Articles
2009 Artists' Picks
Lymbyc Systym

Albums
Cory Allen
aus
The Bird Ensemble
Canaille
Catlin & Machinefabriek
Greg Davis
Loren Dent
Dirac
Drafted By Minotaurs
Flica
Sarah Goldfarb & JHK
Gown
John Hollenbeck
Viviane Houle
I/DEX
Akira Kosemura
Andrew McKenna Lee
Le Lendemain
LRAD
Lymbyc Systym
Melorman
Muskox
The Mercury Program
Nikasaya
Northerner
nörz
Noveller / Aidan Baker
Redshape
Marina Rosenfeld
Stripmall Architecture
Sturqen
Wes Willenbring
The Tony Wilson Sextet
Julia Wolfe
Peter Wright
Zelienople

Compilations / Mixes
Blackoperator
Glimpse Four:Twenty 03
Kod.eX
Portland Stories

EPs
Molnbär Av John
Tommi Bass & B.B.S.C.
Julian Beau
Colours-Volume 5
Dalot
Echologist
Simon James French
Geiom & Shortstuff
General Elektriks
Geskia
Ernest Gonzales
Gradient
Jacksonville
Joker
Ann Laplantine
Loko
Machinefabriek
Stefano Pilia
Damian Valles

Tommi Bass & B.B.S.C.: Textures from Berlin
Rednetic Recordings

Only months after the release of his Gamma full-length, Tommi Bass returns (in collaboration with B.B.S.C. of Berlin) with three deep tech-house workouts in the appropriately-titled 3-inch CD Textures From Berlin, so named because the titular textures are actually recordings made around Berlin that were then incorporated into the tracks. As a result, a heavy blanket of industrial soot cloaks the thumping techno gallop and cycling bass pulse powering their way through “Bronze 1.” In the less piledriving “Bronze 2,” immense waves of distorted noise drench a midtempo jaunt, while “Bronze 3,” the strongest of the CD's three cuts, finds Bass draping huge swathes of granular crackle and windy howl over an elastic and sweetly jacking pulse. The release's concept works nicely to Bass's advantage by adding an expansive textural dimension to rhythm-based tracks that, in his hands, are typically skeletal by nature.

January 2010