From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Feb 1 11:57:24 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Feb 1 11:56:51 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] update part 2 Message-ID: <78BBF308-54E8-11D8-A7F1-000A95E7A564@ear-rational.com> Here's the rest of the update... This part contains releases by Act * Agincourt * Anderson, Fred/Hamid Drake, Fred * Autechre/Hafler Trio * Cale, John * Casino Versus Japan/Freescha * Cure, The * Drosselbart * Einst?rzende Neubauten * Ethridge, Chris/John Barbata/Joel Scott Hill * Flesh Eaters, The * Fowley, Kim * Haino, Keiji * Hanno, Yoshihiro * ISAN * Ithaca * Kahn, Jason * Keith, Barbara * Labelle, Brandon * Maxwells * Modey Lemon * Mokira * Nasibov, Edalat * Neon Pearl * Pritchard, David * Roach, Steve/Vidna Obmana * Sticks And Stones * Susanna And The Magical Orchestra * Tempvs Fvgit * The Orb/M. Mayer * Tortoise * Tracey, Stan/Evan Parker * Treble, Joshua * Triple R * Wheeler, Kenny * Wild, Damon [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S (includes some items from part 1 of the update) ] Act - Laughter Tears And Rage +37 3CD (ZTT) [676004] $33.50 2004 reissue of 1988 album from Act, a short-lived collaboration between synthmeister Thomas Leer & German pop diva Claudia Brucken, includes 37 bonus tracks, 'Laughter', 'I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You', 'Snobbery & Decay', 'Absolutely Immune' (7 Inch Mix), 'White Rabbit', 'Dear Life', 'I Can't Escape From You', 'Snobbery & Decay' (That's Entertainment), 'Absolutely Immune' (Extended Version), 'Chance' (Throbbin' Mix), 'Winner '88' (Extended Version), 'I Can't Escape From You' (Love & Hate), 'Snobbery & Decay' (Extended Version), 'Strong Poison', 'Absolutely Immune' (Trevor's 12 Inch Mix), 'States Of Logic', 'We Give You Another Chance', 'Snobbery & Decay' (The Naked Civil), 'Laughter' (7 Inch Mix), 'Chance' (7 Inch Mix), 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' (Lucky's Skank #2), 'Absolutely Immune' (Take 4), 'Gestures' (Alternative Mix), 'Under The Nights Of Germany' (Trial Edit), 'Body Electric', 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' (Lucky's Skank #1), 'Laughter' (Instrumental 7 Inch Mix), 'Absolutely Immune' (Instrumental), 'Certified' (Instrumental), 'Under The Nights Of Germany' (Instrumental), 'Gestures' (Instrumental), 'I'd Be Surprisingly Instrumental For You', 'Winner '88' (Instrumental), '3rd Planet' (Altered Mix), 'Bloodrush' (Silent Mix), & 'Gestures' (Improvised Mix). Autechre/The Hafler Trio - ae30/h3ae CD (Phonometrography) [05462/PGRAM002] $29.00 "Formed from a runabout involving schools of several things, interpolated like some sort of string of paper dolls, moved around with abandon, and prodded with several large poles. why would this happen? would there be an end, they cried? not by the hair on someone's not inconsiderable point, it was indicated. where on the one hand, there is space, on the other, there is a hand that holds in the reins tightly. on the one side is the flash of the explicit, on another (the other?), snipers hidden in the thicket. In the thick. of it. how to use? prepare ground thoroughly with flame thrower. encourage weeds. bring in compost. smother other incidental fires. mulch. look upwards. look all around. look left, look right. think once, think twice. maybe again. who knows? I do. but I'm not telling". Exclusively distributed in the USA by Soleilmoon this 2X3"CD comes in a white cardboard digipak with booklet and graphic cards. Cale, John - Fragments Of A Rainy Season DVD (PPE) [339326] $25.75 This concert offers an especially intimate evening with the eclectic and influential musical force that is John Cale, before an appreciative Brussels audience at the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Includes the Velvet's classic 'Style It Takes', a collaboration with Brian Eno and more. Dolby Digital/NTSC/All Regions. Approx. 61 mins. Cure, The - Join The Dots CD Box (Fiction) [129834] $47.50 Subtitled - B-sides & Rarities 1978-2001 - The Fiction Years. First-ever collection of hard-to-find gems in a career-spanning four-disc remastered set. As The Cure nears its third decade at the forefront of pop culture, Universal, Rhino & Fiction/Elektra are celebrating the band's remarkable career with this collection. 70 tracks compiled by Robert Smith, 25 on CD for the first time & 10 tracks previously unreleased. Includes 76-page booklet featuring rare & previously unseen photographs & a complete Fiction discography. Packaged in long-digibook format, 4 CDs. Einst?rzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile CD (Mute) [MUT9237] $14.75 RELEASE DATE: 02-10-2004 The anticipated new studio album from Germany's experimental veterans. In their 20+ years, Neubauten have always embraced change and never stagnated. This continues here as they oscillate between extremes, creating subtle sonic images while still searching for that unexpected new sound. ISAN - Meet Next Life CD (Morr) [MORR042CD] $15.25 "What nobody knows is that Integrated Services Analogue Network (ISAN for short) is really a secret garden in southern England. In these mild climes, two men (Anthony Ryan and Robin Saville) in their early thirties founded Britain's first synthesizer home where neglected and forgotten instruments find a new way in life under love and care of their keepers. After all it's been over two years since their critically acclaimed release Lucky Cat (4 1/2 stars by All Music Guide) and Clockwork Menagerie appeared on Morr Music. Now it's once again time that ISAN open the gates to their secret garden with the release of their new full-length album." The Orb/M. Mayer - Speicher 14 12_inch (Kompakt) [KOMEX14] $9.00 "Hot shuffle burner by The Orb... A real 'Masterblaster' where M. Mayer and his track 'X' ecstasies not only his fans with a Kompakt first-class, energetic, melo track." Roach, Steve/Vidna Obmana - Spirit Dome CD (Projekt) [05451/PRO152] $14.25 Recorded in one continuous 74 minute session, this is a dark sanctuary of pure texture and beautiful, if not at times foreboding, dissonance pulled along with pulsing beats, subtle loops and dense soundworlds. The single piece, "Spirit Dome," captures a chilling gothic ambience that offers the exploration of remote psychological states of awareness. This is achieved by way of extensive live processing of instruments including fujara (overtone flute), guitar, and the seemingly bottomless wellspring of electro-acoustic sounds found only in the soundscapes of the duo. Spirit Dome was created live on the spot in room 314, Philadelphia, PA on May 24th 2002, around 1 AM. Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana were in town preparing for their performance at the 2002 Gathering / Projekt Festival. With only a brief window of time in which to work together before returning to their homes on opposite sides of the Atlantic, their reaction to the claustrophobic urban environment reveals a new dimension to their sound... http://www.soleilmoon.com/mp3/05451.mp3 Various Artists - The World of Traditional Music CD Box (Ocora) [OCORA561061] $48.50 "With this set of 7 CDs, Ocora presents an overview at its remarkably diverse collection of recordings of traditional music from around the world. Includes musical selections from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America." Various Artists - Zen 2CD (Ninja Tune) [NJT85C] $14.75 This incredible retrospective of one of electronic/dance/hip-hop's most important labels is packed two discs' full with some of their most famous tracks. Artists include Coldcut, Amon Tobin, Mr. Scruff, DJ Vadim, Cinematic Orchestra, Kid Koala, Hexstatic, Herbaliser, Jaga Jazzist, Funki Porcini, Bonobo, basically everyone on the roster represents. Comes with a 16 page book with the detailed history of the tracks. DVD has every video Ninja Tune has ever made all on one DVD plus a 16 page book with detailed history of the videos. Various Artists - Zen TV DVD (Ninja Tune) [NJT85D] $16.50 RELEASE DATE: 02-10-2004 This incredible retrospective of one of electronic/dance/hip-hop's most important labels is packed two discs' full with some of their most famous tracks. Artists include Coldcut, Amon Tobin, Mr. Scruff, DJ Vadim, Cinematic Orchestra, Kid Koala, Hexstatic, Herbaliser, Jaga Jazzist, Funki Porcini, Bonobo, basically everyone on the roster represents. Comes with a 16 page book with the detailed history of the tracks. DVD has every video Ninja Tune has ever made on one DVD plus a 16 page book with detailed history of the videos. Various Artists - Zen Remixes 2CD (Ninja Tune) [NJT85R] $14.75 RELEASE DATE: 02-10-2004 A double CD set featuring 2 discs of Ninja Tune's greatest ever remixes. Remixers include the likes of Cornelius, Squarepusher, Fourtet, Wagon Christ, Manitoba, Jamie Hodge, Luke Vibert, Coldcut, Dr. Rickit, Ashley Beedle, Domu, Sixtoo, and more. Coinciding with the release of ZEN + ZEN TV - retrospective proof of one of the most influencial and groundbreaking labels of the last 10 years. [ . . . ] Anderson, Fred/Hamid Drake, Fred - Back Together Again CD (Thrill Jockey) [THR139CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 "Sometimes the most obvious projects -- the ones that are sure to work -- are the ones that keep getting put off. Worst case scenario: they never happen. The notion of recording tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake as a duo is something that has been kicked around for years, simply because they play so beautifully together. And of course they've recorded together many times, particularly in recent years, releasing CDs on Okka Disk, Eremite, Delmark, and elsewhere. But always in the company of others. The Anderson-Drake relationship always provides a nucleus for those ensembles. Here, then, for the first time, are Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake: pure, unadulterated nucleus." Casino Versus Japan/Freescha - Split CDEP (Wobblyhead) [WBL013CD] $8.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-30-2004 "Two of America's forward thinking producers together on one slab of deep fried vinyl. Mr. Casino requested this partnership many moons ago and it has proven to be a brain treat for all who have intercepted its signal. Together they have managed to splay the dream sequences and switched-on sonics, meanwhile retaining enough rhythm to keep it all still locked into our orbit. It's a joyously psychedelic weekender that proves everything and nothing all at once, taking only cues from each other and any surreal stimuli welcoming their handshake. Staring at the sun is highly encouraged. Influences hardly matter here, as the players involved seem only to be extending their own new path, driven by their own soul and the mad respect for their fellow travellers sitting next to them. The co-ordinates are locked into a place that favors experimentation over redundancy and puts a high value on the space in between your ears." Current 93 - Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London 9th October 2003 CD (Durtro) [DURTRO0903] $19.50 "The first of a series of new material by Current 93 through World Serpent. The first is a recording of Current 93's show at London's prestigious South Bank Center. The CD comes in a beautiful gatefold full colour digipak with full colour print on CD. The CD has 16 tracks and is 67 minutes long and features the entire concert that Current 93 played that night. It includes 3 tracks previously unreleased as well as 'Locust' from the Imperium album, never before performed live." Current Ninety Three first and last things and times: David Tibet: vocals; Michael Cashmore: guitar and bass; Maja Elliott: piano; Joe Budenholzer: guitar; Graham Jeffery: piano; Joolie Wood: violin, whistle and recorder; John Contreras: cello; Karl Blake: vocals; Finn Sands: vocals. Ethridge, Chris/John Barbata/Joel Scott Hill - L.A. Getaway CD (Water) [WATER126] $14.00 "Probably the greatest and most obscure supergroup album, combining the talents of a core group of Joel Scott Hill (guitar/vocals), the Flying Burrito Brothers' Chris Ethridge (bass/piano/vocals), and The Turtles' Johnny Barbata (drums). Hill's blue-eyed soul vocals on such rockers as 'It's Your Love' and Dr. John's brilliant, New Orleans-soaked 'Craney Crow' clearly attest to his sheer genius. Perhaps the album's crowing achievement is a version of Booker T. Jones' slow and smoky gospel/blues workout, 'Ole Man Trouble,' which is aided by the songwriters' Hammond organ performance and a sterling background vocal arrangement. Numerous guest appearances, including Dr. John and Leon Russell. Produced by Paul Rothchild." Flesh Eaters, The - Miss Muerte CD (Atavistic) [ATA142CD] $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 02-17-2004 Miss Muerte, is the thirteenth record by the Flesh Eaters. And it is probably performed by what is the thirteenth (at least) version of this legendary group. Initially formed in the dawn of the Los Angeles punk boom by writer/film-maker/producer, Chris Desjardins, the Flesh Eaters have been an on-again-off-again venue for his brain-devouring words and music since 1977. Fowley, Kim - Adventures in Dreamland CD (Weed) [WEED7915CD] $13.25 "Imagine if Lou Reed and Frank Zappa made a new album in 2004. The result would be Adventures in Dreamland." Haino, Keiji - Next Let Us Try Changing the Shape 2xLP (Swordfish) [SFKH001/2] $45.75 2 LP set limited to 500 copies in beautiful hand crafted cover. Featuring 6 pieces, featuring Haino's voice, guitar and sampled guitar. It sees him developing themes on from his last PSF release." Hanno, Yoshihiro - ES: CD (Sub Rosa) [SR212CD] $12.50 "Yoshihiro Hanno explores for years now a wide range of musics: soundtracks, contemporary music, free jazz , drum 'n' bass, fragmented electronica, hip hop... with a definite taste for fusion and destructuration in order to create a new form of avant-garde." Kahn, Jason - Miramar CD (Sirr.ecords) [SIRR2016] $12.75 "'Miramar features new pieces live in studio using analogue synthesizer, floor tom and small cymbals. Recorded with eight different room microphones, the room being extremely large, with 20-meter high ceilings. Each room microphone picked up a different frequency range, depending on its placement and how the room's resonant frequency mixed with what I was playing.' In addition to analogue synthesizer and percussion, the room itself was thus the third 'instrument' Jason Kahn used on this recording." Labelle, Brandon - Concerts CD (Sirr.ecords) [SIRR2017] $12.75 "In his installations the audio artist Brandon LaBelle focuses on the dynamics of spaces, objects, bodies and language. His interest is primarily in the performative possibilities of language: how the various consonants and vowels collectively form an architectural whole that enables us to form words and sentences, and subsequently how they achieve, influence and complicate communication. In his new installation Over/Hear his attention shifted to that which has been said: overheard conversations." Modey Lemon - Predator CD (Birdman) [BMR056] $7.75 "The two-piece has toured the US, UK and Australia, blowing away audiences with their over-amplified, art-damaged, garage punk metal. Lead singer / guitarist / synth-player Phil Boyd receives as much attention for his Calvin Klein good looks as he does his musical prowess, and drummer Paul Quatrone is the most wildly accomplished rock percussionist since Neil Peart. Predator features the stand-out title track taken from Thunder + Lightning, a new alternate version of 'Tongues (Everybody's Got One)', as well as three new scorchers that are guaranteed rock you in exactly the way you'd hope to be rocked." Mokira - Album CD (Type) [TYPE002CD] $15.25 "The return of the mighty Andreas Tilliander, presenting his Ambient Masterpiece. After single handedly creating the 'clip hop' scene with his first Mokira album for the peerless Raster Noton's Static series a couple years back, for his third album under this name, Andreas has disregarded beats altogether, creating his deepest and most involving work yet. Up to now. Album is the first purchase of the year for anyone following ambient minimal music and yet there's even more brittle, rarer pleasures for the intrepid listener. Losing the need for track titles, Andreas creates a flowing organic dubby float, teeming with life like a freshwater stream. The album enjoys roughly two cycles, the first half is fuller more melodic but still deliciously minimal. Echoes of voice in the first are thrown into stark relief deep into the emotional and cathartic second phase of this immense album. Like maybe an updated electronic raga, this album's structure surprises in each moment. The tug of the undulating basslines here are tempered by an array of melodic interest, left to seem almost effortless. Blessed with an emotional tone, any sense of digital interference is settled into a rhythmic, gradual, unfolding beauty. Early in this seven part album this presents an entire world of melody hanging poised above an understated rhythm of eloquent granular stutter. Protected almost by a solitary, other worldy hand shaker, a reflective dub cycle on keys with a whisper of vocal harmonics. By the conclusion its great to hear the reduced dubwise swelling motion of the closing piece, the sound of digital creation gently subsiding." Nasibov, Edalat - The Art of the Saz CD (Ocora) [OCORA560181] $11.50 "With innovative instrumental techniques of fingering and tuning and a richly ornamental style, virtuoso lute performer Edalat Nasibov plays tunes which explore the art of the shyq." Sticks And Stones - Shed Grace CD (Thrill Jockey) [THR140CD] $12.75 "Jazz trio Sticks and Stones formed years ago when drummer Chad Taylor, bassist Josh Abrams and alto saxophonist Matana Roberts met each other at a performance space in Chicago. Their second and newest release, Shed Grace, is their first on Thrill Jockey. It was recorded at Semaphore Studios with Ken B. Brown (Directions in Music, Tortoise, Pullman). Shed Grace is largely original compositions (songwriting split equally among the three). The eclectic selection of covers includes songs by Fela Kuti, Thelonious Monk, and Billy Strayhorn." Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - List of Lights and Buoys CD (Rune Grammofon) [RCD2034] $14.25 "Susanna and her orchestra is in fact a duo that has been around some four years on the Norwegian live scene, to much acclaim. Singer Susanna Wallumrd (23) is a new name while Morten Qvenild (24) is a profiled keyboard player with the likes of Jaga Jazzist, jazz quartet Shining, Norwegian pop diva Bertine Zetlitz and recently Nils Petter Molvr. The first time it hit us that this was something very special was when we heard a demo including their versions of 'Jolene' and Leonard Cohens 'Hallelujah'. The second time was when they, with an intimate and intense performance, managed to silence a festive and lively audience at Rune Grammofons five year celebration in London last year. Many were taken by their highly personal interpretation of 'Jolene', but also thier own songs like 'Believer' and 'Hello' made strong impressions. On our own account wed like to add that their approach to 'Jolene' and Susannas heartfelt delivery brings a new dimension to this classic. Behind the maritime album title we find versions of the mentioned 'Jolene', written by Dolly Parton, and Leonard Bernstein's 'Who Am I' as well as nine originals that show a surprising degree of maturity, especially considering the writers young age and the fact that they operate in a landscape that requires a good deal of songwriting skills to hold your attention." Tempvs Fvgit - Nebbiu - Sacred Songs CD (Long Distance) [LONG460103] $15.25 "Tempvs Fvgit caused a sensation at the 2002 Calvi Festival of Polyphonic Music. The group was singled out not only for its unusual vocal technique, but also for its innovative repertoire from the Nebbiu region, the result of extensive research by ethno-musicologist Corinne Bartolini. This new CD includes prayers for Holy Week, a 16th century Genoese processional song and the Vultum Tuum Mass, a Roman office from the very earliest times with a slight Byzantine touch, conceived as a depiction of the Virgin's face in sound." Tortoise - It's All Around You CD (Thrill Jockey) [THR115CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 04-06-2004 "It's All Around You finds Tortoise doing what they do best; building and rebuilding upon melodies and rhythms with their own remarkable touch. Written largely in the studio, It's All Around You was crafted over the course of a full year, and allowed Tortoise the use of John McEntire's Soma Electronic Music Studios (whose clients have included Wilco, Stereolab among others) in serving not just as a state-of-the-art recording facility, but as a compositional tool as well. It took months of continuous writing, recording, tinkering, mixing, and perfecting to bring It's All Around You to it's finalized state. The results of this process are clear in the lush, orchestrated tones, intricate melodies, and densely elaborate rhythms that make It's All Around You Tortoise's most adventurous and thoughtful record to date. These songs build deliberately and consistently, amassing music of great detail; exploring their layers is both exciting and infinitely rewarding." Tracey, Stan/Evan Parker - Suspensions and Anticipations CD (PSI) [PSI0402] $17.00 "A sequence of free improvisations -- eight duos, two piano solos & one tenor saxophone solo." Treble, Joshua - Five Points Fincastle CD (Intr_Version) [INTR011] $13.00 "Cincinnati based Joshua Treble (aka Tony Boggs) has quietly been making beautiful, delicate and enduring music for the past four years. Author of the sublime Cold Filthy Techniques to Keep you Close on American label Pitchcadet (a label responsible for early records by Jetone and Accelera Deck, among others) Treble, along with Mitchell Akiyama also makes up half of the instrumental deconstructionist duo Dsormais. The group's two albums of sublime post-rock/post-classical compositions have received almost unanimous critical praise, earning them comparisons to Fennesz and My Bloody Valentine, among others. Five Points Fincastle, Joshua Treble's second solo full length, is an album of delicate fragments and little epics. Smeared guitars, obscured strings and ghostly field recordings are woven into melancholy tapestries. Treble's compositions are full of a blurry majesty -- enormous in ambition and instrumentation, but far away, somewhere on the horizon, enshrouded in mist. An essential album for fans of Tim Hecker, Gas and those interested in the future of instrumental electronic music." Triple R - Selection 2 CD (Trapez) [TRAPEZ002CD] $15.25 "After the mix CD Friends on Kompakt, Triple R aka Riley Reinhold delivers a fine selection of not yet released material on CD, combining tracks from Trapez as well as from the sublabel Trapez Ltd. The mix features a broad spectrum of different styles on Trapez, ranging from the Sarahgoldfarbs Detroit Theo Parrish like 'Euben', over the joyous Trapez Ltd 3 to the frenzy of Oliver Hacke's 'Vampir Von Dsseldorf'. Riley Reinhold includes his track 'Count' from the Airfix EP on Trapez, being recognized lately by lots of DJs from the UK and DJ magazine. The CD finishes off with the stunning Steve Bug remix of Jeff Samuels 'Knob', a big club hit of the year 2003. The mix is in generally tougher and more uptempo than Riley Reinhold's mix on Kompakt, showing more of a DJ and club perspective without loosing the smooth touch." Artists: Pleite (aka Donnacha Costello), Hansen & DJ Daniel, Dialogue, Akufen, Riley Reinhold and Steve Barnes, Unknown, Jeremy P. Caulfield, Oliver Hacke, Gabriel Ananda, Matthias Rahn, Jeff Samuel, M.I.A., Marcos Cabral, Sarahgoldfarb. Various Artists - Station CD (A.I.) [AI007CD] $16.50 RELEASE DATE: 03-02-2004 "Station stands alone -- offering a kind of closure to previous compilations conceived by Ai records, it's not so much a concept album, more of an attitude -- Station as a place leading somewhere new, motion and stasis, at once urban and yet suggesting other destinations, new locations. A truly international base of artists bless each track with unique musical criteria and direction -- from urban mind funk through electro to purest pop. Ai's typical attention to graphic detail brings the sleeve's hexagonal patterns into allusive focus -- in the detuned melodies of Welk from Steve Hyland's 'Normal' and Praveen's 'Small Clues' -- evidence of a generation reared on the shamanic pastoralism of the Boards of Canada. A concentrated dose of the right stuff." Wild, Damon - Downtown Worlds CD (Kanzleramt) [KA101CD] $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 02-10-2004 "His 3rd solo album and first for Kanzleramt. This album is more on the groovier, clubbier side of Damon." [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Agincourt - Fly Away CD (Acme Gramophone) [ACLN1002CD] $15.00 "1970 UK private pressing mega-rarity -- a top notch psych-folk classic in Syd Barret solo/Fairfield Parlour direction, but with female vocals. Originals are 1500 pounds or more -- no chance to get them. Available for the first time from the original master tapes. Sixteen-page booklet comes complete with lyrics and band history, and includes stunning previously unseen photos of the band. The addition of previously unheard bonus tracks makes this an essential reissue for everyone." Drosselbart - Drosselbart CD (Long Hair) [LHC027] $18.75 "Originally released in 1970 on Polydor. This is an example of early German heavy psychedelic rock, akin to early Tomorrow's Gift and The Doors as a rock critic mentioned in a review in Sounds (Germany 4/71). Clever German lyrics and music which touches your brain but also your skin. 13 Excellent tracks (including 2 bonus tracks), digitally remastered from the original tape and with informative booklet. One of the wanted Krautrock Collectebles." Flesh Eaters, The - No Questions Asked CD (Atavistic) [ATA143CD] $12.75 A complete reissue of the long out-of-print debut release by '70's L.A. punk icons, The Flesh Eaters. Ithaca - Game For All Who Know CD (Acme Gramophone) [ACLN1003CD] $15.00 "1972 UK private pressing megararity from the same band that made Agincourt two years earlier. Classic ethereal Pink Floyd influenced psych-folk gem is available for the first time taken from the original master tapes and has previously unreleased bonus tracks. Sixteen-page booklet comes complete with lengthy band history, lyrics, and rare photos. A beautiful trippy album with lovely female vocals sounding glorious in a dreamy setting -- this edition sounds amazing." Keith, Barbara - Barbara Keith CD (Water) [WATER127] $14.00 "Originally released on Warner/Reprise in 1972, Barbara Keith's debut showcases a voice and writing style steeped in folk, blues, and country. Her songs have an earthy, timeless quality that have been covered by Delaney & Bonnie, The Dillards, and Tanya Tucker among others. Guest musicians are an L.A. 1970s 'A-List' including Little Feat's Lowell George, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Peter Asher, Russ Kunkel, Jim Keltner, Ron Tutt, Emory Gordy, Leland Sklar, Spooner Oldham, and Danny Kortchmar. Deluxe booklet with rare photos." Maxwells - Maxwells Street CD (Long Hair) [LHC028] $18.75 "Originally released 1969 on MPS Records Germany -- which became world famous for Dave Pike's Noisy Silence Gentle Noise released in the same era. This is a true jewel for all progressive music enthusiasts. Ahead of its time the album is an eclectic mixture of Beat, Psychedelia and lysergic Trip Jazz. The album is compared with the similarly styled debut of Burnin' Red Ivanhoe. 14 Minutes title song 'Maxwells Street' sounds like a continuation of the Rolling Stones' 'Their Satanic Majesty's Requests'. Lars Bisgaard and Bent Hesselmann later played with Rainbow Band. Comes with bonus tracks, digitally remastered from the original tapes and with informative booklet." Neon Pearl - 1967 CD (Acme Gramophone) [ACLN1001CD] $15.00 "First time on CD for these incredible sessions from the year of psychedelia's apex. Top notch floating underground psych with organ and harmonium -- features members of Please and The Flies who were later in legendary band T2 (the sleevenotes try to make the convoluted band history clear). This edition is taken from the master tapes, and comes complete with two bonus tracks not on the limited LP edition." Pritchard, David - Nocturnal Earthworm Stew CD (Pacemaker) [PACE044CD] $15.00 "An incredible pioneering electronic album recorded in the early 1970's, from the first Canadian artist signed to Island Records. Serious headphone music made under the influence of Stockhausen, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Charles Ives and others -- and with a sound that's often compared to that of early Eno and the first two Kraftwerk albums. Includes four bonus tracks not on the original 1976 Island LP release." Various Artists - Pisa 1980 Improvisors Symposium 2CD (PSI) [PSI0403/4] $27.50 "Ten leading free improvisors assembled in Pisa in the summer of 1980. Altena, Bailey, Guy, Lewis, Lovens, Lytton, Parker, Rutherford, Schiaffini Philipp Wachsmann. Two duos, one trio & two quintets. Reissue of Incus LP 37 plus 94 minutes of extra material. " 142 minutes. Wheeler, Kenny - Song For Someone CD (PSI) [PSI0401] $17.00 "Between the legendary Windmill Tilter and Music for Large Ensemble came Song for Someone from 1973, the first music Kenny Wheeler recorded for a large group of his choosing. Featuring Derek Bailey, Alan Branscombe, Duncan Lamont, Ron Matthewson, Mike Osborne, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, John Taylor, Norma Winstone, and others. Now on CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 10. 