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| Mush Records Summer 2004 Tour Hitting The Road | 06/2004 | Mush Records is ecstatic to announce our upcoming Summer 2004 Tour, the tour will spotlight our recent hip-hop releases, and cover the western half of the United States. Headlining the tour is Circus vs. Andre Afram Asmar, both seasoned touring veterans, who will be performing cuts from their new collaborative effort Gawd Bless the Faceless Cowards. Supporting them are, Los Angeles' art hop-pop wunderkinds Radioinactive and Antimc, also no strangers to the road, they will be performing their latest release Free Kamal. The Deepspace5 crew's Listener will be performing a solo set of work from his Mush debut, Whispermoon. And, as a special treat we will be unleashing the crazed Australian rhymin' supergroup Curse ov Dialect on an unsuspecting American audience for the first time ever. Satisfy your aural palate with a wide range of hip-hop music that Mush Records is proud to present to you. The 15+ gigs have been added to our show page, so check it out for full details of the Mush Records Summer Tour,   |
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| IGN Reviews Danger Mouse/Mush Show | 06/2004 | IGN were in attendance at the Danger Mouse/Mush live performance in San Francisco. For a witty, detailed commentary of the event be sure to read the concert review. |
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| Re:Up Features Mush | 06/2004 | Re:Up has a run a great piece on Mush Records entitled "Of Mush and Moon." |
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| Thavius Beck Shortwaves | 06/2004 | Resonance magazine recently caught up with Thavius Beck for a discussion of genre politics and other hot-button issues. Read Thavius' opinions on hip-hop, rock and almost everything else. |
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| Her Space Holiday And Auralgasms | 06/2004 | Auralgasms is a website dedicated to promoting new and exciting artists. They have recently taken an interest in Her Space Holiday and are helping to spread the word on The Young Machines. In addition to having a dedicated Her Space Holiday page with free mp3 downloads, the track "Something To Do With My Hands" is included on their latest sampler CD. |
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| Mush Supports Danger Mouse | 06/2004 | Coming to San Francisco on June 16th is a performance with Danger Mouse at The Independent. Opening acts include Mush artists Busdriver, Thavius Beck, and Radioinactive and Antimc. |
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| Free Kamal Album Of The Month At Tower UK | 06/2004 | Radioinactive and Antimc's Free Kamal is the rap/hip-hop album of the month at Tower Records, UK. Check out the Tower site to see what they had to say about the album. |
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| The Opus In Chicago Sun Times | 06/2004 | The Opus shared some of their "Lessons in Hip-Hop" with the Chicago Sun Times. |
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| cLOUDDEAD Guest Reviews | 06/2004 | Urb magazine asked cLOUDDEAD to write "Guest Reviews" of some of their favorite new music. See what they like and what they had to say about it. |
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| Neotropic Guest Reviews | 05/2004 | Neotropic has submitted her "Guest Reviews" to Urb magazine this month. Check out what new releases she's enjoying right now. |
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| cLOUDDEAD In 'Sup | 05/2004 | 'Sup Magazine has profiled cLOUDDEAD in this month's issue. See what the boys had to say about their new album, Ten, to 'Sup's Brian Howe. |
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| Circus And Andre Afram Asmar Self Inflicted | 05/2004 | If you're in Southern California, hunt down the latest issue of Self Inflict for a Q&A with Circus and Andre Afram Asmar and see what they had to say about their Mush release, Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards. |
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| Daedelus And Boom Bip Remix Donnie Darko | 05/2004 | Daedelus and Boom Bip have joined forces for a limited-edition seven-inch remix project entitled 28:06:42:12, using source material from the soundtrack to the film, Donnie Darko. Once they get back from manufacturing, these will go fast, so watch for them to come and go this fall. |
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| Clue To Kalo On Leaf Records Sampler | 05/2004 | Leaf Records has released a sampler CD, entitled Delivery Room, of material from their upcoming albums. If you can track it down, Clue to Kalo has presented them with a demo mix of "Ignore The Forest Floor," a track from his forthcoming album. Rumor has it that the actual album mix, while the same song, will be quite different. Visit Leaf to find out more about this release. |
