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SEPT 21 - SEPT 27
Judging by the growing number of white cords falling from commuters' ears, New Yorkers love their gadgets. The tech fetish is also apparent in this week's stimuli, as a herd of masters of the mixer — including Sixtoo and Signify, Jake Fairley, Dan Bell and Sammy Dee, Charles Webster, and Adam Freeland — storm the city's ones and twos, while 'tronic tweakers from Mush Records and a visionary from Argentina come bearing different equipment. And let's not forget the author of the original analog synthesizer, Bob Moog. Pick your poison, plug it in (or rock it wireless), and spread it, Chicago style...

 




 
 
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features
 
art:Beginning Here: 101 Ways; Amie Dicke
comedy:Midnight Pajama Jam
dance:Get tickets to the Fall for Dance Festival
discussion:Art, Activism, and Wireless Technology During the RNC; Laurie Anderson, Michel Gondry, and Brian Eno
dj:Adam Freeland; Charles Webster; Dan Bell and Sammy Dee; Iron DJ 2004; Jake Fairley; Sixtoo and DJ Signify
festival:New York Film Festival; URGH! The War To End All Wars
film:A Dirty Shame; Moog
music:Cannonball Adderley Tribute; Dan Friel; Do Make Say Think; Gaby Kerpel; Her Space Holiday w/ Daedelus, Neotropic, Octavius, and Thavius Beck; Metric w/ Death From Above 1979; Slow Six

 



  
DANCE
Get tickets to the Fall for Dance Festival feat. Lounge by flavorpill


when: Now
where: City Center Box Office (W 55th btw 6th & 7th Aves, 212.581.1212)
price: $10
links: Event Info

 
The star-studded opening night of City Center's Fall for Dance Festival is already sold out, but there's still time — if you spring into action now — to secure spots to any of the remaining five talent-packed nights. With a DJ lounge hosted by flavorpill and an adventuresome lineup of great stylistic and artistic breadth, ranging from the renowned Martha Graham and Paul Taylor companies to the innovative Noche Flamenca and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group to the experimental PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATRE and Tamango & Roxane Butterfly, the fest welcomes dance aficionados and neophytes alike. If you don't know "modern" from Adam, now is the time to take the plunge. Mark it in your calendar: the big event today is to get some cheap tickets. (JKG)

Note: The flavorpill crew is hosting the festival lounge every night, with a DJ lineup that includes Nickodemus and Mariano, Qool DJ Marv, Scott Hardkiss, Alexi Delano, and Jeannie Hopper.




  
MUSIC: Noise
Dan Friel Album Release


when: Tue 9.21 (8pm)
where: Asterisk Art Project (258 Johnson Ave, Bklyn, 917.856.7126)
price: $5
links: Dan Friel
 
On his sophomore album Sunburn, Parts & Labor man Dan Friel builds a beautiful mountain of instrumental noise out of electronic gadgets easily found at your friendly neighborhood scrap heap. Usually, such experimentation adds up to nothing greater than medium-cool Black Dice-style freak-outs. Yet Friel appends his walls of fuzz with simple, traditional melodies that transcend the static quo and evoke sun-splashed Americana, with both the lo-fidelity pop highs of bedroom experimentalists and the deep-space white noise symphonies of the art school set. It's magical homemade Sturm und Drang, perfect for the multimedia mavens that populate Asterisk. (PO)


 What's so eco-special about Sunburn's packaging? Seventh, ninth, and 11th correct answers each win a CD.



  
COMEDY
Midnight Pajama Jam


when: Tue 9.21 (8pm)
where: Marquee Theater (356 Bowery, 212.475.7621)
price: $5
links: Event Info
 
Jon Benjamin (Dr. Katz) and Jon Glaser (Conan O'Brien) take to the stage tonight for what should be a perfect nightcap. Sponsored by PSNBC, a performance lab that aids new and alternative comedians, Midnight Pajama Jam is a monthly series at the Marquee that bills itself as "the most significant live performance experience that can be perceived by human consciousness." Sounds like a tall order, but with guest accompaniment from Eugene "Singing Baby" Mirman and Matt Walsh, founder of the UCB, these jokesters might just be able to pull it off — or at least crack you up while they try. (MB)


 In the Midnight Pajama Jam movie Ganesh, what does the eponymous hero call himself? Third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.



