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Albums
Ard Bit
Autistici
Tommi Bass
Peter Broderick
Demdike Stare
Enigmatical
Enigmatical / Misto Soon
Erik Enocksson
Ethernet
Firekites
Nils Frahm
GusGus
Ian Hawgood
Richard Hawley
Sunao Inami
Italoboyz
Rickard Jäverling
Jamie Jones
Anne Laplantine
The Lickets
Dale Lloyd
Greg Malcolm
Jack Marchment
Maserati
Mem1
Milieu
Annelies Monseré
Nonnon
Adam Pacione
Ola Podrida
Poordream
Poostosh
Glen Porter
The Postmarks
Slowcream
Solo Andata
Sweet Trip
Nicholas Szczepanik
timwarrenmusic
Valleys
Variant
David Wenngren
White Rainbow

Compilations / Mixes
The Lab 02—Steve Bug
Reflections Class. Music
Ivan Smagghe
When I Was Ten

EPs
Above Smoke
A Work in Progress
Burnkane
Down Review
Glimpse & Martin Eyerer
Hauntologists
Pollen Trio
Purse Candy
Remdog
Spartak
Trish Van Eynde
Marshall Watson

Andy Vaz: A Number of Styles
Yore

Recorded by Andy Vaz in Cologne (with additional production by B.troit), A Number of Styles isn't so much about different styles so much as it's about funky house grooves. The A side's “The Why Theme” gets nicely moving with a funky house pulse before stoking the fire with the addition of speaking voices (trippily intoning the Q&A “What are we doing this for?” and “The music”), a move which single-handedly jumpstarts the track. After the voices appear, the groove's intensity escalates and plunges deeper, its gyroscopic house swing becoming more dizzying and torrential with each passing bar before coming to an acidy end. In its opening moments, “25” opts for a less frenetic and rather more serenading vibe by comparison, but that's traded in for a slinkier attack at the three-minute mark that grows progressively more ferocious as the track makes its upwards ascent. The B side's other track, “Mumbai Dweller,” keeps the focus primarily on the bottom end, specifically a strutting tribal-house funk groove that's dragged even deeper by a throbbing bass undertow. So nice to hear the Yore captain digging into three clubby cuts that are anything but minimal.

December 2009