Articles
2010 Top 10s and 20s
Will Long (Celer)

Albums
Bilxaboy
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Celer & Yui Onodera
Cepia
Dead Leaf Echo
Ferraris & Uggeri
Ernesto Ferreyra
Flying Horseman
The Foreign Exchange
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Ghost and Tape
Andrew Hargreaves
Head Of Wantastiquet
i8u
Anders Ilar
Quintana Jacobsma
Kaiserdisco
Leafcutter John
Clem Leek
The Lickets
The Machine
Magda
My Fun
Ostendorf, Zoubek, Lauzier
Part Timer
Phillips + Hara
RV Paintings
Set In Sand
Shackleton
Shigeto
Matt Shoemaker
Sun City Girls
Supersilent
Swartz
Ben Swire
Collin Thomas
Tomo
Upward Arrows

Compilations / Mixes
Exp. Dance Breaks 36
Fünf
Lee Jones
The Moon Comes Closer
Note of Seconds
Tensnake

EPs
8Bitch
Celer
Jasper TX
Jozif
Lerosa
Machinefabriek
Patscan
Pleq
Simon Scott
SHEMALE
Thorsten Soltau / Weiss
Jace Syntax & BlackJack
Weiss

Anders Ilar: Vidare
Further Records

Vidare is the sound of Swedish producer Anders Ilar emptying out his hard drive of previously unreleased material composed and produced between 2000 and 2010. Don't think for a moment that that means it's in any way throwaway—Ilar's far too solid a producer and polished a craftsperson for that. His virgin foray into the limited-edition cassette market gathers eighteen tracks of varying stylistic character into a more-than-credible collection.

“Mosaic” begins side A in early Tangerine Dream mode with mellotron-like washes engaging in blissful copulation before techno pulsations root the track in some big-city metropolis. Tracks blur into one another thereafter (exacerbated by a format that doesn't display indexing), making each side feel like a travelogue with multiple stopping points. Squelchy beats provide a downtempo sountrack to arcing washes in one setting, while a motorik funk pulse gets its bass-heavy groove on in another. Ilar sticks with that deep style for the remainder of side one—minimal funk never sounded so good—, bringing into its orbit lashing accents and galaxial atmosphere as he does so.

Aliens chatter amidst boombastic throb and synthetic showers in side B's swinging opener “Third Eruption” until the track recedes to allow the gently drifting ambient musings of “Things Never Said” to take over. Synthetic washes and bass patterns lull passengers into reverie as the shuttle makes its way toward the “Shores of Jupiter” after which he release takes a surprising turn when Jimmy Halvarsson adds a sober vocal and guitar playing to the winsome song “Anymore” before a sweetly melancholy dance track perks up the second side even more. Traces of krautrock, IDM, funk, techno, and house surface in varying combinations on this generous set issued by the Seattle-based Further label.

December 2010