**N
"Memories from Before Being Born" CD (+Belligeranza)
Feedback from 2 tape players plugged into each other is run through
filters and delays for an interesting variety of soundscapes akin
to Nomex or early TG. This is a new sub-label from Italy's Sonic
Belligeranza, thus the quality is present... $10
NRon &
Mikeo "Pull It Up!" 7" (Tax Records 04) a
mysterious boot of M.I.A.'s "Pull Up the People" from locals
who succeed at screwing the volume down and adding a mental trance-synth
melody of their own. Great for mixing and the instrumental is practically
its own song. Reminds us of something from Soot Records. Let's hear
more!!! $8
Noisebrothel and A:Pod 12" (Toolbox
Ltd. 02) A Minneapolis duo on a French label. Noisebrothel has recorded
as Target Market Research on History of the Future. Here he teams
up with MC A:Pod for a hypnotic heavy downtempo trip. Think Zach de
la Rocha with Techno Animal. $10
Nu Tango "A.P.P.A.R.T" CD - This contains
the Nu Tango 12" as well as new tracks. It seems it's one person
with an accordian and guitar who also programs sweet, rough beats
underneath tango motifs. Sound cheesey? Well, it's not - it's one
of the best digital-acoustic folk blends we've ever heard and we're
very happy to have it on CD because our vinyl copy's worn out. $13
Nu Tango 12" (see above) $11
**Ove Naxx "Bullets from Habinko
City H.C." 12" EP (Soot) Just got a bunch more
copies of this awesome Japanese breakcore monster's debut. This man
stands above many from the genre with this spazzed-out, toy instrument
mpc slab. Get it now - some of the last copies! $11
**Ove-Naxx "Massive
Swingin' MPC2000" 10" EP (Hymen) Yay!!! New Ove-Naxx!!!
Yes, of course it's mental music from planet Japan! What else would
you expect?!? This is music that gives breakcore a good name. Always
danceable and swingin', Ove keeps it mental with broken Japanese
toy instruments, lo-fi beats and enough Hoover bass to glue it all
together. A wonderful mess of gooey clatter! Five tracks. $12
Panicstepper "The Shuffler" 12" (Ambush)
Ambush goes for broke on their last-ever release. It's almost like
they picked this release to say goodbye to the breakcore sound they
spent years engineering. While break-oriented, there's an out/free
quality here that just threw the reins away. Closest comparison could
possibly be some of Slepcy, but... Exotic. $11
**Parasite "Baby
9mm" 12" EP
(Damage) Six tracks of early Bristol breakcore from one of
Peace Off's first Damage releases. Get it while it's
around. Early jungle weed-puffin' ragga vocal breakcore with
plenty of distortion amid the soundclash. $12
**Parasite / Knifehandchop 12" (Death$ucker
Rec.) Parasite's "Haters
Want War" wins big with plenty of ragga change-ups in a neo-candy
style. KHC follows with impressive hardcore sounds. Relentlessly
unrelentingly full-throttle. $10
**Parts
and Labor "Stay Afraid" LP
or CD (Jagjaguwar) A precursor to their upcoming Broklyn
EP, we're offering their new LP of wicked folknoisepunk in our
shop at a reasonable deal. Parts and Labor are a 3-peice from
our neighborhood in Brooklyn who mix the sounds of Husker Du
with powernoise and a crafty songwriting ability to make for
a great live show. Here they finally hit that sound on record.
$12 LP $12 CD
Parts and
Labor / Big A Little a split 7" (Cardboard Rec.)
Two local Brooklyn bands with strong underground followings
join to make a dope little 7". Parts and Labor do a power
electronics Husker Du thang with good songwriting and plenty
of noise. These guys rule! Big A Little a do more of a tribal
Boredoms thing with plenty of spacey effects and big drums.
Both sides are loud and clear for DJing and on green vinyl.
