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2001 |
Perilous 564 If the new Autechre album is a little disappointing for your ears, then you should look no further than the releases on Adelaide’s fantastic Surgery Records label. Run by Tim Koch who records as Thug and also under his own name for Sydney’s Aural Industries as well as having releases on US label Lucky Kitchen and UK label Defocus (formerly Clear), Surgery Records is already up to 6 full length albums. Opening late last year with a stunning double CD collection of sparkling melodic electronics-meets-crunchy DSP beats sourced from artists across the globe. The lineup reads like a who’s who of the new school of post-Warp producers with contributions from Aspen and Jet Jaguar from NZ’s Involve label, Mr Projectile from the UK’s Toytronic, Fizzarum & Novel23 from Russia who also feature on the recent Lo Recordings Russia electronica compilation, New York’s Unagi Patrol, Cim from Defocus and a host of locals. Following the double CD compilation came the re-issue of Aspen’s Are You That Retail Snob, which originally came out on NZ’s Involve label, Modula’s full length Audio Dismantle and UK artist Vim!’s Linden – Home Of The Hits. The two standout releases since the debut compilation, however, are the Melbourne-based Pretty Boy Crossover new album The Building And Formation, and Adelaide’s Superscience album Love Like Life In Minature. The PBXO album, rumoured to have been supposed to be released by Manchester’s Skam label, brings a warm cloud of lo-fi synths over slow muted crushed breakbeats. Exhbiting a simila rsense of melancholy Superscience’s Love Like Life In Minature marries a Boards Of Canada-esque sense of reminiscence with understated quirky vocals making it one of the most interesting releases of the year thus far. Criminally, Surgery Records still remains undistributed in this country despite such high quality releases and international reputation and connections. On par with the next generation overseas like Miami’s Schematic and Berlin’s Morr Music, you need some Surgery in your collection. www.surgeryrecords.com.au The next batch of Anticon releases has just hit too – ever noticed that they come in waves? There’s the Alias album 3 Phase Irony, Sole’s new Learning To Walk LP, and the post-Clouddead release from Why? And Odd Nosdam. Next Level In Sydney and Synaesthesia in Melbourne should carry them all and Synaesthesia has laid its grubby paws on a few of the age old Dose One projects on cassette – Greenthink’s Blindfold and the pre-Clouddead work of Slow Death with Why? and Odd Nosdam. Jel’s instrumental album Greenball should be around soon on Mush too. This last half of the year is hotting up with some excellent forthcoming releases. There’s the 4th Princess Superstar album simply titled Is which fulfils Superstar’s wish to be united with Kool Keith which came about as a result of the trac, Kool Keith’s Ass, on her last album. Keith, fresh from his own new Spankmaster album, is his cheeky self messing with Princess Superstar who matches him line for line. Featuring the hilarious Eminem pisstake Bad Babysitter (“got my boyfriend in the shower, making six bucks an hour”), the aforementioned Keith’n’Me, and the faux sexiness of Wet Wet Wet., the album fills a space between the borderline satirical sex-obsessed hip hop of Kool Keith and Mike Ladd’s Infesticons characters. Check her website for soundclips and more – www.princesssuperstar.com. There’s also a new Beta Band album Hot Shots II and Stereolab’s Sound Dust about to hit the shelves . . . Frigid this week brings you another international – Scanner. Best known for his early phone tapping exploits, Scanner is moving now in several opposing directions. He has his arty projects but he also has a more stripped back club project Scannerfunk. No one knows exactly what he has in store for Frigid but locals Ubin should keep him on his toes. Following that on the 19th we have Canberra’s answer to Vladislav Delay, a guy called Stalker who in the last 3 months has recorded an epic fifteen albums. Serious! Yellow Peril  Goto
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