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Club: 66\nSound system by:\n7/06] and more...\n3.6695 Office: 683.6527 Fax: 688.2552\nTurbosound Visual styling by: URBAN\nI wvm.sonar.bc.ca\n1 -s\spnRTS Features\nBraid\nMojave 3\nLooper\nMercury Rev\nSam Prekop\nEuphone\neditrix: miko hoffman\neditrix-in-training:\nbarbara andersen\nart director:\nrobert horsman\nad rep: maren hancock\nproduction manager:\ntristan winch\ngraphic design/layout:\nrob n\nproduction: julie colero,\nann goncalves, alia hussey,\nJulian manyoni, katrina\nmcgee, christa min, kirsten\nweisenberger\nphotography &\nillustrations: jason da\nsilva, ted dave, jay douillard,\nrichard folgar, quentin wright\ncontributors: barbara a,\npaul b, cody b, Jeremy b,\nnicolas b, brady c, jj c, julie\nc, mike c, bryce d, glenn d'c,\ntrevor f, christine g, patrick g,\nmaren h, martin f, brian j,\nanthony k, bill k, blaine k,\nJohn k, cat m, christa m, janis\nm, Julian m, nardwuar, caleb\ns, scot, June s, tobias v, kirsten\nw, quentin w\nprogramme guide:\nanna friz\ncharts: julie colero\ndatebook: barbara/miko\ndistribution: matt steffich\nus distribution:\nmaren\ndiscorder on-line:\njanet van deist\npublisher:\naaron nakama\nColumns\nPalinkas Eats\nVancouver Special\nInterview Hell\nGrumpy Old Dog\nKinetoscope\nPrinted Matters\nSeven Inch\nUnder Review\nReal Live Action\nCharts\nOn The Dial\nJune Datebook\nComics\nBotched Ampallang\nGood Tasty Comic\n9\n11\n13\n14\n16\n4\n6\n7\n17\n17\n18\n19\n20\n22\n23\n24\n26\n4\n23\nCover\nChicago's super-smooth players, Sam\nPrekop (of sea and cake, solo, etc.)\nand friend, as photographed by Richard\nFolgar. 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As always, English is preferred.\nFrom UBC to Langley and Squamish to Bellingham, CiTR can\nbe heard at 101.9 fM as well as through all major cable\nsystems in the Lower Mainland, except Shaw in White Rock.\nCall the CiTR DJ line at 822.2487, our office at 822.3017 ext. 0,\nor our news and sports lines at 822.3017 ext. 2. Fax us at\n822.9364, efnail us at: citrradio@mail.ams.ubc.ca, visit our\nweb site at http://www.ams.ubc.ca/media/citror just pick up a\ngoddamn pen and write #233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC,\nV6T1Z1, CANADA.\nPrinted In Canada\nlo\nHAVE YOU SEEN THE LIGHT\nLATELY?\n<\n|a_\n|o\nptnimiiimEHipi\nUNDERGROUNDEXPERIMENTAL0BSCURE\nEYE CANDY FOR THE NON MASSES\nSIX NIGHTS A WEEK\n>-\n<\nUPTOWN\nLj^ai\nO\n09\n4326 MAIN ST.\nis\nm\n\u00E2\u0080\u00941\n33\n@ 27th AVE.\nC j_J\n>\nO\nSTREETSIDE\nD\"^\nwmL\n\u00C2\u00A9\n\u00E2\u0080\u00941\nVANCOUVER, BC\nc5_p\n^\n\u00C2\u00A3\nV5V 3P9\n604.708.9804\nC/)\n>\n**_#\n_*c_T5SU__,\n* ** i\no\nt= ___VUfk\u00C2\u00A3__-\n_A_ z\n\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*-; ^mmvmwfa\nWAW ^^\n_J\n1\n-mim\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 s\nQCO\n1\nDOWNTOWN\n<\nC/D\nu\ny^\n14-712 ROBSON ST.\ns\u00C2\u00A3\n&j=3\n1\n@ GRANVILLE ST.\nH-\no\nft\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''\u00E2\u0080\u00A2_*_\nUPSTAIRS\n_z\n<\nfcSa\nVANCOUVER, BC\nE\nLU\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0fi*.\nK\nV6Z1A1\ni\nM KflU'ihfed imuaMtufl, ^^\nCOOLDOWM\n4\nWith ultra-funky grooves, seductive\nmelodies and airy, luxurious beats,\nCOOLDOWN make a stunning debut\nwith Ether.\nPalinkas\nEats\nifeSBS&v\nCAFE QUETZAL\n3289 Main St.\nPONCHO'S MEXICAN\nRESTAURANT\n827 Denman St.\nThis month's column marks the\nstart ola two-part series on Mexican restaurants in the cily. Before I start in on this month's restaurants for review, I should state\nmy bias towards Mexican food:\nI love it. Even a mediocre Mexican meal kicks my butt. What\nappeals to me is its simple yet\ncomplex flavours. For me, a\ngood Mexican dinner is one lhat\nis hot and spicy, without being\nhot just for the sake of being hot.\nIf I could eat at a different Mexican restaurant everyday, I would\nprobably be a happier person.\nCafe Quetzal is located on\nthat section of Main Street tha.\nis a no-man's land between 1 5th\nand King Edward. It is small and\nunassuming and I took these reasons to explain why it is usually\nempty whenever I walk by. I have\nalways meant to go there but\nnever have, until now. The first\nthing I noticed when I walked in\nwas the extreme prominence of\na TV, something I could overlook\nif the food was good. I had a\nchicken enchilada and a Dos\nEquis. I have to admit that this\nwas not the best enchilada I have\never had. The sauce was loo tart\nand not what I expect of an enchilada sauce at all. The chicken\nwasn't that great either \u00E2\u0080\u0094 parts\nof it were fatty and they used too\nmuch dark meat. I hate dark\nmeat. The beer was good,\nthough.\nI couldn't really recommend\ngoing to Cafe Quetzal, which\nsaddens me. They were super\nfriendly and don't seem to get\nthat much business. If you are in\nthe area and feel like eating\nMexican you should go, just to\nsupport a small operation run by\nsome nice folks.\nI hardly ever get down to the\nWest End area, so this was the\nfirst time I have ever been to\nPoncho's, but it won't be the\nlast. At six o'clock, the place\nwas already beginning to fill up\nand there was a big table reserved. I usually take these to\nbe signs of a good restaurant.\nTo start the evening off on a\ngood note, my friends and I\nshared a pitcher of mango\nmargarita. Yes, mango, and it\nwas damned good too, especially on an empty stomach. I\nordered the Carne a la\nMexicano and my friends ordered vegetarian tostadas and\nenchiladas. After about what\nseemed like five minutes, our\nfood was being served. The\nCarne a la Mexicano is a big\nslab of meat in a spicy red\nsauce that I can't for the life\nr-nber\n. of\n(thanks, no doubt, to the\nmargarita) with a chicken enchilada, rice, and refried beans.\nThis might sound weird, but I\ncouldn't get enough of the\nbeans. They were fucking awesome. Everything else was\nequally as good and the portions were bordering on too big.\nWith the pitcher of margarita\nand dinner for three, the price\nsixty dollars.\nNotte\ni bad.\nt for this month. Hopefully, I will go to more than two\nrestaurants next month, both for\nyour benefit and mine.*\n\"The dynamic duo of Miss Benny and Greg\nPrice provides Lotus Land's long-awaited\nanswer to the Bristol sound.\" (Georgiastraight)\nI PHIL WESTERN\nOUTlEflBl\n1 Map Releases you should investigate..\nVisit www.mapmusic.com for more info\non West Coast Electroniculture...\ntr*\n99 IN STORES\nJUNE 8th!\nNEW ALBUM\nSUPPORT YOUR\nINDEPENDENT\nRETAILER\nmmzrmm mmmmntwumm *,nwm\nmm wmm wmumm wmmmmm wm&m.\njwilw wvm mw wmm mmms\nCHICK OUT PCMMYWISC OMLIMt mf ttm&PCM JtlTWff 0OM\u00C2\u00BBCOM\nEpitaph Vancouver\nSpecial\nppwrf\nBY JANIS McKENZIE & CHRISTA MIN\n\u00C2\u00A3o,c+\u00C2\u00A3 ^M\nWho would have\nthought that Music\nWest (er, New Music West) could be so much\nfun? By sheer good luck, I\nended up with one of those oh-\nso-stylish wristbands and, after\na shaky start (when one of the\nvolunteers gave me some bad\ninformation), got over my foul\nmood and managed to see 10\nor so bands and collect a handful of local and not so local recordings.\nI missed Motorhead by a\nr of n\n, but did s\nthe nearly as loud JP5; missed\nPlumtree's original set but did\ncatch their impromptu encore\nalmost an hour later, and I got\nto talk to some of the most cheer-\nwho were out in force to catch\neach others' shows. All in all, it\nwas the best Music West I've\nbeen lo, and this month's CDs\nare a pretty good indication of\nthe all-round quality Keep 'em\nTHE ORCHID HIGHWAY\nFourplay\n(Naughty)\nIf Brian Jones were somehow\nborn again as a happier version\nof his original self, he might well\nbe one of the guys in The Orchid Highway The boys'\n1966 pop star haircuts, their taste\nfor sitars and psychedel\nvoured hooks, and the Revolver-\nera Beafrles-esque drumming all\nadd up to make this a thoroughly\nenjoyable EP. At four songs,\ncertainly does leave you wan\ning morel Here's hoping they'\nrelease something longer som<\ntime soon (PO Box 54536\n7155 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC,\nV5E AJ6)\nREAL MCKENZIES\nClash of the Tartans\n(Sudden Death)\nFirst of all, let me say that I am\nnot (as far as I know) related to\nthese guysl Perhaps then it won't\nsound too creepy if I refer to their\nfrontman as the ever-devilishly-\nhandsome Paul McKenzie, who\nhas made gals swoon since the\ndays when he sang with The\nEnigmas The Real\nMcKenzies don't do those old\nsongs about teenage barnacles\n(etc ); instead, they sing about the\nStone of Scone and turn \"Auld\nLang Syne\" into something you\ncan, and should, pogo to. If, like\nme, you were raised in a household that liked to exaggerate its\nconnection to the land of Loch\nLomond and all that, you'll want\nto shed a tear over \"Wild Mountain Thyme\" and to shout along\nlustily to \"Scots Wha' Ha'e,\" but\nwhether your arse has Celtic pretensions or not, these kilt-clad\nladdies will kick it for you. And\nhard. (Moscrop PO Box 43001,\nBurnaby, BC, V5G 3H0)\nBUNKI\nAcid Mudd\n(Viva)\nSometimes things do really work\nout for the best. I went to see\nBlinlci at the Marine Club because I thought (going by the\nname) that they might be a cutely\nsloppy-sweet girl-pop band and\ndiscovered instead a perfectly\ntight four-piece doing synchronised rock jumping up and down\nand looking like they were ready\nto blow the roof off a stadium. It\nOur annual directory, chock full of contact numbers and\naddresses of bands and the businesses that support\nthem, will be in the September issue. The deadline for\nentries is July 15,1999.