This issue is dedicated to the memories of Michael Karoli, Florian Fricke, and George Harrison

Notes From Space (Editorial)

Aural Innovations Staff Picks for Best of 2001

Band Profiles/Interviews

Ozric Tentacles

Harvey Bainbridge

Djam Karet

Peter Frohmader

Nine Days' Wonder

Into The Abyss

Electric Orange

Greg Segal

Scattered Planets

Articles

The Strange Daze 2001 Space Rock Festival

Strange Daze 2001 Photo Gallery

Tales Of The ACTION MAN: Shadow Of Motörhead

What Exactly Comes After Post-Rock? Part Three of an Audio Journey: The Droners

Gnawing Medusa's Flesh: The Science Fiction Poetry Of Robert Calvert (BOOK)

US SPACEROCK: A Brief and Personal History by a Participant (Part 1 1975-2001)

Free-Improv Case Studies: Bret Hart's Duets Series

Reviews

Live Recordings and Shows

• ATOMIC BITCHWAX and Gas Giant - Stengade 30, København 12/9/01
• Rock din Radio, DR Musikhuset, Frederiksberg, Denmark 9/21/01 with Suck a Bug, On Trial, Screaming Eric and the Erections, and more
• GONG - Loppen, Christiania, Denmark 11/22/01
• MANTRIC MUSE - Dragon's Cave, København 11/30/01
• Motorpsycho - Lille Vega, København, Denmark 9/24/01
• ON TRIAL, Gas Giant, Stormbringer - Lille Vega, København, Denmark 11/8/01

Classics Revisited

• Faust - "BBC Sessions +"
• Musica Elettronic Viva - "Spacecraft 1967-1990"
• Cabaret Voltaire - "Code"
• King Crimson - "The Talking Drums"
• Miles Davis Ensemble - "Live At The Fillmore East"

Recent Releases from Submergence

• Conrad Schnitzler - "Conal 2001"
• Everything Must Go - "Hall Of Mysteries"

Recent Releases from Beta-Lactam Ring Records

• Vas Deferens Organization And Christopher - "Suspension"
• Legendary Pink Dots - "A Perfect Mystery"
• Stimulus - "A Motion Signal"
• La Societe Des Timides A La Parade Des Oiseaux - "86-'90"

Releases from Mizmaze Records

• Ohm - "Raw Ohm"
• Discolor - "III"
• Fausto Balbo - "Zero"
• St. Ride - s/t
• Margoo - "Eh?"

Recent Alien Planetscapes Releases and Reissues

• Alien Planetscapes - "The Official Bootleg Volume I
• Alien Planetscapes - "Astro-Politics"
• Alien Planetscapes - "Spaceboyz Social Club: Unreleased Recordings 1987-1988"

Recent Releases From Burning Shed/Headphone Dust

• Incredible Expanding Mindfuck - "Arcadia Son"
• Incredible Expanding Mindfuck - "IEM Have Come For Your Children"
• Bass Communion - "Bass Communion (III)"

Recent Releases from Orange Entropy Records

• Magnasparagus - "Ulysses Molasses"
• S.G.J.S. - "Where The Fuck Is Nowhere?"
• Hermanos Guzanos - "UFO Executives"
• Lord Litter - "Just Blame Eddie"

Recent Releases from Meteor City

• Various Artists - "I Am Vengeance"
• Various Artists - "Scene Killer"
• Solarized - "Driven"

Recent Releases from the W.O.O. Clan

• Friends Of Mescalito - "Nagual Music For Tonal People"
• World Of Tomorrow - "III"

Recent Releases from Slutfish Records

• Billy Syndrome - "2000 Pounds Of Joy"
• The Billy Syndrome - "The Stupidest Show On Earth"

Recent Releases from Cuneiform Records

• Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company - "Like A Duck To Water"
• Matching Mole - "Smoke Signals"

Recent Releases from Jester Records

• When - The Lobster Boys"
• Single Unit - "Family Of Forces"

Recent Releases from Zzaj Productions

• Jim Konen, Jim Russell, Peter Tomshany, Rotcod Zzaj - "Sonic Nuggets"
• Detroit Improv Duo - "Intuitive Tesseract"
• The Mad Metcalf Ensemble - "Resurrection - Reservations Only"

