Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000, however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power and Caribou gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo.
 
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Dati
album | Disturbance   
1 August 2002
Dati
Italy
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
Nitrada
album | 2nd Rec   
1 August 2002
Nitrada
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Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
Desormais
album | Intr_version Records   
1 August 2002
Desormais
Climate Variations
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
The Digitariat
album | The Locus of Assemblage   
1 August 2002
The Digitariat
I Created Over One Million Jobs
This rather idiosyncratically packaged album, courtesy of Paul D Knowles, comes complete with photocopied insert of a collage of mundane statements...
by Elizabeth Wells
Cornucopia
album | The Locus of Assemblage   
1 August 2002
Cornucopia
C
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
TaaPet
album | Fact   
1 August 2002
TaaPet
TaaPet Sounds
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
Twine
album | Bip-Hop   
1 June 2002
Twine
Recorder
Suitably for their music, Twine operate a kind of virtual partnership, with one half living in Colorado and the other in Ohio, and their music...
by Elizabeth Wells
Various Artists
album | Bip-Hop   
1 June 2002
Various Artists
Bip-Hop Generation [v.5]
This compilation is the next instalment in a conceptual ‘anthology’ put together by French glitch/minimalist label Bip-Hop. In keeping...
by Elizabeth Wells
Various Artists
album | Expanding   
1 June 2002
Various Artists
Evsc1:01 The Condition of Muzak
Slightly unfortunate title this one, seeing as this collection based around the series of nine 7” singles released last year on Expanding...
by Elizabeth Wells
Asa-Chang & Junray
album | The Leaf Label   
1 June 2002
Asa-Chang & Junray
Jun Ray Song Chang
This is rather an unclassifiable oddity: a strange mixture of Indian percussion with a decidedly Japanese flavour, which harnesses modern digital...
by Elizabeth Wells
Sparrow Orange
album | Noise Factory   
1 June 2002
Sparrow Orange
Hands and Knees Music
Aaron Boot, aka Sparrow Orange follows up his debut, The Beauty of Strangeness (also released on Noise Factory) with this interesting...
by Elizabeth Wells
Req
album | Warp   
1 May 2002
Req
Sketchbook
Req is a multi-talented artist, with his finger in many pies, including graffiti art, music production and the obligatory DJing. Originally from...
by Elizabeth Wells
Gadgets
album | Gadgets   
1 May 2002
Gadgets
On Earth
Gadgets is Italian-born Corrado Izzo and Finn Tatu Metsatahti, and their speciality seems to lie in the creation of warm, spacey techno, with a...
by Elizabeth Wells
Chris Dooks
album | Isis Arts   
1 May 2002
Chris Dooks
To Look North
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
Various Artists
album | Keep Diggin' Recordings   
1 May 2002
Various Artists
Red Snapper: It's All Good
It’s a shame that Red Snapper’s first compilation should also be their last. As fans are aware, Red Snapper have recently split, though...
by Elizabeth Wells
A Small Good Thing
album | The Leaf Label   
1 May 2002
A Small Good Thing
Slim Westerns Vol II
This release dubs itself ‘a highly evocative soundtrack to an imaginary Western’, which cites as its musical touchstones composers such...
by Elizabeth Wells
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