Larry Dolman always puts up Blastitude’s Best-Of list four or five months after the fact, but we always looked forward to it. Dude’s got an ear for skronk, dub and garage-rock that keep our ears glued on. So we’re pretty stoked that he took a liking to one of our Ecstatic Jazz Duos records, specifically [...]

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by Lars Gotrich
Almost three months late for sure, but glad that I had a little more time to think about what made 2009 a really outstanding year for music — there are even a couple after-the-fact adds that have snuck in.
I think more than ever, my attention span has shortened due to the nature of [...]

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by Lars Gotrich
How many insanely limited edition cassettes come out in a year? It hurts my head thinking about it. Hell, I can’t keep up with (nor desire to keep up with) the edition-of-12 c40s clamming up the Troniks board. No, sir, these are just the cassettes I heard and thought were pretty awesome in [...]

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by Lars Gotrich
Let’s keep this simple, shall we? Here are 10 — make that 11 — phenomenal performances that I saw in 2009. Major props to Baltimore and Richmond for bringing some of the most memorable, many of which aren’t listed below.

1. Margarida Garcia, bass; Hans Grusel, electronics; Paul Neidhardt, percussion, friction; Morten Olsen, [...]

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