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13 & God's debut single bleeds warmth and love onto riding melancholia. The plain words of Markus Acher steal the spotlight, curling themselves around the band's music, while B-side "Soft Atlas" showcases some of doseone's finer neuroses. His poetry calls the earth's axis into question over a track that pulses with punched-out drums, only to be leveled by subtle guitar pluck and vocal harmony.

Exclusive to this release are two sweeping remixes. The icy cold atmospherics of 13 & God's "Into the Trees" are reimagined in dub by why?, who hijacks dose's lyrics and completely resings them in his characteristic drawl. The other remix, "L'Atlas Flexible / Von Gradleute," is Hrvatski's skittering six-minute mashup of "Soft Atlas" and "Men of Station." It's a gorgeous rebirth that only hints at the genre-defying range found on the upcoming full-length.

Track listing:

1. Men of Station
2. Into the Trees (remix by why? & alias)
3. Soft Atlas
4. L'atlas Flexible/Von Grandleute (remix by Hrvatski)

• Introduces new group 13 & God featuring the members of the Notwist and anticon's themselves (doseone, jel, and dax)
  
• Contains two songs from the upcoming self-titled full length
  
• Features two exclusive tracks featuring why? and alias, and a Hrvatski remix of the two singles

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Drucker and Markus Acher trade words that evoke the blind earnestness of youth, and then chronicle its gradual leaching out by the loss of luck and the sink of realization-- all shooting stars, Superman stride, climbing bills and death-by-routine. This is a monumental record, the next step in the evolution of something bigger than anything we're used to. The Notwist players bring an ear for gorgeous rockpop arrangement and taste for dubby glitch, while themselves grin toothy darkness and breathe electro-rap experimentalism. Such seemingly disparate sounds combine into something truly cohesive, wholly unique, and deeply visceral.

• Debut collaborative record byThe Notwist and themselves (doseone, jel & dax)
  
• The union of two established bands and their distinct audiences
  
• Cameos by why? and pedestrian
  
• Guest vocal by Valerie of Lali Puna
• Video produced for the single, "Men of Station"
  
• Appearing in European festivals in June
  

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Low Heaven
  Men Of Station
  Ghostwork
  Perfect Speed
  Afterclap
  Soft Atlas
  Tin Strong
  If
  Superman On Ice
  Walk

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  13 & God "s/t"

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Most impressively, this collection of import-only, lost or limited release tracks plays like an album, each song the proud new owner of the Alias trademark: that alternately searing and frostbitten production, reverberating and crunchy, built of considered keystrokes, finely cut click ini pop, guitar pickings, and drum machine ballistics. With yet another accomplishment in his weighty profile, Alias returns to the studio in 2007 to craft a new solo instrumental LP.

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A former member of Deep Puddle Dynamics and The Live Poets, alias has collaborated with every member of the anticon roster, Slug of Atmosphere, Sage Francis, DJ Krush, and The Notwist. He has toured the world, performing with such acts as The Roots, Dalek, Freestyle Fellowship, and Kid 606. Composing music from his deepest shades, alias is a jack of all trades wringing out his heart in song.

• Follows on the heels of his successful full length other side of the looking glass; teaser to upcoming electronic/hip hop instrumental full length featuring Markus Acher of The Notwist (among other guests)
  
• Producer behind the majority of sole's selling live water, including popular banger "Plutonium," other sole "classics" such as "Bottle of Humans," and the Sage Francis favorite "Message Sent"
  
• Former member in Deep Puddle Dynamics with Slug of Atmosphere, sole and doseone of anticon
  

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Eyes Closed
  What Used to Be
  Must Consume
  Dec. 26th, 2002
  Things Got a Little Ugly

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Part Brian Eno and part Kraftwerk, muted is akin to Boards of Canada or early Aphex Twin while maintaining some of the boom bap roots of hiphop. alias uses muted to explore (and at times parody) the "boundaries" between what is considered hiphop and what is considered electronica. Tracks exaggerate and underline these distinctions, but the approaches are so closely fused, it's not clear where one begins and the other ends.

