Articles
2009 Top 10s and 20s
King Midas Sound
Starke

Albums
36
Aardvarck
Matias Aguayo
Anaphoria
Anduin
Arbol + Fibla
Aufgang
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Black to Comm
Bvdub
Cornstar
Dinky
Enola
Fieldhead
FOURM / Shinkei / Turra
Billy Gomberg
The Green Kingdom
Chihei Hatakeyama
Ian Hawgood
Marek Hemmann
Khate
King Midas Sound
Marcel Knopf
Robot Koch
Lambent
Shinobu Nemoto
Olekranon
Laurent Perrier
Piano Magic
Porzellan
Pylône
Ryonkt
Shadyzane
Slow
Small Color
Solomun
The Sound of Lucrecia
Stray Ghost
The Use of Ashes
Sylvie Walder

Compilations / Mixes
Sebo K
Will Saul
Tama Sumo
VOLTT Amsterdam Vol. 1

EPs
Blindhæð
Roberto Bosco
Franco Cangelli
Dieb
dub KULT
Abe Duque/Blake Baxter
Gemmy
Christopher Hobbs
Duncan Ó Ceallaigh
Christopher Roberts
The Sight Below
Two Fourteen
Van Der Papen
Andy Vaz
Vetrix
Eddie Zarook

DVD
Optofonica

Eddie Zarook: Nobody Cares EP
SDF

Zarook's own “Nobody Cares” opens understatedly, peppering its snappy low-end pulse and hovering synth chord with dub touches, before picking up the pace and activity level. Subtle percussive and chordal accents appear from all corners and gradually accumulate until the track becomes a more forceful exercise in slinky tech-house. In the first of two remixes, Lopazz (Stefan Eichinger) turns “Nobody Cares” into a buoyant stepper that's got party written all over it, with quirky squeaks and squeals liberally splattered over the tune's light-footed, bass-heavy groove. In Don Williams' hands, the cut becomes a driving slice of tech-house pitter-patter that swings funkily for almost ten grooving minutes. The generous length gives Williams ample time to work his magic: stripping the tune to a percussive workout halfway through, and then building it back up with the addition of an ascending three-note motif, wood-block accents, and a second three-note theme that's slower and silkier by comparison.

December 2009