$6
**Pinch "Punisher" remixes
by Loefah and Skream 12" (Planet
Mu) Skream cannot disappoint this year and his remix here is pure
blissful, sharp dubstep streamlined in his unique way with plenty
of bass. Loefah rarely disappoints, as well, and we find him dredging
more dread-filled vibes as he's prone to do. Nice "Spin Out!" cuts
for the headz. Solid. $12
Pleasurehorse "Purly Gait" 12" (History of
the Future) An old release from ground-breaking HOTF label. Pleasurehorse
is from Providence and has played bass in several Load Records bands,
namely Landed and Six-Finger Satellite. Here he plays skipping CDRs
of his own bass playing to great effect. Think Lesser but with hairier
balls. A great DJ tool and long out of print. $10
Public Convenience comp. 12" - A 7 track introduction
to some new European artists from nutty hard breaks (LFO Demon) to
textural electronics ([in]anace) to darkcore (Low Entropy, 5xpi) Something
for everyone who knows what we're talking about... $9
Pushy!
12" (Perce Oreille 18) An older release from this Parisian,
but we're happy to see it. Early breakcore a la experimental jump-up
jungle with some Musilimgauze flourishes thrown in. Good dancefloor
runner 5 years on... $9
Radio Shock 7" This is one Kyle Lapidus, a renowned
friend of ours whose been doing weird-ass noise in NYC for eons. This
little dog has plenty of good lo-fi noise and textures and is produced
well enough to scratch and DJ with - sweet w/ cool Radio Shack bag
packaging. $5
Red
Ewe Lamb "Sacrifice to the Ewe Lamb" CD (Sphenoide)
Blood-curdling Jacob's Ladder splatterbreaks with a nice distorted
edge. These newcomers definitely pack a unique wallop. Worth checking
out, especially for fans of Hands and Hymen. $11
Ripit 12" (Zhark Int'l) Paris's
Ripit represents with 2 newer tracks of lo-fi darkcore breaks and
a desert sand grittiness. The older A-side is more symphonic and HEAVY.
Not unlike the other recent Zhark releases. $10
Rotten and the Bogomen "Don't Live in Terror,
Play in Terror" 12" (Power Vs. Power 01) Dope hardcore
breaks free party disc from Amsterdam featuring a Crass mash-up and
a very UP runnin' vibe. The Crass track is worth the price of admission.
Big ups to Overtoom!!! $10
Sekt "Downliners" 12"
(B Cut) Runnin' electro breaks with a moody ambient synth patch flowing
through the 3 trax. Similar to SMB styles out of France. $10
Sensational "Natural Shine" CD (Wordsound) Back
on his old label with a solid Sensational flow - bugged and slurred
with self-accompanied basement beats. The production's gotten tight,
though - ain't so 4-track anymore, but the beats make you forget about
all that. Brooklyn - put some delay on that mic!!! $10
Sickboy "Morbid Monster Breaks" 12" (Hurry
Up Limited) Delightfully intricate broken breakcore for your mind-losing
pleasure. Sickboy gets better with every release, but how will he
ever get better than mashing up Oasis with Lauryn Hill and Operation
Ivy??!! I think I'm getting too old.... nahhhhh! $12
**Skream "Tapped / Dutch Flowerz" 12" (Tempa)
For the uninitiated, Skream makes shimmery, sunshiney dubstep,
a normally nocturnal genre. Both sides of this single bring that
vibe with "Dutch Flowers" adding a digital skank rhythm
and "Tapped" (sans JME vox from the LP) adding his
familiar arpeggiated flourishes. We agree - his best single and
limited... $13
**Skream "The Zinc Remixes" 12" (Bingo)
True Playaz rollin' jungle is well-suited to Skream's shiny dubstep
and, although novelty-esque, these tracks are real history lesson
- how jungle got to be dubstep and how a jungle vet sees it.
A solid curiosity and tight graphic spoof of Tempa's look! $12
Slaaam "Skank Block Bologna" 12" (Sonic
Belligeranza 03) Peace Off's Slaaam from France repesents with
his splattered breakcore sound with 5 solid tracks. DJ Balli
also tacked on some great dubby horn locked grooves which,
even if your not into wall-of-sound breakcore are some versatile
DJ tools, for sure. Almost out-of-print, as well. $11
Some Place Else Records This small Finnish label has continued to prick our
ears with 7" releases brimming with cool sounds and ideas.
Some noise, a fair chunk of electro and an odd organic tribalism
define this interesting new outlet. Don't sleep.
- "Kaos In Eccentris" 7" (Some Place
Else) Two tracks by a variety of Finnish collaborators creating
improvised noise jams. Very earthy noise. $6
- Niko Skorpio "Grey Bloom" 12" LP (Some Place
Else) His first release from 1998 sees a variety of noise collaborations
tracking the grit of Finnish scapes. Stands the test of time... $10
- Reptiljian / Ibrahim Terzic 7" (Some Place Else) One
side mixes Muslimgauze with splattercore and the other is playful,
caustic electronic noise. Both sides sound great and point in an interesting
direction for this new Scandinavian label. $6
- Skorpio / Reptiljian "Silence is King" 7" (Some
Place Else) A dope collaboration by these 2 Finnish experimentalists
leads to 4 tracks of downtempo broken electro. Sweet. $6
Society Suckers/Abdullah K 12"
(AmEx 1) The Suckers reinvent breakbeat hardcore and throw in a
little noirish voice-over . Plenty of thick beats here. I mean killer
bass buzz with maximum paranoid high synths. Abdullah K (a.k.a.
Bogdan Rodzinski) is straight puff-tuff hard jungle with plenty
of nice analogedges helping rinse it out. Proper dancefloor material.
$11
Somatic Responses "Post-Organic" 12"
(Praxis 18) An older S.R. gets reissued and rightfully so. The Somatics
are in full hard industrial techno mode here with their signature
acid crust added to some well-crafted hard beats. Good production
- the sounds come alive... $11
Sons Urbains 06 12" (Sons
rbains) Counter Pressure, LeXPekor, GH Base Mobile provide more
mid-tempo breaks with plenty of urban (urbain?) grit and flavor.
Good for late-night b-boy breakdown spinning. $11
Stalkf4 12" - Do I know what this Nantes,
France producer is about? Hell no, but it's some seriously damaged
shufflin' braekcore with plenty of breakdowns, acoustic samples
and weirdo dubby mixes. Reminds us of other French pals Kktus
Tribe and Antistatik; hypnotic, rollin' breaks with noize and
broken here and there. Strong new talent and cool artwork. $12
Still "Anodyne/Love from Room 232" 7"
Droney instrumental post-rock with good beats. I'd mix this into
1-Speed Bike anyday. Side 2 has some great bugged-out sounds! $6
Systemwide "Osmani Stepper" CD EP (B.S.I.)- rootsy digidub with nice full productions and a full live
band and we're always suckers for melodicas. Six tracks with two remixes
by Alpha and Omega and Rootsman. $6
**Team
Shadetek feat. 77 Klash and Jah Dan "Brooklyn
Anthem" (SoundInk) Definitely one of SoundInk's
hottest releases, properly delivered in time for summer. Shadetek
delivers with their hybrid electronic grime hip hop sound under
raps by 77 Klash, Jah Dan, Zesto and Rustee Juxx. A hybrid indeed
and one which succeeds with a combo of strong beats and cantankerous
underground MCs. A summer hit!!! $9
Terminal 11 "Bistro" 7" (Advanced
Idea Mechanics) A sweet little bugged-out bugger from the Philly
camp, home to Duran Duran Duran to drop a reference... This is all
punch-drunk chopped up beats with plenty of creative little rhythms
slipped in. More broken beat than breakcore - we likey! $6
Tester vs. Capleton 12" (Maxi Tuff Ganger) The "Dissin'
Yuh Sound" is tight as is that "Cellular Phone" track
they use on the flip. This is a straight ragga jungle runner in a
Rewind Records style with Capleton vocals. $10
Textor and Positive "Pure Luck"/version" 7" A
loopy hip hop beat with warped samples and KRS-ONE lines under a
German rapper whose alright. The version is worth spinning, as well.
