Leaving the Physical World, Steven Tang’s follow-up 12″ for Smallville, feels a bit more limber and carefree than his full-length for the label.
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Vladislav Delay, Ripatti03
April 18, 2014 – 12:01 AM
The opiate fog hanging over those Vladislav Delay Chain Reaction release lifted a while ago, but Ripatti03 is hyperactive even by Kuopio‘s tightly wound standards.
Actress, Ghettoville
February 25, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Ghettoville finds its creator staring into the fundamentals of his sound, which is to say the nuts and bolts of his poetics and the inky void they exist within.
Elgato, Links / Sun
February 4, 2014 – 12:01 AM
With Links / Sun, Elgato applies his reptilian touch to deep-house tropes, and the results are finely balanced on the cusp of engrossing and uncanny as per usual.
Vril, Vortekz
January 21, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Vortekz, Vril’s first EP for Delsin, offers relentless, tiered dub techno with the internal rhythmic logic of sneakers in a dryer.
LWE’s Top 5 Artists of 2013
December 13, 2013 – 12:01 AM
For the fourth and final year-end column, LWE staff writer Brandon Bussolini highlights five standout artists of 2013.
Special Request, Soul Music
October 25, 2013 – 12:01 AM
Special Request’s Soul Musicis a kind of poetics of the style, a Simon Reynolds-influenced meditation on what made 90s breaks unique and thrilling the first time around, paced around 130 BPM for maximum mixing flexibility.
Tin Man, Underdog EP Pt 2
October 3, 2013 – 8:28 AM
Following close behind Pt 1, Tin Man’s Underdog EP Pt 2 on Pomelo has the same leisurely gait that makes his Acid Test records effortlessly absorbing.
BNJMN, Hummingbird
September 5, 2013 – 12:01 AM
The technicolor fizz blanketing BNJMN’s Hummingbird EP throws the current fixation on “the death of rave” into sharp relief.
Samantha Vacation, Samantha’s Vacation / Postcards from Mssr Perdu
August 21, 2013 – 12:01 AM
Sensate Focus meets footwork on LIES016.5, the latest installment of Ron Morelli’s between-the-integers series.
Sabre, WT 19 Sabre
August 8, 2013 – 12:01 AM
Following up Sabre’s Tasteful Nudes debut is WT 19 Sabre, a three-tracker for Willie Burns’s label that initially offers more of the same sundazed glow.
Recondite / Julien H Mulder, Shift 003
July 24, 2013 – 12:01 AM
The third split 12″ on Singapore’s Midnight Shift pairs Recondite with relative unknown Julien H Mulder and finds both parties performing at a similarly high level.
John Roberts, Fences
June 25, 2013 – 12:01 AM
You wouldn’t mistake Fences for anything other than a John Roberts album, yet a direct comparison with Glass Eights makes clear how far the musician has come.
Djrum, Seven Lies
May 9, 2013 – 12:01 AM
Seven Lies, the debut album from Djrum, immediately lets you know you’re where you are: right there in the long, romantic middle of UK bass.
Mr. Beatnick, Savannah EP
April 30, 2013 – 1:01 AM
Savannah completes Mr. Beatnick’s Synthetes EP trilogy maintaining the mellow, memorable note the London musician hit by embedding hip-hop fragments, mosaic-like, between well-spaced kick drums.
October, Unstable Phenomenon
April 16, 2013 – 12:01 AM
Verging on unpredictable but coherent enough to find a place in DJ sets, Unstable Phenomenon is another solid entry in October’s discography.