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Morgan Packard

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The Ace of Clubs
akido
Cenotype
Cyrus
Mathias Delplanque
Entia Non
Michael Fakesch
False
Forrest
Kraig Grady
Kiln
Kingfisherg
Low in the Sky
Payton MacDonald
Manitou
Martin & Machinefabriek
Mt. Fuji Doom. Corporation
Need More Sources
Nobile
Odd Nosdam
Ontayso
Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells
RF & Lili De La Mora
Schmickler / Chisholm
The Sea
Seabear
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Silvania
Six Twilights
Aaron Spectre
Stamen & Pistils
Swayzak
Tijuana M. A. Broad. Inc.
Utom Alla
Pete Warren
Yaporigami

Compilations / Mixes
Box of Dub
Expanse at Low Levels
Ibiza – Renaissance Vol. 4
Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 1
The Silence Was Warm

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Abiku / Kid Camaro
Audio Injection
B12
Bering & Simko
Bury the Sound
The Caribbean
DJ C feat. Zulu
Entia Non
Flavius E
Andre Gardeja
Lerosa
Magnum 38
Microthol
Ontayso
Troy Pierce
Ghislain Poirier
Rusuden
Skoozbot
Slap [unmodified]
Sonmi451
Joel Tammik
TG

Kiln: Holo [re/lux]
Kilnaudio

Until the fall release of the new full-length Dusker, Kiln fans can tide themselves over quite nicely with this digital-only re-imagining of the group's 1998 release Holo. Newly joined by one previously unreleased track, all of the album's original material was ‘reconfigured, edited, and cleaned' for the re-issue which finds Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III once again proving themselves masters of tetra-dimensional textural flow. Forced to impose a classification, ‘instrumental rock' comes to mind but Kiln's music challenges the label by eschewing the prototypical trajectory of the genre. The group avoids dramatic build-ups and crescendos, opting instead for even-tempered, atmospheric flow more akin to rich panoramic vistas that extend through time. Propelled by an aggressive percussive attack, tidal guitar waves roar at high volume throughout “Billionwatt” while “Kekker,” with its lazy funk beat and hazy electric guitars, flirts with ‘post-rock'; acoustic folk elements, by contrast, give “Sienna” a back-country feel. Most tracks exclude drums altogether, and thereby deepen the music's lush ambiance: “Sunsculpture.One” punctuates loud streams of gaseous emissions with guitar accents while “Gauss” is all blurry industrial swirls and rumbles. Much like past releases Sunbox and Twinewheel, Holo [re/lux] impresses for its opulent splendor and meticulous craft.

August 2007