Holy fucking fuck, is it cold out there. Who decided to build this city here? I blame him or her personally for my discomfort. And whatever happened to that proposal to bring the Turks and Caicos into Confederation?  Yay, Turks and Caicos! (http://www.turksandcaicostourism.com )



Luckily we have musical interludes to distract us from the external frigidity. My current contribution is the first album from MUTEK_REC, the new recording label of the Mutek electronica group ( http://www.mutek.ca/index-en.html ), based in Montréal but now expanding, most recently with an electronica festival in Valparaiso, Chile last week.



Down below I've pasted in a snippet of an album review with insider references that I don't totally get. Maybe you will. In any event, this CD I think is pretty spanky (except for Track 11, which I think is horrifyingly scary).  Minimalist electronica, lots of breaks and cuts that work big-time. Check it out.



Bundle up, baby

James



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Much of Don't Postpone Joy is largely upbeat, falling squarely in the crib of minimal electronic's archetypal, failsafe slickness. The record most consistently recalls the darker, respoked big beats and glitchy quirk of Mouse on Mars' Idiology and the crisp, wiry sampling (and geography) of Akufen's My Way -- although in forgoing a reliance on hooks for almost suffocating builds of cut-ups and added instrumental lines, this duo seems to aspire less to the dancefloor than to some intensified abstraction of its sweat.