SCIENCE TEACHER Parallelism (Dynamophone) 3" cd-r box 8.98
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One of our fave new Bay Area indie labels Dynamophone close out 2007 with a fresh batch of aural treats. They are four installments in their limited edition 3" cd-r ep Parcel series by the likes of Science Teacher, Lullaby League, Curium and Sleep Robot. Chances are if you've been paying attention to our recent aQ lists you're probably already as enchanted with this label's richly atmospheric hazily dreamy roster as we are, and will welcome these four into your music collection. This one features three new ultra pretty (and non-academic!) numbers from The Science Teacher.
Don't delay though! Each release comes in a diminutive square cardboard box festooned with a full color cover art sticker, and is limited to 100 each. We only have a couple handfuls. Once they're gone, they're gone!
MPEG Stream: "Factory Flowers"

SCIENTIST At The Controls of Dub: Rare Dub 1979-1980 (Jamaican Recordings) cd 21.00

SCIENTIST Dub In the Roots Tradition (Blood & Fire) cd 16.98

SCIENTIST Dubs Culture Into A Parallel Universe (Ras) cd 15.98
Sadly this Scientist release is just okay, which is a disappointment because this is one of those dub albums with one of the more classic album covers -- this one featuring a D.C. comics-esque cover of Scientist and Culture (represented here as a single dred-locked super hero in a green jumper with a big yellow "C" on front) battling it out amongst the skyscrapers. The booklet includes an interview with Lady Souljah from KALX in Berkeley conducted via phone earlier this year.

SCIENTIST Encounters Pac-Man (Greensleeves) lp 14.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica - much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: features our hero being devoured (?) by a vicious metal Pac-Man in his control room. Behind the glass in the studio a collection of ghouls looks on gleefully. Will this be the end of Scientist? On the back cover there's an entire multi-panel cartoon precursor to this scene.
RealAudio clip: "Prince's Wrath"

SCIENTIST Heavy Metal Dub (Clock Tower) cd 11.98
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How can you resist a Scientist record called Heavy Metal Dub? Especially with some of THEE most amazing cover art ever, a musclebound barbarian, in reggae colored loincloth and boots, dreads sticking out from under his Viking helmet, wielding an exploding sword, standing on the wing of his red, green and yellow spaceship, there's also some aliens, some other spaceships, a weird flying reggae lollipop man, and of course 'Heavy Metal Dub' is written in a cool video game font. And oddly enough, the song titles mostly seem to reference Star Trek: "Having Fun With The Klingons", "Conversations With Khan", "Party Time On The Enterprise", "Dread In A Remulacks Dub", among others. You can't resist. So really, why even bother trying? Now here's the rub, there's nothing remotely heavy metal about this record at all outside of the cover. Even opener "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub", is just straight up classic Scientist dub, but hell, we're not complaining, cuz as far as dub records go, this one is a doozy, slithery basslines, minimal guitar, simple rhythms, bizarre wordless vocals, everything DUBBED to high heaven, the songs sounding like they started off as classic reggae jams, but the Scientist goes nuts, sending beats spinning into the ether, guitars spiraling into stuttering swirls, the whirring organs following suit, the tracks flitting from groovy laid back reggae to total tripped out psychedelic dub and back again.
And while that cover promised so so much, this is probably way better than any actual 'heavy metal dub' record could ever be anyway. At least that's what we keep telling ourselves...
MPEG Stream: "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub"
MPEG Stream: "Having Fun With Klingons"
MPEG Stream: "Rocking Time Warp Dub"