Sonically, muted is a departure from early, sample-heavy, loop-based alias productions, instead relying more on his multi-instrumental talents on guitar and keyboard. The album's soundscapes are driven by chopped drums and laden with washy keyboards, eerie guitar chords, gritty fuzz and droney synths. muted demonstrates alias's compositional talent and his flexibility. He sounds equally at home providing the melancholy backing for Markus Acher's (The Notwist) plaintive, crooning on "unseen sights," as he does supporting the staccato raps of the pedestrian (anticon) on "the physical voice." The result is a moody, intimate and, at times, dark record that is both rainy-day contemplative and rhythmically menacing, all the while maintaining its cohesiveness.

• Producer behind most of sole's selling live water, "plutonium," and "bottle of humans," and the Sage Francis favorite "Message Sent"
  
• The instrumental follow up to the well received other side of the looking glass
  
• Former member of deep puddle dynamics
  
• Guest vocalists Markus Acher of The Notwist and the pedestrian of anticon
  
• World tour planned for late fall 2003
  
• File under hiphop 'A' and electronic 'A'

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Beginagain
  Sixes Last
  Again for the First Time
  Unseen Sights (w/Markus Acher)
  Shoes, Cars, and Soft Drinks
  Caged In, Wasting Away
  Full Circle Blues
  I Would Like to Write a Song that....
  Am I Cool Now?
  Chew the Fat
  The Physical Voice (w/Pedestrian)
  One Obvious Rule
  Lost Friend Advice
  [Hidden Mystery Bonus Track]

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  Alias "Muted"

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• The heavily anticipated debut by the producer responsible for numerous anticon classics such as sole's Bottle of Humans and "Divine Disappointment" on Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop
  
• Features doseone of anticon & cLOUDDEAD
  
• alias has performed with The Roots, Freestyle Fellowship, DJ Krush, DJ Spooky, Mr. Dibbs, Living Legends, Sage Francis, Dälek, Blechdom From Blectom

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Begin
  Jovial Costume
  Angel of Solitude
  Dying to Stay
  Getting By (version 2)
  Arrival
  Watching Water
  Opus Ashamed feat. Dose
  Black Tea
  Inspirations Passing
  Pill Hiding
  Slow Motion People
  Final Act

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One hears stylistic traces in Muted of drum-and-bass, dub, and jazz but, of course, the primary allegiances are to electronica and hip hop. The aural evidence suggests that Alias's listening regimen includes Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, although many tracks sound closer in spirit and approach to that of Amon Tobin, the primary difference being the greater hip hop dimension of Alias's music. Both Tobin and Alias are distinguished by the exceptional construction skills they exhibit in building their compositionally rich tracks from a vast array of samples and loops. The tracks on Muted encompass an impressively range of styles, all of which Alias expertly handles with versatility and aplomb. --Ron Schepper, absorb.org

TRACK LISTING:

1. Unseen Sights (w/ Markus Acher)
2. Unseen Sights (instrumental)
3. Autumn Afternoons
4. The Physical Voice (w/ pedestrian)
5. The Physical Voice (instrumental)
6. Something Borrowed

• Features Markus Acher of The Notwist and pedestrian of anticon (producer behind most of sole's selling live water, including the hit "plutonium")
  
• Two brand new exclusive instrumental tracks

"Cub," the album's first track, begins with a light and steady pulse, a slow build of entwined keys, and Tarsier's rich and dulcet voice. She plays the chanteuse, walking a beautiful line somewhere between Björk and Beth Gibbons while Alias coaxes the song along-- gradually building it up, eventually coating the entire thing with a fine layer of frost. Off-kilter drums, choppy static and a jeweled synth line set the tone on "Rising Son," a lyrical ode to metamorphosis. Alias creates a boom-bap-infused atmosphere on "Last Nail" and finds his voice again, too, delivering rapid-fire, rhyme-free verses. Elsewhere, we're lifted upward by Telephone Jim Jesus' bright acoustic guitar ("Dr. C"), kited across the midnight sky by Kirsten McCord's cello ("5 Year Eve"), and brought down to earth by guests Dose One ("Luck & Fear") and Dax Pierson ("The Edge of America").

