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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Blabbermouth.Net report TOOL: Studio Update

I reckon this will be a 2006 release !

# posted by DJ Martian 11:11 PM

PopMatters interview Dungen

# posted by DJ Martian 12:39 PM

Kate Bush New Double Album - Aerial

CD Times report Kate Bush Album and Single Details Announced

EMI Records is proud to announce the release of the brand new studio album by Kate Bush.

The double album titled ‘Aerial’ will be released worldwide on November 7th (November 8th in USA).

A single: King Of The Mountain will be released on October 24th.

Yahoo / PRNewswire in the US also confirm KATE BUSH; New Single & Album

In the US, the album will be released by Columbia [owned by Sony]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:13 PM

Blabbermouth.Net confirm VOIVOD To Complete New Album As A Tribute To Fallen Guitarist

# posted by DJ Martian 12:16 AM

The Perfect Album, by Plastic users (the tally) - plastic an internet community website conduct a poll to find the perfect album. The winner: Radiohead - OK Computer

# posted by DJ Martian 12:06 AM

Benbecula Records, The Short Wave Set + Capitol K

The latest One World show features: Benbecula Records, The Short Wave Set + Capitol K

Show broadcast on Radio 1
Monday 29 August 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:02 AM

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Polish epic-rockers Riverside announce an October 31st release date for their new & [second] album: Second Life Syndrome

We'd like to inform you that the worldwide premiere of "Second Life Syndrome" has been scheduled for the 31st of October 2005. The album will be released on Inside Out label in the world and on Mystic Production in Poland. Both releases will have the same graphic layout designed by Travis Smith. Also, we hope you'll be pleased to hear that there are going to be 9 tracks on "SLS" and not 8, as we announced before:

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

After
Volte-Face
Conceiving You
Second Life Syndrome
Artificial Smile
I Turned You Down
Reality Dream III
Dance With The Shadow
Before

# posted by DJ Martian 11:47 PM

New music ezine: Re:automation Digital Media Magazine

Re:automation Magazine is an online digital music zine for "strange music" started by me (Stanley Robinson, aka GunHed). The focus of the magazine is mainly on IDM, Noise, Dark Ambient, Post-Rock, Electronica and other forms of electronic music. I also do a radio show called "re:automation radio" which features established as well as fresh new artists each and every week . I will also be releasing free mp3 compilations soon.

My previous zine Wet-Works Electrozine ran from 1999-2005 and featured hundreds of interviews and reviews, some of which will be carried over to Re:automation. My hope is to expose people to more interesting and unique forms of electronic music through interviews, reviews, online radio and featured stories. In the future I hope to even release a dvd. [About/ Section]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:21 PM

Ground and Sky - Brandon's Top 10: 1997-2005 - top 10's for each year including some linked reviews.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:08 PM

Playlouder interview Jim Kerr of Simple Minds

# posted by DJ Martian 9:55 PM

music ezine: The Buried Cry Webzine includes a Porcupine Tree interview.

this music ezine covering post-punk to progressive rock to post-metal music.

Interviews include:

The Comsat Angels
Blackfield
Marillion
Mike Patton

# posted by DJ Martian 7:38 PM

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 97 - 30 August-5 September, 2005]

flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:52 PM

Kate Bush News & Information following the Kate Bush information trail: Album rumours everywhere, but official date still not announced

Still waiting for EMI UK to make an announcement.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:34 PM

del.icio.us/forcedexposure - Forced Exposure US independent music publicity company use social bookmarks system: del.icio.us to track album reviews.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:34 PM

Stylus review Cyne - Evolution Fight

# posted by DJ Martian 1:20 PM

new noise spotlight a classic album from Juno

The Best Albums In The World Ever That Top 100 Lists Never Tell You To Buy
#1: Juno – ‘A Future Lived In Past Tense’
By Matt Hill

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 PM

ReGen Magazine interview Conjure One

An interview with Rhys Fulber of Conjure One
By Ilker Yucel
Assistant Editor

# posted by DJ Martian 12:30 PM

Monday, August 29, 2005

ILM 80s Poll - Nominations

ILM are organizing a 1980s poll:

Official 80s NOMINATIONS THREAD

DEADLINE FOR NODS - 5:00 PM EST 26 SEPTEMBER 2005

you gets 15 nominations total, allocated as you wish with the caveat that you may nominate no more than 9 of one and no less than 6 of the other

80s my nominations:

ALBUMS:

a.r.kane - i
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches
Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels
The Cure - Pornography
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Rush - Moving Pictures
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth

SINGLES:

The Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain
The Bolshoi - Away
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Simple Minds - The American
Time Zone - World Destruction

Once someone has nominated an album/ single then you need to nominate something else.

Also to lobby / make suggstions for singles or albums that have not been nominated yet: 1980s NOMINATIONS SUGGESTION THREAD

These albums have not been nominated yet:

The Associates - Sulk
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Blue Nile - Hats
The Bolshoi - Friends
Cabaret Voltaire - The Covenant, The Sword & The Arm of the Lord
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
China Crisis - Flaunt the Imperfection
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Comsat Angels - Fiction
Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle
Julian Cope - Fried
The Cult - Dreamtime
The Cult - Love
Dif Juz - Extractions
Durutti Column - The Guitar And Other Machines
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
Eno/Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Peter Gabriel - 3
Peter Gabriel - 4
John Foxx - The Garden
John Foxx - Metamatic
Fred Frith - Gravity
Front 242 - Front By Front
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
Jon Hassell - Fourth World Volume Two : Dream Theory in Malaya
Jon Hassell - Fourth World Volume One: Possible Musics (with Brian Eno)
Hugo Largo - Mettle
It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and then you Die
Japan - Tin Drum
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Killing Joke - Revelations
Killing Joke - Whats THIS For...!
Killing Joke - Fire Dances
King Crimson - Discipline
Latin Quarter - Modern Times
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares - Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Magazine - Correct Use of Soap
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Marillion - Seasons End
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
Colin Newman - A-Z
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Arthur Russell - World Of Echo
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85
Shriekback - Oil & Gold
Jane Siberry - The Walking
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Simple Minds - Sons of Fascination/ Sister Feelings Call
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss In The Dream House
The Sound - Jeopardy
The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
The Stranglers - Dreamtime
The Stranglers - La Folie
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Flux & Mutability
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition
That Petrol Emotion - Babble
The The - Soul Mining
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs
Univers Zero - Ceux du Dehors
Virgin Prunes - ... If I Die, I Die
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Wire - The Ideal Copy
The Woodentops - Giant

# posted by DJ Martian 7:14 PM

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Issue 7 of Zero Tolerance Magazine on sale this Tuesday, Opeth are on the front cover. Includes free CD with new release tracks from Opeth, Arcturus, Hypocrisy etc

ISSUE 007 SEPT/OCT - ONSALE 30-08-05
132 PAGE BIRTHDAY EDITION!
Cover price £3.20 - 132 Pages
Available from all good newsagents: Selected WHSmiths, Dawsons News, John Menzies and Independent retailers and online by clicking Enlist

FREE CD - ZTAUDIO004
16 tracks to caress your eardrums.
GRIMFIST HYPOCRISY IRONY OF CHRIST OPETH ARCTURUS SOTHIS BEECHER ZERO CIPHER CHIMAIRA DEATH IN BLOOD MIKSHA CATHEDRAL THE DROWNING FROSTHOLD 1349 MACHINOCHRIST

INTERROGATIONS
OPETH PSYCHIC TV CATHEDRAL ARCTURUS
BLACK METAL MAYHEM: Satanic Warmaster, Urgrund, Winter Of Apokalypse, Operation Winter Mist, Twilight, Rites Of Thy Degringolade
SCUM HYPOCRISY ARCH ENEMY EPHEL DUATH GRIMFIST BIOHAZARD NEVERMORE DETONATION SLOUGH FEG FEAR FACTORY SKINNY PUPPY GOJIRA PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT GUTWORM SIEBENBURGEN CHIMAIRA VILE AMORAL THROWDOWN MUNICIPAL WASTE BESEECH NAILED.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:28 PM

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat [Week Commencing August 29th]

This week's new releases @ Boomkat include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Cyne - Evolution Flight
City Centre Offices

Whilst the hip-hop mainstream continues to self detonate in a bullet-proof vest of utter banality, the leftfield scene is happy to embrace all those with the skills to pay the bills; enter stage left... Cyne. Ensconced on CCO you might be anticipating a blip-hop album in the vein of Beans et al, but rather than get all clinical Cyne are imbued with deep and warm tributaries of samples and instrumentation that has its roots strewn deep within American musical history. Formed around the bleached sunshine of Miami, Cyne's sound is a sweet and sour mix of soulful, party music and polemical rhymes that is as happy taking a verbose pop at Dubya ('Soap') as it is lamenting the loss of a mother ('Up Above'). With a spirit that recalls the production of Madlib or King Gedorrah, opening track 'Plight About Now' is a broiling hunk of horn-stabs and calypso rhythms that is beyond infectious. A stylistic neighbour to Common in terms of rhyming style, Akin and Cise Star are at turns fierce, reflective and grin inducinlgy happy, but never let the off-putting spectre of 'worthiness' rear its ugly head. With highlights too many to mention, if you aren't moved by 'Up Above' and 'Arrow of God'or on your feet grooving to the blitz samples of 'Automan' ("clever ring-tones define me..."), then you must be dead. Proving that hip-hop can be both forward looking and informed by the past, Cyne are the real deal. The bar has just been raised......

Dmx Krew - Wave
Rephlex

'Wave' is a well handy coming together of prime-cuts from the last 3 DMX Krew / Wave Function LP's, bolstered by not just exclusive vocal versions of previous instrumentals, but a whole full-fat second disc of 'Most Requested Records' that features material from EVERY DMX release on Rephlex in the past 9 years. You got all that? First disc first, with the likes of 'Tonight', 'The Pleasure Zone' and 'Maximillian' making welcome reappearances it's no wonder why the originals were snapped up so quick a while back. Taking an 80's sound then mixing in a healthy twist of Rephlex love has always stood Ed DMX in good stead, with the 'Wave Function' series stretching this remit into new territories. Whilst this could so easily have resulted in a nostalgic bout of electro tail-chasing, songs such as 'When The Going Get Weird' positively throb with barely contained disco goodness that makes sure not to bypass the brain as it gets intimate with your feet. Similarly, beatless excursions like 'Aurora' and the Drexciyan aquatic-funk of 'Heisenberg' are thrilling documents of a talent at full throttle, whilst old favourites like 'The Glass Room' and 'I'm All Alone' (which still sounds awfully like the incidental music from 80's cartoon 'The Racoons' to me...) lose none of their potency....

Mental Overdrive - The Phuture That Never Happened
Smalltown Supersound

Even though he commits the cardinal sin of replacing the letter 'F' with 'PH' (second only to a 'Z' instead of an 'S'), 'The Phuture That Never Happened' sees Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive) further cementing his central role in the crowded music scene that has emerged from the northern Norway town of Tromso. With interest in Martinsen renewed following the more than agreeable '083' earlier this year, 'The Phuture That Never Happened' is a timely rummage through his work for the seminal R&S label issued between 1989-1993. With Martinsen asking "why on earth release a collection of 10-15 year old rave and techno tunes that weren't even anthems in their time?" in the liner-notes, he then goes onto answer this through a touching discourse on the way society has developed, but more importantly in the music contained therein. Far more in-your-face than his recent work, tracks like '12000 AD', 'Invasion' and 'Invasion 2' are pounding beat driven behemoths, replete with teasing breakdowns and all manner of vintage swoopy bits (one of which was later stolen by 2Unlimited...). The antithesis of white-gloves rave, 'The Phuture That Never Happened' is a rough and tumble set of 'dance' that undoubtedly shows its age whilst retaining an odd sense of timelessness......

Radioactive Lamb - The Memoirs Of Reverend Cowhead & Sheriff Lamb Boy
GPR

According to their label "well informed people have speculated only 20 copies or less" of this Radioactive Lamb album were originally pressed before GPR went under. As to who this band of 'well informed' intelligentsia were, we may never know, but at least you can now get access to the album they were on about. 'The Memoirs...' first appeared way back yonder in 1998 and was briefly described as 'ambient techno'; quite an apt tag. Mixing a bit of Aphex with a bit of Black Dog and a bit of Plaid with a bit of Metamatics, the Radioactive Lamb sound is In hindsight reassuringly familiar whilst straying far enough to stake a claim on its own. Opening with 'Bellevedere', the Lamb get 808's squirming and airy beats bouncing before downing tools to watch the electronic sunset on 'Heart of The Flame'. Elsewhere they indulge in some jazz variations on 'I'll Be All Yours', 'My Call' hijacks some Space Invaders and dukes it out in a hazy soundscape, whilst 'Low Raider' cracks open a fresh batch of oven-ready breaks. Well informed people think you might just like it......

Sovacusa - Centrepoint
Expanding

Recorded "a few years ago" then restructured and reprocessed in early 2005, 'Centrepoint' is the collaborative venture from Tim Martin (Maps+Diagrams) and Steve Davis (Broca or Snooker World Champion... You decide!). Just as a kid can look like both parents depending on who's there at the time, so Sovacusa sound just like the solo output of either protagonist depending on who you've recently been listening to/have in mind. Therefore as you proclaim that the waterlogged precision beats on 'Shibuya' are textbook Maps+Diagrams territory, your attention is then snagged by the distinctly Broca-esque brooding backwash. Regardless of parentage 'Centrepoint' is a lovely listen and would fit in snugly alongside the recent split 3" Martin put out on Awkward Silence. Combining the fidgety micro-sound beats with flowing Eno-enhanced Atmospherics and a consciously far-eastern lining, Sovacusa instil tracks like 'Urbic' and 'Ginza' with a towering sense of dignity and epic reach. Elsewhere, 'Fasio' is diamond-cut electronica that wouldn't look out of place at an Angelo Badalamenti convention, 'Scai' goes for a bit of intricate glory, whilst 'Ota' has a kick about with minimalism. Nice....

Vessel - Resist
Expanding

Last seen as part of Expanding's PVC-fetish 7" series, Vessel (aka Gavin Toomey) has found time in his busy EFX schedule (recent work includes Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory') to record the follow up to his gem-of-a-debut 'Dreaming in Pairs'. Similarly cinematic in its scope, 'Resist' opens with the gravelly clicks and cuts of its title track, gazing skywards somewhere between Jan Jelinek and William Basinski; utterly consuming stuff. Morphing into a dream-like take on electro for the menacing 'Turn', Toomey seems most at home marrying crumpled electronica beats to sunset atmospherics, with 'Ran', 'Shade' and 'Kerna' testament to this. Taking in influences that range from Bola to Stockhausen, Toomey has further developed his love for IDM, with a bit more of the intelligent, and a bit less of the dance....

Various / Tempa - Dubstep Allstars Vol.02
Tempa

The new hybrid is well and truly out of the bag. In his, as ever, fully informed sleeve notes, Martin of Keysound recordings notes the collision of "dread dub b-lines, dark jungle energy, funky reggae skanks and soaring Detroit melodies". Since Hatcha's awesome volume one in this series, which we still rotate regulalry, this music with a name has blown up big style, yet there's still tunes on dubplate, exclusive to that compilation which have yet to the see the light of day. There's five full unreleased dubs here, from Loefah & Skream's awesome "28 grams" which we gather may well see a full release sometime soon, through to further Digital Mystikz' mightiness. Youngsta loves his closest producers, drawing from a contained well of talent he can rely on - if you had Skream, Loefah, D1 and the Mystikz making slates specifically for you, how much other music would you really need! In addition he's pulled out forthcoming gems to drop in the hopefully near future on Soulja, DMZ and of course Tempa. At 20, Youngsta has already been jockeying for 8 years, making his debut on Freek Fm back in 1998, and clearly has the world at his feet, but as he'd no doubt agree, its really all about the music - and as we can all attest, its vital, sometimes brutal, but always life-affirming stuff. So the man say "powerful, enthralling, mystical margin music" - buy!...

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops I
2062

For all those wondering where the reissue of Basinski's first instalment of the 'Disintegration Loops' series was, your wait is over! Having been held back till last, the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man; but Basinski more than matches the task. With the back story of their inception now well documented (detailed in the liner notes) Basinski seems to have captured a sound that would overtly suggest death (i.e.. the decay of archived sound files) in a way which precipitates a renewed interest in previously doomed material and thus signifies life... Or something. Either way it's a profoundly moving listen that delights in offering you shrouded mediations which are left for you to interpret accordingly and provides a fitting prologue to an astonishing series....

