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

Netherworld: Mørketid
Glacial Movements

The Norwegian term ‘Mørketid' refers to a dark period during the year when the Arctic winter cold encases everything and the sun doesn't rise over the horizon. One might expect Alessandro Tedeschi's hour-long Netherworld collection, then, to be a relentlessly gloomy affair but, surprisingly, it's anything but. Tedeschi, who manages the Italian label Glacial Movements, uses sampled fragments of sounds from the Artic area to build soothing, hypnotically lulling pieces that extend broadly and unfurl slowly while allowing ample light to seep in. Muffled voices and field noises give meditative settings like “Dreaming Arctic Expanses,” “New Horizons,” and “Jøkul” a strong sense of place while soft clanks, glistening signal tones, and washes cast a becalmed spell in “Mørketid” that lasts longer than twelve minutes. “North Pole” and the thirteen-minute “Virgin Lands” are textbook examples of time-suspending isolationist ambient music.

September 2007