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Polar Bear

Peepers

Leaf
Categorizing Sebastian Rochford poses problems. Jazz is at the heart of his work, yet his understanding of and engagement with a wide range of genres are such that it's impossible to shoehorn his recordings into neat and tidy boxes. Peepers is Rochford's fourth album as the leader and percussionist of the London-based Polar Bear, alongside collaborators Leafcutter John, Tom Herbert, Pete Wareham, and Mark Lockheart.

Available March 2nd, 2010
K11

Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.d.

Actual Noise
K11 is the nom de plume of Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009's Voices from Thelema (Aurora Borealis) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley's Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he documented signals and sounds coming through short-wave radio receivers--an instrumental trans-communication ritual, acting as a conduit for whatever spirits remain in the Abbey.

Available March 2nd, 2010
Wolf, Josiah

Jet Lag

Anticon
The debut album from WHY? multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf offers up a rare achievement--a solo work with true legs of its own. Wolf's visual snapshots illustrate the wistfulness of a mundane moment and offer canny excavations of those poignancies that lie beneath the surface: tough triumphs, tougher truths, and outright failures.

Available March 2nd, 2010
Kuedo

Dream Sequence

Planet Mu
Kuedo is the new name for Jamie Vex'd, one half of the legendary dubstep duo Vex'd, whose 2005 album Degenerate rewrote the rulebook. By bringing industrial, techstep, breaks and grime influences to the fore, Degenerate was crucial in establishing the dubstep sound out of the two-step and UK garage scenes.

Available March 2nd, 2010
Overnight Lows

City Of Rotten Eyes

Goner
Goner Records is proud to release City Of Rotten Eyes, the debut of Jackson, Mississippi's OVERNIGHT LOWS. It's about time. MARSH and DAPHNE NABORS, guitar and bass, have been playing out as Overnight Lows ever since their previous band, THE COMAS, imploded in early 1995. Goner and many other labels have been badgering them for a record for years.

Available March 2nd, 2010
Hull, Scott

Audiofilm Ii

Crucial Blast
Audiofilm II is the second installment in the Crucial Blast series of limited-edition 3" CDs from Scott Hull. Best known for his amazing thrash/grind riffage in the bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Scott has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years, an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and darkly evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism that employs brilliant production trickery to immerse the listener in a vibrantly active aural environment.

Available March 2nd, 2010
Starkey

Stars (feat. Anneka)

Planet Mu
DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDES 3 BONUS REMIXES!!!During the course of an appearance on Mary Anne Hobbs's show recently, Philadelphia producer and genre cross-pollinator Starkey built a track from scratch with the help of Anneka and Reso, leaving other Radio One DJs scrambling to play it. Well, here's what happens when they have more than two hours to work.

Available March 9th, 2010
Summer Cats

Your Timetable

Slumberland
Melbourne, Australia's Summer Cats are keen students of pop in all its flavors. From the motorik strum of Modern Lovers to the folky lilt of early Creation / Sarah label bands to the feedback-drenched noisy pop of the '00s, Summer Cats have got you covered. Their 2009 Slumberland album Songs for Tuesdays dazzled with seemingly effortless song craft and sharp melodicism.

Available March 16th, 2010
Ludicra

Tenant

Profound Lore
For the better part of the decade, San Francisco's Ludicra has cultivated a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest and most forward-thinking bands in the contemporary underground metal scene. They were one of the first inspired by the second wave of Norwegian black metal to fuse that sound with punk, traditional metal, and neo-folk elements, and alongside the now-legendary Weakling, they put Bay Area metal back on the map as a hotbed of artistic fervor.

Available March 16th, 2010
Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Rush To Relax

Goner
When Eddy Current Suppression Ring formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 2003, bandmates Eddy Current, Rob Solid, Danny Current, and Brendan Suppression thought they would play a few shows and perhaps record a 7-inch or two. One of their first gigs, in fact, was an employee Christmas party at the record pressing plant where they worked.

Available March 16th, 2010
Extra Life

Made Flesh

Loaf
Extra Life is the primary musical vehicle for singer, guitarist and composer Charlie Looker, an intense and respected voice in the New York experimental underground. For years, Looker was a core member of legendary brutal chamber ensemble Zs, and has also worked with Dirty Projectors, Glenn Branca, William Parker and the S.

Available March 16th, 2010
Young Widows

Live Radio Performance April 6, 2009

Robotic Empire
During the height of touring on their Old Wounds album, Young Widows were invited to play an on-air show at the WMUC radio station in Maryland. A handful of people were present to witness them deliver the goods, and the kids at the 88.1 FM station recorded the live transmission. Robotic Empire (traveling with the band) promptly swooped in, stole the lone copy of the session, had it professionally mastered, and this is the end result: A killer live LP capturing a powerful trio in their prime element.

Available March 16th, 2010