Release date 16 June 2008 on room40.
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Ueno, along with his partner Saya, is one of the core members of Tenniscoats, who’ve released a number of fantastic discs of straight-up melodic to the core sing-songing joy. 2007 saw the release of Tenniscoat’s ‘Totemo Aimasho’ for room40 and ‘Tan Tan Therapy’ for Häpna/Headz.

In addition to his contributions to the Tenniscoats mothership, Ueno has released a string of solo releases, most of which explore his engaging approach to the guitar. ‘Two Things Always Happen Simultaneously’ released in 2003 on Majikick as a cdr and then re-issued two years later as a ‘proper’ CD on Commune-Disc lays the foundations. Whilst its more explicitly a guitar record than whats goes down on Sui-Gin, the Fahey-esque finger-picking that would otherwise plant him firmly within the Takoma school (Ueno‘s cat is not called ‘Fahey’ without reason) is wilfully offset by Ueno’s technique of recording multiple overdubs without recourse to the original.

There might be a little of that on ‘Sui-Gin’ (Japanese for mercury), too. Either way, there is an ongoing slippage between intention and accident in the complex mesh of notes, and Ueno sends himself further away from any superficial 12- string takoma purism by plugging his guitar into a moog ring-mod and completing erasing its original sound.

What you hear on ‘Sui-Gin’ is 9 tracks of alien beauty that sit somewhere between Derek Bailey and Mouse on Mars’ ‘Instrumentals’ LP. Takashi Ueno plays 12 string acoustic guitar & Moog ring modulator.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Having previously released two albums and an e.p. for Moth Records, Blaubac follows up his disco_r.dance compilation appearance with 3 new tracks of his distinctive jazz-infused electronics. Beautifully detailed and moody atmospheres that will appeal to all those who appreciate quality electronic music.

3 inch CD limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Richard Bultitude, who has previously produced releases for Combat, Erratica and SCSI-AV, presents an e.p. of dark, dubstep-influenced electronics. Totalling 20 minutes runtime, Point B seamlessly melds together the five tracks on offer here.

3 inch CD limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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French artist/musician Andreas Marchal curates the long-running mp3 label, Vaatican Records, and produces his own music under many different pseudonyms including Qualité Prix, Peter Percept and Ian Breno. As Fronce de Bonque he makes his disco_r.dance debut with six tracks highlighting his playful and inventive style of electronic music making. The e.p. comes complete with his own unique and distinctive artwork.

3 inch CD limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Mothboy has been producing quality, bass-heavy electronics for many years now and is currently recording for Ad Noiseam. Always keen to collaborate, he joins forces here with long time friend Gus Startslow to offer up something a little more experimental / schizophrenic….

"Basically we did a ten minute mix where we made a minute each, then megamixed it together… we took the parts for the mix apart and made a 5 minute mix each."

3 inch CD limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Formed in London 1998 by songwriter Justin Paton, Now make inventive and exotic music with ever shifting instrumentation and styles. They have recently released an album for Pickled Egg "Frisbee Hotpot", contributed to numerous compilations, collaborated with Damo Suzuki and supported bands such as Faust, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Tunng, amongst many others.

For this release, Now deliver a 9 track mini-album, full of engaging and inspiring kraut-folkiness.

3 inch CD limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Same Actor's Chris Cook has previously released material for Wrong Music under the name Hot Roddy. His first release under the Same Actor moniker was "Sharp Edges" for Bip-Hop in 2005. For his disco_r.dance debut, Same Actor offers up a five track e.p. of sitar and detuned acoustics, fused with atmospheric electronic treatments.

Limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 9 June 2008 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Kwerk follows up a track on the disco_r.dance compilation and numerous enthusiastically -received appearances at disco_r.dance live events, with his debut e.p. These six tracks perfectly highlight Kwerk's energetic fusion of dancehall, drum n bass and electronic styles. Definitely of particular interest to fans of Kid606's Shockout label / Death$ucker / The Bug etc.

Limited to 150 copies worldwide, come with full-colour artwork and booklets and all are wrapped in a generic disco_r.dance sticker.