43 minutes." From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Feb 1 12:47:39 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Feb 1 12:47:03 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] February update Message-ID: <7DDB5A28-54EF-11D8-A7F1-000A95E7A564@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 February update of the EAR/Rational catalogue! EAR/Rational Top 10 Best Sellers for January 2004 01 Pete Namlook/David Moufang - Pop for Dwoozle 02 Pete Namlook - Air IV 03 Steve Stoll - Was Here Redeye - Arizona Tracks 05 Smoke & Mirrors - Perfume of Creosote: Desert Exotica Part 1 New Composers - Advanced Indigo Anthony Rother - Magic Diner Drum Machine Circle - Dada Dandy Jack & the Plastic Woman Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud IMPORTANT NOTICES - Because the dollar has been performing so poorly against the Euro and Pounds Sterling, we have modified our database to accept prices in those currencies. We will be entering prices in Euro and Pounds for items we get directly from Europe and the UK (e.g., all of the Manikin releases). Very shortly, the search/detail pages will perform the currency conversion on the fly, and you will see the U.S. dollar price for that day (along with the Euro or Pound price in parenthesese). If you place an order, your price will be locked in at whatever dollar price is shown. - Completely spaced on the January update, probably because I sent out the weekly update and called it the first update of 2004. Here are the top 50 sellers from 2003, which I would have put into the January 2004 update: EAR/Rational Top 50 Best Sellers for 2003 01 Damon Albarn - Democrazy 02 Silence I-V MP3 CD 03 Eisblumen - Krystian Shek Spyra - Invisible Fields 05 Anothony Rother - Elixir of Life 06 Pete Namlook/Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway Collection MP3-CD 07 Anthony Rother - Magic Diner 08 SOL - Stardust 09 Steve Stoll - Was Here 10 New Composers - Advanced Indigo 11 Smoke & Mirrors - Perfume of Creosote: Desert Exotica Part 1 Stereonerds - HD Endless Lisa Carbon - Standards 14 Pete Namlook/Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation Collection MP3-CD Pete Namlook - Namlook Collection I MP3-CD 16 Pete Namlook/Atom TM - Jet Chamber Collection MP3-CD Various Artists - Ambient Cookbook II 18 Pete Namlook/David Moufang - Move D/Namlook Collection MP3-CD 19 Jill Stevenson - Underway 20 BioChemical Dread - Bush Doctrine 21 Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud 22 Gescom - ISS SA 23 Richard H. Kirk - T.W.A.T. 4.0 24 Pete Namlook/Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion 3 AFX - Smojphace Various Artists - Genetic Drift 27 Pete Namlook/David Moufang - Retro Rocket 28 Pete Namlook/Bill Laswell - Outland 3 29 Intone Unreleased Projects V1 30 Pete Namlook/Klaus Schulze/Bill Laswell - Evolution of DSotM FSOL - Mello Hippo Disco Show 32 Pete Namlook/Mixmaster Morris - Dreamfish Muslimgauze - Arabbox 34 Pete Namlook/Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion Sigur Ros - Rimur Pete Namlook/Atom TM - Jet Chamber Pete Namlook - Free Your Mind Pete Namlook - Silence V Pete Namlook/Geir Jenssen - Fires of Ork II Pete Namlook - Four Seasons Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash Autechre - Draft 7.30 44 Pete Namlook/Klaus Schulze - Dark Side of the Moog Pete Namlook/Mixmaster Morris - Dreamfish 2 Pete Namlook - Air 3 Pete Namlook/Klaus Schulze - Dark Side of the Moog 9 UVOII - Sound of Heaven Jochem Paap - Vrs Mbnt Pcs 95-98 II Tetsu Inoue/Charles Uzzell-Edwards/Damon Beail - Audio Nurse With Wound - Soliloquoy for Lilith CATALOG ADDITIONS !!!/OUT Hud - Split Remixed CDEP [GSL026CD] GSL $ 6.50 # 1492 Conquest Of Paradise - The Movie DVD [338306] Garry's Tradin $15.50 # A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard and the Ballroom CD [UR20CD] Universal Soun $17.75 # Abba - Gold - Greatest Hits DVD + 2CD [521844] Universal $42.50 # Act - Laughter Tears And Rage +37 3CD [676004] ZTT $33.50 # Act - Laughter Tears And Rage +8 CD [676044] ZTT $18.00 # AE - Bootleg CD [SONIG028CD] Sonig $15.00 # AE - Bootleg CD [28/05405SONIG] Sonig $16.25 # Aelters - Ardchilds' Com.undo CD [SONIG029CD] Sonig $15.00 # Agents XI - Le Monstre Jaune CD [GOR078CD] Genie ou Rien $15.25 # Ahvak - Ahvak CD [CUNE185] Cuneiform $12.25 # Air - Talkie Walkie CD [ASW96632] Astralwerks $17.00 # Air - Talkie Walkie +1 CD [512224] Virgin $30.75 # Akchota, Noel/Roland Auzet/Luc Ferrari - Impro-Micro-Acoustique CD [BC12CD] Blue Chopstick $13.00 # Akiyama, Mitchell - If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Less CD [SR209CD] Sub Rosa $12.50 # Allerseelen - Abenteuerliches Herz CD [05459/AORCD07] Aorta $16.25 # Allerseelen - Gotos = Kalanda CD [05458/AORCD02] Aorta $16.25 # Allerseelen - Neuschwabenland CD [05460/AORCD05] Aorta $16.25 # Allerseelen - Venezia CD [05457/AORCD06] Aorta $16.25 # Allien, Ellen - Remix Collection CD [BPC080CD] BPitch Control $17.00 # Altered Images - Happy Birthday +6 CD [530264] Edsel $16.75 # Altered Images - Pinky Blue +8 CD [530274] Edsel $16.75 # Aluminum Group - More Happyness CD [WTR020CD] Wishing Tree $13.75 # AMM - At the Roundhouse CD [ICES001CD] Anomalous $13.25 # Andrew Duke - Environmental Politics CD [and/9] And/OAR $10.00 # Anenzephalia - Noehaem CD [05431/T57W] Tesco $17.50 # Apparat - Multifunktionsebene CD [STRIKE20CD] Shitkatapult $14.50 # Astley, Virginia - From Gardens CD [808262] Play X $20.50 # Aswan Troupe - The Music of Islam, Volume 3 CD [CH13142] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Atrox - White Rooms CD [ar09/05414ar] Atacama $17.75 # Audio Bullys - Back To Mine CD [BACK015CD] DMC $15.75 # Autechre/seefeel - Spangle CDS [FUS002CD] Polyfusia $10.25 # Autechre/The Hafler Trio - ae30/h3ae CD [05462/PGRAM002] Phonometrograp $29.00 # Behrens, M. - Security vs. Freedom 2xCD3 [EDITIONXXVIII] Edition $13.25 # Belle & Sebastian - Fans Only DVD [334056] Matador $20.50 # Bennink, Han/Kazuo Imai - Across The Desert CD [IMJ514] Improvised Mus $17.00 # Beta Bodega Coalition/DJ Aura/DJ Polaris - Betaquatch CD [BB125CD] Beta Bodega $16.50 # Bevel - Down the Puppet String, Marionettes CD [JAG63] Jagjaguwar $13.00 # Beyond Sensory Experience - Ratan CD [05467/OECD064] Old Europa Caf $17.50 # Big Boy Pete - The Margeston Demos CD [GF206CD] Gear Fab $12.25 # Bjorkk, Henrik Nordvargr - On Broken Wings Towards Victory CD [05464/OEC061] Old Europa Caf $15.75 # Bowie, David - Reality +6 DVD+CD [522024] EMI $22.50 # Brown, James - Ultimate Collection 3CD [514084] Universal $29.75 # Cale, John - Fragments Of A Rainy Season DVD [339326] PPE $25.75 # Calexico - Committed (OST) CD [691334] Saidera $30.50 # Cerberus Shoal/Magic Carpathians - The Life and Times of... CD [NEI031] North East Ind $ 8.75 # Chemical Brothers - Get Yourself High CDEP [331064] Virgin $15.75 # Chemical Brothers - Get Yourself High CDS [ASW47737CD] Astralwerks $ 6.50 # Chicks On Speed - Wordy Rappinghood CD [COS?CD] Chicks on Spee $ 6.00 # Chromatics - Plaster Hounds CD [GSL079CD] GSL $11.75 # Circle Square - Pre-Earthquake Anthem CD [OPR61CD] Output $15.25 # Clinton, George - 500,000 Kilowatts of P-Funk Power 2CD [FT830] Fruit Tree $18.00 # Code Blue - Code Blue +12 CD [130674] Rhino $19.75 # Coleclough, Jonathan/Bass Communion/Colin Potter - 2CD 2CD [ICR] GSL $22.50 # Corker/Conboy - Radiant Idiot CD [VFORM033CD] Sixtoo $15.75 # Cortex, Alex - Inward CTRL CD [ANN001CD] Ann Aimee $16.50 # Creshevsky, Noah - Hyperrealism CD [MUTABLE17516] Mutablemusic $12.25 # Crno Klank - Etat Des lieux CD [05398/ADN33] Ad Noiseam $13.50 # Cure, The - Greatest Hits + Bonus DVD + 2CD [523664] UI $42.50 # Cure, The - Join The Dots CD Box [129834] Fiction $47.50 # Curran, Alvin - Lost Marbles CD [TZ7097] Tzadik $14.25 # Cut Chemist - Live At The Variety Arts Club CD [525264] Rolled Gold $20.50 # Cut Chemist - Rare Equations 2CD [243474] Rolled Gold $21.75 # Cut Chemist vs. DJ Shortkut - Live At The Future Primitive CD [898562] Rolled Gold $20.50 # Cyclobe - Pathfinder 7_inch [05408] Klang $24.75 # Cyne - Time Being CD [MUDCD] Must!Delicious $10.00 # Dale Lloyd - Eminus: Hymns from the Horizon CD [and/5] And/OAR $11.00 # Dale Lloyd - Vulcan Augmented CD [and/1] And/OAR $11.00 # Darkwood - Heimat & Jugend CD [05426/HV02] Heidenvolk $16.00 # Dave Clarke featuring Chicks On Speed - What Was Her Name? CDS [SKINT094CD] Skint $ 6.50 # Davis, Greg - Curling Pond Woods CD [CRPK026CD] Car Park $12.25 # Death Comet Crew - This Is Riphop CD [TMU121CD] Troubleman $11.25 # Deutsch, Andrew - Lung Cleaner CD [NOM24] Anomalous $13.25 # Disjecta - True Love By Normal 12_inch [FUS001CD] Polyfusia $13.25 # DJ Hell - Ny Muscle +3 2CD [522804] Petrov $29.00 # DJ Koze - All People Is My Friends CD [KOMP30] Kompakt $15.25 # DJ Shadow - Brainfreeze Breaks CD [208174] PFR $19.25 # DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Freeze CD [208194] PFR $19.25 # DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement CD [989272] One29 $20.50 # DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement Breaks CD [964432] One29 $20.50 # DJ Spooky - Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archive CD [SR201CD] Sub Rosa $12.50 # DMZ - DMZ CD [STONE12] Sepia-Tone $12.25 # Doctor Nerve - Armed Observation/Out To Bomb Fresh Kings CD [CUNE038] Cuneiform $12.25 # Dragons 1976 - On Cortez CD [LOCUST40] Locust $13.25 # Duncan, John/Peter Fleur - The Scattering CD [EDITIONXXXI] Edition $13.25 # Dury, Ian & the Blockheads - Hold On To Your Structure DVD [336826] EMI $26.50 # duul_drv - Fade with Consequence CD [and/11] And/OAR $11.00 # Earthmonkey - Audiosapien CD [05399/mt038] Beta Lactam Ri $13.25 # Edgar, Jimmy - Access Rhythm CDS [WAP171CD] Warp $ 6.00 # Einstuerzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile CD [MUT9237] Mute $14.75 # Ellarald, Fitz - The Very Air Seems Replete With Humming and Buzzing Melodies CD [AMORFON001] Amorfon $13.25 # Ensemble Ibn Arabi - Arabo-Andalusian Sufi Songs CD [LONG45013] Long Distance $16.50 # Erasure - Hits! The Videos 2xDVD [335646] Mute $19.50 # Errorsmith - Near Disco Dawn, Live Recordings 2001 - 2003 CD [ERROR003CD] Errorsmith $16.50 # Espers - Espers CD [LOCUST44] Locust $13.25 # Fall - Fall In A/liverpool '78 +6 3CD [317874] Voiceprint $20.50 # Fall - Live At The Witch Trials +28 2CD [676404] Castle $20.50 # Fall, The - Dragnet +11 CD [676414] Castle $15.75 # Fantastic Plastic Machine - Untitled (House Version) CD [325904] Cutting Edge $24.50 # Fantastic Plastic Machine - Untitled (Lounge Version) CD [325894] Cutting Edge $24.50 # Farida & The Iraqi Maqam Ensemble - Beautiful Music from Baghdad CD [LONG470103] Long Distance $16.50 # Faun Fables - Family Album CD [DC262CD] Drag City $12.75 # Felt - Me And A Monkey On The Moon CD [521344] Cherry Red $18.00 # Felt - Pictorial Jackson Review CD [311894] Cherry Red $18.00 # Felt - Train Above The City CD [521364] Cherry Red $18.00 # Fern Knight - Seven Years of Severed Limbs CD [NOR246CD] Normal $13.25 # Fog - Hummer CDEP [NJT12152] Ninja Tune $ 9.50 # Foresta Di Ferro - Bury Me Standing CD [54/05411HR] Hau Ruck $15.75 # Galactic Zoo Dossier - Compendium Magazine+CD [DC244] Drag City $15.25 # Galata Mevlevi Music & - The Music of Islam, Volume 9 CD [CH13149] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Gamelan Son Of Lion, The - The Complete Gamelan in the New World 2CD [LOCUST41/42] Locust $16.00 # Garnier, Laurent - 30 CD [MUTE9236CD] Mute $14.75 # Gaye, Marvin - Ultimate Collection 3CD [514174] Motown $29.75 # Gerrard, Lisa/Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory CD [133994] 4AD $14.50 # Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld CD [DC249CD] Drag City $12.75 # Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Sleep/Holiday + Bonus CD [521014] P-Vine $30.50 # Grateful Dead - Closing Of Winterland 2xDVD [335566] Monterey Video $27.50 # Grooves - #12 Magazine [GROOVES12] Grooves $ 5.00 # Guapo - Five Suns CD [CUNE184] Cuneiform $12.25 # Hafler Trio - The Man Who Tried to Disappear 10_inch [05429/OSSO1] Ossosnossos $24.00 # Hafler Trio, The - How to Slice a Loaf of Bread 3CD [05463] Phonometrograp $46.50 # Haino, Keiji - Hikari yami uchitokeaishi kono hibiki CD [PSF8017] PSF $18.50 # Hawk, Gerald - The Honey Guide Bird CD [ABD026] Abduction $13.25 # Hearts Of Darkness - Music for Drunk Driving CD [SCH042CD] Schematic $12.00 # Hendrix, Jimi - Astro CD Box [339064] Alchemy $73.50 # Henry, Pierre - Labyrinthe CD [INA2022] INA GRM $17.75 # Hh9 - Heat CD [05465/OECD062] Old Europa Caf $15.75 # Holland, Jools - Jack O The Green CD [339374] WSM $29.50 # Hu Vibrational - Beautiful CD [SJR88CD] Soul Jazz $14.50 # I Am - De La Planete Mars CD [520924] Virgin $20.50 # I-F - Fucking Consumer CD [DB69CD] Disko B $11.00 # I:GOR - Barwy Kolorow CD [05471/N10] M-tronic $17.50 # Ibarra, Susie - Lakbay CD [TZ7098] Tzadik $14.25 # In Death's Throes - Tactical CD [ART56/05412] Art Konkret $15.75 # Inada, Kozo - Mort Aux Vaches CD [MORTKI] Staalplaat $17.00 # Inoue, Tetsu/Andrew Deutsch, Tetsu - Installation Sound CD [IEA05] IEA $ 8.75 # Instincts/Bustum - The Mystery Visions CD [05425] Cyclic $18.00 # Interface - Recording Field, H DVD [DL027DVD] Deep Listening $16.50 # ISO - I.S.O. CD [ST1038] Sound Tectonic $20.00 # Jamiroquai - Live In Verona DVD [338576] Sony $24.75 # Jandek - The Gone Wait CD [COR0773] Corwood $ 7.25 # Jaydee - Plastic Dreams CDS [526404] Positiva $ 8.25 # Jefferson, Blind Lemon - Long Lonesome Blues: Lemon's Texts Revealed CD [WA2006] World Arbiter $15.25 # Jon Tulchin - Location Recordings CD [and/2] And/OAR $11.00 # Jormana Group, Lotfi - The Music of Islam, Volume 8 CD [CH13148] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Julius, Rolf - Fur Einen Kleinen See CD [BTC005CD] Because Tomorr $17.00 # Kaito - EP CDEP [BFFP189CD] Blast First $ 7.75 # Kat Cosm - Knightboat CD [STAUB047CD] Staubgold $11.25 # Kerrier District - Kerrier District 3xLP [REPH143LP] Rephlex $18.25 # Khan, Ustad Bary Fateh - The Music of Islam, Volume 13 CD [CH13153] Celestial Harm $14.00 # King Tubby - Dub Mix Up CD [JR016CD] Jamaican Recor $17.00 # Kirchin, Basil - Charcoal Sketches/States Of Mind CD [JBH005CD] Trunk $13.25 # Kirchin, Basil - OST The Abominable Dr. Phibes CD [PRD004CD] Perserverance $15.25 # Kline, Phil - Zippo Songs CD [CA21019] Cantaloupe $16.50 # Kosugi, Takehisa - Catch-Wave CD [SWAX502] Showboat $31.75 # Koura - Shiso CD [and/12] And/OAR $11.00 # kyphone - Fabula CD [RCD2033] Rune Gammofon $14.25 # Led Zeppelin - Making Of A Supergroup DVD [337896] Has $19.25 # Legendary Pink Dots - El Kaleidoscopio Terminal CD [05453/NKCD07] Noise Kontrol $13.00 # Lelo & Haitham Hasan - The Music of Islam, Volume 4 CD [CH13143] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Luna In Caelo - Noche era - La Luna en el Cielo Brillaba CD [05456] Drama Company $13.00 # Maagi Payne - Ping/Pong: Beyond the Pail CD [and/8] And/OAR $11.00 # Machida, Yoshio - Infinite Flowers CD [AMORFON002] Amorfon $13.25 # Madness - Singles Box Volume 1 CD Box [331334] Virgin $48.50 # Mambotur - Pacheco 12_inch [MCR128EP] Multicolor $ 9.00 # Mandible Chatter - Of Foreign Lands and People CD [RR6581/05415] Relapse $13.00 # Marley, Bob & The Wailers - Legend: Best of DVD + 2CD [521794] Universal $42.50 # Marshall, Scott - BLACK AND WHITE 2CD [PC-BW] PaniCulture $14.00 # Marshall, Scott - MUSIC FROM "MEN'S STORIES" AND OTHER SONGS CD [PC-Sotires] PaniCulture $11.00 # Marshall, Scott - MY LIFE IN THE GUSH OF BOASTS CD [PC-Boasts] PaniCulture $11.00 # Marshall, Scott - PAWNEE CD [PC-Paw] PaniCulture $11.00 # Martinez, Ernesto - Mutaciones CD [TZ7096] Tzadik $14.25 # Masada String Trio - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume One CD [TZ5001] Tzadik $14.25 # Mathieu/Schaefe/Timeblind Mens - Quality Hotel CD [05418/CLB02] Mutek $15.75 # May, Derrick - Innovator 2CD [TMTCD4] Transmat $14.25 # Mayer, Michael - Fabric 13 CD [FABRIC025CD] Fabric $20.00 # Mazurek, Rob - Sweet & Vicious Like Frankenstein CD [MEGO074] Mego $14.50 # Mcgregor's Brotherhood Of Breath, Chris - Bremen To Bridgewater 2CD [CUNE182/3] Cuneiform $17.00 # Measels Mumps Rubella - Fountain of Youth CD [TMU118CD] Troubleman $ 9.25 # Menche, Daniel/Mizutani, Kiyoshi - Garden CD [05438/AUS019] Ground Fault $12.75 # Merzbow - Last Of The Analog Sessions 3CD [IMPREC022] Important $22.50 # Merzbow - Tamago CD [MZ1] Plan DX-17 $20.00 # Millis, Robert - Leaf Music Drunks Distant Drums - Recordings from Laos, Camb CD [NOM26] Anomalous $13.25 # Mills, Jeff - From The 21st: AFV 12_inch [AXIS019B] Axis $ 6.75 # Mills, Jeff - From the 21st: Our Future 12_inch [AXIS019A] Axis $ 6.75 # Minott, Sugar - Leave Out of Babylon CD [DG81108CD] Zenah $18.25 # Mnemonists/Biota - Musique Actuelle 1990 CD [NOM25] Anomalous $13.25 # Morgan, Derrick - Ska Vol. 1 CD [RRT006CD] Reggae Retro $16.50 # Morricone, Ennio - Mondo Morricone: The Trilogy 3CD [SD4611CD] Stereo Deluxe $25.00 # Morricone, Ennio - OST Gott Mit Uns CD [RED151CD] Dagored $15.00 # Morricone, Ennio - OST L'istruttoria E, Chiusa, Dimentichi CD [RED150CD] Dagored $15.00 # Morricone, Ennio - Remixes Vol. 2 2CD [CMR155] Compost $15.75 # Morrison, Bill - Decasia DVD [PLEX012DVD] Plexifilm $19.50 # Move D (David Moufang) - Pop for Dwoozle CD [PS08/105] Fax $13.00 # Mr. Projectile - Sinking CD [MERCK024CD] Merck $13.25 # Music Am - A Heart & Two Stars CD [QS154CD] Quatermass $12.50 # Muslimgauze - In Search of Ahmad Shah Masood CD [NS19/05427] Nexsound $12.25 # Muslimgauze - Jebel Tariq CD [MUSLIM033] Staalplaat $17.00 # Nagoski, Ian - Effortless Battle CD [RECORD010] Recorded $14.50 # Nakamura, Toshimaru - Side Guitar CD [IMJ513] Improvised Mus $17.00 # Nakamura, Toshimaru/Tetuzi Akiyama - Meeting at Off Site Vol. 3 CD [IMJ515] Improvised Mus $17.00 # Namlook, Pete - Air IV (Elle a du Shell) CD [AW031] Ambient World $13.00 # Neither/Neither World - She Whispers CD [05432/HR51] Hau Ruck! $17.50 # Nelson, Bill - Magnificent Dream/electricity 2CD [317834] Voiceprint $20.50 # Niblock, Phill - Disseminate CD [MODE131] Mode $15.00 # Niobe - Tse Tse CD [SONIG027CD] Sonig $15.00 # Nitsch, Hermann - Musik der 80.Aktion CD Box [AKTION80CD] Hermann Nitsch$948.50 # Nitzer Ebb - Murderous/Control I'm Here 12_inch [NOMU127] Novamute $ 8.50 # No.9 - Mushi-No-Ne CD [LOCUST45] Locust $13.25 # Northam, M. - Memoirs of Four Discarded Objects CD [EDITIONXXXII] Edition $13.25 # Northern Lite - Reach The Sun CD [1ST007CD] 1st Decade $17.00 # Notwist - Different Cars and Trains CDEP [DOMUS021CD] Domino $ 8.75 # Notwist - Different Cars and Trains CDEP [DNO21] Domino $ 8.75 # Noxagt - The Iron Point CD [LOAD057CD] Load $11.50 # Numbers - In My Mind All The Time CD [MEOW098CD] Tigerbeat6 $13.75 # O Paradis - Serpiente de Luna Serpiente de Sol CD [05461/AORCD08] Aorta $116.25 # Oldham, Will - Seafarers Music CD [DC261CD] Drag City $ 9.75 # Oneida - Secret Wars CD [JAG60] Jagjaguwar $11.75 # Ontayso - Elochim CD [05428/TANTRAX19] Tantric Harmon $15.75 # Ooioo - Kila Kila Kila CD [THR117CD] Thrill Jockey $13.75 # Oophoi/tau Ceti - Subterranea CD [2029-2/05404ERA] Nextera $11.75 # Opus - Breathing Lessons CD [MH225CD] Mush $15.00 # Ordo Funebris - Cantar a la Morte: Fabula Triste CD [05455] Drama Company $13.00 # Orn, Einar - Ghostigital 2x10 inch [HJR009LP] Honest Jon's $16.75 # Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn CD [524304] Snapper $13.25 # Palestine, Charlemagne - Four Manifestations on Six Elements CD [BAR014] Barooni $17.00 # Papa M - Five CDEP [DC258CD] Drag City $ 5.25 # Papa M - Hole of Burning Alms CD [DC231CD] Drag City $12.75 # Parmegiani, Bernard - Violostries 2CD [INA1012/13] INA GRM $28.75 # Pass Into Silence - Calm Like A Millpond CD [KOMP31] Kompakt $15.25 # Pathos - People CD [TZ7407] Tzadik $14.25 # Pearls Before Swine - Beautiful Lies You Could Live In CD [WATER114] Water $14.00 # Pearls Before Swine - City Of Gold CD [WATER113] Water $14.00 # Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes CD [WATER112] Water $14.00 # Pearls Before Swine - These Things Too CD [WATER111] Water $14.00 # Pet Shop Boys - Miracles CDEP [518264] Toshiba $17.75 # Pet Shop Boys - Popart DVD [336926] EMI $25.75 # Pet Shop Boys - Popart 3CD [335904] EMI $31.50 # Phosphor - #111 Magazine+CD [PHOS111] Phosphor $11.50 # Picasso, Pablo - The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems Book [ECPICASSO] Exact Change $15.75 # Piccioni, Piero - OST I Giovani Tigri CD [RED152CD] Dagored $15.00 # Pinhas, Richard - Tranzition CD [CUNE186] Cuneiform $12.25 # Preston School Of Industry - Monsoon +9 2CD [529624] Festival $24.75 # Prina, Stephen - Vinyl II CD [CORTI24] Cortical Found $11.75 # Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar CD [SF006CD] Sublime Freque $ 0.00 # Proem - Socially Inept CD [MERCK023CD] Merck $13.25 # Quiet American - Plumbing and Irrigation of South Asia CD [and/7] And/OAR $11.00 # Quisqueya En El Hudson - Dominican Music In New York City CD [SF40495] Smithsonian Fo $15.00 # Raison d'etre - Requiem For Abandoned Souls CD [05397/CMI128] Cold Meat Indu $15.00 # Ramone, Dee Dee - Hey Is Dee Dee Home? DVD [333476] Extinkt $18.00 # Rand And Holland - Tomorrow Will Be Like Today CD [STAUB045CD] Staubgold $13.75 # Red Pocket - Thick CD [TZ7710] Tzadik $14.25 # Reich, Steve - Music For 18 Musicians CD [HUNG32208] Hungaroton $15.25 # Remarc - Unreleased Dubs 94 - 96' CD [ZIQ085CD] Planet Mu $17.00 # Reynols - The Bolomo Mogal F Hits CD [BOT007CD] Audiobot $18.75 # Rich, Robert - Calling Down the Sky CD [05469/SP006] Soundscape Pro $14.00 # Rich, Robert - Temple of the Invisible CD [05470/SSP005] Soundscape Pro $14.00 # Riley, Terry - Music For The Gift CD [CORTI01] Cortical Found $11.75 # Riley, Terry - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night CD [CORTI04] Cortical Found $11.75 # Riley, Terry - Reed Streams CD [CORTI02] Cortical Found $11.75 # Riley, Terry - You're Nogood 2 CD [CORTI05] Cortical Found $22.00 # RLW - Views CD [NOM27] Anomalous $13.25 # Roach, Steve/Vidna Obmana - Spirit Dome CD [05451/PRO152] Projekt $14.25 # Rocket From The Tombs - Rocket Redux CD [SV050CD] Smog Veil $11.75 # Rolling Stones - Remastered SACD Box Set CD Box [513484] Universal $350.00 # Rother, Anthony - Back Home 12_inch [DTP001EP] Datapunk $ 9.00 # Rother, Anthony - Live Is Life Is Love CD [PSI024CD] PSI49Net $15.25 # RSundin - Seismo CD [and/6] And/OAR $11.00 # Russell, Arthur - Calling Out of Context CD [AU1001CD] Audika $14.00 # Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Undercooled CDS [339294] Warner Japan $15.75 # Satie - Inside The Dream CD [ALC5107CD] Wergo $18.75 # Satie, Erik - Piano Music Vol. 5 CD [MDG1067CD] MDG $15.75 # Savath & Savalas - Apropa't CD [WARP115CD] Warp $15.25 # Savath & Savalas - Apropa't CD [WARP115] Warp $14.75 # Schlammpeitziger - Everything Without All CD [SONIG032CD] Sonig $15.00 # Scientist - Pockets of Resistance CD [BS077CD] Black Solidari $16.50 # Secret Mommy - Mammal Class CD [ORTH019CD] Orthlorng Muso $12.25 # Shadow Huntaz - Corrupt Data CD [SKALD012CD] Skam $13.75 # Silva and the Celestial Communication Orchestra, Alan - H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box CD Box [MTE39/42] Eremite $105.00 # Sixtoo - The Psyche Years CD [VFORM032CD] Sixtoo $15.75 # Slogun - ...Kill To Forget CD [001/05413CD] Jinx $17.75 # Smith, Wadada Leo - Kabell Years 1971-1979 CD Box [TZ7610] Tzadik $42.50 # Snakefinger - Greener Postures/Chewing Hides The Sound 2CD [ER021CD] Euroralph $15.50 # Space Machine - 3 CD [IMPREC026CD] Important $11.75 # Spectre - RetroSpectre CD [QS146CD] Quatermass $12.50 # Subotnick, Morton - Vol. 2: Electronic Works CD [MODE132CD] Mode $15.00 # Subotnick, Morton - Vol. 2: Electronic Works DVD [MODE132DVD] Mode $20.00 # Syndrone - Salmataxia CD [MERCK025CD] Merck $13.25 # Taj Mahal Travellers - July 15, 1972 CD [SWAX501] Showboat $31.75 # Tangerine Dream - Live In America 1992 DVD [336426] Respect $23.75 # Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless CD [HEFT042CD] Hefty $14.50 # Test Item - Do Not Order CD [123test321] Testing $10.00 # The Residents - Demons Dance Alone CD [ER027CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen 2xCD3 [ER007/8CD] Euroralph $15.50 # The Residents - Eskimo CD [ER016CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - George & James CD [ER002CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Gingerbread Man CD [ER009CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - God In Three Persons 2CD [ER022CD] Euroralph $15.50 # The Residents - Have A Bad Day CD [ER013CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Icky Flix CD [ER025CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Meet The Residents CD [ER018CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Our Finest Flowers CD [ER001CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Petting Zoo CD [ER026CD] Euroralph $ 9.75 # The Residents - Roadworms CD [ER023CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - The Commercial Album CD [ER010CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - The Third Reich 'n' Roll CD [ER003CD] Euroralph $13.75 # The Residents - Wormwood CD [ER019CD] Euroralph $13.75 # They Might Be Giants - Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) DVD [PLEX01?] Plexifilm $19.50 # Thrice Mice - Thrice Mice CD [LHC026] Long Hair $18.75 # Throbbing Gristle - TG+ CD Box [MUTE9233] Mute $78.50 # Tietchens, Asmus - Delta-Menge CD [RITOR29CD] Ritornell $13.75 # Tino's Dub Select - Tino's Dub Select CD [QS152CD] Quatermass $12.50 # Tirill - A Dance With the Shadows CD [WILD013] Wild Places $14.00 # Touch Of Class - Sucks! CD [ATOC9001CD] ATOC $15.25 # Toy - Binding Erasures CD-R [05468/OECDR003] Old Europa Caf $17.50 # Trans Am - Liberation CD [THR144CD] Thrill Jockey $12.75 # Trapist - Ballroom CD [THR141CD] Thrill Jockey $12.75 # Tubes - White Punks On Dope CD [331394] Acadia $17.75 # Turid - Turid CD [SRSCD3629] Silence $15.75 # Twilight Circus - Foundation Rockers CD [05400/mrec250] M $11.50 # U.N.K.L.E. - Never Never Land +3 2CD [522774] Take a Walk $30.50 # Unto Ashes - I Cover You With Blood CDEP [05452/PRO153] Projekt $ 6.75 # Various Artist - Another Fine Mess (Fila Brazilia) CD [530314] Azuli $27.50 # Various Artists - 89mm_minimum.movies DVD [EFA60114] E:Motion $14.75 # Various Artists - em:t 0003 CD [emit0003] em:t $21.75 # Various Artists - Folk Music of the Sahara - Among the Tuareg of Libya DVD [SF001DVD] Sublime Freque $18.75 # Various Artists - I Remember Syria 2CD [SF009CD] Sublime Freque $ 0.00 # Various Artists - Irving Stone Memorial Concert 2CD [TZ7611] Tzadik $20.00 # Various Artists - Nord Ambient Alliance CD [05410] Cyclic Law $15.00 # Various Artists - Phonography.org - 4 CD [And/Phonem4] And/OAR $11.00 # Various Artists - Phonography.org - 5 CD [And/Phonem] And/OAR $11.00 # Various Artists - Psychedelic States: Illinois In The 60's Volume 1 CD [GF207] Gear Fab $12.25 # Various Artists - Radio Morocco CD [SF007CD] Sublime Freque $13.00 # Various Artists - Radio Palestine: Sounds of the Eastern Mediterranean CD [SF008CD] Sublime Freque $13.00 # Various Artists - Secret Lords: A Heidenvolk Collaboration CD [HV06/05423] Heidenvolk $16.00 # Various Artists - Sonic Circuits 10 CD [INNO119] Innova $ 6.00 # Various Artists - Sounds And Pressure - Volume 5 CD [PSCD41] Pressure Sound $11.75 # Various Artists - Studio One Ska CD [SJR85CD] Soul Jazz $17.75 # Various Artists - The Bells Shall Sound Forever: A Tribute to Current 93 CD [05396/SF002] Sweet Farewell $14.50 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam CD Box [CH19907] Celestial Harm$185.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 1 CD [CH13140] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 10 CD [CH13150] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 11 CD [CH13151] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 12 CD [CH13152] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 14 CD [CH13154] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 15 CD [CH14155] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 2 CD [CH13141] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 5 2CD [CH13145] Celestial Harm $24.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 6 CD [CH13146] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Music of Islam, Volume 7 CD [CH13147] Celestial Harm $14.00 # Various Artists - The Sound of Warhammer 40.000 CD [AOP015CD] Art of Percept $16.50 # Various Artists - Tonal Destruction II Box Set CD [05393/DTA017] DTA $24.50 # Various Artists - Tracks For Horses CD [MELO020CD] Melodic $ 9.00 # Various Artists - Volt AA 2CD [04/05417ORALCD] Oral $18.75 # Various Artists - Zen 2CD [NJT85C] Ninja Tune $14.75 # Various Artists - Zen Remixes 2CD [NJT85R] Ninja Tune $14.75 # Various Artists - Zen TV DVD [NJT85D] Ninja Tune $16.50 # Vert - Small Pieces Loosely Joined CD [SONIG030CD] Sonig $15.00 # Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Guitar Music of Villa-Lobos CD [MUTABLE17513] Mutablemusic $12.25 # Vocokesh - The Tenth Corner CD [SAAH019CD] Strange Attrac $12.25 # Wackies - Creation Dub CD [WACK041CD] Wackie's $17.00 # Wall, Greg - Later Prophets CD [TZ7186] Tzadik $14.25 # Weird War - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em CD [DC251CD] Drag City $12.75 # Weller, Paul - Under The Influence CD [UTI003CD] DMC $15.75 # Wemilere - Sacred Afro-Cuban Music CD [LONG490203] Long Distance $16.50 # Werqu, Asnaqetch - Ethiopiques Vol. 16 CD [BUDA82265] Buda Musique $15.75 # Wharton, Donato - Trabanten CD [CCO017CD] City Centre Of $16.50 # Why Sheep - The Myth and I CD [3E013CD] Third Ear $17.00 # Williams, David E. - Hope Springs A Turtle CD [05466/OECD063] Old Europa Caf $16.50 # Wire, The - #239 January 2003 Magazine [WIRE239] The Wire $ 6.75 # Wire, The - #240 February 2004 Magazing [WIRE240] The Wire $ 6.75 # Wire, The - #241 March 2004 Magazine [WIRE241] The Wire $ 6.75 # Wirkus, Paul - Inteletto d'Amore CD [QUECK004CD] Quecksilber $13.75 # Wolff, Christian - (Re):Making Music 2CD [MODE133CD] Mode $20.50 # Wonderwall - Wonderwall (Collector's edition) DVD [337906] Rhino $89.50 # Xela - Tangled Wool CD [CCO018CD] City Centre Of $16.50 # Yannick Dauby & Christophe Havard - Yannick Dauby & Christophe Havard CD [and/kive1] And/OAR $11.00 # Yorkston, James - Someplace Simple CDEP [DOMUS024CD] Domino $ 7.50 # Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, Otomo - Tails Out CD [DIW946] DIW $19.50 # Zappa, Frank - Baby Snakes DVD [336706] Eagle Eye $19.00 # Zappa, Frank - Zappa In The Box CD Box [330054] Video Arts $425.00 # Zazou, Hector - Strong Currents CD [301764] Materiali Sono $24.50 # Zillatron - Lord of the Harvest CD [INN14] Innerhythmic $13.50 # Zoffy - Thou Shall Not Mess With Zoffy! CD [AMT011CD] Acid Mothers T $18.00 # CATALOG DELETIONS 310 - Nothing To See Here [04007/DESCD01] Desolate Records $12.00 Abba - Gold + More Gold + DVD [330984] Abba $36.50 Adam & the Ants - Antbox [314084] ? $42.50 Amon Duul - Play Phallus Dei [333256] Repertoire $21.75 Beefcake - Hote [04686/BE4] M-tronic $13.00 Birge Gorge Shiroc - Defense De [MIO026/7] MIO Records $27.50 Capitol K - Island Row [ZIQ018CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Capitol K - Roadeater [ZIQ011CD] Planet Mu $8.00 Capitol K - Sounds Of An Empire [ZIQ008CD] Planet Mu $16.25 Chartier, Richard - Archival 1991 [CROU024CD] Crouton $15.00 Coil - Live in NYC August 18, 2001 VHS+CD [04881] Mute Elation $16.50 Coil vs. ELPH - Worship the Glitch [ESKATON006] World Serpent $18.00 Cure - Greatest Hits + Bonus CD + DVD [330954] The Cure $36.50 Cure, The - Greatest Hits [129223] Elektra $17.50 Current 93 - All Dolled Up Like Christ [DURTRO00] World Serpent $15.50 Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind [Durtro11] World Serpent $17.75 Decal - 404 Not Found [ZIQ048] Planet Mu $14.75 Decal - Moylough Remix [ZIQ046] Planet Mu $7.00 Dykehouse - Dynamic Obsolescence [ZIQ040CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Earthmonkey - Audiosapien [MT038CD] Beta Lactam Ring $13.25 Electric Company - Slow Food [ZIQ039CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace [TMU119CD] Troubleman $11.50 Gcttcatt - AmpErase [MEGO021] Mego $1.43 Gescom - ISS SA [SKA020CD] Skam $7.75 Godflesh - Messiah +1 [203634] Relapse Japan $23.75 Godflesh - Messiah [104924] Relapse $16.25 Hafler Trio, The - The Moment When We Blow the Flour from our Tongues [05096/crou016] Crouton Music $15.25 Hellfish & Producer - Constant Mutation [ZIQ023CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Hellfish - Meat Machine Broadcast System [ZIQ041CD] Planet Mu $15.75 I-F - F*cking Consumer [DB69] Disko B $15.50 I-F - Fucking Consumer [DB69CD] Disko B $16.50 Jeck, Philip - 7 [TO57] Touch $12.25 John Duncan/Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Stun Shelter [NIFO-01] Allquestions $34.50 Joyce, James - The Complete Recordings [SR060CD] Sub Rosa $21.50 Kettel - Tadley