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Though nothing is going to compare with his co-release with Mansour Seck, Djam Leelii (1984), this is certainly a much better album than his last release, Nomad Soul. Baaba Maal has turned away from the synth heavy world beat that he helped introduce and returned to an almost stripped down production which features his lilting voice, guitar, kora, bass, percussion and backing

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Fulfilling his self-made prophecy as the reborn spirt of legendary hippie music guru Father Yod from Yahowha 13, Acid Mothers Temple ringleader Kawabata Makoto proclaimed a harmonious existence within his own personal "cosmos" in 1999. The perpetual output

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Live stuff recently recorded in Europe and the U.S. by this seminal black metal act. Knowing perhaps that they have perhaps already released too many live albums (granted, some are boots, which isn't their fault), some value is added by the inclusion of a half-dozen or so "preproduction" tracks (i.e. demos) from their "Grand Declaration of War" opus. A fan's disc, therefore. And

With a pressing of 1000 copies, Mirror's "Islands" may stay in print a little bit longer than all of the previous outings from this magnificent drone ensemble. Beginning as a duo of hermetic Andrew Chalk and part-time Nurse With Wound collaborator Christoph Heemann, Mirror has officially expanded into a trio with the addition of Andreas Martin -- Heemann's former partner in the "Islands" finds Mirror returning to the guitar with much more successful results. Sprawling across four sides of translucent blue vinyl, "Islands" seemlessly melts both studio sessions and live recordings from a series of recent shows in Austin, Texas. Like all of Mirror's albums, "Islands" appears as a fragment of a much larger composition which extends well beyond the temporal constraints of any given media. Complex ever shifting drones and mercurial tonalities belie the instrumentation being solely guitars, as field recordings of rainstorms and shadowy metallic striations emerge within Mirror's thick ambient wash. Of course, it's recommended. But don't expect this to last, despite the larger pressing.

The classic proto-punk record made by these weirdo American GI's in Germany circa '66, now reissued on vinyl. Not too many in stock...

We've had this before, but it's not always that easy to find. So while we have a few in stock we thought we'd list it. It's the very first aluminum slab of Satanic Drug psych-metal to come from the demented minds of Dave Wyndorf and Co., released on

A new recording of improvisational soundpieces arranged by bassist/cellist Walter Prati. Joining Prati is Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore (on guitar/electronics) and Italian trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini. Most prevalent in these pieces is Schiaffini's horn,

Was this film a comedy or a thriller? It's hard to tell from the soundtrack, which was composed by our favorite score maestro Ennio Morricone. (Did anyone else see him at the Academy Awards? He's such a legend that I was kind of surprised he's still

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New hip-hop mix by Lexxus -- a.k.a. Mr Lex - featuring the rhythm track to Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On". Depending where you stand on Missy's new album and blatant dancehall rip offs of important American artists, you may hate this or love it. I like to tell people that this is the alternate take of "Get Ur Freak On" when Missy had a horrible head cold and was possessed by the

A fucking Muppets cover. How awesome is that? The only thing better would have been a Willie / Kermit duet. Willie Nelson is so cool.

It's always been hard being a woman in a male dominated scene, but it must be doubly hard when you're driven to explore and expand and alienate the dance floor the way Riz Maslen is. But the scene's loss is our gain. This double cd (disc two is a cd-rom movie

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Throughout the '80's/90's, Vancouver surrealists Skinny Puppy were a group ahead of their time. Laced with film dialogue samples (one of the first and best, if you ask me) and seething emotion, their highly visceral and visual music seemed to reverberate from the future much like that of Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, and Cabaret Voltaire before them. Much more experimental and sonically

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Somehow Andrea Parker manages to continue to release music that is forward-looking and challenging yet always super crowd-pleasing and easy to listen to. How does she do it? She's plies her trademark moody electro-thud by starting off with a heavy addictive rhythm and severe yet lush beats, then adds doom-laden synth shrieks and bass thumping that's worthy of, say, Techno Animal but

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I'm beginning to think that Pelt are the real heirs to the "drone throne(tm)" formerly kept warm by Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young and John Cale. Middle Eastern flecked skree-scapes of slowly bowed strings and rich overtones that beat against each other to produce

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Excellent dancehall mix of Dawn Penn's sorrowful "No, No, No (You Don't Love Me)" featuring a beefier beat and interjections from U-"Wake The Town And Tell The People"-Roy.

