Gotye - Making Mirrors

01. Making Mirrors
02. Easy Way Out
03. Somebody That I Used To Know
04. Eyes Wide Open
05. Smoke and Mirrors
06. I Feel Better
07. In Your Light
08. State of the Art
09. Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You
10. Giving Me A Chance
11. Save Me
12. Bronte

De Backer has been pushing a unique blend of sample-based production and live instrumentation for almost a decade. Having cut his musical teeth as part of The Basics, a three-piece rock band formed in Melbourne in 2002, the Belgian-born multi-instrumentalist proved he could make it on his own with a series of solo albums, most notably 2006's Like Drawing Blood. De Backer's upcoming release will be his fourth solo full-length, and will be released via Eleven: A Music Company. Stylistically, the new album is a continuation of the sounds he's been crafting since his solo debut, thick with references to retro psychedelica, traditional R&B and pop...www.residentadvisor.net

Demdike Stare - Voices Of Dust

01. Black Sun
02. Hashshashin Chant
03. Repository Of Light
04. Of Decay and Shadows
05. Rain and Shame
06. Desert Ascetic
07. Viento de Levante
08. Leptonic Matter
09. A Tale Of Sand

*Strictly limited copies of this third and final part in a trilogy of Demdike Stare albums for 2010. Spread over 50 minutes and featuring all new and exclusive material mastered and cut at dubplates and mastering in Berlin, featuring supremely righteous artwork by Andy Votel* "Voices of Dust" is the third and final part in Demdike Stare's trilogy of albums for 2010. The album opens with an analogue tape drone that seems to suck the light out of whatever environment you might find yourself in, powering up Demdike's machinery for the bellydance disco assault of "Hashshashin Chant" that follows. "Repository Of Light" takes another diversion, this time wading through the gaseous environs that made the MVO trio's debut album so memorable earlier this year, before "Desert Ascetic" flips things over for a dusted, relentless assault on the souk. The album ends with the decaying loops of "A Tale Of Sand", leaving you with a bittersweet aftertaste and absolutely no sense of closure whatsoever...www.boomkat.com

Africa Hitech - Hitecherous

01 - How Does It Make U Feel
02 - Said Speed
03 - Lash Out
04 - Boingy
05 - One Two
06 - One Two (Instrumental)
07 - How Does It Make U Feel Alt Intro
08 - Too Late
09 - Too Late Instrumental
10 - Too Late Dub
11 - Too Late Dub Instrumental

Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek don their pressurised dashikis on a trip to unimagined African futures. We were given three recon images of their mission on the brilliant 'Blen' 12", and the seven-track 'Hitecherous' gives a detailed status report until the full album lands in early 2011. The eight-minue odyssey 'How Does It Make You Feel' grabs the groove with two hands full of dusty acid sequences, salty bleeps and scuffed post-garage syncopations mellowed out by Spacek's soul vox, while 'Said Speed' runs out spiky digital rhythms and speed garage bass like SND versus Mr V. 'Lash Out' goes wild with staggered synthlines and clacking Grime snares, and 'Boingy' lurches like zebedee on two zoots and half a bottle of Moet. The best has gotta be the dynamic dancehall minimalism of 'One Two', launching the kind of subs liable to buckle your speaker cones under insectoid bleep scuttles and a heavily JA flavoured vocal from Mista Spacek. For all digital heads, there's also the dub-sculpted 'Too Late' featuring a mellifluous vocal and syrupy horns to balance the concrete digital weight of the bass and icy shards of percussion. Pedigree wares!...www.boomkat.com

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times (Remixes)

1. Rooftops feat. Coppa (Minilogues Taqism Remix)
2. Time feat. Damon Aaron (John Daly Remix)
3. Ghostship feat. Spaceape (Deadbeat Remix)
4. Backwards Never feat. Infinity (Xdb Remake)
5. Sunshine feat. Paul St Hilaire (Intrusion Sunset Dub)
6. Nuclear Race feat. Paul St Hilaire (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Dub)
7. Assassination Of The Mind feat. Ras B (Teddy G. Dub)
8. Strangers feat. Spaceape (Headhunter Remix)
9. Hope & Frustration feat. Ras B (Quantec Remix)
10. Piece Of Mind feat.Ramadanman (Ramadanman Refix)

MUST HAVE COLLECTION..

