textura

ALBUMS
Automotive
Benevento/Russo Duo
Benni Hemm Hemm
Caribou
[The] Caseworker
Eric Chenaux
Cineplexx
Claudia
Daedelus
J Dilla
Envy
Fond of Tigers
Formication
Grizzly Bear
Guther
Ike Yard
Kilo Watts
The Knife
Minimum Chips
Miss Violetta Beauregarde
North Valley Sub. Orch.
Quench
Sandoz
Dani Siciliano
Liam Singer
Stop Disco Mafia
Susanna/Magical Orch.
Vorpal
Wisp
Working Nuclear Free City
Peter Wright
Susumu Yokota
Zeebee

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Belladonna Summer
Cut Copy FabricLive
Mark Farina
Magda
Tandem 4
Tiefschwarz Fabric
Total 7
Until Human Voices...

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Allie
Barem
Deathprod
Ensemble
Extrawelt
Marc Houle
Loco Dice
Lost Trax
David Newlyn
Sandro Perri
Porter & Blain
Relay
Sirka Ragnar
SLG
Swat-Squad

Stop Disco Mafia: You Don't Wanna Know
Proptronix

Stop Disco Mafia's irreverently gloopy electro-pop is almost as ill-behaved as its debut disc's song titles (“Total Desaster” and “Shithead”) and the crude breast illustration gracing the front cover. Much of the album's slapstick material (e.g., “Washhour”) suggests Stop Disco Mafia (the ‘group' is actually the solo spawn of Ronald Gonko, bassist with mandolin orchestra Kapajkos, with Nora Below adding defiantly inelegant vocals throughout) should be filed alongside kindred provocateurs Mouse On Mars and DAT Politics. Rubbery melodies and rabid rhythms abound: Ole Wulfers' singing saws whimper like Theremins alongside bleepy beats in “Shithead,” the scuzz-ball “Crunchbone” whirrs and throbs like some crazed timepiece, and Below's voice sounds suitably deranged in “Mad Mind.” Surprisingly, occasional moments of sanity do arise, especially near the end of the 17-song collection: a snappy beat pattern drives the comparatively normal “Absent” with its marquee attractions a muted trumpet meander and Below's faux-soul vocalizing, plus the smeary drum'n'bass of “Another Stoneage” and jazzy dub-funk of “Missing Vegas” also strike relatively well-behaved poses.

September 2006