Contributor Credits

Aural Innovations Staff Picks for Best of 2003

Band Profiles/Interviews

Man In Space

David Unlimbo/Unlimbo/Beneficial Gene

Frank Gingeleit

Articles

Roskilde Festival 2003 Coverage

Spacerock Con 2003 Photo Gallery

Tales Of The ACTION MAN: Private Player

Reviews

Live Recordings and Shows

• Hawkwind/Tarantism - Astoria, London, England - 21 December, 2003
• Mr. Quimby's Beard/Tired Earth - Bar 36, Sunderland (Tyne & Wear), England - 20 December, 2003
• Korai Öröm - Focus, Denkendorf bei Stuttgart, Germany - 13 December, 2003
• Hidria Spacefolk, Mantric Muse and Bland Blanden - Dragens Hule, København 9/26/03
• Hidria Spacefolk - Woodstock, Christiania 9/27/03
• Darxtar, Hidria Spacefolk, Octopus Syng - Stellastar, Helsinki 10/31/03
• Baby Woodrose and The Blue Van - Loppen, Christiania 10/2/03
• Bland Bladen - Cilla’s Kök, Malmö, Sweden 10/4/03
• Dark Sun and Mesmer - Kaisaniemi, Helsinki 10/30/03
• Paradise Lost and Amorphis - Lille Vega, København 10/26/03
• On Trial - Sofie’s Kældren, København 10/16/03
• On Trial/Wonderweasel - Gaswerk (Foyer) - Winterthur, Switzerland, 17 December, 2003
• SEID and Mantric Muse - Dragens Hule, København 10/18/03
• SEID - Exil, Singen (Baden-Württemberg) Germany, 12 October, 2003
• The Mars Volta - KB, Malmö, Sweden 11/15/03
• Porcupine Tree - Lille Vega, København 11/13/03
• WE and Powergrill - Stengade 30, København 11/21/03
• Screamin’ Eric and the Erections - Studenterhuset, København 11/14/03
• Davolinas and Precious Bodyfluid- Studenterhuset, Kobenhavn January 16, 2004

Recent Releases from Emperor Jones

• Primordial Undermind - "Thin Shells Of Revolution"
• Steven R. Smith - "Hala Strana"
• Alastair Galbraith/Constantine Karlis - "Radiant"

Recent Releases from Fuenfundvierzig

• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO / Escapade - "A Thousand Shades Of Grey"
• Brainticket - "Alchemic Universe"

Releases from prpGROUP

• prpGROUP - "Babylard"
• prpGROUP - "Penfruit"
• prpGROUP - "Snib"
• prpGROUP - "Sun Pie In A Custard Sky"

Recent Releases from Stone Premonitions

• Census Of Hallucinations - "The 8th Dwarf"
• When's The Future - "Then"

Releases from Slutfish Records

• The JFK Jr. Royal Airforce - "On Tour 2002"
• The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment - "We Are"
• Various Artists - "10 Years Of Slutfish Records"
• Porcelain gOD - "Your Insane (A Concept)"

Recent Releases from Camera Obscura

• The Iditarod - "Yuletide"
• Ink Puddle Compound - "Tantrum Seas And Dust Lanes"
• Stone Breath - "The Silver Skein Unwound"

Recent Releases from Strange Attractors Audio House

• Cul de Sac - "The Strangler's Wife"
• Harris Newman - "Non-Sequiturs"

Recent Releases from AcidGuitarKing

• AcidGuitarKing - "Mother"
• AcidGuitarKing - "Savage Saint II"
• AcidGuitarKing - "Savage Saint III"
• AcidGuitarKing - "9"

Recent Releases from Butterfly Records

• The Stoneage Hearts - "Suzie"
• The Embrooks - "Back In My Mind"
• The Creatures Of The Golden Dawn - "Blood From A Stone"
• Various Artists - "South American Teenage Garage Punk: Volume 1"
• Curlee Wurlee - "SOS Mesdemoiselles"
• Les Slow Slushy Boys - "Slush Puppy"

Recent Releases from Silber Records

• Twelve - "First Album"
• Lycia - "Empty Space"
• Small Life Form - "One"
• Jamie Barnes - "The Fallen Acrobat"

Releases from Haltapes

• Hal McGee and Dave Fuglewicz - "Synergistic Deconstruction"
• Hal McGee - "Professor McGee's Laboratory"
• Hal McGee - "American Primitive"
• Hal McGee - "Possibilities"
• Various Artists - "Quotidian Assemblages: Volume One"
• Various Artists - "Quotidian Assemblages: Volume Two"

Releases from InstrumenTales

• Greg Segal & Bret Hart - "Duets: Volume 2"
• Funkmeister G & Bret Hart - "Duets: Volume 2"
• Bret Hart: Bullwinkle Pond & The 5 - "12 Layered Improvisations for Meditation"
• Bret Hart: Bullwinkle Pond & The 5 - "Version 2.0 -2003"
• Bret Hart - "Malaysia Tamed"
• Bret Hart & Bob Jordan - "Duets: Volume 3"

Releases from Suilven Recordings

• Daniel Patrick Quinn - "The Winter Hills"
• Dac Crowell - "Harmundum"

