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Features

Beyond the Pale : November 14-17, 2002 : DNA Lounge, San Francisco


During the weekend of November 14-17, 2002, the DNA Lounge played host to the second invocation of the Beyond the Pale festival. Organized by Neurosis and Neurot Recordings, this year's festival included Neurosis, Tarantula Hawk, Stars of the Lid, Jarboe, and reunions of Savage Republic and Steel Pole Bath Tub.

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Destined: Afrirampo


Japan's Afrirampo bring vigor and fun-loving musical freedom with their powerful, primitive stomp-and-roll.

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Destined: DMBQ


Tokyo's DMBQ bring together heavy rock, psychedelicisms, garage rock roots, and an experimental bent to create a stew that's more than a sum of its parts. They'll visit the U.S. for the first time in December, making this the ideal time for Dusted to introduce them to this side of the Pacific.

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Destined: White


Dusted's Mason Jones checks out the out sounds of Beijing's White.

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Life In Mono


Japan's epic, instrumental rock quartet Mono discuss their inspirations, urge to create, and how to communicate without words.

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Sounds from Japan


Dusted's resident expert Mason Jones reports back (via mp3) on his recent trip to Japan.

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The Unmemorable Year in Music (Mason Jones)


A brief look back at 2003's musical offerings.

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Reviews


Artist: 23 Skidoo

Album: Just Like Everybody Part 2

Label: Ronin

Review date: Dec. 8, 2002

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Artist: 310

Album: Recessional

Label: Leaf

Review date: Feb. 22, 2004

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Artist: 9 Lazy 9

Album: Sweet Jones

Label: Ninja Tune

Review date: Aug. 19, 2003

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A Fond Farewell in High Style


Artist: Abunai!

Album: Two Brothers

Label: Camera Obscura

Review date: May. 4, 2003

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Funk Noir


Artist: Barry Adamson

Album: The King of Nothing Hill

Label: Mute

Review date: Dec. 11, 2002

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Rock and Epic Emotion


Artist: Aerogramme

Album: Sleep and Release

Label: Matador

Review date: Mar. 13, 2003

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Artist: AFX

Album: Chosen Lords

Label: Rephlex

Review date: May. 10, 2006

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Artist: Edip Akbayram

Album: Edip Akbayram

Label: Shadoks

Review date: Jul. 20, 2006

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Artist: Animal Collective

Album: Grass

Label: FatCat

Review date: Jun. 13, 2006

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Artist: Antimatter

Album: Our Lady of the Skies

Label: Asphodel

Review date: Nov. 12, 2005

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Artist: The Apples in Stereo

Album: New Magnetic Wonder

Label: Yep Roc

Review date: May. 9, 2007

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Repetitive Pop Pulse


Artist: Appliance

Album: Are You Earthed?

Label: Mute

Review date: May. 19, 2003

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Set the Controls for Destination Unknown


Artist: Aska Temple

Album: Omega Point Live

Label: Nichts Records

Review date: Apr. 16, 2003

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Dramatic sounds of organic space


Artist: Aspects of Physics

Album: Systems of Social Recalibration

Label: Imputor?

Review date: Jul. 1, 2002

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Artist: Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

Album: Ekranoplan

Label: Tee Pee

Review date: Jun. 12, 2007

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Artist: The Asteroid #4

Album: An Amazing Dream

Label: Rainbow Quartz

Review date: Feb. 9, 2007

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Artist: Autechre

Album: Quaristice

Label: Warp

Review date: Feb. 8, 2008

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Artist: Avarus

Album: Vesikansi

Label: Secret Eye

Review date: Jun. 29, 2006

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Artist: Beauregard Ajax

Album: Deaf Priscilla

Label: Shadoks

Review date: Jun. 30, 2006

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A Junkyard of Sound,
A Lack of Purpose


Artist: Les Biberons Batis

Album: Ok! C'est Correct!

