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Thursday, September 30, 2004

 

Terrorizer - 124 [October 2004] Issue

Details of the new issue of Terrorizer magazine, Converge are on the front cover.

News
Darkthrone to launch own label, the second movement of Anaal Nathrakh, and Terrorizer to sponsor Neurosis' solo European live date!

Breaking Faces
Zatokrev, Burning Skies The Art Of Burning Water, Abaddon Incarnate... Prepare for a new darkness.

Album Reviews
The Haunted, Isis, Cult Of Luna, Converge, Cradle Of Filth, Lamb Of God, Danzig... And those aren't the only big boys.

Live Reviews
Festival mayhem with Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock, and Hole In The Sky - featuring a one off all-star tribute to Bathory!

FEATURES

CONVERGE
CRADLE OF FILTH
DARKTHRONE
ISIS
CULT OF LUNA
RED HARVEST
PUNGENT STENCH
ARKHON INFAUSTUS
AMON AMARTH
LAMB OF GOD
SHADOWS FALL
MANTAS
INCANTATION
NAPALM DEATH
WITHIN TEMPTATION
ELEND
CALIBAN

# posted by DJ Martian 11:01 PM

 

FREEDOM FESTIVAL - October 16th - Wiltshire

TrusttheDJ News report

Freedom Festival announces new venue, date and line-up
30/09/2004

PARTY FOR PEACE presents FREEDOM FESTIVAL announces new venue , date + additional line-up...

NEW DATE: October 16th 2004 – "The music won't stop til' ya drop"!
NEW VENUE: Larmer Tree Gardens, Rushmore Estate, Tollard Royal, Salisbury SP5 5PT

HEADLINERS INC. JOEY BELTRAM ('ENERGY FLASH'), DANNY RAMPLING and SHAPESHIFTERS (Lola's Theme) - Live

Money raised from this event will benefit the Willow Foundation, who arrange special days for seriously ill young adults .

More info @ Freedom Festival official website.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:55 PM

 

Kultureflash Update Coming Soon

Message update from: kultureflash via e-mail:

We've received numerous emails asking us (i) if KultureFlash is still alive and (ii) when KF's 100th issue will be sent out.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, we are running behind on our re-design, but we expect to send out issue 100 soon.

Kultureflash:

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

# posted by DJ Martian 2:52 PM

 

Stylus present part 4 of their Brian Eno article series: Brian Eno and the Ambient Series, 1978-1982: Part Four

# posted by DJ Martian 1:52 PM

 

Splendid review Radian - Juxtaposition

# posted by DJ Martian 1:49 PM

 

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

NEW RELEASES:
Panda Bear
Akufen (Fabric Mix)
Musica Dispersa (Reissue)
Jaume Sisa (Reissue)
Interpol
Studio One Funk (Various)
Brian Wilson Presents Smile
Excepter
Harmonia (Reissue)
Talib Kweli
Signer
Wolf Eyes
Manzel
Mick Softley (Reissue)
Galt MacDermot
Yuka Honda
Ramon Sender
Ilhan Mamaroglu
M.I.A. (CD Single)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:03 AM

 

Playlouder interview Interpol vocalist Paul Banks.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:52 AM

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

 

One Touch Music has moved to a new URL.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:40 PM

 

GLAM-OU-RAMA

GLAM-OU-RAMA a London Centric music community.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:15 PM

 

Cardiacs are recording a new album.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:42 PM

 

Stylus have more on Brian Eno: Brian Eno and the Ambient Series, 1978-1982: Part Three - Article

# posted by DJ Martian 3:27 PM

 

Pitchfork review Panda Bear - Young Prayer

# posted by DJ Martian 3:18 PM

 

Zero Tolerance magazine

Details of a new music magazine just launched: ZERO TOLERANCE MAGAZINE. Some direct competition for Terrorizer magazine.

ISSUE #001 CONTENTS
Issue 001 onsale 25-08-04
Cover price £2.80
Available from all good newsagents: Larger WHSmiths, Dawsons News, John Menzies and Independent retailers.

Without fully realising it at the time, we've given you a Darkthrone exclusive, with news you won't read anywhere else for a while!

FREE COVERMOUNT CD FEATURING:
My Dying Bride
Aura Noir
The Great Deceiver
Darkthrone
Vital Remains
Asgaroth
Katatonia
Deviated Instinct
Axegrinder
At The Gates
Abscess
Anathema
Opeth
The Blood Divine
Charger
Doom
Electro Hippies

ISSUE 001 WILL FEATURE ALL THIS:

PROPAGANDA
Martin Ives casts his beady eye over recent events within the extreme music world.
Nuclear Assault's Danny Lilker adds to the ambience with one of his many Zero Tolerance rants.
Ubermetal.com's Tyrone Pow teaches you a thing or two about leaving your mark on the world.
Live dates.

INTERROGATIONS
DARKTHRONE: Nocturno Culto speaks openly with ZT's Oliver Holm about Sardonic Wrath, their forthcoming Moonfog release (and god).
QUORTHON: ZT's Chris Kee pays a very special tribute to the man himself, and clears up some unanswered questions in the process.
BOYD RICE / NON: One of extreme music's most controversial voices proves you don't have to be grim to be black.
RED HARVEST: ZT's Alex S. Johnson gets inside the Internal Punishment Program...
PUNGENT STENCH: Alex Wank gets out of his chair.
CATHEDRAL: Founding member Gaz talks about their new best-of.
TEXTURES: Dutch prodigies in their first UK magazine feature.
ACT OF GODS: French death metallers on the virtues of being brutal.
INSISION: ZT's Sarah Bennett catches up with frontman Carl on their UK date with Suffocation.
ELENIUM: Do keyboards and death metal mix? In this band's case, we think so.
DETRIMENTUM: UK death metal underdogs go overground for Zero Tolerance.

BENEATH THE REMAINS
Beef Conspiracy, Sol Axis, Nebukadnezza, Necrosadistic Goat Torture and Abgott are given the once over by ZT's Alex de Moller.

DECORATED CAREERS
ABIGOR: Austrian black metal legend's Peter K reminisces about the band's past and what the future holds.

MOVING TARGETS
Graspop fest, Supersonic fest and Mantas reviewed.

MISSING IN ACTION
DAMN THE MACHINE: Where did they go?

SENTENCING
13 pages of what you should and shouldn't miss release wise, according to the Zero Tolerance panel.

INSIDE INFORMATION
DAMN AND BLAST: With Derek Roddy. Hate Eternal's skinsman joins us with the first of his regular lessons and Q&A sessions.
HOME RECORDING: Pt1 in a 'dummies guide' to recording on your computer.
A PEACEVILLE LIFE: The inside story on the birth of Peaceville Records.

20 SHOTS AT GLORY
With Ewigkeit's Mr Fog.

coming up:

ISSUE 002 - ONSALE LATE OCTOBER 04
ISSUE 003 - ONSALE LATE DECEMBER 04
ISSUE 004 - ONSALE LATE FEBRUARY 05
ISSUE 005 - ONSALE LATE APRIL 05
ISSUE 006 - ONSALE LATE JUNE 05

# posted by DJ Martian 12:24 AM

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

 

mp3 music blog to check: last sound of summer

# posted by DJ Martian 10:52 PM

 

U2 Album Front Cover

U2log.com have the front cover of the new U2 album - looking particularly smug, aren't they?

# posted by DJ Martian 10:16 PM

 

Rod Stewart and Siouxsie Sioux to replace John Peel !

Ha, this is barking mad: John Peel is going on his holidays soon and Rod Stewart will be a guest presenter ! why? also the wonderful and fun Siouxsie Sioux will be presenting.

Two weeks of guest presenters coming soon including Rod Stewart and Siouxsie Sioux - send in your questions now!

More info @ Radio 1 website:

From October 19th a succession of music savvy celebs will be piloting the Peel studio. The full exciting line up will be unveiled soon and the first names we can reveal are Rod Stewart and Siouxsie Sioux.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:06 PM

 

Scanner and Colin Newman involved in Githead project

PostEverything profile 'HeadGit' by Githead on [swim~]:

HEADGIT
GITHEAD 25 Oct 2004
WM34 [CD]

SWIM~
Githead are - Malka Spigel, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) & Colin Newman.

Githead are very new, yet in their short existence have managed to craft a style which is both original yet accessible. Combining rhythmic toughness with interweaving guitars, insistently funky basslines with deadpan vocals.

HeadGit is their debut, self titling, release 6 tracks which can serve as both an introduction to the band and a taster for their first album planned for early 2005.

Swim is also making a special gift offer available only with this release, and only through PostEverything. Each order will be shipped with a copy of Malka’s 1998 classic album My Pet Fish (we charge postage only for these). Amongst other things this album features a collaborative track with Robin which may very well be viewed as Githead mk I in hindsight…

NOT AVAILABLE IN THE SHOPS UNTIL LATE OCTOBER AVAILABLE THROUGH POSTEVERYTHING NOW!

# posted by DJ Martian 9:43 PM

 

Throbbing Gristle - Mixing It

Advance notification of the next Mixing It show: Mixing It - 1 October 2004

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall talk to Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti of pioneering industrial group Throbbing Gristle about their new collaboration, Carter Tutti.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:22 PM

 

Yellotone

Mary Anne Hobbs on the Breezeblock mentioned that a new album from Yellotone on Ai Records is on the way.

Ai Records are building up an international reputation for their esteemed electronic music, in particular Claro Intelecto and this will continue when the Yellotone album is dropped.

Yellotone will have a live laptop slot on Nick Luscombe's Flo-motion show on Xfm this coming Sunday, October 3rd.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:18 PM

 

Seed Records 4th Birthday

Seed Records have 2 events @ Aldwych Disused Tube Station in London to celebrate their 4th birthday:

Friday 12th November

Apparat (shitkatapult)
Ardisson (seed/no immortal)
Bell 03 (electronic desert)
Coil
Cold Fusion Mafia (seed/fuel)
Digitonal (seed/toytronic)
Dj Required (seed)
Jan Andersson
Jazzfinger (seed/traqueto)
Jim Backhouse (Resonance FM/Kosmiche)
Le Petit Orb
MoQ (seed)
Ola Bergman (newspeak/skam)
Rob Hall (gescom/skam)
[snyzch]! (seed/fruitbat)
Stendec (expanding)
The Doubtful Guest (seed)
Tomp (warp)

+ very, very special guest dj

Saturday 13th November

Alec Doherty (spoken volumes)
B12 (warp)
Cursorminer (seed/lo/uncharted audio)
Fil OK aka Atomizer (nag nag nag/international deejay
gigilos)
John Power (kinky voodoo/furthur)
Kone R (uncharted audio)
Mark Pritchard (global communications/jedi knights)
Maximo Park (warp)
Nitzan (hoxton underground)
Paul B Davis (beige/wobblyhead)
Seed Dj's
Snapmouth (seed)
Sun Ov (frenchbloke & son)

+ very special guest live act

WANG featuring:
Mark Broom (pure plastic)
Kansas City Prophets (seed/control tower)
Electro Elvis & Lula (wang)
George "The Skull" Hull (wang)
Ed Chaimberlain (basslogic)

More Details:
8pm+
Aldwych Disused Tube Station
Surrey St. / The Strand, London W1

# posted by DJ Martian 8:45 PM

 

Announced: Avanto :: Helsinki Media Art Festival 2004

Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival is Finland's annual event of non-conformist audiovisual art. The fifth Avanto will take place on November 18-21 2004. The detailed schedule will be announced on our expanded website in late October

The most famous name on the performers list is Alec Empire.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:47 PM

 

Artrocker launches weekly rock mag

Playlouder have news of a new weekly music magazine from Artrocker

The magazine, to be called 'Artrocker', funnily enough, will have an initial launch next Monday, October 4th. It will be available through Vital in independent record shops, some fashion emporia, and additionally will be sold on the streets - with sellers getting to keep all proceeds. Make dollar and learn! After an initial four-week period, Artrocker will go weekly from November 1st.

Artrocker website.

Well virtually anything will be better than the clueless and useless NME, however Artrocker is very much of the old skool local fanzine approach. This means their music coverage concentrates on rock bands on independent labels/ or upcoming unsigned bands. The Artrocker approach is high on local enthusiasm but lacks quality control and music diversity is an alien concept to these indie rock rodents. Artrocker is most likely appeal to scruffy gig going 17 - 25 year old types in large cities in the UK.

If Careless Talk Costs Lives/ Plan B are accused of being too rockist, the artrocker types wear it as a badge of pride.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:36 PM

 

Fabric 19 - Andrew Weatherall

This ILM thread has tracklisting info on Fabric 19 - Andrew Weatherall

1- Sexual Harrassment: “I need a freak”
2- The Egyptian Lover: “Freak-a-holic”
3- Kango’s Stein Masiv: “M/S Langara (Syntax Erik remix)”
4- I :Cube: “Freez”
5- DJ T: “Time out (acid dub)”
6- Tomboy: “Nummer it”
7- Delon and Dakan: “Dunufus”
8- Jesper Dählback: “Robot dance”
9- Mark Romboy vs. Booker Shade: “Every day of my life (Martin Landsky rmx)”
10- Metope: “Second skin”
11- German Broadcasters: “Machine”
12- Emperor Machine: “Bloody hell”
13- Black Devil Disco Club: “Timing, forget the timing (Kerrier District remix)”
14- Villalobos: “Dexter (2 Lone Swordsmen rmx)”
15- Technova: “Atmosphere”
16- Miwon: “Brother mole (John Tejada remix)”
17- Abe Duque: “It moved me”

This will be released November 15th in the UK.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:44 PM

 

Later with Jools Holland

BBC 2's Later is to return with a new autumn series on October 15th. Yet more mostly dull music is coming to a TV screen near you soon:

Later with Jools Holland returns on October 15th with Robbie Williams, Green Day & Elvis Costello among the guests

# posted by DJ Martian 2:38 PM

 

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

# posted by DJ Martian 2:23 PM

 

Stylus on Brian Eno [Part 2]: Brian Eno and the Ambient Series, 1978-1982: Part Two - Article

# posted by DJ Martian 1:24 PM

 

U2 Reveal Album Track List

Billboard report the full tracklisting for upcoming U2 album: U2 Sets Track List, 'Vertigo' Explodes At Radio

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

 

Intuitive Music report the news of a Dead Can Dance reunion: Dead Can Dance New Album and Tour Plans?

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

Monday, September 27, 2004

 

TrusttheDJ album of the week is Kiki - Run With Me

With his influences ranging from Kiss and David Bowie to the Sisters Of Mercy and hip hop, Kiki’s clearly been listening to the right mentors, and has absorbed their influences then regurgitated them in his own distinctive way.

Run With Me is out now on Ellen Alien’s Bpitch Control Records and is a definite contender for Album of the Year. Highly recommended.

Rating: 10/10

# posted by DJ Martian 5:46 PM

 

The latest One World show featuring: DJ Pathaan + Joe Davies is now available on Listen Again.

» One World

# posted by DJ Martian 3:29 PM

 

BBC NEWS report Virgin seeks slice of net music

# posted by DJ Martian 1:33 PM

 

Playlouder have the latest The Flaming Lips news: Wayne Coyne on new Lips LP!

The Flaming Lips forthcoming album is tentatively titled: 'At War With the Mystics' is due mid 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:26 PM

 

Junkmedia interview Tim Hecker

preamble:

Montreal resident Tim Hecker attracted initial attention with his releases under the alias Jetone, Autumnmonia (Pitchcadet, 2000) and Ultramarin (Force Inc., 2001). But Hecker eventually stripped himself of the Jetone moniker and its associated "organic techno" style in order to concentrate on a more abstract and fluid form of dramatic soundscaping under his own name. While Fennesz and Oval are oft-cited reference points, Hecker's ecstatic slabs of textured noise carve out unique stylistic territory. Following Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again (Alien8, 2001) and the EP My Love Is Rotten To The Core (Alien8, 2002), Hecker released Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux), one of 2003's most memorable and conceptually satisfying releases.

Fall 2004 now brings the release of Mirages, a thoroughly credible if less overtly referential follow-up issued on Alien8's sub-label Substractif. Hecker, an M.A. graduate in Political Theory from Concordia University and a key figure within a burgeoning Montreal music community that includes MUTEK, Constellation, and Alien8, spoke with Junkmedia on the eve of the new album's release.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:06 PM

 

Stylus Magazine on Brian Eno: Brian Eno and the Ambient Series, 1978-1982: Part One - Article

# posted by DJ Martian 12:53 PM

 

Pitchfork review Interpol - Antics

Other reviews for Interpol - Antics: Junkmedia and Playlouder and Splendid and Stylus

# posted by DJ Martian 12:50 PM

 

This week's new releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 12:27 PM

 

All About Jazz review Auden Kleive - Generator X

Personnel: Arve Henriksen - Trumpet; Christian Wallumrød - Rhodes, Prophet VS; Ståle Storløkken - Minimoog, Prophet T8, Emulator III; Jan Bang - Live Sampling (tracks 2&5); Auden Kleive - Drums, Keys, Vocals

Generator X can in many ways be seen as an extension of the timbres and sense of musical experimentation found in mid-'70s Miles Davis or early Weather Report, whilst combining this with many thoroughly modern elements to create a sound world not really found anywhere else.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

 

Music critic, Tom Hull has updated his Music Year 2004 set of lists.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:01 AM

Sunday, September 26, 2004

 

Resonant Records Showcase, London October 2nd

Icelandic artist Stafraen Hakon will be appearing at the RoTa SESSIONS next Saturday afternoon as part of a Resonant Records Showcase

SATURDAY AFTERNOON RoTa SESSIONS
@ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB

(21 Notting Hill Gate, W11 tel: 020 7460 4459)
ROUGH TRADE shops weekly Saturday afternoon get-together continues in
2004 with the following line-ups... Doors 4-8pm As always, it's FREE!
==========================================================
October 2nd
------------
Resonant Records Showcase featuring:

» Stafraen Hakon
» Dialect
» Souvaris

Source: Rough Trade e-mail newsletter

More info on these artists @ Resonant

# posted by DJ Martian 11:56 PM

 

Brooks - Red Tape

Brooks is Album of the Week @ Rough Trade Shop.

============ album of the week============

Brooks - Red Tape

Brooks has taken some minimal detroity techfunk music, shaken it hard, added some Lord Byron, a dash of herbert-esque glitchtronics, a soupcon of Berlin gay club culture and a pinch of industrial machinery, then squeezed some sex juice over the whole lot and come up with a fat album full of dirty dancefloor jams. it's also an exotic english electronic pop album that roxy music or soft cell would have made had they heard outkast, and one of the best electronic albums of 2004. on soundslike.

Source: Rough Trade weekly e-mail newsletter.

A track: Bedbugs from this album was played on Mixing It reminded me of Disco Inferno and early New Order.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

 

FRIEZE MUSIC - a 3 day music event in London

News of a 3 day event in London, Frieze Music 2004

Frieze Music 2004 is a three-day event in October which aims to bring together an eclectic range of musicians and artists at the edges of pop music culture. Organised by Eat Your Own Ears, musician Steve Mackey and Dan Fox, associate editor of frieze magazine, the music programme runs in conjunction with the Frieze Art Fair, an event featuring 150 of the most dynamic contemporary art galleries in the world showing over 1000 of the most exciting artists working today. The music event, which will be hosted in three venues across London on consecutive nights between 16th – 18th October, culminates with a Franz Ferdinand present The Chateau evening at the Scala where the Scottish 4 piece will curate an evening of music of their choice.

Saturday 16th October

Live - Whitey, Jack to Jack, Shit and Shine
Riot Season djs,
1-2-3-4 records djs,
Domino djs
EYOE djs
plus special guests

The Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, EC1, Angel Tube T. 0207 837 6419
Doors 9pm Tickets £8.50

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Sunday 17th October

Live - Bobby Conn, Les Georges Leningrad, I-Monster, Beastellabeast
Richard X Presents Black Melody,
Cornershop djs
Horseglue djs,
Rough Trade Counter Culture djs
Trunk Records djs

The End, 16a West Central Street, London, WC1 (Tottenham Court Road Tube)
T. 0207 419 9199
9pm - 2am Tickets £10

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Monday 18th October

Franz Ferdinand present The Chateau featuring live acts and djs to be announced soon

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9NL T. 0207 833 2022
Doors 7pm Tickets £8

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All tickets available from:

www.ticketweb.co.uk, T. 08700 600 100,
www.seetickets.com, T.0870 120 1149
NME Ticket Line T. 0870 1 663 663,
Rough Trade, Covent Gd, WC2H T. 0207 240 0105
Rough Trade, Talbot Road T. 0207 229 8541
and at the Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park (15th - 18th October)

Info: www.friezeartfair.com - www.eatyourownears.com

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Saturday 16th October

The Electrowerkz, Angel
» Whitey
'Gorgeous, throbbing synthetic rock...black leather 'n' shades dragged screaming into the 21st century'; - i-D
'a krautrock classic, it's a monster truck driver of a record' - Jonny Slut
Recent remix projects include Kylie Minogue, Soulwax and Chromeo.

» Jack to Jack
are internationally acclaimed artist Mark Leckey (recent exhibitions include 'Meeting at Conway Hall', London; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian; Gavin Brown's enterprise, NYC; Migros Museum, Zurich, and the performance 'Big Box Statue Action at Tate Britain, 2003), Steve Claydon (artist, founder member of Add N to X, and musician with Relaxed Muscle) and Kieron Livingstone. Together they create a grinding, frenetic all out audio-visual assault on the senses.

» Shit and Shine
unleash an all-over-the-map genre-smash of avant-grind, post-core-pre-punk, Euro-pop action. Strange, fucked up, and nerve-bakingly lovely... Somewhere between early Butthole Surfers, PIL, Napalm Death, Merzbow, early Melvins, Mainliner, Serge Gainsbourg and Beach Boys...

» Riot Season djs
Shit and Shine's play a mix of fucked up but dance floor friendly rock and roll, new wave and white labels.

» 1-2-3-4 records djs
Expect a mix of white labels from this fast growing London based label run by Sonic Mook promoter and old school veteran Sean Mclusky.

» Domino djs and EYOE djs
play a forward thinking set of electro, electronica, rock and roll and even nu- folk!

plus special guests

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Sunday 17th October

The End

» Bobby Conn
plays an energetic solo live set of songs that will make you want to bang your head to, shake your fist to and dance along to... with its disco guitar wah, Prince like funk, pounding huge beats and driving strings over Bobby Conn's T-Rex esq vocals and sexually-charged Iggy Pop like stage presence. BOBBY CONN “filters the maddest excesses of ‘70’s rock, glam and disco through the mind of a natural punk - NME

» Les Georges Leningrad
described on their press kit as a three-headed monster who perform "petrochemical rock," Les Georges Leningrad are Montreal's most notorious post-punks and are much beloved for their over the top stage shows and unique take on various genres including no wave, punk and electro sounds - think suicide, sonic youth, scratchy guitars, riot grrrl, no wave, world domination and more.

» I-Monster
the team behind the tune 'Daydream In Blue' play a rare London show airing their new album of electro-exotica, boyish melancholy and repeated vocal mantras, plus jerky beats and bleepy atmospheric pop.

» Richard X Presents Black Melody
The bootleg king and pop producer of Liberty X, Rachel Stevens and the Sugababes plays a cut and paste mix from his vast collection of electro, electronica and unheard white labels from his label Black Melody.

» Cornershop
Following their acclaimed single "Topknot', Cornershop's Ben Ayres takes time out from finishing their forthcoming album to play an eclectic mix of music that relects their entirely original mixture of beats, melodic charm and infectious good humour.

» Horseglue showcase featuring Beastellabeast
The label that first introduced Selfish C**t to the world present a live set from the mighty Beastellabeast.

» Trunk Records djs
delve into their crate of obscure musical curios, from the Clangers soundtrack to their Dirty Fanmail series.

» Rough Trade Counter Culture djs
playing what's hot from the shop in any and every style.

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Monday 18th October

The Scala
Almost one year after Franz Ferdinand presented their legendary night The Chateau at the The Electrowerkz in 2003 as part of their label Domino's 10th Anniversary they have since won the Mercury Music prize, sold millions of records and are slowly taking over the world with their addictive angular art school guitar pop. Tonight however they curate a line up of live acts and djs that they are friends with and that have inspired them. the full line up will be announced very soon....

Source: Rough Trade Shops newsletter e-mail

# posted by DJ Martian 11:24 PM

 

The Brainwashed Brain V07I37 - 09192004

The latest The Brainwashed Brain features reviews of:

Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
Young God

Mastodon - Leviathan
Relapse

The Fucking Am - Gold
Drag City

The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Merge

The Opus - Breathing Lessons
Mush Records

Encre - Flux
Clapping Music

Two Lone Swordsmen - From The Double Gone Chapel
Warp

Auburn Lull - Cast From The Platform
Darla

Anna Domino - Dreamback - The Best Of
Ltm

Radioinactive And Antimc - Free Kamal
Mush Records

Various Artists / Grime
Rephlex

# posted by DJ Martian 10:42 PM

 

New Roots Manuva Album

Brainwashed Releases list a forthcoming album from Roots Manuva titled: Awfully Deep

Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep CD/LP (Big Dada/Ninja Tune, UK)

This website: Whistle Blow suggests an early 2005 release date for this album.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:02 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [September 20th]

Key new album releases for September 20th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Aereogramme - Seclusion (Undergroove) EP
[A]Pendics Shuffle - Smooth Hair (Proptronix)
The Azoic - Illuminate (Nilaihah Records)
Steve Bernstein - Diaspora Hollywood (Tzadik) [US Release]
Seth P. Brundel - Devil's Pawn (Aesthetics)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute)
Converge - You Fail Me (Epitaph)
Decal - Release Through Velocity (Satamile)
Julian Fane - Special Forces (Planet µ)
Far Corner - Far Corner (Cuneiform) [US Release]
Grails - Red Light (Neurot)
Mats Gustafsson & Sonic Youth - Hidros 3 To Patti Smith (STS)
Oliver Hacke - Subject Carrier (Trapez)
Charlie Haden - The Land of the Sun (Verve)
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon)
High Contrast - High Society (Hospital)
I’m Not a Gun - Our Lives on Wednesdays (City Centre Offices)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - End Of The World Party Just In Case (Blue Note)
The Muffins - Double Negative (Cuneiform) [US Release]
Riton - Homies And Homos (Grand Central)
Riverside - Out Of Myself (The Laser's Edge) [US Release]
Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos (Century Media)
Shadows Fall - The War Within (Century Media)
65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math (Momotreme)
Stella - Better Days Sounds Great (L'Age D'Or)
VHS or Beta - Night On Fire (Astralwerks) [US Import]
Saul Williams - Saul Wiliams (Fader) {US Import]
White Willow - Storm Season (The Laser's Edge) [US Release]
Yang - A Complex Nature (Cuneiform) [US Release]
Zegunder - Distant Birds? Thought They Were Leaves (Neo Ouija)

# posted by DJ Martian 9:17 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [September 13th]

Key new album releases for September 13th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Big Satan - Souls Saved Here (Thirsty Ear) (Big Satan is Tim Berne, Marc Ducret and Tom Rainey; produced and remixed by David Torn)
Ben Christophers - The Spaces in Between (Cooking Vinyl)
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub pop)
Diplo - Florida (Big Dada)
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Art Damage (Equal Vision)
Terence Fixmer/ Douglas Mccarthy - Between The Devil (SPV)
Fly Pan Am - Necoutez Pas (Constellation)
Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm (Absolutely Kosher) [Import]
The Go Find - Miami (Morr Music)
Stafraenn Hakon - Ventill/Poki (Resonant)
Kelpe - Sea Inside Body (DC)
Landing - Sphere (k) [Available at Rough Trade]
Manual with Syntaks - Golden Sun (Darla) [US Release at Darla]
Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse)
Juana Molina - Tres Cosas (Domino) [UK Release Date]
On (Sylvain Chauveau / Steven Hess) - Your naked ghost comes back at night (DSA)
Rennie Pilgrem - Pilgremage (TCR)
Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig - Mantram (Projekt)
String Theory - Radiovalerian (Wobblyhead)
Swayzak - Loops From The Bergerie (K7)
Terrestre - Secondary Inspection (Static Discos) [A Murcof Project]
Textile Ranch - Bird Heart In Wool (Very Friendly)

# posted by DJ Martian 9:12 PM

 

Forthcoming plans @ Planet Mu Records:

That's it for now: also iminent missives from Doormouse ('Xylophone Jism' album), 8FM (ragga stuff), dDamage (Pressure 12' to promote the video in France), The Gasman ('Club Foot' album), Ed Lawes (anti-album), Phthalocyanine (waiting for artwork) and Jega (yes, really. Lots of new stuff. It's so NOT the album on slsk).

# posted by DJ Martian 6:10 PM

 

The Best of Talking Heads

Talking Heads announce the release of yet another compilation: The Best of Talking Heads.

Tracklisting:

1. Love -> Building on Fire
2. Psycho Killer
3. Oh, Love Comes To Town
4. Take Me To The River
5. Found A Job
6. Life During Wartime
7. Heaven
8. Memories Can't Wait
9. Once In A Lifetime
10. Houses In Motion
11. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
12. Girlfriend Is Better
13. Burning Down The House
14. Road To Nowhere
15. And She Was
16. Wild Wild Life
17. Blind
18. (Nothing But) Flowers

In the UK this will be released on October 18th by Warners/ wea.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:06 PM

 

Alien8 Recordings provide info on new/upcoming releases:

NEW RELEASE: TIM HECKER'S MIRAGES

Tim Hecker's Mirages is the follow-up and succession to the critically
acclaimed Radio Amor (2003) and his somewhat more sentimental Haunt Me
(2001). "Mirages" further erodes the vapid predispositions of
electronic music, uncovering a terrain where dissonance and melody coincide in a
near-bohemian unison. Hecker has indeed developed a unique approach to
music in an increasingly overcrowded and generic field. This is a
challenging work, which reconciles a highly experimental approach to
song craft that is at once beautiful and unnerving. For more info, MP3
samples or to purchase on-line visit:
Tim Hecker - Mirages


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NEW RELEASE: TANAKH'S SELF-TITLED 2CD

Our third release with American singer-songwriter Jesse Poe's project
Tanakh strays from structured songs and resides much more in the
regions of the avant-garde. This double CD features more drone-oriented
elements comparable to the debut Tanakh release, "Villa Claustrophobia," and the
collective ensembles of the Mile End music scene of Montreal. It is
based around a unique hand-made instrument constructed from the
salvaged ruble of a destroyed piano. This instrument resonates with a deep
sonorous drone heard throughout the recording. For more info, MP3
samples or to purchase on-line visit:
Tanakh - Tanakh


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UPCOMING RELEASE: LES GEORGES LENINGRAD'S BLACK ESKIMO

Les Georges Leningrad's sophomore album is without a doubt catchier
than their debut release, boasting a number of potential hits. "Sur les
traces de Black Eskimo" mixes elements of post-punk and noisy improv to
deliver a completely unique hybrid. Now operating as a trio, they are
leaner and more dangerous than ever. On this album, Poney, Bobo and
Mingo present Black Eskimo with disconcerting homage of rare and
sadistic music resonating from the purebred lineage of petrochemical
rock. This CD/LP will release will be available on Oct. 5. For more
info and MP3 samples visit:
LES GEORGES LENINGRAD'S BLACK ESKIMO

# posted by DJ Martian 4:01 PM

Saturday, September 25, 2004

 

This week's The Freak Zone show on 6 Music on Sunday 26 September features:

An interview with Jean Michel Jarre.

Freaky specialist Eddi Fiegel will be joining us to talk about the life and works of Tom Waits in our Mavericks & Misfits slot.

Our Album Of The Week is The Faust Tapes by German ambient masters Faust. This breakthrough album sold over 500,000 copies when it was released in 1973 – mainly because Virgin used the gimmick of selling it for the bargain price of 50p!

# posted by DJ Martian 8:10 PM

 

BBC Music review Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams but the reviewer is not that impressed with results of the 6 year wait.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:50 PM

 

CMU Daily have once again changed their URL.

