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Podcast Episodes 694 & 695 are now live!

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It's another weekend of multiple podcast episodes of brand new music and gems from the vaults.

Episode 694 features Belong, Annelies Monseré, People Like Us, Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka, Causa Sui, Lee Underwood, The The, Dadadi, Nový Svět, Shuttle358, Keiji Haino, and Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0.

Episode 695 has Miki Berenyi Trio, Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance, Olivier Cong, France Jobin & Yamil Rezc, The Cat's Miaow, Daniel Lentz, Efterklang, Mick Harvey, Lightheaded, Internazionale, Dettinger, and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Art table in Hammond, Indiana photo by Hilary.

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Presentperfect, "Dispelling the Analog Myth"

Sunday, 03 March 2002

Administrator

Music

This is the first release from Text Records (not to be confused withFridge's own UK-based label), a sub-label affiliated with TinmanRecords, devoted to electronic experimental and ambient music. Thealbums released on Text heavily depart from the more straightforwardindustrial found on Tinman, such as early Crocodile Shop and I,Parasite.

Maenad, "A Thousand Petals"

Sunday, 03 March 2002

Administrator

Music

Maenad is the second release on Text Records(http://www.tinmanrex.com/text.html), and favors dark drones, ghostlysinging and subtle atmospherics.

Donna Regina, "Northern Classic"

Sunday, 03 March 2002

Administrator

Music

From our friends at Karaoke Kalk (a label that has begun to make a namefor itself in the land of lush electronic music) comes German duo DonnaRegina's equally lovely (if not somewhat stylistically different)follow-up to their 1999 release 'A Quiet Week in the House_. 'NorthernClassic', as its title suggests, gives its listener the sonicequivalent of a wintery landscape view through snow-dusted eyelashes.

45 SELF, "Aztec Gameshow Death Ritual"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Carsten S.

Music

I find it hard to choose the proper words to describe this album as themore I listen to it the more I like it. There is a wide variety ofsounds balanced by a strong conceptual theme. This provides an ongoingsteady flow which makes it easy to concentrate on nearly anythingbesides questioning the soundtrack-ish qualities of the album.

Secret Chiefs 3, "Book M"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

David Piniella

Music

Trey Spruance, probably best known for his work with Mr. Bungle, hasreleased another album under the name Secret Chiefs 3. Originally aside project of Mr. Bungle known as the Secret Chiefs Trio—theyreleased a b-side to a 7" included with Bungle's "Disco Volante"vinyl—they had to change their name when a surf guitar band from the1950's popped up with the same name and have since released four albumsas Secret Chiefs 3.

"Musique Concr√®te Soundtracks To Experimental Short Films 1956-1978"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Staff

Music

In the 21st century, audio preservation and restoration will become ahot topic. I believe it's going to be a struggle as copyright owners(both private and corporate) will be the main factors of lettingmusical works die. I fear history will only be recorded for the mostpopular icons of the most popular western music genres. Thankfully,there's a small number out there who aren't willing to accept that.These first three CDs in this series exemplify what I consider'guerilla preservation'. The music that appears on these compilationshas been mastered from both 16mm prints and first-generationvideotapes, illegally, with a host of mysterious credits.

Slicker, "Frustrache"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Staff

Music

Generally, most US released EPs make a reasonable amount of sensewhereas a number of UK-issued EPs (with two parts, each for $10 andrarely featuring more than one exclusive track) leave me feeling pissy.Thankfully this release follows that convention more closely. Thelatest from Slicker is a follow-up to last year's 'The Latest' with theoriginal LP version of the title cut plus five other tracks of remixesand other songs.

Stephin Merritt, "Eban & Charly"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Staff

Music

If you've always wondered what it would be like for the madman behindMagnetic Fields to score a dramatic gay independent feature film,here's your answer. However, if you're looking for the new MagneticFields album, this isn't it.

"In The Beginning, There Was Rhythm"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Nate Smith

Music

The first sentence of the 40-page booklet that accompanies this discreads "This record features the groups that grew out of punk in the UKand embraced Dance music." Yeah, right, that's exactly how I'd [not]describe Throbbing Gristle and This Heat. Souljazz Records,self-proclaimed re-releaser of hard-to-find dance music, has expandedtheir dub-and-reggae filled catalog by compiling 11 songs from 9 late70s UK bands, including the two bands mentioned above, Gang of Four,early Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, theSlits, and the Pop Group.

The Aesthetics, "Off"

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Rob Devlin

Music

What are the Aesthetics? Tech rock? Noise punk? Overly distortedgarbage? I'd lean towards the latter, though there are some worthwhilemoments to speak of. First off, this is NOT the Aesthetics that youmight find by searching at Ubl.com or Allmusic.com. These are theAesthetics from New Zealand. These are the noisy Aesthetics.