Kemialliset Ystävät (English translation: Chemical Friends) is an ever changing group of free form pilots who have been sending murky audio clouds from their basement in Tampere, Finland to the people of the world since 1995. They work in short, spooling instrumentals, building layers of simple repetitive riffs into laminal mudcakes and weaving ghosts of folk song into huge tunnels of drone.

http://www.myspace.com/kemiallisetystavat

http://www.kemiallisetystavat.com/

Andrew Caddick, partly responsible for Fantastic Magic and Best Coast, creates hazy, delicate dream sounds perfect for the driving through a blizzard cross-country and spotting UFOs or thinking about how you accidentally killed your neighbor and hid his body in the dumpster behind Wal-Mart.

http://www.myspace.com/hereliesjeanswilder

http://www.myspace.com/girlsintheeighties

oneohtrix point never - a pact between strangers

"Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once."---Shawn Reed/Night People

http://www.myspace.com/methteethmusic

There was no punk band more deliberately effete than the Monochrome Set, and very few anywhere near as smart. In their original (1976-1985) incarnation, they made a handful of slightly-off-target albums, but this 1983 compilation — seemingly slapped together from various singles, radio performances and clips of people talking about the band — is a front-to-back joy, fast, restless and perfectly sequenced.

Indian-British singer/guitarist Bid, whose vocal style owed more to pre-war crooners than to most of his contemporaries, and a guitarist who called himself Lester Square (after London tube stop Leicester Square) were the core members of the Set in that period, and their sharpest songs combine their high-aesthetic pose with punk's acid sense of wit and straight-to-the-point sonics. They rip through "The Jet Set Junta," a very funny song about Latin American political mayhem (featuring extensive onomatopoeia and a deliberate mispronounciation of the title), in two minutes flat; the instrumental "Lester Leaps In" lifts its title from saxophonist Lester Young's standard, but it's actually a showcase for Square to crossbreed a Clash-style riff with an easy-listening surf-guitar solo. And smack in the middle is the best version of their greatest song: "He's Frank (Slight Return)," a mighty 159-second rocker with the band playing three killer riffs simultaneously, a chorus that's entirely instrumental, and Bid singing a lyric about an aging loverboy that prominently features the words "forsooth" and "secular." - douglas wolk/emusic

http://www.themonochromeset.co.uk/

1. julian lynch - es's

2. pill wonder - restless

3. ducktails - apple walk

4. fluffy lumbers - adoration

5. big troubles - former selves

6. andrew cedermark - ad infinitum

7. frat dad - totally afraid

8. dana jewell - my t-train girl

9. air waves - sweetness

10. family portrait - killer statements

11. alex bleeker - these days

12. mountain man - dog song

13. real estate - orchard

14. rainbow bridge - rain nair

15. liam the younger - please see

http://www.underwaterpeoples.com/