Articles
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Label: Community Library
Vaz: Days of Yore

Albums
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Badun
Jefrey Leighton Brown
The Buoys
Christmas Decorations
Cinematic Orchestra
Colour Kane
David Daniell
Electricwest
Formication
Philip Glass
Erdem Helvacioglu
Jasper TX
Khan
Jasper Leyland
Lichens
A A Mexicano
Milieu
Oid
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Ola Podrida
Andrew Pekler
Person
Pole
Project Perfect
Reanimator
Rubens
Stephen Scott
Silencio
Strategy
Tare / Brekkan
Tarwater
Terminal Sound System
Unit 21
Valet
Yellow6

Compilations / Mixes
Cielo
Deep Sea Shipping
Luke Fair
Flight 18
DJ Food and DK
DJ Kentaro
Modeone
Steve Porter

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
B33P3R
Cheju
Deerhunter
Foxhole
K_Chico
The Magic Lantern
Jon McMillion
Myers Briggs
Niederflur
Person
Questions in Dialect
Samarkande/Obliv. Ens.
Sonje
Soporus
VeeBeeO
Vestigial
Rick Wade
.xtrak

B33P3R: Suspicion
post.disco

Couched within a transparent, trigger-activated disc-release case, B33P3R's Suspicion separates itself immediately from the crowd. But does the fifteen-minute EP by Tolga Taluy, the Turkish-born and France-based founder of post.disco, leave an equally strong sonic impression? With looping patterns of clinical signals that subtly swell into a complex setting of surges, strums, and smears, the opening track, “UHT Whore,” suggests that B33P3R's style leans towards understatement; it's not necessarily tentative but, with no piece exceeding four minutes (and “F7 047” an exercise in voice manipulations, a mere half-minute fragment), restrained nonetheless. “Save As” begins with high-velocity pans before settling into an intricate weave of grinding thrum, wipes, and beats, somewhat like a cross between an amplified ant colony and a roomful of factory machines operating in tandem. As the EP progresses, its sound becomes more aggressive too: peopled by an army of writhing organisms, “Against the Day” recalls EP7-period Autechre while “Parking Lots + Swimming Pools” rips apart its hammering rhythms and reshapes them into new creatures. In these last two pieces in particular, B33P3R's short but promising debut draws upon the extreme directions pursued by Aphex Twin and Autechre at their most adventurous without lapsing into incoherence.

May 2007