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Artist:	BODYCODE
Title:	The Conservation of Electric Charge
Label:	SPECTRAL SOUND
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SPC 037CD

This is the first album from Lisbon, Portugal-based Alan Abrahams under the alias Bodycode. Abrahams has earned a lot of attention -- his releases as Portable have garnered near-universal acclaim for their deft fusion of tribal rhythms and a modern micro-house sensibility. As Bodycode, he focuses on the more dancefloor-oriented aspects of his style, yielding a gorgeous album born from the belief that the psyche can be unlocked via the body. Bodycode also came from necessity -- while on tour playing club dates, Abrahams was compelled to seek the most engaging sound for that environment. Remarkably adept at its task, Bodycode's mesmerizing percussive arrangements and subtle melodic flourishes create an immediately engaging sound that lingers in the mind long after the club has closed.

Artist:	BODYCODE
Title:	A Document of an African Past
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YORE 006EP

"With multiple releases on Background Records, ~scape, and Ghostly/Spectral already under his belt, Alan Abrahams (aka Bodycode and Portable) presents a fabulous fusion of ultra-deep house and Afro-futurism on his Yore debut A Document of an African Past. Abrahams sounds positively unleashed on the twelve-minute A-side, 'The Centre of Time,' which pushes the Bodycode sound farther than ever before. After opening with scattered flurries of African percussion, a warbling bass line emerges, asserting some degree of control, before a skipping pulse and voice yelps send the track on its way. Abrahams has shown himself in the past to be a master builder when it comes to weaving layers into intricate masses and does the same here, too. Halfway through the piece, a breakdown occurs, allowing percussion flourishes to re-appear, now accompanied by a voiceover, before the tune kicks into gear again even more ferociously for the ride home. Abrahams continues to amaze, regardless of whether the material appears under the Portable or Bodycode guise. Note: unfortunately, the title of the record got 'twisted' in the design process and, consequently, the label displays A Document of an American Past when it should be African."

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