I stumbled upon this during one of my late night mining sessions on RYM, and I was instantly fascinated. There is not really the industrial influence that is mentioned here, and besides, this is 1981, in Japan. I don't really know how this album was created. I can see how Throbbing Gristle and some Krautrock had made its way to Japan, but could there really have been a parralel birth of TECHNO in Japan, and to trump our saints from just outside of Detroit, MINIMAL techno? Listen to this, and tell me if you thought it was possible that something made in 1981 could possibly come out on Kompakt today.

To the music itself, which is impressive beyond being many years ahead of the curve.
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So here's another one for all you good people, this time from perhaps my favorite record label, Tzadik. Anyway, Annie Gosfield is an American composer with a background in, among other things, free improvisation. Her work has generally pushed boundaries and confounded expectation, and so is also the case with Flying Sparks And Heavy Machinery, her second album out on Tzadik, and her best so far in my opinion.
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As it is now official that Mik.musik.!. has ended releasing records, from time to time I will post something from the catalogue of this great label.

Here is a record that could be of interest for those who likes avant/free/freak/whatever-folk, Pathman is a group formed by two members of Theatre of Sound Atman.
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So, this is my first post here on KIC. I hope you will enjoy it at least a bit. Anyway, Steamboat Switzerland is a Swiss trio with Lucas Niggli on drums, Marino Plinkas on bass (quite a distorted such), and Dominik Blum on Hammond Organ, that has been active since some time around the mid 90s. What they play can be quite hard to define, though it certainly has elements from everything from old school progressive rock to free improvisation to hardcore punk.
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This album, which includes many other great musicians, including Tony Oxley and Barre Phillips, is where I finally give British jazz its full due. Sure, I like many of the artists individually, but aside from a couple things, maybe European Echoes, a few others, I can't point to an album that is predominantly British and see it as equal to its US or continental counterparts.

With 'Clouds,' Surman presents a strong take on the currents of his time.
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Here is some splendid jazz that I stumbled on while going through the seemingly under-listened catalog of Hat Hut. Judging by how poorly it is entered over at RYM, and seeing so few ratings, I'm sure that many people have not checked these albums out.
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Yesterday I was at the concert of Sing Sing Penelope, polish jazz ensemble which leader is percussionist Rafal Gorzycki. Then I started to think about older project which he was involved in and which I like very much - Maestro Trytony.

This group was founded in 1996 by Tomasz Gwincinski, who was one of the prominent musicians of the polish avant-jazz scene called "yass". This ensemble evolved from the earlier trio called Trytony.

This is a new find for me. In my search for untouched terrain of elite glory, I came upon this gem. Very much in the avant-garde vein, this has splendid diversity of composition, as well as a nice amount of free blowing. As the drummer, Togashi, is the featured cat here, I paid attention to the rhythms throughout, and was very pleasantly surprised. This shot to the "best jazz" list right away. Here is the group.
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At the beginning (around year 2000) Baaba was mainly a one-man project and with each record a number of people involved was bigger.

On "Con Gas" the brain of the project is still Bartosz Weber who gives ideas for tracks, plays guitar, operates on sampler and synthesizers. Also present are: Macio Moretti and his percussion, Norbert Kubacz playing double bass and Jakub Kossak on bassoon.
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