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BIRDMAN
Artist: ASHLEY, GREG Title: Medicine Fuck Dream
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR052
Price: $12.00 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Coming from Houston, settling in Oakland, friend to the Cuts, loved by the Modey Lemon. Makes sense this acid-tinged, macabre piece of beauty falls on the lap of Birdman. Think Roky Erickson, Syd Barret, Mayo Thompson, post-ax wielding Skip Spence; the songs on Medicine Fuck Dream are hypnotizing, mind-altering, dark, fuzzy bits about love, love and death, love and war, and Technicolor love from the leader of Texas' Mirrors (not the old Mirrors from yesteryear). Greg Ashley has a new band called The Gris Gris, whose Birdman debut will be coming early next year. Ashley will be touring with the Gris Gris during the last months of 2003 playing songs from Medicine Fuck Dream as well as others.

Greg Ashley is a troubled young man and that's the good news. He writes and sings like he's felt it ten times harder than you hear it. Listen the second time and the avalanche catches up to you quickly. This kid's a star and recognition begins right now. --Greg Dulli, 2003

Artist: V/A Title: Jim Dickinson Field Recordings - Delta Experiment Vol. 3
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR047
Price: $13.00 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson is a legend in his own right (having played keyboards on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," performed on Bob Dylan albums, produced Big Star and Alex Chilton albums, etc., etc.) and he definitely knows a thing or two about blues roots and field recordings of legendary and should-be-legendary blues artists from the south. Dickinson captures raw and spontaneous performances from some of the most important blues artists in the Memphis / Mississippi area on these exclusive recordings by Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (whose performances feature the guitar work of Ry Cooder), Otha Turner, Mose Vinson, Johnny Woods and Alec Teal. These pure examples of Delta blues were committed to tape at Sam Phillips studios, Ardent studios, the Orpheum Theater, and various fields in and around the Memphis area. Raw, gritty and real-- just how the blues should be heard.

Dickinson says, "The Blues is ... a musical tradition born from the dark prison of slavery. Torn from family and homeland, separated from custom and culture, the call and response of the African work song took on new emotional depth. A lonesome sound in the darkness-- a howling dog or passing train-- echoed by harmonica or guitar became a raw, powerful statement of hard times, long work, and fast pleasure; a voice in the southern night complaining about the human condition.

"The fleeting nature of the present creates in man the desire to capture the moment. The movement of time compels us to record. The record becomes a totem, a pageant with a potential for recurring cultural impact, a sacrament between artist and audience, an unique event preserved and repeatable."

CAMOBEAR
Artist: MARTINEZ, JOSH Title: Buck Up, Princess
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 CAM003
Price: $13.00 Label: Camobear
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
Artist: MARTINEZ, JOSH Title: Buck Up, Princess
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 CAM003CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Camobear
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Should you hear anyone mutter, "Ow. Everything hurts, the world's gone to shit and I'm so sad," the proper response is "Buck up, princess," which basically means "pull your pants up and stop whining."

Josh Martinez is back in business with a brand new professional bootleg that should put to rest any doubt that he is here to make it huge. Containing guest appearances from Awol One, mcenroe, and Governor Bolts, with production from world famous producers DJ Moves, jel, Westainporcelain, Maker, and mcenroe, Buck Up Princess is serious business: next generation rap music, moving from banger to anthem and back again, leaving you with sweaty palms, a nervous tic, and the need to love and be loved.

Martinez has built a solid reputation around the world for his engaging wordplay, butter melodies and high-energy live performances. Buck Up Princess is the result of two years of 'round-the-clock grinding, constant touring and a desperate ploy to grab the world's attention, if only long enough to move it with the music (minus all the large trucks, cardboard boxes and new addresses). It's sincere and spectacular. Believing the world needs less crying and more good times, Six Months offers Buck Up Princess, the album, the lifestyle. So stop whining and get on with it.

IN THE RED
Artist: FUSE, THE Title: Fisherman's Wife
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR105CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***As their description by one writer as "Crass meets The Who" should make obvious, The Fuse! must be seen and heard to be believed. Three razor sharp Hispanic kids (known mysteriously as F-1, F-2, and F-3) from Downey, California (yup, home of the Carpenters), instantly surpass all revolutionary rhetoric by literally attacking their instruments as well as physically assaulting the audience. The Fuse! don't need to spend all day perfecting their chops; their guitar is going right through your skull as you dance uncontrollably to an insane racket of total discontent. But there are actual songs on Fisherman's Wife, too. They are the sound of the new frustration.

