Articles
2010 Ten Favourite Labels
Liam Singer

Albums
Akabu
Amorph
Keith Canisius
Carinthia
Cursor Miner
Dark Party
dOP
Evon
Ex-Wise Heads
Forever Delayed
The Fun Years
Dirk Geiger
The Green Kingdom
Chihei Hatakeyama
Hessien
Robin Holcomb
The Inventors of Aircraft
Peter Jørgensen
Loveliescrushing
My Dry Wet Mess
Silje Nes
Ontayso
Piiptsjilling
Pleq
Radioseed
relapxych.0
Sharp & Whetham
Liam Singer
Erik K Skodvin
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Squares On Both Sides
Strië
Sutekh
David Sylvian
Taiga II
Francesco Tristano
RJ Valeo
Victoire
Wreaths
Zelienople

Compilations / Mixes
Buzz.RO! 2010
Crónica L
Timo Maas
Movement Torino Festival
Sebastian Mullaert

EPs
Dday One / Glen Porter
Depth Affect
Enabl.ed
The Gentleman Losers
Gulls
Mimosa
Piece of Shh…
Shufflepunk
Teebs & Jackhigh
Telekaster
thisquietarmy + yellow6
Tom White

Depth Affect: Chorea
Autres Directions In Music

Depth Affect (Rémy Charrier, David Bideau, Frédéric Puren, Xavier Brunet ) returns with a twenty-three-minute twelve-inch vinyl EP that makes one hunger for a larger helping of the group's melodic hip-hop. The French outfit manages to cover a lot of ground in the six songs, with each one casting its gaze in a slightly different direction. The opening piece, “Dämmerung,” is German for “dawn,” so it's perfectly fitting that the quietly jubilant vibe stoked by the hip-hop instrumental is elevated by crisp beats and sparkling melodies. With the exception of “Amanecer,” the brooding electro-acoustic rumination with which the EP ends, Chorea is chock full of low-end beats and shimmering synthetics, whether the track in question is an enticing vocal cut (the bleepy workout “Marine Eyelid”) or remix of an electro-poppy Populous & Short Stories original (“Man Overboard,” where Depth Affect adds its beat skills to lush vocal harmonies). The release also features a guest shot by LA rapper Riddlore? who adds rhymes to the group's chugging, synth-kissed groove in “Else's Vision.” The group isn't terribly prolific—Chorea is the first formal release since 2008's Hero Crisis album, which itself appeared two years after the debut full-length Arche-Lymb—so one hopes that the gap separating Chorea and the next Depth Affect album won't be too great.

November 2010