EAR/Rational Update Week 21, 2008

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This week's CD update contains releases by:

1-2-6 * A Guy Called Gerald * Abbasi Brothers, The * Adultnapper * All The Saints * Allez Allez * Ant Trip Ceremony, The * Ascend * Black Sun Ensemble * Botticellis * Brainbombs * Castanets * Chap, The * Charlie Feathers * Chenaux * Chrissy 'Zebby' Tembo * Club 8 * Cough * Daniel Zamir * Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi * Depth Affect * Douglas Armour * Elliott Sharp * Elodie Lauten * Ennio Morricone * Erik Satie/Mike Svoboda * Explorers Club * Fairlane Parkway * Frank Denyer * Gable * Gates of Slumber * H.P. Lovecraft * High Places * Hootch * Iannis Xenakis * Indian Jewelry * J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers * Jeremy Jay * Joe Grimm * Johnny Pate * Keiji Haino/Yoshida Tatsuya * Ken Ikeda * Kyle Bobby Dunn * Lodger * Lorez Alexandria * Low Motion Disco * Magdalena * Malcolm Middleton * Maluco * Marc Namblards * Marco Bailey & Tom Hades * Margaret Leng Tan * Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer * Minoru Sato (m/s, SASW) + ASUNA * Minox * Morgen * Move D & Benjamin Brunn * Mushroom * Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds * Opitope * Phantom Orchard * Polder * Preliminary Saturation * Pumice * Ricardo Villalobos * Riccardo Dillon Wanke * Ron Geesin * Savage Resurrection, The * Silver Jews * Sissy Spacek * Solution * Sound Of Arrows * Sun Ra All Stars * Sunset * Sutcliffe Jugend * Terry Riley * Tetuzi Akiyama * Thing * Tom Waits * TSOL * Vernon Joynson * Ween * Wild Billy Childish & The Blackhands * Winterhawk * Yair Etziony * Yop * {{{Sunset}}}

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Ennio Morricone - Ultimate Morricone Collection CD Box (Dagored) [EEDBOX004] $157.50
Sensational! A tribute to the Maestro for his absolutely necessary consecration as one of the best composers for cinema ever: on February 25th, 2007 ENNIO MORRICONE was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. This 24 CD box set of Morricone's best works is now available in a special 1970s vintage white carrying case with a reversible burgundy pleather cover. Features the CD soundtracks to: Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene, La Donna Invisibile, Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna, Il Gatto A Nove Code, Revolver, Il Poliziotto Della Brigata Criminale, Slalom, Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura, Gli Intoccabili, L'Attentato, Il Diavolo Nel Cervello, Giornata Nera Per L'Ariete, Ecce Homo (I Sopravvissuti), Il Serpente, Barbablu, Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione?, I Figli Chiedono Perche, L'Istruttoria e Chiusa: Dimentichi, Gott Mit Uns, Tepepa, La Corta Notte Delle Bambole Di Vetro, La Califfa, Ad Ogni Costo. L'Avventuriero.

Joe Grimm - Brain Cloud CD (Spekk) [KK015] $18.50
The seed for this music was planted when I participated in one of Glenn Branca's 100-guitar symphonies. The sound was incredible: a deafening, electric choir incorporating so many voices that the each element was subsumed within the group sound. But I was struck even more by the unrealized potential in Branca's approach; the sound was separated into several identifiable voices, so that the impression given was of a conventional counterpoint-driven music. I wanted to make a particulate music that presented itself as a single mass of varying density, comprised of tens of thousands of individual events. Soon afterward, I began to immerse myself in the piano music of Charlemagne Palestine. I learned from him that when two notes share a particular frequency in their overtone series, that frequency can be made to sing out clearly -- a ghost tone, not played directly, but arising from the interactions among the directly played notes. I began to compose and improvise with this in mind -- I could sketch out desired pitches, and then arrange webs of lower pitches that coincided to produce those target pitches within their harmonic series.

Ken Ikeda - Mist on the Window CD (Spekk) [KK010] $18.50
There are moments in your life when something changes as you hear and become aware of the sounds around you. Why do the sounds that cups and chairs make feel so distant? It seems that ‘I’ as an existence won’t be forgiven for being my ordinary self. The meaningless noise that reverberates in the living room opens up the possibility of connecting beyond the horizon... Then, I become alone and say goodbye to the ‘Me that was pretending to be like me’. By assimilating these everyday sounds I get away from the everyday me and get closer, little by little, to the universe of ‘eternity and nothingness’. At this point – meaning the moment I change – I enter a personal time and space which could never be shared with others. During the 2 years spent on this project I used an instrument made with rubber bands and nails to document my daily involvement with sounds. There exist various faces of ‘me’ and through the process of recording I became aware of the concept of ‘beyond the window’ and got lost in this vague daily space. What could you see beyond the window? The whole universe and at the same time the usual me living my daily, ordinary life.

Marc Namblards - Chants Of Frozen Lakes CD (Kalerne) [kal01] $22.13
« Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing has never happened, still it is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never. » Franz Kafka

Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer - Mesoscaphe CD (Spekk) [KK014] $18.50
The album 'Mesoscaphe' is a sound work dedicated to the 1969 voyage of the Ben Franklin, the naturally-propelled submarine created to explore the currents of the Gulf Stream, and the nature of the sea. Half of the sound is composed of original pieces of music, meant to symbolize a deepening human element culled from memory, from strings, pianos, and electronics. The other half of the sound is composed of natural field recordings, of the Ben Franklin itself, as well as the surrounding oceans and habitats, with the intention of providing realism through sound, just as if it were an actual document from the voyage, of the surrounding ocean. The artists exchanged their own original sounds with each other, allowing each artist to experiment and remix outside of their own sound sources, with the potential to apply our own sound methods to each others' sound sources, and develop the concept even further. Titles were made to coordinate with the movement of the voyage, creating their own story, in relation to the progressing sounds. The final result is a documented literary and audio interpretation of the voyage, from the perspective of 3 sound and visual artists, of the experiences and surroundings of the crew of the Ben Franklin, traveling for 30 days by the gentle glide of the Gulf Stream. We hope to bring attention to an important event in history, overshadowed by the moon landings, and for people to know the story of the revolutionary submarine that explored the nature of the ocean, challenged scientific development, and ended up in a salvage yard.

Minoru Sato (m/s, SASW) + ASUNA - Texture in glass tubes and reed organ CD (Spekk) [KK012] $18.50
We have been performing “music” focusing on the materialistic nature (physical phenomena) of sounds by utilizing the reed organ and glass tubes. Our music is composed and constructed in such a way that however the phenomena we use reacts with the circumstances of the space – the situation of the site including the audience – our live performance involves and uses these conditions. Since these compositions are studio recordings however, we decided to exclude acoustic spatial matters and the ‘one-time-ness’ of live performances and instead composed the structure of resonances within certain divisions of time. This is similar to textiles – weaving “resonances”, rather than thread, in certain patterns.

Opitope - Hau CD (Spekk) [KK011] $18.50
This an imaginary album traveling from the north to south, overlapping the images of transition of the four seasons. In reality, indeed one things always leads to an end and I feel sad every time I think about that. In this album, we tried to express this sorrow feeling changing gradually into hope as we travel south. Seasons have no end. It always moves from spring, summer, autumn, winter back to spring.. And just like the changing seasons, the tracks in this album constantly shifts another and the last piece connects to the very beginning which forms the never ending circle. We have expressed the images of these "endings" with "never endings" by music. These thoughts were brought up naturally during the making of this album and it's not that we had this idea from the start. Another concept of this album is "symmetry". There are 9 pieces in this album and is constructed by track 5 being the axis of the symmetry - like in terms os composition, 1st track is a piano piece and also the 9th track. The same thing goes to the arrangements like you will notice sounds that forms contrasts between the left & right speaker.

Preliminary Saturation - Staring At Empty Eyes CD-R (Dirty Demos) [DirtyCDR030] $9.76
A recent review by Frans de Waard at Vital Weekly reads: "Suddenly it all came together. Preliminary Saturation was hard to avoid this week. This duo of Wouter Jaspers (sometimes known as Franz Fjodor) and Steffan de Turck (otherwise Staplerfahrer), both from the active forces of the Dutch city of Tilburg, were playing at Extrapool this week, and on returning home I found two of their releases. On stage I noticed a wide range of effect boxes, mixing console, acoustic objects (including tin cans, jar lid and what appeared to be sand) and mechanical devices. Their concert started out with high pitched feedback but fared better when they started to explore the objects with contact microphones and treated the sounds with their sound effects. Both releases are alike the concert, but worked out better, even when they too seem to be live recordings. All of the pieces last around twenty to thirty minutes. 'Staring At Empty Eyes' is slightly under thirty minutes and is more alike the concert I heard, less a noisy beginning. Here things are 'mildly' noisy at the beginning with rotating sounds (mechanical objects on surfaces?) which gradually goes down in volume but cranks up in frequency. Once arrived in the area of a few crackles they built up their sound and end up with much noise."

Various Artists - Birth Certificate CD-R (I, Absentee) [IA005] $17.00
Our debut compilation, featuring 17 exclusive tracks from Goudron (Interdimensional Transmissions, Ersatz Audio), Ambidextrous (U-Cover, Shaped Harmonics), Dorosoto (aka Forrest of U-Cover), Tobacco. (Black Moth Super Rainbow), 21 Jumpsuit, Slap [Unmodified] (Thomas Sinclair, one half of Black Turtleneck w/Solvent), Milieu (Infraction, U-Cover), Power Pill Fist (Black Moth Super Rainbow), Mall Security, Neon Tetra (Noise Factory Canada), Lunar Testing Lab and MANY more. Limited to 250 copies : 125 on white digipak, 125 on black digipak.

Yair Etziony - Flawed CD (Spekk) [KK013] $18.50
When i started working on this project i wanted to create two separate albums, one with smoked jazzy feeling with emphasis on beats and second one with only textures,a piano and pads. At that time i was performing a lot with this sort of music in galleries, art events and museums. In my live show performance i used to combine elements from both albums, i liked the way it sounded and slowly i got the notion that i can fuse all the sounds and ideas into one album. I tried to use the same working techniques for all the tracks in the album, most of them were created on a computer, some beats and stabs that were created on an old analog sampler. Most of the work effort was to edit the raw material i had and than arrange in on my computer. All composition deal with mistakes, non-perfect things and flaws. I think that sometimes when dealt in the right way a mistake or a flaw can be a beautiful thing, like a broken CRT monitor that still sends a signal. I got my inspiration from day to day things like : walking at night, sounds of machines working and office ambiance at night. During the process of making the album i lost all my hard drive data and all the projects i already created for the album were deleted. I never backup my work, my only luck was to find a DVD with some of the projects thrown somewhere around my studio (i burned one DVD to test the new burner).

Yop - A Ltd. Lion Pup CD (Esc.Rec.) [esc.rec.20] $20.19
Yop is a singer/songwriter from Rotterdam. Like some sort of home-made Brian Wilson variety he layers his songs, while at the same time stealing some tricks from the likes of Robert Pollard, Grandaddy, Kristin Hersh, Frank Black and Ray Davies. This free download is an esc.rec. re-release of the 2006 original that was self-released by Yop, but holds a previously unreleased bonus track to top the cake.

