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
0>1
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

Floriana vs. Màcro: Heleylah Sunset
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Heleylah Sunset by Floriana vs. Màcro (dalaki label founder Joerg Schuster and an unidentified partner from Madrid, Spain ) pitches eight lush electronic tracks halfway between deeply textured ambient and evocative, flowing microhouse. Rather than being barreled over, the listener melts into a warm bath of vaporous textures and billowing tones. Synth accents, Rhodes chords, and bass fragments swim in a relaxed, static-laden mix that references techno, microhouse, dub, electronica, and soul jazz without favouring one over another.

Kissed by silken strings, “Easy” offers a sunlit, slightly funky fusion of soul jazz and microhouse while the ten-minute “Rètro” is naturally the most elaborate example of Floriana vs. Màcro's relaxed and soulful style. Heleylah Sunset occasionally calls to mind the work of other artists: traces of Vladislav Delay and Gas bob to the surface in “Higher,” for example, while rhythmically arranged voice snippets in the burbling microhouse of “End” suggest a less frenetic Akufen. For the record, dalaki's sparing no expense vis-à-vis presentation by packaging the disc in a black collector's box that includes buttons, a sixteen-page photo-booklet, photo-cards, and a logo cardboard stencil.

February 2008