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Remember Tricky? Theformer music media darling amicably parted ways withPolygram/Island/Def Jam in 1999 and now calls Epitaph branch Anti homealongside Tom Waits and Merle Haggard. Mission accomplished? This UK EP(also due out February 6th in the States) gives us a little over 16minutes with 3 new songs and 1 previously unreleased old one.
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Slammin' mutherfuckingballsy-ass shit. This debut CD release is probably the most excitedI've been about a new rock-genred band in as long as I can remember.The energy is fierce, the music is fast, funky and full of wakka wakkaguitars, crazy effects, beefy bass chops, electronic and organic drums,wild cheering, hoards of percussion and a splash of horns.
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They say history never repeats but almost unsurprisingly much of the 2000 Brainwashed Readers Poll looks closely identical to the first time we took the poll, 10 years ago. Thanks to everyone who participated in both rounds this year. Now it's time to go to your collections and dig out the music from 1999 for the nomination round (coming shortly)!
Album of the Year
- godspeed you black emperor!, ""Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven""
- Coil, ""Musick to Play in the Dark volume 2""
- Sigur Rós, ""Agaetis Byrjun""
- Current 93, ""Sleep Has His House""
- Einstürzende Neubauten, ""Silence is Sexy""
- A Silver Mt. Zion, ""He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of the Room""
- Broadcast, ""The Noise Made By People""
- Coil, ""Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil""
- Boredoms, ""Vision Creation Newsun""
- Antony and the Johnsons, ""Antony and the Johnsons""
- Current 93, ""Faust""
- Shellac, ""1000 Hurts""
- Gas, ""Pop""
- Yo La Tengo, ""And then nothing turned itself inside out""
- Do Make Say Think, ""Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead""
- Electric Wizard, ""Dopethrone""
- Amon Tobin, ""Supermodified""
- The Legendary Pink Dots, ""A Perfect Mystery""
- Boris, ""Flood""
- Nurse With Wound / Aranos, ""Santoor Lena Bicycle""
- Mouse on Mars, ""Niun Niggung""
- Goldfrapp, ""Felt Mountain""
- Dirty Three, ""Whatever You Love, You Are""
- Sunn O))), ""00 Void""
- Acid Mothers Temple, ""La Nòvia""
- Primal Scream, ""Xtrmntr""
- !!!, ""!!!""
- Aix Em Klemm, ""Aix Em Klemm""
- Death In June, ""Operation Hummingbird""
- Mimir, ""Mimir (3)""
- Biosphere, ""Cirque""
- Christoph heemann & Andrew Chalk, ""Mirror of the Sea""
- Irr.App.(Ext.), ""Dust Pincher Appliances""
- Smog, ""Dongs of Sevotion""
- Sol Invictus, ""The Hill of Crosses""
- Explosions in the Sky, ""How Strange, Innocence""
- Pan•American, ""360 Business/360 Bypass""
- Avey Tare & Panda Bear, ""Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished""
- Ryoji Ikeda, ""Matrix""
- Songs: Ohia, ""Ghost Tropic""
- Zoviet France, ""The Decriminalisation of Country Music (Themes for Tramway)""
- Add N to (X), ""Add Insult to Injury""
- Peaches, ""The Teaches of Peaches""
- The Tear Garden, ""Crystal Mass""
- The White Stripes, ""De Stijl""
- 16 Horsepower, ""Secret South""
- Clinic, ""Internal Wrangler""
- Fly Pan Am, ""Sédatif en Fréquences et Sillons""
- The Legendary Pink Dots, ""Farewell Milky Way""
- The Microphones, ""It was Hot, We Stayed in the Water""
- Luomo, ""Vocalcity""
- Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, ""Sunset Mission""
- Bowery Electric, ""Lushlife""
- CoH, ""Mask Of Birth LP""
- Lustmord, ""Purifying Fire""
- Melvins, ""The Crybaby""
- The Avalanches, ""Since I Left You""
- The Fall, ""The Unutterable""
- Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, ""Dub Plates Volume Two""
- Flying Saucer Attack, ""Mirror ""
- Plaid, ""Trainer""
- Songs: Ohia, ""The Lioness""
- The Third Eye Foundation, ""Little Lost Soul""
- Aranos, ""Making Love in Small Places""
- Edward Ka-Spel, ""Red Letters""
- Hangedup, ""Hangedup""
