ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

Alias & Tarsier: Plane That Draws a White Line
Anticon

At 47 minutes, calling Plane That Draws A White Line an EP hardly seems reasonable, though it is dominated by remixes of Brookland/Oaklyn songs. In addition to a reprise of the impossibly dreamy “Plane That Draws a White Line” and the five interpretations, Brendon Whitney (Alias) and Rona Rapadas (Tarsier) contribute three new songs, all of which perpetuate the emotive hip-hop style of the full-length and once again spotlight Tarsier's silky vocals and Alias's crisp beatwork. In “Nocturnal Eye” and the gentle “9:24 Cigarette,” melodies follow maze-like pathways that strongly evoke the character of Björk's songwriting while “Sleepy.” plunges the listener into a captivating sea of blurry vocal stutters and driving pulsations.

In the EP's second half, Boom-Bip (Bryan Hollon) injects “Plane That Draws a White Line” with an electro-dance speedball that sets the song's heart racing, Benbecula's christ. envelops “Rising Sun” in a subdued caress, and Neotropic (Riz Maslen) alchemizes “5 Year Eve” into languorous trip-hop bliss. In addition, Anticon's Odd Nosdam (David Madson) ups the galaxial ante with a hallucinatory “Ligaya” take and Tarsier's Brooklyn production partner Healamonster (Burgess Tomlinson) gives the CD-only “Dr. C” a punchy boom-bap makeover. As expected, the versions neither supplant the originals nor better them, but the remixers' boldly contrasting treatments amount to more than credible complements.

October 2006