Albums
aus
Aidan Baker
Big Farm
The Black Dog
Blackshaw & Melnyk
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Clockwork
Matthew Collings
Coma
DJ Koze
Djrum
Eluvium
Fredda
Freska
Hanging Up The Moon
Jenny Hval
Jimpster
Rena Jones
Mark Lorenz Kysela
Leonhard + Red
Naph
Petrels
Piano Interrupted
Pursuit Grooves
David Rothenberg
Saltland
subtractiveLAD
Terminal Sound System
Andrew Weathers

Compilations / Mixes
Joy
Kumasi Music Volume 1
John Morales
One Point Three (A & B)
Maceo Plex
Soma Compilation 21
Steffi

EPs / Cassettes / Singles
Alter Echo & E3
Amiina
Badawi VS Ladyman
Bunnies & Bats
Diffraction of Sound EP
Gerwin
Heligoland
Hibea
The Monroe Transfer
Chris Octane
RSD
Katsunori Sawa
Andy Vaz

aus: ReCollected
Plop

ReCollected compiles fifteen remixes aus (Tokyo, Japan-based Yasuhiko Fukuzono and flau associate) created between 2006 and 2012 into a seventy-minute set. Two things bear mention upfront: first, the artists given the aus treatment are a diverse lot, which makes for an album rich in contrast; and secondly, rather than that diversity resulting in a lack of cohesiveness, the album ends up feeling unified due to the stylistic consistency aus imposes upon their tracks. His is an assured hand, for sure, and one as capable of tackling pieces by instrumental hip-hop producers Geskia! and Fedaden and ambient-classical artists Christoph Berg (aka Field Rotation) and pianist Henning Schmiedt.

Geskia!'s “Requiem for Genome” opens the set strongly with a bass-prodded body-mover, followed by a track also inflected with hip-hop flavour, even if The Storms' “Letter on the 44th Day” opts for sun-kissed languor over insistent rhythmic thrust. But though the style is revisited later on in Origamibiro's “Sedimental Value,” numerous twists and turns occur thereafter, with ReCollected never staying in any one place for very long. Sparkling electronica is well-accounted for in uplifting tunes by Miyauchi Yuri (“Mirea_”) and Park Avenue Music (“Cutter”), while strings-laced, classical-ambient splendour is provided by Northerner (“Direction”) and Christoph Berg (“Interlude”).

May 2013