What albums you looking forward to in the second half of 2002?
Info compiled by DJ Martian, published on an ongoing basis at DJ Martian release dates appy to the UK, and are subject to change
JULY 8th 2002: Alias - Other Side Of The Looking (Anticon), Balligomingo - Beneath The Surface (RCA Victor), Bandulu - Redemption (Music Man), Bolz Bolz - Take A Walk (World Electric) (R) German Import, Codeseven - The Rescue (The Music Cartel) UK Release Date, Cursor Miner - Explosive Piece Of Mind (lo Recordings), DJ Spooky - Optometry (Thirsty Ear), Durutti Column - Return Of The Sporadic Recordings (Kooky) (R), Electric Birds - Gradations (Mille Plateaux), Funktaxi - Sector 17 (World Electric) one half of Bolz Bolz ! German Import,
Gold Chains - Straight From Your Radio (Tigerbeat 6), Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (MCA) (R), Jello - Voile (Peacefrog), L'Altra - In the Afternoon (Aesthetics), Mr Lif - Emergency Rations (Def Jux), Takagi Masakatsu - Eating (Karaoke Kalk), Mice Parade - All Roads Lead To Salzburg (Bubble Core), Mindjuice - Practice Dying Everyday (Loudspeaker), Nils Petter Molvaer - NP3 (Universal Norway/ Emarcy), Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat 6), Nuspirit Helsinki - Nuspirit Helsinki (Guidance), Phako - Bolnes Shipyards & Engineering Co Ltd (Dub), Phon.O - Partition B (Cytrax), The Pilot Ships - There Should Be An Entry Here (Bluesanct), Polar - Out Of The Blue (Certificate 18), Remembering Never - She Looks So Good In Red (Ferret Music), Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me (Big Dada), Scorn - Governor (Hymen) ep, Slowpho - Hi-Fi Sounds For Young Norwegians (Beatservice), Snowblind - Falls (Independiente), Square One - Round One (Freerange Records), Swearing At Motorists - This Flag Signals Goodbye (Secretly Canadian), Systemwide - Pure And Applied (Bsi), The The - London Town 1983 - 1993 (R) Box Set , Frans Treichler - Braindance, Violent Femmes: 2cd - Violent Femmes Special Edition, Windsor for the Derby - The Emotional Rescue (Aesthetics), The Young Gods - Young Gods (R) Reissue of seminal debut 1987's Melody Maker album of the year, V/A Blackmarket Presents Rollin: Best Of Drum & Bass: Volume 4 (Blackmarket), V/A Kanzleramt 2 (Kanzleramt), V/A Subliminal Sessions Vol. 3 mixed by Erick Morillo (Subliminal), V/A Dave Tarrida Plays (Tresor).
JULY 15th 2002: American Analog Set - Updates (Tiger Style), Banabila - Spherics (Tone Casualties), Boa Morte - Soon It Will Come Time To (Shoeshine), Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang (Leaf) CD delayed till the 15th, Lp released July 8th, Christ - Pylonesque (Benbecula), Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (Century Media), DJ Rupture - Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat 6), Dureforsog - Engine Machine (Kool Arrow), Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays (Staubgold), The Fall - Totally Wired (Anthology) (R), The Fall - Rough Trade Singles Box (R), Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Rehberg - The Return Of Fenn O'Berg (Mego), Fertile Ground - Seasons Change (Counterpoint), Fiver - Here It Comes (Devil In The Woods), Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Brothers), G-Man - Avanti (Force Inc), Tim Hecker - My Love is Rotten to the Core (Substractif), Hermano - Only A Suggestion (Teepee), Hot Hot Heat - Knock Knock Knock (Sub Pop), Junkboy - The Dynamics Of Modern Communication (Moshi Moshi), Kippi Kaninus - Huggun (Kitchen Motors), Kotai - Kotai (WMF Records), Kreidler - Eve Future (2000 Wonder), Laudanum - System: on (Monopsone /Chronowax), Los Natas - Corsario Negro (Small Stone), Lycia - Tripping Back Into The Broken Days (Projekt) Import, Magma - Spiritual (Snapper), Phill Niblock - G2, 44+ / X 2 (Moikai),
