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2012 Artists' Picks

Albums
36
The Alvaret Ensemble
The Boats
Dadub
Day
Enduser / The Teknoist
Alejandro Franov
Christoph Funabashi
The Inventors Of Aircraft
Kostis Kilymis
krill.minima
Lau Nau
Madera Wind Quintet
Todd Matthews
Lubomyr Melnyk
okamononoriaki
The Outside Agency
Oyaarss
peterMann
Pleq + Philippe Lamy
Roach & Metcalf
SaffronKeira
Martin Schulte
Jay Shepheard
Tape Loop Orchestra
Techdiff
TM404
Yard

Compilations / Mixes
Darkroom Dubs Vol.3
Petre Inspirescu
Pop Ambient 2013
v-p v-f is v-n

EPs / Cassettes / Singles
Alis
Arkaik
Babi
Bee Mask
Bungle
drcarlsonalbion
Fescal
Fluorescent Heights
William Ryan Fritch
Greyghost
Junction 12
Lind and Loraine
Alessan Main
Martinez
Mikal
Show Me The Future
10 Yrs hhv.de 45 Vol. 10
Wolf Cub

Babi: I Said No
Thirty5 Records

I Said No is the first single on Thirty5 Records by DJ-producer Babi, otherwise known as Bergamo, Italy-born Bernardo Cavalli, and the twenty-first release overall for the Italy-based electronic music company. The single takes the tune for a triple spin, with Babi's original accompanied by remixes from Landmark and Sandro Beninati & Marcel Vidal.

Don't be thrown by the negative tone of the track title as Babi's “I Said No” oozes positivity in its deep house presentation. The tune nicely embeds a skipping snare pattern within a snappy house groove and embellishes it with loads of wide-screen atmosphere—whooshes and swirls, wiry bass synthesizer patterns, and a male voice's repeated exhortation. “I Said No” ultimately rewards on purely sonic grounds for its well-crafted arrangement as much as it does its body-moving potential. While not lacking in atmosphere, Landmark's comparatively funkier version is more focused on the dancefloor, and its pumping groove is punchier, too, which helps make it clubbier than the original. Beninati and Vidal's dizzying tech-house treatment swings powerfully also, and exudes an especially earthy quality when crowd noise is added to the tune's rolling pulse.

February 2013