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

Enduser: Pushing Back
Ad Noiseam

Sonic terrorist Lynn Standafer packs a thunderous wallop on his latest Enduser opus Pushing Back. The twelve-song collection doesn't advance his signature sound in radical measure but more consolidates it, making it an ideal primer for the Enduser neophyte. Though Standafer mixes things up with vocal guest shots that push his material into dark hip-hop (“Positioned” featuring Shadow Huntaz' Nongenetic) and trip-hop (“Genesis” with Kazumi), as always it's the bulldozing beatsmithing that hits the hardest. In fact, drums are the primary instrument on many tracks as Standafer lays down simple, minimal themes that leave ample space for the intricate beat patterns to work their ferocious magic. Some cuts (“Across,” “An Apology”) fuse the aggressive attack of breakcore with the clattering mayhem of early Photek- and Squarepusher-styled drum'n'bass, and for those who missed Bollywood Breaks, Standafer revisits the territory on the massive “Switch” where swooping strings churn and an Indian singer chants alongside hammering breaks and monstrous bass roar. No one should be too surprised that DJ Hidden and Bong-Ra take the Enduser sound to an even more ferocious extreme on their respective “The Catalyst” and “Pushing Chaos” remixes—which Standafer seemingly regards as some sort of challenge, if his blistering “Pushing Back” and, frankly, hellacious “The Maker” (featuring Chemlab's Jared Louche) count as a reply. Definitely not for the weak of heart.

April 2007

This review also appears in Grooves.