Articles
2011 10 Favourite Labels
Spotlight 3

Albums
Félicia Atkinson
Autistici
Bee Mask
Biomass
Gui Boratto
Peter Broderick
Benjamin Broening
bvdub
Chicago Odense Ens.
Dday One
Lawrence English
The Field
Nils Frahm
Douglas Greed
Jim Haynes
Hess + McFall
High aura'd
Hior Chronik
itsnotyouitsme
King Midas Sound
Leyland Kirby
Knox & Oberland
Koss/Henriksson/Mullaert
Tom Lawrence
Mist
Phonte
Planetary Assault Systems
Rustie
Sense
Sepalcure
Slove
Splashgirl
Two People In A Room
Vaetxh
Christina Vantzou
Marius Vareid
Wolfgang Voigt
Water Borders
Wenngren & Bissonnette
Xhin
Eisuke Yanagisawa
yMusic

Compilations / Mixes
Above The City
Air Texture Vol. 1
Burning Palms
Emerging Organisms 4
Live And Remastered

EPs
Antonymes/ S. D. Society
Cardopusher
Cyrus
Gulls
Keepsakes
Late Night Chronicles
Old Apparatus
Option Command
Pillowdiver
Benoît Honoré Pioulard
Kevin Reynolds
Strategy

Cardopusher: Instant Loving EP
Frijsfo Beats

Fresh on the heels of his mid-2011 outing, Yr Fifteen Minutes Are Up (Tigerbeat6/Shockout), Cardopusher (Barcelona-based and Venezuelan-born Luis Garbàn) delivers another twenty-minute set that shows that his fifteen minutes are most definitely not up. If anything, Instant Loving suggests Garbàn's been keeping his ear close to the ground and soaking up all manner of fresh sounds.

Cardopusher's high-octane marriage of garage, deep house, and dubstep gets a mighty workout in “Instant Glue,” all off-kilter beatsmithing and soulful vocal snippets. Garbàn stokes the track with an elastic funk groove that roars with serious purpose and peppers the lush synth melodies with staccato vocal accents in a way that makes the material sound totally of-the-moment. Cuts such as “Instant Glue” and “Then What” make Cardopusher and Sepalcure seem like immediate family members, with both emphasizing soulful vocal fragments, jittery two-step and garage-house rhythms, and razor-sharp production skills in their current output. In its relatively calmer interplay of beats and melodies, “Loving U” showcases the EP's more late-night side side, after which Point B takes “Then What” for a remix ride that involves a scenic sampling of two-step rhythms, bass wobble, and ice-cold Detroit synth atmospheres. Instant Loving indeed.

November 2011