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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Peter Murphy: New Album on the Way!

Marketwire.com report a new Peter Murphy album is expected this Autumn: ViaStar Signs Legendary Pop Icon Peter Murphy to Multi-Album Recording Contract:

ViaStar Records is set to release Peter Murphy's upcoming full-length studio album this fall, which has been recorded in London, Istanbul, Montreal and Phoenix and is currently being mixed in Los Angeles.

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The Go-Betweens Reissues

Tracklistings are confirmed for the forthcoming reissues of three Go-Betweens albums: The Go-Betweens: 2004 reissues tracklistings for

[1986] Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express
[1987] Tallulah
[1988] 16 Lovers Lane

These albums will be released July 26th on Lo Max.

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Pitchfork review Pan American - Quiet City

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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

The Cure - The Cure
Geffen

Cure, one of the most influential bands of the past two decades, release their brand new studio album "The Cure".

2xLtd CD
This limited edition double pack includes a bonus DVD of studio footage, plus two exclusive bonus tracks "Truth Goodness And Beauty" and "Going Nowhere".

The Fall - Sparta FC 2
Action

Taken from the highly acclaimed "Country on the Click" album, this is the track that just cried out to be released as a single. It came No. 2 in John Peels Festive 50, only beaten by one point from the No.1 position. On the latest tour this was one of the highlights of the set and, for months now, Fall fans have been emailing the web site asking when it was going to be released as a single. In typical Mark E Smith style, he has gone and re-recorded the song which is an added bonus to Fall collectors.

CDS - TAKE023CD
The CD singles includes "My Ex Classmate's Kids (Live In Cologne 2001)" and the video for "Theme From Sparta F.C."

George - All Good Things
Lejos Discos

Having had previous releases on Bad Jazz and Earworm, local duo George return with this four track EP. Michael Varty and Suzy Mangion (sometime singer with Piano Magic & Arbol) produce a strange kind of music, not easily described. Odd without flagrantness, more a result of old props and sleight-of-hand than special effects and attention seeking. It is the kind of music made by people who've been schoolfriends and still use the same pre-teen electronics and percussion trolley to make old-fashioned adult music.

Gravenhurst - Flashlight Season
Warp

Stunning album from new Warp signings Gravenhurst, whose music chronicles tales from the darker side of life with a clarity of sound, voice and lyricism that is breathtaking. Gravenhurst's dark romanticism and production values call to mind such artists as Simon and Garfunkel, Jeff Buckley and My Bloody Valentine, while his delicate voice and picked guitar strings recall Nick Drake. Both formats come in a brown card, embossed sleeve - lovely!

Ministry - Houses Of The Mole
Mayan

Following the success of last years "Animositisomina" Al Jorgensen and Paul Barker are back with Ministry's latest release "Houses of the Mole". This is not just a return to form it may well be their most hard-hitting assault on the senses so far.

Mission Of Burma - Four Hands EP
Matador

"Dirt", was a live favourite when Mission of Burma were playing 22 years ago. Since they have returned the track has been updated and takes pride of place on the album as one of the more melodic, Clint Conley (bass, vocals) penned songs.

CDS - OLE614 2 -- limited cheap price
The CD single includes a cover of seminal West Coast punks The Dills’ "Class War" and a dub mix of the album track "Wounded".

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
679

This is powerful stuff, especially if you like your rock to disorientate you. Locked into churning grooves but always tuneful, you could lump these in with the Nu Prog heads because this is certainly psychedeiic. It's shifting, spatial heavy music.

Sufjan Stevens - Presents Greetings From Michigan
Rough Trade

Having previously been available on import, this album now gets a UK release on Rough Trade. Incase you don't know the script so far, Sufjan Stevens is a part time member of the Danielson Famile, and this is the first in a planned series of CDs dedicated to each US state. His music is a mix of Stereolab meets Philip Glass meets indie-folk - a delicate vocal with intricate instrumentation.

CD - RTRADCD170
The CD features two tracks that weren't available on the import version.

Sunn O))) - White 2
Southern Lord

Amazing new album from Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley aka Sunn O))). Unsuprisingly, "White 2" is the follow up to "White 1" and features contributions from Attilla Csihar (Mayhem, Tormentor, etc), Joe Preston (Thrones, ex-Melvins), Rex Ritter (Fontanelle) and Dawn Smithson. Sunn O))) is not your standard doom metal band... taking influences from legends Earth, adding electronica and stpping ahead of the crowd, Sunn O))) appeal to fans of electronic music, metal and experimental all at once.

Molasses - Trouble At Jinx Hotel
Alien 8

The group's utterly original music displays the raw, world-weary voice of old americana, the abandon of improvisation and experiment, the spiritually-charged atmosphere of church music, and the adventure of the avant-garde. Featuring members of the Shalabi Effect, Set Fire To Flames, Codeine, Come, Boxhead Ensemble and the Bonnie Prince Billy band. Cut among the songs are some stunning drone-driven outros and four instrumental interludes culled from field-recordings, found sounds and makeshift instruments. Molasses receives lavish praise from around the world for its music and for the exquisite hand-crafted packaging of its albums. It is housed in a beautiful tea-green gate-fold sleeve.

Charles Atlas - To The Dust: From Man You Came To Man You Shall Return
Ochre

Their fifth album, and this drifts along superbly in the style of ambient Eno mixed with La Bradford and Piano Magic.

DNA - DNA ON DNA
No More Records

DNA was Arto LIndsay, Ikue Mori, Robin Crutchfield and Tim Wright. "DNA ON DNA" is a defintive 32 track compilation of this legendary 'no wave' band containing all the rare and out of print songs together on CD for the first time. This highly anticipated release includes the "You & You" 7", "A Taste Of DNA" EP and various compilation appearances alongside previously unreleased songs and early live versions.

CD - DNA12
Deluxe 16 page booklet packed with photos, flyers, lyrics and extensive notes by Byron Coley, Jason Gross and Glen O' Brien.

Kinski - Don't Climb On And Take The Holy Water
Strange Attractors

'A full length collection of improvised material that they'll never be able to play again', it says on the cover. This isn't a proper new album but a blissed out ambient groove experiment that just worked so well it had to be put out!! Excellent stuff!

Wolf Eyes / Black Dice - Split
Fusetron

Wolf Eyes have a massive underground following, with their special annihistic brand of cassette mangling noise. Like Throbbing Gristle manhandling Suicide with even more underlying and disturbing intensity than say, Whitehouse. Truly thrilling and possibly the scariest noise you will hear. On the flip are their brother in arms, Black Dice who have been messing with people's psyche for a while now, and their Ruins / Boredoms influenced psycho insanity is tempered with a wash of electronica that seems to soothe, but as with Wolf Eyes, the nascent insanity and out there free rock takes over. Recorded Oct 2001.

CD - FUSETRON031CD
Available at last on CD!

Cursor Miner - Plays God
Lo Recordings

Think of Gary Numan mixed with everything from Syd Barrett to Aphex Twin to the Fat Truckers. Electro new wave madness combining a smell of the 70s with the taste of the noughties.

Various Artists / Lektroluv 5
News NV

Dr Lektroluv is back with another fantastic set of electro-disco / electro-techno tracks for our listening pleasure. Opening with one of the most influential 80s records, Telex's "Moskow Diskow", the compilation also includes tracks by Polygamy Boys, Fad Gadget, STR, Break 3000, Abe Duque, Solvent and even the Detrechno stylings of Drexciya.

Atreyu - The Curse
Victory Records

This is the second full length release from Orange County's emo / hardcore / retro-metal outfit. It's crystalline production doesn't detract in any way from their tortured energy, but it does add clarity to their sound, providing the perfect frame for a catchy cocktail of hardcore and melodic indie rock. A definite progression from "Butterfly Kisses..." that proves that accessibility and passion are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Time In Malta - Alone With The Alone
Equal Vision

The follow up to "A Second Engine", Time In Malta's excellent debut, sees them adopt a more aggressive and refined approach, with more brutal breakdowns, complex song structures and extended acoustic intros making for a singular hardcore sound. Todd Gullion's distinctive vocals are lower in the mix and are more effective for that, flowing effortlessly into the music. A very impressive, powerful release.

Various Artists / Exceptionally Remixed
Exceptional

Jap-jazz supremo Nik Weston selects the tracks for this Exceptional remixes compilation. He includes all our faves from the past 12 months or so: Osunlade's mix of UFO's "Listen Love", Spitiual South's mix of "Suite Espagnole", also by UFO, Swell Session's mixes of Fat Jon and Susumu Yokota, Bugz In The Attic and Kyoto Jazz Massive mixes of Susumu Yokota too, and reworks by Jimpster and Akufen too.

DJ Shadow - In Tune And On Time
Island

Premiered in Manchester in 2002, and evolving over two years, the "In Tune And On Time" live show is captured here at Brixton Academy, on wax, CD and DVD. Shadow adds live DJ overlays and scratching to his own music, which is backed by visuals linked up to the tracks (you'll have to watch the DVD for that!). Over the 21 tracks (plus extras on the DVD) you get all the DJ Shadow classics past and present - "What Does Your Soul Look Like", "The Number Song", "Stem / Long Stem", "Lost & Found", "Organ Donor", "Mashin' On The Motorway" etc.
2xDVD - CIDV8146
The DVD will delight all Shadow fans with its unique format which also includes an audio CD of the live set. "In Tune & On Time" is cut with an 'intermission' featuring candid, on-the-road footage from various countries, vox pops with fans and a montage of crowd stills. DVD's extras include a battle on MPCs between Cut Chemist and DJ NuMark in LA at the MYAN Theatre, and Malcolm Catto in Detroit and also three extra live tracks not featured on the vinyl or CD.

Quantic - Mishaps Happening
Tru Thoughts

Drawing from a wide range of musical influences, prolific producer Will Holland once again delivers a veritable melting pot of grooves, fusing erstwhile soul, funk and jazz with roughed up, toughed up future beats. Guest vocals are delivered by longtime collaborator Alice Russell, French MC Trinidad, legendary soul-jazz singer Spanky Wilson (on "Don't Joke With A Hungry Man" and "When You're Through") and Sonny Akpan from Nigerian group The Funkees. If you thought 2002's "Apricot Morning" was good, then this is even better!.

BC Gilbert - Ordier
Table Of Elements

In his post-Wire work Bruce Gilbert has utilized a variety of modernist tools and explored a vast range of experimental music, from white noise to ambient drones. "Ordier" (recorded for Table Of Elements in 1996, but subsequently believed lost) is another combative classic, as Gilbert stirs up a wild swarm of electronics with his usual deft touch.

Kid 606 - Who Still Kill Sound?
Very Friendly

Otherwise known as "Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You - Volume 2", more nails in the coffin, purging the soul, flogging a dead laptop, milking the cow dry, cleaning out the hard drive, stuff that didn't fit anywhere else and stuff that maybe doesn't even fit here.

Murcof - Utopia
Leaf

A specially priced collection from Murcof, featuring reworkings of tracks from "Martes" the two tracks from last year's exceptional "Ulysses" 12" and two further previously unreleased Murcof tracks, "Una" and "Ultimatum".

Spatialize - Dryad's Bubble
3rd Stone

The influences of Neil Butler AKA Spatialize include artists such as the Orb and his work has also been compared to leftfield and ambient Aphex Twin.

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Stylus have an interview with 2 Kompakt artists [Michael Mayer/ Reinhard Voight]

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Stylus review Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro

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BW & BK report Red Harvest - Internal Punishment Programs will be released on September 27th on Nocturnal Art Productions.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

musicOMH.com review The Cure - The Cure

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The latest The Breezeblock show on Radio 1 features a Dave Clarke Glasto Mix.

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BBC NEWS report Pet Shop Boys plan free film gig

The Pet Shop Boys will unveil their latest project - a soundtrack to the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin - at a free show in London's Trafalgar Square.

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Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 95/ 30.06.04]

This week's kultureflash

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.

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U2 to name album: Vertigo ?

Speculation that U2 may have named their forthcoming album: Vertigo as indicated by this research @ atu2.com [via [U2log.com]

If history is any indication, U2's next studio album might be named Vertigo.

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The Independent interview Peter Hammill

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The Blue Nile: New Album: High - Due 30th August

Legendary Scottish band, The Blue Nile have signed to Sanctuary records and will release a new album High in late August. This will be their forth studio album in 20 years, previous albums were released in 1984 [A Walk Across the Rooftops], 1989 [Hats] and 1996 [Peace at Last].

This is confirmed by three different sources @ This unofficial The Blue Nile fans website: The Blue Nile
[Sources: Amazon.co.uk, The Independent mention Sanctuary Records and BBC Scotland]

Amazon.co.uk also list The Blue Nile - High as an August 30th release in the UK.

The Independent have a new article about The Blue Nile

The release of High will be one of the most eagerly anticipated music events of the year

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The Departure = The British Interpol

New band alert: The Departure are from Northampton, have signed to Parlophone records. Their debut single: All Mapped Out is released on August 2nd.

Sam Harvey – lead guitar
Lee Irons – guitar, backing vocals
Ben Winton – bass
Andy Hobson – drums

The Departure are Parlophone’s latest signings and one of Britain’s most exciting new bands. Destined to appeal to both hearts and minds, theirs is a sound which unites rock’s capricious guitars and funk’s sentient bass with lyrics fated to be scratched into diaries up and down the land.

All Mapped Out, the single reminds me of Interpol and early Echo & the Bunnymen: Crocodiles era.

BBC Berkshire interview The Departure

Rockcity interview The Departure

Mapped Out’ is coming out on August 2nd, the second single we’re aiming to get out in October and then the third single will be in January of next year…
Ben: …with hopefully an album to follow in February.

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

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Musique Machine review Sunn 0))) - White

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Monday, June 28, 2004

Innerviews interview Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree

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musicOMH.com review Ministry - Houses Of The Molé

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BW & BK report the latest Opeth news update:

Mikael Åkerfeldt has started writing for what is supposed to be the next Opeth album. Hopefully to be recorded sometime in the early Spring of 2005

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Junkmedia have an interview with !!!

With Louden Up Now their first full-length on Touch and Go, !!! have claimed a huge piece of the growing New York dance-punk scene for themselves. Except that they're not just another New York band, and Louden isn't just about the dance floor. The band still possesses physical roots in Sacramento, CA, where it developed the iconoclastic post-disco mix that drove last year's critical darling, Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story).

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Barcode review the comeback album from Campag Velocet: Campag Velocet - It's Beyond Our Control

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Pitchfork Redesigned - Poor User Interface Design

Pitchfork has a new design today.

It may look better at first glance at the homepage - but the user interface for the reviews section is useless - you need to use the bottom scrolling bar to read the review - with my current screen resolution.

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BBC 6 Music featured Album of the Day is The Cure - The Cure

Pitchfork review The Cure - The Cure

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Sunday, June 27, 2004

The Great British Music Debate 2004 on Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 are back with another British Music Debate on Wednesday 21st July [this is the day after after the Mercury Music Prize nominations, which will no doubt be topical].

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They are asking for listener input for the debate, with a series of themed questions: Got A Question?

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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!
Various / Kompakt - Kompakt 100
Kompakt

Those of you who've been asleep for the last month will have missed the buzz of excitement surrounding this epic centenary celebration from Cologne's mighty Kompakt imprint. There's been the full page review in this month's wire magazine, signalling perhaps the more overtly intelectual assessment of where this label stands, something that dancefloor afficianado's and lovers of ecclectic and innovative electronic music everywhere have known for a good while now. Then there's been the endless amount of radioplay, style-magazine generated hyperbole and the whispers of excited followers of the label in all 4 corners of the globe. The premise for this tantalising compilation is simple : each participating Kompakt artist was asked to choose one title of the previous 99 kompakt releases and make a remix. The result flows from the incredibly evocative organic ambience that the label has termed "pop ambient", to the precise teutonic house and techno fractures (less minimal than you would think!) that has established Kompakt as the most formidable and well respected dancefloor imprint in the world today. If you've followed the label even selectively over the last 6 years you will have found, with this compilation, the definitive cross section of what Kompakt stands for, those of you who've always wanted a taste of what the fuss is all about - look no further.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Lali Puna - Micronomic
Morr Music

Excellent follow up single to Lali Puna's third album "Faking The Books" which was released to worldwide critical acclaim back in April. Lali asked two of their favorite artists for remixes, Anticon affiliate and Lali Puna's tour support Alias providing a deep and intricate percussive mix for "Alienation", while "Micronomic" itself is re-worked by Lex beat chopper in residence - boom bip. The EP also includes two brand new Lali Puna songs - both written and recorded while the band worked on "Faking The Books". "The Daily Match" focuses on Lali Puna's pop sensibilities, bringing to mind the effortless genius of sister band the notwist, while "Harrison Reverse", meabwhile, strips everything back to deliver one of Lali's first instrumental, largely electronic and ecclectic pieces in some years. For pop with a twist, this is as good as it gets.

Mikey Dread - African Anthem
Auralux

Definitely a staunch and abiding favourite from Michael Campbell - David Katz's curation of this excellent reissue series continues right on point, after their supreme job on Upsetters' Blackboard Jungle Dub. Mikey's legendary status centres on his infamous four hour saturday night radio shows from the late seventies on JBC, where he would run straight dub plate specials, hot off the press, garnished with sculptural sound fx and wild interjections, from one of the most sampled voices in reggae music. This is perhaps the album which comes closest to the experience of actually hearing one of these shows, Katz has pulled out 6 unreleased 'specials' of his own to close the album, tubbys music, steppers of high abandon, propulsive, bad boy crazy music - killer killer killer materials.

Coti - Lido / Lato
Poeta Negra

With his debut material appearing on the Basic-Channel sponsored "Vibrant Forms" label a couple of years back, this interesting double cd from Coti explores the more stripped down end of microscopic emissions, found sounds and organic minimalism. The first cd, "lido", has a more abstract and fluid identity, bringing to mind aquatic textures with post-industrial scenery. The second cd, "lato", has a more melodic and compact identity, with successive piano parts and strings imbuing the composition with direction. Coti is also a member of free music improvisation club 2-13, and has played live electronics with many musicians including evan parker, phil durrant, nikos veliotis, rhodri davies, andrea neumann, coh, philip glass. Check.

Daedelus - A Gent Agent
Laboratory Instinct

More than anything 2004 will be the year when Daedelus' name will be on everybody's mind when it comes to the best of year charts. This still mysterious artist debuted on the hard to describe Phthalo imprint back in 2001 and since has released music on Eastern Developments, Mush and most notably Plug Research where his two albums 'Invention' and 'Of Snowdonia' have brought him an army of fans including even MF Doom and Madlib who sampled him just recently. For the excellent Laboratory Instinct label comes his second release in as many months following up the mini album 'Meanwhile...' and his contribution to the wicked 'Advanced Public Listening Comp'. This thirteen track full length album (all new exclusive tracks) differs from the out and outergalactic cinematic sampling of his Plug Research material by throwing a spanner into his sampler. Several tracks drop a new pallet of disguised rave stabs, junglist rhythm wreckage which wrestle with his new style of cinematica - you are amongst a bewildering array of influences in perfect harmony. Imagine new school Vibert getting down with his classic Plug output. 'Desperate Measures' and 'Escape Artists' are two examples of tracks that'll keep the downtempo fans happy - one track sampling Charlie Parker with Strings and the other cutting up The Beach Boys. One of the most complete works yet from Daedelus the one-off lunatic sampling genius. Very highly recommended.

Dat Politics - Go Pets Go
Chicks On Speed

Tigerbeat affiliates Dat Politics have always managed to pair advanced electronic tinkering with the absolutely absurd. They return here after a couple of years hibernation with quite easily their most demented and pop-tinged work to date, perfectly suited to Chicks on Speed and their own brand of strange. The album spreads it's wings with digital folk (aided and abbeted by the likes of Kevin Blechdom and Nathan Michel), a couple of Nintendo techno mini-hits and compositions based on insects and pets doing their thang. Strange but true - id you like your pop music messy, f*cked up and filmed in glorious technicolour - you'll love this.

Murcof - Utopia
Leaf

So, not quite the new album we were all hoping for, but with 2 brand new tracks, plus the 2 tracks lifted from the Ulysses EP (for the first time on cd) and 7 remixes (from Colleen, Sutekh, Deathprod, Fax, Icarus and more) - it's ample food to keep you going for quite some time. Murcof's blend of classical plucked strings and electronic layering has been so influential on its surroundings that the sound has almost slipped into musical cliché. The new tracks on board offer a tantalising glimpse of what may follow - a masterful command of spacious string arrangments and dark, almost intrusive broken soundscapes. The remixes are also chosen with much sensitivity and good taste, excellent broken house arrangements by Sutekh and Fax (previously available on the Utopia 12"), while Colleen strips "Muim" right down to a whisper of strings and delictae piano cascades (amazing stuff), and Biosphere collaborator Deathprod harnesses the sound into a buzzing mass of textured ambience, making for a shimmering beast of organic drone that's just breathtaking. Excellent stuff from Murcof and co, now bring on the new album...pleaseeee.

Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
Ninja Tune

Luke Vibert returns following his soujourn to the disco with his Kerrier District project for Rephlex, here deliveriong the first new Wagon Christ material for quite some time.This is quite possibly Vibert's most commercial material to date, reconisable percussive samples and sci-fi clips still making for the bulk of what's on offer - an undeniable feelgood vibe permeating almost every moment across these 10 tracks. Comes with the video for "Receiver" from the last album.

Black Strobe - Chemical Sweet Girl EP
Output

This cd edition of `Chemical Sweet Girl' features all of Black Strobe's classic releases as well as exclusive, previously unreleased, material. Features: ·The current 12" release `Chemical Sweet Girl',`The Abwehr Disco', cult electro classic `Me & Madonna', `Innerstrings', an exclusive unreleased remix of `Chemical Sweet Girl' by Alter Ego (Playhouse/Klang), and Ivan Smagghe and Ewan Pearson's `Two Fairlight Bitches' remix Of `Me & Madonna', and `Fitting Together', previously unavailable on CD

Noel Akchote / Roland Auzet / Luc Ferrari - Impro-Micro-Acoustique
Blue Chopsticks

Composer Luc Ferrari, one of the progenitors of musique concrete and a pioneer of electroacoustic music, has previously written scores for improvising musicians. Prior to Impro-Micro-Acoustique, however, Ferrari himself had never played the role of an improviser. Several years ago, Ferrari chanced to see the Parisian guitarist Noel Akchoté mistreating his instrument in his characteristic, inimitable manner. Ferrari was surprised to be reminded of musique concrete techniques -- especially by an instrumentalist, and outside of the studio. He referred to what he'd heard as 'new, real-time concrete.' Then he thought to take up improvisation. As regards sympathetic players, Akchoté was an obvious choice. Equally so was Roland Auzet, who had previously performed the demanding percussion part in Ferrari's Cellule 75. Impro-Micro-Acoustique presents Ferrari at the piano and utterly at home, utterly in-the-moment for this trio's first encounter. Improvisers generally opt for a documentary approach to recording. Stereo mics in a fixed position is par for the course. By contrast, Impro-Micro-Acoustique is a meticulously crafted assemblage of shifting sonic perspectives. It's a play of depths, in which individual attacks come abruptly and unpredictably to the fore. Recommended.

Sunn O))) - White 2
Southern Lord

Intriguing new album from Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley, aka Sunn0))). White 2 follows up the Julian Cope sponsored Volume 1, this time round featuring Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Tormentor, etc.) , Joe Preston (Thrones, ex-Melvins), Rex Ritter (Fontanelle) and Dawn Smithson. Sunn o))) is not your standard doom metal band ...taking influences from legends Earth, adding electronica (those of you who caught them at last year's Autechre curated ATP festival will know how intense this lot really are) and fusing Strands of metal and experimental music all at once. Doom metal indeed - check.

Various / Output - Channel 3
Output

Third in the series of label compilations from Trevor Jackson's hugely succesful Output imprint. Includes new, exclusive, and previously unreleased tracks alongside label classics. Include Black Strobe `The Abwehr Disco', The Rapture `I Need Your Love' - Playgroup remix. Manhead `Birth School Work Death', Colder `The Slow Descent' (exclusive b-side), DK7 `Slipstream' - follow up to last year's `The Difference' - plus an exclusive guest track from electronic music pioneers Yello, originally released as an extremely rare b-side in 1982, and soon to be reissued on 12" vinyl on the label. Zeitgeist city - check.

Bigg Jus - Black Mamba Serums V2.0
Big Dada

This is the planet quaking ill hip hop styles that still make me believe that abstraction in hip hop has a bright future. From Bigg Jus, El-P's partner in Company Flow, this album offers brain workout political lyrics over incredible production that's abstract as sh*t but with a warm honest soul infused with rare hip hop melancholy. Rugged like the dirtiest street rap but high art as the finest hip hop aspires to. Thirteen tracks, all self produced in an awe inspiring fashion with added ill scratching from Dust of Mars Ill. Label boss and massive Co Flow fan Will Aston reckons this album is "a stone cold, bona fide classic" and I agree. This album feels like the long lost sequel to the classic 'Funcrusher Plus' album. Where El' went off to the Def Juxland the Jus keeps the Company Flow musical legacy frighteningly real, sick and relavant. Awesome, one of the years best. **CD version includes 23 bonus MP3's tracks**

LMNO - Economic Food Chain Music
Up Above

Now available on cd. One of the finest but least known emcee's from the west coast ,LNMO product has always got me hyped up and this album is his best collection to date. Killer head nod business with serious lyrics and rap flows. Produced in main by Oh No, also Madlib's little bro's finest collection of music to date. Elsewhere production is handled by Rhettmatic, Liferexall, Keykool, Discreet Merchants and Evidence. Guests include Visionaries, 2Mex, Wildchild, J-Rocc and DJ Romes. Most definetely dope. Fourteen trax, a must check.

