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

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Graeme Rowland

Music

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

Music

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

Staff

Music

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

Staff

Music

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.

Static, "Eject Your Mind"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Staff

Music

The sky is grey and dismal on a cold, rainy winter day. You're alone ina room, looking up at the ceiling, with piles of things to do and noenthusiasm to do them. All is not bleak, however. As fate has it, thereare excellent albums like this one to keep you company, painting abright picture on an aural canvas.

John Hudak + Jason Lescalleet, "Figure 2"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Nate Smith

Music

Part of the Intransitive Recordings series of limited edition discs andvinyl, this CD documents a live collaboration between sound artistsHudak and Lescalleet in a chapel in Cambridge, Mass, while a blizzardtook place outside.

Gal, "Relisten"

Saturday, 09 February 2002

Nate Smith

Music

Another limited-edition release from Intransitive Recordings, this is acollection of six pieces by Viennese artist Bernhard Gal, each createdfrom Gal's own field recordings.