Archive for 2005

Best Albums of 2005

Tetsu Inoue - Yolo - Review

Forgas Band Phenomena -Soleil12- Review

Janek Schaefer - Migration

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

Sonmi451 - Vladivostok

David O’List and Andy Tillison form Super Nice Group

The Marquee club at 1 Leicester Sq. closed down

Adult - Gimmie Trouble

Hall Ranaldo Hooker - Oasis of Whispers

Earstroke - Meadows & Labyrinths

10th Anniversary of Tee Scott’s death

Jean Michel Jarre - Concert At Shipyard

Shalabi Effect - Unfortunately

Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

25 Anniversary of John Lennon’s death

Pink Floyd - Back Against the Wall

Afro Celt Sound System - Volume 5 Anatomic

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 2005

Cocteau Twins - Lullabies to Violaine

Trilok Gurtu and the Frikyiwa Family - Farakala

Robert Fripp UK tour 05, December

John Etheridge and Soft Machine Legacy Europe tour 05, December

Julian Cope - Dark Orgasm

Baron Bane - s/t

The Claudia Quintet European Tour, November/December 05

Fovea Hex - Bloom

Sawako - Hum

Magnétophone - Lost In Edit

Antti Rannisto - Aaniesineita

The Fellowship - In Elven Lands

The Crimson Jazz Trio - King Crimson Songbook Vol 1

Gong - I Am Your Egg

Oliver Wakeman - Mother’s Ruin

Amandine - This Is Where Our Hearts Collide

Judith Juillerat - Soliloquy

David Myers - Plays Genesis

Brian Eno - 14 Video Paintings

Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte - Genesis For Two Grand Pianos Vol. 2

Throbbing Gristle in Berlin, 31st, December, 1st January

DFA - Holiday Mix 2005

Renaissant - South of Winter

Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool

Stefano Panunzi - Timelines

Multiplex - Xpand

IEM - 1996-1999

Mouse On Mars - Live04

Fra Lippo Lippi - Songs

Keith Emerson Europe Tour 05, November/December

40 years ago today electronic composer Edgar Varese died

Camel - Footage II

Nektar - Pure

Rick Wakeman - Out There

Caribou US Tour, November/December

35th Anniversary of “Kraftwerk”

Animal Collective - Feels

Einstuerzende Neubauten - Liebeslieder

Klaus Schulze - Moonlake

Syn at the Marquee club, London, 15 November

25 years ago today Steve Took from T. Rex died

Roger Eno - Fragile

Jon Anderson USA tour 05, November

David Byrne honored with Les Paul Award

Audion - Suckfish

Peter Gabriel - Still Growing Up

Phil Manzanera - 50 Minutes Later

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

Syn - Syndestructible

Richie Hawtin - DE9 :Transitions

Ndio - Airback

Steve Howe - Homebrew 3

OOIOO - Gold and Green

Manuel Gottsching - Concert for Murnau

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

Solvent European tour dates 05, October/November

Greg Lake UK tour 05, October/November

Van Der Graaf Generator Europe tour 05, October/November

Caribou - Marino

Anthony Phillips - Field Day

Giovanni Mirabassi - Prima O Poi

Man - Helping Hand

Thomas Fanger - Parlez Vous Electronique?

The Claudia Quintet - Semi-Formal

Man - Helping Hand

John Parish - Once Upon A Little Time

Kate Bush - Aerial

Ladytron - Witching Hour

Mats/Morgan Band - Thanks For Flying With Us

Supersilent - 7

Gong, 2005 Unconventional Gathering, Glastonbury 21 and 22 OCtober

John Etheridge UK tour 05, October / November

Hatfield and the North UK tour 05, October

Radio Massacre International - Emissaries Melodium - La Tete Qui Flotte - Review

35 years ago today Jimi Hendrix was buried

Steve Roden - Airforms

Funckarma - Refurbished One

CocoRosie - Noah’s Ark

Tarwater European tour 05, September/November

Mike Oldfield - Light and Shade

Mirror System - Mirror System

Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Sigur Ros Europe tour 05, October/November

