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

Ed Devane: The Squirm EP
Touchin Bass

Since 1998, Barcelona-based producer Ed Devane has been provoking listeners with his noisesome electronic music and making good on his desire to instill paranoia, fear, and claustrophobia in the listener: the four decapitating cuts on The Squirm EP, Devane's aptly-titled 12-inch on Andrea Parker's Touchin' Bass, won't alter that reputation one iota. It's a brutal onslaught alright, and never more so than on the opener “Giant Bassmantix” where humongous bass lines throb while glass-shattering breaks writhe and a choral mass of phantoms groans. The intensity never lets up: “Doubt” howls like some poisoned mastodon, hellacious beats scream manically throughout “Ramsek,” and “Memorandum” approximates a trepanning operation amplified a hundredfold. For all that, occasional musical fragments rise from the ashes (a tinkly vibes melody inexplicably appears in “Ramsek”), making Devane's disc more than a pummeling caterwaul. An EP's the right length, too, as one shudders to imagine what crimes one might commit after ingesting an hour or two of similar material.

November 2006

This review also appears in Grooves.