GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER レコード& CD

Review: Svreca caused a bit of a stir last year when it was announced the For Your Eyes Only mix CD would only run in an addition of 50 copies. So in a way, for those that needed it, the revered DJ, producer, label owner, and bastion of Spanish techno has redeemed himself by issuing these vinyl samplers. The second edition sees the sub-zero rave of Orphx's "Fault Line" square up alongside Yuka's equally cold (and cavernous) "Sadvi Lim", a Japanese producer who once appeared on a split EP with recent Semantica signing Stanislav Tolkachev. On the B-side, long-time patriarch of Spanish dub techno, Tadeo, delivers a metallic, and during some passages, mind-bending "S07", while Raster-Noton artist Grischa Lichtenberger provides his most decidedly techno production yet thanks to an ominous Svreca edit.

Review: Raster-Noton affiliate Grischa Lichtenberger and recent Where To Now? contributor Jesse Osborne-Lanthier team up for the latest release from Shapednoise, Ascion and D. Carbone's Cosmo Rhythmatic label, with their work on Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes complemented by a small clutch of remixes. The A-side is taken up by some six tracks from Osborne-Lanthier and Lichtenberger which were apparently generated using a variety of cathode ray television sets and VHS units; the results will please anyone with a keen interest in the aforementioned Raster-Noton or Sahko. Complementing the original music, a mighty line up of Low Jack, Rabit and Gabor Lazer provide B-side remixes - all are as steadfastly experimental as the source material with Rabit's take on "4% (Maurice)" teetering deliciously on the brink of collapse.