Browse by Label: QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)

Artist:	RADIO ZUMBIDO
Title:	Los Ultimos Dias Del AM
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	QS 129CD

"Some new exotic flavour is about to conquer the world with the first album from Radio Zumbido. A wild travel through South American pop to jazz, dub to furious percussive madness. After years of touring with rockband Bohemia Suburbana (cult band in Guatemala), Juancarlos Barrios started Radio Zumbido in 1999. Here he mixes drum'n'bass with old records, a touch of dub and jazz, loops and shortwave radio programs. Some nice cocktail to refresh your brain cells with exotic flavours and a bit of political background as ice. Guatemalan radio is replete with merengue, tex-mex, evangelist preachers and sensationalist news. By mixing all these elements he conveys an image of everyday social and political life in Latin America. His radio (broadcast) is 'experimental' and in revolt against the onslaught of American-style commercial FM-stations and features stories on Castro's revolution, saved souls, cheap mariachi disco's and so on."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Copier.Coller
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	QS 100CD

"This project was initiated in September 1999 and presented at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva, giving the audience an opportunity to see performances from such artists as To Rococo Rot, Scanner, Kreidler, DJ Olive, Rehberg & Bauer, Stock Hausen and Walkman, David Shea and Vincent Hanni. Each artist worked on the same sound bank, provided by the Young Gods' Franz Treichler. This was an excellent opportunity to feel and see how these musicians, representing different techniques and approaches to sound and music, manipulated a common sound material. A second show took place in Le Botanique in Brussels a few days later. Once again, another magical night. The line-up in Brussels was the same except that Vincent Hanni was replaced by the duo Bump & Grind. This double album is an exceptional document of these very particular events, the only traces of the entire festival recordings, which is close to 6 hours of music. All the artists chose and edited what they considered to be the best of the sets."

Artist:	FIBLA
Title:	Landscopes
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 101CD

"Sometimes, while listening to electronic music, one experiences a feeling of solitude and coldness. The sound of machines need the human soul's energy and warmth for fuel. Even if Fibla's sound is close to the British or German electro scenes (e.g. Chain Reaction, Blue Spirit, Force Tracks or Raum Musik), there is something more, some detail that indicates that this guy is from a place where the sun never fails to shine and the subtle breezing of the sea is a musical background. A first strike for a new electro wizard simply called Fibla. This is Spain's electro at its best: subtle rhythmic patterns, filled with a taste for smooth arrhythmic methodicity, lunar sounds and melodies, treated in such a way that it directly reaches your cortex right in the place where it longs for pleasure, coziness and 'feeling good'. With a reminiscent and obvious taste for the late 70's, early 80's electro pop, Fibla built a world were pain is nonsense, and hectic is out of the usual vocabulary. This doesn't mean that the album is for the chill-out addicted. Far from these clichés, you will find here the sunny side of electronic music, a shared introspective moment without any guilt, while staring into somebody else's secret garden. Mix these elements with a solid sound deeply belonging to the currently diversified electronic scene, you will once and for all agree that there is no future without looking back."

Artist:	BISK
Title:	Moonstruck Parade
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 102CD

"Our Japanese spearhead is back with a 4th album filled with a new hip-hop like taste... Just a little something, floating over the hectic musical universe from Bisk. Sometimes danceable, concrete and beautifully mad, contemporary and contradictory. To summarize: another 100% Bisk album. Naohiro Fujikawa aka Bisk proposes you to ride a rocket aimed to the planet of grooves. Put on your space suit and get 'crazy-groovy-fied' by these deconstructed sonic sculptures based on beats, tenderness [sometimes], floating voices of soul, of course an inimitable skill and taste for the hardest way to reach a melody. Sometimes more accessible than the previous opus, but still in a pure Bisk style: unpredictable and sophisticated. Another immersion into the sublime and contradictory world of this unique Japanese artist, as always everything is possible...if beats are the basis of this new plot, acoustic sounds, contemporary touches, naive little soundscapes, loungy bad manners and more surprises are ready to transform your daily life in a unpredictable way. Another piece to the incredible musical jigsaw-puzzle started with his precedent releases."

Artist:	BENGE
Title:	Silicon Valleys
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 103CD

"After a Very Best Of Benge is now guiding you through the labyrinth of old-school new technologies. In a strange world where human computerization is no longer a myth, listen carefully to the guide's voice, read between the lines and find out how to survive...still employing the services of vintage music machines, the whispers of old processors and the secret soul of forgotten technical sources. Benge is back! After a Very Best Of, a magnificent exploration through his expanding label back catalogue, let's go to silicon valleys! A guided tour of this mythical universe, listen carefully and you might hear the beating heart-core of strange computers, the musical echo of this incredible world of ideas and visions, a place where the perfect symbiosis between man and machine is first made reality. But what are the consequences of this synthetic cross-modulation, this obsession filling our minds and bodies with new technology. Can Benge really survive in this head-to-head battle with our cybernetic future."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Quatermass Vs. Rather Interesting
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 104CD

"Living in a pleasant 'exile' somewhere in Chile, the German electronician Atom TM is developing on his label Rather Interesting the art of pseudonyms and 'Latino-jazzy-loungy and whatever pleased you' electronic sound system out of bound...we are proud to present you, as our third versus, an incredible wrestling in the mud contest featuring in the left corner representing Rather Interesting': Fonosandwich, Dropshadow Disease, Lisa Carbon, Naturalist, Pentatonic Surprise. In the right corner as guests, fighting under our banner: Plaid, Pole, Pram, Fibla, Mash'ta. Be sure that you will attempt an unique show, full of action, Moog, girls, jazz and class, rhythm, sweat, dance, dreamy spheres! Wild, wilder, wildest!"

Artist:	RIP-OFF ARTIST, THE
Title:	Kids Are Alright
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 105CD

"Matt Haines, a.k.a. The Rip-Off Artist, went over to the dark side a couple of years ago. Before that, he was happy making little dinky dance tunes, mostly in the electro and drum-n-bass genres. Using names like Mental Blox, Control-X and Front BC, he released four albums and seventeen singles, and even ran an electro label called Spinyl for a few years. But then everything grew dim. Unbeknownst to Mr. Haines, the local electricity company, in an effort to save costs and increase profits, had gradually been reducing the voltage they delivered. While they claimed it was US standard 117 volts, it had dipped to just over 90 volts before their plot was discovered. Meanwhile, their customers' lights grew dimmer, which had a subtle but undeniable effect: paranoia and other mental problems. There were thirty-seven reported cases of psychological stress directly connected with this incident. Mr. Haines was one poor victim, but fortunately his was a mild case. Mr. Haines has for the most part recovered, and is living in seclusion in the Los Angeles area. Perhaps fortunately for us, there have been lasting effects however. When he had recovered enough to attempt production again, he found that his music had changed. No longer was it the happy, carefree, mindless dance music of before. Instead, it had mutated into something bizarre, like oversized fluorescent mushrooms in some dark radioactive closet. The beats remain, but fall apart almost as soon as they materialize. Voices enter at random, sounds that shouldn't be used together are used together. What were once friendly little synthesizer melodies are now dark, or crazed, but mostly nonsense. Quatermass has seen fit to release some of this nonsense on the album The Kids Are Alright."

Artist:	FREEFORM
Title:	Audio Tourism Vietnam / China
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 107CD

"Freeform released so far on labels like: Warp, Skam, Worm Interface and Law & Auder. Audio-Tourism (Vietnam/China) is the follow-up to Freeform's acclaimed album Green Park. Going further into the crossover in between organic/harmonic acoustic sounds and the machines & additional unique recordings made during a 3 months journey in China, Vietnam and Hong Kong. But the best thing is to let Simon Pyke talk about it: 'As 'Tourists' the idea was to source snapshots of life. sounds of the lashing monsoon, the serenity of Lugu Lake, the intense song of cicadas and the chatter of Saigon. Armed with a minidisk, pair of 'in ear' microphones, radio, portable sampler and camera every experience, however small and quiet, was recorded. Collecting sounds and instruments unique to the environment was the chrysalis for a spontaneous musical dialogue. A conversation between Western and newly acquired Asian influence. This album is the result of two months exploring the backstreets of Vietnam and the Yunnan province, China as Audio Tourists'."

