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Albums
2562
3ofmillions
3 Seconds Of Air
Monty Adkins
Agoria
Anduin
Natalie Beridze TBA
Black Eagle Child
Boduf Songs
Bodzin Vs Romboy
Build
Marco Carola
Blake Carrington
Codes In The Clouds
Dreamsploitation
Federico Durand
Elektro Guzzi
Emanuele Errante
FiRES WERE SHOT
Rick Frystak
Garin & Gobart
Gerard and Graydon
Kraig Grady
Guthrie & Budd
Marcus Intalex
Jumpel
Slavek Kwi
March
Maschine
Melodium
Alton Miller
Obsil
Phaedra
Semiomime
Shaula
Kate Simko
Sleepingdog
Nobuto Suda
Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Compilations / Mixes
5ZIG
20 F@#&ING Years
Michelangelo Antonioni
Fabric 56: Derrick Carter

EPs
Agoria featuring Kid A
Aleph
A Story of Rats
Orlando B.
Ceremony
Cex
Matthew Dear
Entia Non & Tanner Menard
Nick Kuepfer
Clem Leek
Mat Le Star
Lulacruza
Paul Lyman
Moss
Resampled Part 1
Resampled Part 2
Snoretex
Subeena

Orlando B.: Future Resist EP
Yore

Orlando Britain's follow-up to his Yore debut, Beneath the Surface, is possibly an even more fabulous quartet of tracks than that 2010 offering. The UK producer laid down the new release's material in West London, but its heart and soul lies an ocean away, as the “Motor City” track title suggests; Britain's also got a soft spot for classic house and techno, as evidenced by the title he's given to the thirty-minute EP.

The silky smooth opener “Contemplate” is certainly capable of inducing a contemplative state, armed as it is with a sparkling flow of warm Rhodes melodies, crisp house beats, and creamy analog synthesizers. Here and elsewhere, Britain dresses up his soulful material with a plentiude of percussive and vocal touches (a rather indecipherable voiceover in “Motor City” and soulful exhortations in “It Ain't Over”). “Motor City” digs into its dizzying swirl of thudding bass lines and stepping beats with all the passion and joy one would expect, while the rapturous closer “It Ain't Over” drapes a syncopated keyboard theme and light-streaming synth chords over a slamming house pulse to marvelous effect. The EP's effervescent vibe makes its luscious material all the more appealing, and so too do tight jacking grooves that are more likely to soothe than agitate.

April 2011