Electronix

mp3: Amon Tobin - Bloodstone
mp3: Amon Tobin - Esthers

A welcome return for Amon to more organic sounds and expansive compositions rather than his increasingly dense music of recent.

mp3: Duster - Travelogue

Post-rock. This one needs volume. I don't really know how to describe it, except that it sounds like time traveling backwards.

mp3: Gangpol Und Mit - Notre Vie N'est Pas Simple.Vous Ne Devenez Pas Jeune

All the old IDM tricks you've heard before, but he uses them in such a fun way it's pretty much irresistibly good.

mp3: Isolee - Face B

Isolee employs a malfunctioning bassline to wreck you into some sort of hypno-sleep where you forget that anything else but that bassline ever existed.

mp3: Remarc & Lewi - Ricky

Old school jungle. Even today, the Amen break shows why it will always be vital.

mp3: High Contrast - Return Of Forever (Klute Remix)

Klute has something I think few other DNB producers possess - an ear for that kind of chromatic, shifting tone in good reflective/melancholy melodies. Those horns just kill me.

mp3: Matthew Dear - Deserter EP

It took me a while to decide if I liked the original mix or Four Tet's mix better. The Four Tet mix is almost the obvious choice - it's like listening to a bright spray of color fountaining over and over again. It's a very pretty listen. But then I listen to the original mix, and I hear something a lot more subtle - a weariness that pulsates and synths that strain as the melody plops down like light rain. Overall, it's a better fit for the reflective tone of his voice, and the better song.