Artist:	VERY MASH'TA
Title:	The Psychedelic Mochi Case
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 108CD

"This is a tribute to, and a celebration of non-standard electronic music. Think of Suicide's 'Ghost Rider', the unique universe of Coil, the sublimity of Detroit's techno sound with an obvious fascination for Asian kung-fu/love/saber movies, and John Carpenter's obsessed musical anthems (remember the ultra-classic 'Halloween'?). Very Mash'ta is a unique universe working as an interface placed in between the constant overflow of information surrounding us, and everyone's mind, reshaping our environment through filters and techniques belonging to electronic music's history and culture. No descriptions allowed, check for yourself. The project Very Mash'ta is an adventure that started as a 28 minute track composed for a radio broadcast throughout Brussels on January 1st, 2000. It is a piece based mostly on sounds provided by a distorted media's sound database. Most of these sounds are anonymous field recordings or abstract soundscapes: voices, steps, conversations, laughter, supermarket atmospheres, drops of water banging on metal, conversations stolen by way of a scanner, etc. All of these elements were reshaped in order to fit the global envy: to create a unique soundtrack of the conceptual; to recompose these urban spheres. But as the project took form, new elements were rapidly added. This included minimal electronic touches, samples crudely extracted from movies or TV shows, audio collage, and so much more."

Artist:	MASH'TA
Title:	70's Zen Manifesto
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 109CD

"The Psychedelic Mochi Case (2000) was the first release from the project Very Mash'ta. A year later, the project reappears with newly recorded material. 70's Zen Manifesto is a story about memories and anticipation. In a kaleidoscopic manner, Mash'ta presents images culled from everywhere and nowhere; while everything and nothing is destructured and recomposed through the mind's filters. Rest assure that Very Mash'ta is not a nostalgic trip! In this manifesto kung-fu heroes are fighting against infra bass, while rhythms are the backbone of the absurd. Electronic textures surround the global village with reverence, yet maintaining a sense of humor. This new album is based on two sources: material composed in the perspective of telling a new story, and extracts from a soundtrack composed for an Art Festival in Shangai (Polarize). This is futuristic vintage music, a soundtrack fed by multiple sources, genres and approaches."

Artist:	SHUDO
Title:	Shudo
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 110CD

"Under this strange pseudo you will find happiness and desolation, the initial chaos that turned into a world, with human beings and feelings. Everybody has a 'dark' side that is helping the evolution; one's got the face fear in order to defeat it. This is evolution's subtle rumbling... Don't be afraid, shadows are just there because of light, the balance. Shudo is a young artist from Barcelona, working in the multimedia sector. He is part of reform communications, an interdisciplinary collective that develops different projects related to the experimentation in video, audio, interactivity and the internet . Their attitude brings back the real spirit of DIY, rejecting the role of the creator as professional. In a favour of democratization of the artistic production tools through the use of computers and technology from the approach of the common user. Knowing what the interaction between image and sounds means, and following this spirit, he developed an incredible parade of 'freaky' and groovy sounds from the wildest sound appropriationism. As he says, he is not a musician, he just works with the sounds in a very visual and plastic way, just like he could work with images or volumes. Some little soundscapes for abstract inner visions. An universe full of emotions, tension, stress, melancholy, all recreated in order to fit the musical language, so close to the organic part of ourselves as well as talking smoothly to our soul. If loop rhythms are the basis of each track, strange samples, spooky sounds emerge deeply in order to communicate with your cerebral cortex, a direct adrenaline shot waking you in the middle of a dream. But don't get it wrong, Shudo isn't a repertoire of dark tales or sounds from a bad ambient trip... At the same time experience energy and serenity, the sublime of a cold snowy night, echoes of laughter giving you inner peace in a bad moment. Mixed emotions, the sound of life simply... "

Artist:	DJ WALLY
Title:	The Creepy Crawlies
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 111CD

"DJ Wally must be mad ! The DJ bug bit during his adolescence, turning him into an inspired teenager practicing the Art of deejaying; and secretly developing a unique universe of scary fun and abstract humour giving the audience thrills and goose pimples. But this wasn't enough, so in order to go further into sound exploration, producing his own music was the next step. This challenge had to be organized seriously, so perhaps in a cave in the middle of nowhere, DJ Wally transformed his inner-vision into a nightmarish delight. During this period, our mad scientist created an organic blend of 'Illbient', abstract hip-hop, radical sample skills and many more elements that must have been gathered in unknown places. This turned into solid pieces of genetically manipulated sound compositions. The Creepy Crawlies is another freakshow ready to satisfy the desire of the most demanding audience. Danceable creepy Halloween tales from the abstract are presented here to give your nerves a sudden stimulation that will control your muscles and transform your body into an echoing moving reply to DJ Wally's subtle groovy fields of action. Freak your mind, and your ass will follow."

Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	Tryptich
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 112CD

"David Shea released several masterpieces for Sub Rosa within a few years. I, The Prisoner, Tower of Mirrors, Satyricon, Eastern Western Collected Works which gave an idea of what this unique 'samplermaster' is capable of. Through his work one might find at the same time ability and fascination for audio-collage, contemporary music, easy-listening, jazz, soundtrack, traditional music and so much more. This new album is the first to be released on Sub Rosa's twin label Quatermass. These three new pieces are taken from the performances of recent solo work developed since the creation of the first solo CD I. The pieces were composed and performed on the sampler as solo live performances, which has been the focus of work made in 2000. Triptych's focus is on scored material for live musicians recorded, composed and performed on the sampler with combinations of electronic and collage sources in the form of a sampled large ensemble. The works as a whole represents a shift towards an exploration of an orchestration between live instruments, sampled live musicians, collaged recordings and sampler playing techniques in the form of solo composition and performance."

Artist:	FISHEROFGOLD
Title:	In My Vessel
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 113CD

"Fisherofgold is based at the sea of possibility somewhere close to Ireland. This album is a reflection of life, one fragment of time transformed into a still reflection. Sounds are gathered via minidisc/CD/videotape, microphones hanging out windows. Sneaking and peeping street scenes, industrial sites, squeaky shopping trolleys, the sound of the universe flying through his window nearby the 'vessel'. In the lab, all sounds subjected to secret processes analog/digital, ripped and torn and left out to dry, stretched and scraped. Plundering the world or recorded spoken word, looking for the inadvertent wisdom. Tunes grow like coral, an new breath is given to environmental sounds and life. No master plan, just following the path. Doing The Work and watching... Waiting to see what appears in this vessel. Just a word for Arthur Rimbaud: 'like a fisher of gold ...or shells...to say I gave no thought to drinking'. Fisherofgold's first appearance on recent release Personal Settings vol. 1 featuring Pan American and Komet."

