textura

Albums
1982
Amute
Answer Code Request
Asuna
Marvin Ayres
Barreca | Leimer
Building Instrument
Taylor Deupree
Dose
David Douglas
Kyle Bobby Dunn
Dusted Lux
Ensemble Economique
The Eye Of Time
Benjamin Finger
M. Geddes Gengras
gnarwhallaby
Hatakeyama & Hakobune
Carl Hultgren
Imaginary Softwoods
Isnaj Dui
Kidkanevil
David Lang
Linear Bells
Mokhov
Moskus
Phasen
JC Sanford
Günter Schlienz
Seelig & Metcalf
Seelig & Nerell
Slpwlkr
Sons Of Magdalene
Håkon Stene
Robert Scott Thompson
Throwing Snow
V/Vm
Julia Wolfe
Xumla
Girma Yifrashewa
Jeppe Zeeberg

Compilations / Mixes
5 Years of No. 19 Music
Margeir

EPs / Singles
Blind EP2
Children Of The Stones
Dylan C
Eveson
Northcape
Katsunori Sawa

VA: Blind EP2
Blind Music

One month after its debut release, the second installment in Blind Music's EP series already is upon us. Once again this self-described record label experiment presents us with three tracks by unnamed artists and no supporting production-related details of any kind. Blind EP 2, in keeping with the label's philosophy, aims to both preserve some sense of mystery about its contents whilst also keeping the focus exclusively on the music.

“BLND#4,” as it's named, oozes some degree of wonky old-school blaze in its melding of soulful vocal shout-outs (“Said I need you, Chloe…”) and dubsteppy bass throb. By comparison, “BLND#5” locates itself more solidly within drum'n'bass territory in serving up a slinky rolling groove that punctuates its serpentine swing with bass growl and atmospheric textures. The EP's closing cut is wonky also, though in a way that connects its playful swizzle'n'strut to a fractured style of IDM not too far removed from something Plaid might produce.

If anything separates the second chapter from the first, it's the broader stylistic terrain encompassed by Blind EP 2, with its sixteen minutes less strictly adhering to drum'n'bass and opening its doors to let dubstep, garage, dub, and IDM influences seep in, too.

July 2014