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Finally, this is the album we all knew Matt Elliot could make.
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Despite their seeminglyunlikely French origin, Rajna's latest album Yahili so stronglyreflects the band's passion for South Asian music that their nativecountry becomes easily forgotten.
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After disbanding in 1996, two-thirds of the masterful German drone trio Maeror Tri moved on to a new project, Troum.
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The Rootsman is anEnglish DJ/dub musician with 15 years experience and a discography thatincludes over two dozen EPs and albums since 1994.
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Although the popularityof bands featuring phat beats and female vocals has risen immensely,few artists have been able to perfect the style and display enoughoriginality in doing so to stand out amongst the more mediocre of suchacts.
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Thanks, Mute for making these available now in the USA. While Red Star did reissue Suicide's first album in 1997, this version is coupled with a second CD.
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Peter Rehberg, well-knownfor his work in Rehberg & Bauer, is also prolific with his solooutput as Pita, featured on the Austrian experimental techno label MEGO.
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Sometimes it gets quitedifficult to describe something without using comparisons to othersbefore them. While I really enjoy this, the charming and honest debutfull-lengther from Best Boy Electric, the slow and melodic musiccombined with the hesitant vocals screams of influence of Galaxie 500,Bedhead and of course, Low.
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Packaged in a flimsybaggy with a black and white book of artwork, Art-IC Culture in Swedenbrings this Aube release, constructed using only glass as the soundsource.
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Album of the Year
1. Coil, "Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol.1 "
2. Nurse with Wound, "An Awkward Pause"
3. Autechre, "EP7"
4. three way tie:
Tom Waits: "Mule Variations"
To Rococo Rot: "The Amateur View"
godspeed you black emperor: "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada"
5. Stereolab, "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
6. Labradford, "E luxo so"
7. two way tie:
Low, "Secret Name"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile"
8. two way tie:
Trans Am, "Futureworld"
Jim O'Rourke, "Eureka"
9. four way tie:
Mogwai, "Come on Die Young"
Add N to (X), "Avant Hard"
Sonic Youth, "Goodbye 20th Century"
Plaid, "Rest Proof Clockwork"
10. six-way tie:
Angels of Light, "New Mother
People Like Us, "Hate People Like Us"
Pan Sonic, "A"
Mouse on Mars, "Niun Niggung"
Plateau, "Spacecake"
Flaming Lips, "The Soft Bulletin"
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. Coil
2. godspeed you black emperor!
3. Legendary Pink Dots
4. two-way tie:
Stereolab
Squarepusher
5. Low
SONG
OF THE
YEAR
1. Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker"
2. Coil, "The Dreamer is Still Asleep"
3. godspeed you black emperor!, "Moya"
4. Mogwai, "Stanley Kubrick"
5. godspeed you black emperor!, "Blaise Bailey Finnegan, III"
MUSIC
VIDEO
OF THE
YEAR
1. Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker"
2. Bjork, "All is Full of Love"
3. three-way tie:
Add N to (X), "Metal Fingers in My Body"
Beck, "Sexx Laws"
Leftfield, "Afrika Shox"
4. three-way tie:
Lamb, "B-Side"
U.N.K.L.E., "Rabbit in Your Headlights"
Meat Beat Manifesto, "Prime Audio Soup"
NEW
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. Angels of Light
2. five-way tie:
The Beta Band
Cyclobe
Plone
Pole
The All Seeing I
CONCERT
EVENT
1. Labradford/godspeed you black emperor! (notably in various combinations including Low, Mogwai and Matmos)
2. Trans Am / Pan Sonic
3. Tom Ze with Tortoise
4. Current 93 NYC
5. four-way tie:
v/vm
Stereolab / Papa M
Legendary Pink Dots
Man... or Astro-Man??