Not From There - Latvian Lovers (Kool Arrow), Pia Fraus - In Solarium (Clairecords), Propaganda - Outside World (ZTT) (R) Best of Compilation, Rites Of Spring - Rites of Spring (Dischord) (R), Satyricon - 10 Horns 10 Diadems (Moonfog) (R) Best of Includes 1 new track, Scientific Support Dept - Cabbageneck (The Creeping Bent Organisation), Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport & Profit (Tortuga), Spylab - This Utopia (Guidance), Stella Luna - Stargazer (Clairecords), Steroid Maximus - Ectopia (Ipecac), Sweep the Leg Johnny - Going Down Swingin (Southern), System 7/Derrick May - Mysterious Traveller (A-Wave), System Vertigo - Suburbia Kills (Silent Poetry), Tangerine Dream - Anthology Journey Through A Burning Brain (R), John Tejada - Daydreams In Cold Weather (Plug Research), The The - Dusk (remastered) (R), The The - Infected (remastered) (R), The The - Mind Bomb (remastered) (R), The The - Soul Mining (remastered), Tiefschwarz - Ral9005 (Classic), Timewriter - Diary Of A Lonely Sailor (Plastic City / Intergroove House), Twisted Anger - Mothership (Dread Recordings), Thyrfing - Vansinnesvisor (Hammerheart Records), Ultramarine - Every Man & Woman Is a Star CD [reissue] (LTM), Ultra Red - Desarrollos Sostenibles Sustainable Developments (Fat Cat), V/Vm - Sometimes, Good Things Happen (V/Vm) CD2, Winds - Reflections of the I (Avantgarde music), Zao - Parade Of Chaos (Solid State), V/A Visions by Ltj Bukem (GLO), V/A Control Freaks An Electrofunk Compilation, V/A Meat Katie Presents Beyond The Darkness (Kingsize), V/A Groovetech DJ Compilation by James Zabiela (Groovetech).
JULY 22nd 2002: A House - A House In Wonderland (Setanta) (R), Arovane - Icol Diston (Din) (R), Colorsound - You're Only As Good As Your Sound (Rayman), Daedelus - Invention (Plug Research), Eon - Sum Of Parts (Longhaul), Ed Case - Ed Case Guest List (Columbia), Cripples - Dirty Head (Dirtnap), Simon Fisher Turner - Swift (Mute) (R), Sage Francis - Personal Journals (Anticon), Alexander Kowalski - Progress (Kanzleramt), No Man - Heaven Taste (Resurgence) (R), Oldominion - One (One Drop), Olympic Lifts - Do One (Bungalow),
Alexander Rishaug - Panorama (Smalltown Supersound), Boyd Rice - Children of the Black Sun (Mute), Scion - Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks (Tresor) (R) , Seelenluft - Out Of The Woods (Klein Records), Starecase - Firstfloor (Hope Recordings), Sutekh - Fell (Orthlorng Musork).
JULY 29th 2002: Astrobotnia - Astrobotnia Part 3 (Rephlex), Brooks - You, Me & Us (Mantis Recordings), Fear Factory - Concrete (Roadrunner Records), Filter - Amalgamut (Reprise/Warner), The Fire Show - Saint the Fire Show (Perishable), Roddy Frame - Surf, Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep (Ninja Tune), Future Sound of London as Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness (Hypnotic), Kinski - Be Gentle With The Warm Turtle (Sur La Plage) UK Release 2002, The Kovenant - In Times Before The Light (Hammerheart), Peshay - Fuzion (Cubik), Primordial - Storm Before Calm (Hammerheart), Sand Pebbles - Eastern Terrace (Camera Obscura), Sinch - Sinch (Roadrunner), Whatever it Takes - Whatever it Takes (Mogul Electro), Yellow 6 - Source Remix (Endorphin), V/A Audio Wonderland / Bedroom Ambience 3 (Endorphin), V/A Satoshi Tomiie - Nu Breed (Global Underground).
