Articles
Terrence Dixon
Ten Favourite Labels 2012

Albums
1982 + BJ Cole
Oren Ambarchi
Balmorhea
Alexander Berne
Born Gold
Carlyle & Cox
Kate Carr and Gail Priest
Paul Corley
Deison
Roland Etzin
Yuichiro Fujimoto
Glissando
Godspeed You! Bl. Emp.
Ivar Grydeland
Hakimonu
Hammock
Sophie Hutchings
Kane Ikin
Jeanne Jolly
Paul Mac
Michael Mayer
David Michael
Moskus
David Newlyn
No Regular Play
Numina
Oskar Offermann
Olan Mill
Padna
Pelt
Rone
Roomful of Teeth
Bruno Sanfilippo
Valgeir Sigurdsson
The Sleep Of Reason
Jessica Sligter
Slow Dancing Society
Prins Thomas
The Use Of Ashes
Maarten van der Vleuten
Stian Westerhus
Wires Under Tension
Woolfy vs. Projections

Reissue
William Basinski

EPs
Elektro Guzzi
Glacis
Porya Hatami
Maps & Diagrams
Stephan Mathieu
Michael Trommer

Elektro Guzzi: Allegro EP
Pomelo

Elektro Guzzi follows up its 2011 full-length Parquet (on Macro) with a half-hour EP of four new jams, all of them in the group's trademark “live techno” style. Laid down at Vienna's Feedback Studios, the stellar set finds guitarist Bernhard Hammer, bassist Jakob Schneidewind, and drummer Bernhard Breuer once again ably assisted by co-producer Patrick Pulsinger.

The trio locks into the locomotive opener “Fat Pony” from the first pulsating moment to the last. Its gyroscopic swirl of relentless bass thunder, angular guitar stabs, and pounding drums leads into the tribal-funk stomp of “High Noon,” whose dub-inflected sky the group fills with atmospheric guitar washes for nine transporting minutes. The B-side's also-funky “Asteroid” takes the Elektro Guzzi into new territory when a wobbly, dubstep-styled bass line crosses paths with syncopated chords that hammer with kinetic insistence. At disc's end, “Jangu” takes us out with six hyperactive minutes of body-shaking tribal-techno at its motorik best.

November 2012