Articles
2007 Ten Favourite Labels
Backtracking Greg Davis
Shackleton Interview
Albums
John Luther Adams
Joseph Auer
Commix
Dartriix
Floratone
Furniture
Shuta Hasunuma
Richard Hawley
Hologram
Icarus
Kiln
Kobol
Labradford
Last Days
M83
Mai
Darren McClure
Near the Parenthesis
David Newlyn
Objekt4
OK Ikumi
Ontayso
Wendel Patrick
Phon°noir
Pocahaunted / Robedoor
Poostosh
Prefuse 73
Quosp
Rapoon
The Retail Sectors
Skull Disco
Socos
Supersilent
Tigrics
Trentemøller
Zuydervelt / Baars / Veld.
Compilations/Mixes
Airport Symphony
Devil in the Detail
Dinky
EXPANSION | contraction
Funckarma
Little Darla v. 25
One Five Zero
Playgroup / Alter Ego
Signal Path
Soul Jazz Singles
U-cover Mix 03 [IDM]
Ricardo Villalobos
We Are All Cotton-Hearted
Well Deep
3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Basic Unit
Bodycode
Kit Clayton & Sutekh
Dartriix
Ditch
INKlings
Insanic4
Lackluster
Najem Sworb
Ontayso
Sutekh
The Tamborines
Telafonica
Zainetica
Objekt4: Space Jungle Slums
Ajana
Much of Objekt4's (real name Anders Peterson) Space Jungle Slums is strikingly odd, and not just its title. The recording's split into two four-song suites—Nexus Sector A/D and Jungle Vibes—and the music itself locates itself within a midway zone betwixt ambient and industrial, a zone that's neither overly becalmed or excessively disturbed. The album's ghostly ambient sections unfurl in a hazy orchestral style that calls to mind Tangerine Dream circa Phaedra while the industrial sections emphasize tribal percussive patterns and textures.
Nexus Sector A/D's “Introsectory” and “Time to die” both feature passages of sweeping ambient haze interspersed with softly clanking industrial rhythms and gaseous machine expulsions. “Nexus Sector” adds a more pronounced textural dimension of crackle and static to the gossamer symphonic tones while the episodic “Hype no C#” simulates the abrupt transformations that occur within a nightmare. In Jungle Vibes, percussive patterns alternately thrum, churn, rattle, and clatter over droning chords but do so fleetingly, as if someone is flickering from one section to the next like a channel-surfer impatiently clicking from one program to another. During the ambient moments, the music's skeletal character establishes a mood of gloom and desolation that's more calming than depressing. Also unusual is the album's unusually svelte thirty-six-minute running time, an album characteristic that's far from displeasing, much like the project in general.December 2007