Joe Pernice, formerly of the Scud Mountain Boys, and Big Tobacco, and now the Pernice Brothers is turning out to be one of the most important singer songwriters of our time. It sounds like hyperbole, but Joe Pernice has managed to find a sound all his own,

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The year is 1965 and a feisty teenage Suzi Quatro is kicking ass on all the boys in town. Yep, that's pre-Leather Tuscadero, sweetcakes! Ultra-raw, raunchy garage rock straight from the day re-issued by the fab garage mavens at Norton Records. Hot!

Prairie Dog Flesh is a Bardo Pond side project which is essentially Bardo Pond without the super stoned vocals of Isobel Sollenberger. And you get just what you expect: thick hazy distorted guitars meandering through improv psych rocks jams, performed

The highly anticipated companion album to "Kid A", "Amnesiac" should not disappoint those who picked up last year's release. Many are sure to write this one off as "more of the same" and to be sure, the production quality, as well as the electronica laden On "Amnesiac" as on "Kid A," Radiohead finds inspiration in electronica, especially the hard-disk crunch of Lesser or Kid 606, and the slippages of melody and rhythm that occur in minimalist techno where there is no bridge, chorus, verse structure, only modulations and transformations of a sequence of leitmotifs. When applying electronica to their pop sensibility, Radiohead do not lace a pre-existing pop song with a slinky house groove; rather they write a pop song as if it were electronica. Thom Yorke's vocals meander through each of the tracks as if some piece of granular synthesis found on Chain Reaction. Which isn't to say that Radiohead are simply jumping on the electronica bandwagon. With "Amnesiac" Radiohead use the studio and its limitless resources to do much more; like emulating an early jazz vocalist like Billy Holiday in "You And Whose Army?", or including a seemingly incongruous New Orleans-esque drunken horn section at the end of the album for "Life In Glass Houses." As always, totally breathtaking.

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Though we at AQ love the mumbling, narcoticized lo-fi rapping of Sensational, three albums of the same production -- sloppy beats with Sensational mixed way too high in the mix -- was a bit much. The ongoing argument here has always been which of his first two

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Slag Boom Van Loon is of course the collaboration between electronica maven Mike Paradinas and Dutch DJ Speedy J. And they have a lot of friends, enough to fill a full length cd with remixes: Boards of Canada, Four Tet, Pole, Matmos, Coil, Leafcutter John, mu-Ziq (wait, that IS Mike Paradinas), and others. The 12" version comes with fewer tracks, but if you fancy yourself the DJ, then this is for you.

New Zealand's Sleep is very very different from the Sabbath worshippin' stoner-doom band of the same name. This Sleep is a quartet of New Zealand free noise musicians, including stalwarts Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton, as well as Nathan Thompson and Susan Ballard. As with other collaborations between Pieters and Stapleton (such as Rain, Flies Inside The Sun), Sleep's work is based on

Deluxe vinyl-only reissue (cd put out in 1997 by Cleopatra). This is a nice collection of live cuts recorded during the early, pre-Budgie incarnation of the Slits. Features guest vocals by Nina Hagen and Neneh Cherry.