All in all, the result is a powerfully honest musical manifesto-- a project dreamt up and made human by kindred souls creating art 3,000 miles apart.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Cub
Rising Sun
Last Nail
Dr. C
Anon
5 Year Eve
Plane That Draws A White Line
Luck And Fear
Picking The Same Lock
Ligaya

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The darkly drawn baroque beat of B-side "Five Year Eve" features cellist and Ecstatic Peace! recording artist Kirsten McCord contributing to a heady mix of rolling reverb and crackling percussion. Again, Tarsier's voice is the guiding light here, soaring above Alias's bare-bones mix of percussive skitters, synth accents, and cello flourishes. The single also features instrumental mixes of both tracks plus an exclusive remix of "Dr. C" from longtime Tarsier collaborator, Healamonster, who dubs the tune wide open. All in all, Dr. C couldn't be a better introduction to the alternately dulcet and dusky tones of the duo's full-length collaboration, Brookland / Oaklyn.

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The first track, "Plane That Draws A White Line," is a major-chord affair strummed on acoustic guitar over washes of rain and stuttering beats. "Nocturnal Eye" balances minimalist textures -- a lone hand-drum, electronic notes, layers of atmospheric dust -- with vocals that flutter from side to side, buttressed by heavy bass and kick. "9:24 Cigarette (Version 1)" and "Sleepy" juxtapose inspired Bjork-ian tranquility and bouncy hip-hop glitch.

Boom-Bip's remix of "Plane" plays fast and loose with the original, eventually blowing up the track with a heady combination of synth strings and heavy bump. Christ experiments more subtly, keeping a low profile on his remix of "Rising Sun." "5 Year Eve" is reworked by Neotropic into a dense and dark feast of melodic resolve. The finale comes with Odd Nosdam's dank and dubby take on Brookland/Oaklyn's closer "Ligaya." The drum-and-fuzz recreation is perfectly paced, building to a frenzy before echoing away. Healamonster's remix of the title track from the "Dr. C" single is included as a bonus track on the CD edition.

• New EP from seasoned anticon producer Alias and vocalist Tarsier
  
• Features three new songs plus remixes from Boom Bip, Odd Nosdam, Christ, Neotropic and Healamonster
  

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Plane That Draws A White Line
  Nocturnal Eye
  9:24 Cigarette [Version 1]
  Sleepy.
  Plane That Draws A White Line (Boom-Bip Remix)
  Rising Sun (Christ. Red Shift Remix)
  5 Year Eve (Neotropic Remix)
  Ligaya (Odd Nosdam Remix)
  Dr. C (Healamonster Remix)

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The day that Muted reached Ehren in Hollis, Maine, Alias's phone rang and plans were made: Ehren would fly out to Oakland, flute, alto sax, soprano sax, and clarinet in tow; they'd press record and see what happened. Using a few basic tracks laid down in advance, the brothers began layering sounds and improvising freely. Alias's trademark sounds are all here-- crunchy fuzz, bassy cut up drums, pop-and-click percussion, atmospheric synth, ghostly guitars-- but they're made bright and buoyant by Ehren's incredible ear for melody. The end result is Lillian, a warm and wonderful album inspired by (and named after) their grandmother. The perfect postmodern tribute to an American musical family.

• Previous work with Sage Francis, Will Oldham, Saul Williams, Slug of Atmosphere, DJ Krush, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Styrofoam, the Notwist and Lali Puna

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Eman Ruosis Iht
  Back And Forth
  Lillian
  Sunfuzz
  Miso Stomp
  Ladders
  Blurry Edges
  52nd & West
  Most Important Things
  Moonfuzz
  Narrowed Iris
  Cobblestoned Waltz
  Netting Applause

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  Alias & Ehren "Lillian"

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Miles removed from the oft-acclaimed hip-hop underground..., a distinctly different hip-hop underground has been brewing, its spiritual center based around...Anticon, a label / crew who titled their very first compilation Music For The Advancement Of Hip-Hop [reissued on CD by Massmen. "We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes)" was first heard on] The Anticon Giga Single, a...showcase of their off-the-wall production and lyrical stylings with showstopping turns from head-scratcher sound-assemblers...

