From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Apr 3 10:44:49 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Apr 3 10:45:02 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] April update Message-ID: <9AA307A2-8596-11D8-AE19-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> EAR/Rational Music 1592 Kilkenny St. Boulder, CO 80303-1646 810/222-1904 (message) 775/414-5414 (fax) http://www.ear-rational.com email addresses: orders@ear-rational.com for automated ordering status@ear-rational.com for automated order status newstuff@ear-rational.com for a list of new items by return email contact@ear-rational.com for human contact Welcome to the April update of the EAR/Rational catalogue! EAR/Rational Top 10 Best Sellers for March 2004 1. Namlook, Pete/Jochem Paap - pp * nmlk 2. Namlook, Pete - Music for Urban Meditation 3. Merzbow - Tamago 4. Steve Stoll - Earthling 5. Maitreya - Telluric Waves 6. Jill Stevenson - Underway 7. Move D (David Moufang) - Pop for Dwoozle 8. Anthony Rother - Magic Diner Autechre/Seefeel - Spangle CDS Christian Knudsen - Hav Namlook, Pete/Charles Uzzell-Edwards - Create Pino & Wildjamin - Xangadix Sol, Victor/Niko Heyduck/Atom Heart - Aerial Service Area Spyra - Homelistening is Killing Clubs IMPORTANT NOTICES CATALOG ADDITIONS 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberations 2CD [734274] Atom $15.75 # A Certain Ratio - To Each CD [US21CD] Soul Jazz $17.50 # Adler, Gunter - 15 Electronic Pieces CD [STAUB009CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Advent, The - Light Years Away CD [ETX002CD] Electrix $15.75 # Agata - Spike CD [TZ7249] Tzadik $14.25 # Ah Cama Sotz/Iszoloscope - Camanecroscope CD [05542/S14] Spectre $19.75 # Air - Talkie Walkie +6 DVD+CD [734804] Version $26.25 # Air Liquide - Let Your Ears Be The Receiver CD [MCR033CD] Multicolor $17.00 # Airaksinen, Pekka - Madam I'm Adam 2CD [LXCD642CD] Love Records $21.25 # Allan & The Arrows, Davie - Devil's Rumble: Anthology '65-'68 2CD [SC11138] Sundazed $25.00 # Allerseelen - Pedra CDEP [05546/TF001] Terra Fria $13.00 # Allerseelen - Stirb und Werde CD [05558/AORCD04] Aorta $16.25 # Almond, Marc and the Mambas - Torment and Toreros 2CD [682874] Mercury $39.00 # Almond, Marc and the Mambas - Untitled +1 CD [682844] Mercury $26.75 # Alter Ego - Transphormer CD [KLANG11CD] Klang Elektron $16.50 # Ambarchi, Oren/Martin Ng - Reconnaissance CD [STAUB015CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Amp Fiddler - Waltz of a Ghetto Fly CD [GEN015CD] Genuine $21.25 # Andrew Duke - Environmental Politics CD3 [and/9] And/OAR $ 8.00 # Anemonengurt - Bocuse Berneau CD [173348] Dom Elchklang $13.25 # Anemonengurt - Wo Die Ebenen Geglaettet CD [136037] Dom Elchklang $12.00 # ANP (Absolut Null Punkt) - Live In Japan CD [IMPREC029CD] Important $10.25 # Arbre Noir - Serpent CD [05522/POLYMORPH07] Polymorph $17.00 # Arbre Noir/Polygon - Traveller CD [05523] Polymorph $17.00 # Arovane - Lilies CD [CCO020CD] City Centre Of $16.50 # Atherton, Michael/James Ashley Franklin - Aurora CD [CH13236] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Atom - Flextone: 10th Anniversary Box 2CD [RI023CL] Rather Interes $19.50 # Automato - Automato CD [CGC5002CD] Coup de Grace $14.50 # Azita - Life On The Fly CD [DC264CD] Drag City $12.75 # B.L. Reininger & M. Rouse - Colorade Suite + A Walk... CD [170941] Made To Measur $15.25 # Bailey, Derek/Milo Fine - Scale Points on the Fever Curve CD [EMANEM4099] Emanem $17.00 # Basho-Junghans, Steffen - 7 Books 2CD [SAAH020/21] Strange Attrac $16.00 # Basinski + Richard Chartier, William - Untitled CD [SPEKK002CD] Spekk $15.25 # Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape CD [05552/HDBCCD9] Headphone Dust $19.75 # Bendian's Interzone, Gregg - Gregg Bendian's Interzone CD [ATA156CD] Atavistic $12.75 # Benjamin Lew - Le Parfum Du Raki CD [170949] Made To Measur $15.25 # Birchville Cat Motel & Bruce Russell - S/T CD [PP-BCNBR] Psi Phenomenon $13.40 # Bjork - Bjork Book [326740] One Litttle In $26.75 # Black Devil - Disco Club 12_inch [REPH146REP] Rephlex $ 8.50 # Black Devil - Disco Club 12_inch [REPH146TEP] Rephlex $ 8.50 # Black Forest/Black Sea - Forcefields and Constellations CD [INRI076CD] Blue Sanct $ 1.00 # Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children CD [WARP55] Warp $10.75 # Boca Raton - Enzo/Further CD [SPEKK004CD] Spekk $15.25 # Boddy, Ian - Chiasmata CD [05559/DIN16] Din $13.50 # Boghossian, Herve - RVB CD [List4] List $17.53 # Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth CD [IPC048CD] Ipecac $15.25 # Boom Bip - Corymb CD [LEX5210CD] Lex $11.75 # Bowie, David - Glass Spider Tour VCD [340556] Moltio $19.50 # Brinkmann, Thomas - Lovesong/Hatesong 12_inch [MAXF16] Maxernst $ 9.00 # Brody, Paul - Beyond Babylon CD [TZ7188] Tzadik $14.25 # Brute Force - Brute Force CD [STONE15CD] Sepia-Tone $12.25 # BSE - Ratan CD [179010] Old Europa Caf $12.75 # Bulent - Benimle Oynar Misin CD [WPC68472] World Psychede $15.75 # Burkett, Joshua - Life Less Lost CD [SO030CD] Spirit of Orr $13.25 # Camping - Suburban Shore CD [PR042CD] Plug Research $11.25 # Carlo Fashion - I Am The Crazy Hooverman CD [174956] Hausmusik $13.50 # Casey, Al - Cookin': The Smooth Guitar & Organ Sounds Of... CD [SC6115] Sundazed $13.75 # Cathode - Special Measures CD [ECD13-03CD] Expanding $17.75 # Chameleons - Strange Times +6 CD [682904] Geffen $28.50 # Chantler, John - Monoke CD [RM401CD] Room40 $14.25 # Charalambides - Joy Shapes CD [KRANK068] kranky $12.25 # Chatham, Rhys - Three Aspects of the Name 12_inch [TABLE65] Table of the E $14.00 # Chicks On Speed - Wordy Rappinghood CD [COS017CD] Chicks on Spee $ 6.00 # Chilton, Alex - High Priest/Black List 2CD [730664] Last Call $24.50 # Churchill, Winston - His Finest Hour CD [736164] Prestige Elite $ 8.25 # Cisfinitum - V CD [05516/WAYSTYX05] Waystyx $16.75 # Clouddead - Ten CD [MH230CD] Mush $14.75 # Coldcut - Life Styles CD [677684] Harmless $19.25 # Compulsion - Comforter CD [741474] One Little Ind $18.00 # Conrad With Faust, Tony - Outside the Dream Syndicate 30th Anniv. Ed. 2 CD [TABLE302] Table of the E $20.00 # Cordell Klier - Winter CD [174987] Ad Noiseam $13.25 # Cyclotimia - Trivial Pleasures MCD CD [174974] Monopoly $10.75 # Cylob - Music System Volume 1 12_inch [REPH151EP] Rephlex $ 8.50 # Dale Lloyd - Eminus: Hymns from the Horizon CD [and/5] And/OAR $ 9.00 # Danger Mouse & Jemini - Twenty Six Inch CDEP [LEX5220CD] Lex $ 7.00 # Daniel Schell & Karo - If Windows They Have CD [170939] Made To Measur $15.25 # Datach'i - Mmale and Ffemale CD [PMU87] Planet Mu $15.75 # Davis, Jan - Boss Guitar! The Best of Jan Davis CD [SC11136] Sundazed $13.75 # Death In June - Brown Book CD [03480/BADVCCD11] Neroz $13.50 # Death In June - Heilige! CD [02161/NEROZ43] Neroz $13.50 # Deathprod - Deathprod CD Box [RCD2036] Rune Grammofon $40.00 # Deathprod - Morals and Dogma CD [RCD2035] Rune Grammofon $14.25 # Der Blutharsch - Time is Thee Enemy! CD [05549/WKN20] WKN $17.25 # Deupree, Taylor - January CD [SPEKK001CD] Spekk $15.25 # Deyhim & Horowitz - Desert Equations CD [170938] Made To Measur $15.25 # Die Haut And Nick Cave - Burnin' The Ice CD [HIT007CD] Hit Thing $13.75 # Din-St - Yamu D'Din CD [SCH041CD] Schematic $12.00 # Dissecting Table - Hypocrisy CD [05535/329.14] Mile 329 $12.25 # DJ Cam - Liquid Hip Hop CD [733074] Inflamable $24.75 # DJ Olive Meets I/O3 - Powerhouse Sessions CD [EDRM400CD] Room40 $14.25 # DJ Signify - Sleep No More CD [LEX5240CD] Lex $14.50 # DNA - DNA on DNA CD [NO12CD] No More $13.75 # Dr. P. Li Khan - Dropoutdrama CD [138659] Dom Elchklang $13.25 # Dr. P. Li Khan - Ein Hauch von Hoellenlaerm CD [173347] Dom Elchklang $13.25 # Dunmall, Paul/Paul Rogers - Awareness Response CD [EMANEM4101] Emanem $17.00 # Duplaix, Vikter - Singles (Prelude To The Future) CD [K7160CD] Studio K7 $15.75 # Dynarec - User Input CD [DELSIN46CD] Delsin $17.75 # Earthmonkey - Drum Machine CDEP [05513/MT068] Beta Lactam Ri $10.00 # Eglin, Fabrice/Jerome Noetinger - Psychotic Reactions & Lightnin, Rag CD [ABSBLUE001CD] A Bruit Secret $15.75 # Einstuerzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile +4 DVD+CD [718324] Mute $29.75 # Electric Masada - 50th Birthday CelebrationV4 CD [TZ5004] Tzadik $14.25 # em:t recordings - re-launch t-shirt t-shirt (XL) [emitshirt] em:t $20.00 # Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Masters From The Vaults DVD [339866] Intense Media $21.75 # End - The Sounds of Disaster CD [IPC049CD] Ipecac $15.25 # Eonta - Verletzbar CD [BINE004CD] Binemusic $17.00 # Estradasphere - Passion For Life DVD+CD [NOM015] Mimicry $20.75 # Europaplan - Armes De Vengeans CD [05517/ABCD003] Achtung Baby $17.50 # Everett, Peven - Kissing Game CD [KS002CD] Kindred Spirit $17.75 # Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme) +4 CD [714884] Castle $15.75 # Fall - Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) +4 CD [714894] Castle $15.75 # Fanny - Revelry And Decadence As The Right Of Slaves CD [174922] Mirex $13.00 # Fe-Mail - Syklubb Fra Helvete (Sewing Club From Hell) CD [IMPREC033] Important $11.75 # Fellows, Mike - Limited Storyline Guest CD [VFORM034CD] Vertical Form $16.50 # Fennesz - Venice CD [TO53CD] Touch $13.75 # Fleischmann, B. - TMP CD [CHAR015] Charhizma $13.25 # Frame, Roddy - North Star CD [484822] Independiente $26.50 # Frank Rowenta - Schuss In Den Ofen CD [173346] Dom Elchklang $13.25 # Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand CD [DOMUS027CD] Domino $12.75 # Fred - Live at the Bitter End NYC CD [WIS1020] World In Sound $18.25 # Fred Frith - The Top Of His Head CD [170943] Made To Measur $15.25 # Frith, Fred - Accidental CD [FRA001CD] Fred $13.25 # Frith, Fred - Guitar Solos CD [FRO02CD] Fred Records $13.25 # Frith, Fred - Keep the Dog 2CD [FRA003CD] Fred $19.50 # Frith, Fred - Prints CD [FRA02CD] Fred Records $13.25 # Frith, Fred - Speechless CD [FRO04CD] Fred $13.25 # Frith, Fred - Step Across The Boarder CD [FRO03CD] Fred Records $13.25 # Frost - Steelwound CD [RM402CD] Room40 $14.25 # Funkstorung - Disconnected CD [K7162CD] K7 $15.75 # Garcia, Ruben - Maybe Forgotten Forever 2CD [05539/TPTCD109] Trance Port $19.25 # Gel - Dolce CD [PLIP3008CD] Plop $15.25 # Gentle People, The - Soundtracks For Living CD [REPH045CD] Rephlex $12.00 # Gerty Farish - Means Lots Of Treble CD [MPK7027CD] Menlo Park $11.00 # Giffoni, Carlos/Lee Ranaldo/Jim O'rourke - North Six CD [AN005CD] Antiopic $ 9.25 # Gigi - Illuminated Audio (Bill Laswell Reproduction) CD [PALMCD2100] Palm Pictures $15.25 # Gong - Acid Motherhood CD [MRE004CD] Mister E $15.00 # Gray, Barry - UFO (Original TV Soundtrack) LP [JBH010LP] Trunk $16.75 # Green Milk From The Planet Orange - He's Crying "Look" CD [05514/MT046] Beta Lactam Ri $13.00 # Groenland Orchester - Nurobic CD [STAUB013CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Groenland Orchester - Trigger Happiness CD [STAUB010CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Grooves - #13 Magazine [GROOVES13] Grooves $ 5.00 # Gustafsson, Mats - Solos For Contrabass Saxophone 12_inch [TABLE68] Table of the E $14.00 # Gutbucket - Dry Humping the American Dream CD [CA21021] Cantaloupe $16.50 # Gutzeit, Brent - Drug Money CD [KRANK067] kranky $12.25 # Hafler Trio - How to Slice a a Loaf of Bread (Lengthwise) 3CD [05547/PGRAM004] Phonometrograp $47.50 # Hafler Trio - Wolf Sheep Cabbage Episode 2 7_inch [05533/SOM10010] Somnimage $21.00 # Hafler Trio, The - Kisses With Both Hands From Gods Little Toy CD [IMPREC027CD] Important $10.25 # Hafler Trio, The - The Sea Org CD [KPTSO] Korm Plastics $18.75 # Haino, Keiji - Next Let Us Try Changing the Shape CD [SFKH001CD] Swordfish $17.75 # Hans Appelqvist - Att Mota Verkligheten CD3 [174780] Hapna $ 9.00 # Hard Sleeper - Land, Live @ Rausch 05.11.02 CD [FALLT180004] Fallt $14.00 # Hector Zazou & Harold Budd - Glyph CD [170950] Made To Measur $15.25 # Hendricks Trio, The Karl - A Gesture of Kindness CD [SO026CD] Spirit of Orr $13.25 # Hildebrand, Gustav - Starscape CD [05561/7THCYCLE] Cyclic Law $15.75 # Hoodoo Gurus - Mach Schau CD [718954] Capitol $26.50 # Hooker, John Lee - Don't Look Back CD [731964] Complete Blues $10.75 # Hooker, John Lee - Rock With Me CD [732714] Acrobat $14.50 # Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of The Texas Blues CD [732684] Acrobat $10.75 # House, Son - Delta Blues CD [728654] Complete Blues $10.75 # Housemartins - Best of +8 DVD+CD [733844] Mercury $32.00 # Howlin' Wolf - Come Back Home CD [731664] Complete Blues $10.75 # Huber, Rupert - Open Air Radiotopia CD [STAUB034CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Hudson, Keith - Flesh of My Skin CD [BRAT1005CD] Basic Replay $16.50 # Hurt, Mississippi John - Ain't Nobody's Business CD [736664] Prestige $ 8.25 # Hurt, Mississippi John - Candy Man Blues CD [731334] Complete Blues $10.75 # Hurt, Mississippi John - Kings Of The Blues CD [720704] Castle Pulse $ 7.25 # Hwan Trio, Kang Tae - Love Time CD [VHF79] VHF $13.75 # I/O - Calm CD [RM400CD] Room40 $14.25 # Ikeda, Ryoji - O C CD [TO38] Touch $13.75 # Ilsa Gold - Regretten? Rien! 2CD [175445] Mego $17.75 # Inoue, Tetsu/Charles Uzzell-Edwards/Damon Beail - Audio CD [PS08/97] Fax $13.00 # Institut fuer Feinmotorik - Penetrans CD [STAUB025CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Invercauld - Tiamhaidh CD [05562/6THCYCLE] Cyclic Law $15.75 # Iso 68 - Here/There Remixes CD [174785] Hausmusik $13.50 # Jackie-O Motherfucker - The Magick Fire Music/Wow! 2CD [177915] ATP $18.50 # James, Elmore - Person To Person CD [731954] Complete Blues $10.75 # Jean-Marc Zelwer - La Fiancee Aux Yeux De Bois CD [170944] Made To Measur $15.25 # Jefferson, Blind Lemon - Black Snake Moan CD [731384] Complete Blues $10.75 # Johnson, Blind Willie - Soul Of A Man CD [731294] Complete Blues $10.75 # Johnson, Michael - Nonsense Goes Mudslide CD [MUD005CD] Must!Delicious $12.00 # Johnson, Robert - Kings Of The Blues CD [720724] Castle Pulse $ 7.25 # Kadane, Matt & Bubba - Music from the film Hell House CD [PLXM012CD] Pleximusic $ 9.25 # Kale, Karsh - Liberation CD [SXDG1090] Six Degrees $15.00 # Karkowski, Zbigniew/Lopez, Francisco - Turnoff CD3 [05529/NAIM16] Noise Asia $13.50 # Karl Biscuit - Aktualismus CD [170945] Made To Measur $15.25 # Karn, Mick - More Better Different CD [298774] Betteravia $24.75 # Kawabata, Makoto/Jean-Francois Pauvros - Venus CD [PSF151] PSF $ 0.00 # Keller & Sch?nw?lder - Noir CD [MRCD7066] Manikin $17.22 # Kid Spatula - Meast 2CD [PMU90] Planet Mu $15.75 # King George Discovery - King George Discovery CD [WPC68473] World Psychede $15.75 # King, Albert - Feeling CD [731594] Complete Blues $10.75 # King, B.B. & His Orchestra - Live CD [728264] Acrobat $ 7.00 # Kirk, Richard H. - URP Vol. 2 CD [INTONE04CD] Intone $17.75 # Kleine, Christian - Real Ghosts CD [CCO019CD] City Centre Of $15.25 # Komet - Arc, Live @ SWR Freiburg 18.04.00 CD [FALLT180003] Fallt $14.00 # Konk - The Story of Konk CD [SJR90CD] Soul Jazz $17.50 # Korber/Erikm/Nakamura/Otomo - Brackwater CD [FOR1550] For Four Ears $13.25 # Koura - Shiso CD [and/12] And/OAR $ 9.00 # Kubisch, Christina - On Air CD [DIES003CD] Die Schachtel $20.00 # Kylian - Lappi Inzoo CD [TOY17CD] Toytronic $12.00 # Lali Puna - Faking the Books CD [MORR044CD] Morr Music $14.50 # Lang, Klaus - Sei-Jaku fur Streichquartett CD [RZ4005] Edition RZ $14.25 # Language Computer - Mouse Back Riding CD [QS149CD] Quatermass $12.50 # Lapsed Twilight - Lapsed Twilight CD [05504/ADN34] Ad Noiseam $14.50 # Larvae - Fashion Victim CD [174985] Ad Noiseam $13.25 # Last Dominion Lost - The Tyranny Of Distance CD [179003] Tesco Organisa $13.25 # Lazarus, Damian - Crosstown Rebles Present Rebel Futurism CD [CRM001CD] Crosstown Rebe $15.75 # Leadbelly - Kings Of The Blues CD [720694] Caslte Pulse $ 7.25 # Leadbelly - Take This Hammer CD [728684] Complete Blues $10.75 # Leadbelly - You Don't Know My Mind CD [727414] Acrobat $ 7.50 # Lippok, Robert - Falling Into Komeit CD [MONIKA37CD] Monika $13.75 # Litihium - Threshold To Disharmony CD [174775] Cold Meat Indu $12.25 # Lone Pigeon - Schoozzzmmii CD [WHIZZ001CD] Whizzkidzz $15.00 # Loren Connors & David Grubbs - Arborvitae CD [174779] Hapna $15.25 # Loscil - First Narrows CD [KRANK069] kranky $12.25 # LTJ Bukem - Presents Studio X2 2CD [GLR3202] Good Looking $13.50 # Lucien & Luciano - Blind Behaviour CD [PFG052CD] Peacefrog $17.75 # Lucky & Easy - Talent Hoover CD [ANN003CD] Ann Aimee $17.75 # M83 - 0078h CDS [GOOOM031CD] Gooom $ 6.00 # Maat - Sie CD [141915] Dom Elchklang $12.00 # Maat - Yacikaa CD [141917] Dom Elchklang $12.25 # Maggi Payne - Ping/Pong: Beyond the Pail CD [and/8] And/OAR $ 9.00 # Magic Kunt is Master - Nightsongs for Ugly Children CD [nihil24] Nihilist $10.50 # Magwheels/Stone Glass Steel - Pane CD [174986] Ad Noiseam $13.25 # Man'sbestfriend - The New Human is Illegal CD [MORR043CD] Morr $14.50 # Mapstation - Sleep, Engine Sleep CD [STAUB011CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Mapstation feat. Ras Donovan - Version Train CD [STAUB038CD] Staubgold $11.25 # Marclay, Christian - djTRIO CD [ASPH2024CD] Asphodel $12.00 # Martin, Jimmy - Don't Cry To Me CD [THR145CD] Thrill Jockey $13.75 # Massoni, John - Stillborn Dreams CD [ORBIT038CD] Space Age $16.50 # Master Musicians Of Joujouka - Joujouka Black Eyes CD [SR087] Sub Rosa $12.50 # Maysles, Albert And David - 5 Films about Christo & Jeanne-Claude DVD Box [PLEX014DVD] Plexifilm $43.50 # McTell, Blind Willie - Atlanta Strut CD [731354] Complete Blues $10.75 # Memphis Slim - I Am The Blues CD [736674] Prestige $ 8.25 # Mephista - Entomological Reflections CD [TZ7711] Tzadik $14.25 # Merzbow - Dharma CD [HYH96] Hydra Head $14.50 # Merzbow - Puroland CD [OHM0.9] Ohm $12.50 # Metal Boys - Tokio Airport CD [ACT004CD] Acute Records $12.25 # Midwest Product - Specifics CD [GI010] Ghostly Intern $10.75 # Milligramme - Anatomy 2CD [174983] Parametric $18.75 # Mills, Jeff - Exhibitionist CD [AX041CD] Axis $14.00 # Mills, Jeff - Exhibitionist DVD [AXIS052DVD] Axis $17.00 # Mindflayer - It's Always 1999 CD [LOAD059CD] Load $11.50 # Minus Story - The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance CD [JAG73] JagJaguwar $12.75 # Mirror - Under The Sun LP [THREE17] Three Poplars $59.75 # Mission Of Burma - ONoffON CD [OLE613CD] Matador $13.75 # Mogollar - Mogollar CD [WPC68474] World Psychede $15.75 # Molina, Juana - Tres Cosas CD [DOMUS030CD] Domino $12.75 # Monolith - Sub-System CD [176165] Daft Records $12.25 # Moore, Christy - Box Set 1964-2004 CD Box [733824] Sony UK $77.50 # Morricone, Ennio - Secret of the Sahara CD [741484] BMG $19.25 # Moslang, Norbert - lat_nc_ CD [FOR1549] For Four Ears $13.25 # Mou, Lips! - Peanuts and Shells Geometria CD [L3] List $16.30 # Mr 76IX - Hits of 76IX CD [SKALD013CD] Skam $13.75 # Mu-ziq - Tango N' Vectif 2CD [REPH013CD] Rephlex $13.75 # Murs - Murs 3:16 CD [DJX80CD] Def Jux $11.75 # Musicworks - #88 Spring 2004 Magazine [MUSIC088] Musicworks $ 5.00 # Muslimgauze - Beyond The Blue Mosque Compilation CD [175602] Staalplaat $13.00 # Namlook, Pete/DJ Criss/Tetsu Inoue - Sequential CD [AW000-7] Ambient World $13.00 # Namlook, Pete/Jochem Paap - pp ? nmlk CD [PW46] Fax $13.00 # Namlook, Pete/Klaus Schuze feat. Bill Laswell - The Dark Side of the Moog 7 CD [AW032] Ambient World $13.00 # Nanobot Auxiliary Ballet - Nanobot Auxiliary Ballet CD [TADA001CD] Ta Da $12.75 # Nautical Almanac - Rooting for Microbes CD [LOAD061CD] Load $11.50 # Neilson, Alexander/Richard Youngs - Ourselves CD [VHF82] VHF $13.75 # Neither Neither World - She Whispers CD [179005] Hau Ruck $13.25 # Nerthus - Nerthus CD [05550/ART38] Art Konkret $16.25 # Neulander - Smoke + Fire CD [DB122CD] Disko B $14.50 # No Empty Room - Some Lights Behind the Window CD [05525/POLYMORPH09] Polymorph $17.00 # Nurse With Wound - Angry Eelectric Finger (Spitch' Cock One) CD [UD300CD] United Dairies $18.75 # o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C. CD [SCH043CD] Schematic $12.00 # Olivia Tremor Control, The - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle CD [CLD003CD] Cloud $12.75 # Oneil, Tara Jane - Bones CD [PRE004CD] Preservation $15.25 # Orchestra Of The Nat'l Center For Korean Traditional Performing Arts - Yomillak: Korean Classical Music 2CD [RZ7001] Edition RZ $18.75 # Organum - Ein schwaerzeres Schwarz 7_inch [DS73] Die Stadt $12.75 # Othila - Yula 10 CD [179000] Divine Comedy $12.00 # Outlandish - Beats, Rhymes, and Life CD [CASTE44CD] Outcaste $16.50 # Ovuca - Onclements CD [REPH104CD] Rephlex $10.50 # Ozric Tentacles - Pongmasters Ball 2CD [744124] Recall $15.75 # P-Orridge, Genesis - When I Was Young CD [IMPREC035CD] Important $13.25 # P.G. 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[02161/NEROZ43] Neroz $15.00 Gun Club - Fire Of Love [257784] Last Call $18.25 Inoue, Tetsu - Ambiant Otaku [AW017] Ambient World (Fax) $15.00 Kapotte Muziek - Not Lost [04416/BAKE055] Bake $12.25 Keenan, David - England's Hidden Reverse [SAFDKLTD] SAF $59.00 Lopez, Francisco - Buildings (New York) [V232] V2 $14.00 Lopez, Francisco - Wasps [ibt030/05176] Longbox $7.50 Main/Antenna Farm - Broumbron 01: AF_M [04020] Staalplaat $13.50 Merzbow - Noisembryo [IGLOO01] Laughing Eskimo $13.50 Merzbow - Pinkream [DPROMCD37] Dirtier Promotions $12.00 Merzbow - Tentagle [ARCD111] Alchemy $17.00 Milligramme - Anatomy [05346/0.13] Parametric $20.00 Moscheles, Gary - Shaped to Make Your Life Easier [SSR171] SSR/Crammed $14.00 Muslimgauze - Melt [03780/BSI019-1] BSI $8.75 Namlook, Pete - Namlook VIII+IX [PK08/97] Fax $17.50 Namlook, Pete - XIII [PK08/136] Fax $13.00 Neither/Neither World - She Whispers [05432/HR51] Hau Ruck! $17.50 Ovuca - Onclements [EFA80704] Rephlex $17.00 Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways +3 [333644] Delerium $22.50 Schlammpeitziger - Everything Without All [SONIG032CD] Sonig $15.00 Senor Coconut - Smoke on the Water [NSERCD004] New State $9.25 Spyra - My Little Garden of Sounds [CCA110697] Manikin $17.00 Spyra - Sferics [PS08/91] Fax $13.00 Suns of Arqa vs. Muslimgauze - Mixes [03845/ARKACD22120] Arka Sound $11.75 System Error - Nothing [H000] Headphone $13.00 The Hafler Trio - A House Waiting For It's Master [05331/RSLP01] Rossbin $19.00 Various Artists - 10.100 [PF100CD] Peacefrog $17.25 Various Artists - Absolute Zero [03719/CHARRM28] Charrm $13.25 Various Artists - Deep Techno: It Sounds Different! 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[SSR207] SSR/Crammed $15.25 Various Artists - Freezone 6: Fourth Person Singular [SSR227] SSR/Crammed $15.50 Various Artists - Miniatures (51 Tiny Masterpieces) [BP59] Blueprint $14.00 Webster, Charles - Remixed On The 24th of July [PFG037CD] Peacefrog $15.25 CATALOG PRICE INCREASES Connors & David Grubbs, Loren - Arborvitae [HAPNA013] Hapna $14.50 Davis, Greg - Arbor [CRPK012CD] Carpark $12.25 Ehlers, Ekkehard - Politik Braucht Keinen Feind [STAUB41CD] Staubgold $13.75 Gray, Barry - UFO (Original TV Soundtrack) [JBH010LP] Trunk $16.75 Gun Club - Early Warning [111052] ? $21.00 Gunter/Halliwell/Wastell - +minus (first meeting) [TOC041] Trente Oiseaux $18.25 Kontakt der Juenglinge - Fruehruin [DS69] Die Stadt $25.00 Marumari - Supermogadon [CRPK009CD] Carpark $12.25 Marumari - The Wolves Hollow [CRPK004CD] Carpark $12.25 Masakatsu, Takagi - Pia [CRPK010CD] Carpark $16 Merzbow - Pulse Demon [REL6937] Relapse $15.75 Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar [SF006CD] Sublime Frequencies $13.50 RLW - Views [NOM27] Anomalous $13.75 Rich, Robert/Steve Roach - Strata [01465/HS11019-2] HOS/Fathom $14.75 Schulze, Klaus - X [263764] Brain $30.50 Suchy, Joseph - calabi.yau [STAUB43CD] Staubgold $13.75 Tangerine Dream - Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1 [271154] Castle $53.50 Tape - Opera [HAPNA009] Hapna $14.50 The Indie Bible - Fifth Edition [indiebible] Big Meteor Publishing $27.50 To Rococo Rot - Koelner Brett [STAUB22CD] Staubgold $13.75 Various Artists - Immediate Action [HEFT036CD] Hefty $17.00 Various Artists - Nu Yorica! 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[KEPLAR008CD] Keplar $14.75 Potter, Colin - See [INFX005] Infraction $11.00 Sack & Blum - Kind Kind [STAUB42CD] Staubgold $13.75 Silicon Soul - Pouti [DB101CD] Disko B $14.25 Sluta Leta - Semi Peterson [MEGO073] Mego $13.75 Thomas, Andrew - Fearsome Jewel [KOMP27] Kompakt $14.00 Throbbing Gristle - Mutant TG [MUTE3083CD] Mute $11.50 Timtim - Let's Pretend We're Going [BPC077CD] BPitch Control $14.75 Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek - 1 + 3 + 1 [SCAPE020CD] Scape $14.75 Troum - Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms and Pulsations) [05389/TR-03] Transgredient $14.50 Various Artists - Politronics [ONITOR24CD] Oni-Tor $14.75 Williams, David E. - Hope Springs A Turtle [05466/OECD063] Old Europa Cafe $15.50 From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Apr 4 10:50:14 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Apr 4 09:50:26 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: No time to do this justice today, but here's the list. This update contains releases by: 13th Floor Elevators * Ah Cama Sotz/Iszoloscope * Allerseelen * Atom * Bass Communion * Bennett, Samm * Bjorkenheim, Raoul/Krakatau * Black Dice * Blockhead * Boddy, Ian * Boghossian, Herve * Bozulich, Carla * Branca, Glenn * Coldcut * Contriva * Cylob * Danger Mouse & Jemini * Datach'i * Deadbeat * Deaf Center * Der Blutharsch * DJ Rupture vs. Mutamassik * Ellis, Rob * em recordings * Emerson, Lake & Palmer * Ferrari, Luc * Figurine * Florintintin * Frog Pocket * Fullman, Ellen/Konrad Sprenger * Graves, Milford/John Zorn * Hafler Trio * Hakon, Stafaenn * Heldon * Hildebrand, Gustav * Holiday, Billie * Hooverphonic * Housemartins * Hurt, Mississippi John * Icewater Scandal * Invercauld * Johnson, Robert * Kid Spatula * Kinski * Kurenniemi, Erkki * Leadbelly * M, Sachiko * Magic Kunt is Master * Malaria! * Melchior's Broke Revue, Dan * Merzbow * Middleton, Tom * Morgenstern, Barbara * Mr 76IX * Nerthus * Nyman, Michael * Operator * Panicsville/Inflatable Alterboys * Parker, Evan * Pet Shop Boys * Prevost Trio, Eddie * Prevost, Eddie * Qrella, Masha * Radiohead * Raiders Of The Lost Arp * Roach, Steve * Rufus Zuphall * Schulkowsky, Robyn * Sieg Uber Die Sonne * Sketch Show * Superpitcher * Tanaka, Fumiya * Tanaka, Yumiko * Theatrum Chemicum * Tilbury, Johny/Eddie Prevost * Tracy And The Plastics * Traject * TV Pow * Ventures * Vorontsova, Julia * Washington, Dinah * Waterboys * Woodbury, Brian * Z'ev [ T H I S W E EK ' S F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Atom - Flextone: 10th Anniversary Box 2CD (Rather Interesting) [RI023CL] $19.50 RELEASE DATE: 04-15-2004 RATHER INTERESTING PRESENTS R.I. 10TH ANNIVERSARY BOX IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO, WHEN PROLIFIC COMPOSER AND PRODUCER ATOM HEART DECIDED TO FOUND HIS OWN LABEL "RATHER INTERESTING" IN ORDER TO BECOME INDEPENDENT FROM RECORD COMPANY CAPRICIOS WHICH HE HAD EXPERIENCED OVER THE YEARS. THE FIRST RELEASE WAS THE CD "FLEXTONE," BACK THEN LIMITED TO 500 COPIES AND QUICKLY SOLD OUT. THIS ALBUM NOWADAYS IS A RARE SOUGHT-AFTER ITEM AND IS SOLD AT AUCTIONS FOR LOTS OF DOLLARS. DUE TO THE HIGH DEMAND ATOM??? DECIDED TO RE-RELEASE THIS ALBUM, FRESHLY REMASTERED AT 24-BIT, TOGETHER WITH A COLLECTION OF UNRELEASED MATERIALS HE HAD COME ACROSS WHILE LISTENING THROUGH TONS OF RECORDINGS, STORED ON DAT CASSETTES, LAYING AROUND IN HIS VAST ARCHIVE. BOTH ALBUMS, LIMITED TO 900 COPIES, AUTOGRAPHED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF, ACCOMPANIED BY A BOOKLET WHICH SHOWS DETAILED INFORMATIONS, ARTWORK, LINER NOTES (WRITTEN BY JAMES DEAN BROWN), RELEASED AS "RI 023 CL" WILL INITIATE A NEW SERIES OF R.I. RELEASES CALLED "RATHER INTERESTING CLASSICS," WHICH WILL MAINLY CONTAIN BOTH THE R.I. BACKCATALOGUE AS WELL AS LONG OUT-OFPRINT RELEASES BY ATOM, PREVIOUSLY ISSUED ON OTHER LABELS. TRACKLIST:

