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ANTICON
Artist: DOSH Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0032CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Martin Dosh, most well known as the drummer and Rhodes piano player in the Minneapolis band Fog (Ninja Tune), has struck out on his own with his debut solo record. When he wasn't practicing drums, playing in bands around Minneapolis or teaching drums to elementary school students, Dosh was collecting hours upon hours of drum breaks and keyboard riffs in the basement of his house, a room cluttered with musical instruments, old samplers and effects pedals, blown out amps and a couple of dusty couches. He worked for a little over a year putting sounds to tape with the occasional accompaniment of friends. These recordings would become this collection of 12 self-engineered, mature instrumentals. Dosh's live drums, which are filtered, overdriven, looped, and effected, sound like a robot with human hands playing a beat-up kit through a vacuum cleaner. They are set in layers of sad, jazzy piano keys, beautiful feedback ambiance, vibes, reverb and delay-drenched Casios, turntables, guitars, and Dictaphone tape. The album displays a full hi-fi sound spectrum while maintaining the down-to-earth honesty of a homemade recording. Riding the faders, mutes and effects knobs, Dosh mixes in the spirit of Lee "Scratch" Perry, making each pass a one-of-a-kind, spontaneous performance.
Artist: DOSH Title: S/T
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ABR0032
Price: $9.50 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
GOOFIN'
Artist: SONIC YOUTH Title: Dirty 4 Lp Box Set
Format: 4xLP Catalog
Number:		 GOO05
Price: $29.00 Label: Goofin'
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Sonic Youth's landmark 1992 album Dirty was re-released in a double-CD deluxe edition package by Universal Records in April, making it part of a series that includes classic albums by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, and The Who. The corresponding quadruple-LP box set on the band's own Goofin' Records imprint includes: the original 15 album tracks; nearly two dozen bonus tracks culled from B-sides ("Genetic," "Hendrix Necro," "The Destroyed Room," "Is It My Body," "Personality Crisis," "The End Of The End Of The Ugly" and the eight-minute epic "Tamra"), outtakes ("Stalker," "Youth Against Fascism" and "Wish Fulfillment"), and rehearsal tapes from the period (the previously released "Little Jammy Thing" and previously unreleased songs "Lite Damage," "Dreamfinger," "Barracuda," "New White Kross," "Guido," "Moonface," "Poet In The Pit" and "Theoretical Chaos"); an eye-watering trove of full-color artwork; and essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and journalist/co-conspirator Byron Coley.

The band's eighth official album, Dirty reflects the influence of touring partners such as Mudhoney and Nirvana; indeed, the team behind Nevermind -- producer Butch Vig and mixer Andy Wallace-- helped to craft an explosive, intense yet melodic rock album which would become arguably the band's most commercially and critically successful work to date.

Rock has never seen a band quite like Sonic Youth. Dirty is a great Sonic Youth disc ... among the band's most unified and unforgettable recorded works.... The aura of insurgency provides a charged context for the disc's more personal songs, upping the intensity and the emotional stakes and fusing a collection of diverse tracks into a scorched and scorching whole. Dirty is a burner. --Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone

  • The ultimate Dirty set features more than 20 previously unreleased and hard-to-find B-Sides, outtakes and demos
  • Photos, artwork and liner notes from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley
  • A classic from the year punk broke
POST-PARLO
Artist: GIBBARD, BENJAMIN / KENNY, ANDREW Title: Home Vol. 5 - Split
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 PPR018CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Post-Parlo
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Volume 5 in Post-Parlo's ongoing Home series of split songwriter CDs features BENJAMIN GIBBARD of DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and POSTAL SERVICE and ANDREW KENNY of AMERICAN ANALOG SET. Over the course of this 8-song release, Gibbard and Kenny explore the concept of "home" from the inside out. Both songwriters spend way too much of their lives on tour, playing to hundreds and thousands of new faces every night, so when the opportunity to include the two in the HOME series came up, it was impossible to resist. Three of Gibbard's four offerings are new songs recorded in late 2002 and early 2003, with the fourth being a cover of AmAnSet's "Choir Vandals" (Know By Heart, 2002). Kenny went a bit deeper in his vault of musical gems and included the first song he ever wrote ("Hometown Fantasy") as well as two brand new compositions and a cover of DCFC's "Line of Best Fit" (Something About Airplanes, 1998).

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SILTBREEZE
Artist: GUIDED BY VOICES Title: Get Out Of My Stations
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SB028
Price: $9.50 Label: Siltbreeze
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Originally released in 1993, Get Out Of My Stations boasts the same classic Guided by Voices lineup as Propeller-- Robert and Jim Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Dan Toohey and Kevin Fennel (and let's not forget that it was lovingly fucked with by Mike Rep on the production side of things). Outside of the Siltbreeze seven-inch collection (Tard & Further'd), none of the original seven tracks have turned up on any GBV, Pollard, or Sprout project since this seven-inch was released 10 years ago. Too frequently overlooked-- due to the unavailability of this record for many years-- is how great these tracks are, even compared to the spate of seven-inch EPs that turned up in the wake of Propeller hysteria. Not one throwaway track exists upon it. This is blood, sweat and beers, otherwise known as blue ribbon GBV (how and why this record originally came to be should tell you all you need to know: the recordings were traded to Siltbreeze for a pair of vintage Walt "Clyde" Frazier Pumas-- 1973, size 11, green suede, never worn-- and a bottle of Silly Goose authentic German apple schnapps. Those were the days!).

