Articles
Artist Speaks: Rick Wade
Mico Nonet's Top 10
Solvent's Top 10
Ten Questions: Autistici

Albums
An On Bast
Aster
Autistici
Balmorhea
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Bersarin Quartett
Bong-Ra
Carlos y Gaby
Lawrence English
Coniglio-Marzorati
Daedelus
Detritus
Dom Mino'
Yair Etziony
Evangelista
Fear Falls Burning
Fluorescent Grey
Forestflies
Heribert Friedl
Glowstyx
Inlandsis
KiloWatts
Krill.minima
M.B + E.D.A.
Mico Nonet
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Németh
David Newlyn
orchestramaxfieldparrish
Pedro
Qebo
Jose Luis Redondo
The Retail Sectors
Robedoor
Scorn
Snöleoparden
Take
Taunus
Temposhark
Robert Scott Thompson
Asmus Tietchens
Z-arc

Compilations/Mixes
Back to Back Vol. 2
Favourite Places
Future Memories
Nothing Works As Planned
Twin Earth Atlantic

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Buzzin' Fly Vol 4 Remixes
Franco Cangelli
Cheju
Figurines
Pär Grindvik
Hugo
Gregg Kowalsky
Lerosa
Mico Nonet
Moldy (featuring Juakali)
Take
The Third Man
Andy Vaz

DVD
MONO

Pär Grindvik: Score for Direction
Stockholm LTD

Ear-catching two-tracker from Berlin-based Pär Grindvik (aka The Hollow) who founded Stockholm LTD in 2002 as an outlet for techno releases by Swedish electronic artists. Score For Direction's two cuts are dramatically different in character, with the A-side a blistering stormer and the B designed to help one survive the after-hours comedown. Peppered by percussive burble, the thunderous clockwork burner “Akusitk” rolls out in a metronomic gallop that grows ever more dizzying, and a slow-motion wave repeatedly descends, drenching the rumbling groove without arresting its urgent attack. Tension increases almost unbearably as a string motif loops incessantly, defying resolution, and martial snares assert themselves, after which the shape-shifting colossus winds up and then detonates as it charges home. Grindvik slows the BPM for “Ensemble” which is geared more for the post-rave lounge where clubbers vainly struggle to re-assemble the battered shards of their psyches. The track couples a bass sound as huge as the Atlantic with a slinky, back-beat house crawl; episodes surface and recede throughout, with everything moving at half-speed and consequently imparting a druggy aftertaste.

March 2008