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12.17.09REISSUES: Kill Rock Stars is reissuing Elliott Smith’s first and last full-length albums.Two key recordings which serve as bookends to Elliott Smith's catalogue of solo recordings, Roman Candle (his first) and From A Basement on the Hill (ostensibly, his last), are being reissued by Kill Rock Stars on 6 April 2010. Roman Candle, Elliott's first album, was issued by Portland's Cavity Search Records in 1994. For the Kill Rock Stars reissue, Roman Candle been remastered by Smith family archivist Larry Crane. Crane, the respected long-time editor of Tape Op Magazine, served in several engineering capacities on Elliott's work over the course of his career, predominantly as owner and operator ...
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03.31.09REISSUE: The Dukes of Stratosphear are back to trip you out.There was a psychedelic re-awakening of sorts in the late 1980's, due in part to the pervasive cultural trend towards retrospective of the late-1960's "Summer of Love". In the midst of this, there appeared the psych-pop of The Dukes of Stratosphear. The Dukes were a spin-off of the much-loved British pop/punk act XTC, whom many consider the most important British rock act of the 1980's. Though they worked feverishly to cloak themselves in anonymous monikers and lack of fanfare for the release of their first EP, 25 O'Clock, people would eventually come to figure out that ...
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05.29.08Loudersoft Loves 808 State | Pacific State Still Shines 20 Years LaterIn a week during which retrospectives on 80's electronic and hip-hop are the trend, it only seems fitting and appropriate to re-examine Manchester-born 808 State's first (ed. note: it wasn't their first single oops!) (and most well-known) recording, "Pacific State". Mixed, remixed, repackaged and reissued innumerable times, the original version (which appeared on 1989's EP Quadrastate) loses no power or edge with time. The perfection of their execution makes "Pacific State" the supreme benchmark of acid house: lush, synthetic harmonies blended with driving TR-808 rhythms. I'd say we're pretty lucky that Rephlex Records has just reissued a fully remastered ...
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05.28.08Loudersoft Loves Steinski | Hip-Hop Legend Releases Major RetrospectiveBack before samples had to be wait eons to be cleared, back in a day when uptown hip hop crews and downtown punks were checking out each other's shows trying to learn a thing or two, there lived Steven Stein and Doug DiFranco -- two pioneers whose adventures would transform them into the hip-hop superheroes known as Steinski and Double Dee. Rabid music fans and hip-hop enthusiasts with day jobs on the edges of the biz, they got their "big break" in 1983 by winning a Tommy Boy Records remix contest for Play That Beat, Mr. D.J. by ...
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