News Update 07.03.08

Tim Miller featured in Paste Magazines July release of "Paste recommends"

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ROIR NEWS!

ROIR featured in Impose Magazine #32!

Last month we were honored to have the good people at Impose Magazine over the ROIR HQ to interview us for a feature in their upcoming issue! Watch out for it on newsstands in July!

www.imposemagazine.com

Upcoming Fleshtones Shows:
7/2 – Rocks Off Boat Cruise,New York, NY
7/11 – Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ
8/9 – Booze Party Festival,Sardegna, ITALY

Fleshtones “Blast Off” available digitally July 8th
You don’t have to worry about ruining your favorite garage rock cassette anymore ‘cos “Blast Off!” is coming to a computer near you next week!

Yep, next Tuesday July 8th, The Fleshtones’ early recordings will be available digitally on iTunes, eMusic, Amazon & more…

I know all you garage rockers have been waiting for this one!

“Any fan of the Fleshtones should make sure they have the 1978 sessions in their collection in some form. They are the cornerstone upon which the Fleshtones' hall of fame was built.” – All Music Guide

www.fleshtones.org
www.myspace.com/fleshtones

Skatalites “Stretching Out: Vol. One” LP out in September

SOON COME ON VINYL! Hear the original Skatalites in their prime, in long extended jam sessions, recorded live inJamaica in 1983 at The Blue Monk Jazz Gallery before their friends & peers!

Featuring:
Tommy McCook
Roland Alphonso
Lester Sterling
“Dizzy” Johnny Moore
Jackie Mittoo
Lloyd Brivitte
Lloyd Knibbs
Lord Tanamo
…and special solo by Cedric Brooks

This is volume one of a two volume set!
Volume Two out on vinyl later this year!

Side A:
Freedom Sounds
Bridge View
Latin Goes Ska
Road Block
Guns Of Navarone
Man In The Street
Side B:
Come Dung
Big Trombone
Ska Ba
Tear Up
Eastern Std. Time
Confucius

Both volumes available on CD:
Stretching Out (Double CD)

"Skank that swings like a cat in a very small space." - Melody Maker

“Sounds better than the 60's studio rarities.” – Robert Christgau

Four stars! – Rolling Stone

Skatalites on tour in Europe, US & Japan!

Also check out:
Under Triple Moons (CD)
All the King’s Men (CD & LP)
The Whispering Wall (CD)
Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves (CD)

Legendary Pink Dots
Upcoming European Dates:
Aug 9 – M’era Luna Festival,Hildesheim, GERMANY
Aug 27 – Festival, Norrkopping,SWEDEN
Sep 12 – Paard van troye, Den Haag, NETHERLANDS
Sep 18 – Feierwerk, Munich,GERMANY

http://brainwashed.com/lpd

The Legendary Pink Dots “Plutonium Blonde” CD + US Tour this fall!

The Legendary Pink Dots “Plutonium Blonde” is coming out on CD this September! The ‘Dots will be supporting their new album with a US tour.

Legendary Pink Dots US Tour Fall 2008*:
Thu/Oct-16 Vancouver, BC
Fri /Oct-17 Portland, OR
Sat/Oct-18 Seattle, WA
Mon/Oct-20 Salt Lake City, UT
Tue/Oct-21 Denver, CO
Thu/Oct-23 Minneapolis, MN
Fri/Oct-24 Chicago, IL /Empty Bottle
Sat/Oct-25 Detroit, MI
Sun/Oct-26 Toronto, ONT
Tue/Oct-28 Montreal, QUE
Wed/Oct-29 New York, NY
Sat/Nov-01 Atlanta, GA
Sun/Nov-02 Orlando FL
Mon/Nov-03 Tampa, FL
Tue/Nov-04 New Orleans , LA
Wed/Nov-05 Houston, TX
Fri/Nov-07 Austin, TX
Sat/Nov-08 Dallas, TX
Tue/Nov-11 Phoenix, AZ
Wed/Nov-12 Los Angeles CA
Fri/Nov-14 San Francisco, CA
Sat/Nov-15 San Francisco, CA

