GIRL TALK Night Ripper (Illegal Art) cd 14.98
Wow, this is ballsy! Mining ultra-familiar pop from the late '70s to last weeks number one hit, Girl Talk has fashioned an infectious dance record completely out of supposedly unauthorized samples. The inside booklet gives a shout out to the plundered artists who include Elton John, XTC, The Yin Yang Twins, Madonna, Amerie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, among hundreds of others. While this is neither a conceptual Plunderphonic cluster fuck nor merely just an illegal mix of mash-ups, Girl Talk fashions cleverly dance-y compositions using the flotsam and jetsam of pop music's collective unconscious. By the time you get to recognition, new sample juxtapositions occur just in time to throw your head into a tailspin. This is definitely a good party-starter, Girl Talk being very aware that it is the girls who get the dance party started, but usually only if something familiar and fun is playing. And there is enough of that incredible stuff on this album to guarantee a nasty but well worth it hang over. Crafty!
MPEG Stream: "Once Again"
MPEG Stream: "Bounce That"
MPEG Stream: "Overtime"

GIRL TALK Secret Diary (Illegal Art) cd 14.98
Do the names Kid 606, V/VM, Wobbly, etc. mean anything to you? If you're into the hyperspastic plunderfucking of contemporary pop music that has been quite the rage lately, then chances are you're likely to want to check this out. But to be completely honest, this record brings absolutely nothing new or interesting to the table. Sure it's good for a laugh and might provoke a grin or make you cringe, but if you've got a Dr. Sample and a Kaoss Pad, no doubt you can do this too. Plus it's more fun to fuck with other people's music than it is to have to sit through someone else having all the fun. The victims? The usual Top 40 slop just waiting to be slaughtered: 2Unlimited, Jackson 5, Technotronic, Jay Z, Whitney Houston, New Kids On The Block, even the Vengaboys for a split second (it's that sound that's on every one of their songs)... Is that the Puppies I hear, or is it Kris Kross? Most embarrassing is just how much I can recognize. Can't help but think of the film Bring It On when I hear "Get Ready For This". Running that track through loads of effects can't save it from being the most hideous song EVER. Sure, there's probably a lot more interesting things going on with the assemblage and rejuxtapositioning of the sampled works. But the undeniable overusage of FX makes this record sound old fast. Maybe Korg should give a free copy of this with every purchase of a Kaoss Pad: it demonstrates all the fun and cool things it does, but people might think twice before constructing a whole record out of that moronic pleasure.
RealAudio clip: "I Want You Back"
RealAudio clip: "Let's Start This Party Right"

GLASS CANDY Beatbox (Italians Do It Better) cd 13.98
Johnny Jewel may not be a household name but his music has been on our stereo pretty much non stop for the last several month. The musical mind behind both Chromatics and Glass Candy, it's his sparkling touch that has helped make electronic pop sound exciting again. It's no mistake that Glass Candy had the leadoff track on the After Dark compilation that helped define one of the more exciting scenes to emerge in the last several years. Songs that make you want to dance in clouds as you get lost in that hazy intersection of new wave, spaced out disco and post-punk minimalism.
Much like Chromatics who underwent a very radical and rewarding shift in sound with their latest Night Drive, Jewel has brought that same aesthetic to Glass Candy with equally impressive results. Beatbox travels in such a nice way starting off with seriously sassy momentum on songs like "Beatific" that almost sounds like Lizzy Mercier Descloux covering a track from the first Madonna record and then the later part of the record travels in much moodier cosmic territory recalling French AQ faves Ruth with nods to the brilliant early production of Giorgio Moroder. Glass Candy rang in the new year with a performance here in SF on New Year's Eve and we can't think of much better company to party with. So good!
MPEG Stream: "Beatific"
MPEG Stream: "Candy Castle"

GLOBAL GOON Vatican Nitez (Rephlex) cd 16.98
I have always loved Global Goon. Rumoured to be either an Aphex Twin alter ego or Aphex's crazy flatmate, GG records have always been light and fluffy in their spazzy skitter. And it always seemd to me that Global Goon was exclusively playing Christmas carols, albeit really weird ones. They just had that vibe. Sort of a chopped up Pachelbel's Canon or something. The new record expands on that, taking the fluffy chopped up Chritmas carol sound, and adding some downright Aphex-y sounds and some loping laid back rhythms that would definitely appeal to Boards Of Canada fans. The sound falls somewhere between Chris Clark's dangerously complex / intensely melodic electronica (see list #113) and the Aphex Twin at his most lighthearted. Goofy melodies and even some warbly singing weave between funky basslines, skittery simple drum loops and warm washes of rich sound. Fun and playful and dreamy and pretty fucking cool.
RealAudio clip: "Jerky Dharma"
RealAudio clip: "Business Man"

