LP+CD. Here it is, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007’s Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". The second kranky album from the fearsome Atlanta group follows a year of orgiastic media coverage in the wake of the Cryptograms album. LP track listing-Microcastle: side A 1. Cover Me (Slowly) 2. Agoraphobia 3. Never Stops 4. Little Kids 5. Microcastle 6. Calvary Scars 7. Green Jacket 8. Activaside. Side B 9. Nothing Ever Happened 10. Saved by Old Times 11. Neither of Us, Uncertainly 12. Twilight at Carbon Lake CD track listing-Weird Era Cont.: 1. Backspace Century 2. Operation 3. Ghost Outfit 4. Dot Gain 5. Vox Celeste 6. Cicadas 7. Vox Humana 8. VHS Dream 9. Focus Group 10. Slow Swords 11. Weird Era 12. Moon Witch Cartridge 13, Calvary Scars II / Aux. Out 13 press quotes for Cryptograms: "At first this collision of drifting pastoral beauty and grimy, sleazy hedonism can be jarring, that is until you realize it's intention and indeed it's genius." Boomkat "Deerhunter continues to make leaps and bounds with every song, mixing haughty influences with a heady understanding of timing, atmosphere, and lyrical themes that channel the widely understood horrors of suburbia and adolescence." Cokemachineglow "Deerhunter has really churned out a remarkable release, pulling together the best elements of pop, punk, experimental and psychedelic rock without being derivative." Other Music "...sounds at once radiant and terrified." Pitchfork: Best New Music 8.9

EXCLUSIVE.  The innovator of the Japanese electronics scene drops his new album. He's also active in the minimal house scene world-widely but with this album, he uses 80's soul and funk elements and stirs up with his technical cut-ups to produce splendid sweet break beats music. Hidenobu produces music from the 90s and has released his 1st album on NS-Com (1999), and his 2nd on Flyrec (2002). After that he made two albums on his own Elegantdisc label and lead the domestic electronica/break beats scene from there. Assemblage Funk is his 5th album, which we have all waited for. He swallows 80's soul, R&B, disco and even hard rock music and covers it with sour & tender melodies of the synthesizers. The break beats are made up of his cut-up techniques derived from his long career that gives the piece the original funk sound appealing enough to not only break beats fans but to Balearic disco house fans and ghetto beats manias! And what more to watch out is the party killer tune "Paris Tokyo Connection" featuring the great rapper of TTC, The Cuizinier!! The artwork drawings are written by NA2ME, a spirited female artist.

EXCLUSIVE.  New lower price. “honey-dipped 60s melodies drenched in oceanic swells of guitar noise..." - Oxford Bands, UK International Jetsetters is an Oxford-based five piece. The band was formed in March 2007 by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer (The Jesus And Mary Chain) and bass player Bert Audubert. The line-up also features drummer Loz Colbert (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Ride), lead guitarist Paul Crozer, and vocalist Fi McFall. The Jetsetters have been best described by the British press (Nightshift Magazine) as “an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards.” “Heart Is Black” is International Jetsetters debut six song release. The EP blasts into the stratosphere with the full throttle, melodic guitar buzz, of “Inside Out” followed swiftly by the rhythm heavy groove of “Inside Yourself”. “Never Slows Down” and “My Redemption” showcase Fi McFall’s range as a singer. The low, breathy tones of the opening verses gradually ascend to pulsating choruses where she resonates like a siren. The title track “Heart is Black” strums and thumps with a dark atmospheric burn. The disc closes with a bit of a twist – A glaring early version of “Never Slows Down”. International Jetsetters “Heart Is Black” CDEP hits quick and begs for repeated listens. It’s a nice glimpse into what’s in store from Oxford, UK’s latest export.

EXCLUSIVE.  A WAREHOUSE FIND. LAST 25 COPIES. OTHERWISE OUT-OF-PRINT. 30 songs about 30 people who each gave $1000 to have their likeness rendered in song by Momus. Such influential artists as Keigo Oyamada (aka Cornelius) and Jeff Koons (pop artist par exultance) paid dearly for this honor. Also in the mix is the supergroup The Minus 5, record stores Other Music and Reckless Records, internet discussion group The Indiepop List, and many more.