Now part of CMU Music Network - the free creative network for everyone working in the music space.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:39 PM

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Logreybeam - It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism
Type

"It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism" is the first solo full length release from Los Angeles based Logreybeam, aka Gabriel Morley. Gabriel has previously released material for Team Shadetek's scarce Shadetek label and, together with longtime collaborator John Xela, has released music under the name Yasume for the City Centre Offices imprint. Having spent many years studying music at the prestigious Cal Arts Academy, Morley has taken his training in modern classical composition and turned it on its head. Instead of merely sampling the instruments he has so painstakingly learned, he resynthesizes, filters and destroys them until scant traces remain on the resulting sound recordings. Every track starts with a sound base, whether it be piano, strings or percussion, only a hint of the original source is left. All we hear are tones, trapped reverberations, the sounds that we are taught to ignore. For this release Morley dispenses with percussion almost entirely to make a record of drifting, crystalline beauty. It opens in typically classical style, with the sounds of a laptop orchestra tuning their samples on 'Premonition'. This sets the tone of the record perfectly as it drifts seamlessly from Xenakis-influenced electrical drones into the cold, precise digital manipulations explored previously by artists such as Carsten Nicolai. It stops for breath mid-way with 'Beetelguise', a wonderful reinterpretation of Danny Elfman's influential theme, proving that there is room for a wry smile in the po-faced world of the avante garde. As the album draws to a satisfying close with the mysterious 'Untitled' we are treated to a piece of field recording, delicately manipulated to brush the senses rather than barrage them with information. This kind of subtlety is rarely achieved, yet Gabriel Morley manages effortlessly. Such simple yet involving beauty comes around far too infrequently, which is what makes 'It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism' such an essential work.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
The Boats - Songs By The Sea
Moteer

The music on the debut album by The Boats was written by The Sea, hence the title "Songs by The Sea". Clever huh? The faces behind the project have a history of performing in many bands, Hood and The Remote Viewer being but two fine examples. There's Craig and Andrew delicately weaving together these exceptionally moving pieces, while elaine sings along in a fluttering, beautifully broken manner. Their music takes in numerous instruments, from dusty sweeping drums to ageing accordions, from sterling vintage piano to warm padding bass, from tapped windblown bells to unconsciously puffed melodica. Pan over to the other side of the studio and you discover old bits of malfunctioning electronic machinery, drum-machines that don't quite work as they should, banks of amnesiac samplers trying to regain their memories, mixers that have started to confuse left with right. Songs by The Sea captures that ageless essence of atmosphere and heartbreak, nostalgia and inspiration, the sound of slowly fading memory seeping into and confusing itself with a multicoloured subconscious. This is music in the finest, unspoken tradition of lonely seafaring, written from the furthest depths of the ocean, with whatever instruments just happen to lie around on deck. A huge recommendation.

Vybz Kartel - Up 2 Di Time
Greensleeves

Vybz Kartel has just appeared on one of our fave albums of recent times Diplo's 'Florida', ripping it on the 'Diplo Rhythm'. For a multiple dosage - you're in the right place - this is the 'More up 2 di time edition' with 5 additional tracks from original issue, including big recent hits like 'Breast Specialist' with Beenie Man and 'Tekk'. Vybz was already sheer hotness before his run in with Ninja Man at Sting, a swarm of pres last year announcing his annunciation to near Godfather status in Ja. With guest appearances from Wayne Marshall, Kardinal Offishal & Beenie man, this is The Man Most Likely To -Vybz appeal is all about sex, charisma and pop - productions are shared bya healthy blend of Don Corleon with extras from Lenky, Baby G, Blaxxx, Burro and more. What's going on...

Alexandroid - False Starts
Lo Recordings

Although the fad for Russian electronica didn't last very long (Fizzarum? Eu? anyone?) I recently revisited the second volume of Lo Recordings "R U Electronic" and found myself surprised at just how good some of the tracks on there still sound. Alexandroid delivered a couple of the standout tracks on the compilation and here return for a beautifully packaged 17-track album, curiously stretching from spacious electroid jackers to more orchestral pieces drawing on their love of classical music and piano-based composition. It's not a record that works in its entirety, in places sounding a tad dated, but edited down to 10 or so tracks what you have here is a beautifully serene scape through luscious textures and typically astute soviet soundscaping. Lovely stuff.

Lateduster - Easy Pieces
Merck

More diversification from Miami's excellent Merck imprint - this time delivering a fantastic album from the highly regarded Minneapolis quartet Lateduster. The band have been recording together for over 5 years and have been involved in numerous projects - including Fog (Ninja Tune), Dosh (Anticon), Hymies Basement (Lex) and Neotropic (Mush), although "Easy Pieces" is their first widely available release. Lateduster span across countless acoustic and electronic disciplines, making for an absorbing multi-instrumentalist arrangement of tracks that span from refined post-rock to humming ambience, glitched-up hip hop styles and beyond. Nice to see the label spread its wings once again, really good stuff. Recommended.

Mark One - One Way
Planet Mu

And so Planet Mu step into the Grime arena with the debut full-length from scene veteran Mark One. With a spate of releases for all the right labels : Soulja, Tempa, Texture, Southside, Immunity, his own Contagious imprint and, most recently, the notorious Grime compilation on Rephlex - Mark fuses a dirty low-end scrape and tumble with a ghetto mentality - shards of Hip Hop, R & B, Garage, 2-step and even electro stainin his template in fine gangsta style. It's all about the basslines kids, and "One Way" is a veritable cesspit of f*cked up low end wobbles and knuckle cracking stabs - complete with the Virus Syndicate tagging along for the ride. "One Way" is a more extreme, mutant, darkcore version of the recent Skinnymann album, a devastating take on the street beats of Dizzee Rascal without all the plastic concessions. This is the real deal and fans of bumpin' bass everywhere need to take heed immediately. Killah!

Milanese - 1 Up
Warp

Really good dancefloor mess-making from Arcola graduate Milanese, bringing a devastating digital grime-core sound to the Warp massive. "1 Up" veers from decimated cut-up 2-step variations to teeth-grinding clean and uncompromising junglist juggling, just the way we like it. Some electroid spasm-shaking and low-end hugging sublow tweaking also throw themselves into the mix for one of the best Warp releases for the floor in a very very long time indeed. On cd and beautifully cut double-loud double-vinyl for your limb-flailing pleasure. Ayyyye!

Moodymann - Black Mahogani II
Peacefrog

Finally given a full release! 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.

Resina - Opinioomnium
Mousike Lab

Glad to see this Italian label finally hitting UK shores. Only two releases strong so far, this trio extension of Retina (Hefty) start's things off in a fine style. Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono alongside Marco Messina are all members of the Avatar 41 community of artists and collective owners of this label. `Opinioomnium' is an eight track foray into subtle but quietly rocking glitch dancefloor maneuvers with a blue tinge. Inhabiting a similar space to which Japan's Progressive Form and Plop label have cornered just recently with artists such as Nao Tokui and Fonica. Recommended.

Signer - The New Face of Smiling
Carpark

Signer's incredible "Low Light Dreams" album from a couple of years back is unquestionably one of the most slept-on albums of recent times. Bevan Smith's evolution from electronic practitioner to a master of minimalism and organic scene-setting culminated in an album so spacious and warm it was almost impossible to contain, at one and the same time giving a knowing nod of respect to the minimal machinations of Berlin's Basic Channel and the stretched acoustic tapestries of Windy and Carl, Low, and the magnificent Stars of the Lid. Since then Bevan has re-arranged his instruments and has embarked on a new direction for this new album "The New Face Of Smiling", a largely acoustic affair that at times ventures into more traditional structures and at others hangs loose with a much more freestyle agenda. The album opens with a kind of farewell to its predecessor, "Low Light Sleeep" seeming to suggest that the artist has left this particular chapter of his life behind him, about to wake up from his slumber to a whole new set of tricks. From here on the album takes a frazzled trajectory through fragmented pop, re-arranged balladeering and a lucky dip attitude that charms with its lack of pretension. Recommended.

Various / Audio Dregs - Fork Ends
Audio Dregs

All exclusive tracks from F.S. Blumm, Lullatone, Greg Davis, Nudge, Flim, Nice Nice, Guido Mobius, Honey & Colleen, Kazumasa Hashimoto, E*rock, Baikonour, Lineland, Frz, Un caddie renversé dans l'herbe, Strategy, E*vax & Supersprite. Audio Dregs seems to have had a bit of a hiatus of late, so its nice to see them back with another collection of home listening experiments, bucolic melodicism, and acustic-electric instrumental pop songs with that dedlicious home-made flavour. F.S. Blumm delivers another gorgeously strummed soundtrack to the more approachable end of experimentalism, Greg Davis sinks into a gorgeosuly bittersweet lullaby, Baikonour allow minimalism and fuzz to warm the coccles while the ever-excellent Nudge steal the show once again with a sharp descent into glowing audio twilight. Lovely and incredibly good value.

Vector Lovers - Vector Lovers
Soma

The debut album from Martin Wheeler drops on Soma with the same Manga-obsessed stylings that have accompanied his every release thus far, from the animé artwork to the screaming plastic sounds within. "Vector Lovers" once again spans from one end of the spectrum to the other, reaching from drum-machine jackin electropop to subtle, emotive soundscaping in tribute to the same documentaries and wildlife programmes that have inspired the likes of Boards of Canada and Isan in the not-so-distant past. Good stuff - check!

Warp Vision - The Videos 1989-2004
Warp
DVD+CD

Much hype and fanfare, but this really is rather excellent indeed and a bit of a bargain to boot. It's been a long time coming but at long last Warp have compiled the definitive anthology of their video output since 1989 - with the exception of 4 videos, none of them have ever been available on DVD before. The DVD includes two stunning, never seen before videos for Aphex Twin and Jamie Lidell, plus classic videos for LFO, Sweet Exorcist, Seefeel, Autechre, Broadcast, Chris Clark, Plaid, Luke Vibert, Mira Calix, Prefuse 73, Beans, Antipop Consortium, Sabres of Paradise, Squarepusher, Jimi Tenor, John Callaghan, and Nightmares on Wax. There are an incredible 32 videos included, directed by the likes of Chris Cunningham, David Slade, Lynn Fox, Ed Holdsworth, Jarvis Cocker, Douglas Hart, Designers Republic, Alex Rutterford, Laurent Briet and Pleix amongst others. The first 10,000 copies of this excellent package come with a free bonus mix cd which spans the entire history of the label so far, so don't miss out!

Various / New Order - Twice As Nice
LTM

Follow up to the superb Cool As Ice compilation, this time focussing on the production work of Be-Music [aka New Order], the excellent Donald Johnson, sticksman for A Certain Ratio, and assistance from stateside sympathisers Mark Kamins, Jellybean Benitez and Arthur Baker. This is the story of how many of these tunes fell flat in the european countries of origin but were adopted and cherished by deep, black and gay clubs in north america. Perhaps the standouts here are 52nd Street, always one of the most underrated bands out of Manchester, and at the production helm was DoJo, with able sequencing assistance from Bernard Sumner. Some nice rarities here in the shape of psyche-acid house pioneers Section 25's 'Sakura' and the edit of New Order's 'video 5-8-6', originally a cassette only item. A proper piece of Manc history.

Kazi & Oh No - The Plague
B9000

Oh No seems to be trying to out-do his big brother Madlib as one of the most prolific producers of 2004. With his large Stones Throw debut album `The Disrupt' just round the corner the time's right to release this dope hook up with west coast emcee Kazi who's been relativeively quiet since dropping the almost classic `Down For The Kaz' 12" back in 2000. Kazi's vocals are rugged, but mature - kinda 50% detroit thugged and 50% knowledge and wisdom. Fifteen tracks deep with no fillers. Guest emcees include Medaphoar, Declaime (new album soon), Aloe Blacc (Emanon), Infamous MC, Wildchild and Spontaneous. Funnily enough the only guest production track is `Sick With The Art' by Kankick, a killer cut and best place to sample this albums quality. Plus the scratching is pure old school style, just how I like it. I know the hip hop arena especially in the Stones Throw section is getting a bit crammed but you need to make room for `The Plague'. Wicked hip hop.

Acid Mothers Temple - Does the Cosmic Shepherd Dream of Electric Tapirs?
Space Age

As a japanese soul collective, acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo are something of an enigma to the western world, and most likely to eastern ears too. their music can be described as acid-rock, experimental, psychedelic or a whole host of genres dependent on the listeners mood. This is their first release for the Spacemen-3 affiliated Space Age label, and they mark the occasion by producing their most daringly accessable and, dare I say it, almost sweet-soaked collection of blissed out psychedelic songs. Fans of the Animal Collective will find much to enjoy here.

Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
XL

Recorded during the same sessions as the excellent `Rejoicing In The Hands....', Nino Rojo drops amid much media fanfare and interest in one of the most remarkable singer-songwriters of recent years. "Nino Rojo" is a beautiful, if familiar affair - delicately stripped down strums and songs about all manner of farmyard animals and the wonders of nature, sung in that obtuse Marc-Bolanesque twang that seems to either completely rile or endear anyone who bears witness to it. "Nino Rojo" makes for a beautifully life-affirming listen, just what you need to warm the cockles as the nights draw in ever closer. Recommended.

Interpol - Antics
Matador

Recorded with longtime associate Peter Katis, `Antics' is an optimistic exploration of the dark landscapes visited on Interpol's hugely successful debut `Turn On The Bright Lights'. Interpol's time must surely have arrived, the half a million or so albums they have already sold and the legion of high-profile fans of the band will no doubt ensure that their darkcore indiepop will crossover with even more gusto this time round. Destined to be absolutely massive.

Kama Aina - Music Activist
Geographic

The Geographic label has carved itself a cosy little niche for twee, organic, cross-cultural home listening music of the most endearing kind. Kama Aina Is the project of Tokyo's Takuji Aoyagi and falls into this category perfectly with a selection of glowing instrumental pieces that take in a myriad instruments, styles and campfire strums full of memorable melodies and splashes of Haiwaian guitar. As reference points try labelmates Maher Shalal Hash Baz or maybe even Tommy Guerrero, a lovely little album. Recommended.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
Mute

It's almost without exception that one can say that double albums of this nature very rarely work. What we have here, however, features some of Nick Cave's most ambitious and astute _expression of vitriol for the best part of a decade. While the "Lyre of Orpheus" concentrates on his oozing lovesongs for all manner of strange and unidentified beauties, "Abattoir Blues" unleashes Cave's wit and tobacco-stained violence at it's most devastating. It's an often fabulous work from one of the most disturbingly charismatic songwriters of a generation, uncomfortably itching away at middle age with all the nastiness and bile we'd expect. Excellent stuff.

Sigur Ros - Von
Smekkleysa

Originally issued back in 1997, "Von" was the first full album release from Icelandic drifters Sigur Ros and is now available once again in all its 72 minue glory. The sound across these 12 tracks is reassuringly primitive, though often daring (as in the completely flawed, though forward-thinking turntable-style rewinds at the end of "Hun Juro"), drifting from 4AD-inspired quasi-shoegazing atmospherics at one moment, and John-Cage inspired silence the next. The band was quite obviously at this stage not only looking at the reverberating echoes of the British Indie scene of the late 80's, but also in its more ambitious forefather sometimes referred to as Prog rock. A good album and a fascinating document, well worth checking out.

Benny Blanko - 8 Ft In The Air
Playhouse

Ace album, now available on cd! Benny Blanko from the Bronx, as he was referred to on his smashin debut twelve for Playhouse - 'All The Way Down' - comes with an album collecting some of his earlier, hard to find productions for Homestyle 1995-1999, interspersed with some new bespoke productions and this proves to be a good move, adding diversity and a sense of longevity. Opening with 'We Can Fly' is perfect for an album like this, big fat synth-bass and a genuine feelin that you're warming up for something good. 'Beautiful' feat Danio touches down with a warm soulful flavour, smoochin it inna smooth style - 'Put Yr Hands' adds heartrending keys, a sizeable bass dimension, and a stirring soulful sista snippet - mighty deep fonk!! '12 bits of funk' has to be one of the highlights here, revealing some deep wah-wahed, conga'd vibes from the big apple. Blanko's facility with moving between more house and then hip-hop influenced material makes this one useful, consistently listenable album - the title track would be a decent beats weapon in any self-respecting box. 'Beatdown on electric ave.' picks up where we left off on the first disc, a genuine love of bass, vocal hiccups and party all night drums. 'Khamelion' keeps on doin it like you oughta - ten minutes sprawling over the last side, delicious reduced moodymann vibes. Good stuff.

Various / Kompakt - Speicher CD2
Kompakt

Digitally mixed by Michael Mayer and digitally edited by Olaf Dettinger, seems like the Kompakt speicher extra series are getting all digital on us - after the heady heights reached by the last three twelves in the series. The whole of the excellent Speicher 19, Magnet and Wighnomy Brothers treading through Basic channel's footprints are present and correct here - as is what has rapidly become our personal favourite Cologne jacker of all, DJ Koze's all-conquering 'Brutalga square'. Even Giles Peterson is playing this one, which should give you an idea of the resounding appeal on offer here - we're talking straight ahead, club friendly techno. Elsewhere Koze, the Voigts and Joachim Speith offer merciless dancefloor domination - Blitz and Jens Harke represent for the Auftreib crew and the mix is bracketed by two beauties from Wolfgang Voigt and a coda from the Optimo massive in Glasgow - Wilkes and Savage aka Naum. Killer mix.

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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 [for September 20th]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
Mute

Not just one album but two from Saint Nick. But don't fear 'cause these are staggering returns to form after the claustrophobic and muddled albums that were "No More Shall We Part" and "Nocturama". In a strange peverse way the loss from his band of guitarist Blixa Bargeld has seen them return to the taught, edgey and highly strung sounds that he helped to create: The sound of say "Let Love In", "Murder Ballads" and "Henry's Dream". Death, sex, religion, drugs, gospel gothic and deep romance infact all of Cave's favourite topics are covered here in a fresh whirlwind of classic song after classic song. This stands up as one of Nick Cave's best ever albums, and don't forget, there's two of them!! Halelluja!!!

Aereogramme - Seclusion
Undergroove

Brand new album from Scottish rockers Aereogramme (formerly of Chemikal Underground). "Seclusion" features six brand new tracks,including a Flaming Lips cover - "Lightning Strikes The Postman", as well as a film that is the Scottish quartet's 'respectful homage to our favourite Japanese horror directors'.

Apostle Of Hustle - Folkloric Feel
Arts & Crafts

From the lead guitarist of Broken Social Scene comes an album of minor key moods and swaying songs. The music shifts itself: rolling, dense, sensual, sophisticated and raw. Woozy pop. Audio demerol. For the equationistas - Tindersticks meets Latin Playboys meets Shuggie Otis meets Nick Cave in Vegas. Featuring Feist, members of Broken Social Scene and Stars.

Bloc Party - Bloc Party EP
V2 International

A limited import from one of the most talked about and brilliant bands of the moment. The big news here is that this is the tracks from their first two long deleted singles. There are six tracks in total, "Banquet" and "Staying Fat" from their Moshi Moshi deleted single, "She's Hearing Voices", "The Marshals Are Dead" and "The Answer" from their deleted and impossible to find at a decent price single on Trash Aesthetics and finally there's "Banquet" Phones Disco Edit which appears on the Wichita "Little Thoughts" CD single.

Cosmetique - Horror Attack
1234 Records

East London duo, Cosmetique are set to return with a new single on the new label set up by Sonic Mook's Sean Mclusky, High Society's James Mullord and PPQ's Percy Parker, 1234 records. "Horror Attack" is the long awaited follow up to "Straight To Video". Recorded by the Cosmetique line up of Justin Anderson and Sarah Churchill the new single sees the duo continue to deliver the kind of perfect pop they've consistently excelled at ever since the release of their debut single "Lady Di (Why Did You Have To Die)" in 2000.

Mats Gustafsson / Sonic Youth - Hidros 3 (To Patti Smith)
Smalltown Supersound

Together with Gustafsson Sonic Youth teamed up with American guitar legend Loren Connors (aka Loren Mazzacane Connors), Lotta Melin, David Stackenäs and Lindha Kallerdahl. Armed with five guitars, electronics, voices, audiobox and contrabass saxophone, the group created a massive and monumental sound. "Hidros 3" is in many ways related to Sonic Youth's releases on their own SYR label (Sonic Youth Records) and their soundtrack to French movie "Demonlover". But what differs this albums from their past SYR albums is the vocal by Kim Gordon! The characteristic 'spoken' vocals from Kim Gordon and the moody, atmospheric and dissonant sound makes you think of the NYC in the early 80's and the first albums by Sonic Youth. "Hidros 3" is in many ways NYC no wave colliding with European free / avant jazz.

Radio 4 - Stealing Of A Nation
Labels

Second album from Brooklyn's finest punk funkers, produced by Max Heyes (Doves, Primal Scream).
2xLtd CD
The limited CD features an enhanced section containing a 20 minute documentary about the making of the album. The limited edition CD features a bonus disc with remixes from Tom Middleton, Ashley Beedle and Si Begg.

65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
Monotreme

The debut album by 65daysofstatic from Sheffield, who meld seamless guitar shapes with ferocious drum'n' bass styled beats, live drums and c-c-c-computer g-g-g-g-glitch to create a soundtrack to a new dimension where rock, dance and electronica are equals.

Stella - Better Days Sounds Great
L'Age D'Or

Not content with recording the gem "Never Going Back To School" (included here) L'Age D'Or's Stella, a 'rock, pop and tech-house foursome' (their description not mine) also cover Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and make a right racket. It's a hybrid sound that hits the mark somewhere inbetween Blondie, Cyndi Lauper, Herbert and Interpol, fusing New York attitude with German experimentalism.

Chromeo - She's In Control
Turbo / V2

Discovered by Tiga in their hometown, Chromeo is Pee Thug and Dave 1, best friends since their Montreal adolescence, virtuoso musicians, 80s fetishists and walking hip hop encyclopaedias. Their mission is to make slick-ass lover's funk with nary a trace of irony. These guys are to Rockwell what Andrew WK is to Meatloaf - just don't call it easy retro! As well as 11 original songs, this CD includes bonus remixes by Playgroup, DFA and Whitey, plus a video for "Needy Girl".

Mocky - Are + Be
Fine / Four Music

Following on such bratty blasts as "Mickey Mouse Muthaf*%@#s!!" and "How Will I Know You", Mocky's debut album extends his oeuvre into soppy ballardry, albeit with a sharp, sarcastic wit and searing sonic stabs

Riton - Homies And Homos
Grand Central

"Homies And Homos" sees Riton take a radical departure from his previous LP "Beats Du Jour", with Henry leaving Manchester as a nice young man, and ending up joining the Hoxton massive and becoming the next big thing. He still has his own sound though, one influenced as much by grime and laptronica as it is by electrock'n'roll. Update, in their five dancing men review, say: 'The whole thrust of the LP is steamy work with ramped up R'n'B touches, stompy indie beats, plump synth lines, glam rock riffs and backing vocals culled from the background of a porno movie'.

Converge - You Fail Me
Epitaph

Converge, the Boston-based menacing hardcore outfit, at last release their anxiously anticipated Epitaph debut called "You Fail Me". For 13 years, Boston, MA's innovative metallic hardcore heavyweights known simply as Converge have changed, evolved and pushed the boundaries of their abrasive sonic art while never forsaking their heaviness, vision or integrity. Like a shark that dies if it ever stops swimming, Converge has constantly struggled to push the envelope of the ever-shifting definition of 'hardcore' while releasing a number of albums - some would say 'landmark' - that followed a caustic, sometimes painful, but always engaging musical evolution.

Roy Davis Jr - Chicago Forever
Ubiquity

A newly invigorated Roy Davis Jr is finally ready to drop his musical thank you to the city he grew up in and succeeds in putting the soul back into dance music. Featuring vocals by Ubiquity label mate Jeremy 'Ayro' Ellis, Khalid and another Detroit native Terry Dextor, cameo interlude appearances from Common and Roy's son Caleb and co-production with Platinum Pied Pipers Waajeed, the album takes in garage house, broken beats, uplifting gospel tinged grooves, 4/4 soul and more.

Greenskeepers - Pleetch
Classic

"Pleetch" is a more accomplished and mature album, with well-crafted vocal-led songs, as opposed to their tongue-in-cheek Chi-town house shenanigans of "Ziggy Franklen". featuring vocal contributions from Chicago house dons DJ Collette ("Keep It Down"), Diz Washington ("You Don't Know Me" and "Sailing"), DJ Heather ("Dots") and jazz lyricist Stine Kinck, "Pleetch" is an eclectic set of songs, taking in house, disco, dirty electro-funk, downbeat, soul, electroclash and pop.

The Sunburst Band - Here Comes The Sunburst Band
Z

After the success of their recent "Until The End Of time" LP, Z have decided to re-release The Sunburst Band's 1998 debut album! Inspired by Joey Negro's encyclopedic knowledge of 70s / 80s disco (and all forms of dance music from that era), The Sunburst Band's mix of cleverly woven samples and current house beats is a winning formula. Includes classic tracks "Big Blow", "Garden Of Love" and "Ease Your Mind".

Various Artists / California Soul
Unisex

"California Soul" sees compiler Adrian Gibson get from the 'Frisco Bay to La Cienega Blvd and across the way to bring us some smooth grooves, influenced by the West Coast's experimentation and diversity. Some of the tracks you'll know already as Picc Recs shop favourites (Raphael Saadiq's "Skyy, Can You feel It", The Rebirth "This Journey In", Greyboy "Genevieve", Rahsaan Patterson "The One For Me"), and some will be new to you and us (T-Love Feat. Dwele "Seven", the soon to be huge Plantlife with "Beautiful Babies", Joy Jones "Beautiful"), all are quite superb!

Marco Di Marco Feat. Nathan Haines - My London Friends
Arision

After the taster remix 12", Arision present this new jazz album by predominantly nu jazz musicans and producers. Yielded during an epic session of improvisation and recording, Marco Di Marco was joined by a squad of crack players including Nathan Haines, Andy Hamill and Robin Mullarkey, all marshalled by Simone Serritella (Big Bang). Magical latin and jazz ensued, preserved on this record for posterity.

Various Artists / Kenny Dope Presents Brazilika
Far Out

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the London label, Far Out bring in Masters At Work's Kenny Dope to create a special Brazilian mix of their best releases so far! Featuring exclusive remixes by Kenny, and Dope Efx too, this mix CD combines the freshest music from Brazil, cut up New York block party style! Includes tracks by Grupo Batuque, Friends From Rio, Da Lata, Marcos Valle, Sabrinha Malheiros (Kenny Dope mix), Los Ladrones, The Ipanemas, Natures Plan (Kenny Dope mix), Azymuth and more.

Fila Brazilia - Dicks
Twentythree

Fila Brazilia, never a duo making music that's easy to pigeonhole, are back with their zillionth album, taking in everything from 60s pop and riffing rock to rubber funk, broken jazz and lush electronics. If you're not afraid to step outside of music's monoculture, check this out.

Gotan Project - Inspiracion Espiracion - A Gotan Project DJ Set
XL

This double CD features previously unreleased material by Argentinian accordion outfit the Gotan Project, alongside remixes and collaborations with Calexico, Peter Kruder, Anti Pop Consortium, Pepe Bradock and Chet Baker amongst others. Not exactly a 'new' Gotan Project record, but a collection of new tracks and remixes (by them and of them).
2xCD - XLCD184
Double CD packaged in a deluxe fold out triptych sleeve. Bonus disc includes a video by their longtime visual collaborator, Prisca Lobjoy.

Rennie Pilgrem - Pilgremage
TCR

Four years after his acclaimed "Selected Werks" debut, Rennie Pilgrem ('The Most Valuable Person In Breaks' say Breakspoll - for two years running!) unleashes an album of brand new material for his TCR label. This album celebrates the rich diversity of the breaks genre, taking in funk, rock, techno, electro, punk and all points in between. The inclusion of real instruments and musicians lift it beyond being just another dancefloor album, and collaborations include MC Chickaboo, singer Sara Whittaker-Gilbey (from Mara) and the 'producer's producer' Uberzone for an exclusive version of their new tune "Fuego".

High Contrast - High Society
Hospital

For his second LP, Lincoln Barret (sporting wedding-smart suit and extra frizzy mop of curls - get it cut off boy) returns with more soulful super-charged drum and bass floorfillers, featuring vocals by Dynamite MC and up and coming grime star Nolay.

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Some forthcoming shows on One World show on Radio 1

26th Sept - DJ Pathaan
3rd Oct - GUITARDED Part 2 with Noel Gallagher, Slipknott, Jimmy Page and C T C
10th Oct - Husky Rescue, The Bays, Sixtoo
Nov 7th - GUITARDED Part 3
Dec 5th - GUITARDED Part 4

The latest One World show features: Rennie Pilgrim

# posted by DJ Martian 1:19 AM

 

Forthcoming The Breezeblock Shows on Radio 1:

Sept 28th
Homefires sessions Pt 1
Beth Orton
Gruff (Super Furry Animals)
Juana Molina, Micah P Hinson, Adem, Joanna Newsom and Smog

Oct 4th
Homefires sessions Pt 2

Oct 18th
Bjork interview and session

Oct 25th
Pendulum Vs Dillinja in the mix
Subtle live in London

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music blog to check: Music is a Virus

# posted by DJ Martian 12:01 AM

Friday, September 24, 2004

 

BBC Northern Ireland's Across The Line music show have a compiled a selection of so called classic albums. Including some dubious and rather predictable choices.

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BBC Music review Rennie Pilgrem - Pilgremage

# posted by DJ Martian 11:47 PM

 

Toytronic Compilation

AngryApe reported earlier this month: New Toytronic Release a various artists label compilation:

Toytronic - Everthing is Green this will now be released on October 11th. More info @ Toytronic

# posted by DJ Martian 11:22 PM

 

We Are The Music Makers Forums a music message board with a slant towards compemporary electronic music.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:12 PM

 

Ozric Tentacles have launched a new official website.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:03 PM

 

Leonard's Lair review The Knife - Deep Cuts

# posted by DJ Martian 10:55 PM

 

Leonard's Lair review King Of Woolworths - Rediffusion

# posted by DJ Martian 10:54 PM

 

AngryApe review Julian Fane - Special Forces

# posted by DJ Martian 10:53 PM

 

This month's: All About Jazz Highlights | September 2004 newsletter.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:41 PM

 

BW & BK report the latest Zyklon news: ZYKLON Re-Sign With Candlelight, Reveal New Song Titles

# posted by DJ Martian 9:17 PM

 

AllHipHop.com report Grandmaster Flash Comments On Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nomination

# posted by DJ Martian 9:16 PM

 

A Perfect Circle: eMOTIVe Tracklisting

soundgenerator.com report the full tracklisting of the covers album by A Perfect Circle: A Perfect Circle Cover Lennon, Marvin Gaye On New Album

# posted by DJ Martian 9:14 PM

 

New Bola & Quinoline Yellow Albums

The latest Skam news:

BOLA - New album 'GNAYSE', will be ready for release in november 2004.
cat no. skalp015 (vinyl) skald015 (cd)
We are very proud to announce the 3rd album from BOLA, over two years since the arrival of 'FYUTI'.

QUINOLINE YELLOW - New album is ready, and will be available very soon.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:59 PM

 

BBC Collective review Interpol - Antics

# posted by DJ Martian 8:50 PM

 

BBC Collective interview Brooks

# posted by DJ Martian 8:49 PM

 

Annie Nightingale & the BT Tower

Annie Nightingale on Radio 1 will be broadcasting from the top of the infamous BT Tower in London - and US epic trance artist BT will also be there.

On Sunday 26th September Annie returns to her old time slot and will broadcast live from the top of the BT Tower and we're going to webcast it too!

More info: The Story

.....Now that wish has become a reality. My other greatest wish was that BT, Brian Transeau would be among the guest djs to play at the top of the Tower. BT is flying in from Los Angeles, by special invitation, for this event. His music has the kind of elements of technology and space that I thought would be ideal and appropriate to play from the top of one of the world's most famous buildings, the radio waves emanating from right there all over the world... and who knows, maybe beyond.

As you can maybe tell, this project has become something of an obsession for me! Its also going to be a big breaks celebration party, with Meat Katie, whom I have so long admired as a breakbeat innovator playing live, and from Australia, Andrew Friendly, winner of this year's Breakspoll Best New DJ Award, and also the passionate supporter of breaks, who has done so much to create the extraordinary scene that is now going on world wide with this music, DJ Hyper.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:52 PM

 

The Independent interview Slam

Slam: Going underground
If dance music is dead, why are the DJ/producer duo Slam busier than ever and playing to ecstatic crowds? Rob Nash finds there's life outside the mainstream

# posted by DJ Martian 3:31 PM

 

The Independent interview Client

# posted by DJ Martian 3:30 PM

 

Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 1:58 PM

 

Vapour Festival of Independent Music: Events Announced

Vapour Festival of Independent Music have announced details of the month long series events celebrating music on independent labels:

Friday 1st Cargo: Vapour & Littlebig
» Lali Puna
» Chronomad
» DJ Si Begg
+ more TBA

Wednesday 6th Hackney Empire:
» Asian Dub Foundation
(Live score ‘The Battle of Algiers’ film)

Thursday 7th Spitz: Memphis Industries
» Blue States
» The Go! Team
» The New Tellers

Friday 8th Hackney Empire: Grand Central
[10 Year Birthday]
» Fingathing
» Riton
» Jon Kennedy

Saturday 9th Hackney Empire: Peter Moon Club
» Clinic
» To Rococo Rot
» Jamie Lidell
» Mice Parade
» Home Video

Wednesday 13th Cargo: Wall Of Sound / We Love You
» Infadels
» Diefenbach
» Mother and the Addicts
» The Girls

Thursday 14th 333: Trojan
Line up TBA

Wednesday 20th Scala: Eat your own ears
» James Yorkston and The Athletes
» Jim Moray
» Aberfeldy
» King Creosote

Thursday 21st Plastic People: Peacefrog
» Luciano [live]
» Recloose

Thursday 21st Spitz: TBC

Thursday 28th ICA: 4AD
» Tunng
» Cass McCombs
» Magnetophone
» Neil Halstead
» Minotaur Shock

Friday 29th ICA: Fierce Panda
» Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
» Fightstar
» Atlantic Dash
» The Immediate
+ special guests

Friday 29th Cargo: F-Comm
(10 Year Birthday)
» Frederic Galliano and the African Divas
» Llorca

Saturday 30th ICA: Peacefrog
» Nouvelle Vague
» More TBA

Saturday 30th Vapour Closing Party

# posted by DJ Martian 1:39 PM

 

Lambgoat report Lickgoldensky calls it quits

# posted by DJ Martian 1:26 PM

 

This week's Mixing It show: Mixing It - 24 September 2004 on Radio 3 is an All CD edition.