GO FIND, THE Miami (Morr Music) cd 15.98
Belgium's The Go Find craft atmospheric electronic laced pop rock propelled by a driving robotic beat and warmed by mainman Dieter Sermeus' sensitive male vocals. The ten songs on their debut album Miami alternately bring to mind the sounds of The Notwist, Postal Service and New Order or perhaps a more laidback version of The Faint. This new member of the Morr Music clan is settling in quite comfortably with his labelmates Lali Puna, Ms John Soda, Styrofoam et al.
MPEG Stream: "Over The Edge"
MPEG Stream: "Summer Quest"

GO HOME PRODUCTIONS Pistol Whipped (Half Inch) 12" 16.98

GODFLESH Us And Them (Earache) cd 14.98
This pioneering industrial-metal duo return with another slab of sledgehammer pain. Too bad they're just to stoned to know that the drum'n'bass breaks they're using are just a little tired. And Justin Broadrick's grunting vocals haven't gotten any easier to take. Still, this delivers some of the trademark Godflesh sound that made their classic Streetcleaner one of the most nihilistically heavy albums ever.

GOEM Abri (12K) cd 14.98
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"Abri" is the eighty-eleventh album from Goem -- the hyper-prolific Dutch trio of musique concrete artists doing minimalist techno. By now, the Goem sound is starting to show the limitations of working with minimalist rhythms that are so minimal that grooves are completely impossible. As on the previous dozen or so releases, Goem begins with piercing sinewaves and predictably introduces steady pulses of warbled bass clicks. There are some minimalists who can turn the smallest of sounds into something evocative (take Andrew Chalk and Wolfgang Voigt as examples), and there are those who can't. Goem is quickly stumbling into the realm of the latter.
RealAudio clip: "Zelfs"

GOEM Disco (Fourth Dimension) cd 15.98
Goem is the exceedingly reductive post-techno ensemble comprised of Peter Duimelinks, Roel Meelkop, and Frans De Waard. Drawing from both the gentle modulations of Terry Riley's minimalism and the stripped down techno rhythms of Jeff Mills, early Pan Sonic, and Mike Ink, Goem forges their simple rhythmic patterns along an unchanging signal pulse, which steadily curves out of barely audible blips into swelling cascades of huge bass thumps, misfiring electro-glitches, and occasionally counterpulsing high-hats - all of which never swerve from the original rhythmic pulse. Very cold and very sterile... and for Goem, that's certainly a complement.
RealAudio clip: "Disco 3"
RealAudio clip: "Disco 5"

GOEM ems een / ems twee (Audio.nl) 12" 9.98
We are told that the track "ems een" utilizes music by Muslimgauze, but Goem (the post-techno collective featuring Roel Meelkop, Frans De Ward, and Peter Duimelinks) has systematically elimated everything from Muslimgauze's Arabic electronica except for a somatic bass pulse. Clinical rhythms and terse electron manipulation in the same vein as Mika Vainio and Ryoji Ikeda.

GOEM Extensie (Noise Museum) cd 17.98
Goem is the post-techno production team comprised of three guys (Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks, and Frans De Waard) known more for their contemporary musique concrete /drone work. For this record, Frans De Waard commissioned remixes of the material found on the "Reduktie" which embraced the hyperminimal clickery and tone generation of Mika Vainio's solo work as Ø. The remixologists have for the most part left a good chunk of the structure intact with a monophunk techno minimalism, but have rearranged / reconstructed / recycled the various bleeps and blips through the wonders of the laptop. Featured remixes are Stilluppsteypa, L.O.S.D., Taylor Deupree, Kim Cascone, Jos Smolders, Starfish Pool, Surge, Radboud Mens, Institut Fuer Feinmotorik, and /Slo-Fi.

