Articles by Roman Sokal

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  Greg Koch

  The Grip!

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Greg Koch is a prolific and ubiquitous guitarist, one heralded by the likes of Steve Vai as a huge talent. He is one fifth progressive, met...

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  Todd Larry Lloyd

  Your Dumb Idea

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Fans of Fugazi might be interested in Todd Larry Lloyd, as he takes a more amateurish approach to discordance from inside a cathartic garag...

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  Billy Sheehan

  Compression

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Ultra ballistic calibre bass guitar virtuoso Billy Sheehan (formerly of David Lee Roth's band and Mr. Big) confers with his many talents as...

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  Somnambulist

  The Paranormal Humidor

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Take a morsel of early King Crimson, bake it into a muffin with pretentious-era Emerson Lake and Palmer, get in a time machine, travel back...

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  When

  The Lobster Boys

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Headed by Lars Pedersen, When is like a collage of sounds woven into a bizarre tapestry of styles - anywhere from odd jazzy punk junk pop t...

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  Elders of Zion

  Dawn Refuses to Rise

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Stay indoors and be hunted by this scary, militant freak techno, which is a musical manifestation of hierarchies of control, like the frien...

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  Psychic TV

  Peak Hour

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Remastered with bonus tracks, this album, originally released in 1992, is considered the holy grail of techno/trance, and given that its so...

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  Inner Surge

  Solus Verum

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  A severely unskilled recording with everything out of phase and hollow makes one wonder if a trip to an audiologist should be booked. But g...