Artist:	LISA CARBON TRIO
Title:	Trio De Janeiro
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 114CD

"Twisted programmings, an unique humour and futuristic improvisations are some of the characteristics of Lisa Carbon's sound, which has been copied by many throughout the years. Partly recorded in San José (Costa Rica), Lisa's hometown, Trio De Janeiro was then mainly completed under the guidance of her long time companion Atom TM in his Frankfurt studio. When the first Lisa Carbon recording was released back in 1992 (The Lisa Carbon Trio: 'Opto Freestyle Swing', 12", Pod Communication), the German magazine Frontpage gave it one star (out of 6) and declared it 'not music'. Magazines come and go, but Lisa is still here. The music was controversial, and while for some it was the most unhip thing to listen to, for others it was an enlightenment. Much has happened since then and Lisa Carbon ignored styles and trends, and instead created them. In 1995, musical fashion caught up with her. Her music, once declared unmusical, had become the hype to follow when U.K.' s Rephlex released her second album Polyester after a two year delay. Lisa's sound was still fresh, so fresh in fact that it was even emulated by those who used to be trendy in 1992. But Lisa grew tired of the unprofessionalism in the music business and so joined producer Atom Heart's label Rather Interesting in 1997, and the album you have in front of you was born. Now that we have crossed into the millennium, you can see and hear that Trio De Janeiro still sounds amazingly current. This re-release contains the two bonus titles 'Tempo Feliz' and 'Song For Frank Brown', which up until now had only been available on the 1997 Japanese release. Also the entire album has been extensively re-mastered to match today's audio standards and to give you, the listener, the full enjoyment of this timeless masterpiece."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Substancia 3
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	QS 115CD

"Our annual visitcard and introduction to the world of Quatermass have a bite of the releases to come in 2001 with 11 unreleased tracks from: Freeform: unreleased. from Audio-tourism: Vietnam/China forthcoming album. DJ Wally: high talented 'ill-hop' dj from New York City. sample-(s)-killer! This track is coming from the 'to be released' creepy crawler full-album. Tal: an unreleased one, more to come.A 12" and the 2d full album. Benge: unreleased 'straight' techno track from.we won't say more. Rip-Off Artist: freaky bridge between the 80's and 2001 -- from electro-funk to electro space odyssey. vol. 3 in our electro cocktail lounge series. Richard Thomas + Jon Tye: an introduction to their common project 'milky globe'recorded in Paris. Zappacoustic-like. Bump & Grind: a first extract from the 'remixes' (Speedy J, Mick harris, Elixir, Scanner, ..) and 'unreleased' follow-up to 'ATV' last opus. (very) Mash'ta announcing '70's Zen Manifesto', second full-length album. Bisk: extract from his last album. 2 new comers complete this annual-strike. Shudo: tension and rhythms, spooky sounds/serenity. The art of paradoxes.highly recommended. Fisherofgold: new signature from Ireland. Analogic sonic disturbance, deep organic but urban ambient soundtracks. A vessel, a travel."

Artist:	CALLA
Title:	Televise
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	QS 116LP

LP version; CD is on Arena Rock in the US. "Occupying both the garage and the temple, Calla are at once dissonant and pristine, harmonious and rhythmic. They cling to the dirty residues of NYC with an attention always affixed upward to cosmopolitan refinement. A fact perhaps explained by the group's roots in Texas and their emigration to Brooklyn. Unlike most of their contemporaries, Aurelio Valle (guitar/vocals), Wayne Magruder (drums/programming/percussion) and Sean Donovan (keyboard/bass/programming) understand the way in which the dirtiness of rock intersects the world of high art. Their third release Televise pushes harshly against complacency with stunning sophistication. The music allows avant gestures to collapse into supple pop while catapulting their dark breathless aggression into a furious swelling of feedback. This is the moment when the curtains are opened and light floods the room. Angular guitars bend across thick bass lines; weightless electronics become pulled into the harsh simplicity of minimalist percussion; Aurelio's fragile voice rises boldly against the torrents of expressive noise. It is for this reason that artists like Nick Cave, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sigur Ros have been eager to perform with them. Calla are unquestionably a band whose work will be dissected and reevaluated long after their beautiful static energy burns away."

Artist:	FREEFORM
Title:	Audio-Tourism Remixes
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	QS 117CD

"The album Audio Tourism Vietnam / China released in October 2001by Freeform aka Simon Pyke is a unique musical vision, his personal account of a journey he made in Vietnam and China with a tourists eye and ear. During this period he collected sounds on a purely aesthetic level, rather than trying to document their cultural context. This is a successful attempt to broaden his style by actively going out and seeking new influences and sound sources. All tracks were composed with the sources gathered during this trip, sampled and reshaped through machines. Whilst recording the album real instruments, collected during the trip, were used with a kind of playful ignorance. Modified Zither, human beat box through Tibetan horn, electronically processed traditional folk songs and the Vietnamese monochord as the ultimate sub bass machine. Following the album Audio-Tourism Vietnam/ China, this 'remix' album is based on works inspired and derived from the original one. A two-part project, the first CD is the original Music/Sources. The second part is a double CD with re-interpretations by artists including Bill Laswell, Autechre, Atom TM, Colongib, Jan Jelinek, Shudo, Mash'ta, Tal. All the remixers selected received different sources: the original sounds gathered in Asia, some 'work in progress' etc. With these elements new compositions were made. Better than doing simple remixes, the musicians took the option to work in their own style, as if the material provided was their own. The result is a thrilling extension to 'A/T' completed with a CD including some of the original source and a CD-Rom interactive part."

Artist:	CALLA
Title:	Custom (The Remix Project)
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 118CD

"Calla is a three-piece band with Aurelio Valle (guitar/vocals), Wayne B. Magruder (drums/ programming/ percussion), and Sean Donovan (keyboard/bass/programming).The three roommates formed Calla at the end of 1997 and recorded their debut LP throughout 1998 at their home in Brooklyn. Calla's self-titled debut was released in mid 1999 on Quatermass. Their second album Scavengers was co-produced by Michael Gira of Swans' fame and released in 2001 on Quatermass (on Young God in the USA). For their new project Calla let other renowned artists like I-Sound, Pan American, Couch and Tarwater transform their 'Radiohead-meets-Nick Cave'-like songs into something quite new and exhilarating. Electronic sounds melt together with Calla's unique fragile sensibility. All of the original songs are treated with great respect, nevertheless some of them are reconstructed in a totally different form leaving nothing but the spirit of the originals intact. This is music for anyone interested in great songwriting and modern electronica."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Vs Kitty-Yo
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 119CD

U"Here is our first versus of the year: Vs Kitty-Yo. After the first 3 volumes: Vs Shi-Ra-Nui (Japanese Abstract Beats), Vs Kompakt (Köln's Techno Sound) and Vs Rather Interesting (Atom's Label), we choose to share a moment with the astonishing and eclectic German label Kitty-Yo, an open-minded independent label giving thrills and chills to music lovers in various musical ways. The German label Kitty-Yo is sure the home of electicism with artists such as Gonzales and his freaky-fun hip-hop, the new goddess of sex rock known as Peaches, the post-rock from Couch, the straight groovy electro from Rechenzentrum, the subtle soundscapes from Stol and so much more (a.o.Tarwater, Laub, Kante...). On this 'Versus', you will find beside original tracks remixes from Add N To (X), Mira Calix, Calla, Tal, Fibla all giving new orientations to the artists's works. Get some good vibes for 2002 with this spectacular styles confrontation."

Artist:	PARKER, ANDREA
Title:	The Dark Ages
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	QS 120CD

"Inky Blacknuss, Two Sandwiches short of a Lunchbox [R&S], Angular Art [Infonet], an acclaimed album Kiss My Arp on Mo' Wax.... these are some of the many projects in which you may find Aandrea Parker's touch as composer. Beside an impressive discography, she is of course, a unique DJ, find traces of her ability in the Studio! K7 'DJ Kicks' series. another aspect of her work is the art of 'remixes': Depeche Mode, Patrick Pulsinger, Lamb, Mira Calix (Warp) , The Orb, Tipper, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Reich... another non-exhaustive list. Along with live work with Philip Glass and Bang On A Can. How to define Andrea Parker's particular electronic universe? One might think about some amplified heartbeats recorded during a tribal ceremony, some dry waves of sounds recycled from Andrea's environment, floating sonic ghosts grabbed from vintage machines. If you listen closely, depth is obvious. In the forefront, bass, snares, hats and other rhythmical elements are moving in some kind of molecular agitation, creating a massive structure in which the subtle abstract touches are floating in a non-randomatic disorder. This is surely the purest electro sound you'll find, but don't expect Andrea Parker to make music for dancefloor addicts only. These tracks are ready to make you move, but the more you pay attention the more you get. This might be the missing link in the mutually exclusive worlds of 'techno' and 'experimental music', now breathing side by side. danger is a duty."