GOEM Gast (Abri) cd 14.98
At one time, Goem seemed like a great idea - a bunch of Musique Concrete informed post-industrialists trying their hand at Pan Sonic style minimalist techno. For a couple of releases, it worked quite well; but "Gast" proves how incredibly limited Goem have become with their project, and how boring the microsound community has become as a whole. This album is a collection of remixes / collaborations between Goem and other artists who contributed to the yearly Mutek festival of experimental electronics in Montreal. For the most part, each of the artists (including Taylor Deupree, Richard Chartier, Mikael Stavostrand, Matmos, Mitchell Akiyama, Richard di Santo, and I8U) propose their remix / collaborations as an exact copy of the sheer boredom of Goem's pitifully miniscule, unwavering techno pulsations. Even Matmos - who should know better than this type of crap - just offer a minute and a half of indifferent static. A big disappointment.
RealAudio clip: "Second Walk (Taylor Deupree Remix)"

GOEM Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat) cd 15.98
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Goem's austere post-techno explorations have taken this Dutch trio (Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop, and Peter Duimelinks) into a realm subaudible tones and muffled static rhythms on this effort. Their entry in the well-regarded Mort Aux Vaches series of radio broadcasts brings them much closer to the Studio 1 sound that Wolfgang Voigt pioneered with Mike Ink / M:1:5. Monochrome pulses phase through various EQ settings and knob twiddling effects that could easily make this pass for a release on Kompakt. It may thus be not surprising to learn that the source material for the final cut originated from Mr. Voigt himself!

GOEM Punik (Staalplaat) cd 11.98
Kick ass packaging aside (well over 1200 holes punched into cardstock and etched jewel case, so be careful!), Goem's "Punik" is one of the more interesting releases in the current deluge of lowercase / post-techno albums. Using a Student Simulator (simply qualified as a device used in medical school, for what, we don't really know) and a broken Doctor Rhythm drum machine triggering Boucle synthesizers at Stockholm's EMS Studios, "Punik" percolates with electron squiggles and ping-pong motorik slabs of rhythm, that could be the sound equal to Bridget Riley's Op-Art modernism.

GOLD CHAINS Live At The Beta Lounge (MX Entertainment) dvd 19.98
Presented for your party pleasure: this DVD compiles a performance by righteous party-monger Gold Chains at San Francisco's Beta Lounge, along with plenty of extra videos and live performances, including the awesome "I Come From San Francisco" video, shot on a BART train! Locals: look for yourself and your friends in the videos. Out-of towners: experience the magic of a Gold Chains show from the comfort of your living room. The live at Beta Lounge portion comes peppered by unfortunate amounts of clean-cut white girls in flygirl pose mode and art-school graduate ghetto parody, but Gold Chains himself puts on a helluva show as always, making the most uptight of booties shake and temporarily redeeming the white-boy indie-electronic hip-hop genre (at least until the next time I'm reminded of the existence of Cex). Although it's funny; I know I was pretty drunk that night, but I remember the show being totally crazy, like crowd surfing, buckets of sweat, jam-packed dance-your-ass-off crazy. Somehow, the video doesn't quite seem to convey the mayhem. Perhaps the filming would have benefitted from another approach, or maybe I was just more wasted than I realized. Hmmm.

GOLD CHAINS Straight From Your Radio (Tigerbeat6) cd 9.98
Who rocks the parti? Local darling Gold Chains cracks the whip with five new dancefloor hotties giving a heads up to the Cologne and Berlin Schaffelfieber sound. Having travelled the world in his brief career as Gold Chains, Topher Lafata has absorbed the sounds of other lands to craft his own brand of electrosonic hiphop thunder. Following on his acclaimed debut for Orthlorng Musork, "Straight From Your Radio" is another brief encounter with the hard beat mystic nonmaterialistic witch doctor. Each track is very distinct from the next from the rubbery bass of the lead off track to the absurd cootchie song. So silly and repetitious, it lyrically reminded me of Snow's "The Informer" from '93. Continuing on, "Let's Make It" pumps out the big beats Sweet and Gary Glitter style. Y'know those thumpin' '70s enormo-party anthems! He even does a reworking of Samhain's "Human Pony Girl"! Come join the caravan...
RealAudio clip: "I Treat Your Cootchie Like A Maze"
RealAudio clip: "Let's Make It"
RealAudio clip: "Human Pony Girl"

GOLD CHAINS Straight From Your Radio (Tigerbeat6) 12" 9.98
Who rocks the parti? Local darling Gold Chains cracks the whip with five new dancefloor hotties giving a heads up to the Cologne and Berlin Schaffelfieber sound. Having travelled the world in his brief career as Gold Chains, Topher Lafata has absorbed the sounds of other lands to craft his own brand of electrosonic hiphop thunder. Following on his acclaimed debut for Orthlorng Musork, "Straight From Your Radio" is another brief encounter with the hard beat mystic nonmaterialistic witch doctor. Each track is very distinct from the next from the rubbery bass of the lead off track to the absurd cootchie song. So silly and repetitious, it lyrically reminded me of Snow's "The Informer" from '93. Continuing on, "Let's Make It" pumps out the big beats Sweet and Gary Glitter style. Y'know those thumpin' '70s enormo-party anthems! He even does a reworking of Samhain's "Human Pony Girl"! Come join the caravan...
RealAudio clip: "I Treat Your Cootchie Like A Maze"
RealAudio clip: "Let's Make It"
RealAudio clip: "Human Pony Girl"