\nI 1\n| YOU ARE A (Check one): |\nI BAND/MUSICIAN PROMOTER I\nI RECORD LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR _ UVE MUSIC VENUE I\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 MANAGER/AGENT STUDIO ZINE OTHER\n(elaborate below)\n! NAME: j\n| DESCRIPTION (15 words or less):\n1\n| I\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 CONTACT(S):\n! ADDRESS\n1 1\n| PHONE:\n1 EMAIL:\nFAX: |\n1 URL:\n! FILL THIS OUT AND MAIL/FAX IT TO US BEFORE Julyl 5, 1999 ,\n' 233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 fax: 604.822.9364\ncl^gJffiStSS\ntook me a minute to get over my\ninitial shock at their obvious confidence (and competence), but\nsinger Tracy, who alternated between joyM rock goddess posing and ingenuous between-song\npatter, finally won me over\nBacked by three guys, she's the\none who writes the songs (and\nshe produced the CD\ntoo), and they are\ndamned good songs,\nwith oft-clever lyrics, performed with a Cheap\nTrick-like gusto and produced to have almost\nQueen-like qualities.\n(The doubled vocals are\nexquisitely glam.) The CD\ncover is on the cheesy\nside, but if you can get\npast that, and if you want\nto hear some of the catchiest rock songs since The\nSweet (with way better\nwords), you've got to\nhave this Where else will you\nfind confessional songs that mention day-glo condoms and preteen\ndrinking and smoking, and get\nstuck in your head for days on end?\n()\n\u00C2\u00A3o)\nPopl I woke up to THE\nSALTEENS who are not soda\npop, not bubble gum pop, more\nlike those sweet pop rocks that\nexplode inside your mouth\nThese Shindig winners had me\nsinging and tapping my foot.\n(5361 Crescent Dr., Delta, BC,\nV4K 2E2)\nI feel like that princess with\nthe pea, except that I sleep on\ncassette tapes instead of mattresses and the pea is that golden\ndemo that I hope to find soon,\nbut I know it'll be at the bottom\nofthe pile.*\"\n*> by Jeremy Baker\nphotos by Jay Douillard\ni Vancouver. Did you\nDiSCORDER: You guys were late arriving ii\nguys have any problems?\nChris Yeah, our van broke down\nTell me about your van.\nChris: It's fixed. It cost us $900. It broke down eight miles south of Waterton,\nSouth Dakota We were driving along and it started smoking and we pulled\nover, popped the hood and there was this big flaming fire \u00E2\u0080\u0094 not as flaming as\nTodd, but still flaming\nSome shows got canceled?\nChris: Yeah, we didn't get to go to Winnipeg or Calgary.\n;. You didn't miss much. This is your second time to Vancouver; can\nyou tell me anything about your last Vancouver experience?\nBob: It was at Seylynn Hall in Vancouver. It was a lot of fun \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a lot of bands\nand no stage. Everyone just stood on the floor There was a big field across the\nway and I remember playing football. It was a lot of fun.\nYour show at Seylynn Hall was an all-ages show. Do you prefer\nthe all-ages atmosphere or clubs?\nBob: Definitely all-ages.\nWhere was your last show?\nDamon: Our last show was in Sioux Falls. It was in a university, an all-ages\nshow. It was good.\nYou guys have played a lot of shows. What number is this one?\nBob: Vancouver is 495. San Francisco will be show number 500.\nWhat is the most rockin' city you guys have played in, excluding\nVancouver?\nDamon: London, England.\nTodd: Zagreb, Croatia.\ni Chris: Chicago\nI Bob: I was going to go with Chicago but gosh ... I don't know, this is a hard\n. I'd have to say DC. Washington, DC.\nChris: You know what is a rock, rock town? Gainesville, Florida. Rock until\nyou throw up, that's the kind of rock town Gainesville is. Everyone there is\ndrunk, all the time.\nDan: Austin, Texas is like that.\nReminds me of Saskatoon. You guys missed that on your tour.\nWhat can we expect out of Braid in the future?\nBob: [after some deliberation] There definitely be a single or EP out by the end\nof the year\nAnd you're going to Japan and Hawaii?\nChris: Going to Japan is one of those dreams come true that never was really\na dream. I never would have imagined ...\nBob: Playing in Vancouver was somewhat of a dream.\nAre you guys spending any time in Vancouver?\nTodd: No, fuck Vancouver; I mean, yeah, we're staying.\nChris: Hold on one sec You're listening to 101.9, smoke it. I love those things.\nOK, sure. But this interview is for DiSCORDER. Do you want to\ntalk about your university days?\nBob: Well, that's where we put the band together in Champagne, Urbana\n[Illinois] which is a university town.\nChris: I'm going to go back to school in the fall to become a cinematographer.\nAny music video ideas?\nChris: Yeah, for the new album we are going to do some.\nDan: Hardcore underground porn.\nI shouldn't ask you this but what are your musical influences?\nChris: Celtic, definitely. The Chicago Bears.\nAny weird covers that you guys do? Like, say, maybe something\nfrom a Disney Film?\nBob: No.\nHas Puff Daddy contacted you guys to redo any of your old\nsongs?\nChris: Lauryn Hill is going to do some back-up on the new album. 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They make a\nloi less noise than they used to, albeit with more members. Once,\nthey had the plugs pulled oo them during Lollapalooza for being too\nlc-d\u00E2\u0080\u0094 now they're colling them the new Beoch Boys! By losing flute player\nSuzanne Thorpe ond hooking up with Oasis' manager, the Rev have gone\nmainstream and their new album, Deserter's Songs, Ts o much tomer beast\nthan their previous efforts. Rumours of rampant sobriety in the band, Ond\neven more worryingly, a glow of health coming from most of the band\nmembers, may cause concern amongst old-skool indie fans. After their\nBellingham show, keyboardist Adam was given the opportunity to convince\nus that the band formerly known as crazy isn't quite ready for retirement\nyet\nHe kicks off by scotching the rumours that the Rev no longer enjoy a\ntipple: \"W(&, some of the fellas tried absinthe lost time we were overseas,\"\nhe says, referring to the trendy European rocket fuel, banned in North\nAmerica *l had enough to drink that night so I skipped out on it. They all\ncomplained that it didn't settle well with them. We didn't have much of it. If\nwe could go back in time and Toulouse-Lautrec was there and we'd all been\nnodding out on a big wooden table, I would have drank it, but on the tour\nbus it just kindo loses its appeal. So skip the absinthe.\"\nHmm ..it seems they are not exactly the 24 hour traveling rock V roll\nparty that they were once revered as. How does he feel about their alcohol-\nsoaked performances of the past, in comparison with tonight's all-ages show?\n\"Yeah, we like this. I gotta say that there is definitely a time for experimenting\nwith drinking and stuff, and there is a time for being moderate and I'm sorta\ngetting into that time \u00E2\u0080\u0094 everybody go at their own pace, everybody be\nthemselves, you know.\"\nWhat about the current healthy aspect of the once pasty-faced rockers? Do\nthey watch whot they eat nowadays? \"Yeah, sure. Less to do with losing\nweight and more to do with paying attention to what I'm consuming. Just\ntrying to figure out what makes you feel good and what makes you feel\ncrappy. I guess that's sottpf a diet. It's not like I always stick to it, especially\nAt that last remark he looks ruefully down at the pizza crust he has been\npicking at for the last fiveIjpnures. \"You know, in France you get really good\nshit. They cook for you. You go to the clubs and it's a point of pride \u00E2\u0080\u0094 each\nclub tries to out-do the other clubs. Nothing fancy, but of a very high quality\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 usually a good fish with some kind of side dish and a nice soup, and of\ncourse, the wine is spectacular. All day long they feed you stuff like grape\nleaves, chips and French bread. I like to cook, although I don't get\nto cook on the road I like to make things with beans \u00E2\u0080\u0094 rice, beans,\ncorn, and variations on chili. That's what I specialize in.\"\nIt seems the lads from Mercury Rev have revised their agenda.\nWhite less likely to kick out the jams on stage, they have no objection\nto spreading them over a loaf of bread in the dressing room. And that's\nnot all \u00E2\u0080\u0094 they are now family men. Adam reveals that they took time off\nfrom the tour to spend time at home. 'Thank; God we got to spend Easter\nwith our families,\" he says, before revealing that they are still open to a\nspot of substance abuse. \"I had my share of Easter candy, that's for sure\nAlthough I haven't had a Codbury's creme egg yet this year buf I've been\nknown to indulge.