*all dates are tentative
Stream Badawi’s Math + Science Set on WNYU.org

I hope you were able to tune into Badawi’s set on The Math + Science Show on WNYU last week… if you weren’t (or if you want to relive the moment) you can stream AND download the show on WNYU.org:

http://wnyu.org/2008-06-20_mathandscienceshow

Raz Mesinai/Badawi in Europe:
Aug 22 – Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Saalfelden, AUSTRIA
Sep 1 – Klara Festival, Brussels, BELGIUM

www.razmesinai.com
myspace.com/razmesinai

Check out Badawi’s latest:
Unit of Resistance (CD)

ROIR Artists on tour in July

Dickies in Europe
Dub Trio in Europe & US
Seth Faergolzia of Dufus in Europe
Lee “Scratch” Perry in the US & Canada
MC5/DKT in Europe
New York Dolls in Europe
Skatalites in Canada & US
UK Subs in Europe

Other July Shows:

7/2 – FLESHTONES on Rocks Off Boat Cruise, New York, NY
7/11 – FLESHTONES at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ

7/26 – FLIPPER at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA

7/25 & 26 – JAMES CHANCE at the Midi Festival, Hyres, FRANCE

7/12 – JON LANGFORD at Chicago Folk & Roots Fest, Chicago, IL

7/5 – MAD PROFESSOR at Festcoubille, Beziere, BELGIUM

7/19 – MIRRORS (Original Line Up Reunion) at Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
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SONDE/ 12" OUT NOW!!!!!!!!

Percepts is pleased to announce the release of the debut 12" by French
dub artist /SONDE/. "FACE A/B" is /SONDE/'s first release and is a
vinyl only release in a limited edition of 500.

Get'em now while the dollar is low! Buyable at www.percepts.info, for 9.99USD plus shipping....

Listen at www.myspace.com/artistsonde

Based in the northern French city of Lille, /SONDE/ has been crafting
his sonic mythscience for several years now and has previously
appeared on the Dubzone compilation, and is part of the La Rushe
multimedia collective. His music draws a link from the roots reggae
practice of using dub as means of sonic cartography, to the modern
day deconstructions of minimal techno, exploring sound in its
substance and temporality.

"FACE A/B" is deep, textural exploration of these linkages. The A side
setting up the exoskeleton of skanking morphology and the B side
elaborating on the structure; allowing it to growing arms, legs, feet,
claws, and antennae and move across the ocean. Melodies and timbres
explode in the crucible of the echo chamber. A ghostly melodica figure
appears and disappears just as quickly, only to reappear in another
form a moment later, translated into a different tongue, in stuttering
counterpoint to the thundering bass weight. The rhythm doubles, then
triples, looks back and marches forward to zion. Truly a striking
debut from this new artist.

www.myspace.com/artistsonde
www.percepts.info

for promo and press requests please email : perceptsrecords@gmail.com

News Udate 07.02.08

Dub Gabriel update.

Greetings everyone, So much going on, don’t know where to start.
First off DESTROY ALL CONCEPTS! The new label curated by myself is under way and man, it is looking exciting! We just got Europe, Japan and digital distribution on a lock down and are currently working hard to get the rest of the world going to.
Of course the fist release will be my new album Anarchy & Alchemy coming out September 8th in North America & October 6th for Europe & Japan.
Also stay tuned for up coming releases by Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto/Consolidated), Infinity (resident MC @ NY’s Deep Space party), Other Weapons ft. Zulu, Juakali, Dr. Israel, Coppa and more.

Also tomorrow I will be entering the studio producing a track with non other then the legendary U-ROY! I am super excited about this so stay tuned for a 7’inch vinyl to come out in the months to come!

On the live side this month we will be heading up to Canada to play at two festivals
The first will be Diversity Festival on Texada Island July 11th-14th, we are still waiting to see which day I will play, but I will do a Live soundsystem set as well as a dj set.
More info on this @ http://www.coastalconscious.com/diversity.htm

The second festival will be Forward Festival, July 25th-27th where I will be doing a live soundsystem set with legendary dub producer SCIENTIST dubbing me out live, def a show not to miss! Also on the bill will be Sister Carol, Ras Michael, Earl Zero and many others. It will take place at the Sooke River Flats.
For more info: http://www.forwardfest.com

Also the night of the 26th after the fest I will be doing an all night party @ the Sunset room on Victoria Island, it will be a DJ set of hot Dubstep/Minimal Dub/Steppas/Booty Bass and more. Line up and info TBA, but I do know it will go till 6am of Bass Heavy Insanity!

