V/A Regolith Vol.1 (Moon Glyph) lp 11.98

V/A Reich Remixed (Nonesuch) cd 15.98
Remixes of Steve Reich's compositions from across his career. DJ Takemura (soon to release a full length on Thrill Jockey, and also known as Child's View), Andrea Parker, Coldcut and DJ Spooky absolutely rise to the occasion by preserving a bit of what gave Reich his edge, but adding their own voices to the mix creating tracks that are unique in their own right. Also included (rather straight-up remixes where adding beats is the approach) are Howie B, Mantronik, Tranquility Bass, Ken Ishii and others. LP has an extra track.

V/A Reich Remixed (Nonesuch) lp 14.98
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Remixes of Steve Reich's compositions from across his career. DJ Takemura (soon to release a full length on Thrill Jockey, and also known as Child's View), Andrea Parker, Coldcut and DJ Spooky absolutely rise to the occasion by preserving a bit of what gave Reich his edge, but adding their own voices to the mix creating tracks that are unique in their own right. Also included (rather straight-up remixes where adding beats is the approach) are Howie B, Mantronik, Tranquility Bass, Ken Ishii and others. LP has an extra track.

V/A Release The Bats: The Birthday Party As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three.One.G (Three.One.G) cd 14.98
Those cool kids at Three.One.G (aka the label run by Justin from The Locust!) have delivered another tribute album (you might recall their rad Dynamite With A Laserbeam compilation cd dedicated to Queen). This one celebrates "one of the best bands that has ever existed" (their words, not ours, but some of us here might tend to agree)... The Birthday Party! Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard and co. were (and continue to be) one of the most influential bands on the angst-ridden SoCal music scene that was spearheaded by this label and their comrades Gold Standard Laboratories. But unlike that of many of the youngsters who've followed in their tracks, there was no question that their pit of torment and despair and blind rage was genuine. That said, the churn and rumble and tortured scowls and yowls emanating from this disc definitely do conjure visions of the bands' members and their instruments being forced through the meat grinder mentioned in the title. Some of the renditions definitely pay much reverence to the fierce originals while others tear 'em to bits, leaving little in the way of resemblance. Such is the spirit of Three.One.G. though, so if you're already a fan of the label you already know exactly what to expect. If you're a stranger to these folks, this might be a bit of a jolt. Some Birthday Party devotee might even find some of it sacrilegious. Here's the list of bristly and black-clad 'Party goers in order of appearance: The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Das Oath, T Cells, Cattle Decapitation, Year Future, Ssion, Ex Models, Les Georges Leningrad, Rah Bras, Melt-Banana, Chinese Stars, Celebration, Kill Me Tomorrow, Get Hustle, Numbers, Error, Daughters, and Some Girls.
MPEG Stream: LES GEORGES LENINGRAD "Riddle House"
MPEG Stream: GET HUSTLE "Faint Heart"
MPEG Stream: MELT-BANANA "A Dead Song"

V/A Release Your Mind Volume 2 (Release) 3cd 18.98
Here's 32 exclusive tracks of the nastiest noise and experimental ambience from around the world, by the likes of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Tactile, Bastard Noise, Tribes of Neurot, Amber Asylum, Masonna, Illusion of Safety, etc. etc. etc.

V/A Rembetika: Songs Of The Greek Underground 1925 - 1947 (Trikont) 2cd 19.98
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Fairly caught with our pants down around our ankles we were when Sharpling & Wurster's "Music Scholar" suggested that every self respecting record store would have a large collection of Greek Rembetika music. Checking our inventory we could only attest to have ever had two different collections. It is with our heads hung in shame that we belatedly attempt to correct this oversite. Trikont, the friendly German label that brought us such crucial staples to the music lover's diet as 'Ho!: Roady Music From Vietnam', 'Texas Bohemia' and 4 volumes of recordings of the song 'La Paloma', now presents us with a handsome double disc set of Greek Rembetika music and, all kidding aside, this is fine collection.
Rembetika music developed early in the 20th century amongst the poor habitants of Greece. Much like the American blues, these marginalized members of Greek society wrote songs about pain, death, prison (many of the rembetika musicians of this time were jailed merely for playing their music), drugs (the word "rembetika" is derived from "tekes", meaning hash den), sorrow, etc. Comparisons have even been drawn to Harlem of the same period. The music is centered around the bouzouki, a home grown lute invented by rembetika musicians, but can include baglama (a smaller bouzouki), santouri (dulcimer), lyra (or violin), guitar, oud, clarinet and vocals of course. One of the things that made their music so rich was the absorption of musical influences from around the Mediterranean. Two tragic events, both in 1922, helped add to this melange: a fire that consumed the city of Smyrna on the coast of Asia Minor forced the Greek inhabitants back to mainland Greece and the Greco-Turkish war, which caused massive shifting of populations. Both events saw a new influx of poor immigrants who added their distinctive styles and melodies to the form. By 1937 the Greek government, viewing the anti-authoritarian and Arab influenced sounds as a cultural and political threat, banned the music from being played on the radio, favoring instead the more mainstream Piraeus style of rembetika. The 45 tracks on this two disc collection capture this brief and musically fertile phenomenon, featuring some of the best of the day, including Markos Vamvakaris, Rita Ambadsi, Evangelos Papazoglu and much more. This fine edition from Trikont comes with two booklets, and though the back cover claims to include an English translation there is in fact only a brief translation of some of the lyrics. All the historical documentation will require an understanding of German.
RealAudio clip: VAMVAKARIS, MARKOS "Efumernam' Ena Vradi"
RealAudio clip: AMBADSI, RITA "Hanumakia"
RealAudio clip: PERPINIADIS, STELLAKIS "I Foni Tu Argile"

V/A Rephlexions! (Rephlex) cd 14.98
The second testimonial, following the excellent Braindance Coincidence sampler, to the consistency of quality and occasional goofiness of Richard D. James and Grant Wilson Claridge's visionary Rephlex label. What you get here is a handful of 'hits' from some of electronic music's underground superstars as well as some of the amazing electroacoustic gems you just might have slept on in the recent past. Given the fact that Rephlex is notorious for their unpredictable agenda of keeping the back catalogue in or out of print (the majority of these tracks are from albums currently out of print or very hard to find), here's a good chance to catch up with what possibly flew over your head. Braindance heads will need this for the two exclusives takin' it back to the old school: AFX drops an acid classic while Luke Vibert shows you who's Papa, Amen Andrews style. Neophytes will enjoy previously released cuts from Astrobotnia, Pierre Bastien, Bochum Welt, Cylob, D'Arcangelo, DMX Krew, Ensemble, The Gentle People, Global Goon, JP Buckle, Leila, Like A Tim, Robert Normandeau, Bogdan Raczynski, PP Roy, Slipper and Yee-King.
MPEG Stream: AMEN ANDREWS "Remember This"
MPEG Stream: AFX "Mangle 11 (Circuit Bent V.I.P. Mix)"

