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,,,,,..,, MUfMP all power-pop-with-bitten-lip here from time to time and usu­ and he's powerhousing it in a ally put on a pretty entertaining fine '80s style! This is middle of show, full of tambourines and the road, people: What are you catchy choruses. The 's going to do about it? Support "Tiger of the Night" single, it? 1 suspected as much. (Pop released as part of the Sub Pop Kid, 16 Raleigh Lane, Wayne, Singles collection, is not the NJ 07470) best ever, but it's still pretty I will tell you also not to good. Everybody made fun of the band's last full-length (or, at Your Man," is available in hunt for the new BRMC double least, The Stranger did, and and by mail from Blood 7", but only because, being they're the only paper I of the Young Records! Buy it! major label material, this'll all believe), but I don't think the Turn spineless! Mope all day! be on the full-length Wolfe, twin of the Bratmobile Makers have lost it yet. Sure, (Blood of the Young, PO Box anyway. That's due out any day Wolfe and ex-lady of that the band may be a little too big grumpy and all that goes down 14411, Minneapolis, MN 55414) now. I like the band a little less Zumpano/New Pornographers for its collective britches, but Now, while Bright Eyes' with each listen; perhaps it's guy who kicked me repeatedly is a sandwich? Can I only stom- they can still make any fool single was, to me, unlistenable, because I found out where the at a Smugglers show who I'm dance! (Sub Pop, PO Box 20645 band got its name. Marlon holding a grudge on for good. most of the other releases were, Seattle, WA 98102) Brando is no Jimmy Dean, let But I digress. So she's, like, this encouraging others thankfully, merely unremark­ People, I'm going to end me tell you! I do still think this singer, and, like, her voice isn't th stinks. Tha blind eye, and hea able, uninteresting, unin­ this column with a cry for help. band has more to offer than the strongest around, but she . Why so hi spired... un-Julie-friendly. I'm You of discerning taste, you most new bands on major gets the job done. She has a just a cranky rat-baby-bastard who laughs with pleasure at labels today, but why the heck really strong backing band, fea­ these days, and you'll have to my chopping of artist's works am I reviewing major label stuff turing fiddlers, accordionists, and hearts, send me tapes of anyway? Excuse me while I and a pedal steel player, what- words for weighty in almost your favourite singles! Or send that entails. I saw th( ie "Indie Qu me lists of the best si Example: I suggest not pur­ badge from my sash. At least I band's debut back at the Pic there! Lead me in the din chasing the STEREO/ULTI­ can keep the "Bitter Bee" one! with the Nardwuar-less of good times, if you can... MATE FAKEBOOK split. You, (This is on Virgin, how hard can Evaporators and Bratmobile Send your own band's 7"s, or however, will do that be to find?) back in the day, and I'm tapes of your best stuff from you that Ultimate Fakebook is TENNESSEE TWIN might glad to say they've improved collecting days gone by, and actually pretty good, with a brighten some of your days immensely. For you who love you'll make my summer (and, strong first track (good guitar with their supposedly gloomy the country, or the unwavering if this works, my n licks, well-realized vocals). You support of local acts, get thee as well!) Thank you muchly in on this! (Mint, PO Box 3613, :e, due to those who will Vancouver, BC V6B 3Y6) Svage my si Sub Pop's a funny label. They're not quite from around here, but we : Send love them. At least their bands DiSCORDER 1*233-6138 SUB the border for Blvd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 THE MAKERS Canada! The Eunuch Or Repetitive with the desert, the sheep and try to decipher their quick TRANSVESTIMENTALS groovy-quirky to ska and some serious lyrics. Others Symbols of My Time an autistic budgie. Yes, in the movements, try to understand Difficult Loves slightly twisted traditional might just be meant as ironic or desert, I have found the shells their stories, but it is hot out­ (Independent) English folk. Alas, it's hard to faux-naif, or at least that's all I his is my last article from of Bedouin Kalishnakovs, seen side, and I am not as old as The Transvestimentals, com­ hear most of the lyrics, but the can make of, "They say the peo­ Kuwait. Outside, it is 50 the pistols that are hung freely prised of former and present bits that jump out are tantaliz­ ple are polite/I like them that degrees and dusty. The T from the belts of proud 15-year- I cannot truly show you members of No Fun, Coal, ing ("The plastic-coated pussy way myself/When you fall in lake/large puddle that grew old boys—symbols of man­ this world. I cannot expect a Gaze, The Mach Ills, cub, and and the vinyl-covered dick... it's love with Canada/She won't over the "winter" months in the hood. Yes, I hear the shooting in true representation of any other bands, play mainly in all the rage," for instance, from leave you on the shelf," from depression at the end of my the night, the tribal families world, only give you my feel­ drag, and write songs that are the last track). All proceeds go "Oh Canada." desert-backyard has begun to who, during the day, drive the ings and my western imperial­ kind of glam, kind of English to the Positive Women's www.tmtreadman.com dry. Forming in the evaporating Jaguars fast and watch satellite istic views. I can only show you punk, and quite noisy. Given Network and Everywoman's water, there are nodules of salt TV in 15-bedroom mansions, the pictures, write about the up­ the costumes and the self-dep­ Health Centre. JOEL the size of castrated gorilla tes­ and, at night, go to the dark, go right shadows of women in recating sense of humor that Trains Are Fast ticles. This world has suddenly the desert to try to remember black abayas. I can only tell you comes with them, you might be SORESSA GARDNER (Interactive Liquid Creature) and again become a place lone­ their past that was pulled away about the wealth, and the opu­ surprised to hear just how good Scabs And Dressings This long (72 minutes) CD is a lier than the moon. I am from them by oil and money lence and a certain castrated these songs are. "Trashed by (Independent) noisy conglomeration of speedy reminded of my first weeks and the western men not 50 feel of the people walking in Love" is as loud, catchy, and Soressa is plenty stylish, as she dissonant noise, often incoher­ here, the air like someone hold­ years ago. Parents and grand­ western clothes, spending west­ sweet as the Stiff Little Fingers' demonstrates on her CD art­ ent vocals, schizophrenic ing a hair dryer to my face. It parents tell me they remember ern money. I can only show you "Barbed Wire Love," with more work with her cool shoe collec­ beat-inspired lyrics, frantically- makes a circle of my year, a moving from tents and shacks the motorcycles travelling at overdriven guitars. "Meat Boy" tion, round glasses, and played guitars, and spoken loop. No snake eating its tail, to brand new houses with pools 150 kmph, two teenage boys in could almost be a previously magenta hair. She , word bits from fictional charac­ more like a beige desert lizard and air conditioners that rattled t-shirts and shorts, no helmets, unheard track from the Rocky clear- well-s 3 the ters called The Announcer, The outside my window, head held like dried gorilla's testicles in a going fast, the wind in their Horror Picture Show, and "She's very spare arrangements of the Fool, and The Drunk. At times, high, his spiny tail curled in an hollow bamboo branch. hair and between their legs, Got Culture," ought to be sung music, which is a kind of east- such as in the last (instrumen­ almost circle around the simian perhaps trying to cool their hot in sports arenas (although if it side coffee house nouveau folk. tal) track, Joel manages to create testicles of salt. impulses that are, by law, ille­ were, that would mean that no Perhaps most satisfying is a a mood that is somehow both There is a swirling mass gal. They zoom past me while I one was paying attention to the song about skating around hyper-energetic and incredibly inside me that I cannot figure am in a slow taxi cab, then they lyrics). Then, of course, on prescription drugs, moody, apparently with noth­ out. It does not look like torn off slow down and wave, madly, at there is the "Incidental "Rollerblades and Ativan," ing more than an acoustic gui­ gorilla testicles. It looks more a westerner, shout through the Transvestimental Song," which which includes the tasty lines, tar. like some Star Trek core, wind broken English. One traditionally opens and closes "Double scotch in my www.angelfire.com /id /ILK all blue and misty. The loneli­ stands up, gripping onto the the band's live sets. Be sure to hand/The other held my ness of this year has begun to shoulders of the one driving, listen through to the end for the Ativan." Don't try this at home, FIDGITAL crack, the walls in my and they go faster, scream, and guilty pleasure covers, recorded kids! Spyglass monastery crumble like so weave in out of the cars, the in their practice space. (Independent) many of the bombed-out hous­ BMWs of the Kuwaitis and the www.cosmopolis.bc.ca This one's a bit of a jolt after a es in Old Kuwait, the ones left - boxy Lada's of the immigrants. MISHIN IMPOSTICLE couple of hours with Soressa rotting—as symbols and For a while, I can see the boy The Sad Sad Sadness of The TIM READMAN and the Joels. Fidgital might be reminders of the Iraqi Invasion. standing, waving his hands Cigarette Girl Into the Red every bit as socially relevant, I was not invaded by Iraq, above the roofs of other fast (Independent) (Big City /Festival but they come at it from a dif­ however. I have had no dicta­ cars, and then he disappears This is a proudly lo-fi solo out­ Distribution) ferent, more electronic, direc­ torship accuse me of stealing into the blur of traffic lights and ing from Valeria Fellini, per­ Probably because of Tim's asso­ tion. There are echoes of James oil. I have not been violated by lonely highway distance at haps best known as a one-time ciation with a band called Fear Bond themes, Pizzicato Five, a desperate country, and so I drummer for cub. But with the of Drinking, I was half-expect­ semi-ironic soundtracks to '70s have no reason to keep these And this morning, I place possible exception of elements ing this to be a folk record car chase movies, Planetarium dry and brittle houses, littered my hands against the walls of of "Good Cement," recorded somewhere on the more drunk­ music, Tangerine Dream (and with bullet holes, as monu- my crumbling house, stare at with former bandmates from en, rollicking, Pogues-ish end other synthetic/psychedelic the squares of dust outlining Gaze, there's nothing here that of things. Instead, Into the Red is types), '80s dance music, and But here, they have kept the place where photographs— will remind you of cuddlecore. mainly arranged with pretty even first-generation swing. every momento mori of war. And now, my air condi­ people I have lost contact with Instead, Valeria sings sharp- acoustic instalments, including The group thoughtfully lists the Outside a museum, there is a tioned home-for-one-year has and places I used to call edged poetry in an often quav­ guitar, whistle, flute, fiddle, beats per minute for each song, Mercedes, spray painted gold, been packed up. I have rolled home—used to be. I am coming ery, digitally delayed, high red paint for blood dripping my shirts around delicate home. Whatever and wherever and harp. Bits are Celtic- out the bullet holes—the size of www.fidgital.com » things and placed them in a that is. And I wonder, what is a whose si range from the flavoured, and there are indeed gorilla testicles, of course. The heavy suitcase, too heavy to world without a desert? car belonged to a member of lift—perhaps some crumbling Without the shells of gunfire to the royal family who was killed bricks of my insides were acci­ pick up on early morning escaping the invading troops. dentally packed too. Last to go, walks? What is a world where I The bullets still remain imbed­ my music and my computer to am not alone? What is a world ded, and I can stick out a finger write this article, a sign of the without a man, standing out­ and touch them. Out in the dedication to CiTR and side his giant house trying to desert there is a graveyard of DiSCORDER, even now, nine pull a sheep out of his trucks and tanks, and the metal nths s i the v Mercedes? The sheep, woolly is cracking and caving-in, Vancouver was exhaled into and scared, refuses to leave the backseat comfort of the car. The exposed to the perpetual desert this oven-like heat, and nine man has tied a rope around the heat. The dunes are eating months of dust settling in my animal's neck, and yanks, his them, and some have just wrinkles. Wrapped carefully foot against the racing green become barrels sticking out of somewhere in that hockey bag paint. This animal is for a feast, sand. I can also touch these hot is a bottle of desert sand. And a a traditional meal. And it sits, metal monsters, stick my hand dried gorilla's testicle of salt. stubborn, on its hind legs, testi­ into the barrels of tanks: a hot And a piece of metal, and a cles exposed and unmoving, a metallic fisting, no testicles piece of glass from a tank half- piece of their cultural past that involved, gorilla's or otherwise. buried in moving sand and vio­ But me, I have not been in refuses to be budged. And the lent memories. man curses in the hot Arabian a war. Lately. I do not have The tank itself does not morning, but is laughing. And I need for remembrances of gun­ remember, nor does the walk past, smile, and walk fire and the sound of a booming encroaching desert. The lizards towards home. Whatever and sky. I have merely spent a year and their spiny tails do, per­ wherever that is. • in exile. I have spent the time haps, but they are not telling. I s im&mm brating the joy of amateurism and complex, not relegated to and the freeing power it wields. mere dialogue-carrying meat In this ambitious photocopied puppets, which can be found in fanzine we find some refresh­ many of the fine bestsellers out ingly enthusiastic rendezvous there. They do not insult one's with energetic, guitar swingin' intellect but instead remind us rebels know as punk rockers, how lovely or frightening dif­ namely All Out, The Deadlines, ferences can be. Wherever AFI, The Planet Smashers, Stephen Moron is coming from Speds, and St. Tibs Day. it is obvious that he is capable ispect of the c< storylines and bizarre twists Admittedly interviews of of going to great heights, so xpanded to include mixed with jaded, modern day obscure or even semi-obscure with this review I hope to be y works and there potty humour filled me with bands are relatively meaning­ one of the first to introduce a were plenty of swell zines and both delight and horror. You'll less to media-drenched con­ true talent in the art of new fic­ i dre comics to see there. We expect find frightening ass-scenarios as sumers, but for the fan, the tion. Find this one around our to see our own local heros like legendary cultural phenome­ "fan-zine" brings something better with rugged sports activities, Ralph Alphonso (Ralph), Brad non (secluded good-ol'-boy and precious. If the interviewer is a magazine shelves or contact beautiful people are flaunting Yung (Stay As You Are (the fresh fan and is likely not getting [email protected]. what they got, sun worshippers #7 should be on shelves again abduc paid for the interview, we get that he was a bit of a hack, i.e. On a personal note, my are soaking in the rays. Bloody presently]), Netty (Queen of the end to the side something quite passionate not among Dostoyevsky, Gide, own project known as SPECK hell, I hate the sun. At least Universe), and hopefully much stories and wacky dialogue. even if it may seem rough or even Stephen King (ouch). So FANZINE #8 is currently avail­ there's the comfort of the car­ more. Friends from Washington Fabulous! Tying this tale togeth­ around the edges. This zine car­ with the demise of this old- able and includes some inter­ cinogenic effects of direct sun- state such as David Lasky, Jason er is Jimmy the Spitter, a recur­ ries all the right ingredients of guard can't we move on and views with bands I like such as Lutes, and Randy Wood will be ring character from the deviant humour, humility, and enthusi­ make room for real talent like Steve Fisk, Simon Fisher Turner, expected as well. Tables are up mind of Mr. Grant. Is it worth asm. Hope Ivy keeps going and Stephen Moron? This two story Ladytron, Photon Band, Tram, for rent even as we speak and the $5 it costs? I say yes, growing. Sod Awf, c/o Ivy, 9440 lit piece paints some amazingly and Vancouver's own Ashley will run about $30 for a full absolutely. So contact jim- Glenacres Dr., Richmond, compelling details. While Park. Sure, a few of these were table (3x6') and $15 for half. [email protected] or BC V7A 1Y7

