Episode 721 features Throwing Muses, Eros, claire rousay, Moin, Zachary Paul, Voice Actor and Squu, Leya, Venediktos Tempelboom, Cybotron, Robin Rimbaud and Michael Wells, Man or Astro-Man?, and Aisha Vaughan.
Episode 722 has James Blackshaw, FACS, Laibach, La Securite, Good Sad Happy Bad, Eramus Hall, Nonconnah, The Rollies, Jabu, Freckle, Evan Chapman, diane barbe, Tuxedomoon, and Mark McGuire.
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1. Coil, "Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol.1 " 2. Nurse with Wound, "An Awkward Pause" 3. Autechre, "EP7" 4. three way tie: Tom Waits: "Mule Variations" To Rococo Rot: "The Amateur View" godspeed you black emperor: "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada" 5. Stereolab, "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night 6. Labradford, "E luxo so" 7. two way tie: Low, "Secret Name" Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile" 8. two way tie: Trans Am, "Futureworld" Jim O'Rourke, "Eureka" 9. four way tie: Mogwai, "Come on Die Young" Add N to (X), "Avant Hard" Sonic Youth, "Goodbye 20th Century" Plaid, "Rest Proof Clockwork" 10. six-way tie: Angels of Light, "New Mother People Like Us, "Hate People Like Us" Pan Sonic, "A" Mouse on Mars, "Niun Niggung" Plateau, "Spacecake" Flaming Lips, "The Soft Bulletin"
BAND OF THE YEAR
1. Coil 2. godspeed you black emperor! 3. Legendary Pink Dots 4. two-way tie: Stereolab Squarepusher 5. Low
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker" 2. Coil, "The Dreamer is Still Asleep" 3. godspeed you black emperor!, "Moya" 4. Mogwai, "Stanley Kubrick" 5. godspeed you black emperor!, "Blaise Bailey Finnegan, III"
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
1. Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker" 2. Bjork, "All is Full of Love" 3. three-way tie: Add N to (X), "Metal Fingers in My Body" Beck, "Sexx Laws" Leftfield, "Afrika Shox" 4. three-way tie: Lamb, "B-Side" U.N.K.L.E., "Rabbit in Your Headlights" Meat Beat Manifesto, "Prime Audio Soup"
NEW BAND OF THE YEAR
1. Angels of Light 2. five-way tie: The Beta Band Cyclobe Plone Pole The All Seeing I
CONCERT EVENT
1. Labradford/godspeed you black emperor! (notably in various combinations including Low, Mogwai and Matmos) 2. Trans Am / Pan Sonic 3. Tom Ze with Tortoise 4. Current 93 NYC 5. four-way tie: v/vm Stereolab / Papa M Legendary Pink Dots Man... or Astro-Man??
