ARTICLES
2006 Top 10s and 20s
2006 Artist Picks

ALBUMS
17 Pictures
Angina P
Ateleia
Benni Hemm Hemm
The Boats
Cappablack
Celer
Dead Letters Dead Words
Deceptikon
Deerhunter
Denzel + Huhn
Displayaz
Dollboy
Drone
Eluvium
Emanuele Errante
The Eternals
Fear Falls Burning
Marcus Fjellström
Fonoda
Funkstörung
Goldfrapp
Gyroscope
Robert Henke
James Holden
The Idealist
Anders Ilar
Landing
LCD Soundsystem
Library Tapes
L Pierre
Lullatone
Tor Lundvall
Mad EP
Mahogany
Melodium
Mem1
Daisuke Miyatani
Mole Harness
Momus
Monoceros
Mormo
Mothboy
Original Hamster
Pierson & Horton
Prince Valium
Radical Face
Retail Sectors / Yaporigami
Rylander & Elggren
Scott Solter Plays PIM
Sideshow
Silicone Soul
Skream
Splinters
Mark Templeton
Thread Pulls
T. Raumschmiere
Tycho
Ultre
Virculum
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
AudioArt 03
Cumulous
Dubstep Allstars Vol. 4
Eriksen / Toft / Utarm
Katapult VA Vol. 3
Let's Lazertag Sometime
Mr Geoffrey & JD Franzke
Skagen / Halvorsen / Toft
Tectonic Plates

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Gabriel Ananda
Robert Bardini
DAT Politics
Dead Letters / R. Sundin
Dogmixer
Benjamin Fehr
Fenin
HL
I Make This Sound
Zoë Irvine
Kyriakides and Moor
Lamont & 2tall
Ljud. & Piloten / Kama Aina
Jacob London
Sam Mcqueen
Miskate
Ryo Miyashita & Hiiragi_
[nara]
New Faces
Of / Greg Davis
Charlemagne Palestine
Phon.o vs Litwinenko
Portable
PostPrior
Samarah
Nicholas Sauser & Ditch
Someone Else
Hannes Teichmann
Tractile
Andy Vaz

IMAGES
F.S. Blumm

Zoë Irvine: Magnetic Migration Music
Seven Things

Yannis Kyriakides and Andy Moor: Rebetika
Seven Things

Charlemagne Palestine: The Golden Mean
Seven Things

The Scotland-based, (currently) downloads-only label Seven Things (short for Seven Things I Daren't Express) is a relatively new enterprise that has already amassed a remarkable body of work including releases by Max Richter, Luc Ferrari, Koji Asano, Peter Dowling, and others. Before purchasing a particular work (many of then live performances), one can download a free seven-minute mp3 from the label's site in order to familiarize oneself with the artist and the work in question. A brief overview of three releases provides a representative impression of the label's provocative material.

Recorded at the Sage Centre, Gateshead UK in May 2005, Charlemagne Palestine's two-piano (one performer) work The Golden Mean inaugurated Seven Things' releases in March 2006. Though Palestine's pieces can last as long as four hours, this one is a thoroughly accessible 36-minute introduction that finds him patiently constructing multi-layered, architectonic clusters of immense weight and force. The intensity level sustained throughout astonishes, with Palestine building chords into massive cathedrals of chiming sound.

Scottish sound artist Zoë Irvine (aided by Mark Vernon) assembles a real-time collage using archived material (collected from Glasgow, Haiti, London, Perth, Paris, Vienna, Croatia, etc.) in a February 2006 live computer performance entitled Magnetic Migration Music. Regardless of however spontaneously formed it may have been, the resultant piece easily holds one's attention, as Irvine judiciously weaves opera excerpts, spoken word samples, musical passages (including a roughened-up Abba) into an always-compelling 26-minute whole.

January 2007