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Artist:	BIBIO
Title:	Fi
Label:	MUSH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MH 234CD

"Recommended to Mush by Marcus Eoin of Boards of Canada, the debut release from central England's Stephen Wilkinson (aka Bibio) is a triumph of saturation, distortion, and obscurity. Comprised of seventeen ambient songs built on samples of his own work rather than the work of others, Fi is rich in musical imagery. Using manipulated live instrumentation, field recordings, and a strong portion of effects, Bibio's musical influences -- The Incredible String Band, Joao Gilberto, My Bloody Valentine, Tortoise, and the producers of Warp Records -- seep into his compositions. Bibio's debut is a revelation in the emotional power of lo-fi ambient compositions and clearly establishes him as a producer who has developed his own unique voice. Focusing on location recording using cassettes, a half-broken sampler, Dictaphones, and experimental ways of affecting sounds, Bibio's crafted, unequalled style is as subtle as it is powerful."

Artist:	BIBIO
Title:	Excuses
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	WAP 314EP

"The first single from Bibio's album Mind Bokeh is 'Excuses'. The track is a warm haze of layered sounds and clip-clop percussion, which gives way as the song is hoist upright, with Bibio's bright vocals percolating through a cluster of rhythmical spikes. Its effects are achieved in part through Bibio's use of the old, Surrealist technique of automatic writing -- a partial switching off of the conscious mind in order to explore and liberate deeper, repressed truths. The B-side from the 10" single is a non-album track titled 'Old Friends'."

Artist:	BIBIO
Title:	The Apple And The Tooth
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	WARP 190CD

"Hot on the heels of his highest selling, critically-acclaimed album Ambivalence Avenue (Best New Music on Pitchfork), Bibio has assembled a companion album comprised of 4 all-new tracks and 8 remixes from luminaries such as Warp's own Clark, Friendly Fires' visual collaborator Rob Lee, as well as Bibio himself. From the clattering, beat-forward re-imagining of 'Dwrcan' by San Francisco's Eskmo to the babymaking, lush downtempo snap of Leatherette's 'Lover's Carvings' remix, to Bibio's own Parisienne carnival re-contextualization of 'Palm of Your Wave', The Apple And The Tooth illuminates the dramatic range of sounds and influences Ambivalence Avenue employs and portrays."

Artist:	BIBIO
Title:	Mind Bokeh
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WARP 209CD

"Bibio's music may be more familiar to you than you realize. Not necessarily because you've heard it before, but because even on first listen it triggers brilliantly hazy moments of déjà vu. Of course, there is the strong possibility you have heard his music before, as the soundtrack to scores of Vimeo short films, his previous release (and Pitchfork 'Best New Music'd) Ambivalence Avenue, or more recently in the current Amazon Kindle ad which took 'Lovers' Carvings,' a favorite from the last record as its soundtrack. Since Ambivalence Avenue, his debut for Warp, he's gathered together all the disparate strands of his myriad phases and influences to create a concentrate that works as full-on, neon-lit pop. And not every day, auto-tune pop, but champagne cork pop - a jolting, immediate, highly pleasant surprise from out of the blue, which is titled Mind Bokeh. Says Bibio, 'Bokeh is the out of focus region of a photograph. It's not a quantifiable thing, but photographers and lens manufacturers are obsessed with it. In Japanese it means "haze," "blur," or even "dementia." I called the album Mind Bokeh because I'm interested in the effect of defocusing your mind, whether through meditation, chemicals or whatever - it's a state of mind quite alien to Westerners.' Bibio is on the brink of big pop things but he's the anti-PT Barnum. He recalls (and firmly agrees with) a quote he memorized from an old Boards of Canada interview, 'always assume that the listener is the most intelligent person imaginable. If you always think like that, you never insult the listener.' Mind Bokeh is the album you deserve."

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