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Pnuma Trio featured in "what's hot" section of iTunes
the record was # 27 in sales for electronic albums and has stayed in the
top 100 since it's release.
download it HERE

A.P.O.S.T.L.E and 7 Soldiers Productions Release new website and store..
check that out HERE!
and their myspace page HERE!

NEWS ON THE SUBS!

Sub Swara (NYC) vs The Glitch Mob (LA)

Time: 10:00pm
Date: July 4, 2008
Location: Love

Cost:$15 door | $10 advance
Love | 179 MacDougal | NYC

If you were there last time the Mob played with us, you know we were to the gills at the club. Advance tickets guarantee you admission.

Sub Swara reviewed in "time out New York"
...with every drum hit sharp as a knife and each bassline deep as a canyon. But the real appeal of the album lies in the way it melds its dancehalland dubstep inclinations with Middle Eastern melodies, subcontinental percussion and ragga-style ...
Full Review here

Brad from Sub-Id hosts a toontrack video tutorial here!

News Update 06.26.08

Antenne #3 reviewed on Cyclic Defrost:

#3 unveils itself slowly but if you’re willing to persist, maybe settle down and get cozy with Antenne, your patience will be duly rewarded..

Full review here

Antenne #3 reviewed on Losing today here's a taste:

‘#3’ is a beautifully conceived affair, a mellowing 8 part suite combining the engagement of acoustics and electronics speckled throughout with a frail amorphous ambient / down tempo sheen and subtle infused at times with subtle glazes of noire jazz dialects...
Read the full review here

Kim has also completed a video for the track 'Gloves on'

News Update 06.25.08

Bela Karoli with Gregory Alan Isakov & Britt Rodemich at the Mercury Cafe in Denver 06.28.08
this is sure to be a great show!

News Update0 6.02.08

After a few long weeks... We have a lot of news for your eager ears...

We have a lot of new releases from Beta-Lactam Ring Records :

NURSE WITH WOUND:

Title: Images/Zero Mix
Catalogue # mt103
UPC: 75390-71530-26
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Format: CD + Book

Thou had best be ready when the angry eelectric finger points to YOU! THUS
SPAKE NURSE (& Xhol): The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve
Stapleton, cooking up some recordings & mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol
Caravan. Beta-lactam Ring now serves up this piping hot dish to you, the
hungriest of hungry, hungry hippos. In addition, Chef Steve painted 100
individually hand painted discs to celebrate the release of the three album set “Angry
Eelectric Finger”. The paint and vinyl was salvaged from the local landfill site at Inagh,
County Clare, Ireland and recycled here in Cooloorta during September and
November 2004. The paintings were displayed in Galway, Ireland and Portland,
Oregon before being offered for sale. All the paintings are now presented here
in a deluxe hardbound book with full color images and a spot gloss coating.
Released in an edition of 1500 copies with the album “Zero Mix”.

The first book release to showcase the talents of Steven Stapleton, known not only for
his music output as Nurse With Wound but his graphic output as Babs Santini.
Deluxe hardbound book with a full color dust jacket and the album “Zero Mix” which was
sent to Jim O’Rourke, Cyclobe and irr. app. (ext.) for remixing and deconstructing.
Gallery edition includes bonus album “Requital for Lady Day” and signed insert
packaged inside a hard case embossed box.

Chef Steve painted 100 individually hand painted
discs to celebrate the release of the three album set
“Angry Eelectric Finger”. The paint and vinyl was
salvaged from the local landfill site at Inagh, County
Clare, Ireland and recycled here in Cooloorta during
September and November 2004. The paintings
were displayed in Galway, Ireland and Portland,
Oregon before being offered for sale. All the
paintings are now presented here in a deluxe
hardbound book with full color images and a spot
gloss coating. Released in an edition of 1500
copies with the album “Zero Mix”.

