AUTHOR: Daily Dolores DATE: 12/08/2005 04:00:00 PM ----- BODY:

* WHY?. elephant eyelash. (Anticon/Southern) rnk: look, mom, Why? can be all Hymie even when he's not hanging out with Fog! his/their psych-folk-blues-hop is so far away from any ghetto standard, it's like seeing Biggie hang out with John Lennon in a non-earthly place. 7,5/10 Seven: Pavement took a strong LSD trip and got rid of their curderoy for oversized t-shirts. Then they jammed the night away conducted by Hayao Miyazaki. 8,75/10 * ANIMAL COLLECTIVE. feels. (Fat Cat) rnk: your updated version of the Bremer Stadsmusikanten "Feels" like having an anticon-ant on top, the only question remaining about their broken songs is why they love to push the treble-button so much. maybe the Lonesome Organist came and took the bass away. 6/10 * BLOCKHEAD. downtown science. (Ninja Tune) Seven: The production is punchy, the beats live next door to early Shadow, so everything should be fine. But could you please get rid of these high pitched vocals next time? 7/10 rnk: Blockhead probably left his cave like Weird Al does in UHF. back in the downtown zone, he borrowed some styles from Shadow, in order to make sure you don't think he's Diplo, or RJ, or EL-P, or some other post-Hop dude. 8,5/10 * SOLID STEEL compilation by bonobo (Ninja Tune) Seven: Around six years ago, I invited Simon "Bonobo" Green over to Berlin in order to spin with us at the WMF and it was his first night ever to deejay in front of an audience. It was all good but compared to his latest mix, it was pretty amateurish. Damn, this monkey has evolved. 8,5/10 rnk: if Kerouac was still around today, he'd be listening to Bonobo mixes while On The Road. with the new tracks "recurring" and "change down", Simon proves he's still the master of sleazy'n beat-busting dreamscapes. 9/10 * JAN JELINEK. kosmischer pitch (Scape) Seven: Man, it was about time for a new album, wasn't it?! And what a brilliant one it is. Jelinek had to drift into the wide open space to find the cosmic pitch, a place with no time zones and no barriers. Welcome to the first convincing Minimalkrautpsych record ever. 8,5/10 BM: silhouetten von lemmingen im discodickicht verspulen lithiummelodien, dass selbst planeten in halbtrauer leadgitarren rückwärts mimikrieren. klingt seltsam? ist es auch. aber gut unt nicht so kühl knisternd durchkalkuliert, wie etwa loop finding jazz records. 9/10

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