27th april will see arc festival take over eastville park in bristol.
teshno
'in germany, they can't say 'techno,' they say 'teshno'' ~ seth troxler [march 2008]
sei a ~ flux on turbo
i was gunna open this review with something like ‘sei a here continues his sonic re-invention blah blah’ but then i realised the now london based dude’s never really settled on any one style long enough for him to re-invent it.
albums of the year ~ 2011
ok, here comes a list of my thirty favourite long players (including one re-issue and following my top 10 compilations) of 2011. like last year, i’m not that sure of the order beyond the first few, but these are the records which i’m still listening to, still enjoying and – in many cases – still astounded by. the only other thing to note is the lack of many bass/dubstep albums. efforts from kuedo, sepulcre and machine drum will all top many polls elsewhere on the web, i’m sure, but i just never quite sit comfortably when they are playing. necessarily then, in case you wondered, i’ve overlooked them. but it ain’t like i was short on choice…
martyn ~ viper / masks on brainfeeder
the artistic merits of martyn’s work have never really been up for debate. instead, it’s simply been a case of – do you feel it? if you don’t, it’s certainly not for the dutchman’s lack of trying… early on his focus was toughened d&b, then came a sleek (and only loosely defined) dubstep stage before it was a good old four to the floor pulse that underpinned all his records for the likes of aus music, ostgut ton and all city. now, though – and as you should expect – he’s moved on again, this time to fly lo’s brainfeeder who will release the full length from which these singles are taken later this year. but rather than kowtow to that label’s leftfield hip-hop aesthetic, it’s techno and electro which seem greater preoccupations for the 3024 boss.