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DJ/Rupture, "Special Gunpowder"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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DJ/Rupture puts on a master class on how to synthesize influences into something completely new.

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, "I AM A BIRD NOW"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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A voice as beautiful, intense and unsettling as Antony's was bound toinspire an equally weird and devoted cult fan base. In the six yearssince the release of his debut album on Durtro, the legions of Antonydevotees have gradually increased, thanks to countless residencies andmonthly performances at NYC art venues such as Joe's Pub and KnittingFactory, expanding to include the patronage of Lou Reed and LaurieAnderson.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, "Naturally"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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Their debut album, Dap-Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kingsturned a lot of heads toward to the rebirth of fiery raw soul/funkmovements coming out of New York, and rightfully so. The retro soulfeel permeated everything from the raw production to the artwork; theband was smokin'; and Jones' voice was raw, forceful, andunwavering—but the problem almost anybody faces when they've found abrilliant formula that works is where to go without making the samerecord again. Surprisingly enough, Sharon Jones didn't know much of theband when the first recording sessions took place.

CURRENT 93, "HOW HE LOVED THE MOON"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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With last year's limited concert EPs on Jnana Records and this year's How He Loved the Moon,Current 93 makes the first tentative steps outside the World SerpentDistribution umbrella that Durtro has labored under for so many years. Moon is a double LP containing nearly 80 minutes of music, a reissue and expansion of last year's Anomalous release A Little Menstrual Night Music, containing four sidelong remixes of vintage Current 93 album In Menstrual Nightundertaken by Steven Stapleton, originally commissioned as openingmusic for a pair of Current 93 shows in San Francisco.

Naked Intruder, "The Last Vestige"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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The newest release from micro-indie label Mile 329 is a fun slab ofnostalgic oddity that anyone who's spent time furiously tapping A and Bbuttons is sure to enjoy. This is the first I've heard from NakedIntruder, and The Last Vestigeis his love letter to the musical engine inside the classic 8-BitNintendo Entertainment System.

Magnolia Electric Co., "Trials and Errors"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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Live albums are a tricky lot. Very few are actually representative of the live music experience. If recorded well, they can deliver a very close approximation of a band's live sound, but they ultimately by their very nature fail to deliver any sense of the band's visual performance. With Jason Molina's Magnolia Electric Co., this is perhaps not a huge loss.

Mirror, "Still Valley"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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Joined for the second time by Jim O'Rourke, Still Valley is much less chaotic and noisy than Die Spiegelmanufaktur.This album is a beautiful study of slowly shifting drones. As it wasproduced between 2002 and 2004, it is possible that this project wasstarted during the same sessions that produced 2002's Die Spiegelmanufaktur.

Busdriver, "Fear of a Black Tangent"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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Imagine if Afrocentrist poet and playwright Amiri Baraka was born abouta half century late and instead of a pen he carried a mic.

BEEQUEEN, "AUGHTON - THE PATIENT BOOKS"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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This new LP on Beta-Lactam makes an interesting companion piece to Beequeen's recent Important Records album. Where The Bodyshopwas a milestone for the work of Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard withits unexpected emphasis on melody, structure and songcraft, Aughton—The Patient Booksis much more familiar Beequeen territory—organic drones, submergedloops and moody atmospherics.

L/A/B, "Psychoacoustics"

Sunday, 13 February 2005

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Petri Laukka, Jonas D. Aneheim, and Henrik N. Bjorkk claim that theserecordings are the result of live improvisations on various machinesand electronic devices. The result of their work is a 15 track "album"of static, harsh detonations, bubbling soups, and metallic shuffles. Ihesitate to call this a true album because each of the tracks seemsfirmly separated from each other; the only uniting factor being themusicians that made them and the manner in which each track wasconstructed.