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Artist:	BONAPARTE
Title:	My Horse Likes You
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AKT 708CD

After two years of ongoing tour-frenzy, tracking the traces of debut album Too Much and the accompanying remix CD Remuched, it's finally here: the eagerly-anticipated new studio album My Horse Likes You from Bonaparte. An imperial carriage full of outrageous top hits, somewhere between trotting rock'n'roll, galloping electro, and vaulting indie-rock. Monsieur Bonaparte takes us on a sunny ride from Mexico to Russia: 11 new party stompers, a great deal of oats (along with overture, interlude, and a big finale) that supplies the party fodder for two more years of touring for this spectacular rock'n'roll circus, that won the infamous LEA-Awards in the category "Best Club Act." My Horse Likes You leads even the most stubborn crock back on the race track -- and makes the heart of any horsegirl and boy jump. By the way, the charade piece "Orangutang" -- a psychedelic canter throughout the Berlin Rave Zoo -- is ridden by all-time Monkeytown-sheriffs, Modeselektor. Housed in a digipak with a 16-page Leporello booklet.

Artist:	BONAPARTE
Title:	My Horse Likes You
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	AKT 708LP

Gatefold double LP version. After two years of ongoing tour-frenzy, tracking the traces of debut album Too Much and the accompanying remix CD Remuched, it's finally here: the eagerly-anticipated new studio album My Horse Likes You from Bonaparte. An imperial carriage full of outrageous top hits, somewhere between trotting rock'n'roll, galloping electro, and vaulting indie-rock. Monsieur Bonaparte takes us on a sunny ride from Mexico to Russia: 11 new party stompers, a great deal of oats (along with overture, interlude, and a big finale) that supplies the party fodder for two more years of touring for this spectacular rock'n'roll circus, that won the infamous LEA-Awards in the category "Best Club Act." My Horse Likes You leads even the most stubborn crock back on the race track -- and makes the heart of any horsegirl and boy jump. By the way, the charade piece "Orangutang" -- a psychedelic canter throughout the Berlin Rave Zoo -- is ridden by all-time Monkeytown-sheriffs, Modeselektor. Includes one exclusive track not on the CD, plus a full-color poster (of the horse) and an mp3 download coupon.

Artist:	FORREST, JASON
Title:	The Everything
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AKT 716CD

Six years in the making, Jason Forrest's The Everything is the latest achievement in a long and varied career. It's perhaps his interest in new music, his openness to old ideas and a restless ear that has helped Forrest to keep current and to remain true to his unique place in the music world. Beginning his career in 1999, his blend of sample-heavy classic-rock meets jungle meets noise propelled Forrest rapidly to international acclaim. His 2004 album The Unrelenting Songs Of The 1979 Post Disco Crash was championed by Pitchfork and launched him on a non-stop international tour that continues to this day. His last album in 2005, Shamelessly Exciting was a personal best for Forrest and gained glowing critical reviews worldwide. The Everything is an ambitious record with a broad palette while at the same time remaining surprisingly cohesive. One can hear the same expressive mind at the controls over all 11 tracks. From the funk of the opening track "New Religion" to the chaotic bombast of "Archive," the musical thread leads logically (if unexpectedly) from track to track. Forrest covers a lot of ground along the way. On "Italian Lessons," Forrest takes cues from Ennio Morricone, Crass, Krautrock and Afro-pop ending up with something altogether unique. "Raunchy" is a juke-town boogie-woogie with a stomping beat interrupted by a cinematic build-up, resulting in a demonic guitar solo straight from hell. "Roger Dean Landscape" is drawn similarly from a sort of Arabic prog-rock but also fits easily at home on a late-night club music set while "Keys To The Door" feels like it would be right at home on a late-night radio station in the smooth '70s. The album ends with one of the biggest surprises in Forrest's career, "Isolation, Too," an introspective meditation on what it feels like to be still, to be quiet, to be lonely. The Everything is packed with vitality, innovation and musical daring. This is not a bashful album, it's not following trends, it's arty in many aspects and it's iconoclastic. The Everything is loud and proud, an album full of emotion from baroque melody to brutal noise. It's symphonic, it's clubby. There are elements of almost every genre one can think of -- from rockabilly to dubstep to electroacoustics. It's an album that takes the listener on an audio tour through Forrest's musical world. In short -- it's everything.

Artist:	KHAN & VIKTOR MAREK, ASHRAF SHARIF
Title:	Pudel Produkte 16
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AKTSIE 030EP

While Marek is renowned as the original "Madlib from the Waterkant," Khan, offspring of an ancient Pakistani sitar-player-dynasty, is randomly stranded in Hamburg. Together, the duo produces a sitar-driven club-step that unifies countries, people, and even cerebral hemispheres. Besides the two original tracks, this 12" includes remixes by legendary dubstep/UK garage/drum'n'bass godfathers Horsepower Productions and by the Hamburg-based Smallville collective that has grown around the Smallville record store. A must-have.

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Pudel Produkte 15
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AKTSIE 027EP

Artist:	MAREK & BOOTY CARRELL, VIKTOR
Title:	Check The Horse (Pudel Produkte 13)
Label:	STAATSAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	AKTSIE 028EP