ARTICLES
Ten Questions: Fat Jon
MUTEK 2006

ALBUMS
65daysofstatic
A Cloud Mireya
Ambarchi and Ng
Another Elec. Musician
Derek Bailey
Band Ane
Barzin
Black Gold 360
The Blow
Boduf Songs
Childs
Darc Mind
Dosh
Duopandamix
Fat Jon & Styrofoam
Liam Gillick
Shuta Hasunuma
Tim Hecker
Ilkae
Jack's Son
Richard Jäverling
Jazzkammer
Junior Boys
Last Days
Hanno Leichtmann
Luomo
Mandelbrot Set
Mountaineer
N.Phect & Dizplay
Part Timer
Karsten Pflum
Benoît Pioulard
Plus Device
+/- {Plus/Minus}
Relay
Saroos
Seht
Shedding
So Percussion
Sybarite
Trio Vopá
Marshall Watson
Weather Report
Donato Wharton
Christopher Willits
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
ESL Remixed
Four Tet
Garnier & Craig
Ginglik Saturdays
Michael Mayer
Henrik Schwarz

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Colleen
Delano and Xpansul
Detritus
Ed Devane
Eskimo
Feathers
Goldmund
Ezekiel Honig/Graphic
Ezekiel Honig
Eliot Lipp
Robert Lippok
Alejandro Lopez
Evan Marc
Porter & Carr
Sebastian Russell
Somone Else
Spaceships & Pings
SplitEP3
Simon Whetham

Sebastian Russell: Infinite
Silenzio

Turin, Italy-based net label Silenzio makes its debut with Infinite, four funky minimal house cuts by Londoner Sebastian Russell. Though he cites Matthew Dear and Prefuse 73 as influences, Russell's style is closer to [a]pendics.shuffle's in its fusion of slippery tech-house beats with quirky clicks and thrums. A case in point, “Cold Little Venice” peppers a swinging jack with syllabic voice snippets and all manner of sputtering, splattering, and squelchy noises. Hints of Akufen surface too, especially in “Keep Going” and the title cut, with the former weaving an electro-funk vibe into its croaking pulse and voice fragments and the latter strafing its techno pulse with squirrelly whirrs and syllabic voice snippets. Having played guitar for fourteen years before abandoning it for electronic music-making in 2003, Russell may be somewhat new to the genre but certainly sounds like an old pro on these tracks.

November 2006