I have 20JFG to thank for pointing out to me the fact that the UK edition of Vice has actual COLUMNS in it with actual WRITING about actual MUSIC. That column is Electric Independence, written by one Piers Martin on the subject of (primarily European, I gather) dance/electronic music. I've been going through the back issues finding things like their favorite releases of 2005, info on Whatever We Want Records, and a live review of Vitalic.
It was through Electric Independence that I first heard of a record by Chilean Matias Aguayo called Are You Really Lost, out on Kompakt. Only a few tracks in and it had definitely caught my attention. I would say the vibe is in the same vein as the more downtempo tracks on The Juan Maclean's recent LP, but being on Kompakt, it's more minimal and subtle in it's musical gestures. Fuck, can anyone write about Kompakt without using the word "minimal" our "subtle"? Sorry, can't help it. Aguayo uses some slightly off-putting samples to create unique sounding textures on which he builds his songs.
A bonus track not found on the LP is included on the CD version of Are You Really Lost. It's a version of the album's first track, "De Papel", featuring vocals from Max Turner, a name I don't recognize. It was originally released as its own 12" on Kompakt Pop. It's a slower, sort of heavier and funkier track (relatively); almost sounds like some sort of long-lost alien Three 6 Mafia hip-hop track... in German (I think). YSI download link below.
Matias Aguayo feat. Max Turner - "De Papel"
Guy must have a fascination with weird drawings of women. Huh.
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