PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 20 MAY

MEDIENGRUPPE TELEKOMMANDER - BILD DIR DEINE MEINUNG
FRANZ FERDINAND - THE FALLEN (RUINED BY JUSTICE)
JIMMY EDGAR - JEFFERSON INTERCEPTION
MARGOT MEETS THE MELODY MAKER - TORCH (LELE PASINI & DAVIDE RUBERTO DUB)
DIGITARIA - DOGON
SYSTEM-PI - PAPAIA SUNRISE
MARTIN DONATH - RADIANT BLUE
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLES GANG - THIS ONE
NIGHTMARES ON WAX - THE SWEETEST
BARBARA MORGENSTERN - THE OPERATOR
BOARDS OF CANADA – SKYLINE
I AM AN EXIT - POLAR

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I AM AN EXIT

ARTIST / BAND: I AM AN EXIT
SONG (MP3): POLAR
ALBUM: POLAR (download whole album)
FILE UNDER: Techno
LABEL: funquedroppings.com
INFO: I AM AN EXIT (aka Chymera aka Brendan Gregoriy aka Louis Patrick) makes various forms of Techno in and around Dublin, Ireland. Music to make heads think as well as move feet.
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BOARDS OF CANADA

ARTIST / BAND: BOARDS OF CANADA
SONG (MP3): SKYLINE
ALBUM: Trans Canada Highway
FILE UNDER: downbeat electronica, IDM
LABEL: Warp
INFO: 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.
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BARBARA MORGENSTERN

ARTIST / BAND: BARBARA MORGENSTERN
SONG (MP3): THE OPERATOR
ALBUM: Maxi Single THE OPERATOR
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Indie
LABEL: http://www.blogger.com/www.monika-enterprise.de
INFO: You could have called that work Indietronic, but the term didn`t exist at the time. Even now, two years later, it won`t fit. yet it comes to mind, because `Fjorden` has obviously been recorded with new equipment and new technique. Still working out of her own studio, using sampler and sequencer in her instrumentation, Barbara Morgenstern tells us stories. Her wonderful, heartbreaking voice, adds context to the beats and sounds."Fjorden", with its warm analog sound, is like a good friend visiting - rotating in your cd player. You are not alone. Barbara Morgenstern is there with her music. And it`s wonderful that she`s there!....
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NIGHTMARES ON WAX

ARTIST / BAND: NIGHTMARES ON WAX
SONG (MP3): THE SWEETEST
ALBUM: In A Space Outta Sound
FILE UNDER: Trip Hop / Ambient / Indie
LABEL: Warp
INFO: Nightmares On Wax bring the soul back to hip hop. While the group’s 1991 debut A Word Of Science buried mainman George Evelyn’s influences beneath a bleeping MIDI interface, 1995’s breakthrough Smokers Delight had little to do with techno; it’s a hip hop chill out album, with a classic soul flourish. On Carboot Soul, George continued to take the sounds of soul innovators to new sound plateaus.

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INTERNATIONAL PEOPLES GANG

ARTIST / BAND: INTERNATIONAL PEOPLES GANG
SONG (MP3): THIS ONE
ALBUM: Action Painting
FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Experimental / Electronica
LABEL: em:t
INFO: Synaesthesia - the mixing of the senses. Tasting textures, seeing sound. Normally the preserve of a select few or the result of a date with LSD or psychedelic mushrooms, but now available to everyone courtesy of the International Peoples Gang and their new album, Action Painting. Taking Jackson Pollock's approach to art into their own medium, Nottingham's Martyn Watson and Ric Peet use concepts of sound as their material, throwing them at blank spaces and watching abstract images and audio-visual beauty take shape. The result combines warm, organic dub soudscapes with classical stylings, elements of folk with fuzzed guitars, manipulation of language with electronic experimentation. This anything goes approach fits with the original concept behind the group.

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MARTIN DONATH

ARTIST / BAND: MARTIN DONATH
SONG (MP3): RADIANT BLUE
ALBUM: White Canvas
FILE UNDER: Techno / Minimal / Tech House
LABEL: http://www.blogger.com/www.stadtgruenlabel.net
INFO: Sometimes it's a little bit better to travel than to arrive. Listening to the music of Martin Donath is just like following R.M. Pirsig's dualistic sight of world, who identifies two primary modes of perceiving and thinking: classicism and romanticism. Like Pirsig's protagonists Martin is on the way to unify the cold, rational world of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. His medium is not the world of words and thoughts, but the abysmal ambience of notes and sounds. His classic attitude may be recognised in the way how he arranges his tracks searching for the perfect structure.


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SYSTEM-PI

ARTIST / BAND: SYSTEM-PI
SONG (MP3): PAPAIA SUNRISE
ALBUM: Retro Moods
FILE UNDER: symphony somewhere between House, Techno and Trance
LABEL: http://www.blogger.com/www.stadtgruenlabel.net
INFO: System-Pi is the electronic project of Mario Hasenkamp. Moving within the versatile genres and subgenres of electronic music for over ten years, he has always been exposed to very different influences, as one can see in his productions.

