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Monday, October 31, 2005

 

Pitchfork report Exclusive: Cannibal Ox Reborn!

According to a press release, Cannibal Ox have signed on for a "multi-album worldwide deal

I wonder which label ? Maybe: Warp ? Mute ?

# posted by DJ Martian 11:50 PM

 

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 106 - 1-7 November, 2005]

A day early !

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 2:20 PM

 

Mojo December 2005 - Kate Bush



On Sale Wednesday November 2nd

Source: Kate Bush News & Information - News

# posted by DJ Martian 1:45 PM

 

Metal Reviews: Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

# posted by DJ Martian 1:41 PM

 

All About Jazz on Tomasz Stanko - a primer on this esteemed Polish jazz artist.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:34 PM

 

[i:Vibes] interview John Dahlbäck - a 19 year old Swedish electronic music artist.

A new album: Man From The Fall will be released soon on Systematic Recordings.

Nick Luscombe on Xfm played a track yesterday and I was very impressed, this could be a key electro-house album of 2005.

soulseduction.com: soulseduction.com - john dahlbaeck - man from the fall

"Stockholm Kid Wonder and super busy producer John Dahlbaeck has graced the techno world with countless 12'es over the last few years on labels like Turbo, Dessous, Morris Audio, Brique Rouge and of course on his own labels Dahlaeck Recordings, which he apparently runs together with his famous cousin Jesper, Pickadoll and Jackmoves! He also always had a strong connection with Marc Romboy's quality imprint Systematic, where he dropped two of his best 12'es and two super dope remixes!

Basically speaking there is no way around John Dahlbaeck these days. It's a carefully arranged and gloriously fitting album, which perfectly displays the various moods and styles John is able to generate; starting from calmer and more melodic tunes over super functional electro house corkers to siren soaked rave anthems! All 4 to the floor, all in the well established John Dahlbaeck style! You can listen to this wherever you want cause it simply is nothing but dope music from one of the electro scene most promising activists of the moment!!!"

# posted by DJ Martian 1:25 PM

 

Website for Association of Music Writers & Photographers

Also: The Music Press Report

The Music Press Report is the official publication of The Association of Music Writers and Photographers. It's your daily dose of music press news, articles and resources.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:04 PM

 

Marillion announce plans for a new album in 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:00 PM

 

BBC News provide a brief primer on Kate Bush: The sensual world of Kate Bush

# posted by DJ Martian 12:59 PM

 

Ectagon Progressive Rock provide a links gateway to progressive rock..

Also: Norwegian Progressive Rock Norway

The Progressive Rock Music scene in Norway is small, but lively. This section is covering the links to the best resources for Norwegian Progressive Rock on the Internet, and the bands with active websites. It is still in the compilation stage, so please feel free to contact Ectagon if you want something added here...

# posted by DJ Martian 12:57 PM

Sunday, October 30, 2005

 

DJ Nick Luscombe from Xfm has a new blog: flomotion

# posted by DJ Martian 11:07 PM

 

Today on 6 Music - Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - The Nurse With Wound List special.

Strap yourself in as Stuart and Professor Spear boldly explore 'The Nurse List'. Nurse With Wound included a legendary list of rare and mythical records with their debut LP, our task this week is to find them and play them. Soundtracks,Krautrock and Euro treats galore.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:45 PM

 

Amorphous Androgynous/ Future Sound of London present 6 Mix on 6 Music

Broadcast Today 8pm - 10pm

# posted by DJ Martian 3:43 PM

 

Jaz Coleman interviewed on BBC - 6 Music - Bruce Dickinson Rock Show

Jaz Coleman (above) of the legendary Killing Joke is this week's guests off the back of the release of the recent live album XXV Gathering.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:41 PM

 

BBC Music review Richie Hawtin - DE9 | Transitions

# posted by DJ Martian 2:02 PM

 

Mark Radcliffe Interview with Kate Bush on Radio 2: 7th November

Kate Bush News & Information - News Radio To Note:

Mark Radcliffe has conducted an interview with Kate, part of which will be aired on Monday 7th November 10.30pm, BBC Radio 2...Ken Bruce will play segments from the interview, and also tracks from Aerial when the album is BBC Radio 2's album of the week from Monday October 31st 9.30am-12pm weekdays...Phil Jupitus will also be playing Aerial tracks on his BBC Radio 6 breakfast show from Monday 31st October 7am-10am.."

# posted by DJ Martian 1:59 PM

 

The Observer review Kate Bush - Aerial [reviewed by Kitty Empire]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:50 PM

Saturday, October 29, 2005

 

BBC Music review Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 2:18 PM

 

Review: Kate Bush's Aerial @ BBC NEWS

# posted by DJ Martian 2:15 PM

 

All About Jazz review Jan Jelinek | Kosmischer Pitch

# posted by DJ Martian 2:05 PM

 

Issue 55 of Earplug

OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 9

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 1:30 PM

Friday, October 28, 2005

 

DJ Magazine - Top 100 DJs Poll

DJ Magazine have published the results of their annual DJs poll. Paul Van Dyk was crowned the winner.

OUT NOW: Special Top 100 DJs 2005 Issue Interviews with all of the 100 DJs that made it into the poll. Plus the Top 20 VJs revealed. Quentin Harris, Marathon Men, Cassetteboy, and win a tip to Finland! Over 150 upfront tunes reviewed.

RA: Resident Advisor provide the results of DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll: DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2005 Results - Feature / Interview

01 - Paul Van Dyk
02 - Tiesto
03 - Armin Van Buuren
04 - Sasha
05 - Ferry Corsten
06 - John Digweed
07 - Hernan Cattaneo
08 - Deep Dish
09 - ATB
10 - Carl Cox

11 - Paul Oakenfold -2
12 - Richie Hawtin +32
13 - James Zabiela +2
14 - Christopher Lawrence -7
15 - Judge Jules -1
16 - Marco V NM
17 - Eddie Halliwell +8
18 - Erick Morillo +4
19 - Above & Beyond +20
20 - Sander Kleinenberg -8

21 - Markus Schulz +11
22 - Benny Benassi -4
23 - Sven Vath +11
24 - DJ Dan NM
25 - Danny Howells -5
26 - Infected Mushroom NE
27 - Roger Sanchez +10
28 - Mauro Picotto -1
29 - Gabriel & Dresden +12
30 - Steve Lawler -9

31 - Blank & Jones 7
32 - Yoji Biomehanika +1
33 - Chris Liebing -10
34 - Danny Tenaglia +6
35 - Nick Warren +8
36 - Dave Clarke +1
37 - James Holden -1
38 - Mario Piu RE
39 - David Guetta NE
40 - DJ Vibe +40

41 - Kai Tracid +28
42 - Bad Boy Bill -7
43 - Tall Paul 24
44 - Tiga NE
45 - DJ Yahel NE
46 - Andy Moor NE
47 - Ricardo Villalobos NE
48 - Ricky Stone NE
49 - Pete Tong -3
50 - Martin Garcia NE

51 - Frank T.R.A.X NE
52 - Timo Maas RE
53 - Laurent Garnier -8
54 - Desyn Masiello NE
55 - Victor Calderone +11
56 - Lisa Lashes -26
57 - Johan Gielen -29
58 - Matt Hardwick +1
59 - Misstress Barbara -10
60 - Fergie -2

61 - Armand Van Helden +23
62 - Michel De Hey +3
63 - Fatboy Slim -12
64 - Jeff Mills -17
65 - DJ Rush -2
66 - The Flash Brothers +5
67 - Adam Beyer -17
68 - Donald Glaude RE
69 - Dave Seaman -12
70 - Andy C -44

71 - Chus & Ceballos NE
72 - John '00' Fleming -20
73 - Satoshi Tomiie -25
74 - DJ Tatana NE
75 - Astrix NE
76 - Lee Burridge -20
77 - M.I.K.E. (Push) -15
78 - Lady Dana -49
79 - Umek -22
80 - Nic Fanciulli +8

81 - Rank 1 +10
82 - BT +10
83 - Anne Savage -4
84 - Luke Fair NE
85 - Plump DJs -32
86 - Miss Kittin -10
87 - Felix Da Housecat -14
88 - Christian Cambas NE
89 - Scott Project RE
90 - Cosmic Gate -9

91 - Matt Darey NE
92 - DJ Sammy NE
93 - Proteus -3
94 - DJ Luna -33
95 - Moshic NE
96 - Max Graham -32
97 - DJ Amadeus NE
98 - Gigi D'Agostino RE
99 - Marco Bailey -3
100 - Magda NE

# posted by DJ Martian 5:21 PM

 

Terrastock 6 Announced

Terrastock 6 announcement

We are pleased to announce that Terrastock 6 will be taking place in Providence, Rhode Island USA on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2006.

Line Up:

Avarus (Finland)
Bardo Pond
Black Forest / Black Sea
Charalambides
College Girls Gone Wild
Damon and Naomi
Fursaxa
Ghost (Japan)
Glenn Jones & Cul de Sac
Kemialliset Ystävät (Finland)
Kinski
Sharron Kraus
Landing
Larkin Grimm
The Magic Carpathians Project (Poland)
Major Stars
Marissa Nadler
MV/EE
Paik
Jack Rose
Salamander
St Joan (UK)
Thought Forms (UK)
Spacious Mind (Sweden)
Spires that in the Sunset Rise
Tanakh (Italy)
Urdog
Windy & Carl

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS (yet to be announced....)

# posted by DJ Martian 4:16 PM

 

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 4:12 PM

 

almost cool music reviews Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch

# posted by DJ Martian 3:57 PM

 

The Guardian review Animal Collective - Feels

# posted by DJ Martian 12:23 PM

 

All About Jazz interview: Ken Vandermark: That Was Now

# posted by DJ Martian 12:06 PM

 

Sea of Tranquility review Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Forget about the ever-present Opeth, Porcupine Tree, and later day Anathema references made regarding their first disc. Second Life Syndrome not only surpasses it, but it also presents a distinct Riverside sound that, despite some subtle influences, shows the band developing into a darker musical realm, while retaining the core stylistics of their debut album

# posted by DJ Martian 12:00 PM

 

The Guardian interview with Kate Bush: 'I'm not some weirdo recluse'

Kate Bush - Interview: This is an abridged version of an exclusive 16-page interview with Kate Bush that appears in the next issue of MOJO magazine, on sale on Wednesday November 3

# posted by DJ Martian 11:54 AM

 

Peeling Back The Years @ 6 Music your chance to listen to documentary programmes dedicated to John Peel on Listen Again.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:05 AM

 

Metal Storm interview Swallow The Sun

# posted by DJ Martian 12:07 AM

Thursday, October 27, 2005

 

Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain is currently the 2nd highest rated album of the year @ Metacritic: Best Albums of 2005

# posted by DJ Martian 6:29 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report JANE'S ADDICTION: 'Best Of' Album To Surface In January?

# posted by DJ Martian 3:14 PM

 

Pitchfork review Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht [reviewed by Philip Sherburne]

This 2xCD mix-- one half more psychedelic, one more blissful-- functions as a guide to the Now Sound of clattery, post-minimalist German techno.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:11 PM

 

Stylus review Audion - Suckfish

# posted by DJ Martian 1:32 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report KHOMA Sign With ROADRUNNER RECORDS

Roadrunner Records announce their latest signing — KHOMA (formerly KOMA). Hailing from Umeå, in Sweden.


The core of KHOMA is always static — vocalist Jan Jämte, guitarist Johannes Persson, and Fredrik Kihlberg on guitar/piano — but the surrounding band members are a rolling collective of musicians. The band hail from varied musical backgrounds and all members still play in a number of different groups: CULT OF LUNA, THE PERISHERS, and the DEPORTEES, to name three. Accordingly, KHOMA began as a side project.

In creating their most recent music, the band have broadened their perspective and introduced new elements most notably cello and piano.

KHOMA have an epic sound of their own. Look for an album release in April 2006.

[They have previously been talent spotted by Avi @ It's a trap: it's a trap! reader's companion volume one : Koma]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:07 PM

 

musicOMH.com review Magnetophone - The Man Who Ate The Man on 4ad

# posted by DJ Martian 12:04 PM

 

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Prog Archives have various reviews for the new Riverside album: RIVERSIDE - Second Life Syndrome

# posted by DJ Martian 11:26 AM

 

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

still at number 1 Sufjan Stevens - Can anyone dislodge him from the pole position? The only big album left to be released this year that has a chance is Kate Bush - Aerial IMHO

performing exceedingly well for an independent label band:
3 Animal Collective: Feels

Climbing Up
67 Between the Buried and Me: Alaska

new entries: All of these should climb in the future

36 Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase
79 Mew: And the Glass Handed Kites
80 Depeche Mode: Playing the Angel

Also I am proud to report that Coldplay's tediously overpromoted album has finally been kicked out of the Top 100.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:40 AM

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

 

Ephel Duath

Italian art-metal band Ephel Duath have redesigned their website.

In the download section: 2 MP3 tracks from the new album: Pain Necessary To Know due for release October 31st.

Vector, Third Movement
Pleonasm

Also @ myspace.com: Ephel Duath

Sea of Tranquility review Ephel Duath: Pain Necessary to Know

# posted by DJ Martian 6:37 PM

 

Burst have launched a new website.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:04 PM

 

Old Man's Child - ecard

Century Media Records have an ecard for Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child: Old Man's Child : VERMIN

# posted by DJ Martian 12:29 AM

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

 

Playlouder interview Magnétophone

# posted by DJ Martian 11:15 PM

 

Ultrasound 2005

Ultrasound 2005 takes place @ The Media Centre, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire between Thursday 24th November and Saturday 26th November.

Please visit this website soon for further announcements

# posted by DJ Martian 11:12 PM

 

This week's The Breezeblock show on Radio 1

Finally, after a couple of years tracking him down, Simpsons creator Matt Groening spins his psychedelic rarities.

Tracklistings: BBC - Radio 1 - Dance The Breezeblock [Now on Listen Again]

Also Coming Soon:

Nov 1st
Trentemøller
The Danish producer plays live

Nov 8th
A.I.
Liquid drum'n'bass masters

Nov 15th
Errors
live from Maida Vale

# posted by DJ Martian 3:29 PM

 

Stylus review Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

# posted by DJ Martian 2:01 PM

 

Pitchfork review Annie: DJ-Kicks

# posted by DJ Martian 2:00 PM

 

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 105 - 25-31 October, 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 1:57 PM

 

the 2005 woxy.com Modern Rock 500 - interesting to see which classic alternative tracks are currently rated.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:28 PM

 

Calliso New Album for 2006

Finland's Art-Metal band Callisto provide a new update:

Callisto enters studio! We have started the pre-production of our second album with Jonas Olsson. So far we have completed five songs and five songs are in the works. In December we will head into the studio in the backwoods of the northern west-coast countryside, around where most of us grew up.

The album will be produced and engineered by Jonas. The mixing and mastering will be done elsewhere (not yet confirmed) and the album will be released during the first half of next year.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:25 PM

 

dirtyradio.net is back !

Streaming via a new URL 24/7 [Use Winamp to listen in]

Last few tracks:
� Dirty Radio - Station ID
� Caribou - Barnowl
� Junior Boys - Teach Me How To Fight
� Dirty Radio - Station ID
� Leandro Gamez - Oaxaca
� Githead - Pylons
� Dirty Radio - Station ID
� TV on the Radio - New Health Rock
� Lucien-N-Luciano - Madre, Mother&M�re

# posted by DJ Martian 1:19 PM

Monday, October 24, 2005

 

Decibel interview Opeth

# posted by DJ Martian 9:19 PM

 

Metalrage review Solefald - Red For Fire - An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1

# posted by DJ Martian 8:04 PM

 

Relaunched: Drowned in Sound - the UK based music community webzine.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:42 PM

 

All About Jazz interview Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto

# posted by DJ Martian 12:27 PM

 

All About Jazz review Mat Maneri | Pentagon on Thirsty Ear

# posted by DJ Martian 12:21 PM

 

This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat: Week Commencing October 24th

This week's new releases @ Boomkat include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Nine Horses (David Sylvian / Burnt Friedman / Steve Jansen) - Snow Borne Sorrow
Samadhisound

The collaborative product of David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman has been hugely anticipated, and doubly so when the smallprint reveals that it also features the contributions of an unbeleivably tantalising supporting cast : Arve Henriksen, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Stina Nordenstam. Nine Horses make sprawling oak tree music that mixes it's various protagonists disparate skills into a profoundly engaging end result that has been already described by many as Sylvian's most approachable material in years .'Snow Borne Sorrow' is an oddly engaging LP, taking a male/female duet structure that brings to mind 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', opening with 'Wonderful World'; wherein they spin a shuffling web of bourbon streaked jazz which unwinds with a paranoid intent. From here they indulge in some electronic torch songs ('Darkest Birds' & 'Serotonin'), tackle a dark night with the slouched horns of 'The Banality of Evil', before collapsing on the optimism tinted epic of 'The Librarian'. Dark, unique and very rewarding, a must....

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Jasper TX - I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You
Lampse

Only a handful of releases in and Lampse have already established themselves as purveyors of the most gorgeous blue noise imaginable; a fact which is forcibly asserted by this deeply enjoyable album from Sweden's Jasper TX. With a vibe initially remeniscent of the warm shimmering guitar manipulations of Fennesz, Jasper TX (aka Dag Rosenqvist) coaxes finely textured and fathom deep compositions from a relatively sparse aural palate, resulting in a sound which has the scope of Sigur Ros coupled with the raw ebb of Jelinek and Tape. Opening with what at first seems a textbook excursion in layered rustles and machine lint, the album kicks off with 'Blown Out to Sea, I'm Never Coming Back'; wherein this slightest of foundations is slowly furnished by distant sea swells of diffused soundscape detritus and heart-flushed bass to make a post-rock influenced sound which will thaw all but the coldest of emotional husks. Similar in its effect is 'Braille', where through static ruptured digital shards, a fragile sense of glowing optimism emerges, rewarded at the end by a stunning piano melody which coaxes the ear straight into the border-line drone of 'Letting Gon (The World Is Coming to an End)'. Possessing a similar monochrome outlook to Norway's Deaf Center, Jasper TX proves on the likes of 'Help The Die' and 'Rounds' that the grandest of gestures are best realised through the most personal of compositions. Stunning....

Lackluster - Slice
U Cover

It seems that Esa Ruoho is having a good run - what with his excellent upcoming album for the Newspeak label and this, is his second album excursion with the design-savvy U Cover. "Slice" is full of classic IDM constructions and beautifully lilting ambient lullabies - a minimal patchwork of sci-fi soundtracking that works a treat. Recommended listening....

Vector Lovers - Capsule For One
Soma

The second album from Soma's golden boy Martin Wheeler (aka Vector Lovers) in as many years, 'Capsule For One' takes up very much where his eponymous debut left off; albeit fed on a free-range, cinematic diet. Evidently a dedicated Vangelis fanboy, Wheeler has gone all out on the swooping synth gymnastics this time round, opening with the twinkle synth of 'City Lights from a Train' then swiftly following it with the choral sheath of 'Arrival, Metropolis'. Whilst this all gets suitably grand on the horizon, Wheeler then introduces some ruff laptop beats in the foreground that range from the Aphex Twin-school of precision ('Nostalgia For the Future') through to Detroit-tinged loveliness on 'Post Artic Industries'. Although dripping in cross-over appeal and packed with the kind of clinically welcoming sound that made him so appealing to BMW's ad-department last year, 'Capsule For One' is still a fine example of an artist in love with music and not afraid to show it. And who are we to argue with that?...

Furuholmen / Bjerkestrand / Wadling - Hermetic
Rune Grammofon

Magne Furuholmen is a founder member of A-Ha, Kjetil Bkerkestrand is a composer/producer and Freddie Walding is a much respected Swedish singer. Put them together and you get 'Hermetic'; bloody weird! Made for the film '1732 Hotten' (translated as 'Bloody Angels'), the 12 pieces on 'Hermetic' are genuine oddities, full of dark-hearted jazz flourishes, distant (almost tortured) vocals and broiling soundscapes. Unsettling to the max, Furuholmen, Bjerkestrand and Walding have created a twisted organic-machine that pulses with an electronic heart one minute before being consumed by a mass of mismatched voices the next. The kind of thing which has the very real potential for causing nightmares, 'Hermatic' is odd as you like, but in a good way....

Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Anticon

The latest missive from Anticon's folk-rock-psych-hop heavyweight Why? (now a four piece band fronted by main-man Yoni Wolf), 'Elephant Eyelash' seems to be the record that was long threatened but oddly elusive. Featuring guest spots from a good chunk of the Anticon stud-farm, 'Elephant Eyelash' is a genre gumbo that logically should result in a 10 mile aural f*ck-up... but doesn't. The opening song 'Crushed Bones' is a fine example; what initially seems a waterlogged folk flutter is incrementally beefed up to emotional-strength, before it spirals wildly into a polemical crunch, over which Wolf delivers his nasal proclamations of "London where the sirens yelp like a helpless Dog with its jaw stepped on". It might not sound much written down, but on record it has an indefinable force. Similarly, 'Yo Yo Bye Bye' is a vast and operatic slab of psych-hop that pitches skywards in a flurry of Mercury Rev-meets-Doseone references, hitting its mark head on before shifting gear on album highlight 'Rubber Traits' with a snowfall of vitiman-C piano chords and the oddly moving diatribe of "Unfold an origami death mask, And cut my DNA with rubber traits, Pull apart the double helix like a wishbone, Always be working on a suicide note". If Stephen Malkmus had shirked his Anglophile fixation and gone for a career in hip-hop, this is probably what it would have sounded like....

