Broadcast from this NY electro-cabal with connections to NNCK is a goddamn beauty, with weird mainlined/chanted vocals that sound like Coil's John Balance at his most tranced with the choir of Ya Ho Wha 13 dissolving into the heavens in slow-motion bursts of wildly-modulated vapour. Parts of the piled-up/slowed down vocals sound like a more choral take on The Skaters' epiglottal ecstasies while the level of minimal sci-fi electronics and drum-machine dunt give it the feel of a dosed dub-space re-staging of Sun Ra's thought circa Lanquidity/Disco 3000. In other words, the perfect late-night roller. Recommended.

Double album (both discs play at 45rpm with wide, wide grooves) from this NNCK off-shoot who circumvent traditional modes of spontaneous interaction with simultaneous bows of electronics, cymbals, low-level crunch and soft, flapping tonsils. Parts of this have that same illuminated 4am industrial space feel of much of the Vanity back catalogue, while others sound like a Folkways environmental recording documenting a laboratory full of autistic mini-moog obsessives working on slowly scrambling the melodic DNA of Sun Ra's "Love In Outer Space". As the harmonies start to vaguely cohere the effect is beautifully unsettling. Inspired cover art features the duo in the palm of a medieval Satan. Recommended.

"Half-recorded in one blizzard, and completed by the next, Alternation is a years-in-the-making, tossed-off-in-a-moment exploration of the difference between EXCEPTER live on stage and EXCEPTER alone at home and the goal to eradicate the distinction between the two. Double the length and twice the depth of past EXCEPTER releases, Alternation is EXCEPTER looking both ways, a geometric expansion around all the territories marked so far in their brief discography: the primal death trips of Ka, the noise pop tropics of Vacation, the long drone goodnight of Throne, the cool electro doom of Self Destruction and the blasted steam cycle of Sunbomber." - Excepter. Double LP in heavy duty, full color gatefold jacket. Vinyl issue of the 5RC CD.

Thrilling audio-verite document of the urban infiltration tactics of Japanese saxophonist/ex-Fushitsusha member and floating NNCK collaborator Tamio Shiraishi and minimalist/drone percussionist Sean Meehan duetting with the traffic and generating city heat beneath the west side highway at 59^th Street NYC in July 2001. Extreme navigations of hallucinatory acoustics. One-sided LP with extensive etchings on the flip. No Jam covers.