Pole - Waldgeschichten

1. Wipfel
2. Wurzel
3. Wipfel Dub

Good to have you back Pole, where've you been lad? Germany's foremost practitioner of crackle-infused dub atmospherics seems keen to emphasize his music's reggae DNA here: the organ melody of 'Wipfel' sounds like the hook from a Jahtari digi killer put through the Berlin blender. 'Wurzel' is similarly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but with a fiercer skank on it, and a more minimal, focussed sound design. The highlight for many though will be Pole's own dub of 'Wipfel' - in which he hollows out the original, filling the space with extra sub-bass pressure and some rude echo FX. It's the sound of a master at work and demands to be heard LOUD...www.boomkat.com

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

Plaid - Scintilli

01 Missing
02 Eye Robot
03 Thank
04 Unbank
05 Tender Hooks
06 Craft Nine
07 Sömnl
08 Founded
09 Talk to Us
10 35 Summers
11 African Woods
12 Upgrade
13 At Last

Back in June, classic IDM duo Plaid announced that they'd be hitting up Canada on their fall North American tour. Well, it turns out that they'll be promoting a new album while they're here. The long-awaited new disc Scintilli will arrive on September 26 via Warp.

The collection will be available as a double-LP or a CD. Music seller Bleep writes that the latter will be housed in a "'Muda na Mono' puzzle pack, the name taken from a Japanese phrase meaning 'pointless object'. It contains two die-cut rings and a CD which can be assembled as per the diagram above. If correctly aligned, the sphere created allows the track titles to be read. The packaging reflects a desire to give the CD an ornamental function, beyond its one use as a basic storage device for music."

Over at Warp's website, you can peruse a diagram that shows you how to construct the unique package. Pre-order it here.

For a taste of new music, check the video for the album cut "35 Summers" below. It's a tinkling, slow building track and the accompanying clip is fittingly mind-boggling. Scroll past the tracklist and tour schedule to watch...www.exclaim.ca

Hrdvsion - I Can't Exist

1. I Can't Exist
2. Disappearing Act
3. I Can't Exist Vs Disappering Act (Ada Remix)

Tormented IDM/Electro-disco from Hrdvsion, the weirder of the brothers Jonson (Wagon Repair's Mathew is his bro). 'I Can't Exist' is a slightly disturbing dancefloor groover revolving around a lingering vocal refrain intonign the title, and powered by crooked electro synths. 'Disappearing Act' is a more succinct take on shredded autotune vox and jerky Electro programming. Ada cannily fuses the two in a dynamically twisted fusion, liek a darker verison of something from her excellent recent album 'Meine Zarten Pfoten' for Koze's Pampa label...www.boomkat.com

Solvent - Subject to Shift

01. Elevator Up (Intro)
02. Loss for Words
03. Formulate
04. A Product of the Process
05. Unknown Caller
06. Don't Forget to Phone
07. No One Should Be Living Here
08. Life-Size Image
09. Take Me Home
10. Caught a Glimpse
11. Panoramic
12. Echo on Your Voice
13. Red and Metal

Throughout his musical career as Solvent, man-behind-the-moniker Jason Amm has always worn his heart on his synthesizer keys, crafting delicately nostalgic synth pop with just a touch of dance floor groove. His latest full-length release, Subject to Shift, is his first in nearly six years.

As the title makes plain, Shift indicates a change in sound for Solvent. The emotive yearning in "Loss For Words," the first single, hearkens back to previous melancholic favorites like "Wish," but adds more of a human touch, with his sentimental vocals left relatively untouched. And then there's the unexpected acidic touch that weaves into 133 charged BPMs in "Formulate," as Amm's familiar robotic voice again returns.

Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the beautiful "A Product of the Process" shares a similar melody to Simple Minds' "The American." But layered with bowel-shaking bass drops and surgical handclaps, there's an increased complexity at work here, updating the backwards-leaning sounds. The unabashed synth pop of "Don't Forget to Phone" is as much homage to the '80s as we've seen from Solvent, while the harsh hissing menace of "Take Me Home" and sinister minor key freakout "No One Should Be Living Here" prominently displays Amm's industrial side more clearly than ever before.

