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CD / various / Audio
Chocolate: Ignorance Is Bliss / Audio Chocolate
This compilation jumps all over the map with electro, hip hop, and breakbeats,
and definitely is an onslaught of Audio-attack in a grand way.
[read more] ---Patrick Rands
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CD / various / Felix
Da Housecat: Excursions / Obsessive
This is a DJ mix CD by Felix. While his production skills are well-established,
most of the track selections on this disc are either too obvious or too
unrelentingly tedious.
[read more] ---Commodore Vic
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7"
/ Happy Supply / "Health Place" & "Socket
Song" b-w "Color Song" & "Whale Song" / Popsickle/Dutch
Courage
A delectably twee girl pop sound with organs and drum machines and songs
about whales or colors.
[read more] ---Patrick Rands
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CD / Kotai
/ WMF Records
Kotai has given us a 9 song full length that sounds like Suicide, ARE
Weapons, Fad Gadget, The Leather Nun, and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The songs
are all vocal based, built on simple electronics (like Suicide).
[read more] ---Carl
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7"
/ Neon King Kong / "Mix Up The Mix" b-w "Jerks
Are Creeping" / GSL
Former Le Shok vocalist Hot Rod Todd, going by the name Nancy Manhands,
has teamed up with folks from Teenage Heartthrobs, Lesbian Maker, and
The Count to bring us Neon King Kong.
[read more] ---Peter Ledebur
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CD
/ Nikakoi / Sestrichka / WMF Records
Nikakoi's music is tech-house, similar to Closer Musik, or Borneo &
Sporenburg. I really like this disc. It is warm and full, even as it reminds
me of the loneliness of urban life.
[read more] ---Carl
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CD
/ The Sound / Jeopardy + Live EP / Renascent
Dating from 1980, the first album proper for the London band The Sound.
Joy Division, U2, and Echo and the Bunnymen can all be heard in these
songs.
[read more] ---George Kilgoar III
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