Little Tragedies - Return

Cage - 1987-1994

Michael Bearpark/Bernhard Wagner - Pedaltone

Andy Butler - Livelooping

Songs of Green Pheasant - Songs of Green Pheasant

Biosphere - Dropsonde

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

Goldfrapp - Supernature

T. Raumschmiere - Blitzkrieg Pop

Sylvan - Deliverance

Ian Wallace forms The Crimson Jazz Trio

Steve Reich - Different Trains

Glass - Illuminations

Lackluster - Slice

Various - Screaming Masterpiece

Help New Orleans

Dead Can Dance USA tour 05, September/October

Drummer Jay Schellen joins Asia

Avant-garde composer Luc Ferrari dies

Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte

Steve Hackett - Please Don’t Touch

Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings

Steve Hackett - Defector

Robert Moog dies at 71

Andrew Keeling - Reclaiming Eros

Royksopp USA Tour 05, September

Bruce Haack - Dimension Mix

Rick Wakeman - Made In Cuba 2005

Safety Scissors - Tainted Lunch

Black Dice USA Tour 05, September/November

Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28

Hawkwind- Take Me To Your Leader

Zuco 103- Whaa!

Et Sans - Par Noussss Touss Les Trous de Vos Cranes! - Review

Pawel Grabowski - Cirr’s Songs

The Acid Mothers Temple - Just Another Band From the Cosmic Inferno

The Birds - Birds Birds Birds In the World

Tuner - Totem

Kevin Ayers hospitalized

Arc - Acturus - Review

Soft Machine - Soft Stage/BBC In Concert 1972

Twelfth Night - Live From London

Ontayso - 16102004stage

Tangerine Dream - Mars Polaris

System 7 UK shows, August 05

The More Drama Tour cancelled

Monos - Generators

Asmus Tietchens - Formen Letzter Hausmusik

Autechre / The Hafler Trio - aeo3/3hae

Mother Gong - Festival 1979-1981

Tri-Cornered Tent Show - The Foolkiller

Daevid Allen - Weird Biscuit Teatime

Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale

Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio - Love Is the Answer

Various - The Wildlife Album

Bjork - The Music From Drawing Restraint 9

Various - The Free Design - The Now Sound Redesigned

H�kon Gebhardt and Andreas Mj�s - Too Much Norway

Apparat European tour August/October 05

Polyphonic Spree European tour - August 05

Nudge - Cached - Review

Edward Ka-Spel - “Fragments of Illumina” - July 2005

Ajalon - “On the Thershold of Eternity”

Rick Wakeman announces retirement from stage

Norberg Festival, Sweden 28-30 July 05

Close Encounters of Electronic Music, Libourne, 5-7 August

John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans III

Rain - Cerulean Blue

Tangerine Dream - Rocking Mars

Devo - Live 1980

Mute - Trans Slovenia Express Vol. 2

Micro Cosmic + Daevid Allen- Sacred Geometry II

Biosphere sound installation @ Scotland, Aug/Sept 05

Kinski - Alpine Static

Hatfield & The North - Hatwise Choice

Robert Moog suffers from brain tumor

Festival de L’alambic Electrique, Villers Yonne, France, 30-31 July

Yes - The Word Is Live

Nektar - Down to Earth

David Pajo - Pajo

Nektar - Door to the Future

Richard Pinhas - Tranzition - Review

Yes - Greatest Video Hits

Iris Camaa - Straight From The Shoulder

Faust reformed

Roger Hodgson European tour, July-August 05

George Clinton European tour, July 05

Maceo Parker European tour, July 05

Soft Machine - BBC In Concert

Jon Anderson European tour, September/October 05

Taylor Deupree + Eisi - Every Still Day - June 2005

Devo USA tour, July/September 05

Tangerine Dream @ Berlin, 8-9 July 05

Oneida - The Wedding

T. Raumschmiere Europe tour, June/July 05

Francisco Lopez, Michael Gendreau, Violet - Eastern Europe tour 05, June/July

Chikinki - Lick Your Ticket -

Branford Marsalis & Harry Connick Jr. - Occasion

Soft Machine - Legacy Live In Zaandam

Aranos - Throat Clearance

CocoRosie European tour, June/July 05

Jamie Lidell - Multiply - June 2005

Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys - Git

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Bjork works in the film Drawing Restraint 9