Writer's Block - En Route
Up Above

Now available on cd. From the Visionaires comes Zen & Dannu aka Writer's Block with this wonderful album. Feeling like it might have been made upto ten years ago there's a similar hip hop swirl and innocence in the music that reminds me of the classic debut albums of KMD and The UMC's. Writer's Block deliver highly poetic lyricisms with harmonic deliveries. From complex conceptions to basic elemental boom bap, their microphone charisma adapts to any rhythm, and the dazzling array of production talent enlisted here makes their debut album one to freak over. Production contributions come from Keykool & DJ Rhettmatic, Omid and Mum's The Word. With an amazing 'Belleville Rendezvous' styled sleeve this fifteen track album 'En Route' is another class release for the quietly burning Up Above label. Highly recommended.

Charles Atlas - To the dust: From man you came to man you shall return
Ochre

Charles Atlas, much like Piano Magic, is a fluid lineup of musicians who have over the years included Charles Wyatt (Piano Magic), Matt Greenberg (the Rosemarys), Erik Kowalski (Casino Vs. Japan), Sacha Galvagna (Rosa Mota), and more. This latest album is their most gripping to date - all downcast, mostly instrumental pieces, shifting mood with strings, piano and acoustic guitar - hugely evocative and highly cinematic. Odessa Chen's vocal, when introduced, elevates proceedings to an ethereal level, introspective and somehow incredibly touching. A highly recommended listen for those with a broken heart or insomnia, lovely music.

Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons
Warp

More diversifying from Warp here, this time extending their repertoire to the nether reaches of alt-folk with the debut album from Gravenhurst, who's 7" for the "For Us" imprint brought them to the attention of a fast-widening audience. "Flashlight Seasons" sits itself somewhere between the more hushed output of My Bloody Valentine, the folk pioneering of Nick Drake and the cross-platform innovation and charm of Vincent Gallo. What matters most with updated folk, if you will, is the quality of the songwriting, something that Gravenhurst have in ample supply. With that as a foundation, each gentle tweak of the format with strange instrumentation or unusual production makes for an ever more accomplished and addictive set of songs. In other words, Warp couldn't have chosen a better release for their debut foray into campfire territory - a beautiful album that will hopefully find favour with fans across the board. Lovely.

Molasses - Trouble At Jinx Hotel
Alien 8

With its Godspeed! affiliation firmly intact, Molasses return with another excellent album ofraw, world-weary old Americana crossed with the abandon of improvisation and experiment, the spiritually-charged atmosphere of church music, and the adventure of the avant-garde. This time round featuring members of the shalabi effect, set fire to flames, Godspeed, codeine, come, boxhead ensemble and the bonnie prince billy band, the album also features some stunning drone-driven outros and four instrumental interludes culled from field-recordings, found sounds and makeshift instruments. Lovely.

Pinback - Offcell
Touch & Go

First Pinback release of new material since 2001's `Blue Screen Life' and their first release for Touch and Go. Delicate harmonies combine with pleasantly rollicking tempos and simple, pretty melodies in a way that is both innovative and immediately familiar. The EP features five brand new non-LP tracks including the live crowd pleaser `Victorious D'. For fans of American Anolog Set, 3 Mile Pilot, Teenage Fanclub, Portastic and The Postal Service.

Pink Grease - This Is For Real
Mute

Latest album from Pink Grease featuring twelve new tracks of pure loud guitar abandon, glam and discoid vibe that reeks of punk attitude. Highlights include recent single `Fever' plus `Superfool', `Into My Heart' and `Peaches' - combining a mix of frenzied rock `n' roll and twisted pop music. `This Is For Real' will find a home with fans of high-octane rock'n'roll of The Stooges, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The New York Dolls.

Sufjan Stevens - Presents....Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State
Rough Trade

In sharp contrast to this week's other release from the great Sufjan Stevens, "Greetings from Michigan...." is a sublime, largely acoustc ode to the state in which the man was born. Overflowing with evocative solitary piano, muted trumpet and a songwriting ability that's quite hard to fathom, the overall tone here is melancholy and introspective, evoking not only the pastoral greenery and wildlife of the Lake State, but also the functional, mundane, grey, day to day reality of its troubled industry.There's also a sporadc spray of more disjointed, sometimes instrumental pieces that offer a startling and often beautiful arrangement of sleigh bells, glockenspiel, whistles, oboe, xylophone, vibraphone, flute, banjo and trombone, a carefully orchestrated weave of ideas and a gift for songwriting that make Stevens quite easily one of the most impressive and original songwriters in the world today. Huge recommendation.

The Anamoanonn - Derby Ram
Houston Party

The Anamoanon is Ned Oldham's project, backed by his brothers Will and Paul. This fourth Anamoanon album displays delicacy and intensity played with homespun recklessness. Pooling high vocals and harmonies, spare enigmatic lyrics, snaky vocals and rock chord progressions, they remind many of quality 60's neo-traditionalist mavericks, imbuing alt-country with a rougher, rockier edge. Check.

Various / Regular My Friends And I - A Regular Compilation
Regular

The much underrated Regular label compiles tracks from some known and unknown artists, with their specific blend of ultra deep tech house chosen superbly for a class compilation. With Duplex 100, Falko Brocksieper, Rene Breitbarth, Jaumetic and more there's plenty to choose from. Rene Breitbarth delivers a killer deep house cut with `Mbass' which has a Basic Channel style synth running through the drums and modulating around the groove perfectly, and a solid sub bass that holds the track to the floor, a top number. Also the rumbling acid of Jaumetic's `Cresp' makes for a killer cut, the wildly tweaked bassline makes the track stand out straight away, while the solid drums do the rhythmic work and deliver another reason for the Regular label to be checked out, top cut. Falko Brocksieper has released a few tracks in his time, from Trapez to Triebstoff and Sub Static, here he drops `Dense' which is a disco tinged electronic house cut that sets a proper funky feel and has some classic synth work. A lush and varied comp of top tech house numbers.

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Reminder, Woebot has become WOEBOTNiK

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Paul Morley on Radio 2: Vox Pop: Art and Music

Paul Morley will be presenting a radio show on BBC Radio 2 this Tuesday evening [29th June]: [8.30-9.30pm] that looks at the relationship between: art and music.

» Radio 2 - Vox Pop

Art has always been a consistent thread in music linking emergent '60's art school musicians, such as Lennon, Townsend, Ray Davies and the Velvet Underground, to the '70's wave of David Bowie and Roxy Music, to Throbbing Gristle and Joy Division, from Kraftwerk, Can and Faust to Magazine, Wire and Gang of Four.

Ultimately, Morley argues, the most striking, revolutionary and myth-making music was produced by musicians who were interested in art, who looked to the worlds of surrealism, dada, pop art, expressionism, to the more serious, innovative worlds of jazz, classical and film, as well as the art of literature.

More recently, along with Bjork, the popularisation of avant garde art music, through artists such as Tortoise, To Rococo Rot, Squarepusher, Matmos, Four Tet, and Lali Puna, has proved that it is music driven by artistic impulse that ultimately has the most contemporary resonance.

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This week's Stuart Maconie's Critical List show on Radio 2 selects PHYSICAL GRAFFITI by LED ZEPPELIN as Featured Album of the week.

PHYSICAL GRAFFITI - LED ZEPPELIN
Produced by Jimmy Page
Swan Song, 1975

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [June 14th]

Key new album releases for June 14th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Arovane - Lillies (City Centre Offices)
Blue States - The Soundings (Memphis Industries)
Stefano Bollani - Smat Smat (Label Bleu)
Roberto Carlos Lange Presents Boom & Birds - Confetti (Rice & Beans) EP
Tom Carter - Monument (Kranky)
Cursor Miner - Cursor Miner Plays God (Lo Recordings)
Directions - Have You Felt This Way Before (Diaspora In Session)
Dykehouse - Midrange (Ghostly International)
Yuichiro Fujimoto - Komorebi (Smalltown Supersound)
Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal (4ad)
Gringo Grinder - Breakfast included (Onitor)
Brent Gutzeit - Drug Money (Kranky Records)
IQ - Dark Matter (GEP) [US Release to follow on June 22nd on Inside Out America Records]
Kinski - Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water (Strange Attractors)
Daniel Menche - Eye on the Steel (Substractif)
Midlake - Bamnan & Slivercork (Bella Union)
Monne Automne (Luciano And Pierre Bucci) - Introducing Light and Sound (Lofi Stereo)
The New Year - The End is Near (Touch & Go)
The Rip Off Artist - New Clear Days (Inflatabl Labl)
Sasha - Involver (Global Underground)
Team Shadetek - Burnerism (Warp)
Technova - Electrosexual (Hydrogen Dukebox)
Jimi Tenor - Beyond the Stars (Kitty Yo)
Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (Planet Mu)

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All About Jazz review Eivind Aarset - Connected

Aarset should be considered more of a sound sculptor. What is improvised and what is structured is rarely clear but, in the final analysis, it’s an unimportant distinction. What is important is how, with Connected as on his two previous releases, Aarset utilizes contemporary sonic tools to create a world all his own, with a distinctive imagination and unerring visual sensibility.

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Saturday, June 26, 2004

Almost Cool review Pan American - Quiet City

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ORBITAL BOW OUT WITH AN EXCLUSIVE 6 MIX

BBC 6 Music present an exclusive Orbital 6 Mix music at 12.00 midnight Sunday - 2am Monday morning.

This weekend the 6 Mix takeover is a Glastonbury special with festival stalwarts Orbital taking us through our paces.

Orbital have just announced that this year's Glastonbury will be their last as they are splitting up.

Their 1995 gig at the festival was voted one of the best ever, so this year promises to be rather spectacular.

They are also about to release their final album, the Blue Album, so this show will not only feature the best of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll's influences and inspirations, but also new and exclusive material from their studio. An essential listen for all ears!

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BBC Collective review Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere

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Music blog to check: Vinyl Mine

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Mwanji Ezana @ be.jazz lists some of his personal fav jazz related albums of 2004 so far.

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Radio 3 - New Website

BBC Radio 3 have a complete new look website.

Looking at the new website - it seems rather lightweight on content, compared to the old Radio 3 website. The information / interface design and site structure/ navigation [Informaton Architecture] is very consistent/ unified/ simplified but the content / information provision has been neglected [e.g re upcoming shows], which is unusual for BBC websites.

About Radio 3: Introducing: About Radio 3
» Radio 3: Schedule
» Radio 3: Programmes
» Radio 3: Presenters
» Radio 3: Listen Again

Specific Radio 3 shows of interest:
» Hear and Now [Modern Composition/ Contemporary Classical]
» Jazz on 3 [Contemporary Jazz]
» Late Junction [Diverse: Experimental/ Electronic/ World Music/ Contemporary Classical/ Folk music/ Jazz etc]
» Mixing It [Diverse Experimental Rock & Electronic Music: ala The Wire magazine]

Themed Radio 3 pages:
» Radio 3: Classical
» Radio 3: Jazz
» Radio 3: New Music
» Radio 3: World Music

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Friday, June 25, 2004

BBC Collective interview luke vibert (wagon christ)

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Individual writers lists @ Pitchfork for Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

[Once again Pitchfork ignore basic information design concepts - they could have easily improved the presentation of the information by creating html anchors for each writer. ]

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The Guardian review Carla Bley/ The Lost Chords - The Lost Chords

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The Guardian review Django Bates - You Live and Learn (Apparently)

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The Guardian review The Cure - The Cure

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Glastonbury 2004: Media Coverage

For those not going to Glastonbury, here is an extensive guide to media coverage of Britain's foremost live music festival:

The main BBC Music website: BBC Glastonbury 2004 provides a central resource for Glastonbury 2004 media coverage.

Radio 1 have some coverage, concentrating on dance music: Radio 1 Glastonbury 2004

BBC 6 Music will be broadcasting some shows live from Glastonbury: 6 Music: Glastonbury 2004

Listings: 6 MUSIC AT GLASTONBURY [6 Music will be focusing on new bands]

The local, BBC Somerset have a Glastonbury website: BBC Somerset: Glastonbury 2004

The BBC provide a sequential guide to it's coverage of Glastonbury on Radio and TV: BBC Radio/ TV: Glastonbury

BBC Glastonbury 2004 Radio & TV Schedules: in a chart format: TV & Radio Schedule - View by week

If you have Digital TV then BBC 3 have live evening coverage from Glastonbury.

The Official website for: Glastonbury Festival 2004

The Guardian have a comprehensive guide and will be providing news updates The Guardian: Glastonbury 2004

NME: will be providing news updated @ NME.Com

Playlouder are an official Glastonbury Festival media partner, there will be selective live webcasts: Playlouder - Glastonbury 2004

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The final day @ Pitchfork for Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s: 20 - 11

020: T.Rex
Electric Warrior
[Reprise; 1971]

019: Can
Ege Bamyasi
[United Artists; 1972]

018: Miles Davis
Bitches' Brew
[Columbia; 1970]

017: Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
[Westbound; 1971]

016: Buzzcocks
Singles Going Steady
[IRS; 1979]

015: The Who
Who's Next
[Decca; 1971]

014: The Velvet Underground
Loaded
[Cotillion/Atlantic; 1971]

013: Nick Drake
Pink Moon
[Island; 1972]

012: The Stooges
Funhouse
[Elektra; 1970]

011: Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street
[Rolling Stones; 1972]

Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s: 10 - 1

010: Brian Eno
Another Green World
[Island; 1975]

009: Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
[Factory; 1979]

008: Gang of Four
Entertainment!
[Warner Bros; 1979]

007: Led Zeppelin
IV
[Atlantic; 1971]

006: Kraftwerk
Trans-Europe Express
[Capitol; 1977]

005: Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks
[Columbia; 1975]

004: Sly & The Family Stone
There's a Riot Goin' On
[Epic; 1971]

003: Television
Marquee Moon
[Elektra; 1977]

002: The Clash
London Calling
[CBS; 1979]

001: David Bowie
Low
[RCA; 1977]

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The Independent have a feature on African Music: Out of Africa: the 20 must-have albums

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The Independent interview The Killers

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BILLBOARD report Jane's Addiction Members Form New Band

Jane's Addiction members * are now forming a NEW band with a new singer, Steve Isaacs.

[* = Dave Navarro, bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Stephen Perkins]

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The Independent review Orbital - Blue Album

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Andy Gill @ The Independent endorses the comeback Tuxedomoon album: Tuxedomoon - Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky finds them back together again, arguably more potent than ever. Using piano, bass, violin, clarinet and trumpet, with occasional jazz guitar or harmonica, they've crystallised a sound that's equal parts cabaret, jazz, rock, and contemporary chamber music - a distinctly European sound

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Deviation Detroit Special

BBC IXtra present Deviation Detroit Special including Derrick May, Recloose and Kenny Larkin

Check below to hear Detroit legends talk about the impact the Motor City has had on black music. Don't forget to tell us what you think about Detroit.

As BBC Music note:
1Xtra's Benji B took a trip to Detroit - listen again to the programme, where legends talk about the impact the Motor City has had on black music. Then add your point of view on the messageboard.

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Thursday, June 24, 2004

Issue 25 of Earplug

JUNE 24 - JULY 7

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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k-punk presents K-PUNK TOP 100 BRITISH ALBUMS

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Playlouder review Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

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Dusted review Noxagt - The Iron Point

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Dusted review Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night

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Day 2 @ Pitchfork for Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

Today, we're offering the second of three installments, which covers #60-#21, with the third and final installment, showcasing our top 20 favorites, due tomorrow.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Playlouder have developed a microsite for Glastonbury: PLAYLOUDER | GLASTONBURY 2004

There'll be up-to-the-minute Glastonbury NEWS, REVIEWS, and shedloads of COMPETITIONS to win loads of gear - sorry, not THAT kind - from Glastonbury Festivals and the bands gracing its hallowed fields. There'll be INTERVIEWS with loads of famous people, pissed people, and insane people - and in some cases they'll be all three.

We'll also WEBCAST FULL performances from both the Pyramid and Other stages for your interwebbing pleasure -

FRIDAY: Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey
SATURDAY: Lostprophets, Starsailor, Keane, Basement Jaxx
SUNDAY: BRMC, Muse, Orbital

You're not going to see these performances anywhere else except at the festival itself, so whether you can't get to Worthy Farm or are just too damn fond of indoor plumbing, this is the place to be.

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BBC Music review The Killers - Hot Fuss

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The User Experience Honeycomb related to Music Criticism/Websites

In the 21st century, information about contemporary music has shifted from old 20th century paradigm of print [magazines, books] to the digital web.

From upfront music news due to the instant publishing nature of the web e.g blogs and XML standards through to indepth historical archive/ reference sites e.g All Music Guide, to multimedia elements [online radio, downloading] to interactive discussion forums - the web has become the foremost medium for information, communication and sound transfer.

The user experience of the digital environment can be understood better by the holistic concept of: User Experience Design

In terms of "music criticism" as the 21st century unfolds, the most valuable critics & publishing companies / collectives will have to adjust their methods to cope and take advantage of the challenges/ opportunities of the digital environment.

Consultant, Peter Morville has developed: The User Experience Honeycomb that looks at the different facets/ qualities of the user experience:

Peter Morville has also developed an indepth resource for Findability

There are many opportunities to apply these concepts in improving how music criticism/ music websites will evolve in the future.

An example of a music enthusiast that I believe is leading the way, in applying some of these facets is JahSonic

Also the BBC are pioneers in user experience design, in particular the way they apply information architecture to BBC Music and BBC Radio

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Pitchfork's Top 100 albums of the 70s countdown

Alex @ close your eyes understands the concept of Information Design and is providing a useful summary list for Pitchfork's Top 100 albums of the 70s countdown

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

Kompakt 100 (Various Artists)
Black Dice
Wilco [the most overrated rock band in the US]
Oren Ambarchi
Murcof

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Badly Drawn Boy [candidates for the most boring Brit band in 2004]
Biosphere
Children of Mu (Various Artists)
Pan American

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Splendid review Loscil - First Narrows

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Dusted review Biosphere - Autour de la Lune

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Playlouder review Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush

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Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 94/ 23.06.04]

This week's kultureflash

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.

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Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

Pitchfork have started a 3 day, best albums of 1970s feature: Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s:

As the psychedelic 60s gave way to hippie backlash and high ambitions, one thing was clear: There was something damn funny about peace, love and understanding. Shaking off naturalism, daisy chains and acid tabs came easier than expected, and what resulted was a paradox of both striking diversity and remarkable coherence: From high-concept prog-nerds and high-octane guitar solo to high-heeled glam-rockers and high-ass punks, the 70s saw the rise and dominance of the album-as-unified-statement. Over the next three days, Pitchfork takes the opportunity to present this list of its favorite albums of that decade. As usual, boiling a decade of music down to just 100 albums has not been a simple task, but we feel it's resulted in what we feel is the most diverse and contentious list the site has ever put together.
Today, we're offering the first of three installments, which covers #100-#61. On Thursday, we'll unveil #60-#21, and on Friday, the top 20.

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milkfactory.co.uk report Biosphere will release his new album, Autour De La Lune, on Touch on August 23rd.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

THE NAKED MAJA'S TOP 100 BRITISH ALBUMS

Marcello @ The Naked Maja was enraged with the predictability of the recent OMM best British Albums - so he produced his own list - with essay format notes.

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Barcode report on a David Sylvian free music download

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Barcode report Propaganda & OMD team-up

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soundgenerator.com report Peter Gabriel Sells OD2 To Loudeye

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Mojo Awards: THE MOJO HONOURS LIST 2004

BBC NEWS report on Mojo Magazine's inaugural awards event: The Clash win inspiration award

other winners:

The Mojo Icon Award: Morrissey

The Songwriter Award: Ray Davies

The Catalogue Release of the Year: Muzik City: The Trojan Records Story

The Mojo Vision Award: Led Zeppelin

The Mojo Medal: Geoff Travis

The Mojo Hall of Fame: Arthur Lee

The Mojo Hero Award: Roger McGuinn

The Mojo Classic Image Award: Bob Gruen

The Mojo Special Award: The Shadows

The Mojo Classic Album Award: Television's Marquee Moon

The Mojo Maestro Award: Jimmy Page

The Mojo Lifetime Achievement Award: James Brown

Are these awards necessary? the same predictable historical names honoured again and again - through different award events.

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

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BW & BK report the latest Dillinger Escape Plans news DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - E-Card Unveiled, Album Art/New Photos Posted

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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

Brother Danielson - Brother Is To Son
Secretly Canadian

The Danielson Famile of New Jersey has naturally become more and more of a collaboration and a group over the course of five full lengths. On this sixth Danielson release, the entire Famile along with familiar co-conspirators (father Lenny, Sufjan Stevens, John Ringhofer and Ted Velykis) are all here supporting Daniel. On "Brother Is To Son", all the special-ness that the full band brought to previous Danielson albums is fully present. He still leads his folk jamboree through the familiar boy-girl harmonies as the banjos, bells, piano keys and jaw harp all teem with kinetic energy, like a deconstructionalist jug band led by a man who follows in the bold footsteps of Sun Ra, Don Van Vliet and Johnny Lydon as a truly original art terrorist.

Call And Response - Winds Take No Shape
Badman

Call And Response are a musical ensemble formed in 1998 when Simone Rubi (keyboards, vocals) and Daniel Judd (guitar), who shared a love of obscure pop music, film soundtracks, and synthesizers, decided to collaborate on a musical project in the Bay Area, California. The music they compose has elements of classic pop, spacey jazz, film soundtracks, folk and soul music - only some of the musical inspirations drawn upon by the group. With this record, the band innovates a sound that is impressionistic, mystical, and beautiful. All ten songs on the album were recorded and produced in San Francisco by Dylan Magierek (Mark Kozelek, Low, Erlend Oye).

Chikinki - Lick Your Ticket
Island

"Lick Your Ticket" sounds unlike anything else, its a drug-fuelled cocktail of synthesizer madness, rock power and attitude that makes pretty much every other band just sound dull. The boys have been touring constantly for the last six months and are now a finely tuned rock machine capable of destroying everything in their path!

Die Haut And Nick Cave - Burnin' The Ice
Hit Thing

Hit Thing re-issues the lost album "Burnin' The Ice" by the Berlin band Die Haut, which featured Nick Cave as guest singer. Furiously sought after by Cave collectors for twenty years, the lyrics have been printed as classics among Cave's archives, but these recordings were scarcely available. Originally released only on 12" vinyl in 1983, "Burnin' The Ice" quickly vanished into collector land. This digitally re-mastered edition marks its first appearance in any digital format. It documents a crucial moment in Cave's career, as it was recorded in 1982 during the short period after he disbanded The Birthday Party and formed the first line-up of The Bad Seeds in Berlin. It also documents the initial explosion of the unusual Berlin band Die Haut, who went on to produce albums with internationally renowned guest singers for nearly twenty years.

2xLtd CD - HTCD007
Limited to 5000 copies, the limited edition CD includes an elaborately detailed 24 page historical booklet plus a bonus DVD featuring live footage of Die Haut's first tour with The Birthday party in 1982.

Dykehouse - Midrange
Ghostly International

Lo-fi meets hi-fi on "Midrange", a brilliant lush pop album filled with dense electronic textures and instrumentations, all the more amazing for having been recorded solely in the artist's bedroom on a home computer. Michael Dykehouse, whose first album came out on Planet Mu, has crafted a postmodern and personal homage to the shoegaze genre from a ten-years-removed transatlantic perspective, echoing his heroes, the immortal My Bloody Valentine.

Glass - Gun In A Paper Bag
Soviet Union

Following the likes of I Am Kloot, Marian and Haven the band preceed this release with a residency at Manchester's Night And Day, just across the road from us incidently! This is the bands first recorded output - they've not even recorded demos before, but that's not say that this release is at all amatureish, in fact, quite the opposite. The EP feautres five sonically perfect and blistering anthemic songs with the vocal angst of, at times Thom Yorke, and at others Kurt Cobain. An excellent, assured debut.

Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
Source

Ah...too much loveliness. This sounds like Simon And Garfunkel harmonising while Nick Drake picks away! It's whispered, gentle acoustic pop and much like their debut of a few years back. They're helped on a couple of songs by Canadian chanteuse Feist, there's some nice softly jazzy inflections and there's a proper upbeat pop song in "I'd Rather be With You" but mainly it's a case of 'if it ain't broke'... Here's 12 strong, evocative songs and beautifully packaged, too. All hail the Kings!

Juana Molina - Segundo
Domino

Juana Molina's stint as a comedian may have brought her considerable fame at home in Spain, but the engrossing mix of playful Spanish and off-kilter electronic sounds on "Segundo" are set to make waves farther afield. This is an album that is both soothing and hypnotically engaging, one for those relaxing late nights i think!!

The Open - Just Want To Live
Loog

"Just Want To Live" is the latest single from The Open ahead of the release of their debut album "The Silent Hours". Once again, it's lovely, rich dreampop that shimmers and chimes like The Verve and latter-day Bunnymen, but produced by The Cocteau Twins...which, of course, it is!
CDS - 9866489
The CD single includes "Out Of The Box", "Without" and the video for "Just Want To Live".

Pink Grease - This Is For Real
Horse Glue / Mute

The new album features twelve new tracks that meld disco, guitar abandon, glam and true melody to a degree they've so far only threatened. The band combine a perfect mix of frenzied rock'n'roll and catchy yet twisted pop to great effect. "This Is For Real"' will find a home with fans of the high-octane rock'n'roll of The Stooges, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The New York Dolls.

Plan B - Issue 0

Also from the ashes of Careless Talk, along side Loose Lips now arises the phoenix that is Plan B, this magazine is led by the editorial knowledge and experience of Everett True. This inaugral issue's featured artists include Chicks On Speed, Kaito, Von Bondies, Lightning Bolt, Spektrum, !!!, the Pastels, New Black, Gravy Train, the Cribs, Sunn O))), OOIOO, the Mountain Goats, Graham Coxon, Cocorosie, the Saints and many more including superb photographs and illustrations, hmmmm.

