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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

Aero, Rises & Falls (Apestaartje, US) 2003
*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
*Catalpa Boys, Catalpa Boys (Anyway, US) 2004
*Nicolas Collins, "Pea Soup" 3" CD (Listen, US) 2004
Donae'o, "My Philosophy (Bounce)" 12" (Social Circles, UK) 2003
Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth, (As Is Stated... Before Known) (Evolving Ear/Pax, US) 2004
E-Z Rollers, "Titles of the Unexpected: Outtakes and Missing Breaks Vols. 1 and 2" 2x12"es (Moving Shadow, UK) 2003
*Ellen Fullman, Staggered Stasis (Anomalous, US) 2004
Geeneus vs Wizzbit, "Rinse Recording Vol. 1" 10" (Rinse, UK) 2003
*Geese, untitled CD-R 2004
*Ghost, Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City, US) 2004
*Hisato Higuchi, She (Ghost Disc, JP) 2003
*Masami Kawaguchi, Live in December (Public Eyesore, 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
Plasticman, "Sandstorm" (from "The Lift 12") (Road, UK) 2003
*Dizzee Rascal, "Live on Power 106 3/18/04" CD-R 2004
*Ratatat, Ratatat Remixes - Mixtape Vol. 1 CD-R 2004
Roni Size, "Bumbakita" (V Recordings, UK) 2004
Sapat / The SB, Seed and Surgery CD-R (free103.9, US) 2004

split CD
Skepta, "D.T.I. (Pirate Radio Anthem)" 12" (Dice, UK) 2003
Sticky feat. Viper, "I'm on the Mic" 12" (Social Circles, UK) 2003
*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
*Vava Kitora, The Labyrinth of Angulimara CD-R (Musik Atlatch, JP) 2004
Vybz Kartel, Up 2 Di Time (Greensleeves, UK) 2003
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antithesis LP (Kranky, US) 2004
*Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Xiao LP (De Stijl, 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, Undecided (PSF, JP) 2004

Reissues/Archival

Danny Ben-Israel, The Kathmandu Sessions (Locust, US) 2004
*Black Devil, "Disco Club" 12" (Rephlex, UK) 2004
Dennis Bovell, Decibel: More Cuts From Dennis Bovell (Pressure Sounds, UK) 2003
Henry Flynt and the Insurrections, I Don't Wanna (Locust, US) 2004
Brent Gutzeit, Drug Money (Kranky, US) 2004
Murahachibu, Underground Tapes 1973 (Hagakure, JP) 2003
*Laurie Spiegel, Harmonices Mundi LP (Table of the Elements, US)

New Discoveries and Continued Pleasures

*Alvin Curran, Canti Illuminati (Fore, IT) 1982
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

The Golden Cups, Box Set 9 CD Box Set (P-Vine, JP)-postponed (again) to late September

All seven proper albums, a singles compilation, an exclusive live album + the Powerhouse album

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