UN FESTÍN SAGITAL:

Artist: Un Festín Sagital
Title: Epitafio a la Permanencia
Catalogue #: mt124
UPC: 75390-71473-22
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Format: CD

Now all that is needed is for Dario Argento to step in and make a movie around this
album. At last, Rock In Opposition enters the 21st century, cuz FORGET POST ROCK!
But even though Un Festin Sagital’s name may be RIO, they are not dancing on the
sand. Like little Chilean Goblins, UFS pilot their fractured UFO into the cobwebbed
corners of the collective head heritage. They prefer to keep to themselves inside the
darkness on the edge of town, with their oddly timed opuses flickering like a forest of ill
begotten faeries waiting to capture anything that strays off the path. Their skittering,
rhythmic angina pays skewed homage to immortal RIO titans like Hellebore and Samla
Mammas Manna, but tends to spew forth with even darker hues, like those splattered by
Univers Zero, Art Zoyd and Legendary Pink Dots. UFS’s dedication to experimentation
and noise in between precision timed progressive coughs could almost cast them into
the same fiery pit currently occupied by many modern black and doom metal daemons.
A stalwart avoidance of jazz idioms further cements their psychedelic kick into the
cosmic eye and could sort of brand them as RIOORIO (Rock In Opposition Of Rock In
Opposition). Whatever genre classification best suits them, like a mighty horse they rock
the fat ass!

First USA release from this Chilean psych band.
Numbered editon of 500 copies.
A N. Amerian tour is planned for early 2008.
Full promotional press campaign to radio, webzines and magazines with planned
features.
This album will appeal to fans of La STPO, RIO, Goblin, Sonic Youth, Acid Mother’s
Temple, Frank Zappa, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Legendary Pink Dots, Volcano the Bear..


Like little Chilean Goblins, UFS pilot their fractured
UFO into the cobwebbed corners of the collective
head heritage. They prefer to keep to themselves
inside the darkness on the edge of town, with their
oddly timed opuses flickering like a forest of ill
begotten faeries waiting to capture anything that
strays off the path.

AKAI IKUO:

Title: Language Without Words
Catalogue # mt153
UPC: 75390-71491-28
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Format: CD

Poppy red is the colour of Akai ’s cracked fusion. Their down-tempo psychtronica rises
and ripples like exhaust from a resin caked hookah. Registering on the Richter scale
somewhere between Squarepusher (Music Is Rotted One Note) and Terje Rypdal
(Odyssey) with little Thromboses of Seefeel, Deodato, Coil and The Orbcongealing
around the edges, Akai has an expansive sound, but leaves a lot of space, which keeps
the cool cool. Exotic percussions cut the strangely metered cocaine of jazz rhythms and
glitchy sequences with soothing, tropical diazapams that transform the frenetic beats into
hallucinations of quiet grandeur. The gamelan/steel drum-like din offers pleasing, almost
Lou Harrison moments that tweak into metamorphs of the third stream. This bitches brew
is spiked throughout with tinctures of guitar psychedelia and drams of electronic chirps
and whirs. And a subtly stumbling, matte finish bassline bubbles just beneath the
meniscus. A long, strange trip into a morphine drip.
Sales Points:
Akai Ikuo is a legend in the Tokyo music underground scene and known for being able
to play any instrument, anywhere, anytime. For this album, the multi-talented Akai played
over 40 different instruments.
Ed. of 300 numbered copies.
First album to be released outside of Japan.
This album will appeal to fans of Squarepusher (Music Is Rotted One Note) and Terje
Rypdal (Odyssey), Thromboses of Seefeel, Deodato, Coil and The Orb.

Their down-tempo psychtronica rises and ripples like
exhaust from a resin caked hookah. Registering on
the Richter scale somewhere between Squarepusher
(Music Is Rotted One Note) and Terje Rypdal
(Odyssey) with little Thromboses of Seefeel,
Deodato, Coil and The Orbcongealing around the
edges, Akai has an expansive sound, but leaves a lot
of space, which keeps the cool cool.

UW HYPOTHEEKADVIES:

Artist: Uw Hypotheekadvies
Title: Nature or Nurture
Catalogue #: mt159
UPC: 75390-71535-21
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 08, 2008
Format: CD

