Articles
2008 Ten Favourite Labels
Ten Questions Celer
Ten Questions Deadbeat

Albums
Anzio Green
Ariel Abshire
Osman Arabi
Arastoo & AEMAE
Asymmetrical Head
Benoît Pioulard
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Matt Borghi
Celer
Cubenx
Anders Dahl
Davis & Roux
Deadbeat
Feu Follet
Formication
Generic
Stefan Goldmann
Gultskra Artikler / Lanterns
Hauschka
Hexes & Ohs
Koen Holtkamp
I Am Robot And Proud
Illusion of Safety
Integral
Koen Park
Akira Kosemura
Koushik
Library Tapes
Lineland
Mamiffer
Melodium
Moon
Oppressed By The Line
Pillars and Tongues
Rumpistol
Kamran Sadeghi
Sans Serif
Signal Deluxe
Skogen
Saul Stokes
Matthew Sweet
Tapage
Thursday / Envy
Windy & Carl

Compilations / Mixes
An Taobh Tuathail II
Chaos Restored 2
DFPRMX
Kuniyuki
Message Subatomic World
Pero es olor en el cuarto...

EPs
Canyons!
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Cubenx
Dokuro
Fraction
Lee Holman
Ikonika
King Midas Sound
Michael Lambright
Library Tapes
Lilienweiss
MRK1
:papercutz
Spencer Parker
Poratz
Spartak + John Chantler
Andy Vaz

VA: Chaos Restored 2, Mixed and Messed With by Justin Martin
Buzzin' Fly

Coming fast on the heels of 2007's debut Chaos Restored, San Francisco-based Justin Martin inaugurates his follow-up mix CD for Buzzin' Fly by pairing a seductive Barry White-styled voice-over (“Hey, baby, I think it's about time I let you know how I feel”) with mournful strings before springing into action with DJ Koze's swinging house cut “Let's Love.” Laid down in August 2008, it's an auspicious beginning to a scenic and predictably offbeat travelogue that includes side-trips into jubilant funk-house, quirky minimal techno, Latin-funk, tripped-out tech-house, and even one section that's so reminiscent of “The Robots” it has to be intended as a Kraftwerk homage (the group's trademark synthesizer melodies are augmented by vocodered singing and even train sounds).

Listeners familiar with Martin's previous mix will expect to hear inspired flourishes on the new one and they won't be disappointed: at one point, a bass clarinet's goose-like honk meanders over a charging tech-house pulse, and in one particularly inspired moment, Radiohead's “Nude” gets a stirring makeover (when the group made the song openly available online, Martin downloaded the parts and proceeded to give the haunting tune the future-funk treatment). Hearing Thom Yorke's voice sluicing over Martin's clockwork beats lends Chaos Restored 2 a distinctiveness that separates it from other mixes. Martin remixes a number of tunes too, including Marshall Jefferson's strutting house cut “Mushrooms” which features a laconic raconteur's trippy recollection of “walking on clouds” after ingesting the titular items. Cuts by Stateless (a Henrik Schwarz remix of “Bloodstream”), Dapayk Solo (“50mann50hz”), Loco Dice (“M Train To Brooklyn”), and fellow Buzzin' Fly act Stimming (“Kleine Nachtmusik”) also dot the landscape, and Justin even makes room for a jungle-inflected version of brother Christian's “Elephant Fight” plus his own “My Angelic Demons,” scheduled to be issued soon as a stand-alone release on Buzzin' Fly.

November 2008