Articles
2010 Ten Favourite Labels
Liam Singer

Albums
Akabu
Amorph
Keith Canisius
Carinthia
Cursor Miner
Dark Party
dOP
Evon
Ex-Wise Heads
Forever Delayed
The Fun Years
Dirk Geiger
The Green Kingdom
Chihei Hatakeyama
Hessien
Robin Holcomb
The Inventors of Aircraft
Peter Jørgensen
Loveliescrushing
My Dry Wet Mess
Silje Nes
Ontayso
Piiptsjilling
Pleq
Radioseed
relapxych.0
Sharp & Whetham
Liam Singer
Erik K Skodvin
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Squares On Both Sides
Strië
Sutekh
David Sylvian
Taiga II
Francesco Tristano
RJ Valeo
Victoire
Wreaths
Zelienople

Compilations / Mixes
Buzz.RO! 2010
Crónica L
Timo Maas
Movement Torino Festival
Sebastian Mullaert

EPs
Dday One / Glen Porter
Depth Affect
Enabl.ed
The Gentleman Losers
Gulls
Mimosa
Piece of Shh…
Shufflepunk
Teebs & Jackhigh
Telekaster
thisquietarmy + yellow6
Tom White

Shufflepunk: Great Gusto
Lewd Recordings

Lewd Recordings' third release dishes out four snappy slabs of dubstep electronica by Shufflepunk duo Pat Hime (aka Lewd Recordings label boss Patscan) and G. Carey (aka Resistance Hertz). The suave and slinky “Gusto” drifts bemusedly through the clouds, its tangy beat bump crosshatched with reverberant smears of swollen synth sputter and fizz—sleek and shiny mood music for the electro-dubstep lounge. “Fluster” and “Crunk” flirt with bridging the gaps separating dubstep, dub, and IDM when cartwheeling arpeggios tangle with lurching, low-end beats and churning synth atmospherics. “Flunk” stumbles like a drunken sailor as it too navigates a trail through sparkling trails of intricate keyboard patterns. Though Great Gusto arguably could be labeled dubstep, it's also largely free of the undercurrent of dread which is so often a part of the stereotypical dubstep release. In other words, Great Gusto, like Lewd's previous outing, There's No Techno Like NoseTek, No? by rANdOMoiDz and NoseTek, isn't averse to allowing some light-hearted spirit to enter into the mix.

November 2010