Perhaps all of these differing directions best explain the album. While there's plenty of the expected on Subject to Shift, Solvent traverses more beauty and more noise, more melody and more menace. Maybe there were more shifts planned among the tracks that ultimately didn't make the album cut—like his collaboration with Adam Killing from Kill Memory Crash. But ultimately, Subject to Shift's strength isn't in what it does. There's nothing incredibly new or inventive here. It's in how he does it, dissolving caustic elements and creating a new solution of beauty and warmth from the coldest of sounds...www.residentadvisor.net

Krumble - Born Bad

01 Steady Bee
02 Summer
03 Born Bad
04 Unpleasant Dub

Julien CUENIN aka Krumble The Discobreaker (PeaceOff/Damage/Jungle Therapy/in Vitro/Deathsucker) is one of the most powerful hardcore junglist from France with a strong dj background :played all over Europe as both dj and live act with Venetian Snares, Bogdan Raczynski, Alec Empire, Spor, Dolphin&The Teknoist, Vex'd, Plasticman or DJ Krush... Released numerous ep's on several high aclaimed labels like Rotator's: Peace Off, Damage...

Prefuse 73 - The Forest Of Oversensitivity

1 Overkill Choir
2 Relief Choir
3 Preperation's Kids Choir (Can't Dance No More Version)
4 Always Alone Choir
5 Simple Loop Choir (Bad Memory Version)

Acting as a conceptual accompaniement to his prog-epic 'Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian', 'The Forest Of Sensibility EP' reimagines 'Preparation Kids Choir' and 'Simple Loop Choir' into five dreamily psyched versions. 'Overkill Choir' and 'Relief Choir' on the A-side explore the sort of swooning harmonics and folksy/Latin debted melodies that also mark his Savath & Savalas output, creating lush organic textures and fluid yet complex percussive frameworks to fall into. The B-side revisions 'Preparation's Kids Choir (Can't dance No More Version)' and 'Always Alone Choir' take a more defined hiphop/electronic stance with snapping rhythms taking influence from collaborator Roberto Carlos Lange and sounding much closer to the Prefuse of old, leaving 'Simple Loop Choir' to finish with a cosmic swirl of acoustic guitars and sun baked psychedelia.

Monolake - Atlas

01 Atlas
02 Titan

Monolake was formed in 1995 as the duo of Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, although on later albums the group consisted of Henke alone, with Behles focusing his time on running the Ableton software company. Their sound can generally be described as minimal techno filled with nice touch of fine tech dub, although the 1999 Gobi. The Desert EP, which contains a single 37-minute atmospheric piece, is a notable exception. Monolake first released an album and several 12”s on Berlin’s Chain Reaction label, then on Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music, which is operated by Robert Henke.

Lukid - Foma

01. Ice Nine
02. Raise High the Roof Beam
03. Veto
04. Slow Hand Slap
05. Saddlebags
06. Chord
07. Foma
08. Fall Apart
09. Laughin
10. Ski Fly
11. Time Doing So Mean

On the strength of his past two albums, Lukid, AKA Luke Blair, may as well re-christen his production alias "The Master of Musical Subtlety." His second collection of perplexingly complex hip-hop instrumentals, Foma, takes the low-slung, late night pace of his first, Onandon, and runs headlong with it through a room full of wilting vinyl into a sample bank of bitty drum hits and scuzzed out succulent synth swells. Selected and arranged culpably and with a seemingly heavy hand, he manages to make these small snatches of sampled melody fit, without completely ironing out the rough creases or crackles.

The first two tracks on Foma, "Ice Nine" and "Raise High the Roof Beam," are pure pressure-builders with Blair creating serious anticipation via some pattering percussion and rolling piano samples. But it's the third track, "Veto," where he first unleashes his trademark bump. Blair sets his splicing of a whirling organ underneath a stabbing piano riff alongside a carefully gesticulated drum pattern and some '80s pop bass stabs, managing to consistently make the song pulse by bringing the force of a 4 x 4 kick drum and muting the slap by boosting the low end.

Steering himself away from just beats, bass and a sample, Lukid epitomises the Grievous Angel-endorsed idea that these days, trip-hop is actually trippy. (Refer to the snatches of scything bass and the lush vibes on "Saddlebags" for any further embellisment of this new psychedelic hip-hop theory.) "Slow Hand Slap" takes things in a moodier direction with a sinister bassline opening proceedings before Blair hijacks some of Rustie's playfully pitched tom drums and lays them over three separate bass evolutions. He lets the tension build before he unleashes the ascending vocal sample, which slays the simplistic drum pattern by serving up a memorable hook that evokes wide-open wafting fields and late '60s flower power temptresses.

