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Joe Pernice - 17-Apr-06 03:47 AM
The greatest living North American songwriter, Joe Pernice can make his guitar and voice sound like a prayer wheel or a hatchet. If he hadnt been born, there would have to be a lost twin because how else would his genius take its proper place in musical history? Huge in Ireland, and Canada. Listen to all of his records, youll sleep better at night.

Sun God, The - Scene 3 - 04-Nov-05 08:28 AM
Jamal Moss does it again, ressurecting the musical spirit of Armando Gallop (RIP), Mike Dunn, and here, *with* Steve Poindexter. Mosss capacity to make totally contemporary jack trax while avoiding simpl nostalgia is unprecedented. He also makes clear that a track consisting of nothing but analogue percussion can be deadly.

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk - 30-Aug-05 10:36 AM
In the same way that Rock On by David Essex, was a No. 1 hit in the early 70s, and remains a radically experimental piece of music, Tusk still stuns after all these years. The sandblasted symphony playing to attack-and-decay strip mining, all sounding like it was recorded through three mattreses. A big hit for Fleetwood Mac and a sound that has never been reproduced. Ignore at your peril.

Various - Turntable Tastemakers 1 - The Sound Of Cleveland City - 26-Apr-05 07:31 AM
This relentless slab of dancefloor dynamite was a welcome release, presenting a clutch of stunning hard house tracks, mostly assembled in the Cleveland City record shop. Fortunately, the term progressive house hadnt quite found its way into dance musics vocabulary, and thus this sounds like heavy, big room house, with breakdowns that never become excessive or bloated. The handclaps and minor-key chord changes are the early Chicago & Detroit influences, but these tracks are highly original. It was the labels first proper vocal track by Tony DeVit track that made Cleveland City a household name. In the current moment, this collection has lost *none* of its energy and power.

Fred Giannelli - Fred - 26-Apr-05 07:31 AM
This is the forgotten Fred Giannelli record, and mores the pity because its the place where his work with Psychic TV was becoming enmeshed with the newer electronic music emerging from Detroit. Giannelli wasnt releasing records on Probe, Plus 8, or Telepathic when this album was released, but it prefigures his move into the tracks he recorded for the Plus 8 empire. If you find this, snap it up, if only to hear how Giannelli presaged the work of Ritchie Hawtin, Dan Bell, and others.

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