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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)

Reviewing the Porcupine Tree Discography —
with Steven Wilson (1999)

Steven Wilson is one very talented and prolific guy. In addition to being lead guitarist, vocalist, producer and primary composer for Porcupine Tree, Wilson has a number of other projects. He plays in a quirky pop band called No Man, a wild instrumental psychedelic project named IEM (The Incredible Expanding Mindf*ck), the ambient Bass Communion, and also various other production gigs and guest appearances. Clearly Wilson is a very busy fellow. Despite all of the other creative outlets, Wilson’s primary focus is Porcupine Tree. With the “band” now having been making music for nearly a decade, and with five studio albums plus numerous other releases to their credit, it seems that a look back at their recorded output is a good idea. Reviewing the Porcupine Tree discography is a true delight as the albums represent some of the best music that has been made during the 90s. The journey through the five studio CDs is also rather exhilarating, as one can watch Wilson (and later on the entire band) progress and grow in leaps and bounds.

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2000-05-01)