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Artist:	GILES, GILES AND FRIPP
Title:	Brondesbury Tapes (1968)
Label:	MISTER E
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MRE 001CD

"Important document of the origins of King Crimson -- the historic, lost 'heavy sequel' to The Cheerful Insanity of.... Unbelievably pristine 'bedroom' recordings from 1968 by Robert Fripp's group with the Giles Brothers. Also features King Crimson founding member Ian McDonald, along with Fairport Convention's pre-Sandy Denny vocalist, Judy Dyble. Intricate like King Crimson, with a wicked pop sensibility -- if Crimson was the butterfly, GG&F were the caterpillar. This is the first time that these recordings have been available on CD. They've been digitally remastered and incorporate previously unreleased material. Sleeve notes by Peter Giles are highly detailed and feature previously unpublished photographs."

Artist:	FLYING LIZARDS, THE
Title:	Secret Dub Life Of...
Label:	MISTER E
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MRE 002CD

"The source tapes for this CD were recorded in Jamaica by Jah Lloyd (aka Patrick Francis) as part of a series he made for Virgin Records' Front Line label. The original players of this music remain unidentified. Jah Lloyd used various combinations of musicians but did not include who played on which tracks. In the late '70s the original tapes were not released and were offered to The Flying Lizards' David Cunningham with the suggestion that he remix the music. Cunningham accepted the project, expecting lots of time in one of Virgin's studios to play with the music and the equipment, only to be presented with a mono master tape, which forced him to invent (or perhaps re-invent) techniques of editing, looping, filtering and subtraction to deal with unremixable mono material (these were the days before samplers). This very quirky, ambient dub record will remind listeners of some of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's earlier albums (reggae / dub beats with samples and sounds buried deep in the mix), mixed with the low-tech tape butchery of Perry and Kingsley's early proto-sampling work."

Artist:	BRAIN DONOR
Title:	Brain Donor
Label:	MISTER E
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MRE 006CD

"Brain Donor was formed by Julian Cope and Spiritualized's Doggen in July 1999, in order to satisfy Cope's longterm urge to fuse Van Halenesque metal with garage rock. As early as his 1992 album Jehovahkill, Cope had asked Doggen -- fresh from the Guns'n'Roses Use Your Illusion demos -- to contribute a speed-metal solo to the Krautrockstyled 'Necropolis.' But Cope and Doggen's mutual fixation with Blue Cheer and early Kiss led them to go the final mile, complete with make-up and platform boots. Since then, Brain Donor's two albums -- Love Peace & Fuck (2001) and the Too Freud To Rock'n'roll, Too Jung To Die (2003) -- have well illustrated Cope's description of the band as a 'stuporgroup.' This new album on Mister E. conflates the first two albums into one 'best of'."

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Artist:	ALLEN, DAEVID
Title:	Gentle Genie
Label:	MISTER E
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MRE 005CD