Leaf Newsletter #57
7 August 2002
This newsletter contains details of the following:
1. 'Lost For Words' budget label sampler
2. Sofa Surfers - 'Selling Souls' 12"
3. Boom Bip/Tony Morley radio mix
4. forthcoming releases
5. other Leaf events
1. 'Lost For Words' budget label sampler
budget sampler CD / BAY 27CD / UPC 666017041629
release date: Monday 2 September 2002
mail order price: 3.00 GBP (+p&p)
for mail order, real audio samples and further info, go to:
http://posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=2308
A full-length label compilation for the price of a CD single? You may
well find yourself Lost For Words at the prospect of such bounty...
Lost For Words is the successor to the enormously popular Osmosis
budget-priced sampler from 1999 which ushered in The Leaf Label's
second wave of artists, including Susumu Yokota, Eardrum, Gorodisch
and 310. Lost For Words consolidates the reputation of a label that
has grown exponentially since then, with the deserved success of
Yokota and Manitoba, and worldwide critical acclaim for the likes of
Murcof and Asa-Chang & Junray.
Lost For Words gives you a bargain-priced opportunity to hear tracks
from all the recent Leaf album releases - Murcof, Asa-Chang & Junray,
Boom Bip & Doseone and A Small Good Thing - as well as other
highlights from recent Leaf catalogue, and tracks from forthcoming
offerings by Manitoba, Susumu Yokota, Gorodisch and 310.
Asa-Chang & Junray's 'Hana' is already an undisputed classic. Sofa
Surfers stunning rework of Eardrum is given a timely re-release (its
first time on CD), now that Leaf will be releasing the Surfers new
album in the UK this autumn. 'Fairy Link' and 'Future Tiger' are
taken from The Boy And The Tree, Susumu Yokota's highly anticipated
follow up to 2001's Grinning Cat album. Murcof and Boom Bip &
Doseone, two of Leaf's latest finds, each contribute two tracks.
And what about an exclusive nugget or two? Step forward those
international men of mystery, The Sons Of Silence, whose first
release in three years is a track they recorded for the soundtrack of
cult UK TV show Spaced. Plus a live Eardrum track, recorded at the
Leaf party at London's Cargo last Christmas, and brand new,
previously unreleased cuts by Manitoba, 310 and Gorodisch.
The album features another classic design by Non-Format, giving the
option of four different front covers for those with short attention
spans.
1. Asa-Chang & Junray - Hana
2. Boom Bip & Doseone - Me And People
3. Murcof - Memoria
4. Susumu Yokota - Fairy Link
5. Manitoba - Air Doom
6. Murcof - Mir
7. Gorodisch - The Killing
8. A Small Good Thing - Saloon Dreams
9. Asa-Chang & Junray - Nigatsu
10. The Sons Of Silence - The Mit Out Sound
11. Eardrum - Low Order (Sofa Surfers Rework)
12. 310 - Installation Linoleum
13. Eardrum - Red Eye (live edit)
14. Susumu Yokota - Future Tiger
15. Gorodisch - Setting Sail
16. Manitoba - Tits & Ass: The Great Canadian Weekend
17. Boom Bip & Doseone - 21 To 35
2. SOFA SURFERS - 'Selling Souls' import 12"
Import 12" / cat #: 5504626 / barcode: 724355046260
release date: Monday 9 September 2002
mail order prices: 5.00 GBP (+p&p)
Artist website:
http://www.sofasurfers.net
for mail order, real audio samples and further info, go to:
http://posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=2426
PLEASE NOTE! 'Selling Souls' is a Klein Records 12", specially
imported to the UK by The Leaf Label, as a prelude to the release of
the album Encounters, which will be released by The Leaf Label in the
UK only on September 30.
Vienna's Sofa Surfers have an awesome reputation in Europe and the UK
for their dub heavy, song-based rhythmic attacks, but even casual
listeners to their new recordings will realise that they've outlived
their slack downtempo name. Equally, they've left behind their home
city's reputation for lounging stoner beats. As you will discover,
this is a very good thing.
