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& Soundician & Radulovich & No-Type & Bricolodge &
shamefilemusic & Bremsstrahlung & Con-v & Homophoni & mention
of a few more people!
Public Eyesore: Onid + Isil & Cook & Denio &
Eftus Spectun & Tsukasa & Castro & Pride Hay/Fernandes &
Lisi & Shinyville & The Mighty Vitamins
Notes - 2005 and now into 2006!
notes 05_1: iovae & ermke & ziino & the choir boys & hay & sky saw
notes 05_2: severed heads & behrman & english & holzborn & roberto m & tiner/baggetta & sos & the necks & enuma elish & JD/NO various
notes 05_3: public eyesore
notes 05_4: future eater & dreamstate & hoffman & taming power
notes 05_5: Masaoka & 6 from drone & baggerboot & weller/weller & cosmologic & kucharz & idroscalo VA
notes 06_1: taming power & joeseph & gods of electricity & boutrop & the pigs & kucharz & beautumn & kiln & milieu & burt & rogalsky & courtis & bourgos & liebig & diaz-infante/fernandes/montoya/romus & ziino
notes 06_2: roden & caduceus &scott/fraser/bruce/friedman & VA pogus & clucas & fernandes/fjellsted/haco/riis & the choir boys & sciajno/wehowsky & tricoli & empty cage quartet & kissing the pink
notes
06_3: Taming power & hubbard x2 & foundry x 4 & fankbonner
& mattin & muslimgauze x 2 & simmons & west & emulsion
& floating mind & sampler
2004 or volume 7: about 1 a month to date.
notes 1: Kucharz, Muslimgauze, Zantrip, Imite Moi, CTB, Pellman, JAR, Metaxu
notes 2: Roden, EMR, Taming Power, Opaque, Dreamland x4, Drawing Room, Theory of Everything, Diaz-Infante/Forsyth, O'Keefe et al, Tietchens, Asahara, Stasisfield
notes 3: Taming Power, Yituey, Jedlicka, Emulsion, Muslimgauze, XL, Haivan/Vaughan, Sparling, Veliotis, Aguilar
notes 4: Verhagen/Shinjuku Thief
notes 5: V, de Waard (as himself, and in Kapotte Muziek and Wander), Dodman, Liljekvist, Brand, Zingaro/Voicecrack, Taming Power
notes 6: verhagen, roden collaborations, bissett, tiner phillips schoenbeck, mens, curran, soddell, nerve exhibit
notes 7: Vale dorobo - Shinjuku Thief - Matte Black Black Mass Trilogy Dorobo 021
notes 8: phonographers union, nature strip va, tarab, dronaement, coelacanth, lloyd, ellende, pholde, horist
notes 9: taming power, obscure tapestries, buckets and batteries, de lory, hooker, ziino
notes 10: no xivic & entrelacs & cd & emerge & soleilkraast & cisfinitum herbst9 & baker & troum & mawson & larner/nakamura
notes 11: hughes & foundry VA & trummerflora VA &low resistance group & west & zeromoon
notes 12: Stasisfield: year 2 multiple artists plus a kannenberg solo
notes 13: kaiserÕs ockodektet in two forms & kaiser/diaz-infante & the skeleton key orchestra & weller & bargo & radulovich & chill faction & soundician & some web stuff
2003 or volume 6
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| 2003_a | Feb 2003 |
three by three (bip-hop, bsi, public eyesore) plus 2 vaisanen/dresselhaus & tonne & scanner/tonne & barrio & muslimgauze/systemwide/sound secretion & systemwide & mesina & kucharz & falafel avantgarde & emergency string quintet & monotract |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_b | Feb 2003 |
for scandinavians through to sheffield then on to new york and finally australia too the nordic miracle & duo kanel &ruchalski & culver & haugland & archer & archer/monk/tippets & lopez & cornucopia & clocked out duo & griswold & hinterlandt |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_c | mar 2003 |
four & three & twoandahalf & two & oneandabit radulovich & the assholes & hubbard & cosmologic & rapoon & birds of tin & hudak & VA bip-hop & tennis & VA absurd & ilios (& .tiln & dodman) |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_d | apr 2003 |
The singles issue musique concrete ensemble & diaz-infante & davies & hat melter & VA accretions & formatt & love 666 & soundician & hex & reef project & shortwave & bokor & schaefer |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_e | may 2003 |
Don't you wonder sometimes? (the vision of sound) taming power (3) & idx1274 & the gray field recordings & svstriate & nad spiro & d/form & parra & VA mrw44 (2) & VA early morning records |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_f | may 2003 |
a bumper issue VA chlorophyll & VA slapart & shinjuku thief & psi & melusine & cremaster & mitre & dead letters spell out dead words & aidan baker & po & 'gypt gore & trio & balai mecanique & a_dontigny/labrosse & coin gutter & edwards & instruction shuffle & flaming fire & pothole skinny |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_g | june 2003 |
what, only two disks?! year 1 stasisfield mp3 cd-r - 19 albums or eps reviewed- plus loam |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_h | june 2003 |
three threes and four ones stern/guerra & fair/willett & wright/marsh & the bunny brains & hardlein & .murmer & mattin/rosy parlane & mitchell & headphone science & violet & normal music & kiritchenko & van alebeek & violet shifts & VA the foundry |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_i | july 2003 |
