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album | Alpha Pup
5 June 2009
If 2008 belonged to Flying Lotus then 2009 may well be Nosaj Thing’s year when it comes to the meeting point between hip hop and...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Brainfeeder
5 June 2009
As LA continues to lead hip hop’s production revival with Flying Lotus at the helm, the Warp signee and ever-smiling producer has set up...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Lex Records
5 June 2009
One of the most anticipated musical returns of the year goes to DOOM, ex-MF but still a mask-wearing, full-time-rhyming supervillain. Patience...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Tectonic
26 May 2008
Laurent Fintoni finds plenty to like in the hotly anticipated debut album from dubstep-techno operative Dave Huismans.
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Ninja Tune
26 May 2008
Daedelus, a man well-known for both his live shows and his ‘unconventional’ sense of dressing, returns to Ninja for a new album....
by Laurent Fintoni
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 | Ninja Tune
26 May 2008
Kevin Martin can easily be described as an eclectic producer. Over the years he has collaborated with, remixed and produced for a great many...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Big Dada
25 August 2008
Rodney Smith returns for a fourth album on Big Dada, the label from which he has become inseparable. While Awfully Deep showed a...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Planet Mu
13 November 2008
Having been an admirer of the work of Edinburgh’s Neil Landstrumm since his early recordings for Peacefrog in 1995, I had high hopes when...
by Kone-R
album | B12
14 November 2008
The rumours of a B12 Records CD release of all those rare-as-hens-teeth 12”s from back in ‘the golden era of British techno’...
by Kone-R
album | Planet Mu
23 March 2009
Ever since the name Syntheme started to appear on internet message boards, debate has raged about the identity of the person behind the now...
by Kone-R
album | B12
16 June 2009
It feels like an age since I reviewed the first two volumes of this hugely anticipated (by me, at least) reissue...
by Kone-R
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Acid Sauna, the debut long-player from London-via-Chicago’s Libby Floyd, aka The Doubtful Guest, is a fierce onslaught of...
by Kone-R
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Balancing Lakes is the third album from Barry Lynn, better known for working under his Boxcutter moniker. Lynn has gained recent...
by Kone-R
album | Tudor Beats
3 January 2010
Apparently Richard Wigglesworth, the 303-meister behind this oddball collection of acid ditties, was driven to create it having grown up near...
by Kone-R
album | B12 Records
12 May 2008
New material signals a welcome return for techno legends B12, but the Essex boys are not quite back on their feet yet, says Kone-R.
by Kone-R
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