-gravitygirl.shafted.com.au

With more than a dozen MCs, producers and a DJ or two (Doseone, jel, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Mayonnaise, Why?, alias, Sage Francis)..., Anticon...boasts that more than a dozen...contributing artists [many of whom] will have full-lengths out [in] 2002. Ranging from the mellow, soul-searching posse manifesto "We Ain't Fessin" to Buck 65's Dr. Octagon-ish "Pen Thief" and Controller 7's excellent instrumental workout..., Anticon's strength is its range, with a thread of intelligence, humility and imagination running at all times. "What we're doing now is relevant to the average human being, who doesn't go around serving MCs or smacking woman," says Sole.

-Brian Coleman, dirtyloop.com

Q: I don't buy that "it's too weird" shit anymore; there is nothing weird about what we're doing, it's all been done before in other forms of music. So what if we rap? I don't have the patience to write a book. You, and the whole of Anticon, seem to get grouped as just a bunch of kids using big words for the sake of it.... Do you think that as an audience we've gotten complacent and unwilling to embrace anything other than a "battle rap"?

A: Yeah, and I hate that shit. That's what the "We Ain't Fessin'" single is about - it's all rap-versey and straightforward. They wish that we're not talking about anything and it's just a bunch of big words. Sucker MC's out today can still look good talking nonsense if that's the case. When you have to rhyme every other word to make a song work you're eventually sacrificing content. I think hip hop is the best medium for expressing emotion, but so few people "mean it" that it doesn't go there.

-sole interviewed in rebirthmag.com

• Features Dose One, Eydea, Sole, alias, and Tortoise's John Herndon
  
• CD has previously unreleased extra track
  
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  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  "More from June" - Deep Puddle Dynamics
  "We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes)" - Anticon
  "Pitty Party People" - Anticon

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  Anticon "We Ain't Fessin" (anticon)

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The head-nodding beat and aqueous guitar plucks of opener "Of Athroll Slains" sound like lost transmissions from Wu Tang Clan's 36 Chambers picked up on CB radio. Bloops, beeps, squelches of strings and heavy dub bass reign supreme with Adams' wonderfully wrecked, world-weary voice right at home in the mix.

Lead single "Heathens" opens with a breathy, ethereal voice before catching melody and bouncing down a hallway of deep dub bump. "Fight or Flight" is a gorgeous six-minute exercise in musique concrete that recalls both the organic chemistry of The Books and the spaciousness of Boards of Canada.

We Know About the Need is full of songs like this. The rolling keys of "Safe Safe Safe" anchor a chorus of stereo-scoping vocals, hollow tones mimic a monks choir on "Music for Adverts," and "Evil Teeth" is a minor masterwork meticulously crafted from a chaotic jumble of freewheeling drums, screeching strings, gnashing metallic teeth, insectoid droning and the cry of a single sustained cello. Elsewhere a combination of field recordings, piano, voice and clarinet mingle serenely ("Many Horses") and slow-moving beats, 808 bass thump and uncut guitar create the kind of heaviness that lingers for weeks on the epic closer "Back on the Calder Line."

Frequently We Know About the Need rockets into the unknown, at other times its heavy hands come to rest on something far too human and familiar. As such, it's a perfect addition to the Anticon oeuvre.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Of Athroll Slains
Heathens
(Int)
Fight Or Flight
Safe Safe Safe
Music For Adverts
Evil Teeth
Four Thousand Style
La Monte Lament
Many Horses
Back On The Calder Line

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The A-side, "I'm Slow But I'm Sloppy," a percussive heavy number produced by Why?, is led by an insistent marimba and filled out by choral back-ups and some fine 12-string strumming from Why? guitarist Matt Meldon. Smith himself chimes in with his quaint, sing-songy chirp then actually belts out a few lines. The flipside, a remix of a Ships track, is a joyous, synth-laden call-and-response between Smith and a choir composed of his sisters. The seemingly unlikely pairing of The Danielson Famile and Why? happens to make solid musical sense, and shouldn't be so surprising: Anticon artist Yoni Wolf, the golden throat behind Why?, is a longtime fan and his brother, Josiah, who mans the drums in Why?, has toured with the Famile in the past.

