ANN ARBOR SOUL CLUB - Friday, September 3 @ Blind Pig
*** Robert Wells, Brad Hales, Breck Bunce & Aaron Anderson play the finest Northern Soul, r&b, modern, Motown, etc. you will never hear on the radio or pretty much anywhere else. Not only that but MR. FINE WINE himself will be guest DJ'n!!
Blind Pig / 208 S. First, A2 / 9:30PM / $5
CINEMA BBQ IV: VHS METAL PIZZA - Saturday, September 4 @ Burton Theatre
*** HOTT LAVA and Burton Theatre team-up for the outdoor Burton event of the summer -- an all-VHS double feature! Heavy Metal and Decline of Western Civilization Pt. II: The Metal Years + shorts by HOTT LAVA on VHS + Forest Juziuk DJs + Supino Pizzeria provides the food.
Burton Theatre / 3420 Cass Avenue, Detroit / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/cYXfDC
JON MUELLER - Monday, September 6 @ Canterbury House
*** Powerful experimental percussionist Jon Mueller of COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and VOLCANO CHOIR (with Bon Iver) brings a righteous new piece of music to town in support of his upcoming Type Records release. His last album, Physical Changes, was an amazingly well-received CD/LP/DVD mammoth that received accolades from Pitchfork among others.
Canterbury House / 721 E Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/9iio4d
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Nigeria Specials, Tropicalia, Matthew Dear and more!
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE 2xLP+BOOK / CD+BOOK
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA DISCO FUNK SPECIAL 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a TROPICALIA BRASILIAN 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "Mixing Psychedelic Rock, avant-garde musique concrete , Samba, Funk and Soul, the late 1960s revolutionary Tropicalia movement is distinguished by amazing work from Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, Gal Costa and more." This comp is crucial! On SOUL JAZZ.
MATTHEW DEAR Black City LP+CD / CD
*** "Black City is Matthew Dear’s third album on Ghostly International, and it’s his darkest and most engrossing work to date."
JESUS & MARY CHAIN Darklands LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ORCHESTRE MOPTI Les Meilleurs Souvenirs De La 1ere Biennale Artistique... LP
*** "Recorded in 1970, The Regional Orchestra of Mopti was a hypnotic band featuring electric guitars & a large horn section. A serene and droning record that is both sorrowful & celebratory."
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA DISCO FUNK SPECIAL 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a TROPICALIA BRASILIAN 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "Mixing Psychedelic Rock, avant-garde musique concrete , Samba, Funk and Soul, the late 1960s revolutionary Tropicalia movement is distinguished by amazing work from Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, Gal Costa and more." This comp is crucial! On SOUL JAZZ.
MATTHEW DEAR Black City LP+CD / CD
*** "Black City is Matthew Dear’s third album on Ghostly International, and it’s his darkest and most engrossing work to date."
JESUS & MARY CHAIN Darklands LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
ORCHESTRE MOPTI Les Meilleurs Souvenirs De La 1ere Biennale Artistique... LP
*** "Recorded in 1970, The Regional Orchestra of Mopti was a hypnotic band featuring electric guitars & a large horn section. A serene and droning record that is both sorrowful & celebratory."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Group Bombino, Eels, Gainsbourg & Birkin, Nigeria Specials, !!! and more
v/a BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a HORSE MEAT DISCO 2xLP / 2xCD
*** "Following the label's acclaimed 'disco not disco' and 'disco italia' releases during 2008- 9, strut teams up with one of london's leading disco collectives, horse meat disco, for their debut comp.
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE 2xLP+BOOK / CD+BOOK
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA AFROBEAT SPECIAL CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a PSYCH-FUNK 101 CD
*** RECOMMENDED An incredible compilation of late 1960s/early '70s obscure international psychedelic funk with an emphasis on the psychedelic, Psych-Funk 101 is a dark & awesome combo of fried organs, heavy bass, crack drummers, and mind-bending guitar.
v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol 1: Teach Me To Monkey CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A raucous and potentially life-changing comp of '60s R&B compiled by renowned DJ Mr. Fine Wine ("Downtown Soulville," WFMU) encompassing crazy dances, intense guitar instrumentals, inspired forays into mind-altering whimsy, timeless odes to male horniness, and hook-filled, honest-to-goodness love songs."
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Staggering, exhilarating Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. A Jamaican secession from London mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel." On HONEST JON'S.
!!! (CHK CHK CHK) Strange Weather, Isn't It? CD
*** "!!!'s brooding yet somehow poppiest, most immediate record yet, texturally rich and filled with deep, galvanizing grooves with a dark undercurrent running through the record that acts as a counterpoint to the glittering surfaces."
COTTON JONES Tall Hours In The Glowstream CD
*** "Tall Hours finds Cotton Jones reigning in the songs, for a more succinct pop feel. The resulting sounds are rich and charmingly lo-fi, full of vivid imagery and gorgeous vocal harmonies."
