arve henriksen

on the turntable:

arve henriksen
cartography
ECM 2086

Undoubtedly one of the best albums of 2008 from Supersilent mainman, Arve Henriksen. Anyone who appreciates legendary trumpet players; Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Jon Hassell will truly love this album. Magnificent follow-up to Henriksen's previous solo masterpieces,Strjon and Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon). Features David Sylvian on two tracks.(one2zero)

image: ecm

A shifting cast of characters, with live sampling man and album co-producer Jan Bang at the centre, provides a series of soundscapes, an ambient-experimental map of moods, for the uniquely liquid, singing trumpet lines of Arve Henriksen to scale and explore. Some tracks are recorded live in concert, others are studio creations. Singer David Sylvian reads his own poetry on two cuts.(© ECM)

For a full review of this album I suggest you check out the excellent, personal miscellany at eleventh volume.

Links: arve henriksen / supersilent / eleventh volume (review) / myspace /

Available from Boomkat

fennesz - safron revolution

on the turntable:

fennesz
saffron revolution
TOUCH # TO:76D

While we patiently wait for the release of the new album from Fennesz (Black Sea), Touch have released a rather tasty sampler from it entitled Saffron Revolution. Only available as a one-track digital download and with the new album not being released for another couple of weeks; Saffron Revolution is a highly recommended download. (one2zero)

image: touch records

Download Saffron Revolution :

from Boomkat or Bleep in the UK
from Thrill Jockey in the US via Fina-Music.

koushik

on the turntable:



koushik
out my window
STH2174


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I've been listening to Koushik ever since I first heard his "Battle Times" ep on Kieran Hebden's (Four Tet)Text Records way back in 2001. Although I really liked "Be With" (album & ep), as well as all of his other releases (under his own name), this is his best yet.
Hip-hop-based, downbeat 60s psych-pop, indeed! (one2zero)


See here for more reviews, discography, images and more details on Koushik.

Buy / Order: Stones Throw

amplifier machine - her mouth is an outlaw

Available October 2008

amplifier machine
her mouth is an outlaw
12k1049

Buy / Order: 12k




amplifier machine @ myspace


Amplifier Machine began in 2002 with James Dixon (Swordfish, Supagroop, James Dixon) on guitar, Korg & piano, Seth Rees (The Spheres, This Is Your Captain Speaking, I Want A Hovercraft, Seth Rees) on drums, violin, samples, piano & guitar and Alex Jarvis (Automatic, Black Cab, Registered Nurse, Alex Jarvis) on guitar & drums, with the intention of combining their songwriting talents. Something about getting three solo artists together, or maybe something about what rehearsing for so long in a freezing Collingwood warehouse does to the brain, caused the pop-bred members of Amplifier Machine to spiral out into a peculiar music of inquisitive, atmospheric, half-improvised mini-epics. Amplifier Machine is a self-described experiment inanemocratic process and near-improvisation (anemocracy = rule by whim or the wind). Through earnest discussion and endless unending jams, Amplifier Machine came upon The Rule: that when the other two members have settled, it’s your turn to change. ©12k - more)

stereolab - chemical chords

on the turntable:

stereolab
chemical chords
CADD2815CD

Buy / Order: 4AD

Deluxe Edition Card sleeve with booklet and obi.
See here for more details.

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steinbrüchel - mit ohne

on the turntable:

steinbrüchel
mit ohne
12k2010

Buy / Order: 12k

Limited to 500 copies.
See here for more details.

steinbrüchel website

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gas - nah und fern

on the turntable:

gas
nah und fern
kompakt (komcd66)

4cd box set of one of the most important bodies of work in contemporary electronic music. Includes most of Wolfgang Voigt's discography under the Gas guise.