Albums due July 2002
...And Oceans - Cypher (Century Media), A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade) What has happend to this album?, Aspects of Physics - Systems of Social Recalibration (Rocket Racer), Drowningman - Best Record Ever (Revelation), Andrew Duke - Sprung (Bip-Hop, France), EU - Warm Math (Pause_2), The Exit - New Beat (Some), Fujiya and Miyagi - Electro Karaoke in the Negative Style (Massive Advance), Gordon Gano - Hitting the Ground (Instinct), The Gathering - Black Light District (Psychonaut Records) ep Import, Gerling - Headzcleaner(Infectious), The Ghost - This is Hospital (Some Records), GlassJaw - Worship And Tribute (I AM/Warner Brothers), Homelife - Flying Wonders (Ninja Tune), Edward Ka-Spel - O'er a shalabast'r tyde strolt ay (Beta-Lactam Ring), Lackluster - Wrapping (De Focus), Lovesliescrushing - Glissceule (Sonic Syrup) Still waiting for UK release, Maddslinky - Make Your Peace (Sirkus), Mr Scruff - Trouser Jazz (Ninja Tune), Tadd Mullinix - Panes (Ghostly International, US), New Order & Joy Division - Before & After: BBC Sessions (R), Oneida - Each One, Teach One (Version City), Ryukyu Underground, Sica - Partially Function Stub (Neo Ouija), Skinlab - reVoltingRoom, Skipsapiens - Skipsapiens (U-cover), Suv - Follow the Sun (Full Cycle), Transparent Sound (Electrix), Frankie Valentine - Below The Radar (Sunshine Enterprises), Wang Inc - Risotto in 4/4 (Bip-Hop, France), Zorn - Apnoe (Lux Nigra)EP.
AUGUST 5th 2002:
Ampbuzz - This Is My Ampbuzz (Strange Attractors Audio House), Autechre - Gantz Graf (Warp), DHS - Attention Earth People, Digitonal - t.b.a. CD (Toytronic), Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas (Credence), Erase Errata - Other Animals (Tsk Tsk) UK Release 2002, Meshuggah - Turbulence (Nuclear Blast), Monodeluxe - Pacific Lunar (Cleerance), Primal Scream - Evil Heat (Columbia), Sasha - Airdrawndagger (BMG)
AUGUST 12th 2002: Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydrahead) ep, Eighteen Visions - Vanity (Trustkill), Monopot - Optipess (Smalltown Supersound), Sparta - The Wiretap Scars (Dreamworks), 30 Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars (Immortal / Virgin).
AUGUST 19th 2002: Blue States - Man Mountain (XL Recordings/Memphis Industries), Harkonen - ShakeHarderBoy (Hydra Head), Kim Hiorthoy - Melke (Smalltown Supersound) compilation of bsides,remixes, compilation tracks (R) , Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador), Liars They Threw us in a trench and stuck, The Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat (Poptones), Steve Roach/Jeffrey Fayman - Trance Spirits [with Robert Fripp & Momodou Kah] (Projekt), Schneider TM - Zoomer (City Slang), Tribes of Neurot - Adaptation & Survival.
AUGUST 26th 2002: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene (Epitaph Records) ep, Sugarbabes, Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy At The Exchange (Domino), Pixies - Demos, David Shea - Classical Works II (Tzadik), V/A Blue Skied An' Clear (Morr Music).
Albums due August 2002
Kelli Ali - Paper Moon (One Little Indian), Martijn De Kleer - So close yet so far out (Beta-Lactam Ring)/ August, Doormouse - Broken (planet mu), Dub Pistols - 6 Million Ways To Live (Polydor), Food - Veggie (Rune Grammofan), Origin - Infirmitas, Infinitas, Inhumitas (Relapse), Singer - Low Light Dreams (Car Park), David Wright - Ambivalence (AD Music).
