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Available as free downloads: the EP This is Our Chicago '94 by Chuck Blazevic (aka Dreamsploitation) from Divorce; Elisa Luu's The Time of Waiting from La bèl netlabel; Shigeto's What We Held Onto from Ghostly; Faux Pas's Vanderbilt EP; Heinali and Finney's Lemonade EP; aKido's Gamechanger from aKidomusic.com; Fractional's Blood Remixes from Tympanik Audio; and hair-loss's Triple Whippit from Color is Luxury.

OCTOBER 2010, NO. 72

Article
Ten Questions with Morgan Packard

Albums
Celer: Dying Star (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
Concern: Cæsarean (Slow Flow Rec)
Copy: Hard Dream (Audio Dregs)
Dalot: Loop Over Latitudes (n5MD)
Darkstar: North (Hyperdub)
Gareth Dickson: The Dance (Gareth Dickson)
Directorsound: Two Years Today (Tona Serenad)
Dryft: Ventricle (n5MD)
Benjamin Finger: For You, Sleepsleeper (How Is Annie Records)
Fond of Tigers: Continent & Western (Drip Audio / Offseason)
Gareth Hardwick: Of the Sea and Shore (Low Point)
Haruki: Snowed in Food Shelter (Klanggold)
Library Tapes: Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky (Auetic)
Markus Mehr: Lava (Hidden Shoal)
Yann Novak: Relocation.Reconstruction (Line)
okamotonoriaki: Telescope (Mü-nest)
M. Ostermeier: Chance Reconstruction (Tench)
Morgan Packard: Moment Again Elsewhere (Anticipate)
Petrolio: End of Vision (Gruenrekorder)
Benoit Pioulard: Lasted (kranky)
Hein Schoer: Two Weeks in Alert Bay (Gruenrekorder)
Seaworthy and Matt Rösner: Two Lakes (12k)
Sketches For Albinos: Days of Being Wild and Kind (nothings66)
Slow Dancing Society: Under the Sodium Lights (Hidden Shoal)
System: B (Rump Recordings)
Walkner.Moestl: Structures (Defusion)

EPs
Aufgang: Dulceria EP (InFiné)
Bogdan: Human Thermodynamics (Local Records)
Jacksonville: Saturn 5 (Doppler Records)
Minus: 95 (Local Records)
Yann Novak + Marc Manning: Some Clouds (Koyuki)
Sozonov: He & She (Elektrotribe)
:take: s/t (Three:four Records)

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Established in August 2004, textura is a monthly publication of experimental and electronic music-related reviews, interviews, and articles. Many thanks to Taylor Deupree and Finn McNicholas for their generous contributions to the September issue. The photographs displayed on this issue's pages (index: New York City, 6pm [detail]; media: Moss, Yamaguchi [detail]; info: Construction, Kyoto [detail]) were taken by Taylor Deupree and are included with his permission; more of his photography can be viewed here.