Ed. Of 400 numbered copies and features members from former BlRR band Girlfriends
and mastered by Erik Drost and Raymond Steeg(Legendary Pink Dots). According
to the Explosive Ordinance Field Guide: “Uw Hypotheekadvies should be handled with
great care as it is one of the most powerful EO’s, especially if detonated through
speakers in the comfort of one’s own home.” As trios go, UH sound more like a
thousand-tet. Imagine a heavily armoured Glenn Brancaguitar army falling DOWN an
UP escalator in such a way that they never reach the bottom and are forever tumbling
and crashing. Now throw DNAdown the same escalator and pour acid on that. UH don’t
just rock; they ROCK. Like agates gone wild, their abstract explorations come delivered
via sledgehammer and arrive on the plate as oddly conceived gemstones with insects
trapped inside. It smells like the teen spirits of Naked Cityand Laddio Bolockolurk
underneath UH’s woodpile, but despite the improv flavour of UH’s pummeling, they skew
away from jazz and lean in more towards prog than Zorn and Co. UH’s chaos fleshes
form and even descends into subtle soundscapes in between the rat-a-tat blastpatter. A
beautiful monstrosity of Nature and Nurture.
“Uw Hypotheekadvies (‘your mortgage advice’) is a noisy trio from Nijmegen, the
Netherlands. There is a drummer, a bass player and a guitar player. The band evolved
partly out of Girlfriends(which you can also buy at Beta-lactam Ring Records). Uw
Hypotheekadvies aims to have a fresh, open approach towards making music.
Influences are diverse like krautrock, no wave, Albert Ayler, Beefheart, Deerhoof, ethnic
field-recordings… The core of the music is interaction. Improvisation is a means but not
necessarily an end. This has resulted in their first official release ‘Nature of Nurture’
referring to an old, for these three guys, still relevant question. After this rigorous work,
they are occupied with making a new recording. Rumours say that this will turn out to be
a pleasant piece of pop music.” – Uw Hypotheekadvies

Ed.of 400 numbered copies. Imagine a heavily
armoured Glenn Branca guitar army falling DOWN an
UP escalator in such a way that they never reach the
bottom and are forever tumbling and crashing. Now
throw DNA down the same escalator and pour acid on
that. UH don’t just rock; they ROCK. Like agates gone
wild, their abstract explorations come delivered via
sledgehammer and arrive on the plate as oddly
conceived gemstones with insects trapped inside. It
smells like the teen spirits of Naked City and Laddio
Bolocko lurk underneath UH’s woodpile, but despite
the improv flavour of UH’s pummeling, they skew
away from jazz and lean in more towards prog than
Zorn and Co.

AIDAN BAKER (NADJA):


Title: Book Of Nods
Catalogue # mt163
UPC: 75390-71539-27
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Format: CD

A new landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the dawn. The
finished piece is neither night nor day, but the transformation itself. Aidan Baker's (Nadja)
"Book Of Nods" crests experimental peaks in similarly paced sonic transmigrations. His
lustrous chimera blooms open in shifting onion layers built out of slow-moaning guitar,
flute, organ and drums. The resonant frequencies of quietly crashing nodes vibrate the
ozone with a sub-textural beating of multi-pianic feathers. Baker's prior metallic
inclinations lend in heaviness, adding a certain stylistic thud to Terry Riley-like territories,
and colouring portions almost as if they were middle passages in some sprawling prog
excursion. A soft eruption of synchronous sweet airs.

Solo release from the prolific Aidan Baker of Nadja.
First edition of 500 numbered copies.
Full promotional press campaign to magazines, webzines and galleries.
This album will appeal to fans of “doom”, “ambient doom” and ambient fields.

Baker's prior metallic inclinations lend in heaviness,
adding a certain stylistic thud to Terry Riley-like
territories, and colouring portions almost as if they
were middle passages in some sprawling prog
excursion. A soft eruption of synchronous sweet airs.

ARIEL KALMA:

Title: Le Temps des Moissons
Catalogue # mt189
UPC: 75390-71531-25
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Format: CD
Also available:
blur01 Ariel Kalma “Osmose” CD
Artist: Ariel Kalma