Albums due September 2002
Barry Adamson - The King Of Nothing Hill (Mute)/ Sept 2nd, Centrozoon - Cult Of Bibbiboo / Sept 2nd, Death in Vegas - Scorpio Rising / September 23rd, DowntheSun - DowntheSun (Island/Def Jam/Roadrunner)/ Sept, Echoboy - Giraffe (Mute)/Sept, Fields of the Nephilim (Jungle)/ Sept 16th, The Fire Theft - new Sunny Day Real Estate project/ September, Peter Gabriel - Up / Sept, Isis - Oceanic (Ipecac)/ Sept 16, Ladytron - Light and Magic/ Sept 16th, Laika - Lost In Space ["best of" anthology] (Too Pure)/ Sept, Lamb Of God - TBA (Prosthetic), Lacuna Coil - Comalies (Century Media)/ sept 23, Limbonic Art - The Ultimate Death Workshop (Nocturnal Art Productions), Massive Attack (Virgin)/Sept ,
Medicine 8 - Iron Stylings (Regal Records), Mercury Program - A Data Learn the Language (Tiger Style)/ September, The Music - The Music (Hut)/ September 2nd, Myrkskog - TBC (Candlelight)/ September 16th, National Skyline - TBA (File 13)/ Sept, Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)/ August/Sept, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (Lava), Puressence (Parlophone)/ Sept, Satyricon - Vulcano (Nuclear Blast), Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance (Century Media), Slovo - Nommo (RuffLife Records), Snapcase - End Transmission (Victory)/ September 23, Soft Cell - Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl) new album, Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher (Warp) / September, Suede - A New Morning/ September, Suicide (Blast First/Mute)/ September, Swayzak - TBC (Studio K7)/ Sept, Sybarite - Monument (4ad) Sept 9th, Tarwater - Dwellers on the Threshold (Kitty Yo)/ Sept 2nd, Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon (ESL), Trapt - Trapt (Warners Bros), Underworld - A Hundred Days off (V2)/ Sept 23rd, Susumu Yokota - The Boy and the Tree (Leaf), Various - Lux Nigra All Stars (Lux Nigra, Germany).
Albums Due 2002: not all confirmed ! some could be delayed till 2003
Aarktica, Aborym - With No Human Intervention (Code666) November, Eve Abraham (City Rockers), Add N to X (Mute), The Advent - Recreations (Kombination Research), After the Flood - Cessna, Agalloch - the Mantle (End Records), AJ Scent - Nightdrive (Honchos), Android Lust - The Dividing, Arco, Arovane - Bent Soil, Ashfelt - Fat Space Acid (Iris Light), Athamay, Attrition, Audiowhore, Avrocar,
Arthur Baker, Bark Psychosis - DustSucker (Parlophone?), Baz - Psychedelic Love (One Little Indian), Beck, Beloved, Beyond Dawn - TBA (Peaceville), Black Lodge (Mo Wax), BLIM, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Blue Nile, Bomb the Bass, Boom Bip (Lex), Borknagar, Broadway Project (Memphis Industries)/ October, BT, Kate Bush - TBC (EMI)/ Summer,
Calibre, Candiria, Jon Carter, Cave In - Tides of Tomorrow (Hydra Head) ep October 15th, Cave In (RCA)/ December, Celtic Frost, Charlottefield (Fat Cat), Cinephile, Circulation/ Autumn, Chris Clark, Chris & Cosey, Cleer (Colin Dale and Haris), Coalesce, Coil - The World Ended A Long Time Ago (Nothing), Common - Electric Circus, Cosmicity - Pure, Covenant - Northern Light/ October, Chris Cowie, Carl Cox/October, The Creatures, Crest of Darkness /Autumn, Cubic Space Division, Cul de Sac - Death To The Sun,
