UK/ Europe over the next 4 months.

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July 5th has been set as the release date for Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker according to info listed @ Brainwashed Releases

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Arovane: New album in June!

Acclaimed German electronic band, Arovane will release a new album: Lillies on June 14th on City Centre Offices

Arovane - Lilies CD/LP (City Centre Offices, Germany/UK)
Source: Brainwashed Releases

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Saturday, May 08, 2004

Music blog to check: One Louder.

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BBC Colective review Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel

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Leonard's Lair review Crispy Ambulance - The Power Blind Dream

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Friday, May 07, 2004

Junkmedia review To Rococo Rot - Hotel Morgen

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Three cheers for Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian for mocking the critics love of The Streets: Why the Streets have no shame

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Music blog to check: Pond of Tunes

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Xfm report the latest R.E.M news - they have finished recording sessions in the Bahamas, and will be mixing the album soon. A late 2004 release date is possible.

I have not been fan of R.E.M in the 90s/ 00s but last year's single Bad Day was a return to form, if even if it was originally written in the 80s.

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Details of tonight's Later..with Jools Holland show on BBC 2.

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The Independent interview Peter Gabriel

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Pause & Play on the CD Front are listing the comeback American Music Club album: You Better Watch What You Say as an October 12th release.

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Billboard have news of a live DJ Shadow album: 'In Tune' that will be released in June.

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Dusted spotlight the listening interests of Marc Nguyen Tan of Colder

Colder

French electronic artist Marc Nguyen Tan (a.k.a. Colder) released his debut record, Again, to much fanfare last year...in Europe. Again, which features an elaborate and smooth blend of downtempo electro and loungey vocals, was only recently released in the U.S. on Trevor Jackson's Output imprint. Tan is also a visual artist and has performed thoroughly throughout Europe, but his appearances in the US have been few and far between. He takes the stage at Rothko in New York City on May 14.

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Undercover report Filter are working on a new album, scheduled for early 2005 release.

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MusicOMH.com review Amplifier - Amplifier

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This has been updated: Brainwashed Releases

a listing of recent & upcoming electronic/experimental/etc. releases brought to you by feedback monitor and brainwashed

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The latest releases are reviewed by NYC's Other Music: The Other Music - Update

NEW RELEASES
Magnetic Fields
Juana Molina
Múm
Thomas Brinkmann
Mission of Burma
Pixies (Best Of)
Excepter
Gang Gang Dance
Studio One Dub (Various)
Beta Band
Detroit Soul (Various)
Blood on the Wall
East New York Ensemble de Music
Lee Perry
The Recoys (Pre-Walkmen project)
Mirah

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Thursday, May 06, 2004

Playlouder review the debut album from Manchester's epic rock band Amplifier: Amplifier - Amplifier

[This album was scheduled for last Autumn, but the record company decided to delay it at the last moment. Promos were circulating in secondhand record stores and some reviews were published in magazines at the time.]

Amplifier have been compared to fellow contemporary Mancunians Oceansize, that employ a similar expansive epic rock sound.

More info on the Amplifier album from distributors: Pinnacle [the album is released on May 10th by Music For Nations label]

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PORTION CONTROL - Well Come

One of the pioneering electronic acts of the early 80's / 90's - For those of us old enough to remember the roots of electronic music Portion Control forged a sound that still resonates through the artists they helped influence and their instantly identifiable sound is still present in many electronic projects released today. Often hailed as the originators of electro-punk they can be safely name checked with other electronic legends from the same era : Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and particularly Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Depeche Mode all owe Portion Control a debt of gratitude for their pioneering work with hard, rhythmic electronics. April 2004 sees the return of Portion Control with their first release proper since 1994's "The Man Who Did Backward Somersaults" : "Well Come" presents 25 tracks of Portion Control's searing and textured electronics spread across two indispensable discs, clocking in at over two and a half hours of new music ! For those with even the slightest interest in the history of electronic music it serves as a timely reminder of just how infectious, challenging, timeless and uplifting electronic music can be when executed with style and plain old fashioned talent. Disc one perhaps provides the most straightforward listening experience, from the dark - technoid ambience of tracks such as intro "Pure Menace" and "Prime" to vocoder-led electro mashers such as "Intravenous", "Paralysed" and "Coma" - all delivered with that telling PC style ( reminding a little of later acts Lassigue Bendthaus and later Clock DVA ) The breadth of electronic styles offered on "Well Come" borders on awe inspiring - there is just so much on offer here ( if ever a release was literally bursting at the seams with music, it is this one ) effortlessly switching between dark, sinister hard-wired soundscapes to infectious alternative dance anthems and twisted rhythmic machine musik - overloaded with samples, electronic effects and clinical beats. Each listen to "Well Come" unearths more layers of intricate sound and precision programming - randomly playing track 11 on Disc 2 the track "Disaster" jumps to life with a lazy synchronized beat below a buzzing sequencer bass line - add to this some sublime and melodic chord changes, electro effects and spoken word samples to reveal yet another outstanding track. Overall "Well Come" is a double album of continual pleasant surprises, dispensing with current trends and clichés it transcends style delivering only substance, and is as such an indispensable addition to any electronic music lovers collection. "Well Come" comes presented in a special collectors clear, shatterproof polyprop case with two coloured discs. Portion Control's "Well Come" will appeal to and comes recommended to all fans of Skinny Puppy, earlier Front Line Assembly, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Front 242 / Male or Female, Lassigue Bendthaus and Clock DVA.

Full Tracklisting CD 1 :
01. Pure Menace (click to listen)
02. Intravenous (click to listen)
03. Shitter
04. Paralysed (click to listen)
05. Stair 4
06. Element 118
07. Onion Jack (click to listen)
08. Xfrontiervanilla (click to listen)
09. Parasite
10. Prime
11. Coma (click to listen)
12. 319 rip

Full Tracklisting CD 2 :
01. End Message
02. Barely Alive (click to listen)
03. Is This Me (click to listen)
04. Blue Man Sees Red
05. Earl Of Kennington (click to listen)
06. Blind Eyes (click to listen)
07. Holly Lodge
08. More Than Just A Nuisance
09. Onion Jack 2 (click to listen)
10. Lozenge (click to listen)
11. Disaster (click to listen)
12. Craze
13. Fidelity (click to listen)

RELEASED 4th May 2004.

Source: e-mail from Music Non Stop

# posted by DJ Martian 1:39 PM

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Fast 'n' Bulbous - Best of 2004 Albums

So far in 2004, 86 albums are ranked and rated @ Fast 'n' Bulbous

Mission of Burma are still in pole position, with their ONoffOn album.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:47 PM

New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

Some new releases listed in the weekly guide [via e-mail] from Manchester's music emporium: Piccadilly Records

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Fat Cat

Their most perfect and accessible work to date, "Sung Tongs" is a stunning, modern folk / pop album - referencing points from Syd Barrett to Fennesz, The Beach Boys to Kompakt-style electronica, Joe Boyd, Múm, Simon & Garfunkel. Beautifully produced, the album is filled with catchy songs and intricate arrangements; built around gorgeous vocal harmonies and twin acoustic guitars. Effortlessly more 'pop' than previous efforts, it nevertheless retains the invention and sonic adventure of previous LPs.

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Young God

The beautiful, delicate and damaged vocals of Devendra soar over intricate and mellow guitar work making this his best album to date. One to watch in 2004, just watch him go!!!!!

Bloc Party - Banquet / Staying Fat
Moshi Moshi

Second single from one of the most talked about new bands at the moment. Tipped by just about everyone (including Franz Ferdinand) to be the next big thing. Singer Kele sings with a Robert Smith style wail, while the rhythm section pound a relentles new wave groove. Snap one up quick!!!

Breed 77 - Cultura
Albert

Undeniable, unstoppable and unquestionably the brightest stars of the UK rock scene, Breed 77 deliver in immense style with their stunning new bona fide album "Cultura". 'Breed 77's roving, Eastern tinged digressions escape nu-metal's self obsessed impasse, with grace' - Jonathan Selzer, Kerrang! Nov 9th 2003.

50 Foot Wave - Bug
4AD

This new band - consisting of Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses bassist Bernard Georges, and drummer Rob Ahlers - sounds like nothing Kristin's done before. 50 Foot Wave is propelled by the race car engine of Kristin's guitar and her explosive, feral vocals. Bernard's bass, as always, is a muscle, undulating through Kristin's wall of sound. Ahlers drumming is ferocious and unbridled, at once supporting and keeping pace with Kristin's driving and relentless sound. The trio are tight and powerful, creating music that is precise, emotional and seemingly on the edge of control.

Living Things - Black Skies In Broad Daylight
Dreamworks

"Black Skies In Broad Daylight" is the debut album from Living Things produced by the legendary Steve Albini. This growling-rock treat includes first single "I Owe", "Bombs Below", club favourite "End Gospel" and a whole host of hook heavy indie-punk classics.

Pixies - Pixies
4AD

Simply entitled "Pixies", the DVD is nearly two and a half hours of archive action. "Live" - This is the complete, legendary Pixies set from when the band supported Throwing Muses at London's Town And Country Club in 1988, less than two weeks after their sensational UK debut and when their reputation was catching fire. Compulsive viewing and it has a choice of a stereo or 5.1 soundtrack. "Videos" - Initially low on budget but high on wit and imagination, the eight, rarely seen videos are Pixies' response to the promotional medium du jour. Unsurprisingly, they were never on high rotation at MTV. "On The Road" - An intimate glimpse behind the scenes on Pixies 1989 European and USA tours filmed by crew member Myles Mangino. It is all unseen footage and features several live extracts. And finally, "Gouge" - A documentary tracing the Pixies' story and the impact that the band had on other musicians (if not the general public). It features interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), Graham Coxon and Alex James (Blur), Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop (Travis), PJ Harvey, Tim Wheeler (Ash), Gavin Rosdale (Bush) and Badly Drawn Boy.

Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of
4AD

During their brief career (1987 – 1992) Pixies released one mini-album ("Come On Pilgrim"), four full length albums ("Surfer Rosa", "Doolittle", "Bossanova" and "Trompe Le Monde") and a handful of singles. Posthumous releases have included "Complete B-sides" (self explanatory) and "Pixies at the BBC", a compilation of radio sessions. "Wave Of Mutilation: Best of Pixies" runs (almost) chronologically and expands on the previous compilation, "Death To The Pixies". The recordings still sound completely fresh and unique and inevitably there are half a dozen tracks from "Doolittle", the record that NME proclaimed the 'second best album ever'. There's also a couple of B sides, the live favourite "Into The White" and, to end the sonic assault on a poignant note, a cover of Neil Young's "Winterlong".

Scatter - Scatter
Pickled Egg

A large group with somewhat fluid membership, Scatter create music to spite those who classify sound into genres. There's a lot of brass instrumentation (over some fairly swinging rhythms), but you wouldn't call them jazz; there is a proliferation of voices and acoustic instruments, though you wouldn't call them folk; but there are flourishes of stranger sounds - electronics, vocal babbling, and odd percussion - as well as ethnic/rock leanings. At their core Scatter are a glowing ball of musical energy, some members have performed with Vibracathedral Orchestra, and a similar musical language is evident - the harmony of glowing tones combined in a common goal. One of their number also moonlights as the guitar player in current media darlings and top 40 gatecrashers, Franz Ferdinand.

Sluts Of Trust - We Are All Sluts Of Trust
Chemikal Underground

The appeal of Sluts Of Trust lies in their simplicity: a set of traps, a bass amp, and a Marshall stack. Their diverse music references - Hendrix, Ziggy-era Bowie, the Pixies, and art school disco all merge into an explosive mix of, thundering drums and raw, dirty guitar riffs.