Recent Releases from Accretions

• Eric Glick Rieman - "Ten To The Googolplex"
• Marcelo Radulovich - "(case of the missing) THUMB"
• Scott Fields Ensemble - "This That"
• Upsilon Acrux - "In the Acrux of the Upsilon King"

Recent Releases from Ammonite Records

• A Man Called Sun - "This Land Of Eldorado"
• Paramore - "What You Don't Know"

Reissues from Get Back

• Bob James Trio - "Explosions"
• Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell - "MU...First Part"
• Archie Shepp - "BLASÉ"

Recent Releases from Magna Carta

• Jordan Rudess - "Feeding The Wheel"
• James LaBrie's Mullmuzzler - "2"
• The December People - "Sounds Like Christmas"

General Reviews

• Man In Space - "How To Potty Train A Supernova"
• Surface of Eceon - "The King Beneath the Mountain"
• Unlimbo - "See What You Think"
• The Interstellar Cementmixers - "Night Radiation"
• The Helio Sequence - "Young Effectuals"
• Krom Lek - "Collective Conscious"
• The Magic Potty Babies - "Sacralicious!"
• Primordial Undermind - "Beings Of Game P-U"
• Porcupine Tree - "Recordings"
• Quarkspace - "Drop"
• Suns of Arqa - "Solar Activity 1979-2001"
• Vocokesh - "Ispepnaibara + EP"
• Verde - "Osta Oma Tampere Saat Kaupan Päälle Helssingin" / "Loki"
• X Space - "Space CD" / "Whatever Happened To My Mind"
• Alpha Wave Movement - "The Edge Of Infinity"
• Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole - "Bislama"
• Open Canvas - "Indumani"
• Automatic Music - "Spiffy"
• Baby Woodrose - "Blows Your Mind!"
• Erfmen - 2 song demo
• Fooz - s/t
• Gravity Hill - "Strange Bolero"
• Guild Navigators - "The Last Decade Phase 1: 1991-1997"
• Marshan - "Kings Thursday On The Friday Street"
• Hidria Space Folk - "Hidria Space Folk"
• Melic - "s/t"
• Mirza - "Last Clouds"
• Paranoise - "ISHQ"
• The Satellite Circle - "s/t"
• SHAY - "Dreamers and Stalkers"
• Space Probe Taurus - "Insect City"
• Spids Nøgenhat - "En Mærkelig Kop Te"
• Tadpoles - "Use With Headphones Late At Night: Best Of 1990-2000"
• Ted Killian - "Flux Aeterna"
• Cyber Zen Sound Engine and Matt Borghi - "The Intercepted Transmissions"
• Atom Strange - "The Lotus Garden"
• Avey Tare and Panda Bear - "Danse Manatee"
• Daniel Larson - "Studio Sessions 2001"
• Cobweb Strange - 3 song pre-release
• Ginger Leigh - "From Artesia With Love"
• Hana - "Omen"
• Land - "Road Movies"
• Magnified Eye - "Last Sun"
• Morphogenesis - "In Streams: Live and Studio Recordings Volumes 1 and 2 1997-2001"
• Pandemonica - "III"
• Romislokus - "Between Two Mirrors"
• Steve Hubback - "Different Groups and Duo's"
• Stormbringer - "The Fiery Furnace"
• Crippled Symmetry - "Ritual In Four Parts"
• Various Artists - "IAMAPHOTOGRAPHER: A Tribute To Antonioni's BLOW UP"
• Club Telex Noise Ensemble - "Just To Disturb You A Little Bit"
• The Blue Space - "Lightyear"
• Glass - "No Stranger To The Skies"
• Hughes Hall - "Pacifica"
• Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Liberation"
• Replicator - "Winterval"
• Rick Ray - "Insanity Flies"
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "Grand Opening And Closing"
• Tripod - "st/"
• Velcro One - "Amateur Loops"
• Wasami - Escaping From My New Day Blues"
• Various Artists - "The Embryo Compilation: Adventures In Homemade Music"
• Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano - "The Hated Music"
• Flaming Fire - "Get Old And Die With Flaming Fire"
• Klimperei - "Tout Seul Sur La Plage En Hiver"
• Kopecky - "Orion"
• Jeff McLeod - "Ye Shall Be Cut Into Many Pieces"
• National Forest - "Soda Lake"
• Matt Turner - "Crushed Smoke"
• The Scallions - "2001 Summer Sampler"
• Soul Angel - "s/t"
• Spaced Out - "Eponymus II"

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