DISC 1 - FLEXTONE

  1. ALASKA
  2. FLEXTONE B
  3. AFTERWARDS, I FELT BETTER
  4. RATHER ABSTRACT
  5. SOUND
  6. INSTANT REPLAY
  7. FLEXTONE A
  8. LIFESIZE
  9. FLEXTONE C
  10. FRINGE
DISC 2 - UNRELEASED MATERIAL
  1. COMPUTER ON
  2. BASSDUMMY
  3. RECYCLED TERM
  4. ACRYL ICON
  5. FUTURE HOUSING
  6. PIXELWIND
  7. TEST FOR SILVER SOUND
  8. PRINTER
  9. EXCELBAN
  10. CHUPA LA ROJITA
  11. INDEED SLOW
  12. LET'S GET ON
  13. PUSH THE LITTLE DAISIES (PRIOR TO OVERDUB)
  14. UNUSED ELECTRO
  15. COMPUTER OFF Hafler Trio - How to Slice a a Loaf of Bread (Lengthwise) 3CD (Phonometrography) [05547/PGRAM004] $47.50 A new second chapter in Hafler Trio's "How to Slice a Loaf of Bread" series. This 3XCD set joins The Hafler Trio again as it performs its first, and possibly only scheduled performance of 2003 at the University Of Central Lancashire's St. Peter's Arts , Centre in Preston, Lancashire on Friday May 2nd. The nature and form of the performance, titled "how to slice a loaf of bread" was shaped and inspired by a combination of pre-determined, seemingly disparate statements that McKenzie has already formulated, and have shown themselves worthy of, and able to sustain, exploration.Exclusively distributed in the USA by Soleilmoon this 3XCD comes in a white cardboard box with booklet, original program, photos and a 3CD wallet. It is hand numbered and limited to 500 copies. Kid Spatula - Meast 2CD (Planet Mu) [PMU90] $15.75 RELEASE DATE: 04-20-2004 No description available at this time. Sieg Uber Die Sonne - +1 CD (Multicolor) [MCR034CD] $17.00 "Amazing, how clever Sieg ??ber Die Sonne arrange the sounds on their fourth album -- nearly 10 years after their debut. Z'ev - Live 3/1/86 10_inch (Crippled) [05543/CIP08] $15.25 Three excerpts from a 1986 performance at N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago. Given the special packaging with this release, it was essential to have the audio component be as special. After listening to a handful of unreleased material Z'EV had given me and comparing it to his released work, I found this performance contained elements I'd not heard developed in previous releases. For one, the components of the pieces shifted quicker; he'd add new instruments and rhythms at more frequent intervals, say 3 to 4 minutes, giving a continuous piece (still between 9 and 12 minutes) a much different dynamic than other recordings. A unique addition to Z'EV's output, this release comes in an edition of 333 copies in steel plates. Each plate is sequentially hand-stamped, and each copy has an insert signed by Z'EV. [ . . . ] 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberations 2CD (Atom) [734274] $15.75 Two-disc collection features 22 tracks including 'You're Gonna Miss Me', 'Roller Coaster', 'Livin On', & many more, packaged in a slipcase. Ah Cama Sotz/Iszoloscope - Camanecroscope CD (Spectre) [05542/S14] $19.75 Vocal elements, chants and invocations drift on a bed of soundscapes ranging from solemn brooding to ethereal and haunting. ''Echoes Ov...'' reveals a masterly example of sound research and sound manipulation in a coherent and convincing conceptual whole presented with superbly elaborated artwork. Comes in a special, oversized digipak with booklet.(MusicNonstop) http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05542.mp3 Allerseelen - Pedra CDEP (Terra Fria) [05546/TF001] $13.00 Released on the newborn Portuguese label Terra Fria, this mini-CD features three new Allerseelen songs inspired by the theme of 'sacred stones' and recorded in summer 2003 especially for the Allerseelen concert in Sintra in last November. Built upon Gerhard's spoken words, percussive rhythms and a martial bass (that reminds past Allerseelen works, 'Heiliges Blut' in particular) mixed with symphonic elements, the first song 'Steingeburt' ('Stone birth') is a powerful piece in the classic Allerseelen style. It is dedicated to the actress and priestess Diotima in the Leni Riefenstahl film 'Der heilige Berg'. The second song 'Krieger Aus Stein' ('Warriors of Stone') reveals a pretty different atmosphere created by an entertaining string melody supported by a harsh bass line and combined with repetitive lyrics. It is inspired by the warrior menhirs of Palaggiu on the beautiful wild island Corsica. The rather short last song Unver^??ndert' ('Unchanged'), dedicated to the actress and stone witch Junta in the film 'Das blaue Licht', is based on a monologue by Gerhard with lyrics taken from 'Faldum' by Hermann Hesse. The magical mountain Rumer Spitze in Tyrol inspired the tense and hypnotic music. All in all, three inspired songs that evoke ingredients of past Allerseelen works, in their minimal and organic approach as well as the magic and intense essence that emanate from them. This mini-CD, limited to 500 copies, comes with a booklet featuring the original lyrics and their translation in Portuguese agreemented by nice photos of the three sites explored here by a very inspired Gerhard. Recommended! (Nathalie F.) http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05546.mp3 Allerseelen - Stirb und Werde CD (Aorta) [05558/AORCD04] $16.25 IF you're among those spoilt brats who have been happily weaned on Allerseelen's first three full-length offerings, then you'll know that our Austrian friends love a good theme. Indeed, Cruor was concerned with the Persian deity, Mithras, Gotos=Kalanda with SS runeologist Karl Maria Wiligut, and Sturmlieder with the 1940's battle of the witches. Allerseelen's latest icon of musical experimentation, Sturb und Werde - recorded between 1989 and 1999 - is based on the centre of Germanic spirituality which is the Externsteine, in darkest Westphalia. Using a few key stills from Kenneth Anger's cult film, Lucifer Rising - thus using forms of visual stimulation with which to prepare the listener for the tasty ritualistic morsels to come, Allerseelen add some key phrases from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a mellow, Classical touch to their otherwise ??business as usual' approach. This is not designed to imply that Allerseelen have become boring and predictable, on the contrary, Sturb und Werde may represent the unmistakable and inimitable style which fans of Allerseelen have come to know and love, but by employing the term ??business as usual' I am trying to explain that in terms of producing a CD as good as their seemingly unbeatable trio of predecessors, this is yet another winner. I don't need to tell you what to expect. Allerseelen are predictable in their ability to entrance their listeners with the hallmarks of professionalism which we - the lucky recipients - have come to expect. Best track? Well, apart from the searing hot energy of Flamme [previously released on Athanor's Lucifer Rising CD] my choice has to be the plodding drum ??n bass rhythm of Alle Lust Will Ewigkeit - a true classic! (www.rosenoire.org) http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05558.mp3 Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape CD (Headphone Dust) [05552/HDBCCD9] $19.75 This is the third full length album by SW's Bass Communion project and is a one hour work divided into 5 distinct sections. The album is inspired by alleged tape recordings of the dead communicating with the living world, paranormal research most famously practised by scientist Konstantine Raudive in the 1970's. This is a spectral and brooding album, rich with dark clouds of sound, beautiful textures, creepy drones and eerie crackling. SW considers this to be one of the finest recordings he has ever made. The first edition of Ghosts on Magnetic Tape will come in a stunning Carl Glover designed miniature gatefold LP sleeve on thick card and is limited to 1,000 copies. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05552.mp3 Bennett, Samm - Secrets of Teaching Yourself Music CD (Improvised Music from Japan) [IMJ516] $17.75 Samm Bennett: Korg WaveDrum, vibrators and contact mics, Korg ER-1, Alesis AirSynth, Casio VL-Tone, CD player, Bias, bumble ball, can, gong, beepers, effectors and crank-toy with portable karaoke mic. Bjorkenheim, Raoul/Krakatau - Ritual CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE086] $12.25 "Reissue of the Finnish LP-only first release by this great rock/avant/fusion guitarist & his band (includes two bonus tracks)" Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons CD (DFA) [DFA2125CD] $12.75 "Known for never performing a song the same way twice, Black Dice manipulates and reorganizes sound into a fluid, swelling, blissed-out frenzy while your brain searches for patterns, your body struggles to find the beat." Blockhead - Music By Cavelight CD (Ninja Tune) [ZEN088CD] $13.75 "On Music By Cavelight the downtown New Yorker with production credits for the likes of Aesop Rock and Slug of Atmosphere fame, comes through with some of the most sublime, understated, melancholic hip hop you're likely to hear this year. From the anti-fanfare of opener 'Insomniac Olympics', through the elegiac strings and slomo disco-bass of 'Carnivores Unite' on into the two-minutes-to-midnight atmospherics of 'You've Got Maelstrom', the spread out reggaephonics of 'A Better Place', and right on up to the flute and eastern violin anomie of Music By Cavelight, this is a record that establishes its own emotional space and holds it from start to finish. First 5000 copies of the record contain a bonus CD/Bonus 12" containing 6 instrumental cuts that originally appeared on Aesop Rock records." Boddy, Ian - Chiasmata CD (Din) [05559/DIN16] $13.50 Chiasmata?? was recorded during Boddy's concert at the planetarium of the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK on 1st November 2003. Boddy has, in the past, often used concert appearances as a testing ground for material that would then see a full studio re-working before release. Indeed this was the original intention with this concert but on listening to the tapes in the post-concert calm of his studio it became apparent that this material had really worked well in the concert environment. There was passion and delicacy in equal measure and a sonic construction to the semi-improvised set that would be next to impossible to recreate in the hard, cold glare of the studio spot-lights. The music on ??Chaismata?? spans over 10 tracks with a total running time of 68:46. The first 9 tracks form a continuous suite of music, the last track being the encore piece from the performance. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05559.mp3 Boghossian, Herve - RVB CD (List) [List4] $17.29 'This disc starts with high-pitched tones contrast, cross and excite, move your head to the left or right and it changes and your heart rate rises ?? Audio Illusions. The second track is similar, but many octaves lower giving your subwoofer a workout. My organs rub together at high volume giving me an internal massage. Building upon the first 2 tracks, the tones in track three has much more motion and variation. Unsettling and with wider shifts in pitch, it has the rhythm of water swirling in a large bowl. A somber piano elegantly drowns out the sorrow.'(don poe)

    Herv?? Boghossian, who also records under the name Sol, here presents a trio of pieces under his own name, focusing on minimal drones and carefully composed music that is, characteristically, quiet and reflective. At first, the music seems to be exploring the harmonic combinations and tensions of sine waves, although interacting with these sine waves are other instruments: guitar feedback and two bass clarinets (the clarinets are performed by Matthieu Saladin and Ivan Solano). The combinations carry with them an austere quality, a muted tension; not always the stuff of calm, easy ambience, but pushing things in a slightly uneasy, tense direction. The second piece, too, speaks of this quiet tension, here working exclusively with sine waves, and focusing on the lower end of the frequency scale. It is with the third piece that things seem to converge with quiet wonder. Joining the subtle bed of electronic textures are the two bass clarinets and guitar, as before, but also a beautiful section for solo piano, performed by David Grubbs. This slow movement is simply something that must be heard; it will stop all motion in the room, it will even hold your breathing nearly to a point of standstill. Taken together, these three pieces, each with its own unique, arresting presence, makes for a truly compelling new release, an excellent addition to List's growing catalogue. [Richard di Santo] Bozulich, Carla - I'm Gonna Stop Killing CD (Dicristina) [STEP003CD] $10.25 "Carla Bozulich (leader of the defunct Geraldine Fibbers) extends the thread of her Red Headed Stranger as a thank-you to old fans and a welcome to new ones. This EP-priced full-length album contains two songs from Red Headed Stranger (one a duet with Willie Nelson), new explorations of music from that album, and seven unreleased live tunes, including original stuff from The Geraldine Fibbers and Scarnella, a Neil Young cover, a Marianne Faithful cover, and some world class improvisations." Branca, Glenn - Lesson No. 1 CD (Acute) [ACT005CD] $12.00 "After playing in the seminal and influential New York City no wave rock outfits the Theoretical Girls and The Static, Glenn Branca made his first strides towards the more ambitious guitar symphonies he'd become famous for with his first solo release Lesson No. 1 in 1980. Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar is perhaps his most accessible piece of the period." Coldcut - People Hold On: The Best Of Cd CD (BGM) [748374] $20.50 2004 collection from late 80s house/trip hop pioneers who went on to set up Ninja Tunes. Features all of their hits, including the song that brought Lisa Stansfield into the limelight, 'People Hold On'. Contriva - If You Had Stayed CD (Monika) [MONIKA030CD] $13.75 Masha Qrella & the Notwist's Max Punktezahl. Cylob - Music Systems Volume 2 12_inch (Rephlex) [REPH152EP] $8.50 "Following on from Volume 1, the second installment of the Cylob Music System E.P.'s is here. Once again taking a stand against notions of genre purity, the mix of Electro-Funk, Techno-Comedy, Emoto-Acid and Stringrush surely means something for everyone. Extensively tested during the past year in Cylob's D.J. sets to excited audiences all over the world, at last these masterpieces are finally available to the public. 'Metallic Justice': A stomping beat and vengeful bassline articulate a feeling that continues to shape the world at large in dramatic and violent ways. 'Chuckle Midget': The little mischief-maker that dwells within us all,takes on a life of its own and is let loose on the dancefloor. 'Acid Inseminoid': This is an acidic remix of the lead track from CMS Volume 1. A bank of paranoid and fearful 303's wail over a pumping beat. 'Cylobian Sunrise': Stirring strings and twinkling sounds break over the horizon, recalling the experience of a fresh new morning through the medium of sound." Danger Mouse & Jemini - Twenty Six Inch CDEP (Lex) [LEX022CD] $7.00 "The Twenty Six Inch EP features amazing new remixes from Ghetto Pop Life, brand new songs and the CD version features the B-sides from the last two 12"s. The EP has exclusive guest spots from the Dungoen Family's Cee Lo and legendary Brand Nubian Sadat X." Datach'i - Mmale and Ffemale CD (Planet Mu) [PMU87] $15.75 No description available at this time. Deadbeat - Wild Life Documentaries CD (Scape) [SCAPE015CD] $14.50 No description available at this time. Deaf Center - Neon City CD (Type) [TYPE001?CD] $12.75 No description available at this time. Der Blutharsch - Time is Thee Enemy! CD (WKN) [05549/WKN20] $17.25 After only six months of delays due to manufacturing problems, the long awaited new Der Blutharsch album is finally here! CD includes music video and comes in a full color digipak. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05549.mp3 DJ Rupture vs. Mutamassik - Bidoun Sessions CD (Violent Turd) [TURD009CD] $10.00 "Easy labels such as 'postcolonial party music' or 'hardcore world beat' fail to describe DJs Rupture and Mutamassik's forward-looking Diasporal breakbeats. Hip hop, dancehall, and drum'n'bass meet in Beirut while chopper blades whir overhead." Ellis, Rob - Music For The Home Vol. 2 CD (Leaf) [BAY029CD] $15.00 "Three years after the first volume of Music For The Home, Rob Ellis returns with a new, intensely personal solo album which opens a treasure chest of archive recordings from the last decade, documenting a turbulent period in his domestic life." em:t recordings - re-launch t-shirt t-shirt (XL) (em) [emitshirt] $20.00 Looks like em is producing a shirt to coincide with their re-launch. Dark blue with white em logo on left breast. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Masters From The Vaults DVD (Intense Media) [339866] $21.75 This is the progressive rock super group captured at the beginning of a legendary career. Extensive improvised virtuoso playing by Keith Emerson, inventive percussion from Carl Palmer, & a bravura performance at the mike by the young Greg Lake make this an essential addition to the collection of any fan. NTSC/Region 0. Intense Media. 2004. Ferrari, Luc - Les Anecdotiques CD (Sub Rosa) [SR207] $12.50 "Even if his art is historically linked to the musique concrete school, Luc Ferrari (born in Paris in 1929) is above all a man with a freedom of spirit rarely equalled in the history of music, who has repeatedly left what he excelled at for new territory still unexplored; thus he is par excellence the composer of new fields of investigation. Ferrari joined the Groupe de Musique Concr??te in 1958 and remained a member until 1966; he collaborated with Pierre Schaeffer in setting up the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1958). By 1963-4 he had begun H??t??rozygote, an extended tape piece in which ambient sounds unfold in narrative form, suggesting a dazzling variety of incidents, all unexplained. He was Professor of Composition at Cologne's Rheinische Musikschule from 1964 to 65. In 1965 and 1966 he produced Les Grandes R??p??titions, a series of television documentaries with G??rard Patris on the subject of contemporary music, specifically Olivier Messiaen, Edgard Var?se, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Scherchen and Cecil Taylor. Luc Ferrari's diverse work and aesthetics continue to have a singular impact on the young generations of electronic musicians and artists. The corpus of his work is immense and includes hundreds of compositions of all kinds. Les Anecdotiques -- his last composition -- is a vast sound-film of more than an hour who explores in 15 steps the intensity of re-composed sounds from his continual travel around the world -- with electronic additional structures." Figurine - Heartfelt CD (Monika) [MONIKA023CD] $13.75 Features member Jimmy Tamborello (aka Dntel) of the Postal Service! "Figurine creates electronic pop music perfectly poised at the transition between milleniums. Hints of 80's synth pop merge and mingle with early rave or current experimental electronics." Florintintin - Lapbop LP (This is not a Dub Recording) [TINA001LP] $13.00 "Amazing release by Floretijn Boddendijk. Who's that? He is a classical composer from The Hague who writes music pieces for orchestras but also is experimenting with electronica and jazz. He played us some old experiments he made years and years ago and we where stunned! He remixed /re-edited some old jazz tracks (like Dizzy Gillespie's 'A Night in Tunesia', Miles Davis's 'Milestones', Paul Desmond's 'Take Five', Wayne Shorter's 'Nefertiti' and others) in a way only Laptop producers edit their music... he did record all these mixes on tape and made the edits with cutting and looping tape and the result is even more crazy then Otto von Schirach's Laptop experiments (especially if you consider they are more then 10 years old!!). Florintintin (as henamed himself for this project) made an additional couple of tracks on his Laptop..but we can not tell the difference between the new tracks and the older ones. This is a mini album with 9 pieces of music which probably sound familiar...but then you notice the twist." Frog Pocket - Moon Mountain of the Fords CD (Benbecula) [BEN024CD] $12.75 "John Charles Wilson, aka Frog Pocket, is back again with this new mini-album on Benbecula following his show-stealing 7" installment for the esteemed Planet Mu. 'My Mentle Ass' is a rampant, manic, squashed, chaotic breakbeat onslaught which ends very gracefully and in keeping with the deep, folkloric chimes and rich sound exhibited on 'Jupiter Lady Mountain Village'." Fullman, Ellen/Konrad Sprenger - Ort CD (Choose) [CHOOSE002CD] $17.00 "In 1981, at her studio in Brooklyn she began developing her life-work, the 70 foot (21 meter) 'Long String Instrument', in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones which has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. Ort, represents a unique blend of musical styles, from hillbilly/country & western to contemporary minimal, with shades of art-rock. With this release the label seems to be pointing to a number of diverse musical directions, opening a vast field of possibilities for the future." -- Arnold Dreyblatt. Graves, Milford/John Zorn - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Two CD (Tzadik) [TZ5002] $14.25 "Another one of the most talked about sets of the month was this historic fleeting between two of music's most powerful and controversial iconoclasts. Playing together yearly since 1999 for very special occasions, their musical connection and spiritual bond has gotten stronger and stronger. This set, played before a packed house of screaming enthusiasts, was without doubt their best and most outrageous performance to date. Intensity, fireworks and incredible mutual respect made this one of the highlights of the month." Hakon, Stafaenn - I Astandi Rjupunnar CD (Resonant) [RES006CD] $16.50 "Stafrann Hakon is the musical project of Olafur Josephsson, a young Icelandic experimental musician. Since early 1999, he's been experimenting with guitars, drum loops and various instruments in his basement using a 4-track recorder. The concept of music has always been in it's basic form for Stafr??nn H??kon, mostly played on distorted guitars and an acoustic guitar along with drum loops and melodica. Both these albums are presented as digipack CD's and will appeal to all those with a love of drifting, ethereal soundscapes ala Labradford, Tarentel, Aerial M etc etc." Heldon - Interface CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE043] $12.25 "This is a reissue of the sixth album by this quintessential progressive French electronic rock band. Originally released on Cobra in 1977, this features the classic Heldon line-up of Richard Pinhas-guitar and electronics, Patric Gauthier-Moog synthesizer and electronics and Fran??ois Auger-drums and electronics." Heldon - Stand By CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE053] $12.25 "This is a reissue of the seventh and final album by this quintessential progressive French electronic rock band. Originally released on Egg in 1979." Hildebrand, Gustav - Starscape CD (Cyclic Law) [05561/7THCYCLE] $15.75 Known from his project Lithium (CMI) and his collaboration with Karjalan Sissit, Gustaf Hildebrand, on his first release under his own name, explores the sonic confines of space with his own vision of how a space journey might aurally be experienced. Textured trifold sleeve, limited to 500 copies. Holiday, Billie - Love Songs 2CD (Retro) [715674] $12.00 Two disc deluxe edition compilation features 50 songs including 'Body & Soul', 'Night & Day', 'The Man I Love', & 'Falling In Love Again', plus a 20-page booklet with rare photos. Standard double jewelcase housed in a slipcase. Hooverphonic - Last Thing I Need Is You CDS (Sony) [732644] $10.75 Taken from the 2003 album 'Sit Down and Listen To'. Tracks TBA. Housemartins - Best of +8 DVD+CD (Mercury) [733844] $32.00 CD/DVD edition of the popular indie guitar pop group's 2004 compilation features 14 tracks including such favorites as'Happy Hour', 'Think For A Minute', 'Me & The Farmer', & the number one hit 'Caravan Of Love', as well as a bonus DVD (PAL/Region 2) with eight video tracks, 'Sheep', 'Happy Hour', 'Think For A Minute', 'Caravan Of Love', 'Five Get Over Excited', 'Me & The Farmer', 'Build', & 'There Is Always Something There To Remind Me'. 22 tracks. Hurt, Mississippi John - Kings Of The Blues CD (Castle Pulse) [720704] $7.25 UK budget-price compilation for the legendary blues performer. Features 21 tracks recorded live in concert including 'Candy Man', 'Hot Time In The Old Town', 'Baby, What's Wrong With You', 'Nobody's Business But Mine', 'My Creole Belle', 'Salty Dog' & many more. Icewater Scandal - No Handle CD (Social Registry) [SOCIAL004CD] $12.75 "Gathering moss is not for Icewater Scandal; they are constantly percolating with ideas. They take what they have accomplished before redefining it and then heading for new horizons. Their first album travels over new territory from their debut EP released under the AM Radio moniker. Though still filtered through their concept of taking 60's experimental music a la the Dream Syndicate et al, and merging that with the elan of 80's indie rock; No Handle is at times more muscular and other times more cerebral, without losing any flair. Part of this can be attributed to their producer Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Recorded and mixed at SY's studio, Echo Canyon, there has been great care in getting the sound just right. Recorded, mixed and mastered all on analog equipment was a decision that allowed no ones and zeros to come between what was played and how the band wanted it heard." Invercauld - Tiamhaidh CD (Cyclic Law) [05562/6THCYCLE] $15.75 This american artist creates omnious sonorities inspired by the rain and fog ridden landscapes and history of his Gaelic ancestors.Textured trifold sleeve, limited to 500 copies. Johnson, Robert - Kings Of The Blues CD (Castle Pulse) [720724] $7.25 UK budget-price compilation for the legendary blues performer. All his known recordings are featured on this specially remastered 29-track collection. Kinski - Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water CD (Strange Attractors Audio House) [SAAH022CD] $12.25 "In their hometown of Seattle, Chris Martin, Lucy Atkinson, and Matthew Reid-Schwartz of the lysergic-punk band Kinski often play out incognito. Under the guise Herzog (film buffs should figure all these German names out pretty quickly), the goal is to experiment with mood, sound construction and interplay by channeling their chemistry into an exploration of their 'cosmic' side. These entirely improvised sets have yielded some truly heady excursions into the sonic ether. Although they may perform as Herzog, the sum of the parts is still Kinski, and while the intent is to shower the air with slow-raining space dust rather than their trademark heavy-paisley riffs, ambient drone is still very much an aspect of the overall Kinski sound. Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water is a snapshot of these experiments, 'free-ambient' sounds weaved on the spot when the guitarists subliminally dialed into one another and directed their energies into a subtle exploration of drone, texture and atmosphere." Kurenniemi, Erkki - ????nityksi??:1963-1973 CD (Love Records) [LXCD637CD] $12.75 No description available at this time. Leadbelly - Kings Of The Blues CD (Caslte Pulse) [720694] $7.25 UK budget-price compilation for the legendary blues performer, features 20 classic digitally remastered tracks including, 'Good Morning Blues', 'Packin' Trunk', 'Dead Letter Blues' (Parts One & Two), 'Roberta' (Part One), & much more. M, Sachiko - Bar Sachiko CD (Improvised Music from Japan) [IMJ517] $17.75 Sachiko M w/ 2 sinewaves & an empty sampler. Magic Kunt is Master - Nightsongs for Ugly Children CD (Nihilist) [nihil24] $10.50 Solo debut from ex-vocalist for My Name is RarRar. Joining dark melodies enshrouded by death march beats all topped off with a vulgar Diamanda Galaesque maniacal singing. Not unlike Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, majestic & triumphant! Packaged in unique hand sewn pouches. (Label)