image: japanese forms



buy:
boomkat

download:
boomkat

kangding ray -automne fold

on the turntable:

kangding ray
automne-fold
raster-noton / r-n094


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More sublime recordings from the raster-noton label. This week's offering from frenchman, Kangding Ray. Although I prefer his previous release "Stabil" this one does have its moments. It may be the spoken word parts that confuse me; as we're not to used to hearing much "vocals" on anything on the label. It is, nonetheless, a very fine recording indeed. (one2zero)


buy:
raster-noton


website: kangding ray

David Letellier aka kangding ray was born in France and is today based in Berlin, he evolved as a guitarist and drummer in various bands whose influences ranged from rock and pop to jazz before moving into electronic music.
(© raster-noton)

Following his highly successful debut "stabil" (r-n073), kangding ray releases his second full length record on raster-noton, entitled "automne fold".

With "automne fold", david letellier has evolved from the quiet, pristine flow of his debut record to sounds that are raw, dark and organic on this second release. pulsating rhythms become lost in within walls of saturated strings, words are spoken over bowed acoustic guitars, and analog synths collide with urban field recordings.
vocals are a central theme through the record. treated as raw materials, like any other sound, the voice operates as beat, speaks melodies or sets themes.

In some moments, "automne fold" retains the emotional simplicity of traditional song structures, where message and images come together, but also manages radical abstract textures, when tracks morph in closed forms of static sounds.

"automne fold" is an instrumental record, an album of 14 "folded" tracks, and a cinematic journey between groove and the senses.(© raster-noton)

wolfgang voigt - gas (book+cd)

on the turntable:

wolfgang voigt
gas
raster-noton (r-n 102)

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Though beautifully packaged and presented in the usual, lavish raster-noton way, I was a bit disapponted by the photography. The images being a bit too repetetive in their style for my taste. The release, nonetheless, remains a captivating one musicwise. Packaged in a hefty (24cm x 29cm) book of photos of dozens of the wooded images we have come to associate with earlier Gas releases ;it comes complete with a rather fetching, red foil-embossed dust cover. A must-have for anyone who enjoys Voigt's atmospheric sounds and all true raster-noton collectors. (one2zero)

For the first time ever a book presents the visual aspect of Wolfgang Voigt's comprehensive GAS project. It is not meant to be a monolithic retrospective of his visual work, but it features a broad spectrum of photographic images taken between 1995 and 1998 showing many different moods and perspectives of Wolfgang Voigt’s cosmos. what they all have in common, however, is the mystical focus and seemingly, the blurring of boundaries between lightness and darkness, happiness and depression, kitsch and art, pixels and leaves. and the enclosed music cd, voigt has opened his treasure chest and presents some well-selected, rare jewels from the very early days (and nights). four of the five tracks have never been released or played before. (© raster-noton)

buy:
raster-noton

download:
boomkat

byetone - death of a typographer

on the turntable:

byetone
death of a typographer
raster-noton / r-n092

image:japanese forms

Back again following a rather long hiatus, due to me relocating (again), one2zero will be trying hard to make up for lost time with some posts on a more regular basis. First up is the excellent release from Byetone -Death of A Typographer. Also, thanks to my good friend Chris for letting me discover a whole host of exciting new sounds over the past few months. (one2zero)

buy: raster-noton

website: raster-noton


,death of a typographer’ is meant to be a snap shot. the release was recorded in a winter week in berlin. only the pre-released single ,plastic star’ was created in sunny athens. the album contains the original session version of ,plastic star’.

the music of ,death of a typographer’ carries the special sound of raster-noton - but it is different: the tracks act as focal points, as elegy of an latently flowing stream, a stream that still moves on even when the music has long faded away. the tracks do not necessarily move forward, they rather open up a dark abyss which seems deepest in ,capture this I’ and II. byetone manages to achieve a remarkable metamorphosis of the organic, the tracks don't reveal any of the elements of conventional composition techniques but somehow they seem to show through the static sound body. with ,heart’ byetone finishes the album in a very dark manner. isn't there any hope? not in berlin winter.

