A svéd mûvésznõ felvételei korábban a Mitek és a Mille Plateaux kiadóknál láttak napvilágot. Mûfajváltás nem történt, tehát ezen a kislemezen is minimal-house és electronica párosítása érhetõ tetten. Bár otthoni hallgatásra ajánlják az anyagot, a nyitó tétel, a Consumer Culture enyhén szólva is zaklatott világa erre kevésbé alkalmas, a mély hangoktól még kisebb hangerõn is minden mozdítható berendezési tárgy beindult a szobában. A címadó May ’68 sokkal lassabb, dub orientált, mély zene. A fonákon pedig újra a sodróbb, lendületesebb, de azért nagyonis atmoszférikus zenéké a terep. Akinek bejönnek Kit Clayton, vagy a Tennis munkái, ezt is csípni fogja.

After a fine album on Mitek, we hear from la Bonarelli again through this hazy/clear vinyl 10” e-p on No Type. And it’s once again quite good, doing electronic glitchdubs that may not be terribly original any more, but which are challenging listening experiences in their own right. One is actually pretty groovy. Which is nice…

Vers vocht uit de druipende uiers van het Canadese No Type-label. Het duo Coin Gutter maakt niets ontziende, hard industriële en dan weer sacrale elektronische ambient en noise, vaak doorspekt met moderne compositie. Denk aan Yannis Kyriakides in een remix door Merzbow.

Oeuf Korreckt is, ondanks zijn lullige groepsnaam, een bijzonder groovy elektronicacollectief dat met scherpe, licht industriële ritmes erg doeltreffend uit de hoek komt. Alleen jammer van die introverte, weinig verheffende productie.

De sampling-artieste Diane Labrosse werkte de voorbije tien jaar met klinkende namen zoals Ikue Mori, Martin Tétreault en Zeena Parkins. Elektronicafreak A_Dontigny was dan weer lid van het beruchte collectief Napalm Jazz. Tesamen brengen Labrosse en Dontigny spannende, verrassende en verontrustende elektronica -en ambientpassages die je het best beluistert met de deur op slot en het huisalarm op extra sensitive.

We Remain Faded van Headphone Science is de meest beklijvende release bij No Type. Met zijn mix van stuiterende hiphop en aan flarden gesneden raps leunt dit project van Dustin Craig nog het meest aan bij Prefuse 73. Maar de epische soundtrackmuziek die Craig in zijn composities verstopt, sleept deze plaat weg uit het avanthophoekje.

Twee erg leuke 10inch-vinylletjes zijn die van de Zweedse Claudia Bonarelli en de Amerikaan Todd Brooks a.k.a. Books on Tape. Met respectievelijk wollige clickhouse en punky elektrobeats zetten zij de street credibility van No Type extra in de verf.

Groovy click-house they say; dystopian mood-music we say. For the historically challenged among you, 1968 was a pivotal year for youth, with student riots in both France and Italy coinciding with a growing cynicism across the campuses of America, and here Sweden’s Claudia Bonarelli captures EXACTLY the mood of slow-dawning realisation that a change is gonna come, and it’s going to involve a fight. Electronica has never, read NEVER, been so emotive. Outstanding.

It’s groovy, deep and funky, yet there is nothing happening. A few clicks here and there, the same keys relooped over and over again, an almost inaudible bass and the straight drumbeats lost even further down in the mix. It is cool, relaxed and will make you bang your head nevertheless. The invisible disco. Minimal is the word. Four tracks for the modern lounge right before the night breaks loose. And no one will care if that lounge is in some urban hotspot or your own livingroom. Or if you make your living room into a hotspot. If you have style, style is where you have it.

Claudia Bonarelli from Sweden has released on Mille Plateaux and Mitek. And she has style, I am sure. Listening to these four tracks you wonder, why she never released on Kompakt, but she is not from Cologne. See. Four tracks not too different from each other, only in the intensity or non-intensity of the four-to-the-floor house-beat that is subdued somewhere in this mixes, and sometimes missing completely because it is transformed into a repeating static-click. So these tracks make for good at-home-listening as well. If you want to play that at home. And I know, that there are more people doing DJ-Sets for themselves at home than you might think.

This is one of those records, where you think that listening really closely will reveal that there is a lot happening that you don’t hear if it just plays in the background. This time it is not true. There is not a lot happening. It is the mix and the relations between these few ingredients that make the magic of these tracks. This is where the space between sounds becomes as important as the spaces filled with sound. Minimalist. Another vinyl brick in an ongoing musical revolution? If so, it is a silent one. No flames and bombs, only dancefloors and DJ-sets slowly progressing onwards to something new. May ’68 is named as a “DJ ready, 120-gram clear 10” release” – does that say it all?