\"\nExactly 47 audience members at the Bellingham concert were gracefully\nconveyed from 4th and Burrard (in Vancouver) aboard the Zulu Records tour\nbus. This was the first time in 12 years that Zulu owner Grant McDonaugh\nhad organized anything similar \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the last was a trip to Seattle to see PIL.\nAdam (whose band was recently described by Sebadoh's Lou Barlow as\nbeing \"Awful ... they're almost Canadian\") earned bonus points by\nspending time chatting with the Vancouverites and signing records. He even\nboarded the bus to say hello to everyone. Although he later described the\nbus as \"Great! It looks really '60s,\" it was unclear if he was referring to the\nvehicle or the passengers.\nOkay, maybe they're not the hedonistic drink V drugs machine that\nthey once were, but Mercury Rev still have a lot going for them.\nDeserter's Songs is the best thing they've done in years and if you listen\nclosely, you can still heor.a distant chaos that evokes their earlier sound.\nBesides, few bands are as willing to share recipes and cooking tips:\n\"Here's what you do,\" says Adam, revealing his chili-making\ntechnique. \"You put the tomatoes in a* fhe very last minute so they just\nget slightly cooked and they don't get stewed. That's my secret. Hey ...\n'Last Minute Tomato' \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that could be a Mercury Rev song title!\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ni*.*1**^** \u00C2\u00AB*V\nIntervleTr\n-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB! photosi\n<4iionliii\nFLASH & SHANTE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS\nU.K. ASIAN BREAKBEAT FUSIONISTS\nFLASH DJ's:\nLACE&\nKEVIN\nGUEST DJ:\nPAUL\nI\nTICKETS:\n$13 ADVANCE\n$15 @ DOOR\nBLACK SWAN\nHIGH LIFE\nZULU\nBASSIX\nSCRATCH\nFUTURISTIC\nFLAVOUR\nFRIDAY JUNE 4th 1999\n@ WETT BAR\n1320 RICHARDS ST\n8 P. M. START\nn umoss^m Sam\nby BrA^y Cunfiel5 photos by Richard Jolgar\npaling Not that I w\nbe alool e vague maybe less\nsinging, hushed\ntniitic, personal. To my delight, he was\nicoming, but, as always, a printed text\ncannot well capture any of the charm of his accent\nand delivery Certainly, for me at least, delivery is\npart of what makes his music so successful.\nI unabashedly love his music This\nlook place at the Breakroom in Seattle,\nWashington Sam Prekop's new project \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nfeaturing such great players as Archer Prewilt, Josh\nAbrams, plus Chicagp..!U.nderground Duo's Chad\n'orted by fine\nis Aerial M and Archer\n,er made it lo\nDiSCORDER: Why a solo album? Is Sea\nand Cake in jeopardy?\nSam Prekop: No, it's just on a break. John\nMcEntire was busy with Tortoise for a little while\nand he's also building a new studio. The solo thing\nhas gone a little further than I thought it might. I\nwasn't sure if I was going to tour. It went a bit better\nthan I planned. Anyway, I saw that there was going\nto be some time and I felt fhat I was ready to do\nDid you approach this album any\ndifferently than you would with Sea and\nCake?\nNot really. I mean, I knew it was going to be\ndifferent, but fhe way I thought about it was pretty\nmuch the same In the beginning, when I'm just\ndeveloping the songs, they could have been Sea\nand Cake songs. I think so. In terms of how I started\nthe very rough architecture, I didn't change my\noutlook. I don't think I would have the skills to write\nlike different people and stuff like that. I can only do\nmy own thing That's fine.\nYou knew in advance that you were going\nto make this a solo project?\nWell, I think so I started at home. I have a little\nhome studio: it's computer-based, whatever. I\nstarted thinking that it would be that stuff, but I was\nstarting to burn out on that. I was still learning how\nto do it. I had been messing with it for quite a\nwhile. I was spending too much time and not\ngetting stuff done. So I decided to come up with a\nbunch of guitar-based songs. I hadn't really been\nplaying as much as usual', so il was nice to get\nback to it, and it sort of made sense to use the\ncomputer diversion to get me re-interested in writing\nfor the guitar again.\nWhen you're writing songs, do you finish\nthem yourself, or do you take the basic\nparts to the studio to be finished with\nother players?\nA lot of them on this record were like that, yeah.\nProbably seven out of ten. My part of it was done,\npretty much, but once I started playing with the\ngroup they changed it a little bit. They put a slightly\ndifferent direction to it. Is Sea and Cake closer to your singular\nsongwriting?\nNo. They're pretty similar processes, really, except\nthat in Sea and Cake, everyone has to stay until\nthe end and finish. Whereas these guys, they just\ndo their stuff. I mean, they were prepared, but once\nwe did the basic tracks they were basically gone\nThen I worked with Jim O'Rourke on the overdubs,\nthe singing and the mixing, and all that stuff. So\nwith Sea and Cake, everyone has to stay until the\nDid Jim O'Rourke have a lot of input in\nhelping to determine or achieve the\ncharacter that this album has?\nI think so, yeah.\nIs he a really active producer?\nIn a way. It depends on what you term 'producer.'\nI mean, I wanted to get him to play stuff. He didn't\nplay a lot on it, though, [just] certain critical things\nand the string arrangements, and stuff. So he was\nlike a collaborator as much as anyone else.\nHe's quite a busy producer these days.\nWas it hard to get his time?\nIt wasn't too hard. We'd sort of talked about it\nbefore a little bit. Before that, he did a Sea and\nCake remix. He'd said he was into the stuff and all\nboundlessly\nenthusiastic, you knc\ninto it. I mean, he v\nasked and then it :\ndecided that I wai\nabout stuff, so he was really\ns probably the first person I\n*t of fell in line after that. I\nid to do it with Jim. If he\nrobably would\nbe a lot different. I don't know what it\nlike.\nWas this part of art effort to make this\nproject different from Sea and Cake once\nit got going?\nNot really.\nThis album seems even more refined than\nThe Fawn, to me. I think that the key\nthings I associate with Sea and Cake are\neven more distilled here, almost working\nbetter. Is this progression an intuitive\nthing?\nYeah. Basically, I just sort of treat the whole thing as\na body of work, so it's part of fhe same lineage. I\njust work on getting better at it. I know there is\nroom to improve, so I'm excited about doing\nanother record.\nAre you going to do another solo record?\nI hope so, yeah. I think it would be a shame not\nto. During this tour the playing has been really\ngreat. I think it would be a shame not to realize the\npotential.\nA couple of your bandmates are from the\njazz scene in Chicago. Has this changed\nyour show at all? Is there more of an\nimprovised element now?\nYeah, there're some extensions. Mainly because\nwe still don't know how to end. But that's okay.\nWe're making that a plus [laughter].\nThere is a lot of sharing of musicians in\nChicago, of people playing wifh other\ngroups, but you don't seem to do that as\nNo. I think it's because I don't have translatable\nskills to other projects [laughter]. I've sang on the\nlatest Spinanes record and the Stephen Prina\nrecord. That's really the only stuff.\nHow did the Spinanes thing come about?\nI'm not really sure. I'm really good friends with\nRebecca now [and] part of the record she did with\nJohn. I don't know. She just asked and I said I'd\ntry.\nMoving back to your approach to\nsongwriting: do you have any formal\nhistory with jazz music, or is this\nsomething that you're just feeling\nthrough?\nI have no training. I mean, I don't know the names\nof chords. I know the names of strings [laughter].\nBut there's a lot of jazz character to your\nrecordings. Is jazz a kind of music you\nlisten to a lot?\nNot really so much now. I used to a lot more. I\ndidn't set out fo make this a jazz record, or\nsomething. I went in that direction once I figured\nout who was going to be playing on it. I didn't\nwant to say, 'Don't do what you do.' I didn't have\nthis big plan before, or anything, that it's got to be\nmore jazz-like. In fact, I was worried about that. I\ndidn't want to do a fake jazz record. That would be\nthe worst thing that could happen. So I'm very self-\nReviews of your music often bring up jazz.\nIt seems to me that the jazz thing is there,\nbut it's running along more in parallel. It\nseems more like a sincere approach to\nmusic making that just comes out the\nsame, rather than from intentionally\n'taking on jazz.'\nI would never ... I can understand why it's said all\nthe time, but it's really not my process, you know.\nIt's mainly because I'm clearly not playing rock\nguitar. But it depends on what you term that. So, it's\nfar more complex. It's something that people use\nwhen writing about my music. I mean, I have a\nhard time saying what I do exactly.\nYou don't like talking about it?\nI [wouldn't] mind if I was better at it. If I could say\nsomething other than 'It's kind of jazzy.' I'm in the\nsame boat [as reviewers].\nIn terms of reviews, are you happy to find\nthe cumbersome, basically irrelevant term\n'post-rock' becoming less common?