SPECTRUM Songs For Owsley Reprise QUALIFICATION: THIS IS "classic" in the sense that there's nothing like this profoundly mind-altering disc in the bins right now. As if the title isn't clue enough. Arty stuff. Approach with caution. Former Spacemen 3 and current E.A.R. member Sonic Boom crafts vertical sounds that nod in many directions: Kraut rock psychedelia, Hammer horror-film soundtracks, sound effects and stereo system test records, and especially Leo Theremin. "Owsley" is a disorienting collision of keyboard drones, oscillator groans, and freakish vocal shtick. This contrasts heavily with the ambient drift 'n' bliss of the electronic patterns that comprise "Liquid Intentions," which is the only discernible link to Sonic's other incarnations. And "Feels Like I'm Slipping Away" is a tantalizing meltdown arranged for theremin, vibraphone, and vocoder--lounge music for Martians. --Fred Mills PETE SEEGER Pete Living Music Records THE COUPLING OF Seeger with producer/jazz saxophonist Paul Winter is a stroke of genius, considering both are diehard, optimistic environmentalists firmly committed to the folk music of the world. Winter's music is also terminally melodic, which accounts for his re-recording attractive Seeger tunes like "Sailing Down My Golden River" and "Of Time And Rivers Flowing." The folk singer is getting up there in years and not that far from sailing down that other river and, unfortunately, we'll realize we've lost the next best thing to Woody Guthrie only after he's gone. Until then, this is a wonderful reminder of how significant Seeger's been in music--hell, American history--for half a century. You'll not find a better acknowledgment of Seeger's importance than this. --Dave McElfresh ANTISEEN Here To Ruin Your Groove Baloney Shrapnel ANTISEEN, THE SELF-proclaimed grand poobahs of the "Confederacy Of Scum," have been brawling in the punk rock arena for nearly a dozen years--and they still get no respect. Antiseen's rough-and-tumble brand of strangulation punk is the musical equivalent of Ric Flair slapping a choke hold on Abdullah The Butcher in a bloody steel cage match. These Charlotte, North Carolina, ruffians even pay tribute to southern-fried wrasslin' legend Terry Funk on "Funk U." The jagged, six-string antics of Joe Young and vocals of Rasputin-like howler Jeff Clayton are testament to the fact that these dudes friggin' scary; and the aural napalm they unleash is even scarier. Check out the cover of Skynyrd's "Needle And The Spoon" and then check your drawers for stains. Brutal, man. Brutal. --Ron Bally

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