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album | Invisible
1 March 2000
Unchecked ambition can be a dangerous thing in music. Former Cop Shoot Cop collaborator and film score merchant JF Coleman is Phylr (pronounced...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Certificate 18
1 March 2000
This is a pure shot of excellence into the blood-stream of electronica. Coming from a Black Dog/Autechre/Boards of Canada angle, Pilote manages to...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Warp
15 November 2003
From Luca Santucci’s opening lament you know that Spokes is not going to be a cheery album. That’s no bad thing, I hear you cry...
by Tom Giles
album | Balkan Vinyl
6 August 2010
It's been a long and varied journey for the Posthuman pairing of cousins Richard Bevan and Joshu Doherty. Since debuting in 2001 with releases...
by Kone-R
album | Warp
9 June 2003
So what were we meant to expect after Scott Herren’s debut LP as Prefuse, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, cut hip hop to shreds...
by Gavin Weale
album | Aesthetics
9 March 2003
A very popular and acclaimed release in some corners of this small but flourishing industry (it recently made album of the issue on another...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Nepenta
31 March 2002
Dan Curtin is one of those producers for whom the word 'prolific' was invented. Presently clocking in at a staggering 56 singles and five albums,...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Rotters Golf Club
15 April 2003
A new artist/band on RGC, produced, it appears, by Andy Weatherall. This contains six tracks of electropop, fuelled by infectious hooks, bittersweet...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Brainfeeder
5 June 2009
As LA continues to lead hip hop’s production revival with Flying Lotus at the helm, the Warp signee and ever-smiling producer has set up...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Poo-Bah Records
24 March 2009
While Flying Lotus grabbed the headlines and attention in 2008, other LA producers have been busy, including Ras G whose dubwise and smoky...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Warp
30 April 2002
Req is a multi-talented artist, with his finger in many pies, including graffiti art, music production and the obligatory DJing. Originally from...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Short Cut
30 April 2002
So I’m sitting in front of my computer typing up some reviews, feeling a bit downhearted about the whole thing, when all of a sudden Jesus...
by Edward Blake
album | Peacefrog
3 June 2003
Robert Hood must have hit some kind of production sweet spot just recently, as after his album for Logistic comes another long-player on Peacefrog....
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Logistic
30 April 2003
This is one part of a trio of new releases on Monobox from Rob Hood; there is also a twelve inch and a double vinyl album. Some of the tracks...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Described as 'acousmatic' music (like… whatever), Sonars is audio-experimentation given a wide vision, more so than the usual...
by Edward Blake
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