The Syn, White, Steve Howe - The More Drama tour USA 05, August-September

Barclay James Harvest - Live

Taylor Deupree + Christopher Willits - Live in Japan, 2004

Final Fantasy - Has A Good Home

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

The Trio Europe tour, July 05

The Trio USA tour, June-October 05

Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters for Live8

Justo Bagueste - “Bestiario”

Funkstorung - The Return to The Acid Planet

Jon Brumit - Vendetta Retreat

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic

Peter Gabriel - Family Portrait DVD

Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings DVD

Steve Hackett - Live Archive 05

Shapeshifter - Reticulum Flux

The Planet - You Asorb My Vision

(r) - Under The Cables, Into The Wind - June 2005

Henry Jacobs - The Wide Weird World Of - June 2005

Nobody - And Everything Else

Dead Hollywood Stars - Smoke and Mirrors - 7 June 2005

The Herbaliser - Take London

Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum - 7 June 2005

Adrian Belew USA tour, August/September 05

Kansas European tour, June 05

Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth

Bill Bruford - Feels Good to Me - Review

Conny Plank’s Estate in Cologne is up FOR SALE!!!

Converter - Blast Furnace

Kriegsfall-U - Kriegsfall-U

Squaremeter - Frozen Spark

Converter - Expansion 2.0.

Black Lung - The Coming Dark Age

Les Georges Leningrad European tour, June/July 05

Moog - A Documentary Film - May 2005

Made In Sheffield

The Real Tuesday Weld - The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid

Jethro Tull European tour 05, June/July

Patrick Wolf European tour 05, June/August

Bjork - Medulla Videos

Robert Fripp USA tour 05, June

Roxy Music European tour 05, June-July

Yasunao Tone and Hecker - Palimpsest - Review

Natacha Atlas - The Best of Natacha Atlas - 23 May

Peter Banks new band Harmony in Diversity

Mutek 05, Montreal 1-5 June

Max Eastley / David Toop - Doll Creature - Review

Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars - 24 May 2005

Nektar - Magic Is A Child - May 2005

Flash - Two Sides of Flash: Live in the USA - May 2005

Jon Anderson - Tour of the Universe DVD - June 2005

Emerson Lake and Palmer -Beyond the Beginning - 13 June

Rob Levit - Anatomy of Ecstasy - Review

Tilliander/Pest/Bergman UK Exclusive 28 June

27th Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, 11-12 June

Decoder Ring - Somersault - 24 May 2005

Hatfield and The North, European dates 05, June

Steve Howe - Remedy - 23 May 2005

Implant European Tour 05, May-July

Hawkwind European Tour 05, May-June

Taylor Deupree & Christopher Willits - Mujo - Review

EMERSON LAKE & PALMER - Beyond the Beginning - 13 June 2005

Banco de Gaia - Two Thousand and 4 - 31 May 2005

Amon Tobin - Soundtrack to Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - 9 May 2005

Steve Howe - Spectrum - 27 June 2005

Jean-Luc Ponty - Al Dimeola - Stanley Clarke - The Rite of Strings - 3 May 2005

Vend - Wiel - May 2005

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree - 25 April 2005

Hoppy Kamiyama + Bill Laswell - A Nave City/No One Is There - Review

The Saboten - The Saboten - Review

9th Cloud - A Monkey In A Yellow Hat - Review

Boddy/Wostheinrich - Moire - Review

Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer - May 16, 2005

Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade - May 23, 2005

Kraftwerk U.S. Tour May/June

Exit Festival, Serbia & Montenegro, July 7-10

Machine & the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral - Review

Tortoise European Tour 05, May

Second Annual Moogfest in NY, 31 May

Jaga Jazzist European Tour 05, May/July

Thievery Corporation USA Tour 05 in May

Thievery Corporation European Tour 05, June-July

Radio Massacre International - Emissaries - May 10, 2005

Miriodor - Parade - May 10, 2005

John Surman - Way Back When - May 10, 2005

Mute - The Edukators - May, 2005

Taylor Deupree + Kenneth Kirschner - Post_PIano 2 - May 2, 2005

Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Out in the Sticks - May 17, 2005

