ARTICLES
Ten Questions: Fat Jon
MUTEK 2006

ALBUMS
65daysofstatic
A Cloud Mireya
Ambarchi and Ng
Another Elec. Musician
Derek Bailey
Band Ane
Barzin
Black Gold 360
The Blow
Boduf Songs
Childs
Darc Mind
Dosh
Duopandamix
Fat Jon & Styrofoam
Liam Gillick
Shuta Hasunuma
Tim Hecker
Ilkae
Jack's Son
Richard Jäverling
Jazzkammer
Junior Boys
Last Days
Hanno Leichtmann
Luomo
Mandelbrot Set
Mountaineer
N.Phect & Dizplay
Part Timer
Karsten Pflum
Benoît Pioulard
Plus Device
+/- {Plus/Minus}
Relay
Saroos
Seht
Shedding
So Percussion
Sybarite
Trio Vopá
Marshall Watson
Weather Report
Donato Wharton
Christopher Willits
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
ESL Remixed
Four Tet
Garnier & Craig
Ginglik Saturdays
Michael Mayer
Henrik Schwarz

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Colleen
Delano and Xpansul
Detritus
Ed Devane
Eskimo
Feathers
Goldmund
Ezekiel Honig/Graphic
Ezekiel Honig
Eliot Lipp
Robert Lippok
Alejandro Lopez
Evan Marc
Porter & Carr
Sebastian Russell
Somone Else
Spaceships & Pings
SplitEP3
Simon Whetham

Jazzkammer: Panic
Bottrop-Boy

Panic is both Jazzkammer's homage to the electric guitar and a bleak evocation of the modern metropolis. Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre paint a diseased and desolate landscape throughout the 35-minute, single-movement work, guiding the listener through the subterranean corridors of a nameless city's diseased underbelly. During the first half, the mood is more controlled chaos than shell-shocked noise, with droning clouds of electronic tones slowly unfurling amidst distant crowd noise. But, entering the second half, howling guitar screams detonate, shattering the relative calm with molten fuzz and distortion and offering a hint of the menacing horror Jazzkammer sculpted on its Smalltown Supernoise release Metal Music Machine, before the storm subsides and the piece settles into a becalmed spectral meditation in its final quarter.

November 2006