Kevroc, the vocal half of Darc Mind, possesses a unique sense of timing and nearly instrumental phrasing. Delivered in a low, Moses-fresh-from-the-mountaintop rumble, his rhymes are densely packed with strange imagery. Skimming the albumis lyrics, itis easy to detect the sea change occurring ten years ago in hip-hop: the transition from iIllmatici to iIt Was Written;i the ascendancy of Biggie and Jigga; a new affection for name-checking luxury brands; and rinib hooks creeping from the shadows into pop-rap ubiquity. And the beats, oh, the beats. Like DITC in their prime, DJ and producer GM Webb D (aka X-Ray) unpacks a treasure chest of horns and keys, ruggedly reworking the choice bits with full-bodied basslines and chopped drum breaks. Between the fractured, unsettling iIim Illi and the horn-stab-and-drum-machine-driven iFever Pitch,i rapis history and its future are willfully crosscut and interlaced.

Had Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill been released in i97 as planned, it could have affected the orbit of mid-to-late i90s hip-hop. It might have given heart to skeptical and exhausted innovators who were giving up the game, and shown the world that a certain kind of NYC rap record, both traditional and envelope-pushing, was still possible.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Visions of a Blur
U Da One
Seize the Phenom
Knight of the Roundtable
I'm Ill
Covert Op
Give Me Time
BMOC
Fever Pitch
Rhyme Zone
Outside Looking In

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Lead track "Post Reformat" opens with pop 'n' click percussion, panning drums and a gurgling synth. But what seems a mechanical give-and-take turns organic as the particulars are played out on the turntables: minor whirrs, a distorted vocal sample, glassy scratches. It's evident that Mayo is aware of every sound's place within the song, and he proves this throughout Still Alive. "Easily Distracted" and "May Days" are paragons of pacing, each rolling out over crunchy drums and building fuzz, but the former bending itself around crystalline keys and handclaps, and the latter following the hypnotic groove of a live clarinet. Conversely, "The Windham Song" is a menacing bit of big beat--surging guitar, percolating kick-heavy drums, deep bass--that explodes into a bright saxophone duet. Mayo's synth work and the guest instrumentation breathe living air into the album, and by the time Cambridge wordsmith K-the-I??? drops his devastating Howard Zinn-by-way-of-Biggie Smalls diatribe on "Strateegery," we feel as if we've been listening to a clear voice the entire time.

Mayo stretches out on Still Alive's second half-- hear the atmospheric jazz and digital croaking on "Dawson's Anthem 2005," the Tubeway Army-inspired synth and squelching distortion of "Munjoy Moments," and the overall hugeness of "Quiet on the Set"-- before bringing the album to its final breath. But even as "The End of the Beginning" comes to a quiet close, Still Alive leaves us with the notion that tomorrow's a new day. DJ Mayonnaise has indeed returned.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Post Reformat
Easily Distracted
May Days
The Windham Song
Amp Circuit
Strateegery (featuring K-The-I???)
Dawson's Anthem 2005
Munjoy Moments
Quiet On The Set
The End Of The Beginning
Untitled

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The title track was initially spawned from a jel beat recorded in Dosh's studio during a visit to Minneapolis. After Dosh tweaked the sample and assembled a song around it, it was sent to an enthusiastic odd nosdam who called in why? & miss ohio's drummer Josiah Wolf to help out. By the time the song was finished it was again altered by Dosh, including the appearance of Dosh's stepson Tadhg. The title track is also the lead single from Dosh's October '04 full length, Pure Trash. Andrew Broder (aka Fog) contributes a remix of the album version of "Rock It to the Next Episode" and Huntley Miller (aka Cepia, Ghostly International) contributes his own distinctive interpretation of the event with his remix of "Naoise." The EP also contains two brand new, exclusive tracks and two impressive live performances of "Contractions" and "Steve the Cat." The live songs demonstrate Dosh doing what Dosh does best-- completely live and spontaneous performances with no sequencing, which is his art.

