If you still don’t own a physical or digital copy of the debut album by Hunter Complex, go here to download/preview the mp3 of the track Chinese Restaurants. The album got three more reviews. LiveXS calls it ‘decadent disco’, Written in Music says the album sounds has a sober undertone and Festivalinfo rates the album 3 out of 5. The online radio show Beautiful Extremes played the tracks Dance by Hunter Complex and The Classic Handbuzzer by Spoelstra from his album The Almighty Internet. Listen to the fragment of the broadcast on April 20 2010 in the player below.

Beautiful Extremes also played Unique Visitor by Spoelstra from The Almighty Internet on April 13 2010. Listen to that fragment in the player below.

Some people really hate Spoelstra’s music, but others try to get to the bottom of Spoelstra’s The Almighty Internet. ‘The rest of the world will look at him as a special kind and plays Spoelstra’s music as an acoustic weapon. I belong to that majority’, says Festivalinfo. The German magazine Aufabwegen sees a different purpose for Spoelstra’s electro music: ‘Musik fĂĽr Sonnenstudios mit Anspruch’. Oor also has an interesting opinion on The Almighty Internet: ‘Irritate, that’s what Spoelstra does. And that’s a compliment in this case.’ Click here for some footage of Spoelstra live at Worm in Rotterdam and here for a review of a gig he did with The Ex and Julie Mittens in the Bar & Boos in Leiden. ‘Spoelstra’s set was quirky, irreverent, slightly demented and a hell of a lot of fun.’ The radio show Beautiful Extremes played the tracks Day of the System by Spoelstra and Here Is the Night by Hunter Complex on March 16 2010. Listen to the fragment in player below.

Some Narrominded related press in the first week of 2010! Newspaper Haarlems Dagblad published a small article about Garçon Taupe’s election for best dance track of 2009 and his contributions to Poke 20 and Retro Retry 2. Read the article here. Belgian website Kwadratuur reviews Retro Retry 2: ‘This pleasant listen brings you contemporary and slightly futuristic electronics. This album makes a very nice blueprint for the latest generation of laptop artists in the Netherlands.’ USA based webzine PopMatters has some doubts about the album: ‘Too much context gets sacrificed for too little connection’. And finally, the Dutch website Festivalinfo writes: ‘Narrominded again presents a delicious collection of underground tracks on their fourth Split LP. Maybe the disadvantage of the Split LP format is that the styles don’t match completely, but the electro fan will find two great EP’s here anyway.’ There are also some charts going on: Split LP #4 holds a #2 position on OOR’s Underground Top 5, and Garçon Taupe’s Lobo holds a #8 in Remute’s RA DJ Charts. Also, the radio program Beautiful Extremes, hosted by Oscar Smit, played the tracks Lobo by Garçon Taupe and Here Is the Night (Coen Oscar Polack’s Morning Version) by Hunter Complex from the Here Is the Night EP. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on January 5 in the player below.

Two reviews for Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World this week. According to dance magazine DJ Broadcast ‘Another Another Green World is actually a nice way to get introduced to Eno’s work and to check out the original album while your at it. A good idea and well done.’ Festivalinfo says ‘all tracks, maybe except Spoelstra’s, shine with respect for the original version. Still, all artists stay true to their own sound, making this album mainly a good introduction to the fourteen participating acts.’