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 CARLA BOZULICHRed Headed Stranger (diChristina STEP01 cd Released the week of September 8th, 2003
Carla Bozulich has wanted to perform and record this classic Willie Nelson concept album for a long time. She never dreamed that Willie Nelson himself would be interested in playing on the album. Sure enough, a few weeks after he'd heard a tape on his tour bus, Carla was in his Austin studio recording duets with him.
When frequent collaborator Nels Cline (who Jazz Times called "the world's most dangerous guitarist") formed the all-instrumental Nels Cline Singers with Scott Amendola on drums and Devin Hoff on upright bass, it turned out that they were all closet country fanatics. There was a convergence of sorts around The Red Headed Stranger, and Carla's heartfelt compulsion finally found its way to the material plane. Her idea of combining seemingly odd elements (jazz, improvisation, raga, caberet) with a traditionally country feel was brought to life by these highly inventive players. During a 24-date tour in April, 2002, Tzadik recording artist Jenny Scheinman joined the quartet on violin for a few shows and added soul and character to the recordings.
Carla Bozulich is best known as the powerful singer The Geraldine Fibbers, initially a strictly country outfit, later on concerned with the universe's heaviest dark passions, and for her often instrumental, by turns organized and anarchistic work with Nels Cline as Scarnella. Before that she was the gamine howler in the groove/sex/assault outfit Ethyl Meatplow. After several years of experimenting with instrumental and/or improvised music, Carla is veering back into song-oriented territory. She has one of the most unique voices in any genre. Lately she's scored a film (By Hook Or By Crook - Sundance Official Selection 2002) and a play (Jean Genet's The Maids), and has done many comps, tributes and special appearance recordings. Her work is always brutally raw and weirdly visionary, yet still manages to lull.
Track listing:
1. Time of the Preacher*
* With Willie Nelson on nylon-string guitar 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Time of the Preacher
Released the week of August 25th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder 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
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder lifelong purveyor of obscure jazz, worldbeat, and early electronic music, AntiMC delves deep into his record library for his DJ tool series Bitter Breaks. The collection of rare grooves, loops, and stabs follows the Mush framework for DJ tool projects set by Boom Bip's Doo Doo Breaks and Blockhead's Broke Beats. While most break record compilers are content with the original loops used on memorable hiphop tracks, AntiMC digs deep to create tracks that are as usable in a rare groove DJ set as they are as emcee backing tracks. Crate-haulers and beat-smiths everywhere, help has arrived. Volume 1 in a series.
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Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
By defying convention and weaving together seemingly incompatible global threads of influence, Andre Afram Asmar won over audiences and critics alike with his worldbeat / dub / hiphop offering racetothebottom. Asmar now concentrates on the element that ties these genres together: the drum. Transmigration attaches indigenous drumming, performed by Asmar and more than 20 collaborators, to sampled percussion in a celebration of one of the earliest forms of aural communication. Understanding the importance of setting, he veers from studio precision to experimenting with outdoor locations, allowing the environment into the recording. This entirely drum-based vinyl-only release is a beautiful detour into a world where percussion reigns supreme.
Asmar takes an approach far different than most electronic music producers. Equally influenced by hip hop, dub, and world music, Asmar most often builds around live instrumentation, utilizing samples and effects as accents to the acoustics, ethnic percussion, and live vocals. Whether working with underground emcee Circus (Shapeshifters), dub pioneer Scientist, or any of a host of instrumentalists, percussionists, and vocalists that can be found nightly at his Los Angeles recording compound, The Shroud, Asmar twists the end result in to a product that is uniquely his own.
