Articles
2010 Ten Favourite Labels
Liam Singer

Albums
Akabu
Amorph
Keith Canisius
Carinthia
Cursor Miner
Dark Party
dOP
Evon
Ex-Wise Heads
Forever Delayed
The Fun Years
Dirk Geiger
The Green Kingdom
Chihei Hatakeyama
Hessien
Robin Holcomb
The Inventors of Aircraft
Peter Jørgensen
Loveliescrushing
My Dry Wet Mess
Silje Nes
Ontayso
Piiptsjilling
Pleq
Radioseed
relapxych.0
Sharp & Whetham
Liam Singer
Erik K Skodvin
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Squares On Both Sides
Strië
Sutekh
David Sylvian
Taiga II
Francesco Tristano
RJ Valeo
Victoire
Wreaths
Zelienople

Compilations / Mixes
Buzz.RO! 2010
Crónica L
Timo Maas
Movement Torino Festival
Sebastian Mullaert

EPs
Dday One / Glen Porter
Depth Affect
Enabl.ed
The Gentleman Losers
Gulls
Mimosa
Piece of Shh…
Shufflepunk
Teebs & Jackhigh
Telekaster
thisquietarmy + yellow6
Tom White

Enabl.ed: Dips33 EP
Concrete Plastic

Enabl.ed (aka twenty-six-year-old New Yorker Jimmy Batista) could well be the best opening act Autechre never had. On his six-track debut EP Dips33, Batista, who also operates under the iameb 57 name, serves up detail-packed electronica salvos whose chrome-plated melodies and splatter-funk beats often come across like early Autechre tracks collapsed into three-minute miniatures (Batista's propensity for titles like “Orcyn4” tightens the connection). “Sibevick” gets things moving with a fireball of mashed beat crunch and throb peppered with chiming, 8-bit synthesizer melodies. Elsewhere, willowy synth tones stretch themselves into elegiac arcs atop a bed of neo-funk convulsions (“Maxille”), seizure-gripped percussive blasts strafe the synthetic terrain (“Dips33”), and sputtering funk pulses augment rapid-fire smatterings of glitchy whirr-and-click (“Lalik”). One could simply proceed directly to the last track, “Prehts,” for as good a representation as any of the Enabl.ed approach as its less frenetic character allows the listener to more easily take the scenery in.

November 2010