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• Deep Puddle Dynamics made URB's "Next 100" in April 1999
  
• Guest appearance by Sage Francis
  
• Features beatmakers alias and jel of anticon and odd nosdam of cLOUDDEAD and anticon

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Covay was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and grew up in Washington, DC, the son of a Baptist preacher. As a youngster he sang in his family's gospel group, the Cherry-Keys, and joined The Rainbows alongside Marvin Gaye, John Berry, and Billy Stewart in the '50s. He also performed as a solo singer with Little Richard (who recorded Covay as Pretty Boy on the Atlantic release "Bip Bop Bip"). Covay had moderate success with the single "Pony Time," which he co-wrote with Berry, for the Arnold label in 1960. He began to hit his stride in 1964. Besides fronting Don Covay and the Goodtimers, he wrote "Mercy Mercy," "Sookie Sookie," and "See Saw," and had tunes recorded by Gene Chandler and Aretha Franklin. Covay did both blues and soul numbers for various labels in the late '60s and '70s. His biggest hit as a performer was "See Saw," which made it to number five on the R&B charts in 1965. Covay was also part of the short-lived Soul Clan, with Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, and Joe Tex in 1968.

During his period at Atlantic in the late '60s and early '70s, Covay's tunes were continually cut by other artists (most notably "See Saw" and "Chain Of Fools" by Aretha Franklin; "Watch Dog" and "I'm Gonna Take What He's Got" by Etta James; and "Think About It" and "Demonstration" by Otis Redding). But Covay's own recording career had reached an impasse, so he began trying different approaches to reach a new audience. One such attempt was the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, featuring former Shirelles guitarist Joe Richardson and John Hammond, a favorite of the Greenwich Village coffee house folk / blues crowd. Recorded at Herb Abramson's A-1 Studio, the album was aimed at what was then called the "underground" audience. What may have seemed like an odd direction at the time produced one very raw and potent marriage of soul, blues and rock. Out of print for years, The House of Blue Lights has become a desired album by record collectors everywhere. Track listing:

1. Key to the Highway
2. Mad Dog Blues
3. The Blues Don't Knock
4. Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Woman on Your Mind
5. The House of Blue Lights - Part 1
6. Four Women
7. Steady Roller
8. Homemade Love
9. But I Forgive You Blues
10. Shut Your Mouth
11. The House of Blue Lights - Part 2

• On CD for the first time ever
  
• Classic, sought-after tracks by R&B / soul songwriting kingpin
  
• A raw and potent marriage of soul, blues and rock

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  Key to the Highway
  Mad Dog Blues
  The Blues Don't Knock
  Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Good Woman on Your Mind
  The House of Blue Lights -- Part 1
  Four Women
  Steady Roller
  Homemade Love
  But I Forgive You Blues
  Shut Your Mouth
  The House of Blue Lights -- Part 2

Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air marks the halfway point, more or less, of the Incredible String Band. This 1971 release was their first for Island Records, following Joe Boyd (formerly Elektra UK's director of A&R) to the label.

ISB had been riding the huge critical acclaim of their third album The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter and a string of beautiful releases in its wake (Wee Tam, The Big Huge, I Looked Up, and the ambitious, sprawling medieval road show U). In fact, The Incredible String Band were a quartet for this recording, adding Malcolm Le Maistre from the U touring group, and retaining ex-wife Licorice as an additional vocalist. The "Incredibles" (as fans may know them) mined the successful formula of past releases on Liquid Acrobat, a sprawling, epic, and fanciful collection of folk musics from around the world, complete with Williamson's soulful brogue or Heron's bluesy warmth. Somehow, the ISB managed to combine numerous styles and add their own magic to the brew in order to make the sound uniquely their own.

Along with Fairport Convention, ISB continued to lead the merging of the lines between folk music and electric rock, and is in fine form here, especially on songs like "Talking of the End," "Worlds They Rise & Fall" and "Jigs," a wonderful interpretation of a triad of traditional folk dance tunes.

Many consider Liquid Acrobat to be the final release in the golden era of this legendary band.

