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12" /
various / Gang of Four EP / Plastic Records
This is not an EP by the band Gang Of Four. It is a compilation of four
songs from four different labels (put out on a fifth record label).
[read
more] ---Carl
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5xCD / Guided By Voices / Box / Scat Records
This set compiles the band's first four (impossible-to-find) albums
from 1987-1990 and adds an extra CD of previously unreleased material
from 1988-93.
[read
more] ---Peter L
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7" / The
Hives / "Main Offender" b-w "Lost And Found" & "Howlin'
Pelle Talks To The Kids" / Big Wheel Recreation
Includes 2 new tracks: a cover of The Saints' "Lost and Found" and "Howlin'
Pelle Talks to the Kids" (Howlin' Pelle is their singer). The a-side
is taken from Veni Vidi Vicious.
[read
more] ---Peter L
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CD
/ Koop / Waltz For Koop / JCR (Jazzanova Compost Records)
Koop receive the cooperation of several great vocalists on this very
vocal oriented disc with a strong 70's Polish Jazz sound. Yukimi Nagano
sings on "Summer Sun" a lot like the Polish jazz artist Eva
Bem.
[read
more]
---Carl
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12" / Nettle /
Bin Scrape Laden / Soot
Though this is 'difficult music' it is worth the effort. If you've got
an open mind and want something new (guaranteed) I'd say give this a
shot.
[read
more] ---Carl
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3"CD
/ various / Archival Series Volume One / The New England Electric
Music Company
Artists: Tom Dissevelt/Gershon Kingsley/Percy Grainger/Pierre Boulez/Joan LaBarbara
Volume One of the archival series of 3" cds is by far the most
varied of the three Archive series that I have heard so far. There are
4 much shorter tracks - but also there is the most tension conveyed.
[read
more] ---Patrick R
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3"CD
/ various / Archival Series Volume One / The New England Electric
Music Company
Artists: Bernard Parmegiani/Wlodzimierz Kotonski
Volume Two of the archival series of 3" cds is the most coherent
of the three Archive series that I have heard so far. There are 2 long
tracks which mix seamlessly.
[read
more] ---Patrick R
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12" / A
Rocket in Dub / "Rocket No. 3" b-w "Rocket No. 4" /
Italic
The music of A Rocket In Dub is more organic that other electronic dub
(like Pole). You can hear bongos and guitar in the tracks. The end feel
is very calm.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD5
/ Artist Unknown / Errorist / Disko B
Artist Unknown are a duo from Berlin. On this 5 song EP they have one
new song ("Errorist") and four remixes of separate songs. The
whole thing sits very well as a package, and the 5 songs are quite good.
[read
more] ---Carl |
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CD
/ various / Elektronische Musik -Interkontinental /
Traum Schallplatten
A relaxing listen - well worth checking out for a fine chill. There's
not a clinker in the bunch and I have to say Traum really have it going
on.
[read
more] ---Patrick R |
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CD5
/ Interpol / 5 Song EP
They're a 4 peice band that sound heavily influenced by the likes of
Joy Division and possibly, a bit by My Dad is Dead. Their songs and some
of the guitarwork
contain similarities to some of the more rocked up Bedhead songs but replacing
the world-weary deadpan-ness with more melody and emotion.
[read
more] ---Brian C |
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CD
/ various / In The Beginning There Was Rhythm / Soul
Jazz Records
There is something so universally affirming in the spirit of these songs
that so many of us consider sacred that I think gets overlooked because
these bands form the backbone of our own musical identity. Rather than
stand and fight, like many of their punk forefathers, the artists on
In The Beginning choose rhythm as their rifle.
[read
more] ---Donny M
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CD5
/ Neil and Iraiza / Wasted Time / Escalator
"Wasted Time" is the latest E.P. by Gakuji Matsuda (Cubismo
Grafico) and Hirohisa Horie under the name Neil and Iraiza.
[read
more] ---Teresa C |
