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Artist:	FRIEDMAN & NU DUB PLAYERS, BURNT
Title:	Fuck Back
Label:	NONPLACE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	NON 011EP

"Although the Nu Dub Players did exist in some form or another, for the new record hardly any electronic tools were applied. As a consequence, around 15 musicians from Auckland,New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Cologne and Berlin participated in making this exotic folk-funk reggae hybrid. Mostly recorded under ozone layers this fascinating blend of styles and sounds always keeps you on the edge of your seat. The title-track 'Fuck Back' features singer and performing artist Theo Altenberg from Berlin. He was a member of the Viennese Otto Mühl Commune. Know for his photographs documenting the life of the commune from 1973-1978, he states:' Communal life was a life of intense psychological self-admiration, cut off from the outside world; there, the most diverse forms of free love and the sexual culture were played out. The potential released by this was converted into screenplays, photographic works and paintings- giving rise to new social utopias, researching democracy and analyses of language and substitution.' According to Altenberg, the commune was 'owned by the most consistently leftist practise, because we had made communal ownership a reality and had overcome petty rivalry, because we interpreted revolt as hedonism and were united by psychoanalytical theory.'"

Artist:	FRIEDMAN & NU DUB PLAYERS, BURNT
Title:	Can't Cool
Label:	NONPLACE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	NON 013CD

"20 musicians from Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Cape Town, Santiago de Chile and Cologne participated in making Can't Cool, an exotic afro-dub hybrid with more than a blend of soulful songs with the featured vocalists Abi, Patrice, Lovetta Pippin and Theo Altenberg. Mostly recorded under ozone layers this fascinating blend of styles and sounds always keeps you on the edge of your seat. Ever wondered what weed-smoking rasta martians listen to? Well, it's not this."

Artist:	FRIEDMAN & NU DUB PLAYERS, BURNT
Title:	Just Landed
Label:	SCAPE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SCAPE 004CD

Re-issue of Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players' debut album from February 2000. This CD includes three bonus tracks from the 12" Do Not Legalize It! (previously only available on vinyl). Recorded at a secret sonic hide-away on a Great Barrier Island just off the New Zealand coast Just Landed is the masterwork of five gunslingers of the gargantuan groove: Burnt Friedman (programmer, producer and engineertician), Crucial Guenther (brain surgeon of boom and bass bandito from Berlin), DJ Booth (and his phenomenal home made effects-in-a-suitcase-rig), Bernie The Bolt (drums n' perc.) and Cousin of the Sausage Smearer (gat twanger and meat meister extraordinaire). Having made his name as conductor for top pop combos Nonplace Urban Field, SMC and Flanger, those who associate his work with plunderous programming, brittle electronics and Latin-tinged lullabies may be surprised. Just Landed is a dub-soaked melange of misappropriated mischief and endless echo. Complex rhythms from Bernie The Bolt and his feverish funhouse of hot jerk perc. collide with the inter-planetary thud of low-end loosehead, Guenther. The shadowy C.O.S.S. rubs tangential tones while DJ Booth the revolutionary record-changer reveals hidden talents at the keys. Friedman harnesses the wild energy and wickedness concocting a rub-a-dub relief that belongs in a different class to all the would-be King Scrubbys, Prince Clammys and Sad Professors. Feel free to fraternize, socialize, scrutinize or disorganize but please don't even think about attempting to sterilize, neutralize, terrorize or legalize!

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