music
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 | Angelika Kohlermann
1 January 2002
With a name like that and a sound as earth-shatteringly bad as this, it’s hard not to start playing around with the letters. I don’t...
by Edward Blake
album | Emanate
1 January 2002
Galleon ships of days gone by tended not to have hi-fi systems on them, but if they did I think this may have been a popular choice with the crew....
by Edward Blake
album | Freskanova
1 January 2002
The press release says that the Freestlyers have tried to take their sound from “clubland to the next level – the sound of future...
by Edward Blake
album | Go Jazz Lounge
1 January 2002
The day has to get better when the brightest record of all year arrives for review. Joy and the Boy are jazz vocalist and...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
1 January 2002
Holy shit! Somewhere along the way the free-jazz hardcore sound has become the domain of the sound-editor and the result is simply genius-mentalism....
by Edward Blake
album | Jumpin & Pumpin
1 January 2002
You could probably accuse FSOL of heightening the dance music fetish for the pseudonym, that frustrating tactic of releasing music on the sly. In...
by Richard Wilkes
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 | Obsessive
1 January 2002
I didn’t really dig this year’s Bronx Dogs album, but I know people who did – it was one of those albums that sounded like the...
by Edward Blake
album | Pause_2
1 January 2002
Not a lot of info with this one but very nicely packaged with great attention to detail, and the same can be said about the music. This is one meaty...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Plastiq Musiq
1 January 2002
Sweet Jesus, the eighties have finally arrived! The nostalgia has been brewing and growing so much with all the bloody TV programs and big round...
by Edward Blake
album | Bip-Hop
30 September 2001
The fourth in this series is a truly international compilation pulling in artists from the UK, France, the USA and Australia. Defiantly in the vein...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Quatermass
30 September 2001
The third in a series of 'versus' match ups, this one pits Quatermass (electronic division of Sub Rosa) against Rather Interesting (the prolific...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Eukahouse
30 June 2001
Who's that? Uh... sorry, you've caught me napping. Oh dear, I appear to have drooled and everything. I don't know what happened. One minute I was...
by Edward Blake
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
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