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madder at myself. Myself was here's one sure way to Kids don't count because for actually open the mouth and otally nuts. Totally. So, like, "You dumb girlfriend. You find out if someone's kids straws are fun, especially make contact with the glass that there's this guy. He's got compromised your spot. You insane. The scale of the kind that bend. They like was previously used by an old Ta head like an overgrown T melon and a face that's all have been waiting for this show insanity is large. There's the the colours or stripes or what- man who just had a cock in his for a long time. You have sur- scared-of-talking-on-the-phone ever's on them. They like to mouth, is out of the question. maleable like dough. His face is a boy man. You look at him one kind of insanity, which is blow bubbles. I'm talking about So they don't drink beer. minute and he's a mentally and and a girl. You are stupid." pretty low on the scale or the old people here. Well, not Mostly because it is not socially emotionally abused child Then 1 started thinking kill-people-and-eat-their-flesh- seniors 'cause they probably acceptable to drink beer out of plucked from some weird 1890s about how the guy on stage brand of insanity, which tops like to drink out of straws. a straw but also because beer family portrait. The next minute was totally nuts. Totally. And the charts. The insanity I'm Their teeth are sensitive and a tastes like alcohol. Same goes he's about 60 years old and he then my mind wandered, in the talking about is closer to the straw's like a tube straight to for wine. looks all fat and old and weird, midst of the music, to an article low-end, but still, insane is the throat. They like that. So if Straw-users like to order worn by weather, time, and I had read in the paper the day insane, and you have to watch a kid o fruity little cocktails that taste anguish. But his eyes, mostly. before. About a woman who, you ALWAYS have to drink out like Kool-Aid or some shit with Bleak and dull, like they're due to post-partum depression, of a straw, you're insane. a hundred ingredients in it with It is very likely that a per­ looking at nothing and com­ proceeded to drown all five of The main reason why peo­ a stupid name like Screwhound bent knees and a head tilted son is crazy if they insist on pletely within themselves in her children in her bathtub, ple want to drink out of a straw China Codtini. The fancy num­ backward, singing up toward drinking out of a straw. Now their own stillness and lifeless- including a two month old bers always come with a straw, the microphone. Odd. this doesn't mean that you're is because of cleanliness. Take a ness. Utterly and unflinchingly baby girl. The oldest son, who maybe even an umbrella and a I saw a boy there. He insane if you've drunk out of a can of soda, for instance. If you depressed. He's wearing showed up a bit late. I noticed straw before. Sometimes you drink it without a straw your piece of fruit. They like that. I'll clothes that look like they were him after a while and thought away in fear after he realized have to use a straw. I'm pretty mouth is going to have to touch admit that I don't drink beer. I picked out for him, like he was to myself, maybe I should go what his mother was doing. sure you have to drink a milk­ the can which may have been don't drink soda (a word much incapable of choosing his own. stand with him. Hold his hand. They found four children shake out of a straw because it's dropped in a toilet by accident, preferred over "pop") either. Brown Dockers, boat shoes, Watch together and listen wrapped in sheets and the old­ thick and cold and if you try to dried off, then put back on the On New Year's Eve 1997 I clean new jeans, and what together. But then I thought, no. est still in the bathtub. The pick it up and drink it, first, shelf. The appeal of the straw is resolved to quit drinking car­ looked like some kind of This is where I want to stand. woman had called the police your hand gets cold, and sec­ that it's clean and sterile, right bonated beverages. Why? FOR denim, collared jacket. Here, This is the best place I could shortly after what she had ond, if you tip it too fast or too out of an individual wrapper, NO APPARENT REASON. I Bill, give me your arm. Put this callei far the whole thing will fall on just like a condom. So the num­ think I might've read in the on. No, not that arm. This arm. band, who was at work, to tell your face. But I'll have to check ber one reason why people use National Enquirer that carbona- I had a really good place to Like a little gnat, my brain him. I started thinking about on that 'cause I've never had a a straw is because they're afraid tion was bad for you. I haven't stand at this show. To the left, said "You are at the same show. dead children, I had compro- milkshake before. But I've seen they might catch gonorrhea. broken my resolution except right in front of the nut. The nut people drink them, so I figure I Drinking out of a can or this one time when I had a sip together. Please stop this mad- show to hold a hand, and then should know. When you're at a bottle with a straw is insane. of Red Bull without knowing it So my little feet sticking out all 1 wanted to do was go home. restaurant they always give you Have you ever seen anyone was gassed. But that doesn't thing, just started playing, of legs dinked over to the boy. I The night was anti-climactic a straw. You can choose not to drink beer through a straw? count 'cause I had no idea slowly and uncertain at first held a hand. I tried to watch. and nuts. use it, but it's pretty easy just to Chances are that you haven't I don't know. So I'm insane. like a band jamming for the first People were drinking beer and Nuts. Totally, totally nuts.* go along with it. You never because straw-users don't drink At least 1 don't drink out of a time. He didn't move or express being loud. I was distracted by have to pick up the glass, you beer. Beer doesn't come with fucking straw.* much, except for an ankle lob­ just lower your face and suck. straws. To drink out of a glass, bing his leg to the side out of myself. Myself was getting

