COMING 7/28/2008
Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop andres solis - turntables rogelio sosa - voice daniel goldaracena - devices Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously.

COMING 7/28/2008
Limited edition of 500 copies in a letterpress jacket by 43rd Parallel Press. The first 100 jackets are printed in a shimmering silver ink. The remaining 400 are printed white on black. We Don't Know Where We Came From features Acid Mothers Temple leader Kawabata Makoto on both Electric & Acoustic Guitars. Recorded at Kaccho-Buu Matsuzaka by Takayama Manabu. Layout by Important.

COMING 7/28/2008
Pia Fraus had many international projects going on while releasing After Summer, their last album which is produced by Glaswegian Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub). Now they are ready with remix compilation Ten Remixes of Yenissey, released by Seksound. Yenissey was first result from cooperation between Pia Fraus and Norman Blake. Band is very proud of this remix album, as remixers are all their favorites from all around the world. International list is very impressive, many well-known indie rock artists, especially from Scotland, dreamland of indiepop. Old friend Bill Wells goes onto jazzy trip over Yenissey. International Airport loves little things and Future Pilot AKA goes massive with global music influences. Teenage Fanclub ends compilation with little dreamy introspection on themes of Yenissey. Seeland (Duophonic artist) wanders around noisy and krauty soundwaves. Legendary His Name Is Alive loves noisy part of Pia Fraus. Also best names of local scene are presented and Pia Fraus also offers newer version of track. Galaktlan with lovely electro and 3pead fusing estonian indie and dance history are for little indie dance floors. Mirabilia makes it contemporary psychpop. Hopefully you are not tired of Yenissey by now!

COMING 7/28/2008
LTD to 500 COPIES ONLY! 7" black vinyl. After well-received new album Pia Fraus comes with some new releases from indie label Seksound. They are happy of new split-single on 7" vinyl record by Pia Fraus and Ulrich Schnauss. After longtime friendship they have come to this split single, on one side is track by Pia Fraus which is produced by Ulrich Schnauss and other side has track by Ulrich Schnauss produced by Pia Fraus. Single is mastered at legendary Abbey Road Studio in London by Steve Rook (who's portfolio is full of our favorite indie albums). Pia Fraus is best estonian shoegaze group and has gathered fandom around the world. Their last album After Summer was produced by Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub). You can call Ulrich Schnauss star of electronic shoegaze scene. German artist and Estonian band became friends at their gig in London. They have toured together in Estonia and now they have come to this record. Mute the Birds was one of critically acclaimed tracks from last album, but now you get new ulrichschnaussed version. Beautiful song gets much more lush epicness known from Schnauss music. Ships Will Sail can be called new hit from Schnauss. Pia Fraus tops the typical lush syntheticness with more natural sounds, walls of guitars and some other pleasant sounds.

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  About this release: He’s back! It’s been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he’s released as Donna Summer. So now he’s back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as “Shamelessly Exciting” was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, “Panther Tracks” is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Breakcore, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B’more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, “Panther Tracks” builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like “Peepers” and “Boomshakalaka”. While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Breakbeat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as “Party People”, “Get Down” and “Rock Rock Rock”. No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, “Panther Tracks” is like the ultimate Rave; it’s fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long.

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  LTM is proud to announce the release of the very first soundtrack recording by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. Treatise on the Steppenwolf is the soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty, first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in a state of ongoing conflict. Previously unreleased, the soundtrack CD combines the original studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed by The Durutti Column during the Glasgow run, as well as two bonus live tracks recorded at the event, one featuring spoken-word narrative by cast member Carolyn Allen. The attractive booklet for this 60 minute digital re-master includes background notes, and images from the Glasgow performance in May 2003. Artist biography: Manchester native Vini Reilly formed The Durutti Column in 1978, recording his debut album The Return of the Durutti Column the following year with producer Martin Hannett, a set of delicate instrumental tracks housed in an abrasive sandpaper sleeve. Subsequent landmark albums include LC (1981), Without Mercy (1984), The Guitar & Other Machines (1987), Sex & Death (1993), Fidelity (1996) and Someone Else’s Party (2003). A prolific recording artist in his own right (usually with drummer Bruce Mitchell), Reilly has also guested on records by Morrissey, Olive and Holly Johnson. For many years the group were managed by the late Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records. Also available from LTM: Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981 (LTMCD 2499) Lips That Would Kiss (LTMCD 2484) Circuses & Bread (LTMCD 2510) Fidelity (LTMCD 2512)

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Repress. Packaging: color 12" sleeve. Three tracks by Enduser, and remixes by LARVAE, MAD EP and LINE47. Originally released in October 2004, this 12" sold out very quickly. It was then re-released on CD, which also sold out. Here comes the long awaited repress of the 12", guaranteed to go very fast as well.

