Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000, however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power and Caribou gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo.
 
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Snax
album | Mental Groove   
17 November 2004
Snax
From The Rocking Chair To The Stage
In recent years there has been a shift in lyric writing away from the introspective, hypnotized verses of the early noughties. Hedonism in music is...
by Benjamin Lehmann
Smyglyssna
album | Vertical Form   
13 September 2002
Smyglyssna
We Can Fix It
There's a busker that regularly sits near London Bridge and bashes the hell out of various items of junk metal, such as pots and pans, buckets and...
by Miles Hawthorn
Smith and Mighty
album | !K7   
1 March 2000
Smith and Mighty
Big World Small World
Bristol's Smith and Mighty cement their relationship with Stud!o K7 by producing perhaps their finest work yet. Big World Small World is an...
by Dave Stelfox
Smart Alex
album | Eukahouse   
1 July 2001
Smart Alex
Straight A's
Who's that? Uh... sorry, you've caught me napping. Oh dear, I appear to have drooled and everything. I don't know what happened. One minute I was...
by Edward Blake
Smadj
album | Most Records   
29 April 2004
Smadj
Take It and Drive
Tunisian-born musician Jean Pierre Smadja has been making and recording music since the early nineties, but this album seems certain to bring him to...
by Masta G
Slam
album | Soma   
1 July 2001
Slam
Alien Radio
Hard to fault the Glaswegian granddaddies of techno after all they've done for the music many of us have enjoyed for the last ten tears or more....
by Gavin Weale
Skalpel
album | Ninja Tune   
4 November 2005
Skalpel
Konfusion
Skalpel tackle the difficult second album with a distinct change of tack.
by Ed Chamberlin
Skalpel
album | Ninja Tune   
6 April 2004
Skalpel
Skalpel
I can't remember how they did in the last Eurovision Song Contest. Nevertheless, I can safely say that Poland have not made an enormous musical...
by Ed Chamberlin
Sixtoo
album | Ninja Tune   
7 June 2004
Sixtoo
Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
At a dead end, bored with endlessly extracting sounds from vinyl and smarting at the lack of inspiration in his home town of Nova Scotia, Vaughn...
by Ed Thaw
Single Unit
album | Jester   
1 January 2002
Single Unit
Family Of Forces
Holy shit! Somewhere along the way the free-jazz hardcore sound has become the domain of the sound-editor and the result is simply genius-mentalism....
by Edward Blake
Silo
album | Swim   
1 April 2001
Silo
Alloy
Swim champion all things lo-fi and post-rock so we should champion them too, but this release is a step backwards. Silo lie somewhere between...
by Edward Blake
Sieg Uber Die Sonne
album | Multicolor Recordings   
1 January 2002
Sieg Uber Die Sonne
(-).(-)=(+)
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
si-cut.db
album | Bip-Hop   
1 March 2002
si-cut.db
Enthusiast
The philosophy behind Douglas Benford's 4th si-cut.db album is a fascinating one. Apparently constructed partly from samples of woodwork noises,...
by Elizabeth Wells
Si Begg
album | Novamute   
4 June 2003
Si Begg
Director's Cut
Never one to take music too seriously, Si Begg has taken a quick shufti under the bonnet of dance music and gone to work with his spanners, giving...
by Miles Hawthorn
Shifted Phases
album | Tresor   
8 February 2003
Shifted Phases
The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J Rosinthrope
Nerds love mystery, it appeals to their fact-gathering sensibilities. As far as maintaining a sense of mystery is concerned, Drexciya are trumped...
by Andy Rantzen
Shadyzane
album | Matter Records   
28 May 2003
Shadyzane
Under The Shady Tree
A potentially interesting release, Under the Shady Tree is Chris White’s brainchild, and joins the ranks of recent releases such as...
by Elizabeth Wells
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