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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

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music blog to check: musicircus

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Client - City

Mute provide info on the new Client album: Client - City due September 27th.

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The Brainwshed Brain: V07I34 - 08292004

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Martin Siewert - No Need To Be Lonesome
Mosz

Coti - Lido Lato
Poeta Negra

Julian Fane - Special Forces
Planet µ

Blow Up Hollywood - Fake
Blow Up Hollywood

Delivery Room
Leaf
Delivery Room is a bargain-priced sampler of new and upcoming releases from the Leaf Label, and reflects the eclectic, modern aesthetic of label boss Tony Morley.

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indieworkshop.com review Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector

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The Virgin Prunes Reissues

Mute provide info on the The Virgin Prunes reissues: VIRGIN PRUNES FIVE ALBUM REISSUES - REMASTERED AND REPACKAGED - RELEASED ON THE GREY AREA OF MUTE

The Grey Area of Mute will reissue five albums by influential Dublin band, Virgin Prunes - "A New Form Of Beauty", "…If I Die, I Die", "Hérésie", "The Moon Looked Down And Laughed" and "Over The Rainbow" - on 4th October 2004.

The five albums, all originally released in the 1980s, have been remastered and repackaged with the involvement of Gavin Friday and include mixes of material available here for the first time. The reissues represent an overdue opportunity to rediscover the awesome creative power of the Virgin Prunes.......

All five reissues will be released on The Grey Area of Mute on 4th October 2004.

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Monday, August 30, 2004

The Scotsman interview The Blue Nile: Across the rooftops to High society

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The Independent on John Peel: The god of adolescence

Rockin' John Peel is 65. But after all these years, what do we know about him? That he loves his music, his family, his football. Above all we know that voice. But what else is there to this beloved 'cultural impresario'? DJ Taylor is granted access to the manicured lawns and gazebos of Peel Acres to uncover an uncomfortable truth

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Voivod Reissues

BW & BK report VOIVOD - European Reissues Due In September

Albums scheduled for reissue on September 20th on Blackend label include Kronik (1998), Phobos (1997) and Negatron (1995).

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This week's One World show on Radio 1 features The Egg + LTJ Bukem

Now available on listen again.

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6 Music: More Shows Added to Listen Again

Mentioned in the latest newsletter from BBC 6 Music news that 3 shows have been added to the listen again service via BBC Radio Player. As of this week shows by Gideon Coe 10am - 1pm slot, Vic McGlynn 1pm - 4pm slot, and Andrew Collins 4pm - 7pm slot are now included on the listen again service.

6 MUSIC – ANY TIME, ALL THE TIME
From next Monday, we’re adding the Gideon Coe, Vic McGlynn and Andrew
Collins shows to the BBC Radio Player. So, whether it’s a GREAT LOST
ALBUM with Gideon, a BADAASSSS TUNE with Vic or a round of FIGHT CLUB with
Andrew, you’ll be able to hear them when it suits you for up to seven
days after originally broadcast. You need never miss an interview,
session or magic moment again!

Lammo will be on the 1pm - 4pm weekday slot this week: STEVE LAMACQ for VIC MCGLYNN

# posted by DJ Martian 4:24 PM

Simon Reynolds Post-Punk Book - Due April 2005 !

On this ILM thread: Simon's got a name for his Post-Punk book!

Simon clarified today:
"Barring a hitch of some sort, the UK/Commonwealth/Europe edition should be out in April 2005, on Faber & Faber. Pages? Not sure precisely, but it's.... substantial. Big period--seven years, 1978-84. Also has quite a lot of illustrations.
The US version, on Viking Penguin, looks likely to be significantly
shorter. It may also come out slightly later--that's still up in the air. "

# posted by DJ Martian 4:01 PM

the stypod

Stylus have launched a mp3 music blog: the stypod

# posted by DJ Martian 3:12 PM

Pitchfork review Björk - Medulla

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John Peel is 65 today.

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Justin Berkovi - Passion

epm provide a full press release for the new Justin Berkovi album: Justin Berkovi - Passion - MUSIC MAN - PRESS RELEASE

Artist - Justin Berkovi
Title - Passion
Label - MUSIC MAN
Format - CD / 2 X LP
Catalog No. - MMCD024 / MMLP024
Release Date - 06/09/2004

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New Releases @ Rough Trade

Some new releases listed in the latest weekly e-mail from Rough Trade Shops.

New Releases and Imports [mostly] for August 30th:

g plan - all roads lead to this
g plan are group of scottish musicians from chimaera, the wow kafe and degrassi. they play emotional mostly instrumental post rock with energy and bursts of noise. this meaningful and moving experience was produced by brendan o'hare. if you like explosions in the sky, mogwai or godspeed then check this out

tusk (pelican) - tree of no return
tusk feature 3 members of chicago's mighty pelican. this is their second album and relates the grim tale of a hapless drifter stranded in a nightmarish hinterland. unlike the slow and heavy peilcan this is more like an intense avant-grind version of the locust. on tortuga

axolotl - axolotl
the debut from this san francisco trio conjures comparisons to the dream syndicate work of john cale, magical power mako or taj mahal travellers, the elerctronic droneworks of the mego folks or phil niblock. they blend acoustic instruments with electronic processing creating harsh or soothing blasts and drones, free jazz clatter and a teutonik pulse. on psychopath.

knifehandchop - how i left you
an album of post break-up anthems via a sentimantal journey of shizoid stomping electro hardcore and dancefloor death marches that could only come from a shot to the heart, this is young billy's first proper album and demonstartes a new form of sonic aggression

communique - poison arrows
The album is a potent mix of punk, Bowie-era glam and the swagger and jangle of The Smiths; drenched in 80's era keyboards. A year's worth of touring has honed Communique nto a tight, sharp beast. 'Poison Arrows' balances the band's sophisticated instrumentation with a intensity that speaks all the way back to the underground punk that inspired these guys to pick up instruments in the first place. it is equal parts perfumed silk and whisky-breath kisses - in a way that few others do with their first album.

lazyboy - penguin rock
Lazyboy are Radio One's Rob da Bank and Kylie co-writer Dan Carey. 'penguin rock' is full of quintessential English eccentricity and eclectic influences. It's a chill-out album of sorts, full of cosmopolitan Balearic spirit and laidback dub grooves, but with so much more on offer. Collaborators on this album include Estelle, Roddy Frame, Earl 16, Cathy Battestessa and Lee 'Scratch' Perry. on sunday best

frisell, bill - unspeakable
On 'Unspeakable', guitarist Bill Frisell and producer Hal Willner take a freewheeling, idiosyncratic approach to the modern art of music sampling, in a groove and-soul based project. Frisell and Willner employ often obscure songs and sounds culled from vintage vinyl as the jumping off-point for their own sonic explorations, with choice fragments borrowed and integrated into original compositions. More often than not, the pair simply sample the ideas and/or moods of the various sides Willner has unearthed, then create something entirely new from this found-object inspiration

chance, james and the contortions - buy
a reissue of the first james chance album from 1979 on ze records. it was first and only studio album with the contortions. it's his most abrasive, jerky and glorious album featuring funky rhythms, tuneless guitars and a bleating saxophone. it's distrurbing, fun and danceable. this cd reissue includes a deluxe 20 page booklet and 3 bonus live tracks

chance, james and the contortions - live at the bains douches
A recording of a live performance on May 13, 1980, Live Aux Bain Douches is the single best James Chance live album available, eclipsing ROIR's 'White Cannibal' and 'Soul Exorcism' releases. The recording is far superior to any of the other live material I've heard, and the band seem to be fully engaged with the material, delivering an energetic set to a wildly appreciate audience. on ze records

dead combo - dead combo
Raw grease monkey electro punk from Finland via NYC on Output Recordings. dead combo are 2 guys, 2 guitars and a dirty old moog. they play stripped down, primitive thrash that could easily be mistaken for the classic 1977 era suicide or spaceman 3 at their height of their suicide infatuation. it features a mashed cover of bowie's 'let's dance' recorded live at cbgbs.

slam - year zero
Taking inspiration from bands such as Tom Tom Club, Prince, Mantronix and urban labels like Celluloid and Sugarhill, Slam's Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan have produced their most accomplished album to date. Dot Allison and Tyrone Palmer return on vocals alongside Elbee Bad, Envoy and the legendary voices of Ann Saunderson and Billie Ray Martin. To reflect the warped and weird electro funk on which they were raised the duo dug out older synths and analogue equipment to work their magic. On 'Year Zero' they have made the album they always threatened to make, an album of fully realised songs and future classics. limited signed copies of the cd

jesu - heartache
Long awaited return by Justin Broadrick (GODFLESH / NAPALM DEATH / TECHNO ANIMAL) whose career spans almost 20 years of pioneering rock, drum/n/bass and hiphop. The new thing is JESU, a hybrid, free-form project - best described as a cousin of Godflesh - nearer in sound to them than any other project he has been involved in - the brooding bass and ominous guitar tonality are there, and yet Jesu takes flight in a way Godflesh never could - the sounds are ambient and electronic, crushing and monotone, gentle and foreboding, guitar driven and not.

the radio dept - lesser matters
finally a uk release for The debut album, 'Lesser Matters'. it is a beautiful record which uses delicate song writing and distorted white noise in equal measure to dramatic effect. Their classic indie-pop sound wouldn't be out of place filed next to the likes of Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and the Boo Radleys (circa 'Everything's Alright Forever' and 'Giant Steps') yet they manage to sound as fresh and relevant as The Postal Service. Their fugged bedroom-production style gives them a discernible edge and helps to mark them out as more than mere contenders. on xl

kuti, fela - best of / music is the weapon 2cd/dvd
deluxe box set that includes his double cd best of plus the definitive iconic dvd 'music is the weapon'. shot in lagos in 1982, this documentary features live material and studio sessions.

rodriguez-lopez, omar a. - a manual dexterity - ost volume 1
rodriguez-lopez is one half of the songwriting duo at the core of mars volta. this is the soundtrack to an as yet unfinished film begun in 2001. predominantly instrumental this is a high volume coming together of a free form version of the volta, avant-garde musicians and boundary pushing ideas. on g.s.l.

das oath - das oath
Das Oath have been controversially tearing up the hardcore scene for years, making themselves to the 'enfants terrible' of their own scene! The band's inception in 2000 started with the selfreleased first single on Youth Attack Records, Gloom Records and Coalition Records. this 15 songs album is a steamroller of intensity mixing their love of negative approach, void and agnostic front. it holds a fine line between classic hardcore, structurized arty noise and 70's punk rock. on dim mak

taborn, craig - junk magic [UK Release Date]
the follow up to taborn's 2001 solo album 'light made lighter'. he explores the touchstone for his digital space jazz that embraces the same discipline used by sun ra or larry young. he creates complex arrangements that combine elements of electronica, trip hop and jazz fusion

homelife - guru man hubcap lady
at last, More from the Mancunian collective Homelife. 'Guru Man Hubcap Lady' is a spectacular mixture of musical ingredients, blending unique, beautiful melodies inspired by Eastern, Latin, Folk, Classical and Modern music. So, as you can see Homelife aren't interested in conforming to perceived norms, to genre, to standard recording techniques, to even having a proper line-up. What they do though is come together to make a kind of pop music for all those people who thought that somehow pop music was over. on ninja tunes

dj rels - theme for a broken soul
Debut electronic/broken beat/nu jazz album release on Stones Throw from talented newcomer DJ Rels. he was discovered and subsequently championed by Madlib. The album has been executive produced and recorded by Madlib whilst Peanut Butter Wolf shares co-executive producer credits. Rels musical style throws out sonic references such as Seiji and Bugz In The Attic and also the likes of Jazzanova. It is a hazy, funky mix of hip hop inspired futuristic instrumentals. cd only on stones throw

pritchard, david - nocturnal earthworm stew
a fascinating 1976 album from canadian musician pritchard. originally released on island this is a unique blend of acoustic instruments (violin, cello, dulcimer, guitar etc) with found sounds and random objects all integrated with the earlist portable synths (arp 2600 and ems aks). think eno, very early kraftwerk, pioneers like alvin curran, tim souster or ron geesin. remastered with bonus tracks.

spring heel jack - the sweetness of the water [UK Release Date]
spring heel jack mark another step in their evolution away from their jungle roots with their fourth contribution to the thirsty ear blue series. it's their most unabashedly beautiful yet, showcasing the elegant phrasing of wadada leo smith on trumpet and evan parker on saxophone, accompanied by john edwards' meaty and textural bass playing and the sensitive drumming of mark sanders

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Sunday, August 29, 2004

Leonard's Lair review Weevil - Drunk On Light

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [August 23rd]

Key new album releases for August 23rd [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Blackfield - Blackfield (Snapper) [Featuring Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree]
Benjamin Brunn - Konig Und Drache (Bine)
Butch Cassidy Sound System - Butches Brew (Fenetik)
By The End Of Tonight - The Fireworks On Ice (Temporary Residence) EP
Nels Cline Singers - Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone) [US Import, Available at Rough Trade]
Clinic - Winchester Cathedral (Domino)
DKD - Future Rage - Album (Bitasweet / 2000 Black)
Douglas/Sclavis/Lee/Van der Schyff - Bow River Falls (Premonition)
Fucking Am - Gold (Dragcity)
Lars Horntveth - Pooka (Smalltown Supersound)
Little Wings - Magic Wand (K)
Old Man Gloom - Christmas (Tortuga)
Radian - Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
Swod - Gehen (City Centre Offices)
Unearth - Oncoming Storm (Metalblade)

# posted by DJ Martian 6:43 PM

Slang - More Talk About Tonight

Terminus Records have just released an album from Slang in the US.

Slang music is in the jazztronica / electronic/ post rock vein - think Nils Petter Molvaer, Supersilent, Jaga Jazzist, Spring Heel Jack - with a touch of Techno Animal circa Re-entry.

A free-form musical project by Dave Schools & Lang Martine III. Includes performances by: DJ LOGIC, VIC CHESNUTT, DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, MATT ABTS, ERIC MCFADDEN, LORI CARSON and more...

www.slang2.com
www.terminusrecords.com

Slang sets off on another sonic adventure with More Talk About Tonight the second release from the critically-acclaimed alliance, in stores August 17th (Terminus Records). Filled with sophisticated arrangements and free improvisations, the album is both indefinably modern and reassuringly classic at the same time, as if the duo in charge (Layng Martine III and Dave Schools) were equally as influenced by Herbie Hancock as Brian Eno. They pilfer freely from abstract rock, alternative jazz and electronica, and the result is nothing short of beautiful cacophony.

For More Talk About Tonight, Martine began by tracking the improvisational threads that developed out of the recording process when he gathered the "core band": bassist Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), drummer Matt Abts (Gov’t Mule), keyboardist Ray Packzkowski (Trey Anastasio, Viperhouse) and guitarist/special effects master Knox Chandler (The Golden Palominos). More Talk About Tonight plays like a night at a post-apocalyptic speakeasy, with friends like Vic Chesnutt, DJ Logic (Medski, Martin & Wood), Lori Carson (The Golden Palominos), Eric McFadden (George Clinton), Paul Pimsler, Jay Rodriguez (Groove Collective), and others occasionally stepping up onstage to join Martine and Schools for a song or two before disappearing back into the smoke-filled room. More Talk About Tonight weaves a brilliant soundscape brimming with abstract imagery and atmosphere

# posted by DJ Martian 4:30 PM

Trivia fact: Get Ready by New Order is 3 years old tomorrow. It was released August Bank Holiday 2001 in the UK.

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Instal.04 - 16/17th Oct - The Arches, Glasgow

New website for Instal 04 the experimental music festival happening in Glasgow in October: Instal.04

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Riverside - Out of Myself

The Laser's Edge release an album from Polish art rockers Riverside

RIVERSIDE
Out of Myself
[LE-3039]
Release: September 21, 2004

Riverside is a way of expressing reflections, dreams and fantasies through music. It is an idea for exposing emotions, for an escape from the grey or unnaturally overcoloured reality. It is music inspired by a time, a place, a thought and a word, a figment of their own and other people's imagination. It is joy and sadness, a whisper and a scream.

This young Polish band has created an emotional musical journey through dark and moody atmospheres that find kindred spirits in Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Anathema, and Pink Floyd. With a sound that encompasses prog, psychedelia, metal and even alternative rock, Riverside is poised to break through to a wider audience.

The gorgeous full color booklet, designed by award winning digital artist/graphic designer Travis Smith is the visual counterpart to Riverside's music, perfectly capturing the mystical spirit of "Out Of Myself".

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White Willow - Storm Season

The Laser's Edge release an album from Norwegian art rockers: White Willow

WHITE WILLOW
Storm Season
[LE-1038]
Release: September 21, 2004

White Willow has been named 'one of the most significant progressive groups of the current era' by The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music, and 'the Mazzy Star of prog' by College Music Journal. Their debut effort 'Ignis Fatuus', even garnered a stellar review from Burrn!, Japan's leading metal magazine. They have played world renowned festivals such as Progfest and NEARfest, and have headlined France's Crescendo Festival.
Over the course of four albums their music has evolved from a soft, pastoral sound based around female vocals, mellotron, woodwinds and acoustic guitars, to a more gothic-tinged electric and rock-based sound, with heavier guitars being especially prominent on the band's new offering, the turbulent 'Storm Season'.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:31 PM

Signal to Noise - the journal of improvised & experimental music

The new Fall 2004 issue of Signal to Noise has now been published, a themed issue on The Artist's Role in Waging Peace

Overview of CD Reviews

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Saturday, August 28, 2004

Playlouder review Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - List Of Lights and Buoys

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Triosk - Moment Returns

Triosk release Moment Returns on the Leaf label on Monday 11th October 2004.

eJazzNews.com review Triosk - Moment Returns

Also reviewed @ The Beat Surrender

Formed in 2001, Sydney's Triosk present their first proper full-length record, released internationally on The Leaf Label. Moment Returns sets a new standard for improvisational musicians working with electronics, as the band search for playful new ways to combine the sound and unity of purpose of the great jazz piano trios with new compositional forms and the textures and processes of minimalism and electronic music.

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Selected Autumn Album Releases

The latest e-mail newsletter from Forced Exposure publicity lists these forthcoming album releases [that I have not mentioned previously]:

[Release Dates are US]

9-14-04 THR 148CD ZEDEK, THALIA Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness THRILL JOCKEY CD

9-21-04 TZ 7191 BERNSTEIN, STEVE Diaspora Hollywood TZADIK CD

9-21-04 HAPNA 018CD MATHIEU, STEPHAN On Tape HAPNA CD

9-28-04 PLAY 013CD LOSOUL Getting Even PLAYHOUSE CD

10-05-04 GIGOLO 155CD CARRETTA, DAVID Kill Your Radio GIGOLO CD

10-05-04 AST 33CD KPT.MICHI.GAN S/T AESTHETICS CD

10-05-04 RCD 2038CD PHONOPHANI Oak or Rock RUNE GRAMMOFON CD

10-05-04 REPH 018CD µ-ZIQ Bluff Limbo REPHLEX 2CD

10-05-04 TO 64 CD JOHANNSSON, JOHANN Virthulegu Forsetar TOUCH CD/DVD

10-05-04 TO 63 CD Z'EV Headphone Musics, 1 To 6 TOUCH CD

10-05-04 PRAE 001CD BLECTUM, BLEVIN Magic Maple PRAEMEDIA CD

10-05-04 BPC 094CD ALLIEN, ELLEN My Parade BPITCH CONTROL CD

11-02-04 STAUB 054CD ROBERTS, DEAN And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema STAUBGOLD CD

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RICARDO VILLALOBOS: thé au harem d'archimède

Details of a new mini album from RICARDO VILLALOBOS, due October 11th on Perlon.

RICARDO VILLALOBOS

Here are the details on the new Ricardo Villalobos mini LP on Perlon. Out October 11th, 2004 in Europe. Which is roundabout October 12th over here. When promos arrive I will let you know.

Ricardo Villalobos
thé au harem d'archimède
(Perlon)

3x12" / CD

perlon43/perlon43cd

tracklisting:3x12"

A1. hireklon
B1. serpentin
B2. forallseasons
C1. théorème d'archimède
C2. hello halo
D1. temenarc 1
D2. temenarc 2
E1. miami
E2. stereobox
F1. true to myself

tracklisting: CD

1. hireklon
2. serpentin
3. forallseasons
4. théorème d'archimède
5. hello halo
6. temenarc 2
7. temenarc 1
8. miami
9. true to myself

Archimedes' theorem defines the buoyant lift: Diving an object into a vessel full of water causes an increase of pressure inside the vessel. The displaced amount of water, i.e. the lifting force is equivalent to the object's body volume, i.e. its weight-force.

Transfering this theorem to the music of the overwhelming parallel universe of Ricardo Villalobos' new triple EP/album length CD, one will realize the following: Diving all of its notes into reality results in the displacement of the same to a high degree, since the music has an enormous volume by expanding airily. Which means nothing but the musical principle of psychedelics taking effect here. This time by using the method of reduction, Ricardo is closer to the tradition of the cultured jam sessions by the legendary German 70es musicians' collective Ash Ra Tempel around Manuel Goettsching (known from his Prototech solo production "E2-E4") than to the simply structured march through occasionally rather uninspired club metrics.

While experiencing this uniquely fascinating work the amazed listener is witnessing a musical terraforming, at the same time the colonization of the new planet: every single track creates a mystic space in which sound elements are able to spread out in all directions. Teeming, often melancholically coloured sound organisms awake on the field of free flows - among them Flamenco patterns ("Hireklon") or warming bass lines ("Miami"). Just as one is used to it concerning the tracks within Ricardo's DJ sets, which hardly can be marked by a simple definition of beginning and end any more. A confining grid is dissolved almost completely, physical laws are replaced by emotional ones - by the mathematics of intuition.

Ricardo's percussive talent is undisputed: the sophisticatedly elastic rhythm meanders of Latin American/Caribbean origin sound as if they have been introduced to the wild from the base of a cool, impeccably clean laboratory which is located somewhere in the Science Fiction vastness of the Chilean Atacama desert. The loss of sense of time appears in favour of the event of intensity. Frequently the tracks appear surprisingly volatile, despite the considerable playing times of several titles which are absolutely required for exhausting the free, rhythmic modulatons. One wishes them to last forever, like the whole production.

In the staggers of these animating blurrings of perception Archimedes' theorem transforms into the romantic image of "Tea in the harem of Archimedes". This synthetical mind expansion of bizarre beauty is highly addictive!

Source: Forced Exposure/FE Publicity e-mail

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Sisterray is a well known London independent record / music store. Their redesigned website includes e-commerce ordering.

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musicOMH.com review Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady

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musicalbear review Diplo - Florida

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Vibe interview Saul Williams

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Beans Album in October

WARP RECORDS will release a new album from Beans titled: Shock City Maverick on October 25th.

Beans is back with an all-new supercharged single and power-packed album.
The Down By Law single is released on 20th September, with the Shock City Maverick album to follow on 25th October. With red-hot production contributions from Mark Pritchard (Reload/Global Communication/Jedi Knights..) as well Beans' own Beats, the album takes up where Beans last record (the superb Now, Soon, Someday) left off, and moves restlessly onwards, melding raw electronics, futuristic soul, and mind-bending lyrical wordplay

Source: Warp Records e-mail newsletter.

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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!
Yunx - Snake in the Grass
Ai
Mini LP

This is the first in Ai's long awaited new EP series, featuring specially comissioned photographed sleeves by acclaimed fine arts photographer Dan Holdsworth. Manchester's Yunx have been delivering their carefully crafted blend of smooth electronic music and detroit techno variations for over 10 years now, having first come to public attention with their inclusion on skam's legendary `0161' compilation back in 1998. With a highly regarded series of EP's on their own eponymous label and releases for Isophlux and U-Cover under their belt, yunx have now been made part of Ai's lineup of core artists and proudly present their first release for the label - `Snake in the Grass'. Across these 6-tracks Yunx return to re-assess emotive electronic textures and uplifting melodies, the opening track here `Easyway' bringing to mind the melancholy euphoria the likes of ulrich schnauss or even boards of canada have streamed into popular consciousness since the late 90's. The sound here is soft and soothing, a million miles removed from the intricate digital processing and effects that have typified the electronica scene since it became known as `Idm'. With it, Ai have brought into focus a strain of electronic music that harks back to a time when analogue sounds and rich musicality where the primary tools at the disposal of aspiring bedroom musicians and knob twiddlers, and have done so in fine style. Each release in this series will be strictly limited to a one-time pressing of 1000 copies only, so get collecting!

Bjork - Medúlla
One Little Indian

**Limited edition multi-page Digipak edition** It's been three years since Bjork's last album landed on this planet but it seems just like yesterday. Such was and is the power of that album to remain in your subconscious, days, months, years after you first heard it. Going through another baffling pre-recording arrangement of ideas Bjork finally hit upon making 'Medúlla' (translated as marrow in latin) an album mostly stripped bare of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Instead all the music had to come from the human voice (but not in a Bobby McFerrin way :), with this in mind she hooked up with Mike Patton, Rahzel, Robert Wyatt, Kelis, plus other lesser known artists and choirs from the UK and Iceland. Where music does creep in it's handled by Olivier Alary from Ensemble, Mark Bell, Matmos, Mark 'Spike' Stent (basically Bjork's backroom boys). Track highlights include the glacially electronic shimmer of 'Where Is The Line', 'Triumph Of A Heart' goes back to the 'Big Time Sensuality' vibe connected with 'Debut', with a dope human trombone accompaniment and dual beatbox attack. 'Mouth's Cradle' is about the wonder of breast feeding, an amazing cross pollination of choral voices, rapid tone chord changes and Bjork's voice driven by a kaos pad while a low riding human beatbox from Rahzel bumps this track along. 'Who Is It' is the poppiest track on this album and an absolute blast with Rahzel on amazing multi layered single take beatboxing form. 'Piano II' ventures into what Bjork calls emotional throat singing, wild sounds emit from the mysterious artist Tagaq who features on other tracks in a less confrontational manner - wild. My personal favourite is 'Submarine', a divine collaboration with the godlike Robert Wyatt, beautiful and beyond compare - mysterious and haunting, a musical equivalent of a foggy night by the docks watching the ships slowing swaying side to side. Bjork imparted to the Mixing It crew that this album was in part inspired by 911 and the experience of the birth of her second child Isadora. Maybe 'Medúlla' is not as instantly mind blowing as 'Vespertine' but with a few plays it'll lodge itself in your soul for months to come. The hardest part is choosing the formats, lush 180g double vinyl gatefold edition or lush super audio/standard cd format in a digipak with a 16 panel poster or a lush DVD edition, audio through your DVD player with an exclusive 45 minute documentary on the making of 'Medúlla', owwwch! Very essential.