Includes tracks by the likes of: Brooks, Little Axe, Fred Frith, Savath & Savalas, Radian and Polysics.

Broadcast: Friday 24 September 2004, 10:15pm [and available on demand via listen again after broadcast for 7 days.]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

 

The Guardian review Kenny Wheeler/ John Taylor - Where Do We Go From Here?

# posted by DJ Martian 12:33 PM

 

Dusted review Parker/ Schlippenbach/ Lytton - America 2003

# posted by DJ Martian 12:31 PM

 

The Guardian review Interpol - Antics

# posted by DJ Martian 12:26 PM

 

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

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

:: Latest Show: 24th September 2004 ::

Streaming available on demand until replaced by new show.

Playlist @ Eternal Fusion

Intro: Robyn Hitchcock 'Welcome to Earth', Joshua Burkett 'Losing It'
Avarus - 'Ja Mitahan Me Mietittiin Yhdessa?'
Boom Bip - 'The Unacceptable Uses Of Colour In Nature'
Spring Heel Jack - 'Autumn'
Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - 'Autumn Dawn Elder Meets The Monochord'
OOIOO - 'Asozan'
Matmos - 'Last Delicious Cigarette'
Arve Henriksen -'Circled Take'
Clinic - 'Circle of Fifths'
Radian - 'Vertigo'
To Rococo Rot - 'Hotel Morgen'
Samla Mammas Manna - 'Manna Jamma'
Ozric Tentacles - 'Yoy Mandala'
Nils Petter Molvær - 'Solid Ether' (Live)
Alan Parsons - 'Return to Tunguska' (Featuring David Gilmour & Shpongle)
Hidria Spacefolk - 'Tarapita'
Panda Bear - 'Track 7: Young Prayer'
Black Forest/Black Sea - 'Talbot Hotel, Stoke On Trent, 11th April 2004' (with Harry Sumnall)
Urdog - 'Zombie Cloud'
Fursaxa - 'Twilight Of Desire'
Neotropic - 'If We Were Trees'
Múm - 'Kustrin'
Phosphene - 'Soutterain'
Mats Gustaffson & Sonic Youth - 'Hidros 3: Part 9 (Voice)'
Centipede - 'Septober Energy Part 2'

# posted by DJ Martian 11:56 AM

 

JESTER RECORDS now provide front cover art and tracklistings for upcoming albums from Upland, When and Bogus Blimp.

TRICK037
UPLAND - Obliterated
IDM/electronica
Due November 2004

TRICK036
WHEN - Whenever
Psychedelic/rock/pop/cut/collage
Due November 2004

TRICK035
BOGUS BLIMP - Rdtr
Experimental/noir
Due November 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

 

Norwegian Metal Inferno London Invasion !

Inferno announce a London Inferno Event 2005 featuring some of the finest dark metal bands on the planet: Arcturus [experimental epic dark metal], Red Harvest [industrial black metal], Enslaved [progressive black metal] and Madder Mortem [atmospheric dark metal]!

Why?
The festival realizes that the international interest has increased with staggering speed and as a result of this we have decided to do an Inferno Event in London.

When?
The date will be thursday 27th of January, and the venue is The Underworld located in Camden.

What?
Since this is an Inferno event, we'll announce the full festival line-up for 2005 exclusively to the UK audience. In Norway this will happen two days later. During the day we will in cooperation with By:Larm (Norway's equivalent to In the City), have a press/partner gathering with press conference, get-together, lots of freebies and more. And of course an eventful musical evening
The plan is to make this an annual event, and maybe expand to 2-3 consecutive days, or even different cities.

[alerted via it's a trap]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:23 AM

 

Efterklang Album

PostEverything profile 'Tripper' by Efterklang on the Leaf label

TRIPPER
EFTERKLANG 25 Oct 2004
BAY40CD [CD]
BAY40V [2LP]

THE LEAF LABEL
Copenhagen ten-piece Efterklang reach far beyond the expectations of a debut with this, their ambitious first album for The Leaf Label. Tripper whispers like thunder, combining transcendent melodies with glacial strings and piano, febrile electronics, hushed male-female vocals and a Greenlandic choir. A year in the making, the album is intense and dramatic; intimate yet coolly detached.

Efterklang means ‘reverberation’ (literally, ‘after noise’), but is loosely translated as ‘remembrance’, evoking the sense of yearning at the heart of their work. Tripper breathes with sensations and subtleties and emotional depth, bringing to mind the music of Múm, Rachel’s and My Bloody Valentine.

Formed in early 2001 by Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg, the core members soon augmented their line-up with Rune Mølgaard Fonseca’s piano and Thomas Kirirath Husmer’s percussion work. This line-up recorded their debut EP (and sole release to date), Springer, on their own Rumraket label. To accompany the music, Efterklang recruited Karim Ghahwagi, an accomplished film-maker whose video collages are integral to the band’s breathtaking live show (Ghahwagi’s visual accompaniment for ‘Prey And Predator’ can be viewed at www.efterklang.net). The current membership is completed by Kristina Schjelde (trumpet), together with Hildur Ársælsdóttir and Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir from Iceland’s Amina string quartet, known for their extraordinary work with Sigur Rós.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:02 AM

Thursday, September 23, 2004

 

Marcello Carlin has reactivated his music blog: Koons Really Does Think He's Michelangelo

# posted by DJ Martian 4:32 PM

 

The Independent profile a new music magazine Rip & Burn

Music magazines: A revolutionary new medium for the iPod generation - print
Every technological breakthrough is a big opportunity, writes Mat Snow

Mat Snow is editor-in-chief of 'Rip & Burn' magazine, which launches on 30 September

# posted by DJ Martian 3:58 PM

 

Forthcoming 6 Mix shows on 6 Music

26 09 04 Mylo
03 10 04 Way Out West
10 10 04 Dark Globe
17 10 04 Marshall Jefferson

# posted by DJ Martian 1:36 PM

 

e.s.t win 2004 EUROPEAN JAZZ AWARD

Official Esbjorn Svensson Trio website announce:

2004-09-22
Today it has been announced that e.s.t. are the winners of the 2004 EUROPEAN JAZZ AWARD, which gets voted by 21 industry professionals from 21 different countries in Europe. The price will be given on December 3, 2004 in Vienna by representatives of the Federal Chancellor for Culture of Austria and the City of Vienna´s Cultural Office and is to celebrate an "outstanding musical achievement in the field of jazz in the past year".

Winners: European Jazz Prize 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

 

it's a trap! relay the latest Jester Records news:

Finally, some confirmed release dates for upcoming stuff on Jester Records:
11/15 - When - Whenever
11/22 - Bogus Blimp - Rdtr
11/29 - Upland - Obliterated

» Jester Records

# posted by DJ Martian 12:58 PM

 

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

Kathy & Carol (Reissue)
Manual and Syntak
Dub Trio
Elizabeth Cotten (Reissue)
Gary Wilson
The Go Find
Savath & Savalas
Josephine Foster & the Supposed
Daniel Johnston Covers Album
RTX
Warp DVD/CD (Various)
Frog Eyes

Thai Beat A Go Go (Various)
Diplo
Akira Rabelais
Dread Meets B-Boys Downtown (Various)
Jens Lekman
Saul Williams
The Royals (Reissue)
VHS or Beta

# posted by DJ Martian 12:39 PM

 

All About Jazz review Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams on the ECM label.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:27 PM

 

Dusted review Kyle Bruckmann - Gasps and Fissures

Kyle Bruckmann's goal in the creation of Gasps and Fissures was (in part), in his words, "...an attempt to inhabit gray areas and straddle dichotomies," and the album does this in an engaging fashion. Bruckmann's classical and jazz influences are stripped down and dissected, resulting in music that's as much electronic as it is either of the aforementioned styles. Gasps and Fissures inhabits the areas in between these territories, not straddling them so much as existing deep in the cracks, where many wouldn't even think to look. Like a slide of single-celled organisms bursting to life under a microscope, this album finds flourishing life in the most unexpected of places.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:20 PM

 

Dusted review Saul Williams - Saul Williams

# posted by DJ Martian 12:17 PM

 

Radio 1 report Elbow are recording their third album with a working title: Station Approach

# posted by DJ Martian 12:09 PM

 

London Jazz Festival 2004

BBC Radio 3 have launched their London Jazz Festival 2004 website

Welcome to the 2004 Radio 3 London Jazz Festival mini-site. In the weeks leading up to the start of the festival we'll be bringing you our pick of the gigs, news on Radio 3 broadcasts, plus there'll be competitions and details of the Radio 3 Jazz Festival text club, so keep checking back... and for full details of the entire festival including how to get tickets for all the gigs, visit the festival's official site.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:07 PM

 

BBC Music review The Necks - The Boys

# posted by DJ Martian 12:04 PM

 

BBC Music review Bill Frisell - Unspeakable

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

 

musicOMH.com review Interpol - Antics

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Cult of Luna official website has been relaunched with a new design. Reminder, October 4th is release date of one the most important rock albums of 2004: Salvation.

Check the Download section for a mp3 track to download: Leave me Here.

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Archive of The Comsat Angels articles from the printed press 1980 - 2002.

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Music webzine: Clever Music

Clever Music is a netlabel & e-zine dedicated to forward thinking electronic music, specialising in eclectic house, techno & glitch ...

Music We Like:
Matthew Dear - Ricardo Villalobos - Robag Wruhme - Richie Hawtin - Oliver Hacke - Trapez -Akufen - Background - Geoff White - Magda - Perlon - Stewart Walker - Freude am Tanzen - Baby Ford - Playhouse - Substatic - Tongut - Morris Audio - Musik Krause - Minus - Kompakt - Telegraph - Raum...Musik - Luciano

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ReGen Magazine review Attrition - Dante's Kitchen

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ReGen Magazine interview Clan of Xymox

An interview with Ronny Moorings of Clan of Xymox
By Jez Porat

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Four Tet - Late Night Tales

Anglo Plugging provide info on a compilation compiled by FOUR TET as part of Azuli's 'LATE NIGHT TALES' series on October 4th.

Tracklisting:
1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Haunted Feelings - Atlantic
2. Koushik - Battle rhymes for battle times - Text
3. Hal Baine - Wiggy (edit) - Universal
4. Manfred Mann's Chapter 3 - One way glass - Vertigo
5. Terry Riley - Music for the gift (part 2) - Cortical foundation
6. Max Roach (M'Boom) - January V - Columbia
7. Tortoise - Why we fight - Soul Static Sound
8. Gravediggaz - 2 cups of blood - Gee Street
9. Smoke - Griffo (edit) - MPS
10. The Sun Ra Arkestra - Nuclear war (Live version) - Praxis
11. Joe Henderson - Earth - Milestone
12. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms - The wild places
13. Four Tet - Castles made of sand
14. Jef Gilson + Malagasy - Valiha Del - Palm
15. Fairport Convention - Tale in hard time - Island
16. J Saunders - Tinkle - De Wolfe
17. Icarus - Benevolant Incubator - n/a
18. Manitoba - 218 Beverley - Leaf

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Cybersonica postponed to April 2005

Cybersalon announce that the next Cybersonica festival will now take place in April 2005:

Plans for Cybersonica are underway. The festival is now scheduled for early April 2005 and full details - including changes to the venues, programming and focus of the festival - will be announced shortly on the Cybersonica website . In the interim, Cybersonica hosts 'CyberMusic' - a one-day event featuring discussions, workshops, presentations and live performance at the Dana Centre on Friday, 12th November.

» Cybersonica international festival of music & sound.

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VAPOUR FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC - LONDON

More info on the Vapour Festival of Independent Music

Month long celebration of the health and vitality of the UK independent record labels in the face of the streamlining and poverty of the majors. Highlights include two performances by Asian Dub Foundation of the new live soundtrack to the 1960s anti-imperialist film 'Battle of Algiers' (October 5 & 6, Hackney Empire); and an evening presented by The Peter Moon Club featuring Clinic, To Rococo Rot, Jamie Lidell, Mice Parade, Home Video and Leila (9 October, Hackney Empire (9, Hackney Empire). Label evenings include Vapour and Littlebig (1, Cargo); Memphis Industries (7, The Spitz); Grand Central (8, Hackney Empire); WOS/.We Love You (13, Cargo); Trojan (14, 333); Eat Your Own Ears (20, Scala); Peacefrog (21, Plastic People); 4AD (28, ICA); Fierce Panda (29, ICA); F-Comm (29, Cargo); and Peacefrog (31, ICA).

London various venues times and prices, 08700 600 100,

Source: The Wire news/ events section.

Meanwhile more content has been added to Vapour Festival website. However some sections are still in development.

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The Wire - October 2004 Issue

New issue of The Wire has Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori on the front cover.

Details of the current issue: The Wire

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Deathprod: UK Release Dates Announced

Press release @ London Diary from Rune Grammofon. Announcing the UK release date, October 11th for the Deathprod - Box Set. Also the Deathprod - Morals & Dogma album will be released January 10th 2005.

Deathprod – Box Set

ARTIST : Deathprod
TITLE: Box Set
FORMAT: 4CD (RCD2036)
RELEASE DATE: 11th October 2004
WEBSITES: http://www.runegrammofon.com

Deathprod, AKA Helge Sten, has been an important player since the beginning of Rune Grammofon. As a member of Supersilent he was part of the very first release in January 1998, Supersilent 1-3 (RCD 2001), and later the the same year he and Biosphere remixed Arne Nordheim’s electronic works on the album ”Nordheim Transformed” (RCD 2005), one of our best selling releases. Since then there’s been more Supersilent releases as well as vital production and engineering contributions to ”Sakuteiki” (Arve Henriksen - RCD 2021), ”Veggie” (Food - RCD 2027) and more recently ”List Of Lights And Buoys” (Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - RCD 2034).

Born in 1971, he has worked under the name Deathprod since around 1990 in all his work as musician and producer. He was a member rock group Motorpsycho from 92 to 94 adding “audio noise”, theremin, keyboards and sound-collages to the band’s hard rock. He has also worked extensively in theatre, dance, performance, art exhibitions and installations with particular emphasis on interactive media and improvisation. He has appeared as a player on some 20 albums and produced and/or engineered a further 80. Associates in diverse contexts have ranged from members of rock groups Swans, Mazzy Star and My Bloody Valentine to the contemporary music interpreters of the Cikada Ensemble. He lives and works in Oslo.

When talking about his work methods he has revealed that he often only uses one sound source for a track, and that he can elaborate on this sound for months until he’s completely satisfied. This attention to detail makes him quite unique and it’s difficult to compare him with specific contemporaries, but Biosphere and Thomas Köner comes to mind. From the Rune catalogue there’s the aforementioned remix album with Biosphere as well as Supersilent 5 (RCD 2018).

Maybe all the aforementioned activity is the reason for the lack of ”proper” releases under the ”Deathprod” name? The four cds here document the period from 1991 to 2001. ”Treetop Drive” from ‘95 and ”Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha” from ‘94, both remastered and included here in full, were originally released in limited editions of 500 copies. The four title tracks from “
Reference Frequencies” are from a series of live electronic improvisations dating back to 1991, recorded to cassette using very basic equipment. The two Jürg Mager Trio pieces from 1995 were done in Stockholm during Motorpsycho´s ”Blissard” sessions and include both Bent Sæther and Snah from that group. ”Dora” from 1997 features Ole Henrik Moe on violin while ”6:15” from 2001 has the voice of American poet Matt Burt.

”Morals and Dogma” is the new Deathprod album, the rightful follow-up to ”Treetop Drive” and therefore given a separate release (January 10th 2005).

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Rune Grammofon provide an update for their upcoming release schedule:

Release schedule autumn 2004
27.09 Strønen/Storløkken - Humcrush (RCD 2039)
Excellent debut from Food drummer and Supersilent keyboardist.

11.10 Scorch Trio - Luggumt (RCD 2040)
Great second album from power trio led by guitarist Raoul Björkenheim.

18.11 Food - Last Supper (RCD 2041)
Beautiful album, the last one with Arve Henriksen on trumpet.

02.11 Nils Økland - Bris (RCD 2042)
Long awaited follow-up to Straum from 2000. You won´t be dissapointed!

More information to follow.

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Playlouder review Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved

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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

 

U2 Vertigo Radio Debut

Dave Fanning on Ireland's 2FM radio station has: FIRST EXCLUSIVE PLAY OF U2'S BRAND NEW SINGLE VERTIGO

This Thursday evening on The Dave Fanning Show you can hear the first EXCLUSIVE play of U2's brand new single 'Vertigo', taken from their forthcoming album 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'.
This will be U2 fans' first chance to hear 'Vertigo' anywhere in the world.

The show is streamed live 6.00pm - 7.30pm [Dublin is the same timezone as UK] or can be listened to after broadcast on demand.

[found via U2log.com]

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

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Vapour Festival of Independent Music

Drowned in Sound report Vapour Festival line-up announced for

Oct 9th. Hackney Empire:

Clinic [Domino]
To Rococo Rot [Domino]
Jamie Lidell (visuals by Pablo Fiasco) [warp]
Mice Parade [Fat-Cat]
Home Video [Warp]
Leila (DJ set) [Rephlex/XL]
Visuals by Flat-E / Warp DJs vs Edward Moon / new short film work /
EYOEs DJs

Other dates of the month long series of events in October across London will be announced soon @ Vapour

The full line up of events is yet to be confirmed, but the list of labels involved is as follows: Accidental, Auralux, Domino, 4AD, Fatcat, Fierce Panda, Grand Central, Kompakt, Memphis Industries, Peacefrog, Rephlex, Rough Trade, 679, Wall of Sound/We Love You, Warp and Wichita.

Source: International DJ

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The Durutti Column: The Best of

Cerysmatic Factory provide details of The Best of The Durutti Column double compilation, now due for release on October 11th.

Disc one

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Conduct
3. Sketch For Winter
4. Lips That Would Kiss
5. For Belgian Friends
6. Danny
7. Never Known
8. Jacqueline
9. The Missing Boy
10. Prayer
11. Spent Time
12. Without Mercy 1
13. Without Mercy 2
14. The Room
15. Tomorrow
16. LFO Mod

Disc two

1. What Is It To Me (Woman)
2. Otis
3. Requiem Again
4. Home
5. Contra Indications
6. People's Pleasure Park
7. My Irascible Friend
8. Fado
9. Sing To Me
10. Pigeon
11. Mello (Part 1)
12. Falling
13. Woman
14. Requiem For Mother

Title: The Best of The Durutti Column
Label: Warner
Catalogue number: 5046753932
Release date: 11 October 2004

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Junkmedia review Saul Williams - Saul Williams

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Splendid review Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector

Junkmedia also review this album.

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2004 Shortlist Prize Finalists Announced

Filter magazine report 2004 Shortlist Finalists Announced one of these 10 will win the prize:

Air - Talkie Walkie
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
TV On The Radio - Dangerous Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

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Monday, September 20, 2004

 

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

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This week's new releases @ Fopp

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Playlouder report DJ Spooky and Slayer bloke bash together

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Brooks Album

Confirmation @ Amazon.co.uk: Brooks - Red Tape will now be released in the UK on September 27th on Matthew Herbert's Soundslike label.

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Sunday, September 19, 2004

 

soundgenerator.com review Diplo - Florida

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Guapo - Black Oni

Latest news from avant-progressive band: Guapo

Greetings! Our new album entitled 'Black Oni' will be released on Ipecac Recordings in January 2005. We're very excited to be working with this label, home to many artists whom we respect and admire.

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Tim Bowness

New website for Tim Bowness [of No-Man fame]

His solo album: 'My Hotel Year' will now be released October 25th.

News of a live date in London:
November 8th, The Spitz - Tim Bowness/Rothko/Roger Eno/Gamine

Also on the bill is ambient legend, Roger Eno, celebrated, atmospheric bass-driven combo Rothko and the intriguing ballad exotica of Gamine

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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

[Mostly new releases for September 13th]

Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Sub Pop

"Blue Cathedral" is the third album from Comets on Fire and their first for Sub Pop. It is also the Bay area band's most varied and richly textured album yet. With their first two albums, (2001's self-titled debut and 2002's "Field Recordings" from the Sun on Ba Da Bing!) they established themselves as flag-bearers of modern avant psychedelia. Their trademark sound is here enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of Harvest-era Pink Floyd. Comets' core of Ethan Miller (guitar, vox), Noel Harmonson (echoplex), Ben Flashman (bass) and Utrillo Belcher (drums) has been augmented in an official capacity by one Ben Chasny (otherwise known as Six Organs of Admittance) on second guitar.

Julie Doiron - Goodbye Nobody
Jag Jaguwar

With the help of friends like Herman Dune (who also perform as her European touring band) and ex-Eric's Trip collaborator Rick White, she has taken the textures of her first widely released full-length "Loneliest In The Morning" and mixed them with the crystalline vocal performance of her most recent full-length "Heart And Crime".

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Memphis Industries

The Go! Team's sound could be described as somewhere between Sonic Youth, The Shangri-Las, Roxanne Shante and The French Connection going Double Dutch, or St Etienne meets The Avalanches - but that hardly covers the genre defying delights on "Thunder, Lightning, Strike". There's the trash punk northern soul of intro track "Panther Dash", New York lo-fi block party of "Bottle Rocket", lens flare TV movie epics of "Friendship Update" and "Everyone's A VIP To Someone". Recent single "The Power Is On" is a middle ground between the blazing trumpets of "Junior Kickstart" and the cheerleader cut and paste of "Ladyflash".

The High Plane Drifters - Hot Property EP
Don't Tell Clare Records

The High Plane Drifters began little more than a year ago and in that time have secured gigs both past and forthcoming with the Soledad Brothers, the Mooney Suzuki and the Immortal Lee County Killers amongst others not to mention their debut UK tour last September with rock'n'roll socialite Mr David Viner. Attracting major label interest this debut four track red vinyl EP represents the first official H.P.D release and comes care of the newly formed independent Don't Tell Clare records. Comparisons have been made towards the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Velvet Underground, the Jesus And Mary Chain, Howlin' Wolf and Spacemen 3.

Hoboken - Crazy Glue
Royal Jelly

"Crazy Glue" is debut album by Hoboken, a four-piece Glasgow-based group who combine the drama and romance of great performers such as Scott Walker with inspired electronica, to produce a fresh, brassy selection of dark yet uplifting songs about love, sex and death. The band are often compared to acts like the Sparks, Goldfrapp and Kraftwerk.

Karate - Pockets
Southern Records

In Karate's decade of performing and recording they have refined their sound to a streamlined rock hybrid that is hard to pin down, and they have slowly but surely forged a unique sonic identity that is all their own. "Pockets" continues the project of lacing shrewd rock songwriting with quirky, soulful rhythms that the band introduced with "Unsolved". This time around the songs are more concise and the tempos quicker.

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas
Domino

Juana Molina is a much feted songstress / producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fans of modern folk, electronica, latin and world music could all indulge in her unique style. "Tres Cosas" is perhaps Juana's defining moment, her voice and guitar truly coming to the fore. The song has become her own, yet the Moog and keyboard sounds still envelop the crystalline music.

Dustin O'Halloran - Piano Solos
Bella Union

"Piano Solos" is the beautiful new instrumental work from half of the creative mind behind Devics, one of the most unique acts to appear on the Bella Union label. Formed in Los Angeles in the late 90s, Devics achieved enormous critical-acclaim and cult status last year for their haunting album, "The Stars At Saint Andrea". Dustin O'Halloran cuts to the heart of things quite directly with his expressive, hypnotic style, revealing himself to be a highly-individual virtuoso. By turns intimate and delicate, melancholic and majestic, these 12 pieces were recorded at his home in Italy on a 1930's restored Sabel piano from Germany.

Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Eveyone You See
Jag Jaguwar

With grackles in their hair and tragedies in their boots, this Austin, Texas-based group (by way of New Hampshire) has taken a shot at tradition and injected it with new passion and virility. Uniting the strains of moody chamber pop contemporaries like Tindersticks, Arab Strap and Bright Eyes with the ragged emotional vulnerability of classic folk singers like Leadbelly and Dock Boggs, Okkervil River plays music that is both lush and organic, beautiful and unsettling.

Radio 4 - Stealing Of A Nation
Labels

Second album from Brooklyn's finest punk funkers, produced by Max Heyes (Doves, Primal Scream).

Six Parts Seven - Everywhere And Right Here
Suicide Squeeze

After a two-and-a-half-year absence, Ohio's the Six Parts Seven have returned to reclaim rock'n'roll. This music is political and emotional, powerful and subtle, urgent and pensive. It's parts of Modest Mouse and TV On The Radio and Centro-Matic and Explosions In The Sky and your favorite band.

Vollmar - 13 Or So People Who Need Chances
Blue Sanct

An exercise in traditional folk-song story-telling with contemporary structural elements. The record has a first half (nylon stringed guitar and voice), interlude (instrumental for found sounds and toy piano), last half (electric guitar and voice) and end (youth and hope). Musically, he sounds simultaneously old (maybe Donovan or Townes Van Zandt) and new (maybe Warn Defever or the Microphones). Structurally, it may be said that the record has more in common with the experimental films of Stan Brakage or Hollis Frampton than with any particular musical artist of our time.

Various Artists / Ten From Ten Manchester
Concrete Recordings

Compilation featuring 10 of the City's new guard covering 10 of the City's classics. The front cover artwork has been supplied by the legendary John Squire, good friend of the album's creator and renowned Roses tour manager, Mr. Steve 'Adj' Atherton. The compilation portrays the diversity of music that has emerged from the City, ranging from The Smiths to the Bee Gees, from the Hollies to the Happy Mondays, from Joy Division to 10cc and shows the wealth of talent coming through, with tracks from Pioneers, Escape Pod (my favourite on the album), The Obsession, Sam Hammond, Hanky Park, Earl, Folks, Blood Red Bird, Tricky Nixon and Ammo.

Stafraenn Hakon - Ventill / Poki
Resonant

Whereas his two previous albums were effectively home recordings using basic instruments and means, "Venti / Poki" is the end result of a week in a studio in England with the help of fellow Resonant artist Dialect, using live bass and drums sounding like the product of a band rather than one guy. That said, crucially it retains the 'feel' of his previous work, and is more potent and powerful rather than allowing anything to get lost in the mix.

Fly Pan Am - N'ecoutez Pas
Constellation

A collection of songs pushed to maximum density, marked by dark shoegazer guitars, distorted organ stabs, rubbery basslines, motorik drumming and various shrouded voices whispering, screaming and singing along the way. Includes electronic interventions from Tim Hecker (Mille Plateaux/Force Inc) and Alex St. Onge (Alien 8, Locust).

Landing - Sphere
K Records

Cycling past the deep trips of previous Landing outings, "Sphere" settles into a gently rock-y world. Landing are known for dishing up a mildly psychedelic mindscape; with their new album they have reconfigured their oeuvre to include the traditional tools of psychedelic rock; more drums, more rhythm, more 'songs'.

Textile Ranch - Bird Heart In Wool
Very Friendly

"Bird Heart In Wool" is the debut album from Textile Ranch which is the solo project of Glen Johnson from Piano Magic.

Various Artists / Song Of The Silent Land
Constellation

Second compilation from Constellation, and the first to feature unreleased and rare tracks from the label roster. Thirteen of the fourteen tracks are in fact unreleased. Features contributions from every Constellation band, from Godspeed You Black Emperor! to latest signings such as Elizabeth Anka Vajagic.

Since By Man - A Love Hate Relationship
Revelation

Since By Man have been through some traumatic changes since the release of their supremely impressive debut "We Sing The Body Electric", but have now settled on a stable line-up and if anything are stronger for it. They still have that familiar Coalesce / Refused bite, but the vocals, while they still rage, have benefited from a broader range and a little more subtlety and the overall sound is tighter, heavier and a little more layered than before. This is a definite step forward from what was an already pulverising, majestic base...

Six Organs Of Admittance - The Manifestation
Strange Attractors

Reissued and entirely remastered and featuring nearly 20 minutes of conceptual bonus music based on the ancient idea of the 'music of the spheres' and the harmonics between the visible planets. Originally sprawling across one side of vinyl, "The Manifestation" is an extended raga of genre-defying madness, a dizzy melding of acoustic fingerstyle, shamanic chants, chimes, hand percussion, space jam and ghostly vocals that effectively blurs the cultural boundaries of Eastern and Western folk music. Six Organs Of Admittance takes the time-expanding dynamics of Robbie Basho and distorts it through the deepest corridors of cult-laden psychedelic folk music, this is the new 'weird americana' at its best!!!!

Diplo - Florida
Big Dada

The new DJ Shadow? The new RJD2? Or just a guy from Florida mixing deep, beautiful instrumental hip hop with a little of that southern flavour? Already renowned from coast to coast (USA) as a DJ (due to the national success of the "Hollertronix" mixtapes), Diplo's production skills have in the past got him gigs making beats for both David Banner and Bigg Jus (Company Flow). The strength of this production means that this largely instrumental album is also blessed by vocals from Vybz Cartel, Martina Topley-Bird (her management obviously changed their minds and let this track go on the full LP after all!) and PEACE (the Freestyle Fellowship).

Various Artists / Mr Scruff Presents Keep It Solid Steel Volume 1
Ninja Tune

In a slight departure from the current 'one night stand' mindset of the Solid Steel series this compilation will be the first in an ongoing collection from the Scruffy one, intended to reflect the vastly varied music and all round good vibes of his own spectacularly successful 'Keep It Unreal' club nights. Although there is no specific musical plan for the series, this first CD (and un-mixed vinyl) is a rock solid foundation for the others to build on and covers in it's 74 minutes bouncy reggae, classic hip hop, deep soul, rare funk, dancefloor jazz, heavy beats and leftfield electronic nuggets. The whole set is peppered with hard to find but brilliant cuts like the classic hip hop of UTD, Showbiz and AG and The Demon Boyz to the UK street soul gem "Tell Me How" by Sarah Winton. There's rare orchestral funk by The Peddlars and Luis Enrique and handpicked selections plucked from the archives of micro independent labels like Omniverse and Orange Egg.

Various Artists / Andy C Presents Nightlife 2 - A Drum And Bass Odyssey
Ram

Following the huge success of the first "Nightlife" CD last year, Ram Records boss Andy C comes up with the second in the series, this time with a twist. This is a two CD pack, one a blazing selection of upfront dubplates and anthems from the present and a second CD that features some of the extensive back catalogue of releases, mixes and collaborations Andy has been involved in during his career.

September Collective - September Collective
Geographic

September Collective features Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Mapstation), Barbara Morgenstern, and Polish born musician Paul Wirkus (recently identified in The Wire as one of the true pioneers of laptop based music, comparing him to Fennesz in his ability to zoom out from the technical moment of the glitch, and to present a picture of the music which is taking place). The record features a series of improvisations originating from encores they played together while touring Poland as three solo projects.

