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Tempest - The 10th Anniversary Compilation

When I think of hard working bands, Tempest immediately comes to mind. You can find this band at Celtic festivals, Highland Games, and clubs across America. Tempest performs traditional and...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 2000-05-01)

The Big Wu - Tracking Buffalo Through the Bathtub

The Big Wu is a Midwest quintet who focuses on the amusing swing jazz groove vibes of Zappa or the Grateful Dead. This is the kind of group who can channel a happy vibe and break off into a heavy...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

The Science Group - A Mere Coincidence

Here we have an RéR all-star lineup producing 15 titles in what could generally be described as a modern variation of a Henry Cow-like style, not unlike recent efforts by 5uu's or...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star

For those of you — the uninitiated — Todd Rundgren holds a unique place in the annals of progressive rock. In the early seventies, the man had left the power pop innovators The Nazz and strove to...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Tomorrow - 50 Minute Technicolour Dream

Tomorrow is currently a hot psychedelic commodity on the market: many of the band's English UK singles fetch top dollar on the English collector's circuit. Adding to the frenzy is former...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Tone Bearer - Millennium

Tone Bearer is a San Jose six-piece cut squarely from the Marillion and Pendragon mold of neo-prog. The lineup is your standard 5-piece with an additional percussionist and the vocalist doubling on...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2000-05-01)

Trama - Prodromi di Finzioni Sovrapposte

Trama is an out-of-the-ordinary blend. They capture some of the essence of 70s Italian symphonic bands, and at the same time have a definite 80s AOR element to their sound. The lush keyboard and...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

U.K. - Concert Classics Volume 4

I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of this live series disc at a local SF Bay area shop in the bin with the regular monthly releases. Considering that Volume 4 had supposedly been...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Už Jsme Doma - Uši (The Ears)

As one of the press releases for the album states, the most recent UJD album is titled after those two underutilized things on either side of our head! Ears is the first studio release...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Various Artists - Ambiances Magnétiques Volume 2: Hourra pour la Bastringue

French Canadian label, Ambiances Magnétiques released a second sampler of their diverse artist's work in 1997. The disc focuses on various combinations of personnel ranging from solo and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Various Artists - Medium Label Sampler

Medium Productions is a low profile label from the UK which represents the work of three former members of Japan. The trio is alternately creative within varying contexts and combinations of...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Various Artists - Vae Victis I & II

So here are two samplers chock full of French hard rock and heavy metal. Why should you care? Well, I guess cuz it comes from Musea’s hard rock offshoot label, Brennus. But then again, a...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2000-05-01)

Vermilion Sands - Water Blue

Lush keyboard-oriented symphonic prog bands with pretty female vocals were two-a-penny in 80s Japan. Vermilion Sands gave themselves a bit of distinction via their unusual (for a Japanese band,...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 2000-05-01)

Vidna Obmana & Alio Die - Echo Passage

In a year of many excellent electronic pieces, the collaboration of two of the genre’s top artists is perhaps the year’s most surreally crystalline, a CD-length drone of three titles...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens - Motives for Recycling

This is the second collaboration between the Belgian ambient and German experimental musicians, the prior effort being much different than this release, in that this is less a collaboration and...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

Vir Unis - The Drift Inside

Following on the heels of The Ambient Expanse, the first solo effort by Vir Unis, after collaborations with Steve Roach and Ma Ja Le, consists entirely of ambient floats and drifts,...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)