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album | Warp
15 June 2004
!!! (pronounced 'chk chk chk') were formed in 1996 by the former members of mid-90s hardcore group Yah Mos. This is their third long player, if you...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Tectonic
26 May 2008
Laurent Fintoni finds plenty to like in the hotly anticipated debut album from dubstep-techno operative Dave Huismans.
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Blueprint
5 December 2002
First full length album from the Mavericks (Richard Polson and Nick Dunton) whose live shows are the stuff of techno legend. On the basis of this...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Laboratory Instinct
27 May 2010
Ever since seeing Gerald perform a live set a year or so ago I've been waiting to hear what he'd do next on record. He's never one to shy away...
by Kone-R
album | The Leaf Label
20 August 2004
If i said that track one consisted of needlepoint keyboard arpeggios hammered out on a peat- and dung-encrusted upright piano in a barn at midnight...
by Vernon Crane
album | The Leaf Label
30 April 2002
This release dubs itself ‘a highly evocative soundtrack to an imaginary Western’, which cites as its musical touchstones composers such...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Delsin
31 March 2002
At first glance things look bad: a silly name (Find The Cow?) and 23 tracks on a CD, but then you see that this is Sandor Caron and the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Ann Aimee
3 June 2003
Following hot on the heels of his seven-track CTRL EP, Alex Cortex releases a double album Inward. This CD collects the two...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Soma
17 April 2005
Soma have been quietly modernizing of late, and so far this year their output has been exceptional, with the wonderful Robag Wruhme and Wignomy...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Lo Recordings
23 October 2004
Alexandroid is one of the many Russians contributing to the slightly more tech end of the electronica scene at the moment. His music is distinct...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Genuine
5 February 2004
Joseph 'Amp' Fiddler hails from Detroit – a hub of musical creativity – and that city's traditions of both electronic and organic soul...
by Masta G
album | Seasons of Mist
1 December 2006
Having gained an enviable position as black metallers who don’t suffer any of the trappings of said genre (corpse paint, painfully funny dark...
by Edward Blake
album | Bip-Hop
31 July 2002
Reviewing records I imagine is like exploring caves; you shine your light in and are never quite sure what you are going to find. Often you feel...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | FatCat
6 June 2004
Apart from a few scattered memories we've mostly forgotten what being young was like. The sheer unalloyed joy of a slice of white bread covered with...
by Ed Thaw
album | Progressive Form
1 March 2002
This is a curious little gem: well-crafted, precise, somewhat abstract, then in other places deals out some quite conventional 4/4 techno.
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
9 June 2003
Recalls a time when the twin wasn’t obsessed with +160bpm din’n’bass, when he made some pretty if twisted tunes a la Selected...
by Gavin Weale
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