\nI guess it never really bothered me too much. I\nmean, if you take the term literally, it's so wide\nopen. Yeah, all right, that's fine. Something other\nthan rock, although that's not really entirely true\neither. I mean, it's helped to focus attention on our\nstuff, which is fine with me. I'm all for it. Say\nwhatever you want.\nTurning away from music, tell me a little\nabout your painting. Is this more than a\nhobby? Do you show in galleries?\nI have a show up right now, which is my first solo\nshow. I tend to do it less because of music. I plan\non having more shows.\nWhat do you work in?\nOil. They're small oil paintings.\nAnd you do record covers. You did the one\nfor your solo record, but you've done\nothers as well?\nI'm really into designing layout and all that kind of\nstuff. Mostly for Sea and Cake. Most is\ncollaborative, to an extent. Archer Prewitt and I are\nreally into it, and Eric Claridge, the bass player.\nThe cover of The Biz is his drawing.\nYou have designed some stuff for Tortoise\nas well?\nWell, they just based their first record's cover on a\npainting I did. I should have designed it, though,\nbecause it didn't come out to my specifications.\nEspecially the reissue.\nDid you do art college?\nYeah, two years in Chicago and two years in\nKansas City.\nOne last question: why don't you have\nlyrics pages in your records? Are lyrics\nsecondary to you?\nI could do a lyrics page. I always have to do it for\nthe Japanese versions. I figure here people could\njust figure out what I'm saying, I guess.\nThat's exactly the problem.\nIt's gotten much more clear over the years.\nIt's clearer, but you're singing much softer.\nNot that I'm asking you to change\n[laughter].\nI guess I could do a lyric sheet. There's no strong\nreason I haven't, but somehow I haven't. I guess\nmaybe it just seems a little weird to me. It sort of\nfeels like you're setting it up as poetry or something\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 like it needs to be seen. I do work on the lyrics.\nI don't disregard them.\nI bring it up only because, as we were\ndriving down here today, my friend had\na mix tape playing that had some Sea\nand Cake songs on it, and he was singing\nalong. Some words I could understand\nand others I couldn't, but he was singing\nalong throughout the whole song. Who\nknows what he's singing. It's kind of\nMaybe I should do lyrics upon request.* euphone\nOne of the highlights of my musical journey to New York last fall was my chance to see Ryan Rapsys in action. Rapsys, current drummer/artiste\nresponsible for the magic lhal is Euphone, has a resume a mile long {Heroic Doses, Joan of Arc, Sweater Weather), and it's no surprise why\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 this guy's got the mad skills Hooray for a new crafty drums-plus album, The Calendar of Unlucky Days, which enlists the help of fellow Heroic\nDose-r Nick Macri, and provides me with the chance to talk [albeit, electronically), with my slicks V skins idol extraordinaire.\nby julie colero\n(By the way, the answers to this e-mail interview were completed\nby both Ryan and Nick together in Nick's very small bedroom.)\nDiSCORDER: What is the current Euphone roster and\ninstruments played?\nCurrent Euphone roster is Ryan Rapsys and Nick Macri In the\nstudio, the sky is the limit as far as instruments played. A partial list\nof instruments played on The Calendar of Unlucky Days: drum kit,\nbass guitar, organs, electric guitar, samplers, drum machines,\nsequencers, saxophone, glockenspiel, melodica, steel drum,\ntimpani, assorted percussion, electronic drums, etc. However, the\nEuphone live setting is stripped down to just bass guitar, effects,\ntapes (provided by Nick), drum kit, drum machine/sequencer, and\nsynthesizer (brought to you by Ryan, sometimes all at the same\nRyan, where did your involvement with Joan of Arc\nbegin and end?\nRyan: Tim from JOA and I have been friends for years, so it\nseemed natural that we would collaborate on each other's music.\nTim played guitar on the first Euphone record and, in return, I\nplayed on A Portable Model Of Tim came on tour with Euphone to\nhelp out on guitar and, in turn, I played drums on a few tracks from\nLive in Chicago: 1999. I imagine the collaboration between Tim\n(JOA) and I will be an ongoing one.\nDoes your connection with Joan of Arc have anything to\ndo with your label switch? Your previous two releases\nhave been with Hefty, a label seemingly more suited to\nyour musical style (labelmates Slicker, John McEntire),\nas opposed to Jade Tree, a label more well known for\nemo and hardcore music (Joan of Arc, Promise Ring,\nJets to Brazil)?\nRyan: Yes, somewhat. Tim Kinsella introduced us to Tim and Darren\nof Jade Tree and they expressed interest in releasing Euphone\nmaterial. I think Jade Tree was interested in branching out musically\n(i.e., moving away from the 'emo' tag), while I was interested in\nexploring other possibilities and channels for my music Emo and\nhardcore are styles of music that I definitely grew up playing and\nlistening to. So it seemed like a good match.\nTell me the story of Heroic Doses. How did the\nconnection with Bill Dolan of Sive Style happen?\nRyan: After 5ive Style disbanded, I was playing with Jeremy\nJacobsen (The Lonesome Organist). Billy had seen me play with him\nand asked me to start a band. We were jamming for awhile with a\nrotating cast of bass players before asking Nick to join permanently.\nWe released a record on Sub Pop in June of 1998 and toured to\nsupport the record with the likes of Hum, Swervedriver, and Sunny\nDay Real Estate. The state of Heroic Doses is somewhat up in the\nair right now as we are quite busy with Euphone, whil\nBilly is currently working on a new 5ive Style record.\nWe'll see.\nBill Dolan is credited with helping on the\nEuphone EP, Breaking Parole. Did the guitar-\ndriven H.D. style take a back-seat to the\ndrums and sampling on those tracks?\nThe strengths of Euphone are more rhythm based, so\nthe songs that Billy played on were already writter\nand arranged. His parts were more of an 'icing on the\ncake,'if you will.\nWhen playing live, how much of the recorded\nsound gets lost? Does the addition of more\nmusicians aid in capturing the original sounds?\nThe live setting and the studio approach are two diffei\nanimals to us to be approached in two different ways. So\nrare that we ever try to 'sound like the record' and most e\\nup being different from the last. We have thought about adding\nother musicians to the line-up in order to play some of the recorded\nmaterial true to form, but, for the time being, we are really enjoying\njust being a duo. It is fun for us to re-interpret and re-approach our\nsongs for the live thing, and hopefully it is fun for the audience to\nwatch two guys wrestling with a bunch of machines while making a\nwhole lotta racket.\nWhat kind of equipment do you use, live and in the\nstudio?\nIn the studio, we use whatever is around us at the time. Kind of a\n'do the best with what you got' approach. The home studio set up\nconsists of a Teac four-track reel-to-reel and a small Mackie (1202\nVLZ) mixing board, but we have also done recording in beautiful,\nswanky 24-track analog studios. It really varies from session to\nsession and depends on the recording situation. Whatever is in the\nroom at the time might get banged on or dropped in order to get a\nnew and interesting noise. For example, when we were recording\nwith Rick Valentin at his Studio Tedium, we ended up using the\nchimes hanging on his front door as percussion on the track 'Needle\nand Crate.' There really is no right or wrong and no limit to what\nequipment we use in the studio because it usually ends up being a\nspur of the moment thing. Just so long as it is interesting to us. We\nhave used everything from expensive samplers (Ensoniq ESQ-1 and\nthe Yamaha SU-10) to, quite literally, banging on pots and pans.\nSometimes the pots and pans just sound better, you know? Live,\nwe pretty much stick to our current configuration (for now, as it is\never changing) which consists of, for Ryan, Gretsch four-piece drum\nkit, Roland DR-5 drum machine/sequencer, and a crusty, old\nYamaha noisy-ass cheapo keyboard. We run the drum machine\nand keyboard through an old Peavey PA head (which serves as\nan amp and a mixer) which is, in turn, run through a Dietz 1x15\"\nbass cabinet for that thumpin' low end. We are going for that 'kicker\nbox in the trunk of an Oldsmobile' kind of sound. [And for Nick],\nFender Jazz bass, Ampeg SVT amp, Mesa Boogie 1 x 15\" speaker\ncabinet, a bunch of effects pedals (depending on who is in town\nand who will let me borrow their stuff!), and some homemade tape\nloop stuff run through a Sony hand-held tape recorder.\nHow multi-faceted are you? How many instruments do\nyou play? There is a recent trend with drummers picking\nup samples and other electronic tricks to make\nthemselves self-sufficient.\nRyan: The idea behind learning to play other instruments (than\ndrums) was almost out of necessity. I was struggling trying to find\npeople to play with, but at the same time I knew I had all of these\nideas inside. So, short of pulling all of my hair out, I decided to try\nand learn, at least to a limited capacity, the guitar and piano.