Release date 2 June 2008 on room40.
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On 11 Easy Pieces, his first widely available solo LP, Craig offers an intimate yet robust collection o works recorded on an array of cheap analogue keyboards, including his instrument of choice the Casio MT40. Recorded to cassette at the kitchen table between 2003-04, these recordings have been lovingly toasted by valve tubes during mastering to reveal not only a true sense of analog adventurousness inherent to Craig's mode of operation, but also his ability to unveil a rare tonal richness from his instruments. Leighton Craig casts out an audio net and collects together an essential haul of tonal gradients, phased rhythm and collapsed chordal interplays. 11 Easy Pieces (and two somewhat less 'easy' works), is a warm collection of distorted hymnals and blurred geometry - all of them visionary in their purity and timbral sensibilities.

Release date 26 May 2008 on Rump Recordings.
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Noise and Silence. The band Svartbag is an entity full of contradictions. Like its namesake the gull, Svartbag is a free bird, but also a scavenger with a black back. An outsider impelled by an underlying primitive force. A black sheep. Elements, that on the surface seem violent and indigestible for everyday people are, in the hands of Svartbag, transformed into something oddly fascinating, alluring and soothing.

With the use of guitars, loop-pedals and analogue effects, Svartbag creates a minimalist instrumental music, where generated coincidences are intuitively integrated in a repetitive universe of drones. The references are clear: krautrock (Neu/Can/Popol Vuh), spacerock (Spacemen 3), noise rock (VU/Sonic Youth), and electronic pioneers like Terry Riley, Brian Eno and Suicide.

In 1996, an ad in a Buy and Sell paper brought the two guitarists, A.REX and Niels Ladefoged together. Under the pretence of composing rocksongs for their band, they spent time in rehearsal exploring their gear, and soon realised that they could generate incredible moods using simple effects.

In 2005, the multi-musician Peter Kyed joined the duo and contributed with a more electronic sound through simple drum programming and sampled real sounds. Occasionally, the trio becomes a quartet when joined by Andreas Hauer-Jensen (Düreforsög/Mit Nye Band/The Bleeder Group) on drums, which can be heard on 4 of the albums 5 tracks. Furthermore, Peter Peter (ex-Sort Sol/Bleeder Group) gives a guest performance on the homage to The Factory, “Billy Name”, in which faint voice-overs from some of Andy Warhol’s sidekicks from the sparkling Factory period at the end of the 1960’s, can be heard.

The long tracks and evocative patterns of sound unveil dark and ominous states of mind, which are consistently relieved by confident tones and minimalist melodies. The two guitars alternate between performing duets and complementing each other, while bass drones, real sounds, and intermittent, jazzy drums and echoes create hypnotic rhythms.

Svartbag’s debut album has been in development for a long time, not least because of the band’s impromptu working method. The band finds their point of departure in the philosophy that the equipment itself knows what it can and will do - which makes it the band’s job to pick, refine and arrange the manifestations which are brought about by the equipment itself.

Release date 23 May 2008 on Brumtone.
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The style is ambient layered analogue and electronic trio jazz. Easy listening, easy to like, but still with a complexity of layers that brings out new details every time you listen to it!

Even though you hear influences from bands and musicians like The Necks, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock and Abida Parveen, The Surface Constructors brings in fresh new inventions and dímensions to the piano trio format on this their first release.

Live at the living room is the first session ever by The Surface Constructors. It’s 100% improvised and live, only mixing and cutting into smaller pieces is done after the recording. After a short briefing by August Engkilde explaining the some basic ideas, those 3 fantastic musicians played those 11 beautiful pieces within a 2 days session in the living room of August’s house. The common reactions from all three band members after the recording was “ I never played any music like this before, it really has something special”, and that has to be understood by having in mind that TSC is a constellation of very skilled and excellent musicians that on their C.V. among others have played and recorded with lots of great artists like Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Chris Speed, Tim Berne, Django Bates, Mold, Andrea Parkins, Pole, Atomheart, Senor Coconut, Patrick Pulsinger, Flanger, Burnt Friedman, Ignacio Berroa and Lew Soloff.

