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Updated 5/29/01 Release dates [among other things] subject to change. Our mailorder pages feature all the titles below-- and more-- sorted by release date at the following links: 4/30/01, 5/14/01, 5/21/01, 6/4/01, and 6/18/01.  DJ QUESTQuestside (HIP HOP SLAM HHS27) CD Released the week of May 21st, 2001 order from Midheaven mailorder DJ Quest's Questide (untold tales) offers up seventeen never-before-heard tracks (solo and collaborative) spanning the past eight years of the world famous DJ's career. Included is the Bullet Proof Space Travelers' brand new "1000 Proof Bass," the lost 1997 Space Travelers' track "9.9" which features Eddie Def on electric guitar and scratches, Cue on beats, and Quest on scratches and violin. "I can't play violin. I was just tweaking and manipulating it for effects," insists Quest of the impromptu session recording that could be filed under "alternative" or "experimental turntablism." DJ Disk (Skratch Piklz, Buckethead, etc.) joins Quest on the 1998 recording "Twas Night," while another ol' skool partner and collaborator, DJ 2 Fresh, joins Quest on the retro-electro "Code 48." Bulletproof member Eddie K joins Quest in two capacities: rapping on "1000 Proof Bass" and as producer/beat maker on the 2001 recording "Slow & Sick." Albert Mathias (percussion) and Andrew Kushin (contra bass) from Quest's other group, experimental jazz/hip hop group trio Live Human, join him on two previously unreleased recordings, both from 1998, "Fish and Chips" (recorded in London) and the short-but-sweet "Interlude" (recorded in San Francisco). The CD's liner notes by Billy Jam include a DJ Quest history, complete discography, and DJ Battle history.
 VARIOUS ARTISTSTurntables By The Bay Vol. II (HIP HOP SLAM HHS22) LP Released the week of MAY 14th, 2001 order from Midheaven mailorder 30-second RealAudio excerpts: "West Coast Darkside Anthem" - Finger Bangerz Released the week of May 1st, 2001
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order Scat items from Midheaven mailorder Please join us in welcoming two hot and tasty dishes to the Revlover USA steam table smorgasbord: BADMAN and SCAT! Menu selections include hit new release main courses and catalog appetizers by GUIDED BY VOICES, MARK [Red House Painters] KOZELEK, THE POSIES, JON AUER, A BULLET FOR FIDEL, COBRA VERDE, DAKOTA SUITE, GEM, MONO MEN, MY DAD IS DEAD, NOTHING PAINTED BLUE, PRISONSHAKE, SALTINE, SPECULA, THE STYRENES, SUBZONE and THEE SPEAKING CANARIES, plus such great compilations as the SHANTI PROJECT Benefits 1 and 2, Take Me Home - A Tribute to John Denver, Hotel Cleveland and Those Were Different Times. Released the week of May 14th, 2001
order from Midheaven mailorder Psychosis. Murder. Revenge. Heroism. The debut from independent filmmaker Richard R. Anasky, I Am Vengeance interweaves the camp and splatter of cult indie-horror flicks like The Toxic Avenger and I... Zombie with the resonating heaviness of stoner/doom rock. More than two years in the works, I Am Vengeance has already garnered attention and acclaim for its creator's approach to indie filmmaking and powerful use of music. In the tradition of respected music-film mergings such as Pulp Fiction, the plot and themes of the movie revolve heavily around the songs, both lyrically and in tempo and mood.
This official MeteorCity soundtrack, the public's first taste of this expansive project, is a diverse package filled with music, photos, and movie excerpts - fourteen original songs from bands within the flourishing stoner-doom scene, two pieces of musical score, multiple stills from the film, full lyrics to many songs, movie synopsis and production notes by creator Anasky, and more than a half-dozen audio/dialogue clips. This project sets the stage for the movie's release on video in the summer of 2001, as well as the release this spring of a second soundtrack volume on Game Two Records, which will contain even more music, audio/dialogue clips, stills, and notes from the film.
