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Albums
Bird Show
CacheFlowe
Caroline
Considerate Builders
Dday One
DJ Olive
Dub Tractor
Jimmy Edgar
Exillon
Four Tet
Guitar
Halma
Landesvatter
Don Limpio
Mariel Ito
Matinée Orchestra
Maximo Park
Mikkel Metal
Ms. John Soda
Music A.M.
Naing Naing
Nightmares On Wax
No Move. No Sound
Pillow
Ghislain Poirier
Prefuse 73
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Mike Shannon
.tape.
Wechsel Garland
Zucchini Drive

Compilations/Mixes
Check the Water
Futurism Ain't Shit
Idol Tryouts Two
I Love Techno
Kiki
Machine Drum
Steve Porter
Satoshie Tomiie
SRL
Quality Elect. Music

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
aitänna77
Jonas Bering
The Blow
Cepia
Clipd Beaks
DaFluke
Direwires
Drop the Lime
Florent
Honig/Packard
Infinite Scale
Midwest Product
Mufo
Office-(R)6
The Orb/Rice Twins
saidsound/Krilll.minima Scorn-Fury
Solenoid
Miles Tilmann
K F Whitman
Why?

DJ Olive: Heaps As, Live in Tasmania
the Agriculture

Not all mixes need be Dionysian hell-ravers, a case in point Heaps As, Live in Tasmania by 'audio janitor' DJ Olive (Gregor Asch). As perfect an exemplar of the Agriculture's 'Roof Music' sound as qpe's recent Gentrifried, Asch's fluid, hour-long set was recorded during two 2005 live shows in Hobart, Tasmania and Perth, Western Australia. Tailor-made for a lazy Sunday afternoon, the downtempo mix wends a scenic route through propulsive dub (“Bin Raider”), dancehall (“Lila Dog”), soul-jazz, funk, Latin (“Dancing With Poxy Stingers”), salsa (“They Make Us All Want to Hate Each Other Don't Do It!”) and hip-hop—often all at once (“Heaps As”). The vibe's sensual and deliciously faded, with DJ Olive largely reigning in extreme dynamic contrasts and animating all of it with driving dub bass lines. Throughout the disc's sixteen cuts, Asch's 'world' approach seamlessly blends Brooklyn, Jamaica, and Africa into a soothing aural Esperanto of grooving body music and warm beats.

March 2006