,death of a typographer’ poses us riddles, even the title reminds of peter greenaway's ,the draughsman's contract’. for the vigilant spectator the ambiguous artwork will reveal the ,death of a typographer’. (© raster-noton)

sonic youth - andre sider af sonic youth

Sonic Youth

Med Mats Gustafsson Og Merzbow
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
SYR 8




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Eigth installment of Sonic Youth's series of experimental + mostly instrumental releases.
This disk presents the complete 'Other Sides of Sonic Youth' improvised live performance from the 2005 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, featuring Sonic Youth (with Jim O'Rourke) and guests Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, and Japanese sound artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow). The single piece performed was a structured improvisation which for 60 minutes added and subtracted musicians one by one until only Masami was left onstage.(© Sonic Youth)

steinbrüchel - mit ohne (forthcoming)

FORTHCOMING
Available September 2008

steinbrüchel
mit ohne
12k2010

Limited to 500 copies.



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Mit Ohne is a sound documentation of an audio/visual installation by Yves Netzhammer and Steinbrüchel. The installation entitled “The feeling of precise instability when holding things” was part of the group exhibition “Wohnträume/Wohnräume” exhibited from 26.07. to 28.09.2003 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, Switzerland. The audio sections by Steinbrüchel where composed in sync with the visuals by Yves Netzhammer and succeed in translating and supporting the poetic vibrancy and slow morphing movements of the 3d rendered animation. For the exhibition an atmospheric fragile and detailed work was created involving a three-part projection and multichannel sound which conveys an abstract audio and visual approach to the environment surrounding us and the concept of a room itself. ©12k - more)

Buy / Order: 12k

steinbrüchel website

popol vuh - remixed

popol vuh

remixed by mika vainio
remixed by haswell & hecker
eMEGO090

editions mego

MP3
Download@: Boomkat
Download@: Bleep


Also available: On 12" vinyl

Nachts: Schnee - Mika Vainio Remix
Aguirre I - Haswell & Hecker Remix

Cut by Rashad Becker @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin December 2007

Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools.
This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker. ( © Editions Mego)

harmonia -live 1974

harmonia
live 1974
CDGRON78


Finally managed to pick up a copy of this. I had looked it over on several visits to the record store but always took something else; Michael Rother's Invisible Jukebox in April's edition of The Wire won me over. Excellent indeed. I've always rather liked Neu! so I wasn't disappointed in the least. A must for any krautrock / kosmische music aficionado. "You’ve heard of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster, right? How about Harmonia? It’s much less likely because, like many trailblazers of their own era, they were ignored at the time. Well, beyond the ‘How to buy Krautrock’ section in your local record shop sits a further, towering wall of German space music to explore and first on your list should be Harmonia." more (© gronland records)

gronland records

wiki

sawako

Available May 2008

sawako
bittersweet
12k1047





New York/Tokyo based Sawako is a musician, software designer, and multimedia artist whose multi-disciplinary works intermix and pollenate her music with inspiration ranging from nature, science, academia and poetic motion.

Bitter Sweet's diffuse and hazy soundscaping is Sawako's most mature work to date, relying less on her previous child-like melodies while remaining feminine and tender. She has come into her own after having established herself for a number of years as a New Yorker where she has tirelessly performed, studied and created as an important member of the city's electronic music community.

Bitter Sweet is packaged in a 6-panel digipack with photography throughout by Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Maki Kaoru. (©12k - more)

Buy: 12k

Download MP3: boomkat

autechre - quaristice

autechre
quaristice
warp333cd



Exists also as steel-cased special edition.