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1-2-6 - Graveyard Paradise: The Complete 1 2 6 Taboo Recordings 1966-68 CD (Ugly Things) [UTCD2206] $14.00
Hailing from the coldest, northernmost region of Norway, 1-2-6 (One-Two-Six) were inspired by the sounds of the Beatles, the Kinks, the Who and Bob Dylan, but blended these influences with an approach that was distinctly European. The brilliant original songwriting of ASA KROGTOFT allied simple beat group arrangements and melodic psychedelic pop with a unique, often surrealistic poetic sensibility. This twenty-eight-track CD anthology includes their complete works: the Curtains Falling album, non-LP singles, demos and rarities, and both singles by Asa's post-1-2-6 band TABOO, all from the original master tapes. Graveyard Paradise is the first time this material has been released outside of Norway. It includes an amazing array of original music: raw beat group rave-ups, dark folk-rock excursions, post-Revolver/Pepper psychedelic moves, gorgeous orchestrated pop, and heavier freakbeat sounds. The deluxe 16-page CD booklet is loaded with rare pix and full liner notes.

Abbasi Brothers, The - Something Like Nostalgia CD (Dynamophone) [DO-012] $14.50
RELEASE DATE: 05-26-2008
Something Like Nostalgia is a film for your ears, a cinematic glimpse into the purity of everyday life. Written over 2 years time, these 15 scenes are like snapshots of daydreams, their soundscapes are their subtitles, and the origin is not so very foreign. Shoe-gaze, dream-pop instrumental.

Adultnapper - Audiomatique Volume 2.0 CD (Audiomatique) [AM003CD] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 06-10-2008
After the devastating excellence of Audiomatique Volume 1.0, mixed by venerable label don Martinez, it's time for the masters to reclaim their techno crown. Steve Bug's imprint Audiomatique is back with a second label compilation, seamlessly blended by NYC's arch tech selector, Adultnapper. Audiomatique Volume 2.0 is a descent into the deepest realms of electronic rhythm, veering from the spare, crisp minimalism of Gui Boratto and Martin Eyerer's "The Beach," to the moody, strobe-lit melancholia of M_nus producer Gaiser's "Found Guilty Mix" of Adultnapper's own "Juror No. 9." A perfect snapshot of the label's diverse roster, Adultnapper subtly builds the mix from stripped-back, echoing grooves to tougher, club-battering technoid epics.

All The Saints - Fire On Corridor X CD (Killer Pimp) [PIMPK005] $11.75
RELEASE DATE: 05-27-2008
***Don't be fooled by the piss-stained mattress on the cover, the debut from this Alabama-raised Atlanta-based power trio is moderately clean for one of Atlanta's most thunderous groups. ALL THE SAINTS not only commanded their control of volume and intensity, but with their debut album have proven their abilities in composition and arrangement. These ten songs often flow together, creating a fully-realized conceptual album, without being a "concept album." The stellar production of BEN H. ALLEN (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, P-Diddy, Christina Aguilera) compliments their abilities as players and singers. Reference points include Loop, Gun Club, Verbena, In Camera, Federation X, and Swans. The band has earned fans in groups like Deerhunter, Battles, and A Place To Bury Strangers, and will embark on a small East-Coast tour upon the release of Fire On Corridor X.

Ascend - Ample Fire Within CD (Southern Lord) [SUNN93] $14.00
RELEASE DATE: 05-27-2008
***ASCEND is a new collaborative musical project between GENTRY DENSLEY (ICEBURN, EAGLE TWIN) and GREG ANDERSON (SUNN O))), GOATSNAKE, ENGINE KID). Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 19 years. The most notable being during the '90s when Andersons' band Engine Kid toured with and shared a split album with Densleys' band Iceburn. During that time both were heavily experimenting with the fusion of jazz (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane) and the dark behemoth tones of influences such as The Melvins, Gore, Slint, and Caspar Brotzman. Ascend re-visits some of the tones, and moods of their past works as well as traveling into uncharted territory all done with the utmost focus on heaviness and power. Of particular note is the vocal performance by Gentry Densley. His voice is deep and ominous with a subtle Tom Waits influence within the growls and gruffness that is emoted. Features contributions from ANDY PATTERSON, STEVE MOORE (EARTH), BUBBA DUPREE (VOID!), and KIM THAYIL (SOUNDGARDEN).

Black Sun Ensemble - Across the Sea of Id: The Way to Eden CD (Camera Obscura) [cam083] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 07-07-2008
Quite possibly the final BSE release after an illustrious career of nearly 25 years. It marks a return to the beloved semi-acoustic style of their first few releases, and also - due to public demand! - contains no vocals. It is a mixture of new readings of past tracks & new compositions. The new material offers a singular, dreamy vision of BSE's potentially final works. The two title tracks, Across the Sea of Id and Eden Song, are reflective, yet hallucinatory explorations into Jesus Acedo's unique compositional & melodic sensibility. While Angel de la Guardia has a refined yet explosive rock swagger, it is balanced by the meditation Perelandra & La Paz. The CD also contains a video of the band performing the signature BSE piece "Dove of the Desert".

Botticellis - Old Home Movies CD (Antenna Farm) [ANT525] $11.75
The debut album from the BOTTICELLIS is polished, orchestral, and surprisingly subtle, with a remarkably full and mature sound for such a young band. The classic, larger than life production is full of delicate flourishes; the Botticellis' stylized sound echoes the production aesthetic of some of the great '70s pop records from Big Star, Chris Bell, and George Harrison. "A classic is a classic the first time you hear it..../Old Home Movies/, with phantom kisses and bygone ghosts of yesteryear jumping out of the binding, is a sung benediction to great songs had and great songs yet to come, a rare and blindly first offering."--Daytrotter

Brainbombs - Obey CD (Armageddon) [ARMAG012CD] $13.50
"Finally available again, the domestic CD version of the classic and essential Brainbombs release. Out of print for several years & unleashed again. Obey hits hard with 8 tracks of serial killer-inspired dirge/noise/rock put through a No Wave filter. The audio equivalent of watching Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer... or having dinner with Albert Fish while Whitehouse records spin in the background."

Chap, The - Mega Breakfast CD (Ghostly International) [gi072] $13.25
RELEASE DATE: 06-30-2008
They've become known & loved for their inimitable pop/improv/disco/rock~Vwith~Vstrings sound & a furiously rocking live show, complete w/ dance routines. It's the sound of the search for a heart of gold in a world gone cold. It deals w/ sex issues, depression & classic economics. It's all infectious, blistering pop music, but all the while something is deliciously wrong here, making for what is sure to be one of the most intriguing releases of 2008.

Chenaux - Sloppy Ground CD (Constellation) [CST52] $14.50
Sloppy Ground is ERIC CHENAUX's strongest, most accessible and most dynamic work in years. Constellation has long been champions of the man's inimitable talents--as a songwriter, arranger and mind-bending guitarist--and this new album should make these talents clear to the nominally attentive listener. This is a collection of beautifully fried love songs, highly original in compositional approach and instrumental texture, utterly compelling in lyrical content and delivery. As Chenaux says, "the lyrics are more concerned with what love does rather than what it means...the time moving through these tunes is not one of the beginning of love or the end or heartbreak of love (though I love that stuff too) but more often in the middle (the working middle, the in between)."

Club 8 - Jesus, Walk With Me CDEP (Labrador) [LAB113] $11.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-09-2008
5 tracks. Club 8's critically acclaimed album "The boy who couldn't stop dreaming" is pop music at it's most profound - and the most personal, honest and beloved song in the whole collection spells "Jesus, walk with me". On this new 5-track EP the title track is backed up by four brilliant, exclusive tracks - two brand new songs and remixes by Jimahl and The Sound of Arrows. The first new song, "What I'm dreaming of is something I could have", perfectly highlights what everyone loved about their latest album. Gentle, warm pop music as loveable as it gets. The other new track, "Take me home", shows a new side of Club 8. It's minimalistic psychedelia and colorfully mind-altering and hypnotic gospel pop! The first remix is signed by The Sound of Arrows - Sweden's most promising new act with an approach to music that bare some similarity to Saint Etienne around "Foxbase Alpha" or The Avalanches. Their take on "Jesus, walk with me" is just as surprising as it's genius. One of the most interesting ambient dub acts today, Jimahl, rounds up the EP perfectly with an extreme make over of Jesus. "Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to"? Possibly, yes-- "Jimahl's 8-minute remix settles into chill-out mode at the start... more percussion and melodic snippets join as the song heads into the chorus, then settles back into a wistful, spacious groove, with just a few phrases shining out of the hypnotic mists." PITCHFORK. "This is just perfect simple clever dreamy indie pop. Beautiful, you really need to go find it." (Organ) "Focused on the melancholy pop that is their forte, Karolina Komstedt's breathy vocals are very much to the fore on these ravishingly pretty melodies. These songs about love and the fleeting nature of existence pack an emotional punch. (**** Q) "--it throbs to the pulse of deliciously bittersweet guitar melodies, a lifelong passion for The Smiths and even a shaking of Latin percussion" (**** Metro) "--. dreamiest dreampop imaginable, with Karolina Komstedt's feather-light voice placed delicately over Johan Angergard's gently evolving backing tracks." (4 Stars, The Sunday Times) "Themes of loss and death are beautifully rendered, as melancholic as the pale winter sunlight." (NARC) "An absolute bundle of Scandinavian indie-pop brilliance from start to finish-- (The Beat Surrender) "They do this well, the Swedes. Clean guitars, vocals like water over ice, frictionless." (Plan B) "exquisite pop" (Pitchfork Media) "The sixth album by this Swedish duo is a collection of delicate indie pop." (Under The Radar) "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming presents a masterclass in how to craft lovely and affecting songs, without ever veering into preciousness or pretension. (Baeble Music) "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming is the perfect record to keep the days sunny and long, and make us long for dressing up and riding in a Vespa." (The Tripwire) "Exceptional stuff, recommended." (5 Stars, Babysue) "Club 8 have reached new heights with their sixth outing" (9/10 It's A Trap!).

Cough - Sigillum Luciferi CD (Forcefield) [FF008] $9.00
RELEASE DATE: 05-27-2008
***Tune down. Smoke up. Let the feedback roar. Get ready to be brutalized. Richmond, Virginia's COUGH is whiskey-soaked, stoner doom at its ugliest. Recorded at Volume Studios with SANFORD PARKER (Bured At Sea, Minsk), these six songs will pummel your skull and rumble your insides. Imagine all-consuming Eyehategod-esque sludge layered with the slow, forceful shredding of Iron Monkey or Electric Wizard--only way more stoneded.

Daniel Zamir - I Believe CD (Tzadik) [TZ8125] $14.50
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Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi - Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock!!! CD (Eskimo) [ESK502168] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
Eskimo delivers a fantastic follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed Prins Thomas mix, Cosmo Galactic Prism. This mix journeys from the public dancehall to the disco, from the smooch to the shake, from the orchestra to the DJ. Daniele Baldelli remains one of the first Italian DJs, who started his illustrious career back in the `60s and became one of Italo-disco's kings of the dancefloor. Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock!!! celebrates a turntable odyssey from a man who lived and breathed Italian disco, American Rn'B and synth pop and pioneered the sound which has influenced countless DJs and producers who currently mine the golden age of synth pop for inspiration. A mixture of European records alongside American soul records, rhythm and blues and funk combined with Afro style against Ravel, Steve Reich, Jorge Ben, Depeche Mode and Malinke chants from New Guinea"

Depth Affect - Hero Crisis CD (Autres Directions In Music) [Moulin018] $18.50
RELEASE DATE: 06-02-2008
The *Depth Affect* project was born in the new millennium in the suburbs of Nantes, France. In David Bideau and Remy Charrier's student rooms, keyboards and laptops outnumbered Beach Boys and Autechre records. From then on, they were set to start building the architecture of their music. A few years later, with a handful of songs in their pockets, a few gigs and their duet being completed by a team composed of a DJ and a VJ, their music found its own personal path and their first album *Arche-Lymb* received critical acclaim. At that time the band also offered free downloads of remixes of Arche-Lymb tracks made by a wide cast of electronica musicians. On top of that they worked on their live performance and developed a new and original approach to the stage which they had a chance of displaying live in several glorious French venues and festivals. In their new album *Hero Crisis*, the colours of melancholy have taken over the naive beauty and bucolic joy of their first record. In Hero Crisis, their songwriting has become more direct, both harsher and colder, with catchy melodies enhanced by an astonishing production. The twelve tracks of Hero Crisis mix influences stemming from r'n'b, pop, hip-hop, ambient, click'n'cut and dubstep, thus creating a new dreamy and feverish soundscape.

