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album | Isis Arts
30 April 2002
Chris Dooks’ former incarnations have included working as a film and documentary maker (he directed the South Bank show on avant-garde sound...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Tsunami
12 September 2002
Now this style of minimal and industrial loops really hasn't done it for me for a long time now, but I have to say this is the way it should be...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Pardon My French
20 May 2004
I know it's lazy to draw comparisons between bands simply because of their country of origin, but sometimes it can't be helped. The late ’90s...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Angelika Kohlermann
1 January 2002
With a name like that and a sound as earth-shatteringly bad as this, it’s hard not to start playing around with the letters. I don’t...
by Edward Blake
album | Touch and Go
20 August 2005
Piercingly beautiful feral folk music, but are CocoRosie quite as original as they'd like to be?
by Ed Chamberlin
album | 90% Wasser/Moloko Plus
27 May 2003
Put together with the input of collaborators such as Rechenzentrum, this Berlin-based collective release their follow-up to the critically acclaimed...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Delsin
22 November 2011
It's rare to hear an album of any genre which exudes perfection, but on Escapism Boris Bunnik (aka Conforce) possibly comes as close as any...
by Kone-R
album | Epitaph Records
1 December 2006
Converge are one of those bands I seem to have found out about too late, having only bought their last album You Fail Me and, despite being...
by Edward Blake
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
Presumably someone thought that making one long track embodies the 'conceptual' idea when it comes to avant-garde music making. Unfortunately it...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Novamute
31 August 2000
The eminent Brighton dwarf returns with another long-player of terribly twisted electronics that shows all the pretenders what future funk really...
by Andy Gain
album | Tresor
30 October 2002
Cristian Vogel returns to techno’s arms after the much-celebrated jiggery-pokery of the deliriously smooth Super_Collider album with a double...
by Edward Blake
album | Plug Research
25 February 2003
Avant-garde hip hop remixes on show here, with Warp stars Antipop Consortium headlining. Madlib (in his Yesterday's New Quintet guise) turns his...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Ninja Tune
26 May 2008
Daedelus, a man well-known for both his live shows and his ‘unconventional’ sense of dressing, returns to Ninja for a new album....
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Virgin
31 March 2001
Any fan of the Parisian punkers will know that they've never really taken themselves seriously in the pop scheme of things. But with this follow up...
by Kate Butler
album | Lex Records
6 August 2003
It's hard for me not to like a hip hop producer who’s named after my favourite childhood superhero. Danger Mouse’s inventive and daring...
by Masta G
album | Disturbance
31 July 2002
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
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