THE UNICORNS Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? - April 26, 2005

Drummer Pierre Moerlen dies

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When Were Gone - 26 April 2005

LCD Soundsystem USA tour in May/June

STEREOLAB Oscillons From The Anti-Sun - May 2005

Soft Machine Legacy European tour May/July

Prog’Sud Festival @ Pennes-Mirabeau, 5/7 May

Caravan UK tour in May

DAT Politics USA tour in May

Ellen Allien European Tour May/June

Electrelane European tour in May

Amon Tobin USA Tour in May

Scritti Politti - Early - April 2005

Van Der Graaf Generator London and European shows, May/July

Bill Bruford’s Earthworks UK Tour in May

Edgar Froese & Johannes Schmoeling - Kyoto - April 2005

Bjork - Television DVD and Live DVD - April 2005

Blues Explosion UK Tour in april

Jon Hassell - Maarifa Street - April 2005

LCD Soundsystem European tour in april

Animal Collective USA Tour in April

Pioneer psychedelic band Syn rejoined

Faust - Impressions DVD - April 2005

The Album Leaf World Tour April-May 2005

Montag North America Tour April/May

Kid 606 - Resilience - July 2005

Four Tet Donate Track to War Child Music

Jori Hulkonnen - Dualizm - April 2005

Minus - Minimaze to Maximize - April 2005

Glis - Nemesis feat. JL De Meyer - April 2005

Carpark - Yearlong - April 2005

Roxy Music will head Isle of Wight Festival in June

King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon Anniversary Edit. - April 2005