Systems Officer - Systems Officer
Ace Fu

The first ever solo mini album from Pinback songwriter Armistead Burwell Smith AKA Zack. Capturing the essence of Pinback's greatness, including the ease in which songs flow from obscure lightness to all-encompassing dark, Zach's solo endeavor takes off where Pinback has left off. Sometimes as gentle as Elliott Smith, or as poppy as the Police, or as interesting as Brian Eno or as contemporary as Trans Am!!

Via Tania - Under A Different Sky
Chocolate Industries

Chocolate Industries bring us this wonderful album by female vocalist Tania Bowers. She's backed by John Herndon and Doug McCombs of Tortoise and Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, while co-production is by Casey Rice (Tortoise, The Designer) and Prefuse 73's Scott Herren. The tracks move between the glitchy hiptronic sounds of Prefuse 73 to more straight ahead alt-rock, in a similar vein to Throwing Muses / The Breeders etc. Definitely one to check out!

Violet Indiana - Russian Doll
Bella Union

Violet Indiana are the musical union of the guitar and production individuality of former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie and the versatile vocals of Siobhan de Mare. "Russian Doll" is their second album, recorded in France and the follow-up to the highly-acclaimed "Roulette" which was released in 2001. Impressive as Violet Indiana's debut was, "Russian Doll" represents a great artistic leap. Guthrie and De Mare have honed their song-writing partnership to create a flawless collection of sublime pop moments, ranging from desolate torch songs through to hypnotic summer lullabies.

The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Record Collection

Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" might be the single of the year, but "The Rat", the single from this album comes a very close second. And the rest of the album doesn't dissappoint either. A huge shimmering guitar sound, and superb vocals that sway between resigned and frustated - on the verge of exploding but always controlled. There are traces of The Velvet Underground, maybe Jeff Buckley, and a whole lot more. But The Walkmen take these familiar influences and push them into a whole new direction. Add to this a brooding energy through-out and a heavy dose of NY cool, and you have one awesome album. Don't miss it!

Steffen Basho-Junghans - 7Books
Strange Attractors

Steel-string guitar maverick Steffen Basho-Junghans ups the ante with his ninth album (fourth for Strange Attractors), a sprawling and vastly intricate double album entitled "7 books". The final entry in a series of inter-related albums exploring a new sound possibility and approach to the acoustic guitar, "7 Books" returns to the remarkable excursions into the heart and soul of the instrument that first raised eyebrows towards the Berlin-based artist.

Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
Domino
EP

Another standout track from "Rounds", "My Angel..." is the one with the musical box melody and subtle electro-acoustic rhythms. Included on the twelve and CD single are the album mix, new frenzied double speed rework by Icarus and an intricate percussive version of "First Thing Chia" by fetchingly named Isambard Kroustaliov. There are also two brand new tracks, the no-your-needle-isn't-sticking, it's-meant-to-be-like-that reverse pads and ambient glitchiness "I've Got Viking In Me", and the atmospheric three o'clock in a clock shop "All The Chimers".

2xCDS - RUG169DVD - £4.99 - limited cheap price
CD single includes bonus DVD disc with videos for "My Angel..", "She Moves She", "As Serious As Your Life" and "No More Mosquitoes".

Various Artists / Katapult
Karat

France's increasingly techno-fied, electro-influenced and mad-disco obsessed 'house' sound is neatly tied together on this cool little album from Karat. With new tracks from Chloe, Blackstrobe, Ark, Cabanne, Automat, Krikot, Aysam, Sety and Kean, this prodvides a tidy introduction to the revolution.

Japan - Adolescent Sex
Bmg

Originally released in 1978 this is a repackaged re-issue with 4 bonus videos, extensive sleevenotes, rare artwork and photos.

Japan - Quiet Life
Bmg

Originally released in 1979 this is a repackaged re-issue with 4 bonus videos, extensive sleevenotes, rare artwork and photos.

Peven Everett - Kissing Game
Kindred Spirits

Kindred Spirits keep up the pressure with another quality release, this time from Chi-Town's Peven Everett. After his hip hop-soul LP "Studio Confessions", this new set sees Everett turning his attention to more upbeat sounds - uplifting soulful house, vibrant latin samba and rough, looped Detroit beatdown style grooves, as well as mellower jazz-funk. Mostly instrumental, the LP also employs the vocal talents of Billie Jewell. Includes edited versions of the title track and "Puerto Rico".

Faze Action - Broad Souls
Bar De Lune

Simon and Robin Lee return with their first post-Nuphonic album. With its mix of studio programming, live instrumentation (French horn, acoustic guitar, Rhodes keys etc), rich soulful vocal from Andre Espeut and emphasis on atmospheric 70s soul-jazz influenced mellowness (with some soulful house grooves in there too), "Broad Souls" has a distinctive feel of Zero 7.

Fila Brazilia - The Life And Times Of Phoebus Brumel
Twenty Three

The duo's ninth studio album keeps up their mult-dimensional ability to experiment with myriad diverse styles and sounds, and features vocals by NYC rapper and Seven Heads member Djinji Brown (last collaborating with them on the "Saucy Joints" EP) and Hull's Papa V, who adds a reggae flavour to "Bullshit" and "Existentialist Singalong". The Album opens with a raft of house cuts (first track "Platinum" sounds like they've got Tommy Guerrero locked in the studio somewhere!), before droppping into some mellower electro-acoustic jazzy breaks and back out the other side into more upbeat sounds again.

Stockholm Cyclo - Beginning People
Irma

With previous releases on Raw Fusion and Head To Toe, Sweden's Alexander Stahle should need no introduction. Here, his debut LP brings us more of his wonderful Detroit inspired rhythms mixed with Scandinavian jazz, a touch of West London broken beats and a smattering of futuristic soul. Warm, soulful, deep and wonderful.