    "What is not to like about this? The artwork is a drug derived nightmare with a smoking red riding hood-sque girl on the back. Already I was excited. Long drawn heavy beats, cousins to those found on Cold Meat and BDN, long drawn out beats, accompany a woman slightly singing. Don't worry, this isn't Janet Jackson, though. This singing is more in the lines of evil maiden in the tower reigning or damsel beaten in the dungeon agonizing over her fate. Lots of reverb furthers this effect, screaming down into the bowels and the voice decays as does the body. My favorite song title is "It clawed my eyes out, that's all I know," a very fun song with loops of a woman screaming over interesting noise. Well done! Another one, titled "Bird still rejoice when friends betray you" has bird chirps accompanied by distorted organs and light women???s voices. Although this release is fairly heavy, I would call it more weird and nightmarish than overpowering."(Don Poe) Malaria! - Compiled 1981-1984 CD (Moabit Music) [MOABIT006CD] $13.75 2001 year release which compiles 16 tracks from all their early releases, originally released 1981-84. Malaria were an all-female art-wave group from Berlin, with connections to Die Haut, Einsturzende, Nina Hagen, Static, etc. A seminal early 80s document. "Contagious diseases, uncertain modes of transmission: Malaria evolved from Mania D., a trio that had already gained a following even without music through their style and artwork. When they expanded into a quintet, they not only retained the first two letters, recurring in medieval, mask, magister artium and mama, they also kept a world of signifiers: heat, illness, fever, ill-defined states. At the time, the beat and the saxophone, which signalled the continuity of both bands, could only be comprehended through inevitable misunderstandings and other contemporary beats and sounds. And -- like an italicised letter -- they incarnated the promise contained in the title: elusive funk, undeveloped jazz, an unresolved and strained insistence on a difference for which no words existed at the time, and certainly no music that one could put a name to." -- Diedrich Diederichsen Melchior's Broke Revue, Dan - O, Clouds Unfold CD (Troubleman) [TMU125CD] $11.75 "Dan Melchior and Bruno Meyrick Jones met in 1997 at Art School in London, England. They quickly discovered a shared love of The Wu Tang Clan, Captain Beefheart and Booker T and the MGs, and started playing guitars together on weekends. Dan has also released a solo album and a couple of collaborations with Billy Childish and Holly Golightly. He moved to NYC on the summer of 2000. Up until now, the band has been bracketed in with garage rock bands, despite the fact that their music has consistently progressed from its initial trad roots. With their first full length on Troubleman Unlimited (a double album no less!), the band stretches out to fully explore the varied influences that have been evident to more astute listeners on their last three albums. The 23 songs that make up O, Clouds Unfold! run the gamut from Zombies influenced pop through 'Numanised' punk to warped campfire sing alongs, without seeming strained or self consciously eclectic." Middleton, Tom - Trip 2CD (Family) [716024] $30.50 No description available at this time. Morgenstern, Barbara - Fjorden CD (Monika) [MONIKA016CD] $13.75 2nd album from Morgenstern, with guest production assistance from Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Thomas Fehlmann and Pole. Mr 76IX - Hits of 76IX 2xLP (Skam) [SKALD013LP] $16.50 Pre-release double LP version, limited to 300 copies fo the world. "We have been preparing this album for human consumption for a while now. Meticulously trawling through countless CDrs and minidiscs of his music spanning many years and every conceivable subgenre to find the tracks we liked the best. It wasn't easy with so much material to choose from but, finally, here it is. This is the first release by Mr 76ix, for skam or anyone else, and expands on the playfully punishing (and now infamous) live set that he delivered to an unsuspecting, pleasantly bemused audience in the skam room at last years atp festival. Following this album, will be another, and then another, and then..." Nerthus - Nerthus CD (Art Konkret) [05550/ART38] $16.25 With Nerthus ART KONKRET begins a series of dark ambient releases! Every release comes in an 17 x 17 cm plastic sleeve with printed artwork and is strictly limited to 300 copies. NERTHUS is well known from his split LP with Sonne Hagal.Dark dronings are combined with echoing soundwalls & ritual influences. Exceptionally well conceived sonicscapes culled from the wastelands of the netherworld. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05550.mp3 Nyman, Michael - Cook, The Thief, His Wife... CD (Virgin) [753964] $16.75 Full title - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover. 1989 film score for the Peter Greenaway film. Digitally remastered & packaged in a digipak. Nyman, Michael - Decay Music CD (Virgin) [753974] $16.75 Remastered reissue of the score to 1976 film, packaged in a digipak. Nyman, Michael - Draughtman's Contract CD (Virgin) [753984] $16.75 1982 film score for the Peter Greenaway film. Digitally remastered and packaged in a digipak. Nyman, Michael - Drowning By Numbers CD (Virgin) [753994] $16.75 1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film. Digitallyremastered and packaged in a digipak. Nyman, Michael - Zed And Two Noughts CD (Virgin) [753954] $16.75 1990 film score for the Peter Greenaway film. Digitally remastered and packaged in a digipak. Operator - Os 1.1 CD (Benbecula) [BEN011CD] $12.75 "After making his debut on the compilation Alba Absurdia, Operator continued to record electro-caustic musings and dance floor subversions for his first EP, OS1.1. Here are the results -- Operator's unique production techniques reveal themselves to be most eclectic and contemporary, managing to be both muso and funky at the same time." Panicsville/Inflatable Alterboys - Untitled - Rubber Cement LP (Nihilist) [NihilRubber] $10.50 ????????One can???t help but embrace Rubber-O-Cement???s love affair with the two-dimensional on their split LP with Panicsville (Nihilist). Deciphering the duo???s cardboard computer and ramshackle Witchypoo costuming is hardly a vexing conundrum, although it would be nice if such grammar school thetrics were genuine attempts to deceive the audience into believing that a pair of six-foot-tall third-graders might actually be creating electronic noise at the Clitstop on a school night after 11:30.

    ???????Playing Peabody to Rubber-O???s Sherman, Panicsville set the Wayback Machine for the Columbia University of Electronic Music Center, 1953. Among the bachelor pad birdcalls, space jingles, random blips and bleeps (when the computer??s thinking), certain anachronisms are noticeable, such as Andy Ortmann??s familiarity with deep noise (the bifocals and necktie idea of noise being flat, hissy static with no presence). One welcome absence is the insecurity that unless all these gizmos can be trained to blip and bleep ???Bicycle Built For Two???, no one???s going to accept electronics as a viable method of commodity production (excuse me, music making). (Label) Panicsville/Inflatable Alterboys - Untitled LP (Nihilist) [NihilLPPIA] $10.50 ????????New Panicsville, a thought that always gets my panties in a bunch. I never know what to expect. Sometimes the sounds are utterly abstract, sometimes they???re more ambient and sometimes there???s even a melody. On its side of the slab, Panicsville dishes out three songs. And each of these of the concepts is represented. The first piece is utterly ambient, an understated noise soundscape. Simply entrancing. The second song has almost a traditional construction, complete with melody and all. The third song, while still playing around with a keyboard, is much less structured. Most intriguing. Inflatable Alterboys fills its side with one song, Superior Twelve Inch Finger??? (One of the greatest titles I???ve ever seen). It kinda sounds like the Panicsville, except instead of separating the three distinct approaches to electronic noise, everything gets thrown into a single pot. Not like a mishmash, but more of a bouillabaisse. The pieces are distinct within the whole. There is a consistent rhythmic idea that travels throughout most of the piece, and everything else kinda hangs off those beats at odd angles. Truly wonderful. This piece of vinyl is everything I expected (I did have high hopes) and much more. Big smiles. (A&A) Parker, Evan - Imponderable Evidence CD (Matchless) [MRCD57] $17.75 Evan Parker: Tenot Saxophone; Eddie Prevost: Drums. Pet Shop Boys - Flamboyant (2 track) CDS (Parlophone) [730294] $8.25 Taken from the 2003 compilation 'PopArt', features two non-LP tracks, 'Flamboyant' (Single Mix) & 'I Didn't Get Where I Am Today'. Pet Shop Boys - Flamboyant (Maxi) CDS (Parlophone) [730304] $8.25 Taken from the 2003 compilation 'PopArt'. Features five non-LP versions of the title track, 'Flamboyant' (Tomcraft Extended Mix, Scissor Sisters Silhouettes & Shadows Mix, DJ Hell Remix, Original Demo, & Video). Prevost Trio, Eddie - The Blackbird's Whistle CD (Matchless) [MRCD56] $17.75 With Tom Chant: (tenor/bass clarinet) and John Edwards: (double bass). Prevost, Eddie - Minute Particulars Book (Matchless) [MRCOPULA2] $31.75 "Meanings in music-making in the wake of hierarchial realignments and other essays." Qrella, Masha - Luck CD (Monika) [MONIKA028CD] $13.75 "The first solo-album titled Luck by Contriva guitarist/bass player and Mina keyboarder Masha Qrella. There is (next to Mina and Contriva) as much Elliot Smith and Robert Wyatt in them, as the production opens up associations with Jim O`Rourke and Peaches." Radiohead - Com Lag: B-sides Album CD (EMI) [702474] $30.50 Released to commemorate their 2004 tour of Japan, EMI is issuing this 10-track mini-album that features all non-album tracks,'2 +2 = 5' (Live at Earls Court), Remyxomatosis (Cristain Vogel Mix), Fog (Again) (Live), Paperbag Writer, Scatterbrain (Four Tet Remix), I Will (Los Angeles Version), I Am Citizen Insane, Where Bluebirds Fly, I Am A Wicked Child, Gagging Order plus an enhanced component which features '2+2 = 5'(Live at Belfort Festival). Raiders Of The Lost Arp - 4 CD (Nature) [NAT2125CD] $17.75 "Raiders of the Lost Arp 4 is the first solo album from Mario Pierro (aka the tall one from Jolly Music and Mat101 fame). He started the Raiders Of The Lost Arp project in 2001 with the aim of providing the audience with a late night dance sound composed with classic electro/techno beats and deep soulful melodies. This album becomes a virtual night drive through sonic highways surrounded by huge buildings and neon lights: a work that recalls certain electronic atmospheres, where human soul and mechanic drum-patterns ride together into the dimly lit city soundscape. Simply titled 4 it further highlights the jazz & soul within Mario's electro/techno rhythmic patterns and the emergence of a real Roman techno-funk sound." Roach, Steve - Fever Dreams CD (Projekt) [05560/PRO154] $14.25 Within the opening moments of Fever Dreams' first track, ??Wicked Dream?? featuring Patrick O'Hearn on bass, it is clear that a new chapter is opening on Steve Roach's long and winding pursuit of potent soundworlds far off the traveled path. The music's foundation is built upon long mid-tempo hybrid grooves with strong bass elements created from a combination of acoustic and electronic means. Steve Roach's atmospheric and loop-spun melodic guitar textures rise and fall, intermix with his synth and computer alchemy to create an aura of complex emotional import. The overall feeling of Fever Dreams is one shrouded in an exotic amber-colored light filtering through an overgrown mental landscape of last night's lingering fever dreams; the sensual atmosphere is especially present on the 30 minute track ??Tantra Mantra?? featuring percussionist Byron Metcalf. This release of floating, hypnotic groove meditations sets the course on a new direction presented over the three interconnected ??Fever releases?? planned throughout 2004. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05560.mp3 Rufus Zuphall - Weiss der Teufel CD (Long Hair) [LHC029CD] $18.25 "The first album Weiss der Teufel (1971) has gradually gained legendary status and is definitely one of the best early 70??s album from Germany. All tracks were recorded live in the studio, resulting in a raw and unpolished sound. The side-long title track developed into a twisted and frenetic flute solo guiding the way on this trip. Some people regard this track as one of the finest moments of German rock. Weiss der Teufel sung in English, is typifying the raw-edged, largely instrumental early progressive hardrock. Here it comes with original album sleeve cover art, informative booklet in known Long Hair-tradition and with lots of bonus tracks (over 70 minutes ). A must, not just for Krautrock freaks." Schulkowsky, Robyn - Percussionist Songs CD (Matchless) [MRCD59] $17.75 Robyn Schulkowsky - percussion. Playing music by Christian Wolff (Wolff also performs on some tracks). Sketch Show - Loophole CD (Third Ear) [3E023CD] $17.00 "Loophole is the very classy new album from Sketch Show, who feature Yellow Magic Orchestra's Haruomi Hososno (Founder Ymo Member) and Yukihiro Takahashi." Superpitcher - Here Comes Love CD (Kompakt) [KOMP032CD] $13.75 "'I came the long way...' or 'Good things come to those who wait...' can be taken quite literally when it comes to how far we've travelled to get to this point. It's been 3 years since Aksel Schaufler a.k.a. Superpitcher dropped the legendary debut single Heroin/Tomorrow (KOMPAKT 35). Since then, he has earned a fervent underground following thanks to a string of singles and remixes -- perhaps the most promising purveyor of the schaffel-techno surge since Wolfgang Voigt. With Here Comes Love, Superpitcher effortlessly succeeds in delicately balancing songwriting and DJ music. The result excretes charm and personality -- referencing the most dazzling moments in club and pop music's history. Envision this scenario floating on a cloud fuelled by pure emotion -- Fran??oise Hardy and DJ Pierre slow-dancing in Jamaica's Studio One, Brian Ferry taking an inebriated Elvis Presley's temperature, and contemporary R&B flirting with Cologne's minimalism -- straight into your own soul-stirring disco. From the Moroder-tipped bass and mood bells tolling the opening of 'People', it's plain to see that Schaufler studio trickery has opened up to make room in the mix for the vocals that will figure heavily into every track that follows. The underlying agitation of 'People' gives way to the jump-up bounce of one of the album's highlight tracks, 'The Long Way', in which Schaufler's hazy cabaret crooning attests over and over again, 'I came the long way just to find you.' From hereon in the album swings back and forth from periodic lapses of introversion from boys who think too much ('Sad Boys') to openhearted diary-like affectations'. Here Comes Love features previously unreleased tracks recorded over a continuous period of over 12 months. The result is proudly an album rather than a simple compilation of new tracks. It's difficult for us to avoid repeating that over-used P-word as it's so pleasurably melting in our mouth. Here comes POP. Here comes Superpitcher. Here comes Love." Tanaka, Fumiya - Mix.Sound.Space 2 CD (Torema) [TRM001CD] $19.50 "Double CD live mix anthology." Tanaka, Yumiko - Tayutauta CD (Improvised Music from Japan) [IMJ507] $17.75 Tanaka: futozao shamisen, . Theatrum Chemicum - De Rebus Incognitis CD (Musica Maxima Magnetica) [05551/EEE46] $14.25 After seven long years of music research, Theatrum Chemicum is back with their new album De Rebus Incognitis, following their two previous CDs ??Verso la Luce?? (1994 -MMM-eee30-I) and ??Clepsydra?? (1997 ? MMM ?? eee39). The title means ??About the Unknown Things?? which epitomizes the concept behind the work. It is a journey to the centre of a world of sounds which were abandoned more than 50 years ago. Theatrum Chemicum is constantly in search of sounds that lie somewhere between music and noise. De Rebus Incognitis contains seven pieces, the ??Concerto Elettrosonico No. 1?? in three movements, the suite ??Comedia??, in three parts; all pieces are composed by Cosimi and Di Cioccioand show a new spirit of electronic experimentation. Comes in white cardboard digipak. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05551.mp3 Tilbury, Johny/Eddie Prevost - Discrete Moments CD (Matchless) [MRCD58] $17.75 John Tilbury: piano, prepared piano and organ; Eddie Prevost: stringled barrel, tam-tam, drums and other percussion. Tracy And The Plastics - Culture For Pigeon DVD+CD (Troubleman) [TMU127CD] $13.75 "This special release is being released in both vinyl and CD format, with a bonus DVD containing two original full length films designed to be played along with the record. Tracy and the Plastics is an electronic art/new media punk band conceived and performed by Lesbian Feminist video artist Wynne Greenwood." Traject - Strengir Hrynja CD (Spezial Material) [SM013CD] $15.25 No description available at this time. TV Pow - Power Friends and Devoted Lovers 2CD (Bottrop-Boy) [BBOY020CD] $20.00 "Out now on Bottrop-Boy is the first part of a giant collection of remixes of tracks mostly taken from TV Pow's Friendship Patrol album, released on their own Not For Profit label in 2001. This is a double-CD set containing remixes from Oren Ambarchi, Sutekh, Otomo Yoshihide, Stephan Mathieu, Motor, Thymme Jones, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jazzkammer, Stilluppsteypa, Freiband, Reynols, Tu M', Leif Elggren and many others. 29 remixes in total." Various Artists - Anticon Sampler 1999-2004 CD (Anticon) [ABR031CD] $7.50 "Featuring Sage Francis, alias, Markus Archer of the Notwist, odd nosdam, dosh, why?, themselves (doseone and jel), sole, deep puddle dynamics (featuring Slug of Atmosphere), yet-to-be-released tracks by pedestrian, passage, sole, jel and restiform bodies. The Anticon Sampler CD features a selection of tracks from the past, present and future of the Anticon catalog at a back-breaking low price. The sampler introduces the label to the novices, clarifies the Anticon collective for the confused, educates those who are unlearned, offers our dedicated fans a chance to preview some unreleased tracks from upcoming full lengths." Various Artists - Arktinen Hysteria: Suomi-avantgarden Esipuutarhureita CD (Love Records) [LXCD635CD] $12.75 "The Arktinen Hysteria compilation that came out in November 2001 was compiled by Jukka Lindfors, based on his series of radio documentaries for Finnish Broadcasting Company. Together here are gathered for the first time some seminal tracks usually considered the milestones of early Finnish electronic music; being the real predecessors of the sounds of Mika Vainio, Pan sonic & et al.; combined with some rarities and previously unpublished tracks. The album concentrates mostly around the output of the now-legendary Love Records label, varying from electronic music to avantgarde sounds, free-jazz and experimental rock. Here one can witness some truly timeless electronic pioneering works, delving into the real Finnish analogue roots of glitch, clicks & cuts and even modern laptop sounds. Artists include: M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanp???? (future underground guru M.A. Numminen and his cohorts burping and gurgling to a simple blues theme playing in the background, as part of this home-made tape recorded in 1961), M.A. Numminen & S??hk??kvartetti (Holy Grail of Finnish electronic music, creepy-sounding and even hymn-like, with wailing and sounding like electronic insects), Tommi Parko (avantgardistic pranks), Erkki Salmenhaara (sounds like a constant switching of dial between radio stations: snippets of orchestral sounds, reverberated electronics, harpsichord, piano etudes, whatever), Blues Section (the territory of backwards tapes, tape loops and other "mind-blowing" sonic regalia of the late 60s), Erkki Kurenniemi (This could be something by Hecker of Mego Records, only 30 years before laptops), Jukka Ruohom??ki (non-machine-like electronic pop music), Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine (Pure noise inferno of explosions and chaos), The Sperm (a combination of an experimental rock group and a provocative performance group, features undecipherable vocals mumbling, screeching, murmuring, screaming utter nonsense), J.O. Mallander (Dadaist piece of conceptual art, an aural counterpart to what Andy Warhol did with his movies of repeated boredom), The Sperm (a free-for-all melee of cacophony, like some collective lunatic asylum art therapy), Pekka Airaksinen (murky sauna hut sound expressions, total antimusic and again, totally ageless), S. Albert Kivinen (This 'aleatoric assault' is about the then-US Vice President Spiro Agnew)." Various Artists - Bis Neunzehn CD (Areal) [AREAL002CD] $15.75 "in every case a big fun for the whole family. With Konfekt, Metope, Ada, Basteroid and Remute, this release is as contrasting as it is compatible. They give each other the relay stick and run like hell immediately." Various Artists - Chicago Soul CD (Soul Jazz) [SJR93CD] $17.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 Electric Blues, Funk and Soul: The New Sound of Chicago -- Chess Records in the 1960s. "In the 1960s Chicago's Chess Records was an incredibly successful record label releasing Electric Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Gospel and even Psychedelia. Chess Records alongside Atlantic Records in New York, Motown in Detroit and Stax in Memphis, dominated the American R'n'B charts. As Soul music exploded into the mainstream with Motown and Atlantic Records, Chess itself moved into Soul releasing classic material by artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Gene Chandler, Laura Lee and more. Since the 1950s Jazz had always been a part of Chess Records and Ramsey Lewis became the most successful Jazz artist at the label. As well as Lewis' classic 'Party Time', this album also includes classic tracks by lesser-known Jazz artists such as Lorez Alexandria and Sonny Cox. Two groups, Soulful Strings and Rotary Connection, redefined the sound of Chess in the second-half of the 1960s. These two groups, led by arranger/producers Richard Evans and Charles Stepney brought a previously unheard experimentalism to the sound of Chess. Mixing the traditional elements of Soul and Funk with Psychedelic Rock and Avant-Garde Jazz gave the work of these two men a unique sound. As well as Soulful Strings and Rotary Connection (which featured the vocal talents of Minnie Riperton), other artists such as Phil Upchurch and harpist Dorothy Ashby benefited from the sonic adventures of Evans and Stepney adding Moogs and Theramins over full orchestras and even choirs. By the late 1960s, Blues music was a thing of the past. Groups such as the Rolling Stones had earlier paid their respect to the blues sound of Chess (The Rolling Stones second album had been recorded at Chess studios). By the late 1960s artists such as Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Little Milton were looking for a new sound. Enter Marshall Chess (son of Leonard). His new Chess subsidiary label Cadet Concept had already made waves with Rotary Connection. He began new recordings by the famous blues artists only this time mixing in elements of Electric Funk and Soul, which was already so much a part of other Chess artists. With these recordings such as Howlin Wolf's 'Evil' and Bo Diddley's 'Another Sugar Daddy', he brought a whole new audience to these first generation Chess blues artists. At the height of its success, Chess Records was sold in 1968 and Leonard Chess died the following year. Although Chess kept going for the next five years under it's new owners, GRT, the spark had gone and Chess was gradually downsized and artists left. This album shows Chess at its height in the 1960s." Various Artists - Dekathlon Records Compilation #1: Sportler of the Year CD (Dekathlon) [DEKA014CD] $15.75 "The first Dekathlon Records Compilation is the Track-selection of the most essential Dekathlon tunes (Cat. No. 001 to 013). Most was only available on Vinyl so far. The compilation shows that Dekathlon has become an important pacemaker in electronic music. Starting with the first Dekathlon release, the instant smash hit 'The Fake' of the New York Man Machine My Robot Friend, also known as songwriter for the Pet Shop Boys (q.f. Groove Mag. Interview Jan. 04), up to the latest 2004 releases of artists like NAM:LIVE, the electro hip hop crew from Montreal, or Duniz & Henrixx, this collection gives a good overview on the past work and the future direction Dekathlon is heading to: Don't copy, create!" Various Artists - Insight 2CD (Xing Wu) [05563/XW001] $18.50 New double CD compilation from Malaysian Label Xing Wu. Featuring the likes of: Climax Golden Twins, Reynols, Volcano the Bear, Carl Stone, Oren Ambiarchi, Jeph Jerman, Loren Chasse, Axel Dorner, Taku Sugimoto, Janek Schaeffer, Tetuzi Akiyama, and many others. Comes in foldout cardboard wallet. Various Artists - Masters of the Scene - Abba Tribute CD (Nihilist) [Nihil21] $10.25 The ultimate ABBA tribute by pop & noise artists alike featuring: VIKI, Evil Moisture, Sudden Infant (schimpfluch gruppe), Canned Hamm, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Spider Compass Good Crime Band (aka Caroliner), Guilty Connector (japan), Acid Mothers Temple, Sockeye, etc. 24 tracks in all, SUPER!(Label)

    "A noise album dedicated to the songs of Abba. I was never much of a fan, but my mom does like Abba so whenever I go home I am not surprised to hear it on the stereo. These stylings are much more in my vein of interest, though. Some are heavier and noisey, others are more melodic, though still heavy while some are funny/silly version(but compared to the originals, could they get any worse?!) A couple my mom may still like, they are prettier than the originals. It is nice this is a compilation, no one style overrides and becomes boring. The album keeps changing and stays fresh. From bigger names like Kazumoto Endo to other smaller bands I haven't heard of, it is a joy to hear. The Kazumoto Endo track is very beat oriented but still all noise, while the Evil Moisture track is more in the experimental side of things, tape manipulations of the original track so that the song becomes indecipherable. Some tracks sound very similar to the originals while others could appear on any CD. Some tracks have new singing, but my favorite track has the original female vocalist sampled saying "I'm nothing special" over and over. Lovely."(Don Poe) Various Artists - Post Office Vol. 2 CD (Telegraph) [TEL013CD] $16.50 "New compilation-manifesto from Telegraph, with all the artists linked to the label. Conducted by Cabanne, with only unreleased material, Post Office 2 features many new collaborations and bring together first days associates (Cabanne, Ben Nevile, Ark), new family members (Fym & Diane, Ultrakurt, Sety) European friends (Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack, Pantytec, Luciano & Serafin) and those you will hear more about soon on Telegraph (Bidul, Vlock44, Spasm) .." Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Dub CD (Soul Jazz) [SJR89CD] $17.75 RELEASE DATE: 04-13-2004 "Soul Jazz Records brings you the much-anticipated Studio One Dub as the latest in their Studio One series. This album features classic and rare Dub tracks from Studio One, many available for the first time in over thirty years. Studio One Dub includes the dubs of many classic tracks such as Horace Andy's 'Skylarkin', Johnny Osbourne's 'Truth and Rights', John Holt's 'Hooligan', Freddie McGregor's 'Bobby Bobylon' plus many more rare tracks. In short, this is an essential album! Studio One Records history in Dub is vast. Originating in the idea of the dub-plate as an exclusive for sound-system operators, this evolved into the version-side of singles that still exists for 99% of Dancehall singles today. The Dub/Version quickly evolved from being simply the instrumental to sonic experiments with bass, drums and the mixing desk. Many of these Dubs were created at Studio One by the great engineer Sylvan Morris. In the early 1970s, Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd created a vast set of classic dubs in the Dub LP series under the alias of the Dub Specialist. Albums such as Roots Dub, Zodiac Sounds, Bionic Dub, Juk's Incorporation, African Rub-A-Dub were made for a new generation of young DJs/toasters to perform with at sound-systems. These consequently had a huge influence on the evolution of Dancehall in the second part of the 1970s. Originally released in lavish silk-screen covers, many of these Dub albums have gone on to become serious collectors pieces." Various Artists - Sound of Suomi: The Electro Sound of Finland CD (Bunker) [BUNK3031CD] $18.75 "Bunker is known for bringing unknown artists and putting out strange music which probably nobody else would release at that moment in time (remember F??nkst??rung, Legowelt, Bangkok impact, Unit Moebius?). For this compilation they selected 12 tracks by 12 young artists (Mr Velcro fastener, Vulva, Imatron Voima and some unknown and obscure creativenames like Konrad West, Alpha Males, Kings of Techno, Tero etc) from Finland...a compilation of 12 underground electronic artists. And yes I know what you think..another compilation with weird bedroom artists making tracks they better should keep for themselves... but when you know Bunker you know that won't be the case.First of all the A&R man at Bunker has a twisted mind..and 2nd Finnish people have a even more twisted mind and a somehow crazy talent for making crazy but outstanding tracks. Its probablythe dark and long polar night, where suicide and alcohol abuse is a life's destiny and where you can do only but one good thing to escape: indulge in crazy music, no matter if it's Moroder-style electro-wave-disco to pounding industrial tekno and planet rock, maniacal B12/Jean-Michel Jarre-like syntheziser atmospheres, Drexciya future funk and dark robotic electro, anything twisted and mean machine will do the job nicely. And thats exactly what you get here." Various Artists - Trojan Reggae Duets 3CD (Trojan) [714334] $24.25 2004 compilation is the most comprehensive collection of reggae duets to date & features many recordings new to CD. Artists include Stranger & Patsy, Alton & Phyllis, Jackie & Judy, Slim & Doreen, Roy & Millie, & many more. 50 tracks packaged in three paper sleeves & housed in a clamshell box. Various Artists - Wir Rufen Deine Wolfe CD (Ahnstern) [05545/AORCD09] $15.25 Yes, this truly spectacular compilation all based upon one single poem has arrived. This anthology, published at winter solstice MMIII, was edited by Gerhard. Working on it was an adventurous challenge. All the songs on this release have the same lyrics as all the participants were asked to use create music for just one poem - the hymn Michelsgebet or Wir rufen Deine W^??lfe written by the German poet and philosopher Friedrich Hielscher. Geri and Freki, the wolves of Odin, took care and control of this magical mystery tour into the Heimliches Deutschland of Friedrich Hielscher. The artwork was inspired by the interior of various Norwegian stave churches. Artists include DER ARBEITER, GRAUMAHD, O PARADIS, WALDTEUFEL, ERDGEIST, WERKRAUM, CAWATANA, LADY MORPHIA, TURBUND STURMWERK. BLOOD AXIS. ALLERSEELEN, STURMPERCHT, SANGRE, CAVALLUM, BELBORN, CIRCE, RIHARC SMILES,and DER FEUERKREINER. Comes in Digipak with booklet. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05545.mp3 Various Artists - Yokomono LP (Staalplaat) [STLP13263] $16.75 Limited edition of 450, loop record on red vinyl. "The Staalplaat soundsystem 12" lock groove record; feat: Freiband, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Jim O'Rourke, John Hegre, Kozo Inada, Danmarks Aeldste Sangskat onsker, Massimo, Nerve Net Noise, Pimmon, Radboud Mens, Rechenzentrum. to make 5 loops each. Some made for interference, some made to harmonise, all made for the location. Yokomono is the Staalplaat Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation." Various Artists - You Bet We've Got Something Personal Against You 2CD (Creme) [CREME002CD] $18.25 "You had it coming. Creme celebrates it's second anniversary with a stunning budget double CD compilation featuring exclusive tracks by established artists such as Legowelt and Bangkok Impact, as well up & comers Orgue Electronique, James White and Luke Eargoggle. The CD is topped off with out of print and already sought after classics by the likes of Lolita Strap and French guys It & My Computer. CD 2 is a special bonus mix, showcasing some mind-blowing hits from The Hague's Bunker Records, Sweden's Stilleben Records and Down Low Records (Stinkworx' own label from the US) in the process. You know it's that sound you cannot afford to miss." Artists: The Omni Incentive, Legowelt, Kassen, Beta Evers, Porn Darsteller, It & My Computer, Lolita Strip, Keyo Laboratories, Luke Eargoggle, Pussycat, Orgue Electronique, Raheem Hershel, Polarius, James White, Bangkok Impact, Red White Ros/, Spoiler Jugend, Catnip, Achilles, Macho Cat Garage, Mr Clavio, Plastic Sleeves, Rude 66. Ventures - Box Set 3CD (Pulse) [720754] $18.25 UK budget-price compilation for the legendary surf instrumentalists. 63 tracks including, 'Tequila', 'Walk Don't Run', 'Misirlou', 'Let's Go', & 'Ghost Riders In The Sky'. Vorontsova, Julia - From St. Petrsburg With Love CD (Abaton Book Co.) [ABA011CD] $13.25 "The debut CD by Russian singer/songwriter Julia Vorontsova. 21-year-old Julia Vorontsova is the most recent link to the underground bards of the Soviet era. She sings melancholic ballads, all in her native tongue, with an otherworldly voice that is reminiscent of Brigitte Fontaine and Vashti Bunyan." Washington, Dinah - Greatest Hits 1946-1953 2CD (Fabulous Doubles) [747834] $9.50 47-track definitive collection of the great Dinah Washington's American jukebox hits from the dawning of her career. Waterboys - This Is The Sea +14 2CD (EMI) [696344] $27.75 Remastered reissue of the classic 1985 album features 23 tracks including a bonus disc with 14 additional recordings, 'Beverly Penn' (prev. unreleased), 'Sleek White Schooner' (prev. unreleased), 'Medicine Bow' (prev. unreleased full length version), 'Medicine Jack' (B-side on CD for first time), 'High Far Soon' (instrumental B-side), 'Even The Trees Are Dancing', 'Towers Open Fire', 'This Is The Sea' (Live), 'Then You Hold Me', 'Spirit' (full length version), 'Miracle', 'I Am Not Here', 'Sweet Thing' (1985 version), & 'Waves' (prev. unreleased instrumental). Woodbury, Brian - Variety Orchestra CD (Recommended) [RERBWICD] $13.25 "The Variety Orchestra is a sparkling new CD of melodic post-modern jazz compositions." From dave at ear-rational.com Tue Apr 6 21:27:38 2004 From: dave at ear-rational.com (Dave at EAR/Rational Music) Date: Tue Apr 6 20:28:34 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] new Don's Corner! Message-ID: <2314692D-883B-11D8-9452-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> Don's Corner #4 is up and running on our main page! It's a good one (hey, they're all good, but I guess I'm biased). http://www.ear-rational.com From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Apr 11 11:14:23 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Apr 11 11:14:58 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Exciting news: The track "When the Devil was a Little Boy" by Smoke & Mirrors is being used in a skate video currently in production! (You can hear this track in its entirety at http://www.ear-rational.com/auralfixation/mp3/Devil-complete.mp3, and you can purchase it via iTunes (search for "When the Devil Was" under Songs) or Audio Lunchbox if you are so inclined. Also, I know I keep promising new features and not delivering them, but we are very close to launching some cool new stuff and I think it will be worth the wait. This update contains new releases by: Abba * Acid Mothers Temple * Ain Soph * Amute * Anderson, Beth * Beatty & Doug Hilsinger, Caroleen * Beausoleil, Bobby * Blank Feat. Raymond Pettibon * Caribbean, The * Chion, Michel/Lionel Marchetti/Jerome Noetinger * Circular Ruins, The * Cole, Nat King * Collapse Of The Wave Function, The * Deaf Center * Duke, George * Einst?rzende Neubauten * Engkilde Presents Epo, August * Enik * Features numerous tracks each from three of the main developign producers * Fitzgerald, Ella * Front 242 * Havergal * Hebert, Pierre/Bob Ostertag * Heuermann, Claudia * Holiday, Billie * Hooker, John Lee * Howlin' Wolf * Jackson, Bull Moose * Joseph Beuys * Julius, Rolf * King, B.B. * Klimek * Lagowski, Andrew * Les Georges Leningrad * Lidbo, Hakan * Like A Tim & Gina V. D'orrio * Lustmord * Mansun * Melek-Tha * Menche, Daniel * Mev * Middleton, Tom * Midnight Oil * Mondomarc * Mordant * Morricone, Ennio * Mukai, Chie/Rinji Fukuoka * Mutagene * O'Rourke, Jim * Oye, Erlend * Peloquin * Post Industrial Boys * Pousseur, Henri * Professor Longhair * Rowe, Keith/Christian Fennesz * Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide * Shiva's Headband * Skalpel * Slicker * Stokes, Saul * T. Raumschmiere * Torsson, Patrik * U2 * Vox Dei * Woodbury, Brian * Zazou, Hector [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Circular Ruins, The - Realm of Possibility CD (Databloem) [db002] $13.00 "This must be one of the most truly 'different' CDs I have heard in quite some time. The sounds are like nothing I have heard before, at a guess the use of pre-sets is avoided at all costs. Every track is in a constant state of shift detail being added here and removed there whilst fascinating lead lines just make their presence felt without intruding. Rhythmically its also inventive but really its often very difficult to separate each individual element in the mesmerising heady brew." Synth Music Direct

