Blue vinyl piques my ears & this is weirdness indeed. Hey typical! furthers Todd Drootin’s exploration into his own unique mélange of IDM and country music. A dark, gritty feel rides dusky piano chords while drum-kit percussion plays background to obscure vocal & feedback samples. The flip is playable at either 33 or 45 breaks or d’n’b. Either way, the rolling paranoia found in the ubiquitous piano & Anton LeVay organ conjurs an American desert brimming with gun-toting rancheros. Perhaps Drootin is the Southern Twin to Canada’s Venetian Snares…

No Type has launched its first vinyl releases & they are keepers. Bonarelli investigates edgy, minimal beats with Consumer Culture and pays homage to revolution & Detroit on May ’68, with an electric-infused, beatless pattern of cascading & melodic rhythms (nods to Carl Craig). The flipside contains two further gems in the realm of atmospheric dub/techno. While Public Transportation is true dub BPM, the fade in-out of the 4/4 kick gives it a breathless pulse. Pop Summer Nights slices the ambient drones slowly, eventually brandishing its distant beats with a drifting mindfulness worthy of Chain Reaction.

Cinq nouveaux titres empreintes DIGITALes sont chez l’imprimeur depuis ce matin… Trois disques de Paul Dolden, le boîtier permanent du CD Aparanthesi de John Oswald et le second disque de Roxanne Turcotte, Libellune!

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) souligne les 5 ans de Sound Travels le 9 août 2003 à 14h30 à Centre Island, Toronto en présentant les pièces Here and There de Francis Dhomont, Prince Prospero’s Party de la compositrice britannique vivant en Norvège Natasha Barrett, Inside Out du torontois Randall Smith, Temple de Barry Truax de Vancouver et des pièces des compositeurs italiens Laura Bianchini et Michelangelo Lupone.