Was it worth paying the expensive amounts for shipping from Japan? No.Does this album deserve a worldwide release? Yes. Sugar Plant is one ofthe world's premiere technologically-friendly dream pop combos.

The first CD from the London-based Unbearable Recordings label is acollection of music which previously only existed on a series of 7"records.

Following that palpitating heart over Misty Dixon last week, someresearch was actually conducted. Turns out Misty's not a person, but aquartet from Manchester. I can't find any albums yet but there is atrack on this compilation, "Misty Dixon and some other less-significantfriends or something" (don't believe what the record label tells you).

While I have always loved the music on the Pink Box, I have always hadissues with the CD version.

This compilation serves as a soundtrack to last years NYC Electroclash2001 festival. Held over four days at various venues throughout thecity, Electroclash brought together many of the contemporary luminariesof the currently festering retro electro scene.

Bed are a French group led by Benoit Burello, presumably at least thevocalist and pianist, and this is their debut for French label Icid'ailleura.

Between his late '70s stint with Public Image Limited and the mid '80sfoundation of Invaders of the Heart, Jah Wobble released a number ofsolo and collaborative singles, EPs and albums. This 2 CD compilationselectively revisits that period.

Everyone seems to either love or hate the 'electro revival,' but thetruth of the matter is that, with any genre of music, you have the goodand the bad. In this case, you have the good (Fischerspooner, Soviet,Ladytron) and then you have artists like Norway Squared.

Tarentel have always been an interesting sort. They are another in aline of bands that approaches rock music with an almost orchestraltheory, allowing their compositions to build, adding and subtractinginstruments and voices, building to dynamic crescendoes—or not.

MikeDykehouse (yes, it's his real last name) recorded this effort, hisfirst release on the Planet Mu label, on 4-track, then it was mixed,mastered, edited, and reconstructed by Mike Paradinas, the banalincubus known as µ-Ziq.