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Resources
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VIDEOS
» The Knife: Silent Shout
» Dabrye: Smoking The Edge
» Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
» Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy
» Plaid & Bob Jaroc: “
The Return Of Super Barrio (preview)

FREE DOWNLOADS
»
Pandatone: And Here I Thought It Was Pointless: a new 4-track EP from Trevor Sias who is currently preparing a full-length for release on his own 'music related' label (also the home of the new Aus album Sonorapid).
» Sutemos: Draumar Um Kalt Sumar (Dreams About Cold Summer): ambient compilation dedicated to Iceland and featuring tracks by Isan, Kiln, Static, and others
» EKO: Summerlights: summery ambient compilation featuring tracks by Andy Graydon, Benfay, Daniel Maze, Karras, Kenneth Kirschner, Koutaro Fukui, Manrico Montero, and others

UPCOMING RELEASES
» Junior Boys: So This Is Goodbye (Domino, August)
» Colleen: Colleen et les boîtes à musique (Leaf, September)
» Squarepusher: Hello Everything (Warp, October)

ARTICLES
Dabrye
Label Profiles: Consumers Research & Dev./Inner Current

ALBUMS
Atone: Un An (Autres Directions In Music)
Aidan Baker: Oneiromancer (Die Stadt)
Aus: Sonorapid (Music Related)
David Bickley: Still Rivers At Night (Psychonavigation)
Broadcast: Future Crayon (Warp)
Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
Calika: The Bright Spot (Benbecula)
Ian Cho: The Waking Woods (Tovian)
Curium: Nowever (Dynamophone)
DJ Olive: Sleep (Room40)
Drop The Lime: We Never Sleep (Tigerbeat6)
Friedl/Vorfeld: Pech (Room40)
CM von Hausswolff: Operation of Spirit Commun. (Die Stadt)
Jezzreel: Great Jah Jah (Wackies)
Kid606: Pretty Girls Make Raves (Tigerbeat6)
Leichtmetall: Wir Sund Blumen (Karaoke Kalk)
Lulacruza: Do Pretty! (Lulacruza)
Love Trio In Dub featuring U-Roy: s/t (Nublu)
Monolake: Plumbicon Versions (Imbalance)
Motor: Klunk (Novamute)
Ochre: Lemodie (Benbecula)
Our Theory: Our Theory (Nublu)
Gilles Peterson: Back in Brazil (Ether)
Photophob: Still Warm (Hive Records)
Plaid & Bob Jaroc: Greedy Baby (Warp CD/DVD)
Rekid: Made In Menorca (Soul Jazz Records)
Saltillo: Ganglion (Suspicious Records)
Michael Santos: Matters (Benbecula)
Phillip Schroeder: Move in the Changing Light (Innova)
Solo Andata: Fyris Swan (Hefty)
Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty)
Superiority Complex: Stand Up (Bru Records)
Tellemake: Scarbo (Angstrom)

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Boozoo Bajou: Juke Joint II (!K7)
Evil Nine: FabricLive.28 (Fabric)
Rhythm & Sound: See Mi Yah Remixes (Burial Mix)
VA: Global Underground 10 (Global Underground)
VA: Incidental Amplifications (Room40)

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Anders Ilar: Organza (Level Records)
Audion/Ellen Allien: Just A Man/Woman (Spectral)
Jonas Bering: Lost Paradise (Kompakt)
Breitbarth/Bodycode: Spectral Sound Presents No. 1 (Spectral)
Fovea Hex: Huge (Die Stadt)
CM von Hausswolff: Operation of Spirit Commun. (Die Stadt)
Kai: Particle EP (Süd)
Koljah: LeckerKuchen EP (Sushitech)
Lusine: Emerald EP (Ghostly)
Miss Fitz: She Has No Legs (Sushitech Purple)
Someone Else + Miskate/Ditch: Macrofun Vol. 6 (Microcosm)
Keith Fullerton Whitman: Track 4 (2 Way Superimp.) (Room40)
Andy Vaz: Sound_Variation 9-9 [---]
Marshall Watson: Another Back Porch Lonely Day EP (Echospin)

ARTICLE
Colleen

ALBUMS
Benevento/Russo Duo: Play Pause Stop (Butter Problems/ Reincarnate Music)
Benni Hemm Hemm: Benni Hemm Hemm (Morr Music)
Caribou: Start Breaking My Heart (Domino/Leaf)
Caribou: Up In Flames (Domino/Leaf)
[The] Caseworker: When I Was a Young King (Pehr)
Cineplexx: Restar (Testing Ground)
Claudia: We've Met Before, When We Were... (Audiobulb)

Daedelus: Denies the Day's Demise (Ninja Tune)
J Dilla: The Shining (BBE)

Envy: Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)
Fond of Tigers: A Thing To Live With (Drip Audio)
Formication: Redux (Harmful Records)
Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (Warp)

Ike Yard: 1980-82 Collection (Acute Records)
Kilo Watts: Routes (Artificial Music Machine)
The Knife: Silent Shout (Mute)
Miss Violetta Beauregarde: Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo (Temporary Residence)
North Valley Subconscious Orchestra: The Right Kind of Nothing (Ghostly)
Quench: Caipruss (n5md)
Sandoz: Live in the Earth (Soul Jazz)
Dani Siciliano: Slappers (!K7)
Liam Singer: Our Secret Lies Beneath The Creek (Tell-All)
Stop Disco Mafia: You Don't Wanna Know (Proptronix)

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: Melody Mountain
(Rune Grammofon)

Vorpal: Digressions (Sublight)
Wisp: Honor Beats (Sublight)
Working For A Nuclear Free City: s/t (Melodic)
Peter Wright: Red Lion (Digitalis Industries)
Susumu Yokota: Wonder Waltz (Lo Recordings)
Zeebee: Priorities (Angelika Köhlermann)

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Cut Copy: FabricLive.29 (Fabric)
Mark Farina: Sessions (Ministry of Sound)
Magda: She's A Dancing Machine (Minus)
Tiefschwarz: Fabric29 (Fabric)
VA: Belladonna Summer Compilation (Belladonna Records)
VA: The Tandem Series 4 (Boltfish)
VA: Total 7 (Kompakt)
VA: Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown (Rune Grammofon)

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Allie: Living In A Whisper (Koch)
Barem: Campo Madness (foundsound)
Deathprod: 6-Track (Rune Grammofon)
Ensemble: Disown, delete (FatCat)
Extrawelt: Doch Doch (Traum)
Marc Houle: Bay of Figs (Minus)
Loco Dice: Seeing Through Shadows (Minus)

Lost Trax: Lost Trax EP (Scsi)
David Newlyn: Didn't Know Where I Was (October Man)
Porter & Blain: Operation Berlin (FDS)
Relay: Type/Void (Bubblecore)

Sirka Ragnar:
I am, you are, he/she/it is (How Is Annie Records)
SLG: Nine Hours (Trapez)
Swat-Squad: Escoria Remixes (Trapez)

This month, textura highlights Inner Current and its Domestic Blend Volume 1 compilation; the July issue's headers feature illustrative material created by Matthew Hollister.

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