Artist:	PLAID/ATOM HEART/FIBLA
Title:	Sub Rosa Vs Rather Interesting
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	QS 12100EP

"As an introduction to our versus Rather Interesting (home of Atom Heart), here are three massive, dancefloor orientated tracks! Taste the melodic electro-samba from Plaid, inspired, derived and remixed from the destructured Brazilian anthem 'Fototienda' from Atom Heart's Dropshadow Disease. As a B-side we provide you the original Atom Heart track + a 'cool-and-loungy Latino' remix from Lisa Carbon's 'Rhumba Roland' signed by our Spanish newcomer Fibla. A little teaser introducing the forthcoming full album featuring The Atom Heart projects Naturalist, Lisa Carbon, Pentatonic Surprise etc. And some more remixes from Pram, Pole, Very Mash'ta."

Artist:	FREEFORM
Title:	A.T. Home EP
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	QS 12102EP

"Freeform invites you to share his slide collection. Some traces gathered during an 'audio-tourism' travel in China and Vietnam. Fragments of emotions, furtive images, moments of jet-lag distorted perceptions and an abundance of memories subjectively 'stolen' from the daily Asian life. A new 3 tracks 12" that proudly announces the imminent release of a new full length album filled with furious breakbeats built around electronic devices and field recordings. Gamelan fighting with beatboxes, flutes and cymbals defying basslines and sampler. This is a step into a new form of intelligent 'techno' and cutting-edge 'dance' music. Enjoy an original trippy trance effect with this blasting encounter of traditional Zen spirit and kicking beats, with Freeform as the master of ceremony. These tracks will surely be a welcome addition to your record collection, to be filed somewhere in-between soundtracks, traditional music and the electronic evolutionism sections."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Personal Settings Preset 1 to 3
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	QS 12103EP

"The series 'Personal Settings' started last year with the Preset 1 presenting new and unreleased works from Pan American / Komet (aka Frank Bretschneider) and Fisherofgold. Some more material from Gez Varley (1/2 LFO), David Morley, Nodern, Meat Beat, Manifesto, Mark Van Hoen (Locust), Electric Birds will be released soon on the Preset 2 and 3. As the Personal Settings 1 wasn't released on vinyl, we decided to present two extracts (Pan American and Komet) on an E.P. Furthermore this will also include some preview from the next volumes to come. From Personal Settings 2 we selected a track from David Morley, who released an amazing album (Tilted) on the Belgian label R&S, some 12" and work closely with Andrea Parker. Morley is back, and this is more than a good news! The Personal Settings 3 will be represented by Electric Birds, the project from Mike Martinez who released two albums on his own label (Deluxe rec.), and should be soon back with a full album on Mille-Plateaux. This E.P. is the perfect illustration on the PS series's spirit, deep and groove electronica, eclectic. From dubby killers to hypnotic electro."

Artist:	VACUOUS NINNIES
Title:	Vacuous Ninnies
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 121CD

"Vacuous Ninnies is based somewhere in the North of England. He has been living there for a year now, having returned from seven years in the scenic cultural backwater of Norwich, where he worked as a Graphic Designer. He produced a short film called Career Opportunities For Biomechanical Cyborgs, an absurd vision of a dystopian future where the machines have stolen all the jobs, which has been shown in a number of animation festivals. Vacuous Ninnies has been making electronic music since 1997, when he blew his grant and savings on a small studio (EMU ESI4000 Sampler, Spirit F1 Mixer, Korg Kaoss Pad, Boss SX700, Korg Prophecy). Before that, he used to play drums in a band called Sourmouth doing Godflesh and Pitch Shifter covers! His method of working is to sit down (very important) and grab a handful of cassette tapes picked at random from a box containing hundreds. 'The tapes can include anything from Autechre, Tortoise and Mouse On Mars to Napalm Death, Stockhausen and Madonna. it really doesn't matter. I then play these tapes on a beaten old ghetto blaster with a knackered EQ. it's completely fucked but gives everything a wonderfully warm and compressed sound. I find a clean digital sample makes the music a little too cold. The signal is then fed through a Korg Kaoss Pad to completely mash things up. I might flick across to the radio, too, to cram as much information into a sample as possible. The more that you have going on in a sample, the less control you have over it. As a result, the end product -- the music -- is far more unpredictable.'"

Artist:	SHUDO
Title:	Ri.t
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 122CD

"What does it sound like when you take the alternately tense and wide open spaces of post-noise rock and underpin them with the muscular metronome of a rugged hip hop beat? Art, baby, that's what happens. On Ri.t Shudo uses a minimal approach to give the greatest impact to the melody. Whereas most producers would take a gorgeous melody and build enormous swells around it until it was grossly overstated, Shudo gives us pristine glimpses of a remarkably honest sound. It's as if he's decided to go much further to sea, out into the deepest waters -- in a rowboat. Or better yet, a kayak, because his sound is about balance. True to the spirit of the eponymous first album 'Shudo,' and it's very personal musical perception, there is evidence of maximalising the minimal. Ri.t goes further into this subtle and crafty method of utilizing deconstruction to build a new musical expression. Shudo is back with a deeper approach of how to build melodies on the lightesttranslucent structures possible: sounds that echo off and click into, reminiscent of serene ghosts demonstrating what urban pop should be about.Taking underground hip-hop's rhythmical strength, post-noise-rock's freedom and so much more! All processed through a laptop and with a more contemporary language,aiming to experiment and combine electronics with a pop/rock/guitar background. This is about music, melodies and occasional tension...The expression of an inner vision and sound, the osmosis between the breathing of a city and its inhabitants. Close your eyes and think about nature's continual cycle of destruction and rebuilding, like perpetually sweeping waves that endlessly change a landscape. Shudo's music is about the very different aspects of evolving organic life. On the other hand there is a more personal statement without words, an expression of a musician concerned about what this world is coming to.The underlying political content of Ri.t is expressed through electronics, not only because it is the most contemporary and somewhat universal language, but because digital tools offer a level of autonomy allowing one to create a personal space; not only in music, but also in image and communication, separate and removed from the claws of corporatism. Blurred textures, floating chords, harsh spheres, deep beats, data corruption, music as visual narration..."

Artist:	LENA
Title:	Floating Roots
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 123CD

"Mathias 'Lena' Delplanque's adventure began in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), in 1973. Rocked by the sounds of disco, reggae, Zouk and Congolese rumba, he began his music studies (organ and piano) at a very young age. In an atypical way, his musical horizons open up radically: Tom Waits, Art of Noise, Public Enemy, Pierre Henry, Edgar Varčse, Stockhausen...His first compositions were born out of tape recorders, using makeshift overdubbing. His stumbling upon Faukner's writings, especially Light of August gave birth to Lena, an alias inspired by the wanderings of one character, Lena Grove. The debut album Lane (Quatermass QS132) came out in 2002 and featured a mix of deep digital dub, primitive art (Tom Waits), and something close to the German minimal techno-dub sound. Now, in 2004: Floating Roots, Lena's second opus. Strikes of melodies inherited from Scientist and Augustus Pablo spurt over more impressive rhythms (binary or wobbly). With the help of Black Sifichi and Tablloyd, assuming the roles of MCs, Lena has transformed into a hi-fi sound system. At the crossroads of the various influences he has absorbed since his African childhood, Mathias Delplanque reinvents dub by crossing Lee Perry with Pole, giving life to a hybrid monster of sorts."

Artist:	B'N'G
Title:	Atv2
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 125CD

"Some more musical surprises from our dynamic electronic duo. After two first strikes Init Sequence and Abstract Theme Variations, this third album is once again based on a total freedom of composition. This time the language is straighter, going on louder, faster and ready to blast your stereo with bass-o-lic and distorted dancefloor orientation. Dropping the flag of soundtrack-like universe, B'N'G is here to express loud and clear the pleasure of abstracts grooves, sometimes squares but surely full of syncopated and arrhythmic corrupted rythmboxe files. Atv2 is filled with some new compositions, alternatives takes and remixes from Speedy J, G-Man (aka Gez Varley, 1/2 LFO), Mick Harris and Elixir providing some more unreal and fascinating kicks and energy. With some new parameters and dropping the useless letters in their name, those who were once Bump And Grind are back with their unique blend of melodical strategy, abstract dance machine and unique personality."

