Seattle’s Orac label kicks off its year with two strong releases[...] [A]pendics.Shuffle’s “Saw Saw Soup,” like Pronsato, plays with a beefier sound, flush with swollen chords and rent with garish stabs, and its nasally vocal hook is catchy as hell. The Wighnomy Brothers’ Robag Wruhme, true to form, winds up his wrists and goes drumming on a rubber mat. His percussive references run the gamut from churning stern-wheelers to high-stakes games of pick-up sticks, exploring every last sliver of white noise.
—Philip Sherburne, The Wire
[a]pendics.shuffle, Orac sowieso, ist immer etwas, das einen vom ersten Sound an in eine andere Welt blasted. Hier entwickelt der ansonsten gerne auch mal verschrobenere Held des digitalen Shuffles eine dunkle Variante von straightem aber trotzdem zerfasterem Funk auf drei unerwartet tanzbaren Tracks, die trotzdem den Dancefloor nie in Ruhe dahingleiten lassen, sondern immer dafür sorgen, dass mittendrin ständig etwas explodieren muss. Mjam.
[a]pendics.shuffle, Orac anyway, is always something that blasts you into another world from the first sound. Here again the most crack-headed hero of digital shuffle gladly develops a dark variant of straight-ahead yet zerfasterem funk on three unexpectedly danceable tracks which never let the Dancefloor slide into calm, but rather always make sure that in the middle something explodes a little bit. Yum.
—bleed, de:bug [*****]
Orac’s masterful single, Caro’s “My Little Pony” made ‘em shiver in bars and on the blogs alike, a feat Mr. Shuffle’s hiccupping techhouse EP will likely repeat. The Seattle label tosses convention into the furnace on each new release-- “Saw Saw Soup,” for instance, bends four-four beaats like pipecleaners, pasting them with glitchy static, cynical vocal bits, and fulffy low-end dynamics. It’s anything but predictable, and stunningly fun dance music.
—Derek Grey, XLR8R
