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ORBITAL
REVEAL DETAILS OF LAST ALBUM
21 April 2004 |
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Orbital
have announced details for their forthcoming album. Entitled
The Blue Album, released on 21 June on the band's
new record label, Orbital Music Records, is their first
since their departure from FFRR and follows last year's
Octane soundtrack. The album will feature nine
tracks, including collaborations with Sparks and Lisa
Gerrard. Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that
this album, their seventh album, will be their last. In
a press release published on the band's website, the brothers
say that after fifteen years, they feel 'Orbital has run
its course'. To coincide with the release of the album,
the band will play their last ever UK shows at the Brixton
Academy on 25 June and at Glastonbury on 27 June. For
details on the album and press release, check the Loopz
website. |
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VENN
FESTIVAL TAKES OVER BRISTOL
21 April 2004 |
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Bristol
welcomes the first edition of Venn festival between 13-16
May, with five venues throughout the city offering an
eclectic mix of rock, hip-hop, folk, dub and dance music
day and night. Events include live performances, DJ sets
and workshops. The line-up features artists as diverse
as Jah Wobble's English Roots Band, Fingathing, Leafcutter
John, Cursor
Miner, Oxbow, Rob Smith of Smith & Mighty fame,
and many more. For complete line-up and details on events,
visit the Venn
Festival webiste. |
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NEW
WAGON CHRIST ALBUM DETAILS ANNOUNCED
20 April 2004 |
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Luke
Vibert follows the release of the excellent YosepH
last year on Warp, and his Kerrier
District album of this year on Rephlex with his new
album as Wagon Christ. Sorry I Make You Lush
is set to be released on Ninja Tune on 1 June. The album
will feature ten tracks, and is said by Ninja Tune to
display ‘all the trademark Wagon Christ tricks -
woozy, gaudy, beautiful kitschtronica, the tightest, tidiest
funk drummage and anus-wobbling sub bass’ and more.
Track listing as follow: 1. Saddic Gladdic 2.
I'm Singing 3. The Funnies 4. Shadows
5. Quadra Y Discos 6. UBFormby 7. Sci
Fi Staircase 8. Sorry I Make You Lush 9.
Kwikwidetrax 10. Nighty Night. |
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RICHARD
H KIRK UNRELEASED MATERIAL BONANZA
19 April 2004 |
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Mute
will be releasing two Richard H Kirk albums on 24 May
through their Grey Area imprint. The first one, entitled
Earlier/Later: Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89,
features thirty three tracks over two CDs, selected from
over seven hours of previously unreleased material documenting
fifteen years in the career of the ex-Cabaret Voltaire.
The second album is a re-packaged version of Kirk’s
seminal 1993 Sandoz album Digital Lifeforms,
which saw the Sheffield-based musician’s first proper
incursion into IDM territories. The album comes with a
second CD featuring ten extra tracks recorded during the
same period, and which have, apart from two, never been
released. |
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ANIMAL
COLLECTIVE SING IN TONGS AND TOUR EUROPE
18 April 2004 |
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Animal Collective
will follow last year’s excellent Campfire
Songs and Here
Comes The Indian albums, and the release of their
repackaged two
first albums on Fat-Cat, with a new LP for the Brighton-based
label’s Splinter Series on 3 May. Entitled Sung
Tongs, the album features twelve new songs, and was
recorded in a house in Maryland by founding members Avey
Tare and Panda Bear.
The band will also be supporting Múm
during their European tour on the following dates: Paris
(21/04), Brighton (22/04). Liverpool (23/04), Oxford (24/04),
London (25/04), Leeds (27/04), Glasgow (28/04) and Dublin
(29/04). Animal Collective
will then play during the Four
Tet bonanza night at the Coronet in London (30/04)
and at the Triptych festival in Glasgow (1/05) and Edinburgh
(2/05), Bristol (03/05), Brighton (04/05) and London (06/05). |
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NEW
PRINCE PO ALBUM AND SINGLE ON LEX
14 April 2004 |
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Lex
will be releasing the next single, Hold Dat,
and album, The Slickness from Prince Po, and
are giving you the opportunity to sample three tracks
taken from the album by downloading them. Known his work
with Pharoahe Monch as Organized Konfusion, Prince Po
has collaborated with a variety of people on his new album,
including collaborator to the stars Richard X as well
as Danger Mouse,
MF Doom, Jemini,
Madlib and many more. Click
here to download the three songs from The Slickness,
while Hold Dat (Richard X Mixes) is available
to download from the Bleep.com
website. Hold Dat will be released as a 7"
and 12" at the end of April, while The Sleakness
will be available from the end of May. |
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BLUE
STATES NEW ALBUM AND LISTENING PARTY
14 April 2004 |
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Two
years after Man
Mountain, which saw Andy Dragazis expending his
original solo project to a full band, Blue
States return on 14 June with their third album, The
Soundings, released on Memphis Industries. Now a
trio formed of Dragazis, Jon Chandler and new vocalist
Chris Carr, Blue
States and Memphis Industries have put together a
microsite on which a new track from the album will be
streamed every Monday and made available for a week, starting
this week with the forthcoming first single, Across
The Wire. The microsite is to be found at www.thesoundings.co.uk |
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FREEFORM
NEW EP AND LONDON LIVE PERFORMANCE
11 april 2004 |
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Simon
Pyke, AKA Freeform,
will follow last year’s Human
album on Skam and the compilation Condensed
on Burnt Friedman’s
excellent Nonplace label with a new six EP tracks, Wildcat,
on Skam. The EP, described as ‘vocal gymnastics
and beachcomb beats’ is due out on 19 April. Pyke
will also be performing live Upstairs at the Garage in
London on Sunday 25 April with Goodiepal and DJMattWand.
For more info, check the Mybrokeneasel
website. |
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COCOROSIE
LIVE UK DATES
6 April 2004 |
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Having
just concluded a US tour with hotly tipped TV On The Radio,
deliciously subtle sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady, AKA
CocoRosie, will be taking their intimate live show, based
around their unique vocals, a bag of old toys and an acoustic
guitar, to Colchester (15/05), Nottingham (17/05), Manchester
(18/05) and London (19/05), following the release of their
superb first album, La Maison De Mon Rêve,
on Touch & Go. |
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