textura

ALBUMS
Automotive
Benevento/Russo Duo
Benni Hemm Hemm
Caribou
[The] Caseworker
Eric Chenaux
Cineplexx
Claudia
Daedelus
J Dilla
Envy
Fond of Tigers
Formication
Grizzly Bear
Guther
Ike Yard
Kilo Watts
The Knife
Minimum Chips
Miss Violetta Beauregarde
North Valley Sub. Orch.
Quench
Sandoz
Dani Siciliano
Liam Singer
Stop Disco Mafia
Susanna/Magical Orch.
Vorpal
Wisp
Working Nuclear Free City
Peter Wright
Susumu Yokota
Zeebee

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Belladonna Summer
Cut Copy FabricLive
Mark Farina
Magda
Tandem 4
Tiefschwarz Fabric
Total 7
Until Human Voices...

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Allie
Barem
Deathprod
Ensemble
Extrawelt
Marc Houle
Loco Dice
Lost Trax
David Newlyn
Sandro Perri
Porter & Blain
Relay
Sirka Ragnar
SLG
Swat-Squad

Loco Dice: Seeing Through Shadows
Minus

Following on the heels of his “Orchidee” contribution to min2MAX, German hip-hop and house producer and DJ Loco Dice (Dice Corleone) makes an auspicious Minus debut with this intoxicating two-tracker. “Seeing Through Shadows” gathers steam slowly, as if rousing from a deep sleep. In its opening moments, crackling and tearing sounds chatter alongside a relaxed pulse while trademark Minus bleeps make intermittent interjections. The build is effected so subtly it verges on imperceptible but halfway though a high-pitched melody and backbeat hi-hat pattern announce a funkier escalation. The swinging groove gets only deeper from then onwards with a slithering bass line only one of the track's many delights. The throbbing pulse that initiates “Backroom Melody” suggests the second piece might hew closer to conventional techno but Loco Dice instead hurls a spacey array of emissions, string plucks, claps, and sputtering melodies at the anchoring groove. Spacier than the A-side, the alluringly trippy cut may remind some listeners of Drexciya. A more than fine addition to the Minus catalogue.

September 2006