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album | Rephlex
20 January 2011
In which Gerald Donald/Heinrich Mueller (he of a million aliases, all of them legendary in their own right), returns under yet another new...
by Kone-R
album | Lux Nigra
30 June 2001
People love to pigeonhole music, inventing genres such as trip hop, big beat and click-house to simplify and compartmentalise music. It is therefore...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Rednetic
27 May 2003
This is the debut release of new label Rednetic, which claims to be the home of innovative ‘breakbeat electronica’ and claims this first...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Janomi
20 June 2004
In the shops since last week,Yungun's hotly anticipated new LP combines tracks that have appeared on 12” over the past couple of years with...
by Masta G
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
What a magical recording: this is a beautifully crafted piece of work, from the opening snatches of birdsong and amplified bell tones on...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Anticon
23 November 2005
Anyone familiar with the big crunch theory? The one where the decreasing thrust of the big bang combined with ever present gravity means that, one...
by Richard Bold
album | Jester
17 February 2005
There are some record labels that become like old friends to you. You know the ones: they don't just spew out crap like someone who has mistaken the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Skam
1 March 2000
Another case of the title influencing the decision to purchase, although being on Skam often serves to recommend. But never before has Skam sounded...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Ninja Tune
21 June 2004
Is Luke Vibert the Carol Vorderman of electronica?
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Greensleeves
21 December 2003
Vybz Kartel – a dee-jay so versatile that his name is a collective noun – proves with his debut long-player that he is a powerful and...
by Masta G
album | Expanding
9 March 2003
Apart from Price’s rather irritating habit of over-punctuating everything (all we need now is another electronica artist with an icon fetish)...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Planet Mu
31 October 2005
Toddler investigates Manchester's foray into bimma-shaking grime.
by Demented Toddler
album | Rephlex
19 September 2003
Just every now and then a record comes along that is not only an absolute pleasure to listen to but opens your mind once again to the almost...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Planet Mu
10 February 2006
2005 was a fertile year for London’s post-garage panorama. From the polished jabs and rhymes of big guns Dizzee and Kano to the cold,...
by Alex Ward
album | Planet Mu
18 January 2004
The gloriously named Aaron Funk has released an unbelievable five albums since 2001 under the moniker Venetian Snares. The Canadian has made a name...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Planet Mu
23 November 2005
Snares continues to show the electronic music world who's boss and grimly reaps where no man has reaped before.
by David Gunn
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