lots of california, some of norway, australia, belgian seas to elsewhere roden (x3) & lopez/roden & schumacher & taming power (x3) & amongst myselves (x2) & dalaba/frith/glick rieman/kihlstedt & fjellestad & borgo & fjellestad/kowald/reason/robinson & omnid & birds of tin/ene & ea & baker & krebs |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_jk | august 2003 |
ego is not a dirty word 87 central & undecisive god & undecisive god/w.i.t. & muslimgauze & rocchetti & the abstractions & VA staalplaat & lambert/wright & mattin & mora & twin & v.v & tÕum & sawako & hartman & linblad & rozenhall & VA fylkingen |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_l | sept 2003 |
viusal & conceptual & taming power & mambo-x p350 & fickle & omnid & formatt/alapranen & krzyosiak/simbelis & hinterlandt/karri o & sonic catering band & licht & moe! staiano & principle of silence |
&etc | &etc |
| 2003_m | oct 2003 |
guitar & strings & j.frede & cornucopia & ellende & kiritchenko & undecisive god & dellaria/sonderberg & akiyama/francis/kneale/neville/watkins & oscuro & magic box & godal/fontana & VA tensile & davis & zeitkratzer & books on tape & jirku & martusciello & tricoli & bosetti/vowinckel & sciajno/prins |
&etc | &etc |
2002 or volume 5
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| 2002.01 | Jan 2002 |
peter wright (x5) & david khan/peter
wright & cm acoustic ensemble & VA kRkRkRk & naan trax
& neck doppler & neck doppler/straight outta mongolia
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.02 | Feb 2002 |
z'ev & hollydrift & kyriakides &konk pack
& t um'& samartzis/sachiko m & fantasmagramma & alluvion
& VA aesova
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.03 | Feb 2002 |
VA no type & maenad & dooks & a.f.r.i. studios & aerospace
soundwise & alejandra/aeron & chadbourne & oÕrourke & ashera & gaab
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.04 | Mar 2002 |
W.I.T. (x4) & cray & frog pocket & berthling & abstract
q & taapet & si-cut.db
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.05 | April 2002 |
VA the foundry & freight elevator quartet & interface
& wolman & cascone & inoue/stone & i:wound (x4) & formatt & julius & aldea
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.06 |
June 2002
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shinjuku thief & e.g. oblique graph & VA the
foundry
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.07 | May 2002 |
guerra/stern & stern/hood/guerra/dubovtsev & musicgroupmusic
& mattin & VA bip-hop & vestige vertical & moir drammaz & babin & kucharz
& morceuax_de_machines & deep structure & gayle & steinbruchel
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.08 | June 2002 |
drawing room & hons & schaefer & encycloplatypus & warburton/sonderberg/shea
& oeuf korrekt & tralphaz & dhumont & baupre & wollscheid & bailey/hautzinger
& bergen/prins/fennesz & friedl/sharp
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.09
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July 2002
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gaab & hughes & lecanoscope & murmer & o&a & robinson
& oetz & rudis/custadio/diaz-infante & thompson & twine
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.10
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July 2002
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Public Eyesore - 20 cd label overview
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.11
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August 2002
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Poland Special - 10 cds + 1 7"
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.12
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August 2002
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fernandes & donkey & VA amanita/idoia & duke & collections
of colonies of bees & butcher/minton & efzeg & sssd & unis/stokes & rev.99
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.13
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Sept 2002
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VA dorobo & guerra/lineham/rodgers & guerra & we're
breaking up & noise flamenco & broken hands & VA liquid architecture &
swire & moblin & upland & komet +/vs bovine life & spaceheads & wang inc
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&etc | &etc |
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2002.14
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Sept 2002
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full swing & agf & sutekh & gjerd & vehiculos de occasion
& continental fruit & witcyst & fibo-trespo & remanence & sawako & crawford
& VA throat & VA throat & mou, lips! & radulovich & delayer & orchestramaxfieldparrish
& VA fals.ch
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.15 | Oct 2002 |
hollydrift & niblock & gunshop & noise-maker's fifes
& behren & stelzer/de waard & diaz-infante/forsyth & all time present
& the focus quintet & kaiser & captain stephanie & cyber zen sound engine
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.16 | Oct 2002 |
Vinyl Special - 9 singles from drone (delphium, ultra