Throughout Foma Lukid displays a flair for creating quick witted odysseys. Quick because all—bar one—are less than five minutes long; and odysseys because they unfold and ripen into sonic screenplays that you can re-discover and re-immerse yourself in on each listen. Blair has spent a lot of time finetuning his use of bass and on tracks like "Chord" and the sure-fire standout, "Fall Apart," you can hear the impression a painstakingly wobbled sine wave makes to the overall product. Whilst keeping the insatiable thump displayed on "Onandon" as a heady mainstay in his music, Blair manages to seamlessly combine the impetuous wooziness of his fuzzed-up psychotropics with an impeccable heap of punchy post-Dilla drum programming...www.residentadvisor.net

The Archivist - The Keeper of the Library (Limited Handmade Edition)

CD1
01.I am not Prepared
02.The Sound of Old Helmshore
03.You are Made of Stardust
04.Half Enlightened Optimism to Warm a Winters Night
05.This is About You, this is About Me
06.Covet this Friendship
07.Happiness is an Afterthought
08.Not so Loud
09.Tonight we will Play the Stars
10.Im pretty much finished

CD2
01.Untitled
02.Untitled
03.Untitled
04.Untitled
05.Untitled
06.Untitled
07.Untitled

Craig Tattersall has made regular and notable appearances on these pages over the years, as a memberof Hood, The Remote Viewer and The Boats, as well as under his more recent Humble Bee moniker andwork with his own Moteer and Mobeer imprints. This second release on bijou imprint Lacies Records features carefully compiled gems from his extensive archive of unreleased material, assembling vintagerecordings unearthed from dusty tapes and hard drives for what amounts to a 45 minute journey throughwondrous, heartbreaking music. If youve followed Tattersalls work over the years youll have an idea ofwhat to expect here, but its just material of the highest possible calibre, all microscopic, percolatingrhythms and fragile instruments dancing around eachother with an effortless beauty that never fails toreach deep inside your soul and leave you with that bittersweet aftertaste thats just impossible to describe.Achingly beautiful music...www.boomkat.com

Tapage - Fallen Clouds

01 Ith
02 Drain The Clouds
03 Opposs
04 Nail Cut
05 Short Dresses
06 Notbremese
07 Cancelling Unlisted Time
08 Clap Retrial
09 Oval Shaped Square
10 Dark Clouds Adrift
11 Flap Fish
12 M17W
13 Low Volt
14 The Silent Hours
15 Laboratory Panic Advise
16 What I Wish Upon None

Tapage began as an axe-grinder for a short-lived metal/hip-hop band in the Netherlands. He soon departed from his roots when introduced to tracker programming and began developing electronic beats and fusing guitar with synthetic sounds. It wasnt long before Tapage started formulating his own style, experimenting with the vast possibilities of electronic sound manipulation.

Inspired by IDM and Breakcore genres, as well as Post-Rock and Avant-Garde composers, Tapage continued with his vision to merge complicated, harsh rhythms with dream-like atmospheres to createa unique dynamic that is virtually impossible to ignore.

Brilliant or misunderstood The Netherland's native Tapage caused quite a stir with his debut album 'The Institute Of Random Events' last year for Tympanik Audio. Some have described his sound as utterly groundbreaking, while others carelessly dismissed his unique vision of futuristic dark IDM. No matter how you cut it, Tapage has charmed his way into the hearts of Tympanik Audio listeners and is undoubtably here to stay.

Tympanik Audio is proud to present the highly engaging new album by Tapage titled 'Fallen Clouds' available now. A destination that never reveals, leaving the listener in a serendipitous dream state while continuously surrounded by sticky beats, addictive rhythms, and trip-tech electronic collages. A master craftsman of progressive Electronica, Tapage combines smart beats, perfect and stirring pattern timing with dense and alluring atmospheres.

iTAL tEK - Massive Error EP

01 Massive Error
02 Snowburst
03 Strange Love
04 Octa
05 Ghost Cloud

The Return of Ital Tek with a varied 5-tracker for the Mu, headed out by a title track deployed in a nicely darkened-up Wonky style, all lazer synths and grimey textures with one eye firmly on trend. "Snowburst" is up next and utilises a much sweeter palette with a spacious, classic Artificial Intelligence heart beating at the core of a classic Ovuca-style melody, while "Strange Love" ends the side with a technofied low-end hybrid executed with considerable panache. Over on the flip 'Octa" employs a jittery, steppy fomrula to another sweetened IDM template, leaving "Ghost Cloud" to end the twelve with a slightly dubbier rendition complete with another fabulously spacious arrangement. Delicious little twelve, perfectly bridging the old and the new in electronic music...www.boomkat.com

Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra - Various Remixes

A1 The Case (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix)
A2 Love For Mrs. Rhodes (Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra Remix)
B1 Where He At (Apparat Remix)
B2 Counting Days (No^ze'n'DoP Mix)

Various Remixes from their self-titled album, must have..