Republic Of Loose - This Is The Tomb Of The Juice
Big Cat

Debut album from this group of deranged Irishmen! Kinda bluesy, kinda funky, kinda sleazy, rock'n'roll.

Spacemen 3 - Recurring
Space Age

The last album from Spacemen 3 and such was the extent of the dissolving partnership of Pete Kember (Sonic Boom) and Jason Pierce during the recording of this that they recorded away from each other and did a side each for this album. Sonic Boom's side is very much an epic affair and is in contrast to Pierce's downbeat bluesy minimalism with huge sways of effects which he would come to favour in his next project Spiritualized. Surprisingly the results are of a fantastic cohesive album that features many a classic including the single "Big City", "Hypnotized" and the awesome cover of Mudhoney's "When Tomorrow Hits", although there is the lingering 'what if' questions. Still a brilliant end to a brilliant band.

CD - ORBIT012CD - limited cheap price
Re-issued by Space Age, the original tapes have been remastered and the artwork has been re-designed but still in keeping with the original idea.

Valley Of The Giants - Valley Of The Giants
Arts & Crafts

Consisting of members Of Broken Social Scene, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Shilabi Effect but without sounding like any of those bands, this is a superb slow desert americana rock epic. The recording was done under the influence of the cult classic film "Westworld" which features a cool Yul Brynner all dressed in black. Mainly instrumental, it features just two tracks with vocals one of those being the sublime slow burning epic called "Westworld", it's so evocative you can almost taste the desert air. Superb and essential!!!

A Hawk And A Hacksaw - A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Leaf

"A Hawk And A Hacksaw" was conceived and performed by Jeremy Barnes of Bablicon and Neutral Milk Hotel. A gerne-defying one-man orchestra, the album features intricate piano based compositions, layered with accordion, percussion, horns and bells. It was recorded over the course of fifteen months in the Loire Valley with a variety of guest performers.

Agata - Spike
Tzadik

Melt Banana is one of Japan's most powerful and popular punk bands and at the center of it is the stinging guitar of Agata. Here he steps out on a rare solo outing created especially for Tzadik. Showing an amazing range of interests, a prodigious technique and a remarkable ear for new sounds, "Spike" is a classic of solo guitar music.

Black Forest / Black Sea - Forcefields And Constellations
Bluesanct

Black Forest / Black Sea is a duo from Providence, RI, USA. Their performances are usually about fifty percent improvised, often building from live instrumental loops created in real time. An unusual folk styled duo who sound straightforward enough on first hearing, until something unexpected turns the simply plucked banjo song they are playing upside down. Backwards backwoods playing, electronic effects, a shortwave radio and some knob twiddling are all incorporated into their sound, which twists from traditional folk Americana to beatbox improv and back again.

Various Artists / Culture Club Volume 2
Eskimo

The Glimmer Twins and Troubleman Productions (TLP) mix a CD each here, with the Twins going for house, electro-pop, disco and indie (Coloursound, Body Talk, Yello, Polyester, Bobby O, Mu, Headman, Pleasure Zone, Fast Eddie, Primal Scream, Stone Roses, Simple Minds, Front 242, Neon Judgement, Mylo etc) and TLP taking in hip hop, reggae, soul, funk, house, disco and electro-pop too (Dawn Penn, The Roots, Ackie, MOP, R Kelly, Diana Ross, Angie Stone, Lynn Collins, Robin S, Salt N Pepa, Technotronic, NERD, Missy Elliott etc). It's a proper party mix up spread over 50 tracks!

Killing Joke - Chaos For Breakfast
Malicious Damage

Killing Joke's original label, Malicious Damage relaunches with this fantastic limited edition 5CD set. The great collectors piece includes CD versions of the bands first four singels: "Nervous System", "Wardance", "Requiem" and "follow The Leaders", all printed to look exactly like the original vinyl versions with original artwork, inserts and stickers. The fifth CD features nine unreleased tracks including demo versions of classic tracks. All packaged in a slip case, along with a wallet of 30 original photos and images.

Rudimentary Peni - Archaic EP
Himalayan

Drawing their inspiration from bands such as The Damned, Slaughter And The Dogs and Discharge, Rudimentary Peni formed in 1980 and have remained a tight unit ever since. Their line-up has remained constant, even though their style has evolved and changed. This EP follows the formula laid out in previous releases - short and sweet. This release sees the band concentrating on more personal subject matter rather than their political standpoints, marking quite a departure for the band.

Various Artists / Paradisco 3000 Presents Chicago Boogie
Eskimo

DJ Antal & All Out K compile and DJ mix this set of favourites from their Paradisco 3000 club nights. Because they play so many different styles of music, they've gone back to the roots of their sound, and the roots are Chicago house. The 18 tracks feature work by Virgo, Adonis, Master C & J, Liz Torres, Club Ice, Jeanette Thomas, Mr Fingers, Steve Poindexter, Frankie Knuckles, Disco D and even NY's Liquid Liquid.

Orbital - Blue Album
Orbital Music

The "Blue Album" will be Orbital's seventh studio album, and also their last! Featuring collaborations with Sparks, Lias Gerard (Dead Can Dance), and a cameo sample of Christopher Eccleston in "The Second Coming", these nine tracks are all instantly recognisable as productions by the brothers Hartnoll.

Damn! - Youth Style
Raw Fusion

As with other releases on Sweden's excellent Raw Fusion label, were given a mix of styles on this LP. The overall feel is delicious mellow pop-soul-funk, which, with the live playing on all the tracks, sound like some brilliant hybrid of Amp Fiddler, George Clinton and Phoenix. The Damn! quartet also drop some Barrio style late 60s / early 70's psyche-rock-funk, groovin' Afro-funk, dreamy 70s style vocoder vocal disco, electro, bossa-nova and of course the superbly uplifting percussive disco-funk sounds of "Leaving This Planet".

Intuit - Intuit
Compost

70s jazz heads Thomas Braun and Till Maragnoli have brought in a host of legends for the Intuit LP - Andy Bey, Doug Carn, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim to name but a few. Gilles says it's an 'immaculately produced celebration of all the good stuff. This is a tremendous album', while Rainer Truby adds 'an organic soulful masterpiece out of the Black Forest, faeturing some of my all time favourite musicians and vocalists - it's simply wonderbar!'.

Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind
Far Out

This is the debut album from Troubleman AKA Mark Pritchard (Jedi Knights, Global Communication, Harmonic 33), and I reckon it's set to be a future nu-latin classic! He presents us with a selection of sweet home listening acoustic mellowness and 60s inspired easy-bossa ("Paz", Lonely Girl", "Toda Hora" etc) set against the tougher, upbeat dancefloor slayers ("Change Is What We Need", "Strikehard" etc). Guest vocals come from Da Lata's Nina Miranda, Eska and Steve Spacek.
CD - FARO 085CD
Vinyl to follow soon-ish! New single ("Strikehard") out next week!

Various Artists / Impressed With Gilles Peterson 2
Universal

Universal enjoyed Gilles' selection for volume one so much that they've asked him back to dig through his extensive vinyl junkie shelves and bring us another set of old school Brit jazz goodness. Focussing on the period between 1963 and 1974, the collection sees these UK players taking influences from the free-jazz movement of the time, as well as keeping things funky, smooth and cool. Featured artists include Amancio D'Silva, Paul Gonsalves Quartet, Harold McNair, Tubby Hayes & The Paul Gonsalves All Stars, Mike Taylor Remembered (a proper Jazz Club name!), Mike Westbrook, Stan Tracey, Neil Ardley and many more.

Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
Ninja Tune

Fresh from his success as Kerrier District on Rephlex, and under his own moniker with the "YosepH" LP on Warp, Luke Vibert returns to Ninja Tune under his more off kilter guise as Wagon Christ. He seems to have brought along some of his disco and techno sounds from those two releases as well, mixing up clasic disco-P-funk breaks with squelchy digi-basslines, weird electronics, acid and lush keys. Totally off the wall!

Various Artists / Some Scientific Abstract Type Shit
Mo' Wax / Liberation

Originally out in 1995, this Mo' Wax compilation collcts together some of their best releases from that time: DJ Shadow's "In-Flux" and "Lost And Found", Attica Blues' "Contemplating Jazz", La Funk Mob's "Motor Bass Get Phunked Up" and "La Doctoresse", RPM's "2000", Palmskin Productions' "Slipper Suite" and "The Beast", Plaid's mix of UNKLE "The Time Has Come" and DJ Krush's "#1".

Passage - The Forcefield Kids
Anticon

Anticon bring us the debut album from Restiform Bodies frontman Passage. "The Forcefield Kids" is an astounding, genre defying album full of distorted lo-bit jiggy drums, chopped up backwards harps, distintive synths, acoustic guitars and catchy-ass new wave melodies. Hip-electro-acoustic-poptronica!

Rip Off Artist - New Clear Day
Inflatbl Labl

This is the tenth full-length album for Matt Haines, but the first to be released on his own label, Inflatabl Labl (previous releases on Tigerbeat6). Nineteen short tracks of pulsing, rhythmic static beats with a dub-glitch undercurrent. This album is jam-packed with skilful electronics, a must for fans of Tigerbeat6 / Schematic /Warp and other electronic fuckery.

Stendec - A Study Of 'And'
Expanding

Stendec make some of the most elegaic, harmonious and downright beautiful music to be heard in the world of new electronics. Their use of polyrhythm and injection of treated sounds always compliments and never overpowers their melodic sensibility, and although these tracks were recorded at isolated points over an extended period, they work as a whole to create an album that sets a new benchmark in subtle electronica, shifting from planitarium soundtracks to the notes that would be made by the distant haze on an arid Spanish road in high summer.

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Monday, June 21, 2004

Fast 'n' Bulbous review Junior Boys - Last Exit

Last Exit is a quietly revolutionary album. Within six months savvy producers will borrow and steal its innovations, changing the pop landscape for years to come. Few will realize where it started. But like rare finds like Massive Attack’s Blue Lines and Tricky’s Maxinquaye, this should still found fresh long after its innovations are formulized, diluted and beaten to death.

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Junkmedia interview Icelandic band Mum

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Album of the Week @ TrusttheDJ is !!! - Louden Up Now

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Musique Machine review Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm

The eye of every storm is a sort of symphony for the doomed. I’m not trying to be stupidly emphatic here… The depth of the sounds, the variety of the elements, the quality of the composition make for a really epic musical trip breathing, from start to finish, utter despair and hopelessness. Neurosis have been gradually playing down the in-your-face metal side of their music. It’s again the case here, except on a couple of tracks. However, they remain unrelentingly heavy and threatening. Few bands are able to make bleak music sound so damn beautiful.

One of the best albums of 2004, no doubt…

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Virgin Prunes Remastered Reissues

Mute records report: in Mute News that Virgin Prunes reissues are on the way, in September.

The Grey Area of Mute is pleased to announce the release of 5 remastered CD albums by the truly inspirational and often controversial Virgin Prunes on September 27th. This will be the first time most of the Virgin Prunes catalogue has been officially available on CD.

The official Virgin Prunes website will be previewing the new front cover artwork over the next few weeks.

Virgin Prunes best known album, is 1982's: If Die, I Die - that was an important 1982 post-punk album to be ranked alongside gems such as The Birthday Party - Junkyard, The Cure - Pornography and Killing Joke - Revelations.

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Pitchfork review Black Dice - Creature Comforts

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Sunday, June 20, 2004

fast 'n' bulbous has been updated AGAIN, currenty 115 albums from 2004 are rated/ ranked.

I notice there is a new number 1: Junior Boys - Last Exit

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BBC Music review Martin Solveig - Sur La Terre

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Scottish electro-rocker Rico will release his album: Violent Silences on July 5th.

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Albums: July 5th

From SRD info @ New Release Information - Southern Record Distributors these 3 albums will now released on July 5th in the UK:

Capitol K - Happy Happy (Faith & Industry)
Dom and Roland - Chronology (Moving Shadow)
Pan-American - Quiet City (Kranky)

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The Guardian have a live review of new Brit art-rockers Grand National

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TranZFusion.net interview Envoy: Soma's Envoy - Music Saved Me From Street Life

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AngryApe

A Manchester based music website: AngryApe providing Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Competitions and more

So what is this? AngryApe ..About
AngryApe is an online music magazine, primarily covering the less commercial artists in the industry - those who make music for enjoyment rather than money. The initial idea was conceived by Jon Bailey, who wanted to create a place to expose these artists to like-minded music fans. After several minutes of planning he set about forcing his brother Dan to build it, and in April 2003 AngryApe was born.

Covering a diverse range of genres and unsigned music, we don’t just review the latest releases; we interview musicians, provide a regularly updated news section, and hold exclusive competitions. And like the musicians we write about, we do it because we like it.

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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!
Apparat - Shapemodes EP
Neo Ouija

Sascha ring, aka apparat, has been quite the busy man these last few years. Manning the controls as producer and knob twiddler for renowned female operator Ellen Allien, sascha has also continued to run his highly acclaimed shitkatapult label, together with compadre T.Raumschmiere, as well as collaborating with Radiohead's favourite electronic men of the moment Modeselektor under the "Moderat" moniker for ellen's Bpitch Control imprint. "Shape Modes" is Sascha's debut for the neo ouija imprint, gliding through an array of malfunctioning machines, delicious tempo's, atmospherics and even more tempting low end theories, a feisty and palpable thump offsetting the melodic fireworks, testing the boundaries and evidently a move forward. Encapsulating digital and analogue processes, involving abstract forms within familiar song structures - making for a killer de-construction of squahshed beats and gently mashed and lovingly crafted electronic soundscapes. Recommended.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Jay Glaze & Pro-Celebrity Golf - Three Sinister Syllables
Chopped Herrings

Welocme to one of the most esoteric and hands-down mindblowing mix cd's you will ever have the pleasure of hearing. For the mix think Edward G. Robinson, Brass Eye, Larry David, Woody Allen, Bob Hoskins from 'The Long Good Friday', through to the exotic, fantastic and just plain unknown. Pop from all territories: neglected fourth albums, Japanese soul breaks, Israeli eurovision b-sides, country & western beats, obscure latin, hirsute eastern european songstresses, late sixties South African beats, swedish pop - all subjected to the Herring men's discerning ears and deft fingers. And for hardcore breaks' nuts there's pleasures still more intense - check the Tribute to MF Doom; an inspiration since KMD days, here's all the original source material for the classic 'Operation Doomsday'LP, and further breaks employed by MADVILLAIN, Special Herbs, Monsta Island Czars, MF(GM) Grimm and King Geedorah all surfacing in an unashamed homage to the man ruling Hip-Hop right now. It's been described by Stones Throw main man Egon as "...the bomb - the Super Villain MF DOOM wouldn't give me my copy back!", while J-Zone declared "One of the only CD's I got sent this year that didn't become a drink coaster!' and Fondle 'em legend Bobbito cried out "it's paced unlike any other mix cd I've ever heard....." and Wax Poetics magazine implored "here's your Kabbalah. Study up, young grasshoppers." and DJ Yoda and Dan Greenpeace descibed simply as "....absolute genius". Over two years in the making, it just doesn't get any better. Genius.

A Hawk And A Hacksaw - A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Leaf

The Leaf label comes up trumps with this hugely charming debut from the oddly titled A Hawk and a Hacksaw. Imagine, if you will, a cascade of Steve Reichian looped piano segments intermingling with a veritable menagerie of farmyard instruments, accordion, home made percussion, horns, bells and all manner of weird, wonderful and hitherto unkown musical toys. The album has a free-flowing, glowing world-cinema soundtrackish vibe and was recorded over the course of 15 months in the Loire Valley with a variety of guest performers. If you're into Yan Tiersen, Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, Asa-Chang & Junray, Captain Beefheart, Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling, you'll love this heartwarming album dearly.

August Engkilde Presents - Electronic Panorama Orchestra (EPO)
Pop Scape

The first release on Scape's 'pop' sublabel comes to us from longtime Senor Coconut band member and Atom Heart affiliate August Engkilde. After his infamous "Police Beat Box" set for Cheap, August spent some time hanging out in Havana and extending his already quite formidable knowledge of string instruments in time for his joyous coconut sets and the forming of this loose collective of musicians - EPO. Although the overall sound is based on jazz, EPO expand and extend this aural fundament with irreverent snippets of hiphop, dub, latin and funk. Subtle electronics determine the tracks' structures: most of the time, it might just be a gentle, almost indiscernible pulse ticking away in the background, swathed in a warm double bass, brass section and guitar. Then again, synthesizer and samples might fight their way to the surface and decide to lead the expedition for a while. Last, but by no means least, there is the voice of Frida Asmussen, leaving no room for uncertainty why Scape had to initiate a pop label just for this project: her characteristic, precisely accentuated vocals rush into wonderful choruses to warm the heart and open the sound. EPO blend elements of different styles and cultures into a cohesive whole, treating all of their influences with the greatest respect. Analogue sound generation and electronic foundation are so tightly entwined that the layers become almost inseparable. Very nice indeed.

Hdj Tom - Taste
Inflatabl Labl

A recent release from Matt 'Rip Off Artist' Haines' label. 'Taste' is one of those albums that grows on closer inspection, an album that could somehow be imagined as another one of Atom Heart's adventures on Rather Interesting or a less excitable Soft Pink Truth. Other tracks play with Basic Channel resonances and others peep Errorsmith's stylings - still with such stella reference points it's one to check if you like your glitch-funk lightly toasted.

Hearts Of Darknesses - Music For Drunk Driving
Schematic

Crawling out of the decimated ooze that is 3rd period study hall, Schematic Waste Management is humiliated to announce Hearts of Darknesses' debut full-length, 'Music for Drunk Driving'. HoD's epileptic beats are pure placenta future pudding topped off with rancid whipped cream processed aggro vocals and guitar that will touch the Chrome/Renaldo and the Loaf fan in you. This is downloadable shareware punk rock at its finest. Frankie Musarra, AKA Hearts of Darknesses, is one part composer, five parts spaz and a dope emcee to boot. Musarra once became so entangled in his mic cord during a performance that he fell and broke his collarbone. Nasty.

Juana Molina - Segundo
Domino

The sort of record that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, 'Segundo' is the much touted European debut from cult Argentinean singer/actress/songwriter Juana Molina. Delicate folksy loveliness is key to this release, illustrated through sweetly sung lullabies with a reflective albeit exotic quality that somehow manages to sound unlike anything else. The dreamy bossa feel is fused with a subtle electronic wraparound and while the vocals do share much in common with singers associated with the sumptuous sounds of Milton Nascimento there is also a windswept link to the folksier reaches of Americana ala Hope Sandoval. Where the electronics are more pronounced even Donna Regina's work comes to mind. Only a handful of tracks stray from the course but that's understandable over the fourteen tracks on display. Simply one to treasure, huge recommendation.

Kettel - Volleyed Iron
U Cover

Despite operating in largely playful electronic arena's, with releases for the likes of Planet Mu, DUB, Kracfive, Neo Ouija and so on, Reimer Eising's Kettel project has always had something strikingly original and composed about it. "Volleyed Iron" finds Reimer piecing together easily his finest release to date, a glowing warm ambient album that falls somewhere between Brian Eno's Appolo, Satie's gentlest piano music, and the romantic soundtrack scores of nameless, unforgettable French films. Piecing together shards of found sounds and field recordings, the organic textures that underlay these pieces almost fall into some kind of electronic music cliché, but the honesty, incredible warmth and sheer beauty of this hour long collection of stories is just too moving to argue with. Open, involving, beautiful electronic music with slivers of violin, piano and broken, dusty old samples, music that comes with a huge recommendation.

Kid 606 - Who Still Kill Sound?
Very Friendly

Who still kill sound? Aka vol.2, More shiz that didn't fit onto the 'Kill sound before sound kills you' album. Ingredients: two booming thematically linked neo-rave breakbeat tracks, one live acidhouse basement party jam, two rinsing ragga jungle slammers, four booty bass bouncers/two with vocals from sue cie of gold chains fame, one crunked up dj screw tribute, one unfinished cex remix, one sweet emo monosynth song kid did when he was 17 and in lots of pain after coming home from the orthodontist, one really good different version of a remix kid did for com.a, and 2 gabber blowouts kid made to finish live shows with to try and crush the soundsystem while still retaining a element of danceable fun musical enjoyment (you can decide how it all came out). Add all new artwork from joel trussell, the man responsible for the 3Illness2 video and the illustrations from ksb4sku and you've got the freshest kid606 joint in your hands!

Kim Hiorthoy - Hopeness
Smalltown Supersound

'Hopeness' is Hiorthøy's first all new material since his contribution to the amazing 'Pro Bono Publico' album back in 2002. This five track, thirty minute EP finds Kim flexing his bittersweet muscle with engrossing, lilting melodies recorded with that all encompassing hi-fidelity lo-fi attitude that typified his classic album 'Hei'. 'Mandarinerna' start's off with it's clattering backwards drums, electric piano sounds, childlike voices and optimistic aura - wondrous. 'Soliga Dagens Släppiga Trosor' adds a looping acoustic bassline over freestyle static clicks and pops just like Jan Jelinek's loopy jazz sampling with a broad grin on his mug plus at the end a bugged out drum maniac gets busy rounding out another killer track. 'Alt Mäste Blu Anorlunda' is a mini-gem of melodic ambience before the 11 min 'You Know The Scorfe' drops. Imagine broken beat meeting funky alpine folk and your halfway to describing this track - dope cuts it straight to the chase. Last up is 'Ek, Bok, Tistel, Äpple' a simple gorgeous piano solo, plus the lo-fi'esque recording technique throughout brings to mind the unique stylings of Rhythm & Sound or Vincent Gallo. Come July 2004 we'll have the second long awaited full length album named 'For The Ladies', here's hoping it's as good as this EP. Spellbinding music.

Loscil - First Narrows
Kranky

Loscil have always threatened to make a truly great record - 'First Narrows" is it. A perfect blend of the effervescent, floating accoustic traditions of one half of the mighty Kranky imprint (think Stars of the Lid, Pan American), and the midnight blue spacious soundscapes of a beatless Basic Channel, the album glides with the sort of depth and resonance you just can't muster up any resistance to. Minimal without being academic, warm without falling pray to romanticism, "First Narrows" is the latest in a long line of understated masterworks from one of the finest labels in the world right now. Featuring improvised Rhodes piano, guitar and cello, intertwined with computer generated electronic sequences, analogue and digital spaces, the album comes with a huge shout of recommendation. Beautiful music.

Milosh - You Make Me Feel
Plug Research

"You Make Me Feel" is an album which has found itself in near constant rotation every morning in the offices. When Mike sings, "something good is going happen" you can't help but feel he's right. His melodic, electronic vignettes are like blossoms unfolding in darkness. Even songs seeded in sadness are lined with bright, melodic hope. Mike Milosh expertly manipulates notes to take on fresh life and sounds - having erased his classical music training, in favour of unique self-construction. Throughout the album, light tones and static-clad drums roll under intricately treated vocals. His voice floats in on delicate waves that explode into exhilarating being. Milosh crafts emotional tones to stir strong reaction. You Make Me Feel is an album that guarantees instant and lasting attention. Ears glow and heads nod to the caress of each romantic composition. The more you listen the deeper you drift. Mike Milosh pulls all the right strings without forcing a thing. Lovely.

Mr 76 - Hits of 76
Skam

Finally available as a finished release! MR 76, the man on everyone's lips round these parts, allegedly Skam's ace in the pack and a long promised Massiah for all you rave freaks out there, at last gets a public airing. Based around his now infamous set for Autechre's ATP festival last year, this killer album gives up some vintage tough-assed Aphexisms, some acid, some amen break tumbling and a sprinkling of sweet sweet melodies - get busy and do it quick!! Believe the HYPE!!!

Mum - Summer Make Good (Limited Edition Book)
Fat Cat
Book and CD

Ten weeks late but nevermind, here is the lushlushlush hardbound book version of Mum's most recent album. 34 pages of scribblings, reflective art, short stories and photo's reflecting the albums mood. Even the CD is specially re-printed. Very limited edition, at this rate the 2LP version might be here in time for christmas - Múm return with their third full album after the genre defining and blissed out 'Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is OK' and the Fat Cat debut 'Finally We Are No One'. Now trimmed to a trio after Gya left to concentrate on her cello playing, the other twin sister Kristín now takes the full spotlight for the vocal duties. Musically darker (to reflect the times, no doubt) the trio, sometimes expandable to a quintet for live duties, still manage to make beautiful music from a seemingly random patchwork of toy instrumentation and analogue trickery. In fact the electronics that were such an important feature of their debut album have all but disappeared leaving instead the natural resonance of aged instruments and glowing wires. Recording in an isolated lighthouse in Iceland has added extra drama to this record, imbuing the music with some classic cinematic references - imagine music for a fairytale sequence in a Von-Trier film or the dark playfulness of Krystoff Komeda's soundtrack work for Polanski's early classic 'Cul-De-Sac'. The vocals can sometimes gnaw a little (ala Sigur Ros), so delicate and cutesy but this is countered by the killer musical backdrop. Fan's of Múm's previous albums will love this , special in that it grows in stature with every play. Highly recommended and VERY limited copies only.

o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C.
Schematic

It's been a long time coming, but o9's debut album is finally complete and available on Schematic. Having first come to our attention with a sublime 7" for Planet Mu and the standout track on Schematic's "Lilly Of The Valley" compilation, "Church of The Ghetto P.C." is a much more dense, complex affair. At times treading on minimal eggshells, at others unleashing his programming skills with a chorus of complex structures and percussive uber-arrangements, it feels like a perfect release for a label that has made itself known for innovative electronic sound design coupled with a hidden love of harmonious warmth - somethingt that's also on display here in the slightest fashion. The overall message, though, is : innovate. Excellent.