Douglas Armour - Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night CD (Social Registry) [TSR051] $13.25
The debut full-length from Los Angeles-based DOUGLAS ARMOUR. This album finds the artist expertly blending tons of beloved poptones from days past to create a hyper-literate pastiche that's equal parts nostalgia and forward thinking. Echoing its title, the album has a structure that plays off binary oppositions to create one of the most varied pop albums heard in a long time.

Elliott Sharp - String Quartets 2002-2007 CD (Tzadik) [TZ8052] $14.50
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Explorers Club - Freedom Wind CD (Dead Oceans) [DOC007] $13.25
THE EXPLORERS CLUB'S debut album, Freedom Wind finds The Beach Boys as an obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you'll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney, the Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, the Explorers Club has recorded the sweetest pop record you are likely to hear this year. The Explorers Club are doing for the summer beach song what Amy Winehouse has done for R&B or Sharon Jones for funk and soul, what Antibalas have done for Afro-beat. They're reclaiming the classics as their own, injecting them with life, and making music that that transcends any era.

Fairlane Parkway - Memory Of Open Spaces CD (Kora) [TKR012] $12.75
ZACHARY OKUN & RAJ GADHIA met in a quiet summer of college unemployment. Raj recognized Zach as the guy in the back of the dusty university anthropology lab who diligently slept through monkey documentaries, waking from deep sleep only to angrily protest discernable differences in the skull specimens forced upon the class every week. In this manner things came to a head and they were graduated, just as they decided to have a good run at actually thinking. Reeling in denial, the two began recording together in 2002. They were promptly kidnapped by an enthusiastic fan & ushered into a studio. Limited Edition of 700 hand-numbered, die cut sleeves.

Gable - Seven Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk CD (Loaf) [LOAF16] $13.25
French pop heritage is littered with smooth and creamy icons: Gainsbourg, Karen Anne, Adamo, and Francois Hardy. GABLE, however, is a completely different kettle de poisson. Wearing their influences on their sleeves--Moldy Peaches, Meat Puppets, early Sonic Youth--they stick a big, lovely lump of absolutely bonkers, stinky musical cheese in the face of their suave ancestry. Seven Guitars With a Cloud of Milk is Gable's second album, containing eighteen tracks clocking in at just under 40 minutes. The songs cover such diverse topics as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realization, cats, and drunk foxes, in the best tradition of DIY bands like The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, and Beat Happening. No exports outside North America

Gates of Slumber - Conqueror CD (Profound Lore) [PFL034] $13.25
It was only a matter of time before Indianapolis, Indiana's THE GATES OF SLUMBER gained recognition as one of the most prominent true doom/heavy metal acts in the country. Spawned in the late '90s, the band emerged in 2004 after several demos with their debut, The Awakening, a breath of fresh air in the metal underground. The album harnessed their influences--Black Sabbath, Pentagram, St. Vitus, Cirith Ungol, Rainbow, Thin Lizzy--as a solid foundation for their sound. Its follow-up, Suffer No Guilt, was hailed as one of the best albums of its kind to come out in 2006. With The Gates of Slumber securing a North American label for the first time, the much-anticipated Conqueror is the band's first album released domestically--and rightfully so, as it is their most accomplished, tight, and focused to date. Featuring surging melodies, passionate vocals, crushing riffs, wailing solos, and a storming rhythm section, the epic Conqueror is a landmark release in underground metal. No exports to Canada or the UK/Europe

High Places - 03/07 - 09/07 CD (Thrill Jockey) [THR204CD] $12.00
"High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance. Both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and shared a love of layers.."

Indian Jewelry - Free Gold CD (We Are Free) [WRF004] $12.00
In 2006, several members of the INDIAN JEWELRY songwriting and performance team found the bitch of fame licking them on the hand. Blinded by vanity, easy fame, self love, and the internet, they went into an early retirement. Free Gold is Indian Jewelry's first full-length in almost two years. It is also their most scathing with dirty hooks, shape shifting grooves, and a lot of attitude. Free Gold is what people will desire. Look for them on tour this spring and summer

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers - Last Kiss CD (Cicadelic Records) [CIC1964CD] $12.75
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Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go CD (K Records) [KLP187] $13.25
This is a debut album containing ten songs, but really it is a cinematic escapade into the mind of a singular individual, JEREMY JAY. A Place Where We Could Go is a statement of fiction and fact, exploring the shadowy depths of an attitude: the romance of life without the people and things that pull down the corners; create your own world. This universe may have a fairy tale look; it may be illuminated by streetlight. But it will definitely be a safe haven for the exploration of dreams. Think vast landscapes of reverberating storybook endings populated by the more charming characters from John Hughes' movies. Jeremy Jay: dancing, singing and playing guitar. A Place Where We Could Go is your hardcopy of the illusive, blonde, Jeremy Jay moon-roof vista. Buena.

Keiji Haino/Yoshida Tatsuya - Uhrfasudhasdd CD (Tzadik) [TZ7265] $14.50
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Kyle Bobby Dunn - Fragments & Compositions CD (Sedimental) [SED052CD] $12.25
"Fragments & Compositions is a collection of long-processed recordings that began at several universities and art centers visited frequently from 2005 to 2007. Working with classically trained musicians recruited on a whim, Dunn recorded the often awkward sounds of the sessions and sparse notes of the musicians as Dunn dictated.

Lodger - Life Is Sweet CD (Slumberland) [SL80] $12.00
Since forming in 2004, THE LODGER has thrilled informed pop lovers with their special brand of classic English guitar pop. Starting with a string of four singles and culminating in their brilliant debut album, Grown-Ups--which drew comparisons to heavyweights like The Smiths and The Wedding Present--the band has gone from strength to strength, developing a polished, literate sound that shows a keen interest in critical pop touchstones like The Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, and Orange Juice but is still planted firmly in today. More textural and varied than its predecessor, Life Is Sweet is still filled with gorgeous melodies and catchy tunes, but is also deeper and more thoughtful, full of emotional peaks and valleys. Rather than just chip in with an album of "more of the same," the band has paid extra attention to the arrangements, with 12-string and acoustic guitars, lap steel, and violin adding crucial detail and depth to the tunes. No CD exports outside the USA

Low Motion Disco - Keep It Slow CD (Eskimo) [ESK501887] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Low Motion Disco - secretive producer(s) who know how to keep things on the down low. Following recent singles Love Love Love Parts 1 and 2 featuring remixes from the likes of LSB, Aeroplane, DFA's Still Going and Soft Rocks. Keep It Slow fuses found sounds, field recordings and live instruments with lap top trickery, providing us with 13 tracks of perfect horizontal dancing. From KLF-style sample skulduggery to blissed-out electronics, dubbed-up beats and uplifting melody hooks, Low Motion Disco open the door into their unique world of super-slow house and funk-induced chill-out grooves. .

Magdalena - Lanean Sartzen CD (S.P.A.) [SPA1001CD] $21.00
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Malcolm Middleton - Sleight Of Heart CD (Full Time Hobby) [FTH044] $9.50
Following the critical success of 2007's A Brighter Beat and an improbable bid for the Christmas number one slot with We're All Going To Die, MALCOLM MIDDLETON (ARAB STRAP) is back to business with a new, stripped-back record. Sleight of Heart is comprised of tracks written during the Brighter Beat sessions and a handful of cover versions. Initially conceived as an acoustic LP--and largely remaining so--the album was recorded at Chemikal Underground Studios in Glasgow. Middleton's recording band (featuring MOGWAI's BARRY BURNS on piano, ex-DELGADOESs man PAUL SAVAGE on drums, touring bassist STEVIE JONES, and JENNY REEVE on backing vocals) joined in to flesh out the sound. There's plenty to cherish in the nine new tracks here and it all amounts to a captivating record from a man who's fast becoming one of the UK's most cherished artists. No exports outside North America

Maluco - Right Time CD (Karaoke Kalk) [KK044CD] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-16-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Maluco, a collaborative project by international musicians Max Loderbauer, Pier Bucci and Argenis Brito. Maluco are sure to delight listeners with this summer-fresh release of atmospheric dub soundscapes with electronic pop appeal. Tracks like "Dreamer" carry you away to warm summer nights on the Mediterranean, and whether you are driven into instrumental intoxication ("Evandro") or seduced by Argenis' highly-accented yet excellent vocals ("Passport"), Maluco make you feel comfortable. Flowing rhythms and melodies unite various musical periods; "River" is a cover of the Brian Eno and John Cale song, good old-fashioned reggae is evident in "Sam" and there are country music influences hiding within "Doped." All in all, it's the softer sounds that take the foreground and stimulate your sensitive synapses.

Marco Bailey & Tom Hades - E=MB2 CD (Mbelektronics) [MBELEK041CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-10-2008
E=MB2 sees Marco Bailey team up once again with long term studio partner Tom Hades for his first artist album since 2004's Rudeboy. Marco Bailey should by now need little introduction. Fifteen years of sacrifice and dedication have seen Belgium's number one DJ break through the national borders to join the big league of worldwide techno artists and Marco Bailey's productions frequently appear in the set lists of Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier and Sven Väth. Here, Marco and Tom explore their favorite exploits into the underbelly of the nocturnal club environment.

Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive CD (Smallville) [SMALL001CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
David Moufang aka Move D and Benjamin Brunn present their collaborative full-length, Songs From The Beehive. This is more than just another chapter in deepness and soul, it is an overwhelming experience that flows deeply and rises to the top. Appreciated by fans such as Ricardo Villalobos, Jus-Ed, Efdemin, DJ Koze, Jackmate and Smallville label chiefs Julius Steinhoff and Lawrence.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! CD (Epitaph) [AE86943] $16.75
Nick Cave returns to his full time Bad Seeds co-conspirators for this release. "Grinderman was deliberately spare and the concepts were pretty simple," explains Cave. "With 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' we allowed ourselves to get expansive." It picks up where Grinderman left off, filled with Stoogified electric guitar, driving beats, and Cave's literate, seductive, and firmly tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

Tracks

  1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  2. Today's Lesson
  3. Moonland
  4. Night Of The Lotus Eaters
  5. Albert Goes West
  6. We Call Upon The Author
  7. Hold On To Yourself
  8. Lie Down Here (be My Girl)
  9. Jesus Of The Moon
  10. Midnight Man
  11. More News Fron Nowhere


Phantom Orchard - Orra CD (Tzadik) [TZ7718] $14.50
"Friends and colleagues since 1988, lkue Mori and Zeena Parkins are two of the strongest musical voices out of the downtown scene."

Polder - Poldermodel CD (Intacto) [INTAC001CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Polder, one of the biggest duos in the currently very hot Dutch minimal techno scene. Members David Labeij and Lauhaus have had a huge impact on the scene with big smashers like Strange Ways and Top Drop on 2000 and One's 100% Pure imprint. Played out by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Paco Osuna, Karotte and Loco Dice. The album Poldermodel is quite an appropriate name for the bunch of killer tracks on the label, which resulted in a collection of older and new material, all built around the infamous Polder groove.

Pumice - Quo CD (Soft Abuse) [sab029] $12.25
RELEASE DATE: 06-23-2008
As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy & distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk & noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting & tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of the Kilgours or Chris Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace.

Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco EP Part 1 2x12 inch (Perlon) [PERL069LP] $24.00
"First part of Ricardo's new contribution for Perlon entitled Vasco EP. Two original compositions by mister Villalobos that get remixed on the B-sides by Shackelton and San Proper. `Minimoonstar' on the first record gets a special underwater treatment by ex-Londoner Shackleton (Skull Disco). On the A-side we find a special 12" edit of the original to make it fit on wax."

Riccardo Dillon Wanke - Caves CD (Sedimental) [SED051CD] $12.25
"Riccardo Dillon Wanke's Caves was composed and recorded in 2006 in Alfama (historical district of Lisbon, Portugal) using acoustic and electric guitars, saxophones and natural sound elements starting from pure radical improvisation evolving into the investigation of drones and static and looped music related to minimalism.

Ron Geesin - Biting The Hand 2CD (Hux) [HUX098CD] $25.25
"A genuine `one-off,' with a dizzying range of work, Ron Geesin's name will be familiar to many rock fans through his collaboration with Pink Floyd. Geesin worked with the band on their Atom Heart Mother LP, co-writing the side-long title track of that record. One of Britain's leading avant-garde composers and performers, Geesin began his musical career in 1962, as a member of a jazz band, and is still going strong today, working on new projects into 2008. This double CD, compiled and re-mastered by Ron Geesin himself, features a comprehensive collection of his BBC radio session recordings."

Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea CD (Drag City) [dc358] $13.75
RELEASE DATE: 06-16-2008
This is a sound for all nations. Here the urgent burst of life & how to live it is realized! Days of 80s~V90s flavor are aflame again in these tunes. Uncanny! Excellent! An essential product of the times! Welcome to the best damn Silver Jews record ever. Through 2008, that is- because who knows what the future will bring?

Sissy Spacek - French Record CD (Dual Plover) [CDSISSYFren] $16.50
Yep SISSY SPACEK and Dual Plover, a match made in heaven. Here is the spiel "since 1999, Sissy Spacek has been one of the most difficult groups around, with a starting point of full-on blur/grindcore and an evolution to the definition of the most extreme/intense fringes of musique concrete, instantly identifiable by the handiwork of JOHN WIESE. On this, their fifth proper album, Sissy Spacek explore new territory, as always, and take turns no one could foresee into electroacoustic improv, collage, industrial, noise and heavy metal, with a line up that includes KEVIN DRUMM, KATE HALL (MIKA MIKO), SAM OTT (THE FUCKING ANGELS), CORYDON RONNAU, Wiese, and C. SPENCER YEH (BURNING STAR CORE). French Record is their strongest and most mature yet."

Solution - Communicate CD (Sweet Nothing) [SN032] $12.00
BACK IN PRINT!!! A true-blue all-star combo featuring SCOTT MORGAN of SONIC'S RENDEZVOUS BAND, THE RATIONALS, and HYDROMATICS and NICK ROYALE of Sweden's HELLACOPTERS. Communicate is a twelve-track kick-up of understated, incredibly well-recorded rhythm & blues with a real authentic late-'60s sound. There's a four-piece horn section and female backing singers to boot. Includes great covers of Tony Joe White's "Widow Wemberley" and the Curtis Mayfield-penned "Must Be Love Coming Down," along with the group's ten original compositions.

Sound Of Arrows - Danger! CDEP (Labrador) [LAB114] $11.00
9 song CD. Labrador is proud to present The Sound of Arrows - the band that will lead Swedish pop into the next decade. With the deepest love possible they gather sounds and samples from all over and turn them into lush pop songs with exquisitely beautiful melodies. The Sound of Arrows started as an experiment. They wanted to try making a Christmas song by sampling a Children's choir from Youtube and build a song around that. This was in the end of 2006. Due to the lack of computer, and recording, knowledge it took several months to complete it. The final version missed it's deadline, Christmas, with half a year. But the song suggested what they wanted to do musically together and marked the start of The Sound of Arrows. The Sound of Arrows is a duo consisting of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand. Stefan Storm had earlier been making house music in Panache while the other half, Oskar Gullstrand, used to play in an orchestra but is now working as a graphic designer and an animateur. The members have both just passed 20 years old and are originally from a place called Gävle which by many is considered one of Sweden most boring towns. They've now moved to Stockholm and only go back to Gävle to meet family or record their songs in abandoned discotheques. Their 9-track debut EP is an embrace of the timeless and the futuristic; a travel through a new world of sights and sounds in technicolour. The title track, "Danger!" is an epic treat. It begins with a magical verse that seems to float in space ~V just to explode in this spring's most memorable chorus. The theme is a pleading warning to the naive that ends in revolt and hope. Strings, trumpets, glockenspiel and synthesisers kills the cliche "less is more" once and for all. "Danger!" is lovely pointer of where The Sound of Arrows' special aesthetics will take them, and us, in the future.

Sunset - The Glowing City CD (Autobus) [Auto008] $10.00
RELEASE DATE: 07-15-2008
A follow-up to Bright Blue Dream and a departure, Sunset The Glowing City is equal parts seamless song cycle and singles collection. Skip around, spend some time with a suite of tracks, or take it in all at once. Songs about reflection, exhaustion of life and circumstance, join with pop sensibilities in a beautifully comic-tragic fashion.

Sutcliffe Jugend - Pigdaddy CD (Cold Spring) [CSR92] $14.00
The SUTCLIFFE JUGEND dirt-mess of an album that is Pigdaddy is now available on Cold Spring. Six stories of mind-f***ing depravity, featuring some of the most fucked up, histrionic and downright bizarre vocals ever recorded. The overwhelming sense of moral decay makes this Sutcliffe Jugend's most original album yet. Beyond perverse, sexual transgression has never sounded so dirty. You may never feel clean again.

Terry Riley - Banana Humberto 2000 CD (Sri Moonshine Music) [SMM004CD] $15.25
"BH2K was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble and first performed on Feb. 10, 2001 at. Stanford University as part of the Lively Arts Festival and featured Terry Riley as piano soloist. The fifty-minute work is in four movements. The work takes the form of a chamber concerto and was written specifically for the performance capabilities of the Dresher Ensemble and guest soloist Tracy Silverman on Electric Viola."

Tetuzi Akiyama - Ancient Balance To Control Death CD (Western Vinyl) [WV049] $10.25
TETUZI AKIYAMA'S contribution to the Western Vinyl Portrait series is a departure in a career of departures. In addition to Akiyama's trademark improvised, blues-infused, guitar work, The Ancient Balance to Control Death also features intense multi-layered vocals. Much like his guitar work, the vocals flow with a sharp primal urgency. The end result is a collection of unique and tense Japanese blues that could only have come from one of Japan's most distinct and creative improvisers.

Thing - Now & Forever CD Box (Smalltown Supersound) [stsj106] $41.75
RELEASE DATE: 06-09-2008
Includes their first two albums (The Thing, She Knows), a new album (Gluttony) with a new improv session & a DVD with The Thing live at the Oya Festival with Thurston Moore on guitar! 3 CDs + 1 DVD! LIMITED TO 2000, One time pressing.

Various Artists - Impala Eardrums: Radium Sampler CD (Radium) [TOE812] $14.75
For fifteen years, TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS has been the preeminent source of avant audio, championing minimal, improvised, and outsider musics of various spots and stripes. Now, as its influence radiates outward, the label presents Radium, its "rock" imprint, showcased here with Impala Eardrums, A Radium Sampler. Includes pieces from RHYS CHATHAM, MEGAFAUN, JONATHAN KANE, ATELEIA, PAUL DUNCAN, NEPTUNE, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS. All tracks are previously unreleased on CD.

Various Artists - Zelphabet Vol. C CD (Zelphabet) [C01] $10.25
Over the next four to five years, Zelphabet will be releasing a series of 26 noise CD compilations--one for each letter of the alphabet. Installment number three features contributions from CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, CHOP SHOP, CONTAGIOUS ORGASM, C SPENCER YEH.

Various Artists - Sampler 08 CD (A.I.) [AI023CD] $9.00
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Various Artists - Cocoon Compilation H CD (Cocoon) [COR017CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
One of the most successful compilation serieses in Germany alphabetically ascends to the letter "H." Alongside Sven Väth's Sound of the Season series, the letter compilations are Cocoon Recording's most anticipated product, expressing Väth's view on the current state of club music. Connecting Cocoon's activities to the diverse club music scenes from all over the globe, the 12 tracks work as a multifaceted manifesto, providing a veritable "who's who" of the techno universe. Released on CD and in a limited box of 6 colored vinyls, each track unfolds on a side of its own.

Various Artists - Steppas' Delight 2CD (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR178CD] $21.50
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Vernon Joynson - The Ultimate British Rock Encyclopaedia Book (Borderline Books) [BORDERVJ3] $67.50
"A seriously expanded version of the original. Tapestry of Delights! This is a completely revised and updated version of a book originally published in 1995, when it was nominated as the 4th Best Music Book of `95 by Record Collector and described as an `impressive 600 page job that includes more across the board info than most rock encyclopaedias' by Q Magazine. Since then many entries have been rewritten, more have been added and all have been updated to include relevant releases since 1995. This perfect bound book will be 1000 pages long (approx) whereas the previous edition was (paltry?) 632 pages, plus it will contain a 12-page colour section."

Ween - Friends CDEP (MVD Audio) [CDR1009] $9.25
"Four brand new songs plus a remix of 'Friends,' none of which appeared on the new full length WEEN album just released last fall (2007). Ween have recorded a lot of new material the past year and we wanted to give you an appetizer for the summer. It is the ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do. If you download it or burn a copy from a friend your karma will be so f***ed that you will be reincarnated as a tumor on a rat's ass. We put a lot of time into this, like 4 years. What is that? 9.5 months a song or something?"--Dean Ween

Wild Billy Childish & The Blackhands - Live Netherlands CD (Damaged Goods) [DAMGOOD299] $14.00
A reissue of the 1988 debut album from BILLYCHILDISH & THE BLACKHANDS. Originally released on Billy's own Hangman Records (HANG 21 UP), this reissue was rushed out due to the fact that ASDA are currently using the band's great version of the Dad's Army theme "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler." on UK TV press much 50 times a day.

Winterhawk - There and Back Again CD (Rockadrome) [ROCK016CD] $13.50
"A trip back in time to the era of great hard rock, live from Chicago's Aragon Ballroom circa 1978.

{{{Sunset}}} - The Glowing City CD (Autobus) [AUTO008CD] $10.25
"A follow-up to Bright Blue Dream and a departure, Sunset's The Glowing City is equal parts seamless song cycle and singles collection. Skip around, spend some time with a suite of tracks, or take it in all at once. Songs about reflection, exhaustion of life and circumstance, join with pop sensibilities in a beautifully comic-tragic fashion."

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Castanets - Tendrils DVD (Asthmatic Kitty) [AKR035] $14.00
This video document, created by MIA FERM, serves as a snapshot of a particular moment in time surrounding RAPOSA and CASTANETS. It is a meditative reflection on the mesmerizing motion of water, the beauty of natural light, and the spontaneity of friends. Responding to the thickness of the songs on In The Vines, here the songs are stripped bare and presented by new voices that further reveal the lyrical beauty of Raposa's songwriting. It is equal parts home movie (a la Jonas Mekas), Downtown 81, Pull My Daisy, and audio-visual collage.

Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg DVD (Mode) [MODE196DVD] $25.25
"Special DVD feature: full 77-minute performance video including specially created visuals for the tape interludes by director Tim Chu. .

