Articles
Slow Six
Label Profile: Fällt
Alexander Turnquist

Albums
4 Bonjour's Parties
AGF
Atlas Sound
Autistic Daughters
Baja
Evan Bartholomew
Sylvain Chauveau
Destroyalldreamers
DoF
Dot Tape Dot
Fessenden
Floriana vs. Màcro
Florian Hecker
I Am A Vowel
Jaermulk Manhattan
Steve Jansen
LabField
Liar's Rosebush
Eliot Lipp
Luminous
Mojib
Monocle
Nicolay & Kay
Panda Riot
Ghislain Poirier
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
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Sambassadeur
Starting Teeth
Carl Stone
Strings of Consciousness
Suite Crude Revue
Text Adventure
Alexander Turnquist
Valet
Viirus
Willits + Sakamoto
Yaporigami

Compilations/Mixes
Armin Van Buuren
Caroline
Goodbye Said the Rain
Sieben Mal Solo
A Weevil in a Biscuit

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
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A Setting Sun
The Bug ft. Warrior Queen
Myungho Choi
Deadbeat
Entsounds
Itosha
JDSY
l'Objet
Noah Pred
Repair
The Retail Sectors
Socks & Sandals
Someone Else
Trembling Blue Stars
.xtrak

Prosumer & Murat Tepeli: Serendipity
Ostgut Ton

Serenity's cover image—white powder-faced Achim Brandenburg (aka Prosumer) and Murat Tepeli attacking watermelon slices—makes the two look like a pair of jokers. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, so long as the listener doesn't prematurely conclude that the two treat their music-making as frivolously. They don't, obviously, though they don't take it too seriously either. Generally speaking, the debut album from Panorama resident Prosumer and partner Tepeli serves up a restrained variant of melodic house that goes down smoothly. Appealing as their subtly swinging, late-night house tracks are, they're instrumentally more impressive than vocally (the skeletal “Serenity” provides a sensuous and, yes, serene start but it's weakened by Brandenburg 's merely serviceable singing)—at least until Elif Biçer enters in “Drama Baby.” Her subtly soulful delivery makes all the difference on the four tracks where she appears (especially “Turn Around” and “Butterfly”), and by album's end the listener is left wanting more of her, not less. Aside from those tracks, the album's fiercer material, like the swinging, chant-like “Give and Take” and slightly acidy minimal house cuts “Go Silla” and “Makes Me Wanna Dance,” is the most memorable, though the slow-burning pitter-patter of “Solid Mind” is enticing too. Judging by Serenity, one could conceivably think of Prosumer and Tepeli as a less dynamic kin to Booka Shade. (Note: Serenity is available in two versions, one for the home and one for the club: the CD contains seventeen tracks, while the double 12-inch has eight DJ-friendly extended versions of the most danceable tracks, as well as some vinyl exclusives.)

February 2008