The music on Quaristice manages to make Autechre's complex sound designs feel simpler than before, which of course is an art itself. With a selection of tracks that sound like an album made on deep reflection, the whole album is kept exciting through the sheer range of music and ideas. more (© warp)

warp page autechre download wiki

németh - film

németh
film
thrill194


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Very enjoyable recording from Radian stalwart, Stefan Németh. A couple of the tracks sound very much like some of the stuff found on the two Radian albums released on Thrill Jockey but on the whole this is well worth buying. Especially if you like anything that Radian has done. Nice booklet included but I wish the label would switch to digipak or some other form of packaging; jewel boxes really are the pits.

németh

Film is the first solo album by Stefan Németh, member of Radian and Lokai and the co-founder of Mosz Records. The album developed out of his years of work creating soundscapes for experimental filmakers and installation artists, but it was only after years of creating this work that he had he idea to repurpose it for an album under his own name.(© thrill jockey)

aidan john moffat

aidan john moffat
i can hear your heart
CHEM101CD

aidan moffat

Enhanced CD. Includes digital lyric book, bonus 5-track e.p. with printable artwork & a bonus short story.
Superb stuff from the former Arab Strap. The Scots Bukowski according to Uncut. Worth it alone for the superb packaging.

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"Adults Only" spoken word from the Scots Bukowski...UNCUT [4/5]

"Certain to be 08's most intimate album, and an early contender for being its best..." ROCKSOUND [9/10]

Aidan has performed some exclusive versions of tracks from "I Can Hear Your Heart" on YouTube and you can see them by visiting our YouTube site. He's performed "Hopelessly Devoted", "Beak", "Fuck It" and "Super Sexxxy Real Live" so check them out prior to the release of the album in February.
(chemikal underground)

fennesz - on a desolate shore...

Available from Boomkat & iTunes now!

fennesz
on a desolate shore a shadow passes by
TS04D

MP3 only release

Download@: Boomkat, iTunes





Also available:

Transition Touch # TS04

7" vinyl only - no legal downloads of these tracks are available
Side A: On a desolate shore [5:14]
Side B: A shadow passes by [3:21]

This is the sister release to the digital-only On A Desolate Shore A Shadow Passes By. These three tracks are based on 8 different guitar recordings made at Amann Studios, Vienna, between 2005-07. The acoustic guitar was recorded with an AK c12 microphone. Other sounds were made using a Fender Stratocaster and a Vox ac15 amp.

The 7" is part of the Touch Sevens 7" vinyl-only series, which began with Oceanus Pacificus by Chris Watson [TS02].

Fennesz's new album for Touch follows in Spring 2008... ( © Touch)

on the turntable

on the turntable:

rechenzentrum
silence
weiser music - wm01

dawn mccarthy & bonnie prince billy
wai notes
sea note - sn14

kim hiorthøy
my last day
smalltown supersound - stsO87

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weiser music / sea note / smalltown supersound

2007 draws to an end

No Wave
Black Dog Publishing


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Well 2007 has certainly been a eventful year for me. On a personal level; one of the best and one of the worst for family matters. Also, a horrendously long time spent moving and relocating meant that I was more or less cut off from music and my disc collection for almost five months. My collection is still in storage as my new accommodation is far too small. Don't see things getting back to 'normal' in the immediate future but another move is scheduled for Spring 2008 On the music front I managed to pick up and listen to many fine releases.
Those that made their way onto the one2zero turntable include some excellent releases by the ever-prodigiously talented Bonnie 'Prince' Billy as well as three great discs -2 EPs and an album- issued by Battles. Other highlights included a whole host of first-class releases from the 12k, raster-noton and touch labels. Not only electronic music of the finest order but also -as per usual- superb packaging from all three labels. Several releases from these labels are featured elsewhere at one2zero. One of my other favourite labels, ~scape also issued some splendid stuff from Pole, Jan Jelinek and Deadbeat. Not forgetting top stuff from Von Südenfed, Kim Hiorthoy and a couple of reissues from Young Marble Giants and Seefeel.