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Face melting electronics from Greg Kelley. This is not a Jazz record. Limited to 350 copies.

COMING 8/4/2008
New excellent two tracker by this rising british dubstep producer.

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Re-mastered, re-cut and given a whole record on their own, the four tracks written by Enduser and Line 47 back in 2007 get a second life on Ad Noiseam. Ranging from the most aggressive and noisy breakcore to melodic, syncopated material, the material on this record shows both producers at the top of their form and still is, 5 years after their original release on Sonicterror, a pearl of the breakcore scene.

COMING 8/4/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Reissue of first LP (previously limited to 100 copies and released only in Australia) from this influential Australian rock/noise/insane/weirdness band. like listening to Harry Pussy on some really bad acid. Limited to 500 copies.

COMING 8/4/2008
Nisennenmondai means “Year 2000 Problem'' and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by Lightning Bolt, Battles & No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as This Heat, Sonic Youth & Pop Group, one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you ad Black Flag, DNA, Neu! & Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondais sound. It’s raw & repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as they are wild groovy with a no wave/disco vibe to it. This is the first release outside of Japan & it contains the bands two EPs “Neji” and Tori” released as one album with new cover design by Kim Hiorthoy.

COMING 8/4/2008
Limited to 600. Sold out quickly in 2005. 12k just found 100 in storage. LINE is proud to present the latest full length recording from visual and sound artist Steve Roden. Airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [ Scottsdale, Arizona ] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940’s using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff’s ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden’s own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this cd has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff’s architectural interests in the airform projects. Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound installation. Roden’s involve a combination of conceptual strategies and intuitive movements. Found structures are lifted from their original intentions and combined with invented systems to be used as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In the visual works, printed language, graphic design, maps, and other forms of specific visual notation are sent through various self invented systems of translation to create open readings and new meanings. In the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through electronics to create new audio spaces, or ‘possible landscapes.’ The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic roden describes as “lower case’’ - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening. The LA Weekly recently called Roden “the most idiosyncratic abstract painter to emerge from LA in the 90’s”; while The Wire magazine recently referred to Roden’s cd the radio as “a particularly modest form of genius”. Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since 1986 in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including museums, galleries and arts spaces in USA, EU and Japan. Recent shows include the Stadt Galerie Museum (Saarbrucken, Germany), San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum & the Mak Center for Art and Architecture los angeles, the drawing center, nyc; susanne vielmetter la projects (LA), Jennjoy Gallery (SF), Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik (Odense, Denmark), Podewil (Berlin, Germany) and many others. Roden has performed live improvised soundscapes in arts spaces, galleries, museums, theatres, and alternative spaces worldwide including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the ICA & the Hayward Gallery (London, UK) MIT (Boston), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and The Musee de Beaux Artes (Nantes, France) as well as performance tours of Brazil and Japan and music/art festivals around the globe. Roden has released cd’s of his sound works under his own name, as well as under the name ‘in be tween noise’on labels include Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Sonoris (France), GMBH (France), Digital Narcis and Meme (Japan), and LINE (US). Roden’s work has appeared on a number of international compilations, including the Tulpas project on Selektion (Germany).

COMING 8/4/2008
This reissue compiles the complete 1986 Times albums Enjoy and Up Against It for the first time on CD, featuring Times T.V, Britannia Sleeps Tonight and of course Up Against It. Written in reaction to the U.S. Paisley Underground wave of bands then currently feted - Dream On Red, Green Syndicate, Drain Parade and REM Speedwagon, Enjoy connects Edward Ball and his Times to Ray Davies and The Kinks as natural storytellers of everyday British life - but with the added twist of an English nightmare in America. Britannia Sleeps Tonight / Something Like The Truth / (Where To Go) When The Sun Goes Down / Times T.V. / Housewive's Law / Think Big! / The Third Wave / Cousin Frank Goes To Hollywood / Enjoy / Dream Now (Young America) / Times Radio / When The Talking Had To Stop / Up Against It / Boys About Town / Wpc Boon / Most Modern Woman In The World / Garden In The Moonlight (Love Theme For McTurk And Rowena) / Jack's Revolution / Last Tango For One / She's A Professional / The Wedding Song / Mutiny In The British

