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Artist:	AE
Title:	Love Your Smile
Label:	FRESH AIR (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FA 001CD

First release on this Hot Air sister-label, run by Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen and Walkman; Dummy Run) "13 songs and one instrumental from Noel Akchote on guitar, Emiko Ota on drums and voice, and Andrew Sharpley on voice, Hammond and machines. Noel Akchote is half of the Parisian jazz/experimental label Rectangle. This is the 188th disc he has played on. In the 1980s Emiko Ota played in OXZ and other punk/experimental rock bands in Japan before moving to Paris and joining the Mami Chan band. Andrew Sharpley is half of the sampling/stupid duo Stock, Hausen and Walkman (1992-?)."

Artist:	AE
Title:	Bootleg
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 028CD

"Electronics man Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Dummy Run, Mami Chan Band etc.) and female percussionist Emiko Ota (Urban Sax, Mami Chan Band etc.) got under way in 1998 as a sort of trash-electro-punk duo with shouting. (They were joined for a period by the notorious avant-guitarist Noel Akchoté (Rectangle), and became more structured and song-oriented.) Returning to their original line-up as a duo, they create a wild mixture of rhythmic cut-ups, crazy, cracked-up punk collages and lounge melodies, but despite the genrehopping, Bootleg sounds like a well rounded piece of work, Coming across like a musical freakshow, a telling collection of rejected pop music of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, it is critical of the pop-media-machine, the duo's own quotation-machine runs at open throttle. Like label-mates Wevie De Crepon, Æ produces 'meta-music' that is a lot of fun to hear, a welcome disruption of musical stereotypes, and in the end a proud presentation of an animal by the name of 'Affrodil'."

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