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Jessica Bailiff, "Live on VPRO Radio"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

Lucas Schleicher

Music

Recorded just shortly after the release of her last, self-titled album,this 7" is a rare document of Jessica Bailiff's sound away from thestudio. Included are two songs available on her full-length recordings,a cover of "Come and Close My Eyes" by Flying Saucer Attack, and aversion of "Shadow," which was previously available only on Disc A ofthe Brain in the Wirecompilation.

Aranos, "No Religion/Spitting Revivalist Dreams of Everlasting Pain"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

Lucas Schleicher

Music

Of the three 7" records released by Brainwashed this month, Aranos' twosongs stand out as shocking and strange, even with his already strangediscography considered. "No Religion" gets straight to the point as athumping bass drum and tambourine fade in, Aranos sings, "Oh, I've gotno religion and I'm glad."

Damien Jurado, "On My Way to Absence"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

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Music

Damien Jurado dabbles thoughtfully in Americana, making the whole ofour country's midlands his playground. His songwriting has always beensharp (lauded and even appropriated by artists like Neil Halstead) andit loses none of it acuteness on these most recent twelve songs.

PREFUSE 73, "SURROUNDED BY SILENCE"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

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For Surrounded By Silence, the fourth full-length release as Prefuse 73, Scott Herren picks up the thread from where 2003's One Word Extinguisherleft off in terms of pushing the envelope of musical beats forming intosublime compositions divided with interesting interludes. Havingpreviously collaborated on some tracks with MCs, this time out Herrenhas invited a bevy of singers and MCs such as Beans, Aesop Rock, MastaKilla and the GZA, who turn up to further enrich a good deal of thedisc's 21 tracks.

JAGA JAZZIST, "WHAT WE MUST"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

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Having spent the better part of the past ten years successfully fusinglarge ensemble jazz with electronic-based music(s) for a fresh andinteresting take, Norwegian collective, Jaga Jazzist, have refinedtheir chops and compositions for their fourth official release, What We Must.

The Exposures, "Lost Recordings 2000-2004"

Sunday, 01 May 2005

Administrator

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Perhaps electronic music's most "obscure known" collective, TheExposures began their music careers in the late 1970s as anonymoustelevision composers, creating uncredited background music forcommercials and short films on a major German television station.

Brendan Murray, "Resting Places"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Jim Siegel

Music

Brendan Murray is one of the most unsung practitioners of experimentalmusic in Boston's fertile scene. This beautifully crafted set of fourpieces should do much to raise his profile. As the tracks were recordedover a period of three years, each track has a slightly different feel.Murray has strengthened the set by choosing a universal theme (varioustypes of resting places) and representing it in different ways throughcareful editing.

EARTH, "LEGACY OF DISSOLUTION"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Music as abstract as that made over the years by Dylan Carlson's Earthlends itself to wildly variant interpretations by various people, whoread different motives into the music based on their preconceivednotions and unconscious desires. For a generation of Seattle grungescenesters, Earth were purveyors of speaker-rumbling, slow-motionheroin rock, the gloomy grunge aesthetic taken to its logical extreme.

AURAL RAGE, "A NATURE OF NONSENSE"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Aural Rage is the work of engineer and producer Danny Hyde, who isprobably best known for working with Coil during the group'stransitional period from the late 1980s to the mid-90s, a period thatincluded some of Coil's most accessible works, Love's Secret Domain, the Backwardssessions, and remixes for Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

Manual, "Azure Vista"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Joshua David Mann

Music

Jonas Munk's most recent releases have been a series of collaborationswith Jess Kahr, Syntaks, and Icebreaker International, the two formerbeing band-mates of Munk's in Limp, but in his first autonomous releasesince 2002's Ascend,Manual sounds more like his less beat-driven songs from his 12" onHobby Industries (compare a song like "I-dawn").