Articles
2009 Artists' Picks
Lymbyc Systym

Albums
Cory Allen
aus
The Bird Ensemble
Canaille
Catlin & Machinefabriek
Greg Davis
Loren Dent
Dirac
Drafted By Minotaurs
Flica
Sarah Goldfarb & JHK
Gown
John Hollenbeck
Viviane Houle
I/DEX
Akira Kosemura
Andrew McKenna Lee
Le Lendemain
LRAD
Lymbyc Systym
Melorman
Muskox
The Mercury Program
Nikasaya
Northerner
nörz
Noveller / Aidan Baker
Redshape
Marina Rosenfeld
Stripmall Architecture
Sturqen
Wes Willenbring
The Tony Wilson Sextet
Julia Wolfe
Peter Wright
Zelienople

Compilations / Mixes
Blackoperator
Glimpse Four:Twenty 03
Kod.eX
Portland Stories

EPs
Molnbär Av John
Tommi Bass & B.B.S.C.
Julian Beau
Colours-Volume 5
Dalot
Echologist
Simon James French
Geiom & Shortstuff
General Elektriks
Geskia
Ernest Gonzales
Gradient
Jacksonville
Joker
Ann Laplantine
Loko
Machinefabriek
Stefano Pilia
Damian Valles

General Elektriks: Raid The Radio EP
Discograph

Raid the Radio is issued, naturally, under its creator's name, General Elektriks aka Hervé ‘RV' Salters, but—truth be told—the EP comes recommended primarily because of the involvement of French producer Agoria who contributes two top-drawer remixes (one of them digital only). The lead-off track, his “Space Agoria Motor Mix,” turns Salters' original (from his Good City For Dreamers album) into a tech-house raver that burns for nearly eight steamrolling minutes. With the original's vocal reduced to little more than a phantom trace, the focus shifts to a thrusting bass-powered backbeat that's as unstoppable as an out-of-control locomotive. The feverish, nine-minute club anthem “General Agoria Motor Remix” (digital-only) starts out a tad less ferociously, but it gradually swells in intensity as the seconds tick off and it's joined by the rebellious chant “Raid the radio / ‘Cause we're tired of hearing the same old song / We're gonna change the dial to something new / Bring some truth to this town.”

January 2010