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album | Transmat
30 June 2002
I've often thought that people's love affair with electronic music largely comes from the fact that we are surrounded by so many hideous, cheap,...
by Edward Blake
album | The Leaf Label
31 May 2002
This is rather an unclassifiable oddity: a strange mixture of Indian percussion with a decidedly Japanese flavour, which harnesses modern digital...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Halflink
2 April 2003
Astor's debut, two years in the making, is the work of Rhode Island's Michele Doucet (music and production), and Alison Jane (occasional...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Rephlex
30 June 2002
A three-part series only partially covered by the review CD, so for all I know there could be some real honkers on there… But this is good,...
by Edward Blake
album | Warp Records
26 February 2008
What does Autechre's new album sound like? Nothing like Barnsley, that's for sure, says Dave Marcia.
by Dave Marcia
album | Warp
8 May 2005
It’s about that time – another two years, another Autechre album rattles into view. I skip back home, recline sofa-wise in some...
by David Gunn
album | B12
16 June 2009
It feels like an age since I reviewed the first two volumes of this hugely anticipated (by me, at least) reissue...
by Kone-R
album | B12 Records
12 May 2008
New material signals a welcome return for techno legends B12, but the Essex boys are not quite back on their feet yet, says Kone-R.
by Kone-R
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Balancing Lakes is the third album from Barry Lynn, better known for working under his Boxcutter moniker. Lynn has gained recent...
by Kone-R
album | Warp
30 April 2003
Beans is one half of Antipop Consortium, who goes it alone for this. The album opens with Roar and the first thing you notice is that the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Polydor/Geffen
31 July 2005
Okay, I should begin by admitting that I really loved the soporific, heartbroken country of Beck’s last album Seac...
by Kate Andrew
album | Expanding
30 September 2002
After the success of their limited but excellent seven-inch series, including Baud and Unary from Benge himself, Expanding Records release...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Concurrent
8 July 2007
The debut release on Expanding Records' sub-label, Concurrent, explores the development of the synthesizer from 1968-1987. But it's much more than just a library piece, says Spannered's Kone-R.
by Kone-R
album | The Leaf Label
6 June 2004
Pick up sticks. Briefly. Let them begin to tap against brick and stone, to combine into forward rhythm. And as they begin to coalesce, let them...
by David Gunn
album | Vivo
21 November 2002
Black Faction is Andrew Diey, who has previously had one track out on Skam under the moniker Foreign Terrain, and you can see from the pseudonyms...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Soleilmoon
1 February 2002
“..since then I’ve been waiting to grab you by the hair, and pull you down … where you will hear harsh noises of...
by Isabel Hopwood
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