mnlv 02
Various - Sued Electronic (mp3)
release date . october 14, 2005

For their second release Minlove invited, london based imprint Sued Electronic, to submit new material that would best reflect the label's vision and output. The result is a compilation that offers a very diverse, and highly individual exploration of minimal electronic music - ranging from highly rhythmical, african influenced textures, to the more dubbier end of the spectrum, icy reduced yet quirky melodies and spacious cinematic meanderings.

"Wormhole", by label head Alan Abrahams offers harmonious juxtapositions between state-of-the-art production methods, techno structures, world-music rhythms, and tribal chants / spoken words. Samples cut in and out at one instance and reappear in others, percussion is added at will, and textural elements are pasted into intricate collages to outstanding effects.

Lump's highly infectious "Cake and Discipline" is a grooving mass of granulated noises crackling away over the 4/4 with a funked up sub bass adding the swing and minimally grooving underneath. The track is built and dissected with perfect precision, with subtle synths dotted around the 4/4, and clever vocal edits. "Yellow Leaf" by Milos enters reduced icy territories, with bassline depths to dubby floats and intricate textures forging a stripped, delicious line, in ascetic minimalism.
The closing track " Halfway North" by AM/PM further demonstrates, his ability to combine contemporary electronic music, with beautiful conceptual composition. The skeletal percussion, sounding like a rattle snake, acts as a perfect catalyst and background for deeply melodic and strangely sparse sequences, chords and strings.

• 00 . download coverart by Christian Meinke (pdf/1,26mb)
• 01 . Portable - Wormhole (12,31mb)
• 02 . Lump - Cake And Discipline (11,59mb)
• 03 . Milos - Yellow Leaf (10,38mb)
• 04 . AM/PM - Halfway North (11,48mb)
• 00 . download whole release as zip.file (45,82mb)