Striking another blow for true metal, which as we all know belongs on vinyl, collectable vinyl at that (says Allan, who does not own a record player), our favorite San Francisco heavy metallers (featuring members of Hammers of Misfortune, don't forget) San Francisco's epic metal geniuses unleash their third opus. Sheer heavy metal mastery. Damn! If you like some real, melodic heavy metal once and while (instead of the "brutality" and "evil" of that ol' black metal/death metal stuff we love too) the way they used to do it back in the '70s and '80s, with all the crazy fantasy lyrics and shredding dual lead guitar solos you can handle, then you need to hear these guys. This is their best yet, really, with better production than their previous disc, "Twilight Of The Idols", but with equally wicked songs. This band is usually described as a mixture of Maiden, Lizzy, and Sabbath... That's true, they're all that, and not in just a wanna-be, "those are our influences" kinda way either -- 'cause after listening to "Down Among The Deadmen" you could imagine Slough Feg getting in the wayback machine and sharing the stage with any of 'em at Castle Donnington and holding their own just fine! This is one of the only bands I know of where the musicians started as punk/rockers but realized that instrumental virtuosity and compositional craft characteristic of their childhood/teenage metal heroes WERE valuable and could be put to non-ironic, non-lame use. And were talented enough to do it. So, inspired by the past they are, but they're also their own weird thing, a cult act if there ever was one. With songs about Roger Corman movies ("Death Machine" is based on motorcycles-in-the-future David Carridine flick "Death Sport"), fantasy Celtic mythology (the "Heavy Metal Monk/Fergus Mac Roich/Cauldron Of Blood" tryptych) and the classic science fiction roleplaying game Traveller ("Traders & Gunboats"), with Mike's decidely unordinary (but great) deepvoiced vocal majesty, and the plethora of amazing RIFFS, these guys rule! For those who need an obscure indie/metal reference, it's kind of like The Champs meet Cirith Ungol or something; bizarre, epic, baroque, proud, a bit silly, masterful, very metal. So worthy of the delightful cover painting by cult D&D illustrator Erol Otus. The true heavy metal record of the year. Unbelievable!

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Here's one for metal vinyl collectors: a picture disc single featuring local heavy metal heroes The Lord Weird Slough Feg on one side, and epic British doom-lords Solstice on the other, each covering a tune by Manowar! (An admitted influence on the Brits, if

Just when you thought every "instrumental post rock" band should be buried alive in a hole never to be heard from again, here comes the Baltimore-based quartet Sonna with their first full length album that breathes so much fresh air into the genre we're

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A tolerably well mixed 74 minutes of hip hop, soul, electronica, etc from the likes of Nightmares on Wax, Tek9, Terranova, Les Nubians, Runaways UK, 4Hero, etc. As with most of Spinna's releases, there's a second disc of the unmixed original tracks by

UK electronica artists Spring Heel Jack go up against the avant-jazz artists of Thirsty Ear's Matthew Shipp-curated "Blue Series". The players here include Shipp, Evan Parker, Tim Berne, Mat Maneri, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, and several other

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Ralph Stanley, it would seem, has never received much recognition for his acheivements as a songwriter or performer outside of bluegrass circles. Those who've seen Ralph perform know that he'll sell you the banjo off his back -- he makes a point of it

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Dark, sometimes droning improv from this Swiss post-jazz trio (drums, electric bass, Hammond organ/electronics). Maybe not as crazed as their countrymen Alboth! or 16/17, but still full of appeal to folks with John Zorn records in their collections. On this disc, one of two simultaneously released new Grob-label cds by the band, they take two different compositions ("DB", written

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One of a pair of new cds by this Swiss instrumental noise-jazz-rock trio with a sort of silly name, that have just been simultanously released on the Grob label (following up an obcure live disc from a few years back). The material on this cd was recorded live, in Budapest presumably, and is all improvised (except for the intro/outro, forged from their "grunge" encore by

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Another brilliant disc from this Norwegian "death-jazz" outfit! Bandmember and producer Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) took some 30 hours of material recorded live (direct to DAT) in various European locations (London, Oslo, Bologna) and edited it down to fit

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1976 live session with heavyweight players (besides the great pianist Taylor himself) Raphe Malik, David S. Ware, Jimmy Lyons and Marc Edwards (that's trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, and drums respectively).

Vinyl soundtrack reissue from a Bruce Lee movie we had never heard of. Must have been a later one, judging from the soundtrack; a cheesy mix of funky jazz fusion and 70's sitcom theme music, with lots of piano and slap bass. Makes us really want to see Tower of Death and see Bruce Lee trying to fight to this stuff!