While it's obvious that there's a liberal amount of studio manipulation involved in piecing these tracks together, that's half the beauty of it.... [T]he way Asmar blends [raw materials] into transcendental gems of cultural syncretism is the work of pure genius.... [W]hen he tapes the results of his nightly Shroud jam sessions, the results are nearly mystical.... To make music this beautiful and unique is worthy of international recognition in and of itself, but to also infuse it with political resonance? That's an act worthy of a Nobel Prize. -Scott Hreha, Signal to Noise
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Jason McLean Canadian cartoonist and Bananafish #17 cover artist talks with Robert Dayton about his hallucinatory style and techniques, and the effect on his work of education, interior decoration, comics, Fluxus and other abstruse art movements, and mental illness. On the CD: All-Star Schnauzer Band "No Onkyo"
Hetty Maclise The first of a two-part interview with Angus's wife and collaborator, who recounts how they met, her art editorship at The Oracle in the '60s, homeopathic uses of LSD, and her life as an artist in Spain, Morocco, Mexico, San Francisco, and New York. Part two will deal with the Kathmandu years. On the CD: Universal Mutant Repertory Company "Ira's Theater (NYC)"
Lara Allen The exploits of a high school bad girl and the deprogramming subsequently inflicted upon her, problematic theatrical experiences, her series of consistently eerie paintings of old family photos, acting, and filmmaking. On the CD: The Ragtime Germs "I'm Gonna Kill Myself" (audio) and Allen's The Nightshade Family animation (MPEG)
Jazzkammer Lasse Marhaug chats with David Cotner about mainstream Hollywood flicks, cult films, the Nordic singles scene (both 45s and dating), Norwegian culture, Viking blood, and communication through music and abstract sound with John Hegre, Tore Bøe, Del, and Origami Republika. On the CD: Jazzkammer "Take Me Off Yr Mailing List"
Astro Hiroshi Hasegawa instructs Dylan Nyoukis in the ways of reaching "final paradise" and achieving "freedom from everything" via Moog synthesizer, field recordings and computers. He also discusses soundtrack work, collaborations with a who's who of Japanese space noise huffers, and the shocking truth about C.C.C.C. On the CD: Astro "Inamura Beach"
The Towne Dandies Geoff Ellsworth's homemade, props-heavy musical theater, the history of the band, paying the rent (which can involve processing ham), life under a microscope in a small town, and fledging jingle-writing venture Barefoot Hockey Goalie. On the CD: Towne Dandies "Underpants Road" (audio) and "Welcome Wranglers" (MPEG)
Paul Dutton Canadian soundsinger and author talks about his work with '70s sound poets The Four Horsemen and free improv trio CCMC, literary efforts and visual poems, the nature of expression through sound, and various giants in the gibberish tradition, from Schwitters and the dadaists through Bob Cobbing. On the CD: Paul Dutton "Two Due" and "May Dues," Paul Dutton, Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton, and David Moss "Esprit d'Encore"
Fake Party Carla Bozulich's Sound.-produced event at the Schindler House, self-described as "new music dressed up like a party meets a social event disguised as art," reimagined as comics. On the CD: "Fake Fake Excerpt"
And the usuals... Reviews by Alesandro Moreschi III, Roland Woodbe, Stanley Zappa, Fred Rinne, and S. Glass; a letter from the publisher, found mail, guest editorial
Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Like a long cloud that casts a shadow for miles, the Davis Redford Triad are a heavy group. Over three years in the making, Blue Cloud is a stupendous new effort by guitarist / engineer Steven Wray Lobdell (Sufi Mind Game / Faust) and leader of one of the preeminent power trios working today (see Code Orange).
After the album's subtle opener takes you to the noisy scraped loops and menacing guitar of "Violent Stupid Friend" featuring The Baseball Astrologer with a "right on" rant, you are taken to the screaming backwards ecstasy of "Loop 03." The album continues with heavy, guitar-based psychedelic jams ("Temple of the Jaguar") that overload the senses and a spacey improvisational piece ("Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years") that both centers the album and folds time, while allowing the rest to flow from a bizarre pop song ("Bubble Wrap") to the title track, which is the sonic equivalent of a cloud taking a day to pass through your world.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Into the Mist
Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Having gained recognition as a DJ through his acrobatic turntable solos opening for L.A. rappers like Tha Liks, DJ Frane now earns his acclaim producing instrumental concept albums that sound like nothing anyone's ever heard. Frane's unique and highly emotive style combines thoughtful, impossibly intricate sample arrangements with live instruments. Dreamy, compellingly funky grooves flow seamlessly from one to the next, more as movements in a story than as individual songs. This fusion of genuine hip hop sensibility with stony, experimental techniques led Alternative Press to call Frane "a less pretentious yet just as progressive DJ Shadow."
His first solo album, Frane's Fantastic Boatride (GoodVibe Recordings) became a college radio fave, and was used in several films, including the joint-smoking scene in the blockbuster Romeo Must Die.
Frane is revolutionary, expanding realm of hip hop. --BR
A full blown instrumental symphony! Frane's far-roaming ear and deft ability to juxtapose disparate elements along an ever-morphing beat make him one to watch for the future. -Alternative Press
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Thought Seeds Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
A ridiculously excessive, two-fisted tour de force priced way to low, Doormouse's carefully crafted and long-awaited mix double-CD may be Violent Turd's crowning achievement.
The Method liquefies every conceivable style of music in a blender for 55 minutes. From Venetian Snares to DJ Quik, Tom Waits to AFX, everything is mashed up into a crazily cohesive mix that takes you up, down, all around and then back for more. Think jazz death metal funk post jungle.
Freaked Out Mess is the third full length for Doormouse (following The Album? on Addict and Broken on Planet Mu). Once again, all styles are fair game. Check the Latin-infused opening track "Crustomer," followed by the pummeling speed of "Face In The Gutter," or the spastic jazz of "Back Door Blues," or the full-on Black Sabbath tribute "Warpigs," also featured on the Planet-Mu's Criminal 2 comp.
Dan Martin has been involved in music since the seventh grade when he farted during a rest in choir class and was quickly ejected. Electronica showed up in his life by way of FM radio and the smash hit "James Brown is Dead" by supergroup LA Style. Ten years and thousands of beers later, Martin is still combining the rawness of that first bout of flatulence and the hype of Style's style. He's done a series of successful underground 12-inch releases on labels such as Detroit's Low Res, Denver's Deadly Systems, NOE from Paris, Combine from rural Belguim, his own Addict and Distort imprints, and, most recently, the 2002 release of his Broken full length on Planet Mu.
Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Welcome to the Machines is a journey into the oiliest cogs and deviously detailed wheels of sick society's most rhythmic and unrelenting vibrators. The perfect soundtrack for every Republican debutante's first S&M party.
The first track "Automatron" is a basic theme of boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy finds out girl is merely a whiny, self-pitying robot. In a jungle full of plasticine monster drummers (naturally) "Fuckingmachines" pays tribute to the comedic value of the net's most deranged sites (winter in Winnipeg is very long), with a definite nod to the first release on Zod Records.
Side two is one track with the mood-altering title of "War Machines / Mousemachines." The former being a trip to the dentist with Goldie meets the Daleks on the pay-per-view Violence Channel, the latter a tripped-out half-side of slower grooves depicting a large metal ball rolling around your head in a case of Xmas scotch. Buy one for your sister.
Winnipeg-based breakcore/electronoise musician Fanny's third 12-inch on as many labels follows a collaboration w/ DJ Paedophile on the Return of the Fightclub 12-inch, and numerous releases on labels like Zod, Addict, Deathsucker, Mirex, Suburban Trash.
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Over the years, angelic-voiced Paula Frazer has amassed quite a catalogue of beautiful songs. She has performed in the various incarnations of Tarnation as well as with other players backing her on her solo pursuits. Her approach to songwriting is consistent; she is a firm believer in the bedroom demo recording. Alone, in her room, with her Yamaha four-track, Paula has recorded all of the songs that have made it onto her various releases, as well as countless others. Bedroom hiss plays along with the guitar and voice on these pure, fragile and haunting recordings. A Place Where I Know compiles the choicest of these recordings, taken from 1992 to 2002.