MATTHEW DEAR Black City LP+CD / CD
*** "Black City is Matthew Dear’s third album on Ghostly International, and it’s his darkest and most engrossing work to date."
EELS Tomorrow Morning CD
*** "A bright and reflective piece conflicted by using the cold sound of electronic melodies and an array of loops and drum machines yet still positive and uplifting." Okay!
FENN O'BERG In Stereo CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE BIRKIN Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg CD
*** "Digitally remastered edition of this 1969 sexually exaggerated classic from French singer, songwriter and entertainer Serge Gainsbourg and his muse, British vocalist and actress Jane Birkin."
GROUP BOMBINO Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Group Bombino is the latest salvo from the revolutionary Agadez music scene. One half of the album is an unplugged selection of songs sung among the dunes, camels and stars of the Tenere desert. The last five tracks demonstrate the electric fury of the full band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics with a raw, garage sound, back beat percussion, all swirling in extended trance rock moves."
PRINS THOMAS Prins Thomas 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, kraut-rocky, mind-mushing tracks, perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself."
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a HORSE MEAT DISCO 2xLP / 2xCD
*** "Following the label's acclaimed 'disco not disco' and 'disco italia' releases during 2008- 9, strut teams up with one of london's leading disco collectives, horse meat disco, for their debut comp.
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE 2xLP+BOOK / CD+BOOK
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA AFROBEAT SPECIAL CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
v/a PSYCH-FUNK 101 CD
*** RECOMMENDED An incredible compilation of late 1960s/early '70s obscure international psychedelic funk with an emphasis on the psychedelic, Psych-Funk 101 is a dark & awesome combo of fried organs, heavy bass, crack drummers, and mind-bending guitar.
v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol 1: Teach Me To Monkey CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A raucous and potentially life-changing comp of '60s R&B compiled by renowned DJ Mr. Fine Wine ("Downtown Soulville," WFMU) encompassing crazy dances, intense guitar instrumentals, inspired forays into mind-altering whimsy, timeless odes to male horniness, and hook-filled, honest-to-goodness love songs."
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Staggering, exhilarating Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. A Jamaican secession from London mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel." On HONEST JON'S.
!!! (CHK CHK CHK) Strange Weather, Isn't It? CD
*** "!!!'s brooding yet somehow poppiest, most immediate record yet, texturally rich and filled with deep, galvanizing grooves with a dark undercurrent running through the record that acts as a counterpoint to the glittering surfaces."
COTTON JONES Tall Hours In The Glowstream CD
*** "Tall Hours finds Cotton Jones reigning in the songs, for a more succinct pop feel. The resulting sounds are rich and charmingly lo-fi, full of vivid imagery and gorgeous vocal harmonies."
MATTHEW DEAR Black City LP+CD / CD
*** "Black City is Matthew Dear’s third album on Ghostly International, and it’s his darkest and most engrossing work to date."
EELS Tomorrow Morning CD
*** "A bright and reflective piece conflicted by using the cold sound of electronic melodies and an array of loops and drum machines yet still positive and uplifting." Okay!
FENN O'BERG In Stereo CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE BIRKIN Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg CD
*** "Digitally remastered edition of this 1969 sexually exaggerated classic from French singer, songwriter and entertainer Serge Gainsbourg and his muse, British vocalist and actress Jane Birkin."
GROUP BOMBINO Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Group Bombino is the latest salvo from the revolutionary Agadez music scene. One half of the album is an unplugged selection of songs sung among the dunes, camels and stars of the Tenere desert. The last five tracks demonstrate the electric fury of the full band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics with a raw, garage sound, back beat percussion, all swirling in extended trance rock moves."
PRINS THOMAS Prins Thomas 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, kraut-rocky, mind-mushing tracks, perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself."
Thursday, August 19, 2010
EVENTS - HOTT LAVA w/ unFact (David Wm Sims of Jesus Lizard) & Noveller (aka Sarah Lipstate)
HOTT LAVA wsg UNFACT and NOVELLER - Friday, August 27 @ Yellow Barn
*** After a year of showcasing new & old experimental film, HL undergoes a complete revamp. This time there are two musical acts: unFact (aka David Wm Sims of JESUS LIZARD) and NOVELLER (aka Sarah Lipstate). In addition to short films by HOTT LAVA, the BURTON THEATRE of Detroit is also curating a set of shorts. More info TBA.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, AA / 9PM / $8 / f'book: http://bit.ly/a0S8W8
*** After a year of showcasing new & old experimental film, HL undergoes a complete revamp. This time there are two musical acts: unFact (aka David Wm Sims of JESUS LIZARD) and NOVELLER (aka Sarah Lipstate). In addition to short films by HOTT LAVA, the BURTON THEATRE of Detroit is also curating a set of shorts. More info TBA.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, AA / 9PM / $8 / f'book: http://bit.ly/a0S8W8
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Have you heard of Animal Collective?