Boyd Rice / Non - Terra Incognita : Ambient Works 1975-Present
Mute

This is a very welcome compilation of eerie ambience from pioneering artist Boyd Rice aka NON. With a mighty back catalogue behind him the artist selects this heavily spooked out visionary collection of music. Musically the material drifts over a diverse selection of moody industrial ambience part Aphex and part Philip Jeck to name just two points of reference. A killer introduction to what some people might consider a difficult artist. Highly recommended.

Christopher Willits - Pollen
Fallt

Christopher willits' long-awaited release `pollen' finally sees the light of day. Initially a precursor, but now a follow up to his widely acclaimed release `foldingand the tea' on 12k, "Pollen" finds willits playing guitar and using a series of self-built signal processes that fold smooth guitar lines on top of and into each other, generating patterns within patterns, and an unbounded stream of similar yet different forms. A gradually drifting yet loosely interlocking geometry of melodic rhythms. Pollen' is characterised by continuous repetition and variation, emerging spontaneously from warm guitar harmonies. Lovely.

Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady
Ninja Tune

Fifth album in and Paddy Steer's Homelife continue to amaze and fill us with joy and wonder at how a barrel load of influences and wild talent can equal musical magic rather than a horrible mess. Again featuring the dominant members Graham Massey and Seeming To (Seeming seeming! to take more of a group role here rather than upfront vocalist on 'Flying Wonders') alongside other core member Tony Burnside. Wayward throughout in it's most charming manner. The mixture of horns, loose drums and loopy melodies beguile and thrill. 'Roman Form' which starts this album off takes in Captain Beefheart, Art Ensemble Of Chicago and 70's cop show pimp funk with a barrage of firework's crackling. The multi vocalised title track is a tough ride into slug funk with an abstract rule disobeying aura / while still being pure fun. 'A Casa (The House)' calms things down into a classic piece of Homelife, cartoonlike musical themes (this time maybe 'Roobarb'), Graham's rasping baritone saxophone rasps next to Howard Jacobs free flowing melodic runs. In the midst of this is Maanila Santos' gorgeous vocal. Talking of killer vocals possibly my favourite track on 'G.M.H.L.' is 'Harder', simply the finest neo disco funk soul afro track in age's, with these references of course one man comes to mind = Arthur Russell. Tony Burnside's sweet and innocent vocal rings of Arthur Russells' style and delivery, focussed strongly on the recent Audika compilation - my top track of the year so far, no less - it leaves me breathless. Seeming makes her first vocal appearance on 'Heaven Knows', a swooning rapture of a song accompanied by boozy horn's, handclaps and Kubrick's 2001 style bleeps - quite amazing. The quite mad 'Banjo' is a delirious bag of tricks, like a midtempo batucada track with freeform poetics dropping science on the fantastic musical possibilities of this much ridiculed instrument. Those amazing bollywood on mars string arrangements appear on the lowriding jazzyfelakutijamming sweep of 'Lowdell Is Missing'. Flamenco funk get's a real shock on 'April Sunshine', again Tony Burnside's vocal aim straight at your soul. 'Windytreehouserollerdisco' is as you can imagine, whatever you want it to be - in my ears it's Tom Ze jamming to the theme tune of another seventies kids tv theme tune orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin. Finally we have the gorgeous backwater drift of 'Big Tree' blessed by Seeming's vocals and 'Strangers' equally calming and touched by something altogether wonderful. Enough warranted superlatives, in the year end shake up this will probably be one of my fave albums of 2004. Madwaltzley recommended.

Knifehandchop - How i left you
Very Friendly

And so Billy Pollard returns with what's touted as his first fully-fledged album, taking the narrative through all manner of mental excursions, gabba touches, pop flicks, dancehall ragga pop and whatever else comes into his messed-up mind. There's also a manic big-up to the hardcore djs and mix cassettes of his teen years with the albums vividly destructive closer "hardcore 94 - tearing away from the deviant heartbreak thread that runs through the rest of the album. Tres cool.

Lars Horntveth - Pooka
Smalltown Supersound

Lars is the brother of Martin, both members of Jaga Jazzist, the spiky end of the Cinematic Orchestra nu-jazz band explosion. Back on homebase label Smalltown Supersound after a brief fling with Ninja Tune, Jaga Jazzist will return shortly with a brand new album. For now sample Lars' saxophone, clarinet lead album, featuring incredibly lush and strong string arrangements that easily carry most of the tracks here. This eight track CD brings to mind recent 4 Hero projects and even further back the work of Alice Coltrane. Martin Horntveth lends an electronic edge to a number of tracks but for the most this is a more contemporary jazz based affair in comparison to the risk taking Jaga albums such is 'Stix' and less so the incredible 'A Livingroom Hush'. One for fan's of Bugge Wesseltoft and his Jazzland artists plus Chris Bowden and the Bruno E 'Lucky Arthur' CD on Trama. Lovely.

Movement 04 - Detroit Electronic Music Festival 04
Transmat

A superb DVD featuring some of Detroit's most famous music exponents, live and in interview. With performances from heads such as Amp Fiddler, Kevin Saunderson and Kenny Larkin, Juan Atkins and Stacey Pullen, and interviews from such luminaries as Techno Godfather Derrick May, Kenny Larkin, Amp Fiddler, Darryl Wynn, Matthew Dear, soulman Vikter Duplaix, Delano Smith and 3 Chair Rick Wilhite. Also in this special edition there's an interview with ex Sun Ra drummer and musicologist Francisco Mora, and also documents the politics behind the struggle for control of the festival, (some of you may remember Carl Craig being sacked from Movement a couple of years back). All in all a very informative, and well documented film about the Detroit music scene and the now world famous DEMF festival. Recommended.

Neotropic - White Rabbits
Mush

After a string of successful releases for Ninja Tune's Ntone imprint, Neotropic (aka riz maslen) makes her Mush debut with her finest work to date. Utilizing collaborative live performances from a number of talented guest musicians on a bed of sparse programming, Riz has crafted a release that is a continuation of her migration toward warm, minimal, acoustically grounded composition. Her work combines ambient, dub, and electro with touches of folk and hip hop, appealing to fans of Manitoba, Fourtet, Colleen and Nobody. Very nice.

o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C.
Schematic

Finally available on vinyl. 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.

Otto Von Schirach - Global Speaker Fisting
Schematic

Deafening audiences and defying protocol, Otto Von Schirach returns with a freshly-lubed full-length to give mashed-up electronica and digital breaks another ghetto suppository. The follow up to 2002's Chopped Zombie Fungus, and following on from his demented exploits as Doc.Nuke, Global Speaker Fisting is from the underground's underground: it's the twenty-eyed electrified monstrosity living in the darkest, deepest sewers of the hardcore avant-garde. Moving from death metal send-ups to plagues and biotech disasters,to mashed up gipsy Hip Hop show-downs - Von Schirach's fourth album is easily his finest and most accomplished record to date. Check!

Poto & Cabengo - Poto & Cabengo
Karaoke Kalk

Finally the return of Jens Massel, aka Senking, aka Kandis, aka Fumble - presenting his new project together with michael cramm, who accompanied him on some of his Kandis releases. Listening to Poto & Cabengo for the first time will probably be a surprise - poto & cabengo's music is influenced primarily by americana and folk-blues, not without humour in fact. You search for the creaky crackly sounds of Jens Massel and eventually realise they are still there amidst this jaunty music, though taking a fundamentally different route. Instruments take centre stage again and combine with touches from their electronic gear to create an album so unique that it can hardly be described. Vibrant with electronic sub-structures and instruments frayed at the edges with glowing, quirky songwriting skill - this is one of the most original and endearing releases on the ever-wonderful Karaoke Kalk label in some time. Lovely.

Secret Frequency Crew - Forest Of The Echo Downs
Schematic

This debut album from the Secret Frequency Crew is by far and away the most accessable and listenable album on Schematic for quite some time, taking a brief step aside from the mentally disjointed digital emissions the label has focused on of late. DJs Matthew Brown, Matt Friedman, and Adrian Michna have been operating under the Secret Frequency Crew banner for some time, taking in deep, atmospheric instrumental electronica with a love of 80's melodies and a crafted blend of guitars, trombones, bass and piano thrown in for widescreen listening. "Forest Of The Echo Downs" also at times delves into more complex, heavily percussive territory and reduced digital territory, sizzling into the twilight. Good stuff.

Si-Cut.Db - Offices at Night Vol.1 - Originals
Fallt

`Offices at night', in common with Pimmon's `Assembler' (2000) features web-only audio components commissioned to accompany the audio released on cd. the final work will feature three volumes. Volume 1 consists of the original tracks by si-cut.db on cd. volumes ii and iii will feature freely available `versions' of the original tracks in mp3 format re-worked by various artists (volume ii) and by si-cut.db (volume iii). Confirmed volume ii artists include: stephan mathieu (ritornell, orthlorng musork, fällt), tu m' (aesova, fällt), mapstation (to rococo rot /kreidler), motion (12k, fat cat), sebastien roux (12k, apestaartje) and mitchell akiyama (raster-noton, substractif). Check.

The Bug (Featuring Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak
Rephlex

Kevin Martin has been obsessed with ragga's glamorous gyrations for some years now, and here he brings to record one of his longer term accomplices in the dancehall. Four cuts wide here, showcasing some mighty sublow lines beyond bashment and into straight speaker ruffage. Yet as the twelve progresses, the realisation begins to sink in that Kevin has become a top flight raggamuffin producer along the way - World War 3 Version is simply brilliant, when the Queen busts the "Come test mi now" lyrics, you know she means it - probably the best release yet from this always scintillating project. Mash up the whole damn place, this is it - Buy!

Christopher Adler - Epilogue for a dark day
Tzadik

A remarkable young composer out of the Lou Harrison mold and a virtuoso on the khaen mouth organ, Christopher Adler splits his time between california and Thailand where he collaborates with many of the country's greatest classical musicians. For his first cd he has chosen a varied program of solo music and ensembles blending traditional thai classical instruments with those of the west. Featuring music for percussion ensemble, an evocative trio for khaen, violin and viola, a large ensemble work for thai classical instruments and a few virtuosic solos for mouth organ, this is beautiful cross cultural music with honesty, imagination and a deep sense of respect for tradition.

Luc Ferrari - Cycle Des Souvenirs
Blue Chopsticks

First ever release of a large scale electroacoustic piece five years in the making that revisits numerous periods from Ferrari's five decades of work. From the composer's liner notes: "I have been composing a new series of works under the general title Exploitation des Concepts. The point is to take concepts I have been experimenting with throughout my entire life as a composer, and to put them to use in every possible direction: in instrumental as well as electroacoustic music, in video, in multimedia installation, in new technologies as well as old ones.... These Exploitations go in all directions: the Tautology, superimposed cycles, the minimalism of the Presque Rien series, architectures of chance, anecdote, narrative, everyday sounds, arte povera . . . souvenirs . . . etc. -- all these concepts that have always preoccupied me but which until now I hadn't really exploited. So we find images of my childhood, my street, my subway; places I passed through and which struck me enough to record them, certain villages in Italy or the sea in Portugal; of my present, too: workplaces, my souvenirs, my house. The Cycle des Souvenirs also means that all the elements are structured in cycles which, when superimposed, produce chance encounters."

Luc Ferrari - Interrupteur / Tautologos 3
Blue Chopsticks

Debut release on Dave Grubbs's reissue-oriented label (moving forward from where Dexter's Cigar left off). "Ferrari - along with Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, François Bayle, and others - is one of the pioneers of the particular style of tape music known as 'musique concrète'. More significantly, he must be counted as one of the most complexly, most idiosyncratically compelling of post-War composers. Ferrari has time and again ranged far afield of musique concrète, and Interrupteur/Tautologos 3 is one such foray into instrumental music. These particular realizations came about through Ferrari's directed improvisations of Konstantin Simonovitch's ensemble, and the recordings were originally released in 1970 by EMI in their 'Perspectives Musicales' series. 'Interrupteur' is largely static music, a music of long tones periodically interrupted by aleatoric events. If it references musical minimalism (particularly Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Robert Ashley), this surely counts as an intuitive, very personal result. 'Tautologos 3' pursues the idea of the superposition of cycles of different lengths that, once set into motion, will continually result in new events. Interrupteur" is from 1967 and features the following instrumentation: English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, two percussions, two electric organs. It is one of the most outright powerful and devastating recordings within the avant garde realm. "Tautologos 3" is form 1970 and features: flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, double bass, electric guitar, electric organ & vibraphone.

Merzbow Vs Nordvargr - Partikel
Cold Spring

In which the king of Japanese noise meets the lord of scandinavian power noise! housed in a beautiful matt foldout digipak, this album takes specially recorded source work by Merzbow, given the mighty Nordvargr treatment. Heavy loops, rhythms, pulses and noise, mixed with ambient moments - one of the most involving releases from Masami Akita to date. Check.

Raz Mesinai - Cyborg acoustics
Tzadik

Composer, DJ, engineer and producer Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem and raised in New York city. His compositions blend electronics, beats and dub effects with acoustic instruments in creating an esoteric musical tapestry filled with new sonorities and a haunting spirituality. Dramatic and mysterious, his third cd for tzadik features a host of downtown luminaries including violin virtuoso mark feldman and saxophone alchemist john zorn in some of the most complex and soulful electro-acoustic music around. The full lineup of guest musicians includes : Mark feldman, mark dresser, eyvind kang, ralph farris, tim barnes, okkyung lee, raz mesinai, john zorn and shelley hirsch.

Abdominal & Dj Fase - Flowtation Device
Tune Up

Abdominal is known as DJ Format's touring emcee - here he's joined by his own deejay and class funky beat maker Fase. Considering further background info to this album is none existent I'll tell it like it is. Twelve tracks of fairly bumpin' straight down the centre hip hop with semi aggressive lyrics and funked hard production from Fase with a mid period Tribe feel. Check the samples out and peep it..

Viktor Vaughn - Venomous Villain
Insomniac

To be brutally honest recently I've been feeling a little bit bloated with M.F. Doom's crazily productive output this year. Then when I heard about this rapidly put together sequel to Sound-Ink's Viktor Vaughn album I sighed. Relax, VV:2 is twelve tracks that bump in a crazy crisp thugged out manner, production handled byunknown talents System D-128, DiVINCI, Swamburger, Session 31, DJ I.N.C. and Dub L (Def Jux). Doom errrr Vaughn's lyrics are up there with his best, well his rudest, most direct and funny. Guest vocalists include Kool Keith, Manchild, Iz-Real, Carl Kavorkian and Poison Pen. This is Doom's most immediate hip hop album to date and very concise running at just over thirty minutes plus man of the mo' Diplo co-produces one track. Now just when are Rhymesayers going to drop 'MM Food', the answer = mid November preceded by the 'Hoecakes' 12" in October, me canna wait. Dope.

International Airport - Reunion Of Island Goose
Geographic

After last week's superb single 'Association' here comes the second album from this ace 2/3 Scottish troupe. The linkup with Teenage Fanclub planted a seed of thought in my head that International Airport feel like a rougher edged version of the Fanclub's summary Byrd's vibe. Lyrically out in the cosmos but grounded with a plethora of interesting instrumentation, mixed down by John McEntire at Soma Chicago. If Tortoise jammed with Mum and sang songs of extra terrestrial love then they'd be close in spirit to International Airport. Give it a try.

Nagisa Ni Te - The Same As A Flower
Jag Jaguwar

'The Same As A Flower' is the sixth album to come from Japan's children of nature Nagisa Ni Te, aka Masaka Takeda and Shinji Shibayama. This being the third album that Jag Jaguwar have picked up while Geographic introduced them to the UK in 2001, a couple of other albums remain Japanese only imports. This new record was recorded between 2002 and the beginning of 2004 and like previous excursions the songs are about nature, about the singularity of two people immersed in nature together, and about experiencing life as 'being', not 'becoming' or 'recovering from'. Like their previous full-length record, 'Feel', 'The Same As A Flower' still brings to mind the very best of sixties' and seventies' psychedelic, progressive and folk rock (i.e. middle-era Roy Harper, Pink Floyd, 13th Floor Elevators and early Neil Young). Blissful.

The Fucking Am - Gold
Drag City

.. being a thoroughly unholy alliance between The Fucking Cramps and Trans Am. Ball's out rock 'n roll without any compromise. The gold glitter card packaging should indicate where this lies. Eight tracks, only for the brave or drunken.

Windsor For The Derby - We Fight Til Death
Secretly Canadian

5th full length release from the widely acclaimed Windsor For The Derby, finding core members Dan Matz and Jason Mcneely along with now long term members Timothy White and Ben Cissner recording with Dan Burton (early day miners / ativin) the controls at his (burtons) grotto home studio. Displaying a progression from previous works, "We Fight Til Death' exhibits a skewed pop sensibility as well as some new found dark refrains - making for their most realized work to date. Check.

Dead Combo - Dead Combo
Output

After their Suicide inflected twelve last week, ver combo return and, no they haven't worked out any other patterns on their drum machine, still sound and look like Sisters of Mercy never happened, take Iggy far too seriously and to be quite honest with you make one of the best comedy albums of the last few years. This shit's so bleak, tongues surely are wedged firmly in cheeks - just check 'Lets Dance' and draw several pentagrams on your dancefloor. The new no wave

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The Brainwashed Brain V07I33 - 08222004

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector
Thrill Jockey (US) / Sonig (DE)

Radian - Juxtaposition
Thrill Jockey

Chris Watson - Weather Report
Touch

Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Tomlab

David Grubbs - A Guess at the Riddle
Drag City

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Planet µ

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Announce New Album

Mimicry Records profile the forthcoming Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem album

Context: Firstly, Introducing Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: US West Coast Avant Prog Band:
For a band that owes as much to Meshuggah as they do to the Art Bears, Messiaen, and Einstürzende Neubauten, their skewed exhumation of Futurism in reverse strikes a broad nerve and fills a big void – in the process SGM’s music has become dear to many many hearts.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of Natural History
(WoM 019) - 2004

A landmark release in the tradition of absolutely no tradition, a destined classic. With this, their Mimicry debut, Sleepytime's musical method has evolved, as natural things will do, and delivers what can only be described as a complete and thoroughly devastating musical expression. With their dense harmonic compositions & and jagged, intricate rhythms (by FAR the best in the business on both counts) servicing the artistic equivalent of a Unabomber tract set to music, the music collected in the Museum of Natural History sets a serious high water mark for future generations to look back on in awe… assuming the existence of future generations, that is.

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Friday, August 27, 2004

All About Jazz review Jim Black/Alasnoaxis - Habyor

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This Month's All About Jazz newsletter: All About Jazz Highlights | August 2004

This month's update details some of the latest changes to All About Jazz, so please read on...

Including:

An interview with Nels Cline: Nels Cline: Intrepid Guitarist

An interview with Vandermark 5: A Fireside Chat with The Vandermark 5

An interview with John Medeski: A Fireside Chat With John Medeski

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BBC Collective interview The Radio Dept.

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4AD FORTHCOMING IN 2005

Latest news from 4AD [via e-mail newsletter]

The 4AD release schedule for 2005 is already looking busy - the new records from 50 Foot Wave and Cass McCombs will be followed by a number of releases which are currently works-in-progress. 4AD artists in the studio at the moment or in the near future include Magnétophone, Mojave 3, Tanya Donelly, the Mountain Goats and Scott Walker...

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Teebee Album

Norwegian drum n bass artist Teebee is back with a new album on Subtitles Records, listen to tracks exclusively previewed at Drum'n'Bass Arena - Listen

No details of a release date or album title at the mo.

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BBC Collective review Björk - Medúlla

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fast 'n' bulbous has been updated, including the rankings for 2004 album releases.

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Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

The latest Eternal Fusion show is now available to listen online @ Eternal Fusion: SpydaRadio

:: Latest Show: Friday 27th August 2004 ::

Eternal Fusion

Intro: 'Bugle'
Landing - 'Gravitational 3'
Faun Fables - 'Train'
Clem Snide - 'Ballad Of David Icke'
Tabla Beat Science - 'Secret Channel'
Bill Wells - 'Family Sighs'
The Cranes - 'Particles & Waves'
The Beans - 'My Love Is A Rhinestone Infused Dodecahedron'
Mandarin - 'Eye On Time'
Greenland - 'Secret Rat And The Bag Of Happiness'
Psychatrone & Cotton - 'Several Species Of Alien Beings Gathered In Space Jamming With Cotton'
Guided By Voices - 'Sons Of Apollo'
sunn0))) - 'Bassaliens'
Sufjan Stevens - 'Demetrius'
Can - 'Spray'
Ozric Tentacles - 'Celtic Jam' (From Recent U.S. Tour)
Tarentel - 'Bell Jar'
Brian Eno - 'Everything Merges With The Night'
The Album Leaf - 'The Outer Banks'
The Ivytree - 'The Withering Year'
Tara Jane O'Neil - 'Take The Waking'
Gravenhurst - 'Bluebeard'
No Neck Blues Band - 'Raising The Low Road'
Jah Wobble - 'Elevator Music #11'
Igloo - 'A Ye Yo'
Tied & Tickled Trio - 'Memory Dub'
Homelife - 'Windytreehouserollerdisco'
Arovane - 'Windy Wish Trees'
Polmo Polpo - 'Dreaming (Again)'

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electronic music webzine: Tesselate

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Cure Day @ 6 Music

Next Thursday is Cure Day @ 6 Music

Thursday 02 September we will be celebrating the Cure's massive contribution to British Music with an exclusive interview, gallery comp and lots of great music:

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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music blog to check: beatmixed

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Bob Harris no longer at 6 Music

Boring Bob Harris is at 6 Music no more, Mojo journalist/ ex Xfm DJ - Keith Cameron stands in on Sunday. Apparently changes are coming to 5pm-8pm slot on Sunday, although no details yet:

COMING UP

September A new show with new sounds ... stay tuned.

According to messages on BBC music messageboards, Bob Harris is increasing his Radio 2 output and has decided to longer continue at 6 Music. Personally speaking Bob was always out of place at 6 Music with his boring selection of singer songwriters, alt.country/ americana and conformist trad/ classic rock.

It will be interesting to see what the 6 Music executives decide to do with this 5pm - 8pm Sunday slot.

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Almost Cool review Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector

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A Perfect Circle get eMOTIVe

MTV.com - News report A Perfect Circle will release an album: eMOTIVe on the day before the US election. The album will be a combination of original songs and covers, on the themes of war, peace, love and greed.

Billboard have further info: APC Gets Political On 'eMOTIVe'

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The Guardian review Björk - Medulla

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The Guardian review Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys

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ARS Electronica FESTIVAL

An updated website for ARS Electronica FESTIVAL taking place in Linz, Austria Thursday 2nd September to 7th September.

Ars Electronica covers many intersection themes of Art, Design, Multimedia, Music/ Sonic Art, Technology and how they relate to changes in society.

ARS ELECTRONICA 2004
Timeshift - The World in 25 Years

The 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Festival of Art, Technology and Society
"TIMESHIFT - The World in 25 Years" is the title of the 2004 festival; transformation, upheaval and the future are its programmatic concepts. The point of departure is reflection upon the past 25 years;
the aim is to identify the developments that promise to be the driving forces in art, technology and society over the next quarter century. The younger generation of media artists and theoreticians will meet Ars Electronica's founding generation and, together with an audience of wide-ranging backgrounds and diverse interests, confront the past and the future of phenomena at the interface of art, technology and society.

Full Press Release

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Mixing It - 27 August 2004

The tracklisting for this week's Mixing It show on Radio 3: Mixing It - 27 August 2004 includes:

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall feature a session with Los Angeles-based tuba player Tom Heasley, who creates ambient electro-acoustic music through digital processing and loops.

Plus music from latest CD releases, including Susanna and the Magical Orchestra and Mira Calix.

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Thursday, August 26, 2004

Converge multimedia mini-site

Noisecore rockers CONVERGE have launched a multimedia mini-site to promote their upcoming You Fail Me album. [Alerted via Silent Uproar]

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Slow Thrills

I must add this music blog to my blogger template: Slow Thrills

Also Slow Thrills Portal.

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The Azoic - Illuminate

Nilaihah Records release The Azoic - Illuminate on September 20, 2004.

The follow-up to their successful 'Forward' and 'Conflict' releases, 'Illuminate' returns with a further cultivation of The Azoic's sound and style that will leave you wanting more! A solid blend of electronic dance that encompasses everything from trance to futurepop, industrial and synthpop. 12 passionate dance tracks, including a cover of Animotion's 80's hit "Obsession" featuring a guest appearance from Frank Spinath of Seabound!

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Found via a Google News Alert: The Blue Nile: Interview by Sarah Williams.

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Astronaut Artwork

arjanwrites has the front cover artwork for Duran Duran - Astronaut

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Toucaen album

PostEverything provide info on: Toucaen - He was Once Somebody's Baby Boy due on swim label [owned by Colin Newman of Wire] on October 4th.

Toucaen’s music is both simple and complex, electronic in construction rather than content it’s influences range from Eric Satie to Warpadelica – Steve Reich to drum n’ glitch yet all the while imbued with that illusory quality that makes it the soundtrack to his life, to my life, to your life. Triumph, tragedy, banality and beauty are all there.

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Junkmedia review Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral

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Junkmedia review Signer - The New Face of Smiling

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Splendid review an avant jazz collaboration album: Big Satan - Souls Saved Hear

Big Satan is an avant-jazz project comprised of alto saxophonist Tim Berne, guitarist Marc Ducret and drummer Tom Rainey. Theirs is an occasional collaboration -- very occasional; the last Big Satan album was recorded back in 1997. Producer David Torn is an additional and important part of the equation on Souls Saved Hear, whose talent for fostering intricate sonic designs figures prominently

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musicOMH.com review Diplo - Florida

Often stunning and never less than competent, this is an excellent, diverse collection of instrumental hip hop excursions, laid back grooves and whacked out rap tracks. This album triumphantly announces that there is a new kid on the beats block and he might just knock DJ Shadow’s b-boy cap off.