GOLD CHAINS The Game (PIAS) 12" 7.98
Don't call Gold Chains a player, he's in love with you. And don't call him played out, 'cause this single is another evolutionary step for the genre twisting, scruffy-voiced laptop MC. Broken electric funk and tech-hop beats infuse one of Gold Chains catchiest, best-produced (and that's saying a lot) tracks to date. Features a hectic pitched-up remix by Kit Clayton, and a groovy house-ier mix by Luomo (aka Vladislav Delay).

GOLD CHAINS Young Miss America (Pias America) cd 15.98
Gold Chains' new album is again a kick ass, completely weird hybrid of hip hop and bedroom electronics so over the top and colorful that it demands a lot of attention. Not as completely catchy as his selftitled debut, this is still exciting and a fun listen. And check out "Break or Be Broken", decidedly non hip hop love song with pretty rock chord progressions, a good direction for Gold Chains.
MPEG Stream: "Young Miss America"
MPEG Stream: "Break or Be Broken"

GOLD CHAINS & SUE CIE When The World Was Our Friend (Kill Rock Stars) cd 14.98
SF indie hip-hop artist Gold Chains brings it again! Rocking a more earnest and cynical parti... When The World Was Our Friend offers up more broken electric funk and tech-hop beats for fans of previous albums, though on a slightly darker and harder note. Congruent to its title, the album is less hoochies in thongs sippin champagne in the hot tub, and more holy shit man what the fuck is going on. More emphasized this time around is frequent collaborator Sue Cie, singing a generous amount of the tracks. When The World definitely pushes Gold Chains into a different realm. Looking forward to it being pushed even harder!
MPEG Stream: "Better Together"
MPEG Stream: "Come To Cali"

GOLD CHAINS & SUE CIE When The World Was Our Friend (Kill Rock Stars) lp 15.98
SF hip-hop artist Gold Chains brings it again! Rocking a more earnest and cynical parti... When The World Was Our Friend offers up more broken electric funk and tech-hop beats for fans of previous albums, though on a slightly darker and harder note. Congruent to its title, the album is less hoochies in thongs sippin champagne in the hot tub, and more holy shit man what the fuck is going on. More emphasized this time around is frequent collaborator Sue Cie, singing a generous amount of the tracks. When The World definitely pushes Gold Chains into a different realm. Looking forward to it being pushed even harder!
MPEG Stream: "Better Together"
MPEG Stream: "Come To Cali"

GOLDEN BOY WITH MISS KITTIN 'Or' (Emperor Norton) cd 15.98
Domestic release of the lp by Zurich tech house artist Stefan Altenburger aka Golden Boy. Originally issued by Ladomat in 2001, the folks at Emperor Norton repackaged the whole affair with new artwork by photographer Jules Spinatsch and two bonus cuts. Features the instantly charming vocoder track "Campari Soda" and six cuts with a much tamer Miss Kittin on vocals.

GOLDIE Goldie.co.uk: A Drum & Bass DJ Mix (Moonshine) cd 15.98

GOLDIE Satrunzreturn (ffrr) 2cd 15.98
You know, it is really pitiful that because of the huge amount of press coverage Goldie's new album is going to receive (mainstream music critics not knowing or caring about the difference between a good and a bad record anyway), many folks who haven't heard Jungle yet are going to give this album one listen and dismiss the whole genre. We really TRIED to review this cd for you but found it impossible to get past the first track, "Mother", whose initial 26 minutes consist of (let's face it) wimpy monkish vocalizing over whooshy synthesized atmospherics. When the beats kick in after that interminable intro, they are so egregiously uncompelling and boring that we screamed in frustration. And the track is ONE HOUR LONG. And then the second disc begins with Goldie "rapping" only it's really really bad, so we're sorry but... AQ cannot recoommend this record. Well, actually, Roni Size fans might like it.

GONZALES, CHILLY Entertainist (Kitty Yo) cd 15.98
God, this sucks ass. Only if you really liked him at the recent Peaches live show will you probably want this. With names like Patric Catani (EC8OR), Bomb 20 and even Peaches given production credits (and even a L'Trimm sample!), you'd hope for a decent record, but the godawful lyrics are just so damn bad.

