ARTICLES
Ten Questions: Fat Jon
MUTEK 2006

ALBUMS
65daysofstatic
A Cloud Mireya
Ambarchi and Ng
Another Elec. Musician
Derek Bailey
Band Ane
Barzin
Black Gold 360
The Blow
Boduf Songs
Childs
Darc Mind
Dosh
Duopandamix
Fat Jon & Styrofoam
Liam Gillick
Shuta Hasunuma
Tim Hecker
Ilkae
Jack's Son
Richard Jäverling
Jazzkammer
Junior Boys
Last Days
Hanno Leichtmann
Luomo
Mandelbrot Set
Mountaineer
N.Phect & Dizplay
Part Timer
Karsten Pflum
Benoît Pioulard
Plus Device
+/- {Plus/Minus}
Relay
Saroos
Seht
Shedding
So Percussion
Sybarite
Trio Vopá
Marshall Watson
Weather Report
Donato Wharton
Christopher Willits
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
ESL Remixed
Four Tet
Garnier & Craig
Ginglik Saturdays
Michael Mayer
Henrik Schwarz

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Colleen
Delano and Xpansul
Detritus
Ed Devane
Eskimo
Feathers
Goldmund
Ezekiel Honig/Graphic
Ezekiel Honig
Eliot Lipp
Robert Lippok
Alejandro Lopez
Evan Marc
Porter & Carr
Sebastian Russell
Somone Else
Spaceships & Pings
SplitEP3
Simon Whetham

Detritus: Thresholds
Ad Noiseam

David Dando-Moore's latest Detritus material isn't a full-length follow-up to last year's Origin but an EP waystation leading on to and perhaps anticipating, in its more aggressive marriage of romantic string and piano melodies with combustible beat patterns, the style of the next album. There's little left to chance in his meticulously assembled and intricately woven music, as the composer pushes granite blocks of sound down new pathways every few bars or so. Serenaded by a warbling violin figure, “Day One” rumbles forth with steamrolling clatter augmented by a distant choir. Here and elsewhere, the mood is both epic and ominous, the music a mix of slamming beat crunch (with faint echoes of drum & bass) and orchestral dramatics. In “U(s),” skipping snares and string masses quickly swell before dropping out to let a somber piano melody resound before kicking back in again, while Edith Piaf shadows the slippery dance breaks and cascading melodies of “Melting Snow.” Thresholds amounts to a dynamic, tightly coiled 20-minute teaser for Detritus's next chapter.

November 2006