COMING 8/4/2008
Perhaps the singularly most important album of that fledgling, garage, power - pop - punk independent scene of 1982. Featuring Edward Ball and Daniel Treacy, and issued on their own Whaam! Records, Pop goes Art! is a landmark release - one of the vital seeds of the whole Creation, Whaam! Living Room / Room At The Top revolution. Picture Gallery / Biff Bang Pow! / It's Time! / if Now Is The Answer / A New Arrangement / Looking At The World Through / Dark Shades / I Helped Patrick Mcgoohan Escape / Pop Goes Art! / Miss London / The Sun Never Sets / Easy As Pie / This Is Tomorrow / Bonus Tracks (Previously Unreleased) / Picture Gallery (Demo) / The Sun Never Sets (Demo) / Easy As Pie (Demo) / Picture Gallery (Live) / This Is Tomorrow (Live)

COMING 8/5/2008
12” includes a bonus track, is on 180 gram vinyl, and includes a free digital download card. This seven song, 30 minute mini-album was recorded in a barn in Woodstock, while Ida was making their latest album, Lovers Prayers. The My Fair, My Dark EP features guest appearances by Levon Helm, Michael Hurley and Tara Jane ONeil. Includes covers of songs by John Martyn, Dolly Parton and Annie Briggs.

COMING 8/5/2008
This seven song, 30 minute mini-album was recorded in a barn in Woodstock, while Ida was making their latest album, Lovers Prayers. The My Fair, My Dark EP features guest appearances by Levon Helm, Michael Hurley and Tara Jane ONeil. Includes covers of songs by John Martyn, Dolly Parton and Annie Briggs.

COMING 8/11/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Recorded live at Counter Action, Sapporo, Japan, 29 June 2008 2 tracks: 1. Master Of The Cosmic Inferno ~ Heart Of Earth 2. Pink Lady Lemonade ~including Doobie Wonder Land. Time 72:26 AMT are: Tabata Mitsuru (bass, voice, malatab), Higashi Hiroshi ( synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king), Shimura Koji (drums, latino cool), Pikachu (drums, voice, cosmic shaman), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru).

COMING 8/11/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  LTM is pleased to announce a double CD set from Kid Montana, the Belgian electronic pop duo who recorded a string of acclaimed releases for chic label Les Disques du Crépuscule between 1984 and 1987. Temperamental + Singles gathers together the Temperamental album from 1986 with six track mini-album The Las Vegas Gold Rush and singles such as Revisiting Yalta, Spooky, Love May Be Blind and Still Colour Waiting. Featured producers include Marc Moulin and dan Lacksman (of Telex) and Gilbert Lederman (Berntholer). Digitally remastered, the 31 track, 2 hour 2xCD compilation also includes all tracks from the rare debut ep Today from 1982, and three tracks from a final unreleased demo recorded in 1987. The CD also includes MPEG versions of the video clips for Still Color Waiting and Spooky, directed by Serge Bergli. Artist biography: Kid Montana was initially the nom de guerre of Jean-Marc Lederman, formerly keyboard player with Digital Dance and Fad Gadget. After an experimental debut EP on Sandwich Records in 1982, Lederman spent time in London playing with The The and Gene Loves Jezebel, before recruiting American-born singer Dudley Kludt for the second Kid Montana single, Revisiting Yalta, in 1984. The following year the duo signed with Les Disques du Crépuscule, releasing a run of sophisticated electro-pop records, although mainstream success eluded them. The duo split in 1987, Lederman afterwards recording several hard electronic albums with The Weathermen, and with Julianne Regan as Jules et Jim. Also available from LTM: B9: Belgian Cold Wave 1979-83 (LTMCD 2486).

COMING 8/11/2008
Introducing Los Peyotes "Offspring of the seed of the marauding Spanish conquistadores that brought medievel venereal diseases to the Americas, Los Peyotes are a savage sort that would make any Nazi war criminal or strongman dictator that ever lived on their native soil raise their eyebrows in disbelief while running away crying for their mama. Equal parts of Garage Punk, Tex-Mex and Surf, "Introducing Los Peyotes" is their UK album release and stands up to anything released by Los Saicos, Los Shakers or any other of the legendary sixties South American Garage Punks that inspired them. Elhumotassemal!!! Surf-guitar, Tex Mex, psychedelic garage-punk and rhythm’n’blues, that seems to have crossed time and space from the Buenos Aires of 1965. Track listing: El Corredor Quemado, Action, El Humo te Hace Mal, Vampiro, Scream, La Malvada Creacion del Dr Illusion, El Entierro de los Gatos, Psicosis, Back Come to Me, I Don't Mind, Serial Killer, Connection, No Puedo Hacerte Mia.

