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album | Riddim Killa/Low Life
29 September 2004
Rodney P is a true ambassador of UK hip hop. As part of London posse in the 80s he was involved in one of the first UK acts to generate widespread...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Big Dada
17 February 2005
The brand new Roots Manuva is back. His own earlier work has served to create the unique taste by which this album is to be enjoyed. Publicists and...
by Demented Toddler
album | Big Dada
25 August 2008
Rodney Smith returns for a fourth album on Big Dada, the label from which he has become inseparable. While Awfully Deep showed a...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Mego
30 June 2001
At first listen Live Salvage appears to be little more than random feedback and unstructured white noise, the sort of effect you'd...
by Motorboy
album | Uni:form
1 March 2000
Christ, the radio stations in Iceland must be pretty adventurous if this is the kind of thing they play. At just 18 years old, Jonas Thor...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Starbaby
31 July 2002
Electroblue is a synaesthesically perfect title for this release. A fat, fuzzy, quartzy, highly synthetic sound is bumped along by chunky, restless...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Warp
17 February 2004
The story of Apropa't is a sweet one. After a lifetime spent kicking about in the smoke and concrete of Atlanta, Scott Herren decided to...
by David Gunn
album | Tresor
31 July 2002
Celebrating a double century of releases Tresor have really pulled out all the stops for this one. Basic Channel, arguably one of techno music's...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Intuit Solar
31 March 2001
As a member of the so-called 'Third Wave' of Detroit producers, Sean Deason has at times been eclipsed by the more famous members of the fraternity,...
by Nick Craddock
live / album | Secretsundaze
9 October 2007
Six years back if you’d have suggested to me that London might host a large outdoor techno event that would take place regularly on a...
by Kone-R
album | Klein
31 August 2000
The machine is dead, long live the man-machine interface. Hard disk conductor Beat Soler has sampled from his collection of 50s easy listening and...
by Andy Gain
album | Skam
4 March 2004
On paper, an album put together over the Atlantic through ICQ, AOL and MSN Messenger looks like a great, new, productive and morally sound use for...
by Ed Thaw
album | Matter Records
27 May 2003
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
album | Tresor
8 February 2003
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
album | Novamute
3 June 2003
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
album | Bip-Hop
1 March 2002
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
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