Articles
Slow Six
Label Profile: Fällt
Alexander Turnquist

Albums
4 Bonjour's Parties
AGF
Atlas Sound
Autistic Daughters
Baja
Evan Bartholomew
Sylvain Chauveau
Destroyalldreamers
DoF
Dot Tape Dot
Fessenden
Floriana vs. Màcro
Florian Hecker
I Am A Vowel
Jaermulk Manhattan
Steve Jansen
LabField
Liar's Rosebush
Eliot Lipp
Luminous
Mojib
Monocle
Nicolay & Kay
Panda Riot
Ghislain Poirier
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
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Sambassadeur
Starting Teeth
Carl Stone
Strings of Consciousness
Suite Crude Revue
Text Adventure
Alexander Turnquist
Valet
Viirus
Willits + Sakamoto
Yaporigami

Compilations/Mixes
Armin Van Buuren
Caroline
Goodbye Said the Rain
Sieben Mal Solo
A Weevil in a Biscuit

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
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A Setting Sun
The Bug ft. Warrior Queen
Myungho Choi
Deadbeat
Entsounds
Itosha
JDSY
l'Objet
Noah Pred
Repair
The Retail Sectors
Socks & Sandals
Someone Else
Trembling Blue Stars
.xtrak

DoF: Red Pine Pasture
Abandon Building

Most artists run from the “folktronica” label but Pittsburgh native Brian Hulick seems quite happy to have his DoF music labeled as such. His latest collection Red Pine Pasture is split between six new songs and five remixes by Set in Sand, Phylum Sinter, Low in the Sky, Juxta~Phona, and Crillix. A typical DoF track (e.g., “A Cloud in Three,” “Grain,” “Adverb”) sparkles with multi-layers of acoustic guitars, electronic beats, and honey-dew vocals and generally opts for jubilance rather than melancholia. In the originals, Sinestetici adds feathery vocals to the jubilant romp “Evening Wolves” and Brittney Zafonte adds breathy vocalizing on the rollicking “The Threshing” and on “Silence and Shame” where vocal harmonies swirl in lush counterpoint.

“Proli, the Imposter” becomes a jittery whirligig in Set in Sand's hands while Low in the Sky adds hip-hop to the folktronic mix on “Last Night Static.” In one of the strongest makeovers, guitars shudder and beats ricochet in Crillix's agitated “The Light Village” but the song's most distinguished by its enchanting melodies. With the exception of Phylum Sinter, whose version of “Reality is Phonetic” is stately and melancholy, the remixers don't stray radically away from DoF's upbeat style, and the album consequently feels more cohesive than one might expect, given its unusual, team-based make-up.

February 2008