COMING 8/11/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  "Silver Red" has been an evolving piece of music from Qua aka Cornel Wilzcek. Over the course of two years Silver Red began to take shape, with the piano and guitar source material originally recorded in 2005 at a live performance in Melbourne. This source material was loaded into an ever-growing custom software patch controlled by a French invention, the Lemur - a multi-touch, programmable screen – that eventually became the backbone of the composition. While it evokes ideas from Steve Reich, Philip Glass and other rhythmic minimalist composers, it also owes much to colorful explorations of artists such as Moondog and Roberto Cacciapaglia. In 2007, Laurence Pike, of Sydney bands Pivot (Warp Records) and Triosk (Leaf Records), took to the drums performing with Qua live and in the studio. As well as playing on Qua's upcoming pop album, Laurence played a one-take drum part that was then loaded into the custom Qua software patch and re-performed by Cornel, thus lending it the same treatment as the other source material. "One Second" is a reaction to "Silver Red". It felt necessary to somehow resolve the album and boil it down to a few simple sounds. It looks at Silver Red from the view point of artists such as Ennio Morricone, Kristoff Komeda and Scott Walker and somehow extrudes one second of time from Silver Red.

COMING 8/11/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Almost 6 years since the mini-album �The Ending Theme�, Tenniscoats are introducing their work once again through noble label. Tenniscoats is the Tokyo duo of Saya and Ueno Takashi and friends. The open stance of this duo as seen through their �emajikick�f label and their rainbow of collaborations with artists has won the hearts of passionate fans the world wide. Last year saw sequential release of Tenniscoats music, Totemo Aimasho from Australia�'s Room40 and �Tan-Tan Therapy� from Sweden's Hapna. Now, they have welcomed �Secai, a duo formed by friends of majikick, Daisuke Namiki a.k.a. NSD and Takeshi Hiruma a.k.a. DASMAN. Together with their partners of creation, the artists have completed �Tenniscoats & Secai� a collaboration album finished after nearly 2 years of patient brewing. Most of the pieces for this album were created through sessions with the recording, composition, and songwriting added along the way. In addition to the abstract track making which is a signature of Secai work, NSD works together with Saya to create almost half of the lyrics, and DASMAN sings in the chorus and plays bass for an album which unleashes the creative energy of both artists. Combined with Saya�fs mixing and song writing and Ueno Takashi�fs poetic playing and inspirations, this album is an original piece of work that highlights the talents of each artist in an organic mixture of sound. Though covered with a fluffy and obscure sound image, the album gives an impression of a crystal world with unlimited clarity. This world is filled with Saya�fs innocent voice, magical melody, and deep lyrics. The visionary music which portrays the fine line between dream and reality will lure listeners into another world. Here, you will find music of freedom and beauty that is sure to bring tears to your eyes.

COMING 8/11/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  In the first half of 2008, 11 sound artists were approach to respond to the shifting and expanding field of geography. Utilizing sound as a medium to articulate this field of research, the artists were invited to create a work that reflects on the following statement. “Geography is an ongoing force shaping our understandings of the environments around us and, in turn, experiences ongoing transformation and development. Considering not only the natural world, but also culture, economy and politics in diverse settings and across many scales, contemporary geography acts as a glue - integrating disparate research streams and continuing toprovide insights into our relations with space and place.” On Audible Geography, 11 of the world leading sound artists consider the scope of geography in the contemporary world. The results are as varied as they are intriguing. The final edition is offered as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institute Of Australian Geographers. TRACKS: 1. Dundee Law - Eric La Casa 2. San Salvador (2007) - Stephen Vitiello 3. Móine Mhór Wires - Lee Patterson 4. Any Place Whatever - Asher 5. 4 7 08 - Jeph Jerman 6. Small Sand Stream On Beach - Toshiya Tsunoda 7. General Electric - Philip Samartzis 8. A Holiday Landscape - Marc Behrens 9. A Arte de Escuridaõ - James Webb 10. Round Mountain - Andrea Polli 11. Untitled #200 - Francisco López Curated by Lawrence English

COMING 8/12/2008
It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet. TRACKLIST: 1. Intro 2. Love For Sure 3. By Myself 4. Tavaststjärnegatan 5. Refridgerator 6. La Durée 7. Hesperian Puisto 8. A Tiger In My Garden 9. I Look Out For You 10. Dance To Keep From Crying 11. ICA Lappis 12. Too Much Distance 13. Frosty Snow Winter 14. A Fight

COMING 8/12/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Deep tecnho with dub and IDM melodic flourishes with beautifully processed sounds. México's Cubenx is the new face of Techno who recently signed into Paris' Infiné recordings. Buy if you like intelligent techno a la Kompakt.