Carl Craig - Angel Remixes

A1 Angel (Jerome Sydenham's Vocal Dub)
B1 Angel (Keith Kemp's Western Addition Mix)
B2 Angel (Jerome Sydenham's Deep Space Dub)

Big room ready rerubs of Carl Craig from Jerome Sydenham and Keith Kemp. All ears are on Jerome Sydenham's big muscle Mary of a remix of 'Angel' on the A-side. Made for the larger house and techno floors this is a stripped but heavyweight club track that does the business effectively and in style. If the sleazy vocal on the A-side is too much try the Deep Space Dub on the flip, or Keith Kemp's more laidback 'Western Addition' mix...www.boomkat.com

Brendon Moeller - Jazz Junk Safari

01. Slight Transition
02. Jazz Junk Safari Mix
03. Space
04. Saviour
05. Pink Noise
06. N-Train
07. One Man's Junk
08. Changes
09. Stinkin Thinkin
10. Fixer
11. Safari
12. Traffic (Original Mix)
13. Jazz

Brendon Moeller is set to compile his three Third Ear releases onto an unmixed CD compilation later the year.

Moeller has had full-length CD releases under his Beat Pharmacy guise, but this will be the first time that Francois K's right hand man has put out an album under his own name. Packaged across two discs, Jazz Junk Safari contains both unmixed and mixed versions of the material from the vinyl EPs, with the mixed version including an exclusive remix of Guillamino, which will come out on Third Ear later this year.

Dubby house music is the order of the day, but each track has its own distinct style, with Moeller switching from smooth organic grooves ("Changes") to techier fare ("Pink Noise", "Space") with his usual polished production sheen.

Dimitri From Paris presents: Nightdubbin'

1. The Winans - Let My People Go (Breakdown Reprise)
2. Sandy Kerr - Thug Rock (M & M Mix)
3. Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon (Super Nova Mix)
4. Aurra - Such A Feeling (Part 2 & 3)
5. Cloud - Steppin' Out Jam (Special Instrumental Dub )
6. Elektrid Dred - Butter Up (Gimmie Some Bread) (Instrumental)
7. Radiance feat. Andrea Stone - You're My Number 1 (Dub)
8. Imagination - Changes (Dimitri From Paris is Nightdubbin')
9. Third World - One More Time (Dub)
10.Raw Silk - Just In Time
11.The Trammps - What Happened To The Music (Dub)
12.Jamaica Girls - Need Somebody New (Dimitri From Paris is back to the Garage)
13.Affinity - Don't Go Away (Dimitri From Paris' Instrumental take)
14.Lenny White - My Turn To Love You (Dub)
15.Mikki feat. Starz - Dance Lover (Dub)
16.Imagination - Changes (Dimitri From Paris is back to the Garage)
17.Imagination - Changes (Dimitri From Paris' Instrumental take)
18.Mikki feat. Starz - Changes (Dimitri From Paris' Nightdubbin' Instrumental)

Oh lord, what a score. If you have even a slight interest in disco and this compilation doesn't quicken your pulse, you should consider getting a pacemaker. Dmitri From Paris selects two discs worth of essential '80s disco dub mixes, the Idjut Boys transform them into a disc-long meltdown, and Francois Kevorkian, Paul Simpson and John Morales lay out an extended liner-notes backstory. Nightdubbin' sounds so current it almost feels belated—it's about damn time, you want to say, that someone traces where contemporary cosmic disco derives some of its experimental attitudes and psychedelic intensities.

The dub version never really constituted a separate scene or style. Instead it was largely consigned to an existence as b-side closer, not often digitized, the quarry of the vinyl DJ. Despite this ghettoization, dub mixes represent a crucial phase in the manifold mutations of disco in the '80s. It was where, in a spirit befitting dub's Jamaican roots, tracks became fodder for wild studio transformation, with pioneers like Francois K. playing mad-scientist, with disco's flamboyant boogie as the helpless guinea pig, a wild laboratory project played fast and loose with splices, loops, edits, an arsenals of analog effects. It's disco transformed but not transformed into anything in particular. Instead the disco dub represents a distinct style exploded open into a wide plane of weird possibilities.

Wide and weird enough that space prohibits giving a sufficient overview of the comp's delights, trust me when I say that it's two discs of stand-outs. You've got vocals shredded, swaying tattered in the wind, drifting unmoored across time, like on "Such a Feeling" by Aurra. Then you've got the rise of the machines, blasting unbound in open space, like the Tesla-coil lasers firing on Sandy Kerr's "Thug Rock," or the dense flutters of handclaps in the void like on, well, almost everything. Then there's just general wonk and eccentricity, like Raw Silk's "Just in Time," a lysergic Halloween party with infinite piano clusters, warbling saws and gleeful, spooked-out hoots. Oh, and don't forget the Idjut Boys straight crush it on the album-length mix, whipping the raw material into equal parts heady mash-up and long-form party train. Despite being legends of trippy disco, the Idjuts keep a relatively low release profile, and this mix is a reminder of their ridiculous game.

With the compelling free-for-all vibes on display here, you can see how dub disco fulfills the promise of dance music as a place for populist experimentation. In cutting (or re-cutting) a dance track, you've got to meet a single expectation: Get bodies to move. Nail that and the rest is up to you, don't be afraid of the unknown. It's a lesson in track-making that never goes out of style...www.residentadvisor.net

Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine

1. The Old Spot
2. Brother John
3. Cold And Wet
4. Riff Raff Rollin
5. Lord Kenji
6. Doty's Leslie
7. Tune Traveler
8. Shadowfish
9. Gourds Of The Desert
10. Turtle Rock
11. Heavy Hands

This whole Clutchy Hopkins business is very confusing. Ubiquity keep throwing all this mythology our way, telling tales about a mysterious figure leaving traces of himself via bags of 2-inch reels and "a vintage Caribbean tracksuit jacket found in the office fridge". Sidestepping the fiction and getting down to this new release from Clutchy and Lord Kenjamin, you'll find yourself in the presence of an instrumental funk/hip hop/dub melting pot; a record that plays out a little bit like a very live sounding Shawn Lee album - and rumours that Money Mark might be involved in this don't seem entirely frivolous given the emphasis on vintage keyboard instruments. Other prime suspects include Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, but whoever Clutchy is, this meeting with Lord Kenjamin (is THAT even a real person?) features some great organic, analogue instrumentals that aren't taking themselves too seriously, as demonstrated by a cut like 'Tune Traveller', which waddles along nicely with a wacky, skanking synth. Elsewhere the jazzy reggae grooves of 'Cold And Wet' brings some downtempo depth to the record, oozing warmth from its airy low-end grooves...www.boomkat.com

Aardvarck - Pigstyle

01) Smurf
02) Dunk
03) Ghetto
04) Revo
05) Kikjoass
06) Water
07) Function
08) 1988
09) Taimingh

Prolific master beatsmith Aardvarck turns his hand to some sloooow sh*t for Kindred Spirits and Nod Navigators. This man has a scary knack for turning whatever style he chooses into his own, here steering away from his usual housier climes with a selection of beathead explorations that touch on the styles of Dilla, Recloose, or Kaman Leung over the 9 tracks, but never loosing that seal of inimitability that is really so shocking here. From the super modified squelches of 'smurf' to the cut up samba flavours of 'revo' the beats shift and mutate restlessly from track to track seriously scaring us with a breadth and depth pretty much unmatched elsewhere. The other fantastic fact about this record is that it plays so well as an album, with enough variety and smudged brilliance to keep anyone listening through til the bitter end, we really can't recommend it any higher. Blazing beats...www.boomkat.com

Pole - 1 2 3

CD1: Blue
01. Modul
02. Fragen
03. Kirschenessen
04. Lachen
05. Berlin
06. Tanzen
07. Fremd
08. Paula
09. Fliegen