1. John McEntire & Jim O'Rourke 2. Timbaland 3. Jack Dangers 4. Steven Stapleton 5. Howie B
WORST BAND
1. three-way tie: Nine Inch Nails Limp Bizkit Backstreet Boys 2. Korn 3. six-way tie: Coil Britney Spears Blink 182 Plone Marilyn Manson Kid Rock
WORST ALBUM YOU BOUGHT
1. Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile" 2. Tricky, "Juxtapose" 3. Mogwai, "Come on Die Young"
BEST COMP
1. Warp's 10th Anniversary collections 2. Reach the Rock Soundtrack 3. v/vm, "AuralOffalWaffleTenPintsOfBitterAndABagOfPorkScratchings" 4. five-way tie: Fight Club Soundtrack Matrix Soundtrack Eyes Wide Shut Soundtrack Matador's 10th Anniversaty Soundbombing II
BEST MOVIE
1. two-way tie: Blair Witch Project Being John Malkovich 2. Eyes Wide Shut 3. Fight Club 4. two-way tie: American Beauty The Matrix 5. two-way tie: Run, Lola, Run Dogma 6. Sixth Sense 7. two-way tie: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Sleepy Hollow 8. three-way tie: Princess Mononoke Iron Giant eXistenZ 9. The Straight Story 10. Man on the Moon 11. American Pie
BEST TV SHOW
1. The Simpsons 2. Futurama 3. South Park 4. That 70s Show 5. X-Files 6. two-way tie: Law and Order Just Shoot Me
BEST BOOK
1. The Onion Presents, "Our Dumb History" 2. "Wreckers of Civilization," by Simon Ford
BEST ACTOR
1. Kevin Spacey 2. Ed Norton 3. three-way tie: Johnny Depp John Cusak Tom Cruise 4. John Malovich
BEST ACTRESS
1. Christina Ricci 2. three-way tie: Nicole Kidman Heather Donahue Annette Benning 3. three-way tie: that chick in Run Lola Run Jennifer Jason Leigh Cameron Diaz
BIGGEST DISAP- POINTMENT
1. Star Wars 2. Y2K and all the other hype 3. Blair Witch Project 4. The Haunting
EVENT
1. Columbine High 2. Seattle Riots 3. New Year's Eve 4. Coachella Music Festival
WEBSITE
1. brainwashed geez, can't you get more original! 2. Superbad.com 3. Pitchforkmedia.com 4. Disinfo.com 5. hamsterdance.com
HERO nobody got more than one vote VILLAIN
1. Bill Gates 2. A four-way tie: Milosevic the Media Richard D. James George W. Bush
My pick of the week is the fourth album by this German group, released in 1998. Notwist is allegedly an offshoot from the Tied and Tickled Trio, a jazz rock influenced group who can be found on more remixes than original product, including the Aerial M remix album "Post-Global Music".
Zero Hour
For nearly all of the songs, the first measures start up in a wonderful electro glitchy rhythmic interplay, eventually kicking in to a fuzz-bass based pop tune, indie-pop (if possible) in nature. Music must evolve, and thus indie glitch-pop is born (?) as this album represents what you might get when you cross Coil with Magnetic Fields and Sam Prekop (of The Sea and Cake) at the vocals. Taking a break from the easy-melody pop, a few tracks break the electro mold and step over the line, rejecting vocals and adding a small horn section, living percussion players, nasty sounding organs and saxophone vs. drum break downs. Stereolab fans beware, as I have heard they're touring around with the band here and there for their current tour. The tunes keep your head bobbing, the melodies warm your soul and the electronics tickle your brain. Hunt this one out because Zero Hour isn't necessesarily an easy label to hunt down.
Just when you think Mute USA dropped the ball and turned their back on music in general (re: the exodus of classics such as Einsturzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas and Nick Cave from the US label) they shock us all and strike a deal.
Mute US has entered a new market with German post-kraut-rock releases now due from To Rococo Rot, Kriedler and Schneider TM. "The Amateur View" is To Rococo Rot's first full-length release in the USA - preceeding this was the EP release on now defunct label Emperor Jones/Trance Syndicate as well as a couple European-only releases on City Slang and Kitty-Yo. To Rococo Rot take their music seriously and produce professionally with an audibly perfectionistic touch - a gentle yet appropriate blend of drum machines and live drums, sequenced and performed keyboards, samples and live bass. The tunes are pleasant, the tempo moves well throughout the entire disc, the sounce are slick and polished, there's nothing sloppy here. Don't let the title fool you, this album is anything but amateurish.
I must admit I didn't know what to expect when hearing this, but I'm pleasantly surprised. This is the first (to my knowledge) first full-length official release from Russian sound engineer, Ivan Pavlov. Ivan is definately showing influences of a cross between Panasonic and Ryoji Ikeda, but it is definately his own. A pleasant surprise on this is the human element that has become so withdrawn from other music in this genre, his baby daughter Sasha appears on one of the tracks. I know it's nothing new, but it's something that fits well. Read More
The second collaboration between these three, and what a fine disc it is. Low bass dub influenced music, the Mick Harris signature drum loops, and special effects by Eraldo Bernocchi. While Laswell and Harris have been mass producing music lately in the droves, the right combination always has a possibility of yielding a stellar product. Listen to this one loud.