COMING 8/12/2008
An experimental three-piece based in Stockholm, Heavïness might be one of the best things since My Bloody Valentine; indeed, this Swedish band's own brand of mayhem pop has been very well received in the neo-shoegaze camp. Electric violin, driving drums, flowing guitar, and bittersweet vocals forge a path through a forest of anxiety, longing and oppression. The songs strike you down with their brute force only to lift you up with the beauty of their melodies. Live they have been known to blow away unsuspecting audiences. This is their acclaimed debut album in a special Japanese issue featuring a bonus track and new artwork. 1. Not Yet 2. Saddest Colour 3. Nothing Forbids You 4. Vermilion Boots On 5. Your Velvet Wrapping 6. How You Avoid The Sugartrap 7. Places 8. Where The Pixies Go 9. Black Marzipan 10. Touchlast 11. Curtains Of Rain *

COMING 8/12/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Electronic disco pop digitalized with analog machines. Latinsizer is Pepe Mogt, one of the main engines of the Nortec Collective (Fussible). 110 is Latinsizer's second album and debut for Static Discos, a banging collection of electro songs and neu-disco anthems.

COMING 8/12/2008
Soundpool's second full length release "Dichotomies & Dreamland" boasts two bonus remixes from Manual & Ursula 1000, available only on this Japanese import. These extras aren't the only things differentiating this from its American release: Quince re-arranged the tracks to give an entirely different perspective on the album's original concept. In addition, many of the songs that were cross-faded on the domestic release can be heard in their entirety on this one, making some key tracks more radio-friendly and appropriate for podcasting. Also features Quince's high quality packaging with all new artwork, obi, and liner notes in Japanese & English. If you are interested enough to be reading this, then it's a pretty safe bet that this album is a must-have! 1. Reality Sequence 2. Pleasure & Pain 3. Lush (What Becomes You) 4. Butterflies 5. Do What You Love 6. Welcome To Dreamland 7. The Only One 8. Dream Sequence 9. The Divides Of March 10. Wide Awake In Dreamland 11. So Much For That 12. The Only One (Manual Remix)* 13. Butterflies (Ursula 1000 Remix)*

COMING 8/12/2008
Shoegaze transcends its British influences and resurfaces in Asia with the compilation Half Dreaming, featuring sixteen bands and sixteen new, unreleased, or re-recorded tracks. Some of these artists are well known in the Asian indie music scene and others about to debut, but all betray their debt to such seminal bands as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and the Cocteau Twins. The shoegaze/dreampop scene in Asia is burgeoning; Half Dreaming surveys this new scene and provides a neat sampling of the artists reviving the genre. 1. The Majestic High - See Her Fall (Korea) 2. burrrn - Song Without Words (Japan) 3. Perfect Angel - Cataclysmic (Indonesia) 4. Hideka - Echoes (Japan) 5. Elemental Gaze - Unperfect Sky (Indonesia) 6. Monocism - Seisou (Japan) 7. Daixiaole - Satellite Boy (China) 8. Oeil - Strawberry Cream (Japan) 9. Witherspoon - Tingles And Everything (Malaysia) 10. The Evening Primrose - Stargazer (Hong Kong) 11. Caucus - Sing (half dreaming version) (Japan) 12. Candyaudioline - Felt So Fine (Philippines) 13. Sharesprings - Fix Your Eyes On (Indonesia) 14. Nanocycle - Great Little Ones (Japan) 15. Everybody Loves Irene - Love Is So Strange (Indonesia) 16. cryv - April And You, March And I (Japan)

