Articles
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Label: Community Library
Vaz: Days of Yore

Albums
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Badun
Jefrey Leighton Brown
The Buoys
Christmas Decorations
Cinematic Orchestra
Colour Kane
David Daniell
Electricwest
Formication
Philip Glass
Erdem Helvacioglu
Jasper TX
Khan
Jasper Leyland
Lichens
A A Mexicano
Milieu
Oid
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Ola Podrida
Andrew Pekler
Person
Pole
Project Perfect
Reanimator
Rubens
Stephen Scott
Silencio
Strategy
Tare / Brekkan
Tarwater
Terminal Sound System
Unit 21
Valet
Yellow6

Compilations / Mixes
Cielo
Deep Sea Shipping
Luke Fair
Flight 18
DJ Food and DK
DJ Kentaro
Modeone
Steve Porter

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
B33P3R
Cheju
Deerhunter
Foxhole
K_Chico
The Magic Lantern
Jon McMillion
Myers Briggs
Niederflur
Person
Questions in Dialect
Samarkande/Obliv. Ens.
Sonje
Soporus
VeeBeeO
Vestigial
Rick Wade
.xtrak

Niederflur: DIN EP
M_nus

A Minus mainstay since 2001, Niederflur (Christopher Bleckmann and Hannes Wenner) returns with a new three-track 12-inch augmented by a digital exclusive (“Evtl”). The outfit crafts subtle exercises in artful sound design without sacrificing its material's club essence; a given track's activity level is relentless but its sounds are so meticulously woven the results aren't overbearing but engrossing. Niederflur typically grounds its material on a straightforward 4/4 base and then generates an endlessly percolating weave of patterns overtop, a little bit like taking in at a single glance the clockwork movements within an entire insect colony.

In “DIN,” patterns of muffled slams and hi-hat accents spring into formation over a driving pulse, and then step aside when a subterranean bass growl takes the stage. Gradually the tune segues into a subtly swinging groove that's primarily techno, but oozes hints of acid and dub too. Willowy tones, industrial stabs, and distorted percussive accents scratch and twitch atop a laid-back base in “Isv” while the funkier “Exkl” chugs determinedly in dubbed-out electro-house mode throughout its deep space trip. Dub and electro haunt the chilled techno pulses of the dramatic “Evtl” where gauzy chords lurch in contrast to the high-velocity swirl of the surrounding elements.

May 2007