101 Strings / Yma Sumac, "Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000/Miracles", Phase-Shifting Psyche, CD, Alshire/London, (February 14, 1996)

Partial track listing:
"A Bad Trip Back to 69", "A Dissappointing Love W/A...", "Astral Freakout", "Barrier X-69", "El Condor Pasa", "Flame Out", "Magenta Mountain El Condor..", "Magenta Mountain", "Medicine Man", "Orbit Fantasy", "Re-Entry to Mog", "Remember", "Space Odyssey", "Zebra"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year2000: Really great guitar/organ instro psych album released in 1967 that was originally sessions from 2 other LPs; Animated Egg (Alshire) Haircut and The Impossibles (Somerset) The difference is that the 101 Strings Orchestra (Alshire) was added plus sound FX, phase shifters and it will blow our lovin' mind.

Miracles: Yma Sumac's last LP, produced by Les Baxter in 1972 on London has her with her 4 Octave vocal range and singing with no words. Growling, moaning, chirping like a bird and sounding very much like a theremin on El Condor Pasa.
- Jack Diamond

Net Pointers for this album:

• Legitimate versions of "Miracles"
• Special Miracles Page

Net Pointers for this label:

• Write to Polygram for Legal Reissue of this Last Complete Album by Yma Sumac

Partial track listing:
"Ants", "Dracula", "Return of Dracula", "Shark", "Someday Free", "What Can I Say?"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Aoki is committed to involving his audience by getting them to move in close and see first hand his use of emotion where space is utilized and then lift them up by a burst of impassioned phrasing. This CD is a first time collaboration with pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow who fills the inside spaces with a laid back running style rather than giving stabs at free jazz. Where Aoki is "Outside" - Parker-Sparrow is "Inside."

"Someday Free" and "What Can I Say?" feature singer/engineer Joanie Pallatto skating and mumbling. I prefer "What Can I Say?" to "Someday Free." Expand our horizons. I did.
- Reverend Dah Wave

Partial track listing:
"Phase Four", "Phase One", "Phase Three", "Phase Two"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Songs start quietly so consider preparation of your entry into the phases of B.O.R.B. orbit. The first two tracks lure the mind with slow oscillations and thrust. Phase three attacks with pirhana frenzy steering one toward the call of the siren which taps the spine into harp wall collision, the cry of Kubak: thrusts the self into Noh pantomine. #4 is face-to-face with the blinking eye of reality. Phase five leaves one to interpret and create. Stand by.
- Goatboy

Partial track listing:
"Adagio Molto", "Allegretto", "Allegro Molto Capriccioso", "Allegro Molto", "Allegro", "Coda.Allegro Molto", "Introduzione.Allegro-Allegro", "Lento", "Mesto-Burletta.Moderato", "Mesto", "Moderato", "Prima Parte.Moderato", "Seconda Parte.Allegro"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Goatboy

Partial track listing:
"Aural Wallpaper", "Erb", "Glossolalia", "Hub", "Parallel", "Rainbow Bridge", "Squelch", "Vanttool", "Virtual Hmmm...", "Vr'l"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Mr. Goodwrench

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (June 4, 1997)
'Parallels' regroup most of the Black Dog previously released and early works, very good album if you missed these cakes ! the Black Dog email is ( I think ) : tbd@dogsquad.com
- DJ Rusty Bee

Partial track listing:
"5", "Gggeek", "Go Jo", "Huh", "My Bucks Give a Greased...", "Ned the Corn Corn", "She Cellar with the Intes...", "The Air Blisted Earth", "The Horse Cannons", "The Superfluous Snap Pipes..", "To Be Added When We've S;Eco", "Your Glorious Burden"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Two sides and 2 songs from Caroliner -featuring a random piece of fabric glued to the back of the dust jacket.

"Bead Trail to Jardunne" was recorded as an instrumental because "the lyrics to the song have not been set to the music yet" - I say "who needs lyrics?" it's warped, plunky, clanky fun.

