Linkin Park's Meteora is poised for a meteoric rise to the top of the Billboard chart. Following up Hybrid Theory, the biggest selling album of 2001, the boys have refined their angsty rock-rap for the new album, which features the single "Somewhere I Belong."

French duo Air release City Reading (Tre Storie Western), an instrumental interpretation of the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco's novel City, about a young math genius and his vivid fantasy life. Produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead), the hour-long CD contains just three tracks.

Meanwhile, Aphex Twin's 26 Mixes for Cash features, you guessed it, 26 tracks. The double-disc set features ambient remixes of David Bowie, Philip Glass and Saint Etienne on the first CD, and a more deconstructed, driving sound working with Nine Inch Nails and Meat Beat Manifesto songs on the second.

The indomitable Celine Dion is back again to deliver her signature power ballads and inspirational adult contemporary on One Heart. Plus she even tries her hand at some "dance" tracks like "I Drove All Night."

The Diplomats — Cam'ron and pals Jimmy Jones and Juelz Santana — drop their debut album, Diplomatic Immunity, which finds the crew taking on September 11 on the track "Ground Zero," and an unlikely quasi-cover of Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City."

Les Nubians, the French lovelies who gave us 1998's Princesses Nubiennes, have finally taken One Step Forward, while the D4, a New Zealand garage band, release their 6Twenty alongside Cradle of Filth's Damnation & a Day and Vic Chesnutt's Silver Lake, featuring the love story "Band Camp" and the Brian Wilson homage "Fa-La-La."

Finally, you know the drill about this compilation: all hit songs all the time. Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 12 is no exception. Just to name a few, there's Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You," "Jenny From the Block" by Jennifer Lopez, and B2K's "Bump, Bump, Bump."

Now let's see what else we'll be bumping this week.

Out Tuesday, March 25:

• 702 - Star (Motown)
• 9th Creation - Bubble Gum (P-Vine)
• Acid Ape - Fleshspa (Abstract Sounds)
• The Adventures of Jet - Muscle (Suburban Home)
• Afro Celts - Seed (Real World)
• Air - City Reading (Tre Storie Western) (Astralwerks)
• All Systems Go - Fascination Unknown (Bad Taste)
• Tony Allen - Home Cooking (Shakti)
• Antimatter - Antimatter Vs. Antimatter (Asphodel)
• Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash (two CDs, Warp)
  Buy Now: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
• Appalachian Express - I'll Meet You in the Morning (Rebel)
• Apple Thieves - Lads Will be Lads (Crazy Love)
• Appliance - Are You Earthed? (Mute)
• Joan Armatrading - Lovers Speak (Denon)
• Dave Audé - Mixed Live Club Velvet St. Louis (Moonshine Music)
• Big Mountain - Cool Breeze (Rebel Ink)
• Boulevard Knights - Boulevard Knights (Familia)
• Brave Saint Saturn - Light of Things Hoped For (Tooth & Nail)
• Garth Brooks - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Dave Brubeck - Park Avenue South: Live at Starbucks (Telarc Jazz)
• Call Me Ishmael - Effervescing (Americans Are Coming)
• Rosanne Cash - Rules of Travel (Capitol)
• Vic Chesnutt - Silver Lake (New West)
• Christian Death - Ashes (Cleopatra)
• Codec & Flexor - Tubed (Emperor Norton)
• Freddy Cole - In the Name of Love (Telarc Jazz)
• Steve Cole - Ny La (Warner Bros.)
• Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree (The Militia Group)
• Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day (Red Ink)
• Cream - BBC Sessions (Universal)
• D4 - 6Twenty (Hollywood)
  Buy Now: 6Twenty (Hollywood)
• Chico DeBarge - Free (Koch)
• Derailers - Genuine (Lucky Dog)
• Celine Dion - One Heart(Epic)
• Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity (two CDs, Diplomat/Roc-a-fella/Def Jam)
  Buy Now: Diplomatic Immunity (Diplomat/Roc-a-fella/Def Jam)
• DJ Cam - Soulshine (Koch/In the Paint)
• Dream Evil - Evilized (Century Media)
• Even in Blackouts - Myths & Imaginary Magicians (Lookout!)
• Experience Unlimited - Experience Unlimited (P-Vine Japan)
• The Exploited - F**k the System (Spitfire)
• F-Minus - Wake Up Screaming (Hellcat)
• Fine Arts Militia - We Are Gathered Here (Koch)
• Fox - For Fox Sake (Cherry Red)
• Jerry Garcia - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Gardeweg - All I Want (Radikal)
• God Dethroned - Into the Lungs of Hell(Metal Blade)
• Heavils - Heavils (Metal Blade)
• Hot Boys - Let 'Em Burn (Universal)
• Idlewild - The Remote Part(Capitol)
  Buy Now: The Remote Part (Capitol)
• Iguanas - Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart (Yep Roc)
• Wanda Jackson - The Wanda Jackson Show (DCN)
• Daniel Johnston - Fear Yourself (Gammon)
• Joy Electric - The Tick Tock Treasury (Tooth & Nail)
• Sammy Kershaw - I Want My Money Back (Audium)
• Kindred the Family Soul – Surrender to the Love (Epic)
• Greg Koch - Radio Free Gristle (Favored Nations)
• Toshinori Kondo - Death is Our Eternal Friend (Diw)
• James Last - A World of Music (two CDs, Eagle)
• Tom Lellis - And in This Corner (P-Vine Japan)
• Les Nubians - One Step Forward (OmTown)
• Les Sans Culottes - Live at Arlene Grocery (DCN)
• Linkin Park - Meteora (Warner Bros.)
  Read: "Linkin Park Expand Meteora's Musical Horizons ... In 40 Minutes Or Less"
  Buy Now: Meteora (Warner Bros.)
• Los Hombres Calientes - Volume Four: Vodou Dance(Basin Street)
• Madonna - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Brian McKnight - U Turn (Motown)
• Miss Kittin - Radio Caroline 1 (Emperor Norton)
• Monsters - Hunch (Crazy Love)
• Motorbass - Pansoul (Astralwerks)
• Maria Muldaur - A Woman Alone with the Blues (Telarc)
• Nataraj XT - Ocean Birds (Nutone)
• Willie Nelson - Broken Promises (Proper Pairs)
• NOFX - Regaining Unconsciousness (EP, Fat Wreck Chords)
• Oasis - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Old Man's Child - In Defiance of Existence (Century Media)
• Stacie Orrico - Stacie Orrico (ForeFront/Virgin)
• Ozzy Osbourne - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Overkill - Killbox 13 (Spitfire)
• Pearls Before Swine - Jewels Were the Stars (Water)
• Perpetuous Dreamer - Dust.Wav (Radikal)
• Plumb - Beautiful Lumps of Coal (Curb)
• Doc Powell - 97th and Columbus (Heads Up)
• Rage Against the Machine - Complete Set (CD and Book, Lake Shore)
• Dave Ralph - Resident Alien (two CDs, System)
• Royal Beat Conspiracy - Dig It (Bad Afro)
• Ray Ruff - Buddy Holly Sound (Hydra)
• Dino Saluzzi Trio - Responsorium (ECM)
• Sea of Green - Chemical Vacation (The Music Cartel)
• Scars of Tomorrow - Design Your Fate (Thorp)
• Severed Savior - Brutality Is Law (Unique Leader)
• Sharks - Live in Japan (Crazy Love)
• Wayne Shorter - Alegria (Verve)
• Sixty Stories - Anthem Red (Smallman)
• Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Live From the Charleston
• Music Hall (Skaggs Family)
• Slowpho - Hotel Sleep (Water)
• Stage - Stage (Maverick)
• Stairwell - The Sounds of Change (Hopeless)
• Kay Starr - For Real (Perfect Pairs)
• Ringo Starr - Ringorama (Koch)
• John Stewart - Havana (Appleseed)
• Sugar Ray & the Bluetones - Sugar Ray & the Bluetones (Severn)
• Trent Summar and the New Row Mob - Live at 12th and Porter (DCN)
• Sunday Driver - A Letter to Bryson City (Doghouse)
• Supernatural - The Lost Freestyle Files (Babygrande/Koch)
• Sworn Enemy - As Real as It Gets (Elektra)
• T-Love - Long Way Back (Astralwerks)
• Larry Tee - The Electroclash Mix (Moonshine Music)
• George Thorogood - Ride Til I Die (Eagle)
• Tourniquet - Where Moth and Rust Destroy (Metal Blade)
• Waterdown - The Files You Have on Me (Victory)
• Josh Wink - Herehear (System)
• Erica Wylie - Stoop (Artemis)
• Savina Yannatou - Terra Nostra (ECM)
• Youngster - Firme Oldies (Familia)
• Various artists - Best of Narada World (Narada)
• Various artists - Best of Return of the DJ (Bomb Hip Hop)
• Various artists - Black Flag Tribute - Black on Black (Initial)
• Various artists - Euro Lounge (Putumayo)
• Various artists - Gotta Serve Somebody: A Gospel Tribute to Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)
• Various artists – "Hellraiser" Chronicles (Silva America)
• Various artists - Inside Deep Note: Music of 1970s Adult Cinema (Ost)
• Various artists - New Latin Noveau (Shakti)
• Various artists - Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 12 (Virgin)
• Various artists - Smoking Popes: Tribute (Double Zero)
• DVD: Jane Bunnett - Cuban Odyssey (Blue Note)
• DVD: Various artists - Straight From the Projects (Image Entertainment)