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Oddsac DVD
*** "ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between Animal Collective and Danny Perez. Co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral viewing experience."
*** "ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between Animal Collective and Danny Perez. Co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral viewing experience."
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Numero, Soundway, Soul Jazz + restocks & reissues.
v/a BODDIE RECORDING CO. ACETATE BOX 3x45
*** "Culled from the Boddie Recording Co. massive tape archive, this 3 X 45 box set captures three unknown groups from the late 60s/early 70s. Designed to look and feel like the lathe cut acetates available from this humble Cleveland operation!" Limited to 1000. On NUMERO.
v/a GOOD GOD! Born Again Funk 2xLP / CD
*** "Gospel singers performing pious gospel songs, and devoutly, but doing so amid hot, sweaty, earthy sounds. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention.
v/a I'M GOING WHERE THE WATER DRINKS LIKE WINE: 18 Unsung Bluesmen Rarities 1923-1929 LP / CD
*** "The musicians highlighted here are the blues people that didn't become major figures, either constructed by myth or defined by history. These musicians didn't meet their destiny at a crossroad; no folk or blues label rediscovered them. They were all highly unique & recorded at a young age. For some, we don't even know their real names, since they cut a few 78rpm sides and left for who knows where." On SUB ROSA.
v/a LIGHT: On The South Side BOOK+2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Over 100 of Michael Abramson's photos taken on Chicago's south side in the late 70s in a 132-page hard back book features photos, an ephemera section, and an essay by Nick Hornby plus Pepper's Jukebox, a seventeen track compilation of the kind of funky Chicago blues heard from the stage and the Wurlitizer." Unreal packaging & we've got cheaper than anywhere else in town or online. For more info, consult: http://bit.ly/4Rthp
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Downriver Revival 2xLP+DVD / CD+DVD
*** "Between 1967 and 1981 in Ecorse, Michigan, Felton Williams chronicled gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk. Compiled here are 24 recordings and a DVD of the over 200 sound recordings and a 30 minute featurette on the making of Downriver Revival." On NUMERO.
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Lone Star Lowlands 2xLP / CD
*** "The second in Numero's series of regional studio overviews looks at Beaumont, Texas' Lowland operation. The 22 songs (28 on the LP) run the gamut of southern boogie rock, CSNY clones, British blues thunder, hungover garage-psych, Morricone-esque supper club instrumentals, yacht rock, and what can only be described as Bobby McPherin fronting the Velvet Underground." On NUMERO.
v/a NU YORICA ROOTS!: The Rise Of Latin Music In New York City In The 1960s 2xLP
*** BACK IN PRINT! "Soul Jazz Records' definitive study of New York's Latin music scene of the 1960's featuring all the Latin giants, packed to the rafters with bugalus, mambos, Latin jazz and Latin soul." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a RADIO GALAXIA LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Featuring 10 mind blowing vintage vinyl discoveries from around the psychedelic globe including tracks from Pakistan, Italy, Thailand, Iran, Germany, Spain and Wales." Limited to 1,000.
v/a SAIGON ROCK & SOUL: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "Vietnamese rock, pop and soul sound of the late 1960s & early 1970s, every song is a mini-masterpiece: acid-rock psychedelia, horn- & guitar-drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
ANTONY & FENNESZ Returnal 7"
*** "Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal album come these fabulous versions of the title track from ANTONY and FENNESZ packaged in dazzling artwork by Stephen O'Malley."
BENGA Stop Watching 12"
*** "The new single from one of the major names in the world of dubstep is already a firm favourite in all the leading DJ boxes including Zane Lowe, Mista Jam, Skream, N-Type, Hatcha, Breakage and even the legendary Lee Scratch Perry!"
PASTOR T.L. BARRETT AND THE YOUTH FOR CHRIST CHOIR Like A Ship... (Without A Sail) LP+7"
*** "Chicago pastor/activist T.L. Barrett’s rare LP is one of the holy grails of gospel soul. Self-released in 1971, feat. saxophonist and arranger Gene Barge (Chess Records), Richard Evans, Phil Upchurch and more." On LIGHT IN THE ATTIC.
TRISTRAM CARY It's Time: Works For Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "One of the most important, innovative, influential and almost-forgotten artists of all time, British/Australian electroacoustic composer, Tristram Cary. Without Tristram's inventions and musical experiments, Dr. Who would sound very different. We'd have no VCS3 synthesizers, no Brian Eno, no crazy electronics for Pink Floyd, etc. This is a retrospective of the composer's work, including some of his unreleased experimental music as well." On TRUNK.