BEST
LABEL
1. Warp
2. Kranky
3. three-way tie:
Thrill Jockey
Mute
Matador
4. World Serpent
5. Fat Cat
6. Soleilmoon / Staalplaat
BEST
PRODUCER
1. John McEntire & Jim O'Rourke
2. Timbaland
3. Jack Dangers
4. Steven Stapleton
5. Howie B
WORST
BAND
1. three-way tie:
Nine Inch Nails
Limp Bizkit
Backstreet Boys
2. Korn
3. six-way tie:
Coil
Britney Spears
Blink 182
Plone
Marilyn Manson
Kid Rock
WORST
ALBUM
YOU
BOUGHT
1. Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile"
2. Tricky, "Juxtapose"
3. Mogwai, "Come on Die Young"
BEST
COMP
1. Warp's 10th Anniversary collections
2. Reach the Rock Soundtrack
3. v/vm, "AuralOffalWaffleTenPintsOfBitterAndABagOfPorkScratchings"
4. five-way tie:
Fight Club Soundtrack
Matrix Soundtrack
Eyes Wide Shut Soundtrack
Matador's 10th Anniversaty
Soundbombing II
BEST
MOVIE
1. two-way tie:
Blair Witch Project
Being John Malkovich
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Fight Club
4. two-way tie:
American Beauty
The Matrix
5. two-way tie:
Run, Lola, Run
Dogma
6. Sixth Sense
7. two-way tie:
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Sleepy Hollow
8. three-way tie:
Princess Mononoke
Iron Giant
eXistenZ
9. The Straight Story
10. Man on the Moon
11. American Pie
BEST
TV SHOW
1. The Simpsons
2. Futurama
3. South Park
4. That 70s Show
5. X-Files
6. two-way tie:
Law and Order
Just Shoot Me
BEST
BOOK
1. The Onion Presents, "Our Dumb History"
2. "Wreckers of Civilization," by Simon Ford
BEST
ACTOR
1. Kevin Spacey
2. Ed Norton
3. three-way tie:
Johnny Depp
John Cusak
Tom Cruise
4. John Malovich
BEST
ACTRESS
1. Christina Ricci
2. three-way tie:
Nicole Kidman
Heather Donahue
Annette Benning
3. three-way tie:
that chick in Run Lola Run
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Cameron Diaz
BIGGEST
DISAP-
POINTMENT
1. Star Wars
2. Y2K and all the other hype
3. Blair Witch Project
4. The Haunting
EVENT
1. Columbine High
2. Seattle Riots
3. New Year's Eve
4. Coachella Music Festival
WEBSITE
1. brainwashed
geez, can't you get more original!
2. Superbad.com
3. Pitchforkmedia.com
4. Disinfo.com
5. hamsterdance.com
HERO
nobody got more than one vote
VILLAIN
1. Bill Gates
2. A four-way tie: Milosevic
the Media
Richard D. James
George W. Bush
MOST
ANNOYING
TREND
1. Pokemon
2. gay teen bands (N'Sync/Backstreet/98 Degrees) / teen popstars (Britney Spears)
3. three-way tie:
Y2K fever
Millennial surveys/polls
Piercings
4. two-way tie:
Emo
Cargo Pants
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My pick of the week is the fourth album by this German group, released in 1998. Notwist is allegedly an offshoot from the Tied and Tickled Trio, a jazz rock influenced group who can be found on more remixes than original product, including the Aerial M remix album "Post-Global Music".
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Just when you think Mute USA dropped the ball and turned their back on music in general (re: the exodus of classics such as Einsturzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas and Nick Cave from the US label) they shock us all and strike a deal.
 
Mute US has entered a new market with German post-kraut-rock releases now due from To Rococo Rot, Kriedler and Schneider TM. "The Amateur View" is To Rococo Rot's first full-length release in the USA - preceeding this was the EP release on now defunct label Emperor Jones/Trance Syndicate as well as a couple European-only releases on City Slang and Kitty-Yo. To Rococo Rot take their music seriously and produce professionally with an audibly perfectionistic touch - a gentle yet appropriate blend of drum machines and live drums, sequenced and performed keyboards, samples and live bass. The tunes are pleasant, the tempo moves well throughout the entire disc, the sounce are slick and polished, there's nothing sloppy here. Don't let the title fool you, this album is anything but amateurish.
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I must admit I didn't know what to expect when hearing this, but I'm pleasantly surprised. This is the first (to my knowledge) first full-length official release from Russian sound engineer, Ivan Pavlov. Ivan is definately showing influences of a cross between Panasonic and Ryoji Ikeda, but it is definately his own. A pleasant surprise on this is the human element that has become so withdrawn from other music in this genre, his baby daughter Sasha appears on one of the tracks. I know it's nothing new, but it's something that fits well.
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The second collaboration between these three, and what a fine disc it is. Low bass dub influenced music, the Mick Harris signature drum loops, and special effects by Eraldo Bernocchi. While Laswell and Harris have been mass producing music lately in the droves, the right combination always has a possibility of yielding a stellar product. Listen to this one loud.
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Album of the Year
1. Tortoise, "TNT"
2. Autechre, (self titled, LP5) tied with Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices"
3. Legendary Pink Dots, "Nemesis Online"
4. Massive Attack, "Mezzanine"
5. Boards of Canada, "Music Has the Right to Children"
6. godspeed you black emperor!, "f# a# to infinity"
7. Coil, "Time Machines"
8. Coil, "Autumn Equinox" (it's really an ep) tied with Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
9. Belle and Sebastian, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" tied with Current 93, "Soft Black Stars"
10. Sonic Youth, "A Thousand Leaves"
Band of the Year
1. Coil
2. Tortoise
3. Meat Beat Manifesto tied with Legendary Pink Dots
4. Autechre
5. Massive Attack
Song of the Year
1. Coil, "Amethyst Decievers"
2. Current 93, "A Gothic Love Song"
3. Meat Beat Manifesto "Acid Again" tied with Coil, "Moon's Milk"
Music Video of the Year
1. Aphex Twin, "Come To Daddy"
2. Squarepusher, "Come on My Selector
3. Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic
New Band of the Year
1. godspeed you black emperor!