Anne Clark with Jeff Aug and Implant

Molasses European Tour April

Stereolab - Oscillons From The Anti-Sun - May 2005

Caribou tour April/June

Caribou world European tour in April

Gutevolk - Twinkle - March 2005

Steve Reich + So Percussion - Drumming - March 2005

Shellac midwest tour

Minamo - Shining - March 2005

Tarwater: ‘The Needle Was Traveling’ album and spring tour

Yes 35th Anniversary DVD Bundle

Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall - March 2005

Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson European Tour May-June

Touch Installation in Brussels 6-14 April

Pink Floyd - More DVD- March 2005

Amanda Rogers - Daily News - March 2005

Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires - March 2005

STEVE HOWE ‘Remedy’ - 23 May 2005

Radar Bros. - The Fallen Leaf Pages - March 2005

Rick Wakeman selling console on auction

David O’List From The Nice UK spring dates

John Lees Barclay James Harvest back

Richard Pinhas - East/West - March 2005

Bjork - Army of Me Remixes - March 2005

Einsturzende Neubauten European Tour March/April

Alan Parsons Project European Tour in April

Caravan - Better By Far - March 2005

Et Sans - Par nouss touss… - March 2005

Nudge - Cached - March 2005

Jorane - The You and the Now - March 2005

Hugh Hopper - Meccano Perolus - March 2005

Alec K.Redfearn & The Eyesores European tour

Daevid Allen and Nicoletta Stephanz - Live at the Knit NYC - Review

Absolute Tracks

Legowelt US West Coast Tour

Bill Bruford - Earthworks and Feels Good to Me - March 2005

Steve Hillage Arabic albums reissued

Its Jo and Danny - But We Have the Music - March 2005

Conny Plank studios to close

Steve Thorne - Emotional Creature - March 2005

Lethargy split with Black Flames label claiming lack of payment

JON ANDERSON - Tour of the Universe - June 2005

David Bowie - Young Americans 30th Aniversary - March 2005

Jaga Jazzist European Tour, April/May

Asmus Tietchens - e-Menge - February 2005

Thrill Jockey - Looking for a Thrill - March 2005

Gentle Giant to re-issue

Conductor David Measham dies at 68

Full Empire State Human news

Evol - Magia Potagia - February 2005

Rick Wakeman - Live at Lincoln Cathedral - February 2005

Roedelius - Lunz Reinterpretations - February 2005

Genesis P-Orridge gets breast implants

COH - Post-Pop - February 2005

Visage reunion for new album

Detroit’s Movement Festival in Danger

Four Tet, ‘Everything Ecstatic’ in May 2005

Italian DJ Fined for MP3 Piracy

Peter Ulrich - Enter the Mysterium - 1 March 2005

Tori Amos Sinsuality USA Tour, April

Arthur Brown’s Other World @ London Astoria, 12 March

Baja Prog Festival @ Mexicali, 30 March/2 April

Lethargy in Germany and Poland, 24-26 feb

Dom F. Scab - Twelve Stories - Review

Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - 30th Anniversary DVD

Mæstoso - Fiddling Meanly - February 2005

Steve Hackett - Metamorpheus - February 2005

Asian Dub Foundation - Tank - February 2005

Miss Kittin - Happy Violentine - February 2005

Hammond B3 master Jimmy Smith dies

David Bowie -Stage and David Live - February 2005

New York Hit Factory studios closing

Keith Knudsen from Doobie Brothers dies

Gong - Gongmaison - February 2005

John Hackett - Checking Out Of London - February 2005

New Beck Album To Feature Remixes by Boards of Canada and Others

More Autechre Details for New Album and Tour

Jaga Jazzist - What We Must - February 2005

Harmonic 33 - Music for Film, Television, and Radio vol.1 - February 2005

Phonem New Name and Album

35th Anniversary of Peter Hammill- Nadirs Big Chance

Jimi Hendrix Memorial in Danger

Laurent Garnier Cancels U.S. Tour

Fischerspooner -Odyssey- 5 April 2005

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Chasm - 7 March 2005

Antony & The Johnsons Get a Little Help From Friends

Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth - 24 May 2005

Robert Moog Documentary @ ICA, February 16, London

Bob Barley 60th Birthday in Ethiopia

System 7 UK shows

25th Anniversary of Jon and Vangelis - Short Stories

25 years ago Studio 54 closed

Scanner 2005 Dates

Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust - 8 February 2005

Prefuse 73 - Surrounded by Silence - March 2005

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities

Moving Units Tour with Secret Machines

Martyn Bennett dies of cancer at 34

David Bowie’s ‘Love You Till Tuesday’ on DVD

Hatfield & The North’s archive series out

Asia European tour January/March

Cream reunion onstage

Jim Capaldi dies at 60

Steve Hackett European Tour March/April

Caribou New Album Info

The New Pornographers Announce New Album in Works

Eels New Album

Stereolab Back to Too Pure

New Alec Empire Album in March

Einstuerzende Neubauten 25th Anniversary Tour

Roisin Murphy from Moloko’s Debut Album

Monolake’s Invisible Force

25 years ago Frankie Goes to Hollywood reached # 1

Klaus Nomi on film

Roger Dean’s ‘Floating Islands’ film

Tangerine Dream release “Vault 4″

Nektar remastered

Arakimentari featuring Björk and DJ Krush

Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth concert for Tsunami Jan 30

Richard Sinclair US gigs February

Richard Sinclair US gigs February

Genesis “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” remastered

Roedelius “Painting with Sound” book

30th Anniversary of Blondie’s live debut

The Futureheads cover Kate Bush

Wakeman & Cousins live album

Autechre New Album and Tour

A Perfect Circle Interactive Video

Ulrich Schnauss USA Tour in April

Lineup changes in David O List From The Nice

Echo Us - Echo Us - Review

Adrian Belew’s new “Side One” album

Klaus Schulze re-releases four albums

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band European Tour March/April

Eddie Jobson sold vintage keyboards

New Order Changes Line-Up + New Album

Hood New Album and Tour Details

New Album From Alva Noto

New Flaming Lips Album in Late 2005

30th Anniversary of Talking Heads

Lusine - Serial Hodgepodge - Review

Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden dies

Van Der Graaf Generator rejoin for live show

50th Anniversary of Moog

John Peel’s Successor Announced