SCIENTIST Heavy Metal Dub (Clock Tower) lp 13.98
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How can you resist a Scientist record called Heavy Metal Dub? Especially with some of THEE most amazing cover art ever, a musclebound barbarian, in reggae colored loincloth and boots, dreads sticking out from under his Viking helmet, wielding an exploding sword, standing on the wing of his red, green and yellow spaceship, there's also some aliens, some other spaceships, a weird flying reggae lollipop man, and of course 'Heavy Metal Dub' is written in a cool video game font. And oddly enough, the song titles mostly seem to reference Star Trek: "Having Fun With The Kligons", "Conversations With Kahn", "Party Time On The Enterprise", "Dread In A Remulacks Dub", among others. You can't resist. So really, why even bother trying? Now here's the rub, there's nothing remotely heavy metal about this record at all outside of the cover. Even opener "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub", is just straight up classic Scientist dub, but hell, we're not complaining, cuz as far as dub records go, this one is a doozy, slithery basslines, minimal guitar, simple rhythms, bizarre wordless vocals, everything DUBBED to high heaven, the songs sounding like they started off as classic reggae jams, but the Scientist goes nuts, sending beats spinning into the ether, guitars spiraling into stuttering swirls, the whirring organs following suit, the tracks flitting from groovy laid back reggae to total tripped out psychedelic dub and back again.
And while that cover promised so so much, this is probably way better than any actual 'heavy metal dub' record could ever be anyway. At least that's what we keep telling ourselves...
MPEG Stream: "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub"
MPEG Stream: "Having Fun With Klingons"
MPEG Stream: "Rocking Time Warp Dub"

SCIENTIST Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) cd 14.98
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SCIENTIST Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: Features a victorious Scientist being carried out of a venue on the shoulders of his admirers to meet the throngs of the press and his green Rolls Royce limo. Track listing: Seconds Away, Straight Left, Upper Cut, Kidney Punch, Saved By The Bell, Right Cross, Jab, One - Two, Below the Belt and, of course KNOCK OUT.
RealAudio clip: "Seconds Away"

SCIENTIST Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Tectonic) 2cd 21.00
Oh man, is this a match made in heaven or what? Actually, more like a match made in outer space, or in whatever warped sonic reality dub legend Scientist calls home, a dozen killer dubstep jams, worked over by the master, already blissed out and skeletal, dubbed out and droney, bass heavy and skittery, Scientist takes those original jams and sends them careening into the cosmos. Much of the bass is stripped away, but the drums, oh the drums, they get the science like nobody's business, bouncing from speaker to speaker, stuttering, and hiccupping, everything wrapped in clouds of echo and delay, the original melodies pulled apart until they're just barely-there streaks of sound, the dubbiness already in full effect, gets cranked to 11, most of the vocals are buried, but little bits of vocals are doused in effects and spit into the ether, only to have them boomerang right back, dizzying and dazzling, spaced out and psychedelic, even the most minimal stripped down tracks take on new life via Scientist's golden touch, it's hard to explain just what it is he does, but you can hear it, and feel it, the sounds are more out there, or in there, the original tracks just the blueprint for the abstract work of dubbed out sonic art they were meant to become. Totally blissed out and hypnotic, and so so so good. Makes us want to hear EVERYTHING get the Scientist dub treatment, garage rock, black metal, whatever, anything and EVERYthing.
As a bonus, included is a second bonus disc, with all the original tracks, a pretty bad ass dubstep comp all on its own.
The whole thing comes packaged in an eye popping old school reggae/dub cartoon covered 8 panel digipak, depicting Scientist manning multiple spacecrafts, each with a cadre of dubsteppers as his crew. Awesome!
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS PINCH & EMIKA "2012 Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS SHACKLETON "Hackney Marshes Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS DISTANCE "Ill Kontent Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS KODE 9 & SPACEAPE "Abeng Dub"

SCIENTIST Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Originals) (Tectonic) 4lp 34.00
Vinyl version of the bonus disc that came with the Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space cd, featuring the UNmixed originals, the Scientist name and album title are definitely misleading, but this is a seriously kick ass dubstep comp regardless. If you're after the vinyl version of the Scientist mixes (and you should be), you can find that elsewhere on the aQ website...