Management [ZIQ043] Planet Mu $7.00 Kid 606 - Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You [IPC46] Ipecac $14.50 Kid Spatula - Full Sunken Breaks [ZIQ010CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Kites - Royal Paint With Metallic Gardener from the United States... [LOAD053] Load $11.50 Leafcutter John - Microcontact [ZIQ022CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Lexaunculpt - Blurring of Trees [PMU69] Planet Mu $14.25 Lost in Translation - Special Edition [EMN7069CD] Emperor Norton $20.50 May, Derrick - The Innovator [TMTCD4] Transmat $16.25 Moloko - Statues + DVD [962782] Echo $21.75 Monkees - Season 2 [336786] Rhino $69.50 Namlook, Pete/Wolfram Spyra - Virtual Vices III [PK08/161] Fax $13.00 Nautilis - Marufo [ZIQ045] Planet Mu $7.00 Nitsch, Hermann - Die Musik 6-Tage-Spiels [AKTION100] Hermann Nitsch Archiev $999.00 Nothing, Joseph - Dummy Variations [ZIQ027CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Nurse With Wound - Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains [UD025LP] United Dairies $42.50 Pet Shop Boys - Popart [335904] EMI $31.50 Phthalocyanine - 25 Tracks Fer 1 Track [ZIQ019CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Rother, Anthony - Live Is Life Is Love [PSI049CD] Psi49Net $15.25 Scanner & Stephen Vitiello - Scanner & Stephen Vitiello [AS07] Audiosphere $14.25 Schulze, Klaus - Irrlicht [SPA542921] Spalax $16.75 Shinjuku Thief - The Witch Trilogy [04375] Dorobo $47.00 Shpongle - Remixes [EFA25223] Twisted $0.00 Slag Boom Van Loon - So Soon Remixes [ZIQ007CD] Planet Mu $14.50 Spectre - Parts Unknown [QS 136 CD] Quatermass $13.75 Suede - Singles [329114] Sony $26.50 Swell Maps - ...in Jane From Occupied Europe [MAPS2CD] Mute $19.25 Swell Maps - Sweep the Desert [ALV41] Alive/Bomp! $13.00 Tetlow, Tim - Beauty Walks Like A Razor's Edge [ZIQ020CD] Planet Mu $15.75 Tetlow, Tim - Cyrenic/And God Created Manchester [ZIQ038] Planet Mu $6.50 Thievery Corp. - Mirror Conspiracy [ESL33] ESL $13.75 Throbbing Gristle - 24 Hours Of Throbbing Gristle [MUTE9197CD] Mute $191.50 Ultravox - Very Best Of Midge Ure & Ultravox [802592] ? $20.75 Ure, Midge & Ultravox - Very Best Of 2001 [810102] London $16.75 Various Artists - An Electro Tribute to Iron Maiden [AM012CD] Angelmaker $15.25 Various Artists - Bogdan Raczynski Presents 96 Drum 'n' Bass Classics [EFA080720] Rephlex $16.50 Various Artists - The Cosmic Forces Of Mu [ZIQ030CD] Planet Mu $14.50 Various Artists - Wig in a Box [OFR994] Off $15.00 Yello - Eye [328784] ? $27.75 Yo La Tengo - Today Is The Day [126324] Matador $6.00 Art of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Noise +2 [326560] Repertoire $18.25 Satie, Erik - Piano Music [MDG1067CD] MDG Scene $15.75 Throbbing Gristle - TG + 10 [MUTE9233CD] Mute $83.50 Godzilla - Ultimate Collection [LXV54290] Sony $34.75 Legendary Pink Dots - El Kaleidoscopo Terminal [04430] Soleilmoon $15.00 Calexico - Alone Or Again (Australian Tour EP) [528024] Spunk $14.50 Al Jabr - One Million and Three [ALPHACD5] Alphaphone $15.75 Namlook, Pete/Atom TM - Jet Chamber V [PK08/150] Fax $13.00 Cale, John - Sabotage/Live + Bonus EP [842652] ? $14.75 DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Ultimate Lessons Vol. 1 [221054] Starchild $20.50 Chemical Brothers - Singles 1993-2003 +2 [274894] Virgin $37.50 Lamb - Lamb +1 [847792] ? $22.50 Air - Eating, Sleeping, Waiting ... [ASW92299] Astralwerks $14.50 CATALOG PRICE INCREASES None! CATALOG PRICE DECREASES Various Artists - Feedback to the Future: A Compilation Of Eleven... CD [MOB003CD] Mobil $14.25 - From dave at ear-rational.com Wed Feb 4 13:30:03 2004 From: dave at ear-rational.com (Dave at EAR/Rational Music) Date: Wed Feb 4 13:30:08 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] special pricing on Manikin releases Message-ID: <025501c3eb5d$abbafc70$8201a8c0@HP23069251171> If we can get enough orders, we can offer special pricing of 10,25 Euro (currently $12.85) on each of these Manikin titles: Arcanum - Alaska Arcanum - Ancient Saga Fanger & Kersten - Interkosmos Fanger & Kersten - Splashdown Detlef Keller - Story of the clouds Detlef Keller - Masquerade Detlef Keller - Behind the tears Detlef Keller - The other face Keller & Sch?nw?lder - More Loops Keller & Sch?nw?lder - The two piece box Keller & Sch?nw?lder - Annazaal Tapes Keller & Sch?nw?lder - The reason why Part II Mario Sch?nw?lder - Solotrip Klaus Schulze - Inter*face Spyra - Homelistening is killing clubs and a special price of 108 Euro (currently $135.34) for Klaus Shulze - Contemporary Works 1 (10 CD set). If you want any of these, respond to this email rather than ordering on our site. For some of them, I suspect we won't get enough orders to get the special price, so I need to tally them all up. Thanks, Dave From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Feb 7 15:24:32 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Feb 7 15:24:41 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: <66D9B5BD-59BC-11D8-B90D-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> This week's update contains release by: ADLIB * AGF * Altered Images * Archimedes Badkar * AZUSA PLANE * Beck, Thavius * BJNilsen * Black Devil * Born Heller * Brother Ah & The Sounds Of Awareness * Camera Obscura * Charles, Xavier/Diane Labrosse/Kristoff K. Roll/Martin Tetreault * DAG ARE HAUGAN * Demnitz, David * Descloux, Lizzy Mercier * East New York Ensemble De Music, The * Ehlers/Suchy/Hautzinger * ES * Estribou, Gene/Jean-Paul Pickens * Faust/Dalek * Gamelan Son Of Lion, The * Garland And World Standard, Wechsel * Gelb, Howe * Green Milk From The Planet Orange * Holy Modal Rounders * Kirk, Roland * Liars * Loop Orchestra, The * Main * Mars * Matmos * Mingus, Charles * Mistakeman, The * Montgomery Express, The * Motion * Mueller, Jon/Bhob Rainey/Jim Schoenecker * Nurse With Wound * Organum/Z'ev * Phillips, Barre/Joelle L'andre/William Parker/Tetsu Saitoh * Recchion, Tom * Reid, Terry * SCHAEFER, JANEK * Soft Machine * Tangerine Dream * Team Doyobi * Toss * Was (Not Was) * WIO * Wobble, Jah * [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Black Devil - Disco Club 12" CD (Rephlex) [REPH146EP] $8.25 RELEASE DATE: 02-24-2004 "Originally released on Out Records way back in 1978, Black Devil's Disco Club is an extremely rare disco masterpiece, an epic journey into the deepest electronic disco ... The record was discovered by Rephlex's own PP Roy for 20 pence at a car boot sale, and quickly found favour with friends Richard D. James and Luke Vibert. The record has received heavy road testing from the Richard and Luke, and original copies are on the net for up to $300. The record is credited to by Joachim Sherylee and Junior Claristidge, pseudonyms of two writers, Bernard Fevre and Jackie Giordiano. It was made manually in a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris using synths and occasional tape loops and a drummer. No midi or computers. Incredibly it sounds contemporary and very fresh." Faust/Dalek - Derbe respect, alder CD (Staubgold) [STAUB050CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "Dalek are a three-piece hiphop-outfit from New Jersey. Will Brooks (a.k.a. MC Dalek) is responsible for lyrics, Alap Momin (a.k.a. The Octopus) is the producer and Hsi-Chang Linaka (a.k.a. Still) handles the turntables. Their open-mindedness towards musical influences was boundless from the beginning and so it is small wonder that they soon hit on German Krautrock survivors Faust as a source for interesting samples. Through a mutual acquaintance they sent a CD to Faust's Klangbad label. Co-founder Hans Joachim Irmler was so impressed with it that he decided to release a vinyl version of their album From The Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots on Klangbad. He also invited the band to record at the label's own studio. Once there, it turned out that the musical grounds both bands covered was identical in large parts. Dlek's noisy loops (in which they bury tiny melodies) and their penchant for volume have their counterparts in Faust's sound. Thus a collaboration seemed logical. What Dlek and many of their hiphop contemporaries express through words -- protest against and rejection of the social status quo -- is exactly what Faust have expressed trough music during the last 30+ years. Consequently, this album is nothing for the faint-hearted, its music is merciless, straight in your face, at times even brutal. At times it sounds like harsh Industrial or 'Illbient'. From this perspective Derbe respect, alder could be seen in a straight line with the remix idea of the last two Faust albums Freispiel and Patchwork 1971-2002." Mars - 78+ CD (Atavistic) [ATA048] $12.75 Crucial document of this seminal NYC band from the late 70s, considered by many in retrospect to be the most influential no wave band from the era. A quartet of Sumner Crane, China Burg, Mark Cunningham & Nancy Arlen, they recorded revolutionary EPs for Ze and Lust/Unlust, as well as contributing to the infamous No New York LP. Matmos - Rat Relocation Project CD (Locust) [LOCUST54] $13.25 "The dynamic hybrid electro-rock duo Matmos strike again hot on the heels of last year's celebrated Matador full length the Civil War with this zany, completely mesmerizing 2 track contribution to the Met Life series of field recordings and ingenious sound responses." Nurse With Wound - She and Me Fall Together in Free Death, Special Ed. CD (Beta-Lactam Ring) [MT040CD] $68.50 "A special CD edition of the LP released in May 2003. Each CD is packed in a hand sewn silk bag with silk screened art, original artwork and autograph on each by Steven Stapleton. The CD will contain the original tracks plus several bonus tracks exclusive to this release." Organum/Z'ev - Tinnitus Vu CD (Touch) [TONE19CD] $13.75 Z'EV writes: "Long long ago and far far away... holiday season 1999 & I was in London, & my dear friend Barbara took me to dinner at the house of her friend Olivia -- round the corner & down the block & Olivia had invited her friend David Jackman there also -- and so we met. Fast forward... it's July 2003 & I'm in London again & will be here for a while so I see if I can hook up w/ Mr. Jackman again. Thus begins a search for the man himself -- thanks here to Brainwashed & Robot Records for facilitating this flow of info -- so we meet one Sunday afternoon in the hottest summer London has ever seen at the Crown & Greyhound for a bit of a chat. The next day Mr. Jackman is going into the studio to record some source for a new series of compositions & invites me by. There am I bright & early (but certainly not bushytailed) at 11 am in the morn (just about the middle of the night for me actually). But anyway. During the some breaks in his process we retire to a most delightful garden behind the studio & chit & chat & get around to a major congruence -- ie, our hearing -- or, in fact, our various lacks of it to be precise and go onto getting into details regarding the intricacies of our varying degrees of tinnitus. That was the impetus behind David offering to give me a copy of the session to dirty my hands w/ -- as I did. Anyway -- one treatment led to another & David came by for dinner & I played him some early results & it seems he was enthused. He came by for dinner again & he heard the initial 4 treatments & so began the talks about this actually becoming a collaborative project that would release product." Reid, Terry - Silver White Light: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 CD (Water) [WATER108] $14.00 RELEASE DATE: 04-20-2004 "Coming out of the 1960's, singer/songwriter Terry Reid was on a roll. He'd toured with the Stones, been offered the spot of fronting Led Zeppelin and there was an Atlantic Records contract waiting for him (which become the legendary River CD in 1973). Captured live at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970, this previously unreleased live recording features Terry and his band including maverick David Lindley on lead guitar and original King Crimson drummer Michael Giles rocking through nine Terry Reid original classics (including a couple of songs from River). Fans of the Faces, Joe Cocker, Led Zep and Free will enjoy this 1970's British blues rock at its best." Tangerine Dream - Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2 CD Box (Castle) [685914] $53.50 First time on CD for these live recordings, Live At Nottingham Albert Hall, 8th November 1976, Live At Washington Lisner Auditorium, 4th April 1977, Live At Hamburg Audimax, 24th February 1978, Live At Newcastle City Hall, 25th October 1981, & Fassbinder Memorial Concert Frankfurt, 11th June 1983. Mastered by Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese. Packaged in a deluxe box. Tangerine Dream - Live In Aachen, Germany 2CD (Voiceprint) [676574] $24.00 Previously unreleased live recording limited to 10,000 copies worldwide & packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 12 tracks. Tangerine Dream - Live In Montreal, Canada 2CD (Voiceprint) [676594] $24.00 Previously unreleased live recording limited to 10,000 copies worldwide & packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Six tracks. Team Doyobi - Choose Your Own Adventure CD (Skam) [SKALD009CD] $13.75 "Updating a lost era when horror movies weren't 'ironic' and the directors knew how important the right synthetic soundtrack was. An era when 'progressive' was a word to cherish and musicians were sincere and serious in all their free-expressive ways. Team Doyobi have produced their long awaited second long player for Manchesters legendary Skam label. Choose Your Own Adventure is a modern conceptual album, a true journey from start to finish. As soon as the needle hits the record the listener it transferred into a world rooted within the fantasy and mythologies of a computerized new world. Where ancient psychedelic dreams mix with more futuristic ideals, immersing the listener between depths of serious modern electronic architectures. The fantasy landscapes accompanying the adventure in a 16 page full colour booklet, bridge the gaps beautifully between abstraction and science fiction illustration. As does the Audio bridge points between electronica, progressive rock, computer based experimentation, academia, funk and fun. Neither retrospective nor nostalgic C.Y.O.A becomes Inappropriate as a lifestyle accompaniment, this album exudes freedom for the individual to shake loose to and trip out into the future. Land your mind through the dust clouds of their world, and travel safely along the rollercoaster ride of the collective Doyobi imagination. But always remember to Choose Your Own Adventure." Various Artists - Scatter - The American Compilation CD (Ash International) [ASH35] $12.00 Artists: Kevin Drumm, John Hudak, Earth, Jim O'Rourke, Daniel Menche. 1997 release. [ . . . ] ADLIB - (untitled) CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3018] $10.50 "Adlib is another moniker from the young Kristian Petters, a.k.a. Novisad. He lives in Rostock, Germany and studies informatics. Petters combines perfectly the software computer culture with intensity. His music reflects so much emotion through electronic wires -- you start wondering why more electronica people don't succeed in the same way. Everything is done with a detailed precision which makes it difficult to relegate this to the background. Even if its 'ambient', it still turns your brain around and hits you." AGF - Language Is The Most CD (Quecksilber) [QUECK006CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-16-2004 "How code made its way into my music. As a singer and producer, I rely primarily on content, and that can get to be a real encumbrance. After many years of creating music, I feel that I'm being confronted over and over again with the fact that listeners -- and especially when it comes to Germans dealing with the German language -- have problems getting to the music. Content always comes first -- the message, the brain. In cutting the tracks for my album Head Slash Bauch (head slash gut), I wanted to free myself from this coercive pressure to have to say something understandable. On my way to becoming an independent producer, I geeked my way through the process of self-education in matters of hardware, software, user's manuals and all the other stuff that goes with it. And that's how the computer/laptop came to exert an extremely positive -- except for the chronic back pain -- influence on my working and lifestyle options, my communication and production possibilities, and makes possible more and more flexibility, speed and personal control. So that's how I discovered the poetry and beauty of this technically practical programming language. Since then I've been experimenting with this tension between technical coolness and rhythm and melody in connection with reality, feeling, vision. For the opening of the Ars Electronica Klangpark 2003, I presented a live performance featuring some of this work and my recent album Westernization Completed and integrated into it a composition especially based on the dictionary entry for 'code'." -- AGF AZUSA PLANE - The Highway's Jammed With Broken Heroes CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3024] $14.50 Gas-station attendants around the world will rejoice at news of this final missive from Jason DiEmilio (aka Azusa Plane), a cleverly titled reminder of one of the Boss's most visionary & epic lines. Featuring two long tracks of cable glitch, amplifier hum and microphone bumping, this CD has such comedic aspirations that even Neil Hamburger will probably have to sit up and take notice. Thank you, New Jersey. Beck, Thavius - Decomposition CD (Mush) [MH223CD] $15.00 "The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut burrow into the brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths, and head-swirling delay, and then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples." BJNilsen - Live at Konzerthaus, Wien 06_12_03 CD (Touch) [TOCDR5] $10.50 "Christian Fennesz has started curating a series of events at the Konzerthaus in Vienna as part of the 'generator' series of live performances held there each month. In early December he performed with Philip Jeck and BJNilsen (aka Hazard) as part of the Touch night, during which Jon Wozencroft also showed his films. All the concerts were recorded, and BJNilsen's becomes the 5th in the TO:CDR series." CD (wallet) -- factory manufactured. Born Heller - Born Heller CD (Locust) [LOCUST51] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 04-06-2004 Josephine Foster: (harp, mandolin, guitar); Jason Ajemian: (stand up bass). Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster (Children's Hour) & Jason Ajemian and one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicago's clandestine campfires and music dens." Brother Ah & The Sounds Of Awareness - Key To Nowhere CD (IKEF) [IKEF08CD] $13.25 "The third in Ikef's series of Brother Ah re-releases brings his privately issued LP Key To Nowhere back to center stage. Like our previous two titles, Sound Awareness and Move Ever Onward, Key To Nowhere continues the musical search through global rhythms, tight grooves and an absolutely brilliant rendition of the traditional 'Motherless Child' that has had DJs and Jazz Fanatics alike climbing the walls to obtain a copy of this gem." Camera Obscura - Underacheivers Please Try Harder CD (Merge) [134244] $13.75 Full Title - Underachievers Please Try Harder. Camera Obscura create lilting, sophisticated melodies that draw similarities to the work of contemporaries such as Belle & Sebastian, The Clientele or Trembling Blue Stars, but are also rooted in more classic sounds such as Nick Drake, Donovan or Petula Clark. Songs drift and linger like clouds in a summer sky, with gentle hooks and breezy vocals that stick in your head like a pleasant memory. Features 14 tracks including an Mpeg video of 'Teenager'. Digipak. Charles, Xavier/Diane Labrosse/Kristoff K. Roll/Martin Tetreault - Tout le Victo monde en place pour un set americain CD CD (Victo) [VICTO09] $14.00 "The most successful was the Saturday afternoon concert by Diane Labrosse (electronics), Martin Ttreault (turntables etc), Xavier Charles (clarinet and electronics) and French duo Kristoff K. Roll (household objects). The five were placed on a platform in the middle of the Colise, and the audience was free to walk around and observe the musicians at close range, which de-mystified the process. The improvisation was powerful and atmospheric, dominated by Labrosse's inventive use of samples taken from around her house. Tetreault was drolly inventive, while Charles and KK. Roll added splashes of colors." DAG ARE HAUGAN - 9 Solitaires LP (K-raa-k 3) [K3030] $10.25 "Dag Are Haugan is certainly for most people not the most common name. Being half of the legendary Norvegian outfit Alog made him one of the most original musicians of the last decade. You can call it guitar-glitch if you want... The result comes close to a beatless Gas, a more guitar-driven Novisad, etc... Pressed on vinyl-only, with artwork from Rune Gramofone's Kim Hiortioi, this album will make you reconsider electronica (aka the 'glitch/microsound-movement'), while the guitar world will be surprised to see how both, old and new traditions can be melted into one brilliant artwork. The music is very introspective creating different state of minds." Demnitz, David - Gamelan as a Second Language CD (Gamelan Son of Lion) [GSOL002CD] $14.00 No description available at this time. Ehlers/Suchy/Hautzinger - Soundchambers CD (Staubgold) [STAUB049CD] $13.75 "Well-known improvisers Ekkehard Ehlers (laptop), Joseph Suchy (guitar) and Franz Hautzinger (trumpet) team up for a supertrio of broken pop ambient. While on the one hand providing a state-of-the-art sound aesthetic, Soundchambers will on the other hand also appeal to friends of the music that Brian Eno and trumpeter Jon Hassell created in the mid-70s. The concept: 'Sound Chambers' is an architectural, graphical and musical installation that provides a site specific intervention in the park of Museu Serralves in Porto. By referring to a geometrical configuration of hedges it develops a new structure that expands, diverts and bifurcates existing conditions of the park. It creates a configuration between interior and exterior spaces and provides sound chambers that perform a specifically developed music. Architecture, graphics and music refer to the same notation of an existing piece of park (Roseiral): 77 elements of different geometries reconfigured in a new composition." ES - Flick CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3019] $14.50 "Second release in the guitar improv series (the first was Shifts). This Finnish guy is pretty young, but has a distinctive feel towards his guitar play. Excerpts from his talents can be found on the Kila 7"s, but here he is operating alone on his self-built guitar and other 'soundlabs'. Its dark and quiet with lots of floating, hissing and inspired constructions. Every now and then a melody pops up which brings together the harmony between improv and a 'listenable' experience. Difficult to point out references, but try mixing labels like Mike Droner and Corpus Hermeticum -- or even Kranky -- into one melting pot, and you'll come close. As for guitar technique -- he's got his own way of 'sweeping' the strings. You'll get the same feeling as Richard Youngs' or even Alastair Galbraith's records. Es quickly becomes something very personal and introspective in each individual life he touches." Estribou, Gene/Jean-Paul Pickens - Intensifications CD (Locust) [LOCUST52] $13.25 "Cut in the mid-1960s, Intensifications is an obscure and illuminating slice of Marin county raga folk, a taste of latter day deltadelica that's a must for fans of the acid folk sound old and new. Together, Estribou and Pickens each cut a side of brilliant, meandering unaccompanied instrumentals: Estribou on acoustic guitar and Pickens on banjo. Originally released on Henry Jacobs' MEA label." Gamelan Son Of Lion, The - Bending The Gending CD (Gamelan Son of Lion) [GSOL003CD] $14.00 Gamelan Son Of Lion, The - New Gamelan/New York CD (Gamelan Son of Lion) [GSOL001CD] $14.00 No description available at this time. Garland And World Standard, Wechsel - The Isle CD (Staubgold) [STAUB051CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-30-2004 "After two internationally acclaimed Wechsel Garland albums (Wechsel Garland/Morrmusic 2000, and Liberation von History/Karaoke Kalk 2002) and their precursor Wunder (also on Karaoke Kalk), Jrg Follert does no longer need an introduction, at least not in circles of electronic music aficionados. On The Isle (which has already seen an exclusive release in Japan in 2003 and is now made available world-wide through Staubgold) Follert teamed up with Japanese artist Sohichiro Suzuki/World Standard, who, despite having created a body of work that stretches out over 20 years, is not very widely known in Europe. Suzuki released many of his albums through Haruomi Hosono's (Yellow Magic Orchestra) Daisyworld label. Thematically, his work is located on the fringes of European, American and Far Eastern 'exotic music'. Delicately plucked acoustic guitars are broken up into fragments and re-assembled, strings snuggle against the cosy sounds of melodica and toy piano, while sparsely used elements of percussion are reluctant to pick up the pulse, since they do not want to irritate the fragile arrangements, which are constantly petering out into the off. In a loose, but harmonic sequence, the 15 tracks of The Isle create a mood music, which is calm and still like a summer house by the edge of the sea. Its music chirps like the steppe in Tuscany during May. This album needs no formula to function." Gelb, Howe - Ogle Some Piano CD (Ow Om) [OWOM07] $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 "Second in a series of 'piano' records from Howe Gelb on the Ow Om label." Green Milk From The Planet Orange - He's Crying, Look CD (Beta-Lactam Ring) [MT046CD] $13.25 "Their music, while loosely played, is steady and deliberate and its Eastern flavouring early on reminds a lot of Erkin Koray's best moments as well as churning up a little subdued Can of butter (circa Damo, where the bass plays a forward melodic role with whispered vocals, ala 'Mother Sky'). The album curdles, in places, to White Heaven-like outbursts and ferments into a couple extended excursions toward the great space udder." Liars - There's Always Room on the Broom CDS (Mute) [MUTE9238CD] $6.75 "First single from Liars' forthcoming sophomore album. It's a record from a band in transition, severing their ties with the scene they kinda inaugurated and have now, decidedly, outgrown." Loop Orchestra, The - Not Overtly Orchestral CD (Quecksilber) [QUECK005CD] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 02-24-2004 "The third album by the legendary Australian Loop Orchestra in their more than 20 years of existence. All compositions are rendered with tape loops on reel-to-reel tape machines only. The genesis of The Loop Orchestra occurred in the ashes of a simple two-tape-machine-no-man-band, The Nobodies, which died in a fire in 1980. From those ashes, and with a pastiche taken from the likes of Terse Tapes, home of seminal Australian Industrial outfit Severed Heads, an ashen poultice was formed to take up further and more involved household heretical experimentation, this time with reel-to-reel tape machines. This idea was subsequently expanded upon in the studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm amid a group of experimental radio programmers. Two, John Blades and Richard Fielding, were using the studio equipment as an instrument, experimenting with tape machines through processes involving cutting, dissecting, rearranging and rejoining prerecorded tape, creating tape loops and playing them back. They felt a need to formalize their studio experimentation and so conceived the idea of creating a full blown machine orchestra. The intention of the Orchestra was for groups of instruments of an orthodox orchestra to be represented by reel-to-reel tape machines playing loops of the instruments' sounds." Main - Tau CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3031] $12.75 "Main is back in grand form... After finalising his Firmanent CD's it's been a bit quiet around Robert Hampson. Although very busy with other projects as Comae (with Janek Schaefer), Chasm (Fatcat), his Main output has been a bit low. Tau shows the first full album in years from a talent whom showed us the way to turn guitars into ambient. His unique way of concrete sounds and manipulating these into something of his own has always been his identity. Tau is no more or less a classic mover for quiet, threatening soundscapes with lots of attention for details. Details who are there to demand your attention. There is no way you can put this on as background music. The layers of overtones and quiet climaxes are very demanding for ears and brains." Mistakeman, The - Rong Is Wright CD (Erkrankung durch Musique) [EDM1013CD] $16.50 "Generation Aldi founder Blent Kullukcu is The Mistakeman: Crazy electronic Sleaze-Rock for both Twin Peaks watchers and people who enjoy driving 100 mls/h on German highways at night listening to Intelligent Death Metal. Featuring Catriona Shaw, chanteuse for Queen of Japan, Electronicat and enfants terribles duo Club le Bomb. This ain't the future of Rockn Roll -- this is the present progressive of Techno. In the spring of 2002, The Mistakeman began to fester in a Munich apartment. Without fresh air or natural light, the young man developed his uniquely mutant strain of rock'n'roll aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night TV. While the jackhammer rhythms of Techno were proliferating, The Mistakeman dove into the deepest recesses of the rock'n'roll psyche for the most primal of all rhythmic impulses -- feedback -- the sound of modern culture falling apart in a blaze of shudders and hiccups. As late night sci-fi reruns colored the room, The Mistakemen also picked and chose amongst the psychotic debris of previous eras -- instrumental rock, movie soundtracks, psychedelia, and death metal. And then he added the junkiest element of all -- himself." Motion - Every Action CD (12K) [12K027] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-02-2004 "The 3rd full-length release from the UK's Motion (Chris Coode). The work on Every Action spans from 1999-2004, some of the material created around the time Pictures was produced, sharing that release's more obvious tonal and melodic content." Mueller, Jon/Bhob Rainey/Jim Schoenecker - CD (Crouton) [CROU023CD] $11.75 "Recorded in a 110 degree room after a nearly sleepless 17 hour drive." Phillips, Barre/Joelle L'andre/William Parker/Tetsu Saitoh - After You Gone CD (Victo) [VICTO091] $14.00 "If you think about where the players of this quartet paying tribute to Kowald are coming from, you'll get a glimpse of the network he helped to establish and was involved with: William Parker from Afro-American Free Jazz, Joelle Landre from European Classical and New Music, Barre Phillips an American in Europe, experienced in the aesthetics of both these worlds, Tetsu Saitoh from Japanese Traditional Music, tango ensembles and, most importantly, Free Improvisation. It was Peter's