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

Fusiphorm: YourSpace EP
foundsound

Foundsound co-founder fusiphorm (Sylvain Takerkart aka Cyhl) opts for low riders on Yourspace, his second label 12-inch and follow-up to 2006's You Am I outing. Serious in construction but playful in spirit, the opener “Daniel's Extended Network” mixes snappy bass burble and clickety percussive pulses into a slinky funk-house burner where elephant-like screams and clanking chains pierce the subtly grooving quietude. In the merrily strutting “Here for Serious Relationships,” low-slung bass gulps anchor the controlled mayhem of scraping noises that suggest the sound of a steely corpse being dragged. Cyhl caps the disc with the relatively tranquil “Thanx for the Add” where cricket whirrs, water noises, and sliding tones arm-wrestle over a lurching bass and skipping pulse. Like label cohorts Miskate and Someone Else, Cyhl has no difficulty spinning endlessly imaginative variations on the label's minimal house-found sound template.

April 2007

This review also appears in Grooves.