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album | Rotator
20 August 2004
Every once in a while, a release wings in from the middle of an unknown somewhere and drops sparkling surprises on your ears. Unanticipated,...
by David Gunn
album | The Leaf Label
29 November 2004
There are a lot of interesting things happening in Denmark right now music-wise: Under Byen are creating some shocking sensual stuff with...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Electronic Corporation
31 March 2001
Following on from their 1999 debut Plastic Omnium, Ive Muller and Rene Kirchner release their second collaborative album. Although German...
by Motorboy
album | Melodic
30 April 2000
More sublime, forward-looking, folksy electronica from the Melodic label. This time the Yorkshire imprint turns to the Athens, Georgia-based Empire...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Rephlex
30 April 2000
A mix of blip 'n' bleep rhythm-scapes, droned-out melodies and sensitive, off-kilter vocals; despite the emotional similarities with Pram and...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Everest Records
17 November 2004
During the 70s prog rock gradually found itself stubbornly striving for higher levels of technical, conceptual and compositional complexity to the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Soma
31 March 2001
Ewan Pearson is otherwise known as Maas, who debuted with Latitude on Soma in 1997. Since then he has carried out remix duties for a number...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Jarring Effects
25 June 2003
This is clearly a band with style and pulling power: not only are they artistically very smooth (there is more than an aesthetic nod and wink here...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Kudos
1 March 2000
Fila Brazillia have made quite a name for themselves with their inimitable blend of pronounced percussion, sweeping analogue and inspired slick...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Jarring Effects / Soot Records
10 March 2009
Filastine delivers his second album, a fresh and uncompromising musical bombardment.
by Rosenthal Whim
album | Reel Musiq
31 May 2002
Japanese techno is intrinsically linked with the name of Ken Ishi. His productions, never easily pigeonholed by the music press, have always been...
by Low Life
album | Warp Records
26 May 2008
LA’s Flying Lotus is a name on everyone’s lips right now, and rightfully so considering the quality, variety and progression of his...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Domino
4 June 2005
Kieran Hebden's latest LP offers oodles of energy and enthusiasm, but musical ecastsy is more elusive.
by Alastair Dant
album | Domino
30 June 2001
Some of the titles would lead you to think that Four Tet wasn't particularly fussed about trying to break new musical ground; Leila Came Round...
by Edward Blake
album | Freskanova
1 January 2002
The press release says that the Freestlyers have tried to take their sound from “clubland to the next level – the sound of future...
by Edward Blake
album | Jumpin & Pumpin
1 January 2002
You could probably accuse FSOL of heightening the dance music fetish for the pseudonym, that frustrating tactic of releasing music on the sly. In...
by Richard Wilkes
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