Albums
Atmogat
Autechre
Autistici
Bitcrush
Black Gold 360
Sylvain Chauveau
Cut Iowa Network
Delicate Noise
Dof
The Element Choir
FNS
Four Tet
Gutta Percha
Greg Haines
Chihei Hatakeyama
Ian Hawgood
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Kahn and Mueller
Konntinent
L/M/R/W
Francisco López
Aaron Martin
Musette
Near The Parenthesis
Offthesky
Dustin O'Halloran
Redhooker
Relmic Statute
Ruxpin
Sintetic-Collage
Sister Overdrive
Starkey
Tokyo Mask
Youth Pictures of F. Hend.
Compilations / Mixes
Agoria
Advent
My Private Space
Peeling
Untitled 10
EPs
Amman.Josh
A Wake A Week
Tolga Baklacioglu
Boxharp
Cursor Miner
Abe Duque
EPROM / Eskmo
Funckarma
Florent Ghys
LJ Kruzer
Lobisomem
Maps and Diagrams
Moving Dawn Orchestra
Marcello Napoletano
Alexandre Navarro
Obsidian
Glen Porter
Nigel Samways
The Soul's Release
Sparkhouse / Jacksonville
Subeena
Talvihorros
Subeena:
Picture / Spectrums
Opit Records
Following on the heels of twelve-inch releases on Planet Mu and on her own co-run (and now defunct) Immigrant / Imminent Recordings, Subeena (aka Sabina Plamenova, a 24-year-old producer who hails from Italy via Germany and now calls London home) inaugurates her own Opit label with a strong two-tracker. The dazzling opener “Picture” begins with bright neo-harpsichord flourishes and a slow yet pounding pulse before blossoming quickly into a thunderous, echo-laden stomp augmented by burbling bass sequences and iridescent plumes of radiant synthesizer chords. As the tune develops, oscillating back and forth from wide-eyed splendour to introspection, Subeena strips the arrangement down a little to give the bass undertow a few moments in the spotlight, until the sun's light gradually expires when the harpsichord resurfaces during the track's dying seconds. “Spectrums” first spreads its synthetic wings and then plunges into a raving 4/4 stomp that giddily gallops before somersaulting into a serpentine swizzle of quasi-classical melodies and frenetically shuffling beats. Here too Subeena toys with listening expectations by never staying in one place too long and moving between moments of extroversion and introversion. Repeated exposure to the tracks induces a heightened appreciation for just how much detail Subeen packs into her material.
April 2010