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XLP-002 Robert Vincs – Chaomorphic

From the infinite potential of chaotic silence, emerges sonic forms, shaped through the exhalation of breath and the interactivity of machine processes. Sublime and intense, these sonic gestures resonate with mental and emotional spaces beyond rational notions of music creation. Deep space, immersion and transcendence are possible…

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XDVD-002 Dario Buccino – Corpo Nostro

“Corpo Nostro” is a complete experience! DARIO BUCCINO delivers to the world a creation that is so exciting, so innovative and so well resolved that it seems he has been doing this for years. The truth is he has been doing this for years and in his…

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XCD-069 Marc Hannaford – Polar

In the words of Marc Hannaford, “POLAR is about exploration: the exploration of space through sound, utilizing either improvisation or composition.” This is music created by a pianist who is not afraid to leap across boundaries and express himself in a unique way. Hannaford has already made…

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XCD-067 Claudio Parodi – The Mother of All Feedback

“The Mother of All Feedback” reveals a side of CLAUDIO PARODI that is normally only heard at his live concerts. In addition, it shows a musician with incredible improvising ability who can manage to drag everything, kicking and screaming, out of his “Mother”. The “Mother” is of…

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XCD-066 The Antripodean Collective – Funcall

(setf (gethash ‘funcall) ‘(“Funcall” arrives)) (setf (gethash ‘funcall) ‘(four great Australian musicians at the top of their game)) (setf (gethash ‘funcall) ‘(set free in the studio to create as they see fit)) (setf (gethash ‘funcall) ‘(save jazz improvisation from drowning in mediocrity)) (setf (gethash ‘funcall) ‘(express themselves…

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XCD-065 Terminal Sound System – Constructing Towers

“Constructing Towers” stands tall as another amazing chapter in the merger of electronica and rock music. Terminal Sound System, aka Skye Klein of HALO, has embraced these genres whole heartedly, bringing the best of both worlds to a euphoric crescendo. If you think that bringing together electronica…

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XCD-064 The Antripodean Collective – The Massacre of the Egos

You have probably never heard Paul Grabowsky play piano like this. In fact, you may not have heard many people play piano like this. The Antripodean Collective is an opportunity for Grabowsky and four fellow Australian musicians of the highest caliber to exercise (and exorcise) their improvisational…

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XCD-063 Maju – Maju-5

“Maju-5” shows this Japanese duo of Sakana Hosomi and Masaki Narita at the height of their musical powers. Maju have managed to find the “human spirit inside the machine”. Equipped with samplers, effects and laptops and a sensibility that is unique to Japan, Hosomi and Narita continue…

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XCD-062 Claudio Parodi – A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros)

It takes an artist of true sensitivity to understand another great artist. With “A Ritual which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros)”, Claudio Parodi has spoken with the musical language of Oliveros, a musician he holds in great esteem. Having successfully paid homage to Alvin…

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XLTD-007 John Rodgers – A Rose is a Rose

Early in his career, John Rodgers was faced with the tough question of whether to pursue a career as a concert violinist, most likely with the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, or to take his chances in the music world. John said no to security and comfort and…

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XCD-061 Marc Hannaford – The Garden of Forking Paths

There’s something very special about the way Marc Hannaford plays piano. It’s not just his striking percussive style. It’s the way Hannaford plays every key with great confidence, knowing full well that each note has a place and a purpose on his debut album The Garden of…

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XCD-060 Luca Formentini – Tacet

Whatever happened to silence? This is a question that Luca Formentini provides his own answer to on his debut album for Extreme, “Tacet”; an album of exquisite grace and enveloping textures. Aiding him on this exploration is a stellar cast of musicians including Markus Stockhausen, Steve Jansen…

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XCD-059 Robert Vincs – Devic Kingdom

With a remarkable music history, stretching back to the birth of the Fairlight CMI when the sounds he created were used by the likes of Thomas Dolby and Kate Bush, Robert Vincs has continued to evolve as a musician and composer. Devic Kingdom is a seductive fusion…

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XCD-058 Scott Tinkler – Backwards

Recorded in one day, mixed in one day and practiced for twenty three years; “Backwards” is an astounding musical journey from one of Australia’s finest trumpet players and jazz improvisers, Scott Tinkler. Tinkler, winner of the 1996 Australian Jazz award and two ARIAs for best Jazz album,…

