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album | Planet Mu
26 July 2004
Ddamage have been around for a while, quietly working away on a range of interesting projects. Before this latest outing on Planet Mu they'd already...
by Mikerak
album | Intr_version Records
31 July 2002
Like a lot of contemporary electronic musicians, Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble are separated by plenty of air miles (Akiyama is based in...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Just Music
25 August 2008
Several years in the making and off the back of some fairly constant gigging, Save Your Light For Darker Days is no radical departure...
by Kone-R
album | Big Dada
2 September 2004
With Ty just nominated for the Mercury Prize and Infinite Livez attracting widespread and deserved critical acclaim, it seems that Big Dada can do...
by Masta G
album | Intuit Solar
31 March 2001
Based around a radio show format (complete with shout outs from some of Detroit's finest citizens), Off The Chain... features 83 (count 'em...
by Nick Craddock
album | Barry's Bootlegs
3 June 2003
If your mate sent you a tape of some Janet and John production with him MCing about how George Bush is a cunt, you’d probably think it was...
by Gavin Weale
album | Certificate 18
1 March 2000
Is jungle music facing an identity crisis at the moment? It certainly seems that the genre has passed on from the classic scattering breaks and...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Rephlex
12 October 2010
The word 'prolific' is oft-used to describe artists of less colossal output than Ed Upton, but his is certainly a case where it's justified. To...
by Kone-R
album | Accidental
12 April 2004
In what sense is a new Herbert release 'unnecessary'? OK, so it is a compilation and therefore inherently not as good as a new album; but...
by Tom Giles
album | Adaadat
2 May 2007
Doddodo make cheap and scuzzy lo-fi sample breaks. Sample Bitch Story is a mid-paced stomp through Japanese pop culture on the back of...
by Edward Blake
album | Lex Records
5 June 2009
One of the most anticipated musical returns of the year goes to DOOM, ex-MF but still a mask-wearing, full-time-rhyming supervillain. Patience...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Rephlex
2 July 2007
Fallen into any black holes lately? Kone-R puts down his quantum mechanics book and checks out Gerald Donald's latest work.
by Kone-R
album | Tresor
1 March 2002
Having reconvened after two mighty fine solo ventures, the highly recommended Other People Place for Warp and Transllusion for Supremat, Drexciya...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Couch
1 March 2000
One of my favourite discoveries of recent years, Vienna's Couch Records have built a reputation around the small, but perfectly formed output of...
by Dave Stelfox
album | The Leaf Label
1 January 2002
Once you've adjusted to Eardrum’s unique sound – not unlike a blind person with one leg shorter than the other trying to walk in a...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Southern Lord
4 March 2011
Lester Whimpers ruminates on drone, Fahey, The Pentangle and the Tantras Of Gyütö as he explores Dylan Carlson and co's latest journey to rich and strange regions of the musical cosmos.
by Lester Whimpers
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