Analord
Since Analord 10 just hit the Australian shores and 8 also popped up I’ll give a definite overview of the series. As an EP, 9 takes the cake: 4 unique acid tracks as only AFX could have made them, no retro, fast paced hyper-active stuff. 11 contains perhaps the most ingenious work in the series, with two synth-laden monsters and some IDM dwelling.
Other stand-out tracks in the series were Photonacid on 2, very melancholic synth-pop / house crossover, and Reuniun2 on 5, with a strange combination of piano-like sounds, synths and acid lines over a nervous beat. The EP’s as a whole did not measure op to 9 an 11 though, 2 being too melancholic and too monotonuous and 5 lacking serious progress in the tracks. 8 is also a lovely part, more ambient but not as heavy as most of the others, however for me it lacked substance.
The rest of the EP’s did not measure up in my opinion, most of them containing either replacable “analord” style tracks or directionless fiddling, with each of them containing several hardly interesting tracks. 10 Would make a nice clock though.