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XCD-057 Terminal Sound System – Compressor

Imagine if Miles Davis, Sepultura and Karlheinz Stockhausen had the opportunity to work their magic on the phenomenon of Drum’n’Bass. It could well have sounded like “Compressor” by TERMINAL SOUND SYSTEM. Davis often absorbed new styles of music and made them his own. That’s exactly what Australian…

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XLTD-006 Mr Geoffrey & JD Franzke – Get A Room

Mr Geoffrey and JD Franzke’s set, “Get a Room”, takes us so far past dance that the beats are like background radiation, like a spooky or wistful afterglow. They go so deep, so low, that it’s close to absolute zero; a chilled zone where even the slightest…

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XCD-056 Claudio Parodi – Horizontal Mover (homage to Alvin Lucier)

Few musicians have the opportunity to pay homage to their musical idol, much less send them a recording and receive a reply. CLAUDIO PARODI did just this, sending “Horizontal Mover” to Alvin Lucier. The response was nothing short of overwhelming – “I find it absolutely beautiful”. This…

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XLTD-005 Nobukazu Takemura – Water’s Suite

The sonic beauty of Water’s Suite shows that Nobukazu Takemura has come a long way from his days as a successful scratch DJ. Known more recently for his thoughtful compositions and commissions for Issey Miyake, Takemura has decided to let the MIDI do the talking. In fact,…

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XCD-054 ether – Hush

The path Ether has chosen to explore on HUSH makes you wonder just how far rock music can go. So few groups make music that is truly powerful but Ether is a vibrant exception. Absorbing influences ranging from Kraut rock to world music, Ether reveals a range…

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XLTD-004 Christian Kiefer – Exodust

Two famous pieces of the exodusters’ story, Woody Guthrie’s “Dust Bowl Ballads” and John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, were useful artistic counterpoints to this project and to the project of history. Last, I must acknowledge the important contribution of Donald Worster’s “Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains…

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XCD-053 Christian Kiefer – Medicine Show

Christian Kiefer has already established himself as a songwriter and composer of exciting originality. With the release of his newest album, “Medicine Show”, Kiefer makes his claim as a talented singer-songwriter with a unique voice. Further acknowledgement of his position as a major emerging talent lay in…

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XCD-051 Maju – Maju-3

With their third album, Maju has evolved into a crystalline form that provides a complete understanding of what they want to achieve. Their music has successfully emerged from the soup that is always a part of creation. This holds to the truism that any group’s third album…

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XLTD-003 Merzbow – Merzbox

Fifty CDs is a lot of music for any one artist to release. To release them all at once, in a boxed set, is quite extraordinary. The MERZBOX is just such a release. The MERZBOX also includes a book, CD-ROM, medallion, T-shirt, poster, postcards and stickers and…

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XCD-048 Christian Kiefer – Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times has not only provided the definitive version of “Home on the Range”; it has also conjured up a stirringly real vision of the American West. Christian Kiefer has accomplished what many John Wayne films only hint at. Kiefer takes his prompts from recent…

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XCD-046 Eugene Thacker – Sketches For Biotech Research

Processor Option: PwrPC 601 RISC/Integrated math co-processor. Scale:5.4862E+00 Feet/in or 2.1599E+00 Feet/cm, 4855 microsec/in or 933 microsec/cm. 430 factory presets, 200 user presets with crossover 2nd-stage LED indicators and real-time MIDI controllers. Sup. logus Ext. carpi rad. brevior Adbuctor pollicis Flexor obl. pol. Interossei min. carp. Sup.…

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XCD-045 Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M. – Filament 1

When Otomo Yoshihide decided to start afresh since the demise of Ground-Zero, he realised that he had to take a great risk to find a new musical voice. ‘Filament 1’ is such a groundbreaking piece of work that it even challenges the definition of music. Otomo and…

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XCD-044 Rik Rue – Sample/Shuffle/Interplay

A deft ear, a sharp wit and a myriad of mini-discs scattered across the studio. It’s within this environment of organised chaos that Rik Rue creates the collarges (sic) of “Sample/Shuffle/Interplay”. Rik Rue has a long-standing musical career, starting over 20 years ago as a jazz saxophonist.…

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XCD-043 Ed Pias – Ancestor’s Halo

