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album | Jester
30 June 2001
Ulver aren't just your ordinary doom-hop mongers. These ex-death metal Norwegianers regard themselves as magicians and make slobbering new-wave...
by Edward Blake
album | International Deejay Gigolos
30 June 2001
DJ Hell's widely adored label celebrates being so damn popular with a double CD compilation of electro-techno pop. From the first track the drum...
by Edward Blake
album | Immigrant
30 June 2001
The theme of travel is omnipresent here as label boss Robin Porter is an ex-Brit who has moved to Southern California. He has also tried to put out...
by Edward Blake
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 | Skam
4 March 2004
On paper, an album put together over the Atlantic through ICQ, AOL and MSN Messenger looks like a great, new, productive and morally sound use for...
by Ed Thaw
album | Ninja Tune
6 June 2004
At a dead end, bored with endlessly extracting sounds from vinyl and smarting at the lack of inspiration in his home town of Nova Scotia, Vaughn...
by Ed Thaw
album | Novamute
4 June 2004
Man of many aliases, Tim Wright has been using his own name on Novamute since 2002 where he’s been bringing his eclectic style to releases...
by Ed Thaw
album | FatCat
6 June 2004
Apart from a few scattered memories we've mostly forgotten what being young was like. The sheer unalloyed joy of a slice of white bread covered with...
by Ed Thaw
album | Domino
25 September 2004
Martine McCutcheon played Tiffany on EastEnders, before breaking away into the music career she 'always wanted to pursue', in which her fame...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Planet Mu
18 January 2004
The gloriously named Aaron Funk has released an unbelievable five albums since 2001 under the moniker Venetian Snares. The Canadian has made a name...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Lo Recordings
8 October 2004
Théodore is a Greece-based artist with a fetish for old music boxes, or so it would seem from the unwieldily titled long-player. It’s a...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Melodic
2 February 2004
To celebrate their fifth year and 20th release, the good people at Melodic have put together a 14-track compilation of their bands' best material....
by Ed Chamberlin
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 | 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 | Jester
17 February 2005
There are some record labels that become like old friends to you. You know the ones: they don't just spew out crap like someone who has mistaken the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Accidental
17 January 2005
The nature of soundtrack work is such that the true intentions and emotions of an artist are slightly obscured by the task of matching sound to...
by Ed Chamberlin
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