The second collaboration between these three, and what a fine disc it is. Low bass dub influenced music, the Mick Harris signature drum loops, and special effects by Eraldo Bernocchi. While Laswell and Harris have been mass producing music lately in the droves, the right combination always has a possibility of yielding a stellar product. Listen to this one loud. Read More
1. Tortoise, "TNT" 2. Autechre, (self titled, LP5) tied with Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices" 3. Legendary Pink Dots, "Nemesis Online" 4. Massive Attack, "Mezzanine" 5. Boards of Canada, "Music Has the Right to Children" 6. godspeed you black emperor!, "f# a# to infinity" 7. Coil, "Time Machines" 8. Coil, "Autumn Equinox" (it's really an ep) tied with Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology" 9. Belle and Sebastian, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" tied with Current 93, "Soft Black Stars" 10. Sonic Youth, "A Thousand Leaves"
1. Marilyn Manson 2. Backstreet Boys 3. Matchbox 20 4. Rammstein 5. Barenaked Ladies
Worst Album You Bought
1. Marilyn Manson, "Mechanical Animals" 2. A four-way tie: Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology" Front 242, "Re Boot" Tricky, "Angels with Dirty Faces
Best Compilation
1. Coil & Friends, "Foxtrot" 2. Pi Soundtrack 3. We Are Reasonable People 4. A Tribute to Spacemen 3 5. Remix Dystemper
Best Movie
1. Pi 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. The Trueman Show 4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5. The Big Lebowski
Best TV Show
1. The Simpsons 2. The X Files 3. South Park 4. Sifl & Olly
Best Book
1. "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman tied with "Lords of Chaos" by Michael Moynihan 2. "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby tied with "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
well, they didn't get many votes, but there's hardly any book readers any more...
Best Actor
1. Bill Clinton tied with Johnny Depp
nobody could agree on the rest
Best Actress
1. Christina Ricci 2. Gilian Anderson 3. Parker Posey
Parker can do better next year, come on guys!
Biggest Disappointment
1. Titanic 2. Waking up
I'm losing faith in our readership
Event of the Year
1. Clinton Sex Scandal 2. LPD tour the USA
this category's answers aren't helping either
Web site of the year
1. brainwashed 2. The Onion 3. Warp Records tied with suck.com
flattery will get you nowhere
Hero
1. me (yes, everybody voted for themselves) 2. Edward Ka-Spel
Villan
1. Kenneth Star 2. A four-way tie: me (yes, voting for themselves again) Bill Gates Marilyn Manson my boss
Most Annoying Trend
1. Swing 2. Tommy Hilfiger 3. Body Piercing tied with "Any trend"
Highly anticipated album from Digital Hardcore's first defectors. SonicSubjunkies are more musical than most of the DHR miscreants, but theirhypercharged breakbeat tirades slash through pile-ups of samples and noisein no less confrontational a manner. They can still be harder than the rest- hard as a fist studded with nails on "Das Elektrophon" and "Do You EvenKnow Who You Are?" - without ever losing the impressive control which setsthem apart from their peers. Stomping tank-tread hiphop ("Live FromJonestown" and "Welcome To Central Industrial"), Hooversonic jump-up jungle("12,000 RPM"), even the occasional low-boil pseudo-ambient interlude - arange of moods and demeanors, all stapled with rapid-fire Uzi breaks andautomatic discharges. Read More
To the uninitiated, Blonk sounds like a madman - babbling excitedly in non-languages, spitting guttural noises and pitched burps like a Speak-N-Spell rewired by a lunatic. He's quite sane, and enormously entertaining, an avid devotee of the obscure history of sound poetry.