April 1:

• White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
  Read: "White Stripes To Put Their Best Trunk Forward On April Fool's Day With Elephant"
• Robbie Williams - Escapology (Virgin)
  Buy Now: Escapology (Virgin)

April 8:

• Russell Crowe and 30 Odd Foot of Grunts - Other Ways of Speaking (Artemis)
• Godsmack - Faceless (Universal)
  Read: "Godsmack's Visions Of Spinal Tap, Dio, Worse Prompt A Change"
• Lisa Marie Presley - To Whom It May Concern (Capitol)
• Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun (Matador)

April 15:

• Thicke - Cherry Blue Skies (Interscope)
  Read: "Robin Thicke: Mixing The Beatles, Zeppelin And Hendrix With Jay-Z"

• Linkin Park
• The Diplomats
• Aphex Twin
• Celine Dion
• NOFX

Paul van Dyk
Photo: Carlos Amoedo

BERLIN — The Love Parade made its 13th run through this kinetic city's streets Saturday, leaving in its thunderous wake evidence that techno — complete with all the trimmings (and trappings) — is the music for the masses here.

More urban Woodstock than rave with its sprawling outdoor environs and daytime setting, the annual paean to all things techno attracted electronic music lovers from all over the world who partied non-stop for the purest purpose: the love of a dope beat. Free from political undertones or social obligation, or, seemingly, any unifying theme whatsoever, the Love Parade has emerged as the largest musical gathering in the world today.

Beginning in mid-afternoon, Love Parade's 50-plus flat-bed floats, overflowing with young men and women in various states of undress moving and shaking to thumps and squelches of every variation, started down June 17th Street in Berlin's central Tiergarten park. After several months of uncertainty about the Parade's date and location (caused by a group concerned for the park's environmental health that stole the planned date of July 14), its existence alone was cause for celebration.

Not that anyone needed help getting into the groove. A different DJ helmed each lavishly decorated float, most of which welcomed attendees into the "Love Republic," including one covered in red fur and hearts, several with innovative air-powered "dancing" balloon figures and enough bare skin to put everyone in the mood for love. Berliner Paul van Dyk's annual crowd-pleaser emitted crisp, perpetually climaxing trance nuggets, while another featured Detroit techno veterans Alan Oldham (a.k.a. DJ T-1000) and Lawrence Burden on the decks, though musical subtlety was by no means the order of the day — the beat was the thing, and it literally never stopped. Although access to the floats themselves was restricted, the parade route was open to all, and it was thick with people of all ages marching to the sound of the drums. The crowd, which was dominated by teenagers and people in their early 20s, spilled over into the surrounding park paths, with some choosing to walk alongside the procession and others simply plotzing on the lawn. By sunset, the annual ritual was in full swing, as the caravans of funk encircled more than a million people (for the third consecutive year) at the Siegeshalle victory statue at Brandenburg Gate, ushering them into the rhythms of the night. Despite being an undeniable symbol of the raw power of music, as well as a massive financial boon for Berlin, Love Parade also put on display the techno scene's equally untamed underbelly. Having evolved from a tiny community gathering in 1989 into an overstuffed spectacle of global proportions, the unity that once fueled the parade — and the electronic music underground as a whole — was elusive, if present at all. Almost as common a sight as people hugging or dancing was teenagers defecating and vomiting in plain view or passed out and shivering in the dirt. The police siren became as common in the musical mix as the hi-hat. More in the Parade's founding spirit were the renegade generator-powered sound systems that dotted the Tiergarten Saturday, each one attracting a periodic spontaneous dance party to its park bench set-up. Much maligned by Berlin locals in recent years for diverting from its original intentions, Love Parade has actually begun inspiring protests of its own. Last weekend, a march calling itself the F--- Parade attempted its second annual event in opposition to the rampant commercialism of Love Parade, but city authorities quashed it for lacking a permit. A number of similar smaller events took place throughout the week, including the spirited Sex Parade, with all remaining peaceful.

