Equal parts dub for the den and disco for the dance floor, Broker/Dealer's debut full-length is sleek yet rich in detail. Ryans Fitzgerald and Bishop have quietly built a solid reputation through releases on the outstanding German label Traum Schallplatten and inclusion on compilations as diverse as Kompakt's Triple R – Friends and Fabric's Fabric 10: Doc Martin. On Initial Public Offering, the pair prove that occasionally it's OK to believe the hype and that sometimes more than dross lies beneath the gloss.

Rarely has an album so quickly integrated itself into my life. It's the perfect soundtrack for both anaerobic mountain bike rides and early-morning club comedowns alike. Gauzy synth pads wash over beats that rarely call attention to themselves, comfortable in their own subtle drive as bursts of melody flirt with pop sensibilities. Though smoothly moving numbers like "Satin Jacket" and "On a Claire Day" recall the dance brilliance of Metro Area, it is on "Sun Struck," with its deliberate tension, and on "Can't Believe," with its simple guitar chords and keys that threaten to spiral off into space, that Broker/Dealer reveal their true, considerable talent. Broker/Dealer play Fri/8, Mezzanine, S.F. (415) 820-9669. (Peter Nicholson)

Erase Errata
Dancing Machine: Erase Errata Remix Record (Troubleman Unlimited)

Part human, part machine, Erase Errata's remix release, Dancing Machine, sounds like a Mary Shelley science project – only here, the Bay Area no wavers implant a brain in a dishwasher so they can watch it lurch around the lab. Fun.

Far from typical dance-floor fodder, Dancing Machine, which comprises four songs from the band's Other Animals album, becomes progressively more dissonant. Kid606's version of "Retreat, the Most Familiar," is the finest of the bunch. He sets up a nice groove using a cow bell and a backward drum loop while keeping Jenny Hoyston's vocals relatively intact. On "Other Animals," Matmos's Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt trade the original vocals for short Discovery Channel sound bytes. The song crescendos into a crunchy digitized orgy in which sampled chimp cries mesh with the synths. Adult.'s Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus offer an electro version of "Marathon," with a central guitar riff that screams Gang of Four. Kevin Blechdom's "Rat Race" keeps true to Erase Errata in its punky, experimental aesthetic alone. It would be far more fitting as the soundtrack to a schizophrenic episode than as a song destined for the club scene. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.