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Dusted review Bark Psychosis - ///Codename:Dustsucker

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PLAN B magazine NEW ISSUE

Notification of a new issue of PLAN B MAGAZINE [via email newsletter]

PLAN B NEW ISSUE

The new issue of Plan B will be in shops on September 13. It features:
Joanna Newsom, Marine Girls, Shystie, Est’elle, Nick Cave, Can,
Benicassim Festival, Deerhoof, Jack Rose + VHF, Le Tigre, Comets On Fire,
Dizzee Rascal, David Cross, and much much more. It’s available in HMV,
Virgin, Borders and independent record shops nationwide, plus selected
outlets overseas.

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FatCat Demo Archive

FatCat records are one of the most progressive and adventurous British records labels have recently set up a FatCat Records : Demo Archive

With our current busy release schedule & ongoing commitments to a large roster of artists, FatCat are now finding fewer opportunities to release material from new artists. Whilst we are still receiving a high quantity of demos, we have decided to attempt to use the freedom of our website to showcase the best of these. These have been curated online (in alphabetical order) with downloadable audio and information & contact details for each artist. This section of the site will be continuously updated, with new artists being added to it as & when good material is recieved.

The choices of who we have asked to join this archive are selective, and we make no apologies for this. These are tracks we consider to be good quality material, tracks that (were it not for our workload) we would be happy to release on FatCat.

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Genaro

benbecula have signed a new band Genaro to their publishing label, Benebecula music

Benbecula representatives to attend Manchester's In the City event in September. Genaro to play ITCu showcase, one of 58 bands picked from 2000 who entered this year.

also:
24/10/04 benbecula showcase: christ., reverbaphon, prhizzm with special guest robin guthrie @ the arches - glasgow

Listen to Genaro fans of shoegazer music will need to investigate.

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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

FortDax album on the way

Latest FortDax news:

i've just completed the recording of a session for the john peel show, radio 1, which is due to be broadcast on wednesday august 25th (11 p.m. - 1 a.m.). for anyone who is interested but doesn't live in the u.k., you can listen to this live, or for a week or so after airing via: John Peel

i can also confirm that the next full length FortDax album (following the single on static caravan, details of which are still being finalised) will eventually be released on cargo distribution's 'very friendly' imprint. these are the folks responsible for the boredoms' reissues and kid 606's 'who still kill sound?' earlier this year and who also have future releases due from the likes of knifehandchop, textile ranch and mark van hoen.

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

Dungen
Mouse on Mars
Annette Peacock
DJ Rels
B. Fleischmann & Herbert Weixelbaum
Morton Feldman
Clinic

Wheedle's Groove (Various Artists)
Four Tet (Single & DVD)
Jackie McLean (Re-issue)
Wiley
Bonnie "Prince" Billy (CD Single)
Radian

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Kranky label Compilation

Latest email newsletter from Kranky mentions that a Kranky label sampler compilation will be released in the Autumn.

And finally, sometime this fall we will be releasing the second ever
kranky label compilation. Some of you old timers may remember
"kompilation", which came out in 1996 in Europe only. The new compilation
will be available at uber-cheap prices around the world (okay, maybe not in
North Korea or Guineau-Bissau) and is a 22 track double CD set featuring
album tracks and some exclusive contributions from Pan American, Stars of
the Lid and Keith Fullerton Whitman. Keep an eye on the website for
details.

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prefix review Diplo - Florida

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Codeseven name album: Dancing Echoes / Dead Sounds

The PRP report Codeseven have titled their forthcoming album: Dancing Echoes / Dead Sounds due on October 05th on Equal Vision.

The tracklisting:

01 - "La Memoire Reincarnee"
02 - "All The Best Dreams"
03 - "Pathetic Justice"
04 - "Nasty Little Revolution"
05 - "Quail's Dream"
06 - "Roped And Tied"
07 - "The Day That Doesn't End"
08 - "Shalo"
09 - "Alt. Wave"
10 - "The Devil's Interval"
11 - "Cherry Tree"
12 - "Sunflower"

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Absorb.org

Sad news, it looks like electronic music webzine: absorb is going to close.

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Digitonal Live In London

Digitonal one of Britain's finest electronic artists will be playing in London on September 4th in support of their upcoming EP: The Centre Cannot Hold

4th September, 2004

Fresh from playing in one of the headline slots at The Big Chill, Digitonal return to London for a live show in anticipation of the release of their new EP, The Centre Cannot Hold in September featuring, live vocals from singer Kirsty Hawkshaw, (famous for providing the vocals on Orbital’s seminal Halcyon & On & On)

Support comes from the Rephlex camp with a live performance from Aleksi Perala (aka Astrobotnia, and Ovuca) and the Rephlex DJ’s, plus live electro & breaks with Kansas City Prophets, from Keith Tenniswood’s Control Tower imprint.

Live :

Digitonal (Seed / Toytronic)
Aleksi Perala (Astrobotnia / Ovuca) (Rephlex)
Kansas City Prophets (Control Tower)
Rephlex DJ’s

8pm-2am

Spitz Venue,
109 Commercial St
London E1 6BG.

Source: Seed Records Newsletter e-mail

The Spitz

Sat 4 Sep
AbracaDada: Aleksi Perala (Astrobotnia/ Rephlex Records) + Digitonal featuring Kirsty Hawkshaw + Kansas City Prophets (Control Tower) + manyas + Rephlex & Seed Records DJs
Includes a rare appearance from Aphex Twin signing Aleksi Perala, performing new material. Kirsty Hawkshaw (Opus 3, Orbital) will accompany Digitonal's beautiful electronic soundscapes, KCP offer machine-driven future funk and manyas open with live electronics and percussion in quadraphonic sound

Also Digitonal plan to release another album:

In the meantime, we're going into a bit of a writing hibernation over the winter to put together our next album, although expect dates in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol and Sheffield to be announced soon.

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Dusted review Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

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K! Awards Nominees Announced!/ New Terrorizer

What are an awful set of nominations for: Kerrang Awards 2004

BBC News report Slipknot lead Kerrang! contenders

As I have said before forget Kerrang get Terrorizer instead.

New issue of Terrorizer on sale this week:

FEATURES
MEGADETH STUDIO REPORT
MASTODON
OLD MAN GLOOM
TODAY IS THE DAY
JESU
MORTIIS
TURASIS
HIRAX
UNEARTH
ZAO
BLACK EYE RIOT
REFUSED
THE HIDDEN HAND | SAINT VITUS
NIGHTWISH: HARD OF HEARING

FEAR CANDY 7
Exclusive Mastodon track plus new sounds from Cradle Of Filth, Darkthrone, Old Man Gloom & more!

What to expect, in the next issue [on sale end of September] Terrorizer

COMING NEXT MONTH...

CRADLE OF FILTH | CONVERGE | INCANTATION | PUNGENT STENCH | ARKHON INFAUSTUS | SAMAEL | FULL WACKEN FESTIVAL REPORT | And more!

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Pitchfork review Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector

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musicOMH.com review The Radio Dept - Lesser Matters

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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Mastodon E-Card

As alerted via BW & BK MASTODON - E-card Unveiled

Relapse have a Mastodon E-card [this will load into a multimedia production]

Mastodon's Leviathan is one of the most anticipated rock albums of the year. Released next week in the US to be followed two weeks later in Europe/ UK.

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Shortlist Music Prize 'Longlist' Nominees

Billboard report on an announcement of the nominees for this year's Shortlist prize: 70-Plus Artists Up For Shortlist Prize

BILLBOARD list the 73 longlist of nominees.

10 finalists will be selected by late September, with the winner decided at a ceremony on Nov. 1

The albums that have made the list are a very poor of representation of contemporary artists IMHO, indeed i can't even make 10 albums from the longlist, try eight:

Devendra Banhart, "Rejoicing In The Hands" (Young god)
Elbow, "Cast Of Thousands" (V2)
The Killers, "Hot Fuss" (Island)
Phil Kline, "Zippo Songs" (Cantaloupe)
Oceansize, "Efflorese" (Beggars Banquet)
The Secret Machines, "Now Here Is Nowhere" (Reprise)
TV On The Radio, "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" (Touch & Go)
Ty, "Upwards" (Big Dada)

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BBC Music review Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys

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Styrofoam - Nothing's Lost

Latest news from Morr Music [via e-mail] announcement of a new Styrofoam album in November

Styrofoam has just completed his new album for Morr Music. It is called
“Nothing’s Lost” and will be released in november. It features guest
appearances by Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (The Notwist/Lali Puna),
Alias (Anticon), Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service),
Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set), Bent Van Looy (Das Pop) and Miki
(Pitchtuner/Munk). Their contributions have been made possible by the
kind support of Brussels based music venue Ancienne Belgique
(http://www.abconcerts.be) as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations.

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Gary Numan to start his own record label

Barcode report Gary Numan has left Artful records and plans to set up his own label Mortal Records. A new album: Jagged Halo is now expected in 2005.

More info @ the official Gary Numan website.

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This week on the John Peel show on Radio 1

Tues 24th August: 1Xtra's Bailey
Weds 25th August: Deerhoof
Thurs 26th August: Fortdax

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Stylus review Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector

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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

Clinic - Winchester Cathedral
Domino

Third album from Liverpool's masked marvels, Clinic. More of their infectious, mutant pop complete with their trademark guitar rumble, and a whole host of odd instruments.

The Fucking AM - Gold
Drag City

The formula for "Gold": take the current lineup of the The Fucking Champs (Tim Green, Tim Soete and Phil Manley, in his sleeveless Fucking Champs T), then add Trans Am (Nathan Means, Sebastian Thompson and Phil Manley, wearing his Trans Am jumpsuit). Skin-banger Jon Theodore (Golden, Mars Volta, Royal Trux, Bonnie Prince Billy) was called in when the boys needed a drum-fill straight out of ZZ Top's "La Grange". "Gold" is the sound of heavy rock with the occasional totally kick-ass vocal track.

Jah Wobble - I Could Have Been A Contender - Anthology
Trojan

"I Could Have Been A Contender" is the first true major retrospective of perhaps the only man who could safely assume the mantle of the UK's King Of Dub. This three CD box set covers his entire career from PIL's "Public Image" to the present day, and includes collaborations with Pharoah Sanders, Evan Parker and Brian Eno, to name but a few.

Little Wings - Magic Wand
K

Little Wings is a diverse musical palette Kyle Field uses to paint stories with sound. With this album Kyle worked with producer Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic Studios, recruiting a variety of other artists, musical and visual, Phil Elverum (Microphones) Bobby Birdman, Lee Baggett amongst others. This album fits in perfectly with the current new-folk scene that has taken the USA and world by storm. File alongside Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Cocorosie, White Magic, Six Organs Of Admittance and Joanna Newsom.

Loose Lips Sink Ships / #03 Autumn 2004

Latest issue of this awesome quarterly, beautifully put together by Steve Gullick and Stevie Chick. This latest issue has features on Nick Cave, TV On The Radio, Est'elle, Josh T Pearson of Lift To Experience, The Prodigy, Entrance, Matmos, Comanechi, Monkey Island, Mint Chicks, Ed Harcourt, Secret Machines, Jack Rose, The Magic Band, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Mark Lanegan, Skinnyman and Akashic Books. Great writing as usual and highly recommended.
Magazine - £4.00

The Places - Call It Sleep
Hush

Songwriter Amy Annelle has reunited with The Places to create a devastating, gorgeous wreck of an album. Annelle's two solo albums, and her first with The Places, won universal praise for their deceptive gentleness that gave way to darker, starker truths. On "Call It Sleep", this group of Portland Oregon eccentrics explore deeper palettes of improvisation, psychedelia and found sounds. "Call It Sleep" employs a jazz-inspired lineup (upright bass and violin, vibrophone, piano, brushed drums and trumpet), but The Places wander wide-eyed through 60s folk-rock, futuristic murder ballads and intuitively shifting time signatures, with Annelle's silky, almost in-your-head vocals. For fans of: Black Heart Procession, Cat Power, Dirty Three or Big Star's "Third/Sister Lovers" or Nick Drake's "Bryter Later".

The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
XL

The Prodigy return with a monster new LP chock-full of in-yer-face electro-rock breaks and celebrity guests. All the tracks were programmed and recorded by Liam Howlett, who's obviously been influenced by the whole electroclash scene, as well as old school hip hop, rock (reworking Shocking Blue / Nirvana's "Love Buzz") and disco (reworking "Thriller"), which he fuses together here to create a stunning whole. Vocal guests include Juliette Lewis, Princess Superstar, Ping Pong Bitches (on the 80s electro-pop-disco influenced "Girls"), Kool Keith (that Ultramagnetic MCs "Poppa Large" sample anyway), Liam Gallagher (on the full throttle punk-breaks of "Shoot Down"), Twista etc.

Shearwater - Winged Life
Fargo

Shearwater is frontman Jonathan Meiburg (also the keyboardist for Okkervil River), backed up by that band's lead singer Will Sheff (who contributes five of the songs on "Winged Life") as well as drummer Thor Harris (who also plays with Devendra Banhart) and upright-bassist Kim Burke. Meiburg's sweet, soaring vocals land him somewhere between Mark Hollis and Colin Blunstone, with a detectable touch of choirboy formality; his voice and Sheff's swim through a sea of instruments – guitars, violins, B-3 Hammond organ, pump organ, lap steel, vibes, Wurlitzer, sampler, glockenspiel, and piano.

Soulwax - Any Minute Now
PIAS

Soulwax are back with their second studio album, following up their phenomenal "2 Many DJs" mash up CD, which went on to sell 148k copies in the UK, by word of mouth alone! "Any Minute Now" is a collision of fierce rock guitar riffing (Kerrang are big fans) and electro rhythms, with tracks swinging between the rock element and the electroclash element. Play loud!

Superqueens - Cheap Shots
Skinnydog

"Cheap Shots" is a tour-de-force of oddball sentiment and penetrative melody - akin to a flat vowelled Bill Hicks narrating over a long lost Boards Of Canada album - it tells tales of long, lonely days and even longer, lonely nights. From the Stooges' sampling rancour of "I'm In The No-Showbiz" to the haunting cyclical beauty of album closer "State Hotel", "Cheap Shots" shines like a jewel in Manchester's grey skies.

Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
WSM

Available on CD for the first time, this landmark live album is now expanded to include 12 previously unreleased tracks.

Various Artists / Blue Balearic - Presented By Chris Coco And Rob Da Bank
Discotheque

Old Balearic heads, and presenters of BBC 1's early morning chill out session 'The Blue Room', Chris Coco and Rob Da Bank prove that Balearic is anything you want it it be on this ultra eclectic compilation. Over two CDs they bring us a whole load of mellowness, whether it's indie / Americana / avant-rock based (Devendra Banhardt, Piney Gir, The Earlies, The Bees, TV On The Radio, Adem, Adam Green, Lucky Jim etc), downbeat / electronica / hiptronica (Mylo, Bongmaster Inc, Nouvelle Vague, Madvillain, Schneider TM, The Album Leaf, Two Lone Swordsmen etc) or reggae (Althea & Donna, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Mikey Dread and ..er... Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers.)

By The End Of Tonight - The Fireworks On Ice EP
Temporary Residence

New signing to the Temporary Residence label, this young four piece are from a tiny town just south of Houston, Texas. This band came from literally nowhere, and brought with them the most mind bending combination of Don Caballero, Botch and The Police playing a hillbilly hoe down. This four track mini begins like a twisted prog rock Georgia stomp, and becomes equal parts hardcore, speed metal, jazz breaks, epic avant rock and sentimental 80s soundtracks.

Nagisa Ni Te - The Same As A Flower
Jagjaguwar

This is the third in a series of Nagisa Ni Te releases on Jag Jaguwar. On the vanguard of the Japanese psych movement, they already appeal to fans of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Naoki Zushi and Acid Mothers Temple. Nagisa Ni Te means on the beach, and this is indicative of the sound, like a more out there Crazy Horse.

Windsor For The Derby - We Fight Til Death
Secretly Canadian

"We Fight Til Death" finds core members Dan Matz and Jason Mcneely along with now long term members Timothy White and Ben Cissner recording with Dan Burton (Early Day Miners / Ativin) at the controls. Displaying a progression from previous works, but still exhibiting a skewed pop sensibility as well as some dark refrains. This is their most realized work to date.

Endicott - The Words In Ink Don't Lie
Equal Vision

Endicott formed around four years ago in upstate New York as a metal / hardcore outfit; they've since moved into screamo rock territory, and it's under this guise that they bring you "The Words In Ink Don't Lie", a concept LP based around a kidnapping, from the point of view of the abductee, abducter and the abductee's family. The drumming's crisp, choppy and powerful, there are some beautifully sinister guitar hooks and the vocals switch seamlessly between almost gently breathed to raging, doubled up screams...

Planes Mistaken For Stars - Up In Them Guts
No Idea

If anything their sound has hardened with this release, into a blistering, hardcore maelstrom. There is some melodic and rhythmic subtlety to be had; but this is essentially a howl of pain, characterized by ragged explosions of sound, unstable hardcore rhythms and raging vocals, underpinned by an unforgiving, emotionally agonising incest narrative. This, for the most part, is definitely NOT happy listening, but it's still deeply affecting, and that's as good a reason as any for getting your hands on it...

Espers - Espers
Locust

Prime movers in the 'new weird folk' movement, this is gorgeous acid-folk complete with fantastic psyche guitars. A superb album in the tradition of Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Ghost and John Fahey

Mark Rae - Into The Depths
Grand Central

Mark Rae's second solo album has him offering up a melting pot of soul, funk and beats, with vocals coming from longtime collaborator Veba, J Walk's Pete Simpson and Kwasi Asante. More focussed than "Rae Road" and with live instrumentation on most tracks, this is his best solo work to date.

DKD - Future Rage - Album
Bitasweet / 2000 Black

After months of salivating over a Japanese import CD and waiting with bated breath for news of a UK release, the mighty collaboration between Dego (4Hero), Kaidi Tatham (Agent K) and Daz-I-Kue (Bugz In The Attic) finally hits the streets. Straight from the off, it's clear that this is no 'ordinary' broken beat long player. Certain elements are drenched with soul characteristics, from the opener "Getaway" and particularly on "You Know It" and the sublime "Brighter Day" (which will become a basement anthem here in Manchester, if Jill Scott came up with a tune this strong everyone would be freakin out!). Add to this a bunch of primo breakin' joints such as "Super Amazing", following the "Fututre Rage" tradition and a Co-Op floorfiller by now, no doubt. Elsewhere, Kaidi shows off his synthesizer skills on the 70s-styled jazz-funk of "No Time" and there's the impeccable title track, which still ranks as one of the best things I've ever heard all year (especially when it was played at least three times at the MAW party in Miami). So now for the superlative round-up; A trimuph. A genius work. A modern classic.

Butch Cassidy Sound System - Butches Brew
Fenetik

A diverse and fascinating installment of reggae grooves from the talented Michael Hunter, AKA Butch Cassidy Sound System. This, his debut LP, was made using vintage instruments, compressors and effects, then recorded on two inch tape to create an authetic 70s sound. It fuses his obsession for rare breaks, hip hop, early 70s soul, and above all else, reggae, which comes to the fore on most of the tracks here, from deep dubs to upbeat dancehall styles. The LP includes previous Fenetik single "Hear What I Say", as well as tracks put out on his brother's Red Hook label, "Brothers And Sisters" (a house tempo rockers reggae track that became a bit of an anthem down at Body & Soul a few years back), "The Putney" and his brilliant Madlib / Yesterdays New Quintet one man band rework of The Meters' "Cissy Strut" as Pablo. I love this LP!

Boyd Rice / Non - Terra Incognita - Ambient Works 1975 - Present
Mute

A retrospective containing a selection of strangely serene minimalist and ambient works culled from Industrial pioneer Boyd's miscellaneous and mischievous output from 1975 to the present. For Boyd Rice (aka Non), whose real and alleged offences read like a litany of the woes of the 20th century, an album of new agey 'mood music' seems oddly way out of whack with the notorious image he has cultivated. But time and again, Boyd has defied and redefined expectations, confounding even the legions of misanthropes that adore him.

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Monday, August 23, 2004

All About Jazz review Bill Frisell - Unspeakable

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Interpol are on the front cover of the new issue of filter magazine

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BBC Music review Associates - Singles

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BBC Music review Slam - Year Zero

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Metal music webzine: Uranium Music similar to Terrorizer/ BW & BK.

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Sonic Liberation Front - Ashé a Go-Go

Music Critic Tom Hull has updated his Music Year 2004 list.

Currently at Number 1: Sonic Liberation Front: Ashé a Go-Go (High Two)

Pitchfork review

Sonic Liberation Front
Ashé a Go-Go
[High Two; 2004]
Rating: 8.2

The Sonic Liberation Front are rarely seen or heard outside their native Philadelphia, and with a name that evokes a Fallujah breakdance corps and the line-up of a free jazz ensemble, you might assume the band plays fire music in the tradition of the 1960s. Their own description of the music is harder to digest: "Afro-Cuban Yoruba Roots meets Post Modern Free Jazz and Electronica." ...

More info @ High Two Recordings

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Enslaved - ISA

BW & BK report ENSLAVED Release Date Confirmed

The upcoming Enslaved album titled: ISA will be released by Tabu Recordings in Europe on November 8th. A US release date will follow in 2005 via Candlelight Records.

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Pitchfork review The Vandermark Five - Elements of Style... Exercises in Surprise

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Splendid interview Xiu Xiu

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This week's new releases @ Fopp

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Junkmedia interview Adem

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Slam - Year Zero

TrusttheDJ Album of the week:[16/08/2004] is Slam - Year Zero

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Sunday, August 22, 2004

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [August 16th]

Key new album releases for August 16th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Aeroc (Geoff White) - Viscious Solid (Ghostly International) [UK Release Date]
Bent - Ariels (Open)
Biosphere - Auto De La Luna (Touch)
Cobra Killer - 76 / 77 (Monika)
Corker/Conboy - Six For Five (Vertical Form) EP
James Cotton - The Dancing Box (Spectral)
Cranes - Waves & Particles (Dadaphonic)
Das Oath - Das Oath (Dim Mak)
Matthew Dear - Backstroke (Spectral Sound) EP
Dirty Criminals - Organized Confusion (International DJ Gigilo)
Epic 45 - Against The Pull Of Autumn (Where Are My Records?)
Mandarin - Fast Future Present (Bella Union)
Nagisa Ni Te - The Same As A Flower (Jagjaguwar)
Opto (Carsten Nicolai And Opiate) - 2nd (Hobby Industries)
Ten & Tracer - Companion (Ucover)
Earl Zinger - Speaker Stack Commandments (Studio K7)

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [August 9th]

Key new album releases for August 9th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

!!! - Hello? Is This Thing On? (Warp) EP
Barbez - Barbez (Important)
Brazil - A Hostage And The Meaning Of Life (Fearless)
D_Rradio - U_nderscore (Static Caravan)
Ella Guru - The First Album (Banana Recordings)
Fupper - Walleyecandy (Tritone)
Jon Hopkins - Contact Note (Justmusic)
Lynskey - The Complete Guide To Space Folk (Valentine Records) EP
Kawabata Makoto - O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras? (Important)
Meshuggah - I (Fracturedtransmitte) EP
Bruno Pronsanto - Silver Cities (Orac)
Susana & The Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys (Rune Grammofon)
Zao - Funeral Of God (Roadrunner)

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SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [August 2nd]

Key new album releases for August 2nd [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

The Adventures Of Loki - Issue#1 (Maitre-d-records) EP
Herve Boghossian - Mouvements (Raster Post)
Call And Response - Winds Take No Shape (Badman)
The Departure - All Mapped Out (Parlophone) CD Single
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (Relapse)
Evil Nine - You Can Be Special Too (Marineparade)
Christian Marclay - DJ Trio (Asphodel)
Nonpoint - Recoil (Lava) [US Import]
Pandatone - Lemons and Limes (Neo Ouija)
The Pink Mountaintops - The Pink Mountaintops (Jagjaguwar)
Mccoy Tyner - Illuminations (Telarc)

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Oceansize 2nd Album due Spring 2005

Latest news from Oceansize via Beggars Banquet e-mail newsletter:

The band will start recording the much anticipated follow up to debut album 'Effloresce', in November, and we're hoping for a Spring 2005 release.

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musicOMH.com review Blackfield - Blackfield

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Iceland Airwaves 2004 Festival

Profiles of artists appearing @ Iceland Airwaves 2004

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State River Widening - Cottonhead

Details of a new album from State River Widening

ARTIST : State River Widening
TITLE: Sweet Dreams
FORMAT: CD / LP (VFORM037CD / VFORM37LP)
RELEASE DATE: 1st November 2004
WEBSITES: http://www.verticalform.com

London-based instrumental trio State River Widening release their third album Cottonhead on November 1st.

Recorded, once again, at London’s secretive Keep Calm studios, Cottonhead is the next step in a steadily evolving voyage that began with the acoustic guitar and drum vistas of SRW’s eponymous 1999 debut album and which blossomed into last year’s melody-saturated Early Music. All who’ve heard it agree: Cottonhead is SRW’s most potent and accessible album to date.

Fans of the band’s previous work will immediately warm to Cottonhead’s rich blend of acoustic and electric guitars, earthy strings, harpsichords, electric pianos, organs and more - all of it in service of an unstinting litany of melodic intrigues. Indeed, fans of anything from Nick Drake to Cluster via Boards Of Canada, Four Tet and Rachel’s will find treasures aplenty here.

Completely free of rock cliché, over-familiar digital gestures or dreary avant-garde naval-gazing, whether it be the delicate violin and guitar traceries of Touched, Cottonwood’s spiralling chordal cascades, Desertesque’s marimba shimmers or the cinematic sweep of Knifegrinder’s Song (a track partly recorded in a street in Valencia, Spain), this is an album which simply refutes easy pigeonholing. And just to add to the spectacle, slivers of vocals make themselves heard more keenly than on any previous SRW album. That’s reclusive ‘60s folk legend Anne Briggs lending her dreamy, elegiac tones to the hypnotic Lowlands.