After a long journey to India in 1975, where Ariel Kalma learned the basics of modal
music and singing, he undertook his first solo recording for LP. Ariel was inspired by the
fusion of ancient and modern styles of playing music on saxophone, ethnic instruments,
effects, electric instruments and electronic filters. Making a record was expensive at the
time and after the first thousand records were pressed Ariel had run out of money, so he
bought blank sleeves and one-by-one drew the shape of his hand and numbered each
LP. This first pressing is now very rare and sought after!
Note from Ariel: The saxophone is powerful. It has raw sounds that are often filtered and
polished for easier listening. I like to let my saxophone sing and when I play I hear high-
pitched, teasing sounds that I like so much. They titillate my senses. If it is too sharp for
your ears, please adjust your EQ till you are comfortable.
Another detail making this LP memorable was Ariel convincing the pressing engineer to
loop the groove at the end of side 2 - thus creating an endless loop. This had not been
done before and, although it was casually mentioned on the cover, it caused great
surprise for many by sending listeners into a trance or on some occasions burning the
motor of a turntable after endless hours! Due to the diamond eroding the groove the LP
loop had the audio advantage of the loop sound changing as time passed, so on this CD
Ariel included a loop of several minutes. Three of the compositions originally on the LP
are found on this CD and two others created during that same time period have been
added as well.
Sales Points:
First time on CD for this classic French Avant-Prog album including two bonus tracks
recorded during the same sessions.
First edition of 500 copies in a deluxe book bound CD case.
Full promotional press campaign to magazines, webzines and radio.

Ed. of 500 copies including two bonus tracks
recorded during the same sessions previously
unreleased. After a long journey to India in 1975,
where Ariel Kalma learned the basics of modal music
and singing, he undertook his first solo recording for
LP. Ariel was inspired by the fusion of ancient and
modern styles of playing music on saxophone, ethnic
instruments, effects, electric instruments and
electronic filters.

ANAKRID:

Title: Banishment Rituals of the Disenlightened
Catalogue #: mt199
UPC: 75390-71536-20
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Format: CD

Anakrid a day keeps the doctor slurred in a trove of fish-tallowed sling slong. This is what
it sounds like when doves cry because the mother ship crashes into their nest in the 6th
dimension. With this symphony of sickness comprised of scraped palpitations, pitched
whooshes, roaring cathodes and syncopated metallics, Anakrid have another
breakthrough chart topper on their bruised hands! These avant-garde hit-makers have
real crossover potential, combining the best, most dynamic experimental noise with the
very latest drones. This exciting NOW sound is OUT OF THIS WORLD! The long
awaited fusion of ritualistic tribalism with the tweaked electro-tech of ancient alien
cultures is finally here. Hey kids! If you love Nurse With Wound, Genocide Organ, Hafler
Trio, Muslimgauze, Pierre Henry, Nadja and Harry Bertoia and confusing your parents,
then you’ll want to get in on the Anakrid craze before it’s too late. They’ve got a whole
new way of kickin’ it old school. With electronics AND home-made instruments, Anakrid
CREATES an exploratory atmosphere WITHOUT all those boring, go-nowhere
improvisational hang-ups. Everything sounds fresh, progressive and weird!!! It’s just that
good. Let’s face it; outsider music has gotten plain boring. Anakrid is just the electrodes
to the testicles that left field music has been weeping for since, like, forever. Ex-punks
hang up their Mohawks and make good mayhem.
Anakrid is the experimental outlet of Chris Bickel (the raconteur behind In/Humanity, one
of the greatest groups of hardcore agitators of the ‘90s, and its follow-up, Guyana Punch
Line). After 10 years of releases as Anakrid and a large underground following, Bickel
decided it was time to start issuing larger edition releases.
This album will appeal to fans of Nurse With Wound, Genocide Organ, Hafler Trio,
Muslimgauze, Pierre Henry, Nadja and Harry Bertoia and the ambient doom crowd.

Anakrid have another breakthrough chart topper on
their bruised hands! These avant-garde hit-makers
have real crossover potential, combining the best,
most dynamic experimental noise with the very latest
drones. This exciting NOW sound is OUT OF THIS
WORLD! Hey kids! If you love Nurse With Wound,
Genocide Organ, Hafler Trio, Muslimgauze, Pierre
Henry, Nadja and Harry Bertoia and confusing your
parents, then you’ll want to get in on the Anakrid craze
before it’s too late. They’ve got a whole new way of
kickin’ it old school.