  
DJ
Sixtoo and DJ Signify w/ Blockhead


when: Tue 9.21 (8:30pm)
where: Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700)
price: $12
links: Event Info | Sixtoo | DJ Signify | Blockhead
 
Once an angry young rapper from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Vaughn Robert Squire (aka Sixtoo) has toned down the rhetoric and turned up the mean, gurgling the post-hip-hop music which he's been perfecting over the past few years. The live show to support his sometimes-phenomenal new album, Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle Cures, features the sampler-and synth-wielding MC fronting a band that includes the mighty DJ Signify, and a couple of multi-instrumentalists who bring a very different kind of noise to the undie rap machine. Master NYC beatmaker Blockhead (who's worked with Aesop Rock and Mike Ladd) also gets his turn on the ones and twos. (PO)


 Which German avant-rocker is featured on the Sixtoo track "Storm Clouds & Silver Linings"? Ninth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.





  
MUSIC: Jazz
Cannonball Adderley Tribute


when: Wed 9.22 - Sun 9.26 (schedule)
where: Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway, 212.582.2121)
price: $30-35 / $30 advance
links: Event Info | Cannonball Adderley
 
In alto sax heaven, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley sits at Charlie Parker's side. Justly famous for his role in Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Adderley recorded his penultimate LP with pianist Michael Wolff almost 30 years ago. Wolff is joined at Iridium by the rhythm section from that session for this week's posthumous birthday celebration. Altoists James Moody and Vincent Herring, and tenor James Carter, a teen phenom who gigged with Wynton Marsalis before he was old enough to vote, are the accomplished front line re-igniting favorites tonight, with possibilities including "Jive Samba" and Cannonball's brother Nat's "Work Song." (PS)

Note: $10 cocktail minimum per person. The Adderley Tribute officially commences one day prior, on Tue 9.21, see the schedule for times.


 What is Julian Adderley's middle name? First 12 correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.



  
MUSIC: Noise
Metric w/ Death From Above 1979


when: Wed 9.22 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111)
price: $14
links: Event Info | Metric | Death From Above 1979
 
Even if you're the type of music fan who's pondered long and hard on the nature of synth-punk-metal two-pieces, little can prepare you for Canada's Death From Above 1979. Effects-heavy bass (simply described by the band as sounding "like elephants") unites with skin-splitting kit-bashing for imposing twin pillars of sound. And they sing, too. The band's penchant for playing in apartments and sweaty taverns (Tommy's in Greenpoint, last time) makes for easily ambushed audiences, who are quickly forced into sublime submission. Tonight, they try their hand on a larger Bowery crowd, whose tastes (we hope) are broad enough to encompass Metric's glimmering pop gems and noise stampedes. (RW)

Note: Death From Above 1979 also play at Pianos Thur 9.23 (11:30pm).




  
DJ
Jake Fairley


when: Wed 9.22 (10pm)
where: Table 50 (643 Broadway, 212.253.2560)
price: $10 / $5 advance
links: Event Info | Jake Fairley
 
It's fitting that Toronto's Jake Fairley forsook Canada to bolt for Cologne and then Berlin - his productions have always had more to do with German minimalism than North American techno and house. But after a number of Kompakt-inspired records for the likes of Dumb-Unit, Sender, and Areal — and two contributions to Kompakt's legendary Speicher series — Fairley's new longplayer, Touch Not the Cat, sees the artist going glam, augmenting his tracks with trashy guitars, disaffected vocals, and T. Rex-style shuffle in the tradition of T.Raumschmiere. Fairley now gets the ravers head-banging and the rockers going gaga for acid. It's about time someone bridged that gap again. (SK)


 What was the name of the group Jake Fairley formed with Ian Worang in 2002? Eighth and 15th correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.





