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We made it to 700 episodes.

While it's not a special episode per se—commemorating this milestone—you can pretty much assume that every episode is special.

This one features Mark Spybey & Graham Lewis, Brian Gibson, Sote, Scanner and Neil Leonard, Susumu Yokota, Eleven Pond, Frédéric D. Oberland / Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh / Wassim Halal, Yellow Swans,
Skee Mask, and Midwife.

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Xela, "Tangled Wool"

Friday, 01 July 2005

Matthew Jeanes

Music

This is a great pop record that doesn't want to be a pop record.

Four Tet, "Everything Ecstatic"

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Administrator

Music

The heartbeat rhythm that opened "Hands" on Four Tet's 2003 release Rounds is nowhere to be found here. Instead, Everything Ecstatic opens with a skuzzy bass loop, and soon launches into the polyrhythmic workout of "A Joy." For me, it makes for a far more enthralling introduction.

Sightings/Hrvatski, "Back to Back/Une Drôle de Journée"

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Administrator

Music

Part three of nine in the Ache Div/orce split seven inch series is, aspromised, a strange meeting between two groups that are already strangeenough. Despite the juxtaposition in sound, this split made me wonderwhat the two songs might share and, unsurprisingly, it's the spirit ofthese two songs that comes across has being most common and important.

Stephan Mathieu, "The Sad Mac"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Andrew Culler

Music

Perhaps overwork has made Mathieu's Macintosh unhappy. He is consciousof the computer's painting-out on this release more than ever, The Sad Macbecoming a symbol of the plateau at which digital reconstruction has tobe re-suggested.

Fenin, "Grounded"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Gary Suarez

Music

Unlike most of the "digital" dub that continues to flood the market,the latest release from T. Raumschmiere's eclectic (read: incrediblyspotty) Shitkatapult imprint is actually surprising with its apparentlysincere recognition of the real, although commonly overlooked,historical connection between dub reggae and techno.

Laurent Garnier, "The Cloud Making Machine"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Gary Suarez

Music

Just when techno so desperately needs a good shot in the arm (orperhaps, the mouth or ass) from one of its biggest and most respectedstars, it is instead subjected to another installment of "When GoodArtists Go Crap." The Cloud Making Machineis the musical equivalent of an American liberal arts student dickingaround Europe for a semester, largely meandering without so much as aspeck of the intended or desired resulting enlightenment.

EDWARD KA-SPEL, "O DARKNESS! O DARKNESS!"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

The last few solo albums by Edward Ka-Spel have clearly shown that theLegendary Pink Dots' cofounder and frontman isn't afraid to steer hismusic in new and ever more idiosyncratic directions, but O Darkness! O Darkness!takes things several steps further out.

KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT, "KELLARI JUNIVERSUMI"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Kemialliset Ystavat is the most consistently rewarding artist currentlygrouped under the "Finnish Underground" free-folk banner. KemiallisetYstavat ("Chemical Friends") is primarily the work of Jan Anderzen, whoshares with his fellow compatriots (Es, Avarus and Islaja, amongothers) a taste for loose, deconstructed acid folk, turning deceptivelysimple acoustic arrangements into fractured, kaleidescopic miniaturesymphonies that are richly evocative of the psychic geography ofFinland's subarctic forests.

THE FRIDAY GROUP

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

The Friday Group play meta-country and western music, mapping out thosedusty, hard-bitten spaces in the American West that only persist in theabstract world of forms. Theirs is an existential sound awash withharsh, unrelenting sunlight and parched desert aridness.

LA SOCIETE DES TIMIDES A LA PARADE DES OISEAUX, "LE COMBAT OCCULTE"

Sunday, 26 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This is the second La STPO release to surface on Portland's Beta-LactamRing Records, the new home for this strangest of French prog-rockensembles. La STPO, whose name translates literally as "Shy Society atthe Bird Parade," were discovered by legendary French experimentalistsDDAA (Defecit Des Annees Anterieurs—"The Deficit of Former Years"), whoreleased the band's first EP on their own Illusion Productions back in1986.