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

Pendle Coven: Habitual Stress EP
Modern Love

Andy Stott: Fear of Heights EP
Modern Love

Modern Love once again brings the goods on two new twelves, Andy Stott's Fear of Heights and Pendle Coven's Habitual Stress. Though Stott's two tracks are about much more than simply bass, it's still the thunderous bass that towers over all else. A humongous low-end forcefully prods the A-side's “Fear of Heights” amidst scattered keyboard interjections and incessantly chattering cymbal swing. Aquatic chords burble and echo while the hi-hats scale back to off-beat accents and the bass writhes like a straitjacketed Golem struggling to escape. The metallic chords that dance above the plodding pulse in “Made Your Point” situates the tune firmly within Monolake territory while the plummeting bass rumble and razor-sharp hi-hats push the groove forward like a battering ram.

Brothers in Sound Miles Whittaker and Gary Howell have been producing tracks for more than a decade, and their latest Pendle Coven outing shows they're no pushovers. “Habitual Stress” opens in ambient mode with a blanket of steam-driven emissions but promptly kicks into gear with a hellish groove of snapping beats, hand claps, and a pummeling bass drum. What starts out, briefly, as a soundscaping escapade turns into a club colossus with some vague hint of Warp-styled acid lunacy sneaking in ever so subtly at the edges. Moody chord washes and a generally silken atmosphere suggest “Brick Tutor” might be the EP's ‘listening' track but a skittering groove shakes the tune awake and hurries it on its way. Even so, it's clearly the more ‘after-hours' cut of the two.

September 2007