$6
**Toecutter "We
Topia" 2x
12" + 7" LP (System Corrupt)
Australia's SyCo collective finally deliver a mega LP on our shores
with amazing artwork and a lot of vinyl. It's all mash-up madness
with everyone from Tommy Tutone to Kid 606 at the party. Oh, and
the xylophone breakcore "Smoke on the Water"? Yes, that's
why they needed a 7" added...It's pure mental laughs amid a
din of distorted party breaks. Nice package, dude. $20
Trolls "Moignon pourri ton alie volera" 12" -
2003 release follows the same vibe as their previous release. Solid.
- $12
**Trouble & Bass 12" EP
(Add Ad At) Mathhead and Drop the Lime combine to deliver 3 tracks
that sparkle and strut with dubstep, techno and grime flourishes.
It's pure NYC Trouble and Bass and all the experimenting is paying
off well. One of their best yet, delivering for the dancefloor
with a Snap! $12
**Trouble & Bass "Bass Bandits" 12" (Flamin'
Hotz) Mathhead and Drop the Lime team up for a B-more mash-up
record with pure NYC flavor. "Ridin Dirty" and "Somebody's
Watchin Me" get 4x4 workouts alongside some other primo
Southern rap mash-up action and dope artwork. This is pure
Saturday night dancefloor action - all 6 traxxx! $13
Umkra / +2H-2N 7" (Trakma)
Textured synth/breaks-driven French electronics with plenty
of mixable material. Weird noises abound making this one
stand out - more anti-war sentiment here, as well. $6
**Undacover "Intrusion" CD (Dyslexic Response)
Definitely a Dyslexic release with a brutally hard distorted sound
ripping with raw energy. These tracks sound like the track is actually
breaking out of itself. A lot of it definitely verges on powerviolence
despite its dark breakcore roots... we like that! $12
Urbana Youth Outreach "No More War" 12"
(Eupholus) - Experimental DIY breaks from the Midwest with a bit of
a ragga dub edge thrown in. This is our favorite Eupholus release
and we think you'll like what they're doing... $9
Uske Orettestra "Moli
Herzog" CD (ambivalence) Dreamy yet disturbing free
form electro-acoustics. Eerily reminiscent of the many shows I have
heard while bartending upstairs at Tonic. Thankfully it is more playful
than serious. Nice packaging. The same Belgium label that has put
out the lovely Synchopated Elevators Legacy 12". $13
**V/A "8
Sound Works" benefit CD - Neighborhood pirate radio
station free103point9 implants New Yorkers in rural upstate for an
abstract electronic jam transmitted and listened to by people tuning
it in on headphones while wandering through the woods. This is a benefit
disc for The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology so there's a running
theme to the recordings and intriguing liner notes about the project.
Most notable for us because there's one of the first audio recordings
from MPLD, the Broklyn graphics honcho. Ben Owen another Broklyn
collaborator produced this collection minimal abstract noise which
has grown out of his Seasonal parties here in Williamsburg. $12
V/A "Bruchstellen Rec. Vol. 2" 12" (Bruchstellen
Rec.) Aussie - German collab. of distorted mash-up ravey breakcore.
If you're familiar with any of the artists, you'll dig this immensely:
LFO Demo, Maladroit, Toecutter, Edgey, Main$tream, and D.R.K. Dancefloor-ready,
but still experimental. $12
**V/A Bruchstellen
Records Vol. 3 12" (Bruchstellen)
Six experimental breaks and ragga from Ariq 7 Enk, Ely Muff,
Krumble, Kos, Trouble Clef (Trolls!!!) and Strident Vortx from
this Hamburg upstart. Istari Lasterfahrer delivers a fine track
as does Trouble Clef and Krumble. Cut-up madness from the land
of breakcore. $12
**V/A
Byteburger 12" - Very happy to get a few copies of
this hard-to-find French comp. It's twelve tracks of bizarre electronic
electronics from a bunch of artists we've never heard of from Strasbourg.