ECCENTRIC BREAKS & BEATS CD / LP
*** "An extremely creative fan began to build a mega-mix of his favorite loops, breaks, and vocal snippets from the Numero catalog. Numero turned the tables on the pirate, seized the plates from the pressing plant and released it as the ultimate showcase for our seven years in business."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
ON w/ FENNESZ Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not LP
*** "Third album of abstracted experimental sounds from Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess (Haptic, Pan American), improvised then handed to FENNESZ to rework into intense, slow-building dronescapes, crackle and pulse."
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Returnal LP / CD
*** "Returnal sees Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Mind-blowing triptychs, noise/rhythm excess, calm zones, melancholy most chilling."
ROEDELIUS The Diary Of The Unforgotten LP / CD
*** "Diary, AKA Selbstportrait VI, is a collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 while Hans-Joachium Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (CLUSTER), later joined by Michael Rother (NEU!), lived out on a idyllic country estate. It was here that the windswept character of Selbstportrait VI was laid down in sporadic lo-fi recordings: Roedelius just let the tape machine run, without overdubs."
SKREAM Outside The Box 4xLP / 2xCD
*** "Limited edition 2CD box set with a bonus CD of new Skreamizm tracks. This is Croydon DJ, producer and original dubstepper Skream's highly-anticipated second album. 14 tracks of hip-hop, bass-wobbling dubstep, dreamy electronica, a dark and tribal track with LA ROUX and more."
SPIRITUALIZED Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Originally released in 1997 (on the same day as Radiohead's OK Computer), Spiritualized's third album is a hypnotic, narcotic, psychedelic gospel album full of confessional songs about heartbreak and drug abuse." 180g.
*** "Culled from the Boddie Recording Co. massive tape archive, this 3 X 45 box set captures three unknown groups from the late 60s/early 70s. Designed to look and feel like the lathe cut acetates available from this humble Cleveland operation!" Limited to 1000. On NUMERO.
v/a GOOD GOD! Born Again Funk 2xLP / CD
*** "Gospel singers performing pious gospel songs, and devoutly, but doing so amid hot, sweaty, earthy sounds. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention.
v/a I'M GOING WHERE THE WATER DRINKS LIKE WINE: 18 Unsung Bluesmen Rarities 1923-1929 LP / CD
*** "The musicians highlighted here are the blues people that didn't become major figures, either constructed by myth or defined by history. These musicians didn't meet their destiny at a crossroad; no folk or blues label rediscovered them. They were all highly unique & recorded at a young age. For some, we don't even know their real names, since they cut a few 78rpm sides and left for who knows where." On SUB ROSA.
v/a LIGHT: On The South Side BOOK+2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Over 100 of Michael Abramson's photos taken on Chicago's south side in the late 70s in a 132-page hard back book features photos, an ephemera section, and an essay by Nick Hornby plus Pepper's Jukebox, a seventeen track compilation of the kind of funky Chicago blues heard from the stage and the Wurlitizer." Unreal packaging & we've got cheaper than anywhere else in town or online. For more info, consult: http://bit.ly/4Rthp
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Downriver Revival 2xLP+DVD / CD+DVD
*** "Between 1967 and 1981 in Ecorse, Michigan, Felton Williams chronicled gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk. Compiled here are 24 recordings and a DVD of the over 200 sound recordings and a 30 minute featurette on the making of Downriver Revival." On NUMERO.
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Lone Star Lowlands 2xLP / CD
*** "The second in Numero's series of regional studio overviews looks at Beaumont, Texas' Lowland operation. The 22 songs (28 on the LP) run the gamut of southern boogie rock, CSNY clones, British blues thunder, hungover garage-psych, Morricone-esque supper club instrumentals, yacht rock, and what can only be described as Bobby McPherin fronting the Velvet Underground." On NUMERO.
v/a NU YORICA ROOTS!: The Rise Of Latin Music In New York City In The 1960s 2xLP
*** BACK IN PRINT! "Soul Jazz Records' definitive study of New York's Latin music scene of the 1960's featuring all the Latin giants, packed to the rafters with bugalus, mambos, Latin jazz and Latin soul." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a RADIO GALAXIA LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Featuring 10 mind blowing vintage vinyl discoveries from around the psychedelic globe including tracks from Pakistan, Italy, Thailand, Iran, Germany, Spain and Wales." Limited to 1,000.
v/a SAIGON ROCK & SOUL: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "Vietnamese rock, pop and soul sound of the late 1960s & early 1970s, every song is a mini-masterpiece: acid-rock psychedelia, horn- & guitar-drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.
ANTONY & FENNESZ Returnal 7"
*** "Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal album come these fabulous versions of the title track from ANTONY and FENNESZ packaged in dazzling artwork by Stephen O'Malley."