Artist:	QUOIT
Title:	Properties
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 126CD

"Mick Harris, former member of the well known British band Scorn, returns with his project Quoit to full length format with an exploration of the darkside sound on the new LP Properties. Darkside is roots and Mick Harris is showing us where he comes from with an onslaught of overloaded bass and transformed breaks. Properties strikes a careful balance between advanced dancefloor material for the DJs and intense listening structures that take the Quoit sound into as yet uncharted territory. Packed with fresh rhythms, dark dancefloor, and using cutting edge tools to shape the sounds, Properties takes a decidedly Mick Harris approach to drum n bass. Twisted, razor sharp drums collide with aggressive bass sounds designed to make you move. From the cut up breaks and granulated turns of 'Lurker' to the mindbending centrepiece 'Close Season'. Properties is a loaded weapon, constructed for maximum damage, to the dancefloor and to the mind."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Personal Settings Feat. Pan American, Komet, Fisherofgold
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 127CD

"This series is based on a simple principle: subjectivity. When exposed to the media, the electronician often becomes an abstract and anonymous vector of sounds. subjectivity. In this selection of the work provided, the musicians had a total creative freedom in a parametric space of approximately 15 minutes to be divided or utilized in order to present a single piece. It's all about subjectivity and giving back the artists their own identity. On this first volume you will find new tracks from Mark Nelson, Frank Bretschneider and Joe Kingman aka Fisherofgold. Mark Nelson, Guitarist and vocalist from Labradford started in 1998 his acclaimed side-project Pan American. He sure knows how to make you both dream and move by groovy, jazzy, dubby atmospheric soundscapes. Frank Bretschneider: His personal definition concerning his music is economic, microscopic, impulsions, sounds from outer space. Using a minimum to obtain the maximum. Through his many projects (Komet, Saal, Flex...) Bretschneider redefines the universe of sounds. Fisherofgold aka Joe Kingman is a brilliant new artist from Ireland. With his analogic logic, he builds massive but subtle universes around different ancient and secret techniques. This is his first official release."

Artist:	SHAKEYFACE
Title:	Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	QS 128CD

"Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon is the debut EP by Shakeyface alias Doug. In the age of 15 he played in a questionable indie band and started to work on his early Shakeytracks and was soon making Shakeytapes every couple months and copying them for friends and random people who were feeling the vibe. Doug spent a spell at Berklee School of Music in Boston, even if it was basically a dark period in his life, that is where he began to seriously dig in the crates. The sampler was his new instrument, and he would stay up until dawn every night to perfect it. Soon enough, Shakey had to get to New York. Late night beat making sessions lasted until the wee hours. At the same time, Shakey also promoted a monthly party that allowed him to envelop his DJ style as well the chance to work with some amazing musicians: Africa Bambaataa, I-Sound, We(TM), Grandmaster D.ST, Push Button Objects and many others. Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon is a sonic mish mash in the most wonderful sense of the word. Dub, jazz, soul, found sounds, 60's pop, odd bits and pieces here and there, all of these things were put in a hip-hop blender and set to puree. Raw soul floats over electro bleeps while chunky hip-hop beats dance with reggae riddims. From the opening dubbed out piano lines of Helpless, underpinned by military drums and vocals about feeling lost in our increasingly militaristic society to the lazy hip hop of AheadBehind and the meditative 'Crazy, Crazy Like A Fox', Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon is a glorious sonic collage and emotionally as well. Shakeyface's music is based on the juxtaposition of opposing moods and feelings."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Quatermix
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	QS 130CD

"In order to properly represent the Quatermass catalogue with its 'ecclectism into the groove system' touch, we are proud to present an adventurous new sampler mixed with liquid elasticity by DJ Faskil (from BNG), closer in spirit to the excitement and spontaneity of a pirate radio program, yet delivering the purity and energy of a specialized sphere and focused narration. The tracks demonstrate the label's philosophy and form a statement concerning it's vision, reflecting integral elements of our history -- past, present and future... During an excursion running slightly more than 70 minutes, you will have the opportunity to meet artists such as Andrea Parker, DJ Wally, Komet (aka Frank Bretschneider), Gez Varley, Lena, Nodern, BNG, Spectre, Jan Jelinek featuring tracks from forthcoming Personal Settings 3 release, as well as choice cuts from Fibla, To Rococo Rot, Mash'ta (unreleased), Shakeyface etc.. Massive gratitude to all the artists for their contribution towards the building of what Quatermass represents."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Personal Settings 2
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 131CD

"The PS series started last year with the Personal Settings CD presenting new and unreleased works from Pan American, Komet (aka Frank Bretschneider) and Fisherofgold. Personal Settings 2 is fully loaded with exclusive tracks from David Morley (remember the amazing album Tilted released on R&S) and his stylish deep and massive melodic electronic spheres, Gez Varley (1/2 LFO) presenting some new dancefloor orientated anthems and the first tracks to be released from Nodern who explores the fields of noisy chill electronica. Three artists, three individuals presenting their skills without concessions, that what the PS series is about, 15 minutes for each in a totally personal approach. Check their presets!"

Artist:	LENA
Title:	Lane
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 132CD

"A great Neo-Dub/Electronica album from Lena is going to be released on the highly acclaimed Quatermass label. The ghost in Lena's machine has possessed it's share of echo chambers and mixing boards -- it was there long ago during the delirious sessions at The Ark, where Monsieur Lee 'Scratch' Perry would taunt it's spirit with a fearless and life-affirming Caribbean insouciance; it's been there when Adrian Sherwood would unexpectedly lunge toward the console and let fly with a slide of the volume fader; it's been a vital element in the steaming, bubbly, concotions found in the Mad Professor's laboratory, and more recently, it's inhabited the tiny slivers of runoff vinyl that regroup and metamporhasize into Pole's macro/microcosmic wallowings. Mathias Delplanque (aka Lena, Bidlo, DJ Jecho, Konstanz, Paul Shade) has given in to the more radical side of his Bidlo audio persona, emerging from some very haunted studio sessions as Lena -- a sort of idiot savant twin to Bidlo -- more intuitive and viscerally receptive to the dub ghost than Bidlo. The centre of Lena's universe of sound is a sonic black hole of infra-bass from which sound particles manage to frenetically escape, spiraling off into the cosmos in a frenetic rhythm, leaving trails of white light and buzzing noises which soar past the listener. On this new record Lena pairs thing down to the sweet minimalism and groovy melancholy of deep space, whilst remaining ever mindful of the universal constant that African music taps into. Suffice to say, it's complex, despite it's sonic immediacy."

Artist:	SPECTRE
Title:	Parts Unknown
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 136CD

"After completing the Hip Hop trilogy of terror -- The Illness, The Second Coming and The End -- The Overlord of the Underground a.k.a. The Ill Saint a.k.a. Spectre convened at his hinterland retreat, The Temple of Smoke in order to partake of the manna of the Gods and await further illumination from the Mighty Unseen Force. But during his dark days in the wilderness, new revelations fell from the sky like comets, and he inscribed his visions into the sonic tablet you now hold. 'And Lo, Out of the darkness.....came Light.' Parts Unknown presents a schizophrenic amalgam of styles, flavors, colors, textures, and moods. These are sounds from the beyond to take you even further out, surpassing the realm of the senses to where space and time have no meaning. Parts Unknown is a new strain of The Illness, complex yet simple, wayward and unpredictable, and lethal in its impact."