Label: Mucho Gusto/Tir Groupe

Review date: Jun. 3, 2003

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Width of a Dub


Artist: Big Two Hundred

Album: Your Personal Filth

Label: DC Recordings

Review date: Mar. 6, 2003

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Artist: The Black Heart Procession

Album: The Spell

Label: Touch and Go

Review date: May. 8, 2006

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Artist: Black Moth Super Rainbow

Album: Falling Through a Field

Label: Graveface

Review date: Jan. 5, 2004

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Artist: Black Ox Orkestar

Album: Nisht Azoy

Label: Constellation

Review date: Jun. 21, 2006

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Artist: Black Sun Ensemble

Album: Starlight

Label: Camera Obscura

Review date: Oct. 24, 2003

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Artist: Blonde Redhead

Album: 23

Label: 4AD

Review date: Apr. 17, 2007

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Artist: Boris

Album: Akuma No Uta

Label: Southern Lord

Review date: Jun. 15, 2005

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Artist: Boy Dirt Car

Album: Winter+F/i split LP

Label: Lexicon Devil

Review date: Feb. 1, 2004

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Not One for NASDAQ


Artist: Broker/Dealer

Album: Initial Public Offering

Label: Asphodel

Review date: Aug. 28, 2003

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Artist: Circle

Album: Tower (featuring Verde)

Label: Last Visible Dog

Review date: Apr. 2, 2007

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The Return of Eddie and Bill


Artist: Coa

Album: Sea Urchin Character

Label: Gyuune

Review date: Jun. 16, 2003

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Artist: Coldcut

Album: Sound Mirrors

Label: Ninja Tune

Review date: May. 5, 2006

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Where's My Bong?


Artist: Comets on Fire

Album: Field Recordings From the Sun

Label: Ba Da Bing!

Review date: Aug. 22, 2002

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Artist: Coptic Light

Album: Coptic Light

Label: No Quarter

Review date: Jan. 4, 2006

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Artist: Cornelius

Album: Sensuous

Label: Warner Music Japan

Review date: Mar. 23, 2007

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Artist: Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho

Album: Paebiru

Label: Shadoks

Review date: Oct. 5, 2005

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Artist: Current 93

Album: Black Ships Ate The Sky

Label: Jnana

Review date: Apr. 24, 2006

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Artist: Current 93

Album: The Inmost Light

Label: Jnana

Review date: Jun. 25, 2007

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Artist: The Curtains

Album: Flybys

Label: Thin Wrist

Review date: May. 18, 2004

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Artist: Darc Mind

Album: Symptomatic of a Greater Ill

Label: Anticon

Review date: Nov. 14, 2006

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Artist: Das Synthetische Mischgewebe

Album: Gleis3eck/Gorlitzer Tunnel

Label: AIC

Review date: Mar. 23, 2007

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Wherever You Go, There's the Guitar


Artist: Davis Redford Triad

Album: Code Orange

Label: Holy Mountain

Review date: Mar. 24, 2003

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Artist: The Dead C

Album: Future Artists

Label: Ba Da Bing!

Review date: May. 3, 2007

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Narcotic Haze


Artist: Delicate AWOL

Album: Heart Drops from the Great Space

Label: Fire

Review date: Jan. 5, 2003

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Artist: The Dipsomaniacs

Album: Praying Winter

Label: Camera Obscura

Review date: May. 5, 2004

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Artist: Discordance Axis

Album: Our Last Day

Label: Hydra Head

Review date: Aug. 15, 2005

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Artist: Distance

Album: My Demons

Label: Planet Mu

Review date: May. 11, 2007

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Too Much of a Good Thing


Artist: DJ Spooky

Album: Dubtometry

Label: Thirsty Ear

Review date: Jul. 1, 2003

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Artist: DJ Spooky vs Twilight Circus

Album: Riddim Clash

Label: Play

Review date: Jan. 7, 2004

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When Distant Stars Gossip


Artist: Double Leopards

Album: Halve Maen

Label: Eclipse

Review date: Aug. 14, 2003

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Artist: The Drift

Album: Noumena

Label: Temporary Residence

Review date: Sep. 13, 2005

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Artist: Efterklang

Album: Tripper

Label: Leaf

Review date: Apr. 27, 2005

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Artist: Einstürzende Neubauten

