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

Sutekh: Notes from Doctor Island
Soul Jazz

The ever-imaginative and always-unpredictable Sutekh (San Francisco-based Seth Horvitz) offers up two whimsical sound collages on this latest Soul Jazz 12-inch. Though it wouldn't be entirely inaccurate to label them ‘dance' cuts, they're definitely ‘dance' cuts from some other galaxy, given their gleefully experimental character. While a bumping techno-funk pulse churns below, the Context head wastes no time brewing up a hot-wired splatterfest of spastic jitters, squelchy splashes, and gaseous emissions in the A side's “Kill the Monkey.” Though the tune oozes hints of rave, trance, funk, and techno, it comes out sounding like nothing else but Sutekh, pure and simple. On the flip side, Horvitz sweetens an equally intricate crisscross of swizzles and creaks with nimble synth melodies in “The Diamond House” but grounds it with a skankier house lope. Though Sutekh created the tracks for the film version of Gene Wolfe's Nebula Award-winning novella “The Death of Doctor Island,” the disc's oddball title is perfectly in keeping with the release's overall vibe.

April 2007

This review also appears in Grooves.