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LED Piperz – Aerial / Otherside (Airflex Labs)

Posted: 26 May 2009 02:47 PM PDT

Led Piperz

Airflex Labs is a new Lyon, France-based label designed with the intent of counteracting the generic ‘wobblestep’ pattern a fair amount of dubstep finds itself becoming locked into, and this debut 12" release comes from veteran French electronic / dub producer LED Piperz, with two previously unreleased tracks included alongside a typically ‘out of the square’ reworking by Boxcutter. While LED Piperz has previously established a reputation for exploring the smokier sides of dub on labels including Supadope and Jarring FX, ‘Aerial’ certainly provides an extremely convincing and impressive argument for his entry into the dubstep arena. Indeed, the entire manages to roll with a tightly flexed sense of digi-funk elasticity that’s been missing from many of the flatlined, sine-bass heavy tracks that have littered the dubstep genre of late, with ‘Otherside’ taking things down into even darker territory amidst clattering tabla percussion and frenetic, evil-sounding synth arpeggiation. Finally, as is to be expected these days, Boxcutter’s remix of ‘Otherside Dub’ veers away from the established dubstep template, taking things down into deep, dubby Arkestra-esque vibes as laser-gun synth squiggles zap back and forth amidst slow, rolling rhythms and delayed-out, ghostly reggae vocals. Great stuff – if all of Airflex’s stuff is up to the standard of this debut 12" release, dubstep fans will be in for a treat.

Chris Downton

“Five Five Five - May Month Mayhem” - Extended Playlist 250509 - www.2ser.com 107.3FM

Posted: 25 May 2009 08:16 PM PDT

Five times five days into the fifth month of the year - what a great opportunity to indulge in another bit of numerology. Extended Play's series of counting rhymes continues and all good things come in FIVEs!

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Adolf Noise - Five N.
("Musik fürs Wohnzimmer" compilation - 1998, Monika)

Buffalo Daughter - Five Minutes
("I" - 2001, Emperor Norton)

Panash - Funny Five Minutes
("Fresh Emissions" 2xCD compilation - 1995, Emissions Audio Output)

Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk 5
("Analord 10" 12inch - 2005, Rephlex)

Imitation Electric Piano - Five Separate Whooshes
("Imitation Electric Piano" EP - 2001, Duophonic)

Pizzicato Five - My Baby Portable Player Sound (High Llamas Remix)
("Remix Album: Happy End Of You" - 1998, Matador)

Stereolab - Transona Five (Live)
("Ping Pong" single - 1994, Duophonic)

Fridge - Five Four Child Voice
("Happiness" - 2000, Domino)

Group Five - In Camera (Jet Jaguar Exit Interview Remix)
("In Camera" - 2006, Angry Rabbit)

Root 70 - Five Star Group Travel
("Heaps Dub" - 2006, Nonplace)

Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death
("Horse Rotorvator" - 1987, Force & Form)

Gerechtigkeits Liga - Five Skandhas
("Vhutemas Archetypi" compilation - 1985, Side Effects)

Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich bin’s
("Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala" - 1987, Some Bizzare)

Marc Almond with the Willing Sinners - There Is A Bed
("Mother Fist And Her Five Daughters" - 1987, Virgin)

Cocteau Twins - Five Ten Fiftyfold
("Head Over Heels" - 1983, 4AD)

Matmos - Sun On 5 At 152
("The West" - 2008, Vague Terrain/Autofact) (original 1998)

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