Album: Alles Wieder Offen

Label: Potomak

Review date: Oct. 22, 2007

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Artist: Einstürzende Neubauten

Album: Perpetuum Mobile

Label: Mute

Review date: Mar. 16, 2004

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Artist: Electrelane

Album: The Power Out

Label: Too Pure

Review date: Mar. 28, 2004

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Artist: Electric Turn To Me

Album: Clouds Move So Fast

Label: No Quarter

Review date: Mar. 8, 2004

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Artist: End

Album: The Sounds of Disaster

Label: Ipecac

Review date: Jun. 7, 2004

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Friends Mean Disintegration


Artist: Erase Errata

Album: Dancing Machine: The Remix Record

Label: Troubleman Unlimited

Review date: Jun. 4, 2003

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Artist: Et Ret

Album: Gasworks

Label: Western Vinyl

Review date: Jul. 20, 2006

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Artist: Expo '70

Album: Animism

Label: Kill Shaman

Review date: Jul. 17, 2007

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Artist: F/i

Album: Blanga

Label: Lexicon Devil

Review date: Jan. 7, 2006

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Artist: John Fahey

Album: The Yellow Princess

Label: Vanguard

Review date: Jan. 20, 2006

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A Tribute to Three Decades of Experimentation


Artist: Faust

Album: Patchwork 1971-2002

Label: Staubgold

Review date: Nov. 18, 2002

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Make the Devil Dance For You


Artist: Firewater

Album: The Man on the Burning Tightrope

Label: Jetset

Review date: Jul. 17, 2003

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Artist: Four Tet

Album: My Angel Rocks Back and Forth

Label: Domino

Review date: Oct. 12, 2004

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Artist: Fresh Maggots

Album: Hatched

Label: Sunbeam

Review date: Aug. 9, 2006

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Cartoon-like Musical Hybrids


Artist: Fred Frith

Album: Gravity

Label: ReR Megacorp

Review date: Aug. 1, 2002

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Unpredictable Dynamics for Dance


Artist: Fred Frith

Album: Accidental

Label: ReR Megacorp

Review date: Aug. 8, 2002

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Artist: Fujiya & Miyagi

Album: Transparent Things

Label: Deaf, Dumb and Blind

Review date: Feb. 28, 2007

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History isn't always pretty


Artist: Fushitsusha

Album: 1978

Label: PSF

Review date: Aug. 12, 2003

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Artist: Diamanda Galás

Album: Guilty Guilty Guilty

Label: Mute

Review date: Mar. 24, 2008

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Artist: Gang Wizard

Album: North Cali Spring 2005

Label: Green Tape

Review date: Apr. 6, 2006

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Artist: Ghost

Album: Hypnotic Underworld

Label: Drag City

Review date: Jan. 29, 2004

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Artist: The Goblin Market

Album: Haunted

Label: Camera Obscura

Review date: Jan. 25, 2006

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Artist: Gown

Album: Sacred Mountains

Label: Ecstatic Yod

Review date: Feb. 21, 2006

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Artist: The Green Pajamas

Album: The Night Races Into Anna

Label: Hidden Agenda

Review date: Mar. 1, 2007

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Artist: Grey Daturas

Album: Dead in the Woods

Label: Crucial Blast

Review date: Oct. 25, 2007

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Rhythmic Smorgasbord from Osaka


