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
0>1
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

Socks & Sandals: Rishi Saturn EP
Microcosm

Ezekiel Honig's Anticipate label has garnered ample praise—justifiably—for its inaugural quartet of releases but one shouldn't forget that his other label, Microcosm, is still operating too. Sporting cover illustrations that easily could have found their way into The Wind in the Willows, Socks and Sandals (Nicholas Sauser and Clark ov Saturn) follow its 2006 Shatter EP with the equally enticing Rishi Saturn 12-inch.

The A-side epic, “Spaced,” seemingly distills all of the Microcosm trademarks into one supremely swinging, nine-minute opus. The piece royally shimmies and shakes as voice edits, whistling, percussive accents, and xylophone interjections spill onto a relentlessly pumping, bass-heavy groove. Comparatively speaking, “Pura Vida” is less a swinger and more a strutting, tech-house stomper. Chaperoned by high-end percussive chirps, bass lines slide into a dense undertow of crackle while a voice lackadaisically intones the title over and over. The bass burrows even more deeply and groans ever more humongously in “Lucidril Remix” until a charging house pulse takes center stage, with hi-hats and handclaps that seem to pull the track out of the swamp it inadvertently stumbled into. Clothing their heavy rhythm tracks in dense sheets of crackle, voice edits, and hand percussion, Socks and Sandals produce tracks that exemplify both a light-hearted frivolity and a seriousness of compositional purpose—serious fun, in other words, and a great reminder of Microcosm's special sound.

February 2008