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Known to his friends as Paul Dickow and to the experimental music community as Strategy, the young man behind last year's fine Future Rock LP is back with both a new LP and a co-curated compilation to his credit. Dickow is also, it probably goes without saying, known as prolific.

First up is Music for Lamping, Dickow's latest Strategy LP. Featuring tracks dating as far back as 2002 and certainly pushing the sound-wash side of Future Rock's more krautrock-inspired sounds, the disc is due April 29 on Audio Dregs.

Then there's Ambient, Not Not Ambient, a collection of, well, ambient tracks from Portland and beyond. The 75-minute set, which finds Dickow joining with Audio Dregs co-head E*Rock on the selection tip, sports such scene staples as Nudge (to which Dickow used to belong), White Rainbow, Valet, Wzt Hearts, Lucky Dragons, Grouper, and the recently splitsville Yellow Swans. The set also includes a tune by Smoke & Mirrors, a new group featuring Dickow. It, too, is out April 29 on Audio Dregs.

Music for Lamping:

01 I Can't Stand the Rain
02 Cathedral Spark
03 Bike Click
04 All Day...
05 World Service
06 Lower Macleay

Ambient, Not Not Ambient:

01 E*Vax: "Awl"
02 White Rainbow: "See and the Field Feels"
03 Mudboy: "Study for a Sleep Album: 2nd Movement."
04 Dania Shapes: "Weird Boombox"
05 Bird Show: "Less of Everything"
06 Yellow Swans: "To Valleys of Beautiful Arson"
07 WZT Hearts: "Discuss Winter"
08 Sawako: "Nst"
09 Grouper: "Quiet Eyes"
10 Nudge: "Dayrise"
11 AM/PM: "Even as We Here"
12 Smoke & Mirrors: "Ocean"
13 E*Rock: "Exexpat"
14 Freeform: "Ante Meridian"
15 Chris Herbert: "Whips & Jingles"
16 Lucky Dragons: "Sayles Street Ok Ok"
17 Valet: "Tuesday Partly Sunny"