An IDM icon since the early 2000s, Clark recently left his previous label, Warp, to join Deutsche Grammophon, a classical music behemoth that’s recently opened up to electronic music. However, this compilation has been released on the Sheffield-based label, bringing together previously unreleased gems produced by the English artist between 2005 and 2010. During this period, he released his third critically acclaimed album, Body Riddle, a record that breaks all the rules, paving the way for artists like Arca, and demonstrates his mastery of drum machines and samplers.
05-10 features a handful of ambient tracks such as ‘Dusk Raid’, which gives the strange impression that the sound is escaping out of your headphones, and its cousins Dusk Swells and Autumn Kinn, which both feel like products of the same new age/LSD session. There are certainly tracks in here which test the listener: ‘Urgent Jell Hack’ and its pulsing, almost unsettling bassline, the disturbing ‘Boiler the Wick’, which wouldn't sound out of place in an Erol Alkan or Kode9 set, and its alter ego ‘Roller the Wick’, a great track that mixes acid, juke and minimal techno. This is an album that reminds us how important it is to broaden our sonic spectrum. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz