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For an encyclopedia, this thing may seem short on words. But do the math on Asthmatic Kitty's forthcoming Encyclopedia Asthmatica DVD and the matter comes into perspective: 32 videos x approximately 4 minutes in average length x 60 seconds per minute x 30 frames per second x 1,000 words per frame/picture = we're looking at a 230,400,000-word volume. Eat that, Encyclopedia Britannica!

Lest you think we're just having fun with numbers for the hell of it, know there's a reason behind this here dispatch. The previously reported Encyclopedia Asthmatica now has a tracklist, chalk full of all the usual AK suspects: Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, Castanets, Rafter, the Curtains, Shapes and Sizes, Bunky, Half-Handed Cloud, and Liz Janes.

From SXSW showcases and live performances to official music videos to a piece by the Think/Dance Collective, there's a sumptuous two-hour feast of visual material for you to devour here, and it can all be yours come March 4. For the especially anxious, Asthmatic Kitty began taking pre-orders today.

Encyclopedia Asthmatica:

01 Bunky: "Hippopotamus (live, SXSW 2005)"
02 Bunky: "Baba"
03 Bunky: "Space Alien"
04 Castanets: "A Song Is Not the Song of the World"
05 Castanets: "Smallest Bones"
06 Castanets: "Good Friend, Yr Hunger (live, SXSW 2007)"
07 Half-Handed Cloud: "You Wouldn't Embarrass Me Would You?"
08 Half-Handed Cloud: "Tongues Possess the Earth Instead"
09 Half-Handed Cloud: Think/Dance Collective performance
10 Liz Janes: "Jesus Is a Dying Bed Maker"
11 Liz Janes: "All the Pretty Horses"
12 My Brightest Diamond: "Freak Out!"
13 My Brightest Diamond: Live at Northsix
14 My Brightest Diamond: "Dragonfly"
15 My Brightest Diamond: "Gone Away"
16 My Brightest Diamond: "Magic Rabbit"
17 Rafter: "Adventurers"
18 Rafter: "ZZZPenchant"
19 Rafter: "Gentlemen"
20 Rafter: "Hope"
21 Rafter: "Monsters"
22 Rafter: "Encouragement"
23 Shapes and Sizes: "Teller/Seller"
24 Shapes and Sizes: "Jinker/That Fat Hand"
25 Shapes and Sizes: "Can't Stop that (Sinking) Feeling"
26 Sufjan Stevens: "Jacksonville (live, Calvin College 2007)
27 Sufjan Stevens: "Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake"
28 Sufjan Stevens: "The Undivided Self (for Eppie & Popo)"
29 Sufjan Stevens: "The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies"
30 Sufjan Stevens: "Put the Lights on the Tree"
31 The Curtains: "Go Lucky"
32 The Curtains: "Spinning Top"