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Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Remix Collection
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2020CD

"A veritable who's who of contemporary electro and minimal techno, Remix Collection gathers together Allien's interpretations of Goldenboy with Miss Kittin, Gold Chains, Barbara Morgenstern, Sascha Funke and Neulander amongst eleven outstanding tracks. Ellen Allien's artistic development is largely defined by one circumstance: her engagement with 'music of the future', i.e . techno and the historical after-effects of the year 1989. Allien witnessed the changes created by the end of the Cold War and Germany's reunification, particularly the impact that it had on the culture and geography of her newly expanded hometown of Berlin. Her music remains indelibly marked by this experience."

Artist:	FE-MAIL
Title:	Blixter Toad
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2033CD

"Fe-mail, Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, have crafted a site-specific survey of the chaparrals of noise music. As half of the Scandinavian female improv quartet, Spunk, they began to adapt their mediums of French horn and voice to multiple formats for musical arrangements. In working for film, installation, studio, and performance they began to evolve their musical process to a compulsive physical act, opposing their classically trained standards. Exposure to distorted live sampling and field recordings allowed Maja and Hild to grab the limit and make it their instrument. Through synched communication and developed improvisation, their project further evolved into their newest release for Asphodel, Blixter Toad. This two disc set is best described as the taxonomic designation of feminine conviction through gadgetry and acoustic archaeology. Two embryonic visual studies (videos) by Masako Tinaka are included, featuring shot surveillance from the live sessions for the recording of Blixter Toad. The chromatic genus of the species call is best known by its vocal sac that blows up like a balloon and bellows 'scheweeeeeeeee' riffs. Their cut up crescendos of piercing frequencies appear like rattle snakes you find under the rocks, as you search for a jewel-encrusted music box, unsure if they'll poison you or cure you. A voice screams like an effected guitar in the distance, reminding you to come home from the thicket before the animals become more aggressive. Blixter Toad's final track coalesces into the Sunday morning dew collecting on the surface of Fe-mail's electro-acoustic lily-pads."

Artist:	AMBARCHI AND NG
Title:	Fateless
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 3009DVD

"Asphodel's premiere DVD release features the Australian duo, turntablist Martin Ng and guitarist Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with visual artists Tina Frank and Robin Fox for an AV expedition into the sublime and fascinating worlds of Fateless. Since their teens, the Australian electronic composers have produced with congruent obsessions in mind. Their convergent interest in weird sound led to a long-lasting, musically productive friendship. In the summer of 2000 after Ambarchi's own What Is Music Festival, the two began formally producing together as respite from what they refer to as 'a particularly long hot summer of antipodean improv noise fests.' Like the harmonic meditations, space is filled with bold resonance, expanding and contracting in tandem with Tina Frank and Robin Fox's visual interpretations." NTSC: 0; Stereo + 5.1; 4:3 ratio. Total running time, 84:19.

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