THE SILVERMAN:

Title: Blank For Your Own Message
Catalogue # mt208
UPC: 75390-71532-24
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records (BlRR)
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Format: CD

The Silverman should be given a degree in bio-melodics. This most recent body of
collaged constructions pulsates with aspects of a living system. Slurred drones rush
sonic corpuscles through electronic capillaries, imparting breath to each track. An
obscured, parenthetical heart beat occasionally comes through as an unexpectedly
metallic panging in the background, mostly drowned out by the fluid dynamics of
localized subsystems playing out their various vital functions. Perhaps each one of us
DOES sound a little like a Javanese gamelan orchestra inside if you hit the right spot.
Cutting to find out is not advocated. Silverman’s fantastic voyage sounds like a spiritual
dissertation on degrees of scale. The musical camera obscura sometimes finds
purchase on an atomic level, aurally zooming into the humming orbits of individual atoms
and even creeping up on the sounds of the electrons, protons and neutrons themselves.
With this beautifully ambient series of orchestral maneuvers in the dark, Silverman may
have found a tonal replacement for Gray’s Anatomy.

First edition of 500 copies in a deluxe book bound CD case.
The follow up album to the critically acclaimed “Nature Of Illusion”.
Founding and active member of The Legendary Pink Dots with a “rabid” fanbase.
Always on tour in Europe and soon N. America with the LPDots.

News Update 05.14.08

Tim Miller's Song "Day In the LIfe" Wins 2nd place overall in the West Coast Songwriters International Song Contest and first place in the Singer/Songwriter category.
As well as his song: "Man Overboard" got an Honorable Mention.
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE PRESENTS:

7 That Spells on Tour in Japan!!!!!

Dates:

Jul 13 2008 Rooster NorthSide w/ Tsurubami, Miminokoto, Tabata Mitsuru+Miyashita Keiichi,Tokyo
Jul 14 2008 Tokuzo w/ Doburoku Kyodai, Juyujigen, Nagoya
Jul 16 2008 Bears w/ Doburoku Kyodai, Osaka
Jul 17 2008 Helluva Lounge, Kobe
Jul 19 2008 Indo-yo, Yamaguchi
Jul 20 2008 Gallery Soap w/ Rokugenkin, Kokura
Jul 21 2008 At Hall, Oita
Jul 24 2008 Hoshizora Jett, Matsuyama
Jul 25 2008 Chaotic Noise, Kochi
Jul 26 2008 Rinky, Takamatsu
Jul 27 2008 Ease /Niko + Michishita (LSD March), Himeji
Jul 28 2008 Pepper Land, Okayama
Jul 29 2008 Urbanguild, Kyoto
Jul 30 2008 Lucrezia, Hamamatsu
Jul 31 2008 UFO Club, Tokyo
Aug 1 2008 em seven / we play as STS big band, Tokyo

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Orbit Service album "Songs of Eta Carinae" now available for download on:

iTunes
&
eMusic

courtesy of Beta-lactam Ring Records

News Update 05.07.08

Astrophagus "For Boating" (Bocumast Records) to be featured in the June issue of Paste Magazine's "Paste Recommends" CD sampler and also featured in the Paste recommends listening station program at indie record shops all over the US!

"Paste is a monthly, spectacularly written and conceived consumer print magazine with with international distribution in over 12 countries. Paste looks for what we call "Signs of Life in Music, Film & Culture" and shines our spotlight on them. This means the best of a wide variety of music, somewhat concentrated in what "the industry" calls adult-album-alternative (Triple A), Americana and indie rock. We also enjoy hip-hop, world, jazz, and even some books (hey, we can read more than rock journalism) and (mostly) independent films. Each issue is packaged with a full-length sampler CD (packed with at least 20 tracks, picked by our editors). Paste is about the artists, not about the artists' bodies. Recently Paste was both honored and humbled to be named #21 on the Chicago Tribune's '50 Best Magazines' list (right behind The New Yorker) and "Magazine of the Year" at the 2007 & 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards."

Clearly this is a big deal! show some love for our Denver locals!
"For Boating" is out on Bocumast Records JUNE 10th

News Update: 05.01.08

the GetDown! Rats & Vultures e.p. Is now available

on iTunes
and eMusic

News Update 04.30.08

Labile Records signs distribution deal with beta-lactam ring records

Flobots back at #36 on the charts
 

A.P.O.S.T.L.E. at #37 on CMJ hip hop charts

Jan Seiden featured on NPR! her song "Singing Earth" from her new album 'memory of time' was used as a musical interlude

Drifting In Silence added to the Projekt:Darkwave catalog

Antenne #3 reviewed on kevchino.com
"The most apt description for Antenne’s third album, #3 would capture its overt sense of sadness........"
as well as in Cosmik Debris Magazine!