Music by the Chemical Brothers and Air now is available to send through Egreetings, the Web-based greeting-card service. The Chemicals' beats can be heard on a "Block Rockin' " birthday card, which uses the duo's hit "Block Rockin' Beats," and a "Hey Boy Hey Girl" general greeting card. Air cards will feature the songs "Sexy Boy," "All I Need" (from their 1998 LP, Moon Safari) and "Playground Love" (from their recent score for The Virgin Suicides). Cards are available at www.egreetings.com by clicking on "music scene."...

Veteran Japanese electro-pop band Pizzicato Five is at work on their new album, The Fifth Release from Matador, due Oct. 17. It will be the group's ninth full-length release. ...

British duo Groove Armada have mixed the second installment in the Back To Mine late-night series, due Sept. 5. (The first, released in February, was by New York house pioneer Danny Tenaglia.) On their soulful 14-song mix, Tom Findlay and Andy Cato included tracks by Barry White, UK rapper/producer Roots Manuva and a Tim "Love" Lee remix of their own "Your Song," from their recent album, Vertigo (Feb. 22). ...

In addition to his upcoming new album, Loa Project, Volume II (due July 11), Paris producer DJ Cam will release a CD-ROM featuring films, interviews and music about voodoo, which Cam said was a large inspiration for his new album. Loa Project, Volume I, the CD-ROM that will be released in the fall, is named for the protective spirit Loa Mété and will include two new tracks. ...

Ali Farka Touré, Dimitri From Paris, Asian Dub Foundation and Juan de Marcos' Afro-Cuban All-Stars will join numerous Australian musicians at Hemispheres, the world music festival to be held Sept. 9–10 in Sydney, Australia. The two-stage festival, which also features Transglobal Underground and Siouxsie Sioux, will be held the weekend before the Olympic Games. ...

King Biscuit Time, the side project of Beta Band singer Steve Mason, will release "No Style," a collection of two EPs, Aug. 1 on Astralwerks. Comprising "No Style," the latest King Biscuit release, and "Nellie Foggits Blues in 'Me and the Pharaohs,' " which came out last fall, the double EP reflects Mason's left-field, lo-fi leanings. ...

The second full-length by drum & bass experimentalist Photek is tentatively set for a Sept. 26 release, according to his U.S. label, Astralwerks. Titled Solaris, the album ventures into non–drum & bass territory, including four vocal tracks and some deep-house cuts. Photek (born Rupert Parkes) released several singles on his own UK labels before putting out his debut LP, Modus Operandi, in 1997. ...

The first full-length on the underground Cologne, Germany, label Perlon is Marcus Nikolai's recently released Black. Perlon has developed into one of the leading homes for Germany's abstract-techno community, propelled partially by Nikolai's single "Bushes," which was a club hit last year. Clair Dietrich, who sang on "Bushes," also performs on several tracks on Black.. ...

The fourth volume in LTJ Bukem's Earth series is due July 31 in the States, through Studio K7. A collection of 12 tracks that offers contributions from artists such as Big Bud and Flying Fish, the music spans drum & bass, deep house and soulful Latin grooves. The CD comes courtesy of Bukem's Good Looking Organization, which includes the imprints Good Looking, Looking Good, Cookin', Nexus and Blue Vinyl. ...

The latest release by German minimal-techno producer Reinhard Voigt is Premiere World, which recently came out on the Cologne label Kompakt. Having also recorded under the aliases Sturm, Kron and Pentax, Premiere World is the first album by Voigt (whose brother Wolfgang — a.k.a. Mike Ink — is among the community's leaders) under his own name. The six untitled tracks lean toward the beatless mind trips of his brother's gorgeous and abstract Gas releases. ...

Tricky collaborator Martina is recording her solo debut album. According to her UK manager, the singer just signed a deal with Independiente Records, which is released through Sony Music outside of England. The untitled album will be released next year, the spokesperson said. ...

The French house label Distance is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the 21-track compilation Distance 1995–2000, which is available as an import in the United States. The two-CD compilation, divided into "Club" and "Deep" discs, includes Distance cuts from the past five years by Romanthony, Kevin Yost, Kenny Larkin, Kings of Tomorrow and Larry Heard. ...

— sonicnet.com staff report