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18 May 2000 | Permanent vacation

Song | ARTIST | Source
(VA = various artists) (*** = new & recommended)

(excerpt) | KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN | Momente
(excerpt) | VONDA VAN DYKE | Teenage Diary (soundtrack)
Tres Marias | BANDA DE TONTONTEPEC | Dead and Gone #1 (VA)
I'm An Old Cowhand | MICKEY KATZ | Comin' 'Round the Katzkills
Nude On the Moon | TIPSY | Trip Tease
Totensamba | SANTANA V. | Ho! #1: Roady Music From Vietnam (VA)
Gulf | YOUNG & RUBICAM | Buy Buy Baby (Ad agency production music)
I've Got Just About Everything | BOB DOROUGH | Just About Everything

Firm and Stable | JESSICA KANE | I'm So Hungry
France | LAND OF THE LOOPS | Us (VA)
Exhibitions Lester | LESTER | Boulevard du Swing
You've Never Been This Far Before | FREAKWATER | Feels Like the Third Time
Tumblin' Tumbleweeds | ROLAND SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA | Westward Ho!
That Makes It! | JAYNE MANSFIELD | Sex Kittens In Hi-Fi: The Blondes (VA)
(track 22) | (no title given) | Cambodian Rocks (VA) ***
Unsound | BETTIE SERVEERT | White Tales (CDingle)

Ruby Tuesday | SEX MOB | Solid Sender
Distortion Watch | MOTOR HUMMING | Musical Aluminum
Chartered Trips | HUSKER DU | Zen Arcade
Endless Vacation | RAMONES | Too Tough To Die
Enchanted Island | CROSSTOWN BUS | Psychedelic Illusions: The Psychedelic Experience, Vol. 3 (VA)
El Cable | ESQUIVEL | Cabaret Manana
A Little More Gauze | NICHOLS & MAY | Examine Doctors
More Gauze | DJ COR BLIMEY | DJ Cor Blimey and His Pigeon

Dandera Korabatten | EX GIRL | Big When Far, Small When Close ***
My Mind Is Going | ARTO LINDSAY | The Subtle Body
Happiness | ELLIOTT SMITH | Figure 8
Divino Maravilhoso | GAL COSTA | Tropicalia Essentials (VA)
Never Ending Math Equation | MODEST MOUSE | Building Something Out Of Nothing
Hot Asphalt | MARIO NASCIMBENE | Cinemaphonic: Electro Soul (VA)

Goldrush | THE HERBALISER | Very Mercenary
Parts (from Parts Of Speech) | PAMELA Z | Selected Works
Loof and Let Dime | GIOVANNI SOLLIMA | Aquilarco
I'm a Wabbit | BINGO GAZINGO | Bingo Gazingo
Vo Chong Lam Bieng | LY NGUA O | Ho! #1: Roady Music From Vietnam (VA)
Afoxe e | GILBERTO GIL | Um Banda Um
Standing In For Joe | XTC | Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2)
No Love (instrumental) | THE CREATORS | The Hard Margin (12-inch single)

Frock | DOG FACED HERMANS | Humans Fly/Every Day Time Bomb
The Lonely Driver 1952 | WORLD STANDARD | Country Gazette
Held | OPTIGANALLY YOURS | Exclusively Talentmaker!
It's Taking Me Down | THE DELMORE BROTHERS | Lonesome Yodel Blues
Shell Theme Song | SHELL | Shell Is Swell
Internal Wrangler | CLINIC | Internal Wrangler ***
County Fair (instrumental) | RAYMOND SCOTT | Manhattan Research Inc. ***
Someday Some Morning Sometime | BILLY BRAGG & WILCO | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

The legendary Cambodian Rocks album, which has been out of print on vinyl for a few years now, has been reissued, with nine bonus tracks, on CD. Psychedelic garage rock with a south-east Asian flavor. Highly recommended. Available from:
Parallel World | 332 Bleecker Street #27-D | New York NY 10014
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