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Textura’s new issue is up — it’s always a pleasure to check out what they’re into over there. The reviews section throws some shine on some great new techno/electronic records out right now from bvdub, Claro Intelecto, Monolake, and more. At Textura’s easy-to-navigate, orderly site, there is discussion on the “Spotlight” page of the Bersarin Quartett. The act’s debut album has been repressed and is available through Denovali. Sit back and let that cover art wash over you, and sample some of the sprawling, film music-driven pieces from producer/musician Thomas Bücker. There are definitely worse ways to spend your time.  View high resolution

Textura’s new issue is up — it’s always a pleasure to check out what they’re into over there. The reviews section throws some shine on some great new techno/electronic records out right now from bvdub, Claro Intelecto, Monolake, and more. At Textura’s easy-to-navigate, orderly site, there is discussion on the “Spotlight” page of the Bersarin Quartett. The act’s debut album has been repressed and is available through Denovali. Sit back and let that cover art wash over you, and sample some of the sprawling, film music-driven pieces from producer/musician Thomas Bücker. There are definitely worse ways to spend your time. 

Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden packed a couple of his own new productions into this new free mix that he loaded onto Soundcloud this week, according to FACT. When Domino issued his fifth solo LP in 2010, I wrote about it for Blurt Magazine: On There Is Love In You, Hebden explores more of the refined and understated house and techno that characterizes his 2008 Ringer EP, with a generous bundling of the organic elements that have so often enriched his work. Read more.

Friday Listening

“I wrote ‘Open Source’ on my mother’s baby grand piano,” Collin “Calmer” Palmer explains. “That set the tone for what was to become the Past Is Present EP.” Incidentally, the artist’s mother was more involved in his creative nurturing than that—as a child in Pennsylvania’s Andrew Wyeth country, Palmer accompanied her at the same piano, where she captivated him with selections from the songbooks of Claude Debussy, Bach, and more. Read more of my 2009 feature on Calmer at PopMatters.

Producer Machinedrum unleashed snippets of 23 new beats on his Soundcloud. He put out one of my favorite electronic records of 2011. My thoughts on Room(s) were posted a while back — check ‘em out.  

On Tycho’s subtle and fluid Dive

Scott “Tycho” Hansen has been making wordless electronic music for years, building each piece with organic accompaniment that’s often treated to make it sound both warm and worn. The acoustic guitars that roll through Dive, his debut LP for Ghostly International, mimic the temperate folk progressions on the early Simon and Garfunkel LP Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Sea-spray sonics and unearthly keyboard squiggles splinter off into endless directions, sometimes finding their way around impossibly cylindrical basslines. Read more of my piece on the Tycho album at The Brooklyn Rail.

Go check out ‘THE BEST ELECTRONIC MUSIC OF 2011’ from PopMatters.

Even as they’re busy with equally provocative electronic records in separate solo side projects, New York City producers Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma dealt an aurally dense and lively full-length as Sepalcure in 2011. I wrote about their absorbing EP called Fleur earlier this year, and the self-titled LP follows strongly the ambient house/bass-driven beat sound they’ve been turning out since 2009. Read my PopMatters piece on Sepalcure’s debut LP

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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.

Infinitirock and library music

Brooklyn-based teenager Chester “Infinitirock” Anand’s beat music is jolting and scatterbrained — he follows audacious experiments in Asthmatic Kitty’s Library Catalog Music Series well with Music for Primordial Recollection. It’s one of the strongest chapters yet — a rich and divergent compendium of psychedelic, wordless grooves, and weighty sound collages. Read more of my piece at PopMatters.