State River Widening is multi instrumentalists David Sheppard and Keiron Phelan along with drummer Jon Steele. This time round Pam Ribbeck plays strings and additional percussion is by Howard Monk (of Billy Mahonie).

David Sheppard is also a member of Matador recording artistes The Wisdom Of Harry and is one half of sometime Heavenly Recordings’ act, Ellis Island Sound. Along with Phelan, Sheppard has recently signed to The Leaf Label with a second Phelan & Sheppard album pencilled in for early 2005.

Cottonhead Tracklisting: 1. Crown, 2. Touched, 3. Cottonwood, 4. Lowlands, 5. Knifegrinders Song, 6. Desertesque,
7. Cottonhead 1, 8. Madder Hues, 9. Unspinning,10. Cottonhead 2

Source: Vertical Form Press Release

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Ipecac Recordings have delayed the next Dälek album: Absence to January 25th 2005.

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Brainwashed Releases has been updated. a listing of recent & upcoming electronic/experimental/etc. releases

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

The Futureheads
Nagisa Ni Te
Kim Hiorthoy
Seth P. Brundel

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Swod - Gehen
City Centre Offices

If you've been looking for something evocative, timelessly special, a home-listening masterpiece to fall in love with - read on. Swod is the recording project of oliver doerell and stephan wohrmann, two accomplished musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics - he is also a long-time family member of City Centre Offices having recorded an album and an EP under the "Dictaphone" moniker in between composing and performing musical pieces for theatre, installations and film over the last few years. Stephan plays piano and drums, arranging an almost neo-classical structure within a recording that already sounds ghostly and cinematic. Translated as `go', "gehen" represents a labour of love from two musicians experienced in the art of seductive and evocative music making. Having first worked together producing live soundtracks to silent movies, oliver and stephan tread a delicate board of crystalline piano cascades and the sort of subtle electronic tinkering you can barely recognise or absorb in one sitting. It's fitting that the pair are so used to tailor-making their harmonious shards of sound to moving imagery, "gehen" evokes a plethora of half forgotten films and life experiences offered up in glimpses in the back of your mind. If you can imagine a sitting specially programmed by film directors Théo Angelopoulos or Krzysztof Kieslowski, or the music of eric satie, ryuchi sakamoto or keith jarret's "koln concert", you'll have some idea of what to expect. This is a breathtakingly beautiful album, ignoring generic stereotypes and restraints and opting, instead, for a life-changing, rich, and heart-stopping collection of some of the most evocative soundtrack pieces ever written. Sublime music.

Dj Muro - Super Reggae Breaks
Boogie Belly Music
2CD

The self-styled "king of diggin" returns with a comprehensive 2cd set of reggae breaks, many perhaps familiar (sample sources for ghostface `no no no', reflection eternal `fortified live') but obscure enough that they are not on many lists, yet surely as funky if not funkier than many of the "essential" funk tarcks in demand out there...get yourslef an education, taught by japan's most famous dj, this collection is more about choice track selection and sequence than cutting & scratching, a small dose of blends & mixes to keep it interesting, great late night chill out or cruising sounds.

B. Fleischmann And Herbert Weixelbaum Present Duo 505 - Late
Morr Music

Bernard Fleischmann, Morr Music's first signing and original recording artist, has had a long and fruitful history of collaboration with the label. The flowing ambience of 'Poploops For Breakfast' gave Morr Music the unique cross-generic opening it so craved for - and his work has continued to mesh familiar and unfamilar sounds with a love of instruments regarded by many as plastic or pre-fabricated (the Mc-505 Groovebox of the title), together with more organic acoustic overlays. For 'Duo 505', Fleischmann comes together with classically trained multi-instrumentalist Herbert Weixelbaum, an experiment that blends the level-headedness and ambient tendencies of Fleischmann with Weixelbaum's insistance on disgruntled guitars, slices of distortion and a Lo-HiFi (or was it Hi-LoFi?) sensibility. 'Late' is both calming and rugged, ambient and robust - a reduced landscape of indie-pop structures brought down to two men and their machines. Recommended

Benjamin Brunn - Konig Und Drache
Bine

This is one of those releases you stumble across more or less by accident and end up getting completely overtaken by its simple complexity and goosebump-inducing beauty. Released on the Raster-Noton sponsored "Bine" imprint, "Konig Und Drache (king and dragon) explores a sort of effortlessly organic blend of microscopically crunchy House music and night-time glowing loveliness, most often bringing to mind Jan Jelinek's work as Farben but considerably less focused on those signature jazz-loops and samples. The depth of field here is widened by virtue of Brunn's innate melodic responses and wide open instincts for bridging squashed 4/4 beats and effervescent melodic underlays with an incredible ability to involve. His childhood dabbling with classical Piano playing comes across through these often resolutely percussive tracks, as does his cross-cultural background (roots in both Dresden and Taiwan) - something which lends this incredible album an air of both determination and introspection. A quiet masterpiece of an album that comes with a huge recommendation - immediate listening required.

Radian - Juxtaposition
Thrill Jockey

Austria's Radian return to Thrill Jockey with their most developed, well-rounded album to date. The trio comprises of Stefan Nemeth, John Norman and Martin Brandlmayr, and between them they weave a textured arrangement of laptop processes, heavy basslines, treated synths, organic percussion and lilting guitars, taking experimentalism into a more accessable plateau than their most recent excursion "Rec.Extern" displayed. Drums also play an important role through 'juxtaposition', the modified sounds making for a kind of "Post" post-rock that strips compositional elements down to clearly discernable parts, coming across like a re-constructed Tortoise at their most pensive. "Juxtaposition" is a surprisingly easy listen, involving and challenging yet at all times oddly soothing, even when the trio shifts gears towards noisier crescendo's. Highly recommended.

Shank - Do
Nonplace

Behind the funny name of this project you'll find one of the best outings from Burnt Friedman's Nonplace imprint in a long time. The rather unsexy "Berlin Improv Group Meet Nonplace Hard Disk" tagline on the cover might lead you to pass this one by. Stick with it to get this lush and eclectic melodic post rock with a world dub jazz twist. Influences/references include Tied & Tickled Trio, Jon Hassell, Jazzanova, Atom Heart, Flanger, Tortoise and, of course, Friedmann himself. Instrumentation : trumpet, guitar, keys, bass, drums, percussion plus Bernt Friedman on the mix. Very cool fourth world grooves. Recommended.

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - List Of Lights and Buoys
Rune Grammofon

Available in the UK at long long long last, after months of delays and tons of interest, requests, emails - this album from the always interesting Rune Grammofon is a serious contender for album of the year. The work of Susanna Karolina Wallumrød on vocals and Morten Qvenild on keyboards, harmonium and autoharp with assistance from Andreas Mjøs on vibraphone, guitar and timpani, the ingredients creating a perfect amalgam of acoustic and electronic sounds. Susanna's vocals are beautiful, sublime, uplifting in the most natural way like a softer edged version of Mara Carlyle's vocal stylings on her recent 'The Lovely' CD on Accidental. Famed for it's incredible reading of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' which needs to be heard. There are another ten tracks to choose from each capable of moving you in very deep ways. One of the most striking and moving album's released this year - a very high recommendation indeed.

The Elysian Quartet - Gabriel Prokofiev String Quartet No 1
Nonstop Classical

Fact, Gabriel Prokofiev is the grandson of legendary russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, up until now no surprise but he's also Gabriel Olegavich, head honcho with London discopunk band Spektrum. Now it get's interesting. Alongside the talented and revered London based string quartet The Elysian Quartet, Gabriel has composed his first ever commercially realised neo-classical work. Over its fourteen minute, four movement length it reminds me a lot of The Kronos Quartet : Lots of sharp harmonics and tortured melodies. Classically highbrow but also strangely beautiful. The remixes kick off with Gabriel's 'Hip Hop' remix, looping up the grittier edges of the cello playing and tweaking it all up over string sounds and bass beats, killer. The Ed Laliq remix drops a rockier pulse to the 'Fourth Movement' with the edgier sonics and the rolling drums. Old Filter Records artists Boxsaga reappear with their superb remix of the 'Second Movement', a laidback downtempo track that simply let's the string work flow over the top of the subtle rhythm. The David Schweitzer remix of the 'Fourth Movement alters the pitch of the original work, adding to the mournful atmosphere. Finally Accidental artist Max De Wardener delivers the best remix adding space and calm to the proceedings giving the piece an Arvo Part edge and a personal stamp in line with his work on the classic 'Stops' 12". Highly recommended.

The Vandermark 5 - Elements Of Style
Atavistic

More righteously killer leftfield jazz bop from Ken Vandermark and his wayward posse. This collection hit's frazzled free jazz, dust in your face cinematica and just plain silly music to raise a smile. Certain tracks are dedicated to Sun Ra sax man John Gilmore plus Glenn Gould and John-Michel Basquiat. Joining Ken are Jeb Bishop (trombone), Dave Rempis (saxophones), Kent Kessler (bass) and Tim Daisy (drums). Seven tracks in total, 65 mins running length. Highly recommended.

Chief Kamachi - Cult Status
Eastern Conference

Chief Kamachi is part of the same Philly based crew as Bahamadia, Jedi Mind Tricks and 7L & Esoteric and last heard of on this site on the Sound-Ink 12" with King Honey and The Last Emperor ala 'Trinity'. This thirteen track album features production from DJ Mighty Mi, S.Dot, E-dan and DJ Kwestion. Guest include Guru aka Baldhead Slick, Charon Don & State Store. As per usual the hip hop on EC is white hot and shows Def Jux a thing or two about keeping it real and hardcore. Rough and ready.

Charlie Parr - Criminals and Sinners
Misplaced Music

Charlie parr is from the same duluth music scene that spawned the likes of Low and Haley Bonar. His music delves deep into the back roads of american folk music, there's hints of robert johnson, nick drake and will oldham in his playing, but it's the harry smith anthology of american folk music that is the biggest inspiration of this lonely folk music. Recorded live to 2 track and previously issued by shaky ray records of duluth who describe it on their website as their finest moment.

Clinic - Winchester Cathedral
Domino

`Winchester Cathedral' is the third album from Clinic - Liverpool's Grammy-nominated masked lords of mutant- pop. "Winchester Cathedral" delivers in style, at times even delving to a more reflective corner of the room, not often frequented by the band. Expect lots of hype - give it a listen.

Loose Lips Sink Ships
Issue 03 / Autumn 2004
Loose LIps
Mag // £ 4.49

Third issue of Loose Lips, featuring pieces on Nick Cave, Skinnyman, Matmos, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, TV On The Radio, Jack Rose, and plenty more. We really like the layout of this magazine so if you're new to it give it a go - an excellent, illuminating read.

Shearwater - Winged Life
Fargo

"Like Devendra Banhart or Iron & Wine, Shearwater are capable of emotional resonance through the most brittle of arrangements. Stunning, in a word" Uncut. (Americana Record Of The Month). Shearwater is frontman Jonathan Meiburg (also the keyboardist for Okkervil River), backed up by that band's lead singer Will Sheff (who contributes five of the songs on `Winged Life') as well as drummer Thor Harris (who also plays with Devendra Banhart) and upright-bassist Kim Burke. Meiburg's sweet, soaring vocals land him somewhere between Mark Hollis and Colin Blunstone, with a detectable touch of choirboy formality; his voice and Sheff's swim through a sea of instruments - guitars, violins, B-3 Hammond organ, pump organ, lap steel, vibes, Wurlitzer, sampler, glockenspiel, and piano -- all pristinely recorded by Centro-matic's Matt Pence at Echo Lab studio in Denton, TX. ·One or two songs on `Winged Life' partake of the sombre restrained delicacy of Shearwater's last two records, but everywhere else the band has loosened up, allowed that delicacy to bloom or crumble, and is trying new things - from the dark and urgent groove of `Whipping Boy' to the buoyant pop of `A Makeover', from the `The World in 1984's wry soft rock to the almost prog-y tension of `Sealed'. ·As a result, `Winged Life' bridges many musical gaps - its songs are melodic and narrative-based enough to appeal to fans of Belle & Sebastian, yet unique enough to be mentioned in the same breath as artists like the Notwist or Broken Social Scene.

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The Independent review Lars Horntveth - Pooka

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Friday, August 20, 2004

BBC Collective interview Clinic

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Mixing It - Bjork Special

Reminder, this week's Mixing It show on Radio 3 featues an interview with Bjork, details: Mixing It - 20 August 2004

20 August 2004
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall and featuring an interview with Bjork about her new album "Medulla", which explores the human voice as sound source and includes contributions from Robert Wyatt, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and Rahzel of The Roots.

» Mixing It

Also Arjanwrites notes that Björk's Medúlla on Sale Now for Immediate Dispatch via One Little Indian.

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Almost Cool highly rates Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

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The Guardian review Jah Wobble - I Could Have Been A Contender

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The Guardian review Clinic - Winchester Cathedral

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Issue 29 of Earplug

AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 1

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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A new URL for HubLog

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NOISETHEORYNOISE#2

Organized by Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy @ Middlesex University: A discussion on noise music: NTN2

NOISETHEORYNOISE#2
10-6, SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2004
Middlesex University
White Hart Lane
London N17 8HR

The deadline for proposals is 10 September 2004.

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musicOMH.com review The Blue Nile - High

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Radio 1 report X Press 2 wil return with a new album in early 2005.

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OCHRE 10 FESTIVAL

Psychedelic rock music galore @ OCHRE 10 FESTIVAL that takes place October 30th in the City of Gloucester, Gloucester Guildhall. Highlights include Japan's The Acid Mothers Temple and Will Sergeant [from Echo & the Bunymen] as Glide

OCHRE 10 FESTIVAL
Celebrating Ten Years Of Ochre Records

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30TH 2004
Tickets: £18.50p Advance / £21.50p on the Door

Buy tickets now from Guildhall Box Office 01452-503050

THE ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / THIGHPAULSANDRA / APPLECRAFT / GLIDE / THE SERPENTS / THE LAND OF NOD / LONGSTONE / 90º SOUTH

Gloucester Guildhall is proud to present the ‘Ochre 10’ festival.

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BBC Music review Jah Wobble - I Could Have Been A Contender

Jah Wobble presents a sprawling 3 CD set that is effectively a timely reminder of the huge scope of the Wobble canon.

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Nils Petter Molvaer - Live in London

Norwegian jazztronica artist Nils Petter Molvaer will be appearing at an Xfm Flo-Motion Goes Live event at Cargo in London on September 10th.

September 10's Champion Sound night at Cargo is a Flo-Motion Special, featuring blissed-out beats from around the world - from Norway's Nils Petter Molvaer to France's Wide Open Cage. Plus DJ sets from Flo-Motion's own Nick Luscombe, The Bench and Sire Sonic.

Also as mentioned on Nils Petter Molvaer - Blog a live performance on the Xfm Flo-motion show on Sunday 12th September.
Nils will also be on the Nick Luscombe slot on XFM for Sunday Sept 12th doing live to air performance.

Norway.org.uk: provide a reproduction of Stuart Nicholson's Jazzwise interview with Nils Petter Molvær: Culture Nils Petter Molvær in Jazzwise

Nils Petter Molvaer's live album: Streamer gets a UK release on September 6th.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Fennesz vs. Radian

Advance notification: Knom present:

Fennesz vs. Radian
Wed 24th November 2004, Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road London W12

Knom music (by arrangement with Thrill Jockey) is proud to be bringing two of the highlights of Vienna’s underground scene, on the same bill, for the very first time. The world of cutting edge electronic music today has its radar pointing very much in the direction of Vienna, and this is due in no small part to Radian, and Christian Fennesz. Fennesz is one of the city’s many artists associated with the revered ambient and experimental electronica label Mego, for whom he recorded his breakthrough album; Endless Summer, an album of reflections upon the Beach Boys, which received gushing acclaim the world over. His latest offering, Venice, (Touch), is an awesome piece of work. A tremendously beautiful record.

Radian’s connections with Fennesz go much further than residing in the same city. Stefan Nemeth from Radian also runs a label, Mosz, which features upcoming releases by Fennesz, as well as Pan American. Radian are a trio, and one could loosely say they make modern electronic jazz. But this would be lazy. It is a skewed, electronic post-rock jazz, using synths, vibraphone, computers, live drums, bass, and John McEntire of Tortoise (among everything else) at the desk. Radian has also recorded for Mego but now has made Uber Cool Chicago label its home.

"…a band with impressively original density and texture" Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

"Radian mics the microcosmos of sonic detail, filtering it into a spray of white noise that's thin as foil and dense as chain mail." Philip Sherburne, XLR8R

"Radian are true virtuosi... Rec.Extern is a masterpiece of sculpted sound and daring psychological manipulations! The Wire - Phil Clarke

"a band with an impressively original density and texture." New York Times, Ben Radcliffe

"intense, surprising and complex and well worth looking for." Ampersand Electronica, Jeremy

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The latest One World show on Radio 1 features: High Contrast, Sketchie and Butch Cassidy Sound System

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The Guardian have constructed a survey on Digital Music: Digital music: have your say

This month, Guardian Unlimited is carrying out one of the country's largest surveys into people's attitudes to digital music. We want to know whether or not you've crossed the digital divide or whether your're planning to. We want to know whether it's changed the way you buy and listen to music; and what you think of the way record labels have reacted to downloads....

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2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

A new website for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival taking place November 19th - 28th 2004 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

From 19 - 28 November 2004, hcmf delivers its 27th celebration of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electro-acoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre. Over 40 events packed into 10 amazing days, include concerts, workshops, films, discussions and theatrical performances.

hcmf excels in presenting work that is intriguing, challenging, funky and, frequently, boundary-busting - bringing you sounds, sights, emotions and experiences that you will remember for years to come.

hcmf brings figures of international renown together with the absolute cream of emerging creativity and young talent; performers and composers from around the world are drawn to Huddersfield each year by the magic of hcmf - and the audience gets to rub shoulders with them all.

This year's Festival promises over 28 UK premieres, 12 world premieres and 4 commissions of brand new work.

Event Diary: HCMF

Event Diary

As soon as the full programme is finalised for hcmf 2004, all the details will appear here, with links to more information about some of the composers and performers.

In the meantime, please complete the registration form with your contact details and we will make sure that you don’t miss out on receiving the latest information or special offers from hcmf.

Here’s a taster of what’s to come …

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London Jazz Festival 2004 - November 12th - 21st

SERIOUS have info on the London Jazz Festival 2004.

Additional info from the new issue of The Wire: these artists will be appearing

» Brandford Marsalis
» Cecil Taylor / Bill Dixon/ Tony Oxley
» Anthony Braxton Quintet
» Matthew Herbert
» A Celebration of Tony Williams: Jack Dejohnette, John Scofield & Larry Goldings
» Brad Mehldau
» Carla Bley: with Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow & Billy Drummond
» Jan Garbarek

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The Independent interview composer John Adams

John Adams: A musical explosion
John Adams has never been one to shy away from big themes. But an opera about the nuclear arms race could be his most unusual yet, he tells Tim Stein

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Constellation Label Compilation CD

SOUTHERN provide info on Constellation sampler compilation: Song of the Silent Land due for release September 6th.

exclusive, previously unreleased tracks by every band on the label's roster

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Greg Davis - Somnia

Kranky will release a new Greg Davis album: Somnia on October 18th.

artist:Greg Davis
title: Somnia
catalog #: krank074
formats available:CD
Release Date: Oct. 18, 2004

Greg Davis has made recorded appearances on numerous singles and compilations, played around the world and is best known for his two albums on the Carpark label; Arbor and Curling Pond Woods. Those two albums, as impressive and well received as they are, don¹t tell the whole story of Davis' omnivorous interest in music (he studied composition and jazz studies at DePaul University and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music) and considerable abilities. Somnia collects drone-oriented material Greg Davis has been working over the last two to three years with the final track, "Mirages (version 2)" being a recording from spring 2004 using a schaaf punchcard music box and computer. Each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, fender rhodes, magnus chord organ) played by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own.

Having performed behind a laptop and toured with his own band, Greg Davis is uniquely situated, in a scene full of point and clickers, to create music that actually synthesizes and doesn¹t merely recombine. Somnia is a product of his longstanding interest in both organic sounds (as created by instruments played in realtime) and the transformational possibilities of computers. An early version of "Clouds As Edges" was Davis' first release as a single on the Grounded label in 2001. Somnia focuses on one area of Greg Davis' many musical interests and widens his earlier laptop work as it reflects back on the instrumental textures used in his most recent solo work.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Cult of Luna: UK Salvation Tour

Earache announce Cult of Luna have an October UK Tour in support of their Salvation album.

UK HEADLINE TOUR
Cult Of Luna, quite possibly one of the coolest bands around on the burgeoning noisecore scene, have confirmed that they will be touring the UK in October in support of their brand new album 'Salvation' (released on Monday 4th October 2004)

Umea’s noisecore outfit have previoulsy toured the UK with Isis, Poison The Well and Dillinger Escape Plan but this will be the band’s first headling tour of the UK and will be sponsored by Rock Sound Magazine.

October
4th Oxford Zodiac (Tel: 01865 420042)
5th London Garage (Tel: 020 7607 1818)
6th Bradford Rios (Tel: 01274 735549)
7th Leicester The Charlotte (Tel: 0115 912 9000)
8th Leeds Josephs Well (Tel: 0113 2450875)
9th Sheffield Corporation (Tel: 0114 2760262)
10th Glasgow King Tuts (Tel: 0141 204 5279)
11th Nottingham Rescue Rooms (Tel: 0115 941 2544)
12th Manchester Academy 3 (Tel: 0161 200 2020)
13th Liverpool Academy (Tel: 0151 256 5555)
14th Birmingham Academy 2 (Tel: 0870 9032222)

RockAndMetal.com have a recent interview with Cult of Luna

# posted by DJ Martian 11:40 PM

The Brainwashed Brain

Time to recap on recent issues of The Brainwashed Brain

V07I29 - 07252004 The Brainwashed Brain including reviews of:

Glenn Jones - This Is The Wind That Blows It Out
Strange Attractors

Paik - Satin Black
Strange Attractors

Simon Finn - Pass the Distance
Durtro/Jnana

Murcof - Utopia
Leaf

Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight
Kranky

V07I30 - 08012004 The Brainwashed Brain including reviews of:

Rollerball - Behind The Barber
Silber

Empress - The Sounds They Made
Pehr

Biosphere - Autour de la Lune
Touch

Kawabata Makoto - O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras?
Important

V07I31 - 08082004 The Brainwashed Brain including reviews of:

Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief
Chairkickers Music

This Week:

V07I32 - 08152004 The Brainwashed Brain including reviews of:

Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Sub Pop

Kompakt 100
kompakt

Jaga Jazzist - Magazine
Smalltown Supersound

Sunn O))) - White 2
Southern Lord

Antibalas - Who is this America
Ropeadope

Cobra Killer - 76/77
Monika Enterprise

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Barcode review JULIAN FANE - Special Forces

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This week's NME features The Killers - a band that hasn't been on the front cover before.

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brainespot

Metasearch engine: brainespot offers Real-Time Clusters for search results. This is useful for searching reviews of forthcoming albums or searching for additional music news on a particular artist.

How does brainespot work?: Brainespot FAQ

brainespot calls out in parallel to many of the best search engines on the Internet, merges the results, removes redundancies, and clusters the results into neat, understandable groupings.
Clustering is basically a process of putting similar items together. While other search engines attempt to sort their results only by how well they match the query, brainespot gets all the best results, and then groups the related items together. This makes the large result set very understandable; you can quickly see which documents are relevant and which are irrelevant. And because you may want to try different clustering methods, the brainespot Preferences page allows you to select your preferred clustering methodology.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:21 PM

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

The latest Eternal Fusion show is now available to listen online @ Eternal Fusion: SpydaRadio

:: Latest Show: Tuesday 17th August 2004 ::

Eternal Fusion

Latest Show Playlist:
Tuesday 17th August 2004

The Tower Recordings - 'Moonward'
Julian Cope - 'Far Out'
Sheila Chandra - 'Crescent Silver Sythe'
Manitoba - 'Silver Splinters'
Ganger - 'Lid Of The Stars'
Asa-Chang & Junray - 'Parlor'
University Of Errors - 'Save Yourself'
Soft Machine - 'Pigling Bland' (Live Paris '72)
Hidria Spacefolk - 'Modus Operand Hermetik'
Shalabi Effect - 'We'll Never Make It Out Of Here Alive'
The Memory Band - 'Tomorrow'
White Magic - 'One Note'
No Neck Blues Band - 'Illirikum'
Tuxedomoon - 'Luther Blisset'
Sasha - Shpongle Dorset Perception Mix
Badmarsh & Shri - 'Dancing Drums'
Aeroc - 'My Love, The Wave Break'
Keith Fullerton Whitman - 'Obelisk (For Kurt Schwitters)'
Gong - 'Schwitless In Molasses'
Tanakh - 'Lock The Door When You Leave'
Spires That In The Sunset Rise - 'I Am Sewn'
Deerhoof - 'Dog On The Sidewalk'
Animal Collective - 'Who Could Win A Rabbit'
Cerberus Shoal - 'An Egypt That Does Not Exist'
Hidria Spacefolk - 'Pako Originaux'
Bardo Pond with Tom Carter - '19.43'

# posted by DJ Martian 4:36 PM

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

# posted by DJ Martian 3:55 PM

Stylus review The Blue Nile - High

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Junkmedia interview Black Dice

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The Breezeblock - Forthcoming Shows

Details of forthcoming The Breezeblock shows on Radio 1

August 16th
Annie Mac in for Mary Anne.
Francois K in the mix

August 23rd
Mocky live plus
Warp's Milanese in the mix

August 30th
TDK Festival
Carl Craig in the mix
Kid Acne live

Sept 6th
Techno Special
Mixes from FUSE club in Belgium + UR's Kevin Saunderson

Coming soon
A sleepy bedtime mix from Icelandic goddess, Bjork
A mix from Paris' Mandy DJ's

# posted by DJ Martian 12:49 AM

New Alice Coltane Album

Verve Music Group have info on a new Alice Coltrane album: Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light

Alice Coltrane
Translinear Light
Catalog #B000219102
Album Length Compact Disc
release date 9/28/2004
Impulse! Records

Translinear Light is Alice Coltrane’s first recording in 26 years, since she withdrew from active performing and recording in the late ’70s to open an ashram and devote herself primarily to spiritual pursuits. If she had never made another recording, she still would have a lofty place in the jazz pantheon, as a gifted pianist and organist, as the pianist in her husband John Coltrane’s final band and last recordings, as a pioneer on the harp in jazz, and for her own legacy of penetrating albums that continued the lineage of musical/spiritual exploration that John Coltrane began in his later recordings.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:20 AM

Monday, August 16, 2004

New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

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

The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
Labels

The Album Leaf is Jimmy La Valle, a Californian musician of underground repute, having contributed variously to Black Heart Procession, Locust and Tristeza amongst others. Icelandic sensations Sigur Ros heard the Album Leaf material and invited him to join them on their first US tour. He befriended them, and eventually began joining them onstage. This led to an invite to join them at their Iceland studios..."In A Safe Place" is the result of that invite. The album is a perfect distillation of chilled and chilling minimal electronic music and melancholic instrumental neo rock, richly textured dreamscapes that are as intricate as they are epic.

