Fractured recordings - Recovery Box set

In checking out more fennesz stuff the other day I saw this amazing 7" box set of covers from him and tons of other artists. It looks like 20+ artists were given complete freedome to choose a cover that meant something to them and record it for this 10x7" set. All kinds of electronic artists... from Roji Ikeda to Matmos to Jason Forrest....the rest I'd have to research, I don't know most of these...but the covers should be amazing. Ryoji covers Back in Black! I don't know where else you'd be able to hear any of this...
Ah-ha, Michael Jackson, Wham, Motorhead, New Order...anything and everything is covered...of course it's like 60 pounds, so that makes it well out of reach, not including airmail shipping of course.
You can of course listen to samples from the whole series here. Some really insane interpretations.
It's a staggering collection, really impressive...who knows how long it took to put this together, and all completely unlicensed, so maybe it needed to be released overseas

Looks like I was a week too late on the Jay front....way to go. Last I saw Matador posted something about hopefully releasing it on the 19th....I guess they really meant the 12th. Oh well, it's better that I never even got a chance. And they tricked me...I should have been checking all along...but I have to eat and sleep once in a while....damn.

fennesz - Touch 7 inch series

I love the idea that a guitar can create all this sound....on one hand you think musicians will always be using guitars, they're so versatile, but at the same time if you're making sounds like these than conceivably you could do it with any instrument, so what's the point? Are you making guitars obsolete or more relevant?
I'm really getting lost in the weird guitar manipulations of Fennesz, checking out the ambient looped stuff on myspace I don't know how exactly this would work out on 2 sides of a seven inch, how the break is handled because the original track was an 8 minute digital download from Touch, who just recently pressed it on vinyl. Unfortunately I couldn't find this anywhere but imported from Touch or other mailorder places overseas.
A track like 'A year in a minute' is really dense and full of every type of sound, it's really hypnotic but structured to be more than just ambient noise, it's like listening to that disintegration loops stuff, it's slowly changing and kind of needs a lot of time to get everything, let it sink in. The Touch label has all kinds of other experimental music from Ryoji Ikeda and the like, but I might look for one of these full lengths by fennesz domestically.

Fennesz-Transition-Limited edition seven inch pressing from fennesz on the touch label. Part of the ongoing touch singles club series. The single features two tracks never released on vinyl before. The ep opens up with the track on a desolate shore which featured as a very limited digital release on the touch website last year along with a totally exclusive track a shadow passes by. Both tracks are quite reminiscent of the sounds of his amazing endless summer album with lots of glitchy sound effects layered behind washes of fuzzy guitars. Both sides end in locked grooves so you can basically listen to the last few second for ever. April 2008-7"-Touch

This is available from Touch records, or roadrecs in Ireland.

The big Matador Jay Reatard sale is tomorrow, so set your alarms for 3PM eastern time.....more tomorrow.