\nLearning this actually broadened my understanding of drums, made\nme more aware of the importance of accompaniment.\nSome dumb 'myths of the drummer'\nquestions for Ryan: do you get\nmore fans if you're the only\nmember of a band? What's\nyour take on the horrors of\nmaking a 'drummer-face?'\nRyan: Wait a minute, I thought\nnobody noticed the bass player! But\nit's the drummer? Fuck this! I quit then! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAs far as drummer faces are concerned,\njusf let whatever feelings or emotion:\nrunning through me at the time come through. If\nns I have to make a really creepy fao\nget my idea across, then so be it. People have f/\nmade fun of these expressions, but I was told >}\na*. not to take them seriously and to move on. *i\u00C2\u00A7|\nAlso, not so drum related, what is that tattoo on the\ninside of your forearm?\nRyan: Actually, it is drum related, but I've never told anyone what\nWhat does the future hold for Euphone\nand related\nprojects?\nRyan: Well, we hope to continue putting out a\ns many records\nbefore the apocalypse as possible. And, what w\nith US relations\nwith China deteriorating, it just may be sooner than\nwe think. 1 don't\nwant to talk about that, though. The sounds\nwe've yet to capture are r^_JB__\nthe sounds of our own afate _______&\nvoices singing on Jgfflt <\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^Z\nrecord. So, there is a JB\ngreat possibility 1||\nthere will be some J|H\nvocals on the next Jjm\nrecord. Who? Well, Wt\n1 don't want to give |9B\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Is\nanything away, but H\nwe've worked -WB\ntogether before ijfl\nAnd 1 intend to take ^m\nthe lead on a few IjjsE\nnumbers.\nAnd finally, HOW 11\nDID YOU GH TO BE WM\nSUCH A WICKED^HB\nDRUMMER? Share ^^H|\nyour secrets, the tricks of\n_tf_Jh\nthe drumming trade...\nRyan: 1 don't really know how to 1\nmm\nl:\ntackle this one except that looking ;\u00E2\u0080\u009E .\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i\nback on it, I've spent the better half of \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n9H__\nmy life in my bedroom with H|\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nheadphones on absorbing music,\n1BH\npracticing, even though it never really\nIBi\nfelt like practice. 1 learned that there isn't H\n^Pl\na right or wrong way, there's just 'your' H\nIi\nway and people either\ni\naccept it or they don't. 1\ndon't really have any ^\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cnone that\nI'm allowed\nto share,\n%\nanyWay# m\nm m\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 %\u00E2\u0080\u009E\n preoccupied impres-\nI; sions of New York, is\nS| perhaps Baker's own\nI little joke. With protege Carl Jung at his\nside, the father of psychoanalysis is mostly\noccupied with his own\ndisturbing dream sequences instead of the\nfolding around him. In\nresponse to the new\ncity, Freud has indiges-\nFreud at Coney Island,\nt the n\n, Freud i\nOn Coney Island, n\nless, Freud declares America a\nmistake, and we are snickering\nbehind his back. Meanwhile,\nJung frolics like a child.* 7:\ninch\nT^ :\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\">\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 vy-- . v\ntfimm*\nBY THE INVISIBLE CLAIRE\nI've written 27 editions of this column over almost three years, under two different names. With an average length of approximately\nseven records per month, that makes 189 records! Unbelievable.\nMy educated guess is that the average 7\" is about eight minutes\nlong. That given, one could offer the very conservative estimate that\n25.2 hours of my life have been spent researching small round creations for DiSCORDER It's time for the fabulous Julie and whatever\nalter egos she chooses to develop to take over. Bye bye.\nL'il Red Wagon is a small but\nresourceful label based in\nWelland, Ontario, and its new\nindie-pop compilation, BUMPING UP AND DOWN, features some minor and major\nmasters of the genre B'ehl start\nthe show off with a perky tune\ncalled \"Mies Pleez\" which features excellent harmonies. Kitty\nCraft (in my humble opinion,\none of the best and brightest of\nlo-fi entrepreneurs) displays\ntrademark smoke and slide on\nthe appropriately (but rather depreciatingly) titled \"Lo-Fi.\"\nNaysay document drone and\nbuzz via discordant robot-boy\nvocals and some fancy guitar-\npickin' \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is that cello I hear?\nThe Philadelphia duo\nTummybug create a rather\nsilly song about Bill Nye the Sci\nence Guy out of distorted guitar\nand girly ranting. The words to\n\"Science Fiction\" are pleasingly\npedantic. A quick, enjoyable,\n'60s-tinged song about fashion (\"I\nMock You With My Monkey\nPants\") by Bunnygrunt finishes\noff the disc. Connoisseurs of\nadorability, take note. (L'il Red\nWagon, 195 Denistoun Street\n#203, Welland, ON, L3C 6P1)\nOh dear, street punk poseurs\nSNAP-HER are back with three\nsongs about drugs and rebellion\non the Nice Girls Don't Play Rock\n& Roll single released by UK label Household Name. The only\nthing I find interesting about this\nband is its inclination towards\nhilarious hairdos. (Household\nName, PO Box 1 2286, London,\nSW9 6FE, UK)\n\"My Thousand Years with\nRobots\" by one-man pop sculptor FROM BUBBLEGUM TO\nSKY, features an amazing\nrhythm section. You will love these\nrolling, stuttering, agitated drums!\nShe ain't Lois, she ain't\nMadigan ... wait a sec, I'm\nthinking too far away The most\nobvious resemblance is to Miko\nof Vancouver's Gaze. How's that\nfor seeing the forest for the trees.\n(Put it on a cracker, PO Box\n22944, Gainesville, Florida,\n32602)\nSweet Babboo, a New Jersey\nlabel specializing in lo-fi and\nnoise releases, has put <\n, ther\ndeserving of any credit\nsic fan. \"Hello Hello Hi\" is quite\nnew wave, handclaps and all. I\nam inclined to compare From\nBubblegum To Sky with Wolfie\nthe major difference being that\nthe latter makes me want to kill\n(see Seven Inch, April '99) and\nthe former does not. Dig it. (eenie\nmeenie, 8316 Melrose Avenue,\nLos Angeles, CA, 90069)\nA hand-screened, silvery,\nrather anonymous sleeve is the\nonly packaging SHANNON\nWRIGHT seems to need. Strumming an acoustic guitar and sing-\nShannc\nit very well, indeed Faint hints\nof melodica (I may be wrong)\nmake a brief appearance on\n\"Wish You Well.\" \"Captain of\nQuarantine\" showcases Shannon's lovely vocal style At first, I\ncouldn't put my finger on why\nShannon sounded so familiar.\nHing bones. \"Prediction\" comes\nfrom a more garagey angle, but\nretains shades of the ghostly.\n\"Requi*es*cat\" features the vocal\nstylings of bassist Dan Majewski.\n:entn\nfe\neing\nBellingham's NOGGIN\nNew Brunswick, NJ's AZUCAR\nNoggin, one of the noisiest bands\naround, freak out with guitar and\nviolin on \"lyrics that lead right to\nthe heart of the matter,\" a song\nwhich plays equally well at 33\nand 45. Noggin's violinist is,\nperhaps, better known for his\nwork with Behead the\nProphet No Lord Shall Live,\nbut I shall always think of him as\n\"the old man who hung out at the\nSeattle Riot Grrrl convention in\n1996 \" Azucar's track is less abstract, but that's not a difficult feat\nBlurry radio voices, violin, and\ntape errors highlight this slow,\ndark, bassy song (Sweet\nBabboo, PO Box 255, New\nBrunswick, NJ, 08903-0255)\nFans of Slant 6 need mourn\nno longer! QUIX'O'TIC,\nChristina Billotte's new band, has\ncreated three spooky and highly\noriginal songs for us to relish.\n\"Heliotrope\" is pure expert weird-\nness: bass guitars untuning themselves, percussion clicking like rat-\nEve\nthe a\nis to hint\nresurrection and revenants. (Ixor\nStix, PO Box 2 1 81 1, Washington\nDC, 20009-1811)\nThe Ebb & Flow, The Come &\nGo, The To & Fro by LULLABY\nFOR THE WORKING CLASS\nis a beautifully bound 7\" which,\nunfortunately, was not capable of\nholding my attention for very\nlong. Lullaby..'s songs are leisurely, to say the least. There is\nbeauty to be found in this record\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 expert piano, violin, cello, mandolin, steel guitar, a boy troubadour and his troubles \u00E2\u0080\u0094 but oh, it\ndrags. (Saddle Creek, PO Box\n8554, Omaha, NE, 681080554)\n\"Ice Cream Headache,\" on\nLEATHERBOY s Sf. Clair EP,\npossesses falsetto singing, orgasmic gasps, and a drum roll from\nHell. This four-song 7\" is also\nnotable for its Flaming Lips\ncover, \"Godzilla Flick.\" (Junior\nVarsity, PO Box 1857, Bozeman,\nMT, 59771)\nA living-room recording by\nNorthwest legends THE\nSONICS has been exhumed and\nre-released by Norton Records.\nHouse Party features four garage\nmasterpieces complete with saxophone and organ. These songs\nare neat, but seem kind of generic\nthese days, probably thanks to\nthe 500 gajillion clones currently\npumping out '60s-inspired garage rock vinyl. Get the real\nthing. (Norton, Box 646 Cooper\nStation, New York, NY, 10276)**\nJL*.\n>fXsfXA^~JLA.A.\n*u yyviA^M.