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PCD 23740
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After releasing Illusion of Maintenance Man in 1971, Virgin Insanity evidently went on to record 2 more albums that never saw the light of day: Toad Frog & Fish Friends, also from 1971, and The Odometer Suite from 1973. This Japanese-only CD conveniently compiles the 2 together and throws on 2 bonus tracks of new 2005 recordings by the currently revitalized group. In a similar style to Illusion, but perhaps more freaked out, this is beautifully shambolic folk-rock from the edge of time, with parts of Toad Frog coming across like Texas' answer to the Godz. The Odometer Suite is a lot more '73 than '71 (guess that "makes sense") -- the naivete is a little wobbly for today's sophisticates. But the now easily achievable completeness that P-vine makes possible with these 2 CDs is hard to beat.
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PCD 18509/10
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Recorded: Shinjuku Pitinn Dec. 14 and 15 2003. Guests: Naruyoshi Kikuchi, Yuji Katsui and Akira Sakata.
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PCD 23556
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From the Black Ark series. Featuring material orginally issued on the Tribe label (70s jazz imprint from Detroit). An anthology featuring tracks from the albums An Evening with the Devil (1973), Dream of Love Supreme (1980), Reawakening (1985), Organic Dream (1981) and Urban Expressions (2004).
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PCD 5696
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[original Japanese version, since licensed to Staubgold; limited stock]. Collaborative album, recorded 2001-3, between World Standard (Sochichiro Suzuki) and Wechsel Garland (Jorg Folbert). This is the third in a series of duet albums from World Standard on P-Vine, this time in association with Garland, who is the Karaoke Kalk recording artist out of Germany. A levitating folk/electronic meeting ground.
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PCD 24131
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Third album. DCPRG are the recently developed group featuring Ground Zero's Otomo Yoshihide & Yasuhiro Yoshigaki); their first album was a split release with ROVO. This one features remixes/reconstructions by: Rei Harakami, Tasuya Oe, DJ Quietstorm, Otomo Yoshihide, DJ Me DJ You, Kazunoa Nagata & The City Connection.
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PCD 22032/3
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First CD issue of this classic mid-70s double album, recorded at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland, 7/9/76. Packaged in a beautiful mini-LP styled gatefold jacket, featuring 24-bit digital remastering. Originally issued on Saturn, later reissued to a much wider distribution on Inner City in 1978.
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PCD 5664
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"Futari is a serial collaboration project of Soichiro Suzuki(a.k.a.World Standard) In that project , he's going to collaborate with friends who are engrossed in music deeply. They spent more time than ordinary collaboration work. They make music by exchanging sound data and e-mails without meeting. The chemistry of them produces something new. It will be quite different from their past works. The 2nd release of the project is with Kama Aina (Aoyagi Takuji)." Thematic packaging that is similar to the 333 004 release (Futari: Graceful Silence).
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PCD 1599
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Reissue of the 2nd and final Miki Curtis album, also released by Philips Japan in 1971. This was recorded in the UK upon the band's move to Europe and again features songs written/sung in English, this time with 7 shorter tracks. 2002 version, limited stock.
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PCD 18502
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First full album from Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden. Their complete lineup is: Naruyoshi Kikuchi (VOX-Jagar, CD-J, keyboard), Yoshihide Otomo (guitar), Kohki Takai (guitar, filter), Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (drums), Nobuo Fujii (drums), Masaki Kurihara (bass), Kenta Tsugami (soprano sax) Yoshihiro Goseki (tenor sax), Masayasu Tzuboguchi (synthesizers, electric piano, clavinett), Gen Ohgimi (percussion), Masaki Yoshimi (tabla). Guest: Itoken (drums, tambourin).
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PCD 5649/50
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"Collection of erstwhile (Chicago ca. 1998) in form, yet modern in presentation Japanese artists running amok amidst the presence of scenester Atsushi Sasaki (Headz/Fader magazine, also he of the late/lamented Meme label). Two themed disc-selections, one all-instrumental (Songs, mostly Gastr-Del-Tortoise leaning ensembles), one vocal groups (Voices, ditto, far more mainstream J-Pop sensibilities, Stereolab). Standouts: Potoratch's short vocal & drum plunderphonic etude, Minamo's drone followed by imperceptible clicking fading up into punch-in/out edits, GROUP's extended guitar and electronics rustler, Tujiko Noriko's (Mego connection, pay attention...) pained laptop-concréte warbler. Curious mix of straight up live-band dynamics and newfound experimental technological interventions and avenues (VST Plugins, seemingly everywhere, live to glass recording methods, software compression/maximization). It's your duty to listen now, for the future. Soft, mostly." -- Hrvatski.