The basic ideas from August was: Don’t be afraid of playing the same phrase for a long time, don’t be afraid if the track ends up being an hour long, please no “jazz” clichés, look at your self as a part of a multi layered picture where each layer can be a picture of it’s own.

This is the first release in the brumtone series of open improvisations. The CD comes housed in a clear plastic bag with card inlay

Release date 12 May 2008 on Rune Grammofon.
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Third album from a free spirited power trio that should need no long introduction by now.

The hand in glove rhythm section of Nilssen-Love and Håker Flaten has graced a large number of recordings over the years. Björkenheim has been around since recording with Edvard Vesala and Krakatau for ECM back in the days. As with their previous albums Scorch Trio and Luggumt, Brolt is an old school analogue recording, meaning the band set up in one room, instruments and amps miked up with vintage microphones, playing live and recording to analogue multitrack tape with no overdubs and editing and then mixing down to quarter inch analogue tape. There´s a slightly different vibe to ”Brolt” than that of its predecessors, maybe caused by the change of studio or the fact that they specifically set out to make it more of an ensemble recording where all instruments are treated equally. Not forgetting the fact that they went into the studio straight after a short, but very hectic tour of Europe and Japan, explaining the more loose live feel of many of the tracks.

Release date 12 May 2008 on Malicious Damage.
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Mating rock guitar with electronic dance dance rhythms, Japan's The Sun Paulo can only be described as a musical roller-coaster, careering through impossibly-convoluted twists, turns and dazzling displays of kinetic virtuosity shot with rampant, crazed energy. Although musical reference points aren't hard to spot, the freewheeling, quite natural way they're gobbled up and spewed back out at often blinding speed makes for a listening experience quite unlike anything else on the planet.

Leading the charge is guitarist and founder member Taiji Sato. He started the project in 2000 with DJ Really? who left in 2002 to be replaced by renowned session players Toshiyuki Mori on keyboards and drummer Takashi Numazawa. They've since played a host of major festivals, released their debut album After the Eclipse, soundtracked the movie Kalalu and started Tokyo's regular Wisdom parties in 2004 collaborating with noted DJs including Ken Ishii, Tsyoshi and Hiroshi Kawanabe. Electric Wisdom Sound System can switch gear several times during the course of one track, like "But We Want More", which eventually settles into a mighty slavering funk beast, or, even more extreme, the three part "Electric Western", which manages to straddle jazz, beatific piano-string ambience, belting techno and what sounds like the Mahavishnu Orchestra dry-humping System 7 at the Paradise Garage. Shards of 70s groups like Focus, the Allman Brothers, Santana and the Mothers flash past in what sometimes resembles an aural meteor storm, often colliding with 21st century electronica, all climaxing with an outrageous version of Burt Bacharach's "Close To You" which will carry you off to a higher plane altogether. This album is launch-pad, take-off and best part of one of the strangest trips anyone has had the skill or plain nerve to attempt in recent years.

Release date 12 May 2008 on Sending Orbs.
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After two magnificent Sending Orbs albums (‘Through Friendly Waters’, ‘My Dogan’), and last year’s acclaimed ambient electronic / jazz / classical hybrid ‘Whisper Me Wishes’ on Clone / DUB, Kettel aka Reimer Eising re-emerges with the first part of the ‘Myam James’ series.

Kettel manages to squeeze uplifting, warm, cheerful and enjoyable maximal electronic music out of his kettle and pottery factory, which is sad, melancholic and sensitive all at the same time, characteristic of the paradoxical twist in much of his work : beauty lies in the melancholy. Add to this Kettel's profound knowledge of composition and his passionate love of the roots of the early 90s Warp sound, and we guarantee you'll be chained to your speakers for the next months. ‘Myam James Part 1’ is nine tracks of Kettel ecstasy, including a brilliant remix of ‘My Dogan’s title track by early influencers Phoenecia (Schematic/Warp), and seven minutes of Vangelis-style remix synthesizer-madness by Secede.

Release date 5 May 2008 on Underscan Records.
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Previously released as a set of four 12" records this compilation series titled "Now" is now available as a sixteen track CD showing the contemporary musical focus of Berlin based Underscan Records.