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hadn't heard about? This is unbelievable!" Because there are so many compassion that generates activism, in particular with respect to the cases that we haven't heard about. socio-political apathy that seems to pervade the youth culture, particu­ I found the album's theme quite timely considering the rash of high- larly the youth culture of Black capitalism. profile executions in the US over the last two years. Whether or not one Well, it's tough. We're constantly bombarded with these messages, "Buy supports capital punishment, the recent high-profile cases have clear­ this soft drink and it's going to make you happy, buy this car and it's going ly illustrated the racist and classist nature of the way it is implement­ to make you sexy, and if you wear these clothes it's going to make you ed in the US. As the most recent examples, compare the attention that have a lot of friends," and I think to myself, "God, I want to be happy, I DiSCORDER: Stay Human seems to be a natural progression in your cases such as McVeigh wherein a white man is executed versus other want to be sexy and I want to have a lot of friends." But, if you kxik at musical and political development Over the course of your career from similarly high profile cases such as Mexican national Juan Garza, youtli culture especially in hip hop, there was a time when hip hop was, , to Disposable Heroes, through the previous two whose execution barely warranted a whisper, either of protest or like, people were saying "I'm pissed off and I want to get mine 'cause I've Spearhead projects, there seems to be a definite sense of refinement support It simply wasn't an issue. been broke my whole life so I want to get paid." To me tliat was a politi­ and maturity in terms of both musical stylings and the subtlety and cal statement; people saying, "Hey, I'm broke and I want to get paid!" But maturity of your lyrics. What changes in yourself prompted the devel­ Definitely. You know, of all of the people who are on federal death row, today you see videos and they're saying, "Now I'm paid and I'm still opment from the hard, dark polemic of Disposable Heroes to the 87% of them are people of colour. In terms of convictions, the people pissed off." So what does that say? To me that says money and material­ equally incisive but more hopeful tone of the last two Spearhead who get convicted on murder and sentenced to death in the State sys­ ism doesn't bring its joy and happiness. So yeah, we're living in a world releases? tems as opposed to the Federal death sentence cases, I was surprised to leam that the single largest factor is not race but economics. Those who where materialism has become the utmost concern, but it doesn't bring us Michael FrantLThe first thing is that as I've grown, and especially could afford a defense got life, those who couldn't afford a defense what we hoped it would bring, so we have to try and learn to move become more involved in activism outside of music, I've really seen that received the death penalty. beyond that and the only way 1 can really see to fight it is through the the hardest thing isn't to try to, like, make a song that will piss people off: music, you know what I mean? In terms of music it's through the artists. that's really easy to do, you know, to raises issues and get people fired up. At the same time, one can't ignore the fact that in North America, poverty generally tends to be racialized. People of colour form a There was the Woodstock concert a few years back and I went to it think­ The most important thing is to try to persevere and to struggle when you ing, "Wow, this will be neat. It will restore the vision of the original see that, God, things in the world really don't change as fast as we want disproportionate proportion of the underclasses. Yeah, totally. But like Angela Davis has noted in so many cases, the inci­ Woodstock where people were saying 'the system is fucked up but we're them to, and one of the things that's helped me get through these difficult going to fight against the system but be gixxt to one another.'" But when times in my life is music. It's artists that are able to write beautiful music dents of people of colour getting arrested are so much greater not because people of colour commit so many more crimes, but because we have 24- I got to Wotxlstock it was like a bunch of bands on stage getting the crowd and joyful music, but invest it with seeds in the lyrics, they are the artists to chant "Show us your fits!" to every girl that was pulled up on stage, and that endure for me, you know? I think of Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, hour surveillance in our communities. Where I live, there are cops who are up and down the streets all night long, busting people who are selling I was thinking, "God, where have we come?" In the past it was the artists Stevie Wonder especially. These are artists that wrote strong, powerful who led it. It was the people like Santana who, for 25 years, has been statements about the world they lived in, but they did it through music crack and coke to white people (who just drive through my neighbor­ hood looking for drugs), but they're not busting them. spreading the same message: that we're trying to create a world that that you wanted to listen to over and over again. That's what I try to do. moves beyond borders, past borders. So I think that popular culture is You identify as (and are identified by others) as a Black man, yet unlike How did you get involved in the Mumia Abu-Jamal case? Probably in 1994 or 1995 somebody handed me a video tape, The Case for really important and the message in the music is ivally important and it's many in the Black diaspora, you explicitly embrace your multi-ethnic up to the artists to try to motivate people. background. Has this helped you to develop an analysis that includes, Reasonable Doubt, which was eventually aired on HBO and was about but also looks beyond simplistic singular identifications in the Mumia'scase. When I saw the film I just couldn't believe it. I was just so Knowing your involvement in the anti-corporate globalization move­ struggle against oppression. shocked about how this dude could be framed so clearly, so obviously, ment, are we going to see a further exploration of this in future and yet nothing was happening to free him or even have his case reheard. releases? Is this going to be a theme of an upcoming release or is it just Yeah, definitely. You know, sometimes it's hard when you're younger. So I started getting more and more involved in it, and while 1 was an aspect of your activism. When I was a kid, one of my parents was Black and one of my parents visiting Philadelphia on tour I would stop by and meet people like Pam was white, and I grew up in a community where my next door neigh­ To me it's just an aspect of my activism. The anti-globalization move­ and Ramona Africa from MOVE, and other activists who were aware of bours were Jewish, the family across the street was Mexican, the family ment is really important because it seems to us that it is something real­ Mumia's case. Then, a few years ago, we started putting on a concert in two doors down was Korean, another family down the block was Black. ly new, because it is new to western shores, but it's really just a part of this called Mumia 911, sort of a day of awareness about But, in terms of the culture, the community I grew up in was mostly movement that people of colour have been engaging in around the world Mumia's case: Spearhead played a show, we had Digital Underground, white, so I felt like an outsider a lot of the time in that community. My for a longtime. It's the same movement that led Gandhi to say, "Hey, we Tha Coup, and some other great bands. We also had several speakers, way of dealing with that was to hold on to my Blackness, to become want your people out of here" to the British. "We don't want your busi­ Angela Davis spoke, and so every year we have been putting on 911 proud of it, and to only identify with that part of me, even though part of nesses coming in here and exploiting our labour and our resources." It's concerts and we sort of expanded it to be not just Mumia 911, but to just me is European. But as I've grown, and been able to understand more the same thing that twk place in the decolonization of Central America, be 911, period. We consider it a state of emergency right now with what's about myself and about the world I've been able to embrace all of me Africa, South America, Asia, all over the planet. People have been fight­ going on with the prisons, with the death penalty in our country. While and understand that we're not just solely our race, our gender, our envi­ ing against colonialism and imperialism and today it's taking its shape in we still wanted to highlight Mumia's case, we also wanted to take it ronment, or our destiny, but that we're a makeup of all of those things, the form of corporations. So, for me, that is always a part of my music, beyond that and show that there are so many people who are on death and that the decisions and the choices we make in our lives are what ulti­ and the title of the album itself is part of that message. It's saving, "How row, so many people who are in prison unjustly mately affect who we are as individuals. Now I consider myself to be just do we hold on to what it means to be human?" How do we first define mainly a human being, and I'm trying... my biggest struggle is to Can you speak briefly about your work on the latest Mumia Abu- what it means to be human and embrace the positive aspects and the really try to link my mind and my body and my emotions. To link those Jamal album (375 Progress Drive)? I've noticed that recently, especially negative aspects of being human? And once we've defined it, how do things is the path that I call spirituality, and the deeper that one grows in in Canada, his case has all but disappeared from public awareness we hold on to it in this world that's constantly trying to push our human­ that way, the more that you just identify yourself as a human being, as in since Judge Yohn issued the latest stay of execution. How do we as ity out of us, and it's like there's a question of how to do that and there's individual in the collective, and those things, like race and gender and artists and activists maintain the focus on cases such as this? the question of putting a fist in the air with one hand and a peace sign sexuality, they start to appear to be more and more superficial to the real I think that the main thing is that we have to find it within ourselves to with the other and just saying to the whole world, "Stay human. I'm here, essence of who you are. persevere. That's why we call it "the struggle," because it's a daily thing. Sometimes we get frustrated, we feel that things aren't changing as fast as You have consistently demonstrated a strong feminist analysis. What we'd like them to be, and that's are your comments on the recent FCC ruling on the Sara Jones/DJ when we have to turn to culture, Vadim collaboration "Your Revolution?" They banned the track rum to music, to creativity to give us (which deals with the impossibility of true liberation for Black folks that extra push to keep persevering until we overcome misogyny within our own culture) from public and say, "Okay, we're going to have airplay because it contains "sexual references and explicit language," the energy to find the new way, find totally disregarding the fact that the song was an obvious critique of the new vehicle to get the word out objectification and sexualization of women, especially Black women, there." I think creativity is the best in popular culture. tool we have because we don't have No, really? I hadn't heard about that ruling. I've always called the FCC the money, we don't have the televi­ the FUCC. I think that the whole concept of the "seven dirty words," the sion stations, we don't have the idea that you should ban certain concepts, you should ban sexual things that the corporate world has references, all these things are things that lead to our culture being to get our point across. We have to really fucked up. When I go to other countries they're allowed to say find creative means through hitting the "seven dirty words" on the air, they're allowed to broadcast songs the streets, thaiugh organizing with­ that have them, and it's not corrupting kids to hear some bad words that in our own communities, through they say on the street all the time, or that they hear on records in their own putting on concerts, through the homes. But I think that it is larger than that: the worst crime that the FCC Internet, and through the best form has committed against the people in America is denying them access to of media which is and always has the airwaves, and putting those airwaves solely in the hands of those who can afford to pay many, many millions of dollars: we're talking one hundred million for a station in a major market. While the recent protests against corporatization and corruption, Like your previous , the tracks on Stay Human are linked by particularly in Vancouver (APEC) clear theme, in this case the racist death penalty. However, the focus is Seattle (WTO), LA (Democratic on a fictional case. Why? Convention), Philadelphia (Repu­ There's a lot of real life cases that I feel really strongly about, you know, of blican National Convention) and course Mumia is one, Leonard Pelletier is another, but I didn't want to try Quebec (FTAA), have been heavi­ to prove to the world that one person was innocent, I wanted to show- ly youth-driven, there seems to be that the whole system was guilty. That's why I chose to use this fictitious an ever growing polarization case. I wanted it to be like Orson Welles' War of the Worlds where you between youth cultures of heard this thing and you wondered "God, is this real?" That's how I activism and apathy. 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Lizaveta (for more info you can check out his web site at www.tolot- of the Vans park in DC. In the last Vans Triple Crown contest in ta.com). I've been doing some production here and there for vari­ Vancouver the number one request for music that the skaters ous bands in DC, and I also have a label called Peterbilt that just wanted to have played during their contest run was . (The : Hey Christ hanks for writi released a 2-CD set by a band called Octis. Brendan just produced a number two request was Metallica, in case you were wondering.) record for Ted Leo and he's been doing a lot of soundtrack work for Do any of you still skate? What do you think of the current skate­ ickness and for i things like TV documentaries... Ian of course has his hands full with boarding "industry" (ESPN, X Games, Transworld etc.) i. I'll try to co managing the band and running Dischord. I've never really been able to stand up on a skateboard without See you ir !-Guy/Fugaz How do you decide whether or not you will release a band's fucking killing myself, but Ian does "still skate pretty regularly. As record on Dischord? A lot of the bands have shared or related far as the "industry"goes we don't really pay any attention to that DiSCORDER: I'm scared. I'm afraid that if I ask you the wrong members; obviously Dischord is a community label. What are the end of it, but we have been able meet a lot of awesome skaters and questions I'll get stoned to death at your show. Why do you think chances that a band from Moscow, Idaho who sends you a four BMXers over the years who have been really inspiring to us. such militant fandom and religious admiration is associated track recording is going to get called back? Why do you think a connection is always made between skate­ with Fugazi? A band from Moscow, Idaho has a 100% chance of getting a courte­ boarding and music? You would never hear of a pro golf player The wrong questions really might merit a stoning; you can't blame ous reply from Dischord responding to their tape but actually a less requesting to hear Fugazi on the 17th hole or of a band playing our fans for that. When I was a kid in the '70s and the Sgt. Pepper's than 0% chance of getting that tape released on the label for the live in left field during a ball game. In pro hockey and basketball movie came out with the Bee Cees and Peter Framptonin it, I was simple reason that 1 Mschord is exclusively a DC label, only releasing the minute the play starts the music is stopped. so outraged I went and protested outside the movie theatre with a bands from within a community in DC. I think the concept behind I guess it's 'cause there is a rhythmic flow to skating; the skater can couple of my friends. I just felt that the Beatles' music was being the label is to document a very specific scene, not to be a normal work off the energy of the music and incorporate it into his flow. "music industry" style label that is always on the scope for bands to I really love basketball, but since the game is essentially a constant­ is just the province of Fugazi fans. I think it's just par for the course sign. Ian has always said that when there is no scene left to reflect ly shifting chaos depending on the independent decisions of 10 peo­ with music; people take it pretty damn seriously. It defines their than the label will simply cease to exist. ple at a time, music just wouldn't work choreographically—it would lives in really intense ways and they leel protective of it. I can think Steve Albini has said that he would pay you to let him record you. just be distracting and lame. of worse things to get overheated about. Have you ever considered recording with someone other than Don I've noticed from both your album photos over the years and from Why have you chosen to do an all Canadian tour? What took you Zientara? (Not that he does a bad job. He's pretty fucking good.) watching Instrument that at some point you stopped taking your so long? We have actually recorded with other people besides Don (including shirts off during live shows. Why? Now I'm sure you still get as it of ti Steve Albini actually, who recorded a preliminary version of songs hot as you used to, and I can't attribute this to age because you all n the early days of the band, we that became the Killtaker album). John Loder recorded our second look the same as you did in 1987. Was this a group decision? o out for like six or seven months a year and we covered a EP and we did a Peel Session in England with the old (Judging by bands who play without shirts, I'd say you made the king ground. As the band continued, we kept adding to drummer from Mott the Hoople. But it's true that overall most of right choice.) age area so that in addition to the US, Canada, and Europe the stuff we've done has been with Don at Inner Ear. We just feel I can't remember any specific moment where we made a conscious d going to places like South America, Australia, the Far comfortable working with him—he's kind of grown along with us group decision to no longer bare ourselves, but Joe thinks we may k) it just got harder and harder to.make it back to places in from his originals track basement studk s fancy pants 24 track have had some kind of awakening when we saw the inner sleeve imount of time. Now that two of the guys in the band have place now. design our friend put together for the Repeater album with topless he responsibilities attendant with that makes it even hard- Don Zientara uses an Otari MTR-90 at r Ear. Have you ever shots of each of us, the nature boy thing kind of lost its appeal for us •r all the ground we've established for ourselves. What we needed to use all 24 tracks? after that, in our defense, when the band started we were playing is keep track of the places we haven't played in the longest At this point it would be the rare song where ve don't use all 24 some pretty fucking hotMj tracks. When a track is looming blankly I think il s a natural impulse concerts and it becameB croscopic, like this tour actually isn't all of Canada but just to want to fill it. They may not all make the cut in the mix, but we i habit . go c tend to end up needing them all particularly noi that we have been doing a lot of songs using an additioi friend and roadie Jerry Busher). In a way that is the beauty of smal i just suffer i Have you been working on a new album? When c. i we expect a the forced economy of the 8 or 16 track forces you tc nake more shirted, and I think that! radical mental editing from the git go. I tend to think y its all for the best. Now Yeah, we actually have two releases in the can and going through great music on whatever machine you are faced with, each one just we travel with a dry( the manufacturing pipeline as we speak. One is a 10 song album demands a different plan of attack. we customized with! and the other a 3 song single, and they are going to come out To my knowledge, Fugazi has never played a cover song. wheels so now after the] simultaneously in the early Fall. Not too long to wait at this point. Why not? shows we just We are also finally going to release an expanded DVD version of I think one time on our first tour we covered "Pay to Cum" by Bad our funky clothes and Brains with Joe singing for the goof, but that's the only time we ever dry them for service al Brendan has worked with Ted Leo and Lois, Guy with Blonde played any covers live. Sometimes in practice we'll fuck around the next show. • Redhead, and Ian with Dischord bands in the time since i'ith "Farmer John" or "I'm Free" or something, but at this point, See Fugazi LIVE with Instrument. What other projects have you been working on (Joe e don't want to fuck arou Submission Hold and in particular) in the last while? wrote. We aren't really into "r Def Poets Society, We all have different stuff going on all the time. Joe has a label deliver the goods. Saturday, July 7, Bill called Tolotta records which has been really busy lately with releas­ In 1982, Ian appeared on a co ;r of Thrasher, sitting on the Old Copeland Arena, es from bands like Spirit Caravan, , and Stinking Annadale ramp. In 2000, Ian v s reportedly at the grand opening Burnaby.

10 JULY 2001 ? DiSCORDER: When you're reincarnated which animated character would you like to be? : I wouldn't want to be a Simpson, although they're my favorites. Did you get Battle of the Planets in Canada? Of course. I think it was called G-Force here , but I could be rtvn*ry)

I'd like to be 7-Zark-7. He made a really great noise. Wagon Chrjst Can you tell me why you let other people chose which tracks on ? I don't particularly like the process of choosing tracks. I'm just as happy to let other people do it for me. Your earlier records seem to vary greatly in style. 3y Robert Robot All my records are slightly different because I don't like to repeat myself. But I think for obvious ways those first two or three albums Whei I fi ard the Wagon Christ album, are different than my latest because I was trying to do something Throbbing Pouch, ! thought, "Here's an album that different and not what came natural to me. Which is much more funky stuff. appeals to elec o-purists and electro-shy lis- You've done your share of remixes. When does a remix become a teners alike." I ; sound is definitely comparable completely new track? to fellow count sarts U-Ziq and , but It's always a new track, even if you just tweak it a bit. If I really like a track then I keep all the good bits and just rearrange them. But if perhaps a bit < :ier to digest with the use of I don't like the track I'll add what I would like to hear. funky bass loops while keeping everything quite I've heard that Aphex Twin won't be releasing anything for a mellow. Luke Vibert's music, on the other hand, is He's told a few people that he's just finished a quadruple LP. He varied. While his releases under his own name has been recording constantly. I've got a few of his new tracks that invoke the words break beat, , and math I will be playing tonight. They're very acidy. , he also dabbles in on his A little bird also told me that you're working with Canadian MC, Blurum. releases under the Plug moniker. Vibert's music Yeah, we've been working together on some demo versions of is warm and frenetic, cold and angular. He sounds like someone who knows his craft and enjoys it. In Tell me what comes off the top of your head when I say the fol­ lowing words: The Magic Round About. true rock star (or should I say electro star?) Doogle. fashion, Vibert was two hours late for our inter- Britney Spears. ^^^ sort «»t Shit. w. Ma iy spi rits do ffled in ord er to quell Foot and Mouth Disease. be redom of wait mg resu Ited in the following England. erv lev, w th Luke Vibert, aka Wag jn Christ. Eazy-E. Ruthless. Trip-Hop. A*mos ' Me. Kid 606. Me, again I'm afraid. I did a show with hin L. A. about three nights ago and he kept coming up and saying "Thanks for having me, sorry about the track." I like his track,"Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indy Rock Punk Ass." And he's good live too. You've taken the Wagon Christ name from a Robert Crumb character. Not really. He's referred to only once, in a single frame of one of Crumb's comic books. I think if he were an actual reacurring character I wouldn't have chosen the name.

