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album | Bip-Hop
31 July 2002
Reviewing records I imagine is like exploring caves; you shine your light in and are never quite sure what you are going to find. Often you feel...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Delsin
31 July 2002
Cementing their position as the foremost outlet of exquisite electronic music, Delsin release their second CD compilation. Delsin are making me run...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Tresor
31 July 2002
Celebrating a double century of releases Tresor have really pulled out all the stops for this one. Basic Channel, arguably one of techno music's...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Disturbance
31 July 2002
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | 2nd Rec
31 July 2002
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Intr_version Records
31 July 2002
Like a lot of contemporary electronic musicians, Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble are separated by plenty of air miles (Akiyama is based in...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
This rather idiosyncratically packaged album, courtesy of Paul D Knowles, comes complete with photocopied insert of a collage of mundane statements...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
Presumably someone thought that making one long track embodies the 'conceptual' idea when it comes to avant-garde music making. Unfortunately it...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Fact
31 July 2002
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
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 | International DJ Gigolos
30 June 2002
Put quite simply, if you don't have this, you need it. These decade old sounds from Bobby Konders' original Nu Groove releases still sound fresh...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | ~scape
30 June 2002
Hip hop is becoming increasingly popular within more typically 'electronic' circles nowadays; witness the launch of Warp's Lex imprint, Carl Craig's...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Transmat
30 June 2002
I've often thought that people's love affair with electronic music largely comes from the fact that we are surrounded by so many hideous, cheap,...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
30 June 2002
Not something I want to do, but it's time to slag off a record on Jester – a label that releases some of the freshest futuristic rock shit...
by Edward Blake
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