Artist:	LASWELL, BILL
Title:	Final Oscillations
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	QS 137CD

"Bill Laswell's Drum'n'Bass odyssey started in 1996 with release of the album Oscillations, some ambitious work based on hardstep kicks challenging rumbling basslines and Indian influences. Treated in a open minded fusion-like approach, this material -- was and is still -- considered as a classic. So are the two other volumes: Oscillations 2 with its more jazzy-dark-chill approach, and the Oscillations Remixes featuring some wild re-interpretations by artists such as Nico, Atom Heart, Dj Grazhoppa and UI. This trilogy is now available only as a 2CD set including the entire Oscillations 1 & 2, plus a selection of the finest cuts from the remixes album, plus a new one from N-Y's Spectre. This is Final Oscillations, nothing more to say, the music is speaking for itself in this new mastered edition."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Rocker's Delight: The Rock Sound Of Darkest Paris 1990-96
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 141CD

"Before the French touch, a darker and harder sound ruled over underground Paris... featuring Arielle, The Micronauts, Patrick Vidal, Mirwais, Discotique, Daft Punk, Sutra, Dr Love & Nature, Tom Bouthier, Costes, and Les Claques 2 Velours. Do you really think there was nothing before the 'French Touch'? France has always been packed with musicians who opened up new ways. Some bands have actually developed a cult following, whether it is Marie Et Les Garçons, for whom Patrick Vidal was playing, or Taxi Girl composed of Mirwais Ahmadzai and Daniel Darc. These bands blended the energy and revolt of punk with either electronic instrumentation or dance floor grooves. But we have not heard the last from these pioneers of the electronic French sound. Rocker's Delight is the testimony of an effervescent era that laid the foundations, through various hybrid projects, of a new musical idiom and an unabashed attitude, giving way to the emergence of a new musical approach that literally took the whole world by storm. Rocker's Delight: The Rock Sound Of Darkest Paris is the result of a crossing of the swords between Electronica and Rock, Funk, old school Hip Hop, House, etc. Far from being a patchwork of dissonant tunes, this album gives a glimpse of a more sombre Paris, more decadent, and in an unconventional need for grooves. 'Rocker's Delight' is a reference to the Sugarhill Gang and their hit 'Rapper's Delight', the first rap music hit. 'The Rock Sound Of Darkest Paris' is a reference to Joey Negro's compilation on Republic, tracing back the history of garage rock (The Garage Sound Of Deepest New York)." Artists include : Discotique, Sutra, Les Claques 2 Velours, Dr. Love & Nature, The Eurostars with Tom Bouthier, Patrick Vidal, Costes, The Micronauts (Daft Punk Remix), Arielle Par Nature.

Artist:	ELIXIR
Title:	Don't Be Scared
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 142CD

"Elixir's second album on Quatermass Don't Be Scared is the follow up to 2000's Music Mathematics Magic on Sub Rosa and is a menacing album, full of hostility yet containing an undercurrent of beauty and humour which cleverly contrast the overall brutal feel. Don't Be Scared is a reaction against all the over-produced, slick, lightweight acts who currently infest the broader genre of dance music. Elixir deliver a no-nonsense album of raw, nasty breakbeat cocktails, full of pummelling beats, twisted samples and distorted instrumentation. Filthy dirty bass is the foundation for the majority of tracks and whatever the tempo, the beats flow with head nodding accuracy, subdued where necessary and brutally powerful for maximum impact when required. Building on that foundation is a collection of varyingly conceived sounds, both sinister and sleazy, and melodic and uplifting. Recorded to the point of overload at times, tracks appear to be heading towards collapse, conjuring up images of decay and desolation, yet there are frequent flickers of hope within the album which suggest there is light at the end of the tunnel. Which of course there is, as the final track provides the most calming moment of the album."

Artist:	2ND GEN
Title:	Flicknives
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 143CD

"Containing fragments of Techno, Hip Hop and Rock with a driving Industrial noise mentality, Wajid Yaseen's aka 2nd Gen's unique musical project is a bulldozing distillation of genres, intertwining and contorting sound to serve his will. His primary desire, manifesting within his inspired compositions, is to constantly challenge himself and those who are listening. His latest album titled Flicknives to be released on the fiercely independent Quatermass label, again threatens to break down any expectations of what can be done with sound. 10 tracks ranging from the melancholic opener 'Evox' to the sonic thrill of 'Middle Finger Motif' to the stripped rawness of 'Sliding into Stereotypes' -- even more seductive and adventurous than ever."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Mother Tongues
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 144CD

"Mother Tongues is a record label dedicated to the development of female artists, whether they are MC's, DJ's or producers. Here we have a collection of tracks from Australian women, or women who have spent a substantial amount of time there and have contributed to the female hip hop scene 'collective'. It represents the various skills that the artists are developing in hip hop, so as well as hearing rap tracks you will get a taste of poetry, spoken word, instrumental production, breakbeating and skits. There's a lot of variety but it is all part of what is happening in the genre worldwide." Artists include: Beats R Us vs Jay-Q, Maya Jupiter & Moka Only, Trey, Ebony Williams, Maya Jupiter, Shorti RV, Beats R Us, Dana Diaz-Tutaan, Ebony Williams with Neotropic, and Phoenix.

Artist:	KING RHYTHM
Title:	What's Left
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 145CD

"Drum & Bass and Hip-Hop. People want to keep them separate. Put each in its own folder and file them away. Thus, a line has been drawn. King Rhythm completely erases this line and moves forward without any memory of one existing. So What's Left? First, music can consist of any sound, any feeling, any texture. From symphonic orchestral suites in E flat, wailing fuzz guitars of the 60's, to present day love of the digital malfunction speaking. How about a digital orchestra played through a fuzz pedal malfunctioning? Now that's more like it! Second, lyrics have always been used as a medium to initiate social change as well as a commentary tool used to address all aspect of life. This must continue! Rhyming, in this case by Son Of Nun, brought this to the forefront as the most direct and easily understandable way to get a message across. Relevance is the key to maintaining this striking power. Third: We live in a society with two focuses. Everything can be linked to these: injustice -- either internal or external and technology -- obsolete or cutting edge. Because of this constant seeking, life is non-stop without pause or fade. We need an anthem. The foundation has been built, the plan has been laid. This is What's Left."

Artist:	SPECTRE
Title:	RetroSpectre
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 146CD

"RetroSpectre is not a greatest hits collection, rather, as the title suggests, a journey back through an ILLustrious career spanning 10 years, 5 full-length albums, and numerous singles and remixes. In fact, most of the selections here are some of Spectre's more obscure productions culled from various compilations and B-sides as well as a few previously unreleased treasures from the vaults of The Other Side. Hand picked by The Ill Saint himself and digitally remastered, these tracks sound even better now than they originally did.

       Not many artists working in the hip-hop idiom have attempted to build a career on instrumentals, but, then again, Spectre's aim has always been to blow away all preconceived notions of what music is, and wreak havoc on your mindstate. Since his opening salvo, 'Crooked', which first appeared on 1994's critically-acclaimed Crooklyn Dub Consortium: Certified Dope, Volume 1 (WordSound) and subsequently became the title-track for the WordSound film of the same name, The Ill Saint has consistently elevated his art with something original, innovative, daring, demented and downright dope.

       Often misunderstood for the esoteric and occult knowledge forwarded in his moody, exotic beatscapes, Spectre stands alone in the musical field as a sonic shaman conjuring up images of the Unknowable and providing a gateway to The Other Side. While his sound is often described as apocalyptic, the end only marks a new beginning in his constantly evolving cycle in progress. His work can also be described as paranoid, claustrophobic, and foreboding, a fitting reflection of the world today where terrorism and plagues, Big brother and big business have reduced humanity to a sorry state. Spectre's solution is anarchy, if only in the mental.

       For, in the end, music is only music, and sound, the abstract. world where rhythm is business, Spectre's art is warfare." -- W. Nobel Savage.

