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crikey! this fellas huge!!!

Greetings. Apologies & typical excuses for radio silence from this department.

To make up for this, here is a large update concerning all things half/theory.

Firstly, there is much entertaining new produce available to the discerning consumer via the shop, including the new half/theory compilation "Stove Goats (a tribute of sorts to Burzum)", featuring Secret Killer Of Names, Company Fuck & Urblooten.  Behold its ravishing grimness here http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=93

also now available are the 1st 2 lp releases from Pulled Out, namely the Unaustralians lp, and the 1-sided/ etched (by rizili!!!) hot pink lp by antipan. they're sexy, they're limited, they're fucking vinyl!!! check out all 12" of them here
http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&string=Pulled+Out

the releases of Anthony Guerra's new imprint "Black Petal" are now available through half theory, including Guerra's haunting solo disc "Empty Kingdoms", and Mattin's opinion dividing "Songbook 3" as well as releases by Anthony Milton & Muura (Matt Earle)
http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&string=Black+petal

also new releases from Trapdoor Tapes, Molliger, Tom Hall & more. visit the shop for more info.
coming soon: yet more releases by Urblooten, 1st new DZO album in 5 years or so, 2nd edition of Baka Tatakau & more more more.

After you've done all your cash on that fantabulous loot, you'll be needing a bit of something for nothing, and we're not going to let you down, as there's been a new batch of stuff added to the half/theory netlable at archive.org. look here:http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=download
highlights of the new editions include live recordings by Masami Bin Laden & Diaspora, and the reissue of the long unavailable serbsky institute cdr by Bourbaki.

In "people talking shit on the interweb re:half/theory" news, we might have been a bit slow in catching this, but half/theory & friends are all over the july edition of cyclic defrost with reviews of Diaspora's "Let's Hear It For The Vague Blur", Tim Coster's "Landing",  & Scott Sinclair & Clinton Green's "With Doors Open" albums, as well as the Shame File release "Shortwave Children" by the Hi-God People. They are here http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=1263&q=1 here http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=1313&q=1 here http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=1316&q=1 and here, respectively http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=1308&q=1 I would wager you could find most of the reviewed items via either half/theory's shop, or shame file's...
Also featured are an article on soundwalking with Anthony Mangen, a feature on the now now festival, and a hilarious article by Mark N on 10 records which changed his life. check it all out here.
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/issue.php?issue=18

Lloyd Barrett's "Mise En Scene" album recieved the following review from Vital Weekly a few weeks ago.
"On these two new Room40 releases we welcome one very old acquaintance,
one well-known star of the day and one new kid on the block. The new
kid is Lloyd Barrett from Australia. He works since ten years in music,
from 'postconcrete sound and abstracted rhythmic projects to spacious
ambient works', but in 2005 he started to work along the philosophy of
people like Michel Chion. I am ready to admit that I don't know much
about them, other than Chion outlined the principles of electro-acoustic
music, and he called it 'acousmatic' music. On 'Mise En Scene', Barrett
works with electro-acoustic sounds of a nature that is no revealed to
us. Electronically treated, sampled and fed through a whole bunch of
sound effects. This sounds serious and it is serious. Serious as in
overground avant-garde. Sounds fall over eachother, beside eachother or lie on
top of eachother, with hardly a moment of rest in sight. Only 'Canopy'
is just a moment of tranquility, with it's insect like sounds. A release
that could have been as easily on Empreintes Digitalis. It's not bad at
all, but for me this is usually a bit too serious. (Franz De Waard, Vital #537)"

the new elease on Naturestrip, "Leaves" by Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig has gotten a glowing as all fuck review from digitalis.  It can be seen in its full glory here: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=1741 and i haven't heard it yet, but yes, it probably IS that good.

and lastly, xNoBBQx received some kudos from america's greatest radio station, WFMU. Apparently our boys have "taken the already befuddling new wave of truly studied (!?) Jandek worship into a new realm of stank." you may verify that I didn't write that myself here http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/recent_faves_fr.html

woot.

keep talkin' shit world.

we'll see y'all here http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=calendar&id=127

Added by jpeatt on 7 September 2006