    "This would be a great soundtrack to one of those movies that has timelapses of flowers opening and clouds flowing over mountains and canyons in fast motion. Nature sounds, artificially created, morph into light ambient techno. Motion is felt in the tracks as if a train is going down the tracks, or used in a science documentary showing how atoms bounce around and are never still. Snappy stacato rhythms keep you awake and allow this recording to feel energetic while simultaneously being soothing. Uplifting melodies in combination with birds and nature make this a cohesive release, tempo changes and interesting sounds keep it engaging."(Don Poe) Einst?rzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile DVD+CD (Mute) [MUT99237] $14.75 Limited edition release of the new album packaged with a bonus DVD containing in 5.1 Surround Sound. Comes just in time for their first U.S. tour in 4 years. Front 242 - Geography + Bonus 2CD (Wax Trax) [754164] $37.50 (Not sure why the price is so high...I will check into this.) The much anticipated re-release of Front 242's cult debut-album Geography (originally released in 1982) in a special two CD deluxe digipak, limited worldwide to only 4,000 numbered copies! Truly one of the essential, groundbreaking albums in the history of electronic music. Disc one include each track of the original album completely remastered & remixed with current technology while staying faithful to the spirit of the original versions. Includes the bonus track 'He Runs Too Fast For Us' which did not appear on the original LP back in the early eighties. Disc Two is a limited edition bonus CD featuring previously unreleased tracks, demo's, try-outs, versions... in short - material which constitutes the layers on which Front 242 was constructed. Details TBA. Lagowski, Andrew - Digital Force Planning CD (Htz) [05574/HTZ004] $15.00 A Techno-tronique album by Andrew Lagowski who has built an extensive catalog over the years either under his name or through his various side projects (SETI, Legion, etc.) This veteran of computer-music has produced a great number of works of low-tech, dark ambient and experimental electronica. "Digital Force Planning" is in reference to an earlier series of CDs bearing the name of the French radio program "Wreck This Mess" and is the second in this series. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05574.mp3 Lustmord - Carbon/Core CD (Happy Pencil) [05567/HPC12/0107] $12.00 "Many of you have asked me what I am inspired by. Well...here you go. I'm happy to make available to you a collection of deliciously intense sound environments from the master of auditory oddities: Lustmord. "Carbon/Core" is the fully developed expansion of acoustical ideas originating as 2.5 minutes of unique sound events, made exclusively for the "happypencil.com/dark" project. Over an hour in length, this truly awesome set of soundscapes comes packaged in a deluxe 6 panel Digi-Pak, illustrated inside and out. It's also my privilege to include, on this enhanced CD/ROM, the "Lustmord vs. HappyPencil" video teaser of animated imagery I've made with the generous help of a few of my friends." Middleton, Tom - Trip 2CD (Family Recordings) [716024] $30.50 This is your second 'Trip' - under the guidance of Global Communication/Jedi Knight supremo, Tom Middleton. Featuring rare & exotic disco punk/funk cover versions of classic songs. The 'Trip' is a new series from Family Recordings, where a specially invited guest DJ has 'carte blanche' to create a unique album based around his or her personal record collection. There are no barriers, no strict musical guidelines - the only stipulation is that the album should reflect its title: 'The Trip'. Never before has such an eclectic mix of music been compiled! One of the albums many highlights is the exclusive track from the hotly tipped Ulrich Schnauss 'As If You've Never Been Away'. Theme tunes from the Clangers & Pearl & Dean launch two CDs of intrigue & rarity with listeners treated to a number of familiar songs by song unfamiliar artists: Senor Coconut's version of the Sade classic 'Smooth Operator'; Sherbert's early Police hit 'Roxanne' & Usha Uthup's bollywood rendition of Michael Jackson's 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough' (titled here as 'Chhupke') are just three examples of Tom Middleton's obsession with the rare, the funky, & the unlikely. This is all balanced with a bold mix of popular classics from 80's superstars Level 42, Thompson Twins & the Style Council, plus classic easy listening (Sammy Davis Jnr 'Up & Away'), jazz (The Dudley Moore Trio 'Millionaire') & one off's (Tom Tom Club 'Wordy Rappinghood'). All interlaced with excerpts from Tom's TV childhood - Mr Ben, Magic Roundabout, Star Wars, Close Encounters & the inimitable Bod. If ever fans wanted to see what makes Tom Middleton's musical mind tick, this album is it! Pousseur, Henri - Paysages Planetaires 3CD (Alga Marghen) [ALGA051] $59.75 "In year 2000 Henri Pousseur was asked by Philippe Samyn, architect of Brussels who likes to work in association with other arts, to lend his support to the plan for the construction of a business complex by one of the most important building enterprises in the country. There were four low buildings arranged like different parts of a medieval castle-village, grouped around a kind of large open central court. Leaning on the suggested image, Pousseur immediately suggested that the first spinal-column be composed of an electronic carillon, sounding in variations every hour, thus making the hours between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. All the images, obtained through extensive digital treatments, were conceived and manipulated by Henri Poussuer. Heavy coardboard slipcase with 3CDs and 60 pages booklet." Stokes, Saul - Radiate CD (Databloem) [db006] $13.00 " The duality of Saul Stokes is made clear on the album Radiate (6:51). This volume presents 50+ minutes of live material from 2003, plus two bonus studio tracks from around that same time. While listening to this material, it becomes apparent that the approach Stokes takes to his studio work is vastly different from that of his live concerts. The studio work is concise, brief and as tightly arranged as a gear driven machine while the concert performances are more expansive, roaming and spontaneously organic. The concert program portion of this disc flows across five tracks. Here we find Stokes further exploring texture, timbre and his minimalistic sound field through the wavering oscillators, flicking filters, grinding crossmodulations and undulating drones of "hand forged" synthesizers. The originality of Stokes' tonality is unsurpassed, coming from an intimate understanding of the technology he's using (as he has designed and built most of his live rig) and the resulting immediacy with which his creations are brought forth and shaped... ebbing and flowing between challenging experimentation and soothing enlightenment. This otherworldly musical environment is, for Saul Stokes, an expressionistic excursion - the language of his inner life." - Chuck van Zyl (STAR'S END) - March 2004

    "This CD starts with a swirling sound - could be a swarm of locusts approaching, but once the melody starts to kick in you realize this is something much less sinister. Another way to think about it would be the landing of a space ship, and then the doors open to reveal the beauty of earth. Or evolution as a fish finally crawls from the sea. Get the point yet? This album is an opening and discovery. Rhythms bubble to the top and are overtaken by the next idea. Never content to sit still, this ambient techno disc is mellow and refreshing. You wouldn't be able to guess which song you started with by just listening to the ending as these songs change their melodies and themes. Emotions build, ebb and flow. The beats are subdued and sometimes only hinted at, but this doesn't make this slow, Saul is able to add a lot of motion without a 4 on the floor crutch. A little static occasionally works it's way into the system, but this isn't glitchy. It is more artful than just noisey buzzes. Don't let this part get in the way, it is just a little spice in a complex recipe."(Don Poe) Various Artists - Grime CD (Rephlex) [REPH156CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 06-08-2004 First major compilation of this breaking new UK underground scene. Post-drum'n'bass, way-post-UK-Garage, "Grime" is intense and mindblowing. And no, Plasticman (one of the three featured artists here) is not from Canada. Features numerous tracks each from three of the main developign producers in this scene: Mark One, Plasticman and Slaughter Mob. "Grime. Sublow. Dubstep. It's Music. Different people call it different things, depending on when they discovered it. In the 80's, maybe it was House, Techno and Electro. In the 90's it was UK-G, Drum and Bass, Breaks or whatever. Now there are so many terms for it that the journalists can't pigeon-hole it any more. This is a good thing -- it's music. Moody music, multifunctional, multifaceted music created by Humans with Brains, Hearts, Machines & Electricity. Music that's great for dancing to in clubs, or submerging yourself within your headphones, your car, your home, wherever. It's instrumental dance music, but it's the perfect forum for the best MC's and vocalists. We at Rephlex call it Grime to publicise to the people at large, outside of the specialist world of its producers. The purists might debate the name, but while they do that, crews around the globe are uniting in this strong & fresh dance movement. In this age of Information Technology, people are able to easily find real quality that they actually want, without being spoon-fed compromised product. Now, it is a time of change and the soundtrack is Grime." Various Artists - L'alternative DVD+CD (EMI) [340326] $42.50 French CD & DVD (PAL/Region 2). The DVD features 30 music videos including two versions of Massive Attack's 'Special Cases', Radiohead 'There There', Air 'Cherry Blossom Girl' (Hard Version), A Perfect Circle 'Weak & Powerless', Auf Der Maur 'Taste You', Coldplay 'The Scientist', Warlocks 'We're All in Love', Radio 4 'Dance to the Underground', Blur 'Out of Time' & many more from the likes of Dave Gahan, Sleepy Jackson, Jane's Addiction, Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp, & more! The 16-track CD features many B-sides & some A-sides including, Radiohead 'Skttrbrain' (Four Tet Remix), Thrills 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me', Air 'Cherry Blossom Girl' (Simian Mobile Disco Mix), Blur 'Me, White Noise', Auf Der Maur 'Follow the Waves' & others from Chemical Brothers, Dave Gahan, Sleepy Jackson & more. Standard amaray DVD packaging. Various Artists - Pick A Winner DVD+CD (Load) [LOAD050CD] $15.75 "Dual formatted, double dipped and extra whipped technicolor-laced acid flakes are on the table dig in. 17 trips of sound and sights are poured into k-holes of dubious dimension from tons of Load bands and friends like Lightning Bolt, Neon Hunk, Wolf Eyes, and Forcefield." [ . . . ] Acid Mothers Temple - Mantra of Love CD (Alien8) [ALIEN44CD] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "Mantra Of Love is destined to be a classic release in the expanding catalog of one of today's most exciting psychedelic ensembles. It is beautifully recorded, featuring AMT's cleanest production to date. Cotton Casino's vocals are captured fabulously, rivalling the Univers Zen ou de Zere a Zero release on France's Fractal label. The recording is composed of two tracks. 'La Le Lo,' a traditional Occitan piece, is somewhat similar to the classic La Novia release. It is largely based around the melodic vocals of Cotton Casino. Halfway through the track, speed guru Kawabata Makoto lets the thunder roll, giving the feeling of an entirely new song until it becomes melodic again toward the end. Mantra Of Love is the perfect release for those who enjoy the more melodic, droned out hippy elements of Acid Temple Mothers but also want the piece to let loose from time to time." Ain Soph - Ars Regia spec. edition Book+CD (Athanor) [179147] $15.75 Their most magickal and beautiful album rereleased with a 40-page booklet aside! Amute - A Hundred Dry Trees CD (Intr_Version) [INTR012] $13.00 "Every so often a work of stunning beauty and maturity masquerades as a d??but. Belgian artist Jerome Deuson's (aka aMute) first full-length is a wind-swept, moonlit tapestry of delicate guitar-work. aMute's gentle articulate songs recall Mogwai's quieter slow-burn moments, Tarantelle's elegant understatement, Tim Hecker's attention to the life of every hiss and crackle. After his appearance on last year's Saturday Morning Empires compilation left hopes high, A Hundred Dry Trees' effortless symphonies and tiny smoldering epics are indications that an important new artist has arrived." Anderson, Beth - Swales and Angels CD (New World Records) [NW80610] $14.25 "Beth Anderson (b. 1950) writes chamber music of great beauty, generally simple tonality, and luminous textures." Beatty & Doug Hilsinger, Caroleen - Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy CD (DBK Works) [DBK111CD] $14.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 "Folk rock vocalist/chanteuse Caroleen Beatty (Bedlam Rovers/Waycross/Jon Langford) meets up with multi-instrumentalist Doug Hilsinger (Bomb/Bill Laswell/L.D. Beghtol of Magnetic Fields) for a complete re-interpretation of Brian Eno's 1974 classic album Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy. Beausoleil, Bobby - OST Lucifer Rising 2 CD (Arcanum Entertainment) [ARCANUM001CD] $17.00 RELEASE DATE: 06-15-2004 "The soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's legendary film has been unavailable to the public since the music was completed nearly 25 years ago. Bobby BeauSoleil's dark psychedelic masterpiece is now available on this deluxe 2-disc set with multi-fold digipak." Blank Feat. Raymond Pettibon - Achtung CD (Grob) [175592] $14.75 Improvisation with the sure-footed and subversive gesture of contemporary anarchim. Caribbean, The - William of Orange CDEP (Hometapes) [HOME007CD] $7.50 "This 'simple EP project' designed to try out new equipment, write odd songs, work with one of their favorite producers (Chad Clark), pursue their favorite medium (the EP), and collaborate with Hometapes, William of Orange wound up creating gaping philosophical rifts, catfights, dogfights, breath-holding, and panic attacks, as well as profound hearing loss and nervous hypoxia. At the end of the day, though, in William of Orange, one hears only sweet harmony and velvety cohesion. Silvery cymbals, creamy guitars and stuttering electronic glitches. Voices emoting in glorious unity." Chion, Michel/Lionel Marchetti/Jerome Noetinger - Les 120 Jours 2CD (Fringes Archive) [FRINGAR003] $25.75 "Musique concrete composed in 1997/98 for the Festival Musique Action in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy . A collaboration between these three French composers. First they collected a bank of sounds, which they reworked and transformed using their own style and techniques. At the end all the parts were organised together to create this kind of monster." Collapse Of The Wave Function, The - Volume 2 7_inch (Rephlex) [REPH154EP] $7.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "This is part two of a series of 3 records from a Rephlex artist recording covertly. This second single will be succeeded by part 3 the Collapse Of The Wave Function mini album. All will be revealed at this point, to everyone's pleasant surprise." Deaf Center - Neon City CD (Type) [TYEP001CD] $12.75 "Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland are engineers of emotion and with Neon City they have created something abstract, yet incredibly accessible. As the sound of a Norwegian log cabin creaks in the distance, drifting into the soundfield -- you know you are in the world of Deaf Center. Following hot on the heels of label owner Xela's brand new album for City Centre Offices, this is a persuasive sound document -- gathering large strings, isolated piano, mesmerising guitar across a completely fresh sense of arrangement -- these guys have the world at their feet. Add to this a super Helios remix of the opener 'Dial' [last sighted on Neo21cd - Cottage Industries 3] and you have some of the best music we've heard in a very long time." Engkilde Presents Epo, August - Electronic Panorama Orchestra CD (Popscape) [POPSC001CD] $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 06-08-2004 "Basically EPO is an open collective of musicians, founded by August Engkilde in 2002. Although the overall sound is based on jazz, EPO expand and extend this aural fundament with irreverent snippets of hiphop, dub, latin and funk. Subtle electronics determine the tracks' structures: most of the time, it might just be a gentle, almost indiscernible pulse ticking away in the background, swathed in a warm double bass, brass section and guitar. Then again, synthesizer and samples might fight their way to the surface and decide to lead the expedition for a while. Last, but by no means least, there is the voice of Frida Asmussen, leaving no room for uncertainty why Scape had to initiate a pop label just for this project: her characteristic, precisely accentuated vocals rush into wonderful choruses to warm the heart and open the sound. EPO blend elements of different styles and cultures into a cohesive whole, treating all of their influences with the greatest respect. Analogue sound generation and electronic foundation are so tightly entwined that the layers become almost inseparable. Their album manages to sound both timeless and modern, unpredictable and coherent, experimental and down to earth. With great optimism it allows us a glimpse of the productive co-existence of what used to be different." Enik - Without A Bark CD (Wonder) [WON014CD] $10.50 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "Not many artists like to take risks these days. Laying one's soul bare is a rarity. Enik, from Munich, is one of those rare artists who expects a lot of his listeners, who does not hide behind empty gestures, who chooses to share with us the depths of his soul beyond any narcissistic tendencies. Without A Bark is his first solo effort, six songs which defy indifference. His name is familiar thanks to his contribution to Funkstoerung's Disconnected, the Rosenheim electronic visionaries' recently released album, helping them shape a pi??ce de resistance of classic song and melody around roughly-hewn soundscapes. Whilst Enik has been making music since the tender age of 13, the decision to concentrate entirely on his creative output (a poetry volume is in the making) fell around the turn of the century. 'I set up a studio in the cellar and started working earnestly on songs. Within a year, I had around a hundred... In spite of such zeal, the 23 year old multi-instrumentalist was rather more hesitant when it came to making his work public. It was Chris De Luca and Michael Fakesch from Funkst?rung who dug him out of the orchestra pit of Munich's Phatos Theatre and were instantly won over by his talent. Small wonder, as the six unique songs on Without A Bark testify. Tracks like 'Micro Ocean' or 'How To Destroy' set / let the mind run free as melody lines break up in the deconstructionist manner of Tom Waits. 'This is too intense' Enik sings on 'Chaos The Drug' . How right he is. 'Tom Waits is an inspiration, David Bowie as well, of course. In fact everything I've ever listened to, from Michael Jackson to Georg Kreisler, has influenced me in some way.' Enik is fine with being a loner, and yet...'I'm sure I'll get together more musicians for my album, there's definitely something to be gained by working with other artists. I love having a band for live shows, just me and a laptop isn't as much fun'. He did have some help on Without A Bark, particularly from Hans Tauschek, who arranged the strings and co-wrote three of the songs. 'At the moment, he's the only person I let near my material. We're on the same wavelength'." Havergal - Elettricita CD (Secretly Canadian) [SC91] $13.25 "The mark of minimalist composers Erik Satie, Steve Reich and Terry Riley have all been left on Havergal and can be traced throughout Havergal's second album Elettricita." Hebert, Pierre/Bob Ostertag - Between Science and Garbage DVD (Tzadik) [TZ3002DVD] $22.75 No description available at this time. Heuermann, Claudia - A Bookshelf On the Top of the Sky DVD (Tzadik) [TZ3001DVD] $22.75 "A rare peek into the working methods of one of the most notorious and reclusive composers on the scene today. 80 minutes. Julius, Rolf - Early Works Vol. 1 (1979-1982) CD (Fringes Archive) [FRINGAR004] $17.75 "First release of the the early sound installations from the German sound artist Rolf Julius, ranging from 1979 to 1982 : Music on Two High Poles (1979), Morning Song (Berlin Concert Series, 1981, in collaboration with Joan La Barbara), Music for the Earth (Berlin Concert Series, 1981), Music for the Eyes , (1981), Music for a Pane of Glass (1980), Music for a Yellow Room (Berlin Concert Series, 1982), Chamber Concert for Three Loudspeakers, (Berlin Concert Series, 1982), Concert for a Frozen Lake (Berlin Concert Series, 1982)." Klimek - Milk & Honey CD (Kompakt) [KOMP033CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "Sebastian Meissner, living in Frankfurt/Main, is a concept artist, composer, sound designer and photographer and presents his newest musical oeuvre with Milk & Honey. After very considered works for labels such as Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa, Beta Bodega or Cronica he installs his project Klimek on Kompakt, which also has an optical correspondence from the acoustic expression published as a multimedia performance. Meissner's works are mainly concerned with 'the coincidence in digital music compositions', which in case of his Klimek projects are based on the most classic of all analog soundsources: the guitar. These slow motion-like soundshapes unfold a feeling of boundless width and contemplatively silence. The effect is not far from the Kompakt pop ambient sound: pictures, references, associations appear in front of our imaginary eye. With Milk & Honey they don't live on the memory treasure called pop, but rather from the classical roadmovie or even the best times of the Italian western. Meissner rather refers to the country where milk and honey flows, which is reflected on the coverartwork and in the quicktime movie contained on the CD version. His photographs also form the raw material for the multimedia installations. The least common denominator of roadmovie and western is the desert; this album sounds as if a lonely guitar -- scattered to the four winds ? escapes the ear. It is a perfect soundtrack for a sultry night of thunderstorm, one of the nights we may expect again next summer. Music for the romantic side of the climatic disaster." Les Georges Leningrad - Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou CD (Alien8) [ALIEN45CD] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "The reissue of Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou from Montreal's most notorious post punks, Les Georges Leningrad. Hailing from one of the most fertile scenes in North America, Les Georges Leningrad's completely over the top stage show and totally unique sound has made them one of the city's most beloved bands. The Alien8 edition of Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou has been remastered & repackaged. Also exclusive to this release is a bonus track not included on the original release. The sound captured by this band is an indescribable mix of demented electro/noise/post/punk augmented by their own invented language." Lidbo, Hakan - Clockwise Remixes CD (Shitkatapult) [STRIKE046CD] $10.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "The life of Anne Frost and John Lane can definitely be described as a routine. Anne is hard working, lives in London, works in a restaurant, and has a thirteen-hour day. John Lane, also from London, is a bank employee and the typical nine-to-fiver. Breakfast hours are regulated strictly. This is the deeply sharp plot of 'Clockwise,' the identical name from the piece on Hakan Lidbo's Shitkatapult EP (Strike 38 from 2003). That one swerved with a musical narration between pulp'n'bass and yap-phonics painted by undertones of toothpaste and edible sounds. The actual interesting part about Anne and John's catchy stories remains in the fantasy of the listener. In some way it stays open, whether or not they both know each other, maybe even fuck, given a nice lunch break. As for fucking, it was obvious that Hakan Lidbo wouldn't forget to finger the ol' label whores at Shitkatapult. In so doing, it will only be a short while before the Proms are called up and turned onto pushing a special version of 'Clockwise.' Sibegg, Brighton Noodles Imperialist, is busy transplanting Anne and John's story into a British undercover-agent comedy. A bomb is ticking, suspicious signs strike keys conscientious of accusations as the protagonists stutter, since the emergency number isn't working with Dr. No in charge of the bass-buzzer on the power lines. Hakan's punkslut Minimix has nothing but quacking spite for Anne and John's day in day out routine, coming and going as fast as the point of a ridiculous joke. Apparat, that old fogy, winds the tempo down so far until it's running backward since it's nighttime and John is dreaming Anne's dream. Matthew Dear, the platinum boy from Ghostly International who respectively gave the minimal techno experience life and enjoyment in 2003, shuffles with Anne and John in the clacking and scratching infinity of reduction, where beginning and end always hang out in the middle. Vinyl has been pressed for all those who like to see big names united on one record without needing to switch the plate. The CD is complete with all the tracks and remixes of the EP as well as an extra mini-movie for home use. Hair dressers would be smart to buy it for their salons, where people like Anne and John go to have their hair done up. Of course there will be others who gaze in the mirror and wonder about it." Like A Tim & Gina V. D'orrio - Bass Girl CD (Djak-Up-Bitch) [DUB010CD] $17.00 "Mini album with nine classic American pop songs from the 50/60's in a surprising contemporary style. A project of Rotterdam based producer Like A Tim and singer Gina V. D'Orio (Cobra Killer/Ec8or) from Berlin. All tracks sung by D'Orio are accompanied only by a TB-303 bassline and an occasional subtle synth." Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lanter Cd CD (EMI) [757834] $13.25 The British guitar band's 1997 debut album. 11 tracks. Melek-Tha - Perfect World Eradication CD (Kuber Noise) [05565/NOISE003] $15.75 The new album from the insane French act Melek-Tha delivers a perfect mixture of abrassive obscure orchestrations mixed together with very nihilistic industrialized sonorities. A new intense chapter in the Melek-Tha saga ''Perfect World Eradication'' IS destructive death musick - a supreme slice of Apocalyptic Dark Ritual madness. (MNS.UK) http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05565.mp3 Menche, Daniel - Eye On The Steel CD (Substractif) [SUBSF07] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-10-2004 No description available at this time. Menche, Daniel - Skadha CD (Anti Frost) [05566/AFRO2023] $19.25 2nd solo release by Daniel Menche. His most "electronic" work to date. Sounds compiled and scathed fall and winter of 2003 at "House of Menche" and mixed and mastered at Private Studio Recordings, Portland. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05566.mp3 Mev - Pieces CD (IRML) [IRML06] $10.25 Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryant's label. The first track, 'Quadrupl Play', is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as 'variations on melody' and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du Vence, France and at Teatro Argentina in Rome. The second track, 'Pich Out' (or 'Rocket Take Off)', for 4 guitars, is loud and thundering, played by 4 musicians through 4 speakers at Sala Beloch, Rome in March 1967. Features Rzewski, Phetteplace, Curran, Bryant. Mondomarc - Mondomarc CD (Klangkrieg) [KKREIG17CD] $16.50 "On his debut as a solo artist, Mondomarc has widened his stylistic horizon considerably and produced an album that sounds like one of those mixtapes you give a friend for his/her birthday. 100% party-compatible electro-killer-tunes, experimental sound-play, straight songs, sprawling electronic follies and determined HipHop result in an out and out homogenous style-clash, or -- to put in a nutshell: a modern pop album. On this album, Marc has been supported by his Mondo Fumatore-colleague Gwendolin, Kat Cosm-chief Sebastian Skalei and Derick Rhodes aka Ladyboy, singer with Solarscape." Mordant - Petri Dish 3CD CD (Mordant) [179124] $8.00 7 spores of dark and twisted electronica songs with outerworldly vocals... Mukai, Chie/Rinji Fukuoka - L'energie de L'existence CD (Turtle's Dream) [TD002CD] $16.75 (Chie Mukai: voice, kokyu and drums, Rinji Fukuoka: cello, piano and drums). "Two concerts recorded in Tokyo at Ogikubo Community Center, the 7 and 8 September 2002. A drone music moving to free music, unfold to infinity, sonic caravan lost in the opiate meanders of the cortex (lost as they were in this map of Cosmos). Free drumming tearing apart the psychedelic melodies born from the strings, kokyu and cello played until exhaustion and loss (a primary key to a psychedelic journey.) An electric raga played endlessly." Mutagene - Sleeping Possession CD (Databloem) [db003] $13.00 Out of my latest batch of 10 CD's to review, the first to be placed in the player was this one and of course it was from choice. It is all the work of Alexis Glass, who is a native Canadian, but now resides in Japan. During the last four years whilst he has been studying there, he has developed a remarkable insight into what makes good quality music. This batch of eleven tracks is his first venture into the business and he has chosen the sphere of ambient, dub and techno to showcase his musical ideas. It's a strong CD without all those repetitive phrases borrowed from other recordings and gives an idea of his potential. Incidentally he was spotted via the Internet and thankfully can now share his music with a greater audience. - Brooky - Moden Dance