GONZALEZ, DELIA & GAVIN RUSSOM Relevee (Astralwerks) cd ep 7.98
Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom's alchemic synthesizer excursions invoking 70's Klaus Schulze/Manuel Gottsching/Tangerine Dream's long-form synth-prog efforts get the remix treatment on this single. What you get is an alternate take and 3 remixes of the song "Relevee" from their self-titled full length on DFA. The remixers are DFA (of course), Baby Ford ('80s acid-house, anyone?) and the minimalist house of Carl Craig, whose latest remixes, this and his remix of Rhythm and Sound's "Poor People Must Work" is actually making us enjoy house music. Which, as you well know, is quite a feat around here.
MPEG Stream: "Relevee (Alternate Version)"
MPEG Stream: "Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)"

GONZALEZ, DELIA & GAVIN RUSSOM The Days Of Mars (Astralwerks / DFA) cd 16.98
Somehow missed this when it came out last year. But with Delia & Gavin being recent Arthur Magazine cover stars we figured we should get on the ball. Some of us remember hearing a 12" of theirs on DFA that stood out as it was really like nothing else on the label. These weren't sounds interested in making you dance and shaking your ass, instead they were about creating a trance, a hypnotizing, tranquil and space-bound dreamlike state. The album takes the same approach and even widens and propels its effect. With 5 long songs that will no doubt make you think of the best of Tangerine Dream. So entrancing and mesmerizing. The Days of Mars sort of sounds like trying to travel to outer space in an old helicopter that rises ever so slowly with its rotors going around and around, an analog starship travelling through some druggy digital universe. Taking cues from lots of the best of 70's electronic minded ambient recordings, like the collaborations between Eno & Cluster, as well as the most spaced out moments of pre-Wall Pink Floyd, this is a record that totally nails its sound so well. Something so mesmerizing, empty, and creepy about its presence. There have been times near closing hour where there will be just one person in the store and this will be on and there's just the weirdest tension that begins to permeate the store. Like a film loop of a acid drenched washed out kodachrome shot image that you can't stop staring at. This is the sound of hours after the rave, days of being awake, nights of being in a complete daze. A late night early morning eyes wide shut dreamstate blissout for sure! We are hooked!
MPEG Stream: "Relevee"
MPEG Stream: "Black Spring"

GOODIEPAL Narc Beacon (Skipp) cd 15.98
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Goodiepal is an extremely shy young man from Denmark who plays gleefully bent music that teeters on the fringes of experimental electronica (ala Mego) and Scandinavian flavored folk music. A collector of unusually tweaked and jagged sounds, Goodiepal maintains a day job independently contracting sound work from companies like Nokia, Chupa Chups, Hitachi, Carlsberg, Matrix, blah blah blah... Anyway, the music itself disguises a dissonant, troublemaking problem child with wide-eyed innocence as captivating as it is irritating. To confuse even further, he records under aliases like Chupa Chups and Mainpal Inv. and collaborates with the Italian Gamers In Exile and those V/VM pranksters. From dreamy, otherworldly arrangements involving acoustic guitars, resonating chimes, car horns, toy recorders and other wind instruments to a brilliantly conceived acapella track performed through a vocoder, Goodiepal brings back a Jean Jacques Perry or Electric Company (the old TV program, mind you) feel to inspire a new, inventive, and playful electronic music. After I first put this on, I looked again inside the cardboard package to see if there was a toy prize! On Dat Politics' own label Skipp!
RealAudio clip: "Icon Dub"
RealAudio clip: "Lick Lick Flick Flick"
RealAudio clip: "My Robotic Skills Have Failed"

GORILLAZ Demon Days (EMI) cd 17.98
Some changes have taken place in the Gorillaz 'virtual band' ranks since their wildly popular, super vibrant and fun self-titled debut in 2000. That album was a wholly collaborative effort between Blur-man Damon Albarn, man-of-many-hats Dan The Automator, and cartoon illustrator Jamie Hewlett along with contributions from Miho Hatori, Ibrahim Ferrer and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. For one thing, Mr. Automator has left the clubhouse, leaving Albarn as the lone lord of the musical manor. An immediate clue-in to the contrast between 'old' and 'new' Gorillaz can be read in the album's title and seen in Hewlett's latest Gorillaz' illustrations. He continues to provide the visual representation of the group, but his former palette of playful cartoonish hues have been replaced by the darker tones found in the more mature subject matter of graphic novels -- a suitable match for the headier undertones of the music. On the cover characters' faces there's nothing but grimaces and suspicious scowls. When we heard that Danger Mouse was slipping into the production control seat formerly occupied by The Automator, we were expecting some manner of radical changes in the Gorillaz's actual sound -- perhaps a little wilder approach or sumthin'? -- but it's really not that drastic of a departure from their past recordings. No, the primary difference is in the album's moodier undercurrent. Whereas the conceptual and sonic effervescence of its predecessor offered a sense of escapism, once you delve beneath the shiny pop surface of Demon Days, things feel somewhat more claustrophobic, sinister and foreboding. Guests this time include Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder (!), London Community Gospel Choir, San Fernandez Youth Chorus and even Dennis Hopper! Dig it!
MPEG Stream: "Last Living Souls"
MPEG Stream: "Dare"