When David Hykes, Founder and Master of Harmonic Chant, heard “Ancestor’s Halo” he immediately asked Ed Pias to accompany him on tour playing frame drums and pakhawaj. Ed Pias, one of Seattle’s finest drummer/percussionists and previously in Land(XCD-032) with Jeff Greinke, was of course delighted to accompany…

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XCD-042 Fetisch Park – Alluvial

When Fetisch Park were in Thailand they spent a great deal of time listening to the songs of the prostitutes in the accommodation they shared. To produce “Alluvial”, Carla Subito of Fetisch Park brought home the recordings of their siren-like singing and recomposed the music around their…

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XCD-041 Various Artists – Untitled (ten)

When ten artists of this calibre are asked to compose a special track for Extreme’s ten-year anniversary you can be sure it is going to be a special album. Untitled (ten) fulfils all expectations about what Extreme is and where music is heading in the next millennium.…

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XCD-040 Social Interiors – Traces of Mercury

SOCIAL INTERIORS return to the musical frontiers with “Traces Of Mercury”. This, their second release on EXTREME, takes us further and further into the sonic undergrowth that is a pervasive part of their music. SOCIAL INTERIORS is RIK RUE, digital and analogue tape manipulations, SHANE FAHEY, analogue…

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XLTD-002 Merzbow – Age of 369/Chant 2

In the very early days of Extreme, as a tape label, selected titles from artists working in the industrial underground were distributed by Extreme. “Age of 369” was one of those cassette releases and continues to be a favourite for all noise enthusiasts. The lesser known “Chant…

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XCD-037 Fetisch Park – Trost

From 1990-94, Marlon Shy realised her photographic project “Kamatipura – silent portraits from the brothels of Bombay”. The quarter of the prostitutes and the brothels is well known. The area is also well known for its variety of people from many ethnic groups. The people come from…

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XEP-037 Fetisch Park – Sporen/Binumb

On every release, FETISCH PARK want to do something different. “Sporen” and “Binumb” control the body and move you onto the post-apocalyptic dance floor. It’s a hybrid of manic techno and raw electronics that manages to evoke emotion as the sounds permeate the body. These two tracks…

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XCD-036 Kato Hideki – Hope & Depair

The original inspiration behind “Hope & Despair” by KATO HIDEKI was black & white photography. KATO explains this: “Physically photos don’t have time in terms of actual movement. But I feel good pictures have a sense of time, even though they don’t move like films. While you…

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XCD-035 Mo Boma – Myths of the Near Future Part 3

MO BOMA continue their musical journey with “”Myths of the Near Future””, part three. This is the final in a trilogy of releases that meld world music with jazz, ambient with improvisation. Since the release of “Jijimuge”, their critically acclaimed debut, Carsten Tiedemann spent many months in…

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XCD-033 Groovy – Groovy

GROOVY is set to excite lovers of ’70s disco, space music and acid-jazz and is also just as likely to disturb the purists with their antics. GROOVY features the talented Dan Burke, from Illusion Of Safety, with vocals by Layna B. and featuring Thymme Jones on trumpet.…

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XCD-032 Land – Land

Jeff Greinke, composer and founder of LAND, has always been recognised for his unique ability to layer and texture ambient soundscapes. Inherent in his music is the highly developed way he uses the studio as an instrument. His direction with LAND, however, was to push this layering…

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XEP-031 Pablos Eye – You have a Yearning for Perfection

“You Have a Yearning For Perfection” is a sublime new release from PABLO’S EYE. This Belgian collective describe the music as a “temporary atmosphere, like a taste, a dream.” When you hear the music you will know what this means. Critics have been applauding PABLO’S EYE, describing…

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XCD-029 Social Interiors – The World Behind You

“The World Behind You” is the debut release from SOCIAL INTERIORS; a dazzling display of musical adventure. SOCIAL INTERIORS developed from interjections of local sound commentaries amidst the presentation of FM radio programs from 1984. These shows featured short dialogues and cart cut-ups from media and other…

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XCD-013 C-Schulz – 4. Film Ton

4. Film Ton has a filmic quality that creates vivid images of mystery and intrigue. Unlike most sound tracks which rely heavily on the visuals, the music by C-SCHULZ creates its own narrative which carries the listener on an enthralling journey. “Pforte”, the reworking of “Il Portiere…

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