DIAL 50
Various Artists - 2010 (I)
(A)
Isoleé - Black Lodge
(B)
Efdemin - Time
Lawrence - Treacle Mine
DIAL 51
Various Artists - 2010 (II)
(A)
Carsten Jost - Days Gone By
(B)
Kassian Troyer - Tourist
Rndm - No Beginning
DIAL 52
Various Artists - 2010 (III)
(A)
Pigon - Koto / John Roberts - Lines
(B)
Christian Naujoks - New Heaven & Earth
Pantha Du Prince - Fountain Drive
DIAL CD 20
Various Artists - 2010
Phantom Ghost - My Secret Europe
John Roberts - Lines
Efdemin - Time
Lawrence - Treacle Mine
Kassian Troyer - Tourist
Isoleé - Black Lodge
Rndm - No Beginning
Christian Naujoks - New Heaven & Earth
Pigon - Koto
Pantha Du Prince - Fountain Drive
Carsten Jost - Days Gone By
Dominique - ...He Said
NEWS 01.03.2010
Three floors up in small-town Switzerland is a guy in the apartment on the opposite side of the deadly boring street. His lights are bright and beckoning. It's much too early to think about heading out, even if there were a venue here worthy of squeaky new trainers - but there's not. He's got his favourite pullover on - the open-necked, red one, some kind of chain and jogging shorts and house shoes. He's dancing. His arms go up, he claps, turns and struts, makes repetitive shapes in the air. These are signs for absent friends. Sometimes he stops to answer his charging phone or just gets distracted, posing with one hand on his hip. Occasionally his moves take him out of the window frame. Every time he reappears, like a faint superstar in an empty corner of my universe, I feel a sense of relief. He is still at it. He doesn't need anybody else's encouragement. He looks like he wishes he were home alone but in the next window I can see a family in the slow strobe light of television. Maybe he's a cheeky thief, or the lover of someone in the family. Perhaps their relationship is one in which the mutual trust although coming and going like a hat stealing breeze, has resulted in his own set of keys. Maybe he is both. He's listening to music, making it his own in a room that's become a club for one. It would be odder than me watching him, and you reading this, if his music was the same as what I am listening to while writing, especially because it's music that hasn't been released yet. (For the record - it's DIAL's new compilation album, with new tracks and some new artists - it's their 20th release in 10 years, scheduled for now - January 2010 - things have a way of adding up.) But in the near future, he could be and I think he would like it, that guy above the ground across the way. He would go up and down with it. He would be happy with its sonic panorama with lots of space for him and beats as incentives to move. He would feel needed on the sonic horizon but he wouldn't feel too much, or anything too directly.
-Dominic Eichler