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album | !K7
1 March 2000
Following on from 1997's sumptuous debut album Opera, Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber's Tosca have taken a meditative, contemplative...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Trans-Dimensional Voice
30 June 2002
Gothic trance. Just makes you want to snigger until you fit doesn't it. Stomping on you with all the force of a 17-year-old called Alison with...
by Edward Blake
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
Tread are Take Kitahara and Hiroshi Watanabe (who records as Kaito for Kompakt) and take a self-styled ‘minimalist’ approach to their...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Ninja Tune
19 October 2005
Treva's debut casts its net far and wide, but does is it suceed in creating new memories or just relive old ones?
by Demented Toddler
album | Supremat
30 June 2001
Echoing a rich heritage of sound experimentation, executive producer Cristian Vogel presents an album where his machines truly do all the talking....
by Gavin Weale
album | Tudor Beats
3 January 2010
Apparently Richard Wigglesworth, the 303-meister behind this oddball collection of acid ditties, was driven to create it having grown up near...
by Kone-R
album | Static Caravan
26 April 2005
There is a school of thought which holds that a landscape will influence the soundscapes recorded there. Sigur Rós'...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Bip-Hop
31 May 2002
Suitably for their music, Twine operate a kind of virtual partnership, with one half living in Colorado and the other in Ohio, and their music...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Big Dada
24 October 2003
Upwards comes across as more thoughtful than those who've only come across Turn It Up Little and Get Over It might expect, with slow soulful tracks of introspection and social commentary in mutual complement with bouncing hip hop that you can't help but dance to, grinning like an idiot.
by Demented Toddler
album | Jester
3 June 2003
Ulver I believe are originally a heavy metal band from Norway and these are a set of remixes that mould their sound into something not so far...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Jester
30 June 2001
Ulver aren't just your ordinary doom-hop mongers. These ex-death metal Norwegianers regard themselves as magicians and make slobbering new-wave...
by Edward Blake
album | Tehnika
26 November 2002
Uros Umek’s reputation has been built on jacking, buzzy minimalist floor material with more than a wave to the rave. His recent mix CD The...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Back in the mid 90s the boys at Rephlex started getting disillusioned with the way techno was going and the demise of Chicago acid sounds. To remedy...
by Andy Gain
album | S.I. Project
30 June 2001
This is definitely the sound that has been doing the business on many dance floors around London for the last year or so: post-2-step, post deep...
by Gavin Weale
album | V/Vm Test
3 June 2003
V/Vm compile their Help Aphex Twin series onto one CD in a final push to help the Twin. They never really let on what kind of help they are offering...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Circulations
24 March 2009
Further proving that the rebirth of hip hop’s boom bap isn’t limited to a singular axis, New Worlds brings together some...
by Laurent Fintoni
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