belief already in the late seventies, when he started the trio with Leo Smith and Gnter Sommer, that musicians coming from different cultural traditions could find a common base of communication via the language of free improvisation. His concept of a Global Village, which differs fundamentally from any kind of world music, was developed from this belief." Rammelzee - The Bi-Conicals Of The Rammelzee [GOMMA044CD] Gomma $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 03/16/2004 "The Rammelzee is a NYC Icon. Known as one of the originators of Graffiti, underground art, street culture and Electro/ Hip Hop (his 'Beat Bop' single with Jean Michel Basquiat and K Rob is one of the most important original rap tracks ever reissued this year on MoWax and Soul Jazz). He was featured in all important Hip Hop films of the 80ies (Wildstyle...) and worked with people like Fab 5 Freddie, Michael Holman, Futura 2000, Phase 2 and was (with his partner Basquiat) one of the first graffiti artists accepted by the international art world. Over the last few years he got quite a heavy reputation -- especially in Japan and in the US street art scene -- for developing his own special universe (Gothic Futurism). It consists of big human size fantasy muppets (walk-ins), the Letterracers(figurative skateboards) and also the original collage paintings he had invented back in the late seventies. After the 2003 No Wave/ Punkfunk/ NYC -- revival (ESG, Radio 4, Liars, Ze, Hell, Rapture etc) -- wich Gomma preceeded with it's 2000 Anti NY compilation -- the Rammellzee's album could be a next level. A futuristic development of the original No Wave and Proto electronic attitude and the angry, superenergetic NYC rawness versus an international new school of clubrock producers... We feel it fits perfect into 2004. The Rammellzee was looking for some fresh musicians who could help him to record an soundtrack for his Gothic futurism universe. He met the Munich based Munk guys in 99 when they licensed a track from him for Anti NY and were introduced by common friend Stuart Argabright (aka the Dominatrix aka Death Comet Crew). Together they decided to realize this project on Gomma including fresh producers from different parts of the world. The eleven tracks have been made in 2002 and 2003 in NYC, Munich, Tokyo, San Francisco and Berlin. Rammellzee took them as a basis for his speachees. It's Gothic Futurism. He has a lot to say. "Rammelzee was there and he threw me by saying: Entertain me! Show me why you're great! And I froze up. He had long, long eyelashes..." -- Andi Warhol in The Andy Warhol diaries. The Rammelzee has been doing lots of new stuff recently including styling NYC's Supreme skate/ fashion company's shops worldwide in 2003, doing new exibitions and performing several concerts in Japan with (Japan's Nr. 1 Hip Hop) DJ Kensei and NYC's Death Comet Crew. Japanese leading mag Relex and UK's Dazed & Confused recently came out with some big cover storys about him." SCHAEFER, JANEK - Out CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3017] $14.50 "Janek Schaefer is an architect. This might explain his vision on his music.??A good building closes up into your memory without you even noticing it. The same goes for Schaefer's soundsculptures. Clearly structured soundloops baffling their way into perception. You can use his music in art-galleries, train-stations, living-rooms: anywhere really. Each time/place conducts his work to a different perception. Even a high volume or low volume defines another way in the listening experience which unfolds upon your ears. Janek Schaefer is one of the leading persons in the Turntable Terrorist wave nowadays. He only works with one sound-source, namely The Triphonic turntable, which he invented. The manipulations that he causes, create a spectacular result: sounds coincide, clash together and fade away. This CD collects two live concerts: one during the Fat Cat evening in Zaal Belgi??, Hasselt and one performance recorded during a session in a nuclear bunker in Scotland. But Schaefer doesn't see those two long pieces as just two live pieces -- they are his two best performances and he cares about them. And it is the only recording that he wants to release to represent his public work. So this CD doesn't belongs at all in the compartment of cheap live recordings pushed by the fucking music industry. The two sound-spheres are at the razor's edge, and very enjoyable to listen to." Sixtoo - Almost A Dot On The Map: The Psyche Years (1996-2002) CD (Vertical Form) [VFORM032] $15.75 "It can't have been easy for Vaughn Robert Squire aka Sixtoo -- the still youthful, 6 ft 2 inch rhymester from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's hard to imagine a place more divorced from the hip-hop motherload (whose seams he's been mining since a callow teen) than Canada's wave-tossed, fog-bound east coast. Then again, perhaps that same geographical seclusion gives a creative mind room to breathe. And Squire's mind, if nothing else, is as creative as hell. Fresh from the triumph that was last year's praise-hoovering Antagonist Survival Kit album, it's a perfect time for Sixtoo to take stock -- and The Psyche Years does just that. An enlightening 21-track trawl through his back pages, from cassette-only juvenilia to the above-mentioned fledgling years through tenderfoot outings on tiny local labels like Ant to Toronto's Hand'Solo and on to blessed Anticon endorsement and thus the full twisted maturity that is the contemporary Sixtoo phenomenon. This is one man's crazed arc -- a wild learning curve that acts like a barometer of hip-hop's leftfield cutting edge since the late mid-90s, right up to the present day." Toss - Titles of the Greatness of Been CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3033] $12.75 "Floating of directly direction improvisation this record have almost no overdubs. Coming close to the abortion of sounds genuinely overlooked by contemporary artist, they succeed to use 'noise' as a base to build quite direct tracks. At times very soft and gently showing of a romantic side of things, followed by a psychiatric attempt to slaughter all neighbours. The general feel after listening to the album is gasping for breath. It took them 4 years to do this album of top guitarimprovisation setting comfortably in the shelfs between Ashtray Navigations, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Corpus Hermeticum, 20 city or even the more loopy based projects of Philippe Jeck and Es." Various Artists - Famous When Dead III CD (Playhouse) [PLAY09CD] $16.50 "Playhouse is regarded as one of Germany's most important house labels, partly also because it's always on the lookout for ways of integrating new sounds and structures from the aspect of danceability. Ways of being innovative. And thus Playhouse's catalogue of harmonic colours is constantly expanding, becoming bigger and more vibrant, between black and white." WIO - (untitled) CD (K-raa-k 3) [K3022] $14.50 "Musicians often forget to focus on direct approach to the listener. This is exactly where Wio specializes in: he's got something to say. Each song tells another story, like a fairytale from Grimm. Sometimes lovely, sometimes threatening. Wio doesn't waste time. His music is pretty straight, and his target is visible for everyone. Just listen closely to his voice: whispering, and still clear for everybody. His gentle guitartouch resulting in songs so beautiful you wonder why he isn't in the same league as Nick Drake, Flying Saucer Attack, (early) Smog or Alastair Galbraith. His second album simply proves what everyone expected from him... Sure it isn't all songwriting but somehow he tries, in his own way, to fill the gap between experiment, pop and pure lovesongs. His first album was a real lo-fi gem, this one is really 'hifi' and his first proper album (since his previous one was a kind of collection of tapes, radiosessions etc.).". Wobble, Jah - Elevator Music Volume 1A CD (30 Hz) [30HZCD022] $14.00 "I do still have hobbies, one of them is making music. Elevator Music, to be more specific. I recommend that you listen to this music in this fashion; Simulate the conditions of a typical elevator... invite friends around to your house/room, pretend that you don't know each other. Stand, silently, in close proximity to each other. Try, in a rather self conscious fashion, to avoid eye contact. Attempt to get everybody to cultivate 'coffee breath.' If like me you don't have friends use mannequins, and spray them with home made coffee breath essence. Listen to the music at a level that is always slightly too low. The whole experience should be; uncomfortable, disconcerting, mildly irritating, vacuous, and devoid of meaning. Enjoy." -- Jah Wobble. [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Altered Images - Destiny: The Hits CD (Epic) [527184] $20.50 Compilation for the Scottish new wavers features 18 tracks including their best known numbers, 'Happy Birthday', 'I Could Be Happy' (Album Version, Martin Rushent Remix), 'Dead Pop Stars', 'Insects', 'See Those Eyes' (7 Inch Version), 'Pinky Blue', & many more. Slipcase. Archimedes Badkar - Tre CD (MNW) [MNW078CD] $16.50 "Archimedes Badkar ('Archimedes Bathtub') was a Swedish group formed by percussionist/pianist/composer Per Tjernberg that existed between 1972 -1980, recording four LPs (including a 2 LP set) that has since achieved cult status in several camps. The late Don Cherry, who some claim actually invented the term 'World Music', was residing in Sweden at the time and was a very important influence on Archimedes Badkar. Tre is, as its title implies, Archimedes Badkar's third album, extended for this first-ever CD-release with five bonus tracks from the second album and 'Bado Kidogo' (a collaboration with members from Tanzanian pop band Afro 70 with whom the group toured as a big band in the summer of 1978)." 'Archimedes Badkar will always remind me of easy times, the joy of discovering something new and making it sound easy to do'. -- from Jim O'Rourke's liner notes. Descloux, Lizzy Mercier - Mambo Nassau 80/82 The Grigri Years CD (ZE) [ZE004CD] $15.00 "The idea was to make a record malaxating African roots music, french buzz vocals, albatross swing and some bizarre soundtracks. The record was made in Nassau, Bahamas at Compass point, Island Records studios under kindness support of Chris Blackwell. Walli Badarou who worked there as a house musician with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, joined Lizzy's band. Steve Stanley a young engineer from Jamaica who was also working on Grace Jones's album, produced the sound, he later also produced Tom Tom Club, Third World and lots of Island records. Mambo Nassau was all instinctive pulsations, improvized energy. Each song is an attempt to mix the urban vibes of city like New York, raw tempo and acrobatic drum beats, african harmonies, hirsute guitars, heavy pulse of bass lines, anachronistic chants, derisive laughter, a blissfull ignorance of the rules of good taste. Music to snatch and glean with a big black sun in the middle of it. World music was not in the cards, it was a step by step adventure, everyday was a surprise, an uncompromizing ride, a motherfucking hot stew and they had the ocean to get lost." Descloux, Lizzy Mercier - Press Color CD (ZE) [ZE003CD] $15.00 "Originally from Paris, in 1978 Lizzy Mercier Descloux moved permanently to NY and took a huge empty loft in Soho with friends Michel Esteban & Patti Smith... They used it as a workshop to play guitar, silkscreen materials, drawing and photo studio... In the meantime Lizzy started with DJ Banes a pretty obscure and nervous combo called Rosa Yemen. American dreams seen through a cubist lense... Sparse lyrics, heavy french accent, broken down guitar riffs, autodidact tension with an attitude of insouciance, lightness of the day, derision, soultrainmachine. Let's gamble and gamble!! This record is fresh weed... pure wit , youth and tease... This was also the time of the Paradise Garage when Disco was still underground. And the crazed cover of Arthur Brown?s Fire remixed by disco Pope Savarese was a vibrant sign of this strange cross-over Disco Inferno / No wave-Funk that was happening in the city." East New York Ensemble De Music, The - At the Helm CD (IKEF) [IKEF07CD] $13.25 "This rare 1974 disc, originally issued on Folkways, is back in print for the first time in nearly 30 years and what a gem it is! At The Helm is a gorgeously careening collection of indo-jazz that draws heavily on the near and far eastern sounds of Turkey, Korea, North Africa, India and China and threads them into a distinctively forceful Black Jazz idiom." Holy Modal Rounders - Bird Song: Live 1971 CD (Water) [WATER130] $14.00 "Calling the Holy Modal Rounders 'legendary' is an understatement. Stampel, Weber and company were the original 'acid folk rock' band. This 1971 previously unreleased live radio broadcast, captures these wild and wacky visionaries at their peak." Kirk, Roland - Here Comes the Whistleman CD (Water) [WATER128] $14.00 RELEASE DATE: 03-16-2004 "This album showcases Rahsaan Roland Kirk in 1967 with a fine band, live in front of a roomful of invited guests at Atlantic Studios in New York. This is the hard, jump blues and deep R&B Roland Kirk band." Mingus, Charles - Tonight At Noon CD (Water) [WATER129] $14.00 "Mingus and his steady backing crew (the same musicians that supported him on the eminent The Clown and Oh Yeah respectively) chart some rarely explored stylistic territory. The later date features the more refined, and characteristic, songs of the bunch; the 1957 session races around Eurocentric rhythms for a feeling of rushed exuberance. It's hardcore jazz at its most celebratory, with master Mingus up front leading the charge." Montgomery Express, The - Does 'Party Fever' & other songs of the Montgomery Movement CD (IKEF) [IKEF06CD] $13.25 "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried homegrown funk classic that always pulls in triple bills when original copies pop up on the fanatical circuit of DJs, vinyl freaks and wayward souls looking for the perfect groove. This is all for a damned good reason. This 1973/74 album was cut by a group formed almost overnight in an obscure pocket of Florida called Indiantown.Party Fever is a record of smooth but lackadaisical funk, peppered with sweet soul, tight grooves, shuffle tunes and outright panty dropping music!." Recchion, Tom - I Love My Organ CD (Birdman) [BMR069CD] $13.75 "The bulk of the material on Tom Recchion's second album for Birdman was recorded just after the completion of Chaotica in the mid-'80s, and sounds like a natural continuation of that record (despite the absence of any Esquivel)." Soft Machine - Man In A Deaf Corner 2CD (Castle) [685904] $18.25 Subtitled - Anthology 1963-1970. 2004 compilation for the influential British psychedelic group. This two CD set contains early live recordings & rare demos. 26 tracks. Various Artists - Mutant Disco 2CD (ZE) [ZE002CD] $17.50 "ZE's original Mutant Disco compilation came after the label's first few years of quiet artistic defiance, steadily releasing records from the US and French underground resistance. By 1981, however, ZE's records had caught the imaginations of the hungry pop press and daring DJs; and there was no turning back." Was (Not Was) - (The Woodwork) Squeaks CD (ZE) [ZE006CD] $15.00 "It's not hard to understand why Michael Zilkha & Michel Esteban's ZE Records and the whole punk-funk, disco-not-disco thang of the early 80s has been rediscovered by a new generation looking for their own answers to music's eternal mind-body problem. ZE offered a seductive vision of the world where style collided with substance, where deconstruction made a reconciliation with melody and hooks, where groove embraced distortion, where punk's outcast geek was transformed by the fairy godmother of disco into a 'Halston, Gucci... Fiorucci' clad suavecito with a social conscience and a brain... Left to their own devices, Was (Not Was) were like The Bonzo Dog Band, the Merry Pranksters and Gang of Four on a New Orleans funeral parade led by Parliafunkadelicment. On their extended remixes, though, their music became more streamlined and honed down to a razor smoothness. The remix process and the dancefloor forced Fagenson and Weiss to focus on one idea rather than the 30 they had running around their heads. Their wild eclecticism was restrained as was their tartness. Where most remixes are created simply to get more bodies on to the dancefloor, the mixes collected on (The Woodwork) Squeaks actually shed light on the messages of the songs rather than merely their grooves. Of course, the goal of the best dance music is to get you to think with your entire body and that's exactly what Was (Not Was) succeeded in doing. After all, it's not merely the dtourned words of Ronald Reagan that let you know that 'Tell Me That I'm Dreaming' is not your ordinary hands-in-the-air disco stomper; it's the astringent guitar riff, the dub alienation, the comedic voices, the sibilant hi-hat that would soon become the hallmark of house music... This isn't the bedazzled groove of Timbaland or The Neptunes embracing money, glitz and technology with equal verve. This is dance music as a way of shaking off the heebie jeebies, shedding off the skin of the daytime daze, jolting you out of your nightmares, only for you to realize that you weren't imagining anything. Please, Tell me that I'm dreaming'." -- Peter Shapiro, London December 2003. Was (Not Was) - Out Come the Freaks CD ( ZE) [ZE005CD] $15.00 "Don Was (Donald Fagenson) & David Was (David Weiss) grew up in the musical and cultural thrall of Detroit, raised on the timeless soul of Motown artists as well as on such anarchic rockers as the MC5 and the Stooges. According to legend David and Don became friends when both were ratted on in an 8th grade gym class incident in suburban Detroit. Their debut album was released in June 1981 in the UK, Was (Not Was), was immediately recognized as a wildly unique confabulation of R & B, funk, rock and theater of the absurd. Referred to by one early published account as 'The Beat That Devoured Detroit, the funk-mutation experiment that wrecked the lab and boogied off into the night,' Was (Not Was) brought more than just a whacked-out-yet- utterly danceable sensibility to pop music. It also introduced the listening public to such striking musical voices as frontman Sweet Pea Atkinson, the former Detroit auto worker whose rich vocal qualities recall Otis Redding or Sam Cooke. To be continued..." From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Feb 15 15:03:14 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Feb 15 15:03:19 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Sorry for the late update! Don has graced our main page with a new Don's Corner highlighting releases from Rapoon, Miatreya, Christian Knudsen, and Birchville Cat Motel. (Miatreya and Knudsen are on Simon Lomax's excellent "Council of Nine" label, which we are glad to be carrying). Also, I'm proud to say that I've finally implemented the feature I had touted a few weeks back--the ability for us to enter prices in Pounds Sterling and Euro. For those releases we buy direct from Europe and the United Kingdom, we have listed prices in Euro and Pounds, rather than in U.S. dollars. What you will see on our page is the U.S. dollars price (converted from Euro or Pounds on the fly), along with the "native" price in parentheses. Please be aware that due to huge fluctuations in world markets, the price you see one day will probably not be the same price you see the next. However, once you place an order, you order will be "locked in" at the U.S. dollar price you see. Mat White of Xmission deserves a big thanks for the web scraping to perform live currency conversion, while yours truly hacked it into our pages. Right now the only items that take advantage of this feature are the Council of Nine discs, and em:t0003. Very soon all of the releases we get from Manikin Records will be listed in Euro as well. [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Air - Cherry Blossom Girl CDS (Astralwerks) [ASW47768] $6.75 One of the most popular tracks on their universally acclaimed new album Talkie Walkie, "Cherry Blossom Girl" is a classic downtempo Air song that has been remixed here by album co-producer Nigel Godrich. With beautiful eye-catching artwork, the package also includes a futuristic funk mix by fellow Astralwerks artists Simian and Air's original album demo version. The CD features an exclusive bonus track, a seductive, dreamy cover version by former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval. Ashtray Navigations - You Cannot tell Cigars by the Picture on the Box CD (Psi Phenomenon) [PPAsh-Cig] $15.00 Bedroom legends Ashtray Navigations once more shower the parched earth with canonised filth and cheap-tape degradation. Hooray! Enlightened hip-cats like you will already know that Phil Todd has been farming masterful piles of panoramic shite for near on a decade and now Ashtray Navigations returns in triumph to set a brand new benchmark in foggy-psychic-swuzz. To further sweeten this prospect, this is the first Ash Nav release to feature extensive contributions from a range of partners-in-grime. These curdling swathes of vaporous murk are out to win you over once and for all, slowly anaesthetizing your wits into a long, heavy slumber and undoubtedly leaving you with a bewildering headache upon your return to consciousness (accompanied a nagging feeling that you may have left the oven on). Breathe deep and sleep easy in the knowledge that whatever's at the end of this oily, black rainbow is better than gold. Birchville Cat Motel - Long Vanished Spirals CD (Psi Phenomenon) [PP-BCM-LVS] $15.00 LONG VANISHED SPIRALS... Anthology? Retrospective? i dunno... a collection of all the lathe cuts made by Birchville Cat Motel over the years, some in editions of 20! This represents a wide range of Birchvilles formative audio-experiments, from the guitar-toy, Chinese water torture of White Alpha Matte all the way throught to the gorgeous, slow-mo, 'bing-bongs' of the split with Neil Campbell. Beautiful and kinda fun. Budd, Roy - Vigilante!: Roy Budd Cult Film Soundtracks 1971-1977 CD (Discotheque) [DQF003CD] $17.00 "Collects together the best loved side of Budd -- the cool thriller scores that have become his trademark. Including several Michael Caine films (Get Carter, The Black Windmill, The Marseille Contract), blaxploitation star Richard Roundtree's cult favourite Diamonds, Charles Bronson's The Stone Killer and a handful of lesser known gems (Foxbat, The Intercine Project), this is Budd at his very best. For funky car chases, pin- sharp tension and classy loungecore, no one does it better." Compiled and annotated by '70s dance music aficionado and ex-Strut Records boss, Quinton Scott Chalk, Andrew - Fall In The Wake of a Flawless Landscape LP (Three Poplars) [THREE13] $20.00 "The first new solo release by Andrew Chalk since his Over The Edges LP from 1999 on Streamline. The material was recorded in 2003. For anyone interested in Mirror this off course is a must. Limited edition of 600 copies." Christian Hoy Knudsen - Hav CD (Council of Nine) [cofn002cd] $18.84 "First off, the imagery on this release is very calming beautiful renditions of water. The first track makes you feel submerged, but forget claustrophobia! A very sensual release, it sounds like velvet for the ears. Waves flow as synths hold bubbling notes when, suddenly, a whale of a low note flirts by then takes you on a ride. Large multi-tonal hits announce the song "Rod Dyphavsleire" then melts away into a low tide ballad. There are a variety of emotions on this disc centered around an idea I call "meditative energy." There are some beats on this recording but they are not intrusive. Put this on at night and your dreams will be enjoyable. This label does a good job of finding music in the vein of Global Communication or Biosphere, but adds its own twist. "(Don Poe) "I found the whole album utterly compelling from beginning to end. 'Hav' is a finely detailed work, rich with subtlety that will unfold over several listens. This is music to savor slowly, to fully appreciate it. Stunning and brilliant, one of my favourite releases of the year." - Sequences Magazine Delay, Vladislav - Demo(n)tracks CD (Huume) [HUUME001CD] $14.50 First release on Delay's new label, Huume. "The Finnish producer known to most as Vladislav Delay, has created some of the more individual and distinctive sounds in modern electronic music. He is one of the few who picked up on the influences of the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction school of submerged techno and really took it somewhere new, creating sprawling masses of sound that slowly develop in a way that's hard to predict or sometimes even take in. The more ambient aspects of his approach were revealed through releases on Chain Reaction and Sigma Editions Very popular experimental label Mille Plateaux got in on the party, and Vladislav Delay's reputation as a producer of intriguing, often moody soundscapes was cemented. Then, just when listeners thought they had got the hang of what Vladislav Delay releases were about, the first Luomo 12" came out, and it was a vocal house record. Some were baffled, others thrilled. His personality was still very much in evidence; the Luomo records are still filled with unpredictable bursts of sound, sudden reversals and structures collapsing and re-forming. As with the more ambient work, tracks shift structure almost imperceptibly so at the end of 7 minutes you're somewhere quite different from where you began. Now Vladislav Delay returns with Demo(n) tracks, the first album on his own label Huume. Trying to avoid the common pitfalls and looking for a challenge in music, on this new album Vladislav Delay steps away from the old-trusted dub influences and eternal long soundscapes and tries to see for himself what the next step is, in a need to find a progression in personal music. The album comes out from 2 weeks spent chasing demons in Berlin. A reason to make music. Even though the signature sound is still there, the traces of work-in-progress and the evolution of an artist is evident; new steps are being taken towards sound sculpting and acoustic recordings, playing and treating drums, using and creating songs like sketches or diary, and flirting with sometimes negative aspects like coldness and digitus so often profound of latein (electronic) music. While embracing the audio technology, much care is taken not to let that DSP take over or outgun much more important elements in there; the content itself, and what was meant to be expressed and explored or was just suggested. Without a need or intent to copy but to rather originate, Demo(n)tracks, a collage of 13 tracks mixed together, resembles influences more from urban life than from any genre of music, but all the same from not one but all genres of music and moulds it into a music of its own. Delay, intrigued by nature, is this time to capture something essential out of the whole and from the moment, and to represent and translate that which is unpolished and sincere to the listener. Demo(n)tracks is an approach to explore and experiment music." Denny, Martin - Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny CD (Rev-Ola) [973462] $19.25 Available again...one of the jewels in Rev-Ola's crown, a product of Denny & his producer Les Baxter, the two lynchpins of the original exotica/space age pop scene in the 1950s. 20 tracks including the original breakthrough hit 'Quiet Village'. Freeform - Wildcat CDEP (Skam) [SKA024CD] $7.25 "To record Wildcat Simon Pyke moved his studio 'The Freefarm' to a new venue on the south coast of England. Detached from the civilisation of London and positioned 15 bracing steps from the sea it was the perfect place to rediscover the joys of vocal gymnastics and beach-comb beats. Freeform strives for the perfect balance between hands on improvisation and good old traditional song melting. It's amazing what a lung full of fresh air and eye full of sunshine can do for the imagination. Get prepared for another excursion into junk funk utopia." Kneale.Kneale.Kneale - The Silver Chair CD (Psi Phenomenon) [PP-KKK-SC] $15.00 A stunning collection of Sunday morning sleep-in destroying, home-recorded gems from the younger staff members of the C/Psi/P empire . Features Caspar Kneale's legendary 'Feather Duster' lathe cut 7" (recorded at the age of 4), Winter Kneale's hobbling, square-wheeled, dance-music (also the efforts of a 4 year old), and a mind-melting live guitar, casiotone, bowed everything, blowout featuring a decrepit 30 year old guest. Genius? Bonkers? Or just too much ice cream? Kontakt der Juenglinge - Fruehruin CD Box (Die Stadt) [DS69] $23.25 "A box to hold all four parts of the series 1,0,-1,n plus a mini CD for the first time featuring studio material by Koener and Tietchens. Limited edition of 500 copies." Luomo - The Present Lover CD (Kinetic) [KTC54733] $13.50 The follow-up to 2000's Vocal City (Force Tracks), Luomo aka Finnish producer Vladislav Delay returns with new dimensions in upfront micro-house. A self-described outsider's perspective on the club scene, seamlessly blending pop, house, & R&B. Maitreya - From the Mothership CD (Council of Nine) [cofn001cd] $17.90 "Mysterious voices call to us, inviting us on a trip that this album will take us on. This is an optimistic ambient release using natural sounds, like rain and the wonderful sound of thunder. These sounds are sprinkled in among the clean use of keyboards. Some very mild dark tones can be found, but overall this is a fun CD to listen to after a loud concert ??? perfect for sore ears. Halfway through the album, birds chirp on the song Forest while the rain continues ??? a very wet album indeed! Although this is a beatless album and is in the ambient realm, the songs move, build and retain interest. "(Don Poe) "I've not heard such literally stellar recordings in some time... these percussion-free pieces are perfect soundtracks for deep space explorations, even if only through the constellations of your mind..." - AmbiEntrance Maitreya - Telluric Waves CD (Council of Nine) [cofn004cd] $19.79 "Fans of Biosphere take note! This is an excellent realization of ambient techno - downtempo beats over stark piano, waves flow over you to bring on the next melody. Passive clicks echo and delay are the staccato notes while tenuous sounds slip in your psyche. Not quite unsettling, but a nervous tension builds ??? like you are waiting for your lover to disembark from the plane after a long trip. Arpeggios rise and fall distantly while small bells tinkle in the wind, it sounds like it is snowing. Radio static and electrical storms introduce the next song, Altocumulus. This is a bright piece that hold your feelings on the edge of it???s finger, balancing you and not letting you fall. This is a cool, clear, clean album. Great Sunday morning tunes. Biosphere may use more beats in their tunes, but Maitreya come from a similar feeling. Also, these guys have some class ??? the packaging on the newer releases, the promotional materials and their website have a unified look ??? very professional in feel."(Don Poe)

