Articles
2010 Top 10s and 20s
Will Long (Celer)

Albums
Bilxaboy
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Celer & Yui Onodera
Cepia
Dead Leaf Echo
Ferraris & Uggeri
Ernesto Ferreyra
Flying Horseman
The Foreign Exchange
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Ghost and Tape
Andrew Hargreaves
Head Of Wantastiquet
i8u
Anders Ilar
Quintana Jacobsma
Kaiserdisco
Leafcutter John
Clem Leek
The Lickets
The Machine
Magda
My Fun
Ostendorf, Zoubek, Lauzier
Part Timer
Phillips + Hara
RV Paintings
Set In Sand
Shackleton
Shigeto
Matt Shoemaker
Sun City Girls
Supersilent
Swartz
Ben Swire
Collin Thomas
Tomo
Upward Arrows

Compilations / Mixes
Exp. Dance Breaks 36
Fünf
Lee Jones
The Moon Comes Closer
Note of Seconds
Tensnake

EPs
8Bitch
Celer
Jasper TX
Jozif
Lerosa
Machinefabriek
Patscan
Pleq
Simon Scott
SHEMALE
Thorsten Soltau / Weiss
Jace Syntax & BlackJack
Weiss

8Bitch: Equinox
Seed Records

That Equinox, 8Bitch's debut EP on Seed Records, names its four tracks after Greek and Egyptian gods and goddesses needn't scare anyone away. The music Maya Medvesek produces under the 8bitch name is eminently accessible, even when it encompasses multiple genres within the experimental-electronic field. Dubstep is perhaps the one most prominently heard but smatterings of garage, crunk, electronica, and ambient sneak into view also.

Sounding like some electrified spawn of Warp futurism, pastoral electronica, and dubstep, “Orpheus” turns heads with a grinding bottom-end of drum thrust and bass throb overlaid with glistening staccato keyboard patterns. “Hathor” slips in smidgens of garage and crunk into an otherwise huffing-and-puffing blend of tribal dubstep and soulful female cooing. “Astarte” lifts the chiming elements from “Orpheus” and this time pairs them with a skittering beat attack that has distant if mutated roots in jungle. A lustrous coda, the oh-so-pretty “Isis” goes for the pastoral jugular, so to speak, in focusing on chiming patterns alone and leaving the beats behind.

On this solidly crafted twelve-inch EP, Medvesek, who is of Slovenian descent and now splits her time between London and Glasgow, gets the job done in each case with militaristic efficiency, with none of the four cuts pushing past the four-minute mark.

December 2010