Track listing:
1. The Only One
Video listing:
1. Game of Broken Hearts Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
The album that launched Richard Branson's Virgin Records and is virtually synonymous with The Exorcist, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells has been revisited by the composer himself over the years in hopes of rectifying problems that still trouble him to this day-- elastic timing, dodgy playing, poor edits, changes in tone, background tape noise. Needless to say, such defects are tools of the trade for countless modern recording artists, especially at the bottom of the food chain. In this no-instruments interpretation of Oldfield's epic instrumental performed by Glands of External Secretion (side one) and Decaer Pinga (side two), deficiency is the cornerstone. By intentionally limiting themselves to prerecorded tapes, field recordings, electronic devices and effects, out-of-context musical passages, and anything else that did not require a musical instrument to be played - both bands interpret their respective halves of this legendary opus with methods that seem to run counter to the spirit of the original, yet paradoxically force it to shine through.
What a virtuoso would naturally strive to polish, The Glands' Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass seek to rust. What perfectionism would try to iron out, Decaer Pinga's Dylan Nyoukis and Dora Doll crumple into a ball and abandon for the sun to bleach. For example, the instrument announcements by The Bonzo Dog Band's Viv Stanshall on side one have been replaced by Barbara Manning's recitation of some of the adhesives used in the album's making, captured via low-powered international telecommunication device. Likewise, Decaer Pinga recreate side two's Piltdown caveman segment by appropriating electronic beats and multi-octave vocalizations.
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Change... love... death... infidelity... confession... a break up. Marc Bianchi is nearly surgical in his ability to slice delicate songs of love, loss, hope, despair, and optimism out of one very hard year. His striking new release as Her Space Holiday is an authentic foray into intelligent dream-pop. The production is everything one expects from Her Space Holiday; intricate string arrangements, analog synth patterns, lush guitar-like drones and tasteful drum programming abound, but the songwriting elevates the album to its elite status. Traditional song structures take unexpected turns throughout, highlighting the introspection and vulnerability most often missing in electronic music. The Young Machines is a ten-song encapsulation of a year on the edge and Her Space Holiday's most complete and personal release.
Recording under the Her Space Holiday moniker since 1996, Bianchi conjures sugarcoated dreamscapes that float alongside sweet and bitter narratives of life. He's been featured in many music magazines including Spin, Mojo, DJ, Pulse, and CMJ, and has toured with some of the world's top indie acts, including Bob Mould, Bright Eyes, Arab Strap, and The Faint. Always intent on challenging himself, the Her Space Holiday sound has morphed from release to release as Bianchi has added more intricate sampling and drum programming to an already rich palette of sounds and matured as a songwriter. He comes to Mush after a long stint on NYC's Tigerstyle Records, for whom he recorded Home is Where You Hang Yourself and Manic Expressive.
Released the week of August 11th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Shockout is the new Tigerbeat6 sublabel birthed to provide the world with the most subversive and intense mashups of ragga, dancehall, jungle and dub creations.
Kid606's over-the-top original mix of "Buckle Up" clashes booming sub-basses with twisted analog sirens and squelches amid a downpour of drill'n'bass junglist warfare. He cools it down a hundred degrees for a laidback, contemplative, groovy-but-still-thundering version with a steady, tabla-driven pulse and more focus on the vocals' interaction with the almost Arabic droning instrumentation. More dancehall than dancehall, The Bug mashes up Wayne Lonesome's infectious original, cut into a distortion-splattered pulp. Sounding like Dillinja's big, bad bass transmitted through a terminally overdriven sound rig, the Razor X-style remix amplifies the sound of a thousand blown woofers into a body-pummeling, ribcage rocker where half-speed jungle meets full speed ragga. The Bug's yardcore violence matches Lonesome's verbal threats. No less aggressive, yet appropriately more spacious, the "Dub Mix" recalls the gory days of On-U-Sound's finest audio abattoir by viscerally invoking the specter of Mark Stewart's Maffia with its transformation of Kingston ghetto warfare into white noise central for a death-match soundclash.
