ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

Quinoline Yellow: Colour Index 47005
Uchelfa

Luke Williams is not only the name behind Quinoline Yellow but also the manager (alongside associate Tom Balcombe) of Uchelfa Recordings, an imprint formed in 2005 to exclusively distribute releases through its online shop and Warp's Bleep operation. Williams is also a long-time SKAM associate with various EPs and a 2005 full-length Dol-Goy Assist having appeared on the label. Though Colour Index 47005 features few radical innovations or left-turns on the musical front, its six tracks are inarguably polished and rich in electronic detail. A title like “Close Pen Glin2” suggests an Aphex influence and the track's ammo-firing beat squelch only reinforces the connection. Still, more often than not, the typical Quinoline Yellow piece is an intricate, gleaming construction of clicking patterns, interwoven synth melodies, and voice interjections that opts for sanguine elegance over gloomy melancholia or frenetic beat madness, and typically does so in a style more kin to Ai Records than anything else. Though secondary in importance, cheeky titles like “Miniature Cockroach Cab” and “Bob Brigham's Gold Chariot” only add to the EP's charm.

October 2006