- Kid 606, ""P.S. I Love You""
- Laika, ""Good Looking Blues""
- Mirror, ""Nightwalkers""
- Oval, ""Process""
- The Sea and Cake, ""Oui""
- Alva Noto, ""Prototypes""
- Kid Koala, ""Carpal Tunnel Syndrome""
- Mouse on Mars, ""Instrumentals""
- √ò, ""Metri""
- The For Carnation, ""The For Carnation""
- Vladislav Delay, ""Entain""
- Damon & Naomi, ""with Ghost""
- Michael Gira, ""The Somniloquist""
- Pole, ""3""
- Pram, ""The Museum of Imaginary Animals""
- Arovane, ""Atol Scrap""
- Charlemagne Palestine, ""Karenina""
- Chris Carter, ""Electronic Ambient Remixes one""
- Colin Potter, ""And Then""
- Francisco Lopez, ""Untitled #104""
- Phill Niblock, ""Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voices""
- Scorn, ""Greetings from Birmingham""
- Shalabi Effect, ""Shalabi Effect""
- Cat Power, ""The Covers Record""
- John Zorn, ""The Big Gundown""
- Melt Banana, ""Teeny Shiny""
- Mirror, ""Visiting Star""
- Trans Am, ""Red Line""
- Ulan Bator, ""Ego: Echo""
- Anti Pop Consortium, ""Tragic Epilogue""
- Aube, ""Seton""
- Chicks on Speed, ""Will Save Us All""
- The Hafler Trio, ""Hljóðmynd""
- Ulver, ""Perdition City""
 
Single of the year
- Coil, ""Queens of the Circulating Library""
- Boards of Canada, ""In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country""
- Current 93, ""I Have a Special Plan for This World""
- Broadcast, ""Extended Play""
- COH, ""Vox Tinnitus""
- Broadcast, ""Come On Let's Go""
- Broadcast, ""Extended Play Two""
- Thighpaulsandra, ""Some Head""
- Low, ""Dinosaur Act""
- Sigur Rós, ""Ný Batterí""
- Stereolab, ""The First of the Microbe Hunters""
- Rachel's/Matmos, ""Full on Night""
- cLOUDDEAD , ""Apt. A""
- Add N to (X), ""Plug Me In""
- Six Organs of Admittance, ""Manifestation""
- Macha & Bedhead, ""Bedhead Loved Macha""
- Black Dice, ""Black Dice""
- Low & Spring Heel Jack, ""Bombscare EP""
- Non, ""Solitude""
- Arab Strap, ""Fukd I.D. #2""
- Meat Beat Manifesto, ""Eccentric Objects""
- Richard H. Kirk, ""Loop Static [amine ß ring modulations]""
- Wire, ""Third Day""
- Macha & Bedhead, ""Bedhead Loved Macha""
- Kid606, ""GQ on the EQ""
 
Vault/Reissue
- Coil, ""Astral Disaster""
- Suicide, ""Suicide""
- Swans, ""Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job""
- Nurse With Wound, ""Alice the Goon""
- Polygon Window, ""Surfing On Sine Waves""
- Love and Rockets, ""Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven""
- Cocteau Twins: A Collection (1982-1990), ""Stars and Topsoil""
- Suicide, ""Second album + The First Rehearsal Tapes""
- Love and Rockets, ""Earth • Sun • Moon""
- Faust, ""The Wümme Years 1970-1973""
- ESG, ""A South Bronx Story""
- Sun Ra, ""Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 2""
- Cosey Fanni Tutti, ""Time to Tell""
- Organum, ""Volume One""
- Section 25, ""Always Now""
- Muslimgauze, ""Abu-Dis""
- Organum, ""Volume Two""
- Raymond Scott, ""Manhattan Research Inc.""
- Organum, ""Birds' Wings Were Glued to Their Bodies and Their Feet Froze to the Ground""
- Terry Riley, ""You're Nogood""
- Alan Gorauger, ""La Planete Sauvage [ST]""
- Chicks on Speed, ""The Re-releases of the Un-releases""
- Peter Murphy, ""Wild Birds 1985-1995""
- Sorrow, ""The Final Solstice II""
- The Residents, ""Roadworms (The Berlin Sessions)""
 
Various Artist Compilation
- clicks_+_cuts (Mille Plateaux)
- Emre [dark matter] (Source Research)
- Compilation 2000 A.D. (Young God)
- Wild Planet (Subconscious Communications)
- Futurism & Dada Reviewed 1912-1959 (LTM)
- Split Series 1-8 (Fat Cat)
- Total 1 (Kompakt)
- Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey (Morr Music)
- Take Me Home - A Tribute to John Denver (Badman)
- The Wire Tapper 6 (The Wire)
 
Boxed Set
- [V/A], ""Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980""
- Muslimgauze, ""Your Mines In Kabul""
- Belle & Sebastian, ""Lazy Jane Painter Jane""
- Merzbow, ""Merzbox""
- [V/A], ""Xen Cuts""
 
Artist of the Year
- Coil
- Current 93
- Broadcast
- godspeed you black emperor!
