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colu mn: blue note_ text · nick fowler ON TH E EDG FRON II ER ESPN's Music from The X Games. Volume 3 (Mammoth Records) The X Games are well-represented by Ihis eclectic collection, an appropriate soundtrack to the world's premiere alternative sports competition, Each tune on this compilation, although widely varied in style, captures the urgent. quirky and adrenaline-driven intensity of the outre sports Ihey chronicle. The artists are fit­ tingly fierce, eccentric and musically dangerous in their own fashion as were the ath­ letes in San Diego on June 19-28. Musical highlights include ska freaks 31 1's mega radio smash -All Mixed Up: Fu Manchu's freshly updated cover of Thin Lizzy's 1970s prison classic "Jailbreak: and the brooding unplugged dirge louch, Peel and Stand" by promising acouslidelectric outfit Days Of The New. A fitting sonic backdrop to the event. Mickey Hart/Planet Drum-Su�ralingua (Rykodisc) Drummer/songwriter Mickey Hart has certainly taken a profound percus­ sive leap irom his days in a not-so-obscure band called the Grateful Dead, Even so, Ts not impossible to understand how that seminal outfit's signature free-form jams might lead to Hart's current musical adventure. Supralingua, meaning "beyond words: aptly encapsulates the elusive, visceral decidedly non-intellectual essence of Planet Drum. When listening to this multi-global array of musicians marry techno �eats with the primordial aural ooze of the Wild, we feel indeed that we are experi­ encing something so famiUar and basic that it cannot be verbally expressed. This usic is like the ineluctable immediacy of our mother's heartbeat. Songs like [Angola: "Endless River" and -Vabu" are audible dreamscapes that pulsate with primal rhythms, savage chanting, hypnotic moans, orgasmic uula­ lions. octavated jungle ambiance, computerized drum loops, and not­ �uite-discemible mantras. SupraUngua merges the mechanical and beastly �xotically and exquisitely, rom Good HomeS-SELF-TITLED (RCA) The eponymous major label effort of Western New Jersey quintet From Good Homes captures all the time-honored and poetic road-weariness of the quin­ r;:=ႀ====:::!.!ႀ:==-" tessential traveling band. This is the real deal. A rootsy melange of Celtic folk, tradi­ tional blues, Cajun crafting, rock'n'roll and bluegrass twang, this CD reflects the ,""._h ... � L.:=- o _ and committed the music to vinyl. Such urgency shines though brilliantly on the whimsical. Grateful Deadesque "Bang That Drum: the wistful "Broken Road- and ___ ambitious instrumentation. band's constant touring life. A jagged, live vibe breathes throughout the record's plain­ tive tunes, most palpably in "Kick It On: a song which was recorded straight from a concert and thrown onto the CD at the last minute as its opening cut. After opening up for Dave Matthews and Bob Dylan recently, From Good Homes took their distinctive hodgepodge of harmonicas and mandolins into a "chilly bam" in Vernon, New Jersey ..:;ႀ䊉===::.I "Wake: a haunting song that weeps and whines with violins, At times a bit monot- onous. the record is ultimately satisfying in its emotional honesty and

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