The group's self-titled debut is a grower, with ten new songs in a markedly more pop direction than their 7". You can hear the simple American pleasures of baseball, road trips & late summer within, plain as day within this record. More specifically, you can hear three guys examining where punk became something more, between notions of power pop & advanced songwriting on the Embarrassment/Big Dipper/ Pointed Sticks axis, but with the economy of the Minutemen or Beat Happening. They're in & out before you know it, having firmly planted the seeds of catchy melodies between your ears. On Tour throughout Nov '08 with Love is All & Vivian Girls

EXCLUSIVE.  A rich combination of beats & melodies. 2nd album by duo project of Prefuse 73's collaborator Epstein aka Roberto Range and drummer Matt Crum! Broken gears and stolen instruments - ROM takes these equipments and produces heart-vibrating melodies and crispy beats freely with a refreshing taste, After their more breakbeaty 1st album "ROM", Roberto has collaborated with Prefuse 73 and such and delivers this 2nd full album.This 2nd album entitled "Foot Signal" is a beautiful example of organizing a minimal band in a modern sense - Multi performances of acoustic and electronics including the laptops as a duo is perfectly accomplished here.The beat approaches evolved from projects like Epstein and Boom&birds, the duo's musical roots; guitar sounds and a bit strange yet charming tones from the laptops chaining almost non-stop. The ensemble which is a mere adaptations of the "post-rock method" and the energetic flow of the instrumental beat music weaves into fresh, developing and creative sounds. You can also feel the warm psychedelia which you could hear on Prefuse 73's "Preparations / Interregnums". An outstanding album including the brilliant recording and mix by Jim O' Rourke's favorite pupil Jeremy Lemos (White/Light).

EXCLUSIVE.  Hard, relentless, creative, monstrous, and still friendly: The Teknoist's first full length album is a storm of shattered pounding beats, anthemic riffs, and aggressive breaks. And still, it is also a humane and deep work that knows when to take the time to seduce its listener. Between the most insane moshpit and inventive melodies, here comes hurricane of yet uncharted magnitude.

EXCLUSIVE.  ISBN: 978-1-906310-13-4. CD41 presents a new archive audiobook CD, Workers’ Playtime, featuring rare broadcast recordings from the Second World War. First broadcast in May 1941, Workers’ Playtime was a morale-boosting music, comedy and variety show, broadcast live from factory canteens and shop floors across the country. It was intended to relieve the monotony of the wartime production lines, and so increase output. The show eventually ran for 23 years, serving the British public from the Blitz to the Beatles. The 70 minute CD includes original broadcast recordings made between 1941 and 1946 by several legendary variety and comedy turns, including Jack Warner (‘Mind my bike!’), Elsie & Doris Waters (as Gert and Daisy), Norman Long (‘A Song, a Joke and a Piano’), and husband and wife duo Renee Houston and Donald Stewart. A complete edition of the programme recorded on 16 February 1943 is also included. Also included are versions of the jaunty Workers’ Playtime Theme, as well as talks by producer John Watt, and by Ernest Bevin, the wartime Minister of Labour. All materials are authentic wartime broadcast recordings and have been carefully digitally remastered for CD. The booklet includes recording notes by James Hayward and archive images. This unique CD is must for collectors of vintage radio, comedy and variety recordings, as well as social historians. Also available on CD41: The Very Best of ITMA (CD41-007), British War Broadcasting 1938-45 (CD41-004), Band Waggon/Arthur Askey Goes To War (CD41-012).

EXCLUSIVE.  One re-recorded track: a more punkier version of the track "Ge dom våld" that was on their debut ep plus "Stockholm, sett snett uppifrån" from the CD Doda Fallet. ”Glavå, who worked on recent albums by Sambassadeur and Jens Lekman, adds just a touch of reverb to the instruments, giving the songs an added depth of sound that reinforces both their exuberance and their melancholy. A lone tambourine launches opener ”Stockholm, Sett Snett Uppifrån” and is eventually joined by Abrahamsson’s piano and Philip Gates’ drums, which sound new in this context. Then the song flies away with Anna Modin’s flute, carrying it to its swirling chorus.”

The long-awaited comeback by The Yellow Melodies, from Murcia (Spain). After a long time since their leader Rafa Skam has been involved in other projects -his huge fanzine ‘El Planeta Amarillo’, playing guitar in Vacaciones [Elefant Records]; photographer at music festivals; tour promoter, and so on), he has now decided to reactivate his all time band, the one that reflects best his musical influences. So here they are again The Yellow Melodies, with Rafa Skam and Pilar Aparisi, as well as the new guys Jesús González and Jaime Belmonte, and they come back to introduce us their fourth record, “The Championship Cup”, with a lot of of enthusiasm and savoir-faire; this mini-album has a gorgeous production, and it is full of beautiful arrangements. It shows the talent of this band along this mini-lp in a 10 inch vinyl, that will satisfy the sunshine pop and 60’s psychedelia lovers as well as classic and contemporary british pop fans. The mini-lp is released exclusively on vinyl, as a gift for those who love appreciating pop in its natural state. The record features 6 songs; two of them already have a videoclip: “The Championship Cup”, directed by Martin Ellerbeck, and “Mr. Sand and Mrs. Sea”, by Faustino Fdez. Both of them can be seen at The Yellow Melodies and Clifford Records’ websites and MySpaces. “The Championship Cup” is just a starter because the band are in the studio again recording their new album which is going to come out in 2009, but that is another story!