• First studio album for Island in 1971 reissued for the first time in USA on CD
  
• Remastered with sound quality superior to previous Euro reissues
  
• To this day, have retained loyal following of crackpot hippies and ethnomusicologists
  
• Lyrics included for first time on CD
  
• One of the best bands ever

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  Talking of the End
  Dear Old Battlefield
  Cosmic Boy
  Worlds They Rise and Fall
  Evolution Rag
  Painted Chariot
  Adam and Eve
  Red Hair
  Here Till Here is There
  Tree
  Jigs
  Goodbye

Almost immediately after The Incredible String band had finished recording their debut album for Elektra Records in 1966, virtuoso banjo player and third guitarist Palmer left the group to travel to Kashmir (and eventually to form C.O.B.).

The first Incredible String Band album is the only one to feature this original trio lineup. It stands alone in the ISB catalogue, for its unique charm that precipitated the more hippie-laden records to follow. At this point, the trio still had a strong link (via Palmer) to traditional Scots old-timey balladry and ragtime and bluegrass, not to mention the traditional folk method. Yet, even in the beginning, traces of the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East come through clearly.

• A landmark release from one of the world's finest folk (rock) bands
  
• This most magical debut from 1966 (the only ISB album to feature Clive Palmer) that started this whole wild adventure
  
• Almost indescribable music that draws from traditional Scots balladry, old-timey music, bluegrass and folk, with some fine ethnic borrowing from regions near and far
  
• Long out-of-print domestically, now remastered with the original UK edition front cover
  
• Touring the USA in the spring of 2003, and no doubt performing material from their entire career

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  Maybe Someday
  October Song
  When the Music Starts to Play
  Schaeffer's Jig
  Womankind
  The Tree
  Whistle Tune
  Dandelion Blues
  How Happy I Am
  Empty Pocket Blues
  Smoke Shovelling Song
  Can't Keep Me Here
  Good as Gone
  Footsteps of the Heron
  Niggertown
  Everything's Fine Right Now

• The follow-up to one of 2001's most acclaimed releases by an artist with consistent support from labels like Tigerbeat6, Kool-Pop, Peaceoff, Brooklyn Beats, BSI Recordings, and Toneburst Collective
  
• Summer and fall tour dates in the USA and Europe, including an appearance at 2002 SONAR Festival

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Knifehandchop (aka 20-year-old Toronto native Billy Pollard) is guaranteed a place at the table of notoriety as one of Canada's top producers - especially for his cutting up, looping and sequencing over determined motor rhythms of the vocals of Jamaican dancehall legend Bounty Killer.

TRACK LISTING

1. Taking The Soul Out Of Music Vs. Vertical Acrowd-pleasing ragga rave anthem

2. Hooked On Ebonics Chill-Out Mix
A cut up lowrider bass jam with bad language to make your mom blush and your neighbors scream

3. I Hate Your Fucking Face
A crushing and emotional ode to an unfaithful girlfriend that pits Old Dirty Bastard and a classic RZA piano line against an unusually violent, distorted ricochet kick-drum rhythm

4. Not For The Billy Venetian Snares Remix
A junglist-falling-down-a-flights-of-stairs snare rush rinse out

5. Bounty Killer Killer Rollout Remix by Kid606
A breakbeat-free remix with a classic Bounty Killer a cappella performance against spinning and whirring modular synths and bouncing 808s

6. Bounty Killer Killer DJ Aneurysm Remix

7. Taking The Soul Out Of Music Joseph Nothing Remix
Recalling the spirit of Rock For Light-era Bad Brains, especially after the bass kicks in

8. Vertical Noize Creator Remix

* With remixes by producers Kid6O6, Venetian Snares, Noize Creator, Joseph Nothing and DJ Aneurysm

* Fresh off an East Coast tour, headed back to the studio to finish a new full length album due early 2003

* One of Urb's Top 100 to Blow Up in 2002

* Simple blend of hardcore electronic music and daring synth-pop sensibilities, bouncing new wave basslines and vocal hooks * Solid fanbase of DJs and collectors

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