\nThe people that you love? That man. that woman, they don't feel\nthe same way that you do. When you kiss him, he's thinking about\ntelevision, not your warmth. When you hold her hand, she wants to\nlet go because you feel heavy, you're slowing her down like when\nshe walks her dog. He stays with you because you keep him\nfrom sleeping in. You're good for him, like carrots. She keeps\ncalling you because she needs someone to talk about to her friends.\nThat girl at the library? She hates you. You scare her because\nyou're always staring. She smiles because she's uncomfortable,\nlike when a stranger tickles you. But that guy who lives on your\nstreet, he wants to hold you. He thinks about you all the time. Do\nyou remember his name? Do you know who I'm talking about?\nYou're busy trying to make her happy, so that you can be too.\nAnd if you keep believing that he loves you, at least you can\npretend that everything is okay. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFIZZY BANGERS ' LESS THAN JAKE\nTEEN IDOLS ' TEFtFtORGFtUPPE\nGOOD RIDDANCE \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 CHIXDIGGIT\nGREEN DAY \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 LIVING END ' THE MUFFS\nBAD RELIGION \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 HI-STANDARD\nAEROBITCH \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NERFHERDER \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BIGWIG\nUNDECLINABLE AMBUSCADE ' FURY 66\nATARIS ' UNWRITTEN LAW ' AFI\nDILLINGER \u00E2\u0080\u00A2*** ' SPREAD \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 AVAIL\nSWINGIN' UTTERS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 THE BARFEEDERS\nCITIZEN FISH \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BLINK 182 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 SNUFF\nGOOBER PATROL \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 KILLSWITCH\nENEMY YOU \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NO USE FOR A NAME\nCONSUMED \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 MR. T EXPERIENCE\nLAGWAGON ' GWAR \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 DICKIES\nSAMIAM - DOGPISS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ALL \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NOFX\n59 TI IVIES THE PAIN - BRACKET \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 MISFITS\nNO MEANS NO - DESCENDENTS\nDANCE HALL CRASHERS ' LIMP\nGUTTERMOUTH \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 JUGHEADS REVENGE\nCIRCLE UERKS **\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 OFFSPRING \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 20 %\nMAD CADDIES - THE CRIMINALS\nSCREECHING WEASEL \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NICOTINE\nONE MAN ARMY - STRUNG OUT\nYOUTH BRIGADE \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 TILT \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 SPAZZ\nTHE DAMNED \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 D.O.A. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 PULLEY\n88 FINGERS LOUIE - THE VANDALS\nPENNYWISE \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NO FUN AT ALL' WtZO\nSICK OF IT ALL \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A.O.D. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ANTI-FLAG\n7 SECONDS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 GROOVY GHOULIES\nRANCID \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 DIESEL BOY - WHITE FLAG\nFRENZAL RHOMB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 H20 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BODYUAR\nTHE QUEERS 'D.I. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BLACK FLAG\nCAUSTIC SODA ' SATANIC SURFERS\nTHE BROADCAST ' MEN O' STEEL\nAGNOSTIC FRONT \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 DOWN BY LAW\nUSELESS ID ' POISON IDEA \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 HOTBOX\nTHE REAL MCKENZIES ' SUBHUMANS\nBUCK WILD ' LUNACHICKS ' DWARVES\nBOUNCING SOULS ' TRIGGER HAPPY\nONE HIT WONDER ' TEN FOOT POLE\nTHE ONLY\nCOMPILATION\nFEATURING\nEVERY BAND\n)9 um&ss^m Under\nReview\nALBUMS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ZINES \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 RECORDED MEDIA\n(Owned & Operated)\nThis is a 22-song \"best of\" collection picked by All fans and\nremixed by the band Excellent\nThe song choices are all pretty\ngood: they've included all the hits\nand they sound amazing. In all\nseriousness, I thought they had\nactually re-recorded most of the\nsongs. The lone exception is in\n\"Simple Things\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that cool drum\nfill near the end is buried\nThe two highlights of this collection are \"Crazy,\" a great\nAlvarez song heretofore only available as the B-side to \"She's My Ex,\"\nand a new version of \"Just Like\nThem.\" Descendents singer Milo\nAukerman wrote this song with his\ncollege band, Milestone, and All\nlater covered it Now that Descendents and All are one big happy\nfamily, they have a version with\nMib singing, and it is truly phenomenal.\nAs I said, with a couple excep-\nno \"Wonder\" or \"# 10 (Wet),\" not\nto mention nothing at all from the\nnow album \u00E2\u0080\u0094 this is a must-have\nfor All fans, even if you already\nhave 'em all.\nTrevor Fielding\nALLIANCE ETHNIK\nFat Comeback\n(Delabel/Virgin)\nAE is a French band, comprised\nof a bunch of guys with different\nbackgrounds: African/North African/Arab mostly The lyrics are\nmostly French and peppered with\nEnglish and Arabic and French\nurban slang. It is hip-hop; it has\nissue-laden songs, decent orchestration, sampling, and scratching\nwith understated humour underlying the whole album.\nIt avoids the all-out angry mode\nthat some current groups (like\nArsenik) fall into. R&B, Motown,\nand Latin rhythyms are spread out\nhere and there, which adds to the\nNATACHA ATLAS\nGedida\n(Mantra/Beggars Banquet)\nVocalist and former bellydancer\nNatacha Atlas' cultural roots\nextend far and wide from a family\nof Sepharic Jewish/Muslim/Christian mix through connections in\nMorocco and Egypt via an upbringing in Brussels and the UK.\nShe has collaborated with Jah\nWobble, Apache Indian,\nTransglobal Underground\nand soundtrack composer David\nArnold, the latter two lending their\nproduction skills to Gedida, her\nthird release\nOn Gedida, we find Ms. Atlas\nsinging in French, English and an\nEgyptian dialect of Arabic over a\nbed of smooth breakbeats and lush\nstring arrangements infused with\ntonalities of arabic scales On one\ntrack, \"Bastet,\" we even hear her\nrap in Arabic (!) over some smart\ndrum & bass patterns \"The Righteous Path\" contains arabic hand\npercussion mixed with Dick Dale\nlike surf guitar All the while, Ms.\nAtlas sings with a voice so com-\npellingly like a siren's song that it\nleaves you wishing for an a capella\ntrock as a break from the constantly\nbusy beats The final track, \"One\nBrief Moment,\" offers the only diversion from this program with Ms\nAtlas singing in English over\nArnold's lush orchestrations. The result sounds like the soundtrack to the\nclosing credits to a tragic bve story.\nGedida should please fans\nwhose taste cross over any perceived boundaries of world beat\nand urban music\nPC\nBADMARSH AND SHRI\nDancing Drums\n(Tommy Boy/Outcaste)\nBadmarsh and Shri head up\nthe roster of a relatively new label,\nOutcaste, whose mandate appears\nto promote the healthy crop of recent Asian-influenced electronica.\nIf this particular release is any indication, Outcaste will most certainly be a label to look out for.\nThis duo integrates programmed materials (Badmarsh)\nwith live instrumentation (Shri) for\na fusion that is aimed at the\ndancefloor but works just as well\nfor the armchair raver. Most of the\ntunes feature fast breakbeats and\nprogrammed tablas propelled\nalong by Shri's fretless bass playing. The augmentation of the occasional excursion on flute and/\nor tablas by Shri adds a human\nwarmth to the various programmed\nbeats and samples Though largely\nan instrumental affair, the track\n\"The Air That I Breathe\" [not the\nHollies tune) features vocalist Tina\nGrace. This exception, howeve\nonly makes one grateful thi\nBadmarsh and Shri did not incc\nporate more of this type of lightweight pandering into their overall effort as this song lacks the edge\nthat the rest of the disc has. At\ntimes some of the tracks (\"The\nAsian Detective,\" \"Lament\") take\non a cinematic quality but stop shy\nof directly referencing anything\ntypically Hollywood-esque.\nAlso worth checking out is\nOutcaste's fine compilation, The\nUntouchable Outcaste Beats, Volume I, to both Badmarsh and Shri\nPC\nTHE BOWLING GREEN\nOne Pound Note\n(Blue Planet/Nothing)\nThe Bowling Green is the\nhandiwork of one Micko\nWestmoreland, a technomuso who\nmoonlights as an actor (in Todd\nHaynes' Velvet Underground]\nthough perhaps it's the other way\naround. Either way, there is something here for olmost any armchair\nraver: campy disco, frantic\nbreakbeats, techno bleeps, cinematic soundscapes, jazzy references, tech-step darkness and the\nlike Though the mixture is distinct\nenough to moke it sound like it all\noften comes off sounding like Luke\nVibert (aka Wagon Christ)\nwithout his usual charismatic grin.