Get Out Of My Stations, in all its lo-fi glory, now on compact disc for the first time, contains four extra live tracks from the same era. The recordings are sharp, captured as they came down-- hot, spontaneous and presented to you honestly, without the assistance of studio gimmicks. Don't be afraid to crack open a beer and enjoy the show.

TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: DYNASTY Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW089
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Supremely talented, immaculately attired, sporting hooks, looks, chops, and undeniable rockstar power, Dynasty are the complete package royale. This is their seven-song, multiple re-entry vehicular salvo from the heart and loin of the San Francisco dancewavepartypunk culture war.

Fronted by the mercurial Jibz Cameron (Roofies) on vox and keyboards, hips set rocking by the bomb-ass bass of Diana Hayes (Mono Pause), and jet-propelled by the undeniable beatz of Indra Dunis (Numbers), Dynasty is the soundtrack to your fever-dream night-on-the-town with Alexis Carrington, Dorothy Parker, and Terri Nunn. Dynasty is not some tired, warmed-over electro retread. This is fresh, beat-oriented, melodic, everlasting gobstopper party music, awash in sex, deadpan humor, and all-consuming uniform lust.

Upon their 2002 inception, Dynasty instantly became one of the most sought-after bands on the contemporary West Coast dancewave party circuit, having shared bills with Erase Errata, Stereo Total, Gravy Train, and the Deep Throats.

Artist: KNIFEHANDCHOP Title: Rockstopper
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW079
Price: $9.25 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***Knifehandchop is Billy Pollard, a 22-year-old culture-junkie musician from Toronto who has been producing devastating electronic dancefloor anthems for the last four years on the Irritant and Tigerbeat6 labels. Rockstopper showcases what Knifehandchop has done and explores totally new musical directions, compiling some of Pollard's most manic moments, and offering lots of deep, emotional tracks. The vocoded, electro anti-love songs contrast over-the-top hip hop and distorted hardcore tracks scattered throughout the album, as well as mental mind-blowing gabber, laidback hiphop, sentimental vocal electro, and dancehall riddims.

His first single "Bounty Killer Killer" was praised for combining pop, gabber, jungle and ragga in a never-before-heard manner. Other vinyl-only releases like Respect To All The Haters, Taking The Soul Out Of Music and TKO from Tokyo displayed even more musical depth, tearing apart and recreating in his own image some of the staples of club music: booty bass, house, techno, dancehall and ghetto-tech. The Irritant single "Hooked on Ebonics" tore up clubs everywhere with cut-up rap vocals and huge electro beats, and was featured on a French fashion show CD compilation from Collette.

Knifehandchop is constantly defining a new genre for himself and Rockstopper is the most interesting, emotional and polished work he's done to date.

VIOLENT TURD
Artist: DJ BROKEN WINDOW Title: Parallel Universe Vol. 2
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 TURD05
Price: $6.75 Label: Violent Turd
Release
Date:		 8/25/03
***The Swiss army knife of pop-record-matching delivers a second CD full of hilarious whole-song mash-ups. The mysterious DJ-- an unnamed international IDM and electro producer-- continues amazing research on pairs of vocal and instrumental tunes that, once overlain, create a kind of Top 20 pop hits from a parallel universe. In addition, the CD contains printed instructions for every track used and exactly how to mix them together.

Critics have called Broken Window's work "as fun as it is dangerous," "as academic in its musicological joking as it is tongue-in-cheek with booty-shaking party music," and praised his "mash-ups that actually seek out songs that work well together.... So much fun that you may not realize how masterfully conceived it really is."

Selection and conceptual integrity is why these mashups stand out; each is the combination of an instrumental and a capella vocals that happen to be parallel arrangements across through their entire durations, but are usually a few decades and genres apart, as well: doo-wop vocal harmonies backed by micro-house; rap over '70s prog-rock anthems; R&B backed by classic industrial dance music; club divas backed by a '60s samba trio; even contemporary jabs at the Hooked On Classics series. They resemble pop tunes, except that all the "wrong" vocals are fronting all the "wrong" bands. Unlikely combinations work out perfectly due in no small part to Broken Window's encyclopedic knowledge of pop and avant-garde music. Because Parallel Universe relies on the elegant layering of whole, unedited tracks, they are free of the scars of brutal computer-based reconstructive surgery that make glitchy, MP3-based mash-ups unpalatable to many music fans. In fact, some work so well, you might suspect that they were legitimate, next-wave productions by the original artists.

  • For fans of 2 Many DJs, Soulwax, Girls On Top, Negativland, Frenchbloke, Slingshot 12 inches, disco and hip-hop radio segues
  • Stand-out mash-ups merging pop, avant garde, rap, house, and R&B
  • "As fun as it is dangerous"

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