Headhunter - Nomad

Genre: Dubstep
Year: 2008
Label:Defcom Records
Who: Some Elusion from the UK. as usual.
Where: Bristol, England
Like: Making a band outa your edgy dishwasher and givin it a ragingly arousing beat to sooth it
Rating: 7/10

Compare to: Benga, Skream, Mala, Scuba, Burial, Distance

Headhunter has a fantastic name and some outstanding beats, but one down fall is you have to like dubstep to listen to him, unlike Burial who can attract basically anyone, but I don't think that was what he was going for anyways. All in all, Headhunter is like all the rest who you'd find spinning their somber sex beats in a dark alleyway for "those people" who would show, and well not for "those" who wouldn't. Nomad could for sure use a bit more vocal dub or any sort of dub, to be considered high quality dubstep(not that, that is the only qualification), but otherwise the album is just a chillingful easy listen.

Choice Tracks: Your Say, Physics Impulse, Protoype

1. Lifeform
2. Prototype
3. Technolopis
4. Grounded
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6. Paradigm Shift
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8. In Motion
9. Baseflow
10. Birks Range

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Telepathe - Dance Mother Fucker

Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Fluid
Year: 2008
Label: Social Registry (yeah thats right)
Who: Melissa and Ryan
Where: Brooklyn, NY
Like: Dandi Wind ate a vitamin and laid out on crystal clear blow up pool raft
Rating: 7/10

Compare to: Ponytail, Palms, Dandi Wind, Growing, Blood on the Wall, The Chap

Telepathe is definitely a duo that I would have placed along side those "others" on We Are Free, but I can see how they also definitely belong on Social Registry. That should be enough to describe them for you, but if its not then try smashing plates in a room full of mirrors wearing trance-idol clothes despite the fact that you don't play trance or even really like smashing plates in a room full of mirrors. You'd rather shout down a long hallway, wraped in oddly colored chords wearing a white floaty skirt, about how you should probably act more your age, but you don't and that's why your only friend is a gay male. Thats telepathe. I don't know, but I'm slightly partial for my own reasons. Oh they also seem like the exact band that would be favoured by that lankey space-cadet girl named Leanne on that show about fashion.

Choice Tracks: The Devil's Trident, Standing in Your Line, I Can't Stand It

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2. Chrome's on it
3. You Ought to Know
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6. God Is Watching
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Growing - All The Way

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
Year: 2008
Label: Social Registry
Who: Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria
Where: Olympia
Like: Being a fish
Rating: 7/10

Compare to: Grouper, Belong, Landing, Fuck Buttons

1. Green Flag
2. Wrong Ride
3. Rave Pie Only
4. Innit
5. Lens Around
6. Reconstruction
7. Rave Pie Only (Bonus Live)

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Metaform - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Genre: Downtempo, Electronic, Trip-Hop, Beat
Year: 2008
Label: JUST
Where: L.A. San Francisco & Tokyo
Rating: 9/10

Also Listen to: Emancipator, Noon, RJD2, ediT, Madita

1. Rock It Number Nine
2. Urban Velvet
3. Brick And Mortar
4. Sunday
5. The Telephone
6. Heaven Can Wait
7. Let Your Hair Down Girl
8. Lonely Boy
9. As If In A Dream
10. Crush
11. Barbie Doll
12. Lamenting Break
13. Bubblegum
14. Pch
15. Demo Submission
16. Deep Concentration
17. The Secret
18. I Feel Good
19. Love And Loss


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Space-Time - Recorded Underwater EP

Genre: Dubstep, Chillout, Downtempo, Beat
Year: 2008
Label: None
Where: Underwater
Rating: 8/10

Also listen to: Emancipator, Lemongrass, Alif Tree, Deadly Avenger

1. The Raven
2. Is Feeling (1:45*)
3. Alone In Space
4. Wake up

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Dandi Wind - Yolk Of The Golden Egg

Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Avant-Gard
Year: 2008
Label: Summer Lovers Unlimited
Where: Canada
Rating: 9/10

Also Listen to: Dutchess Says, We Are Wolves, Dead Seal, Bjork, Digitalism

1. Battle Of Verdun
2. A Lifetime
3. Adolescent
4. Powerball
5. Cocooon
6. Baying Of The Hounds
7. Silver Lying
8. Midget Palace
9. Yo Pinok
10. Johatsu
11. Foundling Circle
12. Dance Of The Paralytic


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Kasper Bjorke - Doesn't Matter (Single)

Genre: Electronic, Vocal Dub, Bass, Chillout
Year: 2008
Label: Plant Music
Where: Denmark
Rating: 7/10

Also Listen to: ADULT., Lopazz, Alias, Umek

1. Doesn't Matter (Trentemoller Remix)
2. Doesn't Matter (Juan Maclean Remix)
3. Doesn't Matter (Kasper Bjorke Remix)
4. Doesn't Matter (Thugfucker Remix)
5. Doesn't Matter (Jack Schidt Vocal Remix)

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