V/A Reportage: Spela Sjalv (Expo Norr) lp 17.98
Reissue of this long lost seventies Swedish release, originally purported to be a Trad Gras Och Stenar album, when in fact, it's something much more interesting. Bo Anders Persson, a member of Trad Gras Och Stenar, as well as Harvester, International Harvester and Parson Sound, traveled around Sweden, collecting field recordings of amateur musicians performing (the title roughly translates to 'Play Yourself'). So this is essentially like a Swedish drone rock, gypsy hippy folk version of Smithsonian Folkways (or Sublime Frequencies).
Wild fluttery flutes, chimes and rattles, whistles and tribal drumming, much of this definitely reminds us of modern soundmakers like Avarus and Sunburned Hand.
Simple hypnotic drumming over acoustic guitars and hand claps, whoops and hollers, still more flutes, violins, strings, hand drums, simple skeletal guitar melodies, lots of jaw harp, will percussion freakouts, occasional stretches of groovy spaced out kraut psych jamming, the whole time, the surrounding sounds become a part of the music, people talking, crowds in the distance, tinkling bottles, birds singing, total idyllic outsider psychedelic hippy jam.
A couple tracks on the B side stand out, one that sounds almost African, gorgeous and moody, percussive, but super melodic, like some sort of marimba, looped and loping and rhythmic and so mesmerizing, and another sprawling rhythmscape, cool, and acoustic, all deep lo thrum, big strings buzzing, a warm whirring sound peppered with all manner of jaw harp buzz, and some almost throat singing, really haunting and mysterious and so gorgeous.
Definitely recommended for anyone into the above mentioned Swedish outfits, but also anyone into field recordings and abstract psychedelia.
Exact reproduction of the original 1970 lp release, and of course, LIMITED!

V/A Reproductions (March) cd 14.98
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Human League. Tribute. Covers. Stephin Merritt (come on, who else's voice --- other than Phil Oakey --- is more suited to sing these songs?). More Stephen Merritt (Future Bible Heroes do "Don't You Want Me?"). More Stephin Merritt (The Sixths do "Human"). More. Lali Puna. Momus. Ladytron (doing a very bubbly version of "Open Your Heart"). Optiganally Yours. The Aluminum Group. And still more. Some very very faithful renditions. Some very hi-energy and danceworthy just like the originals. Some go in a very new and different directions (the dreamy wash of Lali Puna on "Electric Dreams", the slow strangeness of Momus).
RealAudio clip: FUTURE BIBLE HEROES "Don't You Want Me?"

V/A Requiems Of Revulsion: Tribute To Carcass (Deathvomit / Necropolis) cd 14.98
Covers comp, hailing the genius of British grindcore (grindgore?) masters, the late great Carcass. The more melodic, death n' roll of Carcass' last few albums (y'know, what the Champs sound like, when they're not doing the Thin Lizzy thing) is ignored in favor of their original, groundbreaking gross-outs: short, nasty, and noisy. The brutal riffs are matched in number by the multisyllabic medical terms employed. Such great underground metal bands as Exhumed ("Exhume To Consume" of course), Impaled, Cattle Decapitation, Nasum, Pig Destroyer, and 13 others appear, all showing much respect to the band that so inspired them. Heck, the first two mentioned definitely wouldn't exist if it weren't for Carcass. Pioneering Polish Carcass worshippers General Surgery even rise from the grave to appear on here!

V/A Reslab (Mitek) cd 14.98
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Mikael Stavostrand has done all that he can to distance himself from his earliest recordings in Archon Satani, whose bleak post-industrial work parallelled the earliest manifestations of the Norwegian black metal scene. No longer embracing the dark theatrical atmospheres embraced by the Cold Meat Industries label, Stavostrand is currently championing the minimal, tasteful, dubby techno also favored by Vladislav Delay, Sutekh, SND, and the rest of the "Clicks and Cuts" roster. "Reslab" (released on his Mitek imprint) is Stavostrand's answer to the "Clicks and Cuts" compilation featuring likeminded glitch techno from Andreas Tilliander, Grecl, Silent Comfort, and himself.

V/A Resonance volume 5 number 2 magazine+cd 7.98
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V/A Resonant Embers (Edition Sonoro / Twenty Hertz) cd 16.98
Edition Sonoro is the parallel label to Twenty Hertz, both of which are run by the British drone artist Paul Bradley. Resonant Embers is collection of artists who have crossed paths with Mr. Bradley over the years and may be delivering work for Edition Sonoro in the future. There's irr. app. (ext.), jgrzinich, Ueboet, Colin Potter, Bradley himself, Maile Colbert with Tellemake, and Andrew Liles. AQ's beloved bewilderer of sound Matthew Waldron returns to his irr. app. (ext.) moniker with a disorienting chorus for vibrating objects, chiming strings, and distant moans phasing in a tripped out sonic equivalent to a funhouse mirror. Another favorite comes by the way of jgrzinich, who layers together windswept clatter from multiple recordings from high tension wires and the post-Soviet crumbled landscape of his current home in Estonia. A cold, sodden atmosphere oozes from these turnbuckle creaks and (literally) post-industrial ambience. Ubeboet is a newcomer to us, offering a majestic track of dark ambience haunted with distant strings and underwater operatic vocals. Colin Potter propagates a liquid drone from a series of harmonic belltones, which have all of the sublime power and angelic beauty of a Ligetti chorale. Paul Bradley constructs a series of interwoven guitar loops of midrange timbers that reflect similar ideas found in Aidan Baker's solo work. Maile Colbert flickers her voice through a series of looping devices and VLF recordings, recalling the early albums of Grouper but with Jarboe's vocal style instead. And finally, the comp is completed with a track from Andrew Liles, whose deeply minor chord piano keys and lilting gypsy violin have a noirish, horror film quality, perhaps in homage to Coil's lost soundtrack to Hellraiser?
MPEG Stream: IRR. APP. (EXT.) "Whickering mechanical parapropalaehoplophorous"
MPEG Stream: JGRZINICH "Animate structures No.1"
MPEG Stream: COLIN POTTER "Bella (direct current)"