SCIENTIST Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Scientist Mixes) (Tectonic) 2lp 22.00
NOW ON VINYL!!
Oh man, is this a match made in heaven or what? Actually, more like a match made in outer space, or in whatever warped sonic reality dub legend Scientist calls home, a dozen killer dubstep jams, from the likes of Pinch and Kode9 and Shackleton, worked over by the master, already blissed out and skeletal, dubbed out and droney, bass heavy and skittery, Scientist takes those original jams and sends them careening into the cosmos. Much of the bass is stripped away, but the drums, oh the drums, they get the science like nobody's business, bouncing from speaker to speaker, stuttering, and hiccupping, everything wrapped in clouds of echo and delay, the original melodies pulled apart until they're just barely-there streaks of sound, the dubbiness already in full effect, gets cranked to 11, most of the vocals are buried, but little bits of vocals are doused in effects and spit into the ether, only to have them boomerang right back, dizzying and dazzling, spaced out and psychedelic, even the most minimal stripped down tracks take on new life via Scientist's golden touch, it's hard to explain just what it is he does, but you can hear it, and feel it, the sounds are more out there, or in there, the original tracks just the blueprint for the abstract work of dubbed out sonic art they were meant to become. Totally blissed out and hypnotic, and so so so good. Makes us want to hear EVERYTHING get the Scientist dub treatment, garage rock, black metal, whatever, anything and EVERYthing.
The whole thing comes packaged in an eye popping old school reggae/dub cartoon covered jacket, depicting Scientist manning multiple spacecrafts, each with a cadre of dubsteppers as his crew. Awesome!
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS PINCH & EMIKA "2012 Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS SHACKLETON "Hackney Marshes Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS DISTANCE "Ill Kontent Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS KODE 9 & SPACEAPE "Abeng Dub"

SCIENTIST Meets the Roots Radics (Sound System) cd 12.98

SCIENTIST Meets the Roots Radics (Sound System) lp 14.98
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SCIENTIST Meets The Space Invaders (Greensleeves) cd 15.98
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SCIENTIST Meets The Space Invaders (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Yet another installment of Scientist-as-superhero LPs has arrived at Aquarius. Here's the skinny once again: Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica - much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: The Scientist wields not one, but two laser pistols while simultaneously kicking and shooting those pesky Space Invaders as onlookers run for cover. Meanwhile, a brave female accomplice takes out a big purple invader with a laser rifle. On the back cover is a cute drawing of a stand up video game console cum mixing board with the album's credits displayed on its screen.
RealAudio clip: "Beam Down"

SCIENTIST Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) cd 14.98
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The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these album reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Possibly the best album in this series, 'Rids the World...' utilizes the most effects and cut up wizardry in the bunch. Along with his usual bag of tricks, Scientist brings out what sound like rhythm boxes and loads them with so much effects as to turn them into proto-synthesizers. It's also the only title in this series that attempts to match the visual theme / title with an audio equivalent: "The Voodoo Curse", which starts the album, is full of ominous effects and several other tracks get vocal intros a la Lee Perry's "Vampire" requesting blood, and other stock horror intros including Mummies, Frankenstein, Werewolves and the living dead.
Cover note: features Scientist crashing a midnight monster party on his sound system loaded air boat. All your favorites are there: the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, and more. In the background is the Munster's house and tombstones cover the woods. Creeeeeepy!
Allan informs me to tell all you videogame fans that the reggae music on Grand Theft Auto 3's "Jah 1 Radio" for Playstation 2 is this entire album.

