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

Machinefabriek: Rural Route No. 6
Standard Form

Standard Form's Rural Route series continues to solidify its reputation as a significant forum for work by leading experimental artists. Its sixth installment (as before, a limited-edition three-inch release) finds Rotterdam-based Rutger Zuydervelt presenting the gentler side of his Machinefabriek project in the form of a pretty, seventeen-minute dreamscape that came into being as a one-minute soundtrack to a video poem by Jani Sipilä before expanding into its now-fuller form. Throughout Halfslaap, chiming tones softly glimmer in the moonlight, washing over one another like warm summer breezes drifting in through one's window. In the piece's opening moments, tones resound separately but soon melt into one another; the music consequently grows denser as the hard edges of the single notes soften and the material turns liquidy, an effect obviously much like ice melting. The music unfolds in a generally downward arc as the tones slowly descend in a trajectory that parallels the decompression that settles in as one's body moves into a sleep state. Though Zuydervelt is a prolific artist who has produced a staggering volume of work under the Machinefabriek name, Halfslaap is nevertheless a notable addition to his discography for being so unusually lullaby-like in character.

December 2010