GORILLAZ G Sides (Virgin) cd 15.98
Well they certainly didn't make it easy to figure the whys and wherefore of this companion to the proper Gorillaz album. It looks like a bunch of remixes, alternate version, and songs that didn't make it onto the other album. It's decent and listenable, even if the remix of "19-2000" reminds Allan of the Spin Doctors!
RealAudio clip: "19-2000 (Soulchild remix)"
RealAudio clip: "Faust"

GORILLAZ s/t (Virgin) cd 17.98
Previously import only, now available domestically for like $8 less! Gorillaz is a project of AQ-pal Dan the Automator (Dr. Octagon, Deltron 3030) with guests Damon Albarn (Blur), Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club), and Del tha Funky Homosapien! Sounds exactly like you'd think it would (assuming you'd think it would sound mostly like Blur, with little hip hop flourishes), with Dan's funkified hip hop under a layer of Albarn's slightly mopey vocals. (The tracks with Del on the mic are much more successful.) This already sold over a million copies in Europe; way to go Dan!
RealAudio clip: "Sound Check"
RealAudio clip: "Double Bass"

GREATER THAN ONE Kill The Pedagogue (Brainwashed) cd 9.98
When this arrived in the shop, there was a collective cry,"Whoa, Greater Than One? What ever happened to them?" Well, it turns out that the once prolific industrial dance duo ceased to be after Lee Newman died of cancer in 1995. While the pairing of Lee Newman and Michael Wells had a handful of fantastic if agitated Greater Than One albums that graced the Wax Trax! catalogue throughout the late '80s and early '90s, they were also a leading proponent of the bleep techno sound that marked the early incarnation of Warp Records in recording as Tricky Disco. Needless to say, Kill The Pedagogue predates all of that stuff, having been originally released back in 1985 as a self-released cassette. Greater Than One had much more in common with the rhythm and noise collages of Throbbing Gristle and TG's many disciples (esp. Hunting Lodge, Portion Control, and Hula) through distorted tape loops, media samples disfigured through warbling varispeed tricks, and post-Cabaret Voltaire drum machines pushed toward exhaustion with their tumbling patterns of tribal rhythms. Given that the original cassette was a mere 28 minutes long, those fine folks at Brainwashed filled out the disc with MP3s including all of the material from another self-released cassette from back in the day called Lay Your Penis Down plus a bunch of photos and the like.
MPEG Stream: "Kill The Pedagogue 1"
MPEG Stream: "Lay Your Penis Down 1"

GREEN, PETER Macbeth: An Original Score (Rephlex) cd 9.98
British electro-acoustic artist Peter Green is best known for his collaborations with Mike Dred, Virtual Farmer and Laptop Dancing (both on Rephlex). This original score was commissioned by the United Spirits Theatre Company for the latest West End production of Macbeth. Not too impressive, sort of ambient electro-acoustic soundtracky stuff. Mediocre.

GRIDLOCK Trace (Unit) cd 14.98
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Having roots in EBM and industrial dance klang, Gridlock's "Trace" settles down into the fertile soil of IDM plowed by Autechre. While not much in the way of originality, this album is a very well done piece of IDM, mirroring the distorto-crunch plodding breakbeats and minor-key half melodies pleading for melancholia found on Autechre's "Amber" and Bola's "Fyuti."
MPEG Stream: "Front"

GROOVES issue #9 magazine 4.95
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Read about Amon Tobin, Christian Fennesz, Mum, Negativland, Suicide, Rosy Parlane, Wobbly, Ikue Mori, Goodiepal, and lots more in this ninth issue of the ever thicker and slicker "experimental electronic music magazine" Grooves. Music *and* gear reviews fill out the pages, making this good reading for both electronica consumers and producers.

GROUND ZERO Conflagration (CreativeMan Disc) cd 17.98
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The second in a series of three, this features remixes of Ground Zero's Consume Red disc. Bob Ostertag, Violent Onsen Geisha, Gastr del Sol, Stock Hausen & Walkman and others participate.