T La Rock - Lyrical King : From The Boogie Down Bronx
Fresh

Like Just Ice's debut LP I reckon you ain't gonna find a better example of the genius of Kurtis Mantronik and his crew of edit magicians than right here. Like 'Back To The Old School', Mantronik seriously got to flex his 808 programming skills here, check the canyon leaps in style and confidence from his earliest work all the way to cuts like the awesome 'Back To Burn', quite shocking. Of course it's men like Chep Nunez and Omar Santana that really crank this stuff up to the next level, a true statement as elements of this album make most rap 2005 seem utterly stagnant and dull as'. Unfortunately back in 1987 I felt this album to be slightly disappointing as all the prior bomb tracks were allready in my 12" racks - this album's original single wax version only thrilled with cuts like the mental title track, all alien 808 beats and bugged synth patterns downtempo tune! Then/now it's 'Back To Burn', still sick now nearly twenty years after its first appearance, i'll still be rocking to this when i'm dancing with the aid of a zimmaframe. Like Just's DMX T' had the now worldfamous beatbox Greg Nice (you know Nice & Smooth) who beefs most of the non-Mantronik cuts, half dope half joke funny, only a couple of tracks still feel like rushed job filler material. Can't forget DJ Louie Lou. Where this CD really shines though is with the previously 12" only bonus cuts'. Check, 'It's Yours', yes of course but then there's 'He's Incredible'/'Breakdown', the obvious follow up - still minimal classic 808 beats fat but with no sign yet of the cut n paste edit stylings which changed to the max with the next 12". 'Breaking Bells' is in my top ten cuts of alltime, Omar Santana's edit work is seriously insane, too much for some but just right for me - serious messed up and a massive influence on DJ Shadow's early chop up sequences. That 12"s flip 'Bass Machine' is equally classic just a little less insane. The kind of record that I can remember every second of even now. An album that will sound alien as fu*k to most kids today, for us greying b-boys it's a serious basscone warmer. Crushing music....

Cikada String Quartet - In Due Tempi
ECM

Founded in Oslo with the stated intent of "getting to grips with the newest ideas through demanding and technically advanced music", the Cikada String Quartet are here tackling three strikingly distinctive and highly original compositions from the latter half of the 20th Century. Accompanied by an extensive set of liner notes from Anders Beyer and Helmut Rohm, the Cikada String Quartet demonstrate their keen musical prowess through vivid and oft fraught interpretations of Kaika Saariaho, John Cage and Bruno Maderna. Consciously attempting to spurn the orthodox manoeuvres of the avant-garde, 'In Due Tempi' is a startling aural document which grabs you by the throat and simply doesn't let go....

Jonathan Kane - February
Table of the elements

Jonathan Kane; now why does that name sound familiar? Well, apart from co-founding no-wave group du jour Swans he also cemented his skin bashing prowess as rythem master for Rhys Chatham. So it is with some considerable experience that he takes his first solo forray on 'February', a loud & proud collison of artlilliary drumming and bluesy rock instrumentation. Opening with 'Curl', Kane has an adherence to strict rythms and serialistic intent that borders on the Neu! for repetative cohesion, with a grand bass heavy stomp pummellled by all manner of swampy guitars and low-slung bass. At times veering close to contempoary post-rock (see 'Motherless Child'), Kane is an old-school type through and through; a stance which lends 'February' an urgent energy which is terribly infectious. An Aquarius through and through......

The Drift - Noumena
Temporary Residence

The Drift do exactly what they say on the tin; they drift! Whether this is through choleric clouds of diffused soundscapes ('Gardening, Not Architecture'), snowfalls of sunny post-rock ('Hearts Are Flowers') or driving gusts of jazz ruptured multi-instrumentalism ('Transatlantic'), it seems to completely cloak the senses; starting in the ears and working its way around. The debut album from this San Fransisco outfit, 'Noumena' will appeal equally to fans of Tarentel as those of Miles Davis and has enough spike to keep the oft wide-eyed musings from becoming dull. ...

Magnetophone - The Man Who Ate The Man
4AD

Magnetophone have always had a panache for fancy packaging, an admirable affliction they have continued here with the initial copies of 'The Man Who Ate The Man' wrapped in a fantastic slipcase and further bolstered by a set of exclusive 'business cards'. Four years on since their debut 'I Guess Sometimes I Need To Be Reminded Of How Much You Love Me' and Magnetophone have matured no end; trading in their sketchtronica, which had a nasty habit of self destructing just as it hit its stride, for a much more structured sound that can happily support a buffet of collaborators. Opening in familiar territory, 'Let's Start Something New' is sun-bleached electronica wrapped in a myelin sheaf to rival prime-time BOC, before the Phone take on a rock-fractured sound through 'Kel's Vintage Thought', wherein the Breeders' Kelly Deal guests. Elsewhere, 'A Sad Ha Ha (Circled My Demise)' sees the Fence Collective's big cheese King Creosote contributing vocals to a lambent backwards love-song, his protégé HMS Ginafore adds a carbonated tenderness to the My Bloody Valentine-esque '...And May Your Last Words Be A Chance To Make Things Better', whilst the babbling folk of 'I've Been Looking Around Me' is made all the more bitter-sweet by James Yorkston's 5am lilt. Lovely stuff....

65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
Monotreme

By far the best band to have emerged from Sheffield in years (and yes we know about the Arctic Monkeys), 65daysofstatic are purveyors of stunning post-electronica that pays equal lip service to Autechre and Steve Reich as it does Mogwai and Slint. Criminally overlooked, their 2004 debut 'The Fall of Math' established a blue-print which they've stuck to then refined on their follow-up 'One Time For All'; bringing together bone-shaking riffs, Nyman-esque piano and crisp'n'dry electronica in a thrilling bout of aural infectiousness to rival Leishmaniasis. From the opening peaks of 'Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here' and the frantic beat arrangements of 'Await Rescue', through to the muted reticence of 'The Big Afraid' and the string fortified bluster of 'Welcome to the Times', 65daysofstatic have crafted an awesome album that could redefine the post-rock fraternity. Further bolstered in my affections by being the last ever band I heard John Peel mispronounce, 65daysofstatic's 'One Time For All' is brute pleasure personified....

Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Temporary Residence

Whilst 'How Strange, Innocence' was all primed to be the debut release from Explosions In The Sky, due to one thing and another it was shuffled out as a gig-only CDR then subsequently overshadowed by the "more accomplished" 'Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Will Live Forever'. In a move to infuriate eBay monkeys the world over, they are now giving 'How Strange, Innocence' a proper release and with its mayfly-like two day recording window acts as a rude reminder to the various time sponges out there what you can achieve in a such a short period. Probably best filed under 'post-rock', Explosions In The Sky primarily inhabit the less aggressive end of the genre spectrum, preferring to sprinkle the thick instrumentation with glorious patches of sun-blushed effulgence that resolve to create a fresh and deliciously melancholic sound. With particular highlights including 'Snow and Lights' (a song that reminded me of the good side of Christmas), the epic 'Time Stops' and the finely wrought guitars of 'Remember Me As A Time Of Day', Explosions In The Sky prove that what they deem 'unaccomplished' skins most of the competition alive. Bang!...

Gravenhurst - Fires In Different Buildings
Warp

"Tonight Matthew, Warp Records will be..." The latest in Warp's recent 'suck-it-and-see' release schedule, Gravenhurst's (aka Nick Talbot) debut LP 'Fires In Different Buildings' has got its sights set firmly on those attractive Mogwai/My Bloody Valentine/Velvet Underground comparisons and (on the whole) is quite a success. Opening through 'Down River', Talbot sounds shockingly like the Richard File fronted UNKLE (make of that what you will); with tender vocals and thrumming instrumentation (think 'OK Computer') duking it out with starbursts of squalling Slint-style guitars and muted build-ups. It'll do me. Moving on from this impressive start, Talbot has a go at some taut-Britpop ('The Velvet Cell') that puts label mates Maximo Park to shame, 'Animals' garners Ye Olde parallels with The Smiths and Nick Cave - representing as it does a gorgeously fraught murder ballad - whilst 'Cities Beneath The Sea' is Hammond-drenched folk solipsism. Only let down by a pretty appalling Kinks cover (the nine-minute purgatory of 'See My Friends'), Gravenhurst has evidently been drinking from the same mug as Colder, albeit with a much warmer disposition. Didn't he do well.....

Wax Poetics - Issue 14 : Fall 2005
Wax Poetics
Mag // £ 6.99

Wow is this really issue #14, this bible shows no sign of falling off our essential reading list yet. The hero of this issue is of course David Axelrod, others have been there but no one with the depth and love of Wax Poetics... elsewhere Edan is set nine things to think about and report back in ten, mighty cool illustration as well. Gilles Peterson in interview plus listing his current rare favorites, even I know three of them. One of the alltime deejay heroes Jazzy Jay is interviewed about his style of digging. David Katz article on reggae master Clancy Eccles. Legendary hip hop lens man Ricky Powell shows his wares.... and gets a nice grilling. The story of Brooklyn's East center in the late sixties, 'a cultural and educational center for people of african descent' that managed also to be home to some of the most righteous live jazz via artists down with the Strata East and Black Jazz labels and they even had their own label, back to school for me, a deep article. Manchester's legend Greg Wilson finally gets some true props stateside with an essential run down of the tracks that he feels helped form the electro funk scene, nice tribute from A Guy Called Gerald as well. That's just the halfway stage of this jam packed issue, phew!!! Mulata Astake interviewed, the man behind those dope afrobeat inspired Mulata of Ethiopia album that got reissued last year. Then of course the massive Axelrod piece scribed by Egon and Wax P editor Brian DiGenti, some amazing photographs featured as well. The story behind the legendary Bronx club the Disco Fever, more incredible photos. Hella rude Blowfly in interview then finally dope drummer James Gadson feature then Quantic. Then it's over for another edition, maybe the most unputdownable yet. Completely essential reading....

Sutekh - Born Again : Collected Remixes
Leaf

As Leaf now hits double figures and the protection of Primary School begins to wane in the face of the feral-hooded hordes (© Daily Mail) which blight the imminent move to 'big school', they've decided to release this jam-packed remix album from Sutekh to prove their credentials. Featuring reinterpretations of Murcof, Hanne Hukkelberg, Safety Scissors, Swayzak, Wobbly, Chessie, Alva Noto, Portable, Twerk, Geoff White and Ammoncontact amongst many others (23 tracks in total!), this gorgeously packaged double CD/4-piece vinyl is a back-catalogue trawl that more than justifies its existence; allowing digested access to a slew of material that would otherwise have remained the preserve of the committed Sutekh addict. Opening proceedings with an exclusive rejig of 'Easy', taken from Hanne Hukkelberg's recent 'Little Things' LP, Sutekh (aka Seth Horvitz) provides a lush coat of shimmering chimes and discrete glitches that conspire to add a beatific urgency to the original's laid back charm, a trick he consummately repeats on the surging clinical machinations of Murcof's 'Memoria'. Elsewhere, O.Lamm's 'Bed of the Cylinder in Three Concentric Zones' is made to resemble a silicon one-man-band leaking into your ears, Twerk's 'Delay 3' is a TNT-blast of digital rubble honed to 4/4 perfection, whilst Swayzak's '.wavemail Project' features one of the most addictive basslines this side of Prussia. They weren't born yesterday you know... Ace....

Various / Playhouse - Famous When Dead Iv
Playhouse

A premium label collection from Playhouse featuring proper A-Grade business from the likes of Isoleé, Villalobos, Recloose, Lindstrom and Tejada/Leviste. Opening with the Isoleé splice and dice of Recloose's 'Cardiology' (scouring off the overly polite edges), 'Famous When Dead' is reasonably worth the admission price alone for the Two Lone Swordsmen refit of Villalobos' 'Dexter'; a Joy Division marinated affair that turns even the most mundane of environments into a grand, shooting-star lashed cinematic vista. As for the rest, Tejada & Leviste are plunged up to their elbows in a vat of rimy, dub flavoured glitch, Rework are the epitome of aloof smoky electro charm, whilst Isoleé's solo cut is a cinematic slice of shoegaze/house pie....

Various / New Religion - The Electric Institute
New Religion

New Religion have joined forces with legendary UK electronic label, Applied Rhythmic Technology (ART), to bring you this very special project. In this joint release, New Religion combines new exclusive tracks from legends of the scene with fresh new talent to bring you 12 exclusive and unique works of A.R.T. Original ART-artists As One (Kirk Degiorgio) and Balil (Ed from Plaid) bring fresh new tracks, while a special treat from the vaults is in store from Neuropolitique & Derrick May and Carl Craig (as 69). They are joined by Anthony 'Shake' Shakir, Domu, Stacey Pullen, NewWorldAquarium and Ian O'Brien - resulting in a definite future classic. Also featured is a bonus ART classic - the rare Mayday mix of NeuroPolitique's 'Artemis'. For the first time available on vinyl! All tracks on this album are pearls on their own, from the more raw funk oriented things by Domu and Stacey Pullen, to the deep electronic freakiness by Shake, 69 and Newworldaquairum and a perfect end to the journey comes with Ian O'Brien and Kirk Degiorgio, teaming up as Super-A-Loof to bring back the best memories to Derrick May gems as his remix of Inner City's "Praise" and "Icon". "The Electric Institute" is probably the most ambitious techno compilation to be put together since the days of the Virgin Detroit comps, Virtual Sex and Artificial Intelligence. CD tracklisting as follows : 01. Balil - Glass Dual 02. Domu - Quarantine 03. Beetlejuice - Whatever Happened To The Cosmic Kid? 04. Blue Binary - Electric Institute Sector I 05. As One - Remnant 06. Blue Binary - Electric Institute Sector II 07. Newworldaquarium - MonkeyWorld 08. Blue Binary - Pyramid I 09. Kirk Degiorgio - Mindflay 10. Blue Binary - Pyramid II 11. 69 - Puntang (Edit) 12. Neuropolitique - Artemis (Mayday Mix) 13. Shake - The Stranger 14. Blue Binary - To The Expoplanets 15. Stacey Pullen - Liquid Letter 16. Super-A-Loof - Night On The Promenade...

# posted by DJ Martian 12:16 AM

Sunday, October 23, 2005

 

Last Week's New Releases @ Boomkat: Week Commencing: October 17th 2005

Last week's new releases @ Boomkat [via email newsletter] include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Stacs Of Stamina - Tivoli
Werk

Forget for now the anal rectitude of Europop, this summer the Stacs of Stamina boys are drunk at the wheel of a shiny new juggernaut hurtling pell-mell down the highway of electronic music. Prepare, mere mortal, for the age of Eurocrunk. And what is this mysterious new genre, I hear you cry? Yes, you've guessed it, it's another completely ridiculous and entirely imaginary genre of music that's taking the worldwide music scene by force. A mixture of crazy Euro lyricism and blip-hop over snazzy syncopated beats, Swedish production outfit Stacs of Stamina have here produced the definitive Eurocrunk LP of this century, and centuries to come. Arriving in the wake of their debut EP on Werk, `Tivoli' sees Stamina taking the unclaimed territory between hip hop and electro by storm, with 11 tracks of Eurocrunked-up 8-bit hoptronica that will have even the most ascetic dullards swinging from the rafters to join in the digital love-making. And there's plenty of partner swapping on the mic, with twonk-hop superstars Mike Ladd and TTC adding guest vocals, as well as the latest MC `on road', Earz, all throwing their car keys in the bowl. So what does it sound like then, eh? Highlights include `Stay Beautiful', a dainty cocktail of crunked up Europop that could so easily be Air producing El-P, while Standing side by side with Stacs MCs Johan, Marcus and Gesan, Mike Ladd throws down some signature rhymes on the quirksome `Baghdad Boogie', astride a rhythm that's cheekier than a 9-year-old cockney chav with attention deficit disorder. Grime's latest prodigal son Ears pops up on the bass-workout `Roll' , French supergroup TTC crash the party on the irresistible trance-hop epic `Donne Moi Un Poisson', and even TV's Noel Edmonds drops a few bars on House Party (sadly missing from the final cut of the album). And in case you were wondering, Tivoli is Swedish for carnival, and there's certainly no shortage of seedy entertainment on the record. So when the freaks come out this autumn to the sounds of Eurocrunk, will you be taking a ringside seat? Tip!...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Warp

Three and a bit years on from the Da Vinci Code symbolism of `Geogaddi' and a whole `makes-you-feel-your-age' seven since `Music Has the Right to Children', the now official siblings (Brothers of Canada anyone?) are back with what they deem their most complete and candid album to date. Wrapped in a brazenly turquoise cover that suggests we're gonna be glancing over our shoulder throughout (and that looks miraculously close to the "Music Has The Right" Sleeve), `Campfire Headphase' is a surprisingly upfront affair; what you see appears to be what you get, and whilst this initially seems (whisper it please!), well, boring, the old charm soon starts to seep through. What with the level of anticipation surrounding the Scot duo reaching McFly dribbling levels of hysteria (you know who you are), it would have been easy for BOC to submit a box-ticking LP of greatest hits material; a route they choose to shun. Opening with a queasy kaleidoscope of sun-warped ambience (`Into The Rainbow Vein'), things kick off properly with `Chromakey Dreamcoat', a textbook name if we've ever heard one. Constructed around a precarious acoustic guitar part, Boards then do what they do best; layer it up with echo-fed beats, wispy bits and all manner of mermaid atmospherics, resulting in a sound that is wholly their own yet marinated with some plucked string reticence. Ah, this'll be the acoustic album then? Well kind of; with the thrumming tones popping up again straight away on `Satellite Anthem Icarus', hoisted clear of the folktronica quagmire by some very Schnauss-like sunsets and the supine `Peacock Tail' with its dawn-chorus samples. Elsewhere, `Dayvan Cowboy' is a sprawling Kevin Shields-indebted (or, erm, some might say Zero 7 indebted...eek) grandstander that ignites your cochlea through 1000 drums, `Oscar See Through Red Eye' is the closest fly-by of Geogaddi's lascivious intent, whilst `Slow This Bird Down' defies any lexical parameters. Given that we'd have all bought it anyway, Boards of Canada have once again proved why their faded Super8 sound has defined a generation's record collection. Not a great album by any means but....the Boards are back in town....

DVD OF THE WEEK!
Supersilent / Kim Hiorthoy - Supersilent 7
Rune Grammofon

Yes it's the seventh and if rumours are to be believed final Supersilent album. This probably explains the grand label gesture to deliver this album on DVD, it won't play via your CD player but if you've got your DVD player hooked up to your hi-fi you know that's the only way you'll feel the full power of this truly astonishing burnout. For this special concert all new music is delivered, part composed part improv, by Arve Henrikson (trumpet, electronics), Ståle Storløkken (keyboards, electronics), Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Deathprod aka Helge Sten on audio virus, aka knobs, slides and switches. The first two tracks alone take up 40 mins, both starting with the faint gentle flow of patient melody from either Arve's trumpet or Ståle's keyboard. Both these tracks then take an upward turn as Deathprod's noise grain lurches into the soundframe as the drums find their way through the increasingly abstract avenues of sound. The three instruemntalists sound like they are powered by the forces of nature while Deathprod unleashes the electric shocks that send the other members into ever more diverse areas of sound. The music alone in these first two tracks would finish off most bands, it's that intense, no wonder they all seem set to collapse as each performance finishes. 7.3 is a more searching modalesque composition built around Arve's rich harmonius vocalese with the airy keyboard patterns and haunting repetitive motifs before it ventures forth into the unknown. 7.4 centres around the eastern melodies from the solo trumpet, before the other members gradually enter the frame in a tranced out state - I'm tempted to compare this track to Miles's 'In A Silent Way' but considering this is Supersilent comparisons are futile. The rest of the concert continues in more astonishing fashion. The camera work is sublime as well, shot in the blackest of black and white by Kim Hiorthoy, think 'Eraserhead', the fire extinguished only after 1 hour and 48 minutes have passed. Incredible. The concert recorded 16.08.2004 at Parkteatret, Oslo. Truly shocking music from one the worlds most original bands on frightening form....

Run Return - Metro-North
N5MD

If you were of a cynical disposition, you might just offer forth the opinion that bands like Run Return delight in seeing people try and pin down their eclectic sound with a hopeless list of comparisons, which invariably fail to capture their unique 'magic'. So with all the grace of a Tory leadership election, I'm gonna try anyway... Their debut LP 'Metro North' sees Run Return plundering a belligerently broad spectrum of sounds that happily withstand comparison to Telefon Tel Aviv, Grand National, Mogwai, Caribou and about another 100 artists, all welded together in seamless fashion. A case in point is the breathtaking 'OKC Dani' where stuttering digitalis is overlaid with an acetate of taut strings, spasming guitars, swooping soundscapes and assorted percussion. Similarily, 'Weights and Measures' is a throbbing gristle of broiling guitars, post rock crescendos and splintered electrics, 'Soothing Syrup' is like a swig of Benylin with its chopped breathy vocals and meaty beats, whilst the title track dares to have a wander round BOC's spare room. It's not so grim up north... ...

