New releases from the world of Bleep for the week of 21st August.

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A paleontological term for a species that disappears, then reappears in the fossil record, 'Lazarus Taxon' is the highly anticipated 33 track collection from Tortoise - including rare singles from foreign releases and tour EPs, compilation tracks, previously unreleased material and the ENTIRE out-of-print 1995 album 'Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters'. Shortly following Tortoise’s 1994 self-titled debut, the band asked some friends to remix several tracks, resulting in RR&C, a 30-minute continuous disc. RR&C and the 12" series that followed set off a wave of remixes and remix albums in the rock community. A remix intended for this collection by Mike Watt makes its debut in A Lazarus Taxon alongside the very rare Autechre remixes "To Day Retrieval" and "Adverse Camber" plus others from John McEntire and Steve Albini. For anyone new to the majesty of Tortoise this is the best possible place to start, and for diehards you need all this material to complete the gaps!

A compendium of early EP tracks and B-sides, along with rare compilation tracks that plays through like a concise summary of their music to date. Recommended! “Trish Keenan gives songs like 'Illumination' and 'Unchanging Window' the characteristic Broadcast mood-blend of blithe and ominous; Cargill frames her melodies with crisply detailed orchestrations and swinging beats that betray deep immersion in movie scores and library music. Along with the proper pop tunes, there's a bunch of splendid mood-piece instrumentals, like 'Minus Two', a bleepy idyll that's like nap-time muzak for a creche full of robot tots. Broadcast avoid the pitfall of retro-pastiche because there's real emotion in these songs. Not so much a 'best of' as a miscellany, The Future Crayon isn't the 'new broadcast album', but it might actually be their best album, if you get me.” Simon Reynolds

New on Lex is this superb long player of instrumental hip-hop and beats from NY based producer Who Dat aka Janeiro Jarel. As well as justified comparisons to jazz/hiphop producers like Madlib and JayDee, Janiero also calls to mind some of the influences and artists that helped shape the early days of Lex – Push Button Objects, Req, Wagon Christ and of course Prefuse in his breezier tropicalia-styled moments. Tailor made for bumping out in hot weather, hopefully there’s enough left this year to do it justice.

Single from the newly-reformed Junior Boys ahead of the new (and supremely good) album due in September. Remixes from Alex Smoke (soma records) and Morgan Geist of Metro Area.

A rare excursion from Jarvis recently broadcast through his egospace page. One track only, Bleep is the only place you can get this as a high quality Mp3. “A spectacular lamentation on the state of the world and its leaders, it features that familiar deep voice telling you "cunts are still running the world" over Lloyd-Webber-esque spectral orchestration. No-one has epitomised the current worldwide feeling of helplessness and resentment in such a concise and beautifully-weary way” NME.

For another Jarvis side-project, see the Relaxed Muscle album he released with Jason Buckle (Rephlex/Warp/All Seeing I)

After the Easy Star’s hugely successful ‘Dub Side of The Moon’ project, comes this Yorke & Greenwood-endorsed rework of their masterpiece ‘Ok Computer’ inna reggae style.. Fear not, its good. Like all the best cover versions, the music shows a real reverence for the source material and a desire to do it justice. They also employ an impressive range of vocalists – Horace Andy, Toots and the Maytals, Sugar Minott, The Temptations and more – marking this out as a serious dub project in its own right rather than cash-in pastiche, and fitting nicely into the current Senor Coconut / Nouvelle Vague school of high-art homage.

Ditching the rather insipid vocal styles of his last major album, Gerald heads right back to his spiritual home – proper dirty acid music to bang out in basements and make people dance. Recorded in one continuous take in his Berlin studio earlier this year, this album flows like a modern version of 808 State’s classic Rebuild (behind which Gerald was the main force), with laptops giving a more polished and slinky sheen over the clanky vintage roland gear. "when I say 'proto acid' I’m saying this stuff has direct lineage to Chicago and Detroit in the mid-to-late 80s... For me, acid was all about the tweaking of synths and riding a groove. To me, the new album is acid and acid’s a part of everything I do." Gerald

Brad Laner is best known as the founder of Medicine, an LA-based noise-pop/rock band formed in 1991 who appeared as themselves in the Brandon Lee movie 'Crow', and for his solo recordings as Electric Company on Tigerbeat and Planet Mu. He returns alongside Christopher Willits as 'The North Valley Subconscious Orchestra' for this album of krautrock grooves and squalls of guitar noise, the first Ghostly LP to be released exclusively via digital download.

Kieran Hebden's contribution to the long-established (26 editions) and unsurpassed DJ Kicks series of mix albums. Encompassing an impressively wide-reaching and informed range of genres and artists, Kieran's mix never seems contrived or too highbrow, jamming Mr Oizo, So Solid Crew and Akufen up against Pepe Mtoto, David Behman and Autechre, and justifying the continued existence of the mix album concept in the process.

One of Scotland’s most respected independent record labels, Glasgow-based Chemikal Underground was started by The Delgados, and has launched the careers of bands including Mogwai, Arab Strap, Sluts of Trust and Malcolm Middleton. This storming compilation celebrates nearly 12 years in the business, and features 17 artists including contributions from The Delgados, Interpol, Mother And The Addicts and Mogwai.

Just added to Bleep is this full-length debut from Austrian electronic experimentalists Farmers Manual, a collection of drawn-out discombobulations of standard rhythmic and melodic structures. Comprising a collective of musicians, DJs, computer geeks and net freaks, Farmer's Manual have built up a sizeable international following through releases on Mego and Touch (which included possibly the longest-playing album ever released - 3 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes), as well as pushing the envelopes of musical intelligibility well off the map.