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Wolf Eyes, "Fuck the Old Miami"

Sunday, 29 May 2005

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This limited vinyl release is actually a reissue of an even morelimited live 3" CD-R. From start to finish it is relentless in itspursuit of deafness. Harsh digital noise is mixed with screeching andclangs.

Plumbline, "Pin Points"

Sunday, 29 May 2005

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The track listing for Pin Pointswas not impressive, as each bears titles like like map references (ie."555 W24" and "56 E"). It annoyed me when nearly every second Warprelease was named like this and it annoys me now. I was expecting somesort of bog-standard glitch and beat driven album. I was half right,Plumbline (Will Thomas) makes glitches and beats but most of the timehe does it well.

Contagious Orgasm, "From the Irresponsible Country Sounds"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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Contagious Orgasm have been around for a long time now, but if their name is unfamiliar, it's because much of their discography has been released in very small quantities or on labels already filled to the brim with peculiar artists, all of which probably already have a large fan base.

Quasimoto, "The Further Adventures of Lord Quas"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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This album is yet another testament to the teeming genius that isMadlib's ability as a visionary producer and rapper. For those whodon't know, Lord Quasimoto's adventures began years ago with a $18 sackof mushrooms. "Basically, I had a bad trip and out came Quas." So wasthe genesis of Quasimoto, beat virtuoso Madlib's high-pitchedalter-ego. Previously only confined to private mixtapes, at PeanutButter Wolf's insistence he was made known to the world via 2000's The Unseen(because aside from inside Madlib's subconsciousness he only exists viamusic, which hasn't stopped Stones Throw from being inundated withconcert requests). Perpetually blazing, cartoonishly violent, neverafraid to throw a punch or a brick, a mack in the best Supaflytradition and dropping brilliantly slick rhymes all the way, Quas isboth an outlet for the author of Madvillian's darker thoughts and avehicle for listeners into a seedy urban ghetto lifestyle taken to ablunted extreme: a truly psychedelic hip-hop record.

Luke Vibert, "Lover's Acid"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

Gary Suarez

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From the start, I didn't have much hope for Luke Vibert's latest, a CD reissue of his two Planet Mu records, 2002's Homewerk and 2000's '95-'99,with four previously unreleased bonus tracks. Upon hearing a handfulthe MP3 samples from the Planet Mu website prior to its release, I wasbrought back to the grand letdown that was his lackluster YosepHalbum on Warp Records, which I referred to back in 2003 as "a journeyfar away from the dancefloor to a rather deep place somewhere insideVibert's rectum."

Silk Saw, "Empty Rooms"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

Jim Siegel

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There are few clues as to the nature of the French play that this CD isa soundtrack for. Although it is described as an adaptation ofSophocles' Oedipus Tyrant,the Foreign language liner notes and sparse interiors depicted in thebooklet point toward an effort to take the music out of its context asa commission.

GROWING/MARK EVAN BURDEN, "FIRMAMENT/10.24.02"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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Growing had the good fortune of releasing their album The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Lightlast year in the midst of an underground scene that had lately becomeobsessed on the low-end doom-laden guitar drones proffered by bandslike Sunn O))), Earth, and Birchville Cat Motel. Growing's album wasunfairly lumped into this loose grouping of artists, which theassociation with producer Rex Ritter (of Fontanelle/Jessamine and SunnO))) involvements) didn't really help.

FREIBAND, "FLYING"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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Freiband is the solo project of Frans de Waard, one half of Dutchexperimental duo Beequeen. For past outings under the Freiband name, deWaard experimented with Asmus Tietchens-inspired tape-scratching,adapting the techniques into a digital medium and appropriating popmusic from the 1970s and 80s to make a unique form of experimentalglitch plunderphonia. This cute little 3" CD takes this idea a bitfurther, using source material from the Beatles' sole instrumentaltrack "Flying" from Magical Mystery Tour,reducing it to its barest structure and recomposing it for metallic,glitch-y pops and rustling undercurrents of shapeless drone.

Hive Mind, "Sand Beasts"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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Greh, Chondritic Sound's founder, has gotten a lot of attention for hisown noise work, but until hearing this I had no idea why. Death Tone,an album whose name I couldn't even get right, failed to impress mebecause it felt like one continuous spin through the same material thatwas introduced in the first five minutes of its one and only track. Sand Beasts,on the other hand, is a devastating trip through the least flatteringof sounds and, in the end, feels like it could be a recording of theugliest animals on the planet mating.

Alexander Hacke, "Sanctuary"

Sunday, 15 May 2005

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Alexander Hacke's new solo album Sanctuary bears some of the hallmarks of Einstürzende Neubauten's last album Perpetuum Mobile, an album that documented the concept of travel in a very tight and streamlined way. Unlike Perpetuum Mobile,Hacke uses a myriad of styles and tempos which make it difficult tolisten to at first.