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

LabField: Fishforms
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Listening to Fishforms, you'd never guess LabField (or Laboratory Field) is a mere duo, specifically Swedish guitarist David Stackenäs and Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach. Abetted by electronic gear, the symbiotic sound manipulators resemble a much larger collective (like Mimeo, say) on the release's three pieces. The range of sound is attributable to their working methods and sound sources: Zach's percussion arsenal includes electronic sruti and saranghi boxes, while Stackenäs typically alters his sound so that any connection to a recognizable or conventional guitar is gone. The opener, “Gin,” could perhaps be taken as a manifesto for LabField's sound. A glassy, hypnotic drone laden with bright percussive colour and tribal accents, the piece unfurls unhurriedly, content to let sounds breathe and accumulate naturally. Over the course of twenty-four minutes, swarms of sitar tones and tinkles slowly swell into an opaque and oceanic mass. “Rin,” by contrast, predominantly generates its meditative effect via multiple layers of acoustic guitars. At album's end, glass bowing and treated guitar sounds occupy the front-line in the volcanic drone “Showa” which revisits the psychedelic sound-world of “Gin.” Fishforms offers quality dronescaping by two deft practitioners of the genre.

February 2008