Animals That Swim - Faded Glamour - The Best Of
Snowstorm

Animals That Swim get a long deserved retrospective CD spanning their 12 year existence. It has taken Snowstorm five years to gather together all the rights and master tapes (except their debut "King Beer" which had to be mastered off an old 7"). The compilation includes their self released vinyl only singles as well as the highly collectable "Fifty Dresses" 10" single and all five NME / Melody Maker singles of the week from the "Workshy" and "I Was The King, I Really Was" albums.

2xLtd CD - STORM027CD Limited edition double CD that comes with a bonus 14 track CD of unreleased tracks rarities and remixes.

Cranes - Particles And Waves
Dadaphonic

"Particles And Waves" is the 7th album from The Cranes. Ali Shaw's voice soothes perfectly over spacey electronic waves of noise and acoustic guitars, Jim Shaw sings on the beautiful country tinged "Every Town" while "Here Comes The Snow" lures you gently into its distorted centre. "Avenue A" is more upbeat, while "Light Song" ends the album sounding like something out of a David Lynch film about lost astronauts on the way to Mars....

Ffa Coffi Pawb - Am Byth
Placid Casual

Ffa Coffi Pawb were part of the hugely popular Welsh language underground music scene in the late eighties / early nineties. In time, vocalist and guitarist Gruff Rhys and drummer Dafydd Ieuan went on to form Super Furry Animals. Later, guitarist Rhodri Puw would join Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and also records as Psycho VII. (I'm sure you know all this already!)This compilation gathers tracks from between 1986 – 1992 from all sorts of sources (although latterly, the band released three albums through the Ankst label, most of these tracks appear here on CD for the first time).

Hayden - Elk-Lake Serenade
Loose

Described by Mojo as 'hushed and scruffy DIY songs of Smog-like melancholy and folk beauty'. "Elk-Lake Serenade" continues where his last album "Skyscraper National Park" left off - a rich mix of acoustic pathos and laid-back pop all delivered in Hayden's soulful wry vocal style and backed up by piano, brass, steel and strings played by Hayden, long time collaborator Howie Beck and a whole host of local musical friends. This is excellent!!!!

Jarboe - Thirteen Masks
Altavistic

Jarboe's out-of-print '91 debut album is now remastered with three bonus tracks, presented in an oversized 16 page booklet, and features performances by Michael Gira, Roli Mossiman & Norman Westberg (Swans), J.G. 'Foetus' Thirlwell & Larry Seven. "Thirteen Masks" soars through a number of styles from nightclub jazz, hypno trance & IDM while simultaneously evoking the dark essence with which she imbues to her all art and music.

David Kilgour - Frozen Orange
Merge

Beginning in the late seventies with the Clean, Kilgour has continued to deliver three minute bursts of New Zealand pop genius. With production help from Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Calexico, Will Oldham), and guest appearances from several members of Lambchop, "Frozen Orange" offers 11 songs steeped in wistful melancholy.

Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monolgue
Source

Effortless melodic indie pop with hints of Jeff Buckley and the lyrical intelligence of Elvis Costello.

Mandarin - Fast-Future-Present
Bella Union

This is the second album from this band who hail from Denton, Texas. The album combines a whole host of influences from Sonic Youth to Tortoise to Pink Floyd and Nick Drake.

The Radio Dept. - Where Damage Isn't Already Done
XL

cd single
The Radio Dept. return with another pop gem! Where as their last single was a fuzzy My Bloody Valentine meets Mary Chain affair, this one sounds more like Dinosaur Jr, with hushed, groaning vocals akin to J Mascis and crunching guitar bursts. Both formats also includes to gorgeous drifting Summery pop songs "You And Me Then?" and "Peace Of Mind".

Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies - Hurrah! Another Year
Fierce Panda
The Pitch And

Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies are from Oxford, and they make music that is one part poetry, two parts mesmerising and several parts post-math-prog-whatever rock imperfection.

Der Plan - Die Verschworung
Marina

Pioneers of German 80s electronica / avant garde pop are back with a brand new studio album on Marina, their first in 15 years.

Das Oath - Das Oath
Dim Mak

Das Oath's debut full length self titled album launches 15 songs upon the listener that hold a fine balance between classic hardcore, structurized arty noise and 70' punk rock. Mix the energy of the Germs, the progressive sound of earlier Killing Joke with the gritty noise overload of DC's Void with anthemic undertones ala Agnostic Front, Das Oath creates a sound that no other band comes up with in the world of loud music.

Karl Hinds - Have Patience
Ill Flava

Hinds' sophomore effort comes just as the UK hip hop scene is at its highest public awareness, dragged kicking and screaming in to the new millennium through the work of Roots Manuva, Ty, the Streets, Skinnyman and others. Indeed, the prescence of two of the above MCs (Roots Manuva and Skinnyman appear on the album alongside Seanie T, Tempa and Grimlok) with Hinds cements his reputation as one of the best underground solo artists. Pure British hip hop with a complete absence of Americanized accents or sounds, proud to stand up and say where it's from.

Various Artists / Fabriclive 17 - Aim
Fabric

"Fabriclive 17" is an unhurried journey through Aim's record collection and influences. Like his DJ sets, the selection of hip hop, soul, Americana, electronica and funk tracks are often allowed to play out until they finish. Characteristic funk choices include Telegraph Avenue, Tempo 70 and The Village Callers, with hip hop coming from A Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, Tony D and Ed OG & The Bulldogs. Other artists include Boards Of Canada, James Yorkston, Fingathing, The Byrds and more.

Bent - Ariels
Open

Simon Mills and Nail Tolliday return with a new and improved Bent sound, one not made from gathering charity shop and car boot beats and samples, but recorded with real musicians, vocalists (Kathy Heath, Sian Evans, Rachel Foster and Steve Edwards) and instruments, harking back to the brilliance of tracks such as "Swollen" from "Programmed To Love". This new way of working seems to have made the duo tighten up their songwriting skills too, bringing us track after track of sumptuous, soulful sounds, with proper hooks and choruses.

Earl Zinger - Speaker Stack Commandments
K7

Rob Gallagher (Two Banks Of Four, Galliano) finally follows up his 2001 LPs "Put You Phazers On Stun And Throw Your Health Food Skyward" and "Secret Waltz" with another set of irreverent, humorous, on the ball trawls through the world of DJing and the music biz. Musically, he hacks his way through everything from Vegas show styles to punk-funk, reggae to jazz and post-punk disco to ska, adding pirate radio jingles along the way.

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This week's new releases @ Fopp

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Loose Lips Sink Ships #3

New issue [3] of Loose Lips Sink Ships magazine goes on sale August 19th in the UK. [It is also available to order online]

Quarterly magazine for lovers of fine music, visuals and writing
published 19/08/04

Featuring:
NICK CAVE . JOSH T PEARSON . TV ON THE RADIO .
THE PRODIGY . ENTRANCE . EST’ELLE . COMANECHI .
ED HARCOURT . SECRET MACHINES . MONKEY ISLAND.
MINT CHICKS . SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN .
MATMOS . SKINNYMAN . MARK LANEGAN .
Plus much more.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:55 PM

Pitchfork review The Earlies - These Were The Earlies

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Pitchfork review Neotropic - White Rabbits

# posted by DJ Martian 1:34 PM

Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04

Depeche Mode will release a double remixes album: Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 on October 25th. This microsite has the full tracklisting info.

A limited edition three CD set containing a bonus disc of rare remixes will also be released initially.

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

Nagisa Ni Te

Released on Jagjaguwar this week: Nagisa Ni Te - The Same As A Flower the website has two Mp3 downloads from the album.

...Much like on their previous records, the songs on the new record are about nature, about the singularity of two people immersed in nature together, and about experiencing life as "being", not "becoming" or "recovering from". And like their previous full-length record, Feel, The Same As A Flower still brings to mind the very best of sixties' and seventies' psychedelic, progressive and folk rock (i.e. middle-era Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, 13th Foor Elevators and early Neil Young).

Dusted review Nagisa Ni te - The Same as a Flower

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Cobra Killer - 76 / 77
Monika

Cobra Killer, the demented duo of Gina V.D'Orio and Annika Line Trost, first came together in the late 90's for a couple of legendary releases for Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore imprint ( "Right into a Kick for More" recently voted as one of the top 500 singles of all time..). Since then the girls have donned their blood-soaked nurse uniforms and have honed their love of 60's psych rock and freaked out electronic mashups into a glorious display of scuzzy euphoria that couldn't be more fashionable if it tried. And if you think that's a bad thing, gina and Annika ain't gonna tolerate your negative attitude - they've got an ever-increasing possee of fans (Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore recently exclaimed "We played a couple of shows these last few nights in Germany with Cobra Killer that completely knocked us out... it's two girls and a sampler, and it was just phenomenal, the most inspiring shows....) and the likes of Thomas Fehlmann and T.Raumschmiere have been hassling the girls to add that disturbed Cobra Killer dimension to their own offerings. The girls have imbued the likes of Peaches with enough confidence to crash into her sampler and beat box without a care in the world, and have at long last delivered a full-length collection of tracks that take that determination to the next level. And with a cover like that - who can argue with them? Not us! Ace.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Opto (Carsten Nicolai And Opiate) - 2nd
Hobby Industries

Opto is the collaborative project of two highly respected and influential electronic music composers : carsten nicolai and thomas knak. Nicolai has recorded under the `noto' and `alva noto' monikers for some years and is part of the revered Raster Noton collective. Thomas Knak is best known for his work under the `Opiate' moniker and was involved in writing and producing Bjork's `Vespertine' album as well as releasing for pole's Scape imprint together with friends under the collective title `System'. `2nd' is a follow up to `Optofiles', released by the raster-noton label back in 2001. Back in early 2003 Nicolai found an old battered cassette in a forest, north east of Berlin. The tape contained almost inaudible lo-fi recordings of someone playing small guitar pieces intermingled with an unusual forest ambience - noises that would become the template for `2nd'. Nicolai got help from assistants to restore the recordings of the found magnetic audiotape and passed the guitar files to thomas who started working on beat structures, eventually adding recordings of a nearby forest to further widen the scope of the project. these recordings were made at different hours during two days, hence the tracktitles - guiding you through 48 hours in about 40 minutes. The result is a haunting, mesmerising siesta, dense and intense static crumbling into a crisp grain of acoustic sounds, traces of piano and loose limbed guitar. If you can imagine a cross between Snd and Max Richter, or maybe Ryoji Ikeda and Sylvain Chauveau, you'll have an idea of what to expect. Sublime.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK!
Corker / Conboy - Six For Five
Vertical Form

Corker Conboy delivered what must count as one of the most accomplished and memorable debut albums of the last few years with their breathtaking " In Light Of That Learnt Later" set for Vertical Form. Extending on from the excellent follow-up "Radiant Idiot" they finally deliver this long awaited collection of carefully selected remixes and new tracks. The remixes come courtesy of David Grubbs (killer motorik instrumental - possibly his finest moment to date), Xela (breathless, sublime My bloody Valentine meets Mum loveliness) and Derailer (the new project of Matthew Herbert's recording artist John Mathias - the sound of dusty old 78's, piano and broken instruments played by ghosts - if there's more of this to come, we want to hear it, now) - Vertical Form once again demonstrating that when it comes to selection skills and good taste they loom more or less unrivalled on the scene right now. The new tracks deliver clipped guitar matrices, lulling percussion and beguiling keyboard and recorder melodies ("Six For Five") and delightful folk flourishes (featuring Paul Conboy's intimate vocal debut) on the sublime "Okay Okay". Absolutely gorgeous stuff.

Aeroc (Geoff White) - Viscious Solid
Ghostly International

Geoff White may be better known as a micro house technician but in this (his Ghostly International debut) he reinvents himself as a practitioner of stripped back lush downtempo based acoustic-electronics. Tracks vary from instrumental hiphopscapes, to windswept drones - straight guitar pieces like the wonderful 'Blue Eyed Bitter' and truly ghostly clickbeat ambience. There's a quiet dread to several tracks but that's counterbalanced by the subtlety optimistic beat driven pieces like the killer 'Things Go Wrong'. A superb and eclectic fifteen track album that grows in stature with every listen. Smart die cut digipak design. Like Dabrye's moodier twin. Highly Recommended.

Biosphere - Autour de la Lune
Touch

Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere's latest is possibly his finest recording to date. 'Autour de la Lune' is an audio realisation of Jules Verne's eighteenth century story 'De la Terre à la Lune', a vivid imagination of the first ever manned space flight, some ninety years prior to Mr Gagarin's heroic exploits. This 74 minite, nine movement electronic symphony takes in tones, radar blips, and serenic drones feel that all feel like they were recorded in space. Such is the floaty dreamlike magic of the music realised in the initial 21 minute piece 'Translation'. Elsewhere scrambled communication is heard, emotions are twisted, all hope is lost then miraculously life is regained. Such is the majesty of this recording you could very easily transplant parts into the outer space sequences in Kubrick's '2001'. Fantastic.

Matthew Dear - Backstroke
Spectral

Opening up with `Tide' Matthew Dear gets his warehouse pop machinery out and delivers this killer 8-tracker, wrapping solid beats underneath controlled vocals, minimal sampling and tight-ass grooves, managing to create a sound that's one part Mathew Jonson, one part Talking Heads and one part ESG. The absolute minimalism of `Take On You' hits the mark beautifully - deep, deep subtle beats and padded basslines slowly build up and around a gorgeous string sequence that peaks in the middle, ultra moody and superbly crafted techno. Matthew's vocals make more of an appearance on the other more experimental cuts like `Grut Wall' and the untitled and unlisted bonus track which ends with a superb electronic melody playing solo until the finish. The flip finds the brilliantly housed-up and quite messy `In The Night' which sounds unlike anything else the man has done to date, not a minimal drum in sight, an old school house vibe that's messed up and crunched through filters and a big dollop of New York fashion styling - just the way we like it. Really good sh*t from mista Dear - get jackin'.

Ten And Tracer - Companion
U Cover

Jonathan Cannup, aka Ten And Tracer, delivers his second full length album for U-Cover, featuring his delicate blend of organic electronica and remixes from his friends Kettel, Ontayso and Merck / Type future-star Helios. A native of Colorado , the influence of his surrounding landscape to his music results in subtle soundscapes, sticky rhythms, manipulated voices and sweet melodies that aren't a million miles removed from the most recognisable slant of the boards of Canada. The remixes, meanwhile, deliver in style, with Helios augmenting the crackles with his shimmering acoustic guitar while Kettel continues to develop his skills with beatless soundscaping, as shown off so beautifully on his recent 'Volleyed Iron' album for the same label. Lovely.

Frivolous - Somewhere in The Suburbs
Karloff

A compilation of the two Karloff 12"s plus a couple of bonus cuts are available for the first time on cd. It's easy to see why Karloff issued this cd as it flows brilliantly, showing off of the varied talents of Daniel Gardner under his Frivolous moniker, from the cut up 80's tracks on `Born Out Of Beta' which uses a speeded up early hip house accapella and mashes the beats, drops vocoders and other vocal samples for a quirky early house mash up, to the ace deep cut, `All The Comforts of Home' that hits the more left of centre with its deep groove and almost operatic vocal samples that mix with the subtle drums and club led edits. The bonus cuts are excellent, `Fredrick Cokanose' skims the spectrum of dance music with abandon, from stripped acoustic guitar samples to rough ass 2 step bass and drums, with all manner of electro house and techno sounds and influences in, a little schizophrenic, but in the best mash up way. `Every Day Of My Life' hits a deeper note with lush chords following a superb jazz double bass line that's almost freestyle under the minimal house beats and lush noises. Unique and challenging material from Frivolous, well worth a check.

James Cotton - The Dancing Box
Spectral

Long awaited debut album from Tadd Mullinix, aka Dabrye, aka SK-1, aka James Cotton, released on Ghostly's superb offshoot label Spectral. A reletnless raved-up warehouse aesthetic is the order of the day, kicking off with the awesome submerged acid of the opener `The Drain' which has one of those repeating acid lines that mingles with its own modulation to create a disorienting yet killer moment, while the warehouse sound of the second cut `Blood Red' sounds a bit more vintage but deploys the same relentless intent : to jack. There are a few tracks that are so heavily filtered and vintage'd they almost get lost in translation, but they do get better the further into the album you get, as with the genius title track and its mighty absolute abandon, melody and harsh digital 303's - rampant acid that hits the spot perfectly. For a perfect finisher `We Still Expect Freedom' explores the deeper end of acid that's superbly excecuted by Mr Mullinix, with a repeating Rob Hood style synth line that morphs and changes through the track, subtle compressed strings and the lo-fi drums that mix together for a superb track that deserves multiple listens, saving the best cut for pudding. Ace.

Luomo - The Present Lover
Kinetic Records

Now available on cd. Mr Luomo (Vladislav Delay) at long last drops his second album as Luomo, delivering an album chock full of lush slinky vocal house that upholds the quality he's gotten us so used to. Being mastered by a certain Moritz Von Oswald (Basic Channel, Rhythm and Sound, Genius) can do nothing but good for your music, and Luomo gives Moritz some slinky house to work with. Check the slippery bassline of `Talk In Danger' with its floating vocoder and AGF's shimmering vocal, a velvet excursion that makes you want to get down and smooch in the sultry weather. Straight on to `So You' which is a little more uptempo and employs a breakbeat on the break, coupled with the acid pad bassline and soulful hammond organ that subtly freestyles over the top pushes Luomo's sound a little further forward from past material. Rounding the album off with `Cold Lately', the tone getsa little more experimental with the beats and noises, breaking the flow a little more and taking us toward his brilliant Uusitalo material, still retaining the warmth of Luomo. Late night sparkling wickedness.

The Dirty Criminals - Organized Confusion
Gigolo

Three bad guys from Chicago, called the Dirty Criminals: Deecoy, Hieroglyphic Being and DJ TRAXX release their album `Organized Confuzion' on DJ Hell`s International Deejay Gigolo Records, and it's the best thing on the label in ages. Fusing classic EBM, Dirty Beat, Chicago House, industrial electronix and a bit of acid thrown in for good measure - if you've dug the Hieroglyphic Being releases on spectral you'll know what to expect here. In between the confuzion of kaos is a subliminal message about the truth of lost energy for Chicago & Detroit musicians that has been extinct for 10 years. Their mission is to re-introduce the old way of producing Jack-Style tracks in a Nu-Style concept using all live-based programming and no sampling. Wicked.

Zbigniew Preisner - La Double Vie De Veronique OST
Virgin

This incredible soundtrack from one of the greatest film score composers of the modern age is at long last available again. The work of Poland's Zbigniew Preisner is closely linked to that of film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, the pair having worked together since the widely acclaimed "Decalogue" series began production in the mid 1980's. This soundtrack to Kieslowski's most moving film (please god give it a DVD release already!) has now been made available again after a few years in the wilderness, and the timing couldn't be better. Fans of Max Richter will find much to marvel at here, the score ranging from the Satie-esque solo piano melancholy of "Puppets" to the "Van Den Budenmayer" operatic score that plays such a central role in the film (Fans of Kieslwoski will be aware of Presiner's alter-ego "Van Den Budenmayer", a character that hovers in ghostly fashion through all of the director's later films, though never more centrally than in "La Double Vie De Veronique" and the "Three colours" trilogy, especially Bleu). Having watched this film more times than I could ever possibly admit to, the soundtrack has become an extremely personal artefact, a memento from one of the finest films of the last half century composed with a telling genius that should be discovered by a new genertion of listeners without delay. Amazing music, regardless of whether you know the work of either Kieslowski or Preisner - it's a hugely recommended listen.

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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

[New Releases for August 9th]

Antony And The Johnsons - Antony And The Johnsons
Secretly Canadian

Antony And The Johnsons present chamber cabaret in darkest blue, creating music that is highly dramatic, emotional, and lyrical. Compared to everyone from Nina Simone to Lotte Lenya, Antony's voice is hauntingly evocative. The Johnsons, an ensemble featuring a string trio, piano, bass and drums, lay a foundation of lush yet minimal orchestral arrangements.

Brazil - A Hostage And The Meaning Of Life
Fearless

Massive soundscapes of progressive and experimental rock with underlying grand piano and a six member wall of sound with additional drum machines thru pedals, cello, sax and metal and violin bows on guitar strings.

Colour Of Fire - Pearl Necklace
Riverman Music

"Pearl Necklace", the debut album from Colour Of Fire is a mix of huge pop hooks and driving edgy rock.

Ella Guru - The First Album
Banana Recordings

Americana hits Liverpool! And what a nice change this is from the madcap, Beefheart / Love fixated wacky boys. It's probably just as much post-rock actually as the hovering pedal-steel drifts dreamily through whispered vocals, flutes, (non-parping!) saxes and cellos. Any banjos that bob up are gently dealt with by fairy-tinkling vibraphone or swathes of Hammond. This is a laid-back, considered, and often very beautiful record. One for your headphones. Float on!

Galaxie 500 - Uncollected
Rykodisc

Galaxie 500 "Uncollected" available for all at last! Includes 14 unreleased songs from all three album sessions, rarities from limited edition singles and compilations, covers of songs by both the Beatles AND The Rutles(!), and the band's first demo tape. For years the only way fans could get their hands on these songs was to buy the long deleted four CD Galaxie 500 box set.

Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
Peacefrog

French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux are the duo behind the cleverly named Nouvelle Vague, which translates as new wave in English and bossa nova in Portuguese. The name gets to the very essence of the idea behind these songs - post punk new wave tracks re-played in a mellow bossa nova / easy latin style, fronted by a parade of guest female vocalists (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker). Joy Division, PIL, The Clash, The Specials, Depeche Mode, The Undertones, XTC, Sisters Of Mercy, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, The Dead Kennedys, Killing Joke and Modern English are all given the Nouvelle Vague homage, showing the brilliance of the original compositions, while breathing new life into them. Whether you grew up with these songs in the late 70s / early 80s, or are coming to them afresh, you have to agree that this LP is a bit special.

P.G. Six - Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites
Amish Records

P.G. Six is Pat Gubler (founding member of New York's enigmatic musical collective Tower :Recordings) and percussionist / engineer Tim Barnes. This the debut album, favours late 60s / early 70s pastoral English folk influences, rural American blues, heavy psychedelic elements and modernist drone to create this critically acclaimed and wholly unique modern classic. At times, the music recalls the finer moments of bands like Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Steeleye Span and the playing of giants like Jansch and Fahey, but does so completely with it's own voice.

P.G. Six - The Well Of Memory
Amish Records

P.G. Six's second full-length album, "The Well Of Memory", continues many of the themes introduced on his first album. The new record makes nods towards 60s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also fitting in with contemporary musicians like New York psych folk poster-boy Devendra Banhardt, anglo-folk traditionalist Alasdair Roberts, and west coast psych guitarist Ben Chasny of Six Organs Of Admittance. Pat's lyrics draw on narrative force, spinning mythology in abstract patterns that stretch moments of clarity between dreamlike sequences.

Barbez - Barbez
Important

Barbez draws its unusual instrumentation into a haunting, original sound that can evoke everything from Swans and PJ Harvey, to Lotte Lenya and eastern European folk music. Imagine Kurt Weill chewing sausages with the Residents underneath the Williamsburg Bridge while watching a Russian wedding dance and you have some approximation of Brooklyn's Barbez. This self titled release was produced by Martin Bisi. Barbez is also a constant, vibrant part of the New York music scene, and has shared the stage with such performers as Cat Power, Godspeed, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the Angels Of Light and Devendra Bandart.

D_rradio - U_nderscore
Static Caravan

The sound of D_rradio is a serene instrumental glide, somewhere between post-rock and electronica, somewhere between an exquisite escape and a happy homecoming.

Fupper - Walleyecandy
Tritone

Fupper AKA Simon Hughes offers up a wonderfull selection of musical driftwood on this album. Found sounds and atmospheric curios rub shoulders with crackling tape loops and dusty breaks. Endearingly lo-fi and drenched in a melancholic fog. Distant fragile guitars counterpoint these sounds and add a classic flavour to some of the tracks whilst outsider beats leave footprints across a musical landscape that whirs and clicks like an old super eight movie, yet brimming with a playful inventiveness that is a joy to listen to.

Lynskey - The Complete Guide To Space Folk
Valentine Records

With a list of influences that include Squarepusher, The Cure, Luke Haines, Twin Peaks, John Cale, Morr Music, Lali Puna, Time Travel and William Burroughs, Porl Henty AKA Lynskey has crafted a 23 minute EP of futuristic pop that seems to perfectly combine all of his influences.

Joe Meek - Meeky Meeky - Random Flakes Vol. 2
Mainpal

Second volume of previously unreleased studio out-takes by the legendary 60s producer Joe Meek (all tracks penned by the man himself). 27 tracks of Joe going for it and occasionally getting it wrong in the pursuit of making himself a superstar singer. Sadly things never worked out for Joe on that side of the mixing desk and he was quickly lead away, sat down and given a cup of hot sweet tea. If Lou Barlow recorded these lo-fi tracks now it would probably be called genuis!!!

