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
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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

VeeBeeO: Instrumentality
Mental Recordings

Instrumentality, a succinct six-pack from VeeBeeO (Stockholm-born Tim Lundblad), offers head-nodding boom-bap and a whole lot more besides. Lundblad's drummer roots are all over the material with most tracks built from the grooves up and, though the genre is nominally hip-hop, the 12-inch disc's material is closer to broken beat. Tracks like “Cast” and “Klox” lurch and stagger over twitchy guitar funk, while “Fraktur” spices things up with synth sweetener and bass guitar flourishes. The cheeky “December” takes Lundblad's snappy boom-bap for a breezy, fusion-flavoured spin, and brightens the jubilant mood with a sing-song choir of melodicas. Squeezing six tracks into twenty minutes leaves no time for excess or long-windedness and, in truth, some of the pieces sound more like three-minute jams than fully-fledged compositions, but it's hard to quarrel with the aromatic likes of “Byxa” when its skanky groove kicks one so forcefully in the gut.

May 2007