milkmaids, crawl unit, amon, kallabris, alio die, cranioclast, no, mnem)
and a double album of Various Artists from electric transfusion
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.17 | Nov 2002 |
opaque & doppler & hinterland & kucharz & drawing room
& dis & baker & silt fish & old boys/bombs away & jones & [des]integracao
& troum
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.18 | Nov 2002 |
stern & luxxe & marchetti & hartman & em & allport/olive
& drouin/olsen & svstriate & gaab & sogar & bellerue & tziritas/madder
& davis/wastell
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.19 | Dec 2002 |
polio & a.m. & wright & VA kRkRkRk & VA23five/sfm &
drygianakis/veliotis & veliotis/warburton & lescalleet & repeat
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&etc | &etc |
| 2002.20 | Dec 2002 |
guerra &lux mammoth & smidrin & nehil/jgrzinich & gendreau
& montgomery & lella & VA karate joe
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&etc | &etc |
2001 - akaVolume 4
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| 2001.01 | Jan 2001 |
rowe/cascone & kucharz & efzeg & sheffield
& barbed & bexar bexar & de blonde & sylvian
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&etc | &etc |
| 2001.02 | Feb 2001 |
hodell & lustmord & VA bip-hop & stavostrand
& bergman & doyle
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&etc | &etc |
| 2001.03 | Feb 2001 |
cascone & hollydrift & mcnulty/.tiln & walter/longberg-holm/o'rourke
& rowe & nox & donkey & reptilica
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&etc | &etc |
| 2001.04 | Mar 2001 |
martusciello & fjellestad & .386dx & VA triton & ikeda
& yamamichi & fayman/fripp & banabila/vennik/bobby
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&etc | &etc |
| 2001.05 | Apr 2001 |
massimo & thilges3 & VA mottomo otomo & muslimgauze
& marchetti/noetinger & dieb13 & antenne & scratch pet land
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&etc | &etc |
| 2001.06 | Apr 2001 | Boe & origami republika & berlinertheorie & VA kohvirecords & m'lumbo & dufort & moore & jerman & hands to & augur (a pyrrhic victory) | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.07 | June 2001 | pimmon | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.08 | May 2001 | urawa & ultraphonist & object & bokanowski & ea & dark star & encomiast | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.09 | May 2001 | sound drifting VA & pastacas & keller & origami galaktika & aube & vert & biphop VA | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.10 | June 2001 | dorobo VA & lost time accident & when & martindx & bergman & aranos/mueller/rosenau & [the user] | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.11 | July 2001 | radulovich & reznicek/kubin/mancha & nocturnal emissions & delphium & tennis & alexandrakis & VA diskono & laporte & bone | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.12 | Aug 2001 | ashera x 2 & montgomery & trummerflora & DVOA & bourbonese qualk & inada & pure | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.13 | Sep/Nov 2001 |
Yorkshire special issue plus addendum of additional reviews (text only) |
&etc | |
| 2001.14 | Aug 2001 | thilges3 & muslimgauze & VA phonography & block & bjorguiffson & VA tourette & steamboat switzerland & rev99 & scott fields ensemble & queen of japan | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.15 | Aug 2001 | seofon & mollusk & coleman & rieman & mathieu/ehlers & schick/neumann & rowe/beins & perlonex & dachte musik & VA no compression & kucharz | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.16 | Sep 2001 |
the DIY issue rothko & darkroom & bass communion & 833-45 & krebs &santomieri & eM &gaab & stevenson & kra & transient v resident &soundician & duplo remote & com.a & alejandra&aeron & qt? |
&etc | &etc |
| 2001.17 | Oct 2001 |
dafeldecker/hegenbart & wittwer & denley/ng &black faction & thilges 3 &hilmarsson/sigur ros & VA motorlab & rotoscope &schmickler & schaefer & tv pow & rotor & VA noh poetry |
&etc | &etc |
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2001.18
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Oct 2001
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Freedom From label special issue: 20 items - too many to list! | &etc | &etc |
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2001.19
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Nov 2001
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V & VZL & secondviolin &disjunction reunion & vv & eye and ear control (x3) &pianobread & telecognac & behrens & gal & antenna farm & antenna farm/main & bovine life & VA biphop &inada & inada/samartzis & column one & VA 90% wasser | &etc | &etc |
| 2001.20 | Dec 2001 | roden (x2) & kahn & secret agent gel & ayers & QR5 & fletcher & psychotropic & cyber zen sound engine/borghi & TMRX & labelle & rhainey/kelley & wehowsky/drumm & gobeil & normandeau & VA V/VM & twine & xinlisupreme & drowsy & ultra red & mueller/rhainey/wollscheid & alexandrakis & beyer | &etc | &etc |
ALPHABETICAL LISTING FROM V1.1 to 2003_jk!