BENGA Stop Watching 12"
*** "The new single from one of the major names in the world of dubstep is already a firm favourite in all the leading DJ boxes including Zane Lowe, Mista Jam, Skream, N-Type, Hatcha, Breakage and even the legendary Lee Scratch Perry!"
PASTOR T.L. BARRETT AND THE YOUTH FOR CHRIST CHOIR Like A Ship... (Without A Sail) LP+7"
*** "Chicago pastor/activist T.L. Barrett’s rare LP is one of the holy grails of gospel soul. Self-released in 1971, feat. saxophonist and arranger Gene Barge (Chess Records), Richard Evans, Phil Upchurch and more." On LIGHT IN THE ATTIC.
TRISTRAM CARY It's Time: Works For Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "One of the most important, innovative, influential and almost-forgotten artists of all time, British/Australian electroacoustic composer, Tristram Cary. Without Tristram's inventions and musical experiments, Dr. Who would sound very different. We'd have no VCS3 synthesizers, no Brian Eno, no crazy electronics for Pink Floyd, etc. This is a retrospective of the composer's work, including some of his unreleased experimental music as well." On TRUNK.
ECCENTRIC BREAKS & BEATS CD / LP
*** "An extremely creative fan began to build a mega-mix of his favorite loops, breaks, and vocal snippets from the Numero catalog. Numero turned the tables on the pirate, seized the plates from the pressing plant and released it as the ultimate showcase for our seven years in business."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
ON w/ FENNESZ Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not LP
*** "Third album of abstracted experimental sounds from Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess (Haptic, Pan American), improvised then handed to FENNESZ to rework into intense, slow-building dronescapes, crackle and pulse."
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Returnal LP / CD
*** "Returnal sees Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Mind-blowing triptychs, noise/rhythm excess, calm zones, melancholy most chilling."
ROEDELIUS The Diary Of The Unforgotten LP / CD
*** "Diary, AKA Selbstportrait VI, is a collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 while Hans-Joachium Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (CLUSTER), later joined by Michael Rother (NEU!), lived out on a idyllic country estate. It was here that the windswept character of Selbstportrait VI was laid down in sporadic lo-fi recordings: Roedelius just let the tape machine run, without overdubs."
SKREAM Outside The Box 4xLP / 2xCD
*** "Limited edition 2CD box set with a bonus CD of new Skreamizm tracks. This is Croydon DJ, producer and original dubstepper Skream's highly-anticipated second album. 14 tracks of hip-hop, bass-wobbling dubstep, dreamy electronica, a dark and tribal track with LA ROUX and more."
SPIRITUALIZED Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Originally released in 1997 (on the same day as Radiohead's OK Computer), Spiritualized's third album is a hypnotic, narcotic, psychedelic gospel album full of confessional songs about heartbreak and drug abuse." 180g.
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Brian Wilson, Skream, Oneohtrix Point Never, Soundway, Sub Rose and more
v/a I'M GOING WHERE THE WATER DRINKS LIKE WINE: 18 Unsung Bluesmen Rarities 1923-1929 LP / CD
*** "The musicians highlighted here are the blues people that didn't become major figures, either constructed by myth or defined by history. These musicians didn't meet their destiny at a crossroad; no folk or blues label rediscovered them. They were all highly unique & recorded at a young age. For some, we don't even know their real names, since they cut a few 78rpm sides and left for who knows where." On SUB ROSA.
v/a PALENQUE PALENQUE : Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia CD
*** "21 pulsating tracks from the rise of the percussion-heavy champeta sound, born out of psychedelic Afro, Latin & Caribbean music inspired by the DJs of the 1970s onward. A magical era, a radical movement, some of the world's most eccentric and highly addictive modern dance music." On SOUNDWAY.
TRISTRAM CARY It's Time: Works For Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "One of the most important, innovative, influential and almost-forgotten artists of all time, British/Australian electroacoustic composer, Tristram Cary. Without Tristram's inventions and musical experiments, Dr. Who would sound very different. We'd have no VCS3 synthesizers, no Brian Eno, no crazy electronics for Pink Floyd, etc. This is a retrospective of the composer's work, including some of his unreleased experimental music as well." On TRUNK.
ECCENTRIC BREAKS & BEATS CD / LP
*** "An extremely creative fan began to build a mega-mix of his favorite loops, breaks, and vocal snippets from the Numero catalog. Numero turned the tables on the pirate, seized the plates from the pressing plant and released it as the ultimate showcase for our seven years in business."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
KENNY GRAHAM & HIS SATELLITES Moondog And Suncat Suites CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A very rare LP of British jazz interpretations of MOONDOG originals engineered by a very young JOE MEEK is an exotic, ethereal and timeless album that will inspire, haunt, beguile and charm for many years to come." On TRUNK.