Various / Autonomous Addicts - Autonomous Addicts
The Designed Disorder

Electronically blistered compilation from LA's Designed Disorder, featuring contributions from Tipper, Twerk, Richard Devine and Eight Frozen Modules. From its tastefully rendered cover down to its 'Autonomous Addicts' moniker, this first release from "promotion and production alliance" Designed Disorder is an almost textbook example of electronica-by-numbers. However before you click away, we're not saying this is necessarily a bad thing; just a tad on the predictable side. Kicking off with Deru's 'Blackboard' is a very good move mind, writhing away as it does with all manner of micro-sound detail and operatic machine soundscapes, before rupturing a spleen on the digital stomp of Eight Frozen Modules' 'Table Faith'. Elsewhere, Twerk goes for the 'analogue glimmer and serrated beats' look on 'Red Verticle', Logreybeam serves a platter of sighing electronica in the form of 'For Sophie', whilst Richard Devine gets AFX jiggy with a digital cross-breed on the Ronseal titled '808303'. ..

Bichi - Notwithstanding
Hobby Industries

Released on Thomas Knak's Hobby Industries label, 'Notwithstanding' sees the sometimes Blue Foundation member further refining the sound that surfaced so convincingly on his recent EP's. A bit like Telefon Tel Aviv sans the overwrought soul-searching, 'Notwithstanding' is largely instrumental, with Wilner taking in a commendably broad spectrum of styles ranging from the pitter-patter of 'As You Glimpsed The Line of My Shoulderblades', through to the grin-inducing swirl of digital delight that is opening track 'Layers of Generation Without Number'. When there are vocals, Wilner opts to bring in collaborators, with the breathy female tones of 'Whirl' thawing the clicking electronica perfectly, whilst elsewhere the lack of tacit human input renders splintered symphonies like 'Broken City' so delicious. A lovely listen; notwithstanding 'owt....

John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus Maclise / La Monte Young - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume 1 : Day Of Niagra (1965)
Table of the elements

Listening to 'Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara' you're likely to be struck with one unassailable thought; how on earth can this be 35 years old?! A single extended piece, 'Inside the Dream Syndicate...' is retrospectively credited as being one of the most important recordings to emerge from the mid-1960's, a product of the extraordinary sonic force conjured into being by John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. Essentially one fluctuating drone which is both softened and serrated by Cale and Conrad's conflicting violin styles, 'Day of Niagara...' will undoubtedly now take its place as a seminal reissue. ...

Tore Elgaroy - The Sound Of The Sun
Rune Grammofon

REISSUE. In our estimate the most personal and inventive Norwegian guitarist since Terje Rypdal. Tore Elgarøys career soared to great hights when he appeared on Lee Claytons comeback album and Europe tour in 89. After this he withdrew from the music scene, but started writing and recording some years ago, with a completely new approach. "The Sound of The Sun" is a mix of solo guitar pieces and improvised sound abstractions, all deeply personal, intense and unlike any "guitar" records we've heard. One of the top Norwegian guitarists out there. This CD mixes traditional guitar lickswith incredible sound abstractions resulting in one of the most unique guitar sounds around....

Blockhead - Downtown Science
Ninja Tune

After his stellar productions on Cage's 'Hell's Winter' it's back to the downtempo hip hop instrumentalism for Blockhead. Deeply emotional setting that shows a softer side compared to his work with Aesop et all. Altered familiar samples fuse with this drums and textures making this a rewarding downtempo set that while it dos'nt make a giant steps forward compared to 'Music By Cavelight' it still stands up in it's own right. CD version comes complete with a 188 min DVD made up of competition winning footage that surrounded the release of 'Music By Cavelight' all featuring the music of Blockhead. 1 2 check!...

Malcom Kipe - Lit
Merck

Malcom Kipe makes mealy instrumental hip-hop, further fermented throughout by the odd vocal sample or electronic squiggle. Simple as that. As long as you're not heading into 'Lit' expecting any blinding bouts of sonic innovation, then you'll likely be cosily seduced by Hipe's rich beats and half-glanced vocals in a RJD2/Blockhead/Mo'Wax-stylee. Otherwise engaged as Planet Mu's Nautilis, Hipe certainly knows his organic beat onions; with tracks like 'Off The Joint' and 'Planet of the Rats' consummately straddling the line between sinister and head-nodding so as to appeal well beyond the bong and baggy jeans brigade. Massaging in nods to everyone from Morodor through to bollywood, 'Lit' is full-fat breaks done well. Literally......

Eric Malmberg - Den Gatfulla Manmiskan
Hapna

When you think of organ music, what do you see? Church? Blackpool? Well maybe it's time for these outdated stereotypes to get gone, especially in light of ex-Sagor & Swing bloke, Eric Malmerg's new album. Displaying a certifiable Hammond fetish, Malmberg has produced an utterly beguiling record comprised of nothing but organ. 100% pure, guaranteed. Rather than become a one-trick pony, Malmberg somehow coaxes a smorgasbord of sounds from the organ, relishing in his key tickling necromancy as you scratch your head wondering how he did it without a synth. This record will exceed your expectations, and that's not to damn with feint praise, whilst you repeatedly exclaim "how the hell can that be a bloody organ?". If you like the interlude bits on Boars of Canada albums - give this a listen immediately....

Various / Pingipung - Pingipung Plays : The Piano
Pingipung

As I'm sure you well know, 2005 has undoubtedly been the year of piano music, and seemingly the chatty folk over at Pingipung agree. Featuring a veritable gourmet buffet of ivory botherers, 'Pinipung Plays The Piano' includes contributions from Barbara Morgenstern & Robert Lippok, Hauschka, Lawrence, Thaddi and Coloma, plus a shitload more. Skipping along the whole spectrum of piano based output, Pinipung wisely choose to open through the tarnished grandeur of Lawrence and 'Two Minutes in August'; wherein flushed melodies quietly compete to reach the full-fat finale first. Its glorious stuff. In direct contrast to this is the following glitch, rattle and hum from Nils Frahm's ('Durton'), a claustrophobic affair that again breaks free for a noir tinged close that crackles with intent. Elsewhere, Hauschka make some of the most beautiful noise imaginable, Florian Grote invokes images of bleak moor lands through her pounding key work, whilst Thaddi Herrmann closes proceedings with the shimmering loveliness of 'Three Difficult Words'. Makes you wish you'd kept up the piano lessons......

Dirty Three - Cinder
Bella Union

First things first; this record is utterly lovely! An Aussie trio of dust-rockers, Dirty Three make the kind of effervescent music that Mogwai use to buffer the bellicose guitar bits, liberally doused in heart-ache strings and chiming melodies that cant help but evoke some teary-eyed wonder. Standing at a whopping 19 tracks, 'Cinder' is not readily divided into separate strands, with the Dirty Three seemingly intent on presenting the album as a single, cohesive piece. Yet whilst this could have easily descended into an overblown bout of studio time, Warren Ellis, Mick Tuner and Jim White craft fluttering compositions from their traditional oeuvre; with an effect not dissimilar to avant-inclined contemporary chamber music. Dusted throughout by a significant Celtic-influence, 'Cinder' is gorgeous and swelling post-rock writ wonderfully tender through Dirty Three's obvious passion and acute musical accomplishment....

Animal Collective - Feels
Fat Cat

Half a decade in and Animal Collective still seem to have a grade-A supply of unfettered POP. The lucky bastards. Literally bursting at the seams with infuriatingly catchy hooks, the now four-piece Animal Collective are capable of conjuring an epic chorus or towering build-up from a seemingly scant palate, then moulding it into compositions that would engage readers of Smash Hits and Mojo alike. Opening with 'Did You See the Words', Animal Collective take the non-Waco bollocks of the Polyphonic Spree, lace through some psychedelic swerves then bring to boil with a 20-foot tall, balls-to-the-wall chorus. Ouch. Elsewhere, 'The Purple Bottle' is high-speed glam-folk, 'Banshee Beat' is a quivering waterlogged composition laid out bare, whilst 'Turn Into Something' is a sugar-rush of high-octane pop. Animal magic....

Dawn Smithson - Safer Here
Kranky

For all those who have been alerted to the considerable talent of Ms Smithson through her recent SunnO))) collaboration, 'Safer Here' might come as something of a shock... Fragile whilst stainless steel strong, Dawn Smithson makes friably delicate music that could soundtrack a whole lifetime of heartache. In possession of the kind of candid vocal style that makes it seem she is singing just for you, Smithson is comparable to the likes of Emiliana Torrini, Mara Carlyle and Petra Jean Phillipson in both her muted intensity and ear-syrup tones. Drafting in Rex Ritter (Fontanelle, SunnO)))) David Farrell (Southerning, Dormant) and Jussi Brightmore (100 Pets, Baron Samedi) for disparate backing duties, Dawn Smithson weaves a quixotic web of intermingling vocals and instrumentation; with neither bleaching out the potent force of the other. With particular highlights including the title track, 'Nowhere Near' and 'How Thoughtless', Smithson has added a formidable asset to Kranky's already blemishless catalogue....

Desormais - Dead Letters To Lost Friends
Intr-Version

Two years on from their rainbow-fractured last album 'I Am Broken And Remade I Am Broken', Mitchell Akiyama and Tony Boggs (aka Joshua Treble) are back in their Desormais uniform; cherry picking elements from that past outing, whilst introducing a whole fleet of new sounds and influences. Opening with the sublime 'Hell'n Ohio', Desormais ferment glitchy breaks with streaming bursts of gorgeous instrumentation to achieve a sound that hints at Constellation; albeit injected with some serious sonic clout. Moving on from this, 'Walk To The Hotel Alone' shares a great deal with Hanne Hukkelberg's 'Cast Anchor', fusing water-logged intricacy with a thrumming heart of solipsism, whilst 'Salt Eyes Fuck Yeah' is a scalpel symphony for the microscopic generation. Kicking out ideas with an alarming rapidity, other highlights include the organ ruptured 'One Or Many Wolves' (with an Arcade Fire beat), the static couched elegance of 'I Wore Water Wings But The Chlorine Still Stings' and the Oval-meets-lush instrumentation of 'If People Could Fly They'd Likely Have Talons'. Gorgeous....

Tellaro - Setback On The Right Track
2nd Rec

Whilst Sicily undoubtedly has a plethora of charms, the city of Catania is certainly not one of them. That Tellaro (aka Francesco Cantone, Carmelo Sciuto and Tazio Iabobacci) have managed to record such a beautiful album amongst this urban planning nightmare is therefore worthy of all the more acclaim. Having treated Tellaro as a side-project for the past few years, Cantone, Carmelo and Iabobacci finally got round to recording a full album; a twelve-month process which was conducted in the most informal fashion imaginable in order to capture a relaxed and sequestered sound. Opening with '1985' you immediately know you're onto a winner, as a glitchy template is fleshed out by supine strings and emotionally fired vocals, resulting in a sound broadly comparable to that of Junior Boys. With a seemingly limitless supply of scope, Tellaro then go onto to cement this early promise through the Roman-esque disco wriggle of 'Terracotta', bruised acoustica of 'Me Not The Reason To' and the honkytonkindietronica (you heard!) of 'Urge In A Funeral'. Closing through the panegyrically fragile '57.000', you can't help but think Tellaro have been on the right track all along. ..

The Montgolfier Brothers - All My Bad Thoughts
Vespertine & Son

If you're in the market for something to soundtrack the dark evenings and greasy pavements of Autumn, you could do a lot worse than invest in The Montgolfier Brothers' (aka Mark Tranmer and Roger Quigley) latest album. Having stated their intent on 1999's 'Seventeen Stars' and 2002's 'The World Is Flat', 'All My Bad Thoughts' is a chastened record of beautiful candour; realised through delicate acoustic guitar and apple-throated vocals. Genuinely uplifting in its wistful view of the world, 'All My Bad Thoughts' opens on the love-clotted 'The First Rumours of Spring', wherein the Brothers are oddly reminiscant of The Smiths whilst overtly sounding nothing like them... It could be an atmosphere thing grounded in their shared Salford geneology, or maybe not; but whatever it is, it's proper lovely. Elsewhere, the title track has a piano part which is pure-Nyman whilst also recalling Michel Legrand, 'Koffee Pot' is a swelling masterclass in reflective songwriting, whilst 'Journeys End' is made to stare out of a train window to. Not a bad thought in there. ..

Icalma - Bun O Und
Telescopic

If you were to draw a diagram with crystal-clean electronica at one end and scuffed post-rock at the other, Icalma could be used to pin-point the exact centre. Honest! The coming together of Parisian born (but Chilean by choice) Philippe Boiser and vocalist Armelle Pioline (think a female, Southern Hemisphere version of the Sigur Ros front man), Icalma firmly keep their more esoteric urges to the fringe as they pursue leftfield pop gold. So whilst 'Rose' plumps for Radiohead bass, lazy scratching and muted vocals, and 'Ça C'est Hier Soir' wears its Broadcast/Stereolab pin-badges with pride, it is 'Tourbillion Spatial' that best summarises their sound. Opening with icytronica, the digital tundra is slowly thawed by an encroaching shrug of revolving guitars and hypnotic melodies that can't help but invoke a sweaty, jungle feel. Calm down! ..

Donna Regina - Slow Killer
Karaoke Kalk

Listening to Donna Regina's 'Slow Killer' (their first release since 2003's 'Late') you're likely to be struck with a charming sense of deja-vu. Although in no way derivative, the three piece are criminally adept at cherry picking elements from their own back catalogue, then fusing them in a flurry of creativity to create an entirely new beast. Album opener 'Little Baby' is a case in point, with their shuffling analogue/instrumentation giving the nod to Mum, The Cocteau Twins and Nobody on their way past. Bestowed with a beautifully ethereal voice, Donna Regina has a hushed sense of pathos that permeates through even the most overtly cheerful songs. That said, 'Slow Killer' is joyously upbeat despite it's well worn melancholy, with the soaring strings of 'Little Baby' or clunky charm of 'End of September' as infectious as bird flu. Elsewhere, 'Lazy Heart' is neon-pink electro pop from the same mould as St. Etienne, 'How Beautiful' is an acoustic breath of fresh air, whilst the title track closes with crusty beats and delicate xylophones very much in the style of Psapp. Killer sans filler, the return of one of our most beloved bands....

# posted by DJ Martian 11:32 PM

 

New Releases @ Boomkat: Week Commencing October 10th 2005

New releases @ Boomkat [via email newsletter] include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Midaircondo - Shopping For Images
Type

For a label that has raised the bar to such dizzying heights, it would be more than reasonable to presume that the exquisite and lambent folk over at Type are about due for a dud release. If so, Midaircondo is most certainly not it... times by 100. A Swedish trio (Lisa Nordström, Lisen Rylander and Malin Dahlström) who combine their consummate skills in electro-acoustic music with a sapient understanding of well honed improvisation, Midaircondo have delivered a fascinating and nuanced record which comes across like a Sandro Botticelli for the ears. Whilst most artists whose oeuvre falls within the electronic remit tend to approach the stage with some trepidation as they seek to convert their recorded work into a live proposition, Midaircondo tackled this quandary from the opposite direction; lending a friable sense of spontaneity and majestic evolution to the album. Opening with 'Eva Stern, Shake It', Midaircondo coax a carbonated saxophone out into the open before bewitching it with some heart-soaked vocals that bring to mind both Piana and Mum, swiftly followed by the water-logged double bass and electronic creases of 'Could You Please Stop'. Sounding not unlike Bjork, Hanne Hukkelberg, Psapp or Catrina Pratter, 'Could You Please Stop' is an insistent little bugger than drills deep into your soul and snags whatever it is that makes music so indispensable and nourishing; in short, it's a rimy masterpiece. Elsewhere, 'Serenade' is the kind of overwrought piano led composition that would get to number one in a just universe, 'Perfect Spot' is a fidgety electronic love-song, writ sun-rise tall through its rousing multi-vocal peaks, whilst the lazy fuzz and accordion of 'Faces' suggest stumbling upon a portmanteau radio broadcast from an unknown source. S.t.u.n.n.i.n.g....

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Audion - Suckfish
Spectral

After three brutally stripped, jacking twelves the man Matthew Dear finally unleashes his debut album "Suckfish" under the Audion moniker - the most piercing, crucial release from the Spectral camp yet. The cd edition features all three title tracks from these twelves "Kissing", "The Pong" and "Just Fucking", while the double vinyl edition makes up the numbers with two totally exclusive cuts "Chance" and "New J". What with minimalism being the new cool and all that, Dear manages to construct the fullest warehouse destroyers wiith the barest set of ingredients at his disposal - shuffling into life with a threadbare crush of metalic clunks, quasi-acid modulations and flailing strobe-lit preset-mashing sequences that are almost unbareably honed for full, abandoned effect. This is a charged, hedonistic set of after-hours tackle that's dark without resorting to high drama, frenzied without the hyperactive sauce and spacious without leaving any gaps. Wanted unadulterated club killers?? Look no further....


Loden - Valeen Hope
Eat This

Feel like the stress of modern life is wearing you down? Then why not try 'Valeen Hope', brought to you exclusively from the Loden Corporation and guaranteed to sooth away those SAD blues. In a rambling and incoherent kind of way we're trying to convey the beatific qualities of this gorgeous new album, combining as it does the precision of Bola or EU, the cloudburst intensity of Sigur Ros or Slowdive and the impression of depth afforded by Ulrich Schnauss. Opening with (In), Loden (aka a Dutch bloke whose name escapes us) conjures an airy and burnished breed of electronica that is peppered by effulgent peaks and shallow troughs. 'Valeen Hope' certainly doesn't contain many surprises, but in its depiction of thawed yet icytronica, Loden has wisely traded sonic invention for innate charm and sunblushed electronic treatise. Manifesting itself as grandstanding synths a-go-go and otherworldly vocals on the tarnished grandeur of 'Our Exploding Lives', warm beat fractured acoustica on 'Sugar Tea' and the shoegazing buoyancy of the title track, Loden is the electronic equivalent of a much needed sigh. Lovely....

Kero - Kerologistics
Neo Ouija

Ghostly International, B-pitch control, Shitkatapult, Detroit Underground and now Neo Ouija... Kero's (aka Sohail Azad) previous label appearances read like a prospective artists demo mailing-list. Festooned in pixel-art packaging, Kero is a musician who likes to see his output validly regarded in contemporary art circles, extolling the importance of video feeds and graphic design alongside the aural business. Or something. Anyhow; to his music... With a core of manicured digitalis, Kero then corrupts the neatness with chunks of less polite noise, which slowly reconfigure the whole. A good example of this is the chrome electro beats and analogue kaleidoscope of 'Chillin', which, through a series of incremental 808 somersaults and buckshot's of grubby electronica, mutates into a spasming (but still highly rhythmical) beast. Similarly, 'Wherethefukisd3' kicks off like a sweeping film-noir soundtrack before crumbling under a spiky beat-fed onslaught. Elsewhere' 'T34g feat. MC Marco" belies his Detroit roots (albeit given a dub-step twist), '3.21' could almost (ALMOST) be a juniper scented electronica artist in the mould of Praveen, whilst 'Finalname-2' is IDM given a kick up the arse. Ace....

Marconi Union - [Distance]
ALL SAINTS

Manchester's Marconi Union have for the last few years been making waves in the world of melodious electronics filtered through numerous influences from 70's classic ambience and krautrock to current day genre hopping microharmonics ala Robert Lippok. '[Distance]' follows up the criminally slept on Ochre debut 'Under Wires and Searchlights'. They manage to bring to mind the likes of Pan American and even Ulrich Schnauss without ever openly copying anyone, some tracks even hit a post rock techno stance, as weird as it sounds it's amazingly realised. Their sign off 'A Temporary Life' brings Bohren and Der Club Of Gore / Angelo Badelamanti to mind via the long saxophone tones. Elsewhere emotions kept mostly under wraps, only hinted at, a distanced look at things misunderstood. Operating on electronics with added guitar, keyboards, and hefty bass that is currently playing havoc with my office blinds. Signed to All Saints via the godlike Brian Eno who has since asked Marconi Union to oversee remastering his back catalogue, trust like that doesnt come along everyday. Please check this album out without further delay, a true find. Very highly recommended....

Carlos Giffoni - Welcome Home
Important

When an artist can legitimately be referred to as "the experimentalists' experimentalist", you just know you're in for an ear-bending album of sonic peculiarities. Sharing many a stage and writing credit with the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, John Duncan, Massimo and Thurson Moore, Carlos Giffoni has been lurking around the avant underbelly of NYC for some years now, finally getting his considerable shit together on 'Welcome Home'; his much anticipated debut. As any silicon geek knows; it ain't worth f*ck all if you didn't build it yourself, and Giffoni is a committed chip monkey, assembling his own custom specified electronics for this 3 years in the making LP. In a pithy phrase, 'Welcome Home' could probably be labeled 'microsound Armageddon', but that would be doing it a severe disservice. Clocking in at nearly 50 minutes, Giffoni crafts intricately rendered machine noise that ranges from Space Invader beeps (albeit jack hammered into submission) through to pugnacious modem emissions that whilst certainly intense, err consistently on the right side of bearable. By no means easy listening, 'Welcome Home' is an intelligent but uncompromising document that demands your ears....