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Relapse

The Dillinger Escape Plan unveils "Miss Machine", the much-anticipated follow up to their groundbreaking "Calculating Infinity" album. Merging unparalleled musical bravery, prodigious musicianship, flawless execution and an array of forward thinking ideas, Dillinger reinvent the rock'n'roll idiom while pleasing their harshest critics: themselves. For fans of; System Of A Down, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Refused, and progressive, futuristic music.

Electro-Fried-Hiphop - The Morning - Gazi
Boogie Up Books

One man's personal story of the history of hip hop, trainers, graffiti, record buying, electro, breakdancing and his experiences from Manchester to London in this 52 page book.

Book - ISBN 0-9546741-0-3

Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind
Low Life

They don't get much more anticipated than this. The notorious Skinnyman releases his debut album that has the ruggedness of 50 Cent and the audacious nature of Johnny Rotten. Skinnyman is nothing short of one of Britain's most talented uncovered artists, paying his dues on the music scene since his pre-teens, he is respected by all in the hip hop world and has finally delivered a debut album 14 tracks deep of the most personal and poignant music you'll hear this decade. Skinny has the talent and charisma to be the next big name out of the blossoming UK hip hop scene, with the support of big names like Gilles Peterson and Tim Westwood.

McNeal & Niles - Thrust
Chocolate Industries

After several years of digging, Chocolate Industries track down the original players and reissue this obscure lost 1979 funk album. Machelle McNeal's cosmic keyboards of all varieties (Moogs, Hammond, Rhodes, EML 500, Arp etc.) are put to work making summertime jazz funk along with Wilbur Niles' funky guitar and the tight rhythm section of Norman Crumb (drums), Willie Taylor (percussion) and Don Wade (bass). From the strolling opening grooves of "Ja Ja", to the spaced-out sing-along disco of "Summer Time", to the TV theme riffs of "Punk Funk", it's clear that this is no ordinary bargain bucket find.

Various Artists / Norman Jay Presents Philadelphia
Harmless

Subtitled "The Underground Anthems Of Philadelphia Soul 1973-1981", Norman Jay has gone out of his way on this compilation to pick out some of the lesser known tracks from the Philadelphia International label. This collection mixes up the spiritual soul-jazz of Billy Paul's early 70s "East" with eco-friendly disco-soul by The O'Jays, orchestral funk from Norman Harris and Monk Montgomery and early 80s 2-step soul from Jean Carn. There's also tracks by The Futures, Archie Bell & The Drells, MFSB (Mother, Father, Sister, Brother or Mother Fuckin' Son of a Bitch, depending what you read!) and Lou Rawls.
2xCD - HURTCD056
20 track double CD. Extras are from The Trammps, Anthony White, Teddy Pendergrass, The Jones Girls and other tracks by artists already mentioned.

Kawabata Makoto - O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras?
Important

Comprised of two epic, deeply meditative, spiritual and transcendental compositions. Track one is the very first solo track Kawabata has ever recorded on an acoustic guitar. Filtered through three reverb units and a single delay this epic acoustic track starts off droning but quickly builds with reverb drenched and finger picked momentum light years away from any of Kawabata's solo guitar work. The second major composition is the album's namesake. This deeply spiritual electric guitar drone was also played through three reverb units and a single delay machine. If you're having trouble understanding Kawabata's spiritual experience, take this home and put on your headphones. The skies will open and you'll be full of vibrations.

Straight No Chaser / Summer 2004

Theo Parrish & Rotating Assembly get the cover feature but there's also interviews with ?uestlove, Fontella Bass, Van Hunt, Olatuja, Little Brother, Raw Deal, Vinicius Cantuaria, Billie Holliday tribute, Chaser's birthday celebrations at Jazz Cafe and all your usual news, reviews, charts, art, shopping and what-not!

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Saturday, August 14, 2004

The Return of Saul Williams

Saul Williams will release a self titled album on September 21st.

the tracks range from politics to relationships to the politics of relationships. What I ended up with was something that captured the authoritative cool of hip- hop, the playful angst of rock and roll, the raw emotional torment of emo and the fuckoffness of punk.

Silent Uproar provide a link to stream a track: List of Demands (Reparations)

To these ears it sounds like a cross between The Pixies, TV on the Radio, early Tricky and Outkast.

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Friday, August 13, 2004

Mojo Magazine - September 2004 Issue

New issue of MOJO Magazine is on sale today. Another boring Beatles front cover !

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Reminder: Observer Music Monthly is included with The Observer this Sunday [15th August]

Unfortunately The Dork-ness are front covered, however there is a retrospective feature on Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti was rude to Paul McCartney, outraged the Nigerian authorities, and had 27 wives. On the eve of a major retrospective event, those closest to the Afrobeat legend reveal the truth of his prodigious appetites and his lasting legacy.

Source: OMM e-mail.

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Music webzine to check: Speakers Push the Air

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JockeySlutRefugees

New music message board: ex readers of Jockey Slut magazine have formed: JockeySlutRefugees

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BBC Music review Radian - Juxtaposition

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Street Beats in Rotterdam

BBC report Thousands set for techno parade

Up to 350,000 people are expected at the Dance Parade taking place in Rotterdam this weekend

FFWD: Heineken Dance Parade

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Brainwashed Releases has been updated.

a listing of recent & upcoming electronic/experimental/etc. releases

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Dhafer Youssef UK Tour with Avant Norwegian Artists

Alerted via It's a trap

Tunisian artist Dhafer Youssef is doing a bunch of dates this fall with a Norwegian backing band featuring Arve Henriksen (Supersilent, trumpet/electronics), Eivind Aarset (guitar/electronics), Audun Erlien (bass) and Rune Arnesen (drums).

11/11 - tba, Madrid (SPA)
11/18 - Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (UK)
11/19 - Phoenix, Exeter (UK)
11/20 - The Zodiac, Oxford (UK)
11/21 - Contemporary Music Festival, Huddrsfield (UK)
11/23 - The Shed, Brawby (UK)
11/24 - Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham (UK)
11/25 - Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton (UK)

Booking info for this Tour

CMN Tour Details

This mesmerising Tunisian vocalist and oud player unites the spirituality of Sufi with the evocative soundscapes of the Norwegian electronic scene.

CMN Tours: Programme overview

Dhafer Youssef is one of the most exciting musicians to emerge in the European music scene. Taking his Tunisian heritage and the spirituality of Sufi as a starting point, Dhafer has brought together some of the most inspiring Norwegian musicians to create a sonic world which is at once ancient and modern.

His emotive voice and beautiful oud playing create a captivating atmosphere which is complemented by the huge, electronic sound scapes created by the group. Working with such creative voices as Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Eivind Aarest on electric guitar, Dhafer Youssef’s new project captures the essence of the new Europe sound.

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Dusted review Pan American - Quiet City

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Almost Cool review Khonnor - Handwriting

Drawing influences from Fennesz, David Sylvian, and even Jim O'Rourke, Handwriting is 13 tracks of fuzzed-out guitar-based electronic music that plays like it's filtered through colored glass.

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The Guardian on The Nasty Festival of the New Wave - a post punk festival in Central Leeds.

Happening this Saturday: The Nasty Festival

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The Guardian review The Blue Nile - High

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Uncut Magazine continues circulation rise

Brand Republic report Uncut continues to perform well as music sector suffers

Most music magazine have declining sales figures over the past 6 months: including: Kerrang!, Q, Mojo and NME. However, Uncut magazine continued to increase it's sales slightly to 112,816 copies.

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The Face magazine and British Youth

An essay for the cultural studies/ media studies/ sociology aficionados: spiked-essay: by Neil Davenport: The strange death of social aspiration

The iconic style magazine The Face, which closed in April 2004, had reported on the 'cutting edge' of popular culture since 1980.

Neil Davenport is a sociology lecturer and a contributor to Uncut magazine.

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MediaGuardian.co.uk report Xfm throws lifeline to student radio

As part of Capital's digital radio expansion strategy the group wants Xfm to partner student radio stations as a way of building nationwide audiences for its digital radio broadcasts.

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The Independent interview Björk

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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Audioscope 04 - Oxford, October 2nd

DiS report that AUDIOSCOPE04 Line Up Announced

Audioscope 04 - Line Up

Damo Suzuki (ex-Can)
Oxes
The Telescopes
Bikini Atoll
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Cat On Form
Large Number (ex-Add N To (X))
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element"

At the Zodiac, in Oxford on Saturday 2 October

Proceeds from this event will go to the charity, Shelter.

Official website: Audioscope

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Dusted review Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The Robert Wyatt Story TV Documentary

On BBC TWO this Friday there is a documentary on Robert Wyatt

Originals: The Robert Wyatt Story
Fri 13 Aug, 11:35 pm - 12:45 am 70mins
BBC 2

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RollingStone interview Simon Le Bon who comments on the upcoming Duran Duran - Astronaut album.

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Cari Lekebusch New Album: The Architect

ePM profile the forthcoming album from Sweden's Cari Lekebusch

Cari Lekebusch - The Architect [due for release in October on Truesoul Records.]

Alongside fellow Swedes Adam Beyer and Joel Mull, Cari Lekebusch has been largely credited for galvanizing and kick starting the hugely influential sound of Swedish techno. His releases on Missile, Drumcode, Svek, his own H-Productions and Kaun Trax imprints and a whole host of others have helped take his sound to the world. Hot on the heels of the ‘Shaded’ EP featuring the sublime vocals of Krister, Cari Lekebusch goes back to his drawing board as he sculpts a new perspective derived from the evolution of Electro, House, Techno Soul and other electronic dance music styles. With this album, ‘The Architect’ Cari displays a broad range of tastes, both club and listening formulas that are fueled with many surprises for the listener. 'The Architect' is set for release this October on Truesoul Records.

Official website: Cari Lekebusch

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Playlouder review Evil Nine - You Can Be Special Too

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New Neotropic Album

Dirtyloop profile the new Neotropic album: Neotropic - White Rabbits

After a string of succesful releases for Ninja Tune's Ntone imprint, Neotropic makes her Mush debut with her finest work to date: 'White Rabbits'. Utilizing collabrotive live performances from a number of talented guest musicians on a bed of sparse programming, Neotropic has crafted a release that is a continuation of her migration toward warm, minimal, acoustically grounded compositions. Her blend of environmental audio and rhythms document many moods and transitions. Piano lines and strings drift above fragile drum loops, an unassuming guitar strum slowly develops into a moving body of instruments, and sporadic vocals muse on the difficulty of finding and maintaining love.

If you are not familar with Neotropic the music is in a similar sonic terrain to Four Tet.

This album will be released by Mush records next week.

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Oceansize New EP

Mancunian epic rockers Oceansize will release a new ep in October: Music for Nurses

Their Beggars Banquet debut album 'Effloresce' was one of the most astonishing debut albums to grace the ears of mortals since God decided Adam and Eve should get rocking - and now, the Manchester five-piece are back in action with a brand new four track EP that is quite simply stunning.

Entitled 'Music For Nurses', the EP is set for release in on the 11th October, with an extensive UK tour, calling at the following venues:

October
14 - Leeds Josephs Well
15 - Manchester Academy 3
16 - tbc
18 - Edinburgh Venue
19 - Aberdeen Kef
20 - Glasgow King Tuts
21 - Sheffield Fez Club
22 - Liverpool University
24 - Birmingham Academy 3
25 - tbc
26 - London Garage
27 - Bristol Fleece
29 - Cardiff Barfly
30 - Stoke Sugarmill

Source: Beggars Banquet e-mail

More info @ Official Oceansize Website.

"Music For Nurses" 5 brand new tracks as follows;

1. One Out Of nOne
2. Paper Champion
3. Drag The 'Nal
4. Dead Dogs An' All Sorts
5. As The Smoke Clears

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Turing Machine - Zwei

frenchkiss records will release a new album from avant psychedelic rockers: Turing Machine entitled: Zwei in October.

10/19/04 Turing Machine - Zwei - CD only

A sprawling instrumental psychadelic masterpiece. This record will melt your brain. You might remember them from their stellar full-length on Jade Tree, this one kinda destroys that one.

More info @ 230 Publicity
Also coming to you care of 2:30 & frenchkiss records, Turing Machine’s brand spankin' new full-length, Zwei - an intense collection of searing guitars, churning bass lines and galvanic drumming that come together to create propulsive progressive music for this young century.

Recommended: download a stunning MP3 from Turing Machine's 2000 album @ Epitonic

Turing Machine on this track make a similar powerful intense rock soundscape to Trans Am circa Red Line - that was also released in 2000.

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VHS or Beta - Night on Fire Album

filter magazine report VHS or Beta will release a new album: Night On Fire on September 21 via Astralwerks in the US.

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TV on the Radio - New EP in October

filter magazine report a new TV on the Radio EP: New Health Rock is due on October 14th via their US label Touch & Go. So will 4ad in the UK release this?

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Re>gen Magazine

Re>gen Magazine :: music culture commentary offers music news & reviews.

Sign up for their The Cog Newsletter.

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High Contrast: New Single/ Album

Godbrain report the Welsh Junglist High Contrast will release a single: Racing Green in September.

The Album: High Society follows in October on Hospital Records.

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RA: Resident Advisor

The latest dance/ electronic music news @ RA: Resident Advisor

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Mercury Rev Return with The Secret Migration

Albumvote.co.uk report that Mercury Rev will release a new album: The Secret Migration in early 2005 on V2.

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Depeche Mode - Devotional

[mute] provide info on a Depeche Mode DVD ...their acclaimed performance film, "Devotional", recorded on the band's 1993 sold out world tour.

Depeche Mode Release "DEVOTIONAL" DVD
Released: 20th Sep 2004

Official website: Depeche Mode - Devotional

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Domino Records Sampler CD with the NME

Reminder: there is a free Domino CD with the NME this week: Domino Records declare independence with free CD

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Mixing It - Radio 3

Info on upcoming Mixing It shows on Radio 3 [via Radio 3 e-mail newsletter]

Mixing It - Coming Soon

13th August
Robert and Mark are back on the 13th of August with a lovely session
from Parisian electronica collective Wide Open Cage.

20th August
Further ahead, on the 20th, there's an interview with Björk about her
new album Medúlla, exploring the human voice as sound source and
including contributions from Robert Wyatt, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and
Rahzel of The Roots.

27th August
On the 27th there's a session from Los Angeles-based tuba player Tom
Heasley, who creates ambient electro-acoustic music through digital
processing and loops.

On a side note, the Radio 3 website has improved re the user interface/ information design - but they have neglected content management and still have not addressed this issue.

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Isolee: New Album on the Way

philip sherburne mentioned on ILM that Isolee will release a new album in early 2005 on the Playhouse label.

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Q and Not U - Power

Q AND NOT U will release a new album: Power in October.

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Paradise Lost provide an update on the progress they are making regarding a new album.

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Hood: New EP October, Album in January 2005

Leeds based experimental band Hood have a news update:

a new Hood track 'The Negatives' is appearing on a Domino compilation to be given away with the NME in the Aug 21st edition

a new 5 track EP by Hood will appear on October 25th. its called 'The Lost You' and comes on CD and limited 2 x 7'. A new as yet untitled album follows in January. There'll be some UK shows in October as well the Airwaves Festival in Iceland.

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Dälek - Absence

// Tag Team Media provide a press release / bio for Dälek with details of an upcoming album: Absence

dälek are back with their third and most sonically challenging full length to date, Absence. Expanding their sound and pulling from their influences, Absence recalls the best parts of Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad, the street poetry of KRS-1, the raw beats of Gang Starr and Mobb Deep, and the fearlessness of the avant garde, like Glenn Branca, My Bloody Valentine and Penderecki. ...

This album is due September 7th on Ipecac.

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Instal.04 - Brave New Music

Durtro have details of the Instal 04 festival

Instal.04
Brave New Music

16–17 October 2004
The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland

Saturday 16 October

Current 93 • Six Organs of Admittance • Charlemagne Palestine • Chie Mukai • Richard Youngs • [another act to be confirmed]

Sunday 17 October

Vajra (Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka) • Derek Bailey & Ingar Zach • Steffen Basho-Junghans • EXIAS-J • Masayoshi Urabe • Kan Mikami solo

Tickets will be available for sale online and from the box office from 17 August.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

This week on the John Peel show on Radio 1

Wednesday: Mono in session.
Thursday: The Fall in session.

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Splendid Features: Galaxie 500 interviewed.

Preamble:

Galaxie 500's kinship with the Velvet Underground isn't limited to musical parallels. The group, founded in Boston in the late 1980s, was far more successful after its break-up than it was over the span of its three full-length releases -- Today (1988), On Fire (1989) and This Is Our Music (1990).

Overshadowed by the behemoth Pixies at the time of their greatest successes and subsequent swan song, Galaxie 500 are once again battling those alt-rock giants in the summer of 2004. The release of Plexifilm's video anthology Don't Let Our Yourth Go To Waste: Galaxie 500 1987-1991 arrives in the midst of a Pixies reunion, an irony that is far from lost on members Damon Krukowski, Dean Wareham and Naomi Yang. But the Plexifilm collection, which includes all four of the band's videos (all directed by friend and collaborator Sergio Huidor), five full-length concert performances, two bootleg concerts from the band's final year of touring and a rarely-seen UK television performance, once again puts the band in the center of a maelstrom, as fans and critics argue for Galaxie 500's legendary status within the history of alternative music.

Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham (now of Luna) and drummer Damon Krukowski (now of Damon & Naomi) spoke to Splendid about the release of the Plexifilm anthology, and discussed the group's history and ever-expanding legacy.

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Sonar 2004 Reviewed

Dusted Features look back at [Sonar 2004]

Dusted's tobias c van veen reports back from this year's Sonar festival.

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

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Bill Nelson & The Lost Satellites The Be Bop Deluxe and Beyond Tour

Art rocker Bill Nelson informs Bill Nelson and the Lost Satellites will release a new album, tentatively titled: Satellite Songs - in the Autumn.

A free full mp3 download is available: Times of Our Lives - a sublime slice of art rock ala David Bowie: Scary Monsters era / Thomas Dolby: circa 92/ Peter Murphy: circa Cuts You Up / Robert Fripp on Exposure circa 1979 / Pete Shelley circa 1986 Heaven & the Sea / Peter Blegvad: circa 1985 Special Delivery.

Bill Nelson has been making music interesting and innovative music since the mid 1970s, but remains a cult figure due to lack of radio airplay.

This new album will tie in with a UK Tour Bill Nelson and The Lost Satellites...The Be Bop Deluxe and Beyond Tour... Celebrating 30 years of ever evolving music.

October
Sun 3 Sheffield The Leadmill www.leadmill.co.uk
Thur 7 Milton Keynes The Stables www.stables.org
Sat 9 Birmingham Robin 2 www.therobin.co.uk
Sun 10 Manchester Academy 3 www.manchesteracademy.net
Thur 14 Leeds Irish Centre www.liveinleeds.com/irish.htm
Sat 16 Nottingham Rescue www.rescuerooms.com
Sat 23 London Bloomsbury Theatre www.thebloomsbury.com/shows/index.php

Further info @ Bill Nelson Diary

Announcement of Three Limited Edition Albums
I've finished all the work on the THREE new albums, including their packaging art and design (with the assistance of Dave Graham), and mastered all of them in a mammoth session at Fairview studios with the help of my good friend John Spence. These have now gone to be manufactured. Two of the albums, SATELLITE SONGS and CUSTOM DELUXE will be on sale exclusively at the tour concerts. The third, WAH-WAH GALAXY, I've reserved for ticket holders at this year's NELSONICA fan convention. It will be the biggest album I've offered to fans at this event so far,16 pieces of music running to over 70 minutes. Destined to be a valuable rarity if previous year's convention CD's are anything to go by.

Re-Issues
EMI Records are releasing a new Be Bop Deluxe compilation album to coincide with the tour and they are also re-issuing a couple of deleted albums.

Nelson on his diary goes on to attack the rock establishment:

I'm also, equally if not more so, sick to the teeth of the lazy, industry led, re-cycled crap that poses as cutting edge pop or rock music at the moment. A harsh opinion? Give me a fuckin' custard pie and we'll talk about 'harsh' later. Clowns and illusionists, the lot of 'em. Looking for ideas that don't dress themselves up in outmoded ideologies? Looking for something that feeds heart and soul and mind? Looking for something that provides a genuine alternative to coffee-table, yuppie conscripted, Ikea-style rebellion? Looking for genuine substance and sustenance? Me too....

Nelson doesn't name any artists, but you can guess the usual NME/ Q backed suspects.

Bill Nelson will be appearing as a guest @ The Sounds of the Guitar: A Global Crossroads conference at Leeds University

PopuLUs, The Centre for the Study of the World’s Popular Musics at Leeds University presents

An international conference celebrating the culture of the guitar in theory and practice

School of Music, University of Leeds, UK
Friday and Saturday, November 26th and 27th, 2004
Day One: Live performances
Day Two: Papers

More info on Bill Nelson can be found at Rooms with Brittle Views - Bill Nelson UK Official Website

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Monday, August 09, 2004

Dusted review Robag Wruhme - Wuzzlebud *KK*

# posted by DJ Martian 4:18 PM

The Pixies - 2005 Album?

Xfm report New Pixies Album For 2005?

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This week's new releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 12:52 PM

DJ Martian: Forthcoming Album Releases 2004 has been updated.

August is a relatively quiet month for new releases, but as always expect September/ October/ November - to be overloaded with new releases. The next task is to sequence release dates for these months.

Also you can expect record companies to delay some releases till the new year.

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Sunday, August 08, 2004

This week's One World show on Radio 1 features a focus on Brighton: Catskills & One Eye Records

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This week's The Freak Zone show on 6 Music features:

Our Album Of The Week is The Man Machine by Kraftwerk, there's more Live Freaks in the form of Henry Cow and Cream, session tracks from the BBC archive, plus the usual mix of all the strange and beautiful tunes we can lay our hands on.

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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!
Isan / Styrofoam / The Go Find - Morr Music Japan Tour CD
Morr Music

Oh yum, it's been a little tricky but we've finally managed to get hold of this fabulous Japanese-only cd from the excellent Morr Music label. Everything that's on here is completely exclusive to this release so make sure you grab it while you can as it includes that incredible Isan track so many of you have been enquiring about in recent weeks. Those of you who have had a look at the Morr Music website in the last couple of months have delighted at the Japanese folk song "Akatombo" specially remodified by Robin and Toe Isan. For our money (and quite evidently yours too!) it's one of the best things they've ever done and it features on this cd in all it's 3 minute glory - absolutely fabulous stuff. Also included are two more new and exclusive Isan tracks, plus two new offerings from the excellent Styrofoam, a sneaky peek at Morr's latest signing "The Go Find" plus a newly written Styrofoam remix. 7 Tracks wide, 28 minutes, collectors edition, Ace!

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Moodymann - Black Mahogani II
Peacefrog

Limited, upfront copies of these unreleased majestic jazz cuts from Kenny Dixon Jr's jazz sessions - at long last given over to an adoring fanbase to drool over. The centrepiece of this incredible album is the eighteen minute 'When She Follows', spiritual modal deep deep jazz that harks back to the seventies, material like that championed by Black Jazz, so lovingly recently reissued by Soul Jazz. Chopped live drum rolls, looping acoustic bass, electric piano stabs and distant saxophone all wrapped up in the soulful vocal that drifts ever onwards like some epic detroit techno cut replayed by Gil Scott Heron's band in 1970. Incredible music. 'Rectify' follows in a similar method, pure jazz in a detroit techno framework, even managing to top Carl Craig's work on the massive Innerzone Orchestra album, a record that comes to mind listening to these amazing pieces. The final two tracks 'Dirty Little Bonus Beats' and 'When She (Reprise)' are revisions of the main cuts, the former alters the bassline, adds female vocal sighs and more rhythmic drum grooves, while the latter shifts up the tempo and develops a wigged out techno synth element. These are all-exclusive tracks - a stone cold classic and an absolutely essential purchase, straight from the heart. Awesome.

Various / Studio One - Studio One Classics
Soul Jazz

With the sad and very untimely recent demise of Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd, King of Sound Systems, music lost one of its truest and most long-term visionaries. Here Soul Jazz touch their ninth essential collection of his output, and it makes no excuses for its celebratory leanings. Michigan and Smiley and Johnny Osbourne both version 'Rub a dub style', Heptones' mighty 'Pretty Looks', original deejay version of Burning Spear's 'Rocking Time', Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, Jazzbo's superb 'School' and a wonderful Lone Ranger 'Automatic' over a tune i know as 'Place called africa'. Too much else to mention in full in the 18 tracks, Slim Smith, Jennifer Lara, Sound Dimension, Don Drummond, The Wailers - damn, the man was a genius, and his spirit will live forever in this incredible music.

!!! - Hello? Is This Thing On?
Warp

Quite easily the standout track from !!!'s recent "Louden Up Now" album for Warp, "Hello? Is this thing on?" gives it the Mariachi vibes with much New York style and flair - sounding like The Clash powedered-up and ready to pop. The single comes with new track "Sunday 5:17am" and a remix of the title track by Thomas N' Eric. Nice.

D_Rradio - U_nderscore
Static Caravan

Static Caravan have always been one of our favourite labels. Their recent run of good form capped off by the wonderful Tuung 7" continues with this full-length debut from the mysterious DeathRowRadio crew better known as D_RRADIO. This seven track full lengther is awash with sprightly melodies with a ragged undercurrent. Fuelled by a subdued euphoria their post rock meets electronica output recalls Hood at their poppiest and Ulrich Schnauss at his moodiest. Clocking in just short of forty minutes their is enough invention at play and lushness in the production to make it work to savour for post rock and electronic heads alike. Highly recommended.

Fanny - Strange Planes Spray Cancers on Winnipeg
Sublight

The most developed and deranged collection of tracks from Fanny yet - a collage of fractured beats, shards of disjointed percussion, ambient washes, IDM moodiness, mentallist erruptions and a wicked dancehall noise finale - in true bugged out fashion. One for fans of Otto Von Schirach, Venetian Snares and the Schematic possee. Check.