ANGUS MACLISE Cloud Doctrine 2xCD
*** "159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, and soundtracks from the archives of composer, poet, occultist, calligrapher, and original VELVET UNDERGROUND drummer Angus Maclise from 1963-1976, featuring Tony Conrad and John Cale among others." On SUB ROSA.
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Returnal LP / CD
*** "Returnal sees Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Mind-blowing triptychs, noise/rhythm excess, calm zones, melancholy most chilling."
ROEDELIUS Lustwandel CD
*** "The third studio album by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released by Sky Records in 1981 is a series of chamber music pieces, with grand piano solos taking center stage in some places, archaised percussion patterns in others."
ROEDELIUS The Diary Of The Unforgotten LP / CD
*** "Diary, AKA Selbstportrait VI, is a collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 while Hans-Joachium Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (CLUSTER), later joined by Michael Rother (NEU!), lived out on a idyllic country estate. It was here that the windswept character of Selbstportrait VI was laid down in sporadic lo-fi recordings: Roedelius just let the tape machine run, without overdubs."
CHARANJIT SINGH Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat CD
*** "Recorded in 1982 in India, 5 years before the first acid house record, a few hundred copies of the LP were pressed, performed on the type of synths that would later define acid house, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies."
SKREAM Outside The Box 4xLP / 2xCD
*** "Limited edition 2CD box set with a bonus CD of new Skreamizm tracks. This is Croydon DJ, producer and original dubstepper Skream's highly-anticipated second album. 14 tracks of hip-hop, bass-wobbling dubstep, dreamy electronica, a dark and tribal track with LA ROUX and more."
BRIAN WILSON Reimagines Gershwin CD
*** "The quintessential signature sound of Brian Wilson elegantly combined with the timeless classic melodies of the Gershwin Brothers."
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*** "The musicians highlighted here are the blues people that didn't become major figures, either constructed by myth or defined by history. These musicians didn't meet their destiny at a crossroad; no folk or blues label rediscovered them. They were all highly unique & recorded at a young age. For some, we don't even know their real names, since they cut a few 78rpm sides and left for who knows where." On SUB ROSA.
v/a PALENQUE PALENQUE : Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia CD
*** "21 pulsating tracks from the rise of the percussion-heavy champeta sound, born out of psychedelic Afro, Latin & Caribbean music inspired by the DJs of the 1970s onward. A magical era, a radical movement, some of the world's most eccentric and highly addictive modern dance music." On SOUNDWAY.
TRISTRAM CARY It's Time: Works For Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "One of the most important, innovative, influential and almost-forgotten artists of all time, British/Australian electroacoustic composer, Tristram Cary. Without Tristram's inventions and musical experiments, Dr. Who would sound very different. We'd have no VCS3 synthesizers, no Brian Eno, no crazy electronics for Pink Floyd, etc. This is a retrospective of the composer's work, including some of his unreleased experimental music as well." On TRUNK.
ECCENTRIC BREAKS & BEATS CD / LP
*** "An extremely creative fan began to build a mega-mix of his favorite loops, breaks, and vocal snippets from the Numero catalog. Numero turned the tables on the pirate, seized the plates from the pressing plant and released it as the ultimate showcase for our seven years in business."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
KENNY GRAHAM & HIS SATELLITES Moondog And Suncat Suites CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A very rare LP of British jazz interpretations of MOONDOG originals engineered by a very young JOE MEEK is an exotic, ethereal and timeless album that will inspire, haunt, beguile and charm for many years to come." On TRUNK.
ANGUS MACLISE Cloud Doctrine 2xCD
*** "159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, and soundtracks from the archives of composer, poet, occultist, calligrapher, and original VELVET UNDERGROUND drummer Angus Maclise from 1963-1976, featuring Tony Conrad and John Cale among others." On SUB ROSA.
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Returnal LP / CD
*** "Returnal sees Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Mind-blowing triptychs, noise/rhythm excess, calm zones, melancholy most chilling."
ROEDELIUS Lustwandel CD
*** "The third studio album by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released by Sky Records in 1981 is a series of chamber music pieces, with grand piano solos taking center stage in some places, archaised percussion patterns in others."
ROEDELIUS The Diary Of The Unforgotten LP / CD
*** "Diary, AKA Selbstportrait VI, is a collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 while Hans-Joachium Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (CLUSTER), later joined by Michael Rother (NEU!), lived out on a idyllic country estate. It was here that the windswept character of Selbstportrait VI was laid down in sporadic lo-fi recordings: Roedelius just let the tape machine run, without overdubs."
CHARANJIT SINGH Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat CD
*** "Recorded in 1982 in India, 5 years before the first acid house record, a few hundred copies of the LP were pressed, performed on the type of synths that would later define acid house, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies."
