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Artist:	FOG
Title:	Fog
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 062CD

"Andrew Broder aka Fog started to make this album with one simple question on his mind. Is there more to using a turntable to make your music than as a vehicle for showing how good you are at playing the turntable? The answer is complicated, but it's also beautiful, as well as funny, sometimes sad and, in its own downbeat way, sort of uplifting. Or to put it another way, the answer can be yes. Influenced by post-rock, folk and blues as much as hip hop, Broder has aimed to make a record which moves you, rather than just making you bob your head and your mind reveling in the technique. It's a risky strategy, leaving Fog open to all manner of snide asides, but we think he succeeds admirably. This is still a cut and paste album but it also uses guitars and Broder's singing to make a unique sounding record of single-minded strangeness."

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Ether Teeth
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 077CD

"Ether Teeth, Fog's second LP, is, in his own words, 'a heavy-headed hopeful opus, an urban vaudevillian symphony about birds, war, mystery, jealousy, old tyme dudes and most importantly L-O-V-E. (I know, I know...)'. So what does it sound like? We could give you some trite Neil Young-meets-Kid-Koala-and-Randy-Newman-at-the-Anticon-house straw to grasp at, but it would only piss you off and wouldn't get you any closer to where Broder's going. Let's just say that it's a pretty unique record from a pretty unique man, a great big American symphony made out of scraps and after-thoughts, somehow sophisticated and naive in equal measure."

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