With this, his long-awaited second album, Maitreya returns to explore more earthly terrain. From the percolating warmth of Sinter, to the bleak expanse of Lumen, discover the beautiful new sound of Maitreya. - Label

"...I can unreservedly write that Telluric Waves certainly is beautiful. . .each track is progressive from beginning to end, signaling an artist unwilling to dwell on long spaces of ambience just to fill a CD's length. It took three years for the second Maitreya album to appear and it shows. Telluric Waves is a finely detailed and impressively executed work of modern chilled textures; trippy, entrancing, and consistently interesting." Brian Bieniowski - Ambient Review

Meat Beat Manifesto - In Dub CD (Lakeshore) [RUN33783] $15.25 Meat Beat Manifesto - In Dub DVD (Lakeshore) [RUN33791] $15.75 TI-Cal - Coriolis CD (Council of Nine) [cofn003cd] $18.84 "Ti-Cal offers here beautiful dreamy and intense soundscapes. . .proving that the genre generate some very interesting artists indeed." - the milk factory

". . .what a stunning debut in the ambient genre this is - it won me over on the first listen. . .Put it in the CD player, lie back, and let the sound envelop you." wind and wire ( dene bebbington ) [ . . . ] Alif - Dakamerap CD (Out Here) [OH001CD] $16.50 "Hiphop has had its place in the senegalese music scene for well over 10 years now and it has evolved into an own blend of infectious music. Just like most rappers from Dakar/Senegal, Alif see themselves as the voice of their generation. They are like the title of the CD says the Dakamerap: the camera that documents everything happening in Dakar 24 h a day." Casino Versus Japan - Hitori + Kaiso 1998-2001 CD (Attack 9) [129744] $13.25 2004 compilation for the Milwaukee-based producer Erik Kowalski features 29 tracks of techno with baroque, haunting melodies & distorted trip-hop beats. Daedelus - Of Snowdonia CD (Plug Research) [PLG44] $13.50 Electronic experimentalist and celebrated underground DJ is back with his 2nd full length. Expanding on the introspective themes from his debut Invention, his palate now includes even more majestic melodies, musical song structures and visceral rhythms. It is the perfect melding of organic and analog orchestration from our next generation of composers, utilizing sampler, turntable and instrumentation (both traditional and non-). Deadbeat - Something Borrowed, Something Blue CD (Scape) [SCAPE021CD] $14.50 "Deadbeat returns to Scape with the sequel to 2002's Wild Life Documentaries, a chronicle of the nine months leading up to his marriage in June 2003, entitled Something Borrowed, Something Blue. Continuing to explore dub's far-reaching root system, this sequel sees Deadbeat push the boundaries of his frame of reference to further extremes at both ends of the spectrum. While the legacy of Kingston's dub proper and Berlin's techno hybrids are still audible, the album's crunchier moments adopt a more aggressive version of the dub recipe, with echos of perhaps Tackhead or African Head Charge bouncing around some far corner of the reverb tank. The cinematic format of Wild Life Documentaries is also taken to new heights here, with track boundaries becoming increasingly blurred, thoughts left to unfurl in slow motion, and sounds disappearing and reappearing like characters in an ever thickening plot...or perhaps forgotten and and frantically remembered entries on an ever-growing wedding reception 'To do' list. As one might expect from a document of such an intense time in a person's life, Something Borrowed, Something Blue is an emotional landscape of widely varying elevation. 'A Brief Explanation' begins the journey by introducing us to a new friend, a cricket, who perhaps was caught in the hard drive spindle at the completion of the last chapter. Like all good friends, he remains for the duration of the journey. 'Head Over Heels' provides the warmth and comfort of a crackling fireplace on a cold winter night, set to a jangling ukelele melody augmented with piano shards and a round, insistent kick. 'White Out' captures the raging blizzard just outside the door: icy chords and a militant dancehall stomp build to a climax before being shattered and reconfigured into triplicate techno shrapnel.'Requiem' provides an excellent reference for testing the bass response of even the most well-equipped sound system. Drums and bass are submerged to the furthest depths of the dub sea, with shimmering chords burbling to the surface throughout. 'Steady as a Rock' is perhaps the album's most deliberate nod to the Jamaican kings, with a roaring organ and fractured guitar line pulled along by a chugging engine of drums and bass. 'Fixed Elections' sees Deadbeat voice his political frustrations with a slippery Detroit synth line and a tear-jerking reggae chorus. 'A Joyful Noise Part 1' weaves digital-synth textures and heavily processed field recordings around a hopeful organ and rolling bassline. 'Part 2' sees the same sources deconstructed and reassembled to form a lullaby of static and melodic noise. On 'Quitting Time' Deadbeat bashes out a colossal kick-snare pattern on his bath tub in a mournful ode to the exhaustion we've all felt after a hard day's work. Our journey ends with 'Portable Memory (The Final Cut)', a cloud of digital debris that rises to a distorted crescendo before dissipating into the final sustained chord and the familiar chatter of our friend the cricket, bringing things, as is so often the case, full circle."?? Double, The - Palm Fronds CD (Catsup Plate) [CPR719CD] $12.00 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 "The Double that you hear on Palm Fronds is very different than what founding members David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod originally conceived. The band began as a guitar/drum math-rock-cum-outre-blues duo replete with intricate time signatures, multiple song sections, and an overall sense of angular complexity. But the production, drum machines, and general vibe have a wonderfully overmodulated digital crunch, plenty of echo, broken electronics and all sorts of whatsit thrown into the mix. Which is to say that all that songwriter stuff, when The Double finally let you hear it, owes a lot to a bunch of digital dub and experimental electronic types." Dustbreeders And Junko - Mommy Close the Door CD (Starlight Furniture) [STAR22] $13.75 "The three tracks on Mommy Close The Door were all recorded live in France in late 2002 by Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige, whose murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland's 1972 crime flick The Screaming Woman, in collaboration with Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, Michel Henritzi, who extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock'n'roll energies." Firewire - A Tribute To the Manzini CD (City Centre Offices) [BLOCK020CD] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 04-20-2004 Firewire are: Frederic Stader (aka DIN-ST, DJ MAXXIMUS): Machines; Carl Crack (ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, WHATEVER): Voice. Fountain, Judson - Completely In The Dark CD (Innova) [INNO200] $12.25 "First-ever Innova CD release of 'The Ed Wood, Jr.' of radio drama. Original radio dramas (1969-1974) produced, written and directed by Judson Fountain. Produced by Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon." Guided By Voices - Best Of + 1 CD (P-Vine) [518694] $28.50 Subtitled - Human Amusements At Hourly Rates. Japanese edition of 2003 compilation features 33 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'I Am Produced'. Gunter/Halliwell/Wastell - +minus (first meeting) CD (Trente Oiseaux) [TOC041] $15.75 "As the title implies, +minus [first meeting] is the result of the first meeting of G??nter with Graham Halliwell, and Mark Wastell." Humbert, Jacqueline - Chanteuse CD (Lovely Music) [LCD4001] $12.25 "Chanteuse is a collection of new or previously unreleased songs, many of which were written for me by a broad range of contemporary American composers. My performance style resides somewhere between musical speech and melodic interpretation in a lyrical, poetic approach to the articulation of words, capitalizing on their inherent sound shapes, vernacular and colloquial origins, and intricate vocal rhythms. (Really!) I am fortunate to have such a wonderful variety of works to present in this collection, all of which extend, reinterpret, and re-conceive what we think of as belonging to the musical genre, song. (JH). Since the early 1970s, Humbert has collaborated as performer, visual artist, and designer with leading innovative artists, filmmakers, choreographers and composers worldwide. Her approach to vocal performance has influenced many composers, and the works in Chanteuse represent a new and exciting extension and reinterpretation of the 'song' genre." Composers: Sam Ashley, David Rosenboom, Joan La Barbara, George Manupelli, Jacqueline Humbert, James Tenney, Larry Polansky, Alvin Lucier, Gustavo Matamoros, Katrina Krimsky, Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom. Hunt, Jerry - Phalba CD (Tzadik) [TZ7093] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "Composer and modern day shaman Jerry Hunt combined live electronics with esoteric spirituality in creating his own very unique ritualistic performances." Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned CD (Mute) [MUT9235] $14.75 Highly anticipated sophomore album from NYC's Liars. Its a document of their ongoing transition and their growth. They delve into darker, noisier territory, achieving artful chaos. The entire album has a witch theme. Locus Solus - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Three CD (Tzadik) [TZ5003] $14.25 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "Classic reunion of three downtown legends, Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos) and John Zorn (Naked City). Lucifer - Lucifer CD (Hallucinations) [HCD007] $10.25 Personnel: Joe Mattioli (vocals); Vincent "Butch" Biocca (Bass); Joe Gallo (Piano); Joe Bertola (Drums); Pete Skelton (Lead Guitar). "This underground rock group from Rochester, NY, cut this sole album of Grand Funk Railroad-inspired hard rock in 1970." Main - Mort Aux Vaches: Exosphere CD (Staalplaat) [MORTMAIN] $17.00 No description available at this time. Modul - Isol CD (Raster Music) [RASTER058] $15.25 "Donnacha Costello lives and works in Dublin. Beside his own label minimise he releases also on Mille Plateaux and Force Inc. At Raster-Noton he uses the pseudonym Modul. Isol keeps a deep inside structure. "?? Morricone, Ennio - Celebration Of Ennio Morricone's 75th Anniversary CD (WEA) [701094] $23.75 Asia exclusive compilation features 16 number one tracks from the Maestro's oeuvre. Slipcase. Olvis - Olvis CD (Resonant) [RES008CD] $13.25 "Burgeoning UK leftfield label Resonant debuts yet another artist -- and once again, Olvis is Icelandic: their fourth musician from those shores. Following the electronic forays of Borko and Sk/um. and more recently the much-lauded digital post-rock soundscapes of Stafrann Hakon, Olvis' music inhabits a more easily-defined territory, concentrating almost solely on warm, engaging guitar based instrumental pieces -- very accessible but without being generic or staid in any way. The first release of 25 year-old Orlygur Thor Orlygsson, this also features contributions from several leading lights on the vibrant Reykjavik music scene, but the album is essentially the work of one man: all written, recorded and played by Orlygur, with drums and synth added by his guests." Pere Ubu - One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams CD (Hearpen) [HR117CD] $11.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-02-2004 "If there is a narrative thread to the eclectic art/punk mosaic that constitutes Pere Ubu, it is the vocal musings of legendary front man David Thomas..." Perry, Lee - Upsetter 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle CD (Auralux) [LUXX004CD] $17.75 "Produced by Lee Perry and mixed by both King Tubby and Perry. Recorded in 1973, Blackboard Jungle was one of the first dub albums ever to be released and one of Perry's finest to date." Snap - Welcome To Tomorrow CD (SPV) [688344] $20.25 2004 reissue of the male/female dance duo's 1995 album features ten tracks including, 'Green Grass Grows (Earth Follows)', 'Rame (Beloved)', 'Dream On The Moon', 'Where Are The Boys, Where Are The Girls?' (made for an episode of Beverly Hills 90210), & 'It's Not Over' (made for the film Never Ending Story III). Snap - World Power CD (SPV) [688354] $20.25 2004 reissue of the male/female dance duo's 1993 album features 10 tracks including Snap's biggest hit, 'The Power' (Original Mix & Jungle Fever Mix), as well as 'Oops Up' (a remake/take off of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff 'Oops Upside Your Head'). SPV. Sniper Mode - Mikromix.One: The Electro Mix Session CD (Mikrolux) [MKX010CD] $17.00 No description available at this time. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse + 1 CD (Elektra) [339324] $30.75 Japanese edition of 2004 album features 13 tracks including 1 exclusive bonus track, 'La Spirale'. Strokes - Reptilia CDS (Rough Trade) [530354] $8.25 Taken from the 2003 album 'Room On Fire'. The title track is b/w one non-album track, 'Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men' featuring Regina Spektor. Superpitcher - Here Comes Love CD (Kompakt) [KOMP32] $15.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-30-2004 It's been 3 years since Aksel Schaufler a.k.a. Superpitcher dropped the legendary debut single Heroin/Tomorrow. 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 -- Francoise 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. Here Comes Love features previously unreleased tracks recorded over a continuous period of over 12 months. 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." Tietchens, Asmus - Spat-Europa CD (Die Stadt) [DS68] $20.00 "Part Three in the ongoing rerelease series of all early vinyl albums from 1980 - 1991, this is Tietchens second album for SKY Records recorded in 1981 documenting his search for his own style of 'pop music'. Tietchens, Asmus/David Lee Myers - 60:00 CD (Line) [LINE017] $12.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-02-2004 No description available at this time. Turin Brakes - Late Night Tales CD (Another Late Night) [ALN011CD] $18.25 experience." Artists: Nicolai Dungar, John Barry, Silver Jews, Les Barons feat. Henri Gaobi, Grant Green, G Love & Special Sauce, John Hammond, Chris Whitley, Dave Palmer, JJ Cale, Talk Talk, Al Di Meola?? feat. John McLaughlin, Smog, Gillian Welch, Jessica Lauren, Turin Brakes. Various Artists - Essential Brazilian Flavas CD (Outcaste) [CASTE36CD] $17.75 RELEASE: 03/30/2004 Various Artists - Modern Wild Dub: Dread Meets Disco Punk Rocker Downtown CD (Echo Beach) [EB045CD] $14.50 "Echo Beach proudly presents a brilliant and logical follow up to the Wild Dub compilation. Just 10 month after wild dub took over the?? dancefloor around the world -- modern wild dub will be a blastwave of your average dancefloor feeling. Now subtitled as Dread meets Disco Rocker Downtown, yes it's a shame that Alan Vega (Suicide) is not around , the tracklisting presents the top underground dancefloor avantgardists of today. A brilliant collection of freshed faced enthusiastic and wonderful early roots of white disco punk meets dreads around the world. Very dynamic cross cultural happening -- where remixers and producers forced into mutant disco dubs. From the DFA center in New York/Manhattan comes LCD Soundsystem. Around the corner -- from Brooklyn -- Radio 4 (produced by James Murphy & Tim Goldsworthy for The DFA) with a very 'londonish' style mix by On-U Sound mastermind Adrian Sherwood in co-operation with Pop Group's Mark Stewart. Stafford's (UK) most advanced party band and remixer project Chicken Lips contribute with 'boil in the bag'. G. Rizo from New York (born in Africa) is getting amazing reaction around the world and has been held as the perfect reincarnation of Grace Jones, any question !?? Colder And Playgroup coming along with some perfect stylish modern wild dub tracks. Playgroup with a remix of Berlin's finest moment in emancipate women disco punk -- Chicks On Speed. !!! with 'Me & Guiliani Walking Down the School Yard' is a really true story and straight out of New York -- they just signed to Warp in England. Contort Yourself is of course a remix/reconstruction of James White (one of the arliest and white disco punks ever) by Twitch inna Optimo remix. Kid Loco makes the needle sharp for the vinyl attack of The Ruts and their Babylon's Burning. A remake and reconstruction from Paris downtown. Vintage Punk Funk comes from Big Two Hundred and post Public Image Limited - style from Outhud in New York. Modern Wild Dub represents the best of punk disco trip dub that continues to extend discodub's natural roots into the cockpit of the 21st century Dubbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ! A very lovely sum up...check the dancefloor vibe! Liner Notes by Mark Stewart (Pop Group)." Von Biel, Michael - Jetzt Lieferbar! - Funf Kompositionen CD (Edition RZ) [RZ2002] $14.25 "Michael von Biel's musical production at the beginning of the 1960's was clearly marked by the expansion of the musical material. Quartet No. 1 (1962) and even more, Quartet No. 2 (1963) are noise compositions whose expressiveness rests essentially on the discovery of new sonic possibilities and performance techniques. " [ D V D ] Brummer, Ludger - Thrill DVD (Wergo) [WER2059] $18.75 DVD audio/video. "On this DVD, composer Ludger Brummer's works are presented for the first time in their original, multi-channel format. Each and every detail of these works was created on a computer. The acoustic idea uses techniques that give the sound a realistic and natural impression in space. Thrill is a strange kind of Musique Concrete: All of its sounds are created with physical models. All the sounds should be considered to be true 'natural' and since they sound out or the speaker they are as well real -- but artificial in the same moment. It is audible that the sounds have references to real existing sound phenomena. As a bonus, two videos (4-channel audio) are included, in which Brummer collaborates with video artist Silke Braemer." Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town DVD (Plexifilm) [PLEX015DVD] $19.50 RELEASE DATE: 02-24-2004 Various Artists - 80'S Vol. 2 DVD+2CD (Universal) [521924] $41.75 Import exclusive compilation features 35 audio tracks on two CDs with all the hits of the 80s by such artists as The Fixx, A Flock Of Seagulls, ABC, Mr. Mister, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, & many more, plus a DVD (NTSC/Region 0/Approx. 70 mins.) featuring 11 original video clips including 'Shout' Tears For Fears, 'Tainted Love' Soft Cell, 'Dance Hall Days' Wang Chung, 'If I Could Turn Back Time' Cher, & more. Slipcase. From orders at ear-rational.com Sun Feb 15 16:12:14 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun Feb 15 16:12:20 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] Council of Nine pricing error Message-ID: <6433B1AE-600C-11D8-B948-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> After all that hooey about being able to enter prices in non-U.S. currency, and conversion on the fly, I overpriced the Council of Nine releases by 50 pence or 94 cents U.S. The corrected prices can be found below. Apologies for the extra email! Christian Hoy Knudsen - Hav CD (Council of Nine) [cofn002cd:a] $17.90 "First off, the imagery on this release is very calming beautiful renditions of water. The first track makes you feel submerged, but forget claustrophobia! A very sensual release, it sounds like velvet for the ears. Waves flow as synths hold bubbling notes when, suddenly, a whale of a low note flirts by then takes you on a ride. Large multi-tonal hits announce the song 'Rod Dyphavsleire' then melts away into a low tide ballad. There are a variety of emotions on this disc centered around an idea I call 'meditative energy' There are some beats on this recording but they are not intrusive. Put this on at night and your dreams will be enjoyable. This label does a good job of finding music in the vein of Global Communication or Biosphere, but adds its own twist. "(Don Poe) "I found the whole album utterly compelling from beginning to end. 'Hav' is a finely detailed work, rich with subtlety that will unfold over several listens. This is music to savor slowly, to fully appreciate it. Stunning and brilliant, one of my favourite releases of the year." - Sequences Magazine Maitreya - From the Mothership CD (Council of Nine) [cofn001cd:a] $16.96 "Mysterious voices call to us, inviting us on a trip that this album will take us on. This is an optimistic ambient release using natural sounds, like rain and the wonderful sound of thunder. These sounds are sprinkled in among the clean use of keyboards. Some very mild dark tones can be found, but overall this is a fun CD to listen to after a loud concert ??? perfect for sore ears. Halfway through the album, birds chirp on the song Forest while the rain continues ??? a very wet album indeed! Although this is a beatless album and is in the ambient realm, the songs move, build and retain interest. "(Don Poe) "I've not heard such literally stellar recordings in some time... these percussion-free pieces are perfect soundtracks for deep space explorations, even if only through the constellations of your mind..." - AmbiEntrance Maitreya - Telluric Waves CD (Council of Nine) [cofn004cd:a] $18.84 "Fans of Biosphere take note! This is an excellent realization of ambient techno - downtempo beats over stark piano, waves flow over you to bring on the next melody. Passive clicks echo and delay are the staccato notes while tenuous sounds slip in your psyche. Not quite unsettling, but a nervous tension builds ??? like you are waiting for your lover to disembark from the plane after a long trip. Arpeggios rise and fall distantly while small bells tinkle in the wind, it sounds like it is snowing. Radio static and electrical storms introduce the next song, Altocumulus. This is a bright piece that hold your feelings on the edge of it???s finger, balancing you and not letting you fall. This is a cool, clear, clean album. Great Sunday morning tunes. Biosphere may use more beats in their tunes, but Maitreya come from a similar feeling. Also, these guys have some class ??? the packaging on the newer releases, the promotional materials and their website have a unified look ??? very professional in feel."(Don Poe)