V/A Resurrection (Second Coming) cd 16.98
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Subtitled, "The Amplified Side Of Heavenly Grooves". This ain't your momma's gospel music. Nope, this collection brings together some bizarre, funny, and downright groovy '60s/'70s tunes by/for Jesus-loving hipsters. Everything from garage rock to folk to lounge-jazz, and more, including some hilarious spoken word from the "Sunworshippers" (Jesus Freaks up in Eureka, CA). Then there's John Ylvisaker's demented "A Gay Cliche", a song so bad yet so good that it sounds like it belongs on "The Beat Of The Traps". Pat Boone and Dick Hyman also make appearances. Righteous. MOJO writer Will Hodgkinson makes a good point in the liner notes: "I've always maintained that the finest psychedelia is created by people who have only imagined what drugs are like rather than experience them first hand, so who better to make groovy acid rock than Christians?"
RealAudio clip: "A Gay Cliche"
RealAudio clip: "Know They're You"
RealAudio clip: "The Sunworshippers Speak"

V/A Return Of The DJ 3 (Bomb) cd 16.98
Finally! This is the third collection from Bomb Recordings, documenting the flash, the wizardry, and the techniques of the turntablist. Features DJ Faust, Z-Trip (who presents another triumphant hip hop collage of metal and classic rock in "Rockstar II"), Mr. Dibbs, Shortee, Eddie Def & Extrakd, DJ Design, Cold Cutz Crew, and many others!

V/A Return of the DJ vol. 1 (Bomb) cd 16.98
Back in print! With a new color cover, akin to that of vol. 2. If'n you don't know, this is the crazy acrobatic hiphop turntablist state of the art, a real must-have for anyone interested in exploits on the wheels of steel. Live sound collage mayhem to kick your ass, courtesy of such luminaries (better known now) as Rob Swift, Z-Trip, Peanut Butter Wolf and of course the Invisible Scratch Pickles.

V/A Return of the DJ Vol. II (Bomb) cd 16.98
At last, the compact disc version of this amazing all-DJ, all-scratching compilation. Truly a worthy sequel to the insane turntable antics of 1995's volume one. AMAZING collection of scratching and other turntablist skills sounds so ALIVE and refreshing and immediate, it brings smiles to all who hear it. We are the first store anywhere to carry this groundbreaking collection of turntable strategists kicking lesser DJ ass far and wide. Contributors hail from the likes of Paris, Finland, Cincinnati, and New York City. For fans of more well-known DJs like QBert, ShortKut, Disk & Mixmaster Mike of the Skratch Picklz, LA's Beat Junkies and Manhattan's X-Men (here represented by Roc Raida). You MUST hear this.

V/A Return of the DJ Vol. II (Bomb) 2lp 19.98
AMAZING collection of scratching and other turntablist skills sounds so ALIVE and refreshing and immediate, it brings smiles to all who hear it. This groundbreaking collection features turntable strategists kicking lesser DJ ass far and wide. Contributors hail from the likes of Paris, Finland, Cincinnati, and New York City. You haven't lived until you've heard Phoenix's Z-Trip mess with Black Sabbath on the album's closing track "Rock Star." Yay. For fans of more well-known DJs like QBert, ShortKut, Disk & Mixmaster Mike of the Skratch Picklz, LA's Beat Junkies and Manhattan's X-Men (here represented by Roc Raida). You MUST hear this.

V/A Return of the DJ Volume IV (Bomb Hip-Hop) cd 16.98
Volume 4 of the Bomb label's acclaimed all-scratching DJ compilations. Somehow Bomb Hip Hop, with these comps, has managed to consistently corral all the new 'n exciting scratch DJs you've never heard of, constantly introducing fresh talents and remaining exciting and forward-looking. The most known name here is Q-Bert, but his track actually pales in comparison to the raw stuff found on other tracks here.
RealAudio clip: 89 SKRATCH GANGSTAZ "Lesson 89"

V/A Return of the DJ Volume IV (Bomb Hip-Hop) 2lp 19.98
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Volume 4 of the Bomb label's acclaimed all-scratching DJ compilations. Somehow Bomb Hip Hop, with these comps, has managed to consistently corral all the new 'n exciting scratch DJs you've never heard of, constantly introducing fresh talents and remaining exciting and forward-looking. The most known name here is Q-Bert, but his track actually pales in comparison to the raw stuff found on other tracks here.

V/A Return of the Fight Club (Tigerbeat6) 12" 7.98
Second in this series of 12"s collecting the crashing, crunching, bashing smunching, thrashing...ummm...twunching(???...well you know what we're getting at) sound of todays electronic underground. The tag team format is still enforced, foisting some of our favorite noisemakers on, well...some of our other favorite noisemakers!! Lesser gets chopped and spanked by Venetian Snares, Kid 606 gets bum rushed by Dat Politics, Knifehandchop gets sliced and diced by new-to-us 0=0, also-new-to-us CB4 gets schooled by Kid 606 (again) and two tag team match-ups offer up some more fresh faces: Casino Vs. Japan and Nudge whip up a little rhythmic hypnotronica workout while Fanny and DJ Paedophile bring the (caustic, face-melting) noise. Pretty cool.