Dadaist and surrealist poets were drawn to the rhythm of language, applying their cut-up and repetition techniques to words, vowel sounds, consonant clusters and lip and lingual sounds. The results can be as stirringly meditative as Velimir Khlebnikov's "Kolokol Uma (Ringing The Bell of Mind)" or as playful as Blonk's own "Geen Krimp," an exhaustive study in the Dutch language's most problematic letter combinations (lots of "gr"s and "krs"), and the playful lip farts of "Labior." At the other extreme of this vocal-lore is Man Ray's "Lautgedicht," a text with all words gleefuly "XXXXX"-ed out, performed by Blonk like a Conehead love-call. Blonk's choking-victim gurgle and spirited brays, whoops, smacks and hoots would get him tossed from even the most liberal restaurant, making Vocalor the perfect vicarious thrill for those who have had it with the snotty properiety of their local art scene.
How much fun it must be to be able to release material like this.27 tracks of mind-warping weirdness from the heralded Masters who broughtyou the marvelous Datacide project series. This disc is quite thecuriosity! Not as similar-sounding to Datacide as one might initiallybe inclined to think, MU is a mindset prism, a refraction device for theheadphonaut's moods. Many seemingly incongruous tones and atmospheres arestrung together until anticipation and nostalgia become indistinguishable.And don't be deceived, this multitude of sonic segments continuously flowsinto 3 continuous pieces that convey the feel of the pleasantlyoverextended experimental style AND the well-seasoned and time-testedsound. And this won't be your average please-don't-peal-me-off-the-couch-manchill-out session. Only the all-terrain ambienteers will survive, as thelistener frequently deals with counterintuitive changes and sequencingcontradictions. Grinding, trickling, howling, warbling, squeezablemetallic textures will help melt down those rational thoughts and aid inthe discovery of new, more potent mental alloys! I suppose there may onlybe 2 stand-alone song-like tracks here, #18 (Backward Journey) and #23(Rather Sleep Then Dance). This latter track was also subsequentlyreleased in a slightly altered form on the Real Intelligence (RI033)compilation, and may be suggestive of both the post-partyvibe schools ofphilosophy and reality-permeating synchronicities. If you ever see this disc for sale and don't buy it, particularly ifyou're a Datacide fan, you will regret it till the end of your days when,that is if, you hear it. Read More
I am currently engrossedin the newest DEAD VOICES ON AIR offering, a double CD known as :pissfrond:. It receives extremely high marks from me, being quite possiblythe most accesable DVOA release to date. VVV (the Pan Sonic and AlanVega collaboration) and THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN VAMPIRE (Alec Empireand Techno Animal facing off) have also snuggled their ways deep intomy heart -- nearly far enough to make my precious ears bleed! I fullyawait the new EC8OR album, which should be fab-boo. If you get freemoments, I suggest renting the movie ZERO EFFECT, quite funny andwell-done. Read More
Album of the Year
My pick of the week is the fourth album by this German group, released in 1998. Notwist is allegedly an offshoot from the Tied and Tickled Trio, a jazz rock influenced group who can be found on more remixes than original product, including the Aerial M remix album "Post-Global Music".
I must admit I didn't know what to expect when hearing this, but I'm pleasantly surprised. This is the first (to my knowledge) first full-length official release from Russian sound engineer, Ivan Pavlov. Ivan is definately showing influences of a cross between Panasonic and Ryoji Ikeda, but it is definately his own. A pleasant surprise on this is the human element that has become so withdrawn from other music in this genre, his baby daughter Sasha appears on one of the tracks. I know it's nothing new, but it's something that fits well.
The second collaboration between these three, and what a fine disc it is. Low bass dub influenced music, the Mick Harris signature drum loops, and special effects by Eraldo Bernocchi. While Laswell and Harris have been mass producing music lately in the droves, the right combination always has a possibility of yielding a stellar product. Listen to this one loud.
Album of the Year