Artist:	LANGAGE COMPUTER
Title:	Mouse Back Riding
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 149CD

"Language Computer's essence lies in the integration of the turntable and scratches as self-sufficient instruments. It introduces a new sound marked by both experimental HipHop and electronic sonorities. Instead of being just another demonstration of technique, which is often the case in turntablist projects, here the performance has been researched in order to leave room for a certain sonic aesthetic to blend into the whole and form a unified sound. The results are technically beyond reproach, but much more subtle in content and form. Language Computer consists of two members: John Bloug takes care of all compositional aspects, while Detect handles the turntables for the scratched episodes and sonic add-ons. Influences are plural and widely spread. The paths of experimental HipHop artists the likes of Anticon, Mush, Def Jux, Project Blowed or Living Legends crisscross with the catalogs of Warp (mostly Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Autechre), Tigerbeat6, or Rephlex, or even with artists such as Console, Murcof, Plaid, and Squarepusher."

Artist:	SENSATIONAL
Title:	Speaks For Itself
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 151CD

Tripped-out flows, broken beats, and lo-fi ambience in the home of the holy bass, Sensational is back with his fifth full-length and first release for Quatermass. As session man Torture for the Jungle Brothers or Bill Laswell via label Wordsound, the man with a four-track and a drum machine created a new epic event in hiphop with his debut release Loaded With Power. Still wowing heads with his blunted, poetry-in-motion sickness, Sensational still rocks in the old school vein, playing all his sounds live, no samples allowed. Upgrading to an 8-track for his sophomore effort, Corner the Market, gave him greater flexibility along with his use of a real microphone instead of recording vocals through his headphones. Continuing on a trajectory for outer space with releases for Matador and Ipecac, the story now continues with Speaks for Itself, which destroys rules and boundaries, lodged somewhere in-between the sweet Rn'B of the masses and the radical, experimental avant-garde of the intelligentsia. In reggae, we were blessed with the maniacal genius of Lee Perry; in jazz, we had Sun Ra; and in hip-hop, no one even comes close to Sensational.

Artist:	TINO'S DUB SELECT
Title:	Tino's Dub Select
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 152CD

"This essential collection of tracks is culled from the original albums in the 'Tino's Breaks' series, Volume 5 / Dub and Volume 6/ Halloween Dub on the Tino Corp. label -- tooled by co-producers Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto), Ben Stokes (D.H.S.) and Mike Powell (Bo Square). In the grand tradition of studio alchemists like Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo and Mad Professor, Tino and friends mingle deep deep basslines and fat effects but the furious funk still flows and the creative warp here is truly Tino's own stock in trade. Sample the homegrown and share it with a friend. Serving Tino's Dub Select, 'nicely toasted'. Tino Corp. is a record label founded by Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes dedicated to curating unique beats and sounds. As CEO and principal artist, Tino launched the label with a series of instructional albums called Tino's Breaks, which teach a new style of drumming with each installment. DJs test Tino records for scratching flexibility and overall funkiness, including DJ Krush, Cut Chemist, Nu-Mark (Jurassic Five), DJ Shadow, Z-Trip and DJ Quest. Tino Corp. is also affiliated with the Bay area turntablist collective, Future Primitive Sound whose 'associates' include Radar, Rob Swift, Faust & Shortee, Pam The Funktress (The Coup) and Romanowski."

Artist:	OBJECT
Title:	Pandemic
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 153CD

"Object sees Australian sonic experimentalist, Lawrence English cut a fresh pathway into the foliage-ridden realm of leftfield Hip Hop beatscapes. Tipping his hat to movements such as NYC's swelling Rooftop Music community, contemporary Hip Hop, Jamaican Dancehall and abstract electronics, English's work as Object seeks out the unfamiliar and the submerged. Object draws together the overlooked elements of many styles and clashes them together in a controlled explosion of rhythm, texture and composition. Based in Brisbane, Australia -- a place known to most as the gateway to the sunny post-Los Angeles themed lands of the Gold Coast, Object (known to friends and family as Lawrence English) has been contributing uncharacteristic sonic debris to the soundscapes of the region for almost ten years. In that time, his work has shifted focus, moving between various extremes and has seen him spawn a multitude of guises, each equipped to address a differing stylistic form and approach."

Artist:	MUSIC A.M.
Title:	A Heart & Two Stars
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 154CD

Music AM = Luke Sutherland (Mogwai, Long Fine Killie); Volker Bertelmann (Tontraeger); Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Mapstation). "A textbook case of how a band might get together: what's conceived and desired from within, ensues without. Three individuals, three attitudes, three paths, influences, backgrounds and visions complimenting one another, composing then recording what transpires, meticulously organizing, talking, falling silent, selecting, ultimately realising the highest common denominator: Music A.M. And now their first album is here -- A Heart & Two Stars -- the title at once alluding, if you will, to the creative triumvirate, whose collective name in turn extols the early morning, itself a radiant metaphor for inception, something new, hope. Musically speaking, Music A.M. has carefully, almost bashfully woven diverse stylistic threads together: contemplative, ambient electronica, textures from country, folk and pop music, the structural ease of what is known as post-rock, and finally a synaestheticism, which I call 'data pop'. A Heart & Two Stars is cheered by its inherent wistfulness, anaesthetized by atmospheric calm and reserve, muddled by one's own nightly dreams which, when transported into daylight, become fantastic, comical everyday stories. Luke Sutherland sings as one who would be silent, whilst the instruments are played as though they were listening. Music A.M. does not purvey a torpid, pseudo-romantic, introspective indie-electronica, having discovered instead its own narrative mode, which, given the choice between the reference points Yesterday and Today, chooses Tomorrow as the beloved Present. Music, which my ears long to hear when, in the first light of day, my eyes behold something which makes me smile." -- Tobias Thomas

Artist:	TG MAUSS
Title:	Mechanical Eye
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 157CD

Düsseldorf transplant via New York, this is TG Mauss' (Torsten Mauss) first solo record. Having previously recorded as one half of the synth-pop electro duo Tonetraeger together with Volker Bertelmann (Music A.M., Hauschka), Mauss has crafted his intimately-structured new release from retroactive memories of a dream-filled childhood. A soft wind, a warming breeze, each track on Mechanical Eye is a calm and thoughtful journey through minimal electronics, and soft, purring vocals. Each song is a brief story: in every departing wave a sound, a tone, in every white horse a voice, the glint of a guitar. What is created on Mechanical Eye is a fragile and delicate jewel and perhaps, ultimately, really treasure at the bottom of the ocean. Generous with shimmering samples, and with broad, catchy old-fashioned indiepop, it scarcely matters what you'd call it or what category you'd place it in, and these days that's more important than anything. Mauss is a pseudo-Vincent Gallo changing all the certainties that we no longer need into an idea to warm our world.

Artist:	WAYNE B
Title:	Night of the Hunter
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 160CD

Splitting time between Austin, TX and New York City, Wayne B. Magruder plays drums and samples for Brooklyn-based band Calla and records as a solo artist under the moniker "Wayne B." Taking cues from his past membership in Bowery Electric and Windsor for the Derby, Wayne B creates music with acoustic guitars, gritty samples, sub-bass, and fractured drums. With his new album, Night of the Hunter, Wayne B takes urban rhythms and folds in a rural influence. The conflicting hi/lo-fi production tactics and eerie textures create strange songs and fables. Guest vocals by Jana Plewa (Berlin) and Daphne Gannon (NYC) add a provocative ambience perfect for getting lost to.

Artist:	TONETRAEGER
Title:	This is Not Here
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 161CD

"Tonetraeger is made up of two exceptionally sympathico protagonists from the contemporary Düsseldorf music scene, which itself seems to be enjoying a conspicuous resurgence of late. One of them is Volker Bertelmann -- passionate, full-blooded, full-on musician (aka Hauschka and of Music A.M. fame); the other is Torsten Mauss (aka Twig), who adopts a more cold-blooded, measured approach to the job of enrapturing the world with music and design. Together they're unstoppable and, with the new Tonetraeger album, they have quite literally capitalized (upon) pop music`s innate potential: POP WILL AMUSE ITSELF! Driven by the desire for the good-old-wall-of-sound days and using the band format as their model, they enlisted Kreidler's drummer Thomas Klein and Tarwater bassist Bernd Jestram, in whose studio some of the tacks were recorded. This Is Not Here is brimful of ideas and allusions, moods and feelings. Right from the first track on you're forced to ask yourself: are they for real?!? Well, of course they're for real, and yes by the same token they're also playing a game. It's got to be pop: it's hymnal, anthemic, full of pathos, both sublime and heart-warming, and yet in every bar you perceive Tonetraeger audibly winking at you. Witty, humorous music, but music that is always true to itself --ironic, though never derisory or scornful. Sentimental, moving and measured music, which comes across as being both ingenuous and natural. Furthermore, it could be argued that This Is Not Here is Tonetraeger's blueprint for the 'New Emotionality' beyond cliché and beyond all those well-worn simulations."

