Wednesday links

* The seminal improv jazz label ICTUS Records led by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli has a page on Last.FM. Here’s an awesome компютри втора употребаfull track playlist featuring artists like Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Henry Kaiser and Toshinori Kondo.

* Earth Monkey is 50 Mix by Clutter for INQ Mag : Earth Monkey’s 50th release is a mix spanning their back catalogue, artists like Cousin Silas, The Cardboard Lung, Radio Scotvoid, Hometaping, St. Bernards School and Halal Kebab Hut are all here, 30 tracks overall.

* An awesome Vialka track fully available for stream on Last.fm

* Oddjob – Aquaparki on Last.fm

* Fader Magazine interviews nudisco sensation Glass Candy

* Rush donates 100K to museum via Sturgell

* Tokafi interviews Autistici and Sawako

* Fact Magazine interviews Appleblim founder of dubstep label Skull Disco.

* Fact Magazine reviews Notwist’s new one and Rich Hanscomb is instantly elevated to cult status with these words:

The Notwist’s main problem is this: they’re boring. They’re boring in the same way that Radiohead are boring. They represent, like the aforementioned coma inducers, Guardianista ‘tastefulness’. They are the acceptable face of left-field indie. The avant-garde rendered palatable to Jools Holland’s demographic. Their music is so pristine and perfect it’s rendered sterile, lifeless, and utterly pointless. The soundtrack to a sixth form college art teacher’s dinner party. I could never imagine any one – apart from maybe that art teacher– actually getting any enjoyment out of this record.

Please, can we face some facts? Mum. Animal Collective. Efterklang. The Notwist. Fuck (right off) Buttons. They’re all boring. They’re all safe. And we should stop pretending they’re anything but mediocre.

also read what Buddyhead says about Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

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