Me too. So do you have a French background? It might well be. I don't have a fucking clue. My father's side as far back as I know were all born and raised in . Cornwall is an interesting place because it's rij;ht on the cost. There was a lot of trade with the French, Africa, and Spain making for a nice mix of cultures. You've lived in London for a while now. Was there a Cornwall music scene that interested you? No, we had to pretty much make our own scene. We just made music we like and play it to each other at peoples houses. I saw a Polaroid commercial the other day with a backing score V^sovjr^rAr^c- very similar to the track, "Hip-AIong-Hop" you did with BJ Cole. Yeah, I've heard about, it but I haven't seen it. I'll have to ask 3 s r about that. If someone uses an existing track of mine I lis ^ "^ don't get any money. Rather, it's the and publishing company who make the profits. If I'm asked to make an original composition then I can make a shit load of money. But that's never happened to me. What can we expect from you in the future? I'll do another album with BJ Cole. My next record by myself will probably be an acidy analogue type endeavor. It will have a lot of tracks didn't put on this record, Musipal. I've been doing those types of tracks for the past few years on a good 303. I've got enough for 10 albums, but I'll just release one good one. -CbVVy UcfAsm Any last words for the people who missed you tonight due to lame

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03rd. Oh my God, it's been almost five days. My bones and mus­ cles are tired. But I awake early with my companions to attend the "Mutek Brunch." We arrive to a throng of stars standing in the WHRT IS MUTEK? stairwell of a Plateau Royal bohemian pad. We eat bagels with Matmos and Herbert and Mitchell Akiyama and Goem, then go for nd New Techno! coffee, a red-headed girl with braces approaches me for a djarum. a wet walk along the waterfront. Must sleep before show. The 5-7 People walk around here with cigs hanging out of their mouths brings Toronto's Dumb Unit label. Jeremy B. Caulfield, aka Lotus, Mulek is all iboi 24/7. And everyone drinks everywhere. You could get a liquor opens with a DJ set, followed by Matt (Attitude) and Mark acoustic, aiiib license for a garbage can. Why can't BC be like this? Why are we Thibidean, finishing off with Jacob Fairley playing and singing sans es artists that such FUCKING PURITANS? The 5-7 features local Montreal artists. shirt. The final event of the festival kicked off with the UK's Mathew and \iraa lame, the lanccfl or and the An interesting lot, but rather undeveloped in their sound. Julien Roy Herbert, accompanied by vocalist Dani Siciliano and Phil Parnel on bong. Mutek plon ig the n laliou between i It SIC, t chnologu. is good with his laptop beats, Vrac attacks with a noise set, and piano. Herbert sampled live various sound sources, including ipos clh uany ar ist, le luring vu il work as Rodeo In Reno get droned and stoned over a heavy analogue set-up. destroying a Gerri Halliwell CD, breaking glass bottles, and for the a pari of their nrf, e M odisl mill/ Cant dinn as the North The Ex-Centris show delivers. Montreal's AELab smoothes out into final encore, the audience going "aaah." Fairly mellow, brilliantly n'sS mar fest val in Barcelona. Held,, Montreal ambience and beats, but it is California's Matmos that steal the night executed: the top of my head tingles. Anticipation has got the better dspearl •tided ./ Alain K oftheEx- with c\n incredible live show, playing a rat cage with a violin bow of me: Thomas Brinkmann. He had a multitude of gear: two turnta­ • Me lia Com; lex. !v nick lain ed ovei 35 artists and sampling a liposuction tube for "California Rhinoplasty."The bles, two pitch-controllable CD players, isolator, two EFX units, s for o( exhai stive 5 nights. Et cli night featured German group Rechenzentraum up the tempo with a fantastic off- drum machine, sequencer, and a sampler. My head and the crowd quiet. Clicks. Layers and layers of clicks: vertigo. He remixes his (ii/'iii/ hour, 5 -7) at the SAT Sociclt des Arts kilter and dark techno set and well-mixed off the cuff visuals. Back recent release, "Klick," produced with the use of rhythmic patterns ('s on • massii will, •y-wareho ise in at the SAT, we catch Mike Shannon cutting perfectly smooth on cut into the runout grooves of records. Bass feedback. It's good to s we e first held at tl c pointed •rn ultt i-cool Ex- three decks, and then Villalobos and Dandy Jack drop a Playhouse hear mistakes in the almost too perfect world of digital music. I'm d tlu , the w, •Lend hows wer • at tin SAT, fea- sounding live set of hard, minimal house. After about an hour and a

taring 6-spcaker surround sound. The final Sunday perforata half, Villalobos takes over on the decks. Not only is he a stellar pro­ spent. There's no \ an stay on for the DJ-machin old with 800 plus. More info and audio archives: http:/hn ducer, he can DJ like a mindfucker! Smooth and hard, mixing in '80s providing even nv sic for the throngs of chin stri classics like Thomas Dolby, Nitzer Ebb, and Techiiotronic. We dance snobs (a term of e rent). I head to the airport fu until 3am, then head back to the dorms, dead tired. (by Paul Sly) THE MUTATED DIRRY OF TOBIftS 01st. Burnout. We are wandering, eyes wide, feet barely supporting bodies. Outside the SAT, the nightlife of St. Catherine's takes over, l-'70s architecture five the intensity of Robson Street. 1 hear the music and the French MRTM0S: SURGICRL BERTS language all mixed together in a wet ensemble. Earlier at the 5-7, s he is Jacques Villein Kapotte Muziek (the alter-ego of Goem) presented a live found- Imagine lln>:,: tiiettrc packet to the gills, Matmos upfront, a giant film screen ve, smoke even thoi sound, contact-mic performance by a workshop of festival goers. behind them A hush descends upon the black-jacketed masses as MC Schmidt if DiSCORDER agen That brings us to now to Process, whose mindbending visuals and runs a metal rod over Ins skin, picking up "chi" electrical impulses that pro­ intricate minimal compliment the repetitive, Terry duce loud electrical zing sounds. Drew Daniel mixes it in live with beats to Riley-esque set by Phillipe Cam (France). Gustavo Lamas form "Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi," an experimental house truck from their new 30th. Anarchist graffiti abounds around McGill: posters, slogans. I (Argentina) moves into beats 'n' washes, and Germany's DJ Triple R album, A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure. Meanwhile, microsoiind prepare for the first Happy Hour. This is a big deal: no Gore-Tex plays a straightforward, muted set of dub techno. But the real sur­ artist Ricliard Cliartierfilms the action close-up, blowing up Schmidt's skin to here. Everyone is slick. People wear a scarf to take a shit. prise was Montreal's Akufen, who simply rocked the place with sickening proportions on the screen. Then the rat cage: a contact mic is Vancouver's Ben Nevile has snagged a live slot as Ricardo Villalobos hard, cutting beats and well-thought out programming. We walk attached, and the sounds are beautiful plucks and ablutions. With bravado, and Dandy Jack are held up at the border. He astounds everyone back in drenching rain, soaking ourselves to the skin. Schmidt pulls out a violin bote and tlie souls of dead rats wail from the metal with his inventive and LIVE laptop set, performing with software he 02nd. I awake feverish and sick. Barely conscious at the 5-7, bars. Matmos are serious looking. Even/one is standing to get a good look, wrote himself and a programmed air-MIDI joystick. Finally the Montreal's Mitchell Akiyama and Toronto's Tomas Jirku play two nodding to each otlier with silly grins. Like Herbert, the performance is marred Chilean-Germans take over; Villalobos looks and rocks like a super­ solid minimal techno sets for their Substractif label launch. At the by technical problems, bill then work through it and the "live" aspect, some­ star. On to Ex-Centris. Everyone sits downon the floor in the seat- main event, Dettinger, whose 20 minute set means I only catch the what of a novelty for "" heightens the experience. I talked to less theatre. Martin Tetreault and I8U output bass and crackles, and last few textured minutes of beautiful soundscape. The rest of the Matmos over the phone from NYC. Despite numerous pltone problems and a Goem quickly assault all with a that forces me to night was forgettable. Germany's Kompakt label crew of Jonas lost sheet of questions on my part, Matmos politely continued to answer my move away from the speakers. Mikael Stavostrand is dubby and Bering and Closer Music leave a lot to be desired. Closer play whole belligerent pestering. dicky but unremarkable. Montreal's Jetone finishes the evening with tracks at llObpm, very basic crisp minimal house, and people start I mentioned Kid 606's latest comment in DiSCORDER bashing mini­ a journey through classical ambient and sliced and diced beats in to leave. DJ Tobias Thomas is plain boring: play the whole track, mal techno as the "lowest common denominator" of electronic music. ("Wliat another on-the-fly live laptop set. mix for 10 seconds, put the flanger on, repeat. We leave early, about trance?'.?" I thought). Matmos responded along tlie lines of, "People in 31st. Ben Nevile and I head out for dejeuner at La Place Milton. Ben psyched for tomorrow, glass houses..." and we went on to discuss the state of minimal techno and says he needs to eat 30% more because he is bigger. Later, having (by Tobias V) IDM today. Drew: Too often, with IDM production I hear nowadays, it's a plateau. we're both from an academic context but I don't think we're wearing lukit mill Montreal's \ mce to dis­ There is no development, no movement. There aren't little themes or that hat when we're making Matmos tracks. But often we are wearing cuss Iccliuotwnic, minimalism und racing with jirku over email. subsets. There's basically beats ami noises for six minutes, then you're that hat when we are explaining Matmos tracks.There is a methodol­ DiSCORDER: First: your obsession with Technotronic. Any story done. That sense of moving through the time of a song like moving ogy, a working approach, and the theory is something that I can go behind it? through someone's house, going from one room to another, where into, but I don't like to do it for the listener because it seems to look like [DiSCORDER point-of-info: when lirku played live in Vancouver, he remixed there's some continuity and a personality there are all parts used for special pleading, like you are forcing your art to mean certain things. several Technotronic classics] different things. I'm more interested in song shapes that have that kind And it often looks like something is supposed to be some sort of crux Tomas: I've recently been able to appreciate that kind of techno again of movement. Scott Heron's tracks I really like. or justification for the work, and I don't like that relationship. I guess since contemporary techno has become so devoid of melody and DiSCORDER: On A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure, all of the the theory for us goes into the discussion of what the liner notes will vocals. My early musical tastes were shaped by groups like The sounds are from various surgical apparatus, live surgeries, rat cages, be. We're making decisions about how much information people will Shamen, Technotronic, 808 State, etc. So when I throw some remixes of acupuncture machines, certainly this is not minimal techno. Why need, and how that information will change what they hear. But there my favourite old techno tracks into my live sets, it's nostalgic for me surgery? isn't an explicit position that we're taking. and anyone in the audience with a similar appreciation. Drew: It's personal. My father and stepmother are both plastic sur­ Do you see yourself as a part of a tradition of artists, who are taking A maddening question, but: What gear/software do you use? geons. So there's an element of speaking with something that has been up the body as a site of art, a site of protest? Especially with the Variations CD on Alien8. Some of the sounds around me my whole life, but exploring it through music, trying to Drew: Yeah, and for me, a lot of the art I find interesting is the extreme (especially their processing) are extremely haunting. turn it into sound, which is something that I can control and use. body-art of the '70s. People like Gina Paine, or the Vienna Actionists, I will only say that my production is done entirely on PC. Source sam­ There's something aggressive in it, a cartoon version of what your par­ test social limits of what is acceptable, and the property of the body, ples from my recent productions have mostly been culled from my ents do for a living. ownership of the body with what they did to themselves and also to favourite and pop tunes, and then processed to such an extreme Are you fans of David Cronenberg? the nature of the institutions of which the art is consumed, by bringing degree that the original is indiscernible. Drew: I am, Martin is not. very personal and intimate bodily experiences and events into a What would you say if someone called your music "minimal tech­ Martin: [Distant] He's a hack! gallery museum. I think our milieu is quite different from theirs in that no"? Are you a "techno" producer? Drew: I really like Crash and Videodrome. I was really annoyed with we make records that are portable, that aren't tied to any particular I wouldn't object, it's a healthy genre to be associated with. But when the adaptation of Naked Lunch, because of the way he handled institutional space. We aren't insisting on our bodies in the ways that I'm producing I have "house" on my mind rather than "techno," I like Burrough's sexuality; it seemed really confused to me. pop stars do. Pop star product is in a weird way closer to '70s perfor- to keep things a little bit more funky than techno usually allows.

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What about Dead Ringers? mance art as it insists on Jennifer Lopez's breasts, and on her body and Would you call yourself a post-r. •? What S( Drew: I haven't seen it, Martin has, and he regards it as a very sexist on her face. The facelessness of our music, it's literal, with the picture film. of ourselves on the new record, our faces are concealed. We're using I have some raving in my past, but the whole dnig culture turned me Martin: HAaaAATED it! sound rather than image, that's the big cut-off, that we aren't relying off. And though I've been exposed to lots of music, I've never really felt Drew: I think there are a lot of people using the sort of fetishism of on the experience of recognition you have when you see a perfor­ connected to any "scene.-' My tastes are too broad for me to narrow in medical technology as scary in very simplistic ways—look at Marilyn mance of someone doing something extreme to their body. Instead, on something. Manson's work. I think it's just kind of cheap. People are already afraid you are hearing it as sound ,\iv\ 1 think that changes it quite a bit how What constitutes a "live" performance in the age of laptop artists? of medicine, so you aren't really doing anything transformative or your imagination completes it. If the person performing can take credit for the production of the interesting by making art that says, "Wow! Medicine is scary." For us, Noio, Imving seen the performance, I question this. MC Schmidt seems music, then it's live to me. I don't need to be distracted by someone the challenge was to use [medical] material but to make it move in to be the submissive one, subjected to the venous physical pt\>t esses timing twiddling a whole bunch ol knobs to be i on\ iiu ed that it's live, so as other directions. their live, and very visual, performance at Mutek. His face and skin were long as my ears are stimulated, I don't see a need for a multime- At this point, I pick up on the fact thai incessant sirens have beat going blown up on the screen, and many recent publications have been running a dia/multisensory display. Though there seems to be a need/market off for the duration of the interview. I wonder: are they playing samples? Or photo of the duo with surgery marks on their faces. Contrary to the music, the for a DJ, I appreciate a live performance for the fact that you see the is this just another day in NYC, as Daniel claims? I try to chuckle, and Daniel visual aspect of Maimers is as enthralling I \-spite their attempts to escape the producer and that respect for the music is given where it's deserved. says, "You can remix us, and make us say interesting things " So / did. THE visual clement el'the body, thee Inn •eenly ended up reinforcing it. How to lis­ I've always felt that DJ culture directs a whole lot of unwarranted cred­ 7 SIRENS INCREASED. THINGS GOT LOUDER. They tried to end the ten lo this album, then Daniel says that the optimal listening condition is it to people playing records. interview, then all of a sudden, the sirens stoppctt. Then, we got into Herbert tltat of his father: he plays it m Ins operating room when he is operating Does your music attach itself to a certain sort of politics, or think­ and his neio album. Daniel's father is a cosmetic surgeon. ing/thought? Drew: We gave Herbert the sound of Martin's jugular vein for his new Matmos: "We love your station." I don't connect myself to philosophies or politics. I prefer to think of album because it has this bodily theme, and I'm working on a remix of (by Tobias V) my music as an exhibition of my aesthetic ideals, and to attach myself "the audience"right now. He's a very good friend at this point. Martin to something would only constrain me. And while minimalism is a and I were big fans of his work as Dr. Rockitt. TRLKING TO TOMRS JIRKU: pleasant aesthetic, it appears to have saturated our culture to the point Now I began thinking: Herbert has his neiu musical Dogme-sfy/e man­ HE'D NEUER ERT ICE CRERM RND where it has lost all context and meaning. ual, live, etc. Watch out for unci mi me, releases on Khmg,. \lgoritl tin's Revolver, Truum, and So I opened it up to tlicory. BOXER SHORTS TOGETHER the LP Immaterial on Substractif • I am curious: you guys are very articulate about all of this, is there (by Tobias V) some sort of theory behind the body focus? Tomas Jirku'sfame is growing like a rhizome as an internationally recognized Drew: There was no theory before the record was made. But I am a minimal techno composer, jirku combines dub elements with haunting graduate student, I studied Philosophy, and now I am getting my PhD vconstrut I a sound whit It, although it borrows 'rem Cologne and in Renaissance Literature. Martin works at the San Fr, San Francisco, is distinctly his own. Mutek saw the launch ofSubstractif the RRTICLE(S) BY TOBIRS M Institute in their Performance and Conceptual Art Deparl neio AIien8 offshoot focusing on electronic minimalism that features Toronto's AND PRUL SLY. m o g w a i

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There's more to Scotland than deep fried Mars bars, gloomy weather and the over-usage of the word "cunt." There just happens to be a thriving scene too, 'specially in a little place called Glasgow. I sat down with Stuart (Guitar), Barry (Guitar/Keyboards), John (guitar), and Martin (drums) of Mogwai (who happen to hail from Glasgow) and discussed some pertinent issues over some beers. A quick disclaimer to add: If you read this and think that these guys are assholes, lighten up, you fuck, they're just joking.

