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Artist:	LAZARUS, DAMIAN
Title:	Smoke The Monster Out
Label:	GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	GPM 029CD

2009 release. Though Damian Lazarus' grounding in house and techno is apparent throughout, Smoke The Monster Out is really a song-based affair, full of unusual acoustic instrumentation and delicately wrought arrangements, which Lazarus wrote with collaborator Arthur Jeffes - - son of the Penguin Café Orchestra's Simon Jeffes. The Crosstown Rebels boss has taken a long view of his life as a music-lover, drawing on older influences as diverse as Photek, Jeff Buckley and Bjork, taking their essence and suffusing it with the twisted dancefloor alchemy we associate with his DJ sets. Perhaps most significantly, not to mention surprisingly, Lazarus himself sings on several of the album's tracks, investing his songs with his own distinct personality and quiet expressiveness. This is Damian Lazarus as you've never heard him before.

Artist:	LAZARUS, DAMIAN
Title:	Memory Box/Spinnin'
Label:	GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	GPM 120EP

This limited 12" consists of brand new club edits of two strange and enchanting stand-out tracks from Damian Lazarus' debut full-length Smoke The Monster Out. "Memory Box" is darkly humorous and has been re-tooled alongside studio engineer Kenneth James Gibson aka [a]pendics.shuffle. The original rave king Sasha takes on Lazarus' "Spinnin,'" looping and chopping the vocals -- courtesy of Lazarus and Taxi Taxi -- into trippy shrapnel. With its stripped-back rhythm and buzzing bass line, this track has real momentum.

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