Margaret Leng Tan - Sorceress of the New Piano DVD (Mode) [MODE194DVD] $25.75
"Strumming the strings of a grand piano like a harp and performing Beethoven on toy piano are among the surprising scenes in Evans Chan's documentary, Sorceress of the New Piano (2004), which celebrates the trans-cultural career of Singapore-born, New York-based pianist Margaret Leng Tan, hailed by The New Yorker as `the diva of avant-garde pianism.' The film traces Tan's quest for a new pianistic language, performing ground-breaking works by masters Henry Cowell, George Crumb, and her longtime mentor John Cage, as well as by maverick composers of the next generation: Philip Glass, Tan Dun, Somei Satoh, Ge Gan-ru, Toby Twining, Lois V Vierk, Raphael Mostel, Guy Klucevsek, Stephen Montague, and Jed Distler." Region 0, NTSC format. Sorceress (92 min); Maverick (50 min). 2.0 PCM stereo.

Tom Waits - Under Review 1983-2006 DVD (Sexy Intellectual) [DISVD530] $17.75
An 80-minute documentary film which looks at this extraordinary musician and performer's music from 1983-2006. After TOM WAITS' marriage to Katherine Brennan in 1980, his music became more experimental, challenging and left-field, but without any compromise of his craft--the songs were better than ever. Through album after album during the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, Waits stunned his audience time and again. This program looks again at these records, and the man who made them, and in doing so provides the most enlightening, revealing and downright entertaining Tom Waits documentary yet to emerge. Features include: Tom Waits performances re-assessed by a panel of esteemed experts, rare interviews, and seldom seen footage and unusual photographs from the period. Also review, comment and criticism from many different experts and acquaintances.

TSOL - Early Years Live DVD (MVD Visual) [MVDV4696] $15.25
This DVD compiles mega-intense T.S.O.L. performances from both the Flipside and TargetVideo77 vaults, circa 1983. Featuring JACK GRISHAM (Vocals), RON EMORY (Guitar), MIKE ROCHE (Bass), and FRANCIS GERALD BARNES (Drums), this footage clearly defines T.S.O.L. as the founding fathers of vicious grindcore. Grisham's snarling vocals and menacing stage presence are as fierce as can be, as the band plows through fourteen anthems such as "Superficial Love," "Abolish Government/Silent Majority," "Darker My Love," "Code Blue" and more. This rare footage is a true gem for fans of the band and old school punk alike. Bonus materials include a reading by Jack Grisham from his forthcoming book An American Savage Reformed, and a live clip of TSOL from 2007.

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A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology CD (A Guy Called Gerald) [AGCG001CD] $15.25
"A Guy Called Gerald's original underground classic Black Secret Technology is now available again 13 years after its original release."

Allez Allez - Best of Allez Allez CD (Eskimo) [ESK502238] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
Allez Allez are one of those early `80s hidden gems of the Belgian new wave dance scene who shone so brightly for a few years (1981-1985) and then were gone - but not forgotten. Based around the writing and production nucleus of Brussels-based Kristiaan Debusscher and Nicolas Fransolet, a third dimension was added by American vocalist Sarah Osbourne. Early hi-tempo hits such as "African Queen," "Allez Allez" and "She's Stirring Up" became global club classics. Allez Allez were the funky follow-up to the Brussels-based collective Marine. The trademarks of Allez Allez were highly danceable and catchy rhythms, African influences and high quality singing, forming a powerful and funky mixture.

Ant Trip Ceremony, The - 24 Hours CD (Cicadelic Records) [CIC1968CD] $11.25
"In 1968, a group of talented college students at Oberlin College formed recorded their only album, 24 Hours. Pressed in scant quantity, this album would become a collector's item selling for hundreds of dollars. Cicadelic Records is excited to release the complete album on CD with detailed liner notes and photos on the history of the band. The psychedelic sounds that emanate from this album will have listeners `turn on, tune in, and drop out.' Originally Issued In 1968. 40th year anniversary release!"

Charlie Feathers - Wild Side of Life: Rare & Unissued Volume 1 CD (Norton Records) [NORTON332CD] $12.75
"Norton is very proud to present three full volumes of Charlie Feathers, featuring rare and unissued recordings spanning his entire career. This series has been much anticipated by rockabilly fans worldwide and the wait is over! Each set features liner notes by Mike Hurtt including interviews with Charlie's family, friends and fellow musicians as well as unbelievable photos. Many rare titles are offered from master tapes for the first time since their initial release. Twenty five performances have never been issued anywhere!"

Charlie Feathers - Honky Tonk Kind: Rare & 2 CD (Norton Records) [NORTON333CD] $12.75
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Charlie Feathers - Long Time Ago: Rare & 3 CD (Norton Records) [NORTON334CD] $12.75
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Charlie Feathers - Long Time Ago: Rare & 3 CD (Norton Records) [NORTON334LP] $11.50
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Chrissy 'Zebby' Tembo - My Ancestors CD (Hummingbird) [HM1002CD] $21.00
"Killer Afro-psychedelic rock made in Zambia, early 1970s! Chrissy 'Zebby' Tembo and his group Ngozi Family deliver a brutal set of fuzzed to the max psychedelic rock, with a slight African feel and English vocals. First time on CD, limited 500 copies papersleeve edition with fantastic remastered sound."

Elodie Lauten - The Death of Don Juan CD (Unseen Worlds) [UW04] $13.00
RELEASE DATE: 07-29-2008
CD debut of this 1985 post-minimal landmark by Elodie Lauten. Lauten has been active in the downtown New York classical and punk scenes since moving from France in the 1970s. The Death of Don Juan is a breakthrough for its lyrical minimalism in combination with drama that actively engages a contemporary emotional experience. Originally self-produced and released as a small LP edition on her own label, it has been touted ever since by Kyle Gann, who adds notes to this edition, and was recently included on one of Alan Licht's Minimal Top Ten lists. Features performances by Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo.

Erik Satie/Mike Svoboda - Phonometrie CD (Wergo) [WER6806] $22.75
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Frank Denyer - Silenced Voices CD (Mode) [MODE198CD] $15.00
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H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft II CD (Phoenix Records) [ASH3008CD] $16.00
Having relocated to Marin County in Northern California in the spring of 1968, H.P. Lovecraft's second, and it must be said, superior album, appeared later that same year. H.P. Lovecraft II was reputedly the first major label album (both records were originally released on the Philips label) where all those involved in the recording were actually high on acid!

Hootch - Hootch CD (Hummingbird) [HM1001CD] $21.00
"Originally released in 1974 on the Pro-gress Records label, this mysterious LP offers a blend of great experimental psych and mindblowing guitar jams. It was recorded as a high school project, and mainly given to friends at time of release, so very few copies were pressed and locally distributed in homemade purple silkscreened sleeves. released in CD format for the first time ever. edition of 500 copies, remastered."

Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg CD (Mode) [MODE196CD] $15.00
"Kraanerg is one of Xenakis' most popular - and infamous - works. A visceral and highly charged score for woodwinds, brass, and strings along with quadrophonic tape.

Johnny Pate - Outrageous CD (Dusty Groove) [DGA3012CD] $11.50
"Mad funk from the legendary Johnny Pate - a 1970 instrumental session that rivals his soundtracks for blacksploitation classics Shaft In Africa and Brother On The Run! The album's one of the few that Johnny ever did as a leader, and it's a great batch of instrumentals that cooks with a very funky sound - a unique groove that's halfway between soundtrack funk and instrumental soul - all with a hip early `70s sort of groove."

Lorez Alexandria - For Swingers Only CD (Dusty Groove) [DGA3011CD] $11.50
"First time on CD for this `60s vocal jazz treasure! Darkly brilliant vocals from the legendary Lorez Alexandria - heard here on a rare small combo session from Chess Records - only issued briefly in 1963, but a collector's treasure for years to come. The For Swingers Only title really gets it right, as there's a subtle swing to most of the tunes, even the ballads - a way of hitting the rhythms that's quite different than standard jazz vocals, and which really gets at the genius of Alexandria's sound."

Minox - Lazare CD (Get Back) [GET163] $17.00
The historical MINOX debut album released in 1986 by Industrie Discografiche Lacerba, produced by STEVEN BROWN from TUXEDOMOON and mixed by GILLES MARTIN, was released to great critical and public acclaim throughout Europe. This edition includes "Suite Maniacal" taken from the 7-inch included in the artzine Free for Industrie Discografiche Lacerba in 1985 and two unreleased bonus tracks: two versions of the solo piano "Theme for Two." The band has also authored music for theatrical pieces and the first mise-en-scene in 1985 gave birth to the single "Suite Maniacal."

Morgen - Morgen CD (Phoenix Records) [ASH3014CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-10-2008
Underpinned by Maiman's powerhouse drumming (easily compared with Led Zeppelin's John Bonham) and suitably trippy lyrics, you're looking at a pseudo-classic slice of psychedelia that largely explains the huge asking price of an original copy. This numbered, limited edition CD is housed in a unique gatefold card wallet.

Mushroom - Early One Morning.... CD (Phoenix Records) [ASH3015CD] $16.00
Original copies of this incredible album by Mushroom, the Dublin duo consisting of Pat Collins (violin) and Joe O'Donnell (everything else), fetch hundreds of pounds on the rare occasions that they actually come up for sale. Musically, Early One Morning...., originally released in 1973 on the Hawk label, is a real one-off, combining brilliant, heavy progressive rock and psychedelic Irish folk with blazing guitar leads battling with fiddle attacks. The results are awesome, fully justifying the hefty price tag of an original. A monster of an album! This numbered, limited edition CD is housed in a unique gatefold card wallet.

Savage Resurrection, The - CD (Mod Lang) [MODL007CD] $14.00
"The reissue of the Savage Resurrection's self titled LP. Originally released on Mercury in 1968, the record is now a coveted psych artifact."

Sun Ra All Stars - Milan, Zurich, West Berlin, Paris CD Box (Transparency) [TRANS311] $37.75
5 complete concerts from Milan, Zurich, West Berlin and Paris during the autumn of 1983. Featuring SUN RA, LESTER BOWIE (Art Ensemble of Chicago), DON CHERRY, MARSHALL ALLEN (Arkestra), JOHN GILMORE (Arkestra), ARCHIE SHEPP, PHILLY JOE JONES (Miles Davis Quintet), and more!

