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Artist:
MIDWEST PRODUCT
Title:
Specifics
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
CD
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
GI 010CD
"Ann Arbor, Michigan trio, Midwest Product, welds live instrumentation to crafty electronics for output that is decidedly warm and wholeheartedly Midwestern.
Specifics
is their debut LP and it references their love for early electro and atmospheric post-rock in equal parts. A 10 track, 50+ minute longplayer,
Specifics
is a promising first look at a conceptual band who works to keep process in line with the finished product. An oddity in the abstract electronic scene, Midwest Product can put on a mean live show. With the help of live instruments, the Product can take their studio sound on the road, which allows them to both improvise and experiment. An assemblage of stylistic influences, Midwest Product eschews possible schizophrenia and comes forth with a sound that is not only cohesive, but eerily accessible."
Artist:
DABRYE
Title:
Payback
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
12"
Price:
$6.50
Catalog #:
GI 012EP
"The follow-up 12" to the already classic
One/Three
LP finds Dabrye with a new song to show plus some re-interpretations by friends. 'Making It Pay' is 2003 Dabrye while newcomer Outputmessage fattens then filters a 2002 track. Warp Records artist, Prefuse 73 puts 3 Dabrye songs into one and it sounds like the best thing ever. New shiny embossed stock sleeve."
Artist:
KILL MEMORY CRASH
Title:
When The Blood Turns Black
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
CD
Price:
$9.00
Catalog #:
GI 015CD
"For over 10 years, Alex and Adam of Chicago's Kill Memory Crash have developed their own blend of dark electronic music without major release. Starting their musical career in Detroit, the group began performing at raves and warehouse parties in the mid-to-late 90's, slowly translating their leftfield influences into a new, cryptic language. Standing on the dividing lines between techno and other musics forced the duo to develop their own style, and early works resembled dark chasms of industrial noise. Their indifference to the popular styles of the day led them into an almost self-imposed exile from the music business and only extremely limited vinyl pressings ever surfaced. Alex and Adam have honed their music to its current state, a sinister blend of industrial, ambient and IDM, working away at the boundaries that held them as outsiders until now.
When the Blood Turns Black
is a bold first look at a group who blend a complex production style with a searing early electronic attitude. The result is a relentless debut of IDM-infused Industrial and twisted
machine-funk. Kill Memory Crash has a sound that calls upon their heroes (Ministry, Coil, etc.), but that is made completely their own in the process. Bone-hard and Electrified, this is the sound of the machines gone bad."
Artist:
TWINE
Title:
Twine
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
GI 018CD
"Friends talk about nothing over the phone; a gentle guitar strum mutates into a gauzy substance; a swell of sub-bass and firework crackling ensues. Fuzzed-out scanners capture distant conversations, and otherworldly voices emerge through the noise, haunting like a recurring dream.
Twine's self-titled album, their debut release for Ann Arbor's Ghostly International, is a record about the difficulties of 21st-century communication and the universal threads that unite the physical and immaterial worlds. The experience of Twine is the static on telephone lines, the nighttime whispers, the sounds of the aether; a record of dizzying percussive glitch, eerie textures and vocals grated into a dense fog, a collective but coded dialogue.
Cleveland, Ohio's Greg Malcolm and Boulder, Colorado's Chad Mossholder comprise a unique musical entity. Twine is the culmination of their extended history, which includes their acclaimed 2002 LP
Recorder
for France's Bip-Hop and their distinguished catalogue for Chicago's Hefty Records and Sweden's Komplott. Their self-titled LP contains a mysterious and unresolved quality, the result of the musical relationship which the group's two main practitioners share. Making music together from across the country, their collaborations are exercises in postmodern abstraction. Songs become experimentations in the virtual realm, with files bounced back and forth across time zone and singular ideas becoming collaborative.
As much a noisy, ambient experience as any heard today, from Fennesz's
Endless Summer
to Black Dice's
Beaches and Canyons
, Twine also draws influence from the free-floating, sand-blasted vocals of Cocteau Twins. This is a story of the fuzzy lines that connect and distance humanity, and the spiritual in-between that emerges in the nighttime hours."
Artist:
VA
Title:
SMM Vol. 1
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
12"
Price:
$6.50
Catalog #:
GI 019EP
Artists: Twine, Kiln, Kosik. 5 new tracks from the Midwest's premier ambient artists. New chipboard embossed sleeve. First of three limited SMM 12"s.
Artist:
DYKEHOUSE
Title:
Chain Smoking/FYD
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
7"
Price:
$4.00
Catalog #:
GI 021EP
"Mike Dykehouse, known for his IDM on Planet Mu, steps into the fore with the first single from next year's
Midrange
LP. 'Chain Smoking' is a glowing psychedelic rock anthem. The flip is the raunchy sex funk of Mike's subconscious. A future star emerges."
Artist:
SOLVENT
Title:
Elevators And Oscillators
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
GI 043CD
"In the wake of his hit
Apples & Synthesizers
LP, Toronto's Solvent returns with
Elevators And Oscillators
, a collection of new material and outstanding remixes culled from the Radio Ga Ga series. The breadth of remix material here, including treatments from around the globe, is stunning enough, but Solvent himself steals the show with four exclusive tracks, some of his best to date, making for an eclectic experience easily on par with the album that bore it."
Artist:
VA
Title:
Idol Tryouts Two
Label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Format:
2CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
GI 051CD
"A double-disc overview of the label, with most tracks brand new, and none previously available on CD. Extremely limited 3LP gatefold version available, with the exclusive Manhunter track 'North Pole.'
Avant-Pop
denotes a distinct brand of off-center pop treasures -- it follows no formula, but you know it when you hear it. On this disc, exclusive tracks from Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, Mobius Band, and the rest of the Ghostly roster document the crossroads where the avant-garde and the popular converge. Matthew Dear and Dabrye also appear, foreshadowing their respective sophomore LPs (both due in 2006) and the label's stylistic movement into the future.
SMM
is a mysterious acronym (Sensual Machine Music? Stately Modern Melodies?) that encompasses music of a more enigmatic nature, with an emphasis on textural and melodic nuance. This collection follows in the tradition of Ghostly releases by Twine, Aeroc, Lusine, and Kiln, with friends of the label such as Loscil (Kranky), Richard Devine (Warp) and Terre Thamelitz (Mille Plateaux) contributing exclusive tracks."
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