  
DISCUSSION
Music and Media: Laurie Anderson, Michel Gondry, and Brian Eno


when: Thursdays 9.23 - 10.7 (7pm)
where: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium (365 5th Ave, 212.817.8215)
price: $15
links: Event Info | Laurie Anderson | Michel Gondry | Brian Eno
 
Inspired by the intersection between music and moving images, Music and Media presents leading multimedia innovators in live conversation with their peers from the media industry. The three-part program starts this week with Laurie Anderson — whose career incorporates performance installations, voice experiments, maverick violin displays, and a chart-topping 1981 hit "O Superman" — paired with writer Greil Marcus, whose books and articles have scoured the landscape of rock history. Next week, music video and feature film director Michel Gondry speaks with Village Voice film writer Ed Halter; and the program concludes on October 7th with legendary producer and musician Brian Eno engaging with independent filmmaker Todd Haynes. (AM)




  
MUSIC: Electronica
Her Space Holiday w/ Daedelus, Neotropic, Octavius, and Thavius Beck


when: Thur 9.23 (8pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3006)
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Her Space Holiday | Daedelus | Neotropic | Octavius
 
Mush Records — perhaps our best domestic "home listening" electronic label — puts forth one of the fall's most exciting and diverse lineups. While samples, digital manipulation, and beats form the backbone of these acts' sound, live instrumentation fleshes it out and offers charisma and immediacy to spare. The openers kick things off on a dark and moody note with Thavius Beck's gritty beatscapes, Octavius' avant-hop, and former Ninja Tune affiliate Neotropic's cinematic compositions. Daedelus mashes wildly eclectic source material into infectiously spastic funhouse anthems, while the crisp string samples, sweetly hushed vocals, melodic keys, and rock riffage out of which headliners Her Space Holiday forge their emo-pop-tronica is sure to melt hearts. (JL)


 Where would you go for a space holiday, and why? Three most entertaining answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.



  
FESTIVAL
URGH! The War To End All Wars


when: Screening: Thur 9.23 (7 & 10pm) / Concerts: Fri 9.24 & Sat 9.25 (8pm)
where: Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) &
Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3006)
price: $8 screening; $15-25 concerts
links: Event Info | Urgh! A Music War | Anthology Film Archives | Knitting Factory
 
In 1980, Derek Burbidge shot hundreds of live performances in an attempt to capture the developing punk and new-wave movements. Though the outcome, Urgh! A Music War, is undeniably uneven, it expertly conveys the era's raucous energy, patching together searing live performances from the Police, Gary Numan, the Go-Go's, Surf Punks, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, and tons more. Now, the Onion lauds the cult film with a three-day program: Anthology screens Urgh! on Thursday, while an impressive and appropriately helter-skelter lineup of bands, including Oneida, Beans, the Rogers Sisters, Dirty on Purpose, !!!, Parts & Labor, and Dalek, play the Knit on Friday and Saturday. Who knows how they'll "pay tribute," but if they've half the urg(h)gency of their forefathers, you'd best turn out. (JKG)


 What is your preferred pronunciation of "!!!"? Most creative answer wins a pair of tickets to the screening.

 What about this time of year just makes you want to go "URGH!"? Eight funniest answers each win a pair of tickets to the concert.





  
FILM
Moog


when: Opens Fri 9.24
where: Cinema Village (22 E 12th St, 212.924.3363)
price: $9
links: Event Info | Moog
 
Moog is a feel-good documentary that celebrates eccentric inventor Robert Moog (rhymes with "rogue"), whose empathy for the undiscovered souls of transistors led him to create the popular analog synthesizers that bear his name. Whether you groove to hip-hop, synth pop, or prog rock, you'll recognize the instrument's squeals, buzzes, and bass-y burps as you follow Moog's quest for sounds never heard before in music. Scenesters then and now describe the impact of his invention while the excellent (and eclectic) soundtrack burbles and whines with affection for the Moog renaissance. Watch for Edd Kalehoff in the best beer commercial ever. (PS)


 Which Beach Boys song features the theremin? Ninth, 13th, and 16th correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event and a Moog soundtrack CD.



