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>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:22:49 +0000
>Subject: The Leaf Label #43
>From: Tony Morley <tony@posteverything.com>
>To: <leaf@posteverything.com>
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>Leaf Newsletter #43
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>30th May 2001
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>2. NEW RELEASE
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>310 - After All
>
>format: limited 180g vinyl LP (BAY 19V) & CD (BAY 19CD)
>release date: Monday 28th May 2001
>mail order price: LP: 8.00 GBP (+p&p) / CD: 10.00 GBP (+p&p) -
>(please reply to this email for mail order info)
>barcode: LP: UPC 0666017019215 / CD: UPC 0666017019222
>website: http://www.310.org
>
>
>"crimnally underrated" DJ magazine, 4.5/5
>
>Sometimes, it's good to remember that clichés are clichés for a
>reason: because they're true. So when we tell you that 310's second
>full-length album for The Leaf Label distils a jumble sale of
>unlikely influences (hip hop, minimalist classicism, prog rock,
>collage esoterica, field recordings) and decants them into tracks
>that don't fit into a neat pigeonhole, it does read like a cliché.
>But it is true. We've never managed to find an adequate way to
>describe what they do, and judging by some of the reviews we've
>quoted below, neither has anyone else. Which is how we like it.
>
>On After All, 310 gradually build a restless, cinematic vision in
>erratic time signatures, where hazy memories of childhood
>fever-dreams and scratchy home reels fade in and out of focus... or
>are they just half-remembered images from a TV screen? "That's been
>a theme running through all of our records," says Tim. "The sense of
>mystery. Mistaken memories. Something familiar in a strange way.
>Tapping into something subconscious. Nostalgia." So, perhaps not
>such a cliché, after all?
>
>Conversely, 310's recording methods are precise and considered. 310
>are two old friends from New York: Joseph Dierker (DJ and "inventor"
>currently gone to ground in Seattle) and Tim Donovan (engineer at
>some of NYC's top studios); now augmented in the studio and on stage
>by vocalist and samplist Andrew Sigler (aka fire/fly) who appeared
>at the 310 performances in Europe last October. Tim and Joe
>collaborate by relaying tapes of material across the continent, each
>building on the other's contributions. The result on this, their
>fourth album (1999's THE DIRTY RoPE was their first for Leaf), is an
>emotionally fraught body of work that coaxes and wheedles a response
>from the listener, so unobtrusively, but effectively, that it leaves
>an eerily unsettled atmosphere behind. "I think we all had a pretty
>emotionally trying year last year in our own ways," Tim admits. "The
>pieces on this record were pretty therapeutic in a lot of ways.
>'After all' we went through."
>
>In addition to his work with 310, Tim has recently been working with
>Angie Stone and Busta Rhymes' new protegée, Tameka Holmes. "Busta is
>there on the mix sessions, which is cool cause he's diggin' my
>mixes," Tim says. "Ali Shaheed Muhammed is producing a few tracks as
>well. One night we had Busta, Ali and Phife Dog up in there. All we
>needed was Q-Tip and we could of had a 'here we go yo, here we go
>yo, so what's da, so what's da scenerio' reunion!" To ensure he
>keeps his feet firmly on the ground, he's also been working with
>Britney Spears and Steps...
>
>The 310 live show (including live guitars and vocals) will return
>for more shows in the US and Europe this summer, including shows at
>Fonfone in Barcelona during Sonar week (June 15 with Gorodisch, Four
>Tet and Tony Morley), and with Oval and Manitoba at the Knitting
>Factory in NYC on June 30.
>
>DJ Riz vs 310 - KEXP Seattle
>The mighty DJ Riz (Seattle) will be dedicating his two hour
>bi-weekly new music show, Expansions, to the music and times of 310
>on June 2, 9-11 pm PST. Joseph Dierker from 310 will be co-hosting
>and playing some influential materials, while Riz navigates and lays
>out a 310 soundscape.
>
>The show will be broadcast live over the internet (nice site!) at
>http://www.kexp.org/ and archived there for future reference.