ALPHABETICAL LISTING FROM V1.1 to 2003_jk!(as an XL spreadsheet)
Volume 3 and special editions
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| 3.1 | Aug 00 | perlon & trummerflora2 VA & sara ayers | &etc | &etc |
| 3.2 | Aug 00 | verhagen & abstract q & radian | &etc | &etc |
| 3.3 | Sept 00 | j.frede & cardell & mimetic mute | &etc | &etc |
| 3.4 | Oct 00 | ephemeron & tone language & kohvi sampler & delphium | &etc | &etc |
| 3.5 | Oct 00 | mnortham & thilges 3 & arkkon & fujiVA & doyle | &etc | &etc |
| 3.6 | Oct 00 | muslimgauze(x3) & sparling (x2) & foreign terrain | &etc | &etc |
| 3.7 | Nov 00 | rhomb & csero & seofon &thermal & santomieri & eM (archipelago set) & mens & LOSD & goem & c-schulz/hajsch | &etc | &etc |
| 3.8 | Nov 00 | mnortham & amtVpbk & cyber zen sound engine & k k null | &etc | &etc |
| 3.9 | Dec 00 | roden & muslimgauze & erewhon VA & kc | &etc | &etc |
Download the special editions as documents: these look at web-based music resources
| &etc V3.se1 | Mollusk | August 00 |
| &etc V3.se2 | No Type | September 00 |
| &etc V3.se3 | fals.ch | October 00 |
| &etc V3.se4 | .tiln & techNOH | October 00 |
| &etc V3.se5 | bovine & deadscsi | November 00 |
| &etc V3.se6 | foton & 6032 & monotonik | December 00 |
Volume 2
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2.1
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Jan 00 | rapoon&art of noise&hacca noteVA&isbin:verbeke | ||
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2.2
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Jan 00 | thermal/freezer/cue&atoi&thermal/seofon&pacifici&stavostrand&eric m&johnny pinkhouse | ||
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2.3
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Feb 00 | soundscapeVA&the quiet american (x2) &moreigne&aube&c41&dna le draw d kee | ||
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2.4
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Mar 00 | m bentley and the foundry: label special | ||
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2.5
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Mar 00 | ayers/everall/harris&ayers/greif/storey&kucharz (x2) &murder legendre&thompson | ||
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2.6
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Apr 00 | maenad&figure&le_forbici_di_manitu&molokoVA&obmana/tanke&king_crimson | ||
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2.7
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May 00 | lowercase VA&behrens&knott&wall&tape beatles&kucharz | ||
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2.8
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June 00 | radulovich&pearce&inada&roden&kucharz | ||
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2.9
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July 00 | muslimgauze (x4) &nocturnal emission&origami artika&goem&johnson | ||
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2.10
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Aug 00 | kucharz&radulovich/fernandes&eyeless in gaza&stokes& senssuround orchestra&flying saucer attack/main/white winged moth |
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1.1
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July 99 | ombana:tiechens&parkin&nocturnal emissions | ||
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1.2
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July 99 | samartzis&burrs:sverrisson&bass communion | ||
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1.3
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July 99 | det wiehl&systemwide:muslimgauze&sound secretion&ekstasis&memeVA | ||
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1.4
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Aug 99 | blue hour&twain&pacificaVA&obmana | ||
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1.5
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Aug 99 | laboratory of modified perceptions&mould:thomas&kwi&md2 | ||
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1.6
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Aug 99 | verhagen&muslimgauze | ||
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1.7
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Sep 99 | steve roden | ||
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1.8
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Sep 99 | site and soundVA&toniutti&yamamichi&jliat | ||
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1.9
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Oct 99 | pacifici&xenon&… | ||
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1.10
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Nov 99 | zammuto&tunnel singer&kwi/amt | ||
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1.11
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Nov 99 | planeta&muslimgauze | ||
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1.12
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Dec 99 | bass communion/muslimgauze&kwi/amt&roden&roden&rootsman |
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