Africa Hitech’s 93 Million Miles has one of the most unique arcs of any album in recent memory, a progression of sound that might best be described as backwards time travel, something the title alludes to.
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DJ Qu, Gymnastics
May 24, 2011 – 10:01 AM
DJ Qu’s debut album, Gymnastics, feels like a kind of manifesto, presenting his fully-formed vision of the darkest reaches of dance music across three slabs of wax or one CD.
Kode9 & The Spaceape, Black Sun
May 20, 2011 – 12:01 AM
Black Sun, Kode9’s second LP with The Spaceape, feels like a well-timed counterpoint to Martin Clark’s fears about dissociation: it has a distinctively rough, striking sound, and is definitely not “sorbet.”
Art Department, The Drawing Board
May 19, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Art Department expand on their retro-informed sound with The Drawing Board, an album that appeals to wider audiences even as it reveals the limits of their approach.
Andy Stott, Passed Me By
May 17, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Andy Stott’s Passed Me By might be dance music shaved down to within an inch of its life, but it’s an inch far too tantalizing to be left for dead.
Fudge Fingas, Now About How
May 12, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Fudge Fingas’ Now About How is an engaging curiosity that rewards close listening and a worthy entry in my imaginary canon of British whimsy.
Rick Wilhite, Analog Aquarium
May 10, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Analog Aquarium is as you’d expect it to be: an album made entirely on analogue equipment that sounds all at once a timeless classic and futuristic.
Morphosis, What Have We Learned
May 3, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Morphosis’ What Have We Learned is conceptually, sonically and emotionally consistent, but that doesn’t mean it’s not one of the stranger techno albums you’ll hear all year.
2562, Fever
April 22, 2011 – 6:01 AM
Fever has Dave Huismans diving back into the cruel mechanical whiplash of his second album under the 2562 guise, Unbalance.
Skudge, Phantom
April 21, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Phantom, Skudge’s full-length debut, does not surrender their style in favor of a subdued home-listening experience, instead keeping its focus on the dance floor.
Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Horizontal Structures
April 19, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Where Vertical Ascent was made up of four discrete and easily approachable tracks, Horizontal Structures works most effectively as an entire set, one you may find a bit difficult to fully digest.
Fred P., The Incredible Adventures Of Captain P
April 12, 2011 – 10:01 AM
The Incredible Adventures of Captain P catalogs Fred P’s disparate influences, both musical and those acquired during his world-spanning tours.
nsi., Sync
April 7, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Sync doesn’t feel like the group’s next logical step so much as a blatant restatement of purpose: these are nsi.’s machines, and this is everything they can do.
FaltyDL, You Stand Uncertain
April 6, 2011 – 10:01 AM
FaltyDL’s hectic release schedule continues with You Stand Uncertain, his sophomore album on Planet Mu.
Mike Dehnert, Framework
March 30, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Framework is the definitive Fachwerk opus, a portfolio of Mike Dehnert’s many, many variations on a theme.
BNJMN, Plastic World
March 22, 2011 – 10:01 AM
What’s perhaps most impressive about Plastic World is how confidently BNJMN navigates uncharted sonic territory.
Deaf Center, Owl Splinters
March 10, 2011 – 11:01 AM
Six years after their debut full-length, Deaf Center make a welcome return to Type Records with the new LP, Owl Splinters.
Zwischenwelt, Paranormale Aktivitat
March 8, 2011 – 11:01 AM
Paranormale Aktivitat, the debut album from Zwischenwelt (Gerald Donald of Drexciya, Beta Evers, Penelope Martin, and Susana Correia), isn’t far removed from Donald’s legacy.