At almost 25 years in the game as Adam X, the release of his album ‘Irreformable’ is like hearing a living legend in action again, a late career masterpiece, an album recommended for heavy rotation.
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Five Years Of Artefacts: Chapter One
To celebrate Stroboscopic Artefacts 5th anniversary, the Berlin-based imprint has concocted a series of five EPs that couldn’t encapsulate the label’s state of mind any better. Here’s the first of the batch.
Matom: Love Mistakes
Love Mistakes retains the raw quality of a live performance, with the creators (Matt Edwards & Thomas Gandey) breaking away from well-worn conventions by embracing a freeform method.
Mosca: The Greyhounds / Clinical Trial
Mosca’s ‘Bax’ days might be over – but then, every true chameleon knows when to grow and move with the rapidly changing seasons. Those garagey beats are still under his skin, no doubt: this is simply a newer and thicker skin which we are seeing.
Shinoby: Club Shock! EP
Club Shock! EP is one fine and serious plate of subtle, mind-intrusive techno. Shinoby delivers.
Gunnar Haslam: Ataxia No Logos
Both curiously languid and fast-paced, hot and cold, Ataxia No Logos resists easy interpretations and judgmental approaches by simply remaining an evasive object of musical desire. The epitome of sexiness.
Terekke: Yrlv
Terekke’s four track EP is made up of mostly techno/house cross over numbers composed with particularly floating textures, with ambience aplenty.
Caribou: Our Love
It really would have been a lot to ask of Dan Snaith to produce an LP of the same calibre as ‘Swim’ but sadly “Our Love” does fall on a lower level of pedigree.
Edward: Into a Better Future
Yet another clever blinder from the Giegling stable, and continued high quality work from Edward to back up an already solid discography.
Boothroyd: Idle Hours
The Mancunian newcomer’s debut EP on Tri Angle Records is a respectable salut to former leftfield icons such as Amon Tobin, and a pathfinding effort in the ever-renewing scene of unclassifiable future forecasting machine music.
Aphex Twin: Syro
Aphex Twin’s return to the studio album format begs one question of Syro: has absence made the heart grow fonder, or is the return of Aphex Twin one of a man outside of his time?
Burnt Friedman & Daniel Dodd-Ellis: Skies Okay Blue
Skies Okay Blue is not only a satisfying 12” in itself but suggests that the forthcoming album from the pair is going to be another weighty chapter in the prolific German artist’s career.
Get Lost VII compiled by Craig Richards
Seemingly effortless, Craig Richard’s Get Lost VII demonstrates today’s wonderful disregard for entrenched genres. A knowing nod to the themes of current musical fashion is given but also a lesson in respecting roots and resisting the need to chase the latest and greatest.
Lee Gamble: KOCH
As with ‘Diversions 1994-96’ and ‘Dutch Tvashar Plumes’ this is absolutely an album of deconstruction – stripping the genres of jungle and techno, treating them as if musical cadavers and dissecting, reconstructing.
Manuel Gonzales: Filth EP
Baked in a greasy cascade of distortions and static-filled ambiences, straight in the wake of his previous releases but finely digressive as well, this Filth EP couldn’t be more aptly titled.
Rival Consoles: Sonne
**ALBUM STREAM** – Any fan of the emotional electronica manifesto that Jon Hopkins laid out with Immunity will find themselves at home here and such lofty comparisons can never be misconstrued as an underachievement.