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DIGITARIA

ARTIST / BAND: DIGITARIA
SONG (MP3): DOGON
ALBUM: Digitaria
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Electro / Rock
LABEL: Gigolo Records
INFO: After six months of very hard work, Digitaria's first album is finally ready. The CD will be released first in Brazil, on Gigolo Records/Lado Z.
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MARGOT MEETS THE MELODY MAKER

ARTIST / BAND: MARGOT MEETS THE MELODY MAKER

SONG (MP3): TORCH (LELE PASINI & DAVIDE RUBERTO DUB)
ALBUM: TORCH
FILE UNDER: Techno / Electronica
LABEL: http://www.greatstuffrecords.com/
INFO: Margot, the three Italian DJs and producers better known to friends as Pepe, Giaga, and Mappa, present the 'Torch' 12'', complete with a fine set of remixes courtesy of Germany's Great Stuff Records. The main version is a nearly unrecognizable house reworking of the Soft Cell original, with a deep bass hook and dramatic strings, alongside a Dub mix and two dangerous remixes by Border Community's Extrawelt. The Lele Pasini & Davide Ruberto Dub, which does not appear on the vinyl, is a thumping tech-house number available here for your enjoyment.
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JIMMY EDGAR

ARTIST / BAND: JIMMY EDGAR
SONG (MP3): JEFFERSON INTERCEPTION
ALBUM: Color Strip
FILE UNDER: Electro / Soul / Techno
LABEL: Warp
INFO: JIMMY EDGAR, Warp's multifaceted creative prodigy discovered in the depths of Detroit's electronic scene, is releasing his debut long player this February.

'Color Strip' sees Jimmy's insane programming skills and ultra-melodic synth touches as displayed in his previous two Warp EPs taken to another level. Combining dark, sexy R&B with his signature lascivious sound, he has created a collection of razor sharp electro pop tunes made to grind to. This is one sweaty, sultry LP.

'Color Strip' is out on all formats on February 20th, with the exception of the CD in the UK which will come out on April 3rd.
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FRANZ FERDINAND

ARTIST / BAND: FRANZ FERDINAND
SONG (MP3): THE FALLEN (RUINED BY JUSTICE)
ALBUM: Remixes
FILE UNDER: Remixes
LABEL: Domino

MEDIENGRUPPE TELEKOMMANDER

ARTIST / BAND: MEDIENGRUPPE TELEKOMMANDER
SONG (MP3): BILD DIR DEINE MEINUNG
ALBUM: Näher Am Menschen
FILE UNDER: Punk / Electro / Other
LABEL: Mute Records
INFO: After Gerald Mandl and Florian Zwietnig got together as partners in crime under the moniker of Mediengruppe Telekommander in early 2002, Hamburgs indie label Enduro soon pricked up their ears, bringing out a debut EP featuring five tracks in December 2002. The release caused a stir in well-informed underground circles and beyond. Things began to happen fast and furiously: initial live gigs, initial tour, initial press reactions, succeeded by the second EP in September 2003, out on Enduro again. More concerts followed, plus various features in MP3 magazines, more MP3 downloads, a no-budget video to promote Telekommanda, on heavy rotation on Fast Forward on the German music channel, VIVA ZWEI. Then came the move to Berlin. Even more MP3 downloads, interest from a number of labels, endless discussions and finally the decision to release their first album on Mute. Their debut album Die ganze Kraft einer Kultur (out on Mute (CD) and Enduro (vinyl)) was recorded in December 2003 at the Transporterraum studios by Moses Schneider and produced by Christian Harder in Hamburg. It arrived at the stores in May 2004. The interest in Mediengruppe Telekommander was overwhelming, the media were delighted and the clubs packed out during the subsequent mammoth tour. Parties, mosh pits and discourse these three suddenly seemed to go together really well!
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 21 MAY

BABY DAYLINER - AT LEAST
SONIC YOUTH - INCINERATE
SAM ROBERTS - THE GATE
THE MINOR LEAGUES - SCENE IT ALL BEFORE
AVOCADO CLUB - TOO MUCH SPACE TO WALK AWAY
SUFJAN STEVENS - THE HENNEY BUGGY BAND
BEIRUT - POSTCARDS FROM ITALY
ELIIOTT BROOD - SECOND SON
TILLY & THE WALL - LOST GIRLS
THE WALKMEN - LOUISIANA
EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY - HIDE & SEEK
BILL PATTON - DIRTY WOMAN
JUANA MOLINA - MALHERIDO
AMINA - HEMIPODE

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AMINA

ARTIST / BAND: AMINA
SONG (MP3): HEMIPODE
ALBUM: AnimaminA
FILE UNDER: strings, bells, electronics, harps and a homemade glassophone
LABEL: www.workersinstitute.com
INFO: We are 4 friends who met while studying at the Reykjavík College of Music in the 1990s. Since then, we’ve been playing all sorts of music with all sorts of people together. In the spring 2004 we started cooking our own music, and in December that year we released our EP AnimaminA.
2005 and 2006 will be touring time, but in between tours we’ll be working on a full-length album.

