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Artist:	COOPER, MIKE
Title:	World Slide
Label:	ETHBO MUSIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	ETHBO 004EP

"Preceding the Killing Melody LP by ten years, this EP was recorded by Mike in the late '90s and originally released on his own CDr label Hipshot. A 500 only pressing, these are the last remaining copies. Mike is a British blues legend. In the early 60s he supported John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Howling Wolf, Son House and many more American blues artists on their UK visits - as well as backing British R&B bands. He honed his guitar skills to later include steel blues and Hawaiian lap steel guitar. From the 80s onwards, he ventured into more avant garde territory and has continued to beat a path somewhere between all these styles. The three tracks here represent his later experiments with lo-fi loops and Hawaiian steel guitar. They were recorded in his kitchen in Rome, on a primitive computer, dumped onto minidisc and then CD. The result is a quiet and multilayered recording. This was a challenge even for Porky's George Peckham to master, but after a few takes, the record was pressed at the old EMI plant, shortly before their machinery was sold off. 'World Slide' and 'New Hula Slide' demonstrate Mike's fusion of the traditional Hawaiian melody with dirty avant garde loops. 'New Hard Times' is a slide guitar and vocal blues, stripped down and angry."

Artist:	COHEN, STEPHEN
Title:	This Is A Test/Let's All Root For The Home Team
Label:	ETHBO MUSIC (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	ETHBO 007EP

"The remaining 100 copies from a 500 run, originally released in September 2001. Stephen -- back then -- was an unsung legend, who has since carved out his place in the varied new folk scenes. His band Tree People's privately pressed 1980s LP was plucked from obscurity by a few worldly collectors and traveled from Portland Oregon into the hands of Tiliqua Records in Japan, who reissued it on CD in 2006. The songs on this Ethbo 7" were brought to the label's attention by musician David Nettleton. He included some tracks from Stephen's solo CD Real Life And Fiction, with a selection of avant garde sounds on a mix CDr. The sound of this singer-songwriter, bashing out a kind of punky-folk drone interspersed with crashing chimes, stuck out from the pack."

Artist:	CARTER, DEAN
Title:	Rebel Woman/I Got A Girl
Label:	ETHBO MUSIC (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ETHBO 009EP

"A head-on collision of rockabilly, tectonic garage punk and the production inventiveness usually attributed to the likes of Joe Meek or Phil Spector. Dean Carter started recording rockabilly in the late fifties in Champaign, IL and beat that path well into the late sixties. By then with an arsenal of the latest studio tricks, a bus-load of local talents and a single minded, twisted vision. Carter's unique take on Jailhouse Rock, released in 1967 on Milky Way, was coupled with Rebel Woman: A wall of fuzzed out guitar and Carter's swooping vocal range, punctuated with karate chops. It's a cigarette's time-scale roller coaster which dumps you at the end, exhausted by the relentless reverb energy, with Carter's closing monologue babbling in your ears as you fade away. Backed here with 'I Got A Girl' revealing another strand of Carter's mutant hybrid of rockabilly and garage. Needle in the groove, or direct to the jugular, the din underpinned by the throbbing rhythm of his local backing singers, Carter screams manic lyrics over a hastily scratched tremolo guitar. Mastered by Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin."

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Artist:	KADMON
Title:	Liverflush/Kemper's Lament
Label:	ETHBO MUSIC (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	ETHBO 005EP