V/A Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Vol 2:Groovy Instrumentals From The UK 1965-1973 (Psychic Circle) cd 16.98
It's again time to liberate your inner Austin Powers, and get down to the Swingin' Sixties sounds of Return Of The Instro-Hipsters, Vol. 2! That's right, another 20 "groovy instrumentals from the UK, 1965-1973" compiled by noted collector Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. His first volume, entitled On The Brink, was a big hit 'round here, and this second one is just as much fun! This is what you'd have heard in the hip discotheques of Swinging London back then, rock n' roll beat music influencing jazz orchestras to get all freaky and psychedelic, filling dancefloors with shiny, bubbly tunes considered totally sophisticated and hip at the time. Honkin' organs, bright stinging horn sections, and swirling rock guitar are all part of the many lush arrangements found here. There's slinky lounge vibes, and fully day-glo, go-go dancin' funkiness.
In addition to getting you wigglin' your hips, there's definite goofy kitsch value to a lot of this, ferinstance the gimmick track "Fuzz Duck" by Jerry Allen, with all its crazy quackin'. Another group, Thunder Road, does a version of "Peter Gunn" that certainly fits right in. And Cliff Adams's track appears to be from an advert for P.G. Tips tea... Other artists heard here (and almost nowhere else, these days): D. Cordell's Tea Time Ensemble, The 4 Instants, The Roger Coulam Quartet, Harold McNair, Music Through Six, Sounds Sensational, The Masked Phantom, The Johnny Harris Orchestra, Tony Newman, The Tony Evans Band, Kenny Clare, Sharks, The Outer Limits, Oliver Bone, Paraffin Jack Flash, The Helmut Zaccharias Orchestra, and Ning. Groovy, baby.
MPEG Stream: THE 4 INSTANTS "Discotheque"
MPEG Stream: CLIFF ADAMS "The Brooke Bond Beat"

V/A Revenge of the B-Boy (Bomb) cd 14.98
'Revenge of the B-Boy', the soundtrack to the upcoming film 'I Saw Your Mama Breakdancing Bucknaked, features custom-made-for-breakdancing b-boy anthems from producers around the globe like Faust & Shortee, Hydroponic Sound System, Knights of Bass, Jeep Beat Collective, Clockwork Voodoo Freaks, Blade, Metabass, and more! Hip hop, turntablism, electro, big beat, and breaks from the same label that released those Return of the DJ albums. We also have a bunch of big full color posters, if you want one, just ask!

V/A Revenge of the B-Boy (Bomb) 2lp 14.98
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'Revenge of the B-Boy', the soundtrack to the upcoming film 'I Saw Your Mama Breakdancing Bucknaked, features custom-made-for-breakdancing b-boy anthems from producers around the globe like Faust & Shortee, Hydroponic Sound System, Knights of Bass, Jeep Beat Collective, Clockwork Voodoo Freaks, Blade, Metabass, and more! Hip hop, turntablism, electro, big beat, and breaks from the same label that released those Return of the DJ albums. We also have a bunch of big full color posters, if you want one, just ask!

V/A Rewind Records: Soundmurderer + SK-1 (Rewind) cd 16.98
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I'm sure you remember how we raved (no pun intended) like crazy about the Soundmurderer record a few lists ago, a wicked collection of the finest old school jungle. Well, here we go again. This time, Soundmurderer (aka Todd Osborn) is joined by SK-1, who may be more familiar to some of you as Dabrye, on this collection of 12"s released by Michigans premiere Jungle label, Rewind Record. Huge bombastic, old school ruffneck ragga, with spastic beats, rumbling basslines, crushing synths and wicked toasting. Folks who miss the old days of jungle will be floored, and all you folks who have been getting into dancehall (and have been digging stuff like the Bug) should check this out.
MPEG Stream: "Dreader Than Dread"
MPEG Stream: "Bad Sound"

V/A Riddim Box (Soul Jazz) 2cd 21.00
Another week, another forward thinking electronic music off shoot, another new genre. It's sort of always been like that. Acid house begets jungle begets drum and bass, begets drill and bass, begets UK garage or dark step or about a million other variations, which beget dubstep and grime, which then leads to this stuff, dubbed UK Funky, which was supposedly born out of the aggression and intensity inherent in grime and dubstep, moving back toward house music, a little lighter, with that 4 on the floor beat, and still lots and lots and lots of BASS.
As always, Soul Jazz leaps right in to document this new scene and do a bang up job. Right off the bat, you'll notice a handful of familiar names, Kode9, Roska, Shystie, Grievous Angel, that's cuz Funky is not that far removed from dubstep, it's almost the same sound pallet, just with that dubstep lurch and swing replaced by a more steady driving beat, but around that beat, synths still bloop and bleep and bloop and buzz, the bass rumbles and warbles, and like jungle, Funky has a bit of a ragga vibe, so there's a definite dancehall feel, with some killer toasting on some tracks.
This comp is pretty solid all the way through, and ANYone who's been digging the various Soul Jazz dubstep comps, will definitely dig this too.
MJ Cole's "Volcano Riddim" takes super dramatic soundtrack strings and wraps them around a killer main groove and a very dubsteppy beat, Altered Natives' "Rass Out" is a cool murky muted minimal shuffle with live drums, moody minor key melodies, and some swooping swirling synths. Warrior Queen contributes to Sunship's "Almighty Father" creating a super funky grimy dubfunk workout, Zumen's "Rolexx" features some incredible tongue twisting flow from the awesomely named Leafnuts, Lil Silva lays down a skittery beat underneath bleating synths and woozy funk bass, super stripped down, but seriously bad ass, DVA gets super bassy and buzzy with his "Natty" that sounds like a skipping jungle record slowed down and swathed in synths. We could go on, but why bother, this stuff all rules, and for dubstep obsessive and grime freaks, this is just another collection of bass heavy dancefloor destroyers that should get your toes tapping and rib cage rattling.
Like all Soul Jazz comps, includes a big booklet with lots of liner notes, info about UK Funky, the history of UK dancemusic and more. The cd comes housed in a cool extra wide half sized dvd style case, the lp split over two pricey but super swank double lps...
MPEG Stream: ZUMEN FEATURING LEAFNUTS AND AARON PHIRI "Rolexx"
MPEG Stream: MJ COLE "Volcano Riddim"
MPEG Stream: GHOSTS ON TAPE "Predator Mode (Roska Remix)"
MPEG Stream: LIL SILVA "Pulse Vs. Flex"
MPEG Stream: SHYSTIE "Pull It (Ill Blu Remix Instrumental)"