Recent Releases from Circumvention Music

• Pat O'Keefe/Jason Stanyek/Scott Walton/Glen Whitehead - "Tunnel"
• Gustavo Aguilar Get Libre Collective - "Destinations"

Releases from Unicorn Records

• Heon - "Electo-Acoustic Requiem"
• Addison Project - "Mood Swings"

Releases from Worldeater Records

• Hellblock 6 - "Nuclear Age"
• Myles of Destruction/Abiku Split 7"
• Northern Liberties - "Erode + Disappear"
• Northern Liberties - "Easter Island" 7"
• Various Artists - "Genrecide: A Worldeater Records Compilation"

Recent Releases from Shrapnel Records

• The Mark Varney Project featuring Allan Holdsworth & Frank Gambale - "Truth In Shredding"
• Joe Lynn Turner - "JLT"
• Glenn Hughes - "Songs In The Key Of Rock"
• Hughes-Turner Project - "HTP 2"

General Reviews

• Various Artists - "Daze Of The Underground: A Tribute To Hawkwind"
• Alien Planetscapes - "Bootleg #6: Problems Of The 21st Century"
• ST 37 - "Insect Hospital"
• Book Of Shadows - "Hanged Man"
• Marble Sheep - "For Demolition Of A Spiritual Framework"
• Spirit Caravan - "The Last Embrace"
• Seid - "Meet the Spaceman"
• Pseudo Buddha - "3 Months In Fat City! Hooka-Jooka Vol. IV"
• Elscientisto - "Moonsick EP"
• The Psychedelic Breakfast - "...In Uncle Sam's Basement Emporium"
• Mind of a Squid - "Down Low"
• The Future Kings Of England - s/t EP
• Chlorine Dream - "Mental Weather"
• Mittelwinternacht ‘71 - s/t
• Loopian Zu - "Submerged"
• Diatonis - "Ambient Life"
• Cipher - "No Ordinary Man"
• Steve Lawson & Theo Travis - "For The Love Of Open Spaces"
• Aska Temple with William Blake - "One More Red Nightmare"
• Depressive Art - "Gothic Country Songs For The Sorry Ones"
• Guignol - "Angela, David And The Great Neopolitan Road Issue"
• Black Sun - "Fleshmarket"
• UFO Jim - "Dancing With Aliens"
• Rick Ray - "Out Of The Mist Of Obscurity"
• The Gak Omek - "Alien Eye"
• First Band From Outerspace - Demo 2003
• First Band From Outerspace - "Aboard the Mothership of Cosmic Sound Creation"
• Zaam - "Acid Folk"
• Seven that Spells - "The Blowout"
• Truckfighters/Firestone - "Fuzz Split of the Century"
• Amaran - "Pristine in Bondage"
• Orquestra Del Desierto - "Dos"
• Brain Police - "Brain Police"
• Kid Icarus - "Maps Of The Saints"
• Kid Icarus/The Green Chair Split CDEP
• Jack Daddy Loops AKA Loopty - "Vol. 7"
• Walls Of Genius - "Raw Sewage, Vol. I"
• Walls Of Genius - "Ludovico Treatment: Music To Cure Your Ills"
• Little Fyodor - "Idiots Are Closer To God"
• Arthur Loves Plastic - "Higher Fruit"
• Nothing 2 Declare - "As We Are"
• I Decline - "The Ides Of Riffdom"
• Mouth of Clay - Demo 2003
• Charles Rice Goff III/Eric Matchett/Jonathan Sielaff - "Puddle Town"
• My First Days On Junk - "Songs For Darla The Fake Girl"
• Funkmeister G - "Who Got Da Fonk?"
• Electric Turn To Me - s/t
• Invisible - "The Invisible EP"
• The Planet The - "Physical Angel"
• Dadly Afters - "The Moon And The Light You Make"
• The Davolinas - Demo 2003
• Blue Van - "A Session with the Blue Van"
• The Ebb And Flow - "MurMurs EP"
• Stars In Battledress - "Secrets And Signals"
• Ruotomieli - "Jos ei kruunu mahdu päähän, vuollaan otsaa pois"
• Volker Kriegel - "Spectrum"
• Albert Mangelsdorff - "And His Friends"
• Orphan Project - "Orphan Found"
• Paradigm 9 - "Live @ The Lost Dog"
• Solution Science Systems - "Daemon Ex Machina"
• Radio Free Clear Light - "Treading Softly Against The Tide"
• Larry Kucharz - "Ambient Red Washes"
• John Edmonds - "When Schemes Come True"
• Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic - "The Iridium Controversy"
• Joseph Benzola - "Winter In America"
• Luigi Archetti / Bo Wiget - "Low Tide Digitals"
• Luigi Archetti / Jan Schlegel - "Silent Surface"
• Terminus Victor - "Mastering The Revels"
• Morpheus - "For A Second"
• Superheaven - s/t
• THE ACTION - "Rolled Gold"
• Amy Blaschke - s/t
• Exitmusique - 4 song CDEP
• Juggernaut - "Burn"
• Juggernaut - "Better Than Everyone"
• Paragon - "What Is Paragon?"
• Blue Drift - "Cobalt Coast"
• Last Laugh - "Shapes"
• Rag Time Grunge - s/t
• Upstate - "The Official Soundtrack: Missing"
• Leslie West - "Blues To Die For"
• Erik Godal & Marc Fontana - "Gacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"