- Sigur Rós
- Nurse With Wound
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Antony & the Johnsons
- Kid 606
- Boards of Canada
Label of the Year
- Threshold House/Eskaton/Chalice
- Warp
- Mute
- Durtro
- Kranky
- Constellation
- Mille Plateau
- Thrill Jockey
- Matador
- Young God
New Artist of the Year
Silver Mt. Zion
Worst Album
- Sleater-Kinney, ""All Hands On The Bad One""
- GusGus, ""GusGus vs. T-World""
- Hawksley Worksman, ""For Him and the Girls""
- Maya Shore, ""Farewell to Introductions""
- Raccoons, ""Raccoons""
- The Clarke & Ware Experiment, ""Pretentious""
- Cex, ""Role Model""
- Kid Spatula, ""Full Sunken Breaks""
- Sylvester Boy, ""Monsters Rule This World!""
- Divine Styler, ""Wordpower2: Directrix""
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Album of the Year
1. godspeed you black emperor!, "Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven"
2. Coil, "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2"
3. Radiohead, "Kid A"
4. Sigur Rós, "Ágætis Byrjun" [despite the release being in 1999, the international distribution through Fat-Cat will qualify this release for 2000]
5. Yo La Tengo, "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"
6. Current 93, "Sleep Has His House"
7. two way tie:
Broadcast, "The Noise Made By People"
Legendary Pink Dots, "A Perfect Mystery"
8. Antony & the Johnsons, "Antony & the Johnsons"
9. two way tie:
Amon Tobin, "Supermodified"
Trans Am, "Red Line
10. two way tie:
Kid 606, "Down with the Scene"
Primal Scam, "Xtrmntr"
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. godspeed you black emperor!
2. Coil
3. Radiohead
4. Sigur Rós
5. Legendary Pink Dots
6. Current 93
7. Kid 606
8. Low
9. Yo La Tengo
10. Antony & the Johnsons
SONG
OF THE
YEAR
1. Coil, "Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)"
2. Boards of Canada, "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country"
3. Radiohead, "Idioteque"
4. Antony & the Johnsons, "Cripple and the Starfish"
5. Current 93, "I Have a Special Plan for This World"
MUSIC
VIDEO
OF THE
YEAR
1. Outkast, "B.O.B."
2. MDMFK, "Missing Time"
3. Add N to (X), "Plug Me In"
4. Eminem, "Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up"
5. Radiohead - all those little short video clips
NEW
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. Antony & the Johnsons
2. Goldfrapp
3. A Silver Mt. Zion
4. The Damage Manual
5. Cex
[note: Sigur Rós actually got the most votes but since their first album was released in 1988, they were disqualified. Their current album is their third album.]
CONCERT
EVENT
1. Legendary Pink Dots/Dead Voices on Air
2. godspeed you black emperor!
3. Nine Inch Nails
4. Coil at the Royal Festival Hall (2nd time)
5. Wire
BEST
LABEL
1. Kranky
2. three-way tie:
Constellation
Thrill Jockey
Warp
3. World Serpent
4. Soleilmoon
5. two-way tie:
Mille-Plateaux
Ant-Zen
BEST
PRODUCER
1. John McEntire & Jim O'Rourke
2. Steve Albini
3. Steven Stapleton
4. Christoph Heemann
5. Frank Verschuuren
WORST
BAND
1. Limp Bizkit
2. Creed
3. Moby
4. Radiohead
5. U2
WORST
ALBUM
YOU
BOUGHT
1. Radiohead, "Kid A"
2. Download, "Effector"
3. Coil, "Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil"
4. Chicks on Speed, "Will Save Us All"
5. Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"
BEST
COMP
1. Wild Planet
2. OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
3. Attitude
4. Xen Cuts
5. Chicago 2018
BEST
MOVIE
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. Gladiator [??? don't our readers have any taste?]
