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ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES
Artist: COMETS ON FIRE Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS301CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
First full-length release by psycho-psyche freaks COMETS ON FIRE. COMETS deliver dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of BLUE CHEER, HIGH RISE, JAMES WILLIAMSON and a shit-faced-drunk Roxy-era Eno. Methamphetamine and Schnapps-drenched lullabies take it straight into the sonic shit storm, shifting from 4/4 power rock to imploding free form. Echoplex treated tales of drug-crazed space travelers, graverobbers in love and cosmic cannibals.

Recorded by COMETS ON FIRE onto 4-track with the levels in the bloody red in a basement and garage in Santa Cruz, California. Tinkering, mixing and sound manipulation with help from Tim Green (FUCKING CHAMPS, NATION OF ULYSSES).

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ANTICON
Artist: WHY? Title: Oaklandazulasylum
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0029CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***why? grew up in Cincinnati playing kickball in the cul de sac and watching 8-bit Nintendo in his big brother's attic bedroom. The minor key melodies of religious music and the tight belt, tight-laced shoes of his soft-spoken middle childhood in part provide the impetus for why?'s candytime-dissonant, singsong-suicide style. In addition to his membership in cLOUDDEAD and reaching quiet, why? has collaborated with Hood, Fog, boombip, jel and sole; he has toured the world twice, performed two Peel Sessions under the cLOUDDEAD moniker, and is admired by Boards of Canada, Mum, Stereolab, Danielson Famile, The Notwist and Mogwai. why?'s quirky production and infectious melodies are merely sugar coating for the contents of a young man with unbuttoned lips and a gut spitting words.

oaklandazulasylum, why?'s first official self-produced full-length release, is fourteen lonely art songs recorded over two years' time. With sharp focus and visceral lyrics set in decisive production, each song maintains individuality while positioned to fulfill its unique role in the record's sequence. why?'s rapped and crooned poem parts are a grief-like laugh with the western world, and through the eyeholes of a catchy candy song mask outpour the half-empty honests of a man in moods. The audio equivalent to the slideshow presentation of a clowncar crash, oaklandazulasylum is dirty drum digital dark folk catered to the raw sensibilities of hiphop in headphones.

Artist: WHY? Title: Oaklandazulasylum
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ABR0029
Price: $9.50 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
BIG DADA
Artist: KING GEEDORAH ( MF DOOM ) Title: Take Me To Your Leader
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BDCD 51 CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Big Dada
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***Legendary hip hop supervillain MF DOOM returns with another aliasóthis time the three-headed monster from the Godzilla flicks KING GEEDORAH. Thirteen tracks of beyond-this-world hip hop rocked with off-center beats, outerspace lizard grooves, and ill lyrics rhymed by BIOLANTE, GIGAN, LIL'SCI, ID4, WINDS, STAHHR, JET JAGUAR, MR FANTASTIK, TRUNKS, HASSAN CHOP, and MF DOOM himself.
BROKEN REKIDS
Artist: GITS Title: Frenching The Bully
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SKIP103CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Broken Rekids
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***A reissue of the 1992 debut album by Seattle punk favorites the GITS. Out of print since 1994, the album is a scorcher, rocked with vocalist MIA ZAPATA's great lyrics and deliveryócompared to Joe Strummer, P.J. Harvey, and Patti Smith. Includes all the tracks from the original release, along with two studio cuts and eight live songs added as a bonus. A film documentary about the band and Zapata will be showing in theaters shortly after the album's release.

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NINJA TUNE
Artist: JAGA JAZZIST Title: Living Room Hush
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ZENCD 76 CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Ninja Tune
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***A reissue of the hypnotic and multidirectional Living Room Hush album from eclectic 10-piece Norwegian ensemble JAGA JAZZIST. Originally released by Warner (Norway) in 2001, and again by Bubblecore in 2002, the album is a blend of influences and stylesóall of them melodic, mesmerizing, delicate, and subtleóperformed with an arsenal of trumpets, trombone, electric guitar, bass, tuba, bass clarinets, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, and electronics. Have been compared to everyone from Talk Talk to Soft Machine, Aphex Twin, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, and Stereolab.
SEPIA TONE
Artist: WHITE, JOSH Title: Empty Bed Blues
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STONE14
Price: $12.00 Label: Sepia Tone
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***Political activist and sex symbol, downhome bluesman and urbane stylist, Josh White's credentials as a genuine representative of Southern blues and gospel traditions were undeniable. Empty Bed Blues was his final record for Elektra, and this reissue should help reestablish a place in music history for this remarkable musician who has received relatively scant attention in blues circles over the past decades.

With Elektra White rode the wave of the '60s folk revival, subsequently becoming one of the most popular performers on college campuses. With hundreds of amateurs jumping on the folk music bandwagon, White stood out with his brilliant guitar work, radiant stage presence, and seasoned professionalism.

White relied on his past repertoire-- songs that were unfamiliar to his new audience and beloved by his old fans. All of the songs on Empty Bed Blues (except the Bessie Smith-associated title track) had been recorded by White during the '30s and '40s, and despite the sexy cover, only half dealt with secular themes: "Mother On That Train" was originally recorded by White's mentor Blind Joe Taggart, while the other four religious songs were popular in the jubilee tradition; a 1935 single by White had paired "Home In That Rock" and "Paul and Silas"; on the blues side, "Backwater Blues" is another classic from the Bessie Smith songbook, while the standard "Bottle Up And Go" is associated with the Memphis Jug Band and Tommy McClennan; the White composition "Baby Baby Blues" was initially recorded by the white stage singer Libby Holman, with whom White toured and recorded in the '40s; and "That Suits Me" was originally cut by White in 1934.

TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: NUDGE Title: Elaborate Devices For Filtering Crisis
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW082
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***Nudge is the Northwest indietronica supergroup headed by Outward Music Company label head Brian Foote and featuring musicians who've played in Fontanelle, Jackie-o-Motherfucker, Emergency, Nice Nice, Jessamine, Strategy and Sunn. For the past five years Nudge has attracted an estranged ark full of talented musicians for marathon improvisations and edits that result in perfectly glitched future musics. Alongside core members Honey Owens and Paul Dickow, Foote battles the source-fragments' natural entropy by coercing them into a near-seamless collage. At its best, the fusion is both ear-pleasing and inebriating. Points of reference become irrelevant as layer upon layer of influence smudge into a unique flavor of rave-damaged art pop. From the thump-and-bounce jank of disassembled funk jumbles like "Poor Impulse Control" to the half-calm lilt of "Blue Screen" (a torch song about system failure), an energetic anxiety floats Elaborate Devices For Filtering Crisis. Nudge seems almost in harmony with their technology, but at odds with themselves.

Much of Elaborate Devices For Filtering Crisis takes the live-meets-programmed promises of their debut Trick Doubt one step further by introducing human vocals, alternate controllers and cross-patched instrumentation. That Nudge can explore experimental working methods (those who have seen the band live can attest to their tangled MIDI rigs and appalling amounts of gear more fitting of a rock band), while still evoking simultaneous moods of mischief, sadness, frustration, surprise, and ecstasy is astonishing enough; that they can do so while retaining a commitment to performing live what would ordinarily be sequenced is more impressive still. Nudge makes their complex, multi-layered, tech-soul songs sound almost embarrassingly organic.

Artist: V/A Title: Good Night
Format: 2xCD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW066
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***Originally intended to be the fifth Tigerbeat6 release, this compilation has been completed after more than three years. The compositions were created to induce trances, removed states of mind, and sleep. Avoiding his usual samples'n'rhythm schizophrenia, Kid606 culls three guitar compositions from three years of recordings similar to his Why I Love Life EP and Mille Plateaux releases. The somber trilogy of songs by Stephan Mathieu aka Full Swing (who has remixed Yo La Tengo, Kit Clayton and Monolake, and received critical acclaimed for solo and collaborative work) are comfortable musical pillows. Ex-Ultra Vivid Scene frontman Kurt Ralske takes a break from his live visual work as part of 242 Pilots to provide the impressively desolate "Lilyguilding," as well as four dreamlike Quicktime movies inspired by the project and its other musicians. Electric Company's ethnically flavored, shifting, two-part composition hypnotizes and draws one away from one's surroundings. Ambient/experimental laptop ambassador from Australia Pimmon, whose music was one of the main inspirations for the project, starts off disc two, while Tim Hecker aka Jetone (Force Inc., Alien8, Mille Plateaux) comes through with an ambient epic created out of digitally processed guitar and piano along the lines of his Haunt Me full length. Main (Robert Hampson from Loop) and Oren Ambarchi both use treated guitar to create unexpected, lengthy sonic environments.

Disc One track listing:

1. Kid606 Enemic
2. Kid606 Mighty Morphine (Before And After Pt.3)
3. Kid606 Circumvent (Before And After Pt.1)
4. Stephan Mathieu A Pillow For Sue
5. Stephan Mathieu A Drinking Song (Für Katja)
6. Stephan Mathieu Little Pismos Lullaby (Loop)
7. Kurt Ralske Lilyguilding
8. Electric Company For Cantilever 1
9. Electric Company With Iliac Aport 2

Disc One Movies:

1. Kurt Ralske Kave
2. Kurt Ralske / Electric Company Klinz
3. Kurt Ralske / Pimmon Tranzmi.T

Disc Two track listing:

1. Pimmon Minimal Slee
2. Pimmon It Scares The Health Out Of Me
3. Pimmon Tombei The Mist
4. Tim Hecker Indigo Aerial
5. Main Cede
6. Oren Ambarchi Stacte.4b Ver.2

Disc Two Movies:

1. Kurt Ralske Avian.Requiem

WEB OF MIMICRY
Artist: DENGUE FEVER Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 WOM12
Price: $12.00 Label: Web Of Mimicry
Release
Date:		 6/16/03
***That Cambodia Rocks CD tapped into a serious jones for Vietnam War-era Cambodian psychedelic surf/garage rock. Given the dodgy availability of such releases, there are reasons aplenty to hail the arrival of Dengue Fever-- in vivid, stark, hallucinatory reality, an actual, real live band. Fronted by amazing vocalist Chhom Nimol, Dengue Fever has surprisingly universal appeal. Chhom herself is already quite accustomed to seizing the hearts of listeners (including the King and Queen of Cambodia), as she comes from a family best considered as a Cambodia pop music dynasty-- not unlike a Cambodian version of the Jacksons. The rest of the band is no flake-fest either, consisting of Zac Holtzman (Dieselhed) and his brother Ethan on Farfisa organ, Seenon Williams (Radar Brothers), David Ralicke (Beck) and seasoned drummer/engineer Paul Smith. Their covers stay remarkably true to the crazy party music spirit of the '60s- and '70s-era originals. But there are also original songs, some of which veer off into the darkened corridors of lost love and ghostly noir romanticism, dissolving sometimes into spaces of genuine bleakness and tragedy-- all in the Khmer tongue. Far from mere novelty or cheap Orientophile thrill, Dengue Fever keeps listeners on their toes, dancing to their way-out tones.

Chhom Nimol and Dengue Fever recently got a taste of Homeland Security en route to a performance on the eve of a code orange alert; Chhom was pulled from the car by the San Diego border patrol, and sent to jail where she kicked it with Latina gangsters for 22 days. We can all feel safer now.

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