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DANBALL BAT / SASORI (split) Sasori Vs Danball Bat--Sasori Cocktail (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $14 1997 split CD by two contemporary Japanese rock bands. Sasori is a female-led psych-heavy-garage group. Danball Bat do an odd sort of glam-prog-pop thing.

THE DANCING CIGARETTES 1980-1981: The Gulcher Recordings (Gulcher Records) $11 In 1980-1981, punk became hardcore, middle-aged women started spiking their hair, new wave turned into commercial crap, and everything was about to implode into the narrowly focused genres that dominate outsider music to this day. But in Bloomington, Indiana, things were moving a bit slower. MX-80 Sound had split for San Francisco a couple years earlier, and the original Gizmos were never more than a rumor to the post-'77 Bloomington crowd. When the Dancing Cigarettes appeared on the fringes of the Bloomington scene in 1980, they were doing music that still vibrated deeply with the naive/intellectual spirit that had informed much of underground rock since the mid-70s. The Cigarettes fused their high-school geek visions of dada and beat literature with punk energy, the Ralph Records catalog, an obvious love for pre-punk icons like Eno and Beefheart, and the fumes of earlier art-damaged Midwestern bands like MX-80, Pere Ubu, and Tin Huey. Their songs were tight, angular, ironic, and filled with obtuse lyrics. In 1981, the Dancing Cigarettes hooked up with Gulcher Records (who else!) to produce a quite wunnerful 4-song, self-titled EP:  "Puppies In A Sack," "Mr. Morse," "Pop Doormat," and "Best Friend."  Post-punk, Midwest-style (which means it's mostly pre-punk!). They also contributed to Gulcher's Red Snerts compilation LP the same year. This CD collects their '81 EP, two outtakes from the EP sessions, "Broken Windows" from RED SNERTS, and 15 unreleased tracks recorded live at the Bluebird in Bloomington. The Bluebird material shows the live Dancing Cigarettes were just as fiery and capable of sonic trickery as in a studio setting, and adds a bit of noise to the mix. The band continued into 1983, and recorded a fair amount of excellent unreleased material, which was compiled in 1995 on their School of Secret Music CD.

DAVIDTIO Kin-Kaku (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $12 2002 CD by Velvet Underground-influenced pop-rock band from Japan.

THE DEVIANTS Dr. Crow (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $14 2004 CD by Mick Farren, Andy Colquhoun, and company. Includes "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Bela Lugosi 2002," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," and nine more tracks.

DEVOLVER The Pilot's Inside His Mind (Transsiberian Music Co./Scratch Recordings; Canada) $11 Very down, sometimes claustrophobic folkpop songstuff from four-piece Canadian band. They spice up the structured format with dirty loops, low-hum noise, and untampered glitches.

DMZ Live at the Rat (Bomp) $10 Seven totally killer tracks from 1976 + twelve tracks from a pretty cool 1993 reunion show.

DUNKELZIFFER In the Night (Fünfundvierzig; Germany) $14 Originally released in 1984, this was the second album by German "mystic group" Dunkelziffer, and their first with former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki.

DUNKELZIFFER Live (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $14 Previously unreleased live recording from 1985 by German band with Can's Damo Suzuki on vocals.

DUNKELZIFFER Colours and Soul (Funfundvierzig; Germany) $14 Early recordings, from 1982 and 1983, including Dunkelziffer's first EP and assorted outtakes. This German new-wave ethno-trance band would be joined by Can vocalist Damo Suzuki in '84, but this was before his arrival. The group does include later Can member Reebop Kwaku Baah, and a guest appearance by Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit.

DUO KANEL Livsopplevende Dikt (Humbug; Norway) CDR $11 Duo Kanel is Sindre Andersen and Ansten Klev, who produce a giddy noise-pop-glitch-rock-improv sound. The sudden transitions from damaged radio excerpts to disjointed "songs" to live interplay to plain silliness produces a collage effect that seems like an early-70s concept album strained through thirty years of used cassette tapes and ear wax. But not really. I like. Comes in a handmade package with  painted cover and various inserts, including hand-scrawled art, sticker, bits cut from magazines, etc.