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>hiya. > >anyone know any good record stores in the philadelphia area - places that >carry Rephlex, Warp, Skam, Clear, etc? if so, send me details please! >(apologies to those out of the area - i'd look for stores on the web but >i don't have web access atm) >

Here's some reposted info: I don't have the e-mail address, but here are the essential stats: Digital Underground 526 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 (215) 925-5324 This store is a tremendous resource. Focus on ambient, idm, gothic, dark ambient, industrial, avant-garde, noise, etc. Generally a good selection of this-listy material. Lots of Nambient and FAXual recordings (the proper terminology for the Pete Namlook School of Ambient). A catalog is available. I have found many FAX releases there, also the much-coveted "Ambient Isolationism" and similar releases, loads of imports, and what seems to be the entire Projekt and TVT/Warp catalogues. All those groovy AI artists. Laswell and friends. The used bins are full of goodies. Well, after I found "Ambient Dub 2" in the used bin for $2.99, I would not be one to complain that this price was unreasonably low. You may also find here any record ever released with a reference to orbs or spherical objects, whether in name, graphic design, or musical style (? Well, think of Parmenides, and smile). The proprietors tend to be a bit on the moody side, probably from listening to a tad much Front Line Assembly, but are generally a fine and helpful lot. They'll throw on any record you want to hear, unless it's something which they either do not have, does not exist, or is in excessively poor taste. They do take phone orders, by the way. But anyone near Philadelphia should stop in and browse and lurk. Also, you might meet some of the strange mutants who frequent such a place, skulking around with their underground tastes in bland beer-from-a-bottle Philadelphia. Also, 611 Records, home base of the area's finest DJs, is only two blocks away, and houses enough 12"s to make your head spin baby right round like a record baby. God, not that song. Techno, house, tribal, deep, trance, hard trance, ambient, jungle, ambient jungle (uh-oh), noise, ambient noise, intelligent noise, stupid noise, stoopid noize, and, of course, just plain old non-musical sounds that inexplicably made it to plastic. And now, a recording of my single houseplant growing, in a bubble island earth of idyllic eco-ecstasy within the sterile confines of the urban concrete jungle: "Give me water! No, not that polluted Philadelphia toxic chemical sewage! I want Evian! Talk to me! You ignore me! You leave me here alone all the time! At least get another plant so I have company! Your computer is a snob and keeps telling me I'm a primitive lifeform! He can't even grow - " Oh, sorry. That must be a remix. Zenon M. Feszczak Ambient Gardener