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"We live our lives with a sonic intangible that affects the way we communicate, especially with children and animals."
                                                                                                                          --Money Mark, interviewed in the East Bay Express

Features

Charlie Dark    dj/Rupture    HiM    Jazzanova    Linton Kwesi Johnson
Low    Mad Professor (PDF)    Money Mark    The Rapture & the Rise of Dance Punk
                                                                  The Weirdos   
                         Label profile: Compost (PDF)    Label profile: Quango (PDF)   


Album Reviews
Akasha - Love Philtre Magick           Appliance - Are You Earthed?           Arthur Verocai - (S/T)
Baby Blak - Once You Go Blak           Barry Adamson - The King of Nothing Hill           Biz Markie - Weekend Warrior           Cibelle - (S/T)        Cornell Campbell - Original Blue Recordings: 1970-1979        Da Lata - Serious
David Axelrod - (S/T)           Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team           The Feud - Launguage is Technology
Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango           Groove Armada - Lunchbox           Habib Koite - Fly! Live Around the World
HiM - Many In High Places are Not Well           Knifehandchop - Rockstopper
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned           Lifesavas - Spirit in Stone
Madlib - Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note           Massive Attack - 100th Window
Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio R.M.X.S.           Mercury Rev - All is Dream           Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper
Mushroom - Foxy Music           Nobody - Pacific Drift           Otto von Schirach - Chopped Zombie Fungus
Plaid - Spokes           Schneider TM - Zoomer           Spacek - Vintage Hi-Tech           Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
Stone Roses/808 State - Very Best of the Stone Roses/Outpost Transmission           The Sunshine Fix - Age of the Sun           Swayzak - Fabric Vol. 11           T.Raumschmiere - Radio Blackout           Variable Unit - Cold Flow
Vikter Duplaix - Singles (Prelude to the Future)           The X-ecutioners - Built From Scratch


Compilations:    Anti-NY
                            Asthmatic Worm: A Compilation of Twelve Electronic and Melodica Tracks
                            Black & Proud: The Sould of the Black Panther Era
                            Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown, 1973-1977
                            Ennio Morricone Remixed                             Funky 16 Corners
                            Hot Women: Women Singers from the Torrid Regions of the World


Concert Previews
Activating the Medium [sound art festival]    Blind Boys of Alabama    Do Make Say Think    Thomas Fehlman/Daniel Meteo    Flavor Group and Compression: New Year's Eve