ARTICLES
2006 Top 10s and 20s
2006 Artist Picks

ALBUMS
17 Pictures
Angina P
Ateleia
Benni Hemm Hemm
The Boats
Cappablack
Celer
Dead Letters Dead Words
Deceptikon
Deerhunter
Denzel + Huhn
Displayaz
Dollboy
Drone
Eluvium
Emanuele Errante
The Eternals
Fear Falls Burning
Marcus Fjellström
Fonoda
Funkstörung
Goldfrapp
Gyroscope
Robert Henke
James Holden
The Idealist
Anders Ilar
Landing
LCD Soundsystem
Library Tapes
L Pierre
Lullatone
Tor Lundvall
Mad EP
Mahogany
Melodium
Mem1
Daisuke Miyatani
Mole Harness
Momus
Monoceros
Mormo
Mothboy
Original Hamster
Pierson & Horton
Prince Valium
Radical Face
Retail Sectors / Yaporigami
Rylander & Elggren
Scott Solter Plays PIM
Sideshow
Silicone Soul
Skream
Splinters
Mark Templeton
Thread Pulls
T. Raumschmiere
Tycho
Ultre
Virculum
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
AudioArt 03
Cumulous
Dubstep Allstars Vol. 4
Eriksen / Toft / Utarm
Katapult VA Vol. 3
Let's Lazertag Sometime
Mr Geoffrey & JD Franzke
Skagen / Halvorsen / Toft
Tectonic Plates

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Gabriel Ananda
Robert Bardini
DAT Politics
Dead Letters / R. Sundin
Dogmixer
Benjamin Fehr
Fenin
HL
I Make This Sound
Zoë Irvine
Kyriakides and Moor
Lamont & 2tall
Ljud. & Piloten / Kama Aina
Jacob London
Sam Mcqueen
Miskate
Ryo Miyashita & Hiiragi_
[nara]
New Faces
Of / Greg Davis
Charlemagne Palestine
Phon.o vs Litwinenko
Portable
PostPrior
Samarah
Nicholas Sauser & Ditch
Someone Else
Hannes Teichmann
Tractile
Andy Vaz

IMAGES
F.S. Blumm

Eluvium: Copia
Temporary Residence

Copia, Matthew Cooper's latest Eluvium release, moves away from the more conspicuously electronic style of last year's Talk Amongst the Trees and gravitates towards a more direct, neo-classical style and instrumental palette (strings, brass, piano, keyboards) that renders his music more accessible but no less appealing. A stately, almost devotional, feel pervades the material, a quality reinforced by song titles like “Hymn #1” and “Requiem on Frankfort Ave,” and it takes mere seconds for the album's poignant character to establish itself once funereal horns voice the stately themes of “Amreik.” The elegant “Indoor Swimming at the Space Station” lulls one into a hypnotic state for over ten minutes, and deep strings work similarly entrancing magic in the closing “Repose in Blue.” “Seeing You Off the Edges” exudes the same kind of mournful, string-drenched grandeur that Angelo Badalamenti conjured in Wild at Heart's “Dark Spanish Symphony,” while the piano-and-strings setting “Prelude for Time Feelers” and solo piano piece “Radio Ballet” suggest an obvious kinship between Cooper and Michael Nyman and Glassworks -era Philip Glass. Cooper possesses that rare gift for creating ravishing music that's deeply affecting on an emotional level without any compromise to its artistry. Copia is wholly remarkable and even, at times, sublime.

January 2007