Stendec - A Study Of `And'
Expanding

Responsible for quite easily the finest installment in the label's long running 7" series, Stendec is the collaborative effort of Expanding founders Ben 'Benge' Edwards and Paul Merrit. Featuring those two fabulous 7" tracks, plus tracks previously only available on limited 7" release for Static Caravan and a compilation for Catcus Island, "a Study of 'And' also includes 7 new and exclusive tracks. The music of Stendec seperates itself from much Idm by virtue of its delicate attention to detail and padded melodic warmth. At times reminiscent of Isan, at others floating out there on their own, Stendec manage to avoid dry electronic clichés by virtue of an innate understanding of emotive recording and listening processes designed for self reflection. Its an excellent collection of pieces veering from planitarium soundtracks to the notes that would be made by the distant haze on an arid spanish road in high summer. Lovely.

Various / Bip Hop - Bip_Hop Generation Volume 7
Bip Hop

After a bit of a hiatus, Bip Hop return with the 7th installment in their ...'generation' series. The line-up here is good : new and exclusive tracks from Taylor Deupree, Ghislain Poirer, Janek Schaefer, Emisor, Fonica and FM3. Deupree's thre contributions are typically inspired - crackling space and dronelike spacious echoes of beatless sound, executed with a clinical precision that at no point loses its warmth or appeal. The fabulous Ghislain Poirer, and newcomer 'Emisor', meanwhile, lilt through the tones of stripped down electricity blended with a smattering of percussive structure, usually with a nod to hip hop. Schaefer's closing 10-minute track, meanwhile, pieces together recordings made in six different cities over six months - typically dronelike and atmospheric. Nice compilation.

Gd Luxxe - Between Zero & Eternity
Ersatz Audio

Produced by Gerhard Potuznik, Ramon Bauer & Electronicat, GD Luxxe's latest incarnation, this time for Ersatz Audio, seems a million miles removed from Potuznik's previous outings, especially for those made for Mego, Its a nasty, trashy, highway speedfreak drive through punky trash beat craving and plastic pop - a post electroclash beast of a record that won't go down lightly. Check.

Agata (From Melt Banana) - Spike
Tzadik

Melt Banana is one of japan's most powerful and popular punk bands and at the center of it is the stinging guitar of Agata. Here he steps out on a rare solo outing showcasing an amazing range of interests, a prodigious technique and a remarkable ear for new sounds, spike is a classic of solo guitar music that's as varied and inspired, if drastically different, to the work of Melt Bananna. Recommended.

John Zorn / Electric Masada - 50TH Birthday Celebration Vol 4
Tzadik

The long awaited first release of Zorn's most recent and most powerful masada unit. A true downtown supergroup, blending the raw power of Naked City with the improvisational madness of Cobra and the lyrical soul of the Masada songbook, Electric Masada is considered by many to be the most exciting band zorn has ever had. This set, the taut climax of a three night run at Tonic, features the full octet at its wildest and most creative. Incredible solos, jaw dropping ensemble conductions and much more.

Max Eastly & David Toop - Doll Creature
Bip Hop

Third album in thirty years from these masters of ambient music... their first appeared in 1975 on Brian Eno's Obscure label and pioneered the idea of ambient installation, the second `buried dreams' (beyond) was voted third placed record of the year, behind portishead and massive attack, in the 1994 Wire critics poll, and was described by melody maker as "the scariest ambient record ever, beyond your disturbed imagination". `Doll creature' features Eastly playing mechanical and whirling instruments, bowed arc, and computer jiggery-pokery, while Toop takes over with computer, guitar, flutes, tubes, organic matter, book pages, dog whistles and various percussives. Fascinatingly dense ambient experimentation.

Pharoah's Daughter - Out of the reeds
Tzadik

An underground classic of the new jewish renaissance that has been out of print for years, is reissued here in a newly revised and remastered definitive edition. Featuring the lovely voice of basya schechter, and produced by legendary downtown Maven Anthony Coleman, 'Out of the reeds' is a lovely, rich, folksy arrangement of traditional jewish songs from both eastern european and middle eastern cultures given a radical reworking that's incredibly natural and easy on the ears. An absolutely lovely collection of old-time folk songs for the modern day.

Passage - The Forcefield Kids
Anticon

Another excellent new artist debut on Anticon, the debut solo release from Passage, who previously blazed the outsider Anticon universe as part of the Restiform Bodies crew a couple of years back. A completely self produced affair, the album features a plethora of cheap drum machine beats, wonky keyboards and personal poetic outpourings. From track to track this album feels like the solo output of the other key Anticoners Sole, Dose One and Why, restamping the label's manifesto with a mesh of beats, acoustics and oddball songwriting.. Background help from Odd Nosdam, Sole and Kristen Erickson, highly recommended for fans of the label.

Plan B
Issue 0
Mag // £ 2.99

Also from the ashes of careless talk, alongside 'Loose Lips' now arises the phoenix that is Plan b. This magazine is led by the editorial knowledge and experience of everett true, and this pre-release issue (Issue zero) comes before the magazine kicks off proper in September.Artists featured this month include chicks on speed, kaito, von bondies, lightning bolt, spektrum, !!!, the pastels, new black, gravy train,!!!, the cribs, sunn o))), ooioo, the mountain goats, graham coxon, cocorosie, the saints...and many more. There's an article from neil kulkarni about cleaning out his chimney. There's an article from ian svenonius raving about his favourite board game. there's a brand new media section, wittily entitled media - where you can read about our favourite outsider art, including olympia wa postcard creator stella marrs, japanese horrorcore, children's books illustrators, charles schulz, pirate radio and blogs.There's a front section entitled the void - starring thurston moore, jeffrey lewis, erase errata and rammellzee.

Various / Tresor - Illumination Compilation Vol 12
Tresor

Tresor return after a long period of hybernation, gathering themselves for some new cuts heading off with this retrospective compilation. Illumination drops with appearances from Joey Beltram, Regis, Stewart Walker, The Advent, Pacou, Dave Tarrida and more. Jump straight to Pacou's Phylyps Trak inspired `Optimistic' with its brilliant percussion clanging around the beat, filtered synths hammered throughout the track creating a brilliant tough techno cut. Joey Beltram hits the hard notes with his `A Universal Mind' which builds up to a huge flanging synth that champs at the bit, serious techno. The advent deliver a roller with their simple but effective `Replay' and Leo Laker unleahses the hardest cut of all with `Don't Push Me'. Heavy tech from Tresor, good to have them back.

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OMM's The 100 greatest British albums

Paul Morley provides an introduction to: The Observer | OMM | The 100 greatest British albums

The 100 greatest British albums

It is the most authoritative poll of its kind and over the following 50 pages, OMM's outstanding team of critics introduce each of the best British albums of all time. Before revealing what made it to Number 1, celebrated pop writer Paul Morley explains the purpose of such an undertaking and trumpets the wealth of music contained herein ...

Full feature: The 100 greatest British albums

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Saturday, June 19, 2004

e|i - issue three

Issue 3 of e|i magazine is now available:

ISSUE 3
+ AVAILABLE JUNE +

interviews with:
* bebe barron (half of legendary soundtrack producer team for the sf classic "forbidden planet")
* monolake
* detalles
* minamo
* aaron ximm
* kiln
* sense
- history of canadian electronica pt 2: vancouver & industrialism
- ellipsis guest columnist: terre thaemlitz
- label profiles on ground fault, sirr, die stadt, u-cover, flyrec & met life series
- nearly 200 reviews of cd, vinyl, odd-sizes, etc.
- and reams of lucid commentary & critiques

# posted by DJ Martian 5:54 PM

shoegaze.co.uk, A forum for shoegazer music: shoegaze :: Index for lovers of shoegaze/dreampop muzik worldwide . .

# posted by DJ Martian 12:30 PM

Isis new album due in October

Lambgoat report the latest Isis news Isis set to enter studio

A release date, October 19th for this album has been tentatively scheduled. This album is highly anticipated as Isis are one of the most creative contemporary US rock artists, who have built up a strong reputation for their albums: Celestial and Oceanic.

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Barcode review Rico - Violent Silences

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Signal to Noise - the journal of improvised & experimental music

The new Summer 2004 issue of Signal to Noise has now been published, bonnie "prince" billy is featured on the front cover.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:50 AM

Avant Music News report that 2 New releases from Cryptogramophone are now available, including one of the most anticipated avant jazz releases of 2004:

The Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin

# posted by DJ Martian 12:44 AM

Details of this week's Mixing It playlist including tracks by Sufjan Stevens, Kim Hiorthøy, Animal Collective, Black Dice and Murcof.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:40 AM

This week's Jazz on 3 show on Radio 3 is an Elvin Jones tribute show.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:36 AM

AAJ report e.s.t / Esbjorn Svensson Trio will finally release their highly acclaimed 2003 album in the US on August 24th: Jazz News: e.s.t. -- 'Seven Days of Falling' to be Released August 24 on 215 Records

Seven Days of Falling was significantly praised across Europe, but due to being not released in the US - the album failed to register on US based end of year critics polls for 2003.

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BBC Music review Black Dice - Creature Comforts

# posted by DJ Martian 12:19 AM

Craig Richards - Essential Mix

Advance notification, leading tech-house DJ Craig Richards will be on this week's Radio 1 - Essential Mix show.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:09 AM

Radio 1 have a micro site for Sonar 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 12:06 AM

Tears for Fears sign to Universal, Album due in September

Lexicon have the full press release relating to the delayed Tears for Fears album: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending.

This album will now be released on September 14th by Universal Music Enterprises and not Arista.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:02 AM

Friday, June 18, 2004

Leonard's Lair review Grand National - Kicking The National Habit

# posted by DJ Martian 11:42 PM

Husker Du reissues for 2005?, as indicated in this article: Reunion still unlikely for Huskers, but reissues may come

# posted by DJ Martian 10:56 PM

MIC Norway report on this year's Norwegian Sónar showcases

Last year's successful Norwegian showcases at the vibrant Sónar Festival in Barcelona are this year followed up by concerts with some of Rune Grammofon's most central acts; Maja Ratkje, Deathprod and Susanna and the Magical Orchestra.

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# posted by DJ Martian 10:52 PM

Interpol name second album: Antics

Billboard have the details of the second Interpol album titled: Antics, due for release September 28th on Matador: September Brings Interpol's 'Antics'

# posted by DJ Martian 10:51 PM

BBC Collective review Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush

# posted by DJ Martian 5:48 PM

BBC Collective have a multimedia feature on Kings of Convenience

# posted by DJ Martian 5:42 PM

Stuart Turnbull @ BBC Collective asks What’s next for the ailing Brit mag scene?: crisis in mag land: part two

The future of the UK underground press lies in a marriage of digital and print. Mags supported by websites and vice versa, with no dictates from advertisers, supported by users/readers for users/readers – the only way for honesty and truth to remain intact. We need fresh mags and fanzines to rise out of the mire and explore the in-between spaces of contemporary culture, the areas ignored by commercial clamour. It’s an ideal, but where would we be without ideals?

# posted by DJ Martian 5:32 PM

Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Observer Music Monthly - The 100 Greatest British Albums

Observer Music Monthly is on sale with this Sunday's The Observer newspaper [June 20th].

However this promo website already informs us that OMM have copied Q magazine, with a themed edition on The 100 Greatest British Albums

For your amusement these are the albums they have chosen:

1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. London Calling - The Clash
4. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
5. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6. The White Album - The Beatles
7. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
8. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
9. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
10. Metal Box - Public Image Limited
11. Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
12. Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
13. The Clash - The Clash
14. Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
15. Club Classics Vol. One - Soul II Soul
16. Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
17. The Specials - The Specials
18. Closer - Joy Division
19. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
20. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
21. The Smiths - The Smiths
22. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
23. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
24. OK Computer - Radiohead
25. Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
26. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
27. Unhalf Bricking - Fairport Convention
28. Abbey Road - The Beatles
29. Stranded - Roxy Music
30. Unknown Pleasure - Joy Division
31. New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
32. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
33. Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
34. Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
35. Bryter Later - Nick Drake
36. Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
37. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
38. Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
39. Low - David Bowie
40. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
41. The Bends - Radiohead
42. Lexicon of Love - ABC
43. The La's - The La's
44. Bummed - Happy Mondays
45. John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band
46. Solid Air - John Martyn
47. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
48. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
49. Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno
50. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
51. The Yes Album - Yes
52. Handsworth Revolution - Steele Pulse
53. Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan
54. Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexy's Midnight Runners
55. Entertainment - Gang of Four
56. All Mod Cons - The Jam
57. Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
58. Cut - The Slits
59. Urban Hymns - The Verve
60. Maxinquaye - Tricky
61. My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
62. Meat is Murder - The Smiths
63. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
64. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
65. Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
66. Something Else - The Kinks
67. Moondance - Van Morrison
68. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
69. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
70. (What's the story) Morning Glory - Oasis
71. The Slider - T Rex
72. Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
73. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
74. Quadrophenia - The Who
75. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
76. Parklife - Blur
77. Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield
78. Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
79. Penguin Eggs - Nic Jones
80. Station to Station - David Bowie
81. Dummy - Portishead
82. Basket of Light - Pentangle
83. My Generation - The Who
84. Road to Freedom - Young Disciples
85. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
86. Don't Stand Me Down - Dexy's Midnight Runners
87. This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall
88. Young Americans - David Bowie
89. Band on the run - Wings
90. Regatta De Blanc - The Police
91. Physical Grafitti - Led Zeppelin
92. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
93. Parachutes - Coldplay
94. Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys
95. Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
96. Dare - Human League
97. Heaven or Las Vegas - The Cocteau Twins
98. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
99. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
100.Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics

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Stylus review Pan American - Quiet City

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The Guardian review Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street

The Independent also review the album.

I listened to track of this new Kings of Convenience album on the radio recently, they seem to be moving towards a Prefabsprout, or The Go-Betweens - intricate acoustic guitar sound with some additional electronic sounds.

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The Guardian review Motorhead - Inferno

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The Guardian review Orbital - The Blue Album

Another review for this album @ Playlouder

# posted by DJ Martian 11:24 AM

The upcoming issue of filter magazine will feature 25 years of The Cure

# posted by DJ Martian 11:10 AM

Woxy 97X to Return ! Online

As you may remember the owners of alt radio station Woxy 97X decided to sell their local radio franchise, and had tentative plans to go internet only - however they needed additional investment. Last month [Woxy] 97X closed - everyone thought it was over.

Now they have secured significant investment which means [woxy] 97X the future of rock and roll will be returning, via the web.

97X The Future of Rock and Roll
will be returning to the Internet in a few weeks!

Kind fate has sent us two dedicated listeners with the vision and
courage to step up as partners to fund the continued broadcast of 97X The
Future of Rock and Roll over the Internet.

These magnanimous folks want to remain anonymous, but they feel
passionately about "doing the right thing" and "doing good work," and we are
the lucky recipients of their generous spirit.

Like Phoenix rising from the ashes, 97X - just as we have always loved
it - will be returning soon. It will take us a few weeks to get set up
for the future, but be assured that Mike and Barb and Shiv and Bryan
Jay are already hard at work to bring it all back.

Keep checking woxy.com for updates ... we'll announce an air date just
as soon as we know it.

Give a little shout of thanks to our "angels" - and stay tuned!

More info @ Shiv

The Web station will be live from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and will initially be largely free of commercials, Balogh said.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:13 AM

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Pan*American - Quiet City

Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END reviews Pan*American - Quiet City

Among the world's most imaginative post-rock experimentalists is Pan*American, Mark Nelson's project outside of Labradford. Quiet City (45'09") is his forth downtempo dissection of the rock genre.

Brainwashed/ Kranky profile of Pan*American - Quiet City including free MP3 downloads.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:25 PM

The Wire - July 2004

The new issue of The Wire magazine, is on sale now

Details of the current issue

IN THE MAGAZINE: JULY ISSUE (on sale from 17 June)

On the cover: Alvin Lucier... On the eve of the UK Feedback: Order from
Noise tour, Christoph Cox talks to Lucier about a career dedicated to
exposing the relationship between music and the physical and the
material.

Plus: Damo Suzuki, Ellen Fullman, Devendra Banhart, Sunn O)))’s
Invisible Jukebox, Bark Psychosis, Dengue Fever, Mark Leckey and more

REVIEWS
ALBUMS: !!!, Chris Abrahams, Absolut Null Punkt, ASK, Ai Aso, Milton
Babbitt, Devendra Banhart, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Greg Bendian’s
Interzone, Beyond Sensory Experience, Black Dice, John Cage, Vinicius
Cantuária, Chris Cundy & James Dunn, DAT Politics, Baby Dodds, Double
Leopards, Electric Masada, Errorsmith, The Eternals, Morton Feldman, Luc
Ferrari, Flinn-Eisenbeil-Wren, Gál, Gang Gang Dance, Michael Gira, Philip
Glass, Milford Graves/John Zorn Duo, David Grubbs, Keiji Haino, A Hawk
And A Hacksaw, Glenn Jones, Locus Solus, Richard H Kirk, Klaus Lang,
Robert Marcel Lepage, Masada String Trio, Matmos, Kaffe Matthews/Mandy
McIntosh/Zeena Parkins, Norbert Möslang, Paul Panhuysen, Evan Parker &
Eddie Prévost, Eddie Prévost Trio, The Residents, Sandoz, Janek Schaefer,
Sieg Über Die Sonne, Slowblow, Space Machine, Yumiko Tanaka, Simeon Ten
Holt, Alexander Tucker, John Tilbury & Eddie Prévost, The Vandermark
Five, Various: Kompakt 100, Vetiver, Greg Wall, Bill Wells, Brian
Woodbury Variety Orchestra, Sandoz, Katsura Yamauchi, Zu & Spaceways Inc and
more

Source: The Wire conduit e-mail

# posted by DJ Martian 12:11 PM

Dusted report on the recent Mutek 2004 festival

Dusted's tobais c. van Veen reports back with more than enough from this year's Mutek festival.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:32 AM

Pitchfork: CD Release Dates has been updated.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:16 AM

MIC Norway report on the latest acclaimed reviews of Norwegian artists in the UK music press. Including artists such as Lars Horntveth, Lasse Marhaug, Noxagt, Kim Hiorthøy, Deathprod and Xploding Plastix.

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# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

Jazz Journalist Association Announces 2004 Award Winners

ejazznews.com report on 2004 JJA Award Winners

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

NEW RELEASES
Junior Boys
Revlon 9
Beat of the Earth
Relatively Clean Rivers
Doctor Rockit
Susie Ibarra
DJ Shadow
Cooper-Moore
Jack Rose
Shrimp Boat (Box Set)
Arovane
Nic Jones
Bell
Mr. Toytown Presents (Psychedelic Comp.)
Stratis
Isaiah Owens

ALSO AVAILABLE
Benjamin Biolay & Chiara Mastroianni
The Necks
Hangar 18

# posted by DJ Martian 12:08 AM

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

From London's Rough Trade shops: Rough Trade - Album of the Week webpage.

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [June 7th]

Key new album releases for June 7th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

!!! - Looking Down on Heaven (Warp)
Alter Ego - Transphormer (Klang Elektronik) [Now Available on CD]
Autumn's Grey Solace - Over The Ocean (Projekt) [Mail Order Only]
Avril - Members Only (F-Communications)
Bell - Seven Types Of Six (Soul Jazz)
J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back (Sanctuary)
Camping - Suburban Shore (Plug Research)
Steve Coleman - Lucidarium (Label Bleu)
Dynamite MC - World Of Dynamite (Strong)
Envoy - Shoulder2Shoulder (Soma)
Front Line Assembly - Vanished (SPV) EP
David Grubbs - A Guess At The Riddle (Fat Cat)
Kim Hiorthoy - Hopeness (Smalltown Supersound) EP
Holkham - Komatta Saru (Expanding)
Hypo - Random Veneziano (Active Suspension)
Junior Boys - Last Exit (Kin)
Kerrier District - Kerrier District (Rephlex) [CD Release]
The Killers - Hot Fuss (Lizard King)
Like A Tim & Gina V. D'orrio - Bass girl (Like / Dub)
Lucky & Easy - Talent Hoover (Ann Aimee)
Lasse Marhaug - The Shape of Rock to Come (Smalltown Supersound)
Mono - Walking Cloud & Deep Red Sky Flag Fluttered & The Sun Shined (Rykodisc)
Youssou N'dour - Egypt (East West)
Neutrino - Neutrino (Mush)
Nightwish - Once (Nuclear Blast)
Nucleus And Paradox - Esoteric Funk (Reinforced)
Ostinato - Left Too Far Behind (Exile On Mainstream Records)
Paatos - Kallocain (SPV/ Inside Out) [Swedish Band - album produced by Steven Wilson - Porcupine Tree]
Proem - Songs For The City Bus (Coredump)
Recon - White Label (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Rotating Assembly - Natural Aspirations (Sound Signature) AKA Theo Parrish [Now Available on CD]
Shadow Huntaz - Vampire (Skam) EP
Six Organs Of Admittance - For Octavio Paz (Holy Mountain)
Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear) [UK Release Date]
Slowblow - Slowblow (Mobilé)
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of the Water (Thirsty Ear) [Import available to order at Amazon.co.uk]
Evil Tordivel - A Fine Young Man (Ellet) [UK Release 2004]
Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind (Farout)
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (4ad) [UK Release]
Umod - Enter The Umod (Sonar Kollektiv)
Robag Wruhme - Wuzzelbud "kk" (Musik Krause)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:09 PM

s://kimo - new website

America's IDM/ electronic music specalist s://kimo have launched a new website, with e-commerce ordering. Also note, you can sign up for their weekly new releases list.

[s://kimo is similar to Boomkat.]

# posted by DJ Martian 8:02 PM

Stylus review Arovane - Lilies

# posted by DJ Martian 6:40 PM

Playlouder review Ministry - Houses Of The Mole

# posted by DJ Martian 5:05 PM

A new web location for The Green Dolphin's Poll the portal for:

Avant-Rock, Avant-Progressive, Out-Rock, Post-Rock, Progressive rock...

# posted by DJ Martian 11:52 AM

Pitchfork review Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation

# posted by DJ Martian 11:42 AM

Pitchfork review Junior Boys - Last Exit

# posted by DJ Martian 11:41 AM

This week's Kultureflash [Issue 93]

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.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:33 AM

The latest Duran Duran news: Duran Duran finishing up new CD [via Associated Press article]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:09 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

The Brainwashed Brain

This week [V07I23 - 06132004] The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

!!! - Louden Up Now
Touch and Go (US) / Warp (UK)

Thomas Brinkmann - Tokyo + 1
Max Ernst

The New Year - The End is Near
Touch and Go

Oceansize - Effloresce
Beggars Banquet

Arovane - Lilies
City Centre Offices

Kid Spatula - Meast
Planet µ

Fennesz - Venice
Touch Music

Last Week [V07I22 - 06062004] The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Meat Beat Manifesto - In Dub
Run (NA) / Quatermass (EU)

Deathprod
Rune Grammofon

Shadow Huntaz - Vampire EP
Skam

Hypo - Random Veneziano
Active Suspension

# posted by DJ Martian 10:45 PM

Killing Joke Compilation

Details of a new Killing Joke compilation:

EMI RECORDS NEW RELEASE

KILLING JOKE
'For Beginners...'
Release Date: 02 August 2004

Few groups have ever matched Killing Joke for sheer rock 'n' roll intensity; formed in Notting Hill in 1978 by Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth and Paul Ferguson, they lit up the post punk music scene in the UK, thanks to a rhythmic fury, inflammatory imagery and borderline psychotic stage antics. Often misunderstood for both their doom laden lyrics and their black humour, Killing Joke nonetheless harboured a near uncontrollable rage at authority to match their political pretensions.

EMI are now set to release 'For Beginners...' on 02 August, a compilation lovingly put together to serve as the most informative introduction possible to the band's lengthy career, plus previously unreleased versions and mixes for the connoisseur.

'For Beginners...' takes us on a historical journey through Killing Joke's impressive catalogue.
Their first self produced album, the eponymous 'Killing Joke 1981' featured live audience pleasers such as 'The Wait' which was covered by Metallica on their EP 'Garage Days Re-Revisited'.

Their second album 'What's THIS For...!' showed Killing Joke nailing their colours to the mast by developing individual themes from the first album and is represented here by a live version of 'The Fall Of Because' - a song that inspired one group so much they named themselves after it, and who later became the pioneering industrial outfit 'Godflesh'.

'Revelations' the third album was recorded in Berlin with legendary producer Conny Plank; here they appropriated Masonic imagery and angular chords on tracks such as 'We Have Joy' and 'Chapter III'.

Their next album 'Fire Dances' was Killing Joke's first album with new bass player Paul Raven. It saw them return, in part, to the primeval, tribal sound from their first two albums. This album provided the blueprint which would be more fully realized on 1985's 'Night Time' which features a warm, anthemic quality, supplementing the blasting.

Their 6th album represented here by 'Victory' & 'Twilight of the Immortal', 'Brighter Than A Thousand Suns' shows the emphasis is still focused clearly on volume and strong, full-bodied playing.

And the final album represented here 'Outside the Gate' is in reality a Jaz Coleman solo album put out under the band's name, featuring 'My Love of this Land' and 'Obsession'.

Tracklisting:
1. The Wait
2. Primitive
3. Butcher
4. The Fall of Because (Live) single b-side
5. Chapter III
6. We Have Joy PREVIOUSLY UNRELEARSED MIX
7. Fun & Games
8. Harlequin PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SINGLE VERSION
9. Wilful Days single b-side
10. Tabazan album
11. Night Time
12. Victory PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSION
13. Twilight of the Mortal
14. My Love Of This Land
15. Obsession
16. Rubicon PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED CHRIS KIMSEY MIX

Cat no. KJINTRO 1

www.emicatalogue.com

# posted by DJ Martian 4:33 PM

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

# posted by DJ Martian 2:19 PM

Dusted review Eyvind Kang - Virginal Co Ordinates

# posted by DJ Martian 2:13 PM

Mojo - July 2004 issue

New July issue of MOJO Magazine features bland stadium rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers, for a band that have made such abysmal music over the past decade, their compiled giveaway CD with Mojo has some interesting selections:

The Uplifting MOJO Party Plan, showcasing the Chili Peppers' roots and influences, including, Gang Of Four, The Circle Jerks, Sly Stone, The Slits, Funkadelic, James Brown and more...