With this, his long-awaited second album, Maitreya returns to explore more earthly terrain. From the percolating warmth of Sinter, to the bleak expanse of Lumen, discover the beautiful new sound of Maitreya. - Label

"...I can unreservedly write that Telluric Waves certainly is beautiful. . .each track is progressive from beginning to end, signaling an artist unwilling to dwell on long spaces of ambience just to fill a CD's length. It took three years for the second Maitreya album to appear and it shows. Telluric Waves is a finely detailed and impressively executed work of modern chilled textures; trippy, entrancing, and consistently interesting." Brian Bieniowski - Ambient Review

TI-Cal - Coriolis CD (Council of Nine) [cofn003cd:a] $17.90 "Ti-Cal offers here beautiful dreamy and intense soundscapes. . .proving that the genre generate some very interesting artists indeed." - the milk factory

". . .what a stunning debut in the ambient genre this is - it won me over on the first listen. . .Put it in the CD player, lie back, and let the sound envelop you." wind and wire ( dene bebbington ) From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Feb 21 16:04:27 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Feb 21 16:04:38 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: <4C54B95C-64C2-11D8-A07A-003065FB38A4@ear-rational.com> Some notes... - Don's Corner (on our home page) has been getting a lot of attention, and I've been asked if we can send out an email update each time it is updated. Seems like a good idea, so I'll be mentioning updates to Don's Corner (currently in its second "issue") here or possibly sending out a separate email, depending on the timing of his updates. - The Council of Nine releases listed in Don's Corner are selling well. When I first priced them, I didn't have the invoice from them. They actually charged us less than I expected, so we've dropped the price by 1 Pound Sterling. Those of you have already ordered it will of course get the lower price. - I'm still trying to promote the first release on our Aural Fixation label (http://www.auralfixationrecords.com). A number of you have bought it, and I thank you. For those that have, and even those that haven't, I'll give you $2 off your next order if you refer someone to us who buys the CD. - Speaking of Aural Fixation...After investigating Magnatune (http://www.magnatune.com), a download-only label, and with their blessing, we are adopting a similar model for most of the future releases on our label. We haven't worked out all the details yet, but the basic idea is that customers will buy albums as MP3s instead of physical CDs (or WAVs so that the customer may burn his/her own CD), and the customer will decide how much to pay (within a range of perhaps $5 to $14) for the album. 50% or more, of the proceeds from each sale will go direct to the artist, so rather than the artist having to wait until pressing and promotional expenses are recouped, he or she will get paid right away. I think this is a great model, and the wave of the future. We have some pretty cool releases in the works, so I'm excited about how this will play out. There are still a lot of server issues and whatnot to work out, but we hope to be re-launching soon. And of course this means we'll be accepting a lot more music for release, because our out of pocket expenses will be lessened greatly. Stay tuned. This update contains release by: AGF * Amp Fiddler * Black Devil * Blues Image * Bulldog Breed * Cage, John * Casino Versus Japan * Christian Hoy Knudsen * Collapse Of The Wave Function, The * Customers, The * Cyann And Ben * Daedelus * Deceptikon * Denny, Martin * Docnuke.com * FYM * Guided By Voices * Haack, Bruce * Hecate * Helios * Herbert, Matthew * Jackpine Savage * Legendary Pink Dots * Liars * Luomo * Maitreya * Many Fingers * Marchetti, Lionel * Meow Meow * MF Doom and Madlib * Mills, Jeff * Miss Nelson & Bruce * Mitchell, Roscoe * Morricone, Ennio * Muslimgauze * Namlook, Pete * Natural Language * Pantha Du Prince * Portable * Raymond Scott & the Secret Seven * Revolutionary Ensemble * Slim * Snap * Sonics, The * Sophia * Stereolab * Stoll, Steve * Strategy * Strokes * Teste * TI-Cal * Whitman, Keith Fullerton [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Black Devil - Disco Club CDS (Rephlex) [REPH146CD] $8.25 "Originally released on Out Records way back in 1978, Black Devil's Disco Club is an extremely rare disco masterpiece, an epic journey into the deepest electronic disco ... It's already whipped up a storm in the UK --?? Hip dance bible Jockey Slut have made it their single of the month for March, and it's the most asked for record in Berwick Street's tastemaker shops. In other words there is a huge buzz about it. The record was discovered by Rephlex's own PP Roy for 20 pence at a car boot sale, and quickly found favour with friends Richard D. James and Luke Vibert. Keen as ever to share fantastic music, label co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge has managed to secure the exclusive license for Rephlex, unwittingly beating Metro Area's Morgan Geist (a long time fan) to the snap. This version contains the other 2 tracks -- the poppy?? vocal tracks that didn't make the first release plus a great new remix by Kerrier District, (Luke Vibert), who's brilliant album was just released on Rephlex." Casino Versus Japan - Hitori + Kaiso 1998-2001 CD (Attack 9) [129744] $13.25 2004 compilation for the Milwaukee-based producer Erik Kowalski features 29 tracks of techno with baroque, haunting melodies & distorted trip-hop beats. Christian Hoy Knudsen - Hav CD (Council of Nine) [cofn002cd] $15.83 "First off, the imagery on this release is very calming ??? beautiful renditions of water. The first track makes you feel submerged, but forget claustrophobia! A very sensual release, it sounds like velvet for the ears. Waves flow as synths hold bubbling notes when, suddenly, a whale of a low note flirts by then takes you on a ride. Large multi-tonal hits announce the song "Rod Dyphavsleire" then melts away into a low tide ballad. There are a variety of emotions on this disc centered around an idea I call 'meditative energy'. There are some beats on this recording but they are not intrusive. Put this on at night and your dreams will be enjoyable. This label does a good job of finding music in the vein of Global Communication or Biosphere, but adds its own twist. "(Don Poe) "I found the whole album utterly compelling from beginning to end. 'Hav' is a finely detailed work, rich with subtlety that will unfold over several listens. This is music to savor slowly, to fully appreciate it. Stunning and brilliant, one of my favourite releases of the year." - Sequences Magazine Denny, Martin - Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny CD (Rev-Ola) [973462] $19.25 Available again...one of the jewels in Rev-Ola's crown, a product of Denny & his producer Les Baxter, the two lynchpins of the original exotica/space age pop scene in the 1950s. 20 tracks including the original breakthrough hit 'Quiet Village'. Legendary Pink Dots - Psychedelic Classics and Rarities Vol. 2 3CD (Big Blue) [05493/L0152] $26.50 A Guide To ..Volume 2 - Psychedelic Classics & Rarities'' finally gets released as a stunning triple CD package containing 2 audio and 1 multi-media CD's packaged in a beautiful Digipak ! Disc One contains a collection of their most famous psychedelic hits ( ''Waiting For The Cloud'', ''Grain Kings'', ''Citadel'', ''Green Gang'', ''Princess Coldheart'' and many others ) while Disc two brings together rare material plus an exclusive, unreleased concert from Poznan, Poland in 1996. Finally Disc Three contains video material, interviews, clips, live gigs, archive material and much more.( MNS Online) Maitreya - From the Mothership CD (Council of Nine) [cofn001cd] $14.90 "Mysterious voices call to us, inviting us on a trip that this album will take us on. This is an optimistic ambient release using natural sounds, like rain and the wonderful sound of thunder. These sounds are sprinkled in among the clean use of keyboards. Some very mild dark tones can be found, but overall this is a fun CD to listen to after a loud concert ??? perfect for sore ears. Halfway through the album, birds chirp on the song Forest while the rain continues ??? a very wet album indeed! Although this is a beatless album and is in the ambient realm, the songs move, build and retain interest. "(Don Poe) "I've not heard such literally stellar recordings in some time... these percussion-free pieces are perfect soundtracks for deep space explorations, even if only through the constellations of your mind..." - AmbiEntrance Maitreya - Telluric Waves CD (Council of Nine) [cofn004cd] $16.76 "Fans of Biosphere take note! This is an excellent realization of ambient techno - downtempo beats over stark piano, waves flow over you to bring on the next melody. Passive clicks echo and delay are the staccato notes while tenuous sounds slip in your psyche. Not quite unsettling, but a nervous tension builds ??? like you are waiting for your lover to disembark from the plane after a long trip. Arpeggios rise and fall distantly while small bells tinkle in the wind, it sounds like it is snowing. Radio static and electrical storms introduce the next song, Altocumulus. This is a bright piece that hold your feelings on the edge of it???s finger, balancing you and not letting you fall. This is a cool, clear, clean album. Great Sunday morning tunes. Biosphere may use more beats in their tunes, but Maitreya come from a similar feeling. Also, these guys have some class ??? the packaging on the newer releases, the promotional materials and their website have a unified look ??? very professional in feel."(Don Poe)

With this, his long-awaited second album, Maitreya returns to explore more earthly terrain. From the percolating warmth of Sinter, to the bleak expanse of Lumen, discover the beautiful new sound of Maitreya. - Label

"...I can unreservedly write that Telluric Waves certainly is beautiful. . .each track is progressive from beginning to end, signaling an artist unwilling to dwell on long spaces of ambience just to fill a CD's length. It took three years for the second Maitreya album to appear and it shows. Telluric Waves is a finely detailed and impressively executed work of modern chilled textures; trippy, entrancing, and consistently interesting." Brian Bieniowski - Ambient Review

Muslimgauze - No Human Rights for Arabs in Israel CD (Vivo) [05502/vivo009] $14.00 Yes another No Human Rights...In a situation not totally unusual for Bryn, Staalplaat had received at least two DATs with the "No Human Rights For Arabs In Israel" title but the tracks were not the same. There is an overlap of material, to an extent, but more differences than similarities. Hopefully all of the material will be made available at some point but for the interim here is one of them in its totality. Two tracks on this release are versions of tracks from Staalplaat's subscription series 10" of the same name. "Refugee (1)" is a lengthier version of what appeared on the 10" as "Wadi Araba" and "No Human Rights For Arabs In Israel", though bearing the same title as the title track from the of the 10", is actually a lengthier version of "Herzliyya" from the 10". It is a solid recording from beginning to end and we feel it will stand in good stead amongst Bryn's oeuvre. Limited Edition 550 numbered copies in tri-fold digipak. Namlook, Pete - Music for Urban Meditation CD (Fax) [PK08/167] $13.00 The first album coming from the top of the hill in one of the least populated areas of Germany. A view of nothing but nature. In his new studio, high end technology meets pure serenity and the creative mind longs for a rest, a pause, a release. Occasional visits to Frankfurt cause flashbacks to urban life. When you look at this life from a distant view you start to understand how far this way of living is from our origin. This CD is made for people living in urban environments to help them find the center of their well-being again. Static sounds develop in an organic way.. sound mantras that transcend through seven parts helping to lie down and listen.. let go.. release.....

CD tracks

  1. Music for Urban Meditation (Part I - VII) 62.00min
Natural Language - 0098 CD (em:t) [em:t0098] $16.76 Getting this direct from em:t now that they are alive and well. Slim - 0097 CD (em:t) [emit0097] $16.76 Ditto. Stoll, Steve - Earthling CD (Fax) [PS08/106] $13.00 Well-known as a master of minimal techno, Steve Stoll expands his sound further into the ambient/experimental realm. 4/4 beats are missing and his approach is quite different. The influences come from his urban environment and range from Ambience/Industrial to Dark Environmental and combine a perfect minimal mixture into a new organic-electronic sound.

