Pop-Punk Dixon

My friend Phillip will DJ New Orbit this Monday and like I wrote, he's the only one at the moment I'd trust with it. Expect to hear the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, and Steve Reid (this guy, not that guy).

I was googling Bill Dixon last night after I mentioned Paris Transatlantic's diss on his Vision Festival performance and I came across an odd, yet refreshing review for Odyssey, the 6CD box set of his solo material. Of all people to write about Dixon, I never expected one of the guys from pop-punk band J-Church to shell out the $100+ for hours of Bill's negative space free-jazz, much less any of the sort. You can read his review at the bottom of this page, and it's not a bad one. Maybe one day I'll have the money for it, but that won't happen until it's outrageously out of print and selling on eBay for twice the price.

Getting some new records in the mail from Red Toucan and a download from Leo Records soon. More on those later.

Speaking of, Leo Records is offering $4 OGG downloads of their catalog until the end of the summer. For those of us in USA not wanting to pay import prices, this is an amazing deal. True, we're missing out on the artwork, but OGG files have great sound quality. (iTunes users like myself have to decode the OGG, though. Find out how here or here.)