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

Jozif: Sunrise EP
InFiné

InFiné has been issuing some top-of-the-line material in recent months—Clara Moto's Polyamour and Francesco Tristano's Idiosynkrasia come to mind—and Jozif Goodwin's Sunrise EP keeps the label's batting average high. The fabulous four-cut outing by the London-based DJ and producer spreads thirty-three minutes of club-ready artistry across two vinyl sides.

The aptly titled title track awakens rather unassumingly with a trippy string motif, piano tinkles, and thumping pulse slowly taking the stage, but the tune really kicks into gear when a bubbly bass joins the fray and the jacking groove tightens. It's one of those tracks that deliciously grows in intensity as each moment passes until the expected late-inning breakdown occurs, forcing the bass to build it back up again until it slams even more forcefully. Though “Suddenly Somethin'” bursts from the gate with a plodding, hard-hitting beat pattern, funky guitar playing, and an anthemic melody, the track again plunges deeper once the intro's set the mood. The theme chimes insistently throughout until it's all but drowned in the euphoric pitch that sets in at the four-minute mark. Speaking of submersive, “Natural Nature” digs into its low-end jack with serious purpose. During a breakdown, female voices emerge unexpectedly—one swirling dizzyingly—before the groove roars back in even more thunderously. A live-sounding drum beat gives the closing track, “Cathy's Diamonds,” a powerful thrust, an attack strengthened, first of all, by the addition of bells, shakers, and claps and, secondly, by the funky bass line and the sinuous disco strings that join in soon after. The word solid hardly does the EP justice.

December 2010