Vast Aire - Look Mom.... No Hands
Chocolate Industries

Debut solo LP from the former Cannibal Ox (Def Jux) front man. Here he lets his lyrics flow over some fresh breaks and weird avant shit, joined at the mic by Sadat X, Aesop Rock, Breezly Brewin (The Juggaknots), MF doom, Breez Evahflowin. He shares production duties with Madlib, RJD2, Ayatollah, Da Beatminerz etc.

Subjekt - Direction Correction
Freerange

After their brilliant 12"s on Freerange ("Come On" and "Be My Chicago", both of which are included here), Subjekt deliver their debut long player. The singles themselves are certainly the most obvious floor friendly cuts, with the LP only tracks varying between deep fried soul, broken disco and hopped-up electro! A pick'n'mix for the ears.

Shitmat - Killa Babylon Cuts
Planet Mu

Shitmat's debut LP is a propa mash up of amen thrashing ragga-rave dubplate jungle tekno, sampling everything from Queen and The Ruts to Ace Of Base and Boney M!

Daedelus - Meanwhile...
Laboratory Instinct

LA producer, international man of mixtery, Daedelus, takes advantage of his licence to twiddle on this mini LP. Having had releases out on Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, Eastern Developments and Mush, he's definitely a leading light on the hiptronica scene. Here he mixes up a melting pot of sounds - glitchtronics, crazed breaks and swooning John Barry style cinematica on "One Breath To Breathe", tiki island flutes, electronics and dancehall on "The Brazilianaire", hardcore and Barry White on "Just For You" etc - to create his own disorientating universe.

Freeform - Wildcat
Skam

To record "Wildcat" Simon Pyke AKA Freeform moved his studio 'The Freefarm' to a new venue on the south coast of England. Detatched from the civilisation of London and positioned 15 bracing steps from the sea it was the perfect place to rediscover the joys of vocal gymnastics and beach-comb beats. Freeform strives for the perfect balance between hands on improvisation and good old traditional song melting. It's amazing what a lung full of fresh air and an eye full of sunshine can do for the imagination. Get prepared for another excursion into junk funk utopia.

The Orb - Bicycles & Tricycles
The Hexus / Cooking Vinyl

After a long hiatus, The Orb are back with a new album for 2004. "Bicycles & Tricycles" features enough good humoured, quirky trippy hippy dubwise chill out to keep old fans happy, while sliding in a few new surprises (like the hiptronic outing "Aftermath" featuring Glasgow's MC Soom T, or the click-tech-house of "Gee Strings") to attract new interest.

Throbbing Gristle - The Taste Of TG: A Beginners Guide To...
Grey Area

Between 1975 and 1981 they troubled eardrums, shattered preconceptions and changed lives, and the repercussions of their sonic, ideological and industrial experiments are still being felt today. These repercussions were most recently highlighted by some of today's electronic peers paying homage to TG's pioneering experiments. "Mutant TG" was the first ever TG remix collection whereby contemporary producers such as Carl Craig, Two Lone Swordsmen and Simon Ratcliffe (Basement Jaxx) provide stunning reworks of classic TG. Now with "The Taste Of TG" you can sample their unadulterated majesty, a beginner's guide to the enigmatic and elusive Throbbing Gristle.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:24 PM

del.icio.us is a social bookmarks/ links project, that includes a music section: del.icio.us - updated 24/7.

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# posted by DJ Martian 5:15 PM

The latest Breezeblock show is now online: The Breezeblock Tracklistings

# posted by DJ Martian 4:49 PM

Dave Stelfox has reactivated his music blog: World of Stelfox

# posted by DJ Martian 4:37 PM

Barcode review the comeback album from 80s cult industrial artist Portion Control: PORTION CONTROL - Wellcome

Barcode also interview Portion Control

# posted by DJ Martian 2:18 PM

Cannibal Ox - Another Album !

Playlouder speak to Vast Aire from Cannibal Ox who stated this:

I can tell you right now we'll have a new full length next year but we're getting together an EP before that.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:05 PM

music webzine to check: new-noise.net

# posted by DJ Martian 12:23 AM

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Reminder: Later...with Jools Holland returns with a new series this Friday on BBC 2.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:41 PM

blazinvibes.com review Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart

# posted by DJ Martian 3:06 PM

Prodigy Album

NME.com announces NME.COM HEARS PRODIGY ALBUM - apparently they have moved to a near industrial sound.

The album: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, is due for an August release.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:51 PM

Pitchfork report DFA's James Murphy Readies LCD Soundsystem Debut, that is scheduled for an Autumn release.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:19 PM

Pitchfork review Mission of Burma - OnOffOn

# posted by DJ Martian 2:14 PM

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [April 26th]

Key new album releases for April 26th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

John Abercrombie Quartet - Class Trip (ECM) [with Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Johnson, bass and Joey Baron, drums]
Beta Band - Heroes to Zeroes (Regal)
Black Ox Orkestar - Ver Tanzt? (Constellation)
Bruno E - Lovely Arthur (Ether/ Trama)
Sylvain Chauveau - Des Plumes Dans La Tête (Dsa)
Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro (Ai)
Color Filter - Silent Way (Pointy)
Marilyn Crispell Trio - Storyteller (ECM) [with Mark Helias and Paul Motian]
Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars) [to be released in the UK on ATP Recordings]
Sidsel Endresen - Merriwinkle (Universal)
Evergrey - The Inner Circle (Inside Out)
Ex-Girl - Endangered Species (Alternative Tentacles)
Faun Fables - Family Album (Drag City)
Fall Of The Leafe - Volve (Rage Of Achilles)
Uusi Fantasia - Top Ten (Telle)
Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
Kid Spatula - Meast (Planet µ)
Klimek - Milk & Honey (Kompakt)
Morgion - Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth (Dark Symphonies) [Import Available order at Amazon.co.uk]
Phil Robson - Screenwash (Babel)
Volcano The Bear - Idea Of Wood (Textile Records/Cargo) [Initial 2003 Release, Retail Release 2004]
The Walkman - Bows and Arrows (Record Collection) [UK release]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Antithesis (Kranky Records)
Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time (The End Records) [Import] [Available to order at Amazon.co.uk]
Tim Wright - Thirst (Novamute)