SKREAM Outside The Box 4xLP / 2xCD
*** "Limited edition 2CD box set with a bonus CD of new Skreamizm tracks. This is Croydon DJ, producer and original dubstepper Skream's highly-anticipated second album. 14 tracks of hip-hop, bass-wobbling dubstep, dreamy electronica, a dark and tribal track with LA ROUX and more."
BRIAN WILSON Reimagines Gershwin CD
*** "The quintessential signature sound of Brian Wilson elegantly combined with the timeless classic melodies of the Gershwin Brothers."
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
EVENTS - Music + Film x's 2: Patient To Patient + HOTT LAVA
PATIENT TO PATIENT - Saturday, August 14 @ Liberty Plaza
*** Encore performance of the film/music collabo created by Ryan Howard (City Center) and Sean Patrick (HOTT LAVA). Last performance of this piece ever and in the outdoors nonetheless. Ann Arbor doesn't get cooler than this.
Liberty Plaza / between and / sunset / FREE / f'book: http://bit.ly/cGqCqZ
HOTT LAVA wsg UNFACT and NOVELLER - Friday, August 27 @ Yellow Barn
*** After a year of showcasing new & old experimental film, HL undergoes a complete revamp. This time there are two musical acts: unFact (aka David Wm Sims of JESUS LIZARD) and NOVELLER (aka Sarah Lipstate). In addition to short films by HOTT LAVA, the BURTON THEATRE of Detroit is also curating a set of shorts. More info TBA.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, AA / 9PM / $8
*** Encore performance of the film/music collabo created by Ryan Howard (City Center) and Sean Patrick (HOTT LAVA). Last performance of this piece ever and in the outdoors nonetheless. Ann Arbor doesn't get cooler than this.
Liberty Plaza / between and / sunset / FREE / f'book: http://bit.ly/cGqCqZ
HOTT LAVA wsg UNFACT and NOVELLER - Friday, August 27 @ Yellow Barn
*** After a year of showcasing new & old experimental film, HL undergoes a complete revamp. This time there are two musical acts: unFact (aka David Wm Sims of JESUS LIZARD) and NOVELLER (aka Sarah Lipstate). In addition to short films by HOTT LAVA, the BURTON THEATRE of Detroit is also curating a set of shorts. More info TBA.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, AA / 9PM / $8
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - DEV-O
DEVO Live 1980 DVD/CD
*** Sweetly priced Target Video dualdisc (DVD on one side, CD on the other) -- 20 jams from around Freedom Of Choice. Rules!
*** Sweetly priced Target Video dualdisc (DVD on one side, CD on the other) -- 20 jams from around Freedom Of Choice. Rules!
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Arcade Fire, Billowing, Neu!, The National + more
ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BILLOWING Cruel Summer LP
*** RECOMMENDED "FRED THOMAS (City Center, Swimsuit, Saturday Looks Good To Me) and SCOTT DEROCHE (Beak Full of Rubies, Lullaby Family) mix dub heartbeat with unholy footsteps in the hallway and you have some kinda' early 2000's Black Dice filtered through an ECM style electro-acoustic veil w/ an undertone of Goblin-style soundtracks or the pained psychedelia of a heavy Jodorowsky influence."
FUNKADELIC Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This Is Happening 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE NATIONAL Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers LP
THE NATIONAL The National LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! The National's first two albums get the vinyl treatment for the first time ever.
NEU! Neu! LP
*** 2010 repress! Neu! 4 is on the way too.
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BILLOWING Cruel Summer LP
*** RECOMMENDED "FRED THOMAS (City Center, Swimsuit, Saturday Looks Good To Me) and SCOTT DEROCHE (Beak Full of Rubies, Lullaby Family) mix dub heartbeat with unholy footsteps in the hallway and you have some kinda' early 2000's Black Dice filtered through an ECM style electro-acoustic veil w/ an undertone of Goblin-style soundtracks or the pained psychedelia of a heavy Jodorowsky influence."
FUNKADELIC Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This Is Happening 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE NATIONAL Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers LP
THE NATIONAL The National LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! The National's first two albums get the vinyl treatment for the first time ever.
NEU! Neu! LP
*** 2010 repress! Neu! 4 is on the way too.
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Cloud Cuckooland, Arcade Fire, Best Coast, Madlib, Wavves + more
v/a CLOUD CUCKOOLAND CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The ideologies of rebellion, rule breaking and risk taking, which would provide the foundation for the German rock explosion affectionately known as krautrock, were sewn into Kuckuck Records founder Eckart Rahn's DNA. Most of the music on this compilation is pre-1974, focusing on Kuckuck's prog rock years that would be filed under the kosmiche or krautrock banner."
v/a DOUBLE COOKIN' Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals CD
*** "Kent's first ever all-instrumental collection brings together some of the most popular 'wordless wonders' to have livened up Northern Soul dance floors as well as a handful of instrumental versions of long-time vocal favourites that were created especially for and are mostly exclusive to Double Cookin'."
v/a NEXT STOP SOWETO VOL. 3: Giants, Ministers and Makers: Jazz In South Africa 1963-1978 2xCD
*** "A long overdue retrospective of the rich jazz scene that happened in South Africa from the early 60s to mid-80s while many major artists lived in exile abroad and South Africa's finest jazz players remained."
ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs 2xLP / CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Poised to conquer the world and simultaneously piss off Wayne Coyne, Arcade Fire have yet to disappoint their listening republic.
BEST COAST Crazy For You CD
*** "Hazy, dreamy and genre-defining, this collection of songs proves that the incredible amount of blog and press hype for Best Coast is more than warrented. Ultimate summer record and record of the year?"
BUDOS BAND The Budos Band III CD
*** "If the menacing album art, which features a cobra primed for the attack, is any indication of the music itself, we can expect an all out assault of the senses, with a tendency towards the venomous and psychedelic."
EL-P WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMegaMixxx3 CD
*** "Collecting short and to the point songs (ala Donuts) that were meticulously crafted yet never found a home on a proper release, EL-P creates a dark, dystopian sonic universe filled with ominous basslines and thumping, punishing drums."
ESHAM Suspended Animation CD
*** Juggalo4Life3000 gave Suspended Animation 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and said "This album is mad fresh I love it."
NINA HAGEN Nunsexmonkrock + Nina Hagen Band Ep CD
*** "NunSexMonkRock is the first solo album by punk singer-songwriter Nina Hagen after the two albums she made with the Nina Hagen Band."
MADLIB Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz CD
*** "High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis's Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib's craft. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from?"
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Rated R - Deluxe Edition 2xCD
*** "QOTSA marks the 10th anniversary of 'Rated R' with the expanded, two-CD Rated Rx - Deluxe Edition. Added to the original album is a second disc with six B-sides and the band's 2000 Reading Festival concert--featuring nine previously."
WAVVES King Of The Beach CD
*** "An adventurous and ambitious record that cuts deeper into the bleeding throat zatharsis and '60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation."
*** RECOMMENDED "The ideologies of rebellion, rule breaking and risk taking, which would provide the foundation for the German rock explosion affectionately known as krautrock, were sewn into Kuckuck Records founder Eckart Rahn's DNA. Most of the music on this compilation is pre-1974, focusing on Kuckuck's prog rock years that would be filed under the kosmiche or krautrock banner."
v/a DOUBLE COOKIN' Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals CD
*** "Kent's first ever all-instrumental collection brings together some of the most popular 'wordless wonders' to have livened up Northern Soul dance floors as well as a handful of instrumental versions of long-time vocal favourites that were created especially for and are mostly exclusive to Double Cookin'."
v/a NEXT STOP SOWETO VOL. 3: Giants, Ministers and Makers: Jazz In South Africa 1963-1978 2xCD
*** "A long overdue retrospective of the rich jazz scene that happened in South Africa from the early 60s to mid-80s while many major artists lived in exile abroad and South Africa's finest jazz players remained."
ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs 2xLP / CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Poised to conquer the world and simultaneously piss off Wayne Coyne, Arcade Fire have yet to disappoint their listening republic.
BEST COAST Crazy For You CD
*** "Hazy, dreamy and genre-defining, this collection of songs proves that the incredible amount of blog and press hype for Best Coast is more than warrented. Ultimate summer record and record of the year?"
BUDOS BAND The Budos Band III CD
*** "If the menacing album art, which features a cobra primed for the attack, is any indication of the music itself, we can expect an all out assault of the senses, with a tendency towards the venomous and psychedelic."
EL-P WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMegaMixxx3 CD
*** "Collecting short and to the point songs (ala Donuts) that were meticulously crafted yet never found a home on a proper release, EL-P creates a dark, dystopian sonic universe filled with ominous basslines and thumping, punishing drums."
ESHAM Suspended Animation CD
*** Juggalo4Life3000 gave Suspended Animation 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and said "This album is mad fresh I love it."
NINA HAGEN Nunsexmonkrock + Nina Hagen Band Ep CD
*** "NunSexMonkRock is the first solo album by punk singer-songwriter Nina Hagen after the two albums she made with the Nina Hagen Band."
MADLIB Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz CD
*** "High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis's Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib's craft. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from?"
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Rated R - Deluxe Edition 2xCD
*** "QOTSA marks the 10th anniversary of 'Rated R' with the expanded, two-CD Rated Rx - Deluxe Edition. Added to the original album is a second disc with six B-sides and the band's 2000 Reading Festival concert--featuring nine previously."
WAVVES King Of The Beach CD
*** "An adventurous and ambitious record that cuts deeper into the bleeding throat zatharsis and '60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation."
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