RHCP are also editorial guests for this issue of Mojo.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:03 PM

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

The latest show is now available @ SpydaRadio

Playlist @ Eternal Fusion

Friday 11th June 2004

Jim Morrison - 'Babylon Fading'
Secret Machines - 'Light's On'
Mission Of Burma - 'Playland'
Public Image Limited - 'Flowers Of Romance'
Mouse On Mars - 'Catching Butterflies With Hands'
!!! - 'Hello? Is This Thing On?'
Skalpel - '1958' (Quantic Mix)
Quantic - 'Trees And Seas'
Sixtoo - 'Sidewinders'
Devendra Banhart - 'Insect Eyes'
The Microphones - 'Great Ghosts'
McLusky - 'Without MSG I'm Nothing'
Skinny Puppy - 'Ghostman'
A Certain Ratio - 'Crippled Child'
Mono - '16-12'
Green Milk From The Planet Orange - 'In The Space, Far Away From This Planet'
Imitation Electric Piano - 'An Hour Is Sixty Minutes Too Long'
The Durutti Column - 'Guitar Woman'
Preston School Of Industry - 'Get Your Crayons Out'
Fog - 'Melted Crayons'
Fila Brazillia - 'Blowhole'
Craig Taborn -'Mystero'
Christian Kleine - 'Tastetouch'
Greg Davis - At My Window'
Múm - 'Sing Me Out The Window'
Prefuse 73 - 'Afternoon Love In'
Two Lone Swordsmen - 'Damp'
Banco De Gaia - 'Not In My Name'
Black Dice - 'Treetops'
Icarus - Three False Starts

# posted by DJ Martian 11:30 AM

International TechHouse mailing list

new website @ Techhouselist.org

This list serves for the discussion of non-commercial house and techno-house music from all over the planet. It is the world's original and longest running techouse discussion forum.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:51 AM

New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

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

Blue States - The Sounding
Memphis Industries

The Soundings" is a sidestep from Blue States' past cinematic glories, taking in references from Talk Talk to Doves to Early 80s Factory Records. The layers of strings and brass have been stripped back to reveal something darker and more personal, but what I like about this record is that Andy Dragazis (for he is Blue States) is after making a pop LP, but with all those 'serious' sounds. So it is very 1982 (what do you mean "you were'nt born"!) and speaking of Talk Talk, he's referencing the early, synth-dominated, uncool model, not the chin-stroking, latter-day, much name-checked version. For this I applaud him, and he's made a really strong, rich, moody pop record, by following his heart and using the sounds he clearly loves. We'll all be wearing long overcoats next!

Client - In It For The Money
Mute
[single]

Client are a female electro duo producing stark and compulsive electro pop anthems that combine the incisive and acerbic lyrical wit of The Smiths and the 'Northern songwriter tradition' with a pulsing, immediate electronic sound reminiscent of Kraftwerk and Joy Division.

Division Of Laura Lee - Das Not Compute
Burning Heart

"Das Not Compute" takes Division Of Laura Lee to atmospheres only hinted at on their first album with groovier guitars and four on the floor rhythms. An album that pushes the conceptions of rock and punk with an equal nod to British psychedelia and Washington, DC post-punk, with lyrics that claw at the state of the world and the human condition.

Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal
4AD

Long awaited solo album from Rachel Goswell (of Slowdive and Mojave 3 fame). Recorded with co-writer Joe Light and producer David Naughton, "Waves Are Universal" is quite a radical departure for Rachel. The track "Plucked" best hints as to what is to follow - an album that has been recorded organically (so to speak), largely without the aid of electronic effects, allowing her to be heard away from the familiar delay and reverb of most her previous outings. What remains on record is pure atmosphere, which is unsurprising given David's recording technique. On some tracks, Rachel's vocals were played back in Chislehurst Caves and re-recorded to create a natural echo ("Warm Summer Sun", "Gather Me Up" and "Hope"). In addition to this, both real-life sounds caught by an ambient microphone ("No Substitute") and field recordings made during a holiday in Thailand ("Shoulder The Blame" and "Plucked") find their way on to add extra warmth and depth. "Waves Are Universal" is proof that Rachel is a real talent.

Kunst - Too Kunst
Fatal

Debut album from Kunst, two girls two guys guitar band from the Lausanne underground scene. Kunst is raw guitars, bass and drums complemented by the irresistible sexy voice of female singer Virginie. If you're into Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, Breeders, rough guitars and cool strong female singing / screaming / shouting, if you like the magic of the Velvet Underground and a Patti Smith but looking for something unique and fresh; here's your feed.

Midlake - Bamnan And Slivercork
Bella Union

Formed in the small, quirky Texas town of Denton. Five highly talented musicians from the North Texas School of Music came together to create a unique sound, tapping into an arsenal of technical skill and unbridled creativity. Soon enough, Simon Raymonde stumbled upon them and fell deeply in love with the band, signing them to his label, Bella Union Records. The band continued to work day and night to create what would become their debut album. The result is an album of incredible vision, talent, dedication, and eccentricity that combines bittersweet psychedelic melodies with inspired electronica and warm acoustic sounds, drawing comparisons with the likes of The Flaming Lips and Grandaddy.

The New Year - The End Is Near
Touch & Go

Following on from their debut "Newness Ends", Matt and Bubba Kadane, former leaders of the highly praised band Bedhead return with a brand new album. Delicate and intricate guitar work, with songs that build to false climaxes and take left turns when rights are expected. The band performs with precision and intensity and the sound is thick and ominous.

Your Code Name Is: Milo - All Roads To Fault
Fiction

A thrilling clash of influences ranging from Joy Division, Queens Of The Stone Age to Radiohead. YCNI: Milo are a unique British band. A powerful live force which was captured here thanks to the recording techniques of Steve Albini.

Seelenluft - The Way We Go
Klein

Two years after his debut LP for Klein, Beat Soler comes up with a follow up. After the success of the more punk-funk / electro-house mixes of "Manilla", he seems to have gone down a similar path, forgoing the eclectism of his early work in favour of a more dancefloor aimed sound. That's good for anyone who's loved his recent singles though (both included), as here he mixes up electroclash and electro-house and electro-disco-not-disco, either as instrumentals or with vocals by Olivera Stanimirov, who also writes lyrics, Jesus And Mary Chain's Jim Reid and Silvercity Bob.

Technova - Electrosexual
Hydrogen Dukebox

"Electrosexual" is a slo-mo techno trash album infused with deep electro flavours and then laden with sexual provocative vocals courtesy of Miss Vaginal Davis, a six foot transvestite from Los Angeles.

Howards Alias - The Answer Is Never
Household Name

The second full length release from Southampton's genre bending heroes is a singular and atmospheric cocktail of punk, ska and post-rock, where mournful, impassioned vocals drift over effortlessly shifting rhythms and chopping/burning guitar lines. I realise they'd probably pay very good money for me not to say this, but on this evidence, if there's any justice in the world, they'll go far.

Various Artists / Gilles Peterson In Brazil
Ether

Worldwide DJ Gilles Peterson's selection on this album is based on what is most relevent to him as a working radio and club DJ. Over two CDs, the collection separates heritage and traditional sounds from more up to date releases that merge latin and nu-jazz, drum and bass etc. Includes tracks by Wilson Simonal, Tim Maia, Djavan, Os Originals Do Samba, Sergio Mendes, Patricia Marx & 4Hero, Joe Claussell, Spiritual South, Cesar Mariano, Drumagick, DJ Marky & XRS, Bruno E etc. 23 tracks in all.

Jimi Tenor - Beyond The Stars
Kitty Yo

Inspired by bird songs, little waves on Finnish lakes and the chanting and drumming of his Barcelona Buddhist community neighbours, "Beyond The Stars" has a smoother feel than Jimi's last LP for Kitty Yo ("Higher Planes"), but shares its predecessor's love of 70s jazz-rock fusion, easy cinematic funk and free jazz, all produced here with a big arrangement sound.

Various Artists / Fabriclive 16: Adam Freeland
Fabric

Fabriclive 16 builds with layers of deep grooves, phat production and organic beats. Mixed on three decks, CDJs and messed with on Albeton live and a digital delay unit, the mix is laced with samples, loops and fx. Through Adam Freeland's forward thinking approach to music he has helped put breaks centre stage and pioneered the nu skool breaks sound, remaining defiantly cutting edge. This mix is a selection of tunes Adam would drop at Fabric, from rock through breaks, deep house, drum'n'bass, electro and general dirty deepness.

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.

Team Shadetek - Burnerism
Warp

After releases on Tigerbeat 6 and their own Shadetek label, Team Shadetek deliver a mini album for Warp. They tightly splice together hip hop and dancehall influenced rhythms, and drop electronic glitchiness on top, creating a densely layered but solid sound.

Chris & Cosey - Muzik Fantastique
Conspiracy International

Originally released in 1992 this much sought after but long deleted album has been digitally re-mastered and now includes a bonus track: "Rise (12" Mix)" and new cover artwork. "Musik Fantastique!" features over 58 minutes of classic Chris & Cosey songs from 1992, probably their most dynamic and melodic period during their illustrious career.

Cosey Fanni Tutti - Selflessness
Conspiracy International

This is the fourth in the E.A.R series and is a new solo ambient sound work by Cosey Fanni Tutti. Originally broadcast live by Resonance F.M. (London) E.A.R 4 forms part of Cosey's "Selflessness" covert art action, which took place in Disneyland in 2002. The music of E.A.R 4 aims to evoke the sensations experienced during the "Selflessness" performance. E.A.R 4 contains more than 78 minutes of an extraordinary range of ambient music, textures and emotions.

Current 93 - SixSixSix: SickSickSick
Durtro

This beautiful full-colour digipak CD reissues some of the long-deleted and sought-after Current 93 material. It includes the two studio tracks from the "Looney Runes" EP ("Panzer Ruin (In The Hands Of Gillespie" and "That's All Folks); all the three tracks from the "Lucifer Over London" EP ("Lucifer Over London", "Sad-Go-Round" and "The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow") and the two tracks from the very limited "Tamlin" EP ("Tamlin" and "How The Great Satanic Glory Faded"). As an extra, the music-hall cover of "Misery Farm", originally released in a tiny edition of just over 600 for some shows in New York) is appended to the end of the CD.

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Planet Mu

This dark opus of futuristic synthetic breakcore showcases Snares melodic side where circuit bent beats burrow into dry mournful chords creating an alien plastic atmosphere.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:28 AM

Monday, June 14, 2004

FatCat Records announce that Animal Collective have recorded a 16 minutes long exclusive track for Radio 3's Mixing It show [broadcast date Friday 18th June]

» Mixing It

# posted by DJ Martian 11:29 PM

dance music blog to check: Party music for jaded cynics: Musical Musings

# posted by DJ Martian 6:49 PM

music blog: The Digital Music Weblog that i have seen before but not previously linked to. [alerted today via NYLPM]

# posted by DJ Martian 6:31 PM

I must add this music blog to my template, next update: v o l t a g e : electro culture

# posted by DJ Martian 6:23 PM

Delusions of Adequacy has gone daily, updates of new reviews every weekday.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:07 PM

This week's The Breezeblock show on Radio 1 will feature:

14th June
Orbital chat to Mary Anne
To Rococo Rot in session

# posted by DJ Martian 3:35 PM

Way Out West have pushed back the release date of their album: Don't Look Now to August 30th.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:32 PM

The Independent report on the launch of the online iTunes Music Store in Europe this week: The iPod generation rejoices: the online music store is here

# posted by DJ Martian 2:25 PM

NME.COM report Happy Mondays are reforming to play live @ Get Loaded in the Park in August: Happy Mondays headline London festival

Live comebacks: Television, Duran Duran, Pixies, Happy Mondays..who next?

# posted by DJ Martian 1:52 PM

Stylus interview Andrew Weatherall

# posted by DJ Martian 1:26 PM

Pitchfork review the 4 recent reissued Brian Eno albums.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:22 PM

So, Simon Reynolds has proclaimed he has finished his Post-Punk history book. When will it be published and launched?

# posted by DJ Martian 12:53 PM

Tiny Mix Tapes review Xela - Tangled Wool

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 PM

Junkmedia have an interview with Xiu Xiu

# posted by DJ Martian 12:36 PM

Sunday, June 13, 2004

The latest Porcupine Tree news:

Porcupine Tree are still in the studio working on their new album,
currently at David Gilmour's picturesque studio The Astoria which is on
a boat moored on the River Thames in London.

14 tracks are in various states of progress, from which the final
running order of 9 or 10 will be selected:

Deadwing
Revenant
So Called Friend
Christenings
Open Car
Shallow
The Start of Something Beautiful
Halo
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Glass Arm Shattering
Mother and Child Divided
Lazarus
Mellotron Scratch
Half-light

We hope to have some audio clips available later in the Summer as the
album nears completion.

Contrary to rumours the album remains untitled at present, and no
release date is confirmed.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

MetalBite relay the latest Voivod news: VOIVOD To Revisit "Nothingface" Era On Upcoming Album - that is scheduled for a 2005 release.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:07 PM

Bjork names new album: Medulla

Bjork will release a new album: Medulla, that is scheduled for a late August release date.

[Alerted via Silent Uproar]

# posted by DJ Martian 6:53 PM

music blog to check: Lexicon Devil

including a feature: TOP 50 ALBUMS: THE COMPLETE LIST… WHILST I STILL CAN

# posted by DJ Martian 6:12 PM

This week's Stuart Maconie's Critical List featured album is Diamond Dogs by David Bowie, released 30 years ago in 1974.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:25 PM

Almost Cool review The New Year - The End Is Near

# posted by DJ Martian 4:15 PM

Almost Cool review Junior Boys - Last Exit

# posted by DJ Martian 4:14 PM

What to expect in the next issue of Grooves Magazine

[alerted via e-mail] coming in a few weeks, Grooves Issue 14, featuring:

Pan Sonic
To Rococo Rot
Two Lone Swordsmen
Black Dice
Daedelus
Pimmon
Animal Collective
tons of reviews
and more

# posted by DJ Martian 3:37 PM

UK Music Magazines

Stuart Turnbull @ BBC Collective has an article about the closure of UK music mags during the past year: crisis in mag land

The industry has become stale, and the time could be ripe for some young bloods to rethink the concept of music and style magazines and freshen up the racks.

...Stuart Turnbull is ex-Music Editor of Sleaze. Next week, he looks at alternatives to the traditional music/style mag.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:54 PM

Saturday, June 12, 2004

BBC Collective review Team Shadetek - Burnerism

# posted by DJ Martian 3:08 PM

Leonard's Lair review Skalpel - Skalpel

# posted by DJ Martian 1:09 PM

Leonard's Lair give a 5/5 review for Color Filter - Silent Way

# posted by DJ Martian 1:01 PM

Playlouder review Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

# posted by DJ Martian 12:59 PM

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Arovane - Lilies
City Centre Offices

Uwe Zahn, aka Arovane, has been one of the most influential characters in the electronic music scene over the last few years. His classic `Tides' album was not only the first full-length release on the City Centre Offices label (and a huge influence on the label`s roster) but is also often cited as one of the key electronic music releases of the last decade. After 4 long years, arovane finally returns."Lilies" is a follow-up to "Tides" in every sense, exploring a trip to japan and drawing on shimmering textures and the sort of melodies that you might need some time to recover from. There's a hugely evocative sense to these tracks, emotionally driven, free of complexity or conceit, piano melodies providing the central focus for a twilight cascade of light that seems perfect for the Tokyo skyline - just as the sun sets. It's an album that radiates warmth and vulnerability, fusing the technological might at the heart of each track (and at the heart of the city) with an age-old understanding that certain echoes of sound, small melodic changes and cushioned lullabies can imprint sounds on your mind like childhood memories - remembered forever. Like a dreamlike score, or maybe even an alternate soundtrack to "Lost in Translation" - the sort of music that intertwines with images and stays in your mind indefinately. After coming back from tokyo and completing the production of "lilies", Arovane disassembled his studio in his big flat in an old building in berlin's prenzlauerberg district and stored it away in boxes. He needs a break from making music now. Who knows how long for. Gorgeous.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Roberto Carlos Lange Presents Boom & Birds - Confetti
Rice & Beans

Beta Bodega Coalition's sub division rev up for their Sonar showcase with Boom & Birds: an acoustica / hip hop / inverted folk hybrid that startles with its originality and summertime breeze. Roberto Carlos fills the fatbacked rhythms with melodic elements, processed guitars and intricate shimmers, aided and abetted by Adam Heathcott. 'Sometimes too lucky' maintains this connection to 'real' instruments - a lonesome guitar rides a rich bed of vibes, like an after hours jam led by the Compass point All Stars. 'Serpent Regular' opens with a Sun Ra-ish moment, then again the stringed instruments come into focus, offering a reflective, cannily poised composition, a song. 'Yellow Kite' has to be the highlight here, like a long lost Tom Tom Club dub, out and out balearic heaven. Flip to the cd for a couple of bonus tracks - 'Help me out now' looping a breathy vocal, over a languid, relaxed beat - like a much funkier version of the early Tortoise sides. 'Hostas' ends with a suitably hushed tone: a Beach Boys inspired vocal, and music laying somewhere between early Mouse On Mars and the High Llamas. This is a peach of a release, and shows the forefront of Miami music reaching out into new areas - right in the midst of the uk leg of their european tour - its just great to hear something so genuine and original. Really excellent stuff, and suffice to say - great packaging every time. Killer.

Atom Tm / Atom Heart - 10th Anniversary Box
Rather Interesting
2CD

Atom Heart's hugely influential and always fresh 'Rather Interesting" imprint has now reached the ripe old age of 10. What we have here is a seriously essential collectors item - limited to 900 copies only for the world, hand numbered and signed by Atom himself. The package includes the first ever release on the label "Flextone" - originally limited to 500 copies only and worth a tidy sum through auctions in recent years, plus a bonus cd full of some incredible previously unreleased gems from one of the true visionaries of electronic music production. Those of you who have followed the label will realise the significance of having outtakes from albums as immense as "Schnittstelle", "Dropshadow Disease", "Machine Paisley", "Brown", "Pentatonic Surprise", "El Gran Baile", "Vsvn", "Silver Sound" and "Interactive Music" available for the first time - and the quality is awesome. Accompanied by a booklet providing detailed information, artwork and liner notes (written by James Dean Brown), we only have a limited amount of these signed rarities in stock - so make sure you get one while you can. Awesome

Cursor Miner - Plays God
Lo Recordings

The man has a messiah complex, I tell ya. Hillarious artwork aside, "Plays God" finds mr Miner jacking off once again to the sound of squelchy discoid electropop, italo-posturing and pure plastic pounding beats, gliterball styles. It's all lots of fun and rather silly, and if you like this sorta thing you'll be jacking too, no doubt. Check.

Din St - Yamu d'
Schematic

Din-St [Dynasty, aka DJ Maxximus, aka Fever, aka one half of Firewire, aka F. Stader - master cutter at Berlin's legendary dubplates and mastering] finally unleashes his filthy beat carve-up and found sound assembly with his full length debut for the Schematic imprint. "Yamu d'" is a sprawling beast of a record, fusing elements of garage, techno, tribal drums, hip hop, punk, electronica and elements of hardcore for a destroyed sojourn to a post digital-hardcore soup of styles and ideas. The album tips club culture over like a four-hundred-pound speaker cabinet, slicing party sounds into wild-style minimal/broken rave/bounce mash-ups. As such, its the prefect progression for both artist and label. Check.

Dykehouse - Midrange
Ghostly International

Having scratched the head for a full 15 minutes trying to figure out how to best describe this album from Planet-Mu affiliate and now Ghostly International pop star Dykehouse, the best we can come up with is a reference point that has Ulrich Schnauss and the shoegazing revival at one end and baggy Madchester posturing at the other (think Cale-produced Happy Mondays for an idea). Despite having been recorded entirely in Michael Dykehouse's bedroom, the album has a full-band sound, peaking from lo-fi strumming to hi-fidelity over production. It's a straight indie pop album that's undoubtedly had a lot of work and a lot of love poured into it. We just havent decided if its a work of genius or complete pants. Give us some time, or decide for yourself. Let us know, ok?

Mochipet - Uzumaki
Component

Mochipet follows up his malladjusted activities for Tigerbeat6, Violent Turd and Bpitch Control with this frantic full-lengther for Component. Juxtaposing retarded melodies and hyperactive scary fisher price mobile music with dark strings, stretches of ambience, offkilter japanese vocal sampling and breakneck spastic beats, stopping and starting with the required amount of silliness. Includes a remix from Otto von schirach - wickedly messy sh*t from another talented Tigerbeat affiliate.

Team Shadetek - Burnerism
Warp

New York's Team Shadetek have been ripping beats, destroying equipment and building demented hip hop hybrids for a good few years now, despite their unlikely youthful appearance. Blowing up on the scene with the release of their Stephen Hawkins meets DMX inspired debut, the Team have been busy running their own Shadetek imprint (check out the quite incredible "The Girls" EP due out soon!!!!!), hanging out with the likes of Modeselektor in Berlin, working with the Sound Ink crew on a rebuilt b-boy project (rumours of a collaboration with MF Dooom yet to be confirmed!!) and generally impressing everyone with their love and knowledge of good tags, autechre twelves and any good tunes worth mentioning. Rumours of a Warp hookup have been floating for what seems like an eternity, so here at long last is the EP doublepack and CD "Burnerism", a sort of mashed intersection between the beats of El-P and the decimated structures of Ae, pressed loud and clear, squashed to perfection. One for the B Boys and B girls who like it awkward, big up the team sht!!

The Rip Off Artist - New Clear Days
Inflatabl Labl

This is the 10th full-length album for matt haines, aka the Rip Off Artist, but the first to be released on his own label, inflatabl. Having already wrecked some mess with his work for Vertical Form, Tigerbeat 6, Mille Plateaux, Quatermass and Hot Air to name but few, "New Clear Days" features 19 short tracks of intricate, delicate, tweaked and re-configured beats with a dub-glitch undercurrent and flowing melodies to boot. It retains a slightly fanky twang (check the strut of "Hello, Neutrinos!, for an idea), but it's quite substantially removed from the broken House party of last album "Pet Sounds". If you're into the fractured intricacies of the Schematic crew or the genius glitched-up productions of Atom Heart - you'll love this. Check.

Various / Rephlex - Grime
Rephlex

Finally available on CD!! 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, 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

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Planet Mu

"Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" ("HCCBU" to his mates) is, believe it or not, the 11th album from Aaron Funk's Venetian Snares project. Stylistically closest to the "Winter in the Belly of a Snake" album, this latest excusrion finds mr Snares compiling a complex arrangement of algorythms and mathematical equations brought to life on an inhuman array of digital tools and ice-cold toys, mutilated and mangled with a little more consideration and thoughtfulness than last year's "Chocolate Wheelchair" set. Think Drukqs-era Aphex crossed with Confield era Ae for an idea, or maybe even the scholarly digital emissions of Richard Devine and the special needs mishaps of Otto Von Schirach. There's an added dimension on offer here though, lots of interwoven melodies and reflective stretches that imbue the album with a more "mature" presence, without neglecting the crazy-assed beats for the kids. Ace.

Yuichiro Fujimoto - Komorebi
Smalltown Supersound

Smalltown Supersound have a knack for adapting graphic designers / visual artists / photographers and allround creative types into an unfathomably rich and rewarding musical career. Following the discovery and nurturing of the fabulous Kim Hiorthoy, Yuichiro Fujimoto is the latest artist turned melody maker extrodinaire. "Komorebi" is quite simply an amazing blend of semi-gamelan tinkling bells, acoustic guitar, childrens toys, piano, field recordings and obscure sound techniques. The result comes across like a mixture of traditional japanese influence crossed with the lo-fi strumming of Jim O'rourke and the innocent lullaby making of Hiorthoy himself. A gorgeous album, one of the finds of the year.

Brent Gutzeit - Drug Money
Kranky

Originally released as a limited CD-R on Boxmedia and sold at a Chicago record store whenever Gutzeit needed money for, uh, um... recreation; "Drug Money" is finally given a full release.The three tracks of slow forming drones are dragged along rusty steel plates and then dropped onto the ocean floor, passing by plumes of chemical dust. In 1997, kranky released Mosquito Dream, Gutzeit's collaboration with guitarist Jim Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher). Drugmoney is the logical continuation of that album's gradual apportionment of sound.

Daniel Menche - Eye on the Steel
Substractif

"Eye on the Steel" is heavily based around drones, pulses and ambient noise, falling somewhere in the territories often treaded by labels such as mego and Touch. The recording's mix a combination of pulses and electronic noises that brings to mind the sound of pan sonic or montreal's vromb. Check.

DNA - Dna on Dna
No More Records

Formed in 1978, brazilian raised singer/guitarist Arto Lindsay hastily assembled an international trio of non-musicians. Robin crutchfield played keyboard and japanese-born Ikue Mori played drums. DNA played their first gig within weeks and recorded their first 7" shortly afterwards. The ear of brian eno was quickly caught, recording them for the infamous no new york compilation alongside James Chance, Mars, and Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. The band only released 12 songs during it's lifetime, and another 3 shortly afterwards on a european compilation, but their impact was far and wide reaching with many musicians having sited dna as a main influence including Thurston Moore of sonic youth and the band Blonde Redhead. This cd compiles all of the studio and many choice live recordings. Of particular interest are the original lineup's 'early versions' of 'detached,' '5:30' and 'low' (which is closely related to 'a new low.') the unreleased studio tracks 'grapefruit,' 'police chase' and 'young teenagers talk sex' are heard here for the first time as well as live versions of the unreleased songs 'nearing' and 'surrender.' Exclusive liner notes from byron coley, jason gross and glenn o'brien pack the 16 page booklet alongside many unseen photos and flyers.