  
DJ
DJ Spinoza Birthday feat. Dan Bell and Sammy Dee


when: Fri 9.24 (9pm)
where: subTonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501)
price: $5
links: Event Info
 
No one is more deserving of a fabulous birthday party than DJ Spinoza (Bryan Kasenic). A tireless contributor to the electronic music community, as well as an exceptional DJ in his own right, Spinoza exhibits his exquisite taste in music with not one, but two world-class DJs gracing the turntables for these festivities. Both Perlon label head Sammy Dee and Detroit legend Dan Bell man the decks for a perfect blend of sexy, minimal dance music. This is the throwdown you've been waiting for, so dust off your dancing shoes 'cause there's no parking allowed on the floor tonight. (MG)




  
MUSIC: Post-Rock
Do Make Say Think


when: Fri 9.24 (midnight)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111)
price: $13
links: Event Info | Do Make Say Think
 
Don't let the verbiage fool you. Despite an ostensible penchant for action verbs, Canadian post-rockers Do Make Say Think aren't afraid to take things slow. Like their Constellation labelmates Godspeed You! Black Emperor, this five-piece Toronto collective patiently allow their compositions to swell with tension, crescendo dramatically, and finally resolve — all the while nurturing a sense of sheer warmth and resplendence. But with a history (albeit a brief one, consisting of four full-length albums to date) of dabbling in dub and jazz, there's a bit less edge to their form of rock than GY!BE and perhaps more experimentation to come, as demonstrated on last year's hypnotic and critically acclaimed Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn. Experimental rockers the Mobius Band and Miho (sans Cibo) open. (JC)






  
DJ
Iron DJ 2004 feat. Vikter Duplaix and Grand Wizzard Theodore


when: Sat 9.25 (10pm)
where: The Frying Pan (23rd St and the Westside Hwy, 212.989.6363)
price: $20 / $10 before midnight
links: Event Info | Vikter Duplaix
 
Finally DJs and our favorite Food Network program are united in one event — but this battle isn't about abalone, it's about ability. In a purist's riff on Iron Chef, the gig is set up with one "challenger" DJ, Jen Mas, who goes up against three "Iron DJs," Fatfingaz (hip-hop), Empress (drum 'n bass), and Scottie B (dance). We're hoping the judges speak in Japanese, and we get those amusingly poor translations ("Ah, Empress sets a mean turntable; her sounds in my ears are so happy!") — but no promises. One thing is for sure, though, the night closes with a special tag-team set from the inventor of scratch, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and the renowned producer and DJ who pimps so much style, Vikter Duplaix. (JKG)


 The Grand Wizzard is the younger brother of which two hip-hop pioneers? Twelfth and 13th correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.



  
DJ
Charles Webster


when: Sat 9.25 (10pm)
where: Table 50 (643 Broadway, 212.253.2560)
price: $15 / $10 before 11pm
links: Event Info
 
Charles Webster came up as a pioneer in Nottingham, England's house scene — home of the classic DIY collective — before a move to the Bay Area saw the launch of his label, Love From San Francisco. Now a UK resident once again, Webster — who has recorded for Mantis, Peacefrog, and Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly label — is known for chilled, gorgeous house music that never goes limp, no matter how smooth it gets. (Collaborations with the likes of Matthew Herbert testify to his leftfield cred.) This is Webster's first NYC appearance since he dropped his well-loved 2001 album, Born on the 24th of July, so come ready to go deep. Todd Sines supports. (SK)


 What UK record label have both Charles Webster and Todd Sines recorded for? Fifteenth and 17th correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.





  
DJ
Adam Freeland


when: Sun 9.26 (12:30am)
where: Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700)
price: $15
links: Adam Freeland | Cielo
 
"We Want Your Soul" from the recent Freeland record was a vocodered swipe at global corporate behemoths; now the British-born, politically outspoken, breaks DJ has his sights set on the American election. The We Want Your Vote tour aims to curtail apathy and mobilize 18- to 30-year-old voters, estimated to be 16% of the US population. Long seen as one of the world's most influential DJs, Freeland's been keeping the sound eclectic lately, mixing up rock-influenced live basslines with electro/acid breaks and frequently dropping the coveted 12-inch of Evil Nine's "Crooked" featuring Aesop Rock. (CJN)


 What dance music genre is Adam Freeland credited with coining? Seventeenth, 19th, and 23rd correct answers each win a copy of his latest CD.