DiSCORDER: What differences do you find in audience John: We were the new wave of teenage bands! John: They're pretty high up there. reaction, between North America and the UK/Europe? What do you do to "celebrate life"? Stuart: That guy Stuart stabbed me once. He was fucking chasing Stuart: Canada is definitely one of the better places to play. Some Stuart: We don't really think of things in that kind of terms. me, chasing me in his Boy Scout uniform. places in England, or in Scotland, people have a short attention Barry: Too busy working. John: Shut up! span. And some places are really really good, like France was Stuart: I don't know what we do, what do you do? [To John] Barry: Smart cunt. good, and Iceland, and Japan. John: Drink. Would you say that's a refusion of the whole "lad" crowd, that Vancouver has a reputation for having really Barry: Aye, we drink. think they're tough? unenthusiastic'crowds, even if it's their favourite band. John: Pass the time. Stuart: It's just totally different, I think that a lot of the bands from Stuart: Yeah, that's what it was like, It was terrible the last time What's the meanest thing you've ever done to an interviewer? Glasgow are much more, in fact, much less animistic, than less Stuart: Locked them in our room. I locked them in a dressing room evil. It's not like the bands from Manchester, it's not really a reflec­ People think they're too cool to dance. with these three lassies in Canada. Stole their camera. tion of what's actually going on outside. It's more of a reflection of Barry: It was a lot of hard cunts the last time we played here. Barry: We gave them money. what's going on in two pubs. If you went into a Housing Scheme What are some of your most hated bands? Or Anti-influences? Stuart: We had a guy, and made him eat a hundred garlic cloves. and asked the average person who Belle and Sebastian or the Stuart: I'd say Mogwai are least influenced bv the Rolling Stones. Barry: We gave him a lot of money. Like 75 or a hundred pounds. Delgados were, they wouldn't know. It's more underground. il the isted. / Stuart: So I'd say we were quite nice, It was meant to be a In playing the "Fuck The Curfew" song [in retaliation to the hundred, but he [points at Martin] never paid up. Lanarkshire council's youth curfew] and with the change of Barry: The Rolling Stones and Suede. Martin: Quite right. As well he deserved it. We did something else. venue in Dublin to avoid crossing the picket line of Guinness Stuart: We don't particularly dislike them, but they certainly don' Stuart: 1 started slamming that French photographer, and then the strikers, have you found yourselves being stigmatized as a influence us at all. bastard TV crew that came. "political band?" What new music/art/film has recently inspired you? Barry: They were dicks, they were so dicks! Stuart: No, I think that the curfew thing was probably a one-off Stuart: I really liked that film Requiem For A Dream. Fucking Stuart: I gave them a small piece of my mind. because, for me it was just common sense. It was just ridiculous. Brilliant. The new Autechre album is really good. The new Bardo Barry: I heard that. I was fucking dying in the next room. It was We don't have any particular political agendas, apart from hilarious. attempting to overthrow the monarchy, and to introduce commu­ I read an interview where you said you self-proclaimed Stuart: They wanted us to play music for this TV show, but we nism. And to make sure that women don't go anywhere. Make "sportz goths." had only started rehearsing the day before and it was really, really Stuart: That was about a black tracksuit, simple really. early so we weren't going to do it. Then it just turned really bad, There seems to be a medieval tinge to the new album. Does that Does that mean that you gothercise? they had upset Aidan from Arab Strap, and that was like an insult mean that you guys, are like, Rush fans? Stuart: You mean walking up and down? Barry: Rush? No! No! Exercising in a goth manner. Barry: They also wanted serious answers as well. "Enough with Stuart: I've never heard Rush. Barry: We don't exercise at all. the comedy!" Barry: I've heard them once and I was appalled, I know the guy Stuart: That should be clear really! John: Fuck off! sings really high sometimes, and they've got a good drummer? Barry: That sounds like something I won ir fuck's sake. Stuart: As soon as I started asking them questions, trying to make Stuart: I've never heard them. Gothercise!? them explain themselves, his English wasn't too good, so he start­ You're missing out. Rush fans in Canada seem to be mostly pim­ What's the stupidest sub-genre, or genre you've found your: ed, I don't know, gyrating. I really really got him back. I did. ply faced seventeen-year-old boys that sit in their bedrooms lis­ being clumped into? Glasgow has a reputation as being a rough town. tening to Rush and masturbating. Stuart: Post-rock. Or 1 have to bring up a classic sin 86; I can't Barry: Mostly? Stuart: I used to be a pimply faced seventeen year old boy that did remember who said it but "The New Wave Of Teenage Bands. The kind of music that comes out of there tends to be low on the a lot of masturbating, but Rush wasn't involved.* Barry: For fuck's sake. aggression scale; you guys fit into that. Stuart: Now, we are the new wave of bands in their mid-twen Barry: You've never heard Belle and Sebastian?

