Articles
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Label: Community Library
Vaz: Days of Yore

Albums
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Badun
Jefrey Leighton Brown
The Buoys
Christmas Decorations
Cinematic Orchestra
Colour Kane
David Daniell
Electricwest
Formication
Philip Glass
Erdem Helvacioglu
Jasper TX
Khan
Jasper Leyland
Lichens
A A Mexicano
Milieu
Oid
oto
Ola Podrida
Andrew Pekler
Person
Pole
Project Perfect
Reanimator
Rubens
Stephen Scott
Silencio
Strategy
Tare / Brekkan
Tarwater
Terminal Sound System
Unit 21
Valet
Yellow6

Compilations / Mixes
Cielo
Deep Sea Shipping
Luke Fair
Flight 18
DJ Food and DK
DJ Kentaro
Modeone
Steve Porter

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
B33P3R
Cheju
Deerhunter
Foxhole
K_Chico
The Magic Lantern
Jon McMillion
Myers Briggs
Niederflur
Person
Questions in Dialect
Samarkande/Obliv. Ens.
Sonje
Soporus
VeeBeeO
Vestigial
Rick Wade
.xtrak

Sonje: Anagram
lomidhigh lmtd

Sonje's (Italian producer Massi DL) Anagram, only the third release in lomidhigh lmtd's 10-inch white label series (200 copies only), is as strong a two-tracker as Agnès's recent contribution. “Rosa D'abundo” lurches like a dazed behemoth with a huge, slow-motion low-end that's positively tailor-made to roast your system's innards. Despite its glass-shattering potency, the tune slithers almost elegantly, and its bass roar isn't so gargantuan that the tune's snake-rattling cymbal crescendos and croaking voice escape unnoticed, especially when beats subside during a brief breakdown. Though there's nothing overtly sexual content implied, the track's skanky crawl gives off an almost sadomasochistic scent that's hard to resist. The B-side's “Fusteration” at first writhes like an awakening spectre but then clears the cobwebs and gets moving with a bright-eyed house swing. Exotic insects whistle and jungle species chatter on all sides as singing synths play ping-pong over an insistently rumbling base. Intermittent breakdowns momentarily arrest the flow but also enable the groove to gather steam ever more forcefully after the pauses. Somehow, it seems only proper that music this bruising and, well, primordial should be issued on a heavy slab of vinyl.

May 2007