Track listing
1. Kid606 Buckle Up Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Omid raises the standard on producer-driven hiphop albums with Monolith, a project that rests in concept between his Celestial Recordings' smash Beneath the Surface and 2002's stellar Distant Drummer. Equally split between densely layered instrumental pieces and standout vocal tracks, Monolith features some of the world's most important emcees rhyming over Omid's beautifully crafted, Middle Eastern-tinged productions: Buck 65, Busdriver, Abstract Rude, 2Mex, Spoon (of Iodine), Luckyiam.PSC, Slug, Aceyalone, and Murs all give noteworthy performances. Two standout tracks are turned in by Hymnal, whose world-weary tales of moral corruption bookend the album. In a time where some producers are content with just making beats, Omid's mature design speaks volumes with or without emcees.
With the hugely influential Beneath the Surface album and production for Freestyle Fellowship ("Can You Find the Level of Difficulty in This?") to his credit, Omid continues to enhance his reputation as one of the Los Angeles underground's most respected producers. He's the rare hiphop veteran who refuses to let time or universal adulation weaken his creative instincts. Over the last several years he's remixed The Beastie Boys, produced music for Mary Joy's Tags of the Times, appeared alongside Anti-pop Consortium and El-P on Constant Elevation for Astralwerks, and produced tracks for many of the brightest lights in Los Angeles underground hiphop (2Mex, Abstract Rude, Aceyalone, Busdriver, Dilated Peoples, and Sach). His 2002 instrumental release Distant Drummer and 2003 Mush debut Monolith solidify Omid's reputation as one of the most sought after producers in hiphop.
Track listing:
1. Arrival/Departure 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Arrival/Departure Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Since 1999, singer Miho Hatori has been the more visible of the two Cibo Matto ladies, providing guest vocals for several of Dan the Automator's projects, most notably Gorillaz. She achieves real beauty when delving into Brazilian idioms with guitarist Smokey Hormel; inspired by the 1966 album Os Afro Sambas, Smokey and Miho decided to tackle the songs of Brazilian great Baden Powell. Along with Jon Birdsong (trumpet), Don Falzone (upright bass), Ganda (vocals), Mauro Refosco (percussion), and Joey Waronker (drums), the duo transform pleasant samba and bossa-nova shuffles with Smokey's off-kilter, slightly distorted guitar, highlighted by Birdsong's muted trumpet burbling through. Vocally, Miho sounds better than she has on either Cibo Matto album, far more confident in her voice, and delivering relaxed and bright performances.
Along with the five Baden Powell songs from the Tempo De Amor EP, this 10-song CD also includes the 2002 self-titled Smokey & Miho EP, with "Nzage," a 1965 Angolan tune by Ngola Ritmos, and four original Smokey & Miho compositions, sung in both English and Japanese.
Miho has also sung with The Beastie Boys, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Medeski Martin & Wood, and John Zorn. Most recently she was featured on the worldwide hit "19-2000" and four other songs by Gorillaz. Guitarist Smokey Hormel played on Tom Waits's Mule Variations, numerous albums by Beck and Johnny Cash, and has scored films for director David Lynch.
Track listing:
1. Tempo De Amor Released the week of August 11th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
The monumental third release and second full length album by Dwayne Sodahberk for Tigerbeat6 represents one of the label's most ambitious and fulfilling forays into modern pop music. Sodahberk could no longer repress his love for stringed instruments and, almost as a statement, traded his prized TR-909 drum machine for a 12-string electric guitar to make this album. Composed in semi-isolation on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, Sodahberk gives Unfortunately a warm, analog glow through digital thumps, tweaks, and textures. His cutely aggressive pitters and patters contrast the emotionally charged noisy bits and adjoin intriguing melodies, gorgeous vocals, and solid structures. This blend of indie poptronics and post-rocking electro is a well balanced soundtrack for dawn to dusk. Beside the folky pop of the Caetano-Veloso-gone-wrong track "Bird," and the rather beautiful, vaguely '60s-flavored title track, there's room for electronic and noisy pieces like the dark "Christa," DSP-electro in "No Fun," and the stiff, desolate clavinet-funk of "If I Could Tell You" and "Almost Cliché."
