Depth Affect - Draft Battle

01. A Million Buzzing Locust
02. Unsult
03. Matter Of Tempo
04. Sugar Honey Iced Tea
05. Oil Rig Heli Pad
06. Draft Battle
07. I Guess
08. Dämmerung
09. Ten Devils
10. Club And Maces
11. Rivage Barbare

The french beatmaker have release a new album this summer. In case you don’t know them you better check their previous albums/ep. Especially Hero Crisis which is a great album (featuring Subtitle and Awol One).
Depth Affect

On that new and third album the vocals are almost inexistant. They stick to what they knew the best : electronic loops, heavy bass and a bit of eighties sound (on Matter of tempo). That album is also release on the great label Autre directions...www.mad-hop.com

Pixelord - Fish Touch

01 Fish Touch
02 Kiss Your TV
03 Cybernator
04 Flower Cannon
05 Fish Touch (Busted By Herobust)
06 Cybernator (Om Unit Remix)
07 Fish Touch (Kidkanevil Remix)

Err, when did Gultskra Artikler start making electronic HipHop?! Well, last year by the looks of it, but it totally flew under my radar. Anyway, 'Fish Touch' is really good, flowing from dubbed-out wonk on the title track to the nastier bass growls and forced neck-snap of 'Kiss Your TV', through to Dubstep/Skweee like jest on 'Cybernator' and 'Flower Cannon'. On the remixes, heRobust ives 'Fish Touch' a holographic remake while Om Unit gives 'Cybernator' a Juan Atkins-alike overhaul and KidKanevil reviews 'Fish Touch' from a more staggered crunk angle...www.boomkat.com

Kontext - Plumes / Blinkende Stjerne

A Plumes
AA Blinkende Stjerne

If you've managed to pick yourself off the floor after ingesting the first 12" from Kontext, sit yourself down for a second and check the styles on this badboy. Not content with mastering the art of 140bpm dubstepXtech on the first 12", Kontext turns his hand to two brutally bass laden techno cuts for the second installment. 'Plumes' sits heavy on the A-side with a purest subbass driven tech-house cut speckled with lush synthwork, but it's the flipside track 'Blinkende Stjerne' that really takes the piss, charging up another divebombing subbass mission with dry funked and brittle techno percussion before introducing awesome Monolake style atmospherics of the highest calibre. It's safe to say this an absolute essential, and fans of everyone from Peverelist to Villalobos need to give this some very close attention. Recommended!!!...www.boomkat.com

Bristle Weather - The Eyes Of A Night Town

01. Nothing Came
02. Do You Tend To Hide Your Feelings
03. Fathomless Tyes
04. Night Street Spirit
05. Apathy
06. Under The Street Lamp
07. nt
08. Speak With Silence
09. Yellow Air

Among the admirers of this young genius (Evgeni Trifonov is a young Russian in 21 years), there are outstanding Thom Yorke, Arovane, Bichi or Burial.
Despite the keen interest of all "sizes", Bristle Weather has not yet found a label to publish The Eyes of a Night Town. If this column can help, justice will be done and we would be extremely happy for him.
This album is brilliant, a real rough diamond IDM. Dark and complex, it diffuses ambient layers thick with complex rhythms and collapsées.
The overlay may sound excessive and sometimes sound a bit cold at first listening inattentive, it is undeniable that the world is fascinating, sinuous, accompanying the listener to meander hitherto unexplored. Just that.

Fennesz - Black Sea

1. Black Sea
2. The Colour of Three
3. Perfume for Winter
4. Grey Scale
5. Glide
6. Vacuum
7. Glass Ceiling
8. Saffron Revolution

Christian Fennesz's follow up to 2004's Venice is upon us, and it's not likely to leave anyone disappointed. The ten-minute title track gets the album underway, opening tentatively with flickers of noise and digital debris crackling like fireworks in the distance. Soon a flood of symphonic guitar and electronics overwhelms the mix and we're reintroduced to the signature sound world that's unique to this man's music - he's one of the most imitated electronic artists out there, and yet you can always pick out the real thing from a line-up of clones. Not resting on his laurels, before 'Black Sea' is even three minutes in, the magnitude shrinks down to a simple duet between oscillating tones and brittle acoustic guitar plucks. It's from here that the piece begins to swell up with majestic, incredibly warm sustains and scratchy textural details - the whole composition feels like a reintroduction to the various facets of the Fennesz sound. Next comes the first of two collaborative pieces (although it should be pointed out that this one isn't available on the vinyl edition - and while we're on the subject, nor is the ambient miniature 'Vacuum' encountered towards the end of the CD and digital tracklists): 'The Colour Of Three' features Anthony Pateras (a veteran of Editions Mego and Sirr), who supplies some nicely clanking prepared piano tones, placing emphasis on the instrument as a percussive device rather than a string instrument. Despite this augmented instrumental range we're still in familiar territory thanks to Fennesz's transcendent digital eruptions and gloriously rich sound designs. 'Perfume For Winter' is a more restrained affair, filled with contemplative acoustic figures and abrupt organ-driven chord changes. We get our first real taste of explicit melody here, reminiscent of Endless Summer's most approachable tracks. Importantly though, there are no overt attempts to retrace footsteps back to that classic album, and Black Sea sounds vehemently like a step forwards for Fennesz. This sense of progression is underlined by the spine-tinglingly wonderful 'Glide', a duet with Rosy Parlane which takes Fennesz's wall of sound into the stratosphere, sounding like an unearthly orchestra. The music itself matches the increased magnitude: if Endless Summer was a digitisation and abstraction of The Beach Boys, 'Glide' could be said to apply the same transformative techniques to more classically-geared sounds - there's an undercurrent of elegiac romanticism that might reasonably be compared to fellow notable Austrian, Gustav Mahler, specifically the well-known fourth movement of his 5th Symphony (once famously plundered by Robert Lippok for his Open/Close/Open release on Raster Noton). After the quietly glistening, chime-like tones of 'Glass Ceiling' comes previous single and album finale 'Saffron Revolution', which is a suitably grand closing gesture, stretching out a single, euphoric multi-layered chord across much of its duration before dissipating away into a pattern of delayed string plucks. Black Sea is far and away one of the year's most beautiful records, both in terms of the music itself and the sheer iridescence of the electronic sound harnessed within. Very highly recommended indeed...www.boomkat.com

Michna - Magic Monday

1 Triple Chrome Dipped 
2 Swiss Glide 
3 Believe In It 
4 Skunk Walk
5 Bumper Car Masters 
6 Levitation 
7 Raw Paw 
8 Redline Flights 
9 Do What You Want To Do 
10 Italian Visitor 
11 Avant 
12 Third Orbit 

True to the dazzling and over the top artwork emblazoned upon the sleeve, Adrian Michna's music proves to be a fine and splendid confection, cross-pollinating a variety of electronic production disciplines, taking in the eccentricities of the Alpine 'Swiss Glide' (complete with oompah-style horns) and 'Skunk Walk's modern, digital funk, whilst leaving a little room for the crispy disco of 'Bumper Car Masters'. Elsewhere 'Do What You Want To Do' is indietronic hip hop of the finest order and 'Redline Flights' dips into a slick electro mode, painting a portrait of an artist unwilling to settle down in any one genre within the electronic music spectrum. Recommended...www.boomkat.com

HeartsRevolution - Switchblade EP

01 Switchblade
02 Digital Suicide
03 Wolves and Libertines
04 Ultraviolence
05 Digital Suicide (Lullaby)