# posted by DJ Martian 12:10 AM

Monday, May 03, 2004

Pitchfork review Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

A fierce departure from last year's highly experimental free-folk release, Here Comes the Indian, Sung Tongs finds the Animal Collective engaging in beautifully bizarre pop and surreal campfire singalongs that recall The Microphones' The Glow, Pt. 2 as often as they do the ideal American folk of the Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel. Where Here Comes the Indian paraded in forestal mayhem and found-sound eccentricities, Sung Tongs opts for folky ambience, a delicate, buoyant pace, and a flair for soaring melody that makes it by far the group's most accessible record to date

# posted by DJ Martian 4:05 PM

MusicOMH.com review L.S.G. - The Best Of (Superstition)

In the early-to-mid 90s Oliver Lieb released some of the finest creative Trance music. This music was completely different to the ghastly pop-trance of the late 90s/ early 00s.

Oliver Lieb's trance music has more in common with the flowing Orbital sound, circa the "Brown" album.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:53 PM

Sunday, May 02, 2004

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

This week's new releases @ Boomkat - A Pelicanneck Online Music Store include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Errorsmith - Near Disco Dawn, Live Recordings 2001 - 2003
Errorsmith

The third Errorsmith release contains a selection of live recordings made in various clubs and concert venues like Empty Bottle in Chicago, Ultraschall in Munich and WMF in Berlin. Most of the tracks on this album are interpretations of classic disco and r'n' b songs. Digitally synthesized, distorted and filtered clubmusic which go far beyond their origin, far more dancefloor compatible than the two previous Errorsmith releases, this album relates closely to stuff from Smith'n'Hack and his MMM project with spar Fiedel, both projects involving Erik integrally. These were live laptop sets like you've never seen, employing a self built digital live tool, a combination of a simple sequencer and a synthesizer. Errorsmith uses this tool to manipulate both rhythms and triggered sounds in realtime. With a huge degree of freedom playing his instrument, every gig was different. Initially planned as a release of studio versions, Errorsmith decided to keep the raw, live feeling of these amazing concert recordings. And after the show we saw in Manchester some two years ago - this will be one awesome set, trust me.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Fennesz - Venice
Touch

'Venice' is the official follow up to the groundbreaking 'Endless Summer', a record with a legendary pedigree and with sales substantial enough to have shaken up its label (Mego) to the extent that they seem to have been on a mission ever since to keep it as difficult as it gets. It seems Touch has no such hangs up. This is an amazing album that will no doubt come to be as highly regarded as 'Endless Summer' though musically its a much more varied affair, reflected by the contrasting imagery in the digipak photography (an old and new rowing boat moored up / nature and classic architecture reflected through water / an ice bound airport / an evening shot of a weir). Check the heartbreak rushing melancholy of the opener 'Rivers Of Sand' to the somewhat playful 'Chateau Rouge' then the freeze framed longing of 'City Of Light'. 'Circassian' featuring the searing guitar of Burkhard Stangl will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The justifiable hyped up collaboration with David Sylvian is as you'd expect, upfront confessional lyrics behind the buzz and hum of plucked electrical wirings and trapped angels - amazing. My personal favourite is 'The Point Of It All' which has the most beautiful harmonies you'll have heard close up all year plus the tempo and mood shifts. The most brutal track on display 'The Stone Of Impermanence' rounds out this collection in a pure Mego rush of ear splitting intensity but still with that essential Fennesz melodic undergrowth. This is one essential album, just a shame that the label seems content to have their releases available elsewhere weeks in advance while a strong core of dedicated and supportive UK shops have to unnecessarily wait their turn for no reason whatsoever. That said, if you've not already bought this wondrous album, you need to do so without delay. Truly life enhancing music.

Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood
Basic Replay

Flesh Of My Skin is one of the most hallowed of all reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson's key achievement in a career launched when as a fourteen-year-old he recorded members of The Skatalites on his Shades Of Hudson rhythm. Originally released in 1974, after a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, it projects Hudson's removal from JA to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums - classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool - which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate - alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles - Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like Darkest Night, My Nocturne and Testing My Faith he struggles for Black senses of commitment - political, existential, religious - at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable.

Afropolice - Break A Code
Breakin

Afropolice are Japanese artists Vanao and Yota, members of Oxygen Funk (never heard of em', well they are Japanese). What you need to know is that this is Breakin' at it's best (cept for Ceephax) - a crazy mixdown of riffin' synthy electro ala Perspects and Le Car mixed up with a Detroit fuelled melodic cycle and a love for the mid eighties electro funk scene. Certain tracks sound like early Freddy Fresh (no bad thing) while others remind me of a poppier Ultradyne. Neither accidentally classic nor throwaway, simply a top album of electro based tracks that will rock any party. Nice one Breakin'.

Animal Collective - Sung Tones
Fat Cat

Their most involving and accessible work to date, `Sung Tongs' is a stunning, modern folk / pop album - referencing points from Syd Barrett to Fennesz, The Beach Boys to Kompakt-style electronica, Joe Boyd, múm, Simon & Garfunkel. . Beautifully produced, the album is filled with catchy songs and intricate arrangements; built around gorgeous vocal harmonies and twin acoustic guitars. Effortlessly more `pop' than previous releases, it nevertheless retains the invention and sonic adventure of previous LPs. Whilst restricted distribution / limited pressings have meant previous releases slipping under the radar, here's your chance to discover the Animal Collective at their most engaging. Recommended.