This week's VINYL update contains releases by:

Across Tundras * Adam Marshall * Adultnapper * Aeroplane * Agnes & Lee Van Dowski * Alex Cappelli * Alexi Delano & Tony Rohr * Allez Allez * Anthony Rother * Arbouretum/Pontiak * Armaberokay, The * Art Bleek * Ass * Baldelli & Dionigi * Bloody Panda * Broke * Broombeck * Brother Kite, The * Butch * Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Donkeys * Cavalers Unlimited * Charlie Feathers * Cheapers, The * Chloe * Criss Aka The Rain * Crowdpleaser & St-Plomb * Cure, The * CSI * D'Julz * Daniel Steinburg Pres. Cobra Limbos * Dapayk & Midnight/Ezekiel Honig * Dapayk & Padberg * Discodromo * District One * Doozer * Dylan Nyoukis & Jaap Blonk * Eat Skull * Ekkohaus * Fausto Messina * Faze Action * Fjordfunk * Free Blood * Fu Manchu * George Coleman * Heckmann * Heckmann & Kauffelt * Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo * High Plains Drifter feat. Goldspot Productions/TGS * Imps * Jeff Samuel * Jeremy Jay * Joan of Arc * Jorge Savoretti * Joseph Capriati * Justice Yeldham & The Dynamic Ribbon Device * Kaliber * Kevin Saunderson * Komonazmuk * Lair of the Minotaur * Lauhaus * Lauhaus & Labeij * Laurent Garnier * Lee Jones * Losoul * Low Motion Disco * LSD and the Search for God * M.S.K. * Maluco * Marascia & Dusty Kid * Marc Romboy vs. Blake Baxter * Marco Bailey & Tom Hades * Mari Boine vs. Mungolian Jetset * Martin Mueller * Mathias Kaden/Maxim/Butane * Mental Overdrive * Michael Melchner * Minimal Man * Move D & Benjamin Brunn * MRI * Nathan Drew Larsen * Okkyung Lee * Oliver Klein & Peter Jurgens * Onkel Brutalo * Polder * Pressure Drop * Remote * Ricardo Villalobos * Robedoor * Robert Babicz * Roky Erickson and the Explosives * Secondo * Sensitiva aka Onur Ozur & Tobi * Session Victim * Shlomi Aber * Silver Jews * Simone Fedi * Skull, The * Solomun * Solomun & Stimming * Soul Designer * Steve Bug/Vincenzo * Stimming & Einmusik * Strict * Subb-An * Sven Weisemann * Tob Jona * Two Armadillos * Two_Em & El Locco * Vinyl * Wyrd * Zoexenia

Across Tundras - Dark Songs Of The Prairie LP (Kreation) [KR18] $13.50
First vinyl release ever from this highly talented band. Their music can be best described as heavy and majestic riffs carved out of a massive syrup of riffage and spacious melodies. It's almost like hearing some mysterious '70s country rock outfit thawed out and refitted with mighty amplification, sludgecore tempos, and shoegazey shimmer that conjures up visions of the wide open prairies and looming mountains of the band's home terrirtory of Colorado. As weighty as the melodic heaviness coming from the whole "post-metal" camp, but coming from a different place altogether. ACROSS TUNDRAS create a range of emotion and musical stylings from Neil Young to Neurosis and unleash a powerful new statement of rustic, crushing Americana.

Adam Marshall - Chrod Tracking 12 inch (Kuji) [KUJI001EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Adultnapper - Audiomatique Volume 2.2 12 inch (Audiomatique) [AM031EP] $10.75
12" vinyl version, part 2. Featuring full unmixed vinyl versions of tracks from the new Adultnapper mix CD on Audiomatique. Artists include Martin Eyerer & Stephan Hinz, Martinez, Alexi Delano, Adultnapper.

Aeroplane - Whispers 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502115] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Agnes & Lee Van Dowski - Louder Elvis 12 inch (Leena) [LEENA006EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Alex Cappelli - Bloody Notes 12 inch (Great Stuff Records) [GSR063EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Alexi Delano & Tony Rohr - Machine 12 inch (Plus 8) [PLUS8099EP] $10.75
No description available at this time.

Anthony Rother - My Name Is Telekraft 12 inch (Telekraft) [TELEKRAFT001EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Arbouretum/Pontiak - Kale LP (Thrill Jockey) [THR201LP] $12.00
"Kale is a special LP-only split release by Arbouretum and their Baltimore friends Pontiak, Thrill Jockey's new signees making their label debut."

Armaberokay, The - The Hype 12 inch (Einmaleins) [EINMAL033EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Art Bleek - L.A. 12 inch (Resopal Red) [RSPRED023EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Ass - My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went LP (Static Caravan) [VAN167] $18.25
Peering out between the mass of strings, hanging like vines, there must have been a spark of childish curiosity. From the giddy playfulness of youth all the way to the folk hinterland, Andreas Soderstrom has been surrounded by instruments, exposed to the sounds of his father's bazouki factory ~V an extraordinary melange of clattering noise and metallic melody. That natural inquisitiveness has obviously paid off, and it surely can't be a coincidence that a career in music beckoned. Trading under the pseudonym Ass ~V it stands for Andreas Soderstrom Solo ~V for more than a decade he has been the hitherto unknown man of Swedish pop, having played with the likes of electro-pop priestess Jenny Wilson, digital folk stalwarts Tape, offbeat folk-pop minstrel Blood Music, and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman. All that will change with the release of 'My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went', the second full-length album from Soderstrom under his Ass moniker. Soderstrom plays all of the instruments found on this quietly intoxicating 10-track record, the follow-up to his astonishingly assured, eponymous debut ~V both released on Headspin Recordings. It finds him hacking through the folk undergrowth, his fluid dynamic underpinning a stark melancholy which simmers throughout. From the Britfolk finger-picking of 'I've Been Here' to the austere 'Cool Water', the self-taught multi-instrumentalist wrings a plaintive beauty from his fingers; penning profoundly moving, largely non-vocal entities, augmented at various points by electronic gurgles, horns and an [accordion?]. 'Wheels and Wings', with its chiming guitar melody and horn counterpoint, is a rare vocal outing, Soderstrom's subtle intonation adding a sweetness and warmth to proceedings. Harking back to his debut, the elegantly swooning 'It Only Takes Minutes' revisits the cyclical moments found on his previous outing, but there's an atmospheric airiness infusing this record which leavens these near-macabre hymns. Minimal and majestic, the repeated melody patterns twist in every direction, wrapping and turning in on themselves like a maypole, before loping to a folk-stained climax. Daubing layer on top of layer on an intricately detailed canvas, Soderstrom's sleight of hand in combining these varied textures is never more evident than on 'Escape From NY', which buzzes and throbs in unison with his rhythmic playing ~V there's a sense of delicacy and wonder cloaked by a dark foretelling; a hushed but audible eeriness digging away at your subconscious, heightening that unease. The low-key majesty of Soderstrom's gentle songs, like on closing track Vertical Spar, is here in abundance. Channelling a hypnotic style which is at times reminiscent of folk legends such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and John Fahey, his crisp compositions nevertheless have an ultra-modernist edge to them, digital elements seeping through and sounding perfectly at home, but with a softly engaging feel rather than the clinical hum of technology. 'My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went' is that rare kind of record; bewitching and thougth-provoking, comforting and challenging. It's a real treat, and a chance to hear the whispered charm of a subtly disarming performer. To paraphrase George Clinton - free your mind, and Ass will follow--Very Limited vinyl Edition of 500 copies in thick cardboard stock, lyric insert and on purple wax.

Baldelli & Dionigi - Cosmic Disco? Part One 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502223] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Baldelli & Dionigi - Cosmic Disco?! Part Two 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502224] $11.50
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Bloody Panda - Pheromone LP (Level Plane) [LP106] $13.50
NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Driven by the mournful, melodic vocals of Japanese front woman Yoshiko Ohara, BLOODY PANDA's transcendent sound finds its roots in the dirge-like power of SWANS, the amplifier-worshipping textures of EARTH, and the ethereal tension of SKEPTICISM, as well as in various traditional styles from around the globe. The band synthesizes its esoteric influences into focused, powerful, anthemic songs, hailed by Decibel Magazine as "Khanate-caliber doom metal" and by CMJ New Music Monthly as "New York microtonal funeral doom." Limited edition pressing of 500 copies packaged in gatefold sleeves.

Broke - We Ain't Got It/Coladancer 12 inch (Kompakt) [KOMPOP011EP] $11.50
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Broombeck - The Clapper 12 inch (Opossum) [OPSM015EP] $11.50
"Broombeck... say again? Wild speculations arose - as for example that Broombeck might be an undercover alias of a certain Mr. Ali Shirazinia, whom some of you may better know as Dubfire - but as far as we know up to now, The Clapper is not a Dubfire production, sorry. However, let's not focus on the Broombeck mystery any longer and a bit more on his wicked tune `The Clapper' instead, which is nothing but a percussive peaktime techno-monster that stomps lippediclap ahead, totally focused and merciless, while using hammering wooden drums to set dancefloors on fire and to let ravers crack up until they call for a rewind."

Brother Kite, The - Waiting For The Time To Be Right LP (Clairecords) [fern064-1] $14.50
RELEASE DATE: 05-26-2008
LP+CD. LIMITED TO ONLY 200 COPIES WORLDWIDE!! Finally, the sophomore album from The Brother Kite is presented to the masses on vinyl!! The production on this vinyl has been an absolute nightmare, fraught with problem after problem and delay after delay - but the Wait is over, and we hope you find it was worth the wait! This limited edition release is presented on 180-gram audiophile-quality virgin black vinyl. In addition to the vinyl, this package includes an exclusive bonus CDr (professionally-manufactured), entitled "Inside Waiting For The Time To Be Right". We thought someone who liked the album enough to purchase the vinyl might be interested in peeling away some of its layers, just for curiosity's sake. So on this CDr, you will find alternative mixes of every song on the album.

Butch - Elements 2 of 2 12 inch (Trapez) [TRAPEZLTD065] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Donkeys - Split 7 inch (Antenna Farm) [ANT524] $6.50
A split 7-inch. featuring two songs from the DONKEYS--"Be My Girl" and "Seventh Heaven" (recorded by Jason Quever of the Papercuts)--and two from CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE--"White Corolla" (featuring JENNY HERBONSON) and "White on White." Limited to 1,000 copies.

Chloe - Be Kind to Me 12 inch (Kill The Dj) [KTDJ012EP] $11.50
"From the highly-acclaimed album The Waiting Room, here are the remixes from the likes of Krikor and Rework."

Criss Aka The Rain - Mortecerta 12 inch (Claque Musique) [CLAQUE004EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Crowdpleaser & St-Plomb - "2006" Remixes IV 12 inch (Mental Groove Ltd) [MGLTD020EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

CSI - Stolen Public Toilet LP (Trash Ritual) [LPCSIStol] $19.00
Thirty minutes of psychedelic harsh noise by JOE ROEMER (MACRONYMPHA, ONE DARK EYE, OVMN) on guitar noise and effects, ED-UM BUCHOLTZ (TELECORPS) on junk metal and electronics, and NICK PAINTER (LORD BIRD GOLDEN COBRA) on electronics and tape loops. Self-described as primarily electroacoustic, Stolen Public Toilets is far more aggressive and raw than the term suggests. Limited edition of 200 copies with fold-over silk-screened cover.

D'Julz - Yo Momo 12 inch (Intacto) [INTAC014EP] $12.25
No description available at this time.

Daniel Steinburg Pres. Cobra Limbos - Cobra Limbos 12 inch (Front Room) [FRM020EP] $11.50
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Dapayk & Midnight/Ezekiel Honig - Open The Door 10 inch (Fenou) [FENOU006EP] $11.50
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Dapayk & Padberg - Khes Digitaline 12 inch (Mo's Ferry) [MFP036EP] $11.50
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Discodromo - Cosmorama 12 inch (Internasjonal) [INT004EP] $11.50
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District One - Handsome/One 2 One 12 inch (100% Pure) [PURE045EP] $12.25
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Doozer - Sheet Music LP (Pickled Egg) [EGG69] $15.00
Limited vinyl version. "THE DOOZER builds. He has previously built stone houses and wooden ships. He is currently building music. Raised around the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire, in the arse end of nowhere, the city drew closer and closer, the lights brighter and the time shorter. The city informs his music. His music informs the city. Songs evolve around watching and talking, buying and borrowing. Characters pass by, situations are imagined, colours are added and the resultant is a forming song. His debut album, Sheet Music, was recorded mainly on Saturday mornings, bright and early. The songs weren't complete until the recordings were complete. The spaces always changed. Instruments and voices were layered. Pop music was the aim; pop music isn't quite the result. Pop music is The Doozer's music, only filtered through all of the colours and sounds you've imagined when walking through the street or down your lane or when your batteries died. Musical reference points: Syd Barrett, Neutral Milk Hotel, Smog, none of the above. A key player in the Cambridge underground scene, The Doozer has worked in a number of projects and played shows with a range of artists including Sunburned Hand of the Man, MV & EE, Flower-Corsano, Animal Collective and Alasdair Roberts."

