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The brothers Fucken make a return under the Cane moniker with some killer acid variations for Marguerita's "030303" series. With submerged percussive work forming the backbone of these tracks and a production style you'll already be familiar with if you've followed their work under the Funckarma moniker, these are much more propulsive, giddy tracks than the usual Funcken fare and suit the series down to a tee. For the best of the bunch head for "Blizz", a tweaked acid edit with some nifty Analord-style shifts and a pristine aesthetic that you'll enjoy a great deal if you've liked recent works by the likes of Gescom or, indeed, any of Rob Hall's recent mixes.

There's just no stopping the Funcken brothers at the moment - not content with manning the controls for the superb Shadow Huntaz, delivering another pair of killer Funckarma EP's, a dense album of soundtrackish electronics for U-cover under their Quench guise and a blistering dancefloor-bound twelve for Warp's Arcola imprint under the Cane moniker, the brothers return with their 957th release for 2004 with a shockingly good, fierce, mashed up percussive acid frenzy for the Colony imprint under the Cane moniker once more. The opening cut "Orchid" is just ridiculous - a massively destroyed crash of twis… Read more

My word, more absolutely destroyed acid sh*t from new kings of squelch Cane, also sometimes known as Funckarma, Shadow Huntaz, Cenik or whatever else they bloody fancy. There are two absolute grade A blinders here - the opener "Gentle" with it's decimated 303 lines and tweaked-to-f*ck acidic slides, and the closer "Fragile" with its fast paced breaks frenzy sounding like Autechre remixed by Ricardo Villalobos. Mighty fine stuff once again - no messin.

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Miami's Isophlux label has already provided a launch pad for electronica heavyweights like Lusine, Lexaunculpt and Gosub, but now the imprint's just limbering up for a second life, having been off the radar since 2001. Isophlux spearheads its return with Anthhiliawaters, a project once described as "breakfast electro" (an odd idea given support by the label's website). This is far more than mere music to eat cereal to: the production taps into a Detroit-influenced vision of the future, with warm, jazzy synth pads supplying a melodic counterpart to the softly crunching, electro… Read more

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There's no keepin' a good Funcken down is there? Those Dutch Funckarma brothers are back again after rather successfully tweaking the Shadowhuntaz for yet another album of glitch-heavy melodic electronica. Yep if you're familiar with these fiddlers epic discography then you won't be in for a big surprise - we've got squashed beats, clipped Arovane/Ae-lite melodies and of course a big healthy quotient of glitch. The album's opening track 'Slick' seems to show this best with a synth-pop lead line and an almost dancefloor friendly idm beat, I'm almost ready to party like it's 1999. Overall it's a mix… Read more

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