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

Sunosis: Warmed
Rednetic

True to its title, Colin Welsh's Sunosis outing soothes with sunkissed electronic charm. Welsh is a co-owner of the West London club Ginglik, which issued last year's stellar collection Ginglik Saturdays: Rhythms Re-Lik (on Ginglik Records in tandem with Bubblewrap Industries) and, not surprisingly, Warmed exudes similarly breezy flavour. With softly whistling melodies spurred by squelchy beats rooted in funk and hip-hop, Sunosis' electronic tracks veritably ooze jubilation. The upper tier's full of incandescent sparkle and shimmering strings while the low end gets its hand dirty with nimble funk-inflected pulses and hints of turntable scratching. An occasional hint of Sunosis' precursors surfaces—the distorted voice that groans and slithers through “Assured Pass” and the synth melody peering above the hip-hop plod in “Harfeda” recall Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, respectively—though that in itself is no great crime . At 33 minutes, Warmed is breezily short too. Admittedly, some tracks could be longer—the two-minute “Plato” barely establishes its brooding character before vanishing—but there's something to be said for brevity in an era of bloat.

April 2007