Reomini's track still slays 3 years later with it's electro breakcore
finesse. Don't sleep. $11
V/A
Cockrockdisco 02 12" - A messy, noisey beast of a let's
make-it-in-a-day effort that succeeds with glorious colors. Warst
wins, but DuranDuranDuran, Jason Forrest and Dev/null are only a
cock's length behind in this punky breakcore, neorave meltdown.
Comes with a loverly poster from Jason Forrest, unicorn stickers
and a dozen Hoover samples for maximum DJ pleasure. $12
**V/A Cockrockdisco
03 12" EP
(CRD) Jason Forrest along with Bong-Ra (wicked Skeletor track!!!)
, Terminal 11 and Deacon Bombastardizer deliver mental neorave
sample-nuts breakcore in that do-it-in-an-hour improv ADD way.
Wonderful butterfly sticker and post-rave tent poster + DJ
sample cuts make this one of the best he's done in the series.
$13
V/A "Contaminated Bass Injection" 12"
EP (Dirty Needles 001) A tight compilation of London broken electro
with tracks by DJ Controlled Weirdness, Ronin, Noyeahno and Black
Mass Plastics whose grime-edge wins out hard. Can't wait for 002.
$10
V/A - Crooked "The Original Score" CD
(Wordsound) 23 tracks inspired and included in the Wordsound movie
"Crooked". This is a great overview of everyone on the
Wordsound label and their newer projects: Scotty Hard, Sensational,
Spectre, Mentol Nomad and Bill Laswell define the legacy of Wordsound's
gritty, abstract hip hop. $10
V/A - Flav-o-Pac: Memeograph (Soundlab) Way back
when Soundlab had a label and there wasn't so many electronic artists
and the WTC is still in the picture, everyone got along and gave
tracks topromoters Soundlab: Mutamassik, I-Sound, Shizuo, Spooky,
Anti-Pop, Toshio Kajiwara and many more connect the new terrain
to the illbient beginnings laid before. Another discount goodie...
$8
**V/A "Grmo Crnko" 12" (Pure Fire)
This is a retarded mash-up 12" using grime and dubstep instrumentals
with Crunk a capellas. Highlights include Skream & Big Boi and
Dexplicit & Slim
Thug. A definite addition to your party platters. Original. $10
V/A"Laisse Les Sexes
Primer" 12" EP (Kor a Kor 2) A six-track compilation
of hardbreaks with French MCs addressing sexual politics. Included
are tracks by Les Trolls as well as Parisian Gorki Plubakter and
newcomers Whaloo and Cornflex. It's probably a lot better if you
can understand French, but still contains some solid trax and plenty
of DJ-tool French sex samples between each track. Tracks by Nevroz
and Trouble Clef win out substituting MCs for cut-up sex samples
and an Aaliyah "Try Again" mash-up. $11
V/A
Marasm 10 7" EP (Marasm) another nice EP of dirty downtempo
from this Paris label. Four tracks of heavy breaks from Caterva,
Les Trolls, Sound Disaster and Umkra. A good deal. $5
V/A - Noodles 1112" Si
Begg, Kirk and Osymyso give us a sweet combo of electro, minimal
techno and funk on this resuscitated oddball label which never disappoints.
