Articles
Roger O'Donnell
Morgan Packard

Albums
The Ace of Clubs
akido
Cenotype
Cyrus
Mathias Delplanque
Entia Non
Michael Fakesch
False
Forrest
Kraig Grady
Kiln
Kingfisherg
Low in the Sky
Payton MacDonald
Manitou
Martin & Machinefabriek
Mt. Fuji Doom. Corporation
Need More Sources
Nobile
Odd Nosdam
Ontayso
Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells
RF & Lili De La Mora
Schmickler / Chisholm
The Sea
Seabear
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Silvania
Six Twilights
Aaron Spectre
Stamen & Pistils
Swayzak
Tijuana M. A. Broad. Inc.
Utom Alla
Pete Warren
Yaporigami

Compilations / Mixes
Box of Dub
Expanse at Low Levels
Ibiza – Renaissance Vol. 4
Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 1
The Silence Was Warm

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Abiku / Kid Camaro
Audio Injection
B12
Bering & Simko
Bury the Sound
The Caribbean
DJ C feat. Zulu
Entia Non
Flavius E
Andre Gardeja
Lerosa
Magnum 38
Microthol
Ontayso
Troy Pierce
Ghislain Poirier
Rusuden
Skoozbot
Slap [unmodified]
Sonmi451
Joel Tammik
TG

Troy Pierce: Gone Astray
M_nus

Troy Pierce's hour-long Gone Astray (available in CD and double-vinyl formats) largely eschews M_nus's customary minimal sound for a more extroverted and left-field attack. Composed almost entirely on the road, the set includes a smattering of club-ready cuts (check out the irrepressibly jacking “Word” and squiggly acid workout “Golden”) but Pierce's black heart seemingly lies in stranger places. He typically brings his material to life by slathering tracks with warped touches that alter them into bizarre shape, and consequently the unpredictable material takes startling detours at every moment. Slithering bass, hellish noises, and plummeting tones push “Go Without Me (Stay Away),” for example, as far afield of conventional techno as one might think possible—at least, that is, until the demented snare rolls, psychotic synth interplay, and voice fragments of “Even If It's Alone (Black Acid)” come into view (if anything, Louderbach's heavily-reverbed remix ups the psychotic ante). After “Lost on the Way to DC 10” carves a gleefully jaunty path through a winding electro field of percussive splashes and incessantly chattering burble, Konrad Black pursues a slightly more straight-ahead though no less picturesque route on his “Konrad Gets Lost on the Way to DC 10” mix. Tiny hi-hat accents bleed into splashes, spacey keyboard riffs fleetingly surface, and owly stabs swerve into position throughout this generously-stuffed ‘EP.'

August 2007