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Albums
Actress
Ellen Allien
The Alps
Aniline
Anodyne
Tommy Babin's Benzene
Maya Beiser
Pier Bucci
Budd & Wright
Celer
Ceremony
Richard Chartier
Deceptikon
Deepchord & Echospace
Marcel Dettmann
Dirac
Efdemin
GéNIA
Guillaume & C. Dumonts
Hammock
Helvacioglu & Boysen
Richard A Ingram
Inhabitants
Marsen Jules
Akira Kosemura
Manual
Dom Mino'
Teruyuki Nobuchika
Nono/ Wakabayashi
Olan Mill
Originalljudet
Fabio Orsi
M.Ostermeier
Rene Hell
Jeffrey Roden
J. Rogers
Roll The Dice
Secret Cities
Soundpool

Compilations / Mixes
Main Control Board
SEED X: Part I - III

EPs
Alternative Networks Vol. 2
Aural Diptych Series # 1
Aural Diptych Series # 2
Celer
Deerhoof vs OneOne
Filterwolf
Incite/
Ketem
Kogumaza
Yann Novak
Poratz
Quiroga
Repeat Orchestra
Sepalcure
Sub Loam
v4w.enko
The Zeitgeist EP

DVD
Stephen Vitiello

Kogumaza: Sevens / Mara
Low Point

textura readers of long-standing will already know we're suckers for coloured vinyl, so we could hardly tear ourselves away from gazing at Kogumaza's cherry-red seven-inch single to soak up its two tracks. That we did, however, long enough at least to be able to report on the trio's tripped-out, fuzz-toned psychedelia. In the A-side's “Sevens” (in 7/4 naturally), electric guitar melodies smothered in echo rear their grimey, peyote-fueled heads while pounding drum rhythms keep up a deathly tatoo underneath. The flip's “Mara” opens in a more peaceful mood (its name, after all, is taken from the Scandinavian name for the Sleep Paralysis phenomenon) and then unspools more loosely and open-endedly, the repeating bass line the glue that allows the guitar to splinter off into multiple directions, gradually getting heavier in the process. Like any two-track EP, Kogumaza's offers only a modest hint of what the band's about yet there's still enough for one to derive some sense of what an album-length presentation of its music would sound like.

June 2010