I've been MIA from New York and regular postings for two whole months, more or less - much to catch up on...

Jared sent along a link for the OneDotZero festival back in May. Uncharacteristically untimely of us to post so late, but do check out the excellent site. Speaking of our man in the UK, Jared is the artist of the week at Invisible Records, and the new LP Oxidizer is slated for an October release... or as soon as I get the artwork done. The new and improved Chemlab will be hitting the road with Pigface in October as well.

Plastik fantastik: A reminder that Richie and Magda will be kicking off the PS1 Warm Up music series this Saturday, July 5th. Rich's new album is slated for release this fall - the first LP of all new material since Consumed. Be sure to check out Mr. Hawtin's new Control set-up: once again pushing into the future by combining his 909 machine and array of little black boxes, Final Scratch, Ableton Live and Cycloops sampler into a custom XOne62 mixer, simply called CTRL. (No word yet if it has a foot pedal.) Michiganders can catch Rich and Magda with Matt Dear and [Evil] Clark Warner at the Detroit TasteFest on Thursday, July 3rd. The TasteFest has blossomed into a premiere music event. Also appearing are Carl Craig, Los Lobos, Wilco, Billy Preston, Juan Atkins, Derek Plaslaiko and many more. Derek apparently put on an amazing semi-live set at UNTITLED last night. Hopefully Paxahau archived it. While you're at the fest, pick up some Detroit love from Pure Detroit.

ADHOC Group presents Reduction of Complexity: An Exploration in Three Parts. Part 1, Making, occurs at the Rx Gallery in San Fransisco and on the ADHOC site July 17th.

Random is a cool, shoe-gazey band from Ireland with a very nice web site. (Be sure to check out the neat downloads.) The site also uses Autoscape, the official Burnlab font from the geniuses at LINETO - there isn't a better type foundry on the planet for my money.