The years ends with another excellent book from Black Dog Publishing which I highly recommend for fans of No Wave but also to anyone who's at all curious about what went on on the music front in late-seventies, early eighties New York. one2zero


No Wave

No Wave traces the history of this noisy and uncompromising genre, from its most famous names down to its many offshoots and sidetracks. From early pioneers like Suicide and Richard Hell, to forgotten treasures like Red Transistor and Bush Tetras, and descendents like ESG and Sonic Youth, No Wave charts all the cracks and crevices of a surprisingly diverse movement. ( © Black Dog Publishing )

jan jelinek - hub / tierbeobachtungen

Available from iTunes now!

jan jelinek
tierbeobachtungen (live)
scape41LIVE

MP3 only release
Download@: iTunes


Hub - Tierbeobachtungen

January 17th 2007 Jan Jelinek was celebrating the release of his album "Tierbeobachtungen" in Berlin at "Zentrale Randlage" and invited producer collegues to an outstanding remix project:Each performing artist was playing his/her own individual interpretation of one track from the album "Tierbeobachtungen".

Live remixes by:
Robert Lippok, Pole, Andrew Pekler & Hanno Leichtmann, Thomas Fehlmann
Frank Bretschneider, Anne Westphalen & Peter Lay

All tracks are available online only on i-tunes, beatport, Kompakt-mp3, bleep and the partners of finetunes.
( © ~scape)

willits / sakamoto - ocean fire

Available February 2008

willits / sakamoto
ocean fire
12k1046




Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s forthcoming release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. Each artist has gently pulled the other into new sonic territory. Sakamoto’s gorgeous processed piano sound reflects Willits’ beautiful shimmering clusters of notes, a new aspect of Willits’ pioneering guitar/computer approach. Together, their sounds merge effortlessly, creating deep and seamless swells of gigantic melodic waves.( © 12k - more )

Buy: 12k
Download 12k MP3s @: boomkat

battles - tonto ep

battles
tonto ep & dvd
warp234cd
also available on 12"

release info: warp

mp3 download: bleep

website: battles



(above: still from the united visual artists' making of tonto)

Fine choice for the EP treatment with interesting remixes from The Field and Four Tet. I'm a bit less enthusiastic about the DJ EMZ / Joell Ortiz remix of Leyendecker but maybe, after a few listens, I'll change my mind. Excellent packaging;artwork by United Visual Artists, the EP includes a DVD featuring the rather awesome video of the title track. Also by UVA. A bonus documentary 'Making of Tonto' by UVA is included as well as the Atlas video. one2zero

The Tonto+ release includes remixes from Kompakt heroes 'The Field', Four Tet, a reworking of Leyendecker from DJ EMZ and DR Dre mentored mcee Joell Oritz, plus two awesome live versions - which if you've ever seen Battles live means a lot more than your average live version. Both CD & 12" include a dvd with the full length videos of Tonto and Atlas plus a making of Tonto documentary feature too. (© Warp )

pole -steingarten remixes

new release

pole
steingarten remixes
scape 50

release info: ~scape

mp3 download: iTunes

website: ~scape


one2zero

rechenzentrum - silence

new release forthcoming

rechenzentrum
silence DVD
DVD5 / NTSC

release info: RZ


website: rechenzentrum


one2zero should be resuming normally in a couple of weeks. We finally got around to finding accomodation and we`ll be settling in soon. Hope to update the blog on a much more regular basis as from next month. In the meantime, I`m glad to announce that Rechenzentrum are at last releasing some new material. It`s a DVD and you can check out the information about it as well as some extracts from it by following the RZ link above. one2zero

guiseppe ielasi - august

new release from 12k

guiseppe ielasi
august
12k 1044





Following a long, laborious summer one2zero has finally got round to posting something. My relocation has been put back due to some unforseen difficulties; with almost all of my belongings in storage plus the fact that I don`t have a home to call my own yet; posting will be sporadic. Hope to be back on a more regular basis soon. In the meantime, check out the latest release, by guiseppe ielasi on the great 12k label. one2zero


August is a haunting, but beautiful album that falls neatly between the starkness of Gesine and the scattering rhythmic complexity of s/t. LIke music for a farewell, an ending of ends, August is moody, static, slow and emotional.