SCIENTIST Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Possibly the best album in this series, 'Rids the World...' utilizes the most effects and cut up wizardry in the bunch. Along with his usual bag of tricks, Scientist brings out what sound like rhythm boxes and loads them with so much effects as to turn them into proto-synthesizers. It's also the only title in this series that attempts to match the visual theme / title with an audio equivalent: "The Voodoo Curse", which starts the album, is full of ominous effects and several other tracks get vocal intros a la Lee Perry's "Vampire" requesting blood, and other stock horror intros including Mummies, Frankenstein, Werewolves and the living dead.
Cover note: features Scientist crashing a midnight monster party on his sound system loaded air boat. All your favorites are there: the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, and more. In the background is the Munster's house and tombstones cover the woods. Creeeeeepy!
Allan informs me to tell all you videogame fans that the reggae music on Grand Theft Auto 3's "Jah 1 Radio" for Playstation 2 is this entire album.
RealAudio clip: "Blood On His Lips"

SCIENTIST Scientist At The Controls Of Dub : Rare Dubs 1979-1980 (Jamaican Recordings) cd 14.98

SCIENTIST Step It Up (Select Cuts) 10" 11.98
Limited edition 10" from the second volume of Select Cuts From Blood & Fire. Features extended dub versions of both Black Star Liner and Dan Donovan of Dub Cartel's mixes for the compilation.

SCIENTIST Wins the World Cup (Greensleeves") lp 12.98
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Wow. Pretty advanced reissue job on this Scientist -- the engineer for King Tubby who later went on to out Tubby Tubby -- lp from 1982 . If you look at the back cover of this you'll see in the lower left hand corner that now ubiquitous "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo. But wait, this is an lp. Yep, some Jamaican company has taken to merely scanning the Greensleeves CD covers, themselves originally scanned from old lps, and reproducing the artwork without any adjustments for the format. In fact, they did a horrible job of cropping as well and the letters get cut off at the bottom... Or maybe they're just imitating them fancy pants design savvy labels like Warp and other clients of Designers Republic. It's got another one of those great cover that fits the Scientist-as-super-hero theme with our man scoring a goal against team whitey.

SCIENTIST Wins The World Cup (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: features a victorious Scientist knocking in the winning goal against team whitey. And yet there is one brother on whitey's team who's making a failed attempt to block Scientist's kick. Could this be a competing engineer? Former employer? Who knows.
RealAudio clip: "Ten Dangerous Matches"

SCIENTIST AND PRINCE JAMMY Strike Back (Trojan) cd 14.98
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This good album was recorded in 1982 (two years after the "Big Showdown") at Channel One and King Tubby's, with the Roots Radics band supplying the rhythms. Yet another classic album of dub, and made more so by its ridiculous cover art (featured in the Jamaican music cover art book Stir It Up): an amalgam of images from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Battle Star Galactica, and Flash Gordon. Plus the song titles are hard to beat: "C-3PO + R2D2 = The Force", "The Crushing Of The Stormtroopers", "Buck Rogers In The Black Hole" and more. But no, you won't find any science fiction references in the music, just straight up dub. A final word of warning because I know some of you have concerns about dub and vocals, there are a few brief moments of singing on this album, albeit only at the beginnings of songs, so if that rubs your hiney the wrong way, then steer clear of this.

SCIENTIST VS. PRINCE JAMMY Big Showdown At King Tubby's (Greensleeves) cd 17.98
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Another great Jamaican dub reissue, this one from 1980. Two heavyweights battle it out in the studio with mixers and microphones. Ten tracks of the Roots Radics band alternately dubbed by Scientist and Prince Jammy and renamed Round 1, 2, etc. A description would not be complete here without mentioning the cover, which features a drawing of the two fighters in a boxing ring and sitting at their mixing consoles in each corner. The Scientist even has a bunson burner heating up some green liquid in a beaker atop his mixer. Highly recommended!