Daedelus - Meanwhile
Laboratory Instinct

More sublime eccentric beats and sampledelic cutups from the unstoppable Daedelus - this time offering up his distinct plunderphonic charm for the hugely promising Laboratory Instinct label. Following on from releases for Plug Research, Phthalo, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, Mush and Eastern Developments, Daedelus has refined a style that is often immitated but seldom matched. The childlike quality of his selection defines these new pieces - film samples, television advertisment clips and anachronistic narratives lifted from deep within his dusty wax archives nestle themselves amidst a weave of breaks and reconfigured beats, a hip-hop paced antithesis to the Drill n Bass techniques of old. "Meanwhile" is an utterly charming album that you will adore if you're into anything from Madlib through to Venetian Snares - required listening as soon as you possibly can. Ace.

Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
Domino
CD + DVD

What is possibly THE track from 'Rounds' makes its single appearance here (prob the last from the album) and is backed by a very special DVD of all the Four Tet videos to date. In addition to the beautiful original you get a slightly skitzoid and highly strung remix from Leaf's Icarus, rocking the IDM/junglist frequency's like a japanese Autechre clone with it's fingers jammed into the national grid. Very entertaining and rather good. The confusingly named Isambard Khroustaliov does a crazy mixjob sequencing and rewiring 'First Thing/Chia' also originally from 'Rounds'. Finally two new exclusives, the sharply toned channel hopping ambience of 'I've Got A Viking In Me' and the rustic musicbox come found field recording vibed 'All The Chimers'. The DVD segment features the wonderful videos for 'No More Mosquito's', 'As Serious As Your Life', 'She Moves She' and of course 'My Angel Rocks Back and Forth'. Highly Recommended.

Freeform - Wildcat
Skam

Master of eccentric beats and unexpected turns, Simon Pyke always seems to have so much fun penning new material for those labels that have stood by his Freeform project over the years - Warp, Musik Aus Strom, Quatermass and - most of all - Skam. "Wildcat" delivers 6 brand new tracks and clocks in at just under half an hour - an excursion that holds onto his usual insistence on diversification with every move. "Gone and Left The City" opens the EP with reference to the fact that the "Freefarm" studio where he records all his tracks has been moved out of london and into the deep countryside of the south coast of England. The track sounds like a cross between (that other Skam anomaly) Wevie Stonder and Robbie Robertson's chartbound "Somewhere Down This Crazy River" - hoarse narrative included, we kid you not. "Nothing To Say" kicks things off in earnest with a classic slice of Freeform construction - an almost click-house feel through a myriad wildlife samples, tribal vibes and killer stabs, suffice to say that this really sounds unlike anything else out there and works an absolute treat. Hard to sum up "Wildcat" - although if you ever happen to stumble across a lost african tribe deep in some rainforest or other and discover them to have been reared on IDM and sampling techniques alongside their collections of unusual animal skin drums and ivory horns - you might expect they'd make a sound not too dissimilar to what's on offer here. Charming and uncompromisingly original from start to finish.

Icarus - Tweet The Birdy Electric
The Leaf Label

"Tweet The Birdy Electric" marks the beginning of a long term relationship between Sam Britton and Ollie Bown (aka Icarus) and The Leaf Label. It's a record that sees a myriad experimental and compositional disciplines intertwined through the use of sound manipulation, electro-acoustic dynamics and 21st Century improvisation. In turns relying on musical conceits borrowed from experimental electronica, folktronica and avant-garde songwriting, it's perhaps most reminiscent in places to the work of Scandinavia's Supersilent collective or Kieren Hebden's Four Tet project at its most abstract. Check

Languis - The Four Walls
Plug Research

Marco Chloca and Alejandro Cohen are Languis. After migrating from Argentina to Plug Research central in Los Angeles, back in 1996 clutching spare possessions, they soon revised long-cherished dreams of becoming rock stars, turning on to Richard D.James and Autechre. Fast forward to the present, here they seem to fuse these sounds of hopes, dreams and discovery into their fifth album, The Four Walls. In previous incarnations, Languis combined live instrumentation with electronic music, always placing a stronger emphasis on things digital. On The Four Walls, a new balance is established, placing live drums from Chris Hathwell of The Moving Units and Paul Larson of Strictly Ballroom's guitar centre stage. The album really begins to fly with contributions from some very noteworthy LA based artists, such as Jimmy Tamborello of the excellent Dntel and The Postal Service and Nobody. "Never Now" is a perfect example of where Languis is going, mixing subtle electronic elements, with beloved music akin to the holy manc trinity of The Stone Roses, Joy Division or the New Order of the eighties. A highly persuasive blend of classic songwriting with studio experimentation - Languis music is unfailingly melodic, capable of tranquil ambience next to a barely suppressed roar. A genuine grower of an album, well worth further exploration.

Shitmat - Killa Babylon Cutz
Planet Mu

Now available on cd! Massive double set from the Shitmat for Planet Mu, seriously needed messy mentalisms for all you hardcore revivalists, dancehall bezerkerists and mashed-up jackers out there. Built around eight tracks utilising the "Babylon Bwoy" accapella, check the brutal percussive carnage offered up by the Amen-break obsessed "Amen Babylon" - complete with obligatory gospel "Amen" renditions fed through helium effects, or the Ace-of Bass cussing "Ace of Bass Babylon" - taking bootlegging to new, fierce, briliantly funny terrain, or the massive michael-jackson medley "Jackson$ Babylon" working in the babylon vocal over jacko's finest plastic moments dissected and re-arranged with expert style. For those of you who miss the endlessly brilliant craziness of the Ragga Twins, here's a little updated, freaked out substitute. Ace.