Ielasi, Born in 1974, lives near Milan, Italy. He started playing guitar in 1988, and worked for many years in the area of ‘improvised music’ (long term collaborations with Renato Rinaldi in the duo Oreledigneur, Alessandro Bosetti, Michel Doneda, Ingar Zach, Dean Roberts). He has performed live with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Mark Wastell, Martin Siewert, Nmperign, Brandon Labelle, Nikos Veliotis, Gert-Jan Prins, Phill Niblock, Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Ankersmit and many others. In recent years his main interest has been in site-specific solo performances, still using guitars as primary sound sources but integrating microphones and multi-channel speaker systems in order to create complex networks for sound diffusion in relationship to space. In 1998 he founded the Fringes Recordings label. (© 12k)

Buy direct from: 12k

signal - robotron

on the turntable:

signal
robotron
r-n069



raster-noton's flagship signal - olaf bender, frank bretschneider and carsten nicolai - is something like the reference group of one of the pivotal labels of new minimal electronic music. but although only having released one cd so far, their sessions and concerts have been very influential until today. some of those tracks of the past years now result in a compilation that joins the work of the three masterminds of raster-noton, but not like a simple aggregation of egos, much rather like a conversation in which every discourse modulates the other and in the end it is not possible anymore to distinguish between each individual contribution. in this sense, signal would be a superego that serves a process in which the rule, coincidence and interaction play equal parts. this blends into an open and democratic music that has some of kraftwerk’s melancholy in it. thus, signal are their spiritual heirs. (© raster-noton)

buy: raster-noton

website: raster-noton

frank bretschneider - rhythm

on the turntable:

frank bretschneider
rhythm
rn082



„rhythm“ is neither pop nor avant-garde, but deals simply with the basic principles of any modern music: rhythm.

frank bretschneider takes his, never simple, but all the more heartfelt relationship to rhythm and it’s complexity, to an intense inventory and, this time, works less out of suspenseful abstract sounds, than out of grooves. the terseness and precision of previous works remains, as well as a preference for high-voltage sounds halfway between noise and tone. new is the assemblage of the material. a combination of programming, composition and construction, which draws a clear distinction to his preferred loop-based work on foregone albums, is connected with bretschneider's very idiosyncratic aesthetic of digital sound: controlled and objective. the whole follows simple mechanical states: on/off, forward/backward, up/down, slow/fast, loud/quiet, dull/brilliant, soft/hard and is characterized by the absence of any romanticism. still this return to the elementary, the fundamental, does not diminish the music to dance-floor functionality, instead bretschneider always stays emphatically musical and manages to generate sophisticated and complex rhythm-structures, which respectively induce minimal deviations in frequency and timing relationships to generate a surplus of funk.

In all, „rhythm“ is probably bretschneider’s most direct, clear and concentrated work yet. (© raster-noton)


buy / download:raster-noton website: frank bretschneider

seefeel - quique (redux edition)

on my turntable.

seefeel
quique (redux edition)
pure194cdd


Reissue of one of my favourite albums. When I realized that this disc was originally released 15 years ago it was a bit of a shock. More than just your common-everyday-type of reissue the Quique Redux Edition includes an amazingly good bonus disc of versions, remixes and edits. one2zero