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JUANA MOLINA

ARTIST / BAND: JUANA MOLINA
SONG (MP3): MALHERIDO
ALBUM: Son
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Folk / Acoustic
LABEL: Domino Records
INFO: When I started to write the songs for this record ‘Son,’ a new element that may have been hidden for a long time appeared; the randomness of the combination of sounds in nature. Each bird has a particular singing; nevertheless this singing is always different. It is not a pattern; it’s a drawing, a sound and a mode, only a few elements that each bird combines in a new way each time. In the same way, sometimes I chose to sing a melodic drawing I develop for the song. Verses are alike, but never the same (rios seco, no seas antipática) other times I chose to sing a repetitive melody. What changes here and moves randomly is, for example, a keyboard. It is like overlapping two different loops, with no synchronicity at all. One very rhythmic and the other one more lose. When you play both, at the same time, the loose loop will provoke a changing harmony, because their beats will never be in the same place. This causes a moving harmony. During the tours, I also applied my new ideas to the old songs, that's why, when I got back home, I recorded the first thing that came to mind using these new ideas. In October, when I sat down to put all I had for the record together I had the huge and pleasant surprise that I almost had the record done. ‘Son’ is a step forward on the same path I started with Segundo and followed with Tres Cosas.
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BILL PATTON

ARTIST / BAND: BILL PATTON
SONG (MP3): DIRTY WOMAN
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: none
INFO: Bill Patton is a sad-bastard singer-songwriter (SBSS) who lives in Seattle, as so many of them do. He made a record called "Gets It On" which was recorded at Bipolar Production by Justin Gerardy and is available at CD Baby and Amazon.com. He plays solo sometimes but lately has been playing with his new band, Bill Patton and the Credentials, featuring Jason Merculief (drums) and Don McGreevy (bass). The three of them also play in The Stares. Bill Patton also plays guitar and pedal steel in Weary, The Wet City Rockers, James Whiton and the Downtown Apostles, Smile Project, Electric Chinese Orchestra, J.Tillman, and sometimes with Julia Francis, The Mean Streaks, and Winston Jarrett. He also is a composer and music teacher.
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EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY

ARTIST / BAND: EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY
SONG (MP3): HIDE & SEEK
ALBUM: The Eighteenth Day Of May
FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Psychedelic
LABEL: Hannibal
INFO: The Eighteenth Day Of May's shared love of the English folk music of Shirley Collins and Martin Carthy, the West Coast pop of The Charlatans and The Byrds and the psychedelia of Spacemen 3 and The Brian Jonestown Massacre results in music with a twisted beauty, not to mention some of the trippiest murder ballads you’ll ever hear. Here's what Time Out magazine had to say about our debut album: The psych-folk revival continues with these London acid popsters, whose perky jangle and honeyed drone draws on the same formula as folk rock originals Fairport Convention and Pentangle. Think Brian Jonestown Massacre with a traditional, fingerpicking twist, some jazzy Danny Thompson and Terry Cox-styled grooves and drawn-out space rock and you’re almost there. Groovy man. Chris Parkin And the NME are pretty keen on it too: London-based collective The Eighteenth Day Of May have enchanted many people over the past year, casting their folk-rock spell at low-key gigs in and around the capital. For those people who are still scared of the ‘F’ word – and that can’t be many in these Devendra-dominated days – The Eighteenth Day Of May mix up the dulcimers with a languorous, droney sound that reveals them to be just as keen on Spacemen 3 as Steeleye Span. The end result is this beautifully bucolic album of songs about forests, twigs and trees that sounds like a musical Indian summer, guaranteed to lighten up the darkest of winter nights. Nathaniel Cramp
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THE WALKMEN

ARTIST / BAND: THE WALKMEN
SONG (MP3): LOUISIANA
ALBUM: A Hundred Miles Off
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock
LABEL: Record Collection

ELLIOTT BROOD

ARTIST / BAND: ELLIOTT BROOD
SONG (MP3): SECOND SON
ALBUM: Ambassador
FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Acoustic / Soul
LABEL: http://www.sixshooterrecords.com/
INFO: Since forming in the spring of 2002, Elliott BROOD have sparked a devout following across Canada and in fanatic pockets around the world. Their uplifting, raucous alt-rock music has been christened Blackgrass and Death Country, monikers that reflect the band’s blend of folk traditions and modern grit. Their busy touring schedule included a triumphant 2004 Canadian trip highlighted by Dawson City, Victoria Folk and Halifax Pop festivals. Memorable performances at CMW and NXNE cemented the band’s reputation for an intense, energetic and danceable live show.The trio's cherished first release, the six-song hand-made EP Tin Type, was released by weewerk in January 2004. Now Six Shooter Records is set to release the trio's first full-length album, entitled Ambassador. With this release, scheduled for 4 October 2005 in Canada (followed in early 2006 by U.S.- and European releases), Elliott BROOD is poised to light up whole new crowds.
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TILLY & THE WALL

ARTIST / BAND: TILLY & THE WALL
SONG (MP3): LOST GIRLS
ALBUM: Bottoms Of Barrels
FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk Rock / Pop
LABEL: team-love
INFO: Tilly and the Wall sprang out of Omaha, NE a Midwestern band of like-minded friends with pockets full of melodies.and a lot of pockets. The serendipitous result of five Omaha residents with a penchant for the same classic 60s pop, boy/girl harmonies and Americana folk records, Tilly and the Wall celebrates the petulant, determined, feisty nature of youth. They rejoice in tales of dreams followed, mistakes made, and hearts broken. read more from the source...

BEIRUT

ARTIST / BAND: BEIRUT
SONG (MP3): POSTCARDS FROM ITALY
ALBUM: Gulag Orkestar
FILE UNDER: Folk / Indie / Other
LABEL: http://www.badabingrecords.com/
INFO: a trumpet from Paris, farfisa organ, accordion, piano, ukelele, mandolin, glockenspiel, violin, cello, tambourine, The air powered organ I bought on twelth street, Congo drum donated from the neighbors....A broken microphone stolen from the university of new mexico
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SUFJAN STEVENS

ARTIST / BAND: SUFJAN STEVENS
SONG (MP3): THE HENNEY BUGGY BAND
ALBUM: The Avalanche
FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie / Folk
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty
INFO: Sufjan Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the chilly upper reaches of the Lower Peninsula. A self-taught musician, the young Sufjan pounded out elaborate Mozartian sonatas on a toy Casio, and by college became proficient on the oboe, recorder, banjo, guitar, vibraphone, bass, drums, piano, and other instruments too numerous to mention. Somewhere along the line he also started to sing, though at the time his friends didn't encourage it. He bought a 4-track tape cassette recorder and painstakingly composed 90-minute concept albums for The Nine Planets, The 12 Apostles, and The Four Humors. He read William Blake, William Wordsworth, and William Faulkner. At that time, in college, the world loomed large and daunting, and Sufjan's music came to sound like a medieval woodwind ensemble waving swords and torches at the twelve-headed dragon of death. During his last semester in college, Sufjan pruned, picked, and assembled a selection of these songs to produce the inaugural release "A Sun Came" on Asthmatic Kitty Records, a home label Sufjan initiated with his step-dad Lowell. A thousand copies were manufactured and shipped to a dark, dank closet somewhere in the vacuous black hole of the universe, where they shifted and snored in their sleep for several years to come. read more from the source...

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AVOCADO CLUB

ARTIST / BAND: AVOCADO CLUB
SONG (MP3): TOO MUCH SPACE TO WALK AWAY
ALBUM: Too Much Space To Walk Away
FILE UNDER: Pop, Indie .
LABEL: firestation-records
INFO: I’ve been doing music since I was about ten. And, although I’m sounding like Phil Collins now, it all started with a drum kit. I played for three years, driving my parents mad. I then suddenly stopped playing drums and traded my kit for a C64. The next 3 years I was gambling, swapping, cracking computer games. But with the end of my puberty and the arrival of the Amiga Computer I left the computer business and got back to the music. I would play quite a funky beat, but at the age of 16 I knew drumming wouldn’t be enough for my artistic ego. There was pain in my heart and longing in my eyes. I knew I had to start to write songs. Songs that would express what I felt. It sounds cheesy, but like Momus says in one of his songs, „so many clichees have sentimental truth“.
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THE MINOR LEAGUES

ARTIST / BAND: THE MINOR LEAGUES
SONG (MP3): SCENE IT ALL BEFORE
ALBUM: The Pestilence Is Coming
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Alternative
LABEL: data was lost
INFO: Patrick Helmes and Ben Walpole started recording as The Minor Leagues in 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Five years and 56 band members later, their body of work includes four albums, each loaded with lush pop arrangements and heaping helpings of melody. Ben would like to fashion the band as Ray Davies fronting The Clash with Phil Spector on production, but the truth is a bit more varied. Their home-recording aesthetics and love of off-kilter sounds keep things interesting, with more than enough hooks to keep things accessible. Long-time Minor Leaguers Jesse Rogers and John Kathman are back in the fold this summer as the band releases their epic concept album, 'The Pestilence Is Coming,' and tours the Midwest. BOOKING CONTACT: minorleaguer56@yahoo.com
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SAM ROBERTS

ARTIST / BAND: SAM ROBERTS
SONG (MP3): THE GATE
ALBUM: Chemical City
FILE UNDER: Rock
LABEL: Universal Music
INFO: The band has been playing around Montreal since we were in high school. Actually it was a splinter group of an earlier grade8 band called The Happy Death Men, half of which became a goth band, the other half of which became ours. We used to sing songs by Jesus And Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, the Stone Roses, the Beatles and a few of our own creations. At first, our own songs were unlistenable, even to tone-deaf people. We were consistently denied admission to the talent show, "talent" apparently being a basic requirement.
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SONIC YOUTH

ARTIST / BAND: SONIC YOUTH
SONG (MP3): INCINERATE
ALBUM: Rather Ripped
FILE UNDER: Rock / Experimental / Indie
LABEL: Geffen Records
INFO: Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance-art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave. Instead, their dissonance, feedback, and alternate tunings created a new sonic landscape, one that redefined what rock guitar could do. Their trio of independent late-'80s records -- EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation -- became touchstones for a generation of indie rockers, who either replicated the noise, or reinterpreted it in a more palatable setting. As their career progressed, Sonic Youth grew more palatable as well, as their more free-form songs began to feel like compositions and their shorter works began to rock harder. During the '90s, most American indie bands, and many British underground bands, displayed a heavy debt to Sonic Youth, and the group itself had become a popular cult band, with each of its albums charting in the Top 100.
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BABY DAYLINER

ARTIST / BAND: BABY DAYLINER
SONG (MP3): AT LEAST
ALBUM: Critics Pass Away
FILE UNDER: Pop / Progressive / Soul
LABEL: brassland
INFO: Brooklyn's Baby Dayliner is upbeat, joyous, earnest, and romantic, all at once. He combines Leonard Cohen's songcraft, the electronic pulse of New Order, and the jiggy performance style of Al Green. He's also been compared to Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, James Brown, Tom Jones, The Smiths, Daft Punk, and Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields -- influences which he gratefully cites alongside the classical and jazz of his formal musical training, and the street sounds he absorbed while growing up in New York City.
Imagine wooshing and plinging synths, trip-the-light fantastic pianos, catchy beats, highly literate lyrics, and the low tones of one man's melodic voice. We're calling him a 21st century Frank Sinatra.
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PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 13 MAY