Strategy - Drumsolos Delight
Kranky

Excellent new release from Paul Dickow, his second full-length under the name of Strategy, his first for Kranky. Strategy has previously appeared on the excellent ORAC imprint as well as Tigerbeat 6 and has played with the art-punk outfit Emergency, indie electronic group Nudge and kranky's jazzy groove-based electro-poppers Fontanelle. "Drumsolos Delight" is a totally engrossing album of endlessly deep rhythmic, dubby and ambient soundscapes that fall into more or less the same universe of sound that the recent albums by Deadbeat and Vladislav Delay have inhabited. An interesting and welcome move by this always-interesting label , "Drumsolos Delight" comes highly recommended to those of you who like it deep. Lovely.

Throbbing Gristle - The taste of TG- A Beginners Guide To The Music Of.....
Mute Grey Area

Between 1975 and 1981 they troubled eardrums, shattered preconceptions and changed lives, and the repercussions of their sonic, ideological and industrial experiments are still being felt today. These repercussions were most recently highlighted by some of today's electronic peers paying homage to TG's pioneering experiments. Mutant TG (novamute) was the first ever TG remix collection whereby contemporary producers such as Carl Craig, Two Lone Swordsmen and Simon Ratcliffe (Basement Jaxx) provided reworks of classic TG. Now with The Taste Of TG you can sample their unadulterated majesty, a Beginner's guide to the enigmatic and elusive Throbbing Gristle. TG have announced that they will briefly regroup to present RE~TG, a weekend of music, art, film and performance culminating in an exclusive set by Throbbing Gristle, live for the first time in 23 years and never to be repeated. This is will be the final ever TG show. Recommended.

Various / Advanced Public Listening - Advanced Public Listening 1
Laboratory Instinct

Now available on CD. The Laboratory Instinct label has got its image and selection skills honed beautifully for its first release, an excellent compilation bringing together exclusive material from : Luke Vibert, Phoenecia, Freeform, Atom Heart, Sutekh, Nikakoi, Daedelus, Thomas Fehlmann and Thomas Brinkmann's Soul Center project. You'll be surprised and pleased to hear, furthermore, that there are some choice cuts from these notable luminaries on board - starting off in style with Erast (aka Nikakoi) and the best track on offer -"Q4" - a gargantuan two-step deployment of cut-up voice edits and rudebwoy basslines that work a treat for all those of you who like to destroy the dancefloor in the most unpredictable, spectacular way. Killer. Phoenecia's "Connumity Coolge" utilises the same dirty aquatic beat structures we know and love - a dense fog of twisted 4/4 percussive loops forever shifting into darker, twisted terrain. Luke Vibert's "Mechanical Man" is another surefire winner - a storming breaks fiasco with killer bass stabs, vocodered tweaks and a nice line in Hardcore tweaks making for one of his best tracks in some time. Anyway, its so nice to come across a GOOD compilation in these times - purchase with confidence and without delay.... before this label goes cosmic. Ace.

Venetian Snares - Horse and Goat
Sublight

Aaron Funk continues to support the north american underground with his debut for this new and upcoming Canadian label Sublight. A relatively short running length (25 mins) only adds to the intensity of this punk fuelled headrush of electronic trickery and bruising beat blasts. More deeply structured than his recent outpu, this takes his material back to the sound and structure of 'Songs About My Cats'. Shockout artwork by Trevor Brown which is pretty disturbing but then again if you are easily offended you won't be buying Venetian Snares albums will you. Six tracks, highly recommended insania.

Richard Bartz - Midnight Man
Gigolo

Born in Munich/Germany in 1976, Bartz attended the legendary Ultraworld parties in 1991 where he made contact with Disko B label chief Upstart and DJ Hell. ·In 1994, his first solo project was released under the name of Acid Scout. He started to play his material live at clubs like Tresor in Berlin and Stammheim in Kassel and his first album Safari and his Sci-Fi followed. Bartz then decided to found his own label, Kurbel Records, where he started off with his own productions and later began licensing fellow artists. Outside of Kurbel, he regularly produces work for other labels, such as his album Musik für Millionen or the Evolution Revolution EP on Disko B and the Subway EP on Heiko Laux' Kanzleramt label to name a few. `Midnight Man' is his latest release - this time for the Gigolo imprint.

Rosy Parlane - Iris
Touch

Rosy Parlane is something of a legend in our ears if it's only for his classic (and hella rare) collaboration with longtime musical partner Dion Workman in the duo Parmentier. Their CD 'Luxsound' is a must own if you are lucky to chance upon a copy. Now solo running his Sigma label whose limited catalogue is an excellent outpost of out-soundscape musics. This album, his first for Touch, evokes the dronework of Keith Fullerton Whitman and Charlamagne Palestine mixed with the found sound recording work of Chris Watson. This CD is comprised of three untitled works simply marked as part 1, part 2 and part 3. Running length, 19:09, 18:14 and 12:09. Incredibly lush artwork from the camera lens of Jon Wozencroft. An immensely rewarding listen, check.

Sage Francis - Dead Poet Live Album
Strange Famous

As the title suggests this is a live album (with full band), guitar, bass, drums and keys from the unique and dope emcee Sage Francis. Hyped up by a receptive audience this is an utterly raw and bruising hip hop performance from Rhode Island's finest. Tracks feature from 'Personal Journals' and his 'Sick Of...' tour only CD's. On the spot poetry blasts suggest he's a Gil Scott-Heron for the new school crowd. The rockier edges in his live performance suggest his future direction on his upcoming Epitaph label debut. Twenty one tracks = 70 mins and 31 secs. Very limited copies only.

