ARTICLES
Ten Questions: Fat Jon
MUTEK 2006

ALBUMS
65daysofstatic
A Cloud Mireya
Ambarchi and Ng
Another Elec. Musician
Derek Bailey
Band Ane
Barzin
Black Gold 360
The Blow
Boduf Songs
Childs
Darc Mind
Dosh
Duopandamix
Fat Jon & Styrofoam
Liam Gillick
Shuta Hasunuma
Tim Hecker
Ilkae
Jack's Son
Richard Jäverling
Jazzkammer
Junior Boys
Last Days
Hanno Leichtmann
Luomo
Mandelbrot Set
Mountaineer
N.Phect & Dizplay
Part Timer
Karsten Pflum
Benoît Pioulard
Plus Device
+/- {Plus/Minus}
Relay
Saroos
Seht
Shedding
So Percussion
Sybarite
Trio Vopá
Marshall Watson
Weather Report
Donato Wharton
Christopher Willits
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
ESL Remixed
Four Tet
Garnier & Craig
Ginglik Saturdays
Michael Mayer
Henrik Schwarz

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Colleen
Delano and Xpansul
Detritus
Ed Devane
Eskimo
Feathers
Goldmund
Ezekiel Honig/Graphic
Ezekiel Honig
Eliot Lipp
Robert Lippok
Alejandro Lopez
Evan Marc
Porter & Carr
Sebastian Russell
Somone Else
Spaceships & Pings
SplitEP3
Simon Whetham

N.Phect & Dizplay: Beautiful Bytes
Basswerk

Progenitors of storming Drum & Bass—or ‘Neurofunk' as they're currently want to call it—since 2002, Cologne-based brothers Sebastian and Henrik Wild (aka N.Phect & Dizplay) stoke some blistering noise on their debut album Beautiful Bytes. The album's burning bass lines and frenetic beats thunderously throb, from the writhing surge of the opener “White Russian” and primal screamer “Mofo” to the epic crunch of “Tsunami 2006” and “Beyond the Invisible.” “Motor,” with its dizzying gallop and opium den flute playing, is especially memorable, as is the album peak “My Velvet Morning” (here in a 2006 remix) where haunting vocal hooks leave a trance residue. Wisely, the Wilds cap the 80-minute set with a soulful acoustic treatment of Starke & Gorter's “You Can Go On,” leaving listeners well-sated if not a little spent.

November 2006