  
MUSIC: Experimental
Slow Six


when: Sun 9.26 (8pm)
where: Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501)
price: $8
links: Event Info | Slow Six
 
Slow Six is an eight-piece modern ensemble consisting of strings, guitars, a Rhodes, and a laptop — deftly operated by composer Christopher Tignor to give the pieces an otherworldly feel. In a typical Slow Six composition, a radio broadcast builds up into a drifting wave of guitar and piano sound that subsides over time and then meets a violinist who's been patiently waiting to take you somewhere else. The result is uncommon serenity and lushness. Accompanying Slow Six's music is the rich tonality of Lee Whittier's abstract projections; together, the two should create a space of majestic respite from Lower East Side antics. (AD)


 Who invented the Rhodes piano? Eighteenth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.



  
MUSIC: World Electronic
Gaby Kerpel


when: Sun 9.26 (9:30pm)
where: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778)
price: $12
links: Event Info | Gaby Kerpel
 
With a wide-ranging compositional eclecticism that resembles fellow South American Tom Zé, Argentinean Gaby Kerpel brings a child-like joy and affinity for the new (in this case, technology) to the old soul that is world music. On his 2003 release Carnabailito, Kerpel uses traditional instruments like his homeland's charango and more far-flung ones such as the kalimba (African thumb-piano) alongside flutes, strings, drums, and the electronicist's assortment of mixers, keyboards, and computer hardware. Whereas his own vocals bear a sometimes scratchy world-wizened quality, the sung baby talk of the track "Gabytok" makes Kerpel seem more like a wisecracker. A rare opportunity for wonder. (JKG)


 What is Tom Zé's real name? Fifteenth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.





  
DISCUSSION
Hot Enough? Art, Activism, and Wireless Technology During the Republican National Convention


when: Mon 9.27 (7pm)
where: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, The New School (55 W 13th St, 212.229.5488)
price: $8
links: Event Info
 
Most New Yorkers recognize a cell phone as more than just a device for making calls. From uploading pictures to building text messaging networks, our cell phones enable us to be simultaneously free, yet connected. During the RNC, protestors' call to action also became a call to innovate, and many used more than just phones to make sure they were heard. Tonight, Jonah Peretti of new media nonprofit Eyebeam hosts a panel of activists in a discussion of how wireless technology was employed during the convention. Participants include: Yury Gitman, whose Magic Bike acts as a mobile wireless hotspot, and Joshua Kinberg of Bikes Against Bush, who constructed a wireless Internet-enabled bicycle which prints text messages onto the streets of Manhattan. (JA)

Note: Purchase tickets at the New School box office (66 W 12th St).


 What New York landmark should be made a wireless hotspot, and why? Two most creative answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.





  
ART
Amie Dicke: New Season, New Girls, New Looks


when: Now through Sat 10.2 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: D'Amelio Terras (525 W 22nd St, 212.352.9460)
price:  FREE
links: Event Info | Amie Dicke
 
Amie Dicke's paper cutouts are a stylishly brutal assault on images of idealized feminine beauty. Taking pages from the fashion glossies, she makes meticulous incisions that trace the sinuous contours of gaunt supermodels. Inside these forms she lets her X-Acto knife wander to reveal dazzling spider webs of doodled arabesques and occasional text. In a crafty low-tech way, her process radically transforms the original advertisements, and the once unassailable models now find themselves made-over with incised eyes, lower lips sucked inward, and nostrils dripping black fluid. Mounted on white walls, these perforated pin-ups have the graphic intensity of art nouveau woodcuts, and the unsettling presence of the undead. (RA)




  
ART
Beginning Here: 101 Ways


when: Now through Sat 10.16
where: Visual Arts Gallery (601 W 26th St, Ste 1502, 212.592.2145)
price:  FREE
links: Event Info
 
Though curator and Village Voice art critic Jerry Saltz may say it's just an alum exhibit, this lively show of 101 artists packs a big punch. Celebrating SVA's new Visual Arts Gallery in 9,000 square feet of prime Chelsea property, it surveys grads from 1953 (Sol Lewitt, represented by a wall mural that was executed by current students) to 2003. While presenting a fascinating look at a diverse range of media, photographers Renee Cox and Mika Rottenberg, video artist Aida Ruilova, sculptor Toland Grinnell, and digital artists Jose Carlos Casado and John F. Simon, Jr. stand out. Taken as a whole, the show puts a stylish frame around a creative NYC institution. (PL)