\nWhile One Pound Note may\ncome across as a product of a talented bloke well-versed in all the\nrequisite pop references and tech\ntools, it fails to stand out as an exceptional release in the deluge of\nall things being sold off as\n\"electronica.\" Then again, perhaps\nthis very perception has now become cliched\nDJ Satyricon\nCHICAGO UNDERGROUND\nTRIO\nPossible Cube\n(Delmark)\nThis disc starts off with a kicker and\nthen moves through a wide range\nof moods Somehow, an overall\nsense of unity arises just the same,\nos if maybe behind the surface\nthere is a guiding thematic. Yet this\nground seems based less on formal rules than on subliminal action\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a philosophy of flow and becoming. Their last recording for\nThrill Jockey, as a duo, was good\nbut this one is great. This time, multi-\ninstrumentalist Rob Mazurek and\npercussionist and vibraphone\nplayer Chad Taylor are augmented\nby Noel Kupersmith on bass as\nwell as guitarist Jeff Parker.\nIt's all for the best; this is a successful recording. And it's not just\njazz that they do. Lots of good\nideas are worked through here.\nShort songs bridge more complete\npieces, giving the CD a feeling of\ndynamic continuity. By the way, if\nMazurek and Taylor's names sound\nfamiliar, that's because they are\nbeing drawn into the Tortoise\norbit. Recently, they've added real\nquality to Sam Prekop's latest,\nhelping to complete his tunes in a\nway I don't think even the regular\nSea and Cake line-up could\ncompare. Bringing this milieu\naround itself, the last song on this\ndisc is \"La Jetee,\" a tune also covered by both Tortoise and Isotope 217. For my taste, these\nguys get it best.\nBrady Cranfield\nTHE CRABS\nSand and Sea\n(K)\nThis album proves that even perfection can be improved upon. I\nwas instantly enamoured of The\nCrabs' last release on K, What\nWere Flames Now Smoulder,\nwhich showed off the sweet pop\ntalents of band members Lisa and\nJonn, and continue to enjoy it for\nits sing-along, feel-good-feel-sad\nqualities Now, on the latest release, a third party has been\nadded to the mix \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ms. Sarah\nDougher (aka Ms. Multi-talented,\nof The Lookers, Cadallaca\nand on and on)\nI listened to this album five times\nthrough the morning I got my hands\non it, and was quick to swoon to\nthe duets and harmonies that Lisa\nand Sarah share Jonn's songs are\nas catchy as ever, some of the best\npop I've heard in ages. Sarah adds .\nan extra special touch to an already incredible band with her\nvocals and keyboards, making this\nmy favourite Crabs release to date\nThis album has more than enough\ncatchy songs to sing on a sunny\nday, and the artwork by Nikki\nMcClure is beautiful to boot Sum-\nJulie\nTHE CREATURES\n(Instinct)\nAre we to believe that Siouxsie and\nBudgie have been vacationing in\nfancy discotheques and shiny office blocks? After all, previous\nCreatures albums took their inspiration from the Siouxses' holiday sites: Feast, recorded in Hawaii, had a deeply Polynesian feel\nto it; Boomerang, recorded in\nSpain, was Iberoandalusian at the\ncore. Anima Animus, though quite\nobviously of genus Creature and\nnot Banshee \u00E2\u0080\u0094 plenty of marimbas,\nplenty of high-order percussion \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nseems, at first listen, to be more\nopaque, more generic, than its\npredecessors. The vicarious tourist\nexpecting exotic jungle rhythms\nfeels thwarted, cheated! Where\nare the mythical birds, quaint\nshrines, primitive chants? Ah, but\nthen the veil of invisibility is drawn\naway, and we see that the ultramodern urban landscape is as bizarre as any Antipodal clime.\nClubster Siouxsie floats ecstatically\non \"Another Planet,\" watching\nunnameable things \"coming out the\nwalls, seeping in.\"\nThere's \"an eye in the glass on\nthe parquet floor\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 cyborg parry\nguests being sloppy again!\nHypersiouxsie meets a simulacrum\nof herself in \"I Was Me,\" declaring: \"I walk through the dawn in a\ndaze, same lips, same hair, the\nsame stare.\" Once the vision has\nhad rime to settle, nothing seems\ngeneric, appropriated, or out of\ncharacter, and even the illusion of\nmodernity disappears. The blips\nand bleeps which age so grace-\nlessly are \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and have always been\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 merely props for an inimitably\ngorgeous voice and the elegant\nsensibility which accompanies it.\nTHE DELGADOS\n(Mantra)\nWhy I've never heard of The\nDelgados before is a mystery to\nme. Peloton, the second fulHength\nrelease from this Glasgow four-\npiece, can only be described as a\nbrearhtakingly brilliant album. The\nstandard setup of drums, bass and\nguitars melt and swirl seamlessly\nwith flutes, pianos and strings to\ncreate a set of songs that truly defy\ncomparison. Ranging from catchy,\nupbeat all-out pop to downright\ndark and moody, each song takes\na wonderfully crafted set of lyrics\nand gently bleeds them into a complex slice of sonic euphoria Add\nto that the sultry calm of singer\nEmma Pollock's heavenly lilt and\nyou've got an album that should\nhave taken the music world by\nstorm, but never did This is the disc\nthat The Cranberries always\nmeant to make before getting\nbogged down in their own self-\nrighteous crapulence. Let me put it\nthis way \u00E2\u0080\u0094 remember the first time\nyou listened to OK Computer? For\nme, Peloton evokes the same level\nof awe and excitement I don't ihink\nI can pay the band a higher compliment than that.\nBrian Johnson\nFUGAZI\nInstrument (OST)\n(Dischord)\nFugazi is solid, priceless, gold.\nThis is blinding It's the Fugazi you\nthought you'd never see. It's the\nsoundtrack to Instrument, the Jem\nCohen documentary of the band.\nThis album is largely instrumental. The songs were recorded from\n'89-'97, most on eight-track reel-\nto-reel. It's slower, less urgent than\nFugazi's studio albums. The demo\nof \"Arpeggiator\" is almost half the\nspeed of the version on End Hits,\nand the guitar is flat, not piercing.\n\"Me and Thumbelina\" is seven different speeds in less than a minute.\n\"I'm So Tired\" confirms that Ian\nMacKaye is perfect.\nAll these songs can be heard\non the video. The opening scenes\nwith \"Slo Crostic\" are gorgeous,\nbut Instrument is not perfect because Jem Cohen is not Fugazi and\nFugazi is not film. The video is a\nnice companion to the soundtrack,\nnot the other way around. This is\nFugazi if they were in your basement.\nThis is the soundtrack to my dreams.\nChrista Min\nGROOVERIDER\nMysteries of Funk\n(Higher Ground/Columbia)\nA delicious blend of smooth d'n'b,\nas expected Innovative use of eq-\ning in more of a techno fashion\nand large-samples complete very\n\"full\" tracks. Jazzy trumpet wanderings and female vocals on \"Time\n& Space\" differ greatly from warehouse rumble-echo chords of epic\nbreakbeat in \"Where's Jack The\nRipper?\" while maintaining excel-\nt production quality througho\nNot c\nialis\nPhotek, closer to the lush wanderings of Jonny L and finger.\nMystery does abound in this album. Shimmering chords and a\nsense of sadness sometimes brings\nthe feeling closer to one of Detroit\nthan London, or perhaps it is a joint\nfeeling of the same sense of human loss to machine society prevalent in both. An excelbnt, lush, easy-\ntoaetHntoyet-stilldeep d'n'b CD.\nTobias\nJOE HENRY\nFuse\n(Mammoth)\nThe newest Joe Henry is just plain\nmiserable and mopey, with lots of\noverdubbed drums and loops, delays and reverbs. In fact, the production sounds kinda similar in a\nlot of ways to that now familiar\nSarah McLachlan sound fuse's\njazzy undertones also remind me\nof Mark Eifzel's 60 Watt Silver\nLining album. And much like said\nEitzel album, it's enjoyable in small\ndoses but gets a bit tedious after a\nwhile. Essentially, fuse consists of\nleisurely drawn-out grooves with\nlush instrumentation (trumpet, saxophone, trombone, strings, piano,\nvibes) and gutwrenching vocals. It\nwill probably appeal to the mature\nand discriminating listener who is\ninto artists like Nick Cave, Uoyd\nCole or Leonard Cohen\nSmooth mood music.\nF red derf\nHOSPITAL\nHospital\n(Noisebludgeon)\nLocal noise-mongers Hospital\nmake the kind of music that only a\nspecial few can appreciate, and\neveryone else runs away from in\nfear and confusion I'm sure they\nrealize this. Like Merzbow,\nwhom they most resemble, Hospital creates shrieking, distorted\nsound works that, despite their intensity, have quite a bt of individual\nquality. A dynamic three-piece \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwith J. Anzai on saxophone and\nvocals; K. Churko on guitar,\ntheremin and vocals; and B.\nWilson on drum machine and vocals \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I wonder how and why they\nchoose to play the instruments they\ndo. I'm being a little funny here, of\ncourse. I actually really dig what\nthey're up to. My only criticism is\nthat they sometimes come across\nas too definite, too decided upon.