Dylan Nyoukis & Jaap Blonk - Dubbletwee LP (Ecstatic Peace) [E#13B] $13.50
"Here is one of the most anticipated head-scratching meeting-of-the (insane) minds recordings ever rumored to have existed: the blabber-gunk vocalistix of Chocolate Monk honcho and musical zone/zap improv outsider and founder of Decaer Pinga (nee Prick Decay) Dylan Nyoukis and the high-energy, consistently startled and startling voicebox-tongue shredder, Jaap Blonk. Nyoukis from the UK and Blonk from The Netherlands bash heads and gums together to splat out a relentless and rapacious slew of ululation and indescribable utterance. If vocal duo improv of the most bizarre order is yr meat, then pull a stool up to this table and get a snoot full o' what-the-f***. Wicked weirdness." LP only - full color jackets - 400 copies.

Eat Skull - Sick To Death LP (Siltbreeze) [SB96] $13.25
EAT SKULL are a quartet hailing from Portland, Oregon, co-masterminded by ROB ENBOM (former bushwacker in the ranks of HOSPITALS and HOLE CLASS) and another original Hospital, ROD MEYER (the greatest living genius of punk). Previous Eat Skull efforts include a cassette-only EP and a pair of 7-inches, all of which might be out of print. Like their brethren and forebears, Eat Skull runs a post pattern deep beyond pop and punk. They bring to the game an extrasensory appreciation of New Zealand's South Island Sound (Great Unwashed, Axemen), Cleveland art-damage skronk (Modern Art Studio, X-X), and the wretched excess of forgotten Midwest hardcore (Stiff Legged Sheep, Chemotherapy). Vinyl-only edition of 800 copies.

Ekkohaus - Amoeba 12 inch (Cargo Edition) [CARGO005EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Fausto Messina - Ibz Ventiquattro Sette 12 inch (Wir) [WIR014EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Faze Action - Original Disco Motion RMXs 12 inch (Faze Action) [FAR005EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Fjordfunk - Ovid 8 12 inch (Luna Flicks) [LUNA001EP] $11.50
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Fjordfunk - Eurora 12 inch (Luna Flicks) [LUNA003EP] $11.50
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Free Blood - Never Hear Surf Music Again 12 inch (Rong) [RONGDFA01] $7.50
First up on Rong's shiny, new imprint with DFA is FREE BLOOD's Never Hear Surf Music Again 12-inch. This two-piece Brooklyn band has more street cred than you can shake a stick at, and for good reason. Consisting of MADELINE DAVY (OCTOPI NYC) on the microphone and JOHN PUGH (formally of !!!) also on microphone, Free Blood has got some serious, serious heat on the mic and mixing board. Hey, really, who needs other band members when you're rockin' a style this damn hard? "Never Hear Surf Music Again" is an unpredictable druggy number, a mangled hybrid of Beatles-esque melodies fused angrily with a Butthole Surfers song. It's followed by the steaming mayhem of "Quick and Painful," a raucous affair that delivers a swift kick to the jewels. On the flip, the BARFLY boys stretch things out a bit with a nine-minute Walter-Gibbons-style disco remix of the title track. After tearing the roof off and burning down the place with their mind-crunching sound, this band is ready to clear out any venue at a moment's notice. Free Blood, coming to a dirty warehouse near you.

Fu Manchu - Godzilla's Eatin' Dust LP (Man's Ruin) [MR163] $15.75
Original mint sealed MAN'S RUIN copies with the gatefold sleeve! Only the band themselves managed to hold onto some copies, and these are the last of them!

Heckmann - Silverscreen 12 inch (Afu Laboratory) [AFULTD010EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Heckmann & Kauffelt - Mosquito 12 inch (Afu Laboratory) [AFULTD015EP] $11.50
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Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo - I Exist Because Of 12 inch (Innervisions) [IV015EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

High Plains Drifter feat. Goldspot Productions/TGS - Deluxe Edition Double A Side 12 inch (Tempa) [TEMPA010EP] $10.75
Re-issue of essential 2003 Horsepower Productions-related UK garage cuts. Deep prowling bass dubness from High Plains Drifter featuring Goldspot Productions and TGS.

Imps - Bring Out The Imps 12 inch (Mule Electronic) [MULE046EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Jeff Samuel - Gurd Em 12 inch (Frankie Records) [FRANKIE033EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go LP (K Records) [KLP197] $12.00
This is a debut album containing ten songs, but really it is a cinematic escapade into the mind of a singular individual, JEREMY JAY. A Place Where We Could Go is a statement of fiction and fact, exploring the shadowy depths of an attitude: the romance of life without the people and things that pull down the corners; create your own world. This universe may have a fairy tale look; it may be illuminated by streetlight. But it will definitely be a safe haven for the exploration of dreams. Think vast landscapes of reverberating storybook endings populated by the more charming characters from John Hughes' movies. Jeremy Jay: dancing, singing and playing guitar. A Place Where We Could Go is your hardcopy of the illusive, blonde, Jeremy Jay moon-roof vista. Buena.

Joan of Arc - Boo Human LP (Polyvinyl) [PRC152-2LP] $13.00
Done with the young and hungry rat-race of band-life, Joan of Arc now exists at the pace their real lives allow. By combining one week of studio time, a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet allowing participants to drop in whenever they could, each track on Boo Human is as wildly different and uniquely constructed as the groups who produced them. The combination of 14 musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that is as intense as it is intimate. Marked by intricate guitar melodies, non cognitive wailing and tense instrumentals, Boo Human is Joan of Arc's most accessible, cohesive album since 1997's How Memory Works. From the additively syncopated "Laughter Reflected Back" to the unignorable, poetic "9/11 2," Joan of Arc truly proves that doing it their way is the right way.

Jorge Savoretti - copy of Alien Key 12 inch (Esperanza) [ESPERANZA011EP] $11.50
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Joseph Capriati - Farlocco 12 inch (Frankie Records) [FRANKIE032EP] $11.50
"Here we go with the awaited Farlocco EP by Joseph Capriati, who delivers here 4 funky tech-house tracks with powerful and exciting beats in a pure Joseph style quickly recognizable. On A1. `Farlocco combines deep synth and exciting rhythmics. A2. `Highest Tower' with incisive drums and mental subtle melodies. On the flip, B1. `Para Scaramantia' combines cut voices and heady bleepy sounds. And finally B2. `Cyprinus Carpio' in a more melancholic atmosphere composed by a few melodics, high bells and lil acid bleeps."

Justice Yeldham & The Dynamic Ribbon Device - Birthdays LP (Anarchymoon Recordings) [ANOK022LP] $14.00
"Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham, recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy, you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something an Aussie could especially achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world."

Kaliber - Kaliber 19 12 inch (Kaliber) [KAL019EP] $11.50
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Kevin Saunderson - History Elevate 4 12 inch (Kms) [KMSHIST004EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Komonazmuk - Lights / Shadows 12 inch (Terminal Dusk) [TD14] $11.25
RELEASE DATE: 05-26-2008
New excellent two tracker by this rising british dubstep producer.

Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master LP (Southern Lord) [SUNN91] $15.25
LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR's third full-length on Southern Lord is a concept album about solving conflicts with a big f***ing axe. The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression and mega-riffage of their previous album, The Ultimate Destroyer, and the unrelenting beatings and Sabbath chugs of Carnage, mixed with a new emotionless ferocity reserved for an executioner. Epic packaging by JEREMY MOHLER.

Lauhaus - Downunder 12 inch (Intacto) [INTAC013EP] $12.25
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Lauhaus & Labeij - Sababa 12 inch (Sushitech Purple) [SUSHP009EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Laurent Garnier - Back To My Roots 12 inch (Innervisions) [IV016EP] $11.50
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Lee Jones - As You Like It 12 inch (Aus Music) [AUS812EP] $11.50
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Losoul - The Number 12 inch (Playhouse) [PLAY143EP] $11.50
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Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love Part 1 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502045] $11.50
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Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love Part 2 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502046] $11.50
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Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502091] $11.50
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Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get 7 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502092] $9.75
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Low Motion Disco - Keep It Slow LP (Eskimo) [ESK502317] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Low Motion Disco - secretive producer(s) who know how to keep things on the down low. Following recent singles Love Love Love Parts 1 and 2 featuring remixes from the likes of LSB, Aeroplane, DFA's Still Going and Soft Rocks. Keep It Slow fuses found sounds, field recordings and live instruments with lap top trickery, providing us with 13 tracks of perfect horizontal dancing. From KLF-style sample skulduggery to blissed-out electronics, dubbed-up beats and uplifting melody hooks, Low Motion Disco open the door into their unique world of super-slow house and funk-induced chill-out grooves. .

LSD and the Search for God - s/t 12 inch (Deep Space) [ds01] $13.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-23-2008
This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on & tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars & playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks & fuzzed out drones. Limited to 1000.

M.S.K. - Lunar 12 inch (Institubes) [INS12024EP] $12.25
"MSK's peculiar brand of floor-packing techno is gloriously relentless, quite dark, even claustrophobic. After an innocuous bass `n' beat prelude, `Side Story' launches into the build-up to end all build-ups, a seething, snarling beast ostensibly in search for some innocent people to maul, for some buildings (hospitals and nurseries, preferably) to destroy. And when Das Glow shows up and reports for remix duties, whose side do you think he chooses to be on? Not ours. He's right up there with the demon-beast, taunting us puny humans with his own style of deft programming, acid synth lines and abrupt breaks."

Maluco - Right Time LP (Karaoke Kalk) [KK051LP] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-16-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Maluco, a collaborative project by international musicians Max Loderbauer, Pier Bucci and Argenis Brito. Maluco are sure to delight listeners with this summer-fresh release of atmospheric dub soundscapes with electronic pop appeal. Tracks like "Dreamer" carry you away to warm summer nights on the Mediterranean, and whether you are driven into instrumental intoxication ("Evandro") or seduced by Argenis' highly-accented yet excellent vocals ("Passport"), Maluco make you feel comfortable. Flowing rhythms and melodies unite various musical periods; "River" is a cover of the Brian Eno and John Cale song, good old-fashioned reggae is evident in "Sam" and there are country music influences hiding within "Doped." All in all, it's the softer sounds that take the foreground and stimulate your sensitive synapses.

Marascia & Dusty Kid - Sawless/Sineless 12 inch (Systematic) [SYST043EP] $12.25
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Marc Romboy vs. Blake Baxter - Fly Away 12 inch (Systematic) [SYST044EP] $12.25
No description available at this time.

Marco Bailey & Tom Hades - Blast 12 inch (Mbelektronics) [MBELEK040EP] $11.50
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Marco Bailey & Tom Hades - E=MB2 12 inch (Mbelektronics) [MBELEK042EP] $11.50
RELEASE DATE: 06-10-2008
E=MB2 sees Marco Bailey team up once again with long term studio partner Tom Hades for his first artist album since 2004's Rudeboy. Marco Bailey should by now need little introduction. Fifteen years of sacrifice and dedication have seen Belgium's number one DJ break through the national borders to join the big league of worldwide techno artists and Marco Bailey's productions frequently appear in the set lists of Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier and Sven Väth. Here, Marco and Tom explore their favorite exploits into the underbelly of the nocturnal club environment.

Mari Boine vs. Mungolian Jetset - It Ain't 12 inch (Luna Flicks) [LUNA002EP] $11.50
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Martin Mueller - Alien Key 12 inch (Exacta.udio) [EXACTAS001EP] $11.50
No description available at this time.

