The raw sinetone brutalism of Pan Sonic, reduced to amorphous gritscapes of frayed wire crackle and primal generator hum. All vestiges of rhythm have been stripped away, leaving waves of sound both physical, and pocked with interference detail.

One of the best albums of 2003. It's a smooth, well-produced amalgam of post-Autechre beats, musique concrete, ambient, chamber music, and acoustic folk. The most remarkable thing is that all of this flows together into a seamless whole. With moments both bizarre and beautiful, mindbending and heartwrenching, "The Houseband Spirit" is one of the year's most succesful electronic journeys.

This label is consistently good: track are always funky, well-syncopated, and punchily produced. Generally disco-based, but never cheesy. I always have at least 2-3 Drop records in my working crate.

Brinkmann's music is deceptively simple, but stunningly innovative. He takes a basic foundation of minimal techno and raw, vintage track house, and adds elements of his elemental razor-scratched vinyl loops. These provide a subtly irregular element that can seem to drift from the beat, but don't-it's hard to explain....
This guy is definitely from the less-is-more school, and as someone who struggles with excess clutter when making tracks, I can certainly appreciate this. From moody minimal techno (best displayed on the "Row" comp.), to Soul Center's quirkily choppy deep house, to the vinyl scratch loop experiments compiled on "Klick", Brinkmann has carved out a personal niche that manages to resonate with various subsectors of the underground.