\nWhat I'm getting at is that there is\nalways a danger of becoming too\nformal and regular. Think of all the\nsame-sounding garage punk\nbands \u00E2\u0080\u0094 there's a reason why ihey\nall have different costumes.\nCare must be taken even with\nnoise. It seems like the field is wide\nopen, but I think the same shadowy, intuitive guidance that might\ninform someone doing ony other\nkind of music applies. The process\nand result may be more abstract,\nbut generally the approach bears\nsome similarities. Anyway, variation is probably hard to do when\neverything is turned up to 13, or\nlouder. I figure Hospital probably\nalready realize all this. Also, I\nguess there is nothing wrong with\nfollowing through on an agenda\neither. I just feel lhat with a little\nmore restraint, more could result.\nAlong this line, for example, Hospital's most exciting stuff is when\ntheir instruments emerge from the\ndin. Anyway, I have often won-\nbondage comes out as fairly homogenous, very loud noise. You\nmight think that such gratuitousness\ndoesn't quite correspond to the odd\nexperience of informed constraint.\nAlthough I am not a practitioner, it\nseems like the thrill with bondage\nmight come from the act of restraint\nmore than unbridled, pure release.\nAll that said, Hospital get the nod.\nGood work, boys.\nBrady Cranfield\nKULA SHAKER\nPeasants, Pigs and Astronauts\n(Columbia)\nIt's been three years since Kula\nShaker released their debut al-\nzD\n0PM Crashing\nthe boys' club in the pit. Hard and fast,\nheavy and slow. Listen to it, baby,\n(hardcore).\nONOMATOPOEIA 2:00-3:00PM\nComix comix comix oh yeah and some\nmusic. With Robin and Jules.\nBOMBSHELL alt. 3:00-5:00PM\nRHYMES AND REASONS alt. 3:00-\n5:00PM\nCULTURE CRAP 5K\u00C2\u00BB-5:30PM\nSHAPE UP alt. 5:30-6:00PM\nREELS TO REEL alt. 5:30-6:00PM\nMovie reviews and criticism.\nOUT FOR KICKS 6KX)-7:30PM No\nBirkenstocks, nothing politically correct. We don't get paid so you're\ndamn right we have fun with it. Hosted\nby Chris B.\nON AIR WITH GREASED HAIR 7:30-\n9:00PM Roots of rock & roll.\nUVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO\nHELL 9-O0-11:00PM Local muzak\nfrom 9. Live bandz from 10-11.\nCOCKED AND READY alt. 11:00PM-\n1:00 AM\nNOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS alt.\n11:00PM-1:00AM You adjust the\nlighting, DJ Satyricon mixes the\nsounds. Radio that could only happen\nafter the sun's gone down. Songs and\nsoundscapes for the naked city.\nPLUTONIAN NIGHTS 1:00-\n4:00AM late nightvinyl. Occasional\nskips. Cheers.\nFRIDAYS\nCAUGHT IN THE RED 6:30-8:30AM\nTrawling the trash heap of over 50\nyears worth of real rock 'n'roll debris.\nStick out yo' can.\nONE LOVE 8:30-10KX)AM Anything\nand everything from the wonderful\nworld of music, as long as harmonies\ncan be sung, and the melodies be\nSKA-TS SCENE-IK DRIVE! lOtfOAM-\n12:00PM E-mail your requests to\nDiska_T@hotmail.com\nTHESE ARE THE BREAKS 12:00-\n2:00PM DJ Splice brings you a\nHipped up, freaked out, full-on,\nfunktified, sample heavy beat-lain trip,\nfocusing on anything with breakbeats.\nVersatile at any style.\nUTTUE TWIN STARS 2:00-3:30PM\nUnderground, experimental, indie and\nwomen. Jacuzzi space rock at its finest.\nNARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4:00PM\nNOIZ 4-O0-5-00PM self-titled.\nBBC WORLDSERVICE 5KK)-5:30PM\nFAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. 6:00-\n9:00PM\nAFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. 6:00-\n9:00PM David \"Love\" Jones brings\nyou the best new and old jazz, soul,\nLatin, samba, bossa & African music\nfrom around the world.\nHOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM\nHosted by DJ Noah: techno, bul also\nsome trance, acid, tribal, etc. Guest\nDJ's, interviews, retrospectives,\ns, and more.\nalt.\nRant, phone-in and kiss your mother\nwith the guests.\nDEAD AIR alt. 12:00 AM-VER Y LATE\nExceptionally interesting girl talk.\nSATURDAYS\nGET TO THE CHORUS alt. 6:00-\n8:00AM\nTHE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM-\n12:00PM Studio guests, new\nreleases, British comedy sketches, folk\nmusic calendar, and ticket giveaways.\n8-9AM: African/World roots. 9AM-\n12PM: Celtic music and performances.\nALAM MAZEKA 12:00-1:00PM\nArabic music.\nPOWERCHORD 1:00-3:00PM\nVancouver's only true metal show;\nlocal demo tapes, imports and other\nrarities. Gerald Rattlehead and Metal\nRon do the damage.\nLUCKY SCRATCH 3:00-5:OOPM\nFrom backwoods delta low-down\nslide to urban harp honks, crooners\nand tunesters in the blue degree.\nBlues and blues roots with your hosts\nAnna and Andy.\nRADIO FREE AMERICA 6:00-\n8:00PM Extraordinary political re\nsearch guaranteed to make you think.\nOriginally broadcast on KFJC (Los Altos, Cal.).\nLIVEI AT THE HI-HATH alt.\n10:00PM-1:00AM \"Sho' 'nuff\nbumpin'I \"-Popular Muiic. Phone,\nwrite or call for reservations. Dance.\nAdmission $6.00.\nPIPEDREAMS alt. 10:00- 1:00AM\nSOUL TREE alt. 1:00-4:30AM From\ndoo-wop to hip hop, from the electric\nto the eclectic, host Michael Ingram\ngoes beyond the call of gospel and\ntakes soul music to the nth degree.\nEARWAXalt. 1:00-4:30AM \"noiz\nterror mindfuck hardcore like punk/\nbeatz drop dem headz rock inna\njunglist mashup/distort da source full\nforce with needlz on wax/my chaos\nruns rampant when I free da jazz...\"\nOut. -Guy Smiley\nREGGAE LINKUP 4:30-8:30AM\nHardcore dancehall reggae that will\nmake your mitochondria quake.\nHosted by Sister B.\nWHOM\nHOW\nesident Tobias Van Veen\nKlion Shane Vander Meer\ndinalor A\nike Chow\ni Manager Aaron Nakama\nraffk Director Jannine Lasaf\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"> President Anlhony Sch\n[i3CPCBeD[_]C_^1T^D^cC\u00C2\u00A3\nmondays 8am \u00E2\u0080\u0094 11 am\n[fl \u00C2\u00A9cbDcD\ngni__DQc_9D[ia\ncflrami \u00C2\u00A9 Doaas\u00C2\u00A9 *\nCOMING ALL OVER YDltf? AMMD\nJULY 31/99\nwe want you to get on the mic!\nget involved and do interviews, discussions, music, themes, readings,\nrants, live performances and Smut, for more info contact anna at 822-1242\nor come by room ?33 of the SUB at UBC and check Out CiTR for yourself.\nE3ye-byradi6)JV\u00C2\u00A3\nThe Vancouver Sun PAVEMENT\nTenor Twilight cou>\nJust in time to beckon the summer.\nPAVEMENT the beautiful. PAVEMENT\nthe brave \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Terra Twilight and the\nplayfully insane. Don't wait for your\ngrandchildren'*} explain this album to\nyou, little decoder. Malkmus may have\nmiles ot style to spare Gosh knows ha\ncertainly has plenty to say. What does it\nall mean, we wonder' StiH coUege rock\nlor literate dropouts, PAVEMENT turns\nthe earth again, digging up stony, smartass, retrofitted VOs-cum-now with more\nthan enough attitude. Malkmus, you pop\nstar, you Stipe, what kept you?\nAVAILABLE JUNE 8TH\nCD 16.98 LP 14.98\nLABRADFORD\nELuxoSocdap\nWith a consistent\nsomber and introspective mood,\nLABRADFORD have developed from the stark, cool,\nmechanical drones of their earlier work towards a\ndeeper, more resonant and spacious sound, such as\nwith Mark Nelson's solo proiect Pan American Now\nusing samplers, very lengthy tape loops as well as\nstrings and dulcimer, this fifth release is even more\natmospheric, minimal, at times almost soiriful and\nalways totally captivating. Always a Zulu favorite,\nLABRADFORD s E Luxo So happily brings us to tears.\nCD 16.98 LP 14.98\n1\t\n* y hi\n*__ i\nVarious Artists\nSUCK IT AND\nSEE2CD\nTake this one home in\nbrown paper! Howie 8 s\nPussyfoot label gets into\nporn and thinks you should\ntoo (we, however, support the discretion of the individual buyer \u00E2\u0080\u0094 clothing optional). Good old Howie B.\nplus Fantastic Plastic Machine, Naked Funk. Love\nT.K.O and many, many more let you know what turns\nthem on. And for some reason the collective outcome\nwas prolific enough for 2 CDs full of erotic tinged,\nnaughty electronic music. Yup, there's something for\neveryone. Come on, aren't you just a little curious?\nDon't worry mom and dad, it's only music. Dirty = fun.\n2CD 22.98\nTwo Long Term Performers:\n(Available June 4th)\nBARRY\nADAMSON\nTheMuiky\nWorld of Bany\nAdamson co\nA seminal member of Nick\nCave s Birthday Patty and Material, Adamson s\nsolo career has charted anything but an expected\ncourse. First under the pretense of creating soundtracks for imaginary films, and then later just creating\nharrowing soundscapes, Adamson's vision rests in the\ndark realm where noir-beat, sophisticated ja_z. smoky\nnightclub vibes, and fragmented dialogues predominate. This collection, which also feature new unreleased\nmaterial, runs the full sonic gamete offering song\nchoices par excellence, and through its great scope,\nbeautifully dissects his heart ot piercing darkness.\nRED HOUSE PAINTERS\nRetrospective co\nEnjoying cult status success as a member of "Periodicals"@en . "ML3533.8 D472"@en . "ML3533_8_D472_1999_06"@en . "10.14288/1.0050207"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these recordings must be obtained from CiTR-FM: http://www.citr.ca"@en . "Original Format: Student Radio Society of University of British Columbia"@en . "Rock music--Periodicals"@en . "Discorder"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .