ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

Waterprotection: Green Oasis
Süd

The inspiration for Mineto Kanai's Waterprotection moniker came from a Japanese TV program that envisaged a world without water, an inspiration Kanai extends to his Süd debut by working occasional gurgling sounds into his heavily textured techno. Judging by the dark ambiance nurtured throughout, his Waterprotection material more naturally inhabits a murky swamp teeming with organic life-forms than a crystal clear mountain spring. The grimy mood is set at the outset in “No” when a man's voice collides with a woman's wearied utterance “You're not making any sense,” and hardly lets up in the urgent “22” when oscillating patterns swim through a turbulent sea of submerged voices. On the B side, Kanai weaves a multitude of insectoid whirrs and chattering clicks into a hypnotic brew in “Green Oasis” before Bruno Pronsato gives the tune a ‘Head In The Clouds' remix, reconfiguring it with a jazz-tinged, slippery swing that sounds like Booker T. after a 2006 makeover. Compared to previous Süd Electronic releases, Green Oasis plunges into darker and grimier waters.

October 2006