"plentiful moments of simple musical brilliance" 4 out of 5 (IDJ magazine)

Release date 28 April 2008 on The Leaf Label.
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums are charismatic singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Together the Swedish duo have forged an extraordinary hybrid of spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul music. Seesawing between pagan rhythms and sparse, bewitching ballads, their self produced debut is a declaration of intent: immediate, exhilarating, and just plain new.

“I really felt that there was more to come out of the drum set, other sounds and feelings,” says Andreas, explaining the depth of emotion and dynamic rhythmic palette that colours the duo’s expressive music. Having met at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg in 2004, where Mariam enrolled in vocal improv and Andreas in percussion, both were frustrated by the institution’s rigid format. “I was so fed up at the way music was played at the University - music judged only upon level and virtuosity,” says Andreas. “It just felt wrong.”

Wildbirds & Peacedrums was born of a desire to break free and return to music that captures pure feeling. “We had no musical ideals to trust or lean on, so we had just to really believe in ourselves and each other, and it was much easier actually. To get that heavy blanket of history and knowledge off your shoulders was the best musical experience of our lives.”

It comes as no surprise, given their obvious musical chemistry, that the duo were married soon after they began performing in the summer of 2005, during a holiday spell in Berlin.

“We always start with the lyrics that Mariam writes, then try to find one or two elements to fit around them - it can be a rhythm or a sound and then we go from there. For me it is such a release to write music this way - with Mariam’s voice, I don’t need to cover it up with a lot of other stuff - I can just play a simple rhythm and rely on the space/silence. We keep a lot of space in the recordings and somehow it seems that people fill in the rest themselves – an old jazz listener hears horns and basslines and a punk hears smashed guitars!”

After hand-sewing fabric covers for two limited edition CDRs, the duo recorded their debut album Heartcore in Gothenberg in the summer of 2006. They used a mobile studio, allowing for a variety of intimate spaces with different acoustical elements. Having never used any of the equipment before, Mariam and Andreas were forced to keep the recording as spare and live as possible, using just vocals and drums, with a handful of additional instruments like glockenspiel and zither. “We tried to rely on the energy we create on stage. It was so hard to know what the result was going to be like because we had no references or ideal - we just tried to record as we played the music live at that time. We had just the feeling and goal of trying to capture some honest and intense musical state of mind.”

Mariam’s uninhibited, skin-prickling vocal expressions invoke vintage blues performers like Bessie Smith through to the spookily evocative folk singing of Mary Margaret O’Hara. With a fiery passion all her own that encompasses moods from the heavy spiritual lament of ‘I Can’t Tell in his Eyes’ to the raw gospel exclamation of ‘Bird’ with just pulsing bass drums accompanying Mariam’s ululations, to the rock & roll handclaps, crash, bang and wallop crescendo of ‘Doubt/Hope’, she is a mercurial talent with a breathtaking emotional depth.

Indeed, Heartcore could not be a more apt album title. Largely stripped bare with only the most potent, select sounds remaining behind Mariam’s transporting voice, the effect is luscious, enveloping and mesmerising.

Heartcore was originally released in Sweden in 2007 on Found You Recordings, now licensed for worldwide release by The Leaf Label. After a year of shows in Scandinavia, Wildbirds & Peacedrums will bring their powerful live show to the rest of Europe this spring, and to North America and Asia later in 2008. With a brand new album of songs already waiting in the wings, this very special duo has even more spectacular musical revelations to come.

"From the bruising to the beautiful, the avant-garde to the blissfully straightforward, remaining at all times provocative, fascinating, and not without an almost primal charge” 9/10 Drowned In Sound

“An extraordinary hybrid of left-leaning pop and swampy blues” The Stool Pigeon

“Imagine Björk's Debut seriously fiending for a rhythm fix” Pitchfork

“Great natural pop” NME

“Divinely evocative” Time Out

“If you’re looking for passionate freshness, ‘Heartcore’ is where it’s at” Artrocker

“It’s rare to see an act so instantly captivating” God Is In The TV

Release date 28 April 2008 on Other Electricities.
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Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Haptic) have been actively writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago/New York-based electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against harsh moments of volume, or low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion, while drones interplay with staccato chords. Each performance by this trio displays a delicate balance of acoustic and electronic sounds. Fessenden's approach to recording and releasing sound varies, yet consistently reflects the subtle movement within sessions.