    "Mellow ambient techno with a walking bassline/rhythm. This down-tempo disc has a beautiful image of Japan on the back - all the releases on this label look great - every disc has a flower under the CD to calm you down as you put in the soothing music. I can hear a little of the jungle band Photek in here, but this is less technical/austere and has more emotion. Also, this disc has a little more funk to it, not to the extreme that you would hear James Brown sampled, but it has a little feeling to the beats - a little touch of dub may be a more appropriate analogy. The minimal atmosphere on here has a rich feeling - doing a lot by creativity, not by throwing lots of sounds at you. This exacting use of sound also lends a bit of mystery to the disc. Combine the rhythms with the Japanese background and I can feel like I am walking down a back alley in Tokyo, the streets are wet after a rain and it is a little chilly. I don't think I will be mugged, but I might be seduced. That is kind of mystery found here. I am a spec of dust under the towering buildings."(Don Poe) O'Rourke, Jim - Two Organs LP (Three Poplars) [THREE15] $20.00 "The second archive release following last years great Scend LP (3P8). 2 pieces for organ composed and performed in 1991 when Jim was finishing his music studies at de Paul University in Chicago. These pieces had almost been forgotten about as Jim's musical interests soon took a change of direction. Only now released for the first time in any format this LP instantly draws the listener inside this recently imagined timelessness." Oye, Erlend - DJ-Kicks CD (K7) [K7161CD] $15.75 No description available at this time. Peloquin - Laisse-nous vous embresser o?? vous avez mal CD (Maxernst) [MGCD004] $14.25 "Reissue of the classic 1972 Quebec masterpiece. Includes 'Monsieur L'Indien' and 'Mama Vagina'. When it was originally released, this record was 30 years ahead of its time. Now we're in 2004 and it's time has arrived. Launched in 1972, Laissez-nous vous embrasser ou ??a fait mal is one of the most original records ever made in Quebec. Though avant-garde, it still managed to garner radio support and wide public attention thanks to the trance-like track 'Monsieur L'Indien'. The 'Us' in Let us kiss you where it hurts is Claude Peloquin, controversial poet, And Jean Sauvageau, a Quebec electronic music pioneer. Together after memorable trips and artistic happenings throughout the 60's, they came up with this eccentric avant-garde masterpiece. With topics ranging from revolution ('Monsieur Emiliano'), to exploitation ('Monsieur L'Indien'), vasectomy ('Sterilization') or even scatology ('Mama Vagina'), the record exploded onto the local scene during the dark ages of Quebec Pop Music (something very similar to what's happening now). Claude Peloquin, the vocalist, can be heard laughing, screaming, babbling into the mike as he 'cracks open a brew' overtop a cocktail of explosive and highly original electronic music. A wall of sound shifting from synthetic psychedelic ambience, doped out choir to fucked up western. Techno spoken word? Electroclash? Experimental Rock? Pretty far from the hippie stuff you'd expect for the times." Post Industrial Boys - Post Industrial Boys CD (Maxernst) [MAXE007CD] $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "Post Industrial Boys is the debut album by Gogi Ge.Org aka George Dzodzuashvili. Seven different voices are found on Post Industrial Boys. All share an affinity to Goslab, a group of artists from Tbilisi, Georgia (including TBA/Natalie Beridze, Nikakoi, Gio + Maya Sumbadze...). Goslab is a phantom, which manifests itself as a culture through the performances of individual members and their various projects. In this sense, Goslab is somewhat like Georgia. Georgia is a post-communist phantom -- a pipeline in Off-Europe. A projection screen. There is a 5-hour time difference between London and Tbilisi. Tbilisi starts singing while America and Western Europe are still asleep. Post-industrial: The fifth Kondratieff wave will see the transition from hardware to software. Marx is on the finish line, somewhere between the greater and smaller Caucasus. Oil is entropy, ashes. 'Reproduction of what cannot be transformed' (Paul Val??ry). Survival in global capitalism. Post-industrial joys. Streams. Sounds." Rowe, Keith/Christian Fennesz - Live at the LU CD (Erstwhile) [ERST043] $13.25 "Keith Rowe and Christian Fennesz are recognized as two of the most prominent and influential musicians in experimental music. However, despite their joint participation in the 12 person MIMEO collective, their commercially released work has rarely intersected, which is why Live at the LU, a document of their first duo show together, is so revealing." Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good Night 2CD (Erstwhile) [ERTS042] $19.50 "Good Morning Good Night is a very conscious step in a new direction, an attempt to create a 'vertical' music (as opposed to most music, which moves in a linear, horizontal plane). The pointillistic placement of sounds by these three masters of delicacy results in a music that exists somewhere between foreground and background listening. Friederike Paetzold's design is inspired by James Turrell's work, and features four different covers for the four tracks/times of day, which the listener can fold according to their preference." Skalpel - Skalpel CD (Ninja Tune) [NJT87] $12.25 The debut release from the Polish production duo of Marcin Cichy & Igor Pudlo, who sample and curate the rich recorded history of jazz from their native land. As many of these lush cuts were recorded during wartime, this is the record that Communist Eastern Europe didn't want you to hear, and it is SO worth the wait. RIYL Cinematic Orchestra, Jaga Jazzist. Slicker - We All Have a Plan CD (Hefty) [HEFT044CD] $14.50 "Slicker's fourth album and a pan-global, soul-jazz masterpiece made out of bits and pieces, is elemental and spiritual. 'Honest' and 'organic' are words Hughes uses repeatedly to describe his blueprint. And in the wake of similar cut-and-paste excursions by kindred spirit colleagues, Plan smuggles modern electronics away from indie-techno dilettantes back to the timeless land of song. The collaborative voices and jazz tones you hear throughout the record belong to soul, jazz, funk and world music's forgotten heroes." T. Raumschmiere - Million Brothers CDS (Mute) [MUT3084] $6.75 New single from the Radio Blackout album. Includes remixes by Pole, Techno Animal, LFP and Subspecies. The CD version also includes a remix of "Monstertruckdriver" from Dabrye. Torsson, Patrik - Kolveteserenader CD (Hapna) [HAPNA015] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "This is the first release from Swede Patrik Torsson. It's a CD about life onboard an oil tanker. The music is electronica with spoken stories (in Swedish) about memorable moments onboard. Other instruments/sounds include guitar, piano, keyboard and field recordings. Comparisons could be made to Bj??rn Olsson and Hans Appelqvist (eg his 3" CD on H?pna)." Various Artists - Electronic Music For Heroes: Three CD (Hydrogen Dukebox) [DUKE129CD] $7.50 No description available at this time. Various Artists - Ethiopiques 18: Asguebba! CD (Buda Musique) [BUDA82289] $17.00 "The recordings presented here are intended as a continuation of those in T??tchaw??t! /Ethiopiques 2, i.e a presentation of the current Ethiopian musical scene. The interest of compiling these artists is to show that the renewal of the nightlife/musical life in Addis Abeba in the 90's (after 18 years of censorship) has nothing to do with the occidental-isation. The greatest music produced in Ethiopia is more than ever the 'Azmari', the traditional popular music from Ethiopia that you can hear in the traditional bistrots and cabarets. A music that urges the listener to enter into the dance-literally. This invitation carries the same sexual innuendo as Latino's 'Ya Dentro'. That's because even if he or she excels in poignant lamentation, the azmari must also, and at all times, be a master of the art of heating up the atmosphere. 30 pages Booklet with notes and lyrics in French & English." Various Artists - Futurisme Ain't Shit To Me CD (KYO) [KYO001CD] $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world's comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy. What have Hip Hop and Futurism in common? If you think of P. Diddy and friends, nothing. The Hip Hop we are talking about is an alternative Hip Hop niche that has developed the last years and has been recently discovered by many electronic labels and producers. Warp, Ninja Tune or Mush started their own 'Alternative' Hip Hop Sublabels (Lex, Big Dada, Dirtyloop). 'Alternative' Hip Hop is playing with powerful & weird noises, groovy beats, strange flows and soft harmonious sounds with dirty industrial elements. Kind of old-school hiphop, electronic minimalistic hiphop, art-noises in the strangest combinations, faraway from all that mainstream stuff in gangsta-style. KYO is trying to provide an insight into this scene that hasn??t become one yet. From electronic producers like Pole, Funkst??rung, AGF, or the Dub contangioned Meteorites with their feisty rhymes and Readymade FC (F-Com) who don??t miss out on having a Juice Alleem Remix to already accepted artists like Aesop Rock, Antipop Consortium, Prefuse 73, the musical genius Gonzales or the HipHop-Noise-Terrorists Dalek and acts like The Bench, Dabrye, Dwayne Sodahberk, Shadow Huntaz, Slicker or White Hole. Discover a new scene that is as shiny as the milkyway and as nebulous as the London fog. Many new tracks, acts and labels to enjoy. Come along on a trip to outta Hip Hop space." Various Artists - Katapult CD (Karat) [KARAT002CD] $16.50 "Karat is pleased to introduce you to its first compilation. More than a simple showcase of its roster or a defined product on such music, it's a collection of tracks exclusively recorded for this project. We offered to the artists, some who already had released tracks on our label such as Ark, Krikor, Chlo?? or Cabanne, and some others that we like, to produce something for us without giving them any artistic direction. The result is rather amazing because despite the different styles of the tracks, there actually is a real coherence. We can explain that by the fact that they have something very deep in common, that is the ability to get away the musical genres and thus to look ahead of the pack and to express their full personality in their music. We think that these artists as a whole entity, blow some fresh air on the Parisian and French scenes and announce a bright future. Now you can listen to this compilation and enjoy it whether you're in a party or relaxing mood , in a happy or sad one. Come into the new Karat's sensation." Artists: Ark, Kean, Aysam, Chloe, Krikor, Cabanne, Sety, Feadz, Automat, Blackstrobe, Mikael Weill, Noze. Various Artists - Secret Lords CD (World Serpent) [179146] $13.25 On the hidden life of buildings, history conserved in architecture, life petrified! Various Artists - Warenkorb 5 CD (Ware) [WARE013CD] $14.50 Fifth volume in this sensational series, overseen by label owner Mathias Schaffh??user. "Minimal, maximal. Dub House, Tech-House. What's all the fuss? Warenkorb 5 prefers tracks that dare more, and actually try and stay away from the consensus of recent years. Of course, we're not talking about quantum leaps here. It's up to others to re-invent the wheel. However, the guideline for the artists was: all tracks on Warenkorb 5 were supposed to be 'not as usual'. So the gentlemen Goldfish & Der Dulz (Playhouse) have added a few more drops of techno into their funky flow to make your legs quiver that little bit extra. The Aphorism from Freiburg have experimented with creating the opposite of their smooth club hit 'Warmer Regen' (Warenkorb 3) and get out the distorted bass -- with success. Call it 'High Speed Garage'. Jeremy P. Caulfield (WMF/Trapez Rec.) needs no further explanation. The Berlin-based Canadian is currently making the most interesting techno house records on the planet, and has taken The Kitbuilder's classic 'Get Out' and turned it into Contemporary Club Extravaganza. But 2003 also allows a few softer sounds, especially when Soda Inc. have put them together so seductively. Their 'Morning Prayer' absolutely belongs in every morning/after-hour set of the autumn/winter season. And that's just mentioning a few of the acts representing the inventory on this fifth label compilation." Artists: Mathias Schaffh?user, Goldfish & Der Duz, Jaumetic, Markus , Kazooo, Iven Schmidt, Dominik Eulberg, Geoff White, Benjamin Brunn, Rudolfo, Soda Inc, Coloma, Jeremy P. Caulfield Vs. The Kitbuilders, The Aphorism. Various Artists - Zyklus 1 CD (Steinklang) [179145] $10.25 No description available at this time. Woodbury, Brian - Variety Orchestra CD (Recommended) [RERBW1CD] $13.25 "The Variety Orchestra is a sparkling new CD of melodic post-modern jazz compositions. The music is built around a one-of-a-kind line-up combining a driving jazz rhythm section, Latin and Big Band horns, and the down-home Americana of pedal steel, banjo, fiddles & accordion. This mix is peppered with tabla, new music violin, tone rows, NYC bar band, Satchmo cornet growls, and a 15th century brass chorale. The CD features phenomenal players from both coasts -- a who's who from New York's downtown and LA's experimental music scenes." Zazou, Hector - L'abscence CD (Taktic) [721544] $32.50 Hector Zazou is without a doubt one of the most sincere & talented French music creators. On this album his music is close to 'melancholic' trip hop a la Portishead & Massive Attack. Crafted with the help of Asia Argento, Alexkid, Harold Budd, Nicola Hitchcock (Mandalay), & Edo. Digipak. [ D V D ] Abba - In Concert DVD (Berita) [340646] $29.75 Compared to their top-level competition on the international rock music scene in the 1970s, Abba made very few international concert tours. Their only major outings were the 1977 tour of Europe and Australia and then the tour of North America and Europe in 1979. This last tour was made into a film, Abba In Concert, which vividly captures the four Swedes on stage at the height of their fame. Comes with a number of rare bonus performances, one of which has never been seen before. The documentary scenes in Abba In Concert, offering an intimate look at the group's life on the road, were filmed in the United States in September and October 1979. The sparkling concert performances were captured at Wembley Arena in London, England, in November. Abba In Concert, a co-production between Sveriges Television and Polar Music International, was directed by television producer Urban Lasson. The film was first broadcast in Japan in March 1980, and has been seen all over the world since then. 2004. Cole, Nat King - Legendary DVD (Efor Filsm) [340456] $35.75 Through video & television clips, & rare early photos, this DVD uncovers the life of one of America's leading cultural icons, documenting Cole's struggles & successes from his early childhood in Alabama to his transformation into America's best loved performer. Also included are countless clips of classic hits taken from Cole's live concert & television performances as well as collaborations with outstanding artists like Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Eartha Kitt & more. Dual sided NTSC/PAL/All Code. Efor Films Collection. 2004. Duke, George - Live - Tokyo Japan 1983 DVD (BPM/JJ) [340616] $33.50 One-time-only all-star band gig features 14 tracks live at Shibuya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan, DVD release combining jazz with funk, dance music & beyond. NTSC/Region Free. 5.1 surround sound. Joseph Beuys - Provokation Lebensstoff Der Gesellschaft DVD (Joseph Beuys Medien Archiv) [175591] $35.00 Includes lavish book. Midnight Oil - Best Of Both Worlds DVD+CD (ABC) [742374] $32.75 Aussie exclusive compilation featuring live material from two legendary Midnight Oil shows. The DVD (PAL/Region 0) features the much sought after 'Goat Island' performance titled 'Oils On The Water' (recorded in Sydney Harbour on 13 January 1985, this is the first time its been available for purchase). The bonus CD 'Live At The Capitol Theatre' features an incendiary show from 1982 at Sydney's Capitol Theatre (further evidence that Midnight Oil were rightly regarded as Australia's best live act during their career). U2 - Best Of 1990-2000 DVD+2CD (Universal) [760824] $24.50 Limited edition version of their 2002 compilation includes the bonus B-sides disc along with the 'History Mix' DVD (NTSC/Region 0). [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Fitzgerald, Ella - Definitive Collection '36-'53 2CD (Rajon) [753924] $18.50 Two disc compilation features 40 tracks including collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, & Louis Jordan, plus rarities. Fitzgerald, Ella - Smooth Sailing CD (Proper) [738734] $13.25 2004 compilation features 22 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Holiday, Billie - Definitive Collection 2CD (Rajon) [747474] $18.50 Two disc compilation featuring 40 tracks including rarities. Highlights include, 'Porgy', 'There Is No Greater Love', 'The Blues Are Brewin'', 'Baby I Don't Cry Over You', & 'Good Morning Heartache'. Holiday, Billie - Yesterdays CD (Proper) [739214] $13.25 2004 compilation features 21 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Hooker, John Lee - I'm In The Mood CD (Proper) [739474] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Days Cd Rm CD (Proper) [738714] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Proper. Jackson, Bull Moose - Bad Man Jackson CD (Proper) [739384] $13.25 2004 compilation features 26 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. King, B.B. - Woke Up This Morning CD (Proper) [739204] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Morricone, Ennio - Fistful Of Dollars CD (BMG) [714534] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1967 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - For A Few Dollars More CD (BMG) [714544] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1971 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - Movie Masterpieces CD (BMG) [721974] $30.75 UK compilation for one of the most successful film composer's of all time. The definitive cross label single disc collection features 22 digitally remastered tracks including all the famous themes, 'Once Upon A Time In The West', 'The Mission', 'The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly', 'A Fistful Of Dollars', & 'Cinema Paradiso'. Morricone, Ennio - Once Upon A Time In The West Cd CD (BMG) [714564] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1972 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - Psichedelico Jazzistico CD (El) [714194] $19.50 Atonal & melodic, playful & intense, futuristic & camp, 'Psichedelico Jazzistico' concentrates on the acid invention of the composer's most magical & ambitious period in the late sixties & early seventies. This is a beautiful & surrealistic snapshot of an artist at the height of his powers. 15 tracks. Professor Longhair - Madri Gras in New Orleans CD (Prpoer) [739264] $13.25 2004 compilation features 23 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Shiva's Headband - Psychedelic Yesterdays CD (Akarma) [AK282CD] $15.25 " Psychedelic Yesterdays was recorded at McAdams studio in Austin in 1977 and originally released on the Austin-based Ape label. Includes the 1968 45 single 'Kaleidescoptic / Song for Peace'." Various Artists - Everyone's A Winner 3CD (Disky) [749924] $18.50 60 original No. 1s from the 60's, 70's & 80's. Featuring The Beach Boys, Shadows, Spandau Ballet, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Hot Chocolate, Blondie, & many more. Various Artists - Grand 12-Inches CD Box (SMM/Sony) [756884] $36.50 Four CD box-set with the best tracks from the 70s & 80s, featuring all original recordings from Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Yarbrough & Peoples, Chic, D'Train, Sharon Reed, Ce Ce Peniston, Technotronic, & many more. Compiled by Ben Liebrand. Vox Dei - Es Una Nube, Non Hay Duda (It is a Cloud, No Doubt) CD (World Psychedelia) [WPC68471B] $15.75 "Classic album by one of Argentina's best-loved bands was their first recorded for CBS (1973) and their first with professional production; truly inspired music that blends progressive rock, pastoral songs, 'psicodelia', and rock & roll; subjects are less heavy than on their earlier albums, with the best moments being the title track (written by Quiroga), and Ricardo Soul's 'La Verdadera Historia de Sam, el Montas (The True History of Sam the Mountain Dweller)', both considered classics of Argentine rock; booklet comes with lyrics and photos." From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Apr 17 14:01:40 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Apr 17 14:02:11 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: <0AC30173-90AA-11D8-9BE6-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> With releases by Abba * AFX * Ain Soph * Alio Die * Alio Die/Saffron Wood * Alio Die/Zeit * Atomic/School Days * Balboa * Begnagrad * Besombes, Philippe * Blank Feat. Raymond Pettibon * Cathode * Climber * Cole, Nat King * Color Filter * Crispy Ambulance * Deep Space Network * DJ Format * Dodgy * Duke, George * E*Vax * Einst?rzende Neubauten * Fennesz * Fitzgerald, Ella * Flamen Dialis * Front 242 * Fucking Am, The * GNU * Grubbs, David * Holiday, Billie * Holmes, David * Hooker, John Lee * Howlin' Wolf * Jackson, Bull Moose * Joseph Beuys * Kaiser And Wadada Leo Smith, Henry * King, B.B. * Lemon Jelly * Mansun * Mccarthy * Mctell, Blind Willie * Mens, Radboud * Middleton, Tom * Midnight Oil * Momus & Anne Laplantine * Mordant * Morricone, Ennio * Mosaic * Mus * Nakamura, Toshimaru * One Ring Zero * Owens, Isaiah * Pepito * Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet * Platina, The * Professor Longhair * Pyle's Bash, Pip * Reininger, Blaine * Room * Rother, Anthony * Royal Family & The Poor * Samurai Jazz * Soft Machine * Soundmurderer + SK1 * Spear of Destiny * Squarepusher * Tjader, Cal * U2 * Univers Zero * University Of Errors * Venetian Snares * Waters, Muddy * White Magic * Windo, Gary * Wonderland Falling Yesterday * Zazou, Hector [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] AFX - Analogue Bubble Bath 4 CD (Rephlex) [REPH019CD] $8.25 1994 EP repressed at last. Twenty-seven minutes of Richard's most insanely drilling 'ardcore, packed side by side with some twinkly electro bubble-bursts of melancholic AFX sound. Deep Space Network - Raise this Flap CD (Source) [040445] $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 04-19-2004 The Deep Space Network is back - back with their unique blend of electronic and accoustic sounds, swinging grooves, sublime booty-shakers and relaxed late night funk. 12 years after their first recording "Earth to Infinity", that kicked off the source records history and roughly 10 years after their last studio recording "Big Rooms" they did it again - presenting a collection of new tracks recorded throught the past 5 years - like their previous recordings, wrapping up a whole cosmos of sound and rythm in one album. David Moufang and Jonas Grossman never tried to meet specific genre standards and are way to diverse to be fitted into one drawer, but at the same time they allways understood to create their very own musical trademark. Drawing from a wide musical background, integrating the most diverse sources of sounds and inspiration they come up with a collection of tracks ranging from electronic soul and funk to digital chill out - seamlesly interweaving accoustic instruments - like, guitars, drums and percussions - with electronic soundscapes and digital processing. Spring is back, so is the Deep Space Network, with a a timless blend of sound and styles, cooking up a delightful stew, serving musical soulfood - positive, sensual and sexy. soulful and funky, oozing the charm of positive and friendly vibes from your speakers.