Artist: Grind Orchestra

Album: Botsukosei-Shu

Label: Tag Rag

Review date: Jan. 29, 2003

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Artist: The Gris Gris

Album: The Gris Gris

Label: Birdman

Review date: Oct. 15, 2004

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Artist: Growing

Album: The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light

Label: Kranky

Review date: Oct. 19, 2004

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Artist: Brion Gysin

Album: one night @ the 1001

Label: Sub Rosa

Review date: May. 25, 2006

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Another Dark Nightmare


Artist: Keiji Haino

Album: "C'est parfait" endoctrine tu tombes le tete la premiere

Label: Turtles' Dream

Review date: Feb. 16, 2003

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Artist: Hair Police

Album: The Empty Quarter

Label: Harbinger Sound

Review date: Apr. 8, 2008

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Artist: Hala Strana

Album: These Villages

Label: Soft Abuse

Review date: Nov. 29, 2004

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Artist: Harmonia

Album: Live 1974

Label: Water

Review date: Apr. 30, 2008

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Quality Prog-Rock from Japan


Artist: Head Pop Up

Album: Tokusen Burari Tabi

Label: Poseidon

Review date: Jun. 18, 2003

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Artist: The Helio Sequence

Album: Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Label: Sub Pop

Review date: Jan. 29, 2008

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Artist: The Herbaliser

Album: Same As It Never Was

Label: Ninja Tune

Review date: May. 28, 2008

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Artist: Hisato Higuchi

Album: She

Label: Ghost Disc

Review date: Apr. 7, 2004

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Artist: Hisato Higuchi

Album: 2004 11 2005 4

Label: Ghost Disc

Review date: Oct. 6, 2005

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Artist: HiM

Album: Peoples

Label: Bubble Core

Review date: Apr. 11, 2006

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Artist: The Holy Kiss

Album: Shot Love on a Back Line

Label: Release The Bats

Review date: May. 10, 2007

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Superlative Folk from 1966


Artist: Incredible String Band

Album: Incredible String Band

Label: Sepia Tone

Review date: Oct. 10, 2002

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Slim but Worthy Legacy of Texan Psych


Artist: Iota

Album: Iota

Label: Normal

Review date: Jun. 29, 2003

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Hold You Back Calmly


Artist: David Jackman

Album: Verhalte Dich ruhig

Label: Die Stadt

Review date: Sep. 3, 2003

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Artist: Jazkamer & Smegma

Album: Endless Coast

Label: No Fun

Review date: Oct. 23, 2007

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Artist: Jennifer Gentle

Album: Ectoplasmic Garden Party

Label: Lexicon Devil

Review date: Oct. 15, 2003

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Artist: Hoppy Kamiyama

Album: A Meaningful Meaninglessness

Label: Creage/Yamaha

Review date: Oct. 6, 2005

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Artist: Hoppy Kamiyama & Bill Laswell

Album: A Navel City / No One is There

Label: Creage/Yamaha

Review date: May. 13, 2004

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Artist: Jonathan Kane

Album: February

Label: Table of the Elements

Review date: Sep. 14, 2005

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Mysterious, Unsettlingly Personal Sounds


Artist: Hiroshi Kawani

Album: Flashback

Label: PSF

Review date: May. 26, 2003

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Artist: Kemialliset Ystävät

Album: Kemialliset Ystävät

Label: Fonal

Review date: Jul. 2, 2007

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Slow is as Slow does


Artist: Khanate

Album: "No Joy" / "Dead"

Label: Load

Review date: Aug. 13, 2003

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Artist: Kiila

Album: Silmat Sulkaset

Label: Fonal

Review date: Aug. 9, 2004

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It Shrunk All the Distance
With Its Power


Artist: Kousokuya

Album: 1st

Label: PSF

Review date: Sep. 1, 2003

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Artist: Kudu

Album: Death of the Party

Label: Nublu

Review date: Mar. 3, 2006

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Artist: Ladies W.C.

Album: Ladies W.C.