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Saturday, September 18, 2004

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Rune Grammofon

To get straight to the point, "Chiarsocuro" is probably the most startling and moving album I've heard this year. Arve Henriksen is a founding member of freestyle jazz experimentalists Supersilent, his inimitable trumpet playing and indescribable wordless vocalising has gained him a feverishly dedicated following, sparked off by the release of his debut album "Sakuteiki" back in 2001 and by several live performances that have left his captive audience gasping for breath. "Chiaroscuro" (taken from the Italian for "light and shade") is quite an unbeleiveable listen - cinematic in a way that words cannot describe, a vast panoramic ocean of sound reduced to the most silent, heart-wrenching string arrangements, delicate live sampling (courtesy of Jan Bang) and a whispered sweep of barely audible percussion (from Audun Kleive), hovering around Henriksen unique, mesmerising trumpet playing and broken voice. This is by far and away the most inspiring album I've heard this year, a completely wondrous listen that seems to defy categorisation or description. Sometimes you happen across a record by chance and it ends up changing your musical vocabularly forever - "Chiaroscuro" is one of those rare records. We implore all music lovers to check it out without delay. Incredible.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
I'm Not A Gun (John Tejada & Takeshi Nishimoto) - Our Lives On Wednesdays
City Centre Offices

It's a busy life being john tejada, a man who has graced some of the world's most highly regarded independent labels with his signature presence - from the mighty playhouse to detroit's 7th city and onto ferox, jazzanova, plug research, scape and even sub pop - all the way to his own palette recordings imprint. But it's together with japanese multi-instrumentalist takeshi nishimoto, however, that john has produced perhaps his most remarkable work - an acoustic overflow of ideas and post-rock configurations known as `i'm not a gun' - a project that has already delighted with a debut album for cco entitled "everything at once " released early last year. For the last 5 years, almost without fail, john tejada and takeshi nishimoto have swept aside their busy schedules every wednesday to record material for this project : John plays the drums, the guitar and his trusted laptop, while Takeshi completes the equation with his signature guitar and bass padding. Their music is not only a homage to the post-rock soundscaping that chicago has become so well known for, it`s an advancement of its sound. There's an intuitive, slowly considered aesthetic here that echoes the patches, plug-ins and modules that dominate tejada's electronic constructions - maybe the music starts with a whir or with a bit-crushed malfunction, or maybe the changes and transitions are made with the help of errant digital devices and tricks learnt for an entirely different purpose. or maybe, when it's been a particularly hectic week, all we get to hear are the sounds made by a gently strummed guitar and the dusty sweep of the drums. Whatever the mood, `our lives on wednesdays' chronicles those moments withdrawn from the every day, just two musicians making music they love, taking their time. who knows what they'll come up with next Wednesday?

Various / Studio One - Studio One Funk
Soul Jazz

Will this complete the excellent cycle of releases from Soul Jazz? Somehow, we doubt it. Documenting Coxsone Dodd's redefinition of music, through the sixties to the demise of dancehall and the rise of ragga, there's scarcely been a weak link - each volume having a defined subject and a nigh-perfect execution. Impossible to finish almost, exhaustive ransacking of archives has proceeded, here they unearth unreleased pearls, Cedric Brooks tackling 'Shaft' and Horace Andy's indomitable 'Skylarking', The Underground Vegetables {!!!} aka Sound Dimension/Soul Defenders/Brentford Road All Stars whacking seven shades out of Booker T's 'Melting Pot', Lloyd Williams ruffing James Brown up Kingston style. But make no mistake, when you think you've got a handle on things, along comes The Sharks 'Music Answer', an amazing dub-funk cut, laced with electronic influence in the drum machine and an irrepressible disco feeling - a past and future classic unveiled as new for a truly privileged audience. We are not worthy, thanks again Mr. Dodd

Decal - Release Through Velocity
Satamile

Usual impressive irish made floor-burner, electro styles for the ever trusty Satamile label. Decal has released an impressive catalogue of music on a whole host of labels including Rotters Golf Club, Planet Mu, Ultramack, Trama Industries, Leaf, Law & Auder, Lo Recordings, D1 Recordings and many others. In 1998, Alan set up his Trama Industries label, primarily to focus Decal's sound on the electro that had been a feature of the two Ultramack albums and the live shows. Decal garnered a whole new audience and set the scene for releases on RGC, Satamile and Mass Transit. With the dancefloor fully taken care of, Decal returned to the studio to work on what finally became `404 Not Found': sequencers were shunned in favour of tape machines and guitars, percussion and vocals added to the synths and effects. Since the departure of Dennis Mcnulty to pursue work in sound art, Alan has assumed the helm with impressive dedication. The new slimline Decal blew up with the critically acclaimed `Brightest Star' album on Rotters Golf Club, `Burn From the Inside' as the last release through Satamile and the `Static Tactics e.p.' as Decoy on his own D1 Recordings. `Release Through Velocity' album finally drops after a long wait, and will not disappoint adherents to the new wave of new wave electro.

Charles Atlas / Various - Fabricate
Audraglint

Charles Wyatt and Matt Greenberg's early CD's (with some strong link's to Low) are much prized items in our rampant racks. Recently though it's been at the home of Ochre in the UK that Charles Atlas have shined, in fact 2004's 'To The Dust From Man...' should be at the top of your want's list if you've so far slacked. Onto the present, this incredible remix CD arrives from Audraglint, remixing the 2002 Ochre album 'Worsted Weight'. One look at the remixers on board this set is enough to get you slavering = Isan (x2 tracks), Casino Vs Japan, Pram, Sybarite, Stendec and onto slightly less known but no less brilliant contributions from Marconi Union, Signaldrift, Nudge, Magnetophone, Tele:funken, Strategy, Telescopes and Park Avenue Music. In fact so tuned into Charles Atlas are these artists that it doesn't for one minute feel like one of those two a penny remix projects. Sybarite drop back into our world with an amazing electro jazz stormer featuring brushed drums, quivering vocals and sublime trumpet hits. Casino Vs Japan continue the vibe of 'Go Hawaii' and 'Hitori & Kaiso' - Erik Kowalski comes with his unique variation on melodically rich yet in no way clogging downtempo driftbeat lushness, listen! The Telescopes amaze with their repetitive tonal drift that's as inspirational as the recent Bark Psychosis album. Elsewhere Pram refind their form with a top moodyelectroglitchpopgem and Manchester's very own Marconi Union drop modally beautiful piano notes, subtle tonal drones, and sweet downtempo beats. Isan continue to inspire with their two remixes - one a beautiful spaceageretro lounge throb blissout and the other a post classical ambience piece, bringing to mind widescreen cinematography of beautiful yet barren landscapes. At an extended running length of 74+ minues you'd expect the odd duff track but sorry, this collection is spot on from start to finish. This album could even give remix comps a good name. Investigate without a second thought.

Dustin O'Halloran - Piano Solos
Bella Union

Beautiful piano solo's from Mista O'halloran, taking a very romantic leaf out of those books marked Satie, Debussy et al. This is very definitely the year for piano music - releases by Hauschka, Swod, Sylvain Chaveau, Max Richter, Porn Sword Tobacco and some due from Goldmund and the Boats will no doubt mark this out for being a vintage year for stripped cinematic music not pinned down to any particular age or style. Another excellent offering for this cannon - investigate without delay.

Julian Fane - Special Forces
Planet Mu

Perhaps the most intriguing new signing to Planet Mu in some time, Julian Fane has already had much fanfare surrounding him over the last couple of months - and for good reason. "Special Forces" is the latest in a small but impeccable selection of records that have dared to dip into hugely accessable AND uncompromisingly experimental terrain with one and the same breath. It employs the same hazy distorted instrumentation that can be traced back to My Bloody Valentine and that has typified the likes of Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Dntel and the more ambient stretches of Lexaunculpt over the last few years. There are moments of vast, modified orchestral greatness (Freezing), Harold Budd influenced ambience (The Birthday Boys), Piano-driven late night reflections (In Space) and choral, new wave synth soundtracks (Exit New Year). Julian composes and sings with a beautifully broken fragility that belies the hugely wide scope of his production technique and understanding of new forms and shapes in music. It's a remarkable debut, one that's well worth investigating immediately. Highly Recommended.

Kelpe - Sea Inside Body
DC Recordings

Behind the multicoloured psychedlia of the album sleeve and title, Kelpe's debut full-length delivers well produced and considered variants on the more emotive and overtly warm end of the electronic spectrum. Heavily indebted to BOC and their documentary school of sound design, "Sea Inside Body" is full of beautifully crisp glitched-up beats, edits, midtempo flows, headnod burners and beatless soundtracks to public library narratives. There's nothing particularly new or exciting here, but Kel's production skills should see him through into a body of work that, if a tad more original, will no doubt be an absolute pleasure to listen to. So, not groundbreaking, but a very enjoyable listen indeed.

Secret Mommy - Hawaii 5.0
Ache

Madness! After two demented albums for Kit Clayton's Orthlorng Musork label the mysterious (probably sectioned) Secret Mommy drop this exotic cut 'n' paste, splice n' dice, cocktail shaking EP for Vancouver, Ca's Ache imprint. Bring in the steel drums, bird noises, ukelele and pouring drinks. Five tracks, eighteen minutes. Top fun but nothing you haven't heard before from the likes of Atom Heart. Still if you are dreaming of the image of Kid 606 blasting fromMagnum P.I's car stereo then you'll love this!

Tape - Milieu
Hapna

This litle beaut nearly passed us by completely, thank god it didn't. Tape's second album manages to slightly outclass their debut offering 'Opera' by building up their uniquely passioned embrace of the world of live acoustic instrumentation. Tape is a trio from Stockholm, Sweden, building their music from a whole array of acoustic instruments, subtle electronics and field recordings. This eight track album manages to combine warm sonics with a slight abstract angle seemingly without any effort at all through the use of banjo, violin, organ, harmonium, accordion, harmonica and trumpet (plus around 10 other exotic instruments). To spotlight individual tracks is not necessary it's the joy you'll arrive at through listening to this album from start to finish that'll really make you fall in love with this CD. At time joyful and at others sadly beautiful, bringing to mind the aura of Mark Hollis' post Talk Talk debut album from 1998. I really can't recommend this album highly enough. Please check it out.

Various / Planet Mu - Ammunition
Planet Mu

So, in the exceptionally doubtful event any of you need persuading, what we have here is a killer 80 minute mix from Mr Paradinas bouncing through his fine fine catalogue with fierce resilience and precision breaks - starting with the more reflective moments of Venetian Snares, through to a jacked-up tumblin brekcore affair takin in Chevron, The Gasman, Datach'i, Hellfish, Rude Ass Tinker, Remarc, Shitmat, Bizzy B, Hawerchuck, Ddamage, Ambulance and ending up with an orchestral layered epic from Lexaunculpt. It's less then 3 quid, it's ace, what's left to discuss? Essential!

Zegunder - Distant birds? Thought they were leaves
Neo Ouija

New on Neo Ouija. Zegunder are alosha tsinovoi and gil cohen. both live and create music in the northen israeli city of haifa, where the picturesque carmel mountains meet the mediterranean sea on one side of the bay. On the other, the industrial and highly polluted "kishon" sea port: oil from big ships, dead fish and birds cover the public beaches, all providing a telling reminder as to the true nature of this place. standing near the stela maris lighthouse, on the edge of the cliff, you can see more than one third of israel, from the lebanese border in the north to the monstrous "hadera" power plant in the south, a panoramic view summoning unbearable, inescapable feelings of claustrophobia and incompetence. After rich experiences in the ranks of local post rock bands like "MuTe" and "Birdy", "telling it like it is" didn't feel right any more to gil and alosha, just too plain and straightforward for the ambivalent nature of existence in israel. After a period of working with small solo projects and recording for film soundtracks, the feeling that something must be said grew stronger. Zegunder's music unfolds with dense, rich stretches of ambience, broken electronic emissions and vocal accompaniments from daphne haller - more like an additional instrument than something associated with words. There's a slowly unfolding, largely instrumental beauty on show here, reminiscent at times of the spooky effervescence of Angelo Badalmenti with its engulfing cinematic sweeps while, at others, their music is quietly personal and introspective, free of words or set narrative. In fact, this is when their music works best - creating a buzzing mesh of layered sounds, a background to all the complexities and uncertainties day to day life brings, especially in this particular part of the world. Recommended.

Acid Mothers Temple - The Penultimate Galactic Bordello
Dirter
4CD

Possibly the most luxurious work yet from Acid Mothers Temple", a 4 cd set, with 4 tracks spanning the 4 discs and clocking in at over 4 hours of LSD fried cosmic insanity. A varied selection of long "freak-out" jams/acid dazed tunes/free improvised craziness - it's all here. This is also possibly the last Acid Mothers release to feature Cotton. Packaged in a beautiful full-colour matt laminated box, with full colour wallets containing each cd, strictly limited edition.

Sonic Youth / Mats Gustafssons And Friends - Hidros 3
Smalltown Supersound

Awarded an excellent review in a recent edition of the Wire this mad hectic improv jam will push you to the edge of insanity. Free jazz horn player Mats Gustafssons continues his Hidros series and this time he brings in a heavyweight lineup of Sonic Youth (Kim, Thurston, Lee and Steve with Jim O'Rourke on the mix) and Loren Connors with Lindha Kallerdah (processed voice) and David Stackanäs (amplified acoustic guitar). The CD plays out like an orchestrated mass of bubbling adrenaline tempered by edgy contemplation, the 17 min plus 'Part 2' best typifies this. Even though the players perform in a freeform context they don't abandon form completely instead ricocheting ideas of each other into some unholy dronage. One motherfuc*in' serious listen. Catch fire!

Gotan Project - Inspiracion - Expiracion
XL

Nice mixed cd featuring previously unreleased GoTan Project material alongside remixes and collaborations with Calexico, Peter Kruder, Anti Pop Consortium, Pepe Bradock and Chet Baker amongst others. Not exactly a "new" GoTan Project record, but a collection of new tracks, plus remixes of older tracks and new collaborations. The second disc includes a video by their longtime visual collaborator Prisca Lobjoy who gives it some latino tango stylings in that delectable quasi-authentic fashion Gotan have perfected and stylised over the last few years. Good chillout fodder.

Seth P. Brundel - Devil's Pawn
Aesthetics

The man Seth P. Brundel was at the heart of Miami's no 1 politically active hip hop outpost Botanica Del Jibaro before he moved on to pastures new at Aesthetics. Now it's 2004 and we finally have his full debut album and it's awesome. On a few tracks hooking up with Algorithm crew Plex & Dr. Faustus but in the most this is a confident all solo showcase. The production is just as you'd expect if you know the Botanica Del Jibaro vibe - it's funky, it swings, it's deep - melodic, rustic >> ancient to future. The lyrics are on point, politically fuelled hitting hard and forcefully the multitude of worrying problems with the world today. The artwork is cool as well echoing the sleeve to EPMD's Def Jam debut 'Business As Usual'. Seventeen tracks deep, just short of 60 mins running length. Very highly recommended.

Plan B
Issue 0.5 September / October 2004
Plan B
Mag //

Another installment from the magazine that just will not release it's first edition proper (issue 0.5??), edited by notorious troublemaker and journalist extrodinaire Everett True, featuring the lovverrrrly Joanna Newsom on the cover plus items on The Bug, Le Tigre, Jack Rose, Shystie, plus loads of reviews, featurettes and impeccably good writing. Support Plan B!

Radio 4 - Stealing of a Nation
Labels

Second album from Brooklyn's punk funkers Radio 4, dropping the DFA production and enlisting the help of Max Heyes instead for a much more blatantly "rock" affair than their work to date. Though the band moan about the New York scene being infiltrated by humdrum wannabe's, "stealing of a nation" has a much more tamed party atmosphere than "Gotham!", sounding more like their idols PIL, though without the instinctive vitriol of jonny lydon. The limited edition CD features a bonus disc with remixes from Tom Middleton, Ashley Beedle and Si Begg and an enhanced section containing a 20 minute documentary about the making of the album. Check.

Thalia Zedek - Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness
Thrill Jockey

Latest album from Ms Zedek (ex-Come), this time for the Thrill Jockey imprint.Her band this time round is made up of Daniel Coughlin (Drums) and Dave Curry (viola), combined with Thalia's hoarse, impenetrable vocal style the overall impact is often morose and sometimes jarring. Contributions come from Jonah Sacks who drove up from New York on a day's notice to add cello to the melancholic waltz of "Bone", and Harris Newman whose lap steel adds the sense of abandon to the resigned melody of Mel Lederman's piano on "Evil Hand". Check.

Medeski, Martin & Wood - The End Of The World Party (Just In Case)
Blue Note

Medeski, Martin & Wood have been jamming their insane re-branding of the organ, bass and drum trio for now well over ten years, their Gramavision debut 'It's A Jungle In Here' dropped October 1993. Over their most recent history years John, Chris and B(illy) enlisted producer Scotty Hard (Rza's engineer no less) to drop a heap of weirdness into the mix with astonishing results, you need to check 'The Dropper' and 'Uninvisible'. Now in 2004 they've dropped their best album to date and in the process managed to get 1/2 of the legendary Dust Brothers, John King to get behind the production boards. John Medeski is renowned for layering a multitude of noises into his melodic structures, try 'Anonymous Skulls' where acoustic piano, jams alongside hammond b-3, rhodes, mellotron and much more. This wouldn't mean a thing if Chris Martin wasn't one of the baddest bass players around, on straight acoustic or electric or a mangled hybrid of either the pulse is always rocking. Then you have Billy Martin aka breakbeat maestro Illy B laying down the sickest and funkiest drum patterns like some wild mixture of Idris Mohammed, Clyde Stubblefield and Max Roach. In fact the recent Mat Young 7" on Bully is an altered remix of one of Billy's solo drum jams and that other Bully artist DJ P-Love featured on the group's 'Combustication' album. From track to track they touch on wired exotica, horror styled themes - well spooked, Neo Orleans's styled fonk, genius new groove trio slamming and sun ra abstraction but all with their own unmistakable sound. Structure wise this is well vibesin' of hip hop. This vinyl edition comes with a bonus track 'Whiney Bitches' which seems to echo part of 'B-Boy Bouillabaisse' from the Beasties' Dust Brothers produced 'Pauls Boutique', it all comes round in circles. Extremely dope and extremely essential.

Oliver Hacke - Subject Carrier
Trapez

Trapez releases its first ever artist album and the debut Oliver Hacke full-length. An album full of new tracks and different styles, from the straight ahead to the occasional skewed shuffle, funky and 'polar'-driven atmospheric tracks. Releasing on Trapez and all its sublabels, as well as for Background, the duesseldorf-based artist has not give us the full picture, until now. Who is the man that gave us 'polar 1' - many pundits favourite clicky track last year, the walking bass epics on the 'clip' ep for Trapez, 'der vampir von duesseldorf' the most sought after number in the white label limited series to this day or his fantastic remix of Akufen's 'psychometry iii'? The album attempts to answer - Hacke pays tribute to revolutionary developments in techno and house from the last 5 years, fusing it with his own ideas of sound design, mastering and dynamics. Influenced primarily by artists such as: Cristian Vogel, Neil Landstrumm, Herbert and Thomas Brinkmann, Oliver has added an individual, but still universal flavour to this album. Subject carrier is not a mere collection, but has been specifically recorded for this occasion - and Trapez which has been at the forefront of the minimal explosion these last four years is lucky to have him and so are we.

[A]Pendics Shuffle - Smooth Hair
Proptronix

[a]pendics shuffle otherwise known as eight frozen modules destroyed us with his twelve on narita a few weeks ago. the ultra-prolific kenneth james gibson, on two albums as eight frozen modules for kit clayton's orthlorng musork showed a heady approach to rhythm programming and harsh sounds, while not averse to occasionally fluffing it up with deep house styles. Other aliases such as dubloner and electronic music composer have built up a colorful and considerable discography on labels like planet mu, city slang, tigerbeat 6, force tracks and skor. His new [a]pendics shuffle release on proptronix, starts with a techno base but maximizes volume - vocal snips and sharp percussion, zig zagging melodies and bouncing bass - all the while maintaining a funky forward motion. Among them, 'twit and a half' toys with Mouse on Mars-like melodies, 'prefusely mine' bobs about on top of a Cologne influenced framework, and a Prince style vocal is chopped up on 'wasted space'. It's all dance music for the discotheque, but also perfect for warped home sessions. Nice one Ken!

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TranZFusion.net provide info on Hybrid present Y4K

# posted by DJ Martian 3:45 PM

 

Robotic Empire @ HXCMP3.COM provide two official MP3 downloads for the upcoming Isis and Red Sparowes albums

Isis - Backlit
Red Sparowes - Our Happiest Days Slowly Began To Turn Into Dust

[Alerted via Lambgoat]

# posted by DJ Martian 2:55 PM

 

Aural Innovations review Yeti - Volume, Obliteration, Transcendence

Yeti combine avant jazz, dark metal, electronic and avant-prog [Magma] sound inspirations into an intoxicating framework of psychedelic rock dynamics.

The brooding specter of Magma hangs ominously over Yeti’s second release, Volume, Obliteration, Transcendence. Strange alchemy is afoot here, including the dark echoes of Lovecraft’s mythos, the grandeur of Wagnerian cosmic opera (albeit transplanted to the post-rock subculture of American hypergothic), the fiery tension/release aesthetic of European avant-jazz, and the darkly nihilistic influence of any number of crypto-fascist death metal mongers. But Christian Vander and Jannick Top are clearly the black Ork twins to whom Yeti bow in awe and reverence and to whom they owe their deepest spiritual allegiance

2 full length tracks can be downloaded via the recordings section @ the Yeti website.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:17 AM

 

All About Jazz review Matthias Lupri - Transition Sonic

Personnel: Matthias Lupri (vibraphone, electronics), Mark Turner (tenor and soprano saxophones), Cuong Vu (trumpet, electronics), Nate Radley (guitar, electronics), Thomas Kneeland (acoustic bass, electronics), Jordan Perlson (drums)

Style: Modern Jazz/Free Improvisation

Transition Sonic creates something larger, a suite of pieces that can stand on their own, but when taken as a whole imply a broader sense of focus and an even richer concern for texture; and the specific crediting of electronics to members of the band only identifies that as important as the playing is, so is the pure conception of sound.

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Friday, September 17, 2004

 

X-Press 2 Azuli Compilation

dancefrontdoor have news of a compilation album compiled by X-Press 2

X- Press 2 release an outstanding double album of classics through Azuli on October 11th. X -Press 2 bring you what they consider to be their all time classic tracks, The influences here are what created the DJ's, the DJ's themselves have created these classics

# posted by DJ Martian 11:55 PM

 

Fakejazz.com - Issue 49

Some reviews from the latest issue of Fakejazz.com [Issue 49]:

Gorge Trio - Open Mouth, O Wisp (Skin Graft)

The Ivytree - Winged Leaves (Catsup Plate)

Tom Carter - Monument (Kranky)

Fly Pan Am - N'Ecoutez Pas (Constellation)

Glenn Jones - This is the Wind That Blows it Out (Strange Attractors)

Sunn 0))) - White2 (Southern Lord)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:41 PM

 

Leonard's Lair review Epic45 - Against The Pull Of Autumn

# posted by DJ Martian 11:01 PM

 

BBC Collective provide a Devendra Banhart interview and session.

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Massive Attack - Danny the Dog Album

LAUNCH/ dotmusic have info on Massive Attack's Danny the Dog original soundtrack album due for release October 11th.

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Interpol on Xfm

Next Tuesday on John Kennedy's Xfm X-Posure show: Interpol discuss Antics

Interpol get the X-Posure Album Playback treatment on Tuesday - hear the band's new album in full along with a track by track commentary from the band from 11pm

Source: Xfm weekly The Big Plug e-mail.

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Almost Cool review Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles with a high 8.5 rating.

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Playlouder interview PJ Harvey

# posted by DJ Martian 1:39 PM

 

This week's Mixing It show on Radio 3 includes an interview with Mira Calix: Mixing It - 17 September 2004

# posted by DJ Martian 1:36 PM

 

Hackneyed Central profiles Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer's upcoming studio album is titled: Touch.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:29 PM

 

The Observer Music Monthly continues to get worse, on the front cover of this month's issue: Elton John !

The Observer Music Monthly is included with The Observer, this Sunday: September 19th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

 

Dusted: Casino Vs. Japan

Dusted Features spotlight the listening interests of Casino Vs. Japan

Casino Vs. Japan (or, as his mother calls him, Erik Kowalski), has been recording offbeat electronica since childhood, during which time he would record and remix (sorta) audio samples from Miami Vice. Many years later, having become proficient at a wide range of instruments, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Casino Vs. Japan is still plugging away, producing some of the most diverse, bubbly electronic music this side of Lake Michigan. His third and most recent album, Whole Numbers Play The Basics (Carpark) was released in 2002, however Casino Vs. Japan have a number of short-length releases on labels such as Wobblyhead, Tigerbeat6, and City Centre Offices.

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Dusted review Shrimp Boat - Something Grand

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Splendid review Legendary Pink Dots - The Whispering Wall

# posted by DJ Martian 12:51 PM

 

The Guardian review Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus

The Independent also review this album.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 PM

 

Issue 31 of Earplug

SEPTEMBER 16 - SEPTEMBER 29

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

NEW RELEASES
Morr Music Japanese Tour Compilation
Devendra Banhart
Interpol (CD single)
Arcade Fire
Dizzee Rascal
Lo Borges (Reissue)
Will Johnson
The Faint
Gang Gang Dance
Bloc Party
Brown Bunny Soundtrack
Fourcolor
Crime (Reissue)
Rob Sonic

# posted by DJ Martian 12:44 AM

 

65daysofstatic

65daysofstatic are a new Sheffield post rock band picking up considerable positive reaction for their debut album.

Playlouder review 65 Days of Static - The Fall of Math

DrownedinSound also review the album.

That 'The Fall Of Math' as an album can retain the dynamics, fraught tension and climactic explosiveness of its peers and influences, whilst still sounding like one of the most urgent and direct long-player releases of the year, is worthy of our praise indeed.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:26 AM

Thursday, September 16, 2004

 

ANDY C - NIGHTLIFE 2

Released this week a new drum n bass compilation compiled by Andy C: Nightlife 2

OUT: SEPTEMBER 13th.

CD1 - Featuring tracks from:
PHOTEK - PENDULUM - HIGH CONTRAST - FRESH - DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH - ED RUSH & OPTICAL - NIGHTBREED - SHIMON - SUB FOCUS - DJ DIE - CALIBRE - LOGISTICS + Many More

CD2 - Featuring Remixes & Collaborations:
Adam F Ft. MOP - Stand Clear(Origin Unknown Remix) - Ed Rush & Optical - Pacman (Ram Trilogy Remix) - Dead Dred - Dread Bass (Origin Unknown Remix) - Boogie Times Tribe - Dark Stranger (Origin Unknown Remix) - Krust - Warhead (Ram Trilogy Remix)+ Many More

Source: Drum & Bass Arena e-mail

# posted by DJ Martian 11:03 PM

 

Kaada & Mike Patton: Album

Ipecac Recordings - News report on a collaboration between Kaada & Mike Patton

The news is out! The anticipated collaboration between the pride of Norway, Kaada and Mike Patton is done and slated for release in late November. The record, 'ROMANCES' is a beautiful piece of music. Sure to put you in the mood for love. Seems like some of you could use that mood adjustment. Preview this release at:

Kaada

# posted by DJ Martian 10:43 PM

 

Musique Machine review Mastodon - Leviathan

# posted by DJ Martian 7:01 PM

 

BW & BK report the latest Green Carnation news: GREEN CARNATION - New Album Due In Early 2005

# posted by DJ Martian 4:12 PM

 

2004 Q Awards Nominations

Radio 1 report Franz head up Q nominees

The predictable 2004 Q awards nominations are comprised of a combination of established name artists from the past 80s/ 90s plus NME type artists of the past few years. A very conservative set of choices - but that's what you expect from a non agenda setting / laggards music magazine such as Q.

The Q Awards take place in London on October 4th.

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Digital Music Awards 2004

This year’s event, formerly known as the Interactive Music Awards, will take place on Tuesday October 19th 2004 at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.

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Playlouder interview DJ Krush

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LAUNCH/ dotmusic relay the news that the upcoming Beck album has been delayed to 2005 by Geffen.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:06 PM

 

musicOMH.com review Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus

# posted by DJ Martian 2:02 PM

 

The Austin Chronicle review Medeski Martin & Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case)

# posted by DJ Martian 1:39 PM

 

The Austin Chronicle review Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America?

# posted by DJ Martian 1:38 PM

 

ANNIE - THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE has been revamped with a new design & updated content.

Norwegian synth pop artist Annie released her Chewing Gum single in the UK this week.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:27 PM

 

Splendid review Dosh - Pure Trash on Anticon.

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Underworld Update

The latest Underworld news @ dirty underworld

Rick and Karl have been locked away at their Lemonworld Studio in Essex for several months, intensively writing new material and developing a variety of Underworld projects. Expect to hear news over the coming weeks, but the latest is that new music is expected to be available by the end of the year.

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Burnt Sugar

Michaelangelo Matos @ Seattle Weekly reviews the Burnt Sugar album: Black Sex Y'All & Bloody Random Violets.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

 

Tiny Mix Tapes review Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm

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The Brainwashed Brain V07I36 - 09122004

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation
Strange Attractors

Le Fly Pan Am - N'Ecoutez Pas
Constellation

Twice As Nice
LTM

Slow Six - Private Times in Public Places
Habit of Creation

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Jeff Mills & Laurent Garnier

On the John Peel show a decision has been made to broadcast the Jeff Mills & Laurent Garnier live session over two nights - rather than all in 1.

Wednesday 15th/Thursday 16th September

This week two of the most famous Techno DJ's on the planet are teaming up for a live Maida Vale extravaganza. Jeff Mills started his career DJ'ing at a Detroit radio station and not long after he founded the infamous Underground Resistance label with Mad Mike who have become one of the strongest forces in Techno. Jeff now runs his own Labels: Axis, Purpose Maker & Tomorrow, as well as releasing mix CD's through Labels like React.

Laurent Garnier made his DJ debut at Manchester's famous Hacienda nightclub way back in 87 when Acid House was just exploding. Since then he has released a slew of LP's and mix CD's, the finest of them being 2000's Unreasonable Behaviour.

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Nelson of Blisscent Records 2004 So Far

From Blisscent group, Nelson lists his personal faves:

...incomplete and in no particular order...

1 - Walkmen - Bow & Arrows
2 - Skywave - Synthstatic
3 - Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
4 - Air - Talkie Walkie
5 - M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

6 - Helio Sequence - Love And Distance
7 - Fennesz - Venice
8 - Lali Puna - Faking The Books
9 - Lorna - This Time, Each Year
10- Boyracer - Absence Makes The Heart Grow Harder

11- Color Filter - Silent Way
12- Brother Kite - S/T
13- The Autumns - S/T
14- TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty
15- Madrid - Warm Waters

16- Dykehouse - Midrange
17- Asobi Seksu - S/T
18- Starflyer 59 - I Am The Portuguese Blues
19- Ambulance Ltd. - S/T
20- Singapore Sling - Life Is Killing Rock 'N' Roll

21- Monster Movie - To The Moon
22- Fiel Garvie - Leave Me Out Of This
23- Air Formation - Stay Inside, Feel Everything
24- Workhouse - The End Of The Pier
25- Mum - Summer Make Good

Highspire - Your Everything
Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard

EP's
Longwave - Life Of The Party
Scarling - Sweet Heart Dealer
Drone Dimension - Faintly Acquainted
Signer - Low Light Dreams
Electro Amp Cynic - The 8 Album
Park Avenue Music - For Your Home Or Office
Boyracer - Check YR Fucking History

[Although I notice some of these are 2003 UK Releases]

# posted by DJ Martian 9:40 PM

 

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

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

:: Latest Show: 15th September 2004 ::

Playlist @ Eternal Fusion

Streaming available on demand until replaced by new show.

Sun City Girls - ' A Secret Revealed Unwittingly'
The Anaksimandros - 'Wolf Visitors'
Chrome - ' Abstract Nympho'
Red Crayola - 'Micro-Chips and Fish'
Henry Cow - 'Industry'
Tim Berne's Big Satan - 'Plantain Surgery'
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - 'Losel Drolma'
Charlie Hunter Trio - 'Running From Imaginary Assailants'
Medeski, Martin & Wood - 'Bloody Oil'
The Ex - 'Huriyet'
I'm Not A Gun - 'Sundays Will Never Change'
Christian Kleine - 'Stations'
Bill Frisell - 'Fields of Alfalfa'
El-P - 'Intrigue In The House Of India'
Devendra Banhart - 'Water May Walk'
The Ivytree - 'Winged Leaves'
Faun Fables - 'Beautiful Blade'
Kiila - 'Pysahtunect Planeetat'
Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - 'Return Of The Nose'
Kemialliset Ystävät - 'Kuu Kosta'
Six Organs Of Admittance - 'The Six Stations'
Pram - The Archivist'
Mouse On Mars - 'Evoke An Object'
Le Fly Pan Am - 'Pas A Pas Step Until'
Juana Molina - 'Tres Cosas'
Zorn - 'Bits For Breakfast'
Homelife - 'Banjo'
Ensemble Modern - 'The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary'

# posted by DJ Martian 9:26 PM

 

Matthew Shipp releases Harmony and Abyss on September 28th on Thirsty Ear

The veteran avante-jazz pianist Shipp has assembled another far-out and innovative release that touches on urban hip-hop sounds as well as a richly historic mixing of free jazz and electronica. Alongside bassist William Parker, Gerald Cleaver, and electronic programmer FLAM, Shipp's vision takes him across the musical map, going from wild bebop to bottomheavy bass grooves, all the while accented by his complex and melodic piano work. This release has seen some serious time in my player and has impressed many around the house lately. You will like this, too. I have no doubts.