• With remixes by Andrew Broder of Fog (Lex) and Cepia (Ghostly International)
  
• Production work by odd nosdam, josiah wolf and jel of anticon
  

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Naoise
  Rock It to the Next Episode (Fog remix)
  Epic Struggles
  Naoise (Cepia remix)
  Contractions (live in San Diego)
  Steve the Cat (live in Tucson)
  Happy Song for Tadhg

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  Dosh "Naoise - EP"

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After compiling lots of tracks and ideas, whittling them down to the bare essentials, he enlisted several friends to contribute pieces here and there, which he then edited to fit the whole. Influenced by both electronic music and hip hop as much as by jazz and rock, the record's pretty piano melodies and dirt-filthy breaks have a contemplative but a stubbornly optimistic outlook in the face of a daunting world. Pure Trash demonstrates not only a range of influences, but also a thorough exploration of melody, rhythm, texture and depth of sound. Dosh's unique set of gear, his totally original approach to his equipment, his almost improvisational style of recording and performing (which for him are essentially one and the same), make him like no other performer or recording artist. Pure Trash is a beautiful welcome to Dosh's newborn son Naoise and an overall tribute to a life worth living, usually.

• Features production work by Andrew Broder (Fog), Mike Lewis (Fog/Happy Apple), Bryan Olsen (Lateduster), josiah (why? & miss ohio's/anticon), odd nosdam (anticon), jel (anticon)
  
• Full world tour planned for fall '04

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Simple Exercises
  Dark Lord
  This is When Things were Looking Up
  Rock It to the Next Episode
  Bye Rhodsy
  I Think I'm Getting Married
  Bring the Happiness
  Geye
  Naoise
  Pure Trash
  Building a Strange Child
  The Last Plan

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  Dosh "Pure Trash"

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• Debut solo full length by drummer and piano player in FogWorld tour planned in fall 2003File under Electronic 'D' and Hip Hop 'D'

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  Dosh "Steve the Cat"

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  Dosh "Steve the Cat"

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  Dosh "Steve the Cat"

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Water Turn Off Notice
  You Can't Make Me Cry
  Song for Zelbert Moore
  DJ DJ
  India India
  My Favorite Color's Red
  My Girl's Ex-Car
  Chuck, Jane
  Steve the Cat
  If I Could Sing King
  Party Tractor
  Forgot Myself

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  Dosh "s/t" (anticon)

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"One Through Seven" begins the album with what sounds like an old violin sample floating over a bubbling keyboard melody. Dosh steers the drums in and out of a march, flouting the time signature, but never derailing the composition. Mike Lewis (Fog, Happy Apple) chases the rhythm with his sax as the song unfolds. Dosh makes his vocal debut on "Everybody Cheer Up Song," brightening the tune with his soft-spoken delivery. "Um, Circles and Squares" captures the spirit of the album perfectly, with Dosh looping Andrew Bird's violin around a fast-paced bass-synth sequence doubled by a serene Rhodes motif. As technical as it might seem on paper, the song plays gorgeously.

Dosh amazes with his ability to trick the human ear--"Pink Floyd Cowboy Sound" brings to mind Broken Social Scene's warmth and layered mastery with four contributors instead of forty--but The Lost Take never sounds pretentious or intangible. Instead, it's the very natural sound of a damn good band. A band named Martin Dosh.

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One Through Seven
Everybody Cheer Up Song
Um, Circles And Squares
A Ghost's Business
Ship Wreck
Mpls Rock And Roll
Fireball
Unemployed Blues
Pink Floyd Cowboy Song
O Mexico
Bottom Of A Well
The Lost Take

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"Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop" gate-crashes Wolves and Wishes with rapid vibes, moody piano, and quavering Rhodes eking out a just-perceptible funk groove under stormy skies. As Andrew Bird's violin cuts through, light rays slash the clouds and things get bright, with guitar and bass (Fog's Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson) weaving in and out of the billowing composition. "Bury the Ghost" starts with an aggressive burst of drum then opens into a sprawling, minimal soundscape that doesn't shy from darkness as Bonnie "Prince" Billy wails overtop. The album's first half is brought to a close with the lilting and pretty "Kit and Pearle," piano reverbing as if in a crystal-floored cathedral among clean drums, pedal steel, Bird's violin, and vocals by Minneapolis band Dark Dark Dark.