Pop tendencies and evidence of a tortured singer-songwriter are present on earlier Sodahberk releases, but melancholic songwriting and classic indie rock tunefulness has now fully invaded his electronica in a large scale though shards of noise, fractured soundscapes, contemplative ambience and heavy digital and analog processing still factor in. Most vocals are by Sodahberk, but Maria from Revlon 9, Liz Hysen of the Toronto band Picastro, and various other special guests make appearances.
Released the week of September 22nd 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Swell appeared in San Francisco in 1990 with an eponymous LP self-released by Psycho-Specific, at the time intended as a one-off record for the band, who fully expected to be split up within months of its release. Interest from fellow artists American Music Club and Red House Painters and critical acclaim won the group more than the handful of fans. This Badman reissue has been remastered and repackaged with bonus material and alternate versions of original tracks.
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
The ...well? album followed Swell's self-title debut, originally issued in the UK by the Mean label. Compared by some to American Music Club, Swell remained quirky and on the fringes of rock when AMC seemed to be ploughing more of a trad rock furrow. ...well? sounds very country, tempered by the marvelous strangeness of odd winos or slightly mumbling visionaries (such as 60-year-old wannabe night-club singer Richard McGhee, who makes a guest appearance). This Badman reissue has been remastered and repackaged with bonus material and alternate versions of original tracks.
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Having come full circle, Swell reverts to its original two-man line-up just like the old days. David and Sean re-collide after years of doing their own things. Fifteen new tracks, with an exclusive alternate mix of "California/Arizona."
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
themselves are doseone and jel. doseone is the nowhere man out to make the world small and something lovely of his neurosis, who skipped Cincinnati town for somewhere more dreamt in the dust of a marketing degree. He's an artist who is free of form and slave to his own scatterbrained genius. jel is the drum-machine's premiere musician, whose distinct few-bit sound and rhythmic sensibility render him coveted by vocalists far and wide. His frequent Chicago-to-Cincinnati sojourns to collaborate with doseone took a final turn when they removed themselves to California.
the no music of aiffs is the companion piece to the duo's September 2002 release, the no music, which was picked as a New York Times top ten record by Neil Strauss. The original has been remixed down to its smallest intestine and back toward the light until only the order of its tracks remains intact. The record features a new themselves song along with guest remixers Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope (John Herndon), Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist and Electric Birds. The listening experience that follows is a personality-heavy splay of the thousand threads in every of sort of human music. Twelve diverse guest artists were selected in a real life lottery from an entire globe's worth of eligible home recordists. Each original track is reborn-- re-contextualized and translated, through a new lens, unique to each of the guest artist's sensibilities-- from Hood's noisy-fuzz madness, to the bright colors of A Grape Dope's (John Herndon's) extremely tweaked source sounds, to The Notwist's relentless melodic pop organism. Heard from a new perspective, the coloring, shading and textures added and/or removed by each guest forces a marriage of obscure pallets and eccentric tastes into an entirely new, several-second-long adventure. Elements that were previously nascent are now vibrant and pulsing and vice versa. If you've heard the no music, listening to the no music of aiffs is like remembering a song you might have heard somewhere, but this time you're on the other side of the world and in a kitchen instead of the basement, depending on the song and the remixer. The CD is enhanced with two music videos - visual remixes of "poison pit" and "you devil you," directed by Ravi Zupa. the no music of aiffs offers an eerie and pleasantly eccentric intimacy that permeates this collage of a collage of a collage. The end result of the record is the gladdening of aging and the erosion of the everyday genres the artists involved are generally filed under, all the while maintaining a consistent bedroom-music sound. And so the moral of this record is that sometimesÉ good music can lead to good people, or music is what friends are for... or something like that.
Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
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 candy-time-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.
Picking up where why?'s well-received oaklandazulasylum left off, the early whitney ep maintains why?'s unique, off-kilter, dirty-drum, digital, dark folk constructed with samplers, guitars, keyboard and all kinds of found sounds. Over unique song structures why? delivers pretty melodies and catchy, sing-songy half-raps. The record starts out with the hair-raising title track (initially released on oaklandazulasylum) "early whitney," a sad song about all things being mortal. The rest of the side continues with a similar feel and theme. Just as original and sweet as his melodies are why's words. The tracks on Side A are introspective, moody and lonely dissections of the human condition, with memorable lines like "you should whistle when you walk past a graveyard and hide your face in your trench coat collar" on "Ladyfingers," whereas Side B is more topical with songs like "Darla," a whimsical vegan anthem of sorts, starring a hen named "Darla." "me on beer" ponderings class-ism, and "the crest" brings it all back home.
Released the week of September 8th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Selections from Sweat Lodge Infinite is the companion piece to the new 2Mex full-length. Three tracks from the full-length "Pavilions of Sound" and "3 to 13" with Aceyalone, and "Seconds Ago" along with a remix from Sparta / At the Drive In producer Tony Hajjar are included in this vinyl only limited release.
Released the week of September 22nd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
This is the official document of the Tigerbeat6 global takeover known as Paws Across The World Tour 2003-- over 100 shows with Kid606, DJ/Rupture, and Dwayne Sodahberk leading the charge with delicately booming reconstructions of broken beats, tyrannical melodic stratagems, and an evident gang mentality. This is a specially priced, 22-track, seventy-nine-and-a-half-minute CD of disco threats, anthemic attacks, aggro drills, punishing skronk, innovative breakbeat, and raging ragga - with two new exclusive tracks from Kid606 and DJ /Rupture, three from Dwayne Sodahberk, an old school mash up junglist smackdown from Rewind Records' Soundmurderer, a Gold Chains-produced grrlgroup anthem from Dynasty, a techhouse bumper from Janosh Brando, Danish breakcore craziness from Puzzleweasel, 8-bit hip hop IDM headnod from Skeksi, New Yawk plunderphonic booty-shaking courtesy of Donna Summer, operatic spazzcore from Total Shutdown, retro ragga snarerush assualt from Toronto's 0=0, UK emo IDM from RandomNumber, indietronic ambience from Stars as Eyes, and unclassifiable, twisted tracks from End, Dev/Null, Titwrench, Nice Nice and Terminal 11.
Track listing:
1. Kid606 Metal Without A Cause |
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2MEX
ANDRE AFRAM ASMAR
ANTIMC
BANANAFISH
CARLA BOZULICH
DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD
DJ FRANE
DOORMOUSE
FANNY
PAULA FRAZER
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / PRICK DECAY
HER SPACE HOLIDAY
KID606 / THE BUG / WAYNE LONESOME
OMID
SMOKEY AND MIHO
DWAYNE SODAHBERK
SONIC YOUTH
SWELL
SWELL
SWELL
themselves
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August 2003 releases
Coming "soon":
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DW & FATJACK
ALI AKBAR KHAN
JET BLACK CRAYON
THE MOLES
OCTAVIUS
PELT
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
SUNROOF!
TEAM SHADETEK
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
VILLAGE OF SAVOONGA
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2 Mex
EQ
sole
sole
alias
ESTRADASPHERE
HiM
OPUS
DJ /RUPTURE/SHADETEK/WAYNE LONESOME
THE SPEAKING CANARIES
TOTAL SHUTDOWN
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DIRTBOMBS
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HER SPACE HOLIDAY
KID606 / THE BUG / WAYNE LONESOME
OMID
SMOKEY AND MIHO
DWAYNE SODAHBERK
SWELL
SWELL
SWELL
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why?
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