ONI AYHUN Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Noise Manifesto is a new creative endeavour from techno producer Paula Temple, less a label and more a "platform for electronic music artists that do not follow the distorted norms". The first release brings together the collective talents of rRoxymore, The Knife's Oni Ayhun, Planningtorock (as Aquarian Jugs) and Paula Temple as Jaguar Woman for Decon Recon #1, a four track 12" that smudges away traditional notions of artistic authorship. Instead of explicitly stating who did what on Decon Recon, the music is presented as a collective with no signifier, leaving you to enjoy the sounds unencumbered by prejudice or expectation. There's a wonderfully off kilter feeling running through all four tracks, as the traditional tropes of techno rub up against odd textural tones and weirded out strings. A fine start to the Noise Manifesto.

Review: Anthony Shake Shakir and Oni Ayhun serve up two superb remixes of tracks from Honest Jon's 2010 Shangaan Electro compilation that showcased the more frenetic sounds of South African dance music. You probably won't be surprised to learn that both remixes are splendid, although Shakir's reimagination of BBC probably just shades it - a beefy, positively booming bass drum bristles beneath traditional percussive elements and lazer beam synth stabs. On the flip the enigmatic producer Oni Ayhun adopts a broken drum pattern, with all manner of curious sonic elements warped and twisted in the Swede's idiosyncratic style. Stunning stuff all round.