Anyone who has peeked into F-2's journal while he frantically scribbles in it at the Three of Clubs (where he's always sipping some pink tropical drink) knows that he's nothing short of a mad, pissed genius. The Fuse! are way too impatient to be part of the aping-Gang-Of-Four-and-PiL scene, and are way too violent for boring punk-blues scholarship. Big sigh of relief there, right? Two years into their chaotic career and they've already had a documentary made about them - before releasing an actual recording.

LEAF
Artist: 310 Title: Recessional
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BAY33CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Leaf
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Sonic storytellers 310 return with their fifth full-length album, and their most accomplished and accessible release to date. A seamless mix of songs and instrumental pieces that run from lush and hypnotic to Eastern-sounding to nouveau prog, and many points in between. Dreamy.
Artist: 310 Title: Recessional
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BAY33V
Price: $16.00 Label: Leaf
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Sonic storytellers 310 return with their fifth full-length album, and their most accomplished and accessible release to date. A seamless mix of songs and instrumental pieces that run from lush and hypnotic to Eastern-sounding to nouveau prog, and many points in between. Dreamy.
Artist: ARAI, RIOW Title: Disturbance
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 DOCK39
Price: $6.75 Label: Leaf
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***The first-ever release outside his native land by Japanese producer RIOW ARAI. A greatest hits package of sorts, the record draws from Arai's extensive catalog of twisted instrumental hip hop originally released on the cult Japanese Soup-Disk label. Five DJ-friendly tracksótwo re-edits of songs from the Mind Edit album, along with three previous stunners.
Artist: ARAI, RIOW Title: Mind Edit
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 BAY32V
Price: $16.50 Label: Leaf
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***The first full-length album to be released outside Japan by rule-breaking hip hop producer RIOW ARAI. A funk-bringing, boundary-ignoring dose of free-range groove flavors equally influenced by Chicago post-rock, German electronica, cut-up turntablism, and the straight-up hip hop of folks like RZA and Busta Rhymes.
Artist: ARAI, RIOW Title: Mind Edit
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BAY32CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Leaf
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***The first full-length album to be released outside Japan by rule-breaking hip hop producer RIOW ARAI. A funk-bringing, boundary-ignoring dose of free-range groove flavors equally influenced by Chicago post-rock, German electronica, cut-up turntablism, and the straight-up hip hop of folks like RZA and Busta Rhymes.
PLANET MU
Artist: VENETIAN SNARES Title: Chocolate Wheelchair Album
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 ZIQ077
Price: $16.50 Label: Planet Mu
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***AARON FUNK (aka VENETIAN SNARES) delivers a stylistic follow-up to last year's Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006 album. A full-on punk-rave jungle breaks blow-out, rocked with tons of pop sampling (in varying tempos), post-punk vocal hooks, glitch hop madness, titanium breaks, buzzing bass, and more.
Artist: VENETIAN SNARES Title: Chocolate Wheelchair Album
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ZIQ077CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Planet Mu
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***AARON FUNK (aka VENETIAN SNARES) delivers a stylistic follow-up to last year's Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006 album. A full-on punk-rave jungle breaks blow-out, rocked with tons of pop sampling (in varying tempos), post-punk vocal hooks, glitch hop madness, titanium breaks, buzzing bass, and more.

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SIX MONTHS
Artist: V/A Title: Beyond Space Presents Vol. 1
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BSE10
Price: $9.50 Label: Six Months
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***After releasing numerous albums under the radar, Beyond Space Entertainment decided it was their time, and what better way to build a name for themselves than with a compilation featuring well established artists from all around the country? Having tired of comps with as many recycled tracks as exclusive, Beyond Space delivers nothing but new, exclusive songs from sole, alias (deep puddle dynamics, anticon), odd nosdam (clouddead, reaching quiet), passage, The Bommar Monk, telephone jim jesus (restifrom bodies), Adeem & Shalem (production for Sage Francis's The Makeshift Patriot), Circus and The Shape Shifters, and up-and-coming artists JD Walker, Tadow, Emynd, and Ognihs. With this release Beyond Space Entertainment shows what a compilation should be-- all new songs showcasing a wide range of talent.

