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ANTICON
Artist: PASSAGE Title: The Forcefield Kids
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0038CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 5/24/04
*** 2xLP released the week of June 7th.

passages is the kind of electro-new-wave-industrialfolk- hospital-waiting-room hope-hop that you can dance or die to. The self-produced Forcefield Kids is full of distorted lo-bit jiggy drums; chopped-up, backward harps and French horns; distinctive synths with envelopes and filters; acoustic guitars; playful, heavy words; and catchy-ass melodies. passage capably references and blends a seemingly infinite library of influences. Who would have thought that someone could create a hardcore, new wave, melodious fast-raps record, with sweeter-than-candy indie-pop hooks? The Forcefield Kids is proudly and without apology a genre-defying record that just about embodies "the anticon sound."

The songs on The Forcefield Kids speak on: the educational system, the post-cold war cold war, the legacy of white oppressorship, Dr. Laura, childhood, child molestation, loneliness and longing. They are sung with hungry desperation and darkly humorous undertones. It is a middle school kid asking permission to sharpen his pencil, only to return to his seat and put his own eye out. On "Creature in the Classroom," an unintentional anthem for disaffected youth, passage bitterly revisits grade school misery with visceral lines like "Tin teeth, shin guard, first string rich kids get the indoor-soccer flat soles/special needs kids get the med-head puppet show at little round tables with grad school ass holes." The record is filled with images of invalids, radiation, cold hospitals, lost love and dreaded, never-ending Sunday afternoons filled with self-loathing regrets. A highlight is the dark pop infection called "Old Aunt Mary," sounding like something off Beck's One Foot in the Grave; fresh for the second millennium, passage sings: "I won't ever sell you out, like a fish thrown back, in a double knit tweed and a bad men's scent, but I'm in love with a defeatist and I'm wild for magazines. I'm not just some boy breathing down your neck, I'm absolutely the most important man in the world and my fucking kids will play two sports a piece." There is God and Hell in this record, the guts of a dead or dying angel.

BIRDMAN
Artist: APES Title: Tapestry Mastery
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR059CD
Price: $8.25 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 5/24/04
***The debut Birdman release from this Washington, DC quartet contains three stories from the beyond told to the band's blind weaver, Maximilla, as a guide for her to weave a masterpiece. Tapestry Mastery presents six mind-numbing recordings (over 25 minutes of music) with sounds more bombastic, fertile and charismatic than any Apes release to date. They rip it apart live with their signature bass-keyboard-and-drum grooves and singer Paul's sheer intensity. Tapestry Mastery finds the Apes creating a recording that equals the thrills of their live shows.
HOLY MOUNTAIN
Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: For Octavio Paz
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 21852
Price: $12.00 Label: Holy Mountain
Release
Date:		 5/24/04
***Since the release of Six Organs of Admittance's self-titled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is that Chasny's pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon-- Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example-- not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance.

Originally released in a vinyl-only limited edition by Time-Lag at the end of 2003, For Octavio Paz sold out instantaneously. It was decided that the material is just too strong to belong to so few.

An assortment of raga-blues for the temple and the front porch --Dusted

SONIG
Artist: SCHLAMMPEITZIGER Title: Everything Without All Inclusive (Remixed)
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 S033
Price: $8.25 Label: Sonig
Release
Date:		 5/24/04
***You've heard the CD, now get the club vinyl featuring remixes of tracks from Schlammpeitziger's Everything Without All Inclusive album.

Track listing:

1. Vert Stumbling Gallopwood
A surprising electro-acoustic ragtime-house number. Elegant, unpretentious, nimbly instrumented with lots of piano, accordion and electronica, irresistible, and catchy

2. Wevie Stonder A Buddha Made of Mud
Freaked-out and complete with Casio-polka rhythms. A mix of English and fake German

3. Andreas Dorau Club Sonnenbankwende
This German popstar veteran of the early '80s new wave has still got it

4. Electronicat Prä-Frag Behäbige behäbige 67
The club-friendliest track, kicking and booting in fine style, cementing Electronicat's reputation as a rocker in disco outfit. Witness the birth of a new genre: Glamtrance!

  • Limited edition 12-inch in Sonig's _ the Irregular series, following Jason Forrest 12-inch

    Exclusive re-mixes by cutting edge Sonig artists Vert, Wevie Stonder, Electronicat and German new wave hero Andreas Dorau
VIOLENT TURD
Artist: KNIFEHANDCHOP VS DJ ANEURISM Title: Evil Doppelganger - Shotgun Wedding Vol. 2
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 TURD14
Price: $6.75 Label: Violent Turd
Release
Date:		 5/24/04
***In the second installment of Shotgun Wedding-- Violent Turd's strictly limited virtual soundclash series-- DJ combat gets taken to the next level with Toronto's Knifehandchop pitted against Oakland's DJ Aneurysm in a fever-pitched hardcore massacre.

Knifehandchop, best known for quick-witted and always danceable releases on Tigerbeat6 and Irritant, comes correct with a 40-minute mashup (embedded with a Venetian Snares/System Of A Down highlight) that mixes the sleazy pop of Khia, Daft Punk, RZA and Kool Moe Dee with the best hardcore hits from his own back catalogue, and unreleased friends' tracks. Nowza, it doesn't get any more twisted than this.

DJ Aneurysm, musical mastermind of Switchcraft Records and winner of many underground hardcore/noise /gabber turntablist contests, takes things to a more multidimensional level of perversion, constantly mixing between turntables and laptops, combining DSP and scratching, and mixing in lots of his own new tracks over the best hard techno and grimy hiphop, jungle and gabber.

  • Very limited split mix CD by two special mash-ochists

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