Articles
Robert Henke
Deepchord and Soultek

Albums
Amoebazoid
Boy Is Fiction
BTB
Calika
Vic Chesnutt
Enrico Coniglio
Eric Copeland
Deadbeat
Deepchord : Echospace
Ditch
Terrence Dixon
Brian Ellis
Reinhold Friedl
The Green Kingdom
Marc Hannaford
Hrsta
K. Leimer
Lights Out Asia
Nebula 3
Netherworld
Le Peuplier de Simon
Po
Portable
Lou Reed
Jeffrey Roden
Skallander
Swod
Gregory Taylor
Telephone Jim Jesus
Pau Torres
Tunng
Rolan Vega
Robert Vincs
Warmth
Otomo Yoshihide

Compilations / Mixes
Sander Kleinenberg
One Point Two
Total 8

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Adultnapper
Arrow!!!
Ascoltare
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Cinematic Orchestra
Deepchord : Echospace
Easy Changes
Fink
Peter Grummich
The Heavy
Isomer Transition
Laptik
Larytta
Nadja
Pendle Coven
Polvere
Redhooker
Spied
Andy Stott
Torrance & Hochstrate
Andy Vaz

Ascoltare: B E A M
Tripel

B E A M is a two-part collection of ‘minimal body jack music' by Ascoltare, with the first (‘Ufology') issued on 12-inch vinyl and the second (‘Exo Politics') available as a free download at www.myspace.com/ascoltarebeam. The A side opener “Exo On Ferric” works a minimal, Plastikman-styled kick drum pulse and trademark Basic Channel atmospheric haze into a forcefully jacking shuffle that eventually adds closing flourishes of low-level, dissonant squeals. The dub-house shuffle that powers “Semjase in Excelsis” works up a frothy head of locomotive steam too. There's an almost oom-pah flavour to the skanky backbeat that surfaces halfway through, and interjections of bleeps and voices keep things sounding unpredictable. On the B side, “Asket's Ship” steps out like a slow-moving steamroller moving through a busy carnival, and “Sky Fishing” adds Afrobeat energy, chanting voices, and assorted other wildness to his jacking style. Though the core of Ascoltare's B E A M sound isn't necessarily without stylistic precedent, the imaginative conceptual colour he brings to the release is certainly refreshing.

September 2007