William Basinski - Melancholia
2062

For me this is the perfect Basinski release - 'Melancholia' marks yet another reissue of a long-gone set of aural gems. In stark contrast to his sprawling 'Disintegration Loops' compositions, 'Melancholia' is made up of 14 piano driven tape-loops dating from the early-80's that range in duration from one to seven minutes and have previously only seen the light of day on a limited-as-you-like CDR. As gob-smackingly sublime as your imagination will allow, the Trim-Pak CD is William Basinski at his most audacious and captivating; allowing friable piano parts to dominate one minute, before they are swept off in a miasma of indistinct (but thoroughly gratifying) noise. Whilst I could compare the music to Morton Feldman, Satie, Debussy, Stravinsky,Burden et al, it's a bit like trying to lash the wind... I cannot overstate the beauty of these pieces and pity the fool who does; buy immediately....

William Basinski - Water Music
2062

One of the Holy Grails amongst Basinski's unreleased catalogue, 'Water Music' is now available on a proper release, scuppering all the eBay extortionists peddling bad quality CDR's. Comprised of a single hour long composition, 'Water Music' (alongside the accompanying 'Water Music II') was recorded over a nine month period which spanned the millennium. Based on a foundation of indistinct hums, 'Water Music' amoralities towards fleeting peaks of diffused noise that remain tantalisingly out of reach throughout. Whilst technically ambient, 'Water Music' is not the clichéd set of synths and soundscapes, instead casting a web of smudged noise around a thrumming heart of musical genius. Whether you've dabbled before or not, 'Water Music' is classic Basinski that you won't want to pass by. Amazing music....

William Basinski - Water Music Ii
2062

The second part of William Basinski's superlative 'Water Music' series compounds even further the notion that this veteran American composer is a living legend. Seemingly touching on the idea of mathematical music (ciphers, durational ratios etc.) that surfaced on his 'Disintegration Loops' work, 'Water Music II' is more overtly active than the preceding tract. Spread over a single piece that tops an hour, 'Water Music II' has an undulating predilection that Basinski then goes on to obscure through diffused soundscapes of incremental intensity. Immersive in a way you won't realise possible until you let it submerge you fully, 'Water Music II' will thrill and awe in equal measure. Essential....

Greenhouse Effect - Columbus Or Bust
Weightless Recordings

Blueprint's duo with Manifest bring the dopeness back in the 05', this album completely produced by 'print on killer form following up on his Rhymesayers 2005 highpoint '1988'. Check 'Ground Zero' offering killer fluid rapping over a funked deep bassed out cinematica bomb track. 'Still Shook' reworks a Mobb Deep hook in a dope style, bug out on the delayed snare and swim in the vinyl crackle and pop. Guestage come correct with the men Murs and Jakki the Motormouth. A definate 2005 hip hop highlight that gives you same kind of rush that Def Jux delivered in their glorious early days. 'What's It All About?' announces the final track #15, dopeness be the answer!...

Alias & Ehren - Lillian
Anticon

Anyone naughty enough to have tried downloading the new BOC album in the past couple of weeks will likely be pretty familiar with 'Most Important Things' from Alias & Ehren's 'Lillian'. Why? Cos some scamp bunged it in alongside a pic'n'mix of turqoise-ish material and tried passing it off as 'The Campfire Headphase'! Yet whilst this association may get you presuming that 'Lillian' is all frosted vocals and bunker atmospherics, it is in fact the first album Alias and and his bruv Ehren have recorded together (named after their grandma...). 'Lillian' is not merely an Anticon field-trip, with the brothers ice-skating around thrumming lakes of frozen beats, surface shattering breaks and bewitching melodies. Opening with 'Eman Ruosis Iht', A&E coax you in with bleached electronica and an analogue knock about, waiting until you're up to your waste before dropping the full-fat set of breaks. With the ethereal choirs and expansive electronica of the title track juxtaposed with the mournful broken beats of 'Misc Stomp', or the Schnauss-like 'Ladder's going for full-on panoramictronica, 'Lillian' is eclectic in all the right ways....

Part 2 - Live From The Breadline
Big Dada

Now while I've been waiting patiently for New Flesh's third album I'll definetely scrub it from my 2005 wish list if this album from Part 2 cuts it even half as killa-styles as 'Understanding' did back in early 2002. Three and a half years later comes 'Live From The Breadline' a fifteen track bouncement ting update thing fusing Part 2's dope production knack with guest vocals taking the music into many areas of black street music uk 2005 proof. 'Will It Ever' sounds chart bound to my ears, Sandra Melody having a vocal style perfectly suited to crossing over. The rap grime dry tech boom jam 'One Of Dem Days' with Fallacy ticks all the right boxes if you like your stuff gimmik free. 'Rose Tinted Glasses' drops into a jamdown Roots Manuva vibe with the vocz of Lotek, LSK and Tomo. Juice Aleem brings the bad dapa rapshiz on the crazy uptempo steppin' 'Chasin', pimp the bassline. Toasty Taylor drops nuff tuffness on 'Sow Seeds' and on it goes. Maybe not as eye poppingly shockout as some of Part's prior adventures in sound, this album still stands tall and proud over near all the competition. Warmly recommended....

Library Tapes - Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life
Resonant

2005 is looking likely to be remembered as the year of the piano. With countless artists tickling the ivoriesand Michael Nyman's back catalogue getting the attention it deserves, the piano has become the weapon of choice for the more mellow-headed leftfield. The latest to join the Liberace list is Swedish duo Library Tapes, whose debut album 'Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life' lists Max Richter, Lunz and A Silver Mt. Zion as amongst their influences. Comprised of piano, acoustic/electric guitars, balalaika and the a trusty laptop, 'Alone In The Bright Lights...' seems to exist in a distant tundra, with the listener coaxed into embarking on a hugely rewarding journey. Whilst the stiff melodies of opening composition 'Broken Piano Pt.2' are draftily satisfying, it is '...in a safe place...somewhere near your heart...' that really establishes their sound. Not unlike a William Basinski piece, 'In a safe place...' takes an emotionally wrought piano and allows it to languidly meander over a stirring landscape of half-glimpsed sonic sturctures and soundscapes that can't help but make an emotional impact on this listener. Gorgeous....

Squares On Both Sides - Dunaj
Hausmusik

The second album from Daniel Buerkner sees yet more solipsism from the 23 year old Berlin resident under his Squares On Both Sides guise. Sharing a love of hushed Americana with the likes of Vincent Gallo, Buerkner isn't afraid to pepper his musical and lyrical rectitude with a dose of angular verbosity when required. At times almost post-rock in its stravaig layers of meandering bass and rimy guitars, 'Dunaj' will appeal equally to fans of Mogwai as it does American Analogue Set and Elliot Smith. With the hissed piano and acoustic guitar of 'Lungs' resembling Papa M and the droll Malkmus-esque vocals of 'Ladder-Telescopes' perfectly complimenting the wheezing accordion, Buerkner has a keen understanding of what goes together; the result being both fragile and quite beautiful. Closing through the bruised instrumentation and synthetic bird-song of 'CSAD', Buerkner has made an album of shimmering delights that can be enjoyed up close or from afar. Recommended....

Finn - The Ayes Will Have It
Sunday Service

Broadly speaking you could compare Finn (aka Patrick Zimmer) to artists such as The Go Find, Styrofoam or even Junior Boys, in that he combines an electronica blueprint and set of digital buttresses with traditional song writing. A significant leap from 2003's 'Expose Yourself To Lower Education', Zimmer seems more comfortable letting the live instrumentation take equal precedent with the assorted digitalis and analogue gubbins; and what a difference it makes. At turns epic, personal, upbeat and downbeat, 'The Ayes Will Have It' rattles along with a tacit sense of glee which can't help but recall 'Neon Golden'. Opening through the bleeping mass of Sigur Ross aural-swirls on 'To-and-Fro', Finn instils the likes of 'Electrify' and 'A Computer Au Palais' with a deep-seated pop sensibility that sees his voice staying the right side of the Wayne Cohen boundary. Bestowed with more than a smattering of grandstanding epics that would have you feeling utterly manipulated were they not so damn irresistible (see 'Hymn'), 'The Ayes Will Have It' proves Zimmer knows his onions......

Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht
Mischwald

Eulberg's the self-styled forest ranger who created a big name for himself last year with numerous releases through Cocoon, Traum, Raum and more, not to mention his remix work for DJ Hell, Tiefschwarz and Roman Flügel which all pretty well speaks for itself. Now the ooportunity presents itself to show on out with his skills as a dj, and its a 27 tune 2 disc extravaganza to all the flavours of this minimal tehno flavoured thing we love. There's Triola, Mayer's slow, Tejada's Paranoia, Jonson's massive Speicher, Trentemoller, Villalobos, Dub Kult, LoSoul, Robag Wruhme, James Holden's massive Safari remix for Andre Kraml, Metope's Libertango, Luciano's Vegetable Orchestra remix, Wighnomies' Pele Bloss - in short let us assure you, he's just gone and picked all the right tunes, mixed them and delivered them with aplomb. Rhymes with bomb, 2 rocking mixes for the price of one, get them bought! ..

# posted by DJ Martian 8:17 PM

Last Week's New Releases @ Boomkat [Week Commencing: August 22nd 2005]

Last week's new releases @ Boomkat include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Alarm Will Sound - Perform The Music Of Aphex Twin
Cantaloupe Music

If you took a classical music ensemble that has been described by the New York Times as "The future of classical music" and gave them the works of Richard D.James to sink their teeth into you'd end up with two certain things : 1. An album of absolutely mouthwatering sonic possibilities and 2. A surefire hit of gargantuan collectable proportions. All of which makes it even more exciting to report that. A), this record actually exists and available now and B), that it's absolutely brilliant. To put this into context, Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band based in New-York's creative hub who have already cut their teeth with an album re-arranging Steve Reich's impossibly difficult 'Tehillim / The Desert Music". As a sonic appetiser they don't get much more extreme - but the fact that this group of musicians manages to make some well known and some lesser known Aphex tracks seem so comfortable in the acoustic environment is a testament to their exceptional skill and willingness to inhabit drastically varied musical arenas, as well as to some of the bizarre instrumentation they use. So, for instance, expect to hear four separate drummers trying to keep up with Aphex Twin's ever-complex percussion, while treated voices, all manner of strings, woodwinds, brass instruments and even a Mouth Harp (!!!) work to re-create some of the most progressive music any of us have heard over the last decade in an entirely new yet strangely cohesive manner. This is just an absolute tease of a release - starting off with the delicious gimmickry of the concept and stretching all the way to the joyous execution of tracks from all of the twins' albums (yes, there's even a re-creation here of the memorable directive "come on you c*nts let's have some aphex acid!") - so it really leaves us with very little to say, except for - Buy!!...

Aoki Takamasa And Tujiko Noriko - 28
Fat Cat

Beguiling, filligrane electronic song-structures' seems a good (if not totally cack-mouthed) way of summing up the Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko sound. Delicate to the MAX, '28' is full of utterly charming, lilting electronica, augmented throughout by Noriko's delicate Japanese vocals; with a result that would fail to enrapture all but the most craggy hearted individuals. Takamasa and Noriko certainly know their onions; taking dreamy soundscapes and under wiring with a crisp formation of electronic buttresses that compliment each other like a Heston Blumenthal dish. Ranging from the 'Vespertine'-esque 'Vinyl Words' and poptastic styling of 'Alien', through to the juddering symphony of album closer 'Nolicom', this is a genuine treat which won't spoil your appetite. Lovely....

Kid 606 - Resilience
Wichita

Kid606? That'll be an album of splintered gabba-mentalist-beat-barrages then? WRONG! Recorded over 5 years whilst on tour around the world, 'Resilience' marks Miguel Depedro finally putting to rest the tiresome and wholly inaccurate preconception of his work consisting of nothing other than balls-to-the-walls digital mayhem. Opening with the revealingly titled 'Done With the Scene', Depredro lets an analogue bass melody roll out before sprinkling all manner of swooping digital detritus and mushy breaks over the result. Building to a climactic close, 'Done With The Scene' melts into 'Spanish Song' in which The Kid takes a healthy leaf out of Four Tet's book, garnishing his chunky-knit breaks with foggy-bottomed vocals and diffused soundscapes. Elsewhere, 'Phoenix Riddim' indulges in some Trojan frug, 'Cascadia' turns the paranoia drenched electro up to 11, whilst 'Xmas Funk' is an FX tweaked set of rotating beats. The Kid is dead; long live the Kid!..

Marc Hellner - Asleep On The Wing
Peacefrog

A thoroughly charming EP of juniper scented electronica, 'Asleep On The Wing' sees Pulseprogramming's Marc Hellner giving us a heads up on his forthcoming 'Marriages' long-player. Produced by Telefon Tel Aviv, Hellner's world is one of vista-expanding sunsets and streaked with vapour trails of melancholy. Or something. Opening with the title track, Hellner reveals a tender yet insistent vocal style that (whilst rubbed with a vocoder) adds a tacit human quality to the epic background wash. Watermarked with Telefon Tel Aviv's 'Map of What Is Effortless', 'Asleep On The Wing' also manages to make aural references to Mogwai's 'Hunted By The Freaks', Schneider TM, Sigur Ros and all manner of shoegazing luminaries without once coming across as crowded. Whilst 'Cloudless Exit' is really just a pink-hued ambient extension to the opening track, 'Envoi' pushes things on with brittle beats underwriting the billowing soundscapes. Similarly, the mournful 'Veytaux to Villeneuvfe' has more than a nod in Steve Reich's direction, whilst the HUGE Telefon Tel Aviv remix of the title track is a stunning epilogue that lends the EP a scope and grace not readily achieved in modern music. Also includes an excellent "A Grape Dope" remix. Recommended....

Yellow 6 - Melt Inside
Make Mine Music

Whilst some people take years to rustle up a single release, there are those for whom inspiration flows readily, pumping out record after record in a seemingly endless orgy of creative juices... Deep breath. Just a couple of catalogue numbers short of a half-century, Yellow6 are very much of the latter school; but seemingly not too old to try something new. Formally the lone-preserve of Jon Attwood, he is now joined by Amanda Stafford on vocals, lending veneer to his sparse guitar-led soundscapes. Opening with the arty 'Pacific Rough', Yellow6 shake off the 6th Form philosophising by 'Between Two' to create a twinkly environ of tarnished vocals and grandstanding slow-motion atmospherics. Continuing to hit far more than miss, 'As Seen From Above' recalls Psapp (or even Moloko) with its string diluted starkness, 'Long Saturday' sets about reimagining the Cave/Kylie duet as a dusty East-Midlands love song, whilst 'On Returning' flirts with PJ Harvey and Mogwai. It'll do me....

Wilderness - Wilderness
Jagjaguwar

The opening track of Wilderness' self-titled debut initially sounds like something off mid-90's sitcom 'Game On'... Thankfully it's all up hill from there. The culmination of three years work, Baltimore based four-piece Wilderness have created a shimmering album that seems to invest as much importance in the oft-derided genre of Baggy as it does in the obvious John Lydon indebted vocal style. Teetering now and again on the precipice of pretentiousness (with songs about "the beauty of beauty"), Wilderness nonetheless make a good fist at updating the early-90's for a new audience. Breezily touching on shoegazing ('Arkless') and the Sex Pistols-do-post-rock of 'It's All The Same', Wilderness are at their best when sounding like, well, themselves. With particular mention going to the underwater rock of 'Shepherd in Sheep's Clothing' and piano led 'Mirrored Palm', Wilderness require a bit of patience, but if given they repay heartily....

August Born - August Born
Drag City

The collaborative fruit of Benjamin Chasny (Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance) and Hiroyuki Usui (Fushitsusha), 'August Born' is an intentionally rough sketch of fragmentary folk, Blues and arch-experimentalism. Following the muted, almost Yokoya-esque opening piece 'Blues to Begin', Chasny and Usui really begin to gel on the fluttering 'Dead Bird Blues', wherein Usui's vocals are buoyed by a bout of banjo. Just as Stevie Smith was able to make much out of nothing, so August Born seem able to conjure a grand expanse from a sheltered corner, with the exquisite 'A Thousand Butterflies' testament to this. Incorporating birdsong and wind chimes on the refracted melodies of 'More Dead Bird Blues' (think Ayuo) and addictive guitar musings on the sweaty 'A Lot Like You', 'August Born' is a lilting collection of songs that see a wholly successful juxtaposition of two distinct talents. Gorgeous....

