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When not scoring strings for Blonde Redhead or scouring them alongside John Zorn or Sun City Girls, Seattle-based violinist Eyvind Kang imagines his own idiosyncratic compositions (like 2002's ambient dirge Live Low to the Earth, in the Iron Age). But even in the context of such outré players, Athlantis, Kang's second disc for Ipecac, is truly out there.

UNKLE's debut, 1998's Psyence Fiction, was essentially a DJ Shadow disc packed with guest stars, so when Shadow left the group -- masterminded by Mo'Wax label chief James Lavelle -- so did its musical vision.

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In addition to remixing LCD Soundsystem and Franz Ferdinand, producers Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Thomas M. Hermansen are leaders of the stoner-friendly "space disco" movement. And though their 2005 debut was flaccid like too-smooth jazz, that's quickly remedied here, with the original tracks tweaked to propulsive, tantric lengths. Seventies'

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This indie-white-rapper show throws in some cautionary thug tales among the usual braggadocio, and their subtle flair and smarts make up for the occasional tossed-off cliché. Rapper Jimmy Jamz and producer Bobby Evans do a little with a little, grafting sometimes solid, sometimes staid rhymes to sometimes workmanlike, sometimes imaginative beats.

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