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Podcast Episodes 701 & 702 are now live!

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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Nurse With Wound, "Drunk with the Old man of the Mountains"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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In the post-World Serpent world, it's refreshing to see a tastefullooking, properly packaged, elegant layout on a Nurse With Woundrelease which isn't completely driven by capitalism or auctionable (oreven questionable) "special" editions.

Oh No, "The Disrupt"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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Longtime hip-hop journeyman Oh No's long awaited debut full-length isvibrant, musically diverse, and best of all refreshingly-gimmick free.The son of a jazz trumpeter and a soul/jazz composer, Oh No was signedto Stones Throw nearly five years ago, in no small part due to hisprolific older brother Madlib (of Madvillian, Jaylib, Lootpack,Yesterday's New Quintet and Quasimoto fame).

Mike Cooper, "Reluctant Swimmer/Virtual Surfer"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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Mike Cooper has been making music far longer than I've been alive. Hebegan his career as a folk-blues guitarist and singer-songwriter in the1960s, moved on to working with London's most prominent improv groupsin the 1970s, and in the 1980s and 1990s he gradually began toincorporate greater experimentation into his music. In contrast to manyartists who grow tame in their old age, Cooper, now in his sixties, ismaking the most adventurous music of his life.

BEEQUEEN, "THE BODYSHOP"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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I would never have expected a group like Beequeen to record an album like The Bodyshop.The duo of Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar first became associatesbecause of their mutual love for The Legendary Pink Dots, and since1990 they've been recording and releasing (quite prolifically) asBeequeen.

LARSEN, "PLAY"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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Despite being a fairly straight-forward instrumental rock unit, Larsenhave nonetheless willfully cultivated a hopelessly enigmatic image forthemselves. Everyone has heard the story of how M. Gira came to producethe Italian group's second album Reverby now, and while the story might well be total bullshit, it hassuccessfully perpetuated an air of mystery and intrigue around theband.

Johan Skugge, "Volume"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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"Bring Me On" begins the album with some quality Force Tracks stylevocal tech house, adorning guest Laura Delicata's hypnotically effectedvoice with airy pads and funky bleeps. Delicata returns a few songslater on "Decandence," the album's first single and certainly worthy ofsuch treatment.

Zbigniew Karkowski/Antimatter, "KHZ"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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The second collaboration by Karkowski and Xopher Davidson (Antimatter)is a masterful work that rewards any patient listener with slowlyunfolding layers of analog hum and buzz. The CD consists of one 45minute piece, and this format suits the work well, as this kind ofpiece needs to develop slowly over a long period of time. The first 13minutes are calm, and consist of low end rumbling and quiethigh-pitched tones.

Bibio, "Fi"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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This album is aptly titled, as the 17 tracks it contains sound neitherhi nor lo fi. Stephen Wilkinson's debut release as Bibio is made up ofa mixture of muffled field recordings, well-recorded live guitarplaying, and ambient drones. Although individually these elements aresuccessfully executed, the finished product could have been more fullyrealized.

Hood, "Outside Closer"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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Around the time of Hood's Rustic Houses, Forlorn ValleysLP and their "Filmed Initiative" single, the band evolved from writingshort and brilliant pastoral odes into writing longer and digressiveelegies. Effectively, Hood changed from late afternoon ramblersmarching from pub to pub into long trail through-hikers. There is morejazz than noise in their songs these days.

By the End of Tonight, "Fireworks on Ice"

Sunday, 23 January 2005

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The idea of a hyper-quartet feasting on the remains of dead metalguitars, hyperventilating percussion, and over-romanticized melodiesmight, at first, sound like a fun trip through nausea. Due to a lack ofvision, however, the EP these four Texans have crafted becomes too dullafter its first half has expired to even be considered satisfyinglydizzying. Four tracks full of spinning drum sticks and convulsingguitar strings amount to a whole lot of yawning when they all beginexactly the same.