Clearance Sale, the new album from Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk, sees the two noise groups reflecting on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s.

Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come…

Amoebic Industries is pleased to announce the release of Not Here, the latest album by Aurist.

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Aurist, aka 19-year-old Londoner Liam Adams, is a noise/abstract digital musician and poet, among other things. He's previously released several albums on labels such as Cantankerous Records and the Australian/Dutch netlabel Glitch City, including Technic'ly This Is Art (2008), Profonan (2009), and the compilation Mislaid (2010).

The name derives from a now seldom-used term for "one skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear". Not Here, the first Aurist release from Amoebic Industries, prescribes as a cure for any…

If you're one of the many who have found legitimate reasons to despise Feb. 14th, the noise miscreants in Desert Island Dicks have released a Valentine's Day single that might pique your interest. Nothing the Dicks do ever seems to be straightforward, so it was a fairly safe bet they weren't going to buy into the standard hearts-and-flowers template, and here they don't disappoint.

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De facto Dicks spokesman #12 (none of the others are ever identified) offered this explanation:

The single in question is a two-track cover of Joy Division's now-iconic "Love Will Tear Us Apart". Each Valentine's…

The new Desert Island Dicks album, released by Amoebic Industries (Unlimited) on 28 July 2009, is entitled The Shades of Jazz to Come, a dextrous play on the name of Ornette Coleman's seminal free jazz masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come.

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The Coleman association is not merely a titular one; the album is also based sonically on The Shape of Jazz to Come. Six slices of the original Coleman album, each equivalent to ten percent of the length of each track, were extracted like biopsy tissue samples, re-stretched by a factor of ten until they…

The ever-missed John Peel used to theorise that any record with birdsong on it would probably be automatically good. (The title track of Bridget St. John's Ask Me No Questions, which Peelie produced and released on his Dandelion label, even takes a break at the end for an interval of church bells and hand-picked birdsong clips from the BBC Archives).

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i sort of feel the same about records with the sound of barking dogs on. i will pretty much always listen to a track that features a dog barking, even if it is completely gratuitous, silly or…

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No, you're right, of course. i'm just doing some maintenance/manipulation on my Overall stats. ghostface killah went by the name of ghostface for only one of his seven studio records, namely The Pretty Toney Album, but until now last.fm has always redirected any tracks tagged "Ghostface Killah" to just "Ghostface" - incorrect six times out of seven, and more than slightly irksome to boot.

Anyway, they've now thankfully fixed this issue and ghostface killah tracks are accepted again. So i'm substituting everything tagged ghostface in my library for the version with the Killah added, hence the…

Fresh monthly mixtape for February: sixteen tracks ideal for soundtracking activities such as i those have been participating in this month, including: writing sarcastic letters to government agencies, rediscovering a love for sushi, driving around at night a lot as usual, and admiring the redheaded hawtness of Christina Hendricks from TV's Mad Men.

1. Oliver Nelson — Stolen Moments (The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Impulse!, 1961)
2. Balanescu Quartet — Computer Love (Possessed, Mute, 1992)
3. the Mountain Goats — Standard Bitter Love Song #7 (Zopilote Machine, Ajax, 1994)
4. Tower of…

…technically, it's a November mixtape, cuz i made it then while recovering from illness. 15 largely instrumental pieces ideal for night drives and other mood escapades.

1. Susie Ibarra — "Drum Sketches: Drum Sketch 1" (Drum Sketches, Innova, 2007)
2. Aksak Maboul — "Odessa" (V/A, Made to Measure Vol. 1, Crammed Discs, 1984)
3. Language Lab — "Burning Disaster (original mix)" (12" single, Kahuna Cuts, 1997)
4. Syzygys — "Rikisy" (Complete Studio Recordings, Tzadik, 2003)
5. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses — "Couldn't Hear…

What a depressingly predictable load of bland old bollocks. Six or seven Coldplay tracks in the top 10 of the year? And the accompanying overviews all read like a wittering student newspaper writer trying to disguise the fact they don't like the free CDs they had to review.

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30,000 Leagues Under the Scene (Amoebic Industries AMP004) is the first album by 30KB, the group i do rapping and production for. It's coming out soon as a bona fide real-life holdable CD and everything, but until then last.fm users can peep it on the said site by clicking the name above. All tracks available for free full-length preview.

Obviously we're dead chuffed to get this one out there, both so we finally have something tangible to put our names to and also, importantly, so we can start getting on with the next one. Ohhh yeh, baby… no…