abc.net.au: "Since 1993 Melbourne trio the Dirty Three have inspired and intimidated audiences around the world with their unmistakeable, post-rock soundscapes.
For their seventh and most recent album Cinder The Dirty Three spent six days on Phillip Island, south of Melbourne, breaking all their own rules to introduce brevity, bagpipes, bazoukis and in a first for the band...vocals!
The Dirty Three joined Sarah Ashley from Radio National's The Deep End to perform live in the studio and talk about the making of Cinder.
You can hear 'Ever Since', 'Amy', 'Flutter' and 'Everything Is Fucked' along with the enigmatic Warren Ellis in conversation." Download here
From the Warp Records newsletter: "Boards of Canada return on 06/06/06 with a brand new EP. Trans Canada Highway features the original and Odd Nosdam remix of Dayvan Cowboy, as well as four brand new tracks.
The first ever official music video for Boards of Canada has also been completed. Directed by Melissa Olson, it truly is a thing of beauty…"
allmusic.com: "From a bedroom in a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, Birchville Cat Motel issues forth a steady stream of albums of alternately ghostly and aggressive drone-heavy noise rock. The alter ego of guitarist, songwriter, and producer Campbell Kneale, Birchville Cat Motel is akin to fellow D.I.Y. space rock luminaries like Alastair Galbraith, Roy Montgomery, and the Flying Saucer Attack." More
Chris Sharp in THE WIRE October 2005: Operating from a tiny village in Italy, Emiliano Romanelli and Rossano Polidoro have, over the course of several releases, developed a truly distinctive sound, and "Just One Night" is possibly their most coherent release so far. It's not just that Tu M' (named after a painting by Marcel Duchamp) use sound sources out of the ordinary - plenty of others incorporate acoustic guitar, saxophone, toy keyboards and flute into their music - it's the way that they edit these sources together in a fashion which combines the precisely surgical and the winningly quixotic. It's all about cunningly presented detail: the evanescent melodica flitting from channel to channel in "Strange Sleep"; the rattling rimshots lurking in the depths as "Blue Blur" sways through cubist jazz bar scapes; the tiny, throaty female gasp that punctuates the off-kilter whirl of "An Afternoon In The Country". "The First Rays Of The Sun" is a pristine example of the painterly mastery of Tu M' - an elliptical, wistful, immmaculate collection of sonic fragments held in beautiful, unresolved suspension.
autopilotmusic.com: "As a solo-artist Guido Möbius creates a very unique and intimate sound. A whole lot of instruments, most of them acoustic, define the soundcollage. Brittle soundtissues and sweet tones blend in complex arrangements." More
Touching Extremes: "Brandon Nickell, a 23 year-old navigator of harsh synthetic and electronic seas known as Aemae, shows his admirable will to construct new kinds of uneasy architectures. The eight pieces of "The helical word" form a pyrotechnic cycle of cascading incidents, timbral shifts and granular abrasions which move like creatures without a preconceived position in an undetermined system, finally finding a way to transform contraptions and extrapolations into rough elliptical shapes and dehydrated approximations of parallel galaxies" More
from their website: the lappetites is a laptop group playing with digital and sonic linking games for composition.4 woman from different background and different generations. regularly active as solo artistes all over the world they have recently come together in the lappetites. to check out ways of live sharing and poaching sound and data from each other as a means of composition.
pitchforkmedia.com: Forming in 1995 and performing locally around Providence, Rhode Island, Lightning Bolt started out a sloppy but determined art-school trio with a penchant for Skin Graft-style noise-rock and aggressive live shows. It took them two years to get a record out, and when they finally did, it was released in a limited run of 750 copies. Since then, they've tightened up-- even dropping a member to become a bass/drums duo-- and the live shows which were once simply tenacious have slowly developed into juggernauts, atomic blasts of crystalline fury that send shards of feedback and blistering distortion into anyone who dares witness such savagery in the flesh. More
Current Release: pitchforkmedia.com: "Hypermagic Mountain is Lightning Bolt's fourth, most well-oiled album: song-by-song it chugs into rockier Van Halen, Fucking Champs, or Orthrelm territory. Somewhere in the middle a lack of variety creates a dull patch, but even the more homogenized tracks slip by on the upped energy as well as subtle, virtuostic additions to the violence. The set was again captured by ex-Small Factory jangle-popper Dave Auchenbach, who mostly harnesses the band live to two-track (with some live mixing) and DAT. Because of the approach, Hypermagic Mountain breathes like a battering ram: The drums are gargantuan and, conversely, the vocals fold nicely into the buzz."
thewire.co.uk: "To illustrate Winston Clark's journey into the music of Belarus, featured artists Troitsa and Drum Ecstasy have donated a number of tracks for Wire readers" - Download from thewire.co.uk
drumecstasy.com: Drum Ecstasy is a "live"; band that plays heavy dance music using various bass guitar sounds, supported by a massive background of three and more drummers. In individual compositions Bosch electric drills and saws noises and sound effects are used. In average Drum Ecstasy performance lasts 40-90 minutes, often slides and videos are used. There is also another variant of sounding (European percussion instruments + industrial percussion). This variant is often used during shows and presentations.
basementbar.com: "Earth was formed in Olympia, WA in 1990 by guitarist Dylan Carlson. The band actually signed to Sub Pop during the grunge years and an early demo session even featured Kurt Cobain on vocals. However, Earth were a darker, noisier, far more underground beast than even the grungiest of the grunge bands. They pioneered the sort of nearly unlistenable, super-heavy distorted drone that is now practiced by bands like sunn0))) and other stoner doom bands. Their music was mostly instrumental, sparsely using vocals and mostly just concentrating on creating the slowest ambient distortion they could. The band released several albums and went through several members, eventually becoming basically the project of Carlson and session musicians. Carlson put the band on hiatus after 1996’s Pentastar (In the Style of Demons), which at that point was the most accessible Earth album." More
allmusic.com: "Joining the band Swans two years after it came into being, Jarboe soon became the co-leader of the band with founder Michael Gira, who has also remained her personal partner ever since; together the two released some of the most striking, musically extreme recordings of recent years, both as Swans and as the side project band Skin. Jarboe's solo career began in earnest in 1992 with the release of Thirteen Masks, followed a couple of years later by a collaborative effort released under the name Beautiful People with Larry Seven, who also worked on Thirteen Masks and various Swans tracks before that time."
Boards of Canada is the duo of Michael Sandison (born July 14, 1971) and Marcus Eoin (born May 27, 1973). Based on the northern coast of Scotland, the group got its start on acclaimed experimental electronica label Skam in 1996 after recording an obscene number of tracks and pressing the best of them up as a miniscule-run 12", Twoism, an eight-track promo EP the group sent to labels in lieu of a demonstration tape. The pair's first official release appeared on Skam toward the middle of 1996, and was quickly hailed as among the label's finest releases to date. More
pitchforkmedia.com: Forming in 1995 and performing locally around Providence, Rhode Island, Lightning Bolt started out a sloppy but determined art-school trio with a penchant for Skin Graft-style noise-rock and aggressive live shows. It took them two years to get a record out, and when they finally did, it was released in a limited run of 750 copies. Since then, they've tightened up-- even dropping a member to become a bass/drums duo-- and the live shows which were once simply tenacious have slowly developed into juggernauts, atomic blasts of crystalline fury that send shards of feedback and blistering distortion into anyone who dares witness such savagery in the flesh. 
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