STARLIGHT FURNITURE COMPANY
Artist: DEAD C Title: The Damned
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST21
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Over the last 17 years, The Dead C have produced some of the most strident, uncompromising and downright nasty rock screech to exit from their homeland of New Zealand, without sacrificing an ounce of the grace and finesse required of tamers of gigantic, wild sandworms. Their eighteen full-length albums and numerous seven-inch singles have garnered worldwide respect from vertebrates and invertebrates alike.

The Dead C's improvised noise rock verges on disintegration with a trademark hazy disorientation, invariably evoking hypnotic and heavy moods. But The Dead C are no bummer. They have always sought liberation from shallow and easy rock conventions; amid the murk of cardboard box guitars, underwater vocals, and ramshackle drumming, a new consciousness emerges. The recognizable, sullen strumming, mumbling and lyrical ennui of painter and educator Michael Morley (also known for his solo work as Gate), anchored by percussionist Robbie Yeats and punctuated by the atonal bursts of writer and Corpus Hermeticum label boss Bruce Russell (also known for his solo work as A Handful of Dust), coalesce in a solid front that mocks the efforts of schmaltz-peddling hacks.

The Damned was recorded during sustained and intensive sessions from 2001 through 2003, at the Driving Range studio in Port Chalmers. Final mixing and production took place in 2003 at My Pit in Port Chalmers.

The Dead C's The Damned is a rank, rank fairytale gone wrong. --Dylan Nyoukis, Decaer Pinga

TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: KID 606 Title: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 MEOW100
Price: $9.25 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***No longer a kid, Kid606 finds himself at the forefront of America's independent electronic music world, striving against adversity, surpassing expectation, and breaking the rules. Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You promises to bring listeners to a fiery musical climax, by merging thoughts and ideas previously spewed out by Kid606 while advancing to the next level where over-the-top, danceable, power-electronic, technopunkhyper, rave-gabber-junglist madness reigns. "The Illness," "Woofer Wrecker," and "Ecstasy Motherfucker" are pure tension-and-release dancefloor stormers, oozing with sweaty, breakbeat energy, dynamic noise, and grinding acid riffs. "Who Wah Kill Sound?" and "Buckle Up," featuring accomplished UK dancehall MC Wayne Lonesome, are the album's tribunal ragga junglist anthems where thunderous beats and booming basslines collide with thrashing gabber kicks, dirty rave blasts, and monstrous, police-siren wails and screeches.

Kid606's most accessible and innovative work to date moves rapidly across a consciously schizoid emotional spectrum you just won't find anywhere else. This angst-induced thrill ride is inspired by today's fucked-up, computer-complicated world, and 2 Bad Mice, Jeff Mills, Aphex Twin, and The Prodigy's early work.

  • Hey, there are songs on this record! Songs!
  • Kid606 continues to tour relentlessly across the world at festivals, rock clubs, raves, underground warehouses, art gatherings and everything in between
  • Gatefold jacket with full-color inner sleeves
  • Enhanced CD version released by Ipecac
VIOLENT TURD
Artist: MOCHIPET Title: Combat
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 TURD12
Price: $9.50 Label: Violent Turd
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Just when you thought Darwinism was dead, Mochipet mutates music into an indefinable force that dumbfounds the best Scrabble players. This CD not only explodes musical genres, it takes deconstructionism to a whole new level of insanity. Your brain... a blender... a big, fat, mushy, musical rice cake! If you could ever imagine Frank Zappa marrying Aphex Twin and having surrogate children by the likes of NoMeansNo, Yes, Wang Chung, Johnny Cash, DJ Qbert, Nelly and ThunderCats, then you can picture Mochipet's Violent Turd debut.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, where politicians box and girls in huts make cars crash, David Wang has been composing mischievous music since his mom bought him a stiletto guitar at the age of 15. After years in punk-disco-classical-blackmetal bands, Mochipet is his newest avatar. The potency of Mochipet releases on Germany's bpitchcontrol and his own btrendy have been compared to "licking a page of micro-dots, bring on the hallucinations..."

  • Violent Turd's craziest mash-up deconstruction yet

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