Spring Heel Jack push forward with their fourth release of this year.

Two CDs this week I've pulled from the home-made bin as I think these folks are moving in the right direction.

Second home-made release this week comes from Tulsa, OK?

This is the 80's synthpop side of Stephin Merritt - another excellent project by the gloomysourpuss that everyone now knows and loves.

This is the 4th album byVienna based artist Curd Duca for electronic label Mille Plateaux, 3rdin the "Elevator" series of 'digitalanalog mood music' and my personalfirst.

You ever hear a name so much that you really should indeed check them out?

Well, maybe it's not really Sonic Youth, but it does follow along the whole theme of the Musical Perspectives series.

The latest in Invisible Soundtracks collections, volume 3, features Rothko, 310, Bass Communion, Bob Ellis and many many others.

Eleven years of German rock comes together for this medium priced sampler from label L'Age D'or.

Two brand spanking new reissues from My Pal God are the rereleases of Drums & Tuba.

Fans who love to drone onand on and on will love what they'll get from the new Bright record.Bright, formerly (currently?) based in Boston had a release in Darla's"Bliss Out" series a couple years back.

From Sahko in Finland comes this excellent priced CD from that guy who simply goes by Fred.

I figure I should get to this release as it's been staring me in the face since June.

Kim Cascone, formerly of Silent Records, has founded the new label Anechoic and this is the debut release.

Foreign Terrain is AndrewDiey of Manchester, UK. "LP 1" was originally a very limited cd-rrelease but now it is the readily available debut for SoleilmoonRecordings.

Four discs have been reissued this round, all of which were originally out on Rough Trade, subsequently released by Play It Again, Sam, WaxTrax! and/or Nettwerk. These four releases are scatterings across the growth curve—represented by 1981's 'Heartbeat', 1988's 'Songs of Love and Lust', and two releases from 1990: 'Trance' and 'Techno Primitiv.'

Originally released in 1998, the international distribution through World Serpent begins this week.

Also re-distributed byWorld Serpent (from 1998 originally) is the collaboration between LeifElggren, souRce Research and Matmos.

Mark Spybey's mostinteresting work is often the result of collaborative efforts. Most ofthis album is produced and engineered by either Frank "Frankie Pett"Verschuuren (Legendary Pink Dots / Teargarden) or Daryl Neudorf(Abintra) with Frankie being the executive producer, thus some of themeaning behind the goofy title (the rest is somewhat explained by thehumorous work of fiction in the insert).

Seek and ye shall find: Panacea's alter-ego, m2is not the easiest thing to find (since it could be filed under S, P orM) but it is a treat when you can indeed come home with it.