textura

ALBUMS
Automotive
Benevento/Russo Duo
Benni Hemm Hemm
Caribou
[The] Caseworker
Eric Chenaux
Cineplexx
Claudia
Daedelus
J Dilla
Envy
Fond of Tigers
Formication
Grizzly Bear
Guther
Ike Yard
Kilo Watts
The Knife
Minimum Chips
Miss Violetta Beauregarde
North Valley Sub. Orch.
Quench
Sandoz
Dani Siciliano
Liam Singer
Stop Disco Mafia
Susanna/Magical Orch.
Vorpal
Wisp
Working Nuclear Free City
Peter Wright
Susumu Yokota
Zeebee

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Belladonna Summer
Cut Copy FabricLive
Mark Farina
Magda
Tandem 4
Tiefschwarz Fabric
Total 7
Until Human Voices...

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Allie
Barem
Deathprod
Ensemble
Extrawelt
Marc Houle
Loco Dice
Lost Trax
David Newlyn
Sandro Perri
Porter & Blain
Relay
Sirka Ragnar
SLG
Swat-Squad

Porter& Blain: Operation Berlin
FDS

Picking up where his Porterhouse mix disc and Homegrown artist album left off, Steve Porter returns with an energized two-track release designed to celebrate his participation in this year's Berlin Loveparade. Side A finds Aaryn Blain giving Porter's “Fluffer Nutter” a predictably grandiose remix treatment. After a pounding pulse sets the mood, the cut gradually builds in intensity with a slithering bass line appearing first and gauzy multitudes of synths second. The Porter-Blain collaboration “Trans Am” rolls out in a funkier strut though slams no less purposefully. True to Porter's dense attack, layers build here too until the tune becomes an unstoppable, steamrolling mass of relentless beats, chugging synths, and gleaming melodies. Though both tracks inarguably accomplish their implicit goals, neither tune advances Porter's sound significantly but merely perpetuates it albeit in more concise fashion—none of which will disappoint his fans, incidentally.

September 2006