GROUND ZERO Consummation (Creativeman Disc) cd 17.98
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The third volume of the three-part "Consume Ground Zero" project--this is the one which consists of "remixes" derived from volumes one and two, submitted by the general public and selected for this release. An international line-up of names neither you nor I have probably ever heard of before (Art Karaoke, Stomach Oh-Yeah, DJ Smallcock, Xonk, etc.) except of course for celebrated AQ-pals Matmos who also make an appearance here. Japanese digipak import.

GROUND ZERO Gig - Last Concert (Amoebic) cd 18.98
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March 8, 1998 was the date of the final performace of Otomo Yoshihide's turntable/improv-jazz outfit, Ground Zero, with a huge ensemble backing him (Sachiko M, Hirose Jyunji, Kikuchi Naruyoshi, Okura Masahiko, Chino Syuichi, Masuno Tatsuki, Nagata Kazuano, Nasuno Mitsuru, Uemura Masahiro, Yoshigaki Yasuhiro, and Kondo Yoshiaki). The first two tracks are Ground Zero's speed-jazz-noise assaults pretty close to Painkiller and Naked City playing at the same time. While the last is the breathtakingly hypnotic Consume Red of super slow moving turntable rumble with almost Egyptian-reed-like flares of horns.

GROUND ZERO Null and Void (Tzadik) cd 15.98
Otomo Yoshihide, the Japanese sampling dynamo, leads this 6-piece band in some creative jumpcuts.

GROUND ZERO Plays Standards (DIW) cd 21.00
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Yay! After being out of print for the last couple of years, this fantastic album has finally been reissued! Unfortunately it's not a domestic reissue, so the price tag is still import-high. But it's well worth the $, being one of our very favorite discs by Otomo Yoshihide's amazing sampling/noise/jazz outfit Ground Zero. This one's all covers, Ground Zero interpretations of tunes as far ranging as Massacre's "Bones" to John Philip Sousa's "Washington Post March", Omoide Hatoba to Burt Bacharach... Includes liner notes in both English and Japanese explaining Otomo's reasons for doing each song. Great album, great band. If you missed it the first time, get it now!!
RealAudio clip: "A Better Tomorrow + I Say A Little Prayer "

GROUND ZERO / BASTARD (Pandemonium) 7" 3.99
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GZ: One long, live track. Heavy on the sampling mayhem and turntable fuckery.
B: Truly bizarre, repetitive, turntablized hypno-rock.

GRY WITH FM EINHEIT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Public Recordings (FM 4.5.1) cd 14.98
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New project from FM Einheit (the muscleman / technician who left Neubauten a few years ago) Gry Bagoien and Einheit have collaborated to create a German cabaret version of Portishead full of tensely building left-field electronica. Gry whines and whispers with all of the theatricalities of Beth Gibbons with bossanova flares and Peter Thomas-like brash horns. Plus there are a handful of special guests: Funkstorung, Pan Sonic, Terranova, and Alexander Hacke.

GUENTNER, MARKUS 1981 (Kompakt) cd 15.98
We just can't get enough of this "pop ambient" stuff. This is exactly how the future will sound. And how the distant past must have sounded. And how right now would sound if we could just listen close enough. After a somewhat disappointing second album, Guentner returns to form with another gorgeous batch of crystalline ambient pop. A couple tracks are Kompakt gems of perfectly pulsing narcoticized dancefloor throb, but the majority are dreamy and whispery, drifting and abstract explorations into inner space. Crackly and fuzzy, warm and languid, everything with a dreamy sheen, slanted rays of the sun diffused into warm yellow clouds, every movement setting off a chain reaction, molecules bumping into one another, the sound of a trillion colliding molecules becoming a distant buzz that swells into warm waves of gentle whispers and barely there rhythms. Fish in the sea and birds in the sky move in perfect synchronicity, creating a simple insistent pulse, that suffuses every living creature, as we soon find that gradually we all begin to move in concert with this hidden heart beat. Rain drops ring like chimes as they hit the ground, each one a different size and color and note, like a million bells ringing at once, becoming a huge warm chord that just sort of spills over the horizon, spreading slowly until we're all floating weightless atop a slowly shifting sea of sound, letting ourselves blissfully sink to the bottom.
MPEG Stream: "Wanderung"
MPEG Stream: "Wenn Musik Der Liebe Nahrung Ist"

