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2010 Top 10s and 20s
Will Long (Celer)

Albums
Bilxaboy
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Celer & Yui Onodera
Cepia
Dead Leaf Echo
Ferraris & Uggeri
Ernesto Ferreyra
Flying Horseman
The Foreign Exchange
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Ghost and Tape
Andrew Hargreaves
Head Of Wantastiquet
i8u
Anders Ilar
Quintana Jacobsma
Kaiserdisco
Leafcutter John
Clem Leek
The Lickets
The Machine
Magda
My Fun
Ostendorf, Zoubek, Lauzier
Part Timer
Phillips + Hara
RV Paintings
Set In Sand
Shackleton
Shigeto
Matt Shoemaker
Sun City Girls
Supersilent
Swartz
Ben Swire
Collin Thomas
Tomo
Upward Arrows

Compilations / Mixes
Exp. Dance Breaks 36
Fünf
Lee Jones
The Moon Comes Closer
Note of Seconds
Tensnake

EPs
8Bitch
Celer
Jasper TX
Jozif
Lerosa
Machinefabriek
Patscan
Pleq
Simon Scott
SHEMALE
Thorsten Soltau / Weiss
Jace Syntax & BlackJack
Weiss

VA: Experimental Dance Breaks 36
Plastic Sound Supply

Curated by CacheFlowe, Experimental Dance Breaks 36 (we're informed that it's the latest and, ahem, only volume in the series) rolls out sixteen brain-melters that touch down in dubstep, glitch-hop, and all spaces in between. The collection spotlights the work of Colorado-based producers, and convincingly demonstrates that there's no small amount of talent residing in the state. Honduras (“Tristeza Mi Amor”) and C.Db.Sn (“4amcatattaq”) dim the lights for their sweeping ambient-IDM outings, but generally speaking the album is anything but a collection of mellow tunes. Iuengliss's “Jungbeats” strafes jittery breakbeats with arcade firings and 8-bit melodies, Dicrylium brings the thunder to the writhing monstrosity “Will Build A New World With His Giant Mech,” and Equulei's “My Modem Can Beat Up Your Modem” records a collision between modem squelch and skittering breakbeats.

Listeners with a jones for bass wobble will be well sated by disc's end, as tracks by Rumblejunkie (“Wiggleworm”), Movax (“Fragment”), Zeno (“Zenodelic”), and Ale Fillman and Mnuvr (“Wobble Head”) show the producers' deft handling of electro-dubstep. Drop Logik makes perhaps the strongest impression of all with the swinging funk-house of “Absolute Bowns” and the glitch-hop throwdown “Get! Get!” (remixed by Cacheflowe), while Cacheflowe himself weighs in with a dizzying slice of electro-dub slink called “Crunch Dub VIP.” Experimental Dance Breaks 36 kicks out the electro jams with serious purpose and opts for blaze over bucolic almost every time out.

December 2010