"The Cooking Stove Beast" is recorded differently here than on the LP of the same name - totally insane!
- Ann Arbor

Partial track listing:
"Cadali", "Cast Stones", "Cicrles", "City Sun", "Grace", "Hey", "Last Organ", "Low Road", "So Low", "Starling", "Sun Is Down", "When I Come Around"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Nice, laid back pop songs from this Chicago band. Sounds like they enjoy getting together in their loft and knocking out pleasant, catchy stuff. They sound very relaxed and the production is uncluttered. Some nice strumbles, instrumentals, great range of instruments including pump organ and mellotron. Enjoy!
- Earl Grey

Net Pointers for this group:

• an interview with the Coctails

Partial track listing:
Archie Shepp, "Bamboo"; Archie Shepp, "Blues for 52ND Street"; Billy Strayborn, "My Little Brown Book"; Jamshield Sharifi, "King Tut"; Jiro Yoshida, "Blues for Jc"; Joe Chambers-John Zorn, "Promptus"; Johnny Burke, "Like Someone in Love"; Miles Davis, "Four"; Thelonious Munk, "Bemshaw Swing"; Wayne Shorter, "Devils Island"; Wayne Shorter, "Footprints"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Reverend Dah Wave

Partial track listing:
"Baker's Choice", "Forty Questions", "Glasgow Before Dark", "Lucky's Dream", "Shake Well", "Tea Dance", "Wait & See", "Where Is Johnny?"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Lashing piano licks, moody and alive collide with blissed skronk and smooth cadence of Lol's sax. Soundscapes such as break beats, electronics, and obscure samples, opens up a very nice can of musical worms. Tracks that show no direction seem to subconsciously deliver you to the promised land. Piano terets meets soliloquy sax. Very hip bop new soundin' fresh. A total A+.
- Spiderman

Partial track listing:
"Alum Chime", "Dormin", "Facemaker", "Gyric", "Here", "K-Bop", "Looking for Snags", "Skeeze"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Gram White

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (May 4, 1996)
Actually, I think Disjecta is the name of the album. The guy's name is on the record. This is a great album. From real nice dark ambient track to fast driving drum beats. If you like Mu-Ziq you might like this!
- dj Rome

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (September 23, 1996)
Disjecta is Mark Clifford of Seefeel's solo guise; the cd is called _1.0_ and comprises of two 12"s released on Warp. The vocal on 'K-bop' sounds suspiciously like Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins (who Mark has djed for on tour and remixed on the truly delectable _Otherness_ ep, easily their best release in years), something which Mark will neither confirm or deny.
- steven harris

Partial track listing:
"Bear Witness (Q-Bert...)", "Earth People Remix", "Earth People", "No Awareness"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Spiderman

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (July 2, 1996)
Hey I never heard your station, cuz I'm east of the mississippi, but I just got the Octagon LP, and it's the craziest, weirdest, freshest shit I've heard in a while. I'm I big fan of Kool Keith, tho, so it didn't take much to convince me. btw, I spin at WZBC if you care.
- Rev Al Zomba

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (August 28, 1996)
kool keith is the dopest writer of next time. If you can understand him, you're lying. Which of his identities are you familiar with? oh you're another one of those. Have you peeped sir menilik? you know you haven't. What do you think of mr. gerbick?
- holy pediphile

A review from someone on the World Wide Web... (May 16, 1997)
dr. octagon is the next big thing in rap. Kool Keith is the first legally insane rapper. As great as his new stuff is, check out his first band "The Ultramagnetic Mc's" their album was put out in 1988 and it is classic old-school rap...without so much of the insanity as Kool Keith's new stuff...
- mikey

Net Pointers for this album:

• Details of Octagon CD+

Partial track listing:
Howardian, "Deluxeness"; Howardian, "Imperial Criminals"; Howardian, "Monster Invasion"; Nikki Light Brigade, "Good to Go"; Nikki Light Brigade, "Pull the Trigger"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Howardian are a bunch of kids who churn out three short blasts of distorto-lo-fi punk interspersed with Alice Cooper(?) samples. Ouch. Oh-and the levels are all over the place, too. But what do they care? N.L.B.- two instrumentals, basically the same riff but the second track gets way fuzzier. Guitar, big ol' lumbering bass and almost robotic drums. Odd. . . . .