As the sound died down around the Siegeshalle, Paraders flowed into Berlin's myriad nightclubs, where the vibe was decidedly less intense, though no less celebratory. Love Parade is now the centerpiece of a week-long festival of dance music, with options ranging from van Dyk spinning to a stadium of fans to John Acquaviva, Marshall Jefferson and Josh Wink frothing the crowd at the legendary Tresor club — which stayed open straight through from Friday night to Monday morning — to a deluge of underground sounds, including a party by the trailblazing Cologne experimental label Kompakt, and sets around town by DJ Hell, Claude Young and hundreds of others.

• Paul Van Dyk
• Josh Wink
• John Acquaviva

Fatboy Slim
Photo: MTV News

Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method and Orbital will headline America's first Creamfields festivals in Long Island, New York, and Las Vegas in September.

DJs Timo Maas, Tall Paul and John Aquaviva will also perform outside of the Big Apple on September 1, while Basement Jaxx, Sandra Collins and DJ Dan will play Sin City on September 29, organizers announced Monday (May 21).

Several other top electronic acts are slated for both shows, including former Underworld DJ Darren Emerson, Stereo MC's, Uberzone, Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Josh Wink, Photek, Max Graham, Scott Henry, Scott Hardkiss, Scanty Sandwich and the Dub Pistols.

The Long Island festival, which will feature an outdoor main stage and several circus tent arenas hosted by influential clubs from the East Coast and the U.K., will also include DJ Feelgood, Christian Smith, DJ Dara and DJ DB. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Dave Ralph, Donald Glaude, Bad Boy Bill, Christopher Lawrence and Adam Freeland will spin at the Las Vegas festival, which will feature an outdoor main stage and six tents. That show will run from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

More acts, along with ticket information, will be announced later this month, organizers said.

Leading European dance event promoters Cream staged the first Creamfields in the U.K. in 1998. Held annually since, it has become one of the biggest dance-music festivals in the world, attracting 50,000 fans last year.

This year's U.K. fest will be held August 25 at the Old Liverpool Airfield in Liverpool. Fatboy Slim, Gorillaz, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Sasha, John Digweed, Paul van Dyk, Goldie, Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules and Pete Tong are among the artists scheduled to appear.

• Fatboy Slim
• The Crystal Method
• Orbital
• Timo Maas
• Basement Jaxx

Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method and Orbital will headline America's first Creamfields festivals in Long Island, New York, and Las Vegas in September.

DJs Timo Maas, Tall Paul and John Aquaviva will also perform outside of the Big Apple on September 1, while Basement Jaxx, Sandra Collins and DJ Dan will play Sin City on September 29, organizers announced Monday (May 21).

Several other top electronic acts are slated for both shows, including former Underworld DJ Darren Emerson, Stereo MC's, Uberzone, Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Josh Wink, Photek, Max Graham, Scott Henry, Scott Hardkiss, Scanty Sandwich and the Dub Pistols.

The Long Island festival, which will feature an outdoor main stage and several circus tent arenas hosted by influential clubs from the East Coast and the U.K., will also include DJ Feelgood, Christian Smith, DJ Dara and DJ DB. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Dave Ralph, Donald Glaude, Bad Boy Bill, Christopher Lawrence and Adam Freeland will spin at the Las Vegas festival, which will feature an outdoor main stage and six tents. That show will run from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

More acts, along with ticket information, will be announced later this month, organizers said.

Leading European dance event promoters Cream staged the first Creamfields in the U.K. in 1998. Held annually since, it has become one of the biggest dance-music festivals in the world, attracting 50,000 fans last year.

