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quoted 14 lines 2. Fans of the Leaf label will have a few new

> 2. Fans of the Leaf label will have a few new > releases to get this spring as well. There will > be a Twisted Science lp/CD as well as the third > volume of the Invisible Soundtracks 12"s > >this spring is looking pretty exciting indeed. i look forward >to more leaf releases, but i'm not sure i understand the whole >invisible soundtracks idea. i never heard volume one, but i >listened to a friend's copy of volume two and it sounded silly >compared to the proper leaf releases i own (luger and witchman, >thanks sean). i assume, based on those releases, that leaf >puts out lots of first-rate drumnbass. so why bother with >compilations of second rate non-d&b crap? was volume two >just a disappointing follow up or do they both suck?

leaf is an experimental music label. they don't just put out jungle (although their first year in business was dominated by it). i don't agree with you that "invisible soundtracks 2" is crap, tho. nor do i see how you could possibly describe it as "silly" (what, the piano lick on the ronnie and clyde track too happy for ya'?). personally, i think the richard thomas, seymore/van hoen, and bedouin ascent tracks are all quite good (although the last doesn't quite measure up to other recent ba material...), particularly richard thomas' "pendulum" (a stunning bit of ambient electro similar to a more minimal b12 or atom heart). but then, i'm a bit of an ambient/experimental electronic freak, so that probably fits. for the record, "invisible soundtracks 1" has tracks by being, gescom, zurich, and disjecta, but i consider it the weakest leaf release yet (although it's not really "bad" in any sense). for more fucked up jungle ala witchman and luger, look into jon tye's twisted science double-ep (although, again, it ain't just jungle) as well as tye's slack dog side project with kingsuk biswas and luke vibert (they have a 12" on tye's lo recordings and a 7" on flowershop). sc onnow: tetsu & jonah : instant replay