Mathias Kaden/Maxim/Butane - Overview EP 2/4 12 inch (Lessizmore) [LIZM005EP] $11.50
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Mental Overdrive - The Rage 12 inch (Full Pupp) [FP014EP] $11.50
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Michael Melchner - The Things You Did 12 inch (Cargo Edition) [CARGO006EP] $11.50
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Minimal Man - Make A Move 12 inch (Trelik) [TR014EP] $11.50
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Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive 2xLP (Smallville) [SMALL001LP] $19.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
David Moufang aka Move D and Benjamin Brunn present their collaborative full-length, Songs From The Beehive. This is more than just another chapter in deepness and soul, it is an overwhelming experience that flows deeply and rises to the top. Appreciated by fans such as Ricardo Villalobos, Jus-Ed, Efdemin, DJ Koze, Jackmate and Smallville label chiefs Julius Steinhoff and Lawrence.

MRI - Take Care Not Acid 12 inch (Resopal Schallware) [RSP055EP] $11.50
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Nathan Drew Larsen - Touch Me 12 inch (Front Room) [FRMEAT010EP] $11.50
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Okkyung Lee - I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul And It Said... LP (Ecstatic Peace) [E#92B] $12.00
"Anyone who has seen and heard Korean improviser/composer Okkyung Lee blow collective minds with her supremely amazing cello noise, energy, vibration, friction and true sound feeling music knows that in a world of wild and mind-snapping improvisors, Okkyung is one of the most exciting players to arrive down the rocky road in some time. This LP contains some of her most deep and resonant, at once furious and hushed string, bow and wood music recorded to date. Beautiful and frightening, daring to be both." LP only - 400 copies.

Oliver Klein & Peter Jurgens - Scoville 12 inch (Kindisch) [KLING018EP] $11.50
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Onkel Brutalo - Selva 12 inch (Resopal Schallware) [RSP056EP] $11.50
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Polder - Poldermodel 2xLP (Intacto) [INTAC001LP] $19.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
This is the debut full-length release by Polder, one of the biggest duos in the currently very hot Dutch minimal techno scene. Members David Labeij and Lauhaus have had a huge impact on the scene with big smashers like Strange Ways and Top Drop on 2000 and One's 100% Pure imprint. Played out by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Paco Osuna, Karotte and Loco Dice. The album Poldermodel is quite an appropriate name for the bunch of killer tracks on the label, which resulted in a collection of older and new material, all built around the infamous Polder groove.

Pressure Drop - You're Mine Remixes 12 inch (Great Stuff Records) [GSR065EP] $11.50
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Remote - The Hardstick 12 inch (Kill The Dj) [KTDJ014EP] $11.50
"After the highly-acclaimed previous release on KTDJ by Remote, here's the new offering from the French techno kids. Including a killer La Horse RMX. Already approved, played and playlisted by Ivan Smagghe, Chloe et al."

Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco EP Part 1 2x12 inch (Perlon) [PERL069LP] $24.00
"First part of Ricardo's new contribution for Perlon entitled Vasco EP. Two original compositions by mister Villalobos that get remixed on the B-sides by Shackelton and San Proper. `Minimoonstar' on the first record gets a special underwater treatment by ex-Londoner Shackleton (Skull Disco). On the A-side we find a special 12" edit of the original to make it fit on wax."

Robedoor - Endlessly Blazing LP (Woodsist) [WOODSIST015LP] $13.50
"Eagle Rock, CA's Robedoor are back with another doomed out K-hole. Slow creeping drones building to some nice loner caveman pound/real song territory. Three tracks in just under 40 minutes. Edition of 500 with full color jacket by Jeremy Earl."

Robert Babicz - Afterhourbasar 12 inch (Wir) [WIR015EP] $11.50
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Secondo - Kuwait/Macula 12 inch (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR181EP] $10.25
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Sensitiva aka Onur Ozur & Tobi - Mimosa/Together 12 inch (100% Pure) [PURE042EP] $12.25
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Session Victim - No Friends 12 inch (Real Soon) [RSOON016EP] $11.50
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Shlomi Aber - In Theory Yes 12 inch (Be As One) [BAO010EP] $11.50
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Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea LP (Drag City) [dc358-1] $15.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-16-2008
This is a sound for all nations. Here the urgent burst of life & how to live it is realized! Days of 80s~V90s flavor are aflame again in these tunes. Uncanny! Excellent! An essential product of the times! Welcome to the best damn Silver Jews record ever. Through 2008, that is- because who knows what the future will bring?

Simone Fedi - Sub-Space 12 inch (Eskimo) [ESK502089] $11.50
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Skull, The - Must Have Back 12 inch (Kindisch) [KD015EP] $11.50
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Solomun - Flying Pics 12 inch (Diynamic) [DIYNAMIC013EP] $11.50
"After several cooperations with his mates H.O.S.H. and Stimmig, and a lot of own releases on other labels, this is the first all-own EP of Solomun on Diynamic! You maybe won't believe it, but it's like that! And because home is the sweetest place on earth, we invite the guests we love and like in this case, we are fans of ourselves: Jamie Odell, better known as Jimpster or Audiomontage, who made a lot of deep tech-house hearts happy with his productions an his own label Freerange during the last years."

Solomun & Stimming - Eiszauber 12 inch (Diynamic) [DIYNAMIC014EP] $11.50
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Soul Designer - Evolutionism Part 1 12 inch (Third Ear Recordings) [3E093EP] $11.00
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Steve Bug/Vincenzo - Raw Essentials Part 2 12 inch (Raw Elements) [RAW627EP] $11.50
"Longevity is something we talk about a lot in dance music nowadays. But timelessness, however frequently mentioned, is in fact a rare and sadly lacking ingredient in much of today's music. Well, you can thank Steve Bug and the Poker Flat crew that this isn't the case here, as we present the second unavoidable installment in the Raw Essentials feature, reviving some classic moments from the Raw Elements catalog. Reborn for another chance to rock it, Russ Gabriel's intense tweaked-out remix of Steve Bug's `Honeymoon' finds the coveted position of A1."

Stimming & Einmusik - Madeline 12 inch (Diynamic) [DIYNAMIC015EP] $11.50
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Strict - Kiss LP (Trash Ritual) [LPSTRICKiss] $21.25
Recorded live direct-to-DAT 1994-1995 but unreleased until now, this is the debut full-length vinyl by this perverse power-electronics unit heard previously in collaboration with Pain Jerk, on a split LP with Taint, and a variety of extremist compilation tracks. Limited edition of 250 with fold-over silk-screened cover.

Subb-An - Corridors of Life 12 inch (Immigrant) [IMM035EP] $11.50
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Sven Weisemann - Kiss Of Abana 12 inch (Mojuba) [MOJUBA009EP] $12.25
"Sven Weisemann, who was recently very busy by providing remixes and tracks for the likes of House Cafe Music, Styrax Leaves, Styrax, Liebe*Detail, Rotary Cocktail, Freund Der Familie, ProgCity, Deep Trax and Meanwhile, is now coming up with some fresh killer stuff for Mojuba, the musical place of origin. The A-side `Kiss Of Abana' is a catchy dancefloor monster with banging percussive drums and trademark Weisemann chords. The B-side `Amity' seems to keep it cool in the beginning, but that's only the prelude to a funky feast of deepness!"

Tob Jona - Troika 12 inch (A.R.T.Less) [ARTLESS2195] $12.25
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Two Armadillos - Patience 12 inch (Four: Twenty) [FOUR039EP] $11.50
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Two_Em & El Locco - Bodywork 12 inch (Rotary Cocktail) [RC010EP] $11.50
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Various Artists - Cocoon Compilation H LP Box (Cocoon) [COR017LP] $89.75
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
One of the most successful compilation serieses in Germany alphabetically ascends to the letter "H." Alongside Sven Väth's Sound of the Season series, the letter compilations are Cocoon Recording's most anticipated product, expressing Väth's view on the current state of club music. Connecting Cocoon's activities to the diverse club music scenes from all over the globe, the 12 tracks work as a multifaceted manifesto, providing a veritable "who's who" of the techno universe. Released on CD and in a limited box of 6 colored vinyls, each track unfolds on a side of its own. 6x12" colored vinyl version.

Various Artists - Steppas' Delight Part 1 2xLP (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR178A-LP] $22.75
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Various Artists - Steppas' Delight Part 2 2xLP (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR178B-LP] $22.75
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Vinyl - Nebula Sofia 12 inch (Endless Flight) [EF006EP] $11.50
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Wyrd - Heathen LP (Kreation) [KR16] $13.50
WYRD, hailing from Finland, is creating some of the most original and amazing black metal in the world today. Inspired from and by Nature and the roots of his Nordic Soul. Melding elements of folklore and the forest with 'traditional Norweigan black metal' this album consists of one epic journey, a 55-plus mintute song. For fans of Agalloch, Drudkh, Woods Of Ypres, Falkenbach, Bathory and other Norweigan forefathers.

Zoexenia - Uncovered 12 inch (Connaisseur Recordings) [CNS023EP] $12.25
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Allez Allez - Best of Allez Allez LP+CD (Eskimo) [ESK502292] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 06-24-2008
Allez Allez are one of those early `80s hidden gems of the Belgian new wave dance scene who shone so brightly for a few years (1981-1985) and then were gone - but not forgotten. Based around the writing and production nucleus of Brussels-based Kristiaan Debusscher and Nicolas Fransolet, a third dimension was added by American vocalist Sarah Osbourne. Early hi-tempo hits such as "African Queen," "Allez Allez" and "She's Stirring Up" became global club classics. Allez Allez were the funky follow-up to the Brussels-based collective Marine. The trademarks of Allez Allez were highly danceable and catchy rhythms, African influences and high quality singing, forming a powerful and funky mixture.

Cavalers Unlimited - The Nasty/Soul Vein 7 inch (Mississippi Records) [MR023EP] $7.25
"Limited one time only edition of 500. Hard to find North Portland funk 7" recorded in 1968."

Charlie Feathers - Wild Side of Life: Rare & 1 LP (Norton Records) [NORTON332LP] $11.50
"Norton is very proud to present three full volumes of Charlie Feathers, featuring rare and unissued recordings spanning his entire career. This series has been much anticipated by rockabilly fans worldwide and the wait is over! Each set features liner notes by Mike Hurtt including interviews with Charlie's family, friends and fellow musicians as well as unbelievable photos. Many rare titles are offered from master tapes for the first time since their initial release. Twenty five performances have never been issued anywhere!"

Charlie Feathers - Honky Tonk Kind: Rare & 2 LP (Norton Records) [NORTON333LP] $11.50
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Cheapers, The - Wilderness EP Part 1 12 inch (Upon You) [UY011EP] $11.50
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George Coleman - Bongo Joe LP (Mississippi Records) [MR022LP] $13.50
"There can only be one Bongo Joe, and that is the incredible George Coleman. Bongo Joe is perhaps the world's only virtuoso player of the empty oil drum, a man so ingenious that he could even turn petroleum refuse into something musical and sublime. Recorded on the streets of San Antonio in 1969 by Chris Strachawitz (Arhoolie Records). Bongo Joe drums on his oil cans with a thunderous, tympani-like effect, while discoursing rambling, insightful and hilariously funny lyrics that are often times more stories than songs. One of our favorites, available on vinyl for the first time in 39 years."

Cure, The - Three Imaginary Boys Picture Disc PICTURE DISC LP (Lilith) [LR1300] $21.75
NOW AVAILABLE ON PICTURE DISC VINYL!!! The undisputed leaders of the early gothic scene, and a seminal band that contributed to the rise of British post-punk, THE CURE recorded their debut album Three Imaginary Boys at London's Morgan Studios and released it on May 8, 1979. A faithful re-release of the original UK pressing. After this issue, the album was released in the US with a different title (Boys Don't Cry--from one of the band's best selling singles) and a slightly different track listing.

Roky Erickson and the Explosives - Halloween: Recorded Live 1979-81 2xLP (Norton Records) [NORTON337LP] $19.75
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