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

Patscan: The Numbening (Part One)
Lewd Recordings

Little clarifying info accompanies Lewd Recordings' latest EP aside from the note that The Numbening (Part One) was written and produced by Pat Hime (aka Patscan). We do know from Hime's previously released Patscan EP, Happy Accidents, that he's the London-based co-founder of the Lewd Recordings imprint and that that outing was preceded by ones on Rednetic (Plasticine, 2007) and Concrete Plastic (Muddled Up, 2007). But even if we knew no such detail, the five latest tracks say all they need to on their own terms and do so with dispatch. All of them fit squarely into the experimental dance genre, though the tracks do tip their hats in slightly different directions and in slightly different ways. In addition, track titles suggest focal points though they shouldn't be taken too literally.

The opening cuts are in the Ai tradition of sleekly crafted Detroit-meets-IDM: in “Bass Moi,” monotone voices utter “bass” and echo across a throbbing base as synth noises squeal and sputter; “Flicker” unspools sleek pulsations, hyperactive flickers, and staccato syncopations in its opening three minutes but then almost stops in its tracks before heading home in a blaze of whirr and click. Elsewhere, “Spun Rubber” delivers four minutes of bass-bootied melodic sparkle and lightly grooving IDM, “Dry Riser” rolls in as a dub-techno workout before being overtaken by driving tech-house sizzle, and “Acid Casual” presents more of a controlled blaze than an out-of-control one in a track where the acid dimension is surprisingly downplayed.

December 2010