Fessenden recently collaborated with UK drone artist Keith Berry to create Bleu:resultat (Chat Blanc) a 111 numbered, limited 3-inch. Both Capture/Create (Entr'acte Records), comprised of two improvised pieces, and Preview EP (Stasisfield), comprised of three tracks from a series of improvisations, were recorded direct to minidisk, documenting the space and tension of their live performances. Vital Weekly referred to Inside the Ice Factory (Utech Records) as "contemplative music that combines the best of improvised music, real instruments and yet manages to sound so micro-sound."

Fessenden's forthcoming release on Other Electricities represents their first release of studio-recorded material. An exercise in restraint, in which hypnotic and atmospheric palettes create a vague sense of foreboding, this release engages the acute listener with new concepts of structure and texture.

Release date 28 April 2008 on Other Electricities.
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Daniel Vujanic's third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled Wolfhour, intensively displays the composer/musician's exciting approach towards a "free electronica" genre. Baja incorporates organic and digital textures, intuitive forms of songwriting, dynamic and almost classic-like complexity and - Vujanic's trademark - the manic and seemingly endless processing, editing and re-editing of the source material until it eventually becomes a wall of sound; a beautifully radiating, fractured, multifaceted digital isotope. Disregarding traditional song structures, Baja’s arrangements are duplicitous to the listener, evading predictability of their beginning or end points.

Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, maximized- minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of sedative textures, Wolfhour plays with postmodern expectations as much as possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There's at least as much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic's compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Sounds teleport.

Release date 28 April 2008 on Other Electricities.
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Tomavistas is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as Dot Tape Dot.

Tomavistas is culled from different places, consisting of material released in the "worldwide underground scene" through non-standard labels: cd-r labels, netlabels and even those making private compilations. Tomavistas is born of a love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clear out space for a new personal stockpile to be built.

Having released internationally since 2002, Tomavistas is Dot Tape Dot's US full-length debut.

Songs included span compilation, vinyl only, and "unofficial" album tracks from France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK, and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output.

With a "domestic" approach to making electronic music, dot tape dot's songs are warm and nostalgic. Additional friends and players contribute touches in both home-recording and live performance.

Not having money to buy equipment, dot tape dot converted inopportunity to an aesthetic idea, deciding to use toy instruments and field recordings, all recorded in a very lo-fi way. Even as the music developed further, standard/obvious ways of creating electronic music weren't implemented. Instead of incorporating sterile equipment and virtual sounds, personal, intentionally tangible palettes are always employed. Songs grow and take on different forms over time, and performances depend on ever changing, unpredictable live configurations.

Always immersed in various audio/visual projects, Dani Romero is constantly creating and evolving.

Release date 14 April 2008 on Other Electricities.
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Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004.

Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Despite some line-up alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self-recorded and produced in their bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again.

Release date 14 April 2008 on Brumtone.
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"Crank up the volume of old noisy transformers, your kids toys or even your own brain and find out it’s singing by it self! I hope you enjoy it too."
- August Engkilde

".....Kaotic Brain continues where "Police Beat Box" on Cheap ended! A stunningly good record! It´s densly layered and even after repeated listening one discovers new aspects. A framework of well crafted grooves, hard-swinging bass-lines, combined with noise and apparent chaos in change with dark sound collages, melancholic chords - in between snatches of friendly melodies, a brass orchestra and weird sounding instruments.... everything is perfectly arranged, produced and mixed. This album could be the best work we have heard from August Engkilde so far........ We will stay curious for the forthcoming releases. Welcome to the "Club of good music".

Manou - De-bug March 2008

Packaged in an environment friendly sleeve made of recycled paperboard.

Release date 7 April 2008 on The Leaf Label.
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Caravan is taken from the acclaimed album Parades (a top 25 album of the year in Mojo magazine) which was released last October. The band have completely transformed their live act in a few short months, winning over thousands of new fans, and recently won two Danish Music Awards.