Partial track listing:
"Apoptosis", "Live 950401", "Necrosis"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Heavy noise. Dense creations from this Japanese duo. Industrial fire savagery. 3 slabs of damage. The sound can be interpreted as a wall of energy. subjected to its completeness one scans for variation. Tumoil and deflation await your attention.
- Goatboy

Partial track listing:
"Alabaster", "Catherine", "Farewell to a Percival", "Kerosene", "Obituary", "Prometheus", "The Black Dog", "Three Well-Aimed Arrows", "You Don't Have to Love"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Howard Beale

Partial track listing:
"Ah Yeah"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Spiderman

Partial track listing:
"Always West", "Call Now", "Interloque", "Les Journaux", "Manges Par Les Cochons", "Mensonge", "Mon Pied Dans L'air", "Papillon - Moutons", "Pour Tahani", "Premiere Course"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Spiderman

Partial track listing:
"Mannish", "Tasha's Room"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Spiderman

Partial track listing:
"A Prayer All Sailors", "Antigone Speaks About Hers..", "Captured By Pirates", "Into the Strange", "My Song at Night", "Ostracism's to Pussycat", "We're Just Outside London"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
If you like killer lesbian pirates yo will love this. This concept record is a companion piece to a new kathy Acker novel with music by the mekons. The songs are imaginitive, diverse and mostly drunken. Styles include: #8's jimmy summerville style electro-pop; #12's eccentric rock; #6's sea chanty; and # 10's soft incantation. Acker's spoken word culminates in track 13 concerning the lesbo buccaneer's kidnapping a girl & the girl experiencing cunnilingus by a bear. Avast me mateys!
- Anubis

Partial track listing:
"Dirty Jessie", "History of Child Porno In...", "Korean Comfort"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Mr. Hate

Partial track listing:
"Assault", "Klunk", "Pha-Zer", "Phase Iv", "Pod (String Mix)", "The Second Shape", "Trax 2-9", "Tunx", "Xoa", "Xon (Slight Return)"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Mr. Goodwrench

Partial track listing:
"Amoeba", "Devolve", "Last Look", "Rid", "Thug", "Underglass"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Goatboy

Net Pointers for this group:

• Cover Art, Track Listings, Lyrics, the works......

Partial track listing:
"Anast in Crisis Mouth Full..", "Testimony of no Future", "Testimony of the Stir Pot", "The Square Sun"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Andy Cadaver

Partial track listing:
"Dedication", "LIGHT#3", "Sonic Animation", "Testimony", "The Second Set"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Howard Beale

Partial track listing:
Nikki Light Crusade, "Nikki Light"; Nikki Light Crusade, "Solipsism"; Nikki Light Crusade, "Union Pole"; Paste, "Doing the Highrise"; Paste, "Husband"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
2 strumbly guitar sides- The best of which is the Nikki Light Crusade-inventive guitar stylings. Two songs well worth a play + photos by Loren Mazzacane inside.
- Ann Arbor

Partial track listing:
"Camorra 3", "Hora Cero", "Milonga Del Angel", "Prelude Y Fuga", "Sex-Tet", "Tanguedia"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)
Though it might sound crass, Piazzolla is like the Duke Ellington of the tango. Expanding the depth of the original music by recreating it witha more complex orchestration. Stirring & dizzying, passionate and wholly original. Music that can make miserable weather beautiful.
- Andy Cadaver

Partial track listing:
"Strang Four", "Strang One", "Strang Three", "Strang Two"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Gram White

Partial track listing:
"Crime Is Money", "Real Live Shit"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Spiderman

Partial track listing:
"Dreams on His Fingers", "Next of Kin", "Once When I Was An Indian", "Rain", "Sleep", "Still-Life"

KFJC new album review (February 14, 1996)

- Anubis

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