Articles
Robert Henke
Deepchord and Soultek

Albums
Amoebazoid
Boy Is Fiction
BTB
Calika
Vic Chesnutt
Enrico Coniglio
Eric Copeland
Deadbeat
Deepchord : Echospace
Ditch
Terrence Dixon
Brian Ellis
Reinhold Friedl
The Green Kingdom
Marc Hannaford
Hrsta
K. Leimer
Lights Out Asia
Nebula 3
Netherworld
Le Peuplier de Simon
Po
Portable
Lou Reed
Jeffrey Roden
Skallander
Swod
Gregory Taylor
Telephone Jim Jesus
Pau Torres
Tunng
Rolan Vega
Robert Vincs
Warmth
Otomo Yoshihide

Compilations / Mixes
Sander Kleinenberg
One Point Two
Total 8

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Adultnapper
Arrow!!!
Ascoltare
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Cinematic Orchestra
Deepchord : Echospace
Easy Changes
Fink
Peter Grummich
The Heavy
Isomer Transition
Laptik
Larytta
Nadja
Pendle Coven
Polvere
Redhooker
Spied
Andy Stott
Torrance & Hochstrate
Andy Vaz

VA: Laptik
Digital Gadget / Front

On its first compilation, Laptik, Digital Gadget/Front serves up a set of robust, Berlin-flavoured computer love that should appeal strongly to fans of Chiastic Slide-era Autechre. The EP features material by Helvetikone and Bogger (both of whom have already issued material on Digital Gadget), Underscan's Menu:Exit, Jeff Pils, and CCO's Miwon, so quality and variety are virtually guaranteed. Helvetikone's “Nothing” makes good on its pole position with a mighty onslaught of willowy synth tones, ricocheting clangs, and churning mechano-funk beats, while Bogger's “Don Knispel” opts for a dizzying dub-styled approach where scalpel-sharp funk patterns slip and slide. Elsewhere, Menu:Exit sprinkles fragments of an announcer's speaking voice over a megaton of machine funk in “How to Get a Basket,” and Jeff Pils' “Hazelnut” convulses spasmodically with intricate beatsmithing and shape-shifting melodic squelch. Compared to his fellow passengers, Miwon travels a more straight-ahead route in the acidy techno raver “Make My Day” but keeps the funk quota high.

September 2007