The B-side to the 7”, ‘The Romance On Mammoth Hill’ (exclusive to this release), is a brooding track recorded during the Parades sessions that the band was unable to squeeze into the final album sequence.

As download exclusives, you can find a stunning remix of ‘Caravan’ by the London-based multi-instrumentalist composer Max de Wardener and a rework of previous single ‘Mirador’ by talented visual artist and self-taught musician Vincent Oliver.

‘Caravan’ is released as a strictly limited edition 7” single (just 1,000 hand-numbered copies) to coincide with their upcoming UK dates. A digital-only EP is available, featuring two otherwise unavailable remixes.

Release date 7 April 2008 on room40.
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Hydrophonic recordings made January and August 2007, Stradbroke Island, Queensland.

Limited edition CDR of 150. Housed in letterpress sleeve and released on Winds Measure Recordings.

Release date 7 April 2008 on Rune Grammofon.
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Motorpsycho was founded in 1989 in Trondheim, Norway´s third biggest city, when mainstays Bent Sæther (bass, vocals) and Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan (guitar, vocals) were joined by drummer Kjell Runar ”Killer” Jenssen. The first album, “Lobotomizer”, was released in 1991 after which Killer quit and Håkon Gebhardt took over the drums for many years to come. Gebhardt left in 2005 before the recording of ”Black Hole / Blank Canvas” where Bent and Snah did most of the drumming themselves. With ”Little Lucid Moments” they have a new, permant drummer; Kenneth Kapstad (also a member of Animal Apha and Monolitich and has played with Dadafon and Gåte and others).

With “Demon Box” from 1993, Motorpsycho were already laying down the blueprint for much of the stoner psychedelia that would spawn a number of bands many years later. Today it´s more difficult to put a tag on Motorpsycho or to name any obvious influences; there are traces of west coast psychedelia, krautrock, punk, minimalism, improv, prog rock and more, all melting into that easily identifiable and unique Motorpsycho sound developed through more than 15 years of recording and touring. After having flirted with popstructures and expanded instrumentation on a couple of albums, they are now back with four long, energetic and evolving tracks clocking in between 11 and 21 minutes being what most hardcore fans, and there are many, will consider classic Motorpsycho in full flight. There´s also no doubt that the excellent new drummer has brought a new dimension to the band with his jazz background and energetic style.

Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, has at various times from “Demon Box” in 1993 to “It´s A Love Cult” from 2002 been associated member, guest musician or producer. He´s back as a co-producer of ”Lucid Little Moments”. And Kim Hiorthøy has done all (studio) album sleeve design for Motorpsycho since ”Timothy´s Monster” in 1994.

The album was recorded by Helge Sten and mixed by Jørgen Træen (Jaga Jazzist, Sondre Lerche). Mastering was by US mastering guru Bob Katz.

Release date 1 April 2008 on Someone Good Records.
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Birthed from of an explosive DIY underground in Brisbane, Australia sometime during the early moments of 2004, The Rational Academy are the epitome of shimmering avant-infused pop. With an unerring willingness to dispense with the pleasantries of expectation and convention, The Academy’s songwriting duo Benjamin Thompson and Meredith McHugh have forged a unique place in the heartland of melodic song writing, etched with glistening electronic interludes and wall of sound guitars. Their songs are replete with sweet melody, reflective lyrics and a presence that’s both engulfing and expansive for the listener.

Produced by Room40’s Lawrence English and featuring Iceland’s Ben Frost, UK based duo For Barry Ray and others, ‘A Heart Against Your Own’ follows on from The Rational Academy’s two, now highly collectible, seven inches, a swag of compilation appearances and projects with the likes of Japanese songstress Tujiko Noriko and Novi Split. In their time together The Rational Academy have toured extensively sharing the stage with the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Tenniscoats, Spoon, Dear Nora, The Blow, Sarah Dougher, Scout Nibblet and Australia’s Holly Throsby, Art of Fighting and more.

To quote Faster Louder - "The next big thing. The ‘It’ band. We've been told this too often before. But join us tonight for The Rational Academy and you'll leave smugly, knowing this time Richard Kingsmill hasn't beaten you to it!"