$11
V/A - Night on Earth Records 1 10" EP (Night
on Earth) Labelhead Tzii introduces us to hi broken beats noise
romp on the first 2 tracks and UHT/Saoulleterre finish things
off with a dirty lo-fi ragga breakcore pop track. Dope dubcore
DJ material here! $10
V/A - Night on Earth 2 12" EP (Night on Earth) Tzii,
Gamaboy, Grabuk, Saouleterre, Thropp, Music for Sleeping and Gorky
Plubakter present Parisian electronic noise in the form of textures
and dubby effects. Most of this is beatless experimentation ideal
for DJing noise sets. Wicked shit. $10
V/A - Night on Earth 4 12" EP (Night on Earth) Here
we see the same cast of French characters (Gamaboy and Tzii) playing
host to Germany's LFO Demon and Minneapolis Broklyn pal Radar Threat,
plus Man-Eater Orchestra, S. Lemonon and Cham. All artists' sounds
are quite different, but tend to aim at industrial noise elements
in a dubbier, newer setting. LFO Demon slows his breakcore down to
dubstep and delivers. Radar Threat on vinyl is a treat as well! Class
act, this one! $10
**V/A "Pink Ponies vs. Blue Bytes" 7" (SPB
/ Alphacute 01) Gameboy madness done well from 4 German electronic
folks on a twisted pop trip: Frederik Schikowski, Karl Marx Stadt,
error23 and lxc represent on Istari Lasterfahrer's label and new
Alphacute. $7
V/A - "Popular Electronic Uzak" CD (Samboat)
This is about a year old, but still ahead of things with 20 tracks
from all of our underground Parisian friends: DJ Isaac, Saouleterre,
Gamaboy, Tzii and many more (even Duck Juggler!) Imagine a bunch of
broke-ass city kids cranking out dirty electro and noise on drum machines
and you have the Paris sound! A good introduction at a great price.
$10
V/A -"Popular Electronic
Uzak vol. 2" CD (Samboat) Another cool compilation covering
the underground electro and noise scene in Paris with 17 selections
from Tzii, Ripit, Gamaboy and many others. A few non-French artists
such as Donna Summer and Sikhara also pop up. Cool cover, too. $12
V/A Reject Records #1 12" (Reject) This new
Michigan label comes out the block strong with this assortment of
chopped-up breakcore (labelhead Selector Catalogue,) downtempo noise
(Deucalion,) hip hop instrumental (Da Vinci Green) and next-level
greatness from DJ Aneurysm and Uchuuhikoushi. They even threw in a
track of scratch samples! $8
V/A
- Shockout 06 12" (Tigerbeat 6) Finally got ahold
of some of TB6's sweet Shockout 12"s. This one features Shadetek's
dope "Balkan Nights Riddim" and Drop the Lime's stop-onna-dime
breaks under Wayne Lonesome's "Gal Yuh Nuh Beg." Our
fave of the series and back in print... $9
V/A
- Shockout 08 12" (Tigerbeat 6)This 12" sees Drop
the Lime and Ghislain Poirier loading up tracks for Wayne Lonesome's
"Tribute to Tiger" vocal. DtL drops 3 tracks, one exp.d'n'b,
one in his tribal dub stylee and one breakcore. Poirier gives us something
more in a Soot/ Rupture style. Known more as an MC, you cannot front
on G.P.'s production prowess... $9
V/A "Showtunes of the Condemned"
CD (Hospital Prod.) From this promising new Providence noise
label comes a compilation of new tracks from the likes of Pleasurehorse
(3 new tracks!), Sinking Body, Kites, Work/Death, Smashed femur
Dance Party and Meerck Puffy. Top quality glitchy, spastic beat
madness from the capital of noise. $10
V/A "Speedhall" 12"
comp. (Koolpop) Yes, first there was dubcore and now we have speedhall...
and that's what this is: 4 trax from Kovert, Amboss and FFF ("Batty
Bwoy"?!) The best new ragga breakcore... errr... speedhall this
season. Oh, did I mention it's got Sizzla vox thrown hard all over
it?! Underpants-dancecore for the German masses!!! Sweet distortion.
