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album | Primal Rhythms
31 August 2002
Well, how exactly do you review a DJ compilation? It’s a real puzzle. This sounds like it would’ve been a good night out at some British...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Mitek
31 July 2002
Hakan Lidbo is currently working with 80s filmic electronic pioneers Yello, and shares their filmic aesthetic. The mood is blue-black and lucidly...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Starbaby
31 July 2002
Electroblue is a synaesthesically perfect title for this release. A fat, fuzzy, quartzy, highly synthetic sound is bumped along by chunky, restless...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Kombination Research/Elp Medien
31 July 2002
Cisco Ferreira has put out fourteen Advent 12" singles on Kombination Research and Recreations 1 (to be released at the end of...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Slow Graffiti
12 December 2003
Whilst Cardiff's rock scene has always attracted the column inches, the city's nascent electronic acts have been quietly tweaking their knobs and...
by Andy Parsons
album | Ninja Tune
22 September 2004
Renowned lover of pies, fish and lengthy DJ sets, this first serving of Andy Carthy's Solid Steel megamix hits the shelves this month. Following the...
by Andy Parsons
album | DC Recordings
28 September 2004
Amidst the innumerable amount of albums released each year by artists making 'electronic' music (in whatever form that may be) it is all to easy to...
by Andy Parsons
album | Rephlex
2 November 2003
In the long 12 years since their inception, Rephlex have spearheaded a revolution in electronic music – shunning fads, trends and bandwagons...
by Andy Parsons
album | Tresor
31 August 2000
If you had a taste for techno back at the start of the 90s it would have been hard to miss the distinctive sound of the 'Prince of Techno'. With...
by Andy Gain
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Take equal parts of cool funk, dodgy drum machines, Psychic Youth type loops, ludicrous cut ups, delicious electronics and hey presto, you're Jolly....
by Andy Gain
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Broken beats, electro, computer noise and sublime tones combine to form an album of some accomplishment from this Roman producer. 6 Katun...
by Andy Gain
album | Novamute
31 August 2000
The eminent Brighton dwarf returns with another long-player of terribly twisted electronics that shows all the pretenders what future funk really...
by Andy Gain
album | Novamute
31 August 2000
Few labels have done as much to change the face of techno as Plus 8, and this double LP or CD collection of their work up to the label's suspension...
by Andy Gain
album | Sprawl
31 August 2000
Let's pray God's got a sense of humour. Twenty cutting-edge electronic artists recreate hymns and anthems of their choice in a highly disrespectful...
by Andy Gain
album | Klein
31 August 2000
The machine is dead, long live the man-machine interface. Hard disk conductor Beat Soler has sampled from his collection of 50s easy listening and...
by Andy Gain
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Back in the mid 90s the boys at Rephlex started getting disillusioned with the way techno was going and the demise of Chicago acid sounds. To remedy...
by Andy Gain
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