Blogcritics review Matthew Shipp - Harmony and Abyss

# posted by DJ Martian 2:44 PM

 

Zatokrev are Switzerland's answer to Neurosis.

Their self titled debut is released on Code Breaker records on September 27th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:41 PM

 

Mojo - October 2004 Issue

New issue of MOJO Magazine will be on sale in the UK today - September 15th.

Unfortunately another useless Rolling Stones front cover ! and The Clash relegated to a feature. [Probably a decision made not to clash with Uncut - that already front cover featured The Clash - London Calling earlier this month.]

FREE RADIO CLASH CD
Includes unreleased Joe Strummer track, and music hand-picked by Mick Jones and Paul Simonon

# posted by DJ Martian 12:33 AM

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

 

John Peel's Label Of The Month: Ghostly International

# posted by DJ Martian 3:55 PM

 

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

# posted by DJ Martian 2:18 PM

 

Pitchfork review Fly Pan Am - N'ecoutez Pas

# posted by DJ Martian 1:29 PM

 

Dusted review Signer - The New Face of Smiling

# posted by DJ Martian 1:27 PM

 

Pitchfork interview M83

# posted by DJ Martian 1:03 PM

Monday, September 13, 2004

 

U2 album title: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

U2 have officially announced the title of the forthcoming album: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

It will be released on November 22nd.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:01 PM

 

TrusttheDJ interview Swayzak

# posted by DJ Martian 5:29 PM

 

System 7 - Encantado

TrusttheDJ report a new System 7 album: Encantado is on the way. According to Amazon UK this will be released on October 18th.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:06 PM

 

This week's new releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 2:02 PM

 

6 Music - The Freak Zone

Stuart Maconie mentioned on air that The Freak Zone show will be moving to a new time slot as of the first week of October.

The Freak Zone will move to the 5pm - 8pm Sunday slot. This means there will be other programme changes on 6 Music

Stuart Maconie, just mentioned Marc Riley will present a new show called Mint that relates to rare/ collectable music on the 10pm - 1am Sunday slot. [i.e will this be the radio equivalent of Record Collector magazine?]

Keith Cameron is a permanent DJ on 6 Music, his name now appears on the presenters list - so which slot will he move to ?

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 AM

 

New Releases @ Rough Trade

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

65daysofstatic - the fall of math
the debut from sheffield's 65daysofstatic melding seamless guitar shapes with ferocious drum n bass beats, live drums and glitches. think godspeed you black emperor hitting kid 606 with a really big stick or third eye foundation meets squarepusher. on momotreme

annie - chewing gum cd one cds
one of this years big tunes from annie with an inspiring richard x production gets a full release. the music is a dayglo hommage to 80's punk funk and especially the tom tom club and could fit on the coolest dancefloors or in the cd uk studio. it's a perfect mix of booty pinching basslines, clattering percussion and breathy vocals. cd one features the original version and new track 'kiss me'

annie - chewing gum cd two cds
one of this years big tunes from annie with an inspiring richard x production gets a full release. the music is a dayglo hommage to 80's punk funk and especially the tom tom club and could fit on the coolest dancefloors or in the cd uk studio. it's a perfect mix of booty pinching basslines, clattering percussion and breathy vocals. cd two features the original version plus the mylo and headman mixes, the headman dub and video

aufgehoben - anno fauve
once again awesome, challenging and 'out-there', the band (dropping the 'no process' from they're name) are once again joined by long term friend gary smith for this release which will be released on cd only. any of you touching on sonic youth's syr improvs, gang gang dance's dry junk-funk, off-kilter rhythm patterns and the lightning bolt energy will find this album well worth a listen. on the ace riot season label.

ben christophers - the spaces in between
'the spaces in between' is the third ben christophers album and first for cooking vinyl. it's his most upbeat and optimistic record and draws influences from bowie, kate bush, prince, edith piaf and nina simone. the album is compulsive listening. from the sweetly sinister 'flowers drink upon the ground', and the shimmering simplicity of 'a devil to know', to the laid back, happy-go-lucky feel of 'good day for the hopeless'. cd only

comets on fire - blue cathedral
Blue Cathedral is the third album from Comets on Fire and their first for Sub Pop. It is also the Bay area band's most varied and richly textured album yet. Their trademark sound is here enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of Harvest-era Pink Floyd.

flotation toy warning - bluffers guide to the flight deck
after two cdep's flotation toy warning finally let the world hear their debut album. the tracks are built around layers of swirling keyboards and are embellished with melodic mix of loops, guitars, vocals and samples. it recalls a diy flaming lips mixed with the space boy dreaming of mercury rev and the glitchy side of sparklehorse. along with the earlies, this is one of the most atmospheric and accessible albums of the year. cd only on pointy

fly pan am - n'ecoutez pas
'n'ecoutez pas' is a collection of songs pushed to maximum density, marked by dark shoegazer guitars, distorted organ stabs, rubbery basslines, motorik drumming and various shrouded voices whispering, screaming and singing along the way. it also Features electronic interventions from TIM HECKER (Mille Plateaux/Force Inc) and ALEX ST. ONGE (Alien 8, Locust). On constellation

helio sequence - love and distance
It's been 3 years since helio sequence's last album on cavity search. finally and triumphantly, the portland, duo of return with their third full-length, and first for sub pop. the time between albums has been well-spent, logging several tours, extensive hours of experimentation and afternoons spent "listening to a lot of pop, dylan and can. it's more inventive than ever before, the new record finds The helio sequence armed with a surprising new instrumentation palette and buoyed by swift pop undercurrents, with this collision of electric and organic elements. on sub pop

mastodon - leviathan
mastodon is an explosive, unbridled force. with an ageless magnificence and rich musical imagination, mastodon unleashes leviathan, an unabated testimontal to the band's earthshaking ability to rock. it's heavy organic music with an unstoppable momentum, vibrant spirit and thundering heaviness. think morbid angel, maiden and helmet

mission of burma - a gun to the head (a selection from the ace of hearts era) - the best of
an exciting new collection from this legendary and influential band. it features 16 songs from their seminal ace of hearts recordings, including the classics 'that's when i reach for my revolver' and 'academy fight song'. mission of burma are as important as the replacements, husker du or sonic youth

dustin o'halloran - piano solos
'piano solos' is the beautiful new instrumental work from half of the creative mind behind devics. these 12 pieces were recorded at home in italy and are intimate, delicate, melancholic and majestic. cd only on bella union

dollboy - plans for a modern city
This is a lavish production, organic and full of depth. The instrumentation has been given the lush treatment which the playing and material deserves. It's like wide-awake sleeping in a warm bath. Listen to this on the side of a hill or use it as a survival tool for urban living. it's a warm blend of Teutonic electronics and organic real instruments such as glockenspiels, xylophones, trumpet and pedal steel. featuring the talents of jack hayter - ex-hefner. cd only on different drummer

kelpe - sea inside body
debut album from kelpe aka kel mckeown. it's a quality release of bedroom electronica executed with imagination and dexterity. it has the warmth and soul of boards of vanada and fourtet and the rich textures of dabrye. it offers a complexity and innocence far beyond the usual restraints of digitally produced music. on dc recordings

september collective - september collective
September Collective features Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Mapstation), Barbara Morgenstern, and Polish born musician Paul Wirkus (recently identified in The Wire as one of the true pioneers of laptop based music, comparing him to Fennesz in his ability to zoom out from the technical moment of the glitch, and to present a picture of the music which is taking place). The record features a series of improvisations originating from encores they played together while touring Poland as three solo projects. on geographic

alan vega - saturn strip / just a million dreams
the suicide frontman's 1983 and 1985 solo albums recorded with the cars ric ocasek and greg hawkes and finding vega tempering the manic threat of suicide with poppier influences. reissued by wounded bird.

stafrann hakon - ventill / poki
'Ventill/Poki' is the end result of a week in a studio in England with the help of fellow Resonant artist Dialect, using live bass and drums sounding like the product of a band rather than one guy. That said, crucially it retains the 'feel' of his previous work, and is more potent and powerful rather than allowing anything to get lost in the mix. it comes on like a hybrid of Labradford, Sigur Ros and Mogwai and finishing up with one of the finest bodies of work within the ambient / post-rock sub-genre in years.

diplo - florida
The new DJ Shadow? The new RJD2? Or just a guy from Florida mixing deep, beautiful instrumental hip hop with a little of that southern flavour? The largely instrumental album is also blessed by vocals from Vybz Cartel (of 'Up 2 Di Time' fame and probably the hottest, most credible star in Jamaica right now), Martina Topley-Bird (best known for her work with Tricky) and P.E.A.C.E. (the Freestyle Fellowship legend). it's Astonishing stuff, genuinely from off the musical map, sounds you haven't heard before, or at least haven't heard treated with such childlike invention and innocence. on big dada

# posted by DJ Martian 12:15 AM

Sunday, September 12, 2004

 

Third Eye Foundation - Oumupo 1

Matt Elliott, aka The Third Eye Foundation has just released a collaborate multimedia concept album: Oumupo 1 in France where he now lives. The concept is connected to a French artistic movement.

In the UK this will be released on September 27th via Shellshock/ Pinnacle distribution.

Third Eye Foundation - Oumupo 1

Micro:mega "annex1" / Headphone "explatino"
Headphone "explatino"
Bed "nightcape" /yann tiersen"sur le fil"
Yann Tiersen "sur le fil" / Matt Elliott "the sinking ship song"
Bästard "it ain’t no funny at all" - lesson (real audio)
Dominique Petitgand "état liquide"
Madrid "une pluie sèche" / The Digital Intervention "coma idyllique" feat. Yann Tiersen
Linky "you" / Gravité Zéro "plein d’Etoiles"
Bed "the gap" / Headphone "sublime parade" / Eric Aldéa "7"

iteration : hand clapping
own constraint : the label choose the titles

Ici d'ailleurs… is proud to launch its OuMuPo collection.
Several DJ's and electronic music composers have been offered to remix the whole label catalog. But there is a twist. They have to comply with constraints issued in the Ici d'ailleurs Charter.

OuMuPo is the French shortname for "OUvroir de MUsiques Potentielles", i.e. Workshop for Potential Musics. It is one of the many artistic movements derived from surrealist Raymond Queneau and François le Lionnais' 1960 OuLiPo (Workshop for Potential Literatures). At the time they aimed at putting together words and letters and following new rules to compose new works. This principle has inspired a lot of creators, especially in music, but also in comic strips. That's how OuBaPo was born in 1992 (Workshop for Potential Comics, BA stands for the French "bandes dessinées") with such illustrators as Jean-Christophe Menu, Etienne Lécroart, Jochen Gerner, François Ayroles, Anne Baraou, Gilles Ciment, Thierry Groensteen, Killoffer, Lewis Trondheim …

Ici d'ailleurs… is fond of OuBaPo and combination of styles. That's why they have asked one of the OuBaPo movement leader, Jean-Christophe Menu, to join the project and be in charge of its graphic aspects. He is a founder member of l'Association, an independent publishing society which gave a fresh impetus to French comic strips. And the result is a totally new 16 pages comic book which comes along on top of each OuMuPo album, each time drawn by a different cartoonist. Again, these comics are ruled by a Charter to spice up the game.

Still to come, such great names as Mr Neveux, Rubin Steiner, Readymade, DJ Hide and DJ Krush will be confronted with Ici d'ailleurs' rules of the game, for exciting new Oumupo albums!
Neither DVDs nor hybrid CDs here, but a carefully produced boxed set, for a true original adventure: fun, experiments and a creative competitive spirit.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:48 PM

 

Omni Trio - NEW ALBUM !

Legendary atmospheric Drum n Bass/ Jungle producer Omni Trio is back !

Omni Trio releases a brand new album: Rogue Satellite on September 27th on the Weatherbox label.

Distribued in the UK via Pinnacle

# posted by DJ Martian 11:21 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [September 6th]

Key new album releases for September 6th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Mira Calix - 3 Commissions (Warp) EP
Dead To Fall - Villainy And Virtue (Victory)
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix (Thirsty Ear)
Ludovico Einaudi - Una Mattina (Decca)
Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffers Guide To The Flight Deck (Pointy)
The Glimmer Room - Grey Mirrors (Self Released)
Hocico - Wrack And Ruin (Out of Line) [Available at Music Non Stop]
Nils Petter Molvaer - Streamer (Absolute) [Live Recordings]
Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector (Sonig/ Thrill Jockey)
Mugison - Niceland (Accidental)
Tiki Obmar - Seasons (Merck)
October File - A Long Walk Off A Short Pier (Golf)
September Collective - September Collective (Geographic)
Tremble - Ballroom Blues (Different)

# posted by DJ Martian 10:21 PM

 

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

On this week's Freak Zone we'll be joined in the studio by Sheffield dance outfit I Monster.

Born out of the ashes of The All Seeing Eye, members Jarrod Gosling and Dean Honer were so shocked by the success of their debut single Daydream In Blue in 2001 it took them nearly three years to finish their album, Neveroddoreven.

The boys will be chatting to Stuart and picking out three left-field tracks that have inspired them.

We'll also have a live session in the 6 Music Hub from new Israeli superstars Izabo.

Hailing from Tel Aviv, Izabo's music is a unique mixture of psychedelic rock, disco, punk and Arabic influences. Their EP Morning Hero was mortifyingly catchy, and their session promises to be something rather special.

Freak Zone specialist Justin Spear will be talking about the upcoming release from 1960s purveyors of avant-garde psychedelia, The United States Of America in our Mavericks & Misfits slot.

Our Album Of The Week comes courtesy of Split Enz and their 1975 release, Mental Notes.

There's more Live Freaks and 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 12th September 10pm - 1am. Available on Listen Again for 7 days after broadcast.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:06 PM

 

DPRP report Porcupine Tree are likely to release their next album late January/ February 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:49 PM

 

New Releases @ Piccadilly Records

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

[Mostly releases for September 6th]

American Music Club - Love Songs For Patriots
Cooking Vinyl

After a 10-year hiatus, American Music Club are back with a stunning new album. They formed in San Francisco back in 1983, Mark Eitzel, Vudi and Dan Pearson began by synthesizing their love for rock, country, blues, folk, pop and punk. This new album continues in this tradition, featuring as always, Eitzel's enigmatic presence, heartfelt vocals and brilliant songwriting.

Feist - Let It Die
Polydor

Beautifully crafted and at times lo-fi acoustica from this highly acclaimed Canadian songstress. Described by iD as having '...one of the warmest purest voices you'll hear all year'.

Mekons - Heaven & Hell
Cooking Vinyl

The legendary Mekons finally get tied down to a two CD best of compilation, taking tracks from their late 70s punk period through the indie 80s right up to the present day americana influenced styling. Described in 1981 by Lester Bangs as '...the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.'

Tremble - Ballroom Blues
Different

Tremble are Tracey Elizabeth and G-Sharp (aka Glenn Sharp), who met via Manchester's vibrant music scene and immediately sparked. "Ballroom Blues" is their debut album, following on from the release of their single "40%". It is a melancholic series of pop songs fused together by dark filters, majestic orchestration and delicate sweeps of guitar. An album that stabs through the heart to leave you stapled to the couch, not moving, all feeling. From the atmospheric and sultry "Not Feeling", the electronic beat driven "This Gift From God" to the moody, string laden "Skin Deep", Tremble show their musical diversity and eclecticism.

October File - A Long Walk Off A Short Pier
Golf

Awesome and inventive follow up to "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People". Layers of blazing, spiky guitars and raging, cynical vocals are propelled at a relentless velocity by a gutteral, dirty bass and ramrod drums. If you need references, there are maybe elements of Killing Joke and Discharge thrown into the furnace, but basically this is their own, distinctive sound and it's a breath of fresh air - perhaps not so much fresh as burning...

Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Metal Blade

"The Oncoming Storm", Unearth's third album and Metal Blade debut is probably their best to date, some achievement following on as it does from the critically acclaimed "Stings Of Conscience" and "Endless" LPs. This release should definitely cement their position as nu-metal/hardcore innovators, a reputation that has earned them tour slots with In Flames, Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, Soilwork and Chimera. Vocalist Trevor Phipps gives his most powerful performance, alternating hardcore razored throat rage with a cleaner vocal style; all beautifully set against a burning double seven string guitar assault and bruising double bass, fuelling crushing breakdowns. Gorgeous, apocalyptic and articulate.

Various Artists / Electric Soul 2
Electric Chair

Luke and Justin are back with the second instalment in their what-we-play-early-on-at-the-Chair series of soulful CD compilations. Part two follows the blueprint of its predecessor, mixing up nu-soul, hip hop, broken beats and house - anything, infact, that has soul or feeling. The vinyl opens (and CD closes) with one of the best remixes ever made; Carl Craig's stunning instrumental tech-hip-jazz take on Incognito's "Out Of The Storm", before heading off into broken beat territory with Next Evidence's "Dance On". Deep soul comes from Beef Wellington's "Dedication" and D'Nell's "This Thing" (my favourite tune of 2003!), while there's hip hop by Kenn Starr, Asheru & Talib Kweli. Fans of more upbeat sounds will love Jay's mix of Rhianna "Word Love", Foolish & Sly's "Rainfalls" (Steve Kotey's mix) or Siji's "Feelslike". Lastly, you also get one of Yam Who's best ever reworks; Only Child's "Find A Way" (long out of print!), Nubian Mindz' "Dreaming" and Osunlade's mix of Jazzy Jeff "Rok Wit U". Phew!

Extras on the blended CD include Calvin Harris Feat. Ayah "Let Me Know" and NSM's "She's Got Soul".

The Isley Brothers - Taken To Next Stage (Reconstructions)
Sony

Mos Def, Raphael Saadiq, JA producer Lenky and members of the Roots, Black Eyed Peas and De La Soul are among the acts featured on this reconstructions CD, where modern hip hop and soul producers and vocalist add their own take on these classic songs. Gilles has been spinning cuts off this LP for a while now, so here's your chance to get a copy!

Mokadi - Human Natures
Perfect Toy

Debut album from Munich based Mokadi featuring the vocal talents of Marc Franc and Dita Von Aster from Les Gammas and the legendry Don Freeman. Influenced by 70's rare groove, jazz-funk and soul as well as 80's disco-not-disco and techy phusions, they deliver a fine album of nu-jazz, fat broken-soul, afro-jazz-fusion and latin workouts.

Various Artists / Greyboy - Shades Of Grey
Ubiquity

Hot on the heels of the highly acclaimed "Soul Mosaic" album comes the first ever commercially available mix CD from producer / DJ Greyboy. As one of the original West Coast rare groove DJs, his jazz, funk and soul collection runs deep, with this 60 minute custom made mix showcasing his ear for picking party tunes, and his production prowess as he edits, loops, and cuts-up tracks. Mixing funk bombs (by the likes of Hank Carbo, Richard 'Dimples' Fields, Darkness Of Evil, Sandra Phillips, The Messangers etc)with unreleased Greyboy remixes, this CD represents the kind of set you might hear at one of his DJ gigs - eclectic, energetic, original and presented with plenty of turntable flair.

Nicola Conte - Other Directions
Blue Note

Nicola's long awaited debut LP for legendary jazz label Blue Note finally arrives! Backed by a full ten piece jazz band (including Till Bronner), he weaves his magic on a selection of easy 60s style jazz and latin jazz tracks, either instrumental or featuring vocals by Bembe Segue amongst others. The full album is available on CD only, with a selection of tracks slated for two Schema EPs, so keep an eye out for them.

Kenji Jammer - Hula-Hula Dance 4 - Fulfillment
Uutwo

Kenji Jammer brings us his new CD only album, "Hula Hula Dance 4 - Fulfillment", on the Japanese UUTWO label. He plays his trademark Hawaiian slide guitar over wonderful dub reggae rhythms featuring co-production, percussion and programming from KUDO (Major Force). The material was recorded in London and mixed at APE sounds studio Tokyo, and is reminiscent of KUDO's incredibly rare "Down 2 Earth" sessions for Major Force and Natural Calamity. All round, this CD is a sultry excercise in further relaxation. Gota says; 'Here's real Kenji Jammer, and applause to KUDO. I want hear more man!'.

Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector
Sonig

Mouse on Mars have produced an intense new album, which, in contrast to all their previous releases, is both as unexpected as it is timeless. "Radical Connector" is the eighth album to appear in the ten years of the band's existence, a decade in which Mouse on Mars have gigged themselves to the forefront of the international electronic music scene. Mouse On Mars have the knack of animating both body and mind. And yet in doing so they have never been subservient to those 'safe' marketing strategies, consistently preferring to follow their own inclinations. The new album is further evidence that their independent spirit is on top form: "Radical Connector" sounds so new because the two musicians have succeeded in putting pop's very immediacy robustly into practice, and, in their inimitably easy, virtuoso manner, have managed to connect cutting-edge technology with a fiercely independent way of thinking.

Mira Calix - 3 Commissions
Warp

Running at 36 minutes, "3 Commissions" features pieces specifically commissioned for Mira Calix by Geneva's Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, London's Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican, and includes two contrasting versions of "Nunu", her groundbreaking interplay between human and insect worlds. Previously only available online as a strictly limited edition CD, "Nunu" has since gained mythical status, having never before been commercially released.

Neotropic - White Rabbits
Mush

Riz Maslen (Neotropic) is regarded as possibly electronic music's most accomplished female artist.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:05 PM

 

Djouls.com - Best of 2004 Music

Djouls.com: An interesting music website that includes reviews of the best music of 2004 - it's in French though. [Those that don't understand French can use the Google toolbar translate into English function. It has limited scope in number of words it translates and the English is rather computer generated simplistic - but it is better than nothing !]

I like the structure/ context of this site - rather than a series of isolated reviews, this is a subjective attempt to highlight/ rank some of the finest music of the year. However there are some selections that I don't rate e.g in the folk/ rock & pop section.

T.I.M.E.C. presents... www.djouls.com, the rough guide to music you don't hear on the radio
Djouls.com

The Best Of 2004 - Part One

THE BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF 2004 PART 1

JAZZ, SOUL & FUNK GROOVES ALBUMS FOR 2004

HIP HOP ALBUMS (AND SINGLES) FOR 2004

FOLK, ROCK & POP ALBUMS FOR 2004

REGGAE, DUB & WORLD GROOVES ALBUMS FOR 2004 [this does include some jazz albums as well]

Compilations

# posted by DJ Martian 3:52 PM

Saturday, September 11, 2004

 

More Brian Eno Album Reissues

On September 27th these Brian Eno albums will be re-issued by Virgin.

Discreet Music
Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror
Ambient 4: On Land

# posted by DJ Martian 3:36 PM

 

All About Jazz review Mark Solborg 4 - Smash the Tomatoes

Personnel: Mark Solborg: guitar; Anders Banke: sax, clarinet; Jeppe Skovbakke:bass; Stefan Pasborg: drums; Maja Romm: toy piano

Style: Modern Jazz/Free Improvisation

On Smash the Tomatoes, Solborg's fifth, surf music bleeds into droning dirges, slide guitar spills into noise antics, an electric bass anchors the drum's manic chugging, baritone sax melts into a massive low-end, and a clainet reaches upper-register trills

The reviewer name checks Ken Vandermark and Godspeed You Black Emperor! as reference points.

Official website: Mark Solborg includes MP3 samples.

record label website: ILK profile the album, including review excerpts:

puls.no

..What an original ! ..These are four instrumentalists of high caliber .. it swings and grooves like h... This is a band that challenges them selves and the listener. The mark of high quality.
-Tor Hammerø


5 out of 6 at dr.dk (danish national radio)

"Smash the Tomatoes" qualifies to "release of the year", a smashing cd with raw power and super-competent musicianship. ...You get high on this mixture.. virtuosity, odd meter-playing and rock solid interplay..
- Celine Haastrup


6 out of 6 at soundvenue.com

"This is one of The Strongest Danish Jazzreleases this Year..Anything your heart desires: Composition, Free-form, Swing, Bop and Rock.. The whole album is soaked with great interplay, arrangements, temperaments, musicians and production.
A strong statement from some of the most skilled young jazzmusicians in the country.."
Jesper Pagh, Soundvenue

# posted by DJ Martian 3:17 PM

 

Calibre

On the Radio 1 Drum 'n' Bass show with Fabio, Northern Ireland's Calibre was interviewed.

Calibre has plans to produce a new album that will follow up his debut: Musique Concrete.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:22 PM

 

Yeah NO - Swell Henry

All About Jazz review Chris Speed's Yeah NO - Swell Henry

Personnel: Cuong Vu: trumpet; Skuli Sverrisson: bass; Jim Black: drums; Chris Speed: tenor sax, clarinet, casio. Plus Rob Burger: accordion (1,2.3,8,9); Jamie Saft: mellotron (3,4), wirlitzer (6), Speak & Spell (10); Hilmar Jensson: guitar (9)

Style: Modern Jazz/Free Improvisation

This album is also listed on the best of 2004 albums list @ Piero Scaruffi

Almost Cool review Yeah No - Swell Henry

Yeah No - Swell Henry, Also reviewed @ Junkmedia

Also label / distributor info:

Swell Henry is the fourth album from yeah NO, the quartet of multi-talented downtown New York musicians led by clarinetist/saxophonist Chris Speed. Speed, in close collaboration with drummer Jim Black, trumpeter Cuong Vu and bassist Skuli Sverrisson, explores a broad palette of sharply focused lyrical jazz compositions, stimulating collective improvisations and explorative forays into ambiance and texture.

Yeah NO, the brainchild of saxaphonist Chris Speed, was founded in 1996, after the improvisations the band made in their early rehearsals were developed into an unusual book of music. Using their love of free jazz, modern rock, eastern folk and minimalism as their pallet they have since created a unique sound that folds their strong individual improvisational talents into a warm, cohesive and explosive sound. Since their debut record in 1997, they have thrived in the center of new music in NYC, performing frequently at the Knitting Factory and Tonic. They have toured the States, Italy, and recently did a 3 week tour of Europe. After a run of three records (yeah NO, Deviantics, and Emit) on the Canadian label Songlines, they have joined with Squealer for their new record Swell Henry, out now.

Born in Seattle, Chris Speed began playing music at age five on the piano, adding the clarinet and orchestra rehearsals at age eleven, and started concentrating on jazz, improvisation and the tenor sax in high school. In 1987 he moved to Boston where he studied at the New England Conservatory and co-formed the band Human Feel. A resident of Brooklyn since 1992, Chris made his initial contribution to New York City music as a member of Tim Berne's Bloodcount, and has since contributed extensively to the downtown music world. Besides Yeah NO, Chris plays in Pachora, a Balkan Rom influenced band with four recordings (Astereotypical, Ast, Unn and Pachora), and also in Trio Iffy, along with keyboardist Jamie Saft (who also appears on Swell Henry) and drummer Ben Perowsky.

Trumpeter Cuong Vu was born in Vietnam to musical parents and immigrated to Seattle at age six. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory where he studied with master improviser Joe Maneri. He co-led Saft/Vu (Ragged Jack, Avant), and has been touring and recording frequently with his trio (featuring Stomu Takeshi) and most recently with guitarist Pat Metheny.

Born in Reykjavik, electric bassist Skuli Sverrisson graduated from Berklee College and has appeared on over 30 records with Icelandic artists, including his group Pax Vobis, and Mo Boma. Aside from his ongoing collaborations with Laurie Anderson and Pachora, he also has two new recordings, Napoli 23 (Smekkleysa) and Eftir Pogn ("mi jazz). His solo record Sermonie (Extreme), features tape compositions "taking audio snapshots of the interior architecture of sound," joining electronics and extended techniques for the electric bass.

Percussionist Jim Black grew up in Seattle, moved to Boston in 1985 to attend Berklee, and has lived in Brooklyn since 1991. A founding member of Pachora and Human Feel, he also has toured and recorded with Tim Berne's Bloodcount, Dave Douglas's Tiny Bell Trio, Ellery Eskelin, Uri Caine's Mahler and Bach Projects, and his own band Alas No Axis. The latest CD Habyor will be out in June on Winter & Winter Recordings.

Born in Aroostook County, Maine, recent addition Ted Reichman is best known as accordion player for Anthony Braxton, Marc Ribot and Paul Simon. Ted was also the founder of the new music series at Tonic, NYC. He recently finished his first album of original music for Tzadik records (playing guitar, electronics, keyboards, percussion and zither in addition to accordion) and composed and performed the soundtrack for the upcoming film "Rick."

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All About Jazz review Satoko Fujii Trio - Illusion Suite

Personnel: Satoko fujii--piano; Mark Dresser--bass; Jim Black--drums

Style: Modern Jazz/Free Improvisation

Satoko Fujii's vision has come into a sharp focus here, on a set of sounds that feels like a nourishment for the soul. Her best, a top ten disc of 2004, for sure.

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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!
The Go Find - Miami
Morr Music

The go find, Morr Music's latest signing, is a one-man band from Antwerp, Belgium. The face and the voice behind it belong to 28 year old Dieter Sermeus. Having spent many years playing in various indie-pop bands and eventually supporting many of his heroes (Pavement, Stereolab, Seam, Unwound .), Dieter eventually settled down 3 years ago and started laying down tracks with a more electronic feel. It wasn't until he hooked up with Morr Music's other Belgian hero Styrofoam, however, that the signature Go-Find sound shaped itself to the oddly euphoric laptop-augmented guitar pop that presents itself to us today. "Miami" is an exuberant, almost extrovert record, turning inside-out Styrofoam's introspective folk modulations into a collection of anthemic sketches for a generation looking for indie-pop music that goes beyond the constraints of guitar, bass and drums. These are catchy, yet sometimes melancholic songs that bypass the brain and head straight for the heart. It's a sound that brings to mind the bitter-sweetness of The Postal Service on the one hand, and the subtle glow The Notwist on the other. According to Dieter, the perfect place to listen to his music is in a car, driving by night. Not too special a place, you might think, but for Dieter it has to be a 1975 Lada. In case you don't own a car like this, you should try to catch the go find live on stage as soon as possible - because that is where Dieter really belongs - or invite some friends over for an improvised Go Find karaoke party in your kitchen. Either way, this is a gorgeous little pop album from another choice signing for Morr Music. Recommended.

Sly & Robbie - Version Born
Palm Beats

You really cannot touch Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare when it comes to sheer longevity, as rhythm section to more needy stars, powerhouse and inspiration to new artists, their output would fill several volumes. Here they enlist trusty support from the likes of Tricky with ragga newbrey Radagon, Bill Laswell on guitars, N'dea Davenport on a soulful reggae tip, Killa Priest, Beans, Hawkman showing the diamond duo to be fully on top of new developments. Don't forget, back in the day these boys forged inital links between hiphop and reggae music, bringing together Rammelzee and Super Cat to telling effect. Whilst no longer remotely cutting edge, this album demonstrates that theirs was formula with staying power.

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Agitation
Locust

If you're not yet aware of Ilhan Mimaroglu then that's all about to change. He is simply one of the greatest ever practitioners of electro acoustic music but with a political bent (call it agitprop) and one of the greatest ever producers of forward thinking jazz alongside legends such as Teo Macero, Creed Taylor and Joel Dorn who Ilhan took over from as key producer at Atlantic during the mid to late sixties helping to shape and craft masterpieces by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus and not forgetting his head crushing classic with the Freddy Hubbard Quintet, 'Sing Me A Song Of Songmy'. Ilhan is also a massive influence to a wide range of contemporary musicians, most notably Keith 'Hrvatski' Whitman. This CD purposely called 'Agitation' is in actual fact a reissue of two hellishly rare Folkway's vinyl albums from the late sixties / early seventies. 'Tract' is a mashed up, cut 'n paste masterpiece fuelled by the intense repression, counterrevolutionary terror, & execution style murders perpetrated in Turkey, Ilhan's homeland at the time of these recordings. The result is blasts and shards of rough electronics, surreal looped radio ads plus the breathy, soulful & defiant voice of Turkish singer Tuly Sand who recites the writings of Chairman Mao, Karl Marx & Bertolt Brecht amongst others. 'To Kill a Sunrise' is truly stunning, kicking off with half heard vocals and freestyle synth playing all cut up. Then multi channeled spoken vocals recite the names of those murdered because of racial hatred and right wing politics - an intensely moving performance heightened by the tone keyboard drifts. As this piece progresses the vocals fade in to the background while Ilhan's electronics express their anger in a torrent of freestyle noise - breathtaking. The final piece, 'La Ruche' differs by it's use of traditional instrumentation though this artists insane quest to force a response out of the listener means that the sounds are spiked and cut up to the max. Distorted cello, stabs inbetween the haunted slides of massed strings, lonesome piano and possessed harpsicord. Painstakingley remastered with love. Seventy seven minutes long but without a single second wasted. One of the reissues of the year, of this there's simply no doubt. Truly magnificent music.