Dark Star, Datachi, Daylight Dies (Relapse), Robert de Fresnes - Advice for the Chilled (AD Music), Decoder (Technical Itch), Deftones - Lovers (Maverick)/October, Descendants of Cain, DHG/ Dodheimsgard, Di Lacuna, Dillinger Escape Plan/ December, DJ Q (Glasgow Underground), DJ Hell, DJ SS - The S-Files (Formation), Dredg - El Cielo (Interscope)/Oct, Dreadzone, Droyds, Dubok - Technicolour (Tinman), Dude - Plinkst (Neo Ouija), Viktor Duplaix,
Earshot (Warner Bros), Matt Eliott (ex Third Eye Foundation), Empire State Human - Alpha & Omega, Empress, Envoy (Soma), Evil 9 (Marine Parade), ESG (Soul Jazz), EZ Rollers, Fantomas, Fat Truckers, The Feud - Language is Technology (UK release?), Fjieri Group, Flaming Lips, B. Fleischmann, Fluke, Forest Stream (Earache Records), Fort Lauderdale, Fortdax, Forme (Marine Parade), Elizabeth Fraser (Blanco Y Negro), Adam Freeland (Marine Parade), Free Squid (ex The Aloof), Freq Nasty - Bring Me The Head of Freq Nasty, Friction, Frihavn (ex South Pacific), Front 242, Funckarma, Funk D'Void (Soma), Future Prophecies (Certificate 18), Futureshock (Junior/Fuju)/Late Summer, Fuzz Against Junk,
The Gathering (Psychonaut Records)/ November, Gehenna, Geiger Counter, Ghost, Giddy Motors - Make it Pop (Fatcat records), Godspeed You Black Emperor, Martin Gore, Gorodisch, Grain (Fat Cat), Gus Gus - Attention,
H-Foundation (Soma), Hellothisisalex - A Murder of Crows (Skylab Operations), The Horati, Martin Horntveth (Smalltown Supersound), Kim Hiorthoy - For The Ladies (Smalltown Supersound), Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither (planet mu), Hybrid, I Monster (Showbiz), Ken Ikeda (Touch), Impossible Beings (End Recordings), Marcus Intalex - mix cd, Interlock, Jamez (Future Groove) Jane's Addiction - Hypersonic (Warner)/ October/Nov, Jarboe, Jazzkammer (Smalltown Supersound) Autumn, J Majesty, J-Majik, J-Walk (Pleasure), Jega, Jonny L (Piranha/ Metalheadz), Kamal Joory + Morgan Caney (City Centre Offices), Joy Zipper (13 Amp), Karate, Kare Joao - Sideman (Jester Records), Katakylsm - Shadows and Dust (Nuclear Blast)/ November, Katatonia (Peaceville), Kettel - Cenny Crush (Dub), The Kidneythieves - Zerospace (Extasy/Warner) still waiting UK release, King Crimson - Nuovo Metal, King of Woolworths/ Oct, Klute/ Autumn, Kraftwerk, Krust (Full Cycle), LAB 4, Laeto,
Linda Lamb (International Deejay Gigolos), Lamb of God, Landshipping, Larmousse (City Slang), Leafcutter John (planet mu)/ Oct, Leaves (B Unique), Robert Leiner - Music for Unaverage People, Lemon D (R & S), Lengsel, Liars (Blast First), LFO (Warp), Lunaris - the Infinite (Elitist Records), Zan Lyons - London Fields (label TBC),
Mansun - Mansun? (Parlophone)/October?, Master H Thirteen (Soma), Mastodon - Remission (Relapse), Lasse Marhaug/Maja S.K. Ratkje - Music For Shopping (Synesthetic Recordings), The Mars Volta, Marumari, Matrix (Virus), Charlie May, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meathook Seed (DreamCatcher), Mekons/ August, Metamatics - Rewired In my Manor remixes (Neo Ouija), Ministry - Animositisomina, Miocene - Cellular Memory (Intefnal), Misty Dixon, Muffler - Soundz of the Future (Urban Takeover), Mutiny, My Computer, Narcissus Pool, New Days Delay - Plastic Faces, Colin Newman, New Order - Back to Mine - mix compilation, Nine Inch Nails - Mentality of One (Nothing/Interscope), No-Man / Autumn, Gary Numan, Obeah (13 Amp), Oceansize (Beggars Banquet), Octave One, Old Man Child, One Armed Bandid, Onesidezero, Opeth, The Opposition - Mr. & Mrs. Jones/ September, Optic Nerve - Optical (Delsin), O.rang related project (name TBA Paul Webb/ Beth Gibbons (of Portishead), Lee Harris),
