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The third album from these two excellent musicians was recorded live at various European venues, although the high level of musicianship, focus on detail and high recording quality could easily lead you to think it would be a meticulously assembled studio recording.

With Rest At Worlds End the duo continue their adventurous explorations of abstract grooves and atmospheric moods. But don't expect any live versions of previous studio tracks, these are all brand new tracks, 11 on the CD and 18 on the limited double LP edition.

Ståle Storløkken is a founder member of Supersilent, Elephant9 and Terje Rypdal's Skywards and is probably the most interesting and versatile electric keyboard player operating on the Norwegian scene at the moment.

Drummer and composer Thomas Strønen is a regular member of Food, Maria Kannegaard Trio and Parish, his quartet with the superb Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson.

Tracklisting:
1. Stream
2. Edingruv
3. Rest At World's End
4. Audio Hydraulic
5. Steam
6. Airport
7. Solar Sail
8. Creak
9. Ghost Dance
10. Bullfight
11. Hit

Absolutely brilliant debut release from young Norwegian duo consisting of Susanna Wallumrød (vocals) and Morten Qvenild (keyboards).

Nine beautiful low key original songs plus highly personal interpretations of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" and Leonard Bernstein's "Who Am I" makes this one of the strongest Norwegian debut releases in a very long time.

If you've heard "Believer" (also included here) from "Money Will Ruin Everything" you know what to expect. Produced by Andreas Mjøs (Jaga Jazzist) and Deathprod.

Tracklisting:
1. Who Am I
2. Jolene
3. Turn The Pages
4. Friend
5. Hello
6. Believer
7. Sweet Devil
8. Baby
9. Time
10. Distance Blues And Theory
11. Go

The Choko King is Jono's third album since 2009, but the recordings are from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which predates his first album by four years.

The Choko King offers an open door into Jono's surrealistic musical universe and is a rare gift to his increasing number of fans and anyone interested in the workings of a truly eccentric and artistic mind.

The album has been meticulously assembled from home recordings, demos, rehearsal tapes, live and studio recordings and made into a completely new work by Jono himself.

This edition comes with a 14 minute bonus track. The sleeve paintings are by acknowledged Norwegian artist Christer Karlstad.

The Choko King is also available as a limited, numbered vinyl edition of only 300 copies with inner sleeve containing insanely nerdy details on each track by Jono himself.

Tracklisting:
1. Eva's Horse Dance
2. Vidda-Dixie
3. Chá!
4. Vital Requiem VII "To Live On Ones Poor Lie, Poor Thing"
5. Asia
6. I'm A Balloon I
7. Tango Dob'zanga
8. I'm A Balloon II
9. Pongery In Evention (Revised 1996 Version)
10. Ode To Arne Nordheim (1931-2010)
11. Rapphoenß (Original Version)
12. Pfote-Brei
13. Chai-Niese Bloöeze II
14. Avoiding A Void
15. Twelve Finger Intestinal Tango (First Version)
16. Utopian Dance (Original Version)
17. Vital Requiem IV "Wheelchair Abuser Scat"
18. Lobotomized Healers Rise & Fall
19. Lobotomized Healers Comeback
20. Chai-Niese Bloöeze III
21. Smother Eve
22. Sweet Blood
23. Türbø Meuz
24. Dance Of The Skin-Eating Witch
25. Evas Horse Dance (Demo)
26. Türbø Meuz (Original Version)
27. oessen Gåre Med Morra Ri'a? (How's Yo' Mother?)
28. Big Ben Dover (Vocal Version)
29. Vital Requiem (Complete) CD only Bonus track

1. Lone General
2. XO
3. Bad Date
4. Sunshine
5. Hot Water Burns
6. Shot This Time
7. Cover
8. Baby, Your Heart's
9. Too Big
10. Hurricane

Walton's music is never sombre or angry, but is about subtle combinations, there is an appealing, soulful sensuality to his beautifully crafted and joyous music.

He says of the  album 'I just wanted there to be a contrast between bright and dark, I didn't want to stick  to a specific genre either. Just a vibe'. Walton's young enough to hear older elements of dance music with fresh ears, a recent hacienda reunion was an ear opener, hearing the stripped back power of acid house for the first time influenced some of the music on the album, understanding that a handful of contrasting elements can be placed together to create an exciting whole.

Hyperdub's year of excellence continues apace with the release of Playing Me, the long awaited debut album from Cooly G.

Emerging as a key figure in the UK funky scene some four years ago via some highly prized Dub Organiser CDrs, Cooly's musical progression has been charted via a series of EPs for DVA Music and Hyperdub.

On this thirteen track album what is most apparent is the confidence this South London producer has in her own singing, a voice that sounds dipped in pain and anguish at times.

At others Cooly utilises her vocal delivery as an integral part of the music, which draws from all manner of UK music history of recent times whilst very much sounding part of her modern house template.

Oh and there's a Coldplay cover to end the LP too...

Tracklisting:
1. He Said I Said
2. What This World Needs Now
3. Come Into My Room
4. Landscapes
5. Good Times
6. Sunshine
7. Trying
8. Playin' Me
9. Trouble
10. What Airtime
11. It's Serious
12. Is It Gone
13. Up In My Head

1. Sebenza
2. Animal Prints
3. DL
4. Limb
5. Zulu Compurar
6. Hustla
7. Nothing Like Us
8. Thatha Lo
9. Safe and Sound
10. Primus Stove
11. International Pantsula
12. Spitting Cobra
13. Work
14. Uthando Lwaka

1. Reach The Sun
2. Just Vybe
3. Polyphonic Dreams
4. Pretty Ugly
5. Bare Fuzz
6. Madness
7. Fire Fly
8. Why You Do?
9. The Big 5ive
10. Eye Know
11. 33rd Degree
12. Where I Belong

Since 2010's 'King Felix' and into last year's highly lauded 'Hour Logic', Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots.

Fixed stylistic territories fold in on themselves, time quickens - her music is meant for transit, body listening and loud soundsystems. 'Quarantine', her debut album and first release on Hyperdub, is her most focused and evolved recording yet.

This is an album of transporting songs, various altitude shifts via effecting pop-concrete, built on a rich synthesis of intuitive but exacting electronic abstraction, bass pulse and heartfelt songwriting. Like her previous releases, 'Quarantine' slams ambient suspension and disorienting detail up against each other. The 12 songs here operate as complex vacuums, airborne harmony and movement met with incidental noise and sub bass pressure, sample details and synth lines as trails across a mutilated sonic topography.

What is different on 'Quarantine' is that Laurel Halo's voice is foregrounded - the vocals are dry against lush arrangements, and her confidence with lyrics and delivery is more pronounced. Her expressive singing works as a pivot in songs that eschew the usual melodic routes to generate emotion, serving as contour and human definition in contrast to the forbidden synthetic space.

Sensual melodies are bent to the point of nausea, inducing the torque of a psychedelic pop that simultaneously recalls elevation and trauma. This is a kind of music you might not have heard before, and in 2012 that in itself is rare.

Tracklisting:
1. Airsick
2. Years
3. Thaw
4. Joy
5. MK Ultra
6. Wow
7. Carcass
8. Holoday
9. Tumor
10. Morcom
11. Nerve
12. Light + Space

In a few short years Laurel Halo has demonstrated an unnerving ability to question established idioms in electronic music. Throughout her body of work the Michigan-born producer has expressed musical representations of merged dualities; spirituality in the inorganic, space in the claustrophobic, hope in dread.

As a result there's something uncanny about Laurel Halo's sound - the sonic templates may change, but the challenging of divides remains. Laurel Halo returns to LP format after two critically acclaimed EPs with the driving, meditative 'Chance Of Rain'. Evolving from earlier works, it's a cerebral exploration of the intersection between rhythmic and ambient music, drawing together moments of movement and stillness, psychedelia and presence of mind.

On 'Chance Of Rain', rhythms melt with unpredictable structures, ambient drift and deep harmonic passages, while keyboard-based interludes reinforce both the far-out and contemplative aspects of the record as a whole. Halo's evolution as a live performer has directed her music's development in part, as the tracks on 'Chance Of Rain' are fleshed out versions of live hardware improvisations.

This LP is far off from the definition of a traditional dance long player; where tracks like 'Serendip', 'Chance Of Rain' and 'Ainnome' invite with infectious grooves, others like 'Oneiroi', 'Still/Dromos' and 'Thrax' invert these energies, revealing sinister potential in the process. Again Halo's knack for illusory detail and sound design shines, and another duality feeling emerges, this time one of unearthly joy.

Drawing inspiration from the music of her home state's music capital Detroit, in both harmonic and rhythmic palettes, the music showcases freedom within metric constructs, and skyward optimism in the face of decay. 

The album comes packaged with artwork created by her father, an NYC-born, Michigan-based visual artist whose work focuses on industrial landscapes of Michigan and the Rust Belt at large. The artwork here is an early work of his from the 1970s, reflecting the album's twisted, hopeful tone. 'Chance Of Rain' was mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

Tracklisting:
1. Dr. Echt
2. Oneiroi
3. Serendip
4. Chance of Rain
5. Melt
6. Still/Dromos
7. Thrax
8. Ainnome
9. -Out

Of all the artists past and present who claim to let their music do their talking for them, Burial is one of the elite band of whom this truly is the case. In fact, so reluctant is he to engage with the cult-of-personality hoopla that surrounds almost every modern producer and musician of merit, that he remains a genuine recluse; he has never appeared live, only one obliquely-angled publicity photograph is known to exist, and the number of interviews he has given can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Yet despite this, his music speaks loud and wide, and the world has been listening ever since his 'South London Boroughs' EP debut on Hyperdub in March 2005. His eponymous album, which began life as a low-key release in May 2006, is now widely regarded as the benchmark release of the ever-widening dubstep genre, picking up unanimous critical acclaim along the way, and ending the year heavily featured in many 'best of' polls. Now Burial returns with 'Untrue', a new record of weird soul music, which lovingly processes spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage.

Vocal lines are blurred, smeared, pitched up pitched down and pitch bent until their content is cast adrift from their original context and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void. The album continues with the debut's crackle-drenched yearning and bustling syncopations, haunted by the ghosts of rave, but also reveals some new Burial treats with a more glowing, upbeat energy.

Kicking off with the skittering 2step syncopations and vocal science of 'Archangel', 'Near Dark' and 'Ghost Hardware', before long it descends into a space of radiant divas and ambience. Where 'Burial' first was humid, suffocating and unrelentingly sad, 'Untrue' is less sunless. Many of the tracks are so sweet, they become toxic, underscored by the almost geological rumbles of growling basslines.

Unlike the overpoweringly melancholic prevailing mood of before, Burial's sound is now better defined as a downcast euphoria typified by the epic, muted optimism of the album's last track 'Raver'. Forget central heating¦ the radioactivity of this album is all that you'll need to keep you warm this winter. 'Untrue' is available as full 13 track digipack CD, including recent underground hit 'Ghost Hardware', and 9 track DJ friendly double vinyl set, from which some of the beatless pieces have been edited.

Tracklisting:
1. Untitled
2. Archangel
3. Near Dark
4. Ghost Hardware
5. Endorphin
6. Etched Headplate
7. In McDonalds
8. Untrue
9. Shell Of Light
10. Dog Shelter
11. Homeless
12. UK
13. Raver