QPE: Releases and Announcements | See below for details

RELEASES:
qpe: GENTRIFRIED
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html#gentrifried>
Download mp3's
stare.mp3 http://www.theagriculture.com/mp3/Qpe_Stare.mp3>
mcgarrett.mp3 http://www.theagriculture.com/mp3/Qpe_McGarrett.mp3>

Kacy Wiggins, who records his solo excursions in quirky dubwise ambience as Quiet Personal Electronics (or qpe), is a rare breed of musician. Where most electronica artists hide behind funky bombast or cool, digital distance, Wiggins seduces with gentleness, warmth and goodheartedness. Not quite downtempo, not quite dub, definitely not drum'n'bass and definitely not lounge, his music is effortlessly enjoyable but difficult to parse. His label calls the music "hip hop nouveau," but while that term captures the funky matrix in which everything on this album floats, it doesn't do justice, for example, to either the textural pointillism of "Mirrored" or the loping swing of "Lapland". This music is the aural equivalent of the really smart, kind of geeky kid you knew in high school, the one who seemed to know everything but whom no one resented because he was kind and self-deprecating and funny. Makes you wonder if that's what Kacy Wiggins is like. If not, he sure knows how to fake it.
(Rick Anderson), Allmusic.com
http://www.allmusic.com/>

DISTRIBUTORS:
Revolver (USA)
Fx: (415)241-2421
revolver@midheaven.com
A-Musik (Germany)
Fx: +49+221-5107592
wbrauneis@a-musik.com
P-Vine (Japan)
Ph: 81-3-3460-8611
Fx: 81-3-3460-8618
nakura@bls-act.co.jp
Cargo (United Kingdom)
Ph: (0207)731-5125
Fx: (0207)731-3866
info@cargorecords.co.uk
STORES CARRYING RELEASES:
http://www.othermusic.com/>
OTHER MUSIC, NEW YORK
http://www.roughtrade.com/>
ROUGH TRADE, LONDON
http://www.amoebamusic.com/>
AMOEBA RECORDS, CALIFORNIA
http://www.onsarecords.com/newrelease.html>
ONSA RECORDS, TOKYO

DJ OLIVE: HEAPS AS
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html#heapsas>
Limited Free mp3
sub bass commandante.mp3 <http://www.theagriculture.com/mp3/DJOlive_Sub_Bass_Commandante.mp3>
As a member of WE(tm), DJ Olive aka Gregor Asch was loosely affiliated with the arty beats of New York's short lived illbient movement, but his debut solo release Bodega saw him using his undoubted skills as an improvisatory turntablist with more hedonistic intent, throwing down hip multi-culti jams for Brooklyn scenesters. Since then, it seems he's got around a bit - Heaps As is a kind of audio postcard from a trip around Australia in May 2005 recorded in Hobart and Perth and edited together in a succession of guest bedrooms and backpacker hostels for being being dispatched back to NYC. This slightly rough - and - ready methodology actually adds to the appeal - unsteady levels and unexpected jump cuts enhance the sensation of music being strung together in real time and serve to throw low - slung beats appealingly off - balance. Which is just as well as the raw material, while amiable enough, is uniformly polite - dubwise, mid-tempo grooves garlanded by sparse keyboard p atterns and punctuated ny odds and ends of Cuban jazz. Despite it's subtleties, Heaps As is best enjoyed loud and with a drink in one hand. (Chris Sharp), The Wire Magazine
http://www.thewire.co.uk/>
LINKS & RESPECT:
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RHYTHM INCURSIONS RADIO
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3HIVE MUSIC BLOG
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MRTRICK.NET MUSIC BLOG

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