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It is really, really good, but I still think the height of his sound is the title cut of Thé Au Harem D'Archimède and the track "Hello Hallo" from that album. The way that those tracks drift in slowly and then lock in about three minutes in is totally unique. Has anyone heard the new James...

Second B2-Unit.

Oral records in Canada reissues this and I picked it up from them...it is really incredible. It sounds like an incredibly austere version of the Moebius, Roedelius records on Sky. I definitely hear the Basic Channel connection, esp. on the first cut, also in the general "livingness" of the...

Dammit. Why are his records so expensive as of late? The older Sound Signature 12"s could be had for cheap (at least here in the US). I've played the Ugly Edits records in the store and I liked a few of them a lot but I just can't justify shelling out 18$(US) for a new 12". What is the deal?

yes, and author of Audio-Vision which is well-worth reading. Yeah, Requiem has to go hands-down as one of the most unsettling pieces of post-war music recorded. I like the idea of this series combining old and new work together. However, my one complaint is the exclusion of Herbert Brun or...

I've been trying to track this one down for ages....

Same SND. Mark Fell and Mat Steel. Also recorded under the name Blir. Were they completely ignored? It seems to me that Makesndcassette and Systemsmedley made a big impression in certain circles when they came out. They took minimalism to the point of stasis. Mark Fell's solo release on...

I don't think if Oval ever positioned themselves as a break from post-rock only partially because post-rock wasn't coined as a concept until after the release of "Wohnton," "Systemisch," and "94diskont." The impression I got from interviews is that Oval were more interested in making music...

Wasn't there that truly cringeworthy KRS-One rap from the first track on "Out of Time" by R.E.M.? Totally out of place...

Here's a good list of forthcoming events to give you an idea of what is going on currently house and techno-wise: http://www.chi-tech.org/

Right. There's also the Holographic Mothers ep by Matt John on the excellent net-label Textone with the track "Ketamina." http://www.textone.org/index.php?fuseaction=releases.show_release&rel_id=txtn017

The new Dandy Jack album on Perlon is in this vein and quite excellent. "Arabs in the Dessert" is an astounding track.

I think this came out on Sub Rosa? Agreed with the exception of the final volume (#4) which is 90% great music. Somehow the fates came together on that one and managed to extract excellent tracks from artists whom I usually dislike like Terre Thaemlitz.

Yeah, that one's really excellent. The thing that always surprised me about it--and something that i had always heard--is that Levan's mixing skills were not that great. There are clear fuck-ups: beat-matching is off, a couple of weird transitions. However, it doesn't really matter because...

Mailman is really excellent. Absurd, funny, serious and wonderful, especially because the protagonist is narrated not as "he" or by his given name, but as "Mailman." Definitely worth reading.

Sadly, no.

Holy shit! I've never heard of this, but it sounds like it might be fantastic. I always thought that the Spooky Tooth record was, well, less-than-good. However, Henry's Michel Colombier collaboration is sublime, so his forays into to pop do hold potential. I imagine that the sound circa...

Chion's Requiem is subtly one of the more unsettling/disturbing pieces of music I've ever heard; I would argue that a good portion of Steve Stapleton's career is built on attempting to emulate its atmosphere. It's quite nice especially if you're a connoisseur of panic-inducing music. Chion's...

Of INA-GRM in particular, to start: "L'oeuvre Musicale"--Pierre Schaeffer "De Natura Sonorum"--Bernard Parmeghiani "Tautologos"--Luc Ferrari "Diamorphoses-Concret PH-Orient Occident"--Xenakis "L'Experience Acoustique"--Francois Bayle Those are sort of the classics released on that label. I...

The binder does look a bit silly, but... Wow! The first 2 records in this series are superb. I was expecting to dismiss them out of hand, but I heard excerpts online and picked them up immediately. Certainly they are like classic early 90s afx, but they also follow these strange directions...