>
>[FYI: 310 is pronounced 'three-ten']
>
>CD: LP:
>1. A1. Takamous
>2. A2. An Seanachi
>3. A3. The Claw is Forming
>4. A4. UNTidal
>5. B1. Street Level
>6. - Imaginary Families
>7. B2. Off-Track Betty
>8. B3. Aural Exiter
>9. B4. Truce for a Moment
>10. B5. After All
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>The Dirty Rope:
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>"stunning, unclassifiable music... deeply emotive music that can
>make you feel both comfortable and threatened within the same piece"
>Ben Wilcox, Straight No Chaser
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>"wonderful stuff" Muzik, 5/5
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>"a lovely album [with] the ability to startle, confuse and charm" Wax, 9/10
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>"very groovy indeed" Motion
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>"50 minutes of experimental but accessible music... excellent and
>essential" DJ, 4/5
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>"[the] mixture of hip hop and vibrating techno ambiences shivers
>with life" Ministry, 4/5
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>"clever and funky... very nicely done" Alternative Press, 4/5
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>"unclassifiable... sublime; a quiet riot" Ian Penman, The Wire
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>"The Dirty Rope finds Dierker's fondness for cool electronica
>merging with Donovan's hip hop sensibilities to produce a hard-edged
>semi-ambient sound somewhere between the 'illbient' doodlings of DJ
>Spooky and the more chilled-out MoWax sessions" The Face
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>3. OTHER NEW RELEASES
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>SUSUMU YOKOTA - Grinning Cat
>
>Yokota's rather wonderful fourth album for Leaf is released in June
>4 on CD and limited double vinyl - more details next week, but you
>can order it from us now!
>
>GORODISCH - Thurn & Taxis
>
>Again, more details on this debut mini-album release very soon, but
>we have finished copies of it available to order now (priced at 6.00
>UKP + p&p). It will be in the shops on June 25, on CD and LP, and
>has already been picking up radio play from Ross Allen in the UK.
>See below for a chart for Gorodisch's Stephen Cracknell, who will be
>DJing at the Leaf Sonar party in Barcelona on June 15.
>
>EARDRUM - Deadbeat 12"
>
>A limited 12" only taster for Eardrum's forthcoming second album,
>Side Effects, will be released in July. The EP will include
>exclusive mixes of three new tracks, some of which will appear on
>the final album, due in September.
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>4. NOODLES update
>
>The London launch party for The Complete Death Of Cool on May 4 was
>a resounding success, and you can check some of the nonsense at our
>co-host's website: go to http://skam.com/ and watch all our stupid
>party faces. Do you want to see what kinds of people go to parties
>like these? Now's your chance. You'll also find a video interview
>with the man like Si Begg himself, on the roof of the building, no
>less.
>
>The winner of the grand prize draw that was open to everyone who
>came to the party was the extremely fortunate MARC ATKINSON, so he
>can expect his booty of an unquantifiable number of Pot Noodles,
>plus a limited edition double CD copy of The Complete Death Of Cool
>to be winging its way to him very soon...
>
>The Noodles website at: http://squat.com/noodles/ is always worth a look.
>
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>5. MAIL ORDER
>
>We accept CREDIT CARDS for mail order, so if you've always wanted to
>get hold of Leaf records and CDs, but were unable to find them in
>your local record store, and you couldn't be bothered with IMOs or
>postal orders, then now's your chance.
>
>We've also got some old Leaf items at special SALE prices - not to be missed!
>
>If you're interested, e-mail us at leaf@posteverything.com, and
>we'll get you a full price list, including all items in the back
>catalogue (even the ones that are long unavailable anywhere else!).
>Note that, production times permitting, you will receive any new
>releases at least two weeks before release. And we deliver fast!
>Thanks!
>
>All orders will be dispatched with a free set of 8 Leaf postcards.
>And whatever else we can find lying around....
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>6. CHARTS
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>The Gorodisch Dirty Dozen
>compiled by Stephen Cracknell - 29/5/01
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>Julie Driscoll "I Know You Love Me Not" MFP
>Mike Westbrook "Awakening" Deram
>St Germain "Sure thing" (Todd Edwards Mix) Blue Note
>Don Cherry "Universal Mother" Atlantic
>Custom Blue "Stucture" Island Blue (unreleased)
>Herbert "Bodily Functions" album K7
>Anne Briggs "The Snows They Melt The Soonest" Topic
>Redman & DJ Kool "Lets Get Dirty" Def Jam
>Blaze "You Dont Really Love Me" Motown
>Bert Jansch "Blackwaterside" Transatlantic
>Foxy Brown "Oh Yeah" Def Jam
>Black Sabbath "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" Vertigo
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>Thanks for listening. Get in touch!
>
>The Leaf Label
>Suite 219, Bon Marche Building, 241 Ferndale Road, LONDON, SW9 8BJ, UK
>Fax: +44 (0)20 7733 5818
>leaf@posteverything.com (please update your address books!)
>
>Leaf is a Posteverything label
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