Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles - http://www.bravewords.com/
Terrorizer - http://www.terrorizer.com/
Metal Maniacs (also a bimonthly print magazine that's somewhat readable)
- - http://www.metalmaniacs.com/
I've been enjoying the handful of posts so far and hope they keep coming
(while my shopping list gets longer and longer). In the mean time, I'll
just pitch in a mention of a new disc I've not seen mentioned yet. Just
yesterday I picked up 'New American Gospel' by a band from West Virginia
called Lamb of God. I bought this on a whim while walking through Tower
flipping through the reviews section in Pulse. The reviewer was
seriously over the top on this one: words to the effect of "you'll
always remember when you first heard Slayer, Pantera, Napalm Death,
etc., etc. and you'll remember Lamb of God like that, too." He also
likens the band to the Torture Garden/Mr. Bungle weirdcore axis (I think
I just coined a term...). Quite the recommendation. Needless to say,
the album can't live up to that. But it's fine, really fine, like an
American version of Meshuggah more than anything else. The power and
speed are there, for sure. The drummer is precise and has a really
crisp sound; at one point he clearly indicates that he's been listening
to break beats. Guitar chords sound like Meshuggah's odd tunings, but
every now and then you'll hear a lick that could only have come from
clunky old American metal, like one of my old-school grind favorites,
Exhorder (the Louisiana band from whom Pantera stole everything). Yeah,
it wears its influences pretty openly, but I recommend this highly
anyway. But OH! that Tower price tag... $18.99 for a domestic release
on Metal Blade. Surely you can do better than I did.
Signing off before this one's too long to pass the gate...
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Lamb of God, "The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion," 'New
American Gospel' (Prosthetic/Metal Blade)
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:37:09 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: liliput reissue
Hi, Since this was subject of a (short) thread some time back some people might be interested to know that Kill Rock Stars is reissuing the Liliput two-CD collection at the end of this month. A brief glance at the track listing looks identical to the earlier one but I don't know if the booklet will be the same.
Lang
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:53:35 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: world music mail order
Does anybody know a good source to mail order world music releases. I greatly miss Original Music that John Storm Roberts ran, especially the nice catalogs with reviews of stuff you never heard about elsewhere. But I haven't found anything comparable (& Original's selection was always pretty limited anyway). Descarga looks OK for Latin but I've never ordered from them. Stern's in the US doesn't have a catalog and the website is a mess anyway. Any ideas?
Lang
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:12:39 -0800
From: "Daryl Loomis" <DRL@valley-media.com>
Subject: Re: world music mail order
Try this link:
http://www.arcmusic.co.uk/
Everything I've heard on Arc Music has been really good. The best that =
I've heard is "Music of the Oriental Jews." Very interesting combinations =
of Middle Eastern instruments and rhythms with Jewish tradition.=20
I don't know how well done their ordering procedures are, but the label =
puts out good stuff.
>>> <wlt4@mindspring.com> 02/06 12:53 PM >>>
Does anybody know a good source to mail order world music releases. I =
greatly miss Original Music that John Storm Roberts ran, especially the =
nice catalogs with reviews of stuff you never heard about elsewhere. But =
I haven't found anything comparable (& Original's selection was always =
pretty limited anyway). Descarga looks OK for Latin but I've never =
ordered from them. Stern's in the US doesn't have a catalog and the =
website is a mess anyway. Any ideas?
Lang
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:26:09 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: world music mail order
wlt4@mindspring.com wrote:
> Does anybody know a good source to mail order world music releases.
Check out www.worldmusicinstitute.org. They're a world music concert-presenting organization here in NYC, but they sell discs as a sideline.
The online holdings are slim (about 1000 titles, with about 100 new ones added every month or so). But they've got a print catalog with close to 5000 titles. They do carry numerous hard-to-find imports. They list selections by nationality/region, so you don't have to be an expert to find what you're after. And they've even got handy starter kits of 25, 50 or 100 selected discs to get you started (not that I think you would need that!).
Don't know if it completely solves your problem, but worth a look and certainly a good cause.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Lamb of God, "Confessional," 'New American Gospel' (Prosthetic/Metal Blade)
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:50:06 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: clinic
Has anybody heard the album by Clinic? Is it as good as the Village Voice review and any upcoming US release (since Forced Exposure's $17 discourages experimenting).
Lang
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:27:41 EST
From: BlackBook78@aol.com
Subject: Re: Soundtrack to Pi
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I dont know if anyone else has posted this, Im quickly losing track of the
posts this list accumulates. Massive Attack did the soundtrack for PI I
beleive.
Mike
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:56:07 EST
From: Dgasque@aol.com
Subject: Re: Soundtrack to Pi
It was a various artist soundtrack IIRC. I'm pretty sure that Autechre contributed a couple of songs to it also.
The original poster mentioned having difficulty finding this original soundtrack (OST.) For the most part, OSTs have rather short lifespans of being "in print.". The best rule to follow is to pick them up sooner rather than later...
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In a message dated Tue, 6 Feb 2001 9:29:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, BlackBook78@aol.com writes:
<< I dont know if anyone else has posted this, Im quickly losing track of the
posts this list accumulates. Massive Attack did the soundtrack for PI I
