Wondering if I'm in "musically accessible" mood at the mo or is there loads of good stuff coming out? Over the last few months my record collection's rate of expansion has been mercifully slow, over the last weeks I'm back to averaging an inch a week or something (and back to thinking of how I need take advantage of the downturn to buy a bigger flat to house them all). Anyway this ramble has just used up all the time I had to review them so it's one liners only ;-)
Liquid Liquid : Optimo (Matthew Dear remix) - doesn't sound like the original does sound good, kinda minimal but has funk Francesco Tristano / Moritz - covered already Fluid Ounce presents (compilation sampler) - not 313 but nice house Mock & Toof : Underwater - as above, main side has vocal I don't like but the instrumental on the B is sweet Markus Enochson & Subliminal Kid : Schmutts - quite like the toughest cut on here Redshape : Blood Into Dust - the usual Brothers Vibe : Natural High / Papol : Lapidus From Island - I like only the deeper end of their (Brothers) vibe and that's where this is, don't know the other artist but it's decent too Novell Sound 01 - 3 tracks by another artist I don't know, Levon Vincent, and 1 by DJ Jus Ed, not down with the latter but like the Levon V tracks, Basic Channel-esque but with enough to set them apart from the mass Eddie Fowlkes : Tiazoe Project - LARGE, his best for a while and a welcome return after the horror of the Doors cover c2 & Moritz : Recomposed - was very dubious when news of this surfaced here but digging most of what I've heard, though not all and not listened properly yet Fuse presents Deetron sampler 1 - said about the Redshape above on Styrax Leaves "the usual", the track on here (an exclusive apparently) is better than that, real nice with Mr. Fingers touch, other tracks are good too, in fact based on these samplers I'll be checking Deetron when he spins in Manchester in a couple of weeks Move D : Cube EP - I like Move D, this might not be his best but it's still cool, A a steady number, B more interesting; track listing describes it as 3 parts, come across as one number with nice development was just checking the new Modeselektor with Rustie & Dettmann down my local, sounded good, put one aside
