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Image Flying Lotus, Los Angeles [Warp, 2008]

Flying Lotus follows-up last year's excellent Reset EP with his sophomore album and debut for Warp. FlyLo set the bar high with last year's EP, most notably due to his broken-beat R&B opener "Tea Leaf Dancers", showcasing felxibility and range not previously heard on his debut album 1983. With this album, FlyLo has created an ode to the city he calls home by covering many of the different sounds emanating from the City of Angels, from the excellent R&B track "Roberta Flack", a worthy sequel to the greatness of "Tea Leaf Dancers" to the tribal drums of "Melt!" to more uptempo tracks like "Comet Course" reminding me of GB at his best. The album may come off as a bit scatterbrained, and it is, and because of that it only partially meets the pre-release hype. But this album still etsablishes Flying Lotus as one of the premier hip-hop producers of the post-Dilla era, and I can't wait to hear what he comes up with next.

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Breakcore
Image Venetian Snares, Detrimentalist [Planet Mu, 2008] We can always count on Aaron Funk to punish us at least once a year. If you're not familiar with Venetian Snares, it's time for you to open up that hole and crawl out. Seriously. Winnipeg (Canada) based Funk is a prolific champion of the edgiest of genres - from modern-classical orchestral arrangements violated with breakcore to noisy IDM sprinkled with clicks and cuts. Among the collection of labels, he has managed to span some of my fa...
 
Hip-Hop
Image Cyne, Starship Utopia [Project Mooncircle, 2008] Hip-hop group Cyne follow-up their 2005 album Evolution Fight on City Centre Offices with an album on the ever-improving Project Mooncircle label. Cyne's raps hearken back to the time when hip-hop was a cultural voice and not just a chance to brag about how many cars or women you've had. Cyne's productions are crisp and fresh, but also firmly rooted in the DJ Premier style of production so prevalent in the mid 90s, which is never a ...
 
Experimental
Image William Basinski and Richard Chartier, Untitled 1-3 [LINE, 2008] LINE is a label of another breed and dimension. Created by Richard Chartier in 2000 under the 12k umbrella, LINE publishes experimental and abstract installation compositions by sound artists exploring contemporary digital minimalism. LINE has a nice roster of signal processing and deconstructing composers, including Alva Noto, Taylor Deupree, Vend and Asmus Tietchens. For the latest limited 2008 release, LINE has re-issued a 2004 acclai...
 
IDM
Image Raoul Sinier, Brain Kitchen [Ad Noiseam, 2008] French audio/visual artist Ra has switched to his real name for his third album, presumably to avoid confusion with the dozen other Ra's making music these days. Brain Kitchen is somewhat of a retreat from the hyperkinetic breakcore-esque work on 2007's Wxfdswxc2. Even though the album was quite good, it was no raoul Loves You, and Ra had sped up his beats so fast on that record his samples were barely audible. With Brain Kitchen, Raoul'...
 

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