MOGWAI new paths to helicon

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ladies and gentlemen: post #400!!!!

listening to this song, i remember my 24hours trip to hamburg: Low and Mogwai hitting my heart successively.

unforgettable? hell yes.

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TRANSPARENT THING quitter

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reminiscences of Mazzy Star, in a superdark mood. what a shame they only released two 7inches!

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SOUNDSMITH sunlight could split air

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no, it's not over. not yet.

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FUKUYAMA ...for a few uncrossed miles

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a Ganger-super-dilettante-yet-ambitious-sideproject. heartbreaking.

this is everything but the end of History.

years after having bought this 7" at Normal in cologne, i stopped with the shinkhansen for five minutes in fukuyama.

J. was sleeping at that time.

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BOYRACER boyracer

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WJ #1 !!!!!!

Boyracer in 1991. Jesus Christ.

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SABINE the cerf to the level of the lord

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imho the least essential WJ-release. their dark album (WJ50, the last catalog-number!) and their split flexi with Boyracer (WJ1, to be posted soon) are far better.

bought in the snowy winter of 2003 at Ethera, a nice small lower east side store that, if Les Inrocks were right in their 1998 nyc supplement, used to be Iggy Pop's favorite record dealer.

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THE FEMININE COMPLEX 6 o clock in the morning (demo)

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a Wurlitzer Jukebox-release designed by, damn, Mark Robinson! and, what's more, a Cake-related all girl-late sixities combo.

good night, good morning.

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LIGHT turning

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another incestuous Flying Saucer Attack-family WJ-release. and, needless to say, essential.

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ELECTROSCOPE space travel

good old Wurlitzer-stuff!

not much more to say on that one. apologies for the scratch.

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HELEN LOVE il fait beau

i have been told that this was one of the very last flexi 7" to have been pressed. ever.

jonathan richman, à la radio...

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ISAN damil 85

definitely one of the best Wurlitzer releases.

listening to this, i remember one brief conversation topic last friday at Japanther's West Germany show with M. and K. i argued that having been a teenager in the mid-nineties had determined my physiognomy preferences. seriously. if i can't potentially relate someone's face to a mid-nineties mtv or viva2 vid, then we'll likely remain strangers to each other.

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AMP frise

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bloody cold, meandering nicoish industrial, with some Ennio Morricone-fog in the back.


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BUDDHA ON THE MOON like a sickness from within

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for WJ-completists and desperate forever-adolescent-singer-songwriter-aficionados.
and for R., who loves BOTM.


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SOUNDSMITH song 9

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among the best stuff they've released.



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SUNSET VALLEY doll hill

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one of the more popular Wurlitzer Jukebox releases - but not really fitting into the roster, if you ask me.


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TRANSPARENT THING car

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a pleasant discovery, thanks to WJ.

they also did a split with Jessamine on Darla Rec. not really surprising.

note the quality-distinction between beer and red wine in the lyrics.


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buy it as long as you can (for a ridiculously low price).


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LOW if you were born today

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the first time i went to a LOW-show was in may 1999, in Paris. they had started more than an hour before the announced schedule, the set was quite short, so when I made it to the Balle Au Bon péniche, a houseboat on the rive gauche bank, i literally heard the last chords of the encore. boy was i disappointed.

it was a small venue, Mimi, Alan and Zak were hanging around, no backstage space, and so, out of (at that time consistently growing) enthusiasm for their music, I accosted them.
they were quite sorry for me, and after i had told them i was living in Germany, they suggested to put me on the guest list for their show in Hamburg, opening for Mogwai.

so two weeks later, i took the train from Bonn to Hamburg. the show was amazing, apart from the physically violent sound-volume Mogwai imposed.


it was the real beginning of a LOW-commitment that abruptly ended with their first Sub Pop release. to this day, it's the band i've seen most frequently playing live (that is, eight times).

this 7" was highly sought after when it came out, and it's just thanks to my Normal Mailorder activity that i managed to get a copy. it's because of this very release that i discovered the Wurlitzer Jukebox label.
Qui l'eût cru?

check Zak's comic publishing - it's worth it!


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AMP beyond

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a classic mid-phase AMP-song. detached Karine-vocals on that one.


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ELECTROSCOPE walk the plank

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music to introduce the soundtrack of a baltic-sea-movie. a fishermen-boat trying to find its way through thick fog.


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PLONE electronic beauty parlor

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definitely one of the best Wurlitzer Jukebox-releases.

and the first Plone-release. (Keith Jenkins, the label founder, actually discovered them.)


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