$12
V/A "Sidetracked"
double LP (Mode of Proof) This new Detroit label gets
kickstarted with a grand double LP of short tracks by 56 different
artists, a veritable U.S. breakcore who's who. Donna Summer, Bombadier,
Dev/null, Duranduranduran, Xanopticon and many many more. Great
packaging and a great start... $14
**V/A - "Sou Funk EP" (Flamin Hotz) Philly
label bootlegs some of the best baile funk MP3s on this delicious
slice of vinyl. Raw electro-funk made better with cut-ups of
the Rocky theme and sweet Brazilian MCs. Recommended for its
freshness and rareness. $12
V/A "Speedhall The Rewind"
12" (KoolPop) Berlin's KoolPop rarely disappoint and
this second Speedhall comp. doesn't. Geryoche, Amboss and Unsane Virusez
mash up dancehall vocals with experimental breakcore, the second winning
with a laidback distorted buzz best described as skankhall. Amboss
delivers 2 Sean Paul mash-ups, the first delivering the way every
mash-up should (if not, why bother?!) $11
**V/A "Trash n Ready Tour" 12" EP
comp. (Peace Off!) Peace Off's 2006 summer tour platter highlights
2 new tracks from Rotator akin to his Broklyn 12" (HOTTT!!!)
as well as 2 each from Krumble (dense, electric speedhall) and Cardopusher
(stop-on-a-dime speedCORE.) Plenty of sharp breakcore from this definitive
label. $13
V/A "World A Jamrock" 7" (Punchline)
A wicked boot from England mixing Ini Kamoaze's first verse from his
original with Damien Marley's new take. A great mix if you dig the
riddim. The flip is a reggaeton mash-up of "Freaky Toma"
with Spragga Benz, Lil Jon, Pitbull and Lady Saw. Reggaeton from England?!?
$7.50
Venetian Snares "Winnepeg
is a Frozen Shithole Vol. 2" 12"
(Peace Off!) Mental gabberbreak action from the frozen shithole.
If you spin gabber and hardcore, you will want this... nice acid
lines in there, too. $12
**Venetian Snares "Winnepeg
is a Frozen Shithole EP Vol. 2" 12" (Peace Off!)
Aaron casts his second audio spell over the city of Winnepeg, opting
for jackhammer gabber breaks, chop-cut scratching and schizophrenic
rave melodies with nice breakdowns. Yes, the half-time ravey breakdowns
are nice... $12
Venetian Snares/Fanny "Leopards of Mass Destruction" 7"
(Death$ucker) - Bugged-out disco breaks from Winnepeg roommates.
This would hurt on drugs: I see the bunny in the ground... $6
**V/VM "The
Sound of Belgian New Beat" 12" EP (V/VM Rec.) Six sick acid electro tracks
with titles like "I Wanna Fuck Nicky Stax." Great shit
if you're into dark electro and sick underworld beats to use with
buttplugs. These guys have a funny sense of humor! $13
**V/VM "Made in Belgium" 12" EP
(WeMe Rec.) V/VM return with a tribute to Belgian New Beat paying
homage to Lords of Acid, Nicky Trax and the like. Dirty raw acid
that sounds as original and sick as their predecessors. Four tracks
of dancefloor acid electro with that special V/VM mental edge. $13
**Xanopticon "Psicicite" 12" EP (Hymen)
Skittery, seething, grandiose breakcore from Steeltown. Xanopticon
invents a dark, bombastic world, thick with sound, claustrophobic
and suffocating. Nice dynamics prevail, however, and this is
his best in our opinion... $11
Yee King "Fat Drunk Dead" 2
x 12" LP (Trash Records) England's now-defunkt Trash
Records released some dope vinyl 5 years back, bridging the gap
between today's breakcore and 20th century experimental techno
and jungle. This LP has plenty of programmed madness, from
Throbbing Gristle passages to distorto-electro. Think early
Squarepusher. Out of print. $15
Zea "One Bomb Fits All" remix
12" (Transformed Dreams) Dutch 2-piece Zea make electronic,
melodic pop with buzzsaw guitars and great melodies. Leave it to
Melt Banana, 1-Speed Bike, Donna Summer and Felix Kubin to twist
these great songs their own way. Definitely one of the best things
out this year. $11