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album | Domino
31 March 2001
It's quite a departure from Matt Elliot's early days as a Bristol drum 'n' bass kid, but besides that this remix LP is more in line with last year's...
by Kate Butler
album | Planet Mu
1 January 2001
The latest of one Tatsuya Joseph Yoshide, he of the previous incarnation on Sub Rosa as Rom=Pari. The press release states that Joseph's strengths...
by Mathew Riley
album | Skintone/The Leaf Label
1 January 2001
There are only fifty or so copies of this Japan-only release floating around in the UK at present, but when you combine one of the UK's most...
by Franklyn J
album | !K7
1 January 2001
Awash with understated harmony and shuffling, fractured rhythm, a languid tone of contemplation permeates Return To X's nine tracks. From...
by Dave Stelfox
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 | Matador
1 January 2001
What starts out as a bizarre medley of glitches (there's even a track called Obligatory Glitch Worship), snares and piercing whistles...
by Kate Butler
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
album | Blast First/Mute
1 January 2001
Pan Sonic are Finnish analog freaks who make decidedly expansive, er, minimal beat music. They used to be called Panasonic, but that was before the...
by Kate Butler
album | D.O.R.
1 January 2001
Another posthumous release from the ubiquitous Bryn Jones. Notorious when he was at his creative peak, producing what seemed like a couple of CDs...
by Mathew Riley
album | Tresor
31 August 2000
If you had a taste for techno back at the start of the 90s it would have been hard to miss the distinctive sound of the 'Prince of Techno'. With...
by Andy Gain
album | The Leaf Label
31 August 2000
Japanese genius Susumu Yokota delivers another beguilingly beautiful project previously released on his own Skintone imprint. When you understand...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Take equal parts of cool funk, dodgy drum machines, Psychic Youth type loops, ludicrous cut ups, delicious electronics and hey presto, you're Jolly....
by Andy Gain
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Broken beats, electro, computer noise and sublime tones combine to form an album of some accomplishment from this Roman producer. 6 Katun...
by Andy Gain
album | Novamute
31 August 2000
The eminent Brighton dwarf returns with another long-player of terribly twisted electronics that shows all the pretenders what future funk really...
by Andy Gain
album | Novamute
31 August 2000
Few labels have done as much to change the face of techno as Plus 8, and this double LP or CD collection of their work up to the label's suspension...
by Andy Gain
album | Sprawl
31 August 2000
Let's pray God's got a sense of humour. Twenty cutting-edge electronic artists recreate hymns and anthems of their choice in a highly disrespectful...
by Andy Gain
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