V/A Riddim Box Vol.1 (Soul Jazz) 2lp 24.00
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Another week, another forward thinking electronic music off shoot, another new genre. It's sort of always been like that. Acid house begets jungle begets drum and bass, begets drill and bass, begets UK garage or dark step or about a million other variations, which beget dubstep and grime, which then leads to this stuff, dubbed UK Funky, which was supposedly born out of the aggression and intensity inherent in grime and dubstep, moving back toward house music, a little lighter, with that 4 on the floor beat, and still lots and lots and lots of BASS.
As always, Soul Jazz leaps right in to document this new scene and do a bang up job. Right off the bat, you'll notice a handful of familiar names, Kode9, Roska, Shystie, Grievous Angel, that's cuz Funky is not that far removed from dubstep, it's almost the same sound pallet, just with that dubstep lurch and swing replaced by a more steady driving beat, but around that beat, synths still bloop and bleep and bloop and buzz, the bass rumbles and warbles, and like jungle, Funky has a bit of a ragga vibe, so there's a definite dancehall feel, with some killer toasting on some tracks.
This comp is pretty solid all the way through, and ANYone who's been digging the various Soul Jazz dubstep comps, will definitely dig this too.
MJ Cole's "Volcano Riddim" takes super dramatic soundtrack strings and wraps them around a killer main groove and a very dubsteppy beat, Altered Natives' "Rass Out" is a cool murky muted minimal shuffle with live drums, moody minor key melodies, and some swooping swirling synths. Warrior Queen contributes to Sunship's "Almighty Father" creating a super funky grimy dubfunk workout, Zumen's "Rolexx" features some incredible tongue twisting flow from the awesomely named Leafnuts, Lil Silva lays down a skittery beat underneath bleating synths and woozy funk bass, super stripped down, but seriously bad ass, DVA gets super bassy and buzzy with his "Natty" that sounds like a skipping jungle record slowed down and swathed in synths. We could go on, but why bother, this stuff all rules, and for dubstep obsessive and grime freaks, this is just another collection of bass heavy dancefloor destroyers that should get your toes tapping and rib cage rattling.
Like all Soul Jazz comps, includes a big booklet with lots of liner notes, info about UK Funky, the history of UK dancemusic and more. The cd comes housed in a cool extra wide half sized dvd style case, the lp split over two pricey but super swank double lps...
MPEG Stream: ZUMEN FEATURING LEAFNUTS AND AARON PHIRI "Rolexx"
MPEG Stream: MJ COLE "Volcano Riddim"
MPEG Stream: GHOSTS ON TAPE "Predator Mode (Roska Remix)"

V/A Riddim Box Vol.2 (Soul Jazz) 2lp 24.00
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Another week, another forward thinking electronic music off shoot, another new genre. It's sort of always been like that. Acid house begets jungle begets drum and bass, begets drill and bass, begets UK garage or dark step or about a million other variations, which beget dubstep and grime, which then leads to this stuff, dubbed UK Funky, which was supposedly born out of the aggression and intensity inherent in grime and dubstep, moving back toward house music, a little lighter, with that 4 on the floor beat, and still lots and lots and lots of BASS.
As always, Soul Jazz leaps right in to document this new scene and do a bang up job. Right off the bat, you'll notice a handful of familiar names, Kode9, Roska, Shystie, Grievous Angel, that's cuz Funky is not that far removed from dubstep, it's almost the same sound pallet, just with that dubstep lurch and swing replaced by a more steady driving beat, but around that beat, synths still bloop and bleep and bloop and buzz, the bass rumbles and warbles, and like jungle, Funky has a bit of a ragga vibe, so there's a definite dancehall feel, with some killer toasting on some tracks.
This comp is pretty solid all the way through, and ANYone who's been digging the various Soul Jazz dubstep comps, will definitely dig this too.
MJ Cole's "Volcano Riddim" takes super dramatic soundtrack strings and wraps them around a killer main groove and a very dubsteppy beat, Altered Natives' "Rass Out" is a cool murky muted minimal shuffle with live drums, moody minor key melodies, and some swooping swirling synths. Warrior Queen contributes to Sunship's "Almighty Father" creating a super funky grimy dubfunk workout, Zumen's "Rolexx" features some incredible tongue twisting flow from the awesomely named Leafnuts, Lil Silva lays down a skittery beat underneath bleating synths and woozy funk bass, super stripped down, but seriously bad ass, DVA gets super bassy and buzzy with his "Natty" that sounds like a skipping jungle record slowed down and swathed in synths. We could go on, but why bother, this stuff all rules, and for dubstep obsessive and grime freaks, this is just another collection of bass heavy dancefloor destroyers that should get your toes tapping and rib cage rattling.
Like all Soul Jazz comps, includes a big booklet with lots of liner notes, info about UK Funky, the history of UK dancemusic and more. The cd comes housed in a cool extra wide half sized dvd style case, the lp split over two pricey but super swank double lps...
MPEG Stream: LIL SILVA "Pulse Vs. Flex"
MPEG Stream: SHYSTIE "Pull It (Ill Blu Remix Instrumental)"

V/A Riddimentary : Diplo Selects Greensleeves (Greensleeves) cd 12.98

V/A Riddimentary : Diplo Selects Greensleeves (Greensleeves) lp 21.00

V/A Right In The Nuts: A Tribute To Aerosmith (Small Stone Records) 2cd 18.98
Double cd covers comp in tribute to Andee's favorite rock band of all time, the mighty Aerosmith! The participating bands mostly hail from the realm of "stoner rock", such as Natas, Alabama Thunderpussy (who do a great "Sweet Emotion"), Atomic Bitchwax, Fireball Ministry, Drunk Horse, The Want, Core, Raging Slab, Altamont, and 18 more! As these tribute things go, a pretty good one. Furthermore, Andee sez: If this sounds even remotely appealing, you oughta order the Aerosmith cd "Draw The Line" too, which we also carry. It's probably one of the best 'rock' records ever. Aerosmith may suck now, but their first 5 records were '70s hard rock at its best; heavy and groovy and amazingly catchy. Their "Greatest Hits" were not their greatest hits. Trust me.
RealAudio clip: FIREBALL MINISTRY "Movin Out"

