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Jonathan Coleclough & Lethe, "Long Heat"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Lucas Schleicher

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Any doubt that the term "drone," as applied to this sort of music, iscompletely and ridiculously misleading should be eliminated afterlistening to this recording. While all sorts of pulsing tones are usedand thrown away on Long Heat,the most noticeable aspect this collaboration is that it never sitsstill or relies on constant droning sounds to achieve its ratherconfusing effect.

Kammerflimmer Kollektief, "Absencen"

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Administrator

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I'm having difficulty imagining a sound more alluring than the one produced by this German sextet. Two years ago, Cicadidaeput me under its spell and maintained a constant spot on my late-nightlistening play list. The band has tightened up for their latest releaseand managed to outdo themselves.

13+goD

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Administrator

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13+God is the final product of an intensive 17-day studiocollaboration between vaunted German electro-pop outfit The Notwist andUS-based ambitious free-range "rappers" Themselves. Unlikelybedfellows, a common admiration for each others' work led to thetrans-Atlantic tete-e -tete, which originally began with home-madeNotwist remixes of tracks from Themselves' avant-garde LP The No Music.All the disparate elements of both groups—Notwist-staple dreamy, catchyhooks and scattered computerized percussion; themselves' esoteric andhalf-growled, half-whined verses—are noticeably present and,surprisingly, mesh quite well together.

ADULT., "D.U.M.E."

Sunday, 24 April 2005

Administrator

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Though it did make me chuckle back when I read Jon Whitney's scathingreview in which he unfavorably compared the duo to a pair of untrainedmonkeys playing with a drum machine, I actually always liked Adult's Resuscitation.

Daedalus, "Exquisite Corpse"

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Chris Roberts

Music

Exquisite Corpse (a sequential collaborative process in whicheach successive contributor is only allowed to see the very end of theprevious addition before adding his or her own) is Santa Monicaaritifcer of sound Daedalus's most collaborative effort to date, withthe likes of MF Doom and Mike Ladd on board.

Revenge, "No Pain No Gain Live 1991"

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Gary Suarez

Music

Speaking as a committed New Order fan, I can confidently assert that Revenge was the worst musical excursion that Peter Hook ever took. Toying with blatantly darker themes than the main band, most notably through collaboration with the highly touted S&M outfit Skin Two, this misstep of a side-project was the least satisfying of the three acts that the group's members launched (the others being Electronic and The Other Two) after the release of Technique.

"Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries of Bhutan"

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Jim Siegel

Music

This double CD reissue of intimate recordings by Englishman David Levyfrom 1971 is a sprawling document of immense beauty. These recordingsof rituals, chants and ceremonies strike a perfect balance betweensounding clearly recorded and gloriously primal.

Nodern

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Jim Siegel

Music

The white eyes staring out from darkness on the cover and the screamheard in the opening seconds of Nodern's debut album point toward anuncomfortable listen. He is adept at taking elements normallyassociated with specific genres and displacing them into his own,highly personal world.

COIL, "AND THE AMBULANCE DIED IN HIS ARMS"

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This is the first new Coil release (and also possibly the last) tosurface since the untimely passing of Geoff Rushton AKA Jhonn Balancelast November. As we are assured that the title for this release wasalready decided upon before Balance's death, it's hard not to read itas strangely prophetic, just as it is difficult to listen to any Coilmusic nowadays without hearing signs, omens and harbingers of deatheverywhere.

Keith Fullerton Whitman/Greg Davis, "Yearlong"

Sunday, 17 April 2005

Lucas Schleicher

Music

Recorded on the road between December of 2001 and November 2002, thesethirteen tracks prove that it's never impossible to continue exploringnew musical palettes. Each track is, as far as I can tell, the combinedeffort of both Keith Whitman and Greg Davis and the music is markedlydifferent from anything they've released by themselves.