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RAKE - S/T (CD)

"Enter rake, a musically adventurous trio based in Ottawa, Canada's capital of anything but free music. With the unusual instrumentation of two percussionists and a reed player who features bassoon as much as sax, rake creates rich, widely variegated textures. There ...
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SPL108 | SPOOL

"Rake-Star nails the Ra mantra-approach with their huge sound. The band is heavy on the bottom end and the reeds suggest floating in a zone removed from earth's gravitational pull. Even though the listener can't see the dancer, this live recording is reminiscent of a ...
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SPL123 | SPOOL

with Danielle DeGruttola. "Recorded October 1996 and November 1997. These two masters of improvisation unfold a melange of musical wonderment. They are joined on several tracks by the rich, sonorous sounds of Danielle DeGruttola's cello. By turns, whimsical, ...
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SPL103 | SPOOL

"Gathering brings together the most exceptional music and video art of Toronto duo Smash and Teeny, created live in performance, studio and site-specific outdoor locations in Canada, the U.S. and England between 2001-2003. In this double-CD debut of Smash and Teeny, ...
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SPF305 | SPOOL

"And indeed this music has the radical openness, the lack of boundary, the myopic detail (eschewing grand, overarching gesture), the (perhaps subtle) intricacy (...), and the particularity that I've ascribed to the idea of ornament. ... I think Cameron's pieces are ...
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SPP202 | SPOOL

"One of the main features is Arioso Distante. It is a beautiful 12 minute string piece. It has a classical feel, but often sounds as if there were three different string quartets following similar but not identical scores. The result is a lush, powerful music. Pack uses ...
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SPP201 | SPOOL

"A key to the success of this recording is the well-balanced "equation" of these three specific musicians. Hansen is a Toronto-based turntablist who tends more to Christian Marclay than Kid Koala. He explains, "I started manipulating records back in high school during ...
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SPF303 | SPOOL

"Third CD release from Riot Season and the third album from the newly shortened monikered Aufgehoben (previously Aufgehoben No Process). Anno Fauve sees the band collaborate once again with stereo guitar virtuoso Gary Smith (Mass, Glass Cage, Powerfield etc). Anno Fauve ...
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REPOSECD05 | RIOT SEASON

"They [Lerner & Freedman] have a remarkable symbiosis, with Lerner's quite elegant lines sometimes giving this disc the sound of what it might have been like if Eric Dolphy had ever played with Cecil Taylor. Lerner's powerful phrasing also seems to owe something to ...
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SPL111 | SPOOL

"Recorded June 30, 1998, in Oakland. John Butcher, one of the most original saxophone voices of the day, joined here in good company by Gino Robair and Matthew Sperry. Never content with simply being an exercise in pushing the capabilities of their instruments beyond ...
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SPL109 | SPOOL

special offer "('The Dream of a Ghost') is a collaboration between sound artists Marc Behrens and Francisco López, which started three years ago with a joint recording session at Frankfurt airport. Sharing a common pool of mutated sound materials, they have created two ...
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ABS005-04 | ABSOLUTE

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MSKCD001 | MOUSIKE LAB

when nikos veliotis (cello) forwarded the mail around the first looper scandinavian tour back in 2003 w/ ingar zach (percussion) & martin kuechen (sax) I was expecting them to sound more like a 'classic' free improv combo... however things worked completely different ...
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ABSURD#45 | ABSURD

V.A. - BRICOLAGE #1 (CD)

Comes in a brilliant fabric CD holder. Tracks from Huk Don Phun, Girl Talk, oto, sawako, stAllio, Realistic, jörg piringer, the grassy knoll, B'O'K, ADMacHine, Wobbly, Edward Coli, The Overneath and EVIE SENSATION.
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IA021 | ILLEGAL ART

Made exclusively from movies. Rudjak Manigz "SingKingHeart", Huk Don Phun "3 Kung Fu Pieces", Joseph Hyde "Manic", Andrew Q. Hayleck "Dr. Strangedub", Ed Chang "Cut!", Alien Heat "Illegal Space Kids", Kristine H. Burns "Somewhere...", Realistic "Information Retrieval", ...
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IA002 | ILLEGAL ART

Made entirely from commercials. The Evolution Control Committee "Music for Selling", Office Products "Mount & Do", Roux Partout "#5 (Life Without)", Orange Head "Real CM deep inside Your Life", Pimmon "Sales Pitch '67", Jörg Piringer "The Avalanche", Experts Of ...
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IA003 | ILLEGAL ART

"the second in Illegal Art's unique artist series, Penrose's disturbing album quickly reveals his fascination for colorful sonic alteration. as with all Illegal Art projects American Jingo begins with appropriated samples, but Penrose runs these starting points through ...
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IA102 | ILLEGAL ART

"Another big 'ol mess of headphone sex for those who like their audio entertainment uneasy and dynamic. Realistic's steamy new "Private Moments" ease in and out through a seamless barrage of beat-driven media stimuli. "Private Moments" further perfects the Realistic ...
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IA103 | ILLEGAL ART

WOBBLY - PLAYLIST (3"CD)

"With a receiver in hand, Wobbly captures happy bits of commercial radio and emerges with the new extreme in attention deficit disordered pop. Playful electronic bursts with enough warped groove to keep the kids momentarily humored, Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) structures ...
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IA106 | ILLEGAL ART

"George W. Bush meets Public Enemy meets Noam Chomsky and a host of others on this post 9/11 critique of American hypocrisy." (label info) With: George W Bush, Daryl Jarvis, Hilary Charlesworth, Andrew Vincent, Noam Chomsky, John Shovelin, Terry Lane, Phil Cleary, Peter ...
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IA108 | ILLEGAL ART

"Years of MTV crammed into a 12 track hyper-edited epic party album. With all genres covered, this release cuts up endless top 40 sources at a breakneck pace to create the perfect A.D.D. club mix. This album accurately captures the energetic, rowdy, and non-stop fun ...
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IA109 | ILLEGAL ART

"Ryohei Kobayashi's (aka Hot Troche) 2nd album (his debut was on Pink Rabbit/Cha-Bashira in Japan). We fall off our chairs every time we listen to this. Hot Troche is simply the future of Japanese avant-music. Drum machines and samplers programmed at triple speed, ...
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IA110 | ILLEGAL ART

With Manuel Mota (Portugal), Quiet American (U.S.A.), Urkuma (Italy), Last time this happened we had a street party (Portugal), Fabriquedecouleurs (France), Stapletape (Portugal), Pyo (France), Soundtrap (Portugal), Emanuela de Angelis (Italy), Asamo (Japan), ...
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GOS015 | GRAIN OF SOUND