    Tracks

    1. brother mingus
    2. airing dew
    3. raise this flap
    4. singlenote
    5. www ep2
    6. bafflegab
    7. code 69 revisited
    8. distension
    9. pea gravel
    10. 14/10 bang
    11. new amsterdam
    Front 242 - Geography + Bonus 2CD (Wax Trax) [754164] $37.50 The much anticipated re-release of Front 242's cult debut-album Geography (originally released in 1982) in a special two CD deluxe digipak, limited worldwide to only 4,000 numbered copies! Truly one of the essential, groundbreaking albums in the history of electronic music. Disc one include each track of the original album completely remastered & remixed with current technology while staying faithful to the spirit of the original versions. Includes the bonus track 'He Runs Too Fast For Us' which did not appear on the original LP back in the early eighties. Disc Two is a limited edition bonus CD featuring previously unreleased tracks, demo's, try-outs, versions... in short - material which constitutes the layers on which Front 242 was constructed. Middleton, Tom - Trip 2CD (Family Recordings) [716024] $30.50 This is your second 'Trip' - under the guidance of Global Communication/Jedi Knight supremo, Tom Middleton. Featuring rare & exotic disco punk/funk cover versions of classic songs. The 'Trip' is a new series from Family Recordings, where a specially invited guest DJ has 'carte blanche' to create a unique album based around his or her personal record collection. There are no barriers, no strict musical guidelines - the only stipulation is that the album should reflect its title: 'The Trip'. Never before has such an eclectic mix of music been compiled! One of the albums many highlights is the exclusive track from the hotly tipped Ulrich Schnauss 'As If You've Never Been Away'. Theme tunes from the Clangers & Pearl & Dean launch two CDs of intrigue & rarity with listeners treated to a number of familiar songs by song unfamiliar artists: Senor Coconut's version of the Sade classic 'Smooth Operator'; Sherbert's early Police hit 'Roxanne' & Usha Uthup's bollywood rendition of Michael Jackson's 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough' (titled here as 'Chhupke') are just three examples of Tom Middleton's obsession with the rare, the funky, & the unlikely. This is all balanced with a bold mix of popular classics from 80's superstars Level 42, Thompson Twins & the Style Council, plus classic easy listening (Sammy Davis Jnr 'Up & Away'), jazz (The Dudley Moore Trio 'Millionaire') & one off's (Tom Tom Club 'Wordy Rappinghood'). All interlaced with excerpts from Tom's TV childhood - Mr Ben, Magic Roundabout, Star Wars, Close Encounters & the inimitable Bod. If ever fans wanted to see what makes Tom Middleton's musical mind tick, this album is it! Morricone, Ennio - Fistful Of Dollars CD (BMG) [714534] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1967 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - For A Few Dollars More CD (BMG) [714544] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1971 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - Movie Masterpieces CD (BMG) [721974] $30.75 UK compilation for one of the most successful film composer's of all time. The definitive cross label single disc collection features 22 digitally remastered tracks including all the famous themes, 'Once Upon A Time In The West', 'The Mission', 'The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly', 'A Fistful Of Dollars', & 'Cinema Paradiso'. Morricone, Ennio - Once Upon A Time In The West Cd CD (BMG) [714564] $19.50 2004 reissue of classic 1972 soundtrack, packaged in a digipak. Morricone, Ennio - Psichedelico Jazzistico CD (El) [714194] $19.50 Atonal & melodic, playful & intense, futuristic & camp, 'Psichedelico Jazzistico' concentrates on the acid invention of the composer's most magical & ambitious period in the late sixties & early seventies. This is a beautiful & surrealistic snapshot of an artist at the height of his powers. 15 tracks. Venetian Snares - Horse And Goat CD (Sublight) [136964] $13.25 Aaron Funk has released a prolific five albums since 2001 creating music that is completely his own and remaining determined not to follow anyone else's rules. Aaron's music is nothing short of revolutionary, bringing us into the future of electronic exploration, if you have never listened to Venetian Snares it's likely you have never heard anything quite like this before. [ . . . ] Ain Soph - Ars Regia spec. edition Book+CD (Athanor) [179147] $15.75 Their most magickal and beautiful album rereleased with a 40-page booklet aside! Alio Die - Khen Introduce Silence CD (Hic Sunt Leones) [HSL025] $13.50 No description available at this time. Alio Die/Saffron Wood - The Sleep of Seeds CD (Hic Sunt Leones) [HSL026] $14.00 No description available at this time. Alio Die/Zeit - Sunja CD (Hic Sunt Leones) [HSL024] $15.00 No description available at this time. Atomic/School Days - Nuclear Assembly Hall 2CD (Okka Disk) [OKKA049] $15.25 "The 3rd release by Ken Vandermark's School Days is a double CD of studio material recorded with the Oslo quintet Atomic. Both bands have the same rhythm section of Paal Nilssen-Love on drums and Ingebrigt Hker Flaten on bass. The group includes Magnus Broo: trumpet, Jeb Bishop: trombone, Fredrik Liungkvist: reeds, Ken Vandermark: reeds, Hevard Wiik: piano & Kjell Nordeson: vibraphone. 9 new compositions 1 each by all the members (2 by Mr. Liungkvist)." Balboa - Plastic Judas On Fire Cd CD (Mil) [136934] $13.00 Among the 22 million inhabitants of Mexico City, one of them calls himself Balboa. Alvaro Ruiz is the man behind this project and others as diverse as his Mexotica electro outfit Ruisort. Balboa fuses the influence of famed Mexican composer Juan Garcia Esquivel, with Alvaro's own skillful expertise at electronic funk and digital sound processing. The end result is offbeat music that is intelligent, precise and challenging, while being as warm, engaging and rewarding as classic pop, with a healthy dose of irony thrown in for good measure. Begnagrad - Begnagrad CD (MIO) [MIO006] $14.25 "Begnagrad was a group from the former Yugoslavia that released their only album in 1983." Besombes, Philippe - Libra CD (MIO) [MIO014] $14.25 "A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde music scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking work with new electronics in a variety of musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating and composing the sounds for theater and ballet. Besombes was also well-known as an audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. Conceived as the soundtrack (and, in fact, the ONLY sound in the movie) for the avant-garde film Libra, the music on this 1973 album ranges in style from electronic pop mixed with music concrete ala Parmegiani/Henry to psychedelic exercises, progressive rock, sitar raga, and fusion. By including a mix of rock musicians and electronic treatments, Besombes was a pioneer in a very new way of working. Bonus tracks will include three cuts from the Libra sessions that have never been released, and a lengthy, experimental minimalist prepared-piano composition will also be included. From the Nurse With Wound list. Libra is the first in a trilogy of Besombes's albums MIO will release." Blank Feat. Raymond Pettibon - Achtung CD (Grob) [175592] $14.75 Improvisation with the sure-footed and subversive gesture of contemporary anarchim. Cathode - Special Measures CD (Expanding) [ECD13:03CD] $17.75 "In pursuit of the point where crystalline analogue melody meets crisp minimalist electronics, Cathode deal in refried melodies, disintegrating rhythms and reflective electroreveries. Special Measures is a debut album, following singles & remixes on Static Caravan, 555, Unbearable and Awkward Silence." Climber - Downtown Loop CD (Botanica del Jibaro) [BDJ019CD] $13.25 "The newest and most interesting project to come out from the Botanica camp. Climber is comprised of 2 producers, Shift and DJ Tosh. Shift (Mind Shift) was a key member in the now disbanded Deaf to the General Public group from here in Miami. Shift is Chilean, his family leaving South America to escape the turmoil created by the US and CIA backed regime of Pinochet which took over in the early 70's. Samples are taken from anything from local Miami musicians to old South American vinyl and molded into lush and soulful compositions. From beginning to end, a high quality release for those that truly love instrumental hip hop and just music in general. We even dare say a classic, one of those CDs that get put on repeat to loop over and over again. Includes special 'Welcome to Miami' postcard. Artwork by La Mano Fria." Color Filter - Silent Way CD (Pointy) [136924] $16.25 Blissful drum and bass electro pop from Tokyo's best. In an interview with a Japanese music magazine, Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips was asked, ''What does psychedelic mean to you?'', His answer - ''I get a psychedelic feeling from Color Filter's music. Color Filter is an electronic pop cooperative from Tokyo headed by Ryuji Tsuneyoshi, a guitarist, composer, and award-winning nuclear physicist. Crispy Ambulance - Powder Blind Dream CD (Darla) [129754] $13.25 Darla Records are pleased to announce the 2004 studio album from cult post-punk Factory Records band Crispy Ambulance. This record is even stronger than their last as the band have clearly distilled their unique sound. Produced by Graham Massey of 808 State/Biting Tongues fame, The Powder Blind Dream is the third studio album from the Crispies. DJ Format - presents A Right Earful Vol. 1 CD (Antidote) [ANT108CD] $16.50 "Brighton based Format has built a huge name for himself since the release of his debut album Music For The Mature B-Boy (Genuine/Pias 2003). For those unaware, Format works the same musical mines as DJ Shadow (who requested Format to support him on his UK tour) and Cut Chemist, utilising obscure funk and jazz breaks to come up with fresh hip-hop. On A Right Earful, he delves into his hip-hop roots with a lughole damaging selection of early 90's hip-hop and breaks." Artists: Down South, Abdominal & DJ Fase, Freestyle Fellowship, Madkap, Souls of Mischief, Nautilus feat. Fatski, Lord Sear, Edan, Ugly Duckling, The Brand New Heavies feat. Main Source, The Pharcyde, The Wascals, The Alkaholiks, King Tee feat. Nefretitti & Madcap, Kurious feat. Casual, Black Sheep, Double J, Little Barrie, The Upsetters, Gonzalez. Dodgy - Collection CD (Spectrum) [738474] $12.00 This collection features 18 tracks including 12 of their UK chart hits. Dodgy's unique brand of bright, summery, harmonic pop dominated the UK charts for much of the early mid 90s. E*Vax - Parking Lot Music Cd CD (Audio Dregs) [136894] $13.25 Originally released in 2001, E Vax is Evan Mast, and this, his first full-length effort ranges from upbeat pop electronics to laid-back melancholy numbers. It seems better suited for the living room than a parking lot, but it would probably be enjoyable in both settings. Audio Dregs. Einst?rzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile DVD+CD (Mute) [MUT99237] $14.75 Limited edition release of the new album packaged with a bonus DVD containing in 5.1 Surround Sound. Comes just in time for their first U.S. tour in 4 years. Fennesz - Fennesz: Field Recordings 1995:2002 CD (Touch) [TONE16CD] $13.75 "Field Recordings brings together a range of material Christian Fennesz has contributed to compilations, special projects and film soundtracks between the years 1995 and 2002. Flamen Dialis - Symptome-Dei CD (MIO) [MIO015] $14.25 "Elements of this recording call to mind Franco Battiato's Fetus and Pollution and the vocal exercises share similarities with the French group Magma, although Flamen Dialis are certainly unique for their impressionist cosmic music and a powerful dramatic intensity. Completely unavailable for decades, this reissue includes the group's first 45 as bonus tracks." Fucking Am, The - Gold CD (Drag City) [DC269CD] $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "Screw all these modern elements! I mean, who cares about Ununbium? We take our metals classic, thanks. And what could be more classic than Gold? It's been too long since we heard from The Fucking Champs. Now, we don't have to worry ... The Fucking Am (The Fucking Champs + Trans Am - Trans Champs = The Fucking Am) have taken the ball and run with it, upped the ante and then raised the roof for good measure." GNU - Suro CD (Cubic Muisc) [CUBIC013CD] $15.00 "Unlike a lot of the Cubic roster to date, GNU willfully abandon the glitch electronica, scuttlebutt rhythmic autism and dreamscapes on the label for a tight ass progfest combining squiggly reeds, fat bass & two drummers with massive clarity built around reedsman Masahiko Okura. Gnu produce a groovy rock sound super reminiscent of the whole Rock In Opposition thing (Henry Cow, Art Bears). But, if you don't know what that was, maybe it's a good idea to scratch your head and rifle up the memories of those fantastic high school 'battle of the bands' events minus the inevitable love of Rush that emanated from the auditoriums." Grubbs, David - A Guess at the Riddle CD (Drag City) [DC266CD] $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 06/21/2004 "David Grubbs has worked simultaneously at records of songs and records of longer, immersive instrumental pieces. A Guess At The Riddle is a record of songs." Holmes, David - Cherry Stones - Hidden Charms CD (Family) [716104] $26.75 'Cherrystones - Hidden Charms' is a collection of rare & unavailable psych rock from the late 60's selected by David Holmes. There are nuggets & jewels aplenty to excite discerning listeners with ears for a nice hook, good arrangement, catchy melody or just an unusual groove. The featured bands are linked together by nothing more than they all strived to experiment, move forward & innovate through their approach to music. Hence we have an abundance of funky rock, Hammond organs, strange vocals & general psychedelia that makes for an absolutely fantastic listen. The album features bands from the UK, France, Italy, Holland & the USA plus unexpected offerings from Ennio Morricone, The Shadows & the odd sample (the Marsha Hunt track was used by Paul Weller on 'Uh Huh, Oh Yeah'). Joseph Beuys - Provokation Lebensstoff Der Gesellschaft DVD (Joseph Beuys Medien Archiv) [175591] $35.00 Includes lavish book. Kaiser And Wadada Leo Smith, Henry - Yo Miles! - Sky Garden 2CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE191] $18.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "For Sky Garden, Yo Miles!'s 2nd recording and 1st release on Cuneiform, Kaiser and Smith have assembled an all-star cast culled from both the jazz and rock communities. The lineup here includes Smith on trumpet; Kaiser, Mike Keneally and Chris Muir on electric guitars; Michael Manring on bass; Steve Smith on drums; Karl Perazzo on percussion; Greg Osby (alto) and John Tchicai (tenor and soprano) on saxophones; and Tom Coster on percussion." Lemon Jelly - Lemonjelly.KY CD (Chaloots) [758244] $16.25 Nick Franglen & Fred Deakin are the London based duo who make up Lemon Jelly. Fred is a DJ & designer whose illustration work frequently appears in The Face magazine. His wobbly, bubbly graphics are a good visual translation of the Lemon Jelly sound. Nick is a producer who has worked with Primal Scream, Bjork & Pulp. The record consists of the three limited edition UK 10 inch EP's that the group released between '98 & '00. The juicy melodious sounds fit in right next to bands like Air & Thievery Corporation but truly exist i n a cartoon world of their own. Deluxe gatefold digipack. Mens, Radboud - Pulse CD (Staalplaat) [STLD161] $17.00 "After 4 years there is a new full length CD-release by Radboud Mens. Radboud Mens is a sound-artist from Amsterdam whose work is rooted in and continues to develop within the broadest definition of contemporary music." Momus & Anne Laplantine - Summerisle Cd CD (Analog Baroque) [740084] $24.50 2004 collaboration is a collection of computer folk songs featuring the voice of Momus accompanied on guitar & computer by Anne Laplantine. 13 tracks. Mordant - Petri Dish 3CD CD (Mordant) [179124] $8.00 7 spores of dark and twisted electronica songs with outerworldly vocals... Mosaic - Ultimatum CD (MIO) [MIO029] $14.25 "A lost jewel in the crown of the French underground. Mosaic made this, their only album, in 1978. You'll hear similarities to Zeuhl bands, Hatfield and the North, King Crimson, National Health." Mus - Divina Lluz CD (Darla) [135874] $13.25 Darla Records is please to announce the American release of the fourth and best record yet from Austrian duo Mus, pronounced ''Moose''. Divina Lluz or Divine Light is simultaneously moody, dark & dramatic and soft, warm & southerly. The 10 songs are rich with poetic, strategic, social and emotional content. Nakamura, Toshimaru - Vehicle CD (Cubic Muisc) [CUBIC008CD] $15.00 2002 release. This is the Third solo release by Nakamura. Limited availability. One Ring Zero - As Smart As We Are CD (Urban Geek) [UGR035CD] $13.75 "Imagine the finest anthology of writing possible, and then imagine that writing put to music... You're imagining As Smart As We Are, a book-cum-CD to be released by Urban Geek Records. Many of North America's bestselling and prize-winning authors, have contributed original lyrics (and in some cases their musical skills) to this CD of music by Brooklyn lit-rock band One Ring Zero." Contributing Authors: Jonathan Ames, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Clay McLeod Chapman, Dave Eggers, Amy Fusselman, Neil Gaiman, Myla Goldberg, Ben Greenman, Daniel Handler, A.M. Homes, Denis Johnson, Lawrence Krauser, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Aaron Naparstek, and Darin Strauss. Owens, Isaiah - You Without Sin Cast The First Stone CD (CaseQuarter) [CASE102CD] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-22-2004 "The CaseQuarter mission continues full-force with its second installment of the wondrous and sacred musical intensity and beauty that avails itself in the American South. This time it is a collection of contemporary recordings -- You Without..., the solo debut of singer/guitarist Isaiah Owens. In the early 1990s, Owens ended a distinguished career singing lead with the gospel quartet the Flying Clouds of Montgomery, AL. Early in the 1980s, Owens began to teach himself guitar and soon began sitting in on local AM gospel radio broadcasts, most notably with the Montgomery Gospelaires and later with Ann Talbert's Cheerful Angels program. Always known for his dynamic vocals and piercing falsetto, Owens augmented the initial chords he taught himself with extremely loud volume. Along with emphasizing the rhythmic over the traditionally musical, Owens was not afraid to incorporate dissonance into his playing. The merging of his unique guitar style with his accomplished vocals makes for an intriguing and original musical experience truly not heard anywhere else in the gospel world." Pepito - Everything Changes Cd CD (Static Discos) [135894] $13.25 San Francisco duo Pepito produce tightly wound electronic music that layers pop, post-rock and indie sensibilities on a crunchy, rhythmic joy ride. 'Everything Changes', Pepito's second album, is a departure from the grainy noise pop of their self released first album, which made them critic's darlings, the focus now is more immediate, clean and full of wonder. Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Images CD (Okka Disk) [OKKA047] $12.25 "2 new discs of live and studio material from '02 & '03 with new compositions by Brotzmann (both title pieces), Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and Fred Longberg-Holm." Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Signs CD (Okka Disk) [OKKA048] $12.25 "2 new discs of live and studio material from '02 & '03 with new compositions by Brotzmann (both title pieces), Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and Fred Longberg-Holm." Platina, The - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair CD (MIO) [MIO030] $14.25 "A popular jazz group (think Perigeo, Dedalus, Wolfgang Dauner, ECM) who's members were Israel's biggest names in jazz, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (1976) was The Platina's third album (recorded two years after their Newport Jazz Festival appearance). Energetic, well-played, yet pastoral fusion. With their pianos (Fender Rhodes & acoustic), flute and wordless female vocals, Platina sound most like the mid-70's work of Hubert Laws on CTI. Fans of Kornet, Finnforest and Camel should like this." Pyle's Bash, Pip - Belle Illusion CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE193] $18.25 "Drummer and composer Pip Pyle is widely recognized as the drummer of the Canterbury school of progressive rock. His newest project, Bash!, is a modern electric jazz fusion outfit that integrates all of his past musical experiences while showcasing his compositional skills." Reininger, Blaine - Byzantium + Bonus CD (Les Temps Modernes) [136904] $16.25 Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. Byzantium is his fourth solo album originally recorded for Crepuscule records in 1986/87 with noted engineer Gilles Martin. The original eight tracks are now 16, with the whole of the 1985 mini album Paris In Autumn, never before available on CD, plus the rare track 'Bizmillah' and a remix of Blaine's wry Kraftwerk tribute Rolf & Florian Go Hawaiian. This expanded version of Byzantium has been digitally remastered, and features extensive sleevenotes plus new artwork. Room - No Dream: Best of CD (Les Temps Modernes) [135914] $16.50 LTM are pleased to announce the very first CD by The Room, the cult Liverpool alt.pop band who released three albums and a slew of singles between 1980 and 1985. In 1983-84 the band had a shot a chart success on a major label, with the excellent album In Evil Hour produced by John Porter (Smiths) and mercurial Television personality Tom Verlaine. No Dream offers 18 tracks in total, all remastered and running for 74 minutes. 2004. Royal Family & The Poor - North West Soul CD (Boutique) [136914] $16.25 Royal Family & The Poor are a cult avant-folk-electro collective overseen by reclusive Liverpudlian bard Michael Keane. Never easy to categorize, the music touches on ballads, dark electronica and eerie, bittersweet electropop. North-West Soul contains 12 studio tracks written and produced by Mike Keane. Samurai Jazz - meme? CD (Cubic Muisc) [CUBIC011CD] $15.00 "Yuta Uozumi and Tadashi Yonago are Two guys with a trombone & a sampler. On meme? they emerge with a cut up stoned jazz that combines live horns, battle breaks and jittery samples into a kickass escapade that does nothing but justice to their chosen moniker." Soundmurderer + SK1 - Soundmurderer + SK1 2xLP (Rephlex) [REWE001LP] $16.00 Previously released on CD, now available as a doble vinyl release for the first time. "Todd Osborn, also known as Soundmurderer. His obsessions with drum and bass led to him setting up his own label Rewind record label. Under the name Osborn he has recorded jacking techno and classic house for Ghostly International records, coincidentally once on the flip side to one of one of our stalwart artists, DMX Krew. He also recently released Wired for Sound, an incredible DJ mix of old skool Jungle called 'The best jungle mix ever' by Simon Reynolds. SK-1 is one of the aliases of Tadd Mullinx, an Ann Arbor resident who also records abstract instrumental hip hop as Dabrye for Prefuse 73's Eastern Developments label and has had releases as Dabrye, James Cotton and under his own name for Ghostly International. His album Instrmntl was lauded with much praise and was a Gilles Peterson favourite and he was selected in 2001 by Carl Craig to perform at the Detroit Electronic Music festival. The Rewind label has been gaining a steady fanbase in the US, Toronto and Japan as leaders of a wave of American junglists obsessed with the development of the original ruffneck ragga and frenetic breakbeat sound. The tracks are a mix of dancehall, soundclash energy and hip-hop influences with a dose of the kind of mind blowing drum programming only artists of the calibre of Squarepusher and Afx are capable of at their best." Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things CD (Rephlex) [REPH037CD] $13.75 One of Rephlex's all-time classic albums, the debut Squarepusher full length..."The next thing I felt was a fuzzy vibration, as monophonic sound waves that had travelled from the other side of the room at the speed of light, compressed the air and displacing the the smoke of ten spliffs, hit me in both ears simultaneously. It was Mr. Jenkinson who was turning my heartbeat into the sound of a ring piece modulated resonant phaselocked trapezoid backwards edit phlanged kick drum. He made the sound of ambulances turn into slide trombones and the sound of a secretary filing her nails into a 24-piece string section... Undoubtedly, Tom Jenkinson is the first man in history to orchestrate an akai-seltzer fizzing a two mega byte simms memory upgrade chip (with 1 nanosecond access time) and a toilet flushing. When Mr. Jenkinson is conducting, the rest of the world is a pit... The Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Sound like sound never sounded before. Richard Rogers and Julie Andrews gave us the Sound of Music, John Cage and Simon and Garfunkel gave us the Sound of Silence and now the Squarepusher gives the Sound of Sound." --PRichard.D.Jams Univers Zero - Implosion CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE190] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "Features their trademark chamber rock style subtly modernized, infused with greater classicism and given a sharper, more electric and electronic edge." University Of Errors - Jet Propelled Photographs CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE188] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "University of Errors is led by guitarist, vocalist, and pataphysical icon Daevid Allen. Jet Propelled Photographs is University of Error's 4th release and its first recording with Cuneiform Records. It is a remake of Soft Machine's first music: their repertoire from the days when Allen was in, and recorded with, the band whose existence he sparked." Various Artists - Colores Vol. 1 CD (Mil) [136944] $13.00 Colores Vol. 1 is a collection of 17 tracks from electronic music artists from Argentina, Chile and Mexico compiled by Pepe Mogt of Tijuana. The project began when Pepe (Fussible) and Roberto Mendoza (Panoptica) toured Mexico, Chile and Argentina with the Nortec Collective in 2001 and met their counter parts in Mexico City, Bueno Aires and Santiago. Mil. Various Artists - Everyone's A Winner 3CD (Disky) [749924] $18.50 60 original No. 1s from the 60's, 70's & 80's. Featuring The Beach Boys, Shadows, Spandau Ballet, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Hot Chocolate, Blondie, & many more. Various Artists - Grand 12-Inches CD Box (SMM/Sony) [756884] $36.50 Four CD box-set with the best tracks from the 70s & 80s, featuring all original recordings from Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Yarbrough & Peoples, Chic, D'Train, Sharon Reed, Ce Ce Peniston, Technotronic, & many more. Compiled by Ben Liebrand. Various Artists - L'alternative DVD+CD (EMI) [340326] $42.50 French CD & DVD (PAL/Region 2). The DVD features 30 music videos including two versions of Massive Attack's 'Special Cases', Radiohead 'There There', Air 'Cherry Blossom Girl' (Hard Version), A Perfect Circle 'Weak & Powerless', Auf Der Maur 'Taste You', Coldplay 'The Scientist', Warlocks 'We're All in Love', Radio 4 'Dance to the Underground', Blur 'Out of Time' & many more from the likes of Dave Gahan, Sleepy Jackson, Jane's Addiction, Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp, & more! The 16-track CD features many B-sides & some A-sides including, Radiohead 'Skttrbrain' (Four Tet Remix), Thrills 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me', Air 'Cherry Blossom Girl' (Simian Mobile Disco Mix), Blur 'Me, White Noise', Auf Der Maur 'Follow the Waves' & others from Chemical Brothers, Dave Gahan, Sleepy Jackson & more. Standard amaray DVD packaging. Various Artists - Secret Lords CD (World Serpent) [179146] $13.25 On the hidden life of buildings, history conserved in architecture, life petrified! Various Artists - So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-83 Compiled by Volga Select CD (Tigersushi) [TSR005CD] $14.25 "In a time when French real-TV bores from 'popstars' milk the nostalgia tip with 'Taxi Girl' covers and whilst the audience is exposed, for good (Liquid, Liquid, Mtal Urbain) or worse (Blondie, Jean Luc Lahaie) to the resurgence of all sort of forgotten haircuts from twenty years ago, well, in such time, it is only salutary and sound that what was first devised as a geeky musical indulgence, circumscribed to the acquired tastes of a few die-hard record zealots, is finally reaching out to a broader scope on a Tigersushi release. Ground Zero. Forget about your Nick Kershaws, Duran Durans or Levellers. No, instead let's jack into Kas Product, J.J. Burnel (of Stranglers fame), Mathmatiques Modernes, Charles de Goal or Richard Pinhas. A national underground that is so proud, groundbreaking and boilantly creative that it has remained wholly ignored by the Gallic breed whilst garnering acclaim in Japan, the UK or Germany where the works of Moderne, Mtal Urbain or The Droids are traded under the counter for their weight in gold. On this compilation you will find synthesizer-totting punks, cold wave geometry, psychedelic ambient worthy of Tangerine Dream, unsorted and unsortable ufos and even one of Carl Craig's major influence!!! The compilers themselves also have their historical anoint. Quite unnecessary to introduce Ivan Smagghe, the man behind the first Kill the DJ release on Tigersushi and a regular stormer of UK and German dancefloors alike. Marc Collin is the is the shadow producer of many a transient musical project. Ollano -- along with Xavier Jamaux/Bang Bang -- Suburbia (on producing duties) Nouvelle Vague -- bossa-nova covers of cold wave classics out soon on Peacefrog -- Sir Alice (Tigersushi) and of course Volga Select, the duo behind the seminal 'Unconditional Discipline of the Bastard Prince'. New hot projects in the making include an electro fairy tale for kids. This record is quite simply their story of feverish Parisian concerts and untamed trainspotting." Various Artists - Zyklus 1 CD (Steinklang) [179145] $10.25 No description available at this time. White Magic - Through the Sun Door CD (Drag City) [DC265CD] $10.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-24-2004 " White Magic is influenced by Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Karen Dalton, Love, Great Society, Sun Ra, Eric Satie, The Fugs, The Zombies and all good music of the world." Wonderland Falling Yesterday - Enchanted Landscape Escape CD (Cubic Muisc) [CUBIC010CD] $15.00 "The mystery figure behind Wonderland Falling Yesterday produces beautiful, dreamy electropop that is sweetly sentimental with a dash of grit (smartly applied hiss, skipped notes, blurts & echoes that never seem gratuitous). The 73 minutes of music starts off with the familiar stutters of better known Japanese songsmiths like Nobukazu Takemura but quickly evolves into a totally distinct cinematic sound world. The great underbelly of field recordings cushion classical melodies, simple piano motifs and arpeggiated layers of strings & guitars and peaks with fully developed, enchanting orchestration. It hasn't felt this good to be real in ages." Zazou, Hector - L'abscence CD (Taktic) [721544] $32.50 Hector Zazou is without a doubt one of the most sincere & talented French music creators. On this album his music is close to 'melancholic' trip hop a la Portishead & Massive Attack. Crafted with the help of Asia Argento, Alexkid, Harold Budd, Nicola Hitchcock (Mandalay), & Edo. Digipak. [ D V D ] Abba - In Concert DVD (Berita) [340646] $29.75 Compared to their top-level competition on the international rock music scene in the 1970s, Abba made very few international concert tours. Their only major outings were the 1977 tour of Europe and Australia and then the tour of North America and Europe in 1979. This last tour was made into a film, Abba In Concert, which vividly captures the four Swedes on stage at the height of their fame. Comes with a number of rare bonus performances, one of which has never been seen before. The documentary scenes in Abba In Concert, offering an intimate look at the group's life on the road, were filmed in the United States in September and October 1979. The sparkling concert performances were captured at Wembley Arena in London, England, in November. Abba In Concert, a co-production between Sveriges Television and Polar Music International, was directed by television producer Urban Lasson. The film was first broadcast in Japan in March 1980, and has been seen all over the world since then. 2004. Cole, Nat King - Legendary DVD (Efor Filsm) [340456] $35.75 Through video & television clips, & rare early photos, this DVD uncovers the life of one of America's leading cultural icons, documenting Cole's struggles & successes from his early childhood in Alabama to his transformation into America's best loved performer. Also included are countless clips of classic hits taken from Cole's live concert & television performances as well as collaborations with outstanding artists like Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Eartha Kitt & more. Dual sided NTSC/PAL/All Code. Efor Films Collection. 2004. Duke, George - Live - Tokyo Japan 1983 DVD (BPM/JJ) [340616] $33.50 One-time-only all-star band gig features 14 tracks live at Shibuya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan, DVD release combining jazz with funk, dance music & beyond. NTSC/Region Free. 5.1 surround sound. Midnight Oil - Best Of Both Worlds DVD+CD (ABC) [742374] $32.75 Aussie exclusive compilation featuring live material from two legendary Midnight Oil shows. The DVD (PAL/Region 0) features the much sought after 'Goat Island' performance titled 'Oils On The Water' (recorded in Sydney Harbour on 13 January 1985, this is the first time its been available for purchase). The bonus CD 'Live At The Capitol Theatre' features an incendiary show from 1982 at Sydney's Capitol Theatre (further evidence that Midnight Oil were rightly regarded as Australia's best live act during their career). U2 - Best Of 1990-2000 DVD+2CD (Universal) [760824] $24.50 Limited edition version of their 2002 compilation includes the bonus B-sides disc along with the 'History Mix' DVD (NTSC/Region 0). [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Fitzgerald, Ella - Definitive Collection '36-'53 2CD (Rajon) [753924] $18.50 Two disc compilation features 40 tracks including collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, & Louis Jordan, plus rarities. Fitzgerald, Ella - Smooth Sailing CD (Proper) [738734] $13.25 2004 compilation features 22 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Holiday, Billie - Definitive Collection 2CD (Rajon) [747474] $18.50 Two disc compilation featuring 40 tracks including rarities. Highlights include, 'Porgy', 'There Is No Greater Love', 'The Blues Are Brewin'', 'Baby I Don't Cry Over You', & 'Good Morning Heartache'. Holiday, Billie - Yesterdays CD (Proper) [739214] $13.25 2004 compilation features 21 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. King, B.B. - Woke Up This Morning CD (Proper) [739204] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern CD (EMI) [757834] $13.25 The British guitar band's 1997 debut album. 11 tracks. Mccarthy - That's All Very Well But... CD (Cherry Red) [741284] $19.50 Full title - That's All Very Well But... The Best Of McCarthy. Before forming Stereolab in 1992, Tim Gane & Laetitia Sadler were the crux of indie pop group McCarthy. This 22 track 'best of', compiled by all of the band's members, also features rarities, BBC session tracks, & liner notes by St. Etienne's Bob Stanley. Cherry Red Records. 2004. Mctell, Blind Willie - A to Z Blues (Biograph) CD (Universe) [UV112CD] $15.25 No description available at this time. Hooker, John Lee - I'm In The Mood CD (Proper) [739474] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Days Cd Rm CD (Proper) [738714] $13.25 2004 compilation features 25 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Proper. Jackson, Bull Moose - Bad Man Jackson CD (Proper) [739384] $13.25 2004 compilation features 26 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Professor Longhair - Madri Gras in New Orleans CD (Prpoer) [739264] $13.25 2004 compilation features 23 digitally remastered tracks & is packaged in a digipak with eight page booklet featuring rare photos, session details, & biographical notes. Soft Machine - Live In Paris, May 2nd, 1972 2CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE195] $17.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "Live in Paris shows Soft Machine playing in top form, their stage performance transcending any internal tensions. Heavily indebted to jazz as well as free improvisation, the band's jazz/rock sound here is at times spare, even minimal, with Dean's free-blowing saxophone often in the fore." Spear of Destiny - Time Of Our Lives: Best of CD (EMI) [737204] $18.25 Import exclusive compilation for the UK goth-rock outfit features 14 tracks. Highlights include the title track, along with 'Outlands', 'The Traveller', 'Strangers In Our Town', & 'Miami Vice'. Tjader, Cal - Solar Heat - Sounds Of Burt Bacharach CD (Vampi Soul) [137044] $16.75 A two-on-one release featuring both of his 1968 albums, Solar Heat and Sounds Out Burt Bacharach. Solar Heat was recorded in January 1968. Tjader is beautifully framed here by Gary McFarland's crystalline arrangements and Joao Donato's gorgeously understated organ. Sounds Out Burt Bacharach was recorded eight months later and features beautiful latin jazz versions of, 'Anyone Who Had a Heart', 'What the World Needs Now is Love', 'I Say a Little Prayer' and more! Waters, Muddy - Down on Stovall's Plantation CD (Universe) [UV111CD] $15.25 "Library of Congress field recordings done by Alan Lomax from 1941-1942, featuring Muddy with Percy Thomas on guitar, Louis Ford on mandolin, and Henry Sims on violin. Capturing Muddy in a string-band context playing his earliest repertoire, this is a major historical document." Windo, Gary - Anglo American CD (Cuneiform) [CUNE189] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-04-2004 RELEASE DATE: 05/04/2004. "The 2nd retrospective of Windo's work. Consisting of over 70 minutes of previously unreleased and rare recordings from 1971-81, it not only highlights a decade of Windo's work but also that of numerous other prominent avant garde musicians on two continents." From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Apr 17 20:59:09 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Apr 17 20:59:03 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] addendum/correction Message-ID: <5D41C4F4-90E4-11D8-9BE6-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> Pyle's Bash, Pip - Belle Illusion [CUNE193] ...is $12.25, not $18.25 And we're very excited to be carrying this: Stoll, Steve?-?Kin/Gin?CD?[properboy1] Proper Boy $14.50 having firmly established as one of techno's foremost producers, steve stoll ventures yet again into uncharted waters with the limited edition project kin/gin. all sounds on this recording were produced on a discarded circuit bent childs keyboard that was rewired by steve. these short circuits provided a tonal palette that can truly rival modular synthesis in it's complexity. the randomness and occasional patterns that emerge hint at hidden forces at work within the circuit, as the keyboard was also wired with photo cells different patterns could be heard emerging as the light of day shifted. kin/gin sets out to explore the possibilities of electronic music and challenge peoples perceptions. the tools for creating are all around us if we are willing to look for them. as steve has always wanted to offer something handcrafted and touched by the artist he found this to be the perfect project. this recording will be available in extremely limited quantities, each cd being personally hand inked by steve. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I suppose a slogan could be on there as well, assuming I come up with a good one (or YOU come up with one, and I'll give you a free shirt if your is chosen). I think we could do these for $13 for high quality cotton shirts, possible even less. Email me if you'd buy one, and if you want to suggest a slogan. Thanks, Dave From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Apr 24 15:34:50 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Apr 24 15:34:52 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: <3785E2BA-9637-11D8-B039-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> HUGE featured section this week! That's because my tastes are eclectic, as usual, but also we're carrying some a new label, Karate Joe, and also featuring more stuff from the Databloem and List labels. New releases from Richard Kirk/Sandoz are sure to excite, as is the Kill Bill Vol. 1 DVD from Japan, even at its exorbitant-due-to-weak-U.S.-dollar price... Without further ado, here is the update containing releases by: Alien Sex Fiend * Avengers, The * Banhart, Devendra * Bauhaus * Bernstein, Steve * Besombes, Philippe * Beta Band * Bitstream * Bject * Bjork * Black Ox Orkestar * BNSF * Breitbarth, Rene * Bretschneider, Frank * Brightblack * Calexico * Campbell, Isobel * Caribbean, The * Carter USM * Carter, Tom * Caulfield, Jeremy P. * Chance & The Contortions, James * Chocolate Overdose * Circular Ruins, The * Contour * Dykehouse * English, Lawrence * Eternals, The * Fink, Michael Jon * Forrest, Jason * Fox, Jim * Frost * Furuholmen/Bjerkestrand/Wadling * Future Sound of London * FZV * Girl Talk * Glim * Ground/Lift * Hafler Trio, The * Hooker, John Lee * Houston, Penelope * Japan * Kill Bill Vol. 1 * Kirk, Richard H. * Lars Stigler * Le Charmant Rouge * Le Doigt De Galilee * Lentz, Daniel * Ligeti, Lukas * M * Mills, Jeff * Muller/moslang * Mum * No Neck Blues Band * Pan American * Pearson, Duke * Peters, Steve * Quintessence * Rip-off Artist, The * Rodriguez, Roberto Juan * Rowe, Keith/Oren Ambarchi/Robbie Avenaim * Sagor & Swing * Sakamoto, Ryuichi * Sandoz * Seiichi, Yamamoto * Sender, Ramon * Shitmat * Simons, David * Sogar * Sol + Thomas Einfeldt * Songs of Suspects * Sonic Youth * Sound Projector * Stiff Little Fingers * Throbbing Gristle * Twilight Circus * Ultravox & Midge Ure * Volcano The Bear * White & The Blacks, James * White, James * Wilson, Reuben * Z.E.L.L.E. * Zandalee * Zorn, John * Zoviet France [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Besombes, Philippe - Libra CD (MIO) [MIO008] $14.25 "A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde music scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking work with new electronics in a variety of musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating and composing the sounds for theater and ballet. Besombes was also well-known as an audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. Conceived as the soundtrack (and, in fact, the ONLY sound in the movie) for the avant-garde film Libra, the music on this 1973 album ranges in style from electronic pop mixed with music concrete ala Parmegiani/Henry to psychedelic exercises, progressive rock, sitar raga, and fusion. By including a mix of rock musicians and electronic treatments, Besombes was a pioneer in a very new way of working. Bonus tracks will include three cuts from the Libra sessions that have never been released, and a lengthy, experimental minimalist prepared-piano composition will also be included. From the Nurse With Wound list. Libra is the first in a trilogy of Besombes's albums MIO will release." Chance & The Contortions, James - Buy CD (ZE) [ZE008CD] $15.00 RELEASED 06/08/2004 "But the exclusive world of New York jazz looks down on these new poseurs and particularly this 'white dude', who gets his kicks from listening to Ornette Coleman, James Brown or Funkadelic. So James turns towards the Lower East Side 'rock groups'. He explores venues such as CBGB's, the Mudd Club or Max's Kansas City and, hiding behind the pseudonym 'James Chance', sets out to link together the bare threads of punk, funk and free jazz. He produces an electrifying sound that will subsequently give birth to a musical current from which today's young contenders will draw their plagiarized 'inspiration'. These two first albums which came out on ZE records in 1979 and haven't aged in any way, open up a new standard: introducing Funk grooves, Free Jazz improvs and Disco efficiency, from which the British scene from Manchester will draw its full inspiration a few years later, thus creating the perfect scam." Circular Ruins, The - Empathy Test CD (Databloem) [DB005] $13.00 The label behind this is releasing what many a more intellectual bloke than myself would call" cutting edge" electronic music - I know this because it's the sort of music that you need to live with for a while, get to know, buy it a meal, relax with it in the dark by an open fire- you know - treasure it. Do that and it will reward you loads. This is a soundscaping album - no cosmic gloop or droning directionless dross - this has textures that range from organ like top layers to deep resonant bass synth rivers, while the presence of a "percussive" element (I hesitate to use the word "rhythm") from synth and electronic drums, is, largely, kept in the background. That said, the music does exhibit a certain degree of "systems music" tendencies so that the repetitive undulating theme that dominates a track like 'Open FieldsOf Light' is never obtrusive, the melodic, although arguably relatively cyclic, top layers taking the emphasis away from that, while the presence of synth swoops, effects and a certain electro-percussive edge, all add to the myriad of layers, that just roll along, so that you'd almost swear that if it didn't have the feel of Glass or Riley, it might just be about to break out into early Tim Blake, but it never gets that close to "normality". With 8 tracks averaging around seven minutes a-piece, this is a really strong and atmospheric album, but one that is not immediate, not residing wholly in any of the more traditional areas of soundscaping, but ultimately a rewarding listen. -Andy G. (CD services)