SCIENTIST VS. PRINCE JAMMY Big Showdown At King Tubby's (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Even though it was just a gimmicky way of doing a split LP by Greensleeves, I still find myself asking who the winner is of this faux boxing match between two of King Tubby's greatest proteges. There is no loser of course, but you can take this home and compare the pair's dubbing stlyles as they go through all ten rounds back to back.
Cover art note: features a drawing of the two fighters in a boxing ring loaded with speakers around its sides and sitting at their mixing consoles in each corner. The Scientist even has a bunson burner heating up some green liquid in a beaker atop his mixer.
RealAudio clip: "Round 1"

SCIENTISTS Sedition (ATP) cd 15.98

MPEG Stream: "Swampland"
MPEG Stream: "Burnout"
MPEG Stream: "Solid Gold Hell"

SCIENTISTS This Is My Happy Hour (Cherry Red Phonograph) lp 33.00

SCIENTISTS This Is My Happy Hour (Cherry Red Phonograph) lp 33.00

SCIENTISTS, THE Frantic Romantic (Agitated Records) 7" 10.98
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Originally released on Record Store Day, this little Aussie power pop / post punk gem is now available again, in a non Record Store Day version, it's a repress of the original debut 7" from legendary Australian punks The Scientists, originally released in 1979, this still sounds as great as ever, and more shockingly, it really shines a light on the current crop of retro poppers and how beholden they really are to what came before, and how what came before is SO MUCH BETTER. These two jams KILL, the A side is a timeless chunk of swaggery punky pop, snarly vox, big crashing guitars, surprisingly buys drums and some drop dead hooks, the B side too, a little bit glammier, but still snarly and swaggery and totally untouchable.
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MPEG Stream: "Frantic Romantic"

SCIENTISTS, THE Pissed On Another Planet (Sympathy For The Record Industry) cd 16.98

SCIENTISTS, THE Rubber Never Sleeps (Bang! Records) 2lp 33.00
Holy crap, this long circulated bootleg, originally released in the early eighties as a crazy limited unofficial cassette, has now been remastered and reissued as a super deluxe double lp. Capturing a classic period in the early years of these Aussie post punks, four sides of swaggery, snarly, swampy garage punk action, the sound delivered in varying degrees of fidelity, it was bootleg after all, but all the tracks here rule, loose and ramshackle, sloppy and wild, unhinged and fuzzed out and catchy as hell, a bunch of cool covers too, Alex Chilton, Chuck Berry, the Troggs, some rarities but also some Scientists classics. All recorded between the late seventies and early eighties, and sounding way better than any of the versions you might have dug up on some blog.
Pressed on 150 gram vinyl, housed in a thick full color gatefold sleeve (with printed innersleeves), featuring lots of rare photos, and extensive liner notes from various Scientists, all telling wild tales of back in the day!
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SCION Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks (Tresor) cd 16.98
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Basic Channel -- the Berlin-based techno label run by Mortiz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus from 1993 - 1995 -- released only 9 singles and 1 retrospective cd; yet, the impact that Basic Channel had upon the global techno and electronica communities has been tremendous. It's probably safe to say that any self-respecting techno DJ has a couple of the Basic Channel 12"s thoroughly smeared with grimy fingerprints from years of use. Jerome Maunsell in describing Basic Channel for The Wire rightly qualified it as "the Holy Grail of Techno." The sound of Basic Channel ripples with precedents from Lee Perry's schizoid rewiring of tape through his delay pedals to the cocaine-induced mania / paranoia of late 80's Acid House to the skeletal vacancy of Detroit Techno; however, Basic Channel (like its contemporary descendent Chain Reaction) has an unmistakeable signature. Monochromatic, metallic synth stabs cascade through rhythmically precise delay patterns alongside the unrelenting force of a very simple 909 four on the floor techno stomp - often just a huge basskick and an off-beat ride cymbal or hi-hat.
For this album, Chain Reactionists Scion (Pete Kuschnereit aka Substance and Rene Loewe aka Vainqueur) were given free access to the Basic Channel back catalogue to create a continuous mixed cd with the help of Ableton's 'live' audio software. The results do not stray far from the original sound, even though multiple Basic Channel tracks have been woven into various sections of the album. And even almost a decade after their original inception, these cuts still sound amazing and fresh!
RealAudio clip: "Part 3"
RealAudio clip: "Part 6"
RealAudio clip: "Part 7"

