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/ The Avalanches / At Last Alone / Toys Factory (Japan)
Ffive remixes of tracks from 2001's Since I Left You, three unreleased
tracks from 1997, and a B-side.
[read
more] ---Donny
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CD / The Buff Medways / This Is This / Vinyl Japan
Evident on this album again is Childish's freakish guitar ingenuity,
reverb drenched and vivid enough to make the best tracks sound like they're
inventing the entire genre.
[read
more] ---Donny
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CD
/ Dntel / Life Is Full Of Possibilities / Plug Research
Dntel (pronounced "dental") is LA electronica artist Jimmy
Tamborello. Jimmy is also a amember of the band Figurine. 'Life Is Full
Of Possibilities' is his third full length as Dntel.
[read more]
---Carl
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CD5
/ Faust / Ravvivando Remix: Dave Ball (Soft Cell) & Ingo
Vauk / Klangbad
In the early 70's, Faust was already in the 00's. Their mischievous
noodlings and prankster electronic rock was almost a genre unto itself.
Now, David Ball remixes a Faust song three different ways and what strikes
me the most is this; it's almost sounds outdated.
[read
more] ---Brian |
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CD
/ THE
PANICS / I Wanna Kill My Mom!!! / Gulcher
Rather obscure (high school-age) Hoosier punks, only in existence for
a year or so (circa 1980), whose recorded output prior to this 2001 collection
consisted of one 3-song 7" and one compilation album track.
[read
more] ---Peter
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CD
/ various / Red Snerts / Gulcher
Remember back a little over 20 years ago when the New Wave was happenin'
and it was actually kinda diverse? Power pop, ska, synth pop, punk, reggae
and more could all comfortably fit under that one banner.
[read
more] ---Peter
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7" / GogogoAirHeart / "Real
Live Kill" b-w "Ripe From the Vine" / GSL
GoGoGoAirHeart are a band from San Diego with three LPs and five years
of history. The feel is musically like The Clash's "Magnificent
Seven" with vocals styled after The Make Up.
[read
more] ---Carl
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CD
/ various / The Hacker / The Next Step of New Wave:
an electrowave mix / Human
'The Hacker: The Next Step of New Wave' was released, as the new movement
of electro was really growing in popularity. This is the 6th CD release
on Human, a subdivision of Uwe out of Paris. Uwe started in 1997 as an
industrial/hardcore electronic label, but the CDs on Human seem more
varied: drum n bass, jungle, house, and old and new electro.
[read
more] ---Carl
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2xCD
/ various / Immediate Pleasure / Castle Music
Includes many acts such as The Small Faces, Chris Farlowe, The Nice,
Humble Pie, P.P. Arnold, Amen Corner, The McCoys, Rod Stewart (in his
early days), Duncan Browne and Billy Nicholls.
[read more]
---Patrick
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CD
/ various / Instant Karma / Castle Music
Instant Karma, a short-lived (matter of months really) subsidiary of
Immediate Records, is an excellent, over-looked bag of gems - and finally
is brought out of the shadows of its mother label with this proper compilation.
[read
more]
---Patrick
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CD
/ The Wake / Here Comes Everybody / LTM
The Wake are, without a doubt, one of the most underrated Factory bands.
Perhaps, now with James Nice's Les Temps Modernes label reissuing all
their material to date on CD with bonus tracks, they can be properly
evaluated as one of the greatest post-punk bands of the early eighties.
[read more]
---George
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