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Spotlight 6

Albums
17 Pygmies
Ælab
Aeroc
Adrian Aniol
Aleph
Artificial Memory Trace
B. Schizophonic / Onodera
Blue Fields
The Boats
Canyons of Static
Celer
drog_A_tek
Fennesz + Sakamoto
Marcus Fischer
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Daniel Thomas Freeman
From the Mouth of the Sun
Goth-Trad
Karol Gwózdz
Mark Harris
Inverz
Kingbastard
Tatsuro Kojima
Robert Lippok
Maps and Diagrams
Merzouga
Message To Bears
mpld
The New Law
Nuojuva
Octave One
Petrels
Puresque
Refractor
Lasse-Marc Riek
Jim Rivers
Dennis Rollins
Scuba
Shigeto
Susurrus
Jason Urick
VVV
Williamette
Windy & Carl
Zomes

Compilations / Mixes
DJ-Kicks: The Exclusives
Future Disco Volume 5
King Deluxe Year One
Phonography Meeting
Pop Ambient 2012

EPs
Blixaboy
Matthew Dear
Fovea Hex
Jacksonville
Kurzwellen 0
Phasen
Pascal Savy

Jacksonville: The Twilight Industries EP
Doppler

The Twilight Industries arrives mere weeks after Edinburgh-based producer Chris Lyth's previous Jacksonville EP Sometime Shortwave (also on Doppler). Like its predecessor, the new one's a two-track affair of considerable craft that plays like mood music for modern-day clubbers. “Party on Strange Street” rolls in on a deliciously slinky mid-tempo house swing that Lyth then gradually fleshes out with warm chords, subtle bass flavour, and soulful vocal interjections. There's an appealingly relaxed vibe to the track, which even gets a tad dubby in its middle section when the beats briefly drop away. Percolating more determinedly by comparison, “Twilight Industries” opts for slightly spacier climes in its embrace of synthetic colour while also revealing a raw and earthy side in the thrust of its jacking pulse. Throughout its eight-minute run, Lyth amplifies its trippy feel by adding swirls of echoing voices and deepens the track's charging groove by working analogue drum playing into its percussive mix. Just as it has in the past, Lyth's smooth Jacksonville sound again goes down so easily it requires next to no effort to get behind.

February 2012