LAYO & BUSHWACKA - LIFE TO LIVE
GUIDO SCHNEIDER - AS DRY AS I CAN
DAPAYK & PADBERG - STOP IT (DAPAYK RMX)
ALEX UNDER - DISTANTES (ORIGINAL MIX)
HOT CHIP - JUST LIKE WE (BREAKDOWN) [DFA REMIX]
MARATHON MEN - SWEET EXORCIST
KERRI CHANDLER - SO LET THE WIND COME (ORIGINAL MIX)
SCSI9 - TRANSSIBIRSKI EXPRESS
ALIAS & TARSIER - DR. C
TAKAGI MASAKATSU - J.F.P.
PHANTOM/GHOST - RELAX IT'S ONLY A GHOST


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PHANTOM/GHOST

ARTIST / BAND: PHANTOM/GHOST
SONG (MP3): RELAX IT'S ONLY A GHOST
ALBUM: Three
FILE UNDER: Indie Electronica
LABEL: Lado
INFO: No other musician from Hamburg deserves an in-depth interview in the magazine „Keyboards“ more than Thies Mynther, who played the keyboard for Stella, Superpunk, Das Bierbeben, Glove, Die Regierung and Die Allwissende Billardkugel. On the other hand, Dirk von Lowtzow answers questions by the famous Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Spex, Tagesthemen and your fanzine from 'round the corner about the band Tocotronic, for which he plays guitar and sings. And at the same time they represent Phantom/Ghost – which has long stopped being a part time activity.
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TAKAGI MASAKATSU

ARTIST / BAND: TAKAGI MASAKATSU
SONG (MP3): J.F.P.
ALBUM: Journal For People
FILE UNDER: Electronica
LABEL: Carpark Records
1979Born in Kyoto.
1999Start sound and image project "SILICOM" with AOKI takamasa (sound).
2001 Jan.Release SILICOM DVD from PROGRESSIVE FOrM in Tokyo (1/25).
2001 Aug.First solo exhibition [pia] curated by Minoru Hatanaka (ICC) (Pepper's Gallery, Ginza Tokyo)
2001 Oct.New video and sound installation [JOURNAL FOR PEOPLE] (art space 'Zone', Roppongi, Tokyo)Release solo album [ pia / takagi masakatsu] (audio CD and video CD-ROM) from Carpark(NY)Touring among 12 cities in US and Canada for live performance
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 14 MAY

ART BRUT - GOOD WEEKEND
CAMERA OBSCURA - LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY
ABOUT - THINK NILES DRINK
A PASSING FEELING - BOOK OF MATCHES
THE SLIDES - SLOW BULLET
CONNER - COLD FEELINGS
THE NEVER - CAVITY
ASOBI SEKSU - THURSDAY
TOBIAS FRÖBERG - SO I
IAMX - PRESIDENT
SNOWGLOBE - RAINBOW
FINAL FANTASY - ARCTIC CIRCLE
PETER SURLA - SKY CHASE ROAD
LIAM SINGER - FATHER I SEE
JOLIE HOLLAND - SPRINGTIME CAN KILL YOU
NIOBE - GIVE ALL TO LOVE

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ALIAS & TARSIER

ARTIST / BAND: ALIAS & TARSIER
SONG (MP3): DR. C
ALBUM: Single
FILE UNDER: Rock / Electronica / Indie
LABEL: anticon
INFO: For Brendon "Alias" Whitney, Southern Maine was home. It's where he started. Where he first ran wild. Where he first heard music. Where he first dreamt of big cities and looming soundscapes and art as something even bigger than the night skies above his wooded town. Music was in the family. Mother was a hobby-shop clerk who played organ at church; father was a firefighter who hit the skins by night. Still, between his strict Catholic upbringing, the acres of uninhabited land and the lack of cable TV, young Bren had to look a little harder to catch a glimpse of his vision in the physical form. But when it finally happened, out there in the forest on a boombox in the dark (with a looped tape of rap recorded from a late night music video show), it happened hard.
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DAPAYK & PADBERG

ARTIST / BAND: DAPAYK & PADBERG
SONG (MP3): STOP IT (DAPAYK RMX)
ALBUM: close up rmxs
FILE UNDER: vox, minimal, tech house
LABEL: mos ferry
INFO: Dapayk & Padberg are Niklas Worgt and Eva Padberg. Since 1993 Niklas is a producer and released tracks under different names (see dapayk for more infos) on his label Mo`s Ferry Prod.. Since 2000 he only uses the name Dapayk.
In 2003 topmodel Eva Padberg, who has been doing some of the graphic design for previous releases since the middle of the 90's, started to live out her musical creativity with the project Dapayk & Padberg .The work on their label and her career as a model takes a lot of her time by traveling between her flats in New York and Berlin.
The music of Dapayk & Padberg contains Eva`s ideas of sounds and once narrative, once melodic lyrics and the creativity of Niklas` musical roots.
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GUIDO SCHNEIDER

ARTIST / BAND: GUIDO SCHNEIDER
SONG (MP3): AS DRY AS I CAN
ALBUM: Focus on: Guido Schneider
FILE UNDER: Minimal
LABEL: poker flat recordings
INFO: Guido Schneider has been an active producer for years, releasing mainly on his label “Neue Welten”. Not isolating himself to his studio and always having the courage to test his productions live, he has produced and co-produced (i.e. with Sammy Dee) tracks that are not only minimal but extremely functional as well as performing a number of his productions live read more from the source...