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You Black Emperorl's apoca­ worlds here—of Tortoise slow­ [Silence] lyptic appearance on the scene, ness and darkness, of rainy V/A by Man is the Bastard will cheesiness ("Lord Of The the Quebec collective seemed drones, of expansive sound- 75 Ark Takes You To The Bridge no doubt satisfy the hard­ Dance" complete with Irish Christa Min like a hive of creativity and scaping with a vocal trowel and 75 Ark core/punk lover, and although sounding flute-pipe sounds that commitment. Sadly, that a backbone groove—exposes, You take the good, you take the the lyrics are great, I can barely are perverted into a car-crash­ EUPHORIA impression has been lessened like a peeper hiding behind bad, you take 'em both and hear them through the serious ing break), Chris Clark con­ Beautiful My Child by countless releases of varying your shutters, catching your late there you have the... 75 Ark. grunting action and wall of gui­ structs a universe of freaks. If (Six Degrees Records) quality, each having more or night perversions, an element of tars. Personally my favourite you are all over Plaid or This limited edition sampler My problem with the Six less to do with the imprint's Vancouver. Most of the tracks modus operandi for revolution­ 's latest offerings, features the finest this bi-coastal Degrees label is that while they flagship act. were recorded in Vancouver ary music is hip hop, techno, you will dig this—if you aren't, "alternative" hip hop label has put out a large amount of good The latest Constellation after Isotopia's main members and folk, but whatever works, you're only going to find more to offer. Deltron 3030 starts stuff, they haven't put out any­ album comes from Hanged Up, Jamie Tail and Daryl Askey especially when their heart is in of the same refined into a cata­ things off with "Things You Can thing really great. Recent releas­ an instrumental duo peddling relocated here in 1996. Along the right place. May Mumia's tonic listening experience. As Do." Also worth mentioning are es, a couple in the Latin vein, an unconventional combination with Megan Wilson on bass and voice rise above the shit that much as I like Warp, it wasn't songs provided by Preserve, have failed to genuinely interest of drums and viola. Their self- Graham Kaye on drums, the governs both North American until I heard "diesel raven" that Encore (from Handsome Boy me despite being, for the most titled debut certainly sounds group continues to offer a well- Modeling School) and Britain's I was hooked into a second lis­ fine—echoing elements of The thought out yet sporadic alter­ ten. Clark takes the breaks and part, well conceived. Euphoria, Nextmen. If you can get past Dirty Three and Einsturzende native to their "I Don't plays with a bit of melody and featuring Ken Ramm, put out the name, Mista Sinista proves an album in 1999 and now Neubauten. But it doesn't feel Understand Rock 'n' Roll" sen­ AIR muted riffs, eschewing schizo- to be an outstanding turntablist, returns with "Beautiful My exciting or important. After timents—the title of their rare 10,000 Hz Legend break madness and abrasive contributing arguably the best Child," a 12 track exploration repeated listens, one is left with first EP. It's got mood (Astralwerks/Source) textures for intrigue and sus­ track on this compilation. into a sound categorized (by the the impression that this record swings and an emotional bal­ So you go home to your par­ pense that conjures emotion Finishing off are the label anyhow) as "guitronica." exists because it can, not ance sheet. Check it. ent's house, and in the base­ (imagine that!). Warp on. always enjoyable Anti-Pop The claim to fame of Mr. Ramm because it has to; that it is the tobias v ment you find a dusty old box tobias v Consortium, bringing back that is apparently his use of the slide product of a clique enjoying its of records. You start flipping guitar in his atmospheric works. success by resting on its laurels. DANKO JONES through them and sandwiched DUOTANG Digable Planets. The tracks that Also involved in this project are In contrast, San Francisco- I'm Alive And On Fire between the Nana Mouskouri The Bright Side fall short on this album incorpo­ William Orbit, Garry Hughes, based underground hip-hop (Released by his own bad self!) and Shorty Rodger's Chances (Mint) rate that annoying off-tempo B.J. Cole, and Madonna's label Anticon has used its recent For those of you who missed it Are It Stuings you find mint This album is frustrating to lis­ rhyming style with ho's, money, drummer Steve Sidelnyk the first time around, (I suspect copies of Fleetwood Mac, The ten to for the following n and clothes, themes that should (that's what the notes say)! The pushing the envelope and pro­ that would be many, consider­ Steve Miller Band, and Serge l.Thev a bit h loud 11 have been dead a long time ago. pieces are lush and textured, but voking responses. Man ing his recorded output to date Gainsbourg. So you steal them the mix, drowning out the Takes You To The Bridge leaves references, as per the biographi­ Overboard by Halifax's Buck 65 is scarce), a collection of songs and take them home for your music, and they are kind of me asking one question. If this cal release, to Pink Floyd, is just one drop in the label's released between 1996-1999 just very own DJ set. You throw on annoying. 2. When you really sampler is supposed to be rep­ Fairport Convention, increasingly torrential outpour­ pooped outta the chute from the some Fleetwood Mac and start listen to the lyrics you realize resentative of the underground Pentangle, John Barry, and ing of claustrophobic, literate riff-master known to some as jamming on it. Then you move that they are not as good as you hip-hop scene, where are all the Tangerine Dream just don't pan and emotional "post-rap" (their The Mango Kid, but to others, on to the new Autechre album, would hope. 3. Lyndsay says female MCs? out. There are no musical refer­ term, not mine). Made soon you can just call him delicious. and then you jam some Serge that it sounds like all their other Heather Termite ences to "early 1970s psyche­ after the death of the artist's rock with a -y (or for good measure. But then stuff (bouncy retro indie pop) delia" either, despite the ample mother, it's an expressionistic gutsy?) edge, plenty of sass for your fuckhead roommate comes and she's right. 4. Retro can MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND- use of pedals. A closer approxi­ odyssey that delves into yo' ass. Indeed. in and puts on Beck! So you never really be that good cause MAN IS THE BASTARD take that off and throw on some mation would be a sound simi­ bereavement, heartache, para­ Bryce Dunn it's all been done before. 5. All (Alternative Tentacles) Jeans Team, and then finish lar to that of Morcheeba or the noia, humour and the true the bass lines sound like they Long live Mumia Abu-Jamal... things off with "The Supreme Beings of Leisure. meaning of hip-hop. What's THE MAN MADE BRAIN could be Inbreds bass lines. 6. Jello Biafra delivers on his out­ Joker"...Yeah, that's what the James Brown most remarkable is that Man Vector*Based Fiction They market themselves as a spoken promises to resist corpo­ new Air album is like. Overboard is pretty typical of (Altaira Records) two piece (bass and drums) but rate control in all its forms, Heather Termite Anticon's output. Most every­ Au Pairs. Malaria. Delta 5. all the songs have keyboard or especially (and in this case) cops HANGED UP thing the label releases is How does Man Made Brain fit horn over dubs, and the really and corruption. So it looks like Hanged Up steeped in the kind of need that with these bands? Chaos. Sure, unfortunate thing is that the Biafra is taking the plunge by BIG IN JAPAN (Constellation) you just can't fake; it is the kind it may not be the shameless keyboards and horns are what producing some of the last com­ Destroy Tlie Neiv Rock BUCK 65 of music that can only be made New Wave chaos of horns and make the songs. So, like eating mentaries we may hear from (Honest Don's) Man Overboard by people who have found true guitar solos, but instead is the Mumia in a long time. Mumia This trio from Reno, Nevada hot dogs in Wonderbread buns, (Anticon) sustenance and redemption in new chaos of Something Wave, has recently been subjected to a wears power-pop well on their The Bright Side is good as long as When a new record label really their chosen form. It may not be that's for sure. Man Made Brain prison-wide gag order in debut disc, with shades of Brit- you never ever start putting too makes waves, it's often because real hip hop but, in these irony- is a four-piece whose noisy rock Philadelphia—inmates can no punk (a la 999 or Buzzcocks) much thought into it. it releases every record like it soaked times, it's about as real expansions will be a welcome longer speak to the press. Do I donned when needed. Sharp Lil Ricluird could be the last. This may be per se as music gets. addition to your life. Somehow- even need to say more about guitar sounds dominate with made material in iconoclastic Only Austrian abstract elec­ spawned from Man...Or this? Although I get a bit weird- big hooks (like the opener "Dig Astroman?, the Man Made tronica label Mego can compete That Stupid Sound") and they packaging or the simple fact Brain knows how to turn on the n,ng t - hU with Anticon in terms of un- power pantheon ( slow it down without getting the Invisible Man that the owners really might not spazz-charm for all to see. this CD—I am a whitey, and sappy ("For That Special (Matador) be able to afford to put out There's guitar wanking, electro- brinkmanship. Both companies Assata Shakur's praises that Someone Else"). If you're tired I can barely listen to this record. another record. At such a tweaking, and good old-fash­ are proof that success doesn't place Mumia proudly alongside of the cookie-cutter dribble There are so many shitty moment it can be genuinely ioned screaming to set you necessarily lead to mediocrity. Malcom X make me feel a bit passed off for pop-punk, sounds, sounds that are so for­ exhilarating to ponder what straight. Don't mistake this The people at Constellation out of the loop—I fully support destroy the new rock and check eign that they have no names. they might unleash upon the band for anything other than its message, and most impor­ Eitzel calls them "keyboard world next, if finances allow for might be well advised to follow tantly, Mumia's continued ques­ programs." I don't know how to these examples. Then again, if Bryce Dunn julie C tioning which, in my mind, describe them to you. You'll Once such a label's initial their hearts just aren't in it any more, it could already be too follows and enlarges upon a cri­ CHRIS CLARK •""1 play it for impact on music fans has come late. tique begun by Marx and con­ Clarence Park e'll li: Ills, back to it in the shape of (ahem) Sam Macklin tinued by Chomsky, Angela (Warp) "Hear that? That part? That "the Benjamins," it will find write for discorder.. Davis, and Biafra in North sounds like poo." itself poised to move in either ISOTOPIA America. Also on this CD is the mutated breakbeats and off-key The Invisible Man was mixed one of two directions. Kid 606's Exhibit devil himself, Bob Dole, who synth tones in your diet, chew by Alex Oropeza and f'igerbeatf) label is currently at (Isonaut) call lyndsay at cries out tears of blood that pub­ on this CD. Always a step up, Christopher Davidson, a couple this parting of the ways and it lic money was used to finance the classic Warp-ed sound gets of jerks who don't know when will be interesting to see which Canadians do good on this 822 3017 ext 3 Mumia's NPR commentaries another twist with incredible enough is enough. They don't path the kiddie cat decides to album. Yes, it's post-rock-elec- (most of which are now locked harmonic paralysis and com­ even leave Eitzel's lovely voice prowl upon. tronica in all its whiny-droney- I away, never to be heard, some­ puter-edited efx maelstroms. alone. The production is just The first option is this: After ness but it also has a real totally nuts! where in the vaults). Bob Dole is Moving from dark and angry garbage. The songs are strange, the company starts to achieve a funk-out element to it. Witness everything Mumia isn't. Need I ("The Dogs") to ambience maybe not as strange as the modicum of success its releases "Renaissance of Space say more? The music on this CD ("Oaklands") and a plain weird lyrics, but they are so covered I start to come more frequently Tourism," which also says: T&JULY20Q1 reviews continued... beer bottles and chicken wire It would be understandable Primrods but didn't get it. for the Germans, and his and I don't even know if this is So I listened to it again. records are pressed at Basic what he actually said because I V/A meet, just like in that Blues if one were torn between decid­ Monoculture, their awful Channel. In any case, Moore wasn't really paying attention) Morricone RMX Brothers movie. But not ing whether the instrumentais Stanford Prison Experiment pushes dub forward another that people who like poetry also (Cinesoundz Records) tonight. The lanky and surly —on which the Sadies are at notch by re-integrating the like pornography because both Morricone fans take note! guitarist who shares vocal their absolute best in years— style -alt-rock song was experimental and minimalist Although at the time of my duties has a cigarette dangling such as the moody opening what stuck in my head after are very specific. They are look­ directions that various dub pur­ writing this, "Morricone RMX" out of his mouth and looks like track "Pass the Chutney" and round two. Fortunately, round ing for something particular, a has not made it to retail stores he could take any of the red­ the spooky "The Creepy three revealed that the rest of veyors have taken back into a description of a person's neck yet, take heed. This one will go necks if the need arose. Butler," should be the sound­ the album sounds nothing like live-drum classic approach. The or a picture of feet rubbing like hotcakes! Featuring artists That's Dallas Good. His track for that evening of drown­ Monoculture and was actually level of production on this such as Apollo Forty Four, band, The Sadies have been ing one's sorrows after the really good—a bit more pol­ record is truly incredible—the Whatever it is—they might not Thievery Corporation, Bigga plying their trade of making wifey left and took the dog, or ished than The Primrods but secret echo boxes get a workout even know until they find it— here, panning and moving Bush, Terranova, a others music for rednecks for the last that creepy hick movie, still quirky angular rock songs drives them mad. My friend sounds beyond a simple delay doing very i mpetent rework- four years. The Toronto-based based around monophonic gui­ Randal will not admit to liking ings of Ennio Morricone's clas- foursome is made Fill out the guest musician tar lines, with the two nice mel­ poetry or pornography. He c material, this up of members from such leg­ line-up with the members of low droney ones at the end. patterns "Dub Blast" rocks the probably couldn't even choose will rank as e of the all-time endary bands as Half Japanese Blue Rodeo, yes all of them, and The moral? Like Rocky Balboa, percussi on, but stays away which one was worse. But he best Morricone ci rs albums and such dependable Canadian four extra Good family mem­ this album gets its ass kicked repetition of sounds, only likes lyrics that are specific. ever (the tracks ai it remixes outfits like Jale, The Good bers, and it makes for a lush hard in the early rounds but staying 1 near—this is the major In "Essence" Lucinda night suggest). In Brothers and Phleg Cramp. back-country sound. One that is comes back to conquer difference between what Moore Williams sings "I am waiting fact, this is the only release ever They have had the pleasure of best suited for a weekend of i and i i the is doing and other contempo­ here for more." More what? officially sanctioned by the man touring as the backing band for shootin' critters in Big Sky rary dub artists, such as Kit More ass-slapping? More ice himself involving covers by Toronto's blues bad boy, Andre Country with the drinking bud­ Clayton. While Clayton decon­ cream? What? The more vague structs dub into repetition and pop art :. Add John Zorn's Williams, had the honour or dies than languishing away in a phrase is, the more cliche it mtly i e-released The Big appearing on Blue Rodeo's that dim and smoky bar. TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB elementary particles, Moore becomes. These kinds of univer­ undown to your Morricone most recent album and even Spike SOUND SYSTEM takes those particles and sal declarations seem to work collection, with additional had the notoriety of being Neko Volcanic Dub reassembles them, constructs okay in , but them into new totems of dub tracks including a gem of a ver­ Case's band, the Boyfriends, THE SUMMERLAND (M Records) Essence sounds more popular sion of "The Ballad of Hank during her 2000 North Distance Will Be Swept Up Dub is musical molasses. No histo -. You c; II-this than that. The songs are some- McCain," and you'll be in American tour for her sopho- (Catch and Release/Sloth) matter how you twist it, it's "Flexi"—here and ther sometimes long, soundtrack heaven. ish, Fun, Room As ashamed as I am to admit it, always molasses. But every but rappy , that James Brown Lullaby. I am from Calgary. Being from once in a while my-a< ,-sell-n •ords The Sadies prove that good Calgary, I know first hand that along who tun THE SADIES