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By the way, while we don't have a general links page up, I want to remind you that there are indeed other sites out there trying to spread the good word. If you haven't been to pauserecord.com yet, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results.

One final point- I hope you will all come out to our Jambands.com events this month. Either Andy or myself (and many of our editors, columnists and writers) will be at these shows which showcase some enlighetend, enlightening jam bands (and these groups can rip too). Oh yes (shameless plug time) and don't forget the read the second installment of Mikey, my crappy cartoon.

later days and peace,
Dean - budnick@harvard.edu

This last month there has been a new spice in my stereo, a new groove in my room, and a new beat in my step.

The Disco Biscuits have invaded my world, and they have taken over.

From Philadelphia, PA, The Disco Biscuits comprise of four indivuals BURSTING with talent (and a fabulous sound-guy). Upon hearing the biscuits it might take you a while to get into what they're all about. "A techno band? I'm not into techno!" Neither am I, but from where I stand, The Disco Biscuits are not only about the techno, there are about what comes out of the techno, and that, my friends, is some of the most powerful music I've heard in a long time. I would almost go as far as to say, the future of music.

If patience and listening are keys to a jam band, then these guys have made it a religion. Gradually building their momentum to the point of explosion, they literally lift-off into outerspace, carrying the audience with them on a mystical journey of sight and sound. Never forgetting where they come from, yet allowing themselves to get lost in their own jams, the games which they play with eachother while in that 'space' results in very intersting music. Music which allows the listening to sink into it and create a dance space of their own.

Example: 7/3/98 - Webster Hall, New York, NY - Set II: Basis for a Day
45 minutes of experimental techno-fusion (as they like to call it). It begins with a slow building progression which then fuses into the techno beat which has become their signature groove. Over a half an hour later, they emerge from the jam into an escape velocity style of jamming the likes of which have really never been seen. Riffs become light, and light becomes grooves, and the energy which the audience alone must expend to simply stay alive could power a rocket for seven years. If you're driving along the highway smoothly at 55 M.P.H...suddenly they've got you raising your hand in the air in celebration at 115 M.P.H...accellerating fast. They lay down a riff, which sounds so familiar and so friendly that you feel you NEED to hear it again. Ending the jam, or so you think, they reprise into that riff again...bubbling over with explosive energy, The Disco Biscuits have landed you back on your feet, where you once were before, but completely changed forever.

You've just experienced Basis For A Day, a song so large, so huge, that it could change the face of music forever. This is powerful music folks, so powerful that it's driven me to focus my entire monthly column on it. So if you go, prepare youself.

Or as lead guitarist John 'Barber' Gutwillig likes to say, "Hi, we're The Disco Biscuits...we hope you survive"

Peace,
Andy Gadiel - andy@gadiel.com

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