NIOBE

ARTIST / BAND: NIOBE
SONG (MP3): GIVE ALL TO LOVE
ALBUM: White Hats
FILE UNDER: Downbeat Vocal
LABEL: Tomlab Records
INFO: Niobe is the brainchild of Yvonne Cornelius, and her debut, Radioersatz, was a mysterious and surreal journey full of peculiar sounds, colourful arrangements and unusual vocals. In addition to producing this music, Cornelius also performs all of the vocal tracks. Her vocals are often filtered, sounding as if they were recorded usingold or cheap microphones, and the words are often cryptic and defy easy interpretation, acting more as textures than as signs.
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JOLIE HOLLAND

ARTIST / BAND: JOLIE HOLLAND
SONG (MP3): SPRINGTIME CAN KILL YOU
ALBUM: Springtime Can Kill You
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Pop / Folk
LABEL: anti
INFO: I dont like Robert Johnson, Jolie Holland says, but Ive got an awesome live recording of [singer-songwriter] Entrance doing Love In Vain. His version goes, When the train left the station, there were two lights on behind/the blue light was the blues and the red light was my mind/is all my love in vain? Its a nice coincidence, then, that when writing notes on her third album, Springtime Can Kill You, Holland was on a train. What she wrote, in fact (her aversion to Johnson aside), is as unvarnished and poetic as that song. As well, its a consummately eloquent sketch of the record and through-line for this bio. She writes:
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LIAM SINGER

ARTIST / BAND: LIAM SINGER
SONG (MP3): FATHER I SEE
ALBUM: the empty heart of the chameleon
FILE UNDER: multi-instrumentalis, singer-sogwriter
LABEL: tell all records
INFO: Liam Singer is a multi-instrumentalist currently residing in San Francisco. The Empty Heart of the Chameleon is his debut solo album, on which he provides vocals, piano, and Theremin. Garnering comparisons to such disparate influences as Eliot Smith, Rachel's, and John Adams, The Empty Heart... melds stripped down songs with neo-classical instrumentals and a post-rock sensibilty.
Liam has recently finished recording his new album, and will be releasing it in April of '06.
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PETER SURLA

ARTIST / BAND: PETER SURLA
SONG (MP3): SKY CHASE ROAD
FILE UNDER: Indie Folk
LABEL: tell all records
INFO: Peter Surla developed a mind for music growing up in the serene, snow-covered landscape of Northern Minnesota. He studied and performed classical trombone in college, however it was his love of guitar that inspired him most.Over the years he performed with others in various collaborations and recently moved to San Francisco to pursue his own work. He writes and records songs in his small Mission studio and is currently creating his first EP
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FINAL FANTASY

ARTIST / BAND: FINAL FANTASY
SONG (MP3): ARCTIC CIRCLE
ALBUM: He Poos Clouds
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Tomlab Records
INFO: FINAL FANTASY"In Final Fantasy you hear how Mr. Pallett's art is born of contrast, not only between pop and contemporary composition, but between the organic and the electronic, the fantastical and the domestic, the abrasive and the sweet. A perfectionist who adores the rough-hewn, he is at once hopelessly nerdy and improbably cool" NEW YORK TIMES DEC11, 2005
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SNOWGLOBE

ARTIST / BAND: SNOWGLOBE
SONG (MP3): RAINBOW
ALBUM: One River
FILE UNDER: Indie / Psychedelic / Pop
LABEL: Makeshift Music
INFO: have a unique ability create complex songs with a rich pallet of sounds in a seemingly nonchalant way. The Memphis based band continues the long lasting tradition of playing honest music for the “right reasons”. On Doing the Distance Snowglobe, (August 2nd, makeshift music) has made great steps forward since its debut Our Land Brains on Bardot Records. “The sheer wealth of instruments the band uses creates moments as jam packed as rush hour. Principal songwriters Regan and Postlethwaite manage to keep the music unpretentious with a homey, lived-in quality and a gentle, unassuming lilt. “ Infectious songs like “regime”, “changes”, “ms. June”, “Rock song” , set the pace for an eclectic but cohesive mixture of pop gems. Memphis's Snowglobe plays an entrancing blend of cosmic American music that owes as much to pioneering psychedelic country/pop legends like the Byrds and Gram Parsons as it does to modern-day fellow travelers like the Flaming Lips. read more from the source...

IAMX

ARTIST / BAND: IAMX
SONG (MP3): PRESIDENT
ALBUM: The Alternative
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Indie / Funk
LABEL: 61seconds
INFO: IAMX is the illegitimate brainchild of Sneaker Pimps front man and whiz kid producer Chris Corner. His self-produced, performed and perfected debut album “Kiss + Swallow” is a moving collection of songs for unhinged and creative mind.The content is sexual, synthetic, dark and melodic, like 80s’ electro glam soundtrack to Svankmajer film. Call it a cross between Detroit or Berlin escapades, Prince or Roxy Music’s pop, or the electronic universe of Cabaret Voltaire. IAMX erotic vocals accompanied with frantic guitar noise breaths life into the songs.On stage Chris is joined by a changing selection of close friends, and their performance is set to a visual backdrop of home videos, Japanese porno and fighting toys.Did we mention that Chris started Sneaker Pimps at the age of 15 and they went to sell a million and a half records? ‘Nuff said.
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TOBIAS FRÖBERG