This year's U.K. fest will be held August 25 at the Old Liverpool Airfield in Liverpool. Fatboy Slim, Gorillaz, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Sasha, John Digweed, Paul van Dyk, Goldie, Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules and Pete Tong are among the artists scheduled to appear.

• Fatboy Slim
• The Crystal Method
• Orbital
• Timo Maas
• DJ Dan

Paul Oakenfold
Photo: Hypnotic

Paul Oakenfold, Josh Wink and Dave Ralph are among the premier DJs slated to spin at the inaugural Electronica Music Festival in San Diego on May 12.

Other DJs on the bill include Taylor, Donald Glaude, John Kelley, Dave Aude, Mark Lewis, Vonshock, Nigel Richards and Barry Weaver, according to a spokesperson for the event.

EMF will be held at the San Diego Sports Arena from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. PT. Tickets range from $125 to $25. Promoters are promising audio and visual entertainment at the festival, though details have not been announced. See www.emf2001.com for more information.

• Paul Oakenfold
• Josh Wink

Josh Wink, the trance and dance master from Philadelphia, has just issued a mix album, "Profound Sounds, Vol. 1," and now plans to hit the road for some rare club dates in support of the new release.

• 9/17 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
• 9/18 - Miami, FL @ Coconut Grove Convention Center
• 9/22 - Milwaukee, WI @ Dish
• 9/23 - Madison, WI @ TBA
• 9/24 - Detroit, MI @ Motor
• 9/25 - Hartford, CT @ Hartford Civic Center
• 10/1 - Burlington VT @ Higher Ground
• 10/2 - Jacksonville, FL @ Club 618
• 10/22 - New York, NY @ Twilo
• 10/30 - Seattle, WA @ TBA
• 11/6 - Atlanta, GA @ TBA

• Josh Wink

Josh Wink will hit the road next week as part of a U.S. tour that pairs the DJ with Meat Beat Manifesto for much of the fall.

Wink will open for Meat Beat Manifesto starting in Minneapolis on October 28, and will touch all corners of the U.S. before wrapping things up on November 29 north of the border in Vancouver, Canada.

The DJ, who is touring in support of his debut album "Herehear," promises a "decks & FX" set in which he combines turntables, FX, processors, CDs, and a sampler in building new works based on his own tracks.

"This is a chance for me to do weird sh** live along with DJing that creates an atmosphere and is not solely focused on the dance floor," Wink said about the tour in a statement announcing the itinerary.

If you want to see what he has up his sleeve, here's where to look:

• 10/28 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
• 10/29 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
• 10/31 - Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
• 11/1 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
• 11/2 - Cleveland, OH @ The Odeon
• 11/4 - Toronto, ONT @ Industry
• 11/6 - Boston, MA @ Axis
• 11/7 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
• 11/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
• 11/10 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
• 11/11 - Winston-Salem, NC @ Ziggy's
• 11/13 - Atlanta, GA @ Cotton Club
• 11/14 - Tampa, FL @ Masquerade
• 11/15 - Miami Beach, FL @ Salvation
• 11/16 - Gainesville, FL @ Florida Theatre
• 11/18 - New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
• 11/19 - Houston, TX @ Numbers
• 11/20 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
• 11/21 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Live
• 11/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Palace
• 11/25 - San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
• 11/27 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox Theatre
• 11/29 - Vancouver, BC @ Palladium

• Meat Beat Manifesto
• Josh Wink

July 31 [16:00 EDT] -- Bringing together two bands who come from entirely different musical styles and asking them to make music together seems like a tall order.

However, the artists involved in the recently released "Spawn" soundtrack, which fits a hard rock band with a techno counterpart, say the experiment went much smoother than one might expect.

"Working the project was excellent," Rage Against The Machine's buzzsaw guitarist Tom Morello told MTV about his work with the Prodigy. "We did a song called 'One Man Army'... and it was difficult to get our schedules to mix, so I called up Liam (Howlett of the Prodigy) and I said, 'Why don't you just send me a track, and I'll put some guitar on it.' He suggested that I should just send him a DAT of some f***ed up guitar, and I said, 'Well, that's easy, that's my specialty.'" [1.3 MB QuickTime]

Marilyn Manson, who hooked up with the Sneaker Pimps to record "It's A Long Hard Road, Out Of Hell" for the album, also said things went swimingly in the studio.

