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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (25 ratings)

Various - The Pulse Of New York - 04-Aug-09 01:15 PM
To put it this way - just get out and try to get you one of these! Even against the fact that this (once again) is a booty, the music compiled (by some Irish-moved-to-NYC-back-then-in-the 1970ies-blokes Neil Stocker and Pierce Turner, both of them from Wexford and still active with several bands/labels emphasizing on the irish thing, at least as far as i found out on the web) and displayed here with original artwork and stuff is just as great as impossible to unearth elsewhere. Starting off with rather typical No Wave punk funk (The Funktionaries) we are supposed to embrace some real beautiful stuff ranging from the punky-leftfield-agit-prop guitar area (The Heretix, Tiny Tribe) to ridiculously crazy whatever-dancefloor-this-might-have-rocked stuff (Xex, Seven And Three). Only the Bronx Irish Catholics made it somehow through being sported via Daniele Baledellis/Marco Dionigis Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock!!! compi out there on Eskimo.
Originally released through Glass (2) who went in for the Jazz Butcher and the likes back in the days. Funny enough.

Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too - 09-May-09 08:10 AM
After all this one has to be called crafts rather than arts. Granted even that the whole space disco/balearic/cosmic thing never was supposed to relieve us of, say, financial crisis this release is not just about musical its about structural regression, pure and only sentiment. Sure it provides us with an all over smooth production, refined sound design and beautiful, yawn, arrangements. But what was promising when the whole sd/b/c/leftfield-thing restarted a while ago, stylistic diversity, kind of a productive whateverness, turned recently into a genre of serious reproduction: actually being deeply content with reproducing quite well known dead-ends from like 30 years ago.

Editechnique* - Dirty Kissing - 22-Sep-08 01:42 PM
Okay, ive to admit it took me a while to spot the original for AA2. And once i found out im sorry to say that the edit - besides its being functional - wont add a dime to what this little nu wave banger already had delivered in terms of quirkiness, danceability, faux-pathos, a strange note of urban exotism... But at least this is its quality to bring something so obvious/obscure like Simple Minds gem "I Travel" (as to be found on the "Empires And Dance" LP released in 1980, but theres also a great 12" version) back to mind. By any means surprising. And at least as funny/useful as, say, Rune Lindbaeks (un-)predictable mash up of the Toto anthems on his "Klubb Kebabb" long player for Noid. Anyhow, after all this can be said: compared with the ongoing re-edit madness the Magick Edits / Magick Kuts series still provides us with distinctive stuff, carefully handled. And thats quite something these days.

Gist, The - Embrace The Herd - 06-Aug-08 12:51 PM
This is not exactly a consistent album and rather than being offensively eclectic its Stuart Moxham dabbling around with references towards easy listening, carribean and whatever styles without making any peculiar goal from it. Of course its the all over DiY-pop-approach, drum machine, solid bass - already so overtly there with the Young Marbel Giants before - which makes the music so fragile, elegant, appealing and, um, post-modern. Unfortunately the one real stand-out track (besides "Public Girl" with Wendy Smiths vocals) is "Simian" and, pity that, its written by some Debbie Pritchard and some Lewis Mottram. And what a timeless little gem this is... Mottram/Pritchard are said to be involved with another Welsh outfit named Current Obsessions. Anyone ever heard of that? Could be worth checking out.

Basement 5 - 1965 - 1980 - 04-Feb-08 02:57 PM
What a great piece of music this is! I dont know for what reason Simon Start Again Reynolds left the Basement 5 out of his bookload on Post Punk history - except from the rather dubious label "post-PiL-band".

"1965-1980" has everything: starting with a super-modern sleeve design, a cutting, even violent Martin Hannett production, a handfull of tight songs, blending punk, a solid dub bass/rhythm section, some twangy guitar overtones, monotone voice with quite an agit prop awarneness in the lyrics: "No Ball Games" kicks ass, as does "Heavy Traffic". And its not white boys/girls bringing some sentiment for the black tradition into state of the art whatever musical/art approach. Its this genuine all-black-outfit out of Islands arts department breaking hell loose - perfect punk-reggae-disco. And not a dime less interesting than the Lydon, Gill, Stewart trinity.

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