    "The name of this band intrigues me - it implies something along the lines of Stonehenge to me... important, historical, more than I know and can discover in any lifetime. A tall order, but this does have a regal sound. I could see clerics in robes and incense performing rites to this music. Relatively percussionless, but with rhythm, spirits zoom in and out of the music. Compared to his other album, The Realm of Possibility, this release is mellower and more atmospheric while the other disc has stronger beats. This is the one to sleep to, the other is the one to prepare your bed during."(Don Poe) Contour - Horizons CD (Karate Joe) [KJ011] $14.00 Contour are a slow-motion guitar drift and tone-fl oat ensemble whose members are partly also envolved in other groups of the Karate-Joe-universe. Contour could be seen as the sister-band of Mimi Secue. On this striking debut, contour work in a mode akin to Labradford and Stars of the Lid, creating detailed harmonic explorations with lush, reverbed guitars,bass, electronics and vibes. The jet-stream from the tail-ends of Sonic Youth tracks, blue standing-wave bass hum and circular melodic guitarbells coalesce seamlessly into one slow moving cloud of pure-string heaven.(Label) Dykehouse - Midrange CD (Ghostly International) [GHI33] $12.25 An incredible shoegazer/pop debut filled with dense textures, instrumentation, and feel reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine created by Mike Dykehouse, who made his start on the Planet Mu Label. Brilliant packaging created by Deanne Cheuk, art director of Tokion Magazine. Girl Talk - Unstoppable CD (Illegal Art) [05586/IA109] $12.50 Years of MTV crammed into a 12 track hyper-edited epic party album. With all genres covered, this release cuts up endless top 40 sources at a breakneck pace to create the perfect A.D.D. club mix. This album accurately captures the energetic, rowdy, and non-stop fun nature of Girl Talk's celebrated live show. With less DSP antics/noise than his previous album, Unstoppable truly reaches out to the masses with its pure pop appeal. Girl Talk tours regularly in the U.S., and Gregg Gillis is becoming identified as the poster child of the glitch pop craze. Never mind the bootleg/mashup hype, this is the jump off. This CD is being co-released with Spasticated Records of Australia and includes a Quicktime music video compiled from live footage shot over the past two years. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05586.mp3 Glim - Music for Field Recordings CD (Karate Joe) [KJ009] $13.50 These tracks are immaculately realized and remarkable in many ways - and MUST be heard by all ears attuned to wildly inventive Electronica. ???Glim??? strides over that diffi cult bridge that few sonic travelers have crossed -inhabiting and defi ning a zone somewhere between delicate acoustic/electric guitar haiku and detailed electro-acoustic poems. An area as blurry as the Polaroid that graces the cover - the faint melodic suggestions of the sun drenched lens that struggled to focus on the silvery glare of waves lapping a shore. A vague, distant sun-scorched world trapped under icy plastic.(Label)

    "The first thing I felt when I put this in was a remarkable resembalance to a Coil track off one of the most recent releases. A lullaby-esque track with tinkling keyboards and intereference running in circles around my head. Nice stereo effects throughout. Musically, this release is a mellow late evening stroll with marimbas, electronics, melodies and ever-so-slight glitches, scratches and hair in the film gate. This is the disc I will play for my baby(if I ever have one) as it will pacify junior, but still keep me interested. Some tracks have 2 songs blended together, 2 thoughts overlapping. Nice! The energy on this builds in the middle of the disc, baby would be waking up now. Although the lullaby ideas remain, it sounds like the CD is skipping and the rhythms are disjointed. Other tracks deconstruct the lullaby theme, showing one tone at a time and allowing the fuzz to rise and show it's pristine face. Later, the stars are tinkling and the lullaby starts to fade to a 14 minute sleepy-time tone wave of dreams carried on held notes. Once in the dream state, near the end of the disc, REM state starts and the music flickers at the rate of eye movement. The final track is the actual dream, a very quiet track using field recordings blended into a pop/click melody."(Don Poe) Ground/Lift - Ground/Lift CD (Karate Joe) [KJ012] $14.00 The first Ground/Lift - release comes in a beautiful artwork printed on digipak.(Label)

    "A new direction for music with 'real' instruments. The first track uses repetitious guitar & bass loops form an infectious melody, somewhere between Phillip Glass, Tortoise and Robert Frip. But, what gets me is the use of vocal effects, they are way out there. The minimal voices you hear are heavily processed, sounding kinda like a tape machine that is just starting to play from total standstill or if they are hand-pulling the tape through the machine. The second track's name, Humbom, fits the rhythm of this track, a swinging 4/4 as opposed to those stomping dancefloor 4/4 signatures. Try saying "Humbom" like you are Louis Armstrong, but think of slightly dissonant yet uplifting elevator music. Then thrown a monkey on top of everyone riding in that elevator. The heavy syncopation makes this track a lot of fun, it would be great to see performed live. Another track sounds as-if a bunch of mice were serenading a cat, by now, ya might realize this is a demented release. The creators are probably not right in the head, but at the same time are probably a lot of fun to party with on a Saturday night. Some of the songs are actual songs with singing, it may be easiest to picture these as Tortoise with a touch of the other above mentioned artists, sometimes with lyrics... or maybe Ennio Morricone (the famous western composer) soundtracks that are updated for today."(Don Poe) Kirk, Richard H. - Detonate/Reworks 12_inch (Mute UK) [KIRK006EP] $9.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "Newly remixed by Richard H Kirk, this 4 track EP is the perfect companion to the forthcoming Earlier/Later double CD anthology. Released on vinyl only these mixes are exclusive and won't be part of the CD set." Kirk, Richard H. - Earlier/Later: Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89 2CD (Mute UK) [KIRK006CD] $18.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 "Selected from over seven hours of archive recordings, the majority of which has never before been available, Earlier/Later - Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89 documents a fifteen-year period of private research and personal development by Richard H. Kirk. Committed to cassette and then forgotten, they have been transferred onto CD with a minimum postproduction. Throughout the two CD release is evidence of Kirk reinventing himself through the sparse dynamics of dance music and laying down the groundwork for his later Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist projects. The earliest material, recorded onto open-reel tape machines using the most basic equipment, is raw and inventive." Le Charmant Rouge - Winzer CD (Karate Joe) [KJ008] $14.00 The three members are the kind of hyper talents whom one may spot at a local W??rstel Box pondering over Xenakis and Stockhausen, some esoteric software de-construction strategies, My Live in the Bush of Ghosts, Morricone, Spacemen 3 and Neu! and how best to represent a tough of all and much more in the space of an instrumental rock track and how to do it casually. With some cool ease their debut addresses the eternal metric click that often resides in the best moments in the ???rockdeconstruction??? tradition starting with Faust, Can, This Heat, Eno etc. and running through Pluramon, Tortoise, Notwist etc. Though these may be names often dropped in regard to anyone doing explicitly rock action this is by no means another hack effort in the minions of instro-groove bores plaguing the planet with jams in E. The album exposes boldly the bright sharp edges too often pulled off rock - for fear it might scratch someone - and places them on a taught symmetric framework that in the best moments sound like a well oiled helicopter swinging Dick Dale from a hook over a podium in the future where the Meters are jamming with Alan Vega. A sound found only in the higher classes of a genre named ???post-rock??? which may now sound as if the Rock itself was such a shocking and terrifying event as to require some kind of recovery process.(Label) Mum - Summer Make Good CD (Fat Cat) [FAT26] $13.25 Meticulously composed and produced, the second proper full length from Iceland's Mum is a dark and complex set, though as notably captivating as their breakthrough debut, which took us all on a blissful morphine-drenched headtrip back in the Spring of 2002. Blending live instrumentation with electronics, this is a forwardist record rooted in European & Icelandic folk tradition and one that challenges us to listen closely. Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms Redux 2CD (Mute UK) [KIRK007CD] $18.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 "As a founder member of Sheffield's legendary electronic cut and paste experimentalists Cabaret Voltaire and as a solo artist in his own right, Richard H. Kirk has been involved in electronic music and its development for over 30 years. Disc one of this set comprises the tracks that made up the original Digital Lifeforms CD release (1993) while the material on the second disc was recorded during the same period and with the exception of two tracks has remained unreleased until present. It's an account of how the Sandoz project developed and includes the first recorded Sandoz track, 'Medium Cool'. Richard still makes excellent Sandoz records with roots that are very much traceable to Digital Lifeforms and amongst the heated tribal rhythms, chanting samples and alchemic electronics there are some real moments on the set. Like the free-floating funk of 'Human Spirit' with it's understated crescendo of tribal vocal lick and May-an drum-splatters that leave you hanging for more, there's the cooled-out head-hypnotiser 'Drum Meditation', the smouldering warehouse party energy of 'Zombie Astral', the future/past electro twin-tank of 'Beam' and 'Steel Tabernacle' and the cinematic electric voodoo-dub of 'White Darkness' that's full of multi-coloured echoed fx flicking out of the speakers like paint leaving the brush of Pollock. And that's all before the previously secret sonic-sorcery on disc two. As a collection it crystallizes much of what was happening in the electronic scene of the early nineties and helps define a period that facilitated in the acceptability of new sounds. Digital Lifeforms is often recommended as one of the essential electronic albums from the period, but this re-issue shows that its simple musical beauty has transcended well the cycles of time." Sandoz - Return to the Heart of Darkness/Reworks 12_inch (Mute UK) [KIRK007EP] $9.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "Originally recorded in 1992 and newly remixed by Richard H Kirk, this 4 track EP is the perfect companion to the forthcoming Digital Lifeforms double CD re-issue. Released on vinyl only these mixes are exclusive and won't be part of the CD set." Sogar - S t e n g a l CD (List) [List2] $16.87 Sogar's latest seems to take a slightly different direction: there are more melodic elements, although they are still covered in thick layers of crackles and glitches. Not unlike Stephan Mathieu or Ekkehard Ehlers, Sogar weaves patterns of similar samples, thus creating warm and full pieces of gliding sounds. As said before, melodies trickle out more explicitly than in earlier releases, but it would go too far as to say that these are songs or dancefloor material. Sogar hovers somewhere in the middle between all this: ambient, rhythmic and melodic, but avoiding the obvious. I would guess that this is excellent stuff for the more adventurous DJ's, but also at home, on a warm summer night, this is great listening music. Not that this is sheer easy-listening: there are enough moments that stir one up and keep the focus on the music. Within the 'glitch' genre (if I may still call it so), Sogar has a place of his own and rightly so. Sol + Thomas Einfeldt - i @ s CD (List) [List0] $16.87 "i@s" is an album by sol (sound: who contributed to the [Minima-List] compilation) and t .einfeldt (video), a cd-rom with one 15min. (approx) track per section. The delicate electro-acoustic sounds found here are close to Kim Cascone's. Here a Quicktime movie expresses quite skillfully the concept of "minimalism" with real images. Songs of Suspects - Amocco CD (Karate Joe) [KJ002] $13.50 Experimental music, electro-acoustically inspired, meets children??s songs, if you dare. Repetition is behind this impressively multi-layered structure that unfolds new surprises at every re-listening. ???Return To Render??, for example, combines digital noise coming from notebooks and analogue noise coming from a guitar??s feedback for its immensely dense yet fl oating background. And above all that, as if it was the most normal of things, a playful guitar melody spins its seductive cobweb. Thus, many sounds in ???Amocco?? will never reveal their origin, the pattern??s complexity often goes beyond the limits of our distinctiveness. On the cover, Songs Of Suspects informing us laconically, ???... played guitars and ebows, harmonium, some microphones, bontempi organs, analogue and digital gadgets, synths, laptops & desktops.??? And all that not being enough of a surprise, you can fi nally make the experience of an indie - tronic, minimalistic beat being caressed by a heart-warming slide guitar. (Label)

    "The vocalist in this band has a a surprising similarity to a Bjork, her tone and attitude are cousins. Some tracks have vocals, but most are instrumentals. One seems like a cover of ???Love of my Life,?? but don???t be scarred, it is interesting. Instrumentally, this album is comprised of mainly electronics ranging in old Atari-esque video game melodies to delicate/tender moments to sparse and stark engine problems. Clean, generally happy tunes , sometimes with some hiccups. This is a cheerful album for the first half. Then, one track of dissonance and distorted vocals leads to a darker middle. Not evil, but the clouds have rolled in and brought doubt to the emotional table. Finally, an acordian-esque tune with the Bjork singer adds resolve and determination, washing away the discontent. Another ???ditty,?? sounding as if it was played over an old radio with bits of static and distant sound rounds leads to the ending lullaby. "(Don Poe) Sound Projector - #12 Magazine (The Sound Projector) [SP12] $9.00 We should have these in stock in a week or so. We also have #10 and #11 in stock. Stiff Little Fingers - Flags & Emblems +2 CD (Castle) [734944] $16.25 2004 reissue of the legendary Irish punk act's 1991 album. 12 tracks including 2 bonus tracks, 'The Cosh' (remix) & 'Interview with Jake' (by John Oxley, BBC Newcastle). Stiff Little Fingers - Get A Life +8 CD (Castle) [734954] $16.25 2004 reissue of the legendary Irish punk act's 1994 album features 21 tracks including 8 bonus tracks, 'I Can't Believe In You' (Radio Edit), 'Silver Lining' (Unplugged), 'Listen' (Unplugged), 'Wasted Life' (Unplugged), 'Shake It Off', 'Not What We Were' (Pro Patria-Mori), 'Alternative Ulster' (Live), & 'Smithers-Jones' (Live). Throbbing Gristle - Taste of TG: Beginners Guide to Throbbing Gristle CD (Mute) [MUT9242] $14.75 Even after 30 years, Throbbing Gristle's music and manifesto's are as relevant today as they were in the bleak mid-70s. This 14 track Best Of is a perfect primer on one of the most influential bands from that period. From experimental production techniques and confrontational live shows to independent self-promotion and running their own label, their impact is certainly more crucial than they are often credited. Twilight Circus - Dub From the Secret Vaults CD (Roir) [05583/ruscd8285] $13.75 A collection of unreleased tracks spanning 1985-2003. A sizzling sonic voyage to uncharted dub reaches. With special appearances by Big Youth and Niels Van Hoorn of the Legendary Pink Dots. Another great release from Twilight Circus. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05583.mp3 Various Artists - Collection 1 - Opening CD (Databloem) [DB001] $13.00 The disc does what all great compilations do, it makes you hunger for more from each artist presented. A globally diverse cross-section of talent is assembled, beginning with one of my current faves, The Circular Ruins (a.k.a. Anthony Paul Kerby) from Canada. Mechanistic and yet organic, the sounds swirl and evolve in entertaining fashion. This track is largely devoid of normal rhythm, melody or other conventional musical structures, yet irresistibly attractive. More conventional sequencing does appear in the last few minutes of it, but it is hardly garden variety Berlin school. Mutagene from Japan moves into sparser territory, hitting truer ambient realms with a deliciously atmospheric drifter. Next up is Spheroid from Germany with a dark, melodramatic piece, "Imbedded Neptune." Each track is about 15 minutes long, allowing for lots of sonic exploration. "Imbedded Neptune" is a good example of the fun twists and turns the music takes. The most accessible track is Australia's kwoOk with "Kwookyworld," an energetic sequencer piece, although there is still a laid back, chill-out feel to it, really mellowing out toward the end. Last but not least is "Encounter (In an Unexplored Nebula)," by The Civilized Electrons from Sweden. This is excellent pure space music, and will have you drifting pleasurably off into the ether to finish things off. -Phil Derby (Expos?? Magazine)

    "Uptempo ambient techno, akin to what can be found on the em label. These are 5 long tracks that develop, warp and warm you up over the course of 15 minutes or so each. Excellent music for a late night after partying with friends, put this on and start the chill out."(Don Poe) Various Artists - Collection 2 - Moving CD (Databloem) [DB004] $13.00 "The Databloem label is all about cool, cutting edge electronics, without the annoying heavy incessant beats that drive me away from liquid trance and similar styles. The eleven tracks on Collection 2: Moving include four artists that are familiar to me and seven that are new. In the latter category, Mantacoup's "Sap" starts things off strong, with a long whooshing fade in, followed by soft bells and a guitar-like synth lead. Mantacoup's new album Equinox has some glitch and other intentionally coarse elements, but this track is velvety smooth. "Nano" by Carbon Boy is very comfortable and utterly cool, with deep bass and a gentle backbeat. The Circular Ruins is always a winner in my book and "Empathy Test" is no exception. An assortment of warbling electronic sounds give way to a vintage synth lead, assorted interesting voice samples, and other cool stuff. - Phil Derby - Electroambient Space

    "The second compilation from Databloem. Like many of the other releases on this label, this disc contains light ambient techno. Something nice to relax to after you have damaged yourself from dancing too hard, or need something more soothing than Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy." I think of dew on pussywillow trees and the fields of tulips in the Netherlands swaying in the wind. Appropriate, too, this last one as this label is Dutch. But, this isn't druggy heavy music, instead it is light and airy, floating on a cloud. Well-produced subtle and sublime beats have only the intention of being a bass-line, without the heavy handed smack on the attack of the beat. These combine with delicate melodies, occasionally using heavily processed voice, to produce tracks keeping in track with the theme of this disc - moving. This is taken as a run at times, but other times a feather floating down in the wind, drifting with intricate jitters. My favorite track is by Subradial "Misty Hills." It has a tribal-eque rhythm and a ticking beat that kinda sounds like a ping-pong game. This one really engages me."(Don Poe) Various Artists - Delay Makes Me Nervous CD (Karate Joe) [KJ006] $14.00 ???delay makes me nervous??? is a compilation of electronic music recorded in 2002. computermusic - it???s less about fullfi lling a stilistic path, but more about sound and structural phenomenons, combined with the inspiration and creative potential of a musician. ???delay makes me nervous?? is also a try to think and create some steps further than the usual ways, sometimes with a laugh, sometimes very seriously, always with both: brain and heart. the production tools used, reach from programming environments, live and ambient recordings to various arrangement methods.(Label)

    "Put this in when you want to hear something, but not just music. Slight glitchyness combined with exacting placement of sound give me a feeling of traveling. I don't know if I would call this micorsound as there is far too much going on, but threre is detail in the construction.The third track by the Thermordynamic Superstar and his Gardeners starts with the sounds of things being placed, then swirls into a hissing tube as if I was in a pleasant wind tunnel. The next track goes into a typewriter-eque beat driven track in the Autechre vein without the aggression, my favorite part is the reverse motion section. Track 5 uses a voice in a similar manner to what could be Robbin Williams doing his wacky voice thing when he talks like a baby to your grandpa in the same word. What allows this track to make sense is the name... "One special Day in the Dungeon." OK, now I laugh. A different track has tribal rhythms built into the electronics and the following has the all-powerful 4/4 dancefloor beat set over heavily distorted and repeated vocals, all this mad pretty by the organ/electronic melody. The track "Blubberwrap" doesn't sound like exploding whales, but closer to popping plasticwrap in the way it uses clicks and pops. Disc makes an appearance on the "Zwingen und zwingen lassen" - swinging lesson. You don't have to be scared, though, it quickly deteriorates into lovely experimental beats then to water and tones. Really cool track. Overall, this release is less musical and more oddity, but with a nice blending of both. My mom wouldn't know if she should be scared of what is coming out of the speakers or if she would like the melodies."(Don Poe) Various Artists - Glear CD (Karate Joe) [KJ013] $13.50 GLEAR compiles the most recent work of a collective of 13 electronic musicians and provides an insight in their very personal way of dealing with sound. The resulting CD displays 13 unique approaches to what electronic music can or might be nowadays: reaching from algorithmic and computer-aided composition to sophisticated shapings of concrete or live-recorded material; from decent easy-listening tunes to pounding, beat driven music. Apart from structured landscapes and noisy psychogrammata, those 13 pieces are extraordinary electroacoustic compositons, each of them made with heart and soul - sometimes with a stern concept, sometimes with the wink of an eye, but everytime with a glear view. (Label)

