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This page is dedicated to recent and new releases that have caught my ear recently. Since I try to avoid repeating particular releases on my regular program, I thought it best to set aside a separate page to emphasize notable releases and shows. Although the idea is to focus on what's happened over the past year, I have included some releases from the previous due to a number of factors, including the occasional vagueness of independent label distribution, slow word of mouth on non-distributed releases and my own never-ending sloth. All releases are available in the CD format unless otherwise stated (some may be available in analog formats as well). Recent additions are marked with a complicated system involving a variable amount of asterisks.

My section about forthcoming releases isn't really up to date, sorry!

News! (7/25/04)- I've finally had a chance to organize myself and wrap up 2003. See the "past favorites" link above to check out my favorites of 2003. In the meantime, the list below is all nice and tidy now (except for the forthcoming releases, of course).

Current Releases

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake, Back Together Again 2CD (Thrill Jockey, US) 2004
Ai Aso, Lavender (Pedal, US) 2004
Mitchell Akiyama, If Night Is a Weed and Day Grows Less (Sub Rosa, BE) 2004
*Mitchell Akiyama, Small Explosions That Are Your to Keep (Sub Rosa, BE) 2005
*Biosphere, Autour de la Lune (Touch, UK) 2004
*Boredoms, Seadrum / House of Sun (Warners Japan, JP) 2004
*Catalpa Boys, Catalpa Boys (Anyway, US) 2004
Nicolas Collins, "Pea Soup" 3" CD (Listen, US) 2004
*Damon & Naomi with Kurihara, The Earth Is Blue (20/20/20, US) 2005
*Thomas Dimuzio / Matmos / Wobbly, Rotate Vortex CD-R (?, US) 2004
Donae'o, "My Philosophy (Bounce)" 12" (Social Circles, UK) 2003
*Doodles, Nokori (Alchemy, JP) 2004
Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth, (As Is Stated... Before Known) (Evolving Ear/Pax, US) 2004
Ellen Fullman, Staggered Stasis (Anomalous, US) 2004
Geese, untitled CD-R 2004
Ghost, Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City, US) 2004
*The JFK Jr. Royal Airforce, Androids CD-R (Slutfish, US) 2005
*Jutok Kaneko / Koji Shimura, "Live 05/28/04" CD-R (no label, JP) 2004
Masami Kawaguchi, Live in December (Public Eyesore, US) 2004
*Klute / Fanu, "Perceptron (Fanu Remix) / Defunct Drums (Klute Drum Spray Remix)" (Commercial Suicide vs. Offshore, UK) 2004
Miminokoto, 3 LP (Siwa, US) 2004
Julien Ottavi, Nervure Magnetique (Sigma Editions, AU)
Paul Panhuysen, A Magic Square of 5 To Look At / A Magic Square of 5 To Listen To (Plinkity Plonk, NL) 2004
Pita, Get Off (Hapna, SE) 2005
Dizzee Rascal, "Live on Power 106 3/18/04" CD-R 2004
Ratatat, Ratatat Remixes - Mixtape Vol. 1 CD-R 2004
*Mike Rep and the Quotas, Black Hole Rock (Old Age/No Age, US) 2005
Roni Size, "Bumbakita" (V Recordings, UK) 2004
Sapat / The SB, Seed and Surgery CD-R (free103.9, US) 2004

split CD
The Stars, Will (Pedal, JP) 2004
The Streets, "Fit But You Know It" 12" (Vice/Atlantic, US) 2004
Tape, Operette (Cubic, JP) 2004

actually a compilation of remixes by various artists...
Tuck Tuck Tuck, The Story of Tuck Tuck Tuck (Skul, US) 2004
*Up-Tight, Lucrezia (Alchemy, JP) 2004
Vava Kitora, The Labyrinth of Angulimara CD-R (Musik Atlatch, JP) 2004
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antithesis LP (Kranky, US) 2004
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Xiao LP (De Stijl, US) 2004
Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray, We Is (Live at the Bop Shop) (Delmark, US) 2004
DJ Zinc feat. Slarta Jon, "Flim" remix 12"es (Bingo, UK) 2004

especially the Wizzbit remix (vol. 3)
Various Artists, Compositions for Guitars Vol. 2 (A Bruit Secret, FR) 2004
*Various Artists, Tokyo Flashback 5 (PSF, JP)

The best in this fabled series of compilations since #2
*Various Artists, U.F.O. Club Tokyo, Vol. 2 (Captain Trip, JP)
Various Artists, Undecided (PSF, JP) 2004

Reissues/Archival

*Bembeya Jazz National, The Syliphone Years 2CD (Stern's, UK) 2004
Danny Ben-Israel, The Kathmandu Sessions (Locust, US) 2004
*Michael von Biel (Edition RZ, DE) 2004
Black Devil, "Disco Club" 12" (Rephlex, UK) 2004
Henry Flynt and the Insurrections, I Don't Wanna (Locust, US) 2004
Brent Gutzeit, Drug Money (Kranky, US) 2004
Laurie Spiegel, Harmonices Mundi LP (Table of the Elements, US)

New Discoveries and Continued Pleasures

J Bone Cro, For Cryin' Out Loud LP (Womb Tunes, US) 1995
Alvin Curran, Canti Illuminati (Fore, IT) 1982
Bruce Gilbert, This Way (Mute, UK) 1984
*Syogo-Nari, Black Blues (Zakuro, JP) 2001
Mariko Takahashi, Dreaming (Marels, JP) 2001
Trembling Strain, Four Pictures (Belle Antique, JP) 1995
Various Artists, Acid Folk Visions 2CD (Toshiba EMI, JP) 1998
Various Artists, Spacelines (Munster, DL)

great mix CD from Sonic Boom

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