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album | Warp
9 June 2003
Recalls a time when the twin wasn’t obsessed with +160bpm din’n’bass, when he made some pretty if twisted tunes a la Selected...
by Gavin Weale
album | Warp
9 June 2003
So what were we meant to expect after Scott Herren’s debut LP as Prefuse, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, cut hip hop to shreds...
by Gavin Weale
album | S.I. Project
30 June 2001
This is definitely the sound that has been doing the business on many dance floors around London for the last year or so: post-2-step, post deep...
by Gavin Weale
album | Soma
30 June 2001
Hard to fault the Glaswegian granddaddies of techno after all they've done for the music many of us have enjoyed for the last ten tears or more....
by Gavin Weale
album | Supremat
30 June 2001
Echoing a rich heritage of sound experimentation, executive producer Cristian Vogel presents an album where his machines truly do all the talking....
by Gavin Weale
album | Tresor
30 June 2001
Ruskin's second album for Tresor, and it's something of a production masterclass. The titles give you a clue as to the mood here: when...
by Gavin Weale
album | Music Man
30 June 2001
Oh, tech-house. That much maligned and misunderstood 'genre', with its silly name that has had numerous cheesemongers clinging desperately onto the...
by Gavin Weale
album | Suction Records
30 June 2001
Suction's engagement with a retro synth-pop sound predates the last two years burgeoning rise of this re-visited genre, however these two...
by Ian Trowell
album | Soleilmoon
1 February 2002
“..since then I’ve been waiting to grab you by the hair, and pull you down … where you will hear harsh noises of...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | The Leaf Label
1 January 2002
Once you've adjusted to Eardrum’s unique sound – not unlike a blind person with one leg shorter than the other trying to walk in a...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Multicolor Recordings
1 January 2002
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Faith and Industry
16 August 2003
Fusing ancient and modern instruments of the wandering minstrel, from laptops to recorders, Patrick Wolf's debut album forges a startlingly unique...
by James Burrell
album | Novamute
19 September 2003
UK Bass is a term first coined by the Wide crew to describe the fusion of ragga, hip hop, jungle, ghetto-tech and booty bass that they've been...
by Jimmy 'Zinger' Bolus
album | Warp
4 November 2005
Jamie Lidell: a bit of an enigma wrapped up in a conumdrum, one might say if one was prone to spouting such shite. As the one half of...
by John Power
album | Lex
10 September 2007
Whilst the country’s group mind engages in one of its periodic fits of the vapours and starts demanding the immediate locking up of every...
by John Power
album | Polydor/Geffen
31 July 2005
Okay, I should begin by admitting that I really loved the soporific, heartbroken country of Beck’s last album Seac...
by Kate Andrew
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