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SMALL FACES: Former Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart is the first signing to N2K Encoded Music’s Digital Artists label, with an album, “Sly Fi,” due next month. He’s also initiating a “Sly Fi TV” series of Internet video Webcasts soon, with a first installment featuring such elements as a fake commercial starring Isabella Rossellini and digitally altered nursery songs sung by Sinead O’Connor and Jon Bon Jovi. . . .

With Mercury Records’ regular pressing plant refusing to handle the label’s release of Nashville Pussy’s new album, the package has now been manufactured at an alternate facility, with an added bonus disc featuring seven cover songs, including AC/DC’s “Kicked in the Teeth.” The release, due Sept. 1, also includes a fold-out poster with a more explicit version of the cover art, which in part led to the original plant’s decision not to print it. . . .

Maryland techno artist BT, whose last two albums were released through Warner Bros. Records, has signed to L.A. electronic dance-oriented label City of Angels, with a single, “Promethean Groove,” to be released Oct. 6 under the pseudonym Kistar. Meanwhile, City of Angels’ deal with Geffen-distributed Outpost Recordings has also ended, and the label is shopping for its own new home. . . .

Remixes of tracks by New Order, Bjork and U2 are among those on “A Perspective: 1988-1998,” a new two-CD set marking 10 years of the British acid house scene, released by the British label Junior Boys Own via Richard Branson’s new V2 company. Underworld, Junior Boys Own’s mainstay act, is working on its first V2 album, with a single due in February and the whole collection in March. . . .

Raleigh-based Whiskeytown’s 1996 indie debut, “Faithless Street,” will be reissued Sept. 29 by Outpost Recordings, with nine previously unreleased tracks added.