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

Dntel - Early Works for Me If It Works for You II

CD 1 (Something Allways Goes Wrong)
1. In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Quest
2. In Which Our Hero Finds a Faithful Sidekick
3. In Which Our Hero Is Put Under a Spell
4. In Which Our Hero Dodges Bullets and Swords
5. In Which Our Hero Frees the Damsel in Distress
6. In Which Our Hero Is Decapitated by the Evil King
7. In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Ques [Seq Remix]
8. In Which Our Hero Was Taken by Surprise [Languis Remix]
9. S.O.S.
10. Machine and a Memory Keep You Alive

CD 2 (Early Works For Me If It Works For You)
1. Loneliness Is Having No One to Miss
2. High Horses Theme
3. Pliesex Sielking
4. Termites in the Bathtub
5. Fort Instructions
6. Curtains
7. Tybalt 60
8. Danny Loves Experimental Electronics
9. Sky Pointing
10. Casuals
11. Winds Let Me Down Again
12. Jewel States, "The Door Borders"

CD 3 (Early Works For Me If It Works For You II)
1. New Name
2. Incomplete 1
3. Paul Guitar
4. Don't Try
5. Serious
6. Darker Earlier
7. Smile Break
8. Incomplete 4
9. Moody
10. Slowdance
11. Fancy Ian
12. Jittery
13. Incomplete 2
14. Bluegrass (Short)
15. Mini
16. Laughs
17. First Day After the Worst
18. Ender

Before the Postal Service grew from a charming side project into an omnipresent harbinger of indie-rock's growing commercial profile, there was a kid playing bass for a band called Strictly Ballroom while recording techno in his dorm room under the name Dntel. Jimmy Tamborello's solo electronic project wouldn't make much noise until his third record, Life Is Full of Possibilities, released in 2001 when hiring indie singers to vocalize over electronic compositions was a novel idea. Still, it wasn't just the vocal tracks that held Tamborello's breakthrough album together. Early Works For Me If It Works For You II compiles his first two albums on the Phthalo label with some heretofore unreleased material from around the time of his third. Much of the setstands in the long shadow cast by Warp Records' 90s roster, and Tamborello isn't shy about admitting that. But it also contains early experiments with the chilly but affecting instrumentals that filled in the cracks between Tamborello's more infamous collaborations, and it holds up better than you might think.

The material goes all the way back to 1994 and up through the early 00s, covering a fertile time for amateur electronic composers. Recorded in 1994, but released by Phthalo in 2001, Something Always Goes Wrong finds Tamborello just beginnging to flex his limbs. The distorted, non-repeating drum work throughout showed a love for Aphex Twin and u-ziq, but is never quite as intricate or sophisticated as either of those producer's work. "In Which Our Hero Finds a Faithful Sidekick" rides its breakbeats and yawning bass towards a vague and familiar spy-movie feeling, and while the 8-bit-sounding effects are a lot more conspicuous here than on Dntel's later records, the stretch from "In Which Our Hero Is Put Under a Spell" to "...Frees the Damsel in Distress" develops the slow and swooning vibe Tamborello explored much more fully in the near future. In contrast to his heroes, Tamborello's style was more cautious and uncluttered, making the most from his nascent ability.

While Something was Dntel's earliest material, Early Works For Me If It Works For You was his first release. From the first track on, Early Works... displayed bolder, faster, and more intricate drum patterns. Tamborello was getting better at emulating his influences, but something else was happening, too-- he often dips his toes into textures he'd later grow more comfortable with, like a hurdy-gurdy-like tone that sounds more like live instrumentation and a brief vocal sample on "Fort Instructions". You can also hear much of the melancholy keys and surging, almost soothing white noise that made his breakthrough, Life Is Full of Possibilities, so distinct. "Casuals" blends all these elements together equally: A vocal sample is even almost audible over an insistent, repetitious drum pattern and a melancholy melody, but all of it is washed-out and obscured by crackling distortion. It felt a little more slippery in terms of genre, but it also tapped a desolate, yet romantic emotional core.