  
FILM
A Dirty Shame


when: Opens Fri 9.24
where: Various locations
price: Various
links: A Dirty Shame
 
John Waters' new comedy, A Dirty Shame, is a bawdy, sexual showdown: neuters on one side, sex freaks on the other, and in the end, everyone's so ridiculous you'll never want to have sex again. When a mysterious sexual healer, Ray-Ray, turns up in Harford Road, Baltimore, he makes bump 'n grind disciples of even the least likely. Take Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), a woman so prudish she won't even sleep with her husband — who, by the way, is played by Chris Isaak (wicked games, anyone?). Sex addicts overrun the 'burbs and when Ray-Ray lays hands, there's going to be a second coming... and a third... and a fourth. (ÇK)




  
FESTIVAL: Upcoming
New York Film Festival


when: Fri 10.1 - Sun 10.17
where: Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade & Various locations
price: $15 / $10 student rush
links: Event Info
 
Amid the culture crush of art-openings, fashion shows, and festivals that mark up this month's calendar, necessary nonsense like advance-ticket purchasing can easily become the last thing on your must-do list. But come October 1st, Agnès Jaoui will already be standing at the podium, and her NYFF opening night offering, Look at Me, won't be the only film long sold-out. With a spate of new works by filmmakers who've been around the block two or three times (Godard, Bergman, Leigh, Almodóvar) as well as high profile restorations (The Big Red One, Macunaima), the 42-year-old festival won't wait long to fill up its dance card. (LG)







CD REVIEW: Diplo, Florida
Big Dada Records
Released September 2004
$13.99 (Amazon)

As one half of the successful Hollertronix duo, Diplo has left his handprints in swampy underground clubs with a distinctive mix of Baltimore house, Dirty South rap, and sticky, urban electro. But his debut LP for Ninja Tune subsidiary Big Dada is less uninhibited than the man's resume would suggest, and, like the long-necked dinosaur for which he is named, it shows that a great (musical) distance lies between the brain and the behind. Florida does incorporate some of the booty-shaking bass and crunk made familiar by his mixtapes and DJ sets, but it more broadly displays Diplo's skills as a dedicated crate digger and a producer with a classical composer's feel for development. Florida is an assured, whip-smart debut benefiting from terrific guest appearances (Martina Topley-Bird, Sandra Melody, and Vybz Cartel) and a creative fire that could burn through the next ice age. (SM)

This review is courtesy of Earplug, a bimonthly music newsletter produced by Flavorpill Productions.

 
Sticky Design: GUM
If you leave a copy of the new annual GUM laying on your desk or coffee table, people will grab it like kids reaching for candy — we've seen it happen. This tricked-out box o' cutting-edge design, produced by Kevin Grady and RES Media founder Colin Metcalf, should sate both pop culture aficionados and those with a sweet-tooth for graphic design. Inside the second edition, GUM2, there's a big-kid-pleasing assortment of bits and bobs: an activity book including mazes, rebuses, and card games alongside interviews with Nancy Sinatra, Rjd2, and Interpol; a series of design trading cards; a thick book filled with articles, interviews (highlights are Dalek and Ray Bradbury), and imagery (like a series of ad riffs on Verizon); plus a View-Master reel of photographs; and, of course, gumballs. It's a lot to chew on. (JKG)
  What is your favorite brand of gum to chew, and why? Our five favorite answers each win a copy of GUM2.

 
STREAMS: Fabric
Beginning on October 14th, the London-based label and club Fabric celebrates five years with three nights of parties. But for those of us who can't afford to book a flight overseas, there's always the immediacy of streams. From Fabric Records, three streams herald the release of the fabric 18 mix by Baby Mammoth, Beige, and Solid Doctor; these boys twist soul, jazz, disco, funk, and hip-hop to meet their own understanding of house and techno structures, and create a distinctively individual sound in the process. (FC)



House: fabric 18  (Baby Mammoth)
House: fabric 18  (Solid Doctor)
House: fabric 18  (Beige)
 




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