JIMMY EDGAR Pret-A-Danser
Interview with Jimmy Edgar
22-year old Detroit resident Jimmy Edgar is already a veteran of the electronic music scene. After releases on Isophlux and Poker Flat, in early 2002 Miami’s M3rck label heard his tracks and immediately released his first full-length album - My Mines I under the ‘dual alter ego’ Kristuit Salu vs. Morris Nightingale. Two EPs on Warp Records followed. Never one to follow the rules, Edgar’s creative horizons have refused to be confined by music. As a graphic designer, photographer, and fashion designer with his own clothing label, he truly lives up to the term polymath. In between his other projects, he has somehow found the time to put together his debut album for Warp. He also managed to talk to Stuart Aitken about DJing in whorehouses at the age of 15, how he refuses to be a computer nerd, and his habit of matching fake moustaches with women’s underwear.

CLARK The Artist Formerly Known As…
Interview with Chris Clark
Chris Clark burst on to the electronic music scene with his 2001 album Clarence Park, released while he was still a student at Bristol University. Two years later his second album Empty The Bones Of You seemed to confirm that Clark would carry the flag for the traditional Warp Records sound. His latest material has been a long time coming however. In the interim much has changed at Warp with guitar bands such as !!! and Maximo Park moving to centre stage. As a new mini-album is unveiled, with the promise of another full-length not far behind, so it is revealed that the artist formerly known as Chris Clark has dispensed of his first name. Clark stopped off in a freezing phone box outside his tour bus in Glasgow to talk to Stuart Aitken about pegging it around Birmingham on his bike, why he’ll never be as commercially ubiquitous as Mylo, and why he believes in forcing people to belly flop into his world.

MOUNTAINS Sewn
Follow-up to Mountains’s debut album of last year, the Brooklyn-based duo dare questioning their original scope and apply entirely different rules to create an impressive piece of work.

AFX Chosen Lords
Following last year’s Analord series of EPs, Richard D. James collects ten tracks out of the forty-one originals into one bite-size album chunk.

LORI CARSON The Finest Things
Lori Carson’s Finest Thing album is a truly fascinating and unusual affair, combining comatose Americana and lingering ambient formations.

JIMMY EDGAR Color Strip
Following the release of a couple of highly intriguing EPs over the last couple of years, Jimmy Edgar finally unleashes his utterly modern beats and tunes over a full-length album.

BURNT FRIEDMAN & JAKI LIEBEZEIT Secret Rhythms 2
Burnt Friedman and legendary Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit reconvene, four years after their first collaboration, to deliver another fine slice of jazz-infused beatronica.

GLIM Aerial View Of Model / TAKUMA ITOI Quietude
Released almost simultaneously on Karate Joe, Glim’s Aerial View Of Model and Takuma Itoi’s Quietude investigate similarly calm and atmospheric territories.

THE HOPE BLISTER Underarms & Sideways
Follow-up to Ivo Watts-Russel’s Hope Blister’s album …Smile’s OK, Underarms was originally released on a very small scale, and is now re-issued with an additional CD of reworked version by German sound artist Markus Guentner.

MATINEE ORCHESTRA Matinee Orchestra
The project of Andrew Hodson, Matinee Orchestra is a sizzling patchwork of pop, jazz and folk all tied in together with delicate electronic touches.

MOHA! Raus Aus Stavanger
Raus Aus Stavanger, the debut album from Norwegian free-improv MoHa!, morphs volcanically from low tech electronic trickles of sound to astringent, booming pulses, squalls of guitar feedback, and meteor storms of synthesized sound.

CONRAD NEWHOLMES Peppermint Styles
Conrad Newholmes follows the release of his impressive debut EP last year with another generous serving of electronic-tinted instrumental hip-hop.

RANDOM NUMBER Golden Acre Sleeps
The solo project of Leeds-based Matt Robson, Random Number showcases a promissing selection of styles and ambiences.

RUSUDEN Warm Human Antennea
This sophomore album from Rusuden’s Justin Morgan explores a far wider sonic scope than its predecessor, and is filled with catchy hooks and quirky melodic tricks.

JANEK SCHAEFER Migration
Migration is an elegant and complex one-hour piece originally conceived as the soundtrack for a site-specific dance premiered opposite Grand Central station in spring 2005.

SICKOAKES Seawards
Swedish sextet Sickoakes follow a web-only release and a split EP with this impressive collection of sweeping instrumental rock.

SOFALOFA Mellifluous
Debut album from Bathysphere Recordings co-founder Chris Cousin, AKA SofaLofa, Melifluous combines gentles electronic structures, sharp grooves and superb melodies into a truly enchanting collection of electronic compositions with added pop edge.

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Lisbon
Recorded live in Lisbon during Keith Fullerton Whitman’s last European tour, this album is made up of one forty-minute long single track.

WISP NRTHNDR
This first Wisp release for Sublight is a luxurious collection of beats and beautiful electronic waves.

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