Jon Balke - Batagraf
ECM

Referring to themselves as a 'private research forum' (the Newspeak-esque term for 'band' we presume...), Batagraf was formed by percussionist Jon Balke and four of his buddies (including the quite wonderful Arve Henriksen!) to explore the rhythmical possibilities presented by "bypassing the metric, rigid grooves of the computer age" and instead embracing the "poetry and fluidity" inherent in rhythm. Drawing particularly on the West African traditions of the Bata drummers (the ability to recite poems, prayers and sermons literally through their percussion and intermingled linguistic fragments), Batagraf set about recording a counterpoint to the Iraq conflict that was being waged both by troops and the increasingly curtailed media; an approach which has yielded some gleefully indulgent results. Opening with Miki N Doye's text recital in Wolof, Batagraf weave a hypnotic web of percussive elements on the incendiary 'Haomanna', a trick they repeat throughout the album. So whilst 'Doublespeak' uses its bursts of vocab to highlight the contradictions of the mass media in dealing with political regimes and 'Whistleblower' literally puts its lips together and, well, blows, the real star of the album is always the flexing rhythms. Snapping between sinewy beats one moment and a cascade of plosives the next, Batagraf are wholly successful in reframing the rhythm as a framework for the wider world of sound in which we live. If that sounds pretentious, so be it!...

Rosamunde Quartett - String Quartets
ECM

Born in 1939 Beirut to Armenian parents, Tigran Mansurian (who looks alarmingly like Kevin Eldon) gave up his teaching role of over 30 years at Komitas-State Conservatory to concentrate fully on the composing and performance of music. Released alongside a booklet so extensive you expect it to have an ISBN number, Mansurian's compositions are here wrought into a highly evocative clutch of chamber music by the internationally renowned (or so I'm told...) Rosamunde Quartett. Supervised throughout recording by Mansurian himself, pieces like the imaginatively titled 'String Quartet No. 1' and 'String Quartet No. 2' are steeped in the structures of ancient Armenian music but rendered in the compositional methods of contemporary European orchestral work. Likely to appeal to fans of Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina and André Volkonsky, 'String Quartets' is a highly accessible album of beautiful string music....

Ni Hao! - Gorgeous
Tzadik

Proving that John Zorn has a Japanese obsession to rival that of Arthur Waley the latest release to join the likes of the Boredoms, Afrirampo, OOIOO and Omoide Hatoba on his much loved Tzadik imprint is the Kansai based Ni Hao! As appealingly bonkers as you've come to expect, 'Gorgeous' is a three-way affair between guitar, bass and drums, with the trio all taking on vocal detail. Opening with 'Laila', Ni Hao! caress traditional chord structures then bend them out of shape around spiralling loops of percussion and gamma burst vocals. At times coming across like a bout of Leishmaniasis for the ears, 'Gorgeous' nonetheless coats everything in a Brian Wilson-esque creosote of soaring melodies and song-writing skill, that allows the music to turn inside out without ever sacrificing the listener to unpalatable demise on the altar of clever-clogvicticus. If you ever wished Melt Banana would tone it down and include some more ear friendly melodies, then Ni Hao! are the girls for you....

Canyon Country - There's A Forest In The Fire
Attack Nine

Debut solo outing for The Surf the Sundried and Freescha's Nick Huntington, here donning his ten gallon hat and riding into the sunset as Canyon Country. With the spectra of Kevin Shields, Slowdive and Mogwai lurking amongst the dust-devils, 'There's a Forest In The Fire' opens with the lovely piano/guitars and echo-echo-echo chamber of 'Rusted'; a song which possesses a scope worthy of Marlowe as it leads you down a meandering post-rock flanked shoe-gazing avenue. A significant departure from Huntingdon's previous work, songs such as 'Setting Sun', 'Without A Sound' and 'Still...Sleeping' combine an attuned sense of fragile songwriting with the kind of vista expanding scope of Sigur Ros or My Bloody Valentine, ebbing between purely instrumental one moment and Elliot Smith-style vocal transparency the next. A grand musical gesture that doesn't feel either overblown or emotionally naïve, 'There's A Forest In The Fire' is a real surprise so lovely you might just take it to bed. Perverts....

Greg Davis And Sebastien Roux - Paquet Surprise
Car Park

Greg Davis' reputation needs no extra hyping here, whats noticable is how much he thrives on collaboration whether with his long time friend Keith Whitman, newer artists such as Steven Hess and even more via his Autumn Leaves cdr series. Now add to that Sebastian Roux, star of 12k's e/a/d/g/b/e and of course the amazing Apestaartje CD 'Pillow'. From the nature burst reflected by the hyper artwork, only the Goodiepal gets that insane, its obvious field recordings will make up a big part of this album. Gorgeous drones meet sharp attacks, evoking the natural world and the mechanised. Grit and fluidity, a perfectly realised meeting of found sound and ramshackle instrumentation. It could easily be a tribute to Luc Ferrari. In places cinematic images crop up, especially those of a David Lynchian bent. Scattered emotions surface throughout, in places similar to the wonderful Mountains CD. All else to say is check the samples and if you like, buy! Goodnight and sleep tight....

Bellini - Small Stones
Temporary Residence

Bellini are relatively famous (and I caution you against taking that 'relatively' as anything other than a gross over-exaggeration) for having their band leader and "notorious troublemaker" Damon Che quit live on stage in Athens, GA, stranding the Italio rockers on the wrong side of the Atlantic sans airline tickets. Labelled as their 'triumphant comeback', 'Small Stones' is Bellini's second full-length and the first to feature Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys, Soulside) on drums. Recorded in a studio which appears to have contained Steve Albini in some capacity, Bellini took just 5 days to complete; a rapidity which lends the album a tenebrous quality. Distilling elements of post-rock, punk-rock, The Stooges, Billy Corgan, Melt Banana, Sonic Youth and all manner of leather trousered cliché's down into manageable chunks, songs like 'Room Number Five', 'Smiling Fear' and (in particular) 'The Exact Distance to The Stars', horripilate (look it up) with an attitude often lacking in today's shiny Kerrang sanitized rock scene. Bolstered by a fantastic vocalist in the shape of Giovanna Cacciola, Bellini are big, clever and (most importantly) feverishly contagious. See you at Donnington....

Adult - Gimmie Trouble
Thrill Jockey

The songs on Gimmie Trouble are the work of three months of isolation and toil by the band, recorded and mixed in just two weeks between the US and European tours for D.U.M.E. "This time limit worked to our advantage, as we wanted the record to have a very immediate punch and to not sound overly labored", "I really wanted to write a Devo Freedom of Choice album insofar as I wanted something that was shorter songs that got to the point and constantly kept the pace moving. Most of the music and vocals on this album are single takes, most made within a few tries. We felt this was important for the sense we wanted this record to convey."...

1-SPEED BIKE - Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier In Your 50's
Broklyn Beats

Harking from what is now officially one of the nicest cities to live on Earth (no not Hull, Montreal), I-Speed Bike is the solo project from God Speed You Black Emperor's Aidan Girt. Whilst being the bloke at the back of the stage battering the skins certainly has its advantages, a big draw back tends to be the disdain any kind of solo work inevitably garners (don't think we didn't hear you muttering Phil Collins!). Yet rather than a soft-soap of MOR ballads, 'Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier in Your 50's' is a crazy leg beat buffet, with Girt's live drumming sliced and diced in a sampler then sprayed over acutely rendered ska, dub, raga, jungle, breakcore, hip-hop and what sounds hauntingly like the Minder theme-tune (the charmingly titled 'If You Were A McDonalds Your Lips Would Be An Orange Soda, But Your Dick Would Be A Shrivelled-Up Fry'). Originally conceived as a sound-system project, Girt uses beats from his day job to underpin the oft political manifesto he rallies throughout (to summarise; f*ck Bush), whilst the liner notes contain an oddly touching description of being a teenager during the Reagan years and dropping acid with WW2 veterans. Honestly. A bit like a one-man band being chased by lions, if you like Kid606 and his Duran Duran Duran homies, then 1-Speed Bike will be right up your 1-Way street....

Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting
Sonig

Following on from his 'Lady Fantasy' EP, the new album from ex-Donna Summer (not her) Jason Forrest is an ADD shot of pure (not made from concentrate) sample-f*cked breakcore, which takes equal cues from the likes of Kid606 and Duran Duran Duran as it does the now death-mask genre of bootlegs/mash-ups (delete as you see fit). Not half as sensory-baiting as you may expect, 'Shamelessly Exciting' represents a significant maturing of Forrest's sound, with the Kate Rogers-esque 'Nightclothes and Headphones' a case in point. Over a thrumming breeze of acoustica and the odd sonic squiggle, guest vocalist Laura Cantrell puts in a performance that wouldn't look out of place on any number of 'chill-out' albums, albeit without the soporific sense of aural gruel they tend to invoke. Elsewhere 'My 36 Favourite Punk Songs' is a Ronseal ram-raid of (yep) 36 sliced and diced punk staples (ranging from The Clash through to The Misfits), 'Dust Never Settles' is prog-breakcore (!) replete with its very own Boston sample, whilst 'War Photographer' is a guitar wielding BEHEMOUTH shot through by bongos and breaks. Structured like a pop record, 'Shamelessly Exciting' can at times sound like Lemon Jelly dabbling in a bit of breakcore, but for such an ambitious project Forrest has pulled an A-Grade blinder....

Isolee - Rest (Remastered Edition)
Playhouse

Absolutely classic first album from Isolee remastered, repackaged and finally available again! After 6 singles on Playhouse (the massive Beau Mot Plage, being one of them) came Isolee's debut album `Rest', way back in the year 2000. The cd tracklsiting features : 1 Logiciel 2 Démon 3 Keep On Dancin' 4 Rest 5 Text 6 Rest Encore 7 Music... 8 Beau Mot Plage 9 Djamel Et Jamshid 10 Gallus 11 Alleinunterhalter 12 Tout Se Complique 13 I Owe You. Classic!...

Various / Freude-Am-Tanzen - Compilation 01
Freude-Am-Tanzen

Freude am Tanzen have already redefined themselves a couple of times, so its long overdue that the venture onto cd has occurred. All the main players are here and in actual fact all their biggest tunes. "Bodyrock", "Pele Bloss" and "Bobb" from Robag Wruhme and the Wighnomy Brothers have been almost ever-present on cultural dancefloors over the last couple years. Dj Koze, well what else do you need to say really - his Kompakt album has been running tings round these parts over the last couple of weeks, and his two comparatively undiscovered FAT gems are ripe for rediscovery. Hamman and Kadan too have delivered strictly killers for this label, we last heard Vaganza out when one of the CCO dj's ran it during Futuresonic and it hasn't left our head since. Eleven winners then, no filler - deepest house vibrations all the way - four four 4 life....

Andrey Dergatchev - The Return Ost
ECM

The soundtrack to Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2003 film 'The Return' (winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award) is a genuinely haunting and evocative piece which suits the encroaching shuffle of autumn perfectly. Composed and collated by Andrey Dergatchev, 'The Return' draws on a number of sources and influences in order to achieve its chastened and sober sound. With obvious debts payed to William Basinski and the John's Cage and Zorn, Dergatchev weaves a sequestered accompaniment that can more than be enjoyed in autonomy from the silver screen. At times nothing more than field recordings overlaid by the actors' Russian dialogue ('Shorty') or dusty piano draped across a shimmering back drop ('The Road'), Dergatchev is a master at allowing music to unfurl in the most gradual of fashions imaginable; the almost choral vocals and tundra soundscapes of 'In The Bedroom' being a perfect example. Dusted in pathos throughout, 'The Return' (accompanied by a photo-laden booklet) is a stunning piece of work that engages on multiple levels, the most obvious of which being its heart wrenching and profound beauty....

# posted by DJ Martian 10:27 PM

 

New Releases @ Boomkat: Week Comencing October 3rd

Time to recap on recent releases @ Boomkat.

New releases @ Boomkat [via email newsletter] include:

ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost
Kompakt

When your press release is waxing hyperbolic with proclamations of the "without exaggeration that we are amongst a true virtuoso of our time"-variety and suggesting your new album will leave people "reeking of great sex" (or Lynx Africa as it's known in some parts), you better have yon skills to pay yon bills. Thankfully Kompakt prove they intuitively know their onions. As one half of the awesome Closer Musik duo (alongside Dirk Leyers) whose brief starburst of creativity reaped some serious rewards, Matias Aguayo has delivered an album creaking under the weight of effectuately realised ideas. Opening with the sleazy disco frug of 'De Papal' (imagine if Michael Jackson was a Berlin based Chilean, just coming of musical age through the ketamine enriched avenues of electro), Aguayo then reduces the boil for some Villalobos/Larkins/Moroder indebted machine funk on 'Radiotaxi' and 'Drums & Feathers'. Elsewhere, 'Well' is a brooding slab of crafty crosswire pop, grafting Kylie and coldwater-synths onto Aguayo's semi-threatening croon, 'So In Love' is the kind of sweaty (hypno) disco that'll have Trevor Jackson in palpitations till Christmas, whilst bonus track 'De Papel' is a Max Turner guesting sliver of Euro-hop. If, like us, you thought Isolee's new album was beautifully fresh and gleefully exotic in all the right places - this album is tailor-made for you. Buy!...

Metamatics - 3 Jak And Dive
Hydrogen Dukebox

You wait all this time for a new album from Lee Norris....and you get two in one week! Sitting alongside Norken's fabulously rich dancefloor variations, this is in fact the sixth Metamatics album and the first in, ohhh, a good while. Despite utilising so many familiar conceits : the slightly broken edge of the percussion, the skewed melodies, the warm pad of the basslines, the electronic voice modulation - Norris somehow always manages to sound completely unlike any of his contemporaries. Its always been a thing of wonderment - how this man manages sound so individual ever since his tantalising origin as one of the Clear label's original lineup of electronic hoodlums. "3 Jak and Dive" (featuring the collaboration with longtime Metamatics hero John Foxx) is beautifully warm and open, rich textured melodies and a reassuring buzz of a well worn studio, handled by a controller not inclined to fall back on overused plug-ins or presets. Ranging from slow, lilting electronic listening music through to a Detroit-tinged glide through 4/4 - this is a must-have purchase for all followers of electronic music at its most inviting. Highly Recommended....

Norken - Our Memories Of Winter
Combination

Lee Norris has a work rate to rival that of Hans Sachs; fact. As well as running the ethereal Neo Ouija, recording as both Metamatics (see his recent collaboration with John Fox and new album - also released this week!) and Nacht Plant, Norris also manages to squeeze into his tights and don the Norken persona from time to time. It makes me sick! However any envy fuelled animosity is soon left to desiccate on the vine when the music contained within 'Our Memories of Winter' begins to leak down your lugholes. It's proper lovely. Informed by equal measures of IDM, Detroit minimalism, Basic Channel and a lambent glaze of beatific strings and squinted vocals, songs like opener 'Fern 2' and 'Memories' are akin to John Milton's epic tracts reimagined as music. In other words; it's pretty f*cking stunning. Bringing to mind images of fog heavy tundra (an atmosphere further encouraged by the cover art), Norris' various personas can be seen coalescing on 'It Might Have Been Rain' and 'Flirt'; with a serious breed of (listenable!) experimentalism getting busy with the more house dipped side of the Norken oeuvre. Analogous with Tejada's 'Logic Memory Center' and released on Combination Records (a subsidiary of Carharrt clothing apparently), 'Our Memories of Winter' will ensure that any reminiscing about frantically trying to defrost your windscreen will have a barnstorming soundtrack....

Modeselektor - Hello Mom
Bpitch Control

Good things come to those who wait...; well, you've waited and this is ten shades of f*cking brilliance. With four genuinely priceless EP's under their belts and the fantastically discordant Boomkat bastardisedmegamix, Modeselektor can lay claim to having caused a stir in the electronic by-ways that is entirely spontaneous, utterly justified and now, with their debut LP 'Hello Mum!' consummately realised. The product of Berlin's writhing digital underbelly, Modeselektor have somehow managed to distill that cities uniquely skewed attitude into an LP of genre-bending aural nourishment. Opening with the euro-crunk masterpiece of 'Dancing Box-Mdslktr', Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary (aka Modeselektor) expunge any remnants of Lil John (yeahhhhhhhh!) with a scalpel-chic vocal from Big Dada's TTC, wherein pink-rubber beats bounce around a shattered electronic ballroom to arse clenching effect. So where can you possibly go from here then? Headfirst into 'Die Club Nr.', that's where. Based around a speaker popping electro beat that chafes fabulously against the jacked oscillators, 'Die Club Nr.' Is made all the more irascible when placed into contrast by 'Tetris Pack' and it's mental scratches, plodding rhythm and 8-bit melodies. Elsewhere, the P Diddy (or is it Diddy Pop now?!) inspired 'Vote Or Die' is a vista-expanding Radiophonic jaunt through tormented, razor-edged electronica, 'Kill Bill Vol. 4' is feet slaughtering elektro-fucked rave, whilst 'Silikon-Mdslktr' Feat.Sacha Perera is a M.I.A.-esque crackle of continental grime. Oh yes! Add a totally immense collaboration with Paul St Hilaire (aka Tikiman) and a closing moment that shimmers with rectitude on the Mum dedicated 'I Love You', Modeselektor have crafted a function disrupting album of unmitigated brilliance. Don't make us tell you twice....

Skalpel - Konfusion
Ninja Tune

Adopting the UNKLE approach to lexicography, Skalpel release 'Konfusion' having enjoyed a remix royalty bonanza from their eponymous debut LP's honey-trap of source material (many of which are included on a special edition bonus disk). Taking a similar approach to DJ Vadim, Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo plunder the rich jazz-tinged heritage of their Polish homeland and combine it with a consummate love of all things breaks to land a sound which revels in an after-hours, smoke imbued vibe. Ranging from the Herbaliser-esque Funk+Hammond excursions of 'Flying Officer' through to the Shadow delineated breaks of 'Test Drive', Skalpel are laid-back to the MAX; not once breaking into anything more strenuous than a stroll. If such slow-motion music is likely to aggravate, 'Konfusion' is certainly not for you, but if you can see the benefits of taking a breather from the bustle of 21st Century life, you might just enjoy the company. Over on the remix side, Amalgamation of Soundz take clotted atmospherics, towering strings and a hypnotic drum break then combine them in a noir-gilded package ('Low') before Jeremy Joshua follows with 'Break In (J's Remix)' clattering you to attention with a drum crunching intro worthy of Aesop Rock before mellowing out a tad to deliver a Röyksopp flavoured shot of pepped up, break laden electronica. Confused? You will be, you will be....

Free Fall - Amsterdam Funk
Smalltown Superjazzz

Recommended listening attire includes a cashmere jumper, comfy loafers and some seriously strokable chin growth. Oh yes; it's all the jazz clichés for this review. Formed back in 2001 by bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, reedist Ken Vandermark, and pianist Haavard Wiik, the Free Fall trio was initially brought into being as a creative outlet for the three protagonists to explore their respective talents in a percussion free environment (think Chamber music, without the 19th Century predilection). Their second full length record, 'Amsterdam Funk' sees Free Fall moving closer (in spirit at least) to the likes of Jimmy Giuffre and Steve Swallow, borrowing a sound that is both finely detailed without ever losing its inherent playfulness and spontaneity. Ranging in tone from the gorgeous (iambic structured?) piano work of 'November', through to the more avant flavoured excursions of 'Framework 3' and 'Mythologies', the Free Fall three manage to walk the line between improvised intent and inherent listenability with aplomb.. and that's good enough for me!...

Innerstance Beatbox - Your Eyes Are Like Ufo's My Darling
Consumers Research And Development Label

The solo accoutrement of Def Harmonic's Jason Todd, 'Your Eyes Are Like UFOs My Darling' is the second full-length fandango from Innerstance Beatbox. A serotonin inducing affair, 'Your Eyes...' happily rotates from blunderbuss bass, broken beats and RJD2 soul one moment ('Think Again') through to Vibert-style breakbeat ('Astor Street') and playground melodies vs.free jazz ('Theme From The Bastard Squad') the next. Assembled in a dexterous manner that reeks of ram-shackleness (whilst in actuality it's as finely honed as Prefuse), Innerstance Beatbox close with the vocoder/Space Invader ruckus of 'Helium Disco', leaving you with the pleasant impression of just having been mugged by a benevolent street-gang of boombap obsessed puppies. Honest guvnor!...