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| Jel Supports Former Member Of Can | 05/2004 | Jel is playing at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall on May 17, opening for former Can bassist, and electronic music pioneer Holger Czukay. The Anticon website has more details. |
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| Word Covers Busdriver | 05/2004 | All of our German readers should check out the new Busdriver feature in Word magazine. |
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| Daedelus In Junk Media | 05/2004 | Junk Media online magazine spoke with Daedelus about his approach to music and outlook on life - strictly broad topics. |
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| Daedelus And Octavius Nominated For LA Weekly Music Awards | 05/2004 | Our hometown arts and culture newspaper, the LA Weekly, has honored Octavius with a nomination for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Artist, and Daedelus, who is up for Best Live Electronic Act. Check out the slates of nominees. |
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| Busdriver & Radioinactive Talk To Hip-Hop Core | 05/2004 | While on tour in France with the legendary French hip-hop supergroup TTC, Busdriver and Radioinactive both took time to interview with French hip-hop website, Hiphopcore. Individually at first they spoke of their own solo projects and then combined they answered questions based on their collaborative project, The Weather. Check out the profiles. |
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| Radioinactive And Antimc Finish Free Kamal | 05/2004 | Almost two years in the making, Radioinactive and Antimc have completed their new full-length, Free Kamal. The album is a genre-hopping tour-de-force. Release date is set for this coming summer. |
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| cLOUDDEAD Cracks CMJ Top 10 | 04/2004 | Congratulations to cLOUDDEAD for reaching #8 on the CMJ Top 200 chart. In addition, they have reached #6 on the Hip-Hop Chart, and as high as #2 on the RPM Chart. As always, we owe a great deal to the DJs giving our records spins; thanks so much for playing our records. |
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| The Opus In BPM | 04/2004 | The Opus recently submitted a Top 10 list as well as a batch of Guest Reviews to BPM Culture Magazine. |
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| Grooves Covers cLOUDDEAD | 04/2004 | The premier electronic music magazine, Grooves, has an excellent feature in this month's issue on cLOUDDEAD. See what the trio had to say |
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| Hip-Hop Connection Covers cLOUDDEAD | 04/2004 | The facts on cLOUDDEAD are "Stranger Than Fiction" in this month's Hip-Hop Connection. |
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| Ten Reviews In | 04/2004 | Reviews for cLOUDDEAD's second album, Ten are in. Check out what CMJ, Spin, Mojo, The Wire, The BBC, and Filter, among tons of others, had to say. |
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| The Young Machines Remixed | 04/2004 | All ten tracks from Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines have been remixed and compiled on the CD/LP The Young Machines Remixed. The album will be released in October on Mush in the US, Wichita/V2 in Europe and & Records in Japan. Remix duties are handled by The Album Leaf, Arab Strap, Matmos, Super Fury Animals, Dntel, Blockhead, Broken Spindles, Boom Bip, Stereolab, and Nobody. |
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| cLOUDDEAD In CMJ | 04/2004 | cLOUDDEAD is featured in this month's CMJ New Music Report in the article "We Are The Duchampions." |
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| More cLOUDDEAD Press | 04/2004 | There's two great articles on cLOUDDEAD this month. Check The Daily Collegian to see how "Electronic and Hip-Hop Music Come Together" and Washington City Paper for the article, "Backpac Shakur." |
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| Mush Profiled In Anthem Magazine | 04/2004 | One of our favorite magazines, Anthem, has a great profile on Mush in their new issue. There are also articles in the same issue on Air, Stereolab, TV On The Radio, Spiritualized, and Dizzee Rascal. Definitely worth picking up. |
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| Listener In Feed | 04/2004 | Be on the lookout for Listener, "Profilin'" in this month's issue of Feed Magazine. |