listen filter dub

"An exquisite example of the kind of fusion it's possible to create when using electronics, guitars and an overall Dub aesthetic. Quique brings together the drifting ambient sounds of shoegaze with deep, dubby electronics to create a seamless, lush and beautiful sound. From the majestic, soaring chords and hypnotic rhythms of the opening track right through to the end it's a simply spellbinding collection. And, at long last, it gets a reissue... and not just any old reissue either as this features a second disc with the redux version included. Basically a series of versions, remixes and edits, some of which were released in a limited fashion, but most of which are unreleased, essentially providing us with a whole new Seefeel album... and that's something to be really thankful for. Their later work on Rephlex and Warp was stupendous as well, but for sheer timeless brilliance this is absolutely the one. If you don't have it and like labels such as Kranky, Limit Switch or virtually any electronic label from the last 10 years, you simply *must* get this album." (© Smallfish)

artist site: myspace
mp3 download: bleep
label: too pure
buy it : smallfish / boomkat

shuttle 358 - type radio broadcast

shuttle 358
type radio mix

This dates from a couple of years ago but as it says at type records:" This is a timeless mix..."

download / listen
shuttle 358 - type radio mix

shuttle 358 type records

tracklist:
susumu yokota, grinning cat - i imagine
voima - live at loop-line, 01/14/04
minamo, beautiful - yarn
world's end girlfriend, farewell kingdom - call past rain feat. piana
sogar + uison, two point two - local times
yoko kanno, wolf's rain ost - float
piana, snow bird - winter sleep
fonica, eadgbe - 455
dj krush, jaku - beyond raging waves
kuchiroro, com30 - the moon
voyage to sleep, actus bed-duo sampler - outro
no.9, mushi no ne - bug beats
kazumasa hashimoto, epitaph - eama gene
ryuichi sakamoto, chasm - war and peace

*samples of toyko trains by dan abrams

© type records

the human league - the dignity of labour ep

the human league

the dignity of labour ep
fast 10 (12"+flexi)

I previously posted this some time ago but I've re-posted it due to demand by some visitors. Enjoy.

I've just finished reading Simon Reynolds' fantastic book on the post-punk period between 1978 - 1984:
Rip it up and Start Again (book previously mentioned in the post sunday songs #5). As before, the book got me rifling through my record collection to dig out some of those precious vinyls that I bought back then. Alongside the numerous albums, 12" singles and EPs by Cabaret Voltaire i found this amazing artefact that i had almost forgotten all about. If my memory serves me well, I remember buying this strictly for the great cover that features the legendary "first man in space" Yuri Gagarin . Yuri getting the red-carpet treatment from the Soviet authorities and probably about to receive a chestful of medals and badges and whatever else that was considered as a mark of prestige in the former CCCP. This is one of several discs that I bought by The Human League . I got this one more than likely because it was on the Fast Product label like other favourites of the time, The Fire Engines and Gang of Four. Seems a bit dated nowadays but I suppose one can look to it as an historical document of sorts. As with the other Fast Product single, 'Being Boiled' -which is quite good, actually- this has to be for me the best thing the band ever did. Didn't bother too much with the band later but I did continue to buy their discs. Stopped after 'Dare' as they were becoming a wee bit too 'pop' for my tastes.

01 the dignity of labour (part 1) these tracks are no longer available
02 the dignity of labour (part 2)
03 the dignity of labour (part 3)
04 the dignity of labour (part 4)

Buy recordings by The Human League here.
Special thanks to Wikipedia.

Links : / blind youth / the black hit of space /

the human league cabaret voltaire the fire engines gang of four fast product yuri gagarin soviet union cccp simon reynolds rip it up and start again

cabaret voltaire - 1974 - 1976

Cabaret Voltaire
"1974-76"
Industrial Records IRC 35
(k7, UK 1980)
Re-released on
The Grey Area Of Mute US
CABS 015 (CD, UK 1992)


cabaret voltaire
1974-1976

Following up on the previous post, in which I mentioned a rare and limited edition cassette by Cabaret Voltaire, I got a message and link a from orang squeezo where you can download a copy of another highly desirable object. A recording which includes some of the stuff available on the legendary Limited Edition cassette. Anyone who wants a copy should link here. Thank you very much orang squeezo for the link to this essential recording for all Cabs fans.

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