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album | Nascente
23 November 2004
This compilation from world music label Nascente (put together by salsa don DJ Lubi) combines Latin hip hop and R'n'B with reggaeton, the Latin...
by Masta G
album | Tresor
30 April 2000
When it comes to minimalism, the likes of Hawtin, Mills and Hood are generally considered to be the innovators in the field. Yet while Dan Bell may...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Bungalow
30 April 2000
If you were a fan of Bungalow's quirky Japanese club-pop compilation, Sushi 3003, then this will be right up your street. Working along the...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Ersatz Audio
30 April 2000
This exemplary 16-track compilation rounds up the first five years output of Detroit's Ersatz Audio label, home to Le Car, Adult., Artificial...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Delta 9 Plastics
17 February 2005
Delta 9 Plastic's accomplished debut album keeps one eye firmly on the dancefloor but is refreshingly diverse.
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | !K7
1 March 2000
K7's DJ Kicks series has brought some of the most varied and inspirational mix compilations of recent years to public ears with the likes...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Bungalow
1 March 2000
As one of the very few truly independent Japanese labels left in existence, respect is due to Escalator Records. Ranging from the screwball...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Component Records
2 September 2003
Mixed bag of stuff here on a label out of Canada, but presenting an international array of artists. There are some familiar names, some unknown (to...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Tresor
2 September 2003
And I’m sure it doesn’t, well not in my experience anyway. I was lucky enough to visit there over the Loveparade weekend in 1994 and...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | V/Vm Test
3 June 2003
After travelling the four corners of the world, V/Vm are back with an array of new talent intent on savaging the best of the worst of the last...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Skylab Operations
27 May 2003
A compilation apparently designed for long journeys where your only companion is your portable music player, 2088 is a colourful, varied...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Cirque
25 June 2003
Another collection of avant-garde fractured and atonal meanderings, featuring the likes of Dorinne Muraille, Aoki Takamasa (aka Silicom) and...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Violent Turd
27 April 2004
DJ /rupture and Mutamassik conduct guerrilla warfare on the stifling corporate culture which taints the music industry as surely as it does global politics.
by Masta G
album | Zebra Traffic
8 May 2005
A wide regional variety of talent from the UK hip hop label's finest.
by Demented Toddler
album | Mille Plateaux
25 February 2003
Mille Plateaux, the electronica arm of Force Inc records, has long been associated with cutting edge compilations, seeming to have a knack of...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Obsessive
25 February 2003
Here is edition ten of the series where artists compile an album of their musical influences. The Lo Fi Allstars’ choices are bookended by two...
by Miles Hawthorn
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