V/A Ringtones (Touch) cd 15.98
Well, it's an intriguing gimmick that piqued our interest when we first heard about it -- 99 ringtones for cel phones, contributed by a panoply of musicians and sound artists (many of whom AQ holds near and dear), compiled by the virtually always trustworthy Touch label. When the day comes that mobile phone ringtones can easily be recorded onto ones phone, and don't depend on the annoyingly limited spectrum of metallic notes currently available, then this comp will actually be useful. But, until then, it's my understanding that you can't really load these onto your phone yet, so unfortunately, for now Touch Ringtones is more of an art object than good listening.
The list of participants is certainly exciting -- everyone from naturalist soundcollectors Douglas Quin, S.E.T.I., and Chris Watson; to glitchsters Fennesz, Mika Vainio, and Pita; to soundwave conjurers Ryoji Ikeda, Carl Michael von Hausswolff; to pranksters People Like Us, Gilbert and George; to radio transmissions, a Conet Project snippet, New Order, Wire's Bruce Gilbert, and ever so much more.
But honestly, even though all of the above have made full length records we've enjoyed, listening to more or less 10-second snippets from these artists' signature sounds is frustrating, you keep wanting to hear more from a particular contributor, to figure out where in the lineup you are, having to constantly check the cd player to see which track you're on, then ruin your eyes referring to the *tiny tiny* track listing on the cd digipak. It's a headscratching, sort of frustrating exercise. As one big listen straight thru (or even on shuffle) without caring who is doing which track, the experience is schizo but not unpleasant. But collage without any sort of sonic theme besides "short" and "wouldn't it be funny if this was a cel phone ringtone" falls squarely, for me, into the cool-concept-but-bad-listening-experience category.
RealAudio clip: MIKA VAINIO "Polar / Tele / Whale / Sounder"
RealAudio clip: DOUGLAS QUIN "Arrowfrog / Baboon / Emperor Penguins / Hippopotamus / Hyrax / Oropendola"
RealAudio clip: RADIO BULGARIA "(excerpt)"
RealAudio clip: SCALA "Naked"
RealAudio clip: LEIF ELGGREN "Help! / MansLaughter"
RealAudio clip: NEW ORDER "Video 5-8-6"

V/A Rio Baile Funk More Favela Booty Beats (Essay) cd 16.98
If you love your booty shakin then you probably got the first installment of this totally endearing and bumpin' collection of Baile Funk deep from the heart of Rio. That held us over for a bit but our booty's were in need of a recharge and we got it thanks to this 2nd volume in this collection. A raw, mutant mixture of booty bass, hip-hop, carnival, and mash-up culture at its most contagious. What makes this collection so infectious is that you can't help but hear how these songs were made free of irony, and giving us a little peak into what a colorful and risquŽ kind of party scene is happening in Rio. Throw this on in between some M.I.A and Lady Sovereign and you're sure to get everyone around you shaking their booty like it's meant to be shook. 100 percent F-U-N!
MPEG Stream: EDU K FEAT. DEIZE TIGRONA "Sex-O-Matic"
MPEG Stream: OS MAGRINHOS "Japonesa"
MPEG Stream: ISAAC DJ "Montagem Jiu Jitsu"

V/A Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay) cd 16.98
Dirty, DIRTY! sex rhyme booty beat music from Brazil. Sounds interesting, mmmmno? I think it might be called a couple of other names, but this comp's titled Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats. The sound is a rudimentary hodgepodge of beats/breaks/melodies appropriated from all sortsa other music: Os Mutantes, Def Leppard's "High and Dry", an assortment of late 80s/early 90s Hip Hop, and 90s New Wave/Top 40 all mixed into an incessant percussion, over which a (for the most part) singular (and sometimes a child's) voice yells totally explicit sex rhymes! Now, I don't know Portuguese, but it doesn't take rocket science to imagine what they're yellin about here. First of all, what comes to mind with the term dirty sex ryhmes? Hmm, ok. If you haven't gotten the hint yet, imagine where it comes from: the ghettos of Rio and its millions of homeless children ruling the sprawling city with violence day and night. In a place like this, nothing but this type of music would be appropriate. Regardless, the beats are amazing, the lyricism (well, yelling) is hilarious but fierce, and the overall sound is fresh, inspiring and ridiculously fun. Crazy recommended!
MPEG Stream: RICARDO E ESQUISITO "Muhler Coca Cola"
MPEG Stream: BONDE DO TIAGRO "O Baile Todo"

V/A Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay) 12" 9.98
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Ok, how does this sound: Dirty, DIRTY! sex rhyme booty beat music from Brazil. Sounds interesting, mmmmno? I think it might be called a couple of other names, bt this comp's titled Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats. The sound is a rudimentary hodgepodge of beats/breaks/melodies appropriated from all sortsa other music: Os Mutantes, Def Leppard - or is that Ace Frehley?, an assortment of late 80s/early 90s Hip Hop, and 90s New Wave/Top 40 all mixed into an incessant percussion, over which a (for the most part) singular (and sometimes a child's) voice yells totally explicit sex rhymes! Now, I don't know Portugese, but it doesn't take rocket science to imagine what they're yellin about here. First of all, what comes to mind with the term dirty sex ryhmes? Hmm, ok. If you haven't gotten the hint yet, imagine where it comes from: the ghettos of Rio and its millions of homeless children ruling the city with violence day and night. In a place like this, nothing but this type of music would be appropriate. Regardless, the beats are amazing, the lyricism (well, yelling) is hilarious but fierce, and the overall sound is fresh, inspiring and ridiculously fun. Crazy recommended!
MPEG Stream: RICARDO E ESQUISITO "Muhler Coca Cola"
MPEG Stream: BONDE DO TIAGRO "O Baile Todo"

V/A Riot Zone (DHR) cd 21.00
From Atari Teenage Riot's furious electro-punk to Christoph de Babalon's glacial darkness, "Riot Zone" is features Digital Hardcore's "greatest hits" so far. Along with the aforementioned acts, you get Shizuo, Hanin Elias, Alec Empire, Ec8or, Bomb20, and Patric Catani. DHR-heads will have some of this already, but unless you've got all the 12" vinyl this is still essential. And of course it features a manic neo-situationist manifesto from Mr. Empire.

V/A Riot Zone (DHR) lp 17.98
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From Atari Teenage Riot's furious electro-punk to Christoph de Babalon's glacial darkness, "Riot Zone" is features Digital Hardcore's "greatest hits" so far. Along with the aforementioned acts, you get Shizuo, Hanin Elias, Alec Empire, Ec8or, Bomb20, and Patric Catani. DHR-heads will have some of this already, but unless you've got all the 12" vinyl this is still essential. And of course it features a manic neo-situationist manifesto from Mr. Empire.