The musical lineup on I Am Vengeance is diverse and important: '80s Doom-saviors Count Raven contribute a post-mortem track, one of the last songs recorded by the band prior to their breakup; Doomsday Gouvernment, the new band to rise from the ashes of Count Raven, also appear with their first two songs released anywhere; British Sabbath-rock legends Witchfynder General are represented twofold - by original Witchfynder bassist Zac Bajjon's new band, Rainmaker888, and by Eternal Elysium's slow, dirgy cover of Witchfynder General's first song ever released. Contemporary genre heavyweights like Lowrider, sHEAVY, and Las Cruces, plenty of other worthwhile inclusions and a few surprises for old-school doom fans round out the package. Uniting two of the planet's most influential and explosive underground scenes, I Am Vengeance promises to cause a huge stir among both horror buffs and heavy rock fans, and will undoubtedly be a new benchmark by which all subsequent splatter-flicks must be measured.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: "David William Hughes" - Lowrider
Released the week of May 21st, 2001
order from Midheaven mailorder Mick Collins and his merry band of Dirtbombs (which, this time around, features Bantam Rooster's Tom Potter and Detroit studio wiz Jim Diamond) bring the soul on their sophomore album Ultraglide In Black, named after Ultraglide in Blue, a cool late-nite flick from your youth. All the influences that helped shaped his sonic psyche are in the forefront here - Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, the Miracles and host of others too obscure to mention all have their presence felt. If the Temptations owned fuzz pedals and read too many comic books they might've sounded something like this. There are a lot of young bands claiming to be creating "soul" music and "testifying" (we won't name names) but this here is the authentic item - accept no substitutes.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Chains of Love
Released the week of May 21st, 2001 order from Midheaven mailorder Mick Collins and the Screws have toured the US and Japan since the release of their debut of two years ago. The Screws feature the guitar and vocal stylings of Terri Wahl (formerly of the Red Aunts) as well as a new rhythm section for their sophomore effort. This time around the Screws have shed some of their punk rock attack in favor of a more R'n'B/blues beat. While Terri and Mick's guitar assault remains pure no-wave psychosis, the tone is more juke joint than slam pit this time around. Ike Turner, John Lee Hooker and even techno giants Groove Armada get mangled by the Screws' treatment. Mick Collins says, "If you can't dance or fuck to it, then it ain't rock n' roll." Well, this is rock n' roll.
"Yet another rip-roaring post-Gories outfit from Mick Collins, whose John Lee Hooker-meets-Crime take on scuzz-crash-and-burn guitar is yet another reason to not pull out the noose everytime Sugar Ray comes on TV." -WFMU
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Released the week of May 21st, 2001 order from Midheaven mailorder
What the Supremes are to soul, and the Runaways are to punk, Tracy + The Plastics are to disco - foxilicious combiners of dance-a-minute beats with everyone's favorite slow jams. Don't be surprised if listening station junkies dance on the ceiling of your emporium. Using their boss drum machine, MIDI Out Control! and Akai 612 Sampler, Tracy, Cola, and Nikki slap mental bumperstickers like "Lesbo-For-Disco + Kick 'Em In The Teeth" on your secret groove thing. Tracy in the lead crosses her fingers and belts it out. Nikki and Cola roll in the back, sneering through two dimensions.
Tracy + The Plastics shake to the lo-fi beats of a really cold basement and move to the anti-fi "I want a gold tooth" of VHS. They were brained in the fall of 1999 by Wynne Greenwood (formerly of the video-band Meme America), have released a 30-minute videotape, and appeared on the Mr. Lady compilation Calling All Kinds and Queens. Recorded by Joe Preston of the Thrones, Muscler's Guide To Videonics is the first full-length release from this dyke hearthrob '80s new wave trio that could kick Le Tigre's ass (but you didn't hear that from us) and rip modern convention a new one. Pop standards fall apart like sand in your hand. They play keyboards as gravitron draws the shape of the arcade girl and the kick of the drums fills her in a with gutsy VHS. Huh, indeed, kinpin. These girls are in love, truly. Okay, this is exciting because it's really happening.
"[At an all-ages show at Le Voyeur, Olympia,] the place was packed with swanky blue- and blond-haired Space Ballerina wannabes... Tracy and the Plastics ... had drum loops and synthesized sounds as the background for ... talk-story songs. A television on stage ... made cool swirlie designs. I liked [Tracy's] spontaneity - talking to the audience in the middle of her songs - she got every kid in that place dancing!" - --Nan "Mimi" Turner, punknet.com
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May 2001 New Release index:
The BADMAN label
THE DIRTBOMBS
DJ QUEST
THE SCREWS
TRACY + THE PLASTICS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
January 2002 new releases
(all dates subject to change)
BROTHER JT
CONSUMERS
LARSEN
HERSCHEL GORDON LEWIS
SWANS
ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALICE COLTRANE
BEN KUNIN
NOVEX
DON HOWLAND
INFINITE X's
L. STINKBUG
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
AWOL ONE
ETERNAL ELYSIUM
TONY JOE WHITE
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