Electronica

This week's Electronica releases reviewed

TYONDAI BRAXTON

Central Market Warp ****

Braxton is best known for his work with experimental rock combo Battles, but his solo compositions aim for a much different part of the sky. Central Marketis a dazzling, head-expanding excursion into the classical/electronic avant-garde, full of hugely engaging symphonic experimentation. There are acknowledgements of what he's done with Battles – Uffe's Woodshoppossesses a similar energy to Battles' Tonto, though its dynamic sweep of kazoos, violins, violas, synths and what-have-you does follow a much different routing. Yet it's clear that Braxton and his accomplices in the Wordless Music Orchestra have a different fish to fry. Between the technicoloured Disney-style stabs and stomps of Opening Belland the rasping flurry of sounds cloaking the closing Dead Strings(and taking in the astonishing widths and depths of Platinum Rows), you will come across a world of wonder. www.myspace.com/tyondaibraxton

Download tracks: Uffe's Woodshop, Platinum Rows, Dead Strings