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New ‘Dragnet’ column up at The Quietus looking at the best tracks of the year so far. Includes Joy Orbison, Floating Points, Lone, Karizma and ten others.

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Walter

Our first observations of Walter Jones proved to be inconclusive. Obscured, for the most part, by the cloaking that comes when your original’s edited by others (Berlin’s Mogg & Naudascher) for use on a compilation, Walter was blurred into an impressionist take on disco, the edit treating the frequency gaps that betray his lineage ’til they levelled into an electro wash. Now, roots - recorded 9 years ago, ‘Falling’ jacks just fine, check his MySpace to learn what sort of 12” DFA will be putting their name to next year.

MP3: Walter Jones - Falling

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Tags: DFA, disco, walter jones

Gut Rushing Rusty

Nobody Knows Anything. Clouds of cut Italo look on and over this fine Supersoul/Kompakt/DFA release, as acid house comes to reclaim the record’s own worn, rusting cityscape in the name of all that gleams, kraut synths like Tangerine floodlights, disco trains whining through the orchestrated rubble wet with new rain and the sweat beads of a groaning populous. Young faces hang from tenement windows, surveying the glorious tumult, a million cigarettes flicked in sync a falling cloud of ash.

MP3: Walter Jones - The Odyssey Sound (Mogg & Naudascher Edit)

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Tags: DFA, kompakt, mogg & naudascher, supersoul, walter jones