P-Love - ..All Up In Your Mind
Bully

Paolo Kapunan aka P-Love follows Mike Schof aka Elektro4 as one of the initial artists to drop their solo debut full lengths for the label of the year 2005, Bully. Round these parts our breath has been triple def baited in anticipation for this album to drop and it does not disappoint. Primarily known for his quirky and refreshing deejay skills, he is good mates with Kid Koala, this album shows that he's also the master of the sampler plus add to that trumpet, stylophone, guitar, drums and keyboards. This album really sounds like no other that I can recall, it has the fun factor you'd associate with Eric San plus the depth of Sixtoo's 'Duration'. Twelve tracks in 50 minutes really fly by (the limited vinyl version omits 'Palisades', find that if you can on FU014) there are no obvious stand out tracks as every track is awesome - some to mention are 'St-Viateur Shuffle (Part 2)' a sick midtempo breakbeat bomb, with downward spiraling melancholic horns, warm alien blips and some awesome beat cut up's, as dope as Mat Young's 'Illy Uno'. 'Four Inches Per Minutes On The DVP' has P-Love on live drums showing Illy B's influence has rubbed off on him - a mega chilled guitar, rhodes, turntable stroll perfect for those end of day moments when you finally switch off the head and let the good times flow. How good is 'Lâches Pas Les Études Gertrude'? this album just keeps it going on, 'Rockland County Dramatics Andante' is like the gorgeous interludes in 'Nufonia Must Fall' only even lusher, the '.... Allegro' version', jaw drops to the floor. I can't recommend this album highly enough. Style wise and content wise it might be miles apart from the Alpha Puppies Ricci Rucker and Mike Boo but it's no less a deejay essential. One you'll be returning to time and time again, treat yourself....

Christopher Bissonette - Periphery
Kranky

As a member of the "world renowned free media experimental unit" Thinkbox, Christopher Bissonnette is well versed in the ability to transform the mundane into the grandiloquent (word alert!); a talent he exudes by the bucket load on 'Periphery'. With 2005 shaping up to be an embarrassingly rich year in terms of delicately wrought, composer led music (pretty much anything on Type, Porn Sword Tobbaco, Marsen Jules, William Basinski... we could go on), Bissonnette nonetheless holds his own with 'Periphery' fluttering beautifully from the off. Described by the artist as sinuous, the digitally manipulated coalitions of orchestra, piano and micro-sound clicks do indeed spill forth with a very definite predilection, lending the likes of 'In Accordance' and 'Tenor Viol' a quality not unlike conscious smoke. Yeah, we're well aware that sounds like GCSE bollocks, but it's hard to know quite how to describe these utterly majestic micro symphonies. Likely to appeal to anyone who was bewitched by Wolfgang Voigt's "Gas", Marsen Jules and even Deathprod, or have found themselves increasingly drawn to their headphones of late, 'Periphery' is a florid gem of a record that deserves to be centre of attention. Marvellous....

Arvo Part - Lamentate
ECM

As anyone who has visited Tate Modern will testify (and that's just about everyman and his dog); the cavernous expanse of the Turbine Hall is akin to a secular Cathedral, with the object of adoration the intangible entity of 'art'. It therefore seems entirely fitting that Arvo Pärt was approached by artist Anish Kapoor to provide aural accompaniment for his immense 'Marsyas' sculpture which was commissioned as part of a series of instillations to fill this potentially all-consuming space. Having worked alongside the likes of Don Carlo Gesualdo and Hildegard von Bingen, Pärt has a keen understanding of the vastness of multi-layered music, and saw in Kapoor's breathtaking piece a similar intimidation in which the individual is dwarfed by "the pain and hopelessness of this world". If you're staring to flag at this point; don't, because the compositions coaxed from this potentially suffocating view-point are teeth-achingly poignant. Opening with a vast choir, Pärt then leads the listener through vaulted corridors of sublime grandiose (provided by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart), all the while providing a tangible focal point in the shape of Alexei Lubimov's solo piano. Fluid yet coarse and grand yet intimate, 'Lamenate' revels in stark contrasts that can't fail to impress as you buffet between moments of savage intensity and tracts of piquant precision. Amazing music from one of the most important composers of our age....

Murcof - Rememberanza
Leaf

When Fernando Coronoa's era-defining debut "Martes" was released a couple of years back it managed to gain plaudits and accolades from almost every end of the cultural spectrum - appearing at the top of numerous end-of-year lists (including our own) and even managing to get a slot on BBC2's revered/mocked (delete were applicable) Late Review programme. Of course, it was never going to be an easy album to follow, so it's reassuring to see that Murcof's sound has folded itself inwardly instead of attempting to straddle altogether different sounds. Taking orchestral structures and incorporating layers of thrumming instrumentation and mournful strings to top it all off, Murcof has sculpted a sound which is immediately recognisable as his own despite consisting of a well worn selection-box of elements. Instilling songs such as 'Recuerdos' and 'Rios' with the kind of grandstanding scope that normally require 10,000 strings and your local rent-a-philharmonic, Corona can seemingly conjure a tarnished grandeur from a muted collection of elements that include razor edged beats, lazy horns and crackling backwashes. Clinical but earthy, 'Remembranza' is a fiercely assured album which will enrapture his existing fans whilst winning over those new to his sound. Highly Recommended....

Sunn0))) - Black One
Southern Lord

As the nights begin to draw in, there's nothing better than a new Sunn 0))) record to get you in that bleak midwinter mood. The 6th expulsion from the Sunn 0))) camp, 'Black One' sees Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley getting even more desolate on your arse than you thought (in)humanly possible. Delving into their little (very) black book, Sunn 0))) have assembled an elite squad of doom-merchants to further ferment their claustrophobic drone founded vision, with the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Wrest, Malefic and John Wiese all donning their best cloaks and top hats for the role. Opening with 'Sin Nanna', Sunn 0))) immediately unsettle the listener through proper haunted-house soundscapes; wherein clouds of bellicose noise lap up around some seriously f*cked tape effects. Jolting you from this uneasily soporific state is the jarring metal (Earth indebted) riffs of 'It Took The Night To Believe', soon followed by spiraling walls of white noise and tortured soul/animalistic wails. James Blunt this ain't. Similarly, 'Cursed Realms (Of The Winterdemons)' takes its cues from the very darkest of medieval torture chambers, with a crushingly dense sound carved from dissonant drenched granite, whilst 'CandleGoat' has all the grace of a ballerina in its horrifying barrage of subterranean guitars and throat bleeding vocals. Closing with 'Bathory Erzsebet', a song that was achieved by loading a casket into a Cadillac Hearse, and locking Malefic inside with only a microphone and a severe sense of claustrophobia, Sunn0))) have once again proved they are the genuine , shit-scary kings of darkness. Now bow down suckas!...

The Young Gods - Xxy : 1985 - 2005
Pias
2CD

Right let's get this out of the way immediately; yes the new track 'Secret' on this career retrospective sounds a little too much like a Dakar and Grinser cover of a Britpop megamix (I'm rather worryingly thinking Skunk Anansie if you must know), but it's a minor indiscretion we'll let slip on this occasion. Won't we? A limited edition double-disc retrospective, it's testament to The Young Gods obvious vision that much of the music on 'XX Years' sounds like it's significantly younger than any band who was awarded the 'Best Album 0f 1987' by Melody Maker should. With a sound that suggests Trent Reznor has likely got an extensive chunk of their back catalogue nestling in his LA mansion (and, more recently, T.Raumschmiere), XX Years make rock music that has its roots firmly placed in the electronic heritage of Kraftwerk, the JD swilling guitar fissures of the early 70's and a liberal dousing of Tchaikovsky/Wagner etc. Including the likes of 'Did You Miss Me', Child In The Tree' and 'Alabama Song', 'XX Years 1985-2005' will permit those who are new to The Gods to play catch up, whilst the newies and bonus 2nd disc (including covers, remixes and soundtrack work) will make it a worthy investment for the die-harders out there....

The Surf The Sundried - The Surf The Sundried
Attack Nine

Malibu's The Surf & the Sundried (aka Nick Huntington and Emmett Kelly) have gone about distilling the best of familiar yet disperate guitar-led styles onto this gorgeous eponymous LP, deftly sidestepping the worst excesses of their obvious inspiration and bringing with it a very real sunset charm. Opening with 'Needle In The Hay', Huntington and Kelly coax a charming melody from hushed percussion, thrumming bass and delicate acoustica, over which the vocals take on a Damon Albarn-style quality.The Surf & The Sundried continue to mine a rich seem of classic songwriting on the piano led 'It's Curtains', wherein exquisite strings swell with pride around the mesmeric melody. Elsewhere, 'The Fall' comes across like a folk-coated version of George Harrison's 'Here Comes The Sun', 'Strangers' is covered in the DNA of Pink Floyd and Mogwai, whilst 'Blue Bird' is a college.alt/glam rock curtain call. Lovely....

Xxl (Xiu Xiu & Larsen) - Ciautistico
Important

The holy union of Italian arch-experimentalists Larsen and James Stewart's mutated-pop project Xiu Xiu, XXL's debut album is being touted as a genuine "joint creative clash" and actual factual band, as opposed to a brief flirtation or sporadic collaborative venture. For those who are familiar with Stewart's recent Acuarela album, whose bruisingly intimate portraits led some to speculate it was a scathing satire on the self-help atrocities of singer-songwriters (it wasn't), 'Ciaustistico' could come as something of a shock. Carved from a mass of tape churned out during Beowulf-style improv sessions, the album opens with the annoyingly titled 'Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw Paw'; wherein Stewart's Cohen/Morrissey-laminated vocals are framed by a miasma of dignified strings and broiling post-rock. Following this spangled pop introduction, 'Ciautistico' then gets more experimental through the frigid electronica and pertinacious strings of 'Minne Mouselstic', creating a sound that shares much with the minimalist compositions of Susumu Yokota or even (possibly, kind of) Asa Chang and Junray. Elsewhere, '(Pokey I'm Your) Gnocchi' is a Puccini splashed epic so overblown it works perfectly, 'Prince Charming' is a histrionic and intimidating cover of the Adam Ant hit, whilst 'Birthday Song' is a blast of Isan style bubblytronica....

2 By Bukowski - Yzordderex
Very Friendly

In the words of a writer who enjoyed some modest success; "the lady doth protest too much". And so it seems do 2 By Bukowski, with their apparent disapprobation of constantly being touted as the European God Speed You Black Emperor. If the band happens to be reading this, I'd stop now if I were you. With members spread around London and various regions of Greece, 2 By Bukowski don't get the chance to record together very often, so the fact that their follow-up to 2002's wonderfully titled 'Drink From My Bastard Grail' only took two years to get finished is something to commend. Slow-burning atmospherics that are bitten to pieces by metal riffs and mid-song breakdowns, 2 By Bukowski are loud and proud; here further fermented by some serious Strepsil vocals. Songs like 'Satageus' and 'Knucklefist Tonight' have a very real sense of the epic that is difficult to achieve, especially when your weapon of choice is the rather antiquated genre of post-rock-metal, and sees them ranked alongside the incendiary force that is God Speed You Black Emperor. And that's a compliment fellas....

Datach'i - The Elements
Sublight

What with Halloween on the horizon, the cover of Datach'i's new album could double up as some festive decoration. It's their eyes that scare me! Known to his mother as Joseph Fraioli, Datach'i has recorded for a slew of labels in the past, including Caipirinha, Klangkrieg and Planet µ, with new LP 'The Elements' a suitably demented continuation of this timeline. Filling the foreground with Victorian melodies and glinting instrumentation, Datach'i creates a genteel environment that evokes the idea of welcoming hearths on a snowy night... until that is, the beat butchering commences. Schooled in the ways of Venetian Snares, Squarepusher et al, Fraioli has a keen understanding on the importance of texture; contrasting fearsome cloudbursts of shattered beats and choleric breakcore, with the prettiest array of aural treats this side of Thorntons. Opening with an admittedly ominous bass, first song 'Musket Iron' then introduces a parping little flute that suggests a level of politeness akin to slicing off your sandwich crusts. shortly after, all hell lets loose! With seven shades of shit raining down, Datach'i nonetheless keeps a firm control over his beats, allowing them to broil and peak without ever feeling superfluous. Similarly, 'In Silence' rattles some Exile-style drum and bass around a proper haunted house, whilst 'Drowner' is an Eno-waterlogged ghost-ship full of below-deck breaks and acid-licked buckshot's. Putting you right through the wringer in the most enjoyable manner imaginable, Datach'i bows out with 'Rye Pier Fence Watching'; a song that brings to mind skeletons break-dancing at sunset... and that's not something you can say everyday!...

Dave Miller - Mitchells Raccolta
Background

2 years on from his first Background EPs and acclaimed remixes of Anna Kaufen (aka Akufen), Perth producer Dave Miller's debut album is a huge step forward, combining many influences in a fresh and deep set of mutant funk and futuristic microhouse. Pitch-shifted melodies buzz over complex minimal polyrhythms, chopped trumpets scatter over slo-mo house beats, and low low basslines hum in the bins over crackly piano samples, creating a diverse album full of homely warmth yet with rhythms to suit the smoke of dark club corners. `Mitchells Raccolta' is jazz, dub, house, minimal techno, hip hop, broken beat and ambient, all at the same time. Like Four Tet, Farben and Madlib remixing each other in real time....

Jirku / Judge - Private Eyes
Onitor

"Don't judge a book by its cover"; a maxim that holds very firm on the new LP from the appropriately named pairing of Jirku and Judge. Wrapped in a truly appalling cover shot (think Grattans Catalogue doing a 'busty interrogator'range), 'Private Eyes' is the latest collaborative effort from Tomas Jirku and Robin Judge, whose special-brand of clinical beats and Mille Plateux finesse really comes to fruition on this four-years-in-the-making LP. At times sounding like Other People Place, Panacea, Sutekh, Burnt Friedman and Dan Abrams, Jirku-Judge are nonetheless entirely themselves, merely taking cues from the pantheon of digital innovators. Densely layered but never lacking in clarity, tracks like 'Hidden Camera' and 'Hot Property' are glitchy bursts of machine tooled intent which have a real playfulness within their bloops, growls and crystalline beats. Elsewhere, 'False Positives' recalls Tejada's 'Logic Memory Center', 'Undercover Lover' stretches its elastic bass to ripping point, whilst 'Double Trouble' nicks a famous melody (you'll see...) and pumps it full of bouncing dubby-fingered digitalis....

Ennio Morricone - Crime And Dissonance
Ipecac

Having already been described by the Wire magazine as "murderously brilliant", the second Morricone retrospective in as many days has been lovingly and painstakingly compiled by Mike Patton - focusing on the less known experimental, orchestral, minimal and frankly more brilliant side of Morricone's prolific recording career. The John Zorn liner notes detail the connection between Patton and Morricone's love of "the extreme and the experimental; psychedelic sitars, heavy breathing, screams, screeches and electric guitar feedback". Spread over two discs, highlights include a number of tracts culled from 1971's 'Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna' which exhibit a predilection not dissimilar to Merzbow, the distressing juxtaposition of 'L'Uccello Con Le Piume Di Cristallo (Titoli)' (frantic female breathing) and 'Il Buio' (taut violins followed by a hushed & mournful string section), and the angelic choral work for 'Cuore Di Mamma'. If all soundtracks had the breadth, profundity and musical sagacity of that conjured up by Morricone, I might just go to the cinema more often. Incredible....

Atom Tm - Acid Evolution 1988-2003
Logistic

Finally available on cd!! Atom TM will have you believe that this is a collection of some lost Acid classics from all manner of characters with names as likely as "DJ Roxy", "XOX Crrew" and "MC Unknown", though anyone who's been addicted to the man's seemingly endless Zelig-like qualities will have probably guessed that in actual fact all these "lost" jack trax come from his own sealed vaults. Uwe Schmidt seems to be able to successfully turn his head to any generic forms that take his fancy, from the chart-busting Kraftwerk cover-versions of Senor Coconut to the Jazz reconfigurations of Flanger and the endless microscopic innovations of "Dos Tracks", ""Brown", "Schnitstelle" and on and on over an incredible 70+ album career so far. But many people have grown a bit impatient with the man's Latin American obsessions and have yearned for something more puritan - a return to the Acid templates he flirted with at the peak of Jack. This killer doublepack is all that and more - gorgeously dusty warehouse tweakin tracks that will destroy all comers new and old, configured with maximum bass padding and an analog sequence that followers of Armando, Mr Fingers and Phuture will kill for. Essential!...

Various / Delsin - Planet Delsin
Delsin

Amsterdam's cult techno-soul label is celebrating their 50th release with this very tight compilation, bringing you 12 unreleased outer space techno jams by some of the very hottest underground artists around. Featured artists are Terry Brookes, Vince Watson, Starfighterz, Speakwave (aka Dynarec), Shed, $tinkworx, D5, Aroy Dee, Nubian Mindz, Peel Seamus, Dj Yoav B and Newworldaquarium. The Planet Delsin compilation is available on CD, as well as a double vinyl release and separate EP. The wicked artwork is done by Delta inc, liner notes come by `Techno Rebels'-author Dan Sicko. Ace....

# posted by DJ Martian 9:55 PM

 

2005 Music

I have redesigned my 2005 Music Links webpage, come December this will develop into a collection of end of year 2005 music lists.

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The Music of the 00s

I have also started to develop: Music of the 00s Portal - this is a unique portal with a rich collection of links documenting the music decade so far.

# posted by DJ Martian 3:45 PM

Friday, October 21, 2005

 

THE WIRE - Issue 261 (November 2005)

New issue of The Wire on sale this week.

ON THE COVER: Remake Remodel: Often read as a sign of creative
bankruptcy, cover versions are also the site of some of music's most radical
experiments with existing songforms. In a 12 page special, The Wire's
crack writing squad picks 60 cover versions that rattle the state of song.
Plus: writer/musician Alan Licht goes undercover to explore his
motivations for versioning Moondog, Minutemen, Captain Beefheart and more

FEATURES: Steve Reich's Jukebox, Earth, Once Upon A Time In Shinjuku,
Oren Marshall, Mazen Kerbaj, Jackson And His Computer Band

REVIEWS:

SOUNDCHECK: Tetuzi Akiyama, Oren Ambarchi, Horace Andy, Asguard, Asian
Beauty, Atheist, Audiotrope, Bateau Lavoir & André Goudbeek, Clive Bell
& David Ross, Biosphere, Christopher Bissonnette, Boards Of Canada,
Vashti Bunyan, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Tony Conrad, Greg Davis & Steven
Hess, Vapori Del Cuore/Alfred Zimmerlin/Günter Müller, DJ /rupture,
Axel Dörner & Jim Denley, Double Leopards, The Drift, Eruption,
Experimental Audio Research, Fieldwork, Jason Forrest, Gate To Gate, Carlos
Giffoni, Keiji Haino, Hisato Higuchi, Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard,
Icarus, Jan Jelinek, The Kallikak Family, Kinds, Mike Ladd, Lichens, Alvin
Lucier, Meadow House, Misha Mengelberg, Roman Mints, Moondog, Murcof, No
Neck Blues Band, Tujiko Noriko, Nurse With Wound, OCS, Hans Otte,
Paavoharju, Andrew Pekler, Tom Recchion, Steve Reich, Steve Roden, Olaf
Rupp/Tony Buck/Joe Williamson, George Russell/Living Time Orchestra, Philip
Samartzsis/Günter Müller/Voice Crack, Smash And Teeny Featuring John
Butcher, Softland, Some Water And Sun, Fredy Studer & Ami Yoshida, Yuji
Takahashi, Toru Takemitsu, 31Knots, Timet/Mariposa, Trio Sowari, Patty
Waters, Robert Wyatt And Friends, Zeroping (With Guest Artist BJ Cole)
and more...

