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The Rebel Astronauts, "Windmills vs. Shrapnel"

Sunday, 17 February 2002

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A delicate and mesmerising 6-song mini-album (at just over 35 minutes),"Windmills vs. Shrapnel" is the latest exquisite offering from thisotherwise obscure Australian quartet.

Karl Him, "Electronic Lament"

Sunday, 17 February 2002

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The first release from new Irish label Spitroast kicks off superbly. Asyou would guess by the title, this is quite melancholic stuff, not 4/4pumpin' house.

Buck 65, "Man Overboard"

Sunday, 17 February 2002

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Released on the Anticon label, whose motto 'Music for the advancementof hip-hop', sets out their aim to put into the marketplace analternative to money and ass-obsessed pop-hop. Inspired equally byindie rock, electronica and old-skool hip-hop, their output isexperimental, eclectic and among the freshest, newest sounds out there.

BERKOWITZ, LAKE & DAHMER, "WITHOUT CHEMICALS HE POINTS"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

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Berkowitz, Lake and Dahmer originally created the bulk of their latestmanic loop noise excursion as a credit card shaped CD full of MP3versions of some mostly fairly short tracks. This was sold only viaAquarius Records of San Francisco who have been longtime admirers ofthe Fflinty Ones. Now they've plonk the bulk of those MP3's onto aregular music CD-R with six mostly longer and dronier extra tracks,adorned in a sleeve featuring a grinning Bob of the Church of theSubgenius lookalike that could be a homage to the fifties spoofcollages of Winston Smith's Alternative Tentacles sleeves.

COUSIN SILAS, "LILLIPUT"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Graeme Rowland

Music

Cousin Silas is a new addition to the ever more rotund girth of CD-Rlabel Fflint Central. This secretive sci-fi writer broadcastingbackwards from the wilds of darkest Yorkshire fits right in with theFflinty Ones, so if you feel at home with the Fortean soundscapes ofPendro and Cavendish Sanguine then Cousin Silas will bring welcome earfodder.

GAMMON & KHAN, "STITCH" SOUNDTRACK

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Graeme Rowland

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At the end of a week in which reviewers for the Brain were accused ofrecommending too much 'gay music', homo-synchronicity struck as a discfeaturing a couple of over the top camp electro songs from the prolificKhan arrived for me to review.

Magical Power Mako, "Hapmoniym 1972-1975"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Howard Stelzer

Music

This massive 5-CD boxset is the second attempt to publish the 15 CDsworth of material that the Japanese psych-rock legend Magical PowerMako recorded while making his magnificent debut and second albums.

The Bohman Brothers, "A Twist for All Pockets"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Howard Stelzer

Music

Here's a very strange album that resides along a blurry line betweentape collage and electro-acoustic improvised music.

"Wave Two - Unbearable Heroes"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

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The second CD compilation to emerge from Unbearable Recordingshighlights recordings from Cursor Miner, Goodiepal and Nish. Anybodyfamiliar with the music of Nordic wonder, Goodiepal knows there isabsolutely no predictability.

Meat Beat Manifesto / Jack Dangers Remix Collection

Saturday, 09 February 2002

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I was living in NYC in 1991 when a co-worker's roommate had asked me togo down to where he worked for something. He was working for MTV andwas on a team putting together a new show called "The Real World" andwanted me to audition. I picked up the entry form, filled it out, butwas kinda revolted and reluctant and turned around and left (with theentry form in hand!) One of the things they asked was to name some ofyour favorite bands. Funny thing is, five years later I would neverhave guessed I'd be hosting web sites for nearly all of them. (Thenagain in 1991, a graphic internet was barely even conceptual anyhow.)Regardless, Meat Beat Manifesto was on that list.