Tom Carter - Monument
Kranky

Monument is a re-issue of an incredibly rare CDR, the second in a series of Charalambrides-related re-issues by Kranky. The album is a recording of guitar music from Tom Carter of Charalambides, the two tracks of solo lap steel guitar were recorded live to DAT a few days before a live performance and were originally released by Wholly Other in an edition of 55 CDRs. The first track, "Monument 1 (Memorial)" is slightly longer than two minutes and barely reveals itself. The second, "Monument 2", is 47 minutes in length and considerably more expansive and louder than the opening cut. The album is an improvised locality where sounds are related by mass and interval as opposed to note or key. In his long career, Tom Carter has performed and recorded with artists such as Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, Ian Nagoski, amongst many others.

Directions - Have You Felt This Way Before
Diaspora In Session

This London based group of musicians count Carl Craig amongst their fans so much that C.C. mixed their 'Busted Trees' single earlier this year to a massive response (included here). Back down to earth on their album they come across as a more focussed and less smooth variation on Incognito hightened by the earthy vocals of Chantal Thompson and the excellent Donald Byrd/Eddie Henderson'esque trumpet playing by Benji Perosin. Nice like a work free sunday afternoon in the sun.

Jimi Tenor - Beyond The Stars
Kitty Yo

After the immensely flamboyant and incredible musical blast of his fifth album and final album for Warp 'Out Of Nowhere' it's been clear that Jimi's talent for fully realising the outer reaches of his musical imagination should never be restricted. Since then his album's have become even more freer and wild utilising orchestras, long forgotten Finnish jazz musicians and a more accomplished composing knack. This album follows the course of imagining Krzysztof Komeda composing for The Love Unlimited Orchestra with Jimi's love god out front giving the people what they need. No more description needed either your down or your not. Me, i've got my tickets booked once again. Big recommendation.

Dj2d2 / Various - Bit Street
Sonar Music

An excellent warm up for next weekend's Sonar extravaganza: DJ2D2 (Prefuse 73's live performance DJ - not to be confused with RJD2!) has compiled and mixed this essential document of cutting edge hip hop and new school downtempo beats. It's the selection that makes this CD more than just another cash in, check it! Official first time runnings for the much delayed killllaaaaa anthem from Dabrye and Jay Dee, 'Game Over' - the CD debut for Jay Dee's remix of Four Tet's 'As Serious As Your Life' - a preview track, 'The Bump Bump' from Prince Po's upcoming Lex album 'The Slickness' - plus finally the debut of Scott Herren's new alias, Piano Overlord; gorgeous fuzzy rhodes piano over funked up rolling drums. A specially recorded 5 minute Madlib breaks mix also features, pure exclusive styles. Add to this more killer tracks from Nobody, Jaylib, DJ Vadim, Botanica Del Jibaro's Climber & Antennae and for the first time on cd, the first Shadow Huntaz from 1998, the mad rare instrumental version of the original mix of 'DJ Screams Medic', still our favourite early leftfield hip hop track of all time. Lovely digipak artwork and a dope graffiti montage also feature, plus a cool quicktime video segment - superior package, acquire.

Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Lightweight Heavy
Exceptional

Originally available in limited quantity as a Japan-only release, Five Deez main man and Pole associate Fat Jon finally makes his blue tinged "Lightweight Heavy" set available to his european audience. It's all in the title, refering to Jon's seemingly effortless ability to create mellow beatscapes, laden with piano loops and double bass phrases, there's definitely a light air to these 14 tracks, but the blunted soul exposed is very much of the heavy variety. Instrumental hip hop laced with a late night lounge vibe is the order of the day, something that Fat Jon delivers in fine style. Lovely.

Pale Horse & Rider - Moody Pike
Agenda

On `Moody Pike' Pale Horse & Rider architect Jon DeRosa invites long time collaborator Marc Gartman (Low, Rivulets) in as a partner. Add to the equation Ohio's own Gerald Menke (ex-Mercury Rev) on pedal steel guitar, free-jazz wunderkind Mike Pride (Anthony Braxton, Dynamite Club) on drums, and Paul Oldham (Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy/Anomoanon) behind the mixing board. The result is a masterful country sound with the insightfulness of folk and the drive of bar room rock n' roll. DeRosa and Gartman share both the microphone and the lyric book, & their lyrical territory is vast, as both songwriters have different styles and strengths. DeRosa is clearly more urban, focusing on the recklessness of youth in Brooklyn, self-destruction and the casual use of drugs, in a voice that neither glorifies nor pities. Gartman's songs tend to be more pastoral, introspective, and masterfully detailed, relating stories so vividly that each song reads like a bedtime story. Lovely.

Rachel Goswell - Waves are Universal
4AD

Long awaited solo album from Rachel Goswell, luminary of the fabulous Slowdive and, more recently, alt-country drifters Mojave 3. ·Recorded with co-writer Joe Light and producer David Naughton, `Waves Are Universal' is quite a radical departure for Rachel. The track `Plucked' best hints as to what is to follow - an album that has been recorded organically (so to speak), largely without the aid of electronic effects, allowing her to be heard away from the familiar delay and reverb of most her previous outings. On some tracks, Rachel's vocals were played back in Chislehurst Caves and re-recorded to create a natural echo (`Warm Summer Sun', `Gather Me Up' and `Hope'). In addition to this, both real-life sounds caught by an ambient microphone (`No Substitute') and field recordings made during a holiday in Thailand (`Shoulder The Blame' and `Plucked') find their way on to add extra warmth and depth. Check it out.

The New Year - The End Is Near
Touch & Go

The New Year is a band featuring Matt and Bubba Kadane, former leaders of the highly acclaimed band Bedhead. In 1998, the Kadanes pulled the plug and let Bedhead die a quiet and respectful death.Depressed by inactivity, they relatively quickly enlisted some old friends and, with the songs they'd written for the next Bedhead record, headed into the studio. The result of that session was `Newness Ends', a record that continued their evolution as songwriters. The delicate and intricate guitar work still played an integral part on this record, but these songs were more concise, more experimental rhythmically, and deliberately more immediate. The New Year returns with `The End Is Near', songs build to false climaxes and take left turns when rights are expected. ·The band performs with precision and intensity. The sound is thick and ominous. Check

Gringo Grinder - Breakfast included
Onitor

Issuing from the creative hotbed that is Canada, Shelbono Del Monte [can that really be his name?!] namechecks all the right people: Akufen, Deadbeat, Mutek, Dumb-Unit and Revolver, but this is fully germanic in its relentless approach to burning techno up. Very close to Jake Fairley's production style, there's less wit, and just simply more heads down building floor mowers. Twelve inch imminent.

Monne Automne (Luciano And Pierre Bucci) - Introducing Light and Sound
Lofi Stereo

Lucien Nicolet, better known as Luciano, has dropped many a classic tune this year, and near enough built his career around releases on Cadenza, Peacefrog and Bruschtucke. On the Monne Automne project he's joined by Piere Bucci and Argenis Brito for a lush electronic driven dream-House.`Automne' dispenses with the introduction to get serious with its solid drums and floor friendly groove, the melodies stading out a mile, it seems Luciano's Swiss/Chilean roots really come out in the music as a strength, class tune. Flip and head straight to `El Salvador' which is classic Luciano tech house, tight, stripped beats with killer percussion that's backed by some enlightening and classic melodic keys that really set the track out from the others, top stuff from Luciano and Monne Automne, buy!

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Friday, June 11, 2004

TDK Cross Central Festival, London - August Bank Holiday Weekend

Yet another summer festival: TDK Cross Central Festival happening in London at the end of August - spread over 3 separate day events.

Artists appearing, include: Zongamin, LCD Soundsystem, Black Strobe, Plaid, Carl Craig, Luke Vibert

Cross Central
Advance warning of a brand new festival to be held right in the heart of London later this summer. TDK Cross Central is taking place on the August bank holiday weekend (Friday 27th - Sunday 29th) on the 68 acre Freight Depot site in Kings Cross, best known to club goers as the suitably gritty selection of old railway arches and warehouses that's home to The Cross, Canvas and The Key nightclubs. Three separate days of music will take over the clubs and special live outdoor arenas, with performances ranging from Kosheen to Cortney Pine and X-Press 2 to DJ Yoda. Acts are being added to the line-ups daily, so check out www.tdkcrosscentral.co.uk for updates.

[Source: DJ Mag email newsletter]

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Music critic, Tom Hull is also ranking his fav albums of the year so far: Tom Hull - Music Year 2004

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Playlouder review Grand National - Kicking The National Habit

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Playlouder review Envoy - Shoulder2Shoulder

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Playlouder review The Killers - Hot Fuss

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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This week's Later...with Jools Holland show is the last in the current series and looks very boring.

Why the programme makers decided to invite a ghastly pub rock band Jet is a complete mystery, in an ideal world this band would be refused a UK work permit due to having no talent and shipped on a convict ship back to Oz.

Also on are generic brit-rock band Hope Of The States that seem to have a teenager following in the UK via the NME, but to anyone else their plodding trad rock mid tempo sound is completely boring zzzzzzzz, vocals even worse than Electric Soft Parade and an overbaked predictable production sound ala Muse.

Another series over for then now, ..Jools will be back in the autumn with another series of mostly dull artists.

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NME.COM report Morrissey's Meltdown Festival kicks off tonight!

Also details of a Mozza compiled freebie CD that comes with next week's NME, predictable choices !

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Pinnacle Entertainment profile the new Quantic album: Quantic - Mishaps Happening

Tru Thoughts present the third Quantic album ‘Mishaps Happening’ on 28th June. Drawing from a wide range of musical influences, prolific producer Will Holland has once again delivered a veritable melting pot of grooves, fusing erstwhile soul, funk and jazz with roughed up, toughed up future beats.

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BBC Leeds interview Mancunian epic rockers Amplifier

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Pitchfork review Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel

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The Guardian review Blue States - The Soundings

Andy Dragazis has shifted direction (and moved from leafy Sussex to London) to a Doves/Elbow/Chameleons-type semi-rock band.

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One World: Electronic Music from Greece

Listen online to the latest One World show, that features contemporary electronic music from Greece: One World: Greece Label Special

Profiles » One World in Greece - The Labels

Note, the next 2 One World shows will feature Sonar specials ! [17th / 24th June]

The first show will feature a live joint One World/ John Peel show for 4 Hours !, the second will be a highlights show.

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Listed: Vladislav Delay + AGF

This week Dusted spotlight the listening interests of Vladislav Delay + Antye Greie-Fuchs [they are a couple in real life]

profiles:

Vladislav Delay

Vladislav Delay, who has also performed under a variety of other names (the best being 'Luomo') hails from Helsinki, but has recorded, studied, and released music all around the world. Following a variety of fairly unsuccessful experiments with the fusion of electronics and live music, Delay released his first solo electronic record, Kind of Blue (Huume Finland) in 1998. Since then Delay has been one of the most critically heralded and diverse figures in electronic music, helping to pioneer a style of electronic music ('clicks and cuts') that now helps characterize entire genres and regions. Delay has worked with electronic luminaries such as Pole, Richie Hawtin, and many others, and has release music on labels such as Mille Plateaux, Staubgold, and Force Tracks. Vladislav Delay's newest album, Demo(n)tracks is out now on Huume Records.

AGF

AGF, the alias of Antye Greie-Fuchs, is one of the more enigmatic vocalists operating today and not so much because of her actual vocal chords. It's what AGF does after she speaks that makes for challenging music. Greie-Fuchs first put her voice to tape with Laub, a programming duo with Von Jotka that often featured her austere delivery above scientific beats and bits. As her career progressed, however, her voice regressed. Greie-Fuchs's solo debut on Musork Orthlorng Head Slash Bauch is, by and large, a voice project that eschews language all together. AGF disassociates speech from meaning by slicing up her vocals into tiny slivers and rearranging them in chaotic fashion. Her second solo effort Westernization Completed is a step back towards communication, in that she strings together words, but the result still resists The Elements of Style, opting in stead for poetic reflections on the world around her. AGF also released a live recording on Quecksilber, Language Is the Most: Ars Electronica 2003. She also runs the website www.poemproducer.com.

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Issue 24 of Earplug

JUNE 10 - JUNE 23

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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Thursday, June 10, 2004

Critic Sasha Frere Jones continues to rank his fav albums [& singles] of the year: S/FJ: BEST OF 2004

Currently, 93 albums are rated. SF/J is a critic that remains individualistic, yet some of the choices are rather erratic/ eccentric.

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The Independent review JJ Cale - To Tulsa and Back

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BW & BK report on the launch of a new book: The Top 500 Heavy Metal ALBUMS of All Time

The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time, the eighth book from BW&BK Senior Editor Martin Popoff, was released today

Press release for this book @ ECW Press

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BBC Music review Various Artists, Haunted Weather (Book/CD)

David Toop's book and accompanying compilation CD explores the porous boundaries between electronica, sound art and free improvisation.

Note, tomorrow on Mixing It David Toop will discuss this new book.

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.

Also coming up on Mixing It

18th June 2004
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
and featuring a session by Brooklyn-based folk
pop band Animal Collective.

25th June 2004
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
and featuring an interview with singer-songwriter
PJ Harvey.

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Drum n bass artist Dillinja will release a compilation album on July 12th, as alerted on ILM: Dillinja- "My Sound 1993-2004"

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Belgian rockers dEUS are back, with plans for a new single.

[alerted via No Rock & Roll Fun]

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musicOMH.com review The Killers - Hot Fuss

Today, this album is 6 Music - Album of the day

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Some reviews for 2004 albums @ Fast 'n' Bulbous Reviews: Quick Impressions

At the moment 98 albums from 2004 are ranked / rated @ Fast 'n' Bulbous [Mission of Burma still remain in pole position]

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BBC Music review the 4 recent re-issued Brian Eno albums: Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World, Before And After Science

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Billboard have further info on the upcoming Helmet album: Size Matters

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Paik - Satin Black

Strange Attractors release a new album from Detroit space-rockers Paik on July 6th: Paik - Satin Black

note, download a free MP3 track: "Jayne Field" from this album.

From listening to this track, this album looks set to be one of the finest avant rock albums of the year - to be ranked alongside gems by Ahvak, Charalambides, Fennesz, Ghost, Guapo, Richard Pinhas and forthcoming albums by Bark Psychosis and Neurosis.

Paik are wicked conjurers of a seriously delirious thunder, unleashing a maelstrom of sound that is as lilting as it is crushing. A power trio of guitar/bass/drums, the band first streaked across the Michigan space-gaze scene in 1997, seeking to chart out new aural frontiers within a rock format. With the industrial playground of Detroit serving as their gritty muse, Paik seem to have discovered their own particular portal in sound, a massive sonic whirlpool capable of absorbing everything in its sphere. Live, Paik employ an elaborate light show, a stunning spectacle that can re-wire the doors of perception via a marriage of psychotropic visuals and saturating, bulldozing drone-scapes. Setting Paik truly apart from the pack is their uncanny ability to combine grace with grit, a balancing act that matches melodic, multi-hued sonorities with powerful furnace blasts of volume. Three albums are under their belt (Hugo Strange, Corridors and The Orson Fader), as well as an appearance on a 3-way split CD entitled Crickets and Firefiles with kindred spirits Kinski and Surface of Eceyon. Satin Black is the band's latest foray into sound; an expansive, densely woven album laden with dreamscapes heavier than any the band has unfurled before.

Swelling with lush yet careworn soundscapes, Satin Black plays host to a mosaic of textures, decorating arrangements that are majestic in scope but never abandon the will to "rawk". Walls of guitar provide the magic carpet, but Paik is no mere shoegaze or space rock act. At low volume the guitars ring and chime, at blistering volume they are gritty and rugged, a worn-in sound layered with rusted haze. Beginning with "Jayne Field" , Paik have crafted their most overtly beautiful tune, as tolling guitar lines wind gilded wire around melodic bass and propulsive precussion, building and swelling to a hypnotic end. Over the course of Satin Black, odd tunings and gallons of guitar afterburn wash up with bottom-heavy riffs, gigantic drums. Intense volume, blistering feedback and numerous effects coalesce to reveal ghostly harmonics that dart in and out of the mix. Paik is at their exploratory best with the closing tune "Stellar Meltdown en el Oceano", a monochromatic, minimalist drone excursion under which a galaxy of activity is revealed to the attentive ear. Stretching five compositions out to total just about an hour's worth of music, Satin Black is both cinematic and visceral, an album that can at once transport the mind into a dazzling cosmic high, only to completely lacerate it beyond recognition.

Evoking the roaring resonance of Kevin Shields' levitating guitar innovations and the minimalist weight of a band like Earth, Paik are a heady force on the avant rock map. Satin Black is truly a beautiful noise.

This album is already on the The Best Rock Albums of 2004 list by critic Piero Scaruffi.

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Wednesday, June 09, 2004

MIC Norway report Norwegian jazz launch Europe 2004-2006 [Alerted via It's a trap]

Two of the Norwegian jazz scene's most central performers, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and trumpeter Arve Henriksen are in for a hectic three-year period. The two are at the centre of a new well-funded promotion programme, Norwegian jazz launch Europe 2004-2006 that sets out to firmly establish the acclaimed jazz performers on the European stage.

note, Arve Henriksen is a member of Supersilent who last year achieved significant international acclaim for their album, 6

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Splendid review !!! - Louden Up Now

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Advance notification, that Andrew Weatherall will be on BBC 6 Music, 6 Mix show this Sunday, June 13th.

SUNDAY
This week Andrew Weatherall of the Two Lone Swordsmen takes over 6 Music's 6 Mix

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

Kerrier District
!!!
PJ Harvey
August Engkilde
Sonic Youth
Fourcolor

Chicago Soul (Various)
So Young but So Cold (Various)
The Warmers
A.C. Newman
Black Eyes

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BBC Music review another album from a Norwegian jazz band: Motif - Motif

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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

This week's KultureFlash [Number 92]

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.

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TrusttheDJ Album of the Week is Envoy - Shoulder2Shoulder

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MTV.com report Helmet will release their fist album in 6 years: Size Matters on September 14th.

[Helmet are fronted by Page Hamilton who was a member of the legendary 80s NYC avant rock band Band Of Susans]

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Plan B Magazine - Issue Zero

Everett True [formerly of Careless Talk Costs Lives] launches his new mag: PLAN B MAGAZINE

A special one-off edition of Plan B will hit the stands the week beginning 14 June, and you can pre-order copies here. The magazine proper will launch as a monthly later in the year.

» pre-order

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This week's The Breezeblock on Radio 1 includes excellent DJ sets from both RJD2 and Cursor Miner

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Splendid review Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of the Water

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Pitchfork review !!! - Louden Up Now

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

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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

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Louden Up Now
Warp

Of all the new wave of NY groups, it's !!! who seem to have taken most influence from their late 70s / early 80s predecessors Liquid Liquid and ESG, adding them to their own brand of loose limbed punk-funk and disco-with-guitars sounds that appear on this, their UK debut LP. The seven members mix up angular guitars, funky drum and basslines and loads of percussion to create a totally danceable, brilliant whole. Includes the singles "Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard" and "Pardon My Freedom". One of the LPs of 2004!!

Ikara Colt - Modern Apprentice
Fantastic Plastic

"Modern Apprentice" is the excellent second album from Ikara Colt, produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive In, Icarus Line, Mars Volta). Without doubt the best of the current crop of young British 'rock' bands around. Tight, energetic and intelligent, with crunching guitars and rumbling bass lines. There influences seem to be taken more from American hardcore than 80s spandex rock that so many bands seem to be wanting to imitate. Although there are some British influences in there too - particularly Joy Divison and The Fall.

Junior Boys - Last Exit
Electrokin

Canada's electro-pop outfit go above and beyond the call of duty on their debut album. Following the singles "Birthday" and "High Come Down", this ten track long player encapsulates their ice cold production and delicate songwriting. The songs seem to come from a mixture of New Order (detached electronic soul), Timbaland (highly processed beat arrangements) and Kings Of Convenience (far Northern Hemisphere cool), maintaining the Boys' highly original sound.

The Killers - Hot Fuss
Lizard King

Debut album from The Killers. Plundering classic 80s UK pop, and adding a Strokes-ish swagger, this Las Vegas four piece bring us a collection of energetic pop songs full of swooshing keyboards, catchy guitar riffs and Robert Smith-esque vocals.

Merchandise - Lo-Tech Solutions To Hi-Tech Problems
Cityscape

Delicate acoustic, folk tinged songs over swathes of lush electronics and pulsing beats. An album of bright, Summery, unusual pop songs from this Bolton duo.

Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
Rykodisc

Often described as 'the soundtrack to the end of the world', their hopeful new direction, was captured by Steve Albini in the form of the eight pieces that make up their third album "Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined". More lush and orchestral than previous recordings, the album couples an overall slow-melting ambience with a thunderous drive that reaches far greater heights than the band's earlier work.

Nina Nastasia - Dogs
Touch & Go

Originally released on Socialist records in 1999, this Steve Albini produced album finally gets a re-release - the first time it's been available at all in the UK. It was initially released to document her well-seeded career as a local singer-songwriter in New York City. The album is exemplary of Nastasia's style, delicate string arrangements, the restrained beauty of her live band, the deceptive simplicity of her voice, and poignant, life-wise lyrics.

Read Yellow - Radios Burn Faster
Fenway

Abrasive, intense and unpredictable, the songs of Read Yellow are engulfed in the fury of noise with a pervading energy that is harnessed, then projected. Intelligent punk / rock with a nod to the likes of Fugazi and At The Drive In.

Six Organs Of Admittance - For Octavio Paz
Holy Mountain

Since the release of Six Organs Of Admittance's self titled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but "For Octavio Paz" is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, "For Octavio Paz" is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is that Chasny's pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon — Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example — not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs Of Admittance.

Slowblow - Slowblow
Mobile

The Icelandic heritage of Slowblow isn't immediately obvious from their semi-country lo-fi acoustics, although the occasional appearances of Múm's Kristín Anna Valtysdóttir is a bit of a giveaway. Ten delightful songs that eschew the Sigur Ros picture of Icelandic music in favour of a warmer, more soulful (and sometimes even rockier) vision of Reykjavik's underground.

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Geffen

One of the most seminal rock bands on the planet release their 19th! studio album "Sonic Nurse". This has nods to previous classics "Daydream Nation" and "Sister" but with better production - standout tracks include Kim Gordon coming into her own with "Pattern Recognition" (her vocal features widely on this album as per!), Thurston singing of a lost love on "Unmade Bed" & the beautiful "Stones". The whole album is full of classic Sonic hooks, loud guitars and accessible tunes and avant garde moments. They are a band that sound as fresh and relevant now as they always have been: Hurrah!!!!!

Evil Tordivel - A Fine Young Man
Ellet

On the basis of a remix he did for Kings Of Convenience, and an insanely catchy EP, "8 Tracks And An Amiga", NME listed Evil Tordivel as one of five Norwegian acts to look out for, together with artists like Röyksopp. Here, he's put together a band that features members from famous Norwegian black metal bands, playing his chaotic pop tunes in a very non-metal way! "A Fine Young Man" was released in Norway autumn 2003, to great critical acclaim.

TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babies
4AD

Founding member David Sitek produced albums for the Liars and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - but he'd be the first to say that TV On The Radio are something else altogether. He met singer and lyricist Tunde Adebimpe back in 2000 when the two became neighbours in a Brooklyn apartment building. The two began exchanging their stockpiles of home-made four track recordings, and shortly afterwards they ventured onto local stages as a completely improvisational two-piece. Gradually, songs emerged from these explorations, and the live side of things was bolstered by the arrival of guitarist Kyp Malone - who also supplies sweet falsetto harmony vocals - bassist Gerard Smith, and drummer Jaleel Bunton. TVOTR's debut album contains nine tracks that pull the listener in and gather in intensity and invention as the record goes on. Endlessly appealing vocals weave their way through music that somehow combines cosmic jazz (sax and flute), amped-up electronica, twitchy, danceable beats and swathes of treated guitar into rich and endlessly surprising folds of sound.

Various Artists / Hospital Radio Request Volume 2
Sink & Stove

This new compilation celebrates the 4th birthday of the Sink & Stove label, it totals 21 tracks for a bargain price in a special card digipack with an accompanying 24-Page booklet. Features exclusive tracks by Playwrights, Gravenhurst, Morning Star, John Parish, Dudley Corporation, Billy Mahonie, Chris Brokaw, Lomax, Rlf, Mole Harness and many more.

Einsturzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings
Mute

A collection of material recorded between 1980-1982 by the then Neubauten line up of Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit, Andrew Chudy (N.U. Unruh), Alexander Hacke (Alexander von Borsig) and Marc Chung. The recordings mostly precede the release of Kollaps, the first Neubauten album. The album features the early singles, remastered and for the first time available as a collection compiled by Blixa Bargeld.

Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
MUTE

Einsturzende's classic album "Tabula Rasa" now released as a two CD set. The first CD is the original "Tabula Rasa" release from 1993 and is packaged with a second CD featuring tracks from the singles "Interim" and "Malediciton".

Ostinato - Left Too Far Behind
Exile On Mainstream

Debut album proper from this Virginia / Washington DC progressive post-rock trio. Imagine the middle of a golden triangle consisting of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Isis and Sigur Ros (plus a bit of early Pink Floyd) and you're close.

Tamion 12 Inch - Let's Suffer
Ersatz Audio

Dark post-punk electro trash on Adult's label Ersatz Audio.

