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

Monomachine: Flor De Loto EP
Immigrant Digital

UK-based imprint Immigrant initiates its digital-only label with a fresh EP of sweetly jacking tunes by Monomachine (Francisco Allendes and Inigo Oruezabal). The title cut's a gleefully jacking slice of microhouse, with tiny accents and lecherous voices adding spice to the dizzying synth motifs trapped within the song's maze. Inxec amps the jack and slathers on the grime in his swaggering “Flor De Loto” overhaul; though slightly more stripped-down than the original, the remix's android groove still kicks up a bubbly jaunt. Monomachine returns to bathe an hypnotically funky synth line in an acid bath in “Traveller,” occasionally ratcheting up the tension when the melody coils in on itself. The most expansive of the EP's four cuts, “A Long Day” merges Latin percussive funk, a strutting house pulse, ghostly chords, and croaking voices into a compelling whole before allowing acid flavour to seep under the doorframe. One of Flor De Loto's most distinguishing characteristics is that, while Allendes and Oruezabal till familiar stylistic ground, they do so in a restrained manner that's not unappealing.

October 2006