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7" / The
Buff Medways / "Til It Is Over" & "Archive
From 1959" b-w "Medway Sadness" & "Just Explain" /
Smartguy Records
Billy Childish has slowed down the deluge of records he used to release
under various monikers to a well mannered trickle. Three of the four
songs on this new EP have me excited.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD / various / Love, Peace, & Poetry: British Psychedelic
Music / Q.D.K. Media
Will the label
be able to find any tracks we haven't heard on other comps? I can't answer
that authoritatively, but I can say that I have never heard any of these
tracks, and many are really strong.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD
/ various / Love, Peace, & Poetry: Japanese Psychedelic Music /
Q.D.K. Media
One of the things I love about Japanese music is the way it distills
and concentrates Western culture into its purest form. As it does today
with J-pop, so it has done in previous generations for the music of the
day, in this case psychedelia.
[read
more] ---Carl
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2XCD
/ Sonny & Cher / The Singles + / BR Music (Holland)
Sonny & Cher were caught in the jaws of time and became square when
rock and roll became extreme. On this collection you will hear many cuts
that are pretty darn great.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD
/ The Teardrop Explodes / Piano / Griffin Music
You really can't go wrong with Teardrop Explodes. Both their LPs were
great and their singles were more of the same.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD
/ The Toy Dolls /We're Mad! The anthology / Castle Music
In the same way that Sparks have hyper tempos, strange vocals and clever
lyrics, Toy Dolls challenged the confines of skinhead punk with three
punky haired players fronted by a lad named Olga who liked to write about
odd situations and people he knew.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD
/ Crossover / Fantasmo / International DeeJay Gigolo Records
Crossover are a duo from NYC that are graced with the chance to greet
the world from a debut record on DJ Hell's International DeeJay Gigolo
Records.
[read
more] ---Carl
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12" / Smash
TV / "I Love You Now" & "Taste" b-w "Flashdance" & "Crashdown" /
Bpitch Control
About the band I know nothing, except that they are named after an old
video game. About the songs - I know that they are striking.
[read
more] ---Carl
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12" / Smash
TV / "Rock On Boy" & "Electronic Boy" b-w "Errorlove" & "Machine
Entertainment" /
Bpitch Control
Smash TV tweak robotic sounds about as far as they can go while still
holding form. I love Smash TV and believe that this band could be huge
if more
people heard them.
[read
more] ---Carl |
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12" / Solenoid /
Narcissistic / Hiao Hiao Hiao Records
Solenoid is Portland's IDM/electro maestro David Chandler (a.k.a. Office
Products, Space Shrimp, and Negativland).
[read
more] ---Teresa Concepcion
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CD
/ This Heat / Deceit / These Records
This record is the one I had never explored by This Heat. I remember
dismissing it because it was so different from their earlier stuff.
[read
more] ---Carl |
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LP
/ Tuxedomoon / Half-Mute / International DeeJay Gigolo
Records
Re-release of the first Tuxedomoon LP from 1980, which originally came
out on Ralph Records (The Resident's label) in the US.
[read
more] ---Carl
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