Bell - Seven Types Of Six
Soul Jazz

Four years in the making, Bell's second album delivers analog synthesizers and digital techniques to bring us robotic arcade-system electro, twisted electro-disco and classic 808 style acid house. With tracks ranging from unremittingly catchy to dark and moody, this LP is a truly formidable electronic album. Supporters of Bell range from Andy Weatherall to Carl Craig.

Kerrier District - Kerrier District
Rephlex

Fresh from furnishing Rephlex with four Amen break sampling EPs Luke Vibert returns with a whole LP dedicated to disco! This triple pack uses his awesome technical studio wizardry to create ten tracks of warm, deep, electronic, instrumental disco that you're just gonna love. In places similar to Metro Area, but often more joyous, this is sure to be a favourite in 2004!! DO NOT MISS!!! (Sorry, i've gone a bit MP3 crazy - I just kept on thinking 'Ooh, this one's good' about every track!!).
CD - CAT143CD limited cheap price
At last! Now you won't have to get up and turn the vinyl over three times!

Reggie Watts - Simplified
Freestyle

Debut album from Seattle-based nu-soul singer Reggie Watts, who also fronts NY hip hop-jazz fusionists Soulive, produced by Black Eyed Peas' Printz Board and Steve Fisk. Includes the single tracks "Wanna Get" and "Movin' On", and nine other self-penned compositions. If you like Amp Fiddler, check this out!

A Bossa Electrica - Electrificacao!
Raw Fusion

The Swedish-Brazilian connection is made whole with this full length album from Raw Fusion's in-house nu latin troupe. Singer Miriam Aida is backed by the super talented five piece core of the band, producing sunny latin music with a hint of nu jazz. The group present a wealth of their own compositions and a couple of crowdpleasing standards, including the awesome "Skindo-le-le".

Umod - Enter The Umod
Sonar Kollektiv

Domu goes back to front again, delivering his debut Umod LP for Sonar Kollecktiv. Usually famed for his ultra-complex beats for Goya distributed labels, here he really strips (most of) the rhythms down to fat dancefloor aimed nu-jazz tracks, offering up slabs of twisted electronic hip hop and tech-soul-jazz. Really solid, really FAT and really fantastic. Includes the single "Tromoline".

Various Artists / Panorama - Nu Europa Phusion
Perfect Toy

Les Gammas' Tom Wieland collects together some of his finds from trips DJing round former Communist Eastern European cities, including Moscow, Warsaw, Belgrade, Budapest, Bratislava, Vilnius, Katowice, St Petersburg etc. Musically the artists mix up swinging jazz, dancehall, broken beats, funk and soul, with many of the tracks (nine out of twelve) being previously unreleased. Artists include Innocent Sorcerers, Easy Life Natural, Klasick, The Second Whorl, Electric Brother, Eddy & Dus, Painkiller Septet, Crate Soul Brothers, Yannah etc. Quality dancefloor sounds.

Lamb - Best Kept Secrets - The Best Of Lamb 1996 - 2004
Mercury

Lamb joined the open minded, post-rave scene of underground, avant-dance music producers in the mid 90s, and have continued pushing genre boundaries ever since, mixing up downbeat, drum and bass, breaks, electronica and world sounds, all topped off with Louise Rhodes ethereal vocal. This collection, as it says on the tin, picks out some of their best tracks from the past (nearly) decade.
2xCD - 986 650-8
Limited CD includes seven track bonus DVD with 5.1 mixes and audio commentry.

Directions - Have You Felt This Way Before
Diaspora In Session

The Canadian quartet's debut album seamlessly combines elements of jazz, funk, house and other dance rhythms, and is fronted by singer / lyricist Chantal Thompson. It includes remixes by West Magnetic and Carl Craig (the massive rework of "Busted Trees", in its instrumental form).

Various Artists / Afro Baby - The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970 - 1979
Soundway

Nigeria in the 70s had one of the biggest recording industries on the African continent, as well as one of the most diverse. The twelve rarities on this compilation showcase the prolific fusion of African rhythms with jazz, funk, soul and rock music that was coming out of the country's cities over the decade. Featured artists include The Sahara Band, Fela Kuti, The Don Issac Ezekiel Combination, Fred Fisher, and many more - none of these tracks have been released outside Nigeria before!

End - The Sounds Of Disaster
Ipecac

Outrageous, epic, nihilistic, and absurd, "The Sounds Of Disaster" is the soundtrack to a world of B-movie fantasies where hydrogen bombs, hippy death cults, subway-dwelling zombies, cannibal midgets, and legions of homicaidal madmen all run rampant! Sure, there are recognizable moments: surf rock guitars, crazed breakbeats, cop show riffs, theremins and moogs, screaming choirs, horn sections, spy music, Japanese noise, scat vocals.... but now they've all been forced together into a frenzied mass, as catchy as it is schizophrenic.

Kim Hiorthoy - Hopeness
Smalltown Supersound

"Hopeness" contains five new Kim Hiorthøy tracks and, at 31 minutes long, the EP is meant to build a bridge between his seminal and critically acclaimed debut album "Hei" and his second 'proper' album, due in the Autumn of 2004.

Lasse Marhaug - The Shape Of Rock To Come
Smalltown Supersound

With "The Shape of Rock To Come" Lasse Marhaug has delivered another mastodon of power electronics, extreme metal, free-jazz and brutal noise. The title is a homage to Ornette Colemans jazz milestone "The Shape Of Jazz To Come", but also a statement of how rock in the year 2004 should sound. Marhaug has assembled the whole history of extreme music here; the brutality of death and black metal; the energy of 50s and 60s avantgarde free-jazz; the guitar walls of Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and The Jesus and the Mary Chain; as well as the obvious connections to extreme electronic music like Merzbow, Whitehouse and Lou Reeds "Metal Machine Music". But it's not for the faint of heart. This is intense listening.

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Monday, June 07, 2004

Mark Radcliffe starts his late night show on Radio 2 today, 10.30pm - 12midnight [Monday - Thursday]

Starts with.. New Order: True Faith

Radcliffe was old for daytime Radio 1, and too alternative for Radio 2? He would have been better off on 6 Music.

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Tiny Mix Tapes review Junior Boys - Last Exit

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Splendid review Craig Taborn - Junk Magic

All in all, Junk Magic is an inspiring album that demonstrates several legitimate ways forward for avant jazz and electronica.

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Stylus review Junior Boys - Last Exit

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Playlouder report Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will release a new album in September, titled: 'Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus'.

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musicOMH.com review Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

Pitchfork review Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

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Sunday, June 06, 2004

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [May 31st]

Key new album releases for May 31st [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Craig Armstrong - Piano Music (Sanctuary)
Charalambides - Joy Shapes (Kranky Records)
Crackpot - Shelf Hypnosis (Tummy Touch)
Max De Wardener - Where I Am Today (Accidental)
The Eternals - Out of Proportion (Antifaz) [Available at Rough Trade]
Faction - The End Of Tel Aviv (Neo Ouija)
Goudron - Raw Voltage (Ersatz Audio)
PJ Harvey - Uh Hu Her (Island)
Headset - Spacesettings (Scape)
Hocico - Born to be Hated (Out of Line) EP
Miss Kittin - I Com (NovaMute)
Kenny Larkin - Narcissist (Peacefrog) [UK Release Date]
Lickgoldensky - Lickgoldensky (Level Plane) [US Release]
Measles Mumps Rubella - Fountain Of Youth (Troubleman Unlimited) EP
Mission Of Burma - ONoffOn (Matador Europe) [UK Release Date]
Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco (City Centre Offices)
Sounds Like Violence - Pistol (Deep Elm)
Tamion 12 Inch - Let's Suffer (Ersatz Audio)

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [May 24th]

Key new album releases for May 24th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Avon - Salary Man (Iris Light & Karvavena)
Ayreon - Ayreon: The Human Equation (InsideOut/ SPV)
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands (XL)
Climber - Downtown Loop (Botanica del Jibaro)
Crisis - Like Sheep Led To Slaughter (The End Records) [Import]
Cyne - Growing (City Centre Offices) EP
Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation (Elephant Stone)
Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever (Emperor Norton)
Grand National - Kicking The National Habit (Sunday Best)
Hot Chip - Coming On Strong (Moshi Moshi)
Infinite Livez - Bush Meat (Big Dada)
Steve Kuhn - Promises Kept (ECM) [with a string ensemble; arrangements by Carlos Franzetti & Steve Kuhn]
Anne Laplantine - Dicipline (Emphase / Hausmusik)
Yasmin Levy - Romance & Yasmin (Crossing Cultures)
Trevor Loveys - Intastella (Freerange)
M83 - America (Labels) EP
Moodymann - Black Mahogani (Peacefrog)
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll (Breast Fed)
Peccatum - Lost In Reverie (The End Records) [US Import, UK Release June 14th on another licensed label]
The Rotating Assembly - Natural Aspirations (Sound Signature)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons (Web Of Mimicry)
Si-Cut.Db - Find Some Shade (Highpoint Lowlife)
Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Robotics With Strings (Junior Aspirin)
Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong Of The Right (Synthetic Symphony/ SPV)
Markus Stockhausen/ Ferenc Snetberger/ Arild Andersen/ Patrice Heral - Joyosa (Enja)
David Sylvian/ Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen (Townsend) EP [Available via Townsend Records]
Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B (Nuclear Blast) [2cd/ Digipack]
27 - Let The Light In (Hydra Head Industries)
Damon Wild - Downtown Worlds (Kanzleramt) [Import]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:46 PM

The Leaf Label have recently launched a new website.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:27 PM

The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards 2004

All About Jazz report on the upcoming JJA Jazz Awards 2004: JJA Jazz Awards 2004

The Jazz Awards 2004 represent excellence and accomplishment in performance, recording, presentation and documentation of jazz during the year April 15, 2003 to March 20, 2004.

The awards will be announced at an event on Tuesday, June 15th.

Full nominees listed @ Jazz Journalists Association Awards

For an organization that claims to be worldwide, this list is overloaded with American nominees [due to the fact that most JJA members are US based !], with European Jazz artists virtually overlooked - which is strange considering the wealth of talent particularly from the Nordic countries.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:02 PM

music blog to check: no cure

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musicOMH.com provide another review of TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes

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The latest Blue Room show on Radio 1 is well worth a listen: BBC - Radio 1 - Blue Room Tracklistings includes tracks from Murcof, Orbital, To Rococo Rot and Two Lone Swordsmen.

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Playlouder review !!! - Louden Up Now

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THE FREAK ZONE with Stuart Maconie

This week's 6 Music - Freak Zone show [broadcast 10pm in the UK later today] includes:

This week's Featured Album is Ege Bamyasi by Can.

We raise session tracks from the BBC Archive from Magazine and the Human League.

Plus Gentle Giant and Bjork & Brodsky Quartet are this week's Live Freaks

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BBC Collective review Midlake - Bamnan and Slivercork

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BBC Collective review TV on the Radio - desperate youth, blood thirsty babes

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BBC Collective review !!! (chk chk chk) - louden up now

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Listen on demand to the latest Rocket Science with Marc Riley show on 6 Music includes:

..And we have classic session tracks from The Human League, drawn from the John Peel show in August 1978.

Full tracklisting details of the show: ROCKET SCIENCE with Marc Riley

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All About Jazz review Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness Of The Water

The Sweetness Of The Water is electro-acoustic jazz at its finest.

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musicOMH.com review Envoy - Shoulder 2 Shoulder

Another review of this album @ BBC Music

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BBC Music review Eivind Aarset - Connected avant-jazz music from Norway on the esteemed Jazzland records.

Yet again, it seems as though Jazzland is living up to its boast of giving us a new conception in jazz. Matched only by Rune Grammofon's stable of Norwegian young guns, Aarset, along with labelmates Sidsel Endreson, Wesseltoft and Audun Kleive is making sure that all eyes (and ears) remain firmly fixed on the north. Essential.

[This album is still awaiting a UK release date]

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Saturday, June 05, 2004

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Kin

If you can wade past all the heaps of press and praise the Junior Boys have had lavished on them these last few months and allow yourself a moment alone with this quite remarkable debut album, you may just find yourself in the company of one of the most enjoyable, fresh and unspeakably cool albums of the last few years. "Last Exit" has been described in reference to a million different things, most notably focused on its visionary mesh of timbaland/two step beats in line with pure, inspired, classic flipped-over songwriting. This is the sort of album that doesn't come along very often, daring to douse the mainstream with all manner of broken, cutting edge techniques and tweaks, while giving the know-it-all guardians of underground music a good excuse to loosen up, shed the snobbery with which they so often greet anything remotely accessible. To stick with the journalistic consensus and give away the essence of "last exit", what you have here is a whirlpool of influences, from Depeche Mode through to Timbaland, Maurizio and the Basic Channel legacy through to New Order, Throbbing Gristle through to King Tubby, Ryuchi Sakamoto through to Horsepower Productions. Hard to imagine any other record this year that will inject so much life into pop music, or one that will give the underground as much inspiration and validity as this. File under : classic.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Slowblow - Slowblow
Mobile

Featuring the vocal contribution of Mum's Kristín Anna Valtysdóttir, Slowblow is a hugely charming, involving album from the endlessly creative musical hub of Iceland. The duo behind Slowblow (Orri Jonsson and Dagur Kári Petursson), have been active for over a decade, creating a uniquely Icelandic aesthetic of home-made, lo-fi analog tinkerings, at times slipping into more electronic terrain. This lovely album was recorded in carefully chosen living- and bathrooms across Reykjavik city as well as Sigur Ros's studio, a converted indoor swimming pool designed to bring out the gentle hum of ancient amplifiers and the tinkling hammers of an old upright piano with the soft squeaking of pump organ pedals or the sound of mechanical sewing machines. For Slowblow these are not unwanted artifacts, but the very essence of their sound. A musical saw, an upright bass, slide guitars and softly distorted electric guitars. A denty washing bin - turned into drum. Their soundscape is never digital and slowblow´s music is all home recorded, imperfections and happy accidents carefully treasured along the way. Lovely.*Comes in amazing limited book-bound packaging*

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Shadow Huntaz - Vampire EP
Skam

To follow up the immense "Corrupt Data" album was never going to be an easy task, so the Funckarma-produced Shadow Huntaz take a slight twist, hook up with auxiliary member K-Eyes (Who lent his hand to the awesome 'American Dream' cut off the album) and head deep down. "Vampire", third track in, is a filthy, gutteral, percussively destroyed beast of a track, acting as a counterpoint to the straighter Hip Hop structures of the other 3 pieces and twisting into a relentless tumble through pounding, squashed beats and lucid melodies. Just awesome. Rumour has it that Skam are in posession of 3 alternate versions for each of the tracks on the album, "Night" is here re-presented from one of those alternate takes - all reflective piano hooks and a more traditional production aesthetic - imbuing proceedings with a more toned-down, melancholly vibe. Deep deep stuff, highly recommended.

Various / Clone - The men you'll never see
Clone

Now available on Cd. Comprehensive doublepack compilation on Clone, pressed up on lovely virgin white vinyl and including some hits the label and its offshoots has delivered over the last few years. The biggies are here : Dexter's mighty, yet to be bettered "I Don't Care", Adult's "Hand to Phone", Perspects with "Stepwise", Pametex and their massive "16th" from 1997, Drexciya's "REST Principle", plus cuts from Alden Tyrell, Cosmic Force, Duplex, DPX, Detroit In Effect (D.I.E.) and more. Wicked.

!!! - Louden Up Now
Warp
2CD

In the spunked-up tradition of New York art-rockers Liquid Liquid, Esg or even the Bush Tetras, !!! (pronounced chk, chk, chk, as if you didn't know) have a lot of press and a weight of hyperbole to contend with on the release of the much anticipated Warp debut "Louden Up Now". The vibe is decidedly twang funky, all slap-bass and WAR percussion frenzy, horns, drum machines, even a flamenco meets Clash vibe on "Hello, is this thing on?", and an overlayed disco shuffle that is most enjoyable without paying too much attention to the lyrics. It's a fine album : glamorous, hedonistic, brilliantly executed (check out the glorious, spannered, largely instrumental "Theme from Space Island") and despite the fact it borrows hugely from the past, its an album that may well suffer in the long run from being far too much of its time. Anyway, while this party lasts, turn it up loud. **the first run of the cd comes as a limited edition with a bonus cd featuring extra tracks and remixes. This double cd will only be available for the first pressing of the album.**

Bell - Seven Types Of Six
Soul Jazz

This is the second album from Bell and is a mix of robotic funk electro, funked up twisted disco and classic 808 acid. Four years making this album , Bell give us analog synthesizers and digital techniques to bring you robotic arcade-system electro. Think Kerrier District meets Kompakt.

Camping - Suburban Shore
Plug Research

Plug Research always surprise and subvert expectations from one release to the next, the debut release from Camping being no exception. What we have here is the combined talent of two Americans (also known as Chessie) and a German creating a lovely Bossa Nova album, complete with vocals in German. Once you get past the unexpected language barrier, "Suburban Shore" quickly establishes itself for essential summertime listening. Check out the sound samples and you'll see what we mean. Ace.

Einsturzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne - Early Recordings
Mute

A collection of material recorded between 1980-1982 by the then Neubauten line up of Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit, Andrew Chudy (N.U. Unruh), Alexander Hacke (Alexander von Borsig) and Marc Chung. The recordings mostly precede the release of Kollaps, the first Neubauten album. The album features the early singles, remastered and for the first time available as a collection compiled by Blixa Bargeld

Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
Mute

The release of Einsturzende's classic album `Tabula Rasa' as a two CD set. The first CD is the original `Tabula Rasa' release from 1993 and is packaged with a second CD featuring the singles Interim and Malediciton.

End - The Sounds Of Disaster
Ipecac

Now reissued on Mike Patton's Ipecac imprint. "The sounds of disaster" documents the past few years of End's life. A time of shootings, home invasions, and near fatal accidents. Outrageous, epic, nihilistic, and absurd, the sounds of disaster is the soundtrack to a world of b-movie fantasies where hydrogen bombs, hippie death cults, subway-dwelling zombies, cannibal midgets, and legions of homicidal madmen all run rampant. While End's first release science/fiction was filled with spooky space themes, this recording is on a totally different planet. There are recognizable moments - surf rock guitars, crazed breakbeats, cop show riffs, theremins and moogs, screaming choirs, horn sections, spy music, japanese noise, scat vocals.... but they've all been forced together into a frenzied mass as catchy as it is schizophrenic. Ace.

Holkham - Komatta Saru
Expanding

This latest release on the excellent Expanding label comes from Simon Keep, aka Holkham, here exploring the undercurrents of minimal electronic music, sound art and sonic experimentalism. Far from being dry or over-intellectual, "Komatta Saru" retains a rewarding quota of warmth, most often displayed through padded basslines and shy melodies. The tumbling percussive wash of the fabulous "Juv3_1", for instance, sounds like a sleep-deprived, unconscious cousin to Gescom's brilliant "Puzl", while the title track evokes the bell-driven minimalism of Kurt Ralske. Recommended listening.

Kerrier District - Disco
Rephlex
CD

Finally available on cd, and cheap too! Luke Vibert pulls out the cheeky titles and grooved up disco vibes for his latest long player on Rephlex. Coming a few months after his `Yoseph' debut album for Warp, `Kerrier District' finds Luke in vibrant form, 10 tracks complete with bubbling basslines, subtle and sweet vocal samples and some classic analog action. Named after a district in Cornwall where Luke and pals grew up he parodies the Metro Area explosion by delivering an album of original disco classics for the 21st century. Opening with `Lets Dance And Freak' a vocal spaced out disco number with vintage `party time' samples and pogo-ing disco tom drums Luke fetches the track up to date with his monstrous 303 bassline that cements the track as a killer. With all manner of samples and noises appearing it continues in classic Vibert form, content, groove and a damn good understanding of Disco is the perfect combination. `Illogan' heads straight for the Dan Hartman (Take That?) school of disco with its `Relight My Fire' melody stabbing away, but Luke keeps it deep with a swooping funk bassline and wah wah guitar samples running in sync. On to "New York" which is just rampant hedonistic action from Luke as he visits the Big Apple with his 70's synths and finger clicking drums, delving into a feelgood mood for the spaced out strings and horn like chord stabs that deliver an ace groove. `Disco Bus' is a perfect chick tune, ass shuffling bass joins the padding 4/4 with vibes echoing around the beat, a cheesy sounding piano stabbing out a brilliant psuedo Italo melody and the fundamental vocal snippets that add the vintage feel, brilliant stuff. A class album from Vibert that shows as with every other genre he's touched he can pull it off and here he evokes a classic era and fetches it right up to date. Killer.

Like A Tim & Gina V. D'orrio - Bass girl
Like / Dub

Totally unhinged, not-what-you'd-expect collaboration between Like A Tim and DHR veteran Gina D'orrio, apparently featuring 9 classic American pop songs (10 on cd) from the 50s & 60s re-done mad style."Bass Girl" can perhaps best be described as a smokey Twin Peaks era Julee Crusie spliced with a plastic 80's sensibility that brings to mind some of the worst nights out I've ever enjoyed. Or perhaps the soundtrack to a classic 80's John Hughes movie reworked by Vangelis. Not entirely bad, just very VERY odd. Give it a listen.

Lucky & Easy - Talent Hoover
Ann Aimee

Following on from their beautifully deep work as Pub (the "Summer" 12" on Vertical Form being one of the finest examples of spacious, drawn-out, dubwise electronic music we've ever heard) and their Lucky & Easy EP's for Delsin and its offshoot Ann Aimee, this debut full-length under the L&E moniker carries on in fine fettle with a soulful fusion of downpaced Detroit stylings, squashed deviant breaks and a consistancy of warm melodies that works a treat. Check out "Willy's Wonka Kita Finger" for some spacious breaks most reminiscent of Metamatics, or the beautifully demented malfunction of "Donut Puncher" for a fine example of how discordant music can sound warm and inviting after all. One for fans of Kettel, Metamatics and Plaid.

Proem - Songs For The City Bus
Coredump

In which Mr Proem takes a brief pause from his work for the Merck label and delivers this ace little 9-tracker for the Coredump imprint. "Songs For The City Bus" is apparently based on heavily sliced & microdiced samples from the first 45 seconds of an unnamed austin blues record. Featuring remixes from Nautilis and Esem, the vibe here is rich, melodic IDM, crunched up and processed in a classic, early Arovane (Din-era) style, not breaking any ground but doing so with much charm. "Slevoh", in particular, does some lovely things to the beats, well worth checking out.

Recon - White Label
Highpoint Lowlife

Londoner Chris Coode has released a substantial body of work under the name of Motion, including a split ep with Matmos on fat cat, and an album for Taylor Deupree's 12k label. The Recon project retains his subtle and immediate control of the music, his trademark balance of controlled noise and texture, but allows through a whole other dirtier and nasty detail to the sound, akin to a broken techno feel of machines in mid-crisis. One for followers of Vladislav Delay, Maurizio, Mokira etc. Check.

Sketch Show - Loophole
Third Ear

Quite incredible album from Sketch Show, a project that has risen from the ashes of the legendary Yellow Magic Orchestra (Haruomi Hososno and Yukihiro Takahashi). "Loophole" evolves through its delicate popping microscopic clicks and pop structures into what sounds like a singer songwriter fairytale album fed through a laptop and spat out covered in velvet and loose wires. It sounds like an album that took a lifetime to record, not a glitch or scratch out of place, the threadbare vocals judged to perfection : fragile, vulnerable, touched. Burning a deep red scorching mark on your soul, this is another breathtaking electronic album that dares to slip into more familiar territory without hesitation, hugely rich, massively rewarding. If you're into Mum, Opiate, Gel, B.Fleischmann, Cornelius, Weschel Garland, Dntel, Nobokazu Takemura, or a daring combination of all of the above, you simply must check this out. Sublime. *includes remixes from Safety Scissors and Cornelius*

Alexander Robotnick - Rare Robotnick's
Hot Elephant Music

22 tracks from the robotnick archive, mostly from his prolific creative period between 82 & 84. With the inclusion of the classic `problemes d'amour' and `dance boy dance' on many electro/synth pop compilations, people have been awakened to one of underground electronic dance music's most influential producers. Now these long-deleted, heavily bootlegged (and in some cases, previously unreleased) tracks are open to re-examination, each one a great balance between nerdy keyboard experimentation, shiny new pop and club effectiveness. Check.

Lasse Marhaug - The Shape Of Rock To Come
Smalltown Supersound

Only for the brave this five track maxi album of rock hard glitch improvisations comes across like the secret sound library of a Motorhead obsessed idm kid mad into drag racing. Or in a Wire Mag style - more like a textured Merzbow assault on your senses. The track titles should tell you everything you need to know, 'Magmadiver' and 'Headless Piss' being the choice. Only Russell Haswell could give me more of a sorehead than this man.

Cryptic One - The Anti-Mobius Strip Theory
Day By Day

Alongside Vast Aire and Vordul, Cryptic One is the next key member of 'The Atoms Family' who've been rocking in a classic Wu styled framework for years before Cannibal Ox blew on the 'Jux. Co-released by M.F. Grimm's Day By Day label you can see the link to that other Wu posse the Monsta Island Czars clearly over this albums sixteen track length. A clear flow cloaks the killer wordplay that's in a Doom/Vast vibe but with a more linear flow. There are too many killers here from the amazing uptempo and swirling vortex of the 'Pulp Non-Fiction (Remix)' to the Tribe sampling 'Unicycle (Water Cycle)' with a dope Blockhead beat. Elsewhere Illogic's man Blueprint offers guest production and on the rap front Aesop Rock and Hangar 18 drop by. The majority of this album is self produced in an amazing style which again links to Doom. Dirty and mangled but with a classic straight up approach this is a killer hip hop album that I highly recommend that you check out.

