music
album | Noise Factory
31 May 2002
Aaron Boot, aka Sparrow Orange follows up his debut, The Beauty of Strangeness (also released on Noise Factory) with this interesting...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
30 April 2002
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
album | Gadgets
30 April 2002
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
album | Isis Arts
30 April 2002
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
album | Keep Diggin' Recordings
30 April 2002
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
album | The Leaf Label
30 April 2002
This release dubs itself ‘a highly evocative soundtrack to an imaginary Western’, which cites as its musical touchstones composers such...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Pagoda
30 April 2002
I have to admit I approached this album with a level of suspicion that I certainly wouldn’t have had if the press release hadn’t been...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Stattmusik
30 April 2002
It must be quite irksome to have to acknowledge after all this time that Yello! is still your most famous musical export in the dance world. So this...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Bip-Hop
1 March 2002
The philosophy behind Douglas Benford's 4th si-cut.db album is a fascinating one. Apparently constructed partly from samples of woodwork noises,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Progressive Form
1 March 2002
This is a curious little gem: well-crafted, precise, somewhat abstract, then in other places deals out some quite conventional 4/4 techno.
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Recording Under Construction
1 March 2002
This tasty little morsel from Germany's RUC records showcases four artists, all of whom have their own particular spin on contemporary electronic...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Stoned Asia Music
1 March 2002
I have a slight problem with any compilation that boasts a marriage of 'authentic' rhythmic chants and global beats with a contemporary club...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
1 February 2002
Ask any BOC enthusiast what they associate with Boards’ musical style, and many will cite their preoccupation with the sounds of wildlife,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Noodles/The Leaf Label
31 March 2001
Returning to the site of previous preposterousness, arch beat-freak Si Begg collates more outrageous oddities of global origin to augment the...
by Franklyn J
album | Skintone/The Leaf Label
1 January 2001
There are only fifty or so copies of this Japan-only release floating around in the UK at present, but when you combine one of the UK's most...
by Franklyn J
album | Barry's Bootlegs
3 June 2003
If your mate sent you a tape of some Janet and John production with him MCing about how George Bush is a cunt, you’d probably think it was...
by Gavin Weale
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