Wolves and Wishes's second half opens with "Wolves," wherein Jeremy Ylvisaker (frequent Fog and Andrew Bird collaborator) pours on layers of My Bloody Valentine-style guitar while Mike Lewis (Dosh's honorary second man) chases Dosh's burbling synth progressions note-for-note on sax. On "The Magic Stick," the Bad Plus drummer David King stops by to trade alternately blasted and brushed beats with Dosh through a steady groove of piano, guitar and open Rhodes (where the metal tines inside of the keyboard are hit with sticks). Fittingly, the album closes with "Capture the Flag." Here a tightly packed loop of jangle becomes the base for an anthemic track comprising various arpeggiating keys, sampled strings, pulsing sax, and vocal dubs from Dosh himself. All told, it's more melody than should possibly fit within five minutes, but it's beautiful-- which is to say, it's classic Dosh. Most impressive, however, is that for all its breadth, Wolves and Wishes plays straight through as a cohesive whole. Another inimitable broadcast from the Dosh oeuvre.

A happy tot slurs the words "Es-Jay E-zoo, Saul Vessel," and the listener arrives in Wisternoff's Technicolor world. From a tics-and-all series of vocal drills chopped into rhythmic bits, "Frustrating" is born, and soon congeals into cresting waves of orchestral pop with little more than guitars and drums added. Everything plays bigger and brighter this time, with even the 18-second title track sounding grandly choral as it runs up against the bouncing pastoral sounds of the turntable- and viola-laden "Bastard Eyes." "I Threw a Wobbly" throws bells, trumpet, soloing guitar and what sounds like the disembodied bark of Cee-Lo Green into the Wisternoff blender, and somehow it all comes out smooth and almost danceable.

Small Vessel's songs are wholly pretty and do not shying from their disparate origins, and lyrics that loom large even as they focus on earthly details. A musical accomplishment in under two minutes, standout "Ruddy Spark" begins in collage, breaks into Fog-like, hard jazz-inflected rock, and closes in a blaze of surf-punk, while "Depth Perception Lack" builds a miniature mountain out of a typewriter beat, propulsive guitars, an unexpected Mt. Eerie-style chorus of ominous voices, and barroom piano. After a final interlude of wordless, stark sound collage, closer "What Happened" begins with a slow strum and soon unfolds into unhurried pop. As Wisternoff sings, he doesn't sound wistful or worried, nor should he. This is what SJ Esau does best: ploughing through sounds, moods, and impulses, separating, sorting, and piling until there's a fully fleshed composition to look over his shoulder and grin at. Thus, as Wisternoff's spindly legs carry him off into the muddled sunset, Small Vessel stands on a sturdy pair of its own.

Sandwiched between homemade loops, Esau's compositions gradually unfold into sprawling epics ("Wears the Control"), remain quiet and composed ("The Wrong Order"), or begin calmly, then blast wide open in a hail of distortion, squelching strings or triumphant horns. With the able assistance of long-time collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Max Milton, Esau has crafted an album that moves with ease from the decidedly dark (the lumbering and dastardly "Queezy Beliefs") to the blithely buoyant ("All Agog"). Lyrically he stands alone, singing unlikely anthems for the unsung and uneasy hero in each of us.

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Cat Track (He Has No Balls)
The Wrong Order
Geography
Wears the Control
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I Got a Bad
All Agog
Queezy Beliefs
Halfway up the Pathway
Lazy Eye

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Album opener "To Buy a Car" is a classic jam on anti-commercialism that builds to a fever pitch then recedes into the gorgeous calm of "All Day Breakfast." "No Solution" opens with record static then glides into the smoothest Rhodes piano this side of OK Computer (courtesy of Dosh) while Fog's Andrew Broder lays down some guitar à la Christian Fennesz.

Guest Steffi Bohm of Ms. John Soda plays chanteuse on the dreamy noir-hop of "All Around" while Poor Righteous Teachers' Wise Intelligent drops wisdom on the anti-Bush, anti-bling diatribe "WMD." Jel also gets stellar contributions from Parisian synth-wizard Hervé Salters (General Electrics), anticon poet laureate Pedestrian, and cLOUDDEAD's Odd Nosdam. With all of the above, Jel creates an ornate amalgam of progressive hip-hop, electronic composition and musique concrète.

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To Buy A Car
All Day Breakfast
No Solution
All Around
Thrashin
Sweet Cream In It
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