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2001 |
January – what a crazy month! But it looks as if the excitement will continue right through until March with the next Ninja Tune tour lined up for March 17 with Strictly Kev, Amon Tobin and a long awaited visit from Luke Vibert as Wagon Christ. Wagon Christ’s new album Musipal is due out shortly and contains some rather tasty tracks full of Pythonesque spoken word cut ups and some analogue sprung breakbeats. And, at least at this stage, on the very same night the Sydney leg of the Big Chill tour is set to touchdown with Kinobe, Tom Middleton, Tim Love Lee, Hexstatic and Pete Lawrence. Then the week after its Freaky Loops. In the intervening February there’s the week long What is Music Festival with Pansonic, Farmers Manual and much more. Tooth have their 2nd album Sirens From Here To Titan out on Febuary 5 with a launch at the Newtown RSL on Friday Febuary 2 with Prop as support. The new album is much less beat-oriented and more cerebral than the first Sirens descends deeper into the psychedelic world of its creators Sir Robbo and Purdy, and their respective record collections. There’s elements of dub, hints of psych-rock, and a lot of long unfolding tracks that get better and better with repeated listening. The website – www.snarl.org/tooth - should be up soon with downloads and other information. The album is distributed by Inertia so should get wide release into most good shops. Worth checking, too, is the Fingathing album on Grand Central (through Creative Vibes) titled The Main Event. In many ways this is a turntable concept album much the same as Q-Bert’s excellent 50s sci-fi Wave Twisters, with a rock’n’roll wrestling theme throughout. Adding a particular flavour and sound is the live double bass which adds a moody atmospheric. There’s an odd British humour running through the sample choices especially on the lumbering Big Monsters Crush Cities, How To Smoke and the various interludes, and with a wrestler called Slappy . . . you get the idea. On a more dour tip there’s the new album on Scape from Jan Jelinek (Farben). Titled Loop Finding Jazz Records, it follows the Scape label blueprint of glitchy ultra-minimalist but warm dub techno experiments. Much of Jelinek’s album reminds me of the excellent Gramm release on Source of last year, or a downtempo Kompakt, but one of the difficulties that continues to plague this and other minimalist electronics is the often complete interchangeability of the music. And, last this week, is Sutekh performing live at Frigid on the 4th. Sutekh hails from San Francisco and runs the Context label as well as releasing tracks for Drop Beat, Force Tracks (the Met@music compilation), an album on Force Inc titled Periods Make Sense, Mille Plateaux (a track on Clicks & Cuts), Source, and Tektite. He’ll be playing live and also doing a long DJ set which will cover his minimalist techno and experimental work. Don’t miss this Frigid special event. Yellow Peril  Goto
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