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Artist:	VA
Title:	The Asthmatic Worm
Label:	MOBILÉ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOB 001CD

This is a compilation of twelve electronic accordion & melodica tracks. "The Asthmatic Worm" is a 19th century nickname
       for the accordion. Since their invention in the first half of the 19th century, accordions have been played mostly as
       classical concert and folk instruments. Even today, little has changed in that regard. Only recently, the accordion has
       found interest by a number of electronic music producers. Björk collaborated with Japanese accordion player
       Coba, Rephlex artist Bogdan Raczynski has recorded a full album of accordion music and Uwe Schmidt
       sampled it for his Señor Coconut record of Kraftwerk covers. With the accordion, the possibilities are
       endless. Artists include: Múm, März, Sensorama, Hey, Doctor Rockit, Gotan
       Project, Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit, Atom TM, Markus Nikolai, Dntel, Wechsel
       Garland and Gonzales.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Feedback To The Future - A Compilation Of Eleven...
Label:	MOBILÉ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOB 003CD

...Shoegazing Songs From 1990-1992. For a brief and almost forgotten time, shoegazing dominated what passed for
       the British indie scene. In the early '90s -- right after Madchester and right before Brit-pop -- bands such as
       Lush found their way into the top 40, Ride headlined the Reading festival and Curve were the
       darlings of the music weeklies. Influenced by the distorted swirling guitar sounds of My Bloody Valentine and the
       ethereal quality of Cocteau Twins songs, the music of shoegazing bands was -- as U.S. journalist Corey
       DuBrowa writes -- "Waves of distortion, cascading guitar feedback, oceanic swirls of keyboard and percussion,
       rainswept sonic vistas, washes of sound where no one voice (human or instrumental) was distinguishable from another."
       Named "shoegazers" by Melody Maker's Steve Sutherland for their on-stage habit of staring down at their
       shoes at numerous effect pedals, these groups wedded blissful guitar feedback with dreamy vocal melodies often sung by
       women such as Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson (Lush) and Toni
       Halliday. More than a decade beyond the shoegazing scene's initial impact -- the sounds of these groups surfaced
       again. Their sound had an impact on bands such as Sigur Rós, Mogwai and Mew and also feeds back in
       the music of melodic electronic producers such as Ulrich Schnauss and M83. This compilation offers an
       opportunity to listen once again to the original shoegazers -- most of whose records unfortunately remain out of print."
       Artists: Revolver, Moose, The Telescopes, Ride, Blind Mr Jones, Slowdive,
       Pale Saints, Lush, Drop Nineteens, Adorable and Swervedriver.

Artist:	SLOWBLOW
Title:	Slowblow
Label:	MOBILÉ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOB 004CD

2004 release, repressed. The Icelandic duet, Slowblow (Orri Jónsson and Dagur Kári Petursson), has been active for over a decade. They have made their mark on the Icelandic underground scene with a certain kind of friendly dust-music. They exhibit a uniquely Icelandic aesthetic of home-made, lo-fi analog tinkerings, which both musically and lyrically blend together the everyday and the fantastic. On the album, Slowblow match the gentle hum of ancient amplifiers and the tinkling hammers of an old upright piano with the soft squeaking of pump organ pedals or the sound of mechanical sewing machines; for them these are not unwanted artifacts, but the very essence of their sound.

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