ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

Mathhead: Dirty Deeds
Terminal Dusk

Call it grime, call it dubstep, call it whatever you like: regardless of the label, Mathhead's Dirty Deeds remains one mesmerizing throwdown. In just under 23 minutes, the Brooklyn producer sculpts an incinerating set that aurally exposes the foreboding underbelly of a raging night-time metropolis. “South Bronx” pulverizes with the lethal crunch of its lurching funk pulse and the slam of its hydraulic clang and liquid synth swells. “Bullets of Your Sound (Remix)” is apparently a Drop the Lime-Mad mash-up of some kind but, aside from occasional vocal interjections presumably by DTL's L. Venezia, it all comes out sounding like Mathhead. Vastly different in character from “South Bronx,” the intensity level may be slightly lower but the level of invention is equally high. The snare hits on the B-side's “Parasites” hammer so hard, they verge on decapitating, but the song's synth swarm is equally annihilating. Bringing up the rear, the opening half-minute of “Dream Tigers” suggests Mathhead might leave quietly but the dubstep bomb soon detonates, scattering beat shrapnel and bass acid all over—don't miss, though, the slick soul-jazz break the producer niftily fits in along the way. Breakcore, dub, ragga, and grime come together magnificently in Dirty Deeds' bone-crushing material.

October 2006