Fupper - Walleyecandy
Tritone

Fupper, aka simon hughes, offers up a selection of musical driftwood on this album. found sounds and atmospheric curios rub shoulders with crackleing tape loops and dusty breaks a la Tommy Guerrero. Distant fragile guitars counterpoint these sounds and add a classic flavour to some of the tracks whilst outsider hip hop beats leave footprints across a musical landscape that whirs and clicks like an old super 8 movie. Nice.

Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
Peacefrog

Prepare to be completely overtaken by this modern day classic - an absolutely awesome collection of Bossa/ Lounge cover versions of alternative hits performed by a group of French musicians and sultry female vocalists who have created the finest covers album since Atom Heart's glorious "Pop Artificielle" (under the Lb moniker) a good 5 years ago. "Nouvelle Vague" is a concept AND album that could so easily have fallen victim to cliché or tired novelty - but the incredible success story with it is to be found in the inspired arrangements and deliveries that avoid both obvious pitfalls. Featuring cover versions of `Love Will Tear Us Apart' (Joy Division), "Just Can't Get Enough" (Depeche Mode), "In A Manner Of Speaking" (Tuxedomoon), "Guns Of Brixton" (The Clash), "This Is Not A Love Song" (P.I.L), "Too Drunk To F*ck" (The Dead Kennedys), "Marian" (Sisters Of Mercy), "A Forest" (The Cure), "I Melt With You" (Modern English), "Teenage Kicks" (The Undertones), "Psyche" (Killing Joke), and "Friday Night Saturday Morning" (The Specials) - the album succeeds in so many levels it's hard to know where to start. The careful arrangements and subtle modifications (lovingly crafted by Marc Collins and Olivier Libeaux) beautifully utilise a host of instruments and typically seductive french vocals that imbue the industrial leanings of many of the originals with a sundrenched late night exoticism that takes you someplace between "grey 70's Manchester and the white sands of Copacabana". But most importantly - "Nouvelle Vague" possesses supreme populist qualities (we kid you not - EVERY time we play this in the shop, and we mean EVERY time, we get hassled every 90 seconds by someone of unspecified musical leaning wanting to know what on earth it is and how they can get hold of it) - while holding on to a glorious leftfield determination. Listen to the tracks, play them to your mates - we guarantee you cannot resist! Fabulous.

Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind
Low Life

At long last the Skinnyman album is finally with us. Delays such as time in clinky and prior record labels going belly up feel almost akin to Hijack's label swapping delay antics back in '91. Skinnyman has previously blazed my head with his genius guest spots on DJ Vadim's 'Colanize-nation' and 'Life From The Itchy Side' and going back even further to his Mud Family days, the Ronin' 12" 'Mud Files Vol 1' deserves a repress now. Onto this album which is like a self help record for the socially disaffected. The start off track 'Fu*k The Hook' is simply amazing, a torrent of hard but truthful lyrics behind funked fast rap drums and a female gospel sample. When the chorus/chant finally arrives you'll be dizzy with delight. It's at this point that the thread that likes the whole album comes into place. The 1982 TV film 'Made In Britain' features, a skinhead youth Tim Roth rages against an intolerant society, this links into each track on the album with Skinnyman empathising with Roth's characters woes and shows the realism of living a life always against the system, whatever it's negative and positive points. 'Hayden' shows todays negative inner city education and youth woes while 'Little Man (Part 1 & 2)' shows you prison life in all it's gory detail. Tracks like 'Love's Gone From The Streets' could even break into the charts given the right approach. Though no uk hip hop masterpiece neither a grime rap band wagon jumper this album is rock solid throughout. Hopefully Skinnyman will follow up this album next year with more Dj Vadim productions and hopefully a revival of his Mud Fam/Task Force hook up's. Strongly recommended.

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Wabana

Long delayed cd-issue of the long sold-out vinyl-only live album from the sunburned hand of the man. The distributor has managed to get 150 copies only - get 'em while you can.

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - The trickle down theory....
Eclipse

Another sold out early vinyl release by the enigmatic and constantly challenging sunburned collective (standard bearers of the new weird americana - the wire), this is their second non-cdr album release, and considered by many afficionados of the group to be one of their finest recorded moments. A limited edition cd run of a very fine record.

Bruno Pronsanto - Silver Cities
Orac

After delivering the classic Silver City 12" on Orac (recently to be found used to maximum effect as the opening for one of DJ miles' many ruling sessions), Bruno Pronsanto deploys his debut full length with intense killer styles, combining robust mashed electronics and dsp cutups with toughened crunchy 4/4 beats and neon house-styled basslines. The opener `Women In Large Coats' is awesome, deep fried piano chords play with digital emissions and stretched samples before an acid bassline slowly creeps up and drops for a slinky but f*cked-up acid house jack-up. `Cordo-Va' toes a straighter line, right in with the killer factor as the beats and bass throw a dubby groove while clicks, whirrs and all manner of noises surround the beat for a stripped and solid cut. `All Night Blah Blah' goes all shimmery dancefloor with soulful house vocals, detuned piano lines and a Moodyman vibe decimated in the wash, while `Kuche', unleashes itself towards the floor with force - lots of acid bass, a faster tempo and a stripped background allowing for the funk to come through the groove, and a pretty relentless construction to follow. Future house music done proper, killer business that comes highly recommended.

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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

[New Releases for August 2nd]

The Adventures Of Loki - Issue#1
Maitre-d-records

Five track EP from this trio. Angular, energetic songs with buzzsaw guitar, throbbing bass and pounding drums topped with boy / girl vocals. Inventive, passionate songs which hint at both Sonic Youth and The Pixies as influences.
CDS - LOKI001
The CD is nicely packaged in a DVD style box and includes "Fast, Faster, Fastest", "In Spite Of The Trip", "Unseen", "This Is The Fight" and "An Extraordinary Imagination" plus the video for "Fast, Faster, Fastest".

Bark Psychosis - Codename Dust Sucker
Fire

The release of "Codename:Dustsucker" marks the return of Bark Psychosis after a ten year retreat into virtual obscurity. The previously released LP, "Hex" has spent that time sustaining the sense of enigma that has become synonymous with the name and garnering the warm reverence of critics and fans alike.

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).

The Departure - All Mapped Out
Parlophone

Wow, this is crazy. But in a good way, of course! The Departure sound exactly like Interpol, but with the roving bass and swing of early Cure on the under-carriage. So, serious and doomy vocals top a beat you can dance to. It's 1983. Superb, and serious ones to watch!

Frausdots - Accessories EP
Houston Party

Frausdots were formed at Beachwood Sparks appearance at the Benicassim Festival in Spain in 2002. They are Brent Rademaker and Michelle Loiselle. Brent is a member of Beachwood Sparks and a member of his brother Darren's group The Tyde. Michelle had previously been a back-up singer for Guns N' Roses! Four dark and lucid pop songs that combine The Cure and New Order equally.

Grand National - Cherry Tree
Sunday Best

Grand National return with the biggest and probably their poppiest track from their stunning debut "Kicking The National Habit". Laura suggested that mentioning The Police might not be a good way to get people to listen, but she's on holiday this week and hey, The Police are O.k. by me! With a disco beat and mega tune, this is a really uplifting summer single. Odds on (sorry!).

The Pink Mountaintops - The Pink Mountaintops
Jagjaguwar

Can a sexually frustrated Canned Heat seduce a hot and bothered Neu into a cheap one night stand? Enter the Pink Mountaintops. Their debut record begins with "She Caught My Eye And I Was On Fire" and it ends with a repetitive begging plea 'Don't Walk Away!' from a reworking of Joy Division's "Atmosphere". In between these bookend statements, "I (F*ck) Mountains", an ode to rock'n'roll groupies is sung, and tales of loose panties and ex-models are exposed. The Pink Mountaintops is Stephen Mcbean, formerly of Jerkwith A Bomb and now also exemplar member of Black Mountain. The debut record-conceived at dawn, while high on a mix of trucker speed and red bull, and while sailing down a Colorado highway en route to Denver as Pink Floyd played on the cassette deck..

Spectrum - Refractions: Thru The Rhythms Of Time 1989-1997
Space Age

Spectrum, the alter ego of Pete Kember (Experimental Audio Research and Spacemen 3) has selected some of his finest tracks and agreed to release them on Space Age Recordings. Sonic Boom / Spectrum / Pete Kember started producing solo work shortly before the end of Spacemen 3 and released his first solo project, Sonic Boom "Spectrum" in 1990. He then went on to release the highly sought after and respected "Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)" in 1991 and in 1994, "Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows" was released to rave reviews. Later on Spectrum moved to Space Age Recordings where he released the groundbreaking "Forever Alien". This both astounded and confused critics worldwide and remains a perfect example of the use of technology in experimental music. "Refractions" takes the best and hardest to find output from Spectrum. It's been said many times before, but this is an essential purchase for the serious Spectrum fan and also great for anyone investigating the post Spacemen 3 world of rock.

Timewellspent - Timewellspent
Parasol

The debut release of Timewellspent is best described as an ambient, subtle, poignant cross between The Beatles, Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, The Zombies and Pink Floyd. The collaboration of Casey Fundaro and Christopher Moll has resulted in a recording highlighted by unique sounds, complex harmonies and simple lyrics.

Mum / Hey - Louis Dreams Never Die
Fat Cat

Brand new tracks from Mum and Hey accompany this 44 Page colour comic with a brand new Louis story. The music was written especially to accompany this Louis story and is exclusive to this release.
Ltd CDS - CDFATPHROG01 - £9.99
The CD is limited to 1000 copies and is enhanced. It features exclusive Louis animation.

Various Artists / Virtu - See Level
Virtu

See Level" is the first edition of "Virtu", a series of compilations featuring the best of innovative new music. Each edition comes in a distinctive artist-designed packaging and includes liner notes about each artist and song. This edition includes exclusive music from Herbert and Hefner along with tracks from Cinematic Orchestra, Recloose, Mum, Jazzanova, Blaze, Metro Area, Akufen and Charles Webster amongst others.

Ernesto - Ernesto's Album
Hollow

Sweden's Jonatan Backelie (AKA Ernesto) presents his debut album for Hollow, managing to twist proper bo broken beat with elegant bossa tunes and delicate songs to form a complete whole. Includes the singles "Portuguese Nights" and "Let Me Decide", with help from Andreas Saag and Jonas Quant.

Various Artists / Simply Good Music Volume One
Giant Step

A top notch collection of the freshest hip hop, soul, nujazz and house tracks of the last few years compiled by Giant Step boss Maurice Bernstein. Any CD that manages to squeeze together Roots Manuva, Zap Mama (remixed by Carl Craig), RSL, Ty, Carl Hancock Rux, Oi Va Voi, Sara Devine ("Take Me Home"), Aya (Naked Music), Amp Fiddler, Jiva, Agent K ("Betcha Did"), Two Banks Of Four and Esthero deserves the maximum credit just for managing to license them all! And in all that excitement, I nearly forgot about the unreleased DKD & Donnie track on there (nope, it's not even on the DKD album)! Never was the phrase "all killer, no filler" so apt.

Marcus Belgrave - Gemini
Soul Jazz

Originally released in 1974 on the independent Tribe Records, this album features many of Detroit's heavyweight artists from that era, such as Wendell Harrison and Phil Ranelin. Marcus Belgrave's musical career is spread over four decades, having worked with everyone from Sun Ra or Charles Mingus to McCoy Tyner to Clifford Brown. He was part of the Tribe collective in Detroit, working with the same ideology as their musical neighbours, The Art Ensemble of Chicago. He has consistently broken down musical barriers, from playing with Was (Not Was) in the 1970s to his current work with Carl Craig in The Detroit Experiment (the original version of "Space Odyssey" is featured here).

Art Bears - Revisited
ReR

This is a collection of specially commissioned re-mixes, re-workings and (mostly) new pieces made from the Art Bears' multi-track masters by John Oswald, The Residents, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Biota, Otomo Yoshihide / Ground Zero, Bob Drake Jon Rose, Ossatura, Warric Swinney / Kalahari Surfers, When, Thomas Dimuzio, Annie Gosfield Roger Kleir, Andrea Rocca, Vitor Rua, Jocelyn Robert, Musci / Venosta / Mariani, Massimo Simonini, Herb Heinz. Martin Archer, Yasushi Utsunomiya, Jon Leidecker / Wobbly, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer and Brian Woodbury – an amazing catalogue of imagination and great music, digi-packed with a cover art by EM Thomas. Also contains one previously unreleased and unfinished track completed by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler for this CD.

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Friday, August 06, 2004

BBC Music review El-p - High Water

# posted by DJ Martian 7:53 PM

The Marquee Club: New Home in Leicester Square

Intuitive Music report The Marquee club in London relocates to Leicester Square, where the shortlived trendy superclub Home was located.

Xfm have more info: Legendary Marquee Club Relocates Again

# posted by DJ Martian 3:42 PM

Lightning Bolt to Strike in 2005

According to metacritic: Music: Upcoming Release Calendar Lightning Bolt will release a new album: Frenzy in 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:17 PM

Astigmatic Festival of Electronic Music, Poland

Intuitive Music list the very impressive line up for the Astigmatic Festival: Astigmatic Festival, September 6-8, Plock, Poland including Colder, Murcof, Tiga, Metro Area, Patrick Pulsinger and The Glimmer Twins.

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6 Music Movie Soundtrack Poll

dotmusic report on a 6 Music listener poll to find the most popular movie soundtrack album: Blues Brothers top poll

» 6 Music: Screen Age Kicks

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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indieworkshop.com report Cex is working on a new album with a host of collaborators from various rock and alt hip hop artists.

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The Fall are featured in the classic sessions spot on Marc Riley's Rocket Science show on 6 Music tomorrow.

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Duran Duran - Astronaut

Duran Duran have named their new album: Astronaut

The first single: (Reach Up For The) Sunrise

# posted by DJ Martian 11:35 AM

KultureFlash interview Kim Hiorthøy

# posted by DJ Martian 11:15 AM

The Blue Nile - Biography

This came up via a Google News Alert: The Blue Nile: Biography of Blue Nile

# posted by DJ Martian 11:13 AM

JULIAN FANE - Special Forces

logarhythm review Julian Fane - Special Forces on Planet Mu on September 6th

Alse preview from Dense Promotion:

CD Planet Mu ZIQ091
www.planet-mu.com

The astounding debut album from Vancouver's 21 year old Julian Fane. Usually you wouldn't expect an album of this diversity to come from someone so young, but that fact also gives this disc it's freshness and vitality.
One minute it's vocal songs in the epic style of The Flaming Lips, Radiohead or Sigur Ros, the next it's noises and bleeps a la Aphex, Lali Puna or Fourtet. It's not surprising then that Julian is "into anything that resonates with me emotionally; from Neutral Milk Hotel to Dntel to Godspeed You! Black Emperor to The Smiths or Cannibal Ox."
"Special Forces" is an album that sounds like it's as much an electronic record as one played on acoustic or real instruments. Julian explains, "Often times something that sounds synthesized started life as an acoustic sound. A lot of the strings are real but have been processed to such a degree they sound synthesized."
An amazingly accessible album (for Planet Mu anyway) of epic songs and exotic atmospheres that will not fail to connect emotionally with everyone...

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V/A AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOLUME 3

details of an upcoming compilation:

V/A AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOLUME 3

* an anthology of noise & electronic music
* third in a chronology 1952-2004
* volume 3
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digipack 2 cd + 40 pages booklet
SR220

FEATURING
Bernard Parmegiani
Hugh Le Caine
Faust
To Rococo Rot
Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski
Ilhan Mimaroglu
Michael J. Schumacher
Justin Bennett
Scott Gibbons aka Lilith
Fred Szymanski aka Modular
Francisco Lopez
Zbigniew karkowski
Masami Akita aka merzbow
Michel Chion
Erkki Kurenniemi
Carlsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto
Peter Rehberg aka Pita
Herbert Eimert + Robert Beyer
Gunther Rabl
Asmus Tietchens
Michael Rother
CM von hausswolff + Erik Pauser > Phauss
Rune Lindgrad

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This 3th volume continue to show all the aspects of electronic music from the early beginning until now - including 2 pieces of historical concrete music (of the 70's), several piece of american tape music (Columbia university) with a special focus on all the electronic music from germany - WDR early works - krautrock - electronic from 90's...
featuring too some recent work of the greatest noise artists + several unsung electronic pioneers ....
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more than 2 h 30' of music - many rare tracks and unpublished (at least 75%)
+ 45 booklet pages of notes and biographical notices.
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street release date:
October 08, 2004

label: Sub Rosa

Source: email FE Publicity

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Thursday, August 05, 2004

Big Dada profile the new Diplo album: Diplo - Florida

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New issue of Earplug

AUGUST 5 - AUGUST 18

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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New Album from Manchester's Homelife

Ninja Tune profile the upcoming Homelife album: Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap lady

Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady
Label: Ninja Tune
Cat. No.: ZEN93
Release Date: 2004-08-31
Format: 2LP / CD

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City Centre Offices - Forthcoming Releases

Forthcoming releases on City Centres Offices are overviewed:

SWOD - GEHEN (TOWERBLOCK 021 LP/CD)
Next up, on August 23rd, is Swod's debut album "Gehen". Swod is Oliver Doerell from Dictaphone, whos subtle electronics meet Stephan Wöhrmann's skills as a classical trained piano player. Expect one of the most beautiful CCO releases ever. Listen to a little snippet on their website!

DUB TRACTOR - FASTER E.P. (BLOCK 028 12")
On September 6th, Dub Tractor will release his new E.P. It is called "Faster" and contains five new tracks with even more guitars and singing. He is currently working on his second album for CCO which will see the light of day in 2005.

I'M NOT A GUN - OUR LIVES ON WEDNESDAYS (TOWERBLOCK 022 LP/CD)
September 20th sees the release of the new album by I'm Not A Gun aka John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto. "Our Lives On Wednesdays" contains even more elaborate tracks and more electronics, although you do not really realise. We are very proud about this record. A 12" with remixes by John Tejada himself, Dntel & K is already floating around on testpressings and will be released in late October.

MIWON - BROTHER MOLE (BLOCK 030 12")
On october 4th, we welcome a new artist to the CCO-camp. Miwon has been a long-time member of the Berlin-based electronic music scene and we are happy to release his second ever release. "Brother Mole" contains three wonderful synthpop-tracks, plus a remix by John Tejada.

MARSEN JULES - HERBSTLAUB (TOWERBLOCK 023 LP/CD)
Finally, we welcome another new artist: Marsen Jules. He'll release his album "Herbstlaub" on October 18th. Marsen (also known as Krill.Minima) has released a lot of stuff on net-based labels and we are happy to welcome him to the "real" world. "Herbstlaub" on the most melancholic orchestral recordings you can think of. More we cannot say at the moment :)

For 2005, we have plenty of releases lined up already, including Cyne's long awaited album, new material from The Remote Viewer, Boy Robot and a couple of surprises ...

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The Departure

The Guardian spotlight The Departure

Our guide to new bands heading your way

The Departure's debut single All Mapped Out is out now on Parlophone.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:03 AM

R.E.M - Around the Sun

Ananova report REM announce new album details titled: Around the Sun this will be released on October 4.

Xfm: have more info Top Story: R.E.M. Confirm Album Title

Will this be more boring R.E.M on auto-pilot? However that: Bad Day single from last year was a sort of return to form.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:48 AM

Uncut - September 2004

New issue of Uncut in the shops today, features The Kinks on the front cover.

Details of Uncut - This Month

# posted by DJ Martian 10:33 AM

kultureflash - Headlines from London / No. 99

kultureflash

August is here, which means we take our annual summer break. We have compiled an extra big issue that covers the whole month and more.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:24 AM

musicOMH.com review UK Fresh: The Definitive Electro Collection - Various

UK release date: 9 August 2004 on Universal Music TV

Just check the tracklistings ! 46 tracks a very impressive selection of 80s electro classics.

The only big tune missing: Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon: World Destruction - Why is this track never on compilations !

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Mor Festival 2004, August 21-2

Intuitive Music provide info on an electronic music festival happening in Ireland Mor Festival 2004, August 21-2

Artists performing include:

Damo Suzuki
Adem
Philip Jeck
Digitonal

Official website: Mor Festival 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 12:33 AM

New Howie B Album in October

Intuitive Music report Howie B will release a new album: Mayonnaise this October.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:23 AM

Planet Mu Amµnition Bonanza - September 17th

A London based Planet Mu event promoted by Wheels Instead Of Hooves

Fri 17/09

Planet Mu Amµnition Bonanza

Jungle Room:
Remarc
Bizzy B
Luke Vibert
µ-Ziq LIVE
Shitmat LIVE
Venetian Snares LIVE

Electronic Room:
Leafcutter John
The Gasman
Chevron
Ed Lawes
Jega
Datach'i
Other Room:
Wheels Soundsystem

Doors: 10pm - 6am
Price: £12 from TicketWeb
Location: The Electrowerkz, Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 12:20 AM

music blog to check: :: arjanwrites ::

# posted by DJ Martian 12:04 AM

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

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

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

The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place (Labels UK) [UK Release Date]
Asteroth - Songs From The Belfry (Float)
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (Fire Records)
Mara Carlyle - The Lovely (Accidental)
Free Moral Agents - Everybodys Favourite Weapon (GSL)
Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator (Studio !K7)
Logh - Raging Sun (Mustdestroy) [UK Release 2004]
The Memory Band - The Memory Band (Hungry Hill) [Full UK Release]
DJ Spooky - The Blue Series Megamix (Thirsty Ear)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [July 19th]

Key new album releases for July 19th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Attrition - Dante's Kitchen (Invisible)
The Beans - Bassplayer (Intr-Version)
The Bled - Pass The Flask (Sorepoint)
Campag Velocet - It's Beyond Our Control (Pointy Records)
Crazy Penis - 24 Hour Psychedelic Freakout (Timewarp)
Der Plan - Die Verschworung (Marina)
The Earlies - These Were The Earlies (Wea)
El P - High Water (Thirsty Ear) [UK Release Date]
Glenn Jones - This Is The Wind That Blows It Out (Strange Attractors)
Lake Trout - Another One Lost (Palm Pictures) [UK Release 2004]
Phil Manzanera - 6pm (Expression)
Steve Swallow and Ohad Talmor - The Bum's Tale (Palmetto)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:40 PM

TDK Cross Central Festival Line up

Playlouder report on the confirmed line up of TDK Cross Central Festival! happening in London at the end of the month.

TDK Cross Central Festival

August Bank Holiday Weekend
Kings Cross Freight Depot, Off York Way, Kings Cross, London N1

More info @ TDK Cross Central Festival

# posted by DJ Martian 6:43 PM

Rush Book: Contents Under Pressure

BW & BK report on a new book about Rush: RUSH - Contents Under Pressure Book Released Today written by Martin Popoff.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:35 PM

Blackfield album featuring Steven Wilson

BW & BK report BLACKFIELD - PORCUPINE TREE Member’s Side Project To Release Debut CD

Snapper Music has confirmed September 14th as the US release date for the self-titled debut album from BLACKFIELD.

Featuring musician/producer Steven Wilson (PORCUPINE TREE) and Israeli singer/songwriter Aviv Geffen, the album's stateside release will follow the already growing European pre-release buzz; European release set for August 23rd.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:31 PM

Simple Minds - Silver Box - 5CD Box Set

Simple Minds dream giver fan website has info on a 5cd box set: titled Silver Box - that will be released by Virgin on October 18th. [Inc. Full Press Release/ Tracklisting]

SIMPLE MINDS
'Silver Box'
5 CD Box Set

18 October 2004

Apparently promo copies are already circulating and some have been put up for sale on ebay.

Also dream giver news, expect a new Simple Minds album in 2005:

They're going to take their time with the new album, which will probably be released in 2005. Jim mentioned needing a landmark album, and since they'd released so much in the last couple of years, then a new studio album could wait a while yet.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:48 PM

New Magma

According to forthcoming info listed @ aquarius records there is a new Magma album due this year:

Magma 'Kohntarkosz Anteria' cd on Seventh. NEW STUDIO ALBUM, first in 19 years!!!

# posted by DJ Martian 3:37 PM

Matthew Shipp - Harmony and Abyss

Avant Music News relay the latest news from Thirsty Ear including info on the upcoming album from Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp's "Harmony and Abyss" is the next phase in a journey of discovery, a period of creative rebirth from an epic career that has already spanned more than two decades. Now Shipp has truly perfected his own style, drawing effortlessly from free jazz, hip-hop, electronica and modern classical. Even those who thought that "Equilibrium" was as far as Shipp could go will be more than pleasantly surprised.

This album will be released October 26th.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:15 PM

prefix interview Sasha

# posted by DJ Martian 2:45 PM

Biosphere Interview

themilkfactory.co.uk have a BIOSPHERE Interview preview:

BIOSPHERE

Hailing from the Norwegian town of Tromsø, situated north of the Arctic Circle, Geir Jenssen has, as Biosphere, redefined ambient music with albums such as Patashnik, Substrata or Shenzou. A former archaeology student and a keen mountaineer, Jenssen has, in the last ten years, produced one of the most consistent body of work. As he is just about to unveil his new album, Autour De La Lune, a piece based on the visionary nineteenth Century French author Jules Verne’s book De La Terre A La Lune, we caught up with the man to talk about his early days as one third of pop outfit Bel Canto, the transition between club influenced music to ambient, the gestation of his latest creation and the future of Biosphere.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:59 PM

themilkfactory.co.uk ISSUE #59 AUGUST 2004

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
Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - List Of Lights & Buoys
New signing from the excellent Rune Grammofon, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra follow their contribution to the label’s fifth anniversary compilation Money Will Ruin Everything with this exquisite debut.

REVIEWS
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate
Alongside Fennesz, Christopher Willitts and Joseph Suchy, Oren Ambarchi has for the last few years continuously redefined instrumental guitar-based music. With this, his third solo album, he creates a beautiful piece of work, simultaneously mysterious and accessible.

Biosphere - Autour De La Lune
The latest in a long list of commissions, Autour De La Lune was originally created for a one off performance at last year’s Le Festival De Radio France in Montpellier. This album is a slightly revisited version of the piece.

