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

Eric Copeland: Hermaphrodite
Paw Tracks

Perhaps the most striking thing about Eric Copeland's first solo album, Hermaphrodite, is that it effortlessly manages to sound both ancient and contemporary at the same time. In twelve songs, the New York-based Black Dice and Terrestrial Tones member twists his material—much of it presumably samples—into radically disorienting shapes that seem to emanate from some bizarro universe. Copeland often anchors the songs with tribal rhythm patterns, and then layers material over top that might have started out ‘normal' but is thoroughly diseased by the time he's through mangling it. “La Booly Boo” uses African percussion and gamelan patterns to effect a drunken whirligig, a sped-up babble of chanting voices turns Chipmunk-like in “Wash Up,” and what might have been supplicating voices becomes a choir's hellish howl in “Dinca.” The raucous garage punk of “Green Burrito” seems to vaguely suggest a demented Scottish jig, while “Scraps” sounds like confused radio transmissions from a mentally deficient tribe. Titles like “Tree Aliens,” “Mouthhole,” and “Scum Pipe” convey the warped character of the material all by themselves. Hermaphrodite is a sonic match for the incoherent lettering arrangements displayed on its cover.

September 2007