Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth

As Oliver Nelson is known primarily as a big band leader and arranger, he is lesser known as a saxophonist and organizer of small ensembles. Blues and the Abstract Truth is his triumph as a musician for the aspects of not only defining the sound of an era with his all-time classic "Stolen Moments," but on this recording, assembling one of the most potent modern jazz sextets ever. Lead trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is at his peak of performance, while alto saxophonists Nelson and Eric Dolphy (Nelson doubling on tenor) team to form an unlikely union that was simmered to perfection. Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Roy Haynes (drums) can do no wrong as a rhythm section. "Stolen Moments" really needs no comments, as its undisputable beauty shines through in a three-part horn harmony fronting Hubbard's lead melody. It's a thing of beauty that is more timeless as the years pass.
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Proem - Among Others

Hailing from Austin, Richard "Proem" Bailey follows up his previous full-length Negativ with work in the same fibrillating, brooding beaty vein. Taking a couple bits of morbid ambience in "001" and "Your Grandfather is Dead" to get warmed up, Among Others, on the MiniDisc label n5MD, really starts to get interesting with the bubbly, scratchy "Phat Sheild" serving up a deep slice of twinkling starscapes and crunchy beats that reminds the happy listener of a beautiful homage to soupy Bola. "Early Rings" rumbles slowly, the humming of florescent lighting and subsonic reverberations suggesting visions of a subway car pushing air through a tunnel, with its track-gap beat building until the sluggish beast rolls its way through the pre-dawn of a slumbering, industrial city. The irregular cadences of "Three Days Before I Move" and "Crashmap" suggest a struggle between broken symmetries, a collapse of order and control with freestyle attempts by the musician to patch up mistakes as best he can as the pieces play themselves out.
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Saru - Downtempo Dojo

Saru is Los Angeles-based downtempo electronica artist Steve Branson, who has appeared on numerous compilations and makes his solo full-length debut with this very fine program of dreamy beatscapes and off-kilter found sound samples. He's aided and abetted by guitarist/bassist Jim Behrens, who leavens the abstract atmospheres with swatches of actual harmonic content. On tracks like "Something Stronger" and the explicitly dubwise "Suck in Love," Behrens comes on like a tripped-out combination of Michael Brook and Bill Laswell while Branson loops beats and lobs samples around in the background; the relatively spartan textures of "Fishbowl Funk" manage to evoke classic soul and jangle pop at the same time. Like much of the best electronica, this stuff is relatively easy to ignore if you need to get some work done, but also rewards your attention when you make the effort to attend to it.
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Frog Pocket - Gonglot

Proving that Four Tet doesn't have the folktronica scene all sewn up, John Charles Wilson weighs in with a rough-hewn collection of fractured, raggle-taggle Techno tracks involving fiddles, mandolins and piled up broken beats. Something about the music's lack of subtlety is strangely appealing - you won't be spinning this one after your Boards Of Canada albums, but that's exactly the point. Wilson's beats are a real mess - apparently each rhythmic part was punched in manually - and often seem to work against the music rather than underpin or frame it n any meaningful way, but Gonglot has none of the pheasant-under-glass tastefulness that usually dogs this kind of stuff. On the great "Eye Beby Y Ben II", looped violin scrapings create an ever more intense textural web as the beats tie themselves in knots as if trying to effect an escape. At last, an electronic album that sounds like it was made by a real person.
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Man With No Name - Moment of Truth

Accessible trance doesn't always mean 'cheesy' or 'fluff'. Just because MWNN's music isn't as dark or trippy as the likes of Hallucinogen or Total Eclipse (both of whom I also love), doesn't mean that it cannot be enjoyed for the more 'feel-good' side of goa/psy-trance that it represents.
This album, and indeed MWNN's music in general, is something you can enjoy no matter what mood you're in. Give the guy a break. There's no rule saying that psytrance can't have chord changes.
Plus, 'Azymuth' is one of the best downtempo tracks I've heard, floating and lilting, it takes you on a journey from start to finish. If it's a good slice of upbeat, uplifting, non-monotonous goa/psy you're looking for, this album will not steer you wrong.
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Scone - Maze

After tracking down most of the Funckarma output, I realized that their recent material (Caipruss, Bion Glent, and many contemporary remixes) sounded too similar, as if the ideas were growing stale. But then Funckarma started collaborating; frequently, heavily, and with vastly different results. Scone is by far the most satisfying of these collaborations to date, and is easily one of the best albums on which Funckarma have ever made their mark. Kettel brings a lot to the table for this release, with excellent melodies and a fresh addition to the chopped-up and frenetic beats for which Funckarma are famous. Funckarma, likewise, add funkiness and flavor to the normally more reserved Kettel electronica. Although all of the tracks on this album are superb, it’s easy to see why the album singles out “Maze” for the title track. It’s a perfect blend of Kettel’s and Funckarma’s styles, and a damn catchy tune as well.
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Terrorizer - World Downfall

One of the landmark albums of the late-'80s grindcore uprising, World Downfall is nonetheless one of the least known, because the band only existed long enough to record this one Earache release. In fact, Terrorizer had already parted ways by the time of World Downfall's 1989 recording and release. The Los Angeles-based trio -- vocalist Oscar Garcia, guitarist Jesse Pintado, and drummer Pete Sandoval -- existed for only a short period of time, roughly from 1987 to 1988, and though they played some local shows, they were most successful on the tape-trading network so integral to the underground metal scene of the time. Via this tape-trading network, Pintado came into contact with fellow guitarist Mitch Harris, who passed along the Terrorizer demo tape to Earache Records. The British label, which was ground zero for the grindcore movement, wanted to usher Terrorizer into a studio to record an album. Meanwhile, Sandoval had been invited to join the Florida death metal band Morbid Angel, which had been around for several years and had a strong underground following. Sandoval accepted the invitation and joined Morbid Angel in Tampa, where the band entered Morrisound Studios to record Altars of Madness, released by Earache in May 1989. Garcia and Pintado in turn joined their relocated bandmate in Florida, and the reconfigured Terrorizer lineup -- which now included Morbid Angel bassist David Vincent, who offered to fill in the bass duties -- rehearsed for a couple days before entering Morrisound Studios. It took producer Scott Burns two days to record and mix the tracks of World Downfall, which Earache proceeded to release in September 1989. The album is a 16-track, 45-minute onslaught of prototypical grindcore à la Scum: the free-form songs, which range from about 1:30 to 3:30 each, are filled with blastbeats, growling, and solo-free riffing. Highlights include "After World Obliteration," the insane opener and longest song on the entire album, clocking in at 3:29; "Fear of Napalm"; "Corporation Pull-In"; and "Dead Shall Rise." Shortly after the release of World Downfall, Pintado was invited to join the ranks of the mighty Napalm Death, whose guitar slot had been vacated by the departure of Bill Steer, who left to focus his efforts exclusively on his other band, Carcass. Pintado joined Napalm Death in time to re-enter Morrisound once again, this time to record Harmony Corruption (1990), while Sandoval went on to enjoy a long-lasting career with Morbid Angel. Garcia would later sing in the revived lineup of Nausea. So while Terrorizer was never well known, since the band barely existed, let alone toured or promoted itself, World Downfall has grown in stature over time and is regularly cited as a grindcore classic.
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