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album | Monika
11 January 2006
Conceived as an updated version of seminal double LP compilations like No New York in which four separate...
by Vernon Crane
album | The Leaf Label
20 August 2004
If i said that track one consisted of needlepoint keyboard arpeggios hammered out on a peat- and dung-encrusted upright piano in a barn at midnight...
by Vernon Crane
album | Hardware
1 January 2001
Canada's favourite bald beat junkie gets out his back-catalogue out for Australia's Hardware Corporation, culminating in a ten-track CD-only...
by Valerie Snails
album | Nonplace
1 January 2001
Had to be a winner this, the third, finely honed incarnation of an album recorded over the past four years, originally intended for release on two...
by Valerie Snails
album | Klein
31 August 2000
Vienna's favourite dub-munching electronica heads get ripped to shreds and glued loosely back together by a host of downtempo new school pioneers. A...
by Valerie Snails
album | Tresor
30 April 2000
Two years on from his debut long-player, James Ruskin returns on the mighty Tresor with a selection of tracks that demonstrate how he's maturing as...
by Tom Magic Feet
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 | 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 | Uni:form
1 March 2000
Christ, the radio stations in Iceland must be pretty adventurous if this is the kind of thing they play. At just 18 years old, Jonas Thor...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Domino
1 March 2000
TTEF might sound for all the world like a shadowy organisation that funds research into extra-sensory perception, but 'they' are in fact Matt...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Invisible
1 March 2000
Unchecked ambition can be a dangerous thing in music. Former Cop Shoot Cop collaborator and film score merchant JF Coleman is Phylr (pronounced...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Output
1 March 2000
Bizarre, but oddly impressive stuff from one Mike Silver, here on The Underdog's notably leftfield label. Molten Timbre sets the tone, a...
by Tom Magic Feet
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 | Audiobulb Records
5 July 2004
Switches is the fourth release on Audiobulb, a new Sheffield-based electronica label. David Newman, Audiobulb's proprietor, met the artists whose...
by Tom Giles
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Warp
15 November 2003
From Luca Santucci’s opening lament you know that Spokes is not going to be a cheery album. That’s no bad thing, I hear you cry...
by Tom Giles
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