2. Boards of Canada
3. Arab Strap tied with Ritalin
Concert Event
1. Legendary Pink Dots
2. Meat Beat Manifesto
3. Tortoise / Isotope 217
Favorite Label
1. Kranky
2. Thrill Jockey
3. Soleilmoon / Staalplaat
4. Warp
5. Nothing (for basically releasing Warp stuff most people said...)
Producer
1. John McEntire
2. Steve Albini
3. Jim O'Rourke
Worst Band
1. Marilyn Manson
2. Backstreet Boys
3. Matchbox 20
4. Rammstein
5. Barenaked Ladies
Worst Album You Bought
1. Marilyn Manson, "Mechanical Animals"
2. A four-way tie:
Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices
Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
Front 242, "Re Boot"
Tricky, "Angels with Dirty Faces
Best Compilation
1. Coil & Friends, "Foxtrot"
2. Pi Soundtrack
3. We Are Reasonable People
4. A Tribute to Spacemen 3
5. Remix Dystemper
Best Movie
1. Pi
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Trueman Show
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. The Big Lebowski
Best TV Show
1. The Simpsons
2. The X Files
3. South Park
4. Sifl & Olly
Best Book
1. "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman tied with "Lords of Chaos" by Michael Moynihan
2. "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby tied with "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
well, they didn't get many votes, but there's hardly any book readers any more...
Best Actor
1. Bill Clinton tied with Johnny Depp
nobody could agree on the rest
Best Actress
1. Christina Ricci
2. Gilian Anderson
3. Parker Posey
Parker can do better next year, come on guys!
Biggest Disappointment
1. Titanic
2. Waking up
I'm losing faith in our readership
Event of the Year
1. Clinton Sex Scandal
2. LPD tour the USA
this category's answers aren't helping either
Web site of the year
1. brainwashed
2. The Onion
3. Warp Records tied with suck.com
flattery will get you nowhere
Hero
1. me (yes, everybody voted for themselves)
2. Edward Ka-Spel
Villan
1. Kenneth Star
2. A four-way tie:
me (yes, voting for themselves again)
Bill Gates
Marilyn Manson
my boss
Most Annoying Trend
1. Swing
2. Tommy Hilfiger
3. Body Piercing tied with "Any trend"
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Highly anticipated album from Digital Hardcore's first defectors. SonicSubjunkies are more musical than most of the DHR miscreants, but theirhypercharged breakbeat tirades slash through pile-ups of samples and noisein no less confrontational a manner. They can still be harder than the rest- hard as a fist studded with nails on "Das Elektrophon" and "Do You EvenKnow Who You Are?" - without ever losing the impressive control which setsthem apart from their peers. Stomping tank-tread hiphop ("Live FromJonestown" and "Welcome To Central Industrial"), Hooversonic jump-up jungle("12,000 RPM"), even the occasional low-boil pseudo-ambient interlude - arange of moods and demeanors, all stapled with rapid-fire Uzi breaks andautomatic discharges.
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To the uninitiated, Blonk sounds like a madman - babbling excitedly in non-languages, spitting guttural noises and pitched burps like a Speak-N-Spell rewired by a lunatic. He's quite sane, and enormously entertaining, an avid devotee of the obscure history of sound poetry.
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How much fun it must be to be able to release material like this.27 tracks of mind-warping weirdness from the heralded Masters who broughtyou the marvelous Datacide project series. This disc is quite thecuriosity! Not as similar-sounding to Datacide as one might initiallybe inclined to think, MU is a mindset prism, a refraction device for theheadphonaut's moods. Many seemingly incongruous tones and atmospheres arestrung together until anticipation and nostalgia become indistinguishable.And don't be deceived, this multitude of sonic segments continuously flowsinto 3 continuous pieces that convey the feel of the pleasantlyoverextended experimental style AND the well-seasoned and time-testedsound. And this won't be your average please-don't-peal-me-off-the-couch-manchill-out session. Only the all-terrain ambienteers will survive, as thelistener frequently deals with counterintuitive changes and sequencingcontradictions. Grinding, trickling, howling, warbling, squeezablemetallic textures will help melt down those rational thoughts and aid inthe discovery of new, more potent mental alloys! I suppose there may onlybe 2 stand-alone song-like tracks here, #18 (Backward Journey) and #23(Rather Sleep Then Dance). This latter track was also subsequentlyreleased in a slightly altered form on the Real Intelligence (RI033)compilation, and may be suggestive of both the post-partyvibe schools ofphilosophy and reality-permeating synchronicities. If you ever see this disc for sale and don't buy it, particularly ifyou're a Datacide fan, you will regret it till the end of your days when,that is if, you hear it.
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I am currently engrossedin the newest DEAD VOICES ON AIR offering, a double CD known as :pissfrond:. It receives extremely high marks from me, being quite possiblythe most accesable DVOA release to date. VVV (the Pan Sonic and AlanVega collaboration) and THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN VAMPIRE (Alec Empireand Techno Animal facing off) have also snuggled their ways deep intomy heart -- nearly far enough to make my precious ears bleed! I fullyawait the new EC8OR album, which should be fab-boo. If you get freemoments, I suggest renting the movie ZERO EFFECT, quite funny andwell-done.
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