COMING 8/12/2008
A collection of exclusive tracks from the Radio Dept., Testbild!, Most Valuable Players, Differnet, Action Biker, Viktor Sjöberg, VED, Peter Jackson, Peter Nilsson, Redmalm, Enheten för musik och melodi, Malkovic, Erik de Vahl, Band in a Box, Flow Flux Clan, Robotboy, and Jian. Between January and December 2007 Friendly Noise released 18 mp3 singles offered as free downloads from www.friendlynoise.se. From the start it was intended to be a one-year-long project. The idea was simple: contributions chosen by us from our extended family of old friends and new discoveries, usually two songs, together with an introduction by the artists themselves and a picture to illustrate and enhance, once or twice a month. This was meant as a complement to our CD releases, and a chance to easily distribute great songs, in cases where the album context isn't necessary. These two ways of distribution aren't contradictory, they're related, as we stated on our website. Soon we realized the series had become a success, both when it came to the quality of the output and the amount of interest generated. So "Splendid Isolation" - our third compilation after "Friendly People Making Noise" (2003) and "Are You Scared To Get Happy?" (2006) - is our way of documenting the series through a selection of the songs and thus giving them a more official kind of release. The record is also a celebration of five years of Friendly Noise as a label. The order of the songs on the record isn't chronological, it's instead our attempt to make the record sound as good as possible as a whole. TRACKLIST: 1. Bognor Regis (Peter Jackson) 2. (Jack) Lullaby (Viktor Sjöberg) 3. Rondo (Most Valuable Players) 4. Stratoscope (VED) 5. Get Nowhere (Peter Nilsson) 6. Hultviksvägen 7 (Peter Jackson) 7. The Bravest Person I Know (Redmalm) 8. Shut Out (Flow Flux Clan) 9. September (Robotboy) 10. Hashish in Nizza (Peter Jackson) 11. Sol genom lövverket (Enheten för musik och melodi) 12. En gång i Stockholm (Testbild!) 13. Dedicated to Therese Holm (Testbild!) 14. 1959y (Malkovic) 15. Almost Close (Peter Jackson) 16. Open Night (Most Valuable Players) 17. Bachelor Kisses (The Radio Dept.) 18. Vinden susar i advent (Action Biker) 19. Postojna (Peter Jackson) 20. Whatever We Want (Erik de Vahl) 21. Leaving Smears (Band in Box) 22. Just A Little Lovin' (Jian) 23. Curriculum Circular (Differnet)

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Black To Comm is the solo venture of Dekorder label boss Marc Richter. With two and a half albums released on his own label he has established himself as one of the most prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the American Digitalis label, a collaborative CD with Datashock on Ikuisuus, a 7" on the Irish Trensmat label and a collaboration with Xela in the works "Fractal Hair Geometry" is Richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental Double-LP left off. Like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. While "Wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Casio SK-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. The results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. Additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). Decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a Black To Comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album. There's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late Leigh Bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's UK club scene (and singer of Minty). Guests include Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu) on piano, Guido Möbius on trumpet and current Black To Comm (live) band members Renate Nikolaus on violin and Ulf Schütte (of Datashock, Aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds. Along the lines of the music, seminal German artist Oliver Ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork which is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock.

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Black To Comm is the solo venture of Dekorder label boss Marc Richter. With two and a half albums released on his own label he has established himself as one of the most prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the American Digitalis label, a collaborative CD with Datashock on Ikuisuus, a 7" on the Irish Trensmat label and a collaboration with Xela in the works "Fractal Hair Geometry" is Richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental Double-LP left off. Like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. While "Wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Casio SK-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. The results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. Additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). Decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a Black To Comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album. There's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late Leigh Bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's UK club scene (and singer of Minty). Guests include Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu) on piano, Guido Möbius on trumpet and current Black To Comm (live) band members Renate Nikolaus on violin and Ulf Schütte (of Datashock, Aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds. Along the lines of the music, seminal German artist Oliver Ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork which is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock.

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Available 8/18/2008. Limited pressing of 500. Once they're gone, it's download only my friends. Our Sacramento, CA indie-pop all stars return with a gem of a pop/rock album full of hooky choruses, call and response guitars and a super tight power-pop rhythm section. A pow-pow-powerful good good feeling! Just as you'd expect from this seasoned music family. Bask in the summer sun with the fourth album from the golden state’s California Oranges and a healthy dose of the sunshine power pop they’re known for. Underlying the power is a healthy dose of pop: Delicately concocted, contemplative songs exploring life’s ups and downs. The quintet has hit their stride on Imperial Hearts. The record features the same line up as their 2005 release Souvenirs: John Conley (Holiday Flyer), Verna Brock (Rocketship, Beanpole, Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), Ross Levine (Sinking Ships), Katie Haley (Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), and Matt Levine (Sinking Ships). The album was jointly produced by the California Oranges and Dana Gumbiner (Night Night, Deathray). Imperial Hearts was mixed by long time friend of the band, producer/engineer, Eric Stenman (Saves the Day, The Comas, The Cab). The California Oranges construct songs filled with, ”soaring boy/girl harmonies, rapid-fire licks of squeaky clean and buzz saw dirty guitar work, consistently up-tempo beats, and melodies that would make tone deaf kitten haters want to sing along” --Popmatters. “Power pop has rarely sounded as sweet.” –-Treblezine. TRACK LIST: 1. Brand New Spine, 2. We've Got Time, 3. Travel Writer, 4. Anywhere USA, 5. I Still Hold On, 6. Silver Shoes, 7. Feel Better, 8. Waiting Is Slow, 9. I Told Grace, 10. Matter Of Consequence, 11. I Won't Let You Back In, 12. When I Sleep.

