<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">dear readers,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">for those who like the band ROTHKO please have a look at the new video for one song from our album:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15036618">http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15036618</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">done by Anne Sulikowsky, who is also composing some very nice music:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.myspace.com/buildingcastlesoutofmatchsticks">http://www.myspace.com/buildingcastlesoutofmatchsticks</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The video is a mix of films and photos she has taken, attempting to document the art of wandering through life being awake and also wandering while being in a dream, and focusing on how there is really no difference between the two. Hope u will like it...</FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">just returning from Athens where I co animated (with Markus from the label Staubgold) our seminar explaining how to run an indie label, how to develop internationally and other subjects in the indie business. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">It took place in Benaki Museum of Contemporary Art and was part of the Synch festival.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.synch.gr </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Synch was Qwartz-awarded best festival of the year and I can confirm they deserve the price. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The organisation was impeccable, the action was set in an ancient gas factory, very beautiful and industrial-looking. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Musically very varied, one can have a look at their program there:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=72311421&blogID=258242058">http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=72311421&blogID=258242058</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">For those of you leaving close or attending Off festival, Markus and I will do our talk there + we'll both be DJing</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">On August 17 and 18</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Headlining there Electrelane, Radian, Piano Magic, Architecture In Helsinki, Port-Royal, I Like Trains, and many Polish acts... </FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.off-festival.pl">http://www.off-festival.pl</A>/</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.myspace.com/offfestival </FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">here details on our lecture:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Record labeling workshop</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">In the past ten years there is a constant increase of number of independent record labels on the territory of Europe and the United States. The complete system of music industry – which probably knows of better days than the situation it is in today – is becoming more and more complex, and the musicians themselves are not the only “brands” and references anymore.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">This process is probably most visible on the scene of contemporary independent (electronic) music production: new micro-genres are emerging on a monthly basis, supported by record labels who wish to present their musical sensibilities, but also take a distinctive position on the already over-populated musical map of the world.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The aim of the RECORD LABELING seminar is the education of current and future professionals from the milieu of music industry, be it musicians, producers, label managers, distributors or salesmen… The success and hi-profile of the labels such as Staubgold (Berlin) and BiP-HOp (Marseille) are the best recommendations for the lecturers : Markus Detmer and Philippe Petit.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Over the course of the seminar they will try to cover the numerous aspects of starting up and managing an independent record label, through lectures about the manufacturing of compact discs, visual identity, distribution, Internet-only projects, concert promotion, copyrights… In a friendly tone showing that humanity is possible in business and in hope to raise interest from the listeners fans of music and to show them that it is possible to become an activist... And hopefully turn them into activists.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">AUGUST 17<BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">15h</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">gathering, checking participants, introducing each other, explaining why they came and what they expect from us</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">15:30 - 16:30</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">general intro</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">presentation of Staubgold and BiP_HOp</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">development, major artists, aims, focuses, approach, mission, markets, visual identities... distribution/promotion</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">overview of the development and role of record labels in the past 2 decades / their position in the music cluster </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">different profiles and way of running labels </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">mapping of the contemporary electronic scenes and its companies</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">major vs. indie:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">characteristics, way of working / role in local communities </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">describing markets (europe/USA/Japan/UK)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">overview of the general situation inthe music industry and what are the possible developments</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">coffee break</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">17:00 to 18:00 </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">presentation of Staubgold and BiP_HOp</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">development, major artists, aims, focuses, approach, mission, markets, visual identities... distribution/promotion</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">AUGUST 18</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">14:30 - 15:30</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">how to start a label</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">where to start?/ process and costs of manufacturing/ various packagings possibilities</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">how to promote: radio, tv, mags, web</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">ways of distributing</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">coffee break</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><BR style="; font-weight: bold; "></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">16:00 - 17:00</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">how to manage your band/how to approach labels: send demos, develop international recognition, legal issues, copyright, licensing, contracts...</FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Other than that please do not forget our 2 new releases : </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; ; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="; font-family: Times New Roman; "></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">Spaceheads & Max Eastley : a very long way from anywhere else [bleep 35]</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.spaceheads.co.uk/page.php?section=biography&page=discography/longway">http://www.spaceheads.co.uk/page.php?section=biography&page=discography/longway</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Spaceheads are a unique duo of trumpet (Andy Diagram) played through electronics and looped with drums (Richard Harrison). Max Eastley is a sound sculptor, artist, and musician who plays an instrument he invented and made himself called The Arc. It is a monochord of wood and wire, which is scraped, bent and flexed into an orbit of amplified effects. This new CD was recorded live, improving at two very different locations, one an island of the south of France during Mimi festival, and the other a remote village on the North Yorkshire moors, both venues a very long way from anywhere else. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">SELECTED REVIEWS : </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; text-align: justify; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">"A fascinating meeting of surreal improv strategies and electronic abstraction, A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else, is, as the title suggests, a pretty unique piece of work. Recommended." BOOMKAT / UK</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Times; "><BR style="; font-family: Times; text-align: justify; "></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Rothko : eleven stages of intervention [bleep 36]</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.rothkomusic.co.uk">http://www.rothkomusic.co.uk</A>/</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Following releases on such visionary labels as Lo Recordings, Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union, Too Pure and Kraak, Bip_Hop is pleased to welcome the release of Rothko's new album. Mark Beazley (bass), Michael Donnelly (bass), Ben Page (keyboards/percussion) and Tom Page (drums) continue to create a warm and inviting sound, where solitary keyboard melodies transition from exploratory passages and fragile beauty intertwines effortlessly through somber basslines. The music of Rothko at equal turns challenges and comforts the listener. At first perhaps confrontational, yet ultimately nurturing, the band's eleventh fulllength release -- adds to Rothko's already innovative and impressive catalogue.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">SELECTED REVIEWS : </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">"It’s like a more melancholy, more muted Godspeed You! Black Emperor, without the hint of post-rock cliché, or at times even like Southern Lord’s slow rockers Earth without the metallic subtext – this is cinematic and evocative music in the best possible way... Quite hauntingly beautiful… recommended!" BOOMKAT / UK</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; ; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="; font-family: Times New Roman; "></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">Each Digipack CD is 15 Euros (postpaid). </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">thanx for your attention</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: American Typewriter; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">ip</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV style="; font-family: American Typewriter; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="; font-family: American Typewriter; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: American Typewriter; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: American Typewriter; ">www.bip-hop.com</SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>