V/A Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs To Benefit The West Memphis Three (Sanctuary) cd 16.98
Hopefully all of you are now familiar, probably thanks to the HBO's Paradise Lost documentaries, with the unjust plight of the West Memphis Three: Arkansas teenagers Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelly and Jason Baldwin, convicted of murders they in all likelihood are innocent of, more on account of their supposed goth/alternative "weirdness" than any real evidence. If not, go please rent the first Paradise Lost film, it'll shake you up...or look for a new book about the case called Devil's Knot. Anyway, more publicity (and money for lawyers) for the WM3 can only be a good thing, and ol' Hank Rollins (whatever you think about his post-Black Flag music, spoken word and film career, he's a well-intentioned individual) had just the idea: another benefit album (there's already been one), but one with a "must-have" concept: a whole bunch of well-known singers doing their favorite Black Flag songs. With his current Rollins Band line-up on bass, guitar and drums, Rollins invited everyone from fellow former Black Flag singer Chuck Dukowski to Iggy Pop to Chuck D into the studio to take on 24 Black Flag classics. It's celebrity Black Flag karaoke, basically. Henry himself shows up on six songs, such was his enthusiasm... So, if you're at all curious to hear Ice-T sing "Police Story", or Exene Cervenka dueting with Rollins on "Wasted", or Dean Ween's version of "Gimme Gimme Gimme", or just want to support a good cause, here you go. And boy, does Lemmy's "Thirsty & Miserable" sound like a Motorhead original! Some other participants: Mike Patton, Keith Morris, Ryan Adams (performing solo, making "Nervous Breakdown" sound like a PJ Harvey song), Tom Araya of Slayer, and members of Rancid, Queens of the Stone Age, Poison The Well, The Mars Volta, and Slipknot. (Look online at www.wm3.org for more info about the three, or if you want to send $$$ to 'em directly rather than buying this cd!)
RealAudio clip: LEMMY "Thirsty & Miserable"
RealAudio clip: RYAN ADAMS "Nervous Breakdown"

V/A River Songs Of Bangladesh (Arc) cd 14.98
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Field recordings by ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya, freshly recorded in February 2001. Traditional Bangladeshi music can be divided into two forms, the more traditional Indian-influenced Raga-Tala system, and the more simple form known as Deshi ('of the land'). Deshi is what we hear on this cd: gorgeously simple, stark folk songs played on just a few instruments including multi-stringed lutes made out of jack-fruit wood, single-steel-stringed drone intoners, bamboo flutes, and wooden clappers. Male and female voices are melancholy and sing of hard river life, such as "The river banks are crumbling down and falling into the water / My heart too is dissolving in pieces like the river itself."
RealAudio clip: ANURUPA RAY WITH NARAYAN CHANDRA RAY "Dhalla Nodi"

V/A RKK13CD (Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge) cd 13.98
Between 1995 and 1997, Hrvatski and various accomplices put together a vinyl only collection of two minute electro-shock / drill 'n' bass tracks called "Attention: Cats." That homage to the short attention span has in turn been reworked into even an even larger collection of hypercondensed / digitally fucked remixes from Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Cex, Kid 606, Pita, Push Button Objects, Pause, Cartesian Faith, Drusca, Framers Manual, Blitter, Solvent, JayRope, Rupture, Electric Birds, Chessie, Adrien 75, ESP, Suetsu, Cathars, V/VM, and a few dozen more. With so many tracks / remixes / deconstrutions, "RKK13cd" runs the risk of becoming wildly incoherent. Fortunately, almost everybody on the compilation understood that Hrvatski has a soft spot for the "Amen" break and favored that breakbeat in reconstructing his tracks. Sometimes it's the simplest of things that makes art work. File next to your favorite Lesser record, who was strangely absent from the roster.
RealAudio clip: BLITTER "Shifty's Cut Bait Shoppe"
RealAudio clip: ADRIEN 75 "Soft-Corpse Mix"
RealAudio clip: CATHARS "Implements Amenable"
RealAudio clip: ELECTRO ORGANIC SOUND SYSTEM "Steaktippin Freerange Mix"

V/A Road to Nowhere (Poison Tree) cd 12.98
Road To Nowhere? No way, this road leads to stoner rock heaven. Hot shit badasses Fu Manchu, Nick Oliveri, Brant Bjork, Burning Brides, and The Dwarves share the joint (heh heh, pun intended!) with lesser known indie upstarts Big Truck, Winnebago Deal, Truck Fighters, Dig, The Sammies, In The Detail, Baby Woodrose, Leech, and locals Turn Me On Dead Man (unfortunately misspelled as "Dean Man" on the packaging -- guess spelling took a back seat to rawkin'). Oh yeah, and there's also a lil' band here called The Freeks whose lineup includes members of Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Nebula, Skin Yard and Earthless!
MPEG Stream: OLIVERI, NICK AND THE MONDO GENERATOR "Lie Detector"
MPEG Stream: FREEKS, THE "The Go Go Get"

V/A Roaring Blue: The Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Vol. 3 (Psychic Circle) cd 17.98

V/A Robert Crumb Presents Hot Women: Women Singers From The Torrid Regions (Kein & Aber) cd 17.98
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Here's an interesting collection. Put together by Robert Crumb, at the behest of his wife Aline, from his personal collection of 78's. The collection moves across the globe by continent, starting in Louisiana, USA moving south through Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America; then touching down in Europe (Spain, Sicily, Greece and Turkey), moving south through Africa, on to India and South East Asia (Burma & Vietnam), and finally resting in the South Pacific. Most of the recordings come from the 30's (with a few from as early as 1927 and as recent as 1950) and are quite likely to be tracks you've never heard before in your life. Some artists, like Greek singer Rita Abadzi, first lady of Cajun Cleoma Falcon and Norteno musician Lidya Mendoza are well known, and have plenty of recordings assuring their place in history. But of much of the others on this disc, very little is known. In a typically erudite, but self deprecating and witty form that is unique to himself, Robert Crumb leads us through his recordings armed with what little knowledge he's been able to glean about each performer (mostly from the internet and, Crumb insists, with the help of others who understand such modern technology).
MPEG Stream: GRUPO DE "LA ALEGRIA" "El Tambor De La Alegria"
MPEG Stream: MABOUDANA AND BADOLO "Chant d'Invitation A La Dance"
MPEG Stream: CO BA-THINH, KHAM-THIEN "Hat Du"

