ARTICLES
Benoît Pioulard's Précis
Label: Dynamophone
Label: Hidden Shoal

ALBUMS
Aemae
A Lily
Arc Lab
Blotnik Brothers
Gui Boratto
Cagesan
Jeremy Caulfield
Loren Dent
Do Make Say Think
Eats Tapes
Enduser
Domink Eulberg
Explosions in the Sky
Michael Fahres
The Field
Frivolous
Maximilian Hecker
Hug
Hush Arbors
Jan-M. Iversen
Espen Jørgensen
Kattoo
O.Lamm
Bruce Levingston
Tobias Lilja
Lusine
Marcia Blaine School
The Missing Ensemble
Nebulo
Ölvis
Charlemagne Palestine
Palomar
Pornopop
The Postmarks
Propergol Y Colargol
The Retail Sectors
R/R Coseboom
Sankt Otten
Scratch Massive
Slow Dancing Society
Stars of the Lid
subtractiveLAD
Sunosis
Aoki Takamasa
Amon Tobin
Tokyo Mask
Kate Wax
Wes Willenbring
Windmill

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Chaos.Lovers
Cryosphere
Hub: 2004-2005
Rufs
Satoshi Tomiie

3" /7" /10"/12"/EPs
Agnes
AM/PM
Arctic Sunrise
Audion
Characterize 1
Dartriix
Death is Nothing To Fear
Don't Be A Stranger
Einóma
Fusiphorm
Heartthrob
Human Nature
Infant Cycle / Antmanuv
Lilienweiss
Luci
Mauve
Paco Osuna
Ben Parris
Carola Pisaturo
Portable
Sutekh
System
Aoki Takamasa
Cortney Tidwell
Andy Vaz

AM/PM: Bought and Sold
Dreck

AM/PM: Maratea
Dreck

Radovan Scasascia inaugurates a new twelve-inch series with four tracks split between Bought and Sold and Maratea. As he did with 2004's The Ends, Scasascia uses the final moments of found recordings as a starting point for the tracks' source material—not that one would know otherwise, necessarily. Whether designed for the club or home-listening, the discs' densely textured material is cerebral, sophisticated, and controlled. In disc one's “Bought and Sold,” distant horns surge and scratching accents pan over an insistently swinging tech-house groove while wheezing machine emissions jumpstart layers of rhythmic pitter-patter and skipping patterns in the more meditative “Such is the Ordeal.” Disc two's exquisite “Maratea” pairs a delicate stream of clicks, snaps, and smears and carefully modulated crescendos with a subtly swaying house pulse, after which “Rather Than Less” wends a dreamily downtempo route filled with elongated chords and languorous drum pulses. Scasascia plans to follow these releases with two more before eventually issuing them collectively as a full-length later this year.

April 2007

This review also appears in Grooves.