Label: Shadoks

Review date: Sep. 15, 2004

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Artist: Laibach

Album: WAT

Label: Mute

Review date: Feb. 23, 2004

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Hypnotic Magnetism


Artist: The Land of Nod

Album: Inducing the Sleep Sphere

Label: Ochre

Review date: Jun. 9, 2003

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The Well-Mannered Psychedelic


Artist: The Lazily Spun

Album: The Lazily Spun

Label: Camera Obscura

Review date: Jun. 11, 2003

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Artist: Alan Licht

Album: A New York Minute

Label: XI

Review date: Jan. 4, 2004

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Decayed Precision for Opiated Gatherings


Artist: Hakan Lidbo

Album: 6/10/60

Label: Mitek

Review date: Oct. 7, 2002

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Artist: Lietterschpich

Album: I Cum Blood in the Think Tank

Label: Heart & Crossbone

Review date: Oct. 24, 2007

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Artist: Lightning Dust

Album: Lightning Dust

Label: Jagjaguwar

Review date: Jul. 11, 2007

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Artist: Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Album: Faux Depart

Label: Yik Yak

Review date: Aug. 24, 2006

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Artist: Mahogany

Album: Memory Column

Label: Darla

Review date: Aug. 11, 2005

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Majestic Rock Chaos


Artist: Major Stars

Album: Distant Effects

Label: Squealer

Review date: Aug. 15, 2002

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Travel + Piano = ?


Artist: Takagi Masakatsu

Album: Opus Pia

Label: Carpark

Review date: Jul. 1, 2002

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Real World vs. Surreal World


Artist: Takagi Masakatsu

Album: Journal for People

Label: Daisyworld

Review date: Aug. 26, 2002

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Artist: The Master Musicians of Joujouka

Album: Boujeloud

Label: Sub Rosa

Review date: Jan. 25, 2007

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Artist: Francisco Meirino & Tim Olive

Album: Eagle Keys

Label: Even Stilte

Review date: Jul. 19, 2007

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Late 60s San Francisco Rock Unearthed


Artist: Mendelbaum

Album: Mendelbaum

Label: Normal

Review date: Jun. 22, 2003

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Artist: Mercury Rev

Album: The Secret Migration

Label: V2

Review date: May. 2, 2005

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Another superb Merzbow release


Artist: Merzbow

Album: Amlux

Label: Important

Review date: Jan. 12, 2003

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Artist: Merzbow

Album: Sha Mo 3000 & Tranz

Label: Essence

Review date: Jul. 1, 2005

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Cornelius drummer's fractured pop experiments


Artist: Migu

Album: Migu

Label: Ochre

Review date: Jul. 11, 2003

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Artist: Miminokoto

Album: Miminokoto 2

Label: Austin

Review date: Sep. 15, 2003

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Artist: The Moglass

Album: Sparrow Juice

Label: Nexsound

Review date: Aug. 16, 2006

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Artist: Mono

Album: You Are There

Label: Temporary Residence

Review date: Feb. 28, 2006

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The Magic of Ordinary Sounds


Artist: Gen Ken Montgomery

Album: Pondfloorsample

Label: XI

Review date: Jan. 21, 2003

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Artist: The Moon Upstairs

Album: Guarding the Golden Apple

Label: Gifted Children

Review date: Oct. 26, 2007

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Artist: Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects

Album: Listen Up

Label: Sweet Nothing

Review date: Aug. 29, 2006

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Artist: Nadja

Album: Skin Turns to Glass

Label: The End

Review date: Jun. 4, 2008

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Artist: Nebula

Album: Atomic Ritual

Label: Liquor and Poker

Review date: Jan. 8, 2004

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Oscillator Party


Artist: Nerve Net Noise

Album: Meteor Circuit

Label: Intransitive

Review date: Jun. 13, 2002

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Calm and Simple


Artist: Ogurusu Norihide

Album: Humour

Label: Carpark

Review date: Jul. 15, 2002

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Artist: Noxagt

Album: Noxagt

Label: Load

Review date: Aug. 11, 2006

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Artist: KK Null and Daniel Menche

Album: Raijin

Label: Asphodel

Review date: Oct. 6, 2006

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Click-and-Pop


Artist: o.lamm

Album: Snow Party

Label: Active Suspension

Review date: Jun. 13, 2002

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Dark Depths


Artist: Ohkami no Jikan

Album: Mort Nuit

Label: Fractal

Review date: Jul. 15, 2003

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