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| Circus And Andre Afram Asmar Deliver Album | 04/2004 | Circus and Andre Afram Asmar have delivered their Mush full-length, Gawd Bless the Faceless Cowards. The album, which will be released this summer, is a cathartic expression of Circus' views on government conspiracies, alien abductions, and biblical predictions. There is even a love song or two included. Circus' lyrics require bold, unabashed compositions, and the musical accompaniment by Asmar more than steps up to the challenge. We've taken this opportunity to load all of Circus' back press. Check out his Urb "B Sides" and a feature in Erasoul online magazine. |
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| cLOUDDEAD In Word | 04/2004 | If you read German, check out what Word magazine had to say about cLOUDDEAD. |
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| Villain Accelerate Used On Canadian TV | 03/2004 | If you live in Canada, check out the CBC program, Snakes & Ladders. The Villain Accelerate tracks, "Pitch Control" and "Paper, Boxcutter, Rock" are used in episodes 3 and 5 respectively. |
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| cLOUDDEAD On The Cover Of Wire | 03/2004 | Congratulations to cLOUDDEAD for landing on the cover of this month's issue of The Wire. The massive (7 page) feature covers their often rocky relationship in "Fight Club." |
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| MTV Magazine Covers Clouddead | 03/2004 | MTV has started a new print magazine and has covered cLOUDDEAD in the "Spankin' New Music" section of their second issue. |
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| The Opus And Thavius Beck Reviews Roll In | 03/2004 | Some great press has been coming in for The Opus' Breathing Lessons and Thavius Beck's Decomposition, our first 2004 releases. |
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| cLOUDDEAD In Exclaim! | 03/2004 | cLOUDDEAD's Doseone spoke with Exclaim! (Canada's best music magazine) about the fate of his band. Check out his eulogy in "cLOUDDEAD and Buried." |
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| cLOUDDEAD In Dusted | 03/2004 | cLOUDDEAD recently compiled a Top 10 list of their favorite records to send in to the Listed feature section at Dusted online magazine. |
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| The Opus In Studio | 03/2004 | Check out the new issue of Urb Magazine for a piece on The Opus. |
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| Octavius In Next 100 | 03/2004 | Congratulations to Octavius for landing a spot in Urb's "Next 100" for 2004. |
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| Foggy Notions | 03/2004 | If you are in Ireland, pick up the April 2004 issue of Foggy Notions magazine for a free cover-mount CD compiled by award-winning Irish broadcaster Donal Dineen. He has included the Clue to Kalo track, "Empty Save The Oxygen." |
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| Thavius Beck Submits Video | 03/2004 | Thavius Beck has handed us a copy of his first video "To Make Manifest," from his Mush debut Decomposition. Ben Barnes, who has worked with Daedelus, Busdriver, and our friend Subtitle (who featured Mush artist Antimc in his video), directed the video, and we think you'll find it pretty interesting. |
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| Busdriver And Daedelus Agree To Mush Releases | 03/2004 | Both Busdriver and Daedelus have signed on for separate, full-length releases for Mush. Busdriver will work on the follow-up to his previous solo work Temporary Forever and Daedelus will compose on a half-instumental/half-guest-emcee album over the rest of 2004. For more on Daedelus, read his feature in Erasoul, the online Magazine. |
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| cLOUDDEAD Picks | 03/2004 | Interested in what music cLOUDDEAD is currently listening to? Check out their recent Top 10 for Urb. |
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| Signal To Noise Covers cLOUDDEAD | 03/2004 | Signal To Noise continues their excellent coverage of left-field artists, this month going "On Record" with cLOUDDEAD. |
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| Thavius Beck On The CMJ Charts | 03/2004 | Thavius Beck has charted on both the Hip-Hop and RPM CMJ Charts, reaching up to #18 on Hip-Hop and #21 on RPM. Congratulations on a strong debut performance, and thanks to the DJs showing Thavius, and all of our records, some quality airtime this year. |
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| Neotropic's White Rabbits | 02/2004 | After establishing herself with releases on Ninja Tune's NTone imprint, Neotropic will release her new full-length, White Rabbits on Mush. Look for it this fall. Features in Urb and XLR8R from 2000 have been added to our back press. |
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| Omid In Re:Up | 02/2004 | Check out this month's issue of Re:Up for a great article on Omid, and read what he has to say about hip-hop, and living in Los Angeles. |