Vast Aire - Look Mom...No Hands
Chocolate Industries

Dropping his latest LP on Chocolate Industries Cannibal Ox's Vast Aire drafts in some heavy hitters for the show, such names as S.A. Smash, MF Doom, Aesop Rock, Madlib, Sadat x, Juggaknots and Cannibal Ox cohort Vordul. Must a been a heavy studio session that week, but heading off with the first real beat of the album, `KRS-Lightly' drops fat from the word go, heavy slow beats get `Ho!'d' up by Vast and S.A. Smash, the lyrics flow wild over the beats and strings, with lots of nods to past raps and even Edwin Starr's `War' track, ace intro. There is a live jam from Wetlands 1996 titled `Candid Cam', nice rough and ready beats and top live flow, but one of the standout's has to feature the Mask Of The Year and the enigma like MF Doom. `Da Superfiends' is produced and co-written by Metal Face, a class honky tonk piano track is ripped up for a jaunty trip through the minds of Vast and Doom, ace trippin beats. The second single from the album is `Elixir' a sing along classic with block party fatness infecting the beats and an ace scratch throwback of PE's `Yo! Bumrush The Show', Vast and Sadat X flow proper over the beats, with the P-funk style chorus that will have you swinging your 20oz bottles and shaking ya ass to the beat, and a deft production from Da Beatminerz getting the b-boys heads nodding, all which goes together to show Vast Aire isnt no one trick pony, ace, ace beats. The title cut is well worth dropping too, with Madlib taking up the Jaylib mantle to a tee and dropping a large block party beat with Vast delivering a superior and energetic flow over the top, short sharp and damn fat. For the Lord Qwas heads there are 3 cuts by the man included among the other luminaries, but it all mashes together to deliver a straight up hot album of upfront dope hip hop, miss at your peril.

Bloc Party - Banquet
Moshi Moshi Records
EP

Tipped for big things this lot, already mentioned in the same breath as Franz Ferdinand and the Rapture, and threatening to give Interpol a run for their money - the NME love them and , erm, so should you. No, really.

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Young God

Exclusive US import copies on the official label (Young God) for this soon come to XL mega singer songwriter album from Devandra Banhart. Gaining mega positive reviews across the press this is a somewhat difficult listen for some. Call it adventurous lo-fi country with a theatrical slant that's akin to early Will Oldham and his Bonnie Prince guise... retro tinged psych soul or something. Check the samples and catch the drift. Extra brownie points for getting Vashti Bunyan back into the recording studio for the duo lead title track. Limited import copies only.

Faun Fables - Family Album
Drag City

This is the third recording of Faun Fables, the experimental balladry shaped by Oakland-based artist Dawn McCarthy. Her work unfolds in a visceral combination of music and theatricality that she calls songtelling. The main instrument is her cathartic voice, framed by harmonically adventurous guitar. On this album, she is joined by Nils Frykdahl of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, adding a bestiary of vocals, instrumentation and song collaboration. Family Album is another prize for fans of traditional folk music, the occult, cabaret, art rock, medieval prose and all the wonders of weird americana.

Fifty Foot Wave - Bug
4AD

In a career full of busy years, 2003 stands out as a very busy year for Kristin Hersh. In March of 2003 Hersh put out not one, but two full-length releases - `The Grotto', her fifth solo record and an all-new Throwing Muses record for the first time in seven years. Add to that, months of touring, a cross-country move, and the formation of her first new band since she began making music with Throwing Muses in the early eighties: 50 Foot Wave. This new band - consisting of Kristin, Throwing Muses bassist Bernard Georges, and drummer Rob Ahlers - sounds like nothing she's done before, but listening to the two records released in 2003, it's possible to see how she got there. . 50 Foot Wave is propelled by the race car engine of Kristin's guitar and her explosive, feral vocals. Bernard's bass, as always, is a muscle, undulating through Kristin's wall of sound. Ahlers drumming is ferocious and unbridled, at once supporting and keeping pace with Kristin's driving and relentless sound. Heavy.

Thomas Brinkmann - Tour de Traum
Traum

After last week's vinyl taster here comes the full lengther from Brinkers. Set loose by compadre and Traum supremo Riley Reinhold on his back catalogue, Thomas draws on some five years' perspective of this most enterprising Cologne label. Riley's main raison d'etre was to supply some domestic nuance and flavour to the, what d'you call it, techouse scene. Brinkmann has chosen his own personal favourite music from Traum, subjected it to manipulations and reinterpretation - the tour opens in fitting electronic fashion, progressing towards a steady techno beat, most satisfactory for existing Brinkmann advocates. The contents of the tracks have been altered to protect the innocent, but also the frequency range has been shifted to a bass heavy, active sphere, developed in the Soul Center laboratories. Delights include TBA, M.I.A., Oliver Hacke's splendid "Polar 1", Thomas Jirku, Joachim Speith, Miss dinky, Philippe Cam, the mighty Process and so much more. The best Brinkmann release in a very long time...

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Saturday, May 01, 2004

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# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 PM

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

Latest Show: now available @ SpydaRadio

Friday 30th April 2004

Dead Can Dance - 'As The Bell Rings The Maypole Spins'
Tristeza - 'Glimpse Exposure'
Joe Satriani - 'Searching'
Transglobal Underground - 'Isis K'
Nick Toone - 'Isis Forming'
Kinski - 'The Misprint In The Gutenberg Print Shop'
Liars - 'Read The Book That Wrote Itself'
Matmos - 'Freak 'N You'
Wiley - 'Goin' Mad'
Icarus - 'Frogmatik'
Strategy - 'Drumsolo's Delight'
Tied & Tickled Trio - 'Utrom'
Charalambides - 'Voice For You'
Animal Collective - 'The Softest Voice'
Cocteau Twins - 'It's All But An Ark Lark'
Thee Silver Mount Reveries - 'Microphones In The Trees'
Smadj - 'Meeting With The Bushmen'
Smoke & Mirrors - 'Ring Around The Moon'
Black Ox Orkestar - 'Kalarash'
Hidria Spacefolk - 'Pangaia'
Space Mirrors - 'Pale Ghosts'
Ratatat - 'Crips'

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