Thrones - Day Late, Dollar Short
Southern Lord

Joe Preston (aka Thrones) is like the Forest Gump of Drone; he was bloody everywhere. Having played bass on Earth's 'Extra-Capsular Extraction', Preston then lent his talents to the Melvins, SUN O))), These Arms Are Snakes before assuming full-time axe wielding duties for Relapse's High On Fire. Somehow managing to squeeze some solo recording time into his schedule, 'Day Late, Dollar Short' is his lonesome debut. With a skull-crushing heaviness reminiscent of label mates Boris, Thrones opens with the epic 'The Suckling'. Over cast-iron bass, Preston literally roars with a primeval intensity that'll knock your fillings clean out. Toning it down a little for 'Young Savage' (sounding uncannily like a Muse song!), Preston maintains the throbbing over-exposed bass until it takes on an almost cathartic intensity, riddling the growls on 'Senex' with a vial of electronic goodness. Intense as you like, but in a awfully moreish way....

Jason Forrest - Lady Fantasy EP
Sonig

Previously known under the litigation-baiting Donna Summer moniker, Jason Forest seems to have been impatiently re-arranging the electronic margins for ages now. Graced by a 'Tales of the Unexpected'-style cover, 'Lady Fantasy' finds Forrest both plundering and wilfully ignoring his past glories. Opening with the David Grubbs guesting 'The Work Ahead Of US', Forrest confounds your expectations with a rimy slice of ambient drone that wouldn't look out of place on Southern. Just when you're thinking his spastcic-spandex days are behind him, he delivers the lurching title track. Held up by towering buttresses of prog-rock, Forrest then belligerently levels it all with sawn-off bursts of ruptured breakcore that plays knock-and-run with Hrvatski, ace material. Elsewhere, 'The Lure of You' is a seedy coalition of grooves, breaks, queasy riffs and Margareth Kamerers delta vocals, whilst 'Sperry and Foil' is a Neu! sampling buffet of Baker beats, jazz, harpsichord and manic breakdowns. Well worth exploring....

Picastro - Metal Cares
Monotreme Records

Resplendent in a hand-etched case that looks like a well-worn school desk, the second album from Toronto based Picastro slips comfortably into the slipstream created by their debut 'Red Your Blues'. Undoubtedly familiar to many through their recent appearance on The Wire's 'Tapper 13', Picastro share much with the elongated grandeur of God Speed You Black Emperor or a downtempo Masada, building wrath-like structures of cello, guitar and waterlogged rhythms around Liz Hysen's mournful voice. Weaved from a cornucopia of disparate musical styles and influences, 'Metal Cares' is belligerently eclectic in it's intent, borrowing post-rock structures one minute ('I Can't Fall Asleep') and Eastern European Folk the next ('Ah Nyeh Nyeh'). Yet whilst it casts a wide aural web, 'Metal Cares' can always rely on the hypnotic vocals of Hysen to provide the necessary cohesion, bringing a real sense of emotional burden to songs like 'Blonde Fires'. Also including a remix from Kid606 cohort Dwayne Sodahberk, 'Metal Cares' is experimental in the most pleasingly eclectic fashion imaginable....

Mobius Band - The Loving Sounds Of Static
Ghostly International

I dunno why, but I was expecting an album of ear-splitting goth-electro shenanigans from the Mobius Band... I think it's the name. Yet what I actually got instead was 45 minutes of folk/pop/indietronica that could happily get stacked alongside the likes of The American Analogue Set, Autolux, Postal Service and Grand National. Coming from Ghostly you know the standard will be suitably high and the Mobius Band make sure they don't let the gaffer down. More up-front with their indie-rock aspirations that label mates The Midwest Project, the Brooklyn based three-piece nonetheless share a sound, albeit informed by a greater sense of classic Americana isolation. At times brushing past The Magic Numbers (see 'Radio Coup'), the Mobius Band employ an undeniably infectious fusion of live drums and electronic detritus that help to add supportive structure to vocals that readily alternate between Devendra-esque whimsy and Sonic Youth style. With particular highlights being the Notwist referencing 'Twilight', the Teenage Fanclub aroma of 'I Just Turned 18' and the closing 'Doo Wop', Mobius Band have staked a legitimate claim to the increasingly crowed indie-tronica paddock with considerable aplomb....

Wax Poetics - Issue 13 : Summer 2005
Wax Poetics
Mag // £ 7.99

This magazine just get's better and better. Issue#13 put's those ill funk brothers The Meters on the cover - full appreciation revealed. Contents - a tribute to the recently departed Lyn Collins - the story behind the Zimbabwe Legit project that Hollywood slept on after Dave Funken-Klein sadly lost his fight against cancer - an interview with Wu-Tang elder Mathematics - Dooley-O on his discovery of uber breaks album, Skull Snaps - Dave Tompkins interviews JVC Force, a Wax P highlight to date - amazing photographs from Joe Conzo, capturing the South Bronx at the start of the 80's with some ace photos of Cold Crush - an interview/career overview with Gary McFarland - Dante Carfagna's depressing Left-Field Americana column, you just ain't never gonna own one of these albums he drops science on - Brian Coleman offers a sample from 'Rakim Told Me', what you ain't bought this ill book yet?? - daptone funk diva Sharon Jones gets interviewed - David Katz tells the King Jammy story, sleng teng niceness - plus much much more. Essential reading....

Various / The Kings Of House - The Kings Of House
BBE
2CD

Alongside Warp's killer 10th anniversary "Influences" and the recent Soul Jazz Acid compilation, this indispensable set from the Masters at Work is a veritable treasure trove of Chicago acid, Techno and House classics - split into one handy 2CD mix and a 2 separate vinyl volumes featuring many of these seminal cuts in remastered, unmixed form. The first Cd is mixed by Kenny Dope and features : Reese & Santonio `The Sound' (Smoothe Mix) Reese & Santonio `Rock To The Beat' Blake Baxter `Sexuality' Jungle Wonz `The Jungle' (Jungle Mix) Mr Fingers `Can You Feel It?' (Instrumental Version) Hercules `7 Ways To Jack' Sterling Void `It's All Right' The Endless Pokers `Poke!' The It `Donnie' Underground `It's U-ESP' Rhythm Is Rhythm `Strings Of Life' Rhythm Is Rhythm `It Is What It Is' Cassio Ware, Chip E & The Ogs `I Wanna See You Freak (Like Dis)' Mike Dunn `God Make Me Funky' KC Flight `Let's Get Jazzy' Maurice Joshua `I Gotta Hold On You' (Dub) Teulé `Drink On Me' Tyree `Video Crash'. The second cd is mixed by Louie Vega and features : Joe Smooth `Promised Land' (Club Mix) Robert Owens `Bring Down The Walls' Frankie Knuckles Ft Jamie Principle `Your Love' Frankie Knuckles Ft Jamie Principle `Baby Wants To Ride' Master C&J Ft Liz Torres `Face It' (Dub) Mr Fingers Inc `Never No More Lonely' Terry Hunter `We Can Make It' Cajmere Ft Dajae `Brighter Days' (Louie's Masters At Work Mix) Romanthony `Let Me Show You Love' (Quick Dub) Blaze `Whatcha Gonna Do' Blaze `If You Should Need A Friend' Robert Owens `I'll Be Your Friend' Mr Lee `I Can't Forget' Loni Clark `Rushing' Todd Terry `Swan Lake' Kerri Chandler `Rain' Kerri Chandler `Get It Off' Louie Vega Ft Mr V `V Gets Jazzy' Virgo 4 `In A Vision'. Genius music - a huge recommendation....

# posted by DJ Martian 5:41 PM

Currently ranked Esoteric Top 100 Albums of 2005 -- Rate Your Music

Not esoteric literally, but rated well by a restricted number of rateyourmusic.com users.

"Of or relating to that which is known by a restricted number of people."

It's a list of albums which have the best balance of high ratings vs low number of ratings. There is no minimum or maximum number of ratings required for an album - it's all relative to the number of ratings that other albums have. [from sharifi / rateyourmusic.com founder, as stated on the rym community ]

I am not precisely sure of the criteria / algorithm rateyourmusic.com use to work out the placings, but some of these albums are better placed on the rateyourmusic top 100 albums of 2005. However that list is weighted towards prolific / well established rateyourmusic.com users/ reviewers.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:45 PM

Denis "Piggy" D'Amour of Voivod has passed away

Just read the sad news on ILM: Piggy (Voivod) est mort

VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour passed away Friday night (August 26) at approximately 11:45 p.m. due to complications from advanced colon cancer...

This is sad news, I was aware that Denis D'Amour was seriously ill - as this was relayed on [Blabbermouth, BW & BK] a few days earlier.

Voivod released their masterpiece album Dimension Hatröss in 1988, it had a major impact on myself as an 18 year at the time. Complex, Cathartic, Experimental, Intense and completely Essential.

Voivod were even featured on the front cover of Sounds magazine in 1988, for an underground metal band this was recognition for high artistic achievement.

Dimension Hatröss album is recognised as a metal landmark album of the 80s to be ranked alongside Master of Puppets.

Blogosphere reaction to the death: IceRocket blog search: piggy voivod

BW & BK report VOIVOD - Denis "Piggy" D'Amour Passes Away

# posted by DJ Martian 1:31 AM

Saturday, August 27, 2005

useful mp3 music blogs rss portal: elbo.ws your mp3 blog dashboard

# posted by DJ Martian 8:20 PM

ARS Electronica FESTIVAL - Theme: Hybrid - Living in Paradox

This festival only has a minor music/ sound art element, however it should interest anyone into modern philosophy, technology, new media and society, postmodernism and cultural studies, experience design or systems thinking.

ARS Electronica FESTIVAL is a Festival for Art, Technology & Society.

Takes place in Linz, Austria between 1st - 6th September.

Since 1979 Ars Electronica Festival has established itself as the most important festival of digital art world wide.

Background: Ars Electronica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Festival
Chronologically the festival was the starting point of Ars Electronica in 1979. It is the most important festival of digital art world wide. The festival is conducted under a different motto each year. The essence of the internationally renowned Ars Electronica Festival is interdisciplinarity and an open encounter of international experts from the arts and sciences with a broad audience of highly diverse backgrounds and interests. Annually since 1979, the Festival has featured a lineup of symposia, exhibitions, performances and events designed to further an artistic and scientific confrontation with the social and cultural phenomena that are the consequences of technological change.

This year's Program theme is Hybrid - Living in Paradox

Details @ ARS Electronica FESTIVAL

[: Statement ]

Hybrid–living in paradox
Read the programmatic statement on this year´s Festival by the artistic directors of Ars Electronica.

HYBRID—living in paradox, the theme of Ars Electronica 2005, examines the implosive tendencies that digital technologies impose on the world, bringing cultures on top of each other and flouting boundaries: national, material, technological and psychological. Hybrid creations and creatures, identities and cultures emerge from recombinations of our three basic codes: numeric, genetic and atomic.

Digital media art itself is a hybrid born from the connection of art and technology, accumulating diverse modes of expression and demanding a unique crossover of expertise and knowledge.

Hybrid—no other word is better able to signify this most characteristic conditions of our time.
- The Drivers and Patterns of Hybridization
- Hybrid Economies and Politics
- Hybrid Cultures and Identities
- Hybrid Creatures and Ecologies

These are the four main areas on which the festival will focus in symposia and artists’ lectures, exhibitions and installations, concerts and performances, workshops and seminars, and artistic interventions in public spaces all around the city.

Since 1979, Ars Electronica has been dedicated to the critical discussion of and reflection upon media culture. With its focal point situated at the intersection of art, technology and society, it is above all the endeavor to nurture up-close-and-personal encounters involving artists, designers, philosophers, sociologists, engineers and scientists from all over the world that endow the Festival with its very special character.

This is not solely a matter of the computer as an artistic medium but, above all, of testing how new ideas that are emerging from artistic practice can be applied to science and society in an effort to influence the way in which new technologies are developed, designed and utilized.

Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf (Directors Ars Electronica)

HYBRID—no other term provides such a consummately appropriate and comprehensive description of the highly paradoxical current state of our world, one that is characterized by interrelationships that, among other things, are extraordinarily contradictory while at the same time displaying superb operative effectiveness:

- Annulments of boundaries, mergers, fusions and crossovers resulting in new economic and political coalitions and alliances, as well as interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts and sciences.
- Global cultural amalgamations as outgrowths of the worldwide circulation of people and products, as well as systems of signs and bodies of information.
- Symbolic as well as physical penetration of the human body by machinery ranging from bionic prostheses and neuro-implants to cyborgs and trans-genetic chimera.
- Sampling, collage and re-mix techniques, as well as consistent cross-compilation and re-contextualization of the means, forms and genres of artistic expression.
- Escalating battles to prevent contamination of the self by the other.

The hybrid is the signature of our age, emblematic of the casualness with which we have established ourselves in real, physical habitats as well as in digital, virtual domains, of the way that dealing with and reconfiguring cultural differences and antipodes has become a matter taken completely for granted, and of the disturbingly routine nature of the way we play with the building blocks of life.

The cultural history of hybridization, from the husbandry and cross-breeding of plants and animals, the mechanical, electrical and digital simulation and replication of nature, and now to the arrogance of modern genetic engineering, has also always been an expression of humanity’s age-old longings to rise above itself and to modify and correct nature.

And just as every organism mobilizes the forces of its immune system to fight off intruders and foreign bodies (even in the case of a life-saving organ transplant), every instance of cultural or social hybridization summons forth attitudes of resistance and defensive action: fundamentalist purism, efforts at exclusion resulting from the fear of assimilation, or a sense of skepticism that sees hidden behind these “new” forms of integration nothing but innovative elaborations of the same old divisive forces.

Hybridization as a cultural process can be calculated and controlled only in the rarest of cases. Its productive powers are mostly the outcome of happenstance or even in some cases the conscious wish to achieve differentiation; they are often byproducts of subversive action. This is especially evident in the successful culture jamming found in youth culture and pop music, but applies equally to numerous applications of digital technology. After all, nobody planned SMS or the dynamic, potent emergence of citizen journalism in the form of blogging, RSS-feeds and podcasting. Their emergence is also a hybrid that was most certainly foretold by visionary artists and cultural theoreticians, though not by the marketing gurus of the New Economy.

The fact that, ultimately, a way is always found to commercially exploit the derivatives that are engendered in this way does nothing to diminish the inclination, pleasure and energy to go on sampling, remixing, contaminating and abusing; at best, it provokes the redoubling of such efforts.

"The first hybrid is the human. And living in paradox. A mix of mind and matter, a translating device, a handshake from mind to matter and vice-versa, humankind is in a permanent state of hybridization, consciously and unconsciously.

Why then focus on such a pervasive condition? Because new drivers of hybridization have emerged that make the hybrid condition always more evident—and more uncomfortable for some. With globalization comes implosion, all cultures and time zones piling up upon each other. When imploding, things either integrate or break. Another driver is digitization, inviting an infinity of recombinations, all hybrids, carefully cultivated with software, like flowers.

We live in paradox, in a suspension of disbelief that will last until the dust settles and the contradictions between self and other, between nationalisms and globalism, between democracy and state control are resolved. And the contradictions between the power of media and that of the state. And the contradictions between science and the economy generating hybrids for all purposes with a clear bias towards profitability over service to humanity. And the contradictions …

Art is the food of hybridity. It is translating and transporting the modes of one culture into another, lifting bits of both and mixing. Sampling is not just one of the techniques of the digital, it has become a way of life. And we have DJs of culture, albeit operating at longer-term rhythms. What can people do but sample in an environment where everything is always available?"

Derrick de Kerckhove

Events: ARS Electronica FESTIVAL includes some avant music / sound art performers.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:43 PM

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - November 17th - 27th

Advance notification: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Planning is now well underway for the 28th hcmf, which takes place from 17 – 27 November 2005. Latest news and detailed programme information will be added to the website over the coming weeks, so do keep checking.

Bold, daring, unique

hcmf is an internationally renowned annual celebration of cutting-edge orchestral, choral, ensemble and electro-acoustic performances; the programme also features talks, films, workshops, dance and dynamic education projects. Around 50 events are packed into 10 amazing days.

hcmf excels in presenting work that is intriguing, challenging and, frequently, boundary-busting, bringing internationally regarded figures together with the cream of emerging creativity and talent.

Performers and composers from around the world are drawn to Huddersfield each year by the magic of hcmf - and the audience gets to rub shoulders with them all.

Events: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Norwegian music feature (performers and composers), celebrating 100 years of Norway
Norway celebrates its 100th anniversary of nationhood in 2005, and hcmf marks this occasion with concerts by leading Norwegian ensembles, with world and UK premieres of music by Scandinavian composers. Norway's richness in musical culture does not just extend to classical ensembles, and hcmf hopes to showcase the vital Norwegian electronica scene, as well as folk/fusion ensembles.

Supersilent will be performing 19.11.05 huddersfield, uk:
[www.supersilence.net [an unofficial site of SUPERSILENT]]

# posted by DJ Martian 2:07 PM

Friday, August 26, 2005

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 3:34 PM

Blabbermouth.Net report SYSTEM OF A DOWN: 'Hypnotize' Due In November

# posted by DJ Martian 2:31 PM

Almost Cool review The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007

# posted by DJ Martian 2:27 PM

Almost Cool review Barbez - Insignificance

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musicOMH.com review Opeth - Ghost Reveries

# posted by DJ Martian 2:23 PM

The Guardian interview Sigur Ros

# posted by DJ Martian 2:17 PM

Thursday, August 25, 2005

6 Music report Kerrang! Awards announced - frankly most of the winners are laughable lame and rock mainstream mediocre. However:

Lifetime Achievement Award - Killing Joke

# posted by DJ Martian 11:49 PM

Face Down - Will to Power

BW & BK report FACE DOWN Set Release Date For The Will To Power; Artwork Revealed [This album will be released in November.]

# posted by DJ Martian 7:57 PM

BW & BK report SATURNUS Schedule Studio Time - targeting a Feb/ March 2006 new album release.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:54 PM

iBoogie an interesting MetaSearch engine with clustering of search results:

MetaSearch Document Clustering Engine and Personalized Search Engines Directory

You can also create your own search tabs:

e.g Blogs [Technorati, Daypop and Blogdigger] can be combined
e.g BBC

check: Add Custom Tabs

Select the templates (search engines) you want in your tab to be searched sumultaneously. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the add button. You can select up to 8 templates.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:54 PM

BBC Music review Goldfrapp - Supernature

# posted by DJ Martian 2:33 PM

soundgenerator.com report LCD Soundsystem eyes 21-date US tour

# posted by DJ Martian 2:28 PM

Talking Heads Albums Reissued & Remastered as Dual Discs

Billboard report Talking Heads Refurbish Catalog For DualDisc - 8 studio albums remastered with expanded extra tracks. Due for release October 4th via Rhino.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:27 PM

Forthcoming One World shows on Radio 1

# 28/08 - Benbecula Records profile / Capitol K / Fat Freddy's Drop album preview

# 05/09 - Notting Hill Carnival Round Up with 1Xtra

# 12/09 - Bestival 2005 Round Up

# 19/09 - 'The Edge of Reason' - Hermeet's Experimental Show

# 26/09 - Above All Others, A - Z of Omaha - Jimmy Devlin's staff show

via email from Benbecula Records

Benbecula Records Showcase on BBC Radio 1 - 28 August 2005

Radio 1 present a showcase and interview with Benbecula Records spanning its 6 year history. Presented exclusively by Benbecula, the 45 minute show will feature favourite tracks from the back catalogue plus some sneak previews of forthcoming material aired for the first time from. Please note that this is aired live at 1am and so is technically on Monday morning of the 29th. You can listen live via the Radio 1 website, www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/oneworld. Please note that you can listen back to the show if you miss it for a week afterwards, via the same web page.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:01 PM

a-ha - Analogues

a-ha have announced their new album is titled: Analogues it will be released on November 7th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:42 PM

BW & BK report PARADISE LOST Album Pushed Back To October In The UK

# posted by DJ Martian 12:16 AM

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The Breezeblock show on Radio 1 has some interesting shows lined up for September.

Also: Listen to this week's show with a mix from Manchester electronica label Modern Love [: Tracklistings - The Breezeblock]

Coming Soon
# No show on 30th August

Sept 6th
Isolee Mix
German producer and micro-house pioneer.

Sept 13th
Exile Mix
D Bridge

Sept 27th
Boards of Canada
DJ Mix

# posted by DJ Martian 7:37 PM

Top 100 Albums of 2005 @ rateyourmusic.com has been updated.

Still at number 1: Pitchfork approved Sufjan Stevens.

Some Non-Mainstream Artists still performing well:

13: Strapping Young Lad: Alien
15: Dark Tranquillity: Character
24: Red Sparowes: At The Soundless Dawn
32: Pelican: The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
37: Jesu: Jesu
44: Jaga Jazzist: What we Must
49: Dälek: Absence
64: Ulver: Blood Inside

Not even released yet, but in the top 100:

8: Sigur Rós: Takk
30: Opeth: Ghost Reveries
85: Broadcast: Tender Buttons
94: Animal Collective: Feels

With nearly two thirds of the year so far gone, and with a heavy release schedule for September / October / November still to come - the albums below 66 are under threat of not being in the top 100 albums of 2005 by rateyourmusic.com users come the end of the year.

The wretched Coldplay are currently at number 59.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:02 PM

Kate Bush Album November Release?

RollingStone.com report this brief news on Kate Bush:

KATE BUSH will release the follow-up to The Red Shoes, her first studio album in twelve years, on November 8th

November 8th is a Tuesday - so American release date. UK therefore could be November 7th?

The best place to pick up the latest Kate Bush news / rumours: The Homeground + Kate Bush News & Info Forum

# posted by DJ Martian 10:18 AM

BW & BK report on Daylight Dies - a new album from this US Atmospheric Metal band is on the way.

Additionally, we are excited to announce that Jens Borden of Fascination Street Studios (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, BLOODBATH) will be mixing the album in Örebro Sweden during the last week of September. Mastering will most likely be carried out at The Cutting Room and everything should be done by the first week of October.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:28 AM

This is Fake DIY interview My Computer

# posted by DJ Martian 12:09 AM

BW & BK report on MAYHEM

A new album will be released early 2006 through Season Of Mist titled Ordo Ab Cha

# posted by DJ Martian 12:00 AM

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Digital Bricks - September 11th - London

m a c h i n e . r e c o r d s report:

Seed Records and The Brick Lane Festival Presents:

LET IT BLEEP : DIGITAL BRICKS

MIRA CALIX (WARP)
dDAMAGE (PLANET MU)
AKASHA (WALL OF SOUND)
LANGAGE COMPUTER
RA
SUPERIMPOZER
LIFTING GEAR ENGINEER
JETHRO BAGHUST
SEED DJ'S

When: September 11th 2005
Where: the Spitz, London

# posted by DJ Martian 3:17 PM

Music news portal: musicNerve.com

# posted by DJ Martian 2:51 PM

John Peel Day - October 13th

Gigwise report First John Peel Day Announced

Radio 1 have announced that the very first ‘John Peel Day’ will take place on October 13.

Radio 1: John Peel Day - October 13th

Personally I would like to see Radio 1 dedicate 24 hours of programming to diverse music in the spirit of John Peel past, present and future. One day when their playlist gets chucked out of the window, replaced with the esoteric / exotic / experimental / extravagant and extreme.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:49 PM

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 96 - 23-29 August, 2005]

flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:35 PM

Monday, August 22, 2005

One World: Mad Professor + Ellen Allien

The latest One World show on Radio 1 features:

Mad Professor + Ellen Allien
Monday 15 August 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]

This week on One World we have a label showcase of Ariwa Records, started by legendary reggae producer The Mad Professor. Also Ellen Allien, founder of BPitch Control Records supplies us with a very special one hour mix.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:42 PM

Reminder: Brainwashed have launched their new look portal.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:14 PM

Simple Minds - Black And White 050505

According to Pause & Play On The CD Front the US release of the Simple Minds new album has been delayed till 2006.

.. delayed to accommodate U.S. tour plans early next year

The UK release of the album remains September 12th

The latest Simple Minds news @ Simple Minds - Dream Giver

# posted by DJ Martian 1:50 PM

musicOMH.com review Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - 28

# posted by DJ Martian 1:28 PM

Searching the Blogosphere & Some RSS Tips

Technorati is a well known search engine for blogs. However there are many problems with Technorati.

Respected web guru, Jason Kottke is completely frustrated with Technorati: So long, Technorati (kottke.org)

I have to agree, Technorati has so many draw backs. I will be removing the Technorati search box from my main blog page - because they are just NOT indexing my blog posts !

I emailed them last month, they did a quick fix update, but still the problems re-occur and remain unsolved. [According to Technorati this blog has not been updated in 26 days. Even though I use blog pinging services that notify Technorati when my blog gets updated !]

My summary of what's wrong with Technorati:

Quality of Information: not indexing some new content, duplicating / confusing sidebar links as new content
Reliability of Tech Infrastructure: Can't cope with service demand, slowness of servers.
User Interface: is cluttered and Information design is poor compared with BlogPulse
Spam blogs: too many "splogs" - although they are addressing this problem.

Alternatives to Technorati:

BlogPulse indexes content on a day-by-day cycle, so it's not as fast as updating new content compared to some blog search tools [e.g IceRocket] or RSS search services [Blogdigger, Bloglines, Feedster etc]. However BlogPulse's information design is superb and the servers are reliable and fast.

IceRocket Blog search indexes new blog content fast.

Meta-Search Tools for Blog Search: Currently there are 2 services available:

brainespot.com™ Blog Search clusters results, removes duplicates. Searches a variety of blog search tools. Not comprehensive, however a useful tool.

A superior service: Clusty who also cluster search results.

Clusty Blogs combines Vivísimo's federated search and clustering capabilities to bring you the best blog search on the web. With one search box you can search and cluster these top blog search engines:

* Blogdigger
* Blogpulse
* Daypop
* Feedster
* Technorati

You may also search by URL to see which blogs are linking to a particular site and Clusty will automatically send your query to each search engine's link search.

How to get your blog content indexed faster ?

Each time you update your blog, quickly visit either of these services:

King Ping: ping your favorite services when updating your blog.

King Ping helps you to ping, to notify, blog search engines that your Blog was updated.

Ping-o-Matic!

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. However it would be expensive for all the services to crawl all the blogs in the world all the time. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you’ve updated so they can come check you out. They get the freshest data possible, you don’t get a thousand robots spidering your site all the time. Everybody wins.

There is also this service: [however there are less options]

PingMyBlog.com - ping a blog service

What are the Advantages of using RSS?

TIME Europe Magazine have just published this article: Let RSS Go Fetch

Syndicate My Atom/ RSS Site Feed:

Atom Feed for DJ Martian's Page

RSS Feed: DJ Martian's Page - powered by FeedBurner

This page displays the RSS feed for DJ Martian's Page. FeedBurner makes it easy to subscribe to this feed in many popular news readers.

RSS Readers:

My Yahoo:

The most popular RSS reader on the web is the My Yahoo portal

My Yahoo

[FAQ RSS Headlines Module - Frequently Asked Questions]

Because My Yahoo! now supports the RSS format, you don't actually "use" RSS to benefit from it. My Yahoo! uses RSS to pull headlines and summaries from your favorite web sites and blogs. All you have to do is specify which sites you'd like to see added to your personal My Yahoo! page -- we'll take it from there.

My Yahoo! - Add Content portal.

Syndicate my blog feed using:

My Yahoo: Add to My Yahoo

or

Bloglines

Another popular RSS reader is Bloglines [that is owned by Ask Jeeves]

My blog @ Bloglines: DJ Martian's Page currently has 51 subscribers.

Subscribe to DJ Martian's Page using Bloglines:

Other useful RSS services to explore:

[note: If you have a blog you can also submit your RSS/ Atom feed to these services:]

Blogdigger: Blogdigger : RSS / Atom Search Engine - Search Blogs [updates new content fast]

Site Feed Search Results Profile: Blogdigger: DJ Martian's Page

An easy / basic to use RSS reader portal: Findory

From CNET News.com: Newsburst

Newsburst is a personalized tool that tracks virtually any type of information on the Web: news, blogs, shopping lists, weather, search results, alerts, auctions and more.

Useful for advanced RSS users: PubSub

..............................................................................

The Music Blogosphere:

A reminder, that [The Music Blogosphere] updated 24/7 continues to monitor a vast range of music blogs. Why not add this link to your sidebar on your blog? so you / your readers can be connected direct to the music blogosphere.

Business, Technology & User Experience Blogs

On a related note, I have also developed another blo.gs list: blo.gs favorites for Martin [Business_Tech_UX] that maybe of interest to some of my readers.

i.e Business issues, technology topics & User Experience disciplines/ facets.

This includes subjects such as:

» Content Management
» Information Architecture, Information Design & Findability
» Information Management & Research, Knowledge Management
» Interaction Design / Interface Design
» Internet Culture [including blogging]
» Marketing & Branding, Business Strategy
» Search Engines, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Marketing
» Usability and HCI [Human Computer Interaction]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:22 AM

Sunday, August 21, 2005

updated: my Forthcoming 2005 Albums list using rateyourmusic.com

# posted by DJ Martian 8:20 PM

musicOMH.com review Goldfrapp - Supernature

# posted by DJ Martian 7:02 PM

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Electric

On August 29th, Warners release a double compilation titled: Electric

Some interesting selections....

Disc One

1. Blue Monday - New Order
2. Drop The Pressure - Mylo
3. Somebody Told Me - The Killers [Mylo Mix]
4. Smokebelch II - The Sabres Of Paradise [David Holmes Mix]
5. Papua New Guinea - The Future Sound Of London
6. A Forest - The Cure
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
8. Blade Runner (End Titles) - Vangelis
9. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions
10. Are 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army
11. Killer - Adamski & Seal
12. Chime - Orbital
13. Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
14. Oxygene 4 - Jean Michel Jarre
15. Age Of Love - Age Of Love [Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella Remix]
16. Joyenergizer - Joy Kitikonti [Mauro Picotto Personal Remix]
17. Barber's Adagio For Strings - William Orbit [Ferry Corsten Remix]
18. Verdi - Mauro Picotto [Megamind Remix]
19. Born Slippy (Nuxx) - Underworld
20. Digeridoo - Aphex Twin

Disc Two

1. Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
2. Wrote For Luck - Happy Mondays
3. Release The Pressure - Leftfield
4. Electromagnetic - Freeform Five
5. Obsession - Animotion
6. Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange
7. Devil Feel - Timo Maas
8. Sunglasses At Night - Tiga & Zyntherius
9. LFO - LFO
10. He Not In - Chicken Lips
11. Four To The Floor - Starsailor [Thin White Duke Mix]
12. Watching Cars Go By - Felix Da Housecat
13. Cars - Gary Numan
14. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
15. Go - Moby
16. Kinda New - Spektrum [Tiefschwarz Dub Mix]
17. Getting Away With It - Electronic
18. NY Excuse - Soulwax
19. Sugar - Ladytron
20. Out Of Space - The Prodigy
21. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Available to pre-order @ Amazon.co.uk

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

C Cat Trance - Karadara - Best Of

Cherry Red Records release a retrospective compilation from C Cat Trance on August 29th.

C Cat Trance - Karadara - Best Of
CDMRED280

In the mid eighties, after the release of anthem 'Hungry, So Angry' and album 'The Glitterhouse', Rees Lewis, the distinctive element (voice and sax) of currently obscure but hip funksters Medium Medium, left and with drummer Nigel Stone started C-Cat Trance. They produced world and dance sounds ahead of their time and, with a floating membership varying between two and eight, they toured Europe, and released a series of records and CDs on Red Flame/Ink Records through the late eighties.

Evident influences range from Beefheart through Parliament and Can to a variety of traditional musics (most conspicuously middle Eastern); C-Cat Trance pre-figured bands like Jah Wobble’s Raiders, Enigma and a host of dance and world acts. They received consistent acclaim. Lewis’ sax playing was described in the press as "lung emptying sax", "striking sax", "sax bleats", "groaning sax", "skittering sax", screeching sax", "wild sax", "wailing sax", "powerful sax", cloudy night-time sax", "searing sax", "sax breaks that wail like a maitresse in nipple clamps", "sax explosions like splittering glass", "growling sax", "simmering, potent and seductive sax", "bad tempered sax", "stark sax", "vengeful, uncouth sax", "itchy aggressive sax". He is now probably one of the most sampled snake charmer players this side of Kandy – almost any dance tune with horn in the title.

The tracks on “Karadara: The Cream of …” are selected from the first E.P. and the albums Zouave, Khamu, Play Masenko Combo and Les Invisibles. The selection also includes five unreleased tracks recorded for an album which coincided with Red Flame’s demise, hence “Karadara”, which is Sinhalese for “Trouble”.

Some Day Soon / Dreams Of Leaving / Shake the Mind / Wind Howl / Air De Kayseri / Theme From The Film / Hawkline Monster / Orange Clawhammer Cold / Clawhammer Stomp / Let Me Sleep / Two Worlds / The Old Man / Miss Manners / If You Steal / Screaming To Be With You / 7/8

# posted by DJ Martian 12:36 PM

Friday, August 19, 2005

Leftfield - A Final Hit

NME.Com report Leftfield to release best of compilation

A Final Hit is released on October 3rd

# posted by DJ Martian 4:27 PM

Pitchfork review The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007

At times reminiscent of the Books, this outstanding cut/paste ambient collage is propelled by a continuous onslaught of fresh ideas.

This album is Pitchfork: Recommended

# posted by DJ Martian 4:16 PM

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 3:52 PM

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO EUROPEAN TOUR

Dates so far confirmed for Meat Beat Manifesto include:

Tuesday 20 September - Ireland - Dublin - Temple Bar Centre
Thursday 22 September Holland - Amsterdam - Paradiso
Wednesday 28 September Switzerland - Basel - Schiff
Friday 30 September UK - London - Cargo
Saturday 1 October Spain - Barcelona - Apollo

Jack would love to add more dates, so anyone with good connections please help out and contact us immediately!

also:

MORE US MEAT BEAT DATES

The second leg of the Meat Beat US tour is now being booked. Dates will run from October 31 to November 13 and will likely include Carrboro, NC, Atlanta, Jacksonville, FL, Orlando, FL, Tampa, FL, Houston, TX, Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Albuquerque, NM, and Phoenix, AZ.

We will announce definitive dates as soon as possible.

[via email from Meat Beat Manifesto]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:04 AM

New issue of fortnighly DJ Magazine on sale [today] Friday August 19th.

It's a special preview issue to kick off DJ magazine's annual top 100 djs poll, plus a free mix CD.

OUT NOW: FREE Paul Woolford & Howie B 'Face Off' CD! Minimal music, Trentemoller, retiring DJs, Splitloop, plus loads more!

# posted by DJ Martian 12:14 AM

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Burst - Origo - Album Release Dates Confirmed

BW & BK report on Swedish rock/ art-metal band Burst: BURST Complete Work On New Album

Origo will see release dates of October 17th in the UK and October 24th in the rest of Europe. An early 2006 U.S. release date is expected.

Burst will be performing:

August

23 - Malmo, Sweden at Malmo Festival

Burst UK Tour Dates:

October

24 - Manchester, England at Star and Garter
25 - Glasgow, England at Barfly
26 - Birmingham, England at Bar Academy
27 - London, England at Barfly
28 - Exeter, England at TBA
29 - Nottingham, England at Rock City

Blabbermouth.Net also report BURST Complete Work On New Album

"Origo" sees BURST "plow headlong into their sophomore effort with flowing grace and force of conviction," according to a press release. "The album's lush layers of sound crush and caress in equal measure as fragile, melodic vocals intertwine with explosive screams, while waves of guitar weave complex, commanding music. For fans of OPETH, MASTODON, ISIS, NEUROSIS, PELICAN and the like, BURST's 'Origo' is a must-hear."

"Origo" track listing:

01. Where the Wave Broke
02. Sever
03. The Immateria
04. Slave Emotion
05. Flight´s End
06. Homebound
07. It Comes into View
08. Stormwielder
09. Mercy Liberation

Official website: Burst

# posted by DJ Martian 11:35 PM

BBC collective interview Matthew Herbert: matthew herbert's plat du jour challenge

# posted by DJ Martian 10:48 PM

40 COSMIC ROCK ALBUMS

Via Acclaimed Music Forum the 40 Cosmic Rock albums listed in the recent Q/ Mojo Prog rock special edition.

Taken from Pink Floyd & the story of Prog rock. An exclusive book from Q magazine (released July 15th 2005)

1) PINK FLOYD Dark side of the moon (1973)
2) GENESIS Foxtrot (1972)
3) YES Close to the edge (1972)
4) KING CRIMSON In the court of the Crimson King (1969)
5) EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Brain salad surgery (1973)
6) RUSH A farwell to kings (1977)
7) JETHRO TULL Aqualung (1971)
8) HAWKWIND Space ritual (1973)
9) MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells (1973)
10) RADIOHEAD OK computer (1997)

11) PINK FLOYD Wish you were here (1975)
12) YES The Yes album (1975)
13) FRANK ZAPPA Hot rats (1969)
14) GENESIS The lamb lies down on Broadway (1974)
15) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR The least we can do is wave to each other (1970)
16) GENTLE GIANT Octopus (1973)
17) MARILLION Misplaced childhood (1985)
18) THE MARS VOLTA Frances the Mute (2005)
19) CARAVAN In the land of grey and pink (1971)
20) SOFT MACHINE Third (1970)

21) TOOL Lateralus (2001)
22) KING CRIMSON Lark's tongues in aspic (1973)
23) CAMEL Moonmadness (1976)
24) FOCUS Moving waves (1971)
25) QUEEN A night at the opera (1975)
26) PAVLOV'S DOG Pampered menial (1975)
27) SIGUR ROS Agaetis byrjun (1999)
28) STEVE HILLAGE L (1976)
29) THE NICE Five bridges (1970)
30) FAMILY Music in a doll's house (1968)

31) ROXY MUSIC Roxy Music (1972)
32) GOLDEN EARRING Moontan (1973)
33) ARGENT All together now (1973)
34) HATFIELD AND THE NORTH Hatfield and the north (1974)
35) GONG Flying teapot: Radio Gnome invisible part 1 (1973)
36) AMON DUUL II Tanz der Lemminge (1971)
37) THE MOODY BLUES In search of the lost chord (1968)
38) TANGERINE DREAM Phaedra (1974)
39) BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST Once again (1971)
40) APHRODITE'S CHILD 666 (1972)

# posted by DJ Martian 10:39 PM

Vitalic UK Tour in October with Soulwax

Vitalic will be supporting labelmate Soulwax (Soulwax and Vitalic are on Pias Label)
for their Radio Soulwax tour in October in the Uk.

# Oct. 03 @ Stealth and Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
# Oct. 05 @ The Old Firestation, Bournemouth
# Oct. 06 @ Event 2, Brighton
# Oct. 07 @ Warwick University, Coventry
# Oct. 08 @ Sankeys Soap, Manchester
# Oct. 11 @ The Waterfront, Norwich
# Oct. 12 @ Uni Union, Newcastle
# Oct. 13 @ City, Edinburgh
# Oct. 14 @ Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow
# Oct. 15 @ Shine, Belfast
# Oct. 16 @ The Leadmill, Sheffield

# posted by DJ Martian 10:30 PM

An interview with Pendulum by Gurn.net

Pendulum have been tipped by many as producing the drum n bass album of the year: Hold Your Colour

Pendulum have taken inspiration from producers such as Teebee and Ed Rush & Optical but have developed their own unique sound.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:18 PM

Guy Garvey presents the Rocket Science show on 6 Music:

Saturday 20 August 2005

Elbow's Guy Garvey stands in for Marc and brings you three hours of tunes, tutorials and top notch features

# posted by DJ Martian 9:48 PM

The recent A-Z selections on the Freak Zone show on 6 Music

Aphex Twin - Metapharistic
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
Can - Spray
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
Brian Eno - Manilla Envelope
The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man
Gentle Giant - His Last Voyage
High Llamas - Three Point Scrabble
Incredible String Band - A Very Celluar Song
Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
Lee Scratch Perry - Vibrate On
M - Z:
Magma - Kohntarkosz pt 1
Neu - Isi
Mike Oldfield - Platinum Part 4 North Star
Pentangle - Travelling Song
Quintessence - Dance For The One
Residents - Jailhouse Rock
Sun Ra - Cosmic Chaos
Television - Little Johnny Jewel
United States Of America - The American Way Of Love
Vashti Bunyan - Rainbow River
White Noise - Your Hidden Dreams
XTC - Science Friction
Young Marble Giants - Radio Silents
Frank Zappa - Packard Goose

# posted by DJ Martian 9:46 PM

BBC Music review David Holland/Barre Phillips - Music From Two Basses

Even back in 1971 the idea of a set of improvised bass duos wasn't much of a commercial proposition. But that didn't stop Manfred Eicher from bringing two of the jazz scene's most creative bassists together for the 11th release on his ECM label.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:42 PM

The Breezeblock: Subfocus and Mathew Jonson

The latest The Breezeblock show has a suberb drum n bass set from Subfocus and microhouse mix from Mathew Jonson.

Highly recommended listening.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:40 PM

Reminder, next week numusic 2005 electronic music festival happens in Stavanger, Norway.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:29 PM

Issue 50 of Earplug

AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 31

Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:21 PM

Tip useful search tool: DoubleTrust the Compact Google - Yahoo combo

it fetches results from two leading authorities on web search and shows you what BOTH of them think are good results (the STARS). These are the most relevant results from their mutual agreement. It also shows you were they conflict (the ORPHANS). ORPHANS reveal the top sites which you would not have discovered using just one engine alone. It does all the dirty work for you. Try it !

You do not miss ANY results compared to just using one search engine.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:12 PM

musicOMH.com spotlight Can: Can - Remasters: Your Starter For Eight

# posted by DJ Martian 8:59 PM

Porcys top 100 albums from 2000-2004

Porcys, Poland's answer to Pitchfork publish their top 100 albums 2000-2004, [via Acclaimed Music Forum]

Top 20 [see link for the Top 100]

1. Radiohead – Kid A
2. Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
3. The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2
4. Avey Tare and Panda Bear – Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
5. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
6. The Avalanches
7. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
8. The Microphones – Mount Eerie
9. Radiohead – Amnesiac
10. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
11. Dungen – Ta Det Lungt
12. Je Suis France – Fantastic Area
13. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
14. Circulatory System – Circulatory System
15. Of Montreal – Satanic Panic in the Attic
16. The Microphones – It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
17. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
18. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Good Health
19. Les Savy Sav – Rome EP
20. The Rapture - Echoes

It's not just the music content that's similar, design wise they copy Pitchfork: check this Porcys top 100 albums from 2000-2004

Reverse counting order, in blocks of 10
same Information design/ typography elements
Individual lists

# posted by DJ Martian 8:46 PM

Junkmedia review Deadbeat - New World Observer

# posted by DJ Martian 8:33 PM

Ambient Visions is back.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:23 PM

Billboard report on Devo: Devo Mulling First Album Since 1990

# posted by DJ Martian 5:22 PM

soundgenerator.com report Echo & The Bunnymen bolster European, North American tour

Reminder, Echo & the Bunnymen release their new album: Siberia on September 19th.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:19 PM

BW & BK report OPETH eCard Available

# posted by DJ Martian 5:15 PM

Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

Pitchfork report Lightning Bolt have renamed their forthcoming album:

Hypermagic Mountain features 12 new cuts, and is set for release on October 18 through the band's longtime label, Load Records.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:03 PM

Circulation of UK Music Magazines

Via No Rock&Roll Fun the latest info regarding circulation figures of UK music magazines.

Circulation Figures:

Q – 160,310 – up 6.3%
Mojo – 114,626 – up 14.2%
Uncut – 110,015 – down 2.5%
The Fly – 107,519 – down 0.9%
NME – 73,640 – up 5.2%
Kerrang! – 64,554 – up 3.1%
Mixmag – 46,470 – down 7.9%
Classic Rock – 44,349 – up 15.2%
Metal Hammer – 40,236 – up 20.9%
Word – 33,376 – up 11.1%

My analysis:

Notice that Mojo have regained their leadership over Uncut. Uncut has definately been too smug and dull 60s/ 70s big rock artists over the past year - so they deserved this minor setback.

Why anyone with ears and a brain would want Q magazine is beyond comprehension, i guess it's overtly mainstream agenda blatantly targets a conformist rock market in their 20s and early 30s?.

NME whilst increasing it's sales still can't reach over 75, 000 - a long way short of it's past era sales figures. Appealing only to teenagers suggests they are confined to a rock/ guitar Smash Hits format for teenage boys for the forseeable future.

Mixmag down AGAIN and with it's mostly ageing existing 20something market getting older each year - circulation figures will continue to fall IMHO.

Trad songs rock mag for over 40s?, Word [Word] is slowly gaining readers - but still only just over 33, 000 - considering Radio 2 has an audience over a 10 Million and Virgin has several million and the existence of 6 Music - you would think they would be doing better.

MediaGuardian.co.uk have more analysis and comments: Rock makes a comeback including:

Future Publishing's Classic Rock has increased circulation by 15.2% over the year to 44,349 and its Metal Hammer magazine has scored the biggest yearly circulation growth of any music title, up 20.9% to 40, 236.

Metal Hammer has improved as a magazine with a strong focus on new/ emerging metal artists plus a dedicated extreme metal section.

Meanwhile their is a new issue of The Wire out this week. Personally I find the Wire content wise recently rather dull and uninspiring.

Current issue: The Wire

# posted by DJ Martian 4:51 PM

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

John Lydon Compilation

John Lydon announces a new compilation: The Best of British £1 Notes

Virgin Records will be releasing a unique John Lydon compilation on October 3rd. 'The Best of British £1 Notes' will be available as a single CD, or a special edition 2 CD pack featuring additional mixes and bonus tracks selected by John.

The Best of British £1 Notes'

(Virgin Records, LYDON1)

1. Anarchy In The UK
2. Public Image
3. This Is Not A Love Song
4. Open Up
5. Rise
6. Don't Ask Me
7. Seattle
8. Holidays In The Sun
9. Death Disco
10. Flowers Of Romance
11. World Destruction
12. Warrior
13. Disappointed
14. Sun
15. Bad Life
16. Home
17.The Body
18.Cruel
19. God Save the Queen
20. The Rabbit Song

Special Edition Bonus Disc
(Virgin Records, LYDOND1)

1. Death Disco (12" Mix)
2. Poptones
3. Careering
4. Religion
5. Banging The Door
6. The Pardon
7. Rise (12" Mix)
8. Disappointed (12" Mix)
9. Warrior (12" Mix)
10.Acid Drops
11.Open Up (Full Vocal Mix)
12.God Save The Queen (Dance Mix)

# posted by DJ Martian 5:25 PM

Instal 05

The annual Instal festival has announced this year's line up:
Instal - 14-15-16 October 2005 @ - The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:17 PM

Musique Machine interview Bohren & Der Club of Gore

# posted by DJ Martian 3:56 PM

Pitchfork review the new Kompakt label compilation: Total 6 [reviewed by Jess Harvell]

# posted by DJ Martian 3:22 PM

This week's flavourpill LONDON a free weekly mailer covering music, arts, and cultural events in LONDON.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:36 AM

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Music ezine Junkmedia has had a complete redesign.

including music blog: Junkmedia: World of Sound

# posted by DJ Martian 4:02 PM

Tiny Mix Tapes review Marcus Fjellström - Exercises in Estrangement

# posted by DJ Martian 2:07 PM

MediaGuardian.co.uk report Virgin launches digital youth station

...yet another radio station to play mostly mainstream NME / Q type rock music. Absolutely useless !

# posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM

Discussion on ILM: JazzTimes Top 50, 1970-2005

New 35th Anniversary issue (September cover date, orange Herbie Hancock photo) just came out, with 50 contributors writing up one favorite album from the mag's lifespan apiece.

Typical of an American publication, the list is dominated by Americans.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:29 PM

Monday, August 15, 2005

Leonard's Lair review Yellow6 - Melt Inside

# posted by DJ Martian 10:56 PM

Forthcoming The Breezeblock shows on Radio 1

August 16th
Subfocus - Andy C's hot young d&b protege + pioneering techno producer Matthew Jonson

August 23rd
Andy Stott's Modern Love Mix
Deep techno from Manchester

Sept 6th
Isolee Mix
German producer and micro-house pioneer.

Sept 13th
Exile Mix
D Bridge

Coming Soon
# No show on 30th August
# Sage Francis live

# posted by DJ Martian 10:39 PM

This week's new releases @ Fopp

# posted by DJ Martian 10:36 PM

Goldfrapp, Will Saul, Jo & Danny and Pest

This week's One World show on Radio 1 features new music from Goldfrapp, Will Saul, Jo & Danny and Pest

Monday 15 August 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]

# posted by DJ Martian 10:34 PM

Terrorizer Issue 135 - September 2005

New issue of Terrorizer magazine on sale this Thursday.

Unfortunately it's a Power Metal special, a genre of Metal that doesn't interest me.

Also:

STUDIO REPORT: DØDHEIMSGARD
STUDIO REPORT: AKERCOCKE
STUDIO REPORT: DARK FUNERAL
OPETH
SCUM
ARCH ENEMY
EYEHATEGOD
NUCLEAR ASSAULT
BLUT AUS NORD
APPEASE ME LABEL SPOTLIGHT
RITUAL CARNAGE
VESANIA
HARD OF HEARING: MÖTLEY CRÜE
CHIMAIRA
BAR-BARIAN WRATH: WALLS OF JERICHO

Free CD: Fear Candy 19

ARCHENEMY 'I Am Legend / Out For Blood'
OPETH 'The Grand Conjuration'
ARCTURUS 'Arcturus'
CATHEDRAL 'Upon Azrael's Wings'
HYPOCRISY 'Scrutinized'
EYEHATEGOD 'International Narcotic'
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 'A Vulgar Picture'
EVERY TIME I DIE 'Champing At The Bit'
A PERFECT MURDER 'Wake Up And Die'
MUNICIPAL WASTE 'Unleash The Bastards'
THE VISION BLEAK 'The Vision Bleak'
CAMBIAN DAWN 'Regeneration'
METSATÖLL 'Sõjahunt'
HEAD HUNG LOW 'Dead (The Unnamed Person)'
LOITS 'Aeg Argata'
RAZORWIRE 'Full Circle'
STAND ASIDE 'Approach The Burning Sphere'

# posted by DJ Martian 6:54 PM

Flo-Motion Volume 2 released September 12th

Every Sunday evening, DJ Nick Luscombe presents an electronic music show on London's Xfm 104.9, called Flo-Motion. A new compilation, titled Flo-Motion 2 will be released on September 12th.

Kudos Records have the info:

Track Listing
1. Jonny Trunk "Zeus"
2. Husky Rescue "New Light Of Tommorow" (Bonobo mix)
3. Solar Apple Quarktette "DO you Love Me Too" (Unforscene mix)
4. HKB FiNN "Confession (I Am)
5. Break Reform "And I" (Sidewinder mix)
6. Thomas Fehlmann "Hana"
7. Dimlite "in Groups to the Hybrandd" (Runbox edit)
8. Malkin Zany "Driva Man" (Djosos Krost Remix)
9. One Deck and Popular "Inner Space" (Umblu mix)
10. Nathan Fake "Dinamo"
11. Ziggy Kinder "Chop Ziggy"
12. PAF "Daisy"
13. Sebastien Tellier "La Ritournelle"
14. Maki Manami - "Moon Palac

Flo-Motion 2 is the long awaited second compilation from Xfm's influential and very popular Sunday night show and features 14 tracks hand picked and seamlessly mixed by globe trotting DJ and longstanding presenter Nick Luscombe. Highly regarded as one of the UK’s leading figures on the downtempo scene, Nick has been involved in radio for over 10 years and has always embraced an eclectic style of music, which is definitely apparent in his selection for this album… From the opening blissful soundscapes of soundtrack king Jonny Trunks “Zeus” the mix effortlessly flows and ebbs to create a soothing listening experience that is rare in todays quick fix mash up generation. Many of the tracks included have become staples of the radio show and Nicks DJ sets – such as the sublime Bonobo reworking of Finnish multi-instrumentalists Husky Rescue. Next up, the London based Solar Apple Quarktette get a re-tweaking from downtempo stalwarts Unforscene and one of UK hip hops elder statesmen HKB FiNN drops deep lyrical prose on the contemplative “Confession”.

The hotly tipped Break Reform step up with probably one of their most soulful tracks to date - reworked by Scottish beatmeister Sidewinder into a gentle grooving head nodder. Without skipping a beat Germany’s Thomas Fehlmann delivers the bubbling “Hana” which glides perfectly into Dimlite’s album track “In Groups To The Hybrandd” – perfectly illustrating how music can be heavy yet beautiful at the same time. Taking things in a different, more uptempo, direction we find Malkin Zany’s exhilarating “Drivaman” pushing the minimalist sound even further afield whilst One Deck and Popular exemplify how modern dub should sound with their unreleased “Inner Space” track remixed here by Estonia’s Umblu.

Next we have the minimal futuristic disco funk of Nathan Fake’s “Dinamo” – championed by Nick on the show, this track has gone on to win fans as wide afield as Gilles Peterson, Josh Wink and Kieren Hebden (Four Tet). Staying on the minimalist techno tip we find the melodic tones of Ziggy Kinder twisting and turning around the sublime “Chop Ziggy” then onto the dreamlike electro pop of “Daisy” – again coming from Estonia – this time from Kohvi records.

As we draw to a close the anthemic keys of Sebastien Tellier’s “La Ritournelle” slowly drift into the mix and show why it has become one of the most requested songs on the Flo Motion playlist of recent years. This track has only been licensed to a handful of other compilations, with this being the only one on which it appears in its full unedited glory. Finally, Japan’s Maki Mannami deliver a smooth and fitting end to the mix with their charming and enlightening mix of authentic instrumentation and electronic experimentation on the beautiful “Moon Palace”.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:54 PM

Sunday, August 14, 2005

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat [Week Commencing August 15th 2005]

This week's new releases @ Boomkat include:

[Notice the William Basinski reissues/ restocks]

Album Of The Week!
Arpanet - Quantum Transposition
Rephlex

Despite the fact that Arpanet have for some time been linked with both Drexcyian and Dopplereffekt camps, no one really knows for sure who they are. Following on from their mighty "Wireless Internet" set a couple of years back, this album for Rephlex develops their conceptual electronic fragmentation into yet another evocative and mysterious strand of sub-marine electro. Starting off with a series of four short science fiction variations, "Quantum Transposition" kicks off in earnest with "Ionic Crystals", a wide-eyed collage of sunrise chimes and padded tiptoes - an instantly recognisable tapestry of Motor City soundscaping updated from the most seminal of archives. "Entropic Decay" chugs with the shackled machinations of robotic malfunctions - a staggered stop/start affair full of spacious echoes and faltering beats that at every turn threaten to unleash themselves into a torrent of jacking paces. It's only at the album's midway point that "Orbital Wavelengths" allows the turbine to ignite fully - a killer loop of mysterious percussive treads and midnight melodies gently decimating their surroundings - in classic style. "Quantum State Recombination" takes this even further - instantly recognisable synth transitions that deliver you straight back to the aquatic safehaven that's accompanied the Drexciyan legacy for over a decade. Killer music....

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops Ii
2062

In possesion of a deeply ingrained vein of raw unmitigated talent coursing through his soul, William Baskinski is a modern day Midas; with everything he touches turning to aural gold. With the reissue of parts 2-4 (why part 1 isnt here yet, jah only knows!) of the jaw-dropping 'The Disintegration Loops' series, Basinski proves why he is undoubtedly one of the greatest minimalists / soundscapers of our time. Having found acres of tape he'd archived in the 1980's, Basinski decided they should be converted to digital format in order to preserve them from decay. Too late old chap! During the transition process he found them disintegrating before his eyes, 'so why not let this natural erosion take place and document the results?' he thought. So he did. Beguiling in a way that cannot be readily described, a whole thesaurus could be pissed up the wall trying to capture the fragmented and illusory beauty of these pieces. With a drifting proclivity that is both alarming and comforting, soundscapes break on the shore whilst barely glimpsed rhythms circulate in the background. Consisting of two extra-long pieces that could go on for ever, 'The Disintegration Loops' series is not to be missed. Simple as....

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops Iii
2062

The first 20 minute composition on this reissue from William Basinksi opens with one of the most heart-breaking tracts of music I've heard for many years; a looped clutch of strings, slowly shuffling into oblivion. Gorgeous. If the PR gubbins accompanying these timely reissues is to be believed, Basinksi watched the fall of the Twin Towers from his roof whilst 'The Disintegration Loops' played in the background. I can only imagine the sheer profundity that would have instilled on such a bleak situation, with Basinski's work able to make a boiling kettle take on a Frederic Mistral air of importance. If you've never dipped your toe in Basinski, then now's the time to take the plunge, if you have; prepare yourself for the treat of the year......

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops IV
2062

The final reissue of Basinski's 'Disintergration Loops' series sees yet more mediations on the subject of mortailty, brought to bear through a level of fragility rarely glimpsed witihn modern music. Comparable to Ryuichi Sakamoto in terms of its gracefully hypnotic and deeply textured poetic outlook, the fact that Basinksi managed to retrieve such emotional tracts from decaying source material is testament to his towering talent. Made up of three extended pieces, each composition is unique in terms of sound, but united by a very real sense of unyielding emotional responsibility. Expansive, claustrophobic, threatening and utterly friable, Basinski's work is totally accessible in a majestically rarefied way....

Sinner Dc - Arkle Parkle Avenue
Tritone

straight outta Switzerland, Sinner DC are being touted around as a 'next big thing' within the world of electronica, with 'Arkle Parkle Avenue' the album intended to precipitate it. Jostling for space somewhere between Sigur Ros and the soon to return BOC, Sinner DC open proceedings with 'Born To Be Mild', wherein some nicely coarse beats slouch around the frosted glass/distant vocals environ. Moving away into more IDM tickled territory on 'Nothing Cares In The Middle Of The Night', Sinner get away with an annoying vocal thanks to the dramatic backdrop. Elsewhere 'In The Back Of My Mind' recalls Metamatics, 'Romy Schneider' dares to exhume easy beats and come out smiling, whilst 'Awotws' goes for some crumpled minimal tech action. Please stop singing whilst I'm sinning. Great stuff....

John Zorn - Filmworks XV : Protocols Of Zion
Tzadik

As prolific as he is talented, John Zorn has somehow managed to reach the 15th instalment in his extraordinary Filmworks series without the creative well running anywhere near dry. Made to accompany Marc Levin's thoughtful film on the rise of anti-Semitism since September 11th, 'Protocols of Zion' finds Zorn firing on all cylinders. Having written the core of the composition in just twenty minutes, Zorn then led a semi-improvised session at the piano and allowed his inherent and all-too-rare accessibility to shine through. Given the subject matter it would have been easy for 'Protocols of Zion' to descend into sensationalist and moribund territory, but thanks to Zorn's overarching and deeply hypnotic style, coupled with the talents of long-time collaborator Cyro Baptisa and Shanir Erza Blumenkranz, it instead a deeply affecting journey that very much exists in its own right....

William Basinski - Variations : A Movement In Chrome Primitive
Die Stadt

Back in stock. Having sat through two full cd's of some of the most sublime, drifting piano based variations I've ever heard im not quite sure how to go about putting the experience into words. Whilst 'archival' may bring to mind dusty stacks in library basements, there's a slew of old material being reissued by labels at the moment that might just serve to extinguish this semantic connection. Latest to enjoy a digital reappraisal is American composer William Basinksi (of 'Disintegration Loops' fame), whose extensive 'Variations: A Movement In Chrome Primitive' is now being put out on a 2CD, lavish little digisleeved release. As a peer of Ryuichi Sakamoto and with a sound that has gone on to influence the likes of Mark Evan Burden, Basinski deals in miasma draped compositions that unfurl like an unhurried cat. Mixing waves of ambient detritus with glimpses of more concrete structures, Basinski snags the ear through ethereal webs of sound that straddle the line between dream-flecked soundscapes and timeless piano, then makes sure you don't want to leave. Aural balm; utterly immersing and totally lovely....

Rothko And Blk W/Bear - Wish For A World Without Hurt
Trace Recordings

The debut release for Mark Beazley's Trace Recordings, 'Wish For A World Without Hurt' is a collaboration between his Rothko outfit and J.S. Adams' BLK w/Bear. Attempting to tackle the cultural bruise left by September the 11th, 'Wish For A World...' is an at times bleak mediation of that day, rendered through a crepuscular clutch of strings, static and piano. Well versed in the work of Oval, A Silver Mt. Zion and William Basinski, Rothko and BLK present juxtapositions throughout, such as the blistered scratching and morse-code like crackles of 'I Feel Lost Without You'. Elsewhere, the title track bludgeons a delicate piano with clouds of bellicose static, 'Like Nails In The Rain' allows a mournful violin to cast a sodden spell, whilst 'Lowering With Wolves' is a shuddering finale of abstract noise that creates a strangely optimistic melancholy. Obdurate, unyielding and very touching....

Superthriller - Superthriller 1
Mint Music

Take one Beck, add a dash of Jamie Lidell and bake for 38 minutes in a Funked-up oven at gas mark Cut-up... If that piss-poor analogy has left you none the wiser, Superthriller are a bunch of ex-Shoreditch loft dwellers who make electronically informed lo-fi funk/indie songs that stomp all over the place with a carefree arrogance that is awfully infectious. Opening with the glitch addled pop-funk of 'Ahjustwannadance', Max, Ben and Andrew (surnames AWOL) are not afraid to throw caution to the wind with a breezy song whose surface innocence could easily leave them exposed to a critical mauling; but it works wonderfully. In much the same way, Har Mar Superstar aping 'I Know How To Treat a Lady' ("in the kitchen I go to town, in the bedroom I go down...") is a rubbery slice of glittering pop that can't fail to carry you along on it's breezy intent. Elsewhere, 'Fat Ass' dabbles in breezeblock beats and mucky mouthed insults, 'I'm Going to Ask to Leave at 3 So Call Me' is almost the Lidell/Peaches collaboration that'll never happen, whilst 'Upgrade' is a sleazy low-fi lament. Have a word!...

Syd Matters - Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles
V2

Apparently harking from the same Paris that produced Matt Elliot's 'Drinking Songs', 'Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles' is Syd Matters' follow up to the warmly hued 'A Whisper and A Sigh'. In a similar bourbon marinated style to his debut, Matters is a keen advocate of electronically pepped acoustica, overlaid throughout with his flocculent vocal style. Sounding like he really should be from some glistening enclave in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Matter's is a real find; bringing together starry-eyed compositions that indulge in all the clichés (syrupy strings, homespun charm etc.) but somehow avoids the associated pitfalls. Sharing similarities with Calexico and Granddaddy, Matters daringly opens with one of the less immediate songs on 'Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles...', introducing himself through plucked acoustica guitars and borderline Johnny Cash on the fulsome 'City Talks'. Next up is 'Obstacles', wherein Matters' positively soars as a twinkly guitars circulate, he laments and someone brings along a vocoder, whilst 'To All Of You' is the kind of string lashed beauty that hordes of alt.country devotees would sell a kidney for. Whilst Matters doesn't have many tricks up his sleeve beyond this opening trilogy, it's awfully churlish to suggest that's a problem; be seduced....

Luomo - Vocalcity : Huume Edition
Huume

Reissue of the long missing 'Vocalcity' from Vladislav Delay, cunningly draped in a Luomo shaped disguise that would have even Scooby-Doo looking twice. With the minimal beats and skipping rhythms familiar from Delay's Mille Plateaux days. Substituting his insular (in a good way) dub-update for a far more dancefloor orientated sound, tracks like 'Market' and 'Synkro' give a delicious Kompakt-style varnish to the oft maligned genre of vocal led house. Far weightier both in terms of sound and intent than you may well imagine, album closer is a funk-creased set of glitchy tech that sounds bob-on coming out of 12 foot speakers or cushioned headphones alike....

Various / Kompakt - Total 6
Kompakt

The digital version, which includes the highlights of the last twelve months, with exclusive new tracks from the Kompakt family, packaged in double cd format. After their biggest year yet, thanks in no small part to the furore surrounding the Kompakt 100 remix orgy, and by way of celebrating their seventh birthday, Cologne´s most famous label, exhibit their work in Total 6. The Kompakt family has become far too big and productive for only 70 minutes of entertainment. Besides the kind hosts we never seem to tire of; Voigt, Mayer, Paape and Burger, there are all the new discoveries, many for the first time on cd. Rex the Dog, The Mfa, Dirk Leyers, The Field, and Dorau/Köhncke plus fine previews of forthcoming releases. DJ Koze's debut album "Kosi comes around" is already sounding like this year's definitive dancefloor album - simply unmissable. Matias Aguayo (ex-closer musik) with his new sparing partner Marcus Rossknecht, warm up for their album in october with some fine styles on "Bouncin a round". More fresh bangers from Justus Köhncke, Jurgen Paape, Reinhard Voigt, Jonas Bering, Superpitcher, Tobias Thomas and Michael Mayer round out as comprehensive an overview of the state of european techno as you will find at this time. Acquire and play often. ..

# posted by DJ Martian 10:28 PM

rateyourmusic.com 2005 Music Lists

There are fifty 2005 music lists collected @ del.icio.us/djmartian/rym2005

Tip for bloggers and readers, sign up @ rateyourmusic.com and start your own 2005 list. It looks a lot smarter and is easier to update than a conventional list.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:44 PM

Friday, August 12, 2005

Depeche Mode Album Artwork

Blogger dirt links to the front cover of the new Depeche Mode album: Playing the Angel

[via One Louder]

# posted by DJ Martian 7:16 PM

Albums With Over 1000 Ratings! -- Rate Your Music - the most reviewed albums on rateyourmusic.com

Number 1:

Radiohead
OK Computer (1997)
2823

# posted by DJ Martian 4:28 PM

via rateyourmusic.com: British GQ Magazine's 100 Coolest Albums -- Rate Your Music - Mostly rounding up the usual suspects.

These are what the writers of British GQ Magazine think of as "The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now!" in their August 2005 issue.

# posted by DJ Martian 4:21 PM

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 4:04 PM

New Mew UK Tour

NME.com report Mew confirm UK tour for September.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:46 PM

BW & BK report on Dark Funeral: DARK FUNERAL Announce Title, Release Date For New Set

The new album titled: Attero Totus Sanctus will be released on October 24th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:15 PM

The Guardian review Goldfrapp - Supernature

# posted by DJ Martian 1:04 PM

musicOMH.com review Sigur Ros - Glósóli

# posted by DJ Martian 1:01 PM

angryrobot.net reviews Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 12:57 PM

Reminder: 6 Music - Summer Sundae 2005 [live] coverage starts today.

6 Music: Summer Sundae 2005 What's On

Also BBC Leicester: Summer Sundae 2005

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 PM

Thursday, August 11, 2005

jackson and his computer band - smash

ILM discuss the debut album from Jackson: jackson and his computer band - smash - due out on Warp Records on September 19th

# posted by DJ Martian 1:28 PM

Blabbermouth.Net report on Voivod: VOIVOD To Release First-Ever DVD In October; Details Revealed

# posted by DJ Martian 1:19 PM

Andrew Weatherall & Radioactive Man

THURSDAY 1st SEPTEMBER : HAYWIRE presents FIREWIRE

Jump Up!
BATTANT - LIVE [Firewire]
TOKYO WINDBAG - LIVE [Firewire/Control Tower]
ANDREW WEATHERALL [RGC/TLS]
RADIOACTIVE MAN [RGC/Control Tower]
7pm - 11pm
93FeetEast, 150 Brick Lane, London E1
£5 on the door or £4 adv from Ticketweb

Source: Haywire email

# posted by DJ Martian 1:10 PM

Depeche Mode will release Precious as a single on October 3rd.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:02 PM

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

I have updated my: Forthcoming 2005 Albums list on rateyourmusic.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:23 PM

Exclusive: Boards of Canada Name Album !

Boards of Canada have titled their new album: The Campfire Headphase. It will be released on October 17th on Warp

[Source: e-mail from Warp Records]

Front cover: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase @ Rate Your Music.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:12 PM

Cerysmatic Factory have new tour dates for The Durutti Column

# posted by DJ Martian 5:59 PM

musicOHM.com review Cagedbaby - Will See You Now

# posted by DJ Martian 5:55 PM

Signal to Noise - The Journal of Improvised & Experimental Music

Details of the new Fall 2005 issue of Signal to Noise featuring Joe McPhee on the front cover.

Signal to Noise is the quarterly journal of improvised & experimental music, documenting the confluence of avant-garde jazz, electro-acoustics and experimental, modern rock.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:42 PM

Coming Soon -- Grooves Issue 18

Featuring:

Fennesz
Merzbow
Peter Rehberg
Alias
Hair Police
Minotaur Shock
Eight Frozen Modules
and much more

[info via email Grooves Magazine]

# posted by DJ Martian 10:46 AM

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

BW & BK link to a Garm of Ulver interview: ULVER Mainman Discusses His Inspiration, Upcoming Projects

# posted by DJ Martian 11:28 PM

This week's flavourpill LONDON a free weekly mailer covering music, arts, and cultural events in LONDON.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:00 PM

BW & BK report Celtic Frost have completed the recording of their new album tentatively titled: Dark Matter Manifest.

Peter Tägtgren to co-produce with them the final recording and mixing sessions at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany, in August/September 2005

The album is scheduled for an early 2006 release.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:48 PM

Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

Mute have issued a short bio of the forthcoming Depeche Mode album Playing the Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 AM

Monday, August 08, 2005

Radio 1 - A Decade in Ibiza

Radio 1 are broadcasting from Ibiza next weekend: Radio 1 - Ibiza 2005 broadcast Schedule

Radio 1 have special microsite celebrating 10 years of Ibiza.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:02 PM

Murcof - Remembranza

DOTSHOP.SE - Special Music For Special People profile forthcoming albums, including the new Murcof album: Remembranza due on Leaf on October 3rd.

As Murcof, composer Fernando Corona creates some of the most captivating music being made today, in any genre. For several years he has combined musical styles in wholly new ways, adding funk and brass to techno under the name Terrestre and emotional depth to robotic minimalism as Murcof. His innovative approach reaches new heights with "Remembranza", his second full album as Murcof, a record that creates a storied, layered framework within strict micro-boundaries.

Detailed info: Murcof - Remembranza

# posted by DJ Martian 10:11 PM

Boomkat have updated their Available Soon section, with info on forthcoming releases for August, September & October.

# posted by DJ Martian 9:54 PM

New Andrew Pekler Album

From them latest FE Publicity e-mail newsletter, details of a new Andrew Pekler album:

PEKLER, ANDREW: Strings + Feedback CD (STAUB 062CD) : OUT 09/27/2005

California-transplant to Berlin Andrew Pekler's third full-length and first release on Staubgold. On his two previous albums (released on the Scape label) Pekler led his listeners on a random walk through the clear and mysterious air of a metropolis at midnight. There he met with a form of jazz one may be familiar with from French films of the 1950s. He picked up this music's narrative and re-told it to the listener by adding a lively tinge of digital contrasts. Those two albums may be taken as necessary starting points for him to arrive at Strings + Feedback. The ten tracks on this new album embark on an excursion into the direct vicinity of sounds and into the inner life of the mixing desk. It is here where sounds are organized, where they all must pass through, that Pekler develops his breathtaking signal flow. Inside his mixing console, Pekler forces a conversation between a few string and piano samples (taken mostly from Morton Feldman's work in the 1950s), forcing unpredictable encounters, intensification and distortion. If Pekler on his previous albums appeared as a minute observer who knows how to describe even the most delicate atmospheric conditions through music, then on Strings + Feedback he has become an intermediary between sound worlds. Similar to the imaginary circuit diagram on the album's cover, Pekler's pieces leave the safe and beaten tracks on which most specialists tread and instead create open-ended and yet-to-be-discovered paths which cannot be described through the logic of a manual. It may be unintentional that the cover design is reminiscent of the 1960s Situationist's visionary city maps, but it matches Pekler's approach as he creates a new topography by re-organizing existing sound material. In the words of Yoko Ono: "Draw a map to get lost."

# posted by DJ Martian 9:14 PM

Latest Porcupine Tree news:

Porcupine Tree more dates announced for US Tour:

October

8 -- Detroit, The Majestic
9 -- Cleveland, House of Blues
10 -- Cincinnati, Bogart's
11 -- Chicago, Park West
13 -- Madison, The Rave - The Basement
15 -- Boulder, Fox Theater
17 -- Portland, The Aladdin
22 -- Los Angeles, House of Blues
23 -- Anaheim, The Grove

More dates to be announced soon.
Robert Fripp will be opening at the Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Madison shows.

previously announced:

September

23 -- Tampa, The Masquerade
24 -- Atlanta, The Masquerade
26 -- Washington DC, 9:30 Club
27 -- Philadelphia, Keswick Theater
28 -- Providence, Lupo's
30 -- Boston, Berklee Performance Center

October

1 -- NYC, Town Hall

Plus other Porcupine Tree & related news:

No-Man reissues
released by Snapper on 26th September is a remastered mid-price edition of No-Man's Flowermouth album from 1994 (with 2 bonus tracks from the permanently deleted Flowermix album). Snapper are also issuing the No-Man album Speak at mid-price on 22nd August.

Porcupine Tree
Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun

Many people are enquiring about the status of these two currently out of print Porcupine Tree albums. These were deleted by the original label KScope/Snapper following the purchase of both albums by Lava Atlantic in 2002. Since that time the plan has been to revamp and reissue the albums in new editions on Lava, with at least one of the albums also remixed into 5.1 surround sound. The only reason that this has not happened to date is simply that SW has not got around to doing it yet! However these 2 albums (and possibly also the Recordings album) should be available again in new editions by next Spring.

DVD
There are also plans for the first even Porcupine Tree DVD to be issued in 2006. More news on that later in the year.

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Oceansize - Everyone into Position

Front cover of the new Oceansize album: Everyone into Position -- Oceansize @ Rate Your Music

The album will be released by Beggars Banquet on September 19th.

New official website for Oceansize

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No recent news from Ulrich Schnauss - but, I wonder when his next album is due ? hopefully 2006

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Bestival Festival: September 9th - 11th

The last big outdoor music festival of the year in the UK is the Bestival Festival on the Isle of Wight.

Reminder of the Bestival - Line Up

Röyksopp * Super Furry Animals * 2 Many DJs * Soulwax * The Magic Numbers * The Go! Team * British Sea Power * Saint Etienne * X-Press 2 * Tom Findlay (Groove Armada) * Tom Vek * The Rakes * VHS Or Beta * Lee Scratch Perry * Mad Professor Dub Show * Bez (Happy Mondays) * The Cuban Brothers * Grand National * Ulrich Schnauss * Jah Shaka * Two Lone Swordsmen * Rob da Bank * Bugz In The Attic * Bobby Friction & Nihal * Gilles Peterson * Erol Alkan * Max Sedgley * Emiliana Torrini * Bent * Cagedbaby * Dub Pistols feat Terry Hall (The Specials) * The Earlies * Hot Chip * The Pipettes * Vitalic * Boomclick * Krafty Kuts * Kid Carpet * The Egg * Eclectic Method * Art Brut * Howard Marks * The Bees Dub Sound System * Husky Rescue * Lauren Laverne * The Longcut * Dreadzone * Fabio & Grooverider with MC Rage * Trevor Fung * Justin Robertson * Pedro Winter * Krafty Kuts * Touche * Chris Coco presents Heavy Mellow live * Annie Mac (Radio 1) * Annie Nightingale (Radio 1) * The Glimmers * Ross Allen * Eddy Temple Morris * Zoe Ball & Eva * The Black Dog Punk Rock Sound System * Solid State Revival * Mistys Big Adventure * Puppetmastaz * Fat Freddys Drop * Andy Smith * The Broken Family Band * Piney Gir * The Schla La Las * Mista Mushroom * Tayo's Tracksuit Party * Frank Tope * The Filthy Dukes * Michael Cook * Aldo Vanucci * Phat Phil Cooper * Cameo presents Hot Off the Block featuring Tinchy Stryder & Ruff Sqwad and JME * Johnno (Bugged Out:Chilled Out) * Justice * Son Of Dave * Mugison * Mara Carlyle * Daisy Heartbreaker * Finger Lickin' Soundsystem * Subgiant * Ashtrax (live) * The Nextmen feat. Yungun * Raf Daddy * Hot Breath Karaoke * Plan B * One Deck & Popular * Pnu Riff * Simian Mobile Disco * Clor * Sweet Mayhem * Bearsuit * Superimposers * Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton present Last Night A DJ Saved My Life * Sombrero Sound System * Different Strokes * Rob Wood * Phrizzm * Deep Fried Funk * Geddes * Prince Partridge * Paul Arnold * Moulin-X Sound System * The Armitage Shankz Sound System * International Kids From Shame

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Brecon Jazz 2005

Brecon Jazz festival takes place in Wales this coming weekend, ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO are performing.

Other artists performing include:

Matthew Bourne
Django Bates Human Chain

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Capitol K has announced that their new album: Nomad Junk will be released on September 19th.

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Projekt have delayed the new Loveliescrushing album to 2006.

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elbow have relaunched their website.

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The latest Mixing It show features a Björk interview: Radio 3 - Mixing It - 5 August 2005 [Now on Listen Again]

Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall and featuring an interview with Björk about her soundtrack for Drawing Restraint 9, and a new film by Matthew Barney, shot onboard a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay.

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One World - The Big Chill 2005

This week's One World show features The Big Chill festival. [Now on Listen Again]

This week One World returns to the rolling hills of Herefordshire to sample the musical delights of The Big Chill 2005.

We hooked up with the festival organiser and founder Pete Lawrence and asked him to talk us through some of the acts that he booked this year.

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6 Music are reporting The Fall - "Fall Heads Roll" album will be released in the UK on October 3rd.

Official website: The Fall

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Forthcoming The Breezeblock shows on Radio 1:

August 9th
Drum'n'Bass Special
Pendulum in for their second mix...

August 16th
Matthew Jonson & Subfocus

August 23rd
D-Bridge
Former member of Bad Company, peerless in the liquid b&b field

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Summer Sundae 2005 Weekender

6 Music will be broadcasting from the Summer Sundae 2005 festival in Leicester between Friday August 12th and Sunday 14th.

Info @ WHAT'S ON: 6 Music Shows from Summer Sundae

Official website: Summer Sundae

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Mew have announced their new album will now be released on September 26th

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Stylus review Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin

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Fast 'n' Bulbous has updated his favourite albums of the year so far: Rock Lists

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Sunday, August 07, 2005

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat [Week Commencing August 8th]

This week's new releases @ Boomkat include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Matthew Herbert - Plat Du Jour
Accidenta

When you are able to make an engaging and deeply textured composition out of the various stages of a crushed Coke can, the idea of structuring an entire album from noises related to, and made by, food probably seems a perfectly natural progression. So it should come as no surprise that contrary auteur Mathew Herbert has gone and done just that on new album 'Plat Du Jour'. Between running his Accidental imprint and producing Rosin Murphy's new LP, Herbert has evidently found the time to read 'Fast Food Nation', with 'Plat Du Jour' a journey through the darker aspects of the culinary countryside. Assuming a method similar to Matmos' 'A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure', Herbert has built incremental elements of recorded sound into astonishingly complete pieces that reveal a biting indignation on the part of their author. Opening with 'The Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialised Chicken', Herbert contrasts what are at times quite disturbing sounds with an end result that is both eminently listenable and gently uplifting. With a skill that prevents tracks like 'These Branded Waters' descending into Stomp territory, Herbert also understands that a continuous sound montage could potentially become too much so drafts in Dana Siciliano on vocal duties for the biting 'Celebrity' ("Go David, Go Victoria, Go Beyonce..."), providing a good focal point for the record. Closing with 'Nigella, George, Tony and Me' wherein Herbert recreates the meal cooked by Nigella Lawson for Blair and Bush's post Iraq talks, 'Plat Du Jour' is inventive, esoteric and sardonic without ever sacrificing the listener......

Frog Pocket - Gonglot
Planet Mu

As well as being home to the best ice-cream shop in Britain (the now sadly closed Carlton Café), Ayr can also boast John Charles Wilson (aka Frog Pocket) amongst their exports. Having released a solid EP on Benbecula in 2003, 'Gonglot' marks his debut LP for Planet Mu and sees Wilson furthering galvanising the 'homespun instrumentation meets white-hot digitalis' sound that characterised his previous missives. Comparable to the recent output of Sublight's The Flashbulb, 'Gonglot' opens with the shambling musicbox melodies of 'Follow Erol Raet' before garoting the feathery ambience with a cheese-wire of truly epic electronica/IDM on 'Carac Cyls'. This theme of soft and hard continues throughout, with Wilson matching each bout of solipsism ('Plinty'), with a set of precision beats ('Celebrimbor') that draws it all into focus, adding an abrasive texture to the compositions that compliment the moving soundscapes perfectly. Very nice indeed....

Svalastog - Silencer
Beatservice

I've said it before and I'll say it again; what the f*ck do they put in the water in Tromso?! A tiny town oop north in Norway, Tromso is the home to a mini-van's worth of electronic artists, ranging from Royksopp and Annie, through to Mental Overdrive and Biosphere. And guess what, veteran silicon seducer (and part-time stonemason) Per Henrik Svalastog is from there too. Constructed through a process of improvisation (using archaic folk instruments) followed by a bout of slicing and dicing on the laptop, 'Silencer' concentrates on the minutiae in order to sketch the bigger picture. Comparable to the likes of Akufen, Matmos and Jelinek, Svalstog twists his original material on the likes of 'Restringer' and 'Slide Work' into warm and mealy bouts of cluttered electronica. Elsewhere he dabbles in sparky shards of sound ('Blue White Yellow'), bleep fractured chimes on 'Decentralisation', and a porous breed of bass pocked clicks and cuts with 'Blow Patching'....

Fbcfabric & Reindeer - It's Not Who You Know, It's Whom You Know
Buttercuts

Housed in a fancy black fabric bag (including a clever-clogs use of the washing instructions label), 'It's Not Who You Know, It's Whom You Know' is the grammatically anal title of debut release from this intriguing new project; Fcfabric Reindeer. Evidently fond of all things BOC, Anticon and the route between the two disperate styles, 'It's Not Who...' is a thickly produced portion of leftfield hip-hop that will suit the tastes of any 13 And God or cLOUDDEAD denizens out there. Trawling a wide net for samples and instrumentation, Fbcfabric favour a sound that flirts with Shadow-esque beats, psychedelic guitars and lost-in-the-wires voices, all given a healthy seasoning of twinkle eyed strings. Just as talented on the mic as they are behind the glass, Fbcfabric's nasal deliveries are very much the right side of irritating as they spit polemic in a similar vein to Sole. So whilst 'Soulsuck' targets MTV with it's assertion "if God had big tits and a fast car we'd all buy in" and 'Shake The Hand of an Unsuspecting Victim' rallies against the clichéd target of multinationals in a truly epic and engaging fashion, it is the final track's solemnity ('And Then John Peel Died') that tells you most about their outlook. Limited copies only - recommended!...

Field Music - Field Music
Memphis Industries

Ten years to the week since the nation was thoroughly underwhelmed by the contrived 'Blur vs. Oasis' Britpop argey-bargey, and the NME-endorsed UK guitar scene is an altogether friendlier and more magnanimous place. Having emerged from the same burst of fertility that endowed us with Maximo Park and The Futureheads (with whom they share a member), Field Music are the latest hype-monkeys to release a "greatest album you'll EVER hear!" this year. But hold on a mo; where's the angular ACR/Gang Of Four/Orange Juice facsimile? Not here chief, with Field Music preferring a sumptuous sound that is closer to The Magic Numbers, 'Pet Sounds' and The Byrds. Opening with a Sparks inspired bout of herky-jerky honky-tonk, 'If Only The Moon Were Up' barrels head-first into the Talking Heads-esque 'Tell Me Keep Me'... if Bryne et al. were from the North East as opposed to NYC of course. Packed full of beaming vitamin C, 'Field Music' has the ability to puncture even the most doggedly overcast sky with one listen, as the likes of '17' (think Teenage Fan Club collaborating with Brian Wilson) and 'You're So Pretty' (pop music in the purest sense) tickle your cochlea with formidable charm. Pick your own people......

Windsor For The Derby - Giving Up The Ghost
Secretly Canadian

Civil War death notices and Italian Horror films listed as influences? I'm going in... Nowhere near as histrionic or morose as their crib sheet would have you believe, Windsor For The Derby are long-time pals Dan Matz and Jason Meneely, with 'Giving Up The Ghost' a stylistic right-angle from the Dan Burton produced 'We Fight Til Death'. With an introduction beamed in direct from The Hawk and The Hacksaw's dusty territory ('Dirge For A Pack Of Lies'), Windsor hit their stride on the sparkly traction of 'Empathy For People Unknown'. Lodging the multi-layered falsetto atop some queasy atmospherics and jangly guitars works a treat and is repeated liberally throughout, with the acoustically wrought 'Giving Up' and echo mired constitution of 'Science' deserved of special mention....

Xiu Xiu - La Foret
Acuarela

The utter intensity and seemingly insatiable thirst for bruisngly personal content of Jamie Stewart in his Xiu Xiu guise has led many to accuse the project (and particularly 'La Foret') of nothing more than an elaborate singer-songwriter parody. Is it bollocks. Intimate in a similar spirit to Antony and the Johnsons and with an inflection that is oddly reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, Stewart casts fragile webs of predominantly acoustic instrumentation (guitars, vibraphones, bass clarinets, celli, autoharps etc.) around digital beats that embrace his petulant tourettes style bursts of vocals with assurdity and grace. Opening song 'Clover' is a case in point, with false endings ahoy as the composition lurches to keep pace with Stewart's hand-wringing vocals, lamenting his kamikaze destructive inclinations towards relationships. With Stewart himself describing songs like 'Saturn' as being about "wanting to rape the president to death and eat his body", it's obvious that 'La Foret' is pretty hard-going stuff in places. However give it all a chance and the thrilling combination of post rock sensibilities and tortured soul grandstanding makes for an utterly compelling aural document....

Can - Future Days
Spoon

*Another four Can albums wonderfully remastered and available at long last* An uneasy truce had been thrashed out by the warring factions of Can by the time they came to record 'Future Days' in 1972, yet it is the underlying musical tension that makes this album such a thrilling part of their cannon... With Damo Suzuki's ethereal vocals continuously juxtaposed by Michael Karoli's fraught guitars and Holger Czulkay's invasive bass, the remastered versions of 'Spray' and 'Bel Air' are numbly visceral in that trademark Can way, convincing you that the full spectrum of contemporary music could be traced back to these origins. Whether that's true or not is for well-paid music journalists to debate, but for the rest of us it provides yet further proof as to why Can are one band worth all the mind-numbing eulogising....

Can - Landed
Spoon

*Another four Can albums wonderfully remastered and available at long last* If you got a quid for each time Can were referenced as influencing a given band or artist, we'd have taken the Bank Of England down years ago. Remastered to a clarity that will come as a shock to those who've been suffering the original cd releases, 1975's 'Landed' is notable for marking the return to Can's debut line-up (barring Malcolm Mooney of course), following the love-sick Damo Suzuki's departure. Their 7th full-length release, 'Landed' also saw the band getting their mitts on a 16 track recorder for the first time, the results being much as you'd imagine... Ranging from the scuzzy template of 'Full Moon On The Highway' to the Kraftwerk flourishes of 'Vernal Equinox', 'Landed' is a sonic journey which Can embarked upon before almost anyone else and still sounds as fresh today as it must have in the formica-70's....

Can - Soon After Babaluma
Spoon

Another four Can albums wonderfully remastered and available at long last* There's no denying it; that's a 4/4 trance-baiting rhythm on 'Chain Reaction'... Already lauded as inventing everything from the Keynesian model of economics through to the jet engine, Can are also able to lay claim to inventing dancefloor agitators that take in Ibiza, Björk and Aphex Twin, a sound precipitated by the loss of the last rock-inclined element of the band; Acid Temple prototype, Suzuki. Both avant and populist, Can succeeded in making music that was able to engage both feet and intellect without compromising either, a fact made blindingly raw on this newly remastered edition. Building sprawling synth landscapes and crisply trimmed electronic beats, pieces like 'Chain Reaction' and 'Quantum Physics' are likely better than you remembered and gob-smackingly relevant for today's musical climate....

Can - Unlimited Edition
Spoon

*Another four Can albums wonderfully remastered and available at long last* Most bands stick out a 'unreleased and bonus bollocks' album when they're bereft of new ideas and need some filthy lucre to keep the country estate fully stocked with coy carp. You get the feeling this was the last thing on Can's mind. Having amassed a serious quantity of recordings between 1969 and '74, 'Unlimited Edition' (now giving a thorough spring-clean for this remastered release) was put out on a 15,000 only run to proceed 'Soon Over Babaluma', portraying a much rougher Can that tended not to make the cut for their official releases. Very much a collection of songs as opposed to a coherent and thematically structured album, 'Unlimited Edition' is a fascinating insight through the cracks and into a band that at times are treated with an almost religious zeal..

PLAN B - Issue 7 : August / September 2005
Plan B
Mag // £ 2.95

Featuring Sonic Youth on the cover (Jim O'rourke with some nifty specs!) plus features on Kevin Blechdom, Oneida, Ariel Pink, Smog, Architecture in Helsinki, Princess Superstar and loads of reviews as per usual. Bargain....

Lawrence - Lawrence
Ladomat

Reissue of Lawrence's debut LP, this is a must for those in search of the Warmest, most developed variety of minimal house, guarded by the mythical Kompakt beyond the Mille Plateaux. Or something. Understanding the need to pep any precision tooled click with an undercoat which will engage beyond the initial thrill, Lawrence thrust this debut upon an unsuspecting public, better prepared to enjoy its charm the second time round. With the unnamed tracks ranging from wind chimes and booty-bass (2) and huge static laden structures (4), through to reedy silicon strings and wooden rhythms (10), Lawrence is quite evidently the undisputed master in his field. Highly Recommended!...

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Front cover of Takk... - Sigur Rós at Rate Your Music

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Saturday, August 06, 2005

The Cure plan new album for 2006

NME.COM report on The Cure: The Cure tell of future plans at Benicassim Festival - Robert Smith states a new Cure album is expected in 2006.

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Blabbermouth.Net report on Mastodon: MASTODON Hope To Release WARNER BROS. Debut Next Summer

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Friday, August 05, 2005

The Guardian review Cagedbaby - Will See You Now

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Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

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Pitchfork review Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks

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New Brainwashed website has been launched.

It does look rather different / strange as it's built using PHP software.

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Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 134 / 05.08.05]

This week's Kultureflash - Headlines from London

Issue 134:
Ahh, finally summer's here, our summer that is! As in previous years we'll be away for a few weeks to down cocktails and catch tans, so we're leaving an issue for the month of August...

KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering contemporary culture in and around London. Each week we track down some of the more unusual and interesting 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 most stimulating events in London.

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The Guardian report Stockhausen to play concert in London

The concert will be presented on October 22 as part of the Frieze art fair, sponsored by the Guardian. Stockhausen will also deliver a lecture on October 21.

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Thursday, August 04, 2005

New on Cuneiform Records

CUNEIFORM RECORDS have announced their release schedule for September 2005. Includes audio samples.

The Claudia Quintet - Semi Formal
Djam Karet - Recollection Harvest
Forgas Band Phenomena - Soleil 12
Mats/ Morgan Band - Thanks for Flying With Us
Ndio - Airback

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themilkfactory.co.uk ISSUE #70 AUGUST 2005: Summary

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

ALBUM OF THE MONTH
COCOROSIE - Noah's Ark
Barely a year after they unleashed the wonderful La Maison De Mon Rêve onto the world, Bianca and Sierra Casady return with this even more impressive second effort.

REVIEWS
CHIN CHIN - Shallow Dive
For their first effort, Chin Chin create a clever soundtrack around a mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation.

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN - Multiple
With his latest effort, Keith Fullerton Whitman returns to the roots of experimental electronic music and produces one of his most fascinating records to date.

GALAKTLAN - Constance
Estonian Taavi Laatsit follows his first album as Galaktlan with this beautiful follow up and affirms himself as one of the strongest contenders of the Eastern-European electronic scene.

GITHEAD - Profile
Formed by members of Minimal Compact and Wire, with Scanner’s Robin Rimbaud on guitar, Githead is fuelled by the spirit of early eighties new wave, yet feels extremely contemporary.

RÖYKSOPP - The Understanding
The coolest Norgwegians around return with the follow-up to their multi-million selling debut album.

DWIGHT TRIBLE & THE LIFE FORCE TRIO - Love Is The Answer
A veteran of the music scene, Dwight Trible has worked with some of the biggest names around. This new project is the fruit of a collaboration with Ammoncontact member Carlos Niño.

COLLECTED WORKS
V/A Doctor Who Vol 1: The Early Years 1963-1969
V/A Doctor Who Vol 2: New Beginnings 1970-1980
V/A Welcome To The Neo Golden Age: A Sound Exposure Vol. 1
V/A Force Majeure
V/A The Enlightened Family: A Collection Of Lost Songs

SHORT CUTS
BRADCAST America's Boy
SEELAND Wander / Pherox
THE BLACK DOG Trojan Horus EP
GIMMIK News From The Past

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Issue 49 of Earplug

AUGUST 4 - AUGUST 17

Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community.

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100th Issue of Uncut

New issue of Uncut magazine on sale today. Yet another Bob Dylan CD ! this issue reeks of conformist canonical dinosaur trad rock.

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Yahoo launches new Audio Seach Engine

Launched in Beta: Yahoo Search - Audio Search

Also:

Got Audio?
Reach millions of audio searchers every day by submitting your audio content directly to us with Media RSS. Learn More

Search Engine Watch have the details of this new search tool: Beta of Yahoo Audio Search Released, Content from Music Services and the Open Web

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

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

k-punk on The Cure early 80s era: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE: THE CURE'S UNHOLY TRINITY an analysis of Seventeen Seconds / Faith / Pornography

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Mojo Magazine - September 2005

Another boring issue of MOJO Magazine with Bob Dylan on the front cover again !

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Some Sweet Day 05 - The Simple Minds Marathon

Tomorrow 18 hours of Simple Minds music: 2005 WBWC Summer Marathons

Another fan favorite! Some Sweet Day 05 - The Simple Minds Marathon will feature the new "Silver Box" set of rarities, and will preview the new album from the band on Sanctuary Records - due September, 2005.

Radio station WBWC based in Cleveland, Ohio - Listen Online

Time: 7am - 1am
[World Clock - Cleveland] US Eastern Time Zone

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BW & BK report on Dimmu Borgir Peter Tagtgren To Produce New DIMMU BORGIR Album

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Disquiet Reflections on ambient/electronic music, and interviews with the people who make it

This excellent website has now been added to my blo.gs list.

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New Order Documentary on Radio 1

Next Monday on Radio 1: Mylo presents the history of New Order

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Lamb are doing the 6 Mix on 6 Music next Sunday.

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Dusted interview Jason Forrest

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BW & BK report on Saturnus: SATURNUS Ink Deal With Firebox Records - a new album is expected in 2006.

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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

DanceFrontDoor report Adam Freeland Back To Mine compilation is on the way.

Following New Order and The Pet Shop Boys, Adam Freeland delivers a unique Back To Mine compilation. Each record has been re-edited by Adam Including tracks by artists such as Interpol, M83, TV On The Radio, Elliot Smith, PJ Harvey, Beta Band, EL-P, Boards Of Canada and Trail Of The Dead. If you think you knew Adam Freeland think again.

I reckon Adam Freeland reads Pitchfork !

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The Village Voice report on The Rapture: The Rapture Say Next Record Is More Melodic, 'Soulful'

[via One Louder blog]

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This week's flavourpill LONDON a free weekly mailer covering music, arts, and cultural events in LONDON.

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Splendid review Daniel Lanois - Belladonna

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BBC News report Music buyers 'are growing older'

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New Black Dice Album

Tiny Mix Tapes report Black Dice have a new album titled Broken Ear Record that will be released on September 6th via Astralwerks/EMI/DFA.

No news of UK release date or label yet.

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Monday, August 01, 2005

Musique Machine interview Garm of Ulver

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Smart interface: Talk Digger - check who is linking to you.

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Steve Roach 2 New Albums

Prolific US Ambient/ electronic artist Steve Roach has two new albums for release later this month:

Steve Roach - New Life Dreaming

Steve Roach - Possible Planet

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Earplug

The last two issues of Earplug:

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

Issue 48 of Earplug [JULY 21 - AUGUST 3]

Issue 47 of Earplug [JULY 7 - JULY 20]

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NME.com report John Cale Announces Tour

John Cale's new album BlackAcetate has a new release date of October 3rd.

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