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PCD 4207
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First of 3 CD EPs of remixes of the Japanese post-rock Sangatsu (previous eponymous debut album on P-Vine produced by Jim O'Rourke). This volume features remixes by: Susumu Yokota, Arovane, and Woodman. Future volumes will feature remixes by Bundy K. Brown, Mondii, Pele, etc.
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PCD 5558
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New project featuring Haco (ex-After Dinner vocalist, HOAHIO ). Japanese-only release. Features Haco on vocals, sampler, rhythm box, synthesizer, guitars, etc., plus numerous guests: Peter Hollinger (drums), Yamamoto Seiichi (guitar), Pierre Bastien and his Mecanium (African drums, violins, African Harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar), Otomo Yoshihide (turntables), a number of others. A wide variety of pop and non-pop based constructions from one of the leading figures of the Japanese underground for the past 2 decades.
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PCD 5405
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"Second volume, focusing on the out-techno explosions most commonly associated with Cheap. Included here: 2 tracks each from Sluts 'n' Strings, Restaurant Tracks, Gerhard Potuznik (Mego/GiGuptight), iO (Mo' Wax), & one each from Kentolevi, Robert Hood, Lazer Musik & DJ SIL. Sähkö-obsessives beware: Not only do you get 1/2 of Mika Vainio's long o/p 'Kentolevi' EP, but 1/2 of Suzanne Brokesch's DJ SIL single as well, which floats around the same textures & sonics used on her classic 'Tal-S' release. Most tracks predate the current less-is-more fad (to greater effect) by some time. The perfect shallow-end for you to wade into the much deeper selection of non-information oriented vinyl singles from this massively influential label. Think big." -- Hrvatski.
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PCD 5404
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"Long overdue selection of vintage (1993-1998) wax-only madness from this Viennese recording society associated with producer Patrick Pulsinger (iO, Sluts & Strings, Showroom Recordings, etc...) & like minded buddies. Included here: 3 tracks from Showroom Recordings, 2 from Sokol, and one each from iO, Restaurant Trax, Reimann, Cube & Sphere (Potuznik & Hans 'H.P.' Platzgumer), LZ1, Robert Hood, Sluts 'n' Strings & 909, and Christopher Just. A loose selection featuring the more unorthodox electro-funk, midtempo feedback jazz, hi-squelch stereo, & phase-pan sessions pressed over the last five years." -- Hrvatski.
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PCD 5410
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Japanese-only compilation of tracks from the UK label Reel (offshoot of the now defunct Clear label). Proponents of a post-Detroit Intelligent House Music (IHM!), moody atmosphere, advanced non-4/4 programming and no divas allowed. Beautifully produced stuff. Features tracks from Daniel Ibbotson, Keisuke Nagao, B12 (Warp), C.S.M. (Serotonin's John Selway & Carlos Vasquez, plus a John Beltran remix), Deepart. The Nagao and B12 tracks are previously unreleased exclusives; the C.S.M. and Deepart tracks are previously only available on Reel 12"'s. The Daniel Ibbotson tracks are taken from his now deleted (?) New Stories full length on Reel (his debut album, predating the recent Streamlines on Glasgow Underground).
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PCD 5109
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Weird Latin-breaks and musical craziness from M.O.O.D.M.A.N. and the Los Apson crew. This movement remains quite unknown on a worldwide basis, but records like this and the incredible Killed By Bass CD (a recent M.O.O.D.M.A.N. "compilation" on P-Vine) are too devastatingly weird to remain out the hands of the curious for much longer. Described as "This is incredible break-beats album for listening & scratching, with many samplings of 50s -- 70s Latin stuff. Terribly wild but cool," this album reveals layers of inexplicable Japanese humor and sampling inertia at every corner. Extreme spinbacks, prismatic collage of disparate elements (jazz riffs, slow breaks, vibes distortion, numbingly tweaked weirdbeat electronics), and a unique death-mask editorial voice fuse this one into something far outside the typical exotic-mix fare.
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PCD 5361
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"Japanese only CD-compilo of material released on Sweden's Dot label (highly lauded/touted full-spectrum 'lectronica, about as quality-control obsessed as a label can get), featuring recent tracks from Quant, Roupe, Friend & Doktor Kosmos (whose recent Cardigans-related 'Single of the Week' was re-ished stateside via Minty Fresh!), Hab, Star, Argonort, and Man-Q-Neon. Not to be confused with the original Swedish Dot comp The Knights Who Say Dot; only 1 track overlaps, the rest are vinyl-only single tracks on CD for the first time here, or previously unreleased altogether. Musically, we get 11 tracks of cosmo-funk synth-freak (heavy on the analogues), live-feel space-jungle, downtempo make-out breaks, etc..., all of which are soothingly non-offensive. Includes full Japanese-language bios of each artist and a Dot-ography of sorts. An ultimately pleasing offering, providing a graphically superior intro to this up-and-still-coming commune of obscuro-knob-twiddlers." --Hrvatski
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