"We kind of put it together and presented it to Sneaker Pimps, almost in a remix sense, that they would take our ideas and interpret them," Manson told MTV News. "Kelli (Dayton, Sneaker Pimps vocalist) just sang to what I had been doing and just kind of worked off it. It was very magical, the combination, I adored it." [1.7 MB QuickTime]

"It's like a sound clash," the Sneaker Pimps' Liam Howe said of the final product. "It's one of those things where electronic meets Goth, and we come up with a really interesting hybrid of comedy-electro-Goth, which is exactly what we like." [1.8 MB QuickTime]

And while the metal-meets-techno pairings might seem odd, Josh Wink (who teamed with Stabbing Westward to record "Torn Apart") says that the marriage was a smooth one.

"I was familiar with some of the Stabbing Westward stuff before," Wink said. "I liked a lot of their experimental stuff on their album. It's not too far off from -- I mean, it is electronic music -- that whole term anyway... But, I dug their stuff and it was really kind of cool how last minute it came together."

"Real last minute," [2 MB QuickTime] Stabbing Westward's Walter Flakus added.

The "Spawn" soundtrack, which is already in stores, also features the following collaborations:

• Filter/The Crystal Method - "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do"
• Orbital/Kirk Hammett - "Satan"
• Korn/The Dust Brothers - "Kick The P.A."
• Butthole Surfers/Moby - "Tiny Rubberband"
• Metallica/D.J. Spooky - "For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Irony Of It All) remix"
• Mansun/808 State - "Skin Up, Pin Up"
• Silverchair/Vitro - "Spawn"
• Henry Rollins/Goldie - "T-4 Strain"
• Incubus/Greyboy - "Familiar"
• Slayer/Atari Teenage Riot - "No Remorse (I Wanna Die)"
• Soul Coughing/Roni Size - "A Plane Scraped Its Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon"

• Marilyn Manson
• The Prodigy
• Rage Against the Machine
• Josh Wink

July 18 [10:00 EDT] -- If you thought the burgeoning (or much hyped...take your pick) electronic music scene was being left out of this summer's overstuffed tour calendar, well worry no more.

The Electric Highway tour has just been announced, launching a month of dates on August 15 in San Diego and wrapping up on September 13. Fans can catch Crystal Method, Fluke, members of Iceland's Gus Gus, and such DJs as Josh Wink and DJ Sneak.

There will also be jumbo video screens and chill-out tents for those overwhelmed by it all.

Of course if you can't wait until the tour rolls around, you can check out the fruits of Crystal Method's pairing with Filter for the "Spawn" soundtrack right now on the "Spawn" portion of Sony Music's website, or you can catch Gus Gus on the road as they prepare to hit the Electric Highway.

Here's where they'll be:

• 7/18 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
• 7/20 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 7/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Middle East Club
• 7/22 - New York, NY @ Supper Club
• 7/24 - Boston, MA @ Axis
• 7/25 - Montreal, QUE @ Sona
• 7/26 - Toronto, ONT @ Opera House
• 7/28 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
• 7/29 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
• 8/1 - Vancouver, BC @ Richard's On Richards
• 8/5 -San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club
• 8/8 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
• 8/9 - Pomona, CA @ Glass House

• Fluke
• Gus Gus
• Josh Wink

May 14 [14:00 EST] -- Orbital, Underworld, Josh Wink and others will turn up on MTV Online to chat with users and to mark the release of MTV's "AMP" compilation CD.

The artists will join Tranquillity Bass, Fluke, and Crystal Method in the MTV Arena on America Online Thursday night to field fans questions about the "AMP" release, and any other topic you want to throw their way.

Users will also have the chance to win copies of the "AMP" CD (which also features tracks by Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, the Future Sound of London, Photek, Aphex Twin, Goldie, and Atari Teenage Riot) by answering a handful of trivia questions during the chat. The tracks on the collection were pulled from the seamless stream of electronic music videos featured each week on "AMP" on Friday nights at 2 a.m. and Saturday at 1 a.m. Eastern time.

The chat gets underway at 8 p.m. Eastern time in the MTV Arena on America Online (at keyword: mtvarena).

• Orbital
• Josh Wink