GUENTNER, MARKUS Audio Island (Ware) cd 14.98
Following the electro-ambient hush of "In Moll" which was released on Kompakt in 2001, Markus Guentner hits us with another album of pleasant tech house grooves that beefs up the drum machine and the Moroder-esque arppegiations for ample dancefloor booty shaking, but doesn't entirely remove the silken 'pop ambient' sub-genre that Kompakt has been pushing for the past 18 months or so. While a few of the tracks are pretty standard in their four-on-the-floor drum machine progressions, Guenter mixes things up with occasion nods to electro revivalism and to Shitkatapult shuffletime grooves, as well as an Ibiza house cover of Talk Talk's "It's A Shame"!!!
MPEG Stream: "Sunset"
MPEG Stream: "Such A Shame"

GUENTNER, MARKUS In Moll (Kompakt) cd 17.98
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Squelches and whirrs nestle in rolling hills of fuzzy dreamy drones as clicks and pops struggle for air beneath a downy blanket of suffocatingly gorgeous billowy clouds of synth wash. Sound good? It does.
It's German electronica artist Markus Guentner's debut cd for the Kompakt label. For those of you who don't know, the Kompakt label has developed an almost timeless aesthetic, not unlike the 'heroin house' sound of Chain Reaction. The Kompakt sound is an application of the often invoked but rarely successful working model of 'ambient techno'. A good example of this sort of thing that AQ-customers probably know about ('cause we sell so many of 'em) is the Wolfgang Voigt project Gas. His minimalist techno releases (in particular the Gas album "Konigsforst") are some of the few electronica albums that all Aquarians can agree on and strongly endorse.
In creating "In Moll," Markus Guentner has done more than his part to fill the void created by Voigt's unusual absence, with a disc that captures much of the feel we liked so much about the Gas records, a sort of dreamy melancholy that manages to be both wistful and hopeful, lonely and warm. Jeff thinks it has a real "change of seasons" vibe, that harkens, again, to Gas. And while the Gas comparison is surely accurate (if you haven't caught our drift already, let's state: fans of Gas should pick this up without a second thought!), Guenter does add his own flair to Voigt's signature sound though, creating a more varied and more dynamic soundscape than Voigt's pastoral hum and thump.
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 3"
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 5"
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 7"

GUENTNER, MARKUS In Moll (Kompakt) 2lp 16.98
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Another of our staff-chosen Records of the Week with a vinyl version now also available. Here's what we said in AQL#126 about this fabulous record: Squelches and whirrs nestle in rolling hills of fuzzy dreamy drones as clicks and pops struggle for air beneath a downy blanket of suffocatingly gorgeous billowy clouds of synth wash. Sound good? It does.
It's German electronica artist Markus Guentner's debut cd for the Kompakt label. For those of you who don't know, the Kompakt label has developed an almost timeless aesthetic, not unlike the 'heroin house' sound of Chain Reaction. The Kompakt sound is an application of the often invoked but rarely successful working model of 'ambient techno'. A good example of this sort of thing that AQ-customers probably know about ('cause we sell so many of 'em) is the Wolfgang Voigt project Gas. His minimalist techno releases (in particular the Gas album "Konigsforst") are some of the few electronica albums that all Aquarians can agree on and strongly endorse.
In creating "In Moll," Markus Guentner has done more than his part to fill the void created by Voigt's unusual absence, with a disc that captures much of the feel we liked so much about the Gas records, a sort of dreamy melancholy that manages to be both wistful and hopeful, lonely and warm. Jeff thinks it has a real "change of seasons" vibe, that harkens, again, to Gas. And while the Gas comparison is surely accurate (if you haven't caught our drift already, let's state: fans of Gas should pick this up without a second thought!), Guenter does add his own flair to Voigt's signature sound though, creating a more varied and more dynamic soundscape than Voigt's pastoral hum and thump.
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 3"
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 5"
RealAudio clip: "In Moll 7"

GUENTNER, MARKUS Regensburg / Remix (Kompakt) 12" 9.98
Four track ep by Markus Guentner, who brought us the lovely "In Moll" lp last year. Two tracks are remixes of the title track, by the dominating forces on the Cologne scene, Wolfgang Voigt and Michael Mayer.

GUERRERO, TOMMY A Little Bit Of Something (Mo Wax / Beggars Banquet) cd 14.98
San Francisco's Tommy Guerrero finds himself on Mo' Wax for "A Little Bit Of Something." And he's right at home, as this album recapitulates the blunted trip hop sound that put Mo' Wax on the map in the mid-90s with lots of groovy Spanish guitar licks and mellowed basslines. As pretty, mildly quirky, and downright inoffensive as the Margaret Kilgallen cover art.

GUERRERO, TOMMY Junk Collector (Mo'Wax) cd ep 8.98

GUERRERO, TOMMY Soul Food Taqueria (Mo Wax) cd 14.98