NON

Boyd Rice's NON, in a superb dark-ambient album. Absurdly disruptive and unsettling - extreme drone-music.

(2002) Children of the Black Sun / V0
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Dagmar Krause

Canterbury Scene's most notable voice, Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears), in her solo debut, sings early twentieth century german theathre music by icons Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler. Although far from the rock scenario, Supply & Demand shows Krause's highest vocal qualities, in a no less joyful approach.

(1986) Supply & Demand / 160k
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Today is the Day (repost)

Second album by Steve Austin and Today is the Day, Willpower (Amphetamine Reptile Records) gathers much of Zeni Geva and OLD in this noise-rock / post-hardcore / metal crossover album. The comparisson to K. K. Null and James Plotkin is pertinent since Austin has as well pushed further the boundaries of experimentalism in metal territory. TitD eventually trailed a straight metal path towards the 2000's, except for the amazing Relapse's Sadness will Prevail.

(1994) Willpower / 320k
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Charles Mingus

Another masterpiece from Charles Mingus, this time in big-band format. It was considered by Mingus himself, by the time it was released, his best work to date.

(1972) Let My Children Hear Music
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Oneida

Oneida's seventh full length album (sixth through Jagjaguwar) is a marvelous amalgam of complete different styles in a highly creative and harmonious recording. Baroque pop leads to postpunk, which precedes stoner rock, garage rock and psych-folk ('Run Through my Hair' starts at the point labelmate Richard Youngs stopped making good music).
The album may loose its stregth towards the end, but songs like 'The Eiger' and the album's peak 'Know' make The Wedding an incredibly strong and inevitably addicting work.


(2005) The Wedding / 224k
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