Articles
2011 10 Favourite Labels
Spotlight 3

Albums
Félicia Atkinson
Autistici
Bee Mask
Biomass
Gui Boratto
Peter Broderick
Benjamin Broening
bvdub
Chicago Odense Ens.
Dday One
Lawrence English
The Field
Nils Frahm
Douglas Greed
Jim Haynes
Hess + McFall
High aura'd
Hior Chronik
itsnotyouitsme
King Midas Sound
Leyland Kirby
Knox & Oberland
Koss/Henriksson/Mullaert
Tom Lawrence
Mist
Phonte
Planetary Assault Systems
Rustie
Sense
Sepalcure
Slove
Splashgirl
Two People In A Room
Vaetxh
Christina Vantzou
Marius Vareid
Wolfgang Voigt
Water Borders
Wenngren & Bissonnette
Xhin
Eisuke Yanagisawa
yMusic

Compilations / Mixes
Above The City
Air Texture Vol. 1
Burning Palms
Emerging Organisms 4
Live And Remastered

EPs
Antonymes/ S. D. Society
Cardopusher
Cyrus
Gulls
Keepsakes
Late Night Chronicles
Old Apparatus
Option Command
Pillowdiver
Benoît Honoré Pioulard
Kevin Reynolds
Strategy

Kevin Reynolds: Liaisons / Port
Nsyde Music

Casting its gaze upon the future while drawing upon classic techno and house traditions, Detroit producer Kevin Reynolds shows that doing time as an audio engineer for Derrick may's Transmat label has clearly helped ready him for his own solo productions. Casting its gaze upon the future while drawing upon Detroit music traditions, the declamatory A-side cut “Liasons” overlays a raw tribal thump with electronic tom-tom fills, violent stabs, and synth washes. It's a wide-screen affair emblazoned with rich colour and all manner of percussive swing that cultivates an air of measured uplift in its insistent attack. “Port” likewise carves a path through a detailed percussive field of acoustic and electronic sounds before a Kraftwerk-styled synth motif punctuates the track's deeply roiling pulse; the B-side's rounded out by a “Liasons (Del Parque Mix)” that plays like an abbreviated edit on the original and departs minimally if at all from its mid-tempo thump. Reynolds' two-tracker for Nsyde Music, a Berlin-based label specializing in techno and house, finds the producer putting his amply developed skills to good use in material equally satisfying for the body and soul. It's not visionary but nevertheless immaculately arranged and certainly solid enough on musical grounds.

November 2011