Does anyone else on the list like Naked City at all?
Of course. The album with the dead guy on the cover is genius. Torture Garden ain't bad either. The Japanese guy shouting on both of those album's is Yamasuka Eye, and his band The Boredoms is definitely worth checking out. Vision Creation New Sun is their masterpiece, damn here I am recommending an album I don't even own, man I'm a wanker! Just to complete the loop Zorn produced the first Mr. Bungle album and Patton contributes some shrieks to Naked City's L'eng Cheng, although that record is fairly unlistenable.
Another band I love (and didn't the Orb remix them?) is Material. Somehow their deep mixes and integration of spoken word into their songs seems very related to whatever genre of music the Orb et. al. makes. I know there are some other Laswell fans on the list. Anything actually new from those guys?
Nothing new from Material per se (and yes The Orb did the nice 17 minute remix of Praying Mantra which is on Aunite Aubrey Vol. 1). But Laswell recently put out that terrible Axiom Reconstructions CD that had collaborations with Carl Craig and others. However the Tabla Beat Science CDs (and new DVD) Laswell's collaboration with traditional Indian musicians, are pretty good. Yeah I remember vinyl, wait a minute I spend half of my paycheck on vinyl every week, d'oh! Jason _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es