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| Emo Rap | 02/2004 | This month's Spin Magazine features some of the biggest names in left-field hip-hop, those included are: Slug, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, Doseone, Busdriver, and AWOL One, among others who are being loosely united under the banner of "Emo Rap." |
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| The Opus Climbs CMJ Hip-Hop Chart | 02/2004 | Congratulations to The Opus for reaching #5 on the CMJ Hip-Hop Chart. Thanks so much to all hip-hop DJs giving The Opus spins on your stations. |
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| cLOUDDEAD In Milk Factory | 02/2004 | Our favorite vegans have ironically invaded Milk Factory online magazine, espousing "The Ten Commandments." |
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| The Producers Of Tomorrow | 02/2004 | The new issue of Urb Magazine has features on a number of producers including 9th Wonder, Danger Mouse, Ant, David Sitek and Mush producers Octavius and Her Space Holiday. Stop by your local newsstand and pick it up. |
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| Octavius On CMJ RPM Charts | 02/2004 | Octavius has reached #13 on the CMJ RPM Charts with his debut full-length release Audio Noir. This is another great showing early this year for one of our artists. Thanks to all DJs that have supported us this past year. |
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| Omid In Vapors | 02/2004 | Check out a new article in Vapors on Omid: "L.A.'s Secret Weapon." |
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| cLOUDDEAD In Urb | 02/2004 | Our good friends at Urb Magazine have included a "B Sides" piece on cLOUDDEAD in this month's issue. |
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| Thavius Beck Record Release Party | 02/2004 | If you are in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 13, stop by The Forestry Service for a DJ set/live performance by Thavius Beck in celebration of his new Mush release, Decomposition. Get all of the details from The Forestry Service website. |
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| Her Space Holiday Sponsered By Diesel | 02/2004 | Her Space Holiday was recently honored with a Diesel Industries sponsorship. As if that wasn't enough, they've asked Her Space Holiday to play the Diesel-U-Music South by Southwest party on March 19. The party is an invite-only affair at the Saengerrunde Hall in Austin. Check out the Diesel webite for more info. |
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| The Mack 10 | 02/2004 | cLOUDDEAD has landed a spot on CMJ's list of "The Mack 10," an elite group of leaders of hip-hop's new school (along with Murs, Akrobatik, Sage Francis, Prince Po, Lifesavas, Jean Grae, Brother Ali, Buck 65, and Percee P). |
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| Her Space Holiday Reaches #2 On CMJ Top 200 | 02/2004 | Her Space Holiday has climbed to #2 on the CMJ Top 200 Chart. This is our best showing so far on the CMJ charts, and we are ecstatic. Congratulations to Marc Bianchi for this wonderful showing, and thanks so much to everyone who has been playing Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines! |
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| Octavius Dishes Celebrity Dirt With Dusted | 01/2004 | Dusted magazine has once again selected a Mush artist to feature in their great Listed section. Check out Octavius' Top 10 celebrity sightings at Los Angeles' Amoeba Records. |
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| Mush Profiled In Remix | 01/2004 | There's a Mush label profile in the "Imprint" section of this month's Remix magazine. |
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| Her Space Holiday Licensed For Japan | 01/2004 | & Records has licensed Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines for Japan. Other artists on & Records include +/- and Mines. Check out their website. |
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| Clue To Kalo Working On New Album | 01/2004 | We are happy to announce that we have picked up the follow-up to Clue To Kalo's great debut album. The new album, entitled One Way, It's Every Way, should be ready for release next year. |
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| BBC Chats With cLOUDDEAD | 01/2004 | cLOUDDEAD recently spoke with the Collective on BBC about, among other things, their new single Dead Dogs Two. |
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| Listener On Aphire | 01/2004 | Listener recently sat down in Tokyo to discuss his new record and his move to Mush Records with Aphire online magazine. |
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| Her Space Holiday In Warszawa | 01/2004 | Her Space Holiday recently spoke to Japan's Warszawa online magazine. |
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