CD2: Red
01. Fahren
02. Stadt
03. Streit
04. Huckepack
05. Hafen
06. Weit

CD3: Yellow
01. Silberfisch
02. Taxi
03. Karussell
04. Uberfahrt
05. Rondell Zwei
06. Klettern
07. Strand
08. Fohlenfurz
09. Rondel Eins
10. Heim
11. Sachte
12. Spass Rewind

Since the demise of the Kiff SM label these three groundbreaking albums have been unavailable, thus depriving a whole new generation of listeners with the chance to familiarise themselves with some of the best broken dub of the last 15 years. And in this instance - we really do mean broken, for the central conceit in Pole's work across this triptych of releases was his broken 4 Pole-Waldorf filter, a unit which created unpredictable yet beautifully frayed analogue detritus. The first of these three albums came out in 1998, soon after the peak of the Basic Channel movement and while Stefan Betke (aka Pole) was working at Berlin's legendary Dubplates and Mastering studio under the tutelage of Robert Henke, aka Monolake. When Pole 1 came out it sounded completely unlike anything else anyone had heard before - utilising a bass-heavy dub aesthetic surrounded by the fragmented flotsam and jetsam of his malfunctioning effects unit, all in the most self restrained, minimal and un-showy manner. In hindsight there are clear parallels with the enigmatic reductions of Basic channel's Rhythm & Sound, but Pole's rhythms offered a much more complex and unnerving set of parameters for the dub chords to bury themselves in - and as a result the trajectory of each track became much harder to predict. By the Time Pole 3 came out a couple of years later, the influence of Pole's sound was so substantial that he even provided the soundtrack to a Levi's advert (check the second sound sample below) - by which point his focus shifted towards elements of Hip Hop and Techno with the formation of his Scape imprint and fourth album for the Mute label. But these 3 albums no doubt offer Betke's most substantial and important body of work to date - and it's truly a treat to have them available once again in this deluxe package (including liner notes by The Wire's Rob Young). Newcomers to these 3 wondrous albums are in for quite a treat...www.boomkat.com

Daniel Stefanik - Reactivity

01. Reactivity 1

02. Reactivity 2

03. Reactivity 3

04. Reactivity 4

05. Reactivity 5

06. Reactivity 6

07. Reactivity 7

08. Reactivity 8

09. Reactivity 9

Fans of Daniel Stefanik's monolithic Starless (not to mention its companion Starless Reshapes record) have cause for celebration. Stefanik's new long-player (also released by Statik Entertainment) largely sticks to the kind of cosmic, Detroit-fed product he brought to market on those records. I say "largely" because Stefanik wanders from that path quite a bit, forgoing homogeneity to include tracks orbiting on axes rather distant from the lean, brooding techno at the album's gravitational center. 

An agile journeyman, Stefanik has already left plenty of evidence of his dexterity in a range of neoclassical styles, and with Reactivity he proves quite comfortable pursuing several disparate sonic directions. The least conspicuous of the album's deviations is "Reactivity 8," a troddin' slow-burner of weathered, rootsy dub. More notable are Stefanik's forays into house territory, "Reactivity 2" and "5" incorporating toms, cowbells and a faint soulfulness reminiscent of a sanded-down Theo Parrish. 

The most jarring variation, surely, is "Reactivity 7," an acid burst of metallic, rapid fire percussion that's unlike anything else on the record. All this lends a versatility that keeps the album on its feet for the duration of its 62 minutes. In the main, though,Reactivity is held together by a downbeat backbone that should sit well with anyone with a fondness for Chain Reaction fare (take, for example, the opening and closing cuts, or especially "3").

A stately, almost somber album, Reactivity is choice headphones material, and does come equipped with several fine pulls for more energetic and less solitary enjoyment. It's a record that doesn't clamber for attention, and doesn't seem at pains to forge a bold, singular identity for its creator. But these shouldn't be marks against a listen as consistent, as satisfying, or as cohesive as this one...www.residentadvisor.net

Irmin Schmidt and Kumo - Axolotl Eyes

1 Kick On The Floods
2 Drifting Days, Crime Pays
3 Umbilicus Clear
4 Raketenstadt
5 Atoloxl Eyes
6 Meteor Infected
7 Etrurian Waltz