SCIORTINO, PATRICE Chronoradial (The Omni Recording Corporation) cd 17.98
Last time, we reviewed The Omni Corporation's reissue of a wonderful rare "library music" album entitled Omega 2000 by German composer Peter Thomas and his "Orchestra". Those diligent diggers at Omni Corp. have another one along those lines for us this week, again a '70s library music collection, from the much less well known name of Patrice Sciortino. Can't believe this is the first we've heard of the man and his music, considering that this stuff sounds something like the more outre of Morricone efforts, pretty darn cool. And apparently, there's plenty more where this came from. Wow, thanks Omni!!
Sciortino is classically trained French musician, born in 1922, who eventually established a career in the '60s/'70s as a prolific and somewhat peculiar composer, with, eventually, many obscure recordings to his credit. He's also a poet and playwright. With an interest in both non-Western musics and the most avant-garde of electronics (he studied at GRM), his musical vision, as displayed here, is unusual and otherworldly.
Where that Orchestra Peter Thomas disc was groovy and funky, all about the big bombastic beats, this Sciortino stuff is much more atmospheric and academic sounding... it's like 20th century classical gone soundtrack wacky. Imagine Bernard Herrmann (of Psycho fame) meets Carl Stalling (of Warner Bros. cartoons fame). Or Luigi Nono writing music for TV shows. His music is sometimes ominous, sometimes uplifting, offering plenty of percussive exotica, chimings and tinklings, with shuddering, sawing cello and eerie wordless female vocals. And occasional echo effects intensifying the rhythms.
This disc comprises Sciortino's entire, intriguing 1970 album Chronoradial, plus extensive selections from three different 10" records of his belonging to a library music series out by the Musique Pour L'Image label circa 1967-1968. There's 36 tracks here in all, many of them jittery and unsettling, suspenseful and nervous - but others lively, joyous and beautiful.
Nicely done, in typical Omni fashion, the cd booklet full of informative liner notes, and awesome freaky black and white artwork from the original lps - love that raccoon-like creature with the clocks for eyes!! Quite recommended.
MPEG Stream: "Kuklos I"
MPEG Stream: "Horizons Roses"
MPEG Stream: "Tumulte"
MPEG Stream: "Forage"

SCIORTINO, PATRICE Percupulsions / Gymnorythmies 1 (Omni) cd 17.98
A while back, we highlighted an Omni label reissue of a pretty cool album called Chronoradial, some way-out library music from the late sixties/early seventies by avant-garde French composer Patrice Sciortino, which we likened to "20th century classical gone soundtrack wacky". Some months later, Omni released a follow-up second volume with more of Sciortino's works, which we're finally now listing as well. That's this disc, featuring two whole Sciortino albums: Percupulsions, from 1970, and 1975's Gymnorythmies/1, plus a few extra bonus cuts taken from a couple other Sciortino lps of the era - 43 tracks in all!
Percupulsions - what a great title, it sounds like a word we'd have coined to describe it - is of course very rhythmic, with classical percussionists gracefully navigating jazzy compositions that also incorporate harspsichord and tape manipulation, a soundscape that's melodic and playful - and rather strange and sinister too. Gymnorythmies/1 is likewise full of quirky movement and joy, being meant to accompany modern dance and gymnastics exercises (a instructional booklet with diagrams of dances was included with the original lp release!). Pretty neat, recommended to folks who liked Chronoradial or Omni's other arty European '70s library music reissues, such as those lps by Egisto Macchi.
MPEG Stream: "Fonderurgie"
MPEG Stream: "Para-Docks"
MPEG Stream: "Exercices Avec Cerecaux No.1"
MPEG Stream: "Exercices Avec Cerecaux No.2"

SCISSOR GIRLS Staticland (Load) 10" 7.98
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Snappy new ep from female Chicago no-wave band often described as the Raincoats meet Melt Banana.