Sofa Surfers' third album Encounters is a politically-astute,
dancefloor-savvy sucker-punch with a staggering line-up of guest MCs
and vocalists (including Mark Stewart, Junior Delgado, Sensational
and Jeb Loy Nichols) augmenting the Surfers most realised music yet.
The first taste is the menacing glory of 'Selling Souls'. The track
features MC Santana, a fiery German upstart with a drum & bass
background. "He's a young GI kid and jungle MC from Berlin," explains
the band's Wolfgang Schlögl. "He was travelling through Germany,
Switzerland and Austria with various jungle soundsystems. I heard him
on the radio MCing over a DJ mix. The next day I called the station
and we met in the studio for a session."
The 12" includes a complete overhaul of the album track by Sofa
Surfers themselves, plus two stunning remixes. In the hands of Kevin
Martin (Techno Animal, The Bug, etc), MC Santana's vocal is stripped
down and bolted onto a stinging dancehall rhythm. Fans of his recent
productions as The Bug will know that Martin is currently on fire
with his nasty 7" Razor X productions. Klein Records' label head
Christian Candid's mix is a dirty breakbeat bomb, harnessing the
power of the original for the dancefloor.
A1. Selling Souls (Sofa Surfers Rework)
A2. Selling Souls (The Bug Remix)
B. Selling Souls (Christian Candid Remix)
4. Boom Bip/Tony Morley radio mixes
Our latest radio mixes will be broadcast soon on Campus Radio Network
in France, and across the world. This month we have a mix from Boom
Bip, plus a half hour Krautrock freakout by Tony Morley:
Boom Bip Mix
1. Textile Ranch - The Dream Of The Murderers Ship (Audraglint)
2. Funkstörung - Mind The Gap (K7)
3. Windnbreeze - Nuthin Really Happens (Centrifugal Phorce)
4. Radioinactive - unknown (Mush)
5. The Poets Of Rhythm - Discern/define (Ninja Tune)
6. Richard Demaria - Next Episode (Chappell)
7. Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes (Atlantic)
8. Req - unknown (white)
9. Jamie Lidell - Silent Why (Warp)
We Call It Acieeed! - Tony Morley's Krautock mix
1. Kraftwerk - The Voice Of Energy (from Radioactivity, Capitol, 1975)
2. Neu! - Hallogallo (from Neu!, Grönland, 1972)
3. Conrad Schnitzler - Die Rebellen Haben Sich In Den Bergen
Versteckt (from Blau, Blok, 1972)
4. Cosmic Jokers - Planeten Sit In (from Sci Fi Party, Ohr Kosmische
Kuriere, 1974)
5. Faust - untitled (from The Faust Tapes, Virgin, 1973)
6. Can - Vitamin C (from Ege Bamyasi, Spoon, 1972)
7. Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique (from Con, Egg, 1978)
8. Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel - Downtown (from Seven Up, Ohr
Kosmische Kuriere, 1973)
9. Kraftwerk - Morgenspaziergang (from Autobahn, Philips, 1974)
If you can broadcast this mix on your radio show or website, please
get in touch. Next month: Susumu Yokota.
5. Upcoming Leaf live events
Saturday August 24
Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, Ireland
Manitoba (live) + Four Tet + The Jimmy Cake + D.A.D.D.Y. + more
Friday Aug 30 - Sunday September 1
Bumbershoot festival, Seattle, USA
The Drum Machine Circle (featuring members of 310)
Saturday September 14
Destination Out, Cargo, Rivington Street, London, UK
Sofa Surfers (live) + Ross Allen (DJ) + more tbc
Wednesday September 25
Bodega, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Manitoba (live)
Friday September 27
The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Manitoba (live)
Saturday September 28
Powerhouse, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Manitoba (live)
Sunday September 29
Honkytonks, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Manitoba (live)
Wednesday October 2
Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Manitoba (live)
Friday October 4 - Sunday October 6
Sound Summit, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Manitoba (live) + more
keep up-to-date at:
http://posteverything.com/news/article.php?id=1428
Thanks for listening. Get in touch!
The Leaf Label Ltd
Suite 219,
Bon Marche Building,
241 Ferndale Road,
LONDON,
SW9 8BJ,
UK
leaf@posteverything.com
http://posteverything.com/leaf
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