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album | Noise Factory
31 May 2002
Aaron Boot, aka Sparrow Orange follows up his debut, The Beauty of Strangeness (also released on Noise Factory) with this interesting...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Pagoda
30 April 2002
I have to admit I approached this album with a level of suspicion that I certainly wouldn’t have had if the press release hadn’t been...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
5 February 2004
Over the last ten years, Squarepusher has made himself something of an institution. From his home in Chelmsford suburbia, he's been releasing...
by David Gunn
album | Science
31 March 2001
Pullen threads a preoccupation with time through his latest LP. He opens with the track that was made the longest time ago, Tsunami, and...
by Kate Butler
album | Zenit
26 November 2002
Stanny Franssen’s first album starts like a masterpiece and ends like a solid loop-based tech-house record with a darker, more stylish vibe...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Delsin
3 June 2003
Delsin draw together onto one CD the trio of messages that Detroit group Strand have put out, all previously only available on vinyl. The first...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Peacefrog
30 April 2003
Suburban Knight chooses this moment to release his first album for seventeen years, a production schedule to confound many a major label bigwig. He...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | The Leaf Label
31 August 2000
Japanese genius Susumu Yokota delivers another beguilingly beautiful project previously released on his own Skintone imprint. When you understand...
by Dave Stelfox
album | The Leaf Label
1 March 2000
For those who may be more familiar with Susumu Yokota's work on Sublime, Magic Thread will be a valuable insight to the many musical facets...
by Dave Stelfox
album | The Leaf Label
30 June 2001
It's been a while since I last had a good ambient Zulu boogie so hearing Susumu Yokota's river deep compositions has brought me a little piece of...
by Edward Blake
album | Planet Mu
23 March 2009
Ever since the name Syntheme started to appear on internet message boards, debate has raged about the identity of the person behind the now...
by Kone-R
album | Compost
30 April 2000
Viscous, slightly electrified, disco-friendly, jazz-influenced floor fillers are what Syrup do and Different Flavours does not disappoint....
by Dave Stelfox
album | Fact
31 July 2002
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Skam
23 March 2004
Choose Your Own Adventure? Maybe. But only if your adventure of choice has a title like Astrosmash, Cosmic Avenger or...
by David Gunn
album | Tresor
30 April 2000
He may be one of Detroit's less well-known producers, but Dixon has previously co-produced Juan Atkins' Skynet, released two twelves on...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Tresor
11 September 2002
Tracks by The Advent are to DJs what planks are to builders: useful, solid, a bit hard, rather uninteresting on their own but perfect as the...
by Andy Rantzen
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