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The Clonious - Between the Dots [Ubiquity, 2009]The Clonious - Between the Dots [Ubiquity, 2009]

part-hiphop, part break, part jazz, part downtempo et al; every side is a new adventure! the clonious is the austrian Paul Movahedi: beat navigator, dance instigator, one-score-and-three-year-old tone bender... 'between the dots' has got the compulsory twitch-pullers for the beat junkies and a slew of genre-crossing influences to satisfy the bespectacled music nerds and the smokeskulled acid jazz fans and all the beats down on the roux st. etienne ed dans les Café du nombre 'Saint-Germain-des-Prés.' it's super legit....

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Architeq - Gold and Green [Tirk, 2009]Architeq - Gold and Green [Tirk, 2009]

Kid Kameleon say: "Architeq's command of beats, space, sonics and timing is masterful. Rarely do you hear tracks that manage to take in the rare, sad, strange sonic magic of buzzing 80s synths, the head-nodding pleasure of the best hip-hop tracks of the past two decades, and the fearless rythmic experimentation that's now possible in 2009 and beyond." ...and he's right. a few weeks after this album was released i was spending quality time unloading my savings at my favorite record store; long-beard guy had on some martyn (see next album...) when i got there... the album ends &then he drops this little piece of genius; i couldn't keep digging it was so good. so i went and asked the guy who it was and bought it immediately. we've been in love ever since, me and this album. anyway, it's the style is somewhere near the intersection of dubstep and deep, dark bassment downtempo filth. complex arrangements, surgical affectation with the few (and outstanding) vocal tracks, mood like a million of those cheap novelty rings... so fucking good i can't even explain.

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Portformat - The Repeat Factor [Tokyo Dawn Records, 2009]Portformat - The Repeat Factor [Tokyo Dawn Records, 2009]

senegalese experimental hip hop sounds nothing like you'd expect it to sound. ...and that's not a bad thing. portformat absolutely crushes on this album--for a debut, the production sounds uniquely mature and red-carpet starzzz of the r&b world who join in from time to time seem to agree that this guy's got some talent. it isn't mainstream by any stretch of the imagination, but it isn't so far out there (think clouddead or cannibal ox) that you have to invent a whole new genre like space hop or something. although it might find a home there anyway...

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Alpha Channel - Exotic Tales [Omelette, 2009]Alpha Channel - Exotic Tales [Omelette, 2009]

may the world's smallest continent represent: kiwi-ozzi duo drops some nasty-eclectic beats upon which middle earth shall suckle. ...until the juice-run-down-their-legs. the only issue i have is that they, like their french-cryptic (and original) predecessors, purport to be robots. everything else these dudes are doing is pretty fresh. like the name of the album implies, there's a lot left-of-center and diversity abound. think lemon jelly with a little aphex-twin-slash-amon-tobin and some hints of early bassnectar to boot. the mid-nineties ethnic trance vibe is ever-present, but it's been turned by minds of the new millenium. equally enjoyable on the couch, in the car, drunkernshit on a fridayeveningsaturdaymorning & definitely worth a listen for those of the lofi&downbeat persuasion.

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