ARTIST / BAND: TOBIAS FRÖBERG
SONG (MP3): SO I
ALBUM: For Elisabeth Wherever She Is
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Folk / Rock
LABEL: Cheap Lullaby Rec
INFO: TOBIAS FROBERG TRACK USED IN PANASONIC LUMIX TV COMMERCIAL. Track 1 and the first single from Tobias Froberg's forthcoming album "Somewhere in the city", a song called "When the night turns cold" is currently being used on the new Panasonic Television/Cinema advert for their Lumix range of Cameras. The ad was shot in Barcelona and features scenes shot in the back of taxis driving through the beautiful sights of the city and features the track heavily and includes a credit to Tobias in the Ad! The advert is running in the UK at the moment, will run around the rest of Europe and will soon appear in Australia and New Zealand.
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ASOBI SEKSU

ARTIST / BAND: ASOBI SEKSU
SONG (MP3): THURSDAY
ALBUM: CITRUS
FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Experimental
LABEL: friendly fire recordings
INFO: Asobi Seksu presents its new album, Citrus, out May 30: eleven slices of guitar-swirling, sweet-and-sour, bilingual dream pop. Frontwoman Yuki’s voice is more assured than ever, swinging from a girlish falsetto to plaintive laments and switching effortlessly between Japanese and English lyrics, all the while anchored by the lush, turbulent guitar of James Hanna. This is the sound of a band coming into its own, and having fun doing it.
Asobi Seksu (colloquial Japanese for “playful sex”) released its debut album in 2004 to significant critical acclaim, winning rave reviews from the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, and XLR8R, among others; scoring a #1 video on mtvU’s Dean’s List with the song “Walk on the Moon;” garnering a top ten spot on CMJ’s radio charts; and becoming an instant favorite in the NYC scene, playing packed shows at the Bowery, Knitting Factory, and Mercury Lounge.
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THE NEVER

ARTIST / BAND: THE NEVER
SONG (MP3): CAVITY
ALBUM: Antarctica
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Classical
LABEL: trekky records
INFO: A senior thesis and a 30 foot TV screen. That's how The Never got their start. Then they were called The b-sides. It was the spring of 2000. Guitarist Noah Smith gathered a few friends from his hometown of Pittsboro, North Carolina, formed a band, and presented it as his final high school project. The performance included props, costumes, a 30 foot TV screen replica, and hundreds of TV dinners; it was a bit dramatic. After Smith graduated, it seemed an obvious decision to keep the band together. A palpable chemistry had been struck upon, particularly between Smith and also guitarist Ari Picker.
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CONNER

ARTIST / BAND: CONNER
SONG (MP3): COLD FEELINGS
ALBUM: Hello Graphic Missile
FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Experimental
LABEL: sonic boom recordings
INFO: Conner is like a Swiss Army Knife: full of multi-purpose appendages, yet all anchored in a handy base. For a band that draws from such a vast musical palate, it would be easy for Conner to deliver a mix tape for their third LP. Thankfully, this is not the case. Nor is it an album that aims for quirks. While many pop bands are writing songs with marimbas, esoteric structures or spicing songs with found sounds and electronic blips, this Lawrence, Kansas band is focused on classic songwriting. Whats more, the four-piece keep their songs taut, knowing when to move and when to back off. read more from the source...

THE SLIDES

ARTIST / BAND: THE SLIDES
SONG (MP3): SLOW BULLET
ALBUM: SLOW BULLET
FILE UNDER: Indie Rock
LABEL: mVine
INFO: Imperfectly formed somewhere around the beginning of Thyme, we as a 4 piece are now settled after a couple of years together on this present course. Each throbbing member has different roots and therefore different influences, suffice to say we make up a magical musical pie!! Each of the band have been perfecting their individual arts for many years, and we're proud of the energy we put into live performances, please come and watch! We love to absorb you. We've been lucky enough to record 2 singles with producer Max Heyes (who has worked on albums with musical beings such as Primal Scream, Paul Weller & The Doves ...pretty tasty).
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A PASSING FEELING

ARTIST / BAND: A PASSING FEELING
SONG (MP3): BOOK OF MATCHES
ALBUM: A PASSING FEELING
FILE UNDER: Indie / Punk
LABEL: Less Records
INFO: This is the soundtrack to bloody knuckles. This is indie-punk. These are the hearts and souls of four young men from New York. This is "A PASSING FEELING", or "How to Never Sleep Ever". A PASSING FEELING formed in May of 2005. In August, after a sweat-hot summer in the darkest and dirtiest clubs of New York and an East Coast tour, the boys exchanged blood shots (pour a shot glass three-quarters full, fill the rest with a partner's blood and repeat) with 75 or Less Records, home of indie heros Mike Watt (ex-Minutemen) and the Staggering Statistics (ex-Afghan Whigs).
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ABOUT

ARTIST / BAND: ABOUT
SONG (MP3): THINK NILES DRINK
ALBUM: Bongo
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Pop / Indie
LABEL: Cock Rock Disco
INFO: Take 3 minutes to meet About, control freak extraordinaire. Legally registered as Rutger Hoedemaekers in the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, artistically embedded in the forgotten regions of pop music. Being the troublemaker in a self-made realm, About spends his time pounding on the door between band dynamics and consumer electronica, rarely losing track of traditional song structures.
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CAMERA OBSCURA

