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Boredoms Super æ (Birdman) Of course we love the latest spate of Japanese club pop and naïve rock, but don't let's forget the wicked foil to that country's culture of the cute: Japanoise. On their tenth album, however, the Boredoms have never sounded so grounded in tuneage and groove. Gone is the neo-Zorn hyper-genre-hopping for the opposite strategy: six- to twelve-minute metajams that recall the Stooges' free-jazz psych-outs or hypno-Krautrock without forgetting Eye & Co.'s roots in extreme tape-noise terror. 8/10 (Chris Yurkiw) Kruder & Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions (K7/FusionIII) Austria's sexy kings of debauchery, who you may remember from their Simon & Garfunkel lookalike album cover three years back, sweep us off our feet yet again. These Viennese babes remix, and then mix together, a collection of sultry tunes from artists like Roni Size, Rockers Hi-Fi, Depeche Mode, Bones Thugs 'N Harmony. No doubt the studio in which they completed this opiate masterpiece featured a hot tub, lots of Henkel Trokken and a few calendar girls... all the more reason to run out and get it. 9/10 (Krista) 60 Channels Tuned In Turned On (World Domination/Koch)
East Flatbush Project Tried by 12 (Ninja Tune/Outside)
Various Matsurhythm 1 (Matsuri/FusionIII)
For a while there it seemed that Goa/psychedelic trance had vanished from this solar system, but like the phoenix it seems to have risen again. This compilation contains some pretty interesting blips and beeps (including a sample from Star Trek: The Next Generation where Whoopi Goldberg talks about how the Borg destroyed her people), but nothing totally mindbending or chakra-enlightening. 7/10 (Krista)
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A journey into dubbed-out underwater techno breakbeats from the Angel, a girl-of-all-trades from New York and former member of Jaz Klash with two British guys from Rockers Hi-Fi. All of the material here was produced, programmed, mixed and engineered by the Angel, who also DJs and has scored a film or two to boot. Although I'm more impressed by her résumé than her music, this album still contains some good, innovative stuff. 7.5/10 (Krista)
This one kind of surprised me. East Flatbush Project came hard a while back with the underground hip hop hit "Tried by 12." That infectious Japanese sample, "deeeer, deeeer deer deer deer deer deeeer" had all kinds of people singing in the shower. Ninja Tune has had it remixed by just about everyone but your well-known hip hop producers. As well as the straight-up Herbaliser mix, you have some cracked-out versions by Squarepusher, Nick Fury and even Autechre, who despite their techno-god status, are apparently some serious hip hop heads. 8/10 (Scott C)