It appears to always be springtime in the world of Japanese musician Takeo Toyama, who makes mellow and melodic mostly-instrumental tunes (using piano, samples, electronics, trumpet, la la las, guitar strum, etc.). Jazz-inflected soft pop for

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New cd from Canadian-in-the-Netherlands dub meister Ryan Moore whom you may have heard performing with the Legendary Pink Dots, Dead Voices on Air or Tear Garden. Ryan - performing all instruments himself - excels in creating modern dub in the mid-seventies

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Well it's pretty clear that these Norwegian weirdos will never be a "black metal" band again. Following the industrial and techno experimentation of their last two releases comes the new disc, "Perdition City" (pretentiously subtitled "music to an interior We managed to get a few of the LIMITED EDITION version (same price) for the moment. The music is the same, but the booklet is bigger, with more photos, and it comes in an oversized weird sort-of-jewel case. But once they're gone, they're gone for good, and then we'll have to sell you the not-limited normal version.

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A joint release between new labels Airborne Virus and Mar/ino, an imprint of Michigan's Elsie and Jack label (they released an Aube cd and the Tabata solo record some time ago). Features tracks by 555 artists Empress, Steward and Halkyn as well as many

Tributors include Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earle, Victoria Williams, John Hiatt, Gillian Welch, Peter Case (who produced this collection), and others...

From the masters of dredging up obscure euro-pop and jazz, Crippled Dick Hot Wax takes you on a time warp behind the iron curtain to listen to late 60's & mid 70's jazz grooves -- mostly tracks from Poland and Czechoslovakia are represented here, though there

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"Chronologi" is a self-congratulatory compilation from the Brooklyn experimental / electronica label 12K, celebrating their first four years of operation. 12K is run by Taylor Deupree, who is in many ways the American doppleganger of Carsten Nicolai and 12k is the American version of his Raster-Noton collective. Both artists' labels specialize in positioning ultra-minimalist clicks and

North American compilation features contributions from Cannibal Ox, Them (featuring Dose One of cLOUDDEAD), Obscure Disorder (featuring Non-Phixion), Youngblood Brass Band (with Talib Kweli), MC Paul Barman (produced by Prince Paul!), bonus beats from turntable wiz A-Trak, and many more.

Irony is the name of the game for the Noodles Foundation, the self-appointed "Stupidest Recording Organisation in the World." Judging from the monikers of some of the artists featured (like The Buttmasters and Anal Parade), it's likely that the members of

Similar to the now-impossible-to-get, vinyl-only "Turkish Delights" compilation (but on cd and in stock!) is this great collection of vintage psychedelic rock music from Turkey. With 22 tracks, spanning the years 1966-1975, this collection is a great

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This is the sort of thing that Andee tells us Lesser would subject him to while driving the van when he went on tour with A Minor Forest (to the point that Andee would volunteer to drive, no matter how tired he was, just to avoid hearing it). Retro techno

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A collection of out-of-print and/or hard-to-find a-sides from the back catalogue of 555 Recordings of Leeds (run by Stewart Anderson of Boyracer / Steward fame). Tracks by the Aislers Set, Hood, Kid 606, Boyracer, Empress, Steward, The Remote Viewer, The Famous Boyfriend, and much more. 23 tracks total!

Another budget comp of raw and gritty blues by old (sometimes dead) Delta denziens like R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Scott Dunbar, T-Model Ford, Paul Jones, and others.

Down tempo electronica comp with stuff by DJ Cam, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Shinju Gumi (remixed by Kid Loco), Cujo, Koji Sekiguchi (remixed by DJ Cam), Tosca, a guy from Thievery Corp (the jazzy Exodus Quartet) and others... "Lusciously blunted" it says here.

Sixteen of the incredibly rare 7" tracks used by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist on their recent Brainfreeze performances. (It's just the tracks mind you, no mixing or scratching involved here.) This is a very strong collection. Incredible funk and raw soul and

The newest collection from the Soul Jazz label's new "Studio One" series collects 18 tracks of American soul as interpreted by Jamaican artists and released during the sixties and seventies on the Studio One label. Much like Trojan's "Soulful Reggae" three cd box set which came out last year, "Studio One Soul" demonstrates not only just how much Jamaican artists looked towards the

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[ aquarius records new arrivals — issue 115 ]