things come in threes. This there ittle t lark into candy-co; apples But fuck it. Car Wheels is a Tremendous Efforts album builds on the hearty about the plai sticky ammunition for an rward with s lches and thousand times better than this. (Bloodshot Records) cow-punk framework laid out cidence that you never really assault rifle. Shot with bonbons, ratches and , that You can ask Randal what he Imagine yourself in a smoky, on their 1998 debut, Precious hear about anything that is that's what I would say. could be mix thinks (604.608.7125), but he dimly-lit bar in the deepest Moments, and their 1999 sopho­ going on there. Keeping this in Rvai Moi record. Then < ything d doesn't care. He only likes the south. In the corner, by the more release, Pure Diamond mind, I was excited to hear back, shooting and wooing. Of Mountain Goats. bathrooms, is a mechanical bull Gold. The band solidifies that about The Summerland 'cause, special note here: "Dub Quake." track, at a slow real dub pace, Christa Min getting a full workout by the solid rock 'n' twang reputation as stated on the CD cover, "The The synth takes on a peculiar whose background wailing gui- rowdy locals. At the end of the by cranking out a mix of some Summerland features frontman quality here—a bit distant—and s the soul. Check out bar is a small stage surrounded of the finest southern-fried P7, formerly of irreverent band a steady, deep 4/4 can be heard tobias v by chicken wire, where a quar­ , blues and garage The Primrods." Obviously the a bit far off. The percussion tet of half-dead-looking musi- punk to come out in quite a dudes who put out this record slides around with the drum LUCINDA WILLIAMS DiSCORDER while. Tremendous Efforts sports understand that P7 is one of the hits. In fact, if I didn't know bet­ Essence down-home country music a tidy, if uneven, split of omi­ few good things that has ter, I would say that this is (Lost Highway/Universal) online at which seems to be pleasing the nous country instrumentais, remained in Calgamerica. So I Moore's subtle remix of a Someone once said (well, I drunken crowd. Normally, if foot stomping sing-alongs and listened to the CD. I was JMaurizio record. His past inter­ know who, but I don't feel the locals don't like the band, hurtin' ballads. expecting the edginess of The views have attested to his love much like explaining who he is www^tr^a/discorder CiTR DJ PROFILE Folk Oasis* Julie Colero Stows Bf n® WcM-f, M@m<&m^m Real roots music, from our backyard and beyond. Record played most often on your show: Tie between The Slits, Cut and Fifth Column, To Sir With Hate. Record you would save in a fire: Arap Strap, Philophobia or Smog, Knock Knock—either Upcoming features one would help dig me out of the depression of losing the rest of my collection. Record that should burn in hell: July 4 .Vancouver Island Musicfest Any of Steve's picks off the "Zulu Staff Picks" wall! July 11 Vancouver Folk Music Festival Book that you would save in a fire: July 16 Rootsfest (Victoria) The Collected Diaries Of Adrian Mole, by Sue Townsend. Life-affirming! Worst band(s) that you like: July 25 WOMAD (Seattle) Take That; *N Sync; bis. Last record you bought: I buy in bulk. I anticipate buying the new White Stripes album. First record you bought: WEDNESDAYS at 9pm Weird Al Yankovic, Greatest Hits. CiTR 101.9 and live on the net Musician you'd like to marry: Jan St. Werner from Mouse On Mars, duh. at citr.ca Favourite show on CiTR: Hans Kloss' Misery Hour. Strangest phone call ever received while on air: *a kumbaya free zone I like it when bands get their friends to call in and request their music, not realizing that if the band's never actually brought the music to us, there's no way we can play it...* of his hand, "under the cover of night, over into the land of the free." The small group beside you steps eagerly forward and awaits further instruction. You hear twangy guitar sauntering in from a distance, stand-up bass pacing your march, double horns raising on end the qualia of your inner ear, snare drum Featuring half of Chicago stal­ and slide guitar certainly warts, 88 Fingers Louie, on gui­ designed to wash away your tar and bass, Rise Against fears. You are swallowed by a equals or betters the output of wide desert of sounds extend­ even that personal favourite. ing off in every direction. The Vocalist Tim restlessly roams journey is a long one, extending the stage, on and off risers, well beyond "Minas de Cobre" stacks, drums, crowd barriers, pass. Your glance wanders past staring bug-eyed as he sings. Juanita's sister's eyes, focusing Fast punk meets moody metal. at the anatomically impossible CALEXICO AT THE STARFISH ROOM. PHOTO BV ANN GONCALVES Not a note wasted. Awesome. cacti in the distance. Each Swingin' Utters is not a Corona stops you flat for $5.50 favourite. We sat back and (lime slice included). Are we Wow. Conor Oberst sat ner­ finally arrived around 11:40 vously on the stage, acoustic watched the tip jar levels rise. there yet? No. There's still a after a nappy in his hotel room, guitar trembling beneath his The singer looked less interest­ great distance to travel under and after a quick interview with arm, legs shaking and voice ed in what he was growling "The Black Light" of night. A yours truly and Robert Robot quivering. He was real nervous than the patrons were in their few more tired steps and then for DiSCORDER, he headed on at first. He screwed up a bunch drinking. The ironic part about the music suddenly stops and out and proceeded to mix of songs and said, "Oh fuck, Swingin' Utters is that they Joey disappears. The group of together hip hop, breakbeats, sorry" a lot, which of course have one of the best punk followers is dazed. Are we there and jungle with prodigious use made him 345% more endear­ singers with them on stage. yet? Joey reappears to warn of the EQ, including echo- Spike, the bass player, is also ing. Nobody cared. Everybody scratches, and feedback noise that you are about to cross the loves him and will continue to the crooning frontman of Me "Crystal Frontier." The sweat is crescendos. The medium-sized First and The Gimme Gimmes, love him. Nobody's gonna say but dedicated crowd got down beading on your brow and a they hate the guy for screwing TORTOISE Fat Mike's notorious punk and dirty to Spooky's crazed along v ost of the other blue moon is glowing over up a song or four. NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA ibers. It helped cover band. Spike sings backup head. Joey starts cooing eerie use of the mixer and solid selec­ I did not go down to Seattle Friday, June 2 that there were seats this time. without a microphone. When southern sounds. These sounds tion of tracks. to see Death Cab For Cutie. Vogue Theatre My feeling is that Tortoise is he finally stepped up and sang make you feel uneasy. Do they "EEEEWW Death Cab For The last time that I saw I should probably name best heard sitting down. I a verse late in the set, it got the mean that capture is imminent? Cutie barf up your ass and poo Spooky was at the SFU Harbour Tortoise's sound guy in the could be wrong, because there loudest cheer thus far. You look to notice that Joey it out!" said Christa. "They're Centre three years ago, and heading. I'm not cool enough to were a ton of people getting I've never seen NOFX at a seems far too happy for this to totally boring... and they're not back then I was blown down by know what his name is, so I can bar. They're getting older, but be true. Oh I see... these inde­ down to the funky Tortoise even cute!" said Amy. "More his mixing, scratching abilities, only report that he started the then aren't we all? They're all beat, even when there was no scribable sounds are quirky boring white boy indie rock... and his track selection—slam­ evening off with an amazing funky beat. There were hippie right with it. Low-key, funny as cries of joy. They mean that hell, more at ease with aging Nobody cares. Nobody listens." ming together jazz and classical type moment. girls with drums hanging from we've found our way, safely, to Said me. Snore. Yawn. They records, beats, spoken word Imagine this: a whole theatre their shoulders. It was that than most. And why not? our destination: that frontier NOFX's last couple albums played a Bjork cover. So what. pieces and . After full of kids anxious to see kind of night. What can I say? haven known as Calexico. I can play Bjork covers too. talking about what he was Tortoise. There's bad rock play­ Tortoise played a lot of songs have been as good as anything Remington Steele Lyndsay S going to do, he really delivered ing, and suddenly the lights from TNT, which was pleasing. they've ever done. "The Decline" fucking blew me on his promise to trigger "musi­ dim. Nobukazu Takemura They were just bang on; the DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE away. Of course they didn't TELEVISION cal memories" through sound. should take the stage. The line between rehearsed and BRIGHT EYES play it. As this was night two, JOEL RL PHELPS AND THE This time around I was not as sound system sounds like it's improvised was blurry. The MATES OF STATE though, they played lots of DOWNER TRIO blown away, as I found his breaking down...yet it seems to fans weren't shy about letting ?16 songs I never thought they Thursday, June 21 attention to be more dance-floor be coordinated with the projec­ the band know; people were Showbox, Seattle would. This band has been Sky Church, Experience Music focused and less experimental, tions. No one is on stage. Yes, shouting comments through­ Seattle! City of fun times and around longer than most might Project, Seattle but part of that might also have the sound system sounds like out. It was a little disconcert­ cool summer moments! Me and have believed. True, NOFX JOEL RL PHELPS!!! TELEVI­ been Sonar. Spooky had a lap­ it's breaking down, but I come ing, but everyone was too a calvacade of children went shows bring out the leering jock SION!! LITTLE JOHNNY top hooked up to the visuals to the realization that it's part of drunk on the sound of the xylo­ down to this great city on a fucks with little notion of the JEWEL! BILL HERZOG! BILLY screen, and for awhile it was the show. The audience reaction phone and the seamlessness of Saturday to catch Bright Eyes. I concept of —not to FICCA! HOPE'S HIT! MAR­ displaying an "X" made out of was so great: people cheering the performance to get too dis- was also curious to hear Mates mention kids at the all-ages QUEE MOON!!! RICHARD dots, and some other moving whenever it seemed like the of State, even though I think shows paying $80 a pop to LLOYD! ROB MERCER! FRED shapes and Spooky's "That sound was clearing up. They In short, we left the Vogue their name sucks giant rotten lugubrious scalpers—but they SMITH! GET THE CHILLS!! Subliminal Kid" logo, but after didn't realize what was going in a happy mood. eggs. I have a problem with are, through it all, a fucking TOMVERLAINE!!! some playing with it, it became on. I thought it was Takemura Doretta names. I have a hard time going apparent that the visuals great band. With no plans to The guitars sounded like (I rushed to buy the CD), but to a movie or seeing a band if I weren't working. This was too retire anytime soon, and new trains. LIKE TRAINS! AMAZ­ Vice President Jay (who didn't NOFX can't stand their name. Also I bad, as I was hoping to see how material stronger than ever, at ING! ABSOLUTELY FUCKING even attend the show) told me SWINGIN' UTTERS WILL NOT eat in a restaurant if the visuals would complement that it was Tortoise's sound guy. least the dumb fucks are hear­ AMAZING!! RISE AGAINST I cannot stand the decor, even if the i . All v Then Takemura and his partner ing some excellent music for a Christa Min • got v Wednesday, June 6 every single one of my friends teaser. All things considered, Aki Tsuyoko took the stage. The Commodore thinks it's the best restaurant DJ SPOOKY Rob Robot, Otac and I had a They fiddled on some laptops, Night two of two for punk rock Trevor Fielding ever. Okey dokey. I gotta say, DANAD great time, and to boot, we got supergroup NOFX and their the Showbox is a dreamy place Thursday, June 21 to see Sonar's dirty basement looked ultra cool. The music traveling menagerie. Any of CALEXICO for slow dancing, with the giant and Spooky's woolly toque was very soothing and electron­ these bands could come to town THE KINGSBURY MANX ball radiating a glittering complete with earflaps. For I've always had a lot of respect ic. At this point I still thought leadlin, villi s. Thursday, June 7 galaxy of twinkling lights! Spooky's latest subliminal for DJ Spooky. Mainly because they were responsible for the local support. It'd be smiles all The Starfish Room Woulda been neat to be stoned. wicked sound collage at the he is willing to back up his around, but who are we to com­ The cipa- Hello? Hello? Oh yes, the http://www.ctheory.com Article beginning, so I was extra experimental and sometimes plain? A great lineup: fresh music. Mates Of State were real­ 94. impressed. My favourite part of self-indulgent DJ from the kids in the bam on small group. You are distracted ly good. They did this whole tobias v rapping robot Commercial Drive and playing by all the shiny buttons set switch-off, girl-boy, good times sant r nd. vith squ. to the heavy-drinking mandato­ amidst plaid cotton shirts. A emo vocals thing while jam­ And to this end, I was not dis­ go to shows, enjoy yourself, or ry coat check suckers. Things ming on just an organ and live appointed. The evening began steady voice pushes out over don't, either way, write them up for transfixed. looked promising. the quiet buzz. You think you drums. Danceable heartbreak I with local rare groove gum DJ I was a little sleepy by the Rise Against started as we hear it saying, "I'm Joey. Me call it, although the stinker cou­ Dana D dropping some well- this here magazine, yeh, it's called time Tortoise took the stage. arrived. This band's album—on and my trusty companions will ple are totally in love. Next up selected hip hop, down discover, contact steve, the real The last time I saw them, I Fat Wreck Chords, natch—is the guide you safely across this was Bright Eyes solo, what our tempo and d'n'b including remember feeling very apathet­ best thing I've heard this year. treacherous frontier," now ges­ crew went down to Seattle to Squarepusher's new single, live action guy, at [email protected] ic and leaning against a wall, Live, they delivered, and more. turing behind him with a wave see. Oh man. Oh boy. Holy. "My Red Hot Car." Spooky or call him at HOME at 922 3326 "X- \ 2 / \ * Kr J July Long Vinyl July Short Vinyl Indie Home Jobs 1 Duotang The Bright Side Mint To My Valentine Empty 2 I Am The World... Out Of The Loop Kindercore 1 The Pinkos 1 Xeroxed Brother Fragmented 3 Jerk With A Bomb The Old Noise Scratch 2 Gapers Delay Pretty Song Proshop 2 Hummer Latest Thing 4 Ashley Park The American Scene Kindercore 3 Strunken White Constant Collaboration Rock School 3 Vancouver's Shame What's For Dinner? 5 Freeworm Vegetation=Fuel Hydrophonik 4AndyVotel Girl on a Go-ped Twisted Nerve 4 Half Hour Late Folsom Prison Blues 5 Solasis Digiworld 6 Canned Hamm Karazma Independent 5 Sunset Valley Parade on my Rain Sea Level 7 Black Dice Cold Hands Troubleman 6 Mark Berbue She Been 6 V/A NBR New Beat Recordings 8 Mouse on Mars Idiolgy 7 Heavy Bevan Restricted To Car Sex 9 Hanged Up S/T Constellation 7 Wellwater Conspiracy Of Dreams TVT 8 The Switch Las Vegas Laser Child 10 Tricky Woo Les Sables Magiques Sonic Unyon 8BS2000 Buddy Grand Royal 9 Six Block Radius Kill To Hide 11 Calexico Even My Sure... Quarterstick 9 Tijuana Bibles Mexican Courage Trophy 10 Little Man Syndrome Jealousy 11 Pet Fairies Boner 4 Betty 12 Mogwai Rock Action Matador 10 The Kingsbury Manx Been Passed Over All City... 13 Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction Misra 12 Whole Damn Country Belong 14 Fantastic Plastic... Beautiful Emperor Norton 11BRMC Screaming Gun Virgin 13 Garnet Sweatshirt American Woman 15 Vote Robot In Meorm NA Scratch 12911 Fallen Scaredycat 14 Rheem Ruud Famiy Pong Ping 16 TheDirtmitts S/T Sonic Unyon 13 Cecilia et ses amis J'aime le Telstar 15 Victorian Pork I Just Wanna Beer 17 Rovo Imago Incidental 14 The Automaticians Audrey Mental Monkey 16 Joel Heartx50' Woman 17 Les Jardiners Moon Patrol 18 Puffy Ami Yumi Spike Sony Japan 15 Red Monkey Get Uncivilized Troubleman... 19 Chris Clark Clarence Park Warp 18 Heat Scores Run Santa Run 20 Air 10,000hz Legend Astralwerks 16 The Evaporators Honk The Horn Nardwuar 19 Mr. Plow Rock Star 21 Oval Ovalcommers Thrill Jockey 17 New Town Animals Lose That Girl Mint 20 Zero Percent Interest Tuesday 22 Weezer S/T DGC 18 TheTeenie Cheetahs Talking About You Sumppi Wertheimer 23 V/A Morricone RMX Reprise 19 The Pattern Feverish GSL Island 24 Lucinda Williams Essence 20 Lost Sounds 1+1=Nothing Empty 25 The Beans Crane Wars Zum Media 26 Mumia Abu-Jamal 175 Progress Dr. Alt. Tentacles 27 Sucre 3 Monstre Alien8 C HOW THE CHARTS WORK ) 28 Flashing Lights Sweet Release Outside 29 The Icarus Line Mono Crank 30 Frank Bretschneider Curve Mille Plateaux The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short 31 TheMetic S/T Independent 32 Falcons Rebel Jukebox Independent vinyl"), or demo tape ("indie home jobs") on CiTR's playlist was played by our djs during the previous 33 Fila Brazillia Another Late Night Kinetic month (ie, "July" charts reflect airplay over June). Weekly charts can be received via e-mail. Send 34 Karl Denison Dance Lesson #2 mail to "[email protected]" with the command: "subscribe citr-charts". • 35 Nick Cave... No More Shall We.. Reprise