Paradise Lost/ Autumn, Andrea Parker, Savas Pascalidis (International DJ Gigolos) Peace Division, Penfold Plum, Photek, The Physics - Northside Perspective, Plump DJs, Portishead, Potentiam - Orka I Myrkri (Avant Garde Music), Prefuse 73 - second album due 2002!, Presto & Spartanite, Primary Motive (Creative Source), Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (XL), Programme (Fat Cat), Project Pitchfork - Inferno, Pulse Programming (Aesthetics)/Oct, Qeshi - Island Dryad (Neo Ouija), Radio 9, Rain Fell Within, The Rapture (Output)/ Autumn, Razed in Black, RETiSONIC, Rico (Manufactured), Robots in Disguise, Rock Of Travolta, Romanthony (Virgin), Rotting Christ (Century Media),
Tobias Schmidt, Scorn - Plan B (Hymen), The Sea & the Cake, Secret Knowledge (One Little Indian), Tony Senghore (Under the Counter), 7 Hurtz - Electroleum (Output)/ October, Steven Severin - erosplusmassacre, Shai Hulud - That Within Blood Ill-Tempered (Revelation)/ October, Adrian Sherwood, Shriekback, Shun, Sigur Ros (Fat Cat)/ Autumn, SikTh, Singer - Star Club Red (Carpark), Siouxsie and the Banshees - Best Of, Sirconical (Twisted Nerve), Sirius, The Sisters of Mercy, 16B, 62nd Cell (Certificate 18), Roni Size - Title To Be Confirmed, Christain Smith, Robert Smith, Rosie Smith (Glasgow Underground), Ulrich Schnauss (City Centre Offices) 6 track ep, Sobek (Soma), Solefald - In Harmonia Universali (Century Media)/ late 2002, Sonna, Sophia, The Source Experience - Helium (Fleebite Records), Soviet - We ARe Eyes, We Are Builders (Plastiq Musiq), Spaceheads - Low Pressure (Bip-Hop, France), Stanton Warriors, State River Widening, Stylophonic, Subtech (Subtech), Suon12 (ex South Pacific), Surgeon, Surreal Madrid, Swarf, Sykes (Iris Light),
Taproot - Welcome (Velvet Hammer/Atlantic)/ October 15th, Team Sleep : Chino from Deftones project, Tears For Fears, Technical Itch, The The - Silent Tongue, Thine - In Therapy (Peaceville) Oct, This Day Forward - Kairos (Eulogy), Throes of Dawn/Autumn, Thursday (Island), Tiga & Zyntherius, Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail (Relapse), Tomorrowland - Microbe, Tortoise, Total Science, Tribalation, Tuxedomoon, 23 Skidoo - The Culling Is Coming [reissue] (Ronin), Twelve Tribes - Prodigal Zoo, 27 (Relapse), Type O Negative/ (Roadrunner) October 28th, Ulan Bator (Young God), Umek, United Future Organisation - V, UNKLE, Upland (Jester records), Upper Rooms - Canti Populari (Beatservice), Usurper, Paul Van Dyk, VAST, Velvet Acid Christ, Martin Venetjoki - Yet untitled (Touchdown), Verbose - Observe (Neo Ouija), Virus (Jester Records), Void (Nocturnal Art Productions), Voivod, Vince Watson, Keith Fullerton Whitman (AKA Hrvatski) - Playthroughs (Kranky)/ Autumn, Wire, Witchman - Innasylum (Deviant), Patrick Wolfe (Faith & Industry), The Workhouse, J Xaverre, Xela - For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights (Neo Ouija), Yellow 6 (Neo Ouija), Yennah (Freerange Records),
Zinc, Zoviet France.
― DJ Martian, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)