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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 | 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 | 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 | The Leaf Label
30 June 2001
It's been a while since I last had a good ambient Zulu boogie so hearing Susumu Yokota's river deep compositions has brought me a little piece of...
by Edward Blake
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 | Quatermass
30 June 2001
Self confessed kleptomaniac (that is of sound not actual goods, as 'that would be wrong') The Rip-Off Artist aka Mark Haines has plundered...
by Motorboy
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Described as 'acousmatic' music (like… whatever), Sonars is audio-experimentation given a wide vision, more so than the usual...
by Edward Blake
album | Lux Nigra
30 June 2001
People love to pigeonhole music, inventing genres such as trip hop, big beat and click-house to simplify and compartmentalise music. It is therefore...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Jester
30 June 2001
Ulver aren't just your ordinary doom-hop mongers. These ex-death metal Norwegianers regard themselves as magicians and make slobbering new-wave...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
30 June 2001
A real tongue twister of a title to get stuck into here but unfortunately not a lot else. This double CD from Norway is apparently about friendship...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | International Deejay Gigolos
30 June 2001
DJ Hell's widely adored label celebrates being so damn popular with a double CD compilation of electro-techno pop. From the first track the drum...
by Edward Blake
album | Immigrant
30 June 2001
The theme of travel is omnipresent here as label boss Robin Porter is an ex-Brit who has moved to Southern California. He has also tried to put out...
by Edward Blake
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Back in the mid 90s the boys at Rephlex started getting disillusioned with the way techno was going and the demise of Chicago acid sounds. To remedy...
by Andy Gain
album | Mego
30 June 2001
At first listen Live Salvage appears to be little more than random feedback and unstructured white noise, the sort of effect you'd...
by Motorboy
album | Axis/Music Man
30 June 2001
Jeff Mills finally releases a CD compilation of his two very scarce Axis double packs for those who missed them first time round or who could not...
by Miles Hawthorn
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