David Daniell and James Elliott of Antiopic Records have teamed with Thrill Jockey to curate the colossal Benefit For The Recovery In Japan, a 2-part, 64-track digital compilation featuring a good chunk of the biggest heads in fringe music around the globe, including Fennesz, Tom Carter, The Ex, Oneohtrix Point Never, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Grouper, Dirty Projectors' Nat Baldwin, Rhys Chatham, Prefuse 73, Growing, Tim Hecker, C Spencer Yeh, Sam Prekop, Mountains, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and Jackie-O Motherfucker. The comp was produced in collaboration with Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey and Regina Greene of Front Porch Productions, and mastered by Chicago electronic musician Greg Davis. 100 percent of proceeds go to Civic Force, a Japanese non-profit specializing in domestic emergency relief. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones
Benefit For the Recovery in Japan is available via Fina Music. Purchasing may take a few tries, as the site has been swamped. Full tracklisting after the jump.
Following the departure of founding vocalist G.W. Sok, Dutch post-punk group The Ex returns with their first proper album since 2004's Turn. With the addition of Zea's Arnold de Boer at the mic, Catch My Shoe rides the same raw adrenaline that put these enfants terribles on the map when they started thrashing away in dingy Amsterdam basements over thirty years ago (read: they haven't stopped). "Eoleyo", an Ethiopian Gurage standard incanted by drummer Katherina Bornefeld, continues an extended flirtation with the country's music that peaked with their 2006 CD collaboration with Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria.
Catch My Shoe is out January 25th via Ex Records
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