Brainwashed Radio: The Podcast Edition

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna

Two new shows just for you.

We have squeezed out two extended release episodes for this weekend to get you through this week. They contain mostly new songs but there's also new issues from the vaults.

The first show features music from Rider/Horse, Mint Field, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Anastasia Coope, ISAN, Stone Music, La Securite, Bark Psychosis, Jon Rose, Master Wilburn Burchette, Umberto, Wand, Tim Koh, Sun An, and Memory Drawings.

The second episode has music by Laibach, Melt-Banana, Chuck Johnson, X, K. Yoshimatsu, Dorothy Carter, Pavel Milyakov, Violence Gratuite, Mark Templeton, Dummy, Endon, body / negative, Midwife, Alberto Boccardi, Divine.

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna.

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This extremely long-in-the-making (five years!) collaboration between these two titans of the avant garde finally arrives with high expectations that are summarily met.  Rather than something academic and difficult, it is instead a captivating and visceral work.
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Throbbing Gristle, "Part Two - The Endless Not"

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Courtis/Wehowsky, "Return of the Stone Spirits"

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Cex, "Sketchi"

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Stars of the Lid, "And Their Refinement of the Decline"

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"Bombay Connection Vol 2: Bombshell Baby of Bombay"

This compilation captures the Bollywood filmi era of over two decades—the '50s to the early '70s—an era of free love, herbalism, good vibrations and plenty of funk attitude. It's evidence that the Indians didn't miss out on this era!
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Architect, "Lower Lip Interface"

I put Lower Lip Interface on and was blasted with two amazing tracks from the start.  "Ghost of a Working Man" sounds like pre-Berlin move Aaron Spectre and the second cut, "Catch The Target," reminded me of every reason I liked industrial dance music to begin with.  It's too bad the disc drops off into predictable club-music territory from there on out.
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Nebulo, "Kolia"

For anyone who has spent any serious amount of time listening to the leftfield of electronica over the past three or four years, it's hard to imagine someone reinventing the proverbial wheel. I know the more I listen to new and "underground" electronica, the more I keep hearing the same things over and over. Phat beats make for a great 12" or live set but an album needs more. Nebulo gives a lot more. On Kolia, through atmospherics and melody, Nebulo has made the best electronica album I've heard since Ellen Allien's Berlinette.
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Drei Farben House, "Any Kind Of Feeling"

 After Unai's substandard A Love Moderne made for an inauspicious resurrection for Force Tracks, this full-length from a netlabel favorite picks up the gauntlet previously held by Dub Taylor and M.R.I. Still, it isn't quite enough to bolster the once unassailable tech-house imprint.
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Gudrun Gut, "I Put a Record On"

Despite (or perhaps because of) a 25 year long career playing with Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D and Malaria! as well as running a successful record label, she has never put out her own album. I Put a Record On is a far cry from her previous work with the other groups: it captures the modern Berlin's new slick, chic culture as opposed to the decay and geographical isolation that gave birth to the Neue Deutsche Welle.
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