CD tracks:

  1. Intuition (1st Movement) 8.14
  2. rnd.ply. 3.38
  3. Atonal Memory 2.30
  4. Ballet Mechanic 3.05
  5. Intuition (2nd Movement) 6.44
  6. Unionsquare 3.09
  7. Navigation of k 5.31
  8. Data Clouds (Into the Nature Pt.2) 4.18 Radiodiffusion 5.02
  9. Dockstader 2.26
  10. Epilogue (?) 5.44
  11. Dust Ver.1 5.09
  12. Chance-Meeting 2.57
  13. Suguni 2.55
TI-Cal - Coriolis CD (Council of Nine) [cofn003cd] $15.83 "Ti-Cal offers here beautiful dreamy and intense soundscapes. . .proving that the genre generate some very interesting artists indeed." - the milk factory

". . .what a stunning debut in the ambient genre this is - it won me over on the first listen. . .Put it in the CD player, lie back, and let the sound envelop you." wind and wire ( dene bebbington ) [ . . . ] AGF - DelayONmyPILLOW CD (Mixer) [MIXERCD03] $8.00 No description available at this time. Amp Fiddler - I Believe In You CD (Genuine) [GEN022CD] $9.00 "The first single release from the hugely acclaimed debut album Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly features remixes from Bugz In The Attic and Jaylib. This is considered the perfect first single in the campaign -- a sublime slice of low-slung funk with a simple, catchy message." Blues Image - Open CD (Sundazed) [SC6196] $11.25 "First-ever domestic CD issue of the group's in-demand second album, featuring 'Ride Captain Ride'. When Blues Image launched into their 1970 chart smash, 'Ride Captain Ride,' the smoking lamp was always lit. But, with their subtle use of Latin Rhythms -- featuring tantalizing fretboard work by Mike Pinera and the addictive conga drums of Joe Lala -- this Tampa, Fla. combo proved themselves anything but a one hit wonder on their out of nowhere classic, Open." Bulldog Breed - Made In England CD (Acme) [ACLN1004CD] $15.00 "Amazing 1969 UK mod/psych/freakbeat rarity featuring members of T2 and The Flies. This is the first time it has been reissued officially on CD -- and it's taken from the original DECCA master tapes. Comes complete with new sleevenotes, photos and bonus tracks including the mega-rare single 'Halo in My Hair' b/w 'Portcullis Gate'. A classic album finally gets proper recognition." Cage, John - A Tribute 2CD (Ants) [ANTS008CD] $27.75 Joshua Pierce: (piano & prepared piano); with Robert White: (tenor) -- AFMM Ensemble. Collapse Of The Wave Function, The - Volume 1 7_inch (Rephlex) [REPH153EP] $8.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 "This is part one of a series of 3 records from a Rephlex artist recording covertly. Part one is two tracks on 7" black wax of fat spacious analogue electro-influenced dancehall riddims. Part one is proceeded by part 2 in the same format, then part 3 will be released as a mini album. All will be revealed at this point." Customers, The - Furious CD (Elektro Music Department) [EMD003CD] $15.75 "The dirtyness of Chicago-house is only apparently being teased by minimal pattern: 'Paint The Black House White'. You only perceive a giggle. It's time." Cyann And Ben - Spring CD (Locust) [LOCUST46] $13.25 "The Parisian quartet, Cyann & Ben, recorded their extraordinary debut, Spring, in an isolated country house in 2002. The pastoral retreat made a perfect backdrop for Cyann's delicate, breathy female vocals and the band's organic, analogue sound. The result is a dense and lovely and often intense musical landscape that owes its sound in equal measure to epic catharsis of groups like Sigur Ros, the folk flavors of Robert Wyatt & the Canterbury folk-rock scene as it does to the exceptionally concentrated psych soundscapes of early 70s Pink Floyd."?? Daedelus - Of Snowdonia CD (Plug Research) [PLG44] $13.50 Electronic experimentalist and celebrated underground DJ is back with his 2nd full length. Expanding on the introspective themes from his debut Invention, his palate now includes even more majestic melodies, musical song structures and visceral rhythms. It is the perfect melding of organic and analog orchestration from our next generation of composers, utilizing sampler, turntable and instrumentation (both traditional and non-). Deceptikon - Lost Subject CD (Merck) [MERCK027CD] $13.25 "Debut CD from Portland area based producer Deceptikon. Jazzy sample based hip hop beats with heavy emphasis on melody." Docnuke.com - Petroleum CD (Rice and Beans) [RICE011CD] $16.50 "The third and fourth concluding parts of Beta Bodega Coalition's Rise & Defeat Series arrive -- a double whammy??at last completing this Miami collective's scathing assault on the New World Order, criminally propounded by the so called intellectual 'elite' of the 'free' world, and executed by their all too willing brothers in the military -- industrial complex." FYM - Say No To Primate Research Lab CD (Telegraph) [TEL012CD] $16.50 "Telegraph shifts its release schedule in order to put out a sensational serendipity:?? the first album of Manutchehr Ghassemlou aka Fym, after the release in September of his Monkey Styler EP, which gave a good insight into his fresh and original style. With Say No To Primate Research Labs, Fym invites us to enter into his wonderful laboratory, dedicated to experimentations and poetry. With 17 melodic, slightly twisted and whimsical house tracks, as well as the cover-art he designed himself, he shares with us his imaginary world, the product of true artistic sensibility. Limited by no concept but the creation of irresistible grooves, here's a full album of phreaky-futur-funk featuring the true monkey stylez." Guided By Voices - Best Of + 1 CD (P-Vine) [518694] $28.50 Subtitled - Human Amusements At Hourly Rates. Japanese edition of 2003 compilation features 33 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'I Am Produced'. Hecate - Ascension Chamber CD (Praxis) [05487/PRAXIS40] $13.25 The new album by rachael as hecate is once again presented by the united forces of praxis and zhark international. the ten tracks are based on and inspired by the sephira of the kaballah/qabala, which is reflected in everything from the time signatures to the atmospheres and intensities. a serious conceptual work (hence vinyl and cd are identical) with depth and focus developing her sound ever further. Helios - Unomia CD (Merck) [MERCK026CD] $13.25 "Subtle ambience, found sounds, and treated acoustic elements escalate and wash over the listener creating a harmonically dense, and melodically rich environment. Complimented by a remix from Philadelphia's Loess as well." Herbert, Matthew - On You Feet 12_inch (Sounds-Like) [SL014EP] $9.00 "A return to the dancefloor for Herbert with 5 new house tracks, alongside a cameo appearance by the Matthew Herbert Big Band." Jackpine Savage - Together CD (King) [KICP2634] $23.75 Originally released in 1971 on Dimension 5. First time on CD. Original back cover notes: "Play this album on stereo equipment. The spaced-out movement of sound from speaker to speaker is important. Sometimes listen with earphones at moderate volume -- you never know what you might discover. The songs are recorded so that they become complete when you add your voice to them. ackpine Savage wrote the album, played all the instruments and sang it all (except for his back-up chorus which is electronic)." Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned CD (Mute) [MUT9235] $14.75 Highly anticipated sophomore album from NYC's Liars. Its a document of their ongoing transition and their growth. They delve into darker, noisier territory, achieving artful chaos. The entire album has a witch theme. Luomo - The Present Lover CD (Kinetic) [KTC54733] $13.50 The follow-up to 2000's Vocal City (Force Tracks), Luomo aka Finnish producer Vladislav Delay returns with new dimensions in upfront micro-house. A self-described outsider's perspective on the club scene, seamlessly blending pop, house, & R&B. Many Fingers - Many Fingers CD (Moteer) [MOTEER001CD] $12.75 "Second release on The Remote Viewer's own label." Marchetti, Lionel - L'Incandescene De L'Etoile CD (Mixer) [MIXERCD04] $8.00 No description available at this time. Meow Meow - Snow Gas Bones CD (DIW) [DIW073CD] $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-16-2004 "Shortwave radio squeals, Beatles-esque tape loops, and healthy doses of analog tape twiddling all underscore the pure-sugar pop tones of Snow Gas Bones. Meow Meow offers up their debut album, a literate blend of fuzzed out/rev'ed-up guitar anthems and beautifully understated/stoned soundscapes." MF Doom and Madlib - Madvillian CD (Stones Throw) [STH2065] $14.50 "Madlib the producer and MF Doom the MC -- two of Indie Hip Hop's most celebrated and debated." Mills, Jeff - From the 21st Part 1 12_inch (Axis) [AX019-OUR] $7.00 "From the 21st is a judicious peak into the future. It marks a momentous start point for all that have interest in the field of future music exploration. Masterfully scripted by Jeff Mills, he compresses expectations, fears and hopes that we have about the 21st Century into a wonderful tale of mystic and intrigue. Previously released in Japan, the land of the rising sun (1999) through Sony Music to mark the coming of the year 2000. Though a 12" single was scheduled to be released shortly after the release of the CD/LP, Mills abruptly decides to hold back the 12" single release for astronomical reasons. We now have the green light to release these much sought-after 12" singles. This particular version is designed to tell a sympathetic approach to the new century. Compositions are more structured than minimal. It was intended to project a unique wariness to the listeners. Thought-provoking and spiritually applicable. Music for mind more than the mayhem."?? Morricone, Ennio - Celebration Of Ennio Morricone's 75th Anniversary CD (WEA) [701094] $23.75 Asia exclusive compilation features 16 number one tracks from the Maestro's oeuvre. Slipcase. Pantha Du Prince - Diamond Daze CD (Dial) [DIAL005CD] $15.75 "Hendrik Weber, who is known as Gl??hen4, Panthel, and as part of Gaze and Duma as well as bassist of the band Stella, presents his debut 2LP, CD on Dial as Pantha Du Prince." Portable - Cycling CD (Background) [BG037CD] $15.25 "Cycling is the album we always dreamed of doing as a record label. It combines so many things in one; raw and sexy very unique electronic music with a strong modern groove, based on the traditional rhythms of early Chicago house music. Most tracks are dancy, while perfect for listening as well, always staying interesting and diverse, yet always with Alan Abrahams(Portable) very personal handwriting." Raymond Scott & the Secret Seven - The Unexpected CD (Basta) [BASTA9106] $17.00 "In 1959, Raymond Scott assembled an anonymous all-star band and dubbed them The Secret Seven. With this group of top jazz players, he recorded the album The Unexpected. For nearly 45 years the identity of the Secret Seven line-up has remained a mystery, but as Nat Henthoff wrote in the liner notes, 'Jazz listeners should recognize the identity of the performers.' This is another CD in Basta's Essential Reissue series, complete with the original liner notes & original cover artwork." Revolutionary Ensemble - The Psyche CD (MutableMusic) [MUTABLE17514] $12.25 LEROY JENKINS (violin), SIRONE (bass), JEROME COOPER (drums, piano). "Long awaited reissue of the Revolutionary En.'s 1975 album The Psyche." Sophia - People Are Like Seasons CD (City Slang) [CITY95176CD] $17.75 "Sophia is Robin Proper-Sheppard, formerly of The God Machine, and a cast of musicians drawn from a pool of bands with whom Robin has worked throughout his career, otherwise known as 'The Sophia Collective'. The previous two albums were entirely financed, recorded and produced by Robin, who also oversaw the entire production, promotion and distribution of the albums on his own The Flower Shop Recordings label. This is the first time since the days of The God Machine that Robin has agreed to work with another label. The new album fleshes out the sound and extends the dynamic boundaries, whilst maintaining Robin's traditional but effective approach of keeping things minimal, whether they be lyrically or musically. The overriding impression of the album is that it rocks, but this is quite clearly not a rock record. In fact much of it is quiet, pained, acoustic and mines a rich vein of melancholy that seems to seep through all of Robin's music throughout the years." Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse + 1 CD (Elektra) [339324] $30.75 Japanese edition of 2004 album features 13 tracks including 1 exclusive bonus track, 'La Spirale'. Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight CD (kranky) [KRANK066] $12.25 "The second album Paul Dickow has made under the name Strategy. Dickow was a fan of synth-pop who simultaneously learned to play keyboards, the drums and program. He went on to drum in the art punk outfit Emergency, play keyboards in Fontanelle and multiple instruments in Nudge. Strategy wires together Dickow's programming and performing experience via a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship. Combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic sensibility, Strategy unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by complex pulsations." Strokes - Reptilia CDS (Rough Trade) [530354] $8.25 Taken from the 2003 album 'Room On Fire'. The title track is b/w one non-album track, 'Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men' featuring Regina Spektor. Teste - The Wipe 12" (Plus 8) [PLUS8085] $7.00 Reissue of the 1992 techno classic 12". Various Artists - Elektronische Musik: Interkontinental 3 CD (Traum) [TRAUM14CD] $15.75 No description available at this time. Various Artists - Kraakgeluiden: Document 1 CD (Unsounds) [U06CD] $15.75 "Kraakgeluiden, a series of improvised music-performances involving acoustic and electronic instruments, was started in 1999 by a group of musicians in Amsterdam. The central idea of the series is to encourage musicians and composers from Amsterdam and elsewhere to experiment with the electronic medium in a live, improvised setting. They perform in combinations, which include musicians with whom they have never performed before. The selection of recordings on this CD aims at representing the diversity and the quality of the Kraakgeluiden improvised sessions." Appearing on this CD are: Sasha Agranov - Ab Baars - Henk Bakker - Richard Barrett - Justin Bennett - Jaap Blonk - Dirk Bruinsma - Stephie B??ttrich - Sakir Oguz Buyukberber - Lucio Capece - Jeff Carey - Marko Ciciliani - Tobias Delius - Huib Emmer - Walter Fabeck - Cor Fuhler - Carlos Galvez - Bjornar Habbestad - Steve Heather - Rozemarie Heggen - Gudrun- Hrund Hardadottir - Hilary Jeffery - Yannis Kyriakides - Anne La Berge - Yoshio Machida - Lou Mallozzi - Colin McLean - Andy Moor - Koen Nutters - Paul Obermayer - Morten J. Olsen - Dragan Pajic Pajo - Gert-Jan Prins - Alan Purves - Robert van Heumen - John Richards - Matt Rogalsky - Michael Vatcher - Cesar Villavicencio - Michael Vorfeld - Joe Williamson. Various Artists - Receiving Data...Ah It's Coming! CD (Sender) [SENDER030CD] $15.75 "Sender is on a new level. It remains fully suitable for the club, however the tracks on Receiving Data...Ah It's Coming! increasingly reveal atmosphere and narrative strength: dance music has never been so home-listenable. Sender embodies not a condition but rather a development. It is as tight stylistically as the concrete base of the tower on its logo. The clear thread, however, lies far away from lay generic commodification. The artists revolt in The shadow of the tower by showing their sharp profile. 'Strahler' pulses with dark showers and static loads. Blome & Grummich are completely inside the signal searching for a release just before the short out. Carsten Jost's 'Lake's Camp' seems rather easy and swingin'. The sun pervades the clouds, the light breaks through the last rain drops that drip down the glass facade. Yes, the music of Sender incorporates urbanity with the tower being its highest symbol. There is enough of the continuous big city cess-pool and industrial romance. This compilation sounds sensible as if representing humanized music." Various Artists - The Lasergun Compilation Vol. 1 2CD (Lasergun) [LG001CD] $16.50 "After approximately 25 releases it's time to hold back for a mnute, and reflect what's done and what'll come. Back and forward. The Lasergun Compilation Vol.1 is a representative summery of the work produced by artists all over the world, which has lead to a maximum variety of music: electro funk, clean techno, trashy pop, future disco, it's all there. Northern Lite, Neonman, John Starlight, Silversurfer. They're all there. Let's call them electrophonic dance tracks. Danceable music to listen to." Artists: Sneak Thief, Neonman, Northern Lite, Total Macchina, Ural 13 Diktators, Steril, Mr. Lovelace, Nitch & Gleinser, John Starlight, Lectric Workers, Mr. Kemi & Amox, The Addiction, Water Lilly, Silversurfer, HakanLibdo, Universal Power, Puberty Love, The Spider, Ulysses, Sexual Harrassment." Whitman, Keith Fullerton - Antithesis LP (kranky) [KRANKLP064] $10.50 "An LP-only release of material from Keith Fullerton Whitman's archives that doesn't fit aesthetically with his upcoming Multiples studio album. The theme for the album is 'ensemble works', that is a combination of instruments played by Whitman himself with no computer interaction. Each piece was recorded in one of the different apartments Whitman has rented since he lived in Boston." [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Haack, Bruce - Ebenezer Electric CD (King) [KICP2635] $23.75 Originally released in 1976 on Dimension 5. First time on CD. Performed with Ted Pandel. Comprised mainly of Christmas songs. Haack, Bruce - Electronic Record For Children CD (King) [KICP2633] $23.75 Originally released in 1969 on Dimension 5. First time on CD. "1969's The Electronic Record for Children adds more freaked-out fun to the basic menu of electronic-based story and activity songs shared by all the Dimension 5 releases. This time, Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson pretend they are on a spaceship orbiting the earth, and this theme plays out in their between-song banter as well as on songs like 'Mara's Moon' and 'Clapping with Katy,' where the duo calls a friend on earth to play a clapping game with her. Includes a trip to the planet of the singing mice and a choir of Greek children." Miss Nelson & Bruce - Dance Sing and Listen CD (King) [KICP2631] $23.75 Japanese-only reissues of these early classics from Bruce Haack & friends. Licensed directly from his estate/Dimension 5 (his original label); Dimension 5 released 11 albums between 1963 and 1976, here are 5 of the most desireable ones (some of these tracks were licensed on the Emperor Norton compilation Listen Compute Rock Home, but only a small portion of them; there is no overlap on these w/ Haack's later QDK releases which which were made up of his Columbia label recordings ).?? Dance Sing and Listen was originally released in 1963 on Dimension 5, this is the first time it has appeared on CD.?? "Dimension 5 takes great pride in presenting this new concept in recordings for children. Here is a living, growing record designed to bring the exciting personalities of Esther Nelson and Bruce Haack into your homes. Children of all ages will respond to elements in all sections of the recording -- and will discover more and more wonders as they grow... 'Love with Discipline' is Esther Nelson's explanation of the phenomenon which has made her one of Americas foremost educators in the realm of children's dance. The magnetism of her personality and the exceptional musicality of her speaking voice spellbinds children with the result that in her presence their bodies live they know the beauty of movement and free imaginative expression. And through this comes the discipline and knowledge of the fundamentals of dance and body movement presented in a way no child can resist. Every note of music on this record was played by Bruce Haack (who modestly says he is not a performer). Bruce Haack is indeed the legendary Pied Piper and his piping employs every conceivable instrument of the orchestra and many electronic ones which he has invented). By the skillful use of multitrack recording, and by means of his own particular magic, he weaves instruments and sound in manner hitherto unequaled." Miss Nelson & Bruce - Way-Out Record For Children CD (King) [KICP2632] $23.75 Originally released in 1968 on Dimension 5. First time on CD. "Features an 'Introduction' to the Dimension 5 gang, and movement songs like 'Medieval Dancing.' 'School for Robots,' an ear-body coordination game, features robotic vocals created by Haack speaking in a monotone and tapping his Adam's apple; this low-budget innovation is just another manifestation of his practical but innovative approach." From Jim O'Rourke's liner notes for this reissue: "Bruce Haack is an American underground hero, and while these were technically 'kid's records', there may have been no one out there, outside of Jim Copp, who could warp and bend yound minds. He utilized an amazing pile-up of synthesizers, tape editing, electronic manipulation, and most importantly, he treated kids as young adults instead of simpletons. The Way Out Record... has been a favorite on my turntable for years and years, and these records are in their way more radical than the 'adult' records he made. Essential stuff." Mitchell, Roscoe - Solo 3 3CD (MutableMusic) [MUTABLE17515] $23.75 "Sudden music! All alone, unprotected, Roscoe Mitchell confronts Silence: the void, the vast unknown. One and a half of the 38 pieces in this collection are composed. Two more are improvisations that begin with at least some conditions. The other 34 and a half pieces are completely improvised.He's one of the Chicagoans who virtually invented the unaccompanied horn solo in free jazz." Snap - World Power CD (SPV) [688354] $20.25 2004 reissue of the male/female dance duo's 1993 album features 10 tracks including Snap's biggest hit, 'The Power' (Original Mix & Jungle Fever Mix), as well as 'Oops Up' (a remake/take off of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff 'Oops Upside Your Head'). Snap - Welcome To Tomorrow CD (SPV) [688344] $20.25 2004 reissue of the male/female dance duo's 1995 album features ten tracks including, 'Green Grass Grows (Earth Follows)', 'Rame (Beloved)', 'Dream On The Moon', 'Where Are The Boys, Where Are The Girls?' (made for an episode of Beverly Hills 90210), & 'It's Not Over' (made for the film Never Ending Story III). Sonics, The - Introducing The Sonics CD (Sundazed) [SC6198] $11.25 "Cornerstone of the crunchy sixties' Northwest sound, direct from the Jerden mono masters. The Sonics blow-torched Tacoma in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind-numbing assortment of Sonics classics: 'You Got Your Head On Backwards,' 'Like No Other Man,' 'Psycho,' 'The Witch,' and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like 'I'm A Man,' 'Diddy Wah Diddy,' and much more." Various Artists - 80'S Vol. 2 DVD+2CD (Universal) [521924] $41.75 Import exclusive compilation features 35 audio tracks on two CDs with all the hits of the 80s by such artists as The Fixx, A Flock Of Seagulls, ABC, Mr. Mister, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, & many more, plus a DVD (NTSC/Region 0/Approx. 70 mins.) featuring 11 original video clips including 'Shout' Tears For Fears, 'Tainted Love' Soft Cell, 'Dance Hall Days' Wang Chung, 'If I Could Turn Back Time' Cher, & more. Slipcase. Various Artists - Garage Beat '66 Vol. 1: Like What, Me Worry?! CD (Sundazed) [SC11139] $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "The time is ripe to tell the full story of an army of longhaired, pimply teenagers who flailed away on their instruments between mom's car and the cat box -- and forever changed the world: Garage Beat '66! Sundazed is proud to announce the first 3 volumes of the most far-reaching, legit vintage garage rock series ever: Garage Beat '66." Various Artists - Garage Beat '66 Vol. 2: Chicks Are For Kids! CD (Sundazed) [SC11140] $13.75 No description available at this time. Various Artists - Garage Beat '66 Vol. 3: Feeling Zero CD (Sundazed) [SC11141] $13.75 No description available at this time. Various Artists - Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1 2CD (Art Union) [MTCJ5501/2] $36.50 New reissue of this classic free jazz/underground compilation, from the early 70s. Often cited as a big influence on Otomo Yoshihide, etc. 24-bit remaster, mini-LP gatefold packaging. CD 1: Toshiyuki Miyama & his New Herd Orchestra, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Itaru Oki Quintet, Now Music Ensemble. CD 2: Masahiko Togashi & Masahiko Satoh duo, New Direction for The Arts, Masahiko Satoh's Gorandoh, Yohsuke Yamashita Trio. Recorded at Shinjuku Art Theater, Tokyo, June30-July 12, 1973. From orders at ear-rational.com Sat Feb 28 15:46:11 2004 From: orders at ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat Feb 28 15:46:23 2004 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Our foreign currency listings with conversion to U.S. dollars are a hit. We modified it so that currency conversion is done once a day and stored in our database instead of on the fly. This of course speeds up page loads. We've added a new currency to the list--New Zealand Dollars. This is due to our buying Psi Phenomenon discs direct from New Zealand. Happy leap day tomorrow! This update contains release by 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) * Akiyama, Tetuzi/Tim Barnes/Masafumi Ezaki * Banhart, Devendra * Billy, Bonnie 'Prince' * Black Dice * Blithe Sons, The * Bochum Welt * Brinkmann, Thomas * Byron, Michael * Callier, Terry * Carlemagne Palestine * Claro Intelecto * Comb & Prosperous * Daedelus * Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words * Dempster, Stuart * Digital Intervention, The * Ernan Roch * Fennesz * Fires Were Shot * Gong * Guru & Zero * Kapital Band 1 * Karkowski + Francisco Lopez, Zbigniew * Kotche, Glenn * Kraftwerk * Kubisch, Christina * Languis * Laswell, Bill * Literon/Speedy J * Los Sonadores * Merzbow * Min Bul * Minimal Self * Mokira * Newsom, Joanna * Nitrada * Olivia Tremor Control, The * Oswald, John * Parlane, Rosy * Rylander, Henrik * Squarepusher * Staton, Candi * Sylvian, David/Ryuichi Sakamoto * Ty * Ya Ho Wa 13 * Youngs, Richard [ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Bochum Welt - Kissing A Robot Goodbye CD (Device) [IRQ007CD] $13.25 No description available at this time. Brinkmann, Thomas - Tokyo + 1 CD (Max Ernst) [MAXE006CD] $14.50 "Sound can be a strongest narrator. All-medium-integrated lens, channeled to all organs and senses. As soon as it enters us, it starts to be controlled by our predisposed notions and somewhat familiar projections, that link to all kinds of data in our unconscious. it leads to forsake the roots and toughest DNA programs running in us by touching so called untouchable and inviolable areas of our being with its huge emotional input, hypnotizing by bouncing algorithms, translating thousand bodies into one whole, determining our emotional and intellectual oscillation flow. And yet, there are certain tones that our ears are not able to perceive as specialties that are worth capturing and analyzing. analyzing, because those sounds are the very basics of our brain machineries. without ever knowing, just like millions of unnoticeable smells, the most ordinary sounds control our unconscious much more then any other music on tape or perfume in a bottle. often we find ourselves frustrated and we fail to realize that this condition is due to the bad soundtrack that assisted us during the day. and even if we realize it, we re unable to mute it. the only thing we can do is to explore it, just like any musical piece or movie and track it's input through us. the more we're completely integrated into this sounds, the more alienated we become while encountering them in the closed room, where all this same noises gain gravity and become one concrete sequence. our brain starts to resist the resemblance of these noise with the musical tunes. [Tokyo + 1] is compiled of the aforementioned sounds, recorded in Japan and Greece. As we thoroughly listen to 9 tracks, we first find ourselves in a certain maze of discouragement, which is derived from incapacity of finding the similarity and comparison. Shortly this illogical puzzle vanishes along with the walls and geographical borders and we find ourselves in the middle of the unknown culture and location. This virtual traveling becomes in fact most factual in next moment, bringing our entire body into motion, moving through the places where the sounds have been initially captured. But even after this point, the sounds accelerate our expectations, by their earsplitting level, unnaturally sharpening the picture and our motion through it. Usually blurred environment around us becomes as concrete as never before, converting into close-up and giving each infinitesimal detail its' exceptional meaning. This is a concrete tour that initiates in Tokyo and rounds up in Ikaria, where the music ends and motion and sound around us return to their usual level of display and perception with one definite note: we can loose ourselves and repeat this tour over and over again. ." Daedelus - Meanwhile CD (Laboratory Instinct) [LI001CD] $16.50 German-only release, not to be confused with the new Plug Research label album -- they are completely separate releases. "With a string of releases on Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, and Eastern Development, Daedelus has refined a style that has no imitators. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has created a sound that is entirely new. His productions find the hidden common denominator between modern electronics and sampled music from days gone by. Recording out of Santa Monica, Daedelus has recently begun to incorporate hiphop into his mix, with guest spots from Busdriver (Afterlife), Sach (Nonce), Absract Rude (Project Blowed), Madlib (Stones Throw), and High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium), all leading to his work on the Mush full length The Weather with Busdriver and Radioinactive." Fennesz - Venice CD (Touch) [TO53] $13.75 "Venice was recorded on location in the summer of 2003 and subsequently assembled and mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna in January/February 2004. Venice, the fourth studio album by Christain Fennesz, finds electronic music at a crossroads between its early status as digital subculture, and the feeling that there has to be something more, an emotional quality that rises above noise and moves towards melody and rapture. Fennesz burst upon the scene with Instrument [Mego, 1995] and followed that up with a succession of ground-breaking and highly original solo albums. As The Wire wrote, 'he offers all the puzzles and adventures of experimental music, but with a more assimilable grasp of melody -- and a prominent role for the guitar', and to be sure, 'though the process may sound simple, it takes some skillful manipulation to simultaneously tug those heartstrings and poke them with tiny pins.' [Nick Phillips, City Pages, USA]. Fennesz has been active in film soundtrack work -- for Gustav Deutsch and his forensic view of cinema, 'film ist'... Live performances, improvised music within a modus operandi that adheres itself more to jazz than computer software... everywhere from Tokyo to Bratislava. Fennesz has also taken part in many collaborations: Fenn O'Berg, with Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg [Mego], a duo with Rosy Parlane [Synaesthesia], and with Polwechsel [Erstwhile]. He has also been recording with Sparklehorse, the first fruits of this collaboration appearing on the recently released Spire [Touch # Tone 20]. He lives and works in Paris and Vienna." Kraftwerk - Aerodynamic CDS (Astralwerks) [ASW48204] $6.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 As one of the anchor tracks on the universally acclaimed new Kraftwerk album Tour De France Soundtracks, 'Aerodynamik' is the prime candidate for a dancefloor re-rub with its propulsive bassline and classic Kraftwerk vocal treatment. The first reincarnation of the track was tested to great effect when Kraftwerk performed at the MTV Europe awards in November in front of a global audience of millions. In keeping with the French theme of the Tour De France concept, Parisian dance luminaries Alex Gopher, Etienne de Crecy and Francois K were commissioned to remix brand new versions with a house edge, while Kraftwerk have rewired the song themselves in the form of the Kling Klang Dynamix. Languis - Four Walls CD (Plug Research) [PLUG47] $10.75 The duo of Marco Chloca and Alejandro Cohen migrated from Argentina to Los Angeles in 1996. Their dream of being rock stars was altered markedly by their discovery of Autechre and Aphex Twin. After 4 albums on the small California label Simballrec, their last Unithematic won them Best Instrumental Band in 2001 in the LA Weekly, they have made a new home at Plug Research. This new album is the perfect balance between live instrumentation and electronic music and features special guests like Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL, Postal Service), DJ Nobody, Paul Larson (Strictly Ballroom) and Chris Hathwell (Moving Units). Laswell, Bill - Imaginary Cuba CD (BMG) [BMG9026] $14.25 No description available at this time. Laswell, Bill - Rasa: Serene Timeless Joy CD (Meta) [META65812] $15.00 No description available at this time. Merzbow - Tamago CD (Plan DX-17) [MZ1] $20.00 LAST COPIES WILL BE BACK IN STOCK SOON. This release was especially commissioned for Plan-DX17 and it is all new material. We asked Merzbow to provide us with a psychedelic noise experience and he more than delivered. The music on the CD is structured, varied, harsh (at times), hypnotic and sometimes rhythmic. In some ways it is Merzbow's take on Japanese Psyche rock. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor CD (Warp) [WARP117] $14.25 Tom Jenkinson returns with his first proper album since 2001's Go Plastic, and he is at the peak of his powers and pinnacle of his renown. His wizardly, fusion-informed bass playing and intricate, frombeyond percussion programming have firmly setablished Tom at the forefront of modern electronic music. In the last 12 months he has been gushingly endorsed by Outkast's Andre 3000, nominated for the Shortlist Prize by same, appeared on the hit soundtrack to the hit film Lost in Translation, and had his video featured in the Chris Cunningham DVD retrospective. Among othe things. His time is now. [ . . . ] 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) - Jimmy Bell's Still in Town CD (Hearpen) [HR112CD] $11.75 "'For 30 years, in a small town 40 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, The Numbers Band have kept the blues alive. Where the guardians of the form starved it of innovation, 15-60-75 nurtured abstract evolution. Where the priests of Budweiser Blues droned old catechisms by rote, 15-60-75 aspired to vision. They play blues reimbued with meaning, purged and purified by flame, shorn of every superfluous moment, sound or word. Because their songs are compiled across a series of markers -- words, sounds, phrases and pauses -- they don't count measures and can't outline the structure of their own songs to an outsider. For the blues, a form routinely approached as a compendium of formulas, this is startling, and it means that any change of personnel necessitates months of not just relearning but rewriting every song. It is a methodology from another planet -- Don Van Vliet and Sun Ra come to mind. It is form dedicated to vision.' -- Dave Thomas, Pere Ubu. Morphius, along with Hearpen Records is proud to re-issue the seminal live recording and debut album Jimmy Bell's Still in Town, taped in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, a true document of pure blues innovation and spirited performance that encapsulates the essence of the Numbers Band sound and style." Akiyama, Tetuzi/Tim Barnes/Masafumi Ezaki - Futuro CD (Quakebasket) [QB019CD] $12.25 "In early 2003, Akiyama (guitar) and Barnes (percussion(s) began a tour that took them from Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, to New York, North Hampton, and Boston. Along the way, they picked up many friends (Ami Yoshida, Matt Valentine, Sean Meehan, Toshimaru Nakamura) to perform with them as trios. One night in particular, a below freezing evening in Osaka, Akiyama and Barnes were joined by one of the most exciting trumpet players to emerge from Japan in the last 20 years -- Masafumi Ezaki. Protected from the frigid world outside, Akiyama, Barnes and Ezaki found themselves surrounded by an amazing collection of Art Deco furniture and Op-Art wall hangings which filled the petite Caf?? Futuro. The trio packed themselves into the smallest corner, and began to respond to all the sensations and elements surrounding them. This completely acoustic musical situation gather its sounds into sparse vertical patterns that continually collapse back into it self. The players seem to travel beyond their own instrument. You rarely hear them play any conventional gestures or tones, as if they were using these instruments to channel some other musical mission." Banhart, Devendra - Rejoicing in the Hands CDEP (Young God) [YGR24] $9.50 RELEASE DATE: 04-30-2004 First album from this singing/songwriting gem to be recorded in a professional studio, after an album and an EP of home recordings. Using the best possible vintage gear, the listener is transported through words, voice and amazing finger-picked acoustic guitar. Billy, Bonnie 'Prince' - Sings Greatest Palace Music CD (Drag City) [DC252CD] $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 03-23-2004 "For years, Palace fans and friends have reveled in the knowledge of one of the world's most unique songbooks. Now they can encounter some of the best-known of the songs all over again, in contrast and collaboration with the originals. There's no hard-and-fast, reductive reasoning to the way these songs have been remade. They were chosen by the fans and recorded with a new group of participants, in different places than the originals. The outcomes are different. It's a whole other beast, not merely a remix record or simply 'Palace with strings' -- though the former and the latter both come to you with strings attached." Black Dice - Miles of Smiles CDEP (DFA) [DFA2134CD] $7.75 "Every release by Black Dice is different. You know that by now, right? Changing the game once again, Black Dice release this 2 song EP, entitled Miles of Smiles. Clocking in at a total running time of 28 minutes, this release will please and confound fans and critics alike, as the band prove once again that whatever they tackle, it is on their terms only. Miles of Smiles was originally created for The Poetry of Sex art exhibit in Tokyo and finds the band exploring a Musique Concrete-like world of chance and surprise. The flip side 'Trip Dude Delay' has been a live staple for many years. It has been on the DFA release schedule for far too long, and we are thrilled to finally get it out there for everyone to experience." Blithe Sons, The - Arm of the Starfish CD (Family Vineyard) [FV29CD] $13.25 "Arm of the Starfish is the fifth full-length release from the outdoor wandering The Blithe Sons, the Jewelled Antler-related duo of Loren Chasse (id Battery, Thuja) and Glenn Donaldson (the Birdtree, Thuja, Mirza)." Byron, Michael - Awakening at the Inn of Birds CD (Cold Blue) [CB0012] $11.75 No description available at this time. Callier, Terry - Fire On Ice CD (DBK Works) [DBK501CD] $14.00 "First time on U.S. CD release Terry Callier's 1978 Elektra debut is clean bedrock, deep Chicago soul. Featuring tenor saxophonists Eddie Harris, Fred Jackson, guitarists Phil Upchurch and Larry Wade, and backing vocalist Minnie Riperton, this set contains two of Callier's most moving tracks: the stunningly poetic 'African Violet,' with a melody as spare and haunting as anything he ever composed, plus the phenomenally written 'Martin St. Martin'." Callier, Terry - Turn You To Love CD (DBK Works) [DBK502CD] $14.00 "This 1979 Elektra set is easily Terry Callier's most underrated album. He handled a lot of the guitar work himself, but he did have help from his songwriting partner Larry Wade and Tommy Tedesco. Also in the house was Motown's Randy Dundlap, courtesy of Smokey Robinson, and horn heroes Ernie Watts and Fred Wesley. The song selection here is impeccable, from the hard, growling gospel funk of 'Sign of the Times' to the serpentine love song 'Pyramids of Love' and a pair of awesome covers: Smokey Robinson's 'Still Water (Love)' and Becker & Fagen's 'Do It Again.' First time U.S. CD release." Carlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music CD (Felmay) [NT6742] $12.00 No description available at this time. Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro CD (A.I.) [AI008CD] $16.50 RELEASE DATE: 04-27-2004 "Claro Intelecto made his debut proper in early 2003 -- his remarkable 'Peace of Mind'12" fast becoming the most discussed dancefloor debut for years, still enjoying re-presses now to keep up with demand. It's one of those rare records (think Dexter's mighty 'I Don't Care' or the recent Alcachofa album by Ricardo Vilalobos) that appealed to both the midnight House kids and the much more serious Detroit electro brigade. Fans of Carl Craig, Drexciya, LFO, Isolee, Akufen and Juan Atkins reacted instantly to the genius at play and have been asking for more ever since. The album is a masterpiece of continuously shifting mood and tempo -- controlling the floor from the Theo Parrish paced deep house of 'Percentages' to the piano-driven soundscaping of 'Baudrillards Supper' to the crushing Warehouse acid of 'Back' to the already classic sounding generic hybrids of EP hits 'Chicago', 'Peace of Mind', 'Section' and 'Contact'. The simple fact is that Techno albums don't tend to work. When they do, everyone sits up and takes notice. Think Derrick May's Innovator , Carl Craig's More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art, Jeff Mills? Waveform Transmissions, The Other People Place Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe, Psyche / BFC's Elements and most recently Ricardo Vilalobos? Alcachofa. That's more than 15 years of Techno reduced to a handful of albums defining their moment, pushing the boundaries a little bit further. Neurofibro is a techno rarity. An album that works from start to finish, taking in a myriad styles, paying homage to the masters and developing some new tricks all its own. In the end all that's needed to describe this record is one word : classic." Comb & Prosperous - Two Of A Kind CD (Ideal) [IDEAL017CD] $12.00 "Where hip-hop should be today. An experimental mentality & deep, strange beats and atmospheres." Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - 11 Instances of Dead Letters + Words CD ( Ideal) [IDEAL018CD] $11.00 "This is ambient music, and it shares some thoughts with Brian Eno's Discreet Music philosophies. Echoes of the late 80's Hafler Trio, minimalism which you can track down to Alvin Lucier and others, the drones -- like a punk-version of Phill Niblock. There we might have it! Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words might be the anarchy in today's sound art." Dempster, Stuart - Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel CD (New Albion) [NA076CD] $11.00 No description available at this time. Digital Intervention, The - Capture CD (ICI D'ailleurs) [PS10101CD] $16.50 "Classically trained French singer Olivia Louvel and long time Mute producer Paul Kendall are the Digital Intervention." Ernan Roch - Con Las Voces Frescas CD (Mariposa Records) [MCDS0401] $15.75 "First time on CD for this extremely rare Rex label psychedelic classic (1971) from Mexico; terrific West Coast style psych, with melodic vocals and blasts of incredible fuzz guitar that seem to come out of nowhere; excellent album, whose current price for an original copy is around $1,000, if you can find a copy." Fires Were Shot - Solace CD (Asphodel) [ASPH2022CD] $12.00 RELEASE DATE: 04-06-2004 "Fires Were Shot are an experimental guitar duo hailing from Austin, Texas... have been compared to everyone from Windy and Carl to Roy Montgomery and most appropriately, Austin neighbors Stars of the Lid." Gong - Acid Motherhood: Gender Blender Special CD (Mister E) [MRE4] $15.25 RELEASE DATE: 03-26-2004 21st century psychedelics Acid Mothers Temple merge with experimental originator Gong for some of the most intense and beguiling post-industrial nu-psychedelia. Guru & Zero - Makoto Mango CD (Swordfish) [GURU001CD] $17.75 "This is the long awaited collaboration between Daevid Allen from Gong and Kawabata Makoto from Acid Mothers Temple. It is one long continuous piece featuring Daevid Allen on glissando guitar and vocals, drone and lead guitars from Kawabata and added synth from Cotton Casino." Kapital Band 1 - Kapital Band 1 2CD (Mosz) [MOSZ001CD] $14.00 "Nicholas Bussmann (Beige Oscillator, Ich schwitze nie) and Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Trapist) are two of the most active musicians along the Vienna-Berlin axis. " Karkowski + Francisco Lopez, Zbigniew - Turnoff CD3 (Noise Asia) [NAIM16CD] $11.00 "The first Asianrelease of Zbigniew Karkowski and Francisco Lopez. 19 minutes of Ambient Noise and Psychedelic Noise from the two significant electronic acoustic artists." Kotche, Glenn - Next CD (Quakebasket) [QB014CD] $12.25 "Next is the appropriately titled second solo recording by Glenn Kotche, recorded during a brief break with his regular musical companions Wilco and OnFillmore. Similar at the most primary level with it's electro-acoustic/concrete predecessor Introducing, Next is an acoustic attempt at exploring the concept that Kotche refers to as coincidental rhythms -- or rhythms out of the range of contrivance and design. To increase the sound possibilities of these rhythms, Kotche employs a number of homemade mallets, sticks, and drum head preparations. Much like what John Cage's work with Sonatas and Interludes did for the piano, Glenn is attempting to do for the drum. Next creates sounds and textures that break free of the conventional ideas of drum music." Kubisch, Christina - Twelve Signals CD (Semishigure) [SEMI004CD] $17.00 "New CD from German sound artist Christina Kubisch on Semishigure, a similar exploration of sound & silence as the first one, Diapason (semi 002). On Twelve Signals Kubisch used original miner bells from a German mine to produce an hour long piece of bell tones. Several electrical bells were hit with small hammers each giving forth a sequence of clear bell tones that hover in the air. This live recording was made in the St. Matthaeus-Kirche in Berlin: halfway through the recording the original ringing of the church bells mixes with the sounds of the recorded miner bells." Literon/Speedy J - Collabs 200 12_inch (Novamute) [NOMU132EP] $8.75 "Collabs 200 is the second in a series of three releases which sees Speedy J working together with other producers. This release unites Speedy with Holland's Literon over two tracks of intense dancefloor techno. The A-side track has a minimal, almost glitchy groove, and is noticeably less linear than Speedy's solo work. His involvement becomes apparent, though, in the drum programming, particularly the overdriven snare hit. The attention to detail in the actual sounds used is typically meticulous, and when the bass drops, it really drops. Tension builds with some fierce reverb (another Speedy trademark), working to a claustrophobic climax of heavy white noise." Los Sonadores - La Vida CD (Mariposa Records) [MCDS0402] $15.75 "First reissue of this dreamy psychedelic rarity from 1972, said to be made by Spanish and Chilean musicians in the USA; don't know about that, but it was issued in the USA on Caytronics, and has been much sought after since then (see the 'Collector's Dreams' books); some great beat ballads combined with trippy melodic psychedelic reveries; a band that was rightly named 'the Dreamers'." Min Bul - Min Bul CD (Universal) [UNI386172] $15.25 Terje Rypdal: (guitar and soprano saxophone); Bjornar Andresen: (bass); Espen Ruud: (drums). "The trio Min Bul came out of a progressive environment of jazz and experimental music in the late sixties surrounded by innovators such as Jan Garbarek, Karin Krog and Arne Norheim. The trio included some of the most important figures in the development of modern music in Norway in the late sixties. Terje Rypdal was by now known from the groundbreaking Jan Garbarek quartet with bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Jon Christensen. All the four of them are today in the heavyweight league of European jazz." Minimal Self - Formula Of Reversal CD (Wavetrap) [WAV03] $13.00 Minimal Self is the most recent project of John Everall (Tactile/Sentrax). One major source of inspiration was the notion of 'Direct film' as explored by Len Lye, who conceived of the idea that by scrathing directly onto celluloid he could map the activity of his own nervous system, thereby creating an objective correlative of an individual's neurological processes. Mokira - Sueismine CDEP (Ideal) [IDEAL013CD] $8.50 No description available at this time. Newsom, Joanna - The Milk-Eyed Mender CD (Drag City) [DC263CD] $12.75 "Drag City takes great pleasure in introducing to you a remarkable new musical singer, songwriter and all-around talent, Joanna Newsom. She considers the late composer Ruth Crawford Seeger (who was one of American folk music's earliest advocates, as well as a vanguardist composer) to be a major influence, because of Seeger's ability and desire to reconcile the tenets of experimentalism with her love for a beautiful melody." Nitrada - We Don't Know Why But We Do It CD (2nd Rec) [2nd015cd] $14.00 An Inter-european sound venture of indie electronics. Olivia Tremor Control, The - Black Foliage: Animation Music CD (Cloud) [CLD004CD] $12.75 "Long awaited re-issue of The Olivia Tremor Control's ambitious, highly influential second album from 1999." Oswald, John - The Arc of Apparition DVD+CD (Noise Asia) [OHMAVATAR034DVD] $16.50 "The OHM ??ditions label is happy to present this double publication, a DVD accompanied by a bonus soundtrack on CD. While in residency at Atavar, John Oswald developed a revolutionary new form of cinema that marries the contemplative gaze we traditionally fix upon a painting, or a photographic still, with the dynamic responsive way we view cinema. This ghostly gathering of mutable figures is the first DVD by Oswald, the infamous composer of Plunderphonics." Parlane, Rosy - Iris CD (Touch) [TO58CD] $13.75 "Rosy Parlane lives in New Zealand; he began playing music with the avant-garde rock trio Thela. Thela released two CDs, Eponymous and Argentina on the label Ecstatic Peace! He subsequently began working with abstract electronic based music, both as a solo artist and as Parmentier with fellow Thela collaborator, Dion Workman. His full and intricate soundscapes are comprised of sample-loops, pianos, guitars, and field recordings manipulated via digital means. Parlane has released two solo albums on Sigma Editions, and a collaboration with Christian Fennesz on the Australian label, Synaesthesia [Live, SYN001]. Iris is the result of a concentrated period of activity and artistic development that will introduce Rosy Parlane to an audience hungry for innovative music. He both challenges and invigorates the current bias towards immersive sound, without ever losing sight of the human touch." Rylander, Henrik - Traditional Arrangements of Feedback CD (Ideal) [IDEAL016CD] $11.00 "Henrik Rylander was the drummer of the infamous and influential garage rock outfit Union Carbide Productions. Pan Sonic or CoH is somehow connected to Rylander's sound, maybe even Radian." Staton, Candi - Candi Staton CD (Honest Jon's) [HJR006CD] $16.75 "There aren't many old soul records as highly regarded, yet as elusive as the tracks Candi recorded for FAME Records of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. But one listen and you'll know that these records deserve all their acclaimed more. This 26-track CD collects some of the finest examples of what is now called Southern Soul. Tough, funky, dirty and proud, these recordings feature Rick Hall's driving production work and some of the best sessions musicians ever assembled. And above it all is Candi's voice, honeyed with the experience of loving, living, loving and losing." Sylvian, David/Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen CDEP (Samadhi Sound) [SAMAD002CD] $11.25 "Some months back Ryuichi instigated the chain-music project. A chain letter in musical form, anti-war in origination. He originally asked me to write a set of lyrics for the project. Initially I felt apprehensive about taking on such weighty subject matter lyrically. In a very real sense this approach to lyric writing is the antithesis to my own. I also happened to be travelling at the time the request reached me so, reluctantly, I felt I had to turn it down. However, as the week wore on I found myself pacing the streets of London with the beginnings of an idea for a piece called 'World Citizen'. On my return to the US, I found the chain-music composition waiting for me. My immediate response to the piece was to repeat two lines at the heart of the composition, one of which was the phrase 'World Citizen'. The title resonated in a simple way. A necessary redirection of focus away from the national towards the global. That evening I penned the song 'World Citizen'. I recorded a one-take demo a week later and sent an MP3 file to Ryuichi to see if, in his opinion, the piece was worth pursuing. The initial response was muted. A few days later Ryuichi said that he liked the concept of World Citizen and wondered if we couldn't write a more pop orientated piece with the same title. After a few false starts Ryu sent a loop of a sampled piano. To this I composed and recorded the lyric and melody of the song and returned the files to Ryuichi. He passed them onto Harumi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi (Sketch Show) who made valuable contributions to the piece. It was at this time that Ryuichi called and suggested we record the version of 'World Citizen' I'd originally sent to him. We spent a week putting the piece together in NY with Skuli Sverrisson (Laurie Anderson) on bass, Amedeo Pace (Blonde Redhead) on guitar and Steve Jansen on drums. Ryuichi and I mixed the piece together in NY. The following week Ryuichi returned to the composition now known as World Citizen (I won't be disappointed)', finally making a connection with the song, completing it with rhythm, melody and producing the final mix." -- David Sylvian September 2003. "Sylvian and Sakamoto collaborated for the first time in 1982 when they wrote the double A side 'Bamboo Music / Bamboo Houses', but it was in 1983 that they scored a Top 20 hit with 'Forbidden Colours'. Since then both David and Ryuichi have forged successful ground-breaking careers which have left in their wake such album's as Brilliant Trees and Dead Bees On A Cake for Sylvian, and the score to The Last Emperor and most recently a Morelenbaum tribute album for Sakamoto. There are five tracks included on World Citizen, in a different running order and with completely different artwork to the package that was released late last year by Warner Music Japan. The final track of the CD features a remix by acclaimed remixer Ryoji Ikeda. The songs were recorded in New York and New Hampshire, USA in the summer of 2003. Sylvian and Sakamoto have not released a record together for 21 years, which makes this a very special release. World Citizen, with its powerful lyrics and excellent melody, is a must have for all Sylvian and Sakamoto fans." Ty - Upwards CD (Big Dada) [BDA57] $14.25 The second set for bubbling over UK producer/MC Ty, Upwards is both the title and its artistic statement, taking hip-hop to new place. Both entertaining and enlightening, light-hearted and innovative, the record features legendary afrobeat drummer Tony Allen and appearances by Michelle Escoffery, Bembe Seque, Breis and Shortman. Various Artists - Enjoy Detroit CD (Third Ear) [3E010CD] $15.25 "Third Ear are very proud to present this superb compilation of new and exclusive tracks from the Premier Cru label. Premier Cru is a label from Detroit, which grew out of a 'jazz/dance/hip hop band called JWQ (Jonathan Williams Quartet). In addition to Premier Cru founder George Katsiris, on guitar. The band also featured future Premier Cru artists Erv Green , Jun Shiina and Jonathan Williams. The band played in and around Detroit and opened up for such acts as De La Soul, Greyboy Allstars, Groove Collective and the James Taylor Quartet. After college, the members moved to various parts of the country but stayed in touch. For the next two years everyone continued to make music, each producing their own tracks by playing all of the instruments over electronically generated drums. All of the artists, the photographer, the package layout designer, Web site designer, even the picture of the Cadillac on the sleeve (it is a soul food joint where you get a free car wash with your purchase), are from Michigan. Only some of the featured soloists are from elsewhere. Originally, George Katsiris compiled Enjoy Detroit to bring together the family of musicians that he had been a part of in Michigan. However, as the album was being put together, he met other people from the D, such as Jason Hogans, and Kenny Flav, who contributed tracks. Wayne Kounty has since found success writing and producing for Mary J. Blige and Busta Rhymes." Various Artists - Zentertainment CD (Ninja Tune) [NJT2004] $6.75 Low priced sampler of tracks to appear on upcoming Ninja Tune and Big Dada albums in 2004. Artists include Diplo, Skalpel, Hexstatic, Loka, Blockhead, Lotek Hi-Fi, Jaga Jazzist, Wagon Christ, Sixtoo and Infinite Lives. This is clearly a new era for our friends the Ninjas, and the future is looking decidedly groundbreaking. Wire, The - #242 April 2004 Magazine (The Wire) [WIRE242] $7.25 On the cover: Ghost; Features: Rammellzee, Jack Rose; The Primer: Cecil Taylor; Invisible Jukebox: Luc Ferrari; Dean Roberts, Cocorosie, Pelican. Ya Ho Wa 13 - I'm Gonna Take You Home CD (Swordfish) [YHVH001CD] $16.50 "The ultimate acid album ever!" Youngs, Richard - River Through Howling Sky CD (Jagjaguwar) [JAG68] $12.75 No description available at this time.