CiTR's annual competition of live music! Our annual directory, chock full of contact numbers and addresses of bands and the businesses that suport them, will be in the September issue of ©B@©@ia®lia, The deadline for entries is August 1,2001.

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NAME: All musicians welcome! DESCRIPTION (15 words or less) Send in your minimum 2 song demo with contact info, ASAP to: Shindig! c/o CiTR CONTACT(S):. #233 6138 SUB Blvd ADDRESS: Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 PHONE:. . FAX:. EMAIL: _ . URL: Shindig kicks off in September at the Railway Club. FILL THIS OUT AND MAIL/FAX IT TO US BEFORE AUGUST Interested in sponsorship opportunities? 1, 2001. #233-6138 SUB BLVD., Vancouver, BC call tobias at 822 1242 V6T 1Z1 fax: 604 822 9364!

Juk •HB&I AJL i9Ef^§; Instrumental, trance, lounge, and BY THE WAY 7:30-9:00PM I don't know what I'm up to any­ LOUD, FAST, AND AGING more. I play lots of odd German RAPIDLY alt. 11:00- electronix, some 7"s, and a TUESDAY 1:00PM demo here and there. Go figure. GIRLFOODalt. 11:00- 1:00PM THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM- PACIFIC PICKIN' 6:30-8:00AM PARTS UNKNOWN 1:00- 12:00AM Vancouver's longest Bluegrass, old-time music, and its 3:00PM Underground pop for running prime time jazz pro­ derivatives with Arthur and "The the minuses with the occasional gram. Hosted by the ever-suave Lovely Andrea" Berman. interview with your host Chris. Gavin Walker. Features at 1 1. WORLD HEAT 8:00-9:30AM STAND AND BE CUNTED July 2: A rare date with the late THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM alt.3:00-4:00PM legend of the drums as band 9:30-11:30AM Open your SUNDAY QUEER FM 6:00-8:00PM on the 1 & 2's. leader... Billy Higgins with the Dedicated to the gay, lesbiar THE CHILL-OUT ROOM 12:00- DJ Hancunt is in training for ears and prepare for a shock! A Olympic party athletics—soon to great Harold Land on tenor sax harmless note may make you a ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC bisexual, and transsexual cor 2:00AM Time to wind down? and many others. 9:00AM- 12:00PM All of munities of Vancouver and li Lay back in the chill-out room. be a gold medalist in drinking, fan! Hear the menacing scourge July 9: "Fabulous Phineas," that is ! Deadlier time is measured by its art. This tened to by everyone. Lots c Trance, house, and special guest drug taking, and reckless sex. Phineas Newborn, the underrat­ than the most dangerous criminal! show presents the most recent human interest features, back­ DJs with hosts Decter and Nasty. BLACK NOIZE alt. 3:00- 4:00PM ed piano genius in a solo, trio <[email protected]> new music from around the ground on current issues and FILL-IN 2:00-6:00AM and quartet setting. world. Ears open. DJ Nat X still sez: "Fuck You, My BLUE MONDAY alt. 11:30AM- Man!" July 16: Drummer/bandleader 1:00PM Vancouver's only THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00- HELLO GEETANJALI 8:00- MONDAY Buddy Rich and his big band in 3:00PM Reggae inna all styles 10:00PM Hello India com­ EVIL VS. GOOD 4:00-5:00PM industrial-electronic-retro-goth an explosive "live" date. "Keep program. Music to schtomp to, and fashion. bines with Geetanjali to create... SALARIO MINIMO 6:00- Who will triumph? the customer satisfied!" Hardcore/punk from beyond the hosted by Coreen. BLOOD ON THE SADDLE Hello Geetanjali! Geetanjali fea­ 8:00AM Spanish rock, ska, July 23: Tenor sax giant John grave. ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES 3:00-5:00PM Real-cowshit- tures a wide range of music from techno, and alternative music — Coltrane in a classic date..." The caught-in-yer-boots country. India, including classical music, porque no todo en esta vida es WENER'S BARBEQUE 5:00- Complete 'Lush Life' Session." alt. 11:30AM-1:00PM CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING both Hindustani and Carnatic, 6:00PM Join the sports dept. July 30: On his only recording, CONTEMPORARY 1:00- for their coverage of the T-Birds 2:00PM Music and poetry for alt. 5:00-6:00PM British pop POPula' r fro BREAKFAST WITH THE forward thinking and intense music from all decades. Ghazals, Bhajans, and BROWNS 8:00-11:00AM and some other goofiness, give­ Hasaan Ibn Ali on piano with SAINT TROPEZ alt. 5:00- also Quawwalis, etc. Your favourite brown-sters, aways, and gab. the great Max Roach on drums. C.P.R. 2:00-3:30PM 6:00PM International pop THE SHOW 10:00PM- James and Peter, offer a savoury FILL-IN alt. 6:00-7:30PM VENGEANCE IS MINE 12:00- buh bump...buh bump...this is (Japanese, French, Swedish, 12:00AM Strictly Hip-Hop - blend of the familiar and exotic REEL TO REEL alt. 6:00- 3:00AM Hosted by Trevor. It's the sound your heart makes British, US, etc.), '60s sound­ Strictly Underground — Strictly in a blend of aural delights! 6:30PM punk rock, baby! Gone from the when you listen to science talk tracks and lounge. Book your jet Vinyl. With your hosts Mr. Tune in and enjoy each weekly Movie reviews and criticism. chart- but and techno...buh bump... set holiday now! Rumble, Seanski, and J Swing brown plate special. FILL-IN alt. 6:30-7:30PM hearts—thank fucking Christ. PROM QUEEN 3:30-4:30PM

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20 JULY 2001 ELECTRIC AVENUES 3:30-4:30 beat-lain trip, focusing on any­ (Last Tuesday of each month.) STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUND- thing with breakbeats. THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN HAR 10:30PM-12:00AM HIGH ON GRASS 2:00-3:30PM Kick &roundi ^loa-san 4:30-5:00PM Let DJs Jindwa and Bindwa NARDWUAR THE HUMAN 10,000 VOICES 5:00- SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 6:00PM Poetry, spoken word, Bhungra! "Chakkh de phutay." 3:30-5:00PM Please keep on preformances, etc. HANS KLOSS' MISERY HOUR rawkin' in the free world and 6:00- 12:00-3:00AM Mix of most have a good breakfast. Rock 8:00PM Hardcore and punk depressing, unheard and unlis- on, Nardwuar and Cleopatra rock since 1989. tenable melodies, tunes and Von Flufflestein. ANNABOUBOULA (formerly NOOZE AND ARTS 5:00- Radio Ellenikathiko) 8:00- 6:00PM 9:00PM Greek radio. FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. www.angelfire.com/atr/annab 6:00-9:00PM ouboula THURSDAY AFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. 6:00-9:00PM David "Love A WALK ABOUT THE WORLD FILL-IN 6:30-8:00AM Jones brings you the best new 9:00-10:00PM END OF THE WORLD NEWS and old jazz, soul, Latin, VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:00-10:00AM bossa, and Afric alt. 10:00PM- 12:00AM THE CUTE 'N' CUDDLY SHOW c fro jnd the orld. 10:00-11:30AM Two hours HOMEBASS 9:00PM- 12:00AM SOULSONIC WANDERLUST of non-stop children's entertain­ Hosted by DJ Noah: techno, but alt. 10:00PM-12:00AM Phat ment including songs, stories, platter, slim chatter. poems, inteviews, and special AURAL TENTACLES 12:00- guests with your host Christina. 6:00AM Ambient, ethnic, funk, CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30AM- pop, dance, punk, electronic, 1:00PM From Tofino to and unusual rock. Gander, Baffin Island to Portage La Prairie. The all-Canadian WEDNESDAY soundtrack for your midday SATURDAY snack! FILL-IN 2:00-6:00AM THE ELECTROLUX STEVE AND MIKE 1:00- FILL-IN 6:00-8:00AM HOUR 6:00-7:00AM 2:00PM Crashing the boys' THE SATURDAY THE SUBURBAN JUNGLE club in the pit. Hard and fast, 8:00AM-12:00PM 7:00-9:00AM 3 you heavy and slow. Listen to it, / relec itish baby (hardcore). comedy sketches, folk m of new and old music live from THE ONOMATOPOEIA SHOW endar, and ticket giveaways. the Jungle Room with your irrev­ 2:OO-3:O0PM Comix comix 8-9AM: African/World roots. erent hosts Jack Velvet and Nick comix. Oh yeah, and some 9AM-12PM: Celtic music and The Greek. R&B, disco, techno, music with Robin. performances. soundtracks, Americana, Latin RHYMES AND REASONS SOULSISTAH RADIO 12:00- jazz, news, and gossip. A real 3:00-5:OOPM On Hiatus! Will 1:00PM gem! the ladies return? Stay tuned. POWERCHORD 1:00-3:00PM LEGALLY HIP alt. 5:00- Vane ietal FOOL'S PARADISE 9:00- 6:00PM show; local demo tapes, imports 10:00AM Japanese music and PEDAL REVOLUTIONARY alt. and other rarities. 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(12 and 1 3th)@blinding ing light!!; mudhoney@starfish room; roots fest (27th thru 29th)@royal girls, the chris tait band@the pic; t minus 30 feat. Stewart walker, light!!; tim williams@yale; studfinder, the lashes, the valley@gibsons roads (victoria); twisters@yale; the undisputed heavyweight champi- sutekh, jerry abstract@i-spy (seattle); entertaining the troops feat, (seattle) ons@gibsons (seattle) otaku, todd tomorrow@republic (300 w. pender); sludgeplow, barbie FRI 13 SAT 28 car, myenigma@gibsons (seattle); dave douglas new quintet, chris CiTR PRESENTS: BENEFIT FOR GLC FOOD BANK FEAT. depeche mode@pacific coliseum; proclaimers@commodore; trinh t. potter quartet@vogue; normand guilbeault, riel plaidoyer musi­ BRONZE, TRAIL VS. RUSSIA, 42@MS. T'S CABARET; golden minh-ha's surname viet, given name nam@blinding light!!; sound tribe cal/musical plea@vancouver east cultural centre; eve smith quar- wedding band@sugar refinery; meg-a-metal festival@studebaker's; sector 9@wise hall (1882 adanac); stationa, joel, cinchOsilvertone; tetOstudio 16 (9pm); ellery eskelin, andrea parkins, jim black@studio twisters@yale; texas funeral, the boss martians, the backstabbers@gib- michael franti and spearhead@commodore; solarbaby, rye catchers, 16 (midnight); kevin breit, sisters euclid@performance works sons (seattle) star collector@picadilly; kenny larkin, experimental liquor museum, SUN JULY 1 carlos miguel@i-spy (seattle); Vancouver folk festival (13th thru SUN 29 kaizen, golden wedding band@sugar refinery; richie hawtin, decks, 15th)@jericho beach park; sue leonard, the big dawg band, mike warren zevon, david lindley, wally ingram@commodore; trinh t. minh- efx and 909@commodore; eigentiger!! new queer german@blinding henry@yale; the nearly deads, the triggers, the heroic trio, the stink ha's naked spaces: living is round@blinding light!!; brickhouse@yale light!!; the hangmen, the rock 'n' roll survivors, billy the kid and the bugs@gibsons (seattle) TUES 31 lost boys@the pic; sugarman three, the burt neilsen band@starfish SAT 14 green day, the living end@plaza of nations; grames brothers@yale room; sonar 4-year anniversary feat. jazzanova@sonar; kelley third time's the charm presents scared of chaka@the pic; bossanova, hunt@yale; bela fleck and the flecktones@vogue; mark turner/kurt capozzi park, selena harrington@sugar refinery; dance this mess rosenwinkel quartet, ellery eskelin@vancouver east cultural centre; around feat, le petite morte, the kremlin@the operating room; baby brigan krauss' 300@studio 16 (9pm); tim berne's hard cell@studio 16 blue sound crew@commodore; big sandy and his fly-rite boys, the corn (midnight); Canada day jazz fest celebration feat, mimosa, tim pos- sisters@richard's; pxl this 10 (14th and 1 5th)@blinding light!!; sue gate horn band, mark atkinson trio, flying bulgar klezmer band, anna leonard, the big dawg band, mike henry@yale; the cripples, new luck SPECIAL EVENTS lumiere quartet and more@performance works (noon-midnight) toy@gibsons (seattle) MON 2 SUN 15 eyvind kang, laundryroom lullaby bait, local buddha@i-spy (seattle); unrefined@sugar refinery; brickhouse@yale anticipation II w/dj veronica, the Sundance kid, loxley@sonar; texas MON 16 flood@yale; zombie 4, cockeyed ghost, brian kenny fresno@gibsons ASIA/LOTUS ROOTS WEB LAUNCH jordi sancho@sugar refinery; texas flood@yale; dj peter madril@gib- (seattle) ON SATURDAY, JUNE 30, THE ASIAN SOCIETY FOR sons (Seattle) TUES 3 THE INTERVENTION OF AIDS (ASIA) AND LOTUS ROOTS WILL TUES 17 skye brooks, masa anzai@sugar refinery; the sweetvittles wild and BE BRINGING US A NIGHT OF TAIKO DRUMMING, SPOKEN skye brooks, masa anzai@sugar refinery; another girl, another plan- wooly animation tour@blinding light!!; muzsikas featuring marta et@blinding light!!; danny tripper and the journeymen@yale WORD, FUN DRAG, AND SEX EDUCATION AT VIDEO IN STU­ sebestyen@cap college performing arts theatre; inject@montmartre DIOS (1965 MAIN STREET). ADMISSION IS BY DONATION; cafe (4362 main); gerald charlie@yale WED 18 colin maskell@sugar refinery; the blood brothers, radio berlin, the red THE SHOW STARTS AT 8PM. WWW.ASIA.BC.CA WED 4 light sting, p:ano@ms. t's cabaret; fishbone, akp@commodore; flat is Jessie and myki, cineworks (7pm)@sugar refinery; kool keith@com- beauf;'ru/@blinding light!!; elevator@starfish room; taxi@yale modore; independent exposure's all-animation tour@blinding light!!; MULTIPLEX GRAND grande 4-year anniversay w/gman, wax, kemo, rizk, m'err@sonar; THUR 19 HELL ON WHEELS, JULY 6-8 IS GOING TO BE ONE FUN taylor James, gary comeau@yale battery opera, craig norton@sugar refinery; snoop dogg, xzibit, east- WEEKEND FOR SOME OF US. FOR STARTERS, THE MULTIPLEX sidaz, etc.©pacific coliseum concert bowl; abject cinema@blinding THUR 5 USERS GROUP IS CURATING A THREE-DAY FESTIVAL OF light!!; amazombies, picts@ms. t's cabaret; halo varga, jon deleri- international falls@sugar refinery; seven days of samsara, three inch­ ous@sonar; taxi@yale; six beer bladder, asr, three years down, kite MULTIMEDIA ACTION AT THE BLINDING LIGHT!! STARS es of blood, since by man, the cost, when butterflies attack@ms. t's festivol@gibsons (seattle) WILL INCLUDE FREAKY DNA, BEN NEVILE, DJ AGRICUL­ cabaret; cinemuerte (5th thru 14th)@pacific cinematheque; moe.©commodore; orquesta ibrahim ferrer, ruben FRI 20 TURE, STRATEGY, LOSCIL, -OUTHERN ACIFI + , ZERO gonzalez@orpheum; byo8@blinding light!!; the beans, xiu xiu, dixies golden wedding band@sugar refinery; reverend horton heat, bare SQUARED, AND BILLIONS MORE. 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