SCISSOR SISTERS Night Work (Polydor) cd 12.98
The Robert Mapelthorp cover art is our favorite part.

SCISSOR SISTERS s/t (Universal) cd 15.98
The current flavor of the day in the music scenester hype parade seems to be the Scissor Sisters, and they're definitely receiving the love 'em / hate 'em reception around AQ (more so the latter actually). The lovers aren't going to give a poop what we say, and likewise, the haters. Nonetheless, here's our take on this album...
An ultra party affair, a mishmash of already mishmashy genres such as faux soul, glammy rock, disco drag, and poncy new romantic! The album as a whole sorta made many of us think it was a 2004 remake of the Flashdance soundtrack complete with a "Maniac"-style aerobics class-ready track (see "Music Is The Victim"). Think of Scissor Sisters as plugging into a similarly contrived, irony-heavy, nostalgic vein as the combined excessively stylized and slickly produced forces of The Darkness and Fischerspooner. Sound good to you? Will probably be filed in many record libraries under "guilty pleasure".
MPEG Stream: "Laura"
MPEG Stream: "Music Is The Victim"

SCISSORFIGHT Death Chants, Break Downs, and Military Waltzes Vol 2 (Tortuga) cd 11.98

SCISSORS FOR LEFTY Bruno (self-released) cd 5.98

SCISSORS FOR LEFTY Underhanded Romance (Eenie Meenie) cd 14.98
Take a healthy dose of the Brit rock swagger of Pulp, some Canadian earnest buoyancy a la Hot Hot Heat and a bit of the New York rawk slouch of The Strokes, mix well. Then give'r all a blast of Bay Area sun-kissed breeziness and you might find yourself cuttin' a rug with Scissors For Lefty. Unlike many of their contemporaries whose dance rock tunes are simply one dimensional repetitions of a so-so melodic line that rely heavily on the button-pushing 4/4 thump to do all the work for 'em, Scissors For Lefty's equally dancefloor worthy tracks are full-fledged songs that actually go somewhere, following charmingly witty story arcs. If they ever remake the movie Valley Girl, the album's ninth song "Got Your Moments" should be first in line to appear on the soundtrack! Fun!
MPEG Stream: "Nickels And Dimes"
MPEG Stream: "Got Your Moments"

SCORCES (Wholly Other) cd 13.98
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Scorces is an improvised drone collaboration between Christina of Charalambides and Heather of Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast. The album starts off on the right foot with an extended drone from dualling organ chords, sweeping sustained vocals, and bells, sounding much like the Hermann Nitsch "Harmoniumwerk" pieces. Yet Sconces falters some thirty minutes into the recording with the vocals turning from a distant wail to a far too present hysterical shriek.

SCORCH TRIO Brolt! (Rune Grammofon) cd 17.98
The aptly-named Scorch Trio is back with another blast of electric guitar fueled n' frenzied Nordic free improv on the Rune Grammofon label. If you liked their previous 3 or 4 discs on Rune G, or the recent Box album featuring Scorch Trio guitarist Raul Bjorkenheim, you're probably eager to grapple with Brolt! Likewise if you're into similar sorts of "dangerous jazz" from, say, Nels Cline's various bands. Yeah, it IS jazz, but with plenty of sharp electric edges and dense drum-battery. While jazz vet Bjorkenheim's six string scorchin' deserves top billing (and he also cranks the electric viola da gimbri), the other 2/3rds of this power trio make plenty of noise too: Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (electric bass, electronics) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums & percussion), both of whom also play in "garage-jazz" freakout combo The Thing with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson.
Track one gets into skonky-rhythmic territory that recalls the spazz-prog of Japan's Tatsuya Yoshida before it's over, while the next one delves into more atmospheric, textural zones a la Supersilent. And so it goes, the whole album chock full of skree-filled soundscapes veering from the moody to energetic.
MPEG Stream: "Olstra"
MPEG Stream: "Gaba"