V/A Rock En Arequipa (Repsychled) cd 14.98
Fuzz and groove from the Andes, mostly circa 1969-1974, uh huh! If there's anything we've learned from all the cool comps and reissues that have come out over the years, is that almost ANYPLACE on Earth you can think of, no matter how out of the way, chances are they had their own happenin' psychedelic garage rock band scene back in the day, chock full of cool bands that we'd never have ever heard of but for the diligent efforts of collectors and compilers. Certainly we already know this to be the case in '60s/'70s Peru, as we're already in love with such great bands from that land as Traffic Sound, We All Together, and Tarkus. Now from the same Lima-based label, Repsychled, that just so happens to be responsible for reissues of albums by all of those, we get this killer compilation devoted to bands from Peru's second largest city, Arequipa, located in the south of the country, high up in the Andes. None of these groups recorded full albums, but they did release rare singles and make live 'party' cassettes and left behind enough cool music that this disc is packed, 21 tracks from five bands: Los Texao, Free Love System, Los Incognitos, Madera Fresca, and Opus.
Los Texao, named after the type of flower associated with Arequipa, have the lion's share of the tracks, ten of 'em, including some covers (Cream, The Guess Who, Steppenwolf). They are also responsible for several of the best originals on here, especially their druggy groovy freakout "Stone", which by itself may justify the purchase of this disc, and exemplifies their own musical style called niebla (= fog in English), we're told "because of the effect produced by the band's rotor amps and reverb and echo effects". But Free Love System don't let us, or Arequipa, down either (with a name like that, you gotta be good!) and their four cuts are also pretty cool and, uh, foggy, including one with driving fuzz guitars and a kind of "You Really Got Me" riff, entitled "Correteando Anoranzas". They (as well as Los Texao and the others) also do some dreamy pop stuff, with melancholic psych guitar solos, so it's not all heavy and rockin', but mellow and moody too.
Meanwhile Los Incognitos have more of a twang, sounding a bit like something out of a Spaghetti Western on their four cuts. And then there's a couple by Madera Fresca. In particular, their track "Anytime" is pretty crazed, though also extremely lo-fi (fortunately it's the exception in that regard amongst the tracks here), and heck even if it wasn't, that'd be ok with us, we'd happily crank a whole album of this sort of distorted worbbly-warbly instrumental jamming. And then Opus, a band formed by Free Love System's former guitarist in '76, wraps up the disc with track #21, the only one on the disc that's not actually from the '69-'74 time frame, though it sounds it, despite being recorded as late as 1982.
Whoo! Along with our recent initiation into the wonderfulness of the "chicha" sound (which combined Andean folk traditions with psych/beat influences), this comp certainly adds to our infatuation with Peruvian music of the psychedelic era. If you dig stuff like the Love, Peace & Poetry: Latin America comp you'll want to hear this. The cd booklet is illustrated with vintage photos and press clippings, and includes informative liner notes in Spanish and (somewhat abridged) English.
MPEG Stream: LOS TEXAO "Stone"
MPEG Stream: FREE LOVE SYSTEM "Correteando Anoranzas"
MPEG Stream: LOS INCOGNITOS "Ya Sera Tarde"
MPEG Stream: LOS TEXAO "Pobre Gato"

V/A ROCK IS HELL - 7" Club Box Set (Rock Is Hell) 8 x 7" / box / 2 buttons 64.00
Just 3 copies left!
We reviewed this a while back, a mind blowing, ear destroying, super limited collection of strange sounds, noisy weirndess and fractured heaviness, all gorgeously packaged in a silk screened box with inserts and buttons and all kinds of stuff.
We discovered a small handful of these tucked away, and figured some of you may have missed out the first time around. Maybe your last chance to snag one of these....
Everyone around here is a huge fan of weirdo music label Rock Is Hell, as are most of you judging from how fast we sell out of their stuff and how quickly it all goes out of print. Pretty much everything on Rock Is Hell has blown us away, the Dig That Body Up It's Alive lp, the crazy Nate Denver's Neck etched one sided lp box set thing, the super limited Octis lathe cuts, the XbXrX / Total Shutdown double 5", all gorgeously packaged and jam packed with mind melting sounds. With that in mind we worked out a special deal with Rock Is Hell, which will give AQ customers first (and maybe only) crack at this ULTRA limited 7" box set!!!
The set is limited to only 400 copies, it was almost completely sold out on preorders, minus the 8 or 9 we just got, so this will be your last and only chance to get one of these, if you didn't already preorder one. All the records are on white vinyl with white labels, and the records are housed in a silkscreened cardboard box with an inlay and 2 buttons designed by BONGOUT (http://frre.fr.freee.frfr.e.free.fr/). And all the copies we got have the secret bonus 7"!!! Only 50 or so of those! The singles included are:
Foot Village (USA)
Z's (USA)
Sasqrotch (USA)
Child Abuse (USA)
Death Sentence: Panda! (USA) / Fugu & The Cosmic Mumu (AUT)
Bulbul (AUT)
Bug (AUT) / Reflector (AUT)
Rokko Anal (AUT)
So if you want to be one of the lucky few to own this crazy chunk of sonic and visual weirdness, click the buy button and you'll be all set! So there you go, don't blow it!!!
And remember, ROCK IS HELL!!!!!

V/A Rock Music : A Trubute To Weezer (Dead Droid) cd 14.98
Does there need to be a tribute to Weezer? Maybe, although need is a strong word. Could there be? Sure. Should there be? Probably not, especially when the bands and their versions deviate very little from the original. Pretty pointless. Features Weezer wannabes The Stereo, Dashboard Confessional, The Impossibles, The Ataris, Mock Orange, Piebald and more.

V/A Rock Scientist (Spaced) lp 6.98
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Local favorites Fuck, Grady Sisters, Snowmen, Baby Carrot, Ponyride, etc.

V/A Rock You Sinners! The Dawn Of British Rock and Roll (Rev-Ola) cd 15.98

V/A Rocket Infinity : The Global Rise Of Rocking Music, 1942-62 (Mississippi / Change / Canary) 10" 14.98
Oneof three new Mississippi titles this week is an infectious ten inch charting what they call "The Global Rise of Rocking Music" over two decades , eight songs and seven countries. Largely, this is swinging big band music with touches of boogie, jive, early rock and roll and hot jazz from corners both far and near, each with its own unique cultural trademarks. A Thai take on an American song called "Rocking in Baghdad", a classic from Zimbabwe that has been described by the Everly Brothers as the first rock n roll record they ever heard, a female Japanese jazz singer who was once a geisha, jump blues from Egypt, Columbian cumbia, Chicagoan polka, hillbilly boogie from Ohio, and an Indian film theme that would have fit right in on one of the Great Googly Moo compilations. Red Hot!

V/A Rocksteady Fever (Kingston Sounds) cd 21.00