ARTIST / BAND: CAMERA OBSCURA
SONG (MP3): LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY
ALBUM: Indie Pop
FILE UNDER: Let's Get Out Of This Country
LABEL: elefant
INFO: Camera Obscura started in 1996. Tracyanne, John and Gavin started playing together in Gavin's parent's cellar with no drummer. They were soon joined by a guitarist called David Skirving. They recorded the 'Park and Ride' and 'Your Sound' singles for Andmoresound in Glasgow and mini album 'Rare UK Bird' for Quattro in Japan.
Richard Colburn took on drum duties live with the band and played on the 'Your Sound' single until Lee joined the band in 2000. During this time they played live shows at Glasgow's 13th Note, Hyndland Church Hall, Nice n' Sleazy's, King Tut's. They also supported Snow Patrol in the Maryhill Community Central Halls and played at the Bowlie Weekender in Camber Sands. David left the band to work on his own, (forming California Snow Story) and was replaced by Kenny. Lindsay Boyd (of Andmoresound) joined on keyboards.
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ART BRUT

ARTIST / BAND: ART BRUT
SONG (MP3): GOOD WEEKEND
ALBUM: Bang Bang Rock And Roll
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: Fierce Panda
INFO:
They’re an eccentric, motley bunch who have more in common with Half Man Half Biscuit and Pulp than they do with their oft-compared ‘influences’ The Fall. Vocalist Eddie Argos (an ex-goth obsessed with Jonathan Richman and Vincent Van Gogh) had previously been in a band, The Art Goblins, in his hometown of Bournemouth. Their stage show would see him “playing a vacuum cleaner” and escaping from a sack. They sounded not unlike cult Glaswegians The Yummy Fur and had songs such as I Wanna Be Johnny Dean and Disco. Another ‘project’ was The Welsh Elephant, who penned the should-be-classic Fuck The MSP (which contains the catchy refrain “Nicky Wire can suck my cock!”).
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DYLAN IN THE MOVIES

ARTIST / BAND: DYLAN IN THE MOVIES
SONG (MP3): AUGUST MOON
ALBUM: Feel the Pull
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock
LABEL: The Gentlemen's Recording Company
INFO: Dylan In The Movies is the musical vehicle of Boston-based singer/songwriter Brian Sullivan. Following the 2000 release of his debut album “Don’t Postpone Joy”, which received local radio play and international airplay on the WB’s Dawson’s Creek and Summerland, the 31-year-old began work on a batch of songs that would become the forthcoming EP “Feel The Pull”. Produced by Sullivan and musical partner Brian Brown (Juliana Hatfield, Bill Janovitz), the recording took place at an old Victorian house located in the haunting setting of Salem, MA and at Boston’s legendary Fort Apache Studios.
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LISA GERMANO

ARTIST / BAND: LISA GERMANO
SONG (MP3): TOO MUCH SPACE
ALBUM: In The Maybe World
FILE UNDER: Singer Sonwriter
LABEL: young god records
INFO: Lisa began releasing her music in the 90's, first on Capitol Records, and then several more albums through 4AD. Perhaps most notable among them were the fantastic Geek, The Girl, and Excerpts From A Love Circus. These records created a very special "antique", lost carnival atmosphere - extremely personal, simultaneously self-effacing and confrontational missives of emotional damage and impossible love. She received a fair amount of acclaim at the time in publications ranging from independent-oriented fanzines and magazines and on to Spin, Rolling Stone, etc. In 2003 Lisa released the absolutely beautiful and wrenching audio journey Lullaby For Liquid Pig, featuring woozy paeans to alcohol, fantasy landscapes and out-of-focus dreams. Her side projects/collaborations include the album OP8 (with Giant Sand and Calexico) in which she is the featured singer, and diverse hired side-person stints with David Bowie, Neil Finn, John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Sheryl Crow and others. As an artist/performer, in my opinion, she's right up there with the cadre of strong, emotionally raw challenging and original women singers such as PJ Harvey, Maryanne Faithful, Cat Power and Bjork, and it’s about time Lisa had her due. in the maybe world features some of Lisa’s best songs to date. Typically, her (self) production and arrangements are inventive and completely unique, the words cut right to the core and her voice carries you gently off into a world where the distinctions between beauty, loss, love and pain tend to blur. The songs are immediately gratifying and sensual, but are also ultimately complicated and reward repeated listening. I hope you enjoy the music ! - Michael Gira/Young God Records
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THOSE TRANSATLANTICS

ARTIST / BAND: THOSE TRANSATLANTICS
SONG (MP3): IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
ALBUM: Knocked Out
FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Pop
LABEL: suburban spraw lmusic
INFO: Those Transatlantics' debut LP, "Knocked Out" is available now (!) for online purchase and mail order (the press/retail release date is April 25th) on Detroit indie label Suburban Sprawl Music (Javelins, Thunderbirds are Now!, Celine Dion, Red Shirt Brigade, etc.). Singer Kathleen Bracken's shimmering vocals and deft sense of melody are prominently featured; a delicate sailboat bobbing-and-weaving across a choppy ocean of dreamy pop psychedelia. The band has firmly tied themselves to the mast, providing layers of lush harmony that keep the whole thing on a steady course. Songs like "In Your Neighborhood," convey a sense of musical playfulness and subtle social metaphor only hinted at on the band's previous releases (2004's "Stealing the Pause" EP, and 2005's "You're Seated in the Back" EP). The song's infectious call-and-response vocal recently caught the ears of Scion, who created a video for the song that will appear in future promotions for the automaker. Those Transatlantics are touring nationally this summer in support of "Knocked Out." Look for them in your town! In the meantime, check out the following:
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