John Chantler - Locked In Hands
Globe-trotter musician John Chantler follows last year’s Monoke with this new collection of atmospheric compositions in which he combines acoustic and electronic instrumentation.

Dat Politics - Go Pets Go
DAT Politics’ fifth album is kitsch, playful and serious all at once, making it something of a surprisingly accomplished record.

Vladislav Delay - Demo(n)tracks
Helsinki’s Sasu Ripatti returns as Vladislav Delay and projects with this strong collection of new compositions his dark ambient into deep space.

Kim Hiorthøy - For The Ladies
Norwegian graphic designer, filmmaker and musician Kim Hiorthøy presents a collection of field recordings left untouched and unprocessed and reveal part of the essence of his work.

Lars Horntveth - Pooka
Jaga Jazzist front man Lars Horntveth steps out in the limelight on his own with Pooka, his debut solo album, in which he combines jazz and classical music in a totally personal way.

Lasse Marhaug - The Shape Of Rock To Come
If noises can be more than a disturbance, Norwegian Lasse Marhaug, best known for being one-half of Jazzkammer, certainly knows how to sculpt them to create fascinating sonic pieces.

Prince Po - The Slickness
Ex-Organized Konfusion Prince Po lands on Lex with his first solo album, recorded with a wide range of world-class collaborators.

Scanner - Double Fold
Scanner’s Robin Rimbaud returns with Double Fold, an album based on Nicholson Baker’s book of the same title, and built around sounds sourced from tapes between 1980 and 2002.

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The legend return. Twenty-two years after their debut, they still hold the flame that got them to the top.

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
The prolific Aaron Funk returns to Planet Mu for his eleventh album in four years, but does his music actually means anything anymore?

Marshall Watson - The Time Was Later Than He Expected
Seattle-based Marshall Watson releases his debut solo album on Highpoint Lowlife. Eyeing at the more melodic and peaceful side of electronic music, this album is a confident piece of work.

COLLECTED WORKS
VARIOUS ARTISTS Bip-Hop Generation Vol. 7
VARIOUS ARTISTS Eklectra
VARIOUS ARTISTS Region Zero: A Boltfish Sampler

SHORTCUT
Sigur Rós Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Animal Collective Who Could Win A Rabbit

# posted by DJ Martian 1:52 PM

The Hot Snakes will release an album: Audit in Progress on October 5th.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:51 AM

The Vanishing - Still Lifes Are Failing

GSL have details of the 2nd album from The Vanishing due October 26th.

GSL93
VANISHING
"Still Lifes Are Failing"
CD/LP
available October 26, 2004

San Francsico trio VANISHING are back with their 2nd album, the follow-up to 2003's epic "Songs for Psychotic Children." Recorded off-the-beaten-path at Moss Beach's Tsunami Studio, "Still Lifes Are Failing" finds the group getting beyond the "standard" retro-inspired sound of their debut album, exploring darker and far more dynamic territory. Singer and former SUBTONIX saxist Jesse EVA has essentially abandoned the bass guitar in favor of her old horn and the results are downright spine-tingling. The San Francisco Bay Guardian, in describing the band's exhilerating synth-driven sound and visual stage shows, insist that VANISHING "can't be written off as just goths", and that much is pretty undeniable. Often compared to groups such as SISTERS OF MERCY,TUXEDO MOON, and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (but with a decidely more dance/electronic feel), VANISHING have developed a unique and recognizable sound and image within the confines of contemporary "post-punk" and alt-dance music. Unlike most of their contemporaries, however, they inject an unmistakeable degree of sexual politics and actual thought into what they are doing - and saying. VANISHING are a punk band in spirit and increasingly difficult to categorize in terms of sound. A European tour in early 2004 and three-week residency in Berlin's avant-garde hotbed, Kreutzberg, evidently had the desired results: the band have decided to relocate to Berlin in September 2004! "Still Lifes Are Failing" will be issued on CD and limited edition, deluxe gatefold vinyl..

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 AM

The Mars Volta - 2nd Album Due 2005

The Mars Volta fansite: TheComatorium.com relay the news that the next The Mars Volta album will be released early 2005.

From ThePRP: According to their publicist, The Mars Volta's upcoming new album, which they have been recording as of late, will now not see a release until sometime early next year.

from Gold Standard Labs: this title has been unveiled: Frances the Mute

From GSL: GSL96
THE MARS VOLTA
"Frances the Mute" (with FREE vinyl 12" single of GSL95)
2xLP

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

GROWING - the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light

New album from Growing due on Kranky in October

GROWING - the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light

artist: Growing
title: The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
catalog #: krank073
formats available: CD

Release Date: Oct. 18, 2004

Recorded by the band in Olympia, WA from 2003 to early 2004 and mixed with Rex Ritter (Jessamine, Fontanelle and SUNN) at Magnetic Park in Portland, OR in March and April 2004, The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light takes Growing's expansive palette, blurring and disguising instrumental points of origin to a point where sheer sound defines itself with authority. Now a duo with Kevin Doria on bass and guitar and Joe Denardo on guitar, Growing have pushed into the manipulation of feedback, hiss and static; wringing out waves of delay from their amps while retaining an earthbound mastery of crushing riffage. These grainy textures contrast with a clean, pulsing lushness that carries traces of bird song and touch on natural environs and the passing of time.

Since the release of The Sky's Run Into The Sea in August 2003, Growing have played a select number of shows, including the U.K. version of All Tomorrow¹s Parties (at the invitation of Mogwai). A number of older tape releases from the band are being reissued and the Italian Heroine label put out a split EP Growing recorded with M. Evan Burden of Get Hustle. In July 2004 the band took to the road for a tour of North America beginning with a performance at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. European touring is planned for the fall of 2004 along with some more visits across America. The track "Anaheim II" was recorded for an abortive split release with Pelican. The title of this album is taken from an 1893 essay by Bainbridge Bishop concerning the relationships between color and sound. The essay was subtitled "A Plea for a New Science." Bishop invented the color organ in 1877, a musical device capable of playing both sound and corresponding light together or separately.

Songs:

Onement
Anaheim II
Epochal Reminiscence
Primitive Associations / Great Mass Above

Southern Records have an MP3 excerpt of Epochal Reminiscence to download.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:27 AM

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place + Bonus Disc

Domino report that Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place - will be released by Domino in the US with a bonus disc of new material.

August 10: Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place - Domino is excited to bring Ulrich Schnauss' stunningly beautiful second album, A Strangely Isolated Place, previously only available on import from City Centre Offices to the US. The Domino version of the record comes complete with a bonus disc of new material.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:13 AM

Signer - The New Face of Smiling

Coming soon on Carpark records a new album by Signer: Signer - The New Face of Smiling

Signer

"The New Face of Smiling"
Carpark Records CRPK 27 CD/LP

In 2002, we called it Nu-Indie. That pissed people off (who knew?). At the time, New Zealand ’s Bevan Smith successfully married the digital and analog worlds with SIGNER'S Low Light Dreams. Now the honeymoon is over and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one.

Bevan spent some time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (JOY DIVISION, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, Laughingstock-era TALK TALK et.al) and decided he should make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. SIGNER’S The New Face of Smiling chews on all of Bevans experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back out into something brand new yet somehow familiar. Those with a sense of humor can call it “Nu-Gazing.”

Check out an mp3 of Signer's "Hurricane or Sunshine?" from The New Face of Smiling by...

Elsewhere on the Carpark website:

"The New Face of Smiling". It's a moody guitar cum laptop tour de force for fans of Flying Saucer Attack, Squarepusher, and the Beach Boys.

Listening to the track it sounds a bit like Four Tet, circa the pause album.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:06 AM

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

The latest Eternal Fusion show is now available to listen online @ Eternal Fusion: SpydaRadio

:: Latest Show: Tuesday 3rd August 2004::

Eternal Fusion

Tuesday 3rd August 2004

Yamataka Eye 'Master Builder'
Hal Blaine 'Vibrations (August)'
Hood 'My Last August'
Glide 'Chopped Hog'
Neotropic 'Train To Katoomba'
Buffalo Daughter 'Vapour Action Forever'
Appliance 'Pre-Rocket Science'
Crescent 'There Is No Matter'
Steel Pulse 'There Must Be A Way'
Antibalas 'Pay Back Africa'
Afro Celt Sound System 'Riding The Skies' (Remix by Mass and Simon Emmerson)'
Tinariwen 'Assoul'
Ozric Tentacles 'Iscence'
Hidria Spacefolk 'Sindran Rastafan (Ghettoblaster Mix)'
Milky 'The Chess Players'
Black Forest Black Sea 'Tangent Universe'
OOIOO 'Be Sure To Loop'
David Grubbs 'Knight Errant'
Mercury Program 'There Are Thousands Sleeping In Peace'
Lamb 'Ear Parcel'
Wibutee 'Ear Traffic'
Ken Nordine 'Sky'
Jimi Tenor 'Beyond The Stars'
Thievery Corporation 'Slow Hot Wind'
Sofa Surfers 'Gemelan'
Robert Wyatt 'The United States Of Amnesia'
The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
Lali Puna 'Micronomic (Boom Bip Remix)'
Boom Bip 'Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards Of Canada Remix)'
Campag Velocet 'Metro Boulot Dodo'
Skyphone 'In Our Time'
Xela 'Through Crimson Clouds'
Espers 'Daughter'
Bardo Pond and Tom Carter '4.15'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Outro'

eternalfusion.org now on-line.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:37 PM

DJmag report DJMAG TOP 100 LAUNCH PARTY - voting for the annual DJ poll starts 20th August.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:13 PM

Cure Day on 6 Music

BBC 6 Music will be holding a Cure Day on Thursday 2nd September

.. we will be celebrating the Cure's massive contribution to British Music with an exclusive interview, gallery comp and lots of great music.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:15 PM

HYPONIK

London based website: HYPONIK covering bass/ beats/ blips music.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:11 PM

Kings Magazine

The front cover of Kings Magazine is well weird featuring alt rapper Edan, a horse and cliched indie rock singer Regina Spektor.

Details of Issue 1 - Summer 2004 of Kings magazine.

Looking at the type of artists covered you could be fooled into thinking that Kings is a NYC magazine - it's not though they are based in London, UK.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:30 PM

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

# posted by DJ Martian 2:09 PM

Mouse on Mars Interview

Dusted Features: Dance of the Dialectic: Ten Years of Mouse on Mars

Michael Crumsho caught up with Mouse on Mars on the Lower East Side as the German duo prepares for the release of their eighth full-length, Radical Connector.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:55 PM

Mouse on Mars - track: Mine is in Yours

Thrill Jockey Records provide a free Mp3 track from Mouse on Mars new album: Radical Connector

Download .. 'Mine is in Yours'

This track is very much in the quirky vocal electronic glitch-pop tip ala Schneider TM on Zoomer, other bits remind me of To Rococo Rot, Four Tet, Max Tundra, Cursor Miner, Fennesz, The Notwist and The Beta Band.

The combinations of synths, folktronica guitar soundscapes and melodic vocals makes a very addictive and seductive soundscape.

There is a certain part of the track where there are similar sounds of Four Tet + Cursor Miner that swirl into an intoxicating kaleidoscope mix.

I bet Melissa [Quicksilver Shapeshifter] will love this track.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 PM

Khonnor - Handwriting

Type records will soon release an album from Khonnor: Khonnor - Handwriting

With this, his long-awaited debut album "Handwriting", two years in the making, he has produced a record which is sure to bring an important new voice to the emerging "indietronica" movement.

Taking influence from Jim 'O Rourke, Fennesz, Sonic Youth, The Smiths and David Sylvian, 'Handwriting' shows both reverie and intense originality. Khonnor manages to make music with a rare endearing naivity which combines a dark sense of humour with a keen uncynical eye. Everyone has been through similar experiences, but Khonnor documents his with startling originality and finesse.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

Monday, August 02, 2004

Duran Duran Album Early October Release Date

According to Pause & Play's On The CD Front a release date of October 5th has been set for the upcoming as yet untitled Duran Duran album. The album will be released by Epic.

[Therefore October 4th for the UK]

Producer Don Gilmore briefly comments on the new album: Duran Duran Make A Comeback

# posted by DJ Martian 11:39 PM

Zeitgeist Party featuring Max Tundra

Zeitgeist Party taking place next Sunday on the River Thames in London features Max Tundra and DJ Food proceeds will goto the NSPCC charity.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:12 PM

Radio 1 - Ibiza 04

This Thursday through till Sunday: Radio 1 @ Ibiza 2004

Radio 1 hits the White Isle on Thursday night for 4 days of shows. Get all the details of all the shows right here...

» Radio 1 in Ibiza Schedule

Live shows include: Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale, Pete Tong, The Blue Room, Essential Mix and Gilles Peterson.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:38 PM

Sunday's The Blue Room show on Radio 1: The Blue Room Tracklistings includes tracks from The Orb, Brian Eno, Schneider TM, Massive Attack, Art of Noise, and Kings of Convenience.

Listen Again @ The Blue Room

# posted by DJ Martian 10:20 PM

Campag Velocet are live in session on the Gideon Coe show on 6 Music tomorrow.

This session should be available on listen again in a few days time.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:12 PM

Robert Owens - 6 Mix

Next Sunday, House music Legend Robert Owens will be presenting the 6 Mix on 6 Music.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:04 PM

Tonight's Late Junction - 2 August 2004 show on Radio 3 includes: music from Bill Frisell's new album Unspeakable

# posted by DJ Martian 9:56 PM

XTC's Andy Partridge on 6 Music tomorrow

BBC Music notify

XTC's Andy Partridge visits Tom Robinson to talk about his record label, Ape House Records, and the influence of XTC on modern rock

Broadcast Date:
7.00pm [Tom Robinson's Evening Sequence]
Tuesday 3rd August
6 Music

» 6 Music: Evening Sequence

# posted by DJ Martian 9:54 PM

Big Chill Highlights

Tomorrow on the John Peel show music from The Big Chill festival:

We'll be featuring music from sets by Colleen and Isan plus one other which we'll decide over the weekend at the festival.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:46 PM

The Breezeblock - Forthcoming Shows

Details of forthcoming The Breezeblock shows on Radio 1

August 2nd
Prodigy Album preview. Liam Howlett plays tracks from the forthcoming album

August 9th
Bobby & Nihal in for Mary Anne
DJ Marlboro mix
Brazil's latino-booty wizard. Grooverider in the mix

August 16th
Annie Mac in for Mary Anne.
Vitalic live
The highlight of Sonar's London show.

August 23rd
Mu Live
Japanese punk-house kid live with Maurice Fulton
Kid Acne live
Sheffield's favourite MC in session

Coming soon
Bjork - sleepy mix tape plus something very special indeed...

# posted by DJ Martian 9:42 PM

One World - The Big Chill Special

The latest One World show on Radio 1 is now available to listen again - it is presented by The Big Chill organizer Pete Lawrence.

» The Big Chill website.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:27 PM

HAYWIRE 9th BIRTHDAY SESSION

DJ promotions agency/ collective ::: haywire :: celebrate their 9th Birthday with a special event including appearances by Andrew Weatherall and Radioactive Man

FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER : HAYWIRE 9th BIRTHDAY SESSION @ THE DEPOT

room one: techno:glitch
MATHEW JONSON - LIVE [Itiswhatitis/Minus/Perlon]
MAGDA [minus]
ANDREW WEATHERALL [RGC/Warp]
++++++++ A VERY SPECIAL GUEST [- who makes his debut appearance at Haywire]
room two : electro:techstep:d'n'b
DEAD SILENCE SYNDICATE - LIVE [Dead Silence]
RADIOACTIVE MAN [RGC/Control Tower]
WARLOCK [Rag & Bone]
RICK HOPKINS [Outlet]
11pm - 6am

The Depot, 29-31 Brewery Road London N7 9QH
12 adv / more on the door
early bird offer, get your ticket for only 10 if bought before the 29th August

# posted by DJ Martian 9:12 PM

The Beta Band - Shock Split !

AngryApe have a news scoop The Beta Band Split

Full statement dated 5.22 pm today @ The Beta Band website. Including:

All good things must come to an end. And so it is that after eight years of creating consistently innovative music, releasing three critically acclaimed albums and staging some legendary live shows, the Beta Band have decided to call it a day.

And they’re going out on a high. This year’s album, Heroes To Zeros, met with universal acclaim and is set to be their biggest seller to date. A fitting end to a career that the band would agree has had its highs and lows…

The Beta Band will bid farewell with a UK tour in the autumn – dates to be announced shortly. Meanwhile Parlophone are preparing for the release of a DVD featuring a collection of videos and film work made by the band and scheduled for release in 2005.

The Beta Band would like to thank all those who’ve supported them throughout their career.

This is sad news indeed, also The Beta Band never got the recognition they deserved having been overlooked by Mercury Music Prize shortlist in 2001 and 2004 - and having seen some of the awful nominations in both these years - it just goes to show that Simon Frith & his panel chums are completely clueless chumps.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:41 PM

Dusted review The Paper Chase - God Bless Your Black Heart

# posted by DJ Martian 7:05 PM

Anathema Open to Offers

Official website: ANATHEMA

Music For Nations, Anathema's record label, has officially closed it's doors due to takeovers involving Zomba and Sony-BMG.
We are now out of contract and currently considering new offers. Any companies wishing to contact us about our current situation can reach us ...

I can imagine that Anathema will have a host of labels scrambling for their talents, but will a major label or a large independent such as Richard Branson's V2 label be wise enough to sign them up?

V2 have Elbow on their roster, so they would be an ideal choice for Anathema to reach an undiscovered audience.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:59 PM

This week's new releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 12:44 PM

ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Another international electronic art/ multimedia/ technology/ sound / culture-media-society/ design etc event.

ISEA 2004
ESTONIA, FINLAND & BALTIC SEA
The new media symposium focusing on electronic arts, music and technology takes place this year in the harbour cities of Helsinki and Tallinn and on a multi-venue cruiser ferry. A collaboration with Montréal’s MUTEK festival brings Akufen’s Music For Pregnancy, Crackhouse, Skoltz_Kolgen, Deadbeat and VJ Charles Kriel. Other featured artists include Felix Kubin and underwater soundscapes created by 2Linja and Roger. The festival also showcases demonstrations of new technologies by the world’s media labs including interactive films, installations and wearable technologies.

Helsinki and Tallinn various venues and cruiser ferry, 15-22 August.

Source: The Wire

August 14 - 22, 2004. In three Baltic cities: Stockholm, Tallinn, and Helsinki. Key themes for the event include: networked experience (Stockholm), wearable experience (Tallinn), wireless experience (Helsinki), and histories of the new: media arts, media cultures, media technologies (all three cities). Additional themes include: interfacing sound (in collaboration with Koneisto), open source and software as culture (Helsinki), critical interaction design (Helsinki), and geopolitics of media (Tallinn).
Source: Art-Electronic

Official website: ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art

» ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

Koneisto - Festival of Electronic Music

Also co-located as part of the wider Isea 2004 programme: Koneisto is happening in Helsinki, 13th - 14th August - is the largest Nordic electronic music festival of 2004.

Intuitive Music: Koneisto 2004 Full Line Up

ISEA2004 kicks off in Helsinki with electronic music, vjs, sound and media art under the theme Interfacing sound in collaboration with the largest Nordic electronic music festival Koneisto. On August 13th-14th international ISEA2004 participants can enjoy electronic music at Koneisto including programme highlights by ISEA2004. [Isea 2004]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:25 AM

Sunday, August 01, 2004

DELTA 9

DELTA 9 is a London/ UK based electronic music community website.

A superb music Links collection.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:43 PM

Radio 1 have an Orbital Photo Gallery of the last ever UK Orbital live performance.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:39 PM

Buzzcocks Documentary on Radio 2

Next Saturday, Radio 2 have a documentary on the Buzzcocks

BUZZCOCKS
Show airs on Saturday 7th August 2004, 2100-2200
Mark Lamarr presents the life and times of Buzzcocks, one of the greatest of all British bands.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:33 PM

MANUAL with SYNTAKS - Golden Sun

DARLA.COM - Coming Soon profile a forthcoming album from Manual with Syntaks due 7th September.

MANUAL with SYNTAKS - Golden Sun

Almost two years ago Jonas Munk (Manual, Limp, Icebreaker International) and Jakob Skøtt (Syntaks, Limp) began recording for this massive album that would become their most epic work to date. The starting point for many of the tracks on Golden Sun is hip-hop, but the end result is something entirely different that seems almost impossible to categorize; a sound that brings to mind IDM, 60's heavy-psych, dream-pop, hip-hop, eastern music and post rock without actually sounding like neither and at any point or falling into cliches, because this album comes from a personal vision - not the zeitgeist or current trends. The two youngsters utilized a vast spectrum of equipment to fulfill their vision: electronics such as synths, samplers, computers and a organic instruments such acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, voice, bells and flutes - but what is really stunning about Golden Sun is the compositional strength that runs through each of the 15 tracks. -an adventurous and epic songwriting that is normally unheard of in electronic music. Every piece moves, evolves and surprises while still maintaining an undeniable flow and natural spontaneity. The first part of the album, "Nissarana", focuses on rough beats and deep bass lines while the latter part, "Sundazed", is chilled and wondrously melodic and driven by shimmering guitars, dreamy female vocals and a strong nostalgic vibe culminating in the albums epic masterpiece, Sunset Rider, where all the album's many directions comes together in one glowing piece of eternal bliss. This is hip-hop twisted into something entirely else. Imagine Cocteau Twins jamming with Jimi Hendrix remixed by Funkstörung. A transcendental journey. Truly epic.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:47 PM

Fakejazz.com - Issue 48

Alert: a new issue of fakejazz.com has just been published online. Two reviews worthy of your attention:

Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Paik - Satin Black

# posted by DJ Martian 9:30 PM

Logarhythm: UK's electronic music consortium

» Logarhythm

Logarhythm is an electronic music consortium, a confederacy of individual promoters covering nearly every major city in the United Kingdom. set up to help promote independent music and live performances

# posted by DJ Martian 9:09 PM

String Theory - Radiovalerian

Wobblyhead will release the String Theory album: Radiovalerian

String Theory - Radiovalerian LP+CD will be hitting the public in late August.

With past appearances on Consumers Research & Development, Smak and SomeOddPilot along with their blistering live shows, they represent the upper crust of American underground electronics. Not to be missed.

Splendid review String Theory - Radiovalerian

# posted by DJ Martian 9:01 PM

Brooks Album Due September 27th

Matthew Herbert's Soundslike label will release the new Brooks album Red Tape on September 27th

"His album 'Red Tape' is sounding amazing and will be in the shops on the 27th September. "

# posted by DJ Martian 8:53 PM

New Slowpho Album

Norwegian downtempo band Slowpho have a forthcoming album: 2 1/2 due on Beatservice this Autumn.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:39 PM

Landing - Sphere

US Space Rock band Landing will release a new album Sphere on K records this September.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:35 PM

CLIENT will release a new single: Radio on 6th September.

Client's second album City is due September 20th.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:30 PM

New Tarentel Album Due in November

Post rock band Tarentel have a new album scheduled for November titled: We Move Through Weather - on Temporary Residence.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:24 PM

Zorn - All we can do is enjoy the ride

lux nigra will release an album by Zorn titled: All we can do is enjoy the ride - this autumn.

Back in 2001, Zorn - The City's Collapsing (But Not Tonight) was fine electronic album.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:19 PM

Radio 1 report on The House Music Awards - Nominees

The first ever global House Music Awards will take place in London, late 2004 and we are proud to announce the nominees exclusively here on Radio 1.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:32 PM

This week's The Freak Zone show on 6 Music features:

An interview with John French of The Magic Band - John French aka ‘Drumbo’ from Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band.

Our Album Of The Week is Modern Dance by Pere Ubu, there’s more Live Freaks in the form of Henry Cow and Cream, session tracks from the BBC archive, plus the usual mix of all the strange and beautiful tunes we can lay our hands on.

Broadcast: Sunday August 1st 10pm
Listen Again: anytime for 7 days after broadcast

# posted by DJ Martian 3:01 PM

One Final Note review Tim Berne's Big Satan - Souls Saved Hear

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

Cokemachineglow: The First Half of 2004 Review

Cokemachineglow.com have 7 accounts of THE YEAR IN MUSIC. . . SO FAR! | A CMG LOOK AT THE FIRST HALF OF 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 1:07 PM

The Octopus Project - One Ten Hundred Thousand Million

Details of a 2nd album from The Octopus Project

The Octopus Project's second full-length, "One Ten Hundred Thousand
Million," is scheduled for Fall release, delivering another dose of
instrumental jams for robots made by humans (or is it the other way
around?).

In the two years since 2002's "Identification Parade," they've taken
the controlled chaos of their live show from coast to coast, playing
hundreds of shows. So when it came time to record, the band had a clear
idea of what they wanted: a full-color studio concoction injected with
the energy of a club full of people dancing to crazy noise.

Like the first record, they recorded most of the new album at home,
venturing into the studio for certain tracks or sounds. Two songs were
even recorded from the bottom of a five-story concrete stairwell,
selected for its natural reverb. The band then recruited friends to add
accordian, horns, strings and other miscellany, and extensively reworked
the tunes, adding such elements as an unsuspecting New Orleans marching
band, sampled pedal steel instructional tapes and lots of tambourines.

In the band's own words, "the quiet parts are quieter and prettier, and
the loud parts are way fucking louder!"

Look for The Octopus Project on tour again this October.

Source: Peek-A-Boo records e-mail newsletter.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:27 PM

AVERSIONLINE.COM has launched a brand new website. Instead of monthly updates, there is a switch to daily reviews.

The reviewer of this website is very knowledgeable re: metal/ hardcore/ noise releases. What I would like to see is an ongoing best of 2004 summary section.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:12 PM

B-Movie - Remembrance Day

Cherry Red Records will release a B-Movie compilation: B-Movie - Remembrance Day on August 9th

This is a 13 track round up of one of the most important post-punk keyboard and guitar combos, B-Movie. The album features original versions of the national chart hits "Nowhere Girl" and "Remembrance Days".

# posted by DJ Martian 11:53 AM