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas
Domino

'Tres Cosas' is the follow up to 2003's amazing 'Segundo' album, even though that only got a UK release earlier on this summer. This new album is slighty less electronica based, instead concentrating more on Juana's so lush vocals, acoustic guitar playing and subtle keyboard tone colouring. Again all sung in spanish, this artist is from argentina you know. Like 'Segundo' it's a perfect marriage of the cooler school of Beleza Tropical musics and the more reflective side of US indie folk. A perfect come down from these hard and stressful times. Extra cool digipack packaging with a stitched down booklet, crazy. Buy.

Manual & Syntaks - Golden Sun
Darla

Almost two years ago jonas munk (manual, limp, icebreaker international) and jakob skøtt (syntaks, limp) began recording for this gorgeous album, their most ambitious work to date. "Golden Sun" can loosely be described as the first tentative steps of two inspired artists into the realms of instrumental hip hop, though not quite as you'd imagine. The sounds here are as far removed from the hiccup beats of Scott Herren or the syncopated plunderphonics of Daedelus as you could imagine - instead focusing on a densely layered fabric of atmospheric synths and padded percussion. Hard to imagine what shoegazing hip hop might sound like, but "Golden Sun" manages it without pretension or dogmatism, delivering a warm haze of deeply cinematic bliss that sounds like Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine with b-boy beats. Lovely material - highly recommended.

Murcof (Terrestre) - Secondary Inspection
Static Discos

"Terrestre" is a side project from Mexico's Fernando Corona, aka Murcof, and "Secondary Inspection" is his second album following on from the incredible "Martes" album released on Leaf back in 2002. "Terrestre" finds a different approach and method from Fernando, concentrating on percussive structures and rhythmic accompaniments to his by now trademarked cinematic compositions. Fernando has been developing the Terrestre project for some time now and has recently scored the soundtrack for "nicotina", the latest movie from the producers of the internationally acclaimed "amores perros" under this name, while his music as Terrestre has also been used in japan in a jeans commercial starting brad pitt. Much more focused in scope on the broken, neon House of the Context label with which he first found a home, "Secondary Inspection" serves as a sharp reminder of Fernando's talents not only with strings and soundscapes, but also with deep rhythms. This 50 minute album continues to push Murcof under his various aliases to the forefront of new music and is another fascinating splintering of a sound he has more or less single-handedly invented. Highly recommended.

On (Sylvain Chauveau / Steven Hess) - Your naked ghost comes back at night
DSA

"On" is the association of two musicians in a studio in chicago : sylvain chauveau - prepared guitar ; steven hess - percussion. This album was recorded by jeremy lemos (a sound engineer who has been working with jim o'rourke, smog, rob mazurek, town and country and us maple) who ammased three hours of material played by the band and sent it on to revered Norwegian producer Helge Sten (aka deathprod) from the improv band Supersilent. In his hands, the pieces here have been caressed into long monochromes of distant sounds, where the instruments are transformed into layers of grey, brown and black. Steven hess has collaborated with many Chicago-based musicians (pan american, the dropp ensemble, greg davis,cynthia dall) and has here struck up an amazing recording partnership with Chauveau who has made four solo records of inspired short pieces for piano and strings. "Your naked ghost...." is a potent, hushed journey through drones and transitions in miniature that gain massively from Deathprod's incredibly dense production. Recommended.

September Collective (Barbara Morgenstern / Stefan Schneider / Paul Wirkus) - September Collective
Geographic

Now this is a very pleasant surprise. Electronic supergroups have a knack for either underwhelming you by failing to impose their true characters on the proceedings or equally by trying to outdo each other making for an over ambitious mess of the preceedings. Barbara and Stefan need no introduction, though Barbara's lack of vocals here might be a surprise to most. This leads me to think that she's in charge of keyboards and the upfront melodies on display here - somewhat and thankfully more reflective and subdued compared to her last CD. Stefan taking a break from his solo Mapstation project and his role in To Rococo Rot probably handles the sumptous basslines and rhythmic elements which leaves Paul Wirkus (Quecksilber) to handle the foggy and static drift elements which give this wonderful minature suite of musical gems it's overall electronic/organic feel. Inspired all the way from the 70's sound of Harmonia/Cluster all the way to today's organic/electronic scene. An album that would feel right at home on our own CCO label so massive props to Steven at Geographic for bringing this amazing album to us. Ten tracks, 30+ minutes. A live experience of this album would be very welcome but in the meantime this version of the September Collective gets a very, very warm recommendation. A true gem.

Stafraenn Hakon - Ventill / Poki
Resonant

After two massively respected full-lengths on Resonant, the much-lauded Stafraenn Hakon is about to step up a gear or two. Ventil / Poki features Stafraenn's first new material in two years - on the back of the success and acclaim that met the aforementioned "Skvettir Edik a Ref" and "I Astaandi Rjupunnar", both of which were old albums deservedly seeing light of day for the first time beyond his native Iceland. Whereas those two were effectively home recordings using basic instruments and means, "Ventill/Poki" is the end result of a week in a studio in England with the help of fellow Resonant artist Dialect, using live bass and drums sounding like the product of a band rather than one guy. That said, it retains the feel of his previous work, and shimmers along similar territory to Sigur Ros and Ulrich Schnauss - quietly euphoric and unashamedly romantic. Recommended.

String Theory - Radiovalerian
Wobblyhead

String Theory have been building their robotic funk bridge since their debut for Skam's smak series back in 1999. They have paved their way with miles of lush electronica, retro soundscaping, and a deep shuffle of the fours for the floor. Their sound hybrids classic warpage with super-deep cologne sensibilities, full of effects and processes that never sound overly intelectual or cerebral. The album is full of shifting moods and techniques, from android dub to melodic and clean-cut master strokes that will get your body lockin' and poppin' for sure. As a bonus, this Vinyl-only release comes with a cd version thrown in for good measure, including an extra track, the much lauded `honey top' from the recent frank wobbly & sons limited 7-inch series. Really really nice.

Textile Ranch - Bird Heart In Wool
Very Friendly

"Bird heart in wool" is the debut album from textile ranch, the solo project of glen johnson from piano magic. The album includes "boys climbing skull" and "girl with numbered heart" taken from the double a-side single (on the french label, lykill), "huit oiseaux bruns dans la nuit blanche (modèle reduit)" is taken from the 7" single of the same name (on the static caravan label), while everything else on here is new and exclusive. Angèle david-guillou, from the french band, klima, sings on "nightmares of the deer.", while steph jaggers speaks on "the dream of the murderer's ship pulling out." These tracks were all recorded at home without the aid of computers. Check.

Various / Rafael Toral - Antologia de Música Electrónica Portuguesa
Tomlab

Compiled by Rafael Toral and Plancton Music (PT), this splendid collection revisits thirty plus years of Portugese electronics. Notably opening with Nuno Canavarro, whose Plux Quba is apparently Jim O'Rourke's favourite album of all time - he reissued it on his own Moikai imprint late nineties - the compilers have unearthed some classic material omitted from the original album, which has been causing quite a furore amongst devotees. The historical thread is a fascinating one, linking in Rafael's own words "the authors' cultural territories and also to document as many approaches to electronic music as possible, both on material and conceptual levels" . Fans of electro- acoustic material will love this album, and the insights into some unknown composers is a fascinating one. With appearances from Nuno Canavarro, Cândido Lima, Nuno Rebelo, Isabel Soveral, Filipe Pires, Telectu, Jorge Peixinho, Rafael Toral, João Pedro Oliveira, Anar Band, René Bertholo, Carlos Zíngaro, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, No Noise Reduction, and António Ferreira. Highly recommended.

Diplo - Florida
Big Dada

After the crazy rush for the limited screen print advance version here is the full release version with some amazing artwork. 'Florida' has been my soundtrack for the last two month's or so. An amazing cross genre splice up that covers hip hop, soul, psych, booty, folk, electro and cinematic soundtracks. What hit's you most though is that Diplo's got his own sound rather than simply copying his numerous inflences. Contrary to advance rumours the Martina Topley Bird track 'Into The Sun' does appear here but it seems that Big Dada have had to take her name out of the promotional drive for this album and also her name is not featured next to the track, strange decision. As I said before it's a frightening range of styles from heavy booty bangers, to lushed electrofied downtempo pieces with ridiculous samples and offbeat accompaniment. Guests in addition to Martina include PEACE (from Freestyle Fellowship) on 'Indian Thick Jawns' and the Vibez Cartel ripping botty style on 'Diplo Rhythm'. This album is pure heat, words barely do it justice and comparisons are also useless. One of the albums of the year.

Mf Doom / Various - Convexed
Nature Sounds

Quality collection of brand new East coast cuts, simultaneously establishing a new label and demonstrating some skillful underground revivalism. Some unusual suspects line up with 16 new and exclusive cuts; MF Doom (2 tracks), Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, Masta Killa (2 tracks), Zion I, Timboking & Ra the Rugged Man, Mr Eon & Sean Price, Bootie Brown (Pharcyde), Count Bass D, Cage, Vordul (Cannibal Ox), I Self Divine (Micranots), plus instrumentals, interludes and deep thoughts from graff legend Tracy 168. Dope.

Oh No And Dj Double Dose - The Disrupt Chronicles
Disrupt

With us in the same week as his Stones Throw 12" sampler 'The Ride', which is all building up to what will be one of 2004's hottest hip hop full length debuts, 'The Disrupt' all by the man Oh No. He's Madlib's little bro' you know and he's also known as Michael Jackson, maybe this is why he's called Oh No, hee hee. Here to open up his previously not so much slept on but defo under represented production duties, DJ Double Dose lays down the wrecked gangsta hip hop with a kinda' Jay Dee flow on our heads - your emcee host is Oh No himself. It's an amazing rough ride with some hellish dope tracks from Kali Wild, LMNO, Grand Agent (feel the bass sickness), Kazi, Aloe Blacc, Supernatural, Declaime, Large Professor, Visionaries and Prodigy of Mobb Deep. No diggedy this is best pure hip hop banging mixtape CD of the year. Raw, dope and damned essential - you most def need dis.

Qwel & Maker - The Harvest
Galapagos 4

Originally part of the Typical Cats' crew but now two solo albums in for Chicago's always on point G4 label. This third outing is a much more straight down the centre aggro hip hop gem after the wayward and hard listening albums 'The Rubber Duckie Experiment' and 'If It Ain't Been In A Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play The Blues'. Laying down the beats and music's is upcoming new school producer Maker, who has so far dropped beats for artists like Mestizo, Josh Martinez, Lord 360 and Thawfor. His beats drop hard and heavy, cloaked by small arms fire - an immense talent with the all important funk factor who's about to drrropp! Qwel's lyrics continue to be hard and white hot, dropping rough lyrics and serious topics that demand your attention "but brother's would it kill us to change..." kicks off the lyrics of fury on the wicked 'The "It" In Keeping IT Real', peep the exotic string samples. The intenseness continues on 'Broken Wing', raw yet melodic - then 'The Siren Of Liberty' which is like classic early Anticon, forward hip hop, uncompromising but still respectful to the roots of rap. Two of the dopest highlights are firstly the fast rap duo spot with Mestizo called 'The Network' and then the loosely sparse but direct gunshot splattered madness of 'Capathy', just check the gunshot fire sampling and Meaty Ogre's scratching especially at the close of this track - frightening, sick and megadope as is all of this fifteen track CD. Galapagos 4 seem completely incapable of releasing anything less than surefire dope so cold check this out.

Charlie Parr - King Earl
Misplaced Music

Duluth Minnesota's finest returns, a couple weeks after his stunning 'Criminals & Sinners' set had the alan lomax and harry smith watchers amongst us scurrying for cover. After years of reviewing frankly half-arsed blues derivators, its so refreshing to hear someone like Charlie pick up the baton, and hit the ground running. Driving country blues and rags in the old style, 11 new compositions next to a couple of rearrangments of 'worried blues' and 'miner's lament'. Next to able board stomps and washboard, there's a couple theremin tracks - all the while, Charlie hollers and plays beautifully on 12 string, National steel and even banjo. There's splashes of instrumental brilliance the equal of Leo Kottke's 6 & 12 string, but really it's Parr's corruscating attack of a voice, heading down that dusty gravel road which raises the stakes here. As serious as your life, and twice as exciting - what a discovery.

Fly Pan Am - N'ecoutez Pas
Constellation

Le Fly Pan Am is one of the founding bands of the Constellation label. They have progressed from the long form instrumental rock of their debut `Fly Pan Am' to the dry funk meets tape damage of their second full length `Ceux Qui Inventent' arriving at their latest terminus with `N,Ecoutez Pas...' a collection of songs pushed to maximum density, marked by dark shoegazer guitars, distorted organ stabs, rubbery basslines, motorik drumming and various shrouded voices whispering, screaming and singing along the way. This is a seriously malladjusted record featuring lectronic interventions from the gifted Tim Hecker and Alex St Onge, in key with the excellent Animal Collective and at times reminiscent of Black Dice - messy, mental and fabulously original. Check.

Interpol - Slow Hands
Matador
cd single

Opening salvo from Interpol's hotly anticipated second album, `Antics'. 'Slow Hands' is a relentless, hypnotically beat-driven pop song, a good example of Paul Banks' mix of oft-understated, oft-soaring vocals complimenting Daniel Kessler's driving guitar lines. The b-sides feature two remixes of the lead track from DJ Dan The Automator and Britt Daniel of Spoon

Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
Secretly Canadian

Jens Lekman employs each of the following as central features in his songs: horn sections, string sections, a capella singing, steel drums, piano balladry, and mandolin. Lekman is a young pop crooner from Göteborg, Sweden who's become an overnight sensation with his home recorded magic and obtuse lyrics. It's hard to believe that he is only 23, his timeless elegance makes big suburban pop songs sound like they've already been played for an age. Ace.

Swayzak - Loops from the bergerie
K7

Much has changed for swayzak since their early appearances on the Pagan tec-house tip. 'Keep it coming' reflects their growing immersion in an evolving world scene, issuing out of minimal electro-house, building fully on the legacy of prime period New Order, and welding it to a sound perfect for the ongoing hardcore ravers, oblivious to the fickle naysayers in the uk media. 'Another Way' hints at a possible direction The Blue Nile could have taken, if they'd gone out a bit more, and not spent so bloomin long in the studios. 'Jeune Lou' perhaps hits closest to the Swayzak sound of old - only the delayed guitars strike one as a new dimension, on 'Slowblind' and 'Speakeasy', there's the now familiar Cologne centred shaffel rhythm, neither rock, nor reggae, but a funny technofied blend somewhere amidships. You just get the feeling the boys are much more comfy with their housier heritage, in the precussive rolls of '8080' , and still somewhat uneasy with the constraints of a major label release and the demands for vocal and accessible pop. 'The Long Night' rounds off a confused album, Swayzak perhaps on the verge of something great, but not quite there yet.

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.

Tony Aiken & Future 2000 - Unity, Sing It Shout It
Kimsha

Useful disco business on the Kimsha label - 'Unity' subscribes to classic good times prescription, universal lyric, nice harmonies and full instrumentation, horns, strings - the full bit. Originally rare as, this first saw the light of day in 1976, blending musicians of caribean backgrounds, hitting the funk fulled early disco vibes around at the time. Highlight for this writer is the most funk based track 'Better Days', with nifty bass, and insane keys. 'Time tunnel' also impresses, and while the more soulful material has perhaps dated less favourably, this is still a lovely piece, and able to cause a ruckus all over again.

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The Guardian review Phil Bancroft - Headlong

This album was also reviewed in last Sunday's The Observer newspaper.

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All About Jazz review Riptyde - Sonic Undertow featuring guest appearances from Allan Holdsworth

Personnel: Chris Hoard (piano, synths, chapman stick, bass), Amon Freon (e-drums, loops, samples, effects)
With Special Guests: Ekow Asare (voice), 4Zone (rap vocals), Mark Gleed (synths)
Featured Guest Soloist: Allan Holdsworth (electric guitar, piccolo electric guitar)

Style: Fringes of Jazz

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All About Jazz review Clogs - Stick Music

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Almost Cool review Radian - Juxtaposition

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Almost Cool review Le Fly Pan Am - N'Ecoutez Pas

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musicOMH.com interview The Blue Nile

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Over at Pond Of Tunes there are various posts on the best progressive rock albums of the 70s.

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Andy Kellman provides Doubt Beat 2004 Best so far set of lists.

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Friday, September 10, 2004

 

Pi Recordings profile Art Ensemble of Chicago - Sirius Calling

The Art Ensemble of Chicago's Sirius Calling, is the last recording by Malachi Favors Maghostut. Malachi's passing January 30th of this year, came as a shock to everyone. We had already mixed and mastered this CD, but it was not until Malachi's passing that we realized the significance of the title, chosen by Malachi. The album was recorded in the same sessions that produced last year's The Meeting, but the results are startlingly different. The quartet returns to fire off fourteen tracks of duo, trio and of course quartet Art Ensemble music. [Source: email newsletter]

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Pi Recordings profile Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace

Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace is the second release, in the two part series, of a live duo performance of Wadada and Braxton. It was recorded April 5th, 2003 at Tonic in NYC.

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Leonard's Lair review Charles Atlas - Tothedustfrommanyoucameandtomanyoushallreturn

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Leonard's Lair review Avrocar - Guidance - a new 6 track [ep/mini album?] due for release this November.

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Billboard report the latest Cave In news: Cave In Confirms RCA Split

Considering their one album for RCA was a big step backwards - they tried shorter songs and a more structured songs approach - which fell way sort of the epic dynamics of the Jupiter album.

Brodsky commented:
"For a few years, I didn't feel like our sound developed as much as I'd have liked it to. It's very exciting for us right now, because we have something new to offer people. We're not always easy to grasp."

Hopefully this new freedom, will see them sign to an independent label - where they can get back on track.

I bet Cave In will have many record companies offering them deals to sign. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they end up on Ipecac Records [owned by Mike Patton] - as this label would allow artistic freedom and they have experience of promoting dynamic rock bands such as Isis - who have connections with Cave In via Hydra Head Records.

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All About Jazz review Natsuki Tamura Quartet - Exit

Personnel: Natsuki Tamura--trumpet; Takayuki Kato--guitar; Satoko Fujii--synthesizer; Ryojiro Furusawa--drums

Style: Modern Jazz/Free Improvisation

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Playlouder interview Steve Hogarth of Marillion

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Playlouder interview Clinic

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Splendid review Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm

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BBC Collective review Swayzak - Loops from the Bergerie

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BBC Collective review Diplo - Florida

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Stina Nordenstam website has been revamped to tie in with the upcoming single & album.

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The latest issue of Rock Sound magazine includes a free CD with tracks from the likes of Aereogramme, Comets on Fire, Converge and Cult of Luna.

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This week's Mixing It show: Mixing It - 10 September 2004 on Radio 3 features:

Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall and featuring highlights from a concert given as part of this year's "Feedback" Contemporary Music Network tour and including improvisations by Otomo Yoshihide, Nicolas Collins and the tour's curator Knut Aufermann. Recorded at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke's, London in June.

Plus tracks from the likes of Subtle, Bill Frisell and Massive Attack: Danny the Dog.

Broadcast: Friday 10 September 2004, 10:00pm

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The Guardian interview Interpol

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Happy Saturday for Shaun

SHAUN RYDER is standing in as a guest presenter on The Rocket Science show tomorrow on 6 Music.

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Next week's releases are reviewed @ Norman Records

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Intuitive Music report Psychic TV reunite for a September/ October European Tour.

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Dusted Features spotlight the listening interests of Greg Davis

After years of working with hip-hop groups, jazz combos, free improvisation, and experimental composition, greg davis moved toward the world of computer-based music around 1996. At Depaul University in

Chicago, Greg studied classical & jazz guitar alongside composition and jazz studies. In 1997, he started his own label, Autumn Records, to release his own music and the music of others. Greg moved to Boston in 1999 to pursue a master's degree in composition which he received in June, 2001. As an active performer in the Boston music scene, Greg

Played many shows by himself and as parallel with Don Mennerich. Since then he has released two full-length records: Arbor (Carpark, 2002), and Curling Pond Woods (Carpark, 2004). Curling Pond Woods was recorded following Greg's move back to Chicago, where he currently resides. Forthcoming releases include a duo cd with Keith Fullerton Whitman on Carpark, 'Gather / Scatter' 7" on Tonschacht, a duo cd with Steven Hess, a cd of drone pieces entitled Somnia and a number of compilation and remix appearances.

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Dusted review Neotropic - White Rabbits

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Stylus review Melchior Productions - The Meaning

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Dense Promotion: Forthcoming Releases

Forthcoming releases are profiled by Dense Promotion, Berlin.

ALEXANDER RISHAUG - Possible Landscape [CD Asphodel]
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFITTI - The Doldrums [CD/LP Paw Tracks]
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY - djTRIO [CD Asphodel]
ED LAWES - 14 Tracks/Pieces [CD Planet Mu]
FOURCOLOR - Air Curtain [CD 12k]
FOURCOLOR - Water Mirror [CD apestaartje]
F.S.BLUMM - Sesamsamen [CD Plop]
GUSTAV - Rettet die Wale [CD mosz]
HANS APPELQVIST - Bremort [CD Komplott]
JOHN HUDAK - Room with Sky [CD Spekk]
METALYCÉE - Another White Album [CD mosz]
MICHAELA MELIÁN - Baden-Baden [CD/LP Monika Enterprise]
MOKIRA - FFT POP [CD cubicfabric]
OTTO VON SCHIRACH - Global Speaker Fisting [CD Schematic]
O.LAMM - Hello Spiral [CD Active Suspension]
PAN/TONE - Newfound Urban Calm [2CD Bip-Hop]
SECRET FREQUENCY CREW - Forest of the Echo Downs [CD Schematic]
STEPHAN MATHIEU - On Tape [CD Häpna]
STYROFOAM - Nothing's Lost [CD/LP morr music]
V.A. - BROKEN CHANNEL [DVD Cocosolidciti]
VITOR JOAQUIM - A Rose is a Rose [CD dOc recordings]

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG - Possible Landscape [CD Asphodel ASP 2024]
http://www.asphodel.com

Alexander Rishaug is a sound artist and electronic musician based in Oslo, Norway. A member of the country's fertile experimental music scene, Rishaug has toured throughout Europe and the US and appeared on compilations on the Rune Grammofon, Jester and Smalltown Supersound labels. His first full-length, the critically acclaimed Panorama, was released in 2002 by Smalltown Supersound.
Moving from ambient to abstract beats and classic clicks and cuts, Rishaug's second release, Possible Landscape, explores tones and textures creating detailed, rich and melodic soundscapes. Based on recordings of self-played instruments and field recordings that were then edited and processed on
Rishaug's computer, Possible Landscape straddles a perfect middle ground between structure and rhythm with unexpected skips and random shifts.
Also a member of the improv trio ARM with Arne Borganand Are Mokkelbost (Single Unit), Rishaug has collaborated with numerous other artists including Håkon Kornstad, Pål Asle Pettersen, Tonny Klyften, John Hegre, Jørgen Træen, Toshimaru Nakamura and Salvatore.

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ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFITTI - The Doldrums [CD/LP Paw Tracks PAW3]
http://www.paw-tracks.com

After years of recording in relative seclusion in the hills of Los Angeles, Ariel Pink (the first non-Animal Collective member on the Paw Tracks roster) makes his official Paw Tracks debut with "The
Doldrums". Originally a handmade CD-R release a couple years back, "The Doldrums" by Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti was discovered by the Animal Collective during one of their west coast tours and became an immediate favorite.
Recording at home with only a guitar, keyboard, and 8-track (the drum sounds are all unbelievably created with his vocals), Ariel Pink blends Lite FM and warped lo-fi pop into something beautiful and confusing, yet highly addictive.

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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY - djTRIO [CD Asphodel ASP 2023]
http://www.asphodel.com

Performer, sculptor, and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and turntables since 1979. As a musician, he was one of the first to use records and turntables as a medium for performance and improvisation.
Mixing a wide variety of LPs on multiple turntables, fragmenting and repeating sounds, altering speeds, playing records backwards, spinning, throwing, scratching, and otherwise manipulating records to create his unique "theater of found sound," Marclay's extreme DJ manipulations predate
by two decades the turntablists of today. djTRIO is a rotating trio founded by Christian Marclay in 1996 to showcase the talent of some of the world's best avant-garde turntablists. Rooted in the context of free-improvisation, Marclay's latest musical project continues pushing forward the definition of what deejaying is. The new CD features four of the most forward thinking turntablists of the new music scene: Toshio Kajiwara, Erik M., DJ Olive and Marina Rosenfeld. djTRIO features the deejay as an instrumentalist working collectively in a group instead of performing as a soloist. Over the course of the past seven years djTRIO has also included Otomo Yoshihide, Pita, and Tom Recchion, among others. The follow-up to Marclay's 2000 collaboration with Otomo Yoshihide, Moving Parts (Asphodel) djTRIO continues to demonstrate that a lot more can be done with turntables than just scratch beats. The new CD was compiled by Marclay from live recordings of numerous performances at museums and clubs in the US, France, Switzerland, and Portugal.

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ED LAWES - 14 Tracks/Pieces [CD Planet Mu ZIQ110]
http://www.planet-mu.com

A collection of works by Birmingham-based musician & contemporary composer Ed Lawes. He divides the works between 'pieces' (generally scored for or impovised on more traditional instruments) and 'tracks' (which can be generalised as more computer-based or 'electroacoustic' works).
The pieces include studies for violin, double bass & tenor saxophone and works for mixed ensemble among other things. The performances, recordings and improvisations are carefully edited and processed, layered and combined to form these pieces (and tracks); for whatever reason there is a tremendous depth of emotion within them. Brief references: Ligeti, Stockhausen, Autechre, Anthony Braxton.

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FOURCOLOR - Air Curtain [CD 12k 12K1029]
http://www.12k.com

Air Curtain is the latest release from Keiichi Sugimoto's (minamo, fonica) solo project Fourcolor. Following his release Water Mirror (Apestaartje, 2004) in which Sugimoto created gradually evolving works using guitar drones and resonances, Air Curtain was composed to be a more diverse album
and an exploration of different processes. Still utilizing the signature drones and ambient washes of guitar notes and resonances, Air Curtain is a very flowing work, yet finds movement in implied rhythmic edits, synthetic percussive accents and more structured playing techniques. The results are engaging, picturesque works that swell and flow with an air of warmth and translucence, layered with subtle shifts and sparks that demand attentive listening and further establish Sugimoto's place as one of the genre's strongest emerging talents.

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FOURCOLOR - Water Mirror [CD apestaartje staartje016]
http://www.staartje.com

After releasing several stunning albums as a part of the electro-acoustic quartet Minamo (apestaartje/cubic music) and as 1/2 of the electronica duo Fonica (plop/tomlab) this is Keiichi Sugimoto‚s first widely distributed solo release as Fourcolor. Focusing predominately on the guitar 'water mirror' blends acoustic resonance with subtle precision to create an extremely detailed and restrained listening experience. Sugimoto focuses on the smallest of elements using electronics to accentuate every facet of an already tactile sound palette. Sugimoto seamlessly blends various threads of kinetic listening in this ever-shifting composition of gradual movement. A difficult one to memorize, 'water mirror' is a deceptively complex album full of warmth and rigor. The album closes with an epic 25 min soundtrack to the film 'Frontire' by Japanese experimental filmmaker Jun Miyazaki which will be screening at this years Cannes Film Festival. Extremely gradual music.

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F.S.BLUMM - Sesamsamen [CD Plop PLIP-3012]
http://www.inpartmaint.com/plop

F.S.Blumm is Frank Schültge born in Bremen in 1968. In Bremen he graduated in Art, Music and Educational Science. Eventually he moved to Hanover and since 1997 F.S.Blumm has been living in Berlin where he is successfully free lancing as a musician, composer, radioplay author and producer.
F.S.Blumm is part of Sack & Blumm, Rebresch & Blumm and KINN. He has released on Tomlab, Morr Music, Tokuma, Staubgold, Audio Dregs and others; his radio plays are broadcast by the WDR, SWR, Deutschlandradio and others.
Text by F.S.Blumm: This album is about approaching a musical idea from various sides. There are mainly two pieces on this album: one is 'coop comp' (which stands for cooperative composition) the other is 'leben lauft'. During the last seven years I made a couple of solo-releases wherein I always invited a small number of single musicians to play their wonderful instruments for me. One day I noticed that all these people never really met each other on my records and so I had the idea of
inviting all of them at once to create something like 'a symphony of friends'. As a basis I took my guitar and wrote a composition inspired by Ethiopian-rhythms. I did a 'general-midi'-version of it which I then gave along with the score to my friends, telling them: "You can do whatever you want: stick to the notes, do a field-recording, freak out, but the closer you stay with the example the
better everything will be combinable, I guess." In the end I received 10 beautiful contributions, reaching from one minute to one hour, from sparse melodies to rich arrangements. Semuin and I combined all these pieces in countless ways. We didn't succeed in doing the big symphony, but we did a lot of overtures. On this album I invited two more artists, because I have always felt deeply connected to their specific speech in my musical ways: one is Bjorn Kuhligk, the other is Yumiko Matsui: Bjorn Kuhligk wrote three texts combined under the name 'leben lauft', which inspired me to write some music which is heard here in three different versions. The task was to heighten the two disciplines by giving each other space to unfold (appreciating). Listening. Answering. Projection surfaces. Association surfaces. In the end Yumiko Matsui did all the artwork.

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GUSTAV - Rettet die Wale [CD mosz 005]
http://www.mosz.org

Besides her artistic work, Eva Jantschitsch was co-founding the musical formations Metrosau, Motorsau and Songs of Suspects. Since the end of 2002 she has focused on her solo-project Gustav.
Like all previous Mosz releases, "Rettet die Wale" [mosz005] is an artist's first album. Behind the name 'Gustav' hides a female musician with mainly a Fine Arts background. Though the "Rettet die Wale" is quite the opposite of Metalycée's "Another White Album" [mosz004], it can also be considered a pop album in a wider sense. Each piece on this CD is electronically based, but structured like a classic pop song. They are put into perspective by the fragile voice of Gustav herself.
The title of the CD might seem kitschy and concerned but in fact Gustav wittily uses both, political facts and poetic elements. In a way all the tracks contain more or less serious lyrics - basically German and English - but they are composed with a good sense of humour.

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HANS APPELQVIST - Bremort [CD Komplott escudre03]
http://www.komplott.com

On his new album Bremort, Hans Appelqvist seeks an alternative technique of musical story telling, a search which seems to be founded in a sort of restlessness or maybe a mise en cause of those simple and solidly established parameters which have been established in instrumental and conventional popular music. Appelqvist mainly derives his particular form of musical story telling from feature film, where the music is paralleling the story so as to amplify it or comment it. It is in this form, where sound and image converge, that Appelqvist is conducting his search for unexpected emotional expressions.
Bremort is the name of a fictitious city where the listener takes part in scenes in the lives of the people of this average Swedish town. The album has no comprehensive theme but is rather built up around several small episodes, which have nothing in common other than the fact that they all take place in this same fictitious city during a limited period of time. The depictions are accompanied by different musical themes in which the beige existence of some of the inhabitants of Bremort are portrayed and linked together in recurrent intermezzos. As such Bremort is in a way a place of refuge, a sanctuary for the commonplace.
In earlier productions Appelqvist has introduced a distinctive world of resonance in which an encoded narrative is concealed. With Bremort Appelqvist is not only creating his most comprehensive work so far, it is also a further elaboration of his singular technique of storytelling. These are moods to return to again and again, but at the same time not as concrete in its narrative form as to defy the description of music. Here you find dependence between image and sound where each part presupposes the other.

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JOHN HUDAK - Room with Sky [CD Spekk KK003]
http://www.spekk.net

US sound-artist John Hudak's new material is a sculpture of his voice speaking about the view of the sky from his room. The actual tones heard on this album sound so delicate and beautiful like a
reflection in a mirror by going through more than 20 permutations before arriving at this final version. This was originally released on a CDR limited to 50 copies from his own chaba recordings (now out of print) in 2003 and this will be the official release with the remastering by Stephan Mathieu.
Text by John Hudak: Room with sky began as a recording of my speaking voice in my bedroom, which is very sunny on sunny days. My bedroom has Bauhaus style casement windows with views in the Southern direction (towards New York city), and the Western direction (towards the Hudson River and the Palisades cliffs of New Jersey on the opposite side of the river). The words that I spoke came directly out of my mouth in a stream-of-consciousness style, with the actual text having been lost through destructive editing within my computer. The idea behind this piece was for me to convey in the listener the feeling of being in this sunny room, on a sunny day. I took the recording of my voice and put it through many permutations before finally arriving at this ending point. Room with sky was mastered by Stephan Mathieu consisting partly of a process of digital to analog to digital conversion...for warmth.

