both By Joel

Having not heard much of wobbly's work to date, i was anxious to hear this new disc. The 14 tracks have been squeezed onto a 3"cd, each track falling perfectly into the next making for an exciting listen throughout. Wobbly's entertaining use of samples is one of the key interests to me, there's no careless sampladelics here, to me, it seems that everything is there for a reason.... quite an accomplishment considering the broad spectrum of source material used, a note on the insert, "for reference" props odb, messiaen, ice cube, hecker, andrew sisters.... quite a mix, yet wobbly ties everthing together with such cunning that all samples sound as if they were originally made for each other. it's almost impossible for me to identify individual samples, there are snippets, but they transform into something completely different in a matter of seconds. There's a fantastic range of styles invloved, wobbly can morph from marching booty glitchin' dynamics and sluggish hip hop to frantic anxious breaks and lucious string masterpieces at an alarming rate, yet still everything seems to be perfectly placed, in a word SASSY!

Oh! and another 3"cd, actually this one has been a favourite of mine for months now so i best have a crack at reviewing it. Uli Troyer... a new name to me, and i'm most impressed by this debut? release. Basically it pulls together almost everything that, for me, makes a perfect recording, there are plenty surprises here too. Delicate sparks run across concrete sounds with an awesome crush of bass lying underneath, all coming together to form a complex sequence of events, there's nothing cold about this, each of the sounds are carefully arranged to compliment whatever else is going on around them. Fragments of camera flash mechanisms can be heard beneath a fleeting whizz of bursting bubbles and over compressed crunching tonal signals. Nok is gloriously frantic at times and minimally precise, there's a whole lot of work gone into this and it shows.