4. High Fidelity
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
BEST
TV SHOW
1. The Simpsons
2. South Park
3. Futurama
4. The Daily Show
5. The Sopranos
BEST
BOOK
1. Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
2. "Apocalypse Culture 2"
3. Dave Eggers, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
4. Naomi Klein, "No Logo"
5. Bill Drummond, "45"
BEST
ACTOR
1. Russel Crowe
2. John Cusak
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman
4. Ed Norton
5. Kevin Spacey
BEST
ACTRESS
1. Bjück
2. Ellen Burntsyn
3. Christina Ricci
4. Kate Hudson
5. Angelina Jolie
BIGGEST
DISAP-
POINTMENT
1. US Presidential Election
2. Y2K and no armageddon
3. lame year for films
4. miserable lives of the readers who think their lives suck
5. Dancer in the Dark
EVENT
1. Endless US Presidential Election
2. New Year's Day 2000
3. Coil live
WEBSITE
1. brainwashed
yuck!
2. theonion.com
3. nosepilot.com
4. amihotornot.com
5. heavy.com
HERO
1. Ralph Nader
2. assholes who voted for themselves
3. George W. Bush
4. Jon Whitney
5. Dan Rather
VILLAIN
1. George W. Bush
2. assholes who voted themselves
3. RIAA
4. Al Gore
5. Jon Whitney
MOST
ANNOYING
TREND
1. Scooters
2. Rap Rock
3. "Whassssup" greeting (shouting or text messaging)
4. cell phones
5. Who let the dogs out
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Barrelling forward with releases, John Hughes' Hefty Records has boldly issued a series of stellar limited edition 12" singles.First up was the Savath + Savalas 12" - something I missed, limited to 700 copies and now sold out. Second up is the debut of A Grape Dope, a delicious subsonic bass cochlear vibrating dub-friendly three-tracker from Johnny Herndon (Tortoise/Isotope), limited to 750 copies. IA003 is limited to only 525 copies and features two primo tracks from Twine, plunging deep and low with thick frequencies, lengthy intros and a disregard for conventional low-tempo high-fidelity. Side one is a chunky sexual feast, side two hypnotic and divine. Retina provides three top quality constructional head bobbers for the fourth in the series, also limited to 525 copies. The fifth 12" comes from Samadha Trio, limited to 850 copies and featuring four tracks of various origin. A studio tune opens with organic drums with space-jazz organ riding alongside a spacious fluffy electronic bubblebath, followed by a live-ish tune of bass, piano and drums with slick electronic mixing. And finally, the last in the series conveniently wraps things up with a couple remixes from The Aluminum Group, John Hughes, Slicker and Savath+Savalas as well as two new tracks from an entity called Process. Along with the minimal packaging and uniform design I must say I haven't looked at vinyl this gorgeous with grooves this deep and pretty in a long time. Glancing at their website, a forthcoming 2xCD release appears to have stuff from this series, but I sure hope nothing's left out as these 12" singles are quite astonishing.
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It's a strange listen. All the beats are mutated beyond descriptioninto clicks, snicks, slurps, and a very familiar boing that I suspectwas plucked from the old Nintendo game Metroid (another featuredelement in the liner notes). Beautiful melodies weave in out of nowhereand leave just as suddenly -- just as Marumari gets a groove going, itfades out, comes back, reverses itself, speeds up, disappears entirelyinto the layers of background noise. Towards the end of the album therough-and-tumble, loping beats fade into hums and drones, strangemumbles and burbles. I don't mean for it to sound like I'm describingMouse on Mars, though the same feeling is there at times; there aremore straight-ahead rock-on moments and less goofy-fun analogtwiddling, on the whole.
Sometimes electronic music is so unintelligible or inhuman that evenspeculating about its motivation is pointless. Despite this album'stendency to wander in strange directions and sometimes get flat-outweird, I never lost the feeling that someone was behind it all, happily(if inexpertly) pushing buttons and twirling knobs. Confusing, maybe,but Marumari brings a brand of playfulness to his music I've yet tocome across anywhere else. He's not cheeky or smart-assed like ?-Ziq orAphex Twin, or gleefully juvenile and iconoclastic like Kid606 or V/VM.Instead, it's the wide-eyed, naive, incomprehensible joy of (I suppose)alien cyborg puppies.
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