SCORCH TRIO Luggumt (Rune Grammofon) cd 16.98
Such a good name for this band! At least right from the get-go with the slash and burn 12-minute opening track it sure seems appropriate. That's some searing and scorching electric guitar there! The album closes with another double-digit epic as well, and in between the trio of guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim, bassist Haker Flaten and percussionist Paal Nilsen-Love do let up and explore a variety of grooves and moods, from ominous textural soundscaping, to roiling slide workouts, to y'know, burbling sorta melodic stuff that might pass for 'jazz' of the highball-in-hand, nightclub variety. Although, the electric element of about-to-explode skronk always seems just under the surface. Fans of Nels Cline's various bands know the feeling, and ought to enjoy Bjorkenheim and co.'s own, similar brand of 'dangerous' electric jazz... Heck the type of AQ customer for whom names like Cline, Sharrock, Russell, McLaughlin, Takayanagi, and the like mean something (and occupy a portion of their record collection) stand a good chance of being quite happy if they give this a listen. All of those are all individually quite different of course but it's that rock-aware, energetic and amplified style of electric guitar improv (with dense guitar/bass/drums interplay) that this fits right in with, y'know.
MPEG Stream: "Kjole Hole"
MPEG Stream: "Furskunjt"

SCORCH TRIO Luggumt (Rune Grammofon) 2lp 27.00
NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Such a good name for this band! At least right from the get-go with the slash and burn 12-minute opening track it sure seems appropriate. That's some searing and scorching electric guitar there! The album closes with another double-digit epic as well, and in between the trio of guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim, bassist Haker Flaten and percussionist Paal Nilsen-Love do let up and explore a variety of grooves and moods, from ominous textural soundscaping, to roiling slide workouts, to y'know, burbling sorta melodic stuff that might pass for 'jazz' of the highball-in-hand, nightclub variety. Although, the electric element of about-to-explode skronk always seems just under the surface. Fans of Nels Cline's various bands know the feeling, and ought to enjoy Bjorkenheim and co.'s own, similar brand of 'dangerous' electric jazz... Heck the type of AQ customer for whom names like Cline, Sharrock, Russell, McLaughlin, Takayanagi, and the like mean something (and occupy a portion of their record collection) stand a good chance of being quite happy if they give this a listen. All of those are all individually quite different of course but it's that rock-aware, energetic and amplified style of electric guitar improv (with dense guitar/bass/drums interplay) that this fits right in with, y'know.
MPEG Stream: "Kjole Hole"
MPEG Stream: "Furskunjt"

SCORCH TRIO s/t (Rune Grammofon) cd 16.98

SCORCHED EARTH POLICY Keep Away From The Wires (Medication) cd 16.98
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If Belle & Sebastian went bad, had a penchant for petty arson, fist fights, and heavy drinking, and wrote some downright mean pop songs, they would have been New Zealand's Scorched Earth Policy. "Keep Away From The Wires" collects the handful of the recordings made during the tumultous career of the band which only lasted from 1982 - 1986 after which the band dissolved to focus on other projects like The Terminals, The Pin Group, and The Renderers.

SCORCHER Thunder Power (T.H.E. M.O.V.E.M.E.N.T.) cd 15.98

SCORN Anamnesis (1994-1997) (Invisible) cd 15.98
With so many Mick Harris projects out as Scorn, Lull, E.O.E., Painkiller, and all of the collaborations with Bill Laswell, it is hard to keep them straight and also to know which are the best to get. This collection of unreleased and hard-to-find material is one of those really great Scorn records... Heavy apocalyptic dub compounding the already dark hip-hop breaks that made Scorn's reputation on "Evanescence" and "Ellipsis".

SCORN Ellipsis (Earache) cd 15.98
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Scorn is Mick Harris of Painkiller and I don't know who else. Remixes by Bill Laswell, Autechre, Meat Beat Manifesto, Scanner, etc.

SCORN Greetings From Birmingham (Hymen) cd 16.98
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