Articles
Robert Henke
Deepchord and Soultek

Albums
Amoebazoid
Boy Is Fiction
BTB
Calika
Vic Chesnutt
Enrico Coniglio
Eric Copeland
Deadbeat
Deepchord : Echospace
Ditch
Terrence Dixon
Brian Ellis
Reinhold Friedl
The Green Kingdom
Marc Hannaford
Hrsta
K. Leimer
Lights Out Asia
Nebula 3
Netherworld
Le Peuplier de Simon
Po
Portable
Lou Reed
Jeffrey Roden
Skallander
Swod
Gregory Taylor
Telephone Jim Jesus
Pau Torres
Tunng
Rolan Vega
Robert Vincs
Warmth
Otomo Yoshihide

Compilations / Mixes
Sander Kleinenberg
One Point Two
Total 8

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Adultnapper
Arrow!!!
Ascoltare
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Cinematic Orchestra
Deepchord : Echospace
Easy Changes
Fink
Peter Grummich
The Heavy
Isomer Transition
Laptik
Larytta
Nadja
Pendle Coven
Polvere
Redhooker
Spied
Andy Stott
Torrance & Hochstrate
Andy Vaz

Warmth: Leave Your Brain in the Hot Sun
Digitalis

Blurrily mixing diseased fragments of guitar, piano, synthesizer, and assorted other noise, the hour-long Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun by Warmth (Michigan-based Steev Thompson) approximates a harrowing descent into the underworld (the Digitalis release adds two unreleased tracks to the 2005 version that was issued under the name Roxanne Jean Polise on the Belgium label Audiobot). Emerging quietly with the faint sounds of an out-of-tune piano amidst the rumble of gathering winds, “Leave Your Wet” quickly gathers force and, by the four-minute mark, churns aggressively. The piece turns increasingly murky and disturbing, as industrial ripples and blasts drag the listener towards the center of a nightmare. Though one might assume otherwise, the album's material is not unrelentingly abrasive. The hazy loops that introduce “Hot Sun” are so lulling, one swoons as if entranced by the odour of rotting corpses encountered during the journey; the twenty-minute piece does, however, eventually swell into a churning mass that, seventeen minutes in, induces eardrum-shattering pain when it volcanically erupts into squealing, blistered noise. The subsequent “Thank You Cloud. Fuck You Deerfly” splits itself even more markedly into two sections, the first a welcome episode of calm that allows one to recover from the merciless onslaught that came before, and the second an abrupt return to seething noise. Thankfully, “Watch the Animals Glisten as They Rust & Rejoice” opts for relative calm, and suggests the simmering ruins of a destroyed cityscape. Obviously a challenging listening experience but one sure to satisfy devotees of dark soundscaping.

September 2007