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year".

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year".

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Machinefabriek is the alias for Rutger Zuydervelt currently residing in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2004 Zuydervelt has unleashed an uncountable number of self-released 3"CD's (his format of choice) in lovingly designed sleeves (all made by himself). In the past years some of these releases have been compiled into amazing albums such as "Slaapzucht" on the Root Strata label, "Weleer" on Lampse, the "Cello Recycling" 10"/CD on Type Records and "Bijeen" on Kning Disk. Recent collaborations with Stephen Vietiello (on the 12K label), Freiband, Steinbrüchel and other likeminded artists have expanded the horizon veritably. Machinefabriek's music has been remixed by the likes of Xela, Lesser, Svarte Greiner, Alva Noto, Pita, Kim Cascone, Ben Frost, Black To Comm and others. Only few Machinefabriek material has been recorded specifically for an album release but these have always been stand-outs in the vast catalogue. Both "Marijn" on Lampse and "Ranonkel" on Burning World Records were classic recordings, squeezing a large amount of what people love about Zuydervelt's music into one album, at the same time giving him the space to expand on new ideas. Likewise "Dauw" is one of Zuydervelt's most subtle & quiet yet refined works. Mainly built around small but gorgeous melodies of piano and guitar playing and the crackling sound of dusty vinyl samples, these songs slowly build into intensive hymn-like angel choirs of sheer heavenly beauty. Zuydervelt's output often has drawn comparisons to the likes of Fennesz, Godspeed, Arvo Pärt, Basinski, Tim Hecker, Phillip Jeck, Mogwai and Earth, which is certainly not all wrong and some of these have been influences in the early stages of his career but he has since developed a strong and individual language all of his own. Mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi with elegant artwork by Zuydervelt himself; metallic print on grey cardboard stock.

COMING 8/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Bastards! Like some unholy breeding ground, SOULS ON BOARD are loyal to an ever-evolving matrimony - beauty and dirt, ugliness and invention, dumb and smart, mind-blowing power and grace. BLOOD FACE is the new EP, the Melbourne group's second release after their "hurtling and assured" self-titled EP debut of 2005. Released by wunderkinds Low Transit Industries, the EP saw the band draw comparisons to The Pixies & Sonic Youth, tour the country with Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males and End of Fashion, play alongside Maximo Park (UK), Faker & Deloris as well as land spots on the Big Day Out and St. Kilda Festivals! BLOOD FACE picks up the hazardous extremes of that first rugged EP and beats them into a new shape. A shape with pointed edges, electricity in the veins and a wall of psychedelic sound bubbling under a whip-smart guitar bleed section. While the tunes bulge with shining phrases & stirring twists, lyrically BLOOD FACE grapples with dark visions and uncomfortable realities - these ills given some respite by the pop playfulness of the 6 tracker. Recorded by Finn Keane (theredsunband, SubAudible Hum) in the heart of Melbourne city, and mixed by Aaron Cupples (Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males, The Drones) between cows and night monsters in the hills of Gippsland, BLOOD FACE captures the peaks and explorations of the bands live set over the last 2 years. A visceral & powerful project on stage, SOULS ON BOARD have captured an experience equal to the sparks of its creation. Punchy, raw, exploding with life and colour . . . introducing BLOOD FACE. R E V I E W S : “Blood Face is an ambitious release delivered with confidence and gusto and will no doubt leave punters cheering for more” Rave ”Helmed by a vivid, coolly electric guitar tone – the voltage feels integral, for reasons not yet tangible – the second EP from Melbourne’s Souls On Board confirms that their melange of atmospheric soundscapes, plangent stadium rock and jazzy, experimental pop lacks for neither vision nor a sense of reality… they feel on the verge of discovering something essential within their music. They’re already closer than too many of their contemporaries will ever get” Mess+Noise “In conclusion, Souls On Board as a group perpetuate many questions. With their eclectic mix of pop and heavy guitar riffs, Blood Face cements their own creative space in music as their songs take your hand and lead you in one direction before suddenly halting and taking you on an alternate route, repeat and serve hot” The Dwarf ”I don’t think I’ve heard such a ragtag, mixed-back offering of songs sound as cohesive as this in a while. Mainly because, as far as I can tell, SOB’s versatility doesn’t compromise their musicianship, and they know how to write a solid number with a pulse and a point” Beat / Xpress