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METALYCÉE - Another White Album [CD mosz 004]
http://www.mosz.org

Armin Steiner and Nik Hummer are primarily known for their longtime project thilges3 (Steiner, Hummer, Gammon). In this context their mission is the acoustic introduction of public places like museums, galleries, theatres and clubs to social transformation-triggering and visual sound innovations. Metalycée is a very new project with the aim to salve, recover, transform and put metal into the field of electronic music without respecting any borderlines.
Another White Album - their first CD ever - is basically made of digitally processed guitar and drum samples, which Steiner and Hummer merge with their modular synth sounds into a unique construction. The metal-like sounding samples are cut and arranged precisely in an almost breakbeat kind of style, always ready for an unexpected change between harsh & abrasive and floating
forms. In addition friends and fans of the band like Didi Bruckmayr from Fuckhead (Mego) and John Norman from Radian (Thrill Jockey) contribute as guests on “21H39” and “5H17” A harsh Viennese Melange and a vivid proof that there are still new paths within electronica, which can be discovered.

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MICHAELA MELIÁN - Baden-Baden [CD/LP Monika Enterprise 39]
http://www.monika-enterprise.de

This, Michaela Melián's first solo album, comprises slow and uplifting melodic grooves. She uses strong yet simple beats and entrancing cello to set a relaxed mood. Two years in the making, the album from F.S.K. bassist and singer is a work of concisely crafted electronic beauty. Although produced as accompanying pieces to Melián's exhibitions as a visual artist, the album now stands proud on its own right. The listener is even graced with Melian's wonderful voice on the last number, a Roxy Music cover recorded especially for this album.

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MOKIRA - FFT POP [CD cubicfabric cubicf04]
http://www.cubicmusic.com/fabric

Andreas Tilliander aka Mokira is regarded as one of the most important key figures in the world of electronic music from Sweden. We can call him the guy with various faces because of his unlimited activities that expand across the fields of nu electronica as Andreas Tilliander, Lowfour, Rechord, Komp... and Mokira.
It could be said that Mokira is Tilliander's prime project now. Mokira's first appearance on Raster-Noton, Berlin, represented the era of new electronica with its title "crip hop". After that, he kept on deepening his sounds with elegant and rich textures that remind us of the sounds of 4AD and the shoegazer phase. Tilliander is also famous for his reliable skills and career as a mastering engineer and producer. Based in his private studio Repeatle in Stockholm, he has produced various music for the dance floors and the listening rooms in northern and western Europe.
"FFT POP" is the fourth full length album following "Album" (Type Records). On this album, Tilliander shows the one and only aesthetics with developed senses of melodies and the manners of dub. What is remarkable is the mixture of hi-fi sound design and the smell of decadence and beauty that 80's
indie rock & pop possessed (Tilliander mentions that this work is an homage to My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" album). Free from either low-fi romanticism or narrative folk/poptronica, Tilliander has succeeded in completing his masterpiece and predicting a new era of POP music. Tilliander welcomed
vocalist/lyricist Piana (cubic music/HAPPY) on a vocal track "Tsuki no Kioku" (means "memories of the moon" in Japanese). The two realized a great collaboration to melt each other's world view together. We can hardly believe that they worked together by merely exchanging audio data via www.

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OTTO VON SCHIRACH - Global Speaker Fisting [CD Schematic SCH044]
http://www.schematic.net

Deafening audiences and defying protocol, Otto Von Schirach returns in '04 with a freshly-lubed full-length to give electronica another ghetto suppository. The follow up to 2002's Chopped Zombie Fungus (Schematic), 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, Von Schirach's third album is easily his finest and most accomplished record to date.
Global Speaker Fisting could not arrive at a better time for this 27 year-old Miami resident. Fresh from recent work with the likes of Skinny Puppy - programming and sound design for their 2004
full-length, The Greater Wrong of the Right, serving as the warm-up act on the band's recent American tour - Von Schirach's innovations also caught the eye of Miss Kittin, who asked him to remix "Professional Distortion," the first single off of her most recent album I Com (Astralwerks.) With demands for collaboration from artists as diverse as these, clearly Otto Von Schirach is up to
something.
File under: "Insult to Injury," beside the fetishistic imagery of Joel Peter Witkin's photographs, the shuddering noise of Venetian Snares, the cartoon cruelty of Jake and Dinos Chapman's sculptures,
and the theme-park insanity of author George Saunders. Otto Von Schirach's comedy is meant to shake people free from apathy. His futuristic sound suggests that behind all the scum and perversity, Von Schirach is an optimist. Global Speaker Fisting is a courageous and iconoclastic leap into the frightening, unknowable tomorrow.

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O.LAMM - Hello Spiral [CD Active Suspension ACD11]
http://www.activesuspension.org

O.Lamm is an electronic musician. He likes weird noise, upbeat wizardry, spiraling crawling hooks and pompous melodies. He generates sounds from nothing as much as he kneads natural sounds through the technological prism, his prime purpose simply being to put his idealised vision of pop music into concrete form. Meaning, a form of pop music which would be as sonically adventurous as it is immediately accessible.
Hello Spiral means, kind of, to look straight into the eye of a spiral, without blinking. Hello Spiral is o.lamm’s second official long play, after Snow Party, which was released in april 2002. Hello Spiral is located thousand light years from its predecessor, even if it doesn’t turn its back on it all the same. Hello Spiral is a very singing and sung record. Zoé and Kumi from The Konki Duet, Noak Katoi, The Very Ape, Davide Balula, Odot himself, as well as a twenty people choir gathered for the occasion (the Lucifer Amp Choir) sing very nice cryptic words, making the album very much alike something that really resembles pop music. Hello Spiral is one big whole cut in two halves. The first half is quite rhythmic and steep, the second is calmer, yet drilled with quite dangerous aspirations. Hello Spiral
is indeed a very talkative record. Hello Spiral is indeed a very dense record. Hello Spiral is full of instruments and musicians, but also full of very abstract sounds, which go “scriiitch” and “sprooootch”, and which come from nature and aural reality as well as from very obscure sound synthesis and sound processing softwares. Olivier like to call this his laptop psychedelia and actually finds it quite fun. Hello Spiral is not an acoustic record, but isn’t really an electronic one either; Hello Spiral technoid takeoffs almost sound like rock’n’roll improvs, and its pop songs almost like electric diarrhea. Hello Spiral is indeed very proud of itself.

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PAN/TONE - Newfound Urban Calm (includes a free CD of remixes) [2CD Bip-Hop
bleep 26/27]
http://www.bip-hop.com

Pan/Tone is known for his releases on BackGround, Onitor, Neuton, Revolver, SubStatic but we are proud to present his best work to date. 12 new compositions + 10 remixes = 136 minutes filled with miniaturized techno. Subtle moves for your body, food for thoughts leading step by step to a
restricted dance area. shelbono "barracuda” del monte ....real name (sheldon sidney LeRock) was
born in a desolate lumber/mining town in the northern regions of Ontario, Canada. Shelbono started composing music while living in Windsor (near Detroit), a city known as the mecca for techno, no!...(is it?).
Pan/tone has been in the forefront of the Canadian techno movement and was awarded “Best Techno Act, 2003” from NOW magazine. He has been featured at well respected Music Festivals such as MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), AVANT MUTEK (Toronto, Canada) and North by Northwest. pan/tone has been consistently performing in Europe and Japan and has over 28 recording credits thus far (Sub-static, Revolver, Background Records, OnitorS).
In 2003, 15 new songs have been sent to some friends so that they rework them, the result is the double CD "newfound urban calm". Shelbono is now based in Cologne, Germany for his fondness with the cities laid back appeal and the people he has befriended. Under the moniker Shed Le Rock he has inked a 4 album deal with Ladomat / Mute, so rest assured his music is gonna spread like wildfire.

CD1 contains Pan/tone's compositions, showing many unique features to his sound. Ranging from Minimal Techno to punchy techno+rock (Rockno), a sound that rocks dancefloors and complements the whiskey in hand idea. However pan/tone's approach is more of a broader musical appeal. Pan/tone's theory is to focus on creating a "Techno" sound that will hopefully branch away from the norm.
CD2 offers exclusive reworks of Pan/Tone music by Jeff Milligan-Algorithm, Losoul, Si-cut.db, Falko Brockseiper & Mia / SubStatic, Andy Vaz, Frank Martiniq, Rene Braithwarth, Duplex 100, Adam Marshall, Repair.

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SECRET FREQUENCY CREW - Forest of the Echo Downs [CD Schematic SCH045]
http://www.schematic.net

The eclectic debut full-length recording from currently in-demand NYC club DJs Matthew Brown, Matt Friedman, and Adrian Michna. Adding hints of classic 1980s pop to their own unique blend of guitars,
trombones, bass and piano, Forest of the Echo Downs is a wonderfully memorable, beat-fueled collection from the brighest young band on Miami's delightfully unpredictable Schematic imprint, a firm traditionally known for parenting much harsher sounds.
With previous 12"s and EPs on the celebrated Counterflow and Mass Transit labels - including the now classic 2-track Miami EP, (featuring an SFC remix by Andrea Parker) and 2002's Deep Blue 12"/CD, (featuring remixes by Eli 173 and High Priest of the late Anti-Pop Consortium) - Secret Frequency Crew have begun to build an audience of artists and fans alike with an increasing
taste for the band's dark, heavily layered, downtempo jams.

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STEPHAN MATHIEU - On Tape [CD Häpna H.18]
http://www.hapna.com

Stephan Mathieu is an electronic musician from Saarbruecken, Germany. Starting out as a drummer in various improvised contexts he made the switch to working mainly with computers in the late 90’s. Since then he has released a string of highly acclaimed recordings on labels like Ritornell
and Orthlorng Musork. >From his interest in design and work with installations he has acquired a fine-tuned sense of form. His music is mostly based on acoustic instruments but so far they have always been more or less heavily computer processed. “On Tape” is a pivotal work for Mathieu
as this is the first time we hear him leaving his source material unprocessed by digital means.
Stephan started building this piece from recordings provided to him by Swedish trio Tape and saxophonist Magnus Granberg. Adding his own subtle drumming, field recordings and a focus on reworking the sound material exclusively with classic editing techniques this is a beautiful album that weaves elements from the electronic and acoustic worlds to a seamless whole. A very clear and uncomplicated atmosphere around this piece distinguishes it from a lot of electronic music.

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STYROFOAM - Nothing's Lost [CD/LP morr music mm049]
http://www.morrmusic.com

The Brussels based Club Ancienne Belgique is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2004.When it comes to bringing contemporary Indie, Club and Pop music to the stage, this venue is Brussels' most relevant address, especially for the city's young, Flemish community. When the artistic director of the club, Kurt Overbergh, started to plan activities for their anniversary, he immediately addressed Arne van Petegem aka Styrofoam, whose musical career he's been watching closely since the very beginning. They initially came up with the idea of a special show at Ancienne Belgique which Arne was supposed to host, but as the venue not only provides a big concert hall and a small club, but a studio as well, they pushed their idea a bit further. The people at AB decided to provide Arne with the opportunity to produce parts of his next album at the AB studio and fly in and accommodate a suitable number of musical guests. Styrofoam started to produce basic tracks, tailoring them to what he thought was suitable for the musicians he had in mind. He then send a selection of three to four instrumentals to his fellow musicians to choose from. To his surprise, everyone went for the track that was initially meant for them.
If one listens to "Nothing's Lost" as a whole, the album never appears to be a loose compilation style collection of songs though. On the contrary, this definitely is Styrofoam's most accomplished effort to date. Styrofoam's gentle hand as both a writer, producer and voice - he sings on half of the album's songs himself - is as present as it is subtle.
The realisation of the recordings took many different routes. Markus Acher (LaliPuna/The Notwist) contributed guitar tracks for "Misguided" and "Make It Mine" right before a show he played with Lali Puna in april 2004 at Ancienne Belgique. The connection between both is of course obviously Morr
Music, but Styrofoam has also acted as an interim Notwist member on their 2003 US and European tours. Together with Arne Markus also managed to get Lali Puna singer Valerie Trebeljahr involved. After just a tiny bit of reluctance (because she hadn't been rehearsing anything for this project),
she sang the song's chorus on the spot. Anticon artist Alias, who has been supporting Lali Puna on their European tour this spring, rounded things off for "Misguided", providing one of his rare raps.
Taking advantage of a few days off, Alias stayed in Brussels a bit longer to provide more beats for "Couches In Alleys" and "Make It Mine".

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V.A. - BROKEN CHANNEL [DVD Cocosolidciti CSC009]
http://www.cocosolidciti.com

Broken Channel presents sound and video interpretations on DVD and CD of the contemporary experience of surveillance, from a range of leading international artists working in sound and video. Featuring newly commissioned musical and video works exploring noises of dissent and
visions through the shattered lens of CCTV and surveillance: Coldcut (Ninjatune) with assistance from Outerabongolia look at the police's monitoring of protest and protestors; Kampuchea (aka.
Phonem, Morr Music) uses sound from an immigration office to construct a soundtrack with; Ultra Red (Mille Plateaux/Fat Cat) look at the protest at Quebec and on the USA/Mexico border from a participants perspective; Kaffe Matthews & Riz Maslen (aka - Noetropic-ntone) create discordant sound and image from the mute medium of CCTV; and Made (Gescom, Skam) & Battery Operated (C0C0S0L1DC1T1) look at how the control spaces of surveillance can be subverted to create
radical new architectures and environments.
All works were originally commissioned for exclusive use for this project by The Futuresonic Festival in UK. This project has already been toured with live performances by the artists involved around the UK and in Europe. All works were commissioned by the Futuresonic Festival In the UK.
DVD of video works which do not appear on the CD. Most of the work on the DVD and CD are exclusive and cannot be found on any other release. This project is being aired and shown at many festivals around the world.

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VITOR JOAQUIM - A Rose is a Rose [CD dOc recordings 007]
http://doc.test.at

"A Rose Is a Rose" is a red herring: Vitor Joaquim tells us that the title of his new solo CD is arbitrary. Like a rose, however, this CD is a small self-contained (pink!) object that carries a world within itself, one which opens up on closer scrutiny. It is the 9th release on d0c (in spite of its cat. nr. 7), the forward-looking label run by Pure, and offers eight separate but closely related tracks that seem to happen spontaneously, compositions which are snapshots of a scene already taking place by the time we get there.
According to Joaquim, a key player on Portugal's electroacoustic scene and director of the annual EME festival there, the music on this CD was mostly improvised and then assembled in the studio into an organic whole. One of its many charms is its overall intimate sound, as though the composer were allowing the listener a confidential glimpse into a personal incident or journey or memory.
Generally quiet but not disquieting, dusky rather than dark, the music is like a lone walk in a vast abandoned industrial zone, by the railroad flats, or a grainy black-and-white film of that walk. It‚s like sitting in twilight by a concrete jetty, marveling at the ultrasonic radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere overhead. It‚s like enjoying the shimmering, lulling surface of the water while sounds pierce through the digital mist: the far-off rush of windy open spaces(track 3), scrambled radio transmissions (track 4), the throb of machinery in the distance while, deep in the mix, a low chorus of male voices confer with each other (track 6).
The haunting beauty of track 5´s harmonic background and placid, aquatic foreground; the protracted epiphany of track 7, with the surging and dropping off of its digital pizzicato and moments of quiet suspense; the coda of track 8, summarizing the foregoing even as it looks to the beyond -
all these are characterized by a deep glow that holds back, enchanting the listener as it does so.
The artist himself will have none of this, of course: regardless of the highly evocative quality of the soundscapes here, he says that it is all "open to speculation, but in the end all we get are stories built on top of stories" and that one should concentrate only on the sound itself. So do that, and create your own stories to it.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:24 AM

Thursday, September 09, 2004

 

WOEBOT has been reactivated.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:19 PM

 

The Guardian interview Ben Christophers

Ben Christophers - The Spaces In Between is released on Monday 13th September on Cooking Vinyl.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:51 PM

 

Hocico Album: Wrack and Ruin

Details of a new album friom Mexico's Hocico - one of the leading contemporary electronic/ industrial artists.

HOCICO - Wrack And Ruin (Out of Line)

The brand new album from Mexico's finest Hocico - "Wrack And Ruin" continues the evolution of earths mightiest electro / industrial duo. Following the path laid down with "Signos De Aberracion" in 2002 ( with only the fan-placating "Hate Never Dies" remix release in the interim ) "Wrack And Ruin" delivers a storming set of ten essential compositions, cementing Hocico's position as possibly the biggest cult-electro act around today. Replete with their trademark sonic barrage of twisted dark electro-club assaults, blended off-kilter melodies and intense / hard as hell beats and rhythyms - all laced with Erk Aicrag's hatefilled and harsh distorted vocals - "Wreck And Ruin" sets a benchmark in new electro / industrial music. Essential

Full Tracklisting :
01. El Infierno Que Viene
02. Tales From The Third World
03. Bizarre Words
04. Spirits Of Crime
05. Born To Be ( Hated ) - Original Odium
06. Love Posing As A Prostitute
07. Ecos
08. Oracion Nocturna
09. Death As A Gift
10. Padre No Nuestro

Source: e-mail from Music Non Stop

# posted by DJ Martian 2:28 PM

 

BBC Music review Charlie Hunter - Friends Seen and Unseen

# posted by DJ Martian 1:45 PM

 

Pitchfork review Diplo - Florida

# posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM

 

Strange Attractors provide a news update for VOCOKESH

Following up their darkly hallucinogenic triumph "The Tenth Corner", Richard
Franecki & Co. have been in their laboratories concocting their next platter
of unabashedly alien psychedelic soundtracks. "Through the Smoke" is the
title, and to these ears Vocokesh has mixed in some more Prog-like elements
and even a touch of psych/garage riffing with their swirling Kraut-inspired
mayhem. Vocokesh continue to place pressure on the boundaries of sound,
incessantly exploring cryptic soundscapes via their often times unsettling
brand of electronics-drenched psychedelic rock. Watch out for the "Through
the Smoke" meteor shower to begin sometime in early 2005. Wear goggles.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:34 AM

 

CUL DE SAC / DAMO SUZUKI Album

Strange Attractors have details of a forthcoming album by Cul de Sac / Damo Suzuki

Title: Abhayamudra
SAAH2728 2xCD
Release Date: November 2, 2004

Boston's instrumental innovators Cul de Sac teamed up with infamous ex-Can
vocalist Damo Suzuki for a tour of the US and Europe in 2002 and 2003,
respectively. A pairing for the ages to be sure, for very few others than
Cul de Sac operate in the heady and rhythmic sphere as Can did - a perfect
modern-day backdrop for Suzuki's free associating vocal approach.
Announcing the imminent release of "Abhayamudra", a 2xCD collection of what
Cul de Sac and Damo Suzuki consider to be the best moments of the 45 dates
they played together - nearly 138 minutes of stunning psychedelic avant
mayhem, performed live and entirely on the spot. Cul de Sac refract clusters
of electronics, lamenting violin and surf/middle eastern guitar over
chugging bass and astounding polyrhythms, while Damo Suzuki concocts vocal
somersaults over the affair, manipulating the direction of the tunes like it
was liquid in a vessel. Truly remarkable. Release date: November 2, 2004.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:26 AM

 

Jimmy Edgar - Bounce, Make, Model

themilkfactory report Detroit’s Jimi Edgar will follow his Access Rhythm EP released earlier this year with a mini album, Bounce, Make, Model, on November 1st on Warp.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:08 AM

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

 

themilkfactory.co.uk ISSUE #60 SEPTEMBER 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]

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ALBUM OF THE MONTH:
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BJÖRK - Medúla
Three years after the poetic Vespertine, Björk returns with her most
daring and challenging record to date.
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REVIEWS:
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MAX EASTLEY & DAVID TOOP - Doll Creature
Doll Creature is the third album for sound sculptor Max Eastley and
multi-faceted artist and author David Toop in thirty years, and it is
a beautiful masterpiece.
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YUICHIRO FUJIMOTO - Komorebi
Komorebi is an open window on Japanese artist Yuichiro Fujimoto's
precious and beautiful world, with fragile melodies and
orchestrations and stunning graphic art.
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MATS GUSTAFSSON / SONIC YOUTH WITH FRIENDS - Hidros 3
Originally composed by Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson for an art
and music festival held at Ystad's Art Museum, Sweden, four years
ago, Hidros 3 is a contrasted piece of work which ranges from quiet
moments to mighty noise.
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JUANA MOLINA - Tres Cosas
Only a few weeks after the European release of Juana Molina's
exquisite Segundo, its follow-up, Tres Cosas, casts its poetic
shadows and sun-drenched melodies over a summer that is turning all
too typically British.
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SI-CUT.DB - Offices At Night
London-based Douglas Benford returns with the first in a series of
three releases for Fällt. Offices At Night Volume One sees Benford
strolling amongst beautiful soundscapes and sharp dubs for what is
his best release yet.
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SWAYZAK - Loops From The Bergerie
British duo Swayzak return with their fourth album and take a
slightly more adventurous step into analogue electronic pop.
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TEAM SHADETEK - Burnerism
Hailing from Manhattan but currently residing in Berlin, Team
Shadetek follow a series of critically acclaimed EPs with their first
mini-album.
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TERRESTRE - Secondary Inspection
Already one of Leaf's best selling artists, as Murcof, thanks to his
haunting Martes, Fernando Corona returns to his original musical
project and to Static Discos for a collection of inspired minimal
techno.
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TRIOSK - Moment Returns
First album for Sydney's Triosk, and with Moment Returns, the trio
explore the interzone between electronica and jazz.
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TU M' - Pop Involved [Version 3]
Italian duo Tu M' return with a truly complex and playful album on
which they combine dysfunctional electronica and acoustic
instrumentation.
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COLLECTED WORKS
VARIOUS ARTISTS DIN AV 01/04/CN/86.03
VARIOUS ARTISTS Warp Vision: The Videos 1989-2004
VARIOUS ARTISTS Solid Steel Presents Amon Tobin: Recorded Live

SHORT CUTS
MÚM Dusk Log
METAPHROG / HEY / MÚM Louis Dreams Never Die
NEW ORDER Blue Monday/Confusion Acid House Mix By 808 State (1988)

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 PM

 

Next week on the John Peel show on Radio 1: a treat for technoheads:

15/09 Wednesday: Laurent Garnier & Jeff Mills live at MV

[MV = BBC Maida Vale Studios]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:09 PM

 

TrusttheDJ interview Slam

# posted by DJ Martian 8:00 PM

 

Dusted review Radian - Juxtaposition

# posted by DJ Martian 1:03 PM

 

The Glimmer Room - Grey Mirrors

The Glimmer Room release an album: Grey Mirrors

Release Date: 6th September 2004

Grey Mirrors is the second album from the unique and groundbreaking Glimmer
Room. After enjoying immense critical acclaim and success with Tomorrows
Tuesday, The Glimmer Room are back with an even deeper sound and a new
label. Grey Mirrors builds on what has gone before but this time atmosphere
is everything. A gentle bird song beckons you into the 42 minute piece. What
follows is an epic journey though layers of time and emotion. The Glimmer
Room have an uncanny gift in being able to present a work with such
emotional depth within a highly melodic structure. In some passages you are
cocooned in a warm luminescence, feeling safe and untouchable. Then the mood
changes and you are thrown into a unsettling barren and misty landscape
where once the choral washes wrapped around you, instead you are met by the
sinister scraping of digital bits and bytes being smashed around a
processor. As urgently as it arrives it is gone and you are left floating,
clarified in a place of great beauty.
Heralded, as the new benchmark for the chill out album Grey Mirrors is
almost a meditation. But every journey is as individual as the listener.

The feeling of the piece has been likened to the long grandiose intros of
Pink Floyd with the overpowering Englishness of John Foxx’s Cathedral
Oceans. While musically comparisons range from Leftfield’s Melt, the KLF’s
Chill Out, and the more chilled tracks from The Future Sound of London. Add
to this a sprinkle of sound design from Delia Derbyshire and you will be
close to the sound of this unique album.

Grey Mirrors is presented in a DVD case with the sleeve notes taking the
form of a parchment letter from the composer individually folded and sealed
with sealing wax. All copies of Grey mirrors sold through
www.theglimmerroom.co.uk will be sent with a personalised copy of the sleeve
notes, again sealed with wax.

Source: Press Release

# posted by DJ Martian 11:51 AM

 

Stylus review Various Artists - Song of the Silent Land a label compilation from Constellation

# posted by DJ Martian 11:43 AM

 

Stylus review Wibutee - Playmachine

# posted by DJ Martian 11:40 AM

 

Pitchfork review Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady

# posted by DJ Martian 11:33 AM

 

Reminder, The Durutti Column are on the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio 2 on Wednesday night.

Wednesday 8th September
Durutti Column live in session.

Latest Durutti Column news:

The Best of The Durutti Column, the compilation album formerly known as The Definitive Durutti Column, will be in the shops by the end of September 2004. Advance copies will be on sale at the Bridgewater Hall on 16 September. The 32-track double album has some very classy artwork and sensational photos by Rachel (McFarlane). The sleeve notes are by Vini Reilly and Anthony H Wilson.

According to Amazon UK this will be released on October 4th.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:07 AM

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

 

BBC Music review Jaga Jazzist - Magazine

# posted by DJ Martian 11:43 PM

 

Franz Ferdinand - The Mercury Music Prize Winner 2004

Breaking news: Franz Ferdinand have won the Mercury Music Prize 2004 for their self titled debut album.

BBC News report Ferdinand win Mercury Music Prize

# posted by DJ Martian 10:22 PM

 

Xfm report Ex-Suede Men Ready New Record

Former Suede frontman Brett Anderson has revealed news about the new album he has nearly completed with his onetime bandmate guitarist Bernard Butler, and promises the new release will be “a truly special record”.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:03 PM

 

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

Note: CD REVIEW: Swayzak - Loops from the Bergerie by Nick Doherty

# posted by DJ Martian 3:16 PM

 

Triosk Album

PostEverything provide info on Triosk - Moment Returns

Released 11 Oct 2004 on The Leaf Label

What’s central to each composition is that loose feel, that endless falling apart that marries jazz to electronics. And it’s upon this wreckage that Triosk build something entirely new.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:08 PM

 

U2 Vertigo Single includes Kraftwerk cover

U2log.com provide info on the upcoming U2 single Vertigo, which includes a cover of Kraftwerk's Neon Lights

The single will be released on November 8th, with the album scheduled for November 22nd.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:44 PM

 

All About Jazz review Nils Petter Molvaer - Streamer: Live

# posted by DJ Martian 2:21 PM

 

Reminder, Julian Cope is on the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio 2 tonight.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:15 PM

 

Swedish electro-pop band The Knife will release a single Heartbeats on September 20th.

Heartbeats is the first single from the forthcoming album Deep Cuts to be released in the UK. Heartbeats will be released on two formats, CD single and 12".

More info @ Anglo Plugging for the single Heartbeats and the first time UK release of the album: Deep Cuts

# posted by DJ Martian 2:04 PM

Monday, September 06, 2004

 

Eternal Fusion on SpydaRadio

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

:: Latest Show: Monday 6th September 2004 ::

Playlist @ Eternal Fusion

Neil Pye - 'Cosmic Jam'
Hal Blaine - 'Soulful (September)'
310 - 'Jet Pack Time'
Ivor Cutler - 'My Sock'
Greg Davis - 'Shoes & Socks'
Pele - 'Black Socks'
Radian - 'Transistor'
Six Organs Of Admittance - 'The Manifestation'
Landing - 'Sphere'
Amp - 'You Are Here'
P.G. Six - 'Crooked Way'
Kiila - 'Auringonlunta'
Devendra Banhart - 'Horseheadfleshwizard'
Signer - 'Machines At Low Tide'
Bark Psychosis - 'The Black Meat'
Sufjan Stevens - 'Year Of The Monkey'
Tipsy - 'Neon Tetra'
Fingathing - 'Walk In Space'
Le Fly Pan Am - 'Tres Tres Retro'
Frank Gingeleit - 'Adjust Your Clock'
Hidria Spacefolk - 'Astroban'
Ozric Tentacles - 'Al - Salooq'
Mercan Dede vs Koçani Orkestar - 'Siki, Siki Baba'
Silver Apples - 'Water'
Cerberus Shoal - 'Ouch: Sinti, Roma, Zigeuner, The Names Of Gypsy'
Green Milk From The Planet Orange - 'Sweet 5AM'
LSD-march - 'The Lamp, Tomorrows Godard'
Herd Of The Ether Space - 'I Watched A Football Game With A Plastic Surgeon'
The Residents - 'The Dying Oilman'
Sun Ra - 'Where Pathways Meet'

# posted by DJ Martian 10:13 PM

 

The Fall - More Music !

Playlouder provide a news update on The Fall - they are to release an interim album before the next full studio album

Jim Watts from The Fall:
The new material, to be released on the Voiceprint label, is "an interim before the next studio record. It's a mixture of stuff, some new tracks done in the studio - Mark's been looking after that one.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:32 PM

 

The Beta Band: Final Tour

Ananova have info on the farewell Beta Band UK tour in November.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:49 PM

 

Manics Single New Order-esque, Album November 1st & December UK Arena Tour

Manic Street Preachers new single The Love Of Richard Nixon made it's UK radio debut today, it sounds like New Order circa 1993 - which makes them 11 years behind in terms of ideas. The single will be released on October 18th.

The same New Order trademark sound of electronic rock is stamped across the single, although at the end there is a strange sampled talking section that was probably inspired from the last UNKLE album or Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

The album: Life Blood will now be released on November 1st [according to BBC 6 Music]

Ananova report the Manic Street Preachers have announced a full December UK arena tour.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:42 PM

 

Forthcoming The Breezeblock shows on Radio 1

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

Sept 13th
Tiefschwarz mix
Planet Mu... 90 seconds of

Sept 20th
Stereolab live from the Leeds Festival
Kid Acne live

Coming soon
Vitalic live
Derrick Carter live
A sleeply Bjork bedtime mixtape
A mix from Get Physical... Parisian’s M.A.N.D.Y. DJ’s

# posted by DJ Martian 1:26 PM

 

The Brainwashed Brain V07I35 - 09052004

This week's The Brainwashed Brain includes reviews of:

Windsor For The Derby - We Fight Til Death
Secretly Canadian

The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
Beggars Banquet

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

Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Rune Grammofon

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

 

Forthcoming releases @ Kranky

Sound samples are up now at the Kranky site for the new fall releases from Autistic Daughters, Christina Carter, and Greg Davis [via Brainwashed Brain]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:06 PM

 

Front cover of Cult of Luna - Salvation

# posted by DJ Martian 12:54 PM

 

This week's releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 12:40 PM

Sunday, September 05, 2004

 

Forthcoming Releases

A few forthcoming releases that I have not mentioned previously, or the release date has been changed.

SEPTEMBER 13th/ 14th, 2004

Momma Gravy - Adios CD (Different Drummer, UK)
Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig - Mantram CD (Projekt, US)

SEPTEMBER 21st, 2004

Monster Movie - To The Moon CD (clairecords, US)

SEPTEMBER 27th/ 28th, 2004

Alexandroid - False Starts CD/LP (Lo Recordings, UK)
Assemblage 23 - Storm CD (Metropolis, US)
Roy Davis Jr. - Chicago Forever CD/LP (Ubiquity, US)
Toog - Lou Etendue CD/LP (Karaoke Kalk, Germany)

OCTOBER 11th, 2004

The Dears - No Cities Left CD (Bella Union, UK)
Shitmat - Full English Breakfest CD (Planet µ, UK)
Théodore - A summer she has never been, a winter she fears CD/LP (Lo Recordings, UK)

OCTOBER 25th, 2004

Brooks - Red Tape CD/2xLP (Soundslike, UK)
März - Wir Sind Hier CD/LP (Karaoke Kalk, Germany)
Noël - Wrong Places CD/LP (Lok Musik, Germany)
Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? CD/LP (Soundslike, UK)
Various - Grime Vol. 2 CD/LP (Rephlex, UK)

OCTOBER 26th, 2004

Juno Reactor - Labyrinth CD (Metropolis, US)

OCTOBER, 2004

Subtle - A New White CD/LP (Lex/Warp, UK)

NOVEMBER 2nd, 2004

Cul de Sac/Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra 2xCD (Strange Attractors, US)
John Tejada - Logic Memory Center CD/LP (Plug Research, US)

NOVEMBER, 2004

Emery Reel - For And Acted Upon Through Diversions CD (Resonant, UK)
Sol Invictus - The Devil's Steed CD (Tursa, UK)

DECEMBER, 2004

Current 93 - Judas as Black Moth 2xCD [retrospective anthology] (Durtro/Revolver, US)
Larsen - Play CD (Important, US)
Nurse With Wound - t.b.a. 2xCD [retrospective anthology] (Durtro/Revolver, US)

Source: Brainwashed Releases

# posted by DJ Martian 11:26 PM

 

SubArachnoid Space - The Red Veil

Epic Instrumental Psychedelic Rock band: SubArachnoid Space have made available 2 downloadable tracks from their upcoming allbum.

SubArachnoid Space - The Red Veil will be released by Strange Attractors in February 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:00 PM

 

Isis - Panopticon

Interesting to note @ SOUTHERN | upcoming releases the Isis album: Panopticon is listed as nearly 1 hour long. Due for release on Ipecac on October 18th.

Isis
Panopticon CD Ipecac Records IPC-57

7 trks, 59 mins.

Highly anticipated 3rd album from the lords of ultra-dynamic sound-design. Feat. Justin c/o Tool on one track! Please check w/ the Royal Mail before you post metal!

# posted by DJ Martian 10:06 PM

 

The Faint will release their album: Wet From Birth on October 4th in the UK.

This album is candidate for strangest front cover of the year: check.. Amazon.co.uk

# posted by DJ Martian 9:53 PM

 

Nick Luscombe presents Flo-Motion show on Xfm each Sunday 21:00-00:00.

Coming Up: live laptop performances from

September 12 Nils Petter Molvaer
September 19 Julian Fane

# posted by DJ Martian 9:27 PM

 

Guitared

Strange things going on @ Radio 1's One World not only having one of the worst weekly slots [Monday 1am - 3am] the show has now seemingly dropped it's remit of underground dance/ electronic music - now it's apparently the best underground music from around the globe. There is a 4 part themed show on guitar music - with a strange cast: that extends from Classic Rock mag artist types to Kerrang types to NME types

Our list of contributors includes:
Steve Vai, Slash, Brian May , Slipknott, Datsuns, Graham Coxon,Brody Dalle, Andy Summers, Joe Satriani, Angus Young, Tommi Iommi, Kerry King, Jimmy Page, Zakk Wylde, Auf Der Maur, Sid Vicious, Zakk Wylde, Robert Smith, Gary Moore, John Squire, Jim Marshall, Fender, Gibson, Aziz, Iron Maiden, Cooper Temple Clause,The Rapture, Mogwai, John Peel - the list goes on and on :

Guitared
Show broadcast on Radio 1 on 6th September 2004 from 1 till 3am

Guitared is 4 part series dedicated to the music and life of the "Guitar Hero". Radio 1's Rock Show/Lock Up DJ Mike Davies will be guiding us through in-depth interviews, sessions, lessons and live music from some of the best known guitarists around:

Surely such a historical themed show would be better off on 6 Music [with a better selection of artists]? or is this Radio 1's attempt to educate the teenagers?

# posted by DJ Martian 9:11 PM

 

BBC Music review Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady

# posted by DJ Martian 8:46 PM

 

Be Bop Deluxe Compilation

Be Bop Deluxe - 'Postcards From The Future ... Introducing Be Bop Deluxe' will be released on September 20th by EMI.

Tracklist:

1. Axe Victim
2. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
3. Stage Whispers
4. Maid In Heaven
5. Sister Seagull
6. Jean Cocteau
7. Fair Exchange
8. Ships In The Night
9. Blazing Apostles
10. Kiss Of Light
11. Modern Music
12. Twilight Capers
13. Electric Language
14. Possession
15. Islands Of The Dead
16. Life In The Air Age (Live)
17. Teenage Archangel
18. Jets At Dawn

Remasters of 'Axe Victim', 'Drastic Plastic', 'Futurama', 'Modern Music' and 'Live! In The Air Age' - will follow.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:05 PM

 

Essential Mix - Slam

The latest Essential Mix on Radio 1 features selections from Scottish Tech-House Duo Slam

Now available on listen again.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:51 PM

 

SPOTLIGHT...KEY NEW RELEASES [August 30th]

Key new album releases for August 30th [A more detailed release listing including other new releases, compilations and reissues - can be found further up this webpage.]

Christopher Adler - Epilogue for a dark day (Tzadik)
Axolotl - Axolotl (Psychopath) [US Import ar Rough Trade]
Jon Balke Magnetic North Orchestra - Diverted Travels (ECM)
Bjork - Medulla (Elektra/ One Little Indian)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Halo Star (Projekt)
The Blue Nile - High (Sanctuary)
Dead Combo - Dead Combo (Output)
Bill Frisell - Unspeakable (Nonesuch)
G Plan - All Roads Lead To This (Play)
Headcount - Die Monkey Die (Malicious Damage)
Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady (Ninja Tune)
Keith Jarrett/ Gary Peacock/ Jack Dejohnette - Out Of Towners (ECM)
Jesu - Heartache (MDMA)
Anders Jormin - In Winds In Light (ECM)
Knifehandchop - How I Left You (Tigerbeat6) [Import]
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Epic)
Lazyboy - Penguin Rock (Sunday Best)
Raz Mesinai - Cyborg acoustics (Tzadik)
Neotropic - White Rabbits (Mush)
Alan Parsons - Valid Path (Eagle)
Plumbline - Pin Points (Hydrogen Dukebox)
Poto & Cabengo - Poto & Cabengo (Karaoke Kalk)
The Radio Dept - Lesser Matters (XL Records) [UK Release 2004]
Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez - Manual Dexterity (GSL) [UK Release Date]
Secret Frequency Crew - Forest Of The Echo Downs (Schematic)
Signer - The New Face of Smiling (Carpark) [Import]
Slam - Year Zero (Soma)
Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of the Water (Thirsty Ear) [UK Release Date]
Craig Taborn - Junk Magic (Thirsty Ear) [UK Release Date]
Tusk - Tree of No Return (Tortuga) [Features Members of Pelican]
Otto Von Schirach - Global Speaker Fisting (Schematic)
Way out West - Don’t Look Now (Distinctive)
Windsor For The Derby - We Fight Til Death (Secretly Canadian)

# posted by DJ Martian 4:01 PM

 

Severed Heads

LTM provide a brief history of Severed Heads the legendary Australian electronic/ industrial band.

LTM will be reissuing Severed Heads albums, starting with this autumn:

Severed Heads - Rotund for Success

# posted by DJ Martian 3:57 PM

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector
Sonig

Andi Toma and Jan St Werners's 8th album is their finest long player since 1997's 'Autoditacker'. At nine tracks long 'Radical Connector' is also their most song friendly album ever. It brings together the vocal talent of Niobe and Dodo Nkishi to flesh out MOM's rough and ready, grimey and gorgeous post indie electronic sound. In fact this album is pure pop, mixed with alien r'n'b stomp beamed down from planet Sonig. The tracks featuring Niobe are wonderful, sounding very much like current style Bjork but with a pure pop focus rather than complex inner gazing. Dodo Nkishi's falsetto vocal is sometimes given a subtle electronic tinker which brings to mind the finest Nobukazu Takemura moments from his last few albums. Examples ~ try the gorgeous 'Send Me Shivers' and try to guess it's Mouse On Mars - come down with the end of the world amazing hip hop glitchtronics of 'The End' and then dig deeper with the almost El-P bruising beat mangling of 'All The Old Powers'. Elsewhere is an assortment of mind melting electrowave shock dance blasts that were first released on the 'Niun Niggung' album. Finally check out the wonderful 8 min plus track 'Evoke An Object', otherworldly harmonic broken garage with a spellbinding vocal from Niobe. Very very good indeed, highly recommended.

Jaga Jazzist - Magazine
Smalltown Supersound

In which Norway's notorious Jaga Jazzist celebrate their tenth year together with a re-issue of their hard-to-find "Magazine" release, complete with bonus material in the form of freshly re-worked tracks from the band. Originally released in 1998, "Magazine" has never been available outsite their homeland and digs deep to expose Jaga's heavy Jazz roots. These pieces are far less electronically modified than more recent outings, exposing a raw edge to this undeniably maverick 10-piece outfit. The sound is ecclectic rather than challenging, a suave big band sound that hadn't yet discovered the dusty breaks and edits that would typify much of their output in years to come. Good stuff, well worth checking out.

Mira Calix - 3 Commissions
Warp

By it's title you'll realise the concept of this mini album. Three commissions of work from Mira Calix aka Chantal Passamonte. The first commission came from the Muséum D'Histoire Nuturelle in Geneva, Switzerland back in September 2002. 'Nuna', originally a thirty minute piece (edited down to thirteen minutes here) is a minimal sampled orchestral piece featuring an array of insect noise, amongst lush string sweeps. This piece of music seems to hang in the air for an eternity - music as reflective and beautiful as it's cold and dark. From March 2003 is a version of 'Nuna' featuring the London Sinfonietta, leftfield classical movements with subtle electronic processing of live insect shufflings - a successful experiment recorded for the Ether festival. Finally from April 2004 is 'Le Jardin De Barbican', a twelve minute suite of warm melodies, sampled classical instruments, bird noises, unintrusive clicks and whirs plus sound bleeps from an unknown space - wonderful music. Possibly Mira Calix's finest work to date. Warmly recommended.

Tiki Obmar - Seasons
Merck

`Seasons' is the second cd from the Minneapolis band Tiki Obmar, featuring new tracks and remixes by merck artists and friends including the likes of Helios, Cepia, Proswell, Machine Drum, Proem, Tim Koch, Deru, Deceptikon, La muerte blanca, Miles Tilmann, and Adam Johnson. The mixes range from Helios's well crafted, life-affirming reworking, to the bump and grind of Proem and Machine Drum, down into lush ambience concocted by Adam Johnson. Guitar originated sounds bounce in and out with excellent drum sensibilities and floaty touch pads, creating a truly ethereal float. Tiki Obmar's debut has been one of the most consistently admired release on the label with its earthy blend of cinematic stylings and acoustic conceits - bravely moving away from the IDM template often favoured by the label. This second release should open up their sound to a much wider audience once again. Highly recommended.

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
City Centre Offices

**Now available again for a limited time only in the original digipak packaging**Since the release of his amazing debut album "Far Away Trains Passing By", Ulrich Schnauss has been overwhelmed by a viral spread of appreciation for his music. From the zeitgeist-crazed message boards and forums of cool record labels to the license-requesting teams working behind the scenes for trend-setting compilations, Ulrich's sound has managed to do that rarest of things and has crossed-over beyond the parameters of the electronic music club and has leaped into a wider public domain. Electronic music has rarely found itself a popular home. Switch on your TV set or go to the cinema, however, and you'll discover a world of vast and endless possibilities brought to life with instrumental textures designed to arouse an emotional response. Add some guitars, unforgettable tunes and even a sliver of voice here and there, and you have yourself a soundtrack with instant mass appeal and an emotional vocabulary that is enriched with every single listen. Ulrich's debut album followed these principles perfectly, and this, his long-awaited follow-up "a strangely isolated place" extends and expands on a formula which is uniquely and unforgettably his own. This is a record with an unashamed love of many forms of popular music, as well as a technologically inspired method of delivery, "...isolated place" starts off with timeless melodies and embroiders itself with pop stylings, some vocals and a euphoric, larger than life sound that betrays the loneliness of its highly evocative title. Moving away from the widespread fascination with all things "micro", the scope here is BIG, although every fragment of sound from the opening melancholy bliss of "Gone Forever" to the dusty detuned breakbeat of "A Letter From Home" has been carefully wrapped and labelled "Fragile". For this is music that has been assembled piece by piece, every fragment carefully chosen and given a sense of belonging, a home. Ulrich Schnauss has brought to life a place that you may have never visited, but it's a place that you have always known. Unmissabl e.

Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix
Thirsty Ear

We're not the greatest fan's of Spooky here, though we are big fans of The Blue Series Continuum on Thirsty Ear, the forward thinking new school jazz series currated by avant garde jazz pianist Matthew Shipp. Here Spooky drops two CD's that act as as great sampler to this series of albums. The first CD features remixes, mostly by Spooky himself - taking selected jazz samples and wrapping them round some pretty righteous funk breaks, very nice. Also featured on this first disk is Meatbeat Manifesto's killer remix of DJ Wally's 'Travelogue 1-NYC To Hawaii' and Val-Inc's amazing and mysteriously hypnotising remix of Craig Taborn's 'Shining Through' (also on 12" this week, seek and ye shall find). The second CD is a pretty amazing 67 minute megamix of tracks from artists including Matthew Shipp (in piano trio mode, in a group, plus with Antipop Consortium and El-P), Mike Ladd (from his forthcoming Thirsty Ear album 'Negrophilia'), William Parker, David S. Ware, Guillermo E. Brown and Spring Heel Jack. Killer music, outsider jazz at it's finest - big recommendation.

Rob Sonic - Telicatessen
Def Jux

I'm regretfully beginning to agree with all the Def Jux haters who say that El-P's label has seen better days. So it's perfect timing for this unofficial follow up to Sonic Sum's two amazing albums, 'Sanity Annex' for Ozone in 1999 and 'Films' for Tri-Eight (Japan) in 2003. Completely self produced with only one guest track (feature's Hangar 18 & Creature) this would have made the perfect follow up to Mr.Lif's album instead of the slightly less than dope Murs joint. Musically it's bugged out digital space funk - though not as new wave or minimal as El-P's recent work has veered towards, instead it leans to his more funked-up production on 'Fantastic Damage'. This music is all about funky rolling beats, John Carpenter inspired keyboard melodics and funked up bass parts. The lyrics are hot, political without being too heavy - alongside Mr.Lif the clearest and easiest on the ears of all the Def Jukz vocalists. It's also the funkiest Def Jux album to date, some of the production even touches on the classic Dust Brothers sound, the sleeve even feels like a tribute of sorts to 'Paul's Boutique'. Thirteen tracks deep - a massive hip hop album, no more no less. Acquire.

Various / Constellation - Song Of The Silent Land
Constellation

Amazing value compilation from Canada's always interesting post-anything label. The menu - a selection of rare tracks, unreleased versions, remixes, live tracks and exclusives. Starting with a beautifully stripped back version of Elizabeth Anka Vajagic's 'The Sky Lay Still' which melts into a remixed version of Do Make Say Think's 'Winter Hymn Winter Hymn Winter Hymn'. Other Constellation artists that feature are Sackville, Exhaust, 1-Speed Bike, Silver Mt Zion, Polmo Polpo, Le Fly Pan Am, and Hanged Up amongst others. The album end's with an epic Godspeed You Black Emperor track recorded live before an ecstatic audience in Nantes, France in May 2003. Fourteen tracks in total in the Label's usual lush artwork (this time in a foil glossed card sleeve). Quite how they can make these packages so cheap is beyond me. This will sell by the bucketload so get your order in quick.

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Richard Jobson on 6 Music

Next week on BBC 6 Music: RICHARD JOBSON in for Tom Robinson.

This week on the Evening Sequence, Richard Jobson steps in to keep Tom's seat warm. Richard first gained success as frontman with Scottish punk band The Skids, who had a string of hits from 1979 to 1981. Shortly after, he formed the short-lived band The Armoury Show and since then has been a presenter of various film and music shows as well as working as a model.

It will interesting to hear a different presenter on the evening slot, Richard Jobson has a distinctive Scots voice which should be good on radio.

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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 30th]

Bjork - Medulla
One Little Indian

Björk's new album is part traditional, part cutting edge and almost entirely acapella. She only had one rule - 'for it not to sound like Manhattan Transfer or Bobby McFerrin.' Recorded in 18 different locations including New York, Iceland, Venice and The Canary Islands, "Medúlla" sees Björk collaborating with another crack-team of alchemists and fellow mavericks. Some of them – programmer Mark Bell; mixer Mark 'Spike' Stent; Valgeir Sigurdsson - were already time-served Björkians. Others – Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis; Japanese acappella ace Dokaka; the esteemed Robert Wyatt - were not. Erstwhile Faith No More singer Mike Patton and Rahzel, his buddy from The Roots, are on the album, too. The former came on-board after Björk, adrenalised post-gig, took him to one side to rave about the project.

Cove - Hi-watt
Jonson Family

They play tight like the Oxes, heavy like Shellac and mathy like Dillinger Escape Plan. Seven tracks at a bargain price and a perfect example of the diy underground creeping out.

Crime - San Francisco's Still Doomed
Swami

One of the most artistically significant and visually subversive bands in the rock'n'roll universe was Crime. Having released the first independent punk record on the West Coast in 1976 they immediately set a precedent as one of the loosest, most raw, uncompromising and confrontational bands of all time. Dubbing themselves 'San Francisco's first and only rock'n'roll band' only added to an already bubbling alienation from the punk scene at that time. They were simply too wild to contain, too stylized to ignore, and musically too violent for the faint of heart. Fashioned in full SFPD regalia and armed with amphetamine induced, crude blues riffs they created a scathing noise that remains unmatched to this day and that heavily influenced art bands such as Sonic Youth who actually covered their "Hot Wire My Heart" track.

I Had An Inkling - Chin
I Had An Inkling

Cd Single
Manchester avant-garde three piece with a liking for pioneers such as Captain Beefheart, This Heat and DNA.

International Airport - Reunion Of Island Goose
Geographic

For "Reunion Of Island Goose" group leader (and contributor to the Pastels) Tom Crossley ably took the helm again alongside long-term members Alisdair Roberts, Stephen Aston and Annabel Crossley, recording the album in East Kilbride. But this time around help also came from farther afield, in Chicago to be precise, as the legendary John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea and Cake) took to mixing desk duties.

The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
XL

Wow, a Swedish timewarp! And how cool is that? You can reference who you please. But when a band comes along with a great pop sensibility but then warps and distorts it through a shogazery (yep) haze (with nods and doffed caps to the Cocteaus, the Valentines and erm Chapterhouse) then you've got to give them respect. There's low-fi bedroom drum-machines and a liberal use of fuzz and drone adding depth and texture, but, as ever it's the good old tunes that will get you. Think Creation / Sarah for wistful 60s sweetness, add a twist of Mary Chain for the cool quotient and you've got one mega pop LP for those of us old enough to remember, and anyone else who likes their melodies served with mystery and magic!

Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez - A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One
Gold Standard Laboratories

"A Manual Dexterity" is the title of the as-yet unfinished film project undertaken by Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez, more familiar to many as half of the songwriting duo at the core of the Mars Volta.

The Saints - All Times Through Paradise
EMI

The legendary Aussie band's complete recordings from 1976-1978 remastered from the original tapes including a live album and bonus tracks previously unreleased.
Box set - 577 9392
A superbly packaged four CD box set with accompanying booklet featuring unpublished photographs and personal commentary by Ed Keupper and Chris Bailey.

Keith Leblanc - Major Malfunction
Select Cuts

Re-issue of this classic groundbreaking avant / industrial / dub album.

Swiss Guards - Once The Process
Captive

Mancunian art rock pranksters described by the Wire as, '..an amusingly droll variant on lo-fi art rock, in that they attempt to have their cake and eat it too with their deadpan take on rock 'n' roll basics.'

Dead Combo - Dead Combo
Output

Raw grease monkey electro punk from Finland via NYC on Output Recordings! This duo thrash out some of the fiercest, most distorted electro-rock since Suicide, taking in influences like The Stooges intense garage rock and Metal Urbain's electronic toughness along the way. Includes the single "You Don't Look So Good".

Various Artists / Dread Meets B-Boys Downtown - Social Classics Vol. 3
Heavenly

After inspiring punks with his reggae selection at The Roxy in London (see "Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown"), Don Letts hooked up with The Clash, becoming their official film biographer for the next few years. When The Clash were booked to play Bonds in Manhattan in 1981, Letts went too, eventually staying in New York until 1982, soaking up the atmosphere. This compilation catches the feeling of the early 80s emerging hip hop scene, including block party B-Boy funk classic (The Mohawks "The Champ", Babe Ruth "The Mexican", Incredible Bongo Band "Apache"), electro and its inspirations (Hashim "Al-Naafiysh", Kraftwerk "Metal On Metal", The Micronawts "Let's Smurf Across The Surf"), early turntablist and rappin' skills (Grandmaster Flash "Adventures...", Malcolm McLaren "Buffalo Gals", The Fearless Four "Rockin' It", Fab Five Freddy "Down By Law", plus exclusive Grand Wizard Theodore scratch mixes) and punk-funk crossover cuts (The Clash "Outside Broadcast").

Slam - Year Zero
Soma

Taking inspiration from bands such as Tom Tom Club, Prince, Mantronix and urban labels like Celluloid and Sugarhill, along with their usual Detroit leanings, 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.

DJ Rels - Theme For A Broken Soul
Stones Throw

Fantastic debut LP from Madlib's new find, DJ Rels (aka D. Relmond), which arrives on Stones Throw, co-produced by Rels, Madlib and Peanut Butter Wolf. Rels knocks out a series of sure footed jazz-fusion / broken beat tracks with ease, picking up some of 'Lib's dreamy psyche leanings along the way, making this LP sound like soem lost link between the 70s and the 00s. One glance at the 'respect to' list gives you a hint at where Rels is coming from - Daz-I-Que, Dilla, King Britt, 4 Hero, Seiji, Bugz, Kaidi Tatham, IG, Jazzanova, Zero 7, GP, Theo, Carl Craig, K. Dope and more!

Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady
Ninja Tune

Homelife aren't interested in conforming to perceived norms, to genre, to standard recording techniques, to even having a proper line-up. A loose group of eight or so members with countless other projects and commitments, they come together to make pop music for all those people who thought that somehow pop music was over. Homelife's talents are marshalled by reluctant foreman Paddy Steer (bass and much more) plus core member Tony Burnside (vocal, guitar, young grandad). They write and produced most of the songs, but other key individuals contribute to an organic composition process, including: Seaming To (vocals), Faron Brooks (vocals), Maanila Santos (vocals), Graham Massey (all sorts), Semay Wu (cello), and many more.

Lazyboy - Pengiun Rock
Sunday Best

Lazyboy are Rob da Bank from Radio One's early morning Blue Room, and Kylie co-writer Dan Carey (of Danmass and Mr Dan fame). On "Penguin Rock" they serve up a mixture of Balearic downbeat mellowness, electro-pop dreaminess, twisted reggae and more, featuring the singles "Western Skies" and "Penguin". Collaborators on this album include Estelle, Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Earl 16, Cathy Battestessa & Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Knifehandchop - How I Left You
Very Friendly

An album of KHC's post break-up anthems take us on a sentimental journey of schiz stomping electro hardcore & dancefloor death marches. 23 yr old Billy Pollard, contextualizes post-traumatic mania by kicking out the pummeling beats, extremities of high and low with songs of isolation and loss vs bouncy, bumping ragga dancehall vocal tracks.

Merzbow Vs Nordvargr - Parikel
Cold Spring

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 and gives it the mighty Nordvargr treatment. Heavy loops, rhythms, pulses and noise, mixed with ambient moments.

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Saturday, September 04, 2004

 

A new UK jazz music website: ejazz.fm - for real jazz heads

# posted by DJ Martian 4:29 PM

 

Stylus review Slowsix - Private Times In Public Places this is [Album of the week @ Stylus]

Classical Composition in vein of Rachel’s merges with elegant minimalism to entrancing effect...

Slowsix echo the virtuosity and compositional rigor of their classical heritage; such is their bud and from it sprouts a blossom in the form of digital signal processing, whereby a computer, divorced from its role as a playback device, breathes in the sounds around it and exhales its signals as an idiosyncratic voice with its own idiom. The ensuing sound, a synthesis marked by a slow continuous pulse of Rhodes piano, as well as long plaintive melodies from violin and viola, is the ripe fruit harvested throughout these three comprehensive compositions.

Official website: Slowsix

# posted by DJ Martian 3:24 PM

 

All About Jazz review Sonic Liberation Front - Ashé a Go-Go

Official website for: Sonic Liberation Front has free MP3 tracks to download.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:38 PM

 

music blog to check: 20 Jazz Funk Greats

# posted by DJ Martian 2:13 PM

 

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

# posted by DJ Martian 1:58 PM

 

ILM Best of 1990s

Over on ILM there is an open nominations thread where you can select 2 albums, 2 tracks from the 90s, that will be included in a best of 90s poll: THE 1990s POLL - nominations here plz

You can also place suggestions on what should be included on this thread: Filter your suggestions for THE 1990s POLL out of that thread and put them here.

I disagree with the limited methodology of this survey, so the more interesting nominations the better - go ahead and make your selections.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM

 

The Independent interview Nick Cave

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

 

NewFrontEars music blog is back in action.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:59 PM

 

Drum'n'Bass Arena report info on Technical Freaks LP a joint production between Dylan & Tech Itch

Dylan & Tech Itch join forces and invite others to mash rock, hiphop
and cinematics into beats; the ‘Technical Freaks’ LP is due in September

# posted by DJ Martian 12:59 PM

 

Sea of Tranquility interview US art-rock band The Red Masque

# posted by DJ Martian 12:54 PM

 

Radio 3 Fela Kuti Documentary

Radio 3 have a Fela Kuti Feature to tie in with documentary: In Search of Fela Kuti

R3 Broadcast: Monday 6th September at 9.30pm

# posted by DJ Martian 12:33 PM

 

Photek

Listening to the drum n bass show on Radio 1 and it seems Photek has gone all techstep jungle !

Radio 1: Fabio & Grooverider

Cross ref with Drum'n'Bass Arena: Most Played Dubplates confirms the techstep direction:

in at Numero Uno:

Title: Baltimore
Label: Photek Productions
Artist: Photek

Pounding vintage Bluenote biznizz picked up by Dom & Roland, Tech Itch, Teebee and Friction and all courtesy Photek.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:00 AM

 

BBC Collective interview Diplo

Diplo - Florida, is released 13th September 04 on Big Dada.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:43 AM

 

Sonic Acts 10 - Amsterdam

Intuitive Music provide info on the line up of Sonic Acts 10, September 23-25, Amsterdam

Fennesz, Radian, Jan Jelinek, Chris Watson, Philip Jeck, Venetian Snares and Speedy J are some of the artists appearing.

Official website for Sonic Acts 10

The complete Sonic Acts programme will be broadcasted live in cooperation with www.fabchannel.com. Visit the fabchannel website for live streams during the festival and for archived performances when the festival is over.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:34 AM

 

Ekko Fest, Bergen

Intuitive Music provide info on the line of Ekko Fest, September 30-October 03, Bergen, Norway

Ekko fest is a non-profit collaboration by musicians and artists with electronic music, performances, designs, paintings, and video-installations.

The official website for Ekko Fest taking place in the City of Bergen in Norway.

The website includes a built in radio player to sample tracks from all the artists, plus artist profiles - an excellent way to listen to a diverse range of electronic music mostly from Scandinavian artists.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:26 AM

 

Rune Grammofon release a new album from Phonophani: Phonophani - Oak or Rock:

This is the third Phonophani album, the second for Rune Grammofon. The title refers to mysterious connections between material things, and the album is all about rediscovering the great mystery of music. Through dissecting the sound of ordinary or 'real' instruments such as cello, vibraphone, guitars and the human voice and dissolving melodies into their elementary particles, Espen Sommer Eide seeks to excavate the 'ur' music itself. Instruments are often sampled and manipulated using software designed and made by himself, being a keen programmer who prefers this to the so-called industry standards, giving the album a personal and unique sound. Maja Ratkje is appearing on one of the tracks.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:54 AM

 

The Muffins - Double Negative

Cuneiform Records release a new album from US avant-prog band The Muffins later this month: The Muffins - Double Negative

It is an all-too-rare occurrence for a band, throughout its career, to create music that continually pushes the envelope and transforms the landscape. It is an even rarer occurrence for such a band to reunite after a long separation, and embark on a second musical career that proves as innovative as the first. For The Muffins, lightening has struck twice. In 1998, The Muffins reformed with all four members, and it proved to be the genuine article. Double Negative is The Muffins’ second studio recording released since reforming and possibly the most ambitious work of their career. Featuring 75 minutes of music spread over 17 songs, Double Negative is The Muffins’ most compositionally diverse work, featuring pieces that vary in style and tone greatly, but which are always theirs (although they might fool you for a bit here and there!). The Muffins have long been noted for the way they craft memorable themes with adventurous musical structures and this is no exception. In addition, it is the band’s most instrumentally rich work, featuring an unprecedented number of musical guest appearances. Two principal members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, play sax on several tracks, while longtime Muffins contributor, Doug Elliott, contributes excellent trombone parts to half the pieces and string players also contribute.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:35 AM

 

High Contrast - High Society

The new High Contrast album can be listened online @ BBC - 1Xtra - Drum & Bass

Hear it before everyone else!

# posted by DJ Martian 12:21 AM

Friday, September 03, 2004

 

Leonard's Lair review Bark Psychosis - ///CODENAME:Dustsucker with a top rated 5/5 score.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:11 PM

 

Codeseven

Listen to 2 advance tracks from Codeseven: purevolume - codeseven

About Codeseven
Dancing Echoes / Dead Sounds will be in stores Oct. 5th 2004 on Equal Vision. Check out two brand new tracks from the upcoming release and make sure to sign the mailing list. Thanks Codeseven

Codeseven are America's answer to Manchester's Doves

In particular check: Nasty Little Revolution track, which is very Doves-like the same epic expansive textured rock atmopsherics and emotional vocals. Add in a touch of early Tears for Fears, U2, Mansun, The Chameleons and even Duran Duran circa Ordinary World.

Codeseven with the right publicity could go far with this new album - on the strength of these tracks in 2004 they are ahead of their far more successful American peers such as The Killers and Interpol.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:57 PM

 

Neurot Recordings list their upcoming releases:

Upcoming 2004 Releases
Grails, Redlight, release date: October 5, 2004

... also on the horizon
Red Sparowes (incl. members of Neurosis and Isis)
Guapo
Final
Neurosis & Jarboe vinyl
Tribes Of Neurot

# posted by DJ Martian 8:09 PM

 

Projekt label Plans for 2005

Projekt Upcoming CDs as well Mira, expect new albums from Audra, Android Lust and Voltaire in 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:05 PM

 

Mira EP in November, Album 2005

Mira have a news update:

Yep, the record was finished earlier this month. However due to Projekt's busy release schedule, you'll have to hold on until November. The "Pieces" Maxi-CD will be released then, it will feature two songs from the album, an alternate mix of another song from the album...and an exclusive bonus track. The LP will follow in January. Expect some changes around here soon....

Info @ Projekt

Mira
The Pieces Maxi
2004
Projekt | PRO00163
Maxi-CD

Release Date: November 9th

Tracks:

Pieces
Window Seat
No Other Way (alt mix)
Todd Space is My Day Job

Mira finally emerged from a three-year soul-searching binge to present us with the Pieces Maxi. Pieces contains two tracks from the upcoming album Letting Go (due in early 2005), an exclusive alternate mix of a third album track, and a rare cover song only previously available on vinyl. With this release, Mira promises to resurrect that "eye of the hurricane" experience from past records and take it to new heights.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:01 PM

 

BBC Music review Kasabian - Kasabian who are a bunch of retro baggy chancers from Leicester with a deep love of The Stone Roses/ Primal Scream/ Happy Mondays etc.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:19 PM

 

Next week on the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio 2:

Tuesday 7th September
Julian Cope talks to Mark.

Wednesday 8th September
Durutti Column live in session

These shows will also be available on listen again after broadcast.

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This week's 6 Music - Freak Zone show on Sunday September 5th features:

On this week's Freak Zone we'll be joined in the studio by The Go! Team.

Described by one music paper as “… akin to watching Kill Bill Vol 1 on acid”, this Glasgo based five-piece have Freak Zone written all over them.

Freak Zone Specialist Eddi Fiegel will be joining us in the studio take us through the life and works of Young Marble Giants in our Mavericks and Misfits slot.

Our Album of the Week is The Durutti Column’s 1979 (wittily-titled) debut album, The Return Of The Durutti Column.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:02 PM

 

BBC Music review Wibutee - Playmachine - more fine jazztronica/ electro-jazz music from Norway ! on Jazzland Recordings

Playmachine is not as caustically monolithic as On The Corner, preferring instead to opt for a more varied approach. This ultimately makes for a highly enjoyable and convincing fusion (is that word allowed yet?) of jazz, dub and electronica. Place Playmachine alongside Matthew Bourne's The Electric Dr M - both show musicians creating highly contemporary music by exploring the territories first mapped by Miles Davis and Herbie Mwandishi Hancock, while taking account of the key electronic musics that have developed in the intervening years. Repeated listens reveal Playmachine's wealth of sonic and musical detail. No more crises please: the world needs Wibutee.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:56 PM

 

All About Jazz review Medeski, Martin & Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case)

# posted by DJ Martian 4:52 PM