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Vidna Obmana & Alio Die - Echo Passage

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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)

Vermilion Sands - Water Blue

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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)

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star

Cover art 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)

Ruphus - Ranshart

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Regarding Ranshart:

The Norwegian group Ruphus suffered a drastic lineup shift after their 1973 debut, New Born Day, which resulted in the loss of, among...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 2000-05-01)

Phil Manzanera / 801 - Live at Manchester University

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801, lead by guitarist Phil Manzanera, deserve a pretty lofty place in the Prog hall of fame. The band was a veritable supergroup, fronted by Phil and Brian Eno, blending quirky pop songs with...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 2000-05-01)

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

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I recall when I first heard this LP, I was honestly paralyzed by the discordant synthesizer which underpinned a Velvet Underground groove on the first track. There was vocalist David Thomas and his...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

One Shot - One Shot

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Emmanuel Borghi (keys) and Philippe Bussonnet (bass) are both members of the current Magma lineup. Here they are joined by James Mac Gaw (guitars) and Daniel Jeand’heur (drums) on a romp...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

No-Man - Speak

Cover art No-Man began back in 1987 as a collaboration between Steve Wilson (pre-Porcupine Tree) and vocalist Tim Bowness. Over the years since then, the band has released a number of albums and EPs, mostly in...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Mushroom - Analog Hi-Fi Surprise

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San Fransisco’s Mushroom have quickly followed up Hydrogen Jukebox with this new album, which continues on in the same vein. Distinctly rooted in 70s psychedelic jazz-rock, Mushroom...

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(Posted by Dan Casey 2000-05-01)

Michael Mantler / Edward Gorey - The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories

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It's a rare project that extracts elements of the written word and transfers them eloquently to an audio performance. Composer/trumpet player Michael Mantler's first major success with this...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

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