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album | Warp
5 August 2003
Chris Clark plunged onto the scene two years ago with the frenetic, restless Clarence Park. Ranging from hyperactive distorted breaks to...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Rephlex
19 September 2003
Just every now and then a record comes along that is not only an absolute pleasure to listen to but opens your mind once again to the almost...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Rephlex
18 September 2003
Ah shit, you all know Bogdan by now: twisted toy-town hardcore cut, spliced and ripped to shreds, a 200 bpm assault on the senses that you either...
by The Felonious Punk and Mr Bear
album | Accidental
12 April 2004
In what sense is a new Herbert release 'unnecessary'? OK, so it is a compilation and therefore inherently not as good as a new album; but...
by Tom Giles
album | Audiobulb Records
5 July 2004
Switches is the fourth release on Audiobulb, a new Sheffield-based electronica label. David Newman, Audiobulb's proprietor, met the artists whose...
by Tom Giles
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Warp
15 November 2003
From Luca Santucci’s opening lament you know that Spokes is not going to be a cheery album. That’s no bad thing, I hear you cry...
by Tom Giles
album | Tresor
30 April 2000
Two years on from his debut long-player, James Ruskin returns on the mighty Tresor with a selection of tracks that demonstrate how he's maturing as...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Tresor
30 April 2000
When it comes to minimalism, the likes of Hawtin, Mills and Hood are generally considered to be the innovators in the field. Yet while Dan Bell may...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Ersatz Audio
30 April 2000
This exemplary 16-track compilation rounds up the first five years output of Detroit's Ersatz Audio label, home to Le Car, Adult., Artificial...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Uni:form
1 March 2000
Christ, the radio stations in Iceland must be pretty adventurous if this is the kind of thing they play. At just 18 years old, Jonas Thor...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Domino
1 March 2000
TTEF might sound for all the world like a shadowy organisation that funds research into extra-sensory perception, but 'they' are in fact Matt...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Invisible
1 March 2000
Unchecked ambition can be a dangerous thing in music. Former Cop Shoot Cop collaborator and film score merchant JF Coleman is Phylr (pronounced...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Output
1 March 2000
Bizarre, but oddly impressive stuff from one Mike Silver, here on The Underdog's notably leftfield label. Molten Timbre sets the tone, a...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Hardware
1 January 2001
Canada's favourite bald beat junkie gets out his back-catalogue out for Australia's Hardware Corporation, culminating in a ten-track CD-only...
by Valerie Snails
album | Nonplace
1 January 2001
Had to be a winner this, the third, finely honed incarnation of an album recorded over the past four years, originally intended for release on two...
by Valerie Snails
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