    "This CD has been a challenge to review - it doesn't fall neatly into any kind of category. I know most of the stuff we carry doesn't always fit cleanly in a genre, but this album challenges you. It is electronic with some instruments (like violin and percussion elements), dark, usually beatless, and has disturbances(instead of glitches - this isn't glitch techno but messed up electronics.) Maybe if I lived in the HVAC system of your office I would hear this - the sound of the duct-work shaking, twisting and groaning under my weight. The sound of the computer server room beeping and grinding away with too many fans and occasional hard drive dying, bringing the entire office to a halt. People are frantic and ripping apart their electronics to fix it. This CD would be a good soundtrack to a David Lynch film or one of the Aliens movies because it is disturbing and has various levels of energy and emotion. Sometimes musical(to a degree) while more often abstract and coming at you from the side. As this is a compilation the styles are all different, but fit together very well, climaxing with a cut-up traffic song then by the nearly unlistenable balloon squeaking song, followed by a pleasant come-down."(Don Poe) White & The Blacks, James - Off White CD (ZE) [ZE007CD] $15.00 RELEASED 06/08/2004 "The 21st century has produced a new generation of young contenders of all kinds, who have, within months, spread a new string of names across the planet such as The Rapture, Playgroup, LCD Sound system, Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radio 4 and the likes, just to name a few. Once again the heat was initiated in NYC, even though its Lower East Side epicenter 'cleaned up' by Giuliani and Bloomberg, has moved a few blocks east and across the river to Brooklyn and Williamsburg. It might be wise to remind the younger ones among us that the origins of this new musical cycle is for the most part rooted in the No Wave movement of which James Siegfried aka James White, aka James Chance is undoubtedly one of its most prominent figures. New York City was hands down the artistic telluric center of the second half of the 20th century, especially from the 70's, on. Rising from the ashes of the Velvet Underground, a slew of local bands redefined the aesthetics of rock'n'roll which the merchants of the temple hastened to rename under various designations, such as Punk, New Wave, No Wave, Jazz-Funk or even Disco and Disco-Punk without forgetting to mention the original Electro designation pioneered by the band Suicide. One of the indispensable and emblematic figures of the mid-70's is of course James Chance." White, James - Flaming Demonics CD (ZE) [ZE009CD] $15.00 RELEASED 06/08/2004 "In the same vein as George Clinton, James becomes James Chance & the Contortions, then James White & the Blacks, and has a third incarnation as James White's Flaming Demonics. In four years, James will record his three best albums on ZE records. A considerable number of musicians participated in the adventure. James experimented the most adventurous combinations, Funk rhythmic sections, arty poseurs, rockers, a kaleidoscope of picturesque characters which we will discover later in many bands directly inherited from this experience: Bush Tetras, Raybeats, Defunk, 8 Eye-Spy, etc..." Zandalee - Zandalee DVD (Panorama) [340806] $18.25 Asian DVD (NTSC/Region 0) of 1991 American thriller starring Nicholas Cage. Original English dialogue with optional English & Chinese subtitles. Didn't think this one would be reissued on DVD! Zoviet France - Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music 3CD (Staalplaat) [04994/STCD024] $27.75 With its wonderfully misleading title, exquisite packaging and nearly three hours of music from the hinterlands of dream-worlds, Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music is :z*f:'s 1980s Magnum Opus. Less frantic and confrontational than the early releases, it nevertheless maintained the lo-fi approach while laying the foundations for the 1986/7 Charm, Ceremony, Chance, Prophecy series. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/04994.mp3 [ . . . ] Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs CD (Goth Collectors Series) [741244] $19.50 2004 reissue of this classic 1987 album. Ten tracks including the hit single 'Here Cum Germs' (Ravi Mix #9). Banhart, Devendra - Rejoicing In The Hands CD (Young God) [YG24CD] $15.00 "Determined not to be ghettoized as a low-fi crank, Devendra Banhart and Michael Gira agreed it was best to move on to professional recording studios. Banhart sat on a stool in that living room for ten days, twelve hours per, playing constantly, sometimes with a chorus of cicadas when they recorded at night with open windows. Overdubs were later added back in NYC. The title tune, a duet with the legendary '60s English folk gamin (one of Banhart idols) Vashti Bunyan -- is an obvious highlight, but Banhart's uncanny ability to transport the listener through words, voice, and pretty amazing finger-picked acoustic guitar is where the album's magic lies." Bernstein, Steve - Diaspora Hollywood CD (Tzadik) [TZ7191] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 "In this, the third installment in Steve Bernstein's Diaspora series, one of the most active and imaginative musicians in the downtown scene explores compositions from the Jewish tradition through the rose colored lens of West Coast Jazz." Beta Band - Heroes to Zeroes CD (Astralwerks) [ASW78005] $14.00 The third official album from this revered UK band captures the focused immediacy of their live shows, while maintaining their sampledelic sense of play. Mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Air, Beck). Features "Assessment". Bitstream - One Third Standard Lux CD (Modern Love) [LOVE002CD] $16.50 "Originally championed by the Autechre-related Skam label in Manchester and their pioneering DJ Rob Hall, Bitstream have been releasing innovative and complex electronic music to an ever-growing audience of dedicated followers." Bjork - Bachelorette (Mark Bell Mixes) CDS (One Little Indian) [725164] $10.75 Taken from the 1997 album 'Homogenic'. The title track is backed with three non-LP tracks, 'Bachelorette' ('Optimism' Remix, Mark Bell 'Zip' Remix, & Bark Bell 'Blue' Remix). Black Ox Orkestar - Ver Tanzt? CD (Constellation) [CST029CD] $14.00 "Black Ox Orkestar is a Montreal based quartet that formed in 1999 to play European Jewish folk music. Filtering traditional klezmer tunes through a sensibility shaped by indie rock and free jazz, Black Ox infuses these pieces with a highly original approach to arrangement, freely borrowing from Turkish, Balkan and Greek folk idioms along the way. The band strikes a perfect balance between faithfulness to sources and extrapolation from contemporary influences, offering a challenge (both musically and lyrically) to modern Jewish political orthodoxies along the way. Evenly split between instrumentals and vocal tunes, this debut album is a hypnotic blend of pieces pulled from various Eastern European songbooks as well as several original compositions. Lyrics are in Yiddish and speak forcefully about the bloody history and intractable contradictions of Jewish diaspora and return. The record is of appeal to anyone who appreciates melancholy, minor key melodics and folk music unburdened by antiseptic production and/or cheap sentimentality." BNSF - Object 6 CD (Locust) [LOCUST58] $13.25 "Inspired by natural cycles of texture and repetition, BNSF creates music with an organic momentum. Building music from the melodic noise and polyrhythms of industrial activity, BNSF exists between aleatory structure and song form, music and noise" Breitbarth, Rene - With A Little Luck CD (Treibstoff) [TREIB07CD] $15.75 "In 1997, the 28 year old Cologne guy founded the Treibstoff-label together with Marcel Janovsky and is thereby one of the most reliable soundproducers. With his eight EP-publications and the last year album debut Solar Ren? advanced the reconciliation of modern cut deephouse with the reduced aesthetics of the dub." Bretschneider, Frank - Looping I-VI (and Other Assorted Love Songs) CD (12K) [12K028] $12.25 "Looping I-VI is a work that rewards complete listening, from start to finish, following Bretschneider's sonic fiction through his world of clean tonal elements and loop architecture. For sound-generating, editing, composing and arranging he used again his favourite soft-and -hardware for many years, Logic Audio and the Nord Modular, a synthesizer which has become an extension of himself and that he has unquestionably mastered." Brightblack - Ala.cali.tucky CD (Galaxia) [GLX020CD] $13.75 "Brightblack goes well with ghostly, bow-legged travels in a cheap old pick-up truck. The title of the album refers to the process of how the recording took place: the songs were written in Alabama and California (and rehearsed in an old wood barn on a friend's ranch) and recorded in Kentucky (one song per day)." Calexico - Black Heart CDEP (Labels) [743214] $12.00 Taken from the 2003 album 'Feast Of Wire'. The original version of the title track is backed with six non-LP tracks, 'Black Heart' (Jazzanova White Soul Dub), 'Attack El Robot! Attack!' (...And How He Lost RMX by Wechsel Garland), 'Quattro' (Gotan Project Remix), 'Guero Canelo' (Nortec Mix by Panoptica), 'Pepita' (ISO68 Remix), & an 11-minute video of the band performing 'Black Heart' live at the Barbican in London. Campbell, Isobel - Time Is Just The Same CDEP (Snowstorm) [739434] $12.00 2004 EP from the former Belle & Sebastian member features the title track, 'Time Is Just The Same', her duet with Eugene Kelly (Vaselines), along with six previously unreleased tracks, 'Why Does My Head Hurt So?', 'Bordello Queen', 'Bang Bang', 'The Breeze Whispered Your Name', 'Argomenti', & 'Time Is Just The Same' (video). Cardboard gatefold sleeve. Caribbean, The - William of Orange CD (Hometapes) [HT007CD] $7.50 Fourth release by this DC-based group, previous releases on Endearing and Tomlab. "This 'simple EP project' designed to try out new equipment, write odd songs, work with one of their favorite producers (Chad Clark), pursue their favorite medium (the EP), and collaborate with Hometapes, William of Orange wound up creating gaping philosophical rifts, catfights, dogfights, breath-holding, and panic attacks, as well as profound hearing loss and nervous hypoxia. At the end of the day, though, in William of Orange, one hears only sweet harmony and velvety cohesion. Silvery cymbals, creamy guitars and stuttering electronic glitches. Voices emoting in glorious unity." Carter, Tom - Monument CD (kranky) [KRANK070] $12.25 "Monument is a recording of guitar music from Tom Carter of Charalambides and is the second in a series of Charalambides-related reissues by Kranky. The two tracks of solo lap steel guitar were recorded live to DAT by Tom Carter a few days before a live performance in March, 2001. Monument was originally released by Wholly Other in an edition of 55 CDRs. The first track, 'Monument 1 (Memorial)' is slightly longer than two minutes and barely reveals itself. The second, 'Monument 2', is 47 minutes in length and considerably more expansive and louder than the opening cut. The album was made using lap steel guitar, glass slides, digitech tsr-12 stereo reverb, a rat distortion pedal and craftsman screwdrivers." Caulfield, Jeremy P. - Public Works CD (Dumb Unit) [DU001CD] $15.75 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 "After almost four years of excellent, but rare, vinyl only releases, Canadian and German based electronic music label Dumb-Unit prepares to impress even more listeners with the debut of its mix CD, entitled Public Works. This compelling 65 minute mix features more than 20 songs all confidently, yet unobtrusively mixed from vinyl by international DJ and owner of Dumb-Unit, Jeremy P Caulfield." Chocolate Overdose - Dingledoodies CD (Rune Grammofon) [RCD2009] $14.25 1999 release. "Dingledoodies, their second album for Rune Grammofon, is a much more optimistic record than Whatever and in many ways a far more polished production. It??s a more immediately melodic and catchy record." Chocolate Overdose - Whatever CD (Rune Grammofon) [RCD2003] $14.25 1998 release. "In '92 and '93 Chocolate Overdose released two very ambitious albums for WEA in Norway. However, the combination of a truly original band, a major label, an expensive producer, media hype and lack of immediate results once again proved to be a dismal one. The 5 years gone have been spent playing with others, producing other artists, writing and recording new songs and getting in a brilliant new guitarist (the old one left to front Libido and is now better known as Magnet). Whatever is mostly recorded live in the studio, almost underproduced and all the better for it. The sound has a rough carelessness to it, but is full of detail, depth and colour, and all in all it??s a real grower." English, Lawrence - Ghost Towns CD (Room40) [EDRM403CD] $14.25 "Recorded in the later half of 2003, this composition that falls just shy of 20 minutes is composed largely of field recordings, the only processing being via eq and pitch shifting. The work is an abstracted impressionist sound portrait, sketching out the isolated soundscapes that exist, for the most part unheard, in these forgotten realms. It highlights the rich and at times unexpectedly synthetic sound world existing in these spaces. Cicadas are matched against 44 gallon drums popping in the morning sun and wire fences resonating to the backdrop of sites such as the haunted imperial hotel in Ravenswood, far northern Australia." Eternals, The - Rawar Style CD (Aesthetics) [AST30CD] $12.00 RELEASE DATE: 05-18-2004 "Rawar Style is more aggressive & direct than past Eternals offerings. A strong urban feeling is present throughout the record with their tracks rushing past you as if you were standing in the median of a large city street." Fink, Michael Jon - A Temperament for Angels CDEP (Cold Blue Music) [CB0017] $7.75 "Music that combines equal measures of beauty and grit. A moody, elusively shaped textural music that is compelling in its power and grace from its very first violin note to its final shimmer of decaying cymbals. For an ensemble of violins and cellos, percussion and electronic/sampled sounds. (29 minutes)." Forrest, Jason - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash CD (Sonig) [SONIG036CD] $15.00 "Jason Forrest, an artist formerly known as Donna Summer, is a celebrity among electronic artists; featured by magazines all around the world, he is one one of the most brilliant Plunderphonic artists who has ever walked the Earth." Fox, Jim - The City the Wind Swept Away CDEP (Cold Blue Music) [CB0015] $7.75 "A haunting music for trombones, strings and piano. A fragile music of rarefied and quietly rumbling harmonies that, like drifting clouds, seem to float in and out of 'view.' A music that is both motionless and moving forward with a strange sense of inevitability. (23 minutes)" Frost - Steelwound CD (Room40) [RM403CD] $14.25 "Seething washes of ambient noise, droning treated guitars and swelling compositions, littered like autumn leaves in the winter wind -- cold, atmospheric and truly beautiful. Since his earliest days, Ben Frost has been fascinated by the cinematic qualities of the guitar. His output to this point has hinted at this, but with Steelwound he makes a bold statement of intent. Each of the pieces on Steelwound is an epic journey, coloured with a deep sense of filmic narrative and suggested dialogues. The textural quality of the works, laced with field recordings and lost vocal fragments, sketches out the emotional soundscapes Frost had unwittingly gathered during his time at Johanna Beach. Each piece is a splintered fragment in time -- a forgotten memory beautifully rediscovered in a moment of introspection." Furuholmen/Bjerkestrand/Wadling - Hermetic CD (Rune Grammofon) [RCD2008] $14.25 1998 release. "Since the glorydays of A-ha, Magne Furuholmen has established himself as a respected painter and composer of filmmusic. Kjetil Bjerkestrand is also a famous film composer in Norway, as well as being a composer, arranger and producer for several Norwegian and international artists. The enigmatic Swedish singer Freddie Wadling is best known for his work in groups such as the much acclaimed Flesh Quartet and Blue For Two. Here they team up for the music to the dark and unsettling Norwegian feature film 1732 H??tten ('Bloody Angels'). Several hours of studio jamming, fractured ideas, sketches and synth experiments in addition to a couple of 'real' songs has been edited down to make Hermetic an album in its own right, rather than being a traditional soundtrack album. In fact, most of the music here is not even in the film, but all through it there is a strong feeling of detachment and things falling apart, just as in the film." FZV - Precedent CD (A.I.) [AI006CD] $16.50 "Ai imprint return with the release of Richard Herbert's first full-length endeavour under theFZV moniker. Precedent is an electronic album rooted firmly within the traditions of the Artificial Intelligence school, as perfected by Warp's early recruits Autechre, Black Dog and Aphex Twin, and the affiliated work of Bola and Gescom for the influential Skam imprint." Hafler Trio, The - Anything That Anyone Else Tells You Is Not Good Enough LP (Phonometrography) [PGRAM003] $52.75 The soundtrack to the Hasselt event. 12" vinyl. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Houston, Penelope - The Pale Green Girl CD (DBK Works) [DBK110CD] $14.00 "Working with her longtime co-writer/guitarist Pat Johnson (who has also worked with Royal Trux, Charlie Pickett, Family Jewels), she has a new studio album. Along with drummer Eljohn Nelson of Poi Dog Pondering, the group leans towards garagey organ and guitar sounds. Incorporating John Cale-esque folk-rock, and 60s Brit-pop, with razor sharp lyrics, Penelope sounds at times like a female Lou Reed, sometimes Sandy Denny-ish." Lars Stigler - Mon Rideau Noir CD (Karate Joe) [KJ010] $14.00 Lars Stigler plays all instruments, percussion, guitars, bass and keys and the results are purely stunning - nine compositions built around blurry melodic phrasing, arching e-bow guitars and electric and acoustic piano. Set under the same dim lights that maybe illuminated late-night tone fl oaters Roy Montgomery, Hood, Stars of the Lid, Windy and Carl etc - Lars is on a similar path to harmonic bliss. Repetition is the key in creating an atmosphere of gentle circular melodic patterns for the larger part of the album. The work sets off with a gentle snare shuffl e which propels lilting Rhodes piano harmonies and wiring feedback guitar touching base with some cool post Talk Talk morphinegroove. As the album progresses to reveal a darker, reverbed feedback scrape that calls to mind Main, Nijiumu and Organum, the atmosphere becomes increasingly hallucinogenic. The albums signature, inscribed in every track is an extraordinary ambience thanks to the self-production techniques that open up a kind of intimacy and humanness not often heard on record.(Label) Le Doigt De Galilee - Object 5 CD (Locust) [LOCUST57] $13.25 "Nicolas Field on drums & percussion & Jaime Fennelly (PSI) on electronics & bass drum" Lentz, Daniel - Los Tigres de Marte CDEP (Cold Blue Music) [CB0016] $7.75 "Swirling, compelling music. Featuring clarinetist Marty Walker with string quartet and electronic keyboards." Ligeti, Lukas - Mystery System CD (Tzadik) [TZ7099] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 "A fabulous string quartet, a dynamic piece for percussion ensemble, a bizarre miniature for string quartet with drum machine and a classic composition for two marimbas from this interesting young composer of Hungarian descent." Muller/Moeslang - Boom_Box CD (Grob) [GROB649] $14.00 Guenter Mueller: selected percussion, MD's, iPOD, electronics. Norbert Moeslang: cracked everyday-electronics. Recorded 21.10.2001 in Koeln. No Neck Blues Band - Documenting Orthodox East 1999-2003 2CD (Sound @ One) [S@170/71] $16.50 All recorded outside. First disc on the roof of the Hint house. Second disc in Sakura Park in Harlem. Object - Object 4 CD (Locust) [LOCUST56] $13.25 "The Object Series is Locust Music's shot at documenting ongoing currents in creative improve with a devotion to the Synesthetic curveball ties between everyday and not so everyday static objects and sound. Following their knock out debut on Japan's Hibari label, the collective trio Bject comprised of three fabled players in Tokyo's vibrant Onkyo scene -- Masahiko Okura, Tetuzi Akiyama & Utah Kawasaki -- deliver us the 4th installment in our Object series of creative improvised sound." Pan American - Quiet City CD (kranky) [KRANK065] $15.00 RELEASE DATE: 06-21-2004 "Quiet City is the fourth album from Mark Nelson's Pan American project and combines the computer-centric approach of The River Made No Sound with the organic instrumentation that marked Nelson's work in Labradford and the first two Pan American albums." Pearson, Duke - The Phantom CD (Water) [WATER133] $14.00 RELEASE DATE: 06-15-2004 "The Phantom finds Pearson writing an ambitious set of post-bop that expands the boundaries of the music with Latin percussion and complex harmonies derived from the avant garde." Peters, Steve - From Shelter CDEP (Cold Blue Music) [CB0018] $7.75 "Beautiful, undulating music written for choreographer Lane Lucas's dance/theater work Shelter. Three violas casually stroll through their notes, leading to an alluring voice and piano music that is perhaps an extended coda to the string music that preceded it. Features violist Alicia Ultan and vocalist Marghreta Cordero. (16 minutes)." Quintessence - In Blissful Company CD (Repertoire) [REP1009] $15.25 Originally issued on Island, 1969. "As pop music made its way into rock in the late sixties, several of its protagonists decided to leave behind the well-trodden paths of the past. Native Australian Ron Rothfield (flute) formed Quintessence, a six-piece outfit based in London's Notting Hill, that blended jazz, folk and meditative sounds. The group's highly sought after debut album, originally released on the legendary Island Records label, produced a cornucopia of Far-Eastern elements, taxing rock improvisations and religious themes -- all brilliantly executed by six adventurous soloists. For its Repertoire CD debut, In Blissful Company has the addition of two rare extra A & B-side tracks taken from a rarely found single." Rip-off Artist, The - New Clear Days CD (Inflatabl Labl) [FLAT005CD] $10.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-11-2004 "This is the tenth full-length album for Haines, but the first to be released on his own label, In Flatabl Labl. From the beginning the label has had a loser-focused strategy: to release music that is structurally and rhythmically interesting, and that has a high ideas-per-minute ratio. In other words, it thumbs its nose at DJ-oriented music and its so-called experimental offspring. The label's motto is 'Say it fast, say it well, and move on'." Rodriguez, Roberto Juan - Baila! Gitano Baila! CD (Tzadik) [TZ7189] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 "Celebrating the elusive Jewish community of Cuba, Roberto has fashioned an exotic new music that brilliantly blends both Latin and Jewish traditions." Rowe, Keith/Oren Ambarchi/Robbie Avenaim - Honey Pie CD (Grob) [GROB648] $14.00 Keith Rowe: Tabletop Guitar, Electronics. Oren Ambarchi: Guitar, Electronics. Robbie Avenaim: Percussion, Electronics. Live recording from the Musique Action Festival, France, 5/26/01. Sagor & Swing - Orgelplaneten CD (Hapna) [HAPNA016] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 05-25-2004 "The new record by Sagor & Swing is quite different from their earlier low-key, meloncholic records. Their characteristic sound is still there, but Orgelplaneten is more direct and joyful, more pop perhaps. Their basic instrumentation, organ and drums, is completed with Moog and accordion. This aspect of Sagor & Swing has always been there as a parallell track, but Orgelplaneten is the first time it is expressed on record. This is the fourth album by Sagor & Swing (all released by H??pna)." Seiichi, Yamamoto - Baptism CD (Tzadik) [TZ7248] $14.25 "From organizing concerts at his club Bears to performing in the cult bands Omoide Hatoba, Rovo and Boredoms, Yamamoto has been a central figure of the internationally acclaimed Osaka rock/noise scene since the late 8o's. For his second Tzadik CD, one of Japan's most original and creative guitarists presents his first ever solo recording, an exciting and wide ranging program jumping from prepared electric to lyrical acoustic. Fred Frith, Joseph Spence and Derek Bailey are just a few of the influences Yamamoto touches upon in this intimate and surprising classic of new guitar." Sender, Ramon - Worldfood CD (Locust) [LOCUST55] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-08-2004 "A wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by 'goosing' an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces -- 'Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes)' and 'WorldfoodX!!' -- both part of a number of variations in a series -- make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene -- first paving the way for the SF Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened." Shitmat - Killa Babylon Cutz CD (Planet Mu) [ZIQ089CD] $17.75 "Shitmat's long-awaited debut album is a propa mash-up ragga-rave dubplate bloodclot jungle tekno tour-de-force sampling everyone from The Ruts through to Queen and Ace of Base. Follow up to the warmly received seven inch Shopliftin, Gabba (3 plays on Peel and 1 on Breezeblock). Featuring 10 (8 on the vinyl) tracks using the 'Babylon Bwoy' accapella to devastating effect over rhythms such as 'Amen Brother', 'Think (About It)', 'Theme From Benny Hill' & 'Eye Of The Tiger'. Shitmat (aka Henry Collins) has risen to the upper echelons of the breakcore firmament after playing his legendary live-set at literally tens of free parties and raves over the last year and a half." Simons, David - Prismatic Hearing CD (Tzadik) [TZ8001] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 "David Simmons is a composer/performer who combines percussion, theremin, digital electronics, and World Music in strikingly original compositions that defy classification." Various Artists - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Five CD (Tzadik) [TZ5005] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 "Now up to fourteen volumes, the Film Works series documents Zorn's soundtrack work of the past twenty twenty years, for over two dozen films. These rare live performances feature the best of two extended sets concluding his epic 50th birthday month." Various Artists - Another Country 2 CD (Agenda) [AGN008CD] $17.00 "Another Country 2 takes us deeper into the heartland of American 'alt.country' -- a place of otherworldly harmonies, stripped-down arrangements, plangent guitars, clanking banjos and a short-story anthology's-worth of intriguing narratives. Not one artist here emanates from Nashville, though the rest of the country is well represented. There are beautiful, harmony-laced porch hymnals from New York's elegantly melodious Cub Country and Georgia's disarmingly intimate Azure Ray. There's heart-swelling, arcane boogie from Brooklynites The Boggs and died-in-the-wool Southerners Iron & Wine. Elsewhere, Arizonan legends Giant Sand chip in with a slice of beauteous desert-flecked country rock, while North Carolina's superstar-elect Ryan Adams and Austin's bucolic troubadours Okkervil River tip their feed caps toward Dylanesque folk-rock. Another Country 2 showcases country music, then, but not so as you'd notice. These are songs that, irrespective of genre, you'll simply want to inhabit. Like a tumbledown cottage or a beloved pair of boots; they have a lived-in charm that's truly beguiling." Various Artists - Lust from the Underworld Book+CD (Horus) [05590] $26.50 Double CD compilation of exclusive and/or unreleased tracks from popular dark artists. The project is dedicated to the mythology of love and Eros while also exploring the world of symbolist & decadent art. Lust from the Underworld focuses on the story of Hades & Persephone & Kor^?? & Demeter, with influence from the work of Peter Greenaway (The Draughtman's Contract) and the writers of fin de si^??cle (such as R^??my de Gourmont, Pierre Lou??s, Josephine P^??ladan, Henri de R^??gnier, Madame Rachilde and many others...)Comes with a bound book showcasing 30 bizarre pictures from 9 recent modern photographers !!! Artists include : 4TH SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE, ABNOCTO, COTTON FEROX, DELUSION DAY, DETRITUS, EMPUSAE, HEXENTANZ, HYBRYDS, CHAOS AS SHELTER, JACK OR JIVE, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, MAOR APPELBAUM, MONDBLUT MUSTERION, ONE INCH OF SHADOW, OSSASERPIA , ROMOWE RIKOITO, SIEBEN, THE CIRCUS OF THE SCARS, THE MYSTERY SCHOOL, UNTO ASHES, WHILE ANGELS WATCH, ZA FR^??MI Ltd. edition of 500 hand-numbered copies and comes in a satin envelope. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05590.mp3 Volcano The Bear - The Idea of Wood CD (Textile) [05579/TCD3] $14.25 Textile Records are proud to release the new challenging musical adventures from the British improvisational quartet Volcano The Bear. Formed with the constant idea of being a group with uncompromising and boundless ideas, the quartet (Laurence Coleman, Nick Mott, Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden) is utterly beyond classification. This radical and unique music brought VTB to the attention of the more discerning. Drawing on the work of Robert Wyatt, Faust or This Heat, the music of Volcano The Bear is the perfect combination of music and non-music, melodies and free expression. The band creates a musical environment crossing composition with improvisation. Filled with crackling electronics, rumbling percussion, unconventionally played guitars, manipulated vocal noises, distorted piano "The Idea of Wood" is an ideal mix of primitive folk, art rock and filmic sound sculpting. Eccentric, hypnotic, mystic, but most of all truly incredible. http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05579.mp3 Wilson, Reuben - A Groovy Situation CD (Water) [WATER134] $14.00 "Originally released in 1970, A Groovy Situation finds organist Reuben Wilson turning in a funky collection of R&B and pop covers." Z.E.L.L.E. - rjct:w CD (Cubic Fabric) [CUBICF002CD] $15.00 Follow up disc to their debut on the U.S. Line label. "The new album rjct:w goes further into a world of impalpable digital zen dimension, paraphrasing Samuel Beckett: a world of 'vibrating contours... balances... breaking and reforming as we look at them... breathing colours, panting... swarming stillness... a world without weight, without strength, without shadow'. Onkyo music at its nth degree." Zorn, John - Masada Recital - Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 4 CD (Tzadik) [TZ7190] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 06-29-2004 No description available at this time. [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Avengers, The - The American in Me CD (DBK Works) [DBK109CD] $14.00 "In the two short years of their existence, The Avengers appeared with the Sex Pistols at Winterland (that group's legendary last show), recorded with Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and headlined dates with the Go-Go's, X and the Dead Kennedys. Now we present a previously unreleased concert from those legendary times, along with some previously unreleased Steve Jones produced out-takes and alternative versions from the band's debut (and only) studio album. Fat booklet of rare and provocative photos including new detailed liner notes by music critic Greil Marcus." Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside +4 CD (Beggars Banquer) [757884] $18.25 1988 reissue on of their final studio album, from 1983, features 14 tracks including the single 'She's In Parties', along with 4 bonus tracks not on the U.S. A&M edition, 'Lagartija Nick', 'Here's The Dub (Special Effects By Loonatik & Drinks)', 'Departure', & 'The Sanity Assassin'. Carter USM - Unstoppable Sex Machine: BBC Live in Concert '91-'94 CD (MLP) [748314] $25.75 22 previously unreleased live tracks selected from six different venues, Wembley Arena 1991, Glastonbury Festival 1992, Reading University, The Kilburn National 1991, Norwich Sound City 1992, & Phoenix Festival 1994. The 78 minute set list includes Top 20 singles, album tracks, & rare covers of The Buzzcocks, The Jam, & Pink Floyd. Includes 12-page booklet with notes from Jim Bob & Fruitbat. Hooker, John Lee - Early Years 2CD (Metro) [764524] $19.50 Import exclusive two disc compilation. Japan - Best Of CD (BMG) [740164] $12.00 Featuring 10 original hits including 'Adolescent Sex' & 'I Second That Emotion'. M - M: The History CD (Metro) [764374] $12.00 This collection celebrates the release of the classic 'Pop Muzik' 25 years ago. Additional highlights include, 'Moonlight & Muzak', 'Official Secrets', & 'Doubletalk'. Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Sweet Revenge CD (Warner) [767374] $24.50 1994 album featuring Holly Johnson (vocalist of Frankie Goes To Hollywood). 11 tracks. Sonic Youth - Hold That Tiger CD (Father Yod) [GOO2/FYPC19] $12.00 CD version of an old LP on Sonic Youth's short-lived Goofin' label. Features a complete live performance of Sonic Sister Live, at Cabaret Metro in Chicago, 10/14/87. Ultravox & Midge Ure - Finest 2CD (EMI) [748064] $16.25 Two disc Ultarvox & Midge Ure solo collection features 11 hits, B-sides, tracks from all their hit albums, remixes, & rarities. 30 tracks. [ D V D ] Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Japanese Region 2 DVD (Hashima) [340766] $52.00 Exclusive Japanese version (NTSC/Region 2 requires All Code DVD player to view!). While US & most European versions include action scenes shown only in black & white (to tone down bloody violence & to avoid the NC-17 rating), the Japanese edition is in full color! Special Features include, behind the scenes, trailers, TV spots, & more. Running Time - 113mins. Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9LB Cinemascope, Color, Subtitles - English Japanese, Audio Track - English: Dolby Digital 5.1ch, English - DTS 5.1ch, Japanese - Dolby Digital 5.1ch. Mills, Jeff - Exhibitionist DVD (Axis) [AXDV001DVD] $17.00 "Conceived and designed in the direction of programmable software rather than the usual DVD 'Live' recording, this latest project of Jeff Mills, Exhibitionist will prove to point out a step forward into a new era in Electronic Music. Remembering the excitement of an artist or DJ 'in action' is the key component for longevity because through our memory it is often how we measure an event's effectiveness. In addition to simulating the artist and/or DJ, this DVD provides an array of features that will be discovered, explored and expanded upon. All mix segments were filmed in Detroit, USA. A DJ setup and lighting were created to simulate the authentic look and stereo sound of a DJ in a club DJ booth. A black backdrop behind Jeff Mills was used so that the reprogramming of this footage in a live setting would not conflict with existing decor." 2-sided disc, NTSC format all regions, Aprrox. 225 mins., Color, Stereo, Multi-Angles. Various Artists - Music Mix 3: Alternative Scene DVD (Panorama) [340826] $20.75 Asian exclusive DVD release featuring 12 videos (46 minutes) from Blur, Beastie Boys, Luscious Jackson, Creed, Nada Surf, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, & more. NTSC/Region 0. Various Artists - Music Mix 4: This Is England DVD (Panorama) [340836] $20.75 Asian exclusive DVD release featuring 12 videos (49 minutes) from Robbie Williams, Manic Street Preachers, Coldplay, Beth Orton, Jamiroquai, Badly Drawn Boy, & more. NTSC/Region 0. Various Artists - Music Mix 5 - School Of Rock DVD (Panorama) [340846] $20.75 Asian exclusive DVD release featuring 12 videos from (60 minutes) featuring Everclear, Tonic, Catherine Wheel, Staind, Fuel, They Might Be Giants, Semisonic, & more. NTSC/Region 0. From dave at ear-rational.com Sun Apr 25 09:46:29 2004 From: dave at ear-rational.com (Dave at EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Apr 25 09:46:25 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] Amazon price matching/Season's Greetings Message-ID: Two things that did not make it into yesterday's update... 1. Back in September, I emailed this customer list asking for ways we could get more of your business. One customer emailed me back and said I'd get more of his business if matched Amazon prices. This customer has a habit of leaving a lot of stuff in his Amazon cart, and simply emailed me the contents of his cart for my perusal. At the time, I was not connected with a domestic distributor, and I also figured that because Amazon buys in such large quantities, I would not be able to match their prices. Now that I am connected with a domestic distributor, my customer and I were pleasantly surprised to find out that I could beat Amazon prices in just about every case. There were a couple where I couldn't, so I can't guarantee I can always beat Amazon's prices, but I'm certain I can beat their prices much of the time. So if you're tired of sucking on the corporate teat (sorry, I couldn't resist), feel free to send me a list of items you're considering buying from Amazon (or Barnes & Noble, etc.) and let me see what I can do. We order domestics every week, so if our domestic source has it in stock (they usually do), we'll have the stuff for your on Thursday. 2. I've sent this to my FAX label mailing list, but I don't think I've notified this list. You may or may not know that we are the U.S. distributor for Pete Namlook's FAX label. In general, Namlook told me that he would reissue any CDs for which we are able to get 250 confirmed orders, Similarly he will issue MP3-CDs (as he has done with the Silence and Jet Chamber series, among others) if we are able to get 100 confirmed orders. Currently there is a proposal to reissue the four "Season's Greetings" discs (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn) on a single MP3-CD, encoded at 320K. We are only about 15 orders away from the 100 needed, so if you are interested in getting these very difficult to find CDs on a single MP3-CD, please go to: http://www.ear-rational.com/detail.php?id=11444 to place your order. Thanks, Dave From dave at ear-rational.com Tue Apr 27 14:57:25 2004 From: dave at ear-rational.com (Dave at EAR/Rational Music) Date: Tue Apr 27 14:58:45 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] t-shirts are GO! (Check out the cool design!) Message-ID: <408EC935.2040007@ear-rational.com> I thought we were going to do something simple when I talked about printing t-shirts, but Reid Baty--the designer who came up with the EAR/Rational logo--stepped up and designed an awesome shirt. The t-shirt printer calls it "one of the hippest designs we've done in a while." And they're only $11 each plus shipping, or $13 plus shipping for XXL! (If your shirt is shipped in a $100+ order, you pay the $3 or $4 flat shipping rate, and technically the shirt is shipped free.) Go to http://www.ear-rational.com/tshirts.html to see the design on 4 different color backgrounds, representing 4 different color shirts. Go to http://www.ear-rational.com/index.php?searchparm=EAR%2FRational+Music to see all 20 catalog listings (4 colors, 5 sizes) and actually place a pre-order. The shirts don't exist yet, and because the hardest part is choosing colors and sizes, we'd like you to pre-order the color and size you want so we don't end up with a bunch of colors/sizes that we can't sell. We should have them in stock in about 4-6 weeks. Buy a shirt and wear it proudly! Dave