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We've got all of those tracks from her early '80s days on this fantastic new Staubgold compilation, though it should be noted that she also recorded with Prince Far I before all of this and co-wrote tracks with Massive Attack and Moritz Von Oswald afterwards. The dub of \"Private Armies\" (featured here, in its slightly more sprightly vocal version) has been featured on a number of New Age Steppers collections, with its stark low-slung baselines and heavily flanged rhythms certainly cut from the same British dub production that delivered PiL's Metal Box and The Pop Group's Y. Goldman's \"Laundrette,\" along with her two Flying Lizards cuts, embrace the taunting grooves of The Slits, whilst deconstructing the stereotypical gender roles of housework and other banalities left for women by society. The Chantage tracks shift the focus slightly away from a dub-punk and towards a ramshackle rocksteady, as if recorded in a Parisian cafe of absinthe drinkers. 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Soon enough the planet Saturn, Halley's Comet, and those woolly cows from the Swiss Alps will be threatening legal action, leaving only the typically lurid photo from Richard Kern as the only remaining appropriated image on the cover of \u003cem\u003eSister\u003c\/em\u003e, which can be pegged as either the fourth or fifth SY album depending on whom you ask. \u003cem\u003eSister\u003c\/em\u003e was first issued back in 1987, and the album's lead track \"Schizophrenia\" is actually an homage to Kim Gordon's brother, who had been afflicted by that disease since his late teens. It's a suitably maudlin track raked with Sonic Youth's quintessential dissonant pop, holding back the dynamic avant-punk swagger that became their signature throughout the late '80s and early '90s. 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Mostly known as a left-field disco producer and classically trained cellist, Russell was also an accomplished avant-garde composer, as evidenced here. Listed by us recently on limited cassette, and once reissued on cd in 2006 as part of the Audika collection \u003cem\u003eFirst Thought Best Thought\u003c\/em\u003e that documented his orchestral work with luminaries of the New York Downtown Scene (Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson and Peter Gordon) following his stint as musical director at The Kitchen in New York, \u003cem\u003eTower Of Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e was originally released on Philip Glass's new music label, Chatham Square in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suite of seven movements performed by an ensemble of horn players and conducted by Julius Eastman (whom like Russell, was a gay modern classical iconoclast),\u003cem\u003e Tower Of Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e has a slow epic funereal vibe reminiscent of Gavin Bryars' \u003cem\u003eThe Sinking of The Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e, or indeed like a Philip Glass piece in slow motion. 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Called the \"world's most important rock group\" by Brian Eno, Harmonia consisted of Neu founder, Michael Rother and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster. Michel Rother, after contributing to Cluster's breakthrough record, \u003cem\u003eZuckerzeit\u003c\/em\u003e, which heralded a new direction in sound from their earlier dark and cavernous analog synthscapes to a more pastorally melodic and motorik driven percussive vibe, decided to take a breather from Neu. He moved into Cluster's newly built studio in the German countryside where they began collaborating on a more combined sound. While each member still continued to focus on their own main projects Harmonia was never considered a sideline affair, recording two stellar albums plus a series of recordings with Brian Eno that didn't see the light of day until twenty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnecting the aesthetics of Pop and Minimalism, the first Harmonia album is a product of their source bands but with a fresh twist on the motorik ideal. Less clinical than Kraftwerk, less funky than Can, each member's multi-instrumentalist abilities are employed in a variety of approaches at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, using electronic beats, distorted rhythms, warm keyboard shimmers, drifting piano, and gliding electric guitars. It's no wonder Brian Eno was a fan. Fans of Boards of Canada, Susumu Yokota and electronica-heads of all types should check this out too. 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The brainchild of Adrian Sherwood and percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, the group forged their own undefinable sound on these early albums which sound eerily contemporary, pre-dating the experimental bass music of labels such as Hyperdub and Tectonic. Features contributions from Bruce Smith (The Pop Group), Style Scott (Roots Radics) and Deadly Headley (The Wailers). Re-cut at dubplates \u0026amp; mastering in Berlin for maximum bass pressure. 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German guitar guru Manuel Gottsching, founder of legendary krautrock pioneers Ash Ra Temple (which morphed into the new-age-ier Ashra), made a few records in the eighties under his own name. \u003cem\u003eE2-E4\u003c\/em\u003e, recorded in Berlin in 1981 and released in '84, was first and foremost among them. It's rightly hailed as a classic and was a great inspiration for early Detroit techno artists like Derrick May and Carl Craig. The resonant timelessness of \u003cem\u003eE2-E4\u003c\/em\u003e has extended beyond many other albums of the era and its influence has continuously popped up in more recent minimalist techno circles – most noticeably within the Cologne scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eE2-E4\u003c\/em\u003e is one loooong track split at a judicious edit at the end of each side, with nine titled and timed subdivisions indicated on the cover (suggestive of a chess match: \"Quiet Nervousness,\" \"Queen A Pawn,\" \"Draw\"). The album flows and flows and flows through Gottsching's guitar and electronics drifting and dancing beautifully over the continuous, pulsating, subtly-shifting proto-techno beat. It's so very pleasant and airy, also soooo hypnotic and ahead of its time. Even after an hour you won't want to end, once it has lulled you into trance. Listening to this, it's easy to see why the Boredoms' Eye would revere it and of course those above mentioned Detroit legends too. 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The famous \"Citta Violenta\" track, the score's main theme, is celebrated as one of Morricone's most iconic themes. This is the first vinyl release of the complete edition. Green vinyl. Limited edition of 1000.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dagored","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":23150842817,"sku":"RED223C-LP","price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/6532\/products\/SV_mailorder_morricone_cittaviolenta.jpg?v=1471388570"},{"product_id":"maki-asakawa-s-t-2xlp","title":"Maki Asakawa - s\/t 2xLP","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa (1942-2010). Deep-indigo, dead-of-night enka, folk, and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone. 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The end result is a perverse and controversial album, one that gives the middle finger to the label, and perhaps to the record-buying public as well. That said, the disc is a very worthy one as a whole; it's a beautiful bridge between the start repetition of the debut and the lush melodic textures of \u003cem\u003e'75\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver time, this great big middle finger to the music biz has weathered the storm very well. In fact, it now sounds as if it were recorded this way based on aesthetics rather than anger. 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The tense ambient soundscape of \"Sonderangebot\" balances things a bit before the slower-than-Neil Young \"Weissensee\" opens with a subtle industrial clamor and opens up into a lyrical exploration of distorted slide guitar aesthetics with an uncharacteristic drum elegance that keeps the guitar in check. \"Im Glí_ck\" tracks a restrained, droning path through the textural palette of the guitar, treated with whispering distortion and echo. All hell breaks loose again on Dinger's \"Negativland\" as an industrial soundscape eventually gives way to a bass and guitar squall as darkly enticing as anything on Joy Division's \u003cem\u003eUnknown Pleasures\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRother's style had as much to do with not playing as it did with virtuosity, and his fills of open chords, stuttered cadences, and broken syntax provided a much needed diversion for the metronymic regularity of the rhythm section. 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