Neutrino - Neutrino
Mush

Neutrino are downtempo japanese instrumental hip hoppers Atsuhiro Murakami and Hideki Kuroda who have a knack for forming music as deep as early DJ Krush and as relevant as Kaman Leung (though with a lighter approach). Highlights include 'R.S.' that has some very sweet vibes with mellow japanese girl voices that'll make you all warm and snuggy inside. 'Syupaman' brings the deep blue funk and echoic vibes while 'D-Planets' samples the sublime "slip, slip, slip" vocals from the Digable's - wicked. Ten tracks of lazyday headnodding par excellence from the head scratchingly eclectic Mush.

David Grubbs - A Guess At The Riddle
Fat Cat

Grubbs has become something of a legend in cognoscenti music circles - and yet somehow awareness of how actually pop this music is has remained consigned to footnotes in worthier - wordier magazines. Hearing this is something akin to checking the Go Betweens for the first time, or perhaps the more personal Elliot Smith pieces, shown of the mccartney fixation. Sure his voice isn't a crystalline faultless thing, but thats predominantly what makes this album so approachable and downright enjoyable. Like all the great songwriters, and i'm thinking of the late great Townes Van Zandt and Richard thompson in particular, its all about the delivery and the import, rather than any nominal idea of purity of tone. Fans of Jim O'Rourke's poppier end should take a look as there's some excellent free tracks which sneak out on you into the centre of this excellent album - as well as any one fancying a dalliance with some well sprung vocal, unfussily constructed guitar music. Surprise yourself and take a chance, as this is something very fine indeed. Highly Recommended.

Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos
Vhf

Jack's early music is recognized in the Takoma-inspired tradition of John Fahey, Leo Kottke - here Jack adds his own exotic stylings and a recognizable touch, somewhat related to the whole strain of free, late sixties modally fuelled string music, led in the uk by the likes of Davy Graham, Renbourn & Jansch and a host of less talented imitators. Pieces for 12 & 6 string, and lap guitar build on a pleasing fund of blues, and ragtime dues, into a fully convincing raga manifesto. Even co-opting electronics next to the more traditionally important tabla, adds something to the mesmeric presence of these pieces, beautifully recorded and ready for some quality time. After continued immersion, you almost begin to feel this is the greatest album John Martyn should have made, and coming from me - that's about the highest praise around. Beautiful.

Matt Harding - Commitment + Bonus Tracks
Moshi Moshi

Interesting to see this gorgeous album described in the sales-notes as "electro-folk", though we can't quite decide if the decription is a mark of genius or a travesty...we'll let you know. The album itself, meanwhile, is a sublime, warm blend of folk structures fed through filters, effects, and ageing processes that have the overall effect of lending the album with a nostalgic aroma that is at the root of its charm. Imagine if Fennesz and Tommy Guerrero had produced a long lost Nick Drake album and you have some sort of idea of what's at play here. Highly recommended - a truly lovely album.

Nina Nastasia - Dogs
Touch & Go

"Of the couple of thousand records I've been involved with, this is one of my favourites, and one that I'm proud to be associated with", Steve Albini .In October of 1999, Nina Nastasia recorded the album that would finally document her well-seeded career as a local singer-songwriter in New York City. It was exemplary of Nastasia's style, delicate string arrangements, the restrained beauty of her live band, the deceptive simplicity of her voice, and poignant, life-wise lyrics. Nina has always been at the top of her trade, this is a deeply moving, perfectly constructed album that's at long last available again. Recommended.

Ostinato - Left Too Far Behind
Exile On Mainstream Records

Debut album proper from Virginia/Washington D.C.progressive post-rock trio Ostinato. Imagine the middle of a golden triangle consisting of godspeed you! black emperor, Isis and Sigur Ros (plus a bit of early Pink Floyd) and you're close. Features David Hennessy of the Hidden Hand, the new band of recent Probot collaborator and general all round doom/stoner rock legend Wino.Produced by riff worshipper extraordinaire Bruce Falkinburg (The Hidden Hand, Clutch, Stinking Lizaveta, Adam West, Shepherd).

Tv On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
4AD

Founding member David Sitek produced albums for the Liars and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - but he'd be the first to say that TV On The Radio are something else altogether. TVOTR's debut album contains nine tracks that pull the listener in with vocals weave their way through music that somehow combines cosmic jazz (sax and flute), amped-up electronica, twitchy, danceable beats and swathes of treated guitar into rich folds of progressive sound.

Alter Ego - Transphormer
Klang Elektronik

Now available on cd. Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wutkke finally prise themselves away from their Ongaku, Playhouse and Klang Elektronik office desks to bring us their first album under their Alter Ego alias' since 1996's 'Decoding The Hacker Myth' on Harthouse. 'Rocker's flanged dancefloor wreckage needs no further hype but if you are looking for another track in the same vein then you might be a little underwhelmed by this album. For me the title track's rocking techno pulse with rolling static percussion and heavy momentum does just fine and 'Daktari's plink-plonk tribal percussion and bruised beats also work fine. Moreover this is an album for the clubs, instrumental ruffige for techno purists you might say though I can see quite a lot of the tracks on this album blowing up in a club. As far as wrecking the floor goes, it doesn't get much heavier then this. Ten tracks, triple vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Ace.

Robag Wruhme - Wuzzelbud "kk"
Musik Krause

From the plethora of artists, labels and parties associated with Cologne's mighty Kompakt crew one can safely say that Musik Krause and the hugely talented Robag Wruhme have been the most consistantly evolutionary and enjoyable operators of the bunch. Mr Wruhme has crept up in our estimation with every 12" issued by the label, from the ace `Backcatalog' to the bumping `Kopfniker' ep and recently to the jacking tech house of `Polytik', each 12" has delivered top quality tracks with a twist and has served to expand an ever growing fanbase spanning the spectrum from diehard Fabric practicioners through to Giles Peterson's massively influential playlist. "Wuzzelbud KK" sees Robag joyously tweaking and perfecting his glittering blend of microscopic house chops, jazzed-up vibes and late night airy beachside lullabies. He manages with a wink to equip a whole sound, a unique, forceful, tech-minimal-house with substantial bass, twists, tension, longing, felt all over and throughout your body. If you like your chopped-up house innovative, involving and advanced, at times diving into sun-drenched climes, at others even lending some deep Aphex melodies for inspiration, look no further. Awesome.

Theo Parrish (The Rotating Assembly) - Natural Aspirations
Sound Signature

Finally available on cd! The Rotating Assembly is Theo's loose Detroit collective revolving around 21 artists including Genevieve (known for vocals with Recloose), Maat Lo (aka Billy Lo), Marcellus Pittman (recorded/DJ's for/with 3 Chairs), Rick Wilhite (3 Chairs), Warren Harris (recorded with Dan Curtin), Andres, Karen Bosco (most vocals) John Dougalas (trumpet), King Sunshine & Trent Mitchell (double bass) among others, with all tracks written, produced and masterminded by Theo Parrish himself. This triple pack is by far and away the most anticipated Sound Signature release in some time, and showcases the most developed work to date from the low-slung, deep paced, Eq-mashing master of the go-slow tempo in deepest House tradition. To make things clear - Track C on this collection - "Orchestra Hall" - is quite possibly the most advanced, inspired, mould-breaking track Theo has ever recorded. Structured around layers of strings that just ceaselessly build and build, the bassline staggers and makes for a listening experience that grips you in the lowest part of the stomach and refuses to let go. Hardly attached to the generic confines of House music or any other convenient structures, moments like these expose Parrish as a true sound innovator. A true master. "Melt" and "Take Me", meanwhile, succumb to a more overtly sparkling deep House ethic, raw vocals and live instrumentation, but the augmentation is unmistakably Detroit in the deepest sense. "Mess I Made" delivers the Rotating Assembly in full-lineup, a largely live loungey affair complete with shimmering Rhodes and sweeping live percussion to caress the smokey aroma. A mighty triple-pack, worth double the price of admission for the unbeleivable "Orchestra Hall" alone. Killer.

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Friday, June 04, 2004

This Sunday on BBC 6 Music - Steve Lamacq show: TV On The Radio will be coming in for a chat as Steve's New Favourite Band.

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Almost Cool review Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever

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Almost Cool review Superpitcher - Here Comes Love

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it's a trap! relay the latest Jaga Jazzist news:

Jaga Jazzist will be entering a studio in Cologne, Germany in July to record a new album with producer Marcus Schmickler of Pluramon

This will be possible early 2005 release.

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The Guardian review Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Lucidarium

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The Guardian review Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

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BW & BK notify AGATHODAIMON - New Material Online

Agathodaimon release their fourth album, Serpent’s Embrace on Nuclear Blast this summer.

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Stylus review the experimental sounds of Rosy Parlane - Iris

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Uncut - July 2004

New issue of Uncut is now on sale, another boring and dull front cover.. Paul "MOR" McCartney.

Details ..Uncut - This Month

Note, The Cure are on the front cover next month.

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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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

The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong - 39 Golden Greats
Sanctuary

Yes, yes another Fall compilation. But wait a minute you cynics, this is the first time that they're entire catalogue across all their labels has been at the compilers disposal. This is your opportunity to clear your CD racks of at least three or four of their compilations, cause everything you need (album tracks and singles) is on this, 'the very best of the Fall 1978-2003' as it says on the sleeve. Oh and it's fully endorsed by Mark E. Smith, if you were wondering!!

PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Island

PJ Harvey's seventh album "Uh Huh Her" and the follow up to 2001's Mercury Prize-winning "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea", is a record you can't help but admire. Having been an obvious influence on The Kills and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and having seen The White Stripes go super-nova, one may have expected a more mainsteam sounding record, or at least a bit poppier or brighter. Instead she's stripped things right back, as far as they'll go and made a really minimal sounding record. The old shouty PJ is still here on a couple of tracks, but it's this quiet, considered intensity that now enthralls. It's another enigmatic twist and if you're a fan you'll love it.

Measles Mumps Rubella - Fountain Of Youth
Troubleman Unlimited

MMR have taken the East Coast of the US by storm with their edgy, polyrhythmic sound which calls to mind early, more aggressive PIL and Throbbing Gristle crossed with their own DC punk sensibility. Their multi percussionists bring to mind Liquid Liquid or even 23 Skidoo. This is a special limited edition EP to get you hot for their forthcoming full length. Of the three tracks, one is a remix by Trans Am of "Fountain Of Youth". Destined to be one of the hits of 2004.

Mission Of Burma - on Off On
Matador

First new album in twenty years from this hugely influential band, who've managed to maintain the raw intensity of their original releases after all this time. Suberb post punk with elements of The Stooges, Fugazi and the jagged guitar sound of the Gang Of Four.

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Reprise

This is powerful stuff, especially if you like your rock to disorientate you. Locked into churning grooves but always tuneful, you could lump these in with the Nu Prog heads because this is certainly psychedeiic. It's shifting, spatial heavy music.

Various Artists / Ave Marina - Ten Years Of Marina Records
Marina

Great 38 track compilation, featuring exclusive contributions from Malcolm Ross, The Pearlfishers, James Kirk and The Secret Goldfish, along with a selection of gems from the Marina back catalogue, from the likes of Shack, Edwyn Collins, Roddy Frame, The Pale Fountains, Josef K, Tahiti 80, The Free Design, Adventures In Stereo and a whole heap more.

Les Georges Leningrad - Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou
Alien8

The re-issue of "Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou" from Montreal's most notorious post-punks, Les Georges Leningrad, now with a bonus track. Recently they made their mark in the UK by landing a track on the "Rough Trade Shop: Post Punk" compilation. The sound captured by this band is an indescribable mix of demented electro-noise-post-punk backed up with their own invented language.

The Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesiser
Very Friendly

Their fourth album, from 1994, "Chocolate Synthesiser" was The Boredoms second major-label album and while it bears little or no resemblance to their new stuff it's absolutely essential listening and very much in the same ecstatic spirit. It's very raw but also very sophisticated - blending elements of speed-core, punk (there seems to 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 and what sounds like an unending curiosity as to 'what that button does' in the studio. It's like a musical lucky dip where everyone wins. Don't expect 'songs' as such - this is defiantly left-field - at the same time it's not po-faced experimentalism for its own sake and the scatalogical enthusiasm of the band is as infectious as it gets...

The Boredoms - Onanie Bomb Meets The Sex Pistols
Very Friendly

Based in Osaka, Japan, The Boredoms have borrowed liberally from the US 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). Further line-up changes have seen Eye joined, at various times, by Yamamoto Seiichi (guitar), Yoshimi Yokota (drums), Atr (drums), Edr (drums), and God Mama (dancer). 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. Originally released in 1986 "Onanie Bomb..." twitches and scrambles like epileptic billiard balls at the first break....Yamatsuka Eye's spastic control-free vocalizing is one of the most unwound noises to come out of a human's mouth since Yoko Ono yammered across the psyches of Beatles fans all those years ago...

The Boredoms - Pop Tatari
Very Friendly

The Boredoms third 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. The epic "Cora & Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action Or Gas Satori" effortlessly segues oily funk into dubbyness before exploding into demented old man hip hop (no, it doesn't make any sense). "Pop Tatari" was once analogized as the 'least commercially viable album released by a major label since the Lou Reed album "Metal Machine Music"', - genius.

FSK Meets Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - First Take Then Shake
Disko B

This is the 11th studio album for John Peel faves (I think they're second only to The Fall in the session stakes!) FSK, and was recorded in Feb 2003 with Marlo Thaler (Tied & Tickled Trio, The Notwist). The rough mixes were then sent across the pond to Detroit-based techno head Anthony 'Shake' Shakir who reworked some of them, adding dancefloor beats to the subtle guitars and keys and melancholic vocals.

Migala - La Increible Aventura
Acuarela

Spanish experimental rock group Migala got involved in the local scene in the mid-90s, making it's debut with the release of an album called "Diciembre, 3 a.m.". Migala have opened up for the likes of Smog and Magnetic Fields. Since the beginning of 2002 and during 2003, film maker Nacho R. Piedra worked with the restructured Migala. "La Increíble Aventura" is the first outcome of this project, it's images are sometimes rather narrative and make a casual and low-resolution use of cinematographic genders; sci-fi, thrillers, fantasy, kung-fu and gangster movies. "La Increíble Aventura" is referred to as Migala's new record, but it's more than that; it's a collection of musical films.

James Chance - Sax Education
Tiger Style

"Sax Education" takes tracks from various James Chance LPs ("Sax Maniac", "Flaming Demonics", "Melt Yourself Down") and brings us a whole extra disc of him and a minimal band recorded live for radio in Holland circa 1981. Includes "Contort Yourself" (original and August Darnell disco-not-disco remix), "The Twitch", "Disco Jaded", "Hypno Tease" etc. Early 80s punk-funk.

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".

Brian Eno - Another Green World
Virgin

An astonishingly great album originally released in 1975. The music has not been remastered but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology currently available (DSD). The packaging is great too, a superb looking digi-pack encased with a clear slip case.

Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Virgin

The music has not been remastered but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology currently available (DSD). The packaging is great too, a superb looking digi-pack encased with a clear slip case.

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Virgin

Fantastic early album from Eno, featuring the classic "Babys On Fire". The music has not been remastered but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology currently available (DSD). The packaging is great too, a superb looking digi-pack encased with a clear slip case.

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Virgin

The music has not been remastered but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology currently available (DSD). The packaging is great too, a superb looking digi-pack encased with a clear slip case.

Harlem Pop Trotters - Harlem Pop Trotters
Kif / Melodie En Sous Sol

French motor cyle gang cum jazz rock fusion group who allegedly destroyed most of the copies of their 1975 album after a royalties dispute! Apparently there are less that 500 copies in the world and they go for big bucks on the collectors market. Thankfully, Kif have secured the reissue rights and the full 12 track album can be yours for a measly sum. Prepare to experience some rare wigged-out jazz, psychedelic funk, latin inspired grooves and sci-fi rock that has elluded crate-diggers for decades!

Sounds Like Violence - The Pistol
Deep Elm

A hypnotic, anguished, intense vehicle for the articulation of desperation, characterised by interwoven, spiralling guitars and the tortured urgency of Andreas Soderlund's anxious wail. The fact that this can do justice to references such as Joy Division or Rites Of Spring tells you everything you need to know about the quality of this searing, bittersweet and unique release...

The Casket Lottery - Smoke And Mirrors
Second Nature

The last planned release from Kansas City's Casket Lottery is an impassioned distillation of a five year legacy of angular, labyrinthine and melodic sound into four blazing, majestic swansongs...

Kenny Larkin - The Narcissist
Peacefrog

Having recorded for some of the world's leading labels, including Richie Hawtin's Plus 8, Detroit's own Transmat and KMS, Belgium's R&S and Buzz, and the UK's own Warp imprint, Larkin delivers his first new LP in six years to the respected Peacefrog label. "The Narcissist" is a beautiful album of classic Detroit techno-soul, drawing comparisons with early Carl Craig.

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

Soul Jazz Records' latest release features classic and rare electric blues, funk and psychedelic soul-jazz music recorded in Chicago in the 1960s. This music was all released on Chess records which originally made its name from blues music in the 1950s, by the 1960s, however, the label was incredibly successful, releasing all types of black music, rivaling the great American soul labels such as Atlantic in New York, Motown in Detroit and Stax in Memphis. From the psychedelic soul of Rotary Connection (featuring a young Minnie Riperton), Dorothy Ashby or Phil Upchurch, to the heavyweight funk / R'n'B of Etta James, from rare-groove classics such as Soulful Strings "Burning Spear", to the electric blues funk of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf and Little Milton this is an essential release.

Max De Wardener - Where I Am Today
Accidental

An album of beautifully understated music that combines glitchy electronica production with found sound recordings.

Various Artists / Know Your Monkey
Projector

The third outing for the Projector Collective, follows their excellent "The Trolley' CD which received airplay on Radio One, XFM, GLR and Resonance FM. This time out, Vertical Cat (Sulphur / Smallfish) and Peter Nofi from the Shortwave Set (Low Resolution) join the usual suspects in typically bizarre and eclectic surroundings. "Know Your Monkey" leaves no stone unturned.

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Playlouder review Miss Kittin - I Com

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This week's One World show on Radio 1 is another mixed bag type show: One World: The Earlies, Kasabian, Tracer AM, Shiva Soundsystem

» One World

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Jazzmatazz - Upcoming Jazz Releases has also been updated.

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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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Musique Machine interview Mono

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Musique Machine review Mono - Walking cloud and deep red sky, flag fluttered and..

Third album for the Japanese quartet, Walking Cloud and deep red sky, flag fulttered and the sun shined comes a mere year after the European release of the stunning One step more and you die although they haven’t stopped touring since then.

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Stylus review Charalambides - Joy Shapes

A milestone in the quest for insightful rapprochement between composition and improvisation, Joy Shapes is an incredibly opulent and worryingly irresistible album indeed.

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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

SuperSonic, Birmingham 22nd - 24th July

A scaled down event but this probably the closest the UK gets to a Mutek or Sonar or Koneisto this Summer: SuperSonic festival 2004

Supersonic festival is an eclectic and experimental playground, where new and emergent talent exhibit their skills alongside established and world-renowned practitioners. Whilst the focus is on experimental music, supersonic acts as an umbrella for creative and experimental practice in any media or art form.

Artist profiles @ SuperSonic including Luke Vibert, Christ, Cylob, Neil Landstrumm, Zongamin, Chris Clark etc.

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themilkfactory.co.uk interview RICHARD H KIRK

As Mute releases a collection of unreleased material covering a fifteen-year period, and re-issue the seminal first Sandoz album with additional tracks, Richard H Kirk, undoubtedly one of the most prolific artists around, agreed to take a bit of time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for themilkfactory. Here, he talks about the genesis of Cabaret Voltaire, how he realised that his work had influenced younger artists, his passion for African/Caribbean music and his forthcoming project.

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themilkfactory.co.uk - June 2004 /Issue 57

themilkfactory.co.uk deliver another fine selection of reviews. [The summaries below are from themilkfactory.co.uk e-mail/website, to see the full reviews go to the link above]

ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Juana Molina - Segundo
Delicate and precious, the music of Juana Molina is to be found somewhere between Colleen and Beth Gibbons. Simply superb.

REVIEWS
Busdriver - Cosmic Cleavage
With the recent demise of cLOUDDEAD, it is left to others to pick up the pieces and carry their flame, and Busdriver is doing a pretty good job of it on his third album.

Ekkehard Ehlers / Joseph Suchy / Franz Hautzinger - Soundchambers
A collaboration between laptop musician Ekkehard Ehlers, trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and guitarist Joseph Suchy, this album collects tracks recorded for an art installation in Porto.

Galerie Stratique - Horrizzzons
Two years on from his sumptuous debut, Quebecer Charles-Emile Beulac continues to develop his impressionist analogue electronica on his stunning second album as he presents a more earthy collection of atmospheric sequences.

Global Goon - Family Glue
After three critically acclaimed albums released in seven years, Global Goon returns with another slice of funky cheesy electronica that will surely have everyone dancing well beyond the summer.

Icarus - I Tweet The Birdy Electric
Joining their spiritual home with Leaf for their fifth album, Icarus, aka cousins Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, assemble on I Tweet The Birdy Electric a captivating blend of acoustic and electronic compositions developed during live improvisations.

Richard H Kirk- Earlier/Later: Unreleased Project Anthology 74/89 / Sandoz - Digital Liforms Redux

Language Computer - Mouse Back Riding
The brainchild of John Bloug and Detect, Language Computer combines electronic soundscapes and avant-guard hip-hop and the result, the pair's debut album, is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Meat Beat Manifesto - ... In Dub
Techno pioneers Meat Beat Manifesto get the dub treatment, but things are not as simple and straightforward as one could think on this album.

Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
Fifth album for Sixtoo, and first release on Ninja Tune. With Chewing On Glass..., Sixtoo rejects his previous work to explore the world of live instrumentation.

Skalpel - Skalpel
Hailing from Poland, Skalpel creates a dense and evocative soundtrack built on recording of Polish jazz recordings made during the sixties and seventies.

Bugge Wesseltoft - Film Ing
Jazzland-owner Bugge Wesseltoft returns with his is fourth album and offers once again cinematic piece of work.

COLLECTED WORKS
Various Artists Grime
Various Artists D-Tonate_00
Various Artists Delivery Room
Various Artists Switches

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Koneisto Festival, Helsinki 13th - 15th August

The line up for Finland's Koneisto electronic music festival is looking impressive.

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Xfm report the latest Manic Street Preachers news: Manics Ready New Album And DVD - 7th album due in September.

This band are dancing in the last chance saloon, as their last album was bland/ dull arena rock muzak that was poorly received by critics and fans.

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This week's Later..with Jools Holland features performances from The Bad Plus and The Killers

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BBC Music review Mitchell Akiyama - If Night is a Weed and Day Grows Legs

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kultureflash interview TV on the Radio

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This week's Kultureflash [Number 91]

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.

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Splendid interview avant-jazz artist Craig Taborn

Pianist, organist, keyboardist and electronic composer -- Craig Taborn just about does it all. ...

His latest solo release, Junk Magic focuses on electronics. Joined by violist Mat Maneri, tenor saxophonist Aaron Stewart and drummer James King, Taborn creates complex yet supple arrangements that combine elements of electronica, trip hop and jazz fusion. Programmed beats and samples supplied by Taborn, as well as Maneri's microtonal playing, add experimental textures that give Junk Magic a highly varied sonic palette.

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Playlouder have news of the full Glastonbury 2004 Line Up!

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Solefald Update

A news update from: Solefald

"The recording of Solefald's fifth album is drawing closer, and we are just as excited over this as you are! We haven't been in a studio together since the summer of 2002, and now we're about to find out how each of us have evolved since then, musically and creatively speaking. Lazare has been busy recording with Borknagar and Age of Silence, whereas Cornelius is just finishing his Sturmgeist solo album. We're certainly going to take the required time in the studio, to really deliver the monster album we want to give you. The devil is in the details, and we want as many of them as possible! A Solefald album has always been so much more than just the sound of two guys playing, and that's how it will be also for our fifth opus. A Viking video full of martial action is projected, as is the contribution of classically trained musicians. Solefald want to go on in the dark and epic direction of songs such as 'Jernlov' and 'Dionysify This Night of Spring'. A readaptation of one the songs from our 'Jernlov' 1996 demo will be in the track list, as well as other compositions in the classic Solefald vein. Expect a Wagnerian experience with all of Iceland's fire and ice combined... "

[Alerted via It's A trap]

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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

New U2 Album set for November, single coming in September

LAUNCH, Music on Yahoo! relay the news that Paul McGuiness [U2 manager] states new U2 album should be out by November. A new single will be released in September.

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

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Brand Republic report Swinstead goes under as Sleaze and Jockey Slut close.

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Now Sleaze falls victim to style cutbacks

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Playlouder review Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever

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Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

Details of a new: Eternal Fusion show

Listen on demand...SpydaRadio

Tuesday June 1st 2004

Apples In Stereo - 'From Outside In Floats A Music Box'
Soft Machine - 'Spaced Two'
Volcano The Bear - 'The Woman Who Weighs Out The Wool'
Cerberus Shoal - 'Train Car Nursery'
Soulive - 'Shaheed'
Liquid Liquid - 'Scraper'
Food - 'Chickpea'
DJ Food - 'Cosmic Jam'
Meat Beat Manifesto - 'Psyche Out'
Skyphone - 'Cent Gauge'
Icarus - 'Mutations'
Animal Collective - 'Infant Dressing Table'
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - 'Camel Backwards'
Gong - 'Supercotton'
Damon and Naomi with Ghost - 'The New World'
Volebeats - 'Maggot Brain'
Funkadelic - 'America Eats It's Young'
Banco De Gaia - 'Down From The Mountain'
Nick Toone - 'Floating Invisible'
The Necks - 'Aquatic 1'
David Grubbs - 'The Neophyte'
Fingathing - 'Cluster Buster'
The Egg - 'Ben Hur'
Two Lone Swordsmen - 'Formica Fuego'
Mr Scruff - 'Champion Nibble'
Do Make Say Think - 'Reitschule'

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