Artist:	PHON°NOIR
Title:	Putting Holes Into October Skies
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 162CD

The debut album from Berlin-based electronic artist Matthias Grübel, aka Phon°noir. Summoning insight by loading arbitrarily recorded noise bits and sampled sounds from daily life into a drum computer, Grübel located a unique sound built from broken rhythms. Creating its own sphere between clicks'n'cuts and songwriting, Putting Holes Into October Skies is an intimate record, inviting you to enter fragile little soundscapes in a charming less-is-more-mode. Ethereal guitars meet warm lo-fi-electronics, accompanied by Grübel's haunting vocals, forming sixteen melancholic tracks, as comforting as the end of a long winter. Playful yet broken, distraught and despairing, but always with a chink of light hiding around a forgotten corner. Almost pop, but not quite.

Artist:	MUSIC A.M.
Title:	My City Glittered Like A Breaking Wave
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	QS 163CD

This is the second release from the London/Düsseldorf trio comprised of vocalist/guitarist Luke Sutherland (Long Fin Killie, Bows, Mogwai), programmer/keyboardist Volker Bertelmann (Tontraeger), and bassist/synth player Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Tarwater). Following last year's debut album A Heart and Two Stars (QS 154CD), Music A.M. continue to create cascading delicate sonorities over shuffling topographies. Slow countrified vibes, methadone doo-wop for disco misfits, swan songs for ex-swingers, are set alight by deep-blue bass chords, whispering whirlpools of guitar and burbling micro-funk. Even the surf licks and pop twists have a wistful and wintry abandonment. It features five songs originally recorded during the A Heart... sessions that have been recently reworked, suspended, and melodified by the band at their Düsseldorf studio, culminating in a blissful 20 minutes that highlights Music A.M.'s love and affinity for the in-between moments of avant-pop. While the arrangements and minimal rhythms create a mood assuredly warm and embracing, Luke Sutherland's vocals oscillate between earthbound narration and sparkling voyages into the spheres. This is the sound of summer receding. Music for a world in which all that's left is longing.

Artist:	TG MAUSS
Title:	Gravity Will Keep Us All Together
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 165CD

Düsseldorf transplant via New York, this is TG Mauss' (Torsten Mauss) second solo record, having previously recorded as one half of the synth-pop electro duo Tonetraeger together with Volker Bertelmann (Music A.M., Hauschka). Mauss' debut, Mechanical Eye was a melodious boat trip, an acoustic calling card, and as was promised, the captain has not retired: the fantastic voyage continues. Gravity Will Keep Us All Together is not only the title of his second album, but a statement: whereas modern physicists still discuss whether gravity is all but a form of energy, Mauss acts in the spirit of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla and explores the universal force of music with his intuition as a guide. His adventurous experiments with percussion and guitar strings lead to the rediscovery of the common cultural denominator: pop. Drifting away from the constrictive worlds of minimal music towards his own multicolored cosmology, Mauss surprises with a cocktail of playful beat and Brit-pop melodies, stomping '80s disco and hippiesque country. A talented parodist, he even catches the dark mood of industrial without losing emotional warmth and joie de vivre. TG Mauss gives his music the space to develop and blossom, infecting listeners with a heartfelt happiness.

Artist:	HARDMAN
Title:	Shirts and Pistols
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 169CD

"Hardman's debut Shirts and Pistols takes stock of deep soul and white trash culture, folkrock and microprocessor-aesthetics on both sides of the Atlantic and makes it all their own. Kraftwerk live again, but with Howlin'Holf as their frontman -- or maybe it's the other way 'round? Sampling and resampling themselves Hardman deconstructs and reconstructs a relaxed cocktail of digital collages, songwriting and old school popmusic. This product contains no third party ingredients. Shirts and Pistols was produced by Hardman and Mark Bihler, who has lend his producing/remixing talents to bands like Appliance, Saint Etienne and Melllow and enjoys success in Great Britain with his project Bridge and Tunnel. Created, with extensive use of the internet, and over a two month production period in Berlin the album celebrates songs as well as collages and fragments. Hardman lives what in many cases is merely the result of artistic calculation and therefore they have a credibility, that is very rare to find these days."

Artist:	MIKHAIL
Title:	Orphica
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 172CD

Orphica is the debut album by London-based artist and musician, Mikhail Karikis. After having had his music released alongside sound artists and on a compilation by pop experimentalist Björk to much critical acclaim, Mikhail's work comes highly-anticipated. Orphica takes the listener on a thrilling sonic adventure. Twelve songs map a journey through epic encounters, intimate confessions and emotional confrontations in an exuberant melding of pop, electronica, Greek folk and avant-garde music. Drawing inspiration from the mythical singer Orpheus whose music had miraculous powers, Orphica's sonic universe is high-tech and baroque, raw and delicate at once. Its combinations of sounds are unique: beats made from thrashing knives, smashing plates and electronics slice through the sounds of harps and harpsichords, while choirs chant alongside distorted static, creaking insects and whistling bats. In the midst of this, Mikhail's voice reaches out for its limits with the determination of a futurist. Orphica presents the results of a bold musical experiment by an artist whose vision aims to channel the raw energy and lyricism of folk song while pursuing musical innovation.

Artist:	MUSIC A.M.
Title:	Unwound from the Wood
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 174CD

This is the second album from Düsseldorf-based Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka, Tonetraeger) and Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Mapstation), with vocals and lyrics by Scottish author Luke Sutherland (Long Fin Killie, Mogwai). Combining gentle seduction with high tension, Unwound from the Wood features mature electro-pop with subtle wind sections, guitar themes and sophisticated rhythms. These songs are admirably flexible, revealing R&B-style diary entries, shimmering instrumentals and trips that take us to the great pop songwriting-factories of the '60s. Looking at the old form from new angles is where the story of Music A.M. begins. Artifacts from dancefloors past pulse in warm color, yet the music is not entirely smooth and simple. Unwound from the Wood sees the band somersaulting towards the heartlands of pop, while delving deeper into the well of warped micro-rhythmic whimsy. Eleven songs teem with sparkling electronics, driving drum patterns, whirlpools of guitar and Rhodes, choirs beamed in from distant solar systems, all laid out on beds of the bluest bass and brass, accompanied by stories of love, loss, longing and libido.

Artist:	RADIO ZUMBIDO
Title:	Pequeńo Transistor de Feria
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 179CD

These days it's not the Guatemalan countryside, the scenario changed, and Radio Zumbido found himself traveling between Los Angeles, California and Barcelona, while doing the music for a documentary. Lots of ideas, tapes and field recordings gathered on the way, and the result is this new album called: "pequeńo transistor de feria" ("little fair transistor") The sights and sounds of a chaotic city like Los Angeles, where Latin culture seeps carefully but grows strongly into America's old Anglo dream, thanks to a denied mass of immigrants that cross the border illegally every day. All of this mixed with the similar vibe that goes out in Barcelona, where Radio Zumbido has been living the last years, The album was recorded with some analog tape machines and instruments, using fewer samplers, in favor of an accidentally more organic sound. Keys, kalimbas, guitars and different percussion were played live. This album is not a follow up to 'Los Ultimos Dias...', since places and views have been changing, it's the natural evolution of a sound that still has the Radio Zumbido trademark. Definitely a more filmic album!

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Rocker's Delight Sampler
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	QS 12104EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Rocker's Delight - The Rock Sound Of Darkest Paris
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	QS 141LP