City Rain - This I Will Remember

1. Cyclothymic For You
2. Wow That Was Boring
3. Try To Understand
4. Bird Dance
5. Have Them Come Wait
6. Buon Giorno Sleepasaur
7. This I Will Remember Pt. 1
8. This I Will Remember Pt. 2
9. Can't Sleep
10. Just Got Off The Phone With You
11. Skyscraper

A young and seasoned veteran to IDM and minimal music, and the Philadelphia indie-electronic music scene, City Rain releases his best and varied album to date. From the brilliant mind of Ben Runyan comes 11 new tracks with both electronic and acoustic elements. Perfect live guitar lines compliment the programming of hard hitting kicks and bass grooves, snares, and claps that make this music a great blend that will appeal to those that like their electronic music full of melody and feeling just as much as those whose feet are lifted off the dance floor moments before the high pass filter drops the bass that punches them square between the ears.

Teardrop - Time Spent With Antique Mirrors

1. Floating In A Lake
2. Euphoria
3. White Rose
4. There Is Nothing Left To Say
5. Fiction
6. Waving From A Rock Just Offshore
7. Pause
8. Contemporary Flight
9. A Short Walk Around A Glacier (Walking From A Rave)
10. Today The World Will Change
11. Ten Short Thoughts
12. Final Words
13. Open Arms

Teardrop consists of just two members, Jono Renton and Pete Renton. Both are brothers and have been producing music together for years, and there latest project, Teardrop, has taken them the furthest. Both members using different skills to create their unique sound, often associated with such acts as The Album Leaf, Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin and other IDM artists.

Helios - Unreleased Vol. 1

1 Convivium
2 Cross The Ocean
3 The Evening Walk
4 Bounce Dive
5 Every Hair On Your Head
6 South Tree
7 Friedel
8 Distance
9 Carry With Us
10 The Jaguar Sun

Due to the overwhelming response for the unreleased cd-r I am getting orders out now, but please know that I am packaging everything in the order that it was received, so I should have everything shipped by March 15th...www.myspace.com

The Black Dog - Further Vexations

1. Biomantric L-if-e
2. 0093
3. Phil: Because Ov, Indeed
4. You're Only SQL
5. We Are Haunted
6. CCTV Nation
7. Stempel
8. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 1)
9. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 2)
10. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 3)
11. Skin Clock
12. Dada Mindstab
13. Tunnels Ov Set
14. Later Vexations
15. Kissing Someone Else's D.O.G

Further Vexations is our artistic response to 21st century rat on your neighbour smokefree Britain. It is an attempt to capture and express our emotional frustrations, and the trials and tribulations of living in an un-democratic surveillance society. The seeds of nihilist despair and apathy are well and truly sown amongst the citizens of Airstrip One. We've helplessly watched with mounting horror, while the government trashed the country, signed away its sovereignty to Brussels (with a flourish of a specially minted silver pen), sold off precious national industries and assets at next to bargain basement prices, and indulged itself with two utterly pointless wars which it couldn't afford. We were promised a vote. A referendum. A chance to change things but an unelected politician chancellor man decided not to bother. To say we are pissed off about it, would be an understatement.

Keef Baker - Pen Fifteen

CD1:
01. Getting Older
02. Dead End
03. Skellington
04. The East Is Not The Enemy
05. Sailing The Goat Sea
06. Mr Snugglebunny's Happy Paradise Is Slowly Turned Inside Out
07. Big Dick Bricks Covered In Sick
08. Mintymart Overdraft
09. Setekey Sysfuckoffcunt V1
10. Sheepscar Junction
11. Sugar Daddy For Shemale

CD2:
01. The Voice Of Light City
02. You've Been Snarpooned
03. The Square
04. Acid Indigestion
05. A Glittering Netto Palace
06. Cake And Black Sheep
07. Shut Up Neil, For Fuck's Sake!
08. The Great Escape
09. Wine Sponge
10. Aeronautics
11. Return To Light City
12. Soul Folding

Mighty sub-bass drones, driving, energetic beats, wonderful piano lines, atmospheric keyboards, doomy guitars, occasional vocal work - "Pen Fifteen" is another journey into Keef Baker's world, where unequal musical styles like trip-hop, electronica and even metal are used as baseplates and sometimes merge within a single note - just check out what starts as a distorted guitar and ends as click'n'cut in "Dead End". Instead of 'eclecticism', a logical extrapolation of varied influences is displayed, whether it be post-rock, intelligent dance music, dub... in the end they become one style that can only be called Keef Baker. 11 songs of melodic harshness - loud and powerful even in their quietest moments. Expect your expectations to be confounded!

The second CD, "Light City" - intended to be listened to without interference or pauses - is a trip into sudorific club life that keeps you moving for more than an hour. An astounding mix with well-placed increasing and decreasing speed, ranging from dubstep to techno to drum and bass to breakcore and back. This is Keef as he sounds while performing live - a great addition to a fantastic album...www.musicnonstop.co.uk