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I wrote about HTRK, Walls, I Break Horses, Tropics, Max Cooper, Balam Acab, and Martyn for Blurt Magazine. Check out BEATS WORKING now.

I wrote about HTRK, Walls, I Break Horses, Tropics, Max Cooper, Balam Acab, and Martyn for Blurt Magazine. Check out BEATS WORKING now.

Downliner Sekt’s masterful sound design

Barcelona’s Downliners Sekt told Fact Magazine that they see music as a “language,” with “the capacity to translate a wide range of feelings, to create imaginary worlds.” They’re steadily developing a busy brand of romantic and dub-influenced electronic music similar to that which is explored on Machinedrum’s Room(s) or on Mount Kimbie’s Crooks & Lovers, and they’re handing it out for free. Meet the Decline closes the door on a trilogy of thematically connected releases from the act that launched last year. There are four tracks here of masterful sound design — hushed pitched-up vocal samples, crusty sections of acoustic guitars, and a balance of both knife-hack snares and percussive lows that threaten to swallow everything in earshot. Moody, often wonderfully bleak stuff here. Visit their site’s ‘Releases’ section to download the whole thing FREE.

There is a new column from me at Blurt Magazine — it launched on Monday. Have a look.

There is a new column from me at Blurt Magazine — it launched on Monday. Have a look.

Berlin techno meets grayed-out UK garage on Step In Shadows, the second EP from SBTRKT for XL’s Young Turks imprint. My PopMatters review continues here.

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PopMatters Best Electronic Music of 2010. Thrilled to have shared a byline with these fine writers.

PopMatters Best Electronic Music of 2010. Thrilled to have shared a byline with these fine writers.

Played 20 times

The staff behind the boards at The Fader magazine event last night finally tweaked the levels between Wavves and The-Dream, so that Falty DL’s second set — dizzying, disorderly 2-step beats and propulsive dub configurations — could better reach those of us in attendance. I’d been hoping to check the NYC producer out live, but he always plays well after my bedtime. It was also a treat to hear Pangaea’s “Memories” on those speakers, near the one-year anniversary of when it first surfaced. Here, Falty starts a fire under The XX (via PopMatters).