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Spotlight 6

Albums
17 Pygmies
Ælab
Aeroc
Adrian Aniol
Aleph
Artificial Memory Trace
B. Schizophonic / Onodera
Blue Fields
The Boats
Canyons of Static
Celer
drog_A_tek
Fennesz + Sakamoto
Marcus Fischer
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Daniel Thomas Freeman
From the Mouth of the Sun
Goth-Trad
Karol Gwózdz
Mark Harris
Inverz
Kingbastard
Tatsuro Kojima
Robert Lippok
Maps and Diagrams
Merzouga
Message To Bears
mpld
The New Law
Nuojuva
Octave One
Petrels
Puresque
Refractor
Lasse-Marc Riek
Jim Rivers
Dennis Rollins
Scuba
Shigeto
Susurrus
Jason Urick
VVV
Williamette
Windy & Carl
Zomes

Compilations / Mixes
DJ-Kicks: The Exclusives
Future Disco Volume 5
King Deluxe Year One
Phonography Meeting
Pop Ambient 2012

EPs
Blixaboy
Matthew Dear
Fovea Hex
Jacksonville
Kurzwellen 0
Phasen
Pascal Savy

Pascal Savy: Fragments
Hibernate

Over the past few years, Pascal Savy's built up a modest body of high-quality work, and his latest release, Fragments, enhances the impression established by his previous recordings. This particular outing finds the London, UK-based sound artist contributing a three-track EP to Hibernate's three-inch disc series. It's a true headphones listen in the sense that close listening is recommended for one to appreciate the dense weaves of textural detail Savy works into the material. The laptop-produced tracks are crepuscular in nature, with the titles alone—“Passing Light,” “By Dusk,” and “On Leaving”—capturing their twilight character. In simplest terms, the release amounts to twenty minutes of meditative, hiss-laden shimmer dotted with subtle colourations of sparkles, speckles, and field recordings-derived rustlings. Perhaps the EP's most ear-catching moments appear during “On Leaving” when the sound palette expands to not only evoke literal departure (the crunch of footsteps through natural undergrowth, for example) but to introduce the slightest hint of an ambient-dub dimension—suggestive of a beatless Vladislav Delay episode, perhaps—as it does so. Fragments is a solid addition to what has grown into a fairly substantial series of three-inch releases from Hibernate.

February 2012