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"International sounds homogenize through twisted, dirty avenues, where the high-rolling boom-box dub kings cruise tropical boulevards, tops down, stereos ablaze at twilight, while the jazzy ladies line up. The Chicago trio's strange rawer style stretches the sonic palette like Reed Richard's (Fantastic Four), whose creator Jack Kirby, plays influence to vocalist Damon Lock's intricately woven album covers depicting dark, rugged city-scapes. The group's third album ups the ante with all chips on the table. Diving deeper into uncharted waters, the musical monsoon continues to saturate the players' diverse sounds into their own unique vision. The new 'Chicago calling' is here, pulsating through the windy city's turbulence."
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"This new EP tides fans over until the release of their upcoming 3rd album (September.2006) and features remixes from Prefuse 73 & A Grape Dope (Johnny of Tortoise's solo project) as well as from Birthmark, Exercise Tiger & The Eternals themselves. This release continues to showcase the group's various musical influences and politicized energy, however these sounds have now homogenized even further in the mix eventually transforming into an altogether NEW sound."
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$8.50
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LP version, same 8 tracks as the CD.
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"Pulseprogramming is a multimedia collaboration based in the U.S. Aesthetics has released two albums, two EPs and a single by the group. The guiding premise behind this release is for the artists involved to remix both the audio & visual elements of pulseprogramming's 2003 album Tulsa For One Second. Thus, a thorough collaboration between the artists. Swedish photographer Ola Bergengren has graciously captured the results." Remixers: Sylvain Chauveau, Pal:ndrom, Hood, Nudge, Static, Laub, Schneider TM, Deviationists, Sam Miller, Other People's Children, Ghislain Poirier, Barbara Morgenstern, Köhn, B. Fleischmann.
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"The 2nd 12" single released for Pulseprogramming's remix series (1st by Schneider TM & Static). This one contains 3 tracks. Side A has Hood (UK, Domino + Aesthetics recording artist) doing a straight up cover of Pulseprogramming's hit 'Blooms Eventually' where Barbara Morgenstern (Germany, Monika recording artist) takes a slick hip-hop influenced variation on the original. Her delicate German voice along with Pulse's original source material pairs nicely. Side B contains a less straight-forward remix from Kohn (Belgium, Kraak artist). Listen as it builds in texture and volume."
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"Mandarin Movie is the new project from Chicago native and current Brazil resident Rob Mazurek, a cornetist, composer, painter, improviser, and multi-media artist whose unique musical style draws from free jazz, hard-bop, experimental electronica and minimalism. Mandarin Movie's debut release is a full frequency audio assault, dense and beautiful at times, unrestrained, chaotic & hard at other times, with an almost sculptural quality, always preparing us for the beauty of sound and silence. The name 'Mandarin Movie' stems from a dream Rob had in 2003, evoking an artist's vision of singular clarity similar to Sun Ra's Space is The Place. At the dreams end Rob found himself atop the highest building in the world where 'It was all light beams and flying discs and dense beautiful sounding explosions which put a good feeling in the back of your head'." Includes Alan Licht on guitar.
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$13.00
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"Dayclear & First Dark is about being Black, Gay, & American in the new millennium, living in NY pre & post 9-11, about coming to terms with a childhood friend killed by Jeffrey Dahmer, finding a new home in the concrete jungle, combing digital textures, samples, Moog, drum machines, cello, sax, & various voices as a dark, seductive, and personal statement. We feel Dayclear & First Dark firmly establishes Givens connections to artist like Tricky, Lee Perry, Scott Heron, Saul Williams, Madlib, Pole, Sun Ra & Prince."
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