[Source: email from The Wire Conduit]

# posted by DJ Martian 5:34 PM

 

The Independent have a feature about Kate Bush

# posted by DJ Martian 5:31 PM

 

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 5:27 PM

 

The Guardian interview Murcof

# posted by DJ Martian 2:18 PM

 

The Guardian review Nils Petter Molvaer - ER

# posted by DJ Martian 1:59 PM

 

PopMatters review Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

Thursday, October 20, 2005

 

Playlouder interview Boards of Canada

# posted by DJ Martian 6:57 PM

 

Barcode review BLOCKHEAD - Downtown Science

# posted by DJ Martian 6:30 PM

 

Barcode review MAGNETOPHONE - The Man Who Ate The Man on 4ad

# posted by DJ Martian 6:23 PM

 

Progressive Soundscapes Radio - Weekend Special

This weekend Progressive Soundscapes Radio will be featuring ambient/ electronic / space music from 2005. [Use the superb Winamp software to listen in]

2005 was a great year for electronic music. All this weekend on
Progressive Soundscapes radio, we'll be featuring music from a wide selection
of ambient, minimalist and electronic artists who've released new cds
in 2005, as well as some rare unreleased live and studio recordings
exclusive to Progressive Soundscapes. Some of the music we'll be featuring
include these brand new releases:


Gert Emmens - When Darkness Falls Upon The Earth
Andreas Akwara - Synthetic Horizon
John Lakveet - Proportions
Alpha Wave Movement - Beyond Silence
Darshan Ambient - RE:Karma

And these great cds from 2005:

Joseph Loibant - Empathy
Bass Communion and Vidna Obmana - Continuum 1
Monokit - Monolyth
Dwight Ashley and Tim Story - Standing & Falling
A Produce - Black Sands
Dream State - Passage
Robert Carty - Oceanic Space
Gwydi - Lethologica
Gwydi - Spirit Junction (unreleased exclusive)
James Johnson - Cube series
Roy-arne Knutsen - Untitled unreleased recording
Mike Griffin - Sounds are Hidden Inside Objects
Kevin Fletcher Tweedy - A Distant Vision
Matt Borghi - Images
Mystified - Elemental Spirits
Numina - Eye of the Nautilus
oöphoi - Hymns to a Silent Sky
Paul Ellis - Silent Conversations
Radio Massacre International - Emissaries
Robert Rich - Echo of Small Things
Robert Scott Thompson - At the Still Point of the Turning World
Rogue Element - Dead Leaf Motion (unedited unreleased version)
Rudy Adrian - Moonwater (unreleased exclusive)
Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return (2005 Remastered Edition)
Steve Roach - Possible Planet
Steve Roach - New Life Dreaming
The Circular Ruins - Degrees of Separation
The Blanco Project - Nightfall
The Ministry of Inside Things - Recorded Live at The Gate to Moonbase
Alpha - Feb. 2005 (unreleased exclusive)
Tom Heasley - Triptych
Viridian Sun - Live, Paris Theater
Wave World - The Winds of Laax
Craig Padilla and Zero Ohms - Path of Least Resistance

[via email mailing list: The Ambient Way Yahoo Group]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:51 PM

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

 

Biosphere - Dropsonde

Touch report the CD Version of the new Biosphere album: Dropsonde will now be released in January 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:30 PM

 

New Shriekback Album: Cormorant

Shriekback are back with a new album titled: Cormorant.

Due to be released on November 7th via Malicious Damage

Over the past 23 years, Shriekback have managed to hack their own unique trail through the sonic swamp. Never bothering to check in at the counter of convention, the band, originally formed of refugees from XTC and the Gang of Four, have led us through the curious mix of organics and mechanics that was 'Care', the clinical funk of 'Jam Science', the machine-free beauty of 'Big Night Music' and many other matchless works. And they have always sounded fresh and confident in comparison with any number of their contemporaries.

And now, in 2005, Shriekback return with their eagerly awaited 10th album. CORMORANT, the latest offering, as with many of their previous releases, provokes and seduces in equal measures. A soulful, insistent and sometimes riotous collection of songs and distracting instrumentals, the album features the ever present musical heart of Shriekback - the vocal and lyrical alchemy of Barry Andrews, and the percussive bedrock of Martyn Barker (who has written and played with Billy Bragg and the Blokes, Sarah Jane Morris, Joseph Arthur and innumerable others).

Enriching this formidable partnership is a rare blend of Shriek collaborators - Mark Raudva (co-production, mandolins & bass), Carlo Asciutti and Wendy Partridge (vocals) make a welcome return to spice up the mix, Barry Andrews' son Finn takes a break from The Veils to add some vocals, while Shriek virgin Andy Partridge contributes some fiery guitar work, playing alongside Barry Andrews for the first time in the many years since the early incarnation of XTC.

All beautifully packaged in a four page card wallet along with four separate lyric cards.

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Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 140 / 19.10.05]

This week's Kultureflash - Headlines from London

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.

# posted by DJ Martian 6:45 PM

 

Splendid review Sunn O))) - Black One

# posted by DJ Martian 1:33 PM

 

Delays 2nd Album Named: You See Colours

NME.COM report Delays confirm 2006 tour also new Delays album: You See Colours is due March 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM

 

Stylus review Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 1:24 PM

 

New issue of DJ Magazine includes a free CD.

OUT NOW: FREE Adam Beyer and Jesper Dahlback 'Faceoff' CD!.

magazine features: Tiga front cover
Tiga, Boards of Canada, Desyn Masiello, Deepgroove, Hyper, Vector Lovers, clubbing in Taiwan, plus hundreds of record reviews!

# posted by DJ Martian 1:14 PM

 

Mogwai Album Due Early 2006

Playlouder report Mogwai Album Finished!

Their now-manager Alan McGee saying that it's better than MBV classic 'Loveless'.

Mogwai's new album will be released via PIAS early in 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:07 PM

 

WXPN.org 88.5 present the 885 All Time Greatest ALBUMS Countdown.

The poll is stuffed with too many formula FM adult rock and singer/ songwriter types. However there are some interesting selections.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:12 PM

 

musicOMH.com review Leftfield - A Final Hit

# posted by DJ Martian 11:51 AM

 

Mayhem to Appear on BBC TV Documentary on Extreme Metal Music

Blabbermouth.Net report MAYHEM To Appear On BBC's 'This World' Program

The first broadcast is now confirmed for November 24, 2005 on BBC 2 at 9:00 p.m.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:41 AM

 

Freak Zone Show Specials

Two special themed shows coming up on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on 6 Music

Following-up our series of summer specials, including the popular Freak Zone ultimate A to Z, our next themed show will be on HARVEST RECORDS (to tie in with Harvest Festival time - see what we did there?) on Oct 23. Then it's our NURSE LIST special on Oct 30, revolving around the legendary list of rare records given away with the first Nurse With Wound LP.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:14 AM

 

Pitchfork review Animal Collective - Feels

# posted by DJ Martian 12:01 AM

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

 

AMG / allmusic review Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel [reviewed by Andy Kellman]

# posted by DJ Martian 4:24 PM

 

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 104 - 18-24 October, 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 4:11 PM

 

This week's The Breezeblock show on Radio 1

This week's show features live music from Drop The Lime and Kid 606 recorded at Peel Day in Liverpool plus a mix from DJ Rupture.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:47 PM

 

BBC Music review The Beta Band - The Best Of

# posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM

 

Later...with Jools Holland returns to British TV screens this Friday.

Friday 21st October 2005, BBC2, 11.35pm

including Editors and Goldfrapp

# posted by DJ Martian 1:42 PM

 

BBC NEWS report Bands set for Hall of Fame honour

The Who, The Kinks and Joy Division/ New Order will be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November.

The bands will be honoured alongside Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix at this year's ceremony.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:36 PM

 

Stylus review Animal Collective - Feels

# posted by DJ Martian 1:31 PM

 

music webzine prefix has a new look.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:29 PM

 

Playlouder review Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

# posted by DJ Martian 1:25 PM

 

Drowned in Sound report Sonic Youth: new record due in 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:22 PM

 

Pitchfork report Mission of Burma Talk New Album - due Spring 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

 

New Massive Attack Album for 2006

GIGWISE.com report Massive Attack Talk About 'Gothic' New Album

6 Music report Massive Attack go Goth

# posted by DJ Martian 1:10 PM

 

John Peel Remembered on 6 Music

Next week on 6 Music: Peeling Back The Years

Peeling Back The Years
Mon 24 - Thur 27 October - 2100-2200

Including: A rare opportunity to hear John Peel's first ever broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

6 Music Plays It Again will be extended by half an hour this week as the network remembers the late, great broadcaster John Peel.

Reminder: Radio 1 also have a 'Keeping It Peel' Documentary - now available on Listen Again.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 AM

Monday, October 17, 2005

 

BBC Music review Hystereo - Corporate Crimewave on Soma

[PS] review Hystereo - Corporate Crimewave

With no Muzik or Jockey Slut magazines around in 2005 this electronic album seems to have slipped under the radar.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:36 PM

 

Pitchfork review Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 3:00 PM

 

New releases @ Rough Trade for October 17th.

Last week: Rough Trade for October 10th.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:22 PM

Sunday, October 16, 2005

 

This week's 6 Mix on 6 Music features:

Adam Miller from popular Detroit electronic band ADULT.

Broadcast: 8pm - 10pm [Sunday - October 16th]
and Listen Again on BBC RadioPlayer for 7 days after broadcast.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:11 PM

 

Landing - Brocade

Strange Attractors Audio House profile the new Landing album: Landing - Brocade CD (SAAH037)

Landing
Brocade
SAAH037 CD Only
Release Date: November 1, 2005

Aaron Snow: guitar, synthesizer, bass, drums, vocals
Adrienne Snow: synthesizer, vocals
Daron Gardner: bass, drums
Peter Baumann: synthesizer, bells and chimes

Track Listing: Loft - Yon - Spiral Arms - How to Be Clear - Music for Three Synthesizers

See website for press release.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:00 PM

 

Häpna release Tape - Rideau on October 24th

Häpna H.25, CD
5 tracks, 46 minutes

On October the 24th the Swedish trio Tape will release their eagerly awaited third album – “Rideau”. The main idea behind this record was to make something that differed from the two previous albums that were recorded by the group members themselves, and also to try to work with another person to push the music in another direction. The choice fell on Marcus Schmickler, German musician and producer and the album was recorded in his studio in Cologne, winter/spring 2004-2005. Another way of working had to be found and the concentrated atmosphere that was established was soon transferred to the recordings. The surroundings of Cologne made for sure an imprint as the previous albums were recorded in rural Sweden. The songs have a more architectural structure this time, a sharper sound, more rhythmical elements and a grandeur that hasn’t shown before.

Tape’s music moves between experimental music and pop without effort and has been recognized internationally for it’s particular sound where electronics blend with all sorts of acoustic and electric instruments.

Tape was formed in 2000 by brothers Andreas and Johan Berthling together with Tomas Hallonsten. Their first recording Opera came out in 2002, the second Milieu in 2003, both released on Häpna. Tape has done shorter tours in Europe, the US and Japan. In August 2005 Staalplaat released a live CD of Tape in their “Mort Aux Vaches” series.

Marcus Schmickler is a musician, producer and composer with a broad range. He makes pop with Pluramon (with Julee Cruise), experimental computer music solo, and composes contemporary music for choir.

Official website for Tape

# posted by DJ Martian 7:52 PM

 

Athwart666 metal-news - music blog for extreme metal news.

# posted by DJ Martian 7:32 PM

 

Negura Bunget - Om - February 2006 Release

Romanian avant Black Metal band Negura Bunget recently reported a new release date for their upcoming album: Om

the release date for the upcoming "OM" album is finally set for February 2006. We're sorry for this additional delay, but there's still a lot of work ahead. The album will be released in a original CD + DVD edition, in a special packaging again. More details about everything soon...

# posted by DJ Martian 7:27 PM

 

Leonard's Lair review The Montgolfier Brothers - All My Bad Thoughts

# posted by DJ Martian 7:12 PM

 

The Observer | OMM | review Animal Collective - Feels

# posted by DJ Martian 7:07 PM

 

The Observer | OMM review Kate Bush - Aerial

# posted by DJ Martian 7:01 PM

Saturday, October 15, 2005

 

MIC Norway report Blå moves to London


Two of Europe’s most diverse music and arts clubs come together to do a cross-channel session – all in the name of celebrating Norway’s centenary of independence.

29th October @ Notting Hill Arts Club

To reciprocate, Blå comes to London the following weekend, Saturday 29th October. And, for one night only, the Notting Hill Arts Club will be transformed into one of the best venues in Scandinavia. They carry with them a customarily diverse package including the Smalltown Supersound signed Toy (live), Maja Ratke and Hild Sofie Tafjord’s (both of Spunk fame) new project Fe-Mail (live) plus Blå residents Fredro Fontana and Sunkissed’s Olanskii.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:50 PM

 

Ocean - Here Where Nothing Grows

important will release an album from Ocean titled: Here Where Nothing Grows

Early November will see the debut full length release of Portland Maine art/doom metal group Ocean. Here Where Nothing Grows was originally recorded at Volume Studios in Chicago with Sanford Parker (pelican/buried at sea). However, an exhausted Ocean returned home only to be tremendously unsatisfied with the Chicago sessions. They retreated to Tsunami Sound in Portland, Maine and emerged 2 months later with a massive epic. 65 minutes, 3 tracks, all mastered to be played loud. It's as heavy as it could ever possibly be. Recommended to fans of Buried At Sea, Neurosis, Mogwai (their heavier stuff), Sunn O)))),etc.. MP3's soon.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:42 PM

Friday, October 14, 2005

 

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 3:54 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report EYES OF FIRE To Open For OPETH In California

Also:
EYES OF FIRE' new album, "Prisons", is due late January 2006 via Century Media Records.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:57 PM

 

The Guardian review Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 PM

 

The Guardian interview Cut Copy: 'It's certainly not knob twiddling'

# posted by DJ Martian 12:44 PM

 

The Guardian review Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

The Independent review Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 12:42 PM

 

Reviews: Burst - Origo

Recognition of the brilliance for the new Burst album Origo is emerging:

disagreement.net review Burst - Origo

Burst have accomplished a near-perfect album with nine strong songs that will certainly push them to the top of the international extreme metal movement.

Blistering.com review Burst - Origo

Every music fan has some band or album that they believe has flown under the radar without justification. One of this fan’s picks is Sweden’s Burst, whose last album Prey On Life was criminally neglected despite an onslaught of positive press. Two years later comes the follow-up Origo, and once again the band have carved out an immaculate piece of music here, but time will tell if it gets the recognition it so strongly deserves.

gryphonmetal.ch review Burst - Origo:

Short and quickly, "Origo" is a masterpiece, a must -have album for every Metaller.

Not the creation of a new style. Still not. But a creation that goes definately beyond most of all current styles.

rating: 10/10

Reminder: Burst - Origo is released on Relapse in the UK on October 17th.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:01 AM

Thursday, October 13, 2005

 

musicOMH.com interview David Sylvian

# posted by DJ Martian 11:16 PM

 

New Solefald and Sigh Albums Reviewed

DigitalMetal.com review:

Solefald - Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 (Season of Mist)

Sigh - Gallows Gallery (Candlelight)

Gallows Gallery and Red for Fire are two albums which are brilliant and compelling in conception, performance, and production, showcasing two bands at the height of their creative maturity. Now if only anyone would pay attention.

By John Gnesin

# posted by DJ Martian 11:09 PM

 

Punknews.org report Will Haven reunites

# posted by DJ Martian 10:57 PM

 

music blog to check: Perfect Sounds [from a blogger based in Oslo, Norway]

# posted by DJ Martian 10:47 PM

 

Rock Sound - Issue 78

This month's rock sound magazine, includes 2 free cds. [Unfortunately you will have to suffer the embarrassment of buying a magazine with "My Chemical Romance" on the front cover.]

The regular new music sampler CD, includes a new Burst track.

Plus a free Earache CD:

– EARACHE ‘BURN’ CD – featuring 22 new and exclusive tracks from the Earache Records roster. Including AKERCOCKE, BEECHER, EPHEL DUATH, THE BERZERKER, MUNICIPAL WASTE, MISTRESS, CANDIRIA, CULT OF LUNA and many more…

# posted by DJ Martian 10:31 PM

 

Tech Tip for Bloggers: Measure Map

Jeffrey Veen [of Adaptive Path] introduces Measure Map - a sophisticated blog analytics tool that will launch by the end of 2005.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:32 PM

 

BBC collective review depeche mode - 'playing the angel'

# posted by DJ Martian 7:57 PM

 

BBC collective are streaming The Campfire Headphase: boards of canada listening post

# posted by DJ Martian 7:54 PM

 

New THYRFING Album

Blabbermouth.Net report THYRFING Announce New Album Title... ..Farsotstider will be released by Regain Records on November 21st.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:48 PM

 

Issue 54 of Earplug

OCTOBER 13 - 26

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 5:28 PM

 

BBC Music review The Young Gods - XXY

# posted by DJ Martian 3:43 PM

 

The Gathering plan Spring 2006 Release

Blabbermouth.Net provide an update on The Gathering: THE GATHERING Drummer: New Album Will Be More 'Guitar-Orientated'

# posted by DJ Martian 3:36 PM

 

Pitchfork review Audion - Suckfish

# posted by DJ Martian 3:29 PM

 

Playlouder review Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 3:25 PM

 

Today is John Peel Day

Radio 1 have a six hour special starting at 7pm dedicated to John Peel: Keeping It Peel - John Peel Day

From 7pm on October 13th, Radio 1's output will become entirely dedicated to John Peel, with a 6 hour show featuring contributions from Radio 1 DJs, special guests and loads of live music!

So here's what's on 1!

Live at Radio 1 HQ
7-9pm - Colin & Edith
9-11pm - Jo Whiley & Steve Lamacq
11-1am - Rob da Bank & Annie Mac

Featured on the show...
Live music from The Fall, New Order, Super Furry Animals, Venetian Snares, Misty In Roots, Jawbone and Laura Cantrell recorded at the special tribute gig on Weds 12th October from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

plus much more.......[See link above]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:07 AM

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

 

DJ Magazine interview Annie

Annie DJ-Kicks
DJmag.com catches up with the Norwegian pop starlet and DJ

Annie's 'DJ-Kicks' is released 17th October 2005 on !K7 Records.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:50 PM

 

musicOMH.com review Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

# posted by DJ Martian 11:45 PM

 

Pitchfork feature Big Outside of Norway, Pt. 2 Story by Nick Sylvester

All those words! I know I know. Hopefully you'll have a chance to read the piece at some point. Please know I did write a joke about a metal band called Ice Cunt. But to round out the feature-- to make it worth your time?-- I've compiled a 28-song collection featuring new and relatively new Norwegian artists I heard during my trip to Oslo. Liners below. It's a mixed bag, and I don't expect anyone to like all of the songs, but at least make a visit to your favorite torrent tracker or peer-to-peer and download the mix-- I'd hate to think I ripped all those seven-inches for nothing.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:22 PM

 

Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 139 / 12.10.05]

This week's Kultureflash - Headlines from London

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.

# posted by DJ Martian 8:15 PM

 

New website for US avant-rock band: Thinking Plague [alerted via Avant Music News]

# posted by DJ Martian 3:37 PM

 

BBC Music review Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

# posted by DJ Martian 3:32 PM

 

Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

Stream the new depeche mode album: www.myspace.com/depechemode

# posted by DJ Martian 9:52 AM

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

 

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

A few minor changes, new entries for critics faves: Wolf Parade [18] and Between the Buried and Me [80]. Meanwhile a certain cold"dull"play band continue to slide downwards at 94, nearly kicked out of the top 100.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:50 PM

 

Danish band Under Byen will release a new album in March 2006. [alerted via itsatrap.com]

# posted by DJ Martian 11:09 PM

 

Playlouder review Sunn O)) - Black One

# posted by DJ Martian 10:33 PM

 

This week's The Breezeblock show on Radio 1 features a drum and bass special:

This week's show was a Deathstar drum and bass special with Evol Intent, Spor and Noisia supplying the tunes.

# posted by DJ Martian 10:29 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report WITHERED To Support MASTODON And HIGH ON FIRE On U.K. Tour

# posted by DJ Martian 10:25 PM

 

Yahoo Blog Search - What is happening?

Where Google created a separate blogs search tool, Yahoo have initially gone for a blog search results display within their News Search tab.

Yahoo have started to add blog content to the Yahoo! News Search - notice beta blog search results are added to a right hand column section when you run a search query. However this seems very limited in scope at the mo. e.g a search this afternoon on John Peel returns only 18 blog search results.

BBC NEWS | Technology | report Yahoo puts blogs at head of news

Search experts at Search Engine Watch report Yahoo Integrates News, Blogs & Flickr Search Results

Blog posts are drawn from those included in the My Yahoo feed directory, a collection in the "high hundreds of thousands" of blogs. Yahoo plans to expand this coverage to the millions of blogs that ping its blo.gs service, but gave no date for when this additional coverage would be rolled out. Yahoo also plans to launch a stand-alone blog/feed search service in the near future.

The initial introduction of blogs to Yahoo News Search is explained by Yahoo: Yahoo! Search blog: You the Media

Today we've begun the integration of blogs in Yahoo! News Search. Now when you search on Yahoo! News you will see blog results as well as content from thousands of trusted news sites. The experiences and opinions published on blogs make a great addition to the mainstream news people read everyday.

I was completely right about the systems integration of the blo.gs pinging system to Yahoo Search:

The search index we are beta testing currently contains content from a subset of blogs, but look for this to continue growing and ultimately include the 20+ million blogs from the blo.gs ping stream.

The faster this happens the better, because during the past week blo.gs system has been erratic.

mentioned on the comments section of the Yahoo search blog story, by Jim [previous owner of blo.gs]:

blo.gs claims to have less than ten million blogs in its database since something went awry and it got reset back to its june 14 state on october 5.

They reached 22 Million blogs, then went back to 7 million blogs, now it's steadily climbing again near to the 10 million blogs.

I guess they are removing duplicates out of the system, maybe trying getting rid of spam blogs and removing non blog websites that use the system?

However they have "zapped" some of the blogs I track completely out of the system, not updating other blogs and the rise of phantom pinging - when there have been no changes to a blog. At the moment blo.gs is in a state of flux - an utter confusing mess.

Hopefully when the systems have been integrated, blog search and ping updating - there will be a superior user experience.

Reminder, I have developed this to track music blogs: blo.gs favorites for [The Music Blogosphere] updated 24/7 - Admin: DJ Martian

# posted by DJ Martian 6:54 PM

 

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 103 - 11-17 October, 2005]

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

reviewed:
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 4:28 PM

 

This week's NME features John Peel on the front cover. "Special John Peel Tribute Issue"



It's a shame that the NME in 2005 doesn't match the diverse ethos of John Peel. Are they using the image of John Peel as a pseudo icon brand for street cred?

Notice the phrase "Rock Stars" remember a music legend.

When Peel celebrated much more than "Rock Stars".. what about the electronic, electro, African, reggae artists that Peel celebrated ?

What about covering the Metal artists Peel enjoyed reading about in Terrorizer and featured on their sampler CDs? or the yearly trips to Barcelona for the Sonar electronic music festival? Does the NME cover this ? ofcourse NOT

Remember before John Peel died they [the NME] didn't even feature The John Peel show in their weekly media guide.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:41 PM

 

The Guardian: Arts features | Kate Bush rules, OK?

Pop musicians are far more demanding in the studio than classical ones are. Michael Berkeley explains why

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

 

UK Government to Undertake Research to Support Independent Music

BBC News report Government pledge for indie music [that's independent labels, PR companies and promoters etc]

New and independent music talent could get a boost after the government has pledged to help small companies make it big in the music industry.

The survey would provide invaluable knowledge about how the government and industry could support a "vibrant but fragile sector of the music industry"

# posted by DJ Martian 12:31 PM

 

Pitchfork feature Big Outside of Norway by Nick Sylvester

This writer tries to understand the diversity of music culture in Norway.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:03 PM

Monday, October 10, 2005

 

Terrorizer - Issue 137

New issue of Terrorizer magazine on sale this Thursday, SUNN0))) are on the front cover.

SUNN0)))
VOIVOD
GOJIRA
KHANATE
EARTH
AKERCOCKE
ARCTURUS
CRYPTOPSY
1349
GOD FORBID
CAPRICORNS
SOULFLY
STUDIO REPORT: ANNIHILATOR
HARD OF HEARING: OPETH
CURL UP AND DIE
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
WITHIN TEMPTATION

Album Reviews
1349, Akercocke, Exodus, Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost, Roadrunner United, Scum, Solefald and more � clash or crash of the titans?

Free CD: Fear Candy 21

CRYPTOPSY 'Carrionshine'
ROADRUNNER RECORDS 'The Dagger'
DARK FUNERAL 'Godhate'
GOREFEST 'Man To Fall'
EPHEL DUATH 'Pleonasm'
OLD MAN'S CHILD 'War Of Fidelity'
MISHKA 'Locomotive'
GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP 'Nothing Worse Than A Whining Boy'
GRIMFIST 'The Power'
CAPRICORNS '1977: Blood For Papa'
GOJIRA 'The Heaviest Matter In The Universe'
TAINT 'The Sound-Out Competition'
SEVERE TORTURE 'Endless Strain Of Cadavers'
SWALLOW THE SUN 'Descending Winters'
FACE DOWN 'Insanity'
THE MACHETE 'New Me'
HEAVEN BLEEDS 'Fury'
ABIGAIL'S MERCY 'Meaningless'

# posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM

 

new noise review Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 1:16 PM

 

musicOMH.com review The Beta Band - Music: The Best Of

# posted by DJ Martian 1:13 PM

 

John Peel

Radio 1 have a newly designed archive website for John Peel: Keeping It Peel - and they have created a superb user experience to document the immense musical legacy of the John Peel show.

including:
a Peel Biography section
Key Artists A-Z
details of every Peel Session arranged by year
details of Festive 50s

The earliest Peel Session that I can remember listening to:

BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - 28/4/85 Cookie Crew

28/4/85 - Cookie Crew

TX - 8/5/85 [Transmission Date: May 8th 1985 - I had just turned 15!]

This week's One World show is dedicated to John Peel

John Peel :: Around the World
Show broadcast on Radio 1
Monday 10th October 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]

Producers Note:
This week's programme is a tribute to the late, great John Peel.

We wanted to pay tribute to John on the One World Show and there was no better way of doing it by demonstrating John's love for music from all corners of the world.

Reminder, this Thursday is John Peel Day

# posted by DJ Martian 1:06 PM

Sunday, October 09, 2005

 

Blabbermouth.Net report SATURNUS: New Album To Feature Guest Appearance By MERCYFUL FATE's DENNER

# posted by DJ Martian 11:36 PM

 

Sunday Times report Peel's records may be saved for the nation

# posted by DJ Martian 11:31 PM

Saturday, October 08, 2005

 

almost cool music reviews: Vladislav Delay - The Four Quarters

# posted by DJ Martian 2:15 PM

 

themilkfactory.co.uk present CRISTIAN VOGEL Interview

# posted by DJ Martian 2:12 PM

 

themilkfactory.co.uk ISSUE #72 OCTOBER 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

BIOSPHERE - Dropsonde
Follow up to last year’s austere Autour De La Lune, Dropsonde sees Biosphere’s Geir Jenssen returning to richer and more luxurious soundscapes and injecting jazz-inspired beats.

REVIEWS

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Feels
The sixth album from Animal Collective shows once again the band, here in full, applying their psychedelic tones onto a wide range of acoustic and electric songs.

BAÏKONOUR - For The Lonely Hearts Of The Cosmos
First opus for French-born and Brighton-based Baïkonour, For The Lonely Hearts Of The Cosmos is an impressive effort.

DEVENDRA BANHART - Cripple Crow
Free folk oddball Devendra Banhart returns with his fourth album in three years. More sophisticated than its predecessor, Cripple Crow shows Banhart’s songwritting under a new light.

BOARDS OF CANADA - The Campfire Headphase
The eagerly awaited third Boards Of Canada album is finally upon us, and sees the duo venturing into new territories while firmly reclaiming their original ground.

HAUSCHKA - The Prepared Piano
For his second effort as Hauschka, Volker Bertelmann continues to combine delicate piano, lightly strummed guitar and electronic textures.

JACKSON & HIS COMPUTER BAND - Smash
Jackson delivers his long-awaited debut album on Warp and justifies the hype that has surrounded his earlier EPs.

THE LAPPETITES - Before The Libretto
The Lappetites is the collaborative project of Eliane Radigue, AGF, Kaffe Matthews and Ryoko Kuwajima, and Before The Libretto is a platform for them to experiment with each other’s usual sonic scope.

ANDREW PEKLER - Strings + Feedback
Andrew Pekler’s third album revisits piano vignettes from Morton Feldman. The original work is here entirely recontextualised and given a totally new structure.

PORN SWORD TOBACCO - Explains Freedom
Porn Sword Tobacco’s second album hints at the sonic ambiences of the likes of Colleen or Susumu Yokota.

SHORT CUTS

THE BLACK DOG - The Remixes
ZAINETICA - People More Fuel
RUSSELL HASWELL / HECKER - Revision
BENOIT PIOULARD - Enge

# posted by DJ Martian 2:08 PM

 

Junkmedia review Audion - Suckfish

# posted by DJ Martian 1:57 PM

 

Mancunion duo Marconi_Union have a new album on All Saints label titled [Distance]

"Fans of Mogwai's celestial peaks or Labradford's weightless drift would do well to investigate this fine album by a publicity-shy pair. A sleek response to their 2003 debut, Under Wires And Searchlights, Distance's seven instrumental pieces unfold slowly, gracefully. Sleepless and These European Cities suggest Boards Of Canada fleshed out by Basic Channel, while Buildings And People could be Tortoise burnished by Brian Eno, whose back catalogue Marconi Union have recently reworked. You can see why: like Eno, these guys are master manipulators." Uncut (****) Piers Martin

# posted by DJ Martian 1:55 PM

 

David Sylvian Interviewed on Mixing It

The latest Mixing It show features an interview with David Sylvian talking about his new project Nine Horses: Radio 3 - Mixing It

Friday 7 October 2005 22:30-23:30 (Radio 3) [Now on Listen Again]

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall interview songwriter David Sylvian about his new project Nine Horses, a collaboration with drummer Steve Jansen and electronic music producer Burnt Friedman.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:49 PM

 

issue 5 of e|i magazine has now been published.

oophoi
colin potter
c. schulz
jason sloan
roedelius
steve peters
yagya
inade
dwight ashley
tu m'
leo abrahams

satellite sound art from karosta, latvia

label profiles: databloem, for 4 ears, mystery sea & trente oiseaux

dreamtime returns: steve roach's new 3-cd anniversary set reviewed

over 150 reviews on CD, vinyl, DVD, books and more

[Source via Yahoogroups space music mailing list]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:18 PM

Friday, October 07, 2005

 

Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records

# posted by DJ Martian 3:34 PM

 

Reminder via Norway.org.uk that Susanna & The Magical Orchestra are touring:

UK and Ireland tour:

12 October: Limerick
13 October: Cork (Half Moon)
14 October: Bray (Mermaid)
15 October: Dublin (Sugar Club)
16 October: Sligo
29 November: Southampton (Turner Sims Concert Hall)

# posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM

 

Forthcoming Albums on Thirsty Ear

Avant Music News notify Coming Up on Thirsty Ear including:

Matt Maneri : Pentagon
[ the blue series ]
Release Date: October 26th, 2005 CD

Mat Maneri is no stranger to experimentation. In this, his third Blue Series outing, he successfully combines natural and synthetic elements of musical composition to formulate a truly far reaching work of musical art. The star of this masterwork is Maneri�s violin work, which is at times lilting, and at others far reaching and lyrical, like a human voice.

Matthew Shipp : One
[ the blue series ]
Release Date: January 26th, 2006 CD

Matthew Shipp says so much without ever using a word. In “One”, his latest release for Thirsty Ear’s Blues Series, Shipp sends up a powerful entourage of solo acoustic tracks. Where previous releases have been on a voyage through electronica and hip- hop, this album comes full circle and presents a pure and intimate taste of what Matthew Shipp Is all about. Him and his weapon, the piano.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:53 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report CALLENISH CIRCLE: New Song Posted Online

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 PM

 

The Guardian review Tim Berne - Hardcell

# posted by DJ Martian 12:45 PM

 

The Guardian review Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

musicOMH.com review Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

# posted by DJ Martian 12:43 PM

 

Pixies Update

VH1.com talk to Frank Black about the recording of a new Pixies album.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:41 PM

 

BW & BK report UNEXPECT - New Album Title Revealed - A Flesh Aquarium

# posted by DJ Martian 12:37 PM

 

DJ Andy Kershaw on John Peel in the The Independent

One year after John Peel's death, Andy Kershaw recalls how the DJ shaped his life, musical tastes and skills as a broadcaster

...With the Peel programme, listeners never knew what might be next. It was broadcasting, not narrowcasting. That's radio at its most compelling. Thanks, brother.

Stephen Dalton on John Peel in The Times: How to properly keep 'em Peeled

# posted by DJ Martian 12:32 PM

Thursday, October 06, 2005

 

Blabbermouth.Net report YAKUZA Sign With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

The experimental jazz/metal quartet will be releasing their Prosthetic debut, "Samsara", in March 2006

# posted by DJ Martian 3:31 PM

 

HMV.co.uk moves Warehouse Operations to Guernsey, Channel Islands

This is Guernsey report HMV are relocating the Warehouse supply chain for their HMV.co.uk website to Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.

Digital Bulletin report HMV takes on rivals with website overhaul

Guernsey is outside the European Union and there is no VAT [Value Added Tax] therefore HMV can offer lower prices to customers.

HMV plans to pass this saving on to customers through lower prices and free postage and packing.

A new HMV.co.uk website will apparently be launched on October 10th [Next Monday].

Although looking at their website they are already promoting FREE UK Delivery for some pre-order albums: HMV.co.uk

The Forum for Private Business a UK business association are not happy: FPB reports HMV and Guernsey Government to Treasury and Customs

The other large Channel Island, Jersey has recently announced it will no longer grant new e-commerce operations to set up on the Island, to sell VAT free CDs.

The FPB said HMV's move to Guernsey set alarm bells ringing coming just weeks after the Jersey Government announced that no more major retailers would be granted licenses to sell goods VAT-free from their island.

Comment: As I have said before the UK government and the EU should scrap VAT [at 17.5 %] on CDs, if books are VAT exempt why can't CDs be as well ?

Also a more progressive [income] tax system should be implemented. Although both New Labour and previously the Tories seem completely unwilling to consider let alone implement progressive changes to income tax. They offer pseudo reductions on the basic rate of tax, then implement other taxes to get more money back from people.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:58 PM

 

New website for Nine Horses

We've been receiving an amazing response to the new album featuring
David, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman. You can now stream some samples
of the album online.

We had to delay the release date slightly due to manufacturing delays,
and as such want to clear up any confusion on the release dates.

The official release of the album into record stores is 24th October,
however we are making it available to you as a pre-order from our own
site as of today.

These will ship out to customers on the 17th October.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:08 PM

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

 

The current issue of XLR8R magazine is themed on the city of Chicago

"Our fourth annual city issue jumps into the heart of Chicago, a place that has most of the XLR8R staff wanting to relocate offices. We got a chance to uncover what goes on on in local music, fashion and design, both old and new, all the while falling more deeply in love with The Windy City. Thrill Jockey founder Bettina Richards sets the tone of the issue with her personal intro to Chicago, then we follow up with over 40 features including Steve Albini, DJ Funk, Struggle Inc, Galapagos 4, Hefty, Chocolate Industries, Ron Trent, Pit er Pat, Drag City, Groove Distribution, a photo essay by Matthew Taplinger, Lumpen, Consumer Research & Development, an invaluable city guide and much more."

# posted by DJ Martian 11:34 PM

 

New issue of MOJO Magazine in the shops this week.

FREE NY PUNK CD
15 tracks celebrating New York's noise-filled underbelly, featuring Blondie, Johnny Thunders, The Real Kids, Television, New York Dolls, Suicide, Richard Hell, Bad Brainsand more.

The Ramones get the front cover, why not Depeche Mode that would have been a more topical and relevant front cover for Autumn 2005?

# posted by DJ Martian 7:15 PM

 

New record label website for a-ha

Warning: music autoloads on entry.

After 3 1(2 years Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy are back with a new album. While releasing their 8th studio album "Analogue" and going on an European tour they continue their outstanding carreer.

Musically, the single Celice is similar to the uptempo atmospheric epic pop-rock of Manchester band Doves

# posted by DJ Martian 5:49 PM

 

Playlouder interview Oceansize

# posted by DJ Martian 1:49 PM

 

Morrissey Announces Next Album

GIGWISE.com report Morrissey Reveals Details Of New Album titled Ringleader Of The Tormentors that is due early 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM

 

Blabbermouth.Net report EPHEL DUATH: U.K. Tour Cancelled

# posted by DJ Martian 1:25 PM

 

DYSRHYTHMIA plan New Album for Spring 2006

Blabbermouth.Net report DYSRHYTHMIA To Enter Studio In December to record a new album titled: "Barriers and Passages" that is set for a Spring 2006 release.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:23 PM

 

Swedish Special: Burst & Opeth to Tour Europe Together

Blabbermouth.Net report BURST Cancel Headlining Tour, Announce European Dates With OPETH

Two of the finest European rock bands will be touring Europe together this November and December.

# posted by DJ Martian 1:19 PM

 

The Young Gods: New Compilation Reviewed plus European Tour

skiddle.com review THE Young Gods - 'XXY'

Also reminder of Upcoming Tour:

THE YOUNG GODS ON TOUR

UK

25.11.2005 Barfly London
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

26.11.2005 Barfly Birmingham
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

27.11.2005 Fibbers York
Web: www.fibbers.co.uk
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

28.11.2005 Barfly Glasgow
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

01.12.2005 Barfly Liverpool
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

02.12.2005 Barfly Cardiff
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

03.12.2005 Barfly London
Ticket: www.barflyclub.com

Also IRELAND

30.11.2005 Temple Bar Music Centre Dublin
Ticket: www.tbmc.ie

For rest of Europe see :// The Young Gods :: XX Years

Official website: :// The Young Gods :: News

# posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM

 

musicOMH.com review New Order - Singles

# posted by DJ Martian 12:57 PM

 

Music critic Tom Hull has updated his Music Year 2005 lists.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:54 PM

 

Instal 05 - Glasgow

Reminder that Instal 05 takes place 14th, 15th and 16th October 2005 at The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland.

INSTAL 05, GLASGOW
14-16 October

The full line-up for this self-styled 'brave new music' festival, which
is supported by The Wire, features Sun City Girls, Loren Mazzacane
Connors & Alan Licht, Pauline Oliveros & David Dove, Hijokaidan, Jandek,
Directing Hand, Chie Mukai, Henri Chopin, Birchville Cat Motel, Jojo
Hiroshige, Up-tight, Black Boned Angel, Tom Bruno, Ingar Zach & Rhodri
Davies, Rauhan Orkestri and Tetuzi Akiyama.

[Source: The Wire email]

# posted by DJ Martian 12:47 PM

 

Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 138 / 05.10.05]

This week's Kultureflash - Headlines from London

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.

Album reviewed Pier Bucci - FAMILIA

# posted by DJ Martian 12:41 PM

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

 

Musique Machine review Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

# posted by DJ Martian 9:42 PM

 

Pitchfork review The Beta Band - The Best of the Beta Band [reviewed by Jess Harvell]

# posted by DJ Martian 2:04 PM

 

Pitchfork review Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash

# posted by DJ Martian 2:03 PM

 

This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 102 - 4-10 October, 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 1:59 PM

 

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2005 taking place in Cork, Ireland between 28th - 31st October, including Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Joshua Redman.

Cork in Ireland, is currently European Capital of Culture for 2005.

[As you should know in 2008, Liverpool has been selected for this EU sponsored year long focus on Culture.]

# posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM

 

BBC Music review Thomas Strønen - Parish on ECM

# posted by DJ Martian 1:36 PM

 

This week's The Breezeblock show on Radio 1 includes: Live from NYC: Cannibal Ox

# posted by DJ Martian 1:33 PM

 

Personal Information Management Tools: Netvibes, MemeFlow and Rollyo.

3 smart web-based information management solutions:

Netvibes

Create your own RSS portal: Netvibes - this has a smart User Interface for a RSS reader. It has a far superior design compared to Google's rather dull and basic personalized homepage with RSS features.

[For music blogs fans you could create a RSS feeds page full of your favourite blogs and other websites that have RSS/ Atom feeds.]

This is your personalized page, you can now
modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the
parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in
real-time and you'll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com.
If you want to be able to access your page from any computer, you can
sign in (at the bottom right) with your email and a password.

[At the moment there is no feature to make your Netvibes portal public - so it remains a private personal information management solution.]

MemeFlow

Create your own links portal: MemeFlow - Your GoTo Page… - another superb User Interface. I have been looking for something as smart and effective as this for a long time.

For music fans you could create a specific links portal for your favourite blogs, artists, labels, music webzines, music stores etc, plus general news sites and search engines etc

[At the moment there is no feature to make your MemeFlow portal public - so it remains a private personal information management solution]

[On a similar tip there is SiteJot that has a more basic user interface and auto adjusts to your browser depending on number of links.]

Rollyo

Create your own micro search engine Rollyo - built on Yahoo Search technology, you can select upto 25 websites to create a custom search engine.

Rollyo puts the power of Yahoo! Search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines - with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and we'll create a custom search engine for you.

You select the top level/ main page URL of a specific website, then Rollyo includes all the pages indexed under that website found in the Yahoo index.

On a related note Yahoo have recently launched: Yahoo! Site Explorer

Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

Also expect Yahoo to launch their blogs search engine this week !

As reported: Yahoo preparing announcement on blog search

# posted by DJ Martian 12:11 AM

Monday, October 03, 2005

 

This week's One World show on Radio 1 features:

Adaadat showcase, DK7 + Boston Rodriguez
Show broadcast on Radio 1
Monday 3rd October 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again]

Producers Note:

On this week's show we've got a label showcase from the Adaadat boys and album previews from DK7 and Boston Rodriquez. Adaadat first got radio support from the master himself, John Peel. They've had a lot of support from Gameboy noise terrorist DJ Scotch Egg whose album KFC Core dropped in the summer.

DK7 are Swedish based duo Jesper Dahlback and Mark O Sullivan. Jesper is well known in techno circles haven worked with Adam Bayer and has had music out on the Soma label.

The One World Team first heard Boston Rodriguez on the Giles Peterson Show on Radio 1. We really liked the track, 'Lets Party' and so we decided to find out more about the man who's been called 'the one man Santana!'

# posted by DJ Martian 10:43 PM

 

Zyklon plan Spring 2006 Release

Blabbermouth.Net report ZYKLON To Record New Album In November; Live DVD Due In Early 2006

ZYKLON, the Norwegian band featuring EMPEROR members Samoth (guitar) and Trym (drums), are scheduled to start recording their third album, tentatively titled 'Disintegrate', at Akkerhaugen Lydstudio in Norway in November. The mixing will take place at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden early next year. The album is set for worldwide release through Candlelight Records early spring 2006.

# posted by DJ Martian 5:15 PM

 

New monthly edition of Textura - latest electronic music albums are reviewed:

Aemae
[a]pendics.shuffle
Audion
Boards of Canada
The Boats
Bring Back Buffalo
Confutatis
Crouched Head
Davis/Roux
Vladislav Delay
Delay/AGF/Armstr.
DJ Koze
Alex Domschot
Donna Regina
Double Adaptor
The Drift
Folie
General Elektriks
Hanna Hartman
Hauschka
Hulk
Innerstance.Beatbox
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Marc Johnson
David Kristian
Leaf
Payton MacDonald
Midaircondo
Múm
Andrew Pekler
Pneumatic Detach
Sawako+
Silencio
TG Mauss
Tony
Tu m'
Wayne B
WHY?
The Winks/Tights

# posted by DJ Martian 4:48 PM

 

musicOMH.com review Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

# posted by DJ Martian 4:33 PM

Sunday, October 02, 2005

 

Metacritic Best Albums of 2005

For stats fans there is a new number 1 album @ Metacritic: Best Albums of 2005

1. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

# posted by DJ Martian 11:34 PM

 

Avanto Festival 2005 - Helsinki

Avanto Festival

Avanto Festival 2005
November 18-20 2005
@ various venues
Helsinki, Finland

Avanto Festival is Finland's annual event of non-conformist audiovisual art. The sixth Avanto will take place on November 18-20 2005. The detailed schedule will be announced here during October.

via email mailing list:

2005 programme announced, new website opened:

As before, the festival offers a broad range of experimental music,
moving image and exhibitions around Helsinki. New this year is a
specialchildren's programme, Kids' Avanto, which consists of
concerts, the Jabberwocky exhibition, film screenings and workshops.
Avanto lasts three days and runs from November 18-20.

Live performances:

Alva Noto (Germany) / Blixa Bargeld (Germany) / Bol (Norway) / Hiaz
(Austria) / It's not fair! (Austria) / Jandek (USA) / Pasilian savut
(Finland) / Staalplaat Soundsystem (Netherlands/Germany) / Sudden
Infant (Switzerland) / Testicle Hazard (Norway/Finland) / 3 stereot
(Finland) / Vaaralliset Lelut (Finland) / Vinku ja Suhina (Finland)

This year's main musical guests are Einstürzende Neubauten leader
Blixa Bargeld, American outsider music legend Jandek, German pioneer
of new electronic minimalism Alva Noto and Norwegian masters of
jazzy experimental pop Bol. The Finnish headliners are avant-garde
popsters Vaaralliset Lelut, who after 23 years of silence have
reformed just for the occasion.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:52 PM

 

Rough Trade Shops: Releases between 27/09/2005 and 03/10/2005

via email

Due to the number of people who are having problems receiving our email New Release List, from now on we will be sending the following URL link email AS WELL as the normal email each Friday.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:21 PM

 

The Independent profile Kate Bush: Kate Bush: Return of the recluse

She has £30m and a reputation as the country's finest female songwriter. She lives quietly, out of sight, by the river or the sea, and has released no music for 12 years, preferring to spend time with her son. She had no need to make another record (some thought she never would) but suddenly a new album is imminent

By Adam Sweeting

The Observer on Kate Bush: Hopelessly devoted to Kate Bush

What is it about Kate Bush that inspires such undying loyalty? Carol McDaid should know

The Observer | Review | Kate Bush: Comeback Kate

After 12 years of silence, pop's prodigal genius Kate Bush returns. We've had a sneak preview of her new album, and can assure you - it's been worth the wait

Barbara Ellen

# posted by DJ Martian 2:11 PM

 

Almost Cool Music Reviews has a complete new look.

# posted by DJ Martian 2:05 PM

 

via ILM: Best electronic releases of 2005?

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AVERSIONLINE.COM - THE MP3 BLOG aworks: new american classical music B basic_sounds The Battering Room BBC Radio 1 | OneMusic Blog | beat happening be.jazz Between thought and expression bigstereo The Big Ticket Blissblog Blog.MusicStrands.com boomnoise Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep brooklynvegan The Blogglebum Cage Build and Destroy News C Cerysmatic Factory Chromewaves The Church Of Me Circus Beckman Clap Clap Blog clik and lissen Click Opera [Momus] Close Your Eyes Computers & Music Coolfer.com D The Daily Growl danceblogga darkdose.com Dave's Imaginary Sound Space THE DEATH JAM devil in the details dirt Dirrrty Pop DJ ZoZo DoCopenhagen doppelganger DREAMS OF HORSES Drumz of The South DUBSTEP ON KISS 100 Duke Listens! : Weblog DUMMY MAGAZINE E 86400 Seconds Electric_dreams ELECTRONIC MUSIC LINKS F Fail fangirl: mix tape madness farmer-glitch Faronheit Flaming Pablum: the Weblog of Alex in NYC Fluxblog for the eardrums For the 'records' Forward Ever freshwater jellyfish The Future of Music, Media & Entertainment G Good Hodgkins » Cleveland, OH » New ears are listening. gorilla vs. bear Green Pea-ness Robin Guthrie : Web Log Gutterbreakz H Hallmonitor hallucinations & antics He made their glowing colours Hermitage Music The Hit Parade Hotflush Recordings HubLog I I fell sideways laughing ijamming I'll Be Old School Early INDUSTRIAL::MUSIC::LIBRARY Information Leafblower infoshare: In League With Paton ireallylovemusic I Rock Cleveland it's all in your mind J Jazz & Blues Music Reviews Jazz & Conversation jazz plus funk not equals junk, you punk just for a day K Kid Shirt Killing Music With Bare Hands KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment k-punk L Largehearted boy Last Plane to Jakarta Lives and dramas of a long-distance milkman los amigos de durutti Lost Bands of the New Wave Era Lupatarkastaja M Machines Are Funky Magnetbox marathonpacks: keep on freeing in the rock world. Mars Needs Guitars MelodyNelson.com Metal Music Blog mick mercer's Journal minimal robot Musica Generica Music (for robots) The Music Radar Music-versity Michaelangelo Matos Mixed Content MLOG Mocking Music Musical Perceptions Music Arcades Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good Music Is My Boyfriend Muzzle of Bees My Bird Performs My Old Kentucky Blog Mystery & Misery N nau pyrata Nerd Litter Net, Blogs and Rock'n'Roll NewFrontEars Stevie Nixed MkII No One Here Is Asking noise for toaster The Noise it Makes Northern Vantage - by E. Tindblikk No Rock & Roll Fun Nothing But Green Lights - UK mp3 blog NOX Blog by DJ ZoZo O Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog Occam's Razor Old Rottenhat One Louder Opus Weblog P parallax view Pastries, Pepper and Canals... Ewan Pearson. Enthusiasm... Percussive Piano: New Music Daily Perfect Sounds The Pill Box Pop Your Funk: Dressed In Yello; Says Hello Pop Musicology - The Scandinavians are coming! PostClassic Postapocalyptic Vanguard post-punk junk PRANCEHALL (not a Wasteman) prefixblog.com Productshop NYC R The Rambler Random types Raven Sings The Blues - Indie Rock News Media MP3s remote_ thoughts Renster rock the dub Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise Running the Voodoo Down The Runout Groove S Said the Gramophone sampled & sorted Sandow Seaworthy Southeast Thesaurus Spherical Objective S/FJ shards, fragments and totems Philip Sherburne Sid Smith's Postcards From The Yellow Room Silence is a Rhythm Two Silent Words Speak Loudest SIXEYES S K A T T E R B R A I N Skykicking Sleeve Notes smallfish records Somedisco sonictroubadour Soviet Panda Spoilt Victorian Child Stereogum Strawberry Fire Stumblings in the dark Swoon// mp3 video discussion news// subeena The Suburbs Are Killing Us Sweeping The Nation Swen's Weblog T 3hive 33/45 take your shoes off throughsilver in blog The Tofu Hut Torr Totally Fuzzy TUNETOURIST 20th Century Music U unarocks uncarved.org blog undomondo unpopular V Vis-a-Vis W wayne&wax the weblog of Lucas Gonze WFMU's Beware of the Blog Whatever Happened 2 Bay B Kane? The Whole Wide World Of Fat Buddha! the wirewool Woebot Worlds of Possibility X Xenographix Y Yeti Don't Dance Z Zoilus Not Updated in blo.gs: [Other] Basement Galaxy BBC Radio 1 | OneMusic Blog | Braquage electronicablog.com EVERGREEN DAZE Ground and Sky JahSonic's Blog Kon-tent 1471 The Original Soundtrack Plan B Magazine - Frances May Morgan Plan B Magazine - Everett True's Blog tomorrowJazz Unfinished voltage: electro culture Multiple Contributors: [These are included in my blo.gs updates] ArtsJournal.com - Music Bagatellen beepSNORT De Subjectivisten Deviated Septum Diskant donewaiting.com The Freelance Mentalists thegoldblog House Is A Feeling KEXP Blog Let's kiss and make up... New Music reBlog Other Side of Life ::: POPJUSTICE ::: rockcritics daily rockcritics links Rocknerd Spizzazzz Static Beats T A P E testpress the turntable 2 Many Scenes weareie

London Centric: Ammo City Delta 9 Hyponik Noiseloop Prog rock and avant-garde gigs in London Promoters: Eat Your Own Ears Haywire ICA London Musicians Collective Lumin no.signal Sprawl London Weekly Listings: Flavorpill London Kultureflash

Online Music Stores: Links: More UK Links: del.icio.us/djmartian/ecommerce
Music Shopping: UK Generalists: Online Music Stores UK Specialists: Online Music Stores US Online Music Stores
CD Price Comparison: Dealtime.co.uk Kelkoo 123PriceCheck.com Pricerunner.com
New Releases/ This Week [UK Music Stores] Boomkat Juno Records Norman Records Piccadilly Records Rough Trade Smallfish
New Releases/ This Week [US Music Stores] AB-CD Aquarius Records Darla - New This Week Dusty Groove America EAR/ Rational Music Forced Exposure Insound Midheaven - New Releases Other Music Other Music - New Release Updates Parasol Siren Disc: New Releases Stinkweeds

UK Online Music Stores: with e-commerce ordering: Specialists More links @ specialist
Action Records Alice's Records Banquet Records bmsoho Boomkat Juno Records Key Mail Order MusicNonStop.co.uk Norman Records Phonica Piccadilly Records Pure Groove recordstore.co.uk ReR Resurrection Music Rhythm Online The Rock Box Rough Trade Second Layer Records Smallfish Sound323 Spillers Records, Cardiff Spin Supernal TouchShop Tunes.co.uk volcanic tongue Downloads BLEEP
UK Online Music Stores: with e-commerce ordering: Generalists More links @ cdstores
Amazon.co.uk ASDA Entertainment BlahDVD CD Wow eil.com HMV.co.uk theHut.com 194u.com 101cd.com Play.com PowerplayDirect.com Tesco Townsend Records WHSmith.co.uk

Radio Stations
UK: Absolute Radio Kiss 100 NMERadio Resonance 104.4 FM Total Rock Xfm London 97.7 Xfm Manchester
Ireland: Phantom 105.2, Dublin Power FM RTE 2FM Xfm 107.9
Online Radio: Brainwashed Radio Gaialive Pig Radio Pirate TV.net Proton Pulse Radio Radio Magnetic Radioio SomaFM SUB FM Totally Radio 3WK [woxy] 97X
US College/ Community Radio: KCRW KEXP Kuci 88.9FM Radio 1190 MPR: Radio Listening: The Current WFMU WHUS WXPN
Specific Radio Shows: On the Wire RTQE Totallywired
Music Listening: BetterPropaganda CultureDeluxe Epitonic gabba POD
General Radio Links: Live365.com Radio in London radio-now co.uk Shoutcast UK Radio Magazine UK Radio Stations broadcasting on the Internet Warp Radio Radio News: radio-now.co.uk: news
Xfm: Xfm Xfm On Air

BBC Music
BBC Music BBC Music News BBC Music Reviews BBC Music - Artist Profiles BBC Collective BBC Classic Pop/ Rock BBC Dance & Electronica Music BBC Jazz & Blues Music BBC Rock & Indie Music BBC World Music
BBC Music: >Selection of Local Links BBC Bristol BBC Liverpool: Music BBC – London Music BBC Manchester: Music BBC Nottingham: Music BBC Oxford: Music BBC Music Scotland BBC South Yorkshire: Music BBC Stoke & Staffs: Music BBC Wales: Music
BBC Music: What's On TV /Radio: BBC Later BBC Music TV/Radio
BBC Radio: BBC Radio BBC Music - Listen BBC - England - BBC English Regions Local Radio Stations BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Wales BBC Digital Radio BBC Radio London

Radio 1: Radio 1 Radio 1 Playlist Radio 1 Schedule Radio 1 - Events Radio 1 Music News Radio 1 Dance Radio 1 - Experimental Radio 1 Rock/ Indie Shows/ Presenters: Rob da Bank Fabio & Grooverider Mary Ann Hobbs Ras Kwame Steve Lamacq Zane Lowe Annie Mac Annie Nightingale Gilles Peterson Huw Stephens Pete Tong Themed/ Specialist Shows: Essential Mix The Rock Show Remember: John Peel
1Xtra: 1Xtra 1Xtra Schedule 1Xtra DJShows IXtra Playlist IXtra drumnbass Bailey Benji B Crissy Criss
Radio 2: Radio 2 Playlist Schedule Documentaries Events Janice Long Radcliffe & Maconie
Radio 3: Radio 3 Schedule Programmes Presenters Music: Radio 3: Classical Radio 3: Jazz Radio 3: New Music Radio 3: World Music Shows: Hear and Now Jazz on 3 Late Junction

6 Music: 6 Music 6 Music - Music News 6 Music - Music News in Brief 6 Music - Playlist 6 Music - Schedule 6 Music - Events 6 Music - Shows Have Your Say 6 Music - Contact Us 6 Music - Press Office Weekdays: 6 Music - Album of the Day Nemone Steve Lamacq Marc Riley Gideon Coe Roundtable Tom Robinson Bruce Dickinson Rock Show Weekends: Liz Kershaw Lauren Laverne 6Mix Don Letts Tom Robinson's Introducing The Music Week Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Guy Garvey's Finest Hour

Contemporary Classical/ Modern Composition: BBC Classical BBC Radio 3 BMIC British Composers Index Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland Harmonia Mundi UK Hear and Now International Computer Music Association New Music Box NetNewMusic NewNote NMC Post-Classical rec.music.classical.contemporary Sequenza 21 SPNM

Dance Music/ Club Culture: Cognition DanceNova DJ List DJ Mag earplug Hyperdub Klublife NAJM Progressive-Sounds UK-Dance

Breakbeat/ Nu Skool Breaks: Nubreaks.com Nu Skool Breaks

DrumnBass/Jungle: DogsonAcid Drum & Bass Arena Junglist.com Knowledge Magazine Liquid Funk IXtra - DrumNBass Planetdnb Drum&Bass International Startpage

Dubstep Blogs Blackdown deeptime Drumz of The South Dubster's Laboratory Forensics Gutterbreakz kid kameleon lower end spasm Mashed Up Beats patternloader Shards, Fragments and Totems: Grievous Angel’s alternate reality of random scribbling Forums Dubstep Forum Dissensus - Dubstep Thread History BBC Collective - Sound of Dubstep wikipedia - Dubstep Labels Hotflush Recordings Hyperdub Tempa Net Radio & Mixes Bare Files Dubplate.Net Dubstep.fm www.gourmetbeats.com Mary Anne Hobbs Reload-Radio online DUBSTEP radio/stream - Home Rinse FM SUB FM Artists Digital Mystikz Hatcha Horsepower Productions kode9 Skream Search - Blogosphere Google Blog Search - Dubstep technorati - Dubstep Tags delicious - dubstep Tag Central - dubstep

Electroclash/ Futurepop/ Modern Synthpop: Links @ LarryTee.com Ersatz Audio Gigolo Records Electroclash A Different Drum Jive 55 Synthpop for the Masses Synthpop.NET

Electro Sounds - everybody grooving to the future robot beat: Crucial Electro ELECTRO-FUNK ROOTS HOMEPAGE Electrocuted Links Flightpath Estate Global Darkness Kraftwerk Psi49Net -Anthony Rother Rotters Golf Club 313ctr0

Electronic Downtempo Grooves, Electro Jazz, Broken Beats, Trip Hop: Acid Jazz Server Beyond Jazz.net BigChill.net Downtempo.org electroambientdreampop Jazzadelica weblinks kozmigroov-index Straight No Chaser Triphop.hu Trip-Hop.net World of Trip Hop

EM / Electronic Music/ Ambient/ Space Music: Ambience for the Masses The Ambient Review Ambient Visions Ambient Visions: News Ampersand etcetera Electric Music 411 Electroambient Space Electronic Music Foundation electronicshadows.com Epsilon Hypnagogue Wind and Wire Concerts: The Gatherings Discussion: Mailing Lists The Ambient Way Spacemusic Labels: AtmoWorks.com DiN Horizon Music Hypnos lotuspike Nepenthe Spotted Peccary Music Radio: Star's End Online Retailers: Farfield Music Groove Unlimited Hypnos Store Steve Roach Mail Order Synth Music Direct

Experimental Electronics/ IDM: Haunted Links Boomkat Electronic Music Links Cyclic Defrost disquiet Electroacoustic 11th Hour Technology Gridface Grooves Magazine Hyperreal Sonic Arts Network Tesselate Textura t h e . z z z o n e

Hip Hop: Old School Hiphop Spinemagazine UKHH.com Underground Hip Hop

House/ Tech-House/Techno: Deep House Network deepness Tech-House Techno Online

Industrial / Darkwave/ EBM/ Goth: Cybase 23 Dark Culture Magazine Dark Links Deathrock Funprox Goth.net Hard Wired Heathen Harvest industrial.org Moving Hands net goth org UK Side Line Sordid Magazine StarVox This is Corrosion uk.people.gothic

Jazz/ Improvised Music: All About Jazz All About Jazz: Articles Upcoming Jazz Release Center Mike Chadwick ContemporaryJazz.com EER Jazz Fusion European Free Improvisation Pages euro-improv Europe Jazz Network FreeJazz.org International Jazz Festivals Organization Jazzitude Jazz Journalists Association Jazzmatazz JazzNow Jazz Review.com Jazz Services Jazz Weekly.com JazzWorld NOjazz One Final Note Magazines: Down Beat Jazz Improv Jazziz Jazz Times Jazzwise Signal to Noise Radio: Jazz FM The Jazz House NPR Jazz WNUR 89.3 Reviews: All About Jazz: Reviews Bagatellen reviews BBC Music - Jazz the Improviser jazzmatazz: Reviews Jazz Online Jazz Review.com - CD Reviews Shops: Crazy Jazz IndieJazz.com Jazzcds Jazz Loft Jazz Links: Contemporary List of Jazz Links freeform.org : music links Jazz Links Jazzmatazz links Restructures

Metal: [Extreme/ Dark Metal/ Metalcore etc] Key: Apeshit Archaic-Magazine.com Chronicles of Chaos Live 4 Metal Webzine Lords of Metal Maximum Metal Metal Crypt The Metal Forge Metal Invader The Metal Observer Metalrage MetalReview.com METAL REVIEWS Metal-Rules.com Metal Storm Teeth of the Divine Treehouse of Death SMNnews.com Ultimate Metal Doom Doom Metal Hardcore/ Metalcore Lambgoat Stereokiller.com Other: Deadtide.com Firegoat Metal Throne Metal Undergound.com PRP Scream Tartarean Desire Webzine Viking Blood Databases: The BNR Metal Pages Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Magazines: BW&BK Decibel MetalBite Metal Hammer Pit Magazine Terrorizer Zero Tolerance Magazine

Post-Punk/ Punk-Funk: The Crepuscule and Factory Pages LTM Red Sun Records Ze Records

Post-Rock/ Shoegazer/Dreampop Sounds: Fakejazz.com Losing Today Post Rock Bands Post Rock Labels & Media Tonevendor

Progressive Rock/Avant Prog: Aural Innovations The Axiom of Choice Clicks and Klangs Cuneiform Dutch Progressive Rock Page Ghostland The Giant Progweed Gibraltar Gnosis The Green Dolphin's Poll Innerviews Prog Archives Progfreaks.com Prog4you Prog-Nose Prognosis ProgressiveWorld.net Progressor ProgRock.com ProgScape.com Rubberneck Sea of Tranquilty Links: Aural Innovations - Links Progressive and Avant Rock Rec.Music.Progressive - FAQ Online Shops/ Mail Order: ReR Ultima Thule Wayside Discussion: avant-progressive Progressive Ears The Progressive Music Society rec.music.progressive News: Ytsejam.com Radio: Progressive Music Shows Live Online Aural Moon Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio The Dividing Line Progradio.net Radio Shows: Gagliarchives Gnosis Radio Krautrock/ Kosmische Music Kosmische Club Krautrock @ phinnweb

IA/ ID/ User Experience/ Web Usability: InfoDesign: Understanding by Design UsabilityNews.com xBlog Resources: Boxes and Arrows Chinwag Usability Body of Knowledge Usability Views UXmatters Links: Experience Design Resources findability.org HCI Index HCI Sites IA Library Interaction-Design.org. User Experience Resource Collection UX - Overview Diagrams UX Disciplines Circle uxd_diagrams UX UXnet - User Experience Network Information Architecture The Information Architecture Institute

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