COMING 8/19/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Originally released in 2005, 'Shimmer and Fade' was a limited time download EP from n5MD's sub-label En:peg Digital. Within its forty-eight minutes, bass and guitar arose from the background to a place of prominence and carried the EP's melodic content. This change in form represented an important period in the natural evolution of the Bitcrush sound, a time that found Mike Cadoo transitioning from his post-industrial and IDM beginnings found on Enarc to the more ambient/post-shoegaze direction of 'In Distance.' After years of requests to bring Shimmer and Fade back, n5MD has chosen to re-release it as a re-mastered CD which contains four extra tracks not found on the original EP. Limited to 1000, this release will serve as a time capsule of what was yet to come. track list: shimmer aventious no bridge no water the missing every sunday waiting for something have you lost your way? and we fade white flag song when swallowing becomes difficult the destruction of self the missing (alt version)

COMING 8/19/2008
Powerful cosmic energy using the simplest tools available: 4 Nintendo Gameboys & mixer. Not a noisy release by any means, instead a fully activated set of lean muscular gabber pop music that stares boldly into the sun with the jihad of a suicide vest full of gummi bears. Drumized takes cues from older trad jazz, Earache era gabber & some of your better ringtones.

COMING 8/19/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Once a band has developed a sound that is undeniably theirs it can be difficult to push beyond those confines and expand the sound into new territory. Lights Out Asia set out to do just that and have succeeded in writing a record that was as much a sign of the times as it was an expansion of their aural bubble that has been their watermark. They have been called ethereal, post-shoegaze and sleep-rock, but on their third full length "Eyes Like Brontide" the band slides into a darker more ominous and less lucid dream than on previous efforts. The release is a stylistic shift from the sweet lullabies of their debut "Garmonia" (Sun Sea Sky) and the electronic drum driven post-shoegaze of 2007's "Tanks and Recognizers" (n5MD). The song dynamics on the album deserve special attention. For the first time in Lights Out Asia's history they have gone for broke with some of the most epic drum machine driven post-rock this side of the Pacific along with solemn disconnected passages of dream nourished sonics. The occasional floating vocal and dusty winding guitar they are known for are still present, but "Eyes Like Brontide" brings a whole new dimension to the Lights Out Asia ethos. Most importantly, the band has expanded upon its sound without throwing away the original blueprint or alienating it's fanbase. "Eyes Like Brontide" is recommended for fans of Hammock, Bitcrush, Robin Guthrie and Manual.

COMING 8/19/2008
EXCLUSIVE.  Near the Parenthesis follows up 2007's "Of Soft Construction" with "L'Eixample," Tim Arndt's most focused work to date. L'Eixample draws on inspiration gained during travels through Barcelona, Spain. Of particular interest was the innovative and sometimes peculiar modernist architecture of the L'Eixample district. In Catalunyan, L'Eixample literally means an extension, a strong symbolic parallel to the music found on Arndt's latest work which itself reflects an extension of the Near the Parenthesis' sound. While this collection begins where "Of Soft Construction" left off, it quickly migrates to an even calmer and more atmospheric experience. Through L'Eixample, Arndt has moved closer to an an emotional apex and provides even greater melodic rewards.

COMING 8/19/2008
Sweden's esteemed Licking Fingers label (home to The Concretes, Frida Hyvönen, El Perro del Mar) offer this swank new compilation enshrining the best of contemporary Swedish music. 21 songs, including a few unreleased and/or rare tracks, digipacked and ready to go! Tracklisting: 01. Anna Järvinen: "Svensktalande Bättre Folk" 02. Jens Lekman: "The Opposite of Hallelujah" 03. Lykke Li: "Everybody But Me" 04. Those Dancing Days: "Dischoe" 05. Friska Viljor: "Old Man" 06. Shout Out Louds: "South America" 07. The Concretes: "The Sentence" 08. First Floor Power: "The Jacket" 09. Pacific!: "Runway to Elsewhere" 10. Kleerup: "Music for Girl [ft. Lisa Milberg]" 11. The Radio Dept.: "Freddy and the Trojan Horse" 12. Studio: "No Comply" 13. Peter Morén: "Social Competence" 14. Loney, Dear: "Your Time Is to Come" 15. Wildbirds & Peacedrums: "Liar Lion" 16. El Perro Del Mar: "Glory to the World" 17. The Tiny: "Too Heavy a Burden" 18. Frida Hyvönen: "See How I Came Into Town" 19. Speedmarket Avenue: "Sirens" 20. Idiot Kid: "Wide Awake" 21. Nicolai Dunger: "Gods Waitingroom"